"The Future Is Blue"

Title"The Future Is Blue"
Year for Search2016
AuthorsValente, Catherynne M[organ](b. 1979)
Secondary TitleDrowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond
Pagination353-81
Date Published2016
PublisherSolaris
Place PublishedOxford, Eng
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Climate change dystopia in which so few children survive their first years that they do not get a name until they are ten. The story is continued in her The Past Is Red (2021).

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 167-197; in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 489-511; and in her The Future Is Blue (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2018), 7-28.

Holding Institutions

PSt, Public

Author Note

The female author (b. 1979) was born Bethany L. Thomas and also publishes under that name.

Full Text

2016 Valente, Catherynne M[organ] (b. 1979). “The Future Is Blue.” Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 353-381. Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 167-197; in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 489-511; and in her The Future Is Blue (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2018), 7-28. PSt, Public

Climate change dystopia in which so few children survive their first years that they do not get a name until they are ten. The story is continued in her The Past Is Red (2021). The female author was born Bethany L. Thomas and also publishes under that name.