Laika’s Ghost, by Karl Schroeder

Laika’s Ghost, by Karl Schroeder

If you're in Anaheim between August 27 and the 31st, drop by the the LT booth and remote-control a real rover on a simulated Lunar surface

How to Write? Longhand on paper? Typewriter? Word Processor? Scrivener or Obsidian? Each medium comes with consequences

“Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional world, a hidden universe of premonition, pain and power.” --Thomas King

Corvus takes place in the distant future after global warming has ravaged the land and a war that raged for years has finally ended. Mass migrations have led to a major city being established at La…

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Ukrainian nuclear engineer Gennady Malianov would rather camp in the ruins of Chornobyl or explore abandoned anthrax factories than talk to another human being. Painfully shy as he is, he finds it soo...

Is AI doing something to us that we have no language to describe? If so, are all our responses, based on what we know and can say, inadequate to the situation?

A refresher on what Unapocalyptic is all about

A refresher on what Unapocalyptic is all about

Picture a future that may not be perfect, but is attainable.

We shouldn't be worried about AGI or superintelligent AI. We should be actively designing a political system that gives standing to the incomprehensible

We shouldn't be worried about AGI or superintelligent AI. We should be actively designing a political system that gives standing to the incomprehensible

Forty years after the reactor explosion, the wildlife around Chernobyl has recovered in strange and unexpected ways.

As a partial answer to the perennial question "where do you get your ideas?" I'm showcasing books that have radically shifted my worldview. Here's a major one

What could possibly go wrong if the training data for your domestic robot’s AI includes hundreds of science fiction stories about robots?

I mean this in the same sense as I might say 'stop crime,' of course. Thinking (including AI's version) will get us killed. What we need is reasoning.

Using your smartphone, you can drive a rover on the moon in 2028.

From Karl Schroeder, author of Lockstep, comes the near…

What Star Wars teaches us about technology, storytelling, and worldbuilding.

The AI business model is based on user engagement, like social media. Not doomscrolling, but something just as bad: automated rumination. We need a different model.

Who are the adults in the room, in modern politics? And what if those adults want neither a return to American hegemony, nor a multipolar world order?

🚀 13 years ago, I sat down with Canadian futurist and science fiction author Karl Schroeder for what turned out to be one of the most impactful interviews of my entire career on Singularity.FM. At th...

Can we ground our divisive political discussions in a reality that neither Left nor Right can argue away?

What's after Postmodernism? Is it Metamodernism? Or, instead of seeking new ways to ground authenticity and authority, can we build a society that doesn't need them?

The dangers of writing very-near-future science fiction; or, What I Did on My Summer Vacation

In 1989, a small group of Edmonton writers formed The Copper Pig Writers Society in order to fill a niche in Canada–a paying market for English SF. SF with a uniquely Canadian Perspective. Of…