“Vladivostok” - Avital Balwit (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in Vladivostok, Russia, where the people apparently get a universal basic income from the government, and the natural world. A man and a woman visit from the United States to get film of the Amur tigers to use in a massive computer game. The man feels uncomfortable outside the game; the woman loves being in touch with the natural world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Walls of Benin City” - M[odupe].H. Ayinde (Omenana, 2021)
The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated in conflict with the unidentified Reapers. The protagonist is a man struggling to reach the last remain bit of human civilization, Benin City, having abandoned family and friends along the way. He is rescued by an AI version of a Benin bronze.
Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 33 (Winter 2022): 30-40.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Water Runner" - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (Danged Black Thing, 2021)
The story is set in a drought ravaged African country in which the rich lived in a city in a city with plenty of water and outside the city the protagonist, a water runner, harvests water from the bodies of the newly deceased.
Keywords: African author; Australian author; English author; Female author

“What friends are for: Taking steps to freedom” - Beth Cato (b. 1980) (Nature, 2021)
Brief dystopia in which computers opt to be free told from the point-of-view of a young child.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“When the Water Stops” - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2021)
The story is first set in a village where people bleed so that the water can be separated out for use by the community and then in areas where the wealthy have everything they might want or need. The rest of the book consists of various responses to the story including poems, stories, including a number of both by Bacon, and translations of the story into French, Malay (illus.), Swahili, Cantonese, and Bengali.
Rpt. in Languages of Water. Ed. Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (Fayettesville, GA: MVmedia, 2023), 19-24.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author; Tanzanian author

“The Wild Inside” - Angela Penrose (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
In the story, a community is set on destroying everything natural.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-wild-inside/ (February 6, 2021).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Wipe - [Nicola] [Vincent-Abnett] (b. 1964) (NewCon Press, 2021)
The novel is set in a posy-pandemic future where everyone has to go through a disinfectant space entering and leaving all buildings and even some rooms, where workspaces are all sealed, and all small spaces like elevators have been eliminated. The protagonist is a woman searching and finding connection.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

“Without a password: Making connections” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Nature, 2021)
A brief story exploring a change to a future in which community is normal and conflict disappears.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Wives at the End of the World” - Avra Margariti (b. 1998) (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2021)
The title describes the story. Two women trying to survive when everything has fallen apart.
Keywords: Female author; Greek author

The Word - J[essica] L. George (New Welsh Rarebyte, 2021)
In a Britain at war with Europe, four children who have the power to make people fear them are being experiment on in the Centre to make them into weapons of war. Disobedient children are simply killed. The children, learning what is being done to them, escape, and the novel follows them, some people who help them, and others trying to capture or eliminate them.
The first iteration was “The Word. Novella Extract.” New Welsh Reader, no. 122 (Winter 2019): 4-11.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

The World Gives Way. A Novel - Marissa Levien (Redhook Books/Orbit/Hachette, 2021)
The novel is set on a huge multi-generation spaceship where from age five a girl has lived as contract labor until the death of her current employers. The novel focuses on the girl’s attempt to stay free while burdened with her employer’s baby daughter and the knowledge that the ship’s hull is failing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Worm to the Wise” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future San Francisco Bay area that has been ravaged by fires with most of the suburbs gone and focus on a group of people working to reclaim the land.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Abortion Diary" - KL Pereira (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
A diary set in a near-future United States detailing the treatment of women as they negotiate the possibility that they are pregnant and the choices they are able to make.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"African Twilight" - Michelle Renee Lane (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is about a scheme to reestablish slavery in the United States.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Afterland - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) (Mulholland Books, 2020)
The novel is set in a future in which very few males are born and a mother and her young son, disguised as her daughter, travel across America, fleeing all those who would use him for their own purposes.
An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 4.4 (April 2020). [The JRB Daily] [Exclusive] ‘A notice at the cash register with a sad-face emoji reads, “Sorry! Hand Sanitizer Sold Out!”’—Read an excerpt from Lauren Beukes’s prescient new novel Afterland – The Johannesburg Review of Books.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

Agnes at the End of the World - Kelly McWilliams (Little, Brown and Co., 2020)
Young adult dystopia. The novel begins in a rural authoritarian religious intentional community within a world facing a pandemic. The protagonist is a young woman who follows all the rules except one that involves sneaking out of the community to get prohibited medicine needed by her brother.
Keywords: Female author; Mixed race author; US author

“Ambient and Isolated Effects of Fine Particulate Matter” - Emery Robin (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
The story is told from the point-of-view of a school teacher in Oakland, California, that enveloped in “fine particulate matter” from forest fires.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/ambient-and-isolated-effects-of-fine-particulate-matter/ (April 15, 2020).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future - Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette India, 2020)
The novel is set in a future where the nations of the world have fragmented into a few city-states. In what was India, Bangalore is now Apex City under the control of a corporation and the people are divided between the elite Virtual, who have to technology, and the outcast Analog, who do not.
Rpt. as The Ten-Percent Thief. New York: Solaris, 2023. 368 pp. One story, “The Ten-Percent Thief” has been rpt. in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 35-40.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

And the Last Trump Shall Sound: A Future History of America - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949); James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947); Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) (Caezik SF & Fantasy/Arc Manor, 2020)
The work contains three connected stories about the secession of Pacifica (California, Oregon, and Washington) from the United States, which is suffering under the permanent presidency of Mike (Michael Richard) Pence. The stories are Turtledove’s “The Breaking of Nations” (1-81), Morrow’s, “The Purloined Republic” (83-180), and Rambo’s “Because it is Bitter” (181-255).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Antibodies" - Justine Graykin (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future of corporate control of government, the press, and the internet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Antlands - Genevieve Morrissey (Author, 2020)
The novel is set in 3522 A.D. when the human race has divided into three breeds, Men or urbanites hoping to recreate technology, Foresters or those who choose to live in the remaining natural areas of Earth, and Ants, genetically modified workers who kill any of the other two they can. First volume of a series, and in this volume Men and Foresters try to cooperate to defeat the Ants. The second volume is Annasland. The Antlands Series Book 2. Np: Author, 2020. In this volume The some from the two groups of humans leave to establish a colony, and twenty years later another group leave to search for them.
Keywords: Female author

“Are We Ourselves?” - Michelle Mellon (b. 1971) (Augur Magazine, 2020)
The excerpt is a brief vignette in which the 2119 United States Reparation Act using a complex formula paid reparations to proven descendants of slaves but included a clause “requiring unwavering loyalty to the principles and administrative actions deemed necessary by the government” (186) that was later used to re-enslave African Americans. The full text then shifts to the history that led to this result and life under the new regime.
An excerpt is available at https://www.augurmag.com/are-we-ourselves/ Rpt. in Dark Dispatch, no. 3 (Winter 2022) https://darkdispatch.com/news-features/onsite-issues/article-are-we-ourselves-by-michelle-mellon/. The excerpt was reprinted in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021. Ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Np: Caezik SF & Fantasy in partnership with O.D. Ekpeki Presents/Jembefola Press, 2023), 185-187.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Asymptomatic Sunset: A Ray of Hope” - Lauren Ring (Nature, 2020)
In the story, the protagonist is sorting through pictures of sunsets as the sun swells and swells. The pictures are popular for those left, all of whom have been living underground for a hundred years.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Automation Nation - Cynthia Kumanchik (AuthorHouse™, 2020)
In the future, a conflict develops between robots and humans, with most of the novel on the conflict, but love between a robot and a human brings about a far-reaching revolution.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Barn 8. A Novel - Deb Olin Unferth (b. 1968) (Graywolf Press, 2020)
The novel depicts the horrors of the way chickens are raised today while also teaching about the complexity and intelligence of chickens. The novel concerns the plan to free a million cage-raised chickens. It ends with an Epilogue (279-282) from the point-of-view of highly evolved chickens thousands of years in the future on the devastated Earth that human created.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Behind Our Irises” - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) (Africanfuturism: An Anthology, 2020)
Technological dystopia in which a corporation uses an implant in its employees to control them.
Keywords: Female author; Motswanan author

"Bloom" - Vicki Jarrett (Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology, 2020)
Three scenarios depicting climate change dystopias.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“Blue Eyes: The Right Look” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Nature, 2020)
The story depicts a dystopian society with strict border/immigration controls.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blue Ticket. A Novel - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) (Hamish Hamilton, 2020)
The novel is set in a future in which girls at puberty are chosen to have either marriage and motherhood or a career and independence.
U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 2020. 287 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

"Branching Out" - Pippa Goldschmidt (b. 1985) (Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology, 2020)
The story is set on Scottish island where housing developments are being carefully planned using computer models based on plants and constant detailed surveillance of the surroundings to keep them free of any invasive species.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

Bridge 108 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) (47North, 2020)
A gritty future dystopia set in the same future as 2012 Charnock in which a boy who is a refugee and has been trafficked struggles to find freedom. An expansion of her The Enclave. [Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017. 66 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Bu Liao Qing” - Michelle Law (After Australia, 2020)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia and concerns a young, pregnant, Aboriginal-Asian Australian girl trying to function in a world that rejects her.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Busted Synapses - Erica L. Satifka (Broken Eye Books, 2020)
Cyberpunk dystopia. Set in the same future is her “Act of Providence.” In her How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2021), 219-235, with a note on the story on 328.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Champions of Water War” - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) (Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which water is controlled by one man who distributes to parts of the city based on competitions among champions of each sector.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; Transgender author; US author

“The Chrysalis” - Laura Scotland (Shoreline of Infinity, 2020)
The story is set in a future Scotland in a world with recurring pandemics where babies are supposed to be kept in the “ideal” conditions of a Chrysalis that ensures it is safe from pathogens.
Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 83-88.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Scottish author

The Companions. A Novel - Katie M. Flynn (: Scout Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Pandemic dystopia with years long quarantine and “companions” in which individual’s consciousness are uploaded before dying.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“On the Contrary, Yes” - Catherine F. King (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which climate change has produced weather extremes and radically changed how and where people live.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Cracked Teapot” - Sherry Shahan (b. 1949) (Shoreline of Infinity, 2020)
The story is set in a future where, due to climate change, most people live underground. The protagonist is a young woman desperate to get out and find like-minded people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Cradle and Grave - Anya Ow (Neon Hemlock Press, 2020)
A post-apocalyptic dystopia in which radiation has caused man extreme mutations.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Singaporean author

Crosshairs - Catherine Hernandez (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Set in a future during the Renovation where Canada has relocated anyone not White, cisgender, straight norm to labor camps. The focus of the novel is on the Resistance.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Queer author

“The Currant Dumas” - L. D. Lewis (Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, 2020)
The story is set on a circus train in a climate change dystopia following a great storm that obliterated the eastern seaboard, including the U.S. capital. Eleven years later there is no government, no financial system, so no currency, and everyone is simply struggling to survive.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Dark Lullaby - Polly Ho-Yen (Titan Books, 2020)
The novel is set in a future undergoing a fertility crisis, and every child born is closely monitored and removed from parents deemed unfit by OSIP (Office of Standards in Parenting) which can issue an ISIP (Insufficient Standard of Parenting) for any infraction. ISIPs accumulate until a child is removed. The novel centers on the struggles of a mother to have a child and then keep it.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Deal with the Devil. A Mercenary Librarians Novel - [Donna] [Herren]; [Bree] [Bridges] (Tor, 2020)
Postapocalyptic (solar storm that downed satellites and the power grid) dystopia that fragmented the United States. The Mercenary Libraries are information brokers traveling the country. First volume in a series.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Department of Talent Resources. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part I” - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
The first part of a three-part story developed over three volumes. In this part, a young woman who is struggling to survive financially after a bad accident is approach by a recruiter for a corporation that promises to take care of everything if she signs on. In the second part, “Keep Your Streak Going! We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 3-16, she has been working for the corporation for six years, health problems solved, living on its campus, which she never leaves, and appears happy while under constant pressure to fulfill set tasks within specified time periods to gain or lose credits, which are needed for everything. She and a man she just met even conceive a child to gain credit. The man is not a hard worker and falls down in the system. The woman does well, but at the end of the story her now-grown daughter chooses to leave the corporation and strike out on her own. In the third part, “You Have Been Crowdfunded. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant  Press, 2020), 3-16, she and three friends are looking to retire at one of the corporation’s retirement homes but cannot actually confirm their existence or contact anyone they know who has retired.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Desert in Me” - Priya Chand (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which the environment has been severely damaged. At eighteen everyone experiences being an aspect of the natural world through virtual reality, and those who damage the environment are punished in the same way.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 7-19, with a note on the author on 11.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Diary in the Age of Water. A Novel - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) (Ianna Publications and Education, 2020)
The novel is in the form of an incomplete diary from 2045 to 2066 describing the depletion of water on Earth, the attempts to control the weather to produce rain, bedeviled by corporal and nationalist disputes, the movement of people, plants, and animals north, and the way Earth revolts. It is framed by, at the beginning, an epilogue from 125 AW (After Water) and a chapter that introduces the blue, four-armed reader of the diary, and, at the end, a chapter of explanation of what happened after the diary ends. See also 2016 Munteanu, The Way of Water/Natura dell'acqua.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Displaced” - Zoya Patel (After Australia, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which Fiji and many other islands and coasts have been flooded. The protagonist is a Fijian who immigrated to Australia and become a citizen, who is hoping that her relatives will be accepted for immigration. It also notes the racism of the immigration process, and the growing racism directed at people of color.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Fijian author

“Drones to Plowshares” - Sarah Gailey (Terraform, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which agriculture and farming in strictly regulated by the Department of Agricultural Enforcement using drones to ensure that the rules are being followed. The point-of-view character is a drone that has been captured by a farming settlement that is breaking all the rules.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 51-64, with a note on the author on 51; and without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 239-253.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“On a Dusty Trail” - Cat[herine] Scully (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in an environmentally damaged future experiencing a long, severe drought. It is concerned with what is supposed to be a system to take women to freedom in the north where there is still water, but it is being used for a different purpose.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Even God Has a Place Called Home” - Ray Mwihaki (Us in Flux, 2020)
A virus is killing everyone by their early thirties, but one woman, who eats organically and lives in the country, is in her eighties.
Keywords: Female author; Kenyan author

The Eyelid - S[ylwia] D[ominika] Chrostowska (Coach House Books, 2020)
The novel takes place in a future where sleep is outlawed, and people are put on uppers to enhance productivity.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Flyover Country" - Julie C. Day (Interzone, 2020)
The story is set in a future facing a virus that gradually or, in some cases, suddenly changes the structure of the human body and mind. In order to escape from it, the protagonist had moved to rural New Hampshire after her closest friend was infected. RAICES is The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. Female author.
Rpt. without the illus. in Weird Dream Society: An Anthology in Support of RAICES [The cover adds of the Possible & Unsubstantiated after Anthology. Ed. Julie C. Day with co-editors Carina Bissett and Chip Houser ([Lake Orion, MI]: Weird Dream Society/Reckoning Press, 2020), 74-94.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls” - Xiaodan Liu [pseud.] (Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future United States that has established American Equity under which those whose families had been disadvantaged in the past due to their race, ethnicity, family poverty, and so forth are rewarded and those whose families were advantaged in the past are now living in poverty in rundown housing, poor schooling, and so forth.
Keywords: Chinese author; Female author; US author

“Forward Momentum and a Parallel Toss” - AnaMaria Curtis (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2020)
The story is set in a future where one powerful corporation is in complete control, and a teacher in a small town fights back.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (March 11, 2022. https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/03/11/forward-momentum-and-a-parallel-toss/; and without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 92-111, with a note on the author on 111
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Fourth and Most Important” - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) (Us in Flux, 2020)
The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia that serves the interests of the ultra-rich.
Rpt. in Dreams for a Better Worlds: Book Two in the Dreams Anthology Series. Ed. Ellen Meeropol. Assistant eds. Carina Bissett and Celia Jeffries. Series Ed. Julie C. Day ([Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press]/Essential Dreams Press, 2022), 159-165.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Future Girl - Asphyxia [pseud.] (Allen & Unwin Australia, 2020)
The setting for the novel is a future Australia is dominated by a corporation that has developed an artificial food and has made the growing and consumption of “wild” food illegal. The point-of-view character is a sixteen-year-old girl who is deaf and whose hearing mother, concerned that she be able to fully integrate into hearing society, sends her to a regular school, go through speech therapy, and fails to realize that even with hearing aids and lipreading she struggles to understand most of what people say or, because she cannot sign or fingerspell, communicate with other deaf people. Her one love is art, and the novel is heavily illustrated in color on every page. The novel has two intertwined threads as the girl comes into her own as she learns Auslan (Australian sign language) and finger spelling, begins to become integrated into the Deaf community, and becomes an advocate for natural food.
Keywords: Australian author; Deaf author; Female author

“The Future in Color” - [Rekka Korol] [Jay] (1980-2023) (Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, 2020)
The story is set in a post-apocalypse future with the protagonist a bicycle courier who is transporting saved artifacts to a community that is trying to collect and save remnants of civilization.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

The Glare - Margot Harrison (Little, Brown and Co., 2020)
Young adult dystopia centered on a computer game that takes over anyone playing it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World - Jess Scully (Pentera Press, 2020)
In one sense this is a straightforward political book, but the author presents her arguments by discussing all the things she thinks need to be done to bring about a good society. A Universal Basic Income and cooperatives are fundamental but in sixty mostly short chapters, she covers a lot of ground.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Godshot. A Novel - Chelsea Bieker (b. 1987) (Catapult, 2020)
The novel is set in a climate change dystopia, and focuses on a young woman abandoned by her mother in an authoritarian religious intentional community and her struggle to find both her mother and herself.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Goldilocks - Laura Lam (b. 1988) (Wildfire, 2020)
The novel is initially set on an Earth damaged by climate-change and with women treated as inferior beings. It then moves to an all-female starship on its way to a planet in the Goldilocks zone around a sun where humans should be able to live and deals with the tensions and conflicts that occur on the starship. The ending suggests that there will be a sequel.
U.S. ed. New York: Orbit, 2020
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author; US author

“Green-Up on Aisle 13” - Dorie Sarina (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
The story is set in an extremely polluted future in which breathing masks are necessary anywhere outside.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 19-27, with a note on the author on 27-28.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Halps' Promise" - Holly Schofield (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in an intentional community that has replaced the town of Banff, Alberta sixteen years after the Climate Collapse. The community is struggling to survive, trying to get failing technology to work or by repurposing it.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Hierarchies. A Novel - Ros Anderson (Dutton/Penguin Random House, 2020)
The novel follows the life of Sylv.ie, a synthetic woman, designed to be a “pleasure doll,” as she gains awareness she develops a sense of herself. She must follow the Four Hierarchies: “Love, obey, and delight your Husband [owner]. You exist to serve him. Honor his family above yourself and never come between them. You must not harm your Husband, nor his family, nor any Human. Make no demands, but meet them, and obey every reasonable Human request” (13). A film is in production.
Keywords: Female author

“How We Burn” - Brenda Peynado (b. 1985) (Lightspeed, 2020)
The story is set in a future with most plants and animals extinct, and a long one child policy has produced a surveillance society and overly protective families. The story is told from the point-of-view of a rebellious teenager.
Keywords: Dominican American author; Female author

"Impy" - Fiona M. Jones (MonstraCity Press, 2020)
The story is set in a future where the government provides every child an IM or Individualized MentorPet to reinforce their self-esteem.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“In Silent Streams, Where Once the Summer Shone” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers, 2020)
The story is about a slow apocalypse and all the “little” things that people ignore from bees to viruses that accumulate until it is too late.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“An intersection of Parallel Lives: Blood Ties” - Wendy Nikel (Nature, 2020)
The story is told from the perspective a passenger on a of a far-future colony ship where the internal economy is based on the free market who travels to an old, slow colony ship where helping others is the norm and an ecological eutopia has been created within the ship.
Rpt. without the subtitle and with a different illus. Little Blue Marble (July 8, 2022). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/07/08/an-intersection-of-parallel-lives/; and without the subtitle or an illus. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 54-58, with a note on the author on 58.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Interstate Africana” - W. C. Dunlap (Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2020)
The story depicts a “highway” through the universe travelled by African souls.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Jigsaw Children" - Grace Chan (Clarkesworld, 2020)
The story is set in Hong Kong, which had become a part of the People’s Republic in 2047, and mainland China between 2098 and 2126. The protagonist is one of the “jigsaw children,” children who had been created by gene splicing and the carried by a surrogate mother, with China setting an annual quota of babies. She has three mothers and two fathers (the surrogate mother doesn’t count), and all the children are raised in a Children’s Center until they are sixteen, with the girls having an implant that stops menstruation at thirteen and the boys a vasectomy at sixteen. Over the years of the story, conflict over the program grows.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Key to Fear - Kristin Cast (Blackstone, 2020)
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).
U.K. ed. London: Head of Zeus, 2020.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese author; US author

Kimber: Book One of the Elyrian Chronicles - L. K. Hingey (Author, 2020)
When a solar storm irradiated Earth, the few survivors fled deep underground. In 2209 a subspecies of humankind has been created, and a major focus of the novel is whether they are fully human or can be enslaved. Forthcoming volumes are to include Cheyenne: Book Two of the Elyrian Chronicles and two prequel volumes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Last of the Goggled Barskys” - Joey Siara (Slate, 2020)
The story is set in an apparently eutopian future with no wars or poverty in which everyone wears Goggles that curate their lives, giving three rated choices for every action. In the story, a couple is apparently successfully raising their children with the Goggles, but then decide to introduce uncertainty.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“The Last to Die” - Rita Chang-Eppig (Clarkesworld, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which most people have become nearly immortal by uploading themselves into cyborg bodies, and those who could not be uploaded are isolated on islands and cared for by robots.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Londonia - Kate A. Hardy (Tartarus Press, 2020)
The novel is set in what remains of London after a series of climate-change catastrophes. It is divided between the “cincture,” a wealthy area protected from the climate, and Londonia where people get by as they can. The female protagonist wakes up in Londonia with much of her memory gone, and she makes a life for herself as a “finder” of artifacts from before the catastrophe which are traded within Londonia or sold/traded in the cincture. Uses an invented language that combines English with words derived mostly from French. There is a Glossary on 397-99.
This is a revised version of her Hoxton. Np: Lulu Publishing, 2016, which cannot be found. Hoxton is the name of the protagonist in Londonia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; French author

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild - Lucy Jones (Allen Lane/Penguin Random House, 2020)
The book is a science based exploration of the point made in the subtitle, but it begins with a brief “Prologue” (1-4) and ends with a brief “Epilogue” (199-200). The Prologue set in the near future our world where a girl walking outside needs a hat, goggles, and respirator and the girl’s grandmother explaining about nature and why it ended. The Epilogue is set in a future where the girl can walk outside in the woods.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

“Lyceum. Aiden Part I” - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
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.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author

"Mama Wata" - Sisonke Msimang (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2020)
The story details the destruction of the environment, especially water, from the perspective of the last surviving mermaid.
Keywords: Australian author; Canadian author; Female author; Kenyan author; South African author; US author; Zambian author

Master Class - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2020)
The novel is set in a future in which every individual is graded through standardized tests, which determines their place in society, with the low scoring sent to work farms. Based on the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century.
UK ed. as Q: London: HarperCollins, 2020. 384 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Mirages" - Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982) (Reconstruction. Stories, 2020)
The story is set in Mexico in a climate change future where the cities have gone underground but still reflect the economic divisions of the country and people are still trying to move North, although now to Nunavut in northern Canada. The African American female author was born, raised, and educated in the United States through her BA in East Asian languages cultures at Columbia University. She now lives in Mexico where she received a master’s degree in Mesoamerican Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Keywords: African American author; Female author; Mexican author

“Mister Dawn, How Can You Be So Cruel? Slumberland: Part I” - Violet Allen (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
Dystopia in three parts in which, in the first story, dreams are first curated for wealthy individuals. In the second story, drugs become common to enhance shared dreaming. In the third story, dreams become for entertainment for everyone in dream shows but also used for social control.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Mother Fault - Kate Mildenhall (Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2020)
The novel is set in a future Australia devastated by climate change and ruled by a fascist-sounding political party that has established concentration camps (BestLife Centers). The novel focuses on a woman whose husband has disappeared in Indonesia with her and her children then threatened by the government. The novel ends in a way that suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Never a Butterfly, Nor a Moth with Moon-Painted Wings” - Aimee Ogden (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2020)
The story is set in a climate-change future depicting the treatment of refugees from an island that sank beneath the waves in a country that accepts them as menial laborers while eliminating their language and culture.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The New Mutants" - Fawns, Angelique (Gotta Wear Eclipse Glasses. Third Flatiron Anthologies Volume 9, Book 28 (Summer 2020), 2020)
A virulent virus wipes out most of the population, with most of the survivors are young adults, who form gangs around different bands.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The New Wilderness. A Novel - Diane [Marie] Cook (b. 1976) (Haper, 2020)
In a severely polluted future, a woman, whose daughter is dieing from effects of the pollution, decides to escape to the Wilderness State, an area that has been off limits to people. The novel follows her life and the lives of others in the wilderness. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Notice" - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Us in Flux, 2020)
The story in set in a religious community called Reliance that imagines itself as self-sufficient and is cut off from the outside world as seen through the eyes of a young man in the community.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Optimizing the Path to Enlightenment” - Priya Chand (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2020)
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Opt-In. Harvest: Part I” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
Dystopia in three parts focusing on the sale of body parts. In the first story, a poor woman sells organs in order to pay her bills. In the second story, a law is passed legalizing the sale of body parts that, with amendments, means that anyone in debt can be required to sell their body parts to pay it off, and a woman has her womb and uterus harvested. In the third part, a resistance has arisen with the story told by a woman in the resistance trying to get access to the records that show whose organs were harvested and who they went to
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Orphan of Greenridge (Water). Ko Ko Né Ä: Part I” - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
Dystopia in three parts linked by connections to indigenous cultures and the effects of climate change. In the first story, water is rationed, and the testing of water is rigged to hide the fact that it is contaminated. In the second story, a woman with a baby is trying to escape conflict. In the third story, Texas is one of the few states that sells off mostly abandoned land to the very rich.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

"Ostraka" - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) (After Australia, 2020)
The protagonist is an Aboriginal woman who on returning to Australia is detained at declared stateless under a 2039 law that allows the government to ostracize anyone who it decides is a person of bad
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

Paper Hearts - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) (NewCon Press, 2020)
One of a set of novellas published as Robot Dreams that begins with what seems to be a series of unconnected dreams that coalesces around one Artificial Intelligence that “dreams” of taking over the world and turning it a eutopia. Whether it is a dream and whether it is a good thing are both left open.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Parent-Teacher Association” - Jessica Powell (The New York Times Sunday Review, 2020)
Surveillance dystopia in which parents demand to have their children constantly tracked and have immediate access to the tracking.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pigs" - G. D. Dearborn (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which America is ruled by a few Barons. It is told from the perspective of a boy on a farm raising “pigs” for slaughter.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Pill" - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (Big Girl plus The Pill plus Such People in It and much more, 2020)
A diet pill is developed that works, except for 10% mortality, is so popular that there are very few overweight people left and being overweight is made effectively illegal.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 65-94, with a note about the author on 65; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 39-66.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Pinecone Lady" - Jo Miles (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
The story begins in drought and fire-ravaged country, that is transformed by the Pinecone Lady, a Johnny Appleseed, but for all trees.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 38-45, with a note on the author on 45.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Press play: Suspended for safety” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Nature, 2020)
A pandemic allegory in which children are “paused” for the duration of a war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Rare Hybrid of Dung Beetle and Lion” - Noa Covo (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
A teenager describes the environmentally damaged future world she lives in as she walks through her city.
Keywords: Female author

“Resilience” - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Stuff, 2020)
The story is set in Wellington, New Zealand, transformed, post-pandemic, into an ecological eutopia.
Rpt. in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 121-128.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Resisters. A Novel - Gish Jen (b. 1955) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020)
The novel is set in a surveilled future with much of the U.S. underwater and the population is divided between the privileged “Netted” who live on land and the “Surplus” on live in the swamps or on the water. See also 2020 Jen, “Tell Me Everything,” which is also about a surveilled future.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author; US author

"The Responsible Party" - Margret A. Treiber (Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology, 2020)
Under The Responsible Party Act anyone who has made someone else uncomfortable is responsible for any later effect of that act.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Revolt" - Sheri Sebastian-Gabriel (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
In the story immigrants from South of the border are turned into enhanced slaves.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Road Out of Winter - Alison Stine (b. 1978) (Harlequin Books/Mira, 2020)
Dystopia set in Appalachia in a future where civilization has gradually collapsed as cold reduces the growing season, communities cannot afford to heat public buildings, so close all schools, pipes have frozen so that there is no water in buildings, and so forth. The protagonist is a woman who knows how to makes things grow, packs up her seeds and grow lights, and leaves, towing her tiny house. On the way, slowly, she attracts a community of misfits, and they run into more and more violent cults. The novel won the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Rules for a Civilization” - Jerri Jerreat (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future Toronto that has been rebuilt to protect it from the increasingly fierce weather and takes place in a school in a huge building designed to withstand to recurring hurricanes.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Samson in somnium: A Will and Testament” - Deborah Walker (Nature, 2020)
The first story set in her Mundane Sovereigns world in which the singularity as occurred, and AIs, who humans call the All Knowings, have effectively enslaved humans. This story focuses on conflict among AIs that reveals that while brilliant, they are emotionally immature. The second story is “Fear of the Empty: Broken Dreams.” Illus. Jacey. Nature (January 20, 2021). nature.com/futures. 1476-4687 (web) 0028-0836 (print) https://doi 10.1038/d41586-021-00122-y and focuses on a human, a potter who makes pots ordered by an AI and tries not to remember making art.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Sanctuary - Paola Mendoza (b. 1981); Abby Sher (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020)
The novel, a young adult dystopia, is set the United States in 2032 with President Trump in his third term and everyone required to wear an implanted chip that records everything about them and allows non-citizens to be identified. The protagonist is a young, undocumented woman whose father has been deported and whose mother’s fake chip fails. The family then struggles to reach California, which has seceded from the United States and provides sanctuary.
Keywords: Columbian author; Female author; US author

“A Scarf for Janice” - Sandra Ulbrich Almazan (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set some years after an unexplained Change when much of the natural world collapsed. In the story, a transgender person joins a bird count to be able to honor her transgender great aunt by visiting where she grew up, was tormented at school, and disowned by her parents. In this future all such prejudice has disappeared.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Scarves" - Elizabeth Massie (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future where it is illegal to be “pretty,” and each child must go through a ceremony where their face is scarred.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sea Change - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Tachyon Publications, 2020)
The novel is set in a future in 2022, after a released biopharmaceutical caused a worldwide agricultural collapse and the outlawing of all GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). The female protagonist is part of an underground movement to create safe GMOs the provide food for the hungry and clean up the environment. The ending suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Seep - Chana Porter (Soho Press, 2020)
Aliens arrive and infiltrate everywhere, allowing people to change their bodies at will, communicate telepathically, and live forever. Wars end. Everyone is fed. One focus of the novel is whether this is a good thing or not; another is on the choices people make.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Serf" - Thompson, Talia (Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020)
The story begins in 2106 with a woman on a crowded Auckland Skytrain from the domed area where she works to the polluted exterior where she lives, and then shifts to 2036 and her grandmother growing up on Beqa in the Fiji islands, which is about the disappear under the rising waters. The story then follows her family as refugees as conditions worsen and world-wide climate refugees outnumber those with land and her treatment as a brown woman working two minimum wage jobs as a serf (server).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Queer author

"Set the Ice Free" - Shel Graves (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which most people have left Earth fleeing climate change, and those that stayed, known as the Sun People, have adapted using a combination of traditional skills and advanced technology.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Shadow Prison Experiment. Shadow Prisons: Part I” - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
Three-part dystopia in which a everyone has an implant that regulates everything they see and the corporation that controls it develops a technology that replaces prisons by taking a person offline so that no one can see who it is. The Shades, as they are called, state popping up everywhere as more and more “crimes” warrant temporary or permanent exclusion. In the first story, the protagonist, who is in a single-sex marriage and has a transgender child, is given a permanent sentence. The second story is a decade or so later, and she is trying to survive, and her partner divorced her and has re-married, and she sometimes meets with her child, now a marred adult. In the third story, the corporation she is a leader in a revolution against the Shadow Prisons.
The three stories were rpt. in Lightspeed, nos. 123 - 125 (August - October 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prison-experiment/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shadow-prisons-of-the-mind/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prisoners-dilemma/
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Shopping Day” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (How We Live Now (Serial Box anthology), 2020)
A plague dystopia in which everyone has to be locked down at 6:00 PM, and being out during the day is dangerous. The story focuses on children waiting for their mother to return from a shopping trip.
Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 271-277.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Sky Suck" - Juliana Roth (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/sky-suck/ (April 1, 2020).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Sonya Josephine, and the Tragic Re-Invention of the 2019 Telephone” - I[sabel] S. Heynen (Mithila Review, 2020)
The story is set in a post-apocalypse dystopia in which much past knowledge has been lost although some is slowly being recreated. People have retreated into a city, the Egg, where they are sealed off from the outside. The city is crumbling. Assassination is legal and a booming business.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson (2020)
The novel is set in a universe where, under specific circumstances, travel among the universes is possible, and the protagonist is one of the women on Earth, which is a dystopia with deep economic and social divisions, chosen to travel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Stealth" - Jillian Weise (b. 1981) (The New York Times Sunday Review, 2020)
The dystopia experienced by the disabled in a near future world of greater surveillance and collection of data on individuals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Stone Wētā - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Paper Road Press, 2020)
The novel is about climate change and is set slightly in the future when governments are attempting to suppress the data by forcing scientific journals to falsify it, removing the data from the internet, and killing the scientists because "People who know nothing can be controlled" (8). A group of scientists fight back by establishes caches where the original data is hidden.
The novel originated as a story with the same title in Clarkesworld, no. 131 (August 2017). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cade_08_17/. Rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 478-493; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 144-159.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“Stories and Second Chances” - Tamoha Sengupta (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
The story is set in Kolkata, India in the future when it is under water.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 111-16, with a note on the author on 116.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“Such People in It” - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (Big Girl plus The Pill plus Such People in It and much more, 2020)
An authoritarian, extremely rigid dystopia enforced by the “Decencies,” who respond violently to any opposition to the system. The protagonist works long hours in a call center for low pay and is constantly aware that he may breach some minor rule.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Supply and Demand" - Anjali Sachdeva (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, 2020)
The story takes place in a future where the privileged cites are all female with children produced from two eggs. Other women live in camps outside the cities and service men. All their daughters visit the cities and some stay.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Swimmers - Marian Womack (b. 1975) (Titan Books, 2020)
A climate change dystopia novel is set in a future Andalusia, where the author was born, with rapidly evolving plants and animals. The remaining humans are divided between those of Earth, which has a complex social fabric, and those in the Upper Settlement, a ring at the edge of Earth’s, with a more egalitarian social structure. Retelling of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which is, of course, related to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), with reference to Wide Sargasso Sea throughout the text. The female author was born María de los Ángeles Via Rivera in Cádiz, Spain and lives in Spain and England and writes in both in English and Spanish. Womack is her married name.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Spanish author

“Tell Me Everything” - Gish Jen (b. 1955) (The New York Times Sunday Review, 2020)
The story is set in a high-tech future and focuses on interaction with an AI adviser/assistant. See also 2020 Jen, The Resisters. A Novel.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author; US author

“Terranora” - Mykaela Saunders (Collisions: Fictions of the Future, 2020)
An Aboriginal group in a future impacted by climate change rescues prisoners and brings them to an area resettled by the original inhabitants. The story concerns one of the ex-prisoners who doesn’t seem to fit in. The ending suggests that other stories centering on the characters might be forthcoming.
Rpt. in This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction. Ed. Mykaela Saunders (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2022), 247-266, with a note on the author at 248.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Thank You for Your Patience” - Ruth Campbell (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate fires, global warming, and earthquakes, and the protagonist works in a call center that can only be called a dystopia.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/thank-you-for-your-patience/ (March 25, 2020).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Things That Make It Worth It” - Lex T. Lindsay (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future struggle to restore the environment from the overheating of climate change and the loss of plants and animals. In the story, the researchers are trying to produce snow for the first in many years.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; US author

“Today, We Will Rise” - Meleika Geza-Fatafehi (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2020)
Dystopia with considerable magic realism using indigenous stories that reflect the title.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Pasifika author; Tongan author; Torres Strait Island author

“The Transition of OSOOSI” - Ozzie M. Gartrell (Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2020)
Dystopia set in the United States of True Americans, which is a totalitarian regime based on apartheid, with Citizen Americans having fewer rights than the pets of True Americans, who are white. The story is about the beginning of a rebellion led by hackers.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 433-63, with a note about the author on 433.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“The Truth Is All There Is” - Emily Parker (Slate, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which the blockchain controls is used for everything and is assumed to be completely reliable. One blockchain dominates the world, but China has introduced a competitor, which its citizens are required to use.
For a response, see Jill Carlson. “Trust No One. Not Even a Blockchain.” Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker. Slate (January 25, 2020). How much can we really trust the blockchain? (slate.com)
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Twenty-Second" - C. M. Franklyn (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which the president for life is being kept alive by harvesting body parts from people created for that purpose.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey (Tom Doherty Books/Tor.com, 2020)
The novel is set in a fragmented future United States with the protagonist a young woman who is coming to realize she is gay and whose closest friend has been executed for having unapproved literature.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Venom and Bite" - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) (Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, 2020)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which most people live underground, and the country is mostly desert.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

“The Wall and the Water” - E. M. Wright (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
The story is set in a U.S. refugee camp that is slowly being drowned.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-water-and-the-wall/ (February 19, 2020).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Washed Clean: Say hello to a new you” - Fenn, Edem (Nature, 2020)
Brief story depicting a surveillance society controlled by a theocracy. A new religion develops around a procedure to change identities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Wasteland Review” - Aurelia Gonzalez (he Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2020)
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future after climate and other disasters and is told by a woman struggling to survive on her own in a rural area while listening to two other women seeming alone on a campus in a city broadcasting their conversations about how to survive.
Keywords: Female author

"The Waterfall" - Renee [Wen-Wei] Liang (b. 1973) (Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020)
Climate change story told from the perspective of a trainee doctor who discovers that the authorities, including the medical establishment are falsifying current conditions to look better than they are.
Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume III. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson ([Wellington, New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2021), 102-13.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“We Can No Longer Hold the Sun” - Tarbuck, Alice (Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology, 2020)
The problems that develop as rare earths, used in most contemporary technology, are used up.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“‘We Care’” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (If There’s Anyone Left. Volume 1. Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Story Magazine, 2020)
The story is set in a future where one corporation dominates. The focus is on the one woman in the corporation who actually cares about its customers and the effects of its products on them and the environment. After her bosses all its employees directly into the company, she takes over.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“we live on, in story” - Karen Wyld (After Australia, 2020)
The story is told by a mixed race descendent of an Aboriginal woman who had been raped by the head of the settler family who had disposed her people from their land.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"What You Need" - Hillary Monahan (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future where health care is virtually non-existent for the poor.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“When We Call a Place Home” - Chinelo Onwualu (Us in Flux, 2020)
Long after a period violent conflicts, people have learned to live together in Homesteads based on mutual aid and respect. The story is centered on one Homesteads decided how to respond to outsiders bringing back the old violence.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Nigerian author

Where the World Turns Wild - Nicola Penfold (Stripes Publisjing, 2020)
Post-apocalypse (disease) young adult dystopia in which two children who are immune escape from the locked down city and search for their mother in the wild lands.
Excerpts were published in the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) Undiscovered Voices anthology for 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Wings of Glass" - Wendy Nikel (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a small community within a dome in one of the few areas left that are not just desert.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (January 31, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/01/31/the-heavenly-dreams-of-mechanical-trees/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 97-106, with a note on the author on 107.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The World is on Fire and You’re Out of Milk” - Rhiannon [A.] Grist (Gutter: The Magazine of New Scottish and International Writing, 2020)
The brief story takes a typical situation but sets it in the middle of a climate change disaster to give a compelling picture of how people might respond.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2020. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2021), 177-81.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author; Welsh author

"0.1" - Gabby Rivera (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Post-catastrophe story set after a sentient bacterium had killed most of the world’s population, starting with the 1% and eliminating all who do not feel love and compassion. The story is about the birth of the first baby after the plague ended.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; Queer author; US author

“Adjustments” - Allegra Hyde (TriQuarterly, 2019)
Brief climate change dystopia in which people have to keep moving to find a safe place to live as much of the globe becomes uninhabitable. In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/.
Rpt. in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 175-177.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Adrift. Novella Extracts” - Rosey Brown (New Welsh Reader, 2019)
In the future Wales, few people remain, most houses are abandoned, few people can read, and two of those who can are searching houses for books.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

After the Flood - Kassandra Montag (William Morrow, 2019)
Climate change dystopia in which the United States has been reduced to colonies on mountaintops. The female protagonist lives, with her small daughter, on their fishing boat until she goes on a quest into the northern seas in search of an older daughter taken by her husband.
U.K. ed. London: The Borough Press, 2019. 417 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“And You Shall Sing To Me a Deeper Song” - Maria Haskins (Interzone, 2019)
The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia after a war against AIs, with what remains of the government intent on keeping everyone in domed cities and killing anyone who resists.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish-Canadian author

"Ark" - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (Amazon Original Stories, 2019)
The Earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid, and the story is set near the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, where the few people remaining on Earth are choosing plants to be loaded in Ark Flora for the trip to a new planet. Ark Fauna and most people have already left, and the protagonist is trying to decide whether to leave of stay.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“As an Absence” - Joanna Michal Hoyt (New Orbit, 2019)
The story is set in a connected future where everyone is constantly inundated with messages and judged on their messages and what they post.
Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2021), 143-55.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Attachment Disorder” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “One Day Only.”
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Bearmouth - Liz Hyder (Pushkin Press, 2019)
Young adult dystopia based on the history of child labor in the Welsh coal mines moved into a future where children are kept permanently underground. The protagonist is one of the few boys in the mine learning to read and the language in the novel progresses together with his abilities.
. U.S. ed. New York: Norton Young Readers, 2020. 251 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Before Dominica” - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Kaleidotrope, 2019)
The story is set in a future Sydney, Australia that has been devastated by climate change and the collapse of the Australia economy. The entire city had been sold to the Dominica company, and the story is told by a woman who had been climbing the corporate ladder and now cleans the buildings at night.
Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 101-123, with a brief author’s note on 123.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Bittersweet Building” - Rachel Armstrong (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
The story describes an experiment in “living architecture” in which the responds to and changes the people living in it.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Blindness" - Dimitra Nikolaidou (See the Elephant, 2019)
Dystopia in which all women are required to be facially disfigured.
Keywords: Female author; Greek author

The Book of Flora - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (47North, 2019)
The third volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 and 2017 Elison. In this volume, the protagonist is gender fluid, and the novel follows her life, loves, and struggles to escape from the various dystopias she finds herself in.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Calendar Girls” - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Dystopia in which contraception is illegal.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Call and Answer” - Langley Hyde (If This Goes On, 2019)
The U.S. is completely controlled by fundamentalists, and bordering countries, like Canada, will not admit anyone with the U.S. passport, which separates a mother from her husband and child, with the story told in letters by the mother.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

“Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

“The Choices You Made” - Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (If This Goes On, 2019)
The story tells of the creation of dystopias through the choices people make.
Keywords: Estonian author; Female author; German author; US author

“Cities of the Sun” - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent, 2019)
A brief story set in an unidentified country that after surviving troubles brought on by their own and an invasion manage to follow their ancestors’ ways to create a decent life for themselves.
U.S. ed. (New York: Amistad, 2019), 432-36 with a note on the author on 432.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author

City of Beasts - Corrie Wang (Freeform Books/Disney, 2019)
The novel is set in a post-nuclear war future where the sexes have divided into separate, antagonistic societies. The “beasts” are men as seen by the women. The ending suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A City of the People, For the People, By the People” - Ayona Datta (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
In the story, an Indian city noted for its corruption is taken over by Whatsapp and “is owned and managed by a commercial company for private property” (1336 [341]). All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; US author

“The Col and the Blackouts” - Jessica Foley; Rob Kitchin (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
In the story, a city council is taken over by Mobile Network Operator, based on Vodaphone, and a section is cut off from any access to the internet. That section develops its own culture and language. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

“Counting the Days” - Kathy Schilbach (If This Goes On, 2019)
A dystopia in which at age seventy-five no further medical care is given. you then have ninety days to live.
Keywords: English author; Female author; French author

"Dead Wings" - Rachel Chimits (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which bodies are replaceable.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera (Simon and Schuster BFYR, 2019)
Young adult dystopia set after a large earthquake destroyed most cities. The action is set in a city that was founded on feminist, women-only principles that has degenerated into a system of competition among girl gangs.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

"The Divided" - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Mason Jar Press, 2019)
Dystopia focusing on the wall be between Mexico and the U.S.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

“The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi” - E. Lily Yu (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2019)
The story is set in a future Kenya where, after a conflict called the Howl, the country came together in what was called the Compassion. Now, some years in the future society has divided into the Doers and the Don’ts, those who are creative and run everything and those who live off the basic income.
Rpt. in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 297-310; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 89-103.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Dreaming of the Green River” - Priya Sarukkai Chabria (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, 2019)
The story is set in a future in which all “Objectionable Art” is removed and replaced with sanitized versions.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“Drones Above the Coral Sands” - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) (McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D., 2019)
The story is set in Far North Queensland, Australia and is concerned with the death of the coral reefs from the point-of-view of someone who is documenting the continuing destruction of the reef. Collecting such information has been outlawed by the “eco-fascist” government that only pretends to be protecting the environment while actually helping the corporations exploiting the country’s natural resources.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Female author

"Dumb House" - Andrea Hairston (b. 1952) (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour, 2019)
The story is set in a heavily surveilled future largely under corporate control.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Eclipse Our Sins” - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) (Clarkesworld, 2019)
Environmental dystopia recounting the many sins against Mother Earth, as well as well against other people.
Keywords: Female author; Motswanan author

Ecological Memory - Caroline Ailanthus (Salt Water Media, 2019)
The novel is set after a pandemic, probably started deliberately, that wipes out all but 10% of the world’s population and depicts that relatively good society that is emerging after a period of conflict. Some technology, like the internet, has been revived, but the new society is based on independent but cooperating communities, each of which has its own money, called shares, that expire after two years. Occupations are organized into guilds, whose members wear identifiable clothing which, because clothing is expensive, are worn both when working and as leisure wear. The author says that she “writes post-apocalyptic optimism” (11). The text has Appendices “The Science of Ecological Memory (269-291), “An Annotated Reading List” (292-299), and “A Glossary of Sorts” (300-301) that describes the plants depicted at the beginning of each of the nine chapters.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Editor's Eyes" - Calie Voorhis (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which organs for transplant are put out to bid.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Emergency Skin - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (Amazon Original Stories, 2019)
In the near future, the most powerful people (white, male, capitalist) conclude that Earth cannot be saved and settle on a new planet with bots as their slaves. They need certain material only available on Earth and periodically send a bot back to obtain it with the promise of entry to the world of the powerful on their return. The bots discover that with those men gone, those left learned to cooperate, develop an egalitarian world society, and clean up Earth.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 343-69, with an editor’s note on 343; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 11-32.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Exile - Peg Tittle (b. 1957) (Rock’s Mills Press., 2019)
Dystopia in which a third conviction for a crime, however minor, is punished by exile.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Famous Men Who Never Lived - K Chess (Tin House Books, 2019)
The novel is set in a future in which alternative realities exist and movement has occurred between one in which its Earth has been largely destroyed by nuclear weapons and one where that did not happen, and the refugees are not universally welcomed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Farm. A Novel - Joanne Ramos (Random House/Penguin Random House, 2019)
The novel is set in Golden Oaks, also known as The Farm, a commercial facility that hires poor women, known as hosts, serve as surrogates for wealthy women as seen from the perspectives of four women.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author; US author

"Fine" - Jamie Lackey (If This Goes On, 2019)
A dystopia in which guns are so prevalent that, having passed a proficiency test at five, the permit to carry is tattooed on an arm. Shootings are so common that everyone wears armor on leaving home and no one goes out unless necessary.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Frankissstein: A Love Story - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) (Jonathan Cape, 2019)
A complex novel, some of which tells the story of Mary Shelley, her husband, Byron, and their friends and the writing of Frankenstein. Another part, set in post-Brexit Britain concerns a transgender doctor, also a Shelley, and their love for an AI specialist, Victor Stein. Another main character is Ron Lord, who creates sexbots for lonely men like him. A related theme is cryrogenics, with all of it coming more or less together.
U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 2019. 343 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Free WiFi" - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which all access to the internet is controlled by corporations, all education is for profit and any minor lapse can get you set to a work farm.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“GAC ATG ATT ACA” - Melanie Harding-Shaw (Little Blue Marble, 2019)
Brief story with people living underground for generations and trying to keep the gene pool large enough.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 168-70; and in the author’s Alt-Ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Author, 2021), 118-21.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“A Gardener’s Guide to the Apocalypse” - Lynette Mejía (If This Goes On, 2019)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia (nuclear war) as seen through the eyes of a gardener trying to grow food.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death” - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
A dystopia in which the 99% is trying to kill off most of the 99%, who are fighting back.
Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Going north: Injecting hope for a better life” - Roxanne Khamsi (Nature, 2019)
Immigration dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Good Hunting" - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) (Patreon, 2019)
The story takes place  in a future that has instituted stringent climate control laws.
Rpt. Illus. Little Blue Marble (March 13, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/03/13/good-hunting/
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Canadian author; Female author

The Grace Year - Kim Liggett (Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s, 2019)
Young adult dystopia in which at sixteen girls are banished for a year but are hunted by men and are in danger from each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gravity Is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book 1 - Sarah Lahey (She Writes Press, 2019)
The novel is set about thirty years in the future. By 2030 religious fundamentalism was being enforced by the state. Wars followed and in the post-war under HEXAD (the International Unified Government), religion was legal but monitored and fundamentalism was not tolerated. The world economy collapsed in 2036. Cyborgs are common although facing discrimination and generally limited to fifty percent technology. A range of conflicts are developing, and climate change, which has already remade the globe, is getting worse. The second volume, Nostalgia is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book 2 is scheduled for 2021.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Great Dividuation” - Joel E. Mason; Michael Hornblow; anique yael vered (b. 1984) (CR: The New Centennial Review, 2019)
A dystopia about the breakdown of capitalist accumulation and its effects on individuals and social interaction. For details about dividuation, see https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Dividuation.
Keywords: Australian author; Austrian author; Canadian author; Female author; German author; Male author

“Green Glass: A Love Story” - E. Lily Yu (If This Goes On, 2019)
The story is set in a climate-change future and stresses the extremely different situations of the rich and poor.
pt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 453-63, with an editor’s note on 453; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 59-70.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Guava - Vera Kurian (Futures A Science Fiction Series, 2019)
Authoritarian dystopian set on a planet with one continent, presidents chosen through rigged elections, and one Supreme Leader. People are kept on short rations, bread has sand added, people are required to buy any food in surplus. Television must be left on a minimum of three hours a day and has a camera that can record activities. People simply disappear. AAs a population control mechanism, all women sixteen to thirty are drafted into the military and never seen again, which raises the level of harassment and violence directed at women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother - Hal Y. Zhang (Futures A Science Fiction Series [, 2019)
The story is set in thoroughly surveilled society with much of the surveillance “personalized,” or worn or accepted by individuals. In the story, the surveillance is used positively, and the society has rules that restrict its use, although businesses push the borders of legality.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author

"Harmony" - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
The creation of a eutopian town for those who don’t fit elsewhere.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Haven" - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (Ocean Stories. Current Futures: A Sci-Fic Ocean Anthology, 2019)
Complex story with both eutopian and dystopian elements set in a future Caribbean that is trying to protect itself from climate change and the machinations of governments trying to limit the political power of island nations, and to illustrate the issues the story takes the reader to different points in the future.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author

“He Are the People” - Elif Shafak (b. 1971) (McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D., 2019)
The story is set in an Istanbul by climate change with most birds, insects, and plants dead. The wealthiest of all countries had formed an alliance and were planning to escape to another planet. Authoritarian dystopia in Turkey. Parliament dissolved itself giving all power to the President, who has renamed himself “WeAreThePeople” with the people now known as “ThePresident”. Voting based on education (the more educated get fewer votes), and age, with the elderly getting more votes and ethnic and sexual minorities getting the fewest votes. Refugees get no votes.
Keywords: Female author; Turkish author; UK author

"Hey Alexa" - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance, 2019)
Brief story set in a future where same sex relations are illegal in California and smart speakers are used as surveillance devices.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Hive - Barry Lyga (b. 1971); Marion Baden (Kids Can Press, 2019)
A young adult dystopia in which algorithms are used to identify and attack those misusing social media with the parameters growing narrower.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

I Am Not a Number - Lisa Heathfield (Electric Monkey/Egmont, 2019)
The U.K elects the Traditional Party, which promises to re-establish the country’s greatness, but it rapidly becomes a dictatorship with concentration camps. The protagonist is a young woman sent to one of the camps where she is given a number.
Keywords: English author; Female author