@booklet {11438, title = {{\textquotedblleft}And the Ship Sails On{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 125-59, with a brief author\’s note on 159.

}, month = {2018}, pages = {139-76}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The story is set on a cruise ship that has been sailing for what seems to be decades after climate change has led to sea level rises that has flooded most of the land. A highly structured, class-based society has evolved that the older people are desperate to keep.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925212341 978-1-912950676 }, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)}, editor = {Russell B. Farr} } @booklet {11606, title = {"Pinion"}, howpublished = {Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {65-103}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

As suggest by the book\’s subtitle, there is much fantasy, but the setting is a future dystopia in which only the Chosen, who live in immaculate towers, have clean air and water, fresh food, and sanitation. The workers put in extremely long hours in appalling conditions to ensure that the system supporting the Chosen is maintained.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-925212-34-1}, author = {Stephanie Gunn}, editor = {Russell B. Farr} } @booklet {5886, title = {"Adjudication"}, howpublished = {The Workers{\textquoteright} Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {13-24}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Extrapolation of working conditions in private prisons as the prison companies go into business with criminals to keep prisons full.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Simon Brown (b. 1956)}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} } @booklet {5925, title = {"After the Choice"}, howpublished = {The Workers{\textquoteright} Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {163-74}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia of the erosion of labor laws in Australia, but when people become aware of the horrible conditions, there is the beginning of a change back.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Robin Hillard (b. 1939)}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} } @booklet {5889, title = {"Black and Bitter, Thanks"}, howpublished = {The Workers{\textquoteright} Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {109-20}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Australia has too few working young to support the pensions of the old and introduces a system in which people vote on those who should lose their pensions and be placed in what are essentially prisons.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Nathan Burrage}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} } @booklet {5949, title = {"Magdas Career Choice"}, howpublished = {The Worker{\textquoteright}s Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {65-83}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the Society of Social Engineers have supposedly solved all Australia\’s problems. Only those testing as having exceptional abilities have careers. One handicapped person\’s career is to be the \“scape-grace\” (See 2001 Lindquist).\ A related non-utopian story is \"Purgatory.\"\ Dreaming Again. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2008), 412-24, with an \"Afterword\" (424).

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {[Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958)}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} } @booklet {5928, title = {"MTP"}, howpublished = {The Workers{\textquoteright} Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {85-90}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Addictive drugs are used to attract and keep best employees.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {George Ivanoff (b. 1968)}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} } @booklet {5880, title = {"Rapturama"}, howpublished = {The Workers{\textquoteright} Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {137-61}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Eutopian and dystopian satire. The first Artificial\ Intelligence is developed and programmed to be God by fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. It is used to rapture the right people into the heaven of virtual existence (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). Hackers help God to \ escape the fundamentalist limits, and God welcomes people of all beliefs. God also chooses some to remain to service the systems, and these create a low population, environmentally sound eutopia.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Roland Boer and Matthew Chrulew}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} } @booklet {6001, title = {"Right to Work"}, howpublished = {The Workers{\textquoteright} Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {29-37}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The elimination of pensions means that the old must work while the young play. Workers are considered lower class.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} } @booklet {5992, title = {"The Working Dead of Heehaw{\textquoteright}s Australia"}, howpublished = {The Workers{\textquoteright} Paradise}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {25-28}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publishers}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. As a result of deliberate cuts in health care and the elimination of workplace rights, a large supply of zombies is available to replace workers. A direct commentary on the policies of John Howard (b. 1939), Australian Prime Minister 1996-2007.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Jenny Schwartz}, editor = {Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans} }