TY - ABST T1 - “From the Shoals of Broken Cities” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Osborne ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth is so damaged environmentally that the only successful society is under water where humans have been adapted to live. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gilbert Tong’s Life List” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kate Heartfield ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A climate-change based dystopia in which the country of Kiribati disappears under the ocean, and under pressure, various countries offer to accept a small number of the refugees. The story is set in Canada, which has settled 5,000 refugees in a fenced-off self-governed area, and then ignored them. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Habitat" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Christie Yant ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the response to climate-change is to move all humans into one huge building and leave nature to itself. The building is designed to replicate the culture and environment of the people, and the story examines the response of the last group of humans who had still been living outside. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Remember the Green” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An environmental dystopia in which some people have been genetically engineered to grow crops and are now being removed from the green areas they created into areas that are all grey. The story concerns a girl from the green who meets another girl from the green.

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-05-06 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Healer's Touch" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Colleen Anderson ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a healer in a high-tech hospital and her ability to overcome her own problems so she can help the constant stream of badly injured refugees being created in her dystopian world. 

JF - The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Star Is Born” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Miki Dare ED - Lucas K. Law ED - Derwin Mak KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which Canada interns all its Asian population. 

JF - Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Laksa Media Group CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vanilla Rice" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Angela Yuriko Smith ED - Lucas K. Law ED - Derwin Mak KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the difficulty of choosing the looks of a child before it is born and the effect on the child. It appears to be a set in a society where police must be paid directly for their service. 

JF - Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Laksa Media Group CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Culling” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The lack of water and, as a result, food, led to the systematic reduction of the population with more and more categories added as the crisis got worse. The story focuses on a girl who hears voices who is chosen for culling. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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