Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781536219388)

In a mind-bending MITeen anthology, ten top YA authors use emerging technologies to explore startling new realities.

What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today. When the modification industry transforms how humans look, sound, and interact, a nonbinary teen braves the "reinvention room" to accept a gift from the dead. In an accidental city in space, a young apprentice holds neighborhoods together with braided carbon filaments until distraction and inspiration arrive in the wake of a visitor. Entitlement-fueled drug use alters the landscape of white privilege, robots remember the Earth, and corporate "walkers" stroll for unknown subscribers--until one hacks the system. In tales buzzing with possibility, hope, innovation, anger, and tenderness, Tasting Light offers a dazzling challenge to connect with open minds, hearts, and senses in a fast-changing world.

With stories by:

William Alexander
K. Ancrum
Elizabeth Bear
A.R. Capetta
Charlotte Nicole Davis
Nasugraq Rainey Hopson
A.S. King
E.C. Myers
Junauda Petrus-Nasah
Wendy Xu

Author: A. R. Capetta
ISBN-10: 153621938X
ISBN-13: 9781536219388
Publisher: Miteen Press
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Booklist 08/01/2022 pg. 68
Publishers Weekly 09/05/2022
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2022 - Book Of Special Distinction