Science fiction and the law: free speech, censorship, privacy andsurveillance

In Do Androids Dream of Electric Free Speech?Visions of the Future of Copyright, Privacy, and the First Amendment in Science Fiction, a paper from Communicaton Law and Policy by Texas Christian University's Daxton "Chip" Stewart, we're treated to a wide-ranging overview of the free speech, copyright, privacy and surveillance legal issues raised in science fiction from Frankenstein to my own books. Stewart's paper insightfully weaves together everyone from Ernest Cline to Isaac Asimov and closely analyzes the way that science fictional thought-experiments can inform legal discussions, in a fashion reminiscent of the excellent Law of Superheros. Read the rest