Terraform : watch / worlds / burn

Evans, Claire Lisa, (editor,, writer of preface.). Merchant, Brian, (editor,, writer of preface.).

Summary: Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we're hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where we'll end up next. Section by section--Watch/Worlds/Burn--the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse. With a potent roster of established names and rising talents--from Bruce Sterling, Ellen Ullman, Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, and Omar El Akkad, to E. Lily Yu, Elvia Wilk, Fernando Flores, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Gus Moreno--it confronts the issues that orbit our everyday existence, and takes them to unsettling dimensions.

Record details

ISBN: 9780374602666 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: xvi, 476 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"MOTHERBOARD VICE"--Title page.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface / by Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans -- Introduction: you are a Luddite / by Cory Doctorow -- Busy / by Omar El Akkad -- One day, I will die on Mars / by Paul Ford -- Moved / by Chloe Cole -- Flyover country / by Tim Maughan -- Warning signs / by Emily J. Smith -- #Civilwarvintage / by Nan Craig -- WPO / by Joanne McNeil -- Blue Monday / by Laurie Penny -- User settings / by Sam Biddle -- Earth's most customer-centric company / by Kevin Nguyen -- Exemption packet / by Rose Eveleth -- Gynoid, preserved / by Malon Edwards -- The end of big data / by James Bridle -- Across the border / by Sahil Lavingia -- The prostitute / by Max Wynne -- Ernest / by Geoff Manaugh -- Editor's note / by Claire L. Evans -- From fire / by Frankie Ochoa -- The fog / by Elvia Wilk -- Tropical premises / by Peter Milne Greiner -- Reach / by Mattie Lubchansky -- Plantation by Lia Swope Mitchell -- A song for you / by Jennifer Marie Brissett -- The counselor / by Robin Sloan -- Hysteria / by Meg Elison -- Drones to ploughshares / by Sarah Gailey -- The Duchy of the Toe Adam / by Lincoln Michel -- Parse. Error. Reset. / by Wole Talabi -- Two people / by Gus Moreno -- Who's a good boy? / by Marlee Jane Ward -- Jim / by Malcolm Harris -- Science fiction ideas / by Tao Lin -- Mall school / by Porpentine Charity Heartscape -- Trojan horses / by Jess Zimmerman -- Devolution / by Ellen Ullman -- Editor's note / by Brian Merchant -- An incomplete timeline of what we tried / by Debbie Urbanski -- Death and other gentrifying neighborhoods / by Sam J. Miller -- Mammoth steps / by Andrew Dana Hudson -- The wretched and the beautiful / by E. Lily Yu -- Reunion / by Shannon Chamberlain -- Nothing takes the place of you / by Fernando A. Flores -- The binding of Isaac / by Tochi Onyebuchi -- Dream job / by Seamus Sullivan -- Headshot / by Julian Mortimer Smith -- Zombie capitalism / by Tobias Buckell -- The brain dump / by Bruce Sterling -- Virtual snapshots / by Tlotlo Tsamaase -- The river / by Tori Cárdenas -- Hypercane / by Eric Holthaus -- One thousand cranes / by Zora Mai Quýnh -- Always home / by Jeff Vandermeer -- U wont remember dying / by Russell Nichols.