Brave New Worlds

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'BRAVE NEW WORLDS' collects the best tales of totalitarian menace by some of today's most visionary writers, including Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kurt Konnegut, Jr., Ken Liu, Shirley Jackson, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / John Joseph Adams --
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 Homogeneous 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 Strange
and Weak Get Engineered Away' by Cory Doctorow ▪︎
Pearl Diver / Caitlin R. Kiernan --
Dead Space for the Unexpected / Geoff Ryman --
"Repent Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman ▪︎by Harlan Ellison ▪︎
'Is This Your Day to Join the Revolution?'
▪︎by Genevieve Valentine ▪︎
Independence Day / Sarah Langan --
Lunatics / Kim Stanley Robinson --
Sacrament / Matt Williamson --
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.