It is the intersecting realms of emerging technologies, science, fiction and myth; the links between the human and other-than-human worlds; and the ethical complexities of life that have captured my imagination and inspired my writing.
About
As a scholar and educator, Rosalyn W. Berne, Ph.D., is the Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics, and Chair of the Department of Engineering and Society in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia.
Rosalyn is the author of two books in the body/mind/spirit genre, a SF novel, and two academic books. An edited volume, Animals, Ethics, and Engineering is forthcoming in 2025.
As an intuitive interspecies communicator, Rosalyn is particularly attuned to equines and cetaceans.
BOOKS
BOOK ONE: Waiting in the Silence
An eerily prescient tale about the emergence of a conscious AI, in a world ravaged by climate change, and where a woman’s fertility becomes a currency.
Soon to be released as a podcast series called The Retrieval.
Non-Fiction
When the Horses Whisper
Science Fiction
The VISHNEW SERIES
Nanotalk: Conversations with Scientists and Engineers about Ethics, Meaning and Belief in the Development of Nanotechnology
Creating Life from Life: Biotechnology and Science Fiction
BOOK TWO: Walking on the Sea
Forthcoming, 2025
Animals, Ethics and Engineering
Forthcoming, 2025.
Academic
Waking to Beauty
“Science Fiction helps us tap the moral imagination, which is our capacity to imaginatively reflect on what is important, what we believe in, what we care about, what we’re afraid of, what we hope for, what we dream about.”
— Rosalyn W. Berne, Author, Waiting in the Silence
