@booklet {12017, title = {{\textquotedblleft}My City Is Not a Problem{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {123-131}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a near future London where an AI system is being set up to figure out the central problems of the city and propose solutions. It did so to the consternation of those in power.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {9780262546461}, author = {Tim Maughan (b. 1973)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {11214, title = {Infinite Detail}, year = {2019}, month = {2010}, pages = {372 pp.}, publisher = {MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar Straus \& Giroux}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is divided in alternate sections, Before and After the end of the internet, all connectivity, and civilization as we know it with a focus on the Croft. In the Before, the Croft, an area of Bristol, had cut itself off from the pervasive surveillance of modern life. In the After, with all authority gone, competing militias control different areas and use forced labor to raise food, and the Croft is a walled compound.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {9780374175412}, author = {Tim Maughan (b. 1973)} } @booklet {11184, title = {"Don{\textquoteright}t Be Evil"}, howpublished = {Big Echo: Critical SF}, volume = {no. 7, Part 1}, year = {2018}, month = {January 2018}, abstract = {

Near future dystopia set in a city divided by those in employment and the \“unconnected\” told from the point of view of a woman who had worked her way up to a good job with guilty and feels guilty about her feelings about the unemployed, unwashed, unconnected.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, url = {Don{\textquoteright}t Be Evil {\textemdash} Big Echo}, author = {Tim Maughan (b. 1973)} } @booklet {11200, title = {"Flyover Country"}, howpublished = {Terraform}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 27-33.

}, month = {November 25, 2016}, abstract = {

A future showing the result of Trump era policies, with cellphones made in America, mostly by illegal aliens and \“voluntary\” labor in camps connected to the factories.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, url = {Flyover Country (vice.com)}, author = {Tim Maughan (b. 1973)} } @booklet {11199, title = {"Zero Hours"}, year = {2013}, month = {September 19, 2013}, abstract = {

In this future everyone has to bid on shifts at businesses, which keeps wages down. Constant surveillance. Part of a series of Ten Future Londoners of 2033. This is the only fiction; all the others are brief descriptions of individuals. The whole series can be found at Future Londoners | Nesta.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, url = {Zero Hours | by Tim Maughan | Medium}, author = {Tim Maughan (b. 1973)} }