"Die Umkehr" - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) (Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006, 2006)
Authoritarian religious dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Farthing - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2006)
Alternative history dystopia which is ruled by those who overthrew Winston Churchill and made peace with Adolf Hitler. See also 2007 and 2008 Walton.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

The Founding Five - Maud Muller (iUniverse, 2006)
A conservative Christian dystopia in the US in 2035 led by five men who established underground groups and front organizations after the defeat of Barry Goldwater (1909-98) in the 1964 presidential race.
Keywords: Female author

“Friends in Need” - Eliza Blair (Bug-Eyed Magazine, 2006)
The story, which is about a girl choosing a pet, is set in a technological eutopia where the animals can talk. The girl, who is in kindergarten speaks kidspiek, which is the language of much of the story.
Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin, 2007), 275-89.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Homecoming At the Borderlands Cafe" - Carole McDonnell (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia in which the U.S. has divided into two countries, the liberal East and the conservative Christian West. Both are presented as intolerant of difference.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Hopkin's Well" - Adrienne Ray (Infinite Space, Infinite God, 2006)
Dystopia in which all humans have been genetically modified to create equality. It was made a crime to protect genetically inferior people, but the Roman Catholic Church did so and moved to Mars. The story is about a failed attempt by the Earth government to destroy the Catholic settlement on Mars.
Keywords: Female author

I Have Waited, and You Have Come - McDonagh, Martine (Myriad Editions, 2006)
A psychological novel set in a global warming dystopia.
Rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Myriad Editions, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Instinct" - Joy Parks (The Future Is Queer, 2006)
Flawed eutopia. Problems with the eutopia of complete gender freedom and the ability to change gender at will. Domed communities in which freedom becomes restricting. Lesbian viewpoint. Isolated communities outside the domes established representing different periods of the past to allow people to choose their own eutopia. Lesbian viewpoint.
Keywords: Female author

"Juneteenth" - K. M. Praschak (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia about a U.S. divided between liberals, the Democratic States, and conservatives, the United States, with strong racial themes. Juneteenth is an unofficial holiday to commemorate the end of slavery, a holiday generally ignored by whites in the conservative United States, which is becoming a security state.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Killers" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Vicious depleted future dystopia.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 257-66.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Last Mortal Man. Book One of the Deathless - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) (Roc, 2006)
Dystopia. The Deathless are those who have been turned into nanobiology and are presumably immortal but the technology is being attacked.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Lettuce" - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, 2006)
Brief surrealistic dystopia.
Rpt. in Ducornet, The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 123-25.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) (Harcourt, 2006)
First volume of the Young Adult Last Survivor series. In this volume, a meteor hits the moon pushing it closer to the Earth and causing widespread destruction on the Earth. The novel follows a young woman's struggle to survive. The second volume, The Dead and the Gone. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, moves the action to New York City but continues the same themes. The third volume, This World We Live In. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 continues the same setting and themes as the first volume. In the fourth volume, The Shade of the Moon. Boston, MA: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, the protagonist is living in a safe community in Pennsylvania, but his ability to do so depends on his continued success at soccer and obeying the strict rules of the community. He violates the rules by falling in love.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Master Han's Daughter - Midori [pseud.] (Circlet Press, 2006)
Dystopia. A linked set of erotic stories set in a future dystopian Japan with a background of violence and poverty.
An earlier version of “Master Han’s Daughter” appeared in Asian Fever (2000) and “Aya’s Blade” as by Fetish Diva Midori appeared in Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica. Ed. Lori Selke (San Francisco, CA: Black Books, 2001), 185-91.
Keywords: Female author

The Meadowlark Sings - Helen Ruth Schwartz (Alice Street Editions, Harrington Park Press, 2006)
Eutopia and dystopia. In the near future, an earthquake separates part of California from the United States. This provides the location for a new independent gay and lesbian country, which is needed because an anti-gay movement has come to dominate the U.S. Some reconciliation takes place throughout the novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Patriot" - Fitzgerald, Erin (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopian background of a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Pearl Diver" - Caitlín [Rebekah] Kiernan (b. 1964) (Futureshocks, 2006)
The story is set in an overpopulated, environmentally degraded dystopia in which both government and corporations have everyone under surveillance at all times.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 229-42; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 229-42.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; US 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

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

Renegade: Book Two of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2006)
Sequel to 2005 Duchamp; see the note there. This volume describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. See also 2007 (2) and 2008 Duchamp. Female author. The five volumes were written in the 1980s. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Republic of George's Island: One Man Against the Elements" - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) (Nature, 2006)
The background to the story is an ecological dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 197-99.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Return to Nowhere" - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958); Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a future U.S. with slavery and with an underground railway running to the free areas of the Northwest.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Sailing to Utopia" - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) (Flytrap, 2006)
Flawed utopias. A woman travels to New Boston (Bellamy’s future), Gilman’s Herland, and More’s Utopia and finds them less than utopian.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Scenes from a Dystopia” - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) (Subterranean, 2006)
Satire on dystopian fiction.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scouring" - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Text:Ur: The New Book of Masks, 2006)
Dystopia in which humans have lost most natural functions.
Rpt. in her The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 112-16.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Three - Meghan O'Brien (Quest Books, 2006)
Post-catastrophe lesbian dystopia. Disease and war have killed off most of the population. Religious fanatics try to force women into being nothing but breeders.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Undoing" - Totton, Sarah (Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia describing a future completely devoted to security and the vicious system of punishment used.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female 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

The Winds Between the Worlds - Lark L. Burnham (BookSurge, 2006)
Dystopia of a corporate dominated future Earth which enslaves many other worlds. The complex plot involves people from the past and future interacting and both human and animal empaths.
Keywords: Female author

"100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of our Future State(s)" - Bob Frame; Pala Molisa; Rhys Taylor; Hemi Toia; Wong Liu Shueng (New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations, 2005)
Set in 2055 in a much-diminished future. Describes four scenarios for a future New Zealand, two based on plenty and two based on depleted resources, in two of which the emphasis is on community cohesion and in two of which the emphasis is on the individual. The revised version of 2007 dispenses with the discussion format and changes the order of the scenarios and the names of two of them.
Published separately as a screenplay Wellington, New Zealand: Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd., 2005 [Available at http:www.landcareresearch.co.nz/services/sustainablesoc/futures/publications.asp]. A larger version published as Work in Progress. Four Scenarios for New Zealand. Developed by The Landcare Research Scenarios Working Group. 2nd ed. Lincoln, New Zealand: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2007.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Male author

Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2005)
First volume of a five-volume series. In this volume, an alien feminist eutopia that hopes to save Earth from itself is set against a near future authoritarian dystopia. A non-violent anarchist eutopia, known as the Free Zone, develops in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and is threatened by internal divisions and external forces. Renegade: Book Two of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006, describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the changes they want. In Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, the aliens return to see whether or not Earth should be quarantined. Stretto: Book Five of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2008, stresses the utopian elements, basically feminist and liberal, but the various political struggles continue, and there is no clear resolution at the end. All five volumes were written in the 1980s.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"All the Tea in China" - Yvonne Provonost (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2005)
Background of a dystopia of corporate control.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Alternate Beauty - Andrea Rains Waggener (Bantam Books, 2005)
A fat woman wakes up in a society in which "big is beautiful". She initially sees this world as eutopian but then finds it as superficial as her previous world's focus on thinness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Among the Enemy. A Shadow Children Book - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 Haddix. See also 2006 Haddix. In this volume, a third child joins the Population police to subvert them.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

The Believer. A Novel - Stephanie Black (Covenant Communications, 2005)
Dystopia requiring absolute conformity to the current belief system and the travails of a man who becomes convinced of the truth of the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: Female author

Box - Penelope Todd (b. 1958) (Longacre Press, 2005)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which the New Zealand government is experimenting with an implant that regulates body chemistry and controls emotion. Successful teenage revolt.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

A Brother's Price - [Wendy] [Kosak] (b. 1963) (Roc, 2005)
Dystopia with a happy ending. Future where few males are born and the difficulty of true love when each male must marry many women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Building Harlequin's Moon - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938); Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Tor, 2005)
Authoritarian dystopia and the successful struggle against it.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

City of the Sun - Sarah Bryant (b. 1973) (Snowbooks, 2005)
Post nuclear war dystopia set in Russia where a new dictator has plans for a utopia.
Keywords: Female author

“Cloud Dragon Skies” - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (Strange Horizons, 2005)
The story is set in a future in which Earth’s environment is badly damaged and then destroyed through an experiment by those who had left Earth for life in space.
Rpt. in her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 113-26
Keywords: African American author; Female 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

"Disposable Children" - M[arcia] Lynx Qualey (Lenox Avenue, 2005)
Just what it says. Purchase a kit at your genetics superstore, give birth in six days, and have the child grow from birth to teen in nineteen weeks, at which point they die.
Keywords: Egyptian author; Female author; US author

Dreamhunter - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) (Fourth Estate, 2005)
Young adult fantasy novel with dystopian elements. In a re-imagined New Zealand, Southland was settled in the eighteenth century by people from an island in the Aegean Sea, and some of their descendants can read dreams and then project them to an audience. This talent is used by some in the government to torture prisoners.
U.K. ed. as The Rainbow Opera. London: Faber & Faber, 2005. U.S. ed. as Dreamhunter. Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet. New York: Frances Foster Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Echo" - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2005)
Dystopia of a collapsing civilization. The dystopia is mostly in the background with the suggestion of successful terrorist attacks.
Rpt. in her Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories. A Collection (Milwaukee, WI: M Books, 2006), 208-18; and in Otherworldly Maine. Ed. Noreen Doyle (Camden, ME: Down East, 2008), 90-98.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Free the Sky" - Wendy S. Delmater (Little Blue Marble: Stories of Our Changing Climate, 2005)
The story is about those opposed to global weather control, which requires the world to be enveloped in a force field that will change the appearance of the sky.
Originally published in Spirit House (2005), an online anthology published to honor the victims of the 2004 tsunami. No longer available online.
Keywords: Female author

The Goodness Gene - Sonia Levitin (b. 1934) (Dutton Books, 2005)
Young adult dystopia concerned with genetic engineering and cloning.
Keywords: Female author; German author; US author

"Gypsy Tail Wind" - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2005)
Dystopias as background. One is a future extremely strict Singapore. A gypsy community has suggestions of eutopia about it. Said to be set in the same future as her Eternity Shift (Not published under that title). See also her “Green Shift.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 29.3 (350) (March 2005): 108-30, which is set in the same future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hammered - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Bantam Books, 2005)
Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in 2062 with the world's ecosystem collapsing. Non-utopian sequels are Scardown. New York: Bantam Books, 2005; and Worldwired. New York: Bantam Books, 2005.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Imagineers. A Short Story” - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) (Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005)
A climate change dystopian in which harsh winters have driven people in on themselves, but while the story says, “There is no happy ever after” (65), people are creating positive countermeasures.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"January 2051: A Letter To My Best Bud in Bangladesh" - Linda Brown (America: Moving Ahead. Volume Two of Tackling Tomorrow Today, 2005)
Eutopia predicated on the world coming together after 9/11 and in the process of becoming unified.
Keywords: Female author

Last Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book One - Terri Blackstock (b. 1957) (Zonderavan, 2005)
First volume of a Christian dystopian series in which God takes way all electricity. Followed by Night Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book Two. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2006; True Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Three. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2007; and Dawn’s Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Four. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2008. The series follows the experiences of various people, some of whom trust in God, who restores power at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Maddigan's Fantasia - Margaret Mahy (1936-2011) (HarperCollins, 2005)
Young adult post-catastrophe quest novel with both eutopian and dystopian elements and much fantasy. The Fantasia is a travelling circus. New Zealand is connected to Australia. Most technology has been lost but Solis, the major city, retains some knowledge and technology and has a solar converter, which is wearing out. The central quest is to find parts for the converter. A second quest is that of children from the future trying to change elements of the past to eliminate a future evil.
Rpt. as Maddigan's Quest. Auckland, New Zealand: HarperCollins, 2006.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Mishka: Book One of The Quadrate Mind - Carrol Fix (iUniverse, Inc, 2005)
Eutopia and dystopia. The eutopian society is a peaceful alien culture; the dystopia is an authoritarian human regime trying to exploit the aliens. At the end of the novel, the dystopia has been defeated.
Keywords: Female author

"A Modest Proposal ... for the Perfection of Nature" - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) (Nature, 2005)
Flawed utopia. Eutopia that is based on the virtually complete destruction of the natural world, which is being used entirely to support the human race and anything not directly useful has disappeared.
Rpt. with the ellipsis but without the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 194-96; and in More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Lou J Berger, and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B Cubed Press, 2017), 176-79.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Mountain Man's Toothpick" - Susan Urbanek Linville (Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology, 2005)
Religious dystopia in a world where few children are born, and, if a couple do not have a child in three years, the woman is made the concubine of a fertile man.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Necessary Beggar - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (Tor, 2005)
The dystopia of present reality contrasted with Lémabantunk, the Glorious city, which is a eutopia of peace and plenty. Fantasy elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The New Society for Universal Harmony - Lenore Malen (Granary Books, 2005)
Art book describing the reinvention of a utopian experiment founded in Paris in 1783 by Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1851), of mesmerism/hypnotism fame. The reinvention places the community in the contemporary United States and traces its rise and fall. The book represents a mid-point on an ongoing project that, under the title given to the book, originated in 1999 as “La Société de l'harmonie universelle,” a performance/exhibition that was presented from then until 2008. “Harmony as a Hive” is a performance piece presented between 2007 and 2009. “I Am an Animal, Part 1” (2009) is a documentary film about beekeepers. “Part 2” (2012) is a video installation that imagines human civilization as a hive. “Scenes of Paradise” (2015-2017) is a multimedia presentation of various scenarios, all of which are informed by climate change. The group of artists who work with her also uses the name The New Society for Universal Harmony.
Keywords: Female author

No Sister of Mine - Jeanne G'Fellers (Bella Books, 2005)
First volume of a trilogy set in the far future on a planet that is divided between a patriarchal, heterosexual society known as the Autlach and an all-female telepathic society known as the Taelach. The two societies are in conflict and the all-female society is divided between those who want to enslave the Autlach and those who simply want to coexist. The Taelach society has elements of a lesbian feminist eutopia. The second volume, Sister Lost Sister Found. Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2006, continues the story of the conflict between the two main societies with considerably more development of the lesbian eutopia, including a clan structure. The third volume, Sisters’ Flight. Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2007, continues the story of the protagonist in 2006 G’Fellers who has become a warrior in one of the clans. All three volumes contain Glossaries, none of which include all the same words.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Nocturne - Jus Neuce [pseud.] (Aio Publishing, 2005)
The novel is set on a planet settled from Earth that has developed a class-based society. The dominant class stems from the early scientific settlers and is centered on their schools. The other class is based on the second group of settlers who were mostly from the working class. Class conflict ensues, and the book indicates that a sequel is planned, but none appears to have been published. An unpaged “Glossary” at the end of the book gives a summary overview of the planet, its history, and its institutions.
Keywords: Female author

The Novice - Glenda Millard (ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005)
Second volume of what is described as the the Carradon trilogy in sequel to 2004 Millard. The third volume does not appear to have been published. In this volume, the protagonists discover that a government plan to assist refugees in fact disguises a system of slavery.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Olive Readers - Christine Aziz (Macmillan, 2005)
Corporate dystopia set in the twenty-third century. Reading is prohibited and an underground network of readers struggles to keep memory and the past alive.
Keywords: Female author

The Only Begotten Sons. The Only Forgotten Sons - [Linda] [Pearson] (Xlibris, 2005)
Long (682 pp.) novel that is mostly fantasy but includes a world called Utopia together with material on Earth and Hell.
Keywords: Female author

"Quilt Cirq" - Susan Urbanek Linville (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Dystopia with cyberpunk elements, but with the AIDS quilt movement taken to a new level with circuits built into the quilts that contain the personality of the deceased. This is done for most who die, not just AIDS victims.
Keywords: Female author; US author

RebelFire 1.0: Out of the Gray Zone - Claire Wolfe; Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010) (RebelFire Press, 2005)
A future as a dystopia in which everyone is surveilled and drugged, and there are armed patrols to ensure compliance. One young boy resists, and he finds others who are rebels. The authors include an Afterword (225-27) giving details of existing or proposed institutions and weapons that are the basis for their picture of the future.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding): A Short Novel - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2005)
Dystopia of privatized "rehabilitation" facilities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Scotland the Grave. A Short Story." - Taylor, Pennie (Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005)
Scotland after the oil ran out, which has produced very negative impacts, but Scotland attracts university students because the universities are tuition free, and Scotland is proving an ideal setting for the development of alternative energy resources.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish 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

Smoke - Alex De Campi (IDW, 2005)
Graphic novel dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stolen Voices - Ellen Dee Davidson (b. 1954) (Lobster Press, 2005)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements where sound is muted and combined, and everyone’s voice is melded so that they are controlled. A young girl leads the people to freedom by giving them back their voices and music.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Summer Ice" - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) (In the Palace of Repose, 2005)
Beginnings of a eutopia describing a city that is "greening", transforming itself by tearing up roads, redesigning buildings, and generally recreating itself ecologically. Work shared by everyone.
Rpt. in Fantasy Magazine 1.1 (2005): 103-09; and in Best New Fantasy. Ed. Sean Wallace ([Holicong, PA: Prime Books, 2006), 219-37. Rev. ed. ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2006), 175-95. Rpt. in Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction. Ed. Jetse de Vries (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2010), 116-40 with an editor’s note on 115-16.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Tartan Initiative” - Anne Donovan (Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005)
The story recounts the rise of immigration to Scotland and the loss of the native languages of the immigrant children as well as the loss of Gaelic by the Scots. The Tartan Initiative is a plan, initially by one teacher, to revive both.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Towards a Liberal Utopia - Philip Booth (IEA The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2005)
Liberal in this case means "free market". The first part of the book, "Times Future?", is a series of essays describing how specific policy areas could be improved using market mechanisms. The result, although it is clear that many of the authors are uncomfortable with the word, would be a free market utopia. The essays are "Health 2055" by Tim Evans and Helen Evans (41-55/2nd ed. 11-21), "Education Reclaimed" by James Tooley (56-66/2nd ed. 22-30), "Policing a Liberal Society" (67-85/2nd ed. 31-44), "Pension Provision in 2055" by Philip Booth (86-98/2nd ed. 45-55), "Social Security in a Free Society" by David G. Green (99-107/2nd ed. 56-63), "Limits on the Tax Burden" by Tim Congdon (108-18/2nd ed. 64-71), "Britain's Relationship with the European Union" by Patrick Minford (119-27/2nd ed. 72-79), "Regulating the Labour Market" by J.R. Shackleton (128-43/2nd ed. 80-91), "Free Trade: The Next Fifty Years" by Razeen Sally (144-54/2nd ed. 92-100), "Competition in Land Use Planning: An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century" (155-65/2nd ed. 101-09), "Beyond Kyoto: Real Solutions to Greenhouse Emissions From Developing Countries" by Roger Bate and David Montgomery (166-86/2nd ed. 110-25), "The Environment in 2055" by Julian Morris (187-99/2nd ed. 126-36), "Capitalism" by David Henderson and Geoffrey Owen (200-11/2nd ed. 137-45), "A Constitution for Liberty" by John Meadowcraft (212-21/2nd ed. 146-53), and "The Hayekian Future of Economic Methodology" by Paul Ormerod (222-32/2nd ed. 154-61). The second part includes five essays on past activities of the IEA.
2nd ed. London: Continuum/IEA The Institute for Economic Affairs, 2006.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Traveller's from Afar; Aatas' story - H[eather] J[eanne] Bicknell (b. 1962) ([H.J. Bicknell], 2005)
Eutopia. Children's story of peaceful aliens who are looking for a planet on which to live when theirs is destroyed. The West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand is already a well-established meeting point for many space traveling peoples, and they settle there.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

uTOpia: TOwards a New TOronto (Coach House Books, 2005)
A collection of thirty-three essays that together create a realistically eutopian Toronto. Includes maps of the future Toronto. Includes a brief “Foreword” by Mayor David Miller. Most of the essays, many of which are reprints, propose changes or reforms referring to specific Toronto individuals, groups, and institutions. The essays in the section “TOmorrow” are somewhat more broadly eutopian in that they move beyond specific reforms to more general depictions of the good society, mostly along environmental lines. These include “Making a Toronto of the imagination” by Bert Archer (220-28); “Making a green scene” by Jonny Dovercourt (230-37); “A funny thing happened on the way to the future” by Barbara Rahder and Patricia Wood (238-42); “2019” by David Meslin (244-48) presenting a decentralized eutopia; “An age-old idea” by Adam Vaughan (250-54) on accessibility; “Situationist Toronto, ON: three mappings” by Mark Fram (256-67) on architecture; and “Between utopias” by Deanne Taylor (268-75). See also 2007 Wilcox, Palassio, and Dovercourt, eds.; Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds. The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. uTOpia Two. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2006; Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio, eds. HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2008; Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds. The Edible City: Toronto’s food from farm to work. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2009; and Dave Meslin, Christina Palassio, and Alana Wilcox, eds. Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2010.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

War Surf - M[ary] M. Buckner (Ace Books, 2005)
Dystopia of corporate control in which the rich play at war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zahrah the Windseeker - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
Eutopia. Young adult coming-of-age fantasy in which a young girl has to leave home to undertake a dangerous trip to bring back the cure for her best friend's snake bite. The eutopian setting is the community in which she lives, which, although far from perfect, is generally presented very positively. A related story is "From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7.” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 32 (May 2009). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_05_09/
An illustrated version has been published in Lagos, Nigeria: Farafina, 2007.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Among the Brave. A Shadow Children Book - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, and 2003 Haddix. See also 2005, and 2006 Haddix. In this volume, a group of the Shadow Children organize to defeat the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Arrivals - Naomi Gladish Smith (Chrysalis Books, 2004)
The novel follows a group of travelers into the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2007 and 2001 Smith.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bar Code Tattoo - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic, 2004)
Dystopia in which everyone is required to get a bar code tattoo on their sixteenth birthday and one girl refuses. See also 2006 and 2012 Weyn.
Keywords: Female author; US 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 Big Empty. Paradise City - [Elizabeth J.] [Braswell] (Razorbill, 2004)
Young adult post-catastrophe eutopia under threat. Sequel to the non-utopian J.B. Stephens, The Big Empty. New York: Razorbill, 2004 where a virus kills half the population. Further sequels include Stephens, The Big Empty. Desolation Angels. New York: Razorbill, 2005 and [Braswell], The Big Empty. No Exit. New York: Razorbill, 2005, both of which concern responses to the threat to the eutopia. It is likely that the various volumes were written by different authors with Stephens as a blanket pseudonym, but the volumes by Braswell are the only ones that can be identified.
Keywords: Female author

Bringing Reuben Home - Glenda Millard (ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2004)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which all who live in the domed city must die at age 80. Young people save an old man by leaving the city. First volume of the Carradon trilogy. In the second volume, The Novice. Sydney, NSW, Australia: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005, the protagonists discover that a government plan to assist refugees in fact disguises a system of slavery. The third volume does not appear to have been published.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Califia's Daughters - [Laurie R.] [King] (Bantam Books, 2004)
Feminist eutopia in which a post-catastrophe, mostly female, enclave living a simple, peaceful life which is confronted with modern technology. Much adventure.
Keywords: Female author

"Collateral Damage" - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
The story presents time travel to war zones to teach children the horrors of war so that war can be eliminated and the problems involved in doing so.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Delhi" - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (So Long Been Dreaming, 2004)
The story contrasts the dystopian present of India with brief flashes of eutopian and dystopian futures.
Rpt. in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 229-42; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 125-47.
Keywords: Female author; Indian 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

Futureways (Arsenal Pulp Press/Whitney Museum of American Art/Printed Matter, Inc., 2004)
Fourteen stories from thirteen authors with only the first story with an identified author. All the stories are set in or refer to futures, mostly dystopian, and connect to art exhibits. The authors listed are Laura Cottingham, as Ying Zong 4217 [pseud.]; Nick Crowe; Aline Duriaud; Nalo Hopkinson; Nico Israel; Matthew Licht; Peter Maass; Rita McBride; Alexandre Melo, whose story was translated from the Portuguese by Brad Cherry; Glen Rubsamen; Brad Schafer; Mark von Schlegell; and Roger Wolfson.
Keywords: Canadian author; Dutch author; Female author; German author; Portuguese author; UK author; US author

Gifts - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Harcourt, 2004)
First volume of a young adult trilogy. The setting is a country in which individual families have gifts that were mostly destructive and the need to learn to control them. In the second volume, Voices. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006, the people are enslaved by a people who outlaw reading. In the third volume, Powers. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2007, a young boy escapes slavery and explores his world and his gift of foreseeing the future.
The three volumes are rpt. in her Annals of the Western Shore: Gifts Voices Powers. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2020), with Gifts (1-148), Voices (149-336), and Powers (337-614), a Note on the Texts (666), and a list of corrected typographical errors (667). The volume also includes a Chronology (651-65) Le Guin’s “The Young Adult in YA: Talk delivered to the American Library Association (2004)” (617-26, with notes on 668-70) [Originally published in her Cheek by Jowl (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009), 110-23]; and “Some Assumptions about Fantasy: Talk delivered at Book Expo America June 4, 2004” (627-29, with notes on 670) [Originally published in her Cheek by Jowl (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009), 4-7], and interviews of Le Guin with Paola Castagno 2006 (630-33, with notes on 670-71) [Originally publish in Spanish on Castagno’s website Doce Moradas and in English on Le Guin’s website, http:/www.ursulakleguin.com/doce-moradas], Brian Attebery February 17, 2007 (634-38, with notes on 671-72) [Originally published in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17.4 (2007): 371-75], and Alexander Chee February 5, 2008 (639-47), with notes on 672) [Originally published in Guernica, heets://www.guernicamag.com.breaking_into_the_spell_I/.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"High Rise High" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Polyphony, 2004)
Dystopia. A high rise high school built to house the town's most difficult students is taken over by the students.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Home by the Sea" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Orb: Speculative Fiction, 2004)
Dystopia. Future that has resulted from global warming where the majority of the remaining world's population live in extreme poverty crowded onto small islands and large rafts. A few wealthy people live in luxury on heavily guarded islands.
Rpt. in Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Volume 1). Ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (Parramatta, NSW: MirrorDanse Books, 2005), 157-81.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"The Incredible Adventures of the Black People or We will make less mistakes if only we realize we are not so different" - Neli [Valentinova] Demireva (b. 1981) (2004)
Entry in the Utopian World Championship. Most entries are essays on a narrow theme; this one depicts a future world in which all peoples are roughly the same color and much conflict disappears.
Keywords: Bulgarian author; Female author; UK author

"Jumpers" - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) (SciFiction, 2004)
Authoritarian corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"King Tide" - Alison Wilson (Little Blue Marble: Stories of Our Changing Climate, 2004)
Dystopia of a New York City mostly under water.
Originally published in Terraform (2004)
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Lady and the Tiger - Jody Lynn Nye (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2004)
Flawed utopia. A planet believed to be perfect is not. A previous novel with the same characters is her Taylor's Ark. New York: Ace Books, 1993.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Martingale Inequalities" - Karen Sandler (Neo-Opsis: Science Fiction Magazine, 2004)
Religious dystopia and struggle against it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Master of None - N[ancy] Lee Wood (b. 1955) (Warner Aspect, 2004)
Set in a matriarchal society where men have no rights whatsoever but which, over the course of the novel, becomes more egalitarian and eutopian.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Neurolink - M[ary] M. Buckner (Ace Books, 2004)
Sequel of sorts to 2003 Buckner set in the twenty-third century. Corporations have replaced nations and most of the world’s population are slaves owned by the corporations. A clone and an AI loaded with the same characteristics must work together,
Rpt. as The Coin Giver. Np: ereads.com, 2009. Rpt. under that title New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 ebook. UK. ed. under that title London: Gateway/Orion, 2012 ebook.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Oracles - Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (b. 1960) (University of New Mexico Press, 2004)
The novel is set in a future climate-change dystopia and focuses on the conflicts within a fictional Native American Indian tribe between those upholding the old ways and those rejecting them. It follows the life of a young Native American woman is being trained in the traditional practices of a shaman in the future with space travel.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

"Pakeha" - Jane [M.] Lindskold (b. 1962) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia. A virus that destroys all petroleum products devastates the world economy. New Zealand chooses to eliminate government. Pākehā, which now refers to white New Zealanders, comes to mean someone who has earned the right to live there.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 403-30.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Panopte's Eye" - Kobayashi, Tamai (So Long Been Dreaming, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia. Excerpt from a novel-in-process, which does not appear to have been published.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Japanese author

The People of Sparks - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Random House, 2004)
Sequel to 2003 DuPrau in which the people of the city of Ember deal with conflicts with the people living on the surface. See also 2008 DuPrau.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Peregrines" - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (SciFiction, 2004)
Fantasy with a dystopian background extrapolated from the threats to democracy brought about by the response to terrorism in the United States.
Rpt. in her Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 211-51.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rings of Allah - Lee Boyland (AuthorHouse, 2004)
Dystopia. The lead up to a successful Islamist terrorist attack on five cities in the U.S. using nuclear weapons. First volume of a trilogy In the middle volume by Boyland with Vista Boyland, Behold, an Ashen Horse. A Novel. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007, Islamist terrorists strike throughout the world and the U.S. defends itself using nuclear weapons against many countries throughout the world and, at the end, on Mecca. In the final volume, by Boyland and Boyland, America Reborn. [Bangor, ME]: BookLocker.com, 2009, where for the first time the trilogy is called The Clash-of-Civilizations Trilogy, the U.S. successfully struggles against both internal and external enemies and ends with the re-election of the heroic president with plans for a new U.S. Constitution.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Savannah 2116 AD - Jenny [Jennifer Marion] Robson (Tafelberg, 2004)
Dystopia. Savannah is a teenage girl living in one of the fenced compound, both rural and urban, where all Africans are forced to live so that the wildlife can be free. People are pejoratively known as Homosaps. Hierarchical structure with the different groups identified by colored armbands, with the favored few, known as Cons, living on ranches within the Wilderness. Prison for crimes like burning fossil fuels. The rules are called the LEA or Last Elephant Accords. At the end of the novel, the Rurals revolt and retake the Wilderness to live in.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

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

Sleep - Kat Meads (Livingston Press of the University of West Alabama, 2004)
Corporate dystopia and revolt.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Souvenir - Jane Rosenthal (Bromponie Press, 2004)
Dystopian future history of South Africa where global warming produces unpredictable weather patterns, the coastline has changed significantly, and large areas of technology appear to have been lost. At the same time, cloning is common and the protagonist, Souvenir or Souvie Petersen is a Barbieclone (a clone based on the Barbie doll). During the period covered by the novel, icebergs from Antarctica are causing major damage. There is a glossary of Afrikaans words used in the text (179-81).
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Temenos" - Kim Westwood (Agog! Smashing Stories, 2004)
Dystopia. People are used as power sources feeding into the electricity grid.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Terminal Avenue" - Eden [Victoria Lena] Robinson (b. 1968) (So Long Been Dreaming, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the First Nations peoples of Canada are facing apartheid.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

Thinner Than Thou - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Tor, 2004)
Dystopia with a new religion of thinness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Time to Die - Mickey Zucker Reichert (b. 1962) (Five Star, 2004)
Dystopia set in 2030 when the Moralist Party has promised to end death and everyone is kept alive as long as possible.
2004 Reichert, Mickey Zucker (b. 1962). A Time to Die. Waterville, ME: Five Star. PSt Dystopia set in 2030 when the Moralist Party has promised to end death and everyone is kept alive as long as possible. The female author is a pediatrician.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Useful Idiots - Jan Mark (1943-2006) (David Fickling Books, 2004)
Dystopia set in 2255 in which the original inhabitants of England, now called Aborigines or Oysters, generally live in rural areas with limited technology and others live in high tech cities. The story is about an archaeological dig that reveals the history of the mistreatment of the English.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"When Scarabs Multiply" - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) (So Long Been Dreaming, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia set in Africa and based on African myths in a village in which women and girls, who had been being trained equally, are made subservient to men. A woman leader returns, kills the man who had made the changes, and re-establishes equality. But the ending leaves doubts.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Worry Doctor" - DeMeulemeester, Linda (Neo-Opsis: Science Fiction Magazine, 2004)
Dystopia where everyone is brainwashed to be happy.
Keywords: Female author

"A 2020 Vision" - Ann Florini (The Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World, 2003)
Non-fiction eutopian projection of what the author sees as current trends and mostly concerned with international relations and economic development.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Among the Barons - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, and 2002 Haddix. See also 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. This volume is a continuation of the story of the boy in 2001 Haddix.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Book of Martha” - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Bloodchild and Other Stories, 2003)
God gives a black woman, raised poor in the U.S., the task of improving the lives of humanity. She discusses several possibilities with God before choosing to have people dream their utopia. In the “Afterword” she calls this her “utopia story.”
Rpt. without the “Afterword” in Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008), 135-50; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 696-715, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (773). Originally published May 21, 2003, on SciFi.com, which is no longer available online.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Boys" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (SciFiction, 2003)
Primitive dystopia of gender separation where two warring tribes of males prey on each other and the village of women. The women revolt.
Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2003), 45-60; and in her I Live With You (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2005), 47-63; and in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 235-47.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Bread and Bombs" - M[ary Beth] Rickert (b. 1959) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2003)
Dystopia of ethnic conflict told from the point of view of an adult remembering childhood.
Rpt. in Year's Best SF 9. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 388-403; and in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 55-65.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Random House, 2003)
Mildly dystopian young adult novel of a dying underground city and the struggle of two young people to find the way out. Her The Prophet of Yonwood. New York: Random House, 2006 is a prequel See also 2004 and 2008 DuPrau.
The City of Ember. Deluxe Edition. the first Book of Ember. New York: Random, 2013, includes “Introduction to the Deluxe Edition” (ix-xii) and “On the Day of the Bombs” (277-92) , which gives the background to the establishment of the city of Sparks, the focus of the second volume in the series, and, inside the back cover, a poster.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Coolton Ascent - Rebecca J. Cunningham (Blujah Books, 2003)
Dystopia. Environmental destruction. Story told in flashbacks and flashforwards from the 1960s to the mid-21st century. Stress on corrupt journalism and political spin.
Keywords: Female author

End of State. Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series - Neesa Hart (Tyndale House Publishers, 2003)
First volume of a spinoff from 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins following the political results of the Rapture (See 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). The other volumes are Impeachable Offense: Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2004; and Necessary Evils: Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Etched City - K[irsten] J. Bishop (b. 1972) (Prime Books, 2003)
A fantasy novel that includes an authoritarian dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 2003. [New ed.] New York: Bantam Spectra, 2004. Although there is no indication in the book, in conversation the author said that there are changes in the latest edition and that this is her preferred version.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Happiness Code - Amy Herrick (Viking, 2003)
The effects of finding a gene for happiness focusing on one family that finds a "perfectly happy baby" in its back garden.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Heligoland - Shena Mackay (b. 1944) (Jonathan Cape, 2003)
Communal fiction and the search for utopia about a building designed on “modernist and utopian principles” and its inhabitants in South London in the 1930s.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Hyperthought - M[ary] M. Buckner (Ace Books, 2003)
Ecological and corporate dystopia set in 2125 with the only people in the world in the Arctic, the dystopia, and in the Antarctic, where there is a small community of free people. Has a subtheme of the problems brought about by a process for supposedly improving brain function. Includes a small community of free people. See also 2004 Buckner.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Jesus Freaks" - Jennifer [Mitchell] Roberson (b. 1953) (Women Writing Science Fiction as Men, 2003)
Jesus returns regularly to various times and places for brief periods to try to correct faults being made in his name. In this case, it is to a religious dystopia dominated by Christian fundamentalists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Looking Through Lace" - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2003)
A feminist eutopia with female and male languages.
Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2003), 131-86.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Magister - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) (Spinsters Ink Books, 2003)
Book Two of Earthkeep. See 2002 Gearhart. In the first volume all the animals in the world had disappeared; in this volume the children begin to die. The novel focuses on the developing understanding of the need to abolish all authority structures. At the end, both the children and the animals reappear. New Age anarchism. A third volume, The Steward, was announced but disappeared from the author’s website. The author’s best-known book is The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women, 1978.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Mask and the Maze" - Bannerman, K[im] (Aphelion, 2003)
A eutopia created by one wealthy capitalist proves boring to him, and he plays the Minotaur in the maze. The eutopia is largely in the background.
Rpt. in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, no. 7 (2005): 8-37.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Maul - Tricia Sullivan (b. 1968) (Orbit, 2003)
Violent dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Messages from the Hollow Earth - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) (Trafford, 2003)
New Age eutopia. See also 1996 and 2000 Robbins.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Oryx and Crake - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (McClelland & Stewart, 2003)
Dystopia. Most of the novel is set in a post-catastrophe future, but some is set in the dystopia of our day and a near future dystopia of corporate competition over genetic manipulation, which leads to the catastrophe. See also 2009 and 2013 Atwood.
U.S. ed. as Oryx and Crake. A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Pier Pressure" - Christina Lake (Interzone, 2003)
Dystopia in which England has retreated to ten seaside piers. Cloning.
Keywords: Female author

"Runaways" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction, 2003)
Anthropological science fiction describing a multi-generational extended family (both related and not related) that originated as runaways and now exists in the interstices of a collapsed, dystopian world. The runaway society has eutopian elements to it.
Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 213-33; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 415-33.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Seventh Seal: A Novel of the Last Days - Jessica Draper; Richard Draper (Covenant Communications, 2003)
Dystopia of the end of the world in Revelations from a Mormon perspective. First volume of a trilogy. This volume introduces the subject. In the second volume, Rising Storm: The Seventh Seal Epic Continues. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004, natural and human disasters escalate. The final volume, Final Hour: The Dramatic Conclusion to the Seventh Seal Epic. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004, volume takes the story to Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"A Small Planet of Our Own" - T[erri] E[llen] Merritt-Pinckard (Sci-Fi Womanthology, 2003)
Lesbian eutopia on a planet settled only by lesbians.
Keywords: Female author

Snare: A Novel of the Far Future - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) (Tor, 2003)
Islamic fundamentalists control a planet. Includes an attempt at reform
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2003.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Surge” - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) (Elsewhere: An anthology of incredible Places, 2003)
Far future dystopia reflecting the effects of climate change and rising ocean levels.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Tritcheon Hash - Sue Lange (Metropolis Ink, 2003)
All the women of Earth left and establish a new all-female society on another planet, with female and male babies exchanged annually with the men of Earth. The new society has been very successful, while the men have continued to fight and damage Earth. With the unacknowledged help of the women, the men of Earth begin to recover.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Walking Contradiction" - Nancy Jane Moore (Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction, 2003)
Future in which there are a wide range of genders available at choice. The story is written from the point of view of an "Ambi" or hermaphrodite in conflict with a cult that neuters people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Afrofuture--Dystopic Unity" - Tracie Morris (Social Text, 2002)
Poem--dystopia of keeping blacks in inferior roles.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"All the Room in the World" - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) (Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction, 2002)
Overpopulation dystopia in which millions of refugees are being moved to the supposedly empty areas of the world, like northern Canada. There are plans to ship future refugees into space as slave labor. Climate-change is part of the reason for needing to move people. Canada has fragmented, and it is no longer possible to move freely among the provinces.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Among the Betrayed - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998 and 2001 Haddix. See also 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. In this volume, a third child is arrested by the Population Police and forced to spy on the other Shadow Children.
U.K. ed. London: Red Fox, 2002.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Aristotle's Lantern" - Kim Edwards (b. 1958) (Zoetrope: All-Story, 2002)
Eutopian community established in the South China Sea and the conflicts that arise in trying to make it work.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Bitter Nigger Inc." - Tana Hargest (Social Text, 2002)
Brief introduction to a company with illustrations (mostly illegible) of its products. The company's divisions are Bitter Nigger Broadcast Network, Bitter Nigger Product Division, and Bitter Nigger Pharmaceuticals. One product, Tominex, is the “go-along-to-get-along medication” and said to be “the only over the counter medication to remove your yearning for fairness or human decency.”
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Bone House - Luanne Armstrong (b. 1949) (New Star Books, 2002)
Dystopia of global warming and corporate control.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Burning Bombing of America" - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) (Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S., 2002)
Dystopia with America destroyed.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Daughters of the Distant Dream" - Yvonne Eve Walus (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of stories about women in the future. "The Learning Experience" (31-34) is about a visit to a eutopian (?) world. All subservient positions are filled by robots. All flora and fauna protected (said to be a fad that would last a century or two). High noise level (speech and broadcast) to avoid seeming clandestine. All virtual reality. "Glance at Eden" (36-40) includes gender-role reversal in which men do the physical tasks that are considered less important. Another world advanced in bio-technology, genetic engineering. A character from that planet says, "'We created everything around here. We also engineered ourselves, rooting out the undesirable characteristics until we achieved total perfection'" (38). "The Vanishing Race" (42-44) depicts a world where people never go outside; "no more inter-human contacts" (43).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Design Your Own Utopia - Chaz [Charles] Bufe; [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (See Sharp Press, 2002)
Mostly a lengthy questionnaire intended to assist people thinking about utopia but includes short descriptions of a local eutopia or intentional community and a global eutopia. See also 1988 and 1994 Hubbard; and 2012 Bufe and Hubbard.
The text can also be found at http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Exodus - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) (Young Picador, 2002)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy. The dystopia was brought about by global warming in which the island home of the protagonist, based on Kiribati, is disappearing under water. There are hints of a better world elsewhere, and the entire community goes in search of it. Sequels include Zenith. London: Young Picador, 2007, about the search for a better place that was begun at the end of Exodus; and Aurora. London: Macmillan, 2011 which is about a struggle of a powerful force that wants to control the world. Elements of fantasy in all three novels.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish 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

Hammer Town - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Yard Dog Press, 2002)
Corporate authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Hopeful Traveller - Fiona Farrell (b. 1947) (Vintage, 2002)
Two novels published back to back that focus on a single island off the coast of New Zealand. One includes a Robinsonade and comments satirically on eighteenth century utopianism in showing a utopian experiment on the island failing. The other is a modern novel about a group of friends who had once lived together in an intentional community.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The House of the Scorpion - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002)
Young adult dystopia. Two countries, Opium and Aztlán, near the southern border of United States are dystopias. Opium, which supplies drugs to the U.S., is completely ruled by one man, who has cloned himself, so that he can live forever. Aztlán, where people escape to from Opium, is, on its border, controlled by the Keepers, who use the escapees as slave labor. The novel is about one of the clones of El Patrón who escapes from both Opium and the Keepers and manages to destroy both.
Rpt. New York: Simon Pulse, 2004.
Keywords: Female author

Just Like Beauty - Lisa Lerner (b. 1960) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)
Dystopian satire with lesbian themes. A future America focusing on its beauty contests, which include erotic skills. Violence is common.
Keywords: Female author

The Kanshou - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) (Spinsters Ink Books, 2002)
Future history including a chronology, a glossary, and the details of a Global Government. All animals died and women take power. The Kanshou are the women warriors who keep the peace. The first volume of the Earthkeep books that includes 2003 Gearhart. A third volume, The Steward, was announced but disappeared from the author’s website. The author’s best-known book is The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women, 1978. The female author was a gay rights activist and a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University. Her papers are held at the University of Oregon.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Kindling - Jennifer [Mary] Armstrong (b. 1961); Nancy Butcher (HarperCollins Children's Books, 2002)
Post-catastrophe children’s dystopia. First volume of the Fire-Us trilogy. In this volume, the seven children who survive a catastrophe create a functional society based on the family. When another child survivor arrives, they set off to find help. The second volume is The Keepers of the Flame. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books. 2002, in which the surviving children discover a group of adults living in a mall, but they prove to be dangerous. The final volume is The Kiln. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2003, in which the children are travelling again searching for the answer to their situation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Lapsit Chronicles - Edith Shaw (Dealan-dé Publishing, 2002)
Environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

Light Music - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor, 2002)
Sequel to 2000 Goonan In this volume, the Crescent City has become vulnerable to attack and the technology that built it and could rescue it has been lost. Ultimately, alien technology brings about a positive ending. humanity appears to be on the edge of a major evolutionary step forward. Loosely related to 1994 and 1997 Goonan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Little Sister" - Donna Bowman (Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction, 2002)
Authoritarian dystopia. Canada disintegrated after Québec withdrew from the confederation, and most power now is held by corporations. The prairie provinces are extremely poor and the story focuses on the use of prison labor to search in old garbage for antiques to be sold to people in the wealthy provinces.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Little Utopias" - Jo Thorpe (Takahe (Christchurch, New Zealand), 2002)
A poem that presents an evening at a Māori marae in utopian terms.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Maquisarde - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Ace Books, 2002)
Dystopia of divisions between the rich and poor. Revolt.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Noble Society: Adult Fairy Tales From Another Dimension - [Veronique] [Collignon] (Thoughtmill Press, 2002)
A collection of related stories describing a fantastic eutopia called Bullford, where no money is used and there is no competition. There is added material on the website http://www.novatownsite.org/nova-building-unknown.html. A second volume of stories that includes a section of illustrations in color is Vera Nova [pseud.], The Noble Society of Bullford: The Wonder-World beyond time, space or . . .Np: Outskirts Press, 2018.
There is added material on the website http://www.novatownsite.org/nova-building-unknown.html.
Keywords: Female author

Paradise - Tina Shaw (b. 1961) (Penguin Books (NZ), 2002)
Flawed utopia of corporate control. The novel is set in a resort for the rich called Paradise in which everything controlled to ensure their pleasure. The resort has both metaphorical and real snakes.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Paradises Lost" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, 2002)
Includes two societies, both with eutopian elements, on a multi-generation starship. The primary society is the one designed for the people on the starship, as modified by the people themselves. It is explicitly eutopian with an emphasis on "Peace and plenty. Light and warmth. Safety and freedom" (300). But it nearly succumbs to the religious belief of those who conclude there is nothing outside the ship. At the end, the first group begin to build a new society on a planet, while the second choose to travel forever.
Rpt. in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 689-801.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Past Imperfect/Future Perfect?” - Teresa Holmes (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers’ Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of stories set in futures regarding the past. Generally too brief to do more than suggest some dystopian future. “Seen from the future, the past is viewed as happier, more secure, more pleasant, more friendly than the time in which the characters now live” (223).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Protection" - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (Femspec, 2002)
Brief dystopia in which the right to have children is strictly limited, which puts those children born at risk from those wanting children.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Salt Fish Girl - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) (Thomas Allen, 2002)
The novel is set in 19th century China and in a future Pacific Northwest, which is a corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Social Dreaming of the Frin" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2002)
A short story with both eutopian and dystopian elements describing a world in which everyone experiences the dreams of other people and of animals (animals are not used for food). This creates a “communion of all sentient creatures” (U.S. ed. 88) but also involves a radical questioning of the self.
Rpt. in her Changing Planes (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 76-88. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2004), 65-75.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Solitaire - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) (Eos, 2002)
Corporate dystopia in which a corporation controls a country. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Technogenesis - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) (Roc, 2002)
Dystopia in which most people are connected to the net at all times, and the protagonist, who becomes disconnected, discovers the poverty and homeless of the "real" world and that those connected to the net are being controlled.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Utopia" - Laura Turner (The Southland Times (New Zealand) (September 20, 2002), 2002)
Dystopia brought about by genetic engineering, which destroyed much of the planet and much of the population. The winner of the 2002 Dan Davin Literary Award. The article prints the story.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"The Wild Girls" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2002)
Dystopia of wealth and gender dominance in which the men of the city kill those outside the city and steal the children to become their wives. There is a complex set of relations among Crown People, Root People, and Dirt People (who are nomads) that is reflected in political power, economic relations, and the way the groups must marry with, for example, Crown men having to marry Dirt women and Crown women having to marry Root men.
Rev. ed. in her The Wild Girls plus “Staying Awake While We Read” and “A Lovely Art” Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CAL PM Press, 2011), 9-54; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 205-38; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 551-87.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Among the Imposters - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998 Haddix. See also 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. This volume concerns a third child with a false identity hiding among the elite and 2003 Haddix continues his story.
U.K. ed. London: Red Fox, 2001.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Archangel Protocol - Lyda Morehouse (b. 1967) (New American Library/Roc, 2001)
The first volume of a series of set in a theocratic dystopia in which everyone has the LINK, an interactive computer implanted. In this volume, cybernetic angels appear who claim to be sent by God, and throughout the series, figures from the Bible appear. Sequels include Fallen Host. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2002, which explores, among other questions, whether AIs have souls. In Messiah Node. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2003, the prophet Elijah appears together with numerous false messiahs. In Apocalypse Array. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2004 Armageddon begins with a female Antichrist. Resurrection Code. New Orleans, LA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011 is a prequel that gives some background to the rise of the theocracy. Gender stereotypes are challenged throughout but particularly in the last volume.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Artie's Angels" - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) (Realms of Fantasy, 2001)
Post-nuclear war dystopia with a focus on class divisions among the survivors.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 165-75.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Chains of Freedom (The first book of the Chains Trilogy) - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2001)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy that traces a conflict between two interplanetary empires, both of which want to enslave everyone, and the ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Followed by Chains of Destruction (The second book of the Chains Trilogy). Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2002 and Chains of Redemption (The third book of the Chains Trilogy). Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press. 2008.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Child of Venus - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Eos, 2001)
The third volume of the series that includes her 1986 and 1988 Sargent. This volume focuses on a genetically engineered woman who has to deal with the conflicts of Venus while she and others begin to explore the galaxy. See also 2000 Sargent.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dance of Knives - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) (Tor, 2001)
Post-ecological disaster dystopia set in Vancouver. Tongs, violence. First volume in a series; see also 2010 McMahon.
Rpt. Gibsons Landing, BC, Canada: Drowned City Press, 2010.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Delectation Debates" - Renée M. Charles (Sextopia, 2001)
A future in which heterosexuals are in a minority and the multi-gendered get additional votes.
Keywords: Female author

Fire & Ice - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Yard Dog Press, 2001)
A mystery novel with a dystopian background in which all sexual preferences are recorded and regulated in the name of equality, but this produces radical inequality and segregation. The story is told mostly from the lesbian perspective.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Flight from Eden - Kathryn A. Graham (Writer's Showcase, 2001)
Dystopia. Authoritarian dictatorship and the struggle against it.
Keywords: Female author

Gardener of Stars - Carla Harryman (b. 1952) (Atelos, 2001)
An experimental novel exploring "the paradise and wastelands of utopian desire."
Chapters were originally published as “from Gardener of Stars.” Hambone, no. 15 (Fall 2000): 73-82; as “from Gardener of Stars (A Novel.” Shiny Magazine, no. 9/10 (1999): 193-200; and in The World, Jacket, Salt, LVNG, and The Detroit Metro Times.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Green Music - Ursula Pflug (b. 1958) (Tesseract Books an Imprint of The Book Collective, 2001)
An odd magic realist novel set in Toronto and an alternative Toronto called Marina, which is also the name of the main protagonist, accessed through a painting by Susan, Marina’s partner. It is a paradise with people who had drowned in the other world.
Three chapters were previously published “in slightly different form”: Chapter One “Turtleness.” Quarry 35.3 (Summer 1986): 18-20. Chapter Two “Jack and Luna” as “The Turtle and the Moon.” Illus. by the author. Now 4, no. 29 (March 28, 1985): 21. https://nowtoronto.pressreader.com/now-magazine/19850328. Chapter Fourteen “Telepathic Fish.” Leviathan I: Into the Grey. Ed. Luke O'Grady & Jeff VanderMeer (Tallahassee, FL: Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1996), 67-80.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Tunisian author

Kingdom of Cages - Sarah [Anne] Zettel (b. 1966) (Warner Books, 2001)
Flawed utopia. Environmental collapse and disease on most planets. One, Pandora, had a functioning ecosystem and a small genetically controlled population. Fanaticism, conflict between Pandora and other planets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Law, In Its Majestic Equality . . ." - Mary Catelli (Absolute Magnitude Science Fiction, 2001)
Satire on legal systems and economic status on the Earth and the Moon.
Keywords: 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

Megiddo - Paul Crouch (1934-2013); Cyhthia Cirile (Charisma® House, 2001)
The story of the Antichrist and Armageddon.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

"Old Soldiers" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Infinity Plus One, 2001)
Dystopian senior citizens home where the quality of care depends on the wealth of the resident, which reflects the reality of such homes today. The story, though, is primarily concerned with an old soldier remembering the war and wanting answers.
Rpt. in her The Dogs of Truth: New and Uncollected Stories (New York: Tor, 2005), 158-77; and in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 311-25.
Keywords: Female author; US author