People of Long Now

Andrew Dana Hudson

Contributor, Ideas

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, editor and futurist. He is the author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (02022), as well as over twenty short stories, which have appeared in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and many more. He is an Imaginary College Fellow at the Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination. Follow his work via solarshades.club.

Recent Ideas from Andrew Dana Hudson

Science Fiction

The Weather Out There

A work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that communication breaks down.

By Andrew Dana Hudson

Science Fiction

Space is Dead. Why Do We Keep Writing About It?

Maybe our best bet of finding out what’s Out There in the universe is to extend our reach not into the vastness of space but into the equally vast expanse of time.

By Andrew Dana Hudson

Futures

Envisioning Our Shared Storm

We talk to the futurist, speculative fiction writer, and Long Now Member about scenario planning through fiction.

Andrew Dana Hudson in conversation with Jacob Kuppermann

Science Fiction

The Mammoth Steps

In this science fiction short story, translation technology and norms of interspecies communication make possible a deep friendship between a boy and a de-extincted mammoth.

By Andrew Dana Hudson