Synopsis
Day after tomorrow, the UK is "going to rack and ruin" due to politicians' ineptness, well-deserved enmity of the EU but most of all, mass emigration by a wormhole to another world, whose inventor declared disquietingly draconic rules to prevent repetition of Earth's faults. A divorced mother has to make a hard choice...
Notes
In the Manhattan in Reverse introduction, Hamilton notes "I also took the opportunity to revise 'Footvote', bringing it slightly more up to date": The original opens with the date 2003 and "It was the day Tony Blair was due to give evidence to the Hutton enquiry", the revision has 2010, Gordon Brown and "to appear before the Iraq Enquiry again."
Many online retailers of the standalone story share erroneous description "Taken from [...] collection Manhattan in Reverse, Footvote is a thrilling short story featuring Paulo Myo of the Commonwealth Saga." While that also opens with discovery of wormhole transportation, the continuity is completely different; Myo appears in the title novella, "written exclusively for this collection."
Publications (19)
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Postscripts, #1 Spring | PS Publishing | MAGAZINE | 155 |
| 2004 | Postscripts, Spring 2004 | PS Publishing | MAGAZINE | 155 |
| July 2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | St. Martin's Griffin / SFBC | Anthology | 688 |
| July 2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | St. Martin's Griffin | Anthology | 552 |
| July 2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | St. Martin's Griffin | Anthology | 552 |
| July 2005 | The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection | St. Martin's Griffin | Anthology | |
| September 2005 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection | Robinson | Anthology | |
| March 2008 | The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF | Robinson | Anthology | 745 |
| March 2008 | The Mammoth Book of The Best of The Best New SF | Robinson | Anthology | |745 |
| 2009 | Postscripts Sampler | PS Publishing | Anthology | 37 |
| September 2011 | Footvote | Tor UK | Chapbook | |
| October 2011 | Manhattan in Reverse | Macmillan UK | Collection | 86 |
| October 2011 | Manhattan in Reverse | Macmillan UK | Collection | 86 |
| October 2011 | Manhattan in Reverse | Tor UK | Collection | |3 |
| February 2012 | Manhattan in Reverse | Del Rey / Ballantine | Collection | |
| March 2012 | The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 18th Annual Collection | Robinson | Anthology | |552 |
| May 2012 | Manhattan in Reverse | Pan Books | Collection | 86 |
| August 2012 | Manhattan in Reverse | Subterranean Press | Collection | 97 |
| July 2019 | Manhattan in Reverse | Pan Books | Collection |