Future Tense Fiction
![An illustration of a person kneeling, looking up at a set of four towering computational servers in glass-fronted cabinets. The scene is in shades of blue, pink, and purple.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sad-Robot-illustration-768x510.png)
Sad Robot
By E.R. Ramzipoor A story about what happens when an AI goes to therapy.
![An illustration of an oil rig in the ocean, with a helicopter flying above it, rendered in shades of blue, white, and grey.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Rigland-illustration.png)
Rigland
By Suyi Davies Okungbowa A story about oil rigs, community, and redemption.
![A human figure running in the distance, away from the viewer, on the surface of a giant bright pink brain.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-02-at-9.03.22-AM.png)
Void
By Julián Herbert A story about artificial intelligence and addiction.
![Illustration of a person in a long-sleeved shirt with neck-length hair standing in front of a small desk and looking out of a floor-to-ceiling window over the ocean.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/No-Regrets-illustration.png)
No Regrets
By Carter Scholz A story about geoengineering, billionaire hubris, and “altruistic” narcissism.
![A courtroom drawing–style illustration showing a person in a blue suit interrogating a mounted glowing screen on the witness stand, with the judge looking on.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Big-Four-v-Orwell-Illustration.png)
The Big Four v. ORWELL
By Jeff Hewitt A story about a copyright lawsuit against a prolific A.I. author.
![Illustration of several people seated around a round table, looking up startled at a spotlight shining down on the center of the tabletop.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/I-Know-Thy-Works-illustration.png)
I Know Thy Works
By Tara Isabella Burton A story about a dinner party, an accident, AI, and the slipperiness of ethics.
![Illustration of a person with long dark hair, wearing reflective virtual-reality goggles, popping a blue gummy candy into their mouth. The background is comprised of blue-green pastel rectangles irising into the distance.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/K-Chess-Illustration.png)
Escape Worlds
By K Chess A story about video games, personalized media, and the futility of escape.
![An idyllic English-style country manor in the distance. In the foreground, hedges form two concentric circles, with a foreboding black monolith at the center.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/The-Preschool-Illustration-768x509.png)
The Preschool
By Jonathan Parks-Ramage A story about brain-computer interfaces, privacy, and education.
![An illustration of two people looking at one another in profile, one balding in a green shirt, one bald in a blue shirt. Between them is a vertical DNA strand.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-Shot-2023-03-08-at-9.18.04-AM-768x511.png)
Intangible Variation
By Meg Charlton A murder mystery about grief, epigenetics, and surfing.
![A grid of colorful images of Bigfoot and evidence of the creature, including a muddy footprint, fur caught on a branch, a person looking through binoculars, and more.](https://futuretense.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Bigfeet-illustration.png)
Bigfeet
By Torie Bosch A story about de-extincting a creature that (probably) never existed.