TY - ABST T1 - Counting Heads Y1 - 2005 A1 - David Marusek (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Overpopulated future earth which easily produces more than enough for everyone, but the ease of production has eliminated all but a few jobs. There is a planned reduction in population. See also 1999 and 2009 Marusek.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

The first section, "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy" (9-46) is revised from a novella of the same title originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 19.12& 13 (237& 38) (November 1995): 48-54, 56-58, 60-97. Rpt. in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 111-80.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cabbages and Kales, or, How We Downsized North America" Y1 - 1999 A1 - David Marusek (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Written as a prequel to the story that became the first part of 2005 Marusek giving the background to that story.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 23.2 (277) N1 -

Rpt as "Cabbages and Kale or: How We Downsized North America." In his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 221-54.

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