Our next featured list is our quarterly installment from playwright Lainie Vansant, who offers this perhaps-timely introduction: "I love reading sci-fi. Writing these plays is a unique challenge: you have to imagine what the future might be, create rules for that future, and then live within those rules. Though a lot of these imagined futures may be bleak, these writers offer stories of hope, resilience, and resistance (and sometimes even laughter) that inspire me to make the real future a little bit better."