BBC: Project Hieroglyph: Fighting society's dystopian future
The BBC on Hieroglyph by Debbie Siegelbaum BBC News, Washington:Pop culture has painted a darkly dystopian vision of the future. But a new book hopes to harness the power of science fiction to plot out...
View ArticleEd Finn: Why sci-fi is important to innovation
Ed Fin, posted to ASU News October 16th:This initial book project was a great way to explore different ways to build and foster collaborations between authors, artists and researchers. One huge factor...
View ArticleWSJ Book Review: 'Hieroglyph' edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer
Tom Shippey in the Wall Street Journal, Sept. 26, 2014, Last century created the airplane, the automobile and nuclear energy. What do we have to show for this one?Maybe the best cure for dwindling...
View ArticleDamien Walter on Hieroglyph
In the Guardian October 10th:The best contributions to Hieroglyph are the least optimistic, and the best attuned to the human reality that technology so often obscures. Entanglement by Vandana Singh...
View ArticleHieroglyph launch at authors@Google, September 10th
Neal Stephenson, Ed Finn, Keith Hjelmstad, Kathryn Cramer, Rudy Rucker, & Annalee Newitz came to Google to talk about project Hieroglyph.
View ArticleVirginia Postrel on Hieroglyph
BloombergView, October 8th:Storytelling does have the potential to rekindle an ideal of progress. The trick is not to confuse pessimism with sophistication or, conversely, to demand that optimism be...
View ArticleHieroglyph at The National Academy of Sciences
Can We Imagine Our Way to a Better Future?A conference sponsored by The New America Foundation, Slate's Future Tense, and Arizona State University's Center for Science & the Imagination.October 2,...
View ArticleNews clippings from a while back
I've had a lot of press lately for Hieroglyph. Here are some older clips.
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Hieroglyph at Tumblr, September 30th
From Madeline Ashby:I just wrapped up my first real book tour, in support of the Hieroglyph anthology. I was lucky enough to attend events in NYC, DC, and Ottawa. So, it was a tiny tour for me, but it...
View ArticleInterview with Rob Wolfe of New Books in Science Fiction
On Monday, I was interviewed by Rob Wolfe of New Books in Science Fiction.In contrast, Hieroglyph seeks something different. “We’re asking for a science fiction that actually addresses problems and...
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