Fiction

What does this mushroom-based installation at the Venice Biennale tell us about our biological future?

Designing your child is designing the future. Do it wisely.

Nanobots that find you a soul mate, a Frankenstein remix, and other stories that turn the neobiological revolution inside out.

Gene editing scrambles a family’s connections in this original sci-fi story for proto.life.

Splice DNA. Live forever. Be merry.

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Back by popular demand: more great reading recommendations from people shaping the future of our species.

… where we ask the experts for reading recommendations.

Cory Doctorow’s novel “Walkaway” envisions a future in which the jobless masses co-opt automation technologies to ensure their freedom.