@booklet {11216, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Animals Like Me. Deep/Fake I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {29-43}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

A dystopia in three parts with the protagonist in the first part the viewpoint character in the second part and a minor figure in the third part, with the parts apparently in chronological order. The first part depicts a society entirely dependent on artificial intelligence, the only employment seems to be in the gig economy, and drug addiction is normal and fostered by pharmaceutical companies. In the second part, hordes of children are running wild and killing people and body parts are removed without consent. In the third part, the protagonist is a goat herder in the mountains, where he went to escape his own addiction, and individuals start showing up announcing that the bot had been overthrown.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, Nigerien author, Spanish author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11204, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Department of Talent Resources. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {3-24}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

The first part of a three-part story developed over three volumes. In this part, a young woman who is struggling to survive financially after a bad accident is approach by a recruiter for a corporation that promises to take care of everything if she signs on. In the second part, \“Keep Your Streak Going! We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.\” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 3-16, she has been working for the corporation for six years, health problems solved, living on its campus, which she never leaves, and appears happy while under constant pressure to fulfill set tasks within specified time periods to gain or lose credits, which are needed for everything. She and a man she just met even conceive a child to gain credit. The man is not a hard worker and falls down in the system. The woman does well, but at the end of the story her now-grown daughter chooses to leave the corporation and strike out on her own. In the third part, \“You Have Been Crowdfunded. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.\” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant\  Press, 2020), 3-16, she and three friends are looking to retire at\ one of the corporation\’s retirement homes but cannot actually confirm their existence or contact anyone they know who has retired.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = { 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 ‎ 979-8677298424}, author = {Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11217, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Glass Houses. Letters: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {46-56}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts in which a U. S. President is elected on a Right to Work platform, which turns out to mean that if you don\’t contribute to society at an acceptable level as set by the government, such as doing poorly in high school, you will be forced to work on a farm for minimal food, housing, and wages. The second part is set on such a farm with those who refuse to work on the farm, and anyone considered a danger to society including everyone in jail, are frozen in a cyro chamber. The third part illustrates the conflicts taking place within a family where a child is not doing well at school.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, US Virgin Islands author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Cadwell Turnbull}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11213, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Glasslands. Wrack: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {15-28}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Three-part story set in a future where people from a different reality arrive on Earth intending to set everything straight and create a eutopia for all. The story is told from the point of view of three people from a band All You Need to Change the World is Faith and a Chainsaw who do not want to be Harmonized, as the invaders call it. Chronologically, the invasion is described as seen by the woman who leads the band members and who immediately wants to start a revolution in \“Spheres and Harmonies. Wrack: Part III.\” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-33. In Glasslands. Wrack: Part I.\” Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 15-28, a woman who is an artist whose desire to burn her creations is sent a reserve for the disaffected. And in \“Cacophany. Wrack: Part II.\” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-32, a man who is an urban explorer and would be happy to be if he could explore other realms is not allowed to, so he joins the woman from Part III to invade the reserve.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 ‎ 979-8677298424}, author = {Tim[othy Aaron] Pratt (b. 1976)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11231, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Idle Hands. Robots Rise: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {209-23}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts set on Moreland, a seasteading built outside the U.S. territorial waters so that the extremely wealthy can live free of taxes and any laws but their own. The second generation discovers that there is no one to do the work, so they bring in thousands of robots, including sentient AIs, one of whom is the protagonist in all three stories. In the first story, the AI is bored and arranges to be thrown into the ocean to kill him. In the second story set some years later, the AI has been found and restored to life by a dissident faction that is trying to foment revolution. In the third story, after the owner of Moreland has killed the AI, it is again restored to run in an election.

}, keywords = {British Virgin Islands author, Grenadian author, Male author, US author, US Virgin Islands author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11223, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Inheritors. The Inheritors: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {107-35}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts. In the first part, a researcher who develops a cure for cancer and wants it freely available has it taken by her university so it can make huge profits. She then develops a simple genetic manipulation that produces highly intelligent and physically able children and gives it secretly to the extremely disadvantaged. In the second part, \“normal\” humans are trying, with considerable success, to eliminate the enhanced humans. In the third part, while the violence against the advanced continues, a rapprochement seems possible.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11218, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Lyceum. Aiden Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {57-72}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

A three-part dystopia in which a company is developing a neurological educational link that will give all children access to knowledge and help in understanding it. The eutopian possibilities of the project are derailed when the teenage son of the developer is killed in an accident, and she becomes fixed on the neurolink, which had named after her son. In the second part, the man who took over its development makes it possible for the link to be shared, and it spreads throughout the population beyond schools, with some seeing the results positively and others seeing them negatively. In the third part, the developer creates an android that can access the neurolink and looks and acts as if it is human.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, Guyanese author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Karin Lowachee (b. 1973)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11233, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Mister Dawn, How Can You Be So Cruel? Slumberland: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {257-71}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts in which, in the first story, dreams are first curated for wealthy individuals. In the second story, drugs become common to enhance shared dreaming. In the third story, dreams become for entertainment for everyone in dream shows but also used for social control.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Violet Allen}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11225, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Opt-In. Harvest: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {159-69}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts focusing on the sale of body parts. In the first story, a poor woman sells organs in order to pay her bills. In the second story, a law is passed legalizing the sale of body parts that, with amendments, means that anyone in debt can be required to sell their body parts to pay it off, and a woman has her womb and uterus harvested. In the third part, a resistance has arisen with the story told by a woman in the resistance trying to get access to the records that show whose organs were harvested and who they went to

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Seanan McGuire (b. 1978)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11232, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Orphan of Greenridge (Water). Ko Ko N{\'e} {\"A}: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {241-56}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts linked by connections to indigenous cultures and the effects of climate change. In the first story, water is rationed, and the testing of water is rigged to hide the fact that it is contaminated. In the second story, a woman with a baby is trying to escape conflict. In the third story, Texas is one of the few states that sells off mostly abandoned land to the very rich.

}, keywords = {Female author, Native American author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11229, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Red Sky at Morning: Nil Desperandum: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {197-207}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts that begins in a climate change dystopia in Downeast Maine. Fires fill the air with smoke. No power. Massive flooding. The protagonist is a woman raising her granddaughter. In the second part that granddaughter is trying to survive alone in her grandmother\’s house in an area that has been taken over by vigilantes who kill all \“foreigners,\” but particular Blacks, ethnic minorities, and anyone gender nonconforming. The woman is part of an underground railroad hiding fugitives. In the third part, the last of those fugitives visits the remains of the burned-out house where the woman was killed trying to save her, a killing that started a revolt against vigilantes.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11222, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Shadow Prison Experiment. Shadow Prisons: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = { Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, note = {

The three stories were rpt. in\ Lightspeed, nos. 123 - 125 (August - October 2020).\ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prison-experiment/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shadow-prisons-of-the-mind/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prisoners-dilemma/

}, month = {2020}, pages = {91-105}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Three-part dystopia in which a everyone has an implant that regulates everything they see and the corporation that controls it develops a technology that replaces prisons by taking a person offline so that no one can see who it is. The Shades, as they are called, state popping up everywhere as more and more \“crimes\” warrant temporary or permanent exclusion. In the first story, the protagonist, who is in a single-sex marriage and has a transgender child, is given a permanent sentence. The second story is a decade or so later, and she is trying to survive, and her partner divorced her and has re-married, and she sometimes meets with her child, now a marred adult. In the third story, the corporation she is a leader in a revolution against the Shadow Prisons.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11234, title = {Trust in the Law, For the Law Trusts in You. Lawless: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {273-94}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts. In the first story, mass shootings are a constant, and children are taught using VISIONS, a virtual reality system that supposedly allows safe education. In the second story, there is enforced church membership and attendance, patriarchy, marriage between a man and a woman, with the woman expected to have children, and constant updates rating on every individual with penalties for falling too low. CUSN, developed from VISIONS, connects everyone, but becomes infected with a virus. In the third story, a small group of people try to bring down the system.

}, keywords = {Non-binary author, Queer author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (b. 1986)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {10311, title = {"No Algorithms in the World{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2018}, pages = {264-73}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story depicts a future with a guaranteed income and most jobs taken over by AIs. A father sees it as dystopia; a son sees it as providing a good life.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {8202, title = {"Carriers"}, howpublished = {The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {139-51}, publisher = {Editors}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

A post-plague dystopia with the carriers of the plague forced to live outside what remains of civilization with the focus on the protagonist, who, like all the NIs (Naturally Immunes), is a carrier. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, Removal Order,\” 2014 Due, \“Herd Immunity,\” 2019 Due, \“One Day Only,\” and 2019 Due, \“Attachment Disorder.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781497484405}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)} } @booklet {8246, title = {{\textquotedblleft}In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {153-71}, publisher = {Editors}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia seen through the eyes of a very old man who had created the religious basis for the reviving society.\ Stories that provide background to the dystopia are \“The Balm and the Wound.\”\ The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 5-22; and \“Dear John.\”\ The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 293-315.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Robin Wasserman (b. 1978)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)} } @booklet {11942, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Herd Immunity{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {5-19}, publisher = {Np}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, \“Removal Order,\” 2015 Due, \“Carriers,\” 2019 Due, \“One Day Only,\” and 2019 Due, \“Attachment Disorder.\” In this story, Nayima, who is one of the few people who are immune, meets a man who she thinks is also immune.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781497484375}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {11941, title = {"Removal Order"}, howpublished = {The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {85-98}, publisher = {Np}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The first of a continuing series of stories featuring Nayina, a young African woman dealing with a plague (the 72-hour flu, 72 hours being how long one might live after contracting it) while caring for her grandmother, who had cancer. They had stayed behind in a town that everyone else had left and then were forced to move because the town was going to be burned in hopes of stopping the plague. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, \“Herd Immunity,\” 2015 Due, \“Carriers,\” 2019 Due, \“One Day Only,\” and 2019 Due, \“Attachment Disorder.\”

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9781495471179}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {8087, title = {Sand}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, publisher = {CreateSpace}, address = {North Charleston, SC}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the Earth is deeply covered with sand and sand-diving is one of the few ways to make a living. A sequel, which is set in the future of the earlier volume is Across the Sand. New York: William Morrow/HarperColllins, 2022.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)} } @booklet {8150, title = {"Shooting the Apocalypse"}, howpublished = {The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 1-24; and in\ Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 273-294.

}, month = {2014}, pages = {307-24}, publisher = {Np}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The background to the story is a climate change dystopia with radical division in Arizona between those with water and those without water. See also 2015 Bacigalupi, The Water Knife.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972)}, editor = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {9088, title = {Wool Omnibus}, year = {2012}, note = {

Rpt. with some revisions as Wool. New York: Simon \& Schuster, 2013.

Much of the material was originally published online in the author\’s blog as \“Wool\” (July 30, 2011), \“Wool: Proper Gauge\” (November 20, 2011), \“Wool: Casting Off\” (December 4, 2011), \“Wool: The Unraveling\” (December 25, 2011), and \“Wool: The Stranded\” (January 14, 2012).\ 

}, month = {2012}, publisher = {CreateSpace}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which to escape the ruined earth people have lived for generations in an authoritarian dystopia in a huge underground silo. Sequels include Shift Omnibus. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which includes \“First Shift\” (April 14, 2012), \“Second Shift\” (November 20, 2012), and \“Third Shift\” (January 28, 2013), and Dust. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which concludes the series. Additional material can be found at the author\’s website http://www.hughhowey.com/ as well as the author\’s \“Story Behind Dust\” at http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-dust-by-hugh-howey.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)} }