TY - ABST T1 - "0.1" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gabby Rivera ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe story set after a sentient bacterium had killed most of the world’s population, starting with the 1% and eliminating all who do not feel love and compassion. The story is about the birth of the first baby after the plague ended. 

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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.”

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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. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality. 

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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. 

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 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 - "Harmony" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The creation of a eutopian town for those who don’t fit elsewhere. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Read After Burning” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Dahvana Headley (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which it is prohibited to teach children to read or even to speak except in approved slogans. The story is told from the viewpoint of a child of librarians who are secretly keeping books alive. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Referendum” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "ROME" Y1 - 2019 A1 - G[wendolyn] Willow Wilson (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in a United States devastated by climate-change that has privatized all first responders, and a poor district in Seattle had no protection from the regular fires as seen through the eyes of students taking an English-language test required for them to stay in the country. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sun in Exile” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on climate change deniers. 

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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. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The United States Should Welcome a Strong, United Latin America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on the formation of a united Latin America, following on from the European Union and an African Union that the United States is vigorously opposing. 

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Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wall" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizz Huerta ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States has collapsed and disappeared with refugees desperate to escape to Mexico. 

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