TY - ABST T1 - “Escape from the Future” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

About half the novella is a depiction of the protagonist as a teenage boy growing up in a typical middle, working class suburb. The second half is set in 2025 where all the conflicts of the pandemic era continue violently, the suburb has been destroyed and groups protest and kill mindlessly. Government is mostly non-existent or simply incompetent.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Adios America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a Democratic Socialist feminist of East Asian and Asian parents is elected president and establishes a number of policies includes abortion available to birth, opening the country to all undocumented aliens, euthanasia required at sixty-five with cremation used to turn the bodies into fertilizer. The protagonist is a homeless seventy-year-old white man who is trying to get together enough money to be taken to Mexico.

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Rpt. in the author's Escape from the Future and Other Stories (Np: Author, 2022), 163-193.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Talk to a Real Live Girl” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is dominated by women who have taken away all men’s rights. The protagonist, after losing the right to any contact with his daughter, chooses to leave Earth to a mining colony colloquially known as Boyz Wurld that is inhabited by men and sexbots. There are, though, “three live girls” available for talk and only talk.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crossing Over Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the next U. S. Civil War, which is based on political beliefs. The novel depicts a couple and their daughter trying to escape to Canada.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2038: San Francisco Sojourn: The Wrath of God” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a California that has regulations for everything, the prime example given is that everyone is required to wear a helmet at all times, although undocumented workers generally don’t. In the story God objects to His laws not being followed and wreaks havoc wherever He goes.

JF - Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1475233933 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Remembering Mandy” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a post-nuclear war future, and the protagonist is one of the very few people who survived and is now an old man. The overwhelming majority of people have been created from genetic material and are all young, vigorous and in their twenties. The story concerns the old man’s decision whether or not to sell his memories of his wife and child for enough money to live well, but in selling them he will lose them.

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