Searching for Humanity’s Future in Bora Chung’s “Your Utopia” – Chicago Review of Books

Searching for Humanity’s Future in Bora Chung’s “Your Utopia” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Bora Chung takes readers on a journey to the unexpected in her latest short story collection, Your Utopia. In her 2022 collection, Cursed Bunny, Chung showed us many types of monsters in stories ranging in varying degrees from speculative fiction to supernatural to horror. In Your Utopia, the narratives are decidedly more science fiction … Read more

Searching for Our Future in “The Last Catastrophe” – Chicago Review of Books

Searching for Our Future in “The Last Catastrophe” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] For all the ominousness of the title, The Last Catastrophe, Allegra Hyde’s sophomore short story collection, is remarkably hopeful. Not hopeful as to the eventual collapse of ecosystems, or the extinction of species, or technology addiction, or pollution, or the state of American politics (though Hyde’s satire on this front is biting enough to … Read more

Exploring the Future of Humanity in “Persephone Station” – Chicago Review of Books

Exploring the Future of Humanity in “Persephone Station” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In Persephone Station, Stina Leicht negotiates the conflict between humanity and technology in a future universe. While many science fiction novels grapple with this central question of what exactly it means to be human, Leicht goes to great length to give us a wide array of characters with diverse gender identities, different planets of … Read more