@booklet {12010, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Moral Hazard{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {23-38}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in the present or near future and involves a plan to direct federal bailout money first to the homeless and the a scam to redirect it to large corporations.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, English author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780262546461}, author = {Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {11876, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Down and Out in Exile Park{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Tomorrow{\textquoteright}s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {27-44}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Nigerian author}, isbn = {978-0-26254-443-6}, author = {Tade Thompson}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {11878, title = {{\textquotedblleft}I Give You the Moon{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Tomorrow{\textquoteright}s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {113-133}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a depopulated but high-tech future after a slow apocalypse produced by diseases and climate change. It focuses on a man living on the African coast helping to regulate the machines that are cleaning up the oceans and living in a simple hut on the beach living off the credits he earns and his interactions with his son and others, mostly at a distance through an unexplained wireless system.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0-26254-443-6}, author = {Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {8807, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {177-205}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set after most of the world is drowned and is the protagonist is a marine biologist reflecting on the past and trying to understand the present and how both humans and the oceans and their inhabitants are responding to the new situation.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Nina Allan (b. 1966)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {8795, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Elves of Antarctica{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {13-36}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the coastal areas of most countries are under water and many islands have disappeared. There are major engineering projects to try to save what is left and to provide places for the displaced to live. The project in Antarctica, where the story takes place, is to try to keep the Antarctic ice sheet from melting and inundating more land.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {8957, title = {"Drones"}, howpublished = {Meeting Infinity}, year = {2015}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction \& Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97.

}, month = {2015}, pages = {63-81}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {9217, title = {"Trademark Bugs: A Legal History{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Reach for Infinity}, year = {2015}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 351-65; in A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction. Ed. Gavin Miller and Anna MacFarlane (Glasgow, Scot.: Freight Books, 2017), 172-92; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK\’S Healthcare Workers.\ Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 352-66. EBook.\ 

}, month = {2015}, pages = {179-99}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which Big Pharma releases trademarked viruses, makes huge profits from the \“cures\”, and becomes more powerful than any government.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} }