Futureland
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Futureland is a series of nine loosely connected short pieces of science fiction by writer Walter Mosley. The novel is set in a postcyberpunk 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. | ” |
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—Walter Mosley, Warner Books 2001 |
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[edit] Stories
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 Neo-Fascists think tank group known as the International Socialists, "The Itsies".
Voices
Little Brother - A courtroom trial for the death of a policeman in Common Ground, where the defendant can afford neither an attorney nor a judge. He is thus tried and matches wits with a judicial automaton programed with the minds of 10,000 legal experts.
En Masse
The Nig in Me- An international plague ravages the world and the only ones who are spared are those with African genes.
