When a busy BART train suddenly screeches to a stop deep under the San Francisco Bay, passengers turn to personalized AI agents to understand what’s happened—but they begin to realize that those agents may obscure more than they illuminate.
Deji Bryce Olukotun shares the background behind his February Future Tense Fiction story, “Mothering the Bay,” in a conversation with editor Mia Armstrong-López.
Read the response essay by Babe Liberman, “The Awareness Imperative,” here.
To work toward better climate policy and governance, we need to expand our vision of what’s possible.
On the floor of the Arctic Ocean, an isolated roadside bar buried in a vast network of tunnels is staffed by a claustrophobic waitress who dreams of life above the surface. When a pair of outlaws tries to rob the bar, its patrons and employees are forced to work together to stave them off—pushing the boundaries of survival and trust in extreme environments.
When a government worker is charged with collecting data from the fire-ravaged community she grew up in, she gets help from an unexpected ally: a fire-fighting drone.
A journalist who covers wildfires responds to Premee Mohamed’s “All That Burns Unseen.”
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