"White Fungus"

Title"White Fungus"
Year for Search2009
AuthorsSterling, [Michael] Bruce(b. 1954)
Tertiary AuthorsSterling, Bruce
Secondary TitleBeyond: Scenarios and Speculations
Volume / Editionno. 1
Date PublishedApril 2009
ISBN Number9781596064041
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

The story takes place in a future in which the economy and all political systems have collapsed, and people are left to their own devices. White fungus refers to the suburbs around European cities, and the protagonist is a male architect raising his son and repurposing areas and buildings to provide food, housing, education, and all their and the community’s needs.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. at https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a; in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 377-87; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 63-74.

URLhttps://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a
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Author Note

(b. 1954)

Full Text

2009 Sterling, [Michael] Bruce (b. 1954). “White Fungus.” Beyond: Scenarios and Speculations, no. 1 (April 2009). Not found. Rpt. at https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965ain Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 377-87; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 63-74. PPiG

The story takes place in a future in which the economy and all political systems have collapsed, and people are left to their own devices. White fungus refers to the suburbs around European cities, and the protagonist is an architect raising his son and repurposing areas and buildings to provide food, housing, education, and all their and the community’s needs.