@booklet {11827, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {58-71/222-236}, publisher = {Future Fiction}, address = {Rome}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which climate change had create a world of migrants that lived outside the control of governments who have the ability to use CRISPR and nanotechnology to create whatever living forms they want. They story contains some trenchant comments on the present that explain that future: \“You can\’t have democracy when you have social media. With social media everyone gets to have their own truths. They form closed-off worlds of self-reinforcing narratives and lies. Then, we expect them to go off, and make decisions?\” (62). And \“If you can\’t trust people to vote, you definitely can\’t trust them to create\” (64).\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Sri Lankan author}, isbn = {978-8832077513}, author = {Navin Weeraratne}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint and Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay and Francesco Verso} }