Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs. The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen.
BT - Shoreline of Infinity C2 -Illus. Jessica Good
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C6 -The author (1960-2023) was born in England and lives in Scotland
C7 - May 2017 DA - 05/2017 LA - eng N1 -Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 201-205; and in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 47-52.
N2 -Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs. The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen.
PY - 2017 SP - 78 EP - 85 T2 - Shoreline of Infinity TI - "Targets" VL - no. 8 SN - 2059-2590 ER -