TY - ABST T1 - American Moat Y1 - 2015 A1 - Carlos Hernandez ED - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Cuban-American author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous take on aliens offering the possibility of eutopia in a United States set on keeping aliens, primarily Hispanics, out. MOAT refers to Maintaining Our American Turf. 

JF - A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar PB - Nomadic Delirium Press CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 7 (January-March 2017). http://mithilareview.com/hernandez_01_17/

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Share and Share Alike” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wayne Carey ED - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia where equality means no one does anything well.

JF - A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar PB - Nomadic Delirium Press CY - Aurora, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “R-Complex” Y1 - 2011 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which a theocratic dystopia is being opposed by a group of religious zealots with a different theocratic vision.

JF - J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia PB - J. Alan Erwine CY - Np SN - 9781534701649 N1 -

Originally published in Aoife’s Kiss, no. 37 (June 2011). Not found.

Also published as a fourteen-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2016]. No longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Forgive Them Their Trespasses” Y1 - 2009 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Theocratic dystopia.

JF - J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia PB - [J. Alan Erwine] CY - Np SN - 9781534701649 N1 -

Originally published online in Afterburn SF (March 2009). No longer available. 

Also published as a twelve-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2015]. No longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Out of Plato’s Cave” Y1 - 2003 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where many people are living underground to escape radiation and is told from the perspective of a young boy with cancer who is attracted to the surface.

JF - Aphelion VL - no. 7 SN - 9781534701649 UR - https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2003/03/OutOfPlatosCave.htm N1 -

Rpt. in the author's J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia (Np: [J. Alan Erwine, 2016]), 64-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Opium of the People Y1 - 2002 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author AB -

Theocratic fundamentalist dystopia that eliminates personal freedom.

PB - Writers Club Press CY - Lincoln, NB N1 -

Rev. ed. Denver, CO: Nomadic Delirium Press, 2007. This is an expansion of a story first published in Aphelion, no. 37 (July 2000) https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2000/07/OpiumOfPeople.htm; and rpt. in his J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia (Np: [J. Alan Erwine, 2016]), 21-30.

In the 2007 ed. the author says that there were two previous editions with the first edition published by ProMart Publishing “almost a decade ago.” Not found.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Galton Principle” Y1 - 2001 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the ideas of Francis Galton (1822-1911), who coined the word eugenics, have led to a totalitarian system in which anyone who does not meet the regimes genetic standards is sterilized or killed.

JF - J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia PB - [J. Alan Erwine] CY - Np SN - 9781534701649 N1 -

Originally published in The Stars* Anthology (March 2001). Not found.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Harvest of Debts” Y1 - 2000 A1 - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which the old suppress the young and the beginnings of a youth rebellion.

JF - J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia PB - [J. Alan Erwine] CY - Np SN - 9781534701649 N1 -

Originally published in the online journal The Fifth Di... (June 2000), which is no longer available.

Published separately by the author as an online ten-page chapbook in 2014.

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