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PRAISE FOR

FUTURE FEELING

“Smartly set in a strange, yet familiar American offscape, Lake weaves a tantric tale that measures the timelessness of trans identities not in well-intentioned DSM diagnoses, civil rights movements, or social media pedantries, but by cherishing the fissures in the rock wall of intersectionality. For as Future Feeling proves, it’s in these misalignments, misunderstandings, and inappropriate joking where we have space to be ourselves.”

—Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout

“Who is this Joss Lake who seems to have peered into my mind? I loved this weird, fun book, and now I want to bite Joss Lake’s hypnotic style or maybe live in this book for a time. Or maybe we already do? If you want to feel better or worse about the time you spend on the internet, take my advice and buy this very book and then go post about it on Instagram. Joss Lake’s Future Feeling is turning everything upside down. I think I might still be buzzed from reading it.”

—Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

“The uneasy future conjured by Joss Lake is really a naked readout on our crumbling present moment. Like every ambitious literary visionary, Lake uses his delirious imagination and potent narrative gifts to sharpen the mirror on how we live and feel now.”

—Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and Notes from the Fog

“Future Feeling marks a delightful contribution to the ultra contemporary sci-fi canon. Like (and unlike) the best of cyberpunk, Lake transforms the alienation and flatness of technoculture into a fully dimensional and absorbing alternate reality complete with sprawling queer resistance movements, t4t flirting/obsessions, and sexy magic plant life. And like the best humor writing, Future Feeling is ridiculously fun and smart, and accomplishes that rare and difficult goal: the conversion of anxiety into laughter. I loved this book. It is about the internet, but it is more fun than the internet!”

—Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox

“I devoured this funny, charming book of trans friendships and sly cultural commentary; a story about what truly matters for those of us lost in the maelstrom of identity and media. Here’s how unable I was to put it down: I accidentally dropped it in the toilet, fished it out, and kept right on reading.”

—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

“A wildly imaginative, subversively futuristic romp through the depths of the trans psyche, Future Feeling’s rendering of the forces that converge upon queer lives not only provokes while it entertains, but ultimately leaves us so much more hopeful for the world to come.”

—Meredith Talusan, author of Fairest: A Memoir