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For what should be obvious reasons, it is critical that our society has and encourages a concept of an improvable and improving future possibility that we want to build (and could build), such that we may choose to strive in progress toward creating it, as real. Twenty-five speculative near-future short stories offer optimistic glimpses through the Overton Window onto a world building with positive aesthetics and belief in achieving mutually beneficial outcomes. What if we stopped procrastinating our future onto the next generation? What if we really thought it was really possible? 

 

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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there. 

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. 

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in. We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. 

The poet, the artist, the sleuth-- whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists between anti-social types in their power to see environments as they really are. This need to interface, to confront environments with a certain anti-social power is manifest in the famous story "The Emperor's New Clothes". 

― Marshall McLuhan 

 

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In a broader context, Poiesis encompasses the act of bringing something into existence; involving imagination, skill and effort. 

Within  POIESIS  are playful, thought-provoking explorations of the ever-evolving nature of narrative and its power to shape our realities. 

Think of this book as a literary CPR unit for a world desperately in need of narrative resuscitation.

What if the stories we tell ourselves — and each other — are not just reflections of reality, but active change agents for better futures?

'Special Affect' speculative fiction anthology

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This book, you will be pleased to know (or disappointed, perhaps, depending on your proclivity), is not a book in which cynicism is celebrated, but rather circumvented, circumscribed... even circumnavigated. 

This metamodern anthology reflects and responds to a societal need for both forward-looking (visionary) and re-evaluative (revisionary) storytelling. 

An autistically-influenced short story collection urging cultivation of new narratives crafted in kindness, innocence and sincerity which are not only necessary, but desired-- and also a re-examination of existing narratives that might be hindering a positive future. It's a call for pro-active, optimistic storytelling as a means of personal, social and cultural change for the betterment of humanity. 

By expanding how we imagine futures, we can see the present differently. What possibilities we see for ourselves in the future has a great influence on how we feel today and make decisions.

As the algorithm switches to positivity over negativity... 

 

 

Imagining   Stories  

In  The  Shape  

Of  Better   Futures  

Speculative fiction short story about a dream experience of geek dream-walker named Cassie O'Brien, immersed in meta-commentary urging innovation and renovation with our storytelling to envision and encourage improvable futures, through improving conditions today.

There are ways to exist beyond how we exist now. 

Dream of worlds beyond this one. 

For if we can dream them, we can make them. 

Dreams are anticipations. 

We only anticipate what we know has the possibility to come true. -Jessie Earl 

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Dangerously Close To Hi-Jinx: metamodern collection of short stories and poetry urging us to look forward to a better future, instead of pushing the past forward- 

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