The Pocket Box™

Future Tense Fiction

Illustration of a box on the ground in a garage. The box is open on top, and a glow is emanating from it. From above, items like a hatchet, a soft drink can, and a shoe fall into the box.

The Pocket Box™

By Gunnar Anderson A story about dimensional paradoxes, consumerism, and crime.

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Illustration of a person in a suit held aloft by wires in front of a green screen. Behind the screen, the scene is a cross between a film backlot and a slum, with a futuristic skyscraper tower in the far background.

What Would Akanda Do?

By Samit Basu A story about celebrity, surveillance, and political repression in a future Mumbai.

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A claymation-style 3-D illustration showing three soldiers in uniform. One stands up, pointing out of the frame, while one is kneeling, tending to a wounded soldier who is laying down. The standing soldier's body is intersected by a huge red glowing arrow, similar to those used on digital maps applications.

Deficiency Agent

By Andrew Liptak A story about battlefield AI and the fog of war.

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Illustration of a soccer ball hurtling towards the viewer, who is in the perspective of a goalkeeper with hands outstretched toward the ball. In the background of the image, a player has just kicked the ball.

Bonum Certamen

By Andrés Martinez A story about English football, AI, and fair play.

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3D illustration of a building with a tangle of body parts, wires, and electrical parts pouring out of the top of it. At the base of the building we see small human figures fleeing.

Subsidence

By E. G. Condé A story about data centers, AI, and relentless heat.

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Illustration of people sitting at rows of sewing machines, with barbed wire in the foreground and piles of clothing in the background. From the top of the image, a floral-printed piece of fabric waves down over the workers.

Coser y Cantar (Sew and Sing)

By Gabriela Damián Miravete A story about fast fashion, labor organizing, automation, and solidarity.

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Illustration of a person standing in a dark space, in shin-deep water, surrounded by wreckage and trash. He looks up into a shaft of light coming through a hole in the roof above.

The Way Out

By Pippa Goldschmidt A story about bats, storms, and gambling on disaster.

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Illustration showing a dining table from above. Several pairs of human hands, and one pair of robotic appendages, reach in from the edges of the frame. The table is set with plates and a variety of food items.

The Middle

By Erin K. Wagner A story about fine dining, automation and labor politics in the shadow of climate chaos.

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A clay-style illustration. A woman's head, laying horizontally looking at the camera, peers through an opening at a purple retro-style van and a police car.

Tunnel Fever

By Margrét Helgadóttir A story about climate chaos, rampant pollution, and life underground.

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Illustration of a set of black chairs in a wooden juror's box. Several of the chair back rests are streaked with red blood.

The 28th

By Mark Stasenko A story about AI, bias, and the criminal justice system.

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