TY - ABST T1 - “Frost on Glass” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

An authoritarian, economically poor dystopia exiles all creative people to an island where they are supported as long as they produce work. If they do not, they are returned to the mainland.

JF - Frost on Glass PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Discovered Country” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

The story is set in what appears to be a heaven, called Farside, established specifically for the very rich. Current life, called Lifeside, is depicted in dystopian terms. 2013 MacLeod, “Entangled” is something of a sequel.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 37.9 (452) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 1-22 with an editor’s note on 1; and in Macleod’s Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 3-33, with an “Afterword Silver Machines” by the author (34-36).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Entangled" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Something of a sequel to 2013 MacLeod, “The Discovered Country.” This story is set in the future of the current life of the previous story where at least some things are improving due to mental connections among the people. There are various communal experiments where many people live.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 37.12 (455) N1 -

Rpt. in his Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 275-303 with an “Afterword: Volcanoes and Dinosaurs” (304-06).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Second Journey of the Magus” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

The last surviving of the three Magi travels back to the Holy Land and discovers a land where Christ had given in to the temptation to rule the world. Israel is a eutopia, but he has to make his way through the remains of the slaughtered Roman army to reach it, and the rest of the world will be subdued in the same way.

JF - Subterranean UR - http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/winter_2010/fiction_second_journey_of_the_magus_by_ian_r_macleod. N1 -

Rpt. in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013. Ebook.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Summer Isles Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Alternative history dystopia describing a Britain in which fascists came to power. Particular focus on its anti-gay agenda.

PB - Aio Publishing CY - [Charleston, SC] N1 -

A shorter version was originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.10 (274) (October/November 1998): 172-226; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Sixteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 544-602 with an editor’s note on 544.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Wheel Y1 - 1997 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia in what used to be Africa and a flawed utopia in Europe.

PB - Harcourt Brace CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nevermore" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia. Virtual reality becomes standard, and most people seem to live in it rather in the "foreal", which has become run down. During life people keep records of all their actions so that they can live on in virtual reality after death. The story focuses on an artist who prefers to live in the "foreal".

JF - Dying For It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love PB - HarperPrism CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.7 (271) (July 1998): 14-22, 24-32; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 488-504 with an Editor’s note on 488; and in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 202-34 with a note on 202; and in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013, an ebook with an “Afterword” by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Magic” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Future dystopia set on the Isle of Man. The mainland of the U.K. has been devastated by climate change with severe floods and extreme violence. The Isle of Man is a haven for the extremely rich and has become a center for medical care with the dead brought back from samples of their DNA.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 39 N1 -

Rpt. in Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media. Includes an “Afterword” by the author.

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