Indrapramit Das (aka Indra Das) won the Lambda Literary Award for his debut novel The Devourers and the Shirley Jackson Award for his short fiction. His work has appeared in Tor.com, Slate, Clarkesworld, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. He is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar.

“For this earnest and nuanced collection, Das brings together 10 writers to imagine artists, both human and non-, grappling with futuristic challenges, including generative AI and other ‘nascent technocapitalist singularities’ . . . Though some of the stories have an Edgar Allan Poe weariness about them, the collection as a whole offers plenty of hope. Fans of near-future sci-fi should check it out.”—Publishers Weekly

• IntroductionIndrapramit Das1 The Limner Wrings His Hands, Vajra Chandrasekera2 The Art Crowd, Samit Basu3 Immortal Is the Heart, Cassandra Khaw4 Unauthorized (Or, the Liberated Collector’s Commune), Ganzeer5 Halfway to Hope, Lavanya Lakshminarayan6 AI Concerns Are Not “Too Sci-Fi”, Neil Clarke interviewed by Archita Mittra7 No Future but Infinity Itself, Sloane Leong8 Immortal Beauty, Bruce Sterling9 Autumn’s Red Bird, Aliette de Bodard10 Encore, Wole Talabi11 The Quietude, Lavie TidharAcknowledgmentsContributors

Indrapramit Das (aka Indra Das) won the Lambda Literary Award for his debut novel The Devourers and the Shirley Jackson Award for his short fiction. His work has appeared in Tor.com, Slate, Clarkesworld, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. He is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar.

“For this earnest and nuanced collection, Das brings together 10 writers to imagine artists, both human and non-, grappling with futuristic challenges, including generative AI and other ‘nascent technocapitalist singularities’ . . . Though some of the stories have an Edgar Allan Poe weariness about them, the collection as a whole offers plenty of hope. Fans of near-future sci-fi should check it out.”—Publishers Weekly

• IntroductionIndrapramit Das1 The Limner Wrings His Hands, Vajra Chandrasekera2 The Art Crowd, Samit Basu3 Immortal Is the Heart, Cassandra Khaw4 Unauthorized (Or, the Liberated Collector’s Commune), Ganzeer5 Halfway to Hope, Lavanya Lakshminarayan6 AI Concerns Are Not “Too Sci-Fi”, Neil Clarke interviewed by Archita Mittra7 No Future but Infinity Itself, Sloane Leong8 Immortal Beauty, Bruce Sterling9 Autumn’s Red Bird, Aliette de Bodard10 Encore, Wole Talabi11 The Quietude, Lavie TidharAcknowledgmentsContributors

Indrapramit Das (aka Indra Das) won the Lambda Literary Award for his debut novel The Devourers and the Shirley Jackson Award for his short fiction. His work has appeared in Tor.com, Slate, Clarkesworld, and Asimov’s Science Fiction. He is an Octavia E. Butler Scholar.

“For this earnest and nuanced collection, Das brings together 10 writers to imagine artists, both human and non-, grappling with futuristic challenges, including generative AI and other ‘nascent technocapitalist singularities’ . . . Though some of the stories have an Edgar Allan Poe weariness about them, the collection as a whole offers plenty of hope. Fans of near-future sci-fi should check it out.”—Publishers Weekly

• IntroductionIndrapramit Das1 The Limner Wrings His Hands, Vajra Chandrasekera2 The Art Crowd, Samit Basu3 Immortal Is the Heart, Cassandra Khaw4 Unauthorized (Or, the Liberated Collector’s Commune), Ganzeer5 Halfway to Hope, Lavanya Lakshminarayan6 AI Concerns Are Not “Too Sci-Fi”, Neil Clarke interviewed by Archita Mittra7 No Future but Infinity Itself, Sloane Leong8 Immortal Beauty, Bruce Sterling9 Autumn’s Red Bird, Aliette de Bodard10 Encore, Wole Talabi11 The Quietude, Lavie TidharAcknowledgmentsContributors