Writing

Future Artifacts

Brutal. Devastating. Dangerous.

Join an investigation into a cruel and heartless leader … crawl through filth and mud to escape biological warfare … team up with time-traveling soldiers faced with potentially life-altering instructions.

Kameron Hurley, award-winning author and expert in the future of war and resistance movements, has created eighteen exhilarating tales giving glimpses into the warfare of tomorrow.

A bleak future, yet there is hope for us. With Hurley’s characteristic grim optimism, her characters fight for what they believe is right. They exhibit degrees of humanity only possible in the worst of circumstances. It is these characters, driven by a murky sense of honor and written with sincere, deep empathy, that make Future Artifacts: Stories a powerful collection you won’t soon forget.

Contains the following stories:

Sky Boys
Overdark
The Judgement of Gods and Monsters
Broker of Souls
The One We Feed
Corpse Soldier
Leviathan
Unblooded
The Skulls of Our Fathers
Body Politic
We Burn
Antibodies
The Traitor Lords
Wonder Maul Doll
Our Prisoners, the Stars
The Body Remembers
Moontide
Citizens of Elsewhen

Corpse Soldier

Everything started here: A broad plain of yellow grass, the stalks crushed and smeared with blood, and the sounds of dying men—yes, all men—sobbing and praying to the rusty pink sky. The high grass hid their forms and faces. They were bodiless voices, as if ghosts already, rising above the field like ashes to heaven. Read on […]

The Plague Givers

She had retired to the swamp because she liked the color. When the Contagion College came back for her thirty years after she had fled into the swamp’s warm, black embrace, the color was the same, but she was not. Which brings us here.

Plague Givers

Lately, Inspector Abijah Olivia has found most of her answers at the bottom of a bottle. But when she takes a private contract to figure out why the bodies of dead young men keep washing up on the beaches of her colony world, a single golden button will tell her everything she needs to know—perhaps […]

Meet Me In the Future

Meet Me in the Future One of the best story collections of the past few years. Booklist (STARRED REVIEW) When renegade author Kameron Hurley (The Light Brigade; The Stars Are Legion) takes you to the future, be prepared for the unexpected. Yes, it will be dangerous, frequently brutal, and often devastating. But it’s also savagely funny, […]

Light Brigade

Light Brigade Hurley is one of the most important voices in the field, and Light Brigade is some of her best work. This is the real thing. JAMES S.A. COREY, AUTHOR OF THE EXPANSE From the Hugo Award-winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a science fiction thriller about a futuristic war. They said the war […]

Fisherman and the Pig

Nev sat on the end of the charred pier, casting his line again and again into the murky water in the hopes of catching a corpse.

When We Fall

I don’t remember the first time I was abandoned and forgotten, but I have told the story of the second time so often that when the memory boils up it feels hot and gummy, like the air that day.

Apocalypse Nyx

Apocalypse Nyx Apocalypse Nyx is grim, unapologetic science fiction at its best . . . gripping. New York Journal of BOoks Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter, Nyx, is good at solving other people’s problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. Hey, it’s a living. Her disreputable reputation […]

Tumbledown

It was too early in the season for a plague…