Actually Naneen

Future Tense Fiction

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

Actually Naneen

An illustration showing a celestial gate with a drone floating overhead, and a screen to one side with a "stop" hand on it, along with many small lights and buttons. A small human figure stands in front of the closed gate, bathed in light emanating from a nearby security camera.

A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Robot Walk Into a Bar

By Andrew Dana Hudson

Illustration for the story "Affordances" by Cory Doctorow, showing two people conferring while using handheld devices, against a background of floating facial-recognition displays.

Affordances

By Cory Doctorow

An illustration of a giant human head, laying on its side, bright blue, in a lab space, with a bunch of human figures on hovering machines tending to it, testing it, and building it.

Double Spiral

What the Dead Man Said

By Chinelo Onwualu

Cartoon-style illustration showing a young woman's head, eyes closed, looking downward, shadowed by two ghostly images of women with no eyes, against a warped, checkered background.

Zero in Babel

An illustration of an astronaut in low gravity, floating in a space station, surrounded by tentacle-like green plants

Space Leek

Illustration of a woman floating in low gravity in a space station.

No Moon and Flat Calm

By Elizabeth Bear

A human explorer in a spacesuit, against a psychedelic painted background.

The Song Between Worlds

By Indrapramit Das

An illustration of a hand clasping a bouquet of flowers, with an open book in the background.

The Arisen