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Podcast: New Books in Technology
Episode: Wade Roush, ed., âTwelve Tomorrowsâ (MIT Press, 2018)
Description: Science fiction is, at its core, about tomorrowâexploring through stories what the universe may look like one or 10 or a million years in the future.
Twelve Tomorrows (MIT Press, 2018) uses short stories to fit nearly a dozen possible âtomorrowsâ into a single book. Edited by journalist Wade Roush, the collection features stories by Elizabeth Bear, SL Huang, Clifford V. Johnson, J. M. Ledgard, Liu Cixin, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Nnedi Okorafor, Malka Older, Sarah Pinsker, and Alastair Reynolds.
The book is the latest in a series of identically titled books launched in 2011 by MIT Technol...