Delaney Nolan’s many-splendored debut novel Happy Bad is set 20 years hence, and the good news is humanity still exists in a semblance of a world we recognize—if one with severe water restrictions, far fewer insects, and artificial foodstuffs that simultaneously sustain life and diminish it qualitatively. The really bad news, however, is that the oligarchs are still oligarching and the masses are still marinating in an oppressive slurry of corporate and government overreach, greed, and power tripping, especially over young women’s bodies, biology, and behavior.

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