Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures

by Ed Finn

  Editors

  Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. He is also the academic director for Future Tense, a partnership of ASU, Slate, and New America that explores emerging technologies and their transformative effects on policy, culture, and society. He is the author of What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (MIT Press, 2017) and co-editor of Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers and Creators of All Kinds (MIT Press, 2017) and Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (William Morrow, 2014).

  Joey Eschrich is the editor and program manager at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. He is also an assistant director for Future Tense, a partnership of ASU, Slate, and New America that explores emerging technologies and their transformative effects on policy, culture, and society. He is the co-editor of Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere (2017) and Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction (2016) and managing editor of Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers and Creators of All Kinds (2017) and Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (2014).

  Juliet Ulman is a Hugo-nominated editor of fantasy and science fiction. She has edited and acquired titles for a wide range of publishers including Bantam Books, HarperCollins, Random House, Sterling Publishing Group, Amazon Publishing, Serial Box Publishing, and Night Shade Books. Projects she has edited have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, daughter, and two troublesome cats. You can find her online at papertyger.net.

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