Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn [Paperback]

An anthology of near future science fiction fromVICEs acclaimed, innovative digital speculative story destination,Terraformin print for the first time.

Terraformhones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future were hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where well end up next.

Section by sectionWatch/Worlds/Burnthe book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse. With a potent roster of established names and rising talentsfrom Bruce Sterling, Ellen Ullman, Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, and Omar El Akkad, to E. Lily Yu, Elvia Wilk, Fernando Flores, Tochi Onyebuchi, and Gus Morenoit confronts the issues that orbit our everyday existence, and takes them to unsettling dimensions.

Brian Merchantis a journalist, producer, and author, whose focus is on technology, work, and the future. His first book,The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhoneis published by Little, Brown. He's the co-founder ofTerraform, VICE Media's speculative fiction project, and the author of theBlood in the Machine, also from Little, Brown. His work has appeared in theNew York Times,WIRED,The Atlantic,Harper's, theLos Angeles Times,Slate,The Guardian, and beyond.


Claire L. Evansis a writer and musician. She is the singer of the GRAMMY-nominated pop group YACHT, a founding editor ofTerraform, the former futures editor ofMotherboard, and the author ofBroad Band: The Untold story of the Women who Made the Internet.She isls.