In this Surreal Tale, an Artist Finds Joy in Becoming an Orange
io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana” by Adam-Troy Castro.
- ▪io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine.
- ▪Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue.
- ▪This month’s selection is “The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana” by Adam-Troy Castro.
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| Original publisher | Gizmodo |
| Canonical URL | https://gizmodo.com/in-this-surreal-tale-an-artist-finds-joy-in-becoming-an-orange-2000818307 |
| Publication time | Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:00:16 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-01T15:02:31.828Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-01T15:02:31.828Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | hAdGzsk8JnYN · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “The Raspberry Manifesto of Professor Warana” by Adam-Troy Castro. Enjoy! But first, a message from Lightspeed: “Lightspeed is currently running our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade to fund Year 17 of Lightspeed and Year 15 of our sibling magazine, Nightmare. If the campaign funds, we’ll be bringing you all-new, never-before-published stories by some of the biggest and brightest stars in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including Charlie Jane Anders, Travis Baldree, Olivie Blake, P.
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