"Targets"
| Title | "Targets" |
| Year for Search | 2017 |
| Authors | Brown, Eric(1960-2023) |
| Secondary Title | Shoreline of Infinity |
| Volume / Edition | no. 8 |
| Pagination | 78-85 |
| Date Published | May 2017 |
| ISSN Number | 2059-2590 |
| Keywords | English author, Male author, Scottish author |
| Annotation | Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs. The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 201-205; and in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 47-52. |
| Illustration | Illus. Jessica Good |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author (1960-2023) was born in England and lives in Scotland |
| Full Text | 2017 Brown, Eric (1960-2023). “Targets.” Illus. Jessica Good. Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8 (May 2017): 78-85. Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 201-205; and in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 47-52. PSt Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs. The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen. The author was born in England and lives in Scotland. |
