Year: 2018

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

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

Future Tense Fiction: Safe Surrender

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

Future Tense Fiction: Domestic Violence

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

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

Robotniks for Robots
Corey S. Pressman

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.

What Black Panther Could Mean for the Afrofuturism Movement
By Michael Bennett
Slate – Future Tense

Science Fiction Frames: The Incredible Logic Dilemma
Patrick McGurrin

Farewell, ‘Frankenstein’
Ira Flatow and Christie Taylor
Science Friday