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Magazine Article
Unreal Estate
2025
Overview
Shusterman talks about speculative fiction as being not real. The only reason speculative fiction can sound prophetic is because the lens of the surreal can be so much clearer than a window. It can magnify specifics and help us to see what's hiding within a grander vista. At a bookstore event a few years ago, when the subject of predictive speculative fiction came up, one audience member shouted out, \"Can't you predict something happy for once?\" And so he took them up on the challenge. He decided to write a book about a pandemic of joy. A virus that, once you recovered, would leave you in a state of utter contentment and fulfillment for the rest of your life. And the funny thing was, the more he considered it, the less far-fetched it seemed. With All Better Now, he's exploring human nature again, because that seems to be an obsession with him. This time it's about the potential upheaval when human nature changes for the better.
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The Horn Book, Inc,MSI Information Services
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