"Life Sentence"

Title"Life Sentence"
Year for Search2019
AuthorsBaker, Matthew(b. 1985)
Secondary Title Lightspeed
Volume / Editionno. 105
PaginationEJournal
Date PublishedFebruary 2019
ISBN Number9781250237200 978-1328613103
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

In this future, criminals are punished by having much of their memory wiped with the story told from the point-of-view of a such a man and narrowly focused on the experiences of the man and his family.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 62-90; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 1-25, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 392. 

URLhttps://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/life-sentence/
Holding Institutions

PU, PSt

Author Note

(b. 1985)

Full Text

2019 Baker, Matthew (b. 1985). “Life Sentence.” Lightspeed, no. 105 (February 2019). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/life-sentence/ Rpt. in his Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 62-90; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 1-25, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 392. PSt, PU

In this future, criminals are punished by having much of their memory wiped with the story told from the point-of-view of a such a man and narrowly focused on the experiences of the man and his family.