How Gretel Gets Her Groove Back
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In this issue, E.C. Salibian explores the ancient food of Anatolia to reconnect with her Armenian ancestors in Eat Before You Go.
In the short story Sliders, Wesley Browne delves into the fictional world of Hague, Indiana, where following tradition and trying to be a normal boy just might get you killed.
And poet Lauren Alleyne reimagines the lives of Hansel and Gretel in three poems including How Gretel Got Her Groove Back.
The images in this issue present a series of futuristic pictures created by artists in France from 1899 to 1910 that depict the world as it was imagined to be like in the then distant year of 2000.
Presented here are a series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the then distant year of 2000.
Due to financial difficulties the cards by Jean-Marc Côté were never actually distributed and only came to light many years later after the science-fiction author Isaac Asimov chanced upon a set and published them in 1986, with accompanying commentary, in the book Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000.
For more information, please see https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000
