@booklet {11715, title = {"Yellow"}, howpublished = {Slate Future Tense}, year = {2022}, month = {September 24, 2022}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future United States that is no longer united but replaced by corporations. Lakes United is the Great Lakes area with competing consortia selling water to the West. Within that setting the story concerns an app SafeT that constantly evaluates an individuals health, the safety of their location, their route home, and so forth, rating each with a single number. A responding essay, \“Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?\” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, US author}, url = {https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/yellow-b-pladek.html }, author = {B[rittany] Pladek} } @booklet {11388, title = {{\textquotedblleft}All Us Ghosts{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Strange Horizons}, year = {2021}, month = {September 6, 2021}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future affected by a continuing pandemic in which many people live their lives entirely online, including in virtual reality. The protagonist is hired by parents to create friends, a community, a life for their children through their university years.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, US author}, url = {http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/all-us-ghosts/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-all-us-ghosts/}, author = {B[rittany] Pladek} }