“Nový Ys” - Krzysztof Fijalkowski (The Ashes of the Cities. Eldorado. Liber Tertius, 2019)
Surrealistic dystopia of a dangerous, future city that slowly disappears under rising tides.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Oli Away" - Edward Davey (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
The story describes a trip around the world made sustainable that describes all the advances made in protecting the environment.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Parade. A Novel - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019)
The novel is set in a divided country at the supposed end of a long war and focuses on two men, Four and Nine, paving a road that is to symbolically unify the country.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Playmentalities” - Alberto Vanolo (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The first part is fiction about a boy in a city that uses “civic games” through Playstation to teach good citizenship and uses the scores attained throughout life to award or punish its citizens. The second part is an essay on the current status of such programs.
Keywords: Italian author; Male author

“The Plazas of Madness” - Luis Nazario (The Ashes of the Cities. Eldorado. Liber Tertius, 2019)
Surrealistic dystopia of an African leader who builds many very odd plazas.
Keywords: Male author

Point of Honor - Aeryn Rudel (Futures A Science Fiction Series, 2019)
Dystopia in which duel has been reinstated and is run by a Bureau of Honorable Affairs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Polaris" - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) (Incomplete Solutions, 2019)
The story is set mostly on Mars, which is being used as a dumping ground for prisoners and opponents of those in power on Earth. After a difficult start, the people form a government and begin terraforming the planet.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; Nigerian author

“Potholes and Pumpkin Spice” - Kalpana Shankar; Glenn Kaufmann (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
Satire describing a city run by Starbucks. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. Female co-author. Shankar is a Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College, Dublin. Kaufmann is a freelance writer from the United States to Dublin, Ireland in 2011 and now has dual citizenship.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; Male author; US author

"Premium Places" - Dietmar Offenhuber (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The story is in the form of an academic article on a city designed and run by Pornhub. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Red Sunset - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) (Np, 2019)
After the assassination of the President, Vice-President, and the Cabinet are assassinated, the Speaker of the House (obviously Nancy Pelosi b. 1940) becomes President, and imposes an extreme left-wing agenda on the country and invites United Nations troops into the control to disarm all U.S. citizens, which leads to Civil War.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“(R)evolution” - Sam Agro (Nourishment: A One-Shot Anthology of Science Fiction, 2019)
The story is set in a future where all a cities rubbish, toxic chemicals, and so forth have been dumped outside it where the poor live, and those living in the area begin to become mutants.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Riverbed" - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
The story’s protagonist is an American-born woman who, as a young woman, was incarcerated in camps holding the U.S. Islamic population.
Keywords: Canadian author; Egyptian author; Male author; Qatari author; US author

“The Robots of Eden” - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) (New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour, 2019)
Much of the story seems to be about the relationships within and Indian family. Then, it is gradually revealed that some of the people have been “enhanced” through an implant that counters negative emotions. From the viewpoint of the protagonist, the results are entirely positive, but what happens within the story suggests the opposite.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 193-211, with an editor’s note on 193; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 306-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 399.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

Rule of Capture - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) (Harper Voyager, 2019)
The first volume of a series set in the same future as 2017 Brown. See also 2020 Brown. In this volume, the U.S. has lost a war with China and is becoming a dictatorship bent on eliminating any opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Safe and Secure Living in Camden” - Alan Wiig (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The story is designed as a report of a couple searching for a safe place to live, work, and raise their family. They settle on Camden, New Jersey, a formerly notoriously dangerous city that has partnered with corporations, such as Shotspotter, to install comprehensive surveillance. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author teaches urban planning and community development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, who has also published a critique of the actual program in “Secure the City, Revitalize the Zone: Smart Urbanization in Camden, New Jersey.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36.3 (2018): 403-23.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Scotland Before the Bomb - M. J. Nicholls ed. [written by] (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2019)
Satire on a Scotland that has disintegrated into independent counties and even cities and towns within counties.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Scrapheap Destiny” - Andrew Knighton (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2019)
The story takes on Destiny, one of many planets that have been environmentally damaged, that has become a dumping ground for scrap scavenged from space and other planets. A large corporation has essentially bought the planet, and while making promises of a better life for the inhabitants, or at least some of them, will destroy the livelihood and the culture that those working with the scrap have built up over generations.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Seeking Follows” - James Ash (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Semantic City” - Andrew Iliadis (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The story is set in a future where Philadelphia has contract with Apple for its citizens, including teenagers, to have a Siri implant that provides them with a constant flow of information, including ads. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sibling Rivalry" - Michael Byers (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 2019)
The story is set in a future with a one-child policy where synthetic children are produced and become second children.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Silence of Sound" - Mike Brooks (Translunar Lounge: A Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2019)
Dystopia set after a religious war where all books have been made to say the same things.
Keywords: Bisexual author; English author; Male author

Skin - Liam Brown (b. 1985) (2019)
The novel is set in a highly infectious pandemic in which everyone is required to stay home and focuses on the way one family deals with the issues. It was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Split By the Sun - Tom [Thomas Alured] Faunce (b. 1958) (World Scientific Publishing, 2019)
The premise of the novel is that synthetic photosynthesis has been developed and applied so that almost any surface can be used to produce clean food and fuel. Set in a deeply conflicted future so that there are both eutopian and dystopian elements to the novel. Aboriginal themes.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Stealing Worlds - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Tor, 2019)
The novel begins in a surveillance dystopia in which a woman finds that it is extremely hard to hide. She then discovers people creating cyber worlds and taking on new identities in these worlds and forming communities, something that otherwise no longer exists.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Stillicide - Cynan Jones (Granta, 2019)
The novel is set in a future where water is scarce and tightly controlled. Stillicide refers to the continual dripping of a liquid.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Streamers" - Cian O’Callaghan (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The story is set in a city that has replaced almost all work with temporary jobs offered through streaming, modeled on Spotify. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

“Summanus” - A. E. Bower (Nourishment: A One-Shot Anthology of Science Fiction, 2019)
The story is set on a planet that is being explored for edible plants in the hopes that plants from Earth can be grown there, Earth having lost all plant life and humans surviving on chemically produced food.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Summit at Eagle Nest - Dave Borland (Author, 2019)
The novel follows four people, two from the left and two from the right who try to see if they can come to an agreement on what needs to be done to save the United States. For half the book, they simply fail, but they are introduced to a Native American elder who teaches them the road to reconciliation. They conclude that a new Constitutional Convention is needed and develop a set of proposals reflecting a combination of their views.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Talk to a Real Live Girl” - Paul Clayton (Talk to a Real Live Girl and Other Stories, 2019)
Earth is dominated by women who have taken away all men’s rights. The protagonist, after losing the right to any contact with his daughter, chooses to leave Earth to a mining colony colloquially known as Boyz Wurld that is inhabited by men and sexbots. There are, though, “three live girls” available for talk and only talk.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Three Tales the River Told: A Glimpse of the Past” - Stewart C. Baker (Nature, 2019)
Climate-change dystopia where everyone lives underground and as entertainment someone goes to the surface to follow the course of the Yellow River.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

“To Breathe the Air” - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) (Cliffhangers (Part I of II). McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, 2019)
The story, which is in two parts with a cliffhanger ending to the first part, is set in a future divided between citizens who live in the high city, which is actually a spaceship, and the descendants of the people who came from the ship and live in the low city. The citizens want to learn how to run the ship so that they can spread their domination to other planets.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To Slip to the Surly Bonds of Earth - Hugh Cameron (Xlibris, 2019)
Western civilization is coming to an end, but one man hopes to reestablish it in space colonies. In the second volume, the struggle is to increase the population of the colonies on the moon and Mars to sustainable levels while supporting America and trying to keep it out of the problems of Europe. The ending suggests that there might be more volumes to come.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Triangulum - Masande Ntshanga (Umuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa, 2019)
A complex novel that is historical fiction, mystery novel, coming-of-age story, and dystopia. About two-thirds of the book are set in the past and the present and a third in a future that emerges from South Africa’s dystopic past with the “homelands” created by apartheid become corporate controlled domains designed to exploit both raw materials and labor.
U.K. ed. London: Jacaranda Books Art Music, 2019. 377 pp. U.S. ed as Tiangulum. A Novel. Columbus, OH: Two Dollar Radio, 2019. 365 pp. An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 3. 6 (June 2019). Monuments, ‘the remains of an alien civilisation which had now fled’—Read an excerpt from Masande Ntshanga’s new novel Triangulum – The Johannesburg Review of Books.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Trouble No Man. A Novel - Brian Hart (b. 1976) (Harper Perennial, 2019)
The novel takes place in a future where California and the Northwest are controlled by competing separatist militias fighting over water and fuel. The protagonist is a flawed man, depicted at various stages of his life who struggles to protect his extended family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Trump Sky Alpha - Mark Doten (b. 1978) (Graywolf Press, 2019)
Satire on Trump, who is depicted as sailing on a blimp, just after starting World War 3, while denying that anything is wrong. A parallel story is about the failure of the internet, and there is a novel within the novel that also comments on the situation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Truth - [Treichler, David H.] (Publisher Services, 2019)
The novel is set in a future where the government has established rules for what is truth, and analysts remove anything that does not meet these standards.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Unauthorized Bread" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Radicalized [The front cover adds Four Tales of Our Present Moment and the back cover say Dystopia is now], 2019)
The story is told from the point-of-view of a woman who is a refugee recently permitted to live in the U.S. as she moves through the system and focuses on the dystopia that is that system. The woman and others caught in the system fight back using their knowledge of technology.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

“Under This Rock” - Andrew Dana Hudson (Little Blue Marble 2019, 2019)
An anti-fracking story set in a future climate change dystopia.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 11-18.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Ungovernable Cities” - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, 2019)
Satire describing a number of fantastic or just very odd cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s La città invisibili/Invisible Cities 1972/1974).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Unnatural Disasters - Jeff Hirsch (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)
Young adult dystopia in which, as the country breaks down, the young woman the protagonist tries to live a normal life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Unseen" - Jeremy W. Crampton; Kara C. Hoover (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The story is set in a future that is completely connected and surveilled by a company like Cambridge Analytica told from the point-of-view of a teenager who doesn’t fit the parameters. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Ghanaian author; Male author; US author

The Wall. A Novel - John [Henry] Lanchester (b. 1962) (W. W. Norton, 2019)
Climate-change dystopia in which an island has completely surrounded itself by a wall to keep out the Others, those displaced by the effects of climate change. The novels protagonist is a young man enrolled as a Defender of the wall, and it follows his experiences and the doubts he had about what he was doing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Wanderers - Chuck [Charles David] Wendig (b. 1976) (Del Rey, 2019)
First of two volumes. Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which average people simply appear to start sleep walking in the midst of a pandemic. They are gradually surrounded by family and friends, known as shepherds,  trying to protect them from the religious zealots, armed vigilantes, and the like The second volume is Wayward. A Novel. New York: Del Rey, 2022. 805 pp. In this novel the survivors, both the sleepwalkers and the shepherds, search for and find a small town in Colorado that appears to be what remains civilization and try to build a new society there, but as in the first novel, there are others with different ideas.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Warehouse. A Novel - Rob Hart (b. 1982) (Crown, 2019)
Dystopia in which one large corporation employs most people and has established prison-like company towns where the people were long hours in warehouses packaging goods to be delivered by drones to people who are afraid to leave their homes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

We Cast a Shadow. A Novel - Maurice Carlos Ruffin (One World, 2019)
Dystopian set in a near future, racist United States where it is possible to have one’s skin colored changed to white. The novel focuses on a father’s struggle to decide what is best for his son.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“Welcome to Gray” - Cyd Athens (If This Goes On, 2019)
The story is set in an extremely polluted future where clean water is the main medium of exchange.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

“Welcome to Jobstown” - Sophia Maalsen; Kurt Ivensen (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
Written as a Time Magazine report from 2029 on the development of Jobstown, a “smart city,” by Apple, with everything provided by Apple and accessed through Apple products, and every action is recorded and stored. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Male author

“What Maya Found There” - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) (A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers, 2019)
A future surveillance society in which biotechnology is being used as a means of control.
Keywords: Latinx author; Male author; US author

What Went Wrong, or Was It Right? - Jackson Phillips, III [pseud.] (AuthorHouse, 2019)
Mostly a critique of the current situation in the United States comparing it to the situation in 2095, which appears, on the surface, to be eutopian, but it turned out to be a flawed utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Why Visit America” - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) (Paris Review, 2019)
Deciding that the United States no longer represents the people but only the interests of corporations and politicians, a small town in Texas votes to secede and renames itself America. The story recounts conflicts within the town after the secession with references to a guidebook for tourists.
Rpt. in his Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 290-326.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Without Fire" - Ben Jacobs (Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction, 2019)
The background of the story is a society divided into rich and poor living in the Villas and the Warren. The protagonist works in a robotics factory with rules better suited for robots than humans, but the focus of the story is on Mini Worlds, similar to a tank for fish but here a tank for tiny humans.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Work, Love, and Learning in Utopia: Equality Reimagined - Martin Schoenhals (Routledge, 2019)
Non-fiction utopia. The author concludes by saying that “This book has described my own visions for a better world” (265), and that is what he does throughout the book, mostly in fairly general terms, but in some chapters with some specificity. Stresses pleasure, community, the elimination of hierarchy, including an equality that eliminates “otherness,” particularly regarding gender roles but extending to most areas of difference. The chapter on Work in Utopia (107-51) lays out the author’s “overall plan for the economy in Utopia,” which includes, among other things, a guarantee of basic needs for all people. The chapter entitled “The Intrinsic Pleasures and Purposes of Learning” (191-230) sees a deinstitutionalized lifelong learning as central to the good life. Some discussion of governance. Elimination of nation-states. The author is a cultural anthropologist who currently teaches is a member of the First Year Seminar Core Faculty at Appalachian State University.
Keywords: Male author; US author

You Are Entitled to What the Data Says You Deserve” - Rob Kitchin (How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables, 2019)
The author describes the story as “a thought experiment that imagines a future where a city administration uses a data broker, based on a company like ACXIOM, and their services to make decisions regarding the provision of services.” One  result is to exacerbate existing inequalities. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

You Have Arrived at Your Destination - Amor Towles (b. 1964) (Amazon Original Stories, 2019)
The story is set in a future where it is possible to both genetically engineer children but also apparently choose the trajectory of their lives.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Burned-Over Territory” - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) (Slate, 2018)
Dystopia set in a society with a guaranteed income undermined by factionalism and bureaucracy.
Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 173-89.
Keywords: African American author; Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The Evac" - Thomas Webb (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
The story is about UN troops evacuating people from an Earth-like planet that had been destroyed by the environmental policies that had been destroying Earth. Before it was too late, the people of Earth had realized what was happening had instituted the policies necessary to reverse the devastation.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. EBook.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"False Alarm" - John Cooper Hamilton (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Dystopia set in the U. S. after the Resettlement Wars that had been brought about by climate change and the loss of the ability to grow crops in their traditional locations. This led to some countries importing both the crops and the people who had worked the crops.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. EBook
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“In the Event of Famine” - Salvatore Difalco (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Satirical story about an eatable house intended to provide for any future famine.
Rpt. without the Illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Sicilian author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The Minnesota Diet" - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Slate, 2018)
Satire on the failure of high-tech systems.
Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 225-39.
Keywords: Male author; Transgender author; US author

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

Moon of the Crusted Snow. A Novel - Waubgeshig Rice (b. 1979) (ECW Press, 2018)
A post-catastrophe novel (loss of all power sources) as it affects a small First Nations settlement as they deal first with their own loss of power and then with the people fleeing cities. The focus of the novel is on those who are most in tune with the traditional ways and how these help them survive, and at the end of the novel, choose to leave to live completely as their ancestors had.
Keywords: Canadian author; First Nations author; Male author

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

“The Name Unspoken” - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
In this future New York City, the name unspoken, known as the Monster, is Trump.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Negative Space" - Max Knight (Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities, 2018)
The story is set in a future China with extreme pollution but that has areas that under domes that are accessible to those with sufficient money or status and is building a city that is pollution free and in the open air. The protagonist is a fairly high-status functionary who is trying to quit smoking during a crackdown on smokers.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Vietnam author

"Neom" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2018)
Neom is a city built on the Red Sea on the Arabis peninsula that is designed to attract high-flying tech entrepreneurs and workers with the laws that suit them rather than Saudi Arabia. It is described by a middle-aged woman cleaner as she cleans an apartment and then walks back to the district where poor support workers like her live.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2019. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 37-45
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

Nine - Zach Hines (HarperTeen, 2018)
A young adult dystopia in which everyone has nine lives, and, in order to avoid overpopulation, the government encourages suicide by providing benefits for those who kill themselves until they have one life left.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“No Point Talking” - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which the United States is experiencing the effects of climate change and has fractured into areas dominated by conservatives and areas dominated by the left.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

“Of Things That May Come” - Innocent Chizarram Ilo (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2018)
The story is set in a heavily polluted future facing a devastating water shortage.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“One Fell Swoop” - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which the Nihilistic Rifle Aficionados organize a school shooting that they hope will undermine attempts to regulate guns.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Oversleeper - [Stewart] [Ferris] (Accent Press, 2018)
A dystopian sleeper awakes tale in which a man who had been in a coma twice awakens to a poor, violent, depopulated future caused by a plague brought to Earth from dirt from Mars. During the man’s comas, doctors had used his sperm to create thousands of babies for local repopulation and had sold his sperm to other countries, who had used it in the same way.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster ebook, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Overvalued" - Mark Stasenko (Slate, 2018)
A dystopia in which people can invest in the future of an individual buying them admission to a higher quality university, but, as with the stock market, others bet against the individual.
Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 127-39
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Owning Up To the Past" - James Maddox (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which in a father takes a child living in the eutopia to see the horrors of the past.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Passion According to Mike” - Scott [Michael] Bradfield (b. 1955) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Mike Pence (b. 1959) (Trump’s Vice President) awakes in a future as a hermaphrodite.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Perfidious Albion - Sam Byers (b. 1979) (Faber & Faber, 2018)
A post-Brexit dystopia set in a small, previously peaceful English town and the media encourages conflict.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Phantasmatopia” - Hüseyin Alhas (My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, 2018)
Poem touching on justice, religion, ecology, and politics comparing elements of a eutopia with the current dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Turkish author

"The Pilot" - Dean Trippe (b. 1980) (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which good relations between Earth and aliens are undermined by a rogue human but restored.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pity - Rory Mullarkey (b. 1987) (Methuen Drama, 2018)
The absurdist play depicts a seemingly quite typical small town in England as that word falls apart. It was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre, London, July 12, 2018.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Irish author; Male author

“Porque el Girasol se Llama el Girasol” - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
Dystopian story of people living in the U.S. who are desperate to get over the Wall into Mexico.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Nigerien author

“Precaution at Penn Station” - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which Homeland Security kills people chosen at random to avoid charges of racial profiling.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Premium Care” - Brandon Ketchum (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
Brief dystopia set in a future with profit-making corporate control of health care with restrictions on care for non-citizens and the military enforcing the rules.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Public Money and Democracy” - Jo[seph Churches] Walton (b. 1982) (Economic Science Fictions, 2018)
A combination of essay and speculative fiction that explores the interactions among value, the commons, algocracy (rule by algorithms), democracy, and complexity and unpredictability.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Red Moon - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Orbit, 2018)
An adventure/thriller that explores East-West relations on Earth and the Moon and critiques both capitalism and communism. Includes a description of the free crater people, an anarchist community based on “blockchain governance.” Some discussion of the classic Chinese utopia Peach Blossom Spring with a translation of Wang Wei’s version  “Source of the Peach Blossom Stream (Wang Wei)” (343-44), which is rpt. in Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 191-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Redcap Country - Henry Dodson (Np, 2018)
Dystopia in which a small town in Texas is completely under the control of the mayor with young men in red caps enforcing his rule. The novel focuses on a young boy who tries to resist.
Keywords: Male author

Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart. A Novel of First Contact - [Steve Rune] [Lundin] (b. 1959) (Promontory Press, 2018)
A novel of first contact in which the aliens choose not to reveal themselves except to one woman who they try to convince to be their spokesperson. The make large parts of the world’s wilderness inaccessible to humans, stop all violence, and damage to the environment by oil companies. Considerable satire.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Revolution 2050 - Jay Chalk (Dancing Lemur Press, 2018)
After a new civil war in the United States, the North American Commonwealth is a dictatorship controlling the East and the free Western Alliance governs the West. First volume in a series.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Pan Macmillan, 2018)
First volume of a galaxy spanning trilogy. In the first volume, one thread is that Earth is a near-utopia based on technology provided by apparently friendly aliens, who, at the end are revealed as anything but friendly. Two other threads are developed, the discovery and exploration of an enigmatic crashed alien spaceship and a far-future in which humanity is fighting against extinction by other aliens. Salvation Lost. London: Pan Macmillan; 2019; U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2019. The Saints of Salvation. London: Pan Macmillan, 2020. U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2020 is forthcoming.
U.S. ed. New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Sanctuary" - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A Sanctuary City that provides refuge for undocumented immigrants is attacked with multiple bombs and weapons by self-styled patriots.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Secure Home" - Wayne Cusack (Sanctuary: An Experimental Anthology of Speculative Fiction, 2018)
An apparently ideal gated community that separates people into sub-communities based on politics, religion, and so forth collapses when the sub-communities start attacking each other.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Seeds" - Erik Burnham (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a retired superhero has to be convinced his life was worthwhile.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Seventeen Souls” - Tyler Chin-Tanner (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which world peace has been achieved and famine and disease conquered. A project is developed to rescue from the past and bring them to the better future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Skippy’s Visit East” - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Climate change dystopia with the loss of all animals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sneakers" - Michael Libling (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia of the future U.S. immigration policies
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“The Soil Merchant” - Anthony W. Eichenlaub (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Dystopia in which all the good soil is gone.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018. EBook
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Sponsor" - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) (Salt Hill Journal, 2018)
The story is in a future where everything is copyrighted, trademarked, and officially registered, and is about a wedding where the official sponsor goes bankrupt disrupting all the couple’s plans.
Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 142-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Statues of Limitations” - [Russell] [Schechter] (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia playing on the removal of Confederate statues in which statues of people currently disapproved of are being replaced by those of right-wing heroes like Rush Limbaugh and Steve Bannon.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

“The Streets Turned Blue and Green” - Dennis Mombauer (b. 1984) (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Climate change dystopia set in the flooded city of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: German author; Male author; Sri Lankan author

"Suffocation" - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
The story is set in the period in which the world-system falls apart, which leads to environmental collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Synapse Sequence - Daniel Godfrey (Titan Books, 2018)
The novel is set in a future London where algorithms determine who gets what work and are the legal system and humans are overseen by technology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Terrific Leader” - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which everyone believes that the “Terrific Leader” will make American great again as everything gets worse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“This Constant Narrowing” - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
A dystopia in which genders and ethnicities are slowly disappearing.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

Through Darkest Europe - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2018)
Set in an alternative modern times where Islam developed science, technology and enlightenment while Western Europe remained a hotbed of religious fundamentalism.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 2019
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tiger" - Joe M. McDermott (b. 1979) (Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2018)
Environmental dystopia which most animals have disappeared.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/tiger/ (February 5, 2019).
Keywords: Male author; US author