Sweetlust Av Asja Bakic

<span><p><b><span>The eleven stories in </span><span><i>Sweetlust</i></span><span> interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.</span></b></p><p><span>In a dystopian world with no men, women are “rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of </span><span><i>The Sorrows of Young Werther</i></span><span>refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte.</span></p><p><span>Asja Bakić deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut </span><span><i>Mars</i></span><span>,</span><span> Bakić once again upends her characters’ convictions and identities—</span>