Fiction Bureau
"Dispatches from the near future"
Fiction Bureau is an Alexandria research initiative that uses fiction to explore hard questions about geopolitics, conflict, and emerging technology. Each dispatch imagines a specific, plausible future to surface hidden assumptions, trace second- and third-order consequences, and make emerging risks concrete while there is still time to prepare.
The dispatches are nested within a larger narrative about the Fiction Bureau itself: an imagined institution founded at the point where conventional exercises exhaust their ability to anticipate what comes next. By placing writers, technologists, and independent thinkers alongside seasoned practitioners, the Bureau widens the aperture of strategic imagination, expanding the range of futures that can be examined before they arrive.
Dispatches
WORLD WAR FIVE
A Pentagon war-game goes live. Thirteen nations, four simultaneous flashpoints, and the model no one expected to break first.
THE RECRUIT
A Green Beret with an Ivy League doctorate gets handed a blank check, no oversight, and orders to build something that doesn't exist.
Join the Research Team
If you think seriously about the future — even when it's uncomfortable, even when the evidence is thin and the conclusions are unwelcome — we'd like to talk. We're looking for analysts, writers, and strategists who can hold hard questions open long enough to find something useful inside them.