“The Shadow Prison Experiment. Shadow Prisons: Part I”

2020 Yoachim, Caroline M[ariko]. “The Shadow Prison Experiment. Shadow Prisons: Part I.” Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 91-105; rpt. in Lightspeed, no. 123 (August 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prison-experiment/ Followed by “Shadow Prisons of the Mind. Shadow Prisons: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 93-109; rpt. in :Lightspeed, no. 125 (September 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shadow-prisons-of-the-mind/ Followed by “The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma. Shadow Prisons: Part III.” Or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 101-16; rpt. in Lightspeed, no. 125 (October 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prisoners-dilemma/ PSt US

Three-part dystopia in which a everyone has an implant that regulates everything they see and the corporation that controls it develops a technology that replaces prisons by taking a person offline so that no one can see who it is. The Shades, as they are called, state popping up everywhere as more and more “crimes” warrant temporary or permanent exclusion. In the first story, the protagonist, who is in a single-sex marriage and has a transgender child, is given a permanent sentence. The second story is a decade or so later, and she is trying to survive, and her partner divorced her and has re-married, and she sometimes meets with her child, now a marred adult. In the third story, the corporation she is a leader in a revolution against the Shadow Prisons. Female author.