TY - ABST T1 - “In Silent Streams, Where Once the Summer Shone” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Edward Willett (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about a slow apocalypse and all the “little” things that people ignore from bees to viruses that accumulate until it is too late. 

JF - Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers PB - Shadowpaw Press CY - Regina, SK, Canada SN - 978-1-989398-06-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Opt-In. Harvest: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in three parts focusing on the sale of body parts. In the first story, a poor woman sells organs in order to pay her bills. In the second story, a law is passed legalizing the sale of body parts that, with amendments, means that anyone in debt can be required to sell their body parts to pay it off, and a woman has her womb and uterus harvested. In the third part, a resistance has arisen with the story told by a woman in the resistance trying to get access to the records that show whose organs were harvested and who they went to

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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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 -

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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 - “Persephone” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future with a deep divide between rich and poor.

JF - Tor.com UR - http://www.tor.com/2017/03/08/persephone-seanan-mcguire/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What We Knew Then, Before the Sky Fell Down” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Monica Louzon ED - Jake Weisfeld ED - Heather McHale ED - Barbara Jasny ED - Rachel Frederick KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia set in a collapsed Seattle Pike Place Market. The focus of the story is on a woman who is search for information that will help people recover from the disaster. 

JF - Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction PB - Museum of Science Fiction CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Increasing Police Visibility” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Bogi Takács (b. 1983) ED - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) KW - Hungarian author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a country in which algorithms are used to supposedly deny entry, but they have at least a two-thirds error rate. But a visible police presence is considered more important because the right wing wants it. 

JF - Queers Destroy Science Fiction Lightspeed VL - no. 61 SN - 9781590216934 N1 -

 Rpt. GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 47-; Sunspot Jungle Volume 2 [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2020), 436-39; and in his The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2019), 111-15.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tip of the Tongue” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Felicia Davin ED - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) KW - Bisexual author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the ability to read has been taken away.

JF - Queers Destroy Science Fiction VL - Lightspeed, no. 61 N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 253-67.

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