@booklet {11827, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {58-71/222-236}, publisher = {Future Fiction}, address = {Rome}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which climate change had create a world of migrants that lived outside the control of governments who have the ability to use CRISPR and nanotechnology to create whatever living forms they want. They story contains some trenchant comments on the present that explain that future: \“You can\’t have democracy when you have social media. With social media everyone gets to have their own truths. They form closed-off worlds of self-reinforcing narratives and lies. Then, we expect them to go off, and make decisions?\” (62). And \“If you can\’t trust people to vote, you definitely can\’t trust them to create\” (64).\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Sri Lankan author}, isbn = {978-8832077513}, author = {Navin Weeraratne}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint and Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay and Francesco Verso} } @booklet {11125, title = {"The State Machine"}, howpublished = {Slate}, year = {2020}, month = {September 26, 2020}, abstract = {

The story is set in a gradually collapsing future in which Sri Lanka is the testing ground for governance based on algorithms and traces its development from a computer game to a self-evolving system.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, Sri Lankan author}, url = {{\textquotedblleft}The State Machine,{\textquotedblright} a short story by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne. (slate.com)}, author = {Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992)}, editor = {[Divya Srinivasan] [Breed]} } @booklet {11197, title = {The Inhuman Race}, year = {2018}, pages = {190 pp.}, publisher = {Harper Collins India}, address = {Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India}, abstract = {

An alternative history dystopia set in Ceylon in a world where the British Empire still exists, China is ruled by an emperor, and humans and bots are in conflict. First volume of a series.

}, keywords = {Male author, Sri Lankan author}, isbn = {978-9353023317}, author = {Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992)} } @booklet {10029, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Streets Turned Blue and Green{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Little Blue Marble}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.

}, month = {September 28, 2018}, abstract = {

Climate change dystopia set in the flooded city of Colombo, Sri Lanka.\ 

}, keywords = {German author, Male author, Sri Lankan author}, url = {https://littlebluemarble.ca/2018/09/28/the-streets-turned-blue-and-green/}, author = {Dennis Mombauer (b. 1984)} } @booklet {11205, title = {Numbercaste}, year = {2017}, note = {

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins India, 2019. It was first published on Kindle and then, a day later, as a paperback, and then in India.

}, month = {[2017] {\textcopyright} 2018}, pages = {296 pp.}, publisher = {[Author]}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The main protagonist is recruited by a start-up that is developing a way to rate every individual in the world based and assign them a number that fluctuates depending on their actions is will be available for everyone else.

}, keywords = {Male author, Sri Lankan author}, isbn = {9781521795439 9789353023331}, author = {Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992)} }