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Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
Author: | Kirsten Berg Torie Bosch Joey Eschrich Andres Martinez Juliet Ulman Ed Finn |
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Unnamed Press, 2019 |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Future Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who's-who of authors working in speculative literature and science fiction today, pointing the way forward to the fiction of tomorrow.
A disease surveillance robot whose social programming gets put to the test. A future in which everyone receives universal basic income--but it's still not enough. A futuristic sport, in which all the athletes have been chemically and physically enhanced. An A.I. company that manufactures a neural bridge allowing ordinary people to share their memories. Brimming with excitement and exploring new ideas, the stories collected by the editors of Slate's Future Tense are philosophically ambitious and haunting in their creativity. At times terrifying and heartwrenching, hilarious and optimistic, this is a collection that ushers in a new age for our world and for the short story.
A partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University, Future Tense explores how emerging technologies will change the way we live, in reality and fiction.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Future Is Made of Choices - essay by Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andres Martinez, and Juliet Ulman
- Mother of Invention (2018) - short story by Nnedi Okorafor
- No Me Dejes (2018) - short story by Mark Oshiro
- When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis (2018) - short story by Annalee Newitz
- When We Were Patched (2018) - short story by Deji Bryce Olukotun
- Domestic Violence (2018) - short story by Madeline Ashby
- Mr. Thursday (2017) - short story by Emily St. John Mandel
- A Brief and Fearful Star (2018) - short story by Carmen Maria Machado
- Overvalued (2018) - short story by Mark Stasenko
- Safe Surrender (2018) - short story by Meg Elison
- Lions and Gazelles (2018) - short story by Hannu Rajaniemi
- Burned-Over Territory (2018) - short story by Lee Konstantinou
- Mika Model (2016) - short story by Paolo Bacigalupi
- The Starfish Girl (2018) - short story by Maureen F. McHugh
- The Minnesota Diet (2018) - short story by Charlie Jane Anders
- About the Contributors
- About the Editors
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