@booklet {11225, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Opt-In. Harvest: Part I{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {159-69}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts focusing on the sale of body parts. In the first story, a poor woman sells organs in order to pay her bills. In the second story, a law is passed legalizing the sale of body parts that, with amendments, means that anyone in debt can be required to sell their body parts to pay it off, and a woman has her womb and uterus harvested. In the third part, a resistance has arisen with the story told by a woman in the resistance trying to get access to the records that show whose organs were harvested and who they went to

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Seanan McGuire (b. 1978)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11232, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Orphan of Greenridge (Water). Ko Ko N{\'e} {\"A}: Part I{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {241-56}, publisher = {Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press}, address = {New York/London}, abstract = {

Dystopia in three parts linked by connections to indigenous cultures and the effects of climate change. In the first story, water is rationed, and the testing of water is rigged to hide the fact that it is contaminated. In the second story, a woman with a baby is trying to escape conflict. In the third story, Texas is one of the few states that sells off mostly abandoned land to the very rich.

}, keywords = {Female author, Native American author}, isbn = {979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424}, author = {Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) and Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) and Christine Yant} } @booklet {11944, title = {{\textquotedblleft}One Day Only{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Wastelands: The New Apocalypse}, year = {2019}, note = {

Rpt. in the author\’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 205-226.

}, month = {2019}, pages = {157-175}, publisher = {Titan Books}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, isbn = {9871785658952}, author = {Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966)}, editor = {John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10298, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Our Aim Is Not to Die{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {A People{\textquoteright}s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {27-48}, publisher = {One World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A white supremacist, patriarchal dystopia in which everyone is under constant surveillance, and there are required medical/mental checks to ensure that everyone is straight. Lobotomies, now called neural reformatting therapy, are used to \“cure\” the non-conforming.\ 

}, keywords = {Non-binary author, Queer author}, author = {A. Merc Rustad}, editor = {Victor LaValle (b. 1972) and John Joseph Adams (b. 1976)} }