@booklet {11755, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Checkerboard{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures.}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {348-382}, publisher = {Twelfth Planet Press}, address = {([Yokine, WA, Australia]}, abstract = {

Climate change dystopia in which the heat is so intolerable that \“Birds dropped dead from the skies. Old people dropped dead in the streets\” (349). But the rich in what are called shadowhouses, while the poor lived wherever they could survive. The story follows a number of characters from the lower classes as they make do and try to bring about change.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-922101-73-0 }, author = {Thoraiya Dyer}, editor = {Matthew Chrulew} } @booklet {11748, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Floating Island{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures}, year = {2022}, pages = {153-169}, publisher = {Twelfth Planet Press}, address = {[Yokine, WA, Australia]}, abstract = {

The story is set on an artificial island that travels around the Pacific Ocean in a future where many of the islands have been submerged.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-922101-73-0 }, author = {Grace Dugan (b. 1981)}, editor = {Matthew Chrulew} } @booklet {11745, title = {"Naked Earth"}, howpublished = {Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {129-136}, publisher = {Twelfth Planet Press}, address = {([Yokine, WA, Australia]}, abstract = {

The story is set in a climate change future where society is divided into three class, the embracers who do everything possible to personally produce power that is sent to the grid. The unshackled do as they like, and the undecided are essentially outcasts who pay a heavy price for their agnostic position. The protagonist is a young women trying to decide.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, English author, Female author, Tanzanian author}, isbn = {978-1-922101-73-0}, author = {Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon}, editor = {Matthew Chrulew} } @booklet {11753, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Remembrancer of First Fruits and Tenths{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {261-286}, publisher = {Twelfth Planet Press}, address = {[Yokine, WA, Australia]}, abstract = {

An odd/surreal corporate dystopia in which buildings change shape in their fights with other corporate headquarters.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-922101-73-0 }, author = {Andrew Macrae}, editor = {Matthew Chrulew} } @booklet {11744, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Shallow State{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {106-128}, publisher = {Twelfth Planet Press}, address = {[Yokine, WA, Australia]}, abstract = {

The story is set in a climate change future where the government systematically misrepresents the situation by such things as temperature readings that are programmed to not go over 100oF.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-922101-73-0 }, author = {Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972)}, editor = {Matthew Chrulew} } @booklet {11740, title = {"Sucker Hole"}, howpublished = {Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {92-105}, publisher = {Twelfth Planet Press}, address = {[Yokine, WA, Australia]}, abstract = {

The background to the story is a long-lasting drought in the U.S. and limited water in Canada, which, with strict prohibition of immigration from the U.S., is the setting of the story. The story also reflects the continuation of class disparities.\ 

}, isbn = {978-1-922101-73-0 }, author = {Wendy Waring}, editor = {Matthew Chrulew} } @booklet {11756, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Sunny Days{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {331-347}, publisher = {Twelfth Planet Press}, address = {[Yokine, WA, Australia]}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future badly impacted by climate change. The protagonist lives in a two bedroom apartment that has been divided into six apartments and, like most people, has to monitor every minute of their electricity use who meets a wealthy woman living in a part of the city where none of the rules seem to apply. Australian author who uses the pronouns they and them and is a descendent of the Martu People of Western Australia.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-922101-73-0 }, author = {Jasper Wyld}, editor = {Matthew Chrulew} } @booklet {11738, title = {"Wild Plums"}, howpublished = {Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {48-64}, publisher = {Twelfth Planet Press}, address = {[Yokine, WA, Australia]}, abstract = {

The story is set after the United States has fallen apart and has formed NACE with Canada and Mexico. After multiple disasters most of the population live in domed SPHRE\’s (Solar-Powered Habitat and Replacement Environment\’s) that are compulsively managed so that everything occurs on a programmed basis, goods are traded with other SPHRE\’s in predictable amounts on predictable days. \“No one could profit off what was necessary for life\” (52). All young people required to attend \“NACE-mandated Social Responsibility and Conflict Resolution classes\” (55). The protagonist, a young married woman, leaves her SPHRE to search for the wild plums of the title, at which point the story takes an unexpected turn.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-922101-73-0 }, author = {Molly Tanzer (b. 1981)}, editor = {Matthew Chrulew} } @booklet {5880, title = {"Rapturama"}, howpublished = {The Workers{\textquoteright} Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {137-61}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Eutopian and dystopian satire. The first Artificial\ Intelligence is developed and programmed to be God by fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. It is used to rapture the right people into the heaven of virtual existence (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). Hackers help God to \ escape the fundamentalist limits, and God welcomes people of all beliefs. God also chooses some to remain to service the systems, and these create a low population, environmentally sound eutopia.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Roland Boer and Matthew Chrulew}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} }