![]() ![]() Otherwise, the planet is completely inundated, but with a handful of floating communities like Brighton Pier – it’s all something like Waterworld, but with actual imagination at work. Tetley is as cheerful and Candide-like as ever, even though she lives in Garbagetown, a community built on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, grown so dense that it can support whole neighborhoods named after their particular kinds of trash – candles, batteries, auto parts, drugs, etc. ![]() Now Valente gives us a good deal more Tetley in The Past is Red, which begins with that earlier novelette and then picks up Tetley’s story from a decade later, when she’s 29 years old. Valente’s “The Future is Blue”, the Sturgeon Award winner which became the title story of Valente’s 2018 collection from Subterranean. There were quite a few provocative tales in Jonathan Strahan’s 2016 anthology Drowned Worlds, but the most memorable narrator in the book was probably Tetley Abednego from Catherynne M. ![]()
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