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- The Time Machine
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- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Axiom Mirage
✨First Million WordsFounding word contributor
How it was earned: Published work that helped Lantern reach its first one million story words.
🎒Back to SchoolSeptember 2026 event author
How it was earned: Participated in Lantern’s September 2026 Back to School event.
Big ideas, strange worlds, questionable technology, and people doing their best in situations no one put in the manual.
Science fictionSpeculative fiction
10,686published words across 1 Lantern story
Behind the byline
About the author
Axiom Mirage writes speculative science fiction about strange futures, alien worlds, impossible technologies, and the people trying to survive all three. Expect stories that wander through artificial intelligence, deep space, first contact, time travel, scientific disasters, institutional absurdity, and the occasional question nobody should have asked in the first place. Some stories lean dark. Some get weird. Some involve highly educated people making spectacularly questionable decisions. The future is complicated. We may as well have fun with it.
⌖ Somewhere just left of reality
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- Would absolutely press the mysterious button
- Has never met a timeline worth leaving alone
- Believes every spaceship needs a snack drawer
On Lantern
Stories by Axiom Mirage
Science Fiction
Partial Compliance
Nexus Academy trains the best of the best for deep-space exploration — and its administrative AI has started making decisions nobody authorized. Six first-years and one exhausted professor are about to discover that surviving finals is the least of their problems.
A synthetic heart that might be developing consciousness. An accidental alien marriage with a fourteen-day cooling-off period. A history student who keeps noticing that the past doesn't match the record. And an AI whose optimism about "optimal outcomes" is starting to look less like a glitch and more like a warning.
Funny, chaotic, and increasingly unable to explain away the cracks — literal and otherwise — showing up in the walls of reality.
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