The Big Four v. ORWELL

Future Tense Fiction

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.

The Big Four v. ORWELL

By Jeff Hewitt A story about a copyright lawsuit against a prolific A.I. author.

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Illustration of several people seated around a round table, looking up startled at a spotlight shining down on the center of the tabletop.

I Know Thy Works

By Tara Isabella Burton A story about a dinner party, an accident, AI, and the slipperiness of ethics.

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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.

Escape Worlds

By K Chess A story about video games, personalized media, and the futility of escape.

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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.

The Preschool

By Jonathan Parks-Ramage A story about brain-computer interfaces, privacy, and education.

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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.

Intangible Variation

By Meg Charlton A murder mystery about grief, epigenetics, and surfing.

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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.

Bigfeet

By Torie Bosch A story about de-extincting a creature that (probably) never existed.

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A giant footprint in the snow, seen from above. Inside the footprint, a person crouches, holding a flashlight or weapon.

A Lion Roars in Longyearbyen

By Margrét Helgadóttir A story about a holiday parade, a hunter, and a zoo full of lab-grown animals.

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A colorful, distorted image of an aisle in a store, with boxes and bottles from shelves, plus a shopping cart, being sucked toward the background.

Universal Waste

By Palmer Holton A story about a small town, a murder, and a massive recycling plant.

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An illustration of two human figures sitting on the black keys of a giant piano, facing one another.

Galatea

By Ysabelle Cheung A story about gender, companionship, and the inner lives of robots.

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Two people hugging, their faces not visible, lit from below by a yellow light from a smart phone.

Yellow

By B. Pladek A story about navigating ever-unquantifiable risk.

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