A review by deservingporcupine
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers by John Joseph Adams, Victor LaValle

5.0

I enjoyed every story and loved several of them. What a hopeful take on the hole we are digging ourselves into. Loved “The Bookstore at the End of America,” “The Wall” (apparently written before we all found out about child separation and therefore prophetic?), “Calendar Girls,” “O.1” (set in Philly), “Good News, Bad News,” “ROME,” (which reminded me of the PDE’s directions in the event a fire alarm goes off while kids are taking the test: gather the tests and don’t leave them out of your sight), “Now Wait For This Week,” “A History of Barbed Wire.” Every story was good, if not great.