Arc 1.3

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

Arc

About this eBook

Futures and fiction from the makers of New Scientist.

Welcome to Arc"s afterparty: Neal Stephenson brings us to our feet; Broadway producer David Binder takes us to the new festival; Justin Pickard and Simon Ings find rough pleasure in the streets; Sumit Paul-Choudhury gets us onto the guest list for the singularity disco; and Christina Agapakis shows off her garden of biohacked delights.

And this issue's original fiction edges us even closer to the future. Open-source celebrities run amok in Lavie Tidhar"s Changing Faces; smash-and-grab shoppers run amock in Tim Maughan"s Limited Edition. David Gullen"s tale of second-place spacefarers, All Your Futures, wryly celebrates humanity"s Outward Urge, while Nan Craig"s Scrapmetal drops a cyborg killing machine into Port Talbot.

Each quarter, Arc explores the future through cutting-edge science fiction and forward-looking essays by some of the world’s most celebrated authors, alongside columns by thinkers and practitioners from the worlds of books, design, gaming, film and more.

Ratings and reviews

Sorry David, If the marketing is deceptive or the platform inoperable then the product is a failure. Thats true in a misprinted or edited book as it is in a digital edition which is 'free' and insists on credit card details so it can bill the unattending when the trial period times out. That's free as in free porn subscription not free as in air. Anyway the marketing is substantially false - a free epub is not offered at google play - just a browser view or android download. Also on my android device I get no google play option but instead forced to zinio which takes my data and then times out and issues broken urls and other incompetences. What a mess - deceptive marketiing aside the delivery is crap . Never got to read and have lost enthusiasm. Well done NS you've converted an enthusiast into a critic. Stellar attention to detail

If you want to see a truly 'free' book entry on Play, do a search for Treasure Island. The free book will not have a FREE icon to initiate the download, it has an OPEN icon. When you click on it you get a READ icon, which takes you to the reader app, and downloads the book. However, if you search on 'free book' you also get a lot of 1st edition periodicals like Arc.... Guess what, they too want a £0.00 credit card payment. This is easing you into paying in future, they're making it easier for you to mistakenly hit the subscribe button without hitting you with the payment authorisation. Just be careful next marketing email.

This costs exactly $0.00 and you're not signing up for anything you don't want. The Play store is Google's app store for android devices. You're not expected to buy anything, but it will allow you to browse apps, ebooks and movies online (both free and paid), and send them directly to your phone if you like.