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A People’s Future of the United States — Who Gets to Imagine the Future?

What if the futures a society can imagine depend partly on whose stories it has learned to see?

Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.

A People’s Future of the United States, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams, brings together twenty-five speculative-fiction writers to imagine American futures through perspectives conventional narratives often leave at the margins.

This Deep Dive investigates narrative power: how representation, historical memory, information systems, identity, and institutions influence whose experiences become visible…

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