The future is unknown, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling future stories, speculative grasps at what may happen based on what has come before. David Christian is renowned for pioneering the discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. With Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eve forward, offering a sort of User's Guide to the Future and what we think we know about it at all scales, from the individual to the cosmological. Consulting theologians, philosophers, scientists, statisticians, and scholars from a. huge range of places and times, Christian explores how we can prepare for what the future holds, including what may emerge in human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. By linking the study of the past to the study of the future, we can begin to imagine what the world will look like in a hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.