Arc 1.x: The first year of the future

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Explore the future through highlights from the first year of Arc. Download your 128 page sample issue, containing a range of intriguing and fascinating content from across Arc's first four issues, available for free in the run up to the forthcoming new issue of Arc.

Through a unique mix of fact, fiction and opinion, illustrated throughout by off-beat visionary artists, Arc explores the forces that are shaping our world. Writers from within and outside science fiction are smashing genre boundaries to find new ways of imagining tomorrow. Meanwhile, features by established science fiction writers and many others map the future's strange and uneven progress across our world and through our lives. The future is waiting...

Contents

Introduction
The first year of the future

Forward
From insight to naches
Samuel Arbesman

Prior art
Midnight at the singularity disco
Sumit Paul-Choudhury

Unreliable narrator
Alien evasion
China Miéville

Present tense
Breaking the fall
Paul Graham Raven

Short story
Good to go
Liz Jensen

Short story
Choosing faces
Lavie Tidhar

Short story
My pretty Alluvian bride
Bruce Sterling

Play
Adult pursuits
Holly Gramazio

Spaces
Three sorties on dreamland
Simon Pummell

Games
Bad vibrations
Kyle Munkittrick

Short story
In Autotelia
M. John Harrison

Afterword
So that was the future