Laurie Penny is a contributing editor and columnist for the New Statesman and a frequent writer on social justice, pop culture, gender issues, and digital politics for the Guardian, the New Inquiry, Salon, the Nation, Vice, the New York Times, and many other publications. Her blog Penny Red was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010. In 2012, Britain s Tatler magazine described her as one of the top 100 people who matter. Her nonfiction book Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies, and Revolution was published by Bloomsbury (2014).
The scariest, most enduring dystopias walk a fine line between parable and prediction. Penny erases that line. In this made-up story, the rich speciate from the poor; in our real world, working class lifespans are declining as the one percent live ever longer lives at ever-greater removes from the rest of us. This is no mere literary device. This is a pitiless allegory, calculated to enrage and terrify its readers. Cory Doctorow</p> Original and unflinching in its realistic portrayal of a utopia gone wrong, <i>Everything Belongs to the Future</i> is science fiction at its thought provoking finest. Geek Syndicate</p>