Leeches aid in the healing process after having a new cybernetic arm installed.
A joust takes place on an alien planet, with local wildlife standing in for horses.
The Aztec floating gardens were traditionally in shallow, freshwater lakes, but in the future they float in the sky instead.
The Royal Game of Ur, an ancient Mesopotamian board game, is played in a futuristic casino.
The gingras, a Phonecian funerary instrument, is used to teach androids how to feel sadness.
A turnspit dog, an extinct breed of working dog, runs on a wheel to power a spaceship’s cryostasis
technology.
Gold rush hydraulic mining techniques are used to extract valuable ore from asteroids.
Past Futures
Past Futures examines the subjectivity of the future by imagining what past societies’ versions of science fiction might look like. What did their “cutting edges” of technology and culture look like, and how would they look applied to a far future?
