Moped Army - Paul Sizer (b. 1963) (Café Digital Comics, 2005)
Graphic novel dystopia set in a world where gasoline was illegal with a focus on conflict between the very wealth young people who live high in the cities and the poor young people who live in the crumbling underground.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954) (Faber and Faber, 2005)
Dystopia describing a future society where children are cloned and raised to become organ donors. The story is told from the point of view of one of the clones.
Rpt. with minor revisions and illus. Kate Miller. London: The Folio Society, 2012, with an Introduction by Claire Mussud (vii-xiv). U.S. ed. <st1:placetype w:st="on">New York</st1:placetype>: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Keywords: Japanese author; Male author; UK author

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

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

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

Notes From a Coma - Mike McCormack (b. 1965) (Jonathan Cape, 2005)
Dystopia in which deep comas are tried to replace prison.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

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

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

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

Overdrive - Phillip W. Simpson (b. 1971) (Arete Publishing Ltd, 2005)
Dystopian science fiction novel set in 3149. Primarily adventure and intrigue, but the setting includes a struggle for power in an authoritarian society.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Patralmador Paradox: Seduction and Salvation of Planet Earth - Paul [S.] Sandhaus (iUniverse, Inc, 2005)
Flawed utopia on the planet Patralmador, which is trying to recruit people from Earth who are likely to shake up Patralmador’s complacency. Equality. Live in compatible groups; no families. Children live by age group. No competitive sport; no organized religion; abundance.
Keywords: Male author

Perfect Dark Initial Vector - Greg[ory] Rucka (b. 1969) (Tor, 2005)
Corporate dystopia in sequel to the XBox 360 game Perfect Dark Zero and © by the Microsoft Corporation. See also his Perfect Dark Second Front. New York: Tor, 2007, which is a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Piccadilly Circus" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2005)
Dystopia of a future ruined, depopulated London.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006), 244-57.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Pigs on the Wing: Aurorae in the sky with diamonds, just $10.99 (exc. tax)" - K. Erik Ziemelis (Nature, 2005)
Pollution dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 318-20.
Keywords: Male author

"Prometheus Unbound, At Last: And not a moment too soon" - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Nature, 2005)
Satire on the themes of science fiction and utopian literature.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 239-41; and in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 361-63.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Promised Land" - Antonio Ruffini (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Dystopia. Immortality or at least extremely long life is available to some, which produces a deeply divided society.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

The Protector's War - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) (Roc, 2005)
Post-catastrophe societies, some dystopian and others struggling to be good societies.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Punk Land - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Eraserhead Press, 2005)
Dystopia of a Punk Heaven.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

The Republic of Trees - Sam Taylor (Faber and Faber, 2005)
Four children "on the edge of adolescence" run away to a forest where they attempt to establish a eutopia based on Jean-Jacque Rousseau's (1712-78) Social Contract (1762). Another joins them and the eutopia takes a dystopian turn with the imposition of authority and conformity.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Running on at Adventures" - Angus McAllister (b. 1943) (Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, 2005)
Enclosed dystopia of over-regulation with no contact with the outside. The protagonist experiences the outside and decides that the regulated life is preferable.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

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

A Short History of Paradise - Norman Bilbrough (b. 1941) (Penguin Books, 2005)
A communal experiment designed to be eutopian is undermined by "human nature".
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Signal Red - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) (Penguin Books, 2005)
Dystopia set in a future India that is one of the most advanced countries scientifically. The government controls all science and scientists, who live in compounds which neither they or their families can leave.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Northern Ireland author

Six Days Till Sunday - Fred Gaertner (Xlibris, 2005)
Dystopia of a future where blacks enslave whites and argue that their slaves are all content. To fight this future slavery, blacks are sent back to experience the dystopia of slavery in the American South before the Civil War. At the end of the novel, former slave owners are freeing their slaves and working to end slavery. A non-utopian sequel is Preacher Sean, Antiterrorist. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2009.
Keywords: Male author

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

Soul City. A Novel - Touré [Nesblett] (b. 1971) (Little, Brown, 2005)
Humorous, satirical eutopia of a vibrant city that lives all the fables of the swinging African American life. Additional Soul City stories that can be found in his The Portable Promised Land. Stories. New York: Little, Brown, 2002 include “The Steviewondermobile” (3-8), “A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love” (9-24); originally published illus. in Zoetrope All-Story 3.4 (Winter 1999): 40-46. http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=57&part=all; “The Breakup Ceremony” 25-31); “Soul City Gazette Profile: Crash Jinkins, Last of the Chronic Crashees” (142-45), and “Falcon Malone Can Fly No More” (201-17). In addition, there is an ad for the forthcoming The Black Utopia, A History of Soul City, by Cadillac Johnson, a protagonist in Soul City, to be published by Negritude University Press. 1369 pp. (257).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Stelzer's Travels: A Voyage to a Sensible Planet - Dan Hurwitz (Booklocker, 2005)
Detailed eutopia of a planet with a history closely paralleling Earth's covering international relations, ecology, economics, politics, and religion. Jewish themes throughout.
Keywords: Male author

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

The Stone Ship - Peter Raftos (Pandanus Books, 2005)
Dystopia with fantasy elements focusing on a university and its complex physical structure and bureaucracy and the struggles for power and status within it.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

The Summer Isles - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Aio Publishing, 2005)
Alternative history dystopia describing a Britain in which fascists came to power. Particular focus on its anti-gay agenda.
A shorter version was originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.10 (274) (October/November 1998): 172-226; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Sixteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 544-602 with an editor’s note on 544.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

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

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

The Traveler - John Twelve Hawks [pseud.] (Bantam Press, 2005)
Dystopia. Book One of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. The world, known as the Vast Machine, is populated by citizens who think they know what is going on and drones who are too tired to care. Unknown to them, there is a continuing conflict between the Tabula (the bad guys) and the Harlequins (the good guys). The second volume, The Dark River. Book Two of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. London: Bantam Press, 2007. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 2007, describes those who attempt to live free lives outside the grip of the authoritarian dystopia. The third volume, The Golden City: Book Three of the Fourth Realm Trilogy. New York: Doubleday, 2009 resolves the conflicts developed in the first two volumes and suggests a positive outcome.
U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Random House/Vintage, 2006.
Keywords: Male author

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

Troubadour. An epic, utopian, otherworldly quest-adventure - Don Fenn (Synergy Books., 2005)
Eutopia on the planet Troubadour where people are free to make their own choices and any cooperation has to rise spontaneously and through agreement. The Earthman who is taken to the planet is a psychologist who has serious problems adjusting to the lack of structure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Uglies - Scott [David] Westerfeld (b. 1963) (Simon Pulse, 2005)
First volume of a series originally called the Uglies trilogy, but a fourth volume was added. The first volume describes a technological eutopia in which everyone can become beautiful at age sixteen is an authoritarian dystopia. In the second volume, Pretties. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005, a girl who becomes beautiful discovers that what she thought would be eutopia is not. In the third volume, Specials. <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Simon Pulse. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.K.</st1:place></st1:country-region> ed. London: Simon & Schuster, 2006, the main character becomes part of the group controlling the Uglies and keeping the Pretties stupid. The fourth volume, Extras. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007, includes the arrival of aliens, but the focus is on the role of celebrity in the future society. See also the graphic novels by Scott Westerfeld and Devin Grayson. Uglies: Cutters. Illus. Steven Cunningham. New York: Ballantine Books, 2012; and Uglies: Shay’s Story. Illus. Steven Cunningham. New York: Ballantine Books, 2012. A series of four volumes set in the same world as the Uglies series began with Impostors. New York: Scholastic Press, 2018, which describes one of the dystopian cities that emerges after the revolution in the Uglies series. The second volume, Shatter City. New York: Scholastic Press, 2019, is set in a city in which people use implants to control their emotions. The third volume, Mirror’s Edge. New York: Scholastic Press, 2021, follows one of the characters, a rebel, of the previous novels when she returns to her home city and the problems that ensue. The ending sets up a connection to the preceding Uglies series for the next volume.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

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

Venusia: a true story - Mark [A.] von Schlegell (b. 1957) (Semiotext(e), 2005)
Dystopia in which people are controlled by drugs, nanotechnology, and a form of psychotherapy. The first volume in his “System Series.” See also 2009 and 2015 von Schlegell.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Weapon - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2005)
Primarily a war and adventure story, but the setting is a future dystopia of a Fascist earth.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

X out of Wonderland: A Saga - David Allan Cates (b. 1956) (Steerforth Press, 2005)
Satire on the best of all possible worlds created by the beneficent "Global Free Market".
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Yuhana Am" - David Redd (b. 1946) (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Dystopian background. All of life is organized by the authorities and each person is placed where the authorities conclude they belong.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

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

Zanesville - Kris Saknussemm (b. 1961) (Villard Books, 2005)
Corporate dystopia with fantasy elements.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"According to Their Need" - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Eutopia of no government or laws but with a paternalistic computer system that fills needs as it perceives them.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 377-401.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Affinity Trap - Martin Sketchley (b. 1967) (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia, but the emphasis is on adventure. Collapsed social order and environmental degradation has forced people to live inside large towers. Military dictatorship.
Keywords: English author; Male author

After the Deluge - Chris Carlsson (b. 1957) (Full Enjoyment Books, 2004)
San Francisco in 2157 has been partially submerged as a result of global warming but has recreated itself as a eutopian city with no private property. The novel focuses on how this eutopia deals with an outbreak of crime.
Keywords: Male author

The Age of Sinatra. A Novel - David Ohle (b. 1941) (Soft Skull Press, 2004)
Surrealistic dystopia set in an alternative history. Elective surgery to change body parts. Sailing on the Titanic, which has not sunk. Drugs. Weird animals, reanimated dead; regular periods of forgetting. Described as a sequel to his Motorman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972; rpt. Brooklyn, NY: 3rd Bed Press, 2004, which is not utopian. See also 2008 Ohle.
Parts published in different form as “Chili Hearts.” Harper’s 249.1492 (September 1974): 64-67; “Hogshead.” Transatlantic Review, no. 49 (Summer, 1974): 130-38; “The Boy Scout.” TriQuarterly 35.1 (Winter 1976): 39-40; rpt. in The Pushcart Prize, II: Best of the Small Presses (Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1977), 464-67; “Onebe and the Neutrodynes.” New Mexico Humanities Review 2.2 (Summer 1979): 51-57; “The Flocculus.” Paris Review 22.77 (Winter-Spring 1980): 16-25; rpt. in Pushcart Prize, VI: Best of the Small Presses (Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1981), 79-87; “Easy Neutronics.” A Reader of New American Fiction. Ed. Robert Fromberg and Rebecca West (Peoria, IL: I-74 Press, 1981), 37-49; “Fastest Brains Preserved.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 41 (Spring 1984): 121-24; “The Log of the Pipistred.” Missouri Review 9.2 (1986): 32-41; “The Work of Art.” Caliban, no. 8 (1990): 85-89; “The Flum.” Conjunctions 26 (Spring 1996): 236-46; “Der Kroetenkusser” Elimae http://www.elimae.com/fiction/ohle/kroetenkusser.html. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Mother and Son” Failbetter, no. 5 http://failbetter.com/05/Mother%20and%20Son.htm. Accessed March 13, 2020; and “Ratt from The Flocculus.” 3rd bed, no. 6 (2002): 131-52 http://calamaripress.com/3rdBed/3rd_Bed_Issues.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010. Other portions, some in different form, have appeared in City Moon (which was a journal co-edited by Ohle with much of the unsigned material written by the editors, and Dominion Review.
Keywords: Male author; US author

America 2012. A Novel - Erik Gregory; Todd Gregory (iUIniverse, 2004)
Dystopia in which a Muslim terrorist network threatens the U.S. and world opinion and American intellectuals undermine the possibility of an effective U.S. response leading to the collapse of the U.S. “A Factual Epilogue” (245-300) and “Suggested Readings” (301-02) provide what the authors say is the factual basis for the novel. See also http://www.america2012.info.
Keywords: Male author

America 2014: An Orwellian Tale - [Jonathan] [Greenberg] (Progressive Source Publishing, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia based on contemporary U.S. politics. George W. Bush is in his fourth term as President, the U.S. has been renamed “God’s United States,” and the Bill of Rights has been replaced. “The Revised Constitution of God’s United States. A Patriot Citizen’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” is on pages 219-222. It includes the current Bill of Rights with each amended with a phrase like “except in during Time of War, or serious threat of war or terrorism” as determined by the President. It also specifies that “actual abortionists, illicit drug users, subversives, terrorists, enemy sympathizers or propagandists” have no rights.
Keywords: Male author

American Odyssey - Alvin Levie (b. 1927) (Trafford, 2004)
Dystopia of a future U.S. under a dictatorship. The novel follows an individual searching for those resisting the regime and the overthrow of the dictatorship and the beginnings of the reestablishment of democracy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Asphalt - Rux, Carl Hancock (Atria Books, 2004)
A complex novel set in a war-torn New York City. The protagonist, who has recently returned from France, ends up in a poor, deteriorating neighborhood in Brooklyn and the novel follows his interactions with his neighbors and flashbacks to his childhood. Although much of the novel was written before 9/11, the novel is obviously influenced by that day.
The novel was made into a play by the author with live music and video and performed at the CalArts Theater February 2 - 4, 2006.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Bar Code Tattoo - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic, 2004)
Dystopia in which everyone is required to get a bar code tattoo on their sixteenth birthday and one girl refuses. See also 2006 and 2012 Weyn.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Basilisk - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) (Bloomsbury, 2004)
The novel presents two dystopian societies and the successful result of a combined revolt. Marketed in the U.S. as a Young Adult title.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Belonging - Jeannie Baker (b. 1950) (Walker Books, 2004)
Children's wordless picture book depicting community as eutopia.
U.S. ed as Home. [New York]: Greenwillow Books, 2004.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Beyond Infinity - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Aspect/Warner Books, 2004)
The novel is an expansion of Benford’s novella in 1990 Clarke and Benford and begins in an apparent eutopia, but the bulk of the novel is concerned, as was the novella, with an attack on the eutopia and its response. See the “Afterword” (337-38/Orbit 450-51) for an explanation of the relationship of this book to 1953 Clarke and 1990 Clarke and Benford.
U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Big Empty. Paradise City - [Elizabeth J.] [Braswell] (Razorbill, 2004)
Young adult post-catastrophe eutopia under threat. Sequel to the non-utopian J.B. Stephens, The Big Empty. New York: Razorbill, 2004 where a virus kills half the population. Further sequels include Stephens, The Big Empty. Desolation Angels. New York: Razorbill, 2005 and [Braswell], The Big Empty. No Exit. New York: Razorbill, 2005, both of which concern responses to the threat to the eutopia. It is likely that the various volumes were written by different authors with Stephens as a blanket pseudonym, but the volumes by Braswell are the only ones that can be identified.
Keywords: Female author

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

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

The Church Invisible: A Journey into the Future of the UK Church - Nick Page (b. 1961) (Zondervan, 2004)
Dystopia. In fifty years, the church has disappeared in the U.K.
Part originally published as "Invisible Church." Christianity and Renewal (July - May 2002): 40-43; 30-32; 28-30; 28-30; 36-38; 46-48; 46-48; 48-49, 50; 42-43; 36-38; 22-23, 25.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Civilization" - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) (McSweeney's, 2004)
Dystopia. A society where teenagers may be required to kill their parents as a duty; parents are expected to cooperate. No justification given. Refers to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as important early literature, but it is a Nineteen Eighty-Four rewritten to reflect current expectations.
Rpt. in The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2. Ed. Dave Eggers (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005), 20-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cloud Atlas - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) (Sceptre, 2004)
A large novel with multiple story lines ranging from the past to the future, including a future authoritarian dystopia, "An Orison of Sonmi~451" (185-245). Sonmi~451 is the name of a "fabricant" or clone created to work in a fast food restaurant. The clones are drugged to sleep and wake on schedule and to keep their intelligence low and are indoctrinated into complete obedience. Sonmi~451 becomes part of a botched experiment on raising the intelligence of fabricants and experiences the world outside the restaurant. The names and the language used suggests that this part of the novel is set in a future North Korea. Part of the novel is set in the Chatham Islands of New Zealand.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

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

"The Colonizing of Tharle" - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia in which an invading force tries and fails to find a government with which to negotiate. The invasion is foiled through simple non-cooperation.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 485-509.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) (Ace Books, 2004)
Sequel to 2002 Steele. After settling a new planet and establishing a free system, the planet Coyote receives more ships from Earth and a repressive government. Struggle for freedom. See also 2005 Steele. An additional story that fits between this volume and the next one is “The River Horses.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 31.4 & 5 (375 & 376) (April-May 2007): 26-71; rpt. as The River Horses.  Burton ,  MI : Subterranean Press, 2007. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011. An additional story that fits between this volume and the next one is “The River Horses.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 31.4 & 5 (375 & 376) (April-May 2007): 26-71; rpt. as The River Horses. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007.
Rev. from "The Mad Woman of Shuttlefield." Asimov's Science Fiction 27.5 (328) (May 2003): 64-85; rpt. in The Year's Best SF 9. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 354-87; "Benjamin the Unbeliever." Asimov's Science Fiction 27.8 (August 2003): 86-130; "The Garcia Narrows Bridge." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.1 (336) (January 2004): 66-85; "Thompson's Ferry." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.3 (338) (March 2004): 84-96; "Incident at Goat Kill Creek." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.4 & 5 (339 & 340) (April/May 2004): 82-124; "Shady Grove." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.7 (342) (July 2004): 16-47; "Liberation Day." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.10 & 11 (October-November 2004): 188-229; and "Home of the Brave." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.12 (347) (December 2004): 46-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Crux - Albert E[dward] Cowdrey (b. 1933) (Tor, 2004)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cuma's Voice: An Environmental Utopia - William Young (Xlibris, 2004)
The novel is composed entirely of a discussion between a woman on Earth and an alien on another planet that is presented as a naturally occurring eutopia without any technology with the Earth not quite a dystopia but considerably less appealing than the Forest of the other planet, which provides all that the inhabitants need. The inhabitants of the eutopia are similar to the birds of Earth in that they are feathered and fly, but they do not lay eggs, but they are neither female nor male with everyone capable of bearing offspring. They give live birth with the offspring carried in pouches until they mature. While they have personal names and differing interests and skills, they do not think of themselves as individuals and live in close-knit communities.
Keywords: Male author

Curious Notions. Crosstime Traffic--Book Two - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2004)
Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. In this volume, Germany won World War I and now dominates the world. Other volumes in the series include 2006, 2007, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Deletion" - Steven Bratman (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2004)
Genetic engineering in a world in which genes for emotional connection had been removed and which shows the flawed utopia produced.
Keywords: Male author

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

"Devil's Star" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia with a barter economy, custom, and altruism contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia fearful of all free societies.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 431-51; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 369-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dogs and Water - Anders Nilsen (b. 1973) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2004)
Graphic novel dystopia with no words in which a boy wanders through a largely destroyed landscape.
Rpt. with a few additional pages Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Epic - Conor Kostick (b. 1964) (O'Brien Press, 2004)
Dystopia in which ending violence depends on everyone playing the Epic game, which is controlled by the anonymous Committee. First volume of a trilogy, The Avatar Chronicles, followed by Saga. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2006; U.S. ed. New York: Viking Children’s Edition, 2006; and Edda. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2011; U.S. ed. New York: Viking Press, 2011, both of which are set in dystopias within other computer games with characters from the first part of the second and characters from the first two parts part of the third.
U.S. ed. New York: Viking Press, 2007
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; UK author

"Falling Star" - Brendan DuBois (Space Stations, 2004)
Dystopia of a future anti-technological, religious U.S. small town.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 471-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Feral World - J. R. Dittbrenner (PublishAmerica, 2004)
New World Enterprise System has ended nation states with a generally positive result, but the novel is mostly science fiction.

Field of Honor - D. L. Birchfield (1948-2012) (University of Oklahoma Press, 2004)
Satire set in a future in which the Choctaw nation has been living under the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma and have evolved a high-tech society based in part on white slaves captured on the surface, where a cultural genocide is been implemented. Disruption occurs when a half-Choctaw marine deserter discovers the underground civilization.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

The First Space Pioneers: Perilous Space Voyages - Clyde B. Harvey (iUniverse, 2004)
Simplistic presentation of space voyages in the near future. Includes the presentation of many colonies, mostly vaguely eutopian.
Keywords: Male author

Fitzpatrick's War - Theodore Judson (b. 1951) (DAW Books, 2004)
The novel is structured as a critical edition of a memoir of a future conflict published in a postwar dystopia with rigid class and gender distinctions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Flood - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) (Saqi, 2004)
Apocalyptic novel with dystopian elements and a brief heaven at the end.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Folkhaven - Robert L. Courtney (Trafford, 2004)
The novel focuses on a successful family with deep roots in a small farming community. The community experiences ethnic and racial issues, and the novel has clear racist and anti-immigrant themes, and the family goes on to create the first of what is to become white-only, Nordic-based Folkhaven communities. The book ends with “The Folkhaven Community Concept” (348-62).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Footvote" - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Postscripts, 2004)
Eutopia of a planet named New Suffolk that can be reached through a wormhole. New Suffolk is a purified, and white only, U.K., and some of its rules are spelled out throughout the story.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 552-66.
Keywords: English author; Male author

For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Scribner, 2004)
Written in 1939. This is Heinlein's first novel, which was rejected by publishers at the time and thought lost. Libertarian eutopia with clear divisions between what is in the public and private spheres and a system of social credit or "heritage checks" that provides everyone a basic guaranteed income. Many technological advances, some of which Heinlein used later.
Rpt. as vol. 4 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Forced Conversion - Donald J. Bingle (b. 1954) (Five Star, 2004)
Dystopia in which most people have retreated to virtual reality, and there is an organized effort to force the rest to join them. Struggle between the two groups.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Freehold - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2004)
Dystopia and eutopia describing an authoritarian government and a libertarian enclave primarily concerned with conflict. First volume in a long series with a sub-series. Other volumes include The Weapon. New York: Baen, 2005; Contact with Chaos. New York: Baen, 2009; Rogue. New York: Baen, 2011; and Angeleyes. New York: Baen, 2016. The Ripple Creek subseries includes Better to Forgiveness. New York: Baen, 2007; Do Unto Others. New York: Baen, 2010; and When Diplomacy Fails. New York: Baen, 2012. There are also three anthologies edited by Williamson with contributions by him and others Forged in Blood. New York: Baen, 2017  Freehold Resistance. New York: Baen, 2019; and Freehold Defiance. New York: Baen, 2019.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Frek and the Elixir - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) (Tor, 2004)
A humorous flawed utopia set in 3003. An apparent eutopia based on biotechnology is an authoritarian dystopia using memory control. All Earth's plant and animal species have disappeared or been modified out of recognition and replaced with species that could be sold at a profit, and part of the novel is concerned with the attempt to restore them.
Part originally published as "Frek in the Grulloo Woods." Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (New York: Roc, 2003), 213-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Galileo Syndrome - Daniel H. Gottlieb (Canopy Publishing, 2004)
Environmental dystopia in which global warming has forced extreme restrictions on power use.
Keywords: Male author

The Gift Moves - Steve Lyon (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
Young adult eutopia describing a future that has little technology and operates on the basis of gifting.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

God in the Image of Woman - D[avid] V. Bernard (Strebor Books International, 2004)
Dystopia where no women are born.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Gods and Their Machines - Oisín McGann (b. 1973) (O'Brien Press, 2004)
Young adult novel depicting conflict between a technological society and a supposedly primitive society. The book cover compares the conflict to that between Israel and the Palestinians. The beginning of reconciliation is brought about by young protagonists from each side.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2004.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

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

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

The Humanism: A Philosophic-Ethical-Political-Economic Study of the Development of Society - Aleksandar Šarović (2004)
Detailed non-fiction eutopia based on direct democracy. His “Heaven.” http:/www/sarovic.com/screenplay.html [2010]. Accessed June 17, 2010 is a fictional version.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

Iron Council - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Ballantine Books, 2004)
Set in New Crobuzon, the city that plays a role in both 2000 and 2002 Miéville but set earlier than in those novels. Iron Council is a train that is a socialist society constantly moving, picking up the track behind it and laying it in front to go wherever the inhabitants choose. The leaders of New Crobuzon are set on destroying it, and various threads of the novel following characters involved on both sides. See also 2005 Miéville.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Jigsaw Men - Gary Greenwood (PS Publishing, 2004)
Alternative history dystopia in which Dr. Frankenstein succeeded in creating “monsters”, known as “Jigsaw Men” or “Jiggers”, out of spare parts, the Martians had invaded Earth but failed to conquer it and had left some advanced technology behind, and the British Empire continues. France is divided by the British and the Prussians into North and South with a wall between the two. The U.S. still has slavery.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

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

KD Rebel - David [Eden] Lane (1938-2007) (jrbooksonline.com, 2004)
Rebels against miscegenation move to the Rocky Mountain states and establish “Kinsland” and call themselves the Kinsland Defenders (KD). The novel is about the beginnings of an ideal white society. For his “88 Precepts,” the principles on which the society is based, and which is referred to throughout the novel, see https://archive.org/stream/88Precepts_937/88Precepts_djvu.txt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kindling - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Tor, 2004)
The novel is set in a fragmented world with an authoritarian religious dystopia in conflict with the remaining areas of freedom. Much fantasy. English author best-known as a musician.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

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

The Last Love Story: A fairytale of the day after tomorrow - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) (Picador, 2004)
City divided between a brutal, religious dystopia and a wealthy, free eutopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the desire and attempt to escape from one to the other. A note by the author (256) refers to the divisions of Germany and Korea and the beginnings of the wall between Israel and Palestine.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Leviathan Wept" - Daniel [James] Abraham (b. 1969) (SciFiction, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia produced by the policies against terrorism in which both sides kill with impunity.
Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 283-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Life in Globus Cassus" - Michael Stauffer; Christian Waldvogel (Globus Cassus, 2004)
Essay briefly describing the eutopian life, which emphasizes equality and freedom, in their newly created space, which is described as “a successful social sculpture” (93). Globus Cassus has been created from Earth but is larger than Earth so as to be able to hold Earth’s large and growing population.
Keywords: Male author; Swiss author

Life Lottery - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) (Pocket Books, 2004)
Ecological dystopia. The final volume of the three the author wrote on ecological subjects. See also 2000 and 2003 Irvine. This volume focuses on the disruptions caused by climate change, particularly the radical increase in the number of refugees and the growth of an anti-refugee movement.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President. Imagine if we had a Green Party President on September 11, 2001 - Mark A. Dunlea (Big Toad Books, 2004)
Eutopia produced by a Green Party US president, who improves the environment and health care and puts the Green Party vision of gender and racial relations, energy policy, and foreign policy into practice.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Malachi - Bestwick, Simon (A Hazy Shade of Winter, 2004)
Dystopia of near future racist Britain with National Socialists killing Jews and anyone racially mixing.
Rpt. in Never Again. Ed. Allyson Bird and Joel Lane ([Wyke, Eng.]: Gray Friar Press, 2010), 272-81.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Market Forces - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2004)
Future dystopia where companies hire out to kill.
U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 441 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

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

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

"Men Are Trouble" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
A future world without men in which most work is done by robots, and the women struggle to find meaning in their lives. His “The Last Judgment.” Asimov's Science Fiction 36.4&5 (435 & 436) (April/May 2012): 10-49 is set in the same future and has the same protagonist, Fay Hardaway, a private detective.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Midwinter - Zinnie Harris (Faber and Faber, 2004)
Although the first performed and published, the play is the middle volume of a trilogy of plays and is the most explicitly dystopian of them. First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, October 5, 2004. It is set during a long, devastating war where starvation is the norm survival the principal value. The first of the plays within the chronology is Solstice. London: Faber and Faber, 2005, first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, March 30, 2008. It depicts conflicts within an intergenerational family as they are forced to settle in an authoritarian state. The last of the plays within that chronology is Fall. London: Faber and Faber, 2008, first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, July 24, 2008. It depicts the aftermath of the war and depicts a war crimes trial.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

Molôn Labé! - [Kenneth W.] [Royce] (Javelin Press, 2004)
The United States has become an authoritarian dystopia, but the state of Wyoming stands up for independence and freedom. The author says that the novel is based on the assumption that the federal government will try to confiscate guns, that there will be a depression deliberately brought about by the government, that parts of the U.S. will try to secede, and that the government will try to crush the rebellion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Moments of Inertia" - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
A complex story with various flashbacks and flash forwards. The end of the world but with a small group moved to a heaven in which they are nude and younger.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nectar" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
Eutopia through advanced biotechnology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

Newton's Wake: A Space Opera - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Tor, 2004)
While the novel is largely as described in its subtitle, it includes a flawed utopia in which all goods are available to all.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

One Nation Under God - Vincent M. Wales (DGC Press, 2004)
Religious dystopia set in 2021 to 2030 in which fundamentalist Christians have come to power in the U.S., eliminated civil liberties, and instituted rigid control. By the end of the novel, the regime has been defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Ordinary - Jim Grimsley (b. 1955) (Tom Doherty Associates, 2004)
Overpopulated, technological, authoritarian dystopia in contact with what they think of as a primitive culture. The primitive society is a complex ancient flawed eutopia based on magic. Some of the background is given in his fantasy Kirith Kirin. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000. His The Last Green Tree. New York: Tor, 2006 is set in the same universe but is fantasy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ourtopia - [John] Garrett Jones (Authors OnLine, 2004)
Detailed eutopia with brief analyses of the current situation and brief statements about solutions and lists of desired outcomes. The author uses "ourtopia" to differentiate his eutopia as a possible future better society from the "nowhere" of the word utopia.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Oval Menace - James E. Couch (iUniverse, 2004)
Dystopia in the U.S. after a Democratic woman is elected President in 2004. She quickly emerges as a dictator who will stop at nothing to get her own way. She pulls all troops back to the U.S. to create an isolationist Fortress America, which leads to major geopolitical shifts in the world and damages the economy. The author was a foreign service office and then a professor at Florida International University, retiring in 1993.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution - Keith Sutherland (Imprint Academic, 2004)
Nonfiction proposal for government without political parties, which will produce a eutopia. Somewhat revised as A People's Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic. Bound back to back with Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips. A Citizen Legislature. O
Somewhat revised as A People’s Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 1985.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The People of Sand and Slag" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2004)
Far future environmental dystopia.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 122-36; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 39-54; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 49-67; and in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 148-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

"Pervert" - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2004)
Dystopia of complete separation of men and women with both having to be covered from head to toe when they might be in the same areas. The pervert is a heterosexual.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 97-106; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 97-106.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Peter Skilling" - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Salon.com, 2004)
Future authoritarian dystopia based on the U.S. response to terrorism.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science 107.3 (632) (September 2004): 116-29; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 179-89; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 179-89.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Planet for the President - Alistair Beaton (b. 1947) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)
Near future dystopia brought about by current U.S. environmental policies. The novel ends with only one person alive, the U.S. President whose policies led to the destruction of the eco-system.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Plot Against America - Philip [Milton] Roth (1933-2018) (Houghton, Mifflin, 2004)
Alternative history in which Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-74) won the 1940 presidential election and Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer who cooperated with Adolf Hitler. Roth called it “an American dystopia;” qtd. in the TLS (December 23 & 30, 2005): 20. A six-episode television mini-series created and directed by David Simon (b. 1960) and Ed Burns (b. 1946) was shown on HBO March 16 - April 20, 2020, with the first three episodes directed by Minkie Spiro and the last three by Thomas Schlamme (b. 1950).
Rpt. in Philip Roth, Novels 2001-2007 (New York: The Library of America, 2013), 93-458 with “Notes on the Text” by Ross Miller (683-89).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Prince of Christler-Coke - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) (Golden Gryphon Press, 2004)
Dystopia of struggle among the nobility in a future degenerated America.
Parts were originally published in different form in his Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales. Austin, TX: Swan Press, 1992, 5-19, which says that “Buckstop” (5-19) will be chapter 10 of Prince of Christler-Coke, but it isn’t, and the chapters have no titles. Parts were also originally published in Ten Tales. Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Service and Appeals Court - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971); Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (The Coppervale Company, 2004)
Satire. Complex depiction of a future world and the thousands of inhabited areas in space around it. Many different cultures on Earth. Focus on technology.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

"[Rated]" - Ben [Michael] Peek (b. 1976) (Agog! Smashing Stories, 2004)
Dystopia. The Ministry of Sanitation proclaims and enforces different lifestyles for different people. White Anglo-Saxons get a eutopia with sexual restrictions.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"A Reception at the Anarchist Embassy" - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Discussion of various anarchist attempts at eutopia and their differences contrasted with an Earth that has become rule-bound.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 363-76.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Renegade" - Mark Tier (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian society in which insurance companies have replaced most government. The system of justice and law enforcement is through profit-making companies. Presented positively.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Right's Tough" - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia, which needs no government because every detail of everyone's life is instantly accessible by web to everyone else, who then shun those who do not conform to the society's standards of good behavior.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 337-45; n his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 195-204; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 51-59.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

River of Gods - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
Massive future history of India seen through the eyes of a number of different protagonists. Both eutopian and dystopian elements. India is both high tech and very traditional. Related stories include “The Little Goddess.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 29.6 (353) (June 2005): 102-34; “The Djinn’s Wife.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 30.7 (366) (July 2006): 102-32; rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 445-78; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007), 81-111; “Sanjeev and Robotwallah.” Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007), 226-43; Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 297-308 with an editor’s introduction on 297; and in Mithila, no. 2 (April 2016) http://mithilareview.com/mcdonald_04_16/; “The Dust Assassin.” The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows. An Original Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Viking, 2008), 236-71 with a note on the author and the author’s note on the story (272-73); rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2009), 97-117; and “An Eligible Boy.” Fast Forward 2. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2008), 241-72; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 120-39 with an editor’s introduction on 120; and in Rpt. in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020). EBook. These stories plus “Vishnu at the Cat Circus” are rpt. in his Cyberabad Days. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2009. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2009. A film was said to be in process but has not appeared.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Sancho's Golden Age - Robin [John] Chapman (b. 1933) (Aris & Phillips, 2004)
Satire in which the plan of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to re-establish the Age of Gold is attempted by Sancho. The middle volume of a trilogy between the Duchess’s Diary. London : Boudicca Books of Battersea, 1980; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1985; and Oxford, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region>: Aris & Phillips, and Pasamonte’s Life. Oxford, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region>: Aris & Phillips, 2008. Neither of the other volumes are utopian.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

Second Coming - [John Robert] [Jones] (b. 1926) (Baen, 2004)
Second Coming of Christ as a Black Canadian. Emphasis is on the struggle between his message and the expectations of Christians.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Shackles of Freedom" - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020); Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
The Amish, presented in their most extreme form, move to a new planet, New Pennsylvania, to be free to follow their beliefs. The stress is on the lack of medical care that results from their unwillingness to use modern technology.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 347-62.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

Sharp North - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) (Simon and Schuster, 2004)
Dystopia brought about by global warming, genetic manipulation, and cloning. Some hope held out for the human spirit overcoming conditions. See also 2005 Cave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

The Silence - Jim Kraus (Barbour, 2004)
Dystopia and eutopia. A series of natural catastrophes leads to violent conflict , but the novel also focuses on a small town Christian eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

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

The Society of Others - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) (Doubleday, 2004)
The background to part of the novel is a dystopia set in an exaggerated contemporary East European country.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

"Start the Clock" - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2004)
Dystopia in which people can control the process of aging and many choose to stop before puberty and these people dominate society.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 22-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sun and Wind - Standish James O'Grady (1846-1928) (University College Dublin Press, 2004)
First publication of a eutopia stressing nature and the simple life that was written between 1911 and 1928.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Sunshine Patriots - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) (Hats Off Books, 2004)
Satirical corporate dystopia.
Rpt. College Park, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2014. U.K. ed. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House UK, 2012.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Supernaturalist - Eoin Colfer (b. 1965) (Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, 2004)
A quite complicated young adult dystopia set in a future satellite city controlled by an authoritarian corporation. Orphans are sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys are used to test dangerous products and generally have a short life expectancy. The novel follows a group of young people through a number of different sub-plots. A sequel was planned but not published.
U.K. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2004. Graphic novel version by Colfer and Andrew Donkin with art by Giovanni Rigano and color by Paolo Lamanna as The Supernaturalist: The Graphic Novel. New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, 2012.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"Sweet Dreams" - Charles Johnson (Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, 2004)
Political satire. After voters dropped most taxes, government developed "dream meters" so that dreams, including daydreams could be taxed.
An earlier, shorter version was originally published in StoryQuarterly, no. 36 (2000): 111-16.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

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

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

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

"The Third Party" - David Moles (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
Dystopia of conflict between capitalists and socialists trying to dominate an apparently primitive world.
Keywords: Male author

The Third Revolution - Anthony F. Lewis (Ten Mile Press, 2004)
Dystopia in which the governor of Montana fights back against attempts by the federal government to take over state functions. He is joined by leaders from North and South Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. See also 2006 Lewis.
2nd ed. [Fort, Bragg, CO]: Ten Mile Press, 2005
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"'Tis the Season" - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Socialist Review, 2004)
Dystopia in which Christmas has been sold to companies.
Rpt. in his Looking for Jake: Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 2005), 183-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Truesight - David Stahler Jr. (Eos, 2004)
Young adult dystopia. Authoritarian community where everyone is supposed to be blind; stress on the struggles of dissidents and a boy who gains his sight. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, The Seer. New York: Eos, 2007, the boy escapes to a sighted city which turns out to be another dystopia. At the end of the novel he returns to his first community but with a sense of a better possibility. In the third volume, Otherspace. New York: Eos, 2008, the protagonist searches for, and finds, a planet where those who were blind but can now see will be safe.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Turing Test" - Robert R[eynolds] Chase (b. 1948) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
Eutopian and dystopia potential of computer programs and computer viruses.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ultraviolet Night" - Jim [James M.] Young (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2004)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Unnullified World" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia with no laws and everyone collectively enforces the society's standards of good behavior. Property ownership can be enforced by the owner.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 315-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Utopia Revisited: A 21st Century Account of a Diplomatic Visit to the Island Nation of Utopia. The Best State of a Commonwealth. A Novella - John William McMullen (iUniverse, 2004)
The country of Utopia is now a dystopia seen through the eyes of a member of the Vatican Diplomatic Corps visiting Utopia to try to secure the release of a cousin of Houghton Hythloday, a descendent of Raphael Hythloday. The Vatican representative ends up being jailed. Written from a Roman Catholic viewpoint. See also 2005 McMullen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia X - [William] Scott Wilson (iUniverse, 2004)
The dystopia brought about by multiculturalism in the U.S. by 2048 where “political correctness” is enforced by law.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Voluntary State" - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (SciFiction, 2004)
Future dystopia in Tennessee in which everyone is controlled by a central computer contrasted with a free Kentucky. The story focuses on a successful attempt by men from Kentucky to destroy the computer. A related novella is “The Border State.” In his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 149-269 which is set further in the future when Tennessee has infected the rivers around the state with various machines that kill anyone that crosses them or get wet. Kentucky has means of temporarily neutralizing the machines. A related novel set later in time is his These Prisoning Hills. New York: Tordotcom, 2022.
Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 58-83; Science Fiction: The Best of 2004. Ed. Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan (New York: iBooks, 2005); Beyond Singularity. Ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (New York: Ace Books, 2005); Nebula Awards Showcase 2006. Ed. Gardner Dozois. New York: Roc, 2006); Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 293-327; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 107-48.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Wired - Robert L. Wise (b. 1939) (Warner Faith, 2004)
Post rapture dystopia (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). His Tagged. New York: Warner Faith, 2004 is a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Word for Heathens” - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) (ReVision, 2004)
Religious dystopia.
Rpt. in his Beyond the Rift (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2013), 83-98.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

Xen: Ancient English Edition Complete & Unexpurgated - D. J. Solomon Trans. [Written by] (Avar Press, 2004)
Detailed flawed utopia. Much satire. Homo sapiens (man the wise) evolves into Femina persapiens (woman the wiser). There is a Lexicon defining abbreviations and some of the language used.
Keywords: US author

Zoo Force: Bean and Nothingness - John Ira Thomas; Jeremy Smith (Candle Light Press, 2004)
The middle volume of a trilogy about an odd group of animal and human superheroes. This volume is a satire on Christian fundamentalism. The other volumes, which are not utopian, are Zoo Force: [Dear Eniko]. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2003 and Zoo Force: BBQ. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2007. All volumes also include "Not Zoo Force".
Keywords: Male author

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

2084: The Mental Evolution of America - R[obert] M. Harrison (b. 1946) (iUniverse, 2003)
Dystopia dominated by the Citizens Protective Services. No families; children taken at three.
Keywords: Male author

America II: The Second Republic 2004 - 2204. An Historic and Historical Novel about the Future of America - [Thomas Renfro] [Henley] (b. 1931) (Trafford, 2003)
Right wing eutopia based on a radically downsized federal government with all constitutional amendments after the Bill of Rights rescinded, power in state governments, and few national administrative bodies. English the official language. All non-citizens expelled. Eliminate all state departments of education, schools of education, tenure, and teachers; unions, and return to the curriculum of the past. Children have no rights before age twenty-one.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Annuity Clinic" - Nigel Brown (Interzone, 2003)
Dystopia about the selling of body parts to purchase an annuity.
Rpt. in The Year's Best SF 9. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 335-53.
Keywords: Male author

The Baby Squad - Andrew Neiderman (b. 1940) (Pocket Star Books, 2003)
Dystopia in which natural birth is outlawed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Better World's in Birth! - Howard Waldrop (1946-2024) (Golden Gryphon Press, 2003)
Ghost story set in a dystopian people's republic in an alternative history.
Rpt. in Other Worlds, Better Lives: Selected Long Fiction 1989-2005. A Howard Waldrop Reader (Baltimore, MD: Old Earth Books, 2008), 231-58 with an "Afterword" (259-60).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bird Is Gone: A Monograph Manifesto - Stephen Graham Jones (b. 1972) (Fiction Collective Two, 2003)
A future where parts of the United States are Indian territory again, with the more progressive Indians reestablishing traditional ways.
An excerpt from the novel was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 232-37 with an editor’s note on 232-33.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"Birth Days" - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Interzone, 2003)
Dystopia and eutopia. Future in which the identification of homosexual genes allows such fetuses to be aborted. This is followed by the development of technology that allows homosexuals to give birth and the growth of large families of gay men and their children.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004), 388-98; and in his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 47-61.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

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

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

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

Brennan - Bernard Knight (b. 1931) (Robert Hale, 2003)
Post-catastrophe dystopia. Stress on conflict among factions with one group rebuilding a decent society.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

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

Clade - [Robert] Mark Budz (b. 1960) (Bantam Books, 2003)
Future dystopia set mostly in San Jose, California. Genetic engineering, drugs, violence, and struggles for power. Crache. New York: Bantam Books, 2004 is a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author