future

To celebrate the launch of our first fiction issue, we bring you a short story by Cynan Jones, set in a near-future Britain ravaged by climate change. With illustrations by Nick Hayes.

From the archives, a short essay about home and the UK housing crisis.

'Why do you want to live in this world, here in this time and place? By the time you are 30 you may live a daily catastrophe beyond my ability to imagine. You may live on a hot, drought-stricken Earth as countries battle over what is left of its water. You may mourn the loss of the last animal species.' Nina Pick's letter to her unborn child. from Dark Mountain: Issue 13

The timing’s perfect, actually. It’s a great example of the stupid culture the Clearing was built to...

. That wasn’t always the case. As recently as the 1970s, imaginary tomorrows that went...

When US high-tech industry CEOs started a lobbying and education group to advance the cause...

Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture...

'I don’t remember how old I was when I was taught to tend the listening post...' A dispatch from an arid future.

Today a guard asks, ‘Where is Pyotr Zhukov?’ There is no answer. The guard asks...

If thou shouldst plant these things in thy firm understanding and contemplate them with good...