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Wade Roush is a technology journalist and audio producer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Extraterrestrials (MIT Press, 2020) and editor of the 2018 edition of Twelve Tomorrows . He hosts and produces Soonish , a nonfiction podcast about the future, and cofounded Hub & Spoke, a collective of independent podcasts. He has been a staff writer, editor, and/or columnist for Scientific American , MIT Technology Review , Xconomy, and Science , and was the founding producer of Technology Review ’s Deep Tech podcast. In 2014–2015 he was acting director of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program. He has a B.A. in history and science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT.

Karl Schroeder is an award-winning Canadian author and professional futurist. Of his twelve published novels, two have won Canada’s Aurora Award for best sci-fi novel of the year. Karl came to prominence as one of the vanguard writers of the “new space opera,” but after obtaining a master’s degree in Strategic Foresight he shifted his attention to near-future fiction. Now he writes about positive solutions to issues such as global warming, using his foresight skills to inform his science fiction—and vice versa. Karl lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter.

D. A. Xiaolin Spires steps into portals and reappears in sites such as Hawaii, New York, various parts of Asia, and elsewhere, with her keyboard appendage attached. Her work appears in publications such as Clarkesworld, Analog, Strange Horizons, Nature, Terraform, Uncanny, Fireside, Galaxy’s Edge, Andromeda Spaceways (Year’s Best Issue), Diabolical Plots , Star*Line , Factor Four , and anthologies of the strange and beautiful: Ride the Star Wind, Sharp and Sugar Tooth, Future Visions, Deep Signal, Battling in All Her Finery , and Broad Knowledge. Select stories can be read in German, Spanish, Vietnamese, Estonian, and French translation. She can be found on Twitter @spireswriter and on her website daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com.

Ytasha L. Womack is an author, filmmaker, independent scholar, and dance therapist. Much of her work centers around Afrofuturism, new futures, and the use of the imagination for change. Her book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi & Fantasy Culture is taught in universities around the world. She’s the author of Rayla 2212 and A Spaceship in Bronzeville and directed the award-winning dance film A Love Letter to the Ancestors from Chicago . A Chicago native, she was an inaugural resident at artist Kehinde Wiley’s artist residence Black Rock in Senegal. Her debut graphic novel Blak Kube will be released in 2022.

In 2011 MIT Technology Review produced an anthology of science fiction short stories, TRSF . Over the next years MIT Technology Review produced three more volumes, renamed Twelve Tomorrows . Beginning in 2018, the MIT Press will publish an annual volume of Twelve Tomorrows in partnership with MIT Technology Review .

TRSF, 2011

TR Twelve Tomorrows 2013, edited by Stephen Cass

TR Twelve Tomorrows 2014, edited by Bruce Sterling

TR Twelve Tomorrows 2016, edited by Bruce Sterling

Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Wade Roush, 2018

Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends, edited by Sheila Williams, 2020

Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, edited by Gideon Lichfield, 2021

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lichfield, Gideon, editor.

Title: Make shift : dispatches from the post-pandemic future / edited by Gideon Lichfield.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] | Series: Twelve tomorrows

Identifiers: LCCN 2020040801 | ISBN 9780262542401 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Science fiction—21st century.

Classification: LCC PN6120.95.S33 M35 2021 | DDC 808.83/8762—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020040801

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