Brave New Now

Brave New Now is a collection of specially commissioned short stories set in a fictional future city developed by speculative architect Liam Young for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, for the exhibition Future Perfect. Authors have been invited to inhabit the city, to breathe life into its characters and cultures and give form to its streets and spaces through narrative. It is a speculative urbanism, an exaggerated present, in which we can imagine the wonders and possibilities of emerging biological and technological research.

The support of the British Council has enabled a discounted distribution price of Brave New Now ebook as part of the Close, Closer ebook series, produced for the 3rd edition of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

This publication includes contributions from the acclaimed American science fiction author, Bruce Sterling; the British comic-book writer,Warren Ellis; the Professor of Experimental Architecture at Newcastle University Rachel Armstrong, Indian novelist and filmmaker Samit Basu; Indian writer of speculative fiction, and computer scientist Anil Menon, among others.

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