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The Obama Inheritance Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir Gary Phillips Walter Mosley Christopher Chambers Lise McClendon Books

What a joy to discover this collection of short stories, all expertly crafted around the satirical premise: What if all the right-wing conspiracy theories about The Deep State are foundationally true? The 15 pulp-noir stories are all over the map and wrought by some of the finest authors alive, including Walter Mosley, Robert Silverberg and the collection's editor, Gary Phillips.

They're all first-rate, but among my favorites: "The Continuing Mission" by Adam Lance Garcia, "A Different Frame of Reference" by Walter Mosley, "Forked Tongue" by Lise McClendon, "I Know They're In There" by Travis Richardson and "Deep State" by Désirée Zamorano. "Give Me Your Free, Your Brave, Your Proud Masses Yearning to Conquer" by L. Scott Jose is a masterpiece of satire and Gary Phillips' "Thus Strikes the Black Pimpernel" is a tour de force that sticks the landing on the entire compendium.

Each piece packs a surprise and takes wild chances. If a couple of stories are overwrought? Well, that's the whole point. This book, right down to the amazing artwork on the cover is pure fun.


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The Obama Inheritance Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir Gary Phillips Walter Mosley Christopher Chambers Lise McClendon Books Reviews

This is going to be a Christmas present. It looks good when I flipped through it.
These short stories were a great, mind-bending, imaginative trip, and the The Obama Inheritance book cover itself is worth the purchase price. Conspiracy theories conjured during Obama's terms as President, on their own, were nutty and off the rails of reality. The authors take the conspiracy theories and thrust them into another dimension, resulting in thought provoking tales of action, fear, comedy, despair and hope.
A remarkable collection of stories with a fascinating and well executed conceit. There were some stories I loved! (Lise McClendon, Kate Flora and Adam Lance Garcia wrote three of my favorites.) A couple that were not my cup of tea, but overall a great collection.
Great stories! Well-written, imaginative, yet full of subtle truths and hints of hope for the future. Full disclosure I am not completely done reading the book because I am reading it with my mother who reads at a slower pace, but we both are enjoying the sharp wit, and hilarious scenarios that encompass the bizarre times we live in. We'll both be sorry when we complete the book so we are cherishing each story and hope that the many great authors will go on to write other books of a similar nature.
In this fun, wacky, mind-bending collection, top-notch writers play with the concept of conspiracy about the presidency of Obama. Some really far-out ideas make this an interesting grouping, and show how different stories can be despite a similar theme. You never know if you'll meet super-spies, lizard-people, or be thrust into an apocalyptic landscape.
Good writing and different ideas make this a book to be read, no matter what your political views, despite the negs from treason-trolls trying to pee on something which mocks their prejudices. Yeah, it's got echoes of Philip K. Dick, and that's a good thing.
A book sure to be disparaged by dullards and alt-right folks. For everyone else, this is dystopia for big kids at its best. Stories like Kate Flora's Michelle in Hot Water and Forked Tongue by Lise McClendon, are smart and can get the reader into wishful thinking mode. Several, including True Skin, A Different Frame of Reference and Sunburnt Country are scary in their dark possibility as future realities. Then There's Nisi Shawl's Evens, a story everyone who felt gypped by the Republicans after the Supreme Court vacancy debacle, will relate to.
Some are straightforward reading, others, like The Paslm of Bo, require the reader's full attention in order to get rewarded at the end, but all in all, it's a darn good collection that will shock some, creep out many and leave most with fragments that will explode in their heads when they read or hear about political events in coming years.
The pitch for this anthology sounded right up my street – 15 stories where the basic instruction for each writer was “Pick any conservative conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama – no matter how loopy – and just run with it.”

The result – at least for me – is disappointing. For the most part, the stories here either aren’t very well written or don’t really follow the instructions – at least as far as I understood them. Maybe I misunderstood the overall premise, but it seems like at least half the stories here are less about exploring the fun fictional possibilities of Obama conspiracy theories and more wishful-thinking revenge tales where conservatives who badgered the Obamas for years finally get theirs – which is fine as far as it goes, but in my mind it isn't really in the spirit of the stated mandate. And what a Robert Silverberg story from 1982 is doing here is a mystery in itself.

To be sure, there are a quite a lot of good ideas here – Michelle Obama as covert operative, Barack Obama leading a secret resistance movement after Trump goes full fascist, the true secret of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s longevity, Obama and Biden as Star Trek time travellers – but not many develop into decent stories. Notable exceptions include Walter Mosley’s “A Different Frame of Reference”, which riffs on that photo of Obama sneaking a smoke (or was he?), and Christopher Chambers’ “The Psalm of Bo”, which gets points for coming up with the idea of Obama’s dog leading an army of weaponized dogs against the last MAGA stronghold in post-apocalyptic America – written in semi-Biblical language, no less.

FULL DISCLOSURE I didn't read the last few stories because the e-book crashed. Which I've never experienced with a hard-copy book. I'm just saying, those last ones might have helped put an extra star on this review.
What a joy to discover this collection of short stories, all expertly crafted around the satirical premise What if all the right-wing conspiracy theories about The Deep State are foundationally true? The 15 pulp-noir stories are all over the map and wrought by some of the finest authors alive, including Walter Mosley, Robert Silverberg and the collection's editor, Gary Phillips.

They're all first-rate, but among my favorites "The Continuing Mission" by Adam Lance Garcia, "A Different Frame of Reference" by Walter Mosley, "Forked Tongue" by Lise McClendon, "I Know They're In There" by Travis Richardson and "Deep State" by Désirée Zamorano. "Give Me Your Free, Your Brave, Your Proud Masses Yearning to Conquer" by L. Scott Jose is a masterpiece of satire and Gary Phillips' "Thus Strikes the Black Pimpernel" is a tour de force that sticks the landing on the entire compendium.

Each piece packs a surprise and takes wild chances. If a couple of stories are overwrought? Well, that's the whole point. This book, right down to the amazing artwork on the cover is pure fun.