A new short story by the author of Marvel’s Black Panther: Long Live the King, Nnedi Okorafor.
Projects
- Project Hieroglyph
- Science Fiction TV Dinners
- Future Tense Project
- Emerge
- Frankenstein Bicentennial
- Climate Futures
- Algorithmic Imagination
- Future of the American Dream
- History of the Future
- Space Futures
- Afrofuturism
- EVOKE
- Poetry for Robots
- Narrative Hackathon
- Ulises
- Postdigital Textbook
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- Sprint Beyond the Book
- Science Fiction Frames
- Crowd Futures
What Black Panther Could Mean for the Afrofuturism Movement
By Michael Bennett
Slate – Future Tense
Farewell, ‘Frankenstein’
Ira Flatow and Christie Taylor
Science Friday
It’s Aliiiiiive! Celebrating The 200th Anniversary Of ‘Frankenstein’
Steve Goldstein, Sarah Ventre
KJZZ
Footnotes to Frankenstein
Jon Turney
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Drawn Futures: Arizona 2045
Drawn Futures: Arizona 2045 is a science-based comic book for 5th through 8th grade students from Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination. Created by award-winning comics authors and advised by ASU sustainability scholar Dr. Paul Hirt, this original story envisions the near future […]
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Westworld
Westworld examines timeless dilemmas about free will, individual identity, and the fundamental altruism or savagery of human nature through the lens of artificial intelligence and robotics. Building on motifs from a century of Hollywood westerns, the series is a unique blend of action cinema, philosophy seminar, enigmatic […]
Frankenstein game teaches kids about science
Erin Blakemore
Washington Post
Rummaging through the Queer Closets of James Whale’s Frankenstein Films
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
‘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