Daughters of the Mist
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Twelve Tomorrows – 2014: Visionary stories of the near future

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    234 pages

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    August 25, 2014
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The all new 2014 edition of MIT Technology Review’s science fiction annual. Inspired by the real-life breakthroughs covered in the pages of MIT Technology Review magazine, renowned writers Pat Cadigan, Cory Doctorow, and Christopher Brown join the hottest emerging authors from around the world to envision the future of the Internet, biotechnology, computing, and more.  Includes as a special feature, Jason Pontin's Q+A with award-winning Science fiction and fantasy legend, Gene Wolf.

About the Author

Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling has been called by Time "perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre." Three of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he has been a contributing writer for Wired since its conception. In 2005 he is "Visionary-in-Residence" at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond has been active since 2003.

William Gibson is the author of many books, including Neuromancer and, most recently, Pattern Recognition.

Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling has been called by Time "perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre." Three of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he has been a contributing writer for Wired since its conception. In 2005 he is "Visionary-in-Residence" at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond has been active since 2003.

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Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown
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Christopher Brown is the Philip K. Dick, World Fantasy and John W. Campbell Award-nominated author of the novels Tropic of Kansas, Rule of Capture and Failed State. His newest book A Natural History of Empty Lots, which combines nature writing, literary nonfiction and memoir in an exploration of the wild spaces of cities, is forthcoming from Timber Press in October 2024. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he also practices law.

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ASIN B00N272GHI
Publisher MIT Technology Review
Publication date August 25, 2014
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Language ‎English
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  • Jpryde
    4 out of 5 stars
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    Convergence on Reality

    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2015
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    The cleverness in this anthology is how the stories start out as fantastical science fiction, slightly informed by science, and then converge on the human aspects of these advances.

    The penultimate story (The Various Mansions of the Univers) carefully describes a dystopic future thru the eyes of a couple of reluctant cyborgs. Reluctant because they yearn to live like primordial humans, sensing and reacting to their emotional sides. Evolving like neo-"Adam and Eve" only with the benefits of their re-engineered bodies.

    Maybe my favorite line here is:

    "...marriage was the atomic unit of sociality. The wide- ranging discussions they had— sometimes they verged on mania, but only by human standards— were their new construction project. The rising edifice of a post- human sensibility."

    Optimism found on experience, not speculation.

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  • c.johnson
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    Thought provoking. Shedding light on technical change outpacing our religious, social, and legal means to deal with it.

    Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015
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    This book of short stories, highlights some future possibilities given our current technological and political / social directions. These stories are interesting and bring up questions our religious, social and legal systems will not catch up with anytime soon. imo

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  • Clyde
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    Very well written for a tough segment

    Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2014
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    Based on near future SciFi, it's not the completely different that most of SciFi is. That means it took some very creative writing by all the authors to get just enough future but still keep it close to now AND make it interesting. Most of them did it very well. Highly recommended.

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  • Gabriel Eiras Villa
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    interesting, great authors, but not the best from them

    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2025
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    Some of the stories are great, short form functions of the greatest sci fi.

    Others, often from my favorite authors, seem like half baked versions of dreams.

    Worth the read, but don’t keep expectations too high. Beware of technobabble.

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  • Amazon Customer
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    I love the perspective...

    Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2014
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    ...these authors bring. I don't read much science fiction any more. But I did enjoy this collection. I guess I am interested in the extrapolation. Taking a snapshot of our modern day and thinking forward. It's fun to see the possible outcomes of our current trajectory. Even if they are bleak.

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  • M. L. Kimmey
    3 out of 5 stars
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    The writing quality is not as good as that found in the 2013 edition

    Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2015
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    The writing quality is not as good as that found in the 2013 edition. The stories are also a good deal darker than in the previous volume, representing a more dystopian outlook across the board. Neither of these criticisms should be received as reasons not to read this volume, just don't expect last year's performance.

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  • Martin Butler
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    One of my favorite annual reads and reads and this year was no ...

    Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2015
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    One of my favorite annual reads and reads and this year was no different! Great science fictions stories based on alternate versions of the futures that are both inspiring and frighting.

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  • Thomas Ehardt
    2 out of 5 stars
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    Wanted to like this collection, but didn't

    Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014
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    I wanted to really like this collection; can't really put my finger on why I don't like this, but it's not my thing.

    I love sci-fi and especially near-future writing, but this just wasn't for me.

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  • The Mustard Seed Sower
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    Nice tales to hone skills in English language

    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2015
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    I haven't read all the short novels yet, but indeed they elaborate on the outcome of current technologies in a close future. I am using them to hone my English skills, the language the authors use is quite common nowadays and yet it provides some useful words you wouldn't find in a newspaper.

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    Four Stars

    Reviewed in Australia on April 18, 2016
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    Diverse and challenging collection of near future fiction.

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