![]() ![]() As a Marshall Scholar, she received an MA in Science Fiction Studies at the University of Liverpool and an MPhil in Criticism and Culture at Cambridge. She received her PhD in English with an emphasis in Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Davis in 2021. Katherine also studies and designs video games, including being on the design team for Foldit: First Contact, a new narrative version of the citizen science video game Foldit. It describes planetary world building, or speculative planetology, as a set of shared practices built up between planetary and climate scientists, creators of speculative fiction, engineers, and policymakers since the middle of the 20th century. On the dedication page for the 1965 sci-fi epic novel Dune, author Frank Herbert writes that this is for the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm. Set in the desert planet Arrakis, the first book follows Paul Atreides, a young man destined to be a messiah. ![]() At its core, the sci-fi epic is about ecology. Frank Herberts six-book Dune series has influenced the sci-fi genre for over 50 years, and all the Dune books ranked remains a list of some of the best science fiction books of all time. She is working on a book project, titled Speculative Planetology: Science, Culture, and the Building of Model Worlds. Frank Herbert’s novel isn’t just about space messiahs, giant sandworms, and trippy space drugs. ![]() Katherine Buse uses methods from science and technology studies, science fiction studies, and the environmental humanities to study how science shapes and is shaped by its cultural milieu. ![]()
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