Flashback

TitleFlashback
Year for Search2011
AuthorsSimmons, Dan(b. 1948)
Date Published2011
PublisherQuercus
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has collapsed, nuclear weapons have been used against Israel by a resurgent Caliphate, and there is an extreme rich/poor division. People use a drug to escape by taking them back to the past. The Japanese, who are the rich and the strongest world power, prohibit its use in Japan.

Additional Publishers

U.S. ed. Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown, 2011. An earlier story was "Flashback." Lovedeath (New York: Warner Books, 1993), 153-200. Rpt. The Year's Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 544-85.

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Author Note

(b. 1948)

Full Text

2011 Simmons, Dan (b. 1948). Flashback. London: Quercus. U.S. ed. Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown, 2011. An earlier story was “Flashback.” Lovedeath (New York: Warner Books, 1993), 153-200. Rpt. The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994): 544-85. PSt

Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has collapsed, nuclear weapons have been used against Israel by a resurgent Caliphate, and there is an extreme rich/poor division. People use a drug to escape by taking them back to the past. The Japanese, who are the rich and the strongest world power, prohibit its use in Japan.