Remembering the Future

by Mark Shegelski

"Fascinating, inventive stories from a stunning new talent. You'll remember these futures." -- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids Suppose something happened to you that you know... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097354225X
• ISBN13: 9780973542257
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Scroll Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Anticipating the Future

After reading Mark Shegelski's first publication as a science fiction author, I can say I am much more excited about reading science fiction generally and I'll be starting with the author's clear influences like H.G. Wells and Robert J. Sawyer. I found the short stories in Remembering the Future to be packed with intriguing ideas that I still am enjoying contemplating (after over a month since reading them!), from the ability to affect the past, to the intrusion of human emotion into science, right up to my own perception of reality. I really enjoyed this book and am highly anticipating the future for further works from Mark Shegelski.

Puzzle-box of paradox

Reading Shegelski's puzzle-box of interconnected stories messed with my head much the way Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler did when I read it as part of an enrichment class during my high school years -- albeit with more story and no equations. Shegelski's physics background is evident, however, in his choice of settings and subject matter. Each story stands alone, but taken together they functionally illustrate some of the paradoxes they contend with individually. No math required to enjoy the experience! Anyone who has wondered about time paradoxes, the implications of multiple universes or quantum entanglement will get a kick out of these stories which are very readable and entertaining, with a "Twilight Zone" feel about them although the settings are misleadingly ordinary.

Two tendrils way up!

I thought the ideas presented were very fresh and some of the stories would often have me thinking long after. The stories take ideas from quantum physics and use them in the everyday world in a way that is new and thought provoking yet requires no knowledge of physics. Best of all the book is noticeably well written and a pleasure to read. I really enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to reading whatever Mark Sheglski writes next.

Debra Lee

Shegelski can take credit for pioneering a clever new style of science fiction. What if childhood monsters were part of your future and what if you were the One Who Chooses willing them into existence? Shegelski's protagonists deal with a world of out of body experiences, electrons, rat sized insectoids, quantum physics and glistening slime monsters. His character's perceptions of remembering the future, travel to the past and future captivated my mind with new possibilities. I waited with anticipation for each consecutive story and the final one has a surprising twist! I look forward to his coming books.