Up next: Brave New Worlds anthology edited by John Joseph Adams

I've already dived in to my next read, Brave New Worlds, edited by John Joseph Adams. It's a collection of dystopian short fiction from diverse authors.

The Kindle edition notes that the digital rights to three classic stories by famous authors (Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard) aren't included. Disappointing, but understandable. And, along with many other American high schoolers, I've already read Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron.

So far, it's quite enjoyable. I'm about a third through the book, and the stand out in the book so far is The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm. It's a superb story, a dark and severe tale of a girl reared in an ultra-severe caste school. Wilhelm's murky ending teases out a string of implications about the generations of teacher tyrants in a bleak future.