Futures from Nature

by Henry Gee

Book Overview

Are aliens really not interested in us at all? Is there a significant health benefit from drinking your own urine? Is loading your personality into a computer the best way to survive the death of the body? Is the death of the body really necessary? Here are a very large number of very small fictions on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765318067
• ISBN13: 9780765318060
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Good book for smart teenagers

My 14 year old son really liked this book. Small enough bites that you can digest at one sitting, but challenging as well.

Excellent for airport security lines

This is a great book to dip into for a few minutes at a time. The pieces are short enough to finish in a few minutes each and they (mostly) provide decent enough food for thought. It's perfect for those times when you just need to stay somewhat engaged with your surroundings (waiting around for something to happen) but risk dying of boredom or frustration if you don't do something. Don't think I could face reading the whole thing in one shot though....

Delightful

These are mostly 1-2 page stories, quick reads, but thought-provoking, and it introduces (me to) a lot of authors.

Perfect remedy for short attention spans ;)

Having read these quite short (a page or two) stories when they came out in Nature, I can say you will enjoy them. I don't recall any that struck me with a deep fascination, but on the other end very few ended up in my mind's recycling bin. The novelty is in having so many "short short" stories compiled, allowing you to read something even with very little time on your hands, and in the nature of their authors, who weren't all science-fiction writers.