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Exploring the future of science today, while looking back on the achievements from yesterday. Science fiction is science future.

LOCKET
Locket by Patrick Wade I sat on the bridge dangling my feet over the railing. The clock above the bridge read 2:01 but the sun was beginning to set. This time of night, everyone with good intentions was headed in. I faced the city: while a complete deathtrap, it looked very pretty from this distance, the tallest buildings had neon lights, you could see smoke from something caught on fire, all sorts of things were burned in the city.
By Patrick Wade5 years ago in Futurism
Synchronized Shadows
Everything is better now. That's what they say. I usually think so. Somedays, I'm looking around like I don't know if I'm missing something. Can things be all right and all wrong at the same time? My teacher said something about the best and worst of times. Are we there right now? 2070 is supposed to be about fixing things from half a century ago. Or is it just the Upward Council blowing smoke?
By Paul Hanover5 years ago in Futurism
Death Wish
I should be dead. Why can’t I die? I glance down at my wounded side and wish for death. Death is the absence of pain. Death is relief. I clutch my waist and relive the events that brought me here.
By Cary5 years ago in Futurism
My Last Night
The human race had brought our planet to its knees. The air was toxic and the nothing would grow in the soil. We slowly moved indoors as our environment began to deteriorate. We became completely dependent on the hydroponic and animal factories which in turn meant that the corporation that owned them were able to completely control us. There was no more free will or choice, you did as you were told or you starved. Me, I was only 16 years old when the corporation decided to take me. I had what they declared to be desirable characteristics, long think hair, blue eyes, an above average height, and a delicate complexion. I would be part of the breeding program. A program designed by the corporation to keep the gene pool fresh for the elite. I would be taken to Renoir and sold off to the highest bidder.
By Ashley Diplock5 years ago in Futurism
The Things I do Have
“SMACK” My cheek hit the concrete, and I could feel the small rocks in my palms as I tried to lift myself from the pavement.
By Mitchell G Kressin5 years ago in Futurism
Memories That Aren't Mine.
Well, humans finally did it. We went and started the final war, or so they say. In the blink of an eye, things changed. They say it wasn’t a state actor that caused the collapse but many smaller acts by terrorist cells. First they targeted oil pipelines. They hit the computer networks that ran them and shut them down. This caused prices to skyrocket across the US and eventually Canada, Mexico and farther out.
By Jeff Miller5 years ago in Futurism
Love Behind the Veil
Sitting in a café, I could feel a heavy weight in the pit of my stomach dreading what was to come. I was born a mere thirty years ago and never experienced a time of peace. Life has been a constant mayhem since I could remember. It all began when the world was divided into three parts over one hundred years ago. The world organization did away with smaller countries and made three major nations. They wanted to make things as simplistic and systematic as possible. They thought this would help with ending poverty and death rates, but it only made matters worse. Soon after, the war began. The leaders gained so much power that they hungered for even more and became jealous of what the other had.
By Lindsay Little5 years ago in Futurism
Prescience
When she had finally got it open, all the tiny pills--microdots--nearly fell out. Fortunately, a little piece of paper held them together inside the back half of the silver locket that was shaped like a rounded heart.
By Lawrence Leopoldo5 years ago in Futurism
Collective Failure
Few people noticed when the shortages started. It was a slow process and we were all tired out from the pandemic. Food portions decreased while prices went up. Labor shortages caused domino effects in supplies of fuel and raw materials. Before we knew it our lives were different. Designated days at the grocery store lottery soon gave way to mass panic and looting. Gas pumps began to dry up and communications networks went down one by one.
By Michael Paddock5 years ago in Futurism
The Soul Generator
I wake up in a cold sweat, the touch of your icy skin hurts my hands. ‘Why are you so cold?’ I ask, your blue eyes look up at me as your body disintegrates like embers on a burning fire. I’m not awake, and neither are you.
By Lucille Hamilton5 years ago in Futurism
Killer Clouds
At first, it reminded me of looking at the clouds through an airplane window. Their clouds—the “killer clouds”—sat like oversized trees on the world’s most famous lawn, towering over even the skyscrapers that still stood in New York City.
By Hunter Bates5 years ago in Futurism
The Collapse
I never dreamt of opening it. I’ve worn this heart for seventeen years, without troubling the secret shut inside it. “Open it alone,” mama said “and only when there’s absolutely no way out. You’ll know when it’s time.” The locket had belonged to my grandmother — your great-grandmother — and once would have held portraits of treasured loved ones ensconced in its tiny golden folds. Perhaps it still does. It was our last meeting, our last embrace before they took her. Mama clasped the chain around my neck and held me tight, whispering “Keep it on and keep fighting til the end. I’m always with you”. I wish that were true. I’ve yearned for mama’s calm wisdom every day of these seventeen years. Then I was separated from you, my darling, and I thought I would die of the heart ache. It’s amazing what the human heart can bear. The past eight years without you have been gruelling, torturous at times. The hope that you have survived, that we will find each other again, has kept me alive, more than anything, more than water … until now. Now I think — I know — it’s time. I’m finally going to find out what gives this little locket such surprising weight.
By Zelda5 years ago in Futurism