UTOPIAS OF THE THIRD KIND PLUS…

by Vandana Singh

PM Press
(www.pmpress.org)
2022, 113 pages, $15

ISBN 978-1-62963-915-4

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The story collection, UTOPIAS OF THE THIRD KIND PLUS … has the following memorable contributions:

“Lamentations.” An artist shows a sketch to an interesting person she meets on the street and invites him to a coffee house. The sketch is a symbol: What does it mean? Actually, what does our very existence mean? The person provides some insights.

Singh’s tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin sums it up: There are utopias, and then there are LeGuin Utopias, which are well-conceived, sensible, having a little tarnish, but you can’t always have perfection.