ISBN:  Unavailable

Category: Fiction / Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering

Page count: 128

<p>Inaugural issue of a new science fiction magazine with an added focus on international fiction and translation.<br><br>Ranging from lyrical to humorous, from optimistic to jaded, from earthbound to interstellar, these stories offer six very different glimpses into the future. <br><br>Matthew Kressel's &quot;The History Within Us&quot; takes place during the final stages of the heat death of the universe, where a ship filled with refugees of different species is huddled near one of the last burning stars, and that star is about to go nova.<br><br>Tatiana Ivanova's satirical &quot;Impress Me, Then We'll Talk About the Money&quot; imagines the consequences of unscrupulous pharmacologists creating drugs that allow people to fulfill their deepest desire, which is to change.<br><br>In &quot;Earthrise,&quot; Lavie Tidhar examines what it means to be an artist in a futuristic society where humanity has colonized the solar system.<br><br>In Alvaro Zinos-Amaro's &quot;e^h&quot; human colonists encounter a region of space in which their junk DNA mutates, revealing information encoded there by aliens.<br><br>Teng Ye's &quot;Universal Cigarettes&quot; is a tongue-in-cheek tale of a grandiose marketing stunt with a dark twist reminiscent of Philip K. Dick's work.<br><br>In the Nebula Award-nominated &quot;Utopia, LOL?&quot; by Jamie Wahls, a modern-day human wakes from cryogenic suspension in a utopian future overseen by a benevolent computer.<br></p>