In 1931 and 1935, respectively, James Whale, classical Hollywood’s most openly gay filmmaker, directed Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, the two most famous, admired, imitated, and parodied films based upon elements of Mary Shelley’s landmark 1818 novel. Indeed, many people have a sense of Frankenstein from these films more than Shelley’s writing, yet they differ vastly from the novel. The […]
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Future Tense Fiction: The Minnesota Diet
A new short story from the author of the Nebula Award–winning All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders.
Frankenstein 200: America’s science museums celebrate the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s Frankestein with a free, amazing transmedia experience

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

Horizon Arizona PBS
Man as God: ‘Frankenstein’ Turns 200

Marcelo Gleiser NPR – 13.7 Cosmos and Culture
Sci Fri Book Club: ‘Frankenstein’

Science Friday
Science Fiction TV Dinner: The Good Wife
The Good Wife is a legal drama with salacious political overtones and an unusually complex and thought-provoking approach to emerging technology and the law—in 2013, Wired magazine called it “the most tech-savvy show on TV.” Join us for a screening and conversation with Torie Bosch, editor of Slate magazine’s Future Tense channel, and Ed Finn, […]
Workshop: “Writing to Change Minds” with Slate’s Torie Bosch
Stubbornness may be the defining characteristic of the moment we’re in. People seem increasingly reluctant to listen to other points of view or deviate from their tribe. So how can we get people to reconsider long-held—but perhaps poorly thought through—beliefs? In this informal workshop, Torie Bosch, editor of Slate magazine’s Future Tense channel and coeditor of What […]
‘Frankenstein’ Has Become a True Monster

Ed Finn and David H. Guston The Wall Street Journal
Arizona State University challenges experts, authors to imagine space futures
New research-based collection features narratives by top science fiction authors, essays by experts on future possibilities for exploring Mars, Asteroids, Low Earth Orbit, and Exoplanets.
Out of Control
Richard Holmes
The New York Review of Books
Space Is Not a Void

By Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn
Future Tense – Slate
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures

Bruce Sterling
Wired – Beyond the Beyond
Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures
Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To live and thrive in radically different kinds of human communities? Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and private—narratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the “new space” era.
‘Black Panther’ isn’t just another Marvel movie — it’s a vision of a future led by blackness

by Xavier Harding Mic
The Rightful Place of Science: Frankenstein
Edited by Megan Halpern, Joey Eschrich, and Jathan Sadowski Two hundred years after its publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus continues to speak to modern concerns about science, technology, and society. The story of Victor Frankenstein and his creature has become a cultural touchstone through myriad theatrical renditions, movies, and other adaptations and […]
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Joss Whedon’s cult-classic series Buffy the Vampire Slayer continues to fascinate feminists, genre aficionados, and those of us who are hopelessly nostalgic for the late 1990s. Join us for a special Halloween edition of the Science Fiction TV Dinner series, where we’ll screen the Frankenstein-inspired episode “Some Assembly Required” and have a conversation with Buffy mavens Dawn Gilpin, associate professor at […]
Art by Algorithm

Ed Finn
Aeon
Climate Change Nurtures a New Genre of Science Fiction

Steve Goldstein
KJZZ 91.5
Margaret Atwood, Prophet?
Ed Finn
Slate – Future Tense