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Brave new worlds : dystopian stories / edited by John Joseph Adams ; cover art and design by Cody Tilson.

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.

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C9009914060 F BRA
Adult fiction   Smithfield Branch . . On Loan . 18 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9781597804547
1597804541
Title Brave new worlds : dystopian stories / edited by John Joseph Adams ; cover art and design by Cody Tilson.
Edition Second edition.
Published San Francisco, Calif. : Night Shade Books, 2012.
Physical description 525 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents note 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 / Caitlin 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 -- Editor's note on second edition material -- The cull / Robert Reed -- Personal Jesus / Jennifer Pelland -- The perfect match / Ken Liu -- Study guide and filmography / Gary K. Wolfe.
Summary 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.
Subject Short stories
Science fiction
Dystopias -- Fiction
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