@booklet {11634, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Anomaly in the Rhythm{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {61-65}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Alconbury Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a flawed utopian future London with Universal Basic Income in which all citizens wear a biomechanical glove that give them \“suggestions\” and monitors their behavior.

}, keywords = {English author, Irish author}, isbn = {978-1-914953-09-5}, author = {Viraj Joshi}, editor = {Dan O{\textquoteright}Hara and Tom Ward and Stephen Oram} } @booklet {11643, title = {"The Changing Man"}, howpublished = {Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {149-153}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Alconbury Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which a white supremacist releases a virus that he thinks will infect people so that only white babies are born. Of course, things do not turn out as expected.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, South African author}, isbn = {978-1-914953-09-5}, author = {David Gullen}, editor = {Dan O{\textquoteright}Hara and Tom Ward and Stephen Oram} } @booklet {11633, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Conjugal Frape{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {21-25}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Alconbury Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

A divorce case in which a wife charges her husband of fraud reveals the fundamental law of the society that the 99\% do not want the 1\% to know: \“Economic self-interest is paramount\” (24), and the 99\% are manipulated to ensure the self-interest of the 1\%.

}, keywords = {English author, Irish author}, isbn = {978-1-914953-09-5}, author = {Jamie Watt}, editor = {Dan O{\textquoteright}Hara and Tom Ward and Stephen Oram} } @booklet {11648, title = {"Epilogue [citation needed]{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {197-206}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Alconbury Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a small-town bookstore/library/cafe in a climate change impacted future, but the focus is on the government\’s program of censorship and resistance to it.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {978-1-914953-09-5}, author = {Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954)}, editor = {Dan O{\textquoteright}Hara and Tom Ward and Stephen Oram} } @booklet {11638, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Transmissions from the Vitality Pod{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {117-120}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Alconbury Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

A brief depiction of an Earth so polluted that it is divided between those who live and work inside as much as possible, are constantly remotely monitored and treated, and venture outside, where others live short lives, only in a completely sealed hazmat suit.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-914953-09-5}, author = {Dan Coxon}, editor = {Dan O{\textquoteright}Hara and Tom Ward and Stephen Oram} } @booklet {11645, title = {{\textquotedblleft}An Excerpt from the Post-Truth and Irreconcilable Differences Commission{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions}, year = {2018}, note = {

Originally published online on Imperica (April 2018), which is no longer available online

}, month = {2018/}, pages = {167-167}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Alconbury Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

A journalist reports a future with a computer as President of the U. S. creating a form of fascism.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-914953-09-5}, author = {Brendan C. Byrne (b. 1982)}, editor = {Dan O{\textquoteright}Hara and Tom Ward and Stephen Oram} }