@booklet {6258, title = {"Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse"}, howpublished = {Live Without a Net}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, pages = {92-103}, publisher = {Roc}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which computers are DNA based and, in each person, because terrorist viruses had completely destroyed the possibility of silicon-based computers and the Web. The result is extreme isolation and terrorist attacks on any gathering of people.

}, keywords = {Female author, Male author, US author}, author = {Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) and Kay Kenyon (b. 1956)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {6153, title = {"Alone With an Inconvenient Companion"}, howpublished = {Fast Forward }, volume = {2}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {97-111}, publisher = {Pyr}, address = {Amherst, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The story is about the way in which humans are replacing their biological parts with mechanical ones, and it is set in a society that is constantly monitoring and correcting everyone.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {6030, title = {"The Gambler"}, howpublished = {Fast Forward}, volume = { 2}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2009), 32-49 with an editor\’s introduction on 32; and in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 51-72.\ 

}, month = {2008}, pages = {329-56}, publisher = {Pyr}, address = {Amherst, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia of instant communication with over-reliance on the internet. A sub-theme is environmental collapse.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {6146, title = {"Mitigation"}, howpublished = {Fast Forward 2}, year = {2008}, note = {

Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 527-55.\ 

}, month = {2008}, pages = {292-317}, publisher = {Pyr}, address = {Amherst, NY}, abstract = {

Environmental dystopia\ designed to keep people ignorant.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Grenadian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) and Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {6071, title = {"Murder in Geektopia"}, howpublished = {Sideways in Crime: An Alternative Mystery Anthology}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {181-202}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Nottingham, Eng.}, abstract = {

A eutopia for Geeks with a stress on technology and popular culture in an alternative future of world peace.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {5905, title = {"Wikiworld"}, howpublished = {Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {378-407}, publisher = {Pyr}, address = {Amherst, NY}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia based around peer-operated systems, including government.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {6024, title = {"YFL-500"}, howpublished = {Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {19-40}, publisher = {Pyr}, address = {Amherst, NY}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia set in the same world as 2006\ Wilson \"The Cartesian Theater\".

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {5856, title = {"The Cartesian Theater"}, howpublished = {Futureshocks}, 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), 275-98; and in\ Distant Early Warnings: Canada\&$\#$39;s Best Science Fiction. Ed. Robert J. Sawyer (Markham, ON, Canada: Published by Red Deer Press for Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2009), 241-77 with a note on the author on 241-42.

}, month = {2006}, pages = {272-305}, publisher = {Roc}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The background of the story is the failure of complete automation to produce a eutopia. See also 2007 Wilson.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {5800, title = {"The Engines of Arcadia"}, howpublished = {Futureshocks}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, pages = {55-71}, publisher = {Roc}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Flawed eutopia. A future which has adopted the medieval Arcadia as its model and the flaws in the system.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {5774, title = {"Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven"}, howpublished = {Futureshocks}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, pages = {137-48}, publisher = {Roc}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian, right-wing, fundamentalist dystopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {5742, title = {"Shuteye for the Timebroker"}, howpublished = {Futureshocks}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, pages = {5-31}, publisher = {Roc}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The background to the story is an invention that means that no one has to sleep, and the developed world, where people can afford it, develops even faster, while the poor slip further behind.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954)}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {5444, title = {"I Feed the Machine"}, howpublished = {Living without a Net}, year = {2003}, month = {2003}, pages = {190-206}, publisher = {Roc}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which love is forbidden and homosexual love is \"an abomination\".

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Del Stone Jr.}, editor = {Lou Anders} } @booklet {5361, title = {"No Solace for the Soul in Digitopia"}, howpublished = {Living without a Net}, year = {2003}, month = {2003}, pages = {302-17}, publisher = {Roc}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Presents what can be considered a sexual eutopia in a world of multiple realities.

}, keywords = {Male author, Scottish author}, author = {[Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020)}, editor = {Lou Anders} }