Everyone in Tech Should Read Speculative Fiction

Everyone in Tech Should Read Speculative Fiction
How books like The Handmaid’s Tale and The Left Hand of Darkness offer important frameworks for Silicon Valley
Naomi Day
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7 min read·
Nov 6, 2019
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Photo: gremlin/Getty ImagesSpeculative fiction is my favorite genre to read. It aligns with how chaotic our world is and provides an escape into fiction while still leaving me with the feeling that I’ve learned something that…
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Written by Naomi Day
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Speculative fiction and Afrofuturist writer. Software engineer. US-based; globally oriented. I think and write about building new worlds.
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