TY - ABST T1 - "Facing the New Atlantic. A Short Story" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Scotland after the Gulf Stream failed. Part climate change dystopia; part high tech eutopia with extensive use of virtual reality. The future is unsettled, and everything is presented as in process. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Imagineers. A Short Story” Y1 - 2005 A1 - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A climate change dystopian in which harsh winters have driven people in on themselves, but while the story says, “There is no happy ever after” (65), people are creating positive countermeasures. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Intervention" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Ruaridh Nicoll (b. 1969) ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is concerned with changing the mindset of people on disability who have been encouraged to consider themselves sick to reduce the number counted as unemployed. Scotland has developed a program to identify those who can work, the majority, and reintegrate them into the productive economy, even if not in their old jobs. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scotland the Grave. A Short Story." Y1 - 2005 A1 - Taylor, Pennie ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Scotland after the oil ran out, which has produced very negative impacts, but Scotland attracts university students because the universities are tuition free, and Scotland is proving an ideal setting for the development of alternative energy resources. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tartan Initiative” Y1 - 2005 A1 - Anne Donovan ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story recounts the rise of immigration to Scotland and the loss of the native languages of the immigrant children as well as the loss of Gaelic by the Scots. The Tartan Initiative is a plan, initially by one teacher, to revive both. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - London CY - Demos U5 -

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