@booklet {11759, title = {X. A Novel}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {228 pp.}, publisher = {Catapult}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a near future where fascism has taken hold in the United States and more and more people are being \“exported\” by the government. That situation is the background to the protagonist\’s search for X, a woman they met at a sadomasochistic party.

}, keywords = {Non-binary author, US author}, isbn = {978-1646220939}, author = {Davey Davis} } @booklet {9445, title = {XOM-B}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. as Uprising. New York: St. Martin\’s Paperbacks, 2015

}, month = {2014}, publisher = {Thomas Dunne Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel begins in a world-wide eutopia that has been achieved through overthrowing a slave system. Now it is threatened by a virus.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jeremy Robinson (b. 1974)} } @booklet {6178, title = {X Isle}, year = {2009}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Random House/Fickling, 2010.

}, month = {2009}, publisher = {David Fickling Books}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

Young adult dystopia in which children are essentially prisoners on an island where they had expected to find a better life. At the end of the novel, they revolt and kill their captors.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Steve [Andre] Augarde (b. 1950)} } @booklet {5612, title = {X out of Wonderland: A Saga}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Steerforth Press}, address = {Hanover, NH}, abstract = {

Satire on the best of all possible worlds created by the beneficent \"Global Free Market\".

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David Allan Cates (b. 1956)} } @booklet {5565, title = {Xen: Ancient English Edition Complete \& Unexpurgated}, year = {2004}, month = {2004}, publisher = {Avar Press}, address = {[Whiteville, NC]}, abstract = {

Detailed flawed utopia. Much satire. Homo sapiens (man the wise) evolves into Femina persapiens (woman the wiser). There is a Lexicon defining abbreviations and some of the language used.

}, keywords = {US author}, author = {D. J. Solomon Trans. [Written by]} } @booklet {5363, title = {The X President}, year = {2003}, month = {2003}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Set in 2055 and various dates in the past. An ex-President, known as B[ill] C[linton], is 109. History is revised to avoid the dystopia and the war between the right and the U.S. government that has developed.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Philip E[dward] E[dward] Baruth (b. 1962)} } @booklet {2805, title = {"Xenofreak/Xenophobe"}, howpublished = {Dystopian Visions}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {182-97}, publisher = {Prentice-Hall}, address = {Englewood Cliffs, NJ}, abstract = {

Dystopia brought on by contact with aliens far in advance of humans.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017)}, editor = {Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007)} } @booklet {2478, title = {"X: A Fabulous Child{\textquoteright}s Story"}, howpublished = {Ms }, year = {1972}, month = {December 1972}, pages = {74-76, 105-06}, abstract = {

Gender-role non-differentiation in the future presented humorously but positively. An experiment is developed to raise a child so that its gender is unknown, and the story details some of the difficulties that arise.\ See 1972 Gould.\ 

}, keywords = {US author}, author = {Lois Gould (1932-2002)} } @booklet {1909, title = {"X Marks the Pedwalk"}, howpublished = {Worlds of Tomorrow }, volume = {1.1}, year = {1963}, note = {

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 105-10; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 165-70; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 282-87.

}, month = {April 1963}, pages = {57-60}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Society divided into wheeled and pedestrians. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1951 Bradbury.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92)} } @booklet {1769, title = {"X for Exploitation"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Science Fiction }, volume = {31.92 - 32.94}, year = {1960}, note = {

Repub. as Bow Down to Nul. New York: Ace Books, 1960. UK ed. as The Interpreter. London: Brown, Watson, 1961.\ 

}, month = {March - May 1960}, pages = {4-42; 78-110, 112-114; 78-123}, abstract = {

Earth is a colony. According to a note by Aldiss, the book is designed to show the dystopian nature of imperialism.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017)} }