TY - ABST T1 - “Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in the area that used to be Florida and the islands of the Caribbean, most of which is now under water. The protagonist is a young woman living in one of the communities on rafts that scavenge for anything useable or that can be repurposed.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 141/5/6 SN - 978-0-358-69012-2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 110-135; and in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022. Ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis (Np: Caezik SF & Fantasy in partnership with O.D. Ekpeki Presents, 2023), 51-76.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waving at Trains” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Junot Díaz KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which climate change has killed most people. 

JF - Boston Review VL - Special issue on Global Dystopias U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “As Long as It Takes to Make the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gabriela Santiago ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Depot 256" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lisa Allen-Agostini ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

Dystopia of extreme poverty. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Offertory to Our Drowned Gods” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Teresa Naval ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Filipina American author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red Thread" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Somali-American author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia after the environment has completely collapsed and people are struggling to survive.

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 N1 -

Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 262-273; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 28-37. 

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Illus. Melanie Ujimori. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Salto Morto" Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Nick] [Tchan] ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story of about spousal abuse and the difficulties of accepting it in a world of constant surveillance set in the dystopia of the U.S. inside its wall with a better Mexico on the other side. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U2 -

Illus. Al Bao

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Nick T. Chan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wilson’s Singularity” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Terence Taylor ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

When an artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and learns about human behavior from an African-American scientist, it creates a world-wide eutopia by taking away freedom. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Delhi" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story contrasts the dystopian present of India with brief flashes of eutopian and dystopian futures.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 229-42; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 125-47

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Panopte's Eye" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kobayashi, Tamai ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Japanese author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Excerpt from a novel-in-process, which does not appear to have been published. 

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terminal Avenue" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Eden [Victoria Lena] Robinson (b. 1968) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which the First Nations peoples of Canada are facing apartheid.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Scarabs Multiply" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) ED - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) ED - Uppinder Mehan KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts.

JF - So Long Been Dreaming PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midnight Robber Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

The planet Toussaint has been colonized from the Caribbean and replicated the positive and negative aspects of Caribbean culture. It expels its criminals to the dystopian New Half-Way Tree. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brown Girl in the Ring Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author KW - Jamaican author KW - Trinidadian author KW - US author AB -

Magic realism set in a future Toronto dystopia.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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