This is not the future we were promised. Sure, the science fiction writers overestimated our rate of technological development many times in the past. We never got flying cars in the 1980s, a space odyssey in 2001, or a Lunar colony in 2018 (per Babylon 5)....

All good things must come to an end. Now that our seventeenth issue has been published, I’m stepping down as editor-in-chief of Future SF, and the magazine will most likely go on hiatus unless another brave and foolhardy editor steps up to take over the considerable workload of running a magazine....

We live in a science-fictional world. We may not have the flying cars or moon bases promised to us by the writers of yesteryear, but our reality is different in ways those same writers couldn’t have possibly imagined. The cover art of this month’s issue wasn’t painstakingly drawn by a human artist....

Nearly four months since Russia’s initial invasion, the war in Ukraine rages on. It looks like it may continue for quite some time. There’s a real danger that people around the world who are not directly involved in the conflict will become gradually numb to the tragedy of this war....

It’s been difficult to focus on finalizing this issue. As I type these words, my home town of Odessa, Ukraine is bracing for an invasion by Russian forces. The familiar streets and landmarks where I spent my childhood are filled with sandbags and Czech hedgehog anti-tank obstacles....

We are celebrating our fourth year of publication with fiction from China, Greece, and the United States. Over the course of the past three years we’ve been privileged to share dozens of translations and original fiction from every continent. At a time when international relationships in so many parts of the world are as strained as the nerves of ordinary citizens after two years of the pandemic, it is more important than ever to help people across the globe understand each other better....