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Articles by Linda Nagata
Ride
This story was originally published in Slate in November 2021. It is republished here as a part of the Future Tense Fiction project, presented by Issues in collaboration with ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. Author’s note: This is a story that revolves around a truly efficient transit system—but how to get there? Change comes hard.
Needle by Linda Nagata, Paperback
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“Ride,” a new short story about climate change, A.I., and social credit.
Read a new short story about hacking the system in Hawaii. Illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo This story is part of Future Tense Fiction, a monthly series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives. A handsome boy, 17 and soft-spoken, told Jasmine about an Easter egg. “Try it,” he urged, sincerity in his voice and in his eyes as he gazed at her across the tall front desk.
Lies Through Which We Tell the Truth
July 13, 2020 In this episode, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, chats wth three authors of recent fiction related to military security that explores questions of how technology, society, and the distance between people and violence affects our conception of war and security.
Edges
From the Edge of Apocalypse: Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization - those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties - have all fallen to ruins.
Tantor Media - Edges
Short Synopsis Linda Nagata presents Book 1 in the Inverted Frontier series. Full Synopsis From the Edge of Apocalypse: Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion.
Future Tense
Showing 1–20 of 9195 Why Are Duolingo’s Sentences So Weird??? Jane C. Hu Nov 29, 2021 9:00 AM What if an All-Knowing Algorithm Ran Traffic and Transit? Henry Grabar Nov 27, 2021 9:01 AM Would You Let a Self-Driving Ride-Share Car Decide Where You’re Going? Linda Nagata Nov 27, 2021 9:00 AM How the Pandemic Pulled Nigerian University Students Into Cybercrime Olatunji Olaigbe Nov 26, 2021 10:30 AM What Can Ancient Cities Teach Us About Surviving Climate Change? Michael E.
15 Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels That Began as Short Stories
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Short Fiction By Jeffrey Somers / July 30, 2018 at 10:30 am Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Short stories have always occupied a singular status in the literary world, and are often considered at a remove from novels in terms of conception, structure, and execution.
It's time to start reading hard science fiction again
I write science fiction and fantasy, but mostly my work is classified as "hard" science fiction. I've found that there are many readers who know and love hard science fiction, but I think just as many are determined to avoid it, convinced that the hard stuff is not for them. Why? They just don't know what hard science fiction is, and what it can be.What makes a story "hard"? Everyone involved has an opinion. My own definition is simple and inclusive.
Check Out the Spooky-yet-Sweet Trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water
Say what you will about 2017, at least this year is giving us a new Guillermo Del Toro movie! The Shape of Water is coming to theaters on December 9th, and it seems to be a spooky, complicated story of love and empathy between a mute woman and Abe Sapien’s cousin? The film stars Sally Hawkins as a sensitive lab worker, Octavia Spencer as her boss, Richard Jenkins as a seemingly nice scientist, and Michael Shannon as…well, as Michael Shannon.
5 Horror Reads to Keep the Sunshine Away
Some people look at the ocean and see a wonderland of surfing and swimming. But I know better. There, there be man-eating sharks and terrible Eldritch horrors waiting to loom up from a darkened trench. Too much sunshine causes skin cancer and sand gets into the most annoying places. Keep your shiny, happy beach reads. I’ll be sitting safely in the shade of a tree, keeping myself cool with the riches of the season: an abundance of new horror and Weird titles by genre vets and exciting new voices.
Black Helicopters Circle Overhead as Caitlín R. Kiernan’s Signalman Returns
The Signalman, the enigmatic character introduced in this year’s tour de force novella Agents of Dreamland is coming back! Tor.com is proud to present two novellas from winner of multiple World Fantasy, Tiptree, Locus, Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards, Caitlín R. Kiernan, with a new edition of her tour de force World Fantasy Award nominee Black Helicopters, and an entirely new follow-up story. Commissioning editor Jonathan Strahan said about it: I fell in love with Caitlín R.
The Martian Obelisk
A powerful science fiction story about an architect on Earth commissioned to create (via long distance) a masterwork with materials from the last abandoned Martian colony, a monument that will last thousands of years longer than Earth, which is dying. The end of the world required time to accomplish—and time, Susannah reflected, worked at the task with all the leisurely skill of a master torturer, one who could deliver death either quickly or slowly, but always with excruciating pain.
The Great Stephen King Reread: The Colorado Kid
The tiniest Stephen King book, both in page count and substance, The Colorado Kid came along after King disgorged three of his massive Dark Tower novels. Arriving in early 2005, three years after his last non-series novel, From a Buick 8, it could easily be considered a coda to Buick. Clocking in at a slim 184 pages, set in two locations (a restaurant and a newspaper office), and with only three characters, this is as skinny as King gets.
The Way Home - Lightspeed Magazine
The demon, like all the others before it, appeared first in the form of a horizontal plume of rust-red grit and vapor. Almost a kilometer away, it moved low to the ground, camouflaged by the waves of hot, shimmering air that rose from the desert hardpan. Lieutenant Matt Whitebird watched it for many seconds before he was sure it was more than a mirage. Then he announced to his squad, “Incoming. Ten o’clock from my position. Only one this time.” But even one was deadly.
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