“Accensa Domo Proximi” - Cameron Neil Ishee (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story is set in a future inland, sustainable city with the protagonist remembering the islands off the coast where he was born that no longer exist. The title comes from “Accensa domo proximi, tua quoque periclitatur” or When the house of your neighbor burns, your own home is likewise in danger” as given in the text.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Blossoming” - Guglielmo Miccolupi; Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story is set in a future Italy and focuses on a young man trying to decide his future in a society where “The Universal Basics, things like guaranteed housing, health care, education, and food, ensure that everyone has a good, dignified life no matter whether they can work at all.”
Keywords: English author; Female author; Italian author; Male author

“Cabbage Koora: A Prognostic Autobiography” - Sanjana Sekhar (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story is set in what remains of Los Angeles in 2023, 2047, 2077 and is told from the perspective of a South Asian woman who reflects on the changes that are brought about due to climate change and the way they, over time, are met. Cabbage koora is a dish grandmother and mother made which, in 2047 she cannot make because cabbage requires too much water. In 2077, she is growing cabbages for the first time.
Keywords: Female author; South-Indian American author

“A Gift of Coconuts” - Melissa Gunn (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story, set in Aotearoa New Zealand and using Māori myth, takes place on what has become the coastline as a family works to survive and protect their coconut farm as one of the new super storms approaches.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“Gifts We Give to the Sea” - Dinara Tengri (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
Climate change dystopia set on the shore of the dried out Aral Sea. A glossary of the Kazakh words used in the story is provided at the beginning.
Keywords: Female author; Kazakh author; Swedish author

“The Imperfect Blue Marble” - Rae Mariz (b. 1981) (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story is set in a future after the twenty-first century, known as the “blip generation”. The focus of the story is a non-verbal, autistic boy and his interaction with others in his community.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish author; US author

“La Sirène” - Karen Engelsen (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story takes place in a climate change future where New Orleans has disappeared under the water and, due to the chemicals that had polluted the area, many children are born with no legs but with what appears to be a single fin.
Keywords: Female author; Neurodivergent author; Norwegian American author

“The Last Almond” - Zoe Young (Grist/Imagine2200 2024, 2024)
The story is set in California in 2058 and 2090 and concerns the destruction in 2058 of almond trees and the community near them due to flooding following a long drought followed in 2090 with, in a different part of California, the depiction of a way that almond trees and communities could survive even with drought and floods.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“To Labor for the Hive” - Jamie Liu (Grist/Imagine2200 2024, 2024)
The story is set in a community in a near future China dealing with climate-change, particularly extreme storms, and focuses on beehousing, which involves establishing nesting areas for wild bees that can, apparently help predict such storms. The utopian aspects of the story relate to the way that the community involves everyone and provides a refuge for needing help.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Alkebulan: The Garden Eden Project” - Amanda Ilozumba [Otitochukwu] (Solarpunk Magazine, 2023)
The story is set in a future Africa devastated by climate change, and using African and other myths tells of a quest that could lead to Earth's healing.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author

The Alphabet Tax - Rosa Woolf Ainley (Grand Iota UK, 2023)
An odd novel in which the price of a universal welfare system that appears to have created utopia is silence.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“At Every Door a Ghost” - Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story is set in a future where AI has gone wrong and killed thousands of people.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Broodmare" - Flossie Arend (Fantasy, 2023)
The protagonist of the story is a woman who regularly travels over the fortified border between Texas and surrounding states to assist women who need an abortion, which is illegal in Texas.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Camp Zero. A Novel - Michelle Min Sterling (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Complex novel with numerous themes speaking to current issues set in a climate change future. Camp Zero is an experimental community in northern Canada that will teach survival skills.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

The Chaperone - M. Hendrix (b. 1970) (Sourcebooks Fire/Sourcebooks, 2023)
Young adult dystopia in which in the future New America girls are always chaperoned with no contact with boys except in formal Visitations. And girls get only the basic education required to make them fit to be wives and mothers and higher education is closed to them. The protagonist is a girl being raised in these circumstances who learns, almost against her will, something of Old America
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Democracy in America” - Allegra Hyde (The Massachusetts Review, 2023)
The story focuses on “consignment” by which poor, young women, and some men, can sell their youthful looks to the rich elderly. Also notes the exploitation of immigrants; “desperation could be monetized” (155). 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), 143-173.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Finery - Rachel Grosvenor (Fly on the Wall Press, 2023)
The Finery are the police in an authoritarian system and appear to be all-powerful until they confront a centenarian and her wolf.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Flavours of Memory” - Catherine Weaver (Little Blue Marble, 2023)
The story is set in a future where a plague has wiped out almost all plants, including all those monoculture used in intensive farming. A few families had saved varied seeds, managed to grow them in enclosures, and trade them to re-introduce agriculture.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Giver and the World Remade” - E. Lily Yu (Tor.com, 2023)
The story takes place in a future where much land has been flooded and some people have created a society of mutual aid among those living on rafts that they have built out of whatever they could salvage from the water, with raftmates who, for example, weaves houses, another who is a cobbler, and another who makes clothes. The focus of the story is that one the cobbler, the youngest of the three yearns to see the almost mythical land, where other people live with what remains of technology.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gone Wolf - Amber McBride (Feiwell and Friends, 2023)
Young adult dystopia set partially in 2111 in an area known as the Bible Boot, consisting of thirteen former states or parts of states of the US), that is divided into Clones (white) and Blues (black) with the Blues, some of whom are genetic matches of Clones and kept so that their organs can be harvested as needed. In this section every chapter concludes Flash Card explaining the system. The rest of the novel is set in 2022, and each chapter ends with a flash card on Black History for Kids.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Here Instead of There” - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971); Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964); Elizabeth Bear [pseud.] (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story takes place in a future US where all services, including weather forecasts and storm warnings, have been privatized and are only available to those who have paid for the service. Its focus is a band living on an abandoned seasteading platform.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The History of a Coral Future” - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories, 2023)
The story is set in a future recovering from climate change in which all species are considered part of one community and interact with each other constantly and peacefully.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Immechanica - E. F. Coleman (Luminastra Press, 2023)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Interview with an Oak" - Ana Reisens (Solarpunk Magazine, 2023)
In the interview, the oak talks to the human (soft skin) journalist about the early cooperation with humans, the devastation caused by human greed, and meeting a young woman who was able to talk to it. The journalist then recounts the impact of the young woman’s transcription of their talks, including the discovery of many other humans talking with trees, and the growing cooperation between humans and trees.
Keywords: Female author

Land of Milk Honey - C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990) (Riverhead Books/Penguin Riverhead Books, 2023)
The setting is a post-catastrophe dystopia in which a smog produced by agricultural tests in the United States covers the world and kills most of the plants and animals. The novel, though, follows a woman chef who is recruited by a wealthy man who has created a community of the extremely wealthy above the smog in the Swiss mountains and her experiences their and after the smog dissipates.
Keywords: Chinese American author; Female author

The Language of Water - Elizabeth Clark-Stern (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
The novel is set in a future where there is too much water in some places and too little in others, with the focus on the latter.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Less Than" - Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story takes place in Free India in which everyone is free and equal and has replace the authoritarian Regime in which only some people were acceptable. It turns out, though, that new internet is being used to manipulate individuals to produce what are perceived to be a eugenically superior next generation.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"Longevity" - Anya Ow (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2023)
The story is set in a future that has passed the climate change Redline and requires technology, including implants to survive. The population is divided between the Forevers, those with implants who are close to immortals, and the UnEdited, who are exploited to support the lives of the Forevers. The focus is on the growing relationship between a Forever who helps an UnEdited, who leads a movement to reverse the effects of climate change.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Singaporean author

“A Message from the Moonlight” - Wagner, Wendy N. (Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, 2023)
The story is set in a community separate from the New United States (shrunk by climate change) that has developed a culture based on everyone contributing equally. Visitors from the New U.S. who want to move there must spend three separate week long visits to learn the culture before applying. Part of the focus is on the evil that resides in what had been slave pens and the use of magic to diminish its power.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Midnight Serenade” - J. Dianne Dotson (Solarpunk Magazine, 2023)
The story is obviously a eutopia based on exceptionally advanced biologically based technology, but there is little detail. It is within the sub-genre of Lunarpunk or night-based societies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The One Who Came Back to Heal” - Cynthia Gómez (b. 1958) (Strange Horizons, 2023)
One of the many responses to Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973), and here one of those who had walked away returns as a healer for the child with the story recounting the process.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Project F - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Random House/Penguin Random House, 2023)
Young adult novel that takes place in a post-climate catastrophe future that has been rebuilt on a much smaller scale, presented as a positive change. Live was simple and peaceful, without cars or wars. The focus of the story, Project F, is a secret plan to bring back the pre-catastrophe way of life.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Promise" - Rona Fernandez (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
The story takes place in a climate-change ravaged future and focuses on a young man and a young woman orphaned and sent to The Collective where they are fed, clothed, housed, and given work within an authoritarian regime.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina American author

“Property of PAUSE Ltd.” - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
PAUSE Ltd. is a company rather like Amazon that delivers goods in a society with deep rich/poor divisions whose drivers are the property of the country and live in their trucks with their families.
Keywords: Canadian author; Chinese author; Female author

“The Robot Whisperer” - Holly Schofield (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
The story is set in a climate-change future seen through the memories of a now old woman who had fled to a rural community trying to live sustainably after her hacking exploits that revealed the corruption in her home city were traced to her.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Scent of Green” - Ana Sun (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
The story is set in a community that was established as an eco-resort but was unable to survive as a business during the collapse of the economy due to climate change. Much later, it is one of a number of settlements that survived and are learning to cooperate to solve their problems. He protagonist is a woman whose job is to move from community to community to try to find those solutions.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Malaysian Borneo author

“Tears Down the Wall” - Michèle Laframboise (b. 1960) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2023)
The story concerns homelessness, most of whom live in tents attached to the side of tall buildings, in a city that depends on their labor to support the tourist-based economy and the wealthy who own all the property. The title is a reference to watching the tents being lowered to the ground in the morning.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Timid Librarian” - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) (Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, 2023)
The story is set in what is clearly a eutopia celebrating an important festival, but the ending is pure fantasy in which as part of the festival individuals change from female to male or male to female.
Keywords: Female author; US author

To the Woman in the Pink Hat - LaToya Jordan (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
The protagonist is a young black woman who is an SU (Stolen Uteruses), one of many who have had their uteruses removed to be used to produced babies for infertile white women. She is being held in a prison-like institution the purports to be training Leaders.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

When We Hold Each Other Up - Phoebe Wagner (Android Press, 2023)
The work is set in a future after the ecological collapse brought on by the Capitalocene, but people known as Harmonizers are able to help heal the poisoned environment, and a City and some areas have evolved positive societies. The plot is driven, though, by some Harmonizers who want to enlarge the city, and their own power, to the cost of these positive societies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Woman of the River” - Genevieve Williams (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2023)
The story is set on the Duwamish River south of Seattle in a future where it has been restored and concerns a debate over further restoration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Alt-Dream" - Merryana Salem (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which population control requires an early death at a time set by the government.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Transgender author

“Anamnesis/Anamnesi” - Rupsa Dey (Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente, 2022)
A complex story set in a future dominated by AI and pills that controls dreams.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

Arboreality - Rebecca Campbell (b. 1975) (Stelliform Press, 2022)
The novel is set on Vancouver Island in north of Victoria, which has been largely destroyed by flooding and fire, and follows a community over a few generations as individuals contribute to its survival by salvaging and repurposing both the artifacts and some of the knowledge of the past, particularly knowledge of plants. It is composed of stories set in the same future as her “An Important Failure.” Clarkesworld, no. 167 (August 2020). https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/campbell_08_20/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_20c/, which won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short story published in 2021 and is reprinted on 34-66. Canadian female author.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"August 2029" - Genevieve Grieves (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
The story is told as the first issue of a community newsletter, the Murrnong Community Dispatch. In it, the Aboriginal community welcomes all members of the community including the many refugees that it is accepting and discusses the issues facing the community and some of the plans to deal with them.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Balikbayan” - Nadine Aurora Tabing (Solarpunkmagazine.com, 2022)
Flash fiction set in the Philippines The Balikbayan Program was established to encourage oversees Filipinos like the protagonist to visit the Philippines. He finds the river near his home badly polluted and develops programs to return it to its natural state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Black Waters" - Lisa Short (Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet, 2022)
The story is set in a climate change future where the coasts of the U.S. are under water, and people have fled to the Midwest. The protagonist is a woman searching for a job who is hired as a tester of the toxic water of the Missouri River.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Blue Nation” - Rasha Barrage (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story concerns the attempt to get the world’s oceans recognized as a nation and the reasons for doing so. Two other stories in the book are connected to this one, Brian Burt, “OasIS” (102-112), and Steve Willis, “Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide" (296-304). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/oceans-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Iraqi author

"The Brave Dress" - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a future United States damaged by climate change. It focuses on a family, a trans couple and their daughter, who are members of the Religious Order of Restorationists, a group devoted to restoring the depleted land, after which they then moved on to another area that needed work.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Checkerboard” - Thoraiya Dyer (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures., 2022)
Climate change dystopia in which the heat is so intolerable that “Birds dropped dead from the skies. Old people dropped dead in the streets” (349). But the rich in what are called shadowhouses, while the poor lived wherever they could survive. The story follows a number of characters from the lower classes as they make do and try to bring about change.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Climate Gamers” - D[enise] A. Baden; Martin Hastie; Steve Willis (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story is about a challenge to gamers to compete, initially as teams, to produce a scenario within 28 days that would get below the goal of 1.5 Centigrade increase in temperature working against other teams and the effects of their changes. The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Company Town” - Aimee Ogden (Clarkesworld, 2022)
On one dimension, the story is about a future company town that controls all aspects of its workers lives. On other dimensions, it is concerned with the growing resistance to and subversion of the company and the complicated love of two women who are involved in the resistance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The CRISPR Cookbook: A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Abortion in a Post-Roe World” - Mkrnyilgld [pseud.] (Lightspeed Magazine, 2022)
The title of the story says what is about in the context of a future where every pregnant woman is assigned a minder to ensure that all her actions during her pregnancy are designed to benefit the unborn child. A second CRISPR Cookbook story is ““The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destruction, to Be Forcibly Implanted into One Patriarchist at a Time.” Lightspeed Magazine, no. 162 (November 2023). <a href="https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-crispr-cookbook-chapter-two-a-guide-to-biohacking-your-own-eggs-into-weapons-of-destruction-to-be-forcibly-implanted-into-one-patriarchist-at-a-time/" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue; text-decoration:underline">https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-crispr-cookbook-chapter-two-a-guide-to-biohacking-your-own-eggs-into-weapons-of-destruction-to-be-forcibly-implanted-into-one-patriarchist-at-a-time/. The female author is a biologist. An interview with the author by Mayookh Barua is available on Lightspeed Magazine, no. 162 (November 2023). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-mkrnyilgld/, where she says that she expects there will need for a further CRISPR Cookbook story.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dispatch" - Zena Cumptson (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
Aboriginal Australians had survived the COVID pandemic much better than other Australians because, given systematic neglect by government, Aboriginal communities had evolved effective grassroots services. The story is presented as The Moreton-Robinson Annual Address Barak University BLAKFULLAS Campus in 2029. BLAKFULLAS stands for Blak Lives And Knowledge Fundamental University Living knowledge Living culture And Solidarity). The lecture follows the development of the university and its teaching and development of Aboriginal knowledge in response to the ongoing crises.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Dissent: A Five-Course Meal [With Suggested Pairings]” - Aimee Ogden (Lightspeed, 2022)
In the form of a menu with courses and pairings, the stages of dissent against a regime suppressing the LBGTQA+ people are shown, starting with protests.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Doloriad - Missouri Williams (b. 1992) (MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)
Odd survivalist dystopia centering initially on a brother and sister and the children they have, most of whom are born without various limbs.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley” - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, 2022)
The story is set in a future where a drone delivery runs the area like a company town with the workers required to pay rent to live in barracks and buy everything they need from the company store with any, even slight, dissent leading to being fired. The focus, though, is on three teenagers who develop a system for capturing the drones and stealing what they are carrying.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Electric Waterfalls” - Ruth Joffre (khōréō magazine, 2022)
A love story set in the far, far future Arctic as Earth slowly recovers from climate change.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Everything Feels Like the End of the World - Fitzgerald, Else (Allen & Unwin, 2022)
The work is composed of thirty-seven short stories, some very short, most of which reflect the title and show the impact of climate change. Two stories, set further in the future are somewhat different. “All the Parts, Assembled” (181-193) is set during the “great exodus” from Earth to colonies that are described as pre-industrial. On Earth, population growth still outstrips the number leaving, and only those who can pay for the right are allowed to have children, and the children are created by genetic technology companies to the parents’ specifications. “The Gift” (209-218) is set in a future where a family must kill a family member for every child born. Some stories were previously published: “River” (1-9) published in Victorian Writer (2014) and in Award Winning Australian Writing (2015); “Feather/Stone” (12-18) ) published in Cardiff Review, Wales (2015) and in Offset Journal, awarded best prose award for that collection (2015); an extract from “Fertile Ground” (19-28) was published in The Guardian (2019); “Find you in green” (137-141) was published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2018);“Whale Teeth” (145-151) published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2017); “Felidae” (219-225) published in the Hunter Writers Centre Anthology (2018); and “Sheen” (241-248) was published in Joiner Bay & other stories, Margaret River Press (2017). “Final Broadcast” (235-240) is in English and zeros and ones and there is a note on page 252 that says, “To decode the Final Broadcast, go to elsefitzgerald.com/final-broadcast,” but that page has no way of doing so.
Some stories were previously published: “River” (1-9) published in Victorian Writer (2014) and in Award Winning Australian Writing (2015); “Feather/Stone” (12-18) ) published in Cardiff Review, Wales (2015) and in Offset Journal, awarded best prose award for that collection (2015); an extract from “Fertile Ground” (19-28) was published in The Guardian (2019); “Find you in green” (137-141) was published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2018);“Whale Teeth” (145-151) published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2017); “Felidae” (219-225) published in the Hunter Writers Centre Anthology (2018); and “Sheen” (241-248) was published in Joiner Bay & other stories, Margaret River Press (2017).
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Everything for Everybody: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 - M. E. O’Brien; Eman Abdelhadi (Common Notions, 2022)
Pretty much what the title says presented as interviews with the revolutionaries who brought about the change together with an introduction that gives the history of the initial insurrection and its key dimensions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Exhausted Wells” - Tee Linden (from the Waste Land: Stories Inspired by TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, 2022)
The story is set in a future where Earth has been mostly abandoned and multiple attempts to terraform other planets have failed. It takes place on an ice planet where another attempt is taking place.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Fifteen Days on Mars” - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
A dystopia set in a standard Australian suburb, which is Mars to the Aboriginal protagonist, where she lives with her mother who was hoping to help the suburbanites understand the powers of the land where they had settled.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Floating Island” - Grace Dugan (b. 1981) (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set on an artificial island that travels around the Pacific Ocean in a future where many of the islands have been submerged.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Food for the Soul" - Elnora Gunter (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2022)
The story is set in the ninth ward of New Orleans some years after hurricane Katrina. The Coastals eat only beneficial and nutritious food and have outlawed the use of all spices, including salt and pepper.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Forbidden Voices” - E. J. Delaney (Cast of Wonders, 2022)
The story is set in Romania in a future where all written material is owned individually and must be paid for to be read or recited.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Forest Awaits” - Lyndsey Croal (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The protagonist is an old woman visiting a project she and her husband had fought for and developed over many years to create a forest of kelp that sucks up carbon dioxide and reflecting on the changes in the better in the world over the years. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/seagrass-kelp/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Ghost Ship" - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, 2022)
The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.
Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 251-270.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Girls Home" - Mykaela Saunders (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
A future Aboriginal community chooses, without their knowledge, girls who are drugged to temporarily eliminate their memories to put in the dystopian girl’s home conditions that their forebearers were forced to endure. In the story, the girls find the inner resources to fight back as a community and escape, which appears to be the point.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author; Queer author

“Give Me English” - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which words are a medium of exchange.
Keywords: Canadian author; Chinese author; Female author

“History Repeating” - Lisa Fuller (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
In a future Australia, Aboriginal children are taken from their families by force and put on a spaceship and sent off Earth, a space age version of what was actually done in Australia.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

Hope. A History of the Future. A Novel - G[ayle] G. Kellner (SparkPress/BookParts/SparkPoint Studio, 2022)
The novel traces six generations of a family 1967 to 2142. In 2042 the Universal Bill of Rights and Responsibilities is signed by world leaders and creates a sustainable eutopia. The book includes a “Timeline of Fictional Events and Characters on x-xi, a poem “Falling Up” by the author on 233, an “Imagined Universal Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (2042)” on 235-239, “Discussion Questions” on 241-242, an “Appendix of Actual Historical Documents and Photographs on 243-310.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“I Give You the Moon” - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) (Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, 2022)
The story is set in a depopulated but high-tech future after a slow apocalypse produced by diseases and climate change. It focuses on a man living on the African coast helping to regulate the machines that are cleaning up the oceans and living in a simple hut on the beach living off the credits he earns and his interactions with his son and others, mostly at a distance through an unexplained wireless system.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“I Hope This Email Does Not Find You” - S.G. Baker (2022)
The story is set in an abandoned mall after government has disappeared and the power grid lost. The focus is a woman in a wheelchair who was left behind and the community develops as others join her living in the mall.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 12-21, with a note on the author on 20-21.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“If We Make It Through This Alive” - A[liza] T. Greenblatt (Slate Future Tense, 2022)
The story is set during a road race across an almost deserted future United States.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Immortal King Rao. A Novel - Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton, 2022)
A complex novel that is part family history set in a future Hothouse Planet that is nearing the end of human habitability governed by the Shareholder Government (a mega-corporation with shareholders rather than citizens). An algorithm known as Algol constantly judges each person’s Social Capitol ranking, There are also areas outside Shareholder Government control known as the Blanklands that are anarchist-communist enclaves where people known as Exes live.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

January Fifteenth - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) (Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates, 2022)
The novel explores the impact Universal Basic Income (UBI), January 15 being the day each year that every American receives theirs, illustrating what works well and how the system might go wrong.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Jetta” - Judy Upton (b. 1967) (C.A.T.S. in Space: Cycling Across Time and Space: 11 Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which a wealthy suburb contracts with a company to provide security drones and security androids to replace the police that the nearby city no longer provides. Crime is rampant due to extreme poverty in the city, and most people in the suburb work from home.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Kingston Gourmet" - Ashaya Brown (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2022)
Set in the 22nd century, Earth has made contact with intelligent aliens on another planet but is having difficulty communicating with them because they seem to be only interested in food. They, reflecting this, assume that the best cooks on Earth are its leaders.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

“The Last Brown Roof” - Temitayo Olofinlua [Amogunla] (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a struggle between developers and the protectors of heritage in a future Lagos.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author

“Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates” - L. D. Lewis (Lightspeed, 2022)
The story is set in a city parts pf which are flooded but with many of the inhabitants still living there because they have no place else to go. The story takes place as the wealthy, who control the city, are beginning to push those inhabitants out so that the area can be reclaimed for the rich.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Letter to J at the Eve of the Hunt” - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
Very brief story in the form of a letter to the younger self of the letter writer. While much of the story is about the limits of the means of communication, the setting is the impact of climate change and the way the future is coping with them.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

“A Letter to My Daughter, Emily” - E[lizabeth] E[ve] King; Richard Lau (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change, and the letter described the slow recovery and some unexpected effects of that recovery.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Life in the City" - Endria Isa Richardson (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a future where the State, having decided that there were too many people, chose to annually cull the population, leaving only the wealthy and those who fled to the remains of abandoned cities. The story focuses those in the city, those who chose to “walk away,” and how they treat each other.
Keywords: Black author; Female author; Gay author; Malaysian American author

“Light into the Abyss” - Sarena Ulibarri (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a solar powered cafe in a future damaged by climate change. It focuses on plastic waste.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Light Pirate - Lily Brooks-Dalton (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, 2022)
The novel begins as a contemporary climate-change novel in follows a woman born during a hurricane in Florida through the development of the dystopia that develops as the climate gets worse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Longest Breath” - Lisa Beebe (Prism Review, 2022)
The story takes place in a Florida retirement home that overlooks a city that is now underwater from the viewpoint of an old Japanese woman who had been a professional diver whose daughter had brought her from Japan and put her in the home.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (March 10, 2023). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/03/10/the-longest-breath/
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Lucky Ones: Patience is a Virtue” - Aimee Ogden (Nature, 2022)
Dystopia of extreme rich/poor division in a near future United States.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Map of What Comes Next: Tales to Tell” - Aimee Ogden (Nature, 2022)
The cycle of the seasons in a future experiencing the effects of climate change that has broken humanity up into isolated communities with limited abilities to communicate among communities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer - Janelle [Robinson] Monáe (b. 1985) (Harper Voyager, 2022)
The novel is set in a surveillance dystopia in which memories are surveilled and forcibly erased if unacceptable to regime. Significant concerns with race and gender of all varieties. All of the issues are seen through a variety of lenses. A Dirty Computer is an android who refuses to abide by the rules of the authoritarian society in which they live and subject to “cleaning” or having their memories removed. They originated with Monáe’s 2018 album Dirty Computer. The album was followed by the 2018 film Dirty Computer that can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE&ab_channel=JanelleMon%C3%A1e. For full credits, see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8343642/fullcredits. The film was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Men - Sandra Newman (b. 1965) (Granta, 2022)
In the novel, everyone with a Y chromosome disappears, and while those remaining sort out a new, apparently safer civilization and new gender roles, the men suddenly appear on video footage seemingly depicting them on an alien planet.
U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press/Grove Atlantic, 2022.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Merry Christmas from the Bremmers: It’s been quite a year” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Nature, 2022)
A family Christmas letter written in a post-apocalypse future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Naked Earth" - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set in a climate change future where society is divided into three class, the embracers who do everything possible to personally produce power that is sent to the grid. The unshackled do as they like, and the undecided are essentially outcasts who pay a heavy price for their agnostic position. The protagonist is a young women trying to decide.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author; Tanzanian author

“Nimeybirra” - Laniyuk (This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction, 2022)
The story in the form of notes from various people to others, some deceased, begins in 2086 and continues until 2157, and the returns to April 2021 in a note from the author. The notes follow the gradual taking back of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand by its indigenous peoples with the final entry a statement of the original impetus.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng (b. 1980) (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House, 2022)
The novel is set in a future United States under the PACT (Preserving American Values Act) that “Outlaws promotion of un-American values and behaviour. Requires all citizens to report potential threats to our society. Protects children from environments espousing harmful views” (21). Systematically removing books from libraries, removing children from their parents, and incarcerating anyone with a view the regime dislike are among the methods used to enforce the law. China is blamed for almost everything. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young boy whose mother, a poet, disappeared, and whose best friend is taken, and he searches for them and for his mother’s books. An “Author’s Note” (327-331) explains the origins and some of the influences and sources for the novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Out of Ash” - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Slate Future Tense, 2022)
A climate change story set in Washington state in which Olympia, the state capital, had to be abandoned, a ten-foot seawall protects Seattle and will be raised as needed, and the governor of the state is trying to find ways to encourage people to move to New Olympia, the city built as the new seat of government.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Oyarsu--Terraforming Earth” - Dooshima Tsee (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2022)
The protagonist of the story is an old woman living in tunnels under countries in northeast Africa where her people went many years ago to escape the heat and devastation brought about by climate change and war. In the story, people from the Overground of Libya want to negotiate to buy a Nuclear Fusion reactor that the people of the Underground had recently developed.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author; Zambian author

Poster Girl - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (A John Joseph Adams Book/William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2022)
Surveillance dystopia. Discussion Questions on 273.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) (Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates, 2022)
Second volume of two following 2021 Chambers, A Psalm for the Weild-Built. In this volume, Dex and Mosscap travel across Panga visiting people trying to get the answer to the question the robots have of what do humans need and how can the robots help. They first visit a prosperous woodland village, then an equally prosperous riverside village, a small oceanside settlement that is strongly against technology, and the monk’s family, before heading toward their intended last stop, the City. But they take a detour during which they consider what they have learned. One practice appears to be the standard means of exchange, the Peb or Digital Pebble which are given by one person for a service rendered and then that person gives it to another for their service, all recorded on pocket computers. Dex explains that “the point of a peb exchange is to acknowledge someone’s labor and thank them for what they bring to the community” (38).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Protective Acts” - Heather Marie Spitzberg (Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet, 2022)
The story is set in a future where all fauna and flora is valued, and it is a crime to hurt or kill any.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Rabbit Test" - Mills, Samantha (Uncanny Magazine, 2022)
The story moves both forward and backward in time depicting the effect of Dodds v. Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had made abortion legal. The forward material depicts the impact of decision of the women of one family over time. The backward material presents material on the historical availability of abortion. The story won the 2022 Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards for the best short story.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023. Ed. R[ebecca] F. Kuang (New York: Mariner Books, 2023), 80-98, with an author’s comment on the text on 278.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Red Children or, Likeness - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) (Telegram/Saqi Books, 2022)
The novel is set in 2030 in Ramsgate, England, and centers on the sudden arrival of people who don’t look quite human, they are Neanderthals, sitting, nude, on the quay, followed by many more, who are dubbed the red children and their impact on the town, which is ultimately transformative. The novel is about the situation and influence of migration--“history’s all about migrants” (91).
Keywords: English author; Female author

ReInception - Sarena Straus (Winding Road Stories, 2022)
Dystopia in which brains are modified to eliminate unwanted behaviors from the perspective of a woman who is unmodified and joins the resistance movement.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Runner" - Elly Blue (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future that is anti-technology told from the point of view of a young woman fascinated by it who has been assigned to a job, running messages among the remaining communities, that is the most technology-free work available.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Sea of Plastic" - Bo[ukje] Balder (Little Blue Marble, 2022)
Brief climate change dystopia. The title describes the focus.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 79-83, with a note on the author on 82-83.
Keywords: Dutch author; Female author

Song of Less - [Megan] Joyce Fleming (b. 1984) (Cordite Books, 2022)
A collection of poems all of which respond to the current destruction of the environment, particularly animals, birds, and plants, as told by them.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Bermudan author; Female author; US author

“Subscription Life” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Dreams for a Better Worlds: Book Two in the Dreams Anthology Series, 2022)
A dystopia in which in order to earn enough to live on people “subscribe” to a company and then wear its clothes, eat its foods, work in its stores, and so forth while being constantly filmed. The story concerns one woman who happily signs up only to learn how the system actually functions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“On This Day, and All Days, I Think About What I Have Lost” - Dana Vickerson (Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2022)
The story follows the reflections of a woman from the day her son was born in California, and then, after her family moves to Texas, on his subsequent second, fifth, eighth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and twenty-first birthdays, as the United States becomes more and more repressive.
Rpt. in Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2023), 10-16, with a note on the author on 17.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Tidy Town: Keeping Track of Trash” - Angela Hessler (Nature, 2022)
Pretty much what the subtitle says. The story is set in a future here every bit of trash is kept track of and the person responsible identified.
Keywords: Female author; US author

To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara (b. 1974) (2022)
The novel is set in the same townhouse at 13 Washington Square North in New York City in 1893, 1993, and 2093 with protagonist from the same family. 2093 has experienced a series of pandemics and the United States is now a fascist state
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Trials - Dawn KIng (2022)
The play takes place in a near future badly impacted by climate change in which three people from the previous generation is being put on trial in a trial in which children are the jurors. It premiered, with different casts, at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, January 15, 2022 and at the Donmar Warehouse, London, August 12, 2022. See also 2011 King, Foxfinder, her rave Dystopia387 (https://www.dawn-king.com/#dystopia987), and her adaption of Brave New World (https://www.dawn-king.com/#brave-new-world).
Keywords: English author; Female author

Walk the Vanished Earth - Erin Swan (b. 1975) (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2022)
Family history from 1873 to 2073 with stops in 1975 and 2027. In 2027 New Orleans in under water and the future family members live in a city floating above it. In 2073, Earth is only a memory and the remaining family members live on Mars and the young woman must decide whether the family line will continue.
Keywords: Female author; US author

We Built This City” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Clarkesworld, 2022)
A refugee dystopia. The story is set in a city built in space around Earth that has attracted refugees from corporation owned space stations that had been exploiting them and are trying to get them expelled so that they can be re-enslaved by the corporations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"What Is a Penguin?" - S. J. C. Schreiber (Little Blue Marble, 2022)
The story is set on a cruise ship arriving in Greenland from Denmark, with the family are traveling to recreate the trip the grandfather made where he met his wife. In Denmark, due to the heat, the family lives underground. Overpopulation means a one-child policy. Greenland now has flamingoes, parrots, and fruit trees.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 22-25 with a note on the author on 25.
Keywords: Female author; Icelandic author

"Wild Plums" - Molly Tanzer (b. 1981) (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set after the United States has fallen apart and has formed NACE with Canada and Mexico. After multiple disasters most of the population live in domed SPHRE’s (Solar-Powered Habitat and Replacement Environment’s) that are compulsively managed so that everything occurs on a programmed basis, goods are traded with other SPHRE’s in predictable amounts on predictable days. “No one could profit off what was necessary for life” (52). All young people required to attend “NACE-mandated Social Responsibility and Conflict Resolution classes” (55). The protagonist, a young married woman, leaves her SPHRE to search for the wild plums of the title, at which point the story takes an unexpected turn.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Women Could Fly. A Novel - Megan Giddings (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2022)
The novel is set in a world where women are severely restricted on the basis that any woman over 30 who is not married is a witch and witch burnings are common and state sanctioned. Unmarried women cannot get a credit card without a male cosigner. Tax credits for arranged marriages. The society is also generally anti-gay, trans, and Black.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Yellow" - B[rittany] Pladek (Slate Future Tense, 2022)
The story is set in a future United States that is no longer united but replaced by corporations. Lakes United is the Great Lakes area with competing consortia selling water to the West. Within that setting the story concerns an app SafeT that constantly evaluates an individuals health, the safety of their location, their route home, and so forth, rating each with a single number. A responding essay, “Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Afterglow" - Lindsey Brodeck (b. 1995) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future where people who can afford to or can get a labor contract are leaving Earth. The point-of-view character is a woman who does not want to leave whose partner has a contract for both of them. Following odd clues, she discovers a movement called the Keepers who are rewilding the planet as well as inner city gardening, beekeeping, and other projects to heal Earth. One of them is the need for a change in language to eliminate the distinction between humans and the natural world. The story was awarded first prize in the climate fiction contest. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“All Us Ghosts” - B[rittany] Pladek (Strange Horizons, 2021)
The story is set in a future affected by a continuing pandemic in which many people live their lives entirely online, including in virtual reality. The protagonist is hired by parents to create friends, a community, a life for their children through their university years.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Antonia and the Stranger Who Came to Rancho Los Feliz” - Lisa Morton (b. 1958) (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
Alternative history set in the early 19th century in Alta California, a free (no slavery or discrimination) country between the United States and Mexico that has a flourishing agricultural economy. The story concerns a man who suddenly appears, serious hurt, who comes through a portal from a different, future Los Angeles experiencing can unlivable environment and extreme violence.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Arfabad” - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction  Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Northern Ireland author

“Arisudan” - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) (Mithila Review, 2021)
A complex story told from the viewpoint of an Indian man as a grows up in a future India being destroyed by floods and earthquakes combined with an irresponsible corporation that is using its power to make everything worse. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Northern Ireland author

“The Arrival of the New World” - Premee Mohamed (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
The story takes place in Guyana where a Canadian journalist of Guyanese ancestry is investigating the disappearance of a group of eco-tourists by replicating their trip with photographers and guides. Much commentary on the contemporary world, which is controlled by about seven corporations and everyone and everything is heavily surveilled, including every path that they will follow.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Automata Albatross” - Robin Happel (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a future where most people are now living on artificial islands. The United States is a dictatorship that denies the reality.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blood Oil" - Rebecca “Reb” Joy Spring (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The brief story told from the point of view of a teenage girl is about an oil pipeline leaking into a creek and how environmental action can improve lives.
Rpt. Illus. João Queiroz. Solarpunk Magazine, no. 2 (March/April 2022): 74-76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blood Ties" - Jade Wilburn (b. 1994) (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2021)
The story centers on whites evicting a black family from land that had belonged to them for generations.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Blue Mar - Francesca G. Varela (Owl House Books/Homebound Publications, 2021)
Climate change dystopia. Blue Mar is an island resort created from collecting plastic from the office and fusing it together. Some phrases in the novel are in Spanish, and the action of the novel is set in the United States, El Salvador, and on Blue Mar.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2021)
The story is set in the area that used to be Florida and the islands of the Caribbean, most of which is now under water. The protagonist is a young woman living in one of the communities on rafts that scavenge for anything useable or that can be repurposed.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 110-135; and in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022. Ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis (Np: Caezik SF & Fantasy in partnership with O.D. Ekpeki Presents, 2023), 51-76.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

“The Case of the Turned Tide” - Savitri [Putu] Horrigan (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future Indonesia that has comprehensively responded to climate change. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“City Starlight and the Cemetery” - Katrina Eilander (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is told in two parts, both set in a future mid-twenty-first century that is recovering from environmental devastation, with the first about a celebration of nature and the second concerned with the re-establishment of forests.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Crossing" - Kalsang Yangzom (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
Refugee dystopia in which Tibetans try to avoid being inoculated with a drug that will eliminate the beliefs.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"Curing" - Kristien Potgieter (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021)
The story is set in a future South Africa experiencing long term drought where cacti are grown for their water, which is sold to the cities. Some hopeful signs of change.
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

Cyclopedia Exotica - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2021)
Graphic novel depicting a growing community of Cyclops living in the contemporary world that depicts the experiences of minorities and immigrants.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; US author

"Data Migration" - Melanie Harding-Shaw (Strange Horizons, 2021)
Climate-change story as it impacts the life of a child. Land disappears and refugees arrive. What and how much people eat, the clothes they wear, and myriad other things are gradually changing, and the scope of life is diminishing.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“Deer, Tiger, and Witch” - Kate V. Bui (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future Vietnam when the agricultural system has been destroyed by pollution.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; Vietnamese-American author

Dreamland - Rankin-Gee, Rosa (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2021)
The novel is set in near future dystopian England in which Government policies to advantage the already advantaged are even more clear cut, to the extent of building walls around to exclude the less well off. The novel explores a wide range of issues and problems in contemporary England. The book includes an Author’s Note (451-457) that discusses some of the issues raised in the novel and “Sources for Author’s Note” (459-463).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Drumming Song" - Ashley Bao (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The story is set on an island in the Indian ocean that has become popular with tourists, with crops grown to feed them and send to the mainland rather than to feed the indigenous inhabitants and damaging the environment. In the story, a little girl talks to the land and seas with her drum and is taught how to begin to reverse the damage.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“Each Cool Silver Orb a Gift” - Nicole Rosevear (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which women chosen by lottery rule men and a population of thirds or those in-between gender who are demanding that they be recognized as equals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“El, the Plastotrophs, and Me” - Tehnuka Ilanko (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future Aotearoa that is recovering from the impact of climate change stressing the continuing problems and the way small communities are responding. One theme is the integration of a tauwi woman (other people in Māori), like the author, into the culture, which is predominantly Māori. Māori is frequently used in the text. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The End of Men - Christina [Rose] Sweeney-Baird (b. 1993) (Penguin Random House/G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2021)
A pandemic novel set in the near future, with part located in the Independent Republic of Scotland, about the impact of a disease that, while carried by both men and women, only kills men, except for the few who are immune. The novel, which is told in multiple voices, depicts the trauma, the desperate search for a vaccine, and the growth of a successful world run by women. The focus is on the West, but one thread concerns China, which breaks apart immediately followed by a civil war that is resolved by the end of the novel. Other parts of the world are briefly mentioned, with all contact lost with much of the Middle East.
UK ed. London: HarperCollins UK/The Borough Press, 2021.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

"The Enders" - Maria S. Picone (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The story depicts the deliberate undermining of an Asian culture and society by the U.S. military.
Keywords: Female author; Korean American author

"Fancy" - Diana Burbano (Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, 2021)
The story concerns women fighting back against a patriarchal theocracy.
Keywords: Columbian author; Female author; US author

Femlandia - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2021)
In 2022 the U.S. economy completely collapses, and when a man leaves his wife and child with nothing, the woman chooses to join Femlandia, a “womyn’s commune” founded by her mother, which the daughter loves but the woman regards warily. The novel follows their experiences in the community, which ultimately changes its name to Landia to the death of the daughter at 103 in 2098.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Future Library - Peng Shepherd (Tor.com, 2021)
Magic realist story based on an actual project of that name created in 2114 in Norway by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson (b. 1981) in which one hundred authors write stories that will be printed in 100 years on paper that is made from a tree planted in 2114; see https://www.futurelibrary.no/ In the story, as the last trees in the world disappear due to continued logging, fire, storms, and pollution, the government of Norway destroys the last of the forest.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 299-326.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Future School” - Liz Liu (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
Very high-tech school of the future that is also child-centered and good for the environment. The story was a winner in the children’s category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.
Keywords: Female author; Taiwanese author

“The Ghost Birds” - Karen Russell (b. 1981) (The New Yorker, 2021)
Climate change dystopia with elements of magic realism. All birds have died, people live in sealed houses and, the air being toxic, must wear complete protective gear if leaving the house. Sightings of “ghost birds” leads the protagonist to join the Paranormal Birding Society, and he takes his teenage daughter birding.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Governor’s Daughter. Book One of Daughters of the New American Revolution - Maria Dampmann (Likinpoodle Press, 2021)
The first volume of a series. The novel takes place in a future in which under a white nationalist government women must follow the prescribed Purity Protocols. The protagonist is the daughter of the powerful governor and regularly breaks the rules. Outside the walls of Premier City she finds that most people live a life of poverty, disease, and police violence. The second volume is The Prodigal Daughter. Book Two of Daughters of the New American Revolution. Round Hill, VA: Likinpoodle Press, 2022. 469 pp. It is a typical middle volume where everything gets worse and ends with To Be Continued. Both volumes end with the author’s comments on the way the novels reflect the current situation in the U.S.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Governor’s Daughter. Daughters of the New American Revolution Book One - Maria Ereni Dampman (Lickenpoodle Press, 2021)
The novel is set in a religious, white nationalist patriarchy in which most people live in poverty while a favored few live in a walled city. The point-of-view character, the daughter Governor, discovers the world outside the city. The second volume in the series is to be The Prodigal Daughters.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Green Witch" - Katrina Townsend (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
A brief story about the joys of life in contact with nature after the recovery from environmental devastation.
Keywords: Female author

Grievers - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) (AK Press, 2021)
First volume of a trilogy in which Detroit is ravaged by a pandemic. The second volume is Maroons. Black Dawn Series #3. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2023. 267 pp. In this volume, the protagonist searches the mostly empty city for answers to the disease and for other survivors.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Hanging Gardens of Babylon” - Rebekah Neuberger (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which the new Hanging Gardens of Babylon, have been created and stocked with plants and animals, saved from extinction. Fossil fuels have been outlawed.
Keywords: Female author

"Hospitalized in Utopia" - Caroline Ailanthus (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
After the collapse of civilization, a new, better, sustainable, one is built, which is described by an elderly, partially paralyzed woman being treated in Hospital City and then released into to her own apartment with all the support she needs. In this future there are relatively few cities, and those quite small, but advanced medicine, major museums, and the like need a certain population base. The hospital grows most of its own food. No fossil fuels but with the internet. Everything had slowed down. The story was one of the five in the runner up category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hunting By Stars - Cherie Dimaline (Amulet Books/Abrams, 2021)
The novel is set in the same future as 2017 Dimaline but later and follows an indigenous dreamer with his new family moving North to establish a new community. He is captured and he tries to escape, and his family tries to find him and all the struggles that ensued. The ending suggests that there may be another volume.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

“‘If I could travel in time’ by Zed 5755: History Lessons” - Jessy Randall (Nature, 2021)
A grade seven student report written in 2131 spoken into a recording device, with interruptions not deleted, that says a lot about the future society. Everyone appears to live inside with no experience of the natural world, live in very large families, in a highly structured social order based at least in part on money, and little physical contact with others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"If Memory Serves" - Lynell George (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
In the story, the protagonist tries to remember the Los Angeles she grew up in, a time when the divide between rich and poor had not been as strong as had become, when she could actually visit the beach. when people were not constantly being evicted from buildings with shared bathrooms and kitchens so that a more housing for the rich could be built, and when she and others could get a regular job instead of depending on the unreliable gig economy.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Immunity Index - Sue Burke (Tor, 2021)
Pandemic dystopia. Three sisters who discover that they were genetically identical are immune.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Impossible Resurrection of Grief - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Stelliform Press, 2021)
The novella is set in a future where the loss of species in the environmental collapse leads to grief and suicide. Much fantasy.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"The Inheritance" - Virgilia [Leonilde Tembo] Ferrão (b. 1986) (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021)
The story is set in a future Africa in which at an unknown point in their life, they will be attacked by a disease, known as the manifest, that begins to immediately kill them. They have a pill that gives them temporary relief and time to try to get to a clinic where they can get a shot that may allow them to continue into what may be an afterlife, but the shots effectiveness depends entirely on the lives lived by their ancestors. The protagonist is a young man who has been constantly afraid of the manifest whose girlfriend is certain that she is safe.
Keywords: Female author; Mozambican author

"Intentionalities" - Aimee Ogden (Clarkesworld, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which one large corporation controls much of the world and most people are deeply in debt to it. One woman chooses to get out of debt by having a child that she then gives to the corporation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Interviews of Importance” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, 2021)
The story is set in a future where society at least appears to be caring more for its aging population through the establishment of an Elder Resources program that is designed to connect aging people “with working-age people, both to reduce loneliness and isolation . . . and to have some early warning and support for vulnerable people in any kind of future disaster” (45) Also, the new digital democracy required everyone to be technologically competent to participate and vote, and the system is designed to ensure that the elderly had the needed competencies. It is told from the viewpoint of a young woman who works in a low-paid job to contact people in their sixties or older to first set up an interview in which she asks set questions about their lived history, with a particular emphasis on what is now called “historically oppressed groups” (46). They are then encouraged to join a network which will contact them regularly. The young woman is cynical about her job but is also desperate to learn her mother’s history.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

“It Is the Year 2115” - Joyce Chng (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a city that is successfully prospering under a dome in a future of extreme climate change with high tech roof gardens.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Singaporean author; Transgender author

“Juma and the Quantum Ghost” - Ingrid Garcia (Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future, 2021)
In a future Africa, a woman who is developing a sustainable way of life has to fight corruption when her son his kidnapped for ransom at the behest of a local politician. She and her neighbors fight back using an organic computer developed by a teacher and her son. After they succeed, the computer is replicated, spreads to other poor parts of the word where the teacher has moved, and helps make her sustainability project a success.
Keywords: Female author; Spanish author

"Kanosha" - Cathy Smith (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the air is so bad that those who can afford to people live inside domes that are failing and the technology to repair them has been lost. Kanosha means lodge in Kenienkaha (Mohawk).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

“Laartammer” - J[ulia] S[muts] Louw (Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa, 2021)
As a result of the devastating drought produced by climate change, South Africa has introduced water rationing and a one-child policy. The story is told from the viewpoint of a Laatlammer, or late lamb a child born long after its siblings, whose existence has to be hidden.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

The Last Cuenista - Donna Barba Higuera (Levine Querido, 2021)
Young adult novel set on a generations spaceship after Earth was destroyed in a collision with Halley’s Comet. The protagonist is a twelve-year-old girl whose parents had been chosen to be among those saved and put into “hypersleep” to be cared for by generations of Monitors. The Monitors, though, resent their role, form the dystopian Collective, and wake up everybody while erasing their memories, except, by accident, the protagonist’s. She had always wanted to be a cuenista or storyteller and she fills that role by telling the other children stories of old Earth. The novel won the 2022 Newbery Medal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Lay Down Your Heart” - Liz Westbrook-Trenholm; Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) (Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories, 2021)
The story is set in an alternative future Tanzania that has an authoritarian government and slavery combined with advanced technology. The story focuses on a scientist released from detention who believes slavery is justified and her husband who has become friends with their house slave.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

Let It Die" - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 2021)
The story is set in a future that severely restricts the use of technology, allowing its use solely to repair visiting spaceships and allows people in their community to die rather than using technology to create treatments for them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Like Flowers Through Concrete” - Louangie Bou-Montes (Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, 2021)
The story is set in a future trying to recover from while still dealing with the devastation of climate change and depicts personal relations within a fairly resilient community.
Keywords: Female author; Puerto Rican author; US author

“The Line of Demarcation” - Patty Nicole Johnson (Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories, 2021)
The story is set in a future where people working in fulfillment centers are given prosthetic limbs so that they can work more efficiently.
Keywords: African American author; Female author; Puerto Rican author

“Listen: A Memoir” - Priya Sarukkai Chabria (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future that is recovering from the environmental devastation of the past told by a woman who can hear the birds, trees, and so forth speaking and can sometimes understand what is being said.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“Looney ka Tabadia (with apologies to Sa’adat Hassan Manto.” - Bina Shah (b. 1972) (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
While the story focuses on an exchange of prisoners at the border between India and Pakistan, it takes place some years after a peace treaty has brought peace and prosperity to the two countries. The Kashmir problem has been solved by turning into a privately owned theme park overseen jointly by both countries in which all Kashmiris are stockholders.
Keywords: Female author; Pakistani author; US author

"Love at the End" - Deborah Germaine Augustin (khōréō magazine, 2021)
Climate change story in which Malaysian and Singapore are mostly under water. It is told backwards from 2060 to 2040.
Keywords: Female author; Malaysian author

Machinehood - [Divya Srinivasan] [Breed] (Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Set in a future in which humans, cyborgs, and AI-controlled robots compete for work in a gig economy while under constant surveillance. “Privacy had gone the way of the dodo” (11). The Machinehood is a movement for the freedom and autonomy of all forms of intelligence. Most chapters begin with an epigram taken from The Machinehood Manifesto, March 20, 2095. The first consists of items 30-32: “30. All forms of intelligence have the right to exist without persecution or slavery. 31. No form of intelligence may own another. 32. If the local governance does not act in accordance with these rights, it is the right of an intelligence to act by any means necessary to secure them” (1).
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

“The Memory Clinic” - Elisabeth Tsubota (Hey Utopia! Griffith Review 73, 2021)
The story is told by a poor woman living in a world where people are provided services depending on their income with the poor getting none who is selling individual memories to the highest bidder in order to be able to eat.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"My Monticello" - Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (My Monticello. Fiction, 2021)
The story is set in a near future Virginia after a disputed election during which many were killed or injured and an unexplained collapse of the power grid. White supremacists take advantage of the situation to burn down the houses and kill black and brown people and generally terrorize the area. A group of mostly African Americans escape to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s estate, including some descended from Jefferson, and work to establish a safe, functioning community.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

No Child of Mine - Olga Gibbs (Raging Bear Publishing, 2021)
Dystopia set in a totalitarian state from the point-of-view of a true believer.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Russian author

Noor - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (DAW Books, 2021)
A complex dystopia using traditional African myths and stories and magic realism concerning a immense company that sells everything that is trying to enlarge food sales by eliminating the farmers and herders.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Notes from the Burning Age - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) (Orbit/Hachette, 2021)
The Burning Age was a past time of climate disaster and excess, and the protagonist is a keeper of the archives of that time dedicated to not revealing their secrets to avoid a repeat.
U.S. ed. New York: Orbit/Hachette, 2021
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Old Man’s Sea” - Meyari McFarland (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which the oceans have risen so much to drown most coastal areas. People living on land are constantly at war and have modified sharks to be weapons and kill any human found in the water. The protagonist is a young woman living on a boat harvesting the bounty of the sea.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"One Small Victory" - Konstantina Scott-Barrett Baraoudaki (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which Artificial Intelligence is replacing most jobs, and the Scottish government’s Job Seeker Aid and Redundancy Removal Department or J.A.R.R.D. has complete power over all jobseekers, with the protagonist a jobseeker.
Keywords: Female author; Greek author; Scottish author

The Ones We’re Meant to Find - Joan He (Roaring Brook Press, 2021)
Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally devastated future where eco-cities were built for the supposedly deserving. The plot concerns sisters searching for each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Past is Red - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) (Tordotcom, 2021)
The story is set on Garbagetown, a floating island of garbage the size of the former Texas inhabited by refugees from the flooded continents. Her 2016 “The Future Is Blue” is reprinted as Part I (1-32, and in her “Afterword” (147-50) the author explains how that story inspired Part II, “The Past Is Red” (12-146). The main character is the same in both parts.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!” - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, 2021)
The story is set after a future pandemic in which Canada had instituted rationing to ensure that everyone was adequately fed.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) (Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates, 2021)
First of two volumes that take place on Panga, an Earth-like planet that had been badly damaged by technology, symbolized by factories run mostly by robots, but had recovered after the awakening od the robots, who abandoned the factories and moved into the wilderness, where they lived completely separate from humans. In this volume, the protagonist, Sibling Dex, a young gay man who becomes a monk, realizes that he has to change his life and becomes a tea monk, someone who wanders the planet offering tea and listening to peoples’ problems. After becoming successful, he decides to enter the wilderness, where he meets a robot, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, and they develop a relationship. See also 2022 Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown Shy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Rabbit Egg for Flora” - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change using high tech methods to bring back the flora and fauna that had disappeared.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Rememory" - Kristen Reynolds (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which the government responded to protestors by bombing them, and, as in Argentina, taking children and giving them to other families. The protagonist is a woman searching for her child.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Reset. A Novel - Sarina Dahlan (Blackstone Publishing, 2021)
The novel is set after the Last War that destroyed most of the world. The survivors live in a supposed utopia of four cities in which everything is planned and controlled. Every four years all people have their memories wiped to get rid of their learned prejudices, and everyone starts over again in completely new, to them, circumstances. A prequel is Preset. A Novel. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
Keywords: Female author; Thai author; US author

"The Restoration" - Karen Heuler (b. 1949) (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
The story is set in a future that has been devastated by climate change with most plants and animals losing their habitats and concerns the beginnings of the process of restoration that sends individual “seeders” out to provide seeds, trees, insects, birds, and larger animals to the few human left. One concern is the need to reintroduce predators.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-restoration/ published July 17, 2021.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Return to Kiribati” - Alexandra Porter (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a climate damaged future and is about those struggling to survive by helping others.
Keywords: Female author

“Sailing That Beautiful Sea” - Kathleen Kaufman (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
A last person story in which a series of pandemics have eliminated the human race and most other life is dying out cared for by Bots, who are filling museums with all that remains.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sanctuary - Grace J. Agnew (Woodhall Press, 2021)
A slow moving apocalypse as people overpopulation continues together with damage to the planet. The story novel concerns a privileged woman and her son living in a protected city. The son leaves to be with his father and the mother follows, and the novel follows their experiences in working to correct the problems.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Séance in the Anthropocene” - Abigail Larkin (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story traces the process by which climate denial finally became untenable and shows the process through which society was structurally and technologically changed to begin to reverse the process.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Singer of Seeds” - Leda Baöl (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a future that is still recovering from earlier environmental devastation and is about a coming-of-age ceremony designed to ensure that future generations carry on the regeneration. The story is one of two XR WORDSMITHS’ Top Picks.
Rpt. Illus. Mori in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 30 (Spring 2022): 100-07.
Keywords: Dutch author; Female author; Italian author

SPF - Justine Teu (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
The story is set in a future of rising seas (Venice is gone; Manhattan is going), drought, and extreme heat.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/spf/ published June 19, 2021.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Static" - Alithnayn Abdulkareem (The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2021)
The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated by climate change and the rich are leaving for space and is told from the perspective of an African woman who has been selected to immigrate to improve the diversity of the inhabitants. Her lover chooses to stay on Earth. It was the second runner up in the 2019/2020 Short Story Day Africa Prize.
Rpt. in Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 15-27.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author

“Three Little Arcologies” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
Written like a fable, the story is about three homeowners who had remodeled their homes to be sustainable fighting against the Big Bad Development Company.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Trafik - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Coffee House Press, 2021)
2021 Ducornet, Rikki (b. 1943). Trafik. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press. 88 pp. MiEM  In brief chapters the short novel, which is set after the destruction of Earth millennia in the past, follows a woman and an android, who asteroid miners that, after an error that who downgrade their situation, choose to go rogue. They travel throughout a very weird universe stopping at varied planets. Their goal is reach Trafik, which turns about to be a Cockaigne of sorts. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Trashlands - Alison Stine (b. 1978) (Mira/Harlequin Books, 2021)
The novel is set in a future where discarded plastic is extremely valuable and has replaced money as the primary currency. It is set in what is now called Scrappalachia in Trashlands, a fenced compound anchored by a strip club but mostly an old dump, which is safer than the world outside. Told from the perspectives of different people living there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Unity - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) (Tachyon Publications, 2021)
The novel is set in a postapocalyptic United States and begins in the collapsing underwater Bloom City. The protagonist is a woman who belongs to collective mind from which she has been separated. With two others she flees Bloom City hoping to be unified with the rest of her selves.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; Transgender author; US author

Unsheltered - Clare Moleta (Scribner/Simon & Schuster Australia, 2021)
The novel takes place in a future characterized by social breakdown and environmental collapse. The protagonist is a woman searching for her eleven-year-old daughter who has to travel on foot across the devastated land dealing with the people and her own uncertainties. The ending suggests the likelihood of a sequel.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

“Uphill Both Ways in the Snow” - Sheila Jenné (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
Mars has been terraformed to become, after many setbacks, an ecologically balanced planet where everyone shares equally in the hardships, the failures, and the success. Earth has continued to be destroyed by excess and the unwillingness of the rich and powerful to give up any of their advantages.
Keywords: Female author; US author