SPEAKERS:
This is a past Webinar. However, those who enjoy speculative fiction, and are futurists, might enjoy visiting a few of the links below which lead to information and stories about the future by speculative fiction authors.
- Kim Stanley Robinson, science fiction author, New York 2140 (2017), Green Earth (2015)
- “The Coronavirus is Rewriting Our Imaginations,” in The New Yorker
- More information on Wikipedia, and this Amazon author page.
- Brenda Cooper, science fiction author, Keepers (2018), Wilders (2017), POST (2016)
- “For the Snake of Power,” in The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures
- Web page: http://www.brenda-cooper.com/
- Chinelo Onwualu, science fiction author, “What the Dead Man Said” (2019), “Read Before Use” (2017)
- “What the Dead Man Said,” in Slate – Future Tense Fiction
- More on Chinelo’s Twitter
- Ed Finn, Founding Director, Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University
FURTHER READING:
- How sci-fi could help solve climate change
- 13 Female ‘Cli-Fi’ Writers Who Are Inspiring a Better Future
- Is Afrofuturism the Answer to Our Current Crises?
- “Solarpunk” offers an optimistic alternative to climate panic
- An Intro To ‘Cli-Fi’ (Climate Change Fiction)
- 17 Writers on the Role of Fiction in Addressing Climate Change
- 11 Climate Fiction Authors Share Their Favorite Books in the Genre