The Criticism Today Lecture Series presents "Missile Thinking, Space Dreaming: How Science Fiction Pacified the ICBM" with Assistant Professor Tom Lin.

Tom Lin is author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Little, Brown, 2021), which won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Northern California Book Reviewers’ Award in Fiction. His scholarly research investigates the role of science fiction and popular culture in the shaping of large technical systems, using a hybrid approach that draws from the intersection of the history of technology and literary studies. His current projects include a new novel, forthcoming in 2026, as well as a project engaging American nuclear tourism.