'The Elephant in the Waiting Room' is a collection of ten science-fiction stories about hope, tragedy, and rebirth in a world that appears to be nearing its end. Authors from diverse backgrounds and nationalities imagine a series of prologues and epilogues for our many uncertain futures. These stories confront our shared fears of a technological future rushing towards us at the speed of light: the grand piano suspended above our heads. We sit in the waiting room, waiting for war, for uprising, for collapse. Who are we without the waiting that defines us?'The Elephant in the Waiting Room' is a collection of ten science-fiction stories about hope, tragedy, and rebirth in a world that appears to be nearing its end. Authors from diverse backgrounds and nationalities imagine a series of prologues and epilogues for our many uncertain futures. These stories confront our shared fears of a technological future rushing towards us at the speed of light: the grand piano suspended above our heads. We sit in the waiting room, waiting for war, for uprising, for collapse. Who are we without the waiting that defines us?