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Overview: YOU ARE BEING WATCHED. Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded. Your spouse may be an informer, your children may be listening at your door, your best friend may be a member of the secret police. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. One wrong move, one slip-up, and you may find yourself disappeared — swallowed up by a monstrous bureaucracy, vanished into a shadowy labyrinth of interrogation chambers, show trials, and secret prisons from which no one ever escapes.
Welcome to the world of the dystopia, a world of government and society gone horribly, nightmarishly wrong.
In his smash-hit anthologies Wastelands and The Living Dead, acclaimed editor John Joseph Adams showed you what happens when society is utterly wiped away. Now he brings you a glimpse into an equally terrifying future — what happens when civilization invades and dictates every aspect of your life? From 1984 to The Handmaid’s Tale, from Children of Men to Bioshock, the dystopian imagination has been a vital and gripping cautionary force. Brave New Worlds collects 33 of the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today’s most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny?
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Stories and Authors:
The Lottery — Shirley Jackson
Red Card — S. L. Gilbow
Ten With a Flag — Joseph Paul Haines
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas — Ursula K. Le Guin
Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment — M. Rickert
The Funeral — Kate Wilhelm
O Happy Day! — Geoff Ryman
Pervert — Charles Coleman Finlay
From Homogenous to Honey — Neil Gaiman & Bryan Talbot
Billennium — J. G. Ballard
Amaryllis — Carrie Vaughn
Pop Squad — Paolo Bacigalupi
Auspicious Eggs — James Morrow
Peter Skilling — Alex Irvine
The Pedestrian — Ray Bradbury
The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away — Cory Doctorow
The Pearl Diver — Caitlín R. Kiernan
Dead Space for the Unexpected — Geoff Ryman
“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman — Harlan Ellison®
Is This Your Day to Join the Revolution? — Genevieve Valentine
Independence Day — Sarah Langan
The Lunatics — Kim Stanley Robinson
Sacrament — Matt Williamson
The Minority Report — Philip K. Dick
Just Do It — Heather Lindsley
Harrison Bergeron — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Caught in the Organ Draft — Robert Silverberg
Geriatric Ward — Orson Scott Card
Arties Aren’t Stupid — Jeremiah Tolbert
Jordan’s Waterhammer — Joe Mastroianni
Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs — Adam-Troy Castro
Resistance — Tobias S. Buckell
Civilization — Vylar Kaftan
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