Futuristic
Recent Highlights
All Stories for Futuristic
Watashi
Yavar Ahmad •'Feeling blue after dying? Don’t worry. Seek help for your post-mortem depression.' Life after death can have depressing consequences (quite literally) | Presenting #FutureFiction on #FirstCulture
Analog/Virtual
Lavanya Lakshminarayan •In a new world where productivity is prized, under-performers are subjected to a strange form of punishment | Presenting #FutureFiction on #FirstCulture
A Broken Mould
Abha Iyengar •A pleasure doll discovers she has feelings and a mind of her own | Presenting #FutureFiction on #FirstCulture
MAYiHELP
Tanvi Khemani •A spy seeking to report a tip comes up against a confounding hurdle — a chatbot assistant | Presenting #FutureFiction on #FirstCulture
Epitaph
Arko Sen •Coming back to plain old reality when humanity's been living in enhanced VR can be quite a shock! Presenting #FutureFiction on #FirstCulture
The Scavenger
Anshul Singh •A young man working as a scavenger amid the toxic remains of the earth gets a chance he'd only ever dreamed of | Presenting #FutureFiction on #FirstCulture
Dhara's Devotees
Suhit Kelkar •On an alien planet, a race of refugees attempt to start cultivating crops — to what effect? Presenting #FutureFiction on #FirstCulture
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