"Eminence"
| Title | "Eminence" |
| Year for Search | 2017 |
| Authors | Schroeder, Karl(b. 1962) |
| Secondary Authors | Brin, [Glen] David(b. 1950), and Potts, Stephen W. |
| Tertiary Authors | Brin, David |
| Secondary Title | Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World |
| Pagination | 271-85 |
| Date Published | 2017 |
| Publisher | Tor |
| Place Published | New York |
| ISBN Number | 978-0765382580 978-1-78108-573-8 |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Male author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains “eminence” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30. |
| Holding Institutions | DLC, PSt |
| Author Note | Canadian author (b. 1962) |
| Full Text | 2017 Schroeder, Karl (b. 1962). “Eminence.” Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 271-85. Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30. DLC, PSt The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains “eminence” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money. Canadian author. |
