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Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead
Unsettling visions of what might come following the US presidential election
NARRATING A NIGHTMARE: Janis Ian
[Lloyd Baggs]
Given the power of the live experience, MIK SABIERS recommends Jon Spencer’s new album
Reviews of T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Tamikrest, and Dub Colossus
The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
IN WELCOME to Dystopia, edited by Gordon Van Gelder, a plague of what-if scenarios is released from the tortured imaginations of lefty sci-fi writers sharing one unified vision: What if Trump doesn’t leave in November?
Hell breaks loose.
The tales represent a parallax view of the same event, from the perspectives of men, women and multicultures.
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SCOTT ALSWORTH searches for something – anything – worth recommending from the year’s releases
KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
CARL DEATH introduces a new book which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change
RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants