Today's Best Science Fiction Writers Imagine The Future
Featured Artist: John Picacio "Even as technology reduces burdens and eases struggles, the sum of humanity's limits-and its eternal quest to exceed them-is what defines us as humans and makes life meaningful." Prediction for how we will live and work-on Earth or in space-in the decades and centuries to come Hover over the bold words to see the real science behind the stories. * * * Scott Lynch Volunteer firefighter Scott Lynch's next book, The Republic Of Thieves, will hit shelves in October. Pickle-jar technology hasn't moved an inch in nearly three hundred years, and the cap on the jar in my hands won't move either. The kids find it hilarious, and their fingers fly above the table as they sketch ghostly images for my benefit. My visual augments display their bright illusions in the air around me-there's the framework of an unlikely Rube Goldberg device, along with a caricature of me caught in the...