Introduction / The editors -- You have been crowdfunded / Carrie Vaughn -- Spheres and harmonies / Tim Pratt -- Failsafe / Rich Larson -- Dresses / Cadwell Turnbull -- Sakura / Karin Lowachee -- Blood relations / Adam-Troy Castro -- The shadow prisoner's dilemma / Caroline M. Yoachim -- Inheritors of the Earth / Hugh Howey -- A foreign-born heir / An Owomoyela -- Recovery / Seanan McGuire -- Human country / Dominica Phetteplace -- Blackberries / Alex Irvine -- The machine votes / Tobias S. Buckell -- The sadness & joy / Scott Sigler -- Making faces / Darcie Little Badger -- Why can't I sleep a little longer? / Violet Allen -- The law is the plan, the plan is death / Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
Summary:
"Into the darkness within; or else the light..." When Margaret Atwood wrote these words, she left open the possibility that even our darkest tales may harbor a glimmer of hope. In Or Else the Light, the third and final entry of The Dystopia Triptych, over a dozen of the best minds in science fiction conclude their stories with a descent into darkness, or perhaps a ray of light.
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