Welcome to the latest installment of Future Science Fiction Digest, featuring fiction from Mexico, China, the United States, and Croatia.

Although I did not originally set out to pursue this theme, the issue sort-of naturally evolved around the idea of artificial intelligence—be it created by humans from scratch or uploaded into the cloud from a living being—and its impact and influence on the larger world which, according to our esteemed authors, isn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows. Despite their somewhat bleak outlooks, I hope you will find the visions of these five authors as fascinating as I did.

Happy reading!