Two hundred years after Mary Shelley came up with the vision for the story that would become Frankenstein, Arizona State University (ASU) will launch a series of writing “dares” to inspire the public to imagine new stories about science, technology and the impact of creation.
Bear, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy author and purveyor of the delicious salt caramels currently gracing my desk, knows that food and cooking are key to worldbuilding. In many of her 23 novels, you’ll find reference to, if not outright instructions for, how a particular culture feeds itself.
Resources and Member News for Stephanie Draven, Elizabeth Bear, Tony Pi, Eugie Foster, D. Walters Grintalis, and J. F. Lewis.
Resources and Member News for Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, David Anthony Durham, John Kessel, Kij Johnson, Paul Park, Nancy Kress, L. Timmel Duchamp, Charlie Stross, Andrew Burt, and Allan Cole.
Industry News, Resources, and Member News for Glenn Lewis Gillette, Pamela Taylor, Sarah Frost, Kyle Aisteach, Ada Milenkovic Brown, Matthew Bennardo, Sunny Moraine, Jamie Todd Rubin, Tobias Buckell, Andrew Mayer, Lena Coakley, Gayle Ann Williams, Jim C. Hines, Alethea Kontis, Marjorie Liu, Yasmine Galenorn, Jay Lake, Ken Scholes, Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Chris McKitterick, Seanan McGuire, Matthew Kressel, Stephanie Draven, and Jim Freund.
Resources, Industry News, and Member News for Harry Connolly, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Matthew Johnson, Christopher Howard, Tyler Franck, Samantha Henderson, and Jim C. Hines!
Member news for Kacey Grannis, Seanan Mcguire, Paul Levinson, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Glenn Lewis Gillette, Ari Marmell, Skyler White, Allan Cole, Toni L. P. Kelner, Rosemary Jones, and Paul Cornell!
Practical guidance, frameworks, and tools for incorporating the principles of peacebuilding and nonviolence into compelling fiction. Many examples in this book are drawn from speculative fiction genres.
Debbie Urbanski is the author of the story collection Portalmania (S&S, May 2025) and the climate AI novel After World (S&S, 2023), which was a Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, Strange Horizons, & Booklist Best Book of the Year.
