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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The World to Come
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'In 1738, English preacher, Isaac Watts wrote ‘The world to come’, a Christian tract about departed souls, death, and the glory or terror of the resurrection. Almost 300 years later the world to come still fascinates readers. It’s not only climate change, it’s the climate of everything: from technological ‘advances’ that threaten to create an immortal humanity; to an endless ‘war on terror,’ which means that, though we may never know war, nor will we ever truly know peace; to a thousand visions of post-Apocalyptic life in the media. The world to come is everywhere; it is with us now… In this anthology, twenty-one writers respond to the world to come – the one just around the corner, the hereafter and the everywhen.

''A veritable smorgasbord of sci-fi and speculative fiction by hand-picked writers from across the globe out to amaze, shock and stir readers with a palate for the unexpected and disconcerting. These stories are compelling works of creative genius.'' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    Fix by British author Leonie Ross

    The Breaking of the Glass by Malaysian author Tham Chui-Joe

    The Cure by British author Abir Hamdar

    Caretakers by American author John Fulton

    The Whale God by American author Jeanette Zissell

    Progress by American author John J. Shulman

    The Word for the Future by Cameroon author Eunice Ngongkum

    Game by Denmark-based author Tabish Khair

    The Future is Wow by French-born, Denmark-based Sébastien Doubinsky

    Europe is Not a Country by Ugandan author Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire

Contents

* Contents derived from the Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Spineless Wonders , 2014 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Part Hide, a Part Human, Craig Cormick , single work short story science fiction
Awake, Ben Brooker , single work short story
1913: The World to Come Is Made of Love, Jeannette Delamoir , single work short story
The Outer Territories, Tim Richards , single work short story science fiction
2084, Dirk Strasser , single work short story science fiction
Of Life Below, Leah Swann , single work short story
Into the Stillness Came the Rain, Crissetta MacLeod , single work short story
When the Birds Come, Emily Riches , single work short story
Marty and the Moon, Bronwyne Thomason , single work short story
Gamil Yanaay Walaybaa : No Going Home, Marcus Waters , single work short story
Preface to a Selected History of the Twenty-First Century, Lucy Greenwood , single work short story science fiction

'A document, purported to be from the future, describes the eutopia brought about through decentralization, living locally but connecting globally, and sustainable environmental practices.'

Source: Utopian Literature in English.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Looking Forward : B. J. Muirhead Reviews ‘The World to Come’ Edited by Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi Bruce Muirhead , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;

— Review of The World to Come 2014 anthology short story
Are You There? Can You Forgive Me? Nike Sulway , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 19 no. 1 2015;

— Review of The World to Come 2014 anthology short story
Are You There? Can You Forgive Me? Nike Sulway , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 19 no. 1 2015;

— Review of The World to Come 2014 anthology short story
Looking Forward : B. J. Muirhead Reviews ‘The World to Come’ Edited by Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi Bruce Muirhead , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;

— Review of The World to Come 2014 anthology short story
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