Harry T. Tuttle

A question for the Mastodon hive mind. Do you know of any #scifi + #science crossovers #writing about future perspectives? Leaning more, or at least, based more, on the science?

I have an insane idea for a project that could make my worlds* collide... or never happen. Thoughts?

*Harry is my scifi writing (trying) alter ego, by day I'm an actual scientist.

Sep 28, 2023 at 6:44pmWeb
Show threadNicole RustSep 28, 2023

@HarryTuttle

Maybe this?
https://www.nature.com/collections/swmfrlfmcn

Nature Special: Futures

Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 28, 2023
@NicoleCRust That's a good one. I'd forgotten about that. I was so close to even submitting something to them a while ago. If I recall, that's leaning a bit more #SpecFic / #SFF than what I'm thinking. I want to push scientists out of their comfort zone.
Show threadArturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄Sep 28, 2023
@HarryTuttle Could you please describe in further detail the type of book you're looking for?
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 28, 2023
@carturo222 I'm not necessarily looking for a book. I'm thinking about putting together a collection (possibly) of short "articles" / stories and just looking to see if something similar has been done before.
Show threadArturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄Sep 28, 2023

@HarryTuttle
It has been done. I'm aware of:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNZ7M4F7

Amazon.com

Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 28, 2023
@carturo222 That's very cool, but I think these contributions were written in isolation, some by scientists, some by scifi writers. I want them to work together. Thanks!
Show threadJosephSep 28, 2023
@HarryTuttle Are you looking for something that tries to be as scientific as possible? I know Shilds Ladder is an excellent book that tried to be scifi in as scientific a manner as possible. He presents a very cohesive version of future scientific endeavors and consequences.
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 28, 2023
@mattixmash Yes, that's the idea, to keep it as close to scientifically possible. I think that this is maybe pushing it further than I was thinking, but Egan would be a perfect candidate to work with. We can dream.
Show threadSatchSep 28, 2023
@HarryTuttle check out solarpunk. Not much written in the genre yet, but a few short story anthologies by world weaver press. I'm currently writing solarpunk flash fiction.
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 28, 2023
@satch Thanks. I think this is pushing into a predetermined (genre) style and that should be a variable that is left ... to be determined.
Show threadSteven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 28, 2023
@HarryTuttle This tickles my brain, reminding me of a possibly DoD project maybe 15 years ago that tried to describe what combat was likely to look like in the near term with emerging technology (tiny drones, smart dust, & stuff like that.) Is that the sort of thing you mean?
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 29, 2023
@stevendbrewer Yes! That sounds quite close to what I'm looking for. Time-frame is a bit different, but conceptually something in the right direction.
Show threadSteven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 29, 2023
@HarryTuttle Would you like me to try to track it down? @philipbrewer might remember it too.
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 29, 2023
@stevendbrewer @philipbrewer If you could that would be great. I'd be interested in any case to have a look at what they were thinking.
Show threadSteven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 29, 2023

@HarryTuttle @philipbrewer I haven't turned up the one I saw before, but here is a similar thing: https://threatcasting.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2020-06/Invisible_Force_%5BWEB%5D_0.pdf

I found the link to it in a Medium post, but the article isn't public so I won't share it. But you can probably turn it up quickly enough: "The U.S. Military Is Turning to Science Fiction to Shape the Future of War." It sounds like just what you're looking for.

I'll keep looking for the one I saw before.

Show threadSteven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 29, 2023

@HarryTuttle @philipbrewer I think I may have found it. http://www.mcwl.marines.mil/Portals/34/Documents/FuturesAssessment/Marine%20Corps%20Science%20Fiction%20Futures%202016_12_9.pdf?ver=2016-12-09-105855-733

I found it linked to from this article: https://futurism.com/from-sci-fi-to-reality-the-future-of-warfare

Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 29, 2023
@stevendbrewer @philipbrewer Awesome! Thanks so much. I'll check both of those out this weekend. Really appreciated.
Show threadDan HandwerkerSep 28, 2023
@HarryTuttle Maybe the collaborations between Gentry Lee & Arthur. C Clark? (Lee discusses their collaboration here: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/podcasts/on-a-mission-season-1/season-4-mars-rovers/episode-12-secrets-of-the-mars-rovers )
Episode 12: Secrets of the Mars Rovers

In this season 4 finale, Gentry Lee and Rob Manning reveal how surprises, hidden flaws, and uncertainties have always been a part of rovers and the exploration of Mars.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Show threadBogi TakácsSep 28, 2023

@HarryTuttle I've just had a story included in an anthology that had both stories and science essays about astrobiology, sponsored by the European Astrobiology Institute - this might be something like what you have in mind?

https://europeanastrobiology.eu/life-beyond-us/

Life Beyond Us – European Astrobiology Institute

Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 29, 2023

@bogiperson I think someone else suggested that as well. I'm certainly going to have to have a look at that but I'm looking more for something where the science and scifi people work together.

Also, congrats on getting your story in there!

Show threadMastodon MigrationSep 29, 2023
@HarryTuttle Always been interested in finding an SF novel, or could be a collection, that had was situated a few hundred years in the future, but no aliens, no faster that light travel or communications, no immortality or supernatural stuff. Not even any propulsion systems that violate physics. Just a very hard SF driven setting with clever ideas about actual prospective technologies. Then tell a good story using that as a framework.
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 29, 2023
@mastodonmigration That sounds cool as well. Maybe my next project. Having sasid tha, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of works like that but this morning my mind is blank.
Show threadbeingextortedSep 29, 2023
@HarryTuttle In the fashion of H.G.Wells? Or In another sense ala MirrorMask or similar? There are numerous worlds colliding types and Feist's Masters of Glass springs to mind. I am a sci-fi lunatic and read many, many tales of adventures through time, adventures through realms and so on. If there is something out there such as these aforementioned tales, I want to read it. Hope this helps...
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 30, 2023
@beingextorted I'm thinking more about something, maybe essays, that allow speculation on the relatively near future (50-100 years) that is based on science, but has that "what if" that a #SciFi writer would bring. I'm imagining a collaborate effort in exploring this space.
Show threadJoeChipSep 30, 2023

@HarryTuttle

@beingextorted

Sounds like a valuable project. The interesting thing about predictions imo is the light they shed on our shared visions, fears, and dreams - not necessarily their accuracy.

#SciFi

Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 30, 2023
@JoeChip @beingextorted Exactly! At a certain point the accuracy is less important than the societal discussion, any discussion, that they might provoke or motivate.
Show threadbeingextortedOct 1, 2023
@HarryTuttle A sort of "what will be in xxxx"? Similar to the odd flying car, pod living predictions the old Popular Science/Mechanics magazines used to incorporate inside those vaunted tomes? Or more factual rather than prognostication?
Interesting thought, either direction. I personally haven't seen anything like that other than the typical science news outlets (NOAA, Brookings.edu, MIT.edu, Science direct.edu, and a plethora of others) but it's given me something to look into. Thank you!
Show threadHarry T. TuttleOct 2, 2023
@beingextorted I'm thinking more factual than prognostication, but maybe pushing a little into the large grey area between the two. We'll see.
And thanks for the Popular Science/Mechanics recall - I remember checking them out at the local library as a kid, something that I'd all but forgotten.
Show threadbeingextortedOct 2, 2023
@HarryTuttle Well, should I happen upon either another resource or a definite aid in your quest, I'll alert you to what may help. And those Popular mags were just that in my circle of friends. We waited for the next subscription as much as the latest comic or mad magazine. The local pharmacy, where they could be had, was fairly tolerant considering a group of us would stake a claim in front of the racks, dogearing their wares. Good times!
Show threadKieran SweeneySep 29, 2023
@HarryTuttle Have you tried the amazing worlds of @gregeganSF I started with Permutation City and Quarantine. Shorts too. Might be a bit further outside your desire but the best for thinking beyond. Website has all the science.
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 30, 2023
@kieransweeney @gregeganSF I love his work but what I'm thinking of starts on the other side. I want scientists to predict where they think they might get to in the next 50-100 years, and then have #SciFi authors push them out of their comfort zone to speculate more than they would otherwise feel comfortable with.
Show threadFunkETownSep 29, 2023
@HarryTuttle you might look into @fatsam he's been in computer science and sci-fi. As a for instance: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniel-keys-moran_reasonably-sure-i-am-the-first-person-to-activity-6981737674508304384-uAXb
Dan Moran on LinkedIn: Reasonably sure I am the first person to have described this technical…

Reasonably sure I am the first person to have described this technical approach in print. Also appear to have coined the word "webcast," and first described…

Show threadFunkETownSep 29, 2023
@HarryTuttle @fatsam his writing is excellent
Show threadDaniel Keys MoranSep 29, 2023
@FunkETown @HarryTuttle thanks, funk.
Show threadHarry T. TuttleSep 30, 2023
@FunkETown @fatsam I'll have to check that out. Thanks!
Show threadTeixiSep 30, 2023

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