Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere

Overview:

  • Title: Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere
  • Author: Michael G. Bennett, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn
  • Year: 2017
  • Publisher: Center for Science and the Imagination
  • Price: $0.00
  • Binding: ebook
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere
  • Notes:
    • The concepts for these stories, each accompanied by an illustration and a timeline of the speculative science involved in the story, were created in day-long team sessions at the Stratosphere Narrative Hackathon at the Center for Science and the Imagination, May 2, 2017. According to the introduction, "Each team included a science fiction author, a visual artist, a communications professional, one or more subject area experts from Arizona State University, and a representative from World View, a Tucson, Arizona-based commercial launch provider focused on stratospheric technologies." The team members were:
      • Communications and Disaster Response: Daniel Bliss, Joe Caspermeyer, Brenda Cooper, Michael Duah, Carmen Noriega
      • Tourism: Kathleen Andereck, Bob Beard, Claudia Kelly, Kirsten Newkirk, Karl Schroeder, Karin Valentine
      • Earth Observation: Commercial, Civil, and National Security: David Brin, Tobias S. Buckell, Margaret Coulombe, Darshan Karwat, Byron Lahey, Brian Miller, Alan Stern
      • Science and Weather Observation: Andrew Antonio, Michael G. Bennett, Carter Scholz, Scott Smas, Laura Wentzel
    • Available for free at the CSI website.