TY - ABST T1 - “Thirteen Ways of Being Looked at by a Blackbird SR71” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Bryan Hurt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on surveillance society detailing many ways of avoiding surveillance and how they were met.

JF - Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest PB - OR Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Providence 2034” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Providence, RI as a high tech, green eutopia in the future due to its cooperation with São Vincente, Brazil, together with significant changes in Rhode Island politics. Interstate highway replaced by a thriving neighborhood. Higher education has become a citywide activity extending well beyond campus-based instruction. There is a large Community Land Trust Biosphere. Climate-change refugees from Asia have changed the political dynamic of the state. All legislators are required to serve a year in community service before being seated.

JF - College Hill Independent (Providence, RI) N1 -

Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 141-46 with an author’s note (140)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “City of Beauty, City of Scars” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Judith K. Dial ED - Thomas A[twood] Easton (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society that focuses on beauty.

JF - Impossible Futures: An Anthology PB - Pink Narcissus Press CY - Auburn, MA N1 -

 Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 5-18 with an author’s note (4). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in the Anthropocene" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe society in which all humans live above or below the 45th parallel. Appears to be a high tech eutopia, but it is absolutely dependent on a fragile power supply. Extreme limits on uses of fossil fuels, so very little travel.

JF - The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF PB - Constable/Robinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 407-422.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Murder in Geektopia" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia for Geeks with a stress on technology and popular culture in an alternative future of world peace.

JF - Sideways in Crime: An Alternative Mystery Anthology PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wikiworld" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia based around peer-operated systems, including government.

JF - Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape From New Austin" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New Austin is in Agnostica, which is completely surrounded by Faithland. Agnostica is presented as a liberal eutopia; Faithland is conservative and mildly dystopian.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shuteye for the Timebroker" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is an invention that means that no one has to sleep, and the developed world, where people can afford it, develops even faster, while the poor slip further behind.

JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken Y1 - 2003 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Begins in the Amana colonies on the day of their becoming a joint stock company but has nothing else to say about the colonies. Family history from then into the near future. Future Hoboken is initially mildly dystopian and then is briefly partially transformed into a eutopia by the introduction of labor based money.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Any Major Dude" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in Africa being brought about by nanotechnology.

JF - New Worlds PB - VGSF CY - London VL - 1 U5 -

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