"Drones"

Title"Drones"
Year for Search2015
AuthorsIngs, Simon [David](b. 1965)
Secondary AuthorsStrahan, Jonathan(b. 1964)
Secondary TitleMeeting Infinity
Pagination63-81
Date Published2015
PublisherSolaris
Place PublishedOxford, Eng.
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97.

Holding Institutions

Merril

Author Note

(b. 1965)

Full Text

2015 Ings, Simon [David] (b. 1965). “Drones.” Meeting Infinity. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2015), 63-81. Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97. Merril

A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.