"Getting to Know You"

Title"Getting to Know You"
Year for Search1997
AuthorsMarusek, David(b. 1951)
Secondary AuthorsMcClelland, Stephen
Secondary TitleFuture Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications
Date Published1997
PublisherHorizon House Publications
Place PublishedLondon
ISSN Number1065-6298
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia of division between the rich and poor with immortality and cloning eliminating both jobs and pre-clone humans. Set in the same world as his 2005 Counting Heads.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 267-87 with an Editor’s note on 267; and in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 109-134. Substantially revised in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.3 (267) (March 1998): 120-141. Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 62-96 with a note on 62; and in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 255-287.

Info Notes

The book was sponsored by Nokia.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

(b. 1951)

Full Text

1998 Marusek, David (b. 1951). “Getting to Know You.” Future Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications. Ed. Stephen McClelland (London: Horizon House Publications, 1997), 247-270 with a note on 246. The book was sponsored by Nokia. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 267-87 with an Editor’s note on 267; and in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 109-134. Substantially revised in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.3 (267) (March 1998): 120-141. Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 62-96 with a note on 62; and in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 255-287. PSt

Dystopia of division between the rich and poor with immortality and cloning eliminating both jobs and pre-clone humans. Set in the same world as his 2005 Counting Heads.