
Is This Your Day to Join the Revolution? - Genevieve Valentine.“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman - Harlan Ellison ®.Dead Space for the Unexpected - Geoff Ryman.The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away - Cory Doctorow.
From Homogenous to Honey - Neil Gaiman & Bryan Talbot. Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment - M. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula K. Here’s the table of contents for my forthcoming dystopian anthology, Brave New Worlds, which comes out in January. Science Fiction Weekly tracked down these Katrina survivors and asked them to relate their experiences and to speculate on their beloved city’s future. Three members of our community in particular witnessed Katrina’s impact first-hand, these being: long-time New Orleans residents Poppy Z. Just as Hurricane Katrina affected America as a whole, so did it affect the science fiction community. And when Katrina’s storm surge caused the 17th Street Canal levee to break, flood waters overwhelmed the city, ensuring that the city, and it’s residents, will never be the same. It was a hurricane so destructive, and one that has made such an impact on America’s social consciousness, that it’s under consideration by Time Magazine to be deemed its “Person of the Year” (a distinction once given to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin). Rickert, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and many others.In late August 2005, a Category 5 hurricane called Katrina struck New Orleans, causing over thirteen hundred deaths, and over $100 billion dollars in damages. This landmark tome contains stories by Ursula K. Brave New Worlds brings together the best dystopian fiction of the last 30 years, demonstrating the diversity that flourishes in this compelling subgenre.
įrom Huxley's Brave New World, to Orwell's 1984, to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian books have always been an integral part of both science fiction and literature, and have influenced the broader culture discussion in unique and permanent ways. Rickert, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card. From Huxley's Brave New World, to Orwell's 1984, to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, dystopian books have always been an integral part of both science fiction and literature, and have influenced the broader culture discussion in unique and permanent ways.