"Requiem"

Title"Requiem"
Year for Search2018
AuthorsSingh, Vandana(b. 1950)
Secondary AuthorsCrowther, Peter(b. 1949), and Gevers, Nick
Secondary TitleAmbiguity Machines & Other Stories
Pagination271-320
Date Published2018
PublisherSmall Beer Press
Place PublishedEasthampton, MA
ISBN Number978-1618731432 9781597809887
KeywordsFemale author, Indian author, US author
Annotation

The story is set in a future where climate change has damaged the culture of Alaskan natives, but, in which, temporarily the world responded by stopping many of the activities that were driving the changes. At the time the story takes place, the sea ice has begun to return, but already corporations are again drilling for oil. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 160-200, with an editor’s note on 160.

Info Notes

First publication

Holding Institutions

PSt, Public

Author Note

Indian female author who holds a doctorate in physics and teaches physics at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.

Full Text

2018 Singh, Vandana. “Requiem.” Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 271-320. First publication. Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 160-200, with an editor’s note on 160. PSt, Public

The story is set in a future where climate change has damaged the culture of Alaskan natives, but, in which, temporarily the world responded by stopping many of the activities that were driving the changes. At the time the story takes place, the sea ice has begun to return, but already corporations are again drilling for oil. Indian female author who holds a doctorate in physics and teaches physics at Framingham State University in Massachusetts.