Near Future Stories

A hundred years from now, the last foreigner is being expelled from China.

Two brothers living in the Soviet Union go on a traditional mushroom hunt in a forest and find an orb that predicts the future.

A young boy makes a pact with a mysterious visitor.

A murder occurs in a quiet town, with only one strange suspect.

Sir Bertram Utterside issues a series of pronouncements, not always entirely serious, on a variety of burning social topics.

Everything begins somewhere... A very short story about how things got started.

A japanese geologist, Sousuke Takahashi, is stationed in Field Zeta, the world's largest thorium-based nuclear power production site at a time when the internet is a thing of the past and the sea levels have risen by ten feet. Sousuke and some like-minded individuals are about to force humanity into a necessary struggle, and each one has a dreadful task to accomplish.

A little girl finds herself in a strange world where she becomes a toy and dreams about even stranger things.

A series of astounding experiments carried out by the redoubtable 'Sage of Trondheim', with caustic observations from his chief rival, the 'Swedish Savant'.