Have you ever wanted a faster-than-light trip to the future? Are you just a little tired of reading science fiction novels that take eons to finish? Would you like to discover where memories live and die, and where memes rise and fall in moments? Because the future is sooner than you think, and there's only so much time for a visit.

These fifteen award-winning and bestselling science fiction authors, including Charlie Jane Anders, Alastair Reynolds, Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Tobias S. Buckell, Ann Leckie, and Sam J. Miller, and more, are here as your speedy guides to infinity and beyond.

In "Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance," a cloud-based contractor finds a human war criminal clinging to the hull of the ship. The clones of "All the Colours You Thought Were Kings," about to attend their coming-of-age ceremony, are plotting treason. During "A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime," two outlaws go on the run after stealing a device from a space cult.