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This week's #FreeFictionResponse essay is "The Purpose of Punishment" by Randy McDonald in response to @monicabyrne13.bsky.social "Golden Rule" from @issuesinst.bsky.social McDonald relates fundamental principles of correction to the justice system in "Golden Rule". issues.org/futuretensef...

This week's #FreeFictionFriday is 'Golden Rule' by @monicabyrne13.bsky.social. A legal system built on the concept of “an eye for an eye”; if you commit a crime, your punishment is that someday a network of state agents will perpetrate the same crime against you. issues.org/futuretensef...

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday is “Three-World Cantata” by Vandana Singh, part of the “Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures” collection, a story of three manifestations of our current reality where realistic questions meet idealistic concepts. www.climatealmanac.org/pub/ud2xkkx1...

This week’s #freefictionfriday is “Notes for Adda” by Hannah Onoguwe. People from all walks of life grapple with the friction of readjusting to life after a contagious parasite shakes the community. How can the common good flourish when hope is shared? Read here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday is “Tomorrow is Another Daze” by @ernesthogan.bsky.social, a look at the relationship between rapidly growing technologies and the lives we’ve had without it. When the future shows up at the door, how do we define house-rules on the spot? csi.asu.edu/story/hogan-...

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday is “When We Call a Place Home” by Chinelo Onwualu. Centuries of dark chronology for our world finally ends, and the blank slate it leaves behind gives way to a human-wide rebirth. From the wounds of the old world blooms a utopia. Read here: csi.asu.edu/story/chinel...

This week's #FreeFictionFriday is “Things That Bend, But Don’t Break” by S.B. Divya. Increasingly frequent storms worsen in Puerto Rico, but push for clean energy revitalizes the island. Read more here: csi.asu.edu/story/san-ju...

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday is “The Lullaby-Dirge” by Mason Carr. Climate change causes a slow-rumbling population crisis to reach an dire low, and the country comes to grasp a desperate solution. The nation learns to adapt, and new communities blossom. More here: csi.asu.edu/story/the-lu...

This month’s #FutureTenseFiction story is “The Pocket Box” by Gunnar Anderson. A new discovery breaks the bounds of physics as we once understood them. Quickly, scientific awe morphs into commercial prospecting—with little regulation and horrifying consequences. More here: issues.org/futuretensef...

This weeks #FreeFictionFriday is “Night Shift” by Eileen Gunn. Nights are slow at NASA for Sina as she supervises her evolving AI companion, Seth. When a problematic feature of Seth’s programming arises, it puts his ascribed personhood into question. Read here: csi.asu.edu/books/vvev/

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday is “The God of the Sea” by Barakat Akinsiku. After a natural disaster ruffles her close-knit beachside community, Layi unearths a curiosity within her for the powerful yet serene neighbor lapping at her home shore. Read more here: csi.asu.edu/books/everyt...

This weeks #FreeFictionFriday story is “Heart of the City” by Amy K. Nichols. In preparation of his last concert, Ari, a seasoned violinist, must reckon with his last performance. As he takes the stage, he realizes a truth about empathy and harnesses kinship. Read here: csi.asu.edu/books/sounds...

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday piece is “Pursuant to the Agreement” by Andrew Dana Hudson. Disputes over nuclear waste storage have reshaped the nation. Through artifacts, documents, private messages, and letters, we see rising tensions that began splintering the states. csi.asu.edu/books/radnei...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday story, “Generating Hope” by Carter Meland from the Our Radioactive Neighbors collection, a touch between a girl and nuclear waste brings on a transcendent connection and sparks a decades-long companionship. Find the link to read here: csi.asu.edu/books/radnei...

In this weeks #FreeFictionFriday response essay to Andrew Liptak's 'Deficiency Agent', Candace Rondeaux asserts a new "lack of intelligence" emerging in real-life conflict zones and reflected in the world of 'Deficiency Agent'; the new "human hesitation" in the place of human error.

In this #FreeFictionFriday, "Deficiency Agent," author Andrew Liptak follows a platoon of soldiers who receive counterintuitive commands from TION, an AI navigation system, and find themselves in a dangerous situation that sets human judgment against algorithmic authority. issues.org/futuretensef...

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday is ‘Welcome to Hillsville’ by Justina Ireland. The peaceful city of Hillsville is tucked comfortably into the bustle of suburban life until conversations about nuclear storage disrupt the daily routine. Read here: csi.asu.edu/story/city-o...

What happens when an imminent threat becomes the centerpiece of culture? This question is at the heart of ‘Return to Sender’ by Sarena Ulibarri, our latest #freefictionfriday piece, and part of Our Radioactive Neighbors, CSI’s latest collection. Get a copy here! 🔗 : csi.asu.edu/books/radnei...

Could football management be optimized by AI systems, removing sentimentality and winning matches with a witches brew of unconventional tactics? Read "Bonum Certamen", this month's Future Tense Fiction story by Issues in Science and Technology and author Andrés Martinez: issues.org/futuretensef...

This #FreeFictionFriday is ‘A Lion Roars in Longyearbyen’, the story of the last natural lion left on earth. We follow the gripping hunt of the lion in a world where climate change has tipped the world on its head and humans have depleted the natural world. Click to read: slate.com/technology/2...

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday features Driftless by Scott Dorsch; the story of a man named Raimond Olmstead. We follow his journey as he recounts his decision to stay with his memory-ridden house in the lonely country despite the apocalyptic storms that plague it. 🔗 csi.asu.edu/story/driftl...

This week's #FreeFictionFriday response essay, "Can We Cool Down Data?" by @theuniverse.bsky.social , explores the innovative possibilities of DNA-based digital data storage and reflects on why seeking cooler, more resilient storage alternatives is essential. issues.org/futuretensef...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday feature, writer E.G. Condé introduces us to veteran operator Alvaro and his passionate trainee Li. When their employer's systems suddenly fail and the city is plunged into darkness, the two decide to take matters into their own hands. 🔗 issues.org/futuretensef...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday pick by @bpladek.bsky.social , Chase, a risk analyst, has built his life around predicting everything that could possibly go wrong. But his partner, a passionate activist, has built hers on the belief that things can go right. 🔗 issues.org/futuretensef...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday pick, "Symphony for the Boo Hag" by Deji Bryce Olukotun, a group of children ventures into an abandoned musician’s home, searching for lost instruments, but instead finds an ally who helps them reimagine what it means to make harmony. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4qsb4...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday response essay, investigative journalist Alice Driver reflects on Gabriela Damián Miravete's "Coser y Cantar," examining the growing intersection of human labor and automation. 🔗 issues.org/futuretensef...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday feature, "Coser y Cantar" by Gabriela Damián Miravete, we follow aspiring designer Trix as she chases her dreams to Los Angeles. But after uncovering deep-rooted corruption in the factory where she works, Trix is forced to take a stand. issues.org/futuretensef...

This week's #FreeFictionFriday pick, "The Baker of Mars" by @karlschroeder.bsky.social follows Myrna, a chef serving settlers colonizing Mars. Relocation seems promising, until a visit with a friend reveals the expansion is quickly draining the planet's aquifers. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3ipli...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday feature, "Bigfeet" by @thekibosch.bsky.social , a group of scientists successfully brings an extinct species back from the dead: the elusive Bigfoot. The main problem? It never actually existed in the first place! 🔗 slate.com/technology/2...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday pick, "Scent of the Freetails" by @Deji Bryce Olukotun, we're introduced to Raj, a man visiting his sister-in-law's off-grid community with his family. But the town of La Estrella has garnered quite a reputation, leaving Raj with concerns. issues.org/scent-freeta...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday response essay, urban planner and CEO Kate Gordon discusses the world presented in Pippa Goldschmidt's "The Way Out," exploring how we emotionally distance ourselves from disaster until it's at our doorstep. Use the link below to read! issues.org/futuretensef...

In this week's #FreeFictionFriday pick, "The Way Out" by @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social, we're introduced to Drover, a solitary researcher who spends his time carefully monitoring bat heart rates, flight patterns, and behavior, to help predict oncoming natural disasters. 🔗 issues.org/futuretensef...

In this week’s #FreeFictionFriday feature, “Out of Ash,” by futurist and sci–fi author Brenda Cooper, Washington’s governor relocates and builds a new state capital after historic Olympia is flooded and destroyed. The only problem with New Olympia? No one’s moved in! 🔗 slate.com/technology/2...

In this week’s #FreeFictionFriday feature, “Galansiyang,” by author Sigrid Marianne Gayangos, Community 3 has stripped language down to its most simple form. Community members now speak in short, direct sentences using as few words as necessary. csi.asu.edu/story/galans...

In this week’s #FreeFictionFriday pick, “Things That Bend, But Don’t Break”, teenager Tanama is offered acceptance to Columbia University. But driven by her motivation to improve her home from within, Tanama declines and sets out to better her and the community’s future. csi.asu.edu/story/san-ju...

Check out this week’s #FreeFictionFriday, “The Middle” by author @erinkwagner.bsky.social , in which a Michelin-starred restaurant installs a robotic sous-chef, and the human staff walk out. Nate, the head chef, is the only one who remains to oversee the transition. 🔗 issues.org/futuretensef...

In this week’s #FreeFictionFriday feature, “Divided Light,” by Corey S. Pressman, Radrian leaves behind his fast-paced city to visit the desert-dwelling Ramish community. Amidst the cultural differences of the Oasis, he begins to see the world and himself in a new light. csi.asu.edu/story/smallr...

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday feature by @indrapramitdas.bsky.social follows Varuna, a young Earthling visiting Mars. Traveling with their wealthy family on vacation, Varuna rejects the luxurious resorts and tourist-curated tours and searches for something real. issues.org/futuretensef...