Brave new worlds
By: edited by John Joseph Adams
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9781597802215
Subjects: Englisch; Dystopias; Anti-Utopie; Amerikanisches Englisch; Erza hlung; Fiction
Description: Collects short stories on civilization invading and dictating citizens lives, from authors including Shirley Jackson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Geoff Rymann.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-475).
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- John Joseph Adams; title: Lottery  -- Shirley Jackson; title: Red card  -- S.L. Gilbow; title: Ten with a flag  -- Joseph Paul Haines; title: Ones who walk away from Omelas  -- Ursula K. Le. Guin; title: Evidence of love in a case of abandonment  -- M. Rickert; title: The Funeral  -- Kate Wilhelm; title: O happy day!  -- Geoff Ryman; title: Pervert  -- Charles Coleman Finlay; title: From homogeneous to honey  -- Neil Gaiman & Bryan Talbot; title: Billennium  -- J.G. Ballard; title: Amaryllis  -- Carrie Vaughn -- Pop squad / -- Paolo Bacigalupi; title: Auspicious eggs  -- James Morrow; title: Peter Skilling  -- Alex Irvine; title: The Pedestrian  -- Ray Bradbury; title: Things that make me weak and strange get engineered away  -- Cory Doctorow; title: Pearl diver  -- Caitlin R. Kiernan; title: Dead space for the unexpected  -- Geoff Ryman; title: "Repent harlequin!", said the Ticktockman  -- Harlan Ellison; title: Is this your day to join the revolution?  -- Genevieve Valentine; title: Independence day  -- Sarah Langan; title: Lunatics  -- Kim Stanley Robinson; title: Sacrament  -- Matt Williamson; title: Minority report  -- Philip K. Dick; title: Just do it  -- Heather Lindsley; title: Harrison Bergeron  -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.; title: Caught in the organ draft  -- Robert Silverberg; title: Geriatric ward  -- Orson Scott Card; title: Arties aren't stupid  -- Jeremiah Tolbert; title: Jordan's waterhammer  -- Joe Mastroianni; title: Of a sweet slow dance in the wake of temporary dogs  -- Adam-Troy Castro; title: Resistance  -- Tobias S. Buckell; title: Civilization -- Vylar Kaftan.