@booklet {11437, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Before Dominica{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Kaleidotrope }, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 101-123, with a brief author\’s note on 123.

}, month = {Autumn 2019}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future Sydney, Australia that has been devastated by climate change and the collapse of the Australia economy. The entire city had been sold to the Dominica company, and the story is told by a woman who had been climbing the corporate ladder and now cleans the buildings at night.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-912950676 }, url = {https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/winter-2020/autumn-2019/before-dominica-by-cat-sparks/ }, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @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 {9597, title = {"Broad Church"}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {87-95}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The background to the story is a climate-change dystopia, with the story focusing a woman dealing with her son\’s choice to become a dolphin.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {Tess Williams (b. 1954)}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {9600, title = {"From the Dark"}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {207-16}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The story is set in a dystopia where plastics are destroying the oceans and takes place in a juvenile detention center where garbage pits are dug out for recycling.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {Emilie Collyer}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {9628, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Happy Hunting Ground{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {283-99}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future in which food is short and controlled by a corporation with the support of the police. The story focuses on an intentional community that resists the system.\ 

}, keywords = {Austrian author, Male author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {Corey J. White}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {11448, title = {Lotus Blue}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {377 pp.}, publisher = {Talos Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A complex, multi-faceted post-apocalyptic dystopia set it an Australia with a badly damaged environment, war machines, enhanced soldiers, and other dangers. The main protagonist is a seventeen year old girl struggling to survive. The setting has similarities to the Terry Dowling\’s 1990 Rynosseros series.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781940456706}, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {9593, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Mr Mycelium{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {21-38}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The story presents a high-tech Australian society, including farming and engineered animals and begins with an attack on such a farm by traditionalists. But the story also briefly represents other fissures between, for example, traditional marriage and multiple partners and shows both the positive and negative sides of the agricultural technology.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {Claire McKenna}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {9629, title = {"Pink Footed"}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {301-16}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which most animals, and birds in particular, have disappeared.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Spanish author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {Marian Womack (b. 1975)}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {9596, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Right Side of History{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {39-46}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The story depicts a future in which humans are abandoning much that has been built and demolishing structures to make more room for animals. Not all humans do so voluntarily, but some choose to go through what is called \“Transference\” and become an animal. The two main characters, a married couple, make different choices. Australian female author.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {Jane [Bryony] Rawson}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {9606, title = {"The Scent of Betrayal"}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {249-63}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia set in a future Australia deeply divided by the wealthy living in urban archologies and the poor living in the hot, dusty countryside.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {Jane Routley (b. 1962)}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {9602, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Today Home{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {183-96}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {Jason Nahrung}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {10833, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Trivalent{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. illus. Little Blue Marble (November 8, 2017) https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/11/08/trivalent/

}, month = {2017}, pages = {97-113}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future Australia beginning to recover from severe environmental damage and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925212549}, url = {https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/11/08/trivalent/ }, author = {Rivqa Rafael}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {9594, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Wandering Library{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures]}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {47-77}, publisher = {Ticonderoga Publications}, address = {Greenwood, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The story begins in a dystopia brought about by scientific overreach, particularly, genetic manipulation of animals that produce many dangerous new ones. The story though is mostly about the way people adapted and were creating a good life for themselves within the dystopian surroundings.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925212549 }, author = {D. K. Mok}, editor = {Liz Grzyb and Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {11440, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Jericho Blush{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Dark Harvest }, volume = {161-77, with a brief author{\textquoteright}s note on 177}, year = {2016}, note = {

Originally published in\ Cyclopean, no. 2 (2016), which is no longer available.

}, month = {2016/2020}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {[Weston, Eng.]}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future Australia devastated by climate change in an area the has been used for unregulated weapons testing controlled by a foreign company. It takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of her 2017 Lotus Blue. A related story is her 2015 \“Hot Rods.\”

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-912950676 }, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {11442, title = {"No Fat Chicks"}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 179-92, with a brief author\’s note on 192

}, month = {2016}, publisher = {FableCroft Publishing}, address = {Mawson, ACT, Australia}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which genetic mutations mean that all women are obese except for a few who take extreme measures to stay thin as seen from the viewpoint of a man whose ex-girlfriend has become fat. It won the Short story Ditmar Award in 2016.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9780994469014 978-1-912950676 }, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)}, editor = {Tehani Wessely} } @booklet {11428, title = {"Hot Rods"}, howpublished = {Lightspeed Magazine}, volume = {no. 58}, year = {2015}, note = {

Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 7-25, with a brief author\’s note on 25.

}, month = {March 2015}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future drought-stricken Australia in which the only work available for those living outside the wealthy cities of Sydney and Melbourne, where work permits are required for the available work as pool boys and white maids, is contract labor on U.S. military bases.\ It takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of her 2017 Lotus Blue. A related story is her 2016 \“Jericho Blush.\”

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-912950676 }, url = {https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/hot-rods/ }, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {6272, title = {"Seventeen"}, howpublished = {Masques}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, pages = {129-42}, publisher = {CSFG Publishing}, address = {Woden, ACT, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which there are deep division between rich and poor with a focus on care for the elderly. The protagonist is a girl whose job is to pretend to be the daughter of an old woman, in which role she leads a good life, and gives some meaning to the old woman\’s life. Outside the retirement community the girl is homeless in a violent world.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)}, editor = {Gillian Polack and Scott Hopkins} } @booklet {6000, title = {"Hollywood Roadkill"}, howpublished = {On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic }, volume = {19.2 (69) }, year = {2007}, month = {Summer 2007}, pages = {38-47}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a radical rich poor division with the poor living beside or in the medians of highways,

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @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 {5836, title = {"Blue Stars for All Saviors{\textquoteright} Day"}, howpublished = {The Outcast: An Anthology of Exiles and Strangers}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, pages = {107-11. Illus. on 106.}, publisher = {Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild}, address = {Canberra, ACT, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia of violence.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)}, editor = {Nicole R. Murphy} } @booklet {5566, title = {"Home by the Sea"}, howpublished = {Orb: Speculative Fiction}, volume = { no. 6 }, year = {2004}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Year\&$\#$39;s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy\ (Volume 1). Ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (Parramatta, NSW: MirrorDanse Books, 2005), 157-81.

}, month = {2004}, pages = {51-70}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Future that has resulted from global warming where the majority of the remaining world\&$\#$39;s population live in extreme poverty crowded onto small islands and large rafts. A few wealthy people live in luxury on heavily guarded islands.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {5543, title = {"[Rated]"}, howpublished = {Agog! Smashing Stories}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, pages = {174-88}, publisher = {Agog! Press}, address = {Wollongong, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The Ministry of Sanitation proclaims and enforces different lifestyles for different people. White Anglo-Saxons get a eutopia with sexual restrictions.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Ben [Michael] Peek (b. 1976)}, editor = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {5578, title = {"Temenos"}, howpublished = {Agog! Smashing Stories}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, pages = {122-28}, publisher = {Agog! Press}, address = {Wollongong, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. People are used as power sources feeding into the electricity grid.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Kim Westwood}, editor = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} } @booklet {5448, title = {"Runaways"}, howpublished = {Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction}, year = {2003}, note = {

Rpt. in her\ A Tour Guide in Utopia\ (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 213-33; and in her\ Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex\ (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 415-33.

}, month = {2003}, pages = {33-48}, publisher = {Agog! Press}, address = {Wollongong, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Anthropological science fiction describing a multi-generational extended family (both related and not related) that originated as runaways and now exists in the interstices of a collapsed, dystopian world. The runaway society has eutopian elements to it.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Australian author, Female author}, author = {Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957)}, editor = {Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965)} }