TY - ABST T1 - "Acception" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tessa Kum (b. 1981) ED - Gillian Polack KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a government agency determining where people can live based on their ethnicity. All those with mixed ethnicity are relegated to what is, in effect, a concentration camp. Much of the story is about the uprising to overthrow the system.

JF - Baggage PB - Eneit Press CY - Culcairn, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror. Ed. Liz Grzb and Talie Helene (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2011), 141-70; in Baggage: Tales of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Gillian Polack (Holicong, PA: Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2014), 121-53, with an “Afterword” on 223-24; and in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 460-86.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blond Curls" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Nicole R. Murphy ED - Gillian Polack ED - Scott Hopkins KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Police with flawed technology misidentify a suspect and have the power to completely undo her life.

JF - Masques PB - CSFG Publishing CY - Woden, ACT, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seventeen" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Gillian Polack ED - Scott Hopkins KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which there are deep division between rich and poor with a focus on care for the elderly. The protagonist is a girl whose job is to pretend to be the daughter of an old woman, in which role she leads a good life, and gives some meaning to the old woman’s life. Outside the retirement community the girl is homeless in a violent world.

JF - Masques PB - CSFG Publishing CY - Woden, ACT, Australia U5 -

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