In the new Future Tense Fiction podcast, Annalee Newitz and Maddie Stone explore how fiction could help prepare for future pandemics.
On this month’s episode of Future Tense Fiction, host Maddie Stone talks to Annalee Newitz about “.” Annalee’s short story follows a disease-fighting robot—and its companions, both human and crow—on a quest to track an outbreak and develop a vaccine before it’s too late.
The story was published in December 2018, but now, three years after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, it offers a look at how public health responses could better reflect the needs of the communities they serve. Plus, Annalee shares how they learned to speak crow language.
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