TY - ABST T1 - "Like the Gentle Rain" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.”

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 93.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Invisible Country" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) ED - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an extreme division between the rich and the poor where gangs run the poor areas and violence is common. A biological agent that makes people caring is spread around the world and the dystopia is being replaced with a better society.

JF - When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Invisible Country (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996), 13-34, with an "Afterword" on 35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Prince" Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate greed, environmental collapse and violence.

JF - When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 197-223, with an author's note on 197.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Till Human Voices Wake Us" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A corporation is modifying humans and animals to produce eutopia with the eutopian ends justifying the dystopian means.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 66.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. [Michael] Bruce Sterling (New York: Arbor House, 1986), 125-38.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Twilight Time" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A time travel story with dystopias both in the present and the past. In the past, aliens are taking control; in the present, the U.S. has voted to give complete power to a group promising security. Actions in the past change the dystopian present.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 8.4 (77) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 421-39 with an editor's note on 420.

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