Future Tense Fiction
Subtitle
Stories of Tomorrow
Edited by Torie Bosch, Kirsten Berg, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn and Andrés Martinez
"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.
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 artificial intelligence 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 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.
Featuring stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Madeline Ashby, Paolo Bacigalupi, Meg Elison, Lee Konstantinou, Carmen Maria Machado, Emily St. John Mandel, Maureen F. McHugh, Annalee Newitz, Nnedi Okorafor, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Mark Oshiro, Hannu Rajaniemi and Mark Stasenko.
Bios
Kirsten Berg is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. She works as a research-reporter with ProPublica and was previously an associate editor with Future Tense.
Torie Bosch is the editor of Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, New America and Arizona State University. She was also the co-editor of the 2017 edition of "What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent the Future" (Unnamed Press).
Joey Eschrich is the editor and program manager at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, and an assistant director for Future Tense. He is the co-editor of "Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities," a collection of fiction and nonfiction supported by a grant from NASA.
Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, and the academic director for Future Tense. He is the author of "What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing" and the co-editor of "Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds," both from The MIT Press.
Andrés Martinez is the editorial director of Future Tense and a professor of practice at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He is a former vice president of New America, editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times and assistant editorial page editor at The New York Times.
Juliet Ulman is the proud editor of multiple award-winning projects over her 20-plus-year editorial career and has been twice honored as a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor. She holds strong opinions on New York Rangers hockey and the Oxford comma.
Praise for this book
This dynamic, dud-free anthology of 14 short stories written by some of speculative fiction’s greats provides gripping, convincing glimpses into various near futures. ... Essential reading for anyone intrigued by what might come next for humankind.
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Because of the diversity of its authorship, this anthology does more than imagine what the world might be like if all of our perspectives were included. Instead, it moves past the picture of representation to a clear, uncompromising, imaginative look at just what it is we are all included in.
Kirkus Starred Review
