Karl Schroeder helps you achieve "earned" optimism about the future using a mix of wild science fiction speculation and hard-nosed strategic foresight. Paid subscribers get new serialized fiction, deeper analyses, and more input to the process.
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Back at Work
After six months of waiting I should finally be back up to speed next week. I’ve restored billing for my paying subscribers as I’ll be writing more and better
You’ll recall that I paused payments back in the early summer when I was diagnos...
Backcasting Your Novel
If you’re writing stories about the future, you might find useful some techniques from Strategic Foresight. Here’s an example.
I’m embarking on a new novel project. To get it going, I have to address the elephant in the room: AI, and its p...
Failing the Cliff Test
A couple of weeks ago, a teen hiking alone in British Columbia got stuck on a steep mountainside after following a route planned for him by Anthropic’s Claude. When she heard about this, my wife reminded me that I’d written that scene mysel...
Of Hard Science Fiction and One-Sided Coins
Towards the end of the last century, you could roughly divide English-language Science Fiction into two flavours, according to which side of the Linguistic Turn they cheered on. On the one hand, there was “hard” SF, which restricts itself t...
The Word On The Street 2026
Nothing warms a writer’s heart like a good book signing. —Except, maybe, for a book signing and sale combined. Weather permitting, I expect to have my ego thoroughly ballooned next weekend by doing both.
The Word On The Street (WOTS) and I...
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Award-winning science fiction writer and futurist. I write about what I call 'deserved optimism'--realistic, earned positive futures.
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