Futuristica: Volume 1
By Stephanie Burgis, Anne E. Johnson, Robert Lowell Russell, Patrice Sarath, Holly Schofield, Wole Talabi, Bo Balder, James Beamon, Marina Berlin, Megan Chaudhuri, L Chan, L. H. Davis, Ciro Faienza, E. E. King, Gary Kloster, Mary Mascari, Mike Morgan, Nancy S.M. Waldman & Daryna Yakusha
- Release Date: 2016-06-01
- Genre: Sci-Fi Short Stories
Description
What does the future hold for us? This anthology of nineteen diverse stories from authors around the world shows us a future full of adventure, intrigue, fun, heart-ache, and wonder.
A imprisoned space pirate from Phobos is given a last chance for freedom, but only if he’s willing to kill his younger brother. Again.
In post-climate change Italy, a deaf African-American woman and her native partner struggle to build a communal farm that can survive the new environment, a lasting hope for a future.
A Latina party girl is addicted to cybernetic body modification when the latest experimental ‘fix’ comes out, promising to let her deepest desires rise.
An Asian woman is called to Nigeria to find out why her company’s cyborg policeman just killed an unarmed teenage boy.
A mech-suited mercenary on a war torn alien planet is just trying to earn enough to get out, but her daughter is on the battlefield the day all hell breaks loose.
And many more. The future is as infinite as the stars. Let’s go explore it!
