Issue Thirteen: Future – July 2021

Letter from the Editors:

Dearest Readers,

Here we are, in the present, which was once the future, but is just as soon to be the past. When we asked you to send us future pieces you wasted no time in giving predictions, and omens, robots, societies that have crumbled, science gone wrong, science gone weird!
In this issue we tried something new and dare we say futuristic? We’ve divided the pieces up by theme: The Prophecy, The Fall, The Wasteland, and The Zenith.

“Dear 21st Century,” we have here prophecies flown from lighthouse fires, intelligences emerged from growing plastics. We are assembling hopeless wastelands delivered piece-by-piece in Amazon packages. But what’s “In the Cards?” A “Time Trilogy,” “The Pharaoh’s Orchid” and “A Future from the Probability Cloud.” You might say we are “Lost in Space,” “S.A.L.,” high on “Medicine 2180” or “Reefless Madness,” or that we are literary drones of “Jane, Inc.,” but might “Take Refuge in the Sky.” We will tell you reader, we speak to you from the “Dew Point,” from futures passed, from “The Hymn of Sweet Soul,” from “Summits and Depths.” Lend your ear, “My Dear Astronomer,” and we will tell you “The Price of Getting Old.”

And now we turn from the Future and try our hands at… Magic. Submit your magical piece by August 31st.

Yours, for now and always,
Deep Overstock Editors