You're Welcome by Felicity Shoulders; Retirement Plan by Pete Rawlik; Split Shadow by SL Huang; Futures Past by Thord D. Hedengren; The Psychometry Of Tuvan Currency by Tricia Sullivan; Ghostmakers by Warren Ellis; Comfort Food by Alex Acks; Salvation Is A One Time Offer by Armel Dagorn; Guardian Of The Gate by Lynnea Glasser; Spy Drug by Greg Stolze; Shift by Liesel Schwarz; Greenwood Green by John Reppion; Future Noir by Michael Grey; Remember The Sky by Gethin A. Lynes;Mercury Teardrops by Jeff Noon
(Starred review) Jones has compiled a fascinating collection of 15
stories that explore the connections between the living and the
dead. The portrayals of both near and distant futures show a wide
variety of focuses, such as using technology to communicate with
the dead (as in Warren Ellis's "Ghostmakers" and Tricia Sullivan's
"The Psychometry of Tuvan Currency") or grappling with the
emotional reverberations of someone's death or disappearance. The
most touching stories bookend the collection: in Felicity
Shoulders' "You're Welcome," an empty-nester couple try to piece
together their college-aged daughter's disappearance from her
online orders, and in Jeff Noon's "Mercury Teardrops," a musician
attempts to come to terms with his cyborg girlfriend's death.
Contemporary social issues are also tackled, as in the outstanding
"Split Shadow" by S.L. Huang, an essential portrayal of mental
health attitudes and treatment. There is an entry for every
speculative genre, including space exploration (Gethin A. Lynes's
"Remember the Sky"), Lovecraftian horror (Lynnea Glasser's
"Guardian of the Gate"), and postapocalyptic feminism (Pete
Rawlik's "Retirement Plan"), and each story lives up to or exceeds
its genre's expectations. (May) -- Publishers Weekly"Haunted
Futures coaxes the ghosts of our future selves out into the open
where we can see the hot fusion of memory, desire, and technology
at play. These stories do harrowing and beauty with equal grace and
force. You ll end up with some new favorites by the time you re
done reading. --Richard Kadrey, bestselling author of the Sandman
Slim Series
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