The Future Is Short

Flash science fiction at its finest--swift to read but long remembered. 57 amazing speculative fiction capsules that transport you into thrilling worlds of imagination and ideas, suggesting that everything is possible--aliens, time travel, other worlds, and the mysteries of Earth--in breathtakingly fresh combinations. Step across the border of reality and escape into this fascinating collection of stories, wandering into realms where imagination rules and time is conquered in the...
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Flash science fiction at its finest--swift to read but long remembered. 57 amazing speculative fiction capsules that transport you into thrilling worlds of imagination and ideas, suggesting that everything is possible--aliens, time travel, other worlds, and the mysteries of Earth--in breathtakingly fresh combinations. Step across the border of reality and escape into this fascinating collection of stories, wandering into realms where imagination rules and time is conquered in the dazzling visions of an international group of talented science fiction authors--ranging from writers with published books to others new to the writing world. Discover tales of alien love and hate, inspiration, and revenge. Visit time's ghosts on Mars and wonder, with aliens, at human lifestyles, reproduction, and actions. Explore a universe of heaven and hell redefined--where the wonders and horrors of science thrill and amuse. Jot Russell, creator/director of the Science Fiction Microstories Contest and executive director of this contest's anthology, says, "From themes of green or blue, future or past, animal or mineral or alien, a catalyst is formed that sets creativity in motion. By the random nature of synapse, a story forms from thin air, like magic. Bounds that Einstein placed upon light itself cannot hold back a thought. For, imagination is beyond the bars of time and space. Within the mind, and with fewer words than those needed to paint a picture, a full science fiction work is derived in micro-scale." Editors: Paula Friedman, Jot Russell, and Carrol Fix Authors: J.J. Alleson, Sam Bellotto Jr., Mike Boggia, Richard Bunning, Lars Carlson, Kalifer Deil, Carrol Fix, W.A. Fix, Paula Friedman, Andrew Gurcak, Ami L. Hart, Gene Hilgreen, Thaddeus Howze, S.M. Kraftchak, Helmuth Kump, Andy Lake, Joanna Lamprey, Jeremy Lichtman, Andy McKell, D C Mills, JD Mitchell, Karl J. Morgan, J.R. O'Neill, Amos Parker, Marianne G. Petrino, Jon Ricson, Jot Russell, Tom Tinney, Nōnen Títi, Allen Quintana, J.F. Williams.