@booklet {11913, title = {The Key to Fear}, year = {2020}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Head of Zeus, 2020.

}, month = {2020}, pages = {313 pp.}, publisher = {Blackstone}, address = {Ashland, OR}, abstract = {

First volume of a dystopian series in which, following a pandemic, touching is forbidden and books are banned. The Key holds complete power, and the novel focus on a woman who believes all is for the best and a man who is a rebel. The second volume is The Key to Fury (2022).

}, keywords = {Female author, Japanese author, US author}, isbn = {978-1838933982 9781982548032 }, author = {Kristin Cast} } @booklet {9630, title = {Pacifica}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, publisher = {Tor Teen}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A dystopia that takes place after \“the Melt\” in which a lottery chooses people to be taken to an \“island paradise,\” which does not exist. The novel is based on the treatment of U. S. citizens of Japanese heritage, including the author\’s grandmother.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Japanese author}, author = {Kristen Simmons} } @booklet {9163, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Something to Watch Over Us{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Futuristica Volume 1}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {214-241 with a note about the author on 242}, publisher = {Megasagas Press}, address = {Green Cove Springs, FL}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future overpopulated but functioning Japan where food is produced inside buildings. Everyone is closely monitored by an electronic \“nurse\” that requires certain foods, exercise, and so forth. It is programmed to produce what is best for everyone and begins to try to make everyone happy, with mixed results.

}, keywords = {Japanese author, Male author, UK author, US author}, author = {Mike Morgan}, editor = {Chester W. Hoster and Katy Stauber (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10569, title = {Cash Crash Jubilee. Book One of the Jubilee Cycle}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Talos Press/Skyhorse}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a dystopian future Japan in which every action, such as waving, blinking, or having sex, is owned by corporations that have planted body monitors, which reports actions, in everyone so that they can be charged. In the second volume The Naked World. Book Two of the Jubilee Cycle. New York: Talos Press/Skyhorse, 2017, Japan appears to be a eutopia, completely controlled by Artificial Intelligences, but there also exists The Naked World, which is completely free of such AI\’s and where some of those who could not pay the corporations live.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Japanese author, Male author}, author = {Eli K. P. William} } @booklet {6351, title = {"Strange machine: A fair exchange?"}, howpublished = {Nature}, volume = {463.7279}, year = {2010}, month = {January 21, 2010}, pages = {392}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which girls can no longer have children but must hire a machine, for which some trade body parts.

}, keywords = {Japanese author, Male author}, author = {Taik Hobson} } @booklet {5637, title = {Never Let Me Go}, year = {2005}, note = {

Rpt. with minor revisions and illus. Kate Miller. London: The Folio Society, 2012, with an Introduction by Claire Mussud (vii-xiv). U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Faber and Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia describing a future society where children are cloned and raised to become organ donors. The story is told from the point of view of one of the clones.

}, keywords = {Japanese author, Male author, UK author}, author = {Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954)} } @booklet {5516, title = {"Panopte{\textquoteright}s Eye"}, howpublished = {So Long Been Dreaming}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, pages = {95-106}, publisher = {Arsenal Pulp Press}, address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia. Excerpt from a novel-in-process, which does not appear to have been published.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, Japanese author}, author = {Kobayashi, Tamai}, editor = {[Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) and Uppinder Mehan} } @booklet {1924, title = {A View of New World for World State}, year = {1963}, month = {1963}, publisher = {Author}, address = {Tokyo, Japan}, abstract = {

Eutopian essay with a world state developed from the United Nations. Democracy. World Law. Moral rearmament. Common property. Cooperation of capital and labor.\ 

}, keywords = {Japanese author}, author = {Issho Yasugi} } @booklet {565, title = {An Ideal World}, year = {1922}, note = {

There is no indication in the book that this is a translation, but, although no German or Japanese version has been found, it probably is.

}, month = {1922}, publisher = {Carl Heymanns Verlag}, address = {Berlin, Germany}, abstract = {

Essay presenting a eutopia. Free trade, no crime, controlled population, international language, international constitution, international banking corporation, and harmony between capital and labor. Disease prevention and environmental protection. Stress on dedication and the leadership of the few best.

}, keywords = {Japanese author, Male author}, author = {Nobuya Hamada M.C.} }