The novella “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor was published for the first time in 2015. It’s the first work in the Binti series. It won the Hugo, Nebula, and Nommo awards as the best novella of the year.

Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu ​​Kaipka of Namib is only 16 when she decides to go to Oomza University. For her, this means running away from home because the Himba are very attached to their land, and everyone in Binti’s family assumes she won’t go. After the initial tension, traveling to another planet seems like a great adventure to Binti, at least until the Meduse board the starship and kill the other passengers. Binti’s amulet seems for some reason capable of killing the Meduse and allows her to communicate with them.

The novella “The Man Who Sold The Moon” by Cory Doctorow was published for the first time in 2014.

Greg Harrison has just received the result of a medical test that turned out negative. When he’s still shaken by having dodged a cancer, he accidentally runs into a young man who calls himself Pug, and he discovers they share some interests. Pug has built a 3D printer that uses sand to build bricks to assemble a yurt, and when he’s diagnosed with an incurable cancer, Greg decides to launch a version of it to the Moon, where it could use ground dust as a building material.

The novella “Diving into The Wreck” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch was published for the first time in 2009. It’s part of the Diving Universe.

Boss hired a team to explore the wreckage of a spaceship she found drifting in space. Potentially, it’s a treasure because the artifacts she could recover can be worth a lot of money and ancient lost technologies can be worth a real fortune. The recovery operations are always dangerous because it’s impossible to know what you can find in a wreck, especially when it seems to date back to millennia before and it’s in a place in space very far from those that such ancient spaceships could reach.

The short story “A History of Future Illnesses” by Chen Qiufan was published for the first time in 2012.

Stanley comes from the future to explain which diseases, both physical and mental, will afflict humanity in the coming ages. In several cases technological developments caused new problems, in others they brought changes that magnified problems that in the past were much more limited.

The short story “The Smog Society” by Chen Qiufan was published for the first time in 2010.

Lao Sun is a retired man who collaborates with what’s commonly called “The Smog Society”, an environmental non-governmental organization that among other things takes car of collecting data on the city’s smog. The analysis of the data collected leads to the conclusion that there’s a correlation between smog and the inhabitants’ happiness but the terms of that correlation are surprising.