@booklet {4839, title = {"Like the Gentle Rain"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, volume = { 93.4 }, year = {1997}, month = {October/November 1997}, pages = {167-81}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author\’s note on 167 says that the story \“was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal\’s essay \‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul\’.\”

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {Magazine of of Fantasy and Science Fiction}, author = {Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950)} } @booklet {4245, title = {"The Invisible Country"}, howpublished = {When the Music{\textquoteright}s Over: A Benefit Anthology}, year = {1991}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Invisible Country\ (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996), 13-34, with an \"Afterword\" on 35.

}, month = {1991}, pages = {126-46, with a brief editor{\textquoteright}s note on 125}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of an extreme division between the rich and the poor where gangs run the poor areas and violence is common. A biological agent that makes people caring is spread around the world and the dystopia is being replaced with a better society.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955)}, editor = {Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950)} } @booklet {4268, title = {"The Prince"}, howpublished = {When the Music{\textquoteright}s Over: A Benefit Anthology}, year = {1991}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Exploded Heart\ (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 197-223, with an author\&$\#$39;s note on 197.

}, month = {1991}, pages = {75-102, with a brief editor{\textquoteright}s note on 74}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of corporate greed, environmental collapse and violence.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954)}, editor = {Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950)} } @booklet {3531, title = {"Till Human Voices Wake Us"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {66.5 }, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. [Michael] Bruce Sterling (New York: Arbor House, 1986), 125-38.

}, month = {May 1984}, pages = {93-103}, abstract = {

A corporation is modifying humans and animals to produce eutopia with the eutopian ends justifying the dystopian means.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950)} } @booklet {3581, title = {"Twilight Time"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine}, volume = { 8.4 (77) }, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Year\&$\#$39;s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 421-39 with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 420.

}, month = {April 1984}, pages = {102-06, 108-24}, abstract = {

A time travel story with dystopias both in the present and the past. In the past, aliens are taking control; in the present, the U.S. has voted to give complete power to a group promising security. Actions in the past change the dystopian present.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950)} }