TY - ABST T1 - “Glass Houses. Letters: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cadwell Turnbull ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Dystopia in three parts in which a U. S. President is elected on a Right to Work platform, which turns out to mean that if you don’t contribute to society at an acceptable level as set by the government, such as doing poorly in high school, you will be forced to work on a farm for minimal food, housing, and wages. The second part is set on such a farm with those who refuse to work on the farm, and anyone considered a danger to society including everyone in jail, are frozen in a cyro chamber. The third part illustrates the conflicts taking place within a family where a child is not doing well at school.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mister Dawn, How Can You Be So Cruel? Slumberland: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Violet Allen ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in three parts in which, in the first story, dreams are first curated for wealthy individuals. In the second story, drugs become common to enhance shared dreaming. In the third story, dreams become for entertainment for everyone in dream shows but also used for social control.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Attachment Disorder” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “One Day Only.”

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calendar Girls” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which contraception is illegal. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death” Y1 - 2019 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia in which the 99% is trying to kill off most of the 99%, who are fighting back. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 9780525508809 9781789095012 N1 -

 Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Day Only” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A Nayima story in the series se in a post-plague dystopia with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story Nayima has temporary settled with an older woman in an abandoned beachfront house and puts on a comedy show for the few other Natural Immune/Carriers and survivors who have not yet gotten vaccinated and settled in one of the few remaining cities.

JF - Wastelands: The New Apocalypse PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9871785658952 N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 205-226.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Violet Allen ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian in which technology is supposedly curing homosexuality. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carriers" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A post-plague dystopia with the carriers of the plague forced to live outside what remains of civilization with the focus on the protagonist, who, like all the NIs (Naturally Immunes), is a carrier. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”

JF - The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Editors CY - Np SN - 9781497484405 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Herd Immunity” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story, Nayima, who is one of the few people who are immune, meets a man who she thinks is also immune.

JF - The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9781497484375 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Removal Order" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The first of a continuing series of stories featuring Nayina, a young African woman dealing with a plague (the 72-hour flu, 72 hours being how long one might live after contracting it) while caring for her grandmother, who had cancer. They had stayed behind in a town that everyone else had left and then were forced to move because the town was going to be burned in hopes of stopping the plague. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”

JF - The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9781495471179 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Spider the Artist” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a near future Nigeria where the oil copies have developed AIs to protect their pipelines from people breaching them by killing the people. Only the government and the wealthy get any benefit from the oil, and the land is badly polluted. 

JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/ N1 -

Rpt. as by Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 57-70; and in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 122 (July 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/

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