Counting Heads

TitleCounting Heads
Year for Search2005
AuthorsMarusek, David(b. 1951)
Date Published2005
PublisherTor
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Flawed utopia. Overpopulated future earth which easily produces more than enough for everyone, but the ease of production has eliminated all but a few jobs. There is a planned reduction in population. See also 1999 and 2009 Marusek.

Additional Publishers

The first section, "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy" (9-46) is revised from a novella of the same title originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 19.12& 13 (237& 38) (November 1995): 48-54, 56-58, 60-97. Rpt. in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 111-80.

Author Note

(b. 1951)

Full Text

2005 Marusek, David (b. 1951). Counting Heads. New York: Tor. The first section, “We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy” (9-46) is revised from a novella of the same title originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.12&13 (237&38) (November 1995): 48-54, 56-58, 60-97; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 247-66; and in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 111-80.

Flawed utopia. Overpopulated future earth which easily produces more than enough for everyone, but the ease of production has eliminated all but a few jobs. There is a planned reduction in population. See also 1999 and 2009 Marusek.