Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction Predicted the World We Live In - The New York Times
A profile of the life and work of the brilliant Octavia E. Butler.
A History of the Future in 100 Objects | Mssv
Adrian Hon’s Kickstarter project has already reached its goal. I can’t wait for the podcasting to start.
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Envisioning Our Shared Storm with Andrew Dana Hudson - Long Now
This observation feels spot-on to me:
The shift that I noticed, totally anecdotally, is literary writers are starting to write more dystopian climate futures and science fiction writers are starting to write about climate solutions.
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
A century of sci-fi book covers.
Sci-Fi & Me – Jeremy Keith – Stay Curious Café by beyond tellerrand - YouTube
Here’s the video of the talk I gave on Wednesday evening all about my relationship with reading science fiction. There are handy chapter markers if you want to jump around.
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
A fascinating crowdsourced project. You can read the backstory in this article in Wired magazine.
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Talking about sci-fi
I’ve published the transcript of my sci-fi talk.
dConstruct 2015 podcast: John Willshire
Michael Caine in the Fortress of Solitude.
100 words 005
Day five.
Living Through The Future
William Gibson, Arthur C.Clarke, Daniel Dafoe, Stephen King, Emily St. John Mandel, John Wyndham, Martin Cruz-Smith, Marina Koren and H.G. Wells.