@booklet {4157, title = {"Re: Generations"}, howpublished = {Full Spectrum }, volume = {2}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, pages = {143-95}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which all television is designed to sell products, with both the television stations and the stores owned by the Company. But the system is beginning to fall apart, creating a different dystopia, with shortages of the goods being sold, people developing psychological problems, and mass suicides.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95)}, editor = {Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy and Amy Stout and Patrick LoBrutto} } @booklet {3983, title = {"Journals of the Plague Years."}, howpublished = {Full Spectrum}, year = {1988}, note = {

Rpt. as\ Journals of the Plague Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

}, month = {1988}, pages = {410-83, with an editors{\textquoteright} note on 409}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. An AIDS-like pandemic/plague spreads throughout the world and anyone with it is put into a quarantine zone. Written from the point of view of both those with the plague and those fighting it. At the end a virus defeats the plague, and an introductory statement written fron Luna City in 2143 suggests a eutopian outcome.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)}, editor = {Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy} } @booklet {3938, title = {"My Year With the Aliens."}, howpublished = {Full Spectrum}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, pages = {244-67 with an editors{\textquoteright} note on 243}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satirical take on a world formed by middle-class intellectual radicals after a Communist revolution on Earth. No private property; criticism/self-criticism sessions; children raised communally. The story is told from the point-of-view of a mildly disaffected teenager.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Lisa Goldstein (b. 1953)}, editor = {Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy} } @booklet {4000, title = {"This Is the Year Zero"}, howpublished = {Full Spectrum}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, pages = {20-29 with a note on 19}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alien invasion followed by authoritarian dystopia in which humans become slaves working in fields with no machines. Most familiar things are abolished--no money, no meat or green vegetables, no TV, no cars, no cities, no schools, no telephones, no sex. Old and ill disappear. Children run things for the aliens and appear content\ but say that there is now no past and no future, just the present.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Andrew [Simon] Weiner (1949-2019)}, editor = {Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy} }