@booklet {11698, title = {"Busy"}, howpublished = {Terraform}, year = {2022}, note = {

Rpt. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 11-16.

}, month = {August 15, 2022}, abstract = {

The story is set after the economic collapse. The only work is make work in what are called entropy mills, repurposed malls, where people generate random numbers.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Egyptian author, Male author, Qatari author, US author}, url = {https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d39ka/busy-terraform-science-fiction}, author = {Omar El Akkad (b. 1982)} } @booklet {10287, title = {"Riverbed"}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {145-65}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story\’s protagonist is an American-born woman who, as a young woman, was incarcerated in camps holding the U.S. Islamic population.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Egyptian author, Male author, Qatari author, US author}, author = {Omar El Akkad (b. 1982)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {9344, title = {American War}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The Second Civil War from 2074-2095 was followed by a decade-long pandemic/plague that, together, tore\ the U.S. apart. Southern states had seceded primarily because they objected to an act that outlawed the use of fossil fuels. The story is about a young girl born in a border area who is then forced into a northern refugee camp, with obvious parallels to today\’s refugee camps, and is radicalized there.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Egyptian author, Male author, Qatari author, US author}, author = {Omar El Akkad (b. 1982)} }