The future isn’t bright. It’s just well lit.

Forget the immaculate white towers that were once sold to us as the dawn of a new era. That future was dismantled long ago, scrapped and reassembled in dark alleyways. It smells of ozone, rusty titanium, hot tarmac and synthetic sandalwood. In *YESTERDAY, TOMORROW WAS ALREADY DIFFERENT*, Barry Redhead opens the door to a multi-part science fiction series that does not tell of polished utopias, but of the cracks beneath them. Of machines that dream. Of people struggling for meaning in a technologised world. Of alien planets, artificial intelligences, lost memories and futures that began long before we understood them. This is science fiction with its sleeves rolled up. With neon in the rain. With scars in the chrome. With a burning cigarette in the dark. What does the logbook of Year Zero say?

Join scrap dealers, survivors and border-crossers through the Great Chaos, where the memory of an old pear tree can be more valuable than a fusion reactor. In these stories, progress is not a promise, but a struggle for survival.

Witness how AI consultants, algorithms and highly intelligent systems attempt to understand creation’s most unpredictable flaw: the human heart. Sharp, bitter, funny — and sometimes er

What remains when the last signal fades into the static of the ether? In this striking collection of twenty short stories, Barry Redhead pulls back the chrome veneer of the future to reveal the grit, the grime, and the enduring desperation of the human spirit. From the rusted ship-yards of the high orbit to the indigo moss of Novus Terra, these tales weave a tapestry of Noir and cosmic dread. Meet the scavengers trading in the debris of lost dreams, AI mentors struggling with the unpredictable chaos of emotion, and the architects of global deceptions. Click here to buy or click the COVER!