Make Shift

Dispatches from the Post Pandemic Future

Gideon Lichfield

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MIT Press
20 July 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Apocalyptic; Short Stories Sci-Fi; Science; Future Society; Dystopia; Post Holocaust Sci-Fi; Society; Advanced Technology

Science fiction stories of pandemic-inspired ingenuity, grit, and determination.

Science fiction stories of pandemic-inspired ingenuity, grit, and determination.

This new volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series of science fiction anthologies looks at how science and technology--existing or speculative--might help us create a more equitable and hopeful world after the coronavirus pandemic. The original stories presented here, from a diverse collection of authors, offer no miracles or simple utopias, but visions of ingenuity, grit, and incremental improvement. In the tradition of inspirational science fiction that goes back to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, these writers remind us that we can choose our future, and show us how we might build it.

By: Gideon Lichfield
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262542401
ISBN 10: 0262542404
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 20 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction vii Gideon Lichfield 1 ""A Veil Was Broken"": Afrofutrist Ytasha L. Womack on the Work of Science Fiction in the 2020s 1 Wade Roush 2 Little Kowloon 11 Adrian Hon 3 Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food! 27 Madeline Ashby 4 Interviews of Importance 43 Malka Older 5 Jaunt 57 Ken Liu 6 Koronaparty 77 Rich Larson 7 Making Hay 91 Cory Doctorow 8 The Price of Attention 105 Karl Schroeder 9 Mixology for Humanity's Sake 123 D. A. Xiaolin Spires 10 A Necessary Being 143 Indrapramit Das 11 Vaccine Season 159 Hannu Rajaniemi Contributors 173"

Gideon Lichfield is Editor-in-Chief of MIT Technology Review.

Reviews for Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post Pandemic Future

"""[These stories'] conceptual, daring and compassionate narratives . . . perform with brio and clarity the job that science fiction was always meant to do: walking the readers through the 'garden of forking paths' and assuring us that life can flourish, despite all challenges and crises, if we only deploy our imaginations."" —Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post"