IDSA Innovation: Supernatural

Mark Athitakis

_ Lead Editor

Yu Nong Knew

_ Author

Mark Baskinger, Ph.D.

_ Author

Julian Bleecker, Ph.D.

_ Author, Illustration

Lisa Krohn

_ Author

Per Magnus Sköld

_ Author

Tiange Wang

_ Author, Illustration

Bruce Hannah

_ Author

Emilie Williams

_ Author

Maximillian Burton

_ Author

Paul Diehl

_ Author, Introduction

Donté Shannon

_ Author, Introduction

Tucker Viemeister

_ Author

Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman

_ Author

Elham Morshedzadeh, PhD

_ Author

Sarah Collins

_ Design

Nicholas Komor

_ Design

Tucker sent a message asking if I wanted to do some Design Fiction for this issue of the IDSA Quarterly. I said ‘yes’. He wanted something that went along with the issue topic ‘supernatural’ — so I had this Bionomics idea/ad sitting around which...is some kind of contrivance that taps into the various plant-based intelligence processing networks and then he asked for some more stuff, so I put this ad for Androids Dream of Electric Sheep that I had from..something I don't recall. And then Mark the Editor suggested that I could do a full spread, so I added that weird copy that used to appear in those mass-market paperback books where they would advertise for other books the publisher published? And you could send in a SASE with 50¢ and you'd get a full catalog, or you could send in some money or a check or whatever and you'd check off what books you wanted and then they'd send it to you, I guess. But, I remember those things. But more to the point it makes one wonder what would be the books of this sort you might find in a world in which non-human intelligences were just amongst us. Those books you see are some of the books I imagine might be a part of a world that is roughly like ours, only not..

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