Archive - Hilary Layne

Very Carefully Educated To Be Idiots

How Billionaire Industrialists and their Government Allies Deliberately Limited Intelligence and Literacy

Oct 3, 2025 • Hilary Layne

Fanfiction Ruins Everything

A peek into the world of fan fiction and how its pomps and works have bled into mainstream storytelling...

Dec 2, 2025 • Hilary Layne

Against the Artificial

A collection of resources about the dangers of AI

Jan 6 • Hilary Layne

A Brief Introduction

Jul 17, 2025 • Hilary Layne

What it is, how to join, and the current book

Mar 15 • Hilary Layne

The Book Club - Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin

Reading Schedule

May 28 • Hilary Layne

My Personal Favorite Books, Part I

An Ongoing List of Books I Love

Aug 1, 2025 • Hilary Layne

Balcony In the Forest - Week One

Reading Schedule and Discussion For the First Five Chapters

Apr 1 • Hilary Layne

You Are What You Read

How fiction forms and changes your mind, and not always for the better

Mar 18 • Hilary Layne

By Night I Loosed Clay Ghosts

Cross-legged on the hot wooden floor at the mouth of my fire I watch reds and oranges stain my paper-white clay.

Jan 11 • Hilary Layne

Our Present Condition

On the growing prevalence of present tense in fiction

May 25 • Hilary Layne

The Machines Are Not the Problem

The 1960 Italian Novel That Foresaw the Real Problem with AI: Humans

Jun 7 • Hilary Layne

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