“Looking Back, Looking Ahead”

Title“Looking Back, Looking Ahead”
Year for Search2017
AuthorsSmith, Maverick
Secondary AuthorsTrenholm, Hayden(b. ca. 1955)
Secondary Title49th Parallels
Pagination235-49
Date Published2017
PublisherBundoran Press
Place Published[Ottawa, ON, Canada]
KeywordsCanadian author, Male author
Annotation

A future Toronto dealing with climate change through high rise gardening on what remains of its building. Much of the story gives the feel of a highly structured, perhaps even authoritarian society, but it ends with it also being a radically egalitarian society recognize the value of all people, with, for example, everyone using sign language. 

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Author Note

“Deaf, queer, Trans, disabled , non-binary, settler-Canadian” author.

Full Text

2017 Smith, Maverick. “Looking Back, Looking Ahead.” 49th Parallels. Ed. Hayden Trenholm ([Ottawa, ON, Canada]: Bundoran Press, 2017), 235-49. PSt

A future Toronto dealing with climate change through high rise gardening on what remains of its building. Much of the story gives the feel of a highly structured, perhaps even authoritarian society, but it ends with it also being a radically egalitarian society recognize the value of all people, with, for example, everyone using sign language. “Deaf, queer, Trans, disabled , non-binary, settler-Canadian” author.