Sweetlust: Stories (Bakic Asja)(Paperback)

The eleven stories in Sweetlust interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.In a dystopian world with no men, women are "rehabilitated" at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte.Asja Bakic deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. Once again Bakic upends her characters' convictions and identities--as she did in her acclaimed debut Mars--and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Both visceral and otherworldly,
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