Virtual Futures: Near-Future Fictions vol. 1 - Softcover

O'Hara, Dan; Ward, Tom; Oram, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995788200 ISBN 13: 9780995788206

Publisher: Virtual Futures, 2019

Synopsis

When tomorrow has become a question mark — filled with as much malice as promise — can science fiction be a means of exploring the answer?

Virtual Futures presents eighteen bursts of speculative fiction that explore the landscape of the near future: short stories that depict a world populated by killer voice-controlled speakers, AIs with mental health disorders, narcotic nanobots, and much, much more.

With previous appearances from Pat Cadigan, M. John Harrison, and Alan Moore, discover what this generation of authors think will be awaiting us when we step into the future...

Contents

• Foreword: On the Origins of Near Future Fictions
  
• Helen Marshall Introduction
  
• Nicola Fawcett There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills, Boys, You Just Need to Know Where to Find It
  
• Vaughan Stanger Bee Futures
  
• Allen Ashley Inside, Outside
  
• Jule Owen Young Blood
  
• A. Umbra Cries and Bionic Eyes
  
• L.P Lee Truth and What Comes After
  
• Jackie Kingon Gourmet Hunger
  
• Jane Norris The Department of Re-pairing
  
• Stephen Oram The Never-Ending Nanobot Nectar
  
• Very Very Far Away ‘Very Very Far Away’: Episode 01 — Dead
  
• Ian Steadman Looking Glass
  
• Britta F. Schulte The Secret
  
• Jamie Watt Sequence
  
• Daniel Sainty If you know what’s good for you
  
• C.R Dudley Undefined Variable
  
• John Houlihan Carers
  
• Christine Aicardi The Tablet Stroker
  
• Christopher Butera Independent, Superior

About this edition

• Publisher: Virtual Futures
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0995788200
• ISBN 13: 9780995788206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126