TY - STAND KW - Male author KW - English author KW - Nigerian author AU - Tade Thompson AU - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) AB -

The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts.

BT - Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene C2 -

Illus. Sean Bodley

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The author, who is a psychiatrist, was born in England of Yoruba parentage, grew up in Nigeria, and now lives in England.

C7 - 2022 CY - Cambridge, MA DA - 01/2022 LA - eng N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 8. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books/Skyhorse Publishing, 2024), 497-514. 

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The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts.

PB - The MIT Press PP - Cambridge, MA PY - 2022 SN - 978-0-26254-443-6 SP - 27 EP - 44 T2 - Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene TI - “Down and Out in Exile Park” ER -