@booklet {8800, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Brownsville Station{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {87-120}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

Climate change dystopia in which the elaborate technology that has protected civilization is defeated by the rising water.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Christopher Rowe (b. 1969)} } @booklet {8235, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Unveiling{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction }, volume = {39.1 (468)}, year = {2015}, note = {

Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 51-64.

}, month = {January 2015}, pages = {14-21}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a polluted, authoritarian state and the beginning of the revolution that would overthrow it.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {Christopher Rowe (b. 1969)} } @booklet {11576, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Contrary Gardener{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Eclipse Online}, year = {2012}, note = {

Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 1-22.

}, month = {October 2012}, abstract = {

An odd story in which crops are grown to be turned into ammunition in a society that has advanced AIs but that have gained consciousness. The protagonist is an exceptional gardener who does not fit in.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Christopher Rowe (b. 1969)} } @booklet {11548, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Nowhere Fast{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories}, year = {2011}, note = {

Rpt. Illus. John Coulthart. In Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 241-53; and in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 65-80.

}, month = {2011}, pages = {267-89}, publisher = {Candlewick Press}, address = {Somerville, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future recovering from climate change and focuses on the damage down by private cars when a young man has cobbled together one from spare parts that runs on hemp oil. The background is a fragmented United States.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-7636-4843-5 9781616960865 }, author = {Christopher Rowe (b. 1969)}, editor = {Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant} } @booklet {6143, title = {"Gather"}, howpublished = {The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction{\textquoteright}s Finest Voices}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 83-95.

}, month = {2008}, pages = {78-90 with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 77}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia in which God lives on one side of a river and the people live on the other. Only clergy are allowed to go to God\’s side of the river where the only fertile soil is found. It is unclear just who or what God is, but when the protagonist, Gather, and a friend find an image of God, the decide to return it to God\’s side.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Christopher Rowe (b. 1969)}, editor = {Ellen Datlow} } @booklet {5829, title = {"Another Word for Map Is Faith"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {111.2 (653) }, year = {2006}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 93-103; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 23-37.

}, month = {August 2006}, pages = {42-55}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia in which a completely controlling Christian denomination works to restore the landscape to the version that they see as ordained by Christ based on old maps. In the story, they demolish a dam and destroy a town to get rid of a lake that is not on their map.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Christopher Rowe (b. 1969)} } @booklet {5557, title = {"The Voluntary State"}, howpublished = {SciFiction}, year = {2004}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Year\&$\#$39;s Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\&$\#$39;s Griffin, 2005), 58-83;\ Science Fiction: The Best of 2004. Ed. Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan (New York: iBooks, 2005);\ Beyond Singularity. Ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (New York: Ace Books, 2005);\ Nebula Awards Showcase 2006. Ed. Gardner Dozois. New York: Roc, 2006); Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 293-327; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 107-48.\ 

}, month = {Posted May 5, 2004}, abstract = {

Future dystopia in Tennessee in which everyone is controlled by a central computer contrasted with a free Kentucky. The story focuses on a successful attempt by men from Kentucky to destroy the computer. A related novella is \“The Border State.\” In his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 149-269 which is set further in the future when Tennessee has infected the rivers around the state with various machines that kill anyone that crosses them or get wet. Kentucky has means of temporarily neutralizing the machines. A related novel set later in time is his These Prisoning Hills. New York: Tordotcom, 2022.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {www.scifi.com/scifiction/ }, author = {Christopher Rowe (b. 1969)} }