These three alone are worth the price of a copy. Jemisin’s glorious “Give Me Cornbread, or Give Me Death”, Malka Older’s inventive “Disruption and Continuity” and Omar El Akkad’s heart-breaking “Riverbed” are all utterly exceptional works. Thrilling, inspiring, and a sheer joy to read, this anthology reminds us of the life-giving power of storytelling.įrom a veritable Who’s Who of contemporary American speculative writers a stonking success. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship-whether it’s the othered and the oppressed, or dragonriders and covert commandos-but these characters don’t flee, they fight.Ī People’s Future of the United States is a call to arms for anyone who believes in our power to dream a just world. The result is this extraordinary collection of twenty-five stories that blend the dark and the light, the dystopian and the utopian. They also asked that the stories be badass. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths, release us from the chokehold of our history, and give us new futures to believe in. Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom, love, and justice. In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting.
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A People’s Future of the United States edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph AdamsĪ glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America-from N.
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