The World Wasnt Ready for You: Stories The most profound terror is rooted in lovethe terror of losing love, of love betrayed, of love in peril. Justin C. Keys work is a cold knife through a hot heart, a surgical blade unleashing gouts of searing fear.Cory Doctorow, author of Red Team Blues, Little Brother, and RadicalizedAn electrifying collection of stories that would make Octavia E. Butler smile.EbonyBlack Mirror meets Get Out in this gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, which deftly blends science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudicean electrifying, oftentimes heartbreaking debut from an extraordinary new voice.Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R. L. Stines Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movies only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villainif they were portrayed at all.In The World Wasnt Ready for You, Key expands and subverts the horror genre to expertly explore issues of race, class, prejudice, love, exclusion, loneliness, and what it means to be a person in the world, while revealing the horrifying nature inherent in all of us. In the opening story, The Perfection of Theresa Watkins, a sci-fi love story turned nightmare, a husband uses new technology to download the consciousness of his recently deceased Black wife into the body of a white woman. In Spider King, an inmate agrees to participate in an experimental medical study offered to Black prisoners in exchange for early release, only to find his body reacting with disturbing symptoms. And in the title story, a father tries to protect his son, teaching him how to navigate a prejudiced world that does not understand him and sees him as a threat.The World Wasnt Ready for You is a gripping, provocative, and distinctly original collection that dem Autor: Justin C. Key Wydawnictwo: HarperCollins Rok wydania: 2023 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 288 Wymiary: 15.9 x 23.8 x 2.6 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9780063290426