This fall, Lapham's Quarterly will open the seventh seal and stake our fate in prophecies, oracles, utopias, dystopias, new technologies, and new worlds with our latest issue, "The Future."

Covering more centuries than ever before, from the Book of Genesis to London in the year 800,000, we have Mark Twain predicting fearful earthquakes, Seneca meditating on the shortness of life, Ada Lovelace considering a brilliant career in computing, Heinrich Heine investing in tulips, Snorri Sturluson invoking the gods, George Orwell fearing someone might be watching.

Lapham's Quarterly is pleased to join with the always forward-looking Tumblr and The New Inquiry to launch our Future issue at The powerHouse Arena. There will be drinks, readings, and issues available for sale. In the format of The New Inquiry's salon, attendees are invited to submit a historical reading of less than 500 words about "the future" to the LQ Tumblr. If yours is picked as a favorite, you'll get to read at the event.

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