Arc 1.x: The first year of the future

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