This weeks #FreeFictionFriday story is “Heart of the City” by Amy K. Nichols. In preparation of his last concert, Ari, a seasoned violinist, must reckon with his last performance. As he takes the stage, he realizes a truth about empathy and harnesses kinship. Read here: csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...
Diana Seecharran is a lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of Guyana. For her Community Climate Fellowship project, she will host workshops on climate change and resilient futures for Grade 9 students from four schools in Georgetown, Guyana. More here: csi.asu.edu/community-cl...
“Our Radioactive Neighbors” was recently mentioned in an ASU News piece bringing perspective on the challenges we face with rising energy, how we’re addressing waste storage, and how to see these problems through a hopeful lens that our book strive to provide. Read here: news.asu.edu/20260218-sci...
This week's #FreeFictionFriday story is "What would Akanda do?" by Samit Basu from Issues magazine. Find the link to read the story here: issues.org/futuretensef...
Ebi Robert is a lawyer and speculative fiction author.
His Community Climate Fellowship project is based in Yenagoa, Nigeria, where he will lead a set of activities to raise awareness of climate issues and encourage people to envision climate futures. More info here: csi.asu.edu/community-cl...
A State Press article on the growth of AI was recently published featuring Ed Finn. He was quoted for his ideas on the way human samplings are used by AI, and how this can lead to controversial AI responses that would otherwise appear to be system error. Read here: www.statepress.com/article/2026...
Earlier today, 'Symphony From the League of American Orchestras' published a news brief on "Sound Systems", one of our newer collections. Symphony gives a brief discourse on concepts found in the book, and provides a synopsis on its origination! Link for more here: symphony.org/sound-system...
The latest Imaginary Papers issue is out now, featuring Anne Johnson on speculative documentary films, Brenda Cooper on the novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, and Troy Wiggins on applying Afrofuturism to community futures.
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This week’s #FreeFictionFriday piece is “Pursuant to the Agreement” by Andrew Dana Hudson. Disputes over nuclear waste storage have reshaped the nation. Through artifacts, documents, private messages, and letters, we see rising tensions that began splintering the states.
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Mito Reyes is a writer, editor, and researcher who holds a PhD in Hispanic Literature. He'll lead a sci-fi writing exercise for exploring the relationship between humans, the natural world, and the cosmos according to the tenets of Ayöök thought. More info:
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In this week's #FreeFictionFriday story, “Generating Hope” by Carter Meland from the Our Radioactive Neighbors collection, a touch between a girl and nuclear waste brings on a transcendent connection and sparks a decades-long companionship. Find the link to read here: csi.asu.edu/books/radnei...
Our third climate community fellow is Rodrigo Bastidas Pérez, based in Pasto, Colombia, a university professor who holds a PhD in Literature, as well as the general editor of the publishing house Ediciones Vestigio. Read about his fellowship project here! us5.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema...
Join CSI and our friends from the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and the Humanities Institute for Douglass Day’s annual Transcribe-a-Thon, gathering thousands of people from around the globe to create new & freely available resources for learning Black history.
Learn more at csi.asu.edu/events
In this weeks #FreeFictionFriday response essay to Andrew Liptak's 'Deficiency Agent', Candace Rondeaux asserts a new "lack of intelligence" emerging in real-life conflict zones and reflected in the world of 'Deficiency Agent'; the new "human hesitation" in the place of human error.
In this #FreeFictionFriday, "Deficiency Agent," author Andrew Liptak follows a platoon of soldiers who receive counterintuitive commands from TION, an AI navigation system, and find themselves in a dangerous situation that sets human judgment against algorithmic authority. issues.org/futuretensef...
In this piece from the Climate Fiction Writers League, our own Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich share a list of writing tips, tricks, and tools inspired by our latest publication, "Climate Imagination" Visit the link below to dive in!
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This week’s #FreeFictionFriday is ‘Welcome to Hillsville’ by Justina Ireland. The peaceful city of Hillsville is tucked comfortably into the bustle of suburban life until conversations about nuclear storage disrupt the daily routine. Read here: csi.asu.edu/story/city-o...
Join us for a free virtual event as part of the 2026 Learning Planet Festival, hosted by the Learning Planet Institute and UNESCO! Learn more and see the full program of events running from January 21-28 at learning-planet.org. Link to register here: asu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
What happens when an imminent threat becomes the centerpiece of culture? This question is at the heart of ‘Return to Sender’ by Sarena Ulibarri, our latest #freefictionfriday piece, and part of Our Radioactive Neighbors, CSI’s latest collection. Get a copy here! 🔗 : csi.asu.edu/books/radnei...
Join us in kicking off the new year with John Carpenter's Escape From New York, the first movie of 2026 in our History of the Future series! Find the link below for a dark, exhilarating action on Wednesday, January 21, at 7 PM, announced by Matt Bell.
🔗: www.majesticphx.com/movie/Majest...
Our Radioactive Neighbors is free to download, read, and share. Through science fiction, visual art, and essays by experts across fields, it provides resources to help communities imagine their futures and make informed choices about nuclear siting. Download here: csi.asu.edu/books/radnei...
Could football management be optimized by AI systems, removing sentimentality and winning matches with a witches brew of unconventional tactics? Read "Bonum Certamen", this month's Future Tense Fiction story by Issues in Science and Technology and author Andrés Martinez:
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Congratulations Class of 2025! As we look beyond graduation, the next steps can feel exciting and daunting. But don’t stress; the Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU is excited to share “Forge Ahead: A Creative Guide for Mapping Possibilities and Finding Direction.” csi.asu.edu/forgeahead/
Thanks to LitHub Magazine for hosting this roundtable conversation in support of our new book, Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures.
Read more at: lithub.com/on-the-urgen...
This #FreeFictionFriday is ‘A Lion Roars in Longyearbyen’, the story of the last natural lion left on earth. We follow the gripping hunt of the lion in a world where climate change has tipped the world on its head and humans have depleted the natural world. Click to read: slate.com/technology/2...
Last Thursday, we joined some of our imaginary friends for a virtual conversation exploring the deep connection between social sciences and science fiction, and how these stories can help shape our vision of better social policies.
Use the link below to watch!
🔗 issues.org/event/what-i...
In a recent interview with Clarkesworld Magazine, futures-thinkers and editors @edfinn.bsky.social and Joey Eschrich explore the power of speculative fiction to shape how we imagine and respond to real-world challenges.
Use the link below to learn more!
🔗 clarkesworldmagazine.com/finn-eschric...
This week’s #FreeFictionFriday features Driftless by Scott Dorsch; the story of a man named Raimond Olmstead. We follow his journey as he recounts his decision to stay with his memory-ridden house in the lonely country despite the apocalyptic storms that plague it.
🔗 csi.asu.edu/story/driftl...
Join us for a virtual discussion to mark the publication of Climate Imagination, featuring writers and thinkers from around the world sharing hopeful climate stories. Speakers include Manjana Milkoreit, @yudhanjaya.bsky.social, and Vandana Singh.
🔗 events.newamerica.org/hopefulclima...
Through speculative fiction, essays, and visual art, Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures seeks to inspire a wave of narratives about what positive climate futures might look like for communities around the world.
Read it at the link below!
🔗 csi.asu.edu/books/climat...
