@booklet {11977, title = {"Black Waters"}, howpublished = {Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {34-57}, publisher = {Other Worlds Ink}, address = {Sacramento, CA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a climate change future where the coasts of the U.S. are under water, and people have fled to the Midwest. The protagonist is a woman searching for a job who is hired as a tester of the toxic water of the Missouri River.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {979-8832184425 }, author = {Lisa Short}, editor = {J. Scott Coatsworth} } @booklet {11981, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Last Caretaker{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {258-276}, publisher = {Other Worlds Ink}, address = {Sacramento, CA}, abstract = {

The Last Caretaker is the last person to live on and care for a satellite before it is decommissioned. He is particularly reluctant to leave the garden he has maintained for many years both for food and oxygen.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {979-8832184425 }, author = {C. J. Erick}, editor = {J. Scott Coatsworth} } @booklet {11982, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Protective Acts{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {250-257}, publisher = {Other Worlds Ink}, address = {Sacramento, CA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where all fauna and flora is valued, and it is a crime to hurt or kill any.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {979-8832184425 }, author = {Heather Marie Spitzberg}, editor = {J. Scott Coatsworth} } @booklet {11924, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet}, year = {2022}, note = {

Rpt. Illus. Little Blue Marble (October 20, 2023). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/the-sand-ship-builders-of-chitungwiza/

}, month = {2022}, pages = {13-19}, publisher = { Other Worlds Ink}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The story takes places in a drought stricken future Africa in which the entire world system has collapsed and focuses on one group of survivors that is divided between the followers of a strong man and those of a technocrat.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Zimbabwean author}, isbn = {979-8832184425 }, url = {https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/the-sand-ship-builders-of-chitungwiza/}, author = {[Julius] Masimba Musodza}, editor = {J. Scott Coatsworth} } @booklet {11980, title = {"Shit City"}, howpublished = {Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {101-126}, publisher = {Other Worlds Ink}, address = {Sacramento, CA}, abstract = {

The story takes place in a future devastated by climate change with extreme storms flooding or otherwise destroying most of the West Coast of the U.S.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {979-8832184425 }, author = {J. Scott Coatsworth}, editor = {J. Scott Coatsworth} } @booklet {11969, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Juma and the Quantum Ghost{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {20-45}, publisher = {Other Worlds Ink}, address = {Sacramento, CA}, abstract = {

In a future Africa, a woman who is developing a sustainable way of life has to fight corruption when her son his kidnapped for ransom at the behest of a local politician. She and her neighbors fight back using an organic computer developed by a teacher and her son. After they succeed, the computer is replicated, spreads to other poor parts of the word where the teacher has moved, and helps make her sustainability project a success.

}, keywords = {Female author, Spanish author}, isbn = {978-1732307582}, author = {Ingrid Garcia}, editor = {J. Scott Coatsworth} } @booklet {11975, title = {"Upgrade"}, howpublished = {Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {110-148}, publisher = {Other Worlds Ink}, address = {Sacramento, CA}, abstract = {

A cyberpunk story in which mods (body modifications and improvements) are common but strictly regulated and constantly surveilled by an authoritarian system. The story focuses on one transgender individual with many illegal mods who almost inadvertently brings about change.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Transgender author, US author}, author = {Alex Silver}, editor = {J. Scott Coatsworth} }