Terraform : watch worlds burn

Author

Brian Merchant

Call Number

• SCIENCE FICTION TERR (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : MCD x FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Physical Description

xvi, 476 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

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.

Notes

"MOTHERBOARD VICE"--Title page.

"An anthology of near-future science fiction from VICE's acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination, Terraform--in print for the first time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

• Preface / Introduction: You are a Luddite / Busy / One day, I will die on Mars / Moved / Flyover country / Warning signs / #Civilwarvintage / WPO / Blue Monday / User settings / Earth's most customer-centric company / Gynoid, preserved / The end of big data / Across the border / The prostitute / Ernest / Editor's note / From fire / The fog / Tropical Premises / Reach / Plantation A song for you / The counselor / Hysteria / Drones to ploughshares / The Duchy of the Toe Adam / Parse. Error. Reset. / Two people / Who's a good boy / Jim / Science fiction ideas / Mall school / Trojan Horses / Devolution / Editor's note / An incomplete timeline of what we tried / Death and other gentrifying neighborhoods / Mammoth steps / The wretched and the beautiful / Reunion / Nothing takes the place of you / The binding of Isaac / Dream job / Headshot / Zombie capitalism / The brain dump / Virtual snapshots / The river / Hypercane / One thousand cranes / Always home / U wont remember dying