num_pages: 301
description: Twenty-three stories from one of speculative fictions up-and-coming stars Pushcart and Journey Prize-nominated author Rich Larson.Welcome to the Tomorrow Factory. On your left post-human hedonists on a distant space station bring diseases back in fashion two scavengers find a super-powered parasite under the waves of Sunk Seattle and a terminally-ill chemist orchestrates an asteroid prison break. On your right an alien optometrist spins illusions for irradiated survivors of the apocalypse a high-tech grifter meets his match in near-future Thailand and two teens use a blackmarket personality mod to get into the years wickedest wildest party. This collection of published and original fiction by award-winning writer Rich Larson will bring you from a Bujumbura cyberpunk junkyard to the icy depths of Europa from the slick streets of future-noir Chicago to a tropical island of sapient robots. You'll explore a mysterious ghost ship in deep space meet an android learning to dream and fend off predatory alien fungi on a combat mission gone wrong. Twenty-three futures ranging from grimy cyberpunk to far-flung space opera are waiting to blow you away. So step inside the Tomorrow Factory and mind your head.
language: English
title: Tomorrow Factory: Collected Fiction
publisher: Talos