Author: Joey Eschrich
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The Future: Powered by Fiction, a SF anthology from ASU and Intel
It turns out that Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future wasn’t the only science fiction anthology published by ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination this month! On Friday, September 5 we published The Future: Powered by Fiction in partnership with Intel’s Tomorrow Project and the Society for Science & the Public. The anthology, which is free to…
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Interview: Sam Arbesman, Complex Systems Scientist
Sam Arbesman is a complex systems scientist and writer with a PhD in computational biology from Cornell University and a BA in computer science and biology from Brandeis University. Sam’s most recent book, The Half-Life of Facts (Current/Penguin, 2012), explores how different fields of knowledge—medicine, physics, technology—change over time. Sam argues that knowledge in most…
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Inside Google’s Project Wing
The Atlantic‘s Alexis C. Madrigal explores Google X’s secret drone delivery program.
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Project Hieroglyph Launch Events
We’re coming to your town! We hope you can join us for one of our public events to celebrate the publication of Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future! September 10, 7:30pm Kepler’s Books and Magazines Menlo Park, CA Learn more and register September 13, 3:00pm Bakka Phoenix Books Toronto, Canada Learn more September…
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BBC: Fighting Society’s Dystopian Future
Hieroglyph got some great press from BBC News this week. Check out the full article here and the video below: Ed Finn: “A good science fiction story can be very powerful. It can inspire hundreds, thousands, millions of people to rally around something that they want to do.”
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Reinventing architecture’s relationship with energy
Architect Sean Lally’s work is a synthesis of two intense pressures on society today: humanity’s manipulation of the environment and the bioengineering of the human body. The first is changing the makeup of the physical spaces we occupy and the second, the very bodies that perceive that space. Lally’s designs are experiments that report on…
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What a real-life space settlement might look like
Over at Sploid, Jesus Diaz posted a model for a space settlement, created by Bryan Versteeg of Spacehabs, based on actual scientific principles. To learn more about the space settlement and the thinking behind it, check out the Sploid post. Behold the settlement in action:
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Project Hieroglyph and Imagining Possible Futures on Public Radio
Listen to the discussion with authors Kim Stanley Robinson, Junot Díaz and Samuel R. Delany, as well as Gates McFadden on the public radio program To the Best of Our Knowledge
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Dispatches from the Age of Networked Matter
Several of our Hieroglyph collaborators – Madeline Ashby, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker and Cory Doctorow – have contributed original stories to the anthology An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter. The collection is published by the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a non-profit think tank in Palo Alto, CA that…
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Featured Contributor: Kathryn Cramer
Kathryn Cramer is an author, critic, artist and photographer, as well as a respected anthologist of short fiction, with a particular focus on hard science fiction. Kathryn is a co-editor for the Hieroglyph Project and our in-house expert on the mysterious worlds of genre fiction and publishing. Kathryn co-edited the Year’s Best Fantasy and Year’s…