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PJ Manney is the author of the bestselling and Philip K. Dick Award nominated Phoenix Horizon trilogy, (R)EVOLUTION, (ID)ENTITY, and (CON)SCIENCE. She is on the board of directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and runs The New Mythos project, including the podcast, Love Letters to the Future. She was a futurist, media consultant and writer/producer for the Human Energy Project. A former chairperson of Humanity Plus, she helped rebrand the organization, launch H+ Magazine and organize the first multi-org conference on futurist topics, Convergence ’08. She authored "Yucky Gets Yummy: How Speculative Fiction Creates Society" and "Empathy in the Time of Technology: How Storytelling is the Key to Empathy," foundational works on the neuropsychology of empathy and media. She has presented her ideas to groups like the United Nations Association, National Geographic, the Producers and Directors Guilds of America, NASA-JPL, Huffington Post, The H+ Summit, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a frequent guest on podcasts and webshows including StarTalk, Technically Human, The Futurists, and Singularity.FM, and has had articles published in Writer's Digest, BoingBoing and Tor.com. She is also the first person to create and transfer a digital autograph for a novel verified by the blockchain. Manney consults with and speaks to companies and organizations about the future of technology and humanity. Manney graduated from Wesleyan University double majoring in Film and American Studies. A career spent in media, she worked in motion picture PR at Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures; story development for independent film production companies; and writing as Patricia Manney for the critically acclaimed hit TV shows Hercules — The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. She also co-founded Uncharted Entertainment, writing and/or creating many pilot scripts for television networks, including CBS, Fox, UPN, Discovery, ABC Family and Comedy Central. Manney is a dual citizen of the US and New Zealand. Visit www.pjmanney.com
PJ Manney and Laura Faye Tenenbaum interview experts in every field who recognize the old stories and myths that no longer serve us and help make sense of the world with new stories to build a better future. Our internet locations have moved...again, and the first podcasts are launched! Please sign up, follow, comment and join us at the following links to hear our podcasts: Our newsletter, blog and videos are on Substack. Join us there for all information at https://substack.com/@lovelettersfuture The Love Letters to the Future podcast on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/614AVTjK6vAaeR37oSnZBF?si=tII6O1T_QraQ6sB8OBbsSg&pi=kSXO5QqGQ6SLs&t=0 The Love Letters to the Future podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/love-letters-to-the-future/id1858687750 The Love Letters to the Future podcast on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@loveletterstothefuture?si=vQA8BPBXHrLGvs3W Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/love.letters.to.the.future?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== You are getting this because you either know us, or are a New Mythos fan. And we love you for that. 😍 Please follow, subscribe, comment, share with friends and more. We will build an incredible community one great story at a time. Take care, PJ Manney & Laura Tenenbaum
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Taught at the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers: The New Mythos Yucky Gets Yummy: How Speculative Fiction Creates Society It's Almost Here: Writing Near-Term Science Fiction
Manney has spoken to the following groups or media on science fiction, storytelling, the New Mythos, empathy and futurist topics: United Nations Association-USA Human Energy Project with David Sloan Wilson and David Brin Los Angeles Public Library University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College Social Fiction Conference keynote StarTalk JCC of Metro Detroit Philadelphia Science Fiction Society Gifted Homeschool Forum Nebula Conference Flights of Foundry Escape Velocity/Museum of Science Fiction New York ComicCon Norwescon LosCon MidAmeriCon II/Worldcon Williams College Huffington Post Amazing Mind Producers Guild of America Directors Guild of America NASA-JPL Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies Humanity+ Summit Convergence '08 Manney has been on the following shows and podcasts (some more than once): Forever Young, 2025 film documentary We're All Gonna Die (even Jay Baruchel), Season 2, ep. 4 "Nanotech Nightmare!" A World of Difference: Embracing Neurodiversity The Futurists podcast Technically Human at CalPoly Are You There, Ghost, It's Me, Chiwan National Geographic -- "Breakthrough" second screen StarTalk Singularity 1 on 1 with Socrates aka Nikola Danaylov The World Transformed with Phil Bowermaster & Stephen Gordon Fast Forward Radio/The Speculist with Phil Bowermaster & Stephen Gordon (as frequent guest and co-host) Write Now New Books Network with Rob Wolf Philip K. Dick nominees podcast with Doug Lain SF Signal podcast with Patrick Hester Changersurfer with Dr. James Hughes
(R)EVOLUTION is a bestselling, Philip K. Dick Award nominated, near-future techno-thriller set in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. from 47North/Amazon Publishing, out 6/1/15. It is Book 1 in the Phoenix Horizon series. "[An] intriguing and fast-paced debut...With poignancy and sensitivity, Manney constructs an intricate and adventurous plot...Fans of gosh-wow SF will devour this novel all the way to the startling ending." —Publishers Weekly (ID)ENTITY — Book 2 in the Phoenix Horizon series. Out 10/10/17. “Intricate world-building…This near-future science fiction thriller should have broad appeal.” —Publishers Weekly (CON)SCIENCE — Book 3 in the Phoenix Horizon series. Out 4/27/21. "Manney, even when dealing with numerous fractured/remade personalities... keeps all the plates spinning and makes all her characters distinct individuals. She also manages repeated, virtuosic narrative flourishes along the way; for instance, if you thought Stanley Kubrick’s killing of HAL-9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey was the ultimate in machine-life death, think again... A complex but rewarding conclusion to a high-density cyber-SF tale." —Kirkus Review "Ours" in DECEMBER TALES, ghost story anthology. "Only Connect" in VISIONS FOR A WORLD TRANSFORMED, futurist anthology compiled by Philip Bowermaster & Steven Gordon, 2017. Articles for: Writer's Digest Popular Mechanics BoingBoing Tor.com SFsignal.com Live Science Suvudu mybookishways.com Yahoo News blogs for Mary Robinette Kowal, John Scalzi, Chuck Wendig Academic Articles for: Journal of Evolution and Technology Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales