Future Tense Fiction
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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, the Washington Post, Syfy.com, Tor.com, and Kirkus Reviews, among others. His novel Nigerians in Space, a thriller about brain drain from Africa, was published by Unnamed Press in 2014. He is currently the Head of Social Impact at the audio technology company Sonos and a Future Tense Fellow at New America.
Mark Oshiro is the Hugo-nominated writer of the online Mark Does Stuff universe (Mark Reads and Mark Watches), where they analyze book and TV series. Anger is a Gift is their debut YA novel. It was honored with the 2019 Schneider Family Book Award for Best Teen Book and is a 31st Annual Lammy Awards finalist in the LGBTQ Children’s/Young Adult category.
Hannu Rajaniemi is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief (winner of 2012 Tähtivaeltaja Award for the best science fiction novel published in Finland, and translated into more than 20 languages) and Invisible Planets, a short story collection. His most recent book is Summerland, an alternate-history spy thriller in a world where the afterlife is real. His short fiction has been featured in Slate, MIT Technology Review, and the New York Times. Hannu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a co-founder and CEO of HelixNano, a venture- and Y Combinator–backed biotech startup.
Emily St. John Mandel’s fifth novel, The Glass Hotel, will be published in spring 2020. Her previous novels include Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and has been translated into 32 languages. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
Mark Stasenko is a television writer who wrote on the Peabody Award–winning show American Vandal. He is in development on a series about Enron with Alex Gibney attached to direct and is adapting his Future Tense Fiction short story “Overvalued” into a TV series with Universal Cable Productions.
About the Editors
Kirsten Berg is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. She currently works as a research-reporter with ProPublica and was previously an associate editor with Future Tense.
Torie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University. She was also the co-editor of the 2017 edition of What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent the Future (The Unnamed Press).
Joey Eschrich is the editor and program manager at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, and an assistant director for Future Tense. He is the co-editor of Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities, a book of fiction and nonfiction supported by a grant from NASA.
Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, and the academic director for Future Tense. He is the author of What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing and the co-editor of Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds, both from The MIT Press.
Andrés Martinez is the editorial director of Future Tense and a professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. He is a former vice president of New America, editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, and assistant editorial page editor at the New York Times.
Juliet Ulman is the proud editor of multiple award-winning projects over her 20+ year editorial career, and has been personally twice honored as a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor. She holds strong opinions on New York Rangers hockey and the Oxford comma.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Note
Table of Contents
Introduction
Mother of Invention
No Me Dejes
When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
When We Were Patched
Domestic Violence
Mr. Thursday
A Brief and Fearful Star
Overvalued
Safe Surrender
Lions and Gazelles
Burned-Over Territory
Mika Model
The Starfish Girl
The Minnesota Diet
About the Contributors
About the Editors