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IEET Looking for Some Thoughtful Short Fiction
Posted: Jan 20, 2012
The IEET will begin publishing short science fiction pieces that reflect on the social, moral, political, economic or philosophical consequences of future technologies, in particular pieces that touch on the IEET’s core issues - the ethics and policy dimensions of life extension, human enhancement, moral enhancement, non-human personhood, structural unemployment and catastrophic risks.
Submissions should be an entirely fictional, self-contained stories between 800-1500 words in length, and the genre should, broadly speaking, be “hard” science fiction - fiction that proposes plausible technologies considered within the realm of scientific possibility - as opposed to fantasy, slipstream or horror. Each item should be sent as a Word, RTF or plain text document attachment to director@ieet.org, including full contact details and a 30-word autobiographical note to be appended to the story if published. We ask contributors not to send pre-submission enquiries but to send the whole story. Rights are retained by the author, but stories may not be published or broadcast in other venues for 30 days after publication by the IEET.
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This is something I might actually do. I’m a big fan of science fiction and I’ve been researching Trans/Post-humanism and human enhancement. I might as well put that to use. BTW, is there any due date or time limitation I need to know about?
I just started (or, should I say “re-Started”) my story tonight.
While at the grocery store, I started to think about “What if the USA devolved into two separate “nations” that each were driven by a different political ideology.
One a Social Welfare state that provided cradle-to-grave care for its citizens, and liberalized drug and “social” policies (gay rights, recognition of alternative forms of marriage contract and sexual gender/orientation, etc.), but also had omnipresent surveillance of EVERYONE (including those in government, who actually have even more strict surveillance than typical citizens).
The other a “Libertarian fantasy land.” Where Gold was the only accepted currency (well, and Silver and Platinum - “Money” has to be some form of specie), and each community is able to regulate themselves as they see fit. There are NO “Public Goods” in this society.
Then I though… “What is it you used to do?” (talking to myself).
You used to prey upon other people, and were damned good at it.
How would a person from each society go about predating the complimentary society?
I submitted a comment on this page a few hours ago but I don’t know if it went through or not so I will submit it again just in case.
I might as well describe the short fiction I’m working on. It takes place in the year 3120 when two forms of post-humans, whom I refer to as Techs and Bios, have long since been the norm. Following Kylee Aronson, an “adult-lescence” who is part of the second generation of Bios to have a life expectancy of 1000 years, the reader explores a day in a life in this future world and through Kylee’s thoughts what events and innovations lead to this future, what society for the two post-human groups is like, and how the two groups interact with each other. This short fiction is based on what I have researched on post/trans-humanism as well as current events and technological developments.
P.S. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone at IEET.
You too Christian
Warning, my friends. Whenever your work appears on a public website, you have lost your First Worldwide Electronic Rights. 90% or more of publishers will not touch anything that’s been on a public website like IEEE. That goes for First E-Rights, as well as print rights.
If you want to give away your work for free, go for it. If I am putting in hours of effort to make up a nice hard SF story, I want some bennies for it, like cash or swag. I see nothing of that here, and I have kids in college, so I will have to pass on this here.
Good luck to all.
This sounds like a great idea - Short Science Fiction is fun to read and the imaginative ideas will be pertinent and useful to this site
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