Prime Meridian

This was beautiful, tragic, thoughtful, and far too short. Moreno-Garcia has crafted a wonderful character study here of Amelia, a young woman who lives in the gutters but dreams of the stars. Hamstrung by a gig economy, crumbling public infrastructure, and the isolation of modern life, Amelia's dreams seem like they'll never be realized. Set against a background of a Mexico City that seems equally inspired by Gibson and PKD, as well as current depressing trends in economics, Amelia's life is at once both instantly familiar and frighteningly tragic. The result is a beautiful work of fiction that I can only hope will be revisited in a larger setting at some later point.