Freedom through fiction
21 Futures is a cypherpunk fiction project designed to further our understanding of privacy, personal liberty and financial freedom.
The world's first bitcon fiction anthology
Currencies debased.
Privacy under attack.
Cash goes underground.
The crushing weight of debt.
WE WERE NEVER PREPARED
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A review of sci-fi anthologies past and present. The best dystopian short stories and anthologies of 2025. ...more
Review
March 11, 2025•8 min read
Join Mia, a girl longing for a world of love, freedom, and truth, on a thought-provoking journey into the unknown, where she confronts a disturbing future… ...more
Fiction
March 10, 2025•14 min read
This memo intends to brief the federated societies of the galaxy on the status of one specific emerging civilization that has increasingly been of interest to our members, and further, to recommend ca... ...more
Fiction
March 10, 2025•7 min read
An interview with author Lindsay Burns, whose story, 'Dreaming Big', appears in 21 Futures: Financial Fallout ...more
Interview
March 04, 2025•2 min read
When Caleb regained consciousness, he wasn’t sure where he was or even what decade he was in. There was a soft blur to everything, like when he used to swim laps in his infinity pool on his Texan ranc... ...more
Fiction
March 04, 2025•7 min read
I woke up feeling refreshed. Every day is an opportunity for gratitude now that we are free. Every day is a new opportunity to unlearn things we thought we knew about how the world worked. Our minds (... ...more
Fiction
March 04, 2025•10 min read