How to Change the Future – Coming April 2027

A playful field guide to imagination: humanity’s greatest superpower and our only hope for surviving the twenty-first century.

A new annotated version of astrophysicist Jayant V. Narlikar’s iconic novel about a cybervirus attack by an alien species, with updated text and added material. Part of the Imagination, Annotated series.

A new annotated edition of Jules Verne’s classic, which considers the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific as well as humanistic angles. Part of the Imagination, Annotated series.

A collection of fiction, nonfiction and art that explores how sharing space with a facility for storing nuclear waste might shape a community’s future, guided by insights about land, justice, governance, collective decision-making, and stewardship.

A Creative Guide for Mapping Possibilities and Finding Direction  This kit is designed to help you navigate the uncertainties and opportunities of the future while staying true to your values,

A clarion call for visions of vibrant, hopeful climate futures, bringing together global voices to share stories of resilient communities based in real science.

A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and art reimagining orchestras as vibrant spaces for connection, shared learning, and exploration.

An evidence-informed guide to reclaiming your wild imagination. This transformative workbook is designed to help readers break free from distractions and reconnect with their innate creative vitality.

Learn about sea butterflies, a beautiful type of tiny sea snail, in this illustrated children’s book.

A collection of essays exploring how the blurring of media forms—transmedia—became the default for how we experience narratives, and how that cultural transformation has redefined the worlds of education, entertainment, and our increasingly polarized public discourse.

A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and art exploring positive climate futures, grounded in real science and in the complexities of diverse human and physical geographies.

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Visionary Histories makes the case for the disciplined study of the future via the historical method, arguing that historians are well-positioned to anticipate the possible future behaviors of a wide variety of systems. 

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The global cataclysm of COVID-19, and the quarantines and social distancing that have accompanied the still-unfolding pandemic, has brought enormous changes to the games industry, the ways we play videogames (and physical games) alone and together, and the meaning and content of games old and new.

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A comic book that tells the story of a single electron traveling through a silicon solar cell, illustrating the physics and chemistry behind how electric current is generated in solar panels. Created in collaboration with the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies Research Center.

A collection of short stories by writers from around the world, exploring the climate crisis and how human responses to it will shape the futures we will inhabit. Featuring winning stories from our 2020 Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest.

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A collection of science fiction stories, art, and essays exploring how the transition to solar energy will transform cities; catalyze revolutions in politics, governance, and culture; and create diverse futures for human communities.

An anthology of mind-bending science fiction short stories by some of the top authors in the field, drawn from our Future Tense Fiction project. How will living with scientific upheaval and technological transformation change the world–and us?

This biography of a dawn traces one particular sunrise through poetry, photography, and lived experience as it played out from four different vantage points on the San Francisco Peaks. This collection is inspired by James Turrell’s land art project at Roden Crater in Northern Arizona.

A collection of science fiction stories, art, and essays exploring human futures powered by solar energy, with an upbeat, solarpunk twist. What will it be like to live in the photon societies of tomorrow? How will a transition to clean, plentiful energy transform our values, markets, and politics?

A collection of short stories by an international group of authors, drawn from our 2018 Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, plus a foreword by our lead judge, Kim Stanley Robinson.