{"product_id":"globaldystopiasbostonreviewforum4","title":"Global Dystopias ( Boston Review \/ Forum #4 ) [Diaz, Junot]","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; outline: none; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;\"\u003eStories, essays, and interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; outline: none; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eAs the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit ‚  \u003ci style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;\"\u003eHandmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e ‚  shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy; it offers a critical lens upon the present. \"It is not only a kind of vocabulary and idiom,\" says bestselling author and volume editor Junot Diaz. \"It is a useful arena in which to begin to think about who we are becoming.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; outline: none; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eBringing together some of the most prominent writers of science fiction and introducing fresh talent, this collection of stories, essays, and interviews explores global dystopias in apocalyptic landscapes and tech futures, in robot sentience and forever war. ‚  \u003ci style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;\"\u003eGlobal Dystopias\u003c\/i\u003e ‚  engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell's ‚  \u003ci style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;\"\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e ‚  alongside new work by China Mi ƒeville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In \"Don't Press Charges, and I Won't Sue,\" award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas toward transgender people to create a not-so-distant future in which conversion therapy is not only normalized, but funded by the government. Henry Farrell surveys the work of dystopian forebear Philip K. Dick and argues that distinctions between the present and the possible future aren't always that clear. Contributors also include Margaret Atwood and award-winning speculative writer, Nalo Hopkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; outline: none; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\"\u003eIn the era of Trump, resurgent populism, and climate denial, this collection poses vital questions about politics and civic responsibility and subjectivity itself. If we have, as D ƒ ­az says, reached peak dystopia, then ‚  \u003ci style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;\"\u003eGlobal Dystopias\u003c\/i\u003e ‚  might just be the handbook we need to survive it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32085452521546,"sku":"9781946511041b","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2341\/9361\/products\/89fcfcc05bf64e249dd394fd04ed14b1c570b109.gif?v=1589563931","url":"https:\/\/pandemoniumbooks.com\/products\/globaldystopiasbostonreviewforum4","provider":"Pandemonium Books and Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}