"Interchange" - Elizabeth Poley (Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia of a largely abandoned U.S. where people can transport themselves to other parts of the world to work. The story focuses on a meeting of two women in these circumstances.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Internal Drive” - Heidi Benefiel (Journeys through Time and Space, 2015)
The story is set in a future where Earth is dying, and everyone is being moved to a high-tech sphere. The story is told by the scientist who is given the task of choosing the five, and only five, plants that will be taken to the new habitat. All animals are left behind, and cities are dismantled so that the entire Earth will be available to them.
Keywords: Female author

“Interview with Chloe Angyal” - Chloe [S.]. Angyal (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Romance in a feminist utopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; US author

“Interview with Cindy Ok” - Ok, Cindy (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Feminist utopian education with suggestions for the arrangement of the classroom (circles, pods) to empower students, individualized learning, and recognizing the difference backgrounds that students bring to the class.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

"Interview with Ileanna Jiménez” - Ileanna Jiménez (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Feminist utopian education. Suggests that the curriculum should be built by students and teachers working together in collaboration with students and teachers from other schools. Schools should reflect their communities. Interdisciplinary education. No tests or exams but projects that put into practice what they have learned. Inculcate inclusiveness and international awareness. Teachers would have the time and support to do research.
Keywords: Female author; Puerto Rican author; US author

"Interview with Jessica Luther" - Luther, Jessica (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Gender equal sport in a feminist future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Interview with Lauren Chief Elk” - Lauren Chief Elk (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
The problem of interpersonal violence in a feminist utopia.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

“Interview with Suey Park” - Suey Park (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Emotional life in a feminist utopia.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

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

The Island of Lost Girls - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (Hachette, India, 2015)
Sequel to 2008 Padmanabhan in which the girl and her father hve escaped India and live of the Island of Lost Girls, where they are having difficulties adapting to the modern world and the girl is having to learn what it means to be a woman.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“Jubilee: A Seastead Story” - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” and 2013 and 2014 Kritzer. In this story the flawed utopia has turned into a dystopia, but those who choose to live there hope to overcome the dystopia. See also 2015 Kritzer “The Silicon Curtain: A Seastead Story.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Justice" - Mariame Kaba (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Eutopia based on intense community interaction, its disruption by a woman from Earth who commits a murder, and the way the community responds.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Language of Paradise - Barbara Klein Moss (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015)
Critique of utopianism. The novel follows the experiences woman whose husband is influenced by a man hoping to create a eutopia, a eutopia that she finds troubling.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Lesbo Island" - Jill Soloway (b. 1965) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Humorous call for the establishment of a women-only state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Lesson - Sowmya Rajendran (HarperCollins India, 2015)
Dystopia satire in which the Adjustment Bureau enforces the Conduct Book but people, and women in particular, still do not always follow the rules, and that calls for additional means to bring them under control.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

Love in the Anthropocene - Dale Jamieson (b. 1947); Bonnie Nadzam (O/R Books, 2015)
A series of stories set in a future in which the natural world is almost entirely created by humans.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

MARTians - Blythe Woolston (Candlewick Press, 2015)
Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman suddenly graduated from school when all the public schools are closed to balance the budget within a goal of eliminating all services and therefore all taxes. The society is primarily concerned with consumption with an ignored and mistreated class of workers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Mémé” - Juliana Rew (Clockwise: The Darkest Hour, 2015)
Dystopia in which most older people have died in an epidemic, government has disappeared, been replaced by a single corporation that relies on AIs to organize everything, and the AIs come to rely on the few remaining elders until the economy begins to fail.
Rpt. in Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2019): 71-81.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Morning of My Meat Marking” - Alissa Nutting (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
Brief dystopia in which environmental collapse has eliminated all animals and vegetables and humans have resorted to a organized, structured cannibalism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“My Own Sound” - Christine Sun Kim (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief depiction of a future where being deaf will not be considered different.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

The Natural Way of Things - Charlotte Wood (b. 1965) (Allen & Unwin, 2015)
Dystopia in which a group of young women are kidnapped, drugged, and imprisoned in an abandoned building somewhere in the outback of Australia. The novel focuses on the growing friendship between two of the women.
U.S. ed. New York: Europa Editions, 2016.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future” - Ellen Bravo (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A poor woman cleaner is briefly transported to a future where people like her are fully equal and collectively control their workplace.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Not on My Block: Envisioning a World without Street Harassment” - Giorgis, Hannah (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief essay presenting the eutopia of the title.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“The Occidental Bride” - Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clarkesworld, 2015)
Lesbian love story set in a dystopia in which to atone for past actions, one woman has to purchase the other as a wife in the hopes that she will attract someone trying to rescue her.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 41-58.
Keywords: Female author; Thai author

“October 11” - Chin Ai-May (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story is set in a future, authoritarian Malaysia that is trying to eliminate all genetic defects.
Keywords: Female author; Malaysian author

The Orchid Nursery - Louise Katz (b. 1959) (Lacuna, 2015)
Dystopia of complete male domination.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Our Lady of the Open Road” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
The first in a series of stories related to 2019 Pinsker, A Song for a New Day. In this story, the protagonists, a touring rock band, is trying to survive in a future in which there are no large venues and people life isolated lives. The other stories are “A Song Transmuted.” Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow. Ed. Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Erie, CO: Hex Publishers 2016), 151-60; rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018), 35-42; and “Everything Is Closed Today.” Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory. Ed. Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2019), 149-74; rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 79-102.
Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 169-209.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Philosopher Kings - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2015)
Sequel to 2014 Walton in which the attempt to create Plato’s Republic has fragmented into a number of “Republics” based on disagreements over what Plato wanted and the belief of some that they know better than Plato what makes for a good society. See also 2016 Walton.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

The Private Sector - Leigh M. Lane (Eldritch Press, 2015)
Dystopia of corporate corruption that leads to the collapse of government services and their privatization. Prequel to her 2015 World-Mart.
2nd ed. Henderson, NV: Cerebral Press, 2015
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Raising Generation E [For Empathy]: The Final Frontier of Feminism” - Mindi Rose Englart (b. 1965) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief eutopia based on educating children to be empathetic and using restorative justice.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Reproductive Supporters" - Justine [Peen] Wu (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A eutopia in which each girl is assigned a “reproductive supporter” at puberty who provides birth control, abortion if needed, and support when the girl chooses to have a child.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

Reset: The ReSociety Book One - Linda Hawley; Paul Hawley (21st Century Publishing, 2015)
First volume of a dystopian series in which many people are surgically altered, and called SurgiAlts, to meet a standard of human physical perfection. Anyone who speaks against the political leaders considered a terrorist. Extreme surveillance with everyone tracked all the time, with all the information shared with the Department of Homeland Affairs. High tech with much of the technology used in surveillance and in security, with examples given regarding airports. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) defines the entire U.S. as a war zone and allows the military to arrest anyone considered a threat. “Terrorists” have no rights, and no trial is needed. One focus is a group of descendants of signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence who have worked to maintain its principles since its signing.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Riley Marigold and the Winged Lizards of Tel Aviv” - Kayla Bashe (Solarpunk Press, 2015)
The story is set in a post-climate change world in which in the U. S. the protagonist, a teenage girl, lives in a rural intentional community, and then is moved to Tel Aviv, where she lives in a high rise with community features. Israel is struggling to deal with the results on climate change.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Silicon Curtain: A Seastead Story” - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” and 2013 and 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer “Jubilee: A Seastead Story.” In this story that rebuilding has failed, and people are being evacuated, but, for all the problems, the protagonist of all the stories still thinks of the seastead as her home.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Sliding Doors” - Jasmine Giuliani (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A critique of a recently discovered poem from the late twentieth century before the passage of the Sexual Liberation Act.
Keywords: Female author

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (b. 1979) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia. A theatre troupe travels around the remaining settlements and the dystopia is seen largely through the eyes of the actors. Includes a religious enclave with a prophet who intends that no one shall leave his community alive. A ten-episode HBO series created by Patrick Somerville premiered December 16, 2021.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“The Tip of the Tongue” - Felicia Davin (Queers Destroy Science Fiction, 2015)
Dystopia of a future where the ability to read has been taken away.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 253-67.
Keywords: Bisexual author; Female author; US author

“To the Havens” - Ariel Hogan (Flash Fiction Online, 2015)
Climate-change fantasy/dystopia in which elves are enslaved.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Trigger Point” - C[aerwyn] A[llegra] Hawksmoor (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story is set in a future in which every soldier is controlled individually and focuses on a female ex-soldier dealing with the effects on her and others.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

Under Ground - [Louis] [Greenberg]; [Sarah] [Lotz] (b. 1971) (Macmillan, 2015)
Dystopia set in a missile silo that has been repurposed as secure condominiums for the wealthy, and conflicts that develop among the inhabitants.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; South African author

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

“Underneath Her Tudung” - Angeline Woon (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story is set in a future authoritarian Malaysia with robots enforcing the restrictive laws and cyborg doctors, with the protagonist one of the doctors.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Malaysian author

Utopia: Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre - Claire MacDonald (b. 1954) (Intellect, 2015)
The three plays, the first inspired by J.G. Ballard’s works, depict various dystopian settings and the characters imagine other ones.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Velocipede Races - Emily June Street (EBP/Emily Blue Publishing, 2015)
The story is set in a world where women’s activities are severely restricted, and one woman wants to be a bicycle racer, which is prohibited.
Part of the book was originally published in 2013 by Luminous Creatures Press, an epublisher, and a version of the “Epilogue” was originally published in Bikes in Space. Volume 2  [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] (Portland, OR: Elly Blue Publishing, 2014), 20-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Vestiges of Flames. A Novel - Lyn McConchie (b. 1946) (Lethe Press, 2015)
Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) in which a small group of survivors in Wellington find some others, some of whom join the original group, and some of which the original group kill in order to survive. They gradually make their way to the northwest of Auckland where they create a good society, albeit with continuing problems. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Viral Airwaves - Claudie Arseneault (Incandescent Phoenix Books, 2015)
Authoritarian dystopia and its overthrow in favor of a green future. LGBTQIA characters. A prequel is White Renegade. Np: Author, 2015. 99 pp.
2nd ed. Np: Author, 2016. 467 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Ways of the Doomed. Book 1 of the Sun Song Trilogy - Moira McPartlin (Saraband, 2015)
First volume of a planned young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, set in 2089 where there is a deep divide between the Privileged and the Celtic underclass, a boy from the Privileged is forced to live with his grandfather in a penal colony after his parents die.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“Welcome to Arcadia” - Julie Zeilinger (b. 1993) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Blogging in a feminist eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like for Parents of Color?” - Victoria Law (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A eutopian neighborhood with children at play where no one is advantaged or disadvantaged by gender, race, or any of the other form of discrimination.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

“When We Had Faith” - Lauri Kubuitsile (Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa, 2015)
Religious dystopia with a movement opposed to it.
Keywords: Botswanan author; Female author

The Wordsmith - Patricia Forde (b. 1960) (Little Island, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which art and music are banned and everything is rationed, including words.
U.S. ed. as The List. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2017
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

World-Mart - Leigh M. Lane (Cerebral Press, 2015)
Dystopia in which corporations control all aspects of life. See also a prequel, 2015 Lane, The Private Sector, and a sequel, 2015 Lane, Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“After the Water: Straws” - Rebecca Adams Wright (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
The story is set in a future when water is being siphoned off by private interests and the ecosystem and the people that depend on it are desperate. Ecoterrorists plot to restore the balance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The Floating of New Chicago” - Tricia Bobeda (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
Chicago in the future divided by class and water, with the rich living on an island in Lake Michigan and the poor “wet-workers” left in the city. Read by the author. For an interview with the author, see https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-an-interview-with-author-tricia-bobeda. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The Way of the River” - Roxane Gay (b. 1974) (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series., 2014)
Dystopia in which Chicago had been badly reengineered, earthquakes are constant, and the only water available is the little that is distributed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The World After Water” - Abby Geni (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series., 2014)
The story is set in a future in which four boys must steal water from the wealthy who live on higher ground.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Aipotu” - Aleksandra Kokora (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
A brief eutopia that has a hereditary ruler but is a free and radically decentralized society. Serbian female author.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

“And Then It Rained” - Rebecca Freeman (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
Climate-change dystopia with Aboriginal themes set in Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“And These were the Names of the Vanished” - Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic, 2014)
Dystopia in which a democratically elected leader allows a colonial power, called the “Compassionate,” to take over his country and then enslave his people.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.
Keywords: Dutch author; Female author; Filipina author

“Anixitopia” - Vesna Savić; Viktor Sakać (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief eutopia “Anixitopia” comes from the Greek and means “the land of spring” and was established first on Madagascar and then in space. There are three leaders, “the Man of Science, the Woman of Religion, and the Man of Society.”
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Serbian author

"Arcadia" - Naida Rastoder; Ilda Ramović (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief Arcadian eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

“Baggage” - Lisa L. Hannett; Angela [Gaye] Slatter (b. 1967) (The Female Factory, 2014)
Dystopia of a future in which few women are fertile, and technology has made it possible for poor, fertile women to carry the fertilized eggs for a number of different wealthy couples at the same time. The story is told from the viewpoint of one of the poor, fertile women.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Bartleby the Scavenger” - Katie Boyer (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future society that is poor and kills “non-contributing” members when they reach sixty.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“The Beekeeper” - Helen Phillips (b. 1983) (Isthmus (Seattle, WA), 2014)
A somewhat vague dystopia with a domed city cut off from the countryside, with both the city-dwellers and those living in the countryside afraid of the other.
Rpt. in her Some Possible Solutions (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2016), 163-83.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Bitch Planet - Kelly Sue Deconnick (b. 1970); Valentine De Landro (Image Comics, 2014)
Feminist dystopian take on exploitation films in which “non-compliant” women are sent to an off-planet prison.
Keywords: African Canadian author; Canadian author; Female author; Male author; US author

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (Sybaritic Press, 2014)
Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which there is one woman for every ten men. The novel focuses on the experience of one woman. First volume of The Road to Nowhere Series. The second, volume, 2017 Elison, is set in the same future but 100 years later. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as the preceding volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“By the Time We Get to Arizona” - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
The story is set in and around a new town that straddles the border between Mexico and Arizona where some workers are welcomed on short term contracts for tech jobs that, if they prove themselves fit, can earn longer contracts and admission to the U.S. The story focuses on just what “fit” means.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

California. A Novel - Edan Lepucki (b. 1981) (Little, Brown, 2014)
Dystopia following an unexplained catastrophe in which the rich live in guarded compounds and the poor live dangerous lives in damaged cities or in countryside inhabited by various gangs.
Keywords: Female author; Polish author; US author

“The Capitalist Party” - Alou Randon (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
Dystopian satire on commodity fetishism in which the commodities are the leaders.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cast Out" - Sanhita Arni (Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean, 2014)
Feminist fantasy story with eutopian elements. A community punishes women who practice magic, even to save their lives, and casts them out to die at sea. But other women who practice magic and have created a women-only eutopia on an island rescues the cast out women and brings them to the island.
Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 70-83.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

Chameleon Moon - RoAnna Sylver (The Zharmae Publishing Press, 2014)
Parole is a dystopian city inhabitant by many different beings, many with supernatural talents, who are under constant surveillance by spy cameras. There are three other volumes in the Chameleon Moon series: Life Within Parole. Volume 1 [Columbia, SC: CreateSpace], 2016. 269 pp., which is a collection of stories, most of which are set shortly before Chameleon Moon. One, “Happy Regards (7-65), has been rpt. in Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2017), 121-55. A sequel is The Lifeline Signal: Chameleon Moon Book 2. [San Bernardino, CA: CreateSpace], 2017. 447 pp. Life Withi Parole. Volume 2 [Columbia, SC: CreateSpace], 2018. 253 pp. is also a collection of stories, mostly set between Chameleon Moon and The Lifeline Signal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Childfinder” - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Unexpected Stories, 2014)
The story has a brief introductory statement that “Psi could have put the human race on the road to utopia,” but the dystopian story is about racial prejudice among the psi.
Rpt. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2020), 27-92, with an “Afterword” by Butler on 93, with a “Foreword: Necessary Stories” by Nisi Shawl (7-10) and an “Afterword by Merrilee Heifetz (95-97) (PSt copy is No. 894 of 1000 copies); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 577-587, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758-759), and Notes (771).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The City of Bliss” - Danka Dźida (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
A boy in a highly structured, high tech eutopia visits a place, “The City of Bliss,” that he finds to be much better in that it is based on ‘Shared Happiness.”
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future - Naomi Oreskes (b. 1958); Erik M. Conway (b. 1965) (Columbia University Press, 2014)
An historian observing the tercentenary of the collapse of Western civilization (1540-2073) tries to explain how a supposedly rational, scientific people could deny climate change. The explanation centers on an emergence of a new Dark Age in which reason was blinded by a non-rational belief in the “free market."
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Commons - Susan Dworkin (b. 1941) (Author, 2014)
Climate-change dystopia in which most crops were lost, and one huge agricultural company became all-powerful. The novel focuses on the search for and development of seeds that could grow in the new conditions together with the struggle to keep them from the company.
2nd rev. ed. [Tallahassee], FL: Divided Light Projects, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Community" - Zorić, Jovana; Marijana Stojanović (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
A eutopia in which people can choose among a variety of ways of life, each of which forms a community. The particular community presented stresses education.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

“Containment Zone: A Seastead Story” - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2014)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” and 2013 Kritzer dealing with the problem of a rapidly spreading illness. See also 2015 Kritzer (2)
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cooking Time" - Anita Roy (Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean, 2014)
Climate-change dystopia in which the only food available is manufactured.
Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 46-57.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; UK author

A Country of Ghosts: A Book of The Anarchist Imagination - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) (Combustion Books, 2014)
Anarchist novel focusing on the attempt of a growing authoritarian empire to defeat and incorporate an anarchist eutopia, the city of Hronopole. The information on the eutopia comes through the story about the war and the methods it uses to resist the empire.
Rpt. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2021. Black Dawn Series #2. 212 pp.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

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

Crying Out - Clare Lawrence (Ransom, 2014)
Dystopia designed for children who are reluctant readers in which there is a rigid class structure and a boy from the top and one from the bottom come into contact. Versions exist with different dates of publication for different age groups from eight to twelve.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Cycling to Asylum. A Novel - Su J. Sokol (b. 1961) (Deux Voiliers Publishing, 2014)
The novel begins with the mistreatment by police in Brooklyn of a man and the ongoing threat to him. It continues with he, his wife, and two children bicycling to Québec, asking for asylum, and the varied problems that the entire family face adjusting to a new country, culture, and language, with the search for utopia a theme throughout.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Dark Days - Ormand, Kate (Sky Pony Press, 2014)
Violent, authoritarian young adult dystopia in which the authorities are isolating sectors and killing everyone in the sector. Successful resistance.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Deliver Me - Kate Jarvik Birch (Bloomsbury Spark, 2014)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are chosen at sixteen to be bred to produce the next generation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Disruption - Jessica Shirvington (b. 1079) (HarperCollins Australia, 2014)
In the future of this YA dystopia, the smartphone has been replaced by M-Bands, mandatory bracelets controlled by the M-Corp that includes “microchips for GPS, identification and potential medicinal purposes” (5). The system is, of course, misused. A prequel is Corruption. Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2014. 438 pp.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Elysium" - Mihaljuk, Ivaria; Živkov, Smiljana (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief eutopia that is brought about by strict laws that regulate behavior and with the ultimate punishment being exile to Earth.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

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

“Evanda’s Mirror” - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) (Stars of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 14, 2014)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

Feuds - Avery Hastings (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014)
The first volume in young adult dystopia series set in a society divided between the Priors, who aim at perfection, and the Imperfects or “Imps”. Also, in the series is Rival. A Feuds Novella. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin 2015, a prequel published as an ebook that introduces the social structure. The final volume is Torn. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin 2015 in which all the tensions of the earlier novels are resolved, and a much better future is suggested at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Firstborn - Lorie Ann Grover (Blink, 2014)
Christian dystopia in which all first born children must be male. The novel is about a first born girl who lives her life as a male until she must pass the rites of manhood.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

A Girl Called Fearless - Catherine Linka (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which all women, but not girls, have been killed by a synthetic hormone in beef. In the novel a teenager girl is sold by her father into marriage to a powerful politician. She chooses to run away. First of two volumes followed by A Girl Undone. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015 in which the dominant political party is undone by the discovery of huge loans from Saudi Arabia given interest-free on the condition that the U.S. restrict women’s rights. At the end of the novel, women’s rights are slowly being reestablished.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. A Novel - A[my] S[arig] King (b. 1970) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2014)
The novel is told from the point-of-view of a young woman about to graduate from high school who comes to be able to see the past and future generations of people she meets. Beginning about a third of the way through, there are one and two page reports (a total of ten) entitled “Glory O’Briens History of the Future” that recount the division of the U.S. based on an extreme anti-woman agenda; e.g. no woman can be employed, and a new civil war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Goodhouse - Peyton Marshall (b. 1972) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014)
Dystopia in which boys who are the sons of convicted felons are tested for a genetic marker, and, if they have it, are incarcerated in a Goodhouse where they are supposedly taught how to control the effects of their inheritance. Based in part on the nineteenth century Preston School of Industry.
U.K. ed. London: Doubleday, 2015. Rpt. London: Transworld, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“Herd Immunity” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych, 2014)
A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story, Nayima, who is one of the few people who are immune, meets a man who she thinks is also immune.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Honey Trap" - Ruth EJ Booth (La Femme, 2014)
Dystopia from after the bees have all died out.
Rpt. illus. Becca McCall. Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8½ (Summer 2017): 75-92.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“How to Get Back to the Forest” - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) (Lightspeed, 2014)
Dystopia in which young adults are kept in sex-segregated camps and are implanted with bugs to monitor them.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 1-13; and in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 95-110.
Keywords: Female author; Somali-American author

Hungry - H[eather] A. Swain (b. 1969) (Feiwel and Friends, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which food is replaced by drugs, but some people still get hungry, and there is an underground food movement.
Keywords: Female author; US author

If Kids Ran the World - Leo Dillon (1933-2012); Diane Dillon (b. 1933) (Blue Sky Press, 2014)
Children’s picture book depicting the eutopia that children would create with equality, everyone well fed, good housing, good health care for all, a good education for all, strong families, protection for the environment, and freedom of religion. Includes two pages of text on “What Kids Are Doing Now.” Compare to 2014 Bailey, If Kids Ruled the World. Leo Dillon was a Caribbean American author born in the U.S. of Trinidadian parents.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Trinidadian American author; US author

If Kids Ruled the World - Linda Bailey (b. 1948) (Kids Can Press, 2014)
Children’s picture book that depicts a fantastic world that emphasizes play. Compare to 2014 Dillon and Dillon, If Kids Ran the World.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

In Ark: A Promise of Survival - Lisa Devaney (Lisa Devaney Publishing, 2014)
The background to the novel is a climate-change dystopia in which a woman is trying to create an extensive archive people’s stories. She is then kidnapped by a group from a community that presents itself as having the same goal but is, in fact, a completely controlled and controlling community.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

In the End - Demitria Lunetta (HarperTeen, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2013 Lunetta in which the protagonist of the first novel, having escaped from those holding her,  must face new dangers to rescue those she had cared for.
Keywords: Female author

“In the Image of Man” - Gabriella Stalker (Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia in which most activities, including homes, schools, and churches have moved into malls, which have different statuses, where most people eat in the food courts. All teenagers can get weekly loans to shop, loans that they may have to spend the rest of their lives paying back. The world outside the malls has deteriorated, but there are some people who live outside
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Jewel - Amy Ewing (HarperTeen, 2014)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which teenage girls are purchased to produce children for their owners. Sequels include a novella published online, The House of the Stone. New York: HarperTeen, 2015, which focuses on a different character, and The White Rose. New York: HarperTeen, 2015.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Just City. A Novel - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2014)
The novel is about an attempt, instituted by Greek goddess Pallas Athene, to establish the just city of Plato’s Republic. First volume of a trilogy. See also 2015 and 2016 Walton.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

"King Tide" - Alison Wilgus (Terraform, 2014)
Climate change dystopia of a New York City mostly under water.
Rpt. in GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 81-86; and in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Lagoon - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2014)
Fantasy is central to the novel, but it is set in the dystopia of contemporary Lagos, Nigeria, but hope is held out for a eutopia of collective identity brought about by a visitor from space. The author says that Lagos is the Portuguese for lagoon.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“The Land of Two Suns” - Katarina Marković (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief eutopia that heals a disaffected woman from our time by letting her know that someplace good, where they do not even know the word misery, exists.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

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

The Last Supper - Allison M. Dickson (Hobbes End Publishing, 2014)
Dystopia that follows a disaster. In the dystopia everyone must pass an annual trial called “Justification;” those who fail are killed. The book includes an “Introduction” (i-xii) by Vincent Hobbes that discusses the characteristics of dystopias.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Leaving Ashwood - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2014)
Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Kraack. In this volume, the protagonists become involved in the process of trying to reestablish democracy in the U.S.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Lemuria" - Teovanović, Milica (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief eutopia based on a decentralized political system and education.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

“Little Red Suit” - Justine Larbalestier (b. 1967) (Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean, 2014)
Re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood as a climate-change dystopia in which the few remaining people in Sydney, Australia, now an island, live underground.
Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 29-45.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) (Author, 2014)
First volume of a series set in a future with many species, including AIs, interacting with each other in mundane, everyday life activities like shopping for food and working together, as well as developing animosities, friendships, and love. The future depicted has both dystopian and eutopian elements with the author stressing the positive more than the negative. The second volume A Closed and Common Orbit. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyage, 2016 is mostly about personal relations, and love in particular, with a main character on the Asperger’s/Autism spectrum. The third volume Record of a Spaceborn Few. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 is the history of those who left the decaying Earth and stayed together as a fleet of ships, known as the Exodus Fleet, as it faces a crisis. The fourth volume The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 focuses on cultural differences among various aliens temporarily trapped on a transit planet.
Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2015.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Lost Colony of Roanoke" - Daniela Hodak (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief community-oriented eutopia where decisions are made collectively, and mutual aid is the norm.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

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

Memory of Water - Emmi [Elina] Itäranta (b. 1976) (Harper Voyager, 2014)
Authoritarian dystopia in which a young woman tries to protect her people from the military.
Published in Finnish in 2012 as Teemestarin kirja.
Keywords: Female author; Finnish author

The Murder Complex - Lindsay Cummings (Greenwillow Books, 2014)
Young adult dystopia set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate.  A prequel is The Fear Trials. New York: HarperCollins e-books, 2014. The series is concluded in The Death Code: A Murder Complex Novel. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2015 where the protagonists struggle against the system and succeed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Nether, A Play - Jennifer Haley (Northwestern University Press, 2014)
The Nether is a virtual world where anyone can log in, claim an identity, and live out their fantasies. The play concerns a subsection of the Nether designed for pedophiles and depicts the investigation of this subsection by an online detective. The play received its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in California in March 2013, after being first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center as part of the 2011 National Playwrights Conference. Subsequent productions have been mounted at the Royal Court Theatre in 2013, MCC Theater in 2014 and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2015. It won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
U.K. edition London: Samuel French, 2015
Keywords: Female author; US author

NoFood - Tolmie, Sarah (Aqueduct Press, 2014)
Satire in which the world’s best chef, bothered by the fact that no one pays attention to his food, decides to serve no food and still charge for it. The people still come. This takes place within a vaguely described dystopia of radical rich/poor differences, the disappearance of many species of both fauna and flora, disease, and terrorism. The very wealthy have TGB (Total Gastric Bypass) surgery (all digestive and, in women, reproductive, organs removed). The Canadian female author is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“One Out, One In: The greatest gift” - Batstone, Aislinn (Nature, 2014)
The story is set in a future where, to control population growth, a person can designate someone who can have a child when the person dies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Only Ever Yours - Louise [Anne] O’Neill (b. 1985) (Quercus, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which at sixteen girls are selected to be wives of the rich and powerful, become concubines, or “chastities,” who run the School where the girls are taught to be beautiful and submissive. The novel focuses on the demands put on girls to have perfect bodies. Irish female author.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Panther in the Hive: Chicago has fallen. She will not - Olivia A. Cole (Fletchero Publishing, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future Chicago deeply divided by access to healthcare and a chip that supposedly cures all possible diseases. When all those who are chipped are suddenly turned extremely violent, a mixed-race young woman must travel across Chicago to find safety. First volume of a trilogy followed by  The Rooster’s Garden: When the Rooster Crows, the Hive Will Burn. Np: Fletchero Publishing, 2016. 537 pp. in which the protagonist and some friends travel West looking for safety and answers.
Rpt. Np: Fletchero Publishing © 2016 without mention of the earlier printing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Peacemaker - Marianne de Pierres (b. 1961) (Angry Robot, 2014)
Mostly an adventure novel with elements of fantasy set in a dystopian world with a park the only natural landscape left. Continued in Mythmaker. Nottingham, Eng./New York: Angry Robot, 2015 which continues the same themes and ends in a way that suggests there will be another volume.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Perfected - Kate Jarvik Birch (Entangled Teen, 2014)
First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia in which girls are bred to be sold as pets. In the sequel, Tarnished. Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, 2015, the protagonist discovers that the reality of the pets’ situation is much different than they had been told.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Pills and Starships - Lydia Millet (b. 1968) (Black Sheep, 2014)
Global warming dystopia in which the rich are kept happy through drugs, and, if they live too long, buy “death contracts” so that they can die peacefully.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Poison Fish" - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
Climate-change dystopia set a hundred years in the future in which water is scarce and Lake Michigan is poisonous.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Preface to a Selected History of the Twenty-First Century” - Lucy Greenwood (b. 1954) (The World to Come, 2014)
A document, purported to be from the future, describes the eutopia brought about through decentralization, living locally but connecting globally, and sustainable environmental practices
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Remake - Ilima Todd (b. 1976) (Shadow Mountain, 2014)
First volume of a young adult dystopia series. In this volume, on a world, where they are told that at age seventeen, they will be able to choose everything about themselves from name to gender. This is, of course, a lie. A sequel is Resist. Salt Lake City, UT: Shadow Mountain, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Removal Order" - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych, 2014)
The first of a continuing series of stories featuring Nayina, a young African woman dealing with a plague (the 72-hour flu, 72 hours being how long one might live after contracting it) while caring for her grandmother, who had cancer. They had stayed behind in a town that everyone else had left and then were forced to move because the town was going to be burned in hopes of stopping the plague. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Salvage - Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow Books, 2014)
Young adult feminist dystopia in which women are kept illiterate and pregnant. The novel focuses on a woman who escapes to a floating continent of garbage in the Pacific Ocean where she builds a new life.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Sassy Chassis Lassies and the Devolution Revolution” - Lisa Sargati (Bikes in Space Volume 2 [Cover adds More feminist science fiction], 2014)
Corporate dystopia in which all vehicles are provided by corporations and are very inefficient. Bicyclists bring freedom.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Sherden” - Marija Macura (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief egalitarian eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

"Sleeper" - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor.com, 2014)
Corporate dystopia.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 446-54; The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 124-33; and in her Starlings (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2018), 80-92.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

“The Slut and the Universe or The Relations between, feminism, global warming, global financial meltdown, asteroid impact, the nuclear arms race and the mass extinction of species. or How feminism got to be both the root of all evil and the means of salvation from them” - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) (Secret Lives of Books, 2014)
Satire set in a future where all the problems mentioned in the title are occurring or have occurred and being blamed on feminism, but feminism, from a different perspective, is the solution.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

State of Grace - Hilary Badger (Hardie, Grant Egmont, 2014)
Young adult flawed utopia in which a group of young people believe that they have been created by Dot to have fun but discover that they are an experiment using a drug.
U.S. ed. North Mankato, MN: Switch Press, 2015.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Tabula Rasa - Kristen Lippert-Martin (Egmont USA, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which some people’s memories are being surgically removed. The novel focuses on a girl whose memories were supposed to have been removed but the operation was interrupted. A sequel is Incognita in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to survive. Minneapolis, MN: CarolhodaLab, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Torching the Dusties" - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, 2014)
The story is told from the perspective of an old, nearly blind woman living in Ambrosia Manor, a home for the wealthy aged, as protests by the Our Turn Movement erupt throughout the country. The  protests are against the old for despoiling the planet, hoarding its wealth, and living too long and, as a result, depriving the young of what they see as their birthright. On the whole, the authorities support the protesters, and such homes are being torched.
US ed. (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014), 225-268.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Unplugging - Yvette Nolan (b. 1961) (Playwrights Canada Press, 2014)
The play is set after an unexplained “unplugging” in which all electricity stops everywhere. It focuses on two old women who are expelled from a community because old women were considered worthless. But the women have knowledge and survival skills that the community has lost.
Originally entitled Two Old Women, was first read at Native Earth Performing Art’s Weesageechak Begins to Dance XXII in January 2010, was workshopped at the Playwrights Theatre Centre in Vancouver, and read at the Banff Playwrights Colony, and the Arts Club Theatre ReACT festival, all in 2010. In 2011, it was read at the University of Toronto’s Festival of Original Theatre, the Matariki Festival in Wellington, New Zealand, and at the Reverie Productions in New York City. As The Unplugging, it opened at Factory Theatre in a Native Earth Performing Arts Production in March 2015 directed by Nina Lee Aquino. It won the 2013 Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding original script.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

“Utah, Rwanda” - Buljubašić, Seada (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief eutopia with both variety and difference and equality living in harmony. Good education. No violence. No politics or politicians.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

“Valedictorian" - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (Lightspeed Magazine, 2014)
The story takes place after a very long war in which humans have been defeated by other humans with embedded AI. The humans without AI have degenerated, despise intelligence, and see the only role from girls is to have babies. The story focuses on a girl who doesn’t fit in.
Rpt. in her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 150-69.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Water" - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) (Heat and Light, 2014)
The story, which has strong elements of magic realism, is set in a future Australian dystopia in which an Aboriginal President is driving a wedge between cultures.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

"Weft" - Alyssa Brugman (Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean, 2014)
Dystopia in which beauty is all important seen through the eyes of a young woman who has sold a kidney to pay for various enhancements.
Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 84-92.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Welcome to the World, Trilby Freedom” - Vizcarra, Marcelina (Nature, 2014)
A future of over-concerned, over-hygienic parenting.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“When the Birds Come” - Emily Riches (The World to Come, 2014)
Dystopia in which the old have been shunted off to miserable communities outside cities. Set in a future with both a climate crisis bringing rising seas and a pandemic, the decision is made that elderly are not worth what they cost.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Winterkill - Kate A. Boorman (Amulet Books, 2014)
Young adult dystopia set in an isolated, enclosed small community with strict rules about leaving that one girl breaks. Sequels include Darkthaw. Illus. Shane Rebenschied. New York: Amulet Books, 2015; and Heartfire. Illus. Shane Rebenschied. New York: New York: Amulet Books, 2016, both of which follow the adventures of the protagonist as she escapes the settlement and then defeats it to save her new home.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Word Exchange. A Novel - Alena Graedon (Doubleday, 2014)
Dystopia in which most people lose the ability to communicate.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Wordless - AdriAnne Strickland (b. 1984) (Flux, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which the underclass is illiterate, and a wordless boy helps a girl from the upper class, who has healing powers, to escape. First volume in a series to be followed by Lifeless. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2015 in which the boy is captured and given the power to kill at a touch with the intend of using him as a weapon. The ending of Lifeless suggests a sequel, but none has been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

Abandon. A Possession Novel - Elana Johnson (Simon Pulse, 2013)
Sequel to 2011 and 2012 Johnson following the personal and political relationships of the Resistance to the dystopia. 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

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

“At the Crossroads” - Barb Caffrey (Stars of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 14, 2013)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Before Hope" - Lakin-Smith, Kim (Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia set in a future of colonized planets that have all the problems of contemporary life. The story includes the possibility for resistance and revolution.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Best of All Possible Worlds. A Novel - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (Ballantine Books, 2013)
A complex novel depicting a world with many differing societies, one explicitly dystopian, but with most of them presented positively. The Galaxy Game. New York: del Rey, 2015 is a sequel that presents a much more complex and less positive presentation of the differing societies.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author

Black Helicopters - Blythe Woolston (Candlewick Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which the Black Helicopters, generally considered a fantasy of the extreme right, are real and represent Fedgov’s attempt to gain greater power. The novel explores the motivations of a young woman who intends to become a suicide bomber.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Blossom Project” - M. Frost (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
A plague has killed many people and animals, and Australia and New Zealand (now Auzealand) have completely cut themselves off from the rest of the world to avoid the spread of the plague. The authoritarian government controlling science is using genetic engineering using blood from those who were immune to the plague to create a cow (Blossom) that would give milk carrying the antibodies. Auzealand is presented in eutopian terms; the rest of the world is presented as a dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

“Burn 3” - Kami Garcia (b. 1972) (Shards & Ashes, 2013)
Authoritarian dystopia of life inside a dome designed to protect people from the sun due to holes in the ozone layer, which it fails to do. The water requires purification tablets and the atmosphere inside the dome is often dangerous. Extremely crowded conditions and Burn 3 is the worst area.
Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 435-454.
Keywords: Female author; US author

CODA - Trevayne, Emma (Running Press Teens, 2013)
Young adult corporate dystopia focusing on music as both a means of control and a way of achieving freedom. The first of two volumes. The sequel is Chorus. Philadelphia, PA: RP Teens, 2014 in which the corporation is ultimately defeated.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

The Dandelion Insurrection: Love and Revolution - Rivera Sun (b. 1982) (Rising Sun Press Works, 2013)
The first volume of an intended trilogy in which a couple work to sow the seeds for a nonviolent revolt against the corporate dominated U. S. government. Followed by The Roots of Resistance. El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2018. 391 pp. in which the revolution appears to have succeeded, but the powerful still resist and a violent fringe group develops that challenges the nonviolent ethos of the revolution. There is also a companion volume, The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide. EL Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2015. 124 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dare" - Sophie Clarke (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2013)
The story is told from the point of view of a teenage girl who, under the Bill for the Protection of Young, Girls is living in the Academy of Virtue and Integrity where she is being prepared to be given to a “good man”.
Keywords: Female author

Defenders of the Flame - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Ad Stellae, 2013)
Sequel to 2007 and 2009 Engdahl set two hundred years later in which a positive future is found.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Difference of Opinion” - Meda Kahn (Strange Horizons, 2013)
Dystopia in which those with disabilities are treated as less than human and called “litches,” which is derived from leech. Autistic female author.
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/Podcast. 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), 227-42; and in Strange Horizons (September 9, 2017). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion-2/. Podcast http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-difference-of-opinion-2/.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Disappearance of Ember Crow - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) (Walker Books, 2013)
Sequel to 2013 Kwaymullina. In this volume one of the young people with special talents goes missing. See also 2015 Kwaymullina.
U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2016.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

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

“Do Shepherds Dream of Electric Sheep” - Fleming, Sam (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Satire on a future in which most agriculture has been automated.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Dogsbody" - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) (Shards & Ashes, 2013)
Corporate dystopia that simply kills thousands of children in order to save the money of feeding them. The ones they allow to live work for the corporate at the lowest level, Dogsbody, at the worst jobs. The work focuses on a few young people fighting back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Earthen" - Alicia Cole (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
The story presents a high-tech future with most farms fully mechanized with the focus on one woman who still lives on her farm and cares deeply for the land.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Eyeth: A Novel for the Deaf” - Kelsey [M.] Young (Gallaudet University, 2013)
The following is from the author’s abstract. The novel “focuses on a wide range of deaf people involved in intra-deafcentric conflicts; deaf sub-groups include a range of communication preferences (speaking, cued speech, signing) as well as multiple physical differences (deaf blind, cerebral palsy, wheelchair users) though not ethnic diversity. A critical introduction to the novel explains that science fiction allows the creation of a world that does not exist as a real physical place and allows exploration of intra group issues that a mainstream context of oppression of all deaf people obscures. The introduction also relates a discussion of the countries on Eyeth to colonialism and post-colonialism theory to provide a framework to the reader for the subsequent analysis of how Eyeth uses but also subverts colonialist thinking through characters' actions. The novel itself is about a young man, Virgil G, training under the tutelage of the current Guardian of Eyeth, Shawn Wright, who ensures Eyeth doesn't stray from its original goals of being a deaf world.”
Keywords: Deaf author; Female author; US author

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

"A Flag Still Flies Over Sabor City” - Welser, Tracie (Interzone, 2013)
Authoritarian conformist dystopia with a small free zone that has a curfew.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Flight of Little Bird” - Stephanie Writt (How to Save the World, 2013)
The story begins with a young woman working a dead-end job and just getting by has the idea to use social media to start a movement she calls Empower the Kind (ETK). It then shows how, over her lifetime, the movement transforms the world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gated - Amy Christine Parker (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a family joins an underground religious community with a charismatic leader to escape from the world’s problems.  First volume of a series followed by Astray. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2014 in which the protagonist from Gated has left the community, which is trying to get her back. No further volumes have been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Graveyard Shift” - Holly Schofield (Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast, 2013)
The background to the story is the dystopia created by online education for those hoping to teach.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Heaven Backwards" - Lisa Silverthorne (How to Save the World, 2013)
The story is set in a United States devastated by climate change inside a religious compound in which women are the collective property of the men. One woman makes contact with an outside world they had been told didn’t exist.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Hhsaslin” - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
A dystopian allegory on “systemic oppression, genocide, and colonialism” (76).
Rpt. in her All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2019), 77-101, with an author’s note on 76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

In the After - Demitria Lunetta (HarperTeen, 2013)
Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia in which a young woman is rescued and brought to New Hope, a supposedly safe haven that turns out to be anything but. See also 2014 Lunetta.
Keywords: Female author

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

The Island - Teri Hall (Teri Hall, 2013)
Young adult dystopia following 2010 and 2011 Hall. In this volume, the protagonists of the second volume return back across the line to rescue a friend.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

"Lotus" - Joyce Chng (We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology, 2013)
Dystopia in which much of the world has been inundated by melting ice caps and tsunamis produced by earthquakes and most people life on boats and scavenge from half-submerged buildings.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Singaporean author; Transgender author

Love in the Time of Global Warming - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) (Christy Ottaviano Books Henry Holt and Co., 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a young girl searches for her family after a devastating earthquake and discovers her own strength. Much fantasy. References throughout to Homer’s Odyssey.
Keywords: Female author

MaddAddam. A Novel - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (McClelland & Stewart, 2013)
Third volume of a dystopian trilogy following 2003 and 2009 Atwood. This volume has many of the same characters as the previous volumes and shows they struggling to survive in the changed world.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 2013.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

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

"M.E.L." - Dianne Homan (Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast, 2013)
Flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect but completely artificial world told from the point of view of a girl who does not fit in and who discovers the entrance to a natural world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Metal Feet” - Temitayo Olofinlua [Amogunla] (Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria, 2013)
Dystopia of robots taking over.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author

"Migration" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Beyond the Sun, 2013)
The story is set on a colony planet called Freedom, which is supposedly libertarian and allows extreme genetic manipulation, and focuses on the struggle to save some native animals from being exploited.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Ministry of Changes” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Tor.com, 2013)
A dystopia in which two peoples are at constant war. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young woman in one of the cities who discovers its secrets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"More" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia of conflict between rich and poor in a world in which the rich can afford protection from the deteriorating environment.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play - Anne Washburn (Playwrights Horizons, 2013)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with the first act set in the very near future, the second act seven years later, and the third act seventy-five years after that. In the play, a small group of people are trying to remember and re-enact the “Cape Feare” episode of The Simpsons, which originally aired October 7, 1993. The re-enactment changes dramatically over time.
Rpt. in Mr. Burns and other plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017), 115-228. The revised London script London: Oberon Books, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Neptune Project - Polly Holyoke (Hyperion/Disney, 2013)
First volume of a young adult series in which a group of genetically modified teens must, guided by dolphins, swim to the undersea Neptune Project, where they are expected to help create a better life than that on the surface. The second volume is The Neptune Challenge. New York: Disney/Hyperion, 2015; U.K. ed. as The Neptune Dilemma. London: Penguin Books, 2015, which is a typical middle volume where the struggle to survive. In the third volume, The Neptune Promise. Plano, TX: Holyoake Enterprises, 2017, the people fight to save the planet from climate change.
U.K. ed. The Neptune Conspiracy. London: Penguin Books, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A New Year’s Tale - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) (Author, 2013)
Dystopia in which senior citizens are considered an unnecessary expense and disposable. Everyone is forced to retire at 65, and the Senior Laws are designed to ensure no one reaches old age. For example, under the Diminished Culpability Act, if you kill someone who is 70, you get two-years in prison; if you kill someone 80, you get two years community service. The African gods, upset at the lack of respect for elders, choose four seniors to fight back.
Keywords: Female author; US author