Futureland
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Futureland is a series of nine loosely connected short pieces of science fiction by African American writer Walter Mosley. The novel is set in a post cyberpunk dystopian universe populated by humans living in a shellshocked, unfairly stratified society overseen by super-rich technocrats.
| "A generation from now, things aren't much different from today: The drugs are better, the daily grind is worse. The world's knowledge fits on a chip in your little finger, the Constitution doesn't apply to individuals, and it's a crime to be poor."
Warner Books 2001 |
[edit] Story Index
Whispers in the Dark - Details the early life of one Ptolemy Bent, a young black child who has the greatest IQ the world has ever known, and the purest heart possible in the world he is born into.
The Greatest - The rise of Fera Jones, the first female heavyweight Universal Boxing Authority world champion.
Doctor Kismet - An interview between the CEO of MacroCode International, the world's most powerful corporation, and one of the leader's of the Sixth Radical Congress, a movement to strengthen the positions of African-Americans in world society.
Angel's Island - The tale of a prisoner on the world's largest privately owned prison and how he came to expose its dark secrets.
The Electric Eye - A detective story focusing on one Folio Johnson, the "last private detective in New York". Folio is hired to investigate the mysterious deaths of members of an elite thinktank group.
Voices
Little Brother
En Masse
The Nig in Me
