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Future Americas Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements Introduction A SOUVENIR TO REMEMBER SUFFER THE CHILDREN BETTER GUNS THE BABY STORE JESUS RUNS THE ROTATOR ACIREMA THE RELLIK FAMILY PHOTOS OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE THE LAST ACTOR THE GREAT CHAIN OF BEING ATTACHED TO THE LAND THE THIEF CATCHER UNLIMITED SWITCHING OFF THE LIGHTS THE POWER OF HUMAN REASON ‘‘The old ones here, they traveled off world.’’ We plodded along in the heat and on either side were more ruined buildings. I asked Micah about them and he said, ‘‘A few of them, we think, were temples or exhibit halls. There were old things in some of them . bones and stones from long, long ago. One temple had some paintings of flying machines, made from metal. And in that one temple . ships that traveled off the world, into space.’’ I wiped my face one more time. ‘‘I’ve heard those tales as well.’’ The tone of his voice changed. ‘‘They are not tales. The old ones here, they traveled off world.’’ I said, ‘‘Well . some of our science men, they know that they sent instruments and such off world . but to think people traveled there . they believe it’s just tales, or imaginings . .’’ Micah stopped and gently took the bottle of water from me, took a sip, and said, ‘‘My grandfather . he told me once . that when he was a boy, an elder, who was part of the College, let him touch a stone from one of these buildings, a stone that came from the moon.’’ ‘‘The moon?’’ I couldn’t help myself, I chuckled. Tour guides . how ignorant do they think tourists can be? —From ‘‘A Souvenir to Remember’’ by Brendan DuBois Also Available from DAW Books: Mystery Date, edited by Denise Little First dates—the worst possible times in your life or the opening steps on the path to a wonderful new future? What happens when someone you have never met before turns out not to be who or what he or she claims to be? It’s just a date, what could go wrong? Here are seventeen encounters, from authors such as Kristine Katherine Rusch, Nancy Springer, Laura Resnick, and Jody Lynn Nye that answer these questions. From a childhood board game called ‘‘Blind Date’’ that seems to come shockingly true . to a mythological answer to Internet predators . to a woman cursed to see the truth about her dates when she imbibes a little wine . to an enchanting translator bent on avenging victims of war crimes . to a young man hearing a very special voice from an unplugged stereo system . these are just some of the tales that may lead to happily ever after—or no ever after at all. Fellowship Fantastic, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes The true strength of a story lies in its characters and in both the ties that bind them together and the events that drive them apart. Perhaps the most famous example of this in fantasy is The Fellowship of The Ring. But such fellowships are key to many fantasy and science fiction stories. Now thirteen top tale-spinners—Nina Kiriki Hoffmann, Alan Dean Foster, Russell Davis, Alexander Potter, among others—offer their own unique looks at fellowships from: a girl who finds her best friend through a portal to another world . to four special families linked by blood and magical talent . to two youths ripped away from all they know and faced with a terrifying fate that they can only survive together . to a man who must pay the price for leaving his childhood comrade to face death alone. The Future We Wish We Had, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Rebecca Lickiss In the opening decade of the twenty-first century, many things that were predicted in the science fiction stories of the twentieth century have become an accepted part of everyday life, and many other possibilities have not yet been realized but hopefully will be one day. For everyone who thought that by now they’d be motoring along the skyways in a personal jet car, or who assumed we’d have established bases on the Moon and Mars, or that we would have conquered disease, slowed the aging process to a crawl, or eliminated war, social injustice, and economic inequity, here are sixteen stories of futures that might someday be ours or our children’s, from Esther Friesner, Sarah Hoyt, Kevin J. Anderson, Irene Radford, Dave Freer, and Dean Wesley Smith, among others. Copyright © 2008 by Tekno Books and John Helfers. All Rights Reserved DAW Book Collectors No. 1444. DAW Books is distributed by Penguin Group (USA). All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental. If you purchase this book without a cover you should be aware that this book may have been stolen property and reported as ‘‘unsold and destroyed’’ to the publisher. In such case neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this ‘‘stripped book.’’ The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal, and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. First Printing, June 2008 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DAW TRADEMARK REGISTERED U.S. PAT. AND TM OFF. AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES —MARCA REGISTRADA HECHO EN U.S.A. PRINTED I NTHE U.S.A. http://us.penguingroup.com eISBN : 978-1-4406-3185-6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ‘‘Introduction,’’ copyright © 2008 by John Helfers ‘‘A Souvenir to Remember,’’ copyright © 2008 by Brendan DuBois ‘‘Suffer the Children,’’ copyright © 2008 by Barbara Nickless ‘‘Better Guns,’’ copyright © 2008 by Jean Rabe ‘‘The Baby Store,’’ copyright © 2008 by Ed Gorman ‘‘Jesus Runs,’’ copyright © 2008 by George Zebrowski ‘‘The Rotator,’’ copyright © 2008 by Pamela Sargent ‘‘Acirema the Rellik,’’ copyright © 2008 by Robert T. Jeschonek ‘‘Family Photos,’’ copyright © 2008 by S. Andrew Swann ‘‘Our Flag Was Still There,’’ copyright © 2008 by Steven Mohan, Jr. ‘‘The Last Actor,’’ copyright © 2008 by Mike Resnick and Linda Donohue ‘‘The Great Chain of Being,’’ copyright © 2008 by Brian Stableford ‘‘Attached to the Land,’’ copyright © 2008 by Donald J. Bingle ‘‘The Thief Catcher,’’ copyright © 2008 by Theodore Judson ‘‘Unlimited,’’ copyright © 2008 by Jane Lindskold ‘‘Switching off the Lights,’’ copyright © 2008 by Peter Crowther ‘‘The Power of Human Reason,’’ copyright © 2008 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Introduction by John Helfers ALTHOUGH I DO not believe in predetermined destiny, I do believe in serendipitous coincidence. Take this introduction, for example. A few days before beginning the final assembly of the anthology you’re holding, my wife and I were watching the classic SF film Logan’s Run. While it now seems rather quaint watching Michael York and Jenny Agutter move through the sterilized, antiseptic blandness that typified much of the era’s science fiction films (notable exceptions being The Omega Man and Soylent Green), and only in the 1970s would Hollywood believe that people would still be wearing miniskirts two hundred and fifty years later, at the time I’m sure it was seen as a daring exploration of the themes of potential overpopulation and population control, concerns that were very much at the forefront of society’s mind. By now, anyone who has seen the movie will have drawn the obvious parallel to the theme of this book; that when Logan and Jessica escape the city, they are in a future version of America that had destroyed itself long ago, with only ivy-covered ruins standing where the Capitol and Lincoln Memorial once towered in Washington DC. While post- apocalyptic and dystopian stories of a future America and the rest of the world have been popular for decades, it takes a special vision to look at our nation as it currently is, and even try to imagine what life might be like one hundred, fifty, or even twenty years in the future. Authors have done so in the past, from Aldous Huxley’s dystopian satire Brave New World, which was heavily influenced by a visit he made to America in the 1920s, to more recent books like William Gibson’s Neuromancer , forecasting the ubiquitous World Wide Web and the rise of multi-national corporations and their influence on government, as well as the effects of each on a near-future society. As we come to the end of this first decade of the twenty-first century, there is little doubt in my mind that America is at a crossroads, or more of a six-or eight-way intersection. With social, religious, economic, governmental, and world cultural pressures bearing down on our nation from all directions, who can possibly guess what the future might hold (although I doubt it will be all handsome, jumpsuited men and beautiful, miniskirted women living in hedonistic, idle pleasure in domed cities)? Predicting the future is hard; just ask the people who have tried, whether it was the end of the planet as we know it, or the adoption of a new method of transportation, or, more famously, predicting that something wouldn’t catch on, and then being completely wrong. What can be theorized is that sweeping changes are coming on the horizon, but whether they will be for good or ill remains to be seen. But the concept is simple; what might an America of the future look like? In many ways, it is practically impossible to theorize or extrapolate what the future might hold, yet writers try every year.
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