@booklet {10681, title = {"Meerga"}, howpublished = {New World eZine $\#$2 [This version is no longer available online]}, year = {2013}, note = {

Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga.\ 

}, month = {2013}, abstract = {

The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a \“mere girl,\” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {https://www.bigecho.org/meerga}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)} }