“The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti”
| Title | “The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti” |
| Year for Search | 2022 |
| Authors | Weeraratne, Navin |
| Secondary Authors | Saint, Tarun K., Chattopadhayay, Bodhisattva, and Verso, Francesco |
| Secondary Title | Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente |
| Pagination | 58-71/222-236 |
| Date Published | 2022 |
| Publisher | Future Fiction |
| Place Published | Rome |
| ISBN Number | 978-8832077513 |
| Keywords | Male author, Sri Lankan author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a future in which climate change had create a world of migrants that lived outside the control of governments who have the ability to use CRISPR and nanotechnology to create whatever living forms they want. They story contains some trenchant comments on the present that explain that future: “You can’t have democracy when you have social media. With social media everyone gets to have their own truths. They form closed-off worlds of self-reinforcing narratives and lies. Then, we expect them to go off, and make decisions?” (62). And “If you can’t trust people to vote, you definitely can’t trust them to create” (64). |
| Info Notes | All texts are published in English in the first half of the book and in Italian in the second half. |
| Translation Note | Trans. into Italian Gabriella Gregori |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Sri Lankan author |
| Full Text | 2022 Weeraratne, Navin. “The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti.” Trans. into Italian Gabriella Gregori. Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente. Ed. Tarun K. Saint, Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay, and Francesco Verso (Rome: Future Fiction, 2022), 58-71/222-236. All texts are published in English in the first half of the book and in Italian in the second half. PSt The story is set in a future in which climate change had create a world of migrants that lived outside the control of governments who have the ability to use CRISPR and nanotechnology to create whatever living forms they want. They story contains some trenchant comments on the present that explain that future: “You can’t have democracy when you have social media. With social media everyone gets to have their own truths. They form closed-off worlds of self-reinforcing narratives and lies. Then, we expect them to go off, and make decisions?” (62). And “If you can’t trust people to vote, you definitely can’t trust them to create” (64). Sri Lankan author. |
