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The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?

An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar... and mull over survival.

Peter Watts |

Philosophy

Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?'

Dennett's classic story raises deep philosophical questions about identity and consciousness.

Daniel Dennett |

Culture

Stanisław Lem's Prescient Vision of Artificial Life

As with the best science fiction, Lem’s novel “The Invincible” has as much to teach us about our present situations as any futures we may face.

N. Katherine Hayles |

Culture

Horror So Wondrous: An Excerpt from William Hope Hodgson’s “The Night Land”

“Like certain rare dreams,” C. S. Lewis wrote of Hodgson's masterpiece, "The Night Land" can give “sensations we never had before and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.”

William Hope Hodgson |

Culture

On Karel Čapek’s Prophetic Science Fiction Novel ‘War With the Newts’

The Czech writer’s darkly humorous novel, published in 1936, anticipated our current reality with eerie accuracy.

John Rieder |

Culture

Tianxia: Notes on an Imaginary Gameworld (2082)

A story from Adrian Hon’s book “A New History of the Future in 100 Objects”

Adrian Hon |

Culture

It’s Science Over Capitalism: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Imperative of Hope

“What can’t go on won’t go on. Capitalism is breaking the system, meaning people’s lives and the biosphere.”

James Bradley |

Culture

The Brilliant Vision of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s "Sultana’s Dream"

When will we ever see realized what Sultana glimpses: the abolition of fossil-fuel technologies, the greenifying of cities, the detoxification of masculinity, and the triumph of love and truth over fear and hatred?

Joshua Glenn |

Culture

The Truth, by Stanisław Lem

Lem's 1964 story, published in English for the first time, tells the tale of a scientist in an insane asylum theorizing that the sun is alive.

Stanisław Lem, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones |

Culture

“A Veil Was Broken”: Afrofuturist Ytasha L. Womack on the Work of Science Fiction in the 2020s

The Afrofuturism movement within sci-fi may be equal to this moment, in part because it grows out of a history of displacement, atrocity, and instability.

Wade Roush |

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