Table of Contents: NATURE FUTURES Edited by Henry Gee

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Check out the MASSIVE table of contents for his/her/the upcoming anthology/collection Nature Futures: Science Fiction from the Leading Science Journal:

Here’s the book description:

This book brings together 97 short stories that seek to answer the question ‘what will the future look like?’ First published in the leading science journal Nature, these 900-word tales come from scientists, journalists and many of the most famous SF writers in the world.

Initially published in book form as Futures from Nature, this is the first time this collection has been available as an eBook. A unique blend of satires, vignettes, fictional book reviews, science articles and journalism, Nature Futures offers an eclectic mix of ideas and attitudes about the future.

With contributions from: Arthur C. Clarke; Bruce Sterling; Charles Stross; Cory Doctorow; Greg Bear; Gregory Benford; Oliver Morton; Ian Macleod; Rudy Rucker; Greg Egan; Stephan Baxter; Frederik Pohl; Vernor Vinge; Nancy Kress, Michael Moorcock, Vonda N. McIntyre; Kim Stanley Robinson; John M. Ford; and 79 more.

Here’s the table of contents…

1. “Cognitive Ability and the Light Bulb” by Brian Aldiss
2. “Don’t Imitate” by Gilles Amon
3. “Check Elastic Before Jumping” by Neal Asher
4. “Twenty2” by Nate Balding
5. “Under Martian Ice” by Stephen Baxter
6. “RAM SHIFT PHASE 2” by Greg Bear
7. “A Life with a Semisent” by Gregory Benford
8. “Damned If You Don’t” by Lucy Bergman
9. “The Punishment Fits the Crime” by David Berreby
10. “Toy Planes” by Tobias S. Buckell
11. “A Concrete Example” by J. Casti, J.-P. Boon, C. Djerassi, J. Johnson, A. Lovett, T. Norretranders, V. Patera, C. Sommerer, R. Taylor, and S. Thurner
12. “The Aching of Dion Harper” by Arthur Chrenkoff
13. “Improving the Neighborhood” by Arthur C. Clarke
14. “Omphalosphere: New York 2057” by Jack Cohen
15. “Picasso’s Cat” by Ron Collins
16. “My Grandfather’s River” by Brenda Cooper
17. “Sandcastles: A Dystopia” by Kathryn Cramer
18. “Adam’s Hot Dogs at the End of the World” by Jeff Crook
19. “The Party’s Over” by Penelope Kim Crowther
20. “Transport of Delight” by Roland Denison
21. “The Perfect Lover” by Paul Di Filippo
22. “Printcrime” by Cory Doctorow
23. “A Brief History of Death Switches” by David Eagleman
24. “Only Connect” by Greg Egan
25. “At the Zoo” by Warren Ellis
26. “The Liquidators” by Michael Garrett Farrelly
27. “In the Days of the Comet” by john m. Ford
28. “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis” by James Alan Gardner
29. “Are We Not Men?” by Henry Gee
30. “It Never Rains in VR” by John Gilbey
31. “Gordy Gave Me Your Name” by Jim Giles
32. “Nostalgia” by Hiromi Goto
33. “Spawn of Satan?” by Nicola Griffith
34. “Take Over” by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
35. “Speak, Geek” by Eileen Gunn
36. “Heartwired” by Joe Haldeman
37. “The Forever Kitten” by Peter f. Hamilton
38. “The Road to the Year 3000” by Harry Harrison
39. “Operation Tesla” by Jeff Hecht
40. “Making the Sale” by Fredric Heeren
41. “Subpoenaed in Syracuse” by Tom Holt
42. “Total Internal Reflection” by Gwyneth Jones
43. “Ringing Up Baby” by Ellen Klages
44. “Semi-autonomous” by Jim Kling
45. “Product Development” by Nancy Kress
46. “I Love Liver: A Romance” by Larissa Lai
47. “Avatars in Space” by Geoffrey A. Landis
48. “COMP.BASILISK FAQ” by David Langford
49. “Gathering of the Clans” by Reinaldo José Lopes
50. “Taking Good Care of Myself” by Ian R. Macleod
51. “Undead Again” by Ken Macleod
52. “Words, Words, Words” by Elisabeth Malartre
53. “My Morning Glory” by David Marusek
54. “Don’t Mention the “F” Word” by Neil Mathur
55. “Meat” by Paul McAuley
56. “The Candidate” by Jack Mcdevitt
57. “A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature” by Vonda N. Mcintyre
58. “The Republic of George’s Island” by Donna Mcmahon
59. “The Computiful Game” by Paul Steven Miller
60. “Oscar Night, 2054” by Syne Mitchell
61. “The Visible Men” by Michael Moorcock
62. “The Albian Message” by Oliver Morton
63. “Photons Do Not Lie” by Euan Nisbet
64. “Stranger in the Night” by Salvador Nogueira
65. “Tick-Tock Curly-Wurly” by Gareth Owens
66. “Daddy’s Slight Miscalculation” by Ashley Pellegrino
67. “Brain Drain” by Frederik Pohl
68. “Great Unreported Discoveries No. 163” by Mike Resnick
69. “Feeling Rejected” by Alastair Reynolds
70. “The Trial of Jeremy Owens” by Peter Roberts
71. “Prometheus Unbound, at Last” by Kim Stanley Robinson
72. “Dreadnought” by Justina Robson
73. “Falling” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
74. “Panpsychism Proved” by Rudy Rucker
75. “The Abdication of Pope Mary III” by Robert J. Sawyer
76. “The Charge-up Man” by Catherine H. Shaffer
77. “From the Desk of Jarrod Foster” by Biren Shah
78. “Pluto Story” by Robert Silverberg
79. “Madame Bovary, C’est Moi” by Dan Simmons
80. “Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN” by Joan Slonczewski
81. “For He on Honeydew Hath Fed …” by Paul Smaglik
82. “A Man of the Theater” by Norman Sprinrad
83. “Ivory Tower” by Bruce Sterling
84. “Play It Again, Psam” by Ian Stewart
85. “MAXO Signals” by Charles Stross
86. “Golden Year” by Igor Teper
87. “Paratext” by Scarlett Thomas
88. “Murphy’s Cat” by Joan D. Vinge
89. “Win a Nobel Prize!” by Vernor Vinge
90. “A Leap of Faith” by Theo Von Hohenheim
91. “Nadia’s Nectar” by Ian Watson
92. “Statler Pulchrifex” by Matt Weber
93. “All Is Not Lost” by Scott Westerfeld
94. “The Key” by Ian Whates
95. “The Godmother Protocols” by Heather M. Whitney
96. “The Great Good-bye” by Robert Charles Wilson
97. “Pigs on the Wing” by K. Erik Ziemelis