TY - ABST T1 - “The Robot Whisperer” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Phoebe Wagner KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future seen through the memories of a now old woman who had fled to a rural community trying to live sustainably after her hacking exploits that revealed the corruption in her home city were traced to her.

JF - Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales PB - Android Press CY - Eugene, OR SN - 978-1-958121313 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Halps' Promise" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in an intentional community that has replaced the town of Banff, Alberta sixteen years after the Climate Collapse. The community is struggling to survive, trying to get failing technology to work or by repurposing it. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9781732254688 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Call of the Wold” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Something of a eutopia set in Canada in a future in which most people are living in intentional communities. Through the protagonist, a woman escaping the corporate world, the story explores the problems of making such a community successful. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Knells of Agassiz” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which all the glaciers are melting and concerns an attempt to create snow to help restore them. 

JF - Water PB - Reality Skimming Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada VL - Volume 1 of the Optimistic Sci-Fi series SN - 978-1-988939-00-1 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/28/the-knells-of-agassiz/ N1 -

Rpt. with a different illus. in Little Blue Marble (February 28, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/28/the-knells-of-agassiz/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 52-62, with a note on the author on 62.

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Illus. Digbejoy Gosh.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Bad Apple" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story points out that things can still go wrong in a high-tech eutopia but high-tech can solve the problems. The utopia supposedly has no slums, gangs, or homeless, but the protagonist encounters a mugger who steals his watch to sell for its value in metal, but the city’s connectedness means that he will be captured, and the watch recovered.

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stewardship" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Katrina Archer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

In the story an AI and a robot are caring for a fenced-off area designed to contain one of the few remaining areas that are in ecological balance.

JF - Unsung Stories UR - https://www.unsungstories.co.uk/short/2016/2/3/stewardship N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Well Enough Alone" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future in which people wear health “minders” that constantly report to hospitals. An elderly woman who had been involved in developing much of the technology but is losing her memory and ability to function independently reprograms hers to assist her suicide. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 4 U2 -

Illus. Andrea Alemanno

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Graveyard Shift” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Colleen Anderson ED - Steve Vernon KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The background to the story is the dystopia created by online education for those hoping to teach.

JF - Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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