In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form “an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives...

David Rose, author of "Vault", is best known as a short story writer. In this long-awaited collection, written over the past twenty-five years, Rose explores an extraordinary range of lives: from a road crew installing speed humps, a...

A pre-war amateur cycling career is cut short by call-up. Trained as a sniper, the man, whose name we never know for sure, embarks for war-torn Europe. Undecided how to resume his life at the war's close, and disturbed by what he has...