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==Science fiction==
In 1999, ''Nature'' began publishing [[science fiction]] short stories. The brief "[[vignette (literature)|vignettes]]" are printed in a series called "Futures". The [[Short story|stories]] appeared in 1999 and 2000, again in 2005 and 2006, and have appeared weekly since July 2007.<ref name="futures">{{Cite web |title=Futures |url=https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=futures |access-date=9 August 2012 |website=Nature}}</ref> Sister publication ''[[Nature Physics]]'' also printed stories in 2007 and 2008.<ref name="FuturesPhysics">{{cite web |url= http://www.nature.com/nphys/archive/categ_fut_012008.html |title=Futures Archive |work= [[Nature Physics]] |access-date= 1 May 2014 }}</ref> In 2005, ''Nature'' was awarded the [[European Science Fiction Society]]'s Best Publisher award for the "Futures" series.<ref name="ESFSAward">{{cite web |url= http://www.esfs.info/esfs-awards-2000.html#2005 |title= The ESFS Awards, Eurocon 2005: Glasgow – Scotland |author= European Science Fiction Society |date= 21 May 2013 |author-link= European Science Fiction Society |access-date= 10 August 2012 |archive-date= 16 July 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140716140006/http://www.esfs.info/esfs-awards-2000.html#2005 |url-status= dead }}</ref> One hundred of the ''Nature'' stories between 1999 and 2006 were published as the collection ''Futures from Nature'' in 2008.<ref name="FuturesCollection">{{cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/futuresfromnatur0000unse |title= Futures from Nature: 100 Speculative fictions from the pages of the leading science journal |editor= Henry Gee |publisher= [[Tor Books]] |date= 2008 |location= New York City |isbn= 978-0-7653-1805-3 |quote= With stories from: [[Arthur C. Clarke]], [[Bruce Sterling]], [[Charles Stross]], [[Cory Doctorow]], [[Greg Bear]], [[Gregory Benford]], [[Oliver Morton (science writer)|Oliver Morton]], [[Ian R. MacLeod]], [[Rudy Rucker]], [[Greg Egan]], [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]], [[Barrington J. Bayley]], [[Brian Stableford]], [[Frederik Pohl]], [[Vernor Vinge]], [[Nancy Kress]], [[Michael Moorcock]], [[Vonda McIntyre]], [[Kim Stanley Robinson]], [[John M. Ford]] and eighty more. |access-date= 10 August 2012 |df= dmy-all |url-access= registration }}</ref> Another collection, ''Futures from Nature 2'', was published in 2014.<ref>Henry Gee, Colin Sullivan, ed. (2014), [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?652217 ''Nature Futures 2''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618205121/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?652217 |date=18 June 2020 }}, Tor Books, {{ISBN|978-1-4668-7998-0}}. With stories from: [[Madeline Ashby]], [[Neal Asher]], [[Gregory Benford]], [[Eric Brown (writer)|Eric Brown]], [[Ian Watson (author)|Ian Watson]] and more</ref>