EDITORIAL: |
What will we be tomorrow? ( ) Simon Ings & Sumit Paul-Choudhury |
FORWARD: |
The future’s mine ( )
Frederik Pohl |
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How we think about the future, shapes the future — and the last of Gernsback’s greats says we should be careful what we wish for |
PRESENT TENSE: |
Nobody knows you’re a dog (+)
Anne Galloway & Sumit Paul-Choudhury |
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The internet is sending feelers through the animal kingdom. Is this a new way of looking at life on earth - or just another vanity mirror for humans? |
SHORT STORY: |
Attenuation (+) Nick Harkaway |
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Sonny Hall lived fast, died young and left a beautiful corpse. And that’s when his troubles really began |
PRIOR ART: |
Petersburg’s Prometheus (+)Sonja Vesterholt & Simon Ings |
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For 20 years, unemployable Russian filmmaker Pavel Klushantsev led a life of loneliness and obscurity, unaware of a Hollywood campaign to track down “the Red Kubrick”. |
SHORT STORY: |
The Man (+)Paul McAuley |
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Why did he come to this hardscrabble human settlement, unannounced, unequipped, without purpose, without desire? Come to think of it - why did they? |
INNER SPACE: |
Through the Deep Space Desert (+)Regina Peldszus |
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Humanity is about to embark on the longest, most tedious round-trip ever. Fretful passenger Regina Peldszus asks, “Are we there yet?” |
SHORT STORY: |
Big Dave’s in Love (+) T.D. Edge |
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Poor Dave: somewhere under all those vodka mallows beats a lover’s heart. And Jack had better find it, fast, before the sludge arrives. |
TOMORROW PROJECT: |
Help shape the future (+) |
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The second Arc/Tomorrow Project short story competition is underway. Come join the conversation |
UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED: |
The Mudang’s dance (+) Gord Sellar |
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South Korea has gone from impoverished feudal backwater to liberal economic superpower in a generation — yet its people don’t talk about the future much. Do they know something we don’t? |
SPACES: |
Built for Pleasure (+) P.D. Smith |
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There are many serious and sober reasons why humanity has become a predominantly urban species - but it’s the silly ones that count. |
PLAY: |
Adult pursuits (+) Holly Gramazio |
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Treasure hunts and letterboxing, football and free-for-alls: these games engage entire communities. Can digital games compete? |
GAMES: |
Bad vibrations (+) Kyle Munkittrick |
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A game is like a dream: you have to be in it to understand it. So why do the best games put you in the last place you would ever want to be? |
SHORT STORY: |
Komodo (+) Jeff VanderMeer |
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Listen, child: there are no such things as angels, and the gods are taking us for a ride. But what a ride! |