Satifka, Erica L
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with "Automatic" in Clarkesworld for January 2007, set like much of her short work in a Dystopian urban Near Future populated by outlier figures, some of them modified humans, some of them artifacts. How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (coll 2021) generously represents this work. The protagonist of her first novel, Stay Crazy (2016), is a stocker in a desolate big-box superstore who – justly or unjustly under the influence of heavy medication (see Drugs) to treat high anxiety and convulsive Paranoia – begins to hear instructions delivered by a Monster from another Dimension: her illness is genuine, but so (it seems) is the threat from beyond. Busted Synapses (2020), a novella, is set in a Near Future Wheeling, West Virginia, an economically and culturally depressed region which has been designated a Zone of special uninterest by the domineering corporate universe that profits from its entrapped population, which does little but consume trash (see Advertising; Media Landscape). Throughout her work, Satifka gazes with a cold eye on the Economic costs of late capitalism in an increasingly inequitous world. [JC]
Erica L Satifka
born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
works
- Stay Crazy (Lexington, Kentucky: Apex Publications, 2016) [pb/Nickolas Brokenshire]
collections and stories
- Busted Synapses (Seattle, Washington: Broken Eye Books, 2020) [novella: pb/]
- How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Bonney Lake Washington: Fairwood Press, 2021) [coll: pb/Anders Hemlin]
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