‘Futures’, Nature’s award-winning science-fiction series, has moved to Nature Physics. Read the new, specially commissioned physics series of essays from January 2007, at Nature Physics. The Futures essay in the current issue is “Giving up Meat”, by Jess A. Brewer.

Nature published 156 Futures between 1999 and 2006, ranging from the serious to the whimsical. An anthology is planned. As H. G. Wells, in Nature 65, 326–331; 1902, wrote: “the question what is to come after man is the most persistently fascinating and the most insoluble question in the whole world”.