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Charlie Jane Anders, Annalee Newitz, Cory Doctorow, Hannu Rajaniemi, Neil Gaiman, Kameron Hurley, Ramez Naam, Madeline Ashby, Lauren Beukes, David Brin, Pat Cadigan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lewis Shiner, James Patrick Kelly, Rudy Rucker, Charles Yu, Dave Maass, Paul Ford, SL Grey, Eileen Gunn, Charles Human, Carolyn Jewel, Bruce Sterling: Pwning Tomorrow (EBook, 2016, Electronic Frontier Foundation)

As part of EFF’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, we are releasing “Pwning Tomorrow: Stories from the …

Mostly excellent

This free collection of futurism/dystopian fiction was pretty much excellent from start to finish. For the most part, each author/story takes a current issue, idea, or topic (e.g.: copyright law, patent trolls, crowd sourcing, etc.) and extrapolates it into a possible future whereby it was left to go unchecked and how that would possibly look, giving you a Wellesian warning of why these seemingly innocuous issues are important to consider and/or deal with in our present here-and-now. The stories are excellent, and the list of included authors are top-quality!

...and then there's the final story... which has nothing to do with any of the aforementioned issues at all, and is mostly a fantasy erotic romp. It has no futurism, dystopian, or tech themes at all, except that one of the two main characters is a hacker, apparently, and it's mentioned (twice, in a completely unconnected fashion) that he has a server room in his house. It honestly feels like it's the author equivalent of "I'm a bunny, duh!":

Editor: Hey! Yeah, thanks for your submission. Umm... We're not quite sure it aligns with the theme of the collection though... Author: He's a hacker, duh!