A short story collection from a great group of speculative fiction writers. Like Howard Zinn’s book, it concentrates on historically marginalized groups, except here the theme is possible near futures of the US. Some of them are cautiously optimistic. Many, extrapolating from the recent past, are less hopeful. As with any collection, some stories landed better than others. I was particularly haunted by “Read After Burning” by Maria Davana Headley, in which books are banned, so a defiant group of readers tattoo works of literature onto their skin (and turn the skins into leather after death), in order to keep them for posterity.