By Richard Ngo
Trojan Sky is a short story set in a dystopian future where some unknown force has converted the natural world into a virus meant to take over human minds and self-propagate.
It’s very much in the vein of comp.basilisk.faq and BLIT, where external patterns hijack the neural network of your mind, injecting a virus which causes you to behave in a way which propagates the virus, but with really interesting hard sci-fi elements like dense satellite constellations, smart empirical characters, and nested second-order behaviour.