TY - ABST T1 - "Rock of Ages" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Ken Scholes KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on an attempt to create a eutopian green future and attacks upon it. Related to Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake Tobias S. Buckell Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi, [II] Karl Schroeder. Ed. John [Michael] Scalzi, [II]. New York: Tor, 2009.

JF - METAropolis: Green Space PB - Audio Studies CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 73-126 with an editor’s note on 73.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Forests of the Night" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a city in Northern California based on sharing that is mostly underground to protect it from its predatory, capitalist neighbors.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 13-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hydraulic" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ekaterina Sedia (b. 1970) ED - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia. Power is produced from rain, and it rains constantly. Almost everything has been privatized, and even recharging batteries is illegal.

JF - Spicy Slipstream Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Futures [Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]. Ed. Jason Sizemore (Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2010), 226-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Revolt of the Ultraists!" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Richard A. Becker ED - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed city. Violence, new drugs, intrusive advertising.

JF - Spicy Slipstream Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "C-Rock City" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) A1 - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) ED - George Mann KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of a society that had been based on slavery.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where the Water Meets the Sky" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The ecological eutopia possible after our environmental dystopia. Much of the U.S. has been abandoned, but the Northwest has managed to create a good society without the power grid or the automobile.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 208 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Library of Pi" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray Vukcevich (b. 1946) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a police state.

JF - Polyphony 6 PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Missy Victoria" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Bruce Holland Rogers (b. 1958) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Apparent dystopia with eutopian results. Names are seen to condition behavior and judges can require that names, including nicknames, be changed. In the case described, the required change improves the lives of family members.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Return to Nowhere" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. with slavery and with an underground railway running to the free areas of the Northwest.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "High Rise High" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A high rise high school built to house the town's most difficult students is taken over by the students.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 4 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cleansing Fire of God" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Earth is divided among religious dystopias and at least one secular society, and they are in competition to reach the moon, where an alien spacecraft has crashed.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-cleansing-fire-of-god/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Uterus Garden" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Problems in a largely dystopian future in which most people are infertile.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 2 ER -