The State Machine

Future Tense Fiction

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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An illustration of a human hand and robot hand, both holding green beer bottles, clinking them together against a solid pink background.

Scar Tissue

By Tobias S. Buckell

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A woman with long hair looks over at another long-haired woman holding a small child. DNA helixes and flowers surround them.

Daffodil’s Baby

By Alyssa Virker

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Illustration of two versions of the same older man in a suit, in profile, facing one another, with a variety of objects and scenes behind them: a factory, a coffee cup, a chess set, and more.

Paciente Cero

By Juan Villoro

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A small orb with bristles, like a seed, with a cartoon mouth with teeth.

It Came From Cruden Farm

By Max Barry

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Illustration of a woman with red and purple hair, clothed in red, against an abstract background with chains, jets of flame, and stylized check-mark and question-mark icons

The Truth Is All There Is

By Emily Parker

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Illustration of a robot embracing a child, and another robot embracing an adult, against the backdrop of an outdoor playground

Actually Naneen

By Malka Older

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