The History of the Future of Transportation
Joey Eschrich
Ghost Stories in the Machine
Andrew Dana Hudson
Frankenstein at 200
by Jennifer Schuessler The New York Times
How humans fit into Google’s machine future
by Ed Finn and Andrew Maynard The Conversation
When We Were Patched
Some of us are born in orbit
Jessie Rack
Monsters
ASU Science & Imagination
We Have Always Died in the Castle
Virtual reality technology is no longer confined to computer-science labs and high-tech theme parks. Today, head-mounted goggles, sensors, and haptic control systems are tools for immersive journalism, professional development, and clinical therapy. In this novella, award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Elizabeth Bear and artist Melissa Gay imagine a near future informed by visceral VR simulations to catalyze positive change.
Phoenix will no longer be Phoenix if Waymo’s driverless-car experiment succeeds
By Ed Finn MIT Technology Review
Frankenbook
A collaborative reading experiment with Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
Frankenbook: collective annotations on Mary Shelley’s 200 year old novel “Frankenstein”
By Cory Doctorow Boing Boing
200 Years of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece as a Lens on Today’s Most Pressing Questions of Science, Ethics, and Human Creativity
By Maria Popova Brain Pickings
What have we learned from science’s most infamous doctor-patient relationship?
Massive Science
Future Tense Fiction: Safe Surrender
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Fiction Roundup: April 2018
Maria Haskins
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog
Imaginary Worlds: Living in Space
People have fantasized for ages about what it would be like to live in space. If Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos achieve their goals with Space X and Blue Origin,