description: Life in America a generation from now isn't much different from The drugs are better, the daily grind is worse. The gap between the rich and the poor has widened to a chasm. You can store the world's legal knowledge on a chip in your little finger, while the Supreme Court has decreed that constitutional rights don't apply to any individual who challenges the system. Justice is swiftly delivered by automated courts, so the prison industry is booming. And while the media declare racism is dead, word on the street is that even in a colorless society, it's a crime to be black. But the world still turns and folks still have to get by with the hands they're dealt, folks such Ptolemy "Popo" This gentle backwoods child has a genius I.Q.- and a soul so pure that officials want him locked up forever... Folio A hardboiled, cyber-augmented private eye who can see beneath the dark poetry of the metropolis, he will need an even greater edge than that to find out who's systematically murdering rich, young Nazis... Fera She's the boxing Queen of the Ring who must still fight all comers to save her dad, preserve her identity, and protect the fans who believe in her... Dr. Ivan The world's richest man, Macrocode's CEO is a tycoon, tyrant, and messiah who is evidently more powerful than God. So it's too bad for everyone that Dr. Kismet is utterly insane... Walter Mosley brings to life the celebs, working stiffs, leaders, victims, technocrats, crooks, oppressors, and revolutionaries who inhabit a glorious all-American nightmare that's just around the corner. Welcome to FUTURELAND.
language: English
title: Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
titlecomplete: Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Cyberpunk, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dystopia, African American
ratings_count: 1438
publisher: Brilliance Audio