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020			_a0-446-52954-0
100			_aMosley, Walter
245		0	_aFuture Land: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
260			_bWarner Books, Inc
260			_c2001
300			_a356
520			_aThe place is the United States. The time, the near-future, 2020-2040. Here, justice is blind and the ranks of the disenfranchised have swollen to a toxic level. High-tech rules the day while human nature, for better or worse, remains constant. In nine interwoven tales, Mosley paints a keen if fictional portrait of what the future could hold if our own political climate continues. From Ptolemy Bent, the child genius whose act of mercy lands him in the world's first privatized prison, to Fera Jones, a heavy-weight champ who gives up the ring for a political career, characters appear and reappear in different storylines as everyone tries to survive a fast and furious "Futureland".
650			_aFiction
650			_aScience fiction
650			_aShort Stories
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942			_cBK
999			_c2086 _d2086