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In this season finale, Giuseppe Porcaro looks back at the experiment of Europarama together with a stellar line-up of contributors that join in to explore the value of science fiction as a method to dive into Europe's futures. Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Srećko Horvat Born in Croatia, he is a philosopher and and activist. Srećko is regarded as one of the central figures of the new left in post-Yugoslavia. He has authored more than ten books, including What Does Europe Want?, The Radicality of Love, and Poetry from the Future. Niels Daalgard is a danish academic and science fiction critic whose PhD research into Danish science fiction is the first on such a topic to be funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. Dalgaard is science fiction reviewer for the newspaper Politiken and editor of the critical journal Proxima (since 1981). Laura Horn is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business of the Roskilde University in Denmark. Her main research area is Global Political Economy, with particular attention to the regional manifestation of these structures and processes in the context of European integration. Ian Manners is professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen.works at the nexus of critical social theory and the study of the European Union in planetary politics. His current research interest looks at the EU and planetary politics at the intersections of global society, economy, environment, conflict, and politics. Marije Martens is one of the co-founders of Are We Europe, a collective of European journalist and content creators. She’s the lead designer of the magazine and has always had an interest in the interplay between design, storytelling, nationalism and Europe. She also loves podcasts and stories. Mick ter Reehorst is the managing director and co-founder of Are We Europe. Mick has studied journalism and European studies in Amsterdam and Paris, so it all makes sense, even though he’s mostly occupied with the entrepreneurial side of things. Also, he thinks that Europe needs a new narrative, because this is not where things are supposed to be headed. Oh, and he loves podcasts. ...and yours, faithfully, Giuseppe Porcaro author of DISCO SOUR, creator and producer of Europarama, head of communications of Bruegel, lover, and dreamer.