TY - ABST T1 - "Neom" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Neom is a city built on the Red Sea on the Arabis peninsula that is designed to attract high-flying tech entrepreneurs and workers with the laws that suit them rather than Saudi Arabia. It is described by a middle-aged woman cleaner as she cleans an apartment and then walks back to the district where poor support workers like her live. 

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 43.1 & 2 (516 & 517) SN - 9781912950683 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2019. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 37-45

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2084 Satoshi AD” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a world divided between those who have established a brand for themselves and the no-brand. The key to power is the blockchain. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Road to the Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - 9781937794750, 978-1-250-16463-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 252-57 with an editor’s note on 252; in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 175-81; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 608-14. EBook.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vanishing Kind" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history in which Germany won World War 2 and rules England. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 131.1 & 2 (726) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Solnet Ascendency" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Technological and sustainable eutopia in Vanuatu brought about through modern technology and the ability to get political support.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "High Windows" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Multiple dystopias. A form of slavery is permitted, and sexual slavery is described.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://www.strangehorizons.com ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quasar Y1 - 1995 A1 - Jamil Nasir (b. 1955) KW - Israeli author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme wealth and poverty set against a deteriorating earth.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrections From the Dustbin of History. A Political Fantasy Y1 - 1992 A1 - Simon Louvish (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia beginning in 1968 when Leon Trotsky, who has led the U.S.S.R. for forty-four years, dies. Benito Mussolini still rules Italy, and Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are U.S. politicians. Racial conflict in the U.S.

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U.S. ed. as The Resurrections: A Novel. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Whore of Babylon” Y1 - 1986 A1 - Leon [Léon] Zeldis ED - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Sam J. Lundwall KW - Chilean author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is “I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex. 

JF - The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. SN - 9780140080674 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Children and Their Schools at the Quadcentennial" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Irwin Hyman A1 - Sherone Sherone Levow Maital KW - Female author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two scenarios of future education, eutopian and dystopian. The dystopian system is all technology in isolation and is controlled by corporations. The eutopian system focuses on family life and the rights of children, is well-funded, and teachers all hold doctorates and schools have no administrators.

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 9.2 (Summer 1980): U5 -

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