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Kyle Law

Kyle Fiore Law is a social psychologist, postdoctoral research scholar in the Intergenerational Decisions and Effective Action Lab (ASU’s Global Futures School of Sustainability), and a member of the Imaginary College at

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Stylianos Syropoulos

Stylianos (Stelios) Syropoulos is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. There he directs the Intergenerational Decisions and Effective Action (IDEA) Lab. The IDEA lab conducts

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Jenna N. Hanchey

Jenna N. Hanchey (she/her) is a BSFA award-shortlisted speculative fiction writer, Ignyte and British Fantasy award-shortlisted narrator, and Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Critical/Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. She’s a cohost of the podcasts Griots & Galaxies and Just Keep Writing, and narrator for Strange Horizons and Simultaneous Times. […]

Tochi Onyebuchi

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Goliath, finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and Riot Baby, a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and NAACP Image Awards and winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the World Fantasy Award.[…]

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Lisa Kay Solomon

Lisa Kay Solomon is an educator, author, and social entrepreneur who designs environments, experiences, and classes to help people expand their futures, adapt to complexities, and build civic fellowship. She is a designer in residence at the Stanford d.school in California, where she focuses on bridging the disciplines of futures[…]

Zoyander Street

Dr. Zoyander Street (they/them) is a neuroqueer and disabled writer, researcher, and digital artist. They live and work in the “People’s Republic of South Yorkshire,” England, creating interactive media […]

Laura Cechanowicz

Laura Cechanowicz joins the School of Arts, Media and Engineering as an assistant professor, jointly appointed with the graphic information technology program in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Cechanowicz

Robert LiKamWa

Robert LiKamWa is an associate professor at Arizona State University, appointed in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) and the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering (ECEE).

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David J. Staley

David J. Staley is an Associate Professor of History, with courtesy appointments in the Department of Design and the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education,

Sam Greenspan

Sam Greenspan is the creator and host of Bellwether, a podcast of speculative journalism. A radio reporter, producer, and artist with a knack for launching new shows, Sam was a founding member of 99% Invisible, NPR’s TED Radio Hour, USA Today’s The City, and others. […]

Sherri Wasserman

Sherri Wasserman constructs experiences at the intersections of physical, multimedia, and informational landscapes. She makes things for print, digital, and architectural/environmental spaces, creating content-rich exhibitions, […]

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is senior researcher at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, where he works on Climate Fiction, Quantum Fiction, and Medical Science Fiction within the Lifetimes framework.[…]

Cory Doctorow

“If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.”

Vandana Singh

Vandana Singh was born and raised in India and currently lives in the Boston area, where she is a professor of physics at Framingham State University, and a science fiction writer. Although her Ph.D. is in particle physics, in recent years she has […]

Kevin Bankston

Kevin Bankston is the Director of New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI), where he works in the public interest to ensure that all communities have access to communications technologies that are both open and secure. He previously served as OTI’s Policy […]

Deji Bryce Olukotun

Deji Bryce Olukotun is the author of two novels and his fiction has appeared in five different book collections. His novel After the Flare won the 2018 Philip K. Dick special citation award, and was chosen as one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian […]

Kim Stanley Robinson

“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”

Suren Jayasuriya

Suren Jayasuriya is an assistant professor at Arizona State University, in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. Before this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. […]

Madeline Ashby

Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer, futurist, speaker, teacher, and immigrant living in Toronto. She has worked with Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, Data & Society, The Atlantic Council, the Center for Science and the Imagination, Changeist, […]

Eric Molinsky

Eric Molinsky is the creator and host of Imaginary Worlds, a podcast on the Panoply network about science fiction and other fantasy genres, which looks at how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief. Episodes have ranged from interviews with authors like […]