"Targets"

Year for Search
2017
Secondary Title
Shoreline of Infinity
Author
Annotation

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. 

Volume / Edition
no. 8
Pagination
78-85
Published Date

May 2017

ISSN Number
2059-2590
Keywords
Full Text

2017 Brown, Eric (1960-2023). “Targets.” Illus. Jessica Good. Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8 (May 2017): 78-85. 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. PSt

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. The author was born in England and lives in Scotland.

Additional Publishers

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.

Illustration

Illus. Jessica Good

Author Note

The author (1960-2023) was born in England and lives in Scotland

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