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  1. Imagined Futures

    “Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. Those who can’t imagine the future are doomed to fuck it up.”

    Lauren Beukes explores how fiction is a model our brains run to explore other lives and possibilities, overcome issue fatigue and fire our cultural imagination.

    http://2012.dconstruct.org/conference/beukes/

    Lauren Beukes is the author of Zoo City, which won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke award. That’s because it’s bloody brilliant. Seriously, if you haven’t read it, grab a copy now.

    Her first novel, the excellent near-future dystopia Moxyland, was set in Cape Town, where Lauren lives with her husband and daughter. Her next book, The Shining Girls, will be set in Chicago and feature a time-travelling serial killer.

    As well as being a novelist, Lauren is a journalist and has collaborated on television and comic book projects.

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  2. To The Best of Our Knowledge: Philip K. Dick

    Nobody blurred the line between his life and his literature more than the legendary science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick. And that’s only fitting since one of the major themes of his fiction is, “What is reality?” This week we take a look at the life and work of the man who’s been described as “one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the twentieth century,” as we commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death.

    http://ttbook.org/book/philip-k-dick

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  3. Robert J. Sawyer on Humanity 2.0 Robert J. Sawyer on Humanity 2.0

    What will it mean to be human in the future? Uploading consciousness into virtual worlds and prolonging life through biotechnology are already being contemplated. Canada’s leading science fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer, offers his insights in a lecture entitled Humanity 2.0, produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.

    http://ww3.tvo.org/video/171860/robert-j-sawyer-humanity-20

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  4. StarShipSofa No 208 Joe Haldeman | StarShipSofa

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  5. Kazuo Ishiguro’s “A Village After Dark”

    Ben Marcus reads Kazuo Ishiguro’s "A Village After Dark," and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "A Village After Dark" was published in the May 21, 2001, issue of The New Yorker. Ben Marcus’s upcoming book, "The Flame Alphabet," will be published in 2012.

    http://www.newyorker.com/online/2011/09/26/110926on_audio_marcus

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  6. Lightspeed Magazine: Bubbles by David Brin

    Bubbles By David Brin; Read by Harlan Ellison Approx. 37 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]

    “Most of the universe is the regions between galaxies, yet no stories are ever set in that vast emptiness. In “Bubbles” by David Brin, we get to know Serena, a lonely entity traveling the space between galaxies.” First published in a 1987 anthology, The Universe edited by Byron Preiss.

    http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bubbles/

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  7. Lightspeed Magazine: The Island of the Immortals by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Text: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-island-of-the-immortals/

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  8. Starship Sofa Aural Delights No 102 Charles Stross

    Featuring "Down on the Farm"

    From http://www.starshipsofa.com/20090929/aural-delights-no-102-charles-stross/

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  9. Confessions of a Crap Artist

    Philip K Dick is now world famous, thanks to films like Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report. But in the last years of his life he encountered something so strange and troubling he couldn’t stop writing about it. Writer Ken Hollings asks: was it Phil’s fault God talked to him or was it God’s? Broadcast on Monday 16 January 2006, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4.

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  10. Rick Moody: The Four Fingers of Death

    Rick Moody creates a sleazoid end-of-the-world saga, basing his story on a cheapo so-bad-it’s-good sci-fi classic. By the end of this Kurt Vonnegut-inspired festival of terror, he’s tricked us into asking serious questions. How did we turn our culture into a sleazoid end-of-the-world saga? What is to be done?

    http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw101007rick_moody_the_four_

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