A review by gardens_and_dragons
Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

4.5

Your Utopia is a follow-up to Curse Bunny- it’s a collection of short stories that delves into technology, featuring robots, spaceships, and futuristic corporations. True to Bora Chung's style, there's always a peculiar twist. I think that the stories keep getting stronger as you progress through the collection. I’ll outline some favorites here: 
The opening story, "The Centre for Immortality Research," ostensibly about extending life, actually critiques capitalism and the rigidity of large organizations. It has a somewhat irreverent tone through the whole thing, where more and more ridiculous scenarios keep happening but corporate life must trudge on. 
"The End of the Voyage" presents a dystopian view of a disease that induces cannibalism, evolving into a narrative about religious existentialism. On the longer side, but, I think it really nails the ideas of horror in space, dread of others, etc. 
The title story “Your Utopia” examines the fallibility of machines, Asimov’s Three Laws and how it can be seen as detrimental to non-human intelligences, and also underscores the importance of environmental preservation. Honestly I love a good robot and this didn’t disappoint. 
“To Meet Her” is really powerful once you know more context of why it was written. I won’t spoil it, but I think it has a lot going for it. 
Overall, pretty please with it, and couldn’t put it down on the Sunday afternoon/night that I picked it up. 

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