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Future Shock: Dystopian days ahead from Julia Glass and Bruce Holsinger


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When you think of the future, what do you imagine? On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels with a decidedly dystopian view of things to come: "Vigil Harbor" by Julia Glass, and "The Displacements" by Bruce Holsinger. 

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