Future Glimpses One: 'The After Party'

By Matthew James

Future Glimpses is a science-fiction short story series that explores how technology will shape our world in the near future including such factors as AI, changing technology and the environmental destruction that inevitably comes with these things.

In the first story, our protagonist attends the funeral of his Nana where she has been resurrected by the 'The After Party', a company who promise to allow your relative to attend their own funeral as a simulation. But what is The After Party really doing with these simulations? And what will our protagonist do to stop them to save the company that his Nana built?

Read on to find out! And if you enjoy this story, please leave a review.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew James
• Release date: Apr 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370587797

Matthew James

Matthew James is a writer of oddities. He had a background in biological sciences, with a degree and PhD in neuroscience, and once spent two years looking after 50 cats. No, really. Matthew writes whatever inspires him from religious satire to dystopian science fiction and lately erotic fiction with the series of short stories, 'Adventures in Swinging', currently holding his attention. Only an atheist is his first novel and the sequel is Jesus Returns Matthew lives with his wife and two cats in the North-West of England.

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Future Glimpses One

The After Party

Matthew James

Copyright 2018 Matthew James

Published by Matthew James at Smashwords

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The After Party

The funeral was a morbid affair, as funerals tend to be, but The After Party was a blast. Having the guest of honour, and recently deceased, as the host really added a level of celebration that was new to most, but not all, of the attendees.

The idea that we could all now celebrate the life of the person that