Welcome to futures profound, dark and unexpected…

• A businessman in the year 2047 awakens late one morning to discover that everything that has ever been written or entered on the internet has become instantly accessible to him. Then comes the terror of realising that his entire sordid life is now in the public domain.
• An Arnold Schwarzenegger replica arrives on Planet Strong, a theme-world teeming with Schwarzenegger look-a-likes, to compete in the Mr Arnold bodybuilding contest. Suddenly he finds his existence weirdly paralleling that of the plot of the movie Total Recall – and someone is trying to kill him!
• A psychiatrist finds that he has the uncanny ability to peer into the shadowy depths of his patient’s mind. But will the terrifying secrets he finds there drive him to insanity?
• An ambitious scientist is about to re-animate Einstein's mind on a computer. Will it be the greatest moment in science? Or an invitation to chaos and destruction?
• What terror would you feel if you landed on an alien world only to find that your five senses cannot decipher what you experience there?
• • These four science fiction short stories by futurist Marcus T Anthony combine the popular author’s trademarks: the disorientating flashes of the spiritual and paranormal, the quirky humour, the darkness from within; and all scattered across the mysterious landscapes of the future. Thought provoking and powerful, these short sci fi stories capture the uncertainty and fear of our unknown tomorrows.

    From “The God Moment”

    “Hugh Anderson sat on his windowsill gazing out over the mid-twenty-first century Shanghai landscape, and something within his mind shifted. Perhaps it was the slightly delicious sense of danger at balancing precariously seven floors above the sidewalk. He stared out into the evening, and there was nothing before him but emptiness. It came upon him softly, not unlike the gentle brilliance of Venus, which at that moment hung silently upon the horizon. In that moment of nothingness, one thing was certain. Hugh Anderson was finished. In fact, he was more than merely finished. He was dead. He knew that even as he dangled his fat little legs out into the cool air, his enemies – and there were many he could name – were squealing with delight as they perused all his search queries on BlueToob and AsianHos. They were guffawing with merriment at his hate-filled invectives directed at the Chinese on internet comments pages too numerous to recall. No doubt a Chinese vigilante mob was gathering at that very moment, seeking revenge for his derisive comments about Chinese men’s genitalia and their lack of sexual prowess. Right across the globe, gleeful adversaries would be siphoning through his email, thanks to FreeThink and the God Code. They would be dissecting his personal correspondence to various mistresses, Thai bar girls and third world gangster figures. There would be much rejoicing upon the opening of his petty hate mail, fired off in moments of pure rage to backstabbing partners and competitors. What pure joy they would experience when reading of Anderson’s attempts to bring down the innocent but naïve men and women who had stood as his competitors in the IT marketplace.”

    Science fiction and fantasy come together with quirky twists in the latest book by futurist Marcus T Anthony. A captivating addition to your short story collections.

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