TY - ABST T1 - "Less Than" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Lavanya Lakshminarayan ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The story takes place in Free India in which everyone is free and equal and has replace the authoritarian Regime in which only some people were acceptable. It turns out, though, that new internet is being used to manipulate individuals to produce what are perceived to be a eugenically superior next generation.

JF - Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 9780262546461 U2 -

Illus. Ashley Mackenzie.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lavanya Lakshminarayan KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The novel is set in a future where the nations of the world have fragmented into a few city-states. In what was India, Bangalore is now Apex City under the control of a corporation and the people are divided between the elite Virtual, who have to technology, and the outcast Analog, who do not.

PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-9389253085 N1 -

Rpt. as The Ten-Percent Thief. New York: Solaris, 2023. 368 pp. One story, “The Ten-Percent Thief” has been rpt. in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 35-40.

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