Projects
“When We Call a Place Home” by Chinelo Onwualu
Us in Flux: Conversations—Chinelo Onwualu and Robert Evans [Video–Past Event]
“An Attempt at Exhausting My Deck” by Kij Johnson
Us in Flux: Conversations—Kij Johnson and Jessie Rack [Video—Past Event]
“The Parable of the Tares” by Christopher Rowe
Us in Flux: Conversations—Christopher Rowe and Michael Bell [Video—Past Event]
Jonathan Alexander
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…
Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest 2020
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…
Imaginary Papers: Issue 1
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Torie Bosch & Joey Eschrich
YACHT
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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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…
Maureen McHugh
This episode of The Imagination Desk features Maureen McHugh. Maureen is an author and narrative designer who has worked on some of the biggest transmedia stories and alternate reality games (ARGs) in the history of the medium including The Beast for S…
Matt Derby
This episode of The Imagination Desk features Matt Derby. Matt is a writer and designer who works on innovative media projects where these two disciplines meet. Matt is a designer at the game studio Harmonix, the co-writer of the serialized fiction pod…
Anne Cofell Saunders
Our first interview for The Imagination Desk features Anne Cofell Saunders. Anne is an award-winning TV writer and producer, who has worked on some of the most popular genre shows of the past decade including Battlestar Galactica, Chuck, Smallville, an…
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Stargate SG-1
A classic work of military science fiction TV, Stargate SG-1 plunges humans into a new cosmology shaped by stargates: devices that create wormholes, enabling near-instantaneous travel across vast distances of
Black Futures Reader
A collection of recommended media to experience more Black Futures.
Future Tense Fiction Book Launch: Washington, DC
Join us to celebrate the launch of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, a new anthology of science fiction from Future Tense, with France Córdova, director of the National Science
Climate Justice in India
Upcoming book project
Future Tense Fiction: Double Spiral
By Marcy Kelly
Future Tense Fiction Book Launch: New York
Join us at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice to celebrate the launch of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, a new anthology of science fiction from Future Tense,