@booklet {10976, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Cities of the Sun{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent}, year = {2019}, note = {

U.S. ed. (New York: Amistad, 2019), 432-36 with a note on the author on 432.\ 

}, month = {2019}, pages = {432-36 with a note on the author on 432}, publisher = {Myriad Editions}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

A brief story set in an unidentified country that after surviving troubles brought on by their own and an invasion manage to follow their ancestors\’ ways to create a decent life for themselves.

}, keywords = {Barbadian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-912408-00-9 }, author = {Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968)}, editor = {Margaret Busby} } @booklet {10544, title = {"Haven"}, howpublished = {Ocean Stories. Current Futures: A Sci-Fic Ocean Anthology}, year = {2019}, month = {June 2019}, pages = {EBook}, abstract = {

Complex story with both eutopian and dystopian elements set in a future Caribbean that is trying to protect itself from climate change and the machinations of governments trying to limit the political power of island nations, and to illustrate the issues the story takes the reader to different points in the future.

}, keywords = {Barbadian author, Female author}, url = {https://go.xprize.org/oceanstories/haven/}, author = {Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968)}, editor = {Ann VanderMeer (b. 1957)} } @booklet {10662, title = {"The Plague Doctors"}, howpublished = {Take Us to a Better Place, Stories}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 300-322.

}, month = {2019}, pages = {250-78}, publisher = {Robert Wood Johnson Foundation}, address = {Princeton, NJ}, abstract = {

A post-apocalypse dystopia (plague) and the struggle get the resources to limit its spread and find a cure.

}, keywords = {Barbadian author, Female author}, isbn = {Print version 9781595911117 sent to Foundation members}, author = {Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968)} } @booklet {10256, title = {"The Mighty Slinger"}, howpublished = {Bridging Infinity}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398.

}, month = {2016}, pages = {119-56}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng}, abstract = {

The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland.

}, keywords = {Barbadian author, Female author, Grenadian author, Male author, US author, US Virgin Islands author}, author = {Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) and Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {9861, title = {"A New Panama"}, howpublished = {Bim: Arts for the 21st Century}, volume = {8.1}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in Catalysts, Explorers \& Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction. Ed. Monica Louzon, Jake Weisfeld, Heather McHale, Barbara Jasny, and Rachel Frederick (Washington, DC: Museum of Science Fiction, 2017), 118-27.\ 

}, month = {May 2016}, abstract = {

Climate change has greatly reduced the islands and coastal areas of the world, and the next stage will be in space. The story focuses on a strong Caribbean woman negotiating over the future of her people.

}, keywords = {Barbadian author, Female author}, url = {https://www.bimlitfest.org/articles/new-panama}, author = {Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968)} } @booklet {9370, title = {The Best of All Possible Worlds. A Novel}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A complex novel depicting a world with many differing societies, one explicitly dystopian, but with most of them presented positively. The Galaxy Game. New York: del Rey, 2015 is a sequel that presents a much more complex and less positive presentation of the differing societies.

}, keywords = {Barbadian author, Female author}, author = {Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968)} }