Futureland

Blending the lyricism of Samuel Delany and the cynicism of the cyberpunks, Mosley takes us on a tour of an all too familiar world of the future, where the worst tendencies of the 20th century, in terms of labor, urban density, and racism have been doubled and redoubled. Unfortunately, the book is more style than substance, flashy ideas like an “infochurch” that doubles as an educational institution and intelligence network controlled by the richest man alive taken up and dropped without deep exploration. Amusing stories, but they ultimately don’t have much to say about today, or tomorrow.