Frankenbook

Year: 2018

Frankenbook

A collaborative reading experiment with Mary Shelley’s classic novel.

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Frankenbook: collective annotations on Mary Shelley’s 200 year old novel “Frankenstein”

By Cory Doctorow Boing Boing

200 Years of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece as a Lens on Today’s Most Pressing Questions of Science, Ethics, and Human Creativity

By Maria Popova Brain Pickings

What have we learned from science’s most infamous doctor-patient relationship?

Massive Science

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Fiction Roundup: April 2018

Maria Haskins
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog

Imaginary Worlds: Living in Space

People have fantasized for ages about what it would be like to live in space. If Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos achieve their goals with Space X and Blue Origin,

Gardner Dozois Reviews Short Fiction: Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Analog, and F&SF

Gardner Dozois
Locus Magazine

ASU creates interactive moon colony exhibit

Fox 10 News

There are wonderful holes in my brain

Jessie Rack

Explore a prototype moon colony this weekend at ASU

AZFamily.com

ASU Emerge to create a moon colony on campus

Mary Beth Faller ASU Now

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The Enduring Influence of a Dangerous Narrative: How Scientists Can Mitigate the Frankenstein Myth

Bioethical Inquiry
Peter Nagy, Ruth Wylie, Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn

Because the wolves are shot

By Jessie Rack “Coyote” by Jitze Couperus, licensed under CC BY 2.0 What do you really know about coyotes? Maybe you’ve heard the official line about the economic consequences of coyotes

Future Tense Fiction: Mother of Invention

A new short story by the author of Marvel’s Black Panther: Long Live the King, Nnedi Okorafor.

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What Black Panther Could Mean for the Afrofuturism Movement

By Michael Bennett
Slate – Future Tense

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Farewell, ‘Frankenstein’

Ira Flatow and Christie Taylor
Science Friday