“The Road South” - Madelaine E. Robins; Becca [Rebecca] Caccavo (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Climate change dystopia told through telephone conversations between part of a family making their way south to from the United States to Antarctica, the one area of green left, and parents left behind.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rule of One - Ashley Saunders; Leslie Saunders (Amazon/Skyscape, 2018)
Dystopia set in a future United States that has a rigorously enforced one-child rule. One family produces twins, and the girls pretend that there is only one child, each being the child every other day. Then the deception is discovered. The first volume of a series followed by The Rule of Many. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2019, in which the twins return from Canada, where they had escaped, to challenge the law. The final volume is The Rule of All. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2020 in which, after defeating the resistance, the one-child rule is permanently eliminated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Scribe. A Novel - Alyson [Carol] Hagy (b. 1960) (Graywolf Press, 2018)
Post-catastrophe (civil war and disease) dystopia in which the remaining population is still deeply divided with some slavery.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Seclusion - Jacqui Castle (Inkshares, 2018)
The novel is set in a dystopian future in which the United States has built a high wall around the entire country and all daily activities are under the control of the Board. The protagonist, Patricia “Patch” Collins, a true believer in the system, and her friend Rexx discover a box of books from before the seclusion and begin to learn some of the truth. They then travel across the country, meeting people and learning more, try to escape to Canada. A sequel is The Chasm. Oakland, CA: Inkshares, 2022 in which Patch has made it to Canada and Rexx is held by the Board.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Seventh Street Matriarchy” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set in a small town that is trying to eliminate a very successful public housing project and the resistance of those living in it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Severance - Ling Ma (b. 1983) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018)
Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic). The novel alternates between the life of the protagonist in New York City before most people dies and her life with others after they leave the city. The female author was born in China and raised and educated and lives in the U. S.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author; US author

“Sexy Robot Heroes - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) (Mother of Invention, 2018)
The story is set in Guangzhou (Canton), China in a future in which there has been extensive flooding of the city due to climate change. There is extreme poverty, and gangs rule the areas of the city where the story is set, but the story is concerned with the struggles of a transgender individual to survive in this setting.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shrinking, Sinking Land - Kell[ey] Cowley (Odd Voice Out Publishing, 2018)
Environmental dystopia in which everyone is required to hibernate underground to survive the winter. Liverpool is under water and Manchester is flooded. The novel focuses on a woman who refuses to hibernate. A prequel is her Last March for Planet Earth. [Chester, Eng.]: Odd Voice Out Publishing, 2018. EBook.
Developed from her “Shrinking, Sinking Land.” By Kelley Cowley. Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. Manjana Milkoreit, Meredish Martinez, and Eschrich. [Tempe: Arizona State University], 2016. EBook.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Singles' Day" - Samantha Murray (Interzone, 2018)
The story is set in an overpopulated future where once a year there are huge discounts for single people, with a lottery for larger living space and for transport off Earth to a newly settled planet.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 224-45, with an editor’s note on 224.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Sinless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 1 - Sarah Tarkoff (Harper Voyager, 2018)
First volume of a young adult religious dystopia series. In this volume the young woman who is the protagonist lives in a world that she believed in where those who do not follow the rules are savagely beaten, disfigured, or killed. She discovers that nothing is as she had believed and struggles against it. The second volume is Fearless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 2. New York: Harper Voyager, 2019.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Skinned" - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, 2018)
Dystopia set in an unnamed African country in which women past puberty are expected, based on religion and tradition, to wear no clothes until they are married. Most do, and the story is told from the perspective of an older, never married woman.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Nigerian author; US author

“The Smallest Atom in the World” - Melissa Yuan-Innes (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Environmental dystopia presented from the point of view of insects as species disappear.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Something to Watch Over Me: My Favourite Sentience” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Nature, 2018)
Children’s perspective on the various AIs that they have experienced.
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Keywords: Female author; US author

“Speculative Hyperstition at a Northern Further Education College” - Judy Thorne (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Presented as interviews with a range of people about what they would like the world to be like in the future, which initially seem straightforward, but gradually becomes clear that the setting is a deeply depleted future after the U. K. left the European Union.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"A street but half made up: Meet the literary agent” - Anna Zumbro (Nature, 2018)
The story takes place in what is called a library city in which books are housed on the street throughout the city. The focus is on a robot that re-shelves books that are misplaced and reads and is affected by them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - [Qingpei] Rachel Heng (b. 1988) (Henry Holt, 2018)
Dystopia in which near-immortality is possible and death is illegal, but there are people who believe that they should have the choice of whether they live or die.
U.K. ed. London: Sceptre, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Singaporean author; US author

"Suicide Watch" - Susan [J.] Emshwiller (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
A dystopia in which people pay to watch someone commit suicide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tattoo - Michelle Rene (Annorlunda Books, 2018)
An odd novella in which at Judgement Day everyone’s past is written on their skin, which means that all good and bad deeds can be known, although some people have their stories removed by a tattoo artist. The story gets complicated when a young woman with completely clear skin appears.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“This Ain’t the Apocha-Rich You Hoped For” - Tuere T. S. Ganges (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
Under Trump’s policies, conservatives and liberals go to war against each other until they realize that the rich are still getting rich. They then join forces against the rich, only to discover that the rich control the military, the electric grid, and everything else that matters. The rich hole up in armed compounds or leave the country while the apocalypse takes place.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“This is an Optimistic Story about the Future” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Satirical story about a future that has effective mechanisms to eliminate misunderstandings among people.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Tiger Flu. A Novel - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
A post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia with a eutopian community of women who have escaped from a patriarchal dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“To Rain Upon the City” - Rivqa Rafael (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set in a religious dystopia in which the most recent immigrants, who are Jewish, live at the bottom physically and hierarchically, of the society and focuses on survival through making contacts with other outsiders.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Twice the Same River” - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) (Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities, 2018)
The story is about corruption in a city that is transforming itself into a green city, corruption that hurts the farmers in the surrounding countryside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Two Explicit and Three Oblique Apologies to My Oldest Daughter One Month Before Her Eighteenth Birthday” - Heather Lindsley (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

“Ultimate Housekeeping Megathrill 4” - Abbey Mei Otis (b. 1989) (Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories, 2018)
Dystopia in which the protagonist works as a trash sorter in a recycling factory and goes home (by a flying bus) to her dysfunctional family, living with four other families in what remains of the once-decent suburbs. Except for a few science fictional touches, this could be near-future reality.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

“The Unseen Face of the Moon Business” - Diana Părpăriţă (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future where everyone uses bots and plastic surgery to change the way they look, including the protagonist who is a middle-aged male at work and a young woman at home.
Keywords: Female author; Romanian author

Vox - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher (Berkley, 2018)
Dystopia in which women are limited to speaking no more than one hundred words a day. prohibited from working, and girls cannot be taught to read or write.
Keywords: Female author

The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) (Hamish Hamilton, 2018)
The novel is set in what is presented as a dystopian future in which men have supposedly become literally toxic to women, and one man isolates his family, including his three daughters, on an island. It is never made clear is the toxicity actually exists.
U. S. edition New York: Doubleday, 2018
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

“Water Exchange, Version 8123” - Saba Waheed (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2018)
A climate change story in which the future extracts labor from the past in exchange for water.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice” - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Strange Horizons, 2018)
A strongly worded depiction of the devastation of climate change, with the blame placed squarely on human behavior.
Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2019), 3-17; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 5-18.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"We Speak in Tongues of Flame” - J[essica] L. George (Resist Fascism, 2018)
Authoritarian dystopia suppressing the indigenous population, with the story focusing on one young woman who discovers her abilities of resistance. Elements of magical realism.
Rpt. in Gwyllion, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 137-56.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

We Who Will Destroy the Future. A Short Story - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) ([Detritus Books], 2018)
The story is told by a woman from a future authoritarian dystopia who has been found guilty of writing a subversive book and been sentenced to live in the twentieth century. The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.
Rpt. without the subtitle in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 166-179.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

“When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) (Slate, 2018)
Dystopia of the medical system of the future where corporations are in control and poor areas are unserved.
Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 49-64.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) (B Cubed Press, 2018)
A collection of closely related stories satirizing Donald Trump (b. 1946) and his presidency.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Where Would You Be Now?” - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Tor.com, 2018)
Rpt. without the question mark in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 94-118.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Widdam” - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia seen through the eyes of an Indian man, a Native American Indian woman, and a European woman as well as AI’s who are trying to help.
Rpt. in A Year Without a Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 233-67; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 255-86.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Related to 2017 Vaughn, with this novel set at the very edges of the society developed in the previous novel at the interface between those where the women have an implant to limit the birth rate and “The Wild” where the people do not have implants. Structured as a mystery novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Woman World - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018)
A future graphic novel in which all men have died. Eutopian elements with strong satirical elements.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; US author

“You are Weighed in the Balance” - Rivka Jacobs (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2018)
The dystopia that will be produced by the current policies of the Trump administration resulting in concentration camps and different laws for the wealthy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Your One & Only - Adrianne Finlay (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a society of clones with only one non-cloned human left. The non-cloned man and a female clone feel that they don’t fit in and fall in love, and most of the novel is their story as they struggle to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“₪” - N[ancy] Lee Wood (b. 1955) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
The story depicts the contrast between health care in New Zealand, which, while not eutopia, is basically good, and the United States, where all protections have been stripped away and the entire country is on the way to becoming a dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2036: The Final Resistance - Leah McClellan (Simple Writing, 2017)
A dystopian future fascist United States and the resistance to it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2084: An American Parable - Elaine Liner (Moonface Press, 2017)
Fundamentalist Christian, surveillance dystopia. Washington, DC is now Jesus City, and everyone must stop whatever they are doing and pray for two minutes when sirens sound five times a day seven days a week. The “Privacy Protection Act” outlawed privacy, and a God’s eye surveillance system is utterly pervasive. Every day, everyone is required to take “Mana,” which is supposed to be a vitamin but is a tranquillizer. The “SinCrime cops” and the “Bible Thumpers” observe people in all workplaces.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Acceptance Speech” - Eileen Myles (b. 1949) (I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally November 6, 2016, 2017)
The speech the author would give upon being elected President saying that she will establish a Department of Women and a Department of Culture, make the White House a homeless shelter, provide free education and transportation, and begin the process of banning cars, among other changes. The female author, who uses the pronoun they, ran an “openly female” write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-1992. The poem “I Want a President,” by Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) was written in honor of the campaign.
Rpt. as “Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 15-18.
Keywords: Female author; US author

After the Blast - Zoe [Swicord] Kazan (b. 1983) (Dramatists Play Service, 2017)
The play is set in a post-nuclear future where a selection of humankind seen as the best had moved underground and interact with machines to fulfil normal human needs. Rationing. Reproduction controlled. It takes place long after the move and concerns a couple is trying to get the right to have a child. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Alt.Death” - Joanna Koch (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The story is set in a future dystopia in which Trump’s policies led to the elimination of anyone not white and other than male or female. No healthcare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ambrosia" - Emeline [Mimie] Morin (A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction, 2017)
Dystopia set in a future where eating food is illegal, and everyone is fed intravenously and are starving.
Keywords: Female author; French author; Scottish author

"Animate" - Kate Story (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia in which Bangladesh and Florida have disappeared under water, and Vancouver has been destroyed by an earthquake.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body” - J[ess] R. Fenn (Boston Review, 2017)
A world where most babies are created in the laboratory as seen through the eyes of a woman who wants a mother.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Bannerless - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which people live in large families, and birth is regulated to those deemed worthy and awarded a banner. The original story is about a young woman who has a bannerless child. The novel expands this to a deeper consideration of the society. See 2018 Vaughn, The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel for a related work.
Originated with a story with the same title in The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 5-22. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 181-96 with an editor’s note on 181; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 267-89.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Barrette Girls” - Sara Saab (Liminal Stories, 2017)
The story is set in a dystopian future where rare earths required in technology are harvested from manufactured people.
Rpt. in The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5. Ed. Cristina Jurado and Lavie Tidhar ([Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2018]), 153-66.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Lebanese author

Beneath the Shine - Sarah Fine (Skyscape, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which a technological elite dominates, and the young woman protagonist is part of the minority who advocates technology for everyone.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Bird's Eye" - Anjali Sachdeva (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The protagonist is a blind woman who uses Virtual Reality to see the world through the eyes of birds and uses the system of electronic referenda to try to protect them, which will end up protecting people also.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Black Box: These Memories are Made to Last Forever” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (WIRED, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which at an early age a child has a device implanted that records all their experience, which the child or her parents can replay. Later in life, adults can choose who has access to their memories. Whether this is eutopian or dystopian is left up to the reader.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 29-34; and in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 1-13
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

"Blue Stratus" - Amy Mrotek (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The story is set in a future eutopian community with high rise urban farms, gardens, permaculture, and all of the desirable environmental design features that are currently possible.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Boltzmann Brain” - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

The Book of Etta - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (47 North, 2017)
Second volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 Elison set 100 years after the first book. In this novel, the main character, Etta, disguises herself as a man, Eddy, and sets off to rescue the enslaved women. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as this volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Book of Joan. A Novel - Lidia Yuknavitch (b. 1963) (Harper, 2017)
Complex dystopia set in 2049 where Earth is experiencing the results of climate change and constant war over dwindling resources. Circling Earth is a space station inhabited by some who have escaped from Earth where everyone must die at 50. The society is itself a dystopia ruled by a man who claims to have defeated a child-heretic named Joan, and much of the novel is the story of Joan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Books of the Risen Sea” - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
Climate change dystopia and the importance of saving books and of libraries.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Broad Church" - Tess Williams (b. 1954) (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The background to the story is a climate-change dystopia, with the story focusing a woman dealing with her son’s choice to become a dolphin.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Calexit: The Anthology - J. L. Curtis; Bob Poole; Cedar Sanderson; Tom Rogneby; Alma [T. C.] Boykin; B. Opperman; L. B. Johnson; Eaton Rapids Joe; Lawdog [pseud.]; Kimball O'Hara (JLC&A, 2017)
A collection of stories set in a dystopian future in which part of California, called Cali, secedes from the country in order to establish a socialist state committed to diversity. Northern California and southern Oregon forms a new territory called Jefferson that may become a new state. The stories are “A Matter of Honor” by J. L. Curtis in which the U. S. Navy leaves San Diego and blows up its base as it does with the story continued in his ebook novella The Morning the Earth Shook. 69 pp. (2017). “Last Plane Out” by Bob Poole centers on the last plane to leave Los Angeles airport. “Carpetbaggers” by Cedar Sanderson focuses on carpetbaggers in Jefferson. “Night Passage” by Tom Rogneby begins in Cali, where all people are chipped, and continues with the escape of a couple. “Roll, Colorado, Roll!” by Alma [T. C.] Boykin in which The Colorado River is released into its original channel, cutting off water to Cali. “Final Flight” by B. Opperman is a story of escape from Cali. “Freedom’s Ride” by L. B. Johnson is a story of escape from Cali. “The Farm” by Eaton Rapids Joe describes the authoritarian liberalism of Cali and the damage it does. “By Hook and Crook” by Lawdog [pseud.] is an escape story. In “Fifth Column” by Kimball O’Hara the U. S. Navy returns. A graphic novel covering some of the same themes is Matteo Pizzolo, CALEXIT. Illus. Amancay Nahuelpan. Colorist Tyler Boss. Flatter Dee Cunniffe. Letterer Jim Campbell. Map designer Richard Nisa. Flag Designer Robert Anthony, Jr. Los Angeles, CA: Black Mask Studios, 2018. Originally published as CALEXit 1-3. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Maltese author; US author

“Cannibal Acts” - Maureen [F.] McHugh (b. 1959) (Boston Review, 2017)
Dystopia in which ecological changes have eliminated most plants and animals.
Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 244-256; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 292-303.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Carve the Mark - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which each individual has a gift which may be positive or negative for them. Two young people from different and opposed cultures meet and begin to work together to defeat the dystopia. The first of two volumes followed by The Fates Divide. New York: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2018 with a “Glossary” on 448-50. In this volume a war produces additional problems for the protagonists which appear to be solved at the end 2018 with a “Glossary” on 448-50. In this volume a war produces additional problems for the protagonists which appear to be solved at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cascadia" - Mackenzie Reide (Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads, 2017)
The Northwest of the U.S. has seceded and formed a new country called Cascadia. The story is about the suppression by U.S. authorities of higher education and the descendants of immigrants from anywhere outside its new borders. See also 2016 Reide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Catalogue of Further Suns: Précis of Reports Compiled by the Preliminary Survey Expeditions - F. J[eannie] Bergmann (Gold Line Press, 2017)
Poems about first contact with aliens detailing what can go wrong.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“'Clippers': Measuring the slow but steady whitening of public life” - Kashana Cauley (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story is about a man trying to pass as white after the Trump administration had outlawed voting by blacks.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Coffle - Gemma Files (b. 1968) (Dim Shores, 2017)
Part dystopia and part horror story in which a woman helps slaves escape across a forbidding desert where there is only one. shifting safe route.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Crazy House - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) (Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which young girls are imprisoned, supposedly to test them to help overthrow an authoritarian system that divides people and controls information. . A sequel is The Fall of Crazy House. New York: Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson, 2019 in which the protagonists of the first novel fight the government and win.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Crosstalk - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) (del Rey, 2017)
Satire on the connected world where the connectivity of the future goes wrong. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dairy" - Ashley Sutherland (Social Alternatives, 2017)
Dystopia of women treated in a way similar to cows with artificial insemination and their children taken away at birth.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Dark Intercept - Julia Keller (Tor Teen, 2017)
First volume of a young adult dystopia set on New Earth where people have given up freedom for stability. In the second volume, Dark Mind Rising. New York: Tor Teen, 2018, the system that protected them has failed, and the young female protagonist has opened a detective agency. In the third volume, Dark Star Calling. New York: Tor Teen, 2019, the system is failing altogether and the people look to find another planet and start over. A related novel is A Screaming in the Mind: A Dark Intercept Novel. New York: Tor Teen, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Degas’ Ballerinas” - Leslie Goodreid (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia. The story is set in Toronto, which, even though the border with the U.S. is now closed, is flooded with U.S. climate refugees. Nothing grows in the U.S. All birds have died. Malarial mosquitos are common in Canada. People are starving, and corruption is common.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen” - Serena Johe (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
The story is set in a future where, to counter verbal abuse, people are fitted with a device that keeps them from insulting another person, which has unexpected consequences.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dreams Before the Start of Time - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) (47th North, 2017)
The novel is set in the years from 2034 through 2120 and follows the adjustments made by individuals and families as they adjust to advances in medicine regarding fertility and birth to the point where anyone can have a child through a various of different technologies. It won the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature. Female author.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Eggs" - Eilidh McCabe (A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction, 2017)
The story is set in a future where under the Fertility Protection Act all eggs are harvested from all girl children with the intention of improving equality, although the story suggests the result has been the opposite.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The End We Start From - Megan Hunter (b. 1984) (Picador, 2017)
The setting to the novel is a climate-change dystopia in which a woman has to flee flooded London with her just-born baby.
U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 2017
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Endangered” - Allegra Hyde (American Short Fiction, 2017)
Very short dystopia in which artists are considered an endangered species and kept in glass enclosures where they can be viewed as in a zoo. In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/
Rpt. in Best of the Net 2017; and in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 81-83.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Endling Market” - E[mma] J. Swift (2084, 2017)
Dystopia in which most animal species are disappearing, and there is a market for any of the last the last remaining ones.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 257-70.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

An Excess Male - Maggie Shen King (Harper Voyager, 2017)
The dystopia created by 2030 by the Chinese one-child policy combined with a preference for male children. There are now forty million unmarriageable men. The dystopia provides the background to the story of one such man.
Keywords: Female author; Taiwanese author; US author

"Fallow" - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) (Small Beer Press, 2017)
Dystopia in which Mennonite refugees from Earth have colonized their own planet but now treated other refugees the way they had been treated on Earth.
Keywords: Female author; Somali-American author

"The Farmer's Almanac" - Halli Villegas (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate fiction dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Feastwar" - Kaftan, Vylar (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
Interactions through a computer game that connects people throughout the U. S. both brings about the spread and helps end a deadly disease.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Final Delivery" - Kerri-Leigh Grady (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which young women are used to produce babies whose body parts are used to replace those lost by the military and the rich.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Fire Star" - Shirley Chan (Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads, 2017)
The story is set on an Earth with sever pollution and rationed, and expensive water and power, but the focus of the story is about the settlement of Mars, the corporate, personal, and political conflicts involved, and the myth-making that has already started.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author; US author

"Fire Wire" - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The story is set in a future where, after worldwide fires, electric power must be generated by individuals and focuses on whether or not to build new power plants.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

"Fix-It Shop" - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) (Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction, 2017)
Post-catastrophe (a disease that kills all but a few men) dystopia in which the few boys born are overly protected and assumed to be incapable of doing the practical things that women do. Most young women have never seen a young man.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Floating City of Pengimbang” - Michelle Goddard (Water: Optimistic Sci-Fi Series, 2017)
The story is set in a climate change future in which the islands of the South Pacific are completely submerged, and the inhabitants live on rafts, constantly alert for storms.
Keywords: Female author

“For Better or Worse” - Jennifer Graham (Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads, 2017)
Dystopia in which a few huge corporations fight each other for power.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"From the Dark" - Emilie Collyer (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The story is set in a dystopia where plastics are destroying the oceans and takes place in a juvenile detention center where garbage pits are dug out for recycling.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Future Home of the Living God. A Novel - [Karen] Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) (Harper, 2017)
Dystopia that follows a dramatic drop in pregnancies Government disappears and pregnant women are kidnapped and incarcerated under the auspices of the Church of the New Constitution.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Future Perfect" - [Victoria Estelle Mitchell] [Gustafson] (1954-2017) (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which the United States has become a hereditary monarchy of Trumps.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Games Theory" - Beth [Ann] Plutchak (b. 1952) (Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future, 2017)
The story is about a multi-generation starship and the relations between the male, white scientists and engineers and the predominantly female, mixed race and ethnicity who are more arts and humanities oriented.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gather the Daughters. A Novel - Jennie Melamed (Little, Brown, 2017)
Young adult dystopia that takes place on an isolated island inhabited by a cult in which women are completely controlled by their fathers and husbands except for a brief period at puberty. Women who are past child-bearing age are considered no longer useful and are required to commit suicide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Ghost in the Machine” - Susan Pieters (Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty, 2017)
The story is set in a future that can be read as either eutopian or dystopian. It is presented as much better than the past in that war has disappeared, but the future is controlled through an AI. The DNA of boys is analyzed at birth and aggressive and religious features removed.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"A Good Citizen" - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) (2084, 2017)
Authoritarian dystopia in which there is a daily referendum in which everyone must vote or lose what few privileges they have.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 131-38.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Good Citizens” - Paula Hammond (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Dystopia in which the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) becomes a monarchy that uses nuclear weapons on Iran and Mexico and is at war with China. Any one not of white, multi-generational U.S. ancestry loses their citizenship, as do gays, Jews, Muslims. Some people had escaped, many were killed. The female author has published many non-fiction books for children, mostly on scientific subjects.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Growing Season - Helen Sedgwick (b. 1978) (Harvill Secker, 2017)
What appears to be a eutopia in which the invention of a pouch that allows anyone to gestate a child outside the body, allowing gay men and single people to carry their own child. The pouch is transferable at will, which allows couples to trade off. The pouch is the monopoly of one company, so, of course, there are problems.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Happenstance" - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The story is set in a high-tech future in which a city can be constantly reconfigured to improve peoples’ lives.
Rpt. in Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2020), 73-100. Also published online at https://reckoning.press/happenstance/ (March 11, 2020).
Keywords: Female author; US author

H(a)ppy - Nicola Barker (b. 1966) (Heinemann, 2017)
A woman lives in a future world where “Excess of Emotion” is to be avoided; one must always be “In Balance” and is being constantly adjusted chemically to stay that way. The woman experiences a glitch in her conditioning that leads her to experience emotion, pain, and so forth. Typographically complex. The author says that the book “is best enjoyed in conjunction with Agustin Barrios: The Complete Historical Guitar Recordings 1913-1942.
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

"The Healer" - Melinda LaFevers (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The dystopia of a violent, disintegrated in which one woman’s knowledge of herbalism is the only medical care available. United States.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Healer's Touch" - Colleen Anderson (The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, 2017)
The story is about a healer in a high-tech hospital and her ability to overcome her own problems so she can help the constant stream of badly injured refugees being created in her dystopian world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Here Comes the Flood” - Desirina Boskovitch (2084, 2017)
Climate change dystopia in which the people of one city built walls and a dome to protect itself from floods, winds, and fires, and all the protections are failing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"HMO" - Karin L. Frank (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The dystopia of U. S. health care in the future when it is entirely under control of insurance companies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hold Back the Stars - Katie Khan (Doubleday, 2017)
The novel is a love story that begins and ends in a catastrophe in space. But for most of the novel, it is set in a future multi-cultural European eutopia in which populations move from place to place to mix with other populations.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Humans, Bow Down - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Emily Raymond (b. 1972); Jill Dombowski (Little, Brown, 2017)
A dystopia set in a future in which a war between humans and robots has been won by the robots and focuses on those who do not accept defeat.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Illegal Citizens” - [Phyllis] Irene Radford (b. 1950) (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which the Trump administration has stripped all Latinos of their U. S. citizenship however long their ancestors had been citizens.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Immanation” - Mary Easson (A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction, 2017)
Dystopian future in which some have withdrawn from the damaged world into a Tower where everything is controlled contrasted with those who chose to stay outside where they are regenerating the Earth.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Ink - Alice Broadway (Scholastic Children’s Books, 2017)
A religious dystopia in which the major events of a person’s life are inked on their skin, which is made into a book on their death. The book is given to the family if the person has lived a good life and publicly burned if judged to have not led a good life. First volume in a trilogy. The second volume, Spark. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2018, is a standard middle volume in which the protagonist searches for answers to the questions raised in the first volume. The third volume, Scar. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2019, pulls the various threads together.
U. S. ed. New York: Scholastic, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Irrepressibly Original Daisy Wigmar” - Katie Stevens (Futuristica: Volume 2, 2017)
Flawed utopia in which genetic modification is readily available and chosen to design children and by adults to modify themselves. This has led, for example, to their being few people of color. The protagonist is an unmodified woman who tells of friendship with other unmodified women, one of whom chooses to be changed, and unchanged animals.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

“Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities” - Lettie Prell (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2017)
A man waiting to go before a judge in a criminal trial (he is guilty) dreams about a series of alternative justice systems, most of which seem preferable to the one is about to face.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 49-56.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Knells of Agassiz” - Holly Schofield (Water, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which all the glaciers are melting and concerns an attempt to create snow to help restore them.
Rpt. with a different illus. in Little Blue Marble (February 28, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/28/the-knells-of-agassiz/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 52-62, with a note on the author on 62.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) (Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates, 2017)
Fantasy novel that includes an anarchist eutopia, Freedom City, Iowa: “An entire town, abandoned by a dead economy and occupied by squatters and activists and anarchists” (12). But as people learned of it and moved there, one man took control, dividing the community. One man knew magic and summoned a protector spirit that killed the man, but later that spirit turns on its summoners. The rest of the novel concerns the community’s attempts to control the spirit. The
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

“A Letter from the Federal Women’s Prison” - Stephanie L. Weippert (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which women lose all their rights. Some form an underground railroad to help others escape to Canada. When they are discovered, many are killed, and the others are imprisoned for life.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Letters from the Heartland” - Janka Hobbs (Alternative Truths, 2017)
A dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, climate change has drowned much of the coasts, and the middle of the country has become a dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Lotus Blue - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Talos Press, 2017)
A complex, multi-faceted post-apocalyptic dystopia set it an Australia with a badly damaged environment, war machines, enhanced soldiers, and other dangers. The main protagonist is a seventeen year old girl struggling to survive. The setting has similarities to the Terry Dowling’s 1990 Rynosseros series.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Lowland Clearances.” - Pippa Goldschmidt (b. 1985) (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
Satire on the Highland Clearances in which the people of Glasgow are resettled in the Scottish Highlands and replaced by sheep.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline (DCB/Dancing Cat Books/Cormorant Books, 2017)
The novel, generally classified as young adult, is set in a future in which, after The Water Wars, for an unexplained reason most people have stopped dreaming, which damages them psychologically. Indigenous peoples still dream, and, since the others are convinced that there is a physical basis for their dreaming, indigenous people are hunted and killed to harvest their bone marrow. The residential and boarding schools founded in the Canada and the United States to rid indigenous children of their cultures and languages are re-opened or newly established to assist in the practice. See also her 2021 Dimaline.
Developed from a story with the same title published in Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling. Ed. Neal McLeod (James Smith Cree First Nations) ([Pinticion, BC, Canada]: Theytus Press, 2016), 199-214.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

“The Martian Obelisk” - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) (Tor.com, 2017)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change, pandemics, wars, and all the other problems brought about by human mistreatment of Earth. But it focuses on a project on Mars started after all the colonization attempts appear to have failed.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 71-83 with an editor’s note on 71; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 55-72; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 444-57.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Melanoma Americana” - Sara Codair (Alternative Truths, 2017)
The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) with the focus on the destruction of the health care system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Midnight at the Electric - Jodi Lynn Anderson (HarperTeen, 2017)
The novel, which is marketed as young adult, is set in three time periods in one family--1919, 1934, and 2065--is not obviously eutopian or dystopian, but the first period is set in postwar England, the second is set in dust bowl Kansas, and the third is set in a U.S. struggling with the effects of climate-change. The coasts have largely been abandoned, and, because Washington, DC is a swamp, the government has moved to the Midwest.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Morning in the Republic of America” - Fiona Moore (b. 1974) (49th Parallels, 2017)
The story is set in a future dominated by China, with a Communist United States, and what remain of Canada renamed the Republic of America and hoping for support from China.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Mr Mycelium” - Claire McKenna (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The story presents a high-tech Australian society, including farming and engineered animals and begins with an attack on such a farm by traditionalists. But the story also briefly represents other fissures between, for example, traditional marriage and multiple partners and shows both the positive and negative sides of the agricultural technology.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Native Seeds" - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2017)
The story is set in a future where the population of Earth is dwindling long after much of the population left to settle other planets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Night Divers" - Lynn Hutchinson Lee (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia with extreme drought and all water sources and distribution are taken over by a corporation.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Non-White in America” - Debora Godfrey (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The dystopia of being non-white in contemporary America.
Keywords: Female author

"One of the Lucky Ones" - Wondra Vanian (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which all those resisting the government are being shipped off to rehabilitation camps, each person wearing a badge of their identity.
Keywords: Female author; US author; Welsh author

“The Ones Who Know Where They are Going” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
The situation of the child in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) from the point-of-view of the child when, apparently, everyone has left.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Oracle" - Dominica Phetteplace (Infinity Wars, 2017)
Satire on U.S. politics in which a “war of the month” is instituted to gain support for the President.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics” - Jess[ica] Barber; Sara Saab (Clarkesworld, 2017)
The story is set mostly in Beirut, Lebanon, and takes place during a dystopian period of extreme drought. It traces the life choices of two scientists as they work to help the planet recover, and the projects they develop  that will do that.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 293-316 with an editor’s note on 293.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Lebanese author; US author

“‘Patriot Points’: You may qualify for huge discounts, TSA Precheck approval, and more!” - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story consists of the questionnaire to fill out to achieve “Patriot Points,” which characterizes the dystopia being created.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Patti 209" - K[aren] G. Anderson (Alternative Truths, 2017)
The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) and others with similar policies. The focus is on the destruction of care for the elderly after the loss of Social Security and Medicare. The protagonist was one of the designers and founders of an old age home that had all the best conditions both for those living there and the environment. But with Social Security repealed and no Medicare, the home became just like the earlier nursing homes that provided minimal care. Conditions for the elderly outside this homes were worse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Persephone” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Tor.com, 2017)
Dystopia of a future with a deep divide between rich and poor.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pink Footed" - Marian Womack (b. 1975) (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
Dystopia in which most animals, and birds in particular, have disappeared.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Spanish author

“Portlandtown” - Elly Blue (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
The story is set in a future Oregon divided by Portlandtown, an authoritarian dictatorship with some limited technology and conflict within the leadership, and a rural area that is essentially anarchist that surrounds it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Preventive Maintenance” - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) (Little Blue Marble, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media, 2017.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Canadian author; Female author

Prime Meridian - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (b. 1981) (Innismouth Press, 2017)
A near future dystopia set in Mexico City in which a woman, who wants to join the colony on Mars, struggles to make a living and earn passage through the limited available work, such as hiring out as a temporary friend.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 408-455, with an editor’s note on 408; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 467-551.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Mexican author

Proof of Concept - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Tor, 2017)
The novel is set in a dystopian overpopulated world with most people living in huge hives with their survival threatened by climate change.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Rebel Seoul - Oh, Axie (Tu Books/Lee & Low, 2017)
Dystopia set in a future Seoul, South Korean where status is based on success in combat.
Keywords: Female author; Korean American author

“The Reformatory” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (Boston Review, 2017)
The dystopia of life for African-Americans in the South at an unspecified date.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Relics: A Fable” - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Dystopia that is brought about by building the wall between Mexico and the U.S., the reduction of education, the radical division between rich and poor, and the warehousing of the elderly poor, known as Relics, who live in single room shacks near the wall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Riding in Place" - Sarena Ulibarri (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which the Earth is recovering from environmental damage. One of the procedures used is to draft individuals to do work where they can see how and where, for example, energy and food are produced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Right Side of History” - Jane [Bryony] Rawson (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The story depicts a future in which humans are abandoning much that has been built and demolishing structures to make more room for animals. Not all humans do so voluntarily, but some choose to go through what is called “Transference” and become an animal. The two main characters, a married couple, make different choices. Australian female author.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Rings" - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2017)
A matriarchal dystopia where women buy male slaves, who they control through implanted rings, with the story focusing on a woman who has finally saved enough money to buy her first man.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 322-35. PSt
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Rumpelstiltskin” - Jane Elliott (Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2017)
A dystopia in which climate-change has brought famine.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/rumplestiltskin/ (February 2018). Interview with that author at https://reckoning.press/jane-elliott-interview-rumplestiltskin/
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Salt Line - Holly Goddard Jones (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2017)
Dystopia in which a tick-borne disease has devastated the U. S., which has built a wall to protect itself from the disease. The novel focuses on the relationships within a group taking an adventure tour past the wall and being captured by people who survive outside the wall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sand Runner - Vera Brook ([CreateSpace], 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which a young man competes in race which requires him to be physically upgraded. First volume of a series followed by Cage Runner. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2018, which is clearly a middle volume.
Keywords: Female author

"The Scent of Betrayal" - Jane Routley (b. 1962) (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
Climate-change dystopia set in a future Australia deeply divided by the wealthy living in urban archologies and the poor living in the hot, dusty countryside.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Secondborn - Amy A. Bartol (47North, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which the second child in a family is taken away by the government at eighteen. The young woman who is the protagonist comes from a privileged background but is still forced to join the military with other second children. First volume of a trilogy followed by Traitor Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2018, which is a typical middle volume in which various forces in the society are all trying to use the protagonist. In the third volume, Rebel Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2019, the protagonist faces betrayal on all sides.
Keywords: Female author; US author

See You in September - Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin, 2017)
The novel is set in New Zealand where a woman joins a farming collective that is the basis for an end-of-the-world cult and follows the woman’s life in the community and her parent’s attempts to get her to leave.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Selfish Bastards We Were” - Virginia O’Dine (49th Parallels, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Selling LipService - Tammy Baikie (Jacana Media, 2017)
Dystopia in which after a certain age everyone has to wear a corporate LipService patch that controls what is said, replacing individual speech with ads.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

“Sensing the Dust” - Eliza Chan (Persisten Visions, 2017)
The background to the story is a future authoritarian dystopia set in Hong Kong.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

“The Shadowed Forest” - Rati Mehrotra (Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty, 2017)
Dystopia in which everyone is expected to have a divide implanted so that everything that they and those they are with do and say is recorded.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Indian author

"Shelter" - Cynthia Marts (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
In a dystopia of extreme male chauvinism where women lose everything if not tied to a man, a small community of women support each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Show Stopper - Hayley Barker (Scholastic, 2017)
Dystopia in which immigrants are required to sell their children to a circus watched by the “Pures”. The novel focuses on the son of a high-ranking “Pure” who falls for one of the performers. A sequel, Show Stealer, is scheduled for late 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Signal Lost" - Gretchin Lair (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Flawed utopia in which chips that constantly record one’s health and report the results to everyone deals with, which results in restaurants and stores refusing to sell you anything that the chip says you can’t have.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Skinny Charlie’s Orbiting Teepee” - Pamela Rentz (Apex Magazine, 2017)
Satirical story set in a spaceship composed of Native American Indians and those pretending to be with conflicts among the tribes and a heavily bureaucratized system of rules.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

“‘Slippernet’: Is it ethical to force empathy on your enemy?” - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which fungi that produce empathy are integrated into a wide variety of products that then change behavior, but the question is not definitively answered.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 40-49. © 2018
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Solar Child” - Camille Meyers (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
The story is set in a future climate-change dystopia in which genetic engineering is presented positively as a way of developing humans who can live in the new climate. The scientists are opposed by those who see climate-change as God’s punishment of sinful humanity.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Space Between the Stars - Anne Corlett (Pan Macmillan, 2017)
A virus wipes most of the human race on Earth and on the colony worlds. A few survivors on one of the colony worlds returns to Earth, where they discover a group of survivors that are instituting a required, controlled breeding program. Some of them escape to Scotland where they live a simple life that attracts other survivors, and a community develops.
U. S. ed. New York: Berkeley, 2017.
Keywords: English author; Female author

A Spider Sat Beside Her - K[aren] E. Lanning (b. 1957) (Author, 2017)
After the ice has melted and much of the world is under water, Antarctica is in the beginning stages of development and settlement. What remains of Canada and the U.S. have become one country. Much of the action takes place on a much-expanded international space station, which is threatened by those on Earth opposed to the exploitation of what remains. First volume of the Melt Trilogy followed by The Sting of the Bee. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2018, in which there is a struggle to claim the newly available Antarctica for settlement; and Listen to the Birds. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2019, which is concerned with issues that arise after Antarctica is established as a new nation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Star Is Born” - Miki Dare (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017)
Dystopia in which Canada interns all its Asian population.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Street Life in the Emerald City” - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
Technology, including surveillance technology being used to end homelessness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“SUBJECT# 004505951” - Karen Heslop (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2017)
Dystopia in the form of a report on an experiment on how to reduce the population.
Keywords: Female author; Jamaican author

“Swan Song to a Gold-Plated Mausoleum” - Priya Sridhar (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The story is set at the end of the Trump era amid the celebrations over his death.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Terra Nullius - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) (Hachette Australia, 2017)
The novel is set within the dystopia of colonialism.
U.S. ed. Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Time Travel is Only for the Poor” - S. L. Huang (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2017)
The story is set in a future with a deep rich/poor divide, and the rich have passed a law requiring the poor to be frozen for awakening in 500 to a thousand years when, supposedly, compound interest will have made them rich. The story is told from the point-of-view of a street person who wants to stay where he is.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 351-65.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tomorrow’s Kin. Book 1 of the Tomorrow’s Kin Trilogy - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Tor, 2017)
First volume of a trilogy that begins with first contact with people from another planet who originated from Earth based on her novella Yesterday’s Kin San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2014. There are dystopian elements as a disease that many, but not all, people of Earth are immune to spreads. Various plot lines are left for the forthcoming volumes. The second volume in the series is If Tomorrow Comes: Book 2 of the Yesterday’s Kin Trilogy. New York: Tor, 2018. In it, people from Earth travel to the World, the planet that the others had come from, but do not find the advanced civilization they expected. Again, various plot lines are left for the final volume, Terran Tomorrow. Book 3 of the Tomorrow’s Kin Trilogy. New York: Tor, 2019. In this volume, a mixed group of people from Earth and the World return to an Earth that has been devastated by plague and warfare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Toward the Sun" - Sydnee Thompson (Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia in which the rich shelter in cities, and the poor, who work outside are forced to wear implants that control their bodies and do what they can to survive.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Trans Liberty Riot Brigade. Book 1 - L[indsay] M. Pierce (Ninestar Press, 2017)
Walled dystopia at war with all its neighbors and trying to control its population. Being transgender is illegal and a group transgender people struggle to survive and manage to escape at the end. First volume in a planned series.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Transitions" - Eileen [Katherine] Gunn (b. 1945) (Seat 14 C [No longer available online], 2017)
All the stories in the original online anthology are present as if the protagonists had been on a flight that landed twenty years after it took off. A list can be found at https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?673124. In this story, the protagonist is a Black, female, engineer and is primarily concerned with her thoughts about how she will fit in and meeting her husband, who has remarried, her son and his wife and her grandchildren, and her parents. It takes place in a future U.S. that has broken up into nine sections, controlled by oligarchs.
Rpt. in her Night Shift plus Ursula and the Author plus Promised Lands and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022), 65-76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Trash Goes in the Ground” - Kelly Rose Pflug-Back (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2017)
Flash fiction set in a polluted future.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Treasures" - Rebecca McFarland Kyle (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which all scientists are imprisoned after being blamed for causing diseases and bringing about natural disasters.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Triage - [Tamela] [Larimer] (b. 1968) (Indigo Hour Press, 2017)
The story is set in a future dystopia brought about by the establishment in the U.S. of required, but underfunded, universal health care. Every hospital has a specified number of beds with no hope of more and is required to choose between those who can continue to receive care and those who are ejected to die.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Tricks Are Not For Kids” - Melissa R. Mendelson (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The violent dystopian future brought about by Trump’s policies, which have led to starvation and food only available for the rich.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Trivalent” - Rivqa Rafael (Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures, 2017)
The story is set in a future Australia beginning to recover from severe environmental damage and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases.
Rpt. illus. Little Blue Marble (November 8, 2017) https://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/11/08/trivalent/
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"The Trump Brand" - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
Dystopia in which Trump puts his brand everywhere, including the moon, which displays an ad for Ivanka Trump’s clothing line and the White, now Trump, House.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Trumperor and the Nightingale” - Diana Hauer (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Satire on Donald Trump (b. 1946) as U.S. President.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Uncertain Grace - Krissy Kneen (b. 1968) (Text Publishing, 2017)
The novel is set in a future in which technology allows people to communicate their experiences to others, it is possible to create synthetic humans as test subjects, and people can transform their own bodies. Emphasis on sexual experience.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Understanding" - Kelsey M. Young (Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Authors, 2017)
The story is set in Milan, which is named after the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf held in Milan in 1880 that concluded that speech rather than signing was the best approach to deaf education. The story is told from the point-of-view of someone hired by a university to help hard-of-hearing students cope. Signing is not permitted, and many teachers deliberately make it hard for hard-of-hearing students to succeed. See also 2013 Young.
Keywords: Deaf author; Female author; US author

Unregistered - Megan Lynch (City Owl Press, 2017)
A dystopia with in a one child limit, with each child registered and assigned a life with everything chosen for them. The novel focuses on what happens to the unregistered second children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Useless Citizen Act” - Ellis S. J. Sangster (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
A dystopia in which from twenty-five to eighty-five, everyone must prove themselves to be a useful citizen, the criteria for which is set out, or be killed.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Vanilla Rice" - Angela Yuriko Smith (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017)
The story is about the difficulty of choosing the looks of a child before it is born and the effect on the child. It appears to be a set in a society where police must be paid directly for their service.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Walks Home Alone at Night” - Wondra Vanian (Alternative Truth, 2017)
The dystopia of the present in which it is dangerous for a hijab wearing woman to walk alone at night. But in the story, the woman and her friends fight back.
Keywords: Female author; US author; Welsh author

“The Wandering Library” - D. K. Mok (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The story begins in a dystopia brought about by scientific overreach, particularly, genetic manipulation of animals that produce many dangerous new ones. The story though is mostly about the way people adapted and were creating a good life for themselves within the dystopian surroundings.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Want - Cindy Pon (b. 1973) (Simon Pulse, 2017)
Young adult dystopia set in a society in which the rich can afford protection against the damaged environment and the poor cannot.
Keywords: Female author; Taiwanese author; US author

“Waving at Trains” - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (Boston Review, 2017)
Dystopia in which climate change has killed most people.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

“We’re Still Here” - Rebecca McFarland Kyle (Alternative Truths, 2017)
A dystopia in which fake news is put out by the government to implicate illegal Mexican refugees in a riot that destroys a city in Texas. When pictures of the intact town leak out, the government destroys the town.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“‘What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed’: Comforting the comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted” - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story is set in a future where Trump remains president, is implement his policies while trying to cancel the next election, Florida is under water, but climate-change deniers are in power, and so forth, and the protagonist writes fake news for a living.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“What We Knew Then, Before the Sky Fell Down” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction, 2017)
Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia set in a collapsed Seattle Pike Place Market. The focus of the story is on a woman who is search for information that will help people recover from the disaster.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Where the Water Meets the Land” - Caitlin Demaris McKenna (49th Parallels, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Wilders: Project Earth Book One - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2017)
The novel is set in the megacity Seacouver (A merged Seattle and Vancouver) and the surrounding ecological disaster zone and focuses on the search by a young woman for her sister, who had left the city some years earlier. First volume in a series followed by Keeper: Project Earth Book Two. Amherst, NY: Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2018. In this volume the woman and her sister work to reintroduce wolves into the wilderness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Wispy Chastening” - D. A. Xiaolin Spires (Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2017)
In a future with major environmental damage, individuals who contributed to the damage, ranging from littering to dumping poisons in the water, are punished with very realistic bad dreams or extreme nightmares.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/a-wispy-chastening/ (January 11, 2018).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Woman Walks into a Bar” - Jill Zeller (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which women are being systematically suppressed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Wretched and the Beautiful” - E. Lily Yu (Terraform, 2017)
Dystopian allegory on alien refugees and their mistreatment on Earth written in response to Executive Order 13769 banning travel to the U.S. In her Contributor’s Note, the author says, “It was as close as I come to pitching a brick through a window.” For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu. The author, artist, and editor donated their fees to the International Rescue Committee.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 258-64, with a contributor’s note on 354; 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), 349-357; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 105-114.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“You and Me and the Deep Dark Sea” - Jess[ica] Barber (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia set in an earthquake and flooding ravaged Los Angeles.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“You Need Me At the River” - Linda Rogers (b. 1944) (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
The story is set in future impacted by climate change in which, for example, no animals that produce methane are allowed for food.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"You, Robot" - Melissa Yuan-Innes (49th Parallels, 2017)
The story is set in a future Canada that has largely replaced doctors with expensive robots and effectively limited medical care to the rich.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"2222" - Goldie Locks [pseud?] (Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
The story is told from the viewpoint of a gay couple deciding what to tell their daughter about the dystopia, Russia in 2222, they live in that is anti-gay, has a stringent eugenic policy, and is so poor that it cannot educate good engineers.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/2222/ (February 6, 2017).
Keywords: Female author; Lesbian author; Russian author

“5AM Saint” - Elaine Gallagher (Thirty Years of Rain, 2016)
The story is set in a religious dystopia set on killing all who they consider deviants.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author