Join us for our conversation with Sherryl Vint. Sherryl is a professor of science fiction at University of California Riverside, and the author of a number of books including Science Fiction from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, and Biopolitical Futures, which comes out later this year. We'll be talking about the roles that speculative fiction plays in our society, ways to critically navigate both utopian and dystopian narratives, and how science fiction thinking is, and isn’t, making it into the corporate world.

ACTIVATIONS << https://iaftfita.wildapricot.org/Imagining-Indigenous-Futurisms-Award/ (The IAFA Imagining Indigenous Futurisms Award) https://www.xprize.org/prizes (XPrize) https://sfcs.ucr.edu/ (Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program at UCR) REFERENCES << https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316300136 (Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson) https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Asimovs-Foundation-Foundations-Prelude/dp/B01EFDEMS8 (Foundation Series by Isaac Azimov) https://www.amazon.com/Ubik-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547572298 (Ubik by Philip K Dick) https://www.nealstephenson.com/ (Neal Stephenson's Website) https://us.macmillan.com/series/thecentenalcycle/ (The Centenal Cycle by Malka Older) https://www.amazon.com/Dispossessed-Ursula-K-Guin/dp/B00HTJMH2E/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+dispossessed&qid=1624759762&s=books&sr=1-2 (The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin) https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0441172717 (Dune by Frank Herbert) https://www.amazon.com/Bannerless-Saga-Carrie-Vaughn/dp/0544947304 (The Bannerless Saga by Carrie Vaughn) https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-TM-Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451231899 (Freedom(TM) by Daniel Suarez) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series) (The Expanse) https://www.amazon.com/Semiosis-Novel-Duology-Sue-Burke/dp/076539135X (Semiosis by Sue Burke) https://www.amazon.com/Colonialism-Emergence-Science-Fiction-Classics/dp/0819568740 (Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction by John Rieder) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Martine#A_Memory_Called_Empire (A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series (Culture Series by Iaian M. Banks) https://www.amazon.com/Starship-Troopers-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441783589 (Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein) https://www.amazon.com/Enders-Ender-Quintet-Orson-Scott/dp/0812550706 (Enders Quintet by Orson Scott Card) https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Remembered-Earth-Poseidons-Children/dp/0425256162 (Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Moylan (Tom Moylan) https://www.samueldelany.com/ (Samuel Delany) https://www.amazon.com/Unkindness-Ghosts-Rivers-Solomon/dp/1617755885 (An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Cormac-McCarthy/dp/0307387895 (The Road by Cormac McCarthy) https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths-Past-ebook/dp/B00IQO403K (The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu) https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/ted-chiangs-soulful-science-fiction (Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction)