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A review by artofmulata
The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto
4.0
Nutshell review: Mr. Yamamoto has written an excellent collection of stories that looks forward and back at the poverty of discrimination. Using androids as a foil, the author asks us to reconsider the many ways in which we oppress based on exigencies such as skin color, gender, age, or anything else that most consider unchangeable.
Like many before him, Grant Morrison, Bill Willingham, Warren Ellis, Mr. Yamamoto believes in the power of fiction to change the world. The book is structured in the form of the traditional collection we know as the 1001 Nights with an android, the titular Ibis, playing the role of Scheherazade and a young, human male in the strangely deformed role of the king. She tells the tales and we/the young man listen, hopefully taking what we've learned and influencing ourselves and those we encounter to better ourselves and thus the world.
Like many before him, Grant Morrison, Bill Willingham, Warren Ellis, Mr. Yamamoto believes in the power of fiction to change the world. The book is structured in the form of the traditional collection we know as the 1001 Nights with an android, the titular Ibis, playing the role of Scheherazade and a young, human male in the strangely deformed role of the king. She tells the tales and we/the young man listen, hopefully taking what we've learned and influencing ourselves and those we encounter to better ourselves and thus the world.