TY - ABST T1 - “Flight of Little Bird” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Stephanie Writt ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with a young woman working a dead-end job and just getting by has the idea to use social media to start a movement she calls Empower the Kind (ETK). It then shows how, over her lifetime, the movement transforms the world.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Heaven Backwards" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lisa Silverthorne ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a United States devastated by climate change inside a religious compound in which women are the collective property of the men. One woman makes contact with an outside world they had been told didn’t exist.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Neighborhoods" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dean Wesley Smith ED - John Helfers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A wealthy man, upset by the continuing death in gang violence of Chicago teenagers decides to recreate the entire way of life by building huge, completely self-contained apartment complexes. The story includes details of power sources, gardening, schools, shopping, and so forth.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 N1 -

Rpt. in Smith’s Monthly #6 (March 2014): 66-78; ISSN 2474-5294 and in Colliding Worlds Vol. 1: A Science Fiction Story Series. By Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (Np: WMG Publishing, 2021), 419-436. 978-1-56146-387-9

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Name Here” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Laura Resnick (b. 1961) ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Humorous take on the overpopulation problem. Most of the world has signed the International Population Agreement that requires a license to be allowed to have a child and are well on the way to become truly good societies. The U.S. is a holdout, and the story traces the trajectory that led to its adoption by the United States (the key change is “requiring candidate in the House or Senate to pass written and oral exams in basic logic, science, history, and ethics, as well as a test on the US Constitution” [76-77]) and what one has to do to get such a license.

JF - How to Save the World PB - Fiction River/WMG Publishing CY - [Lincoln City, OR] SN - 978-0-615-78353-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Attached to the Land" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Donald J. Bingle (b. 1954) ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. The mountain states of the U.S. plus Alaska and western Canada secede and form a new country, the Western Range and Mountains--known as the Range. The central institution, designed in part to keep population growth under control, is that every person must have a certain minimum amount of land, initially provided by parceling out public lands. Those who fall below the minimum are forced to leave. Since the rest of North America is a poverty-stricken, violent dystopia, this rule is effective.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Baby Store" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gorman, Ed ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the ability to create designer babies, who must be perfect.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jesus Runs" Y1 - 2008 A1 - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in which a clone of Jesus plans to run for President of the United States, which had fragmented as power had shifted to the states. The Supreme Court had become irrelevant as a result of partisan decisions, but since there were a dozen clones, it got involved.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Actor" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Linda L. Donahue ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by poor quality education and the growth of mass culture.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Flag Was Still There" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Steven Mohan Jr. ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which each antagonistic ethnic, ideological, political, or religious group was isolated in separate virtual "Habitats".

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Suffer the Children" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Barbara Nickless ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which children are kept as slaves in mines.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Falling Star" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brendan DuBois ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - John Helfers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future anti-technological, religious U.S. small town.

JF - Space Stations PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 471-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream of Venus Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - John Helfers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the same universe as 1986, 1988, and 2001 Sargent, but earlier than those novels, and focuses the development of a representation of Venus and the personalities and politics involved. 

JF - Star Colonies PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 325-57 with "Afterword to 'Dream of Venus'" on 358-59.

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