Ursula Le Guin

Jul 14, 2024 | news.stanford.edu | Ursula Le Guin |Chen Qiufan

Technology is transforming society, sometimes in unpredictable ways. In a spring quarter course taught by Stanford Professor Ban Wang, COLLEGE 113: Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction, students considered some of those potential changes by using science fiction as a way to imagine what could unfold and their own responsibility and agency in that future.

Apr 16, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Frank Herbert |Ursula Le Guin |Iain M. Banks |Stephen Baxter

selected by Tom Huddleston out now The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert by Tom Huddleston For many readers of science fiction, world building is the most important feature of their favourite books.