Futures from Nature
edited by Henry Gee
A collection of 100 SF vignettes originally published
in
Nature's award-winning Futures series.
"Each vignette centers on a wondrous or devastating or
simply mind-boggling
'what if', carried to an unsettlingly original logical
conclusion—
or left spinning in an extraterrestrial mental orbit...
a perfect volume to awaken startling new thoughts on old
SF themes,
giant leaps into the future in delectably palatable tiny
packages."
-- Publisher's Weekly, starred review
"This is, taken as a whole, a satisfying selection of
cute ideas, occasionally
quite profound, as often quite shallow, and of course
more often than not
essentially jokes (albeit good ones). That's what we should
expect
for short-shorts -- given the limitations of that form,
this book does just what we hope for."
-- Locus
"In 1999, the weekly science journal Nature started
running 'Futures,' short
science fiction stories as attempts to glimpse possible
futures...
The anthology Futures from Nature includes a full
hundred,
most of which are readable and even delectable...
And the stories are just the right length for those brief
interludes with which life abounds....
It won’t a hurt a bit that the stories are good as well.
I enjoyed them"
"This book should be read by anyone interested in the
form, by anyone interested
in the output of the writers included and - hell, why
not -
by anyone who’s not already read these minifictions in
the pages of Nature itself.
"This is not the literary equivalent of steak and chardonnay.
This is salted, mixed nuts. This is fun.
This is newer than new."
