The first issue of New Scientist‘s Arc is now available. The collectible 152-page 5.5″x8.5″ perfect bound magazine is available for $29.95. Electronic copies are available in a variety of formats for $6.99
Contents of this issue include:
Editorial: “Welcome to the future” by Simon Ings and Sumit Paul-Choudhury
Forward: “The object of posterity’s scorn” by Bruce Sterling
Short Story: “A Journey to Amasia” by Stephen Baxter
Unreliable Narrator: “Alien Evasion” by China Miéville
Short Story: “Bearlift” by Margaret Atwood
Present Tense: “Breaking the fall” by Paul Graham Raven
Short Story: “In Autotelia” by M. John Harrison
Unevenly Distributed: “Sir John Schorne’s Devil” by Simon Ings
Prior Art: “What hpapnes fi it atcully wroks” by Sumit Paul-Choudhury
Short Story: “Topsight” by Hannu Rajaniemi
The Tomorrow Project: “Making the Future” by Justin Mullins
Texts: “Three Surprising Theories About Science Fiction” by Adam Roberts
Games: “Three Ways to Play the Future” by Leigh Alexander
Spaces: “Three Stories on Dreamland” by Simon Pummell
Short Story: “The Water Thief” by Alastair Reynolds