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I tend to associate Anders with whimsical and ultimately upbeat stories, but that may be because her dystopias are too painful to hold in the mind for very long, so I tend to shut them away in the cupboards of my mind and think about them as little as possible. Case in point, this extrapolation from the currents in contemporary society which insist that people don't know what's best for themselves, made concrete as a corporate-government programme called 'Love and Dignity for Everyone', and exac...
This collection does a a great job of bringing together stories that examine a broad range of dystopias. Both the stories and the essays/interviews present disastrous worlds that have been, are, and will be. These are devastating worlds that are not universal, exposing inequalities that provide the framework for and create the dystopias. In several cases the opposing utopia is very present and we see that - to quote China Mieville - "we live in a utopia, it just isn't ours.""Don't Press Charges
This short collection from Boston review was a mostly great collection of harrowing fiction. Couple misses but some really great successes too. It felt like interspersing the stories and interviews/essays might have helped with unification, but maybe that’s just Boston Review’s format. Also, Junot Diaz only writes the intro + interview questions, so the collection did not feel spoiled by his #metoo moment last year (although it certainly shapes the perception of the interview with Margaret Atwoo...
A compelling collection of new dystopic short fiction, interviews with Atwood and Mieville, and critical essays on the current political climate and how contemporary dystopic narratives interpret it. The diversity of stories included draw on eco-literary themes and gender non-conformity. I enjoyed this book immensely. "Here is something I learned in the hundreds of years I spent in the center of the Earth and later in the libraries and bedchambers, pressed between your pages, carving my way out
While it was intense to see one of my nightmares written down, somehow it still didn't manage to capture me. Style and time didn't speak to me, even as the setting did.
Global Dystopias was published by Boston Review in the fall of 2017. At the time, we supposed ourselves to be in the midst of a global nightmare. Editor-in-chief Junot Díaz cited the election of Donald Trump, climate change, skin bleaching and the Great Firewall of China as evidence that the age of dystopia had begun.A lot of water has gone under the bridge since. The coronavirus has the world in its spiky grip. Most of us are living in full, partial or pseudo lockdown. When we work, if we work
A decent job done of collecting various dystopias, although the “global” is sadly much underserved; the collection as a whole is still overwhelmingly USA-centric. And “post-apocalyptic” is confused yet again for “dystopian” in a number of these pieces (these terms are not interchangeable). But Charlie Jane Anders’ “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” is worth the price of the issue/anthology alone, a deeply disturbing story that nearly made me weep openly while I was reading it on the train hom...
This was interesting and at times heart wrenching, but there were places where the story wasn't very clear of what was going on or how I should feel. There were even moments where I wasn't exactly sure what the story was trying to do, which is usually okay, but the lack of clarity harmed the forward progression of the pacing. The prose itself was great, but the references to modern day apps and devices tended to throw me out of the story a lot more than I would have liked.
The essays were fairly good (particularly Henry Farrell's, on the world of Philip K. Dick we're all living in), but the stories were uneven at best. They began fairly weakly (with the exception of Charlie Jane Anders'), and suffered from poor plotting, overly vague allegory, or indeed, too on-the-nose critiques of contemporary society. Certainly makes me appreciate the talent of authors who can thread the needle between world-building and "relevant, but not of here and now." The last four storie...
Very good short story about disassociation and what that means for a trans person specifically. The prose is a bit too elbow to the side to try and be funny in the begining but that quickly fades out for a lot of good bits of writing all the way to the end. The setting is also kind of unclear about what it wants to be with lots of modern day references that feel jarring and needless, but those too are mostly frontloaded and fade away.All that said, I'm a sucker for symbolism and the stuff with t...
This is an ok anthology. I always like when anthologies mix fiction with nonfiction essays. The essays are interesting enough. Honestly, though, I didn't find this book very memorable.
