Social simulation can be extremely powerful when it comes to understanding complex social dynamics. At the same time, simulation can become a straightjacket where technical refinement takes priority over big questions. While such refinements are needed, they should not replace our capacity to see the social real in new and provoking ways. Are there ways in which we can drive our curiosity to ask new questions when simulating the social? This lecture calls for a liminal imagination in such simulations. Liminal imagination concerns the creative capacity that emerges in liminal spaces—transitional, in between moments, or environments where ordinary structures, routines, or identities are temporarily suspended—allowing the mind to form novel associations, ideas, and narratives. It is also the mental flexibility to feel at home with not-being-at-home; to dwell in threshold spaces in between defined states, categories, and realities; to embrace the undefined. Simulations can be excellent liminal spaces, but it requires effort to get there. I’ll talk about the ways in which we can put those simulations to good use.