Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 153621938X
• ISBN13: 9781536219388
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Miteen Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12