# Sweetlust: Stories

**Asja Bakić**

**Jennifer Zoble**

## Description
The eleven stories in *Sweetlust* interweave feminist critique, intertextuality, and science fiction tropes in an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.

In a dystopian world with no men, women are “rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of *The Sorrows of Young Werther* refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte.

**Asja Bakić deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation.** As she did in her acclaimed debut *Mars*, Bakić once again upends her characters’ convictions and identities—and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism.

Visceral and otherworldly, *Sweetlust* takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.

## Links
- [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/10458/9781952177729)
- [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1952177723?tag=thisstoryai04-20)