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Exploring the future of science today, while looking back on the achievements from yesterday. Science fiction is science future.
A Very Good Day
Your heart punches you in the back of the sternum and you jerk awake suddenly, gagging on a scream. The first thing you notice is the air. It’s thick and damp, and choked with a smell so dense you can actually taste it - like eating a spoonful of rancid peanut butter and not having anything wet to wash it down with. You smack your tongue desperately against your palate, searching for a pocket of saliva to soften the grimy film coating your mouth. It almost works, but not really.
By JM Solomon5 years ago in Futurism
In the State Once Known as Texas
In the State Once Known as Texas From far away, Erin heard the familiar hoot of a night owl. The sound reminded her of growing up in the flatlands of the state once known as Texas, but that was impossible. Owls, like so many animals around the world, were extinct. Confused, Erin blinked, unsure of where she was, and only knew her head ached. Rolling onto her side, she realized her hands were bound behind her back, and if she had to guess, it was with her own handcuffs. Hay and sawdust covered the wooden floor, and she put it all together as the memories of what happened flooded her mind.
By KM Fortune5 years ago in Futurism
The Great Fall of the American Empire
After the great fall of the American empire, many people living within what used to be populous cities dispersed into more rural, mountainous and coastal regions. By 2043, New York and Las Vegas became barren as humans realized concrete and steel did not meet their primal needs.
By Kaycee Prevedel5 years ago in Futurism
Kinder Cosmic
Sometime in the near future; SETI has captured a strange, indecipherable signal originating from within deep space... Somewhere just beyond the reaches of the kuiper belt. For months scientists and astronomers have mulled over the signal superimposing it on spectrographs, using advanced computer systems and data processing equipment to discern what it might mean exactly.
By Farren Blackwell5 years ago in Futurism
Space Travel
The dining area was packed as usual. People were sitting next to each other, packed in like sardines. To them it was normal, but to me it was suffocating and I could hardly stand it. I looked as the food servers put what they called pizza on my plate along with a large portion of salad. Apparently, pizza and salad together were a popular meal choice back on Earth and they’ve decided to keep that tradition alive. However, I don’t think that the Earthlings of the past would approve of this pizza. I’ve seen pictures in the archives and this looks nothing like those.
By Linda Jenkins5 years ago in Futurism
Joining the Supra Survival Elite:
The World Health Organization has recently announced that as bad as the COVID-19 crisis has been, the next pandemic, which they expect in the next 5 years, will be much worse and kill many more people. In response, decisions have been made, amongst those in a position to do so, to call it quits here and go all in for the ultimate escape plan - taking advantage of the near completion of time travel research to the past.
By Marshall Barnes5 years ago in Futurism
Letting Go
What you are about to read is one chapter of many in my upcoming book "Utopia." It is a futuristic book about a girl in the future playing a game/simulation based on the life of a 36 year man trying to find his way in life and love during the pandemic in 2020.
By Joseph Walker5 years ago in Futurism
Sanctuary City
Shane leaned back in his chair and crumpled up the latest failed attempt at a compelling article on the Tenth Anniversary of the Global Acceptance of Messianism as the only legally practiced religion on planet earth. Coincidentally, this was also the anniversary of the disbandment of the United States of America. Shane’s editor had tasked him with writing the front-page story of the Messianic Press’s Anniversary issue and he had no idea what to write.
By The Green Shoes5 years ago in Futurism
