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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 Baki 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 Baki once again upends her characters convictions and identitiesand infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and offkilter eroticism Visceral and otherworldly Sweetlust takes apart human desire and fragility repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous