"Busy"
| Title | "Busy" |
| Year for Search | 2022 |
| Authors | El Akkad, Omar(b. 1982) |
| Secondary Title | Terraform |
| Date Published | August 15, 2022 |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Egyptian author, Male author, Qatari author, US author |
| Annotation | The story is set after the economic collapse. The only work is make work in what are called entropy mills, repurposed malls, where people generate random numbers. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 11-16. |
| URL | https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d39ka/busy-terraform-science-fiction |
| Illustration | Illus. Rebekka Dunlap |
| Holding Institutions | InU |
| Author Note | The author was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, lived in Canada from sixteen until recently, and currently lives in the U.S. |
| Full Text | 2022 El Akkad, Omar (b. 1982). “Busy.” Illus. Rebekka Dunlap. Terraform (August 15, 2022). https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d39ka/busy-terraform-science-fiction. Rpt. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 11-16. InU The story is set after the economic collapse. The only work is make work in what are called entropy mills, repurposed malls, where people generate random numbers. The author was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, lived in Canada from sixteen until recently, and currently lives in the U.S. |
