G. M. Whitley
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Sarjat
Tekijän teokset
Activate (Essentia, #1) 3 kappaletta
Basic Living (The Futures Trilogy #2) 1 kappale
Enervate (Essentia, #2) 1 kappale
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Whitley, G. M.
- Virallinen nimi
- Whitley, Guang Ming
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Koulutus
- University of Southern California
University of Chicago Law School
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 8
- Jäseniä
- 26
- Suosituimmuussija
- #495,361
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 4.0
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 3
- ISBN:t
- 4
Each of the linked stories, revealed in alternating chapters, is compelling in its own way. Victor and Mari are high school sweethearts who've grown up on Basic Living ("BL", or a futuristic expanded version of welfare) and find they have different ideas about how to get off and stay off of BL. Two other storylines focus on young males who are delivered from BL through the largesse of the wealthy: a rich old man plucks one of his building's valets up to the penthouse to be a personal assistant, and a rich corporation gives a hefty scholarship to a talented adolescent. Finally, an older couple scrimps and saves at the end of their lives -- they're not on BL, but they're only a half-step ahead of it and never seem to gain ground. Their stories are woven together and speckled with little quotations from fictional-but-very-realistic sources based on the present: you get sound bites from future politicians, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, The New Yorker, even Reddit.
Most of the characters are so well-drawn and sympathetic that it was easy to forget I was reading speculative fiction at all. Then a carefully thought out detail, like the algae-based GL diet, would startle me out of my comfortable reading and make me think about the construction that went into the world G.M. Whitley created. I'm not quite sure whether or not I want to live in this future, but I am sure I want to read more about it. Good thing book 3 of the trilogy is due out soon.
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