Explore the technological wilderness across more than 180 pages of forward-thinking fact, fiction and opinion. Meet Smari McCarthy and the isolationists building a digital fortress in IcelandтАЩs wilderness; heed the call of the wild with Kim Stanley Robinson and the ultraliters; and join Frank Swain as he trespasses his way across the once public spaces of our forbidden cities. Jack WomackтАЩs first short work in 17 years is set in his signature ultra-exploitative New York. Nancy KressтАЩs city feels more congenial, but proves no less forgiving of human folly. Robert ReedтАЩs blasted and disfigured streets provide a bitterly ironic backdrop to a tale of the worldтАЩs salvation, while Liz JensenтАЩs nurse offers push-button closure to a cityтАЩs dying. Bruce Sterling builds a new urban experience out of mud and virtual reality, while new talent Romie Stott takes the anonymity of the singles bar pick-up to its logical, extreme, and surprisingly humane conclusion. American writer Madeline Ashby finds herself trapped inside a hostile America; Sumit Paul-Choudhury keeps to the shadows as he traces drone culture back to Voyager 2; and Simon Ings goes wandering Under TomorrowтАЩs Sky.