Authoritarian dystopia. Canada disintegrated after Québec withdrew from the confederation, and most power now is held by corporations. The prairie provinces are extremely poor and the story focuses on the use of prison labor to search in old garbage for antiques to be sold to people in the wealthy provinces.
BT - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction C5 -PSt
C6 -Canadian female author.
C7 - 2002 CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada DA - 01/2002 LA - eng N2 -Authoritarian dystopia. Canada disintegrated after Québec withdrew from the confederation, and most power now is held by corporations. The prairie provinces are extremely poor and the story focuses on the use of prison labor to search in old garbage for antiques to be sold to people in the wealthy provinces.
PB - Tesseract Books PP - Edmonton, AB, Canada PY - 2002 SP - 111 EP - 25 T2 - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction TI - "Little Sister" ER -