@booklet {11604, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Price of Attention{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future}, year = {2021}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books/Skyhorse Publishing, 2023), 60-75.

}, month = {2021}, pages = {105-120}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

After two major pandemics, a country has transformed itself using sophisticated algorithms, opening up green spaces in cities, defunding police and funding support systems, and other \“radical liberal\” policies. The story takes place as a referendum is about to be held to choose between continued decision-making by algorithm using a very complicated system of voting designed to avoid fraud and decision-making by citizen panels.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-262-54240-1 }, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {Gideon Lichfield} } @booklet {11595, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Suicide of Our Troubles{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Slate Future Tense}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 401-418, with a note on the author on 401.

}, month = {November 28, 2020}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which aspects of the natural world are enabled by AI and use their ability to communicate to hire a lawyer to develop a strategy to eliminate pollution. For a response, see Anna V. Smith, \“When Nature Speaks for Itself.\” Slate Future Tense (November 28, 2020). https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/suicide-of-our-troubles-environmental-personhood.html, in which the author discusses attempts to grant legal personhood to the natural world.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, isbn = {https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/karl-schroeder-suicide-of-our-troubles.html}, url = {https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/karl-schroeder-suicide-of-our-troubles.html}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)} } @booklet {10581, title = {Stealing Worlds}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel begins in a surveillance dystopia in which a woman finds that it is extremely hard to hide. She then discovers people creating cyber worlds and taking on new identities in these worlds and forming communities, something that otherwise no longer exists.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)} } @booklet {10579, title = {The Million}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, publisher = {Tor.com}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set on a future Earth that once every thirty years is visited by ten billion visitors for a big party. In between times, Earth is controlled by the Million, who have access to all of Earth\’s wealth.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)} } @booklet {10075, title = {"Eminence"}, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction \& Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30.

}, month = {2017}, pages = {271-85}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains \“eminence\” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0765382580 978-1-78108-573-8}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) and Stephen W. Potts} } @booklet {9490, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Too Big to See{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Overview: Stories of the Stratosphere.}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, publisher = {Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination}, address = {Tempe}, abstract = {

Brief story in which climate change has created a major refugee crisis in the Americas, and a trip by representatives of the antagonists to the stratosphere may solve the conflict.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, url = {http://csi.asu.edu/books/overview/}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {Michael G. Bennett and Joey Eschrich and Ed Finn} } @booklet {8186, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Degrees of Freedom"}, howpublished = {Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {206-42}, publisher = {William Morrow}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story focuses on the control of or access to new tools for understanding demographics and their use politically. In the story, set in the near future, the Canadian government has restricted access to most tools so as to be able to ensure its reelection, but some indigenous communities gain access to them and force the government to become more open. At the end, there is a suggestion that a freer society will result.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer} } @booklet {10558, title = {Lockstep}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a far-future, galaxy-spanning civilization in which hibernation leads to extremely long lives, and the story focuses on the tyrant who controls the system and his brother, who awakes from an immensely long hibernation.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)} } @booklet {6265, title = {"To Hie from Far Cilenia"}, howpublished = {Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder}, year = {2009}, note = {

(New York: Tor, 2009), 231-86. Story rpt.\ in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 317-52.

}, month = {2009}, pages = {211-60 with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 211}, publisher = {Subterranean Press}, address = {Burton, MI}, abstract = {

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Wishnevsky. This story is about a supposedly eutopian city hidden in virtual reality, but there is little detail.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969)} } @booklet {6145, title = {"Book, Theatre, and Wheel"}, howpublished = {The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction }, volume = {Two}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {265-96}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Nottingham, Eng.}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia..

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {George Mann} } @booklet {6146, title = {"Mitigation"}, howpublished = {Fast Forward 2}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 527-55.\ 

}, month = {2008}, pages = {292-317}, publisher = {Pyr}, address = {Amherst, NY}, abstract = {

Environmental dystopia\ designed to keep people ignorant.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Grenadian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) and Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979)}, editor = {Lou Anders} }