Networks of the Imagination
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Science Fiction TV Dinner: The X-Files
When we think of The X-Files, we think of sprawling government conspiracies, eerie UFO sightings, cigarette-smoking men, and the compelling dynamic between the smoldering, occasionally unhinged Fox Mulder and the doggedly
Science Comics Workshop
Why: Mark Siegel is an award-winning illustrator, New York Times bestselling author and the founder and editorial director of First Second Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers that creates graphic novels
Author And Illustrator Discusses Impact Of Graphic Novels
KJZZ – The Show
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Black Mirror
Black Mirror brings the breathtaking aesthetics, dystopian fervor, bracing social commentary, and eerie prescience of The Twilight Zone to the age of iPhones, Snapchat, and Snowden. The first season episode
Science Fiction TV Dinner – CSI: Cyber
In a moment of cyber-paranoia and cyber-crisis, there’s never been a cyber-time more cyber-appropriate for the overheated (and tragically, recently canceled) cyber-procedural, CSI: Cyber. Cybersecurity has never been more critical
Future Tense Fiction
In April 2016 CSI launched a new experiment with the Future Tense Channel at Slate: a regular writing series featuring original science fiction stories by well-known authors. We launched Future
Science Fiction TV Dinner – Star Trek: The Next Generation
September 8, 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Star Trek universe. Celebrate with us by taking a journey to the final frontier, where Captain Picard and his stouthearted crew
A Storied Future: Future Tense Fiction
By Emma Greguska, ASU Now
Sprint Beyond the Book: SSP 2016
SSP 2016 Conference, Vancouver
Paolo Bacigalupi Uses Fiction and Law to Debate Whether Robots Are Capable of Murder
Law prof ponders: If a highly advanced robot kills, is it murder or product liability?
Read This Slick Sci-Fi Noir Short Featuring Popular Science
Future Tense Fiction: “Mika Model,” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“The girl, the robot … this thing—I’d seen her before, all right. I’d seen her in technology news stories about advanced learning node networks…”
History of the Future Film: The Lawnmower Man
This summer we’re proud to present a film series examining gripping cinematic visions of the future emanating from different moments in recent history. Join us at FilmBar in Downtown Phoenix
Discovering Tomorrow with ASU’s University Futurist, Brian David Johnson
What if we had a Secretary of the Future?
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Zombies from the U.K.
What happens after the zombie apocalypse ends? We’ve managed to survive and fend off the ravening hordes, but how do we rebuild our communities? The award-winning BBC series In the
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Lost in Space
Running alongside Star Trek‘s original series at the dawn of the Space Age, Lost in Space presented a strikingly different vision for the future of human exploration in space. Lost