TY - ABST T1 - “Luv Story” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A retelling of the story of the Garden of Eden by a girl in a post-catastrophe (climate-change, loss of civilization) dystopia. 

JF - Dreaming in the Dark PB - PS Australia CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Trainspotting in Winesburg” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Australia that is replicating the Nazi era by exterminating Jews and Muslims.

JF - Concentration PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mohammed's Angel" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of religious conflict.

JF - Overland VL - no. 196 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia created by genetic damage and global warming. Strict control on those few who can have genetically clean children, with females who can produce such children kept as breeders. Different women are mothers. Men have almost no sexual outlets.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In From the Snow" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Len Battersby (b. 1970 ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the stories of Sawney Bean, the legendary fifteenth-sixteenth century Scottish cannibal.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost Arts" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia on a planet colony of Earth that is benevolently controlled by Artificial Intelligences. The focus of the story is how to deal with aberrant behavior in a eutopia.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightship" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set in an environmentally devastated Australia where the different groups are at constant war and slavery and violence are standard. Very few women are born, and they are used for breeding.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Café Culture" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future New York City with constant religious suicide bombers of all faiths.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 31.1 (372) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Derelict" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of the habitats built in space which cannot have conflict because they are so fragile. The story is about children pushing the limits of what is possible for them in the strictly regulated lives necessary for the habitats to function safely.

JF - Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space PB - Science Fiction Book Club CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Body Politic" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Tess Williams (b. 1954) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of extreme poverty contrasted with great wealth.

JF - Dreaming Down Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prelude to a Nocturne" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rowena Cory Lindquist (b. 1958) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A future in which many people permanently put off puberty.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Truth About Weena" Y1 - 1998 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

On a different time line from that described in 1895 Wells, the Eloi woman Weena is brought back from the future and becomes a political activist, leading to a better society. See 1977 Lake and the note there.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Melted Y1 - 1984 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of psychic collapse.

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Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Contentment, Satisfaction, Cheer, Well-Being, Gladness, Joy, Comfort, and Not having To Get Up Early Any More" Y1 - 1976 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the world has been entirely homogenized and is ruled by six men, with one of them arranging the retirement of the other five one at a time. He then retires and the computer that has been effectively running the world takes over.

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day of the Big Test" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Testing of children in their seventh year determines family status, income, leisure, etc. Presented generally positively.

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Diary of the Rose" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis. 

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 99-125.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thanatos" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a world where all plants and animals have died. Everyone convicted of a crime is kept alive while attached to machines that pump from them all the nutrients needed to sustain others.

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dybbuk Dolls" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of poverty and anti-Semitism. Most groups live in high-rise ghettos. The dybbuk dolls are alien artifacts that reinforce a person's worst characteristics.

JF - New Dimensions Number 5 PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time. Ed. Michael Bishop (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 78-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Faces Forward" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of brief and quite varied dystopian vignettes.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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