Short Fiction Choices
Earth's Future |
Octavia Butler's "Speech Sounds" (the human races loses the ability to speak) Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" (kid virtual space soldiers) Philip K. Dick's "The Minority Report" (people punished for crimes it is predicted they will commit) E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" (people live in a giant machine city. And it stops) Yann Martel's "We Ate the Children Last" (future genetic experiments) Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" (government demands all talent be eradicated to make society truly equal) |
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Cool Tech |
Ray Bradbury's "A Sound of Thunder" (time travel to hunt T-Rexes) Lena Coakley's "Mirror Image" (brain transplants become possible/teen girl body image troubles) Isaac Asimov's "Satisfaction Guaranteed" (housewife tries out handsome house android) Mike Resnick's "Old Macdonald Had A Farm" (science creates creepy food animals who want to be eaten) Robert Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps" (man uses time travel to interfere in his own time line) James Blish's "Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever" (time travel complicates Kirk's love life) Stephen King's "The Jaunt" (teleportation between planets is invented, horror ensues) Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" (children get too into their virtual jungle) |
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Fun Offworld |
Isaac Asimov's "Runaround" (malfunctioning robot) |
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