@booklet {12011, title = {"Less Than"}, howpublished = {Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {61-79}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story takes place in Free India in which everyone is free and equal and has replace the authoritarian Regime in which only some people were acceptable. It turns out, though, that new internet is being used to manipulate individuals to produce what are perceived to be a eugenically superior next generation.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {9780262546461}, author = {Lavanya Lakshminarayan}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {11194, title = {Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. as The Ten-Percent Thief. New York: Solaris, 2023. 368 pp. One story, \“The Ten-Percent Thief\” has been rpt. in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 35-40.

}, month = {2020}, pages = {312 pp.}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a future where the nations of the world have fragmented into a few city-states. In what was India, Bangalore is now Apex City under the control of a corporation and the people are divided between the elite Virtual, who have to technology, and the outcast Analog, who do not.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, isbn = {978-9389253085 }, author = {Lavanya Lakshminarayan} }