Future Boston

Book 1 of the Future Boston series Boston is slowly sinking into the sea. The citizens of Boston plan a revolution against the governments of Earth. Alien races occupy the city and must decide if the human race deserves full galactic citizenship-or total destruction. Future Boston is the sweeping saga of a handful of dreamers-artists and scientists, scufflers and survivors, revolutionaries and thieves-who dream of a new society as their ancestors did before them. From slums to Brahmin boardrooms, Future Boston is a rich mosaic of history and human drama, as real as the great metropolis that inspired it. Contributing authors: Jon Burrowes, Alexander Jablokov, Geoffrey Landis, Resa Nelson, Steven Popkes, David Alexander Smith, and Sarah Smith. Reviews: "Adventure-filled… a wealth of evocative detail.… The real star is a painstakingly constructed future Boston." -Publishers Weekly "Future Boston is more than the sum of its parts-and its parts are very good." -Locus

Book 2 of the Future Boston series Now I ask you: Would you like to be yanked into the future against your will? Okay, let's have the future delivered to your door: an alien species shows up in Boston, just a little old alien species, wandering through the neighborhood. Their space ship breaks down-damn!-and so they check into little old Motel-o Earth-o to see if they can find a new conduction bolt for their night-drive. And the next thing you know, alien technology and ideas are erasing the cultures of Earth forever. We're trying to keep up with the aliens, keep the aliens in Boston, keep the boom, keep it, keep it, keep it. Oh it was so good back in the eighties; oh it was so bad in the teens; now it's so good again. Oh please don't take it away. Looking over it all, the emissaries from a dozen worlds, who peer down on us from their positions on high-on our world. Who look like fire plugs and sprays of aluminum siding and willow trees. Who have names like numbers. Who slice clothes from huge salamis and hand them out as souvenirs. Who don't run the place yet- But we aren't exactly the sole proprietors any more. Things have disappeared…