Announcing The World's First Bitcoin Fiction Anthology
After 1 year of hard work, it's finally arrived.
Hi there, it’s been a while.
Coming Up Short is back from its hiatus so I can tell you about a very cool short-fiction project.
21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain is an anthology of 21 stories set against the backdrop of a new economic paradigm: bitcoin.
After 1 year of hard work, reading submissions, working on edits with authors and preparing the book for launch, it feels amazing to hold a copy of the first book I've edited.
I'm also writing to tell you that this book would not have happened without networking.
I met Niko Laamanen, head of the book's publisher Konsensus Network, in 2022. He became a client in order to sharpen his writing, and I later presented my idea to him: the world's first bitcoin fiction anthology.
Networking and building relationships with publishers is a key skill for all writers, so make sure you keep reaching out to relevant people in the field. You never know what might come of it!
21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain is available to buy now.
Political dissidents scramble to cross the threshold to freedom.
A decades-long hunt for keys incites a change in world order.
A clear-blood dares to question the oppression of noderoids.
A cryo-frozen oligarch wakes into his worst nightmare.
A lowly space station miner buys a planet.
In this book of diverse stories planted firmly in the bitcoin-verse, reality fractures into 21 futures. Some are wonderful, others terrifying.
You are not prepared.
I hope you check out the book and that it gives you the belief that one day, you could be holding a copy of your own work.
We are more capable than we know.
Philip Charter