{"product_id":"make-shift-isbn-9780262542401","title":"Make Shift","description":"\u003cb\u003eScience fiction stories of pandemic-inspired ingenuity, grit, and determination.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series of science fiction anthologies looks at how science and technology--existing or speculative--might help us create a more equitable and hopeful world after the coronavirus pandemic. The original stories presented here, from a diverse collection of authors, offer no miracles or simple utopias, but visions of ingenuity, grit, and incremental improvement. In the tradition of inspirational science fiction that goes back to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, these writers remind us that we can choose our future, and show us how we might build it.Introduction vii\u003cbr\u003eGideon Lichfield\u003cbr\u003e1 \"A Veil Was Broken\": Afrofutrist Ytasha L. Womack on the Work of Science Fiction in the 2020s 1\u003cbr\u003eWade Roush\u003cbr\u003e2 Little Kowloon 11\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Hon\u003cbr\u003e3 Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food! 27\u003cbr\u003eMadeline Ashby\u003cbr\u003e4 Interviews of Importance 43\u003cbr\u003eMalka Older\u003cbr\u003e5 Jaunt 57\u003cbr\u003eKen Liu\u003cbr\u003e6 Koronaparty 77\u003cbr\u003eRich Larson\u003cbr\u003e7 Making Hay 91\u003cbr\u003eCory Doctorow\u003cbr\u003e8 The Price of Attention 105\u003cbr\u003eKarl Schroeder\u003cbr\u003e9 Mixology for Humanity's Sake 123\u003cbr\u003eD. A. Xiaolin Spires \u003cbr\u003e10 A Necessary Being 143\u003cbr\u003eIndrapramit Das\u003cbr\u003e11 Vaccine Season 159\u003cbr\u003eHannu Rajaniemi \u003cbr\u003eContributors 173\"[These stories'] conceptual, daring and compassionate narratives . . . perform with brio and clarity the job that science fiction was always meant to do: walking the readers through the 'garden of forking paths' and assuring us that life can flourish, despite all challenges and crises, if we only deploy our imaginations.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePaul Di Filippo,\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eGideon Lichfield is Editor-in-Chief of \u003ci\u003eMIT Technology Review\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302285201637,"sku":"NP9780262542401","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262542401.jpg?v=1767732148","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/make-shift-isbn-9780262542401","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}