@booklet {11122, title = {Zed. A Novel}, year = {2019}, note = {

U. S. ed. Doubleday/Penguin Random House, 2019

}, month = {2019}, pages = {367 pp. }, publisher = {Faber \& Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, isbn = {9780571245154 978-0-385-54547-1}, author = {Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974)} } @booklet {11085, title = {Zero Bomb}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {303 pp.}, publisher = {Titan Books}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Complex novel set in a future automation and surveillance dystopia in which some who oppose the system use a science fiction novel as the basis for their tactics.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1789090017}, author = {Hill, M[att] A.} } @booklet {9614, title = {Zen City}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {122 pp}, publisher = {John Hunt/Zero Books}, address = {Winchester, Eng./Washington, DC}, abstract = {

Zen City is presented as if it were the eutopia of Buddhism, a place where everyone has abandoned desire and gained enlightenment. But the novel focuses on the desires of those entering the city before they have eliminated those desires.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Eliot Fintushel} } @booklet {11199, title = {"Zero Hours"}, year = {2013}, month = {September 19, 2013}, abstract = {

In this future everyone has to bid on shifts at businesses, which keeps wages down. Constant surveillance. Part of a series of Ten Future Londoners of 2033. This is the only fiction; all the others are brief descriptions of individuals. The whole series can be found at Future Londoners | Nesta.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, url = {Zero Hours | by Tim Maughan | Medium}, author = {Tim Maughan (b. 1973)} } @booklet {9806, title = {"Zero Bar"}, howpublished = {Strange Horizons}, year = {2012}, note = {

Rpt. in How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 41-54.

}, month = {August 6, 2012}, abstract = {

The story is set in a near-future that continues to be racist but where it is possible to adjust a fetus\’s genes to ensure that the baby will be white. It focuses on a young woman whose genes had been adjusted deciding what to do when she is pregnant. A Zero Bar is a candy bar that is white on the outside and black inside.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/zero-bar/}, author = {Tom Greene} } @booklet {6569, title = {The Zona}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, publisher = {Curiosity Quills Press}, address = {Dulles, VA}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia with preachers immediately killing people who are identified as sinners.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nathan L. Yocum} } @booklet {11688, title = {Zone One. A Novel}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, pages = {259 pp.}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-apocalyptic (pandemic) and Zombie dystopia in which New York City is divided into Zones in an attempt to control its spread.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, isbn = {978-0-385-52807-8}, author = {Colson Whitehead (b. 1969)} } @booklet {6310, title = {Zoo City}, year = {2010}, note = {

Rpt. London: Angry Robot, 2010.

}, month = {2010}, publisher = {Jacana Media}, address = {Auckland Park, South Africa}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a collapsed South Africa.\ In an interview published in\ Locus\ 74.1 (648) (January 2015): 48, the author has called it an \“apartheid allegory\”.

}, keywords = {Female author, South African author}, author = {Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976)} } @booklet {5665, title = {Zahrah the Windseeker}, year = {2005}, note = {

An illustrated version has been published in Lagos, Nigeria: Farafina, 2007.

}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Houghton Mifflin}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Young adult coming-of-age fantasy in which a young girl has to leave home to undertake a dangerous trip to bring back the cure for her best friend\&$\#$39;s snake bite. The eutopian setting is the community in which she lives, which, although far from perfect, is generally presented very positively.\ A related story is \"From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7.\” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 32 (May 2009). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_05_09/

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974)} } @booklet {5682, title = {Zanesville}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Villard Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Corporate dystopia with fantasy elements.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Kris Saknussemm (b. 1961)} } @booklet {6887, title = {Zoo Force: Bean and Nothingness}, year = {2004}, month = {[2004]}, publisher = {Candle Light Press}, address = {[Iowa City, IA]}, abstract = {

The middle volume of a trilogy about an odd group of animal and human superheroes. This volume is a satire on Christian fundamentalism. The other volumes, which are not utopian, are Zoo Force: [Dear Eniko]. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2003 and Zoo Force: BBQ. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2007. All volumes also include \"Not Zoo Force\".

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {John Ira Thomas and Jeremy Smith} } @booklet {5379, title = {Zero Calvin}, year = {2003}, month = {2003}, publisher = {iUniverse}, address = {Lincoln, NB}, abstract = {

Future flawed utopia run by an artificial intelligence that has killed those who do not fit in. Arrival of a man from the past.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Brian [J.] Cramer} } @booklet {5256, title = {"Zoner"}, howpublished = {Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, pages = {74-95}, publisher = {Circlet Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

Dystopian erotica. Corporate control.

}, author = {Michael Barnette}, editor = {Cecilia Tan (b. 1967)} } @booklet {5076, title = {Zollocco--A Novel of Another Universe}, year = {2000}, month = {2000}, publisher = {Bookbooters Press}, address = {Weatogue, CT}, abstract = {

A tour through a number of societies, some eutopian and some dystopian. Strong environmental content. Humor.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Cynthia Joyce Clay (b. 1954)} } @booklet {4774, title = {Zeitgeist}, year = {1996}, month = {1996}, publisher = {Victor Gollancz}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A road novel set in 1999 U.S. Elements of an authoritarian dystopia with various rebels.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Todd Wiggins} } @booklet {4135, title = {Zulus}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, publisher = {The Permanent Press}, address = {Sag Harbor, NY}, abstract = {

Apocalyptic science fiction set after a nuclear war in which all but one 300-pound woman are no longer fertile.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {Everett, Percival} } @booklet {3985, title = {Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, publisher = {Bloomsbury}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Environmental dystopia seen through the eyes of an environmental activist.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959)} } @booklet {3301, title = {"Zero Sum Game"}, howpublished = {Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women}, year = {1981}, month = {1981}, pages = {49-57}, publisher = {New Victoria Publishers}, address = {Lebanon, NH}, abstract = {

A story about a woman with unusual psychic talents in a hierarchical dystopia based on a complex computer game that resonates with Herman Hesse\&$\#$39;s Das Glasperlenspiel. 2 vols. Z{\"u}rich: Fretz \& Wasmuth, 1943) [English as Magister Ludi. Trans. Mervyn Savill. New York: Ungar, 1949].

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {Claudia Lamperti and Jennifer Malik} } @booklet {3247, title = {Zero Weather, A Future Fantasy}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Family Publishing Co}, address = {Bodega Bay, CA}, abstract = {

New Age conflict between good and evil, with the followers of evil plotting to, among other things, drive the U.S. president insane and the followers of good, led by a man named Zero, fighting back against the various plots. Good wins.

}, keywords = {Male author, Spanish author, US author}, author = {[Ram{\'o}n Sender] [Baray{\'o}n] (b. 1934)} } @booklet {3222, title = {Zion in Our Time}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Center for Zionic Studies}, address = {Independence, MO}, abstract = {

How to build a new Zion of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, now known as the Christian Community.\ The five principles of the law of the celestial kingdom are Assistance, Cooperation, Providence, Equality, and Endowment (129-29). Includes a \“Concordance of Scriptures on Zion--Bible\” (150-55), \“Scriptures re Sion\” (155-56), \“Scriptures on Zion--Book of Mormon\” (156-57), and \“Scriptures on Zion--Doctrine and Covenants\” (157-61).\ \ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {James A. Christenson} } @booklet {2812, title = {"The Zen Archer"}, howpublished = {The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {172-81 with an editor{\textquoteright}s note on 171}, publisher = {Harper \& Row}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A Zen Buddhist monastery presented as an ideal way of life is undermined by contact with the outside world and its temptations.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Jonathan Greenblatt}, editor = {Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008)} } @booklet {2768, title = {"Zone"}, howpublished = {New Writings in SF }, volume = {(27)}, year = {1975}, month = {1975}, pages = {109-19}, publisher = {Sidgwick \& Jackson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a dreary future world divided up into \"sectors\" including a failed Hippie enclave.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Peter Linnett}, editor = {[Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005)} } @booklet {1850, title = {The Zilov Bombs}, year = {1962}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963.

}, month = {1962}, publisher = {Andr{\'e} Deutsch}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopian background with England controlled by the USSR and an underground movement organizing. Mostly adventure.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {D[onald] G[abriel] Barron} } @booklet {1542, title = {"Zahatopolk"}, howpublished = {Nightmares of Eminent Persons}, year = {1954}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Collected Stories of Bertrand Russell. Comp and ed. Barry Feinberg (London: George Allen \& Unwin, 1972), 2-110.

}, month = {1954}, pages = {67-109}, publisher = {The Bodley Head}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Religious dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, Welsh author}, author = {Bertrand [Arthur William] Russell (1872-1970)} } @booklet {306, title = {Zarlah, the Martian}, year = {1909}, month = {1909}, publisher = {R. F. Fenno}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Technologically and ethically advanced civilization on Mars. World government, universal language. Much romance and adventure.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, US author}, author = {R[obert] Norman Grisewood (1876-1923)} } @booklet {8713, title = {Zerelda. A Story of Love and Death}, year = {1899}, month = {1899}, publisher = {F. Tennyson Neely}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An unusual heaven as a eutopia, but there are higher heavens. The inhabitants come from a variety of planets. Those who die young become adults. Marriage can occur in heaven, and marriage partners will find each other. In this one there is a city with parks, trees, and fountains and without dust, smoke, or unpleasant noises. People work, but even physical labor is not tiring. No harsh weather but some seasonal change. A second city is inhabited by people from many planets and has architecture reflecting those planets. No poor. Those who lived selfish lives are servants as a way of overcoming their past. Female author.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Louise F. Suddick (1856-1943)} } @booklet {8016, title = {Zelma, The Mystic: or, White Magic, Versus Black}, year = {1897}, note = {

3rd ed. Illus. W.L. Wells and L. Braunhold. Chicago, IL: The Alliance Publishing Co. 1897. \© by C.M. Loomis.

}, month = {1897}, publisher = {Author{\textquoteright}s Publishing Co}, address = {Chicago, IL}, abstract = {

The novel includes an Ideal city and has a letter supposedly from 1907 describing the first steps to it.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Alwyn M. Thurber} } @booklet {7499, title = {Zaphnath Paaneah, or, The Irish Parliament in 1876. Respice, Aspice, Prospice}, year = {1872}, month = {1872}, pages = {35 pp.}, publisher = {T. Richards}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Typical depiction of the Irish unable to rule themselves.

} }