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Description
 Future Dreams and Nightmares is an anthology of science fiction short stories for those who enjoyed episodes of the TV series The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, , then this book is for you.
An oligarch’s deathbed confession leads to one last crime. A woman’s multiple resurrections point to a serial killer. A man’s latest upgrade results in the last of his original equipment. A successful operation unexpectedly violates the neurosurgeon’s Hippocratic oath. A man must deal with the unintended consequences of jumping between timelines to fight terrorists. A lonely spacer’s visit to an alien brothel turns out to be exactly what he needed. An exobiologist studies an alien species’ strange reproductive biology. A successful medical procedure without informed consent has deadly consequences. Government-approved history lessons hide a forbidden truth. |
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- Memories: Who among us doesn’t had terrible memories they would like to permanently delete from their memories? However, some memories just aren’t meant to be forgotten.
- Mind Trap: What might happen when the ability to download one’s mind into a cloned or robotic body is abused.
- A Mind Full of Memories: Sometimes, healing a patient can violate a doctor’s oath to do no harm.
- Everlife: Many stories have included the idea of increasing longevity by downloading one’s mind into a clone when one is old or sick. But how would such an ability interact with the crime of murder when the victim can return from the dead?
- Original Equipment: Medical technology meets the ancient Greek legend, The Ship of Theseus.
- A Jump Too Far: The unexpected danger of jumping between timelines instead of time travel within a single timeline.
- We Service All: A lonely spacer’s visit to an alien brothel turns out to be exactly what he needed.
- Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Unexpected pregnancies result from first contact with an alien species having an unexpected means of mating.
- History is Written: A boy learns the truth about the government-approved history he learned in school.
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Publisher: Magical Wand Press
Edition: First edition
Publication Date: TBD 2023
Pages: TBD
Words: TBD
Size: 5×8
Language: English
Formats: Paperback, ebook (epub, mobi, and pdf), and audiobook
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Name: Firesmith, Donald.
Title: Future Dreams and Nightmares / by Donald Firesmith.
Description: First edition. | Pittsburgh : Magical Wand Press, 2023.
Summary: An anthology of science fiction short stories. | Audience: Adult. | Language: English
Identifiers: ISBN: TBD (Amazon paperback) | TBD (Amazon ebook) | TBD (audiobook)
Subjects: BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies. | GSAFD: Science fiction.
