Future Tense Fiction

Future Tense Fiction Book Launch: Washington, DC
Join us to celebrate the launch of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, a new anthology of science fiction from Future Tense, with France Córdova, director of the National Science

Future Tense Fiction: Double Spiral
By Marcy Kelly

Future Tense Fiction Book Launch: New York
Join us at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice to celebrate the launch of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, a new anthology of science fiction from Future Tense,

Future Tense Fiction: What the Dead Man Said
By Chinelo Onwualu

Future Tense Fiction Book Launch: San Francisco
Join us to celebrate the launch of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, a new anthology of science fiction from Future Tense, with award-winning fiction authors Annalee Newitz, Meg Elison,

Future Tense Fiction Book Launch: Phoenix
Join us to celebrate the launch of Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, a new anthology of science fiction from Future Tense, with award-winning fiction authors Paolo Bacigalupi and Maureen

Announcing Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
by Torie Bosch, SLATE

Review: Future Tense Fiction
Kirkus Reviews

Future Tense Fiction: Zero in Babel
By E. Lily Yu

Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
An anthology of mind-bending science fiction short stories by some of the top authors in the field, drawn from our Future Tense Fiction project. How will living with scientific upheaval and technological transformation change the world–and us?

2019 Campbell and Sturgeon Awards Winners
Locus Magazine

Future Tense Fiction: Space Leek
By Chen Qiufan

Starred Review:Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
Publishers Weekly

Future Tense Fiction: No Moon and Flat Calm
by Elizabeth Bear

Future Tense Fiction: The Song Between Worlds
By Indrapramit Das

The Arisen
by Louisa Hall

Mpendulo: The Answer
By Nosipho Dumisa

Thoughts and Prayers
by Ken Liu

When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis
by Annalee Newitz
When We Were Patched

Future Tense Fiction: Safe Surrender

Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Fiction Roundup: April 2018
Maria Haskins
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi and Fantasy Blog

Future Tense Fiction: Domestic Violence

Future Tense Fiction: Mother of Invention
A new short story by the author of Marvel’s Black Panther: Long Live the King, Nnedi Okorafor.

Future Tense Fiction: The Minnesota Diet
A new short story from the author of the Nebula Award–winning All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders.

Future Tense Fiction: “Mr. Thursday,” by Emily St. John Mandel
“She’d seen the coat before in this moment, exiting this train, here. Every face in the crowd looked somehow familiar.” Read the full story on Slate.com

Future Tense Fiction
In April 2016 CSI launched a new experiment with the Future Tense Channel at Slate: a regular writing series featuring original science fiction stories by well-known authors. We launched Future
Paolo Bacigalupi Uses Fiction and Law to Debate Whether Robots Are Capable of Murder
Law prof ponders: If a highly advanced robot kills, is it murder or product liability?

Future Tense Fiction: “Mika Model,” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“The girl, the robot … this thing—I’d seen her before, all right. I’d seen her in technology news stories about advanced learning node networks…”