TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from the Cradle; The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -
Climate change story set when most people live either in space or on submersible rafts on Earth. Mars is being terraformed and plans are underway to try to dry out Earth. Whether this is a good or bad idea is left up the reader.
JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -Rpt. in his The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020), 254-271.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pattern Recognition.” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which small children from the slums of various countries are bought from their parents and raised in a completely closed and regulated environment where they are trained in pattern recognition skills with the results sold to large corporations.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Perfect Match” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The dystopia created by a company selling everyone a personal attendant/adviser that collects an immense amount of information about each person.
VL - no. 31 SN - 9781597804547 978-1481442541 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match/ N1 -Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 491-507; and in his The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 26-50.
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