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

"Heartland" - Alexander Weinstein (Pleiades: Literature in Context, 2011)
Dystopia in which almost nothing grows anymore, and everyone has sold whatever topsoil remains on any property they owned. Extreme rich/poor division.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 41-55.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Holding Their Own: A Story of Survival - Joe Nobody [pseud.]; D. Hall; D. Allen (Prepper Press, 2011)
First volume in a long dystopian survivalist series. See also Nobody with contributions by D. Hall and D. Allen , Holding Their Own II: The Independents. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2012; Nobody with contributions by D. Hall, D. Allen. and T. Baughman, Holding Their Own III: Pedestals of Ash. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2012; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own IV: The Ascent. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own V: The Alpha Chronicles. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013; Nobody,  Holding Their Own VI: Bishop’s Song. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013-2014; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own VII: Phoenix Star. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own VIII: The Directives. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own IX: The Salt War. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own X: The Toy Maker. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2015; Nobody, Holding Their Own XI: Hearts and Minds. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2015; Nobody, Holding Their Own XII: Copperheads. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2016; Nobody, Holding Their Own XIII: Renegade. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2017; Nobody, Holding Their Own XIV: Forest Mist. Ed. E. T. Ivester. Researched by D. W. Hall. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2018; Nobody, Holding Their Own XV: Bloodlust. Ed. E. T. Ivester. Researched by D. W. Hall. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2018.

House of Holes: A Book of Raunch - Nicholson Baker (b. 1957) (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
Eutopian or dystopian depending on your perspective. Humorous pornography at the center of which is an elaborate sexual spa where almost everything goes, and everyone accepted into the spa can be sexually fulfilled.
Keywords: US author

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

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

King Freedom - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) (Fantastic Books, 2011)
The novel begins with a dystopia that combines church and state, where everyone must attend daily church services and anyone falling foul with either church or state is severely punished. The novel follows the trajectory of a man at the lowest rungs of society as he leaves prison and struggles to survive and very slowly begins to search for freedom.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Last Day of Work” - Douglas Rushkoff (b. 1961) (The Tomorrow Project: Bestselling Authors Describe Daily Life in the Future, 2011)
The story is told by the last man who will ever have to work, with even robots no longer needed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Election - Kevin [C.] Carrigan (CreateSpace, 2011)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. in which an incumbent president sets out to literally eliminate the opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners: Seeding a Revolution" - David L. Clements (Nature, 2011)
Dystopia in which commercial interests with the support of the police are destroying all plants and seeds not owned by companies. The story is continued in “Seed Dealer.” Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 25-36.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illustration in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 21-23; and in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 114-17.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Leftovers - Tom [Thomas R.] Perrotta (b. 1961) (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
Life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) with some struggling to create a good society, various religious fanatics, and some of the expected dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Manna - Marshall Brain (b. 1961) (2011)
Half dystopia in a U.S. that is spreading around the world and half a eutopia set in Australia. The dystopia is brought about by the gradual takeover of the control of almost all work by computers, which results in a few extremely wealthy and the majority unemployed, on welfare and living in specially built buildings. The Australian eutopia is based on principles that “1. Everyone is equal 2. Everything is reused 3. Nothing is anonymous 4. Nothing is owned 5. Tell the truth 6. Do no harm. 7. Obey the rules. 7. Live your life. 9. Better and better” (Chapter 5, p. 8).
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Monopol City - [John T.] [Cullen] (Clocktower Books, 2011)
In a future authoritarian dystopia, political prisoners create a game called Monopol City and come to live within it.
Rpt. as Meta 4 City: A DarkSF Novel. DarkSF is the Dark Chocolate of Science Fiction. San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2017
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

A Nation of Ruins - Robert John Burke ([CreateSpace], 2011)
Dystopia of the American right in power.
Keywords: Male author

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

New Dystopia - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) (CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux/Sternberg Press, 2011)
A novel related to an art exhibition depicting, as did the exhibition, the dystopia of the current world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Patriot. A Novel - Theodore Doyle (Np, 2011)
Dystopia of a false religious fundamentalism combined with corporate dominance set in the 22nd century in the Confederacy of Incorporated States.
Keywords: Male author

“The Next Future” - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (Lapham’s Quarterly, 2011)
Essay in which the author describes various possible utopias, which he rejects, and one, briefly, that he accepts that combines anarchism and a command economy.
Rpt. as “Totalitopia.” In his Totalitopia plus “This Is Our Town” and “Everything That Rises” and “Paul Park’s Hidden World” and “I Did Crash a Few Parties” Outspoken Interview and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017), 23-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

“Nowhere Fast” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, 2011)
The story is set in a future recovering from climate change and focuses on the damage down by private cars when a young man has cobbled together one from spare parts that runs on hemp oil. The background is a fragmented United States.
Rpt. Illus. John Coulthart. In Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 241-53; and in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 65-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Owners" - Gordon Wolfe (d. 2010) (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2011)
Having achieved space flight humans meet aliens who require them to change human behavior before they can join the Unity of worlds. Having created the required eutopia, the aliens mention the need to get the approval of the Owners who control all the galaxies races. The Owners turn out to be cats.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Paegonaean Story - David Blair (Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd., 2011)
One country has united the world through war and brought peace to all but a small enclave that they is isolated from the rest of the world. The novel is about the process of bringing that enclave into the fold with war erupting. In interviews the author presents the scenario positively.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

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

Phoenix Rising - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004); J. A. Johnstone (Pinnacle Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a liberal U.S. with a foreign-born President trying to establish a world government which leads to a takeover by Islamic extremists and a remnant of American patriots fighting to reclaim the country. First volume of a trilogy followed by their Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2012, in which the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. In the final volume, Phoenix Rising. Day of Judgment. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2013, the U.S has become the United Islamic Republic of Enlightenment and is supported by the World Caliphate of Holy Path Islam and the survivalists of the earlier volumes fight to reestablish the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Point - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) (Angry Robot, 2011)
Sequel to 2010 [Meaney]. This volume focuses on suicide cults among teenagers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

The Postmortal [A Novel] - Drew [Andrew Schuyler] Magary (b. 1976) (Penguin Books, 2011)
Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a cure for aging. This is followed by a pandemic that decimates the world’s population presented through the recovery, in 2093, of sixty years of text files from an unidentified man recounting his experiences.
The ebook version includes bibliographical references and an index. U. K. ed. as The End Specialist. London: Harper Voyager, 2011. 419 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

President Michelle or Ten Days That Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) (Author, 2011)
During the 2012 election, Barak Obama has a heart attack, Michelle Obama is chosen to replace him as the candidate, and easily wins. The novel reports her first ten days in office during which she proposes and gets passed into law An Act to Restore Democracy to the United States of America that eliminates all contribution to politicians. In addition, she proposes to close all U.S. military bases abroad and bring all U.S. forces and material home while developing cooperation with other nations. And, among other things, she intends to radically improve the U.S. health care system.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author; South African author

"Prisoner 2501" - John Philip Corpuz (Philippine Speculative Fiction, 2011)
Dystopia present through the torture inflicted on prisoners to elicit information from them.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author

Project "New Jerusalem" - Geoff Thomas (b. 1970 or 71) (AuthorHouse, 2011)
The work begins in a dystopia in which the remains of humanity live behind a shield that protects them from “evil androids.” The humans manage to escape to a new planet, and the work ends. Described as the first chapter of a novel which will continue if sales justify, but there is also an ad at the end for a sequel Return to Eben as forthcoming, but it does not appear to have been published.
Keywords: Male author

"Pure" - Rio Youers (Dark Dreams, Pale Horses, 2011)
Dystopia created by a virulent disease and the restrictions used to contain it.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (Toronto, ON: ChiZine Publications/Tightrope Books, 2012), 154-82.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Pym. A Novel - Mat Johnson (b. 1970) (Spiegel & Grau, 2011)
Dystopia. Something of a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s (1809-49) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. The novel begins as a realistic novel, but then the protagonist leads an all-black crew in Pym’s footsteps to the Antarctic, where they find, in addition to Pym still alive, not the blacks with whom Poe’s novel ends but white giants like Sasquatch or Yeti, who enslave them. Escaping they also find a painter who has escaped the U.S. to avoid taxes and is trying to create a eutopia that matches his paintings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rabbletown: Life in These United Christian States of Holy America - Randy Attwood (Smashwords/Kindle, 2011)
Religious dystopia that develops after a world-wide religious war. Fundamentalist Christians have replaced the U.S. political system with people serving for life and control all aspects of life. Rabbletown is where the poor live.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ramseyer’s Ghost - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) (Author, 2011)
The novel is set in after the Third World War, which ended in a stalemate with the world now split between two powers, and the U.S. sends secret missions to Africa to find needed resources. One mission to Ghana goes missing, and an African American marine is sent to find it and arrange for its rescue. Ghana no longer has a functioning central government, and tribes have developed their own systems, including, where the protagonist lands, a local democracy.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author; South African author

“R-Complex” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2011)
A dystopia in which a theocratic dystopia is being opposed by a group of religious zealots with a different theocratic vision.
Originally published in Aoife’s Kiss, no. 37 (June 2011). Not found. Also published as a fourteen-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2016]. No longer available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (b. 1972) (Crown Publishers, 2011)
First of two volumes, the novel is set in 2044 where the world is generally dystopian, and many people escape into the eutopian virtual world of an extremely complex eutopian game where a person can be anyone they want. A film directed by Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) with a screenplay by Zak Penn (b. 1968) and Cline was released in March 2018. The second volume, Ready Player Two. A Novel. Penguin Random House/Ballantine, 2020. 370 pp. repeats most of the themes of the first novel centered on a different fame with some new characteristics. A film is expected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Reckoning: A Novel of the End of the United States - Seamus Branaugh (Silver Lake Publishing, 2011)
Survivalist dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

Resistance of a New America: The first 3 years of hell - [James] Percy Clay III (CreateSpace, 2011)
Dystopia in which the U.S. joins "other communist countries" and begins to take children to government camps. An additional chapter was published separately as R.O.N.A. (11 Months of torture). [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2011. PSt
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Revolt of 2020 - Dr. [James] Patrick Johnston [D.O.] (b. 1970) (Eloquent Books, 2011)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government tries to disarm citizens and impose the liberal agenda.  First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, The American Tyranny of 2020. Np: Xulon Press, 2011, is a dystopia brought about by those favoring abortion and the successful struggle by pro-life forces. In the third volume, The Uncivil War of 2020. Zanesville, OH: Right Remedy Publishing, 2012, the U.S. government suppresses the anti-abortion movement, a Coalition of Free Christian States secedes, and the U.S. invades. See also The Revolt Trilogy Workbook. [Zanesville, OH]: Right Remedy Publishing, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Robopocalypse. A Novel - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) (Doubleday, 2011)
Dystopia in which an Artificial Intelligence begins an attack on humanity, the remnants of which, located in Osage county, the center of the Osage Nation, fight back and appear to win. First of two novels followed by Robogenesis. A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2014 in which the apparently defeated artificial intelligence infiltrates many machine intelligences and the war is renewed.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition - Charles Eisenstein (b. 1967) (Evolver Editions, 2011)
Nonfiction that presents a new monetary system based on complete, public openness of all financial transactions and the gift economy that is expected to lead to the eutopia the author calls the Age of Reunion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Scorch City - Toby Ball (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
The second volume in alternative history dystopias about the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. In this novel, the Uhuru Community is a Black separatist shantytown community with utopian aspirations facing attacks from the people of the city after the discovery of a white woman’s body near the community. See also 2010 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Scrivener’s Moon. The Third Book in the Fever Crumb Series - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic, 2011)
Sequel to 2009 and 2010 Reeve. In this volume Fever Crumb becomes part of a Northern tribe planning to attack London, her home, and she must choose sides.
U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic Press, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

Seed - Ziegler, Rob (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a collapsed environment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"A Sentence to Life: Pet project" - Igor Teper (Nature, 2011)
A flawed utopia in which the protagonist has been sentenced under the cybercrime laws to isolation from other people by not having a device the broadcasts information about him or one that receives information from others, including animals. A woman and a dog reintroduce him to the pleasure human interaction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadow of a Dead Star: Book One of The Wonderland Cycle - Michael Shean (b. 1978) (Curiosity Quills Press, 2011)
Dystopia of moral collapse. Sequels include Redeye. Book 2 of the Wonderland Sequel. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2013; and Gathering Ashes: Book Three of the Wonderland Cycle. Reston, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2016.. His Bone Wires. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2012 is a murder mystery set in the same future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

Soft Apocalypse - Will[iam D.] McIntosh (b. 1962) (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a collapsing economy and social structure. Constant acts of biological terrorism, bombings, and so forth.
Based on the stories “Soft Apocalypse.” Interzone, no. 200 (October 2005): 18-25; and “Street Hero.” Interzone, no. 215 (April 2008): 40-47.
Keywords: Male author; US author

State of Mind - Sven Michael Davison (Bedouin Press, 2011)
Dystopia based around an attempt to control people’s minds through an implanted chip. Mostly adventure. First volume of a trilogy, followed by State of Union: Book Two of the God Head Trilogy. Tarzana, CA: Bedouin Press, 2012 in which mind control has been achieved; and State of Being: Book Three of the God Head Trilogy. Tarzana, CA: Bedouin Press, 2013 in which people manage to re-achieve personal control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Steve Sepp, Tasty! Tasty! No Mean Feast" - Matthew Sanborn Smith (Nature, 2011)
Dystopia in which the parts removed in surgery are served in the hospital canteen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Technicolor Ultra Mall - Ryan Oakley (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011)
Dystopia of class and violence.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

"That Creeping Sensation" - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) (Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change, 2011)
Dystopia. Climate change has produced a radical increase in the size of insects and all human life has had to be reoriented around protection from them.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 229-39.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Theme Planet. A Novel of the Anarchy - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) (Solaris, 2011)
Dystopia of a pleasure planet that turns violent.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Thing of Beauty” - Dr. Charles E. Gannon (b. 1960); McPhail, Mike (By Other Means, 2011)
Corporate dystopia set on a newly opened planet controlled by a corporation that owns most of Earth and the other colonized planets and has no interest beyond its profits.
Rpt. in Baen Books: Free Stories 2014. New York: Baen Books, 2014. https://www.baen.com/free-short-stories-2014.html; in Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, no. 54 (December 2016) http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i54&article=_vintage; and in Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers. Ed. Edward Willett (Regina, SK, Canada: Shadowpaw Press, 2020), 252-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Those That Wake - Karp, Jesse (Harcourt, 2011)
Young adult technological dystopia and the search for a more humane life. A sequel is What We Become. New York: Harcourt, 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To Faithfully Execute: A Pug Conner Novel. Book Three - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) (CreateSpace, 2011)
Third volume in a series. See 2010 Ryan, State of Rebellion and 2010 Ryan, Uncivil Liberties. In this volume, assassination is used to counter terrorism and the U.S. has fragmented. Separate countries, the Republic of Western America and the Republic of Eastern America have been formed with a proposed third country in the Deep South.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; US author

A Toxic Ambition - Erik A. Otto (Dog Ear Publishing, 2011)
Environmental dystopia brought about by industrial accidents and climate change where the rich live inside domes, and the only way an outsider can get in is through success in games.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Swiss author; US author

Truth City - Nick Sapien (AuthorHouse, 2011)
Truth City is presented as if it is a eutopia, in which no wants for work, food, or medical care and everyone is supposedly free, except that it is in fact a genetic engineering dystopia of a future where everyone is constantly tested in a “Truth Machine.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Turtle Love" - Joseph [Lee] Green (b. 1931) (Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change, 2011)
Dystopia of climate change and the need to abandon large parts of the coastal U.S., forcing people to leave their homes. The U.S. is undertaking massive construction projects and trying to save what it can of animals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"[Utopia]" - Alastair Campbell (b. 1957) (2011)
Very brief eutopia. Mostly very general and simple and a bit of a rant, but includes compulsory voting, lowering the voting age to sixteen, teaching politics and its importance and citizenship in primary schools together with how to live a healthy life. The first in an intended series of utopias written by prominent people.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

Utopia Rising - Matthew L. Sexton (CreateSpace, 2011)
The novel outlines the evolution of the human race toward a potential eutopia and outlines some of the principles and elements of the eutopia. What he calls “The Core Theory” consists of three points, 1. “Human Tend to Progress over Time. 2. Short of extinction, this progression will eventually lead to the creation of an idyllic society. 3. Given these two points are facts, the appropriate action is to hasten this progression by discovering the ideals of life and to adopt principles that will benefit this cause.”
Keywords: Male author

Walden 3.0: A Dystopian Romance - Phil Fragasso (Erewhon Press, 2011)
The novel presents a very successful intentional community which the members see as eutopian, and on many dimensions it is presented as such, but the outside observer sees as dystopian, particularly on marriage and sexual relations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Water Wars - Cameron Stracher (Sourcebooks Fire, 2011)
Young adult dystopia of a future where water has become extremely scarce and rationed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

What So Proudly We Hailed - James Howard (CreateSpace, 2011)
Dystopia following a nuclear attack and the loss of the entire electrical grid, and the experiences of one family trying to survive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

Zone One. A Novel - Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) (Doubleday, 2011)
Post-apocalyptic (pandemic) and Zombie dystopia in which New York City is divided into Zones in an attempt to control its spread.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

100 Months: The End of All Things - John Hicklenton (1967-2010) (Cutting Edge Press, 2010)
Apocalyptic dystopian graphic novel in which Earth revolts against the damage done to her.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2031: The Singularity Pogrom - Dan Ronco (All Things That Matter Press, 2010)
Violent near future U.S. with integration of human/artificial intelligence. Loosely a sequel to Unholy Domain (2008). The two novels were preceded by his PeaceMaker. Waterville, OH: Winter Wolf, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

An Act of Self-Defense - Erne Lewis (Plicata Press, 2010)
The U.S. has become an authoritarian dystopia which justifies the use of force to reestablish liberty.
2nd ed. Gig Harbor, WA: Plicata Press, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Afterlight - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) (Orion, 2010)
Sequel to 2007 Scarrow. In this volume, small communities are rebuilding in a world without oil after the catastrophe in the previous volume. But the usual problems of human greed and hunger for power threaten to overwhelm even these small steps up.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

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

Arrowland - Paul Kane (b. 1973) (Abaddon Books, 2010)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series in sequel to 2008 Kane. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, and 2010 Andrews.
Keywords: Male author

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

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

“Bicyclopolis” - Ken Avidor (b. 1955) (The Twin Cities. Cifiscape, 2010)
Story told in graphic form of the future dystopic North America. An exploration by bicycle discovers huge clouds of plastic bags and the remains of cars, which are the object of worship by some survivors. Ends with “To Be Continued” but not within the volume. There is a blog “Bicyclopolis” at http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

The Blending Time - Michael [P.] Kinch (Flux, 2010)
Young adult post-collapse dystopia in which everyone must undertake mandatory work at age seventeen. In the novel the three protagonists are sent to help repopulate Africa in a program called “The Blending” that is fiercely opposed by many in Africa. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, The Fires of New Sun. A Blending Time Novel. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2012 there is war between those trying to impose the blending and those opposing it. SUN is the Society to Unify Nations. In the third volume, The Rebels of New Sun. A Blending Time Novel. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2013, those imposing the blending infiltrate the city controlled by the corporation imposing the blending.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Bloodstained Man - Christopher Rowley (b. 1948) (Tor, 2010)
Sequel to 2010 Rowley, Pleasure Model. This volume focuses on a gang-controlled New Jersey. A third volume is primarily a thriller; see Money Shot. New York: Tor, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Books of James C. Patch: Returning - Gary D. Henry (Xlibris, 2010)
Sequel to his The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier (2010). In this volume, the protagonist struggles successful to free those kept from the eutopia of Paradise by the barrier described in the first volume. See also 2013 Patch.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier - Gary D. Henry (Xlibris, 2010)
Spiritualist work concerned with the barrier between this world and the next, which is a eutopia. This is followed by his The Books of James C. Patch: Returning (2010) and 2013 Patch.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

The Cell: Twilight’s Last Gleaming - Chris Hambleton (Xulon Press, 2010)
Dystopia in which religious liberty has been abridged by the U.S. government with the agreement of the courts. Alaska secedes. The basis for the attack on religion is secular humanism which is founded on the erroneous belief in evolution.
Rpt. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2013].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Children's Crusade - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) (Abaddon Books, 2010)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. In this volume, children are being taken from their homes by organized teams. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27).
Keywords: Male author

Cinco de Mayo - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010)
The novel begins with everyone in the world suddenly sharing the memories of another person and then follows a number of people and the way this changes their lives. It then ends suggesting that a situation where everyone understands another person, often of a different gender and/or from a different culture, will produce a level of world understanding that is at least potentially eutopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Constitution for The New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) From the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - Bob [Robert Bruce] Avakian (b. 1949) (RCP Publications, 2010)
A constitution for a future socialist republic giving the organizational structure and laying out the rights of citizens. Includes the possibility of autonomous regions within the country for African Americans and "Mexican-Americans". Stresses rights for women.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"The Cull" - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Clarkesworld, 2010)
Dystopia in which anyone who doesn't fit in is killed.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 473-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Diaspora" - Paul Lamb (Crossed Genres, 2010)
The story is set as a history lesson in which students learn about how a few people escape from the collapsing Earth and the racial conflicts that took place in the process.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Directive 51 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2010)
Dystopia of a catastrophe that pushes the U.S. back to a primitive time. See also 2011 and 2013 Barnes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

Duncan the Wonderdog - Adam Hines (AdHouse Books, 2010)
Graphic novel in which animals can talk, and, as a result of their treatment, start a revolution against humans. Won the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize from the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Originally said to be the first of nine volumes, with the second scheduled for 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Earth of Yunhe" - Eric Gregory (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
A dystopia of extreme poverty that had developed when a Chinese village that was destroyed through lack of environmental controls can be re-created. Images of the old village suggest an Arcadia, but it is made clear that the re-creation will be hard work and probably never quite as good.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Edge - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) (Angry Robot, 2010)
Dystopia in which dueling has been legalized and violence is common. Corporate control and extreme pollution.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Edge of Apocalypse - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016); Craig Parshall (Zonderavan, 2010)
Dystopia The first volume of a series on the events leading up the apocalypse. Sequels include Thunder of Heaven. The End Series. Book 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2011; Brink of Chaos. The End Series.Book 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2012; and Mark of Evil. The End Series. Book 4. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Endangered" - Robby Sparks (Dark Futures, 2010)
A dystopia in which the government limits births to clones and the resistance to it.
Keywords: Male author

Epitaph Road - David Patneaude (b. 1944) (Egmont USA, 2010)
Young adult dystopia set near the end of the twenty-first century where most men died from an illness and the women have eliminated crime and poverty while severely restricting the remaining men. The novel focuses on a young boy trying to save his father.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Eutopia: The Gnostic Land of Prester John. A Novella - Alan Jacobs (O Books, 2010)
The Land of Prester John, which is also the Garden of Eden, is located in Ethiopia in the “Happy Valley” that Samuel Johnson describes in The Prince of Abissinia, better known as Rasselas (1759). It is a eutopia based on astrology and a generally New Age outlook as well as good education. There is no government or money.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

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

"Everything is Clickable" - Jack Graham (Shareable Futures, 2010)
The story presents a future in which "augspace" or augmented reality is ever-present and presents that reality as mostly enhancing life because, except for some commercial applications, it is a public space under personal control. This is a fiction development of his "5 Ways Augmented Reality Is Making Your Life More Shareable." Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/5-ways-augmented-reality-is-making-your-life-more-shareable. Posted July 8, 2010.
Keywords: Male author

"Expectancy theory: Wishful thinking" - Aanyo Bhattacharya (Nature, 2010)
Briefly suggests the eutopia that results from the scientific discovery that reality follows expectations.

"The Exterminator's Want-Ad" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Shareable Futures, 2010)
Socialist dystopia.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.5&6 (692) (November/December 2010): 44-55; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 75-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

“The Faithful Soldier, Prompted.” - Saladin Ahmed (b. 1945) (Apex Magazine, 2010)
The story is set in a future after wars in the Middle East had devastated the area and faulty technology was still giving instructions to the former soldiers.
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), 72-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Farewell, My Republic - Binder, John F (BookLocker.com, Inc, 2010)
Dystopia brought about by apathetic Americans who choose to be uninvolved and politicians who call a new constitutional convention. A vote on the new constitution results in a majority for "Don't Know" or "Don't Care".
Keywords: Male author; US author

Feisengrad: A Social Novel. Book 1 - Aaron Richard Golub (CreateSpace, 2010)
An odd dystopia about the three days of the life of a boy born from an egg and living in a world with umpires. The boy appears to be the only one who questions the system, which he does in a constant inner dialogue. No evidence of further volumes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season - Brian Conn (FC2, 2010)
Odd dystopia focusing on a small, pastoral community afflicted with a plague and a brutal government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

“For the Killing of the Happiest Man” - Hrabel, Max (The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1, 2010)
With over half the world population clinically depressed, a Happiness Movement institutes an International Day of Happiness and selects a regional Happiest Man, who commits suicide. The story is told through the eyes of a man who dreams of being a gardener with a family but is currently working underground in the sewers.
Keywords: US author

For the Win - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2010)
The novel, written for young adults, has dystopian elements and uses online gaming to illustrate and the possible connections among gamers throughout the world to critique the way that powerful people can, for profit and with the cooperation of governments, control the lives of the gamers, and presents unions as the best way of fighting back.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

The Four Fingers of Death. A Novel - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) (Little, Brown, 2010)
Dystopia. Complex comic novel about a failed Mars mission and the return from Mars of one arm and its experiences as it discovers the dystopia the U.S. has become.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Freedom Island - J. R. Sinclair (Secret Staircase Books, 2010)
The U.S. has become a liberal authoritarian dystopia, and to escape it a group establish a eutopia based on the free market on an island in the Pacific. Some of the people choose to return to the U.S. to start a reform movement based around removing all politicians from office.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Freedom™. A Novel - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Dutton, 2010)
Sequel to 2009 Suarez in which the flawed computers are destroying and rebuilding civilization, but the rebuilding is threatened by both populist revolt and corporate desire to destroy the system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Goin' Down to Anglotown" - William F. Wu (b. 1951) (The Dragon and the Stars, 2010)
Dystopia of future ethnic relations in the U.S. where Asian Americans now dominate on the coasts and the large cities. White ethnic enclaves exist primarily to service and prey on the dominant group. The story plays with the reversal of ethnic expectations.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Male author

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

“A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now Is the Best Time of Your Life” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Godlike Machines, 2010)
The story is about a transhuman teenager living in a post catastrophe (virus) dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle in his A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011), 9-106. The book also includes his “Creativity vs. Copyright” (107-21), “‘Look for the Lake’ Cory Doctorow Interviewed by Terry Bisson” (123-34), a “Bibliography) (135-36).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up Up" - Jacques Barcia (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
A future of environmental restraint in Brazil that followed an environmental dystopia and a war to establish better practice. The focus of the story is a man tracing the trading of carbon by a corporation trying to avoid the laws.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Male author

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

"The Guy Who Worked For Money" - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) (Shareable Futures, 2010)
A completely connected society. Can be read as both a technological eutopia and a technological dystopia in that it clearly begins as the former but transitions to the latter. Everyone’s status is based on their contributions to society, but more importantly, how others evaluate those contributions. His “Falling.” Illus. Jacey. Nature 437.7058 (September 22, 2005): 594; rpt. Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/falling (July 7, 2010) is set in the same future.
Rpt. as “The Man Who Worked for Money.” In How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 79-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

H2O - Grant Calof (Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2010)
Graphic novel climate-change dystopia. First volume in a series, followed by H2O. Issue 2. Runnemede, NJ: Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2014; and H2O. Issue 3. Runnemede, NJ: Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2014 (Both EBooks), with the continuations simply continuing the story.
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Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Half Past Midnight - Jeff Brackett ([Red Adept Publishing], 2010)
Post-nuclear war survivalist dystopia with the emphasis on the immediate survival.Continued in The Road to Rejas: A Half Past Midnight Novella. Ebook, 2012. A more substantial sequel is Year 12: A Half Past Midnight Novel. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2017. 406 pp. which is set as the survivalists discover that civilization is being rebuilt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

He Walked Among Us - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Tor, 2010)
Dystopia. Long, complex novel focusing on a man from a dystopian future created because the biosphere was destroyed, and people live in sealed shopping malls. In the past (our present) the man hopes to stop the actions that brought about the future. The novel focuses on his activities in the present and the people who make him a media star.
First published in French translation as Il est parmi nous: roman. Trans. Sylvie Denis and Roland C. Wagner. Paris: Fayard, 2009.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Helix - J[effrey] L. Bryan (JLBryanbooks.com, 2010)
Religious dystopia of genetic engineering set in Earth’s orbital colonies in the twenty-eighth century. The aim of the religion is to manage evolution through genetically engineering the reproduction of their followers, who can, within some parameters, choose the characteristics of their children. The novel, though, is more concerned with conflict among the religion, whose priests have created new human forms that are rebelling, the Earth government, and a large corporate, all of whom hope to control the colonies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Human Blend - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) (del Rey, 2010)
Dystopia in which criminals are punished by surgically reshaping their bodies and genetic manipulation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

"Jackie's Boy" - Steve[n Earl] Popkes (b. 1955) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2010)
Dystopia of a collapsed and extremely violent U.S. where animals from zoos have escaped and are slowing making a place for themselves. The story focuses on a boy and talking elephants.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Johnny's New Job" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2010)
Dystopia in which welfare officers are regularly killed by the people if any child is harmed.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Kinney and the Vaporworld. A Noah Novel - Noah Snider (Xlibris, 2010)
Dystopia of present and near future conditions countered by one man starting a movement based on small groups of people from varied backgrounds.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Christian. A Novel - David Gregory (WaterBrook Press, 2010)
Dystopia set in 2088 when the U.S. is no longer Christian and the struggle to re-introduce it.
Keywords: Male author

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

The Last Trumpet Project. A Novel - Kevin MacArdry ([lulu.com], 2010)
In a future in which a significant part of the population has been uploaded into computers and live their lives in alternative realities, both religion and government are set upon keeping power and destroying the hidden computer banks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Liberal Utopianism Is Destroying the United States: Liberal Secularism Is Destroying Our Christian Values - Charles Keitz (b. 1954) (Xulon, 2010)
The U.S. in 2010 as a dystopia as a resulting from liberal policies and liberalisms perceived attack on Christianity. Obama is said to be the forerunner of the coming of the Anti-Christ. Presented as non-fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Libertarian Russia" - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2010)
Dystopia of a future depopulated Russia that keeps rigid control of population centers seen through the eyes of someone who hopes to find a libertarian Russia but fails.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011), 468-76 with an editor’s introduction on 468.; and in his Not So Much, Said the Cat (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 182-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Life in the Anthropocene" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF, 2010)
Post-catastrophe society in which all humans live above or below the 45th parallel. Appears to be a high tech eutopia, but it is absolutely dependent on a fragile power supply. Extreme limits on uses of fossil fuels, so very little travel.
Rpt. in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 407-422.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Limping Man - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) (Puffin Books, 2010)
Third volume in a series of related young adult dystopias. This volume sees the rise of a dictator in the city who controls his followers with an exceptionally strong mental control. He is ultimately defeated and the peaceful society that had been growing in the countryside is saved. See also 2007 and 2008 Gee.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

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

Little Brother's World - T[homas] Jackson King Jr. (b. 1948) (Fantastic Books, 2010)
Dystopia of extreme rich poor divisions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Long Night" - J[effrey] L. Bryan (Dark Tomorrows, 2010)
Essentially a horror story, but the background is a religious dystopia.
Rpt. in Dark Tomorrows. 2nd ed. Ed. J[effrey] L. Bryan (Lexington, KY: CreateSpace, 2011), 202-17.
Keywords: Male author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The New Millennium - Dennis Pimm (Xlibris, 2010)
Authoritarian dystopia but with the emphasis on the opposition to it.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

New Model Army - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2010)
In a sense this is a future war novel, but it is set in a future where it has become clear that Britain is ruled by similar competing oligarchy who periodically hold an election to give themselves a spurious legitimacy. The people are fed up and an army is created that is an Artificial Intelligence that is a real democracy in which everyone helps choose what it is to do.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 - Joel Kotkin (b. 1952) (Penguin Press, 2010)
A projection of the next forty years that is so optimistic that it can be read as a eutopia. America will solve all its problems and absorb a hundred million more people from a high birth rate and immigration with no serious problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Noise - Darin Bradley (Ballantine Books, 2010)
Dystopia of a future violent America with a eutopian enclave that holds hope for the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Nostalgia" - Gene O'Neill (b. 1938) (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia of a world where immortality is available and those who fail the screening test become illegal and are hunted.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Of One Mind" - Shane [Michael] Tourtellotte (b. 1968) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2010)
Dystopia of a technique to surgically get terrorists to cooperate being used by the government on all those it considers threats. Related stories in Analog Science Fiction and Fact are "A New Man" 123.10 (October 2003): 49-61; "Acts of Conscience" 125.3 (March 2005): 8-29; and "Trial by Fire" 127.4 (April 2007): 8-43.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Orgasmachine - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (Newcon Press, 2010)
Dystopia in which women are manufactured to the specifications of their owners. Two revolt and free all women.
According to the author, the novel was written in the early seventies, published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. Part was published as “Custom-Built Girl.” Cybersex [Subtitle on the cover Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms]. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (London: Raven Books, 1996). U.S. ed. (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 307-32.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Osama the Gun - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Wildside Press, 2010)
Dystopia in which descendants of Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), the al-Qaeda leader, have established a Caliphate in Pakistan and have nuclear weapons. The novel follows one such man who becomes a secret agent to escape the Caliphate and see the world.
Originally published as Oussama: Roman. Trans. Niki Copper. Paris: Fayard, 2010. First published in English as an ebook.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Overhead" - Jason Stoddard (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Earth had established a settlement on the moon but abandons it. The Earth is a corporate dystopia. The moon settlement is a very fragile eutopia with leaders chosen by lottery and everyone working for the community. It survives and manages to set off into space.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Patriot League Civilian Border Patrol - Herman R. Willett (LuLu Publishing, 2010)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is declared an open country with free immigration. The Patriot League, which has been monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border, fights back and keeps those they consider illegal immigrants out. See also 2010 Willett The Patriot League Origins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Patriot League Origins - Herman R. Willett (LuLu Publishing, 2010)
Dystopia in which patriotic Americans are forced to band together to protect the border between the U.S. and Mexico. See also 2010 Willett, The Patriot League Civilian Border Patrol.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Paul Kishosha's Children" - Edgett, Ken (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Eutopia brought about by an individual scientist dedicating himself to effectively teaching science to African children. The story traces the transformation of a single African village where the scientist lives as the influence of his teaching gradually spreads throughout African and the rest of the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” - Jason Sanford (Interzone, 2010)
An odd story in which, for unexplained reasons related to dreams, people from churches kill many people including both criminals and police.
Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 75-106.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Pleasure Model - Christopher Rowley (b. 1948) (Tor, 2010)
Dystopia in which some women are created solely for the pleasure of their owners. See also 2010 Rowley, The Bloodstained Man.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Precedent" - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2010)
Dystopia. All those born in the twentieth century are assumed to be guilty of contributing to the destruction of the environment, which carries the death penalty.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 172-202. Merril
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Price of Tranquility - Arnold J. Inzko (Great Authors, 2010)
The novel begins in a technological eutopia in which the CNAS (Consolidated North American States) and the CSE (Consolidated States of Europe), both with female heads of state, cooperate but also have a very well-established secret service with cameras throughout the world. Issues arise around aliens in space, states outside these two, and a civilization underground. After various adventures, everything comes right.
Keywords: Male author

"Pump House Farm" - Hawkes-Reed, John (Dark Spires, 2010)
Dystopia in which radical environmentalists are the bad guys who, gaining power in England, shut down most power sources, overstate potential dangers, and institute a repressive regime.
Keywords: English author; Male author

PushBack - Alfred Wellnitz (iUniverse, 2010)
Dystopia. In 2033 the US experiences hyperinflation and disintegrates. One of the countries formed out of the former US is a white supremacist state and a black insurgency uses a nuclear bomb against it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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