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Inspired by New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson, an anthology of stories, set in the near future, from some of today’s leading writers, thinkers, and visionaries that reignites the iconic and optimistic visions of the golden age of science fiction.
In his 2011 article “Innovation Starvation,” Neal Stephenson argued that we—the society whose earlier scientists and engineers witnessed the airplane, the automobile, nuclear energy, the computer, and space exploration—must reignite our ambitions to think boldly and do Big Stuff. He also advanced the Hieroglyph Theory which illuminates the power of science fiction to inspire the inventive imagination: “Good SF supplies a plausible, fully thought-out picture of an alternate reality in which some sort of compelling innovation has taken place.”
In 2012, Arizona State University established the Center for Science and the Imagination to bring together writers, artists, and creative thinkers with scientists, engineers, and technologists to cultivate and expand on “moon shot ideas” that inspire the imagination and catalyze real-world innovations.
Now comes this remarkable anthology uniting twenty of today’s leading thinkers, writers, and visionaries—among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Bear, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson—to contribute works of “techno-optimism” that challenge us to dream and do Big Stuff. Engaging, mind-bending, provocative, and imaginative, Hieroglyph offers a forward-thinking approach to the intersection of art and technology that has the power to change our world.
Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, by Ed Finn, Kathryn Cramer- Amazon Sales Rank: #120257 in Books
- Brand: Finn, Ed (EDT)/ Cramer, Kathryn (EDT)
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Released on: 2015-05-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .90" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 560 pages
Review “This collection could be the shot in the arm our imaginations need. It’s an important book, and not just for the fiction.” (Wall Street Journal)“[A]group of visionaries have banded together to offer stories that are more utopian, which they hope will contribute to a more positive future…. …The stories still offer plenty of drama, death and destruction, but many have a sort of happy ending.” (New York Times)“…Thought-provoking and fun.” (Pacific Standard magazine)“This new anthology justly deserves to be ranked alongside the very best collections published within science fiction: Terry Carr’s Universe, Damon Knight’s Orbit, or Robert Silverberg’s New Dimensions.” (LA Review of Books)
From the Back Cover
Born of an initiative at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, this remarkable collection unites a diverse group of celebrated authors, prominent scientists, and creative visionaries who contributed works of "techno-optimism" that challenge us to imagine fully, think broadly, and do Big Stuff.
Inside this volume you will find a rich blend of science fiction stories, nonfiction essays, and illustrations. Engaging, mind-bending, provocative, and imaginative, Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future is a manifesto and a blueprint that sounds a clarion call to people everywhere to reclaim our future from grieving over what was and celebrate all that can be achieved.
Contributors include:
Charlie Jane AndersMadeline AshbyElizabeth BearGregory BenfordDavid BrinJames L. CambiasBrenda CooperPaul DaviesCory DoctorowKathleen Ann GoonanLee KonstantinouLawrence M. KraussGeoffrey A. LandisAnnalee NewitzRudy RuckerKarl SchroederVandana SinghNeal StephensonBruce Sterling
About the Author
Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. He has worked as a journalist at Time, Slate, and Popular Science.
Kathryn Cramer is a writer, critic, and anthologist, and was co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series. She has co-edited approximately 30 anthologies. She was a founding editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, and has a large number of Hugo nominations in the Semiprozine category to show for it. She won a World Fantasy Award for her anthology The Architecture of Fear. Kathryn grew up in Seattle. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics and a masters degree in American Studies, both from from Columbia University in New York. Recently, she has been a consultant for Wolfram Research, L. W. Currey, an antiquarian bookseller, and for ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination. She currently lives in Westport, New York in the Adirondack Park.
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42 of 44 people found the following review helpful. Optimism is the New Black By Michael Burnam-fink Back in 2011, a chance encounter between Michael Crow and Neal Stephenson lead to a discussion about who was to blame for the sorry state of our collective imaginations: the best minds of our generation who spend their time design spam filters and social media apps, or science fiction writers who churn out endless dystopias and apocalypses. From this chance encounter was born the Center for Science and Imagination and Project Hieroglyph, with the goal of bringing scientist fiction writers in contact with actual scientists with a mandate to imagine a world where problems could be solved, as an inspiration to solving them. Now, three years later this is the book, and trust a guy who has read 117 science fiction books since 2010, it is GOOD.The stories in this collection cover topics including space exploration, entrepreneurship, drones, civil liberties, education, climate change, and more, book-ended by Stephenson's Tall Tower, a 20 km steel structure that could cut space launch costs in half-for starters. Stephenson opens with a classically Heinleinian engineering epic of how the Tower is built--think "The Roads Must Roll" or "Blowups Happen". Bruce Sterling closes with the same tower 200 years in the future, inhabited by the decadent and wicked religious dreamers of an Earth that is being abandoned by the Ascended Masters, and the quixotic quest of a cowboy to ride his old horse to the very top. My two very favorite stories were "By the time we get to Arizona" by Madeline Ashby, who provides a The Prisoner inspired take on reforming American's Kafkaesque immigration system with a six week panopticon trial period in a model border town, and "Degrees of Freedom" Karl Schroeder, who uses augmented reality to provide a fascinating and inspiration lens on democracy, legitimacy, and collective decision making. Not everyone manages to hit as solidly, but there's no filler here, and very few reused ideas.I've rarely seen such a creative, energetic, and yet solidly themed collection. The tent-poles are pieces from masters of the genre, names that you should recognize like Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Elizabeth Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin and Cory Doctorow. All these major talents bring their A game, and fans of any of them should check out the collection. This might just be some of the best science fiction you'll read in a long time: Retro without being old-fashioned, optimistic without being panglossian.Disclosure notice: While I am a grad student at ASU and have been following Hieroglyph's progress eagerly since it's inception, I have no financial or institutional connection to it. I just think it's super cool.((Addendum: And Lawrence Krauss is a blowhard. Skip the introduction))
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful. very mixed bag By Arthur P. Smith I was really looking forward to this book - I'd read Neal Stephenson's call for more inspirational science fiction and it sounded like something I would really appreciate. But I am afraid the contributions here from those authors I was most familiar with are the most disappointing. The tall tower and moon/stars stories (two that each seem to be deliberate pairs?) seem to meander through decades without much to show for it beyond the one or two gimmicks in play. I can't say that sort of prospect inspires me. And what's with the dominance of first-person narrative here? Global warming and decline of the natural world are also pretty constant themes throughout the stories - though with some refreshing variations.General disappointment aside, some of the stories are real gems. Vandana Singh's "Entanglement" has to be my favorite - the prospect of deep intertwining of lives around the world is fascinating, but more than that, Singh presents each perspective in a delightful manner, deeply envisioned in their place, yet also deeply entangled (in ways that aren't clear until the end). Second favorite is probably "Degrees of freedom" by Karl Schroeder, a hopeful look at how similar technology could make governments irrelevant and allow real collective decision-making, in a tale focused on a father and son learning to understand one another. James Cambias' "Periapsis" was also nicely done - much more far-fetched technology-wise, but a sweet tale with a fun romantic and surprising ending.My impression is the "big name" writers didn't really put their best efforts into this volume, but there are a few pieces of great writing and inspirational story-telling here, so I'm not unhappy I purchased it. Maybe there will be a follow-on volume with a bit more even quality.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Great collection. I was interested because it was inspired ... By Christopher Hellstrom Great collection. I was interested because it was inspired by Neal Stephenson but I enjoyed many of the other stories as well. I don't agree with some critics who think that having a didactic component to art devalues the work. Studies have been shown that reading Harry Potter makes children more empathetic. Reading can change you. Star Trek certainly inspired many people to learn about science as well as the Heinlein juveniles. The other objection that this is blind techno optimism is also wrong. There are a wide variety of viewpoints in this book. Technology is part of our lives. The genie is out of the bottle. We may as well try and get the wishes we hope for. Hieroglyph is a great step toward shaping the future and making the world a better place by using reason, courage, and imagination.
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