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A review by coco_lolo
A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers by John Joseph Adams, Victor LaValle
3.0
Recently, I saw on Maria Dahvana Headley's Twitter that she had a short story published in this collection. And with her being one of my favorite authors, I had to check out A People's Future of the United States.
Like with most short story collections, this was a mixed bag. I loved the bold, wild ideas by all these different writers, and I think creating the collection in response to A People's History of the United States was incredible. I read this in a little under two weeks, so I wonder how the experience would have differed had I read one story a day for twenty-five days. The thing with a collection this big is that it started losing steam roughly around the midway point; that didn't impact my enjoyment of individual stories, but it did affect my enthusiasm for finishing. Of the stories included, my favorites were "The Synapse Will Free Us From Ourselves," "The Sun in Exile," "Our Aim Is Not to Die," "What Maya Found There," and "Good News Bad News."
Like with most short story collections, this was a mixed bag. I loved the bold, wild ideas by all these different writers, and I think creating the collection in response to A People's History of the United States was incredible. I read this in a little under two weeks, so I wonder how the experience would have differed had I read one story a day for twenty-five days. The thing with a collection this big is that it started losing steam roughly around the midway point; that didn't impact my enjoyment of individual stories, but it did affect my enthusiasm for finishing. Of the stories included, my favorites were "The Synapse Will Free Us From Ourselves," "The Sun in Exile," "Our Aim Is Not to Die," "What Maya Found There," and "Good News Bad News."