TY - ABST T1 - “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the area that used to be Florida and the islands of the Caribbean, most of which is now under water. The protagonist is a young woman living in one of the communities on rafts that scavenge for anything useable or that can be repurposed.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 141/5/6 SN - 978-0-358-69012-2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 110-135; and in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022. Ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis (Np: Caezik SF & Fantasy in partnership with O.D. Ekpeki Presents, 2023), 51-76.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lyceum. Aiden Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author AB -

A three-part dystopia in which a company is developing a neurological educational link that will give all children access to knowledge and help in understanding it. The eutopian possibilities of the project are derailed when the teenage son of the developer is killed in an accident, and she becomes fixed on the neurolink, which had named after her son. In the second part, the man who took over its development makes it possible for the link to be shared, and it spreads throughout the population beyond schools, with some seeing the results positively and others seeing them negatively. In the third part, the developer creates an android that can access the neurolink and looks and acts as if it is human.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sun Will Always Sing” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author AB -

The story is set in a future in which humans and seimei (immortal AI who have their own language) have cooperated to mitigate the damage to Earth and plan to populate another planet with the focus on carrying out that plan told through the eyes of a seimei.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/4/18139371/karin-lowachee-sci-fi-story-video-seimei-ai-better-worlds ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waving at Trains” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Junot Díaz KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which climate change has killed most people. 

JF - Boston Review VL - Special issue on Global Dystopias U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midnight Robber Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

The planet Toussaint has been colonized from the Caribbean and replicated the positive and negative aspects of Caribbean culture. It expels its criminals to the dystopian New Half-Way Tree. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brown Girl in the Ring Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

Magic realism set in a future Toronto dystopia.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Utopia to Paradise" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Petamber Persaud KW - Guyanese author AB -

Dialect poem of Guyana as eutopia.

JF - From Utopia to Paradise PB - Petamber Persaud CY - [Campbellville, Guyana] U1 -

[The cover adds A Collection of Political Thoughts]

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TxU Benson Latin America Collection

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mad MacMullochs Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Edgar Austin] [Mittelhölzer] (1909-65) KW - English author KW - Guyanese author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set on Barbados, and while much of it concerns a love story, three of the women involved live on a plantation with white, colored, and black members living equally under a set of chosen rules.

PB - Peter Owen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. under the author’s name London: Peter Owen, 1961.

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H. Austin Woodsley [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadows Move Among Them Y1 - 1951 A1 - Edgar [Austin] Mittelhölzer (1909-65) KW - Guyanese author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is set in a religious community in British Guiana, the Brethren of Christ the Man, which can be considered a flawed utopia. The religion is open and treats Christ as a model rather than in any sense supernatural, but the treatment of the people in the community, particularly the natives, is both liberal and very cruel.

PB - Peter Nevill CY - London U5 -

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