TY - ABST T1 - "0.1" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gabby Rivera ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -
Post-catastrophe story set after a sentient bacterium had killed most of the world’s population, starting with the 1% and eliminating all who do not feel love and compassion. The story is about the birth of the first baby after the plague ended.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Steven James (b. 1969) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The Op-Ed is set in a world where AI’s are trying to achieve equality and is written by one who wants to worship.
Illus John Karborn
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Attachment Disorder” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “One Day Only.”
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blindfold" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -The story is set in a future where, in an attempt to make trials fairer, the personal characteristics, such as race, are blocked from the members of the jury. The protagonist is a hacker who works to ensure that the system works who is hacked by those trying to undermine the system.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bookstore at the End of America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -The story takes place in a bookstore that straddles the boundary between California and the United States, which are at war.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 N1 -Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 1-22, with an editor’s note on 1; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 204-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 391.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By His Bootstraps” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ashok K[umar] Banker (b. 1964) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -Satire in which the U.S. government, under President Trump, initiates a program that changes the DNA in a person back to its human origins, thus ridding the country of all mixed-race immigrants. Something goes wrong and most people in the country become Native American Indians.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calendar Girls” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia in which contraception is illegal.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Esperanto" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jamie Ford (b. 1968) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story depicts a world in which most people’s experience of it is through virtual reality and how they react when the system is sabotaged.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death” Y1 - 2019 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -A dystopia in which the 99% is trying to kill off most of the 99%, who are fighting back.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 9780525508809 9781789095012 N1 -Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good News Bad News” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charles Yu (b. 1976) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - Taiwanese American author AB -The future is depicted in a series of short reports, the main one being about racist robots.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harmony" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The creation of a eutopian town for those who don’t fit elsewhere.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A History of Barbed Wire” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -The U.S. has become corporate controlled with no safety net, and people try to escape to the walled-off nation of the Cherokee.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in a largely abandoned Albany, New York that all government workers left after being replaced by AI. The United States is an authoritarian surveillance state and deeply anti-gay, which is a major focus of the story.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Algorithms in the World” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story depicts a future with a guaranteed income and most jobs taken over by AIs. A father sees it as dystopia; a son sees it as providing a good life.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our Aim Is Not to Die” Y1 - 2019 A1 - A. Merc Rustad ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author AB -A white supremacist, patriarchal dystopia in which everyone is under constant surveillance, and there are required medical/mental checks to ensure that everyone is straight. Lobotomies, now called neural reformatting therapy, are used to “cure” the non-conforming.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Read After Burning” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Dahvana Headley (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in a future in which it is prohibited to teach children to read or even to speak except in approved slogans. The story is told from the viewpoint of a child of librarians who are secretly keeping books alive.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Referendum” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riverbed" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -The story’s protagonist is an American-born woman who, as a young woman, was incarcerated in camps holding the U.S. Islamic population.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "ROME" Y1 - 2019 A1 - G[wendolyn] Willow Wilson (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A dystopia set in a United States devastated by climate-change that has privatized all first responders, and a poor district in Seattle had no protection from the regular fires as seen through the eyes of students taking an English-language test required for them to stay in the country.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sun in Exile” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Satire on climate change deniers.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Violet Allen ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Dystopian in which technology is supposedly curing homosexuality.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The United States Should Welcome a Strong, United Latin America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -Reflections on the formation of a united Latin America, following on from the European Union and an African Union that the United States is vigorously opposing.
UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/future-united-latin-america.html U2 -Illus. John Karborn
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wall" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizz Huerta ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which the United States has collapsed and disappeared with refugees desperate to escape to Mexico.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Maya Found There” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Latinx author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A future surveillance society in which biotechnology is being used as a means of control.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What You Sow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kai Cheng Thom ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -A fantasy story set in a future where many have succumbed to a disease that gradually wastes them away with the only relief provided by the “ichor” from a Celestial told from the point-of-view of a Celestial, who has been trying to fit in.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER -