Fiction and Poetry Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/science-fiction/ The best minds on the most important topics. Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:31:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Fiction and Poetry Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/science-fiction/ 32 32 A Toast https://issues.org/a-toast-poem-kaminsky/ https://issues.org/a-toast-poem-kaminsky/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45595 “To your voice, a mysterious virtue, / to the 53 bones of one foot, the four dimensions of breathing ...”

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]]> https://issues.org/a-toast-poem-kaminsky/feed/ 0 Using Storytelling to Investigate Scientific Questions https://issues.org/podcast-storytelling-and-science/ https://issues.org/podcast-storytelling-and-science/#respond Tue, 06 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45969 Fiction can be an important tool to explore complex science and technology questions. Arula Ratnakar discusses how storytelling can help both experts and nonexperts think about complex issues.

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]]> https://issues.org/podcast-storytelling-and-science/feed/ 0 The Ants https://issues.org/ants-rohrer-poem/ https://issues.org/ants-rohrer-poem/#respond Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44611 Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

Nothing is more important to the antwhose exoskeleton has been breachedby mushroom spores that are nowcontrolling his nervous systemand compelling him to climb to a high leafonly to… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/ants-rohrer-poem/feed/ 0 Step Into the Free and Infinite Laboratory of the Mind https://issues.org/science-fiction-policy-tool-finn/ https://issues.org/science-fiction-policy-tool-finn/#respond Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44591 Science fiction is a powerful tool for inclusive, engaging science and tech policy conversations. How can we make better use of it?

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]]> https://issues.org/science-fiction-policy-tool-finn/feed/ 0 When My OB/GYN Said He Didn’t Understand Poetry https://issues.org/my-obgyn-understand-poetry-stewart-nunez-poem/ https://issues.org/my-obgyn-understand-poetry-stewart-nunez-poem/#respond Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43607 Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

I worried because my body is a more complex text.When he feels the shape of my uterus, he may not think pear-shaped yet an apricot in size, hollow butternut squash, lightbulb.He may not… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/my-obgyn-understand-poetry-stewart-nunez-poem/feed/ 0 How to Make Your Own Automaton https://issues.org/make-your-own-automaton-frank-poem/ https://issues.org/make-your-own-automaton-frank-poem/#respond Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:27:34 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42853 Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

Devote yourself to the resurrection, builda body that moves. Begin with the skin:

cast a bulwark, impermeable hardwaremore malleable than meat.

Dispatch your lusus naturaelike a Trojan… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/make-your-own-automaton-frank-poem/feed/ 0 Watcher https://issues.org/watcher-trethewey-poem/ https://issues.org/watcher-trethewey-poem/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41986 At first, there was nothing to do but watch. For days, before the trucks arrived, before the work of cleanup, my brother sat on the stoop and watched.

He watched the ambulances… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/watcher-trethewey-poem/feed/ 0 Stories and Basic Science Collide https://issues.org/collision-cern-stories-review-percher/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40972 Short story collections with multiple authors are a curious act. Each story is like a distinct performer given a moment to shine on a shared cabaret stage. But the true test of… Read More

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]]> Translocations https://issues.org/translocations-katy-lederer-poem/ https://issues.org/translocations-katy-lederer-poem/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2024 01:29:14 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41022 We de-notate and detonate. At breakpoint, we will close our eyes.We replicate abnormally. We suffer from the rational.We radiate excessively, fold into flats then flex our thighs.We cycle then proliferate. We implicate,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/translocations-katy-lederer-poem/feed/ 0 Mare Incognitum https://issues.org/mare-incognitum-poem-rowan-ricardo-phillips/ https://issues.org/mare-incognitum-poem-rowan-ricardo-phillips/#respond Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40321 That I can’t recall my first glimpse of my mother:Alien-eyed, wrapped in alien cloth, how couldI? Once she held me she just was my mother,

That’s just how it goes. This is… Read More

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