Science and the Imagination Archives - Page 4 of 11 - Center for Science and the Imagination

Science and the Imagination

Pursuing human agency and long-term thinking.

Some of us are born in orbit

Jessie Rack

Monsters

ASU Science & Imagination

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Fiction Roundup: April 2018

Maria Haskins
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog

Gardner Dozois Reviews Short Fiction: Lightspeed, Asimov’s, Analog, and F&SF

Gardner Dozois
Locus Magazine

A Year Without a Winter

A collection that brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration, inspired by the literary “dare” that would give birth to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein amidst the aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption. Named one of the top art books of 2019 by the New York Times.

Future Tense Fiction: Domestic Violence

A new short story from science-fiction writer and futurist Madeline Ashby.

There are wonderful holes in my brain

Jessie Rack

Robotniks for Robots

Corey S. Pressman

Painting of Galileo, seated at a table in a high-backed red chair, peering through a gilded telescope out of the window.

Galileo and the Invention of the Scientific Method

Join us for this lecture by Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times–bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy, 2312, New York 2140, and Galileo’s Dream, a time-bending novel that takes Galileo from the early 1600s

Because the wolves are shot

By Jessie Rack “Coyote” by Jitze Couperus, licensed under CC BY 2.0 What do you really know about coyotes? Maybe you’ve heard the official line about the economic consequences of coyotes

Future Tense Fiction: Mother of Invention

A new short story by the author of Marvel’s Black Panther: Long Live the King, Nnedi Okorafor.

Maroon Square with a the word slate in the center of the square.

What Black Panther Could Mean for the Afrofuturism Movement

By Michael Bennett
Slate – Future Tense

Science Fiction Frames: The Incredible Logic Dilemma

Patrick McGurrin

Digital cartoon drawn Image from the short story The Minnesota Diet. Four people watching a woman smash a whole into a wall with a hammer.

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.

ASU’s newly-published collection of sci-fi stories has people talking about space

Horizon Arizona PBS

Photo of the inside of a space station with a ship and planet being seen outside of a large window.

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.

Space Is Not a Void

By Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn
Future Tense – Slate

Some of us are born in orbit