“The Propagator”

Title“The Propagator”
Year for Search2019
AuthorsKern, Simone
Secondary TitleMetamorphosis
Date PublishedAugust 23, 2019
ISBN Number978-1-64076-006-6
KeywordsGenderqueer author, US author
Annotation

The story is set in a future Texas which is badly polluted, and almost all good soil is owned and strictly controlled by a single corporation. The protagonist is using stolen good soil to grow crops illegally. A second focus of the story is the extreme restrictions on whatever Texas has called a reproduction crime and the harsh punishments imposed on anyone deemed to have committed such a crime.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2020), 75-97; and in their Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2022), 43-62, which is published as by Sim Kern.

URLhttps://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2019/The-Propagator-Simone-Kern/
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Author Note

Genderqueer author who uses the pronouns they/their

Full Text

2019 Kern, Simone. “The Propagator.” Metamorphosis (August 23, 2019). https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2019/The-Propagator-Simone-Kern/ Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2020), 75-97; and in their Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2022), 43-62, which is published as by Sim Kern. PSt

The story is set in a future Texas which is badly polluted, and almost all good soil is owned and strictly controlled by a single corporation. The protagonist is using stolen good soil to grow crops illegally. A second focus of the story is the extreme restrictions on whatever Texas has called a reproduction crime and the harsh punishments imposed on anyone deemed to have committed such a crime. Genderqueer author who uses the pronouns they/their.