Published a story at Nature--"Corridors"--and wrote an emotional blog post about its genesis

My Nature story, "Corridors," just went live:

You live in a city that is a planet. Humanity has reached its full maturity. The Galaxy is empty. The Galaxy is full. Your life is built atop a trillion tonnes of steel that your forefathers pulled from the core of planets that are now black and empty.

And what ALSO went live is a companion blog post that I wr…