World-building
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Sluice magazine
Spring 2025
World-building
The science fiction author Cory Doctorow said “Science fiction isn’t predictive of the future. It tends to be about diagnosing our current aspirations and anxieties.” Likewise, world-building cannot wrest itself free of the world we live in, like a tether our imaginations are shackled to our experience of the world. One foot in the known one foot in the unknown.
The Spring/Summer 2025 edition of Sluice magazine uses the theme as a jumping-off point to explore our relationship with the world, and the stories we tell ourselves
about our place within it.
Featuring:
OF/ON WATER, OF/IN LAND Dr. Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson
FAULTLINES Meitheal
LANGUAGE IS META-TECHNOLOGY Disinformation
QUEERING WORLD-BUILDING Tilly Hawkins
GALLERINAS AND GRIFTERS Alistair Gentry
EXPLOSION DAY Dr Lesley Guy
TRANSMEDIA WORLD-BUILDING Dr Theo Turpin
THE POLAROID STORIES Tash Kahn + Cathy Rose
ARTIST-RUN INDEX: P
COVER:
Karl England and CHK
Dimensions: (h x w) 280 x 210 mm
Extent 80 pp
Paper Type 150gsm
Cover:
Paper Type 300gsm
Perfect Bound
ISSN 9772398839005
Print-run: 500
Published: May 2025