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A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. 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. 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. They also asked that the stories be badass. The result is this spectacular collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the terrorized, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee, they fight. Thrilling, inspiring, and a sheer joy to read, A People’s Future of the United States is a gift for anyone who believes in our power to dream a just world. Featuring stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta • Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu
A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In these tumultuous times, in our deeply divided country, many people are angry, frightened, and hurting. 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. 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. They also asked that the stories be badass. The result is this spectacular collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the terrorized, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee, they fight. Thrilling, inspiring, and a sheer joy to read, A People’s Future of the United States is a gift for anyone who believes in our power to dream a just world. Featuring stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta • Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu
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The Bookstore at the End of America
Charlie Jane Anders
A bookshop on a hill. Two front doors, two walkways lined with blank slates and grass, two identical signs welcoming customers to the First and Last Page, and a great blue building in the middle, shaped like an old-fashioned barn with a slanted tiled roof and generous rain gutters. Nobody knew how many books were inside that building, not even Molly, the owner. But if you couldn’t find it there, they probably hadn’t written it down yet.
The two walkways led to two identical front doors, with straw welcome mats, blue plank floors, and the scent of lilacs and old bindings—but then you’d see a completely different store, depending which side you entered. With two cash registers, for two separate kinds of money.
If you entered from the California side, you’d see a wall-hanging: women of all ages, shapes, and origins, holding hands and dancing. You’d notice the display of the latest books from a variety of small presses that clung to life in Colorado Springs and Santa Fe, from literature and poetry to cultural studies. The shelves closest to the door on the California side included a decent amount of women’s and queer studies but also a strong selection of classic literature, going back to Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston. Plus some brand-new paperbacks.
If you came in through the American front door, the basic layout would be pretty similar, except for the big painting of the nearby Rocky Mountains. But you might notice more books on religion and some history books with a somewhat more conservative approach. The literary books skewed a bit more toward Faulkner, Thoreau, and Hemingway, not to mention Ayn Rand, and you might find more books of essays about self-reliance and strong families, along with another selection of low-cost paperbacks: thrillers and war novels, including brand-new releases from the big printing plant in Gatlinburg. Romance novels, too.
Go through either front door and keep walking, and you’d find yourself in a maze of shelves, with a plethora of nooks and a bevy of side rooms. Here a cavern of science fiction and fantasy, there a deep alcove of theater books—and a huge annex of history and sociology, including a whole wall devoted to explaining the origins of the Great Sundering. Of course, some people did make it all the way from one front door to the other, past the overfed-snake shape of the hallways and the giant central reading room, with a plain red carpet and two beat-down couches in it. But the design of the store encouraged you to stay inside your own reality.
The exact border between America and California, which elsewhere featured watchtowers and roadblocks, you are now leaving/you are now entering signs, and terrible overpriced souvenir stands, was denoted in the First and Last Page by a tall bookcase of self-help titles about coping with divorce.
People came from hundreds of miles in either direction, via hydroelectric cars, solarcycles, mecha-horses, and tour buses, to get some book they couldn’t live without. You could get electronic books via the Share, of course, but they might be plagued with crowdsourced editing, user-targeted content, random annotations, and sometimes just plain garbage. You might be reading The Federalist Papers on your Gidget and come across a paragraph about rights vs. duties that wasn’t there before—or, for that matter, a few pages relating to hair cream, because you’d been searching on hair cream yesterday. Not to mention, the same book might read completely differently in California than in America. You could only rely on ink...
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Victor LaValle is the author of seven works of fiction: four novels, two novellas, and a collection of short stories. His novels have been included in best-of-the-year lists by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, and Publishers Weekly, among others. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Key to Southeast Queens. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids and teaches at Columbia University. John Joseph Adams is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a science fiction and fantasy imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is also the series editor of Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as the bestselling editor of more than thirty anthologies, including Wastelands, The Living Dead, and The Apocalypse Triptych. Adams is also the editor and publisher of the magazines Nightmare and the Hugo Award–winning Lightspeed, and is a producer for Wired’sThe Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
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December 15, 2018 A collection of stories about marginalized people, set in the near future.Pause for a moment to think about everything terrible that's going on in the United States right now, such as the rise of nationalism and the creeping dread that everything women, people of color, and LGBT folks have gained in the last 50 years could be yanked away at any moment. (No hard feelings if you chose not to imagine this.) Now, what if all of that could be...even worse? This question drives most (but not all) of the 25 stories in this collection, featuring a lineup that reads like a who's who of current science-fiction writers, including Daniel José Older, Seanan McGuire, and Lesley Nneka Arimah, among others. Despite all the big names, there are great stories and not-so-great ones. Charlie Jane Anders' "Bookstore at the End of America" is one of the weakest entries, in which California has seceded from the U.S., and the depiction of both countries plunges into stereotypes and stupidity within a cloying mother-daughter story. On the other hand, N.K. Jemisin's "Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death," about taming genetically engineered, racist police dragons, is a joy to read. Lizz Huerta's "The Wall" is one of the few semihopeful stories: After a southern border wall was built, the United States crumbled while Mexico survived, thanks mostly to its powerful, wise women. Lastly, "Now Wait for This Week" by Alice Sola Kim deftly mixes #MeToo and Groundhog Day (just trust us) into something timely yet transcendent. Overall, readers may find the collection to be a sort of inkblot test; those who feel optimistic about the future may find stories of fighting against oppression uplifting, but for those who already feel anxious, reading how bad things could get may be a bit nauseating.A mixed bag of topical, speculative tales.
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If you could rebuild history, what would the United States be today? This question is answered in the works of 25 speculative authors, of whom each shows the promise--or tragedy--of what might have been or could still be. Featured entries include N.K. Jemisin's "Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death," in which a group of female raiders turn dragon riders with a lot of ingenuity, plus a lot of hot sauce. When "The Wall" is actually built at the States' Southern border, Mexico flourishes in Lizz Huerta's vision. Malka Older takes on the intersection of digital activism, marginalized persons, and the creation of a new society, offering an excerpt from "Disruption and Continuity." With other writers such as Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, Omar El Akkad, and Justina Ireland adding their voices, readers will wonder how speculative these stories actually are in the face of our reality. VERDICT A timely compilation that highlights the hope and anxiety of the current political climate.--Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton
Copyright 1 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
Starred review from January 1, 2019 LaValle (The Changeling, 2017) and John Joseph Adams has collected a variety of potential futures from an array of speculative fiction authors. There are dystopias based on the worst aspects of American politics, such as A. Merc Rustad's Our Aim Is Not to Die, in which anyone not considered an ideal citizen is subjected to financial, political, and medical oppression, and Omar El Akkad's Riverbed, which follows a Sikh woman revisiting the site of an internment camp. Other stories simulate documentary evidence of the future, such as Charles Yu's Good News Bad News, in which news reports tell of robots with racist algorithms and space colonies of refugees. Other standouts include Alice Sola Kim's excellent Now Wait for Last Week, in which a woman relives the same week of her life over and over and is wearied as much by misogyny as she is by repetition, and Kai Cheng Thom's What You Sow, in which the only cure for a plague of insomnia is the blood of a formerly oppressed minority of strange and wondrous beings. This anthology is highly recommended for any speculative fiction reader, particularly those interested in the possibilities of science fiction to critique the present through visions of the future.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
December 15, 2018 A collection of stories about marginalized people, set in the near future.Pause for a moment to think about everything terrible that's going on in the United States right now, such as the rise of nationalism and the creeping dread that everything women, people of color, and LGBT folks have gained in the last 50 years could be yanked away at any moment. (No hard feelings if you chose not to imagine this.) Now, what if all of that could be...even worse? This question drives most (but not all) of the 25 stories in this collection, featuring a lineup that reads like a who's who of current science-fiction writers, including Daniel Jos� Older, Seanan McGuire, and Lesley Nneka Arimah, among others. Despite all the big names, there are great stories and not-so-great ones. Charlie Jane Anders' "Bookstore at the End of America" is one of the weakest entries, in which California has seceded from the U.S., and the depiction of both countries plunges into stereotypes and stupidity within a cloying mother-daughter story. On the other hand, N.K. Jemisin's "Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death," about taming genetically engineered, racist police dragons, is a joy to read. Lizz Huerta's "The Wall" is one of the few semihopeful stories: After a southern border wall was built, the United States crumbled while Mexico survived, thanks mostly to its powerful, wise women. Lastly, "Now Wait for This Week" by Alice Sola Kim deftly mixes #MeToo and Groundhog Day (just trust us) into something timely yet transcendent. Overall, readers may find the collection to be a sort of inkblot test; those who feel optimistic about the future may find stories of fighting against oppression uplifting, but for those who already feel anxious, reading how bad things could get may be a bit nauseating.A mixed bag of topical, speculative tales.
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