“Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Boston Review, 2017)
Dystopia that tries to eliminate anyone who doesn’t fit in. The story focuses on the oppression of people who are transgender.
Rpt. in Transcendent 3: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2018), 197-213; in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 170-87; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 639-657; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 141-55.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Don’t Speak; Don’t Listen” - Serena Johe (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
The story is set in a future where, to counter verbal abuse, people are fitted with a device that keeps them from insulting another person, which has unexpected consequences.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Drafting the President" - Lou J Berger (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
After the impeachment and arrest of President Trump, the procedure for electing the President of the United States is completely changed. Five candidates are vetted and put through a series of complex tests to ensure their ability to handle the issues, and the most successful becomes the only candidate.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dreams Before the Start of Time - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) (47th North, 2017)
The novel is set in the years from 2034 through 2120 and follows the adjustments made by individuals and families as they adjust to advances in medicine regarding fertility and birth to the point where anyone can have a child through a various of different technologies. It won the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature. Female author.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Easy" - Liam Hogan (Little Blue Marble, 2017)
A successful environmental movement is undermined and defeated by corporate opposition.
Rpt. without the illus. Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Eating the Moon - Mark David Campbell (DSP Publications, 2017)
A complex novel that includes a period in a gay male flawed utopia.
Keywords: Italian author; Male author

"Eggs" - Eilidh McCabe (A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction, 2017)
The story is set in a future where under the Fertility Protection Act all eggs are harvested from all girl children with the intention of improving equality, although the story suggests the result has been the opposite.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Elderjoy" - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
Humorous dystopia in which governmental implants register unhealthy activities and tax them. In the story, the “unhealthy” activity is sex over a certain age.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Eminence" - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains “eminence” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The End We Start From - Megan Hunter (b. 1984) (Picador, 2017)
The setting to the novel is a climate-change dystopia in which a woman has to flee flooded London with her just-born baby.
U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 2017
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Endangered” - Allegra Hyde (American Short Fiction, 2017)
Very short dystopia in which artists are considered an endangered species and kept in glass enclosures where they can be viewed as in a zoo. In an online interview with Erin McReynolds, the female author discusses utopias at https://americanshortfiction.org/web-exclusive-interview-allegra-hyde/
Rpt. in Best of the Net 2017; and in her The Last Catastrophe (New York: Vintage Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 81-83.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Endling Market” - E[mma] J. Swift (2084, 2017)
Dystopia in which most animal species are disappearing, and there is a market for any of the last the last remaining ones.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 257-70.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

An Excess Male - Maggie Shen King (Harper Voyager, 2017)
The dystopia created by 2030 by the Chinese one-child policy combined with a preference for male children. There are now forty million unmarriageable men. The dystopia provides the background to the story of one such man.
Keywords: Female author; Taiwanese author; US author

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid (b. 1971) (Riverhead Books, 2017)
Refugee dystopia in which refugees are able to move from place to place through “doors.” The novel follows two people from their homeland to the Greek island Mykonos to London to a Marin, a new city created in California.
Keywords: English author; Pakistani author; US author

“Eyejacked” - David Walton (b. 1975) (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which an implant in the eye can be used to connect tom others and create followers, which produces income. Within the story a husband and wife disagree over the effect on their family is positive or negative.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fallow" - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) (Small Beer Press, 2017)
Dystopia in which Mennonite refugees from Earth have colonized their own planet but now treated other refugees the way they had been treated on Earth.
Keywords: Female author; Somali-American author

"The Farmer's Almanac" - Halli Villegas (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate fiction dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Feastwar" - Kaftan, Vylar (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
Interactions through a computer game that connects people throughout the U. S. both brings about the spread and helps end a deadly disease.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Festival of the Cull” - Steve Carr (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2017)
Dystopia of a society where each year everyone must choose a person to be culled, and those getting the most votes will be killed. The system can be rigged. Resonates with Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Fifteen Minutes: Turn On, Tune In, Log Off” - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) (Nature, 2017)
Dystopia in which AIs have taken over from humans, who had been destroying the planet and killing each other. The AIs keep the humans just barely alive.
Keywords: Male author; Ukrainian author; US author

“‘Fifth Avenue’: Trump keeps his campaign promises” - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story is told from the point-of-view of a reporter convicted of treason for revealing that the Trump administration had arranged with Russia to have another U.S. reporter poisoned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Final Delivery" - Kerri-Leigh Grady (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which young women are used to produce babies whose body parts are used to replace those lost by the military and the rich.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Fire Star" - Shirley Chan (Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads, 2017)
The story is set on an Earth with sever pollution and rationed, and expensive water and power, but the focus of the story is about the settlement of Mars, the corporate, personal, and political conflicts involved, and the myth-making that has already started.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author; US author

"Fire Wire" - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The story is set in a future where, after worldwide fires, electric power must be generated by individuals and focuses on whether or not to build new power plants.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

"Fix-It Shop" - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) (Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction, 2017)
Post-catastrophe (a disease that kills all but a few men) dystopia in which the few boys born are overly protected and assumed to be incapable of doing the practical things that women do. Most young women have never seen a young man.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Floating City of Pengimbang” - Michelle Goddard (Water: Optimistic Sci-Fi Series, 2017)
The story is set in a climate change future in which the islands of the South Pacific are completely submerged, and the inhabitants live on rafts, constantly alert for storms.
Keywords: Female author

"Fly Away, Peter" - Ian Hocking (b. 1976) (2084, 2017)
Dystopia in which Germany has become isolated from the rest of Europe and rejects all outsiders.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Flying Under the Texas Radar with Paco and Los Freetails” - Ernest Hogan (b. 1955) (Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017)
The story is told from a settlement on Mars, and is about what happens when, under the U.S. second amendment, a rich Texan gets nuclear weapons and declares Texas free, at least for conservative, white, heterosexuals. Paco first appeared in the author’s Cortez on Jupiter. New York: Tor, 1990.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

“For Better or Worse” - Jennifer Graham (Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads, 2017)
Dystopia in which a few huge corporations fight each other for power.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Freefall - Joshua David Bellin (b. 1965) (Margaret K. McElderry, 2017)
Young adult dystopia that begins in 2151 where the 1% rule and the 99% live horrible lives seen through the eyes of a young man from the 1% who falls for a girl from the 99%. From there, the novel shifts, after some humans are sent into space, to a struggle for survival on a different planet in 3151 with the same protagonist.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"From the Dark" - Emilie Collyer (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The story is set in a dystopia where plastics are destroying the oceans and takes place in a juvenile detention center where garbage pits are dug out for recycling.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Frozen" - Liam Hogan (Alternative Truths, 2017)
In the future each election determines who will be frozen until the next election. This, while apparently eutopian, eliminates unemployment and helps the environment to recover.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Future Home of the Living God. A Novel - [Karen] Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) (Harper, 2017)
Dystopia that follows a dramatic drop in pregnancies Government disappears and pregnant women are kidnapped and incarcerated under the auspices of the Church of the New Constitution.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Future Perfect" - [Victoria Estelle Mitchell] [Gustafson] (1954-2017) (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which the United States has become a hereditary monarchy of Trumps.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Games Theory" - Beth [Ann] Plutchak (b. 1952) (Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future, 2017)
The story is about a multi-generation starship and the relations between the male, white scientists and engineers and the predominantly female, mixed race and ethnicity who are more arts and humanities oriented.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gather the Daughters. A Novel - Jennie Melamed (Little, Brown, 2017)
Young adult dystopia that takes place on an isolated island inhabited by a cult in which women are completely controlled by their fathers and husbands except for a brief period at puberty. Women who are past child-bearing age are considered no longer useful and are required to commit suicide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Ghost in the Machine” - Susan Pieters (Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty, 2017)
The story is set in a future that can be read as either eutopian or dystopian. It is presented as much better than the past in that war has disappeared, but the future is controlled through an AI. The DNA of boys is analyzed at birth and aggressive and religious features removed.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Glitterati” - Oliver Langmead (2084, 2017)
Dystopia of a future divided between those devoted to fashion and those who are not.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Gnomon - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) (William Heinemann, 2017)
A very complex novel depicting what appears to be a flawed utopia in which constant surveillance and a police force that is able to stop crimes before they happen produces a good life for everyone, but it turns out that there are flaws in the system and unaccountable holders of power.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Good Citizen" - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) (2084, 2017)
Authoritarian dystopia in which there is a daily referendum in which everyone must vote or lose what few privileges they have.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 131-38.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Good Citizens” - Paula Hammond (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Dystopia in which the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) becomes a monarchy that uses nuclear weapons on Iran and Mexico and is at war with China. Any one not of white, multi-generational U.S. ancestry loses their citizenship, as do gays, Jews, Muslims. Some people had escaped, many were killed. The female author has published many non-fiction books for children, mostly on scientific subjects.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Grass Still Grows" - Sharron McKenzie (Climate Fiction Creative Writing Contest, Massey University, 2017)
Climate change dystopia set in Christchurch, New Zealand, which is mostly under water and being dismantled to build new cities inland on higher ground. The story won the 2017 Still Waving Climate Creative Writing Competition.
Rpt. as by S. A. McKenzie in New Orbit Magazine, no. 5 (February 2019); and illus. Little Blue Marble (July 16, 2021). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/07/16/grass-still-grows/
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Transgender author

"The Great Wall of Denver" - David Ira Cleary (Persistent Visions, 2017)
Dystopia in which the U.S. has broken up, and Denver must deal with pollution from nuclear waste and winds that can destroy the city, hence the wall around the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Growing Season - Helen Sedgwick (b. 1978) (Harvill Secker, 2017)
What appears to be a eutopia in which the invention of a pouch that allows anyone to gestate a child outside the body, allowing gay men and single people to carry their own child. The pouch is transferable at will, which allows couples to trade off. The pouch is the monopoly of one company, so, of course, there are problems.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Happenstance" - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The story is set in a high-tech future in which a city can be constantly reconfigured to improve peoples’ lives.
Rpt. in Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2020), 73-100. Also published online at https://reckoning.press/happenstance/ (March 11, 2020).
Keywords: Female author; US author

H(a)ppy - Nicola Barker (b. 1966) (Heinemann, 2017)
A woman lives in a future world where “Excess of Emotion” is to be avoided; one must always be “In Balance” and is being constantly adjusted chemically to stay that way. The woman experiences a glitch in her conditioning that leads her to experience emotion, pain, and so forth. Typographically complex. The author says that the book “is best enjoyed in conjunction with Agustin Barrios: The Complete Historical Guitar Recordings 1913-1942.
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

“Happy Hunting Ground” - Corey J. White (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
Dystopia set in a future in which food is short and controlled by a corporation with the support of the police. The story focuses on an intentional community that resists the system.
Keywords: Austrian author; Male author

Havergey - John Burnside (b. 1955) (Little Toller Books, 2017)
While in the book the people of Havergey say that the island is not a utopia, in the context of a world decimated by disease, it is the best community in existence. The story is told through the eyes of a time traveler from 2017 before The Collapse, also known as The Dark Time, that began in 2024 who arrives at Havergey in 2041 and is quarantined and given materials from the history of Havergey to read before he can be accepted or rejected by the community, which is composed of nomads, survivors who gradually found their way there over the years following The Collapse.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“He Was So Old” - Lee Widener (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2017)
Dystopia of the struggle for existence after civilization collapsed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Healer" - Melinda LaFevers (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The dystopia of a violent, disintegrated in which one woman’s knowledge of herbalism is the only medical care available. United States.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Healer's Touch" - Colleen Anderson (The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, 2017)
The story is about a healer in a high-tech hospital and her ability to overcome her own problems so she can help the constant stream of badly injured refugees being created in her dystopian world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Heat Was Unbearable” - Frank Westcott (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Here Comes the Flood” - Desirina Boskovitch (2084, 2017)
Climate change dystopia in which the people of one city built walls and a dome to protect itself from floods, winds, and fires, and all the protections are failing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Hermit of Houston” - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2017)
A same-sex love story told by one of the individuals after the other has died, although the man’s memory is not reliable. It is set in an overpopulated future where same-sex relationships are encouraged, men and women are, to some degree, kept separate, and, as the story puts it, “mixed up the genders,” although the story does not include any of the last.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 63-91; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 591-619; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 62-85.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The History Book" - Voss Foster (Alternative Truths, 2017)
A dystopia in which history has been rewritten to reflect the biases of the current administration, books burned, and those with good memories killed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"HMO" - Karin L. Frank (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The dystopia of U. S. health care in the future when it is entirely under control of insurance companies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hold Back the Stars - Katie Khan (Doubleday, 2017)
The novel is a love story that begins and ends in a catastrophe in space. But for most of the novel, it is set in a future multi-cultural European eutopia in which populations move from place to place to mix with other populations.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Hold Dear the Lamp Light: When We Were Young, Before the Tides Rose Up, and the Power Went Out” - Jay Ruben Dayrit (Wired, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Home is Where My Mother’s Heart is Buried” - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2017)
The story is set on a Mars inhabited by humans and aliens and reflects on human prejudice, gender identity, and the dystopia that was the Nigeria the protagonist had left.
Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 189-200, with an author’s note on 262.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; Nigerian author

"Humanity" - Michael Ben-Zvi (Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads, 2017)
The story is about the intersection of an authoritarian dystopia controlling its people through technology and, less fleshed out in the story, a eutopia that uses technology to build a free, green society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Humans, Bow Down - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Emily Raymond (b. 1972); Jill Dombowski (Little, Brown, 2017)
A dystopia set in a future in which a war between humans and robots has been won by the robots and focuses on those who do not accept defeat.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“The Hunger After You’re Fed: Who is Héctor Prima?” - [Daniel James] [Abraham] (b. 1969); [Tyler Corey] [Franck] (b. 1969) (Wired, 2017)
The story is concerned with the functioning of a future with a guaranteed income and the needs that will still remain.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 180-87 with an editor’s note on 180.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Illegal Citizens” - [Phyllis] Irene Radford (b. 1950) (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which the Trump administration has stripped all Latinos of their U. S. citizenship however long their ancestors had been citizens.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Immanation” - Mary Easson (A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction, 2017)
Dystopian future in which some have withdrawn from the damaged world into a Tower where everything is controlled contrasted with those who chose to stay outside where they are regenerating the Earth.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“In the Night of the Comet: A Sequel to H. G. Wells’ In the Days of the Comet” - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Best of British Science Fiction 2017, 2017)
Sequel to 1905-06 Wells in which the comet in Wells that brings a eutopia is followed some years by a second comet that produces a dystopia.
Originally published in the author’s blog in May 2017 (http://www.adamroberts.com/2017/05/), but it appears to be no longer accessible.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Infinite Eye" - J[ames] P. Smythe (b. 1980) (2084, 2017)
Dystopia of a surveillance society exploiting the poor and undocumented.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ink - Alice Broadway (Scholastic Children’s Books, 2017)
A religious dystopia in which the major events of a person’s life are inked on their skin, which is made into a book on their death. The book is given to the family if the person has lived a good life and publicly burned if judged to have not led a good life. First volume in a trilogy. The second volume, Spark. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2018, is a standard middle volume in which the protagonist searches for answers to the questions raised in the first volume. The third volume, Scar. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2019, pulls the various threads together.
U. S. ed. New York: Scholastic, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Invasion" - Phil Dwyer (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia in which the U.S. invades Canada to gain usable territory.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“The Irrepressibly Original Daisy Wigmar” - Katie Stevens (Futuristica: Volume 2, 2017)
Flawed utopia in which genetic modification is readily available and chosen to design children and by adults to modify themselves. This has led, for example, to their being few people of color. The protagonist is an unmodified woman who tells of friendship with other unmodified women, one of whom chooses to be changed, and unchanged animals.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"It Takes a Village" - Kevin C[hristopher] Jesse (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The story is about the beginnings of a eutopia based on unarmed community policing told from the point of view of a policeman used to the old ways. An Unconditional Basic Income with additional amounts is linked to voting on the referenda that are part of what is called nanodemocracy or nanodem and appear regularly on individual eyepieces. One paragraph suggests that the military is also using some of the same tactics.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities” - Lettie Prell (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2017)
A man waiting to go before a judge in a criminal trial (he is guilty) dreams about a series of alternative justice systems, most of which seem preferable to the one is about to face.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 49-56.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Knells of Agassiz” - Holly Schofield (Water, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which all the glaciers are melting and concerns an attempt to create snow to help restore them.
Rpt. with a different illus. in Little Blue Marble (February 28, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/28/the-knells-of-agassiz/; and, without the illustration, in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 52-62, with a note on the author on 62.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) (Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates, 2017)
Fantasy novel that includes an anarchist eutopia, Freedom City, Iowa: “An entire town, abandoned by a dead economy and occupied by squatters and activists and anarchists” (12). But as people learned of it and moved there, one man took control, dividing the community. One man knew magic and summoned a protector spirit that killed the man, but later that spirit turns on its summoners. The rest of the novel concerns the community’s attempts to control the spirit. The
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

"Last Chance" - Tyler Young (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
The story set on a planet called Last Chance settled after the Earth’s ecosystem had been destroyed. At a young age, children are separated from their parents and live in an underground school, under a desert, where they are taught that the settlers had done the same thing to the new planet, but what they are taught is not true. Last Chance is like Earth once was, and the children are being taught what could happen again and must not.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Dog on Earth - Adrian J. Walker (Del Rey/Ebury Publishing, 2017)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia (bomb) told from the points-of-view of a dog and his master.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Leila - Prayaag Akbar (b. 1982) (Simon & Schuster India, 2017)
In a future India that is a dictatorship and dealing with climate change, a woman’s husband is killed, her daughter is abducted, and she is sent to a prison camp. Escaping, she searches for her daughter.
Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2018. 265 pp.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

“A Letter from the Federal Women’s Prison” - Stephanie L. Weippert (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which women lose all their rights. Some form an underground railroad to help others escape to Canada. When they are discovered, many are killed, and the others are imprisoned for life.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Letters from the Heartland” - Janka Hobbs (Alternative Truths, 2017)
A dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, climate change has drowned much of the coasts, and the middle of the country has become a dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Link Boy. A Free World Novel - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017)
Sequel to 2014 Martineck that follows the lives of three people as they navigated life in a world controlled by competing corporations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Looking Back, Looking Ahead” - Maverick Smith (49th Parallels, 2017)
A future Toronto dealing with climate change through high rise gardening on what remains of its building. Much of the story gives the feel of a highly structured, perhaps even authoritarian society, but it ends with it also being a radically egalitarian society recognize the value of all people, with, for example, everyone using sign language.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Lost in Arcadia - Sean Gandert (47North, 2017)
Dystopia in which most people in the U.S. are addicted to Arcadia, an immersive virtual-reality system. The effect is to cut people off from each other, and the novel follows one family whose matriarch tries to hold them together.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lotus Blue - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Talos Press, 2017)
A complex, multi-faceted post-apocalyptic dystopia set it an Australia with a badly damaged environment, war machines, enhanced soldiers, and other dangers. The main protagonist is a seventeen year old girl struggling to survive. The setting has similarities to the Terry Dowling’s 1990 Rynosseros series.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Lowland Clearances.” - Pippa Goldschmidt (b. 1985) (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
Satire on the Highland Clearances in which the people of Glasgow are resettled in the Scottish Highlands and replaced by sheep.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

"March, April, May" - [Vince] [Haig] (b. 1976) (2084, 2017)
Dystopia in which The Space, rather like Facebook, controls the news and most human interaction.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline (DCB/Dancing Cat Books/Cormorant Books, 2017)
The novel, generally classified as young adult, is set in a future in which, after The Water Wars, for an unexplained reason most people have stopped dreaming, which damages them psychologically. Indigenous peoples still dream, and, since the others are convinced that there is a physical basis for their dreaming, indigenous people are hunted and killed to harvest their bone marrow. The residential and boarding schools founded in the Canada and the United States to rid indigenous children of their cultures and languages are re-opened or newly established to assist in the practice. See also her 2021 Dimaline.
Developed from a story with the same title published in Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling. Ed. Neal McLeod (James Smith Cree First Nations) ([Pinticion, BC, Canada]: Theytus Press, 2016), 199-214.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

“The Martian Obelisk” - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) (Tor.com, 2017)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change, pandemics, wars, and all the other problems brought about by human mistreatment of Earth. But it focuses on a project on Mars started after all the colonization attempts appear to have failed.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 71-83 with an editor’s note on 71; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 55-72; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 444-57.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Melanoma Americana” - Sara Codair (Alternative Truths, 2017)
The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) with the focus on the destruction of the health care system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Memoirist - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) (NewCon Press, 2017)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Mercury Teardrops” - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) (Haunted Futures, 2017)
The dystopia brought about by the end of the digital age when all the enhanced bodies fail.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 139-59.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Met-Chron Sanctuary: Metamorphosis Chronicles. Book 1 - Ron[ald] S[cott] Nolan (Planetropolis Publishing, 2017)
First volume of a trilogy set in a future devastated by global warming in which a young woman scientist has discovered how to extend life but realizes that the damaged planet could not support such life extension. The second volume, Met-Chron New-Humans: Metamorphosis Chronicles. Book 2. Aptos, CA: Planetropolis Publishing, 2019 is an obvious middle volume in which there is much conflict [A rev. ed. was published in 2020]. A third volume is projected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Midnight at the Electric - Jodi Lynn Anderson (HarperTeen, 2017)
The novel, which is marketed as young adult, is set in three time periods in one family--1919, 1934, and 2065--is not obviously eutopian or dystopian, but the first period is set in postwar England, the second is set in dust bowl Kansas, and the third is set in a U.S. struggling with the effects of climate-change. The coasts have largely been abandoned, and, because Washington, DC is a swamp, the government has moved to the Midwest.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Milk Island - Rhydian W[ynn] Thomas (Lawrence and Gibson, 2017)
Humorous dystopia with a genetically modified cow, Milky Moo, on Milk Island, formerly the South Island, which has been privatized after devastating earthquakes required terraforming the entire island. Christchurch is a dairying prison, and there are other agricultural prisons. Told in four parts, one of which is the thoughts of one worker and one a mixture of forms.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“Mine, Yours, Ours” - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
Whether the story describes a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader. The I.O.E. (International Organ Exchange) is symbolic of a society that sees everyone connected to everyone else. When you sign up for the I.O.E., you agree to give an organ when requested, and the protagonist is struggling over whether she should have a lung removed. If she doesn’t, she will be expelled from the I.O.E. and ineligible for a future transplant.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Monkey Cage Rules” - Larry Hodges (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Dystopian satire on the ungovernability of the human race.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Moon and the Other - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2017)
The Society of Cousins, in which women are the leaders, contrasted with the other societies on the moon, which are mostly patriarchal, that see the Society of Cousins as a threat. See also 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2006 for other works regarding the Society of Cousins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Morning in the Republic of America” - Fiona Moore (b. 1974) (49th Parallels, 2017)
The story is set in a future dominated by China, with a Communist United States, and what remain of Canada renamed the Republic of America and hoping for support from China.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Mozart of the Kalahari” - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures, 2017)
The story is set in an environmentally devasted future where the rich live off planet and the poor struggle to survive
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“Mr Mycelium” - Claire McKenna (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The story presents a high-tech Australian society, including farming and engineered animals and begins with an attack on such a farm by traditionalists. But the story also briefly represents other fissures between, for example, traditional marriage and multiple partners and shows both the positive and negative sides of the agricultural technology.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Museum of Near Misses: A writer gets trapped by what might have been” - J[ohn] Robert Lennon (b. 1979) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project., 2017)
The story takes place in a world where Trump lost the 2016 election, was arrested for fraud, and died in jail after all the allegations against him were demonstrated to be true.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Native Seeds" - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2017)
The story is set in a future where the population of Earth is dwindling long after much of the population left to settle other planets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A New World Coming: Experiencing a Radically Different Future in the Kingdom of God - John [R.] Claeys (289Design, 2017)
Biblical exposition from the premillennial perspective including details of life during the millennium with Biblical references. There will be physical bodies (147-58). Quite a bit on what might loosely be called the politics of the millennium with Christ ruling, and the Mosaic Law enforced (159-89). Refers to the feasts of the Old Testament (199-213). Harmony between animals and humans (216). No fear (216). Parenting based on the Old Testament, with serious punishment, including death, for misbehavior (217-19). Significant population growth (219-20). Earth will have no waste spaces (220-21). Manual work will be done by “mortal-bodied unbelievers,” while the “glorified” will be administrators (224). See also his The Impending Apocalypse. Sisters, OR: Deep River Books, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New York 2140 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Orbit, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia. Includes the characters Mutt and Jeff from 2016 Robinson, “Mutt and Jeff Push the Button.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Night Divers" - Lynn Hutchinson Lee (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia with extreme drought and all water sources and distribution are taken over by a corporation.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

NK3 - Michael Tolkin (b. 1950) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a microbe used as a weapon has deleted people’s memory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Noise and the Silence” - Christien Gholson (Interzone, 2017)
Dystopia in which there is constant loud noise and silence is consider opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“None But the Brave” - Dan Lee (American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia, 2017)
Dystopia brought about by the policies of the Trump administration. The story focuses on terrorism and anti-terrorism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Non-White in America” - Debora Godfrey (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The dystopia of being non-white in contemporary America.
Keywords: Female author

Numbercaste - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (b. 1992) ([Author], 2017)
The main protagonist is recruited by a start-up that is developing a way to rate every individual in the world based and assign them a number that fluctuates depending on their actions is will be available for everyone else.
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: HarperCollins India, 2019. It was first published on Kindle and then, a day later, as a paperback, and then in India.
Keywords: Male author; Sri Lankan author

“An Oasis of Amends” - Floris M. Kleijne (b. 1970) (Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2017)
A climate-change dystopia in which The Netherlands has been completely destroyed and icebergs are being harvest in the hope of creating an oasis in the Sahara.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 177-81.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author

"Once Upon a Trump" - Timothy Carter (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The future Emperor Trump visits the current president to try to get him to fight the effects of climate change that has produced a dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

The One. A Novel - John Marrs (Del Rey, 2017)
A dystopia in which it is said to be possible to genetically identify each person’s perfect partner.
Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Hanover Square Press, 2017.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"One of the Lucky Ones" - Wondra Vanian (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which all those resisting the government are being shipped off to rehabilitation camps, each person wearing a badge of their identity.
Keywords: Female author; US author; Welsh author

“The Ones Who Know Where They are Going” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
The situation of the child in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) from the point-of-view of the child when, apparently, everyone has left.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Only a Ten Hour Week: Architecture for a Sustainable Society of Plenty - Eli Berniker PhD ([CreateSpace], 2017)
Extremely detailed non-fiction description of the basis for a eutopia with a ten-hour work week that produces plenty for everyone. Detailed analysis of waste in the current system that, once eliminated, would make the ten-hour week possible. Throughout to book, the author repeats that “We live in a world of plenty that must be experience as scarcity for the economy to function. Scarcity is unsustainable. Plenty is sustainable” (339). Includes a “Glossary” (342-50) and an Index (351-77). Under the author’s name, the cover adds “Practical Utopian.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Oracle" - Dominica Phetteplace (Infinity Wars, 2017)
Satire on U.S. politics in which a “war of the month” is instituted to gain support for the President.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics” - Jess[ica] Barber; Sara Saab (Clarkesworld, 2017)
The story is set mostly in Beirut, Lebanon, and takes place during a dystopian period of extreme drought. It traces the life choices of two scientists as they work to help the planet recover, and the projects they develop  that will do that.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 293-316 with an editor’s note on 293.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Lebanese author; US author

“Parametrization of Complex Weather Patterns for Two Variables” - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) (Daily Science Fiction, 2017)
The story is set in a climate-change future in which weather control first produced conflict among nations using it against each other, then was internationalized, and, at the time of the story, has been taken over by hackers.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook
Keywords: Male author; Ukrainian author; US author

“‘Patriot Points’: You may qualify for huge discounts, TSA Precheck approval, and more!” - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story consists of the questionnaire to fill out to achieve “Patriot Points,” which characterizes the dystopia being created.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Patti 209" - K[aren] G. Anderson (Alternative Truths, 2017)
The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) and others with similar policies. The focus is on the destruction of care for the elderly after the loss of Social Security and Medicare. The protagonist was one of the designers and founders of an old age home that had all the best conditions both for those living there and the environment. But with Social Security repealed and no Medicare, the home became just like the earlier nursing homes that provided minimal care. Conditions for the elderly outside this homes were worse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Perfect Little World - Kevin Wilson (b. 1978) (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017)
A child psychologist tries to create the ideal family made up of several individuals and couples and orphaned children. It works for a while but then disintegrates. The novel focuses one young woman participant.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Persephone” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Tor.com, 2017)
Dystopia of a future with a deep divide between rich and poor.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pink Footed" - Marian Womack (b. 1975) (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
Dystopia in which most animals, and birds in particular, have disappeared.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Spanish author

The Pink Life (La Vie En Rose)” - Nathan Susnik (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
The story is set in a dystopia future that is hidden because most people live entirely in virtual reality. The protagonist is forced to see the world as it is when a glitch occurs.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

"Pinwheel Party" - Victor D. Phillips (Alternative Truths, 2017)
The beginning and the end of the story are brief depictions of the dystopia inflicted on the poor and immigrants by current policies. The middle is a drug-induced dream of a eutopia in which everyone works together to improve the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pop and the CFT" - Brandon Crilly (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
The story is set in a future trying to deal with climate-change and focuses on one of the policies, the CFT, put in place to help. CFT refers to the Carbon Footprint Tax that is levied after an individual’s death based on their consumption pattern during life.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Portlandtown” - Elly Blue (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
The story is set in a future Oregon divided by Portlandtown, an authoritarian dictatorship with some limited technology and conflict within the leadership, and a rural area that is essentially anarchist that surrounds it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Powers of Earth - Travis J. I. Corcoran (Morlock Publishing, 2017)
First volume in a series in which a libertarian moon struggles to maintain its freedom against an authoritarian Earth. Won the 2018 Prometheus Award for Best Novel from the Libertarian Futurist Society. The next volume in the series is Causes of Separation. Np: Morlock Publishing, 2018. 706 pp. It is a typical second volume in a series in which the situation worsens. Two further volumes, Right and Duty and Absolute Tyranny are planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society - Michael Albert (b. 1947) (Kairos/PM Press, 2017)
Albert is one of the theorists with the economist Robin [Eric] Hahnel (b. 1946) of Parecon (Participatory Economics); see 2003 Albert. The book deals with Parecon, Parpolity, feminism, race, environmentalism, and internationalism plus the strategy needed to achieve the goals.
Originated in the three volumes, Occupy Theory, Occupy Vision, and Occupy Strategy of his Fanfare for Democracy. Woods Hole, MA: Z Communications, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Preventive Maintenance” - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) (Little Blue Marble, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media, 2017.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Canadian author; Female author

Prime Meridian - Silvia Moreno-Garcia (b. 1981) (Innismouth Press, 2017)
A near future dystopia set in Mexico City in which a woman, who wants to join the colony on Mars, struggles to make a living and earn passage through the limited available work, such as hiring out as a temporary friend.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 408-455, with an editor’s note on 408; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 467-551.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Mexican author

Proof of Concept - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Tor, 2017)
The novel is set in a dystopian overpopulated world with most people living in huge hives with their survival threatened by climate change.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Questions with the First” - Jim Warrenfeltz (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Dystopia presented through an interview with the dictator as he discovers a threat to his rule.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Raid at 817 Maple Street” - Ken Staley (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government’s surveillance of everyone’s internet activity leads it to conclude that a teenager involved in a video game is the leader of a terrorist cell.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rangers - Blaze Ward (Knotted Road Press, 2017)
The stories are set in a dystopia brought about by the disintegration of the United States into warring sections. The Park Rangers from the part of the United States that is still democratic is the only effective force protecting citizens.
The first story, “The Last Ranger,” was originally published as “The Last Ranger (ANPS-1, CE 2053).” Alternative Truths. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B. Cubed Press, 2017), 160-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rebel Seoul - Oh, Axie (Tu Books/Lee & Low, 2017)
Dystopia set in a future Seoul, South Korean where status is based on success in combat.
Keywords: Female author; Korean American author

“The Reformatory” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (Boston Review, 2017)
The dystopia of life for African-Americans in the South at an unspecified date.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Relics: A Fable” - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Dystopia that is brought about by building the wall between Mexico and the U.S., the reduction of education, the radical division between rich and poor, and the warehousing of the elderly poor, known as Relics, who live in single room shacks near the wall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Report on the Outbreaks: Excerpts from the Draft Short Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Continuing Emergency Ad Hoc Planetary Governing Council Concerning the Events of January 2060 and After)” - Timmerman, Peter (Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia in which much of the United States has been abandoned.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Republic: Traitor - R. R. Quaggiato (Xlibris, 2017)
A dystopia that explores all the problems faced by the United States from terrorism to the media, gun, control, immigration, and privacy, among others in the form of a political thriller. No resolution at the end, which suggests a sequel.
Rpt. Np.: np, 2019. 394 pp.

Resist Them: A Dystopian Thriller - Scott King ([CreateSpace], 2017)
A dystopia in which the government broadcasts into everyone’s mind each morning.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Retroactivist - Nate Ragolia (Spaceboy Books, 2017)
A technological eutopia, called the United Sociocracy of the Americas that the protagonist finds flawed. In the future, technology has replaced all necessary work leaving everyone able to follow whatever personal passions they choose. Everyone is provided with a basic income on which it is possible to live comfortably. Sexual expression is completely free. Replicators produce material goods, including food. Robotic health checks constantly available. Much extended lifespan. All religious faiths combined into the Universal Combined Church of Faiths. The protagonist comes to believe that the twentieth century is a better time, and much of the novel is concerned with his struggles to recreate the twentieth century.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Riding in Place" - Sarena Ulibarri (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which the Earth is recovering from environmental damage. One of the procedures used is to draft individuals to do work where they can see how and where, for example, energy and food are produced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Right Side of History” - Jane [Bryony] Rawson (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
The story depicts a future in which humans are abandoning much that has been built and demolishing structures to make more room for animals. Not all humans do so voluntarily, but some choose to go through what is called “Transference” and become an animal. The two main characters, a married couple, make different choices. Australian female author.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Rings" - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2017)
A matriarchal dystopia where women buy male slaves, who they control through implanted rings, with the story focusing on a woman who has finally saved enough money to buy her first man.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 322-35. PSt
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Road to the Sea” - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 252-57 with an editor’s note on 252; in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 175-81; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 608-14. EBook.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

“Rumpelstiltskin” - Jane Elliott (Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2017)
A dystopia in which climate-change has brought famine.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/rumplestiltskin/ (February 2018). Interview with that author at https://reckoning.press/jane-elliott-interview-rumplestiltskin/
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Salt Line - Holly Goddard Jones (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2017)
Dystopia in which a tick-borne disease has devastated the U. S., which has built a wall to protect itself from the disease. The novel focuses on the relationships within a group taking an adventure tour past the wall and being captured by people who survive outside the wall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sand Runner - Vera Brook ([CreateSpace], 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which a young man competes in race which requires him to be physically upgraded. First volume of a series followed by Cage Runner. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2018, which is clearly a middle volume.
Keywords: Female author

"The Scent of Betrayal" - Jane Routley (b. 1962) (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
Climate-change dystopia set in a future Australia deeply divided by the wealthy living in urban archologies and the poor living in the hot, dusty countryside.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Secondborn - Amy A. Bartol (47North, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which the second child in a family is taken away by the government at eighteen. The young woman who is the protagonist comes from a privileged background but is still forced to join the military with other second children. First volume of a trilogy followed by Traitor Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2018, which is a typical middle volume in which various forces in the society are all trying to use the protagonist. In the third volume, Rebel Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2019, the protagonist faces betrayal on all sides.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Secret Files of The Donald - Leland Howell (Np, 2017)
A collection of stories all of which satirize the dystopian presidency of The Donald. The author notes that in 2019 he was banned from Twitter for calling Trump a “whiney little bitch” (2).
Keywords: Male author; US author

See You in September - Charity Norman (Allen & Unwin, 2017)
The novel is set in New Zealand where a woman joins a farming collective that is the basis for an end-of-the-world cult and follows the woman’s life in the community and her parent’s attempts to get her to leave.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Selfish Bastards We Were” - Virginia O’Dine (49th Parallels, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Selling LipService - Tammy Baikie (Jacana Media, 2017)
Dystopia in which after a certain age everyone has to wear a corporate LipService patch that controls what is said, replacing individual speech with ads.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

“Sensing the Dust” - Eliza Chan (Persisten Visions, 2017)
The background to the story is a future authoritarian dystopia set in Hong Kong.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

The Severed Land - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) (Puffin/Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2017)
A country is divided in two by the arrival of conquerors looking for gold and other valuable resources and then for land. The “Old People” create a wall between the violent South and the peaceful North.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“The Shadowed Forest” - Rati Mehrotra (Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty, 2017)
Dystopia in which everyone is expected to have a divide implanted so that everything that they and those they are with do and say is recorded.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Indian author

"Shelter" - Cynthia Marts (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
In a dystopia of extreme male chauvinism where women lose everything if not tied to a man, a small community of women support each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Shooting an Episode" - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing, 2017)
Dystopia depicting a “reality” game that has taken over the entire society as seen through the eyes of someone working for the company producing the show. The stories are supposed to be predictions regarding the world fifty years after Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Priest took his title from Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant,” a work that greatly influenced his own work.
Rpt. in his Episodes: Short Stories (London: Gollancz, 2019), 292-320, with notes “Before” on what led him to write the story (289-91) and “After” on its publication and some reflections on it (321-22).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Show Stopper - Hayley Barker (Scholastic, 2017)
Dystopia in which immigrants are required to sell their children to a circus watched by the “Pures”. The novel focuses on the son of a high-ranking “Pure” who falls for one of the performers. A sequel, Show Stealer, is scheduled for late 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Signal Lost" - Gretchin Lair (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Flawed utopia in which chips that constantly record one’s health and report the results to everyone deals with, which results in restaurants and stores refusing to sell you anything that the chip says you can’t have.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Skinny Charlie’s Orbiting Teepee” - Pamela Rentz (Apex Magazine, 2017)
Satirical story set in a spaceship composed of Native American Indians and those pretending to be with conflicts among the tribes and a heavily bureaucratized system of rules.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

“‘Slippernet’: Is it ethical to force empathy on your enemy?” - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which fungi that produce empathy are integrated into a wide variety of products that then change behavior, but the question is not definitively answered.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 40-49. © 2018
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Snow Decils" - Charles Payseur (Persistent Visions, 2017)
Climate change dystopia in which it snows all year round in the North and the South has become crowded and dangerous.
Keywords: Bisexual author; US author

“Solar Child” - Camille Meyers (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
The story is set in a future climate-change dystopia in which genetic engineering is presented positively as a way of developing humans who can live in the new climate. The scientists are opposed by those who see climate-change as God’s punishment of sinful humanity.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Someone to Listen, Inc.” - Ray Blank [pseud.] (Futuristica, 2017)
A flawed utopia set after a world-wide economic collapse and economic well-being has been replaced by the Gross Happiness Index, a corporation constantly monitors everyone’s communications to find any sign of depression or unhappiness. Anyone feeling other than happy is connected to a counsellor.

Sourdough. A Novel - Robin Sloan (b. 1979) (MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2017)
The novel focuses a woman working in Silicon Valley who is given an unusual sourdough starter that transforms her life. It is difficult to classify in that it is neither a eutopia or dystopia as such but has episodes or fragments of each throughout. For an article on the novel and utopia, see Justin Nordstrom, “‘Food Is History of the Deepest Kind’: Eating and Utopia in Sloan’s Sourdough and Sargent’s ‘The American Cockaigne’.” Utopian Studies 31.2 (2020): 303-13.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Space Between the Stars - Anne Corlett (Pan Macmillan, 2017)
A virus wipes most of the human race on Earth and on the colony worlds. A few survivors on one of the colony worlds returns to Earth, where they discover a group of survivors that are instituting a required, controlled breeding program. Some of them escape to Scotland where they live a simple life that attracts other survivors, and a community develops.
U. S. ed. New York: Berkeley, 2017.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Sparrowfall: The City Never Sleeps” - Robert Dawson (Naure, 2017)
Brief description of an automated eutopian city and a person who didn’t fit in to the new order.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“A Spider Queen in Every Home” - Mike Morgan (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
2017 Morgan, Mike. “A Spider Queen in Every Home.” More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Lou J Berger, and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B Cubed Press, 2017), 370-96. PSt The story takes place in the dystopia created by current policies. The protagonist is a statistician whose work has to be checked to the data fits policy and is not accepted if it doesn’t, even though it is accurate.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Spider Sat Beside Her - K[aren] E. Lanning (b. 1957) (Author, 2017)
After the ice has melted and much of the world is under water, Antarctica is in the beginning stages of development and settlement. What remains of Canada and the U.S. have become one country. Much of the action takes place on a much-expanded international space station, which is threatened by those on Earth opposed to the exploitation of what remains. First volume of the Melt Trilogy followed by The Sting of the Bee. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2018, in which there is a struggle to claim the newly available Antarctica for settlement; and Listen to the Birds. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2019, which is concerned with issues that arise after Antarctica is established as a new nation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Spring Break" - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (New Haven Noir, 2017)
The story, an example of noir crime fiction, is set mostly on the Yale University campus in a future where books are no longer used, and the only functioning part of the university are the sciences. The story won the 2018 Edgar Award for best short story.
Rpt. in his And Go Like This: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 73-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Star Is Born” - Miki Dare (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017)
Dystopia in which Canada interns all its Asian population.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Star Sailors - James McNaughton (b. 1968) (Victoria University Press, 2017)
The novel is set in a climate-change dystopia and with a deep rich/poor division which is mostly in the background. Much of the novel centers on an alien washed up on the shore and how his presence is manipulated by a powerful corporation.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Store - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown, 2017)
In the novel, one store takes over a country with surveillance cameras and tracking not just in the store but in the streets, buildings, and private homes, all reinforced but what is essentially a private army. The protagonist is struggling to reveal the truth about the store.In the novel, one store takes over a country with surveillance cameras and tracking not just in the store but in the streets, buildings, and private homes, all reinforced but what is essentially a private army. The protagonist is struggling to reveal the truth about the store.
U.K. ed. London: Random House Century, 2017. 259 pp. + 26 pp. excerpt from a forthcoming novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Street Life in the Emerald City” - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
Technology, including surveillance technology being used to end homelessness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Sub Migratio” - Stephen Embleton (Enkare Review, 2017)
The setting of the story is the dystopia brought about by a pan-African war, with the protagonists trying to escape through a network on underground railroad tunnels.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“SUBJECT# 004505951” - Karen Heslop (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2017)
Dystopia in the form of a report on an experiment on how to reduce the population.
Keywords: Female author; Jamaican author

“Swan Song to a Gold-Plated Mausoleum” - Priya Sridhar (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The story is set at the end of the Trump era amid the celebrations over his death.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Taming the Beast” - Bose, Robert (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Satire set in a high-tech world where all cars are being replaced by bicycles, and the protagonist struggles to manage the features of his new bicycle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Targets" - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs. The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 201-205; and in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 47-52.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State - Parag Khanna (b. 1977) (CreateSpace, 2017)
Mostly critique but includes a eutopia for the U.S. based on what the author calls “direct technocracy,” or a system of experts “perpetually consulting the people” (Back Cover), There will be a collective presidency, a strong civil service, a multi-party legislature, a Senate replaced by a “Governors Assembly,” “and a judicial branch that monitors international benchmarks and standards and proposes constitutional amendments. . . ” (5). Many of the institutions are drawn from the author’s analysis of institutions currently in existence around the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Teleport - Kevin Berry ([CreateSpace], 2017)
The novel is set in a future dictatorship where the protagonist is being pressured to create a teleportation device, and, if she fails to do so, her daughters future is in danger.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Tell Me How This Ends Well. A Novel - David Samuel Levinson (b. 1969) (Hogarth, 2017)
The background to the novel is a dystopia set in 2022 when Israel has been eliminated in a war that the U. S. ignored. This led to millions of refugees moving to the U. S. and the rise of a virulent anti-Semitism that has become the norm.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Terra Nullius - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) (Hachette Australia, 2017)
The novel is set within the dystopia of colonialism.
U.S. ed. Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“Thirstlands” - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia set in a drought-stricken Africa.
Rpt. in his Learning Monkey and Crocodile (Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 129-42, with a note on the story on 177.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; Zambian author

Three Degrees. A Novel - Jim Wurst (Author, 2017)
A dystopia set in 2052 with many different plot lines including devasting climate-change, a satellite war twenty years in the past orchestrated by apocalyptic Christians in the U. S. military which left junk throughout the space around the Earth and badly damaged the world’s communication network, extreme rich-poor divisions, a plan by the current president to again steal the election by hacking the vote counting, and a “Chinese device” that may be a weapon that is activated at the end of the novel. The concluding sentence is “End of Book One.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Time Travel is Only for the Poor” - S. L. Huang (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2017)
The story is set in a future with a deep rich/poor divide, and the rich have passed a law requiring the poor to be frozen for awakening in 500 to a thousand years when, supposedly, compound interest will have made them rich. The story is told from the point-of-view of a street person who wants to stay where he is.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 351-65.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Tinker's Damn" - Edward Ahern (b. 1942) (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
A brief dystopia in which a conman becomes a political leader until the women in the community organize and drive him out.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“To the Place of Skulls” - Innocent [Chizarram] Ilo (Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia with widespread environmental damage from pollution set in Nigeria with non-Nigerian corporations exploiting Nigeria’s resources.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/to-the-place-of-skulls/ (February 15, 2018).
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“The Today Home” - Jason Nahrung (Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures], 2017)
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Tomorrow - Jack Lothian; Garry Mac Artist (BHP Comics, 2017)
Dystopia in comic book form about what appears to be an alien invasion, the disappearance of the human population, and the loneliness of one old woman who remained.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; UK author

Tomorrow’s Kin. Book 1 of the Tomorrow’s Kin Trilogy - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Tor, 2017)
First volume of a trilogy that begins with first contact with people from another planet who originated from Earth based on her novella Yesterday’s Kin San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2014. There are dystopian elements as a disease that many, but not all, people of Earth are immune to spreads. Various plot lines are left for the forthcoming volumes. The second volume in the series is If Tomorrow Comes: Book 2 of the Yesterday’s Kin Trilogy. New York: Tor, 2018. In it, people from Earth travel to the World, the planet that the others had come from, but do not find the advanced civilization they expected. Again, various plot lines are left for the final volume, Terran Tomorrow. Book 3 of the Tomorrow’s Kin Trilogy. New York: Tor, 2019. In this volume, a mixed group of people from Earth and the World return to an Earth that has been devastated by plague and warfare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Too Big to See” - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Overview: Stories of the Stratosphere., 2017)
Brief story in which climate change has created a major refugee crisis in the Americas, and a trip by representatives of the antagonists to the stratosphere may solve the conflict.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Tool of War - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2017)
Dystopia brought about by climate change, resources running out, and the resulting constant wars, civil and between countries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Toward the Sun" - Sydnee Thompson (Fiyah: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia in which the rich shelter in cities, and the poor, who work outside are forced to wear implants that control their bodies and do what they can to survive.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Traditions" - Marcos Santiago Gonsalez (Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Latin@ Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017)
The story is set in a long-established Mexican American family in a future high-tech New York City and centers on the conflict between generations over familial and cultural traditions.
Keywords: Latino author; Male author

Trans Liberty Riot Brigade. Book 1 - L[indsay] M. Pierce (Ninestar Press, 2017)
Walled dystopia at war with all its neighbors and trying to control its population. Being transgender is illegal and a group transgender people struggle to survive and manage to escape at the end. First volume in a planned series.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Transition - Luke Kennard (b. 1981) (Fourth Estate, 2017)
The novel begins in what is the current dystopia for many couples, spiraling debt, landlords who constantly raise the rent, too many credit cards, all at their limit, loans, and illegality to stay afloat that can’t be paid. The Transition offers a way to avoid jail, get out of debt, and start over. It offers a mentorship in which the couple lives with a Transition couple for six months, supposedly learning how to live differently. It turns out to be just a different dystopia leading to more complete control.
U.S. ed. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2018
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Transitions" - Eileen [Katherine] Gunn (b. 1945) (Seat 14 C [No longer available online], 2017)
All the stories in the original online anthology are present as if the protagonists had been on a flight that landed twenty years after it took off. A list can be found at https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?673124. In this story, the protagonist is a Black, female, engineer and is primarily concerned with her thoughts about how she will fit in and meeting her husband, who has remarried, her son and his wife and her grandchildren, and her parents. It takes place in a future U.S. that has broken up into nine sections, controlled by oligarchs.
Rpt. in her Night Shift plus Ursula and the Author plus Promised Lands and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022), 65-76.
Keywords: Female author; US author