![]() Dutra’s “Gary Johnson” echoes gruesome and dehumanizing scientific experimentation on African-Americans in the early 20th century. ![]() Costa’s “Once Upon a Time in the World” is set in a retro-futuristic version of 1929, and Daniel I. Silva’s “Xibalba Dreams of the West” imagines a Brazil that was never colonized, Antonio Luiz M. Telmo Marçal’s “When Kingdoms Collide,” Gabriel Cantareira’s “Escape,” and Carlos Orsi’s “Soylent Green Is People!” craft glossy utopian veneers that are pulled back to reveal ugliness beneath. ![]() ![]() Some of these awkward narratives are rife with translation errors and overburdened by their own ambition, sacrificing pacing and plot for forced exposition and abrupt but predictable twist endings. In a dark departure from the usual uplifting themes of the ecopunk genre, this Brazilian collection’s speculative exploration of technological primacy is anything but cheerful. ![]()
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