TY - ABST T1 - “Idle Hands. Robots Rise: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Dystopia in three parts set on Moreland, a seasteading built outside the U.S. territorial waters so that the extremely wealthy can live free of taxes and any laws but their own. The second generation discovers that there is no one to do the work, so they bring in thousands of robots, including sentient AIs, one of whom is the protagonist in all three stories. In the first story, the AI is bored and arranges to be thrown into the ocean to kill him. In the second story set some years later, the AI has been found and restored to life by a dissident faction that is trying to foment revolution. In the third story, after the owner of Moreland has killed the AI, it is again restored to run in an election.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Mur Lafferty ED - S. B. Divya [pseud.] KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story is told by an AI who is the head of a project to rewild Earth with extinct animals, including humans, a few of which were brought back earlier and are housed in the Kensington Zoo.

JF - Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789095012 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blindfold" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story is set in a future where, in an attempt to make trials fairer, the personal characteristics, such as race, are blocked from the members of the jury. The protagonist is a hacker who works to ensure that the system works who is hacked by those trying to undermine the system. 

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 - “A World to Die for” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story begins in a violent dystopia that is the result of climate change and then moves into alternative futures, in some of which the past inhabitants have protected their environments. 

JF - Clarkesworld UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/buckell_01_18/ N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 143-70. PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mighty Slinger" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland.

JF - Bridging Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng N1 -

Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arctic Rising Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

A climate change novel in which the melting of the ice caps leads to conflicts over access to the oil reserves that are now accessible. 

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0765319210 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stochasti-city" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Lake, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a dystopian Detroit and deals with the beginnings of an attempt to reclaim it.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Manumission" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Dystopia of a future where individuals are enslaved by corporations.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 2 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/manumission N1 -

Originally published online in Jim Baen's Universe 2.6 (12) (April 2008) but no longer available online. Rpt. in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 70-85. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shackles of Freedom" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The Amish, presented in their most extreme form, move to a new planet, New Pennsylvania, to be free to follow their beliefs. The stress is on the lack of medical care that results from their unwillingness to use modern technology.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 347-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waiting for the Zephyr” Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Climate change dystopia. 

JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 101-05. 

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