Full name: Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World

Author: Walter Mosley Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Short Stories Culture: African-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon OpenLibrary Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780446529549 9780446610735 0446529540 0446610739

Projecting a near-future United States in which justice is blind in at least one eye and the ranks of the disenchanted have swollen to dangerous levels, Mosely offers nine interconnected stories whose characters appear and reappear in each others' lives. For all its denizens, from technocrats to terrorists, celebs to crooks, "Futureland" is an all-American nightmare just waiting to happen. Similar books: The Golden Helix by Theodore Sturgeon From the Land of Fear by Harlan Ellison The Grain Kings by Keith Roberts The Infinity Box by Kate Wilhelm The Time of the Eye by Harlan Ellison The Venging by Greg Bear Watchbird by Robert Sheckley The Canopy of Time by Brian Aldiss Surfing the Gnarl by Rudy Rucker The Very Slow Time Machine by Ian Watson Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem Dealing in Futures by Joe Haldeman Extra(Ordinary) People by Joanna Russ The Seeds of Time by John Wyndham Case and the Dreamer by Theodore Sturgeon The Wave by Walter Mosley Blue Light by Walter Mosley Wool by Hugh Howey Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. Exhalation by Ted Chiang