@booklet {11997, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Blossoming{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Grist/Imagine 2000 2024 }, year = {2024}, month = {January 22, 2024}, abstract = {

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}, url = {https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-the-imperfect-blue-marble/}, author = {Guglielmo Miccolupi and Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues} } @booklet {11939, title = {Land of Milk Honey}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {234 pp.}, publisher = {Riverhead Books/Penguin Riverhead Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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}, isbn = {9780593538241}, author = {C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990)}, editor = {C. Pam Zhang} } @booklet {11570, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Laartammer{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {59-75}, publisher = {Short Story Day Africa}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

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}, isbn = {978-1-946395-57-3 }, author = {J[ulia] S[muts] Louw}, editor = {Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) and Karina Magdalena Szczurek and Jason Myki Snyman} } @booklet {11568, title = {"Static"}, howpublished = {The Johannesburg Review of Books}, volume = {5.3}, year = {2021}, note = {

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.

}, month = {June 23, 2021}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {Female author, Nigerian author}, isbn = {9781946395573 }, url = {[The JRB Daily] [Exclusive] Read {\textquoteleft}Static{\textquoteright} by Alithnayn Abdulkareem, 2nd Runner-up in the 2019/20 Short Story Day Africa Prize {\textendash} The Johannesburg Review of Books}, author = {Alithnayn Abdulkareem}, editor = {Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) and Karina Magdalena Szczurek and Jason Myki Snyman} } @booklet {10679, title = {Mallworld Incorporated}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, publisher = {[Bookbaby]}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

Following the devastation of the environment that made it impossible to grow any food, everyone, except \“workeys\” condemned to short lives in the algae farms, lives in a huge mall that extends from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Pennsylvania. Everyone must spend constantly and up to their minimum shopping quota, or they are sent outside for a time. Monthly fashion. Everyone is said to be fat and happy, and the basic belief system is that \“Libertarian capitalism made us all free\” (18). Definite status differentiation. The protagonist reads and old utopia and begins to wonder if there could be a more fulfilling life, and over the course of the novel, he reinvents himself both physically and mentally and begins to challenge the norms of behavior in the Mall. His attitude to the people outside the Mall, who he had seen as animals, he comes to see as fellow human beings, and begins the process of trying to create a better society. First volume of a trilogy followed by Mallworld Incorporated: Bound Together.\ Np: [Bookbaby], 2020, in which the powerful in Mallworld respond, often violently, to the movement to make Mallworld more equal.\ Mallworld Incorporated: Bound Forward\ is forthcoming.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jeffery Zavadil (b. 1969)} } @booklet {11248, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Cryps, Chains and Cranks{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {205-30 [57-64]}, publisher = {Meatspace Press}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The dystopia created by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. 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 = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-9955776-7-1 }, author = {Matthew Zook}, editor = {Mark Graham and Rob Kitchin and Shannon Mattern and Joe Shaw} } @booklet {10622, title = {Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother}, howpublished = {Futures A Science Fiction Series [}, volume = {[No. 4]}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {27 pp.}, publisher = {Radix Media}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {

The story is set in thoroughly surveilled society with much of the surveillance \“personalized,\” or worn or accepted by individuals. In the story, the surveillance is used positively, and the society has rules that restrict its use, although businesses push the borders of legality.\ 

}, keywords = {Chinese-American author, Female author}, author = {Hal Y. Zhang} } @booklet {10301, title = {{\textquotedblleft}It{\textquoteright}s 2043. We Need a New American Dream for the A.I. Revolution{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The New York Times}, year = {2019}, month = {August 12, 2019}, abstract = {

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}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/opinion/future-artificial-intelligence-religion.html}, author = {Baobao Zhang} } @booklet {10002, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Life Is a Devil{\textquoteright}s Bargain{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {90-98}, publisher = {A Wave Blue World}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

A positive future story in comic form about the dan8er of experimenting with DNA.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Justin Zimmerman (b. 1977)}, editor = {Matt Miner and Eric Palicki and Tyler Chin-Tanner} } @booklet {11311, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Little Grey Weirdos{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {The Future Fire: Social Political \& Speculative Cyber-Fiction}, volume = {no. 44}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {53-65}, abstract = {

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}, issn = {1746-1839}, url = {The Future Fire: 2018.46 fiction littlegreyweirdos }, author = {Anna Ziegelhof} } @booklet {10661, title = {"Pollution People"}, howpublished = {Black Warrior Review}, volume = {44.1}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {EJournal}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future United States that has been devastated by climate change and pollution.\ 

}, keywords = {Chinese-American author, Female author}, url = {https://bwr.ua.edu/from-the-archives-pollution-people-by-c-pam-zhang/ }, author = {C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990)} } @booklet {9631, title = {Red Clocks. A Novel}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which abortion is illegal, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights to embryos.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Leni Zumas (b. 1972)} } @booklet {9509, title = {"A street but half made up: Meet the literary agent{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Nature}, volume = {553.7867 }, year = {2018}, month = {January 11, 2018}, pages = {244}, abstract = {

The story takes place in what is called a library city in which books are housed on the street throughout the city. The focus is on a robot that re-shelves books that are misplaced and reads and is affected by them.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Anna Zumbro} } @booklet {9776, title = {"Control"}, howpublished = {Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {1-8}, publisher = {Topside Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The story is set in a deeply divided dystopia, in one part of which the streets are clean and safe, heavily policed by both cameras supported by a police force. The cameras use face-recognition to identify everyone and evaluate them, giving them at actual score. The other part is collapsing and dangerous with no cameras and no police.\ 

}, keywords = {Transgender author, US author}, author = {Rachel K[atie] Zall}, editor = {Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett} } @booklet {9764, title = {{\textquotedblleft}A Woman Walks into a Bar{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {302-15}, publisher = {B Cubed Press}, address = {Benton City, WA}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which women are being systematically suppressed.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Jill Zeller}, editor = {Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) and Rebecca McFarland Kyle and Lou J Berger and Bob Brown} } @booklet {8936, title = {"An American Utopia"}, howpublished = {An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {1-96}, publisher = {Verso}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The author discusses his utopia based on a universal army, similar in some ways to Bellamy\’s Industrial Army, as the best way to deal with the current economic situation. The utopia was originally given as a keynote address at the 2013 meeting of the Society of Utopian Studies in Charleston, SC, and the utopia in the address was much more detailed than in the published version. The comments are Robinson, \“Mutt and Jeff Push the Button\” (97-104), which is fiction (see 2016 Robinson); Jodi Dean, \“Dual Power Redux\” (105-32); Saroj Giri, \“The Happy Accident of a Utopia\” (133-45); Agon Hamza, \“From the Other Scene to the Other State: Jameson\’s Dialectic of Dual Power\” (147-68); Kojin Karatani, \“A Japanese Utopia\” (169-82); Frank Ruda, \“ Jameson and Method: On Comic Utopianism\” (183-210); Alberto Toscano, \“After October, Before February: Figures of Dual Power\” (211-41); Kathi Weeks, \“Utopian Therapy: Work, Nonwork, and the Political Imagination (243-65); and Slavoj {\v Z}i{\v z}ek, \“The Seeds of Imagination\” (267-308); followed by \“An America Utopia: Epilogue\” by Jameson (309-17).

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fredric Jameson (b. 1934)}, editor = {Slavoj {\v Z}i{\v z}ek (b. 1949)} } @booklet {10403, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Goodnight New York, New York{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Shoreline of Infinity}, volume = {no. 6}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11\½ (Spring 2018): 91-97.\ 

}, month = {Winter 2016/17}, pages = {61-67}, abstract = {

Climate-change story in which the government has consistently lied about conditions in New York, where even some of the tallest buildings are completely submerged.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, issn = {2059-2590}, author = {Victoria Zelvin} } @booklet {8883, title = {Judenstaat}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Alternative history covering 1945-87 in which, following World War 2, a homeland for the Jews, Judenstaat, was established in Saxony in the eastern part of Germany.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Simone Zelitch} } @booklet {8934, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Mutt and Jeff Push the Button{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {97-104}, publisher = {Verso}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Two coders work out how to fairly redistribute income using the model of a universal army. Some satire, and at the end it is unclear what happens.\ Mutt and Jeff also appear\ in 2017 Robinson.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952)}, editor = {Slavoj {\v Z}i{\v z}ek (b. 1949)} } @booklet {10647, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Desolation Wilderness{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Journeys through Time and Space}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {40-50}, abstract = {

The story is set on an environmentally damaged, overpopulated Earth where all the trees have been destroyed to get at the last remaining oil and takes place in Death Valley, where all criminals are sent.

}, url = {Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf}, author = {R. A. Bennett}, editor = {Ed Finn and Pascal Zachary} } @booklet {10646, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Internal Drive{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Journeys through Time and Space}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {51-59}, publisher = {Intel Foundation/Society for Science and the Public/Arizona State University}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where Earth is dying, and everyone is being moved to a high-tech sphere. The story is told by the scientist who is given the task of choosing the five, and only five, plants that will be taken to the new habitat. All animals are left behind, and cities are dismantled so that the entire Earth will be available to them.

}, keywords = {Female author}, url = {Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf}, author = {Heidi Benefiel}, editor = {Ed Finn and Pascal Zachary} } @booklet {10645, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Packets in the Tube{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Journeys through Time and Space}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {95-104}, publisher = {Intel Foundation/Society for Science and the Public/Arizona State University}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where the combination of the internet and the hyperloop means that anyone can live anywhere and commute to anyplace else and goods can be shipped almost instant anywhere. Presented as eutopian.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf}, author = {Siddanta Bastola}, editor = {Ed Finn and Pascal Zachary} } @booklet {10250, title = {Puma Blue. The Complete Saga in One Volume}, year = {2015}, note = {

Originally published as a comic between 1986 and 1989.

The book version also includes \“Acts of Faith: A Coda\” by Stephen R. Bissette (527-40), \“Act of Faith\” (541-44) and the \“Puma\ Blues. Number 24 1/2\” (545-60).

}, month = {2015}, pages = {560 pp.}, publisher = {Dover Publications}, address = {Mineola, NY}, abstract = {

The story begins in 2000 after a white supremacist group sets off a small nuclear bomb in the Bronx, which no longer exists. The world is technologically advance, but the environment has been badly damaged, and some species have mutated. The primary protagonist is a \“fauna agent\” or game warden assigned to a reservoir in Massachusetts. Later the story follows him as he leaves government service and travels around the country, and the entire series has a strong environmental message.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Stephen Murphy and Michael Zulli (b. 1952)} } @booklet {8249, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Welcome to Arcadia{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, pages = {273-77}, publisher = {The Feminist Press at the City University of New York}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Blogging in a feminist eutopia.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Julie Zeilinger (b. 1993)}, editor = {Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff} } @booklet {8192, title = {"The Community"}, howpublished = {Embracing Utopian Horizons}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {56-61}, publisher = {Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu}, address = {Novi Sad, Serbia}, abstract = {

A eutopia in which people can choose among a variety of ways of life, each of which forms a community. The particular community presented stresses education.

}, keywords = {Female author, Serbian author}, author = {Zori{\'c}, Jovana and Marijana Stojanovi{\'c}}, editor = {Zorica {\DH}ergovi{\'c}-Joksimovi{\'c}} } @booklet {8173, title = {"Elysium"}, howpublished = {Embracing Utopian Horizons}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {40-45}, publisher = {Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu}, address = {Novi Sad, Serbia}, abstract = {

Brief eutopia that is brought about by strict laws that regulate behavior and with the ultimate punishment being exile to Earth.

}, keywords = {Female author, Serbian author}, author = {Mihaljuk, Ivaria and {\v Z}ivkov, Smiljana}, editor = {Zorica {\DH}ergovi{\'c}-Joksimovi{\'c}} } @booklet {8641, title = {Sister, Sister}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = { Kwela Books}, address = {Cape Town, South Africa}, abstract = {

Much of the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, but some is set in a near future dystopia after the end of oil.

}, keywords = {Female author, South African author}, author = {Rachel Zadok (b. 1972)} } @booklet {9122, title = {Good Intentions. A Novel}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, publisher = {Swiss Creek Publications}, address = {Cupertino, CA}, abstract = {

Satire depicting a future dystopian U.S. of complete government control.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Zeidman, Bob} } @booklet {6518, title = {Seed}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, publisher = {Night Shade Books}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a collapsed environment.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ziegler, Rob} } @booklet {6295, title = {Hope}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, publisher = {Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor}, address = {Rockville, MD}, abstract = {

Libertarian dystopian political thriller where a President of the U.S. tries to uphold the libertarian version of the Second Amendment to the Constitution on the right to carry weapons.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010) and L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} } @booklet {6173, title = {"Jesus Runs"}, howpublished = {Future Americas}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {80-103}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia in which a clone of Jesus plans to run for President of the United States, which had fragmented as power had shifted to the states. The Supreme Court had become irrelevant as a result of partisan decisions, but since there were a dozen clones, it got involved.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)}, editor = {John Helfers and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011)} } @booklet {8694, title = {2050 Volume One: Gods of Little Earth. A Novel}, year = {2007}, note = {

[Rev. ed.] as 2050: A Future History, Volume I: Gods of Little Earth. Np: Iron Diesel Press, 2011. There is no reference to the earlier publication in the 2011 version.\ 

}, month = {2007}, publisher = {SpeculativeFictionReview}, address = {[Santa Monica, CA]}, abstract = {

First volume in a trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic 2050 that is primarily concerned with a struggle between good and evil. Continued in his\ 2050: A Future History Volume II: The Power at the Bottom of the World. A Novel. Np: Iron Diesel Press, 2012; and\ 2050 When Immortals Reign. A Future History Volume 3. West Warwick, RI: Merry Blacksmith Press, 2015.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {J[oseph] Zornado} } @booklet {5860, title = {"To the Universal Station"}, howpublished = {Millennium 3001}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, pages = {177-220}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Future history detailing the collapse of earth\’s economy and environment as a result of current policies.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)}, editor = {Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) and Russell Davis} } @booklet {5708, title = {"Pigs on the Wing: Aurorae in the sky with diamonds, just $10.99 (exc. tax)"}, howpublished = {Nature }, volume = {436.7051 }, year = {2005}, note = {

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in\ Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 318-20.

}, month = {August 4, 2005}, pages = {752}, abstract = {

Pollution dystopia.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {K. Erik Ziemelis} } @booklet {9962, title = {RebelFire 1.0: Out of the Gray Zone}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, publisher = {RebelFire Press}, address = {Hartford, WI}, abstract = {

A future as a dystopia in which everyone is surveilled and drugged, and there are armed patrols to ensure compliance. One young boy resists, and he finds others who are rebels. The authors include an Afterword (225-27) giving details of existing or proposed institutions and weapons that are the basis for their picture of the future.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Male author, US author}, author = {Claire Wolfe and Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010)} } @booklet {5526, title = {Futureways}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, publisher = {Arsenal Pulp Press/Whitney Museum of American Art/Printed Matter, Inc. }, address = {Vancouver, BC, Canada/New York}, abstract = {

Fourteen stories from thirteen authors with only the first story with an identified author. All the stories are set in or refer to futures, mostly dystopian, and connect to art exhibits. The authors listed are Laura Cottingham, as Ying Zong 4217 [pseud.]; Nick Crowe; Aline Duriaud; Nalo Hopkinson; Nico Israel; Matthew Licht; Peter Maass; Rita McBride; Alexandre Melo, whose story was translated from the Portuguese by Brad Cherry; Glen Rubsamen; Brad Schafer; Mark\ von Schlegell; and Roger Wolfson.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Dutch author, Female author, German author, Portuguese author, UK author, US author}, editor = {Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen} } @booklet {9928, title = {Oracles}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, pages = {176 pp.}, publisher = {University of New Mexico Press}, address = {Albuquerque, NM}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a future climate-change dystopia and focuses on the conflicts within a fictional Native American Indian tribe between those upholding the old ways and those rejecting them.\ It follows the life of a young Native American woman is being trained in the traditional practices of a shaman in the future with space travel.

}, keywords = {Female author, Native American author}, isbn = {9780826331915}, author = {Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (b. 1960)} } @booklet {5457, title = {The Holy Land}, year = {2003}, month = {2003}, publisher = {Polaris Books}, address = {Lakewood, CO}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Satire on current world politics.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Zubrin (b. 1952)} } @booklet {5246, title = {Kingdom}, year = {2001}, month = {2001}, publisher = {The Rose \& Lily Press}, address = {Clinton, NY}, abstract = {

Part fantasy, part religious allegory. After a future catastrophe all humans and elves disappear and animals are able to speak. The animals create a eutopia for themselves that is described as that after the end of the New Testament.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Christopher A. Zackey (b. 1949)} } @booklet {5247, title = {Kingdom of Cages}, year = {2001}, month = {2001}, publisher = {Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia. Environmental collapse and disease on most planets. One, Pandora, had a functioning ecosystem and a small genetically controlled population. Fanaticism, conflict between Pandora and other planets.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Sarah [Anne] Zettel (b. 1966)} } @booklet {9055, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Forbidden Experiment{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Fence}, volume = {3.2}, year = {2000}, month = {Fall/Winter 2000-01}, pages = {144-55}, abstract = {

Depicts a dystopia where \“corporate interests\” are running an experiment on raising children who have never heard the spoken word, the children having been stolen from their poor parents. Described as a libretto.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Pamela [Lifton] Zoline (b. 1941)} } @booklet {5154, title = {Icarus Ascending}, year = {2000}, month = {2000}, publisher = {Minerva Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Conformity required and creativity punished. Rebellion.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Michael Zografakis} } @booklet {5049, title = {Cave of Stars}, year = {1999}, month = {1999}, publisher = {HarperPrism}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Clash of mostly dystopian cultures in the far future after Earth has been destroyed. One is a world theocracy that has made advocating change a crime. Others are artificial worlds where many have chosen to live entirely in virtual reality. Described as a companion to his 1979 Macrolife in that the same \“macrolife habitats\” are central to the novel.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {4944, title = {Brute Orbits}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, publisher = {HarperPrism}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Earth decides to cleanse itself of criminals by sending them off into orbit in hollowed-out asteroids. Extended to political dissidents and, ultimately, anyone who upsets the powerful. The novel explores the process of adaptation on a number of the asteroids.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {4853, title = {Life on Planet Heaven}, year = {1997}, month = {1997}, publisher = {Antonio Zuliani Publisher}, address = {Brisbane, QLD, Australia}, abstract = {

UFO novel in which the abductee visits a planet very similar to Earth that is deeply concerned with the possibility of nuclear warfare on Earth. Heaven is a eutopia with no money. It purports to have gender equality, but women choose to stay out of politics because it requires masculine characteristics. Girls and boys are separated at fifteen for education but encouraged to develop relations with the opposite sex, including sexual relations, outside the educational environment. Generally\ marry after 25. Numbers rather than names. Very religious but no denominational differences. Constant computer surveillance everywhere as a means of social control.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Tony Zuly} } @booklet {4491, title = {The Year Seven}, year = {1993}, month = {1993}, publisher = {Naiad Press}, address = {[Tallahassee, FL]}, abstract = {

Post-disaster future depicting a lesbian community. Children are deformed physically but advanced spiritually.

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {Zanger, Molleen} } @booklet {4285, title = {"Sacred Fire."}, howpublished = {There Won{\textquoteright}t Be War}, year = {1991}, month = {1991}, pages = {84-95}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

World built around nuclear terror as a method of peacekeeping.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)}, editor = {Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) and Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946)} } @booklet {4286, title = {"When the Rose Is Dead."}, howpublished = {Full Spectrum }, volume = {3}, year = {1991}, month = {1991}, pages = {503-30}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia in a war setting. A character is said to be \"suffering from an illness the doctors call \&$\#$39;Desire for Utopia\&$\#$39;.\"

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David [Neil] Zindell (b. 1952)}, editor = {Lou Aronica and Amy Stout and Betsy Mitchell} } @booklet {4061, title = {"Chimera"}, howpublished = {Synergy: New Science Fiction}, volume = { Number 4}, year = {1989}, month = {1989}, pages = {67-85 with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 66-67}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace Jovanovich}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Future dystopia in which thirty percent have been sterilized in exchange for a higher income. Privacy very important and invasion of privacy laws strictly enforced. Eighty percent of the population lives in welfare ghettos. Various other themes.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {[Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006)}, editor = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {4046, title = {"The End-of-the-World Ball"}, howpublished = {Synergy: New Science Fiction}, volume = {Number 4}, year = {1989}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Millennium Blues\ ([New York]: e-reads, 1999), 165-83; rpt. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2001; and in\ Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 29-48 with an \"Afterword\" by the author (48).

}, month = {1989}, pages = {1-33}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace Jovanovich}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Various catastrophes bring about dystopia and the end of the world.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020)}, editor = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {4076, title = {"The Final Dream"}, howpublished = {Synergy: New Science Fiction}, volume = {Number 4}, year = {1989}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Final Dream and Other Fictions\ (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 221-68.

}, month = {1989}, pages = {161-237 with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 161}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace Jovanovich}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Amoral dystopia in which dreams are broadcast to subscribers. The one whose dreams are broadcast and becomes other people\&$\#$39;s dreams becomes insane.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013)}, editor = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {3978, title = {"Backward, Turn Backward."}, howpublished = {Synergy: New Science Fiction}, volume = {Number 2}, year = {1988}, note = {

Rpt. in her Crown of Stars (New York: Tor, 1988), 208-70.\ 

}, month = {1988}, pages = {137-214}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace Jovanovich}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Love story with a background of a future dystopia--a deeply divided society with the middle class and above living in enclaves.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {[Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87)}, editor = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {4005, title = {Happiness}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, publisher = {Collins Harvill}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A satirical tour of a modern Heaven by a young woman, her dog, and her pet cockroach, who immediately escapes. Heaven is overcrowded and full of people who had hoped for more from Heaven. The young woman, Sumdy (Somebody) interviews many of the occupants in search of her guardian angel. Includes extended satires of universities and other institutions and social practices.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933)} } @booklet {10348, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Man Plague{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Sinister Wisdom}, volume = {no. 34}, year = {1988}, month = {Spring 1988}, pages = {49-57}, abstract = {

A plague that eliminates all men creates a rural eutopia for lesbians.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Zama [pseud.]} } @booklet {4006, title = {"Metaphysica"}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, publisher = {M.Arch. thesis. Minnesota.}, abstract = {

Architectural utopia.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Daniel John Zutter} } @booklet {3972, title = {"Taking From the Top"}, howpublished = {Synergy: New Science Fiction}, volume = {Number 2}, year = {1988}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Final Dream and Other Fictions\ (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 45-80.

}, month = {1988}, pages = {49-106}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace Jovanovich}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Future tale in which death is required after eighty except for those who have made or are making a major contribution to society.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013)}, editor = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {3864, title = {"Veritas"}, howpublished = {Synergy: New Science Fiction }, volume = {Number 1}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Savage Humanists. Ed. Fiona Kelleghan (Calgary, AL, Canada: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008), 235-56 with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 233-34.

}, month = {1987}, pages = {84-110}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace Jovanovich}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Dystopia that uses technological means to kill fantasy.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947)}, editor = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {11183, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Whore of Babylon{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology}, year = {1986}, month = {1986}, pages = {78-97}, publisher = {Penguin Books}, address = {Harmondsworth, Eng.}, abstract = {

The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is \“I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.\” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex.\ 

}, keywords = {Chilean author, Israeli author, Male author}, isbn = {9780140080674}, author = {Leon [L{\'e}on] Zeldis}, editor = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) and Sam J. Lundwall} } @booklet {3697, title = {"Instructions for Exiting This Building in Case of Fire"}, howpublished = {Interzone}, volume = { no. 12 }, year = {1985}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Despatches From the Frontiers of the Female Mind. Ed. Jen Green and Sarah Lefanu (London: Women\&$\#$39;s Press, 1985), 93-110. Rpt. in her\ Busy About the Tree of Life and Other Stories\ (London: The Women\&$\#$39;s Press, 1988), 107-23; U.S. ed. as\ The Heat Death of the Universe and other stories\ (Kingston, NY: McPherson \& Co., 1988), 71-88.

}, month = {Summer 1985}, pages = {37-43}, abstract = {

Non-voluntary exchange of children to ensure peace. Children are selected by computer.

}, keywords = {Female author, UK author, US author}, author = {Pamela [Lifton] Zoline (b. 1941)} } @booklet {3638, title = {Metacapitalism ... and the Rocket{\textquoteright}s Red Glare. A Revolutionary Primer for the Social, Economic, and Political Rebirth of America}, year = {1985}, month = {1985}, publisher = {Uxor Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Non-fiction eutopia aimed at saving the U.S. from decline. Specific reforms are presented including voting directly on important national issues; a flat ten percent tax with no deductions; a minimum guaranteed income; various changes to the national government, including abolishing the House of Representatives; guaranteed higher education; free medical care; federal economic planning; financing for small businesses and farms; limitations on the size of corporations; regulation of banking; financial assistance to local communities; and judicial reform. These reforms are given in detail (136-261).

}, author = {R. Lee Zimmerman} } @booklet {3266, title = {"The Path We Tread"}, howpublished = {Pictures of the Future}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, pages = {5-12}, publisher = {Mallinson Rendel}, address = {Wellington, New Zealand}, abstract = {

Eutopia or dystopia depending on your outlook. Two tier economy. Small enterprises for local markets with a few large exporters with monopolies for selected corporations. Stress on the market. Welfare cut and a growth in inequality. Privatization of education and local government. Retire at 45 but then work in small shops and family businesses. Revised constitution requires people to work, live in stable families, and participate in corporate and community affairs. The rights specified are free access to information, joining voluntary associations, and stand for office. Prisons closed.\ Young offenders are sent to the military, and older ones are sent to mental hospitals.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author}, author = {Nick Zepke (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3267, title = {"People Come First"}, howpublished = {Pictures of the Future}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, pages = {22-30}, publisher = {Mallinson Rendel}, address = {Wellington, New Zealand}, abstract = {

Eutopia presented as a debate in the New Zealand legislature in 2004 over a proposed Social Justice Commission, which will oversee all social services. It is part of a Labour government plan to focus on small scale industries and limited growth and the rejection of multinational corporations. The last line of the Prime Minister\&$\#$39;s speech indicates that all legislation has to be approved by the people voting yes or no on home terminals.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author}, author = {Nick Zepke (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3268, title = {"The Transformation Era"}, howpublished = {The New Zealand Listener }, volume = {95.2103}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Pictures of the Future\ (Wellington, New Zealand: Mallinson Rendel, 1980), 41-47.

}, month = {May 3, 1980}, pages = {14-15}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Decentralization, simplicity, growth of alternative lifestyles, initially urban but becoming rural. Maori radicalism and growing Maori independence.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author}, author = {Nick Zepke (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3130, title = {Macrolife}, year = {1979}, note = {

Rpt. with the subtitle\ A Mobile Utopia. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2006.

}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Harper \& Row}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A utopia that ranges into the future in a way similar to the utopias of Olaf Stapledon. In this work, \“macrolife\” or a \“macroworld\” is mobile space habitat (see the design and description on 114-16). They spread throughout the galaxy, producing a wide variety of social systems, and, at times, come into conflict with natural worlds. His 1999\ Cave of Stars\ is described as a companion piece.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {2845, title = {Deus Irae}, year = {1976}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980; New York: DAW Books, 1983; and New York: Vintage Books, 2003.

}, month = {1976}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe religious dystopia. Deus Irae is God of Wrath and is the head of a religion sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) and Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95)} } @booklet {2765, title = {"Counter Ecology"}, howpublished = {Tomorrow Today}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {171-85}, publisher = {Unity Press}, address = {Santa Cruz, CA}, abstract = {

Authoritarian, violent dystopia of a destroyed ecology.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman Kagan (b. 1943)}, editor = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {2808, title = {"Faces Forward"}, howpublished = {Dystopian Visions}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {38-43}, publisher = {Prentice-Hall}, address = {Englewood Cliffs, NJ}, abstract = {

A series of brief and quite varied dystopian vignettes.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) and George Zebrowski (b. 1945)}, editor = {Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007)} } @booklet {2791, title = {"Weapons"}, howpublished = {Dystopian Visions}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {55-73}, publisher = {Prentice-Hall}, address = {Englewood Cliffs, NJ}, abstract = {

Dystopia that violently enforces racial and class discrimination.

}, keywords = {Female author, Male author, US author}, author = {Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) and George Zebrowski (b. 1945)}, editor = {Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007)} } @booklet {2622, title = {"Parks of Rest and Culture"}, howpublished = {Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories}, year = {1973}, note = {

Book repub. as\ The Wounded Planet\ (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 19-30.

}, month = {1973}, pages = {17-29}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Ecological dystopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)}, editor = {Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) and Virginia Kidd (1921-2003)} } @booklet {2623, title = {"Rope of Glass"}, howpublished = {Two Views of Wonder}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, pages = {151-66}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a future society where having certain diseases is punishable by death.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)}, editor = {Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942)} } @booklet {2099, title = {Lord of Light}, year = {1967}, note = {

UK ed. London: Faber \& Faber, 1968. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2006 with an \"Introduction\" by George R[aymond] R[ichard]\ Martin (vii-xii). Chapter 2 was previously published as \"Dawn\" and Chapter 3 as \"Death and the Executioner.\" The\ Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\ 32.4, 6 (April, June 1967): 4-36; 4-36.\ 

}, month = {1967}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia based on control of technology by a group ruling as the Hindu pantheon.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95)} } @booklet {1593, title = {The Golden Promise; A Novel of the Coming Era}, year = {1955}, month = {1955}, publisher = {Pageant Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Eutopia of the Global Union, a unification of all races and nations. The equality and empowerment of women, called Fem-Mancipation, is an essential condition for the development of the eutopia. The country of Canarica is presented in which everyone is happy.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Zuber, Stanley} } @booklet {1355, title = {1975; A New Social System For the World of To-morrow And How Provisions Will be Made For the Aged}, year = {1950}, month = {1950}, publisher = {Gornall The Publisher}, address = {Sydney, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Detailed eutopia based on a National Service Scheme for Youth. Epigram--\"The Unbelievable Happened; Everything Went Right.\"

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {O[scar] D[avid] Zieman} } @booklet {1201, title = {America{\textquoteright}s Sin Offering; The Budget Balancer}, year = {1943}, month = {1943}, publisher = {Bruce Humphries}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Satire on politics and bureaucracy. SMAISM = Scions of SMA or Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Proposes an absurd twenty-third amendment to the U.S. Constitution that requires all citizens to sacrifice a boar, specifically a White-Lipped Peccary, on a specific day each year. Contains explanations of the many regulations needed.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Zori, Henri} } @booklet {1200, title = {Let{\textquoteright}s Triumvirate or Man, Government and Happiness. A Philosophy of Man and a World-Wide Government Founded Upon Laws of Nature}, year = {1943}, month = {1943}, publisher = {Author}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Detailed eutopia based on Uupolach or the universal urge principle of love and happiness, which is \". . . a strong desire or urge for, a thrilling, joyous ecstasy or emotion of order, harmony, concord, betterment, pleasure, happiness, contentment, universal love, charity, kindness and gratitude\" (18). Argues that there is evidence of a former eutopia on Earth. The first step to the new eutopia is \"honest information\", and he gives \"A Code for Honest Information\" (235-55). The new \"Triumvirate System\" will divide the world into equal parts (suggested maps are provided), with various subdivisions so that every voter (all adults) will know personally the person they vote for.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Oswald Francis Zahn (b. 1874)} } @booklet {9366, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Exiles of the Moon{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) }, volume = {3.4 - 6 }, year = {1931}, month = {September - November 1931}, pages = { 440-75, 552-64; 670-709; 783-802}, abstract = {

Dystopia of two classes:\ aristocrats and enslaved workers.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nathan[iel] Schachner (1895-1955) and A[rthur] L[eo] Zagat (1865-1949)} } @booklet {9780, title = {"The Abolition of Money"}, howpublished = {The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly }, volume = {6}, year = {1895}, month = {January 1895}, pages = {593-601}, abstract = {

Satire on the topic of the title. While workers do well through a system of barter, artists, writers, preachers, and the like do badly so eutopian for one group and dystopian for another, with the latter the focus of the story.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {I[srael] Zangwill (1864-1926)} } @booklet {6946, title = {Mizora: A Prophecy. A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners and Government. Written by Herself}, year = {1880}, note = {

Rpt. as Mizora: A Prophecy. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975; as Mizora: A World of Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999; and as Mizora: A Prophecy. Ed. Jean Pfaelzer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 119-37 with an editor\’s note on 117-18. Originally published as \“Narrative of Vera Zarovitch\” [subtitle beginning with Being is identical to that of the book]. Cincinnati Commercial (November 6, 12, 20, 27, December 4, 11, 18, 25, 1880, January 1, 15 [mis-dated the 14th], 22, 29, February 5, 1881): 3 cols. 5-7, 3 cols. 4-6, [November 20 and 27 and December 4 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, [December 18 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, Extra Sheet 3 col. 7, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 4-6, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 2 cols. 3-4 [ICN].

}, month = {November 6, 1880 - February 5, 1881/1890}, publisher = {G.W. Dillingham}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Feminist eutopia in which science had solved all problems and there is no need for menial work. Men had become extinct. Teachers paid more than any other public position and education was free. No religion. Eugenics had eliminated anyone dark complected.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {[Mary E. (Bradley)] [Lane] (1844-1929?)} } @booklet {7200, title = {"Approach of Peace. A Vision Written in 1793"}, howpublished = {The New-York Magazine, or Literary Repository}, volume = {1.4}, year = {1790}, month = {April 1790}, pages = {224-26}, abstract = {

Allegory about the struggle for the coming of peace.\ The story begins by depicting a eutopia that consists of a rich agricultural area of happy people and a successful city of commerce and manufacturing, but Tyranny approaches and, assisted by Civil Discord, destroys the peace of the country. But Religion and Peace back Science, Loves and Graces, and Nature and restore the balance.

}, author = {Zulindus [pseud.]} }