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Future Glimpses Five: Watching Humanity From Afar
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Future Glimpses is a science-fiction short story series that explores the effect technology has on our world and on us.
In the fifth story, a signal is received from an unknown origin. Who is it from and what will it tell us?
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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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