2034: Writing Rochester's Futures

Author(s): 
Janice Carello (ed.)
Alicia Henn (ed.)
Eric Scoles (ed.)

Where will you be in 2034?

2034: Writing Rochester's Futures attempts to address this question. Nineteen authors in all (eighteen in print, a nineteenth here on the website) offer glimpses of a Rochester in her 200th year as optimism vies with skepticism, and even pessimistic visions are sometimes whimsical.

Follow the links below to read some pieces in their entirety, and samples of the remainder. Or order the book from our online store.

  1. "GeneLove" by Nancy Kress
  2. "Interesting Times" by Eric Scoles
  3. "Culinary Capital, 2034" by Ben Chapman
  4. "Night Bells" by Dana Paxson
  5. "2034" by Rory Gillett (Full text)
  6. "Hollow Lives" by Adele Ciccaglione
  7. "The Naked Girl" by Sally Caves
  8. "Time Enough for Love" by Gary A. Mitchell
  9. "Day of the Bicentennial" by Lindsay Ely (Full text)
  10. "Picoat" by Kim Gillett
  11. "One City at a Time" by Craig DeLancey
  12. "Want Not" by L. S. Gathmann
  13. "The Costs of Survival" by Jamie Gilman Kress
  14. "Getting Wet" by Tom Moran
  15. "Top 10 Headlines, Rochester, NY, 2034" by Nick DiChario
  16. "The 2034 Lilac Festival" by Steven Donner (Full text)
  17. "North Star Pipeline" by Steve Carper
  18. "Scotch and Sizzlenuts on the Resolute Bay" by Alicia Doty Henn
  19. "Fads (or Why Jerry Loathes the Aliens)" by Alan Vincent Michaels (Full text, available here only)