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A diverse collection of science fiction authors, characters, and stories, featuring contributions by Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, Warren Ellis, and Gene Wolfe.

Launched by MIT Technology Review, the Twelve Tomorrows series explores the future implications of emerging technologies through the lens of fiction. Featuring a diverse collection of authors, characters, and stories rooted in contemporary real-world science, each volume in the series offers conceivable and inclusive stories of the future, celebrating and continuing the genre of "hard" science fiction pioneered by authors such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein.

The stories chosen by Bruce Sterling for this edition of Twelve Tomorrows includes Pat Cadigan on interface design and refrigerator neuroses; Cory Doctorow on networks, power, and rot-fungus; Warren Ellis on spy tradecraft in a hyper-connected world; and a Q&A with science fiction legend Gene Wolfe.

Contents:

• Preface (Twelve Tomorrows) - essay by Bruce Sterling
• Q+A: Gene Wolfe - interview of Gene Wolfe by Jason Pontin
• Slipping - short story by Lauren Beukes
• Countermeasures - short fiction by Chris Nakashima-Brown
• Business As Usual - short fiction by Pat Cadigan
• Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts - novelette by Cory Doctorow
• The Shipping Forecast - short fiction by Warren Ellis
• Gallery: The Artwork of John Schoenherr - interior artwork by John Schoenherr
• Persona - short fiction by Joel Garreau
• Death Cookie / Easy Ice - short fiction by William Gibson
• Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean) - novelette by Paul Graham Raven
• The Various Mansions of the Universe - short fiction by Bruce Sterling
• At Home in the Cosmos - essay by Peter Swirski

A diverse collection of science fiction authors, characters, and stories, featuring contributions by Nick Harkaway, Charles Stross, Jo Walton, and Paula Antonelli.

Launched by MIT Technology Review, the Twelve Tomorrows series explores the future implications of emerging technologies through the lens of fiction. Featuring a diverse collection of authors, characters, and stories rooted in contemporary real-world science, each volume in the series offers conceivable and inclusive stories of the future, celebrating and continuing the genre of "hard" science fiction pioneered by authors such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein.

This volume of Twelve Tomorrows, edited by Bruce Sterling (as was the 2014 volume), includes stories by Nick Harkaway, Charles Stross, and Jo Walton, as well as an extraordinary vision of design by Paula Antonelli, a curator of art and design attThe Museum of Modern Art.

Contents:

• Boxes - short story by Nick Harkaway
• Life's a Game - short story by Charles Stross
• All the Childhood You Can Afford - novelette by Daniel Suarez
• The Lexicography of an Abusive but Divine Relationship with the World - short story by Ilona Gaynor
• The New Us - short story by Pepe Rojo
• It Takes More Muscles to Frown - novelette by Ned Beauman
• Consolation - short story by John Kessel
• Unknown - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• Avalanche - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• Collision Course - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• The Metal Monster - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• The Square Cube Law - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• The Captain's Daughter - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• Flag Raising on the Moon - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• Within the Venusian Atmosphere - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• A Ticket to Zenner - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• Triad: Three Complete Science Fiction Novels - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• The Big Time - interior artwork by Virgil Finlay
• All-Natural Organic Microbes - short story by Annalee Newitz
• The Internet of Things Your Mother Never Told You - novelette by Jo Walton
• The Design Doyenne Defeats the Dullness - short story by Paola Antonelli
• The Ancient Engineer - novelette by Bruce Sterling