Futureland : nine stories of an imminent world

by Walter Mosley

Paper Book, 2001

Status

Available

Publication

New York : Warner, c2001.

Description

Fiction. Science Fiction. Short Stories. The place is the United States. The time, the near future, 2020-2040. Here, justice is blind and the ranks of the disenfranchised have swollen to a toxic level. High tech rules the day while human nature, for better or worse, remains constant. In nine int.

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LibraryThing member booksofcolor
It's an amazing bunch of linked stories in a future of ubiquitous surveillance and weird biotech. The stories were tight. I loved it! *** Seconded Futureland, I love that book and need to read it again.*** Thirded. Futureland is an amazing book.
LibraryThing member Cecilturtle
This was an unexpected find. I do not usually read science fiction or am very selective about it. I was however very pleasantly surprised with this series of stories which stand alone but borrow characters and scenarios from story to story to create a unique fresco. There are definite political
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themes: feminism, racism, capitalism but what is most striking is the search for the human soul behind all the technology. A reflection of possible years to come through unchecked excess but also of the triumph of man over systems.
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LibraryThing member ThorneStaff
I just couldn't get into this one. I am sure there are some people that would love it, but it just wasn't for me. I found the stories to be hard to follow at all.

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