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Malka Older (she/her)

Author

Associated Researcher, Center for Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po

Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. She is the Executive Director of Global Voices, a community of writers, editors, and translators providing community journalism from all over the world and advocating for Indigenous and minority languages, media literacy, digital rights, and online freedom of expression. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named among the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, the Washington Post, and Book Riot; with sequels, it was a finalist for a Hugo award. The Mimicking of Known Successes, a murder mystery set on Jupiter, was on four best of 2023 lists and was a finalist for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte awards for Best Novella. The sequel, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles, was named one of the best science-fiction books of 2024 by Esquire, and the third book in the series, The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, came out in June 2025. She is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University, where she teaches on predictive fictions.

Sessions

Keynote

"Speculative resistance" - using science fiction to imagine better futures and then work towards changing the present

Join science fiction writer, academic, and humanitarian Malka Older as she talks through using speculative futures to reexamine our present. See More.