Tag: Global Dystopias

Articles tagged with global-dystopias

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Theo Costantino

Meniscus

“'I felt no hunger but the habit of food struck me intensely. My nightgown was grubby and torn. My limbs were scraped, spotted with yellow bruises, but I felt no pain.” Short Story

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Mike McClelland

What Used to Be Caracas

Years after an extinction event nearly wiped out humanity, a team of scientists search Venezuela for signs of life and evidence of what caused the tragedy. Short Story

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Maria Dahvana Headley

Memoirs of an Imaginary Country

In a lost tale of Casanova, the citizens of a country at the center of the Earth must give up their home—and their women—to colonizers. Short Story

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Sumudu Samarawickrama

Adora

An aging AI researcher, alone with her robot companion, must make a difficult decision when the android begins to malfunction. Short Story

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Maureen F. McHugh

Cannibal Acts

In the aftermath of a flu pandemic that kills most of the population, a survivor, barricaded in Alaska, remembers her life while contemplating a grisly choice. Short Story

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JR Fenn

Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body

Once I learned of the existence of mothers, I decided to order one for myself.

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Tananarive Due

The Reformatory

Stories are dangerous. They can get you killed.

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Mark Bould

Dulltopia

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

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Henry Farrell

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

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China Miéville

A Strategy for Ruination

An interview with China Miéville.

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