{"product_id":"future-tense-fiction-stories-of-tomorrow-hardcover","title":"Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThe Editors of Future Tense\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCharlie Jane Anders\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMadeline Ashby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFuture Tense Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eFuture Tense Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e points the way forward to the fiction of tomorrow. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Charlie Jane Anders is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe City in the Middle of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll the Birds in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChoir Boy\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u0026amp; Science Fiction, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, ZYZZYVA, and several anthologies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer and strategic foresight consultant living in Toronto. She is the author of the \u003ci\u003eMachine Dynasty\u003c\/i\u003e series from Angry Robot Books, and the novel \u003ci\u003eCompany Town\u003c\/i\u003e. As a futurist, she has developed science fiction prototypes for Intel Labs, the Institute for the Future, SciFutures, Nesta, the Atlantic Council, Data \u0026amp; Society, InteraXon, and others. Her essays have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, Creators Project, Arcfinity, MISC Magazine, and FutureNow.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Windup Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShip Breaker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Drowned Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZombie Baseball Beatdown\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Doubt Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTool of War\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Meg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Unnamed Midwife\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. She has been published in McSweeney's, Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction, Catapult, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePop Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e and co-edited (with Sam Cohen) \u003ci\u003eThe Legacy of David Foster Wallace\u003c\/i\u003e.He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCool Characters: Irony and American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u0026amp; Fantasy, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. \r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eChina Mountain Zhang\u003c\/i\u003e, Mothers \u0026amp; Other Monsters,\"\u003ci\u003eNekropolis\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She has won the Tiptree Award. McHugh teaches scriptwriting at the USC. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eAutonomous\u003c\/i\u003e and  \u003ci\u003eThe Future of Another Timeline\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eScatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eLagoon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWho Fears Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKabu Kabu\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZahrah the Windseeker\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow Speaker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eChicken in the Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e won an Africana Book Award. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. \r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deji Bryce Olukotun is the author of 2 novels and his fiction has appeared in 5 different book collections. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Flare\u003c\/i\u003e and  \u003ci\u003eNigerians in Space\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mark Oshiro is the Hugo-nominated writer of the online Mark Does Stuff universe, where they analyze books and TV series. \u003ci\u003eAnger is a Gift\u003c\/i\u003e is their debut YA novel. 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