Table of Contents

A People’s Future of the United States contains the following stories:

  • Introduction — Victor LaValle
  • The Bookstore at the End of America — Charlie Jane Anders
  • Our Aim Is Not to Die — A. Merc Rustad
  • The Wall — Lizz Huerta
  • Read After Burning — Maria Dahvana Headley
  • Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted] — Malka Older
  • It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right — Sam J. Miller
  • Attachment Disorder — Tananarive Due
  • By His Bootstraps — Ashok K. Banker
  • Riverbed — Omar El Akkad
  • What Maya Found There — Daniel José Older
  • The Referendum — Lesley Nneka Arimah
  • Calendar Girls — Justina Ireland
  • The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves — Violet Allen
  • O.1 — Gabby Rivera
  • The Blindfold — Tobias S. Buckell
  • No Algorithms in the World — Hugh Howey
  • Esperanto — Jamie Ford
  • ROME — G. Willow Wilson
  • Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death — N. K. Jemisin
  • Good News Bad News — Charles Yu
  • What You Sow — Kai Cheng Thom
  • A History of Barbed Wire — Daniel H. Wilson
  • The Sun in Exile — Catherynne M. Valente
  • Harmony — Seanan McGuire
  • Now Wait for This Week — Alice Sola Kim