“Handmaid’s Other Tale” - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen (b. 1939) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A poem reflecting the thoughts of a Handmaid from 1985 Atwood.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Hands We’re Given. Aces High, Jokers Wild Book 1 - O. E. Tearmann (Spine Press and Post, 2018)
A transgender love story is set in a future in a future in which the former United States has been controlled by seven corporations.
Rpt. West Peterborough, NH: Amphibian Press, [2019].
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Harry and Marlowe and the Secret of Ahomana” - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Lightspeed Magazine, 2018)
Lost race eutopia on an isolated island set in a steampunk future that is searching for advanced technology lost when an alien spaceship crashed. The island Ahomana was visited by the aliens before it crashed and left the islanders both technology and the basis for the beliefs that helped create the eutopia. Part of a series entitled “The Aetherian Revolution” featuring the two protagonists that has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine in no. 21 (February 2012), no. 33 (February 2013), no. 45 (February 2014), no. 50. (July 2014), and no. 64 (September 2015).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hazards of Time Travel - Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) (HarperCollins, 2018)
The novel begins in an authoritarian future where any deviance or dissent from the official line is punished, where it was dangerous to be too intelligent or the wrong skin color. The novel focuses on a girl who says what she thinks and is exiled to eighty years in the past.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Heavenly Dreams of Mechanical Trees” - Wendy Nikel (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in an environmental dystopia where all the trees have died, and the mechanical ones designed to replace them are degrading.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (January 31, 2020). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/01/31/the-heavenly-dreams-of-mechanical-trees/
Keywords: Female author; US author

“His Sweat Like Stars of the Rio Grande” - Janis Ian (b. 1951) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Future dystopia in which the U. S. has completely severed ties with Mexico, but it is still depended on the migrant laborers who have been essentially enslaved to keep producing the needed crops.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"In the Background" - Barbara Krasnoff (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set in a dystopian future where social norms are being reversed, limiting freedom, and stigmatizing individuals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"The Inventor's Daughter" - Lucia Fasano (b. 1993) (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A future story in comic form in which a woman who invented carbon capture is imprisoned by those in power. In the story, years later when the Earth is flooded, her daughter frees her.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

"Left to Take the Lead” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2018)
The story is set on an Earth with a badly damaged environment, with the protagonist an indentured laborer from a space colony. One of her “Oort Cloud” stories. Other stories in the series include “Points of Origin.” Illus. Keith Negley. Tor.com (November 34, 2015). https://www.tor.com/2015/11/04/points-of-origin-marissa-lingen/.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

“Little Grey Weirdos” - Anna Ziegelhof (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2018)
Post-apocalyptic story set in California in which three individuals trying to escape from the dangerous cities and hoping to find a rich uncle’s bunker come across two people who have found a way to life. It is told by one woman from each side.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Longing for Earth” - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) (Infinity’s End, 2018)
The story is set in what appears to be a eutopian future in which Earth has been restored after most people have left to live on one of the many worlds created to reproduce different environments, but then choosing to live as their younger selves in virtual reality. The protagonist is a man who had hoped to win the lottery that allowed people to immigrate to Earth but, after retiring, while waiting, visited these worlds. At the time of the story, he is well over 300 and visiting his thousandth world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

“Meet Me at the State Sponsored Movie Night” - Tiffany E. Wilson (Resist Fascism, 2018)
Authoritarian dystopia constantly patrolled by the Freedom Enforcers. All schools have been closed, and all entertainment is state sponsored.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

"Ministry of Truth Handbook: Excerpt on the Strategic Use of Fallacious Reasoning for Thoughtcrime Prevention” - Elizabeth Rard (1984 and Philosophy: Is Resistance Futile?, 2018)
Pretty much what the title says: lessons on how to manipulate people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Mother of Invention" - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (Slate, 2018)
Climate-change dystopia set in Lagos, Nigeria. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel.
Rpt., without the response, in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 213-31; and in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Borg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 15-33.
Keywords: African American author; Female author; US author

#MurderTrending - Gretchen McNeil (b. 1975) (Freeform Press, 2018)
Young adult dystopia in which criminals are publicly executive on television; and an innocent young woman gets caught in the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Newsletter" - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia of censorship.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

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

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

“Notes on Retrieving a Fallen Banner” - Marguerite Reed (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Near future dystopia in which abortion providers are being by the authorities even though abortion remains legal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Ocean of Minutes - Thea Lim (b. 1981) (Quercus, 2018)
The novel begins in Houston, Texas in 1981 when a vicious plague strikes the area. To save the uninfected, some people volunteer to be sent into the future, which turns out to be a dystopia in which those sent from the past are treated relatively well or extremely poorly based on their skills.
U.S. ed. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2019
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Singaporean author; US author

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

“The Only Constant” - Leslie Howle (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which any dissent leads to arrest.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

Plum Rains - Andromeda Romano-Lax (b. 1970) (Soho Press, 2018)
Part historical novel that begins in Japan in 2029 when the aging of the population is reaching a crisis point with the government trying to solve the problem of finding caregivers with robotic AI. One of the protagonists is a woman from the Philippines working as a caregiver for a wealthy old woman who has been given a robot programmed to learn and respond to all her needs. If she loses the job that allows her to support her family back in the Philippines, she will be expelled from the country. Some things, of course, go wrong as the old woman becomes attached to the robot and reveals secrets regarding her and Japan’s past.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

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

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

Red Clocks. A Novel - Leni Zumas (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2018)
Dystopia in which abortion is illegal, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights to embryos.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“Remember the Green” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders, 2018)
An environmental dystopia in which some people have been genetically engineered to grow crops and are now being removed from the green areas they created into areas that are all grey. The story concerns a girl from the green who meets another girl from the green.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rending and the Nest. A Novel - Kaethe Schwehn (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Ninety percent of the world’s population simply disappears, and those remaining. One woman brings together some of those left and creates a community she calls Zion. Women give birth to inanimate objects. Other survivors arrive with other ideas and conflict develops.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Requiem" - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories, 2018)
The story is set in a future where climate change has damaged the culture of Alaskan natives, but, in which, temporarily the world responded by stopping many of the activities that were driving the changes. At the time the story takes place, the sea ice has begun to return, but already corporations are again drilling for oil.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 160-200, with an editor’s note on 160.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

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

“Riot of the Wind and Sun” - Jennifer Lee Rossman (Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology, 2018)
The story is set in a very small, underground town outside Adelaide, SA, Australia that was established to maintain the solar panels that provide electricity for the Adelaide and gets very little electricity itself. But, despite its status and problems, the town is a real community in which the people work together to improve their lives.
Keywords: Queer author; US author

“The Road South” - Madelaine E. Robins; Becca [Rebecca] Caccavo (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Climate change dystopia told through telephone conversations between part of a family making their way south to from the United States to Antarctica, the one area of green left, and parents left behind.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Rock Manning Goes for Broke - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Subterranean Press, 2018)
The novel is set in a United States that is becoming a dystopia with the use of what may or may not be a false war to exercise control.
Parts were previously published as “Break! Break! Break!” In The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 39-50; “Rock Manning Can’t Hear You.” In The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 55-67; and “The Last Movie Ever Made.” In The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 211-23. Chapter 1 was published as “Break! Break! Break!” Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 43 (March 2014). http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/break-break-break/ and in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Rich Horton ([Germantown, MD]; Prime Books, 2015), 217-27.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

The Rule of One - Ashley Saunders; Leslie Saunders (Amazon/Skyscape, 2018)
Dystopia set in a future United States that has a rigorously enforced one-child rule. One family produces twins, and the girls pretend that there is only one child, each being the child every other day. Then the deception is discovered. The first volume of a series followed by The Rule of Many. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2019, in which the twins return from Canada, where they had escaped, to challenge the law. The final volume is The Rule of All. New York: Amazon/Skyscape, 2020 in which, after defeating the resistance, the one-child rule is permanently eliminated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Scribe. A Novel - Alyson [Carol] Hagy (b. 1960) (Graywolf Press, 2018)
Post-catastrophe (civil war and disease) dystopia in which the remaining population is still deeply divided with some slavery.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Seclusion - Jacqui Castle (Inkshares, 2018)
The novel is set in a dystopian future in which the United States has built a high wall around the entire country and all daily activities are under the control of the Board. The protagonist, Patricia “Patch” Collins, a true believer in the system, and her friend Rexx discover a box of books from before the seclusion and begin to learn some of the truth. They then travel across the country, meeting people and learning more, try to escape to Canada. A sequel is The Chasm. Oakland, CA: Inkshares, 2022 in which Patch has made it to Canada and Rexx is held by the Board.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

“The Seventh Street Matriarchy” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Resist Fascism, 2018)
The story is set in a small town that is trying to eliminate a very successful public housing project and the resistance of those living in it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Severance - Ling Ma (b. 1983) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018)
Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic). The novel alternates between the life of the protagonist in New York City before most people dies and her life with others after they leave the city. The female author was born in China and raised and educated and lives in the U. S.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author; US author

“Sexy Robot Heroes - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) (Mother of Invention, 2018)
The story is set in Guangzhou (Canton), China in a future in which there has been extensive flooding of the city due to climate change. There is extreme poverty, and gangs rule the areas of the city where the story is set, but the story is concerned with the struggles of a transgender individual to survive in this setting.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sinless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 1 - Sarah Tarkoff (Harper Voyager, 2018)
First volume of a young adult religious dystopia series. In this volume the young woman who is the protagonist lives in a world that she believed in where those who do not follow the rules are savagely beaten, disfigured, or killed. She discovers that nothing is as she had believed and struggles against it. The second volume is Fearless: Eye of the Beholder. Book 2. New York: Harper Voyager, 2019.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Skinned" - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, 2018)
Dystopia set in an unnamed African country in which women past puberty are expected, based on religion and tradition, to wear no clothes until they are married. Most do, and the story is told from the perspective of an older, never married woman.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Nigerian author; US author

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

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

Something to Watch Over Me: My Favourite Sentience” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Nature, 2018)
Children’s perspective on the various AIs that they have experienced.
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Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

"A street but half made up: Meet the literary agent” - Anna Zumbro (Nature, 2018)
The story takes place in what is called a library city in which books are housed on the street throughout the city. The focus is on a robot that re-shelves books that are misplaced and reads and is affected by them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - [Qingpei] Rachel Heng (b. 1988) (Henry Holt, 2018)
Dystopia in which near-immortality is possible and death is illegal, but there are people who believe that they should have the choice of whether they live or die.
U.K. ed. London: Sceptre, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Singaporean author; US author

"Suicide Watch" - Susan [J.] Emshwiller (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
A dystopia in which people pay to watch someone commit suicide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tattoo - Michelle Rene (Annorlunda Books, 2018)
An odd novella in which at Judgement Day everyone’s past is written on their skin, which means that all good and bad deeds can be known, although some people have their stories removed by a tattoo artist. The story gets complicated when a young woman with completely clear skin appears.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

“This is an Optimistic Story about the Future” - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) (Little Blue Marble, 2018)
Satirical story about a future that has effective mechanisms to eliminate misunderstandings among people.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

The Tiger Flu. A Novel - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018)
A post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia with a eutopian community of women who have escaped from a patriarchal dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“Twice the Same River” - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) (Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities, 2018)
The story is about corruption in a city that is transforming itself into a green city, corruption that hurts the farmers in the surrounding countryside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Two Explicit and Three Oblique Apologies to My Oldest Daughter One Month Before Her Eighteenth Birthday” - Heather Lindsley (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"Two Left Feet" - Eric Palicki (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which the military has created cassettes that allows a person to have a particular skill.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Under the Grid" - Andrew Dana Hudson (The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures, 2018)
The story is set in a future Detroit where an extensive solar grid has been built over the city and the surrounding area to provide power and focuses on conflicts over personal space. The story is followed by the essays, Lauren Withycombe Keeler, “All Politics is Glocal;” and Darshan M. W Karwat, “Behind the Grid: Science, Technology, and the Creation of PhoTown.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vigilance - Robert Jackson Bennett (Tom Doherty Associates, 2018)
A dystopia in which a reality game show creating active shooter situations is then used to control the population but becomes unmanageable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"WAlls" - Paul Witcover (b. 1958) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
The dystopia brought about by the Trump administrations immigration policy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Warm Storage” - Michael H. Hanson (Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction, 2018)
Dystopia in which, in order to deal with overpopulation, everyone over sixty, the infirm, criminals, and, finally, the unemployed are stored for future use, fed minimally, and rendered unaware of their condition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Water Exchange, Version 8123” - Saba Waheed (Big Echo: Critical SF, 2018)
A climate change story in which the future extracts labor from the past in exchange for water.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“We All Have Hearts of Gold®” - Vladimirsky, Leo (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
Dystopia in which Trump establishes a Republican security force to ensure his reelection.
Keywords: Male author; US author

We Who Will Destroy the Future. A Short Story - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) ([Detritus Books], 2018)
The story is told by a woman from a future authoritarian dystopia who has been found guilty of writing a subversive book and been sentenced to live in the twentieth century. The author self-describes as a transgender woman who prefers the pronouns she/her.
Rpt. without the subtitle in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 166-179.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

“The Weight of Time” - Jarrett Melendez (All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World, 2018)
A positive future story in comic form in which a gay scientist proposes to go back in time to erase all the anti-gay religious texts but is convinced that he would also erase all the positive experiences that gays would have had.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Welcome to Triumph Band” - Yoon Ha Lee (b. 1979) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
A brief dystopia of the near future of the United States under the policies of the Trump administration.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis” - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) (Slate, 2018)
Dystopia of the medical system of the future where corporations are in control and poor areas are unserved.
Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 49-64.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

When the River Ran Dry - William Davies (BHC Press/Indigo, 2018)
Set in 2180 after the collapse of civilization and the development of city states that followed, the novel reveals the dystopian aspects of the future through adventure and a murder mystery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) (B Cubed Press, 2018)
A collection of closely related stories satirizing Donald Trump (b. 1946) and his presidency.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Where Would You Be Now?” - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Tor.com, 2018)
Rpt. without the question mark in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 94-118.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Whitopia” - Greg Johnson (Counter-Currents Publishing, 2018)
The post asks the question “Is White Nationalism Utopian?” from the point-of-view of a white nationalist. While the answer is “no” because “ethnostates” have existed in the past and, to a degree, still do, the author then describes an ideal one.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Widdam” - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2018)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia seen through the eyes of an Indian man, a Native American Indian woman, and a European woman as well as AI’s who are trying to help.
Rpt. in A Year Without a Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 233-67; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/Rebellion Publishing, 2019), 255-86.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Related to 2017 Vaughn, with this novel set at the very edges of the society developed in the previous novel at the interface between those where the women have an implant to limit the birth rate and “The Wild” where the people do not have implants. Structured as a mystery novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Woman World - Aminder Dhaliwal (b. 1988) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018)
A future graphic novel in which all men have died. Eutopian elements with strong satirical elements.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; US author

“A World to Die for” - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Clarkesworld, 2018)
The story begins in a violent dystopia that is the result of climate change and then moves into alternative futures, in some of which the past inhabitants have protected their environments.
Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 143-70. PU
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

“You are Weighed in the Balance” - Rivka Jacobs (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2018)
The dystopia that will be produced by the current policies of the Trump administration resulting in concentration camps and different laws for the wealthy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Your One & Only - Adrianne Finlay (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a society of clones with only one non-cloned human left. The non-cloned man and a female clone feel that they don’t fit in and fall in love, and most of the novel is their story as they struggle to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“₪” - N[ancy] Lee Wood (b. 1955) (Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead, 2018)
The story depicts the contrast between health care in New Zealand, which, while not eutopia, is basically good, and the United States, where all protections have been stripped away and the entire country is on the way to becoming a dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2036: The Final Resistance - Leah McClellan (Simple Writing, 2017)
A dystopian future fascist United States and the resistance to it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2084 - Mason Engel ([CreateSpace], 2017)
Dystopia in which everyone is required to wear lenses through which they are fed a false version of the world.
There is also a 76 pp. Short Story Version available on Kindle
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: An American Parable - Elaine Liner (Moonface Press, 2017)
Fundamentalist Christian, surveillance dystopia. Washington, DC is now Jesus City, and everyone must stop whatever they are doing and pray for two minutes when sirens sound five times a day seven days a week. The “Privacy Protection Act” outlawed privacy, and a God’s eye surveillance system is utterly pervasive. Every day, everyone is required to take “Mana,” which is supposed to be a vitamin but is a tranquillizer. The “SinCrime cops” and the “Bible Thumpers” observe people in all workplaces.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Acceptance Speech” - Eileen Myles (b. 1949) (I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally November 6, 2016, 2017)
The speech the author would give upon being elected President saying that she will establish a Department of Women and a Department of Culture, make the White House a homeless shelter, provide free education and transportation, and begin the process of banning cars, among other changes. The female author, who uses the pronoun they, ran an “openly female” write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-1992. The poem “I Want a President,” by Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) was written in honor of the campaign.
Rpt. as “Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 15-18.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Adiona Falters” - William Delman (Little Blue Marble, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Blast - Zoe [Swicord] Kazan (b. 1983) (Dramatists Play Service, 2017)
The play is set in a post-nuclear future where a selection of humankind seen as the best had moved underground and interact with machines to fulfil normal human needs. Rationing. Reproduction controlled. It takes place long after the move and concerns a couple is trying to get the right to have a child. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.
Keywords: Female author; US author

After the Flare - Deji Bryce Olukotun (The Unnamed Press, 2017)
Dystopia brought about by a solar flare that damages Earth’s entire electrical grid followed by cyberattacks. Sequel to his non-utopian Nigerians in Space. A Novel. Los Angeles, CA: Unnamed Press, [2014].
Keywords: South African author; US author

All Rights Reserved - Gregory Scott Katsoulis (Harlequin Teen, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which all words and gestures are parented or trademarked, and at age fifteen they must be paid for. The novel focuses on one girl who choose to remain completely silent and sets off a rebellion. First volume in a series followed by Access Restricted. Toronto, ON, Can: Harlequin Teen, 2018. In this novel, the protagonist leaves her city to try to find her parents who are being held as indentured servants, really slaves for life. She succeeds, and the ending suggests a further volume.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Alt.Death” - Joanna Koch (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The story is set in a future dystopia in which Trump’s policies led to the elimination of anyone not white and other than male or female. No healthcare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“America Once Beautiful” - Brad Cozzens (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Poem that describes America as a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American War - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017)
The Second Civil War from 2074-2095 was followed by a decade-long pandemic/plague that, together, tore the U.S. apart. Southern states had seceded primarily because they objected to an act that outlawed the use of fossil fuels. The story is about a young girl born in a border area who is then forced into a northern refugee camp, with obvious parallels to today’s refugee camps, and is radicalized there.
Keywords: Canadian author; Egyptian author; Male author; Qatari author; US author

“Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body” - J[ess] R. Fenn (Boston Review, 2017)
A world where most babies are created in the laboratory as seen through the eyes of a woman who wants a mother.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Autonomous - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) (Tor, 2017)
Dystopia in which the powerful pharmaceutical industry has everyone on drugs that are undertested and oversold.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Avoiding Eye Contact on Mainstreet, USA” - Jacob Guyon (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The dystopia created by Trump’s policies. The rich are richer and the poor poorer, and anyone with any sort of job feels they are lucky. Degraded environment. American citizens of Hispanic ancestry however far back can be deported with small children adopted by the rich. Any dissent punished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bannerless - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which people live in large families, and birth is regulated to those deemed worthy and awarded a banner. The original story is about a young woman who has a bannerless child. The novel expands this to a deeper consideration of the society. See 2018 Vaughn, The Wild Dead. A Bannerless Saga Novel for a related work.
Originated with a story with the same title in The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 5-22. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 181-96 with an editor’s note on 181; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 267-89.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beneath the Shine - Sarah Fine (Skyscape, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which a technological elite dominates, and the young woman protagonist is part of the minority who advocates technology for everyone.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Bird's Eye" - Anjali Sachdeva (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The protagonist is a blind woman who uses Virtual Reality to see the world through the eyes of birds and uses the system of electronic referenda to try to protect them, which will end up protecting people also.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Black Box: These Memories are Made to Last Forever” - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (WIRED, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which at an early age a child has a device implanted that records all their experience, which the child or her parents can replay. Later in life, adults can choose who has access to their memories. Whether this is eutopian or dystopian is left up to the reader.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 29-34; and in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 1-13
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

"Blue Stratus" - Amy Mrotek (Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment, 2017)
The story is set in a future eutopian community with high rise urban farms, gardens, permaculture, and all of the desirable environmental design features that are currently possible.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Bluebird" - Benjamin Cort (Metamorphosis, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which the City is taking over the United States, destroying all buildings outside the City using a huge metallic bird. People are trying to escape to areas rumored to still be safe. The protagonist is the caretaker of the bird.
Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2018), 9-25.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Book of Etta - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (47 North, 2017)
Second volume of The Road to Nowhere Series following 2014 Elison set 100 years after the first book. In this novel, the main character, Etta, disguises herself as a man, Eddy, and sets off to rescue the enslaved women. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as this volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Book of Joan. A Novel - Lidia Yuknavitch (b. 1963) (Harper, 2017)
Complex dystopia set in 2049 where Earth is experiencing the results of climate change and constant war over dwindling resources. Circling Earth is a space station inhabited by some who have escaped from Earth where everyone must die at 50. The society is itself a dystopia ruled by a man who claims to have defeated a child-heretic named Joan, and much of the novel is the story of Joan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Books of the Risen Sea” - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
Climate change dystopia and the importance of saving books and of libraries.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Boston Hearth Project” - T. X. Watson (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia in which the homeless in Boston are dieing from the conditions, with the story focused on activists taking over a building specially built for the rich and repurposed for the homeless.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Brother’s Keeper” - Danny Gardner (The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, 2017)
The dystopia that has resulted by the time of the third Trump administration with little health care, all public services paid for individually as needed, with only the wealthy, for example, able to afford any emergency call at night. Many people escape into virtual reality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Calexit 1: Secession - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) (Amazon, 2017)
After the 2016 election, California votes to secede and form The People’s Republic of California. First of three volumes followed by Calexit 2: Politics as Normal. Np: Np, 2017 -[First published on Kindle], in which China recognizes the new country, and, as the title suggests, politicians work enhance their own power; and Calexit 3: If At First You Don’t Succeed. Np: np. 2018 [First published on Kindle], which continues the story. See also, 2017 Curtis, J. L., ed. Calexit: The Anthology. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents.
First published on  KIndle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Calexit: The Anthology - J. L. Curtis; Bob Poole; Cedar Sanderson; Tom Rogneby; Alma [T. C.] Boykin; B. Opperman; L. B. Johnson; Eaton Rapids Joe; Lawdog [pseud.]; Kimball O'Hara (JLC&A, 2017)
A collection of stories set in a dystopian future in which part of California, called Cali, secedes from the country in order to establish a socialist state committed to diversity. Northern California and southern Oregon forms a new territory called Jefferson that may become a new state. The stories are “A Matter of Honor” by J. L. Curtis in which the U. S. Navy leaves San Diego and blows up its base as it does with the story continued in his ebook novella The Morning the Earth Shook. 69 pp. (2017). “Last Plane Out” by Bob Poole centers on the last plane to leave Los Angeles airport. “Carpetbaggers” by Cedar Sanderson focuses on carpetbaggers in Jefferson. “Night Passage” by Tom Rogneby begins in Cali, where all people are chipped, and continues with the escape of a couple. “Roll, Colorado, Roll!” by Alma [T. C.] Boykin in which The Colorado River is released into its original channel, cutting off water to Cali. “Final Flight” by B. Opperman is a story of escape from Cali. “Freedom’s Ride” by L. B. Johnson is a story of escape from Cali. “The Farm” by Eaton Rapids Joe describes the authoritarian liberalism of Cali and the damage it does. “By Hook and Crook” by Lawdog [pseud.] is an escape story. In “Fifth Column” by Kimball O’Hara the U. S. Navy returns. A graphic novel covering some of the same themes is Matteo Pizzolo, CALEXIT. Illus. Amancay Nahuelpan. Colorist Tyler Boss. Flatter Dee Cunniffe. Letterer Jim Campbell. Map designer Richard Nisa. Flag Designer Robert Anthony, Jr. Los Angeles, CA: Black Mask Studios, 2018. Originally published as CALEXit 1-3. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Maltese author; US author

California 2020 - Zachary Roberts (Liver Shot Press, 2017)
The novel begins with a tsunami about to hit southern California. The rest of the novel follows the protagonist’s struggle to find a meaningful life in the dystopia created by the disaster. The ending suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Cannibal Acts” - Maureen [F.] McHugh (b. 1959) (Boston Review, 2017)
Dystopia in which ecological changes have eliminated most plants and animals.
Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 244-256; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 292-303.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Carve the Mark - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which each individual has a gift which may be positive or negative for them. Two young people from different and opposed cultures meet and begin to work together to defeat the dystopia. The first of two volumes followed by The Fates Divide. New York: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2018 with a “Glossary” on 448-50. In this volume a war produces additional problems for the protagonists which appear to be solved at the end 2018 with a “Glossary” on 448-50. In this volume a war produces additional problems for the protagonists which appear to be solved at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cascadia" - Mackenzie Reide (Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads, 2017)
The Northwest of the U.S. has seceded and formed a new country called Cascadia. The story is about the suppression by U.S. authorities of higher education and the descendants of immigrants from anywhere outside its new borders. See also 2016 Reide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Catalogue of Further Suns: Précis of Reports Compiled by the Preliminary Survey Expeditions - F. J[eannie] Bergmann (Gold Line Press, 2017)
Poems about first contact with aliens detailing what can go wrong.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The City We Built in Life” - Thomas Broderick (Little Blue Marble, 2017)
The story is set in a climate change future in which travel is restricted and follow a family allowed to visit reproductions in the Arizona desert of the Seven Wonders of the World and monuments from Washington, DC, which is under water, all of which have been built of synthetic carbonized basalt that traps atmospheric carbon. They also visit the city/monument called the Silent City, which is composed of such blocks, each representing some who died due to climate change.
Originally published as “A Monument to Our Greatest Sin.” Scout (2017) [Not Found].  Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 44-63.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Confessions of a Con Girl” - Nick [Nicholas] Wolven (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
The story is set in an inline world where one’s position in life depends largely on the votes of others.
Rpt. in Clarkesworld, no. 151 (April 2019). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/wolven_04_19_reprint/; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 309-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Contact High - Joseph Eckert; James F. Wright (F.I.M.C (Forget It, Make Comics), 2017)
In the future human contact has become a drug and outlawed with everyone required to wear a protective suit or be arrested and rehabilitated. Queer and interracial themes.
Keywords: African American author; Male author; US author

"Control" - Rachel K[atie] Zall (Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, 2017)
The story is set in a deeply divided dystopia, in one part of which the streets are clean and safe, heavily policed by both cameras supported by a police force. The cameras use face-recognition to identify everyone and evaluate them, giving them at actual score. The other part is collapsing and dangerous with no cameras and no police.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

Crazy House - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) (Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which young girls are imprisoned, supposedly to test them to help overthrow an authoritarian system that divides people and controls information. . A sequel is The Fall of Crazy House. New York: Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson, 2019 in which the protagonists of the first novel fight the government and win.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Crosstalk - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) (del Rey, 2017)
Satire on the connected world where the connectivity of the future goes wrong. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dark Intercept - Julia Keller (Tor Teen, 2017)
First volume of a young adult dystopia set on New Earth where people have given up freedom for stability. In the second volume, Dark Mind Rising. New York: Tor Teen, 2018, the system that protected them has failed, and the young female protagonist has opened a detective agency. In the third volume, Dark Star Calling. New York: Tor Teen, 2019, the system is failing altogether and the people look to find another planet and start over. A related novel is A Screaming in the Mind: A Dark Intercept Novel. New York: Tor Teen, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Darlingtonia - Alba Roja [pseud.] (Left Bank Books, 2017)
Dylan is a bored graphic artist working for OingoBoingo, a copy that makes electronic psychological memory games. Ricky, her only friend and the only brown person at the company is found murdered. Dylan, who love lifestyle her work her. The novel contrasts the easy life of tech works like Dylan with the poverty of everyone else in the SF Bay area, and she gradually becomes disillusioned as she discovers what OnigoBoingo is actually doing. “Alba Roja is an anonymous collective of individuals strewn along the West Coat of the United States.”
Keywords: US author

“Day 3658” - Dylan Siegler (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Dystopia in which what appears to be a successful community after most plants and animals have died breed children for meat.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Day the Earth Turned Day-Glo” - Rick Shingler (American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia, 2017)
Dystopia in which a colony is established on the moon and then simply abandoned leaving the people there to die while pretending that they had been brought back. This is followed by the launch of an immense satellite with moveable panels that can block the sun’s rays from reaching Earth, or, for an extortionate price, allow the sun’s rays to reach some part of the Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Decelerate Blue - Adam Rapp (b. 1968); Mike Cavallaro (Roaring Brook Press, 2017)
A graphic novel dystopia in which everyone believes in speed and efficiency. The novel follows one young girl who doesn’t fit in and who discovers that there are others who believe that slower is better.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Desperate Resolve" - John A. Pitts (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
The story is set in West Virginia, which has been destroyed by current policies on the environment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Destination - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2017)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is divided physically been the powerful and those without power with the latter fighting back by taking control of the web.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Disconnected” - Ramez Naam (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
The flawed utopia of the completely connected world and, very briefly, choosing to disconnect.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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