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A review by libreroaming
Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton
3.0
Six interconnected stories that speculate on the future of human modification. The throughline being a hypocritical minister was not strong enough or relevant enough to really need its appearance in all the stories. And the stories did not feel like continuations of the same world, but separate entities dealing with separate topics. On their own, the later stories were more interesting for their concepts, with the "near future" ones being a little awkward in weaving the science fiction with the cultural makeup of our science fact.
The fifth story, "California," seemed the one that would work best as an expanded story on its own, balancing the curiosity of a drastically changed world and a protagonist who is emotionally as well as physically changed by his journey. Readers who are well-versed in speculative fiction would not find anything groundbreaking in this book, but it might be worth giving to someone who loves YA and would find Paolo Bacigalupi and China Mielville too dense to start with.
The fifth story, "California," seemed the one that would work best as an expanded story on its own, balancing the curiosity of a drastically changed world and a protagonist who is emotionally as well as physically changed by his journey. Readers who are well-versed in speculative fiction would not find anything groundbreaking in this book, but it might be worth giving to someone who loves YA and would find Paolo Bacigalupi and China Mielville too dense to start with.