Welcome to the pre-launch of a new SF magazine. Future Science Fiction Digest is a collaboration between the Future Affairs Administration and UFO Publishing. We seek to feature great SF stories from around the world. This issue contains reprint stories that will give you the taste of the sort of original fiction we're hoping to publish. In celebration of the Asia-Pacific Science Fiction Convention, we present six glimpses into the future.
This is the inaugural issue of a brand-new international project. Future Science Fiction Digest is a collaboration between the Future Affairs Administration and UFO Publishing. We believe science fiction is a global phenomenon and wish to showcase wonderful speculative stories from around the globe alongside works by established and well-recognized authors....
On a wrist-mounted computer, Betsy Haadama watched a six thousand-year-old silent film. It was grayscale, overexposed, two-dimensional, and chronologically jumbled. On the film: a mustachioed man doting over his young son at a crowded zoo. A woman vigorously combing the boy’s white hair beside a large piano....
I, Gideon Gorsky, stand with my back against the brick wall. My hands are up in the air, my body is covered from head to toe in the green byproduct of the unplanned transmutation of some passerby. The world is ending, and there is no escape....
What do we know about Sandoval?
Everything is communication.
In an information-rich society Sandoval was that outlier, a rebel without a node.
Earthrise:
Imagine the grey chalk surface of the moon spreading before you. You may be watching it from inside one of the cities – perhaps even Lunar Port itself, that oldest and least imaginative of settlements....
Kaku, Alpha Transit, 7.8 yrs
“Are you ready?” Dad says. “I wouldn’t want to miss this for the world.”
He lingers on the threshold of my lab. I could welcome him in; I could tell him that I’m also excited; I could share the moment with him....
Hou Ji Space Station is descending gradually through the thick atmosphere. Seen from the ocean, the space station resembles a shining silver pillar crossing the sky and the waterline.
The vessel Qin Fei is riding in sits underneath the Hou Ji Space Station....
He’s shivering as he emerges from the pod. No surprise, he was frozen for like a billion years.
I do all the stuff on the script, all the “Fear Not! You are a welcomed citizen of our Utopia!” stuff while I’m toweling him off....
Welcome to the pre-launch of a new SF magazine. Future Science Fiction Digest is a collaboration between the Future Affairs Administration and UFO Publishing. We seek to feature great SF stories from around the world. This issue contains reprint stories that will give you the taste of the sort of original fiction we’re hoping to publish. In celebration of the Asia-Pacific Science Fiction Convention, we present six glimpses into the future.
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This is the inaugural issue of a brand-new international project. Future Science Fiction Digest is a collaboration between the Future Affairs Administration and UFO Publishing. We believe science fiction is a global phenomenon and wish to showcase wonderful speculative stories from around the globe alongside works by established and well-recognized authors....
On a wrist-mounted computer, Betsy Haadama watched a six thousand-year-old silent film. It was grayscale, overexposed, two-dimensional, and chronologically jumbled. On the film: a mustachioed man doting over his young son at a crowded zoo. A woman vigorously combing the boy’s white hair beside a large piano....
I, Gideon Gorsky, stand with my back against the brick wall. My hands are up in the air, my body is covered from head to toe in the green byproduct of the unplanned transmutation of some passerby. The world is ending, and there is no escape....
What do we know about Sandoval?
Everything is communication.
In an information-rich society Sandoval was that outlier, a rebel without a node.
Earthrise:
Imagine the grey chalk surface of the moon spreading before you. You may be watching it from inside one of the cities – perhaps even Lunar Port itself, that oldest and least imaginative of settlements....
Kaku, Alpha Transit, 7.8 yrs
“Are you ready?” Dad says. “I wouldn’t want to miss this for the world.”
He lingers on the threshold of my lab. I could welcome him in; I could tell him that I’m also excited; I could share the moment with him....
Hou Ji Space Station is descending gradually through the thick atmosphere. Seen from the ocean, the space station resembles a shining silver pillar crossing the sky and the waterline.
The vessel Qin Fei is riding in sits underneath the Hou Ji Space Station....
He’s shivering as he emerges from the pod. No surprise, he was frozen for like a billion years.
I do all the stuff on the script, all the “Fear Not! You are a welcomed citizen of our Utopia!” stuff while I’m toweling him off....
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