Futures Café is an exploration space for anyone curious about how the world imagines its futures — across languages, continents, and traditions.

Most futures and science fiction reading lists are dominated by western voices. Here we explore wider. Poetry, speculative fiction, foresight writing, and visionary essays from authors whose perspectives are beyond the usual recommendation lists — though we include classics too. Each post opens with a text — sometimes a book review, sometimes a single poem — and a short reflection on what it reveals about time, uncertainty, and what we hope for.

Curated by a philologist, translator, and futures researcher who collects books from travels and believes whose imagination we listen to shapes the futures we build. Welcome to explore and comment.