Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
Written by Walter Mosley
Narrated by Richard Allen
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Life in America a generation from now isn't much different from today: The drugs are better, the daily grind is worse. The gap between the rich and the poor has widened to a chasm. You can store the world's legal knowledge on a chip in your little finger, while the Supreme Court has decreed that constitutional rights don't apply to any individual who challenges the system. Justice is swiftly delivered by automated courts, so the prison industry is booming. And while the media declare racism is dead, word on the street is that even in a colorless society, it's a crime to be black.
But the world still turns and folks still have to get by with the hands they're dealt, folks such as:
Ptolemy "Popo" Bent: This gentle backwoods child has a genius I.Q.- and a soul so pure that officials want him locked up forever...
Folio Johnson: A hardboiled, cyber-augmented private eye who can see beneath the dark poetry of the metropolis, he will need an even greater edge than that to find out who's systematically murdering rich, young Nazis...
Fera Jones: She's the boxing Queen of the Ring who must still fight all comers to save her dad, preserve her identity, and protect the fans who believe in her...
Dr. Ivan Kismet: The world's richest man, Macrocode's CEO is a tycoon, tyrant, and messiah who is evidently more powerful than God. So it's too bad for everyone that Dr. Kismet is utterly insane...
Walter Mosley brings to life the celebs, working stiffs, leaders, victims, technocrats, crooks, oppressors, and revolutionaries who inhabit a glorious all-American nightmare that's just around the corner. Welcome to FUTURELAND.
Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley is the author of over twenty critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990, which was later made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in New York.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Absolutely loved this story. I enjoyed the way they were all connected the way I could just imagine it all and the end tired up very nicely
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I 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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This 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 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.