Science and the Imagination
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Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II
A collection of short stories by an international group of authors, drawn from our 2018 Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, plus a foreword by our lead judge, Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Why Climate Fiction?
Andrew Dana Hudson
A free book of science fiction from around the world about climate change, introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson
by Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
Thoughts and Prayers
by Ken Liu
Literally, Stories of Climate Change
by Joey Eschrich and Angie Dell, iMPACT magazine
This is the pop culture that helped us survive 2018
The Verge
When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
by Annalee Newitz
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Person of Interest
In just a few years, artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted from the stuff of futuristic dreams to a ubiquitous part of our daily lives. In a moment of dizzying change,
Don’t Be Scared of Killer Robots
by Ed Finn The New York Times
Center for Science and the Imagination and Open Technology Institute Launch “AI Policy Futures”
“Science fiction stories exert a powerful influence on how we think about technology and the future. But if we spend all of our time looking over our shoulders for killer robots, that means we are not looking ahead to discern the outcomes we might actually want.”
The History of the Future of Transportation
Joey Eschrich
Ghost Stories in the Machine
Andrew Dana Hudson
Chinese Science Fiction and Speculative Infrastructure
Ring roads, subways, telco networks, power plants, and waterworks are where ruling ideologies are made concrete. Values, both conscious and unconscious, are embodied, on display, and at work. Works of
How humans fit into Google’s machine future
by Ed Finn and Andrew Maynard The Conversation
When We Were Patched
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Torchwood
The BBC’s Torchwood, a spin-off of Doctor Who, centers on a team of investigators working in secret, “outside the government, beyond the police,” to protect Earth from extraterrestrial and supernatural
Science Fiction TV Dinner: Battlestar Galactica
What are the challenges of sustaining a human society in space? How should we govern ourselves and endure political crises in an environment dangerously starved of resources? More importantly, how