Award-winning author Brenda Cooper’s first science fiction only collection treats readers to human stories about the future. Meet a physicist who searches across timelines in a desperate attempt to travel across them herself, a young woman who tried to re-cover the magic of a trip on a river with her grandfather, a young couple who suspect their neighbor child is being raised by robots, and many more…

HUMAN FUTURES
PART ONE
The ROBOT’S GIRL
SAVANT SONGS
RIDING in MEXICO
The WAR of the FLOWERS
TRAINER of WHALES
STAR of HUMANITY
MY FATHER’S SINGULARITY

PART TWO
The TRELLIS
SECOND SHIFT
BLOOD BONDS

PART THREE
The HEBRAS and the DEMONS and the DAMNED
The STREET of ALL DESIGNS

PART FOUR
MY GRANDFATHER’S RIVER
TEA with JILLIAN
FOR the LOVE of MECHANICAL MINDS
ENTROPY and EMERGENCE
ALIEN GRAVEYARDS
A HAND and HONOR
MIND EXPEDITIONS

PART FIVE
FOR the LOVE of METAL DOGS
CRACKING the SKY