| Title | : | Arc 1.x: The first year of the future |
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| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | ebook |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2013 |
Explore the future through highlights from the first year of Arc. Download your 128 page sample issue, containing a range of intriguing and fascinating content from across Arc's first four issues, available for free in the run up to the forthcoming new issue of Arc.
Through a unique mix of fact, fiction and opinion, illustrated throughout by off-beat visionary artists, Arc explores the forces that are shaping our world. Writers from within and outside science fiction are smashing genre boundaries to find new ways of imagining tomorrow. Meanwhile, features by established science fiction writers and many others map the future's strange and uneven progress across our world and through our lives. The future is waiting...
Contents
Introduction
The first year of the future
Forward
From insight to naches
Samuel Arbesman
Prior art
Midnight at the singularity disco
Sumit Paul-Choudhury
Unreliable narrator
Alien evasion
China Miéville
Present tense
Breaking the fall
Paul Graham Raven
Short story
Good to go
Liz Jensen
Short story
Choosing faces
Lavie Tidhar
Short story
My pretty Alluvian bride
Bruce Sterling
Play
Adult pursuits
Holly Gramazio
Spaces
Three sorties on dreamland
Simon Pummell
Games
Bad vibrations
Kyle Munkittrick
Short story
In Autotelia
M. John Harrison
Afterword
So that was the future
Through a unique mix of fact, fiction and opinion, illustrated throughout by off-beat visionary artists, Arc explores the forces that are shaping our world. Writers from within and outside science fiction are smashing genre boundaries to find new ways of imagining tomorrow. Meanwhile, features by established science fiction writers and many others map the future's strange and uneven progress across our world and through our lives. The future is waiting...
Contents
Introduction
The first year of the future
Forward
From insight to naches
Samuel Arbesman
Prior art
Midnight at the singularity disco
Sumit Paul-Choudhury
Unreliable narrator
Alien evasion
China Miéville
Present tense
Breaking the fall
Paul Graham Raven
Short story
Good to go
Liz Jensen
Short story
Choosing faces
Lavie Tidhar
Short story
My pretty Alluvian bride
Bruce Sterling
Play
Adult pursuits
Holly Gramazio
Spaces
Three sorties on dreamland
Simon Pummell
Games
Bad vibrations
Kyle Munkittrick
Short story
In Autotelia
M. John Harrison
Afterword
So that was the future
Arc 1.x: The first year of the future Reviews
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I didn't find a future here that I'd like to inhabit myself ;)--but I did enjoy the writing as a whole. "Alien Evasion," China Miéville's picturesque excursion into the ancient world of octopi, was a particular delight.
