Researchers Reanimate Frankenstein to Bring Science to Life

In the Media

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ASU’s Veterans Imagination Project Aims To Help Veterans Envision New Career Paths

By Steve Goldstein

Moscow author’s story lands in climate fiction anthology

Moscow-Pullman Daily News (Idaho)

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Indigenous Futurisms And Climate Fiction

Tom Maxedon Word podcast, KJZZ 91.5 public radio

Sarena Ulibarri and Ed Finn on Solarpunk

How Do You Like It So Far? podcast

Arizona State University’s Free Solarpunk Anthology is All About Optimistic Futures

Andrew Liptak, Tor.com

Cities of Light: A discussion on the impact of a solar future

Justin Spangenthal, The State Press

10 Innovative IT Projects to Inspire You This Fall

by Jen A. Miller, EdTech

We Need a New Science of Progress

by Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen, The Atlantic

Announcing Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow

by Torie Bosch, SLATE

Review: Future Tense Fiction

Kirkus Reviews

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Can Sci-Fi Writers Prepare Us for an Uncertain Future?

by Rose Eveleth, WIRED

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’: How Realistic Is Mysterio’s Illusion Technology?

by Trey Williams, The Wrap (Yahoo)

2019 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Winners

Locus Magazine

Higher Education: Arizona State University’s Partnership With James Turrell’s Roden Crater Has Much to Teach Museums

by Andy Battaglia, ARTnews

Starred Review:Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow

Publishers Weekly

Monster algorithms: Ed Finn

by Athena Aktipis and Dave Lundberg-Kenrick, Zombified Podcast

17 Writers on the Role of Fiction in Addressing Climate Change

by Amy Brady, Literary Hub

Five ASU affiliates who are using their art to make change in their communities

by Chelsea Hofmann, The State Press

ASU ebook ‘Weight of Light’ provides a vision of a solar future

by Nick Hedges, The State Press

Center for Science and the Imagination event puts the science in science fiction

by Endia Fontanez, The State Press

Climate Change Fiction for Students and Teachers

by Sarah Outterson-Murphy Morningside Center

The Scout Report: March 29, 2019

The Scout Report (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Big Rural (reprint)

by Cat Rambo, Motherboard – VICE

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Authors, artists explore solar futures in new anthology

by Joey Eschrich, ASU Now

Friday Field Notes 032219

Solar Cascade

Can Climate Change Fiction Build Consensus, Empathy?

by Brooke Ruth and Mark Sauer, KPBS (San Diego)

A collection of science fiction stories, art… [Post about Weight of Light]

Solarpunks.net

When ‘Everything’ Is Changing, Stories Have A Role To Play

by Jason Sheehan, NPR Books

How sci-fi could help solve climate change

by Zoe Sayler, Salon.com

We’re overdoing dystopian sci-fi. Can we please take a break?

by Gautham Shenoy, Factor Daily

How sci-fi could help solve climate change

by Zoe Sayler, Canada’s National Observer

Speculating on the Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrencies

by Andrew Hageman, Los Angeles Review of Books

How sci-fi could help solve climate change

by Zoe Sayler, Grist

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In the face of climate chaos, writers find grief and hope

by Joey Eschrich, ASU Now

A New Cli-Fi Collection You Can Download For Free

by Amy Brady,  Chicago Review of Books

Kamala Harris is wrong about science fiction

by Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post

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A free book of science fiction from around the world about climate change, introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson

by Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

Literally, Stories of Climate Change

by Joey Eschrich and Angie Dell, iMPACT magazine

This is the pop culture that helped us survive 2018

The Verge

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PWC recommended that corporations should ask science fiction writers about the future

by Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

The Scientific Origins of Frankenstein

by Javier Yanes, BBVA OpenMind

Forecasters are searching the past for clues about the future

by Kaveh Waddell, Axios

ASU creates interactive moon colony exhibit

Fox 10 News

Explore a prototype moon colony this weekend at ASU

AZFamily.com

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It’s Aliiiiiive! Celebrating The 200th Anniversary Of ‘Frankenstein’

Steve Goldstein, Sarah Ventre
KJZZ

Frankenstein game teaches kids about science

Erin Blakemore
Washington Post

Ed Finn on the set of Horizon.

ASU’s newly-published collection of sci-fi stories has people talking about space

Horizon Arizona PBS

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Sci Fri Book Club: ‘Frankenstein’

Science Friday

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‘Frankenstein’ Has Become a True Monster

Ed Finn and David H. Guston The Wall Street Journal

Out of Control

Richard Holmes
The New York Review of Books

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Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures

Bruce Sterling
Wired – Beyond the Beyond

‘Black Panther’ isn’t just another Marvel movie — it’s a vision of a future led by blackness

by Xavier Harding Mic

“Imagine This”

Groton School Quarterly, Winter 2017

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ASU writing contest breathes new life into climate-change conversation

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It’s Alive! Frankenstein’s Influence 200 Years Later

By Sarah Ventre, KJZZ 91.5 FM

A Storied Future: Future Tense Fiction

By Emma Greguska, ASU Now

Power of social media: Erdogan’s smart use of a smartphone

By Ed Finn, CNN Opinion

Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You

Our communications and public engagement strategist Bob Beard visited Phoenix’s NBC affiliate, 12 News, to discuss Star Wars Day and why science fiction fandom matters. Watch now…

Futurist Brian David Johnson on The Gist Podcast

Listen to our Futurist in Residence Brian David Johnson on The Gist podcast with the inimitable Mike Pesca!

Building Visions of Humanity’s Climate Future – in Fiction and on Campus

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Intel futurist Brian David Johnson heads to ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination

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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Evokes Passion From Nontraditional Fans

Enough With Dystopias: It’s Time For Sci-Fi Writers To Start Imagining Better Futures

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Book Review: ‘Hieroglyph’ edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer

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Sci-fi writers, scientists imagine the future

By Kathryn Jepsen, Symmetry Magazine

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Q&A: The sci-fi optimist

By Zeeya Merali, Nature

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Project Hieroglyph: Fighting society’s dystopian future

By Debbie Siegelbaum, BBC News

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What will it take to get us back to the Moon?

By Jekan Thanga, Boing Boing

Nathan Fillion to Discuss Serenity, Software, and Sci-Fi in Tempe June 7

ASU program changes future visions with science fiction technology

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How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future

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Director of collaborative science center discusses future of the news, digital platforms

By Carolyn Corcoran, Downtown Devil

Thought Experiments: Dreaming Up a Center for Science and the Imagination

Straight Out Of Sci-Fi: Cyberpunk Author Plans Tallest Skyscraper Ever

ASU to Host Walking Dead Discussion of Zombies and Taxes

Countering Dystopian Science Fiction’s ‘Wet Blanket Effect’ on Innovation

Is There a Difference Between Necessary and Unnecessary Bad Science?

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Help Neal Stephenson Engineer the Weird and Create a New World of Sci-Fi

Center for Science and the Imagination students predict the future

ASU-Intel collaboration challenges students to imagine brighter sustainable futures

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Sci-fi writers help scientists bridge gap between fantasy and reality

Future is Now at ASU with New 293k-Square-Foot Science, Tech Hub

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Contest: Help Us Imagine and Build a Better Future–No Politics Required

Introducing the Center for Science and the Imagination

A Place Where Science and Science Fiction Can Be of One Mind

ASU Launches Center for Science and the Imagination

Center for Science and the Imagination to Launch at ASU’s Newest Interdisciplinary Building, ISTB4

How Neal Stephenson’s 20-Kilometer Space Tower Could Change Everything

Sci-Fi Author Alan Dean Foster to Appear at ASU

Neal Stephenson on Science Fiction, Building Towers 20 Kilometers High…and Insurance

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Dear Science Fiction Writers: Stop Being So Pessimistic!

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Why We Need To Escape From Our Dystopian Sci-Fi Rut

Out of a Writer’s Imagination Came an Interactive World