Futureland
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Nove lucidi racconti che come un puzzle si uniscono a comporre un futuro da incubo forse non così lontano. L’uomo comune è definitivamente ridotto al rango di numero, inesorabilmente schiacciato
dalla necessità di produrre per un nuovo ordine mondiale in cui pochi comandano e dispongono a loro piacimento dei destini di persone e nazioni. La tecnologia e la genetica hanno fatto passi da gigante, ma non a beneficio del genere umano. I problemi razziali sono solo apparentemente superati, le differenze sociali accresciute, l’avidità di potere portata a livelli parossistici.
In una potente ed efficace commistione tra cyberpunk, precisa descrizione della società e la prefigurazione di un mondo sul modello di Matrix, Walter Mosley porta alla vita celebrità, lavoratori, leader, vittime, tecnocrati, ladri, oppressori e rivoluzionari che popolano un glorioso incubo americano che si trova appena dietro l’angolo.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After the qualified success of his first science fiction novel, Blue Light (1998), Mosley (best known for such mystery fiction as the Easy Rawlins series) returns with nine linked short stories set in a grim, cyberpunkish near-future. Unfortunately, heavy-handed plotting and unconvincing extrapolation weaken the collection's earnest social message. "Whispers in the Dark" introduces prodigy Ptolemy Bent, who will grow to be the smartest man in the world in spite of his poverty-ridden childhood. Ptolemy reappears in "Doctor Kismet" as an adviser to assassins trying to kill the richest, most corrupt man in the world and as the brains behind a series of global plots to overthrow the status quo in "En Masse" and "The Nig in Me." Champion boxer and much-hyped female role model Fera Jones steps away from the ring to take hands-on responsibility for the influence she wields in "The Greatest." With its easily befuddled talking computer justice system, "Little Brother" is more Star Trek than high-tech cyberpunk. In more familiar territory for Mosley, PI Folio Johnson investigates a series of murders linked to Doctor Kismet in "The Electric Eye." Although packaged as SF, this book is likely to disappoint readers of that genre who've already seen Mosley's themes of racial and economic rebellion more convincingly handled by authors like Octavia Butler. Mystery fans, on the other hand, are far more likely to embrace this latest example of Mosley's SF vision, with its comfortably familiar noirish tone and characters, than they did Blue Light.
