TY - ABST T1 - "Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which computers are DNA based and, in each person, because terrorist viruses had completely destroyed the possibility of silicon-based computers and the Web. The result is extreme isolation and terrorist attacks on any gathering of people.

JF - Live Without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alone With an Inconvenient Companion" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The story is about the way in which humans are replacing their biological parts with mechanical ones, and it is set in a society that is constantly monitoring and correcting everyone.

JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Gambler" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of instant communication with over-reliance on the internet. A sub-theme is environmental collapse.

JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 32-49 with an editor’s introduction on 32; and in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 51-72. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mitigation" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia designed to keep people ignorant.

JF - Fast Forward 2 PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY N1 -

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 527-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Murder in Geektopia" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia for Geeks with a stress on technology and popular culture in an alternative future of world peace.

JF - Sideways in Crime: An Alternative Mystery Anthology PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seniorsource" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

SF story with a dystopian background. Generational conflict has placed many old people in orbiting satellites or on the moon with settlement of Mars in process. This has impoverished Earth. “The old were warehoused with the  terminally ill, and depending on how much money they had, they either got personal care or they didn’t” (275).

JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 SN - 9781591026921 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wikiworld" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia based around peer-operated systems, including government.

JF - Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "YFL-500" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set in the same world as 2006 Wilson "The Cartesian Theater".

JF - Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Absalom's Mother" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Louise Marley (b. 1952) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with centralized control of all aspects of life. The story is about the revolt of a group of women against the drafting of their children into the workforce and the militia at a very young age. Schooling involves teaching children how to do the jobs they are already required to do.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cartesian Theater" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background of the story is the failure of complete automation to produce a eutopia. See also 2007 Wilson. 

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 275-98; and in Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction. Ed. Robert J. Sawyer (Markham, ON, Canada: Published by Red Deer Press for Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2009), 241-77 with a note on the author on 241-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Engines of Arcadia" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) ED - Lou Anders KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed eutopia. A future which has adopted the medieval Arcadia as its model and the flaws in the system.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, right-wing, fundamentalist dystopia.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pearl Diver" Y1 - 2006 A1 - CaitlĂ­n [Rebekah] Kiernan (b. 1964) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an overpopulated, environmentally degraded dystopia in which both government and corporations have everyone under surveillance at all times.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 229-42; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 229-42. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shuteye for the Timebroker" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is an invention that means that no one has to sleep, and the developed world, where people can afford it, develops even faster, while the poor slip further behind.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Feed the Machine" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Del Stone Jr. ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which love is forbidden and homosexual love is "an abomination".

JF - Living without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Solace for the Soul in Digitopia" Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Presents what can be considered a sexual eutopia in a world of multiple realities.

JF - Living without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U3 -

John Grant [pseud.]

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