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Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, an anthology of stories, set in the near future, from some of todays leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction.In his 2011 article Innovation Starvation, Neal Stephenson argued that wethe society whose earlier scientists and engineers witnessed the airplane, the automobile, nuclear energy, the computer, and space explorationmust reignite our ambitions to think boldly and do Big Stuff. He also advanced the Hieroglyph Theory which illuminates the power of science fiction to inspire the inventive imagination Good SF supplies a plausible, fully thought-out picture of an alternate reality in which some sort of compelling innovation has taken place.
About the Author
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 also helps run Future Tense, a partnership between ASU, New America and Slate Magazine, the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project, the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative and Emerge, an annual festival of art, ideas and the future.
Ed's research and teaching explore digital narratives, creative collaboration, and the intersection of the humanities, arts and sciences. He is the author of What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (MIT Press, March 2017) and co-editor of Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers and Creators of All Kinds (MIT Press, May 2017) and Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (William Morrow, 2014) . He completed his PhD in English and American Literature at Stanford University in 2011 and his bachelor's degree at Princeton University in 2002. Before graduate school, Ed worked as a journalist at Time, Slate, and Popular Science.
