The Mammoth Book of Future Cops Author:Maxim Jakubowski (Editor), M. Christian (Editor) The future will be a world of ambiguity, of good men gone bad and bad men doing good -- our world of today, turned sideways. This is the future of Blade Runner and Akira, the world of cops and crooks written across a bleak landscape of urban decay, pollution, corruption, of multinational organisations pulling the strings of government and contro... more »lling the world with cyber Big Brothering. All the stories included in this volume are the greatest of noir crime writing -- by turn evocative, haunting, brutal and heroic, but always original, and always visionary.
Introduction (The Mammoth Book of Future Cops) • (2003) • essay by Maxim Jakubowski and M. Christian
Celebrate the Bullet • (1991) • novelette by Richard Paul Russo
Glass Earth, Inc. • (1997) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
Footprint on Nowhere Beach • (2003) • novelette by Conrad Williams
The Shape of Murder • (1998) • short story by Ian Watson
The Incorporated • (1985) • short story by John Shirley
Seiza • (2003) • short story by Steven Schwartz
Axl against the Immortals • (2003) • short story by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Offenders • (2003) • short story by Mat Coward
Violation • (1973) • short story by William F. Nolan
Needle Taste • (2001) • short story by M. Christian
An End to Hunger • (2000) • short story by China Miéville
A Scanner Darkly (excerpt) • (1977) • short fiction by Philip K. Dick
The Mojave Two-Step • (1999) • short story by Norman Partridge
Blood Sisters • (1979) • novelette by Joe Haldeman
Heartache • (2003) • short story by Stuart Young
Mindstalker • (2003) • short story by Martin Edwards
Thighs • (2003) • short story by Melanie Fogel
The Uncertainty Principle • (2003) • short story by John Moralee
Prison Dreams • (1992) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
Three Bananas • (1982) • short story by Larry Tritten
You Never Know • (1999) • short story by Carol Anne Davis
Play Nice • (2003) • short story by Jennifer Ashley [as by J. E. Ashley]
Me and My Shadow • (1984) • short story by Mike Resnick