Social media allows us to create another self. We have our in-person, corporeal lives, and then there are our digital lives: the people we are (or seem to be) on the screen. Where is this technology going? Will we someday be able to upload ourselves to a digital space and exist only there? And if so, for how long? And what happens to our minds? To free will? To our ability to love? Nottingham resident and science fiction writer Jim Kelly is no stranger to these questions, having explored them in stories he’s been writing for several years now—stories he has assembled in the new collection called The Promise of Space. Kelly has won the prestigious Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for his work, and he’s on the on the faculty of the Stonecoast Creative Writing MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He spoke with NHPR's Peter Biello. Scroll down to read his top five list of reading recommendations and a transcript of their conversation. Jim Kelly's Top Five Reading Recommendations: