In case you’ve been down a hole with a white rabbit somewhere, my short story, “Our Vast and Inevitable Death” is up at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, here (you can read a sample for free).
https://sideshowfreaks.blogspot.com/2012/04/our-vast-and-inevitable-deaths-boyd.html
AND NOW my non fiction article, “On the Writing of ‘Our Vast and Inevitable Death”, which describes all the various influences that went into the story (and is almost as long as the piece itself! Is up on the OSC IGMS blog here (and you can read it FREE)
https://sideshowfreaks.blogspot.com/2012/04/our-vast-and-inevitable-deaths-boyd.html