![]() ![]() ![]() In the course of her wandering, she finds love and discovers a shocking secret about her world. In the title novella, Tetley is 29 and still Garbagetown’s star dissident: while others dream of a 21st-century-style life of ease, Tetley loves her life in Garbagetown in spite of the ostracization that has forced her to strike out on her own, and she refuses to sacrifice Garbagetown’s stability to chase a misguided fantasy of dry land. In “The Future Is Blue,” reprinted here, 19-year-old Tetley Abednego recounts the events that made her “the most hated girl in Garbagetown,” a far-future settlement built on an island of floating garbage. ![]() Valente expands on her 2016 short story “The Future Is Blue” with an entertaining and moving peregrination that sometimes raises more questions than it answers. ![]()
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