Forum IV (Fall 2017)
Global Dystopias
Reader Katia Fowler says, “Global Dystopias is shattering and marvelous. I am in awe. Thank you for ripping my heart out and cradling it at the same time.” Publishers Weekly writes, “[S]ome of the best contributions . . . include nuanced examinations of gender-based oppression. In Charlie Jane Anders’s astoundingly good ‘Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue,’ the narrator is forced . . . into a body she doesn’t want and didn’t ask for. Maria Dahvana Headley’s ‘Memoirs of an Imaginary Country’ explores the connection between the colonization of women’s bodies and colonization of non-Western countries. Tananarive Due’s ‘The Reformatory’ reveals a single moment of horrific abuse in a young black boy’s . . . life. Maureen McHugh’s ‘Cannibal Acts’ and Nalo Hopkinson’s ‘Waving at Trains’ are excellent stories of viral apocalypses and their aftermath.”
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Editor’s Note
Junot Díaz
STORIES
After Chernobyl
Adrienne Bernhard
Adora
Sumudu Samarawickrama
Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue
Charlie Jane Anders
Meniscus
Theo Costantino
Sky Veins of Potosí
Jordy Rosenberg
Memoirs of an Imaginary Country
Maria Dahvana Headley
Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body
JR Fenn
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
What Used to Be Caracas
Mike McClelland
Cannibal Acts
Maureen McHugh
Waving at Trains
Nalo Hopkinson
INTERVIEWS & ESSAYS
Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again
Margaret Atwood interviewed by Junot Díaz
Saving Orwell
Peter Ross
Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
Henry Farrell
A Strategy for Ruination
China Miéville interviewed by Boston Review
Dulltopia
Mark Bould