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). When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state.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.

Will you fight the system, or be ground to dust beneath the boot of tyranny? When the government wields its power against its own people, every citizen becomes an enemy of the state. 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, and Ursula K. What happens when civilization invades and dictates every aspect of your life? From 1984 to The Handmaid's Tale, from Children of Men to Bioshock, the dystopian imagination has been a vital and gripping cautionary force. Welcome to the world of the dystopia, a world of government and society gone horribly, nightmarishly wrong. 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. Productivity has never been higher, the media blares, and the army is ever triumphant. You are alone among thousands, among great crowds of the brainwashed, the well-behaved, the loyal. 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. Your every movement is being tracked, your every word recorded.

Brave New Worlds by John Joseph Adams