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Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions
A. R. Capetta, Wade Roush, eds.
Illustrator: Wendy Xu
Ages: 14+
Published: 2022
Publisher: MITeen Press/Candlewick Press
ISBN: 978-1-5362-1938-8
Keywords: Parent/child, Cultural identity, LGBTQ+, Allyship, Disability, Comics, Technology, Epidemics, Social media, Ecosystems, Extraterrestrial life, Multiverse
Ten writers create amazing explorations of the diverse possibilities of evolution in social systems and in human, interspecies, and spatial relationships when supported, controlled, and extended by future technology. Includes a graphic format story; crisp black-and-white artwork.