@booklet {10549, title = {"Acception"}, howpublished = {Baggage}, year = {2010}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror. Ed. Liz Grzb and Talie Helene (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2011), 141-70; in Baggage: Tales of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Gillian Polack (Holicong, PA:\ Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2014), 121-53, with an \“Afterword\” on 223-24; and in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 460-86.

}, month = {2010}, publisher = {Eneit Press}, address = {Culcairn, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which a government agency determining where people can live based on their ethnicity. All those with mixed ethnicity are relegated to what is, in effect, a concentration camp. Much of the story is about the uprising to overthrow the system.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Tessa Kum (b. 1981)}, editor = {Gillian Polack} } @booklet {6244, title = {"Blond Curls"}, howpublished = {Masques}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, pages = {247-55}, publisher = {CSFG Publishing}, address = {Woden, ACT, Australia}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia. Police with flawed technology misidentify a suspect and have the power to completely undo her life.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Nicole R. Murphy}, editor = {Gillian Polack and Scott Hopkins} } @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} }