New Future

The future today becomes outdated faster than it can be invented: everything that seemed promising, excitingly close a year, two years, or two decades ago has either been postponed indefinitely or has simply moved to the distant periphery. As a result, the factory for producing the future, which has always been considered the realm of science fiction, is malfunctioning or idle. The authors of the collection New Future take on the heroic task of restarting the gears of this factory and offering the reader an image of the future that can be discerned from today. And, as usual, this image tells us almost more about the present than about what awaits us ahead. Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic. In the age of dystopias, it is important not to forget that time has not collapsed into a circle and has not ceased its flow. The future exists, albeit not entirely idyllic. It is pleasant to realize that the authors of this collection, from Shamil Idiatullin and Eduard Verkin to Alexey Salnikov and Vladimir Berezin, do not lose their sense of historical perspective. As long as I live – I hope. Vasily Vladimirskiy, book reviewer. 13 unusual stories by contemporary Russian writers. In the future they propose, one can lose oneself and find oneself, and also attempt to glimpse stories that are more shameless than literature. Ekaterina Pisareva, cultural reviewer, editor-in-chief of the LitRes group of companies.