World-building

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