Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Auteur de Take Us to a Better Place: Stories

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Take Us to a Better Place: Stories (2018) 32 exemplaires

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Take Us to a Better Place: Stories par Madeline Ashby

Vaguely themed about hope in the ashes, mostly apocalyptic settings (or locally apocalyptic), with Madeline Ashby, Yoon Ha Lee, Karen Lord, and Martha Wells as the names I recognized. Lee’s use of AI to tailor manipulation of public opinion is likely to seem prescient; Wells offers a murder mystery driven by the cyborg/capitalist interface, though not a Murderbot story.

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rivkat | 1 autre critique | Jul 17, 2023 |

Take Us to a Better Place par Madeline Ashby

Oddly, this did not take me to a better place. Some of the stories were downers, others more stopped than ended. All of the science fiction stories were better than the non-genre stories. Maybe SF authors have more experience at weaving a topic into a story.

But none of the stories were five-star for me. The anthology is supposed to revolve around the Culture of Health idea from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. I couldn't see any common threads beyond "health" being part of the plots. I could give the whole thing 3.5 stars, but without a standout, I'm rounding down.

For an anthology that really does take you to a better place (mostly), I recommend "Consolation Songs: Optimistic Speculative Fiction For A Time of Pandemic". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54327781-consolation-songs… (plus d'informations)