The Outer Reaches: Ten Tales from the Near Future

Here are ten tales of science fiction from the near future; ten microcosmic realities of life, love and ambition in an age of interplanetary settlement and seemingly unlimited human advancement.

But we are still human after all, and that means things can, and will, go wrong; sometimes disastrously so.

Take a voyage beneath the ice to see the whales of Europa, book a room at the splendid Mars Hotel perched atop of the Solar System’s highest mountain, experience the world’s first teleport experiment (but be prepared to run for your lives!). Or share the humiliation of a man of God as he loses his soul on a far flung outpost of mankind but finds something else; witness an assassination that has bizarrely unforeseen consequences, share a high school lovers’ reunion that goes like a dream... There are others as well; tales of near future.

Tales you’ll have to read to believe.