- Futureland
"Futureland" is a series of nine loosely connected short pieces of science fiction by writer
Walter Mosley . The novel is set in apostcyberpunk dystopian universe populated by humans living in a shellshocked, unfairly stratified society overseen by super-rich technocrats.tories
"Whispers in the Dark" - Details the early life of one Ptolemy Bent, a young black child who has the greatest IQ the world has ever known, and the purest heart possible in the world he is born into.
"The Greatest" - The rise of Fera Jones, the first female heavyweight Universal Boxing Authority world champion.
"Doctor Kismet" - An interview between the CEO of MacroCode International, the world's most powerful corporation, and one of the leader's of the Sixth Radical Congress, a movement to strengthen the positions of African-Americans in world society.
"Angel's Island" - The tale of a prisoner on the world's largest privately owned prison and how he came to expose its dark secrets.
"The Electric Eye" - A detective story focusing on one Folio Johnson, the "last private detective in New York". Folio is hired to investigate the mysterious deaths of members of an elite Neo-Fascists think tank group known as the International Socialists, "The Itsies".
"Voices"
"Little Brother" - A courtroom trial for the death of a policeman in Common Ground, where the defendant can afford neither an attorney nor a judge. He is thus tried and matches wits with a judicial automaton programed with the minds of 10,000 legal experts.
"En Masse"
"The Nig in Me"- An international plague ravages the world and the only ones who are spared are those with African genes.
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African American literature
*Afrofuturism External links
* [http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw7741.html Walter Mosley Futureland interview, SciFi.com]
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