TY - ABST T1 - Azotus the Kingdom Y1 - 2017 A1 - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

In the novel, set in 2559, everyone lives alone in a separate house catered to by technology and with no human contact. One Occupant, as they are known, ventures outside, discovers what he is missing and struggles to escape. 

PB - Malawi Writers Union CY - Blantyre, Malawi SN - 9781620407790 N1 -

An excerpt, “The Occupant, was published in Africa 39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. Ed. Ellah Wakatama-Allfrey (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), 76-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rise of the Akafula” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Andrew Charles Dakalira ED - Sally Ireri ED - Olivia Kidula ED - Muthoni Mina ED - Aggrey Moyi KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth has been devastated by climate change, the wealthy have left Earth for life on a luxurious Mars, and the few remaining live underground served by the slaves they have made of the little people (the Akafula), who predate the human race. 

JF - Will This Be a Problem: The Anthology VL - Issue 3 UR - http://willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/rise-of-the-akafula-by-andrew-charles-dakalira/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sahara" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) ED - Ivor Agyeman-Duah KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future high-tech but overpopulated Malawi in which a disease is devastating the population, with people replaced by high functioning AI’s. A scientist who discovers a cure is jailed because a cure would reverse the population decline. 

JF - All Good Things Around Us: An Anthology African Short Stories PB - Ayebia Clarke Publishing, Ltd. CY - Oxfordshire, UK SN - 9780992843663 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waking Up in Kampala” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Wesley Macheso KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Africa after the technocalypse led to the collapse of the rest of the world while the United States of Africa, even though advanced in biotechnology, chose to not allow AIs to dominate. 

JF - African Writer UR - https://www.africanwriter.com/waking-up-in-kampala-african-science-fiction-by-wesley-macheso/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Wit’ This Place” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Muthi Nhlema ED - Billy Kahora KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia with a secondary theme of the damage of war on individuals.

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan African Publications CY - Lilongwe, Malawi N1 -

Rpt. in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7902

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tiny Dots" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tuntufye Simwimba ED - Billy Kahora KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia. 

JF - Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa PB - Pan-African Publishers CY - Lilongwe, Malawi U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic)" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sellar, Gord ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Canadian author KW - Malawian author KW - Male author KW - South Korean author AB -

The story is about techniques for influencing other people set among the people fighting against the environmental dystopia that has developed, but no one is presented positively.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Sellar, Gord ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Malawian author KW - Male author KW - South Korean author AB -

Korea, North and South, as dystopias but with North Korea especially dystopian, with genetic engineering to meet the leader's whims.

JF - Tesseracts Twelve PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

Merril, PSt

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