Future Tense

The science-fiction genre has always inspired the technological community: the Strugatsky brothers, Kir Bulychev, Ray Bradbury were favorite writers of many engineers and scientists. Today, in Russia, science fiction exists in the form of recurring plots and images, and these boundaries of the genre have become too narrow for scientific-fantasy imagination. That is why, in 2018, the “Sistema” charitable foundation established a science-fiction award, “Future Tense,” to inspire talented authors who want to write in this genre. In just a month and a half, authors from 32 countries submitted 1,841 science-fiction stories to the “Future Tense” project. A professional jury selected the best works, which were brought together in the collection “Future Tense.”

The collection “Future Tense” contains six science-fiction stories about a future world that reflects current trends in technological progress. The authors looked at a theme that is eternal for literature and art from a technological perspective: what kind of world will there be where immortality is achievable?