Assorted free futurism fiction

Each month, Future Tense Fiction—a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives—publishes a story on a theme.

“Affordances”  by Cory Doctorow, a new science fiction story about how technical restrictions start with powerless people before coming for us all.

 “The Arisen,” by Louisa Hall 

 “The Song Between Worlds,” by Indrapramit Das
“No Moon and Flat Calm,” by Elizabeth Bear|
“Space Leek,” by Chen Qiufan
“Zero in Babel,” by E. Lily Yu
“What the Dead Man Said,” by Chinelo Onwualu
“Double Spiral,” by Marcy Kelly

“Mika Model,” by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Mr. Thursday,” by Emily St. John Mandel
“The Minnesota Diet,” by Charlie Jane Anders
“Mother of Invention,” by Nnedi Okorafor
“Domestic Violence,” by Madeline Ashby
“No Me Dejas,” by Mark Oshiro
“Safe Surrender,” by Meg Elison
“A Brief and Fearful Star,” by Carmen Maria Machado
“The Starfish Girl,” by Maureen McHugh
“When We Were Patched,” by Deji Bryce Olukotun
“Lions and Gazelles,” by Hannu Rajaniemi
“Burned-Over Territory,” by Lee Konstantinou
“Overvalued,” by Mark Stasenko
“When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis,” by Annalee Newitz
“Thoughts and Prayers,” by Ken Liu
“Mpendulo: The Answer,” by Nosipho Dumisa
“The Arisen,” by Louisa Hall
“The Song Between Worlds,” by Indrapramit Das