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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Busy" - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) (Terraform, 2022)
The story is set after the economic collapse. The only work is make work in what are called entropy mills, repurposed malls, where people generate random numbers.
Rpt. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 11-16.
Keywords: Canadian author; Egyptian author; Male author; Qatari author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The Secret Source" - Ben Okri (b. 1959) (The New Yorker, 2022)
The story is set in the future in an unidentified country with a severe water shortage and rationing. What is available appears to cause people to become “docile, amenable to all suggestions from the government” (89), and the protagonists search for answers. The author discusses the story in an interview with Deborah Treisman at https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/ben-okri-09-19-22.
The author reading the story can be found at https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/ben-okri-reads-the-secret-source.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

“The Shallow State” - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set in a climate change future where the government systematically misrepresents the situation by such things as temperature readings that are programmed to not go over 100oF.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The Woman Who Spoke for the Sea: An Element of Regret” - Steven [B.] Fischer (Nature, 2021)
A very brief story set in a future dystopia where the oceans have disappeared.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Yahweh's Hour" - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (A Few Last Words for the Immortals, 2021)
Brief fundamentalist religious dystopia based, as the author says on 242, on the beliefs of the supporters of Donald Trump.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming - James Lawrence Powell (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Pretty much what the title says: an account of global warming from today to 2084.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“All Fuzzed Out and Fractal” - Cleden, David (Gotta Wear Eclipse Glasses. Third Flatiron Anthologies Volume 9, Book 28 (Summer 2020), 2020)
A world where everyone constantly wears virtual reality glasses that disguise the climate change dystopia they live in, and the response of one woman who removes hers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“All That Remains” - Michael Gardner (Metaphorosis, 2020)
The story is about a boy growing up underground where his father had taken his family to avoid a pandemic that he believed had killed all sinners and the problems the boy has when he accidentally discovers a flourishing civilization above ground.
Rpt. in Metaphorosis 2020. The Complete Stories. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Neskowin, OR: Metaphorosis, [2021]), 539-558.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

And the Last Trump Shall Sound: A Future History of America - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949); James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947); Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) (Caezik SF & Fantasy/Arc Manor, 2020)
The work contains three connected stories about the secession of Pacifica (California, Oregon, and Washington) from the United States, which is suffering under the permanent presidency of Mike (Michael Richard) Pence. The stories are Turtledove’s “The Breaking of Nations” (1-81), Morrow’s, “The Purloined Republic” (83-180), and Rambo’s “Because it is Bitter” (181-255).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Animals Like Me. Deep/Fake I” - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) (Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1, 2020)
A dystopia in three parts with the protagonist in the first part the viewpoint character in the second part and a minor figure in the third part, with the parts apparently in chronological order. The first part depicts a society entirely dependent on artificial intelligence, the only employment seems to be in the gig economy, and drug addiction is normal and fostered by pharmaceutical companies. In the second part, hordes of children are running wild and killing people and body parts are removed without consent. In the third part, the protagonist is a goat herder in the mountains, where he went to escape his own addiction, and individuals start showing up announcing that the bot had been overthrown.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Nigerien author; Spanish author; US author

Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present - Yanis [Ioannis Georgiou] Varoufakis (b. 1961) (Bodley Head, 2020)
The Other Now has restructured its economy to create a more egalitarian society. The novel primarily consists of debates among individuals in Our Now over the changes in the Other Now. Lots of detail, mostly over the economic system, which has made all workers equal shareholders in wherever they work and given everyone a basic income, among other changes.
U.S. ed. as Another Now. A Novel. New York: Melville House, 2021. 233 pp. without an index.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Greek author; Male author

“An Apology from the Natives of Earth” - Joe Lasser (Little Blue Marble, 2020)
The people of Earth are apologizing to the inhabitants of other planets for damaging their own planet, which was then cleaned up and repaired as much as possible. But when it became possible, the people of Earth colonized other planets, eliminated species, and destroyed ecosystems. They are now asking not to be eliminated themselves.
Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 129-32, with a note on the author on 132.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Arrest. A Novel - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020)
Although the dust jacket says is not postapocalyptic, a dystopia, or a utopia. After almost all forms of power stop working with no explanation give, it is certainly the first two, and there are elements of a utopia in a farming cooperative, but it is equally a commentary on such fictions. The three main protagonists appeared in his “The Starlet Apartments.” Illus. Ana Galvañ. The New Yorker (March 4, 2019). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-starlet-apartments which provides background to the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“As the Earth Intended” - P. J. Higham (Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future Australia experiencing a long drought and focuses on the extreme measures that the state bureaucracy puts in place to deal which includes capital punishment for breaking the rules.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Attack Surface - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020)
Third volume in a loosely connected series following Little Brother (2008) and Homeland (2013). This volume follows one of the minor characters from Little Brother, a woman who, as an adult, sells her skills to a corporation that helps the dictators of the world with the woman also assisting her friends who are trying to overthrow the same people. The novel focuses on her actions after she is forced to make a choice. A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Tor.com. Illus. Yuko Shimizu. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

“Before I Formed You In the Womb I Knew You” - Michael Rowe (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a dystopian future where Donald Trump is President for Life. Significant elements of fantasy.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A Beginning at the End - Mike Chen (Harlequin/MIRA Books, 2020)
Postapocalyptic (pandemic) dystopia in which the United States is fragmented seen through the eyes of four individuals from different areas struggling to survive and bring about whatever improvement they can.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Benjamin 2073” - Rjurik Davidson (Tor.com, 2020)
The story is set in Tasmania in a future that has had some success in combating climate change and concerns the attempt to bring back the Thylacine or Tasmanian tiger that is presumed to have become extinct in 1936.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Black Ice City" - Andrew Dana Hudson (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which people scavenge for ice to build a huge city in the far North where they hold a long winter party.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Blue & Red" - Wrath James White (b. 1970) (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which President Trump’s administration has dropped nuclear weapons on North Korea, which has retaliated with biological and chemical weapons.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Carnival" - Milton [John] Davis (Hadithi & The State of Black Speculative Fiction, 2020)
The story is set in a high-tech future in which everyone lives inside enclosed communities so that the natural world can regenerate, but it is focused on a celebrated DJ who is preparing a special show for Carnival.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Carving Out the Other" - William D. Carl (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
Dystopia in which only blonde, blue-eyed heterosexuals are truly accepted, with various forms of surgery and therapy making it possible to meet that standard. The story focuses on a young, gay man desperate to be accepted.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Catcher in the Sky” - Paul A. Freeman (Gotta Wear Eclipse Glasses. Third Flatiron Anthologies Volume 9, Book 28 (Summer 2020), 2020)
Due to pollution and the need to control population, life must end at sixty-five.
Keywords: Abu Dhabi author; Male author

“Chelsea’s Rescue” - J. L. Hagen (Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology, 2020)
The brief story is set in a future conditioned by the Homeless Rescue, Economic Transformation, and Immigrant Containment Act in which human rescues are available for adoption for whatever purposes the adopter has in mind.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Choice" - Tomas Marcantonio (Metaphorosis, 2020)
The story is set in a post-nuclear war unified Korea in which supposed abortion providers are extracting the fetuses and raising them in incubators with negative impacts on the children.
Rpt. in Metaphorosis 2020. The Complete Stories. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Neskowin, OR: Metaphorosis, [2021]), 53-62.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Chosen Spirits - Samit Basu (b. 1979) (Simon & Schuster India, 2020)
The novel is set in Delhi in the late 2020s, a city that is dangerous, badly polluted, short of water, and experiencing ethnic conflict, and constantly on the edge of revolution. The protagonist is a Reality Controller working for a celebrity.
Rpt. New York: Tordotcom, 2022
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

Chronicle from the Land of Happiest People on Earth. A Novel - Wole [Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde] Soyinka (b. 1934) (Bookcraft, 2020)
The novel depicts a future African country, similar to Nigeria, that is corrupted by greed and the desire for power. Part mystery novel. Much humor.
U.S. ed. as Chronicle from the Land of Happiest People on Earth. New York: Pantheon Books, 2021. 444 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author; US author

"City of Refuge" - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future Indianapolis on “Original Earth,” or what remains after the rich have left to settle Mars and African Americans who can afford to have settled the moon and orbiting cities around it. Those left behind include those who can afford to ensure clean air and water by building a dome over their neighborhood and those who can’t. The viewpoint character is an African American ex-convict struggling to survive.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author

Cleo Porter and the Body Electric - Jake Burt (Feiwel & Friends, 2020)
Middle grade dystopia in which every family is, as a result of a pandemic, permanently isolated in separate apartments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Close Your Eyes in Peace Tonight” - Craig Wolf (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which aliens, having concluded that humans had so damaged the Earth that all over twelve must die to let Earth regenerate. Those twelve and under will be removed to a new place.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Coming of the Grey Goose” - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) (Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology, 2020)
The story is set in a future in which Aotearoa New Zealand is disappearing under water. The book includes a Glossary (270-276). The author also wrote an environmental political novel aimed at Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup--Lethal Dose. Onehunga, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Auckland</st1:city></st1:place>: Hard Echo Press, 1991.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Complex - A[nno] D. Enderly (Luminary Media, 2020)
The novel is set in a future in which governments have been replaced by corporate Complexes that promise security and everything needful in exchange for personal freedom. The main thread in the novel concerns one young woman searching for her kidnapped sister, which allows the author to explore varied aspects of the future society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Connor & Seal: a harlem story in 47 poems - Jee Leong Koh (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020)
The poems follow the lives of two gay men living in the U.S. from their births in Jamaica in 1983 and Nebraska in 1990 to their marriage in 2020 and their deaths in 2064 and 2066. The period after 2020 becomes more violent and dystopia. Some of the poems were previously published, sometimes in earlier versions.
Keywords: Male author; Singaporean author; US author

Corporate Gunslinger: Greed Means Debt Means Violence. A Novel - Doug Engstrom (Harper Voyaher, 2020)
In mid-twenty-first century everyone is debt, with loans secured by a “lifetime service contract.” The novel focuses on a young woman who, to avoid defaulting agrees to be a corporate gunfighter in duels that are the final stage in arbitration.
Keywords: Male author; US author