EDITORIAL: |
Only connect |
FORWARD: |
Showtime (+) Jon Turney |
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The prediction business: the greatest show on earth? |
SHORT STORY: |
Exchange (+) Robert Reed |
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Tiny, important things happen to Gina all the time. With them, she will save the world |
PRIOR ART: |
#foreveralonedrone (+) Sumit Paul-Choudhury |
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Humankind will probably survive the rise of the drones. Human nature might not. |
SHORT STORY: |
Good to go (+) Liz Jensen |
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"I hate this guy. Met him at death’s door fifty times too often. Always his own fault" |
PRESENT TENSE: |
Beyond the city limits (+) Frank Swain |
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Public space is shrinking: isn’t it time we walked on the wild side? |
SHORT STORY: |
We can do this (+) Nancy Kress |
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What Ethan needs is polygamy. Sadly, he isn’t going to get it |
INNER SPACE: |
Escape from LA (+) Madeline Ashby |
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Losing your wallet is a lot like time travel - only much scarier |
SHORT STORY: |
A robot walks into a bar and says… (+) Romie Stott |
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"It’s simpler to treat me like everyone else than make new rules, don’t you think?" |
UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: |
Shedding skins (+) Kim Stanley Robinson |
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Meet ultralite: a technology so advanced, it’s barely there at all |
GALLERY: |
City/State (+) Simon Ings |
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In a gallery in the Netherlands, an organic city is coming to life |
SHORT STORY: |
My pretty Alluvian bride (+) Bruce Sterling |
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"Money was legal for tourists. Other folk made their way in life by gesturing at the air" |
UNEVENLY DISTRIBUTED: |
Brave new fortress (+) Smári McCarthy |
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Can Iceland hack its way to freedom? |
SHORT STORY: |
The man who saved the twentieth century (+) Jack Womack |
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Four hours to clear half a wall. He is never told where the supervisors hide the cameras |