The U.S. Military Is Turning to Science Fiction to Shape the Future of War

How the military is growing a cottage industry of sci-fi writer consultants to help it predict the nature of tomorrow’s conflicts

Andrew Liptak
OneZero
Published in
10 min readJul 29, 2020

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