Future Tales Big Box Set 2101-09: Forty Evocative Sci-fi and Dark Fantasy Stories

Let Deborah Walker take you to familiar places with unfamiliar realities with these forty short stories. It’s difficult making your way in the world, especially if that world isn’t Earth. Let the British Museum’s Casaova help you find love in 'Love in a Lonely 2050.' What if you were so lonely that you programmed your own worshippers? Imagine you wake up as Venus, but not the one riding a clam shell. Sixty-Four of These meet a sergeant weary of a very English civil war between the city states. Can a strange difference engine bring about the change he longs for? an alien and bizzare power has destroyed the world. How can we fight back? Alms Patterns in the data cause an analyst to examine questions of kindness and charity. Contagion in Tranquil Shades of explore what emotion really means and ponder the third riddle of the Sphinx. An English church, an August Wedding. Aunty Merkel never brings a present; she has something better in her handbag. A trash picking girl volunteers to work off-world for an alien; it’s all jam from now on. A politician cruises Soho to find out what the public really think of her new polices. Find out what it’s like to be happy all the time with your own personal Circe. Fitting in is hard to do when you’re in a new place, especially when you’re in another galaxy. A soldier left in the trenches on an alien world will need to undertake a metaphysical journey, with the help of Laurel and Hardy. And Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned, so for pity's sake, don’t let her near your genome. Forty enthralling short stories. Take a break from your day to visit the fantastic, hours away and lightyears gone in your imagination. The fantastic is closer than you think.