The future today is becoming obsolete faster than it can be imagined: everything that just a year (two years, two decades) ago seemed promising, promising and excitingly close to us has either been postponed indefinitely or has simply gone to the distant periphery. As a result, the “factory for the production of the future”, which the field of science fiction has always been considered to be, fails or is idle. The authors of the collection “New Future” take upon themselves the heroic work of starting the gears of this factory anew and offering the reader the image of the future that is visible from today. And, as usual, this image tells us almost more about the present than about what awaits us ahead. Galina Yuzefovich, literary critic. In the era of dystopias, it is important not to forget that time has not curled into a circle and has not stopped flowing. There is a future, albeit not entirely idyllic. It is pleasant to know that the authors of this collection, from Shamil Idiatullin and Eduard Verkin to Alexei Salnikov and Vladimir Berezin, do not lose their sense of historical perspective. While I live, I hope. Vasily Vladimirsky, book reviewer. 13 unusual stories by modern Russian writers. In the future they offer, you can get lost and find yourself, and also try to discern stories that are “more shameless than literature.” Ekaterina Pisareva, cultural commentator, chief editor of the liters group of companies.