TY - ABST T1 - "Busy" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -

The story is set after the economic collapse. The only work is make work in what are called entropy mills, repurposed malls, where people generate random numbers.

JF - Terraform UR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d39ka/busy-terraform-science-fiction N1 -

Rpt. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 11-16.

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Illus. Rebekka Dunlap

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riverbed" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -

The story’s protagonist is an American-born woman who, as a young woman, was incarcerated in camps holding the U.S. Islamic population. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American War Y1 - 2017 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -

The Second Civil War from 2074-2095 was followed by a decade-long pandemic/plague that, together, tore the U.S. apart. Southern states had seceded primarily because they objected to an act that outlawed the use of fossil fuels. The story is about a young girl born in a border area who is then forced into a northern refugee camp, with obvious parallels to today’s refugee camps, and is radicalized there. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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