Sorry, Clone
Bioethics scholar Josephine Johnston explores the 100-year history of the debate on human cloning—and the dilemmas that have haunted it along the way.
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Future Tense Fiction
A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge
A new story from Scott Sherman imagines a revolutionary type of therapy: What if you could create a clone of someone who has done you harm—and then kill it? When a skeptical journalist visits the cultish “kill therapy” retreat to profile its ambitious founder, she inadvertently opens the door to histories she had long endeavored to forget.
The Long Arm of Law and Technology
When I started my career as a police officer, cell phones were unknown in my department. It was 1979, which meant that if you needed to talk to the dispatchers—let’s say to report back information, or get an update on a crime in progress—you had to use a payphone or one of the many police […]
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A Time Between
Detectives digging into evidence of a tragic death find themselves confronted with two different versions of the past—and, perhaps, the present.
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Therapy, Pseudo Experts, and the Allure of the Quick Fix: An Interview With Scott Sherman
Writer Scott Sherman discusses his December Future Tense Fiction Story, “A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge,” in an interview with Mia Armstrong-Lopez.
Community and the Infrastructure of Art: An Interview With Cassidy McFadzean
Writer Cassidy McFadzean discusses her October Future Tense Fiction short story, “Patrons,” with editor Mia Armstrong-Lopez.