@booklet {10074, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Disconnected{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {263-68}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The flawed utopia of the completely connected world and, very briefly, choosing to disconnect.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ramez Naam}, editor = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) and Stephen W. Potts} } @booklet {10072, title = {"Elderjoy"}, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {191-95}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Humorous dystopia in which governmental implants register unhealthy activities and tax them. In the story, the \“unhealthy\” activity is sex over a certain age.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941)}, editor = {Stephen W. Potts and [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} } @booklet {10075, title = {"Eminence"}, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction \& Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30.

}, month = {2017}, pages = {271-85}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains \“eminence\” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0765382580 978-1-78108-573-8}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) and Stephen W. Potts} } @booklet {10060, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Eyejacked{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {102-12}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which an implant in the eye can be used to connect tom others and create followers, which produces income. Within the story a husband and wife disagree over the effect on their family is positive or negative.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David Walton (b. 1975)}, editor = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) and Stephen W. Potts} } @booklet {10059, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Mine, Yours, Ours{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {25-35}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Whether the story describes a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader. The I.O.E. (International Organ Exchange) is symbolic of a society that sees everyone connected to everyone else. When you sign up for the I.O.E., you agree to give an organ when requested, and the protagonist is struggling over whether she should have a lung removed. If she doesn\’t, she will be expelled from the I.O.E. and ineligible for a future transplant.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955)}, editor = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) and Stephen W. Potts} } @booklet {10058, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Your Lying Eyes{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {131-37}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is about glasses that can detect lies. Whether a eutopia or dystopia is left up to the reader.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jack [John Charles] McDevitt}, editor = {Stephen W. Potts and [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} } @booklet {9193, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Insistence of Vision{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Technology Review (MIT)}, year = {2013}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author\’s note on 35; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 36-41.\ 

}, month = {July 2013}, pages = {15-21}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)}, editor = {[Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4409, title = {Glory Season}, year = {1993}, month = {1993}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Male--female conflict in a future matriarchal society.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} } @booklet {4117, title = {"Dr. Pak{\textquoteright}s Preschool"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {79.1 }, year = {1990}, note = {

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback $\#$45; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 30-65.

}, month = {July 1990}, pages = {6-34}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in Japan and South Korea in which the gender of a child is ensured and then education is provided for the fetus. The story is told by a mother who is unhappy with the process. Surprise ending.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} } @booklet {4118, title = {Earth}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a collapsed environment. One thread of the novel is set in New Zealand and uses M{\={a}}ori\ myth. In this thread a black hole is created to provide power, but the power plant is destroyed, and the black hole begins to absorb material the center of the Earth and cause earthquakes and other disasters. Another thread is a future where very little of the natural world remains, resulting in mass migration, and conflicts among the remaining nations.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} } @booklet {4119, title = {"Piecework"}, howpublished = {Interzone}, volume = {no. 33 }, year = {1990}, note = {

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback $\#$23; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 550-76; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 225-258.

}, month = {January/February 1990}, pages = {5-16}, abstract = {

Dystopia of genetic manipulation in which women are used to give birth to industrial products.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} } @booklet {3646, title = {The Postman}, year = {1985}, note = {

Rpt. illus. Kent Bash and with an \“Introduction\” by James Gunn [Rpt. in Gunn, Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 76-78]. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1993. Parts originally published in different form in Isaac Asimov\’s Science Fiction Magazine as \“The Postman\” 6.11 (58) (November 1982): 120-69; rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 236-305 and \“Cyclops\” 8.3 (76) (March 1984): 112-67.

}, month = {1985}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a man assumes the role of a postman and, in that role, helps to knit together the communities that are struggling to survive.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} }