@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 {11180, title = {"Death Aid"}, howpublished = {London Centric: Tales of Future London}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {177-200}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in Croydon in South London after the Eurowars and the protagonists are all survivors, mostly from the military, dealing with injuries, PSTD, poor housing, and, for many, no purpose in life. The expanded European Union, known as Neo Euro, which includes a United Ireland, states that have broken away from Europe, and a dysfunctional United Kingdom, establishes radical new policies to deal with housing, the homeless, and health care, but the U.K. fails to introduce any of the reforms, and the story is set in a Croydon in South London, where people have taken things into their own hands. In this setting, some of the veterans are deciding whether or not to rejoin the United Nations military with the aim of suppressing the government of Myanmar, which is still killing its citizens. The story is riddled with typos.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-912950-73-7 }, author = {Joseph Elliott-Coleman}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {10962, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Gulliver{\textquoteright}s Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. Part V: A Voyage To The Island of The Wolves{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK{\textquoteright}S Healthcare Workers}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {460-71}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

Gulliver is thrown off a hip and ends up on an island that at first appears to be inhabited solely by a community of mostly young vegetarians who do not wear clothes and are promiscuous. But then, in what turns out to be a yearly ceremony, a pack of clothed wolves walking on two legs appear who feed on the humans.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Welsh author}, author = {Philip Palmer (b. 1960)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {10931, title = {{\textquotedblleft}A Conclusion{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK{\textquoteright}S Healthcare Workers}, year = {2018}, note = {

Originally published in audio format as an Audible original.

}, month = {2018/2020}, pages = {225-46}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future of constant surveillance by the Company, which is everywhere.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Paul Cornell (b. 1967)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {10017, title = {"Escape Hatch"}, howpublished = {2001: An Odyssey in Words: Commemorating the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke{\textquoteright}s Birth}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2018. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019), 155-59.\ 

}, month = {2018}, pages = {33-38}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

An entrance to an apparent eutopia appears, and the story explores the response of one woman who visited and returned.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) and Tom Hunter} } @booklet {9010, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Browsing: Security Issue{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Nature}, volume = {533.7604 }, year = {2016}, month = {May 26, 2016}, pages = {572}, abstract = {

Surveillance dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {9272, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Final Path{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {9-18}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe (general collapse) young adult dystopia in which the young woman protagonist escapes to join other young people who have run away to an island.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Genevieve Cogman}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {9481, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Montpellier{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Galaxy{\textquoteright}s Edge}, volume = {no. 19}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 267-79.\ 

}, month = {March/April 2016}, pages = {43-48}, abstract = {

The story is set in a city divided between the well-off and the slums. Montpellier is one of four high-rise buildings built in the slums that were intended to provide a better life but failed, in large part because the well-off were providing addictive drugs to the people living there. Hope is held out at the end.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {9343, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Ravisher, The Thief{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Barcelona Tales}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {95-110}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a post-catastrophe dystopia.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Spanish author}, author = {Marian Womack (b. 1975)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {10970, title = {"Taking Flight"}, howpublished = {Crises and Conflicts: Celebrating the First 10 Years of NewCon Press}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {45-55}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston, Eng.]}, abstract = {

The story is set on an isolated planet in a future in which genetically modified people are marked and bonded and bought and sold.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-9-910395-17-0}, author = {Una McCormack (b. 1972)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {9279, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Utopia + 10{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {159-69}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

Dystopia of extreme pollution and deep rich/poor divisions.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {J[acqueline] A. Christy}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {10964, title = {"Events"}, howpublished = {Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK{\textquoteright}S Healthcare Workers}, year = {2015}, note = {

Originally published in Novacon 45 Souvenir Booklet. Events / Heatwave. Birmingham, Eng.: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 2015.

}, month = {2015/2020}, pages = {225-35}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Weston, Eng}, abstract = {

The story takes place in a future after a complete economic collapse in which reading is prohibited, and the entire economy is based on the lottery for when one gets to see the regular, spectacular \“events,\” attendance at and approval of which is compulsory.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Stan Nicholls}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8191, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Faith Without Teeth{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-199 with an author\’s note on 199.\ 

}, month = {2014}, pages = {135-49}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which everyone is expected to voluntarily have their teeth removed so that everyone is equal.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Ian Watson (b. 1943)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {10454, title = {"The Honey Trap"}, howpublished = {La Femme}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. illus. Becca McCall. Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8\½ (Summer 2017): 75-92.\ 

}, month = {2014}, pages = {185-202}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia from after the bees have all died out.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Ruth EJ Booth}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {10652, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Palestinian Sweets{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {La Femme}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {9-35}, publisher = {New Con Press}, address = {[Weston], England}, abstract = {

A very odd story in which London is divided into areas dominated by competing religions, with the areas demarcated by smell.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Welsh author}, author = {Stephen Palmer (b. 1962)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8786, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Worldmaker{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.

}, month = {2014}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Rachel Armstrong}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8299, title = {"Before Hope"}, howpublished = {Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {235-57}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future of colonized planets that have all the problems of contemporary life. The story includes the possibility for resistance and revolution.

}, keywords = {Female author, UK author}, author = {Lakin-Smith, Kim}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8920, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Blossom Project{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {9-20}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

A plague has killed many people and animals, and Australia and New Zealand (now Auzealand) have completely cut themselves off from the rest of the world to avoid the spread of the plague. The authoritarian government controlling science is using genetic engineering using blood from those who were immune to the plague to create a cow (Blossom) that would give milk carrying the antibodies. Auzealand is presented in eutopian terms; the rest of the world is presented as a dystopia.

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {M. Frost}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8931, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Cellular Level{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {127-47}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

The story is told from the point of view of an engineer developing drones to replace pollinators killed by various environmental changes who needs the wisdom of an old woman who has spent her life on a farm to understand the workings of nature. The technology works but the bees still know more.

}, keywords = {English author}, author = {J. E. Bryant}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8928, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Charlie{\textquoteright}s Ant{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, note = {

Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11\½ (Spring 2018): 36-45.\ 

}, month = {2013}, pages = {117-25}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

High-tech farming creates a dystopia..

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8921, title = {"Contraband"}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {21-41}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

Climate change dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Terry Martin}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8919, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Do Shepherds Dream of Electric Sheep{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {33-44}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

Satire on a future in which most agriculture has been automated.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Scottish author}, author = {Fleming, Sam}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8927, title = {"Earthen"}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {97-102}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

The story presents a high-tech future with most farms fully mechanized with the focus on one woman who still lives on her farm and cares deeply for the land.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Alicia Cole}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8932, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Long Indeed We Do Live. . .{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {179-98}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

In a future after an undescribed environmental catastrophe, society has developed inside domes with different arbors devoted to different trees. Presented mostly positively. While there is much fantasy in the story, it appears that human life has also adapted to life outside the domes and that here is communication between life outside and the trees inside.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Storm Constantine (1956-2021)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8297, title = {"More"}, howpublished = {Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {35-58}, abstract = {

Dystopia of conflict between rich and poor in a world in which the rich can afford protection from the deteriorating environment.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8788, title = {"A Season"}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.\ 

}, month = {2013}, pages = {243-53}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

The story is about a man trying to save his land in a near-future dystopia of climate change and rapacious industrial agriculture.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Rebecca J. Payne}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8929, title = {"Soul Food"}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {193-15}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia made even worse by human intervention.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, UK author}, author = {Lakin-Smith, Kim}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8918, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The World Coyote Made{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, pages = {71-95}, publisher = {NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers}, address = {[Weston, Eng]}, abstract = {

Climate change dystopia in which technology is used to create food and return extinct animals to the wild.

}, keywords = {Dutch author, Male author}, author = {Jetse de Vries}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {8349, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Two Sisters in Exile{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Solaris Rising1.5: An Exclusive Ebook of New Science Fiction}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {London }, abstract = {

A eutopia of peace threatened by the surrounding warrior peoples.

}, keywords = {Female author, French author, US author}, author = {Aliette de Bodard (b. 1982)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {9980, title = {"Shop Talk"}, howpublished = {Warrior Wisewoman}, volume = {No. 2}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, pages = {23-44}, publisher = {Norilana Books Science Fiction}, address = {Winnetka, CA}, abstract = {

The story, which has elements of humor and fantasy, is set on a future Earth that had colonized space but had become extremely insular and tried to keep everyone in the town in which they were born.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)}, editor = {Robey James} } @booklet {8778, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Collateral Damage{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Subterfuge}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook\ 

}, month = {2008}, pages = {39-52}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a society with deep divisions between rich and poor with the poor hired and given perks to kill anyone the leader considers to pose a problem.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Jaine Fenn}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {6109, title = {"The Killing Fields"}, howpublished = {Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook

}, month = {2008}, pages = {35-46}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia of violence.

}, keywords = {Female author, UK author}, author = {Lakin-Smith, Kim}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {6139, title = {"The Man of the Strong Arm"}, howpublished = {Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {215-35}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia with elements of satire on SF. The dystopia is a male chauvinist society that honors the strongest man and keeps most men in ignorance. Women are essentially slaves, but there is a strong women\&$\#$39;s underground.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} } @booklet {6028, title = {"Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key"}, howpublished = {Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {157-73}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston], Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which Europe and the Islamic countries have agreed to end conflict with Europe agreeing to ban alcohol and the Islamic countries agree to end honor killing.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)}, editor = {Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959)} }