Released in 2003 as a part of Printed Matter’s Emerging Artists Publication Series, Futureways imagines a prospective art world in the year 2304. The second installment in Rita McBride’s collaborative Ways series, the book exploits the malleable conventions of the science fiction genre with stories about space travel, time travel, alien contact, sexuality, robots, dystopias and countless other subjects.

Contributions from Rita McBride, Laura Cottingham, Nick Crowe, Matthew Licht, Alexandre Melo and more form an eleven chapter portrait of a future not that unfamiliar from the present. Positing artists as individuals with “time-traveling” or “shapeshifting” capabilities, the texts engage with a modernist “art of the future” approach to imagine a tumbling, unsettling destiny permeated by extremes and preoccupied with the past.