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Ed Finn is Founding Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination of Arizona State University, where he is also Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering and the Department of English. He is a coeditor of Frankenstein: Annotated for show more Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (MIT Press). show less

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Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (2014) — Editor — 241 copies

What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (MIT Press) (2017) 86 copies

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures (2017) — Editor — 18 copies

Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere (2017) — Editor — 5 copies

The Legend of the O.K. Corral (Look West Series, OK Corral) (2005) 4 copies

Living Tomorrow — Editor — 1 copy

Algoritmalar Ne Ister?: Hesaplama Çaginda Hayal Gücü (2020) 1 copy

Imagining Transmedia (2024) 1 copy

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Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (2017) — Editor — 122 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 37, No. 6 [June 2013] (2013) — Contributor — 14 copies

Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction — Contributor — 10 copies

The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures (2019) — Contributor — 8 copies

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Legal name: Finn, Edward Frederick
Birthdate: 1980-06-18
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Education: Stanford University
Princeton University
Occupations: English professor
Organizations: Arizona State University

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Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future by Ed Finn

A collection of sci-fi stories claiming to portray a "better future." More specifically, according to the forward: no dystopia nor any technology so advanced that the world has little/no relation to our own. I question whether some of the futures presented in these stories are "better," though I generally enjoyed reading all of the tales.

The stories in this collection considered futures with changes in social, environmental, & economic conditions. I found those that tackled the former two to be more compelling than those that focused more on the last, though that is likely due to my own personal interests. Even those tales with concepts I found less interesting, I still found entertaining.

At the end of each story, the editors provide URLs to extra content - e.g., discussions & technical papers on the technology in each story. I sure wish these URLs still worked… (more)

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