TY - ABST T1 - “The Disconnected” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ramez Naam ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The flawed utopia of the completely connected world and, very briefly, choosing to disconnect. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elderjoy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eminence" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

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. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0765382580 978-1-78108-573-8 N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyejacked” Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Walton (b. 1975) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Feastwar" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kaftan, Vylar ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Interactions through a computer game that connects people throughout the U. S. both brings about the spread and helps end a deadly disease. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mine, Yours, Ours” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Whether the story describes a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader. The I.O.E. (International Organ Exchange) is symbolic of a society that sees everyone connected to everyone else. When you sign up for the I.O.E., you agree to give an organ when requested, and the protagonist is struggling over whether she should have a lung removed. If she doesn’t, she will be expelled from the I.O.E. and ineligible for a future transplant.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Street Life in the Emerald City” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Technology, including surveillance technology being used to end homelessness. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Lying Eyes” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [John Charles] McDevitt ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about glasses that can detect lies. Whether a eutopia or dystopia is left up to the reader.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Insistence of Vision” Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime. 

JF - Technology Review (MIT) N1 -

Rpt. in his Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author’s note on 35; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 36-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory Season Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Male--female conflict in a future matriarchal society.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dr. Pak's Preschool" Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Japan and South Korea in which the gender of a child is ensured and then education is provided for the fetus. The story is told by a mother who is unhappy with the process. Surprise ending.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 79.1 N1 -

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #45; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 30-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed environment. One thread of the novel is set in New Zealand and uses Māori 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.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piecework" Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic manipulation in which women are used to give birth to industrial products.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 33 N1 -

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #23; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 550-76; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 225-258.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Postman Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a man assumes the role of a postman and, in that role, helps to knit together the communities that are struggling to survive.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. illus. Kent Bash and with an “Introduction” by James Gunn [Rpt. in Gunn, Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 76-78]. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1993. Parts originally published in different form in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine as “The Postman” 6.11 (58) (November 1982): 120-69; rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 236-305 and “Cyclops” 8.3 (76) (March 1984): 112-67.

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