A Short History of the Future

A Short History of the Future
ISBN: 978-1915179470

Published : 6th March 2025
Northodox Press (eBook)
Waterstones, Amazon UK, Amazon US

42 retro-themed sci-fi stories covering time travel, multiverses, aliens, spaceships, teleportation, and more!

Includes award-winning stories Ana, Tribbulations, and Re-boot, along with stories published in Best of British Science Fiction, Nature Futures, and Analog.

BBC Uploaded (29 mins in)

Northern Voices Podcast

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'Smart, fast and sharp... like a tasting menu full of stars!'
Dylan Byford, The Cyberdale Series

'This is sci-fi as it should be: fast, wild, white-knuckle stories, with a brand new future on every page!' Joseph Darlington, The Disruptors

'Liam is deft at setting scenes very quickly, and making characters very real... writing stories with wit and humour. A Short History of the Future showcases the breadth of his talent' Donna Scott, Editor of Best of British Science Fiction (Newcon Press)

'7-year-old Ana and her parallel Ana and universes under her bed is a wow of a short story - the ending is a stroke of genius' Jamie Jackson

'You would be mad to pass on these fantastic stories, all gathered together in one beautiful volume! Liam Hogan’s collection is an absolute must buy.' Anne Woodward, The Art of Murder

Table of Contents
Ana : Quantum Shorts Winner, 2015, Best of British Science Fiction (2016)
All Our Futures (Drabble)
Lighter than Air : Best Vegan SFF, 2020
Starborn, Starbirth
The Betsey
Star Little, Twinkle, Twinkle (microfiction)
The What-The Tree
Bob, Justbob
Tribbulations : LA SciFest Roswell Award 2015-2016 Winner
Welcome
Frozen
The Icy Breath Of Enceladus
Merry-Go-Round
White Goods
The Backup : Finalist, The Gravity Award, Center Field of Gravity
Fixed Point
The Best of Us
Cards Against Cosmology
Space Unicorns and Magic Ovens
X X
Compatibility
The Uploaded
The Reality Star of Relativity
Galena : Best of British Science Fiction (2019)
Extract from The Time Traveller’s Guide: Chapter 7, Tourism
Lunch Failure
Semi-Detached
Seven Ships
Cut and Thrust
Excerpts from the User Guide for the SynaTech-3411 3D Bio-Printer
Institute Library Technical Paper RN2399/2037 : LA SciFest Roswell Award 2014-2015 Runner-Up
Instructions for Attending Sunday’s Anti Time Travel March
The Third Apocalypse
Lazarus, Unbound : Best of British Science Fiction (2020)
Time Trial
Last Bite at the Klondike : Best of British Science Fiction (2022)
Schrödinger’s Escape Route
Coffee Kaput
Superman
Repeat Performance
The Pamphlets Say (Drabble)
Re-Boot : Quarancon (Winner, Short story contest, 2021)

I'm very proud to announce my first book!

Happy Ending Not Guaranteed

ISBN: 978-1909208360 Arachne Press / Amazon.co.uk
Available in Paperback and e-Book

Publication & Launch : 6th April 2017

27 'Deliciously Twisted' tales of dark fantasy,
from chess-playing automatons to smooth-talking Celtic faeries;
from the Longitude Act of 1714 to the End of the World
(in fractal form)

Bad Kings, bad demons, and bad days abound.

There is humour even in darkness.
You just have to look harder for it.

Reviews: "Fun and funny, scary and exciting" : OpenPen (Scott Manley Hadley)
Author Interviews: TSS, Burley Fisher Q&A

Tour Videos: 
The Giant, Snow-White
Feathers
Miscellaneous, Spooky, Weird
Stars
ValCon
Internet Dating for Immortals
Burley Fisher Q&A
Late
Bad Day 

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