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Virtual Futures: Near-Future Fictions vol. 1 Paperback – March 2, 2019
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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
- Print length126 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 2, 2019
- Dimensions5 x 0.32 x 8 inches
- ISBN-100995788200
- ISBN-13978-0995788206
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Product details
- Publisher : Virtual Futures (March 2, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 126 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0995788200
- ISBN-13 : 978-0995788206
- Item Weight : 5.1 ounces
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.32 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,624,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #11,558 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
- #12,188 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Books)
- #13,730 in Genetic Engineering Science Fiction (Books)
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About the authors
John Houlihan has been a writer, journalist and broadcaster for over twenty five years, working in news, sport and especially videogames. He has been employed by The Times, Sunday Times and Cricinfo, was PC editor at GameSpot and is a former Editor-in-Chief of Computer and Video Games.com.
For latest news and information see http://www.john-houlihan.net or follow @johnh259 on Twitter
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Houlihan's forthcoming work includes the first Seraph novel, Before The Flood, as well as an original sci-fi novel A Late Flowering Deity and a as-yet-to-be-revealed sports title. He has also edited a forthcoming collection of short stories called Dark Tales from the Secret War, due to be published by Modiphius in early 2015.
Until recently, Vaughan Stanger worked as a research manager at a British engineering company. From 1997 to 2011, he wrote science fiction and fantasy stories in his spare time, effectively setting himself homework. The results of this head-scratching were published in Nature Futures, Interzone, Postscripts, Daily Science Fiction and Music for Another World, to name but a few. Translations of his stories have appeared in Polish and Hebrew.
In January 2012 Vaughan became a full-time writer. Currently he's busy writing a novel. The head-scratching has got worse if anything. There are also some new stories in the works, plus further e-book compilations of his previously published stories to come.
For more information about Vaughan's writing exploits, please visit his website: https:\\www.vaughanstanger.com
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Quite a few of the stories have you thinking this ‘virtual future’ could be a lot closer than we imagine!