@booklet {10314, title = {"0.1"}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {227-47}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe story set after a sentient bacterium had killed most of the world\’s population, starting with the 1\% and eliminating all who do not feel love and compassion. The story is about the birth of the first baby after the plague ended.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, Queer author, US author}, author = {Gabby Rivera}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10291, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The New York Times}, year = {2019}, month = {July 29, 2019}, abstract = {

The Op-Ed is set in a world where AI\’s are trying to achieve equality and is written by one who wants to worship.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/opinion/future-artificial-intelligence-religion.html}, author = {Steven James (b. 1969)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10286, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Attachment Disorder{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {111-31}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, \“Removal Order,\” 2014 Due, \“Herd Immunity,\” 2015 Due, \“Carriers,\” and 2019 Due, \“One Day Only.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10306, title = {"The Blindfold"}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {248-63}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where, in an attempt to make trials fairer, the personal characteristics, such as race, are blocked from the members of the jury. The protagonist is a hacker who works to ensure that the system works who is hacked by those trying to undermine the system.\ 

}, keywords = {British Virgin Islands author, Grenadian author, Male author, US author, US Virgin Islands author}, author = {Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10281, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Bookstore at the End of America{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 1-22, with an editor\’s note on 1; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 204-22, with a note on the author together with the author\’s note on the story on 391.\ 

}, month = {2019}, pages = {3-26}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story takes place in a bookstore that straddles the boundary between California and the United States, which are at war.\ 

}, keywords = {Transgender author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 }, author = {Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10283, title = {{\textquotedblleft}By His Bootstraps{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {133-44}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire in which the U.S. government, under President Trump, initiates a program that changes the DNA in a person back to its human origins, thus ridding the country of all mixed-race immigrants. Something goes wrong and most people in the country become Native American Indians.\ 

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, author = {Ashok K[umar] Banker (b. 1964)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10290, title = {"Calendar Girls{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {191-204}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia\ in which contraception is illegal.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Justina Ireland (b. 1985)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10295, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {84-92}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10307, title = {"Esperanto"}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {274-94}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story depicts a world in which most people\’s experience of it is through virtual reality and how they react when the system is sabotaged.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jamie Ford (b. 1968)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10312, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, note = {

\ Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.

}, month = {2019}, pages = {298-306}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A dystopia in which the 99\% is trying to kill off most of the 99\%, who are fighting back.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9780525508809 9781789095012}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10319, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Good News Bad News{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {307-20}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The future is depicted in a series of short reports, the main one being about racist robots.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Taiwanese American author}, author = {Charles Yu (b. 1976)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10313, title = {"Harmony"}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {360-75}, abstract = {

The creation of a eutopian town for those who don\’t fit elsewhere.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Seanan McGuire (b. 1978)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10317, title = {{\textquotedblleft}A History of Barbed Wire{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {329-50}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The U.S. has become corporate controlled with no safety net, and people try to escape to the walled-off nation of the Cherokee.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Native American author}, author = {Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10293, title = {"It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {93-119}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a largely abandoned Albany, New York that all government workers left after being replaced by AI. The United States is an authoritarian surveillance state and deeply anti-gay, which is a major focus of the story.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10311, title = {"No Algorithms in the World{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2018}, pages = {264-73}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story depicts a future with a guaranteed income and most jobs taken over by AIs. A father sees it as dystopia; a son sees it as providing a good life.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10298, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Our Aim Is Not to Die{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {27-48}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A white supremacist, patriarchal dystopia in which everyone is under constant surveillance, and there are required medical/mental checks to ensure that everyone is straight. Lobotomies, now called neural reformatting therapy, are used to \“cure\” the non-conforming.\ 

}, keywords = {Non-binary author, Queer author}, author = {A. Merc Rustad}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10288, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Read After Burning{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {62-83}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future in which it is prohibited to teach children to read or even to speak except in approved slogans. The story is told from the viewpoint of a child of librarians who are secretly keeping books alive.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Maria Dahvana Headley (b. 1977)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10282, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Referendum{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {178-90}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Nigerian author, US author}, author = {Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10287, title = {"Riverbed"}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {145-65}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story\’s protagonist is an American-born woman who, as a young woman, was incarcerated in camps holding the U.S. Islamic population.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Egyptian author, Male author, Qatari author, US author}, author = {Omar El Akkad (b. 1982)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10318, title = {"ROME"}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {285-97}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A dystopia set in a United States devastated by climate-change that has privatized all first responders, and a poor district in Seattle had no protection from the regular fires as seen through the eyes of students taking an English-language test required for them to stay in the country.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {G[wendolyn] Willow Wilson (b. 1982)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10316, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Sun in Exile{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {351-59}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire on climate change deniers.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10305, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {205-25}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian in which technology is supposedly curing homosexuality.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Violet Allen}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10296, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The United States Should Welcome a Strong, United Latin America{\textquotedblright}}, year = {2019}, month = {June 17, 2019 with over 100 comments}, abstract = {

Reflections on the formation of a united Latin America, following on from the European Union and an African Union that the United States is vigorously opposing.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/future-united-latin-america.html}, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10289, title = {"The Wall"}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {49-61}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the United States has collapsed and disappeared with refugees desperate to escape to Mexico.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Lizz Huerta}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10294, title = {{\textquotedblleft}What Maya Found There{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {166-77}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A future surveillance society in which biotechnology is being used as a means of control.\ 

}, keywords = {Latinx author, Male author, US author}, author = {Daniel Jos{\'e} Older (b. 1980)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10315, title = {{\textquotedblleft}What You Sow{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {321-38}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A fantasy story set in a future where many have succumbed to a disease that gradually wastes them away with the only relief provided by the \“ichor\” from a Celestial told from the point-of-view of a Celestial, who has been trying to fit in.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Transgender author}, author = {Kai Cheng Thom}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} }