About the Book
An anthology of near future science fiction from VICE's acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, Terraform―in print for the first time.
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.
About the Author :
Brian Merchant is the senior editor of Motherboard, VICE's science and technology outlet and the founder-editor of Terraform, its online fiction outlet. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, Vice Magazine, Salon, Fast Company, Discovery, Good, Paste, Grist, and beyond. His work frequently appears on the front pages of Reddit, Digg, and Slashdot.
Brian Merchant is the senior editor of Motherboard, VICE's science and technology outlet and the founder-editor of Terraform, its online fiction outlet. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, Vice Magazine, Salon, Fast Company, Discovery, Good, Paste, Grist, and beyond. His work frequently appears on the front pages of Reddit, Digg, and Slashdot.
CLAIRE L. EVANS is Futures Editor of VICE's technology website Motherboard. She is also the editor of VICE's science-fiction imprint Terraform, as well as a contributor to Grantland, VICE, Wired, and The Guardian. Previously, she was a blogger for National Geographic's popular culture and science blog Universe. She is the lead singer of the pop group YACHT. CLAIRE L. EVANS is Futures Editor of VICE's technology website Motherboard. She is also the editor of VICE's science-fiction imprint Terraform, as well as a contributor to Grantland, VICE, Wired, and The Guardian. Previously, she was a blogger for National Geographic's popular culture and science blog Universe. She is the lead singer of the pop group YACHT.
Review :
Read these short, biting, vibrant stories for their wit, inventiveness, and verve.
-- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"
This anthology is filled with work from brilliant writers, new and familiar, and out of their anxieties come nightmares and dreams, an assortment of stories that is equal parts terrifying and entertaining.
-- "Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author"
This is the kind of book we need now, a collection of stories bursting with visions, ideas, nightmares, and utopian plans, all in the aid of creating cognitive maps for navigating the very difficult future that is coming. When dread and joy combine, what is that? Excitement? Read this and see what you think.
-- "Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author"
This showcase of today's leading imaginations offers enough vivid cautionary tales to make even the most optimistic tech utopian hesitate...While the tone throughout tends toward the bleak and searing, hope shines through.
-- "Publishers Weekly"
