@booklet {11875, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Tomorrow{\textquoteright}s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {11-25}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where a drone delivery runs the area like a company town with the workers required to pay rent to live in barracks and buy everything they need from the company store with any, even slight, dissent leading to being fired. The focus, though, is on three teenagers who develop a system for capturing the drones and stealing what they are carrying.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-26254-443-6}, author = {Meg Elison (b. 1982)}, editor = {Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964)} } @booklet {10968, title = {"The Pill"}, howpublished = {Big Girl plus The Pill plus Such People in It and much more}, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 65-94, with a note about the author on 65; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy\™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner\ Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 39-66.

}, month = {2020}, pages = {23-62}, publisher = {PM Press}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

A diet pill is developed that works, except for 10\% mortality, is so popular that there are very few overweight people left and being overweight is made effectively illegal.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1629637839}, author = {Meg Elison (b. 1982)} } @booklet {10969, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Such People in It{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Big Girl plus The Pill plus Such People in It and much more}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {73-91}, publisher = {PM Press}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

An authoritarian, extremely rigid dystopia enforced by the \“Decencies,\” who respond violently to any opposition to the system. The protagonist works long hours in a call center for low pay and is constantly aware that he may breach some minor rule.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1629637839}, author = {Meg Elison (b. 1982)} } @booklet {10589, title = {The Book of Flora}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, publisher = {47North}, address = {Seattle, WA}, abstract = {

The third volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 and 2017 Elison. In this volume, the protagonist is gender fluid, and the novel follows her life, loves, and struggles to escape from the various dystopias she finds herself in.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Meg Elison (b. 1982)} } @booklet {10694, title = {"Hey Alexa"}, howpublished = {Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {175-79}, publisher = {Apex Publications}, address = {Lexington, KY}, abstract = {

Brief story set in a future where same sex relations are illegal in California and smart speakers are used as surveillance devices.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {9781937009786}, author = {Meg Elison (b. 1982)}, editor = {Jason Sizemore and Lesley Conner} } @booklet {9243, title = {The Book of Etta}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, publisher = {47 North}, address = {Seattle, WA}, abstract = {

Second volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 Elison set 100 years after the first book. In this novel, the main character, Etta, disguises herself as a man, Eddy, and sets off to rescue the enslaved women. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as this volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Meg Elison (b. 1982)} } @booklet {8078, title = {The Book of the Unnamed Midwife}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, publisher = {Sybaritic Press}, address = {Los Angeles, CA}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which there is one woman for every ten men. The novel focuses on the experience of one woman. First volume of The Road to Nowhere Series. The second, volume, 2017 Elison, is set in the same future but 100 years later. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as the preceding volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Meg Elison (b. 1982)} }