“You Wanted This” - Lev Bratishenko (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
A meeting in which reports proposals are made for how to save the planet by eliminating the primary source of damage, human beings.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Your Future is Pending” - Matthew Kressel (Clarkesworld, 2019)
Corporate and surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Your Guide to the Ever-Shrinking Solitude on the Planet Earth: How To Be Alone” - Jo Miles (Nature, 2019)
In a dystopia of complete connectivity, the protagonist struggles to find a space where he can only hear his own thoughts.
Keywords: US author

“Youthful Indiscretions” - Monica Stephens (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
Buffalo, New York, has become SnapCity with all services provide by Snapchat. 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; US author

Zed. A Novel - Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974) (Faber & Faber, 2019)
Dystopia in which one which one large company takes over the surveillance state, the police, and the currency, thus controlling the entire world. The novel follows what happens as the company tries to deal with, and cover up, a flaw in the system.
U. S. ed. Doubleday/Penguin Random House, 2019
Keywords: English author; Female author

Zero Bomb - Hill, M[att] A. (Titan Books, 2019)
Complex novel set in a future automation and surveillance dystopia in which some who oppose the system use a science fiction novel as the basis for their tactics.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The 133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance: A Taste of Freedom” - Beth Cato (b. 1980) (Nature, 2018)
The story depicts a dystopian future where eating real food is illegal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

20/20 - B[ret] Shawn Clark (First Run Books, 2018)
The novel is told by a man in a future devastated by rising sea levels remembering his life from boyhood to his current present.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084 - Darla Hogan (Author, 2018)
Dystopia, the United State of Britland, in which AI’s supposedly run the world for the benefit of all humans. This results in extreme austerity, everyone separated from their parents for seven years from seventeen, and occupations chosen for individuals by AI’s. But the system has become corrupted with power in the hands of human leaders who are in conflict with each other.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“3.4 oz” - R. K. Kalaw (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story focuses on the problems faced by immigrants today or in a very near future dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Filipinx author

84K - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) (Orbit, 2018)
Dystopia of corporate power with universities closed, all the news outlets controlled by private corporations, and only people from corporations serve are elected to office.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Accident" - Gretchin Lair (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
The story is set in a dystopian future where couples must get permission to use birth control and are paid for having more children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Across the Border” - Sahil Lavingia (Terraform, 2018)
The story depicts a U.S. citizen returning from a Mexico that has been completely cut off by a huge wall, with no communication permitted between the two countries.
Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 124-132.
Keywords: Male author; Singaporean author; US author

Adjustment Day - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) (W. W. Norton, 2018)
Dystopia in which the population is going to be adjusted by killing large numbers of people.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Adventure of You” - Paul [B.] La Farge (1970-2023) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A dystopia that depicts an underground hierarchical society through a supposed assignment to help individuals find themselves.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Afterwar - Lilith Saintcrow (b. 1976) (Orbit, 2018)
The dystopia that is the U.S. after a second civil war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“An Agent of Utopia” - Andy [Andrew Robert] Duncan (b. 1964) (An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories, 2018)
The story is told from the point of view of a man from Utopia who was sent to rescue Thomas More from the Tower of London by bribing people using paving stones from Utopia.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 503-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Alternica" - Jennie Wood (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a future eutopia has been created but could be destroyed by actions in the past.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Amazing Transformation of the White House Dog” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A robot dog with hypnotic powers takes over the White House and institutes liberal policies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American Fascist - Malcom James (Author, 2018)
The dystopia created when a fascist wins the 2016 presidential election.
Keywords: Male author

American Heart - Laura Moriarty (b. 1970) (HarperTenn, 2018)
A young adult dystopia set in a future United States where just being a Muslim is grounds for deportation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

American Utopia - David Byrne (b. 1952) (Unpublished album, concert, play, 2018)
The play and film are the most complete expressions of the idea, which has been compared to “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” or a utopia of nostalgia for the twenty-first century. The book is made up of words from the play, many simply the names of U.S. cities with an illustration.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Scottish author; US author

“And the Rest Is Music” - Paul Allor (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A future story in comic form in which each person lives in a pod that creates their ideal world for them, with the intent to keep humans from destroying the planet. The story is about an old woman who leaves her pod and experiences what is left of the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“And the Ship Sails On” - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Australian Fantasy, 2018)
The story is set on a cruise ship that has been sailing for what seems to be decades after climate change has led to sea level rises that has flooded most of the land. A highly structured, class-based society has evolved that the older people are desperate to keep.
Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 125-59, with a brief author’s note on 159.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Animal Pharm: The Late 21st Century Farm Crime Comedy - Peter King (Peter King Publishing, 2018)
As the title suggests, a humorous dystopia on the pharmaceutical industry as it impacts farming, with AI playing a big role, including a talking sheep dog.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“Application for Asylum.” - Eileen [Katherine] Gunn (b. 1945) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A brief dystopia in which a child applies for asylum to escape the United States as it becomes under the policies of the Trump administration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ask Me About My Book Club" - M. Michelle Bardon (Resist Fascism, 2018)
Dystopia that reflects the current situation in the U.S. in which dragons have been elected to national office and are being fought by witches. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“At the Crossroads” - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
The story describes three societies, one a completely oppressive, hierarchical dystopia, one an anarchist eutopia where all the peoples of the galaxy are welcome and treated equally, and Dyanna, which has tendencies in both directions. The story is told through a bicycle race with a team from each planet taking place on all three planets plus a deserted Fourth World, which are alternate versions of the same present. The protagonist is a black woman with a prosthetic leg and only one good eye. In some way, the race is intended to prevent an interdimensional war. It begins on Planet One, the technically advanced dystopia with smooth metal roads, whose riders look identical, have only a number which identifies superiority and inferiority, and apparently is planning an invasion of the other Earths. The second planet, Dynnya, is a coalition of over a thousand planets. They are primarily agrarian, have no central authority and extremely advanced biotechnology, with most of the planets having no private property, and there has been no war in many thousands of years.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; Transgender author; US author

"AT392-Red" - Khairani Barokka (b. 1985) (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Dystopia that includes “Biodiversity Credit” that allowed that allowed the destruction of one area of the world’s environment in exchange for the supposed protection of another area. This result in a massive refugee crisis. This was followed by the introduction of “Accessibility Credits” by which improving accessibility for those with disabilities in one part of the world allowed another part of the world to eliminate accessibility.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indonesian author; US author

"The Atonement Path" - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Lightspeed Magazine, 2018)
Dystopia in which children who have broken the law must forever dress distinctively and do whatever a citizen wants.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bandwidth: An Analog Novel - Eliot Peper (47North, 2018)
First volume of a climate change dystopia series followed by Borderless: An Analog Novel. Seattle, WA: 47North, 2018; and Breach: An Analog Novel. Seattle, WA: 47North, 2019.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Before She Sleeps. A Novel - Bina Shah (b. 1972) (Delphinium Books, 2018)
Dystopia set in a future Southwest Asia where, as a result of disease, war, and gender selection by parents, there are many more men than women and restrictions on women, including the requirement to have multiple husbands, are extreme. Within the dystopia there is an underground women’s group that rejects the restrictions, until they are discovered.
Keywords: Female author; Pakistani author

"Big Rural" - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) (The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, 2018)
The story focuses on the negative impact of corporate solar power on rural areas and ways of lessening that impact.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Biggerers - Amy Lilwal (Point Blank/Oneworld Publications, 2018)
In the novel, very small people are created to become the playmates and pets of their owners told largely from te point of view of the new, small people. T
Keywords: English author; Female author

"BK Girls." - [Tamela] [Larimer] (b. 1968) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which Boko Haram has relocated to the US and is kidnapping girls for sex. The story is written from the point-of-view of one of the girls.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blackfish City - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018)
The novel is set in a climate-change dystopia in which sea level rises have forced most of the remaining world’s population to live on massive platforms in the oceans. It is presented through four main characters living on one called Qaanaaq east of Greenland and north of Iceland plus a text something like a blog that appears throughout the book. Qaanaaq is controlled by AI’s that make most of the decisions and function as a government.
An audiobook is narrated by Vikas Adam. Np: Harper Audio and Blackstone Audio, 2018.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Blackst*r" - Chris Visions (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form that gives a tour of the future music scene.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Bombs Away" - Howard Mackie (b. 1958) (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which when war breaks out none of the missiles explode and the weapons don’t work because aliens had decided to give humans a second chance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bond. A Novel - Robin Kirk (b. 1960) (Blue Crow Publishing/Goldenjay Books, 2018)
First volume of a trilogy set in a future controlled by a matriarchy that genetically engineers their children and determines their role in life at sixteen. The novel follows a girl who finds that the role chosen for her does not fit. The second volume is The Hive Queen. Chapel Hill, NC: Blue Crow Publishing/Goldenjay Books, 2020 follows a different set of characters searching for a rumored place of freedom and the troubles they experience during the search.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Bright Sarasota Where the Circus Lies Dying” - James Sallis (b. 1944) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which people are taken from their homes and placed in camps.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Bringing Down the Sky” - Alan Bao (Clarkesworld, 2018)
Environmental dystopia in which clean air is for sale.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Burn Down the House” - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A dystopia centered on the deep division between the one percent and everyone else. The majority are being burned out and killed. No education. Most poor women are prostitutes. The story focuses on one intelligent but poor girl who fights back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Burned-Over Territory” - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) (Slate, 2018)
Dystopia set in a society with a guaranteed income undermined by factionalism and bureaucracy.
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), 173-89.
Keywords: African American author; Male author; US author

“The Call of the Wold” - Holly Schofield (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
Something of a eutopia set in Canada in a future in which most people are living in intentional communities. Through the protagonist, a woman escaping the corporate world, the story explores the problems of making such a community successful.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Camping With City Boy" - Jerri Jerreat (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in a Canada that has dealt used high-tech solutions to deal with environmental damage, mostly eliminating cars, rigid rules regarding the use of materials that might damage it, and people living in connected high rises with gardens on different levels.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Can You See It Now?” - Taylor Hoffman (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a death cult is poisoning the atmosphere, and two women fight back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Caught Root" - Julia K. Patt (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in a future recovering from environmental collapse with two cities, one high-tech and one low-tech, trying to find a way to cooperate.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Census - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018)
A widowed father who is dyeing takes a job as a census taker in a dystopian country so that he can spend time travelling with his young son, who has Down syndrome. They travel across the country visiting cities in alphabetical order and meeting different people who are branded at each census.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Charles - H. W. Fitzroy (Np, 2018)
A professor and an anarchist try to respond to the dystopia that is the future United States by building a shelter for the many homeless and founding a free school. Related to and published shortly after 2018 Fitzroy, Sunshine.

“Charlie and the Aliens” - Ganzeer [pseud.] (b. 1982) (Who Will Speak for America?, 2018)
The story is about immigration and refugees on a far future Earth, and the strict rules they must follow to be accepted, even if they are human or were born on Earth and are returning after life on another planet.
Keywords: Egyptian author; Male author; US author

"Chat Room" - Nadia Shammas (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A future story in comic form about the problem of wanting to fit in and finding friends when you are different.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Chercher La Femme - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2018)
A complex novel set mostly on a spaceship travelling to a planet called La Femme that explores gender issues. There are clear dystopian elements on the starship, and whether La Femme is eutopian or dystopian is up to the reader.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Choice" - Kay Honda (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A future story in comic form in which a man tries to fashion a female AI in the way he wants her and cannot understand why she leaves him.
Keywords: Female author

"City Bones" - Richard Pulfer (Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities, 2018)
The story is set in a future Chicago where automated cars are helping reduce the pollution and ease traffic congestion, but drivers insist on still controlling their cars whatever the consequences.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City Where We Once Lived. A Novel - Eric Barnes (b. 1968) (Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse, 2018)
A climate-change dystopia set in an unnamed city, where those living in the mostly abandoned North struggle to survive. A prequel is Above the Ether. A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse, 2019 in which people escaping from the beginnings of catastrophic climate change converge on the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cold as Thunder - Jerrold W. Apps (b. 1934) (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Surveillance and climate-change dystopia in which the Eagle Party has taken over the United States, privatized all schools, closed libraries and churches, and closed all independent media.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Colonist” - Randal Heide (Colony: A One-Shot Anthology of Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set on a new planet, settled from an Earth where most species were functionally extinct. The protagonist comes to realize that he has no role on the new planet, together with the overwhelming majority of those settled there who are condemned to a meaningless life.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Completionist - Siobhan Adcock (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Dystopia in which mothers are required to give up their jobs to raise their children and must do so to rigidly enforced standards helped/supervised by “nurse completionists.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Conclusion” - Paul Cornell (b. 1967) (Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers, 2018)
The story is set in a future of constant surveillance by the Company, which is everywhere.
Originally published in audio format as an Audible original.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Congress: A Taste of Success” - Dave Kavanaugh (Nature, 2018)
The story depicts a eutopian future where a past Congress had created an artificial intelligence to run the world, which it has done successfully. There are still elections, and the story is on what happens when a woman who has been elected discovers the truth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Consumption" - K. M. McKenzie (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which the protagonist is being manipulated by artificial intelligences and cannot control her desire to purchase something.
Keywords: African Canadian author; Female author

“Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse” - [Divya Srinivasan] [Breed] (Uncanny Magazine, 2018)
The story is set in a future where abortion is illegal in Arizona and abortion providers and their supporters are liable to be shot on sight by the authorities but legal in California, and there is an underground railroad between the states that has to cross a fortified border.
Rpt. in her Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations (Gurugram, India : Hachette India, 2019), 11-26. 9789388322430
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

"The Cost of Doing Business" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2018)
The story focuses on a plan to green the United States, initially on a small scale in Flint, Michigan, and the throughout the country and the dystopian means used to achieve the eutopian end.
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), 173-211.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Crossing Over - Paul Clayton (Author, 2018)
Dystopia of the next U. S. Civil War, which is based on political beliefs. The novel depicts a couple and their daughter trying to escape to Canada.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cube. A Novel - Kelly Fumiko Weiss (Windy City Publishers, 2018)
The Cube is a game in sites around the world and that people play compulsively. The novel focuses on trying to understand the Cube and has both dystopian and eutopian elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Culture - Z - Karl Andrew Marszalowicz (Black Rose Writing, 2018)
The novel traces the history of the use of C.R.I.S.P.R. technology to create on demand the children and body parts people want with all the problems and corruption involved.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Dancers in the Dark” - Milton Callow (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Dystopia on continuing war.
Keywords: Austrian author; Male author

“Dancing East to West” - Simon Petrie; Edwina Harvey (Te Korero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning, 2018)
The story is set in Australia in a future after multiple catastrophes destroy the world’s technological civilization. The small community that the survivors have created is presented in eutopian terms, and at the end of the story contact is made by people from New Zealand travelling in an airship.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author; Male author

"Dangerous" - Lisa Mason (b. 1953) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Satire on bureaucracy in a surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Data: They’ve got your number” - Ramalho-Santos, João (Nature, 2018)
Dystopia in which everyone’s health is monitored constantly, and if they violate best-practice, they lose insurance.
Keywords: Male author; Portuguese author

"Day At the Park" - Eliot Rahal (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A brief positive future story in comic form in which a girl and a young girl who is a robot play in the park.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen” - Bhaskar Sunkara (b. 1969) (The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for a Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, 2018)
Essay in which the author compares of precarious life of an average citizen in contemporary capitalist Edison, New Jersey, with such a life in a “slightly idealized version of Sweden” where a eutopian socialist system exists. The title is taken from Michael Walzer’s “A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen: Two Cheers for Participatory Democracy.” Dissent (May-June 1968): 243-47, which focuses on the subtitle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day the Sun Changed Colors - Scott Talbot Evans ([CreateSpace], 2018)
Humorous novel that begins in a high tech eutopia in 4377 in which the sun changes colors that reflect increased radiation that will ultimately destroy the planet. The novel follows the exploits of two families trying, with the help of a robot, to build a spaceship to escape. There is a glossary that describes the way time is noted, clocks, categories of the ages of people, the sky colors, length, various sizes, volume, speed, and “infinite math.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Day the White People Walked into the Sea” - Stacy Hardy (The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2018)
Just what the title says.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

“Derisyone High-City” - Ahmet Mesut Ateş (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
The story is set in an authoritarian society in which individuals choose their name at a specific time on a specific day.
Keywords: Male author; Turkish author

“Designed for Your Safety” - Elizabeth Bourne (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
In a dystopia riddled with disease, a building controlled by an artificial intelligence locks the workers inside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dessert Heads" - Rajendra Shepherd (Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Trinidadian author

Destiny: Quest for a New World - Donald Morgan Edwards (Xlibris, 2018)
The first volume of a series in which, given the collapse of Earth’s environment and a developing authoritarianism on Earth, a successful search for a habitable planet is made and the first settlers struggle to get the colony established. A sequel is Kairos: Book Two of “Quest for a New World”. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2018, which describes the successful settlement, but new settlers with different ideas cause problems. The novel’s ending suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Detonation. A Novel - Erik A. Otto (Sagis Press, 2018)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is divided between two countries, one of which accepts and the other rejects Artificial Intelligences, which have become more intelligent and powerful than humans. 2021 Otto, Proliferation. A Novel is set in the same future.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Swiss author; US author

The Devil's Highway - Gregory Norminton (b. 1976) (4th Estate, 2018)
The novel is divided into three interrelated parts set in the same location. The first is in ancient Britain, the second in the twenty-first century, and the third section is a dystopia set 3000 years in the future. The dystopia is a barbarian, violent world in which children who are entirely on their own struggle to survive.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Diggers 2.0” - Kevin Christopher Jesse (Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities, 2018)
The story is set in a polluted city in which the rich have clean air, and the poor are left to suffer and die, and the poor, predominantly Hispanic community decide to improve their lot.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Divided Light” - Pressman, Corey S.; Clark A. Miller; Joey Eschrich (The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, 2018)
The story is set in a future climate-change dystopia in which Phoenix, Arizona, is completely under a covering that collects solar power and outside the city is a settlement where the people have modified themselves and the countryside to live without water.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America: A Novel of the Digital Revolution - Damien Lincoln Ober (Night Shade Books/Skyhorse, 2018)
An alternative history dystopia in which the internet is an integral part of the culture at the time of the American Revolution. The British take control of it, killing everyone who uploads the Articles of Confederation. An off-grid George Washington saves the day, but then disagreements develop over the centralized control of the internet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Doner" - Tabitha Sin (Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up To No Good, 2018)
A zombie story set in a climate-change dystopia in which New York city that is slowly disappearing under the ocean.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Don't Be Evil" - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2018)
Near future dystopia set in a city divided by those in employment and the “unconnected” told from the point of view of a woman who had worked her way up to a good job with guilty and feels guilty about her feelings about the unemployed, unwashed, unconnected.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Dreams of the Eternal City - Mark Reece (Troubador/Matador, 2018)
Dystopia in which, having decided that people were sleeping too much, a strict “sleep code” is established and bureaucracies set up to enforce it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dry - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962); Jarrod Shusterman (Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2018)
A climate change dystopia when the water runs out.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Early Riser - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2018)
A dystopia in which most people hibernate in towers erected for that purpose and controlled by HiberTech. A few people stay awake to protect the sleepers and others, advocates of RealSleep, try to undermine the system.
U.S. ed. [New York]: Viking, 2018
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ecoland" - Cansu Çakmak Özgürel (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
The story includes a speech by the last surviving member of a research team that brought about the great Change that produced an ecological eutopia by eliminating humans.
Keywords: Female author; Turkish author

“Elevator Dancer” - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (How Long ‘Til Black Future Month, 2018)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Elites" - Stephanie Feldman (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia depicting a family separated when one member leaves the U.S. to help a sick relative and is not allowed to return. A second theme is the competition to get children into elite schools.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The End of the Incarnation” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Who Will Speak for America?, 2018)
A depiction of the gradual dissolution of the United States ending with rights becoming universal rather than tied to citizenship.
Rpt. as “The End of the Incarnation I” through “The End of the Incarnation VII.” In her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 15, 39, 55, 95, 105, 139, 165.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

The Entity: 2147 - David A[lan] Collier (AuthorHouse, 2018)
The novel is set in a future U.S. that has been devastated by climate change and a world facing a massive immigration crisis caused by flooding. The novel, though, takes place mostly in the U.S. Midwest after an alien artifact lands on a family’s farm and is concerned with the impact on the family. The ending leaves open the possibility of a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Era" - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Friday Black, 2018)
An odd dystopia in which everyone is expected to tell the truth as they see it.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Eruptions" - [Samantha] Lynne Sargent (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
Poem describing an environmental dystopia.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/eruptions/ (February 12, 2019).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Escape from Caring Seasons” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Twelve Tomorrows, 2018)
A dystopia brought about by an artificial intelligence that controls all the residents in Caring Seasons, a senior citizens home, and whose decisions, which are aimed at benefiting the home not than the residents and cannot be overridden by anyone. The story concerns a man trying to get his wife released when the algorithm says she should stay.
Rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 110-138.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Escape Hatch" - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (2001: An Odyssey in Words: Commemorating the Centenary of Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Birth, 2018)
An entrance to an apparent eutopia appears, and the story explores the response of one woman who visited and returned.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2018. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019), 155-59.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Euphoria - Jayne Lockwood (DSP Publications, 2018)
A transgender alien appears on Earth and develops the intention of saving it from the destruction that enveloped its planet.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Evac" - Thomas Webb (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
The story is about UN troops evacuating people from an Earth-like planet that had been destroyed by the environmental policies that had been destroying Earth. Before it was too late, the people of Earth had realized what was happening had instituted the policies necessary to reverse the devastation.
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

Eve of Man - Giovanna Fletcher (b. 1985); Tom Fletcher (b. 1985) (Michael Joseph, 2018)
First volume of trilogy in which the only girl born in fifty years reaches maturity and the society has planned her future.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

“Everything I Own” - Lela Gwenn (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A post-catastrophe but positive future story in comic form in which a girl discovers seeds and plants them, later other people, including children, come, who the girl’s mother wants to chase away, but the girl wants to stay. The children ask the mother if she can read to them, and everything changes for the better.
Keywords: Female author

Everything is Known - Liza Elliott (Red Camel Press, 2018)
Dystopia in which governments have been replaced by corporations that control all access to data. People were required to be indifferent regarding public behavior. People lived in walled cities determined by their status, except for Outliers, who lived in slums. Gender discrimination with women expected to be subservient to men. The novel focuses on the resistance. Some Native American themes.
Keywords: Female author

“Excerpt from Murmur Island” - Christopher Yorke (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Brief eutopia in which shipwrecked colonists settle on an isolated island and choose the form of their new society.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

“An Excerpt from the Post-Truth and Irreconcilable Differences Commission” - Brendan C. Byrne (b. 1982) (Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions, 2018)
A journalist reports a future with a computer as President of the U. S. creating a form of fascism.
Originally published online on Imperica (April 2018), which is no longer available online
Keywords: Male author; US author

Existence Augmented - Channing Whitaker (Off Speed Press, 2018)
Climate change dystopia
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Exit Here" - Andrew Kozma (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
Environmental dystopia.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/exit-here/ (June 11, 2019).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Expiry Date" - Eamonn Murphy (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future dystopian England where healthcare has been privatized and each person is given a termination date with their life insurance expiring twenty-four hours later.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Extreme Bedding” - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Brief dystopia with terrorists everywhere.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fall of the American Republic. A Novel - James Lee (Author, 2018)
Alternative history dystopia with various factions in the U. S. fighting each other and various “enemies” around the world. The text ends with “End of Volume 1.”
Keywords: Male author

"False Alarm" - John Cooper Hamilton (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Dystopia set in the U. S. after the Resettlement Wars that had been brought about by climate change and the loss of the ability to grow crops in their traditional locations. This led to some countries importing both the crops and the people who had worked the crops.
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

"The Far Side" - Gabriella Muwanga (AfroSFv3, 2018)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia where Earth is becoming uninhabitable, and the Moon is being colonized.
Keywords: Female author; Ugandan American author

"Farewell" - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) (O/R Books, 2018)
A dystopia in which a family is being broken up and the grandmother is being deported.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Faster Tomorrow" - Damien Krsteski (he Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2018)
The story focuses on the conflict between workers on one side and politicians, corporations, and their publicists on the other over the implementation of laws benefitting the latter.
Keywords: Balkan author; German author; Male author

Fatberg and the Sinkholes: A Report on the Findings of a Journey into the United Regions of England by PostRational” - Dan Gavshon Brady; James Pockson (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Presented as a report on the United Regions of England, which has kicked London out and is establishing a eutopia based on communities and communication.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Feed. A Novel - Nick Clark Windo (Headline, 2018)
A dystopia in which everyone has an implant that gives them access to all of the world’s information and social media and communicate with each other without speech. While initially, and for most of the characters in the novel, this seems eutopia, everything collapses when the system is hacked, and no one has access to even the most basic information. Even worse, the hackers can implant a new personality in an individual.
U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 2018
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Field of Sapphires and Sunshine” - Jaymee Goh (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in the 22nd century in which the U.S. economy has collapsed, and it is cheaper for the protagonist to attend university in the U.S. than at home in Asia. The world has adapted to climate change by, among other things, abolishing airplanes, and the protagonist flies home on an airship, and, since the flight takes a week, reflects on the world situation and her place in it as a new graduate.
Keywords: Female author; Malaysian author; US author

“First Steps Outside” - Josh[ua] Gorfain (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which two people who meet online as avatars and are afraid of ever going outside choose to meet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fixable" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities, 2018)
In the future, pollution is devastating, the official position is that the air is clean, and it is illegal to report the facts.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Flight of the Storm God” - Mike Adamson (Endless Apocalypse: Short Stories, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which environmental collapse has completely devastated Earth and only 29,000 people are left, kept alive in stasis by Artificial Intelligences. It is told by the one who is periodically awakened and takes place when humans who had left Earth return.
Rpt. illus. Little Blue Marble (June 25, 2021). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/06/25/flight-of-the-storm-god/
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Floating Hospital B-44” - Tomaso Vimercati (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Dystopia about a plague and how it may be transmitted
Keywords: Italian author; Male author

“For the Sake of Snake Power” - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, 2018)
near future climate-change dystopia in which poor people in Phoenix die in the regular heat waves because the government is selling their solar power to other cities. The story is followed by the essays, Joshua Loughman, “Lessons from the Snake: Energy and Society;” and Esmerelda Parker, “Drawing from Nature: Designing a Solar Snake.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Fortress - S[arah] A. Jones (b. 1973) (Echo Publishing/Bonnier Books, 2018)
The novel is set primarily within The Fortress, a women’s city-state. Outside The Fortress, the world is much like the present, and a man living there is required by his wife, to save his marriage and atone for the sexual violence pervading his company, to live in The Fortress for a year.
U.S. ed. New York: Erewhon Books, 2020.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Free Orcs of Cascadia” - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which people in role-playing games choose to fashion their lives on the roles they play. The focus is on the conflict between the “Free Orcs” who are anarchists and the fascist Orcines. The Free Orcs live in the town of Gray Morrow located in the remains of a town in the middle of a “scorched graveyard of a Douglas fir” forest (170). They use “Dark Speech” (related to Tolkien’s “Black Speech”), are matriarchal, which is “roughly anarchist,” (the Orcine are patriarchal), and live by their version of “orcish code of honour” that stresses “interdependence between individual sovereignty and collective identity” (171). The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.
Rpt. in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 17-35.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

Free the Bear - C. D. Spensley (Author, 2018)
California, which is much more scientifically advanced than the rest of the country, secedes. The ending suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Freedom Trials - Meredith Tate (Page Street Publishing Co, 2018)
A dystopia in which selected prisoners are put through the varied tests of the Freedom Trials with the reward of freedom if they succeed and execution if they fail. The protagonist, who has had her memory of her crime erased, has made enemies among the other prisoners, some of whom want her to fail.
Keywords: Female author; Swiss author; US author

“Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling” - [Alexandra Margaret] [Dellamonica] (b. 1968) (The Magazine and Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
A complex high-tech dystopia in which individuals gain and lose social capital, which is necessary for almost everything one does, through the responses of people to their actions. The focus is on a man struggling to regain the capital he has lost. Other aspects of the society are referred to in passing, like printed food, the effects of climate change, such as the use of backyards as carbon offsets, which is likely to required in the near future, and that childless young people have left western countries, and their parents and grandparents, for jobs in Asia. The author’s novel Gamechanger. New York: Tor, 2019 is set in the same future.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 364-428, with an editor’s note on 364.
Keywords: Canadian author; Genderqueer author

“From the Shoals of Broken Cities” - Heather Osborne (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which the Earth is so damaged environmentally that the only successful society is under water where humans have been adapted to live.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Frostlands - Feffer, John (Haymarket Books, 2018)
Second volume of a series that is connected to 2016 and 2021 Feffer but telling a different story. This volume focuses on the conflict between a large corporation that has developed a treatment that greatly extends life, hoping to save the wealthiest one percent of the population and a woman, the wife of the protagonist in the first volume, who is developing a method for radically cooling the climate. An AI used by the corporation but captured and reprogrammed by the community where the woman lives also plays an important role.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fuck You Pay Me” - Francis Bass (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
The story is set in an environmentally damaged future where most people are deeply in debt, the entire safety net has disappeared, and the possibility of higher education is eroding.
. Rpt. https://reckoning.press/fuck-you-pay-me/ (April 2, 2019).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Furnace. A Graphic Novel - Prentis Rollins (Tor, 2018)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

“The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism” - Miriam A. Cherry (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
Presented as an encyclopedia entry that begins with the actual Luddite movement of the earlier nineteenth century, which, instead of being defeated, is successful. Luddite councils are established in factories, then these expand into the political real, then worldwide. The Luddite’s history of successes is then followed to the twenty-fourth century.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Future Will Be BS Free - Will[iam D.] McIntosh (b. 1962) (Dorrance Press, 2018)
The novel describes the eutopian and dystopian effects of a totally reliable lie detector that can always be carried by anyone and left on.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Fyrewall” - Stefani Cox (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in a high-tech future Los Angeles that is inside a dome that protects it from the recurrent wildfires and functions as a direct democracy with everyone able to contribute to the decision-making process.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Gaea" - Rich Douek (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which Earth has been nursed back to health only for others to arrive set to despoil it again.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Galatea in Utopia” - Nick [Nicholas] Wolven (The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a future in which all but a few people can change their gender and all bodily characteristics as often as they want and addresses the relationship issues this creates.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Generations" - Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
The story is about the settlement of Mars as the people of Earth are dying of radiation poisoning with the settlement a dystopia that replicates colonialism with Africans settled on the worst land with the worst housing a work.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“Gilbert Tong’s Life List” - Kate Heartfield (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
A climate-change based dystopia in which the country of Kiribati disappears under the ocean, and under pressure, various countries offer to accept a small number of the refugees. The story is set in Canada, which has settled 5,000 refugees in a fenced-off self-governed area, and then ignored them.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Glow" - J. S. Breukelaar (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia set in the United States after an election of an anti-immigrant president.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author; US author

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) (Tor.com, 2018)
The novel is set in 2267 and in ancient Mesopotamia. In the future, people are beginning to emerge from underground where they had escaped the widespread devastation on the environment, and they hope to restore the damage. Complications arise with the ability to travel to the past.
Keywords: Canadian author; Lesbian author

"Good Time" - Vasilis Pozios (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which technology both punishes and rehabilitates in a very short time.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Greatest Story Ever Told - Una McCormack (b. 1972) (NewCon Press, 2018)
Dystopia of a society with slavery in which some slavers escape and lead a revolt, which is defeated.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Green Man" - Teika Marija Smits (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
Environmental dystopia in which, with all the bees and other pollinating insects gone, the young poor are hired as pollinators.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-green-man/ (January 15, 2019).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Guardian" - Susan Pieters (Pulp Literature, 2018)
The story is set in a world in which everyone must wear a Guardian that limits their ability to feel emotion.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Habitat" - Christie Yant (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
Dystopia in which the response to climate-change is to move all humans into one huge building and leave nature to itself. The building is designed to replicate the culture and environment of the people, and the story examines the response of the last group of humans who had still been living outside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Handmaid’s Other Tale” - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen (b. 1939) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A poem reflecting the thoughts of a Handmaid from 1985 Atwood.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Hands We’re Given. Aces High, Jokers Wild Book 1 - O. E. Tearmann (Spine Press and Post, 2018)
A transgender love story is set in a future in a future in which the former United States has been controlled by seven corporations.
Rpt. West Peterborough, NH: Amphibian Press, [2019].
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

"Hard Mary" - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) (Lightspeed, 2018)
The story is set in a society that rejects most technology and enforces traditional gender roles. In the story, some girls find a discarded AI, manage to refurbish it, and keep it hidden for many years. Some fantasy.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 329-63, with an editor’s note on 329.
Keywords: Female author; Somali-American author

“Harmony With Nature.” - Julien Brasseur (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Very brief eutopia including both an improved environment and a different electoral system.
Keywords: Belgian author; Male author

“Harry and Marlowe and the Secret of Ahomana” - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Lightspeed Magazine, 2018)
Lost race eutopia on an isolated island set in a steampunk future that is searching for advanced technology lost when an alien spaceship crashed. The island Ahomana was visited by the aliens before it crashed and left the islanders both technology and the basis for the beliefs that helped create the eutopia. Part of a series entitled “The Aetherian Revolution” featuring the two protagonists that has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine in no. 21 (February 2012), no. 33 (February 2013), no. 45 (February 2014), no. 50. (July 2014), and no. 64 (September 2015).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hazards of Time Travel - Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) (HarperCollins, 2018)
The novel begins in an authoritarian future where any deviance or dissent from the official line is punished, where it was dangerous to be too intelligent or the wrong skin color. The novel focuses on a girl who says what she thinks and is exiled to eighty years in the past.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees” - Wendy Nikel (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in an environmental dystopia where all the trees have died, and the mechanical ones designed to replace them are degrading.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (January 31, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/01/31/the-heavenly-dreams-of-mechanical-trees/
Keywords: Female author; US author

Helen and the Go-go Ninjas - Ant Sang (b. 1970); Michael Bennett (b. 1964) (Penguin Random House, 2018)
Graphic novel set primarily in a future devastated by a virus developed in the twenty-first century that is used by a religious cult to control most of the people of the future. Ninjas of that time travel back to the past to find a way to destroy the virus and bring a young woman back with them.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“His Sweat Like Stars of the Rio Grande” - Janis Ian (b. 1951) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Future dystopia in which the U. S. has completely severed ties with Mexico, but it is still depended on the migrant laborers who have been essentially enslaved to keep producing the needed crops.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hive - A[manda] J. Betts (Pan Macmillan, 2018)
The first of two volumes with the first volume set in an underwater, religious dystopia where the people are taught that the limited space in which they live is all there is. The young, female protagonist, a beekeeper, discovers otherwise. Followed by Rogue. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pan Macmillan, 2019, in which the protagonist escapes to the surface, is discovered by people on a small island, and struggles both to learn about the world she now lives in, be accepted in it, and get a message back to her friends. The novel originated as part of the author’s doctoral dissertation entitled “Rogue: A Novel - and Wanderlust: the value of wonder for readers, writers, and The Vault: A Critical Essay.” Edith Cowan University, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2122/
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“A House by the Sea” - P. H. Lee (Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!, 2018)
The story is about the lives of the children from Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child.
Keywords: Transgender author

“HR Confidential” - Sim Bajwa (Shoreline of Infinity, 2018)
The dystopian story is told through exchanges between an employee and a human relations officer, with the employee complaining that the workers are being forced to work around the clock, and the HR person fobbing her off.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“I, Lilli Man” - Rahad Abir (Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2018)
Dystopia in which the Lilliputians of Defoe’s Gulliver’s Travels are rediscovered and used for food.
Keywords: Bangladeshi author; Male author

“In a Bar by the Ocean, a World Waits” - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
A dystopia in which the environment is so damaged that life on Earth is coming to an end.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"In the Background" - Barbara Krasnoff (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set in a dystopian future where social norms are being reversed, limiting freedom, and stigmatizing individuals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“In the Event of Famine” - Salvatore Difalco (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Satirical story about an eatable house intended to provide for any future famine.
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; Male author; Sicilian author

"In the Zone" - Brandon Butler (Sanctuary: An Experimental Anthology of Speculative Fiction, 2018)
A dystopia in which those privileged to live in the “Zone,” a wealthy enclave, must keep their phones by which they are continuously monitored constantly up-to-date or be expelled.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Individutopia - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) ([Rebel Books], 2018)
As a result of Margaret Thatcher’s statement that “There is no society,” a dystopia of extreme individuality: “PRIVATISATION,” “COMPETITION REPLACED COOPERATION,” “PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS DISAPPEARED,” “MENTAL ILLNESS BECAME ENDEMIC" (19).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Inhuman Race - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992) (Harper Collins India, 2018)
An alternative history dystopia set in Ceylon in a world where the British Empire still exists, China is ruled by an emperor, and humans and bots are in conflict. First volume of a series.
Keywords: Male author; Sri Lankan author

Insatiable Desires - Zoë Robertson; Jesse Life (Roseway Publishing/Fernwood Publishing, 2018)
Near future dystopia in which workers have been replaced by automation and most of the safety net has been eliminated.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

"Intervention" - Kelly Robson (b. 1967) (Infinity’s End, 2018)
The story is set in a high-tech future where children are raised in creches, with the job of caring for them in some cases a low status, low wage job. The story is told from the point of view of a woman who chooses the job and is rejected by her friends on Luna and chooses to leave to raise children in a space habitat.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 29-50, with an editor’s note on 29; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 141-65; and in her Alias Space and Other Stories. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2021), 77-109 with “Notes about ‘Intervention’” on 110.
Keywords: Canadian author; Lesbian author

"The Inventor's Daughter" - Lucia Fasano (b. 1993) (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A future story in comic form in which a woman who invented carbon capture is imprisoned by those in power. In the story, years later when the Earth is flooded, her daughter frees her.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Isn’t Life Great?” - Don[ald Eugene] D’Ammassa (b. 1946) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is losing a war with China, there are shortages of everything, and the U.S. is deeply divided among factions so that it is unsafe to leave one’s neighborhood.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“It Looked Like Our Dreams” - Maria Frölich (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a future is imagined where a small enclave embedded in nature and with advanced technology is surrounded by devastation.
Keywords: Female author; Norwegian author

"January 2018" - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A response to the invitation to contribute to this volume written as from a dystopia in which all Jews are number and in camps and all correspondence is censured
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Just Like Heaven" - Matt Miner (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which the Earth has recovered, but there is still a need to struggle against those who would go back to the old ways.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Knitting Day” - Jen Winter (Mother of Invention, 2018)
The story is set in a patriarchal dystopia in which women, and poor women in particular, are disparaged and end up working in the local factory building robots. The protagonist is one such woman, who had excelled in school but was expelled because, it was assumed, she cheated. In the factory some women form a support community that brings about some changes.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (Dark Horse Comics, 2018)
Graphic novel satire on immigration with aliens from space landing in Nigeria and providing the country with the technology to radically improve life, while also mixing their DNA with human DNA. The novel depicts opposition to the aliens as immigrants, particularly in the United States.
Collects issues 1 - 4 of LaGuardia from Berger Books, 2018-2019
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Leaving" - Monique Cuillerier (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
Climate-change dystopia in which eastern and lakefront Canada is under water. In the story a woman struggles over deciding to leave her hometown, which is completely submerged, for one of Human colonies in space. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Left to Take the Lead” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2018)
The story is set on an Earth with a badly damaged environment, with the protagonist an indentured laborer from a space colony. One of her “Oort Cloud” stories. Other stories in the series include “Points of Origin.” Illus. Keith Negley. Tor.com (November 34, 2015). https://www.tor.com/2015/11/04/points-of-origin-marissa-lingen/.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Levellers" - Deji Bryce Olukotun (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in in a future where the countryside is dominated by radical environmentalists who take the land of even those who are running sustainable farms if they disapprove of the person.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; US author

“Life Is a Devil’s Bargain” - Justin Zimmerman (b. 1977) (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form about the dan8er of experimenting with DNA.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Liquid Reign - Tim Reutemann (b. 1982) (Author, 2018)
A future with both eutopian and dystopian elements. People vote constantly on all sorts of issues. No nations, although there is still regional and national identity. Limit on private wealth. Most of the seventy-two short chapters end with web addresses for additional information.
Keywords: German author; Male author

“Little Grey Weirdos” - Anna Ziegelhof (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2018)
Post-apocalyptic story set in California in which three individuals trying to escape from the dangerous cities and hoping to find a rich uncle’s bunker come across two people who have found a way to life. It is told by one woman from each side.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Livewire" - Ayame Whitfield (Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2018)
The story is set in a future society with deep rich/poor divisions. Its focus is on whether “bots” have developed with emotions, with people destroying those they think have.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

"Logistics" - A. J. Fitzwater (Clarkesworld, 2018)
Post-apocalyptic (pandemic) dystopia told by an immune survivor wandering south across Europe.
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), 30-43.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Transgender author

“Longing for Earth” - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) (Infinity’s End, 2018)
The story is set in what appears to be a eutopian future in which Earth has been restored after most people have left to live on one of the many worlds created to reproduce different environments, but then choosing to live as their younger selves in virtual reality. The protagonist is a man who had hoped to win the lottery that allowed people to immigrate to Earth but, after retiring, while waiting, visited these worlds. At the time of the story, he is well over 300 and visiting his thousandth world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Loser" - Matthew Hughes (b. 1949) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A dystopia in which a man has been imprisoned for writing in opposition to the policies of the Trump administration and is manipulated into betraying his friends.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

M Archive: After the End of the World - Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Duke University Press, 2018)
A complex work that explores Black life after an undescribed catastrophe through stories and poems that explore Black feminism and its ramifications with both positive and negative outcomes. The second volume of a planned tryptic following the non-utopian Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. See also her 2015 “Evidence.”
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Mankind - Robert O'Hara (2018)
Dystopia of a world without women. See The New York Times “Arts & Leisure” (December 24, 2017): 4-5 for an interview with the author/director, and Jesse Green, “In the Future, Men Still Ruin Everything.” The New York Times (January 9, 2018): C2 for a review of the play.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Marsh of Camarina” - Matthew Kressel (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
The story is set in a near-future dystopia in which AI’s have replaced most jobs, and humans are forming sustainable villages in northern Canada.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Measurements of Decay - K. K. Edin (b. 1993) (Metempsy Publications, 2018)
The novel is set in a future in which most people have a brain implant that induces visions but can also be weaponized. The novel has many subthemes, including a time travelling girl who provides glimpses of various pasts and futures.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Meet Me at the State Sponsored Movie Night” - Tiffany E. Wilson (Resist Fascism, 2018)
Authoritarian dystopia constantly patrolled by the Freedom Enforcers. All schools have been closed, and all entertainment is state sponsored.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Meg’s Last Bout of Genetic Engineering” - Santiago Belluco (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set on Mars and the Republic of Texas, which is trying to keep out any genetic engineering.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Male author; Swiss author; US author

"Memory Hacker" - J. T. Lawrence (2054: A Collection of Novellas, 2018)
A dystopia in which a woman discovers that her memory of her children has been removed and that those children had been taken to be repurposed as weapons.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

“The Men Will Be Hungry Afterwards” - Ray Vukcevich (b. 1946) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which a young girl’s tweet mildly insulting the President brings the President’s Patriotic Police to town.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Million - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Tor.com, 2018)
The novel is set on a future Earth that once every thirty years is visited by ten billion visitors for a big party. In between times, Earth is controlled by the Million, who have access to all of Earth’s wealth.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Ministry of Truth Handbook: Excerpt on the Strategic Use of Fallacious Reasoning for Thoughtcrime Prevention” - Elizabeth Rard (1984 and Philosophy: Is Resistance Futile?, 2018)
Pretty much what the title says: lessons on how to manipulate people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Minnesota Diet" - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Slate, 2018)
Satire on the failure of high-tech systems.
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), 225-39.
Keywords: Male author; Transgender author; US author

“The Miracle Lambs of Minane” - Finbarr O'Reilly (Clarkesworld, 2018)
A future Ireland in a world devasted by climate change. Famine; low birth rate. Power held by the church which insists that people need to produce more children. The story focuses on a woman who had been a scientist when there still universities who uses her knowledge to grow better food and provide access to abortions. the author connects it to his “The Last Boat-Builder of Ballyvoloon.” Clarkesworld, no. 133 (October 2017). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/oreilly_10_17/ which explains why there is no fishing in the future Ireland.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2018. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019), 23-41.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"A Modern Ecotopia" - Heather Alberro (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Brief but fairly detailed communal anarchist eutopia with an emphasis on the environment and comparisons to the current situation. The protagonist is a woman journalist being given a tour of Anakai, with her tour guide giving her a very detailed description. Anakai is composed of “federations of autonomous, self-sufficient, yet interconnected eco-communities of around 500 inhabitants each” (103). “All children . . .are taught from early childhood the basic principles of ecology, how to live sustainably, the unique characteristics of the wonderful animal life with which we share our planet, and how the grand and complex earth systems that support life function" (104).
Keywords: English author; Female author

Moon of the Crusted Snow. A Novel - Waubgeshig Rice (ECW Press, 2018)
A post-catastrophe novel (loss of all power sources) as it affects a small First Nations settlement as they deal first with their own loss of power and then with the people fleeing cities. The focus of the novel is on those who are most in tune with the traditional ways and how these help them survive, and at the end of the novel, choose to leave to live completely as their ancestors had.
Keywords: Canadian author; First Nations author; Male author

“More Sea Than Tar” - Osahon Ize-Iyamu (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
The dystopia of the struggle for survival in a flooded, polluted world.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/more-sea-than-tar/ (February 26, 2019).
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"Mother of Invention" - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (Slate, 2018)
Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel.
Rpt., without the response, 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), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33.
Keywords: African American author; Female author; US author

#MurderTrending - Gretchen McNeil (b. 1975) (Freeform Press, 2018)
Young adult dystopia in which criminals are publicly executive on television; and an innocent young woman gets caught in the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"My Utopian Island" - Emilie Vienne (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Brief eutopia of a pollution-free eutopia that does not use money and functions based on voluntary service
Keywords: Belgian author; Female author