"Hothouse Flowers"
| Title | "Hothouse Flowers" |
| Year for Search | 1999 |
| Authors | Resnick, Mike [Michael Diamond](1942-2020) |
| Secondary Title | Asimov’s Science Fiction |
| Volume / Edition | 23.10[-11] (285) |
| Pagination | 70-80 |
| Date Published | October/November 1999 |
| ISSN Number | 1065-6298 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | A dystopia of future care for the elderly, who are kept alive far past any time they were still even aware of their surroundings told from the viewpoint of one of the caregivers. The focus is on the extension of life with no concern for the quality of life. The story shifts to a man who is being kept alive who is still aware of his surroundings, resents being surrounded by those who no longer are, and who wants to die, which challenges the entire worldview of the protagonist. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 527-38 with an editor’s note on 526. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1942-2020) |
| Full Text | 1999 Resnick, Mike [Michael Diamond] (1942-2020). “Hothouse Flowers.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[-11] (285) (October/November 1999): 70-80. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 527-38 with an editor’s note on 526. PSt A dystopia of future care for the elderly, who are kept alive far past any time they were still even aware of their surroundings told from the viewpoint of one of the caregivers. The focus is on the extension of life with no concern for the quality of life. The story shifts to a man who is being kept alive who is still aware of his surroundings, resents being surrounded by those who no longer are, and who wants to die, which challenges the entire worldview of the protagonist. |
