@booklet {11583, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Acts of Defiance{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = { Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {49-63}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston, Eng.]}, abstract = {

The story is set on one of the islands of Orkney, Scotland, where the protagonist had moved to distance himself from the current regime that destroys books that meet its disapproval and kills dissidents. Having destroyed all philosophy books, it is now coming for his favorite novels.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, isbn = {978-1-914953-03-3}, author = {Eric Brown (1960-2023)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {9873, title = {"Targets"}, howpublished = {Shoreline of Infinity}, volume = {no. 8}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 201-205; and in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 47-52.

}, month = {May 2017}, pages = {78-85}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs.\ The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, issn = {2059-2590}, author = {Eric Brown (1960-2023)} } @booklet {8263, title = {The Serene Invasion}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

An alien invasion brings peace and prosperity to Earth, but some people and other aliens want a return to the conflict of the past.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Eric Brown (1960-2023)} } @booklet {9442, title = {Differences{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Albedo (Dublin, Ireland)}, volume = {no. 41}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, pages = {36-37}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which any human difference is unacceptable.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Eric Brown (1960-2023)} } @booklet {5602, title = {British Front}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Barrington Stoke}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

Young Adult dystopia. No blacks or Asians left in 2055 Britain. Military rule.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Eric Brown (1960-2023)} } @booklet {5603, title = {The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, publisher = {PS Publishing}, address = {Hornsea, Eng.}, abstract = {

Eutopia and dystopia. Jules Verne (1828-1905) travels into both the past and the future. In the future, he first visits an authoritarian dystopia that has so weakened the sun as to bring about a new ice age. Much further into the future, he visits a eutopia of peace and plenty with the sun restored with the assistance of visiting aliens.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Eric Brown (1960-2023)} } @booklet {5164, title = {"The Frankenberg Process"}, howpublished = {Interzone}, volume = {no. 171 }, year = {2001}, month = {September 2001}, pages = {6-16}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia. Complete control of history with all record of those who get on the wrong side of the authorities deleted. The story stresses the betrayal of friends by those committed to the system.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Eric Brown (1960-2023)} } @booklet {5064, title = {"Mind{\textquoteright}s Eye"}, howpublished = {Spectrum SF }, volume = {1}, year = {2000}, month = {2000}, pages = {80-97}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a city built so that the poor live at the bottom and the rich and powerful live at the top. The story is about a young girl leaving the bottom and her experiences at the top.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) and Eric Brown (1960-2023)} } @booklet {9868, title = {Untouchable}, year = {1997}, note = {

Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 195-285.\ 

}, month = {1997}, publisher = {Orion Children{\textquoteright}s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks}, address = {London}, abstract = {

This short novel includes two dystopias. The first is a version of contemporary India from the perspective of a Dalit (Untouchable) girl. The second is a version of virtual reality where children kidnapped from the streets of Delhi. But within virtual reality there are also eutopian spaces where the girl is treated as an equal.\ See also 1997 Baxter,\ Gulliverzone\ and 1998 Lovegrove. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett,\ Dreamcastle\ (1997), Graham Joyce,\ Spiderbite\ (1997),\ Peter F. Hamilton,\ Lightstorm\ (1997), Ken Macleod,\ Cydonia\ (1998), Maggie Furey,\ Sorceress\ (1998), Stephen Baxter,\ Webcrash\ (1998), Maggie Furey,\ Spindrift\ (1998), Eric Brown,\ Walkabout\ (1999), and Pat Cadigan,\ Avatar\ (1999).\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {Eric Brown (1960-2023)} }