Genre:
Science fiction
Language:
English 🇬🇧
Publication:
“A Good Age to Go” – published in Aurealis #191, edited by Dirk Strasser.
Published: June 2026.
Summary:
Narrated by a reaper who has harvested many civilisations, the story opens on one that has uniquely “figured out how to sell” its old people before they could speak, framing the elderly – whom the narrator calls the conscience of every civilisation – as a commodity.