@booklet {11216, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Animals Like Me. Deep/Fake I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {29-43}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

A dystopia in three parts with the protagonist in the first part the viewpoint character in the second part and a minor figure in the third part, with the parts apparently in chronological order. The first part depicts a society entirely dependent on artificial intelligence, the only employment seems to be in the gig economy, and drug addiction is normal and fostered by pharmaceutical companies. In the second part, hordes of children are running wild and killing people and body parts are removed without consent. In the third part, the protagonist is a goat herder in the mountains, where he went to escape his own addiction, and individuals start showing up announcing that the bot had been overthrown.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, Nigerien author, Spanish author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11217, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Glass Houses. Letters: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {46-56}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts in which a U. S. President is elected on a Right to Work platform, which turns out to mean that if you don\’t contribute to society at an acceptable level as set by the government, such as doing poorly in high school, you will be forced to work on a farm for minimal food, housing, and wages. The second part is set on such a farm with those who refuse to work on the farm, and anyone considered a danger to society including everyone in jail, are frozen in a cyro chamber. The third part illustrates the conflicts taking place within a family where a child is not doing well at school.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author, US Virgin Islands author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Cadwell Turnbull}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11213, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Glasslands. Wrack: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {15-28}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Three-part story set in a future where people from a different reality arrive on Earth intending to set everything straight and create a eutopia for all. The story is told from the point of view of three people from a band All You Need to Change the World is Faith and a Chainsaw who do not want to be Harmonized, as the invaders call it. Chronologically, the invasion is described as seen by the woman who leads the band members and who immediately wants to start a revolution in \“Spheres and Harmonies. Wrack: Part III.\” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-33. In Glasslands. Wrack: Part I.\” Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 15-28, a woman who is an artist whose desire to burn her creations is sent a reserve for the disaffected. And in \“Cacophany. Wrack: Part II.\” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-32, a man who is an urban explorer and would be happy to be if he could explore other realms is not allowed to, so he joins the woman from Part III to invade the reserve.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 ‎ 979-8677298424}, author = {Tim[othy Aaron] Pratt (b. 1976)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11231, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Idle Hands. Robots Rise: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {209-23}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts set on Moreland, a seasteading built outside the U.S. territorial waters so that the extremely wealthy can live free of taxes and any laws but their own. The second generation discovers that there is no one to do the work, so they bring in thousands of robots, including sentient AIs, one of whom is the protagonist in all three stories. In the first story, the AI is bored and arranges to be thrown into the ocean to kill him. In the second story set some years later, the AI has been found and restored to life by a dissident faction that is trying to foment revolution. In the third story, after the owner of Moreland has killed the AI, it is again restored to run in an election.

}, keywords = {British Virgin Islands author, Grenadian author, Male author, US author, US Virgin Islands author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11223, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Inheritors. The Inheritors: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {107-35}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts. In the first part, a researcher who develops a cure for cancer and wants it freely available has it taken by her university so it can make huge profits. She then develops a simple genetic manipulation that produces highly intelligent and physically able children and gives it secretly to the extremely disadvantaged. In the second part, \“normal\” humans are trying, with considerable success, to eliminate the enhanced humans. In the third part, while the violence against the advanced continues, a rapprochement seems possible.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11229, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Red Sky at Morning: Nil Desperandum: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {197-207}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts that begins in a climate change dystopia in Downeast Maine. Fires fill the air with smoke. No power. Massive flooding. The protagonist is a woman raising her granddaughter. In the second part that granddaughter is trying to survive alone in her grandmother\’s house in an area that has been taken over by vigilantes who kill all \“foreigners,\” but particular Blacks, ethnic minorities, and anyone gender nonconforming. The woman is part of an underground railroad hiding fugitives. In the third part, the last of those fugitives visits the remains of the burned-out house where the woman was killed trying to save her, a killing that started a revolt against vigilantes.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {10311, title = {"No Algorithms in the World{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2018}, pages = {264-73}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story depicts a future with a guaranteed income and most jobs taken over by AIs. A father sees it as dystopia; a son sees it as providing a good life.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {8087, title = {Sand}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, publisher = {CreateSpace}, address = {North Charleston, SC}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the Earth is deeply covered with sand and sand-diving is one of the few ways to make a living. A sequel, which is set in the future of the earlier volume is Across the Sand. New York: William Morrow/HarperColllins, 2022.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)} } @booklet {8150, title = {"Shooting the Apocalypse"}, howpublished = {The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 1-24; and in\ Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 273-294.

}, month = {2014}, pages = {307-24}, publisher = {Np}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The background to the story is a climate change dystopia with radical division in Arizona between those with water and those without water. See also 2015 Bacigalupi, The Water Knife.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972)}, editor = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {9088, title = {Wool Omnibus}, year = {2012}, note = {

Rpt. with some revisions as Wool. New York: Simon \& Schuster, 2013.

Much of the material was originally published online in the author\’s blog as \“Wool\” (July 30, 2011), \“Wool: Proper Gauge\” (November 20, 2011), \“Wool: Casting Off\” (December 4, 2011), \“Wool: The Unraveling\” (December 25, 2011), and \“Wool: The Stranded\” (January 14, 2012).\ 

}, month = {2012}, publisher = {CreateSpace}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which to escape the ruined earth people have lived for generations in an authoritarian dystopia in a huge underground silo. Sequels include Shift Omnibus. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which includes \“First Shift\” (April 14, 2012), \“Second Shift\” (November 20, 2012), and \“Third Shift\” (January 28, 2013), and Dust. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which concludes the series. Additional material can be found at the author\’s website http://www.hughhowey.com/ as well as the author\’s \“Story Behind Dust\” at http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-dust-by-hugh-howey.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975)} }