“Broken Threads”

Title“Broken Threads”
Year for Search2023
AuthorsWabaunsee, Kevin
Secondary AuthorsWagner, Phoebe
Secondary TitleFighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales
Pagination136-153
Date Published2023
PublisherAndroid Press
Place PublishedEugene, OR
ISBN Number978-1-958121313
KeywordsMale author, Native American author
Annotation

The story is set in a future where much of the middle of America is a “toxic wasteland.” The protagonist is a woman who is used to bring connected to a network through her “head tech.” She loses that connection while traveling across the area in response to her mother’s wish that she complete her mother’s work with fungi that provide an alternative much bigger, and very different network.

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Author Note

Native American (Prairie Band Potawatomi) author.

Full Text

2023 Wabaunsee, Kevin. “Broken Threads.” Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales. Ed. Phoebe Wagner (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 136-153. PSt

The story is set in a future where much of the middle of America is a “toxic wasteland.” The protagonist is a woman who is used to bring connected to a network through her “head tech.” She loses that connection while traveling across the area in response to her mother’s wish that she complete her mother’s work with fungi that provide an alternative much bigger, and very different network. Native American (Prairie Band Potawatomi) author.