Super Flat Times: Stories
by Matthew Derby
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With a heightened sense of the boundless possibility and lurking doom that Orwell and Huxley once envisioned, Matthew Derby's stories provide a glimpse into an intricately imagined world: a world in which clouds are treated with behavioral serum, children are handicapped by their ability to float, and all food (including Popsicles) is made of meat.Tags
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A collection of science fiction shorts linked by the fact that they occur in the same dystopian future. I only read the first 60 pages or so and then retired the book. I simply thought the writing and ideas quite amateurish. There was a real lack of any intellectual heft (okay, fine, all food is made out of meat. But why? And what are the consequences of this?). I feel bad whenever I drop a book without finishing it but with Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days sitting on the shelf, promising a return to future India, I couldn't be doing with such second rate writing as Super Flat Times.
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Matthew Derby has taught creative writing at Brown University.
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2003-05-05
- Epigraph
- Is history ever just "past," really over? Recognizing the specific social circumstances, the ideological development and material differences hardly breaks the thread – just split it, like a net cast wide.
– Mimi Ngu... (show all)yen - Dedication
- For Mary-Kim and Zooey
- First words
- First they took men.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Thank you in advance,
Mi Jin - Blurbers
- Bowman, David; Budnitz, Judy; Scott, Joanna; Julavits, Heidi; Pollack, Neal; Marcus, Ben
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- 133
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.70)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 1
