Arc 1.2 /
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Inside Arc 1.2 /
| EDITORIAL: | What will we be tomorrow? ( ) Simon Ings & Sumit Paul-Choudhury |
| FORWARD: | The future’s mine ( ) Frederik Pohl |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 (+) |
| The second Arc/Tomorrow Project short story competition is underway. Come join the conversation | |
| UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED: | The Mudang’s dance (+) Gord Sellar |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Treasure hunts and letterboxing, football and free-for-alls: these games engage entire communities. Can digital games compete? | |
| GAMES: | Bad vibrations (+) Kyle Munkittrick |
| 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 |
| Listen, child: there are no such things as angels, and the gods are taking us for a ride. But what a ride! |
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