Progress always sends a bill. These five near‑future short stories expose the human cost of artificial wombs for sale, deepfake politics, AI companions, and gene‑edited families. If you crave Black Mirror‑style, character‑driven sci‑fi, this collection will stay with you long after the final page.

A literary, near‑future sci‑fi collection about technology's promise—and price.

Evidence of the Future, Vol. 1 is a stunning collection of five short stories that plunge you into the deeply human consequences of our most breathtaking technological advancements. Each story explores a near-future that feels unnervingly close, where the architects of a new world must confront the humanity they risk losing. From a sterile facility where synthetic babies are grown as commercial and government products, to a suburban home where a child's AI companion develops a will of its own, these tales reveal the hidden costs of a world obsessed with optimization.

Meet characters who walk the bleeding edge:

an executive whose icy composure is shattered by a mysterious client
a Capitol Hill press secretary who wields deepfake technology as a weapon of truth
a brilliant scientist who plays God with his own family's DNA
an elderly woman in a high-tech care facility whose fading memories are the only thing keeping her from being deleted

Their choices will echo through generations, leaving behind indelible evidence of a future we are actively creating, one terrifying breakthrough at a time.

For fans of Black Mirror, Blake Crouch, and Kazuo Ishiguro, this collection is a masterful blend of high-concept science fiction and intimate literary drama. Haunting, prophetic, and deeply moving, Evidence of the Future, Volume 1 is a powerful examination of what it means to be human when technology offers us the chance to be something more.

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