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Nature Futures has published a comedic short story structured as a classified government FAQ document, titled 'How to avoid aliens and live.' The piece, framed as guidance from a fictional 'Unified Earth Government, Office of Cosmic Silence,' offers tongue-in-cheek advice for surviving encounters with alien life after fictional disasters such as 'The Cascade Incident' and 'The Cake Problem.'
Nature Futures' fiction section has released a new short story, 'ESC (DC)²,' following a hacker who hitchhikes through rural Iceland toward a decommissioned facility called Skýborg while preparing a covert intrusion. The narrative blends tradecraft jargon with a tense, atmospheric journey across snowy terrain near Egilsstaðir. The piece ends mid-scene as the protagonist approaches a cluster of black structures guarded by armed figures.
Nature's Futures section has published a short story titled 'Rebody,' told through a soldier's recorded log entries to a loved one during an interplanetary war. The narrative follows the soldier across multiple days of combat, describing repeated deaths and 'reprinting' into new bodies via technology from the fictional Obelisk Corporation. The piece uses the diary format to explore themes of mortality, memory and the psychological toll of body-swapping in warfare.
Nature's Futures section has published a short science-fiction story about an android pianist who is replaced before ever performing, after a shipping delay leads her owner to buy a newer model. Left in a storage shed, she is given books by the household butler and discovers reading as an alternative to the music she was built to play. The story explores themes of obsolescence, purpose and self-discovery through the android's shift from music to literature.
The piece is a short science-fiction story in Nature Futures depicting a walled human village visited monthly by an unnervingly perfect artificial figure. The figure questions the old man and child about mortality, decay, and a dead knife-grinder, while the humans discuss rotting peaches and the meaning of impermanence. The story contrasts the artificial being's flawless, static existence with the lived, decaying world of the humans.
Nature's science-fiction feature Futures ran a short story depicting numbered workers confined to a windowless facility, sedated with pills and coffee, weaving filaments under fluorescent light while elders recall a vanished world of trees. The piece imagines a future where natural landscapes have been erased and human labor is mechanized, monitored, and chemically controlled.
A new speculative fiction piece from Nature Futures follows Melba, an employee managing the Lost Luggage Department at a nearly abandoned interstellar flight headquarters. The story details how travelers' bags are shrunk via molecular-reduction technology before space voyages, and how some end up misrouted for decades, eventually landing in Melba's basement office filled with stacks of miniaturized suitcases.
Nature's Futures section ran a piece of short science fiction depicting a community living on the fringes of AI-controlled cities that have become dysfunctional and unpredictable, with one city literally rearranging itself and threatening two scavengers, Kyle and Emma, who rely on a hand-drawn map to survive. The story imagines a world where humans ceded urban management to AI systems that have since decayed into unstable, self-altering environments.
Nature Futures ran a science-fiction interview piece imagining Sam Morten, a war veteran, and Eli, a distinct personality sharing his body, as they navigate a court case seeking legal recognition for Eli as a separate entity. The narrative unfolds over coffee and ice cream, contrasting Sam's guarded demeanor with Eli's childlike openness, while touching on the strain the situation placed on Sam's marriage.