“Down and Out in Exile Park”
| Year for Search |
2022
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| Secondary Title |
Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene
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| Author | |
| Annotation |
The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts. |
| Pagination |
27-44
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| Published Date |
2022 |
| Publisher |
The MIT Press
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| Place Published |
Cambridge, MA
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| Download citation | |
| ISBN Number |
978-0-26254-443-6
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| Keywords | |
| Full Text |
2022 Thompson, Tade. “Down and Out in Exile Park.” Illus. Sean Bodley. Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 27-44. Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 8. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books/Skyhorse Publishing, 2024), 497-514. PSt The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts. The author, who is a psychiatrist, was born in England of Yoruba parentage, grew up in Nigeria, and now lives in England. |
| Additional Publishers |
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 8. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books/Skyhorse Publishing, 2024), 497-514. |
| Illustration |
Illus. Sean Bodley |
| Holding Institutions |
PSt |
| Author Note |
The author, who is a psychiatrist, was born in England of Yoruba parentage, grew up in Nigeria, and now lives in England. |