@booklet {11032, title = {The Arrest. A Novel}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {207 pp.}, publisher = {Ecco/HarperCollins}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Although the dust jacket says is not postapocalyptic, a dystopia, or a utopia. After almost all forms of power stop working with no explanation give, it is certainly the first two, and there are elements of a utopia in a farming cooperative, but it is equally a commentary on such fictions. The three main protagonists appeared in his \“The Starlet Apartments.\” Illus. Ana Galva{\~n}. The New Yorker (March 4, 2019). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-starlet-apartments which provides background to the novel.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-06-293878-7 }, author = {Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964)} } @booklet {5310, title = {"The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door"}, howpublished = {The New Wave Fabulists}, volume = {Volume 39 of Conjunctions}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {163-71}, publisher = {Bard College}, address = {Annandale-on-Hudson, NY}, abstract = {

Satire on utopias and dystopias.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964)}, editor = {Peter Straub} } @booklet {4909, title = {"Access Fantasy"}, howpublished = {Starlight 2}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, pages = {198-215}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia. Vast numbers of people live in their cars stuck in an endless traffic jam and cut off from the wealthy who live on the other side of barriers that keep the two groups mostly separate.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964)}, editor = {Patrick Nielsen Hayden} } @booklet {4910, title = {Girl in Landscape}, year = {1998}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2002.

}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

The novel begins in a dystopia on Earth brought about by environmental collapse. Everyone must live underground and avoid the sun completely. A family moves to a new planet, and the novel shifts to the relations among the new inhabitants and their relations with the indigenous inhabitants seen through the eyes of a girl as she becomes an adult.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964)} } @booklet {8898, title = {"How We Got in Town and out Again"}, howpublished = {Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction }, volume = {20.9 (249) }, year = {1996}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Press, 1997), 457-74; and in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 67-85.\ 

}, month = {September 1996}, pages = {12-22, 24-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia where towns try to keep all strangers out.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964)} } @booklet {4547, title = {Gun, With Occasional Music}, year = {1994}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. Rpt. London: Faber \& Faber, 2001.

}, month = {1994}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Future authoritarian dystopia presented as a mystery novel set in the future. Drugs, including \"Forgettol\", \"Acceptol\", and \"Regrettol\" which do what their names suggest, and can be blended to produce a combination. Detectives are known as Inquisitors. Personal questions considered impolite. Sex change operations are common. There are evolved animals.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964)} }