Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead by Gordon Van Gelder (Editor)
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Overview: Contributing authors: Harry Turtledove, Brian Francis Slattery, Don D’Ammassa, Ron Goulart, Richard Bowes, James Morrow, Geoff Ryman, Robert Reed, Matthew Hughes, Eileen Gunn, James Sallis, David Marusek, Michael Kandel, Barry N. Malzberg, Paul Witcover, Yoon Ha Lee, Jane Yolen, Ray Vukcevich, Ted White, Ruth Nestvold, J. M. Sidorova, J. S. Breukelaar, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Janis Ian, Jay Russell, Scott Bradfield, Heather Lindsley, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Marguerite Reed, Paul La Farge, K. G. Anderson, Elizabeth Bourne, Becca Caccavo, Stephanie Feldman, Eric James Fullilove, Leslie Howle, Thomas Kaufsek, Michael Libling, Lisa Mason, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Madeleine E. Robins, Deepak Unnikrishnan, TS Vale, Leo Vladimirsky, N. Lee Wood.
After seventeen years of editing a science fiction magazine, I’m awfully familiar with stories that offer dire predictions of the future. The post office box abounded in them—they’re one of the four or five most consistent themes I saw in story submissions.
In fact, when my friend John Joseph Adams assembled an excellent anthology of dystopian stories, Brave New Words, I was bemused to notice that twenty percent of the stories in it were tales I had published. (No wonder I consider the book to be excellent, right?) I guess I have a taste for such tales.
So, when I had lunch with John Oakes on Inauguration Day, 2017, it was not shocking that the concept for this book should arise. Perhaps the bigger surprise was that I hadn’t thought of it sooner. The atmosphere had been thick with dire predictions.
In forming this book, I deliberately sought a lot of short pieces, rather than a handful of longer ones (as in my anthology of climate change stories). There are so many alarming trends at play right now that I reckoned three dozen short considerations of them would make for a better book than ten to twelve longer ones.
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia
Contents:
Sneakers
Michael Libling
re: Your Wedding
Ruth Nestvold
Everything Is Fixed Now
K. G. Anderson
His Sweat Like Stars on the Rio Grande
Janis Ian
Agnosia
J. M. Sidorova
The Adventure of You
Paul La Farge
N. Lee Wood
Birds
Deepak Unnikrishnan
The Only Constant
Leslie Howle
The Terrific Leader
Harry Turtledove
Two Explicit and Three Oblique Apologies to My Oldest Daughter One Month Before Her Eighteenth Birthday
Heather Lindsley
The Levellers
Deji Bryce Olukotun
No Point Talking
Geoff Ryman
Glow
J.S. Breukelaar
Precaution at Penn Station
Michael Kandel
Newsletter
Jennifer Marie Brissett
Statues of Limitations
Jay Russell
Suffocation
Robert Reed
Application for Asylum
Eileen Gunn
Welcome to Triumph Band
Yoon Ha Lee
Loser
Matthew Hughes
We All Have Hearts of Gold®
Leo Vladimirsky
Notes on Retrieving a Fallen Banner
Marguerite Reed
Ticket to Ride
Eric James Fullilove
Burning Down the House
Ted White
Dangerous
Lisa Mason
Class Assignment
Thomas Kaufsek
Walls
Paul Witcover
The Passion According to Mike
Scott Bradfield
Bright Sarasota Where the Circus Lies Dying
James Sallis
The Name Unspoken
Richard Bowes
The Elites
Stephanie Feldman
January 2018
Barry N. Malzberg
Farewell
Mary Anne Mohanraj
The Amazing Transformation of the White House Dog
Ron Goulart
Handmaid’s Other Tale
Jane Yolen
Sanctuary
Brian Francis Slattery
One Fell Swoop
James Morrow
BK Girls
TS Vale
Isn’t Life Great?
Don D’Ammassa
The Men Will Be Hungry Afterwards
Ray Vukcevich
The Road South
Madeleine E. Robins and Becca Caccavo
Skippy’s Visit East
Michael Kandel
Designed for Your Safety
Elizabeth Bourne
Extreme Bedding
David Marusek
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