@booklet {11603, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Interviews of Importance{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {43-55}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where society at least appears to be caring more for its aging population through the establishment of an Elder Resources program that is designed to connect aging people \“with working-age people, both to reduce loneliness and isolation . . . and to have some early warning and support for vulnerable people in any kind of future disaster\” (45) Also, the new digital democracy required everyone to be technologically competent to participate and vote, and the system is designed to ensure that the elderly had the needed competencies. It is told from the viewpoint of a young woman who works in a low-paid job to contact people in their sixties or older to first set up an interview in which she asks set questions about their lived history, with a particular emphasis on what is now called \“historically oppressed groups\” (46). They are then encouraged to join a network which will contact them regularly. The young woman is cynical about her job but is also desperate to learn her mother\’s history.

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-262-54240-1 }, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)}, editor = {Gideon Lichfield} } @booklet {10295, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {84-92}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10628, title = {"The Divided"}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {41-50}, publisher = {Mason Jar Press}, address = {Baltimore, MD}, abstract = {

Dystopia focusing on the wall be between Mexico and the U.S.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)} } @booklet {10296, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The United States Should Welcome a Strong, United Latin America{\textquotedblright}}, year = {2019}, month = {June 17, 2019 with over 100 comments}, abstract = {

Reflections on the formation of a united Latin America, following on from the European Union and an African Union that the United States is vigorously opposing.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/future-united-latin-america.html}, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10629, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The End of the Incarnation{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Who Will Speak for America?}, year = {2018}, note = {

Rpt. as \“The End of the Incarnation I\” through \“The End of the Incarnation VII.\” In her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 15, 39, 55, 95, 105, 139, 165.\ 

}, month = {2018}, pages = {192-94}, publisher = {Temple University Press}, address = {Philadelphia, PA}, abstract = {

A depiction of the gradual dissolution of the United States ending with rights becoming universal rather than tied to citizenship.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, isbn = {978-1- 4399-1623-0 978-0996103787}, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)}, editor = {Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin} } @booklet {10524, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Black Box: These Memories are Made to Last Forever{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {WIRED}, volume = {25.1}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. without the subtitle\ in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 29-34; and in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 1-13

}, month = {January 2017}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which at an early age a child has a device implanted that records all their experience, which the child or her parents can replay. Later in life, adults can choose who has access to their memories. Whether this is eutopian or dystopian is left up to the reader.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, issn = {1059-1028 }, url = {https://www.wired.com/2016/12/malka-older-the-black-box/ }, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)} } @booklet {10947, title = {"Fire Wire"}, howpublished = {Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment }, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {92-103}, publisher = {Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics \& Utah Valley University}, address = {[Orem, UT]}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where, after worldwide fires, electric power must be generated by individuals and focuses on whether or not to build new power plants.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, isbn = {978-0692879313 }, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)}, editor = {Luke Peterson} } @booklet {8750, title = {Infomocracy}, year = {2016}, note = {

An excerpt was published in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim. Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 304-10.\ 

}, month = {2016}, publisher = {Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

First volume of a trilogy that illustrates the problems of establishing and maintaining eutopia based on a world-wide electoral system that fosters micro-democracies. Among the problems are corruption and political maneuvering among the groups vying for electoral success at the level of global government. The title suggests a central theme, the importance of the control of information. In the second volume is Null States: The Centenal Cycle, Book 2. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2017, three different plots, in Darfur, Geneva, and Central Asia, pose challenges to the system.\ As the title suggests, in the final volume, State Tectonics: The Centenal Cycle, Book 3. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2018, the various groups vying for power produce something of an earthquake, and, at the end, there is many more sources of information. Whether this is good or not is left unclear.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)} } @booklet {10625, title = {"The Rupture"}, howpublished = {Capricious (Aotearoa/New Zealand)}, volume = {no. 3}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 17-35

}, month = {April 2016}, abstract = {

The story is set on a dystopian future Earth in which most animals and many plants are extinct, and the Earth regularly has major earthquakes and new volcanoes that become tourist sites. The story is told from the point-of-view of a visitor from another planet who initially visits Earth to attend university.

}, keywords = {Female author, Latinx author, US author}, author = {Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977)} }