TY - ABST T1 - “The Sabhu My Destination” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on an African American boy growing up in the contemporary United States and the long-lived man he becomes mostly in Africa told in stages with each stage beginning in italics with the experiences that make him who he is in the future. The story is played out in a world transformed by climate change, with much both changed and unchanged at a both a personal level and socially and politically, such as the abandonment of a base on the moon and its redevelopment by Ghana.

JF - Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-17-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “From the Shoals of Broken Cities” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Osborne ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth is so damaged environmentally that the only successful society is under water where humans have been adapted to live. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gilbert Tong’s Life List” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kate Heartfield ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A climate-change based dystopia in which the country of Kiribati disappears under the ocean, and under pressure, various countries offer to accept a small number of the refugees. The story is set in Canada, which has settled 5,000 refugees in a fenced-off self-governed area, and then ignored them. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Habitat" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Christie Yant ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the response to climate-change is to move all humans into one huge building and leave nature to itself. The building is designed to replicate the culture and environment of the people, and the story examines the response of the last group of humans who had still been living outside. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In a Bar by the Ocean, a World Waits” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which the environment is so damaged that life on Earth is coming to an end. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Marsh of Camarina” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew Kressel ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a near-future dystopia in which AI’s have replaced most jobs, and humans are forming sustainable villages in northern Canada.

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Porque el Girasol se Llama el Girasol” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author AB -

Dystopian story of people living in the U.S. who are desperate to get over the Wall into Mexico. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Remember the Green” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An environmental dystopia in which some people have been genetically engineered to grow crops and are now being removed from the green areas they created into areas that are all grey. The story concerns a girl from the green who meets another girl from the green.

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-05-06 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “blinders” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tyler Keevil ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The background of the story is a corporate dystopia trying to defeat a union. 

JF - The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 9-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Healer's Touch" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Colleen Anderson ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a healer in a high-tech hospital and her ability to overcome her own problems so she can help the constant stream of badly injured refugees being created in her dystopian world. 

JF - The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Age of Miracles” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robert Runté ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of the internet of things. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Culling” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The lack of water and, as a result, food, led to the systematic reduction of the population with more and more categories added as the crisis got worse. The story focuses on a girl who hears voices who is chosen for culling. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Weeds and the Wilderness” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tyler Keevil ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia depicting a happy man gardening in the garden that he allows to grow fairly wild who is suddenly confronted with a completely anonymous group of people going throughout the destroy removing everything but pristine lawns. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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