New Zapata - Teri Hall (Author, 2013)
Dystopia in which Texas has seceded from the U.S. and outlawed abortion, birth control, and divorce. The novel follows one young woman trying to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Not a Drop to Drink - Mindy McGinnis (Katherine Tegen Books, 2013)
Young adult climate change dystopia in which a young woman, surviving alone while protecting her water source, has to adjust to nearby neighbors. In a sequel, In a Handful of Dust. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014, she and another young woman set out to try to find more water.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“An Object In Motion” - Elizabeth Buchanan (Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology]., 2013)
Dystopia of Earth essentially flattened to provide the material to build habitats in space, which are initially promised for everyone but quickly are limited to the rich.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Office of Mercy - Ariel Djanikian (Viking, 2013)
Flawed utopia in which America Five has been established underground after a catastrophe. The utopia is a totally planned society striving to achieve immortality, but it is trying to kill all humans who still live outside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Orleans - Sherri L. Smith (b. 1971) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2013)
Young adult post-catastrophe (hurricanes followed by disease). The entire Mississippi Delta region is walled off and inhabitants assumed to be dead. The young woman protagonist decides to take a baby, whose mother has died in childbirth, across the wall to give it a better life. African American female author.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Othello Pop” - Andaiye Reeves (Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, 2013)
Brief vignette set in a racist dystopia in which it is illegal to educate anyone not white, and “yellow” girls are supposed to be killed at birth. Some people resist.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Patriot Remnant: Return to Freedom - Siara Brandt (CreateSpace, 2013)
Survivalist dystopia in which a small group defeats a vicious government. The novel ends with the beginnings of a good, traditional, farming community.
Keywords: Female author

Pawn - Aimée Carter (b. 1986) (Harlequin Teen, 2013)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume a young woman can, with plastic surgery, move up in social rank, but she has been involved in trying to overthrow the regime. Captive. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2014 is the middle volume in which she has chosen the surgery and faces many perils. The third volume is Queen. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2015 in which the regime is defeated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Perfect Ruin. The Internment Chronicles Book One - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2013)
First volume of a young adult series set, in this volume, on what appears to be a segment torn out of Earth and relocated in space above Earth. The society sees itself in utopian terms but is a highly structured authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist and her friends are discontented, and the novel ends with them stepping on Earth for the first time. In the second volume, Burning Kingdoms. The Internment Chronicles Book Two. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2015, the protagonists discover that Earth is also dangerous. In the third volume, Broken Crowns: The Internment Chronicles Book Three. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016 the protagonists discover that the segment in space is falling, and they must find a way for the two parts of Earth to cooperate. Related enovellas are No Intention of Dying. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014 http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Intention-of-Dying/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480674; and The Heir Apparent. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015. http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Heir-Apparent/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480681.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Program - Suzanne Young (b. 1976) (Simon Pulse, 2013)
Dystopia in which an apparent epidemic of depression has led to widespread suicide, and “The Program” is supposedly the only treatment. The protagonist struggles to keep her growing depression hidden. The Treatment. New York: Simon Pulse, 2014 is a sequel where the main characters flee from those running the Program in search of a different treatment. The Remedy. New York: Simon Pulse, 2015 is a prequel about a girl who has the ability to emulate the deceased and does so for grieving families. The Epidemic. New York: Simon Pulse, 2016 is a prequel about the empowerment of the protagonist of The Remedy. The Adjustment. A Program Novel Book 5. New York: Simon Pulse, 2017 deals with the problems of those return after having their memories wiped. The final volume is The Complication. A Program Novel Book 6. New York: Simon Pulse, 2018 in which the main protagonist of the novels is finally able to stop the adjustment of the previous volume.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Registry - Shannon Stoker (William Morrow, 2013)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are raised to be brides to be auctioned off at eighteen and boys are raised to be soldiers. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume is The Collection. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first novel escapes from the U.S. to Mexico but has to return to help her friends. The third volume is The Alliance. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2015 in which the protagonist is betrayed by everyone but wins through.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Replica - Jenna [Jennifer] Black (b. 1965) (Tor Teen, 2013)
Young adult corporate dystopia where one company has developed human replication. Her Resistance. New York: Tor Teen, 2014 continues the story with the discovery of government corruption and the development of a resistance movement. The third volume, Revolution. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, continues the theme of resistance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Resistance - Zainab Amadahy (b.1956) (CreateSpace, 2013)
Corporate dystopia set in Toronto.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“Right to Choose” - India Edghill [pseud.] (Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13, 2013)
Free Amazon story. A related song by Rosemary Edghill is on 121-22.
Keywords: Female author

The Root of Heaven & Earth - E. A. Grace (Ethosphere Press, 2013)
The novel begins in a high tech, overpopulated dystopia with a corporate world government (Corprogov). A physicist in that world accidentally projects himself to a parallel world that is a eutopia. He learns about the world through a book by the woman who brought about the eutopia, and the book is provided with some sections complete and others summarized as he travels to a retreat based on the teachings in the book. The eutopia has a limited population, strict environmental standards achieved through education not government.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Ryla 2212 - Ytasha L. Womack (YSolar, 2013)
The novel begins on a planet called Hope, which “was built on the principle of universal love and cooperation” (8), but conflict has emerged, and the young woman protagonist is on a quest to find answers and right wrongs. Hope is high tech, based on its own inventors, who developed flying cars, “a host of eco-friendly power sources,” “a lifestyle and herbs that prevented aging, and abolished disease” (8). Hope had “a system without currency, and education program that reinvigorated learning, punishment without prisons, and a score of never-before seen shifts in humanity” (8). There are two sequels. Ryla 2213. Vol. 2. Chicago, IL: YSolstar, 2015 129 pp. continues the adventures of Rayla, now in the waters under the Martian surface.  Eartha 2198. Chicago, IL: Uraeus88, 2019 103 pp. is a prequel.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

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

Sister, Sister - Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) (Kwela Books, 2013)
Much of the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, but some is set in a near future dystopia after the end of oil.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

“Social Services” - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
Dystopia of social services seen through the eyes of one of the providers who is, herself, controlled by her superiors.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Ian C. Esslemont (Toronto, ON, Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2013), 249-62
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Solidarity" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” where the protagonist of the first two stories learns that the supposed libertarian utopia is, if anything, an authoritarian dystopia. See also 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Soul Food" - Lakin-Smith, Kim (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Climate-change dystopia made even worse by human intervention.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Stars Change - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) (Circlet Press, 2013)
The novel is set on a planet that had been settled by South Asians from England, where the University of All the Worlds had attracted students and teachers from all over the galaxy. A culture that accepted humans, modified and unmodified, and aliens had developed, and the novel focuses on an attack on that culture.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Summer Prince - Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982) (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013)
The young adult novel is set in a post-nuclear war future in an arcology in Brazil that is ruled by women who, over the centuries, have become a rather hidebound ruling class. The arcology has the poor at the bottom and the rulers at the top.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Swan Book - Alexis Wright (b. 1950) (Giramondo, 2013)
Dystopia set in a future Australia, particularly Aboriginal Australia, undergoing the effects of climate change.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“The Switch (Excerpt from the Switch II: Clockwork)” - Valjeanne Jeffers (b. 1967) (Steamfunk!, 2013)
The story takes place in a future of white privilege and supremacy.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

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

Taken - Erin Bowman (b. 1990) (HarperTeen, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which all boys are taken by the government at eighteen and the successful resistance to the program. Sequels include Frozen. A Taken Novel. New York: Harper Teen, 2014; and Forged. A Taken Novel. New York: HarperTeen, 2015, both of which follow the resistance to its ultimately successful conclusion. Stolen, New York: HarperTeen Impulse, 2014 is a prequel available as an ebook.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which potential future leaders are put through a grueling, and potentially deadly test. First volume of a series. In the second volume, Independent Study. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the heroine begins to have memories that had supposedly been wiped and learns about the real nature of the government. In the final volume, Graduation Day (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the dystopia is defeated
Keywords: Female author; US author

“That the Machine May Progress Eternally” - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales, 2013)
A story inspired by 1909 Forster, “The Machine Stops,” in which a boy makes contact with the outside but will not leave the Underneath even when the machine stops
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Ward - Jordana Frankel (Katherine Tegel Books, 2013)
Young adult dystopia set in a flooded New York City ruled by a corrupt Governor where people are getting sick from the polluted water. In the sequel, The Isle. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016, a source of fresh water proves to be the cure for the disease, but the Governor wants to control it. A drought is coming so a future novel can be expected.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Welcome to Ted Cruz’s Thunderdome” - Maureen [Brigid] Dowd (b. 1952) (The New York Times Sunday Review, 2013)
The 2084 dystopia created by the collapse of the U.S. government in 2013 set in “A Place Once Called Washington” where the animals released by the unpaid zookeepers roam the mall, the White House is empty, there are no police, and so forth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

When We Wake - Karen Healey (b. 1981) (Allen & Unwin, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a young woman becomes part of an experiment in cryonics and is revived a hundred years later where is kept locked up. First novel of a series followed by While We Run. New York: Little, Brown, 2014 in which she and a young man are fleeing the authorities.
U.S. ed. New York: Little Brown, 2013
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“Your Name Here” - Laura Resnick (b. 1961) (How to Save the World, 2013)
Humorous take on the overpopulation problem. Most of the world has signed the International Population Agreement that requires a license to be allowed to have a child and are well on the way to become truly good societies. The U.S. is a holdout, and the story traces the trajectory that led to its adoption by the United States (the key change is “requiring candidate in the House or Senate to pass written and oral exams in basic logic, science, history, and ethics, as well as a test on the US Constitution” [76-77]) and what one has to do to get such a license.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Agenda 21 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964); Harriet Parker (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2012)
Dystopia in which the United Nations has taken over the U.S. and enslaved its citizens. An “Afterword” (279-95) has additional information regarding Agenda 21 and includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. For the 1998 Agenda 21, see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"All I Know of Freedom" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which a girl sold to a couple to work as a servant escapes, and then briefly joins a cult that believes the world is ending and plan to leave the planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“All Them Pretty Babies” - Camille Alexa (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which very few babies are born that are “normal” and the issues that this raises for the society and those who try to save those who are not mutants.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Arcadia - Lauren Groff (b. 1978) (Voice, 2012)
A novel about an intentional community intended to be a eutopia and that problems it faced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Article 5 - Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen, 2012)
Young adult dystopia centered around “The Moral Statutes of the United States of America” formulated by the Federal Bureau of Reformation, which replaced the revoked Bill of Rights. The five statutes are 1. “The United States embraces the Church of America as her official religion.” 2. “Literature or other media considered immoral are hereby banned and shall not be owned. bought, sold, or traded in any capacity.” 3. “Whole families are to be considered one man, one woman, and child(ren).” 4. “Traditional male and female roles shall be observed.” 5. “Children are considered to be valid citizens only when conceived by a married man and wife.” All other children are to be removed from the home and subjected to rehabilitation” (53--Article 5 only; others appear only on the dust jacket). The entire list with much more detail can be found at http://www.kristensimmonsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/the moral statutes.pdf. First volume in a series followed by Breaking Point. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, which is a typical middle volume where the protagonists escape from the authorities and go underground but remain in danger; and Three. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, in which the protagonists reach what they expected to be a safe house but find it destroyed. They then follow leads to where they finally reach safety and freedom.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese American author

Ashes of Twilight - [Cindy] [Holby] (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012)
Young adult dystopia set in a domed city built in the mid-nineteenth century as the resources are running out. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Shadows of Glass. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, the protagonist escapes from the domed community she lives in and discovers that the world outside is not as good as she had imagined. She returns to the domed community to help her friends and is recaptured. In the third volume, Remnants of Tomorrow. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, the protagonist is released into the custody of a group outside the dome that she must escape from, and the ending is positive.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Astrophilia" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Clarkesworld, 2012)
Eutopia set in the same world as her 2010 "Amaryliss". In this story there is a conflict over what is useful with one member of a community fascinated by astronomy, which she does on her own time, and one who wants to destroy her telescope.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 277-99; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013), 316-30 with an editor’s introduction on 316; in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 198-218; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 244-66.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bar Code Prophecy - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic Press, 2012)
Third volume in a series; see also 2004 and 2006 Weyn. In this volume, a girl who was happy to get the bar code tattoo, sets off a crusade against the system that ends with all satellites falling into the oceans, setting off massive tsunamis, and destroying the dystopian system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Berserker Eyes" - Maria V. Snyder (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which there is a recessive gene for berserker behavior and the society encourages that as a means of creating a berserker military.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beta - Rachel Cohn (b. 1968) (Hyperion, 2012)
Young adult dystopia of a future where clones can be created that are already teenagers and are for sale. They are supposed to be without emotion or souls, but the protagonist, a sixteen year old clone who is only weeks old, discovers that she has emotions and revolts. First volume in a series followed by Emergent. New York: Hyperion, 2014, where the clone and her source are in conflict. No further volumes appear to have been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blueprints" - Anna Caro (Fat Girl in a Strange Land, 2012)
The Earth’s ecology has collapsed, and most people are being transported to Terra Nova, with the story told from the point-of-view of one of those left behind.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“Borrowing from the Library” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. Public libraries as common utopian spaces.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Brandy City” - Mia Arderne (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
Global warming dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

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

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

Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken (b. 1987) (Hyperion, 2012)
Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman in a world in which most children have been killed by a disease that gave her and some others an unusual talent. All the children identified with such talents are incarcerated in a so-called rehabilitation camp. She escapes and becomes a leader of other children who are searching for a safe haven. A film, Darkest Minds, with a screenplay by Bracken and Chad Hodge (b. 1977) and directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (b. 1972) was released in 2018. Sequels include Never Fade. New York: Hyperion, 2013 in which the protagonist from the first volume leaves the other children to search for the answer to the disease; In the Afterlight. New York: Hyperion, 2014 in which the same protagonist works with others to find the solution to the disease and defeat the government; and The Darkest Legacy. New York: Hyperion, 2018, which concludes the series. A collection of related stories focusing on characters other than the main protagonist is Through the Dark. A Dark Minds Collection. New York: Hyperion, 2015. The stories had previously published online in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Deciding for Ourselves” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Graphic eutopian story with words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. In the story a neighborhood where no one interacts builds a community; it later falls apart, but some people decide to start again.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Defiance - C. J. Redwine (Balzer + Bray, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia stressing adventure and romance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Dream Eater” - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a society built around one suffering individual.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Elected - Rori Shay (Silence in the Library, 2012)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in 2185 after an environmental crisis in which all countries are isolated from each other and technology is outlawed to protect what is left of the environment. Also, the countries have agreed to a system in which one family in each country is elected to rule for one hundred years, with men ruling and women reproducing. In this novel, a girl has been raised to replace her father as the Elected so that her family can continue in power, and she must disguise herself as a boy and marry a woman to replace her father. Her country has a small technology faction, but it is following the agreement that prohibited its re-development. The second volume, Suspected. Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015, complicates the personal relations but focuses on conflict between the country the girl leads and its neighbor, which is much more authoritarian than hers and is developing the outlawed technology and planning for war. In the third volume, Perfected: Book 3 of The Elected Series. Washington, DC: Silence in the Library, 2015, the countries are no longer as isolated from each other and gradually come to cooperate and begin to repair the environment. A prequel, “The Pendant.” Illus. Ginger Breo was published in Athena’s Daughters Volume 2 (Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015), 193-203 with and “Author’s Note” on 202-03 and as an ebook with the subtitle A Short Story from the World of the Elected Series explains how the girl became the heir.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Erasing Time - [Janette] [Rallison] (b. 1966) (Katherine Tegen Books, 2012)
Young adult dystopia about time travel and the struggle to keep the dystopian regime from using the time machine.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Exile - Banerjee, Neelanjana (Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired to the Ramayana, 2012)
The story is set in a post-catastrophe Las Vegas in a world where India is the dominant economic force, and Indians stuck in the U.S. are desperate to get permission to immigrate to India.
Keywords: Female author; US author

For the Mercy of Water - Karen Jayes (Penguin Books (South Africa), 2012)
The South African situation projected into a drought-stricken future with monopolistic control of the water supply.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

The Forsaken - Lisa M. Stasse (Simon & Schuster BYYR, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in the United Northern Alliance (Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.). First volume in a trilogy. The second volume is The Uprising. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2013 in which the protagonist escapes from a prison camp and joins rebels against the regime. And the final volume is The Defiant. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014 in which the United Northern Alliance is defeated.
Keywords: Female author

Foundlings - Diana Peterfreund (b. 1979) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which a concern for unborn children has led to an authoritarian program to monitor all girls who might get pregnant and control of them if they did.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Freakling - Lana Krumwiede (Candlewick Press, 2012)
Young adult dystopia depicting a society where being different is unacceptable. First volume of a trilogy. The middle volume, Archon. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013, continues the story of one of the protagonists. The third volume is True Son. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2015 in which a final battle is fought.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Free Radicals: A Novel of Utopia and Dystopia - [Chaz (Charles)] [Bufe]; [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (See Sharp Press, 2012)
The novel begins on a run down, violent Earth, moves to an even worse prison planet, and ends with an anarchist community that the author says is based on the German Zegg community.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“The Gift of Touch” - Chinelo Onwualu (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
In a future of regular travel in space, there are a number of dystopias presented, including a religious group that practices child sacrifice.
Rpt. in The Apex Book of World Science Fiction 4. Ed. Mahvesh Murad. Series ed. Lavie Tidhar (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2015), 19-38.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Nigerian author

Glitch - Heather Anastasiu (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone is implanted with a chip that eliminates destructive emotions. First volume of a trilogy followed by Override. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, which focuses on the development of a resistance movement; and Shutdown. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, which deals with the overthrow of the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Good Girl” - Malinda Lo (Diverse Engines, 2012)
Dystopia with people living in tunnels in cities. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037 - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2012)
Sequel to 2010 Kraack. In this volume, protagonists of the first volume are successful in reviving the fortunes of Ashwood, and the U.S. goes through a scandal around surrogacy. See also 2014 Kraack.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"High Stakes" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2012)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” about the making of a film, “High Stakes, on the seastead and the experiences of the protagonist of the first story as she learns more about the problems there. See also 2013 and 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Home Affairs" - Sarah Lotz (b. 1971) (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
Dystopia of African countries run by robots, which creates a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Honey Bear" - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) (Clarkesworld Magazin, 2012)
Climate-change dystopia combined with an alien invasion.
Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 56-68.
Keywords: Female author; Somali-American author

“In the Clearing” - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which all people are drugged through their food. There is a small community of people who have escaped, and the story focuses on the relationship between a boy from the outside and a girl from inside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ink - Sabrina Vourvoulias (Crossed Genres Publications, 2012)
In the future immigrants have their status permanently tattooed on their wrists. A prequel that focusses on the protagonist is “The Memory of Chemistry,” Fantasy, no. 81 (July 2022). https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-memory-of-chemistry/ with an Author Spotlight at https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/non-fiction/author-spotlights/author-spotlight-sabrina-vourvoulias/ that includes discussion of the story’s relationship to her Ink.
Rpt. Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018, with an Introduction by Kathleen Alcalá. 465 pp.
Keywords: Female author; Latina author; US author

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) (Walker Books, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements based partially on Aboriginal beliefs. At fourteen everyone has to be assessed for illegal talents. The focus is on a group of children who escape and are being hunted. See 2013 and 2015 Kwaymullina for sequels.
U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

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

"Liberty's Daughter" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2012)
Flawed libertarian utopia that has indentured labor and is much more authoritarian than it pretends to be. It is a seastead, a set of man-made islands off the west coast of the U.S. See also 2012 Kiritzer, “High Stakes,” 2013 and 2014 Kritzer, and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“LIMBs” - Julia Elliott (b. 1968) (Tin House, 2012)
A dystopia of growing old in the future. The story is set in an old age home where the residents are being used to test high-tech ways of improving their ability to think and remember as well as to move around.
Rpt. without the illus. in her The Wilds: Stories (Portland, OR/Brooklyn, NY: Tin House, 2014), 45-74; and in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 59-77.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Little Hawk" - Erica Lindquist; Aron Christensen (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
While the story is set in a future dystopia of a collapsing world, it is a thoroughly contemporary story about the traumas of a boy being bullied.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Looking Backward: 2162-2012: A View from a Future Libertarian Republic - Beth Cody ([CreateSpace], 2012)
Libertarian eutopia in which the U.S. has been reorganized into a number of independent nations with a focus on the Free States of America located in the middle west and mountain region. Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy lives there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Nature of Ash - Mandy [Amanda] Hager (b. 1960) (Random House New Zealand, 2012)
Young adult dystopia set in a world where two power blocs, one led my China and one led by the United States have formed are in conflict. New Zealand is caught in the middle, and one university student is drawn into the conflict after his father’s murder. A sequel is Ash Arising. Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2018 in which his exposure of the corruption at the heart of New Zealand political life only brings more danger.
Random House New Zealand
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Not Yet - Moira Crone (b. 1952) (University of New Orleans Press, 2012)
Dystopia of the division between the long-lived and those trying to become the long-lived.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Now Purple with Love’s Wound" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which girls are injected with a serum that makes them love the boy who claims them for marriage.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Osiris. Book One of the Osiris Project - E[mma] J. Swift (Night Shade Books, 2012)
Dystopia. Osiris is a ocean city that had been cut off from land in a huge storm fifty years earlier, and most of the inhabitants believe it is the only city on Earth. Deep rich/poor powerful/powerless divisions. First volume of a trilogy. Cataveiro: Book Two of the Osiris Project. [London: Del Rey, 2014 is a typical middle volume where events become both more complicated and more dangerous. In Tamaruq: Book Three of the Osiris Project. London: Del Rey, 2015, after initial difficulties, the conflicts are mostly resolved.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Otherwise" - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Post-catastrophe, violent dystopia seen through the eyes of a lesbian teenager.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 133-157; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 356-378.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Panopticon. A Novel - Jenni Fagan (b. 1977) (William Heinemann, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which a fifteen year old girl who has gone through the Scottish foster care system is sent to The Panopticon, a type of prison proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which prisoners can be efficiently observed. There she finds a helpful social worker and the prisoners ultimately destroy the prison.
U.S. ed. New York: Hogarth, 2013. Rpt. with a “Reader’s Guide,” “Recommended Reading,” and “A Playlist for The Panopticon” (287-300) New York: Hogarth, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“Paths to Utopia” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin that suggest various activities that individuals and groups can undertake to bring about a better society. Some of the other stories focus on specific things that could or have done.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Picking Up the Park” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. Public parks as common utopian spaces.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Pure - Julianna Baggott (Grand Central, 2012)
Dystopia. First volume in the Pure trilogy in which what appears to have been a nuclear war leaves devastation and major physical changes. The “Pure” are those who avoided the fallout and live inside the Dome. The second volume, Fuse. New York: Grand Central, 2013, is mostly intrigue and adventure. In the third volume, Burn. New York: Grand Central, 2014, after much conflict, the Dome is destroyed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Red" - Amanda Downum (b. 1979) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the few surviving groups of teenagers live in boarded-up houses.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Renegade - J[essica] A. Souders (Tor Teen, 2012)
Young adult flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect underground city called Elysium is a highly structured, inegalitarian dystopia that practices eugenics. The novel follows a young woman, whose mother is the dictator, and who has been chosen for the highest class as she learns the truth about her society and by the end of the novel escapes to the surface. Prequels are A Dark Grave: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2012. EBook in which a young man on the surface discovers the underground city and Rise: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2916. EBook in which a young man from the underground who is supposed to kill the protagonist of the first volumes but falls in love with her instead. A sequel is Revelations. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, in which the girl struggles to adjust to living on the surface. The third volume is Rebellion. New York: Tor Teen, 2016 in which the girl and her friends intend to kidnap her mother and exile her to the surface. The ending suggests that a further volume is possible.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Reunion" - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
A dystopia in which soldiers systematically took selected children from their homes to be adopted, killed, or enslaved. The story focuses on the search for one of the children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Salt Sea and the Sky" - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a future Ireland where the need to respond to climate change means that the majority of the people will never have a job and live on a low minimum provided by the state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scrap Collectors" - Arlynn Despi (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 7. Literature of the Fantastic, 2012)
Climate-change dystopia showing a people trying to salvage the remnants of their lost civilization.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

“Seekers in the City” - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Overpopulation, bureaucratic dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Segment" - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia of a future where the news is faked by agencies that completely control the lives of the young actors, who live in agency buildings. The story focuses on a news segment where it is intended that the actor be killed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Selection - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) (Harper Teen, 2012)
Young adult romance novel set in a dystopia with a caste system in which there is a formal competition among young women to be chosen by the prince. First volume in a series followed by The Elite. New York: HarperTeen, 2013; The One. New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard (The Selection Novella). New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Heir. New York: HarperTeen, 2015; and The Crown. New York: HarperTeen, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shadows Cast by Stars - Catherine Knutsson (Athenaeum Books for Young Readers, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with eutopian elements in which a plague is ravaging the world and the only cure is found in antigens in the blood of Aborigines. An Aboriginal family escapes to an enclave on an island (Vancouver island according to an author's note) where she helps strengthen the old ways.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

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

Starters - Lissa Price (Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2012)
First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia set after a biological weapon kills everyone between twenty and sixty, with the younger people called Starters and the older ones known as Enders. The young people struggle to survive, and the protagonist learns of a way of earning money by allowing an Ender to temporarily inhabit her body. A malfunction has her inhabiting an Enders body where she learns of the corruption in the system In the sequel, Enders New York: Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2014, she retains memories from the Enders who had inhabited her body and are trying to use her for their own purposes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Surrender - Elana Johnson (Simon Pulse, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in sequel to 2011 Johnson in which the dictator tries to keep the protagonist of the first volume from remembering the past. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance. See also 2013 Johnson.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes One though Seven - Cheryl L. Cholley (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia. A sequel is Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes Eight though Twelve [The cover title is Survivalist by Circumstance--Novel Two]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2013. Volumes eight through twelve were published as ebooks in 2013, and volume thirteen was published as an ebook in 2013.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Tangerine, Nectarine, Clementine, Apocalypse" - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Interzone, 2012)
Flawed utopia seen through the eyes of a boy who believed its myths until he discovered the flaws.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Three - Annemarie Monahan (PM Press/Flashpoint Press, 2012)
One stream in the novel involves a lesbian intentional community, the eutopian goals that lead to its establishment, and the problems that lead to its collapse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Trial” - Joan De La Haye (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
Overpopulation dystopia in which all deemed not useful are killed.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

Tricentennial - IE Castellano (CreateSpace, 2012)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia where apparently ecologically sound enclosed cities were no longer necessary but used to sustain the power of those in control. At the end, the old U.S. is reestablished.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Two Sisters in Exile” - Aliette de Bodard (b. 1982) (Solaris Rising1.5: An Exclusive Ebook of New Science Fiction, 2012)
A eutopia of peace threatened by the surrounding warrior peoples.
Keywords: Female author; French author; US author

Under the Never Sky - Veronica Rossi (b. 1973) (Harper, 2012)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. First volume of a trilogy to be followed by Through the Ever Night (2013). In this volume, the protagonists, a woman from an enclosed city and a man from the Outside, meet and struggle to survive and learn from each other. The concluding volume, Into the Still Blue. New York: Harper, 2014 has the two leading a group of people to bring about peace.
Keywords: Brazilian American author; Female author

"The Up" - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a post-catastrophe underground society that is slowly failing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“The Water Catchment: Fast Forward to the Past” - Josepha Dietrich (Queensland University of Technology, 2012)
Young adult dystopia plus exegesis. From the author’s abstract. “The genre in which the protagonist's journey is charted and represented is dystopian young adult fiction; hence my creative piece, The Water Catchment, is a novel manuscript for a dystopian young adult fantasy. It is a speculative novel set in a possible future and poses (and answers) the question: What might happen if water becomes the most powerful commodity on earth? There are two communities, called ‘worlds’ to create a barrier and difference where physical ones are not in evidence. A battle ensues over unfair conditions and access to water. In the end the protagonist, Caitlyn, takes over leadership heralding a new era of co-operation and water management between the two worlds.”
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"We Can Do This" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Arc 1.4: Forever Alone Drone, 2012)
The background to the story is a high-tech New York City that has solved the environmental problems, provides for the homeless, and can cure most diseases, but it focuses on the issues that develop when someone put in suspension because her brain tumor could not be cured is cured and brought out of suspension thirty-five years later.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Whisper - Emma Clayton (b. 1968) (Chicken House, 2012)
Sequel to 2008 Clayton. This volume has the same protagonists as the first novel with them successfully fighting a potential dictator and united their world.
U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic/Chicken House, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

“The Write Rules: Character development” - Freya Morris (Nature, 2012)
A brief dystopia in which writing is a capital crime.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Yesterday - C. K. Kelly Martin (Random House, 2012)
Young adult dystopia depicting a police state with a primarily robot work force. Climate change has forced the now United North America to abandon its coastal regions.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Irish author

Across the Universe - Beth Revis (Razorbill, 2011)
Young adult dystopia. The novel concerns a generation starship, with this novel focusing on the preparations for the trip and the dystopian Earth that they are leaving from the perspective of a young girl.  A related story is her “The Other Elder.” After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (New York: Hyperion, 2012), 109-27, and it focuses on the three rules of the starship society, 1. “No differences” 2. “The ship must have one strong, central leader to survive.” 3. “No individual thought.” Sequels include Million Suns. New York: Razorbill, 2012, where serious problems are discovered on the ship; and Shades of Earth: an Across the Universe Novel. New York: Razorbill, 2013, which is set on the planet that they arrive at and focuses on the problems of survival; and  As They Slip Away: An Across the Universe Novella. Np: Penguin Teen Ebook, 2013, which focuses on an additional character.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Apocalypse” - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (After the Apocalypse. Stories, 2011)
Dystopia of the immediate aftermath of the collapse of society.
Keywords: Female author; US author

All Good Children - Catherine Austen (Orca Book Publishers, 2011)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia with a boy who wants to maintain his own identity.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

America Pacifica. A Novel - Anna North (Little, Brown, 2011)
Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia that begins on an island dictatorship followed by the search, by a young woman, for her mother, who has disappeared from the island.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“And Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness” - Lisa Nohealani Morton (Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic, 2011)
Lesbian love story with fantasy elements set in an authoritarian dystopia where most interactions are with machines.
Rpt. in GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 5-17.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Apple Jack" - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) (Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball, 2011)
A post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ashes, Ashes - Jo Treggiari (Scholastic Press, 2011)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which a young woman joins a gang in order to survive and then, with the gang, fights against those trying to infect people with a plague.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Away - Teri Hall (Dial Books, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2010 Hall. In this volume, some protagonists from the first volume have crossed the line and are living a fairly primitive life camping. See also 2013 Hall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beauty Queens - Libba [Martha Elizabeth] Bray (b. 1964) (Scholastic Press, 2011)
Take-off on 1954 Golding, The Lord of the Flies. Humorous novel about a planeload of teenage beauty queens that crash lands on an isolated island, and the society they create there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Black Glass - Meg Mundell (Scribe, 2011)
Dystopia set in a rundown city deeply divided between rich and poor. Stresses the culture of surveillance that is becoming normal in cities.
An earlier version was part of the author's M.A. thesis "Intimate Distance: Surveillance, Detection and Power in Contemporary Culture and Literature: Black Glass: A Novel." Melbourne, 2008.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Blood Red Road. Dustlands Book One - Moira Young (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which a young woman’s twin brother is taken, and she discovers the world outside her isolated homeland where she has to search for him. In the sequel Rebel Heart. Dustlands Book Two. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2012 the heroine rescues her brother. In the final volume, Raging Star. Dustlands Book Three. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014 the heroine is tempted by a vision of a proposed improved Earth called New Eden, which she realizes is deeply flawed and successfully continues her opposition.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Bridge - Jane Higgins (Text Publishing, 2011)
Young adult dystopia set in a violent future in which groups on each side of a river are constantly at war and the effort to bring about reconciliation.
U.S. ed. New York: Tundra Books, 2012.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Bumped - Megan [Fitzmorris] McCafferty (b. 1973) (Balzer & Bray, 2011)
Keywords: Female author; US author

"By Any Other Name" - Kim Westwood (Anywhere But Earth: New Tales of Outer Space, 2011)
The story is set on a world that is trying to erase the past, with everything destroyed when a person dies except for living spaces that the Housing Authority assigns to a new person. Dissident is a bad word and “those called it tend to disappear” (488).
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"The California Queen Comes Calling" - Pat MacEwen (Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change, 2011)
Dystopia brought about by the isolation created by the flooding caused by climate change. The story focuses on the attempt to reestablish a legal system. One subtheme is a law that limits a woman to having two children and the requirement that those children be registered. Any child beyond two is a non-person.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Ceiling is Sky" - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Interzone, 2011)
Dystopia of a future Earth with extreme poverty and very high unemployment, with most people working short term contracts.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Courier's New Bicycle - Kim Westwood (HarperCollins, 2011)
Religious dystopia following a flu pandemic that radically lowered fertility.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

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

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

Delirium - [Laura Suzanne] [Schecter] (b. 1982) (Harper, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which people are inoculated against love at eighteen. Followed by her Pandemonium. New York: HarperCollins, 2012, which follows the main protagonist and is clearly a middle volume; and her Requiem. New York: Harper, 2013 where more and more people come to be able to love. The first printing of Requiem contains a short story, “Alex,” about the protagonist separately paged at the end of the novel. Other related stories can be found in her Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, & Raven. New York: Harper, 2012. The stories were originally published online in 2011 and 2012.
UK ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Divergent - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (Katherine Tegen Books, 2011)
First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy presented initially as a flawed utopia. At sixteen each person must choose among the five factions (Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite) to which they will devote their lives. The novel focuses on a young woman’s choice and her struggles to fit in.  A companion volume that tells the story of two characters and is set before the first volume of the trilogy is Four: A Divergent Collection. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014. An additional story is We Can Be Mended. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2018 was published as an ebook. The second volume, Insurgent. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2012, explores the personal loyalties and conflicts that develop as a result of the choices made in the first volume. In the third volume, Allegiant. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013, the dystopia is defeated, and, after many adventures, the people of the former dystopia and the people from outside it are brought together. A film of Divergent, directed by Neil Burger was released in 2014 with a screenplay with Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor. A film of Insurgent, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman (b. 1962), and Mark Bomback (b. 1971) was released in 2015. A film of Allegiant, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper, and Bill Collage was released in 2017.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One - Linda Hawley (Nouveau Publishing, 2011)
Dystopia based on the author’s interpretation of the recent past (see “The Author’s Views” in the third volume ([281-83]). The dystopia is primarily concerned with the authoritarian nature of government and its attempts to control the population. Over the course of the three volumes people successful fight back against the government and win back their freedom. The other volumes of the trilogy are Guardian of Time. The Prophecies Book Two. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012; and Wisdom Keepers. The Prophecies Book Three. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012.
2nd ed. as Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012. The three volumes were released together on Kindle as The Prophecies Trilogy. Np: 21st Publishing, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Drought - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) (Egmont USA, 2011)
Young adult dystopia about a girl living in a religious enclave in which the people are essentially slaves living a lifestyle of the early nineteenth century. She is essential to the existence of the community, everyone will die if she leaves, and she has the opportunity to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dry Souls - Denise Getson (CBAY Books, 2011)
Young adult dystopia set in a future where there is an extreme water shortage, and rationing is the basis of political power. The focus of the novel is a girl who discovers that she can produce water from the ground. The Last Tree. Austin, TX: CBAY Books, 2016 is a sequel in which the protagonist uses her talent to provide water while being pursued by those who want to control her for their own benefit.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Eternal Winter" - Maria Pia Benosa (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 6: Literature of the Fantastic, 2011)
Climate-change dystopia in which all but a few remnants of the Philippines have disappeared, and one of the remaining is evacuating all the rich and powerful and leaving all the rest behind.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

The Flight of the Silver Vixen - Annalinde Matichei (The Sun Daughter Press, 2011)
Space opera reflecting the cover sub-title, Enter a world where both sexes are female. Glossary on pp. 210-214.
Keywords: Female author

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

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

Heart of Danger - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) (Random House New Zealand, 2011)
Young adult dystopia. Final volume of a trilogy; in this volume, the family briefly settles in the Outside, where Juno is very happy, but a threat to her sister, means that they have to move to another city, but there, where they expected to be safe, her sister is taken ,and Juno has to rescue her.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Heil America" Incorporated: We Thought It Couldn't Happen Here. Volume One - N. A. Forbush (np, 2011)
The contemporary U.S. as a corporate dystopia with plans by corporations and the government to take complete control and destroy the U.S. economy for profit. In this novel those who discover the plot are forced underground. Continued in “Heil America” Incorporated: We Didn’t Think It Could Happen Here. Volume Two. Np: np. where those forced underground are able to overcome the plotters and re-establish a Christian America.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Highest Frontier - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) (Tor, 2011)
Both eutopian and dystopian themes. The novel is set on an Earth and at a college established in orbit around Earth. Earth has undergone massive environmental changes, mostly negative, and equally massive technological changes, mostly presented positively, that people have adjusted to. The protagonist is a young woman from an important political family during her first year at the college. A story set in the same future and clearly from a forthcoming sequel is “Landfall. From The Blood Star Frontier.” The Other Half of the Sky. Ed. Athena Andreadis co-edited by Kay Holt (Bennington, VT: Candlemark & Gleam, 2013): 181-200. The female author is a Professor of Biology at Kenyon College specializing in Microbiology, and her biological knowledge is used to great effect  to create a consistent new environment and biologically based technology.
Keywords: Female author; US author

How I Spent the Apocalypse - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Yard Dog Press, 2011)
The novel focuses on a woman who has planned well ahead for a future disaster and tells everyone that they should prepare and how to prepare. She is ignored, but the disaster comes, and she and some others survive. At the end, those survivors are creating small villages based on cooperation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Indra's Web" - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (TRSF. A special issue of Technology Review (MIT), 2011)
An SF story that focuses on a new power source set in a previous slum outside Delhi, India that had been completely rebuilt using traditional methods and providing a better life for its inhabitants.
Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 145-54.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

Legend - Marie Lu (b. 1984) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011)
Young adult dystopia with the U.S. split into warring nations. The second volume in the series, Prodigy. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 continues the same themes with the protagonists having to choose sides. The third volume, Champion. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 is mostly adventure and intrigue but ends with the dystopia improved. The fourth volume and final volume is Rebel: A Legend Novel. New York: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, 2019. It is set in Antarctica and focuses on the three main characters from the earlier volumes, but they are older and is told from the points-of-view of two of them. A prequel to the series, Life Before Legend. New York: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 was published only as an ebook. There is a graphic novel series: Legend. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015; Prodigy. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016; and Champion. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author; US author

Memento Nora - Angie Smibert (Marshall Cavendish, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which bad memories can be erased by going to a Therapeutic Forgetting Center and taking a pill designed to eliminate a specific memory. A young woman chooses not to have a memory erased, and she and others who have made the same choice publish a book of memories. They are then threatened with having all their memories erased. The first volume in a series. The second volume, The Forgetting Curve. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2012, is a standard middle volume, with things getting worse. The final volume is The Meme Plague. Las Vegas, NV: Skyscape, 2013, and in it people fight back against the dystopia, but it is not clear at the end if they have won or not.
Originated with "Momento Nora." Odyssey (Peterborough, NH) 17.5 (May-June 2008): 19-21.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The New and Perfect Man" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (The New and Perfect Man, 2011)
Dystopia in which a couple decides to create the perfect child by raising it in a technologically advanced but artificial environment and the girl's revolt against them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Nine-Tenths - Meira Pentermann (Author, 2011)
An authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a better alternative, an enclave that is only briefly described and that remains under threat from the dystopia. The conceit of the novel is that a momentary decision can completely change history.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Patriot Girls" - Sisson, Amy (End of an Aeon, 2011)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is in constant future wars and does not produce enough lower-class boys to serve. The Patriot Girls are lower-class girls who sign up to mate with the boys to produce the future military.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Possession - Elana Johnson (Simon Pulse, 2011)
First volume of a young adult dystopia in which people are brainwashed and one teenage girl resists. See also 2012 and 2013 Johnson. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

R/evolution. A Mosaic Novel, Book One - Tenea D. Johnson (counterpoise, 2011)
Genetic engineering dystopia of racial and class conflict in which the privileged have access to genetic enhancements and the poor are starving. One of the enhanced offers the enhancements to the others, and the stories relate to the revolution brought about by changes in the way humans evolve. No evidence of further volumes. See also 2011 Johnson, Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets.”
One chapter, “The Taken,” was first published Whispers in the Night. Ed. Brandon Massey (New York: Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Co., 2007), 215-226. Two of the stories, “How the Carters Got Their Name” and “Live Forevers” are rpt. in her Broken Fevers. Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2021 on 67-71 and 98-111.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Revolution World. Ecodisasters. Torture prisons. Fire-breathing cows. A love story - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented into regions, although a U.S. government is involved in multiple wars and kidnaps and tortures anyone they think might have information useful in the wars. The focus of the novel is on Texas and genetic engineering.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Scored - Lauren McLaughlin (Random House, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone is given a score by ScoreCorp as a teenager that determines all one’s future prospects.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Searchers - Naomi Gladish Smith (Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2011)
The novel is similar to 2004 and 2007 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.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Semiramis” - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2011)
Dystopia concerned with people trying to protect the last seeds and seed banks.
Rpt. in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 352-62.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Silent Country” - Vicki Keire (Dark Tomorrows, 2011)
Essentially a horror story, but the background is a dystopia of extreme violence in a world fighting over the natural resources of South America.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Smoketown - Tenea D. Johnson (Blind Eye Books, 2011)
Complex dystopia with fantasy elements.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Sweet Sixteen" - Kat Howard (Lightspeed, 2011)
A young adult story set on a women-only planet where each girl has multiple parents and, at age sixteen, must choose their future. At that point their DNA is adjusted so that they are completely fitted for the way of life they choose, and their name is changed to reflect that career.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tankborn - Karen Sandler (TU Books, 2011)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which people are genetically modified, some of them to be slaves in a well-defined caste system. The second volume, Awakening. a tankborn novel. New York: Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2013 is a typical middle volume in that things just get worse. The third volume, Rebellion. a tankborn novel. New York: Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2014 achieves a degree of equality among the different humans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

This Shared Dream - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor, 2011)
Alternative history that presents a world where the Cold War did not happen, JFK was not assassinated, and the world became a generally better place.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Utopia. Inspired Thinking from the Ideas Team - Nicola White (Artlink Edinburgh & the Lothians, 2011)
Nine suggestions toward a better, more fun-filled life. “Wear the Future. Clothes that entertain.” “Signature Smells. Scents that are personalized to you, in products to enjoy.” “Sound Central. A simply-operated library of sounds and music tailored to individual tastes.” “Words Like Knives. A person for hire who articulates what you need to express.” “Squeeze Chair. A firm and calming embrace.” “Seeing With Your Ears. A machine that translates visuals into sound.” “Lux--A Compendium of Light. Light machines that interact with your gestures and mood.” “The Armchair Traveller. Sensational journeys in your home.” “Wrestling With Sound. A robust box of tricks that plays with you as you play with it.”
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; Scottish author

When She Woke. A Novel - Hillary Jordan (b. 1963) (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011)
A reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. A Romance (1850) set in a future dystopia where the church dominates the state. A woman convicted of murdering her unborn child is genetically engineered so that she is red. Other crimes lead to other colors.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Wither - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
Dystopia where genetic engineering has accidentally produced a situation where women die at twenty and men at twenty-five. The second volume, Fever. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012 U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2013, is very much a middle volume in which the main characters go through a series of adventures. The third volume, Server. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013 brings the various themes to a conclusion.
UK ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

You’ll Like It Here (Everybody Does) - Ruth White (b. 1942) (Delacorte, 2011)
Young adult novel in which a family of aliens who had settled in North Carolina in search of a peaceful life are forced to flee their xenophobic neighbors. They end up in a dystopian city on another planet inhabited by both fictional people are some deceased people from Earth. Ultimately, they, and some friends from Earth, find a peaceful place to live and plan to free the people in the dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Acception" - Tessa Kum (b. 1981) (Baggage, 2010)
Dystopia in which a government agency determining where people can live based on their ethnicity. All those with mixed ethnicity are relegated to what is, in effect, a concentration camp. Much of the story is about the uprising to overthrow the system.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror. Ed. Liz Grzb and Talie Helene (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2011), 141-70; in Baggage: Tales of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Gillian Polack (Holicong, PA: Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2014), 121-53, with an “Afterword” on 223-24; and in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 460-86.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Amaryliss" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Lightspeed, 2010)
Post-catastrophe story with radically reduced resources but in which the people are making good adjustments and live in a basically good society. Birth rate restricted to food production. Households composed of unrelated people working together. See also 2012 Vaughn.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 127-38; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 127-38; and in her in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 290-305.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Are You Sannata3159?” - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (Postscripts #22/23: The Company He Keeps, 2010)
Dystopia set in a future India with an extreme division by the rich and the poor in which the rich live in beautiful cities built on top of the areas in which the poor live. The establishment of a slaughterhouse brings well-paying jobs and hope, but the workers are all given a drug that keeps them from realizing the humans are part of the meat being processed.
Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 123-44.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

Ashwood - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2010)
First volume of a trilogy in which the U.S. no longer produces enough food, does little manufacturing, and specializes only selling intellectual capacity, thus produces an elite living in compounds and the rest barely surviving. Surrogacy provided for the elite women. This volume focuses on a compound called Ashwood established to produce food and the woman who is chosen to be its matron. Sequels include 2012 and 2014 Kraack.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Beautiful Girl" - Angeline Hawkes (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia of a post-atomic war future where very few men are born, and those few are tattooed with a barcode that identifies their owner.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Birthmarked - Caragh M. O'Brien (Roaring Brook Press, 2010)
A young adult dystopia depicting a world inside and outside a walled Enclave that demands children from those outside. In the middle volume, Prized: The Second Book in the Birthmarked Trilogy. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2011, the heroine escapes from the Enclave only to be captured by a dystopian society called Sylum that is dominated by women and that has outlawed love. In the final volume, Promised: The Third Book in the Birthmarked Trilogy. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2012, the heroine, having helped free the people of the Sylum, returns with them to the Enclave and brings about its reform.  A story set between the first two volumes is “Tortured.” http://www.tor.com/2011/12/08/tortured/. Rpt. in Fierce Reads Presents Kisses and Curses. Ed. Lauren Burniac (New York: Square Fish, 2012), 251-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Blind Pig. A Novel - Elizabeth Dougherty (School Street Books, 2010)
A dystopia similar to Upton Sinclair’s realistic novel, The Jungle (1906), which depicted the horrors of the meat processing industry. In the dystopia the NArc (Nutritional Architecture System) has been put in place to ensure that everyone eats only healthy food. But the system is run for profit by corporations and the food is not as healthy as it is supposed to be.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Castoff World" - Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
The castoff world is a pile of trash in the ocean which is inhabited by a young girl and her grandfather. The trash island is being created by advanced technology designed to gradually clean up the ocean. After the grandfather's death the island becomes sentient, transforms itself into a boat and takes the girl to what appears to be an environmental eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cathedral" - Tamara Wilhite (1976-2021) (Infinite Space, Infinite God II, 2010)
Dystopia in which genetically engineered people with short lives are created to be able to solve problems very quickly and are used to develop addictive drugs. The book is a collection of Catholic science fiction, and the focus of the story is on one of the short-lived women’s attempt to create an antidote, called Cathedral, to the other drugs she had created and involves a brief interaction with a Catholic priest.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Coward's Steel" - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, 2010)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements about a woman’s experiences dealing with both community and violence.
Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 124-37, with an author’s note on 215-16.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dial Tone" - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) (Kasma Magazine, 2010)
Post-pandemic “last man” story.
Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 23-25, with an author’s note on 210.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“Drafting Zoë” - Kelly Jennings (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2010)
The story is set in a future, after an unexplained “Big Melt,” that extremely intelligent children are drafted at age four to be integrated into the computer system as part of national security. The story is told from the viewpoint of a widowed father whose child is drafted.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Drown or Die” - Arkenberg, Therese (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2010)
Having destroyed Earth, three billion humans are sent to various colonies on other planets, leaving another five billion behind on Earth to die. The other planets, some of which are inhabited, are being terraformed, thus destroying well-established ecosystems.
Keywords: Female author

Empty - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic Press, 2010)
Young adult dystopia after the world runs out of fossil fuels.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Event Factory - Renee Gladman (b. 1971) (Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2010)
Odd dystopia set in Ravicka, a place that appears to be disappearing, people are leaving, and maps are all wrong. Sequels include The Ravickians. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2011 where roads are stories and buildings reflect the psychological state of those living there; Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2013 which is a book within the book about Ravicka; and Houses of Ravicka. Urbana, IL: Dorothy, A Publishing Project, 2017 focuses on a man/woman, a bureaucrat trying to deal with disappearing houses.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Eyes As Wide As the Sky” - Gabriela Lee (Philippine Speculative Fiction, 2010)
The first half of the story is about the creation of what appears a eutopia, albeit a fragile one, after a war that killed 98% of the world’s population, with the survivors, many of whom died, underground. The eutopia is a domed city built for the survivors, although some live a more restricted life outside the dome. The rest of the story is a ghost or zombie story.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

The Faithful: 23rd Century Morality. A Mystery Novel - Eileen Siedman (Xlibris, 2010)
The novel begins in a corporate dystopia, called the Faithful, that is overthrown and goes underground while the world is reorganized into a eutopia in which all nations disappear into seven regional federations, which brings peace and prosperity.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Fierce September - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) (Random House New Zealand, 2010)
Young adult dystopia. Second volume of a trilogy; see 2008 Beale. In this volume, the protagonists of the first volume are forced to leave Taris and learn to survive Outside. See also 2011 Beale.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

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

Grace - Elizabeth Scott (b. 1972) (Dutton Books, 2010)
Young adult religious dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Grimsdon - Deborah Abela (b. 1966) (Random House Australia, 2010)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia focusing on a group of teenagers surviving in the ruins.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Habitation of the Blessed: A Dirge for Prester John Volume One - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) (Night Shade Books, 2010)
A re-imagining of the Land of Prester John, one of the classic utopias of the middle ages. See also her The Folded World: A Dirge for Prester John Volume Two. San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011. The third volume, The Spindle of Necessity: A Dirge for Prester John was published in 2012 as an audio book read by Ralph Lister.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Independence Day. Inspired by 'The Rising' and 'Independence Day'" - Sarah Langan (b. 1974) (Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, 2010)
Dystopia of a U.S. that is still patriotic despite a fundamentally collapsed system.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 275-92; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 275-92.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ishin" - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Post-catastrophe dystopia that focuses on two men using advanced technology to counter environmental damage and undermine corruption.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

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

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

The Line - Teri Hall (Dial Books, 2010)
Young adult dystopia in which there is a line at the border of the Unified States that is not to be crossed. See also 2011 and 2013 Hall.
Keywords: Female author; US author