Topic #: Title of Story Synopsis of World and Story
1: Campus Utqiaġvik
Story: The outgoing civic leader in Campus Utqiaġvik is visiting the grocery store, and is experiencing nostalgia and a sense of time passing as she steps down from her civic responsibilities.
2: Nanook Station
Story: A corporate spy is secretly monitoring scientific advancements at a scientific outpost on Devon Island near Baffin Bay, in Nunavut, Canada.
3: Security Detail
Story: Else Larsen, the security detail for the Norwegian delegates to an Arctic Council meeting, compares the public and private comments regarding China’s potential joining of the international diplomatic body.
4: The Last Preserve
Story: A student group is on an ocean-going ship visiting a preserved island environment in the Yukon, Canada, where they learn about the decisions that led to this conservation effort.
5: Concession 60
Story: A person begins a work contract with a mining conglomerate, and experiences traumatic memories of her migration North.
6: Putin’s Gambit
Story: A future history in the style of a popular podcast, where a story unfolds of how Russian political leadership miscalculated in how to handle changing fossil fuel extraction.
7: Voice from the Past
Story: During a meeting among trade representatives from Inuit Nunangat and Canada, an off-hand prejudiced comment leads to a history lesson about Indigenous life before, during, and after Canadian control of Inuit Nunangat.
8: Icebreaker
Story: Two individuals on a permanent Russian icebreaking station near the Kara Sea must decide how to deal with a potential geopolitical incident.
9: Assisted Migration
Story: A group of biologists, tasked with monitoring and guiding the Porcupine Caribou herd northward encounters a technological and ecological challenge.
10: School’s Out Forever
Story: A family on a homestead in the Sakha region of the former Russian Federation shares stories about what the world used to be like and the way the world is now.