@booklet {11475, title = {Arbeitskraft}, howpublished = {The Mammoth Book of Steampunk}, year = {2012}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 105-23; and in the author\&$\#$39;s\ The People\’s Republic of Everything (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 11-37, with an author\’s note on 36-37.

}, month = {2012}, pages = {440-61}, publisher = {London/New York}, address = {Robinson/Running Press}, abstract = {

The complex satire is told from the point-of-view of Friedrich Engels and begins in a steampunk world in which the mechanicals that were made possible by Charles Babbage\’s Difference Engine are treated as badly as human workers. Engels remains a revolutionary and repurposes the Difference Engine into a Dialectical Engine, essentially an Artificial Intelligence, designed to write the fifth volume of Marx\’s Capital, which includes a description of a future in which the collective mind of the working class has been fed into the Difference Engine.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780762444687 ‎978-1616963002 }, author = {Nick Mamatas (b. 1972)}, editor = {Wallace, Sean} } @booklet {6149, title = {"Hydraulic"}, howpublished = {Spicy Slipstream Stories}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. in Dark Futures [Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]. Ed. Jason Sizemore (Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2010), 226-37.\ 

}, month = {2008}, pages = {219-29}, publisher = {Lethe Press}, address = {Maple Shade, NJ}, abstract = {

Environmental dystopia. Power is produced from rain, and it rains constantly. Almost everything has been privatized, and even recharging batteries is illegal.

}, keywords = {Female author, Russian author, US author}, author = {Ekaterina Sedia (b. 1970)}, editor = {Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) and Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014)} } @booklet {6042, title = {"Revolt of the Ultraists!"}, howpublished = {Spicy Slipstream Stories}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {153-84}, publisher = {Lethe Press}, address = {Maple Shade, NJ}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a collapsed city. Violence, new drugs, intrusive advertising.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Richard A. Becker}, editor = {Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) and Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014)} } @booklet {11465, title = {Under My Roof}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {151 pp.}, publisher = {Soft Skull Press}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {

A man builds a nuclear weapon, disguised as a gnome, in his front yard and secedes from the U.S.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9781933368436 9781616963002}, author = {Nick Mamatas (b. 1972)} }