Visions of the Future

Visions of the Future is a collection of stories and essays including Nebula and Hugo award-winning works. In this anthology, you'll find stories and essays about artificial intelligence, androids, faster-than-light travel, and the extension of human life. You'll read about the future of human institutions and culture. But these literary works are more than just a reprisal of the classical elements of science fiction and futurism. At their core, each of these pieces has one consistent, repeated theme: us.

Contents:

Introduction (Visions of the Future (2015)) • essay by J. Daniel Batt

The Shoulders of Giants (2000) / shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer

Gift of a Useless Man (1979) / shortstory by Alan Dean Foster

Light and Shadow [Skolian Short Fiction • 6] (1994) / novelette by Catherine Asaro

Lungfish [Existence] (1986) / novelette by David Brin

The Birth of the Dawn (2015) / shortfiction by Nicole Sallak Anderson

The Weathermakers (1966) / novelette by Ben Bova

Last Day of Work (2015) / shortfiction by Douglas Rushkoff

I'm a What? (2015) / shortfiction by Frank White

The Listeners [The Listeners] (1968) / novelette by James E. Gunn

The Emperor of Mars [Near Space] (2010) / novelette by Allen Steele

Lunar One (2015) / shortfiction by Jasper T. Scott

My Father's Singularity (2010) / shortstory by Brenda Cooper

A Delicate Balance (2012) / shortstory by Kevin J. Anderson

More Than the Sum of His Parts (1985) / shortstory by Joe Haldeman

Lazarus Rising (1982) / shortstory by Gregory Benford

Unit 574 (2015) / shortfiction by Clayton R. Rawlings

Persistence (2015) / shortfiction by Keith Wiley

The Boy Who Gave Us the Star (2015)s / shortfiction by J. Daniel Batt

The Etiology of Infomania (2015) / shortfiction by Chris Hables Gray

Water (2013) / shortstory by Ramez Naam

Looking Forward: Dialogs with the Artilects (2015) / shortfiction by Frank W. Sudia

Teleporter (2015) /shortfiction by Jim Tankersley

The Spa (2015) / shortfiction by Donald Maclean

The Automated Ones (2015) / shortfiction by Hugh Howey

Afterword (Visions of the Future (2015) • essay by David Brin

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