@booklet {11934, title = {"The Intended"}, howpublished = {Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {53-70, with Story Notes for The Intended by the author (71-73)}, publisher = {Bloomsbury Academic}, address = {London/New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a much advanced far future, primarily on the planet Eudaimonia, where everyone is a Planner and everything goes by the Plan, with each individual\’s life is set at birth. Everyone is tested daily and if there is a variation either the person\’s brain or the Plan is adjusted. The protagonist is a man who had an accident that made it impossible to sufficiently adjust either. The author describes the work as an ambiguous utopia in the same vein as Le Guin\’s The Dispossessed.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-350-08121-5}, author = {David John Baker}, editor = {Helen De Cruz and Johan de Smedt and Eric Schwitzgebel} }