“Highway 61 Revisited”
1986-00-00
short story
By China Mieville

Synopsis

A group of young people encounter a strange man after a fight.

History

First publication: Young Words, 1986

Review

How much should I spoil this? It is a remarkable story, but brush up on your 1980s politics before you read it. The story takes palce in the future, long after WWIII. Language has become altered with time. The whole story is written in this distorted English, making it a little hard to read but worth the effort. What the story does not have is much of a plot, but then it is pretty short, so it comes off kind of slice-of-life. Recommended for fans of dystopian fiction.


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We have the story in these editions:

Before They Were Giants, edited by James L. Sutter, trade paperback, Paizo Publishing, 2010-09-00