Futuricity: Out of Time Cambria Books 2024
In this love letter to science fiction Futuricity: Out of Time will tell of four SF-loving friends whose own adventure into the future will have consequences beyond their own time. In these two books published together, and with space and time travel a given, Futuricity, Out of Time will also include crime and interspecies sex while being told in 5 distinct parts – The Book, Testimony, Enquiry, Confession and Analysis.
<“Futuricity” is the sort of sci-fi that the Futuricity website operators would approve of: realistic science as a vehicle to interrogate humanity, where societies succeed or fail and how they can be strengthened or weakened by mavericks and disrupters. But it’s also a tale about how a child brought up in a neglectful, stretched care system can, through an unlikely father figure, discover a capacity for fatherhood and break an assumption that the future generations will follow the same path. Each has their own view of what a future city or family might look like. Science, it seems, can’t thrive without the human attributes of compassion. Through “Futuricity” Sam Smith doesn’t just ask what a future city or family might look like, but what values future societies need to thrive and continue and how attitudes towards and within communities can contribute to their success or failure. Were the Time Police right to go easy on O/V and what drives their motivations to police him rather than the criminal who coerced him into deviancy in the first place? What might a compassionate, humane society look like and could such a society survive?
“Futuricity” is neither a dystopia or a utopia, but, like humans, a mix of good, bad and complex characters and a challenge to readers’ philosophy.> Emma Lee (for the full review see https://emmalee1.wordpress.com )
ISBN 978-1-0687077-8-0
Available here -https://www.cambriabooks.co.uk/product/futuricity-out-of-time/
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The above banner and following description of Futuricity is courtesy Bennett Favour
They built a time machine in a forum. What they found on the other end was never supposed to be found.
Benjamin Barraclough is an ex-newsman turned science fiction obsessive, the kind of man who debates warp drives and paradoxes with strangers on the internet. When his friend Julian quietly engineers the impossible, a device capable of traversing both space and time, their small circle of SciFi forum friends steps out of the thread and into the universe itself.
What they find in the distant future is not the gleaming civilisation they imagined. It is silence. A depopulated Earth, emptied of humanity, full of questions no one has lived to answer.
But the future doesn't stay quiet for long, not when someone else already knows what's out there.
O/V is a former criminal with a gift for opportunity. He sees what Benjamin's group has stumbled onto, the ultimate leverage, and moves to claim it. His actions trigger something far older and stranger than any of them bargained for: the Time Police, hybrid clones engineered to protect the integrity of the timeline, whose authority is absolute.
Until it isn't.
When O/V vanishes, the investigation that follows pulls Benjamin and his friends into a conspiracy that stretches across eras, weaving together crime, survival, love, and relationships between species who were never meant to meet. The timeline is fraying. And ordinary people, armed with nothing but curiosity and each other, may be the only ones left to hold it together.
A mind-bending adventure for readers who believe science fiction should ask the questions that keep you awake at 2am, and answer them in ways you never saw coming.
For fans of Blake Crouch, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Connie Willis, and H.G. Wells.
Published by Cambria Books.
