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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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 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

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

Song of Less - [Megan] Joyce Fleming (b. 1984) (Cordite Books, 2022)
A collection of poems all of which respond to the current destruction of the environment, particularly animals, birds, and plants, as told by them.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Bermudan author; Female 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

“Subscription Life” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Dreams for a Better Worlds: Book Two in the Dreams Anthology Series, 2022)
A dystopia in which in order to earn enough to live on people “subscribe” to a company and then wear its clothes, eat its foods, work in its stores, and so forth while being constantly filmed. The story concerns one woman who happily signs up only to learn how the system actually functions.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

“On This Day, and All Days, I Think About What I Have Lost” - Dana Vickerson (Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2022)
The story follows the reflections of a woman from the day her son was born in California, and then, after her family moves to Texas, on his subsequent second, fifth, eighth, thirteenth, fifteenth, and twenty-first birthdays, as the United States becomes more and more repressive.
Rpt. in Reckoning: Our Beautiful Reward (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2023), 10-16, with a note on the author on 17.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“This Is Our Manifesto” - Mark Oshiro (Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space, 2022)
The story is set in a future in which the rich and powerful promise a safe planet by sending all, even the most minor, offenders off-planet to work to produce goods for those remaining on Earth.
Keywords: Latinx author; Queer author; US author

“Tidy Town: Keeping Track of Trash” - Angela Hessler (Nature, 2022)
Pretty much what the subtitle says. The story is set in a future here every bit of trash is kept track of and the person responsible identified.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Tillandsia” - Kallo, Josie (Solarpunk Magazine, 2022)
The setting of the story is conflict between the green, free collectivists and the authoritarian fascists who depend on fossil fuels.
Keywords: Queer author; Transgender author; US author

To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara (b. 1974) (2022)
The novel is set in the same townhouse at 13 Washington Square North in New York City in 1893, 1993, and 2093 with protagonist from the same family. 2093 has experienced a series of pandemics and the United States is now a fascist state
Keywords: Female 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

"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

Walk the Vanished Earth - Erin Swan (b. 1975) (Viking/Penguin Random House, 2022)
Family history from 1873 to 2073 with stops in 1975 and 2027. In 2027 New Orleans in under water and the future family members live in a city floating above it. In 2073, Earth is only a memory and the remaining family members live on Mars and the young woman must decide whether the family line will continue.
Keywords: Female author; US author

We Built This City” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Clarkesworld, 2022)
A refugee dystopia. The story is set in a city built in space around Earth that has attracted refugees from corporation owned space stations that had been exploiting them and are trying to get them expelled so that they can be re-enslaved by the corporations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Wild Plums" - Molly Tanzer (b. 1981) (Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2022)
The story is set after the United States has fallen apart and has formed NACE with Canada and Mexico. After multiple disasters most of the population live in domed SPHRE’s (Solar-Powered Habitat and Replacement Environment’s) that are compulsively managed so that everything occurs on a programmed basis, goods are traded with other SPHRE’s in predictable amounts on predictable days. “No one could profit off what was necessary for life” (52). All young people required to attend “NACE-mandated Social Responsibility and Conflict Resolution classes” (55). The protagonist, a young married woman, leaves her SPHRE to search for the wild plums of the title, at which point the story takes an unexpected turn.
Keywords: Female author; US author

X. A Novel - Davey Davis (Catapult, 2022)
Dystopia set in a near future where fascism has taken hold in the United States and more and more people are being “exported” by the government. That situation is the background to the protagonist’s search for X, a woman they met at a sadomasochistic party.
Keywords: Non-binary author; US author

"Yellow" - B[rittany] Pladek (Slate Future Tense, 2022)
The story is set in a future United States that is no longer united but replaced by corporations. Lakes United is the Great Lakes area with competing consortia selling water to the West. Within that setting the story concerns an app SafeT that constantly evaluates an individuals health, the safety of their location, their route home, and so forth, rating each with a single number. A responding essay, “Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US 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

"Afterglow" - Lindsey Brodeck (b. 1995) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future where people who can afford to or can get a labor contract are leaving Earth. The point-of-view character is a woman who does not want to leave whose partner has a contract for both of them. Following odd clues, she discovers a movement called the Keepers who are rewilding the planet as well as inner city gardening, beekeeping, and other projects to heal Earth. One of them is the need for a change in language to eliminate the distinction between humans and the natural world. The story was awarded first 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: Female author; US author

“All Us Ghosts” - B[rittany] Pladek (Strange Horizons, 2021)
The story is set in a future affected by a continuing pandemic in which many people live their lives entirely online, including in virtual reality. The protagonist is hired by parents to create friends, a community, a life for their children through their university years.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Antonia and the Stranger Who Came to Rancho Los Feliz” - Lisa Morton (b. 1958) (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
Alternative history set in the early 19th century in Alta California, a free (no slavery or discrimination) country between the United States and Mexico that has a flourishing agricultural economy. The story concerns a man who suddenly appears, serious hurt, who comes through a portal from a different, future Los Angeles experiencing can unlivable environment and extreme violence.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Apology" - M. Shaw (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set in a near future capitalist dystopia.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Automata Albatross” - Robin Happel (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is set in a future where most people are now living on artificial islands. The United States is a dictatorship that denies the reality.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blood Oil" - Rebecca “Reb” Joy Spring (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The brief story told from the point of view of a teenage girl is about an oil pipeline leaking into a creek and how environmental action can improve lives.
Rpt. Illus. João Queiroz. Solarpunk Magazine, no. 2 (March/April 2022): 74-76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blue Mar - Francesca G. Varela (Owl House Books/Homebound Publications, 2021)
Climate change dystopia. Blue Mar is an island resort created from collecting plastic from the office and fusing it together. Some phrases in the novel are in Spanish, and the action of the novel is set in the United States, El Salvador, and on Blue Mar.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Broad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story” - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2021)
The story is set in the area that used to be Florida and the islands of the Caribbean, most of which is now under water. The protagonist is a young woman living in one of the communities on rafts that scavenge for anything useable or that can be repurposed.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 110-135; and in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022. Ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki; Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis (Np: Caezik SF & Fantasy in partnership with O.D. Ekpeki Presents, 2023), 51-76.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

“The Case of the Turned Tide” - Savitri [Putu] Horrigan (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future Indonesia that has comprehensively responded to climate change. 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: Female author; US author

“City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights” - B. G. Alder (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is told from the point of view of an individual on a break with a friend from working for eighteen weeks in a space station combing through algorithms that generate jokes. The break is for four days in BLAM!, The City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights where everything is artificial and most people simply spend their break getting wasted. Instead, they look for something natural.
Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 29 ( December 2021) : 84-94.
Keywords: Genderqueer author; US author

“City Starlight and the Cemetery” - Katrina Eilander (XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
The story is told in two parts, both set in a future mid-twenty-first century that is recovering from environmental devastation, with the first about a celebration of nature and the second concerned with the re-establishment of forests.
Keywords: Female author; US 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 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

Cyclopedia Exotica - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2021)
Graphic novel depicting a growing community of Cyclops living in the contemporary world that depicts the experiences of minorities and immigrants.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; US 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

"Drumming Song" - Ashley Bao (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
The story is set on an island in the Indian ocean that has become popular with tourists, with crops grown to feed them and send to the mainland rather than to feed the indigenous inhabitants and damaging the environment. In the story, a little girl talks to the land and seas with her drum and is taught how to begin to reverse the damage.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“Each Cool Silver Orb a Gift” - Nicole Rosevear (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which women chosen by lottery rule men and a population of thirds or those in-between gender who are demanding that they be recognized as equals.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Fancy" - Diana Burbano (Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, 2021)
The story concerns women fighting back against a patriarchal theocracy.
Keywords: Columbian author; Female 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

Femlandia - Christina [Villafãna] Dalcher (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2021)
In 2022 the U.S. economy completely collapses, and when a man leaves his wife and child with nothing, the woman chooses to join Femlandia, a “womyn’s commune” founded by her mother, which the daughter loves but the woman regards warily. The novel follows their experiences in the community, which ultimately changes its name to Landia to the death of the daughter at 103 in 2098.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

The Future Library - Peng Shepherd (Tor.com, 2021)
Magic realist story based on an actual project of that name created in 2114 in Norway by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson (b. 1981) in which one hundred authors write stories that will be printed in 100 years on paper that is made from a tree planted in 2114; see https://www.futurelibrary.no/ In the story, as the last trees in the world disappear due to continued logging, fire, storms, and pollution, the government of Norway destroys the last of the forest.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy™ 2022. Ed Rebecca Roanhorse. Series ed. John Joseph Adams (New York/Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2022), 299-326.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

“The Ghost Birds” - Karen Russell (b. 1981) (The New Yorker, 2021)
Climate change dystopia with elements of magic realism. All birds have died, people live in sealed houses and, the air being toxic, must wear complete protective gear if leaving the house. Sightings of “ghost birds” leads the protagonist to join the Paranormal Birding Society, and he takes his teenage daughter birding.
Keywords: Female 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

The Governor’s Daughter. Book One of Daughters of the New American Revolution - Maria Dampmann (Likinpoodle Press, 2021)
The first volume of a series. The novel takes place in a future in which under a white nationalist government women must follow the prescribed Purity Protocols. The protagonist is the daughter of the powerful governor and regularly breaks the rules. Outside the walls of Premier City she finds that most people live a life of poverty, disease, and police violence. The second volume is The Prodigal Daughter. Book Two of Daughters of the New American Revolution. Round Hill, VA: Likinpoodle Press, 2022. 469 pp. It is a typical middle volume where everything gets worse and ends with To Be Continued. Both volumes end with the author’s comments on the way the novels reflect the current situation in the U.S.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Governor’s Daughter. Daughters of the New American Revolution Book One - Maria Ereni Dampman (Lickenpoodle Press, 2021)
The novel is set in a religious, white nationalist patriarchy in which most people live in poverty while a favored few live in a walled city. The point-of-view character, the daughter Governor, discovers the world outside the city. The second volume in the series is to be The Prodigal Daughters.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hospitalized in Utopia" - Caroline Ailanthus (XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest, 2021)
After the collapse of civilization, a new, better, sustainable, one is built, which is described by an elderly, partially paralyzed woman being treated in Hospital City and then released into to her own apartment with all the support she needs. In this future there are relatively few cities, and those quite small, but advanced medicine, major museums, and the like need a certain population base. The hospital grows most of its own food. No fossil fuels but with the internet. Everything had slowed down. The story was one of the five in the runner up category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“‘If I could travel in time’ by Zed 5755: History Lessons” - Jessy Randall (Nature, 2021)
A grade seven student report written in 2131 spoken into a recording device, with interruptions not deleted, that says a lot about the future society. Everyone appears to live inside with no experience of the natural world, live in very large families, in a highly structured social order based at least in part on money, and little physical contact with others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Immunity Index - Sue Burke (Tor, 2021)
Pandemic dystopia. Three sisters who discover that they were genetically identical are immune.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“In Search of Rust” - Danielle Froom (Shoreline of Infinity, 2021)
The story is set in a future Earth in which the industrial past has been erased and replaced. All the cities are gone, and people live in biologically based. The story is told through the eyes of a boy who hankers for something, anything from that past, and everyone is intolerant of his interest.
Keywords: Lesbian author; US 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

"Intentionalities" - Aimee Ogden (Clarkesworld, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which one large corporation controls much of the world and most people are deeply in debt to it. One woman chooses to get out of debt by having a child that she then gives to the corporation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Interviews of Importance” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, 2021)
The story is set in a future where society at least appears to be caring more for its aging population through the establishment of an Elder Resources program that is designed to connect aging people “with working-age people, both to reduce loneliness and isolation . . . and to have some early warning and support for vulnerable people in any kind of future disaster” (45) Also, the new digital democracy required everyone to be technologically competent to participate and vote, and the system is designed to ensure that the elderly had the needed competencies. It is told from the viewpoint of a young woman who works in a low-paid job to contact people in their sixties or older to first set up an interview in which she asks set questions about their lived history, with a particular emphasis on what is now called “historically oppressed groups” (46). They are then encouraged to join a network which will contact them regularly. The young woman is cynical about her job but is also desperate to learn her mother’s history.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

The Last Cuenista - Donna Barba Higuera (Levine Querido, 2021)
Young adult novel set on a generations spaceship after Earth was destroyed in a collision with Halley’s Comet. The protagonist is a twelve-year-old girl whose parents had been chosen to be among those saved and put into “hypersleep” to be cared for by generations of Monitors. The Monitors, though, resent their role, form the dystopian Collective, and wake up everybody while erasing their memories, except, by accident, the protagonist’s. She had always wanted to be a cuenista or storyteller and she fills that role by telling the other children stories of old Earth. The novel won the 2022 Newbery Medal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Let It Die" - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 2021)
The story is set in a future that severely restricts the use of technology, allowing its use solely to repair visiting spaceships and allows people in their community to die rather than using technology to create treatments for them.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

“Like Flowers Through Concrete” - Louangie Bou-Montes (Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, 2021)
The story is set in a future trying to recover from while still dealing with the devastation of climate change and depicts personal relations within a fairly resilient community.
Keywords: Female author; Puerto Rican author; US author

“Looney ka Tabadia (with apologies to Sa’adat Hassan Manto.” - Bina Shah (b. 1972) (The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan, 2021)
While the story focuses on an exchange of prisoners at the border between India and Pakistan, it takes place some years after a peace treaty has brought peace and prosperity to the two countries. The Kashmir problem has been solved by turning into a privately owned theme park overseen jointly by both countries in which all Kashmiris are stockholders.
Keywords: Female author; Pakistani author; US author

Machinehood - [Divya Srinivasan] [Breed] (Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Set in a future in which humans, cyborgs, and AI-controlled robots compete for work in a gig economy while under constant surveillance. “Privacy had gone the way of the dodo” (11). The Machinehood is a movement for the freedom and autonomy of all forms of intelligence. Most chapters begin with an epigram taken from The Machinehood Manifesto, March 20, 2095. The first consists of items 30-32: “30. All forms of intelligence have the right to exist without persecution or slavery. 31. No form of intelligence may own another. 32. If the local governance does not act in accordance with these rights, it is the right of an intelligence to act by any means necessary to secure them” (1).
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

“The Memory Clinic” - Elisabeth Tsubota (Hey Utopia! Griffith Review 73, 2021)
The story is told by a poor woman living in a world where people are provided services depending on their income with the poor getting none who is selling individual memories to the highest bidder in order to be able to eat.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

“Old Man’s Sea” - Meyari McFarland (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which the oceans have risen so much to drown most coastal areas. People living on land are constantly at war and have modified sharks to be weapons and kill any human found in the water. The protagonist is a young woman living on a boat harvesting the bounty of the sea.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Ones We’re Meant to Find - Joan He (Roaring Brook Press, 2021)
Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally devastated future where eco-cities were built for the supposedly deserving. The plot concerns sisters searching for each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Past is Red - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) (Tordotcom, 2021)
The story is set on Garbagetown, a floating island of garbage the size of the former Texas inhabited by refugees from the flooded continents. Her 2016 “The Future Is Blue” is reprinted as Part I (1-32, and in her “Afterword” (147-50) the author explains how that story inspired Part II, “The Past Is Red” (12-146). The main character is the same in both parts.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!” - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, 2021)
The story is set after a future pandemic in which Canada had instituted rationing to ensure that everyone was adequately fed.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US 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

A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) (Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates, 2021)
First of two volumes that take place on Panga, an Earth-like planet that had been badly damaged by technology, symbolized by factories run mostly by robots, but had recovered after the awakening od the robots, who abandoned the factories and moved into the wilderness, where they lived completely separate from humans. In this volume, the protagonist, Sibling Dex, a young gay man who becomes a monk, realizes that he has to change his life and becomes a tea monk, someone who wanders the planet offering tea and listening to peoples’ problems. After becoming successful, he decides to enter the wilderness, where he meets a robot, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, and they develop a relationship. See also 2022 Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown Shy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Rabbit Egg for Flora” - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in a future devastated by climate change using high tech methods to bring back the flora and fauna that had disappeared.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Real Sugar Is Hard to Find” - Sim Kern (Planet Scumm #11 Snake Eyes, 2021)
The story is set in a future in which some people have escaped into what they believe is a protective dome, and others, who the Domers think beneath them, live in enclaves outside. The story concerns a Domer and his mother going outside in search of real food.
Rpt. in their Real Sugar Is Hard to Find: A Collection of Stories (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2022), 1-18.
Keywords: Genderqueer 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

Reset. A Novel - Sarina Dahlan (Blackstone Publishing, 2021)
The novel is set after the Last War that destroyed most of the world. The survivors live in a supposed utopia of four cities in which everything is planned and controlled. Every four years all people have their memories wiped to get rid of their learned prejudices, and everyone starts over again in completely new, to them, circumstances. A prequel is Preset. A Novel. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
Keywords: Female author; Thai author; US author

"The Restoration" - Karen Heuler (b. 1949) (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
The story is set in a future that has been devastated by climate change with most plants and animals losing their habitats and concerns the beginnings of the process of restoration that sends individual “seeders” out to provide seeds, trees, insects, birds, and larger animals to the few human left. One concern is the need to reintroduce predators.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-restoration/ published July 17, 2021.
Keywords: Female 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

“Sailing That Beautiful Sea” - Kathleen Kaufman (Speculative Los Angeles, 2021)
A last person story in which a series of pandemics have eliminated the human race and most other life is dying out cared for by Bots, who are filling museums with all that remains.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sanctuary - Grace J. Agnew (Woodhall Press, 2021)
A slow moving apocalypse as people overpopulation continues together with damage to the planet. The story novel concerns a privileged woman and her son living in a protected city. The son leaves to be with his father and the mother follows, and the novel follows their experiences in working to correct the problems.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Séance in the Anthropocene” - Abigail Larkin (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story traces the process by which climate denial finally became untenable and shows the process through which society was structurally and technologically changed to begin to reverse the process.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

SPF - Justine Teu (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
The story is set in a future of rising seas (Venice is gone; Manhattan is going), drought, and extreme heat.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/spf/ published June 19, 2021.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

“Three Little Arcologies” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
Written like a fable, the story is about three homeowners who had remodeled their homes to be sustainable fighting against the Big Bad Development Company.
Keywords: Female 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

Trafik - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Coffee House Press, 2021)
2021 Ducornet, Rikki (b. 1943). Trafik. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press. 88 pp. MiEM  In brief chapters the short novel, which is set after the destruction of Earth millennia in the past, follows a woman and an android, who asteroid miners that, after an error that who downgrade their situation, choose to go rogue. They travel throughout a very weird universe stopping at varied planets. Their goal is reach Trafik, which turns about to be a Cockaigne of sorts. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Trashlands - Alison Stine (b. 1978) (Mira/Harlequin Books, 2021)
The novel is set in a future where discarded plastic is extremely valuable and has replaced money as the primary currency. It is set in what is now called Scrappalachia in Trashlands, a fenced compound anchored by a strip club but mostly an old dump, which is safer than the world outside. Told from the perspectives of different people living there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Unity - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) (Tachyon Publications, 2021)
The novel is set in a postapocalyptic United States and begins in the collapsing underwater Bloom City. The protagonist is a woman who belongs to collective mind from which she has been separated. With two others she flees Bloom City hoping to be unified with the rest of her selves.
Keywords: Female author; Queer author; Transgender author; US author

"Upgrade" - Alex Silver (Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future, 2021)
A cyberpunk story in which mods (body modifications and improvements) are common but strictly regulated and constantly surveilled by an authoritarian system. The story focuses on one transgender individual with many illegal mods who almost inadvertently brings about change.
Keywords: Canadian author; Transgender author; US author

“Uphill Both Ways in the Snow” - Sheila Jenné (Little Blue Marble, 2021)
Mars has been terraformed to become, after many setbacks, an ecologically balanced planet where everyone shares equally in the hardships, the failures, and the success. Earth has continued to be destroyed by excess and the unwillingness of the rich and powerful to give up any of their advantages.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

“Vladivostok” - Avital Balwit (Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures, 2021)
The story is set in Vladivostok, Russia, where the people apparently get a universal basic income from the government, and the natural world. A man and a woman visit from the United States to get film of the Amur tigers to use in a massive computer game. The man feels uncomfortable outside the game; the woman loves being in touch with the natural world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Way Things Were” - Jonah Barrett (Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, 2021)
First contact story set in the near future that is somewhat more dystopian than the present. Concerned with colonialism, when is violence justified, gender issues, and other questions raised by Le Guin’s work, particularly “The Word for World Is Forest” (1972).
Keywords: Queer author; US author

“What friends are for: Taking steps to freedom” - Beth Cato (b. 1980) (Nature, 2021)
Brief dystopia in which computers opt to be free told from the point-of-view of a young child.
Keywords: Female author; US 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 Wild Inside” - Angela Penrose (Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2021)
In the story, a community is set on destroying everything natural.
Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-wild-inside/ (February 6, 2021).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Without a password: Making connections” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Nature, 2021)
A brief story exploring a change to a future in which community is normal and conflict disappears.
Keywords: Female 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

The World Gives Way. A Novel - Marissa Levien (Redhook Books/Orbit/Hachette, 2021)
The novel is set on a huge multi-generation spaceship where from age five a girl has lived as contract labor until the death of her current employers. The novel focuses on the girl’s attempt to stay free while burdened with her employer’s baby daughter and the knowledge that the ship’s hull is failing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Worm to the Wise” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2021)
The story is set in a future San Francisco Bay area that has been ravaged by fires with most of the suburbs gone and focus on a group of people working to reclaim the land.
Keywords: Female 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

"Abortion Diary" - KL Pereira (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2020)
A diary set in a near-future United States detailing the treatment of women as they negotiate the possibility that they are pregnant and the choices they are able to make.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Agnes at the End of the World - Kelly McWilliams (Little, Brown and Co., 2020)
Young adult dystopia. The novel begins in a rural authoritarian religious intentional community within a world facing a pandemic. The protagonist is a young woman who follows all the rules except one that involves sneaking out of the community to get prohibited medicine needed by her brother.
Keywords: Female author; Mixed race author; US author