FUTURE TENSE FICTION.

AuthorRiggs, Mike

Science fiction that imagines today's miracles as the predecessors of tomorrow's nightmares is the norm. Future Tense Fiction is a nuanced collection of speculative fiction stories.

Initially published in serial form as part of Future Tense--an editorial collaboration between Slate, the New America Foundation, and the University of Arizona--the stories in Future Tense Fiction yoke strange technologies to daily life. While policy organizations and media outlets both tend to imagine the worst when they look to the future, Future Tense Fiction imagines the worst, the best, and the so-so.

"Living with technology is profoundly weird," the editors write in their introduction. What's new today is so integral to tomorrow that we can't help but take it for granted. "A good science fiction story can help re-sensitize us" to the peril and promise of...

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