Security Check

Title: Security Check
Author: Han Song
Translator: Ken Liu
Publication: Clarkesworld Magazine
Publication Date: August 2015
Description, by Lois Tilton [Locus]: "This one starts in a familiar dystopian future New York when freedoms have been sacrificed for the illusion of safety. In order to eliminate all possible threats, all people are forced to pass through daily security checks in which their possessions are supposedly scanned—but in fact, replaced with fabricated copies. Yearning to live in freedom with the wife he loves, our narrator Louis is turned in to the authorities by her. After his release from prison, he emigrates to China [people are free to leave America, just not to enter], where he gains a different perspective from which reality starts to look very weird indeed."
Category:Best Short Story