JOE CAMPBELL AND OSCAR OLDERSHAW
The Gatekeeper
Dare you pass The Gatekeeper, to see what lies beyond?
REBECCA BLIGH
Introductory Essay: ‘Now That We’re Free, Where Are We Going?’
A sift through some territories, maps and plans.
FRANCIS PATRICK BRADY
The Mundane Edda and the Tale of Forty-six Thousand, Six-Hundred and Fifty-Six
You are a science-fiction writer, sat in front of your desk. A blank Word document is open on the screen in front of you. Have a six-sided die to hand and prepare for immersion.
HOLLY WHITE
Dogs
Who inherits the earth?
LLEW WATKINS
Hinterland Shift (Part 3 of 9)
Deeper into the dreamy weave with Emily, Kai and the Captain.
HELI CLARKE
Time Breach
Some of Earth’s scattered seedlings step outside their time-bubble, into the whims of a gestating world.
JIM COLQUHOUN
A Voyage To Arcturus (Redux)
A neo-Lovecraftian marriage of the extraterrestrial to the encephalic. The setting is Arcturus, ‘where hope flies like a bat before dashing its brains out on a nearby rock’.
HOLLY CHILDS
“I Need to Create New Worlds”
An Interview with Holly Childs, discussing her book Danklands.
IAN HATCHER
Dust Farm Work Song
New growth hybrid with commerce in this Pythian, pythonic oracle.
An audio version of this piece, read by Ian Hatcher is available on litfmag.com.
JENNY SIMMAR
Proposal For Reworking Gothia Towers Into Huge Hug Headquarters
Bold plan for repurposing a new building development in Gothenburg.
JULIA TCHARFAS
The Contest
A survey of childrens’ entries to the NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest.
JAMES W. HEDGES
Terraforming Titan
Saturn’s moon is rendered habitable; it takes centuries.
ISABELLA MARTIN
Landing First
All is deemed unknown until named and classified.
NICK CARR
Temporal Sheering
An experiment with time goes awry.
HUMPHREY ASTLEY
Profane Magnitudes
In the beginning, there was light; in the end, entropy awaits.
BRIAN MORAN
Machines Of Loving Grace Emoticons 1 & 2
Take a trip down Garfield’s tongue; see where you land.
ESTEBAN OTTASO
Living in the Future Latinamerican
Greetings, Old World! from The New World of the future.
DAISY LAFARGE
There Is Still Time For This Not To Happen
‘Because the future still has a right to a future, sweet-smelling despite its dreadlocked and unshowered appearance.’
NATALIE CHIN
Moon-Bound
Interpersonal space yawns, wide and black.
QUENTIN S. CRISP
New Autumn
A bold attempt to describe that most ineffable of places, times, or states, New Autumn.
THOGDIN RIPLEY
Cove Of Meadows
A world viewed from above, like an amoebum under the microscope.
DANIEL KELLER & ELLA PLEVIN
iDrive
No EXIT, no Voice; drivetime dialogue with future celebribrats Kai Zuckerberg and Dalston Kutcher.
PAUL PURGAS
Embedded Loop
QR encoded composition hidden within file-shared commercial mp3 sonogram, region 15.7kHz-21.7kHz. Mp3 extracted and redistributed through Soulseek.
MATTHEW HIGGINS
Urban Desert
A speculative planetscape, realized in fine maquette detail.
CAROLINE DERVEAUX
New Lands
Psychedelic, Memphian geometries.
LILLIAN WILKIE
“Clearly The Future May Follow Many Paths, Some More Desirable Than Others”
Strategies to signpost danger, way into the far-distant future.