What does the future hold? In our new series “Imagining the Next Future,” Polygon explores the new era of science fiction — in movies, books, TV, games, and beyond — to see how storytellers and innovators are imagining the next 10, 20, 50, or 100 years during a moment of […]
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Writers Bryan Washington and Rumaan Alam have never met in person, though they’re intimately familiar with each other’s work. Alam, 43, who lives in Brooklyn, has been teaching Washington’s 2019 collection of short stories, Lot, to his class at Columbia University, and Washington, 27, who teaches at Rice University and […]