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Our Science Fiction TV Dinner series is going virtual for 2020-2021, to help keep our community safe during the pandemic. We’re shifting the format slightly, presenting Science Fiction TV Small Bites: short films from talented creators that invite us to explore a range of possible futures. […]
A story about Aztlán, creative reuse, and making technology work for you.
A story about environmental health, technophilia, and transcendence.
Troy L. Wiggins, Kate Greene & Joey Eschrich
A story about temporal anomalies, public spaces, and a new global consciousness.
A story about big data, emerging life forms, and a plea for coexistence.
A tale of unanticipated mail and the limits of self-reliance.
A tale of coded messages, clandestine drone deliveries, and surprising alliances.
A conversation about art that visualizes the future, creative expression in moments of crisis, and how art can be a path into fictional worlds.
A story about virtual reality, friendship, and the unexpected benefits of impersonation.
Indrapramit Das, Jessie Rack & Joey Eschrich
A tale of quantum entanglement and self-care.
A utopian tale of historical memory, the dangers of forgetting…and vampires.
A short story about backyard ecology, interspecies communities, careful observation, and solitude without loneliness.
A short story about food, monoculture, and communities that draw together the human and nonhuman.
This episode of The Imagination Desk features Jonathan Alexander. Jonathan is Professor of English and Informatics at The University of California, Irvine and author of books such as Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship (2016) and…
What would our world look like if we actually respected and lived within planetary boundaries? We’re excited to announce our third global climate fiction short story contest. Learn more…
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Torie Bosch & Joey Eschrich
This episode of The Imagination Desk features the band YACHT or Young Americans Challenging High Technology. We spoke with them about their new album Chain Tripping and it’s use of machine learning.
This episode of The Imagination Desk features science fiction heavy-weight Paolo Bacigalupi, author of The Water Knife and Shipbreaker. We caught up with him in this bonus episode to discuss the changes in his writing process as well as his latest proj…