Threats known and unknown. Etgar Keret. Robert Coover. Aimee Bender. Jim
Shepard. Alissa Nutting. Charles Yu. Cory Doctorow. Randa Jarrar.
Katherine Karlin. Miracle Jones. Mark Irwin. T. Coraghessan Boyle. Dale
Peck. Bonnie Nadzam. Lucy Corin. Chika Unigwe. Footsteps in the night.
Paul Di Filippo. Lincoln Michel. Dana Johnson. Mark Chiusano. Juan Pablo
Villalobos. Chanelle Benz. Sean Bernard. Kelly Luce. Zhang Ran. Miles
Klee. Carmen Maria Machado. David Abrams. Steven Hayward. Deji Bryce
Olukotun. Alexis Landau. Bryan Hurt.
We are being watched. That this statement no longer shocks is itself
shocking. Post-Snowden, we know that the government--everywhere--has
been reading our emails, listening to our phone calls, and watching
whatever we do on the Internet. The only thing concealed is the nature
of our watchers. In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and
promising fiction writers from around the globe respond to, reflect on,
and mine for inspiration the surveillance culture in which we live. From
drone strikes to birds mistaken for spies, paintings that change when
they're not looked at to machines that let their dying users look back
and reconsider the most important decisions of their lives, these
stories take a broad and imaginative look at the state of surveillance
in our global and interconnected world. How does constant surveillance
affect us? Does it change how we behave as we seek approval or avoid
judgment from an often faceless audience? Do we know who's watching?
What does it mean to be watched? By turns political, apolitical,
cautionary, and surreal, these stories reflect on what it's like to live
in the surveillance state. Edited by Bryan Hurt.
