Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has collapsed, nuclear weapons have been used against Israel by a resurgent Caliphate, and there is an extreme rich/poor division. People use a drug to escape by taking them back to the past. The Japanese, who are the rich and the strongest world power, prohibit its use in Japan.
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C6 -(1948-2026)
C7 - 2011 CY - London DA - 01/2011 LA - eng N1 -U.S. ed. Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown, 2011. An earlier story was "Flashback." Lovedeath (New York: Warner Books, 1993), 153-200. Rpt. The Year's Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 544-85.
N2 -Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has collapsed, nuclear weapons have been used against Israel by a resurgent Caliphate, and there is an extreme rich/poor division. People use a drug to escape by taking them back to the past. The Japanese, who are the rich and the strongest world power, prohibit its use in Japan.
PB - Quercus PP - London PY - 2011 TI - Flashback ER -