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A Good Age to Go

~21 min read
Status:
A Good Age to Go — magazine cover

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.