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Our title is Prerequisites for the Creation of a Possible Predicted World.

It is by Chisim Ume.

Chisim Ume is a Nigerian fiction writer and poet.

When he's not watching movies or writing about fantastical things,

he's tweeting about movies and fantastical things at ism underscore chisholm. His short stories have been

featured on Omenana, Apex, Clark's World, Years Best African Speculative Fiction, 2023,

African Ghost Anthology, and elsewhere. His short story, Ancestors Gift, when the 2024 Tractor Beam short story contest.

He was a finalist for the Seattle World Con short story contest

and has been shortlisted for the 2025 Namo Awards for African Speculative Fiction.

And if you like what you hear, you can go back to from across time.

So, my dear listener, I hope that you can sit back.

Relax.

And let me tell you a story. Akintundi Salami stood close to the floor to ceiling window inside the dome, watching the simulator work.

This wasn't the first time he had witnessed the minutiae of the world-shaping AI,

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