@booklet {11204, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Department of Talent Resources. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {3-24}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

The first part of a three-part story developed over three volumes. In this part, a young woman who is struggling to survive financially after a bad accident is approach by a recruiter for a corporation that promises to take care of everything if she signs on. In the second part, \“Keep Your Streak Going! We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.\” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 3-16, she has been working for the corporation for six years, health problems solved, living on its campus, which she never leaves, and appears happy while under constant pressure to fulfill set tasks within specified time periods to gain or lose credits, which are needed for everything. She and a man she just met even conceive a child to gain credit. The man is not a hard worker and falls down in the system. The woman does well, but at the end of the story her now-grown daughter chooses to leave the corporation and strike out on her own. In the third part, \“You Have Been Crowdfunded. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.\” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant\  Press, 2020), 3-16, she and three friends are looking to retire at\ one of the corporation\’s retirement homes but cannot actually confirm their existence or contact anyone they know who has retired.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = { 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 ‎ 979-8677298424}, author = {Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11218, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Lyceum. Aiden Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {57-72}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

A three-part dystopia in which a company is developing a neurological educational link that will give all children access to knowledge and help in understanding it. The eutopian possibilities of the project are derailed when the teenage son of the developer is killed in an accident, and she becomes fixed on the neurolink, which had named after her son. In the second part, the man who took over its development makes it possible for the link to be shared, and it spreads throughout the population beyond schools, with some seeing the results positively and others seeing them negatively. In the third part, the developer creates an android that can access the neurolink and looks and acts as if it is human.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, Guyanese author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Karin Lowachee (b. 1973)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11233, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Mister Dawn, How Can You Be So Cruel? Slumberland: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {257-71}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts in which, in the first story, dreams are first curated for wealthy individuals. In the second story, drugs become common to enhance shared dreaming. In the third story, dreams become for entertainment for everyone in dream shows but also used for social control.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Violet Allen}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11225, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Opt-In. Harvest: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {159-69}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts focusing on the sale of body parts. In the first story, a poor woman sells organs in order to pay her bills. In the second story, a law is passed legalizing the sale of body parts that, with amendments, means that anyone in debt can be required to sell their body parts to pay it off, and a woman has her womb and uterus harvested. In the third part, a resistance has arisen with the story told by a woman in the resistance trying to get access to the records that show whose organs were harvested and who they went to

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Seanan McGuire (b. 1978)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11232, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Orphan of Greenridge (Water). Ko Ko N{\'e} {\"A}: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {241-56}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts linked by connections to indigenous cultures and the effects of climate change. In the first story, water is rationed, and the testing of water is rigged to hide the fact that it is contaminated. In the second story, a woman with a baby is trying to escape conflict. In the third story, Texas is one of the few states that sells off mostly abandoned land to the very rich.

}, keywords = {Female author, Native American author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11222, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Shadow Prison Experiment. Shadow Prisons: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = { Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, note = {

The three stories were rpt. in\ Lightspeed, nos. 123 - 125 (August - October 2020).\ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prison-experiment/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shadow-prisons-of-the-mind/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prisoners-dilemma/

}, month = {2020}, pages = {91-105}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Three-part dystopia in which a everyone has an implant that regulates everything they see and the corporation that controls it develops a technology that replaces prisons by taking a person offline so that no one can see who it is. The Shades, as they are called, state popping up everywhere as more and more \“crimes\” warrant temporary or permanent exclusion. In the first story, the protagonist, who is in a single-sex marriage and has a transgender child, is given a permanent sentence. The second story is a decade or so later, and she is trying to survive, and her partner divorced her and has re-married, and she sometimes meets with her child, now a marred adult. In the third story, the corporation she is a leader in a revolution against the Shadow Prisons.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {10048, title = {"Habitat"}, howpublished = {Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {107-33}, publisher = {Laksa Media Groups}, address = {Calgary, AB, Canada}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which the response to climate-change is to move all humans into one huge building and leave nature to itself. The building is designed to replicate the culture and environment of the people, and the story examines the response of the last group of humans who had still been living outside.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Christie Yant}, editor = {Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law} } @booklet {8187, title = {{\textquotedblleft}In the Image of Man{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction}, volume = {no. 49}, year = {2014}, month = {June 2014}, pages = {76-91}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which most activities, including homes, schools, and churches have moved into malls, which have different statuses, where most people eat in the food courts. All teenagers can get weekly loans to shop, loans that they may have to spend the rest of their lives paying back. The world outside the malls has deteriorated, but there are some people who live outside

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author}, author = {Gabriella Stalker}, editor = {Christie Yant} }