Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Fiction and Poetry

Science fiction can illuminate issues in science and technology in ways that escape standard analysis. The short fiction offered here differs from much of our other content, but science fiction opens up new perspectives on emerging issues, as well as inspires technological developments and policy innovations both large and small.