The Project
A story set in the future,
about right now.
The Time Tales is a speculative fiction anthology that explores what happens when humanity creates a perfect digital universe — and most of the world decides to leave physical existence behind. It is not a story about the future. It is a study of the present — exposed, stretched, and stripped of illusion.
The anthology is multicultural by design, not by decoration. Every story is rooted in a specific cultural reality. Dev disrupts each one differently. If a story can be moved to another culture without changing its meaning, it is incomplete.
Technology is the setting. Emotion is the story.
What This Becomes
The Possibilities
Two narrative formats — The World Stories and The Letters — woven into a single reading experience spanning 2020 to 2099. A complete work of speculative fiction that can be read linearly or explored non-sequentially.
The Seeds, The Fracture, The Seduction, The Reckoning. Each phase is a season. Each season tracks both the macro-historical arc and the intimate personal stories of individuals navigating the transition to Dev.
Players make the choices the anthology only watches. Do you enter Dev? Do you stay? What do you sacrifice? What do you gain? The game explores the ethical and emotional weight of decisions the anthology can only describe.
The anthology grows with its audience. If there is anything we have learnt from the future, it is that the best ideas can come from anywhere and from anybody. Your letter may become part of the story.
More perspectives; a better future. Live readings, panels, and discussions that bring the world of The Time Tales into the real world — and bring the real world into the anthology.
4
Phases
80
Years Spanned
2020–2099
2020–2099
2
Narrative
Formats
Formats
30+
Stories