A Hopeful Look At The Apocalypse: An interview with PRI’s Innovation Hub
I chatted with Innovation Hub, distributed by PRI, about the role of science fiction and dystopia in helping to shape the future (MP3). Three Takeaways 1. Doctorow thinks that science-fiction can give...
View ArticleInterview with the National Science Teachers Association’s Lab Out Loud podcast
Back in 2010, I appeared as a guest on the National Science Teachers Association’s Lab Out Loud podcast, and this year, they had me back as part of their celebration of their first decade; they’ve...
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With repetition, most of us will become inured to all the dirty tricks of...
In my latest Locus column, “Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention,” I suggest that we might be too worried about the seemingly unstoppable power of opinion-manipulators and...
View ArticleMy keynote from ConveyUX 2017: “I Can’t Let You Do That, Dave.”
“The Internet’s broken and that’s bad news, because everything we do today involves the Internet and everything we’ll do tomorrow will require it. But governments and corporations see the net,...
View ArticleI’m speaking at UCSD on Feb 9!
I’m appearing at UCSD on February 9, with a talk called “Scarcity, Abundance and the Finite Planet: Nothing Exceeds Like Excess,” in which I’ll discuss the potentials for scarcity and abundance — and...
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Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 03
Here’s part three of my reading (MP3) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn and...
View ArticleThe 2017 Locus List: a must-read list of the best science fiction and fantasy...
Every year, Locus Magazine’s panel of editors reviews the entire field of science fiction and fantasy and produces its Recommended Reading List; the 2017 list is now out, and I’m proud to say that it...
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Nominations for the Hugo Awards are now open
If you were a voting member of the World Science Fiction Convention in 2017, or are registered as a voting member for the upcoming conventions in 2018 or 2019, you are eligible to nominate for the...
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Hey, Australia and New Zealand, I’m coming to visit you!
I’m about to embark on a tour of Australia and New Zealand to support my novel Walkaway, with stops in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Wellington! I really hope you’ll come out and say hello!...
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The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 04 [FIXED]
Here’s part four of my reading (MP3) (part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better...
View ArticleThe 2018 Locus Poll is open: choose your favorite science fiction of 2017!
Following the publication of its editorial board’s long-list of the best science fiction of 2017, science fiction publishing trade-journal Locus now invites its readers to vote for their favorites in...
View ArticleDo We Need a New Internet?
I was one of the interview subjects on an episode of BBC’s Tomorrow’s World called Do We Need a New Internet? (MP3); it’s a fascinating documentary, including some very thoughtful commentary from...
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Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 05
Here’s part five of my reading (MP3) (part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015’s Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a...
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My short story about better cities, where networks give us the freedom to...
I was lucky enough to be invited to submit a piece to Ian Bogost’s Atlantic series on the future of cities (previously: James Bridle, Bruce Sterling, Molly Sauter, Adam Greenfield); I told Ian I...
View ArticleHey, Sydney! I’m coming to see you tonight (then Adelaide and Wellington!)
I’m just about to go to the airport to fly to Sydney for tonight’s event, What should we do about Democracy? It’s part of the Australia/New Zealand tour for Walkaway, and from Sydney, I’m moving on to...
View ArticleI’m coming to the Adelaide Festival this weekend (and then to Wellington, NZ!)
I’m on the last two cities in my Australia/NZ tour for my novel Walkaway: today, I’m flying to Adelaide for the Adelaide Festival, where I’m appearing in several program items: Breakfast with Papers...
View ArticleA key to page-numbers in the Little Brother audiobook
Mary Kraus teaches my novel Little Brother to health science interns learning about cybersecurity; to help a student who has a print disability, Mary created a key that maps the MP3 files in the...
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How to be better at being pissed off at Big Tech
My latest Locus column, “Let’s Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech,” looks at how science fiction can make us better critics of technology by imagining how tech could be used in difference social...
View ArticleHey, Wellington! I’m headed your way!
I’ve just finished a wonderful time at the Adelaide Festival and now I’m headed to the last stop on the Australia/New Zealand tour for Walkaway: Wellington! I’m doing a pair of events at Writers &...
View ArticleClassroom materials for Little Brother from Mary Kraus
Mary Kraus — who created a key to page-numbers in the Little Brother audiobook for students with reading disabilities — continues to create great classroom materials for Little Brother: Who’s Who in...
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