by The Editors of Future Tense (Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Author), Madeline Ashby (Author)
Future Tense Fiction is a collection of electrifying original stories from a veritable who's-who of authors working in speculative literature and science fiction today. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Emily St. John Mandel, Charlie Jane Anders, Nnedi Okorafor, Paolo Bacigalupi, Madeline Ashby, Mark Oshiro, Meg Elison, Maureen F. McHugh, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Hannu Rajaniemi, Annalee Newitz, Lee Konstantinou, and Mark Stasenko--Future Tense Fiction points the way forward to the fiction of tomorrow.
A disease surveillance robot whose social programming gets put to the test. A future in which everyone receives universal basic income--but it's still not enough. A futuristic sport, in which all the athletes have been chemically and physically enhanced. An A.I. company that manufactures a neural bridge allowing ordinary people to share their memories. Brimming with excitement and exploring new ideas, the stories collected by the editors of Slate's Future Tense are philosophically ambitious and haunting in their creativity. At times terrifying and heart-wrenching, hilarious and optimistic, this is a collection that ushers in a new age for our world and for the short story.
A partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University, Future Tense explores how emerging technologies will change the way we live, in reality and fiction. Future Tense Fiction is a collection of original fiction commissioned by the partnership.
Author Biography
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of The City in the Middle of the Night, All the Birds in the Sky and Choir Boy. She has won the Nebula, Locus and Crawford awards, the Hugo Award, and a Lambda Literary Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Wired Magazine, Slate, Tin House, Conjunctions, Boston Review, Asimov's Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies.
Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer and strategic foresight consultant living in Toronto. She is the author of the
Machine Dynasty series from Angry Robot Books, and the novel
Company Town. As a futurist, she has developed science fiction prototypes for Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, the Atlantic Council, Data & Society, InteraXon, and others. Her essays have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, Creators Project, Arcfinity, MISC Magazine, and FutureNow.
Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of
The Windup Girl,
Ship Breaker,
The Drowned Cities,
Zombie Baseball Beatdown,
The Doubt Factory,
The Water Knife, and
Tool of War. His writing has appeared in WIRED Magazine, Slate, Medium, Salon.com, and High Country News, as well as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. His short fiction has been nominated for 3 Nebula Awards, 4 Hugo Awards, and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story of the year. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards.
Meg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. She is the author of
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, which won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. She has been published in McSweeney's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Catapult, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley.
Lee Konstantinou is a writer and Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is also a Humanities editor at LARB. He's written fiction, criticism, and reviews. He wrote the novel
Pop Apocalypse and co-edited (with Sam Cohen)
The Legacy of David Foster Wallace.He is the author of
Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection,
Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Brooklyn Public Library Literature Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the NYT, Granta, Harper's Bazaar, Tin House, VQR, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere.
Maureen F. McHugh grew up in Ohio, but has lived in New York City and, for a year, in Shijiazhuang, China. She is the author of
China Mountain Zhang, Mothers & Other Monsters,"
Nekropolis, among others. She has won the Tiptree Award. McHugh teaches scriptwriting at the USC.
Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the novels
Autonomous and
The Future of Another Timeline. She has won the Lambda Literary Award, . As a science journalist, she's written for the Washington Post, Slate, Ars Technica, the New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. Her book
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in science. She has published short stories in Lightspeed, Shimmer, Apex, and Technology Review's Twelve Tomorrows. She has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley.
Nnedi Okorafor is an award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism. Born in the US to Nigerian immigrant parents, Okorafor is known for weaving African cultures into creative settings and memorable characters. Her books include
Lagoon,
Who Fears Death,
Kabu Kabu,
Zahrah the Windseeker,
The Shadow Speaker, and
The Book of Phoenix. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature, the CBS Parallax Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her children's book
Chicken in the Kitchen won an Africana Book Award. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Deji Bryce Olukotun is the author of 2 novels and his fiction has appeared in 5 different book collections. He is the author of
After the Flare and
Nigerians in Space. He has won the Philip K. Dick special citation award. He is the Head of Social Impact at the audio technology company Sonos and a Future Tense Fellow at New America.
Mark Oshiro is the Hugo-nominated writer of the online Mark Does Stuff universe, where they analyze books and TV series.
Anger is a Gift is their debut YA novel. They have won the Schneider Family Book Award for Best Tee
n Book and a Lammy Award in the LGBTQ Children's/YA category. Hannu Rajaniemi is the award-winning Finnish author of 4 novels including
The Quantum Thief,
Invisible Planets and
Summerland. His short fiction has been featured in Slate, MIT Technology Review and the NYT. Hannu lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Emily St. John Mandel is the author of several books, including
Station Eleven, and
The Glass Hotel. She has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books
Mark Stasenko is a television writer who wrote on the Peabody Award-winning show
American Vandal,
Players, and We Crashed.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: October 02, 2019
