"Zero Bar"
| Title | "Zero Bar" |
| Year for Search | 2012 |
| Authors | Greene, Tom |
| Secondary Title | Strange Horizons |
| Date Published | August 6, 2012 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The story is set in a near-future that continues to be racist but where it is possible to adjust a fetus’s genes to ensure that the baby will be white. It focuses on a young woman whose genes had been adjusted deciding what to do when she is pregnant. A Zero Bar is a candy bar that is white on the outside and black inside. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 41-54. |
| URL | http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/zero-bar/ |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | The author self-identifies as biracial Anglo/Latino |
| Full Text | 2012 Greene, Tom. “Zero Bar.” Strange Horizons (August 6, 2012). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/zero-bar/ Rpt. in How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 41-54. PSt The story is set in a near-future that continues to be racist but where it is possible to adjust a fetus’s genes to ensure that the baby will be white. It focuses on a young woman whose genes had been adjusted deciding what to do when she is pregnant. A Zero Bar is a candy bar that is white on the outside and black inside. The author self-identifies as biracial Anglo/Latino. |
