FORWARD

From Amazon Original Stories comes Forward, a six-part science-fiction collection, featuring original short stories from some of today's most celebrated voices in fiction, including Blake Crouch, N. K. Jemisin, Veronica Roth, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, and Andy Weir.

Forward explores a central theme: the resounding effects of a pivotal technological moment. While each author started with this same prompt, readers will discover that each story unearths a unique corner of the sci-fi genre, ranging from intimate to epic, grounded to far future, hopeful to harrowing.Blake Crouch (editor) is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter and the internationally bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. His latest book is Recursion, a sci-fi thriller about memory, currently in development with Netflix. A bit on the six stories: ARK by Veronica Roth On the eve of Earth's destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy. SUMMER FROST by Blake Crouch A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion. EMERGENCY SKIN by N.K. Jemisin What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Awardwinning author of the Broken Earth trilogy YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT YOUR DESTINATION by Amor Towles Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow. THE LAST CONVERSATION by Paul Tremblay What's more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Awardwinning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness. RANDOMIZE by Andy Weir In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.