Cassidy McFadzean, author of “Patrons,” shares with editor Mia Armstrong-Lopez the inspiration behind her October Future Tense Fiction story, which imagines extraterrestrials who selectively lift humans from Earth and transport them to a deep-space artists colony. As they do, the distant visitors, known as Patrons, dramatically shift the terrestrial communities where they touch down.
Read the response essay, “Creativity, Capitalized,” from Oli Mould here.
This story was originally published in Slate in March 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: When I wrote this story just a few years ago, the idea was to explore how AI […]
Writer Scott Sherman discusses his December Future Tense Fiction Story, “A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge,” in an interview with Mia Armstrong-Lopez.
Bioethics scholar Josephine Johnston explores the 100-year history of the debate on human cloning—and the dilemmas that have haunted it along the way.
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