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A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

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Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle is an American author known for his unique literary style and profound thematic explorations. His works often blend elements of fantasy, horror, and realism, addressing issues such as race, class, and social justice. more

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“I had never known Bonnie to talk like this. So depressed and ... gnomic? But then I remembered it was her birthday, so perhaps she was mourning the way all women of our age were supposed to mourn the precipitous vanishing of our worth, like, Whoops, time to grow a personality, which the world will also devalue!”

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“Meanwhile, nobody said, Haha, dang, isn’t it bad enough that rape and assault and abuse and harassment and boyfriends doing the emotional psychosexual whatever equivalent of sticking their beefy hand into your brain and wearing it like a baseball mitt or a puppet so they can just really move it around and infinity et cetera happens to so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so many of us, and we can’t even talk about it without having to apologize afterward?”

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