TY - ABST T1 - "Skin City" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Lesbian author AB -

The story is set in a future that has adapted to climate change by building domes over cities and extensive rewilding, but the story focuses on the issue of privacy and those who choose a radical version of privacy. Part of a series based on the author’s Toronto friends in the theatre and burlesque that includes “The Desperate Flesh.” Nasty: Fetish Fights Back: An Erotic Short Story Collection. Ed. Anna Yeatts and Chris Phillips. Np: Flash Fiction online LLC, 2017. Rpt. in her Alias Space and Other Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 175-85, with “Notes about ‘The Desperate Flesh’” on 186, which is realist fiction about an old folks’ home for lesbians, and “Alias Space.” Alias Space and Other Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 187-224, with “Notes about ‘Alias Space’” on 225, which is non-utopian science fiction.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds SN - 978-1645240259 UR - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/6/18197632/kelly-robson-sci-fi-story-privacy-ar-skins-better-worlds N1 -

Rpt. in her Alias Space and Other Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 227-41, with “Notes about ‘Skin City’” on 242.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Lesbian author AB -

The novel is set in 2267 and in ancient Mesopotamia. In the future, people are beginning to emerge from underground where they had escaped the widespread devastation on the environment, and they hope to restore the damage. Complications arise with the ability to travel to the past. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Intervention" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Canadian author KW - Lesbian author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future where children are raised in creches, with the job of caring for them in some cases a low status, low wage job. The story is told from the point of view of a woman who chooses the job and is rejected by her friends on Luna and chooses to leave to raise children in a space habitat. 

JF - Infinity’s End PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1781085752 9781597809887 9781781085769 978-1645240259. N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 29-50, with an editor’s note on 29; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 141-65; and in her Alias Space and Other Stories. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 77-109 with “Notes about ‘Intervention’” on 110

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