TY - ABST T1 - “Cold Revolution Blues” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) ED - Nick Gevers ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future where most phones can pass the Turing test and robots have replaced most jobs. The protagonist is a British journalist (generally assumed to be a spy) travelling to Amsterdam in the European Democracy, which is also called an Economic Democracy, where everyone is employed but jobs are “spread out through the day, the week, the year . . . the life, even. Why should leisure be reserved for those too young or too old to make the most of it?” (257), and whose citizens are biometrically chipped at birth. The Cold Revolution is “a glacial confrontation, in which every tiny incremental shift in the balance of forces [between humans and AIs]--economic, political, even cultural, is freighted with global significance” (249). “The character Marcus Owen, and the Union, first appeared In the short story ‘Cold Revolution Blues’ written in conjunction with a student project of Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in 2016.” A graphic novel interpretation of this story can be found in pages 76-83 of this university thesis. https://issuu.com/jamesanderson28/docs/james_anderson_portfolio_compressed/ He also appears in the Lightspeed Trilogy: Beyond the Hallowed Sky. London/New York: Orbit,2021, Beyond the Reach of Earth (London: Orbit, 2023), and a third volume to be published.

JF - New Worlds PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. SN - 978-1-786367-22-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ragged Claws" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a disintegrating society in which people have the dream of going to the planet Eden and starting over on a pristine world. But it is a fake; all that exists is a virtual reality Eden and the myth serves to make money for its sellers.

JF - Edison's Frankenstein PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts 20/21 U5 -

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