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A diverse collection of science fiction authors, characters, and stories, featuring contributions by Neal Stephenson, Paul McAuley, Peter Wat, Brian Aldiss, Nancy Fulda, and Greg Eaton.

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 2013 edition of Twelve Tomorrows begins with an interview with Neal Stephenson, which is followed by Paul McAuley's charming Western set among mutating a-life organisms and a story by Peter Wat about editorial cover-ups for escaped biofuel microbes that cause spontaneous human combustion. Other contributors include Brian Aldiss, Nancy Fulda, and Greg Egan. Color illustrations by Richard Powers accompany the texts.

Contents:

• Q+A - interview of Neal Stephenson by Stephen Cass
• Insistence of Vision - short story by David Brin
• The Mighty Mi Tok of Beijing - short fiction by Brian W. Aldiss
• In Sight - short fiction by Cheryl Rydborn
• Transitional Forms - short story by Paul J. McAuley
• Pathways - novelette by Nancy Kress
• Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Near Space] - short story by Allen Steele
• The Revolution Will Not Be Refrigerated - short fiction by Ian McDonald
• The Cyborg and the Cemetery - short story by Nancy Fulda
• Bootstrap - short fiction by Kathleen Ann Goonan
• Zero for Conduct - novelette by Greg Egan
• Gallery - interior artwork by Richard Powers
• Pwnage - short story by Justina Robson
• Firebrand - short story by Peter Watts

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

Discover frightening - and sometimes hilarious - visions of the future in this science fiction anthology featuring 12 short stories by Nebula and Hugo Award winners!

New and established voices in science fiction offer original stories of the future. Tales from Who Fears Death's Nnedi Okorafor, The Three-Body Problem's Cixin Liu, and others reveal metal-melting viruses, vegetable-based heart transplants, search-and-rescue drones, and semi-automated sailing ships. Inside you'll also find:

- Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our empathy.
- Elizabeth Bear shows us a smart home tricked into kidnapping its owner.
- Clifford V. Johnson writes of a computer scientist seeing a new side of the artificial intelligence she invented.
- J. M. Ledgard describes a 28,000-year-old AI who meditates on the nature of loneliness.

Featuring a diverse collection of authors, characters, and stories rooted in contemporary real-world science, each volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series offers an inclusive and conceivable vision of the future - and celebrates the genre of hard science fiction pioneered by authors such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Heinlein.

Contents:

• Preface (Twelve Tomorrows) - essay by Wade Roush
• Profile: Samuel R. Delany - essay by Jason Pontin and Mark Pontin
• The Woman Who Destroyed Us - novelette by S. L. Huang
• Okay, Glory - novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• Byzantine Empathy - novelette by Ken Liu
• Chine Life - short story by Paul J. McAuley
• Fields of Gold - short story by Cixin Liu
• Resolution - short story by Clifford V. Johnson
• Escape from Caring Seasons - novelette by Sarah Pinsker
• The Heart of the Matter - novelette by Nnedi Okorafor
• Different Seas - short story by Alastair Reynolds
• Disaster Tourism - short story by Malka Older
• Vespers - short story by J. M. Ledgard

In a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships--in romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series considers the effects that scientific and technological discoveries will have on the emotional bonds that hold us together.

The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecture, and a futuristic love potion. Imagine genetic alterations to code for altruism, or digital avatars that can interface with other avatars on dating sites, running sample conversations to find appropriate matches, or artificial assistance animals.

Contributions include Xia Jia's novelette set in a Buddhist monastery, translated by the Hugo Award-winning writer Ken Liu; and a story by Nancy Kress, winner of 6 Hugos and 2 Nebulas.

A full story list:

• James Patrick Kelly, Your Boyfriend Experience
• Mary Robinette Kowal, A Little Wisdom
• Nancy Kress, Invisible People
• Rich Larson, Echo the Echo
• Sam J. Miller, The Nation of the Sick
• Annalee Newitz, The Monogamy Hormone
• Suzanne Palmer, Don't Mind Me
• Cadwell Turnbull, Mediation
• Nick Wolven, Sparklybits
• Xia Jia, The Monk of Lingyin Temple, translated by Ken Liu

Also includes an interview with Nancy Kress by Lisa Yaszek, and Tatiana Plakhova's beautiful "data abstract" illustrations serve as frontispiece to each of the stories.

Science fiction stories of pandemic-inspired ingenuity, grit, and determination.

This new volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series of science fiction anthologies looks at how science and technology--existing or speculative--might help us create a more equitable and hopeful world after the coronavirus pandemic. The original stories presented here, from a diverse collection of authors, offer no miracles or simple utopias, but visions of ingenuity, grit, and incremental improvement. In the tradition of inspirational science fiction that goes back to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, these writers remind us that we can choose our future, and show us how we might build it.

Contents:

• Introduction (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future) - essay by Gideon Lichfield
• "A Veil Was Broken": Afrofuturist Ytasha L. Womack on the Work of Science Fiction in the 2020s - interview of Ytasha L. Womack by Wade Roush
• Little Kowloon - short story by Adrian Hon
• Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food - short story by Madeline Ashby
• Interviews of Importance - short story by Malka Older
• Jaunt - short story by Ken Liu
• Koronaparty - short story by Rich Larson
• Making Hay - short story by Cory Doctorow
• The Price of Attention - short story by Karl Schroeder
• Mixology for Humanity's Sake - short story by D. A. Xiaolin Spires
• A Necessary Being - short story by Indrapramit Das
• Vaccine Season - short story by Hannu Rajaniemi

Twelve visions of living in a climate-changed world.

We are living in the Anthropocene - an era of dramatic and violent climate change featuring warming oceans, melting icecaps, extreme weather events, habitat loss, species extinction, and more. What will life be like in a climate-changed world? In Tomorrow's Parties, science fiction authors speculate how we might be able to live and even thrive through the advancing Anthropocene. In ten original stories by writers from around the world, an interview with celebrated writer Kim Stanley Robinson, and a series of intricate and elegant artworks by Sean Bodley, Tomorrow's Parties takes rational optimism as a moral imperative, or at least a pragmatic alternative to despair.

In these stories - by writers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, and Australia - a young man steals from delivery drones; a political community lives on an island made of ocean-borne plastic waste; and a climate change denier tries to unmask "crisis actors." Climate-changed life also has its pleasures and epiphanies, as when a father in Africa works to make his son's dreams of "Viking adventure" a reality, and an IT professional dispatched to a distant village encounters a marvelous predigital fungal network. Contributors include Pascall Prize for Criticism winner James Bradley, Hugo Award winners Greg Egan and Sarah Gailey, Philip K Dick Award winner Meg Elison, and New York Times bestselling author Daryl Gregory.

Contents:

• Introduction: Science Fiction in the Anthropocene - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• It's Science over Capitalism: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Imperative of Hope - interview of Kim Stanley Robinson by James Bradley
• Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley - short story by Meg Elison
• Down and Out in Exile Park - short story by Tade Thompson
• Once Upon a Future in the West - novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Crisis Actors - short story by Greg Egan
• When the Tide Rises - novelette by Sarah Gailey
• I Give You the Moon - novelette by Justina Robson
• Do You Hear the Fungi Sing? - novelette by Chen Qiufan
• Legion - short story by Malka Older
• The Ferryman - short story by Saad Z. Hossain
• After the Storm - novelette by James Bradley

An exciting science fiction collection that looks at what future communication might look like and how our shifting relationships with technology could change this most human of capabilities.

In Communications Breakdown, award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan asks some of the world's best science fiction writers to consider how the very idea of communication might change in the future. Rich terrain for speculation, this anthology brims with human stories about the future face of our age-old need to connect. As cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson said, "The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed." So what happens when inequalities keep the future from everyone's front door? Who is in control? These stories show humanity's ability to construct the best possible worlds while also battling our potential to inflict unlimited harm.

Communications Breakdown features contributions from Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Famer Cory Doctorow, the winner of the Times of India AutHer Award Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Hugo Award winner Ian McDonald, as well as an interview with digital privacy activist Chris Gilliard by author and journalist Tim Maughan. Breaking down how we think about communication, Communications Breakdown calls readers to look at how vulnerable our modes of communication - and indeed, we ourselves - are.

Contents:

• Introduction (Communications Breakdown) - essay by Jonathan Strahan
• Here Instead of There - novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• Moral Hazard - short story by Cory Doctorow
• Sigh No More - short story by Ian McDonald
• Less Than - novelette by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
• What About Privacy? - interview of Chris Gilliard by Tim Maughan
• The Excommunicates - short story by Ken MacLeod
• Noise Cancellation - short story by S. B. Divya
• My City Is Not a Problem - short story by Tim Maughan
• Cuttlefish - novelette by Anil Menon
• Company Man - novelette by Shiv Ramdas
• At Every Door A Ghost - novelette by Premee Mohamed
• Artwork: Ashley Mackenzie - essay by Ashley Mackenzie

Ten acclaimed writers imagine the future of art across space and time.

In this volume from the Twelve Tomorrows series, Deep Dream, ;ten writers imagine the different ways in which art forms might evolve, devolve, shift, and transform in the decades and centuries to come. They consider how the rapid progress of technology will interact with different mediums of art or give rise to new ones, and what the lives and inner worlds of different kinds of artists might look like in the future as they adapt to rapidly shifting eras amidst anthropogenic global threats like climate change and fascism.

Contributors include award-winning authors and artists from around the world, with a strong focus on South Asia; three of the contributors are from India or Sri Lanka. Readers will also find in this collection American science-fiction legend Bruce Sterling and Egyptian counter-cultural cartoonist, visual artist, and writer Ganzeer, as well as artist Diana Scherer, one of the pioneers in bio tech art. The volume also includes an interview with noted science fiction publisher and editor Neil Clarke, who discusses the future of art and the ways in which the science fiction short fiction market has responded to the introduction of AI-generated fiction and art.

Contents:

• Introduction - by Indrapramit Das
• The Limner Wrings His Hands - by Vajra Chandrasekera
• The Art Crowd - by Samit Basu
• Immortal is the Heart - by Cassandra Khaw
• Unauthorized (Or, The Liberated Collectors Commune) - by Ganzeer
• Halfway to Hope - by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
• AI Concerns Are Not "Too Sci-Fi" - interview with Neil Clarke by Archita Mittra
• No Future But Infinity Itself - by Sloane Leong
• Immortal Beauty - by Bruce Sterling
• Autumn's Red Bird - by Aliette de Bodard
• Encore - by Wole Talabi
• The Quietude - by Lavie Tidhar
• Artwork by Diana Scherer