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. She also directs the Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science (“the OEC”).
As an author, published under her name are two books in the body/mind/spirit genre, the first of two books in a science fiction series, and two academic books. Her third academic book, Animals Ethics and Engineering, is forthcoming (2024 ).
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.
UNDER PRODUCTION AS A PODCAST SERIES.
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, Summer, 2024)
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
