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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A very diverse collection, in terms of subject matter, style and also just straight quality. The premise was that 2010 a group of Nigerian writers held a workshop on the theme of what Lagos would be like in 50 years. Every story sheds some interesting light on Lagos at the time of writing, as sci-fi always does, but not all of them stand up on their own. The weakest feel rather clunkily written, while the strongest are great pieces of short fiction. One piece of advice without spoilers: quality generally gets better through the collection, so if you read this and get frustrated early on, skip a story and keep going. The final story was by far my favourite. no reviews | add a review
What will it be like to live in Lagos 100 years after Nigeria gained independence from the British? In 2010, eight writers came together to contribute stories to an anthology on fictional / futuristic takes on the city of Lagos via a workshop tagged LAGOS_2060, conceived to commemorate Nigeria's golden jubilee. The anthology that grew out of the workshop is telling in the different versions of the future it foretells. In LAGOS_2060 - an unusual scenario planning exercise achieved through the power and magic of a creative writing programme - there are climate change induced natural disasters actively plugged by doomsday preachers of the day, there are serious government institutions involved in first rate science and more often than not, these institutions tackle and solve the energy crisis to various degrees of success. There are wars and near wars as Lagos threatens to secede from the Nigerian state to have full control of its own economy. There are robots, amphibious speed trains, psychedelic drugs and highly trained security operatives with conflicts of interest, but more importantly, there are the ubiquitous Lagos people, whose industry and inventiveness seems largely unchanged, despite how much their city has travailed in the intervening half century. No library descriptions found. |
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One piece of advice without spoilers: quality generally gets better through the collection, so if you read this and get frustrated early on, skip a story and keep going. The final story was by far my favourite. ( )