Story and Author | Tags/Hub Areas | Therapeutic Tags | Personal Rating |
The World’s a Junkheap and We’re All Visitors Here by Alexander Nachaj | Robots, spare parts, junkyard world, protection mafia, robot games, ‘a fistful of dollars’, C-3PO | Defiance, overcoming oppression, self determination, whimsy | **** |
Local Girl by Roger Topp | The city, post apocalypse, survivors, new language | Survival | ** |
The Bad Luck Local by Janna Layton | Global warming, rising sea levels, man-made islands, extinct species, dodos, cloning, crime caper story, LGBTIQ | Escapism, crime pays | *** |
The Godhunter by Evan Kennedy | Gods, religion, transmortal, addiction, deicide | Self worth, liberation, apostasy, belief, faith | ****1/2 |
Outsourced by Geoff Hart | Santa as demigod, elves, offshoring, production lines, labour/management relations, capitalism, automation, socialism, fantasy | Whimsy, co-operation, diplomacy, obligation, cultural sensitivity, economic critique | *** |
Message Failed To Send by Lenora Cole (poem) | Interstellar communication, transport hazards, disasters, Titanic, business rationalisation | Empathy, economic critique | ***1/2 |
Island Nights by Scott Hoffman | Colonialism, gilligan’s island, drug addiction, witch, precognition | Defiance, revenge, justice | ***1/2 |
The Caregiver by Kim Whysall-Hammond | Space colony, robots, colony collapse, rescue mission, robot as mother, allergen pathologies | Self sacrifice, survival, empathy, humanity, parental love, motherhood | ***** |
The Stranger In the Tower by Jonathan Edelstein | Crumbling cities, arcology, myth, exobiology, anthropology, Ursula Le Guin, coming of age | Compassion, exo-species empathy, courage, respect, climate awareness | ***** |
The Blargulon 7 Information Kiosk by Rose West | Space tourism, Douglas Adams, global warming, galactic refugees, exobiology, exo customs, immigration, communication, insects | Humour, satire, assimilation, empathy, identification | ***** |
The Slow Action Protest by Robert N Stephenson | Media manipulation and influence, robots, robot rights, Rupert Murdoch, totalitarian society, population control | Humour, media awareness, protest, bureacracy | ***1/2 |
What’s Left When Everything Else Is Gone by Andrew Grenfell | End of the world, exodus, extinction, entrance requirements | Sibling love, requiem, mourning | *** |