Read@io9 – Dive Into Speculative Fiction With the Winners of the 2019 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards

Dartmouth’s Neukom Institute for Computational Science recently announced the winners of its 2019 Literary Arts Awards for speculative fiction and playwriting, and io9 is thrilled to share excerpts from all three winning works.

This year’s book awards were judged by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, while the play award was determined by a jury of theater experts from Dartmouth and beyond. You can learn more about the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards—which seek to “to explore the ways in which computational ideas impact society,” according to the organization—and see the nominees in all categories by heading over here.

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