“The Name Unspoken” - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
In this future New York City, the name unspoken, known as the Monster, is Trump.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nation Building and Baptism” - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Capricious, 2018)
Powerful story about a ceremony welcoming refugees into Aotearoa/New Zealand set in an environmentally devastated world.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Negative Space" - Max Knight (Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities, 2018)
The story is set in a future China with extreme pollution but that has areas that under domes that are accessible to those with sufficient money or status and is building a city that is pollution free and in the open air. The protagonist is a fairly high-status functionary who is trying to quit smoking during a crackdown on smokers.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Vietnam author

"Neom" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2018)
Neom is a city built on the Red Sea on the Arabis peninsula that is designed to attract high-flying tech entrepreneurs and workers with the laws that suit them rather than Saudi Arabia. It is described by a middle-aged woman cleaner as she cleans an apartment and then walks back to the district where poor support workers like her live.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2019. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 37-45
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

"New Action" - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) (e-flux, 2018)
The focus of the story is on resistance to an authoritarian government that has limited the number of contacts that any group can have with other groups.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The New Black" - Nora O Murchi (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Dystopia in which most people have lost their jobs to algorithms and the few who work with the algorithms are constantly monitored and required to work precisely as directed.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

"Newsletter" - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia of censorship.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Night of the Party - Tracey Mathias (Scholastic, 2018)
Young adult dystopia in which Britain is controlled by a single party and everyone born outside the country is considered illegal and subject to arrest and deportation. Not reporting an illegal is itself a crime.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Nine - Zach Hines (HarperTeen, 2018)
A young adult dystopia in which everyone has nine lives, and, in order to avoid overpopulation, the government encourages suicide by providing benefits for those who kill themselves until they have one life left.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“No Point Talking” - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which the United States is experiencing the effects of climate change and has fractured into areas dominated by conservatives and areas dominated by the left.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

“Notes on Retrieving a Fallen Banner” - Marguerite Reed (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Near future dystopia in which abortion providers are being by the authorities even though abortion remains legal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Ocean of Minutes - Thea Lim (b. 1981) (Quercus, 2018)
The novel begins in Houston, Texas in 1981 when a vicious plague strikes the area. To save the uninfected, some people volunteer to be sent into the future, which turns out to be a dystopia in which those sent from the past are treated relatively well or extremely poorly based on their skills.
U.S. ed. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2019
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Singaporean author; US author

“Of Things That May Come” - Innocent Chizarram Ilo (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2018)
The story is set in a heavily polluted future facing a devastating water shortage.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“One Fell Swoop” - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which the Nihilistic Rifle Aficionados organize a school shooting that they hope will undermine attempts to regulate guns.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Ones Who Stay and Fight” - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (How Long ‘Til Black Future Month, 2018)
The author calls the story “a pastiche and response” to Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk from Amelas” (1973) (xi), with some references to Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and the story reflects its title.
Rpt. in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“The Only Constant” - Leslie Howle (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which any dissent leads to arrest.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Oversleeper - [Stewart] [Ferris] (Accent Press, 2018)
A dystopian sleeper awakes tale in which a man who had been in a coma twice awakens to a poor, violent, depopulated future caused by a plague brought to Earth from dirt from Mars. During the man’s comas, doctors had used his sperm to create thousands of babies for local repopulation and had sold his sperm to other countries, who had used it in the same way.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster ebook, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Overvalued" - Mark Stasenko (Slate, 2018)
A dystopia in which people can invest in the future of an individual buying them admission to a higher quality university, but, as with the stock market, others bet against the individual.
Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 127-39
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Owning Up To the Past" - James Maddox (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which in a father takes a child living in the eutopia to see the horrors of the past.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pacifica - Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen, 2018)
A dystopia that takes place after “the Melt” in which a lottery chooses people to be taken to an “island paradise,” which does not exist. The novel is based on the treatment of U. S. citizens of Japanese heritage, including the author’s grandmother.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese author

“Pain Camp Economics” - AUDNIT [pseud.] (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Dystopia set in 2056 in which corporations have taken over nations and are known as CorpoNations, and the environment has been largely destroyed.
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“The Passion According to Mike” - Scott [Michael] Bradfield (b. 1955) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Mike Pence (b. 1959) (Trump’s Vice President) awakes in a future as a hermaphrodite.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Paula’s Choice” - Cristina Barsan (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Dystopia in which a stay-at-home housewife is the highest position attainable by a woman, but it is only available to women married to a man with high status.
Keywords: Belgian author; Female author; Romanian author

"Pedaling" - Tuere T. S. Ganges (Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which the U.S. government has collapse, and violence, particularly racial violence is common and focuses on a group of mixed-race teenagers trying to find a place to live.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Perfect Is No/Place of Mine” - Iris Reisenberger (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Poem that reflects on the nature of utopia
Keywords: Belgian author; Female author

Perfidious Albion - Sam Byers (b. 1979) (Faber & Faber, 2018)
A post-Brexit dystopia set in a small, previously peaceful English town and the media encourages conflict.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Phantasmatopia” - Hüseyin Alhas (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Poem touching on justice, religion, ecology, and politics comparing elements of a eutopia with the current dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Turkish author

"The Pilot" - Dean Trippe (b. 1980) (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which good relations between Earth and aliens are undermined by a rogue human but restored.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pinion" - Stephanie Gunn (Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy, 2018)
As suggest by the book’s subtitle, there is much fantasy, but the setting is a future dystopia in which only the Chosen, who live in immaculate towers, have clean air and water, fresh food, and sanitation. The workers put in extremely long hours in appalling conditions to ensure that the system supporting the Chosen is maintained.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Pity - Rory Mullarkey (b. 1987) (Methuen Drama, 2018)
The absurdist play depicts a seemingly quite typical small town in England as that word falls apart. It was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre, London, July 12, 2018.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Irish author; Male author

Plum Rains - Andromeda Romano-Lax (b. 1970) (Soho Press, 2018)
Part historical novel that begins in Japan in 2029 when the aging of the population is reaching a crisis point with the government trying to solve the problem of finding caregivers with robotic AI. One of the protagonists is a woman from the Philippines working as a caregiver for a wealthy old woman who has been given a robot programmed to learn and respond to all her needs. If she loses the job that allows her to support her family back in the Philippines, she will be expelled from the country. Some things, of course, go wrong as the old woman becomes attached to the robot and reveals secrets regarding her and Japan’s past.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Pollution People" - C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990) (Black Warrior Review, 2018)
The story is set in a future United States that has been devastated by climate change and pollution.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author

“Porque el Girasol se Llama el Girasol” - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
Dystopian story of people living in the U.S. who are desperate to get over the Wall into Mexico.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Nigerien author

“Precaution at Penn Station” - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which Homeland Security kills people chosen at random to avoid charges of racial profiling.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Premium Care” - Brandon Ketchum (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
Brief dystopia set in a future with profit-making corporate control of health care with restrictions on care for non-citizens and the military enforcing the rules.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Public Money and Democracy” - Jo[seph Churches] Walton (b. 1982) (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
A combination of essay and speculative fiction that explores the interactions among value, the commons, algocracy (rule by algorithms), democracy, and complexity and unpredictability.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pulse Point - Colleen Nelson; Nancy Chappell-Pollack (Great Plains Publications/Yellow Dog, 2018)
Climate change dystopia in which a city walls itself off from the outside world. People are required to exercise in ways that generate energy for the city, and each person is fitted with a microchip, called pulse points to ensure that they do. Of course, there is corruption. One woman’s pulse point fails, freeing her from the rules.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Queen Colonies" - Annelise Knoot (Colony: A One-Shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia where people have moved underground.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Red Clocks. A Novel - Leni Zumas (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2018)
Dystopia in which abortion is illegal, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights to embryos.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Red Moon - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Orbit, 2018)
An adventure/thriller that explores East-West relations on Earth and the Moon and critiques both capitalism and communism. Includes a description of the free crater people, an anarchist community based on “blockchain governance.” Some discussion of the classic Chinese utopia Peach Blossom Spring with a translation of Wang Wei’s version  “Source of the Peach Blossom Stream (Wang Wei)” (343-44), which is rpt. in Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 191-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Redcap Country - Henry Dodson (Np, 2018)
Dystopia in which a small town in Texas is completely under the control of the mayor with young men in red caps enforcing his rule. The novel focuses on a young boy who tries to resist.
Keywords: Male author

Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart. A Novel of First Contact - [Steve Rune] [Lundin] (b. 1959) (Promontory Press, 2018)
A novel of first contact in which the aliens choose not to reveal themselves except to one woman who they try to convince to be their spokesperson. The make large parts of the world’s wilderness inaccessible to humans, stop all violence, and damage to the environment by oil companies. Considerable satire.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Remember the Green” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
An environmental dystopia in which some people have been genetically engineered to grow crops and are now being removed from the green areas they created into areas that are all grey. The story concerns a girl from the green who meets another girl from the green.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rending and the Nest. A Novel - Kaethe Schwehn (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Ninety percent of the world’s population simply disappears, and those remaining. One woman brings together some of those left and creates a community she calls Zion. Women give birth to inanimate objects. Other survivors arrive with other ideas and conflict develops.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Requiem" - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories, 2018)
The story is set in a future where climate change has damaged the culture of Alaskan natives, but, in which, temporarily the world responded by stopping many of the activities that were driving the changes. At the time the story takes place, the sea ice has begun to return, but already corporations are again drilling for oil.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 160-200, with an editor’s note on 160.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

Revolution 2050 - Jay Chalk (Dancing Lemur Press, 2018)
After a new civil war in the United States, the North American Commonwealth is a dictatorship controlling the East and the free Western Alliance governs the West. First volume in a series.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Riot of the Wind and Sun” - Jennifer Lee Rossman (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in a very small, underground town outside Adelaide, SA, Australia that was established to maintain the solar panels that provide electricity for the Adelaide and gets very little electricity itself. But, despite its status and problems, the town is a real community in which the people work together to improve their lives.
Keywords: Queer author; US author

“The Road South” - Madelaine E. Robins; Becca [Rebecca] Caccavo (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Climate change dystopia told through telephone conversations between part of a family making their way south to from the United States to Antarctica, the one area of green left, and parents left behind.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Rock Manning Goes for Broke - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Subterranean Press, 2018)
The novel is set in a United States that is becoming a dystopia with the use of what may or may not be a false war to exercise control.
Parts were previously published as “Break! Break! Break!” In The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 39-50; “Rock Manning Can’t Hear You.” In The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 55-67; and “The Last Movie Ever Made.” In The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 211-23. Chapter 1 was published as “Break! Break! Break!” Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 43 (March 2014). http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/break-break-break/ and in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Rich Horton ([Germantown, MD]; Prime Books, 2015), 217-27.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

The Rule of One - Ashley Saunders; Leslie Saunders (Amazon/Skyscape, 2018)
Dystopia set in a future United States that has a rigorously enforced one-child rule. One family produces twins, and the girls pretend that there is only one child, each being the child every other day. Then the deception is discovered. The first volume of a series followed by The Rule of Many. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2019, in which the twins return from Canada, where they had escaped, to challenge the law. The final volume is The Rule of All. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2020 in which, after defeating the resistance, the one-child rule is permanently eliminated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Pan Macmillan, 2018)
First volume of a galaxy spanning trilogy. In the first volume, one thread is that Earth is a near-utopia based on technology provided by apparently friendly aliens, who, at the end are revealed as anything but friendly. Two other threads are developed, the discovery and exploration of an enigmatic crashed alien spaceship and a far-future in which humanity is fighting against extinction by other aliens. Salvation Lost. London: Pan Macmillan; 2019; U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2019. The Saints of Salvation. London: Pan Macmillan, 2020. U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2020 is forthcoming.
U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Sanctuary" - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A Sanctuary City that provides refuge for undocumented immigrants is attacked with multiple bombs and weapons by self-styled patriots.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Sandals Full of Rainwater” - A. E. Prevost (Capricious, 2018)
The journal issue is “The Diverse Pronouns Issue,” and the story is set in a country with forty-five pronouns and the struggle of an immigrant from a country with only nine to understand and be understood.
Rpt. in Transcendent 4: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2019), 193-213, with a “Content Note” on 271.
Keywords: Canadian author; Non-binary author

Scribe. A Novel - Alyson [Carol] Hagy (b. 1960) (Graywolf Press, 2018)
Post-catastrophe (civil war and disease) dystopia in which the remaining population is still deeply divided with some slavery.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Seclusion - Jacqui Castle (Inkshares, 2018)
The novel is set in a dystopian future in which the United States has built a high wall around the entire country and all daily activities are under the control of the Board. The protagonist, Patricia “Patch” Collins, a true believer in the system, and her friend Rexx discover a box of books from before the seclusion and begin to learn some of the truth. They then travel across the country, meeting people and learning more, try to escape to Canada. A sequel is The Chasm. Oakland, CA: Inkshares, 2022 in which Patch has made it to Canada and Rexx is held by the Board.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Secure Home" - Wayne Cusack (Sanctuary: An Experimental Anthology of Speculative Fiction, 2018)
An apparently ideal gated community that separates people into sub-communities based on politics, religion, and so forth collapses when the sub-communities start attacking each other.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Seeds" - Erik Burnham (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a retired superhero has to be convinced his life was worthwhile.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Seventeen Souls” - Tyler Chin-Tanner (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which world peace has been achieved and famine and disease conquered. A project is developed to rescue from the past and bring them to the better future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Seventh Street Matriarchy” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set in a small town that is trying to eliminate a very successful public housing project and the resistance of those living in it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Severance - Ling Ma (b. 1983) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018)
Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic). The novel alternates between the life of the protagonist in New York City before most people dies and her life with others after they leave the city. The female author was born in China and raised and educated and lives in the U. S.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author; US author

“Sexy Robot Heroes - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) (Mother of Invention, 2018)
The story is set in Guangzhou (Canton), China in a future in which there has been extensive flooding of the city due to climate change. There is extreme poverty, and gangs rule the areas of the city where the story is set, but the story is concerned with the struggles of a transgender individual to survive in this setting.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shrinking, Sinking Land - Kell[ey] Cowley (Odd Voice Out Publishing, 2018)
Environmental dystopia in which everyone is required to hibernate underground to survive the winter. Liverpool is under water and Manchester is flooded. The novel focuses on a woman who refuses to hibernate. A prequel is her Last March for Planet Earth. [Chester, Eng.]: Odd Voice Out Publishing, 2018. EBook.
Developed from her “Shrinking, Sinking Land.” By Kelley Cowley. Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. Manjana Milkoreit, Meredish Martinez, and Eschrich. [Tempe: Arizona State University], 2016. EBook.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Singles' Day" - Samantha Murray (Interzone, 2018)
The story is set in an overpopulated future where once a year there are huge discounts for single people, with a lottery for larger living space and for transport off Earth to a newly settled planet.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 224-45, with an editor’s note on 224.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Sinless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 1 - Sarah Tarkoff (Harper Voyager, 2018)
First volume of a young adult religious dystopia series. In this volume the young woman who is the protagonist lives in a world that she believed in where those who do not follow the rules are savagely beaten, disfigured, or killed. She discovers that nothing is as she had believed and struggles against it. The second volume is Fearless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 2. New York: Harper Voyager, 2019.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Skinned" - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, 2018)
Dystopia set in an unnamed African country in which women past puberty are expected, based on religion and tradition, to wear no clothes until they are married. Most do, and the story is told from the perspective of an older, never married woman.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Nigerian author; US author

“Skippy’s Visit East” - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Climate change dystopia with the loss of all animals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Smallest Atom in the World” - Melissa Yuan-Innes (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Environmental dystopia presented from the point of view of insects as species disappear.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Sneakers" - Michael Libling (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia of the future U.S. immigration policies
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“The Soil Merchant” - Anthony W. Eichenlaub (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Dystopia in which all the good soil is gone.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. EBook
Keywords: Male author; US author

Something to Watch Over Me: My Favourite Sentience” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Nature, 2018)
Children’s perspective on the various AIs that they have experienced.
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Keywords: Female author; US author

“Speculative Hyperstition at a Northern Further Education College” - Judy Thorne (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Presented as interviews with a range of people about what they would like the world to be like in the future, which initially seem straightforward, but gradually becomes clear that the setting is a deeply depleted future after the U. K. left the European Union.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Sponsor" - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) (Salt Hill Journal, 2018)
The story is in a future where everything is copyrighted, trademarked, and officially registered, and is about a wedding where the official sponsor goes bankrupt disrupting all the couple’s plans.
Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 142-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Statues of Limitations” - [Russell] [Schechter] (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia playing on the removal of Confederate statues in which statues of people currently disapproved of are being replaced by those of right-wing heroes like Rush Limbaugh and Steve Bannon.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"A street but half made up: Meet the literary agent” - Anna Zumbro (Nature, 2018)
The story takes place in what is called a library city in which books are housed on the street throughout the city. The focus is on a robot that re-shelves books that are misplaced and reads and is affected by them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Streets Turned Blue and Green” - Dennis Mombauer (b. 1984) (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Climate change dystopia set in the flooded city of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: German author; Male author; Sri Lankan author

"Suffocation" - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
The story is set in the period in which the world-system falls apart, which leads to environmental collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - [Qingpei] Rachel Heng (b. 1988) (Henry Holt, 2018)
Dystopia in which near-immortality is possible and death is illegal, but there are people who believe that they should have the choice of whether they live or die.
U.K. ed. London: Sceptre, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Singaporean author; US author

"Suicide Watch" - Susan [J.] Emshwiller (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
A dystopia in which people pay to watch someone commit suicide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sunshine - H. W. Fitzroy (Np, 2018)
The future of the United States as an isolated, fundamentalist Christian dystopia in which “profit” is the word for anything good, workers are called “dregs,” and all blacks are called “criminals.” Teetotal unless one has money. The Sunshine corporation runs everything. The journalist who has managed to get a visa to visit lying on his application starts his visit by asking for a drink, admitting that he is Catholic, otherwise getting in trouble, and ultimately involving himself in a revolt, where the novel ends abruptly. A loosely related companion volume is 2018 Fitzroy, Charles.

The Synapse Sequence - Daniel Godfrey (Titan Books, 2018)
The novel is set in a future London where algorithms determine who gets what work and are the legal system and humans are overseen by technology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tattoo - Michelle Rene (Annorlunda Books, 2018)
An odd novella in which at Judgement Day everyone’s past is written on their skin, which means that all good and bad deeds can be known, although some people have their stories removed by a tattoo artist. The story gets complicated when a young woman with completely clear skin appears.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Terrific Leader” - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which everyone believes that the “Terrific Leader” will make American great again as everything gets worse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“This Ain’t the Apocha-Rich You Hoped For” - Tuere T. S. Ganges (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
Under Trump’s policies, conservatives and liberals go to war against each other until they realize that the rich are still getting rich. They then join forces against the rich, only to discover that the rich control the military, the electric grid, and everything else that matters. The rich hole up in armed compounds or leave the country while the apocalypse takes place.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“This Constant Narrowing” - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
A dystopia in which genders and ethnicities are slowly disappearing.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

“This is an Optimistic Story about the Future” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Satirical story about a future that has effective mechanisms to eliminate misunderstandings among people.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Through Darkest Europe - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2018)
Set in an alternative modern times where Islam developed science, technology and enlightenment while Western Europe remained a hotbed of religious fundamentalism.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 2019
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tiger" - Joe M. McDermott (b. 1979) (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
Environmental dystopia which most animals have disappeared.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/tiger/ (February 5, 2019).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Tiger Flu. A Novel - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
A post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia with a eutopian community of women who have escaped from a patriarchal dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“To Rain Upon the City” - Rivqa Rafael (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set in a religious dystopia in which the most recent immigrants, who are Jewish, live at the bottom physically and hierarchically, of the society and focuses on survival through making contacts with other outsiders.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Twice the Same River” - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) (Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities, 2018)
The story is about corruption in a city that is transforming itself into a green city, corruption that hurts the farmers in the surrounding countryside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Two Explicit and Three Oblique Apologies to My Oldest Daughter One Month Before Her Eighteenth Birthday” - Heather Lindsley (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"Two Left Feet" - Eric Palicki (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which the military has created cassettes that allows a person to have a particular skill.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Ultimate Housekeeping Megathrill 4” - Abbey Mei Otis (b. 1989) (Alien Virus Love Disaster: Stories, 2018)
Dystopia in which the protagonist works as a trash sorter in a recycling factory and goes home (by a flying bus) to her dysfunctional family, living with four other families in what remains of the once-decent suburbs. Except for a few science fictional touches, this could be near-future reality.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

"Una" - Peterson, Christopher (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which an alien visiting Earth behaves as people know they should, and so they come to do so.
Keywords: Male author

"Under the Grid" - Andrew Dana Hudson (The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, 2018)
The story is set in a future Detroit where an extensive solar grid has been built over the city and the surrounding area to provide power and focuses on conflicts over personal space. The story is followed by the essays, Lauren Withycombe Keeler, “All Politics is Glocal;” and Darshan M. W Karwat, “Behind the Grid: Science, Technology, and the Creation of PhoTown.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Unseen Face of the Moon Business” - Diana Părpăriţă (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future where everyone uses bots and plastic surgery to change the way they look, including the protagonist who is a middle-aged male at work and a young woman at home.
Keywords: Female author; Romanian author

Vigilance - Robert Jackson Bennett (Tom Doherty Associates, 2018)
A dystopia in which a reality game show creating active shooter situations is then used to control the population but becomes unmanageable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vox - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher (Berkley, 2018)
Dystopia in which women are limited to speaking no more than one hundred words a day. prohibited from working, and girls cannot be taught to read or write.
Keywords: Female author

"WAlls" - Paul Witcover (b. 1958) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
The dystopia brought about by the Trump administrations immigration policy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Warm Storage” - Michael H. Hanson (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
Dystopia in which, in order to deal with overpopulation, everyone over sixty, the infirm, criminals, and, finally, the unemployed are stored for future use, fed minimally, and rendered unaware of their condition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) (Hamish Hamilton, 2018)
The novel is set in what is presented as a dystopian future in which men have supposedly become literally toxic to women, and one man isolates his family, including his three daughters, on an island. It is never made clear is the toxicity actually exists.
U. S. edition New York: Doubleday, 2018
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

“Water Exchange, Version 8123” - Saba Waheed (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2018)
A climate change story in which the future extracts labor from the past in exchange for water.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“We All Have Hearts of Gold®” - Vladimirsky, Leo (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which Trump establishes a Republican security force to ensure his reelection.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice” - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Strange Horizons, 2018)
A strongly worded depiction of the devastation of climate change, with the blame placed squarely on human behavior.
Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2019), 3-17; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 5-18.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"We Speak in Tongues of Flame” - J[essica] L. George (Resist Fascism, 2018)
Authoritarian dystopia suppressing the indigenous population, with the story focusing on one young woman who discovers her abilities of resistance. Elements of magical realism.
Rpt. in Gwyllion, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 137-56.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

We Who Will Destroy the Future. A Short Story - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) ([Detritus Books], 2018)
The story is told by a woman from a future authoritarian dystopia who has been found guilty of writing a subversive book and been sentenced to live in the twentieth century. The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.
Rpt. without the subtitle in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 166-179.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

“The Weight of Time” - Jarrett Melendez (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a gay scientist proposes to go back in time to erase all the anti-gay religious texts but is convinced that he would also erase all the positive experiences that gays would have had.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Welcome to Triumph Band” - Yoon Ha Lee (b. 1979) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A brief dystopia of the near future of the United States under the policies of the Trump administration.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) (Slate, 2018)
Dystopia of the medical system of the future where corporations are in control and poor areas are unserved.
Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 49-64.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

When the River Ran Dry - William Davies (BHC Press/Indigo, 2018)
Set in 2180 after the collapse of civilization and the development of city states that followed, the novel reveals the dystopian aspects of the future through adventure and a murder mystery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) (B Cubed Press, 2018)
A collection of closely related stories satirizing Donald Trump (b. 1946) and his presidency.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Where Would You Be Now?” - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Tor.com, 2018)
Rpt. without the question mark in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 94-118.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Whitopia” - Greg Johnson (Counter-Currents Publishing, 2018)
The post asks the question “Is White Nationalism Utopian?” from the point-of-view of a white nationalist. While the answer is “no” because “ethnostates” have existed in the past and, to a degree, still do, the author then describes an ideal one.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Widdam” - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia seen through the eyes of an Indian man, a Native American Indian woman, and a European woman as well as AI’s who are trying to help.
Rpt. in A Year Without a Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 233-67; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 255-86.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Related to 2017 Vaughn, with this novel set at the very edges of the society developed in the previous novel at the interface between those where the women have an implant to limit the birth rate and “The Wild” where the people do not have implants. Structured as a mystery novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Woman World - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018)
A future graphic novel in which all men have died. Eutopian elements with strong satirical elements.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; US author

“A World to Die for” - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Clarkesworld, 2018)
The story begins in a violent dystopia that is the result of climate change and then moves into alternative futures, in some of which the past inhabitants have protected their environments.
Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 143-70. PU
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

“You are Weighed in the Balance” - Rivka Jacobs (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2018)
The dystopia that will be produced by the current policies of the Trump administration resulting in concentration camps and different laws for the wealthy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“You Could Order Wholesale” - Declan Keen (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
The story takes place in a climate-change dystopia where there the destruction of the environment continues while some people are trying to stop the damage.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Your One & Only - Adrianne Finlay (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a society of clones with only one non-cloned human left. The non-cloned man and a female clone feel that they don’t fit in and fall in love, and most of the novel is their story as they struggle to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“₪” - N[ancy] Lee Wood (b. 1955) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
The story depicts the contrast between health care in New Zealand, which, while not eutopia, is basically good, and the United States, where all protections have been stripped away and the entire country is on the way to becoming a dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2020 - Kenneth Steven (Saraband, 2017)
A near-future dystopia set in a future England where the right-wing, anti-immigration movement becomes extremely violent, with those targeted fighting back, and the government unable to cope with the problem.
U.S. ed. as 2020: A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2018
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

2023: A Trilogy - Bill [William Ernest] Drummond (b. 1953); Jimmy [James Francis] Cauty (b. 1956) (Faber & Faber, 2017)
Dystopia than builds on and uses themes from to The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, particularly its libertarianism, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with some of the text written as if from 1984.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

2036: The Final Resistance - Leah McClellan (Simple Writing, 2017)
A dystopian future fascist United States and the resistance to it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2084 - Mason Engel ([CreateSpace], 2017)
Dystopia in which everyone is required to wear lenses through which they are fed a false version of the world.
There is also a 76 pp. Short Story Version available on Kindle
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: An American Parable - Elaine Liner (Moonface Press, 2017)
Fundamentalist Christian, surveillance dystopia. Washington, DC is now Jesus City, and everyone must stop whatever they are doing and pray for two minutes when sirens sound five times a day seven days a week. The “Privacy Protection Act” outlawed privacy, and a God’s eye surveillance system is utterly pervasive. Every day, everyone is required to take “Mana,” which is supposed to be a vitamin but is a tranquillizer. The “SinCrime cops” and the “Bible Thumpers” observe people in all workplaces.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“2084 Satoshi AD” - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (2084, 2017)
Dystopia set in a world divided between those who have established a brand for themselves and the no-brand. The key to power is the blockchain.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

“51-49” - Glen Cadigan (49th Parallels, 2017)
The story is set in a climate-change future where Newfoundland is an island and independent of Canada but poor and negotiating between the Canada and the USA for support.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Acceptance Speech” - Eileen Myles (b. 1949) (I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally November 6, 2016, 2017)
The speech the author would give upon being elected President saying that she will establish a Department of Women and a Department of Culture, make the White House a homeless shelter, provide free education and transportation, and begin the process of banning cars, among other changes. The female author, who uses the pronoun they, ran an “openly female” write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-1992. The poem “I Want a President,” by Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) was written in honor of the campaign.
Rpt. as “Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 15-18.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Adiona Falters” - William Delman (Little Blue Marble, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After" - John Oughton (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
The story is set in Canada after the collapse of civilization where one group is creating a decent life in the woods while threaten by end times Christian groups that want to eliminate all non-believers.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

After the Blast - Zoe [Swicord] Kazan (b. 1983) (Dramatists Play Service, 2017)
The play is set in a post-nuclear future where a selection of humankind seen as the best had moved underground and interact with machines to fulfil normal human needs. Rationing. Reproduction controlled. It takes place long after the move and concerns a couple is trying to get the right to have a child. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.
Keywords: Female author; US author

After the Flare - Deji Bryce Olukotun (The Unnamed Press, 2017)
Dystopia brought about by a solar flare that damages Earth’s entire electrical grid followed by cyberattacks. Sequel to his non-utopian Nigerians in Space. A Novel. Los Angeles, CA: Unnamed Press, [2014].
Keywords: South African author; US author

All Our Wrong Todays. A Novel - Elan Mastai (b. 1945) (Dutton, 2017)
The high tech eutopia imagined by people in the 1950s contrasted with the dystopia that is the current reality.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

All Rights Reserved - Gregory Scott Katsoulis (Harlequin Teen, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which all words and gestures are parented or trademarked, and at age fifteen they must be paid for. The novel focuses on one girl who choose to remain completely silent and sets off a rebellion. First volume in a series followed by Access Restricted. Toronto, ON, Can: Harlequin Teen, 2018. In this novel, the protagonist leaves her city to try to find her parents who are being held as indentured servants, really slaves for life. She succeeds, and the ending suggests a further volume.
Keywords: Male author; US author

All the Galaxies - Philip Miller (b. 1973) (Freight books, 2017)
After a second failed independence referendum, Scotland has broken up into autonomous states, and a father searches for his son who disappeared after a protest. In parallel, a boy awakens in space in the afterlife where he searches for his dead mother.
Rpt. Crows Nest, NSW, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2017.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

“Alt.Death” - Joanna Koch (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The story is set in a future dystopia in which Trump’s policies led to the elimination of anyone not white and other than male or female. No healthcare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ambrosia" - Emeline [Mimie] Morin (A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction, 2017)
Dystopia set in a future where eating food is illegal, and everyone is fed intravenously and are starving.
Keywords: Female author; French author; Scottish author

“America Once Beautiful” - Brad Cozzens (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Poem that describes America as a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The American” - G[areth] Gray (b. 1972) (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
Dystopia in which all non-whites are incarcerated.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

American City - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Corvus, 2017)
A climate-change dystopia focusing on the internal refugee crisis in the United States.
Keywords: English author; Male author

American War - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)
The Second Civil War from 2074-2095 was followed by a decade-long pandemic/plague that, together, tore the U.S. apart. Southern states had seceded primarily because they objected to an act that outlawed the use of fossil fuels. The story is about a young girl born in a border area who is then forced into a northern refugee camp, with obvious parallels to today’s refugee camps, and is radicalized there.
Keywords: Canadian author; Egyptian author; Male author; Qatari author; US author

"Animate" - Kate Story (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia in which Bangladesh and Florida have disappeared under water, and Vancouver has been destroyed by an earthquake.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Apple Bee" - K. E. Macphee (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
The story is set in a future dystopia in which all pollinators have disappeared, and mechanical bees are being used.
Keywords: Australian author; Scottish author

Asylum - Marcus Low (Picador Africa, 2017)
The novel is set in South Africa, which is experiencing a rapidly spreading disease with a collapsing healthcare system and is primarily set in an asylum where those with the disease are incarcerated. The background to the novel includes climate change that has led to starvation in the United States.
U.K. ed. London: Legend Books, [2019]. The first version was as “Asylum Story.” MA thesis (Creative Writing). Cape Town, 2009 https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/8237
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body” - J[ess] R. Fenn (Boston Review, 2017)
A world where most babies are created in the laboratory as seen through the eyes of a woman who wants a mother.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Autonomous - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) (Tor, 2017)
Dystopia in which the powerful pharmaceutical industry has everyone on drugs that are undertested and oversold.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Avoiding Eye Contact on Mainstreet, USA” - Jacob Guyon (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The dystopia created by Trump’s policies. The rich are richer and the poor poorer, and anyone with any sort of job feels they are lucky. Degraded environment. American citizens of Hispanic ancestry however far back can be deported with small children adopted by the rich. Any dissent punished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Azotus the Kingdom - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) (Malawi Writers Union, 2017)
In the novel, set in 2559, everyone lives alone in a separate house catered to by technology and with no human contact. One Occupant, as they are known, ventures outside, discovers what he is missing and struggles to escape.
An excerpt, “The Occupant, was published in Africa 39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. Ed. Ellah Wakatama-Allfrey (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), 76-83.
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

Bannerless - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which people live in large families, and birth is regulated to those deemed worthy and awarded a banner. The original story is about a young woman who has a bannerless child. The novel expands this to a deeper consideration of the society. See 2018 Vaughn, The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel for a related work.
Originated with a story with the same title in The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 5-22. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 181-96 with an editor’s note on 181; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 267-89.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Barrette Girls” - Sara Saab (Liminal Stories, 2017)
The story is set in a dystopian future where rare earths required in technology are harvested from manufactured people.
Rpt. in The Apex Book of World SF: Volume 5. Ed. Cristina Jurado and Lavie Tidhar ([Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2018]), 153-66.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Lebanese author

"A Beautiful Industry" - Stuart Hardy (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
A dystopian future in which even the robots are having trouble finding work and making ends meet.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Beneath the Shine - Sarah Fine (Skyscape, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which a technological elite dominates, and the young woman protagonist is part of the minority who advocates technology for everyone.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Bird's Eye" - Anjali Sachdeva (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The protagonist is a blind woman who uses Virtual Reality to see the world through the eyes of birds and uses the system of electronic referenda to try to protect them, which will end up protecting people also.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Black Box: These Memories are Made to Last Forever” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (WIRED, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which at an early age a child has a device implanted that records all their experience, which the child or her parents can replay. Later in life, adults can choose who has access to their memories. Whether this is eutopian or dystopian is left up to the reader.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 29-34; and in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 1-13
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

“blinders” - Tyler Keevil (The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, 2017)
The background of the story is a corporate dystopia trying to defeat a union.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 9-32.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Welsh author

"Blue Stratus" - Amy Mrotek (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The story is set in a future eutopian community with high rise urban farms, gardens, permaculture, and all of the desirable environmental design features that are currently possible.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Bluebird" - Benjamin Cort (Metamorphosis, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which the City is taking over the United States, destroying all buildings outside the City using a huge metallic bird. People are trying to escape to areas rumored to still be safe. The protagonist is the caretaker of the bird.
Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2018), 9-25.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Boltzmann Brain” - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

The Book of Etta - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (47 North, 2017)
Second volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 Elison set 100 years after the first book. In this novel, the main character, Etta, disguises herself as a man, Eddy, and sets off to rescue the enslaved women. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as this volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Book of Joan. A Novel - Lidia Yuknavitch (b. 1963) (Harper, 2017)
Complex dystopia set in 2049 where Earth is experiencing the results of climate change and constant war over dwindling resources. Circling Earth is a space station inhabited by some who have escaped from Earth where everyone must die at 50. The society is itself a dystopia ruled by a man who claims to have defeated a child-heretic named Joan, and much of the novel is the story of Joan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Books of the Risen Sea” - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
Climate change dystopia and the importance of saving books and of libraries.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Boston Hearth Project” - T. X. Watson (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia in which the homeless in Boston are dieing from the conditions, with the story focused on activists taking over a building specially built for the rich and repurposed for the homeless.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Bring Your Own Spoon” - Saad Z. Hossain (b. 1979) (The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories, 2017)
The story is set in a future, severely polluted Dhaka, Bangladesh that also no longer has a middle class, just the very rich and the extremely poor. The protagonist and a djinn decide to establish a restaurant to serve their poor neighbors.
Rpt. in The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan. Ed. Tarun K. Saint (Gurugram, India: Hachette India, 2021), 436-447.
Keywords: Bangladeshi author; Male author

"Broad Church" - Tess Williams (b. 1954) (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The background to the story is a climate-change dystopia, with the story focusing a woman dealing with her son’s choice to become a dolphin.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Brother’s Keeper” - Danny Gardner (The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, 2017)
The dystopia that has resulted by the time of the third Trump administration with little health care, all public services paid for individually as needed, with only the wealthy, for example, able to afford any emergency call at night. Many people escape into virtual reality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Calexit 1: Secession - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) (Amazon, 2017)
After the 2016 election, California votes to secede and form The People’s Republic of California. First of three volumes followed by Calexit 2: Politics as Normal. Np: Np, 2017 -[First published on Kindle], in which China recognizes the new country, and, as the title suggests, politicians work enhance their own power; and Calexit 3: If At First You Don’t Succeed. Np: np. 2018 [First published on Kindle], which continues the story. See also, 2017 Curtis, J. L., ed. Calexit: The Anthology. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents.
First published on  KIndle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Calexit: The Anthology - J. L. Curtis; Bob Poole; Cedar Sanderson; Tom Rogneby; Alma [T. C.] Boykin; B. Opperman; L. B. Johnson; Eaton Rapids Joe; Lawdog [pseud.]; Kimball O'Hara (JLC&A, 2017)
A collection of stories set in a dystopian future in which part of California, called Cali, secedes from the country in order to establish a socialist state committed to diversity. Northern California and southern Oregon forms a new territory called Jefferson that may become a new state. The stories are “A Matter of Honor” by J. L. Curtis in which the U. S. Navy leaves San Diego and blows up its base as it does with the story continued in his ebook novella The Morning the Earth Shook. 69 pp. (2017). “Last Plane Out” by Bob Poole centers on the last plane to leave Los Angeles airport. “Carpetbaggers” by Cedar Sanderson focuses on carpetbaggers in Jefferson. “Night Passage” by Tom Rogneby begins in Cali, where all people are chipped, and continues with the escape of a couple. “Roll, Colorado, Roll!” by Alma [T. C.] Boykin in which The Colorado River is released into its original channel, cutting off water to Cali. “Final Flight” by B. Opperman is a story of escape from Cali. “Freedom’s Ride” by L. B. Johnson is a story of escape from Cali. “The Farm” by Eaton Rapids Joe describes the authoritarian liberalism of Cali and the damage it does. “By Hook and Crook” by Lawdog [pseud.] is an escape story. In “Fifth Column” by Kimball O’Hara the U. S. Navy returns. A graphic novel covering some of the same themes is Matteo Pizzolo, CALEXIT. Illus. Amancay Nahuelpan. Colorist Tyler Boss. Flatter Dee Cunniffe. Letterer Jim Campbell. Map designer Richard Nisa. Flag Designer Robert Anthony, Jr. Los Angeles, CA: Black Mask Studios, 2018. Originally published as CALEXit 1-3. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Maltese author; US author

California 2020 - Zachary Roberts (Liver Shot Press, 2017)
The novel begins with a tsunami about to hit southern California. The rest of the novel follows the protagonist’s struggle to find a meaningful life in the dystopia created by the disaster. The ending suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Cannibal Acts” - Maureen [F.] McHugh (b. 1959) (Boston Review, 2017)
Dystopia in which ecological changes have eliminated most plants and animals.
Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 244-256; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 292-303.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Carve the Mark - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which each individual has a gift which may be positive or negative for them. Two young people from different and opposed cultures meet and begin to work together to defeat the dystopia. The first of two volumes followed by The Fates Divide. New York: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2018 with a “Glossary” on 448-50. In this volume a war produces additional problems for the protagonists which appear to be solved at the end 2018 with a “Glossary” on 448-50. In this volume a war produces additional problems for the protagonists which appear to be solved at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cascadia" - Mackenzie Reide (Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads, 2017)
The Northwest of the U.S. has seceded and formed a new country called Cascadia. The story is about the suppression by U.S. authorities of higher education and the descendants of immigrants from anywhere outside its new borders. See also 2016 Reide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Catalogue of Further Suns: Précis of Reports Compiled by the Preliminary Survey Expeditions - F. J[eannie] Bergmann (Gold Line Press, 2017)
Poems about first contact with aliens detailing what can go wrong.
Keywords: Female author; US author

City of Virtues - Michael Ladner ([CreateSpace], 2017)
A future in which, in the City of Virtues people have given up their freedoms as well as their sexual identities for security, while surrounding the city the people are free, sexual and have less security.
Keywords: Male author

“The City We Built in Life” - Thomas Broderick (Little Blue Marble, 2017)
The story is set in a climate change future in which travel is restricted and follow a family allowed to visit reproductions in the Arizona desert of the Seven Wonders of the World and monuments from Washington, DC, which is under water, all of which have been built of synthetic carbonized basalt that traps atmospheric carbon. They also visit the city/monument called the Silent City, which is composed of such blocks, each representing some who died due to climate change.
Originally published as “A Monument to Our Greatest Sin.” Scout (2017) [Not Found].  Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 44-63.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cityborn - Edward Willett (b. 1959) (DAW Books, 2017)
Dystopia set in a hierarchical city with the poor at the bottom and the rich and powerful at the top.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“'Clippers': Measuring the slow but steady whitening of public life” - Kashana Cauley (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story is about a man trying to pass as white after the Trump administration had outlawed voting by blacks.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"A Clockwork Barista” - Kevin Cockle (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2017)
Dystopia of a future where changes in a person’s status is automatically sent out of social media. In the story, the man loses his job, and all his accounts and creditors are informed, and he has only a short time to find another job.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Coffle - Gemma Files (b. 1968) (Dim Shores, 2017)
Part dystopia and part horror story in which a woman helps slaves escape across a forbidding desert where there is only one. shifting safe route.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Confessions of a Con Girl” - Nick [Nicholas] Wolven (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
The story is set in an inline world where one’s position in life depends largely on the votes of others.
Rpt. in Clarkesworld, no. 151 (April 2019). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wolven_04_19_reprint/; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 309-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Contact High - Joseph Eckert; James F. Wright (F.I.M.C (Forget It, Make Comics), 2017)
In the future human contact has become a drug and outlawed with everyone required to wear a protective suit or be arrested and rehabilitated. Queer and interracial themes.
Keywords: African American author; Male author; US author

"Control" - Rachel K[atie] Zall (Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, 2017)
The story is set in a deeply divided dystopia, in one part of which the streets are clean and safe, heavily policed by both cameras supported by a police force. The cameras use face-recognition to identify everyone and evaluate them, giving them at actual score. The other part is collapsing and dangerous with no cameras and no police.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Control Shift Down” - Paige Bryony (Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, 2017)
The story is set in a class-based, high-tech, authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Transgender author

Crazy House - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) (Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which young girls are imprisoned, supposedly to test them to help overthrow an authoritarian system that divides people and controls information. . A sequel is The Fall of Crazy House. New York: Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson, 2019 in which the protagonists of the first novel fight the government and win.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Crosstalk - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) (del Rey, 2017)
Satire on the connected world where the connectivity of the future goes wrong. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cybervania" - Sybil Lamb (Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, 2017)
Violent dystopia set among people living in the junked material of the electronic age.
Keywords: Canadian author; Transgender author

"Dairy" - Ashley Sutherland (Social Alternatives, 2017)
Dystopia of women treated in a way similar to cows with artificial insemination and their children taken away at birth.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Dark Intercept - Julia Keller (Tor Teen, 2017)
First volume of a young adult dystopia set on New Earth where people have given up freedom for stability. In the second volume, Dark Mind Rising. New York: Tor Teen, 2018, the system that protected them has failed, and the young female protagonist has opened a detective agency. In the third volume, Dark Star Calling. New York: Tor Teen, 2019, the system is failing altogether and the people look to find another planet and start over. A related novel is A Screaming in the Mind: A Dark Intercept Novel. New York: Tor Teen, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Darlingtonia - Alba Roja [pseud.] (Left Bank Books, 2017)
Dylan is a bored graphic artist working for OingoBoingo, a copy that makes electronic psychological memory games. Ricky, her only friend and the only brown person at the company is found murdered. Dylan, who love lifestyle her work her. The novel contrasts the easy life of tech works like Dylan with the poverty of everyone else in the SF Bay area, and she gradually becomes disillusioned as she discovers what OnigoBoingo is actually doing. “Alba Roja is an anonymous collective of individuals strewn along the West Coat of the United States.”
Keywords: US author

“Day 3658” - Dylan Siegler (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Dystopia in which what appears to be a successful community after most plants and animals have died breed children for meat.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Day the Earth Turned Day-Glo” - Rick Shingler (American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia, 2017)
Dystopia in which a colony is established on the moon and then simply abandoned leaving the people there to die while pretending that they had been brought back. This is followed by the launch of an immense satellite with moveable panels that can block the sun’s rays from reaching Earth, or, for an extortionate price, allow the sun’s rays to reach some part of the Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Decelerate Blue - Adam Rapp (b. 1968); Mike Cavallaro (Roaring Brook Press, 2017)
A graphic novel dystopia in which everyone believes in speed and efficiency. The novel follows one young girl who doesn’t fit in and who discovers that there are others who believe that slower is better.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Degas’ Ballerinas” - Leslie Goodreid (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia. The story is set in Toronto, which, even though the border with the U.S. is now closed, is flooded with U.S. climate refugees. Nothing grows in the U.S. All birds have died. Malarial mosquitos are common in Canada. People are starving, and corruption is common.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Desert, Blooming” - Lev Mirov (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
Dystopia set on a planet, which may be Earth, that is toxic, with people living in domes. Some are learning to terraform the planet by planting trees and others are searching abandoned cities for any seeds or other things that might help.
Keywords: Filipino-American author; Male author

"Desperate Resolve" - John A. Pitts (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The story is set in West Virginia, which has been destroyed by current policies on the environment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Destination - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2017)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is divided physically been the powerful and those without power with the latter fighting back by taking control of the web.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Detour in Space" - Emad El-Din Marei Aysha (Reconnecting Arts, 2017)
A brief dystopia in which Mars has been settled by countries from the middle east, bring with them all the same issues as on Earth. For an interview with the author that discusses the origins of the story, see https://the-levant.com/egyptian-science-fiction-criticises-arabs/
Keywords: Egyptian author; Male author; Palestinian author; UK author

“Diaspora Electronica” - Blaize [M.] Kaye (Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which an Institute for the Future of Humanity is established as a solution to “exponential population growth” (59). It uploads people into a computer in exchange for all their worldly goods. The protagonist is a man who wants to be uploaded to join his wife but because has one of the flaws the system cannot handle, he is regularly turned down.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“The Disconnected” - Ramez Naam (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
The flawed utopia of the completely connected world and, very briefly, choosing to disconnect.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
Dystopia in which all jobs are being replaced by automation as seen through the eyes of one family.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author