Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
About this ebook
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.
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About the author
Brian Merchant is a journalist, producer, and author, whose focus is on technology, work, and the future. His first book, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone is published by Little, Brown. He's the co-founder of Terraform, VICE Media's speculative fiction project, and the author of the Blood in the Machine, also from Little, Brown. His work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, The Atlantic, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Guardian, and beyond.
Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician. She is the singer of the GRAMMY-nominated pop group YACHT, a founding editor of Terraform, the former futures editor of Motherboard, and the author of Broad Band: The Untold story of the Women who Made the Internet. She is an advisor to design students at Art Center College of Design.
