“Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene”

Year for Search
2023
Secondary Title
Asimov’s Science Fiction
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The story is set after a catastrophe caused by crashes among the thousands of objects in orbit, some of which fell to earth causing widespread damage. It takes place mostly in the Thames estuary where many people have settled and established a functioning community, not eutopian but mitigating the dystopia.

Volume / Edition
47.3 & 4 (606 & 607)
Pagination
152-197
Published Date

March/April 2023

ISSN Number
1065-6298
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2023 McAuley, Paul [James] (b. 1955). “Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 47.3 & 4 (606 & 607) (March/April 2023): 152-197. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth 2. Ed. Allan Kaster (Barker, TX: Infinivox, 2024), 193-260. PSt

The story is set after a catastrophe caused by crashes among the thousands of objects in orbit, some of which fell to earth causing widespread damage. It takes place mostly in the Thames estuary where many people have settled and established a functioning community, not eutopian but mitigating the dystopia.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth 2. Ed. Allan Kaster (Barker, TX: Infinivox, 2024), 193-260. 

Author Note

(b. 1955)

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