Stephen Oram

Not forgetting of course @vaughanstanger.bsky.social's very own "Wheat Futures"

Thank you @vaughanstanger.bsky.social

Sneak preview of Our Data, Our Future episode 4 on data dependency and contingency planning - should we? why don't we? what might we do? Dropping some beginnings of ideas and answers...

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#data #ourdataourfuture #future

It was a great panel discussion...

Starting something over on substack...

Yeah, looks great and really looking forward to discussing Writing As Activism as well as listening to the all the other stuff, not least the Solarpunk panel with @yenooi.bsky.social

Very pleased to have you there - and what a great story it is too. PS people can read it at fitzroviafutures.uk

‘Fitzrovia Futures 2055’ - short story performance and discussion - The Fitzrovia News A public reading of stories and an open discussion about possible futures for the neighbourhood will be held at the Fitzrovia Chapel in Decembe 2025r.

Pleased to see Fitzrovia Futures 2055 featured in the local Fitzrovia News - if you live or work in #Fitzrovia or are interested in community futuring (is that a phrase?) then come along to our 11 December event.

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Always interesting working on an idea with Claire...

I'm chuffed to have a piece of flash fiction 'In Decay' published by online Canadian publisher CommuterLit - perfect for your short commute.

I'm particularly pleased because it's one of my recent favourites.

commuterlit.com/2025/11/thur...

Our Data, Our Future: a short podcast with big ideas Watch now (10 minutes) | Episode 2: data hoarding

Hosting the short podcast Our Data, Our Future, with Robin Riback is an adventure - to make it succinct, worth watching & with a ‘big idea’.
Episode 2 is on data hoarding and out now - what do you think of our ideas?
#datahoarding #OurDataOurFuture #Futures #data

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Future Stories 2025 Winners — Dubai Future Foundation Future Stories A Short Story Competition Meet the Winners After an inspiring and imaginative competition, we’re delighted to announce the winners of the Dubai Future Forum Sci-Fi Short Story Competiti...

Well, this is good news... so pleased to be one of the top ten winners in the Dubai Futures Foundation short story competition, alongside other writers from around the world.
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Our Data, Our Future: a short podcast with big ideas Episode 1: data storage and its future

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OUT TOMORROW !!

I'm excited to announce a new short podcast with New Yorker Robin Riback called “Our Data, Our Future – A short podcast with big ideas”
1st on Tues, 14 Oct, available on both substacks: ‘nudgethefuture’ and ‘robinriback’
Subscribe to us on substack now to get notified.
Here's a taster.
#data #future

Creative Futures (& others) Applied Science Fiction – what’s new and where can you find it?

I’m often asked where people can read the stories that come out of my applied science fiction projects.

I've listed them with links here stephenoram.net/blog/2025/10... so you can easily find and choose which to read.

Including the new anthology from the project with Coventry University and DSTL.

Interesting the scale is all about technology not about civilisation... I'd be wanting to see a trajectory towards a decent civilisation first before even considering this sort of 'trajectory'. If colonisation has taught us anything it's to be wary of unsubtle societies having power (in both senses)

I have to admit to not having read Foundation - are these scales from that? I need to read (on the large TBR pile)...

Thrutopia - grounded, plausible & inspiring route maps from a recognisable present towards a future we’d be proud to leave behind.

Zoefuturism - there are no still moments in life, in nature, in our cosmos; everything (inc. us) is changing in relation to its surroundings, as it all keeps becoming.

I've recently become interested in Thrutopias and Zoefuturism as 'genres' to give a different perspective to the binary temptations of Utopia or Dystopia - either how we get there or acknowledge 'there' is in constant change.

Inspirational Indie Author Interview: Stephen Oram Explores Humanity, Technology, and Applied Science Fiction Tune in to our Inspirational Indie Author interview with Stephen Oram, who blends near-future storytelling with applied science fiction.

Weirdly, I learn a lot about myself and my writing by being interviewed and this one is no exception… including my response to the question of how interested I am in using AI in my work!

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Agree... my angle was that these are the possibilities and it's up to us to make sure we get the future(s) we want (starting with understanding the options and an idea of what we might want). That nuance got a bit lost.

"Brain Fruit" begins its review tour tomorrow - check out its tour stops...

Can't wait to see what this fantastic line-up of book reviewers make of it.

With thanks to @literallypr.bsky.social for organising it.

#BrainFruitLilFactory

The Online Book Review Tour for "Brain Fruit" begins tomorrow... can't wait to see what those wonderful reviewers make of it...

With thanks to @literallypr.bsky.social for organising it.

#BrainFruitLilFactory #futurefables

Internet of Things Cartoon Original cartoon by Moose Allain from world of moose

In case you would like me to draw one of these for you

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Thank you - a new publisher to watch too I feel...

Brain Fruit Published 1 September 2025 Nurtured by the neural networks of a bee, a brain fruit is born. To become a symbiotic trioid and continue the evolutionary crawl upwards they need to combine with an ins…

Brain Fruit - order now

“A mind-bending, bio-digital fable that pulses with poetic strangeness. Oram’s Brain Fruit is daring, disorienting, & deeply human.“

500 numbered copies, a design-forward format; not just a story—an experience.

stephenoram.net/brain-fruit/

#scifi #future #BrainFruit

Look what arrived today - my copy of my new novella Brain Fruit. I got #1 of a 500 hand-numbered limited edition from L'il Factory. Totally beautiful with its hessian like hard cover - its a far-future story printed in an old-fashioned way.

Due on 1 Sept '25

#sciencefiction #zoefuturism #biotech

Thanks Gareth. I'm in touch with the designer and the publisher. If it is a mistake, hopefully not too much reputational damage has been done.

Hi. Can you @interzone.press say where you got the information from that Cybersalon Press have used AI generated cover art? As an editor of 2 anthologies I know a lot of effort went into avoiding that. I would like to see the evidence before taking this up with the publisher. Thank you.