TY - ABST T1 - “Luv Story” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A retelling of the story of the Garden of Eden by a girl in a post-catastrophe (climate-change, loss of civilization) dystopia. 

JF - Dreaming in the Dark PB - PS Australia CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia created by genetic damage and global warming. Strict control on those few who can have genetically clean children, with females who can produce such children kept as breeders. Different women are mothers. Men have almost no sexual outlets.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightship" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kim Westwood ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia set in an environmentally devastated Australia where the different groups are at constant war and slavery and violence are standard. Very few women are born, and they are used for breeding.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Body Politic" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Tess Williams (b. 1954) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of extreme poverty contrasted with great wealth.

JF - Dreaming Down Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prelude to a Nocturne" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rowena Cory Lindquist (b. 1958) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A future in which many people permanently put off puberty.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Diary of the Rose" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis. 

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 99-125.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thanatos" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a world where all plants and animals have died. Everyone convicted of a crime is kept alive while attached to machines that pump from them all the nutrients needed to sustain others.

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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