@booklet {10856, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Increasing Police Visibility{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Queers Destroy Science Fiction Lightspeed}, volume = {no. 61}, year = {2015}, note = {

\ Rpt.\ GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 47-;\ Sunspot Jungle Volume 2\ [Subtitle on the cover\ The Ever Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2020), 436-39; and in his\ The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories\ (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2019), 111-15.

}, month = {June 2015}, pages = {160-63}, abstract = {

The story is set in a country in which algorithms are used to supposedly deny entry, but they have at least a two-thirds error rate. But a visible police presence is considered more important because the right wing wants it.\ 

}, keywords = {Hungarian author, Transgender author, US author}, isbn = {9781590216934}, author = {Bogi Tak{\'a}cs (b. 1983)}, editor = {Seanan McGuire (b. 1978)} } @booklet {4483, title = {How To Save Our Country: A Nonpartisan Vision for Change}, year = {1993}, month = {1993}, publisher = {Pallas Press}, address = {Tucson, AZ}, abstract = {

Presents a detailed critique of the U.S. in the early 1990s and suggests specific reforms for how to stop the decay. The book is based on the premise that the problems the U.S. faces are based on \“the\ defective value system\ of our society\” (12).\ 

}, keywords = {Hungarian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Mike [Miklos N.] Szilagyi (b. 1936)} } @booklet {3169, title = {The Splendid Freedom}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Three alternative future dystopias. They are \"The Splendid Freedom\" Galaxy Science Fiction 35.9 (September 1974): 6-33 (1-45) about an Earth that pretends to provide all the experiences unavailable on other planets, \"The Eastcoast Confinement.\" Galaxy Science Fiction 35.10 (October 1974): 6-54 (47-132) about the New Puritan Secular Order in the U.S. that imprisons all dissidents, and \"Plutonium\" Galaxy Science Fiction 37.3 (March 1976): 5- 61 (133-244) about a religious cult worshipping atomic waste.

}, keywords = {Hungarian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Arsen [Julius] Darnay (b. 1936)} } @booklet {2843, title = {A Hostage for Hinterland}, year = {1976}, note = {

Different version serialized as \"Helium.\"\ Galaxy Science Fiction\ 36.4 - 6 (April - July 1975): 18-74, 52-107, 87-145.

}, month = {1976}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe urban versus rural conflict. The urban areas were floating structures that needed helium, that only the rural areas could provide, to stay aloft. The rural people are religious and ecologically oriented. They believe, based on their reading of the Bible, that there is a prophecy that they must destroy the urban areas.

}, keywords = {Hungarian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Arsen [Julius] Darnay (b. 1936)} } @booklet {1834, title = {"The Mark Gable Foundation"}, howpublished = {The Voice of the Dolphin and Other Stories}, year = {1961}, note = {

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 117-30. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an \"Afterword\" by Helen Weiss (171-72). This story was written in 1948, and a copy of that version exists among Szilard\&$\#$39;s papers at the University of California, San Diego, but there is no evidence of earlier publication.

}, month = {1961}, pages = {89-102}, publisher = {Simon and Schuster}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which freezing oneself in order to be able to experience the future becomes a fad and threatens to destroy civilization.

}, keywords = {English author, German author, Hungarian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Leo Szilard (1898-1964)} } @booklet {1835, title = {"The Voice of the Dolphins"}, howpublished = {The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stores}, year = {1961}, note = {

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 47-100. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an \"Afterword\" by Helen Weiss (171-72).

}, month = {1961}, pages = {19-72}, publisher = {Simon and Schuster}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A story with eutopian elements in which scientists discover how to communicate with dolphins, who are immensely more intelligent than humans. An institute is founded that uses the dolphin\&$\#$39;s ideas, which eliminates hunger, reduce population growth, and ultimately ends the possibility of nuclear war.

}, keywords = {English author, German author, Hungarian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Leo Szilard (1898-1964)} } @booklet {9152, title = {The Age of Longing}, year = {1951}, month = {1951}, publisher = {The Macmillan Co.}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in the mid-1950s when a successful U.S.S.R., now known as the \“Commonwealth of Freedomloving People\” or \“Free Commonwealth,\” has taken over most of Western Europe and is waiting for the right moment to take France.\ 

}, keywords = {Austrian author, English author, Hungarian author, Male author}, author = {Arthur Koestler (1905-83)} } @booklet {1246, title = {Twilight Bar: An Escapade in Four Acts}, year = {1945}, month = {1945}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Classic body-eutopia.\ According to the \“Author\’s Note\” (6-7) it was written in 1933 in Russia and lost; he rewrote it in 1944. Both versions were \“escape[s] from the pressure of reality\” (7).

}, keywords = {Austrian author, English author, Hungarian author, Male author}, author = {Arthur Koestler (1905-83)} } @booklet {9151, title = {Darkness at Noon}, year = {1940}, note = {

Rpt. London: The Folio Society, 1980 with an \“Introduction\” (7-15) by Vladimir Bukovsky. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1941.\ Because the original manuscript was assumed to have been lost, all publications of the novel, including German ones, were based on this translation, but it was discovered in 2015, and a new translation by Philip Boehm based on that manuscript has been published. London: Vintage Classics, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Scribner, 2019.\ 

}, month = {1940}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A famous work describing the Show Trials in the U.S.S.R. under Joseph Stalin (1879-1953) that has been called a dystopia and has been very influential on dystopian literature.\ 

}, keywords = {Austrian author, English author, Hungarian author, Male author}, author = {Arthur Koestler (1905-83)} }