Futureland.FUTURELAND. Walter Mosley Walter Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is a prominent American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. Mosley has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War . 2001. Read by Richard Allen There have been several famous men with the name Richard Allen:
In a departure from his usual subject matter, Mosley casts a critical eye toward the near future, and what he sees presents a bleak picture, especially as it relates to African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. . The battle between the sexes, and the races, still rages on, enhanced by cyber-technology. The government keeps a tight rein on the population, suppresses free speech and thought, and doles out strict punishment for transgressors. Body parts are for sale and computers control everything. Themes and characters connect this series of short stories as Mosley combines cynicism Cynicism See also Pessimism. Antisthenes (444–371 B. C.) Greek philosopher and founder of Cynic school. [Gk. Hist.: NCE, 121] Apemantus churlish, sarcastic advisor of Timon. [Br. Lit. and imagination in the future he writes about. Allen reads with earnest gusto GUSTO Cardiology A series of clinical trials that have examined a series of strategies to reduce the M&M of acute MI; the GUSTOs include: Global Utilization of Streptokinase & tPA for Occluded coronary arteries trial–GUSTO I; Global Use of Strategies . The shorter stories have more bite to them, with the longer ones occasionally dragging. Mosley's picture of the near future is fascinating, frightening, and above all, provocative. Miles Klein, Frisco, TX |
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