“Mammoths of the Great Plains” - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Mammoths of the Great Plains plus Writing Science Fiction During World War Three and “At the Edge of the Future” Outspoken Interview, 2010)
The story is set in a future that has been badly damaged environmentally, but in which Indians saved the mammoths from slaughter, which is the focus of the story. The setting has the suburbs gone and slowly being replaced by nature. The world is getting hotter and hotter.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Marketing Proposal" - Sara M. Harvey (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia similar to Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) "A Modest Proposal" (1729) on the eating of children. In this story, children are used to produce a fine version of ambergris to be used in perfume and for meat. The "Marketing Proposal" emphasis how well cared-for the children are.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Matched - Ally[son Braithwaite] Condie (Dutton Books, 2010)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in a society that chooses life partners at seventeen and a girl who rejects her chosen partner.  In the second volume, Crossed. New York: Dutton, 2011 two of the protagonists get separated amid much adventure. In the third volume, Reached. New York: Dutton, 2012, the heroine returns to the dystopia to lead a successful rebellion.
U.K. ed. London: Razorbill, 2010.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Meat World" - Michele Lee (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia of complete isolation in a world that has collapsed. The "meat world" is the world outside the habitats in which the few remaining people live.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Meeks. A Novel - Julia Holmes (Small Beer Press, 2010)
Rigidly conformist dystopia in which bachelors must wear a specific courting suit, and, if they don't find a wife, they are conscripted to work for the Brothers of Mercy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Memories of Hope City" - Slater, Maggie (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia. A post-catastrophe city destroyed by an unidentified illness and the society its violent survivors have created.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Nature of Bees” - Priya Sharma (Albedo (Dublin, Ireland), 2010)
Flawed utopia that is a human beehive.
Keywords: Female author

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

Nomansland - Lesley Hauge (Henry Holt, 2010)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia of an all female island community where friendship is prohibited.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author; Zimbabwean author

"Otherworld" - Karina [L.] Fabian (b. 1961) (Infinite Space, Infinite God, 2010)
Roman Catholic cyberpunk in which a Jesuit priest visits dystopian cyberspace in an attempt to find his deceased mother, who had been sent there during his birth but could not be recovered.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Overton Window - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964); Kevin Balfe; Emily Bestler; Jack Henderson (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2010)
Dystopia in which liberal attempts to take over the U.S. are thwarted. An “Afterword” (293-321) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Personal Jesus" - Pelland, Jennifer (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia. The Ecclesiastical States of America includes all of the former U.S. except California and New England. It enforces its fundamentalist morality by requiring everyone to wear a mechanical "Personal Jesus" that responds to wrong actions with a shock and informs the authorities if the behavior continues.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Queen B" - Pip Hall (b. 1971) (Three Plays: Young & Hungry, 2010)
Dystopian play about three women being tested for their suitability to be allowed to have children.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

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

“The Rules Are Different Here” - Nadia Bulkin (b. 1987) (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2010)
The story involves two young Asian women tourists in Miami where they find that foreigners have no rights.
Keywords: Female author; Indonesian-American author

"Russian Roulette 2020" - Eva Marian Chapman b. 1947) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
The story contrasts a world in which everyone is linked constantly by advanced devices that they wear at all times with a disconnected eutopia of people living naturally.
Keywords: Australian author; Czech author; Female author

Salvation City - Sigrid Nunez (b. 1961) (Riverhead Books, 2010)
Young adult novel set in a post-catastrophe dystopia in which a boy is taken from an orphanage to Salvation City, a small fundamentalist community waiting for the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Second Childhood - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) (Drowned City Press, 2010)
Sequel to 2001 McMahon; see the note there. This volume continues the same themes as the first and focuses on the psychological recovery, under threat from the Vancouver tongs, of a central character from the first volume.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

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

"Surrogates" - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) (Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, 2010)
Dystopia of a future society in which people can have chips that change their perceptions and "surrogates" create who are both servants and sexual partners.
Rpt. in her Near + Far: Stories of the Near Future and Far (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2012), 107-18. Near and Far are bound back-to-back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Thank God for the Road" - Nancy Jane Moore (The WisCon Chronicles, 2010)
Brief environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Thinker’s Lure" - Gump, Toianna (The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1, 2010)
Dystopia in which Minnesota has instituted Regulations of Uniformity.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Type of Favor"; "Playing Against Type"; and "Playing to Type" - Mary Robinette Kowal (b. 1969) (Shareable Futures, 2010)
A trilogy of short stories set after the Oil Wars in which co-operatives work together on the basis of favors which can be traded, which is presented as eutopian.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Underground Rising (Writers’ Café Press, 2010)
Dystopian stories set in the future of Creed’s three Underground novels. See 2007, 2010, and 2012 Creed. The stories are Greg Mitchell, “Ex-Communicator” (7-26), Lydia Daffenberg, “The Injection Site” (27-34), Terri Main, “Voices of the Underground” (35-39, 53-55, 72-75, 103-05, 112-15, 135-38), Frank Creed, “Natalia” (40-52), Stephen Leon Rice, “Bear Feat” (56-59), Gavin Patchett and Frank Creed, “Resolutions” (60-71), Karen McSpadden, “Daffodil Season” (76-93), Deborah Cullins Smith, “Solitaire” (94-102), Frank Creed, “The Last Newspaper” (106-11), Timothy Hicks and Frank Creed, “The Sandman Cometh” (116-27), Grace Bridges and Frank Creed, “Underground . . . Undersea” (128-34), and Frank Creed, “Whiskey in the Jar” (139-48).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Unidentified - Rae Mariz (b. 1981) (Balzer + Bray, 2010)
Young adult corporate dystopia with corporations controlling the educational system. The Unidentified are those fighting back against the dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish author; US author

Veracity. A Novel - Laura Bynum (b. 1968) (Pocket Books, 2010)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which half of the U.S. population has been killed and a new government exerts control through sex and drugs.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Water to Wine" - Mary Robinette Kowal (b. 1969) (Subterranean Press Magazine, 2010)
The dystopia of the conflict over environmental issues in the Northwest after climate change drove most of the wineries of the world out of business.
Expanded from its original publication as  part of a shared world podcast anthology, Metatroplis: Cascadia. Ed. Jay Lake (Audible.com 2010).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Weeds In the Garden” - Meghan Dunn (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2010)
A dystopian post-catastrophe story in which a government is trying to reestablish its authority and is classifying people such as into those who can have children and what sort of education they can have.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Who Fears Death - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (DAW, 2010)
Dystopia set in a future Africa where some tribal conflicts are still leading to genocide. The novel develops through a girl who is rejected by her own tribe for both being female and being born of rape. But she has powers that allow her to change her shape and to visit the spirit world, and she uses those powers to try to bring about change. A prequel is her The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW Books, 2015, part of which was previously published as “The Book of Phoenix [Excerpted from the Great Book].” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 54 (March 2011). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Zoo City - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) (Jacana Media, 2010)
Dystopia of a collapsed South Africa. In an interview published in Locus 74.1 (648) (January 2015): 48, the author has called it an “apartheid allegory”.
Rpt. London: Angry Robot, 2010.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Blond Curls" - Nicole R. Murphy (Masques, 2009)
Authoritarian dystopia. Police with flawed technology misidentify a suspect and have the power to completely undo her life.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Bute View - Janice Marriott (b. 1946) (Mallinson Rendal, 2009)
Young adult dystopia. Sequel to 2006 Marriott in which the young protagonist is taken to the headquarters of the rich and powerful who hope to exploit his inventiveness.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Candor - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) (Egmont USA, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in which messages designed to control people are embedded in the music they listen to.
UK ed. London: Egmont, 2010.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

The Chosen One - Carol Lynch Williams (St. Martin's Griffin, 2009)
Young Adult communal fiction about a Mormon polygamous sect presented as a dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Crossing. Blood of the Lamb Book One - Mandy [Amanda] Hager (b. 1960) (Random House New Zealand, 2009)
Young adult religious dystopia. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, Into the Wilderness. Blood of the Lamb Book Two. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand, 2010, deals with the relationships and conflicts among four children who have fled to an apparently uninhabited island. In the third volume, Resurrection. Blood of the Lamb Book Three. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House, 2011. U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2014, the protagonist returns to the religious dystopia and struggles to convince the people to overcome their brainwashing.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse" - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020); Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) (Live Without a Net, 2009)
Dystopia in which computers are DNA based and, in each person, because terrorist viruses had completely destroyed the possibility of silicon-based computers and the Web. The result is extreme isolation and terrorist attacks on any gathering of people.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

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

"For the love of mechanical minds: Survival of the fittest?" - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Nature, 2009)
Dystopia. Artificial Intelligences raise most children and continue to work with them throughout life. While this produces superbly intelligent people and much innovative work, no one chooses to reproduce.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) (Delacorte Press, 2009)
Young adult religious dystopia with zombies. A small group of people dominated by a religious cult live in a compound surrounded by a forest inhabited by zombies. Sequels include The Dead-Tossed Waves. New York: Delacorte Press, 2010, focuses on the protagonist of the previous volume escaping from her town and the zombies; and The Dark and Hollow Places. New York: Delacorte Press, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Freedom" - Amy Waldman (b. 1969) (Boston Review, 2009)
Dystopia. The story is about an island designed for the terrorists who no country would take and the society that develops there as told by the first overseer.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ice Song - Kirsten Imani Kasai (Ballantine Books, 2009)
Mostly adventure but the background is a dystopia of environmental degeneration and human mutation. The story is continued in her Tattoo. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.
Keywords: Female author

"Inside Out" - Viki Chua (Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy/Two Trees, 2009)
Two societies in conflict. One, inside a dome, which presents the outside as so damaged environmentally as to be unlivable. The other very different from what the Inside protagonist has been taught.
Keywords: Female author; Singaporean author

"Julia" - Erin Thomas (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2009)
Dystopia set in what seems to be the standard fantasy world of an ancient aristocracy, but is a world where people are produced to be donors of body parts for that nobility.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Killswitch Review - Steven-Elliot Altman (b. 1968); Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse (Yard Dog Press, 2009)
Dystopia set in 2156 when it is possible to live as long as one wants. Since overpopulation is a threat, contraception is compulsory, and the U.S. has closed its borders. The focus of the novel is technologically assisted suicide, and the Killswitch is a handheld suicide device that is officially called the Kevorkian Unit, named after Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) who was found guilty of second-degree murder for his work in assisting people to kill themselves and spent 1999-2007 in prison. Given the lack of opportunity, young people are illegally killing themselves.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Last Wild Witch - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) (Mother Tongue Ink, 2009)
Children's book describing a "perfect" over-organized town improved by a bit of natural wildness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Material Proof of the Failure of Everything" - Heidi [Suzanne] Julavits (b. 1968) (McSweeney's Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
Dystopian of a failing future Hungary that is also bringing down the European Union as the background to a story of intrigue.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Mere Future - Sarah Schulman (b. 1958) (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009)
Flawed utopia in which an apparently eutopian New York City (no ads, no franchises, cheap and available housing, high minimum wage) is still controlled by the same rich people as before. There is one large corporation, THE MEDIA HUB. The court system takes lifestyle into account and the rich are presumed innocent and the poor presumed guilty.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Minnesota Cold. A Novel - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2009)
Dystopia. After a nuclear war, Minnesota becomes independent under the rule of the old politicians and business leaders, who controlled both the political system and the economy and undermined education to make it serve their purposes. They set up a program using Minnesota’s biomedical expertise to provide the world with medicine, breeding people with genetic enhancements, and establishing a means of judging whether a person is worth keeping alive and killing those judged not. The novel’s protagonist is a healthy older woman judged not worth keeping alive and her successful resistance that uncovers the breeding program and overthrows the dystopia. The novel ends with the difficult transition from authoritarian rule, a normal economy, the re-establishment of the education system, the problems raised by integrating the “breeders” produced by the genetics program. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pirates of the Cumberland Basin" - Joanne Hall (Future Bristol, 2009)
Dystopia of a flooded Bristol with extensive organized crime and pirates living outside the law. Much of Europe is flooded.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"The President's Book Tour" - M[ary Beth] Rickert (b. 1959) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2009)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive mutations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Promise of the Flame - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Ad Stellae, 2009)
Sequel to 2007 Engdahl. In this volume, the small group of people with "psi powers" settle a new planet and develop a new and better culture based on those powers. See also 2013 Engdahl.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ragged Claws" - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) (Edison's Frankenstein, 2009)
Dystopia of a disintegrating society in which people have the dream of going to the planet Eden and starting over on a pristine world. But it is a fake; all that exists is a virtual reality Eden and the myth serves to make money for its sellers.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author; UK author; US author

"The Red in the Sky Is Our Blood." - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Schroeder. This story is about a Detroit dystopia with the beginnings of a eutopia based on dispersing people throughout a connected system hidden in the ruins, farming abandoned areas, and gradually developing connections to all the services people can provide.
Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 133-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Remembering Green - Lesley Beake (b. 1949) (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2009)
Young adult post- environmental catastrophe dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Riot on the State Library Lawn, or Utopia Is the Mother of Dystopia" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Overland, 2009)
Humor in which three authors of 1889 utopias--Joseph Fraser, Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910), and Sir Julius Vogel (1835-99)--visit an exhibit on the future of Melbourne.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

"The Seed" - Joan L. Savage (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2009)
Dystopia of a future conflict between Mars and Earth brought about by immortality and the need for more space. Birth is illegal and emotions have withered.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Seventeen" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Masques, 2009)
Dystopia in which there are deep division between rich and poor with a focus on care for the elderly. The protagonist is a girl whose job is to pretend to be the daughter of an old woman, in which role she leads a good life, and gives some meaning to the old woman’s life. Outside the retirement community the girl is homeless in a violent world.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Six" - Leah Bobet (Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, 2009)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with much fantasy. Large office buildings are being reclaimed from the top down with different floors used for housing, manufacturing, crops, etc.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Is This Your Day To Join the Revolution?" - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) (Futurismic, 2009)
Dystopia in which people are controlled through a fake scare about a disease.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 267-74; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 267-74.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Until the Solid Earth Dissolves" - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) (Overland, 2009)
Environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Vulture's Gate - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) (Allen & Unwin, 2009)
Young adult dystopia set in a future Australia where children are captured, a girl rescues a boy, and they travel across Australia searching for freedom only to discover a colony that has captured many girls. The novel ends positively but says there is more to come. Intended to be first in a series, but no further volumes have been published.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Walls Have Eyes - Clare B[unkalew] Dunkle (b. 1964) (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009)
Dystopia in sequel to 2008 Dunkle in which the young protagonist, having rescued his parents, discovers that his sister and the other genetically engineered children are in trouble.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Witch and the Wizard - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) (Little Brown, 2009)
Young adult dystopia of a modern-day witch hunt. Sequels include Patterson and Ned Rust. Witch & Wizard: The Gift. New York: Little, Brown, 2010 which focuses on the resistance to the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Fire. Little, Brown, 2011, which focuses on the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Kiss. New York: Little, Brown, 2013; and Patterson and Emily Raymond. Witch & Wizard: The Lost. New York: Little, Brown, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Year of the Flood - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (McClelland & Stewart, 2009)
Ecological dystopia with a eutopian enclave set roughly at the same time as 2003 Atwood with some of the same characters. See also 2013 Atwood.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009. U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female 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

“Accepting the Dream Or Is it the Reality?” - Shaba Barnes (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
A short but detailed lesbian eutopia with New Age elements. Homeopathic medicine. No money. No poverty. Consensual decision making by a “Steering Committee” as needed. Males are cared for in families until puberty, when they are all sent to a boarding school; it appears that their main function is providing sperm. No industry or major commercial activity. Creating art is an important part of life. Mostly vegetarian. Houses made of fabric. Oddly, there is also high tech with flying cars.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Adventures of the Cool Seven: A Utopian Novel - Roslynn Webb Cady (AuthorHouse, 2008)
New Age eutopia. See also 1998 Cady. A related work is her The Final Quantum: A New Thought Novel. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform in conjunction with RosTer Publications Cañon City, CO., 2016.
Rev. as Somewhere: A Fantastical Spiritual Adventure. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; US 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 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

“Circles of Women” - Jeane Orjas (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
A poem describing a lesbian eutopia in fairly general terms but stressing the support the women give each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The City of Blind Delight" - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) (Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, 2008)
Fantasy, but the city in which the story is set is a cockaigne with streets made of food and so forth.
Rpt. in Other Worlds Than These: Stories of Parallel Worlds. Ed John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 487-76.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Dee Dee Does Utopia - Deborah Faye Lawrence (b. 1952) (Marquand Books, 2008)
Art book with each page given to a different satirical depiction of a utopia plus two separate pages of comments by others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Diamond of Darkhold - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Random House, 2008)
Fourth book in the Ember series. See also 2003 and 2004 DuPrau. The Prophet of Yonwood. New York: Random House, 2006 is a prequel to the series. In this volume, the protagonists revisit Ember.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dreams of a Lesbian Feminist Utopia” - Tanager [pseud.] (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
A brief lesbian eutopia that stresses what the eutopia no longer has with the end of phallocracy.
Keywords: Female author

"Enduring Childhood" - Marion Bernard (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2008)
Dystopia in which children are kept young.
Keywords: Female author

Escape - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (Picador, 2008)
Feminist dystopia of a world with no females and the difficulties of the one girl born. See 2015 Padmanabhan for a sequel.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"Evidence of Love In a Case of Abandonment: One Daughter's Account" - M[ary Beth] Rickert (b. 1959) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2008)
Dystopia in which all women who ever had an abortion are being systematically publicly executed.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2009), 409-16; in her Holiday (Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2010), 65-74; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 39-46; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 39-46.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross" - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) (Dreaming Again, 2008)
Dystopia created by genetic damage and global warming. Strict control on those few who can have genetically clean children, with females who can produce such children kept as breeders. Different women are mothers. Men have almost no sexual outlets.
Keywords: Australian 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

“Full Moon in the Park” - Sonia [Ann] Johnson (b. 1936) (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
Brief eutopia in which femaleness unites all creatures.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gasoline - [Darcy Megan] [Stanger] (b. 1971) (Merrell, 2008)
Post-apocalyptic graphic novel in which one family searches for gasoline and must confront violent nihilists. The family develops a new, better life that is more in touch with nature.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ghost Jail" - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) (2012, 2008)
Largely a horror story, but it is set in an authoritarian dystopia aiming to control all speech.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Half a Crown - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2008)
Sequel to 2006 and 2007 Walton. In this volume, the conspiracy to free England begins to succeed. A story set in the same future is her “Escape to Other Worlds With Science Fiction.” Tor.com Posted February 6, 2009. https://www.tor.com/2009/02/06/escape-to-other-worlds-with-science-fiction/ Rpt. in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 523-30; and in her Starlings (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2018), 102-13, which depicts alternative future dystopia in which, among other things, the depression continues, the New Deal had failed, Jews are being hunted in the U.S., and an atomic bomb has been dropped on Miami.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

"Horse Racing" - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2008)
The story describes a future in which people purchase the opportunity to direct the lives of potentially talented or talented people without their knowledge. While it appears clearly dystopian most of the people get better lives than they would have otherwise.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (b. 1962) (Scholastic Press, 2008)
First volume in a young adult dystopian series set in a future North American dictatorship where people are kept on the edge of starvation. The Hunger Games are an annual contest in which each community must send a boy and a girl to fight in an arena until only one survives. In the second volume, Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009, having won the games by breaking the rules, the protagonists become the focus of resentment. In the third volume, Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010, a rebellion unfolds. A prequel is The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. New York: Scholastic Press, 2020. The first in a film series was released in 2012, directed by Gary Ross (b. 1956) from a screenplay by Collins, Ross, and Billy Ray. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was released in 2013, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 in 2014, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 in 2015. All three were directed by Francis Lawrence (b. 1971). The screenplay for Catching Fire was written by Simon Beaufoy (b. 1967) and Michael Arndt and screenplays for the two Mockingjay films by [Daniel W.] Danny Strong (b. 1974) and Peter Craig (1969). A film, also directed by Lawrence, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes with a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt was released November 5, 2923 in Berlin and November 17, 2023 in the United States. For a parody, see [Aaron Geary and John Bailey Owen], The Hunger but Mainly Death Games. A Parody. By Bratniss Everclean [pseud.] London: Gollancz, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hydraulic" - Ekaterina Sedia (b. 1970) (Spicy Slipstream Stories, 2008)
Environmental dystopia. Power is produced from rain, and it rains constantly. Almost everything has been privatized, and even recharging batteries is illegal.
Rpt. in Dark Futures [Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]. Ed. Jason Sizemore (Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2010), 226-37.
Keywords: Female author; Russian author; US author

“In Unison” - Nicole M. (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
Lesbian eutopia with an emphasis on community. Acceptance of difference. A lesbian language has developed, but it is not described. Satisfying work in good conditions. Many work cooperatives. Lots of festivals. Men are castrated.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Jemma 7729 - Pheobe Wray (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2008)
Authoritarian dystopia in which most of the population live in domed cities and believe that the outside is uninhabitable. Each person must publicly choose their future life. Lone rebel. A sequel is J2. Howell, NJ: DTF Publications, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Juno of Taris - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) (Random House New Zealand, 2008)
Young adult dystopia. Taris is an experiment in survival in which an island has been domed and provided with flora and fauna and 500 people when much of the world is destroyed in conflicts. Over time it has developed an authoritarian and conformist ethos. The novel is about a girl who does not fit and who is interested in what has happened Outside. Much of the novel is concerned with growing internal struggles and ends with contact with the Outside being reestablished. See also 2010 and 2011 Beale.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"The Killing Fields" - Lakin-Smith, Kim (Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association, 2008)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of violence.
Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"The Last Actor" - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020); Linda L. Donahue (Future Americas, 2008)
Dystopia brought about by poor quality education and the growth of mass culture.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Life Without Crows” - Gerri Leen (Life Without Crows and Other Stories, 2008)
Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia as seen through the eyes of one of a group of survivors who have lived an isolated life in the mountains for hundreds of years and perceive it as a good life.
Originally published in Fusion Fragment. Ed. Cavan Terrill (2008), an on line journal that is no longer available.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Mauvety” - Ida VSA Red (b. 1933) (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
Lesbian eutopia where the elderly meet the young, who will take on their burdens.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mother Puncher - Gina Ranalli (Afterbirth Books, 2008)
Dystopia of an authoritarian government in an overpopulated world. The focus of the novel is a man working in a hospital fulfilling the role of the title.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Moxyland - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) (Jacana Media, 2008)
Dystopia of corporate control set in Cape Town, South Africa in 2018. In an interview published in Locus 74.1 (648) (January 2015): 48, the author has called it an “apartheid allegory”.
Rpt. London: Angry Robot, 2009.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"My Utopia" - Ruth Mountaingrove (1923-2016) (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
The author describes her Arcadian utopia as having no men with, as in 1915 Gilman, parthenogenesis; no money, which is replaced by barter; and no private property. Women would be able to have work they loved. All children would be welcomed and cared for. There would be peace and harmony with a council deciding any “small disputes.” No lawyers. Healing wise women instead of doctors. No religion.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Neptune's Children - Bonnie Dobkin (Walker, 2008)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with only children surviving on an island theme park.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Night Children - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Starscape/Tor, 2008)
Young adult dystopia of children living in a huge mall and coming out only at night.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Nightship" - Kim Westwood (Dreaming Again, 2008)
Post-catastrophe dystopia set in an environmentally devastated Australia where the different groups are at constant war and slavery and violence are standard. Very few women are born, and they are used for breeding.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Novel Excerpt: And the Women Take Over Jerusalem” - [Betty Susan] Weinbaum (b. 1952) (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
Pretty much what the title says.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Other Side of the Island - Allegra Goodman (b. 1967) (Razorbill, 2008)
Young adult dystopia where having more than one child merits punishment.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The pair-bond imperative: What's Love Got to do with it?" - Jennifer Rohn (b. 1967) (Nature, 2008)
A space colony establishes a rigid procreation system, and the story is about love interfering with it.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

“Payback” - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, 2008)
In the book Atwood reflects on the nature of debt and the debtor creditor relationship from a number of different perspectives, primarily in literature and myth. In the last chapter, “Payback” (163-203), she presents a twenty-first century Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (). This “Scrooge Nouveau,” as she calls him, owns multiple corporations, and is only concerned with more and more money and has no interest in the damage his actions inflict on other people or the planet. The first spirit is the Spirit of Earth Day Past who shows him how Earth was nurtured in various cultures but also shows him the Black Death and other ways humans negatively impacted the Earth. The Spirit of Earth Day Present shows him various contemporary disasters-in-the making. Finally, the Spirit of Earth Day Future multiple possible futures. In one, the human race is extinct. Finally, alternative futures are present, one in which the Earth is recovering and the other in which there is a food shortage, inflation has destroyed Scrooge’s wealth, and he is in danger of starvation.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Plague of Doves - [Karen] Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) (HarperCollins, 2008)
Includes a section on a dystopian religious intentional community.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Plan C" - Tricia Sullivan (b. 1968) (’68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution, 2008)
A story of a girl escaping an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Reality Crash - Lou Grantt; Cyd Ropp (Authors, 2008)
Dystopia in which most people subscribe to a virtual reality network that hides the horrors of the real world.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Remembering" - Jody Jewdyke (Sinister Wison, 2008)
The eutopia that developed after all the males and their destructiveness disappeared. Direct communication with animals. Telepathy and telekinesis. Simple life in tune with the Earth. Acceptance of difference.
Keywords: Canadian 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

The Roar - Emma Clayton (b. 1968) (Chicken House, 2008)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia. See also 2012 Clayton.
U.S. ed. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic, 2009.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Rooftops of Manila" - Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 4: Literature of the Fantastic, 2008)
Dystopia of extreme rich/poor divisions.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

“Santa Fe in 2028” - Pelican Lee (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
A eutopian Santa Fe with no patriarchy, no racism, no gender discrimination in a world at peace. No poverty. Corporations broken up and replaced by small businesses.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sapphique - Catherine Fisher (b. 1957) (Hodder Children's Books, 2008)
Sequel to 2007 Fisher in which one boy escapes from the prison but his brother is still imprisoned.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

"Seniorsource" - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) (Fast Forward, 2008)
SF story with a dystopian background. Generational conflict has placed many old people in orbiting satellites or on the moon with settlement of Mars in process. This has impoverished Earth. “The old were warehoused with the  terminally ill, and depending on how much money they had, they either got personal care or they didn’t” (275).
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Shift - Charlotte Agell (b. 1959) (Henry Holt, 2008)
Young adult religious dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish author; US author

"Sideways (Excerpt from forthcoming novel, Compostable)" - Sharon Wachsler (b. 1969) (Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, 2008)
Dystopia extrapolated from current political and social conditions, particularly a projection of extreme discrimination against the disabled.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Sky Inside - Clare B[unkalew] Dunkle (b. 1964) (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008)
Flawed utopia of genetically engineered children living in a suburban dome, which is supposed to be eutopian, and the need for one of the children to venture outside. See also 2009 Dunkle.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Spider the Artist” - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) (Seeds of Change, 2008)
The story is set in a near future Nigeria where the oil copies have developed AIs to protect their pipelines from people breaching them by killing the people. Only the government and the wealthy get any benefit from the oil, and the land is badly polluted.
Rpt. as by Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 57-70; and in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 122 (July 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Stretto: Book Five of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2008)
Final volume. See also 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2) Duchamp. This volume stresses the utopian elements, basically feminist and liberal, but the various political struggles continue, and there is no clear resolution at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Suffer the Children" - Barbara Nickless (Future Americas, 2008)
Dystopia in which children are kept as slaves in mines.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Switching to Goddess: Humanity’s Ticket into the Future - Jeri Lyn Studebaker (b. 1948) (O Books, 2008)
Mostly a non-fiction exposition of the author’s views on the good society of Neolithic times that she argues was based on goddesses and the problems related to losing the goddess, but the section “The Fix” (238-70) lays out the eutopia she sees arising from “switching to goddess.” It is “peaceful and fiercely environmentally conscious” with communities organized around particular local goddesses who encourage societies that are “playful, risk-taking, sensual, peaceful, and exhilarating.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

"They Came From Next Door" - Kristyn Dunnion (b. 1969) (Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, 2008)
Dystopia of gay and lesbian capitalism and the revolt against it.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

They Is Us: A Cautionary Horror Story. Including special supplementary material 'Lonely Bob' by Willow Hunt - Tama Janowitz (b. 1957) (The Friday Project, 2008)
Odd dystopia of extreme pollution, violence, and general decay set in U.S.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

The Unnameables - Ellen Booraem (Harcourt, 2008)
Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements about a strict community that only gives names to acceptable things.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Wimmin of Our Dreams” - Jae Haggard (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
Lesbian eutopia. Extract/summary of her book The Wimmin of Our Dreams. Outland, NM: Author, [1995].
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Womelia of Estesusa” - Ellen Williams (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
A lesbian eutopia with New Age elements that contrasts the over-busy, over-populated, polluted Earth with an alternative peaceful eutopia in which the world is cared for and produces plenty for all.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2060: A Love Story in a Utopian Future - Janette Rainwater (iUniverse, 2007)
A virus has killed most men, but women have used sperm banks to create a multi-racial society and produce a group of boys. As the boys grow up, they question the system, but by 2072 and the end of the novel the issues have been resolved and a good, well-integrated society exists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"After the Choice" - Robin Hillard (b. 1939) (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia of the erosion of labor laws in Australia, but when people become aware of the horrible conditions, there is the beginning of a change back.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

and what remains - Miria George (Tawata, 2007)
Dystopian play in which all Māori leave New Zealand. Official policies included that after a certain date Māori could no longer be known as Māori and compulsory birth control for young Māori women. All references to Māori were removed from New Zealand law.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Māori author

The Atlanteans: A Contemporary Novel. An adventure romance, in an unusual setting, leading to a story of mystery and suspense - Dorothy Cora Moore (iUniverse, 2007)
New Age eutopia. Although much of the novel is concerned with Atlanteans in the contemporary U.S., it includes a description of a eutopian Atlantis at the time of its collapse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq’ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2007)
Sequel to 2005, 2006, and 2007 Duchamp, Tsunami. See also 2008 Duchamp. In this volume the aliens return to see whether or not Earth should be quarantined.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blood Kin - Ceridwen Dovey (b. 1980) (Penguin Books (South Africa), 2007)
Dystopia in which two authoritarian leaders struggle for power as seen through the eyes of aids to one of them, who has been captured by the other.
U.K. ed. London: Atlantic, 2007. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2008.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; South Korean author; US author

"By Fools Like Me" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
Environmental dystopia. Post-catastrophe dystopia that worships the nature that has been destroyed.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of The Year, Volume Two. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 199-209; in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015),186-99; and in The Best of Nancy Kress (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 255-67, with an “Afterword to ‘By Fools Like Me” (268).
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Dance Dance Revolution. Poems - Cathy Park Hong (b. 1976) (W.W. Norton, 2007)
Poem sequence set in 2016 in a new town that recreates great cities of the past, where the main character has been exiled as a political dissident.
An excerpt was published online as “6 Poems.” ActionYes 1.2 (Spring 2006). actionyes.org/issue 1/hong/hong1/htm#. Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 945-47 with an editor’s note on 945. Other parts were previously published, sometimes in earlier versions, in several publications.
Keywords: Female author; Korean American 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

["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

“Far Side of the Moon” - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) (Ideomancer [An online journal], 2007)
Dystopia of women enslaved for sex tourists on a space platform.
Keywords: Female author; US author

First Light - Rebecca Stead (b. 1968) (Wendy Lamb Books, 2007)
Young adult flawed utopia. Gracehope is a community next to a lake in the ice under Greenland that had been established by people suspected of witchcraft and driven nearly to extinction. A eutopian society based on peace and cooperation was created, but it has grown to where it must limit births, and conservatives resist expansion, which would require a trip to the surface proposed by a young woman.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Flet: A Novel - Joyelle McSweeney (b. 1976) (Fence Books, 2007)
Dystopia in which U.S. cities have been abandoned in face of a faked bioterrorist “Emergency” that allows the government to extend its control and further manipulate the population. A related volume is her Nylund, the Sarcographer. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007.
Excerpts were originally published as “The Missing Cities (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel).” Caffeine Destiny http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/mcsweeney.html; “Novella Excerpts from Flet and Nyland.” Fairy Tale Review (No. 2? The Green Issue); and “Airlines (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel”) Apocryphal Text 1.4. (nd) http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/vol1_issue_4.html; “The Seed Vision (from Flet).” Cutbank Poetry 1.65 (2006): Article 55; ; and “from Flet. A Novel.” Fence 10. 1 & 2 (Fall 2007 - Winter 2008): 6-8.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Four Hundred Thousand” - Livia Llewellyn (b. 1963) (Subterranean Press, 2007)
The story is set in a future where Earth is supposedly at war with aliens and girl’s eggs are drafted into the military after her first period.
Rpt. in her Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Greentopia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto (Coach House Books, 2007)
A collection of forty-three mostly short essays; the third volume presenting a future Toronto plus a “DirecTOry” of sources for environmentally friendly sources and activities (261-316). The “TOmorrow” section (203-59) is less explicitly utopian than that in the first volume but includes one graphic-novel eutopia, “Memoirs from the Distant Future” by Marc Ngui (204-12) depicting a sustainable future Toronto. See 2005 McBride and Wilcox, eds.; Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds. The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. uTOpia Two. Toronto, ON: 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; and Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds. The Edible City: Toronto’s food from farm to work. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2009.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

Ha'penny - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2007)
Sequel to 2006 Walton. See also 2008 Walton. In this volume, there is a conspiracy to overthrow Nazi government of England.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

"Hollywood Roadkill" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2007)
Dystopia of a radical rich poor division with the poor living beside or in the medians of highways,
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"In the Bushes" - Jami Attenberg (b. 1971) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of an environmentally damaged disintegrating U.S.
Rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 140-44.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Incarceron - Catherine Fisher (b. 1957) (Hodder Children's Books, 2007)
Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements set in a vast prison. First volume of a series. See also 2008 Fisher.
U.S. ed. New York: Dial Books, 2010.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

"Keeping Time" - [Maria] F[elisa] H. Batacan (Philippine Speculative Fiction, 2007)
Dystopia brought about by an enzyme put into water to control obesity that inexorable takes weight off everyone until they die.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Female author; Filipina 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

“The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large” - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Eclipse One, 2007)
Post-catastrophe dystopia following a nuclear attack on Baltimore. The story is about a boy who lost his memory.
Rpt. in her After the Apocalypse. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 87-99.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Love, American Style, 2033" - Darcy Cosper (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Satire. Competitive swinging becomes the national pastime but excludes same-sex couples and thus the U.S., which is the only country that excludes them, does not participate in international competitions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Magdas Career Choice" - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) (The Worker's Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia in which the Society of Social Engineers have supposedly solved all Australia’s problems. Only those testing as having exceptional abilities have careers. One handicapped person’s career is to be the “scape-grace” (See 2001 Lindquist). A related non-utopian story is "Purgatory." Dreaming Again. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2008), 412-24, with an "Afterword" (424).
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Margarets - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (HarperCollins, 2007)
A science fiction novel set on many different planets, with all the humans with connections to an original Margaret. Some of the planets are presented as dystopian.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Marrying In" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
A future United States where each state competes for population or to keep the state for the local population. The setting is Colorado, which has extremely restrictive immigration policies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The New You - Hilary Bromberg (Oscura Press, 2007)
The novel is presented as if it is from the Second Dark Age having been founded after a future Great Devastation. The Second Dark Age is compared to Huxley's Brave New World (1932) with control by government and corporations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"No Man's Land" - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) (The WisCon Chronicles, 2007)
Eutopia. A planet where women and men have separated and the arrival of new men from space in the women's area. Both positive and negative impacts are described.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"The Old World" - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (The Fate of Mice, 2007)
Eutopia. The human race suddenly becomes altruistic and compassionate. The story is primarily concerned with a man who thought it all a conspiracy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Perfection" - Margot Berwin (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of perfection brought about by socialized plastic surgery.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Persephone's Library" - [Susan Lynne] [Deefholts] (1942-2015) (Tesseracts Eleven, 2007)
Authoritarian dystopia. A small community living at what appears to be the edge of the world is dominated by one man, who prohibits learning predating the event that created the community and takes multiple wives for himself.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Indian author

"Pirate Daddy's Lonely Hearts Club Call-In Show" - Jardine Libaire (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of corporate control (FBI-Google) specifically the requirement to wear a device the indicates whether or not another person is the right partner.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Revisionist - Miranda Mellis (Calamari Press, 2007)
Brief surrealistic dystopia with some suggestion of there having been a nuclear war. The protagonist observes and reports on the activities of a number of people in a number of settings.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Right to Work" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia. The elimination of pensions means that the old must work while the young play. Workers are considered lower class.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"A Sacred Institution" - Esther [Mona] Friesner (b. 1951) (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, 2007)
Satire on Christian fundamentalism.
Keywords: Female author; US 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 Sea-wreck Stranger - Anna Mackenzie (b. 1963) (Longacre Press, 2007)
Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman on an isolated island who saves a man after a wreck. The islanders, who have closed themselves off from all outsiders including anything from the sea, would have killed both of them. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Ebony Hill. Dunedin, New Zealand: Longacre Press, 2010, the protagonist tries to settle into a new community, which is threatened from outside. In the third volume, Finder’s Shore. Dunedin, New Zealand: Longacre Press, 2011, the young woman returns to the island which is going through a power struggle.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Shadow Speaker - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2007)
A young adult novel that begins with a simple eutopia followed by an authoritarian dystopia before becoming a fantasy adventure based on African myth. Loose connection to 2005 Okorafor-Mbachu. With the publication of new edition the book became the first volume of The Desert Magician’s Duology followed by Like Thunder. The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book 2. New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023, which is mostly fantasy based on African myth.
A revised and updated edition with a new introduction by the author was published New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Shelter - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (Tor, 2007)
Dystopia. In the twenty-first century compassion is a crime.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Silverstream - Jillian Sullivan (b. 1967) (Pearson Education New Zealand, 2007)
Young adult dystopia about a society that enforces its rules by sending dissidents to work camps. A young woman successfully fights the regime.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"The Single Girl's Guide to Compromising Homeland Security" - Jen Kirkman (b. 1974) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of required marriage.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Social Security" - Pamela Rentz (The Wordstock Ten: Finalists from the 2007 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition, 2007)
The story is set in a future in which climate change and economic problems have resulted in the government abandoning an Indian settlement.
Rpt. in her Red Tape: Stories from Indian Country (Np: CreateSpace, 2017), 43-59.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

The Space Program - Joanna Metzger (Mondo, 2007)
Humorous children’s adventure story set on a planet where children from many planets come to be trained for the space program and learn to live together.
Keywords: Female author

Stewards of the Flame - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (BookSurge, 2007)
The novel begins in an authoritarian medical dystopia in which health is extremely strictly controlled, to the extent that even the slightest deviation from the ideal leads to forced hospitalization. A small group of people with "psi powers" begin a lengthy conspiracy that culminates in 2009 Engdahl. See also 2013 Engdahl
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stigma and The Cave. Two Novels - [Diana Melhem] [Vogel] (1926-2013) (Syracuse University Press, 2007)
Dystopias. Stigma (1-101) describes a government responding to a crisis by killing some of its population and imprisoning much of the rest. The Cave (103-82) describes such a government encouraging its population to escape to caves; it includes religious conflict. Called volumes two and three of the Patrimonies trilogy. The first volume was Blight. New York: Riverrun Press, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Tabloids Bring Back Family Values!" - Ana Marie Cox (b. 1972) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of average people competing to attract paparazzi by creating more and more extreme false versions of their lives.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Taken+ - Tenea D. Johnson (Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III, 2007)
The story is told by a U.S. Senator’s adult daughter who, along with the adult children of other prominent politicians, has been captured by a radical Black movement, the New Dawn, and incarcerates in the hold of a ship designed to replicate the Middle Passage slave ships from Africa to the United States.
Rpt. in her Broken Fevers (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2021), 33-46.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2007)
Sequel to 2005, 2006, and 2007 Duchamp, Blood in the Fruit. See also 2008 Duchamp. This volume shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the particular changes they want.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Walmartopia" - Catherine Capellaro (2007)
Dystopia set in 2037. Walmart runs the U.S., and the capital is in Bensonhurst, Arkansas, the company's headquarters.
Keywords: Female author

The Wanderers - Naomi Gladish Smith (Chrysalis Books, 2007)
The novel is similar to 2004 Smith in that it is concerned with a group of people in the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2011 Smith.
Keywords: Female author; US author

We, Robots A Novella - Sue Lange (Aqueduct Press, 2007)
Dystopia told from the point of view of a robot. Initially the robot is a simple one caring for and protecting a child, and the dystopia is first presented in the description of the need for protection on the walk to school and in the school, which is a fortress and is as concerned with protecting the child as teaching her. Then the robots are given the ability to feel pain and humans are given enhanced powers previously limited to the robots. Little actually changes and the same dystopia remains.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Working Dead of Heehaw's Australia" - Jenny Schwartz (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia. As a result of deliberate cuts in health care and the elimination of workplace rights, a large supply of zombies is available to replace workers. A direct commentary on the policies of John Howard (b. 1939), Australian Prime Minister 1996-2007.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Absalom's Mother" - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Futureshocks, 2006)
Authoritarian dystopia with centralized control of all aspects of life. The story is about the revolt of a group of women against the drafting of their children into the workforce and the militia at a very young age. Schooling involves teaching children how to do the jobs they are already required to do.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Among The Free. A Shadow Children Book - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young People, 2006)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Haddix. In this volume, a rebellion ousts the Population Police, but the new regime is little better.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Baby Merchant - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Tor, 2006)
Dystopia. The background to the novel is a future where babies are a high-priced commodity for those who cannot conceive or adopt.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bar Code Rebellion - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic, 2006)
Sequel to 2004 Weyn following the girl as she joins the resistance. See also 2012 Weyn.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blue Stars for All Saviors' Day" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (The Outcast: An Anthology of Exiles and Strangers, 2006)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Carnival - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Bantam Books, 2006)
Mostly adventure and intrigue on New Amazonia, a world dominated by women who always carry weapons.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Chute Thru - Janice Marriott (b. 1946) (Mallinson Rendal, 2006)
Young adult humorous dystopia. Global warming means that everyone lives on large rafts. The focus of the novel is on a young boy living on one of the poorer rafts in the northern ocean where work is enforced by cyborgs, and everything is breaking down. There are also rafts for the rich and powerful, mostly in the southern ocean. See also 2009 Marriott.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Civilization" - Kaftan, Vylar (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. The story presents alternative histories depending on the choices made but all end with the need to begin again.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 463-70; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 463-70.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cruncher's, Inc." - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. A future where all the actions of each individual are evaluated and tabulated to determine their worth for medical treatment and other social services.
Keywords: Female author; US author

". . . the darkest evening of the year. . ." - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) (The Future Is Queer, 2006)
Dystopia with threatened eutopian enclaves. The eutopian elements are composed of those who practice an old religion based in nature; the dystopia is the official oppression of the eutopia.
Rpt. in her in her Ice and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng: PS Publishing, 2018), 189-209, with a note on the story (304-05).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Debt of the Innocent" - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Ecological dystopia that requires reduced electricity supplies even to hospitals. This results in babies being allowed to die or even being killed to save others.
Keywords: Female author; US author