The premise for this sturdy, good-looking hardback issue is a story from different locations, each set 15 years in the future, so in 2024. Here in 2023, the authors' predictions for tremendous changes due to climate change and big advances in technology hasn't quite come to pass. Things haven't turned out so gloomy. The quality of the authors in this edition is amazing and I still remember a few of these stories quite well nearly 15 years later. I'll have to remember to read this edition again next year. ( )

One of the more interesting McSweeney's concepts: ten short stories, each set in 2024 (15 years after the original publication of the volume). Very different takes on things, of course, and expectedly uneven, but Anthony Doerr's "Memory Wall," Well Tower's "Raw Water," and couple of the other stories were quite decent. ( )

Memory Wall

By a convoluted path, memory tapes from an aging wealthy white female help a dying African youth give a new life to a struggling African family.

The mystery of figuring out what was going on made an intriguing beginning but the story became more common (and able to be set in the current time) as it progressed.