TY - ABST T1 - "Inertia" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People who have contracted a contagious disease are permanently interned in camps, where they develop a sustainable non-violent society while the world outside disintegrates into chaos, violence, and authoritarianism. The camps are presented as better because they are characterized by the willingness to get along, but they are not eutopian.

JF - Analog Science Fact and Fiction VL - 110.1& 2 N1 -

Rpt. in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 1-34; and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 207-28. 

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