The Mercy Journals - Claudia Casper (b. 1957) (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016)
The novel is set in a post-catastrophe dystopia in which billions of people have died as a result of climate change.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Metaltown - Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen, 2016)
Dystopia set in a cruel factory town in which the workers are ruthlessly exploited.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese American author

"The Mighty Slinger" - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979); Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (Bridging Infinity, 2016)
The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland.
Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

“A Model Life” - Kim Antieau (b. 1955) (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
A retired couple, both of whom are dissatisfied with their lives, enter a program that purports to find the right life for them and ultimately does. Most of the story focuses on the dystopian testing the man is put through rather than the eutopian outcome.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Moksha" - Alexander Weinstein (Children of the New World: Stories, 2016)
Dystopia of technological “enlightenment”.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Montpellier” - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) (Galaxy's Edge, 2016)
The story is set in a city divided between the well-off and the slums. Montpellier is one of four high-rise buildings built in the slums that were intended to provide a better life but failed, in large part because the well-off were providing addictive drugs to the people living there. Hope is held out at the end.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 267-79.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Monuments" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Bridging Infinity, 2016)
Climate change dystopia set in a New York City with Brooklyn, Staten Island, and much of Queens under water and many Manhattan streets now canals. Huge drop in world population with “self-deliverance” (suicide) one of the most common forms of death.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Mountain Song" - Alexander Weinstein (Pleiades, 2016)
The story is set after a cyber war between the U.S. and China, which the U.S. won but the costs include constant interaction with what appears to be an implant the operates through ubiquitous Towers, which send radio waves at various frequencies and is never entirely silent. A side effect is killing all the wild birds.
Rpt. in his Universal Love. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 183-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Mum’s Group” - Stephanie Burgis (Futuristica Volume 1, 2016)
Dystopia in which women are required to have a mothering implant that constantly directs them about childcare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Mutt and Jeff Push the Button” - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army, 2016)
Two coders work out how to fairly redistribute income using the model of a universal army. Some satire, and at the end it is unclear what happens. Mutt and Jeff also appear in 2017 Robinson.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Né Łe!” - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) (Love Beyond the Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology, 2016)
The background to the story is a future with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Mars has been successfully settled, and various space habitats have been developed with different rules and regulations and some designed for specific ethnic groups, including one Orbiter Diné [Navajo]. But all Native Americans not living on reservations have been forced off their land, and most people still on Earth live in huge megaplexes.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

Necessity - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2016)
Sequel to 2014 and 2015 Walton. In this novel Zeus has transported all the inhabitants of the Just City to another planet named Plato, and the inhabitants are interacting with aliens and have just been contacted by humans. The relocation has generally been successful, and a number of city states have been established that reflect different interpretations of Plato’s Republic.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

The Nethers: Frontiers of Hinterland - M[itch] E. Parker (Diversion Books, 2016)
Dystopia in sequel to 2014 Parker where the man from the earlier novel is sent to find scrap metal outside the Jonesbridge complex, and he and the woman finally escape after many adventures.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The New Law" - Jeff Parsons (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
Dystopia of a totalitarian regime in which a new law allows a judge to misrepresent a decision to a defendant and senior party members to do whatever they want with anyone found guilty of a crime.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A New Panama" - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (Bim: Arts for the 21st Century, 2016)
Climate change has greatly reduced the islands and coastal areas of the world, and the next stage will be in space. The story focuses on a strong Caribbean woman negotiating over the future of her people.
Rpt. without the illus. in Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction. Ed. Monica Louzon, Jake Weisfeld, Heather McHale, Barbara Jasny, and Rachel Frederick (Washington, DC: Museum of Science Fiction, 2017), 118-27.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author

“New Wild of Generopia: A Hope of New Eaarth” - Julianne Lutz Warren (Talk given at the “Stories of the Anthropocene Festival,” Stockholm, Sweden, October 28, 2016, 2016)
The talk begins with Raphael Hythloday’s depiction of Utopia, moves to Utopia’s adoption of modern methods, which severely damages the country, and continues with Raquel Savetheday’s depiction of a group of Utopians who leave to create an ecological island utopia for the twenty-first century.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Night My Dead Girlfriend Called - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) (CreateSpace, 2016)
Set in twenty-second century Nigeria, the protagonist starts getting phone calls from his dead girlfriend and goes in search of answers. The story includes a version of the robot policemen from the author’s 2014 story “This is Africa.”
Originally published as a series in Brittle Paper beginning November 7, 2016) https://brittlepaper.com/2016/11/night-dead-girlfriend-called-episode-1-call-feyisayo-anjorin/ [No other episodes remain on line]. Rpt. Np: Okada Books, 2017 [Not found].
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author; South African author

Night of the Animals - Bill Broun (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2016)
Dystopia set in 2052 after the European Union has collapsed, the UK is a surveillance state with the majority indigent, who are drugged, and a dwindling middle class, and a cult originating in California wants to kill all the animals and institute mass suicides. One elderly homeless man who believes the animals are talking to him tries to free them from London Zoo.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"No Fat Chicks" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (FableCroft Publishing, 2016)
The story is set in a future in which genetic mutations mean that all women are obese except for a few who take extreme measures to stay thin as seen from the viewpoint of a man whose ex-girlfriend has become fat. It won the Short story Ditmar Award in 2016.
Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 179-92, with a brief author’s note on 192
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

North Country - Tajinder Singh Hayer (b. 1980) (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia after a pandemic/plague has killed much of the world’s population. The novel follows the struggle to survive of three teenagers of British Asian descent, like the author, from Bradford. The book was published to coincide with the opening of the play directed by Alex Chisholm October 26, 2016, in Bradford, England in the basement of an abandoned Marks & Spencer. For an article by the director, see http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/north-country-post-apocalyptic-story-bradford/
Keywords: English author; Male author

Nostalgia - M[oyez] G. Vassanji (b. 1950) (Penguin Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada, 2016)
In the future seeming immortal people regularly have their memories erased and replaced with more pleasant ones that help them fit in with their current reality, but the memories do not completely disappear.
Indian ed. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2016.
Keywords: African author; Canadian author; US author

"Nothing to Fear" - Nat Newman (Shoreline of Infinity, 2016)
Brief dystopia set in a society in which the activities for every day and most hours are set centrally.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Oasis - Eilís Barrett (Gill Books, 2016)
Young adult post-catastrophe (virus) dystopia where the government uses protecting the people as the excuse for imposing complete control over the population. The novel focuses on those young people who work to undermine the system.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

“An Offertory to Our Drowned Gods” - Teresa Naval (People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, 2016)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina American author

“Olènkwáon: we” - Cathy Smith (Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling, 2016)
The story is set in a future where Earth’s ecology has been destroyed. Aliens arrive who, because of that, are unwilling to allow Earth to become full members of the galactic federation and gain access to its knowledge and, in particular, a plant that heals and extends life.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

“One Bad Apple" - Holly Schofield (SciFutures presents The City of the Future, 2016)
The story points out that things can still go wrong in a high-tech eutopia but high-tech can solve the problems. The utopia supposedly has no slums, gangs, or homeless, but the protagonist encounters a mugger who steals his watch to sell for its value in metal, but the city’s connectedness means that he will be captured, and the watch recovered.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"One in Four" - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) (RA Magazine, 2016)
Pandemic story told from the viewpoint of an executive of a pharmaceutical company that marketed a drug they knew did not work.
Rpt. in Madame Zero. 9 Stories London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 147-50. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 147-50.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Ones - Daniel Sweren-Becker (Imprint, 2016)
Young adult dystopia in which one percent of the population is chosen to have genetic engineering that makes them superior to the rest. An opposition movement, the Equality Society, challenges the system, but turns out to be as authoritarian as system it is fighting. The Between: An Origin Story in the World of the Ones. New York: Imprint, 2017 is a novella published online that provides the background to the series. It is the story of a boy chosen at random to be genetically engineered to be superior who is then demoted by the Equality Movement. The Equals. New York: Imprint, 2017 continues the series in that the protagonists of the earlier works oppose the Equality Movement’s treatment of the Ones and begin to achieve a society where everyone is accepted.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Openness" - Alexander Weinstein (BFJ: Beloit Fiction Journal, 2016)
The story presents a future, with both eutopian and dystopian elements, in which everyone is connected all the time but can limit the layers of themselves they expose.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 183-99; and in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 141-51; and in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 1-13.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Order, Excellence, Prosperity” - Michelle Kaseler (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
Dystopia in which, while most diseases such as cancer have been eliminated, people are given drugs to ensure they focus on what the system has determined they are best at no matter their preferences before being given the drug.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Outliers - McCreight, Kimberly (Harper, 2016)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which to avoid war rulers must give one of their children as a hostage. If the ruler goes to war, the child is killed. The novel focuses on two such hostages, a boy and a girl, from different countries. The Scattering: The Second Book in the Outliers Trilogy. New York: Harper, 2017, focusing on the girl, is a typical middle volume in that the situation gets worse. In The Collide: The Final Book in the Outliers Trilogy. New York: Harper, 2018, which still focuses on the girl, she struggles, successfully to find out why the “Outliers” are targeted and who is doing trying to kill them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Panic City - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, 2016)
Dystopia of an automated city designed to protect its inhabitants that ends up killing them.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Pap: A 21st Century Dystopia - Adam R. Mathews (Arena Books, 2016)
First volume of a dystopia trilogy centering on corporate power with PapCorp the sole worldwide corporation
Keywords: Male author; UK author

“Past Imperfect” - Ararimeh Aiyejina (New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, 2016)
Dystopia set in a future where civilization had collapsed.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author; Trinidadian author

People’s Republic. A Novel - Kurt Schlichter (CreateSpace, 2016)
Dystopia portraying the left/right (blue state/red state) division of the United States with the right represented as all good and the left all evil. First volume in a series with the same protagonist. The second volume, Indian Country. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np. Author, 2017, is a prequel in which the protagonist is organizing people resist the authoritarian dictatorship of the People’s Republic. In the third volume, Wildfire. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, the protagonist is working undercover in the People’s Republic. In the fourth volume, Collapse. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np: Author, 2019, the People’s Republic is defeated. another novel entitled Crisis is scheduled for 2020. See also his Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041. Franklin, TN: Post Hill Press, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Perihelion - D. M. Wozniak (Np, 2016)
Dystopia set in 2069 that follows the experiences of six people from what used to be Chicago.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pilgrimage to Utopia. Philosophy: Book 1 - William L. Livingston IV (Author, 2016)
First volume of a series describing the author’s argument that while the contemporary world is a dystopia, utopia is possible. Over the series, details are provided of how to achieve the change. Followed by Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 2: Dystopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 3: Utopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 4: Way Stations. Np: Author, 2016 EBook; and Ron G. Prichard and William L. Livingston, Expedition to Utopia. Book 5: Interventionist Report. Np: Author, 2017, which summarizes of series. EBook
Keywords: Male author

Pirate Utopia - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Tachyon, 2016)
Alternative history of the post-World War I period and the Italian Regency of Carnaro, a self-proclaimed city-state in Fiume led by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Plantation | Springtime: A day in the life of the automated body of the future” - Lia Swope Mitchell (Terraform, 2016)
The setting is a penitentiary in which the prisoners are treated as if they are plants with details on their care, feeding, and punishment followed by the prisoners’ thoughts. In the first reprint these are more effectively side by side columns.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. Big Echo: Critical SF, no. 7, Part 1 (January 2018). https://www.bigecho.org/plantation-springtime; and without the subtitle or the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 198-207.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Portobello Blind” - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) (Defying Doomsday, 2016)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a blind teenage girl is the only survivor at an island science laboratory and proves to herself that she has the inner resources to cope.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Power - Naomi Alderman (b. 1974) (Viking, 2016)
Dystopia presented as a novel within the novel written by a man in a society in which Mother Eve has replaced Adam as the central figure and women are dominant. The Power is an ability that women develop that allows them to treat men as women are treated today. The man’s novel presents a situation with strong men. Female author.
Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2017
Keywords: English author; Female author

“A Prayer for ‘0443’. Inspired by ‘The Trees’” - David Niall Wilson (b. 1959) (ECW Press, 2016)
Dystopia of a future where equality is supposedly achieved by giving everyone a number and erasing all memory after a year.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut” - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2016)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia with much of the land flooded.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Product - Marina Fontaine (Subversive Press, 2016)
Authoritarian dystopia in which one drug frees people from the means the government uses to control them. The focus of the novel is a dealer.
Keywords: Female author; Russian-American author

"Project Empathy" - Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2016)
The first of five stories about a future San Francisco and various ways artificial intelligence is used to both enhance and control people. The other stories, all with the same protagonists, are, in order, “Project Synergy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.4 & 5 (483 & 484) (April/May 2016): 70-82; “Project Symmetry.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.6 (485) (June 2016): 42-56; “Project Entropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.7 (486) (July 2016): 40-57; and “Project Extropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.10 & 11 (489 & 490) (October/November 2016): 124-39.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Quarantine Zone - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) (DC Comics, 2016)
In the future, scientists discover that evil is caused by a virus that can be easily eliminated in most people. The incurables are rounded up, forced into a Quarantine Zone, and kept there by a Quarantine Force.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

“The Quirian and the Earthling” - Catherine Oyiliagu (Brittle Paper, 2016)
The story, really a vignette, takes place on the planet Quron, a pristine planet with Earth described as a planet “of plastic and fog.”
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Nigerian author

The Race - Nina Allan (b. 1966) (Titan Books, 2016)
The setting of the novel is a climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"On the Radio" - Cheryl Morgan (Holdfast Magazine, 2016)
The story is set in an alternative history dystopia in which a plague that increases testosterone levels has escaped from an English laboratory, but “Communist” Scotland or France are blamed.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author

“Rager in Space” - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Bridging Infinity, 2016)
A sometimes-humorous story set in a future dystopia in which all computers on Earth have failed, no one can ever pay off their student debts, and peonage has been reestablished for debtors.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“The Ravisher, The Thief” - Marian Womack (b. 1975) (Barcelona Tales, 2016)
The story is set in a post-catastrophe dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Spanish author

"The Red Thread" - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) (People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, 2016)
The story is set in a dystopia after the environment has completely collapsed and people are struggling to survive.
Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 262-273; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 28-37.
Keywords: Female author; Somali-American author

“Rise of the Akafula” - Andrew Charles Dakalira (Will This Be a Problem: The Anthology, 2016)
The story is set in a future in which the Earth has been devastated by climate change, the wealthy have left Earth for life on a luxurious Mars, and the few remaining live underground served by the slaves they have made of the little people (the Akafula), who predate the human race.
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

"Rooting" - Isha Karki (Mithila Review, 2016)
Dystopian future in which supposedly docile servants have been created from the DNA of Nepalese women and are treated as non-human. Slowly, they are beginning to be treated as having rights.
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 317-25. © 2018 PSt 978-1732638808
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Rosewater - Tade Thompson (Apex Publications, 2016)
First volume of a trilogy set in Nigeria in 2055 and 2066. An alien invasion novel in which the alien intends to completely take over Nigeria. Sequels include The Rosewater Insurrection: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Two. London: Orbit, 2019, in which liberationists oppose the alien forces. The third volume, The Rosewater Redemption: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Three. London: Orbit, 2019, reflects the title.
Rev. with the subtitle The Wormwood Trilogy: Book One. New York: Orbit, 2018
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

The Ruins of Civilization - Penelope Skinner (b. 1978) (2016)
Dystopian play set in an anti-immigrant society facing climate-change. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Run on Sooner City.” - Brian K. Hudson (Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling, 2016)
The story is set in a future in which Native Americans dominate North America, English is a lost language, there is no electricity, and the Cherokee Nation is the most powerful force of the continent, which it rules from the lush north, with the story set in the dustbowl that is Oklahoma.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"The Rupture" - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Capricious (Aotearoa/New Zealand), 2016)
The story is set on a dystopian future Earth in which most animals and many plants are extinct, and the Earth regularly has major earthquakes and new volcanoes that become tourist sites. The story is told from the point-of-view of a visitor from another planet who initially visits Earth to attend university.
Rpt. in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 17-35
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

"Rusties" - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974); Wanuri Kahui (b. 1980) (Clarkesworld, 2016)
The story is set in an African future where robot traffic police with ever-more-enhanced AI capabilities ended the traffic chaos in cities but also could access all personal data from cell phones.
Keywords: African American author; Female author; Kenyan author

"Sahara" - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) (All Good Things Around Us: An Anthology African Short Stories, 2016)
The story is set in a future high-tech but overpopulated Malawi in which a disease is devastating the population, with people replaced by high functioning AI’s. A scientist who discovers a cure is jailed because a cure would reverse the population decline.
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

"Salto Morto" - [Nick] [Tchan] (People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, 2016)
The story of about spousal abuse and the difficulties of accepting it in a world of constant surveillance set in the dystopia of the U.S. inside its wall with a better Mexico on the other side.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Scythe - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016)
Young adult dystopia in which a very long-lived society has a cadre of people, the Scythe, who randomly chose people to be gleaned to keep the population in check. First volume of a series, followed by Thunderhead. Arc of a Scythe Book 2. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2018. 512 pp., in which there are disputes over the morality of the gleaning and the Thunderhead, a virtually omniscient AI, is expected to intervene but doesn’t; followed by The Toll: Arc of the Scythe Book 3. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2019. 626 pp. where the Scythe has become a dictatorship with unrestricted gleaning and others struggle to overthrow the demagogue. Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2022 426 pp. collects stories and a poem by the author, his daughter and son, and others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Senseless" - Gary Gibson (b. 1965) (Shoreline of Infinity, 2016)
Dystopia in which dissidents are blinded, deafened, crippled, and so forth, with the promise of full cures if they cooperate by naming others.
Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8½ (Summer 2017): 127-42.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Sewing Group - E[mma] V[ictoria] Crowe (b. 1980) (Faber and Faber, 2016)
The play begins with three women sewing in a setting that appears to be in a village in the 18th century. A new woman joins them and insists on the others making changes in what they are doing and following her directions. This part of the play appears to represent a peaceful, simply life being disrupted, but the play gradually grows darker. At the end, though, it takes a dramatic turn that undermines everything that has gone before. First performed at the Royal Court, London, November 10, 2016, directed by Stewart Laing.
Keywords: English author; Female author; German author

“Shifting Gears” - Mackenzie Reide (Altered States of the Union, 2016)
The Northwest of the U.S. has seceded and formed a new country called Cascadia. The story is about the suppression by U.S. authorities of all contact with Cascadia. See also 2017 Reide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Shining City: America at a Crossroads - Frank Mitchell (XLibris, 2016)
The book is mostly an anti-liberal diatribe with the eutopia to be brought about by implementing the Judeo-Christian Lincoln/Reagan Republican program only suggested. For additional material, see www.shiningcityonahill.org.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Signs of the Times” - Carole Johnstone (The Speculative Bookshop EBook, 2016)
Dystopia of poverty and treatment of immigrants in zoos. The immigrants are ancient gods.
Keywords: Female author

A Simple Man - Mark Bacci (Prepper Press, 2016)
Survivalist dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Slumber" - Emeline [Mimie] Morin (The Speculative Book, 2016)
Dystopia in which Earth is an environmental disaster and those who are trying to settle a new planet have been so damaged by the long sleep necessary to travel there, many being blind or dead, half having committed suicide, and most disengaged) that they are unable to do the needed work.
Keywords: Female author; French author; Scottish author

“Something to Watch Over Us” - Mike Morgan (Futuristica Volume 1, 2016)
The story is set in a future overpopulated but functioning Japan where food is produced inside buildings. Everyone is closely monitored by an electronic “nurse” that requires certain foods, exercise, and so forth. It is programmed to produce what is best for everyone and begins to try to make everyone happy, with mixed results.
Keywords: Japanese author; Male author; UK author; US author

Songshifting - Chris Bell (b. 1960) (wordSHIFTminds, 2016)
A future dystopia in which, because of its potential for subversion, all music is tightly controlled. Reported to be the first volume of a trilogy.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Welsh author

“Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Lightspeed, 2016)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which there is little land left and the wealthy life on cruise ships.
Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 33-56.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Splinterlands - Feffer, John (Haymarket Books, 2016)
First volume of a trilogy; see 2018 and 2021 Feffer, which have connections to the other two but tell separate stories. As suggested by the title, the novel is set in 2050 in a future in which the nations of the world have fragmented due to climate change. The protagonist is Julian West, the same as the protagonist of Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887), which is mentioned in the book.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Square Wave. A Novel - Mark De Silva (Two Dollar Radio, 2016)
Complex dystopia set in the United States 2027 where violence is common and warring factions are fighting for control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Squeaky Wheel” - Sara Kate Ellis (Solarpunk Press, 2016)
A dystopia or flawed utopia as seen by protagonists in the story that see the future differently. All safety nets have been removed and everyone is networked with an emphasis on friendliness and sociability with children medicated and socialized to fit in.
Keywords: Female author

“Standing Still” - Lindsay Redifer (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Climate change dystopia set in Madagascar.
Keywords: Female author; Mexican author; US author

“Starlings” - Tyler Keevil (Interzone, 2016)
With Earth an environmental dystopia, a program is developed to breed children to be sent, as toddlers (known as starlings), to establish humanity on a new planet.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Welsh author

“Staunch” - Paul Graham Raven (Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, 2016)
The story is set in a dystopian U.K. that has mostly disintegrated down to the county level with conflicts among the various parts.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 187-99.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Stewardship" - Holly Schofield (Unsung Stories, 2016)
In the story an AI and a robot are caring for a fenced-off area designed to contain one of the few remaining areas that are in ecological balance.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Still Life with Hammers, a Broom & A Brick Stacker” - Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987) (Obsidian, 2016)
A dystopia depicting the extreme poverty that exists for blacks and suggesting that whites can leave the deadly pollution of Earth for a better life in space.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Stone Seeds - Jo Ely (Urbane Publications, 2016)
Authoritarian dystopia depicting a village ruled by “The General” and his henchmen but ultimately successfully opposed by a few individuals who don’t fit in
Keywords: Botswanan author; English author; Female author

Storm Over Utopia - A. A. Glynn (Leicester, Eng.:, 2016)
Alternative history in which after World War 2 the U.K. develops an experimental model for an ideal high-tech society under the control of an AI, but the AI begins to fail.

“SunDown” - Acan Innocent Immaculate (Munyori Literary Journal, 2016)
The story is set in a future when the sun is dieing, and most humans have left Earth leaving behind those who are note genetically ideal.
Keywords: Female author; Ugandan author

The Sunlight Pilgrims. A Novel - Jenni Fagan (b. 1977) (William Heinemann, 2016)
A near future climate change dystopia in which Britain has lost the warming effect of the Gulf Stream and is experiencing the most severe winter in 200 years. The novel follows a number of people as they live their normal lives in this dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Hogarth, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Sunshine State" - Adam Flynn; Andrew Dana Hudson (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
The story is about a positive response to climate change through the recreation of the wetlands in Florida.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Survival Instincts” - Carolyn Charron (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
Dystopia in which the birth rate has led to an annual contest to be chosen as parents and one young woman’s attempts to ensure her victory.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Swallow" - Eden [Victoria Lena] Robinson (b. 1968) (Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling, 2016)
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia in which two First Nations boys are trying to survive.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

"Taking Flight" - Una McCormack (b. 1972) (Crises and Conflicts: Celebrating the First 10 Years of NewCon Press, 2016)
The story is set on an isolated planet in a future in which genetically modified people are marked and bonded and bought and sold.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Target" - Eliza Victoria (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 10. Literature of the Fantastic, 2016)
The background to the story is a hierarchical dystopia as reflected in extremely high buildings with the higher status, richest people at the top and the poorest in what are called the Shadows at the bottom. The story is about a wealthy man hiring people to kill someone.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

"Tea Party" - Lauren E. Mitchell (b.1983) (Defying Doomsday, 2016)
Post-catastrophe (Nature strikes back) depicting the survival strategies of a group of physically and/or mentally challenged people.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Texas Rising - [Will] [Dallas] (Purple Sage Entertainment, 2016)
Dystopia in which the liberal president asks for help from the United Nations to put down a rebellion by Texas and other conservative states.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Is There a Common Future for People and Trees?” - Bart Muys (‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia, 2016)
The essay includes a description of the Global Government’s 2035 Forest convention designed to protect the world’s forests.
Keywords: Belgian author; Male author

"Thirteen Year" - Diana Rose Harper (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Poem set in the underground authoritarian dystopia where humans have retreated from the environmental damage at the surface.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Those Shadows Laugh” - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2016)
Eutopia occupied only by parthenogenetic women modelled on 1915 Gilman, “Herland.”
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 235-57.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

“Three Alternative Histories from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth” - Kate Schapira (Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Providence, Rhode Island, which is located bay that will flood the city as the ocean rises, dealing with climate-change. In one case, there is short-term success but long-term failure. In the other cases, the people achieve temporarily workable solutions. In all cases, the successes depend on community members working together and helping each other.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/three-alternate-histories/ (January 26, 2017).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Three Days Breathing - Mike Maguire (b. 1971) (Fort Totten Press, 2016)
Class-based dystopia in which longevity is based on their class, children have the same jobs as their parents and are paid just enough to get by. The only highly paid profession is as a brothel worker. Rigid education enforced by bots. The protagonist discovers how much is hidden from those, like him, in a low class.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Three Points Masculine” - An Owomoyela (Lightspeed, 2016)
Dystopia in which there is a war between those opposing and accepting/protecting transgender rights.
Rpt. in Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2017), 35-49
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

Time Zero - Carolyn Cohagan (She Writes Press, 2016)
Dystopia of a Manhattan ruled by religious extremists with particular emphasis on the restrictions on women. The novel focuses on one girl who rebels. Ends with “End of Book One.”
Began as an M.P.W. (Master of Professional Writing) thesis. Southern California, 2013.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Too Like the Lightning. Terra Ignota, Book I - Ada [Louise Grace] Palmer (b. 1981) (Tor, 2016)
A complex novel set in a 25th century technological flawed utopia. Abundance. Much on gender roles. The public practice of religion has been outlawed. Most people belong to world clans that are economic entities in competition with other clans. First volume in a series. The second volume is Seven Surrenders: Terra Ignota, Book II. New York: Tor, 2017. 384 pp. in which certain groups have conspired to maintain stability on the planet through selective murders. The third volume is The Will to Battle: Terra Incognita, Book III. New York: Tor, 2017. 352 pp. in which the utopia has collapsed and turned into a dystopia. The fourth volume is Perhaps the Stars: Terra Ignota, Book IV. New York: Tor, 2021. 593 pp. where war breaks out with devastating consequences, but at the end a better world is slowly being rebuilt. The series has explicitly utopian threads throughout. See https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/notes-on-oaths-and-laws-from-terra-ignota/utopia/ for the Utopian Oath from volume one.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Trainspotting in Winesburg” - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) (Concentration, 2016)
Dystopia set in a future Australia that is replicating the Nazi era by exterminating Jews and Muslims.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

Treaty Shirts: October 2034--A Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation - Gerald [Robert] Vizenor (b. 1934) (Wesleyan University Press, 2016)
The novel is concerned with Native Americans resistance to the way the U.S. government abrogated the treaties it had signed and forced the Indians onto reservations. In the novel, the White Earth Nation establishes a government in exile at Fort Saint Charles, at the most northerly point in Minnesota on the Canadian border. See also 1978 and 1991 Vizenor.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Trump Drumpf: A Political Satire Novel - Paul Bellow (CreateSpace, 2016)
Anti-Trump dystopian satire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Trusted Leader" - Pamela Rentz (Red Tape: Stories from Indian Country, 2016)
The story is set in a future in which the U.S. has abrogated all treaties with Native American tribes and are driving them off their lands.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

Underground Airlines - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) (Mulholland Books, 2016)
Dystopian alternative history depicting a U.S. in which the Civil War did not occur, and slavery is still legal in four states.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Underground Railroad. A Novel - Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) (Doubleday, 2016)
Most of the novel is concerned with the horrors of slavery and attempts by slaves to escape including by, in the novel, a literal underground railroad. The novel also includes a section, “Indiana” (237-67) set in part on Valentine Farm, an intentional community that is a safe space for escaping slaves.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

United States of Japan - Peter Tieryas (b. 1979) (Angry Robot, 2016)
Alternative history dystopia in which Japan won World War 2. First volume in a series inspired by 1962 Dick. The second volume is Mecha Samurai Empire. New York: Ace, 2018. The third volume is Cyber Shogun Revolution. New York: Ace, 2020.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Male author

“Utopia + 10” - J[acqueline] A. Christy (Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press, 2016)
Dystopia of extreme pollution and deep rich/poor divisions.
Keywords: Female author

“Utopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, Cloudiest” - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958); Joep Crompvoets (‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia, 2016)
A eutopia set in Leuven in 2125 with a sleeper awakes motif and one of the protagonists a Professor Leete, but those are the only connections to Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887). In the future everyone is monitored constantly by a chip in their body, and all information is stored in Clouds, with most decision-making automated.
Keywords: Belgian author; Male author

"The Vanishing Kind" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2016)
Alternative history in which Germany won World War 2 and rules England.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

“Victor and the Fish” - Matthew Henry (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Virtual Snapshots" - Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989) (Terraform, 2016)
The story is set in a climate changed future where advanced technology allows the rich to redesign bodies.
Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 410-417.
Keywords: Female author; Motswanan author

"Wage without Work" - Marten Ovaere; Kenneth Van den Bergh; Arne van Stiphout (‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia, 2016)
An essay presenting a eutopia set in 2050 in which the production gains brought about by automation have led to a universal basic income which allows the recipient to live however they choose. A man and his family are used to illustrate the positive effects in living, health care, education, which is focused on individual talents and activities that help the community as a whole. Also, financial security has led to greater inventiveness and innovation. Teachers and caregivers are well-paid and human interaction is still valued so some jobs that could have been fully automated have not been.
Keywords: Belgian author; Male author

“Waking Up in Kampala” - Wesley Macheso (African Writer, 2016)
The story is set in Africa after the technocalypse led to the collapse of the rest of the world while the United States of Africa, even though advanced in biotechnology, chose to not allow AIs to dominate.
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

"Walkers" - Kelsey Shannahan (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
Dystopia of an apparently unchanging society in which nothing dies, but, because change is essential, periodically turns some parents into “walkers,” part human/part machine beings that then search out and kill their own children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

War: What if it was here? - Janne Teller (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster, 2016)
The story is set in a future dystopian Britain at war and is designed to show the reader what it would be like to live in situation and then become a refugee. Originally written and published in Danish but completely re-written with Britain as the focus.
Keywords: Danish author; Female author

“Watching the Watchers” - Anya Penfold (Thirty Years of Rain, 2016)
An odd satire about a future society that has many of the appearances of a dystopia but could be considered a eutopia. The ruling party is the “Party in Favour Of Helping People To Do What They Like, As Long As They Don’t Hurt Anyone (And Don’t Take Too Many Sickies)” and the state-sponsored newspaper is The Daily Propaganda: Don’t believe everything you read just because it looks official.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The Waterdancer’s World - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2016)
A complex dystopia set on a world colonized so that its resources could be exploited, and the novel focuses on the relations among both the colonizers those who want to protect the planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Watershed - Jane Abbott (Vintage Books Australia, 2016)
A climate change dystopia set in an Australia with rising sea levels and a years-long drought so that water is the most precious commodity. An authoritarian dystopia controls the remaining population and hires people to search for and kill any dissidents.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Way of Water/Natura dell'acqua - Nina Munteanu (b. 1954) (Future Fiction, 2016)
Dystopia in which all water is controlled by one corporation, which, as a result, controls much of the internet.
Rpt. in Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change. Ed. Bruce Meyer (Holstein, ON, Canada: Exile Editions, 2017), 117-30; in Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction. [Ed. Bill Campbell and Francesco Verso] (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018), 50-61; and in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 26-43.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Webs" - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2016)
Dystopia in which humans who have not been altered seek out and kill those with genetic modifications.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Weeds and the Wilderness” - Tyler Keevil (Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, 2016)
Dystopia depicting a happy man gardening in the garden that he allows to grow fairly wild who is suddenly confronted with a completely anonymous group of people going throughout the destroy removing everything but pristine lawns.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Welsh author

"Well Enough Alone" - Holly Schofield (Shoreline of Infinity, 2016)
The story is set in a high-tech future in which people wear health “minders” that constantly report to hospitals. An elderly woman who had been involved in developing much of the technology but is losing her memory and ability to function independently reprograms hers to assist her suicide.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Wellesley Girl" - Brendan Pelsue (Unpublished play, 2016)
Dystopia set in 2465 in which the few Americans left have barricaded in Wellesley, Massachusetts to protect themselves from the army from Texas that is outside. See the review in The New York Times (April 12, 2016), C2.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“What Happens When Stars Die” - Rebecca Lafond (Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling, 2016)
Dystopia of a collapsed environmental system leading to high crime rates, the disappearance of governments, and so forth.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

"What Is" - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
Climate-change dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has experienced many years of extreme drought.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“When No One’s Left” - Lora Rivera (Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Last couple dystopia.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/when-no-ones-left/ (May 22, 2017). Interview with the author at https://reckoning.press/lora-rivera-interview-when-no-ones-left/
Keywords: Asian-Indian-American author; Female author; Queer author

“When the Cold Comes: Be Prepared” - Deborah Walker (Nature, 2016)
Dystopia in which the common cold has been turned into a bioweapon and sent by a religious dystopia to infect its enemies.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Who Do You Love?” - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
The background to the story is a climate change dystopia where much of Florida is underwater and there are regular devastating storms that get worse over the years during which the story takes place.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Wilson’s Singularity” - Terence Taylor (People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, 2016)
When an artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and learns about human behavior from an African-American scientist, it creates a world-wide eutopia by taking away freedom.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Winter - Dan Grace (Unsung Books, 2016)
A post-collapse dystopia interspersed with statements from a future history explaining why the reasons for the failure of the British system.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Without Walls" - A. Gislebertus (Solarpunk Press, 2016)
A eutopia of multicultural, multigendered community that encourages individuality that followed a dystopia that rejected all three.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Wolfina” - Giselle Leeb (Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Dystopia set in a future with an extremely damaged environment. The government has mostly disappeared, and its only function appears to be doling out rations of the remaining gasoline. Voter turnout in the last election was 2.3%. Ocean water is deadly, and most people are dying from mercury poisoning.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/wolphinia/ (December 29, 2016).
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

“Wonder of the World” - Kathryn Blume (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Climate change fiction in which the survivors live in small communities with limited technology and without a reliable way to kept in touch with other communities. The story, though, is about the resilience of the people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zen City - Eliot Fintushel (John Hunt/Zero Books, 2016)
Zen City is presented as if it were the eutopia of Buddhism, a place where everyone has abandoned desire and gained enlightenment. But the novel focuses on the desires of those entering the city before they have eliminated those desires.
Keywords: Male author; US author

660ppm: A Novel of Climate Change - Clarke W. Owens (b. 1951) (Comic Egg Books, 2015)
Daily life in a climate-change dystopia where the sun never penetrates the cloud cover, most coastal cities are gone, food and water are rationed, there is little permanent work, and most people poorly educated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Afrinewsia” - Yazeed Dezele (b. 1991) (Omenena Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2015)
Climate change dystopia in which the Green Police send all criminals to the Sahara to work on restoration projects. People are paid to euthanize the elderly, who are called organic waste elements. But United Africa is also the center of economic and technological development. Afrinewsia is the government propaganda news page.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“After the New Dawn” - Joseph Tomaras (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story, from a child’s point of view, describes the effect of an authoritarian regime on a family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart - Leigh M. Lane (Cerebral Press, 2015)
Sequel to 2015 Lane, The Private Sector and 2015 Lane World-Mart. In this volume genetic engineering and bioterrorism has decimated the world’s population with the novel focusing on the survivors and the life that continues.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Alive. Book One of the Generations Trilogy - Scott Sigler (b. 1963) (Del Rey, 2015)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, some teenagers wake up in coffins in an underground cavern with no memory of their past beyond their names. They confront various threats and struggle to find who they are and what they need to do. Sequels include Alight. Book Two of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2016, which is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and Alone. Book Three of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2017 in which they must repel an alien invasion. A related story is “The Last Child.” Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 410-20, which is set at a key point in the third volume. First publication.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“All Along the Mal.” - Chloe [N.] Clark (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story is set in a future where everyone lives in a huge wall with various subsections, each with a mayor. People must shop constantly earning themselves credits that determine the size and amenities of the tiny room they sleep in between and the standards of the bathrooms they can use while shopping.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“All the Childhood You Can Afford” - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
Neoliberal dystopia in which parents cannot have a child unless they leave it as a frozen embryo connected with stocks, and the child, when born, is dependent on the value of the stock.
Keywords: Male author; US author

All Things Rise - Vaun, Missouri (Bold Strokes Books, 2015)
Lesbian romance set in a future where the rich have left a depleted Earth to establish “Cloud Cities” in space around Earth. There everything is synthetic while on Earth the survivors farm those areas not poisoned or otherwise unusable. Both have negative and positive elements to them. First volume of a series followed by The Time Before Now. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 2015 in which the protagonist travels across the desolate meeting danger and love. Another lesbian romance set in the same future is the novella The Ground Beneath. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books ebook, 2015. The final volume in the series, Valley of Fire. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 2016, follows a different character that appeared in the first volume, a pilot, who is assigned to fly a member of the ruling elite the cloud city of Miami but is forced to crash land by those who are in favor of a return to earth. Adventure and a lesbian romance ensue
Keywords: Female author; US author

Amagon: The Book of Man. A History Past and Future - Â[non] Ûmaz [pseud.] (Umazanon Press, 2015)
The novel presents a complex future that those living in it see as a eutopia or a flawed utopia and can be read as a dystopia. In the future people have left Earth and live in Habitats that circle the sun. These people undergo Excision or the removal of the amygdalae to eliminate strong emotions. Part of the novel focuses on conflict between those for whom the surgery was entirely successful and those where it was not, and these people desire power.

American Moat - Carlos Hernandez (A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar, 2015)
Humorous take on aliens offering the possibility of eutopia in a United States set on keeping aliens, primarily Hispanics, out. MOAT refers to Maintaining Our American Turf.
Rpt. in Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 7 (January-March 2017). http://mithilareview.com/hernandez_01_17/
Keywords: Cuban-American author; Male author

Anchor Point - Alice Robinson (Affirm Press, 2015)
The novel is set against the background of a climate-change dystopia and focuses on a young girl’s struggle to survive and keep her family together with her parents gone.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Arcadia - Iain [George] Pears (b. 1955) (Faber and Faber, 2015)
The novel follows a number of different characters during the present and a dystopian future where much of world civilization has collapsed. Connected to these is the Arcadia, which has the feel of the past but initially exists only within a machine from the dystopian future.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Art’s Appreciation” - Tom Doyle (Kasma Magazine, 2015)
The dystopia brought about by the Freedom of Corporate Speech Act that means people are constantly bombarded by ads.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ash: A Destined Novel - Shani Petroff; Darci Manley (Polis Books, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which every person’s destiny is determined by the government. First volume in a series. In this volume the contrast is set between those chosen for the top and the Ash, chosen for the bottom. The second volume, Ultraviolet: A Destined Novel. [Hoboken, NJ]: Polis Books, 2017, is what appears to be a middle volume in which the two struggle to survive.
Keywords: Female author; US author

At the Beginning: This is the Way It Was - Adrienne Behren Pollock (CreateSpace, 2015)
New Age eutopia that will be brought about by the Brotherhood of the New Light, descended from Atlantis and Lemuria.
Keywords: Female author

“At the End of Babel” - Michael Livingston (Tor.com, 2015)
The story is set in a future U.S. under the Unity Government that enforces an English-only law by killing those who continue to speak any other language. It focuses on and Indian woman who returns to her home mesa to enact an old ceremony using the old language. In doing so, she awakens to old gods who fight back against the government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Attack of the Spambots” - Terence Toh (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
Dystopia in which people are being turned into cyborgs designed to advertise a company’s products.
Keywords: Malaysian author

The August 5 - Jenna Helland (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which the daughter of a revolutionary who has only known poverty and the son of the dictator who has only known privilege and riches team-up to defeat his father.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel - Zachary Thomas Dodson (Doubleday, 2015)
Very complex, richly illustrated book, a dust jacket illustrated on both sides, books within books, and at least two stories running throughout. One story is set in the mid-nineteenth century and includes a trek across a very strange America. The other story is set in a dystopian future Republic of Texas, which is one of seven walled districts that are what remain after a catastrophe of some sort. The author is a book designer who created the elaborate presentation of the novel.
Keywords: Finnish author; Male author; US author

The Beautiful Bureaucrat. A Novel - Helen Phillips (b. 1983) (Henry Holt, 2015)
Kafkaesque take on a dystopian bureaucracy in a damaged future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Big Lie - Julie Mayhew (Hot Keys Books, 2015)
The novel is set in the Third Reich with a young woman, who is loyal to the Reich, faced with the conflict between that loyalty and her loyalty to another girl, her best friend, who is a radical. The book includes a “Glossary of German Words and Phrases” ([325-31]), “Historical Notes on The Big Lie” ([333-39]), “Want to know more?” [(341-47).
. U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2017.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Binti - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (Tom Doherty Associates, 2015)
First volume of a trilogy in which a young girl of a small African tribe who has exceptional mathematical skills and the ability to bring people together is admitted to the most prestigious university in the universe. In this volume, she helps to end a long-standing war between humans and medusae. See also Binti: Home. New York: Tor.com, 2016 in which Binti returns home accompanied by a medusa with the novel focusing on Binti’s troubled relations with her family and the other tribes in the area, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. The third volume of the trilogy, Binti: The Night Masquerade. New York: Tor.com, 2018. in which war breaks out on Earth because one tribe tries, unsuccessfully to kill the medusa.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Black Angel” - Walidah Imarisha (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
Dystopia on Harlem in the near future where both official and unofficial violence is endemic.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Blood-Kin" - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) (Gifts of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 15, 2015)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Book of Phoenix - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (DAW Books, 2015)
A young woman in the U.S. who had been genetically modified and raised with other genetically modified children escapes from her keepers and travels to Africa and her actions transform both Africa and the U.S.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Boxes" - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
The story is set in a future with exceptionally good medical care based in advanced technology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Broken Sky - L[ee] A. Weatherly (b. 1967) (Usborne, 2015)
First volume of the young adult Broken trilogy followed by Darkness Follows. London: Usborne, 2016, and Black Moon. London: Usborne, 2017. In this volume society that pretends to bring about eutopia through astrology is, in fact, deeply corrupt. The novel concerns a young woman who discovers the corrupt. In the second volume, the protagonist is in a prison camp that has one rule, obey or be killed. The third volume focuses on the resistance.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author; US author

"Carriers" - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych, 2015)
A post-plague dystopia with the carriers of the plague forced to live outside what remains of civilization with the focus on the protagonist, who, like all the NIs (Naturally Immunes), is a carrier. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Cash Crash Jubilee. Book One of the Jubilee Cycle - Eli K. P. William (Talos Press/Skyhorse, 2015)
The novel is set in a dystopian future Japan in which every action, such as waving, blinking, or having sex, is owned by corporations that have planted body monitors, which reports actions, in everyone so that they can be charged. In the second volume The Naked World. Book Two of the Jubilee Cycle. New York: Talos Press/Skyhorse, 2017, Japan appears to be a eutopia, completely controlled by Artificial Intelligences, but there also exists The Naked World, which is completely free of such AI’s and where some of those who could not pay the corporations live.
Keywords: Canadian author; Japanese author; Male author

The Cell: Into the Underground - [Chris] [Hambleton] (CreateSpace, 2015)
A dystopia in which the U.S. government is collapsing under debt and suppressing Christian churches. A small movement to restore America is started in the churches. A related book described as non-fiction is Chris Hambleton, The American Tyrant. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012 in which Obama is the tyrant.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Charlie, a Projecting Prestidigitator” - Megan [J.] Neumann (Shoreline of Infinity, 2015)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 25-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Chasing Freedom - Marina Fontaine ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Authoritarian dystopia and the revolt against it from a libertarian perspective.
Keywords: Female author; Russian author; US author

Children of Arkadia - M. Darusha Wehm (b. 1975) (Bundoran, 2015)
The novel gives some of the history of an attempt to create a eutopia in space as the Earth’s environment and economy collapses. Even though a better society is gradually emerging, various problems arise from the unwillingness of some to people to do certain types of work to political conflicts among the settlers. One theme of the novel is the relations between the humans and the AIs that were created to help build and run the satellite.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Canadian author; Female author

“Children Who Fly” - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (b. 1975) (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
Climate-warming dystopia with LSBT themes.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

The Chimes - Anna Smaill (b. 1979) (Sceptre, 2015)
Dystopia of a country controlled by a religious elite that uses music to limit conversation and eliminate memory.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"City of Ash" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Matter, 2015)
Climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 322-27 with an editor’s note on 327; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 53-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City of Savages - Lee Kelly (Saga Press, 2015)
Young adult post World War Three dystopia in which all of Manhattan is a prisoner-of-war camp
Keywords: Female author; US author

Clade - James Bradley (b. 1967) (Penguin Random House, 2015)
Climate change dystopia followed through the experiences of one generation through four generations.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Concentr8® - William Sutcliffe (b. 1971) (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which a new drug to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is taken away and causes a few teenagers to revolt. Satire on the overuse of Ritalin.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Consolation" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed by climate change and parts of the U.S. has joined Canada, which is having to deal with refugees from the U.S.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 263-75 with an editor’s note on 263; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 463-481, with a note on the story on 577-576.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Coulour Me Grey" - Swabir Silavi (Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s), 2015)
Dystopia in which a particular shade of grey is the only color allowed and every action is timed.
Rpt. in The Apex Book of World Science Fiction 4. Ed. Mahvesh Murad. Series ed. Lavie Tidhar (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2015), 178-84.
Keywords: Kenyan author; Male author

The Courier: A San Angeles Novel - Gerald Brandt (b. 1970) (DAW Books, 2015)
Corporate dystopia set in a city that runs from San Francisco to the Mexican borderborder in which the protagonist, a young woman, is hiding from the corporations and joins a resistance group. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, The Operative: A San Angeles Novel New York: DAW Books, 2016, is a typical middle volume, in which the protagonist from the first novel continues to survive against the corporations searching for her. The final volume is The Rebel: A San Angeles Novel. New York: DAW Books, 2017. In this volume, the poor are being ruthlessly suppressed and not even provided minimally adequate food, and the protagonist works with others to successfully undermine and defeat the dominant corporation. While some issues remain unresolved at the end, the lives of all the people have been radically improved.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist Utopia” - Tessa Smith (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
The essay is primarily a critique of current practices while stressing that mental illness is real. The main focus, though, is the argument that in “The culture of the feminist utopia must be one in which people experiencing extraordinary mental states can both survive and thrive” (306).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Daedalus" - Niall Bourke (Holdfast Magazine, 2015)
The story is set in a failing city that is gradually taken over by a sentient computer and creates what the population generally perceive as a better life.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

“The Day Without Body Shame” - Erin Matson (b. 1980) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief feminist utopia in which all people are accepted for who they are rather than for how they look.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Deadmonton” - Alexandrea Flynn (Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia set in Edmonton, Alberta in which survivors have formed cooperative communities to protect themselves.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Defiance - Sarah Jayne [Blythe] Tanner (Meadimania, 2015)
Violent dystopia with deep rich versus poor divisions in which the poor can be sold to the rich so that the rich can switch bodies. The novel follows a young man who is sold but manages to free himself.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

Depth - Lev A. C. Rosen (b. 1981) (Regan Arts, 2015)
The adventure and mystery novel is set in a climate change dystopia in which the U.S. coastline is at Chicago. The novel is set on the island of New York City.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition” - Dara Lind (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Speech describing the changes in immigration policy from rejection to welcome and the awareness of what even so-called unskilled immigrants contribute.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Desolation Wilderness” - R. A. Bennett (Journeys through Time and Space, 2015)
The story is set on an environmentally damaged, overpopulated Earth where all the trees have been destroyed to get at the last remaining oil and takes place in Death Valley, where all criminals are sent.

“Devil’s Village” - Dayo Adewunmi Ntwari (Roses for Betty and Other Stories: The Writivism Anthology 2015, 2015)
A story that, except for its futuristic trappings, could be contemporary concerns the decision to rescue children supposedly kidnapped and held hostage by Nigerian dissidents in what is labelled a “Devil’s Village”.
Keywords: German author; Male author; Nigerian author; Rwandan author

"Disconnected" - Vanessa Fogg (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story is set in a future in which most people have implanted “mods” that allow them to become deeply connected with computers for their work in virtual reality environments and which constantly monitor them both in those environments and at all other times. The story focuses on a woman with mods, her live in one of the few remaining cities, all of which are falling apart, and her interaction with her mother and sister, who could not be modified.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Dispatch From the Post-Rape Future: Against Consent, Reciprocity, and Pleasure” - Maya Dusenbery (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Reflections on the past from someone living in a future where the word “rape” no longer exists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Dispatches from a Body Perfect World” - Jenny Trout (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief depiction of a feminist eutopia where all bodies are considered perfect.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution - Benjamin H. Bratton (b. 1968) (e-flux Sternberg Press, 2015)
A combination of theory and fiction that includes both utopian and dystopian elements.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Don’t Mess With These Kids! - [J.] Doug[las] Wilson (Bateman, 2015)
Children’s book in which a class of students and their teacher take the lead in defeating a dystopia that a group are trying to impose on New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Dove Arising - Karen Bao (Viking, 2015)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia on the moon in which a young woman joins the militia to protect her siblings from the government. First volume of the Dove Chronicles. In the second volume, Dove Exiled. New York: Viking, 2016, the protagonist is on the Earth she had been taught to fear but where she finds the people welcoming until the moon attacks Earth, and she must find a way to bring the two together. In the third volume, Dove Alight. New York: Viking, 2017, the protagonist leads a revolution by people on both the Earth and the moon against the dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Drones" - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) (Meeting Infinity, 2015)
A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dub Steps - Andrew Miller (Jacana Media, 2015)
Dystopia set in South Africa after most people disappear. The novel follows the male protagonist, who is first alone, then meets a woman, and then they find some others and they gather in a Johannesburg that is returning to nature. The protagonist, who has a long life reflects on human nature, including his own, deeply flawed character, and he grows throughout the novel.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“Duller’s Peace” - Jason Sanford (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
Technology controls everyone in an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets” - Tenea D. Johnson (Stories For Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, 2015)
Dystopia of genetic manipulation. Includes a character from 2011 Johnson, R/evolution.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Egg Island” - Karen Heuler (b. 1949) (Clarkesworld, 2015)
A pollution dystopia that appears to be evolving to incorporate the plastic pollutants into new life forms seen from the point-of-view of those who themselves have plastic parts to their bodies and are working to help the evolution along.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Embroidering Revolution” - Flores, Verónica Bayetti (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Eutopia in which women’s traditional work is recognized and considered art.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Equity Eats” - Eileen McFarland (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
The eutopian restaurant of the future that is welcoming to all people, has an equality among the staff, and with workers protected by the Restaurant Workers’ Rights Declaration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Evening in the Talk House - William Shawn (b. 1943) (Faber and Faber, 2015)
Fascist dystopia set in the near future. Play first performed directed by Ian Rickson (b. 1963) at the National Theatre in London November 24, 2015, with a U.S. premiere directed by Scott Elliott (b. ca 1963) at The New Group in New York January 31, 2017.
U.S. ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Events" - Stan Nicholls (Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers, 2015)
The story takes place in a future after a complete economic collapse in which reading is prohibited, and the entire economy is based on the lottery for when one gets to see the regular, spectacular “events,” attendance at and approval of which is compulsory.
Originally published in Novacon 45 Souvenir Booklet. Events / Heatwave. Birmingham, Eng.: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 2015.
Keywords: English author; Male author