Future Fragments, Six Seconds Long

Toasted Cake 171: Future Fragments, Six Seconds Long by Alex Shvartsman

Episode #171! In which we go spelunking.

In his future, I see a fish.

This story first appeared in Diabolical Plots.

Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator and game designer from Brooklyn, NY. Over 100 of his short stories have appeared in Nature, Galaxy's Edge, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and many other magazines and anthologies. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction (2015 and 2017). He is the editor of the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F. His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent are currently available. His website is www.alexshvartsman.com.

Original airdate: February 11, 2018