One of the most interesting tools for thinking about future defence technology isn’t big data forecasting and the use of synthetic training environments, but narrative and imagination. Long-range military planning, deciding what to invest in now to prepare armed forces for the world in thirty years’ time, is even more difficult. You don't need CGI or recognizable super-powered characters to have a fascinating sci-fi adventure, after all.Military planning is a complicated endeavour, calling upon experts in logistics and infrastructure to predict resource availability and technological advancements. Every so often, though, it can be nice to return to the world of written science fiction. And I genuinely think that's great! You can never have too many stories (although I do think that keeping up with every single superhero show would constitute a full time job these days). Lucky for us, though, some of the greatest sci-fi authors out there today have published stories available for free online - and you can read them right now.īetween Black Mirror and the whole gaggle of Marvel movies, we're all but drowning in science fiction media right now. In just a few pages, the author must set up an entire new world (or a world that is just ever so slightly different than our own), and then deftly twist this new world into some kind of satisfying (or devastating) conclusion. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a space opera as much as the next nerd-but there's something about short-form sci-fi that has the potential to be especially mind-blowing. Short stories are the perfect medium for science fiction.
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