Ignorance Is Strength

De: John Joseph Adams - editor, Hugh Howey - editor and contributor, Christie Yant - editor

Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir, Susan Hanfield, Janina Edwards, Justin Eyre, Kathe Mazur, Stefan Rudnicki, Mirron Willis, Judy Young, full cast

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today's most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ramifications of those ideas in Ignorance Is Strength.

The Dystopia Triptych is a series of three anthologies of dystopian fiction. Ignorance Is Strength - before the dystopia - focuses on society during its descent into absurdity and madness. Burn the Ashes - during the dystopia - turns its attention to life during the strangest, most dire times. Or Else the Light - after the dystopia - concludes the saga with each author sharing their own vision of how we as a society might crawl back from the precipice of despair.

Ignorance Is Strength features all-new, never-before-published works by the following authors, in order of appearance: Carrie Vaughn, Tim Pratt, Rich Larson, Cadwell Turnbull, Karin Lowachee, Adam-Troy Castro, Caroline M. Yoachim, Hugh Howey, An Owomoyela, Seanan McGuire, Dominica Phetteplace, Alex Irvine, Tobias S. Buckell, Scott Sigler, Darcie Little Badger, Violet Allen, and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.

©2020 by John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christie Yant (P)2020 by Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat Media, Inc.

altogether not bad

The stories vary widely in quality. I got hooked at first two and also some others are pretty good, some quite boring. The very worst one is the last piece - not so much a distopic story as a self-pitying woke propaganda not even cleverly hidden, just dull.

Eye opening and provocative

A beautifully diverse collection filled with cautionary tales of societal collapse. Definitely going to check out the other ones!

Dark, Thought Provoking Dystopian Sci-Fi

Dystopian works are nearly always political commentary, or commentary on the state of mankind or our view of reality. These stories, when listened to with their counterparts in the other two collections in this series, are incredible.
These stories ask you to reflect on yourself, our society, and our future. Wonderful.

wow!

loved this. yes it's an anthology so not every story hit it out of the ballpark for me however most of them did. I don't review often but this was good enough to get one.

We’re farked!

Good times were generally not had by most characters... Stories scarily prescient. Looking forward to next in series...

Amazing! I was really impressed.

When I stared these I was open minded and I grew to love them. I had no preconceived ideas about any of the author writing styles and was happily suppressed and impressed. After listening and reading other reviews some people said they were too political for sci-fi and I found that yes they were political but there was no “too”. This series embraced fears that me and mine have for many parts of the future for our country and society. It all hit close to home and I found the series beautiful. They comforted a compulsive worrying anxious Anarchist soul in a way I haven’t felt about fiction in longer than I can remember. This triptych will be added to my libraries in every possible format I can get my hands on. They are now a personal favorite.

Uncomfortablely realistic

I listened to stories here that hit too close to home for me. Some were better then others but God when the tale hits it hits home in a big way.

Decent stories, seemingly unaware of its own ironies

Some of the stories were very good/well written by I found it interesting that most look to be decrying all societal issues on the usual “racist, hetero white male patriarchy” evil-ness in worlds where most of the population seems to be made up of married lesbian couples or trans teens. I also found it ironic in the context of the series that those views most represented in the stories generally advocate for the types of authoritarian government policies that Orwell was warning against…he would have thought this double plus ungood.

Fantastic

I was worried by some of the reviews here, but the stories were great.

A few that really strike the Orwellian theme

I normally live for Orwellian stories. I did really like and enjoy a few of these. but some missed the mark, they fail to fill you with dread as the realization that our nations and peoples are falling in line with this disasterous world. Or could.

I do plan to listen to the other books, but I will not be surprised if they follow the same theme as this book.