"The Last Word. Writer's Block" - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (RSA Journal, 2009)
Dystopian satire in which the Ministry of Fiction controls the production of fiction. Writers work in offices at desks set in long rows and produce fiction on topics they are set.
An extract was published as “Ministry of Fiction.” The Guardian Review (March 4, 2009): 5.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Long Stay" - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three, 2009)
Dystopia. The Luton-Stansted car park stretches for twenty-six miles between the two airports with crops growing among the cars. The story focuses on people who got stuck in the car park and have ended up living there permanently.
Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-99 with an author’s note on 199.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Makers - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2009)
A high-tech eutopia begins to transform the U.S., but then the economy collapses producing a dystopia. Various eutopian and dystopian scenarios follow.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Requiem of the Human Soul - Jeremy R. Lent (b. 1960) (Libros Libertad Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia of a future in which all unaltered humans are being considered for elimination.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) (Viking, 2009)
Humorous dystopia set in Chromatica where status is determined by the range of colors that a person can see, and lower status people are subservient to the higher status. Life is determined by “The Rules”, which the protagonist discovers to be more controlling than he had thought. For a sequel that continues where that novel ended, see Red Side Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 376 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Soho Press, 2024. Originally described as the first volume of a trilogy to be followed by Shades of Grey 2: Painting by Numbers and Shades of Grey 3: The Gordini Protocols, but they disappeared from his website.
U.K. ed. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Both carry the 2010 copyright, but the U.S. ed. was published in December 2009 and the U.K. ed. in January 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Shop Talk" - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) (Warrior Wisewoman, 2009)
The story, which has elements of humor and fantasy, is set on a future Earth that had colonized space but had become extremely insular and tried to keep everyone in the town in which they were born.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tomas - James [Rudolph] Palumbo (b. 1963) (Quartet, 2009)
Dystopian satire. Tomas = There's Only Money and Sex. Much fantasy. The dominant media network is SHIT-TV, and life is a meaningless round of false pleasure. On the French Riviera, women have such large breasts that they have to support them on mobile trolleys. Extreme corruption. Violence. A time machine hidden in a fairground allows visits to the near and far future. The protagonist, Tomas, is something of a Messiah bent on changing this world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

X Isle - Steve [Andre] Augarde (b. 1950) (David Fickling Books, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in which children are essentially prisoners on an island where they had expected to find a better life. At the end of the novel, they revolt and kill their captors.
U.S. ed. New York: Random House/Fickling, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“1968: A ShortSpan Snackfood. Valid for Year 7 Student Use. Calories: 231” - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) (’68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution, 2008)
A “eutopia” where one can take pills to learn or have the information slowly entered into a persons brain. All the information is validated as accurate.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Blonde Roots - Bernardine [Anne Mobolaji] Evaristo (b. 1959) (Hamish Hamilton, 2008)
The novel is set in an alternative history in which “whyte Europanes” are captured and enslaved by “blak Aphrikans,” with two of the three sections in the voice of Doris Scagglethorpe (given the slave name Omorenomwara) with the middle section in the voice of Chief Kaga Konata Katamba I, who brands his slaves with his initials, KKK.
U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. 269 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Butt: An Exit Strategy - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (Bloomsbury, 2008)
Dystopian satire using an imaginary country to skewer the modern world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Carbon Diaries. 2015 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) (Hodder Children's Books, 2008)
Dystopia of global warming and the attempt in Britain, and only Britain, to reduce the burning of carbon. See also 2009 Lloyd.
U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2009.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

“Collateral Damage” - Jaine Fenn (Subterfuge, 2008)
Dystopia of a society with deep divisions between rich and poor with the poor hired and given perks to kill anyone the leader considers to pose a problem.
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

Fifty-First State - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) (Severn House, 2008)
Dystopia. Near future poor Britain controlled by the U.S.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Gone-Away World - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) (William Heinemann, 2008)
Dystopia of a postwar world divided between a livable zone and the rest.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 2008.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Greenland" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2008)
Global warming dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Grid - Jeremy Reed (b. 1951) (Peter Owen, 2008)
Dystopia in which London has merged with Tokyo under a Commissar. Background to a novel about the Elizabethans and the murder of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Half Healed - Michael Symmons Roberts (b. 1969) (Cape Poetry, 2008)
A sequence of poems, many previously published or broadcast, depicting the dystopia of contemporary violence. “Last Words” which appears twelve different poems throughout the text, are abbreviated telephone calls on 9/11 and were commission by BBC Radio 4 to mark the anniversary of the attacks.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Knife of Never Letting Go. Chaos Walking: Book One - Patrick Ness (b. 1971) (Walker Books, 2008)
First volume of a dystopian series. People had settled on a new planet and lost a war with the indigenous inhabitants, who had released a germ that made the thoughts of all humans and animals constantly audible. Quiet is discovered, but at the end of this volume, the world is taken over by the authoritarian leaders of the remaining humans. The Ask and the Answer. Chaos Walking: Book Two. London: Walker Books, 2009, the second volume, stresses the struggle against the authoritarian leaders who gained power at the end of the previous volume. In the third volume, Monsters of Men. Chaos Walking: Book Three. London: Walker Books, 2010. U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, [2011], the two protagonists are forced to choose sides.
U.S. ed. New York: Candlewick Press, 2009.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Little Brother - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor Teen, 2008)
Young adult dystopia of U.S. Home Security targeting San Francisco because the administration sees it as too liberal. Home Security is fought by a group of teenage hackers with some success and ends with the administration freeing those responsible and the hackers continuing their opposition. The title refers to “Big Brother” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. First volume in a loosely connected series; see also his Homeland (2013) and Attack Surface (2020). 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), 11-317, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"The Man of the Strong Arm" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association, 2008)
Dystopia with elements of satire on SF. The dystopia is a male chauvinist society that honors the strongest man and keeps most men in ignorance. Women are essentially slaves, but there is a strong women's underground.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Martin Martin's on the Other Side - Mark Wernham (Jonathan Cape, 2008)
Dystopia. Most people are employed by the state and spend their lives paying off their student loans. Pornography and recreational drugs are freely available.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association, 2008)
Dystopia in which Europe and the Islamic countries have agreed to end conflict with Europe agreeing to ban alcohol and the Islamic countries agree to end honor killing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Reaver's Ransom - Emily Diamand (b. 1971) (Chicken House UK, 2008)
Post-apocalyptic young adult dystopia set in twenty-third century England experiencing the effects of global warming. See also 2010 Diamand.
Rpt. as Flood Child. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House, 2009. U.S. ed. as Raider's Ransom. New York: Chicken House Scholastic, 2009.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Resistance - Gemma Malley (Bloomsbury, 2008)
Sequel to 2007 Malley in which the young protagonists of that novel continue to fight the authoritarian dystopia. See also 2010 Malley, The Legacy and The Returners.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Shadow Web - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) (Bloomsbury, 2008)
Alternative history set in London in which the Cold War produced an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat: An Epic Cycle of Short Plays - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) (Methuen Drama, 2008)
Dystopia. Sixteen very short plays plus an Appendix that publishes the revised radio version of one of the plays. Many of the plays are explicitly dystopian focusing on violence and war; others depict authoritarian dystopias.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (2008)
Dystopia seen through the eyes of someone who has been a secular monk living inside a walled compound for sixteen years who has to go out into the world of an authoritarian dystopia where everyone must conform to unstated rules.
Rpt. in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 202-46 with an editors' note on 201; in Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download. Ed. Rich Horton ([Stirling, NJ]: Wyrm Publishing, 2009), 256-95; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 197-228.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Tinderbox - Lucy Kirkwood (b. 1984) (Nick Hern Books in association with the Bush Theatre, London, 2008)
Dystopia set in Bradford in a future England that has become separated from Scotland by rising tides. The focus is on a butcher shop in which the butcher grinds up anyone he can get his hands on to keep the supply of meat coming. Play first performed April 23, 2008, at the Bush Theatre directed by Josie Rourke.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Black Man - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2007)
Adventure story set against an Earth that has finally achieved a decent balance.
U.S. ed. as Thirteen. New York: Del Rey, 2007.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Blind Faith - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) (Bantam Press, 2007)
Dystopia in which climate-change has produced immense flooding, a backlash against science, and a religious revival in which everyone is expected to share everything about themselves online all the time. The protagonist values his privacy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Carhullan Army - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) (Faber and Faber, 2007)
Dystopia. A woman escapes from an authoritarian dystopia and joins an opposing army, which is ultimately defeated. Related stories include 2013 Hall and “Case Study 2: Recognition of the Self.” Illus. Klone Yourself. Vice The Fiction Issue (2013). https://www.vice.com/en/article/4wqjzd/case-study-2-recognition-of-the-self. Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017). US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 29-46.
U.S. ed. as Daughters of the Earth. A Novel. New York: HarperPerennial, 2008.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Cherry Heaven - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) (Hodder Children's Books, 2007)
Sequel to 2005 Adlington in which the girl whose diary was discovered in that novel escapes from a factory prison and, with other girls, leads a movement to free others of the lowest caste and establish a better society.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Cleft - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (Fourth Estate, 2007)
Novel of prehistory with eutopian elements. An isolated, simple, eutopian, all female society where women who give birth solely to female children suddenly begin to produce Monsters (men). The story is told from the point of view of a man in classical Rome many centuries later and traces the relations of the women and the men as they adjust to each other.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Cowboy Angels - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Orion/Gollancz, 2007)
Complex novel of various eutopian and dystopian Americas.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Declaration - Gemma Malley (Bloomsbury, 2007)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. First volume in a series. Overpopulation due to longevity drugs leads to a no child requirement except for those willing to die. "Surplus" children or those born who shouldn't have been are raised as servants with no rights. See also 2008 Malley, 2010 Malley, The Legacy and 2010 Malley, The Returners.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"A Distillation of Grace" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, 2007)
Story about a religion that develops around producing a perfect genetic specimen by only allowing one child per family and controlling the gender so that equal numbers are born. Ultimately, this will reduce the generations to one person.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Divergence - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) (Bantam Spectra, 2007)
Sequel to 2005 Ballantyne. This novel is concerned with the division between humans and altered humans.
U.K. ed. London: Tor U.K., 2007.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

["E-Mails from the Future"] (Diggers & Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 2008/2009, 2007)
Eight e-mails of one page or less in which various contributors to the volume report from the future. None are long enough to be called a utopia, but most are concerned with environmental issues, and a few include considerable detail. They are "Report from Outpost SK572/698" by Chris Coates (also in Esperanto) (16); "When I'm 64. . ." by Bunk (30); "Song of the Saltmarsh" by William Morris (48); "Aotearoa calling" by Lucy Sargisson (66); "We told you so!" by Jonathan How (80); "Ant Farm" by Pam Dowling (88), which comes very close to presenting a fully realized utopia in one page; "We Cannot Eat Fuel!" by Vivian Griffiths (112); and "Season's Greetings" by Bill Metcalf (126). Sargisson and Metcalf present quite positive pictures; Dowling presents a utopian community in a dystopian setting; the rest are environmental dystopias.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author; Male author

Escape from Genopolis - T[amasin (known as Tess)] E[lizabeth] Berry-Hart (Scholastic Children's Books, 2007)
Young adult dystopia of a society deeply divided between those “Naturals” who were poor and unmodified and the “Citizens”, who led a protected life. First volume of a series. The second volume, which is a standard middle volume with the protagonists in even more trouble, is Fearless. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2009. Female author.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Fearless - Tim Lott (b. 1956) (Walker Books, 2007)
Young adult dystopia describing a school for girls, the City Community Faith School for Retraining, Opportunity and Hope, which is actually a sweat shop forcing a thousand girls to do the city's laundry.
Keywords: English author; Male author

["Future Vision"] - Nick Spencer; Robert White (Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living, 2007)
A brief positive "vision" of what the changes in daily life might be like as sustainable living becomes the norm. Reformist rather than radical.
Keywords: English author; Male author

HARM - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Del Rey, 2007)
Two related dystopias, one created by the war on terrorism and the other created on a distant planet by people with a similar mindset. HARM refers to the Hostile Activities Research Ministry.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Kill or Cure - Rebecca Levene (Abaddon Books, 2007)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of various plagues that cause insanity and the search for a cure. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Np: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 263-437.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Land of the Headless: A Simple Story - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2007)
Dystopia of religious fundamentalism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Last Light - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) (Orion, 2007)
The dystopia brought about by halting global oil production followed by economic and social collapse. See also 2010 Scarrow.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lost Art - Simon Morden (David Fickling Books, 2007)
Young adult post-catastrophe religious dystopia. The central focus of the novel is on a young man who is a member of a religious order that guards the scientific knowledge of the past to keep it from being misused again.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Principle" - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Religious satire. The original golden plates of the Book of Mormon are rediscovered, and it turns out that they require polygamous, gay marriage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Prison - Paul Western (b. 1963) ([Ptd. by Lightning Source UK Ltd.], 2007)
Dystopia of a huge prison that describes each of its divisions and follows one individual through them.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Recoper: Breathing life into the revolution" - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) (Nature, 2007)
The setting of the story is one in which all unhealthy foods have been outlawed; everyone works for the state and can be hired out to private businesses; and the government spies on everyone.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Red Men - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (Snowbooks, 2007)
Dystopia. Drugs for every situation. The Red Men are personalities uploaded into simulacra that take on a life of their own. Redtown is a simulation of a British town to replace democracy, Parliament, and politics. It all goes badly. Connected with 2015 and 2016 De Abaitua.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Rocket Boy” - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Future Weapons of War, 2007)
The story starts in the dystopia of an Earth destroyed in war and under a dictatorship, but, given the conceit of the volume in which it first appeared, a boy is given an intelligent weapon and uses it to overthrow the dictatorship and become a new dictator.
Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 313-29 with an author’s note on 432.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Sea Change" - Una McCormack (b. 1972) (Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 2007)
Authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between rich and poor. Gays and lesbians have lost rights previously gained. Machine-teaching.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Stone Gods - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) (Hamish Hamilton, 2007)
Dystopia. A future where the world is divided among three authoritarian regimes, the Central Power, which is corporate controlled; the Easter Caliphate, which is Islamist; and the SinoMosco Pact. World has been environmentally damaged. Another war breaks out, and there is another dystopia following it.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Succession: A Radical Solution" - Steve Longworth (Nature, 2007)
Doctors retrain to kill people to solve the population problem created by better sanitation and health care.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Un Lun Dun - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Ballantine Books, 2007)
Young adult novel set in London and Un Lun Dun (Un-London). The latter is being attacked by the Smog and its supporters in both cities but is defeated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The African Origins of UFOs - Anthony Joseph (Salt Publishing, 2006)
In the novel slaves travel to a future eutopian pre-colonial Africa. The novel, organized around twenty-four chapters, reflects Timothy Leary's (1920-96) twenty-four stages of the evolution of human consciousness modified by Ornette Coleman's (b. 1930) sense of musical progression. Much use of dialect.
Parts were originally published as “The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel).” Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 312-18; and as “Hummingbird”, “The ‛doption”, “On Kunu Morn”, and “She Swan in Heaven.” Hambone, no. 18 (2006): 149-55.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Trinidadian author

The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (Viking, 2006)
An odd future with both eutopian and dystopian elements based on the notebooks of a twentieth century London taxi driver.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Check Elastic Before Jumping: Paralysis to senses, temporarily" - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) (Nature, 2006)
A future of corporate dominance mostly presented positively.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 30-32.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Conflagration - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Tor, 2006)
Sequel to 2004 Farren with the fantasy elements and the conflict emphasized.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Culled - Simon Spurrier (b. 1981) (Abaddon Books, 2006)
Dystopia. The first volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. This volume describes the immediate effects of a plague that kills most of the world's population. This is a complex series with multiple authors who take the series in different directions from this origin. For other volumes, see 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 5-261.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Cut" - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) (The Cut and Product, 2006)
The play concerns a surgery, known as “the cut,” that is never defined that is used on dissidents, sick people, and those who choose to have it. It begins in the office of a practitioner who is conflicted about the practice trying to talk a healthy man out of having the surgery. In the second part, the practitioner, who has never told his wife what he does, having a confrontation with her. In the third part, a new government has outlawed “the cut” and the practitioner is in jail. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, February 23, 2006.
Rpt. in his Plays: 2. (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 179-231.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dark Rain - Conor Corderoy (b. 1957) (Macmillan New Writing, 2006)
Future ecological dystopia . The rich (Domers), the middle (Dry), and the poor (Wets) are divided by their ability to live out of constant rain. The Domers are using the possibility of an alien invasion as a means of maintaining the current hierarchy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fat - Rob Grant (Gollancz, 2006)
Dystopia in which being fat is made illegal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Fledging of Az Gabrielson. The Clouded World: Book I - [James Matthew Herbert] [Lovegrove] [(b. 1965)] (Gollancz, 2006)
Describes two groups on a planet, the sky dwellers, who live in immensely tall cities and have developed wings, and those who live on the ground. The first group is described in eutopian terms and the second in dystopian terms. The book ends with the beginnings of a reconciliation, but Pirates of the Relentless Desert has the Groundlings attacked by the Airborn. The last two volumes continue the various stage of conflict and reconciliation.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Genetopia - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2006)
The novel is set in a future where all plants and animals have been engineered to fulfill some purpose, and some characteristics people can be infected with new genes. Those who consider themselves True humans determine which of their offspring are Lost; i.e. not human, and must be exposed in the Wildlands or sold. The novel concerns a girl who is sold by her father, and her brother searches for her and what they discover. The novel ends with the brother, who has wandered for years in the Wildlands, learning about the many communities that have grown up, finding his sister, living in a community that has become her home.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Glasshouse - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Ace Books, 2006)
Dystopia. A future experimental polity ruled by the experimenters as one aspect of a novel about conflict in a high-tech future.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Hav comprising Last Letters from Hav and Hav of the Myrmidons - Jan Morris (1926-2020) (Faber and Faber, 2006)
Reprints 1985 Morris (1-187) and adds "Hav of the Myrmidons: Six Days in 2005" (189-297) plus a "Preface" (vii-viii) and an "Epilogue" (299-301). In the added material, the country of 1985 Morris has experienced an overthrow of its institutions, which have generally been replaced by more dystopian ones. The author says that this is designed to reflect September 11, 2001.
Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, [2011] with an "Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin (vii-xi).
Keywords: English author; Transgender author; Welsh author

"Here Comes the Flood" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia of official state terrorism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

High John the Conqueror - Jim Younger (Jonathan Cape, 2006)
A complex dystopia in which the British monarchy is now Roman Catholic, the U.S. has petitioned the monarch to become its leader, a coup d'état in Britain has overthrown the "Christian Coalition Socialists", and there is an underground group of "paramilitary sadomasochist flagellants".
Keywords: English author; Male author

"High Windows" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Strange Horizons, 2006)
Multiple dystopias. A form of slavery is permitted, and sexual slavery is described.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

"Just Do It!" - Heather Lindsley (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia in which companies hire snipers to shoot a chemical into people that produces an insatiable desire for their product.
Rpt. in Year’s Best SF 12. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2007), 74-88; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 357-67; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 357-67.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Kingdom Come - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Fourth Estate, 2006)
Contemporary dystopia of consumerism focused on a large mall in the suburbs and the violence and racism that surrounds it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Messiah of Morris Avenue - Tony Hendra (b. 1941) (Henry Holt, 2006)
Near future U.S. as a religious dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016" - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia of complete surveillance.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Peace Criminal" - Vaughan Stanger (b. 1959) (Postscripts, 2006)
Alternative history dystopia in which a Nazi regime had been established in Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Poundbury 2030" - Dennis Hardy (b. 1941) (Poundbury: The Town that Charles Built, 2006)
A brief, eutopian description of the town of Poundbury, England twenty-five years in the future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Printcrime" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Nature, 2006)
Dystopia in which the use of a 3-D printer is a crime.
Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2, which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Queen Camilla - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) (Michael Joseph, 2006)
Satire set in a dystopian England that is an extremely poor part of the United States and crime is so bad that the elderly feared to leave their homes after dark and children were not allowed to play outside at any time. To save money on pensions, the old were encouraged to commit suicide. Some council estates had been converted to Exclusion Zones were various misfits from criminals to the morbidly obese were sent, could not leave, and had to wear ankle braces. The Royal Family were among those sent to an Exclusion Zone, and much of the novel is about the relations among the various members. At the end of the novel, the Queen has abdicated, the monarchy has been restored, although must earn its keep, and Charles and Camilla’s son born when they were sixteen and eighteen has been relegated to a mental hospital in France.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Racists - Kunal Basu (b. 1956) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006)
Dystopian experiment in which a black and a white child are raised on a barren island cared for only by a mute nurse.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

Rainbow Bridge - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2006)
Sequel to 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005 Jones. Fantasy, dystopia, and a struggle to create a eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

She's Alone - Richard Bruce Clay (Poetry Monthly Press, 2006)
Dystopia. All women but one have been exterminated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Surveillance - Jonathan Raban (b. 1942) (Picador, 2006)
Dystopia focusing on the war on terrorism and the potential for a surveillance society.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Whitby Jets" - Jacey Bedford (Fabulous Whitby, 2006)
Dystopia. The setting for the story is a theocracy trying to eliminate British folk culture.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Band of Gypsys - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2005)
Sequel to 2001, 2002, and 2003 Jones. This volume is concerned with the establishment of a dystopia in England with slave labor camps.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Bloodsong# - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) (Andersen Press, 2005)
Related to 1999 Burgess. This novel, based very loosely on the Norse Volsunga Saga, is set in a future politically corrupt Britain that is in decline.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Blown Away - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
Dystopia brought about in northern and western Europe by global warming. Some hope held out of the human spirit overcoming conditions. Related to 2004 Cave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

British Front - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Barrington Stoke, 2005)
Young Adult dystopia. No blacks or Asians left in 2055 Britain. Military rule.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Capacity - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) (Tor, 2005)
Flawed utopia. Digital age where artificial intelligences are supposed to have solved the world's problems. See his Recursion. London: Tor, 2004 for background. See also 2007 Ballantyne.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"Deep Blue Sea" - Peter Hobbs (Picador New Writing, 2005)
Environmental dystopia.
Rpt. in his I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (London: Faber & Faber, 2006), 7-23.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Diary of Pelly D - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) (Hodder Children's Books, 2005)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in the form of a girl’s diary found by a young man on a work gang salvaging material from ruins. One’s position in society is supposed to be based on genetic differences. See also 2007 Adlington. Female author.
U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Divided Kingdom - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) (Bloomsbury, 2005)
Dystopia. The U.K. is divided into four districts reflecting personality types based on the idea of dominant humours.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Extinction - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) (Macmillan, 2005)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (PS Publishing, 2005)
Eutopia and dystopia. Jules Verne (1828-1905) travels into both the past and the future. In the future, he first visits an authoritarian dystopia that has so weakened the sun as to bring about a new ice age. Much further into the future, he visits a eutopia of peace and plenty with the sun restored with the assistance of visiting aliens.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

High in the Clouds - [James] Paul McCartney (b. 1942); Geoff Dunbar; Philip Ardagh (Faber and Faber, 2005)
Children's eutopia depicting Animalia, a tropical island where all animals live happily together. Contrasted with the dangers of Megatropolis.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Hunted - Alex Shearer (b. 1949) (Macmillan's Children Books, 2005)
Dystopia in which most people look youthful and live long lives and few children are born. The few children are consider prize possessions and are bought and sold or stolen.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"i, robot" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Infinite Matrix, 2005)
Two societies are described, both technologically advanced. The first is a flawed utopia in that the technology is in the service of Social Harmony and is used as much for control as for improving life. The second, less fully described, is a eutopia based on nanotechnology.
Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007, 101-57 which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 101-57.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Invisible Power. A Philosophical Adventure Story - Philip Allott (Xlibris, 2005)
The novel is designed to show how it might be possible to bring about a eutopia. A sequel is Invisible Power 2. A Metaphysical Adventure Story. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2008. A third volume, Invisible Power 3. A Political Adventure Story, was announced but not published. Nonfiction explanations of the same ideas can be found in his Eunomia: New Order for a New World. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; and Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. Cheltenham, Eng./Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Jack" - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Looking for Jake: Stories, 2005)
Dystopia set in the same city as 2000, 2002, and 2004 Miéville. This is the story of a "Robin Hood" figure in the city.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Janus Effect - Alan Cash (Y Lolfa Cyf, 2005)
Authoritarian eugenic dystopia set in 2040.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mercury Fur - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) (Methuen Drama, 2005)
Dystopian play set in future largely destroyed London, where many people are addicted to a drug that causes memory loss. The play focuses on a group of boys in the East End who earn money selling the drug and putting on parties in which wealthy people pay to live out their fantasies. In the part that is the focus of the play, that is the murder of a child.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Piccadilly Circus" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2005)
Dystopia of a future ruined, depopulated London.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006), 244-57.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Signal Red - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) (Penguin Books, 2005)
Dystopia set in a future India that is one of the most advanced countries scientifically. The government controls all science and scientists, who live in compounds which neither they or their families can leave.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Northern Ireland author

The Weapon - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2005)
Primarily a war and adventure story, but the setting is a future dystopia of a Fascist earth.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Affinity Trap - Martin Sketchley (b. 1967) (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia, but the emphasis is on adventure. Collapsed social order and environmental degradation has forced people to live inside large towers. Military dictatorship.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Basilisk - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) (Bloomsbury, 2004)
The novel presents two dystopian societies and the successful result of a combined revolt. Marketed in the U.S. as a Young Adult title.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Belonging - Jeannie Baker (b. 1950) (Walker Books, 2004)
Children's wordless picture book depicting community as eutopia.
U.S. ed as Home. [New York]: Greenwillow Books, 2004.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

The Church Invisible: A Journey into the Future of the UK Church - Nick Page (b. 1961) (Zondervan, 2004)
Dystopia. In fifty years, the church has disappeared in the U.K.
Part originally published as "Invisible Church." Christianity and Renewal (July - May 2002): 40-43; 30-32; 28-30; 28-30; 36-38; 46-48; 46-48; 48-49, 50; 42-43; 36-38; 22-23, 25.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cloud Atlas - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) (Sceptre, 2004)
A large novel with multiple story lines ranging from the past to the future, including a future authoritarian dystopia, "An Orison of Sonmi~451" (185-245). Sonmi~451 is the name of a "fabricant" or clone created to work in a fast food restaurant. The clones are drugged to sleep and wake on schedule and to keep their intelligence low and are indoctrinated into complete obedience. Sonmi~451 becomes part of a botched experiment on raising the intelligence of fabricants and experiences the world outside the restaurant. The names and the language used suggests that this part of the novel is set in a future North Korea. Part of the novel is set in the Chatham Islands of New Zealand.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"The Colonizing of Tharle" - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia in which an invading force tries and fails to find a government with which to negotiate. The invasion is foiled through simple non-cooperation.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 485-509.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

The Flood - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) (Saqi, 2004)
Apocalyptic novel with dystopian elements and a brief heaven at the end.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Footvote" - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Postscripts, 2004)
Eutopia of a planet named New Suffolk that can be reached through a wormhole. New Suffolk is a purified, and white only, U.K., and some of its rules are spelled out throughout the story.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 552-66.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Freehold - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2004)
Dystopia and eutopia describing an authoritarian government and a libertarian enclave primarily concerned with conflict. First volume in a long series with a sub-series. Other volumes include The Weapon. New York: Baen, 2005; Contact with Chaos. New York: Baen, 2009; Rogue. New York: Baen, 2011; and Angeleyes. New York: Baen, 2016. The Ripple Creek subseries includes Better to Forgiveness. New York: Baen, 2007; Do Unto Others. New York: Baen, 2010; and When Diplomacy Fails. New York: Baen, 2012. There are also three anthologies edited by Williamson with contributions by him and others Forged in Blood. New York: Baen, 2017  Freehold Resistance. New York: Baen, 2019; and Freehold Defiance. New York: Baen, 2019.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Iron Council - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Ballantine Books, 2004)
Set in New Crobuzon, the city that plays a role in both 2000 and 2002 Miéville but set earlier than in those novels. Iron Council is a train that is a socialist society constantly moving, picking up the track behind it and laying it in front to go wherever the inhabitants choose. The leaders of New Crobuzon are set on destroying it, and various threads of the novel following characters involved on both sides. See also 2005 Miéville.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Kindling - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Tor, 2004)
The novel is set in a fragmented world with an authoritarian religious dystopia in conflict with the remaining areas of freedom. Much fantasy. English author best-known as a musician.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last Love Story: A fairytale of the day after tomorrow - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) (Picador, 2004)
City divided between a brutal, religious dystopia and a wealthy, free eutopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the desire and attempt to escape from one to the other. A note by the author (256) refers to the divisions of Germany and Korea and the beginnings of the wall between Israel and Palestine.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Malachi - Bestwick, Simon (A Hazy Shade of Winter, 2004)
Dystopia of near future racist Britain with National Socialists killing Jews and anyone racially mixing.
Rpt. in Never Again. Ed. Allyson Bird and Joel Lane ([Wyke, Eng.]: Gray Friar Press, 2010), 272-81.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Market Forces - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2004)
Future dystopia where companies hire out to kill.
U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 441 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Midwinter - Zinnie Harris (Faber and Faber, 2004)
Although the first performed and published, the play is the middle volume of a trilogy of plays and is the most explicitly dystopian of them. First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, October 5, 2004. It is set during a long, devastating war where starvation is the norm survival the principal value. The first of the plays within the chronology is Solstice. London: Faber and Faber, 2005, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, March 30, 2008. It depicts conflicts within an intergenerational family as they are forced to settle in an authoritarian state. The last of the plays within that chronology is Fall. London: Faber and Faber, 2008, first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, July 24, 2008. It depicts the aftermath of the war and depicts a war crimes trial.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

"Nectar" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
Eutopia through advanced biotechnology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution - Keith Sutherland (Imprint Academic, 2004)
Nonfiction proposal for government without political parties, which will produce a eutopia. Somewhat revised as A People's Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic. Bound back to back with Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips. A Citizen Legislature. O
Somewhat revised as A People’s Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 1985.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Service and Appeals Court - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971); Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (The Coppervale Company, 2004)
Satire. Complex depiction of a future world and the thousands of inhabited areas in space around it. Many different cultures on Earth. Focus on technology.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

Sancho's Golden Age - Robin [John] Chapman (b. 1933) (Aris & Phillips, 2004)
Satire in which the plan of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to re-establish the Age of Gold is attempted by Sancho. The middle volume of a trilogy between the Duchess’s Diary. London : Boudicca Books of Battersea, 1980; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1985; and Oxford, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region>: Aris & Phillips, and Pasamonte’s Life. Oxford, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region>: Aris & Phillips, 2008. Neither of the other volumes are utopian.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sharp North - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) (Simon and Schuster, 2004)
Dystopia brought about by global warming, genetic manipulation, and cloning. Some hope held out for the human spirit overcoming conditions. See also 2005 Cave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Siberia - [Gwyneth Ann] [Jones] (b. 1952) (Orion Children's Books, 2004)
Young adult authoritarian and environmental dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Society of Others - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) (Doubleday, 2004)
The background to part of the novel is a dystopia set in an exaggerated contemporary East European country.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"'Tis the Season" - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Socialist Review, 2004)
Dystopia in which Christmas has been sold to companies.
Rpt. in his Looking for Jake: Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 2005), 183-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Clone Rangers - Laybourn, Emma (Anderson Press, 2003)
Authoritarian dystopia with cloned animals. Children's book.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Coalescent: Destiny's Children Book One - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) (Gollancz, 2003)
The first volume in a series that includes an isolated religious sect that has survived from Roman times and created a eutopian community. See also Exultant. Destiny’s Children 2. <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: Ballantine Books, 2004; Transcendent: Destiny’s Children 3. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005 which has two parallel stories, one of an earth deeply affected by global warming and another set in the far future with a young woman being prepared to join the “Transcendence”, the next step beyond the limits of humanity (during which she visits a Coalescent planet, which is reminiscent of Wells’s 1901 First Men in the Moon), but the Transcendence is rejected and dies; and Resplendent: Destiny's Children: Book 4. <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>: Gollancz, 2006, which is a linked set of stories illustrating aspects of the series. The stories, all revised, are: “Cadre Siblings.” Interzone, no. 153 (March 2000): 6-18. Resplendent (5-19; Paper ed. 5-20), which gives a bit of the dystopia created on Earth by an alien invasion; “Conurbation 2473.” Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: Roc, 2003), 58-69. Resplendent (20-31; Paper ed. 21-33) which begins with more detail of the dystopia but shifts immediately to the dystopias created by humans in the overthrow of that dystopia and the imposition of their own, which is overthrown and another human dystopia created, and so on; Reality Dust. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Leeds</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region></st1:place>: PS Publishing, 2000. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2002 bound with Paul McAuley, Making History. The items are bound back-to-back and separately paged. Resplendent (32-80; Paper ed. 34-86), which continues the conflict among humans and the dystopia they have created; “All in a Blaze.” Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Ed. Janis Ian and Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: DAW Books, 2003), 292-301. Resplendent (81-90; Paper ed. 87-97), in which humans prepare to travel outside the solar system; “Silver Ghost.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24.9 (296) (September 2000): 84-95. Resplendent (93-106; Paper ed. 101-15) on alien contact; “The Cold Sink.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.8 (307) (August 2001): 36-45. Resplendent (107-17; Paper ed. 116-27) on war; “On the Orion Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24. 10 & 11 (297 & 298) (October/November 2000): 62-86. Resplendent (118-51; Paper ed. 128-63) on war; “Ghost Wars.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 30.1 (360) (January 2006): 98-126. Resplendent (152-89; Paper ed. 164-204) on war; “The Ghost Pit.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 62-73. Resplendent (190-204; Paper ed. 205-20) on war; “Lakes of Light.” Constellations: The Best of New British SF. Ed. Peter Crowther (<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: DAW Books, 2005), 57-77. Resplendent (207-23; Paper ed. 223-41) on the discovery of a sun inhabited by posthumans who have a simple agricultural society, which is implied to be eutopian but with no real detail; “Breeding Ground.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.2 (325) (February 2003): 10-27. Resplendent (224-47; Paper ed. 242-67) on war; “The Dreaming Mould.” Interzone, no. 179 (May 2002): 16-20. Resplendent (248-60; Paper ed. 268-81) on war; “The Great Game.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.3 (326) (March 2003): 58-71. Resplendent (261-79; Paper ed. 282-301) on war; “The Chop Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.12 (335) (December 2003): 70-91. Resplendent (283-312; Paper ed. 305-36) on war; “In the Un-Black.” Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Al Sarrantonio (New York: ROC, 2001), 201-17. Resplendent (313-30; Paper ed. 337-56), which is a dystopia of the Coalescent style; Riding the Rock. Harrogate, England: PS Publishing, 2002. Resplendent (331-74; Paper ed. 357-404) on war; Mayflower II. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Harrogate</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region></st1:place>: PS Publishing, 2004. Resplendent (377-438); Paper ed. 407-73); rpt. in The Year’s Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005), 405-49 with an editor’s introduction on 404, which describes a multi-generation starship evolving a number of societies over thousands of years, from the initially eutopian gradually in a more and more dystopian direction; “Between Worlds.” Between Worlds. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Science Fiction Book Club, 2004), 1-59. Resplendent (439-94; Paper ed. 474-533) about post-humans; and “The Siege of Earth.” Previously unpublished. Resplendent (497-546; Paper ed. 537-90) about post-humans.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2003)
Humorous eutopia and dystopia where people live in Disney World, which has been maintained as it was but is now part of a world without death or scarcity. But other people take it over and use its displays, enhanced and changed, to control people.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Hard Choices - Carole Hayman (b. 1945) (Aurora Metro Press, 2003)
Dystopian near future which functions as an attack on New Labour.
In 2002 it was posted on the web at http://www.hardchoices.co.uk claiming that it could not find a publisher due to political pressure.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Holy Machine - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Cosmos Press, 2003)
Technological dystopia set in a future of religious conflict, both between religions and between the religious, some of whom established a fundamentalist Christian theocracy in the U.S., and the non-religious. There is also a robot messiah which is worshipped.
Rpt. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Incompetence: A Novel of the Far Too Near Future - Rob Grant (Gollancz, 2003)
Dystopia of a future where incompetence is a protected category along with gender, race, etc.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Midnight Lamp - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2003)
Sequel to 2001 and 2002 Jones. In this volume, the Green Nazi's have been defeated and the action moves to Mexico and North America. Mostly fantasy.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Milan - Nick Sturley (b. 1967) (Trafford, 2003)
In 2030, with signing a recognized language, a deaf teacher of history in the London Model Deaf School, is teaching his last class before retirement. In it he tells a story about the struggle against oralism, an attempt to impose oralism, the requirement that the deaf speak and cannot sign. In the novel, the story is fantasy and science fiction, but it was inspired by the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf held in Milan in 1880 that concluded that speech rather than signing was the best approach to deaf education. The delegates from Great Britain and the United States voted against the resolutions. There was only one deaf delegate to the conference. Signing was banned in many schools for the deaf and deaf teachers lost their jobs. Some schools chose to keep signing, and, of course, many deaf students continued to sign among themselves. The novel ends with the suggest that attempts to impose oralism will continue. There is a “Visual Glossary” illus. Adam Hoy on 212-33 of “Key Characters” (214-21) and Architectural Features (223-33).
Keywords: Deaf author; English author; US author

"Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2003)
Satire but includes a future in which houses are grown from seed. The story is set in Canada and the author is Canadian.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"The Rule of Terror" - Dominic Green (b. 1967) (Interzone, 2003)
Future dystopia of violence, mass suicide, environmental degradation, and state terror.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Singularity Sky - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Ace Books, 2003)
Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is Iron Sunrise. New York: Ace Books, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Untied Kingdom - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2003)
A disintegrating future U.K. with small communities using ancient traditions to try to maintain cohesion and stability with, at the end after many problems, the central community begins to revive.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Big Brother Iron" - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Toast and other rusted futures, 2002)
Sequel to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which modern technology is used to successfully revolt.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Castles Made of Sand - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2002)
Sequel to 2001 Jones. Much fantasy, but this volume follows the disintegration of the U.K. Environmental activists, labeled Green Nazis, are fighting to correct major damage. See also 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2014 Jones.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Dark Ararat - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 2002)
A continuation of his future history series; see 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, The Omega Expedition. This volume is about the settlement of a colony planet.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Green Boy - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2002)
Young adult novel with children shifting between two worlds, the present and a polluted, overpopulated dystopia. Environmental concerns.
UK ed. London: Bodley Head, 2002.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Omega Expedition - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 2002)
Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. See 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, Dark Ararat. This volume is a sequel to 2000 Stableford and is about the life of the man who developed the technology that made immensely long life possible.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Scar - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Macmillan, 2002)
Set in the same world as 2000 Miéville. In this novel, people fleeing New Crobuzon are captured by the piates of the floating dystopian city of Armada, which is made up of thousands of ships, and is planning to invade New Crobuzon. The Scar is a place where reality breaks down. See also 2004 and 2005 Miéville.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Scheme for Full Employment - Magnus Mills (b. 1954) (Flamingo, 2002)
Satire on a full employment scheme which collapsed due to internal conflict and because too many, from workers through supervisors, tried to manipulate it for their own benefit.
U.K. ed. London: Flamingo, 2003. Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2004. 256 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Orbit, 2002)
Satire on the rich and powerful in a future European Union.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Swiftly" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (SciFiction, 2002)
Dystopia in which the Lilliputians from Swift's Gulliver's Travels are slaves in a late nineteenth-century Britain, the Brobdingnagians have been hunted, and the Houyhnhnms are for sale. A French invasion led by the Brobdingnagians and with inventions from Laputa ends the system. A related story with the Lilliputians as slaves is his "Eleanor", which was first published in Swiftly (167-247).
Rpt. in his Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2004), 1-34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bold As Love. A Near Future Fantasy - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2001)
The novel takes place against the backdrop of the United Kingdom dissolving back into its constituent units. Northern Ireland is already part of a Federated Ireland. Elements of fantasy. Sequels are Castles Made of Sand (2002), Midnight Lamp (2003), Band of Gypsys (2005), Rainbow Bridge (2006), and The Grasshoppers's Child (2014). A story with the same characters is her “Big Cat.” Interzone, no. 209 (April 2007): 32-40. Rpt. in her Big Cat & Other Stories 2007 - 2019 (Alconbury, Weston, Eng.: Newcon Press, 2019), 7-32.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Emergence - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) (Macmillan, 2001)
Corporate thriller set in the near future, which has dystopian elements.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Eyre Affair. A Novel - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001)
The first volume of the alternative history Thursday Next series that has both utopian and dystopia elements throughout the series, which currently includes six additional books. In the world in which Thursday Next, the female protagonist, lives England is a republic, Wales is the independent “Socialist Republic of Wales,” and genetic engineering has brought back extinct species, such as the dodo a Neanderthals. Subsequent volumes are Lost in a Good Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002; US. ed. New York Viking, 2003; The Well of Lost Plots. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004; and Something Rotten. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004. Second series: First Among Sequels. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007; US. ed. New York Viking, 2007; One of Our Thursdays Is Missing. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011; US. ed. New York Viking, 2011; and The Woman Who Died a Lot. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012; US. ed. New York Viking, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Frankenberg Process" - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Interzone, 2001)
Authoritarian dystopia. Complete control of history with all record of those who get on the wrong side of the authorities deleted. The story stresses the betrayal of friends by those committed to the system.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Gray's Anatomy - Rachel Armstrong (Serpent's Tail, 2001)
The novel satirically explores various issues (sex and gender, the media, power, etc.) through contact among alien societies and with humans. Although one alien society (the telepathic Grays) is eutopian initially, it is negatively affected by the alien contact.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Mappa Mundi - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) (Macmillan, 2001)
Mostly a science fiction adventure novel/thriller, but the invention central to the action leads to a eutopia/dystopia in which people can program their own perceptions and modify themselves and their relations with "reality", which can be dystopian. A related story is "The Girl Hero's Mirror Says He's Not the One." Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007), 41-54. PSt
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Marcher" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2001)
A story in which there are various time lines that people can switch through. The one in which the story is set has interned all its welfare cases in large, isolated camps. A non-utopian sequel is "Watching the Sea." Interzone, no. 173 (November 2001): 40-45.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic Press, 2001)
Dystopia. First volume of four young adult novels set in a future of “urban Darwinism” in which roving cities compete for survival and dominance. Sequels are Predator’s Gold. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2003. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003; Infernal Devices. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2005. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2005; and A Darkling Plain. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2006. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2006. A collection of three related stories is Reeve, Night Flights. Illus. Ian McCue. Nw York: Scholastic, 2018. For an illustrated guide to the four novels, see Reeve and Jeremy Levett, The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines. Illus. London: Scholastic UK, 2018. See 2009 Reeve, Fever Crumb for the first volume of a series that is a prequel to this series. A film directed by Christian Rivers with a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson released in December 2018.
U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Noughts and Crosses - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) (Doubleday, 2001)
Noughts, who are considered inferior and suppressed. The novel concerns a young couple who fall in love across this divide. Sequels include An Eye for an Eye. London: Corgi Books, 2003, which is a short piece originally published for World Book Day 2003 set in a time between her 2001 Noughts & Crosses and 2004 Knife Edge.  Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 447-78; Knife Edge. London: Doubleday,2004. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007; and Checkmate. London: Doubleday, 2005.
Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 7-443.
Keywords: English author

Park Polar - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (PS Publishing, 2001)
Ecological and corporate dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Red Heart - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) (Viking, 2001)
Children’s dystopia set in the aftermath of global warming.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; South African author

Terra Farma - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) (Viking Australia, 2001)
Sequel to the 2001 rev. ed. of her 1992 Galax-Arena in which some children have escaped from Galax-Arena. In trying to help other children, they get captured and taken to Terra-Farma, a cloning facility, which the ultimately managed to destroy. A third volume, Universercus, was planned but does not appear to have been published.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Ultraviolet - Lesley Howarth (b. 1952) (Puffin Books, 2001)
Young adult dystopia of a society living underground as a result of becoming too hot and most people spending most of their time in virtual reality. One girl undertakes a quest to go outside.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Whole Wide World - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (HarperCollins, 2001)
A mystery novel with a dystopian future of constant surveillance on both the streets and the internet as the background.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2002.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Appendix. Edilia, or 'Make of it what you will'" - David [W.] Harvey (b. 1933) (Spaces of Hope, 2000)
Appendix to his book on the power of the utopian imagination in which he sketches out his own utopian vision. The collapse of the world economy is followed by a period of harsh repression by the military and a revolution. After the revolution a eutopian society is created centered on a federal system that begins at the "hearth" or a small collective living arrangement. Environmentally conscious but using new technologies where possible. For a design research project inspired by Edilia, see Ifea Troiani, “Eco-topia: ‘Living with Nature’ in Edilia, Iceland.” Illus. Journal of Architectural Education 67.1 (2013): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2013.767129.
U.S. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 257-81.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"Bad Dream" - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Spectrum SF, 2000)
Dystopia of the European Union in twenty years still dealing with British nationalism, with Britain fighting for and winning independence.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Better Job" - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) (The Coming Day and Other Stories, 2000)
Eutopia. A new Garden City, much more radical and egalitarian than the previous ones, is established in defiance of the government of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bikini Planet - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) (Orbit, 2000)
Satire. Mostly dystopian with the standard naive visitor from our day to the future, but there are some eutopian possibilities suggested. A sequel is Space Wasters. London: Orbit, 2001. 339 pp., and it begins in what appears to be a paradise in which the protagonist makes the mistake of finding it boring and hopes something happens. The rest is mostly intrigue and adventure.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Coming Day" - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) (The Coming Day and Other Stories, 2000)
A dystopia presented through a number of episodes that illustrate corporate and political corruption.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cyberskin - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) (Hybrid Publishers, 2000)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

"The Eye of the Heart" - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction, 2000)
Dystopia. All married women are blinded after the honeymoon so that they will only remember their husbands as loving men.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Far Away - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) (Nick Hern Books in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 2000)
Brief ecological dystopia in which everything in the entire world, including animals and plants, is at war with each other.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Floodland - Marcus Sedgwick (b. 1968) (Dolphin, 2000)
Children's book about the degradation of the environment that leads to widespread flooding. A girl trying to find her parents comes across a 1954 Golding Lord of the Flies type dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Dell Yearling, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Foreigners - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Victor Gollancz, 2000)
A murder mystery that takes place in a deeply flawed utopia in which aliens have provided Earth with technology that replaces its polluting power sources, but the aliens act like Earth’s sex tourists (the author’s comparison) exploiting human singers for their own pleasure.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fountains of Youth - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 2000)
A continuation of his future history series; see 1998, 1999 and 2002 Stableford (2). This volume describes the life of a man who is five hundred years old, could live much longer, and is an historian of that generally obsolete phenomenon called death.
Part originally published as "Mortimer Gray's History of Death." Asimov's Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 254-305.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hex: Ghosts - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) (Macmillan Children's Books, 2000, 2000)
Sequel to 1998 and 1999 Lassiter. In this volume, those carrying the gene giving direct access to computers share it with others and the ending suggests that a eutopia will develop.
Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 449-669.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Junk DNA - Tania Glyde (Codex, 2000)
Dystopia produced by genetic engineering.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author

"Mind's Eye" - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966); Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Spectrum SF, 2000)
Dystopia set in a city built so that the poor live at the bottom and the rich and powerful live at the top. The story is about a young girl leaving the bottom and her experiences at the top.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

The New City. A Novel - Stephen Amidon (b. 1959) (Doubleday, 2000)
An ideal suburban community is created that is specifically designed for racial harmony, but over time the usual personality conflicts and differing needs and desires reveals it to be a better society albeit a flawed utopia. Set in 1973 and based on Columbia, MD, where the author once lived.
Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable - Jan Morris (1926-2020) (Gomer Press, 2000)
Satire. The creation of a truly independent Wales in an alternative history of World War II, which Germany won. The supposed puppet leader chosen by the Germans works to get the Americans and others, who had not fought in the war, to attack and defeat Germany.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author

Paradox - John Meaney (b. 1957) (Bantam Press, 2000)
Violent dystopia. Sequels are Context: Book Two of the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2002; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2005; and Resolution: Book Three in the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2005; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2006.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Perdido Street Station - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Macmillan, 2000)
Dystopian set in the polluted, rundown city of New Crobuzon where humans and other beings live under a vicious regime. Fantasy with surrealistic elements. See also 2002, 2004, and 2005 Miéville.
U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rat Squad - Nick Warburton (b. 1947) (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Children's flawed utopia. In Grace City everyone appears to be happy, safe, and free, but there is a deliberate policy to allow rats to kill people as a means of population control and creating a common enemy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Salt - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Golancz, 2000)
2000 Roberts, Adam [Charles] (b. 1965). Salt. London: Gollancz. PU  The novel beings on a spaceship on its way to establishing a colony. A difference in cultures or ideologies emerges and continues after the settle with one faction a military dictatorship and the other an anarchist society.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Super-Cannes - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Flamingo, 2000)
Corporate dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Picador, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Male author

'Tomorrow Town" - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) (Infinity Plus One, 2000)
Satire. Humor. A town designed to be the eutopian city of the future fails to work as intended as a result of relying too heavily on an advanced computer.
Rpt. in his The Man from the Diogenes Club (Austin, TX: MonkeyBrain Books, 2006), 59-82.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Wind Singer - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) (Mammoth, 2000)
First volume of a dystopian fantasy trilogy for young adults set in a city where advancement is based on success in examinations. A girl revolts against the system and, with her twin brother, sets out to find the Singers. In the second volume, Slaves of the Mastery. An Adventure. Book Two of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Mammoth. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2001, the twins, separated for the first time, separately fight against a new enemy. In the final volume, Firesong. An Adventure. Book Three of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Egmont. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002, after further problems, the secret of the Singers is found, the people are freed, and the twins find the eutopia, but the girl has to die.
Rpt. London: Egmont, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2099: A Eutopia - [Frank] Yorick Blumenfeld (1932) (Thames & Hudson, 1999)
Detailed eutopia which is partially a technological eutopia that both provides all and his quite controlling. The other aspect of the eutopia is on improved human relations in communities. Some history of the development to the eutopia is given.
Keywords: Dutch author; English author; Male author; US author

Architects of Emortality - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 1999)
Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. In this volume people generally live three hundred years and some live much longer. Includes characters named Holmes and Watson, who are policemen, and an amateur detective called Oscar Wilde.
Part originally published as "Les Fleurs du Mal." Asimov's Science Fiction 18.11 (221) (October 1994): 104-61. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 627-89.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bloodtide - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) (Andersen Press, 1999)
Near future dystopia set in a gang ruled London. See also 2005 Burgess.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Crime of the Twenty-First Century - Edward Bond (1934-2024) (Methuen Drama, 1999)
Dystopia set in a desolate landscape and ruins that appear to be the result of some sort of catastrophe.
Rpt. in his Plays: 7 (London: Methuen Drama, 2003), 217-74.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Crowlings - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (Collins, 1999)
Young adult novel in which a traditional society has to deal with people from space coming to their planet. The novel is concerned with the conflicts, both personal and societal, regarding the temptations of modern civilization.
Rpt. London: Collins, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

"Dawnings" - Zelda Curtis (1923-2012) (The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, 1999)
Egalitarian eutopia set in the U.K. in 2010 seen from the perspective of an old woman who had gone through the transition. The protagonist describes her flat in a collectively owned and managed building with a large communal space and a computer room. Adjacent buildings have different amenities such as a swimming pool, gym, art studio, music room, or meeting room. Clinic on site as is a nursery and crèche. Employment is arranged so that “no one has to work more than a three-day shift for a wage sufficient for their needs” (102). Equal pay for all. Cheap public transport.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Dream Archipelago - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Earthlight, 1999)
The Dream Archipelago is made of thousands of islands in an ocean belt around the middle of a planet with a large continent to the north, with many countries regularly at war, wars that are fought on the continent to the south, which is sparsely populated. Various islanders tell stories, some eutopian, some dystopian, and some with elements of fantasy about their islands. Two further volumes are set in the Dream Archipelago. The first is The Islanders. London: Victor Gollancz, 2011, which as short descriptions of many islands. An excerpt from “The Drone” (150-87) was published as “Fireflies.” Celebration: An anthology of short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: New Con Press, 2008), 207-14. “The Trace of Him” is rpt. from his 2009 The Dream Archipelago retitled “The Trace” (235-43). The second is The Gradual. London: Gollancz, 2016; rpt. London: Titan Books, 2016, in which a composer, who is from a fascist dystopia, twice tours the Dream Archipelago.
Includes the first publication of “The Equatorial Moment” (1-6); “The Negation” (7-48) originally published in Anticipations. Ed. Christopher Priest (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978), 55-86; “Whores” (49-) originally published in New Dimensions 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 27-40; “The Cremation” (71-114) originally in Andromeda 3. Ed. Paul Weston (London: Futura, 1978); “The Miraculous Cairn” (115-85) originally published in New Terrors #2. Ed. Ramsey Campbell (London: Pan, 1980), 11-55; and “The Watched” (186-264) originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 54.4 (323) (April 1978): 124-60. Book rpt. London: Gollancz, 2009 with “The Equatorial Moment” (1-5); “The Negation” (6-44); “Whores” (45-65); “The Miraculous Cairn” (74-140); “The Cremation” (141-81); and “The Watched” (182-255-) and two additional stories, “The Trace of Him” (66-73) originally published in Interzone, no. 214 (February 2008): 36-38; and “The Discharge” (256-301) which was originally published in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted February 13, 2002. No longer available online, but it was rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2002. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (Np: ibooks, 2003), 156-210.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hex: Shadows - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1999)
Sequel to 1998 Lassiter. In this volume, the gene giving direct access to computers has supposedly been eliminated and the people killed, but some of them survive. See also 2000 Lassiter.
Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 241-448.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Horse Latitudes - Jay Merrick (Fourth Estate, 1999)
Dystopia. Set in an area of a future England that is severely polluted and inhabited by the poor who have been pushed out of safe areas.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mara and Dann: An Adventure - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (HarperCollins, 1999)
The setting is a post-apocalyptic climate change dystopia in which war, a new ice age, and drought have left only the remains of cities and people are migrating north across Ifrik (Africa). Mara and Dann are brother and sister who have been abducted and the novel follows their experiences as the age into adulthood. A sequel is General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, the Griot and the Snow Dog. London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 282 pp. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 282 pp. In this novel, Mara dies in childbirth and Dann, is now a respected General who is expected to bring order to an ice covered Yerrup (Europe) inhabited by warring tribes of refugees. Both novels place considerable emphasis on personal relationships.
U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 407 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Monster Mission - Eva [Maria Charlotte Michelle] Ibbotson (1925-2010) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1999)
Young adult novel in which children are kidnapped to an isolated island to help care for unusual sea creatures.
Keywords: Austrian author; English author; Female author

"News from the 21st Century" - Vanessa Baird (b. 1955) (The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, 1999)
Short news reports from a future of much greater equality, particularly gender equality.
Keywords: Belgian author; English author; Female author

Phallicide - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) (Science Fiction Age, 1999)
Dystopia of a polygamous religious sect that does not practice birth control and mates girls at thirteen.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 383-410 with an editor’s note on 383.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Plato Papers - Peter [Warwick] Ackroyd (b. 1949) (Chatto & Windus, 1999)
Satire. Description of our time, known as Mouldwarp, from the point of view of a far future society (after A.D. 3700), that has a very imperfect understanding of the past. In that society, Plato, described as “the great orator of London,” presents wildly inaccurate public orations describing Mouldwarp but when he gains a more accurate picture of the past, he is persecuted.
U.S. ed. as The Plato Papers. A Prophesy [Prophecy on the dust jacket]. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tod in Biker City - Anthony [Richard] Masters (1940-2003) (Barrington Stoke, 1999)
Children's dystopia. An extended drought brings conflict over water supplies and a young boy has to deal with an outlaw gang of bikers.
Keywords: English author; Male author