The story is set after a catastrophe caused by crashes among the thousands of objects in orbit, some of which fell to earth causing widespread damage. It takes place mostly in the Thames estuary where many people have settled and established a functioning community, not eutopian but mitigating the dystopia.
BT - Asimov’s Science Fiction C5 -PSt
C6 -(b. 1955)
C7 -March/April 2023
DA - 01/2023 N1 -Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth 2. Ed. Allan Kaster (Barker, TX: Infinivox, 2024), 193-260.
N2 -The story is set after a catastrophe caused by crashes among the thousands of objects in orbit, some of which fell to earth causing widespread damage. It takes place mostly in the Thames estuary where many people have settled and established a functioning community, not eutopian but mitigating the dystopia.
PY - 2023 SP - 152 EP - 197 T2 - Asimov’s Science Fiction TI - “Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene” VL - 47.3 & 4 (606 & 607) SN - 1065-6298 ER -