TY - ABST T1 - "Castoff World" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The castoff world is a pile of trash in the ocean which is inhabited by a young girl and her grandfather. The trash island is being created by advanced technology designed to gradually clean up the ocean. After the grandfather's death the island becomes sentient, transforms itself into a boat and takes the girl to what appears to be an environmental eutopia.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ishin" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia that focuses on two men using advanced technology to counter environmental damage and undermine corruption.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Russian Roulette 2020" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Eva Marian Chapman b. 1947) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Australian author KW - Czech author KW - Female author AB -

The story contrasts a world in which everyone is linked constantly by advanced devices that they wear at all times with a disconnected eutopia of people living naturally.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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