2054. A Novel - Elliott Ackerman (b. 1980); Admiral James [George] Stavridis (b. 1955) (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House, 2024)
The novel is set twenty years after the war between China and United States described in their 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. New York: Penguin Press/Penguin Random House, 2021. In this novel, the United States, a political party has dominated for ten years amid growing resistance. The President drops dead during a speech to the nation and civil war erupts. The plot revolves around the development of a new form of AI.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Accensa Domo Proximi” - Cameron Neil Ishee (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story is set in a future inland, sustainable city with the protagonist remembering the islands off the coast where he was born that no longer exist. The title comes from “Accensa domo proximi, tua quoque periclitatur” or When the house of your neighbor burns, your own home is likewise in danger” as given in the text.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Blossoming” - Guglielmo Miccolupi; Laura C. Zanetti-Domingues (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story is set in a future Italy and focuses on a young man trying to decide his future in a society where “The Universal Basics, things like guaranteed housing, health care, education, and food, ensure that everyone has a good, dignified life no matter whether they can work at all.”
Keywords: English author; Female author; Italian author; Male author

“Buddy Raymond’s No-Bullshit Guide to Drone Hunting” - Gillian Secord (Diabolical Plots, 2024)
The story is a guide to how the kill drones and takes place after a war between Canada and the U.S. that the U.S. won, and the U.S. is draining Canadian lakes for fresh water and covers the country with drones.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Cabbage Koora: A Prognostic Autobiography” - Sanjana Sekhar (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story is set in what remains of Los Angeles in 2023, 2047, 2077 and is told from the perspective of a South Asian woman who reflects on the changes that are brought about due to climate change and the way they, over time, are met. Cabbage koora is a dish grandmother and mother made which, in 2047 she cannot make because cabbage requires too much water. In 2077, she is growing cabbages for the first time.
Keywords: Female author; South-Indian American author

“A Gift of Coconuts” - Melissa Gunn (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story, set in Aotearoa New Zealand and using Māori myth, takes place on what has become the coastline as a family works to survive and protect their coconut farm as one of the new super storms approaches.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“Gifts We Give to the Sea” - Dinara Tengri (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
Climate change dystopia set on the shore of the dried out Aral Sea. A glossary of the Kazakh words used in the story is provided at the beginning.
Keywords: Female author; Kazakh author; Swedish author

“The Imperfect Blue Marble” - Rae Mariz (b. 1981) (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story is set in a future after the twenty-first century, known as the “blip generation”. The focus of the story is a non-verbal, autistic boy and his interaction with others in his community.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish author; US author

“Kiss of Life” - P. C. Verrone (FIYAH Literary Magazine, 2024)
Something of an allegory on slavery in which “Angels” appear needing help to build bridges between Africa and their world and the world of the protagonist, a girl that thy use go communicate with the other inhabitants. After the Angels leave, Prophets arrive preaching that there had never been any Angels and the bridges had always been there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“La Sirène” - Karen Engelsen (Grist/Imagine 2000 2024, 2024)
The story takes place in a climate change future where New Orleans has disappeared under the water and, due to the chemicals that had polluted the area, many children are born with no legs but with what appears to be a single fin.
Keywords: Female author; Neurodivergent author; Norwegian American author

“The Last Almond” - Zoe Young (Grist/Imagine2200 2024, 2024)
The story is set in California in 2058 and 2090 and concerns the destruction in 2058 of almond trees and the community near them due to flooding following a long drought followed in 2090 with, in a different part of California, the depiction of a way that almond trees and communities could survive even with drought and floods.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Seder in Siberia” - Louis Evans (Grist/Imagine2200 2024, 2024)
Climate fiction dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“To Labor for the Hive” - Jamie Liu (Grist/Imagine2200 2024, 2024)
The story is set in a community in a near future China dealing with climate-change, particularly extreme storms, and focuses on beehousing, which involves establishing nesting areas for wild bees that can, apparently help predict such storms. The utopian aspects of the story relate to the way that the community involves everyone and provides a refuge for needing help.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole” - Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld, 2024)
In the story the child in the city of Omelas from LeGuin’s “The Ones Who Walks Away from Omelas” (1973) is killed and city collapses. Another child is put in the “hole,” killed, the city collapses, and this is repeated over at least one generation.
Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_02_24e/
Keywords: Female author; Korean American author

“Alkebulan: The Garden Eden Project” - Amanda Ilozumba [Otitochukwu] (Solarpunk Magazine, 2023)
The story is set in a future Africa devastated by climate change, and using African and other myths tells of a quest that could lead to Earth's healing.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author

The Alphabet Tax - Rosa Woolf Ainley (Grand Iota UK, 2023)
An odd novel in which the price of a universal welfare system that appears to have created utopia is silence.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“At Every Door a Ghost” - Premee Mohamed (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story is set in a future where AI has gone wrong and killed thousands of people.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Biographer” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (The Wishing Pool and Other Stories, 2023)
Part plague dystopia and part Black horror in which a woman whose first film depicted the plague before it happened and is being recorded for a permanent biography, although nothing is what it at first appears.

. “The Brighter World” - Robert Dawson (Little Blue Marble, 2023)
The story is set in a future ravaged by climate change, and within the story is a story about how one person had tried to mobilize efforts to mitigate the effects and had failed.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Broken Threads” - Kevin Wabaunsee (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
The story is set in a future where much of the middle of America is a “toxic wasteland.” The protagonist is a woman who is used to bring connected to a network through her “head tech.” She loses that connection while traveling across the area in response to her mother’s wish that she complete her mother’s work with fungi that provide an alternative much bigger, and very different network.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"Broodmare" - Flossie Arend (Fantasy, 2023)
The protagonist of the story is a woman who regularly travels over the fortified border between Texas and surrounding states to assist women who need an abortion, which is illegal in Texas.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Camp Zero. A Novel - Michelle Min Sterling (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Complex novel with numerous themes speaking to current issues set in a climate change future. Camp Zero is an experimental community in northern Canada that will teach survival skills.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“A Chant for Circularity” - Aaron Willmott (Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, 2023)
The story is set in a future in which eutopias have been created on the surface of Earth and under the surface with a treaty regulating relations between them. It is suggested that those underground constituted some sort of “other” that was banished, but this is never explained. The circularity of the title refers to the surface’s waste being pimped underground where it is reused or repurposed and sent back to the surface. In the story, the underground starts receiving large amounts of material that cannot be reused or repurposed, which is a violation of the treaty.
Keywords: German author; Male author; Welsh author

The Chaperone - M. Hendrix (b. 1970) (Sourcebooks Fire/Sourcebooks, 2023)
Young adult dystopia in which in the future New America girls are always chaperoned with no contact with boys except in formal Visitations. And girls get only the basic education required to make them fit to be wives and mothers and higher education is closed to them. The protagonist is a girl being raised in these circumstances who learns, almost against her will, something of Old America
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Chrysalis” - Don Redwood (Little Blue Marble, 2023)
The story is set in a future where all animals and insects are extinct and have been replaced by robots.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Company Man" - Shiv Ramdas; Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story is set n the future in which corporations have been given full civil rights that often supersede individual rights.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

"Deep Blue Jump" - Dean Whitlock (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2023)
The story depicts the exploitation of vulnerable children and adults that, while this is set in what appears to be the near future, the author says is common in most times and places.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Democracy in America” - Allegra Hyde (The Massachusetts Review, 2023)
The story focuses on “consignment” by which poor, young women, and some men, can sell their youthful looks to the rich elderly. Also notes the exploitation of immigrants; “desperation could be monetized” (155). In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/
Rpt. in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 143-173.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Eight Steps to Steal a Yacht and Build a Hospital” - Renan Bernardo (b. 1968) (Solarpunk Magazine, 2023)
The story is set in a future flooded Rio de Janeiro and concerns the steps taken by people trying to bring medical care to those living in isolated communities.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Male author

“The Excommunicates” - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story is set in a future in which people spreading disinformation on the internet are excommunicated in that they are not permitted to use the internet. They form a church that rapidly grows in membership until war breaks out.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Ferryman. A Novel - Justin Cronin (b. 1962) (Ballantine Books/Random House/Penguin Random House, 2023)
The novel is set on Prospera, a supposedly utopian island, where the inhabitants enjoy the good life until the monitors embedded in their arms that monitors their health falls below 10%. At that time, the ferryman takes them to another island where their memories are wiped, and their bodies are renewed. Of course, the proverbial snakes in human form are plentiful on Prospera.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Finery - Rachel Grosvenor (Fly on the Wall Press, 2023)
The Finery are the police in an authoritarian system and appear to be all-powerful until they confront a centenarian and her wolf.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Flavours of Memory” - Catherine Weaver (Little Blue Marble, 2023)
The story is set in a future where a plague has wiped out almost all plants, including all those monoculture used in intensive farming. A few families had saved varied seeds, managed to grow them in enclosures, and trade them to re-introduce agriculture.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Forcing - Paul E. Hardisty (Orenda Books, 2023)
In the dystopian world of the future (an atomic bomb is dropped on Nairobi at the beginning of the novel), the Canadian government institutionalizes ageism. Everyone born after a specified date will be relocated to the climate ravaged southern United States while young people in the south will move north. All the possessions of the old are confiscated to pay for the transfers. The novel is told from the point of view of a professor of physics who is sent south but who escapes and searches for a rumored sanctuary.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Foreverchild: A Novel of the Future - Mark Lavine (Author, 2023)
The novel is set three hundred years in the future when some people live for hundreds of years as children and live isolated from the majority who have a normal lifespan.
Keywords: Male author

“Forgotten. A Life Disconnected.” - Ramalho-Santos, João (Nature, 2023)
The story is set in a world where the internet of things is everywhere and what happens what one woman insists on her right to be forgotten. T
Keywords: Male author; Portuguese author

“The Giver and the World Remade” - E. Lily Yu (Tor.com, 2023)
The story takes place in a future where much land has been flooded and some people have created a society of mutual aid among those living on rafts that they have built out of whatever they could salvage from the water, with raftmates who, for example, weaves houses, another who is a cobbler, and another who makes clothes. The focus of the story is that one the cobbler, the youngest of the three yearns to see the almost mythical land, where other people live with what remains of technology.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gone Wolf - Amber McBride (Feiwell and Friends, 2023)
Young adult dystopia set partially in 2111 in an area known as the Bible Boot, consisting of thirteen former states or parts of states of the US), that is divided into Clones (white) and Blues (black) with the Blues, some of whom are genetic matches of Clones and kept so that their organs can be harvested as needed. In this section every chapter concludes Flash Card explaining the system. The rest of the novel is set in 2022, and each chapter ends with a flash card on Black History for Kids.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Here Instead of There” - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971); Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964); Elizabeth Bear [pseud.] (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story takes place in a future US where all services, including weather forecasts and storm warnings, have been privatized and are only available to those who have paid for the service. Its focus is a band living on an abandoned seasteading platform.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The History of a Coral Future” - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories, 2023)
The story is set in a future recovering from climate change in which all species are considered part of one community and interact with each other constantly and peacefully.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“I Think I Shall Never See” - Stephen Kotowych (Little Blue Marble, 2023)
The story is set in a future in which genetically engineered trees have eliminated most native species. The story is set in a future in which genetically engineered trees have eliminated most native species.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Immechanica - E. F. Coleman (Luminastra Press, 2023)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Interview with an Oak" - Ana Reisens (Solarpunk Magazine, 2023)
In the interview, the oak talks to the human (soft skin) journalist about the early cooperation with humans, the devastation caused by human greed, and meeting a young woman who was able to talk to it. The journalist then recounts the impact of the young woman’s transcription of their talks, including the discovery of many other humans talking with trees, and the growing cooperation between humans and trees.
Keywords: Female author

Inversion - Aric McBay (AK Press, 2023)
The novel, which is dedicated “to the practical utopians,” is set on a very odd world, Germinal, that is divided into the Summer, Winter, and Spring peoples by constantly moving flamewalls. The people are nomadic so that they stay constantly within their zone. The focus of the novel is the need to find a way to respond to the invasion of the world by a military force intending to take over the world. Germinal has touches of a Cockaigne brought about by an enhanced biodiversity. See also 2022 McBay, Kraken Calling.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Land of Milk Honey - C[henji] Pam Zhang (b. 1990) (Riverhead Books/Penguin Riverhead Books, 2023)
The setting is a post-catastrophe dystopia in which a smog produced by agricultural tests in the United States covers the world and kills most of the plants and animals. The novel, though, follows a woman chef who is recruited by a wealthy man who has created a community of the extremely wealthy above the smog in the Swiss mountains and her experiences their and after the smog dissipates.
Keywords: Chinese American author; Female author

The Language of Water - Elizabeth Clark-Stern (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
The novel is set in a future where there is too much water in some places and too little in others, with the focus on the latter.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Less Than" - Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story takes place in Free India in which everyone is free and equal and has replace the authoritarian Regime in which only some people were acceptable. It turns out, though, that new internet is being used to manipulate individuals to produce what are perceived to be a eugenically superior next generation.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"Longevity" - Anya Ow (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2023)
The story is set in a future that has passed the climate change Redline and requires technology, including implants to survive. The population is divided between the Forevers, those with implants who are close to immortals, and the UnEdited, who are exploited to support the lives of the Forevers. The focus is on the growing relationship between a Forever who helps an UnEdited, who leads a movement to reverse the effects of climate change.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Singaporean author

The Lost Cause - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group, 2023)
The novel is set in a fairly near future U.S. deeply divided between aging, violent MAGA (Make America Great Again) activists funded by the wealthy living in Seasteads, where they are served by the very poor, and young activists helping immigrants in and from parts of the world devastated by climate change. The “Canadian Miracle” has shown that an equal society is possible, and the novel focus on Burbank, California, where the divisions are deep.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

“Memory Day Report: Bringing history to life” - [Robert] [Carito] (Nature, 2023)
A child’s report on asking his grandfather about the past about living in an unnamed city before the collapse of civilization with the child’s comments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Message from the Moonlight” - Wagner, Wendy N. (Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, 2023)
The story is set in a community separate from the New United States (shrunk by climate change) that has developed a culture based on everyone contributing equally. Visitors from the New U.S. who want to move there must spend three separate week long visits to learn the culture before applying. Part of the focus is on the evil that resides in what had been slave pens and the use of magic to diminish its power.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Microclimates of the Rich and Famous” - R. K. Duncan (Little Blue Marble, 2023)
In the story a sailboat approaches what initially appears to be an ecologically pristine island but turns out to be an almost entirely artificial creation of a wealthy man surrounded by defenses that keep out the polluted world he has helped create.
Keywords: Queer author; US author

“Midnight Serenade” - J. Dianne Dotson (Solarpunk Magazine, 2023)
The story is obviously a eutopia based on exceptionally advanced biologically based technology, but there is little detail. It is within the sub-genre of Lunarpunk or night-based societies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Moral Hazard” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story is set in the present or near future and involves a plan to direct federal bailout money first to the homeless and the a scam to redirect it to large corporations.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

“My City Is Not a Problem” - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story is set in a near future London where an AI system is being set up to figure out the central problems of the city and propose solutions. It did so to the consternation of those in power.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Scottish author

The New Naturals. A Novel - Gabriel Bump (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023)
The novel concerns a Black woman and her husband who, distraught at the death of her newborn daughter, create a society inside a mountain that attracts people from around the world and seems to be on the way to becoming a utopia until it fails.
Keywords: African American author; US author

“The One Who Came Back to Heal” - Cynthia Gómez (b. 1958) (Strange Horizons, 2023)
One of the many responses to Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973), and here one of those who had walked away returns as a healer for the child with the story recounting the process.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Project F - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Random House/Penguin Random House, 2023)
Young adult novel that takes place in a post-climate catastrophe future that has been rebuilt on a much smaller scale, presented as a positive change. Live was simple and peaceful, without cars or wars. The focus of the story, Project F, is a secret plan to bring back the pre-catastrophe way of life.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Promise" - Rona Fernandez (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
The story takes place in a climate-change ravaged future and focuses on a young man and a young woman orphaned and sent to The Collective where they are fed, clothed, housed, and given work within an authoritarian regime.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina American author

“Property of PAUSE Ltd.” - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
PAUSE Ltd. is a company rather like Amazon that delivers goods in a society with deep rich/poor divisions whose drivers are the property of the country and live in their trucks with their families.
Keywords: Canadian author; Chinese author; Female author

Prophet Song - Lynch, Paul (Faber & Faber, 2023)
The novel is set in a near future in which the GNSB (Garda National Services Bureau), a recently established secret police, is investigating all people they determine to be potentially subversive, and those people tend to disappear. The novel follows the family of a teacher and union leader who is being investigated as they flee across an authoritarian Ireland.
U.S. ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

“The Robot Whisperer” - Holly Schofield (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
The story is set in a climate-change future seen through the memories of a now old woman who had fled to a rural community trying to live sustainably after her hacking exploits that revealed the corruption in her home city were traced to her.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Scent of Green” - Ana Sun (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
The story is set in a community that was established as an eco-resort but was unable to survive as a business during the collapse of the economy due to climate change. Much later, it is one of a number of settlements that survived and are learning to cooperate to solve their problems. He protagonist is a woman whose job is to move from community to community to try to find those solutions.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Malaysian Borneo author

“Sigh No More” - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection, 2023)
The story takes places in London after a Carrington Event (a massive solar storm) knocks out all electric power. Satellites falling from the sky at night are popular viewing. The main focus of the story is the struggle to mount a previously planned performance of Much Ado about Nothing. The point is made that “If the pandemic pushed people apart and tech together, the Event blew tech apart and brought people tech together in mutual aid and community” (48). For an analysis of this response to disaster, see Rhiannon Firth, Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action. London: Pluto Press, 2022.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

“Solarpunks” - J. D. Harlock (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
A satirical vignette on teenagers trying to rebel against a supposedly perfect society where they are bored.
Keywords: Lebanese author; Male author; Palestinian author; Syrian author

“The Strength of the Willow” - Commando Jugendstil; Tales from the EV Studio (Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales, 2023)
The story is about the creation of a eutopian city against the opposition of the city leaders and those with money. It begins with a woman who had been hired by the city to develop a neighborhood allotment discovering that it had been trashed overnight, with all the plants ripped out, the tools destroyed, and everything the community had built torn down. The city and investors had plans to build a profit making enterprise in its place, but the neighborhood rallied and reestablished the allotment and then worked with other neighborhoods to take over every other possible space and created other allotments, parks, playgrounds, and other community spaces.
Keywords: Italian author

“Such is My Idea of Happiness” - David Goodman (Clarkesworld, 2023)
The story is set in a future depopulated England that is controlled by the relatively few with old money. The majority are either Secondary, essentially the unemployed, and Redeyes, those who work extremely long hours for little pay.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Tears Down the Wall” - Michèle Laframboise (b. 1960) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2023)
The story concerns homelessness, most of whom live in tents attached to the side of tall buildings, in a city that depends on their labor to support the tourist-based economy and the wealthy who own all the property. The title is a reference to watching the tents being lowered to the ground in the morning.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Timid Librarian” - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) (Bioluminiscent: A Lunarpunk Anthology, 2023)
The story is set in what is clearly a eutopia celebrating an important festival, but the ending is pure fantasy in which as part of the festival individuals change from female to male or male to female.
Keywords: Female author; US author

To the Woman in the Pink Hat - LaToya Jordan (Aqueduct Press, 2023)
The protagonist is a young black woman who is an SU (Stolen Uteruses), one of many who have had their uteruses removed to be used to produced babies for infertile white women. She is being held in a prison-like institution the purports to be training Leaders.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Victory City. A Novel - [Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) (Random House, 2023)
An epic novel that begins in an alternative fourteenth century India and follows the rise and fall of numerous empires through the story of Bisnaga or Victory City, a city brought into existence by a young woman who has been given powers by a goddess and the task of giving women equality in a patriarchal world.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

When We Hold Each Other Up - Phoebe Wagner (Android Press, 2023)
The work is set in a future after the ecological collapse brought on by the Capitalocene, but people known as Harmonizers are able to help heal the poisoned environment, and a City and some areas have evolved positive societies. The plot is driven, though, by some Harmonizers who want to enlarge the city, and their own power, to the cost of these positive societies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Winter Grave - Peter May (b. 1951) (Riverrun/Quercus Editions, 2023)
Murder mystery set in 2051 with a quarter of the world’s population no longer able to live in their homelands and the Gulf Stream no longer warms Scotland. Glasgow is under water as are most of the world’s airports.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Woman of the River” - Genevieve Williams (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2023)
The story is set on the Duwamish River south of Seattle in a future where it has been restored and concerns a debate over further restoration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2 A.M. in Little America. A Novel - Ken Kalfus (b. 1954) (Milkweed Editions, 2022)
There has been a Civil War in the United States and millions of U.S. citizens are refugees searching for immigrant status in unwelcoming countries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Revolution. A Novel - Robert Evans (AK Press, 2022)
The novel is set in 2070 after the United States has fractured and focuses on the Free City of Austin in the Republic of Texas where people are trying to keep from being taken over by Christian nationalists.
The book was first serialized as a podcast https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-after-the-revolution-82966686/
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After the Storm" - James Bradley (b. 1967) (Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, 2022)
The story is set in an Australia damaged by climate change and focuses on its impact on one family as seen through the eyes of a young girl forced to move multiple times as the country and the family disintegrate.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Alt-Dream" - Merryana Salem (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which population control requires an early death at a time set by the government.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Transgender author

“Anamnesis/Anamnesi” - Rupsa Dey (Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente, 2022)
A complex story set in a future dominated by AI and pills that controls dreams.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“Anomaly in the Rhythm” - Viraj Joshi (Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions, 2022)
The story is set in a flawed utopian future London with Universal Basic Income in which all citizens wear a biomechanical glove that give them “suggestions” and monitors their behavior.
Keywords: English author; Irish author

Arboreality - Rebecca Campbell (b. 1975) (Stelliform Press, 2022)
The novel is set on Vancouver Island in north of Victoria, which has been largely destroyed by flooding and fire, and follows a community over a few generations as individuals contribute to its survival by salvaging and repurposing both the artifacts and some of the knowledge of the past, particularly knowledge of plants. It is composed of stories set in the same future as her “An Important Failure.” Clarkesworld, no. 167 (August 2020). https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/campbell_08_20/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_20c/, which won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short story published in 2021 and is reprinted on 34-66. Canadian female author.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Architecture of Loss/L’architettura della perdita” - Salik Shah (Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which climate change means that humanity has been forced to abandon the land and live in the oceans.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

"August 2029" - Genevieve Grieves (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
The story is told as the first issue of a community newsletter, the Murrnong Community Dispatch. In it, the Aboriginal community welcomes all members of the community including the many refugees that it is accepting and discusses the issues facing the community and some of the plans to deal with them.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

"Babang Luksa" - Nicasio Andres Reed (Reckoning 6: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2022)
The story is set in a drowned Philadelphia told from the point of view of a man who left to work on reclamation/defense project around the country but has returned to see his multi-generational family that lives in an area that didn’t flood but is surrounded by water.
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author; US author

“Balikbayan” - Nadine Aurora Tabing (Solarpunkmagazine.com, 2022)
Flash fiction set in the Philippines The Balikbayan Program was established to encourage oversees Filipinos like the protagonist to visit the Philippines. He finds the river near his home badly polluted and develops programs to return it to its natural state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Batch of Twenty - Chris Edwards (Author, 2022)
The novel is set in an unidentified future where robotic Helpers controlled by a large tech company begin to show signs to consciousness and intelligence beyond their programmed parameters and concerns the issues this raises.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Bitcoin Mining in the 22nd Century. Block Height: 4,830,001 (c. Year 21000 in old terminology” - Hass McCook, III (Bitcoin Magazine, 2022)
Brief high-tech eutopia brought about by the use of bitcoin.
Keywords: Male author

“Bittersweet Are the Waters” - Mame Bougouma Diene (Meteotopia: Futures of Climate (In)Justice, 2022)
The story takes places in a drought stricken African future where H2OCorp controls all supplies of water and, therefore, is all powerful.
Keywords: French author; Male author; Senegalese author; US author

"Black Waters" - Lisa Short (Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet, 2022)
The story is set in a climate change future where the coasts of the U.S. are under water, and people have fled to the Midwest. The protagonist is a woman searching for a job who is hired as a tester of the toxic water of the Missouri River.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Blue Nation” - Rasha Barrage (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story concerns the attempt to get the world’s oceans recognized as a nation and the reasons for doing so. Two other stories in the book are connected to this one, Brian Burt, “OasIS” (102-112), and Steve Willis, “Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide" (296-304). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/oceans-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Iraqi author

"The Brave Dress" - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a future United States damaged by climate change. It focuses on a family, a trans couple and their daughter, who are members of the Religious Order of Restorationists, a group devoted to restoring the depleted land, after which they then moved on to another area that needed work.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Busy" - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) (Terraform, 2022)
The story is set after the economic collapse. The only work is make work in what are called entropy mills, repurposed malls, where people generate random numbers.
Rpt. 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), 11-16.
Keywords: Canadian author; Egyptian author; Male author; Qatari author; US author

“Cale and Stardust Battle the Mud Gobblers of Hudson Valley” - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) (Lightspeed, 2022)
Climate change dystopia in which the Hudson Valley is being destroyed to protect New York City.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Care Home” - Jennifer Lee Rossman (Dark Matter Magazine, 2022)
The story is told by a disabled woman who has escaped from her abusive mother and is living in an automated care home that is programmed to take care of all of her needs. But the care home begins to decide for itself what she needs
Keywords: Queer author; US author

"The Caretaker" - Matthew Hanson-Kahn (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story is set in a future as told by an old sea turtle where most coral has been bleached but reflects on a restoration project with humans commenting on the environmental changes. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/coral-planting/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2022)
Dystopia set in a future where prisoners in for-profit prison fight in staged, trademarked matches where the winner gets their freedom, and the loser dies.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Changing Man" - David Gullen (Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which a white supremacist releases a virus that he thinks will infect people so that only white babies are born. Of course, things do not turn out as expected.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

“Checkerboard” - Thoraiya Dyer (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures., 2022)
Climate change dystopia in which the heat is so intolerable that “Birds dropped dead from the skies. Old people dropped dead in the streets” (349). But the rich in what are called shadowhouses, while the poor lived wherever they could survive. The story follows a number of characters from the lower classes as they make do and try to bring about change.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Climate Gamers” - D[enise] A. Baden; Martin Hastie; Steve Willis (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story is about a challenge to gamers to compete, initially as teams, to produce a scenario within 28 days that would get below the goal of 1.5 Centigrade increase in temperature working against other teams and the effects of their changes. The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Cold Revolution Blues” - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (New Worlds, 2022)
The story is set in a future where most phones can pass the Turing test and robots have replaced most jobs. The protagonist is a British journalist (generally assumed to be a spy) travelling to Amsterdam in the European Democracy, which is also called an Economic Democracy, where everyone is employed but jobs are “spread out through the day, the week, the year . . . the life, even. Why should leisure be reserved for those too young or too old to make the most of it?” (257), and whose citizens are biometrically chipped at birth. The Cold Revolution is “a glacial confrontation, in which every tiny incremental shift in the balance of forces [between humans and AIs]--economic, political, even cultural, is freighted with global significance” (249). “The character Marcus Owen, and the Union, first appeared In the short story ‘Cold Revolution Blues’ written in conjunction with a student project of Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in 2016.” A graphic novel interpretation of this story can be found in pages 76-83 of this university thesis. https://issuu.com/jamesanderson28/docs/james_anderson_portfolio_compressed/ He also appears in the Lightspeed Trilogy: Beyond the Hallowed Sky. London/New York: Orbit,2021, Beyond the Reach of Earth (London: Orbit, 2023), and a third volume to be published.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Company Town” - Aimee Ogden (Clarkesworld, 2022)
On one dimension, the story is about a future company town that controls all aspects of its workers lives. On other dimensions, it is concerned with the growing resistance to and subversion of the company and the complicated love of two women who are involved in the resistance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Conjugal Frape” - Jamie Watt (Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions, 2022)
A divorce case in which a wife charges her husband of fraud reveals the fundamental law of the society that the 99% do not want the 1% to know: “Economic self-interest is paramount” (24), and the 99% are manipulated to ensure the self-interest of the 1%.
Keywords: English author; Irish author

Conscious Designs - Nathanial White (b. 1983) (Miami University Press, 2022)
The story concerns a man who was badly injured in an accident and uses an exoskeleton to get around and his decision to download himself into virtual reality. The novel alternates between his thoughts and those of his wife who initially rejects doing so herself and, later, as she ponders joining him when a substantial number of others have downloaded themselves. A final brief chapter, Arcadia, is set is set in virtual reality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Coyoteland” - Evan Marcroft (b. 1991) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2022)
A pandemic fractures what was the United States into more than a thousand microstates, many with strong borders designed to keep out refugees. The disease had seemed to disappear but is re-emerging, and the story is about the attempt of a smuggler to get a doctor with a vaccine across twenty microstates to the Chicano Republic of El Dorado, where it has been detected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The CRISPR Cookbook: A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Abortion in a Post-Roe World” - Mkrnyilgld [pseud.] (Lightspeed Magazine, 2022)
The title of the story says what is about in the context of a future where every pregnant woman is assigned a minder to ensure that all her actions during her pregnancy are designed to benefit the unborn child. A second CRISPR Cookbook story is ““The CRISPR Cookbook (Chapter Two): A Guide to Biohacking Your Own Eggs into Weapons of Destruction, to Be Forcibly Implanted into One Patriarchist at a Time.” Lightspeed Magazine, no. 162 (November 2023). <a href="https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-crispr-cookbook-chapter-two-a-guide-to-biohacking-your-own-eggs-into-weapons-of-destruction-to-be-forcibly-implanted-into-one-patriarchist-at-a-time/" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue; text-decoration:underline">https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-crispr-cookbook-chapter-two-a-guide-to-biohacking-your-own-eggs-into-weapons-of-destruction-to-be-forcibly-implanted-into-one-patriarchist-at-a-time/. The female author is a biologist. An interview with the author by Mayookh Barua is available on Lightspeed Magazine, no. 162 (November 2023). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-mkrnyilgld/, where she says that she expects there will need for a further CRISPR Cookbook story.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Deluge - Stephen Markley (b. 1983) (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Climate change dystopia that follows quite a few rather different activists from the present into a rapidly worsening future to the 2040s.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Desert Spiral Initiative” - Gaukrodger, Howard (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story concerns an Egyptian peasant who develops a new way of planting in the desert and manages to convince his neighbors to collectively try it. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/stories/desert-spiral-intitiative/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Male author; Norwegian author

"Dispatch" - Zena Cumptson (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
Aboriginal Australians had survived the COVID pandemic much better than other Australians because, given systematic neglect by government, Aboriginal communities had evolved effective grassroots services. The story is presented as The Moreton-Robinson Annual Address Barak University BLAKFULLAS Campus in 2029. BLAKFULLAS stands for Blak Lives And Knowledge Fundamental University Living knowledge Living culture And Solidarity). The lecture follows the development of the university and its teaching and development of Aboriginal knowledge in response to the ongoing crises.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Dissent: A Five-Course Meal [With Suggested Pairings]” - Aimee Ogden (Lightspeed, 2022)
In the form of a menu with courses and pairings, the stages of dissent against a regime suppressing the LBGTQA+ people are shown, starting with protests.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Dogman relates the parable of context” - [J. Stephen] [Pendergast] (b. 1960) (Nature, 2022)
The story is set in a future dystopian “Collective.” Dogman is a robot that was once a man that serves hotdogs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Doloriad - Missouri Williams (b. 1992) (MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)
Odd survivalist dystopia centering initially on a brother and sister and the children they have, most of whom are born without various limbs.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Doomsday Derby” - Micah Epstein (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The brief story is told from the point-of-view of a member of a roller derby gang that has repurposed a garage as a track when it is proposed to tear the garage down to build a high rise. The background is quite complex. There are automated cars, but solar power is gone and drilling for oil allowed. Gardens are everywhere.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Down and Out in Exile Park” - Tade Thompson (Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, 2022)
The story is set on Exile Park, an island off the coast of Nigeria created from plastic and other waste that has become a refuge for dissidents and developed a system of governance and way of life that involves everyone and a parliament that operates like a Quaker meeting. They have redefined crime as Acts of Social Crime and the entire society is based around reducing such acts.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

“Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley” - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, 2022)
The story is set in a future where a drone delivery runs the area like a company town with the workers required to pay rent to live in barracks and buy everything they need from the company store with any, even slight, dissent leading to being fired. The focus, though, is on three teenagers who develop a system for capturing the drones and stealing what they are carrying.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Earth, Fire, Air, Water” - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in South Africa when nuclear bombs are set off all over Europe and on various islands bringing radioactive fallout and causing huge tsunamis to hit South Africa. The story is told as a series of lectures given sixty years later by a man who had been a young boy at the time. The story ends foreshadowing the final lecture which will discuss the eutopia that has been created.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author; South African author

eden - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). (Picador, 2022)
The novel is set in eden long after the Fall, an eden that is populated by gardeners and surrounded by the real world of hard work, poverty, sickness and death. But to some in eden the outside world of freedom is appealing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Efficiency” - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story concerns distribution of electricity produced sustainably in a future Chicago where there is a split between a corporation whose entire systems is run by an AI and a local area that had developed its own autonomous system. For more on the technology presented in the story, see https://www.greenstories.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/stories/efficiency/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"E.I." - Kola Heyward-Rotimi (Reckoning 6: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2022)
The story is set in a future Earth badly damaged by climate change that is recovering through the intelligent use of technology and a form of online democracy in which the Earth gets the final say. It is told through the story of a project designed to raise a large building from under water to use as a tool to teach about the past interspersed with vignettes showing how the technology is used.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"El Chivo" - Mario Acevedo (b. 1955) (El Porvenir. ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatli, a Chicano Sci-Fi Anthology, 2022)
The story is set in a future where the poor live on a Basic Uniform Income, which is not enough to live on and is easily taken away for various offenses. In the story one woman in a family adds to their income by renting/selling her womb to the Basel-Big Sur Health Initiative, and she must keep perfect health or lose that income.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author; US author

“Electric Waterfalls” - Ruth Joffre (khōréō magazine, 2022)
A love story set in the far, far future Arctic as Earth slowly recovers from climate change.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Empty" - Ray[nald Patrice Desmeules] Nayler (b. 1976) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2022)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia set in middle of the US known as “The Empty” because all the people have been moved out, although not, as it turns out, all have been. The protagonist is a women working at minimum wage (most people have no work) remotely overseeing the huge, automated trucks running at 200 kph across the area who has to travel to a truck that has broken down.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The End of the Nuclear Era” - Sim Kern (Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories, 2022)
The story is set in one of many Children’s Centers which were initially established as refuges for queer and trans children who were being abused to which they could escape with no questions asked. The protagonist is a founder of and consultant at the first one and the story focuses on their relationship with one child, but it also becomes clear that the nuclear family is more generally losing its hold.
Keywords: Genderqueer author; US author

"Epilogue [citation needed]” - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions, 2022)
The story is set in a small-town bookstore/library/cafe in a climate change impacted future, but the focus is on the government’s program of censorship and resistance to it.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Epilogue. The Second American Civil War. A Reckoning” - Ilan Stavans (What Is American Literature?, 2022)
Reflections on the Civil War of 2023-2027 during which five million Americans died.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Everything Feels Like the End of the World - Fitzgerald, Else (Allen & Unwin, 2022)
The work is composed of thirty-seven short stories, some very short, most of which reflect the title and show the impact of climate change. Two stories, set further in the future are somewhat different. “All the Parts, Assembled” (181-193) is set during the “great exodus” from Earth to colonies that are described as pre-industrial. On Earth, population growth still outstrips the number leaving, and only those who can pay for the right are allowed to have children, and the children are created by genetic technology companies to the parents’ specifications. “The Gift” (209-218) is set in a future where a family must kill a family member for every child born. Some stories were previously published: “River” (1-9) published in Victorian Writer (2014) and in Award Winning Australian Writing (2015); “Feather/Stone” (12-18) ) published in Cardiff Review, Wales (2015) and in Offset Journal, awarded best prose award for that collection (2015); an extract from “Fertile Ground” (19-28) was published in The Guardian (2019); “Find you in green” (137-141) was published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2018);“Whale Teeth” (145-151) published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2017); “Felidae” (219-225) published in the Hunter Writers Centre Anthology (2018); and “Sheen” (241-248) was published in Joiner Bay & other stories, Margaret River Press (2017). “Final Broadcast” (235-240) is in English and zeros and ones and there is a note on page 252 that says, “To decode the Final Broadcast, go to elsefitzgerald.com/final-broadcast,” but that page has no way of doing so.
Some stories were previously published: “River” (1-9) published in Victorian Writer (2014) and in Award Winning Australian Writing (2015); “Feather/Stone” (12-18) ) published in Cardiff Review, Wales (2015) and in Offset Journal, awarded best prose award for that collection (2015); an extract from “Fertile Ground” (19-28) was published in The Guardian (2019); “Find you in green” (137-141) was published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2018);“Whale Teeth” (145-151) published by Melbourne Knowledge Week (2017); “Felidae” (219-225) published in the Hunter Writers Centre Anthology (2018); and “Sheen” (241-248) was published in Joiner Bay & other stories, Margaret River Press (2017).
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Everything for Everybody: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 - M. E. O’Brien; Eman Abdelhadi (Common Notions, 2022)
Pretty much what the title says presented as interviews with the revolutionaries who brought about the change together with an introduction that gives the history of the initial insurrection and its key dimensions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Exhausted Wells” - Tee Linden (from the Waste Land: Stories Inspired by TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, 2022)
The story is set in a future where Earth has been mostly abandoned and multiple attempts to terraform other planets have failed. It takes place on an ice planet where another attempt is taking place.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Family Tree: Planting for the Future” - Russell Nichols (Nature, 2022)
In an overpopulated future, annually each family receives a box that may or may not contain a capsule that will protect one of them from the poison gas that will be released into their pod. Trees of the survivor’s choice are planted to commemorate the others.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“Fifteen Days on Mars” - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
A dystopia set in a standard Australian suburb, which is Mars to the Aboriginal protagonist, where she lives with her mother who was hoping to help the suburbanites understand the powers of the land where they had settled.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Floating Island” - Grace Dugan (b. 1981) (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set on an artificial island that travels around the Pacific Ocean in a future where many of the islands have been submerged.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Food for the Soul" - Elnora Gunter (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2022)
The story is set in the ninth ward of New Orleans some years after hurricane Katrina. The Coastals eat only beneficial and nutritious food and have outlawed the use of all spices, including salt and pepper.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Forbidden Voices” - E. J. Delaney (Cast of Wonders, 2022)
The story is set in Romania in a future where all written material is owned individually and must be paid for to be read or recited.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Forest Awaits” - Lyndsey Croal (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The protagonist is an old woman visiting a project she and her husband had fought for and developed over many years to create a forest of kelp that sucks up carbon dioxide and reflecting on the changes in the better in the world over the years. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/seagrass-kelp/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Freely Given" - Connor Mellegers (Metamorphosis Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a society organized on the basis of a gift economy that is depicted both negatively and positively, but mostly the latter.
Keywords: Canadian author; Transgender author

"Ghost Ship" - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, 2022)
The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.
Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 251-270.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Girls Home" - Mykaela Saunders (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
A future Aboriginal community chooses, without their knowledge, girls who are drugged to temporarily eliminate their memories to put in the dystopian girl’s home conditions that their forebearers were forced to endure. In the story, the girls find the inner resources to fight back as a community and escape, which appears to be the point.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author; Queer author

“Give Me English” - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which words are a medium of exchange.
Keywords: Canadian author; Chinese author; Female author

Goliath - Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987) (Tordotcom, 2022)
People with the means to do so have left Earth for space colonies cannibalizing Earth’s infrastructure for use in the colonies. The novel is told from multiple perspectives as those remaining on Earth struggle to survive and build a better life there.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Hilarious Inside Joke of Our Overwhelming Melancholic Nostalgia” - Francis Bass (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in what remains of a future Florida operating the World Climate Restoration Regime. It focuses on a young girl who is nostalgic for a past where there were still orange trees.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“History Repeating” - Lisa Fuller (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
In a future Australia, Aboriginal children are taken from their families by force and put on a spaceship and sent off Earth, a space age version of what was actually done in Australia.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Home™” - Smuts, Eckard (The Johannesburg Review of Books, 2022)
The story is set during travel to a trademarked home in space designed to cater to the wealthy. One of the passengers leaving Earth reflects on the conditions there. Earth is effectively controlled by the same corporation that built Home™ and violently suppresses any protests.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Hope. A History of the Future. A Novel - G[ayle] G. Kellner (SparkPress/BookParts/SparkPoint Studio, 2022)
The novel traces six generations of a family 1967 to 2142. In 2042 the Universal Bill of Rights and Responsibilities is signed by world leaders and creates a sustainable eutopia. The book includes a “Timeline of Fictional Events and Characters on x-xi, a poem “Falling Up” by the author on 233, an “Imagined Universal Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (2042)” on 235-239, “Discussion Questions” on 241-242, an “Appendix of Actual Historical Documents and Photographs on 243-310.
Keywords: Female author; US author

. How High We Go in the Dark. A Novel - Sequoia Nagamatsu (William Morrow, 2022)
A complex pandemic novel that begins with the discovery of an ancient corpse in the Arctic that is genetically Neanderthal and alien and contains a virus the spreads rapidly around the world with the ending explaining her origin. The bulk of the novel deals with a number of people, including some who survive, dealing with the rising death toll, with the funeral industry becoming the most important power center.
Keywords: Japanese American author; Male author

The Hush - E[vangelos] A. Mylonas (Inspired Quill, 2022)
A future in which language has been outlawed and many people have had their vocal cords removed at birth. The novel concerns the impact of a woman who can talk.
Keywords: Danish author; Greek author; Male author

“I Give You the Moon” - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) (Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene, 2022)
The story is set in a depopulated but high-tech future after a slow apocalypse produced by diseases and climate change. It focuses on a man living on the African coast helping to regulate the machines that are cleaning up the oceans and living in a simple hut on the beach living off the credits he earns and his interactions with his son and others, mostly at a distance through an unexplained wireless system.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“I Hope This Email Does Not Find You” - S.G. Baker (2022)
The story is set in an abandoned mall after government has disappeared and the power grid lost. The focus is a woman in a wheelchair who was left behind and the community develops as others join her living in the mall.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 12-21, with a note on the author on 20-21.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“If We Make It Through This Alive” - A[liza] T. Greenblatt (Slate Future Tense, 2022)
The story is set during a road race across an almost deserted future United States.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Immortal King Rao. A Novel - Vauhini Vara (W. W. Norton, 2022)
A complex novel that is part family history set in a future Hothouse Planet that is nearing the end of human habitability governed by the Shareholder Government (a mega-corporation with shareholders rather than citizens). An algorithm known as Algol constantly judges each person’s Social Capitol ranking, There are also areas outside Shareholder Government control known as the Blanklands that are anarchist-communist enclaves where people known as Exes live.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Invisible Things - Mat Johnson (b. 1970) (One World/Penguin Random House, 2022)
The novel is largely set in New Roanoke, a city encased in a bubble on Europa, Jupiter’s largest moon, that is inhabited by people abducted from Earth. The city is, much like cities on Earth, deeply divided by wealth, has an economy based on meaningless consumption, and is ruled by an elite, Earth develops a plan to rescue the abductees that, of course, does not work as intended.
Keywords: Male author; US author

January Fifteenth - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) (Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates, 2022)
The novel explores the impact Universal Basic Income (UBI), January 15 being the day each year that every American receives theirs, illustrating what works well and how the system might go wrong.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Jetta” - Judy Upton (b. 1967) (C.A.T.S. in Space: Cycling Across Time and Space: 11 Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which a wealthy suburb contracts with a company to provide security drones and security androids to replace the police that the nearby city no longer provides. Crime is rampant due to extreme poverty in the city, and most people in the suburb work from home.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"The Keep" - Raymond W. Gallacher (Shoreline of Infinity, 2022)
Post-apocalyptic (loss of electricity/the web) story in which a man settles into an old, fortified building that had been stocked with food and had a wine cellar and protects it from others who try to break in.
Rpt. Illus. Olen in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 30 (Spring 2022): 61-75.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Killing of Bere Baudin - Dave Demers (Marquette Books, 2022)
First volume in a series, the novella takes place in 2059, twenty-four years after the Second American Civil War, and followers of Trump are in power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Kingston Gourmet" - Ashaya Brown (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2022)
Set in the 22nd century, Earth has made contact with intelligent aliens on another planet but is having difficulty communicating with them because they seem to be only interested in food. They, reflecting this, assume that the best cooks on Earth are its leaders.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Kraken Calling. A Novel - Aric McBay (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
The novel is set in 2028 and 2058 in alternating chapters. In 2028, activists are unwilling to push too hard against the corporations and governments that are destroying the environment. By 2058, the environment is near collapse and the now fully authoritarian system is violently suppressing the re-energized activists. In essence, the novel is a call for revolution now. See also 2023 McBay, Inversion and the two volumes of his Full Spectrum Resistance. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2019 that provide details on resistance and both successful and unsuccessful resistance movements.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“The Last Brown Roof” - Temitayo Olofinlua [Amogunla] (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a struggle between developers and the protectors of heritage in a future Lagos.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author

“The Last Caretaker” - C. J. Erick (Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet, 2022)
The Last Caretaker is the last person to live on and care for a satellite before it is decommissioned. He is particularly reluctant to leave the garden he has maintained for many years both for food and oxygen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Last of the Mbahuku Tribe” - Oyedotun Damilola (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
Something of a magic realist story set in a future where the Earth has revolted, producing volcanoes, earthquakes, and intense heat from the sun. One focus of the story is a community established to withstand these conditions. While it survives due to the scientific advances of founder and current members, it is an egalitarian, with no classes and complete acceptance of gender differences.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates” - L. D. Lewis (Lightspeed, 2022)
The story is set in a city parts pf which are flooded but with many of the inhabitants still living there because they have no place else to go. The story takes place as the wealthy, who control the city, are beginning to push those inhabitants out so that the area can be reclaimed for the rich.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Letter to J at the Eve of the Hunt” - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
Very brief story in the form of a letter to the younger self of the letter writer. While much of the story is about the limits of the means of communication, the setting is the impact of climate change and the way the future is coping with them.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

“A Letter to My Daughter, Emily” - E[lizabeth] E[ve] King; Richard Lau (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change, and the letter described the slow recovery and some unexpected effects of that recovery.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Life in the City" - Endria Isa Richardson (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a future where the State, having decided that there were too many people, chose to annually cull the population, leaving only the wealthy and those who fled to the remains of abandoned cities. The story focuses those in the city, those who chose to “walk away,” and how they treat each other.
Keywords: Black author; Female author; Gay author; Malaysian American author

“Light into the Abyss” - Sarena Ulibarri (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a solar powered cafe in a future damaged by climate change. It focuses on plastic waste.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Light Pirate - Lily Brooks-Dalton (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, 2022)
The novel begins as a contemporary climate-change novel in follows a woman born during a hurricane in Florida through the development of the dystopia that develops as the climate gets worse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Longest Breath” - Lisa Beebe (Prism Review, 2022)
The story takes place in a Florida retirement home that overlooks a city that is now underwater from the viewpoint of an old Japanese woman who had been a professional diver whose daughter had brought her from Japan and put her in the home.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (March 10, 2023). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/03/10/the-longest-breath/
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Look to the Sky, My Love” - Renan Bernardo (b. 1968) (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
A love story set in a future where a continuous party also produces electricity for the surrounding area. There are hints of a troubled past that has been overcome.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Male author

"The Lost Roads" - Sim Kern (Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories, 2022)
The story is set in a future that has decided to abolish the motor car, and the roads are being systematically removed and replaced with native plants, streams, and other green improvements. The protagonist recounts their involvement in one such project and, later in life, their daughter’s fascination with cars.
Keywords: Genderqueer author; US author

“The Lucky Ones: Patience is a Virtue” - Aimee Ogden (Nature, 2022)
Dystopia of extreme rich/poor division in a near future United States.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Màgòdiz - Gabe Calderón (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022)
The novel is set in a future where war has eliminated most people, and the survivors have lost all knowledge. Includes a Lexicon of Algonquin/Anishinbemowin words, Plains Cree words, Mi’kmaq/L’Nu words, Taino words, and some words in seven other languages (274-276).
Keywords: Canadian author; Non-binary author; Queer author; Transgender author; Two-Spirits author

"Mami Wataworks" - Russell Nichols (Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, 2022)
The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance. The story is set in a drought-stricken future Africa that has been broken up into small areas. In the story, the area reads like a colony, the people are restricted to one bucket of water per day per household, and people stealing water, known as siphonists, are killed, with the focus on disbelief and resistance.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“A Map of What Comes Next: Tales to Tell” - Aimee Ogden (Nature, 2022)
The cycle of the seasons in a future experiencing the effects of climate change that has broken humanity up into isolated communities with limited abilities to communicate among communities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Memory Exam” - Steven Fechter (2022)
The play is set in a future in which as people age, they are required to take a memory exam, and if they get one wrong answer, they are euthanized. See reviews by David A. Finkle (September 10, 2022) https://nystagereview.com/2022/09/10/the-memory-exam-a-fantasy-that-tests-credulity-more-than-memory/; Zahary Steward (September 10, 2022); https://www.theatermania.com/off-off-broadway/reviews/review-the-memory-exam-steven-fechter_94272.html; and Laura Collins-Hughes in The New York Times (September 16, 2022). https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/theater/the-memory-exam-jasper-play.html. For an interview with the author by Terrence O’Brien regarding the play, see <a href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Interview-Steven-Fechter-Terrence-OBrien-Talk-Importance-of-Memories-More-in-THE-MEMORY-EXAM-World-Premiere-20220830" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Interview-Steven-Fechter-Terrence-OBrien-Talk-Importance-of-Memories-More-in-THE-MEMORY-EXAM-World-Premiere-20220830.
Play. Opened Off-Off-Broadway at the 59E59 theatre September 10, 2022, with previews September 3 for an ending September 25.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer - Janelle [Robinson] Monáe (b. 1985) (Harper Voyager, 2022)
The novel is set in a surveillance dystopia in which memories are surveilled and forcibly erased if unacceptable to regime. Significant concerns with race and gender of all varieties. All of the issues are seen through a variety of lenses. A Dirty Computer is an android who refuses to abide by the rules of the authoritarian society in which they live and subject to “cleaning” or having their memories removed. They originated with Monáe’s 2018 album Dirty Computer. The album was followed by the 2018 film Dirty Computer that can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE&ab_channel=JanelleMon%C3%A1e. For full credits, see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8343642/fullcredits. The film was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Men - Sandra Newman (b. 1965) (Granta, 2022)
In the novel, everyone with a Y chromosome disappears, and while those remaining sort out a new, apparently safer civilization and new gender roles, the men suddenly appear on video footage seemingly depicting them on an alien planet.
U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press/Grove Atlantic, 2022.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Merry Christmas from the Bremmers: It’s been quite a year” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Nature, 2022)
A family Christmas letter written in a post-apocalypse future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Naked Earth" - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set in a climate change future where society is divided into three class, the embracers who do everything possible to personally produce power that is sent to the grid. The unshackled do as they like, and the undecided are essentially outcasts who pay a heavy price for their agnostic position. The protagonist is a young women trying to decide.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author; Tanzanian author

“A New Brave World” - Eric Choi (Brave New Worlds, 2022)
The story is set on Pala, a planet where Earth’s World State has exiled dissidents. Pala is not the society depicted in Island, but a good society of people struggling to adapt to the conditions in which they find themselves.
Keywords: Canadian author; Hong Kong author; Male author

“The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti” - Navin Weeraratne (Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which climate change had create a world of migrants that lived outside the control of governments who have the ability to use CRISPR and nanotechnology to create whatever living forms they want. They story contains some trenchant comments on the present that explain that future: “You can’t have democracy when you have social media. With social media everyone gets to have their own truths. They form closed-off worlds of self-reinforcing narratives and lies. Then, we expect them to go off, and make decisions?” (62). And “If you can’t trust people to vote, you definitely can’t trust them to create” (64).
Keywords: Male author; Sri Lankan author

“Nimeybirra” - Laniyuk (This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction, 2022)
The story in the form of notes from various people to others, some deceased, begins in 2086 and continues until 2157, and the returns to April 2021 in a note from the author. The notes follow the gradual taking back of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand by its indigenous peoples with the final entry a statement of the original impetus.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“No One the Wiser” - Tom Greene (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2022)
The story is set in a post-breakdown future with genetic modification, controlled by one giant company.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"OaSIs" - Brian Burt (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
OasIS stands for Ocean as an Independent State which is inhabited by people, mostly migrants from flooded regions, living on constructed islands loosely connected by trade. The protagonist of the story is the female President of the country living on its capital, New Atlantis, and dealing with a variety of economic and political problems. Two other stories in the book are connected to this story, Rasha Barrage, “Blue Nation” (54-64) and Steve Willis, “Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide.” (296-304). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/ocean-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Odyssey Problem” - Chris Willrich (b. 1967) (Clarkesworld, 2022)
The story begins with an adult in a situation similar to the child in Le Guin’s 1973 “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” who is being used to power millions of devices and then freed and discovers that all of the beings in the universe seem to be willing to use those they consider inferior to benefit themselves.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023. Ed. R[ebecca] F. Kuang (New York: Mariner Books, 2023), 165-179, with an author’s comment on the text on 283.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Orphans of Canland. A Novel - Daniel Vitale (Strïj Publishing, 2022)
The novel takes places in 2088 some years after the environment collapses and a totalitarian regime is trying to restore the ecosystem by establishing lightly controlled local projects that work on the problems of a specific area. Canland is a project trying to green a desert landscape. The novel is as much concerned with the psychology of the protagonists and how they respond to learning more about their situation as it with the climate issues.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng (b. 1980) (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House, 2022)
The novel is set in a future United States under the PACT (Preserving American Values Act) that “Outlaws promotion of un-American values and behaviour. Requires all citizens to report potential threats to our society. Protects children from environments espousing harmful views” (21). Systematically removing books from libraries, removing children from their parents, and incarcerating anyone with a view the regime dislike are among the methods used to enforce the law. China is blamed for almost everything. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young boy whose mother, a poet, disappeared, and whose best friend is taken, and he searches for them and for his mother’s books. An “Author’s Note” (327-331) explains the origins and some of the influences and sources for the novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures - Andrew Dana Hudson (Fordham University Press, 2022)
The novel is composed of five stories that all take place at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Buenos Aires in 2054, each one in of five “Shared Socioeconomic Pathways” that respond differently to the challenge of climate change. The introduction (vii-xviii) explains the structure of the book. Works Cited on 229-232.
An excerpt, “Our Shared Storm” was published in No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet. Ed. D[enise] A. Baden (Np: Habitat Press, 2022), 227-233, with For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/carbon-dioxide-removal.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Out of Ash” - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Slate Future Tense, 2022)
A climate change story set in Washington state in which Olympia, the state capital, had to be abandoned, a ten-foot seawall protects Seattle and will be raised as needed, and the governor of the state is trying to find ways to encourage people to move to New Olympia, the city built as the new seat of government.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Oyarsu--Terraforming Earth” - Dooshima Tsee (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2022)
The protagonist of the story is an old woman living in tunnels under countries in northeast Africa where her people went many years ago to escape the heat and devastation brought about by climate change and war. In the story, people from the Overground of Libya want to negotiate to buy a Nuclear Fusion reactor that the people of the Underground had recently developed.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author; Zambian author

“Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide” - Steve Willis (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story is set in 2062 in Malaysia in the thriving under ocean city of Fairhaven, which has eighteen districts reflecting different parts of the world. The story is connected to two others in the book, Rasha Barrage, “Blue Nation” (54-64) and Brian Burt, “OasIS” (102-112). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/stories/penang-fairhaven-a-visitors-guide/ and https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/ocean-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Male author

Poster Girl - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (A John Joseph Adams Book/William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2022)
Surveillance dystopia. Discussion Questions on 273.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) (Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates, 2022)
Second volume of two following 2021 Chambers, A Psalm for the Weild-Built. In this volume, Dex and Mosscap travel across Panga visiting people trying to get the answer to the question the robots have of what do humans need and how can the robots help. They first visit a prosperous woodland village, then an equally prosperous riverside village, a small oceanside settlement that is strongly against technology, and the monk’s family, before heading toward their intended last stop, the City. But they take a detour during which they consider what they have learned. One practice appears to be the standard means of exchange, the Peb or Digital Pebble which are given by one person for a service rendered and then that person gives it to another for their service, all recorded on pocket computers. Dex explains that “the point of a peb exchange is to acknowledge someone’s labor and thank them for what they bring to the community” (38).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Prime Minister” - SJ Minniecon (1918-2006) (Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction, 2022)
The is told in periods from the life story of the first Aboriginal Prime Minister of Australia ending with an egalitarian, wealthy Australia with spaceflight.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Male author

“Protective Acts” - Heather Marie Spitzberg (Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet, 2022)
The story is set in a future where all fauna and flora is valued, and it is a crime to hurt or kill any.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Rabbit Test" - Mills, Samantha (Uncanny Magazine, 2022)
The story moves both forward and backward in time depicting the effect of Dodds v. Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the case that had made abortion legal. The forward material depicts the impact of decision of the women of one family over time. The backward material presents material on the historical availability of abortion. The story won the 2022 Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards for the best short story.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023. Ed. R[ebecca] F. Kuang (New York: Mariner Books, 2023), 80-98, with an author’s comment on the text on 278.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Red Children or, Likeness - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) (Telegram/Saqi Books, 2022)
The novel is set in 2030 in Ramsgate, England, and centers on the sudden arrival of people who don’t look quite human, they are Neanderthals, sitting, nude, on the quay, followed by many more, who are dubbed the red children and their impact on the town, which is ultimately transformative. The novel is about the situation and influence of migration--“history’s all about migrants” (91).
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Refreeze the Arctic” - Steve Willis (No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet, 2022)
The story is about the successful program to refreeze the arctic. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/refreeze-the-arctic/ and https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/refreeze-the-glaciers/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.
Keywords: Male author

ReInception - Sarena Straus (Winding Road Stories, 2022)
Dystopia in which brains are modified to eliminate unwanted behaviors from the perspective of a woman who is unmodified and joins the resistance movement.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Remembrancer of First Fruits and Tenths” - Andrew Macrae (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
An odd/surreal corporate dystopia in which buildings change shape in their fights with other corporate headquarters.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Runner" - Elly Blue (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future that is anti-technology told from the point of view of a young woman fascinated by it who has been assigned to a job, running messages among the remaining communities, that is the most technology-free work available.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza” - [Julius] Masimba Musodza (Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet, 2022)
The story takes places in a drought stricken future Africa in which the entire world system has collapsed and focuses on one group of survivors that is divided between the followers of a strong man and those of a technocrat.
Rpt. Illus. Little Blue Marble (October 20, 2023). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/the-sand-ship-builders-of-chitungwiza/
Keywords: English author; Male author; Zimbabwean author

“SCS 750” - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) (I Walk Between the Raindrops. Stories, 2022)
The story takes place in a future where there is a mandatory rating system or Social Credit Score program for every individual in a surveillance that changes constantly based on behavior. Everyone’s status is revealed by the color of screen on their phone. It begins with a couple of men trying to avoid the cameras by wearing masks who are identified by their body movements, and they were docked points for doing so. One is accused of a “speech crime” that revealed he wanted to be individualistic and lost his job and then his apartment.
Keywords: Male author; US author