"Revolt" - Sheri Sebastian-Gabriel (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
In the story immigrants from South of the border are turned into enhanced slaves.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Revolution Will Be Pirated” - Bobuq Sayed (Collisions: Fictions of the Future. A Liminal Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future Australia under a racist, anti-immigrant/refugee Prime Minister.
Keywords: Australian author; Non-binary author

Riot Baby - Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987) (Tom Doherty Associates/Tor.com, 2020)
The novel is set in contemporary American and reflects the dystopia it is today for young African Americans and as it gets worse in the future as seen through the eyes of a brother and sister. Elements of fantasy.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Rise & Shine - Patrick Allington (b. 1969) (Scribe Publications, 2020)
Rise and shine are the only two city-states that have survived an ecological catastrophe that has destroyed most living things. The two are perpetually at war, and the people feed, literally, off the news footage from the war.
U.S. ed. Minneapolis, MN: Scribe, 2021. 233 pp.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Road Out of Winter - Alison Stine (b. 1978) (Harlequin Books/Mira, 2020)
Dystopia set in Appalachia in a future where civilization has gradually collapsed as cold reduces the growing season, communities cannot afford to heat public buildings, so close all schools, pipes have frozen so that there is no water in buildings, and so forth. The protagonist is a woman who knows how to makes things grow, packs up her seeds and grow lights, and leaves, towing her tiny house. On the way, slowly, she attracts a community of misfits, and they run into more and more violent cults. The novel won the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Rules for a Civilization” - Jerri Jerreat (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future Toronto that has been rebuilt to protect it from the increasingly fierce weather and takes place in a school in a huge building designed to withstand to recurring hurricanes.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Sacred Chords” - Alexei Collier (Recognize Fascism: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology, 2020)
Dystopia in which music is restrict to specific modes as in Plato’s Republic.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Samson in somnium: A Will and Testament” - Deborah Walker (Nature, 2020)
The first story set in her Mundane Sovereigns world in which the singularity as occurred, and AIs, who humans call the All Knowings, have effectively enslaved humans. This story focuses on conflict among AIs that reveals that while brilliant, they are emotionally immature. The second story is “Fear of the Empty: Broken Dreams.” Illus. Jacey. Nature (January 20, 2021). nature.com/futures. 1476-4687 (web) 0028-0836 (print) https://doi 10.1038/d41586-021-00122-y and focuses on a human, a potter who makes pots ordered by an AI and tries not to remember making art.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Sanctuary - Paola Mendoza (b. 1981); Abby Sher (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020)
The novel, a young adult dystopia, is set the United States in 2032 with President Trump in his third term and everyone required to wear an implanted chip that records everything about them and allows non-citizens to be identified. The protagonist is a young, undocumented woman whose father has been deported and whose mother’s fake chip fails. The family then struggles to reach California, which has seceded from the United States and provides sanctuary.
Keywords: Columbian author; Female author; US author

“A Scarf for Janice” - Sandra Ulbrich Almazan (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set some years after an unexplained Change when much of the natural world collapsed. In the story, a transgender person joins a bird count to be able to honor her transgender great aunt by visiting where she grew up, was tormented at school, and disowned by her parents. In this future all such prejudice has disappeared.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Scarves" - Elizabeth Massie (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future where it is illegal to be “pretty,” and each child must go through a ceremony where their face is scarred.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sea Change - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Tachyon Publications, 2020)
The novel is set in a future in 2022, after a released biopharmaceutical caused a worldwide agricultural collapse and the outlawing of all GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms). The female protagonist is part of an underground movement to create safe GMOs the provide food for the hungry and clean up the environment. The ending suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Secret Files of Donald J. Trump, Volume 1: The Tijuana Tango - Francis le Lapin [pseud.] (Black Coat Press, 2020)
Dystopian alternative history in which Trump is a spy for the Russian Tsar.
Keywords: Belgian author; Male author

The Seep - Chana Porter (Soho Press, 2020)
Aliens arrive and infiltrate everywhere, allowing people to change their bodies at will, communicate telepathically, and live forever. Wars end. Everyone is fed. One focus of the novel is whether this is a good thing or not; another is on the choices people make.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Serf" - Thompson, Talia (Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020)
The story begins in 2106 with a woman on a crowded Auckland Skytrain from the domed area where she works to the polluted exterior where she lives, and then shifts to 2036 and her grandmother growing up on Beqa in the Fiji islands, which is about the disappear under the rising waters. The story then follows her family as refugees as conditions worsen and world-wide climate refugees outnumber those with land and her treatment as a brown woman working two minimum wage jobs as a serf (server).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Queer author

"Set the Ice Free" - Shel Graves (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which most people have left Earth fleeing climate change, and those that stayed, known as the Sun People, have adapted using a combination of traditional skills and advanced technology.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Shadow Prison Experiment. Shadow Prisons: Part I” - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
Three-part dystopia in which a everyone has an implant that regulates everything they see and the corporation that controls it develops a technology that replaces prisons by taking a person offline so that no one can see who it is. The Shades, as they are called, state popping up everywhere as more and more “crimes” warrant temporary or permanent exclusion. In the first story, the protagonist, who is in a single-sex marriage and has a transgender child, is given a permanent sentence. The second story is a decade or so later, and she is trying to survive, and her partner divorced her and has re-married, and she sometimes meets with her child, now a marred adult. In the third story, the corporation she is a leader in a revolution against the Shadow Prisons.
The three stories were rpt. in Lightspeed, nos. 123 - 125 (August - October 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prison-experiment/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shadow-prisons-of-the-mind/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prisoners-dilemma/
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Shopping Day” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (How We Live Now (Serial Box anthology), 2020)
A plague dystopia in which everyone has to be locked down at 6:00 PM, and being out during the day is dangerous. The story focuses on children waiting for their mother to return from a shopping trip.
Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 271-277.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“The Sick House” - Josh Waterman (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
A future in which everyone who is at all dependent must constantly reiterate that they are grateful for still having their arms and legs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Singular Outrage" - Ian Creasey (Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a post-singularity future eutopia where everyone is supposedly equal because all needs are filled, but there is fierce competition in game creation. The protagonist is a ninety-nine-year-old Native American woman who has been given her health back but is upset by the appropriation and trivialization of her heritage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Six Plus Four" - Matt Bechtel (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future where there is no public education, only education corporations whose only purpose is making a profit, and there are no wrong answers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sky Suck" - Juliana Roth (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/sky-suck/ (April 1, 2020).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Snow Globe" - Brian Burt (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which Lake Superior is sovereign native territory recognized as such by both Canada and the U.S. As a result, floating cities, constituting the Lake Superior Archipelago of Nations (LSAN), have been established. Each city is different, often tribally based, and moveable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

So Long Earth - Michael Bienenstock (Np, 2020)
The novel is primarily concerned with the development of a spaceship that would make it possible to search for another livable planet and is very detailed on the problems of developing it. But the reason for leaving Earth is the climate change dystopia brought about by Trump’s policies with Trump reelected in 2020.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Solarpunk Cities: Notes for a Manifesto” - Commando Jugendstil (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
Eight points for a manifesto describing a eutopian solarpunk city plus explanation and a list of “Further Reading and Inspiration” (241-42).
Also published online with colored illus. at https://reckoning.press/solarpunk-cities-notes-for-a-manifesto/ (July 1, 2020).
Keywords: Italian author

“A Solitary Crane Circles Cold Mountain” - Gregor Hartmann (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2020)
In a future following a world war and environmental devastation, a deep divide has developed between those who want to save Gaia, with various factions among them, and those who want to use an asteroid to send people to another planet. The story centers on a woman who is trying to design a society for the asteroid that can last for fourteen generations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Solitude, in Silent Sun” - Mike Adamson (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
The story is set in a future where people have returned to Earth from space with the goal of rejuvenating it under strict environmental regulations, but some people are starting to break the rules to make a profit.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 68-74, with a note on the author on 75.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Sonya Josephine, and the Tragic Re-Invention of the 2019 Telephone” - I[sabel] S. Heynen (Mithila Review, 2020)
The story is set in a post-apocalypse dystopia in which much past knowledge has been lost although some is slowly being recreated. People have retreated into a city, the Egg, where they are sealed off from the outside. The city is crumbling. Assassination is legal and a booming business.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson (2020)
The novel is set in a universe where, under specific circumstances, travel among the universes is possible, and the protagonist is one of the women on Earth, which is a dystopia with deep economic and social divisions, chosen to travel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Spaceship October” - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) (Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology, 2020)
The story is set on a generations spaceship on which the leaders preach equality, but many people do not have enough food, housing. or adequate health care.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The State Machine" - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992) (Slate, 2020)
The story is set in a gradually collapsing future in which Sri Lanka is the testing ground for governance based on algorithms and traces its development from a computer game to a self-evolving system.
Keywords: Male author; Sri Lankan author

"Stealth" - Jillian Weise (b. 1981) (The New York Times Sunday Review, 2020)
The dystopia experienced by the disabled in a near future world of greater surveillance and collection of data on individuals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Stone Wētā - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Paper Road Press, 2020)
The novel is about climate change and is set slightly in the future when governments are attempting to suppress the data by forcing scientific journals to falsify it, removing the data from the internet, and killing the scientists because "People who know nothing can be controlled" (8). A group of scientists fight back by establishes caches where the original data is hidden.
The novel originated as a story with the same title in Clarkesworld, no. 131 (August 2017). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cade_08_17/. Rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 478-493; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 144-159.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“The Stones of Särdal” - Karl [Gustav Schlosser] Dandenell (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
Brief story set in future a temperate Sweden. A 105-year-old man is being interviewed for a recording to be placed on a spaceship. He describes the setting, the very old building he lives in, and some of the history.
Originally published on The Word Count Podcast Episode 100 in 2020 but not available there.
Keywords: Male author; Swedish American Author

“Stories and Second Chances” - Tamoha Sengupta (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
The story is set in Kolkata, India in the future when it is under water.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 111-16, with a note on the author on 116.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

Strange Labour - Penner, Robert G. (Radiant Press, 2020)
Post-apocalyptic (unexplained) dystopia in which a woman travels across the United States, sometimes with a companion, meeting individuals and people in small communities struggling to survive.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

“Such People in It” - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (Big Girl plus The Pill plus Such People in It and much more, 2020)
An authoritarian, extremely rigid dystopia enforced by the “Decencies,” who respond violently to any opposition to the system. The protagonist works long hours in a call center for low pay and is constantly aware that he may breach some minor rule.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Suicide of Our Troubles” - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Slate Future Tense, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which aspects of the natural world are enabled by AI and use their ability to communicate to hire a lawyer to develop a strategy to eliminate pollution. For a response, see Anna V. Smith, “When Nature Speaks for Itself.” Slate Future Tense (November 28, 2020). https://slate.com/technology/2020/11/suicide-of-our-troubles-environmental-personhood.html, in which the author discusses attempts to grant legal personhood to the natural world.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 401-418, with a note on the author on 401.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Supply and Demand" - Anjali Sachdeva (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, 2020)
The story takes place in a future where the privileged cites are all female with children produced from two eggs. Other women live in camps outside the cities and service men. All their daughters visit the cities and some stay.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Swimmers - Marian Womack (b. 1975) (Titan Books, 2020)
A climate change dystopia novel is set in a future Andalusia, where the author was born, with rapidly evolving plants and animals. The remaining humans are divided between those of Earth, which has a complex social fabric, and those in the Upper Settlement, a ring at the edge of Earth’s, with a more egalitarian social structure. Retelling of Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which is, of course, related to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847), with reference to Wide Sargasso Sea throughout the text. The female author was born María de los Ángeles Via Rivera in Cádiz, Spain and lives in Spain and England and writes in both in English and Spanish. Womack is her married name.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Spanish author

“Tāwhaki” - Witi [Tame] Ihimaera[-Smiler] (b. 1944) (Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future where increasing heat has killed the overwhelming majority of people, plants, and animals, and the people who remain live deep underground, with only occasional trips to the surface.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Māori author

“Tell Me Everything” - Gish Jen (b. 1955) (The New York Times Sunday Review, 2020)
The story is set in a high-tech future and focuses on interaction with an AI adviser/assistant. See also 2020 Jen, The Resisters. A Novel.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author; US author

“Terranora” - Mykaela Saunders (Collisions: Fictions of the Future, 2020)
An Aboriginal group in a future impacted by climate change rescues prisoners and brings them to an area resettled by the original inhabitants. The story concerns one of the ex-prisoners who doesn’t seem to fit in. The ending suggests that other stories centering on the characters might be forthcoming.
Rpt. in This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction. Ed. Mykaela Saunders (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2022), 247-266, with a note on the author at 248.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

The Test - Sylvain Neuvel (b. 1973) (Tor.com, 2020)
The short novel describes the U.K. citizenship test given to refugee, which involves how they respond to a simulated terrorist attack on the test site.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Thank You for Your Patience” - Ruth Campbell (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate fires, global warming, and earthquakes, and the protagonist works in a call center that can only be called a dystopia.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/thank-you-for-your-patience/ (March 25, 2020).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Things That Make It Worth It” - Lex T. Lindsay (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future struggle to restore the environment from the overheating of climate change and the loss of plants and animals. In the story, the researchers are trying to produce snow for the first in many years.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; US author

Three Days to EOC. A Novella - Abhimanyu Sukhdial (Children’s Art Foundation-Stone Soup, 2020)
Climate change dystopia. EOC refers to the end of civilization.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Today, We Will Rise” - Meleika Geza-Fatafehi (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2020)
Dystopia with considerable magic realism using indigenous stories that reflect the title.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Pasifika author; Tongan author; Torres Strait Island author

“The Transition of OSOOSI” - Ozzie M. Gartrell (Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2020)
Dystopia set in the United States of True Americans, which is a totalitarian regime based on apartheid, with Citizen Americans having fewer rights than the pets of True Americans, who are white. The story is about the beginning of a rebellion led by hackers.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 433-63, with a note about the author on 433.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Trigger" - Paul Mountfort (Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future Aotearoa New Zealand that is succumbing to fires from the increased heat and flooding from the collapse of the melting of Antarctic ice. Society has broken down, and no one with any real authority remains. The protagonist has fled Auckland with his family, but his refuge is about to been engulfed in fire.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Trust in the Law, For the Law Trusts in You. Lawless: Part I” - Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (b. 1986) (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
Dystopia in three parts. In the first story, mass shootings are a constant, and children are taught using VISIONS, a virtual reality system that supposedly allows safe education. In the second story, there is enforced church membership and attendance, patriarchy, marriage between a man and a woman, with the woman expected to have children, and constant updates rating on every individual with penalties for falling too low. CUSN, developed from VISIONS, connects everyone, but becomes infected with a virus. In the third story, a small group of people try to bring down the system.
Keywords: Non-binary author; Queer author; US author

“The Truth About the Boy. Targets: Part I” - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
Dystopia in three parts. The first two parts take place in a future United States dominated by True America, which responds to the rapidly growing mass killings by denying that the people killed ever existed, and harassing, jailing, and in every way mistreating those who lost loved ones in the killings and who insist that those people had existed. The third part takes place after True America has been defeated but with vocal true believers still voicing their denials.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Truth Is All There Is” - Emily Parker (Slate, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which the blockchain controls is used for everything and is assumed to be completely reliable. One blockchain dominates the world, but China has introduced a competitor, which its citizens are required to use.
For a response, see Jill Carlson. “Trust No One. Not Even a Blockchain.” Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker. Slate (January 25, 2020). How much can we really trust the blockchain? (slate.com)
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Turbine at the End of the World” - James Rowland (Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing, 2020)
The story is set in a future where all cities near the coast are mostly under water.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2020. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2021), 183-89.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; UK author

"The Twenty-Second" - C. M. Franklyn (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which the president for life is being kept alive by harvesting body parts from people created for that purpose.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey (Tom Doherty Books/Tor.com, 2020)
The novel is set in a fragmented future United States with the protagonist a young woman who is coming to realize she is gay and whose closest friend has been executed for having unapproved literature.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Urgent Care” - Mark S. Bailen (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
A woman goes to an Urgent Care office for planets to see if Earth is healthy and gets a mixed response from the alien doctors.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 120-27, with a note on the author on 128.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Valley of Mothers” - Josie Columbus (Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, 2020)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia centered on four children living by themselves, dreaming of a home, and not knowing who to trust.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

"The Vastation" - Paul [Edward] Theroux (b. 1941) (Slate, 2020)
Pandemic dystopia in which the well-off live in protected cities and others live in compounds based on ethnicity that war with each other.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Venom and Bite" - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) (Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die, 2020)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which most people live underground, and the country is mostly desert.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

Viam Inveniemus Aut Faciemus” - Tales from the EV Studio; Commando Jugendstil (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is about the struggle to get through a blizzard to repair the failing electrical system in a refugee village set in a period of extreme climate change combined with a growing refugee crisis and government inaction.
Keywords: Italian author

Vulcan's Forge - Robert Mitchell Evans (Flame Tree Press, 2020)
The novel is set in the only colony of Earth that survived its destruction, which has a repressive regime and criminal gangs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Wall and the Water” - E. M. Wright (Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2020)
The story is set in a U.S. refugee camp that is slowly being drowned.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-water-and-the-wall/ (February 19, 2020).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Wall: Being the First Book of the Chronicles of Sumer - Gautam Bhatia (b. 1988) (HarperCollins India, 2020)
While the novel is explicitly fantasy, it is set in a walled city that has been cut off from the rest of the world for centuries that has a strictly hierarchical society and power structure reinforced by religion. One focus is on the desire to break the structure and find out what is on the other side of the wall. Presumably the first volume of a series.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

"The War on Drugs" - Trevor Burrus (Visions of Liberty, 2020)
A comparison of the success by mid-twenty-first century of the legalization of all drugs eliminated street crime and the other negative effects of drugs in 2020.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Washed Clean: Say hello to a new you” - Fenn, Edem (Nature, 2020)
Brief story depicting a surveillance society controlled by a theocracy. A new religion develops around a procedure to change identities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Wasteland Review” - Aurelia Gonzalez (he Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2020)
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future after climate and other disasters and is told by a woman struggling to survive on her own in a rural area while listening to two other women seeming alone on a campus in a city broadcasting their conversations about how to survive.
Keywords: Female author

Water Must Fall - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (NewCon Press, 2020)
A complex novel with a number of intersecting storylines set in a future where much of the world is experiencing a drought and the corporation that control most of the water supply is all-powerful.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; Zambian author

"The Waterfall" - Renee [Wen-Wei] Liang (b. 1973) (Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020)
Climate change story told from the perspective of a trainee doctor who discovers that the authorities, including the medical establishment are falsifying current conditions to look better than they are.
Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume III. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson ([Wellington, New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2021), 102-13.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“We Can No Longer Hold the Sun” - Tarbuck, Alice (Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology, 2020)
The problems that develop as rare earths, used in most contemporary technology, are used up.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“‘We Care’” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (If There’s Anyone Left. Volume 1. Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Story Magazine, 2020)
The story is set in a future where one corporation dominates. The focus is on the one woman in the corporation who actually cares about its customers and the effects of its products on them and the environment. After her bosses all its employees directly into the company, she takes over.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“we live on, in story” - Karen Wyld (After Australia, 2020)
The story is told by a mixed race descendent of an Aboriginal woman who had been raped by the head of the settler family who had disposed her people from their land.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“We Were The Workshop for (a torturer’s) Utopia.” - Carlos Norcia (Big Echo. Critical SF, 2020)
Dystopia in which authors are encouraged to join a writers' group, which is infiltrated by a man working for the government and passes on the authors work to the government, which then tortures them.
Keywords: Male author

“West of the Sun and Sea” - Mako, CB (Collisions: Fictions of the Future. A Liminal Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future Australia that has embraced equality for the disabled. The Protagonist is a young woman with Down Syndrome. AUSLAN (Australian sign language) is compulsory in both primary and secondary school. The Positive Behavioural System has eliminated bullying from schools. The National Disability Insurance Scheme has provided her with a custom-made tricycle with battery power for hills that she rides to school on along roads that are truck free. She has an assigned teacher aide in each grade in school. Her family is moving in to a “sustainable community for disabled people, the homeless, low-income earners, and carers of disabled children” (114). Technical and Further Education courses are free and her mother is taking courses on bicycle maintenance and to become an AUSLAN interpreter. All this was brought about as part of the government’s response to climate change that emphasized degrowth.
Keywords: Australian author; Non-binary author

"What You Need" - Hillary Monahan (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future where health care is virtually non-existent for the poor.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“When Last the Cicadas Sang” - Anthony W. Eichenlaub (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
Brief climate change dystopia told from the point-of-view of a farmer who had resisted changing her ways.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 133-36, with a note on the author on 137.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“When We Call a Place Home” - Chinelo Onwualu (Us in Flux, 2020)
Long after a period violent conflicts, people have learned to live together in Homesteads based on mutual aid and respect. The story is centered on one Homesteads decided how to respond to outsiders bringing back the old violence.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Nigerian author

“Whenua to Whenua” - James George (b. 1962) (Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future Aotearoa New Zealand and focuses on the impact on both individuals and communities of the disappearance under the rising sea of the homeland of a Māori community.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Where the World Turns Wild - Nicola Penfold (Stripes Publisjing, 2020)
Post-apocalypse (disease) young adult dystopia in which two children who are immune escape from the locked down city and search for their mother in the wild lands.
Excerpts were published in the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) Undiscovered Voices anthology for 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"White Flu" - Omar Sakr (After Australia, 2020)
The story takes place in a future Australia in which a deadly pandemic only white people. The protagonist is a queer Arab Australian who mostly concerned with the conflicts within his extended family, most of whom shun him.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Wings of Glass" - Wendy Nikel (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a small community within a dome in one of the few areas left that are not just desert.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (January 31, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/01/31/the-heavenly-dreams-of-mechanical-trees/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 97-106, with a note on the author on 107.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The World is on Fire and You’re Out of Milk” - Rhiannon [A.] Grist (Gutter: The Magazine of New Scottish and International Writing, 2020)
The brief story takes a typical situation but sets it in the middle of a climate change disaster to give a compelling picture of how people might respond.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2020. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2021), 177-81.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author; Welsh author

“Yat Madit” - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) (Africanfuturism: An Anthology, 2020)
A complex little story told by a young woman when the man she thought of as her father is released from thirty years in prison. He had been the corrupt, murderous dictator of the country and intends to run for local office, but the country is now governed through a set of algorithms, the Yat Madit, that she is afraid he intends to undermine.
Keywords: Male author; Ugandan author

"0.1" - Gabby Rivera (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Post-catastrophe story set after a sentient bacterium had killed most of the world’s population, starting with the 1% and eliminating all who do not feel love and compassion. The story is about the birth of the first baby after the plague ended.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; Queer author; US author

The 8th Emotion - Joshua Spiller (Splendour Publishing, 2019)
The novel begins in a flawed eutopia organized into tribes that come into conflict, but a new emotion is discovered that has the potential to heal the divisions and bring about an even better society that it was before the conflicts emerged.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Above Sea Level. A Novel - Douglas E. Congdon (Author, 2019)
Sequel to 2015 Congdon, Heat 30:1; a third volume, They Are Coming Tomorrow, set between the other novels, has been announced. The novel begins in a climate change dystopia, but independent cities develop positive responses with humans and AIs working together.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Adios America” - Paul Clayton (Appalling Stories 4: Even More Stories of Social Injustice, 2019)
Dystopia in which a Democratic Socialist feminist of East Asian and Asian parents is elected president and establishes a number of policies includes abortion available to birth, opening the country to all undocumented aliens, euthanasia required at sixty-five with cremation used to turn the bodies into fertilizer. The protagonist is a homeless seventy-year-old white man who is trying to get together enough money to be taken to Mexico.
Rpt. in the author's Escape from the Future and Other Stories (Np: Author, 2022), 163-193.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Adjustments” - Allegra Hyde (TriQuarterly, 2019)
Brief climate change dystopia in which people have to keep moving to find a safe place to live as much of the globe becomes uninhabitable. In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/.
Rpt. in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 175-177.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Adrift. Novella Extracts” - Rosey Brown (New Welsh Reader, 2019)
In the future Wales, few people remain, most houses are abandoned, few people can read, and two of those who can are searching houses for books.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

After the Flood - Kassandra Montag (William Morrow, 2019)
Climate change dystopia in which the United States has been reduced to colonies on mountaintops. The female protagonist lives, with her small daughter, on their fishing boat until she goes on a quest into the northern seas in search of an older daughter taken by her husband.
U.K. ed. London: The Borough Press, 2019. 417 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

All City - Alex DiFrancesco (Seven Stories Press, 2019)
Climate change dystopia in which New York City is overwhelmed by a storm that floods parts of the city to unprecedented heights and divides the city even more deeply between the protected and unprotected.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“All the Good Dogs Have Been Eaten” - Gregory Jeffers (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia set after the collapse of the economy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Amazon’s First Fully Automated Factory Is Anything But” - Brian Merchant (The New York Times, 2019)
The dystopia of working as a support to the robots in a warehouse, repairing them, cleaning up after them, doing the work they can’t do in conditions designed for the robots and not for humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“And You Shall Sing To Me a Deeper Song” - Maria Haskins (Interzone, 2019)
The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia after a war against AIs, with what remains of the government intent on keeping everyone in domed cities and killing anyone who resists.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish-Canadian author

Anyone. A Novel - Charles Soule (b. 1974) (Harper Perennial, 2019)
A science fiction novel exploring what happens when a scientist creates a way for to transfer their consciousness into another body, which creates a dystopia. At the very end when the scientist changes the algorithm so that such transfers happen randomly at any time, with a few sentences suggesting a better result.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Aqueduct" - Webb, Steve (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ark" - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (Amazon Original Stories, 2019)
The Earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid, and the story is set near the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, where the few people remaining on Earth are choosing plants to be loaded in Ark Flora for the trip to a new planet. Ark Fauna and most people have already left, and the protagonist is trying to decide whether to leave of stay.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Ark of the Turtle’s Back” - Jay E. Simpson (Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias, 2019)
The story is set in a climate change future where countries are essentially enslaving indigenous peoples to use as labor terraforming and developing the moon and Mars.
Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 61-76.
Keywords: Canadian author; First Nations author; Indigiqueer author

“Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship” - Steven James (b. 1969) (The New York Times, 2019)
The Op-Ed is set in a world where AI’s are trying to achieve equality and is written by one who wants to worship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“As an Absence” - Joanna Michal Hoyt (New Orbit, 2019)
The story is set in a connected future where everyone is constantly inundated with messages and judged on their messages and what they post.
Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2019. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2021), 143-55.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"At Climate Court" - Jeff Hecht (Little Blue Marble, 2019)
Climate change dystopia in which the retired chief executive of an oil company faces charges of crimes against humanity.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 163-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Attachment Disorder” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “One Day Only.”
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Auxiliary. London 2039 - Jon Richter (TCK Publishing, 2019)
The novel is set in a future London dominated by TIM, The Imagination Machine, which controls everything.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Baby Steps. Genetic Pressure Volume 1 - Eugene Clark [pseud.] (Better Publishing, 2019)
The novel is set in a future where genetic engineering is standard practice for the wealthy, who try to predetermine the characteristics they want their children to have. The book includes appendices of the “Dramatis Personsae” (343-46), a “Glossary” (347-55), and “Human Social Breeding Systems” (357-59).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Bad Day In Utopia” - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) (Lightspeed, 2019)
A woman living in a future matriarchy is having a bad day and decides to visit a menagerie where men are kept in well-appointed cages and are available for sex for a small fee.
Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 91-102.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bangkok Wakes to Rain - Pitchaya Sudbanthad (Riverhead Books, 2019)
The novel is set in different time periods including a future in which Bangkok is under water.
Keywords: Male author; Thai author; US author

Bearmouth - Liz Hyder (Pushkin Press, 2019)
Young adult dystopia based on the history of child labor in the Welsh coal mines moved into a future where children are kept permanently underground. The protagonist is one of the few boys in the mine learning to read and the language in the novel progresses together with his abilities.
. U.S. ed. New York: Norton Young Readers, 2020. 251 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Before Dominica” - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Kaleidotrope, 2019)
The story is set in a future Sydney, Australia that has been devastated by climate change and the collapse of the Australia economy. The entire city had been sold to the Dominica company, and the story is told by a woman who had been climbing the corporate ladder and now cleans the buildings at night.
Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 101-123, with a brief author’s note on 123.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Beyond All War - Eric Keller (Black Dog Publishing, 2019)
Post-apocalyptic novel that follows a number of survivors into northern Canada where they gradually create a community while fighting off groups trying to take control of the area.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Bigger Faraday Cages, Longer Blockchains” - Dan Grace (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2019)
The story depicts future in which people must live inside Faraday cages to protect themselves from constant surveillance and capture.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Billionaires Shouldn’t Live Forever” - Paul Krugman (b. 1959) (The New York Times, 2019)
The Op-Ed opposes the practice, based in working being done today, that will allow the very rich to extend their lives indefinitely.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Bittersweet Building” - Rachel Armstrong (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
The story describes an experiment in “living architecture” in which the responds to and changes the people living in it.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Black Dwarves of the Good Little Bay - Varun Thomas Mathew (Hachette India, 2019)
The novel is set in a future Bombay/Mumbai (both names are used) that has by inundated by flood waters and replaced by an immense Bombadrome in which everyone lives in a controlled sanitized environment. Such Buildings are being built all over India and are spreading throughout the world. The story of the development of the Bombadrome is told by the last civil servant of the old India. Could use a glossary.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

"The Blindfold" - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
The story is set in a future where, in an attempt to make trials fairer, the personal characteristics, such as race, are blocked from the members of the jury. The protagonist is a hacker who works to ensure that the system works who is hacked by those trying to undermine the system.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

"Blindness" - Dimitra Nikolaidou (See the Elephant, 2019)
Dystopia in which all women are required to be facially disfigured.
Keywords: Female author; Greek author

“Blood Drive” - Neil Floyd (Kasma Magazine, 2019)
The story is set in a future where blood is in short supply, and blood donations are compulsory with enough blood taken that the donor may not survive.
Keywords: Male author

The Book of Flora - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (47North, 2019)
The third volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 and 2017 Elison. In this volume, the protagonist is gender fluid, and the novel follows her life, loves, and struggles to escape from the various dystopias she finds herself in.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Bookstore at the End of America” - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
The story takes place in a bookstore that straddles the boundary between California and the United States, which are at war.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 1-22, with an editor’s note on 1; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 204-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 391.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World - C[harlie] A. Fletcher (b. 1960) (Orbit/Hachette Book Group, 2019)
A post-apocalyptic dystopia about a boy living on an isolated island searching the mainland for his stolen dog.
UK ed. London: Orbit/Hachette Book Group, 2019
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Bulletproof Tattoos” - Paul Crenshaw (b. 1968) (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which both individual and mass shootings are constant, and an ink is developed that deflects bullets.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Burning River - Lawrence Patchett (Victoria University Press, 2019)
The novel is set in a future Aotearoa/New Zealand that has experienced a devastating environmental collapse and follows the experiences of one Pākehā man who travels across the country with a few Māori in search of connections among people and the possibility of rebuilding the country. In the future, and in the text, people are bilingual in English and Māori and use the languages as if they were one.
Parts were originally published as “The Road to Tokomairiro.” Sport: New Zealand Literary Magazine, no. 39 (2011); and “Intruder.” Illus. Overland, no. 219 (Winter 2015): 42-45 https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-219/fiction-lawrence-patchett/
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“By His Bootstraps” - Ashok K[umar] Banker (b. 1964) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Satire in which the U.S. government, under President Trump, initiates a program that changes the DNA in a person back to its human origins, thus ridding the country of all mixed-race immigrants. Something goes wrong and most people in the country become Native American Indians.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

"Calendar Girls” - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Dystopia in which contraception is illegal.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Call and Answer” - Langley Hyde (If This Goes On, 2019)
The U.S. is completely controlled by fundamentalists, and bordering countries, like Canada, will not admit anyone with the U.S. passport, which separates a mother from her husband and child, with the story told in letters by the mother.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Captain and the Glory: An Entertainment - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019)
Anti-Trump dystopian allegory.
U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2019. 114 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Cat" - Deepak Unnikrishnan (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
The story takes place in a city in one of the Gulf states that was almost wiped out when a plane full of bombs crashed and the bombs detonated. As a child, the protagonist was severely injured, and the focus is on years later, after multiple surgeries, when all nations have closed their borders that closed off further treatment, and everyone is struggling to survive and get some pleasure out of life.
Keywords: Abu Dhabi author; Male author

“Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

“The Choices You Made” - Sylvia Spruck Wrigley (If This Goes On, 2019)
The story tells of the creation of dystopias through the choices people make.
Keywords: Estonian author; Female author; German author; US author

“Choose Your Truth” - Jo Miles (Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance, 2019)
The story is set in a future with competing “truths” with companies reflecting political factions vying for the most followers.
Keywords: US author

“The Chosen. Novella Extract” - Thomas Pitts (New Welsh Reader, 2019)
Extract depicting a future in which Earth has been abandoned and people have settled in hollowed out asteroids. In the story an asteroid of Amish of various persuasions regarding technology are dealing with the problem of shortages of essential rare earths.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

“Cities of the Sun” - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent, 2019)
A brief story set in an unidentified country that after surviving troubles brought on by their own and an invasion manage to follow their ancestors’ ways to create a decent life for themselves.
U.S. ed. (New York: Amistad, 2019), 432-36 with a note on the author on 432.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author

"The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century" - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019)
The volume brings together, revises, and adds to his UrNu (Urban Nucleus) cycle set in a domed Atlanta, Georgia, as seen through the eyes of a range of its inhabitants. Reprints his Catacomb Years (1979), substantially revises his A Little Knowledge (1977), and adds “Interlude: After Jalyrica’s Fall” 398-99), “Prelude: The Domes” (21-24), “Death Rehearsals” (400-56), a “Chronology” (457-60), and an “Author’s Afterword: With a Little Help From My Friends . . . and My Betters” (461-63).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City in the Middle of the Night - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Tor, 2019)
A complex dystopia set on a planet settled from Earth. There are two cities, one authoritarian and one libertarian, both of which aspire to being utopian and both of which are deeply flawed.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

City of Beasts - Corrie Wang (Freeform Books/Disney, 2019)
The novel is set in a post-nuclear war future where the sexes have divided into separate, antagonistic societies. The “beasts” are men as seen by the women. The ending suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A City of Digital Engagement” - Ryan Burns (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The dystopia created by turning a city over to Instagram. 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: Canadian author; Male author

“A City of the People, For the People, By the People” - Ayona Datta (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
In the story, an Indian city noted for its corruption is taken over by Whatsapp and “is owned and managed by a commercial company for private property” (1336 [341]). 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; Indian author; US author

"The Civic Method" - Matthew Claudel (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
After an unexplained collapse, many cities are run on the model of the book publisher Elsevier, which is in competition with cities run by Springer, Taylor and Francis, and the rapidly growing Routledge. Each city completely controls every aspect of its citizens lives. The only threat on the horizon is in the Midwest of the United States where Open Access is growing. 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

“The Col and the Blackouts” - Jessica Foley; Rob Kitchin (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
In the story, a city council is taken over by Mobile Network Operator, based on Vodaphone, and a section is cut off from any access to the internet. That section develops its own culture and language. 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; Irish author

"The Convoy" - Brian Merchant (Motherboard, 2019)
A near future dystopia in which a film telling the story of a terrorist cell within a convoy of immigrants moving toward the U.S. border is deliberately released to the media as an actual threat, and even though no evidence is found and the actor who played the leader in the film offers to testify, he is manipulated into trying to flee and imprisoned. Everything was designed to give the president an excuse to move troops to the border.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Counting the Days” - Kathy Schilbach (If This Goes On, 2019)
A dystopia in which at age seventy-five no further medical care is given. you then have ninety days to live.
Keywords: English author; Female author; French author

“Cryps, Chains and Cranks” - Matthew Zook (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
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

"Dead Wings" - Rachel Chimits (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which bodies are replaceable.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky (Graywolf Press, 2019)
The story/parable is told in poems and is set in the current world. In it a soldier breaking up a protest, shoots and kills a deaf boy, and the entire town becomes deaf. The people resist to the further brutality through signing, and throughout the book signs are illustrated. The specific ways of resisting by different people are depicted. Many of the poems were originally published separately, often in different form, in various outlets.
Keywords: Deaf author; Male author; US author

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera (Simon and Schuster BFYR, 2019)
Young adult dystopia set after a large earthquake destroyed most cities. The action is set in a city that was founded on feminist, women-only principles that has degenerated into a system of competition among girl gangs.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

Dear Machine: A Letter to a Super Aware/Intelligent Machine (SAIM) - Gary Kieser (2019)
The book is, as the subtitle says, in the form of a long letter to a future super aware/intelligent machine in which he tries to explain humanity to the machine and suggest things it should research and ways that it should behave. The author is alternatively frightened and hopeful about the coming impact of such machines on Earth and its inhabitants.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Death of an Air Salesman” - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) (Clarkesworld, 2019)
The story is set in a dystopian future where the rich get fresh air delivered by drones, the poor mostly breathe the deadly air, and the middle-class buy canisters of fresh air when they can.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Nigerien author

The Deep - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989); Daveed Diggs (b. 1982); William Hutson; Jonathan Snipes (Saga Press, 2019)
The short novel describes the underwater eutopian society that develop when pregnant women were thrown or jumped overboard from slave ships in the middle passage. An “Afterword” by Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes (157-63) explains the evolution of the work from its origins in the techno-electro duo Drexciya and their collaborators, followed by the song “The Deep” by the band clipping. (Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes), and then the written work.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author; Transgender author; US author

“Discobolos” - James [N.] Wood (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which one corporation, more powerful than the government, has taken complete control of the food supply and destroys any natural food. Discobolus of Myrton is an early classical Greek sculpture of a discus thrower.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Divers’ Game. A Novel - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019)
Dystopia of a society divided into two class, one of which can kill a member of the other at will.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Divide - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) (Drugstore Indian Press/PS Publishing, 2019)
Dystopia based on the teachings of The Preacher as found in the Book of Certitude in which men and women from age eighteen live in different parts of the country. Both must be robed and masked when they must meet.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Divided" - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Mason Jar Press, 2019)
Dystopia focusing on the wall be between Mexico and the U.S.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

“The Divided Island” - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) (Diabolical Plots, 2019)
A very brief story about an island in which one part was rational and ordered and the other part was chaotic. Each had a zoo that replicated the other’s way of life.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

“The Doing and Undoing of Jacob E. Mwangi” - E. Lily Yu (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2019)
The story is set in a future Kenya where, after a conflict called the Howl, the country came together in what was called the Compassion. Now, some years in the future society has divided into the Doers and the Don’ts, those who are creative and run everything and those who live off the basic income.
Rpt. in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 297-310; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 89-103.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Dreaming of the Green River” - Priya Sarukkai Chabria (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, 2019)
The story is set in a future in which all “Objectionable Art” is removed and replaced with sanitized versions.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“Drones Above the Coral Sands” - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) (McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D., 2019)
The story is set in Far North Queensland, Australia and is concerned with the death of the coral reefs from the point-of-view of someone who is documenting the continuing destruction of the reef. Collecting such information has been outlawed by the “eco-fascist” government that only pretends to be protecting the environment while actually helping the corporations exploiting the country’s natural resources.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Female author

“The Dropped Twenty” - John McLaughlin (Kasma Magazine, 2019)
The story is set in a future where jobs are so scarce that people are paid $2000.00 per year of their expected life to be euthanized so that their body parts and fluids can be reclaimed, the money going to their family.
Keywords: Male author

"Dumb House" - Andrea Hairston (b. 1952) (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour, 2019)
The story is set in a heavily surveilled future largely under corporate control.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

During-the-Event. A Novel - Roger Wall (b. 1955) (University of Alaska Press, 2019)
The protagonist, During-the-Event or D.E., is a seventeen year old boy who has lived with his grandfather in rural North Dakota. After their town his destroyed and his grandfather has died, he must travel through the dystopia of a collapsed United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Early Warning: The Power of Publication” - Gilbey, John (Nature, 2019)
After it is announced that the world will be destroyed by a solar flare, the big tech companies put all their resources into developing AI’s that will helping people to leave. As people leave, the Earth’s damaged environment slowly recovers, and the AIs announce that they can protect those who have chosen to stay.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“EasyCity” - Manuel B. Aalbers (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The EasyJet version of a city as seen by a couple wanting to rent an inexpensive EasyFlat in EasyCity, a new suburb being built near the airport that EasyJet has renamed to suggest it is closer to a major city than it actually is and going through all the add-on extras. 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 EasyJet version of a city as seen by a couple wanting to rent an inexpensive EasyFlat in EasyCity, a new suburb being built near the airport that EasyJet has renamed to suggest it is closer to a major city than it actually is and going through all the add-on extras. 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: Belgian author; Male author

“Eclipse Our Sins” - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) (Clarkesworld, 2019)
Environmental dystopia recounting the many sins against Mother Earth, as well as well against other people.
Keywords: Female author; Motswanan author

Ecological Memory - Caroline Ailanthus (Salt Water Media, 2019)
The novel is set after a pandemic, probably started deliberately, that wipes out all but 10% of the world’s population and depicts that relatively good society that is emerging after a period of conflict. Some technology, like the internet, has been revived, but the new society is based on independent but cooperating communities, each of which has its own money, called shares, that expire after two years. Occupations are organized into guilds, whose members wear identifiable clothing which, because clothing is expensive, are worn both when working and as leisure wear. The author says that she “writes post-apocalyptic optimism” (11). The text has Appendices “The Science of Ecological Memory (269-291), “An Annotated Reading List” (292-299), and “A Glossary of Sorts” (300-301) that describes the plants depicted at the beginning of each of the nine chapters.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Editor's Eyes" - Calie Voorhis (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which organs for transplant are put out to bid.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Elliott Spencer” - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2019)
In the story an old man has had his memory “scraped” and reprogrammed, and he and others are used as political protesters.
Rpt. in his Liberation Day: Stories (New York: Random House, 2022), 197-233.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Emergency Skin - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (Amazon Original Stories, 2019)
In the near future, the most powerful people (white, male, capitalist) conclude that Earth cannot be saved and settle on a new planet with bots as their slaves. They need certain material only available on Earth and periodically send a bot back to obtain it with the promise of entry to the world of the powerful on their return. The bots discover that with those men gone, those left learned to cooperate, develop an egalitarian world society, and clean up Earth.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 343-69, with an editor’s note on 343; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 11-32.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"e-race" - Russell Nichols (Terraform, 2019)
The story is set in a future in which racial differences are being eliminated through surgery and focuses on one man who resists.
Rpt. without the illus. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 278-82.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Erasure Game" - Yoon Ha Lee (b. 1979) (Take Us to a Better Place, Stories, 2019)
The story is set in a flawed utopia in which surveillance is constantly used to ensure good health.
Print version ISBN 9781595911117 sent to foundation members
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Esperanto" - Jamie Ford (b. 1968) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
The story depicts a world in which most people’s experience of it is through virtual reality and how they react when the system is sabotaged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Esteemed" - Robert Reed (b. 1956) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2019)
A manipulative time traveler visits various timelines in Earth’s past with variants of one family responding to the visits, all of which relate to catastrophes, including nuclear war, global warming, and the misuse of genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Third story in the series that includes “Veritas.” Illus. Mark Evans. Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.7 (318) (July 2002): 102-40, which is set in ancient Rome; and “Truth.” Asimov’s Science Fiction (October/November 2008): 168-224, which is set in an alternative early 2000s. It was made into the move Prisoner X (2016), written by Reed and Gaurav Seth (b. 1968) and directed by Seth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Exile - Peg Tittle (b. 1957) (Rock’s Mills Press., 2019)
Dystopia in which a third conviction for a crime, however minor, is punished by exile.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Fall or, Dodge in Hell. A Novel - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (William Morrow, 2019)
A massive novel in which a wealthy man’s brain scanned after his death and comes to exist in Bitworld, which is far from utopian. A good part of the novel is about a quest taking place in Bitworld. A second theme has most the U.S. Middle West under the control of a cult, which is made possible by Facebook, which provides different “information” to different areas and people. Some of the characters originated in his Reamde. New York: William Morrow, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Famous Men Who Never Lived - K Chess (Tin House Books, 2019)
The novel is set in a future in which alternative realities exist and movement has occurred between one in which its Earth has been largely destroyed by nuclear weapons and one where that did not happen, and the refugees are not universally welcomed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Farm. A Novel - Joanne Ramos (Random House/Penguin Random House, 2019)
The novel is set in Golden Oaks, also known as The Farm, a commercial facility that hires poor women, known as hosts, serve as surrogates for wealthy women as seen from the perspectives of four women.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author; US author

"Fine" - Jamie Lackey (If This Goes On, 2019)
A dystopia in which guns are so prevalent that, having passed a proficiency test at five, the permit to carry is tattooed on an arm. Shootings are so common that everyone wears armor on leaving home and no one goes out unless necessary.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Fix That House!” - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Interzone, 2019)
The satirical story is set in a future U.S. South where slavery still exists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

FKA USA: The Complete Unabridged and Annotated Edition - Reed King [pseud.] (Flatiron Books, 2019)
The novel is set in a future fragmented United States in which much of each coast has disappeared due to earthquakes or flooding and the rest is composed areas of various sizes controlled by corporations, religious groups, ethnicities, and so forth, often in conflict with each other. Severe pollution and shortages. It begins in an area controlled by a corporation producing food completely out of chemicals using what is, in effect, slave labor. A young man chosen to deliver a talking goat to San Francisco has to cross through hostile territory and is joined by an android who wants to be human. The novel ends with appendices on What Is a Human (441-44), Defining Dissolution (445-46), Annie Waller V. Kitty Von Dutch, Katty Von Dench, and Katie Von Dulch (446-51), Politics and Natural Disaster: The Unexamined Link (453-55), The Android Freedom Fighters, 2050-2070s (457-60), The Rumpelstiltskin Roaches, and Other Lies From the Golden Age of Genetic Engineering (461-63).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Flotilla at Bird Island” - Mike McClelland (Take Us to a Better Place. Stories, 2019)
The story is set in a future U.S. where Atlanta, Georgia is on the coast, diseases are rampant, most flora and fauna re dying out, and all the other expected effects of climate change. But the focus of the story is a plan to save what remains of the world after even further damage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Flourish" - Calum L. MacLeòid (Shoreline of Infinity, 2019)
The story is set in a future of sentient cities that appear to produce a eutopia for their inhabitants.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Follow, Past Meridian” - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) (Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, 2019)
The story is set in a future in which people generally life within fairly narrow geographical confines. It focuses on a boy at his coming of age at fourteen who must decide on his future within what seem to be few options.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Frankissstein: A Love Story - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) (Jonathan Cape, 2019)
A complex novel, some of which tells the story of Mary Shelley, her husband, Byron, and their friends and the writing of Frankenstein. Another part, set in post-Brexit Britain concerns a transgender doctor, also a Shelley, and their love for an AI specialist, Victor Stein. Another main character is Ron Lord, who creates sexbots for lonely men like him. A related theme is cryrogenics, with all of it coming more or less together.
U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 2019. 343 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Free WiFi" - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (If This Goes On, 2019)
Dystopia in which all access to the internet is controlled by corporations, all education is for profit and any minor lapse can get you set to a work farm.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Freedom Artist - Ben Okri (b. 1959) (Head of Zeus, 2019)
The novel tells how the people of the country come to free themselves from the Hierarchy, a particularly vicious authoritarian dystopia told through the stories of three main characters, a boy whose grandfather has passed on the traditional myths, a man whose lover is suddenly taken by the police for speaking forbidden words, and a girl whose father is imprisoned for writing. All the old myths are rewritten to support the current situation and all other books are burned.
U.S. ed. Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2020.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want - Rob Hopkins (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2019)
The book begins with a brief eutopia that the author says isn’t one because it still rains, and people don’t always get along. The eutopia follows its protagonist through a day in his life in a town completely transformed into a one in tune with nature and with good schooling and a town-meeting democracy that works. The rest of the book is on the ways cultivating imagination would improve life with a concluding essay entitled “What If All This Came to Pass?” (164-84, 214-16).
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2019)
An alternative history in which women travel to the past to try to defeat the men who are doing the same to eliminate all rights for women and kill the ones opposing them. There is a list of “Historical Sources” on 341-47.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“GAC ATG ATT ACA” - Melanie Harding-Shaw (Little Blue Marble, 2019)
Brief story with people living underground for generations and trying to keep the gene pool large enough.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 168-70; and in the author’s Alt-Ernate: A Collection of 37 Stories (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand: Author, 2021), 118-21.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Gamechanger - [Alexandra Margaret] [Dellamonica] (b. 1968) (Tor, 2019)
An extremely high-tech, connected society set in a climate change future with both eutopian and dystopian elements in which individuals gain and lose social capital, which is necessary for almost everything one does, through the responses of people to their actions. See also the author’s “Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling,” The Magazine and Fantasy and Science Fiction 135.1/2 (July-August 2018): 75-149; and “The Immolation of Kev Magee.” By L. X. Beckett [pseud.]. Clarkesworld, no. 167 (August 2020), which are set in the same future.
Keywords: Canadian author; Genderqueer author

“A Gardener’s Guide to the Apocalypse” - Lynette Mejía (If This Goes On, 2019)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia (nuclear war) as seen through the eyes of a gardener trying to grow food.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ghost Town" - Kanishk Tharoor (McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D., 2019)
The story is set in Uttarakhand, India, and the oppressive heat of the lowlands gradually reached the mountains and destroyed the crops. Most people leave but one couple stays even after their son leaves and dies in a construction accident in Oman.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

“Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death” - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
A dystopia in which the 99% is trying to kill off most of the 99%, who are fighting back.
Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Going north: Injecting hope for a better life” - Roxanne Khamsi (Nature, 2019)
Immigration dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Golden State - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown & Co., 2019)
A dystopian future after a disaster in which much of the population of the United States has been wiped out. But the Golden State, which appears to be Los Angeles, remains, reconstituted as a dystopia in which it is illegal to lie and brings significant penalties. The novel focuses on an investigator in one of the many bureaucracies that have been established to enforce the law.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Good Hunting" - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) (Patreon, 2019)
The story takes place  in a future that has instituted stringent climate control laws.
Rpt. Illus. Little Blue Marble (March 13, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/03/13/good-hunting/
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Canadian author; Female author

“Good News Bad News” - Charles Yu (b. 1976) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
The future is depicted in a series of short reports, the main one being about racist robots.
Keywords: Male author; Taiwanese American author

"The Good Plan" - Mikael Awake (McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D., 2019)
The story is set “somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere” but concerns Africa. The Good People have the Good Plan to wall themselves off from the rest of the world to protect themselves from refugees, whose memories they take. The protagonist, who is being escorted in chains back to Africa, describes what little he can remember of the Crisis that the Good People blame on everyone but themselves.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Good Pupils" - Jack Lothian (If This Goes On, 2019)
The dystopian school of the near future where all students are controlled by an electronic collar and teachers are armed.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Grace Year - Kim Liggett (Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s, 2019)
Young adult dystopia in which at sixteen girls are banished for a year but are hunted by men and are in danger from each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gravity Is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book 1 - Sarah Lahey (She Writes Press, 2019)
The novel is set about thirty years in the future. By 2030 religious fundamentalism was being enforced by the state. Wars followed and in the post-war under HEXAD (the International Unified Government), religion was legal but monitored and fundamentalism was not tolerated. The world economy collapsed in 2036. Cyborgs are common although facing discrimination and generally limited to fifty percent technology. A range of conflicts are developing, and climate change, which has already remade the globe, is getting worse. The second volume, Nostalgia is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book 2 is scheduled for 2021.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Great Dividuation” - Joel E. Mason; Michael Hornblow; anique yael vered (b. 1984) (CR: The New Centennial Review, 2019)
A dystopia about the breakdown of capitalist accumulation and its effects on individuals and social interaction. For details about dividuation, see https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Dividuation.
Keywords: Australian author; Austrian author; Canadian author; Female author; German author; Male author

“The Great Wall of America” - Hewitt, David A. (Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2019)
Dystopia created by using forced labor to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S.
Rpt. without the illus. Np: Mithila Review, 2019. 40 pp

“Green Glass: A Love Story” - E. Lily Yu (If This Goes On, 2019)
The story is set in a climate-change future and stresses the extremely different situations of the rich and poor.
pt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 453-63, with an editor’s note on 453; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 59-70.
Keywords: Female author; US author