The Trolley Solution

Future Tense Fiction

An illustration of a trolley, hurtling toward the viewer, lights on, with a digital overlay showing ghostly images of people and computer-interface style text, including the phrase "syntax error."

The Trolley Solution

By Shiv Ramdas

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The Void

By Leigh Alexander

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Illustration of a young man hunched down, face-to-face with a hyena.

Speaker

By Simon Brown

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Illustration of a person looking out of the half-down window of a car, from the side.

The Vastation

By Paul Theroux

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A woman sleeping on a throne-like chair, against a white background littered with colorful letter and number symbols.

Dream Soft, Dream Big

By Hal Y. Zhang

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The Suicide of Our Troubles Illustration

The Suicide of Our Troubles

By Karl Schroeder

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Illustration of a smartphone with a cracked screen against a maroon background and a profusion of white flowers.

The State Machine

By Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

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A young woman kneeling down in front of the door of a storage unit, next to a standing humanoid robot.

Legal Salvage

By Holli Mintzer

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A stylized black-and-red American flag, with a chain superimposed over it, breaking, with a coin emerging from the broken point in the chain.

How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary

By Tochi Onyebuchi

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An adult and two children sitting at a table eating, each wearing rainbow-lensed goggles

The Last of the Goggled Barskys

By Joey Siara

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