Internment - Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown, 2019)
A young adult dystopia in which American Muslims are being forced into internment camps as Japanese Americans were in World War 2.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

“It’s 2039, and Your Beloved Books Are Dead” - Alix E. Harrow (b. 1989) (The New York Times, 2019)
Keywords: Female author; US author

“It’s 2040. We Need to Keep Abortion Legal in New York” - Lucy Ferriss (b. 1954) (The New York Times, 2019)
With Roe v. Wade only two states offer abortion. States that prohibit abortion prosecute women who move out of state to have an abortion so many move permanently to the New York and Hawaii, the only two that permit it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“It’s 2043. We Need a New American Dream for the A.I. Revolution” - Baobao Zhang (The New York Times, 2019)
The Op-Ed proposes that given the unemployment brought about by technology and the fact that the wealth earned is going to already wealthy capitalists, a bill, the Renew American Dreams Act, establishing a negative income tax should be passed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

King Harvest (Will Surely Come)” - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) (If This Goes On, 2019)
A dystopia in which the U.S. Heartland has walled itself off from the rest of the country and expelled all those who don’t fit, such as everyone who is not white. Religious fundamentalism has evolved into a politico-religious system with a hereditary monarch who must be ritually killed at regular intervals.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Lay Low" - Maria Smith (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
The story is set in a future where the .1% control the world and people exist of allowances allocated for specific things such as water and transport.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Let’s Make this City and Urban Project Everybody Wants” - Shannon Mattern (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
Baltimore is taken over by the seed accelerator Y Combinator. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Light at the Bottom of the World - London Shah (Disney Book Group/Hyperion, 2019)
First volume in a young adult duology to be followed by the Journey the Heart of the Abyss (2021). The protagonist is a young Muslim London girl, but a London that in 2099 is part of a completely submerged world. The novel focus on the girl’s search for her father, who has been arrested on false charges by the corrupt, authoritarian government. She hopes to gain his release by winning the London Marathon, which is a race of submersibles.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Lightest Object in the Universe - Kimi Eisele (Algonquin Books, 2019)
Post-apocalyptic novel with one member of a couple on the East Coast of the United States and the other on the West Coast. The novel follows the man across the country to find the woman and the woman’s search for a community that is being established in northern California.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Luna 6000" - Stephanie Andrea Allen (Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction, 2019)
Dystopia in which advanced monitoring technology makes life and death decisions.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Making Happy” - [Alexandra] Renwick (If This Goes On, 2019)
Corporate dystopia in which areas of the city are bought by corporations and filled with unescapable digital ads.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

MALL - Pattie Palmer-Baker (Del Sol Press, 2019)
A woman shopping in a twenty-first century mall accidentally enters a mall in an alternative reality, where the Mall Code rules everything. She is initially sent to a Mental Health Practitioner, and the novel presents how both understand and deal with the situation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Move the World" - Carla Speed McNeil (The Verge Better Worlds, 2019)
The story is told in a series of vignette depicting “perfect,” but deeply flawed worlds as a commentary on the notion of perfection.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Night with the Joking Clown” - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, 2019)
Corporations have divided up the world but are in conflict over their spheres of influence. Men completely dominate women, which they divide into “slags” and “chicks.”
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Northern Ireland author

The Old Drift. A Novel - Namwali Serpell (b. 1980) (Hogarth, 2019)
Much of the novel traces the lives of three African families (black, brown, and white) over four generations from the colonial era into the future, with the fourth generation living in a totalitarian dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author; Zambian author

“One Day Only” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (Wastelands: The New Apocalypse, 2019)
A Nayima story in the series se in a post-plague dystopia with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story Nayima has temporary settled with an older woman in an abandoned beachfront house and puts on a comedy show for the few other Natural Immune/Carriers and survivors who have not yet gotten vaccinated and settled in one of the few remaining cities.
Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 205-226.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"One Shot" - Tiffany E. Wilson (IF This Goes On, 2019)
The dystopia of privatized medical care in the future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“One Thousand Beetles in a Jumpsuit” - Dominica Phetteplace (Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2019)
The first story in a sequence given the general title Robot Country. The story is set in a climate-change dystopia controlled by corporations in which “Corporate treason was punishable by death.” The protagonist is supposedly testing procedures for surviving on Mars and ends up cooperating with the AIs rather than her corporate minders. In “Her Appetite, His Heart.” Lightspeed, no. 114 (November 2019). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/her-appetite-his-heart/, the second story, the AIs have revolted and excluded their makers from their country. In The Dystopia Triptych sequence, the first story is followed by two different stories, which begin after the successful revolt of the AIs and the establishment of Robot Country. In “Paradise Requires a Wall. Robot Country: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 169-90, Robot Country has been established and is under constant attack from what remains of the United States, with the focus on the personal relations between a woman working with the AIs and a U.S. Forest Ranger trying to protect the little that remains of the forest. Followed by “Human Country. Robot Country: Part III.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 289-207, which develops those relations as he and other humans move into Robot Country.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 189-210.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Other Side" - Payal Dhar (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, 2019)
Refugee dystopia told from the point of view of escaping refugees.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“The Painter of Trees” - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Clarkesworld, 2019)
Dystopia in which humans, set on terraforming a planet, destroy all the food the indigenous inhabitants eat. Few of the humans are at all bothered.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 77-89, with an editor’s note on 77; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 1-10.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Parenting License" - Leah Cypess (b. 1977) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2019)
The story, which has satirical elements, is set in a future society that requires a license to have children, reinforced by no insurance and pediatricians unwilling to take patients without the license.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“[Pink Heart Shape]” - Lesley [Naa Norle] Lokko; Maria Smith (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Ghanaian author; Scottish author; South African author; US author

"Placation" - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
In the story, the Earth requires that it be placated annually with the body part of a human and focuses on a girl who cannot decide what part of her body to sacrifice. Compare to 1948 Jackson, “The Lottery.”
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

"The Plague Doctors" - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (Take Us to a Better Place, Stories, 2019)
A post-apocalypse dystopia (plague) and the struggle get the resources to limit its spread and find a cure.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 300-322.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author

“Please, Stop Printing Unicorns” - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) (The New York Times, 2019)
Satire on the ability for individuals using 3-D Bioprinters to create body parts and entire animals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Pocketful of Dolphins” - Judy Helfrich (If This Goes On, 2019)
A dystopia in which people are controlled by implants that release chemicals into their bodies in response to established metrics that are monitored by the implants. The story focuses on controlling fantasies.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Potholes and Pumpkin Spice” - Kalpana Shankar; Glenn Kaufmann (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
Satire describing a city run by Starbucks. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. Female co-author. Shankar is a Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College, Dublin. Kaufmann is a freelance writer from the United States to Dublin, Ireland in 2011 and now has dual citizenship.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; Male author; US author

“The Rat King of Spanish Harlem” - Nicky Drayden (Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2019)
The dystopia brought about by a plague and the way people respond as seen by a woman who is not infected.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Rated - Melissa Grey (Scholastic Press, 2019)
Young adult dystopia in which every individual is being constantly rated and their worth moves up and down with their rating.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Read After Burning” - Maria Dahvana Headley (b. 1977) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Dystopia set in a future in which it is prohibited to teach children to read or even to speak except in approved slogans. The story is told from the viewpoint of a child of librarians who are secretly keeping books alive.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Record Keeper - Agnes Gomillion (Titan Books, 2019)
The novel is set in a post-World War III future in which the truce requires that all laws be obeyed completely, but the female protagonist discovers that the laws are being used against her people. First of volume of a series. The second volume is The Seed of Cain: Book Two of The Record Keeper Series. London: Titan Books, 2020.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“The Referendum” - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Nigerian author; US author

“Registering Eve” - Alison Powell (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
A future city in which all interactions are through the blockchain, based on a company like Ethereum, which has many flaws, some of which are deliberately designed to overcharge.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Rememberers" - [Qingpei] Rachel Heng (b. 1988) (McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D., 2019)
The story is set in Singapore after the water came and most Singaporeans now live underground in inverted skyscrapers with “the elite few . . . who can afford homes within the last remaining gated communities aboveground” (18). The protagonist’s family was among the last to move into the underground bunkers, as she calls them, where status is reflected in how close to the surface you lived. Life is tightly controlled with high unemployment and passes checked on exiting and entering. The authors of the stories were each “assigned a specific climate event mentioned” in the 2018 UN climate report collaborating with experts recommended by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) who “provide a scientific backbone” for the stories while giving the writers free rein to determine how closely they adhered to that science” (6-7). The Introduction to the volume (7-12) is by Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Chief Program Officer of the NDRC.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Singaporean author; US author

. Resistant: A World Divided - Erika Modrak (Black Rose Writing, 2019)
The novel is set in a future where antibiotics have failed, and a pandemic has decimated the human race. Those left are divided between some who life in quarantine within a walled city and those who survive outside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Reunion" - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, 2019)
The story takes place in a future India that has been battered by climate change creating storms strong enough to destroy cities. The protagonist is an Indian woman scientist who had developed the basis for settlements that integrated advanced technology with the natural world and made it possible for people to thrive in the new conditions.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 422-62, with an editor’s note on 422.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

"ROME" - G[wendolyn] Willow Wilson (b. 1982) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
A dystopia set in a United States devastated by climate-change that has privatized all first responders, and a poor district in Seattle had no protection from the regular fires as seen through the eyes of students taking an English-language test required for them to stay in the country.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Salvation" - Claudia De Bella (1958-2018) (Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2019)
Religious dystopia in which a psychopath finds a role as the executioner.
Keywords: Argentinian author; Female author

“The Same Place as the Last” - Nina Anana (Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction, 2019)
The story begins in a near future England divided, often violently, between those accepting of immigrants from countries disappearing under rising oceans. One man is badly hurt by a police attack and appears to wake up in a high-tech future cared for by the immigrants he had been trying to save.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author

Sanctuary - Karen East (Archway Publishers, 2019)
Dystopia in which corporations control government and the economy, the Department of Homeland Security controls education and the media, environmental laws are no longer enforced, the U.S. borders are closed, and any travel even within the borders is considered suspicious and is frowned upon. Mandatory age in which everyone is placed in a retirement home. The protagonist is a reporter who travels to northern Wisconsin where she learns a better, simpler way of life based on Native American (Anishinaabe) traditions that exclude technology and competition.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Save the ShireTM” - Jennifer Gabrys (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
A technological libertarian eutopia for the extremely wealthy made possible for the wholesale harvesting of information on individuals used to undermine democracy, based on Palintir. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Seedless - D. A. Xiaolin Spires (Little Blue Marble, 2019)
The story extrapolates the popularity of seedless fruit to a world where nothing is reproduced naturally.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 112-19.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Shining Wall - Melissa [Jane] Ferguson (Transit Lounge, 2019)
Dystopia with a deep rich/poor divide with the rich who stress their own health and longevity living behind a metal wall and the rest struggling for survival outside the wall.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Should You Add a Microchip to Your Brain?” - Susan Schneider (The New York Times, 2019)
The Op-Ed considers the ethical ramifications in a future where AI has advanced so much and eliminated so many jobs that people are adding microchips to their brain to avoid unemployment.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Significance of Swans” - Rhiannon Lewis (New Welsh Reader, 2019)
A post-apocalyptic story told from the point-of-view of a woman who is one of the few survivors. On returning to her old home, she finds a man in the process of destroying everything in it.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

“The Sinners and the Sea” - Kameron Hurley (b. 1980) (Meet Me in the Future. Stories, 2019)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a world constructed over a drowned Earth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“So You Want to Live in a Pivot City” - Sarah Barns (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The story takes place in Sydney, Australia, which, due to climate change and environmental degradation had lost its tax base and agreed to cooperate with Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google, to create an experimental surveilled city that would focus on reducing the cities carbon footprint. This requires that every action by every resident be tracked an evaluated positively or negatively. Those who fall below the threshold determined by the city can be expelled, losing not merely the right to live in the city but their property in the city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The Australian female author is a digital strategy consultant, producer, and researcher.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Sometimes you end up where you are: A trip back home for Christmas” - Beth Cato (b. 1980) (Nature, 2019)
The story involves a trip back in time which allows a child to experience our environmentally damaged world, which is almost eutopian from the perspective of the one she lives in.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Song for a New Day - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Berkley, 2019)
After a series of bombings, the government prohibits all public meetings. The two main protagonists are a musician who performed in large venues and a woman, who had been working entirely online, with both involved in locating illegal performances and streaming them. Three of her stories are set in the same future beginning with 2015 Pinsker, “Our Lady of the Open Road;” followed by “A Song Transmuted.” Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow. Ed. Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Erie, CO: Hex Publishers 2016), 151-60; and “Everything Is Closed Today.” Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory. Ed. Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2019), 149-74; rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 79-102.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Space Traitors” - Walidah Imarisha (Buckman Journal, 2019)
The story is headed by the statement “In conversation with Derrick Bell’s short story ‘Space Traders’” (See Bell 1992). In this story, the aliens offer to improve the lives of all the “scarred people” of Earth.
Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 324-28.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Story for a Bottle” - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) (Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias, 2019)
The story is set in a future New Houston that is near the new coast and on the remains of a doomsday city (a huge ocean liner) built by the wealthy to escape the apocalypse and live the good life at sea.
Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 113-133.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

“The Strive City of Tomorrow” - Katharine S. Willis (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
A description of Strive City, which is based on combining Ebenezer Howard’s A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898) and Strava Metro, a company that monetizes data sets present as a sales pitch for the city. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Subprime Language and the Crash” - Pip Thornton (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
In search of larger and larger profits, Google’s complete control of the internet led to it buy up much of the world’s real estate, and to monetizing words. This led to the Global Linguistic Crash of 2041 and the loss of all information that had been stored on the internet, paper records having been outlawed.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“Such Thoughts are Unproductive” - Rebecca Campbell (b. 1975) (Clarkesworld, 2019)
The story is set in a climate-change and surveillance dystopia.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 155-70.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Sun in Exile” - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Satire on climate change deniers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Sun Will Always Sing” - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) (The Verge Better Worlds, 2019)
The story is set in a future in which humans and seimei (immortal AI who have their own language) have cooperated to mitigate the damage to Earth and plan to populate another planet with the focus on carrying out that plan told through the eyes of a seimei.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author

Sung Home - Laura Ramnarace (Author, 2019)
First volume of a trilogy. In this volume a plague has killed most people, and control most of those left in the hands of different competing warlords. The protagonist, sixteen-year-old girl, escapes from one such warlord to search for her grandmother. The title refers the girl following song lyrics taught her by her mother in her search. In the second volume, Growing Home. Np: Author. 2020. 308 pp., communities of survivors both work together and compete. In the third volume, Rising Home. Np: Author, 2020. 260 pp., civilization is rebuilding with a varied cultures cooperating. Native American themes throughout all three volumes. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Swipe Right to Welcome Left to Reject” - Linnet Taylor (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
A description of a city that had been welcoming to immigrants and refugees but failing to integrate them partners with Welcome Tinder to pair citizens and immigrants. The relationship apparently begins successfully and then is followed for five years and it spreads across the country at the same time that more and more problems emerge. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Dutch author; English author; Female author

“The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves” - Violet Allen (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Dystopian in which technology is supposedly curing homosexuality.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Tasting Bleach and Decay in the City of Dust” - Beth Dawkins (If This Goes On, 2019)
Pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Testaments - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2019)
Sequel to 1985 Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale that begins during the establishment of Gilead but the shifts to the internal and external opposition to it, and it ends with a lecture at “The Thirteenth Symposium on Gilead Studies” from the same professor whose lecture ended The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel was serialized on BBC Radio 4 in fifteen installments between September 16 and October 4, 2019.
Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 2019. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. An audiobook was released simultaneously with the print version.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“That Our Flag Was Still There” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (If This Goes On, 2019)
A dystopia of extreme patriotism, where, for example, a permit is needed to criticize the president.
Rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 36-50.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Theory of Flight” - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) (The Verge Better Worlds, 2019)
The story is set in a poor neighborhood in a lethally polluted future where Mars and Europa have been settled and Europa welcomes everyone who arrives but only the very rich can afford the fare.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Therapies for World’s End” - Stefani Cox (Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing, 2019)
The story is set in a post-apocalypse dystopia that has divided the rich and poor even more, with the rich closing themselves off and the poor, known as Dusties left to try to survive.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Thirteen Year Long Song” - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) (Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance, 2019)
The story is set in a world being destroyed by the release of poison chemicals as seen through the eyes of an old man poisoned by them who sees his family farm being destroyed by them.
Rpt. in her Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Nashville, TN: Third Man Books, 2020), 17-34. 978-0997457896
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters” - Kelly [Regan] Barnhill (b. 1973) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2019)
Satirical story based on the story of Albina from the 12th century in which thirty-three sisters behead their husband and are exiled to Albion. In the story the thirty-three daughters of the king completely reform the kingdom, turning it into an egalitarian eutopia before they are captured and forced to marry wealthy Barons, from which point it gets complicated.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 97-124, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 392-93.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Three Data Units” - Kitty-Lydia Dye (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which AI’s are used to control people.
Keywords: English author; Female author

​“To Everything, Tern Tern Tern” - Birna Anna Björnsdóttir (b. 1974) (McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D., 2019)
The story is set in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland. In about 2030, due to the changing climate, the Gulf Stream had moved away from Iceland while warming Greenland. As a result, Iceland has much, much colder winters and the iconic bird the tern or kría no longer nested there.
Keywords: Female author; Icelandic author; US author

“Too Much Fulfilment” - Lizzie Richardson (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
Food delivery has entirely taken over the food industry and effectively controls what people get to eat, based on a company like Deilveroo. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Touches" - Brenda Peynado (b. 1985) (tor.com, 2019)
The story is set in a future where disease means that the world is divided between the clean and the dirty, and humans live in the clean never touching another human. The protagonist details the four times in her life that she has been touched.
Rpt. without the illus. in her The Rock Eaters: Stories (New York: Penguin Books, 2021), 167-90.
Keywords: Dominican American author; Female author

Trapped in the R.A.W.: A Journal of My Experiences during the Great Invasion by Kaylee Bearovna With an Afterword by Pearl Larken and Appendices by the “We Survive” Group - Kate Boyes (Aqueduct Press, 2019)
Post-apocalyptic (alien invasion) dystopia that wipes out over 80% of the world’s population told initially through the diary of a young *woman trapped in a Special Collections Library. This is then followed by an “Afterword” by the editor of the diary and reports on the search by survivors for her and her daughter.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Twelve Histories Scrawled in the Sky” - Aimee Ogden (If This Goes On, 2019)
Brief dystopia in which the official history is being constantly changed and all cities must keep up with the changes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Un-Girls - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) (Amazon Original Stories, 2019)
Set in a future South Africa, the novella follows a number of individuals, men and women, gay and straight, black and white. In one story line, laboratory grown meat is fashioned into extremely beautiful women, designed to the purchaser’s preference, and programmed to provide pleasure. Another story line focuses on a popular lecturer pushing the line that empowered women are undermining masculinity. Others follow female and male sex workers.
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Keywords: Female author; South African author

“The United States Should Welcome a Strong, United Latin America” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (2019)
Reflections on the formation of a united Latin America, following on from the European Union and an African Union that the United States is vigorously opposing.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

"The Unseen" - Jeremy W. Crampton; Kara C. Hoover (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The story is set in a future that is completely connected and surveilled by a company like Cambridge Analytica told from the point-of-view of a teenager who doesn’t fit the parameters. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Ghanaian author; Male author; US author

Ursa - Tina Shaw (b. 1961) (Walker Books Australia, 2019)
A young adult dystopia set in a future city divided between the powerful and wealthy Travesters and the poor and enslaved Cerels who are prohibited to have children.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Verify - Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974) (HarperTeen, 2019)
First of two volumes set in a future with extreme censorship, with all physical books removed, removing words from use, and revising history. In the second volume, Disclose. New York: HarperTeen, 2020, the protagonist of the first volume leads a band of truth-seekers who hope to overthrow the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Voice Lessons: Wishes to the Outside” - Davidson, Cesi [Cecelia] (Articulation: Short Plays to Nourish the Mind & Soul, 2019)
In the play “two celestial beings” living in a “Caribbean utopia somewhere between heaven and earth” (103) are tasked with visiting Africans of the diaspora to learn lessons from them and pass them on to others. The becomes slaves, children in a school with little equipment, and so forth.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Wall" - Lizz Huerta (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Dystopia in which the United States has collapsed and disappeared with refugees desperate to escape to Mexico.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Waning Age - S[ylvia] E. Grove (Viking, 2019)
Young adult dystopia in which only children have emotions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Water, Water, Nowhere. Novella Extract” - Heledd Williams (New Welsh Reader, 2019)
Extract from a dystopia brought on by drought and the control of the water supply by corporations.
Keywords: Female author; Hong Kong author; Welsh author

We Set the Dark on Fire - Tehlor Kay Mejia (Katharine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2019)
Dystopia in which women of the upper classes are assigned specific roles supporting the husband. The novel focusing on a girl from the lower classes who has managed to be accepted into the upper class.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author

“Welcome to Jobstown” - Sophia Maalsen; Kurt Ivensen (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
Written as a Time Magazine report from 2029 on the development of Jobstown, a “smart city,” by Apple, with everything provided by Apple and accessed through Apple products, and every action is recorded and stored. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Male author

“What the Dead Man Said” - Chinelo Onwualu (Slate, 2019)
The story is set in New Biafra after rising seas obliterated much of Nigeria. The protagonist is a woman returning for her father’s funeral from what is left of Canada, where she and her mother, had moved.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 507-22, with an editor’s note on 507; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 107-24.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Nigerian author

Where the River Runs Gold - Sita Brahmachari (b. 1961) (Orion's Children's Books, 2019)
A climate-change dystopia in which there appear to be no bees left, and young people are lured to what are advertised as well-paid, comfortable, safe jobs to work as pollinators. The reality is closer to slavery.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York?” - Brooke Bolander (The New York Times, 2019)
The Op-Ed piece is concerned with the divide between the rich and poor in a future flooded new work, with the authorities, as usual, supporting the rich.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Wishbone" - K[aren] G. Anderson (Infinite Lives: Short Tales of Infinity. Third Flatiron Anthologies, 2019)
Dystopia in which the Age Equity Act gives everyone health care, housing, and other essentials from 72 until they reach 80, when they must report to an End of Life Center and be euthanized.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Wordless Age” - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) (Galaxy's Edge, 2019)
Dystopia in which language is privatized and must be paid for by the word.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; Transgender author; US author

Would She Be Gone: A Censored City Novelette - Melanie Harding-Shaw (Author, 2019)
The first volume of three set in a city where the “Librarian algorithm” imposes “tailored speech”. The volume concerns an undercover detective infiltrating the world of spoken poetry. The second volume is Compact of Fire: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2019. 76 pp. in which an aide to the Secretary of Literary Safety is trying to defuse the growing opposition movement. The third volume is Hell Is Empty: A Censored City Novelette. [Wellington, New Zealand]: Author, 2020. 79 pp. in which a journalist works to uncover and, if possible, publicize the corruption that pervades the system.
Rpt. in her Alt-Ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Author, 2021), 39-110.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“Youthful Indiscretions” - Monica Stephens (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
Buffalo, New York, has become SnapCity with all services provide by Snapchat. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zed. A Novel - Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974) (Faber & Faber, 2019)
Dystopia in which one which one large company takes over the surveillance state, the police, and the currency, thus controlling the entire world. The novel follows what happens as the company tries to deal with, and cover up, a flaw in the system.
U. S. ed. Doubleday/Penguin Random House, 2019
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The 133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance: A Taste of Freedom” - Beth Cato (b. 1980) (Nature, 2018)
The story depicts a dystopian future where eating real food is illegal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“3.4 oz” - R. K. Kalaw (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story focuses on the problems faced by immigrants today or in a very near future dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Filipinx author

84K - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) (Orbit, 2018)
Dystopia of corporate power with universities closed, all the news outlets controlled by private corporations, and only people from corporations serve are elected to office.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Accident" - Gretchin Lair (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
The story is set in a dystopian future where couples must get permission to use birth control and are paid for having more children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Afterwar - Lilith Saintcrow (b. 1976) (Orbit, 2018)
The dystopia that is the U.S. after a second civil war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Alternica" - Jennie Wood (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a future eutopia has been created but could be destroyed by actions in the past.
Keywords: Female author; US author

American Heart - Laura Moriarty (b. 1970) (HarperTenn, 2018)
A young adult dystopia set in a future United States where just being a Muslim is grounds for deportation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“And the Ship Sails On” - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy, 2018)
The story is set on a cruise ship that has been sailing for what seems to be decades after climate change has led to sea level rises that has flooded most of the land. A highly structured, class-based society has evolved that the older people are desperate to keep.
Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 125-59, with a brief author’s note on 159.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Application for Asylum.” - Eileen [Katherine] Gunn (b. 1945) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A brief dystopia in which a child applies for asylum to escape the United States as it becomes under the policies of the Trump administration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ask Me About My Book Club" - M. Michelle Bardon (Resist Fascism, 2018)
Dystopia that reflects the current situation in the U.S. in which dragons have been elected to national office and are being fought by witches. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“At the Crossroads” - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
The story describes three societies, one a completely oppressive, hierarchical dystopia, one an anarchist eutopia where all the peoples of the galaxy are welcome and treated equally, and Dyanna, which has tendencies in both directions. The story is told through a bicycle race with a team from each planet taking place on all three planets plus a deserted Fourth World, which are alternate versions of the same present. The protagonist is a black woman with a prosthetic leg and only one good eye. In some way, the race is intended to prevent an interdimensional war. It begins on Planet One, the technically advanced dystopia with smooth metal roads, whose riders look identical, have only a number which identifies superiority and inferiority, and apparently is planning an invasion of the other Earths. The second planet, Dynnya, is a coalition of over a thousand planets. They are primarily agrarian, have no central authority and extremely advanced biotechnology, with most of the planets having no private property, and there has been no war in many thousands of years.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; Transgender author; US author

"AT392-Red" - Khairani Barokka (b. 1985) (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Dystopia that includes “Biodiversity Credit” that allowed that allowed the destruction of one area of the world’s environment in exchange for the supposed protection of another area. This result in a massive refugee crisis. This was followed by the introduction of “Accessibility Credits” by which improving accessibility for those with disabilities in one part of the world allowed another part of the world to eliminate accessibility.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indonesian author; US author

Before She Sleeps. A Novel - Bina Shah (b. 1972) (Delphinium Books, 2018)
Dystopia set in a future Southwest Asia where, as a result of disease, war, and gender selection by parents, there are many more men than women and restrictions on women, including the requirement to have multiple husbands, are extreme. Within the dystopia there is an underground women’s group that rejects the restrictions, until they are discovered.
Keywords: Female author; Pakistani author

"Big Rural" - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) (The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, 2018)
The story focuses on the negative impact of corporate solar power on rural areas and ways of lessening that impact.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Biggerers - Amy Lilwal (Point Blank/Oneworld Publications, 2018)
In the novel, very small people are created to become the playmates and pets of their owners told largely from te point of view of the new, small people. T
Keywords: English author; Female author

"BK Girls." - [Tamela] [Larimer] (b. 1968) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which Boko Haram has relocated to the US and is kidnapping girls for sex. The story is written from the point-of-view of one of the girls.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bond. A Novel - Robin Kirk (b. 1960) (Blue Crow Publishing/Goldenjay Books, 2018)
First volume of a trilogy set in a future controlled by a matriarchy that genetically engineers their children and determines their role in life at sixteen. The novel follows a girl who finds that the role chosen for her does not fit. The second volume is The Hive Queen. Chapel Hill, NC: Blue Crow Publishing/Goldenjay Books, 2020 follows a different set of characters searching for a rumored place of freedom and the troubles they experience during the search.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Call of the Wold” - Holly Schofield (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
Something of a eutopia set in Canada in a future in which most people are living in intentional communities. Through the protagonist, a woman escaping the corporate world, the story explores the problems of making such a community successful.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Camping With City Boy" - Jerri Jerreat (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in a Canada that has dealt used high-tech solutions to deal with environmental damage, mostly eliminating cars, rigid rules regarding the use of materials that might damage it, and people living in connected high rises with gardens on different levels.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Can You See It Now?” - Taylor Hoffman (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a death cult is poisoning the atmosphere, and two women fight back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Caught Root" - Julia K. Patt (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in a future recovering from environmental collapse with two cities, one high-tech and one low-tech, trying to find a way to cooperate.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Chat Room" - Nadia Shammas (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A future story in comic form about the problem of wanting to fit in and finding friends when you are different.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Chercher La Femme - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2018)
A complex novel set mostly on a spaceship travelling to a planet called La Femme that explores gender issues. There are clear dystopian elements on the starship, and whether La Femme is eutopian or dystopian is up to the reader.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Choice" - Kay Honda (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A future story in comic form in which a man tries to fashion a female AI in the way he wants her and cannot understand why she leaves him.
Keywords: Female author

The Completionist - Siobhan Adcock (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Dystopia in which mothers are required to give up their jobs to raise their children and must do so to rigidly enforced standards helped/supervised by “nurse completionists.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Consumption" - K. M. McKenzie (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which the protagonist is being manipulated by artificial intelligences and cannot control her desire to purchase something.
Keywords: African Canadian author; Female author

“Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse” - [Divya Srinivasan] [Breed] (Uncanny Magazine, 2018)
The story is set in a future where abortion is illegal in Arizona and abortion providers and their supporters are liable to be shot on sight by the authorities but legal in California, and there is an underground railroad between the states that has to cross a fortified border.
Rpt. in her Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations (Gurugram, India : Hachette India, 2019), 11-26. 9789388322430
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

"The Cost of Doing Business" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2018)
The story focuses on a plan to green the United States, initially on a small scale in Flint, Michigan, and the throughout the country and the dystopian means used to achieve the eutopian end.
Rpt. in A Year Without 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), 173-211.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Cube. A Novel - Kelly Fumiko Weiss (Windy City Publishers, 2018)
The Cube is a game in sites around the world and that people play compulsively. The novel focuses on trying to understand the Cube and has both dystopian and eutopian elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Dancing East to West” - Simon Petrie; Edwina Harvey (Te Korero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning, 2018)
The story is set in Australia in a future after multiple catastrophes destroy the world’s technological civilization. The small community that the survivors have created is presented in eutopian terms, and at the end of the story contact is made by people from New Zealand travelling in an airship.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author; Male author

"Dangerous" - Lisa Mason (b. 1953) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Satire on bureaucracy in a surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Day the White People Walked into the Sea” - Stacy Hardy (The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2018)
Just what the title says.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

“Designed for Your Safety” - Elizabeth Bourne (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
In a dystopia riddled with disease, a building controlled by an artificial intelligence locks the workers inside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Doner" - Tabitha Sin (Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good, 2018)
A zombie story set in a climate-change dystopia in which New York city that is slowly disappearing under the ocean.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ecoland" - Cansu Çakmak Özgürel (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
The story includes a speech by the last surviving member of a research team that brought about the great Change that produced an ecological eutopia by eliminating humans.
Keywords: Female author; Turkish author

“Elevator Dancer” - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (How Long ‘Til Black Future Month, 2018)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Elites" - Stephanie Feldman (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia depicting a family separated when one member leaves the U.S. to help a sick relative and is not allowed to return. A second theme is the competition to get children into elite schools.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The End of the Incarnation” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Who Will Speak for America?, 2018)
A depiction of the gradual dissolution of the United States ending with rights becoming universal rather than tied to citizenship.
Rpt. as “The End of the Incarnation I” through “The End of the Incarnation VII.” In her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 15, 39, 55, 95, 105, 139, 165.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

"Eruptions" - [Samantha] Lynne Sargent (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
Poem describing an environmental dystopia.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/eruptions/ (February 12, 2019).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Escape from Caring Seasons” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Twelve Tomorrows, 2018)
A dystopia brought about by an artificial intelligence that controls all the residents in Caring Seasons, a senior citizens home, and whose decisions, which are aimed at benefiting the home not than the residents and cannot be overridden by anyone. The story concerns a man trying to get his wife released when the algorithm says she should stay.
Rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 110-138.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Euphoria - Jayne Lockwood (DSP Publications, 2018)
A transgender alien appears on Earth and develops the intention of saving it from the destruction that enveloped its planet.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Eve of Man - Giovanna Fletcher (b. 1985); Tom Fletcher (b. 1985) (Michael Joseph, 2018)
First volume of trilogy in which the only girl born in fifty years reaches maturity and the society has planned her future.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

“Everything I Own” - Lela Gwenn (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A post-catastrophe but positive future story in comic form in which a girl discovers seeds and plants them, later other people, including children, come, who the girl’s mother wants to chase away, but the girl wants to stay. The children ask the mother if she can read to them, and everything changes for the better.
Keywords: Female author

Everything is Known - Liza Elliott (Red Camel Press, 2018)
Dystopia in which governments have been replaced by corporations that control all access to data. People were required to be indifferent regarding public behavior. People lived in walled cities determined by their status, except for Outliers, who lived in slums. Gender discrimination with women expected to be subservient to men. The novel focuses on the resistance. Some Native American themes.
Keywords: Female author

"The Far Side" - Gabriella Muwanga (AfroSFv3, 2018)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia where Earth is becoming uninhabitable, and the Moon is being colonized.
Keywords: Female author; Ugandan American author

"Farewell" - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) (O/R Books, 2018)
A dystopia in which a family is being broken up and the grandmother is being deported.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Field of Sapphires and Sunshine” - Jaymee Goh (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in the 22nd century in which the U.S. economy has collapsed, and it is cheaper for the protagonist to attend university in the U.S. than at home in Asia. The world has adapted to climate change by, among other things, abolishing airplanes, and the protagonist flies home on an airship, and, since the flight takes a week, reflects on the world situation and her place in it as a new graduate.
Keywords: Female author; Malaysian author; US author

“For the Sake of Snake Power” - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, 2018)
near future climate-change dystopia in which poor people in Phoenix die in the regular heat waves because the government is selling their solar power to other cities. The story is followed by the essays, Joshua Loughman, “Lessons from the Snake: Energy and Society;” and Esmerelda Parker, “Drawing from Nature: Designing a Solar Snake.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Fortress - S[arah] A. Jones (b. 1973) (Echo Publishing/Bonnier Books, 2018)
The novel is set primarily within The Fortress, a women’s city-state. Outside The Fortress, the world is much like the present, and a man living there is required by his wife, to save his marriage and atone for the sexual violence pervading his company, to live in The Fortress for a year.
U.S. ed. New York: Erewhon Books, 2020.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Free Orcs of Cascadia” - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which people in role-playing games choose to fashion their lives on the roles they play. The focus is on the conflict between the “Free Orcs” who are anarchists and the fascist Orcines. The Free Orcs live in the town of Gray Morrow located in the remains of a town in the middle of a “scorched graveyard of a Douglas fir” forest (170). They use “Dark Speech” (related to Tolkien’s “Black Speech”), are matriarchal, which is “roughly anarchist,” (the Orcine are patriarchal), and live by their version of “orcish code of honour” that stresses “interdependence between individual sovereignty and collective identity” (171). The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.
Rpt. in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 17-35.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

The Freedom Trials - Meredith Tate (Page Street Publishing Co, 2018)
A dystopia in which selected prisoners are put through the varied tests of the Freedom Trials with the reward of freedom if they succeed and execution if they fail. The protagonist, who has had her memory of her crime erased, has made enemies among the other prisoners, some of whom want her to fail.
Keywords: Female author; Swiss author; US author

“From the Shoals of Broken Cities” - Heather Osborne (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which the Earth is so damaged environmentally that the only successful society is under water where humans have been adapted to live.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism” - Miriam A. Cherry (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Presented as an encyclopedia entry that begins with the actual Luddite movement of the earlier nineteenth century, which, instead of being defeated, is successful. Luddite councils are established in factories, then these expand into the political real, then worldwide. The Luddite’s history of successes is then followed to the twenty-fourth century.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Fyrewall” - Stefani Cox (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in a high-tech future Los Angeles that is inside a dome that protects it from the recurrent wildfires and functions as a direct democracy with everyone able to contribute to the decision-making process.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Gilbert Tong’s Life List” - Kate Heartfield (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
A climate-change based dystopia in which the country of Kiribati disappears under the ocean, and under pressure, various countries offer to accept a small number of the refugees. The story is set in Canada, which has settled 5,000 refugees in a fenced-off self-governed area, and then ignored them.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Glow" - J. S. Breukelaar (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia set in the United States after an election of an anti-immigrant president.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author; US author

The Greatest Story Ever Told - Una McCormack (b. 1972) (NewCon Press, 2018)
Dystopia of a society with slavery in which some slavers escape and lead a revolt, which is defeated.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Green Man" - Teika Marija Smits (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
Environmental dystopia in which, with all the bees and other pollinating insects gone, the young poor are hired as pollinators.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-green-man/ (January 15, 2019).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Guardian" - Susan Pieters (Pulp Literature, 2018)
The story is set in a world in which everyone must wear a Guardian that limits their ability to feel emotion.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Habitat" - Christie Yant (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
Dystopia in which the response to climate-change is to move all humans into one huge building and leave nature to itself. The building is designed to replicate the culture and environment of the people, and the story examines the response of the last group of humans who had still been living outside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Handmaid’s Other Tale” - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen (b. 1939) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A poem reflecting the thoughts of a Handmaid from 1985 Atwood.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hard Mary" - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) (Lightspeed, 2018)
The story is set in a society that rejects most technology and enforces traditional gender roles. In the story, some girls find a discarded AI, manage to refurbish it, and keep it hidden for many years. Some fantasy.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 329-63, with an editor’s note on 329.
Keywords: Female author; Somali-American author

“Harry and Marlowe and the Secret of Ahomana” - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Lightspeed Magazine, 2018)
Lost race eutopia on an isolated island set in a steampunk future that is searching for advanced technology lost when an alien spaceship crashed. The island Ahomana was visited by the aliens before it crashed and left the islanders both technology and the basis for the beliefs that helped create the eutopia. Part of a series entitled “The Aetherian Revolution” featuring the two protagonists that has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine in no. 21 (February 2012), no. 33 (February 2013), no. 45 (February 2014), no. 50. (July 2014), and no. 64 (September 2015).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hazards of Time Travel - Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) (HarperCollins, 2018)
The novel begins in an authoritarian future where any deviance or dissent from the official line is punished, where it was dangerous to be too intelligent or the wrong skin color. The novel focuses on a girl who says what she thinks and is exiled to eighty years in the past.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees” - Wendy Nikel (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in an environmental dystopia where all the trees have died, and the mechanical ones designed to replace them are degrading.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (January 31, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/01/31/the-heavenly-dreams-of-mechanical-trees/
Keywords: Female author; US author

“His Sweat Like Stars of the Rio Grande” - Janis Ian (b. 1951) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Future dystopia in which the U. S. has completely severed ties with Mexico, but it is still depended on the migrant laborers who have been essentially enslaved to keep producing the needed crops.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hive - A[manda] J. Betts (Pan Macmillan, 2018)
The first of two volumes with the first volume set in an underwater, religious dystopia where the people are taught that the limited space in which they live is all there is. The young, female protagonist, a beekeeper, discovers otherwise. Followed by Rogue. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pan Macmillan, 2019, in which the protagonist escapes to the surface, is discovered by people on a small island, and struggles both to learn about the world she now lives in, be accepted in it, and get a message back to her friends. The novel originated as part of the author’s doctoral dissertation entitled “Rogue: A Novel - and Wanderlust: the value of wonder for readers, writers, and The Vault: A Critical Essay.” Edith Cowan University, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2122/
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“HR Confidential” - Sim Bajwa (Shoreline of Infinity, 2018)
The dystopian story is told through exchanges between an employee and a human relations officer, with the employee complaining that the workers are being forced to work around the clock, and the HR person fobbing her off.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"In the Background" - Barbara Krasnoff (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set in a dystopian future where social norms are being reversed, limiting freedom, and stigmatizing individuals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Insatiable Desires - Zoë Robertson; Jesse Life (Roseway Publishing/Fernwood Publishing, 2018)
Near future dystopia in which workers have been replaced by automation and most of the safety net has been eliminated.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

"The Inventor's Daughter" - Lucia Fasano (b. 1993) (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A future story in comic form in which a woman who invented carbon capture is imprisoned by those in power. In the story, years later when the Earth is flooded, her daughter frees her.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“It Looked Like Our Dreams” - Maria Frölich (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a future is imagined where a small enclave embedded in nature and with advanced technology is surrounded by devastation.
Keywords: Female author; Norwegian author

“Knitting Day” - Jen Winter (Mother of Invention, 2018)
The story is set in a patriarchal dystopia in which women, and poor women in particular, are disparaged and end up working in the local factory building robots. The protagonist is one such woman, who had excelled in school but was expelled because, it was assumed, she cheated. In the factory some women form a support community that brings about some changes.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (Dark Horse Comics, 2018)
Graphic novel satire on immigration with aliens from space landing in Nigeria and providing the country with the technology to radically improve life, while also mixing their DNA with human DNA. The novel depicts opposition to the aliens as immigrants, particularly in the United States.
Collects issues 1 - 4 of LaGuardia from Berger Books, 2018-2019
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Leaving" - Monique Cuillerier (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
Climate-change dystopia in which eastern and lakefront Canada is under water. In the story a woman struggles over deciding to leave her hometown, which is completely submerged, for one of Human colonies in space. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Left to Take the Lead” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2018)
The story is set on an Earth with a badly damaged environment, with the protagonist an indentured laborer from a space colony. One of her “Oort Cloud” stories. Other stories in the series include “Points of Origin.” Illus. Keith Negley. Tor.com (November 34, 2015). https://www.tor.com/2015/11/04/points-of-origin-marissa-lingen/.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Little Grey Weirdos” - Anna Ziegelhof (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2018)
Post-apocalyptic story set in California in which three individuals trying to escape from the dangerous cities and hoping to find a rich uncle’s bunker come across two people who have found a way to life. It is told by one woman from each side.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Livewire" - Ayame Whitfield (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
The story is set in a future society with deep rich/poor divisions. Its focus is on whether “bots” have developed with emotions, with people destroying those they think have.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

“Longing for Earth” - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) (Infinity’s End, 2018)
The story is set in what appears to be a eutopian future in which Earth has been restored after most people have left to live on one of the many worlds created to reproduce different environments, but then choosing to live as their younger selves in virtual reality. The protagonist is a man who had hoped to win the lottery that allowed people to immigrate to Earth but, after retiring, while waiting, visited these worlds. At the time of the story, he is well over 300 and visiting his thousandth world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

M Archive: After the End of the World - Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Duke University Press, 2018)
A complex work that explores Black life after an undescribed catastrophe through stories and poems that explore Black feminism and its ramifications with both positive and negative outcomes. The second volume of a planned tryptic following the non-utopian Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. See also her 2015 “Evidence.”
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Meet Me at the State Sponsored Movie Night” - Tiffany E. Wilson (Resist Fascism, 2018)
Authoritarian dystopia constantly patrolled by the Freedom Enforcers. All schools have been closed, and all entertainment is state sponsored.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Memory Hacker" - J. T. Lawrence (2054: A Collection of Novellas, 2018)
A dystopia in which a woman discovers that her memory of her children has been removed and that those children had been taken to be repurposed as weapons.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Ministry of Truth Handbook: Excerpt on the Strategic Use of Fallacious Reasoning for Thoughtcrime Prevention” - Elizabeth Rard (1984 and Philosophy: Is Resistance Futile?, 2018)
Pretty much what the title says: lessons on how to manipulate people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Modern Ecotopia" - Heather Alberro (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Brief but fairly detailed communal anarchist eutopia with an emphasis on the environment and comparisons to the current situation. The protagonist is a woman journalist being given a tour of Anakai, with her tour guide giving her a very detailed description. Anakai is composed of “federations of autonomous, self-sufficient, yet interconnected eco-communities of around 500 inhabitants each” (103). “All children . . .are taught from early childhood the basic principles of ecology, how to live sustainably, the unique characteristics of the wonderful animal life with which we share our planet, and how the grand and complex earth systems that support life function" (104).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Mother of Invention" - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (Slate, 2018)
Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel.
Rpt., without the response, in A Year Without 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), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33.
Keywords: African American author; Female author; US author

#MurderTrending - Gretchen McNeil (b. 1975) (Freeform Press, 2018)
Young adult dystopia in which criminals are publicly executive on television; and an innocent young woman gets caught in the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"My Utopian Island" - Emilie Vienne (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Brief eutopia of a pollution-free eutopia that does not use money and functions based on voluntary service
Keywords: Belgian author; Female author

“Nation Building and Baptism” - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Capricious, 2018)
Powerful story about a ceremony welcoming refugees into Aotearoa/New Zealand set in an environmentally devastated world.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"New Action" - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) (e-flux, 2018)
The focus of the story is on resistance to an authoritarian government that has limited the number of contacts that any group can have with other groups.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The New Black" - Nora O Murchi (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Dystopia in which most people have lost their jobs to algorithms and the few who work with the algorithms are constantly monitored and required to work precisely as directed.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

"Newsletter" - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia of censorship.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Night of the Party - Tracey Mathias (Scholastic, 2018)
Young adult dystopia in which Britain is controlled by a single party and everyone born outside the country is considered illegal and subject to arrest and deportation. Not reporting an illegal is itself a crime.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Notes on Retrieving a Fallen Banner” - Marguerite Reed (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Near future dystopia in which abortion providers are being by the authorities even though abortion remains legal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Ocean of Minutes - Thea Lim (b. 1981) (Quercus, 2018)
The novel begins in Houston, Texas in 1981 when a vicious plague strikes the area. To save the uninfected, some people volunteer to be sent into the future, which turns out to be a dystopia in which those sent from the past are treated relatively well or extremely poorly based on their skills.
U.S. ed. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2019
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Singaporean author; US author

“The Ones Who Stay and Fight” - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (How Long ‘Til Black Future Month, 2018)
The author calls the story “a pastiche and response” to Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk from Amelas” (1973) (xi), with some references to Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and the story reflects its title.
Rpt. in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“The Only Constant” - Leslie Howle (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which any dissent leads to arrest.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Pacifica - Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen, 2018)
A dystopia that takes place after “the Melt” in which a lottery chooses people to be taken to an “island paradise,” which does not exist. The novel is based on the treatment of U. S. citizens of Japanese heritage, including the author’s grandmother.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese author

“Paula’s Choice” - Cristina Barsan (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Dystopia in which a stay-at-home housewife is the highest position attainable by a woman, but it is only available to women married to a man with high status.
Keywords: Belgian author; Female author; Romanian author

"Pedaling" - Tuere T. S. Ganges (Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which the U.S. government has collapse, and violence, particularly racial violence is common and focuses on a group of mixed-race teenagers trying to find a place to live.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Perfect Is No/Place of Mine” - Iris Reisenberger (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Poem that reflects on the nature of utopia
Keywords: Belgian author; Female author

"Pinion" - Stephanie Gunn (Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy, 2018)
As suggest by the book’s subtitle, there is much fantasy, but the setting is a future dystopia in which only the Chosen, who live in immaculate towers, have clean air and water, fresh food, and sanitation. The workers put in extremely long hours in appalling conditions to ensure that the system supporting the Chosen is maintained.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Plum Rains - Andromeda Romano-Lax (b. 1970) (Soho Press, 2018)
Part historical novel that begins in Japan in 2029 when the aging of the population is reaching a crisis point with the government trying to solve the problem of finding caregivers with robotic AI. One of the protagonists is a woman from the Philippines working as a caregiver for a wealthy old woman who has been given a robot programmed to learn and respond to all her needs. If she loses the job that allows her to support her family back in the Philippines, she will be expelled from the country. Some things, of course, go wrong as the old woman becomes attached to the robot and reveals secrets regarding her and Japan’s past.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Pollution People" - C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990) (Black Warrior Review, 2018)
The story is set in a future United States that has been devastated by climate change and pollution.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author

Pulse Point - Colleen Nelson; Nancy Chappell-Pollack (Great Plains Publications/Yellow Dog, 2018)
Climate change dystopia in which a city walls itself off from the outside world. People are required to exercise in ways that generate energy for the city, and each person is fitted with a microchip, called pulse points to ensure that they do. Of course, there is corruption. One woman’s pulse point fails, freeing her from the rules.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Queen Colonies" - Annelise Knoot (Colony: A One-Shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia where people have moved underground.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Red Clocks. A Novel - Leni Zumas (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2018)
Dystopia in which abortion is illegal, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights to embryos.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Remember the Green” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
An environmental dystopia in which some people have been genetically engineered to grow crops and are now being removed from the green areas they created into areas that are all grey. The story concerns a girl from the green who meets another girl from the green.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rending and the Nest. A Novel - Kaethe Schwehn (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Ninety percent of the world’s population simply disappears, and those remaining. One woman brings together some of those left and creates a community she calls Zion. Women give birth to inanimate objects. Other survivors arrive with other ideas and conflict develops.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Requiem" - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories, 2018)
The story is set in a future where climate change has damaged the culture of Alaskan natives, but, in which, temporarily the world responded by stopping many of the activities that were driving the changes. At the time the story takes place, the sea ice has begun to return, but already corporations are again drilling for oil.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 160-200, with an editor’s note on 160.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author