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- A parable about change in which a jaded government undersecretary for a failed global warming agency ends up much greener than he ever imagined possible.
- The end is just the beginning.
- In the polarized economy of the near future, corporations offer subsidies to their high-ranking female employees to pay for chemically accelerated surrogate births.
- A story in the not so distant future about a generation letting go of the American Dream and a new generation adapting to life on the edge.
- Set in the near future of economic hard times, Tent City tells the story of Matthew Ochoa, who has been forced to abandon his career as an artist and take a job evicting people from their foreclosed homes. At home, he and his son Ivan relieve the dreariness by engaging in Trapezoid, their favorite storytelling game, through which they weave an elaborate science-fiction saga.
- After a decade of famine and food riots, the Mendelian Corporation feeds and controls the world through its genetically modified seeds. Twelve-year old Juan is a member of the Sprouts -the Mendelian corporate youth program in which young boys are trained to be the eyes and ears of local authorities. When Juan inadvertently discovers that his father Mateo may be involved in a local seed-running ring, he is forced to decide just how far his commitment goes to the Sprouts motto 'Duty First'.
- A father and his two kids flee a ravaged nation in the hopes of a better life on the other side.
- Imagines a not-too-distant future where video games have become indistinguishable from reality.
- The year is 2025. All American citizens in good health are now required to serve one year in a government job, including on the now treacherous U.S./Mexico border. Tia Moran is a pregnant border patrol agent finishing her last day of service, and when she discovers an illegal immigrant teen hiding in her home, is forced to question her loyalty to a system of exclusion.
- In this environmentally barren and hardscrabble future, teenage Isabel desperately offers hope to her eight-year-old sister Lily, by telling a fairy tale allegorically explaining how this tragic world came to be and its possible salvation by finding the "spring of sorrow."
- In the year 2036, a woman at a data recovery store is visited by a young man who desperately needs to have a mysterious old CD read.
- In a regimented near future, Dekard, an agricultural engineer, learns a lesson about life and love from a renegade asparagus. Dekards growing attraction for a fertilizer delivery gal is played out against a barren and distressed landscape, underground agriculture labs and a dating and mating probability calculation center that can foretell the future.
- In a future where homosexuality is illegal, the perfect wife and mother-to-be discovers that her fetus carries the gay gene and must decide between staying faithful to the love of her life or risking everything.
- An Indian computer specialist, enlisted by an American company, competes in their combat simulator to secure a promotion - unaware of the game's dark secret.
- It's another sweltering 120-degree winter day with five more days to Christmas and hot is the only season left in New York City. Global warming has become a tangible threat to survival and everyone is creating new ways to protect themselves from the sun. Bato, an expecting father enters into a race against the sun, the birth, and his own identity to save his family as he is forced to sell the new currency of this world.
- In 2032 an eight-year old Caribbean boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an 'environmental refugee' in New York City. Haunted by memories of flooding that left him homeless and orphaned, the boy forms an unexpected friendship with an Inuk ice carver, who helps him confront his past.
- Set in the near future, LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT follows Simon Ender on the day he checks his 100-year-old mother Jessica, into a memory care facility that uploads elderly minds into data banks. Simon must grapple with the difficult decision of what is best for his ailing parent as she descends further into dementia. The strained relationship of mother and son is put to the test as Jessica transitions from her aging body into a hard drive with infinite access to every memory and experience. Simon comes face-to-face with feelings of guilt, insecurity and ultimately, love, when the two are reunited.
- Gwen is the spokesperson for a radical technology allowing people to overcome their natural disadvantages and begin life anew. But when her job and family are in crisis, will she undergo the procedure herself?
- A young female soldier returns home after a traumatic tour of duty, taking a new medication that selectively erases memories.