An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon (b. 1989) (Akashic Books, 2017)
Dystopia on a multi-generation star ship organized like a slave ship with the dark-skinned on the lower decks with little support.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Transgender author

“Vade Retro Santana” - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, 2017)
The story is set in a religious dystopia in which missionaries convert the indigenous inhabitants by force as told by a missionary with doubts.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author

"The Vermix" - Matthew Castle (A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction, 2017)
The story is set in a future where much knowledge has been lost to those living outside high tech archologies that have completely closed themselves off.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Walkaway - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2017)
The novel begins in a future authoritarian dystopia with very advanced technology in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed and abandoned and with extreme class divisions. Some people choose to walk away into the abandoned countryside hoping to create a freer society. While they are forcibly opposed by those in power and not all those who walk away are trustworthy, a freer society does emerge. The title resonates with Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

Yesterday’s Savior - Bliss, Keith (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2017)
The central focus of the novel is the belief that the second Coming of Christ has occurred, and the dystopia created by the Holy Church of the Second Coming.
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

"75" - Abiola Oni (The Guardian, 2016)
The story is set in a future England where every must die no later than the day they turn 75.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Nigerian author

Apocalypse: An Epic Poem - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) (Ilium Press, 2016)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Apology of Arthur Tresbit - Robert Thayer (Austin Macauley, 2016)
Satire on the contemporary financial system in which the background, referred to throughout the book, is the dystopia brought about by the collapse of the system. Most of the book is about how it happened.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“At the Village Vanguard (Reflections on Blacktopia)” - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Mothership Zeta, 2016)
The story focuses by white supremacists on an attack on the Blacktopia that has been created on the moon twenty-five years after the attack. Only a brief description of the Blacktopia.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author; US author

Azanian Bridges - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (New Con Press, 2016)
Alternative history dystopia of South Africa in which Apartheid survives. A related story is “Azania.” AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers. Ed. Ivor W. Hartmann (Np: StoryTime Press, 2012), 80-99.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; Zambian author

“Browsing: Security Issue” - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) (Nature, 2016)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Career Day" - Nisha VyasMyall (Holdfast Magazine, 2016)
The story is set in a future in which projections are made on what occupations will be needed in the future, and each child has a chip inserted at birth designating their future career. Until year seven, they are given a broad general education, then their chip is read, and from then on their education is narrowly occupational.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Children - Lucy Kirkwood (b. 1984) (Nick Hern Books, 2016)
A dystopian play based on the Fukushima disaster that takes place in a future England where a similar disaster has occurred.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Cities at Sea - Martin Simons (b. 1930) (XLibris, 2016)
The novel is set in a future where, due to global warming, much of the land has flooded, and cities have abandoned the land for huge rafts that float the seas. The cities are strictly hierarchical, there is completely free sexuality, and children are conceived and born outside the body, and are generally presented positively. But the young woman who is the protagonist is bored and chooses to move to another city to undergo changes that will give her gills that will allow her to live underwater for long periods. At the end, new cities are planned that can move both on and in the water.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The City of Woven Streets - Emmi [Elina] Itäranta (b. 1976) (Harper Voyager, 2016)
The novel is set in a patriarchal dystopia where most women are not permitted to read or write, and dreaming is forbidden. The female protagonist can read and write and dreams. It is set on an island that is divided into sections based on crafts, with the novel focusing on the weavers. The island is slowly being submerged as the surrounding waters rise, and by the end of the novel has mostly been abandoned.
North American ed. as The Weaver. A Novel. New York: Harper Voyager, 2016. Published in Finnish as Kudottujen kujien kaupunki (2015).
Keywords: English author; Female author; Finnish author

“The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known” - Nina Allan (b. 1966) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
The story is set after most of the world is drowned and is the protagonist is a marine biologist reflecting on the past and trying to understand the present and how both humans and the oceans and their inhabitants are responding to the new situation.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Destructives - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (Angry Robot, 2016)
Artificial Intelligence has developed and has made humanity passive The novel follows a number of individuals who struggle to learn about the pre-AI past and their own humanity. Connected with 2007 and 2015 De Abaitua and the ending suggests there will be a sequel, but there hasn't been.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dynamo Island: The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia - David [Henry Tudor] Scott (b. 1948) (Zero Books, 2016)
Ecological eutopia set on an island in the middle of the Atlantic that is roughly the size of England. Human scale; no cars and excellent public transport with much use of bicycles; no extremely large machinery. Zero-growth economy. Stress on energy conservation using water, wind, and tidal power.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

“Elves of Antarctica” - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the coastal areas of most countries are under water and many islands have disappeared. There are major engineering projects to try to save what is left and to provide places for the displaced to live. The project in Antarctica, where the story takes place, is to try to keep the Antarctic ice sheet from melting and inundating more land.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Enjoyment: A Comedy - Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931) (Shoestring Press, 2016)
Dystopia where pleasure is required.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Escaped Alone - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) (Nick Hern Books, 2016)
Dystopian play in which four old women, “They are all at least seventy,” sit in an apparently peaceful garden and discuss the horrors of the world outside the garden.
U.S. ed. in her Here We Go and Escaped Alone. Two Plays. (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2016), 31-74.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Escapology - Ren Warom (Titan Books, 2016)
Post-catastrophe cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Everything Belongs to the Future - Laurie Penny (b. 1986) (Tor, 2016)
Dystopia of a world where the rich can get treatment that extends their lives while the poor die young.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Final Path” - Genevieve Cogman (Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press, 2016)
Post-catastrophe (general collapse) young adult dystopia in which the young woman protagonist escapes to join other young people who have run away to an island.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“I Will Remember You” - Janet Edwards (b. 1958) (Defying Doomsday, 2016)
Dystopia brought about by an alien invasion with the aliens killing off all humans over thirteen days with a few survivors who will rebuild the human race.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Immaterial" - Dan Grace (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2016)
In a future world divided between the rich and poor, a poor girl who lives in a decrepit city cleaning up after others and searching for her lost sister. She also discovers a nealthier natural world outside the city.
Keywords: English author; Male author

In Hambach Forst” - George F. (Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Environmental dystopia about the destruction by corporations of the old growth forests in Germany, with the story focusing on the resistance but with a sense of the futility of the resistance.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/in-hambach-forst/ (June 12, 2017).
Keywords: English author; Male author

“An Industrial Growth” - David L. Clements (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2016)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of the future U.S. destroyed by scientific experiments that government encouraged to be done with no concern for safety.
Rpt. in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 125-61.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Love in a Lonely City 2050" - Deborah Walker (SciFutures presents The City of the Future, 2016)
The story is set in a very high-tech future London with strong eutopian elements and is about how hard it still can be to find love.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Machine Society: Rich or poor. They want you to be a prisoner - Mike Brooks (Cosmic Egg Books, 2016)
Dystopia in which both the rich and the poor live in isolated regions within a “security wall,” which is supposed to be protecting them from the outside.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Mandibles. A Family, 2029-2047 - Lionel Shriver (b. 1957) (Borough Press, 2016)
Dystopia. The novel traces a well-off family through the collapse of the U.S. economy, followed by extreme poverty, and the establishment of an authoritarian government that confiscated all property (they became sharecroppers). The novel ends in Nevada, which has managed to secede from the U.S. and has considerable personal freedom but also has much violent crime and other serious problems.
U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2016.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

“Montpellier” - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) (Galaxy's Edge, 2016)
The story is set in a city divided between the well-off and the slums. Montpellier is one of four high-rise buildings built in the slums that were intended to provide a better life but failed, in large part because the well-off were providing addictive drugs to the people living there. Hope is held out at the end.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 267-79.
Keywords: English author; Male author

North Country - Tajinder Singh Hayer (b. 1980) (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia after a pandemic/plague has killed much of the world’s population. The novel follows the struggle to survive of three teenagers of British Asian descent, like the author, from Bradford. The book was published to coincide with the opening of the play directed by Alex Chisholm October 26, 2016, in Bradford, England in the basement of an abandoned Marks & Spencer. For an article by the director, see http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/north-country-post-apocalyptic-story-bradford/
Keywords: English author; Male author

"One in Four" - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) (RA Magazine, 2016)
Pandemic story told from the viewpoint of an executive of a pharmaceutical company that marketed a drug they knew did not work.
Rpt. in Madame Zero. 9 Stories London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 147-50. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 147-50.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Power - Naomi Alderman (b. 1974) (Viking, 2016)
Dystopia presented as a novel within the novel written by a man in a society in which Mother Eve has replaced Adam as the central figure and women are dominant. The Power is an ability that women develop that allows them to treat men as women are treated today. The man’s novel presents a situation with strong men. Female author.
Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2017
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Race - Nina Allan (b. 1966) (Titan Books, 2016)
The setting of the novel is a climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"On the Radio" - Cheryl Morgan (Holdfast Magazine, 2016)
The story is set in an alternative history dystopia in which a plague that increases testosterone levels has escaped from an English laboratory, but “Communist” Scotland or France are blamed.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author

“The Ravisher, The Thief” - Marian Womack (b. 1975) (Barcelona Tales, 2016)
The story is set in a post-catastrophe dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Spanish author

Rosewater - Tade Thompson (Apex Publications, 2016)
First volume of a trilogy set in Nigeria in 2055 and 2066. An alien invasion novel in which the alien intends to completely take over Nigeria. Sequels include The Rosewater Insurrection: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Two. London: Orbit, 2019, in which liberationists oppose the alien forces. The third volume, The Rosewater Redemption: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Three. London: Orbit, 2019, reflects the title.
Rev. with the subtitle The Wormwood Trilogy: Book One. New York: Orbit, 2018
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

The Ruins of Civilization - Penelope Skinner (b. 1978) (2016)
Dystopian play set in an anti-immigrant society facing climate-change. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Sewing Group - E[mma] V[ictoria] Crowe (b. 1980) (Faber and Faber, 2016)
The play begins with three women sewing in a setting that appears to be in a village in the 18th century. A new woman joins them and insists on the others making changes in what they are doing and following her directions. This part of the play appears to represent a peaceful, simply life being disrupted, but the play gradually grows darker. At the end, though, it takes a dramatic turn that undermines everything that has gone before. First performed at the Royal Court, London, November 10, 2016, directed by Stewart Laing.
Keywords: English author; Female author; German author

“Staunch” - Paul Graham Raven (Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, 2016)
The story is set in a dystopian U.K. that has mostly disintegrated down to the county level with conflicts among the various parts.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 187-99.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Stone Seeds - Jo Ely (Urbane Publications, 2016)
Authoritarian dystopia depicting a village ruled by “The General” and his henchmen but ultimately successfully opposed by a few individuals who don’t fit in
Keywords: Botswanan author; English author; Female author

"Taking Flight" - Una McCormack (b. 1972) (Crises and Conflicts: Celebrating the First 10 Years of NewCon Press, 2016)
The story is set on an isolated planet in a future in which genetically modified people are marked and bonded and bought and sold.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Vanishing Kind" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2016)
Alternative history in which Germany won World War 2 and rules England.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

“When the Cold Comes: Be Prepared” - Deborah Walker (Nature, 2016)
Dystopia in which the common cold has been turned into a bioweapon and sent by a religious dystopia to infect its enemies.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Winter - Dan Grace (Unsung Books, 2016)
A post-collapse dystopia interspersed with statements from a future history explaining why the reasons for the failure of the British system.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Wolfina” - Giselle Leeb (Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Dystopia set in a future with an extremely damaged environment. The government has mostly disappeared, and its only function appears to be doling out rations of the remaining gasoline. Voter turnout in the last election was 2.3%. Ocean water is deadly, and most people are dying from mercury poisoning.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/wolphinia/ (December 29, 2016).
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

Arcadia - Iain [George] Pears (b. 1955) (Faber and Faber, 2015)
The novel follows a number of different characters during the present and a dystopian future where much of world civilization has collapsed. Connected to these is the Arcadia, which has the feel of the past but initially exists only within a machine from the dystopian future.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Big Lie - Julie Mayhew (Hot Keys Books, 2015)
The novel is set in the Third Reich with a young woman, who is loyal to the Reich, faced with the conflict between that loyalty and her loyalty to another girl, her best friend, who is a radical. The book includes a “Glossary of German Words and Phrases” ([325-31]), “Historical Notes on The Big Lie” ([333-39]), “Want to know more?” [(341-47).
. U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2017.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Boxes" - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
The story is set in a future with exceptionally good medical care based in advanced technology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Concentr8® - William Sutcliffe (b. 1971) (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which a new drug to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is taken away and causes a few teenagers to revolt. Satire on the overuse of Ritalin.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Defiance - Sarah Jayne [Blythe] Tanner (Meadimania, 2015)
Violent dystopia with deep rich versus poor divisions in which the poor can be sold to the rich so that the rich can switch bodies. The novel follows a young man who is sold but manages to free himself.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

"Drones" - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) (Meeting Infinity, 2015)
A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Events" - Stan Nicholls (Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers, 2015)
The story takes place in a future after a complete economic collapse in which reading is prohibited, and the entire economy is based on the lottery for when one gets to see the regular, spectacular “events,” attendance at and approval of which is compulsory.
Originally published in Novacon 45 Souvenir Booklet. Events / Heatwave. Birmingham, Eng.: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 2015.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Flamingo Land" - Ruby Cowling (Flamingo Land and Other Stories, 2015)
Dystopia in which a family must meet specified weight standards. If they are collectively too heavy, their wages are cut and if they continue to be overweight, children are removed from the family.
Rpt. in the author's This Paradise: Stories (Norwich, Eng.: Boiler House Press, 2019), 135-60.
Keywords: English author; Female author

hang - debbie tucker green (Nick Hern Books, 2015)
Play that is best described as Kafkaesque in that it is a trial of sorts in which the victim considers the methods of punishing the perpetrator in her/his presence. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, June 11, 2015, directed by the author.
Keywords: Black author; English author; Female author

If Then - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (Angry Robot, 2015)
Dystopia in which one English town is protected by the Process from the collapse of society. The Process provides everyone with exactly what they need, but it then begins to manufacture soldiers, who are fated to repeatedly fight World War I battles. Connected with 2007 and 2016 De Abaitua
Keywords: English author; Male author

“An Invisible Tide” - Jo [M.] Thomas (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story is set in a polluted future in Wales, where the algal blooms have destroyed fishing and an invisible tide of toxic gas forces everyone to wear protective gear.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Lost Girl - Adam Nevill (b. 1969) (Pan Books, 2015)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Mother of Eden - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Broadway Books, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Beckett set in the future of the previous one, in which humanity now occupies most of the planet and two empires have emerged, both dominated by men and both claiming descent from the same woman among the early settlers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

News from the Clouds - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) (Unbound, 2015)
A volume in a series with 2012 and 2013 Llewellyn in which the protagonist travels to three futures. In this volume, Earth has been devastated by the effects of the environmental policies of the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Nothing grows on the surface of the planet and only a few insects remain. Humans live in cities, called culverts, built to survive 500 kilometers per hour winds and in huge balloon-like “clouds” traveling around the planet. Scientifically and technologically advanced.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Occupied - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) (Author, 2015)
Dystopia based on the occupations of Kurdistan, Palestine, and Tibet.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Paragon of Knowledge” - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
A flawed utopia in which everything is supposedly neatly ordered, and everyone cared for, but the old are warehoused in Sunny Senile Centres.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; Zambian author

Radiant Vermin - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015)
Dystopia based on the housing crisis in the U.K. in which a young couple finds that they can get their ideal home, room by room, by murdering a homeless person. Play first performed February 27, 2015, in Bristol, with its London Opening March 10, 2015.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Scroogled” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

"Trademark Bugs: A Legal History” - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Reach for Infinity, 2015)
Dystopia in which Big Pharma releases trademarked viruses, makes huge profits from the “cures”, and becomes more powerful than any government.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 351-65; in A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction. Ed. Gavin Miller and Anna MacFarlane (Glasgow, Scot.: Freight Books, 2017), 172-92; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 352-66. EBook.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Transition - R[yan] J[ames] Tomlin (Author, 2015)
The novel is set in a future where, in order to give everyone an even start in life, all children are taken to Nethertower at eleven and stay there until they are eighteen when, “as a complete and independent adult ready to face the outside world, they transition back. During their time there, they must work, earn credits by, among other things, riding bicycles that produce the electricity the powers everything, and rise from Recruit, to Senior, to Elite. Everything in Nethertower is controlled, apparently by technology. Health checks are regular and detailed and identified lacks like vitamins or water intake are immediately provided. This takes up the first part of the book and is mostly untrue. Most who transition die, the outside work is derelict with cannibals, zombies, and a resistance movement.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Undercover in Tanah Firdaus” - [Syamsuriatina] [Ishak] (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
In a future Kuala Lumpur, the city is divided horizontally between the rich and poor, who, except for those who work for the rich, are starving and without medical care.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Malaysian author; US author

“What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) (Catapult Magazine, 2015)
The setting for the story is a climate-change dystopia in which most of Europe and North America are under water, and the European powers have re-colonized Africa, with the French slaughtering the Senegalese and the British establishing a caste system in Nigeria. For a story set in the same future, see Edwin Okolo, “When the Levees Break.” Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 213-26.
Rpt. in her What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 151-74.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Nigerian author; US author

“The 1000 Year Reich” - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (Squirrel, Reich, and Lavender. Bonus Stories, 2014)
Satire in which three powers vie with each other, the remnant of the US, the Japanese, and the German Reich, each with a settlement on the moon. Reich refers both to the German Reich and Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957).
Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng].: NewCon Press, 2016), 15-34 with an author’s note on 34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

ACID - Emma Pass (Delacorte Press, 2014)
Authoritarian dystopia based on a violent police force known as ACID or the Agency for Crime Investigation and Defence.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Barricade - Jon Wallace (Gollancz, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which a continuing war has broken out between reengineered humans who were designed to create a better future and Reals, unmodified humans. Much of the world has been destroyed in the process. Sequels include Steeple. London: Gollancz, 2015 and Rig. London: Gollancz, 2016.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Because I Prayed This Word" - Alex Dally Macfarlane (Strange Horizons, 2014)
A eutopian city welcoming to lesbians discovered by an illiterate nun in a medieval convent. There are references to Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405), but the cities are different.
Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-because-i-prayed-this-word/ Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Jean Roberta and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2015), 161-73.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Bloody Deluge” - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) (Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus, 2014)
Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story focuses on conflicts among survivors.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Bone Clocks. A Novel - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) (Random House, 2014)
A wide-ranging novel that begins in 1984 and ends in 2043 with stops in 1991, 2004, 2015, and 2025. 2025 is largely fantasy, and 2043 is a dystopia with a collapsing technology and a deeply damaged environment.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The Country of Ice Cream Star - Sandra Newman (b. 1965) (Chatto & Windus, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone dies by twenty. Much of the novel focuses on the search for a cure. The novel is written in a dialect. The ending implies further volumes.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Elysium Or, The World After - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) (Aqueduct Press, 2014)
Complex post-catastrophe dystopia with an authoritarian government, eutopian enclaves, and aliens.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Europe in Autumn - Dave [David Christopher] Hutchinson (b. 1960) (Solaris/Solaris US, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian series known as the Fractured Europe Sequence set in an extremely fragmented future Europe. Sequels include Europe at Midnight. London: Oxford, Eng./New York: Solaris US, 2015; Europe in Winter. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2016; Europe at Dawn. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2018; and “Nightingale Floors.” London Centric: Tales of Future London. Ed. Ian [George] Whates ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 93-121.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Faith Without Teeth” - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia in which everyone is expected to voluntarily have their teeth removed so that everyone is equal.
Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-199 with an author’s note on 199.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Fix" - Leonie Ross (b. 1969) (The World to Come, 2014)
Dystopia of a future with so many sexually transmitted diseases that no one has sex any longer, the World Wide Web has become aware, and it is fixing the problem by killing off the human race.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Jamaican author

Future Perfect. Book 1 of the Blueprint Trilogy - Katrina Mountfort (Elsewhen Press, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy set in a future where everyone lives under domes and prohibits personal relationships. Men and women are both expected to develop the ideal androgynous body. The novel follows a man and woman who are attracted to each other. The second volume, Forbidden Alliance. Book 2 of the Blueprint Trilogy. Dartford, Eng.: Elsewhen Press, 2015, takes up the story sixteen years later with the couple and others with their children living outside the domes and focuses on the problems of life outside, particularly those faced by the women, who are expected to accept traditional gender roles. The third volume, Freedom’s Prisoners. Book 3 of the Blueprint Trilogy. Dartford, Eng.: Elsewhen Press, 2016 continues the story through more struggle to freedom.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Gone Fishing" - Jo[anne] Thomas (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
The story is set in the Pacific Ocean where competing sea steading sites have been established, some associated together in a Commonwealth that includes some land-based communities. Everyone is struggling to survive in the fished-out ocean.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Grasshopper’s Child - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (TJoy Books, 2014)
Sequel to 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006 Jones. This volume follows people, and one young woman in particular, who are caught up in the dystopia as they struggle, ultimately successfully, to get free.
Keywords: English author; Female author

J - Howard Jacobson (b. 1942) (Jonathan Cape, 2014)
Dystopia following a mass pogrom that is only referred to as “WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED.”
Keywords: English author; Male author

Last Days in Eden - Ann Kelley (b. 1941) (Luath Press, 2014)
Dystopia and the revolution that overthrows it. The dystopia is set in a future that has been transformed by climate change.
Keywords: English author; Female author

A Lovely Way to Burn - Louise Welsh (b. 1965) (John Murray, 2014)
First volume of the Plague Times Trilogy. This volume depicts the initial impact of a pandemic that kills almost everyone. It was read on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime. In Death is a Welcome Space. London: John Murray, 2015, the second volume, two men escape from prison and make their way through the devastated country. No Dominion. London: John Murray, 2017, the third volume, takes place seven years later and involves the protagonist of the second volume leaving the relative safety of Orkney and return to the post-apocalyptic mainland.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

“The Man Who Sold the Moon” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
Technology used to free people and help them freely make things for their use.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (Toronto, ON, Canada: CHiZine Publications, 2016), 400-76.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

“Market Forces: Paradise Revamped” - Ian Stewart (b. 1945) (Nature, 2014)
Satire on the afterlife, which is now a company.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Orbital Decay” - Malcolm Cross (Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus, 2014)
Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story is set in the International Space Station where people observe the deaths on Earth.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Russell Brand Trickster Tales - Russell [Edward] Brand (b. 1975) (Atria Books, 2014)
A profusely illustrated retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Hamelin presented as a dystopia of narrow-minded people. One child who had been ostracized by the town does not follow the Piper, and he helps the people to be more open-minded.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Rag and Bone” - Nicholas P. Oakley (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
The story is set in a future in which people have moved into space to escape the dangers of Earth. Living in individual space habitats is very expensive, and if someone falls behind in their mortgage payments, the habitat is simply retrieved, killing those inside. The story focuses on one of the men doing the retrieving who is sickened by his actions and starts a revolution.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

“The Tiger Waiting on the Shore: Days of Remembrance” - Paul Currion (Nature, 2014)
Punishment in the future. For the crime of manslaughter, a person is put to sleep three times for a hundred years each. After the third they are released to a society composed entirely of other released sleepers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Watcher - Nicholas P. Oakley (See Sharp Press, 2014)
Flawed utopia presented through a coming-of age story. A relatively primitive tribal society that operates on the basis of gender equality and consensus faces an internal problem with an individual who manipulates the system and an external problem of an invader. The Watcher is an alien representing a larger universe who asks a young woman for help in dealing with the invader.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

“What Is Your Problem, Agent X9?” - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
Dystopia in which the human race is being eliminated seen through the eyes one of those doing the elimination who is interrogating someone seen as a traitor.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Wolf From the Door - Rory Mullarkey (b. 1987) (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Apocalyptic dystopia set in middle England depicting a violent revolution in progress. The play was the 2014 Pinter Commission for the Royal Court Theatre and premiered there September 10, 2014.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Irish author; Male author

“Worldmaker” - Rachel Armstrong (Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox, 2014)
Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Yamada’s Armada” - [Ee Leen] [Lee] (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
The story is set in a future Singapore that has a rigidly enforced status system.
Keywords: English author; Female author

13 - [Michael] Mike Bartlett (b. 1980) (Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2013)
The play takes place in an alternative England and begins with people waking up having all dreamed the same dream. England is facing the issues that the country actually faced at the time, but with different people in power and protesting. The protests coalesce around a messiah figure. It premiered at the National Theatre October 18, 2011, directed by Thea Sharrock.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2121: A Tale From the Next Century - Susan [Adele] Greenfield [Baroness Greenfield] (b. 1950) (Head of Zeus, 2013)
Dystopia in which the human race has divided into those who live a cyber dominated life of pure pleasure and those who follow a rigid rational code and what happens when they interact.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Adjacent - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Orion, 2013)
The complex novel operates on a number of different timelines, but it begins in a near-future dystopia of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain.
Rpt. London: Titan Books, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author

After Tomorrow - Gillian Cross (b. 1945) (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia of a violent future.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Bicycle Girl" - Tade Thompson (Expanded Horizons, 2013)
The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

“Cellular Level” - J. E. Bryant (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
The story is told from the point of view of an engineer developing drones to replace pollinators killed by various environmental changes who needs the wisdom of an old woman who has spent her life on a farm to understand the workings of nature. The technology works but the bees still know more.
Keywords: English author

“Charlie’s Ant” - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
High-tech farming creates a dystopia..
Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 36-45.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Contraband" - Terry Martin (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Detainee: No Escape from the Punishment - Peter Liney (Jo Fletcher Books, 2013)
Violent, authoritarian dystopia and survival. A sequel is Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, in which the protagonist from The Detainee escape to the mainland, only to discover that it is as bad. Sequels include Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, a typical middle volume in which things get worse; and In Constant Fear. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2015, in which, after further struggles, the people find peace.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Disappearances - Gemma Malley (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013)
Sequel to 2012 Malley. In this volume, two of the protagonists had escaped the city but had to return to face a new threat. See also 2013 Malley, The System.
Keywords: English author; Female author

England’s Darkness - Stephen Barber (Sun Vision Press, 2013)
The collapse of the digital system results in the loss of knowledge and the end of all fossil-based fuel results in the complete collapse of England, the abandonment of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the deliberate depopulation of the north of England.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Finches of Mars - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (The Friday Project, 2013)
Most of the novel centers on two dystopias, Earth as it is torn apart by ethnic, national, and religious conflict and the first settlement on Mars which, in addition to national tensions, produces only stillborn children. The novel ends, though, with the arrival on Mars of evolved humans from the future come back to ensure the survival of the Mars settlement. These future humans come from a eutopia that has solved gender conflict by becoming both female and male. Few other details are given.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“First Foot: Everything as it should be” - Deborah Walker (Nature, 2013)
Dystopia in which people have been enclosed in a zoo of one hundred homes, apparently by aliens, and are required to be happy and follow human holiday traditions.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Homeland - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor Teen, 2013)
Sequel to 2008 Doctorow in which the protagonist of that novel is again threatened by the growing homeland security apparatus. A third volume in the loosely related series his Attack Surface (2029). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception.
Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 318-685, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

In Times Like These: A Fable - Maureen [Patricia] Duffy (b. 1933) ([Jonathan Clowes], 2013)
Dystopia of a disintegrating Britain with Scotland’s leaving the U.K. being followed by other parts of the country with a growing threat of parts of England becoming independent.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Later His Ghost” - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) (New Statesman, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Also online illus. Matt Saunders and Handsome Frank. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/then-later-his-ghost Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 99-119. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 99-119.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Liquid Loyalty" - Redfern Jon Barrett (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia in which drugs have been developed so that each person is completely devoted to one and only one other person.
Rpt. without the illus. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 57-70.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Long Indeed We Do Live. . .” - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
In a future after an undescribed environmental catastrophe, society has developed inside domes with different arbors devoted to different trees. Presented mostly positively. While there is much fantasy in the story, it appears that human life has also adapted to life outside the domes and that here is communication between life outside and the trees inside.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Meet the President - Zadie Smith (b. 1975) (The New Yorker, 2013)
The short story takes place in an apparent future with radical divisions between those who are technologically enhance and those who are not.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Memory Palace - Hari [Mohan Nath] Kunzru (b. 1969) (V&A Publishing, 2013)
The book that was the basis of a Victoria and Albert Exhibition June 18 - October 20, 2013) depicted a dystopia where reading, writing, and remembering is prohibited. The book consists of the story by Kunzru illustrated by those listed (9-80), followed by a brief essay by the curators on curating a book (83-89), followed by a graphic story by Robert Hunter, “Making Memory Palace” about how the exhibit came together (91-107).
Keywords: English author; Male author

News From the Squares - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) (Unbound, 2013)
The novel describes a society in which women are dominant and the entire country is laid out in squares. Loosely a sequel to 2012 Llewellyn. See also 2015 Llewellyn.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Quis Custodiet: Complete control” - Brian Clegg (b. 1955) (Nature, 2013)
The flawed utopia of a “perfect” dictatorship controlled by a computer.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Runners - Ann Kelley (b. 1941) (Luath Press, 2013)
Dystopia in which there is a systematic attempt to reduce the population by eliminating people. The novel focuses on a fourteen year old boy and his four year old sister, as they try to escape.
Originally published online in 2013.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"A Season" - Rebecca J. Payne (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
The story is about a man trying to save his land in a near-future dystopia of climate change and rapacious industrial agriculture.
Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Serene Invasion - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Solaris, 2013)
An alien invasion brings peace and prosperity to Earth, but some people and other aliens want a return to the conflict of the past.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Shopocalypse - David Gullen (Monico, 2013)
Unusually climate change dystopia in which a couple travel across America in a sentient car from shopping mall to shopping mall.
Rev. ed. [Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

The System - Gemma Malley (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013)
The third volume of the Killables Trilogy; see also 2012 Malley and 2013 Malley, The Disappearances. In this volume, one large company “owns everything and everyone” and everyone is online all the time with popularity the only real currency. But everyone must update every fifteen minutes and anyone who doesn’t is punished.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Terminal City" - Zoë Blade (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2013)
The story is set in a dystopia with extreme rich/poor divisions and focuses on hackers who are trying to undermine the system.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 113-41.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Theatre 6" - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) (Madame Zero. 9 Stories, 2013)
The story is set in a future with extremely strict restrictions on obstetricians.
US ed. (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 47-57.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Wanderer - Roger Davenport (b. 1946) (Sky Pony Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally damaged future. Two groups are antagonists, the City Dwellers and the Wanderers, but teenagers from both groups must cooperate. Something of a quest novel to find a better place to live.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“When Appliances Go Green” - Matt[hew] Colborn (b. 1973) (Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate, 2013)
Satire on the dystopia created my connected appliances that are programmed to be environmentally conscious.
Originally published in Universe Magazine, no. 2 (2013), which is not available.
Keywords: English author; Male author

After the Snow - S[ophie] D. Crockett (b. 1969) (Macmillans Childrens Books, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“All Your Futures” - David Gullen (Arc 1.3 Afterparty Overdrive, 2012)
The story is set in a future eutopia with no government. Major decisions are made collectively through a device that everyone wears for regular interactions that can be used for discussion and decision-making. The story concerns the arrival of a spaceship that had left Earth before the technology was developed that allowed much faster travel and what to do with it and its one surviving crew member.
A podcast with the title as “All Your Futures Are Belong To Us” can be found on StarShipSofa, no. 480 (April 4, 2017). http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2017/04/04/starshipsofa-no-480-david-gullen/ With that title it can be read on the author’s website at https://davidgullen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Free-Fiction-All-Your-Futures-Are-Belong-To-Us.pdf and in his Open Waters. EXAGGERATEDpress, 2013. Not found. Not in the 2009 edition of Open Waters.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

Breathe - Sarah Crossan (b. 1981) (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which oxygen depletion has destroyed the environment and killed everyone except those chosen by a lottery to live under a dome. There is a resistance movement and a belief that some areas outside the dome are still alive, and the novel focus on a quest to find those areas. First volume of two followed by Resist. New York: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2013. U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 in which the protagonists of Breathe are successful in finding fertile land.
U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author; US author

A Calculated Life - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) (47North, 2012)
Dystopia of corporate power and genetic engineering. The protagonist is a woman who has been engineered to be first-rate mathematical modeler who can forecast events. But some of her forecast are, unusually, wrong, and the novel follows her attempts to understand why. For a sequel, see 2020 Charnock, Bridge 108.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Chair Plays - Edward Bond (1934-2024) (Methuen Drama, 2012)
The text includes three one act plays set in a dystopian 2077. The plays are “Have I None” (1-36), was first performed in Birmingham November 2, 2000 and published in Children and Have I None. London: Methuen Drama, 2000; 57-89; “The Under Room” (37-73), was first performed in Birmingham October 9, 2000 (Plays 8 says October 12, 2000) and published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (169-203); and “Chair” (75-112), was written for radio first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on April 7, 2000. The Chair Plays and Plays 8 says that the first staged production was at the Avignon Festival on July 18, 2006. Wikipedia says it was in Lisbon, at the Teatro da Cornucópia in June 2005 and first published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (London: Methuen Drama, 2006), 109-144. The London premiere of the entire trilogy was at Lyric Hammersmith on April 19, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Contrary Gardener” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Eclipse Online, 2012)
An odd story in which crops are grown to be turned into ammunition in a society that has advanced AIs but that have gained consciousness. The protagonist is an exceptional gardener who does not fit in.
Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 1-22.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dark Eden - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Corvus, 2012)
The novel describes the dystopia that resulted from inbreeding after a spacecraft crashed on planet. The novel focuses on a young man who tries to break the pattern and escape the small area in which the people, known as the Family, live.  See also 2015 Beckett.
U.S. ed. New York: Broadway Books, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dominion - C[hristopher] J[ohn] Sansom (b. 1952) (Mantle, 2012)
Alternative history dystopia in which Germany defeated Britain was defeated in World War 2. The novel stressed the ultimately successful resistance. Includes a “Bibliographical Note” (605-610) and a “Historical Note” (611-28).
U. S. ed. New York: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Earth Girl - Janet Edwards (b. 1958) (Harper Voyager, 2012)
First volume of a young adult trilogy set in 2778 in which humans have spread throughout the galaxy, but some people have an immune system that will not allow them to leave Earth. The novel is about one such girl.
U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Female author

In Autotelia” - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) (Arc Magazine 1.1. The future always wins, 2012)
An odd, rather indeterminate story told from the point of view of an aging woman doctor traveling from a rundown apparently contemporary London to another city, which appears to be in an alternative universe, to give medical tests to those applying to immigrate.
Keywords: English author; Male author

In the Republic of Happiness: An Entertainment in Three Parts - Martin Crimp (b. 1956) (Faber & Faber, 2012)
Three versions of dystopia. The three parts are Destruction of the Family, The Five Essential Freedoms of the Individual, and In the Republic of Happiness. The first part takes place at a family Christmas lunch in which Uncle Bob and his wife Madeleine show up to tell the family that they are leaving forever and why Madeleine hates every member of the family. The is simply five lists of the characteristics of the supposed freedoms, which are solipsistic in the extreme. The third part has Uncle Bob and Madeleine in a large white room with windows that suggest a vague green landscape and they have a meandering conversation. The review in the Guardian, suggests, on the basis of an epigram from Dante’s Paradiso before the third act, which is the only epigram in the text, that the play is Crimp’s take on the Divine Comedy. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/dec/13/republic-of-happiness-review. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, December 6, 2012.
Rpt. in his Plays Three (London: Faber & Faber, 2015), 269-358.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Killables - Gemma Malley (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which the “evil” part of people’s brains is removed. If anyone shows signs that the operation was not successful, they are labelled “K” “killable” and disappear. First volume of a series; see also 2013 Malley, The Disappearances and The System.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Lips & Teeth" - Jon Wallace (Interzone, 2012)
Dystopia of a future North Korea.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner (Hot Keys Press, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist, who everyone considers to be stupid, is dyslexic, which the author says she is and reflects how she was treated.
U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Female author

News From Gardenia - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) (Unbound, 2012)
A eutopia inspired by 1890 Morris, News From Nowhere but with an advanced technology not found in Morris. The future world is divided between countries like Gardenia, formerly the U.K., that are called “nonecons” and are Arcadias with technology and those countries like the Brazil, China, India, and the United States of Africa that are successful and wealthy technological economies. There is also an unvisited dystopia, the Midwest, in what used to be the U.S. that is racist and authoritarian. First volume of a trilogy; see also 2013 and 2015 Llewellyn.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pirate Cinema - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2012)
Young adult dystopia focusing on the control of the internet by media companies that get laws passed to criminalize and impose severe penalties on sampling and other common ways of using the internet. The focus of the novel is on artists and activists fighting a proposed new law that will criminalize other activities.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Slated - Teri [Teresa] Terry (Orchard Books, 2012)
First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy in which rebellious teenagers have their memories wiped and given a new identity, or “slated.” The novel’s protagonist is a young woman who has been slated but some of whose memories come back, which puts her in danger from the leaders of the dystopia. The second volume, Fractured. London: Orchard Books, 2013. U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013, is a typical middle volume in which things get worse. In the third volume, Shattered. London: Orchard Books, 2014 U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2014, the protagonist continues to face danger but finds her family. There is also a prequel, Fated. London: Orchard Books, 2019.
U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013
Keywords: English author; Female author

Surprises: Three Linked Romances - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) (Faber and Faber, 2012)
Three interrelated love stories set initially in what is described as the near future but one in which androids do much of the work and the class system remains. The third act is set fifty years later with must more elaborate technology. The play was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough July 17, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Toxicity. A Novel of the Anarchy - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) (Solaris, 2012)
Dystopia of a planet that a corporation uses solely to dispose of the toxic wastes of other planets.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Visiting Nelson" - Katherine Langrish (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult ecological dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

By Light Alone - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2011)
Dystopian satire focusing on the greed of the extremely wealthy with an extreme rich/poor divide and with the poor fed so inadequately, women can’t have children.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Choice" - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2011)
Global warming dystopia.
Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012), 2-31 with an editor's note on 1; and in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 385-423 with an author’s note on 433-35.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dark Parties - Sara Grant (Indigo, 2011)
Authoritarian dystopia in which people are enclosed inside the "Protectosphere" where everyone is becoming more alike and are told that nothing survives outside. The novel focuses on the ultimately successful attempt to escape.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Dead Lands. A Deadlands Novel - [Sarah] [Lotz] (b. 1971); [Savannah] [Lotz] (Penguin Books (South Africa), 2011)
First volume of a young adult trilogy in which South Africa has been invaded by zombies and some teenagers, known as the Mall Rats, organize to fight both the zombies and the corrupt government. The second volume is Death of a Saint. A Deadlands Novel. By Lily Herne [pseud.]. Cape Town, SA: Penguin Books (South Africa), 2012. Rpt. London: Corsair/Constable & Robinson, 2013. The third volume is The Army of the Lost. A Deadlands Novel. By Lily Herne [pseud.]. Cape Town, SA: Penguin Books (South Africa), 2013. Rpt. London: Much-in-Little/Constable & Robinson, 2014.
Rpt. London: Much-in-Little/Constable & Robinson, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

The Departure. The Owner - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) (Tor, 2011)
Dystopia in which a group controlling an orbiting space station keeps the station's inhabitants enslaved and is coming to control the Earth. Sequels include Zero Point: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2012 and Jupiter War: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2013, both of which are mostly adventure and war.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Differences” - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Albedo (Dublin, Ireland), 2011)
Dystopia in which any human difference is unacceptable.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Eden Paradox - Barry Kirwan (Summertime Publications, 2011)
A novel in which people from Earth, which has become a violent authoritarian dystopia hope to settle a new planet but encounter aliens. The first of four volumes followed by Eden’s Trial. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2012; Eden’s Revenge. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2013; and Eden’s Endgame. An Eden’s Paradox Novel. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2014, which includes a “Glossary” (340-46). All of the sequels are mostly adventure and war.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Fear Index - Robert [Dennis] Harris (b. 1957) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011)
Computer dystopia in which a computer program designed to predict movements in the market runs out of control.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Foxfinder - Dawn KIng (2011)
The play is set in a future English countryside that is not producing, and an authoritarian government sets a quota for every farm. If not met, the farm will be taken from its owners and given to the neighboring farm that meets its quota. The play focuses on a failing farm being visited by a foxfinder who has the power to make that decision. It premiered at the Finsborough Theatre in 2011 and premiered in the West End in 2018. It won the 2011 Papatango New Writing Prize and the inaugural Royal National Theatre Foundation (RNTF) Playwright award. See also 2022 King, The Trials, her rave Dystopia387 (https://www.dawn-king.com/#dystopia987), her adaption of Brave New World (https://www.dawn-king.com/#brave-new-world).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Green Future: But Is It Art?" - Deborah Walker (Nature, 2011)
A dystopian future London that has been overrun by vegetation and everything is covered by airborne algae. People live in favelas ruled by a matriarch.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners: Seeding a Revolution" - David L. Clements (Nature, 2011)
Dystopia in which commercial interests with the support of the police are destroying all plants and seeds not owned by companies. The story is continued in “Seed Dealer.” Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 25-36.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illustration in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 21-23; and in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 114-17.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Point - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) (Angry Robot, 2011)
Sequel to 2010 [Meaney]. This volume focuses on suicide cults among teenagers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Pure" - Rio Youers (Dark Dreams, Pale Horses, 2011)
Dystopia created by a virulent disease and the restrictions used to contain it.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (Toronto, ON: ChiZine Publications/Tightrope Books, 2012), 154-82.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Scrivener’s Moon. The Third Book in the Fever Crumb Series - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic, 2011)
Sequel to 2009 and 2010 Reeve. In this volume Fever Crumb becomes part of a Northern tribe planning to attack London, her home, and she must choose sides.
U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic Press, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Silver Wind" - Nina Allan (b. 1966) (Interzone, 2011)
Dystopia of a future, poor, violent Britain that has lost much of its technology.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Testament of Jessie Lamb - Jane Rogers (b. 1952) (Sandstone Press, 2011)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which millions of women have died due to a deliberately spread virus.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Theme Planet. A Novel of the Anarchy - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) (Solaris, 2011)
Dystopia of a pleasure planet that turns violent.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"[Utopia]" - Alastair Campbell (b. 1957) (2011)
Very brief eutopia. Mostly very general and simple and a bit of a rant, but includes compulsory voting, lowering the voting age to sixteen, teaching politics and its importance and citizenship in primary schools together with how to live a healthy life. The first in an intended series of utopias written by prominent people.
Keywords: English author; Male author

100 Months: The End of All Things - John Hicklenton (1967-2010) (Cutting Edge Press, 2010)
Apocalyptic dystopian graphic novel in which Earth revolts against the damage done to her.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Afterlight - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) (Orion, 2010)
Sequel to 2007 Scarrow. In this volume, small communities are rebuilding in a world without oil after the catastrophe in the previous volume. But the usual problems of human greed and hunger for power threaten to overwhelm even these small steps up.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Birth of Love - Joanna Kavenna (b. 1974) (Faber and Faber, 2010)
One part is set in a dystopia in 2153 where children are born and raised in breeding centers with no contact with any family. This section of the novel focuses on a woman who is tried for illegally conceiving.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Ditch - Beth Steel (Methuen Drama/Bloomsbury, 2010)
The play is set in a future England that is mostly underwater and has an authoritarian government. It takes place in a rural area where the government has placed a group of men to search for “illegals”. It was first performed as part of the High Tide Festival, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk, April 30, 2010 with its London opening May 30, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Edge - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) (Angry Robot, 2010)
Dystopia in which dueling has been legalized and violence is common. Corporate control and extreme pollution.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Flood & Fire - Emily Diamand (b. 1971) (Chicken House, 2010)
Sequel to 2008 Diamand. In this volume, England, which is already flooded due to global warming, is also threatened with fire.
Keywords: English author; Female author

For the Win - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2010)
The novel, written for young adults, has dystopian elements and uses online gaming to illustrate and the possible connections among gamers throughout the world to critique the way that powerful people can, for profit and with the cooperation of governments, control the lives of the gamers, and presents unions as the best way of fighting back.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

“A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now Is the Best Time of Your Life” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Godlike Machines, 2010)
The story is about a transhuman teenager living in a post catastrophe (virus) dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle in his A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011), 9-106. The book also includes his “Creativity vs. Copyright” (107-21), “‘Look for the Lake’ Cory Doctorow Interviewed by Terry Bisson” (123-34), a “Bibliography) (135-36).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"Johnny's New Job" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2010)
Dystopia in which welfare officers are regularly killed by the people if any child is harmed.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Last Flight to West Bay" - Roz Clarke (Dark Spires, 2010)
Dystopia of a collapsed ecosystem in an overpopulated world.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Legacy - Gemma Malley (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Fourth volume in a series; see 2007 and 2008 Malley. See also 2010 Malley, The Returners. In this volume very few children are being born and a plague is devastating the population.
Keywords: English author; Female author

New Model Army - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2010)
In a sense this is a future war novel, but it is set in a future where it has become clear that Britain is ruled by similar competing oligarchy who periodically hold an election to give themselves a spurious legitimacy. The people are fed up and an army is created that is an Artificial Intelligence that is a real democracy in which everyone helps choose what it is to do.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Nina in Utopia - Miranda Miller (b. 1950) (Peter Owen, 2010)
Twenty-first century London as a eutopia from the perspective of a woman from the mid-nineteenth century. After she returns to her own time and is committed as insane, she also finds Bedlam a better place than the outside. First in a series followed by The Fairy Visions of Richard Dadd. A Novel. London: Peter Owen, 2013 in which the protagonist meets the painter Richard Dadd (1817-86) in Bedlam where he created his famous paintings. Dadd also travels to the twenty-first, which he finds very difficult.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Orgasmachine - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (Newcon Press, 2010)
Dystopia in which women are manufactured to the specifications of their owners. Two revolt and free all women.
According to the author, the novel was written in the early seventies, published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. Part was published as “Custom-Built Girl.” Cybersex [Subtitle on the cover Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms]. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (London: Raven Books, 1996). U.S. ed. (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 307-32.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Pump House Farm" - Hawkes-Reed, John (Dark Spires, 2010)
Dystopia in which radical environmentalists are the bad guys who, gaining power in England, shut down most power sources, overstate potential dangers, and institute a repressive regime.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Returners - Gemma Malley (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Dystopia. Third volume in a series. Political intrigue and anti-immigration violence set in 2016 in a corrupt society. Not part of the trilogy of 2007, 2008, and 2010 Malley, The Legacy.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Sin's Last Stand" - Chris Niles (Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas, 2010)
Dystopia in which fundamentalist Christians have taken other the US, established a theocracy, closed all schools, and burned all books except the Bible. Non-believers have been moved to Las Vegas and then massacred. The story focuses on a girl who survived the massacre.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Solnet Ascendency" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Technological and sustainable eutopia in Vanuatu brought about through modern technology and the ability to get political support.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

"Spindizzy" - Colin Harvey (Dark Spires, 2010)
Dystopia of a high tech, overpopulated future dominated by China and India. The story focuses on a very low-level businessman and his growing perception of the negative aspects of his society. The Spindizzies are a religious sect that are used as a scapegoat by the authorities.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Stone Cast into Stillness" - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia where procreation is tightly controlled, and the bureaucrats are machines.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author

WE - John Dickinson (b. 1962) (David Fickling Books, 2010)
Dystopia of an all-controlling state.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Web of Air. The Second Book of the Fever Crumb Series - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic, 2010)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 2009 Reeve. The series is a prequel to the Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, Fever Crumb meets a young man who wants to re-introduce manned flight, which is opposed by those in power. See also 2011 Reeve.
U.S. ed. New York Scholastic Press, 2011.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Accord - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Solaris. BL Publishing, 2009)
The Accord is a virtual world that brings together all the desires of all people throughout the world and can be entered at death. It is presented as a eutopia for all. The current world is an authoritarian dystopia, and the novel is driven by the desire of the authoritarian leader to destroy a couple in The Accord.
Parts were published in a different form as “The Accord.” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Ed. George Mann (Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris Books, 2007), 301-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 461-79 with an editor’s introduction on 461; and “The Man Who Built Heaven.” Postscripts, no. 15 (Summer 2008): 24-31.
Keywords: English author; Male author

After the Car - Kingsley [L.] Dennis; John Urry (1946-2016) (Polity, 2009)
Primarily a discussion of the effects of the car and the desirability of eliminating it, but it also includes three brief scenarios of a carless life, "local sustainability", "local warlordism", and "digital networks of control". Only the first is eutopian.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Bad Tuesdays: Twisted Symmetry - Benjamin J. Myers (b. 1967) (Orion Children's Books, 2009)
First of six volumes of a series of young adult dystopias. Thousands of children are being stolen by the Twisted Symmetry, somehow connected with its goal of immortality. It is opposed by the Committee. The three Tuesday children, who are street children and known as the Bad Tuesdays, may be a key to the situation. In the second volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Strange Energy. London: Orion, 2009, the Tuesday children help the Committee. The third volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Blood Alchemy. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2010 follows the adventures of one of the Tuesday children. The Bad Tuesdays: The Nonsuch King. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 follows the continuing adventures of all three of the Tuesday children. And in The Bad Tuesdays: A Crystal Horsemen. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 two of the Tuesday children have been captured by the Twisted Symmetry. In The Bad Tuesdays: The Spiral Horizon. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2012 all the conflicts are resolved, at least temporarily.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Carbon Diaries 2017 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) (Hodder Children's Books, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2008 Lloyd. This novel concerns the growing restrictions on CO2 and other pollutants but in a situation in which the rich and powerful benefit and the poor and weak continue to be exploited.
U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

Chalcot Crescent - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) (Corvus, 2009)
Dystopia set in 2013 with a U.K. with a collapsed economy and a National Unity Government (NUG). Rationing. Worthless currency. Gangs.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Female author

"Collision" - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (When It Changed. Science Into Fiction: An Anthology, 2009)
Science fiction story which has as its background a future where there is an anti-science dystopia on Earth and advanced technology in space.
Rpt. in her The Universe of Things: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2011), 106-20.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Contact With Chaos - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2009)
A newly discovered wealthy planet becomes the focus of a conflict among the authoritarian United Nations forces of Earth, the libertarians of Freehold, and a group of do-gooders saying the people should be left alone.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Executioner" - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) (Warrior Wisewoman, 2009)
Dystopia in which when a person is to be executed, an individual is chosen by lot to be the executioner. The story is from the point-of-view of a woman who was chosen.
Rpt. in People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine. Ed. Nisi Shawl, no. 239 (June/July 2017): 50-57; and in in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 296-302.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Far North - Marcel [Raymond] Theroux (b. 1968) (Faber and Faber, 2009)
A global warming dystopia in which most of the world's civilizations have collapsed and violence is the norm.
U.S. ed. "in slightly different form" New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic Press, 2009)
Young adult dystopia. First volume of a series that is a prequel to his Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, a young woman named Fever Crumb lives in a society that does not consider women rational, but she is a member of the elite Engineers. See also 2010 and 2011 Reeve.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Guerilla Infrastructure HOWTO" - Hawkes-Reed, John (Future Bristol, 2009)
The story describes the beginnings of a ecological eutopia in a corporate controlled future with dystopian elements.
Keywords: English author; Male author