/lit/ - Literature

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What Maya Found There - Daniel Jose Older
Trump has deregulated and seized control of all bioengineering. Maya, a bioengineer, doesn't want her notes to fall into his hands.
Blah

The Referendum - Lesley Nneka Arimah
Trump has been re-elected. The 13th amendment has been repealed. Slavery has been reinstituted. This is the story of The Black Resistance.
Meh

Calendar Girls - Justina Ireland
A teenage girl is selling contraband on the street corner. Condoms, birth control pills, and abortifacients are her items. The argument of the day is whether to lower the marriageable age for girls from 14 to 12. After being given an offer she can't refuse she has to smuggle a girl elsewhere for an abortion.
Ok

The Synapse will Free us from Ourselves - Violet Allen
The protagonist is a gay conversion enforcer. There's a problem though. He may just be gay himself! Also, why can't he remember his past?
Enjoyable

O.1 - Gabby Rivera
An ambiguously sexed person is pregnant in a world that hasn't seen a birth in 10 years. Also a sentient bacterium is intentionally killing the greedy and/or racist.
Blah

The Blindfold - Tobias S. Buckell
Defendants in criminal cases have their race randomized for juries. A hacker is hired to make sure they appear white for the all-white jury. However, Russia interferes, which the government ignores because of their help in their elections.
Meh

No Algorithms in the World - Hugh Howey
The United States has a livable UBI and and almost everything is automated. There's little reason to work, but his father is determined to follow the old ways.
Ok

Esperanto - Jamie Ford
A woman disfigured by an explosion from a terrorist attack comes to live in a city where everything and everyone has an augmented reality overlay.
Ok

Rome - G. Willow Wilson
Do you think we'll all be burned alive before we finish our midterms?! A satire about academia and the privatization of fire departments.
Blah

Give me Cornbread or Give me Death - N.K. Jemisin
Biblical plagues, dragons, and revolution.
Blah

Good News Bad News - Charles Yu
A series of news articles from the future.
Meh

What You Sow - Kai Cheng Thom
>her cock
Yun is a Celestial, a being whose Ichor can alleviate the symptoms of the Undreaming.
Ok (almost enjoyable, but I have some concerns about the ending)

A History of Barbed Wire - Daniel H. Wilson
Corporations have literally become the government and everything is privatized. For those who aren't wealthy the Cherokee reservation may be the last bastion of freedom. A crime investigation story.
Meh (could have been ok if it were longer)

The Sun in Exile - Catherynne M. Valente
The sun is put on trial for treason.
Blah

Harmony - Seanan McGuire
Two women who are married to each other buy a ghost town with their own money and with the support of various others.
Ok

Now Wait for This Week - Alice Sola Kim
A woman is caught in a time loop. A reference to PKD's Now Wait for Last Year.
Meh