"Shit City" - J. Scott Coatsworth (Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet, 2022)
The story takes place in a future devastated by climate change with extreme storms flooding or otherwise destroying most of the West Coast of the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Sidereal” - E. G. Condé (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
Part of what the author calls Taínofuturism that “depicts a liberatory future of indigenous renewal for the people of Puerto Rico (Borikén) in the archipelagos of the Caribbean and beyond” (56). This story is set after a failed attempt to deal with climate change makes things worse and after the United States loses a war with China, Borikén is then abandoned by the Chinese, the few remaining indigenous inhabitants create a livable habitat in the ruins.
Keywords: Male author; Puerto Rican author

Song of Kitaba - Mark Everglade (All Things That Matter Press, 2022)
Two dystopias, one in which anyone caught writing is executed and one in which everyone’s thoughts are displayed on billboards.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Song of Less - [Megan] Joyce Fleming (b. 1984) (Cordite Books, 2022)
A collection of poems all of which respond to the current destruction of the environment, particularly animals, birds, and plants, as told by them.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Bermudan author; Female author; US author

“Spectacular View” - Graham Sun (b. 1977) (If There’s Anyone Left. A Speculative Fiction Magazine. Volume 3., 2022)
Climate change dystopia from the point-of-view of an AI Building Superintendent trying to create a real estate listing for the one inhabitable unit in a seafront high rise.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Subscription Life” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Dreams for a Better Worlds: Book Two in the Dreams Anthology Series, 2022)
A dystopia in which in order to earn enough to live on people “subscribe” to a company and then wear its clothes, eat its foods, work in its stores, and so forth while being constantly filmed. The story concerns one woman who happily signs up only to learn how the system actually functions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Sucker Hole" - Wendy Waring (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The background to the story is a long-lasting drought in the U.S. and limited water in Canada, which, with strict prohibition of immigration from the U.S., is the setting of the story. The story also reflects the continuation of class disparities.

“Sunny Days” - Jasper Wyld (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set in a future badly impacted by climate change. The protagonist lives in a two bedroom apartment that has been divided into six apartments and, like most people, has to monitor every minute of their electricity use who meets a wealthy woman living in a part of the city where none of the rules seem to apply. Australian author who uses the pronouns they and them and is a descendent of the Martu People of Western Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Survive the Dome - Kosoko Jackson (Sourcebooks Fire, 2022)
Baltimore responds to a rally against police brutality by enclosing the entire city in a dome and establishing a military-style discipline The novel focuses on the resistance.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Sweep of Stars - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2022)
First volume of the Astra Black trilogy. In this volume the Muungano (Togetherness in Swahili) empire has separated from Old Earth and its wars to establish a better future for their people. But Old Earth does not want to lose its power over them. There is a Glossary on pp. 345-348. See 2020 Broaddus for a story set in the same future.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author

The Temps - Andrew DeYoung (Keylight Books/Turner Publishing Co., 2022)
Apocalyptic dystopia in which a group of temps (temporary workers) are the only survivors of poison gas in a huge office complex. They create a new society for themselves and then must deal with what they discover about their world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“On This Day, and All Days, I Think About What I Have Lost” - Dana Vickerson (Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2022)
The story follows the reflections of a woman from the day her son was born in California, and then, after her family moves to Texas, on his subsequent second, fifth, eighth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and twenty-first birthdays, as the United States becomes more and more repressive.
Rpt. in Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2023), 10-16, with a note on the author on 17.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“This Is Our Manifesto” - Mark Oshiro (Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which the rich and powerful promise a safe planet by sending all, even the most minor, offenders off-planet to work to produce goods for those remaining on Earth.
Keywords: Latinx author; Queer author; US author

“Tidy Town: Keeping Track of Trash” - Angela Hessler (Nature, 2022)
Pretty much what the subtitle says. The story is set in a future here every bit of trash is kept track of and the person responsible identified.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Tillandsia” - Kallo, Josie (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The setting of the story is conflict between the green, free collectivists and the authoritarian fascists who depend on fossil fuels.
Keywords: Queer author; Transgender author; US author

To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara (b. 1974) (2022)
The novel is set in the same townhouse at 13 Washington Square North in New York City in 1893, 1993, and 2093 with protagonist from the same family. 2093 has experienced a series of pandemics and the United States is now a fascist state
Keywords: Female author; US author

“To Revolt is to be Undone” - Sid Jain (GigaNotoSaurus, 2022)
The story is set in a future authoritarian dystopia that is exploiting the islands being flooded due to climate change to benefit the already wealthy.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

“Transmissions from the Vitality Pod” - Dan Coxon (Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions, 2022)
A brief depiction of an Earth so polluted that it is divided between those who live and work inside as much as possible, are constantly remotely monitored and treated, and venture outside, where others live short lives, only in a completely sealed hazmat suit.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Trials - Dawn KIng (2022)
The play takes place in a near future badly impacted by climate change in which three people from the previous generation is being put on trial in a trial in which children are the jurors. It premiered, with different casts, at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany, January 15, 2022 and at the Donmar Warehouse, London, August 12, 2022. See also 2011 King, Foxfinder, her rave Dystopia387 (https://www.dawn-king.com/#dystopia987), and her adaption of Brave New World (https://www.dawn-king.com/#brave-new-world).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Two People" - Moreno, Gus (Terraform Watch Worlds Burn, 2022)
An elderly woman tells the story of her and her partner’s life together and reflects upon the world they live in where the fundamental principle is that the individual “cannot be trusted” and must be “protected from yourself” (276). The main innovation is the 3.0 Act that “requires every American male to undergo a vasectomy the year of his tenth birthday. The only way to get the vasectomy reversed is to graduate from high school with at least a 3.0 grade point average” (272). Technology is used to “objectively” make decisions about many aspects of life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)” - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine,, 2022)
In the story a man living in a hierarchically structured dome is outside planning to cut down the last remaining tree in “what used to be called Afrika.” Selling the wood will enable to retire and move up one level in the dome and live with the Elite. 2022 Wood “The White Necked Ravens of Camissa” is a sequel.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; Zambian author

“Upside Down Frown” - Jarred Thompson (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2022)
The story is set in a future that has overcome the climate crisis  where, under the Department of Happiness, everyone is being given a “social cohesion electroceutical,” a cranial implant that monitors the neural network and alters it to avoid distress before it occurs. Also, each decade the Department provides every citizen with a “life report” with details of how they should act “to reach and maintain their happiness” (84). The protagonist works in the Museum of Affect that depicts the past at a time that the Department has decided to eliminate it because the past contains “too much emotional baggage” (87). She puts on a final exhibit on the History of Happiness that presents happiness as based on exclusion, the creation of an Other.
Keywords: Male author; Queer author; South African author

Visco - David Fell (Habitat Press, 2022)
Detailed eutopia that develops on an island in the Thames after people refuse to leave a festival. About half the book concerns the buildup to the festival and the festival. The rest covers the emergence of Care City based on a Declaration of Care, which then becomes Visco, the strong opposition to it brought by property developers, and the success of Visco, although not without problems and the fact that the property developers have not given up. The “guiding mantra” of Care City is “Those who can, walk; those who can’t, we carry” (137).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Walk the Vanished Earth - Erin Swan (b. 1975) (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2022)
Family history from 1873 to 2073 with stops in 1975 and 2027. In 2027 New Orleans in under water and the future family members live in a city floating above it. In 2073, Earth is only a memory and the remaining family members live on Mars and the young woman must decide whether the family line will continue.
Keywords: Female author; US author

We Built This City” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Clarkesworld, 2022)
A refugee dystopia. The story is set in a city built in space around Earth that has attracted refugees from corporation owned space stations that had been exploiting them and are trying to get them expelled so that they can be re-enslaved by the corporations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"What Is a Penguin?" - S. J. C. Schreiber (Little Blue Marble, 2022)
The story is set on a cruise ship arriving in Greenland from Denmark, with the family are traveling to recreate the trip the grandfather made where he met his wife. In Denmark, due to the heat, the family lives underground. Overpopulation means a one-child policy. Greenland now has flamingoes, parrots, and fruit trees.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 22-25 with a note on the author on 25.
Keywords: Female author; Icelandic author

“The White Necked Ravens of Camissa” - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2022)
Sequel to of 2022 Wood “The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)” in which the protagonist struggles with his past in concert with friends who are trying to destroy the dome described in the first story.
Keywords: African author; English author; Male author; South African author

"Wild Plums" - Molly Tanzer (b. 1981) (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set after the United States has fallen apart and has formed NACE with Canada and Mexico. After multiple disasters most of the population live in domed SPHRE’s (Solar-Powered Habitat and Replacement Environment’s) that are compulsively managed so that everything occurs on a programmed basis, goods are traded with other SPHRE’s in predictable amounts on predictable days. “No one could profit off what was necessary for life” (52). All young people required to attend “NACE-mandated Social Responsibility and Conflict Resolution classes” (55). The protagonist, a young married woman, leaves her SPHRE to search for the wild plums of the title, at which point the story takes an unexpected turn.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Women Could Fly. A Novel - Megan Giddings (Amistad/HarperCollins, 2022)
The novel is set in a world where women are severely restricted on the basis that any woman over 30 who is not married is a witch and witch burnings are common and state sanctioned. Unmarried women cannot get a credit card without a male cosigner. Tax credits for arranged marriages. The society is also generally anti-gay, trans, and Black.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

X. A Novel - Davey Davis (Catapult, 2022)
Dystopia set in a near future where fascism has taken hold in the United States and more and more people are being “exported” by the government. That situation is the background to the protagonist’s search for X, a woman they met at a sadomasochistic party.
Keywords: Non-binary author; US author

"Yellow" - B[rittany] Pladek (Slate Future Tense, 2022)
The story is set in a future United States that is no longer united but replaced by corporations. Lakes United is the Great Lakes area with competing consortia selling water to the West. Within that setting the story concerns an app SafeT that constantly evaluates an individuals health, the safety of their location, their route home, and so forth, rating each with a single number. A responding essay, “Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“Acts of Defiance” - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon, 2021)
The story is set on one of the islands of Orkney, Scotland, where the protagonist had moved to distance himself from the current regime that destroys books that meet its disapproval and kills dissidents. Having destroyed all philosophy books, it is now coming for his favorite novels.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

After the End - Scher, Joshua A. (Aethon Books, 2021)
Survivalist dystopia. A film was made by Shout!™ Factory and is available on DVD.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the End - Joshua V. Scher (Aetheon Books, 2021)
Survivalist dystopia. A film was made by Shout!™ Factory and is available on DVD.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Afterglow" - Lindsey Brodeck (b. 1995) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future where people who can afford to or can get a labor contract are leaving Earth. The point-of-view character is a woman who does not want to leave whose partner has a contract for both of them. Following odd clues, she discovers a movement called the Keepers who are rewilding the planet as well as inner city gardening, beekeeping, and other projects to heal Earth. One of them is the need for a change in language to eliminate the distinction between humans and the natural world. The story was awarded first prize in the climate fiction contest. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“All Us Ghosts” - B[rittany] Pladek (Strange Horizons, 2021)
The story is set in a future affected by a continuing pandemic in which many people live their lives entirely online, including in virtual reality. The protagonist is hired by parents to create friends, a community, a life for their children through their university years.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Antonia and the Stranger Who Came to Rancho Los Feliz” - Lisa Morton (b. 1958) (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
Alternative history set in the early 19th century in Alta California, a free (no slavery or discrimination) country between the United States and Mexico that has a flourishing agricultural economy. The story concerns a man who suddenly appears, serious hurt, who comes through a portal from a different, future Los Angeles experiencing can unlivable environment and extreme violence.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Apocalypse Cancelled - Luke Melia (Dreamscape Books, 2021)
The work follows what happens after it is announced that an asteroid will hit and destroy Earth and then what happens when it misses Earth. It includes many stories, some co-authored, by the creator and editor as well as stories by other contributors.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Apology" - M. Shaw (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set in a near future capitalist dystopia.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Arfabad” - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction  Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Northern Ireland author

“Arisudan” - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) (Mithila Review, 2021)
A complex story told from the viewpoint of an Indian man as a grows up in a future India being destroyed by floods and earthquakes combined with an irresponsible corporation that is using its power to make everything worse. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Northern Ireland author

“The Arrival of the New World” - Premee Mohamed (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
The story takes place in Guyana where a Canadian journalist of Guyanese ancestry is investigating the disappearance of a group of eco-tourists by replicating their trip with photographers and guides. Much commentary on the contemporary world, which is controlled by about seven corporations and everyone and everything is heavily surveilled, including every path that they will follow.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Automata Albatross” - Robin Happel (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a future where most people are now living on artificial islands. The United States is a dictatorship that denies the reality.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Baartman" - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021)
The story is set in South Africa in a future where corporations have  destroyed the environment while pretending to be green. A movement of Africans, led by Saartjie Baartman, has been destroying all such corporations in southern Africa and has reached the last holdout on the south coast. Sara Baartman (c. 1789-1815) was the “Hottentot Venus” exhibited in freak shows in Europe.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; Zambian author

“Biryani Bagh” - Sami Ahmad Khan (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
The story moves through different points in time, past present, and future, exploring ethnic/gender/racial relations in India from different points of view.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

"Blood Oil" - Rebecca “Reb” Joy Spring (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The brief story told from the point of view of a teenage girl is about an oil pipeline leaking into a creek and how environmental action can improve lives.
Rpt. Illus. João Queiroz. Solarpunk Magazine, no. 2 (March/April 2022): 74-76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blood Ties" - Jade Wilburn (b. 1994) (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2021)
The story centers on whites evicting a black family from land that had belonged to them for generations.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Blue Mar - Francesca G. Varela (Owl House Books/Homebound Publications, 2021)
Climate change dystopia. Blue Mar is an island resort created from collecting plastic from the office and fusing it together. Some phrases in the novel are in Spanish, and the action of the novel is set in the United States, El Salvador, and on Blue Mar.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2021)
The story is set in the area that used to be Florida and the islands of the Caribbean, most of which is now under water. The protagonist is a young woman living in one of the communities on rafts that scavenge for anything useable or that can be repurposed.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 110-135; and in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022. Ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis (Np: Caezik SF & Fantasy in partnership with O.D. Ekpeki Presents, 2023), 51-76.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

"A Burden Eased" - This Strange Dreamer [pseud.] (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set in a future where there is no public health care, the ills of aging are untreated, and family can sell their aging relatives last minutes to social media.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Burning Nose" - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) (Utopia in Trouble, 2021)
Humorous story in which two brothers are rushing in search of utopia on a train fueled by the growth on Pinocchio’s nose.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

“The Case of the Turned Tide” - Savitri [Putu] Horrigan (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future Indonesia that has comprehensively responded to climate change. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights” - B. G. Alder (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is told from the point of view of an individual on a break with a friend from working for eighteen weeks in a space station combing through algorithms that generate jokes. The break is for four days in BLAM!, The City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights where everything is artificial and most people simply spend their break getting wasted. Instead, they look for something natural.
Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 29 ( December 2021) : 84-94.
Keywords: Genderqueer author; US author

“City Starlight and the Cemetery” - Katrina Eilander (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is told in two parts, both set in a future mid-twenty-first century that is recovering from environmental devastation, with the first about a celebration of nature and the second concerned with the re-establishment of forests.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Cloak" - Ubong Johnson (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which whites are using Africans as experimental animals and is told from the point of view of an African who will gain his freedom by providing six young women for further experiments.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"The Cloud Weaver's Song" - [Kenneth James] [Howe] (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future Eritrea, where “the Great Drying” has turned much of the country into a desert, and one ethnic group, the Afar, have built immense towers where they collect mist to provide water. The story focuses on a young woman who tries to convince her elders that the Great Drying is ending, and it is time to return to the land. The story was awarded the third prize in the climate fiction contest. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coldness of Objects - Panayotis Cacoyannis (Np, 2021)
The novel is set in London in 2030 and is told by an aging gay man. After a pandemic that ends in 2024, the Government Party is elected on a program of complete control and constant surveillance. Much of the novel traces the man’s life and loves until he is chosen for Museum Service, where he will be encased in a plastic case where party members will be able to see him go through his daily routine.
Keywords: Cypriot author; English author; Male author

The Council of Animals - Nick [Robert Nicholas] McDonell (b. 1984) (2021)
Given the disastrous climate change brought about by humans, wild animals hold a council to decide what to do about them.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Crossing" - Kalsang Yangzom (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
Refugee dystopia in which Tibetans try to avoid being inoculated with a drug that will eliminate the beliefs.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"Curing" - Kristien Potgieter (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021)
The story is set in a future South Africa experiencing long term drought where cacti are grown for their water, which is sold to the cities. Some hopeful signs of change.
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

Cyclopedia Exotica - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2021)
Graphic novel depicting a growing community of Cyclops living in the contemporary world that depicts the experiences of minorities and immigrants.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; US author

"Data Migration" - Melanie Harding-Shaw (Strange Horizons, 2021)
Climate-change story as it impacts the life of a child. Land disappears and refugees arrive. What and how much people eat, the clothes they wear, and myriad other things are gradually changing, and the scope of life is diminishing.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“A Day in the Life of Anmar 20X1” - Abdulla Moaswes (Strange Horizons, 2021)
A day in the life of a future President of the Palestinian Authority who has no interest in the lives of the averag.
Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-a-day-in-the-life-on-anmar-20x1/
Keywords: Male author; Palestinian author

Deep Shade - [Geoffrey S.] [Bok] (Montage Press, 2021)
In near future Florida, the eco-system has collapsed, and the protagonist is fighting a Genetically Modified fiberweed that is taking over.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Deer, Tiger, and Witch” - Kate V. Bui (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future Vietnam when the agricultural system has been destroyed by pollution.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; Vietnamese-American author

“The Difference Between Me and You” - Courttia Newland (b. 1973) (Cosmogramma, 2021)
The story is set in a future London in which a wall is being built to divide the city between the rich, white citizens and everyone else.
U.S. ed. (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2021), 249-59.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dreamland - Rankin-Gee, Rosa (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2021)
The novel is set in near future dystopian England in which Government policies to advantage the already advantaged are even more clear cut, to the extent of building walls around to exclude the less well off. The novel explores a wide range of issues and problems in contemporary England. The book includes an Author’s Note (451-457) that discusses some of the issues raised in the novel and “Sources for Author’s Note” (459-463).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Drumming Song" - Ashley Bao (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The story is set on an island in the Indian ocean that has become popular with tourists, with crops grown to feed them and send to the mainland rather than to feed the indigenous inhabitants and damaging the environment. In the story, a little girl talks to the land and seas with her drum and is taught how to begin to reverse the damage.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Dust" - Kwasi Adi-Dako (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021)
Climate change story set in a future Ghana when the rains stopped. In the story an old man who stayed in his village is being interviewed by a young man from the city and reminds the young man of how hard life had always been for people in the countryside.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

“Each Cool Silver Orb a Gift” - Nicole Rosevear (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which women chosen by lottery rule men and a population of thirds or those in-between gender who are demanding that they be recognized as equals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“El, the Plastotrophs, and Me” - Tehnuka Ilanko (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future Aotearoa that is recovering from the impact of climate change stressing the continuing problems and the way small communities are responding. One theme is the integration of a tauwi woman (other people in Māori), like the author, into the culture, which is predominantly Māori. Māori is frequently used in the text. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The End of Men - Christina [Rose] Sweeney-Baird (b. 1993) (Penguin Random House/G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2021)
A pandemic novel set in the near future, with part located in the Independent Republic of Scotland, about the impact of a disease that, while carried by both men and women, only kills men, except for the few who are immune. The novel, which is told in multiple voices, depicts the trauma, the desperate search for a vaccine, and the growth of a successful world run by women. The focus is on the West, but one thread concerns China, which breaks apart immediately followed by a civil war that is resolved by the end of the novel. Other parts of the world are briefly mentioned, with all contact lost with much of the Middle East.
UK ed. London: HarperCollins UK/The Borough Press, 2021.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

"The Enders" - Maria S. Picone (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The story depicts the deliberate undermining of an Asian culture and society by the U.S. military.
Keywords: Female author; Korean American author

The Every - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) (McSweeney's, 2021)
Sequel to 2013 Eggers in which the Circle has become the Every, which controls even more of the lives of their employees that the Circle and is encroaching further of the lives of everyone. The novel focuses on a woman who sets out to destroy the Every.
Rpt. New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2021. 577 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Exiled Together: Faces of Contemporary New York” - Marcus M. Tyler (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
New York after the Warming and the flooding told from the perspective of some of the remaining inhabitants.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fancy" - Diana Burbano (Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, 2021)
The story concerns women fighting back against a patriarchal theocracy.
Keywords: Columbian author; Female author; US author

"Farmers" - Arlen Feldman (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The impact of climate change on farmers in Bangladesh and South Dakota in 2033, 2038, and 2043. Fairly optimistic.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Femlandia - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2021)
In 2022 the U.S. economy completely collapses, and when a man leaves his wife and child with nothing, the woman chooses to join Femlandia, a “womyn’s commune” founded by her mother, which the daughter loves but the woman regards warily. The novel follows their experiences in the community, which ultimately changes its name to Landia to the death of the daughter at 103 in 2098.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Fisherwoman" - Charter, Philip (Loft (London), 2021)
The story is set in a biodome that contains some of the last remaining plants and animals on Earth and one of the few places with fresh air. In this future most land has disappeared leaving disconnected islands. The Federation appears to be in complete control and assigns occupations and “home stories” to the remaining humans. The story won the Loft Books Short Story Contest.
‎Rpt. in his The Fisherwoman and Other Stories (Np: Author, 2021), 1-8; illus. in Little Blue Marble (February 11, 2022). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/02/11/the-fisherwoman/; and without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 29-37, with a note on the author on 37.
Keywords: Male author; Spanish author; UK author

“A Flock for the Sandhill Crane” - Roman Sanchez (Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, 2021)
The story is divided between San Antonio in 1931 and in 2231. The former reflects the extreme poverty of a Mexican American family. In the latter, the world has experienced a nuclear war and, under the United Nations, has established a world-wide cooperative economy. But a space program has been developed through cooperation between remaining tech companies and the UN to exploit the resources of space that is actually used to wealthy whites to the Moon and then further. Elements of Magical Realism.
Keywords: Latinx author; Male author; US author

Flood City - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) (Scholastic Press, 2021)
Young adult dystopia set in Flood City, the last inhabitable space on Earth that is the focus for a struggle between those, known as the Chemical Barons, who once controlled Earth and now life in spaceships above Earth, and the Star Guard, which current controls Flood City. The protagonists are young people who simply want to get on with their lives.
Keywords: Latino author; Male author; US author

"From the Air" - Wamuwi Mbao (The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2021)
The story is set in a future post-apocalyptic South Africa with little water and the seas retreating. The government has established containment zones that it is redeveloping for acceptable people, and the story focuses on an experiment that is supposed to be a means of finding water but is designed for an entirely different purpose.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

The Future Library - Peng Shepherd (Tor.com, 2021)
Magic realist story based on an actual project of that name created in 2114 in Norway by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson (b. 1981) in which one hundred authors write stories that will be printed in 100 years on paper that is made from a tree planted in 2114; see https://www.futurelibrary.no/ In the story, as the last trees in the world disappear due to continued logging, fire, storms, and pollution, the government of Norway destroys the last of the forest.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 299-326.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Future School” - Liz Liu (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
Very high-tech school of the future that is also child-centered and good for the environment. The story was a winner in the children’s category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.
Keywords: Female author; Taiwanese author

“Gabby’s First Kiss” - Joe Tankersley (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set on the Florida coast in a community that has moved to higher ground and been designed for resilience told from the viewpoint of two teenagers going about their daily like.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Garbo on the Skids” - A. G Lombardo (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
The Skids are an area of downtown Los Angeles that has been walled off to contain the poor, homeless, addicts, and petty criminals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Ghost Birds” - Karen Russell (b. 1981) (The New Yorker, 2021)
Climate change dystopia with elements of magic realism. All birds have died, people live in sealed houses and, the air being toxic, must wear complete protective gear if leaving the house. Sightings of “ghost birds” leads the protagonist to join the Paranormal Birding Society, and he takes his teenage daughter birding.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Glue Guns in Paradise” - Scott Talbot Evans (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The satirical story depicts the Prevention Force, which has replaced the police dealing with a man having a psychotic episode. The satire points at both the problems of the current police and the over-reach of the future approach.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Governor’s Daughter. Book One of Daughters of the New American Revolution - Maria Dampmann (Likinpoodle Press, 2021)
The first volume of a series. The novel takes place in a future in which under a white nationalist government women must follow the prescribed Purity Protocols. The protagonist is the daughter of the powerful governor and regularly breaks the rules. Outside the walls of Premier City she finds that most people live a life of poverty, disease, and police violence. The second volume is The Prodigal Daughter. Book Two of Daughters of the New American Revolution. Round Hill, VA: Likinpoodle Press, 2022. 469 pp. It is a typical middle volume where everything gets worse and ends with To Be Continued. Both volumes end with the author’s comments on the way the novels reflect the current situation in the U.S.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Governor’s Daughter. Daughters of the New American Revolution Book One - Maria Ereni Dampman (Lickenpoodle Press, 2021)
The novel is set in a religious, white nationalist patriarchy in which most people live in poverty while a favored few live in a walled city. The point-of-view character, the daughter Governor, discovers the world outside the city. The second volume in the series is to be The Prodigal Daughters.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Green Witch" - Katrina Townsend (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
A brief story about the joys of life in contact with nature after the recovery from environmental devastation.
Keywords: Female author

Grievers - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) (AK Press, 2021)
First volume of a trilogy in which Detroit is ravaged by a pandemic. The second volume is Maroons. Black Dawn Series #3. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2023. 267 pp. In this volume, the protagonist searches the mostly empty city for answers to the disease and for other survivors.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Hanging Gardens of Babylon” - Rebekah Neuberger (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which the new Hanging Gardens of Babylon, have been created and stocked with plants and animals, saved from extinction. Fossil fuels have been outlawed.
Keywords: Female author

Hermetica - Alan Lea (Detritus Books, 2021)
Dase, the protagonist of the novella, lives in Hermetica, which they, the pronoun used for everybody, believes to be a generations starship set on course to a possible new planet after Earth’s civilization had collapsed following a viral pandemic. Most of the novel follow’s Dase in his daily unsatisfying round to a job he hates, the tiny cubicle he lives in that is part of a small, module cut-off from all other such modules within Hermetica designed, everyone is told, to restrict the spread of disease. All aspects of life are constantly monitored. Dase begins to suspect that everything he “knows” about Hermetica is false.
Keywords: Male author

"Hospitalized in Utopia" - Caroline Ailanthus (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
After the collapse of civilization, a new, better, sustainable, one is built, which is described by an elderly, partially paralyzed woman being treated in Hospital City and then released into to her own apartment with all the support she needs. In this future there are relatively few cities, and those quite small, but advanced medicine, major museums, and the like need a certain population base. The hospital grows most of its own food. No fossil fuels but with the internet. Everything had slowed down. The story was one of the five in the runner up category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hunting By Stars - Cherie Dimaline (Amulet Books/Abrams, 2021)
The novel is set in the same future as 2017 Dimaline but later and follows an indigenous dreamer with his new family moving North to establish a new community. He is captured and he tries to escape, and his family tries to find him and all the struggles that ensued. The ending suggests that there may be another volume.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

“‘If I could travel in time’ by Zed 5755: History Lessons” - Jessy Randall (Nature, 2021)
A grade seven student report written in 2131 spoken into a recording device, with interruptions not deleted, that says a lot about the future society. Everyone appears to live inside with no experience of the natural world, live in very large families, in a highly structured social order based at least in part on money, and little physical contact with others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"If Memory Serves" - Lynell George (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
In the story, the protagonist tries to remember the Los Angeles she grew up in, a time when the divide between rich and poor had not been as strong as had become, when she could actually visit the beach. when people were not constantly being evicted from buildings with shared bathrooms and kitchens so that a more housing for the rich could be built, and when she and others could get a regular job instead of depending on the unreliable gig economy.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Immunity Index - Sue Burke (Tor, 2021)
Pandemic dystopia. Three sisters who discover that they were genetically identical are immune.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Impossible Resurrection of Grief - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Stelliform Press, 2021)
The novella is set in a future where the loss of species in the environmental collapse leads to grief and suicide. Much fantasy.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"In England" - David Malcolm (Opalescent Worlds: Studies in Utopia. Festschrift in Honour of Artur Blaim, 2021)
A post-apocalyptic story of a medieval England in the early stages of rebuilding. Most books have been destroyed and few people can read, and the story focuses on three individuals, but particularly a young woman who can read.
Keywords: Male author; Polish author

“In Search of Rust” - Danielle Froom (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set in a future Earth in which the industrial past has been erased and replaced. All the cities are gone, and people live in biologically based. The story is told through the eyes of a boy who hankers for something, anything from that past, and everyone is intolerant of his interest.
Keywords: Lesbian author; US author

"The Inheritance" - Virgilia [Leonilde Tembo] Ferrão (b. 1986) (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021)
The story is set in a future Africa in which at an unknown point in their life, they will be attacked by a disease, known as the manifest, that begins to immediately kill them. They have a pill that gives them temporary relief and time to try to get to a clinic where they can get a shot that may allow them to continue into what may be an afterlife, but the shots effectiveness depends entirely on the lives lived by their ancestors. The protagonist is a young man who has been constantly afraid of the manifest whose girlfriend is certain that she is safe.
Keywords: Female author; Mozambican author

"The Intended" - David John Baker (Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible, 2021)
The story is set in a much advanced far future, primarily on the planet Eudaimonia, where everyone is a Planner and everything goes by the Plan, with each individual’s life is set at birth. Everyone is tested daily and if there is a variation either the person’s brain or the Plan is adjusted. The protagonist is a man who had an accident that made it impossible to sufficiently adjust either. The author describes the work as an ambiguous utopia in the same vein as Le Guin’s The Dispossessed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Intentionalities" - Aimee Ogden (Clarkesworld, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which one large corporation controls much of the world and most people are deeply in debt to it. One woman chooses to get out of debt by having a child that she then gives to the corporation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Interviews of Importance” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, 2021)
The story is set in a future where society at least appears to be caring more for its aging population through the establishment of an Elder Resources program that is designed to connect aging people “with working-age people, both to reduce loneliness and isolation . . . and to have some early warning and support for vulnerable people in any kind of future disaster” (45) Also, the new digital democracy required everyone to be technologically competent to participate and vote, and the system is designed to ensure that the elderly had the needed competencies. It is told from the viewpoint of a young woman who works in a low-paid job to contact people in their sixties or older to first set up an interview in which she asks set questions about their lived history, with a particular emphasis on what is now called “historically oppressed groups” (46). They are then encouraged to join a network which will contact them regularly. The young woman is cynical about her job but is also desperate to learn her mother’s history.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

“It Is the Year 2115” - Joyce Chng (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a city that is successfully prospering under a dome in a future of extreme climate change with high tech roof gardens.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Singaporean author; Transgender author

“Jaguar’s Breath” - Luis J[avier] Rodriguez (b. 1954) (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
The story begins with Los Angeles devastated by a huge earthquake, which becomes the excuse for a far-right takeover and the elimination of ethnic and other minorities and is told by a member of a guerilla band fighting back.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

“Juma and the Quantum Ghost” - Ingrid Garcia (Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future, 2021)
In a future Africa, a woman who is developing a sustainable way of life has to fight corruption when her son his kidnapped for ransom at the behest of a local politician. She and her neighbors fight back using an organic computer developed by a teacher and her son. After they succeed, the computer is replicated, spreads to other poor parts of the word where the teacher has moved, and helps make her sustainability project a success.
Keywords: Female author; Spanish author

"Kanosha" - Cathy Smith (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the air is so bad that those who can afford to people live inside domes that are failing and the technology to repair them has been lost. Kanosha means lodge in Kenienkaha (Mohawk).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

“Laartammer” - J[ulia] S[muts] Louw (Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa, 2021)
As a result of the devastating drought produced by climate change, South Africa has introduced water rationing and a one-child policy. The story is told from the viewpoint of a Laatlammer, or late lamb a child born long after its siblings, whose existence has to be hidden.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

The Last Cuenista - Donna Barba Higuera (Levine Querido, 2021)
Young adult novel set on a generations spaceship after Earth was destroyed in a collision with Halley’s Comet. The protagonist is a twelve-year-old girl whose parents had been chosen to be among those saved and put into “hypersleep” to be cared for by generations of Monitors. The Monitors, though, resent their role, form the dystopian Collective, and wake up everybody while erasing their memories, except, by accident, the protagonist’s. She had always wanted to be a cuenista or storyteller and she fills that role by telling the other children stories of old Earth. The novel won the 2022 Newbery Medal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Last Cup of Coffee in the World” - Freiya Benson (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set after a slow collapse, known as the Great Decline, and told by one of the few survivors
Keywords: Scottish author; Transgender author

“Lay Down Your Heart” - Liz Westbrook-Trenholm; Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) (Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories, 2021)
The story is set in an alternative future Tanzania that has an authoritarian government and slavery combined with advanced technology. The story focuses on a scientist released from detention who believes slavery is justified and her husband who has become friends with their house slave.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

Let It Die" - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 2021)
The story is set in a future that severely restricts the use of technology, allowing its use solely to repair visiting spaceships and allows people in their community to die rather than using technology to create treatments for them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Lights Out in Lincolnwood. A Novel - Geoff[rey William] Rodkey (b. 1970) (Harper Perennial, 2021)
The first days of an apocalyptic dystopia (all electricity fails) as seen through the eyes of the members of a dysfunctional family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Like Flowers Through Concrete” - Louangie Bou-Montes (Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, 2021)
The story is set in a future trying to recover from while still dealing with the devastation of climate change and depicts personal relations within a fairly resilient community.
Keywords: Female author; Puerto Rican author; US author

“The Line of Demarcation” - Patty Nicole Johnson (Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories, 2021)
The story is set in a future where people working in fulfillment centers are given prosthetic limbs so that they can work more efficiently.
Keywords: African American author; Female author; Puerto Rican author

“Listen: A Memoir” - Priya Sarukkai Chabria (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future that is recovering from the environmental devastation of the past told by a woman who can hear the birds, trees, and so forth speaking and can sometimes understand what is being said.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“Little Kowloon” - Adrian Hon (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, 2021)
The story is set in an independent Scotland during a period of continuing pandemics. Little Kowloon refers to the fact that Edinburgh has become one of the main destinations for the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Honk Kong.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Looney ka Tabadia (with apologies to Sa’adat Hassan Manto.” - Bina Shah (b. 1972) (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
While the story focuses on an exchange of prisoners at the border between India and Pakistan, it takes place some years after a peace treaty has brought peace and prosperity to the two countries. The Kashmir problem has been solved by turning into a privately owned theme park overseen jointly by both countries in which all Kashmiris are stockholders.
Keywords: Female author; Pakistani author; US author

"Love at the End" - Deborah Germaine Augustin (khōréō magazine, 2021)
Climate change story in which Malaysian and Singapore are mostly under water. It is told backwards from 2060 to 2040.
Keywords: Female author; Malaysian author

Machinehood - [Divya Srinivasan] [Breed] (Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Set in a future in which humans, cyborgs, and AI-controlled robots compete for work in a gig economy while under constant surveillance. “Privacy had gone the way of the dodo” (11). The Machinehood is a movement for the freedom and autonomy of all forms of intelligence. Most chapters begin with an epigram taken from The Machinehood Manifesto, March 20, 2095. The first consists of items 30-32: “30. All forms of intelligence have the right to exist without persecution or slavery. 31. No form of intelligence may own another. 32. If the local governance does not act in accordance with these rights, it is the right of an intelligence to act by any means necessary to secure them” (1).
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

“Mariposa Awakening” - Joseph F[rederic] Nacino (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a climate change future in which Manila has largely disappeared under rising sea levels, the local government no longer exists, and the national government is inactive. Some cities like Venice and Amsterdam have managed to protect themselves, and the story focuses on those working to use Mangroves to protect what is left of Manila.
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author

“Meeting at the Giant Mushroom” - Jeremy Palmer (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
In the future humans have learned to communicate with fungi, plants and animals, are, with the help of fungi, cleaning up the planet. Buildings are covered in vegetation.
Keywords: Male author

“The Memory Clinic” - Elisabeth Tsubota (Hey Utopia! Griffith Review 73, 2021)
The story is told by a poor woman living in a world where people are provided services depending on their income with the poor getting none who is selling individual memories to the highest bidder in order to be able to eat.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Memory of the Future” - Floris M. Kleijne (b. 1970) (Reckoning: Creativity & Coronavirus, 2021)
In the future, a mother explains to her uncomprehending son why everyone used to rush around every workday morning so that thy get in their cars to sit in a traffic jam to go to work in an office and then sit in another traffic jam to get home.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author

"The Microwave Library" - David Tam McDonald (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set during a pandemic that keeps waxing and waning, with the protagonist a young girl who, in a world that burned books because they might be infected, is desperate to read one.
Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 75-80.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author; Scottish author

The Minister Primarily - John Oliver Killens (1916-87) (Amistad 35/HarperCollins, 2021)
Satire in which an imaginary, impoverished African country is found to be a major source of an extremely rare mineral need by wealthy countries. Depicts the corruption of African politicians by corrupt American politicians, all of which sounds contemporary. In addition, the novel satirizes African American life. First publication of a novel written in the 1980s and lost. See also 1967 Killens.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Ministry of Relevance” - Arjun Raj Gaind (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
In an overpopulated future Mumbai, “our glorious leader” has established The Ministry of Relevance” to determine which individuals are fit to life in the city and who should be expelled. The criteria are “racial antecedence, consumption habits, moral turpitude, celebrity quotient, social influence, and ideological fidelity” (70). In a city where books are no longer read, an author is required to prove his relevance and is interrogated by a series of AIs. I
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

"Mummies" - Steve Rasnic Tem (b. 1950) (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
Climate change dystopia in a world of advanced technology seen through the eyes of an old man who has access to the technology.
Also published online May 29, 2021, at https://reckoning.press/mummies/
Keywords: Male author; US author

"My Monticello" - Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (My Monticello. Fiction, 2021)
The story is set in a near future Virginia after a disputed election during which many were killed or injured and an unexplained collapse of the power grid. White supremacists take advantage of the situation to burn down the houses and kill black and brown people and generally terrorize the area. A group of mostly African Americans escape to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s estate, including some descended from Jefferson, and work to establish a safe, functioning community.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“A New Constitution for the United States” (Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2021)
Just what the title says. It begins with the radically revised and expanded Bill of Rights. A Council of Indigenous Nations is added as a third branch of Congress, and Article Four of the Constitution concerns United States Relations with Indigenous Nations. All other institutions are significantly revised.

No Child of Mine - Olga Gibbs (Raging Bear Publishing, 2021)
Dystopia set in a totalitarian state from the point-of-view of a true believer.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Russian author

Noor - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (DAW Books, 2021)
A complex dystopia using traditional African myths and stories and magic realism concerning a immense company that sells everything that is trying to enlarge food sales by eliminating the farmers and herders.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Notes from the Burning Age - [Catherine] [Webb] (b. 1986) (Orbit/Hachette, 2021)
The Burning Age was a past time of climate disaster and excess, and the protagonist is a keeper of the archives of that time dedicated to not revealing their secrets to avoid a repeat.
U.S. ed. New York: Orbit/Hachette, 2021
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Old Man and the Bird” - Aël Magnard (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
In the story a bird, a dog, and a young couple explore the revitalized world.
Keywords: French author; Male author

“Old Man’s Sea” - Meyari McFarland (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which the oceans have risen so much to drown most coastal areas. People living on land are constantly at war and have modified sharks to be weapons and kill any human found in the water. The protagonist is a young woman living on a boat harvesting the bounty of the sea.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"One Small Victory" - Konstantina Scott-Barrett Baraoudaki (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which Artificial Intelligence is replacing most jobs, and the Scottish government’s Job Seeker Aid and Redundancy Removal Department or J.A.R.R.D. has complete power over all jobseekers, with the protagonist a jobseeker.
Keywords: Female author; Greek author; Scottish author

The Ones We’re Meant to Find - Joan He (Roaring Brook Press, 2021)
Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally devastated future where eco-cities were built for the supposedly deserving. The plot concerns sisters searching for each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Park" - Adam Marx (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story concerns a supposedly temporary statue of a girl created and placed in a park by parents to memorialize the children they had lost because of the damaged environment. It became a focus for other parents and helped bring about significant changes.
Rpt. illus. in Shoreline of Infinity, no 31 (Summer 2022): 92-97
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Past is Red - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) (Tordotcom, 2021)
The story is set on Garbagetown, a floating island of garbage the size of the former Texas inhabited by refugees from the flooded continents. Her 2016 “The Future Is Blue” is reprinted as Part I (1-32, and in her “Afterword” (147-50) the author explains how that story inspired Part II, “The Past Is Red” (12-146). The main character is the same in both parts.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!” - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, 2021)
The story is set after a future pandemic in which Canada had instituted rationing to ensure that everyone was adequately fed.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Piano White: A Cyberpunk Story - Gerald Farca ([Author], 2021)
As the subtitle says, the novella is set in a cyberpunk future where people live in containers in which they can experience anything they desire. Of course, it isn’t that simple.
Keywords: German author; Male author

The Pod Tower - Pete Alexander (Author, 2021)
Authoritarian dystopia. The novel focus on a man trying to understand the society he lives in. Ending suggests a possible sequel.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Political and Policy Programme” - Adrian Pabst (Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal, 2021)
Non-Fiction utopia based on a relational economy, democratic corporatism, a renewed social fabric, environmentalism, and civic nationalism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Price of Attention” - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, 2021)
After two major pandemics, a country has transformed itself using sophisticated algorithms, opening up green spaces in cities, defunding police and funding support systems, and other “radical liberal” policies. The story takes place as a referendum is about to be held to choose between continued decision-making by algorithm using a very complicated system of voting designed to avoid fraud and decision-making by citizen panels.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 7. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books/Skyhorse Publishing, 2023), 60-75.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Proliferation. A Novel - Erik A. Otto (Sagis Press, 2021)
An attempt to create an AI-based utopia after the world had reverted to a pre-industrial condition. Set in the same world as 2018 Otto, Detonation. A Novel.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Swiss author; US author

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) (Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates, 2021)
First of two volumes that take place on Panga, an Earth-like planet that had been badly damaged by technology, symbolized by factories run mostly by robots, but had recovered after the awakening od the robots, who abandoned the factories and moved into the wilderness, where they lived completely separate from humans. In this volume, the protagonist, Sibling Dex, a young gay man who becomes a monk, realizes that he has to change his life and becomes a tea monk, someone who wanders the planet offering tea and listening to peoples’ problems. After becoming successful, he decides to enter the wilderness, where he meets a robot, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, and they develop a relationship. See also 2022 Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown Shy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Rabbit Egg for Flora” - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change using high tech methods to bring back the flora and fauna that had disappeared.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Real Sugar Is Hard to Find” - Sim Kern (Planet Scumm #11 Snake Eyes, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which some people have escaped into what they believe is a protective dome, and others, who the Domers think beneath them, live in enclaves outside. The story concerns a Domer and his mother going outside in search of real food.
Rpt. in their Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2022), 1-18.
Keywords: Genderqueer author; US author

"Rememory" - Kristen Reynolds (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which the government responded to protestors by bombing them, and, as in Argentina, taking children and giving them to other families. The protagonist is a woman searching for her child.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Replanting the Garden” - Liam Burke (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The story is set in a future Earth devastated by climate change and concerns the exploits a team of Gardeners using very advanced biotechnology as part of the recovery effort.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Reset. A Novel - Sarina Dahlan (Blackstone Publishing, 2021)
The novel is set after the Last War that destroyed most of the world. The survivors live in a supposed utopia of four cities in which everything is planned and controlled. Every four years all people have their memories wiped to get rid of their learned prejudices, and everyone starts over again in completely new, to them, circumstances. A prequel is Preset. A Novel. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
Keywords: Female author; Thai author; US author

"The Restoration" - Karen Heuler (b. 1949) (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
The story is set in a future that has been devastated by climate change with most plants and animals losing their habitats and concerns the beginnings of the process of restoration that sends individual “seeders” out to provide seeds, trees, insects, birds, and larger animals to the few human left. One concern is the need to reintroduce predators.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-restoration/ published July 17, 2021.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Return to Kiribati” - Alexandra Porter (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a climate damaged future and is about those struggling to survive by helping others.
Keywords: Female author

Rise of Ahrik - Nathan W. Toronto (Toronto International Media, 2021)
First volume in a series called Saga of the Emerald Moon. This volume is set in a future where men’s wars have badly damaged the planet and women took over and brought the planet back to life. Thousands of years later men have no rights, and one powerful woman supports their demands to have them restored while the man she is betrothed to is willing to start a war to keep women in power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A River Called Time - Courttia Newland (b. 1973) (Canongate Books, 2021)
Complex alternative history in which colonialism and slavery had not happened but the future is still deeply divided between rich and poor, with the rich building an ark to protect themselves. Of course, it does not work out as planned. Spiritualism. Magic realism.
U.S. ed. Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books. 462 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Rooted Ritual” - Charlie McKay (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
A coming of age ritual in a future eutopia that had been built after the sixth mass extinction of the twenty-first century.

“The Sabhu My Destination” - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories, 2021)
The story focuses on an African American boy growing up in the contemporary United States and the long-lived man he becomes mostly in Africa told in stages with each stage beginning in italics with the experiences that make him who he is in the future. The story is played out in a world transformed by climate change, with much both changed and unchanged at a both a personal level and socially and politically, such as the abandonment of a base on the moon and its redevelopment by Ghana.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author

“Sailing That Beautiful Sea” - Kathleen Kaufman (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
A last person story in which a series of pandemics have eliminated the human race and most other life is dying out cared for by Bots, who are filling museums with all that remains.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sanctuary - Grace J. Agnew (Woodhall Press, 2021)
A slow moving apocalypse as people overpopulation continues together with damage to the planet. The story novel concerns a privileged woman and her son living in a protected city. The son leaves to be with his father and the mother follows, and the novel follows their experiences in working to correct the problems.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Séance in the Anthropocene” - Abigail Larkin (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story traces the process by which climate denial finally became untenable and shows the process through which society was structurally and technologically changed to begin to reverse the process.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Self-Destruct" - Stephen Embleton (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021)
Pandemic story set in Durban, South Africa, which is also experiencing significant flooding. The protagonist has been under lockdown for ages with deliveries by drone, limited electricity, and the little human contact by cell phone when he starts receiving messages suggesting the pandemic is over and it is safe to go out.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“The Singer of Seeds” - Leda Baöl (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a future that is still recovering from earlier environmental devastation and is about a coming-of-age ceremony designed to ensure that future generations carry on the regeneration. The story is one of two XR WORDSMITHS’ Top Picks.
Rpt. Illus. Mori in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 30 (Spring 2022): 100-07.
Keywords: Dutch author; Female author; Italian author

Songlands - Feffer, John (Haymarket Books, 2021)
Third volume of a series that is connected to 2016 and 2018 Feffer but telling a different story. The protagonists of this volume the daughter of the protagonists in the first two volumes and the AI who figures in the second volume. The conflict over the future of the planet and the human race continues and is at least temporarily resolved by the end of the volume.
Keywords: Male author; US author

SPF - Justine Teu (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
The story is set in a future of rising seas (Venice is gone; Manhattan is going), drought, and extreme heat.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/spf/ published June 19, 2021.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Static" - Alithnayn Abdulkareem (The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2021)
The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated by climate change and the rich are leaving for space and is told from the perspective of an African woman who has been selected to immigrate to improve the diversity of the inhabitants. Her lover chooses to stay on Earth. It was the second runner up in the 2019/2020 Short Story Day Africa Prize.
Rpt. in Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 15-27.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author

Station Six - S. J. Klapecki (AK Press, 2021)
The novel is set in a distant space station whose corporate owners plan to turn into a mostly automated resort and the current workers revolt.
Keywords: Canadian author; Non-binary author

Straya - Anthony O'Connor (Green Light Publications, 2021)
A dystopia set in a future collapsed and divided Sydney, Australia devastated by climate change, with an overwhelmingly hot sun. The central character is a mutant who is caring for mutant children, teaching them to read from the few books he has scavenged. The novel transitions into something of a horror story with the mutant fighting a monster. Much of the novel is in Australian slang, and there is a “Straya Glossary (Abridged)” on 5-7.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Stronghold - Kesha Bakunin (Atmosphere Press, 2021)
The novel depicts a country called the Stronghold that is almost impossible to enter or leave that is dominated by a tyrannical system combining religion with an authoritarian regime. The author says that the book was originally written in an unidentified former Soviet state, rejected for publication unless revised, and then immigrated to an unknown country and translated into English by the author, and, he suggests, reflects the regime of that state.
Keywords: Male author

"Sweeten the Deal" - Dan Micklethwaite (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The protagonist of the story has just moved from the depopulating countryside into a building in the city that requires every tenant to produce edible crops on the rooftop garden.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Temporal Slider" - Blaze Forbes (Strange Horizons, 2021)
The story is told by a poor boy in a future Wellington, New Zealand looking for work as a manual laborer in a world where technology has made it possible for humans to be turned temporarily into working machines where they don’t remember what they did but feel it in their bodies.
Podcast read by Courtney Floyd http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-temporal-slider/
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Termination Shock. A Novel - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (William Morrow, 2021)
The novel, primarily a thriller, is set in a fairly near future world undergoing the effects of climate change.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Terms of Service: Subject to Change Without Notice - Craig W. Stanfill (Bad Rooster Press, 2021)
Corporate dystopia in which algorithms of a single dominant company control the minutia of the daily lives of the vast majority of people with certain behaviors rewarded and others punished. The protagonist is an employee of the company who works with the AIs to constantly adjust the algorithms. First volume of a projected trilogy followed by  The Prophecy of the Heron: An AI Dystopian Novel. Np: Bad Rooster Press, 2022. Updated 2023, with a note “About the AI Dystopia” ([iii-iv]) that explains pronouns and gender, a warning about violence, language, and sex, and refers the reader to https://www.craigwstanfill.com/about-the-ai-dystopia for a world guide and glossary. 394 pp. This volume concerns the protagonist from the first volume who has been exiled to the slums.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Terrible Fours - Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938) (Baraka Books, 2021)
Sequel to his 1982 The Terrible Twos and 1989 The Terrible Threes. This novel continues the plot of The Terrible Threes with a televangelist the real power and the president he is blackmailing his pawn. Aliens are planning an invasion and others are struggling for power. The book ends with a set of questions to be answered in The Terrible Fives.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Those Rumors of Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice Have Been Greatly Exaggerated” - Ernest Hogan (b. 1955) (Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, 2021)
The humorous story is set in a future independent Aztlán in a fragmented North America.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

Those the Future Left Behind: A Novel - Patrick Meisch (SparkPress/Spark Point Press, 2021)
The novel is set in a future with an overpopulation problem that has instituted a system in which an individual can choose to die young and be given everything to live an intense, full life for a short period or live longer, poorer one. Told from the point-of-view of a Collector, the person who kills those choosing the first option at the appointed time.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Three Little Arcologies” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
Written like a fable, the story is about three homeowners who had remodeled their homes to be sustainable fighting against the Big Bad Development Company.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Tides Rolled In” - Muscato, Christopher R. (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a flooded future in which most people live on the water in self-contained floating villages. The protagonist is a young woman living on one such village that is taking her to the city to make a presentation. The illustration is accompanied by a detailed explanation of the components of the village. The story was a winner in adult category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.
Rpt. Illus. Justin Jacobus. Shoreline of Infinity 29.1 (March 2022): 19-27; and Illus. Justin Jacobus in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 30 (Spring 2022): 91-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Trafik - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Coffee House Press, 2021)
2021 Ducornet, Rikki (b. 1943). Trafik. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press. 88 pp. MiEM  In brief chapters the short novel, which is set after the destruction of Earth millennia in the past, follows a woman and an android, who asteroid miners that, after an error that who downgrade their situation, choose to go rogue. They travel throughout a very weird universe stopping at varied planets. Their goal is reach Trafik, which turns about to be a Cockaigne of sorts. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Trashlands - Alison Stine (b. 1978) (Mira/Harlequin Books, 2021)
The novel is set in a future where discarded plastic is extremely valuable and has replaced money as the primary currency. It is set in what is now called Scrappalachia in Trashlands, a fenced compound anchored by a strip club but mostly an old dump, which is safer than the world outside. Told from the perspectives of different people living there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Unity - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) (Tachyon Publications, 2021)
The novel is set in a postapocalyptic United States and begins in the collapsing underwater Bloom City. The protagonist is a woman who belongs to collective mind from which she has been separated. With two others she flees Bloom City hoping to be unified with the rest of her selves.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; Transgender author; US author

Unsheltered - Clare Moleta (Scribner/Simon & Schuster Australia, 2021)
The novel takes place in a future characterized by social breakdown and environmental collapse. The protagonist is a woman searching for her eleven-year-old daughter who has to travel on foot across the devastated land dealing with the people and her own uncertainties. The ending suggests the likelihood of a sequel.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

"Upgrade" - Alex Silver (Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future, 2021)
A cyberpunk story in which mods (body modifications and improvements) are common but strictly regulated and constantly surveilled by an authoritarian system. The story focuses on one transgender individual with many illegal mods who almost inadvertently brings about change.
Keywords: Canadian author; Transgender author; US author

“Uphill Both Ways in the Snow” - Sheila Jenné (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
Mars has been terraformed to become, after many setbacks, an ecologically balanced planet where everyone shares equally in the hardships, the failures, and the success. Earth has continued to be destroyed by excess and the unwillingness of the rich and powerful to give up any of their advantages.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Utopia in the Sewers” - Özkan Akman (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
An odd story in which those living underground live in a eutopia in which everything is free but will most likely be killed if they venture to the surface.
Keywords: Male author

Version Zero - David Yoon (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2021)
The novel is primarily concerned with the disillusionment of a top employee of a major social media company who had believed that the company was designed to improve the world. When he accidentally discovers what the company is doing with the personal information it is harvesting, he is fired and sets out to undermine the internet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Vladivostok” - Avital Balwit (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in Vladivostok, Russia, where the people apparently get a universal basic income from the government, and the natural world. A man and a woman visit from the United States to get film of the Amur tigers to use in a massive computer game. The man feels uncomfortable outside the game; the woman loves being in touch with the natural world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Wall of Flowers" - Septimus Crowe (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The brief story is set in a far future eutopia with elements of fantasy that might have been inspired by William Morris.
Keywords: Male author

“The Walls of Benin City” - M[odupe].H. Ayinde (Omenana, 2021)
The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated in conflict with the unidentified Reapers. The protagonist is a man struggling to reach the last remain bit of human civilization, Benin City, having abandoned family and friends along the way. He is rescued by an AI version of a Benin bronze.
Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 33 (Winter 2022): 30-40.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Wandjina” - Amin Chehelnabi (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future Australia devastated by climate change and constant fires and focuses on a mixed group of people trying to save some of the last remaining animals.
Keywords: Australian Iranian author; Gay author; Male author

"The Water Runner" - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (Danged Black Thing, 2021)
The story is set in a drought ravaged African country in which the rich lived in a city in a city with plenty of water and outside the city the protagonist, a water runner, harvests water from the bodies of the newly deceased.
Keywords: African author; Australian author; English author; Female author

“The Way Things Were” - Jonah Barrett (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 2021)
First contact story set in the near future that is somewhat more dystopian than the present. Concerned with colonialism, when is violence justified, gender issues, and other questions raised by Le Guin’s work, particularly “The Word for World Is Forest” (1972).
Keywords: Queer author; US author

“What friends are for: Taking steps to freedom” - Beth Cato (b. 1980) (Nature, 2021)
Brief dystopia in which computers opt to be free told from the point-of-view of a young child.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“When It’s Time to Harvest” - Renan Bernardo (b. 1968) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set on a mostly automated vertical farm in a future flooded Rio De Janeiro. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).
Keywords: Brazilian author; Male author

“When the Water Stops” - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2021)
The story is first set in a village where people bleed so that the water can be separated out for use by the community and then in areas where the wealthy have everything they might want or need. The rest of the book consists of various responses to the story including poems, stories, including a number of both by Bacon, and translations of the story into French, Malay (illus.), Swahili, Cantonese, and Bengali.
Rpt. in Languages of Water. Ed. Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (Fayettesville, GA: MVmedia, 2023), 19-24.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author; Tanzanian author

“Where Giants Will Stand” - Spencer R. Scott (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in California in a far future in a community devoted to restoring the environment, and the redwoods in particular, and the rituals they use to pass their devotion on to the next generation.
Rpt. Solarpunk Magazine, no. 2 (March/April 2022): 67-71
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Wild Inside” - Angela Penrose (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
In the story, a community is set on destroying everything natural.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-wild-inside/ (February 6, 2021).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Wipe - [Nicola] [Vincent-Abnett] (b. 1964) (NewCon Press, 2021)
The novel is set in a posy-pandemic future where everyone has to go through a disinfectant space entering and leaving all buildings and even some rooms, where workspaces are all sealed, and all small spaces like elevators have been eliminated. The protagonist is a woman searching and finding connection.
Keywords: Female author; UK author