@booklet {10072, title = {"Elderjoy"}, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {191-95}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Humorous dystopia in which governmental implants register unhealthy activities and tax them. In the story, the \“unhealthy\” activity is sex over a certain age.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941)}, editor = {Stephen W. Potts and [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} } @booklet {10075, title = {"Eminence"}, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction \& Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30.

}, month = {2017}, pages = {271-85}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains \“eminence\” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0765382580 978-1-78108-573-8}, author = {Karl Schroeder (b. 1962)}, editor = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) and Stephen W. Potts} } @booklet {10060, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Eyejacked{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {102-12}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future in which an implant in the eye can be used to connect tom others and create followers, which produces income. Within the story a husband and wife disagree over the effect on their family is positive or negative.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David Walton (b. 1975)}, editor = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) and Stephen W. Potts} } @booklet {4118, title = {Earth}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a collapsed environment. One thread of the novel is set in New Zealand and uses M{\={a}}ori\ myth. In this thread a black hole is created to provide power, but the power plant is destroyed, and the black hole begins to absorb material the center of the Earth and cause earthquakes and other disasters. Another thread is a future where very little of the natural world remains, resulting in mass migration, and conflicts among the remaining nations.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Glen] David Brin (b. 1950)} }