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Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology by Kaela Graham, Catherynne M. Valente, Gu Shi, Lauren Beukes, Rosanna Tasker, Brenda Cooper, Michela Buttignol, Vandana Singh, Alyssa Winans, Kirsten Zirngibi, Nancy Liang, Mohale Mashigo, Elizabeth Bear, Tracy J. Lee, Marie Lu, Ann VanderMeer, Gwyneth Jones, Jing Jing Tsong, Jazmen Richardson, Priscilla Kim, Malka Ann Older, Karen Lord, Chiara Zarmati, Daria Kirpach, Madeline Ashby, Nalo Hopkinson, Deborah Biancotti, Carolina Rodriguez-Fuenmay, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Kameron Hurley, Sheila Finch, Ken Liu, Andreea Dobrin Dinu, Cornelia Li, Brenda Peynado, Ayelet Raziel, Christina Dill, Robin Eisenberg
5.0
Sometimes a story collection needs to be seen as a whole. While I'd rate one or two individual stories two stars and most are four stars, in its entirety this collection is amazing. It was very touching at the personal level. Probably because it has every element I love: the ocean, future technology and people who'd build their lives around it, written by diverse female writers from varied parts of the world.
From deep sea mining, eco-disaster tourism, reef-building nanobots to sovereign underwater cities, it was like being plunged into worlds of possibilities, most of them were bad (and unavoidable, considering current condition) but some glimmer of hope remained. I like it when speculative fiction by futurists is not always doom and gloom, and not always human vs. nature but also consider the human with nature angle.
The illustrations are fantastic (also by women). I love this collection so much I'm going to nominate four stories for the Hugos. Kudos to you, [a:Ann VanderMeer|410598|Ann VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1494889137p2/410598.jpg]!
PS: They could be read in: https://go.xprize.org/oceanstories/
From deep sea mining, eco-disaster tourism, reef-building nanobots to sovereign underwater cities, it was like being plunged into worlds of possibilities, most of them were bad (and unavoidable, considering current condition) but some glimmer of hope remained. I like it when speculative fiction by futurists is not always doom and gloom, and not always human vs. nature but also consider the human with nature angle.
The illustrations are fantastic (also by women). I love this collection so much I'm going to nominate four stories for the Hugos. Kudos to you, [a:Ann VanderMeer|410598|Ann VanderMeer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1494889137p2/410598.jpg]!
PS: They could be read in: https://go.xprize.org/oceanstories/