June 28, 2017, at 4:58 a.m. Passengers aboard flight “ANA 008,” traveling from Tokyo to San Francisco, are flying at an altitude of 37,000 feet—about 1,500 nautical miles from the west coast of the United States. A small jolt, felt like barely noticeable turbulence, moves “Flight 008” through a fold in the local space-time region. Soon these passengers will discover they have traveled 20 years into the future, and it is now 2037.
This collection presents stories of the passengers of “Flight 008,” told by the world’s best science-fiction storytellers, who discover the future transformed by exponential technologies.