“Rediffusion” - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) (Never Again, 2010)
A Kafkaesque dystopia about a man caught in the judicial system.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Returners - Gemma Malley (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Dystopia. Third volume in a series. Political intrigue and anti-immigration violence set in 2016 in a corrupt society. Not part of the trilogy of 2007, 2008, and 2010 Malley, The Legacy.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Rivers of Gold. A Novel - Adam Dunn (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Near future dystopia of crime and violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rohan Nation: Reinventing America after the 2020 Collapse - Dr. Drew Miller (b. 1958) (Responsibility Press, 2010)
Post-catastrophe survivalist dystopia. A biological and electro-magnetic attack destroys the US. Libertarian perspective on the attempt to reinvent the country. Rohan means horse land and is an area in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Rules Are Different Here” - Nadia Bulkin (b. 1987) (The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, 2010)
The story involves two young Asian women tourists in Miami where they find that foreigners have no rights.
Keywords: Female author; Indonesian-American author

"Runners" - Christopher Snape (Aurealis: Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2010)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Russian Roulette 2020" - Eva Marian Chapman b. 1947) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
The story contrasts a world in which everyone is linked constantly by advanced devices that they wear at all times with a disconnected eutopia of people living naturally.
Keywords: Australian author; Czech author; Female author

Rut. A Novel - Scott Phillips (b. 1961) (Concord Free Press, 2010)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive damage to the environment and continuing warfare.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Salvation City - Sigrid Nunez (b. 1961) (Riverhead Books, 2010)
Young adult novel set in a post-catastrophe dystopia in which a boy is taken from an orphanage to Salvation City, a small fundamentalist community waiting for the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic)" - Sellar, Gord (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
The story is about techniques for influencing other people set among the people fighting against the environmental dystopia that has developed, but no one is presented positively.
Keywords: Canadian author; Malawian author; Male author; South Korean author

"Scheherazade Cast in Starlight" - Jason Andrew (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Revolution in the dystopia of contemporary Iran brought about through communications technology with the suggestion of the better society to follow.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Second Childhood - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) (Drowned City Press, 2010)
Sequel to 2001 McMahon; see the note there. This volume continues the same themes as the first and focuses on the psychological recovery, under threat from the Vancouver tongs, of a central character from the first volume.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Second Journey of the Magus” - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Subterranean, 2010)
The last surviving of the three Magi travels back to the Holy Land and discovers a land where Christ had given in to the temptation to rule the world. Israel is a eutopia, but he has to make his way through the remains of the slaughtered Roman army to reach it, and the rest of the world will be subdued in the same way.
Rpt. in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013. Ebook.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"Sense" - Tony Richards (Never Again, 2010)
Dystopia of the future of Britain under local-grown fascists, who first produce that immigrants who commit crimes be deported and gradually increase the restrictions. At the end all Jews are being rounded up.
Keywords: Male author

Ship Breaker - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2010)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in a world with a collapsed economy and environment and with extreme differences between rich and poor. A companion volume is 2012 Bacigalupi.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sic Semper Tyrannus: A novel of liberty and the future of America - Seamus Branaugh (Silver Lake Publishing, 2010)
Dystopia following the collapse of the U.S. and the establishment of walled city-states, which are beginning to fail, and the struggle to reestablish a functioning civilization.
Keywords: Male author

"Sin's Last Stand" - Chris Niles (Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas, 2010)
Dystopia in which fundamentalist Christians have taken other the US, established a theocracy, closed all schools, and burned all books except the Bible. Non-believers have been moved to Las Vegas and then massacred. The story focuses on a girl who survived the massacre.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Solnet Ascendency" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Technological and sustainable eutopia in Vanuatu brought about through modern technology and the ability to get political support.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

“South of Autumn” - Joiner, Matt (Never Again, 2010)
The story focuses on an author who had been imprisoned and tortured and had all his books publicly burned by a fascist regime coming to terms with his fears even after its defeat.
Keywords: Male author

"Spindizzy" - Colin Harvey (Dark Spires, 2010)
Dystopia of a high tech, overpopulated future dominated by China and India. The story focuses on a very low-level businessman and his growing perception of the negative aspects of his society. The Spindizzies are a religious sect that are used as a scapegoat by the authorities.
Keywords: English author; Male author

State of Rebellion: A Pug Conner Novel. Book One - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) (CreateSpace, 2010)
The first volume in a dystopian series about a future U.S. facing both domestic and foreign terrorism and corporate power with growing restrictions on individual freedom. In this volume, California is considering seceding. See also 2010 Ryan, Uncivil Liberties and 2011 Ryan.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; US author

"A Stone Cast into Stillness" - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia where procreation is tightly controlled, and the bureaucrats are machines.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author

Strange Fire. The Anchor & Sophia: Book One - Tommy Wallach (b. 1982) (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010)
A post-catastrophe young adult novel in which after an asteroid hits Earth, a religion blames the catastrophe on the science of the past, which is suppressed. In the novel, three young people, adherents to the religion, discover a community bent on rediscovering that science. First volume in a trilogy followed by Slow Burn. The Anchor & Sophia: Book Two. New York Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2018, which is a typical middle volume, complicating everyone’s lives and challenging their beliefs. The third volume is Scorched Earth. The Anchor & Sophia: Book Three. New York Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2020. It continues the many conflicts while coming to a resolution at the end.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Strange machine: A fair exchange?" - Taik Hobson (Nature, 2010)
Dystopia in which girls can no longer have children but must hire a machine, for which some trade body parts.
Keywords: Japanese author; Male author

Super Sad True Love Story. A Novel - Gary Shteyngart (b. 1972) (Random House, 2010)
Dystopian background to an odd love story. The dystopia is mostly concerned with the way high tech companies control people's lives. A related story is "Lenny Hearts Eunice." The New Yorker 86.17 (June 14 & 21, 2010): 92-103.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Surrogates" - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) (Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, 2010)
Dystopia of a future society in which people can have chips that change their perceptions and "surrogates" create who are both servants and sexual partners.
Rpt. in her Near + Far: Stories of the Near Future and Far (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2012), 107-18. Near and Far are bound back-to-back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sword of My Mouth: A post-Rapture graphic novel - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) (IDW Publishing/No Media KIngs, 2010)
Related to 2007 Munroe. This novel moves the post-rapture action to Detroit, where people have turned the ruined city into farms and are beginning to be able to feed themselves, but problems arise.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Tea Party Patriot: A Tale of American Tyranny. A Novel - J. T. Quintana (Author, 2010)
Dystopia of the near future U.S. from a conservative point-of-view with the government coming to control all aspects of life.
Rpt. as The Last Tea Party. A Political Thriller. 2nd ed. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011.
Keywords: US author

"Terra Tango 3" - James Reilly (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. with most people living in cubicles in huge, orbiting spaceships. The story focuses on a popular extremely violent TV program.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Thank God for the Road" - Nancy Jane Moore (The WisCon Chronicles, 2010)
Brief environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Their Faces Were Shining - Tim Wilson (Victoria University Press, 2010)
Satire on the rapture and its effects (See 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) and its effects.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Thinker’s Lure" - Gump, Toianna (The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1, 2010)
Dystopia in which Minnesota has instituted Regulations of Uniformity.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Third Foundation Revealed - Dean Auger (James A. Rock & Co, 2010)
Despite the title, the novel is unrelated to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, but has affinities to his Second Foundation. Homo sapiens have conquered the galaxy, which will be destroyed within three hundred years without dramatic changes. Some experimental psychologists discover a way of raising very intelligent children who will have the ability to create a much better future. For Asimov’s Foundation series; see the note at 1982 Asimov Foundation’s Edge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Till the Eagle Screams - Paul Rawlings (Xlibris, 2010)
The contemporary U.S. as dystopia, and the beginnings of a violent revolutionary movement to combat it.
Keywords: Male author

"The Torturer" - Steve Duffy (1963) (Never Again, 2010)
The story is about the private life of an official torturer.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Travesty - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) (Titus Books, 2010)
The worst sort of slum living as dystopia. A number of individuals are presented who live in a building called the rathouse in the city of Travesty.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"A Type of Favor"; "Playing Against Type"; and "Playing to Type" - Mary Robinette Kowal (b. 1969) (Shareable Futures, 2010)
A trilogy of short stories set after the Oil Wars in which co-operatives work together on the basis of favors which can be traded, which is presented as eutopian.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Uncivil Liberties: A Pug Conner Novel. Book Two - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) (CreateSpace, 2010)
Second volume in a series. See 2010 Ryan, State of Rebellion and 2011 Ryan. In this volume, Congress gives significant additional powers to both traditional law enforcement agencies and private security firms.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; US author

Under the Harrow. A Novel - Mark Dunn (b. 1956) (Macadam/Cage, 2010)
The novel begins in an isolated community in a valley in Pennsylvania that is a Victorian eutopia based on the Bible, Charles Dickens (1812-70), and an old encyclopedia. It is destroyed by corporate greed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Underground Rising (Writers’ Café Press, 2010)
Dystopian stories set in the future of Creed’s three Underground novels. See 2007, 2010, and 2012 Creed. The stories are Greg Mitchell, “Ex-Communicator” (7-26), Lydia Daffenberg, “The Injection Site” (27-34), Terri Main, “Voices of the Underground” (35-39, 53-55, 72-75, 103-05, 112-15, 135-38), Frank Creed, “Natalia” (40-52), Stephen Leon Rice, “Bear Feat” (56-59), Gavin Patchett and Frank Creed, “Resolutions” (60-71), Karen McSpadden, “Daffodil Season” (76-93), Deborah Cullins Smith, “Solitaire” (94-102), Frank Creed, “The Last Newspaper” (106-11), Timothy Hicks and Frank Creed, “The Sandman Cometh” (116-27), Grace Bridges and Frank Creed, “Underground . . . Undersea” (128-34), and Frank Creed, “Whiskey in the Jar” (139-48).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Unidentified - Rae Mariz (b. 1981) (Balzer + Bray, 2010)
Young adult corporate dystopia with corporations controlling the educational system. The Unidentified are those fighting back against the dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish author; US author

Urbis Morpheos - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) (PS Publishing, 2010)
Dystopia in which two ecosystems appear to be in conflict, one natural and the other manufactured. Throughout the novel the latter is dominant and the natural exists only in enclaves.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Usurper - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) (Author, 2010)
Dystopia in which Russians and Al Qaeda destroy the US and a resistance movement is defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia for the Devil - James Parkes (Author, 2010)
An apparent eutopia is actually an authoritarian dystopia that appears to have been defeated at the end of the novel. In the sequel Utopia for the Devil: New Dawn. Np: Author, 2011, the dystopia remains and must be again defeated, which appears to have occurred by the end of the novel. According to a March 25, 2013, post on the author’s website, a complete rewriting of the two volumes, to be called Phantom Eden, is nearing completion.
2nd ed. without the subtitle on the cover. Np: Author, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Utopia Revisited - John B. Mooney (PublishAmerica, 2010)
A rewriting of 1516 More with Raphael Hythloday a visitor from a planet in the area of Alpha Centauri that is a eutopia. World government with information on geography. Free enterprise. Competition. Elected representatives and appointed bureaucrats are limited to one six-year term. Includes a constitution (Online 41-49/Book 92-104). The book also includes a “Utopianized Constitution of the State of Wyoming” (104-210) that is intended to “demonstrated the practicality of the utopian concepts” (Back Cover).
A note on the last page calls this the 2nd ed. Part originally published online at http://www.geocities.com/utopiarevisit [2001?].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Vaults - Toby Ball (St. Martin's Press, 2010)
The first volume of a series alternative history dystopias about the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. The Vaults are the huge depository that holds all the court records of the city for seventy years. The archivist discovers an anomaly which leads him and others to uncover the deep corruption that pervades the city. See also 2011 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Veracity. A Novel - Laura Bynum (b. 1968) (Pocket Books, 2010)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which half of the U.S. population has been killed and a new government exerts control through sex and drugs.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Voyage to Utopias: A Fictional Guide Through Philosophy - Tony Fitzpatrick (Policy Press, 2010)
Visits to the utopias that will be produced by eight different political theories/ideologies. The author, who teaches Sociology at the University of Nottingham, compares the book to 1995 Lukes and Jostein Gaardner's (b. 1952) Sophie's World (Sofies verden 1991/English 1995). For additional material see http://www.policy-press.co.uk/resources/fitzpatrick.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Wall of Days - Alastair Bruce (b. 1972) (Umuzi, 2010)
Global warming dystopia. A man is living alone on an island where he voluntarily exiled himself and where it has been raining for ten years. The novel follows his choice to return to the mainland and confront his memories and then his return to the island.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; UK author

War of Attrition: Part Two of the Underground - Frank Creed (b. 1966) (Writers' Café Press, 2010)
Sequel to 2007 Creed with much the same themes. The underground Christian group known as The Body of Christ is attacked by the Federal Bureau of Terrorism. See also 2012 Creed and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Water to Wine" - Mary Robinette Kowal (b. 1969) (Subterranean Press Magazine, 2010)
The dystopia of the conflict over environmental issues in the Northwest after climate change drove most of the wineries of the world out of business.
Expanded from its original publication as  part of a shared world podcast anthology, Metatroplis: Cascadia. Ed. Jay Lake (Audible.com 2010).
Keywords: Female author; US author

WE - John Dickinson (b. 1962) (David Fickling Books, 2010)
Dystopia of an all-controlling state.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Web of Air. The Second Book of the Fever Crumb Series - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic, 2010)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 2009 Reeve. The series is a prequel to the Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, Fever Crumb meets a young man who wants to re-introduce manned flight, which is opposed by those in power. See also 2011 Reeve.
U.S. ed. New York Scholastic Press, 2011.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Weeds In the Garden” - Meghan Dunn (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2010)
A dystopian post-catastrophe story in which a government is trying to reestablish its authority and is classifying people such as into those who can have children and what sort of education they can have.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Who Fears Death - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor (b. 1974) (DAW, 2010)
Dystopia set in a future Africa where some tribal conflicts are still leading to genocide. The novel develops through a girl who is rejected by her own tribe for both being female and being born of rape. But she has powers that allow her to change her shape and to visit the spirit world, and she uses those powers to try to bring about change. A prequel is her The Book of Phoenix. New York: DAW Books, 2015, part of which was previously published as “The Book of Phoenix [Excerpted from the Great Book].” Clarkesworld Magazine, no. 54 (March 2011). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/okorafor_03_11/
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Yarn - Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books, 2010)
Companion to 2010 Armstrong. This novel is from the point og view of someone outside the corporate realm.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Yo, Tyrania - Ric Weiss (Outskirts Press, 2010)
Humorous dystopian satire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Zoo City - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) (Jacana Media, 2010)
Dystopia of a collapsed South Africa. In an interview published in Locus 74.1 (648) (January 2015): 48, the author has called it an “apartheid allegory”.
Rpt. London: Angry Robot, 2010.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

The 2012 Revolution - Herman R. Willett (Lulu Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia of a liberal tyranny with Barack Obama (b. 1961) becoming president-for-life followed by a conservative counter-revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2034 - Robert Renfield (Eloquent Books, 2009)
Mostly adventure but includes a primitive village society in a different world that is clearly better than contemporary society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2034: The Corporation Post 2012 - Whistler, Mark (Author, 2009)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is failing due to the actions of politicians, and the media and the people vote to get rid of the Constitution and replace it with a Social Enterprise Stock Ownership Country (SEESOC), which builds walls along the borders with Canada and Mexico to keep Americans in and under the corporation and the Security Services. Americans are essentially enslaved and tagged with a barcode.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2045: A Story of Our Future - Peter Seidel (b. 1926) (Prometheus Books, 2009)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084 - Combe, Kirk (Mayhaven Publishing, 2009)
High tech corporate dystopia with one corporation controlling the entire world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: Mars, A New World - Robert A. Kaiser (AuthorHouse, 2009)
Dystopia brought about by current liberal policies, which produces a world very similar to that of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four (1949). Successful revolt on Mars in favor of the free market and conservative social policies. Sequel to his Project Yellow Sky: A Korean Conspiracy. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006 in which North Korea uses nuclear weapons against the U.S. in 2009.
Keywords: US author

The Accord - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Solaris. BL Publishing, 2009)
The Accord is a virtual world that brings together all the desires of all people throughout the world and can be entered at death. It is presented as a eutopia for all. The current world is an authoritarian dystopia, and the novel is driven by the desire of the authoritarian leader to destroy a couple in The Accord.
Parts were published in a different form as “The Accord.” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Ed. George Mann (Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris Books, 2007), 301-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 461-79 with an editor’s introduction on 461; and “The Man Who Built Heaven.” Postscripts, no. 15 (Summer 2008): 24-31.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"After Everything Woke Up" - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) (Interzone, 2009)
Ecological eutopia in which humans can read the minds of even inanimate material such as rocks. The eutopian elements are a small part of the story.
Also published in his Hylozoic (New York: Tor, 2009), 15-31 where it is the first chapter of the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Car - Kingsley [L.] Dennis; John Urry (1946-2016) (Polity, 2009)
Primarily a discussion of the effects of the car and the desirability of eliminating it, but it also includes three brief scenarios of a carless life, "local sustainability", "local warlordism", and "digital networks of control". Only the first is eutopian.
Keywords: English author; Male author

American Apocalypse: The Beginning - [Steve (Stephen)] [Campbell] (1957-2012) (Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2009)
Dystopia. Mostly adventure, but the series traces the stages of an American version of the apocalypse brought on by the economic collapse of 2008. The second volume is American Apocalypse II: Refuge. By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2010 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com]; the third volume is American Apocalypse III: Migration. By Nova [pseud]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2010 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com]. In both these volumes a small group of people struggle to survive, and others join them. In the fourth volume American Apocalypse IV: Rescue. By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com], recovery is beginning. A further volume is American Apocalypse: Wastelands. By Nova [pseud.]. Berkeley CA: Ulysses Press, 2011. This volume, like the others, is mostly adventure with a focus on those trying to survive and salvage something of what was once good in America. Related volumes include his The Chosen. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com], a survivalist novel, Gardener Summer [The cover adds Includes the Short Story, “The Lion.”]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Originally published as an ebook in 2010], which is concerned with violent conflict in a section of a city in a collapsing U.S. in a world where China is economically dominant; and Gardener Winter. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2012, in which the protagonist is an old man and faces one more challenge.
Rev. as American Apocalypse: The Collapse Begins. By Nova [pseud.]. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2011
Keywords: Male author; US author

America's Future. A Novel - Dan Mason (Infinity Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia centered around an age-old conspiracy by the Illuminati to establish global rule, which they have succeeded in doing.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Animals - Don LePan (b. 1954) (Véhicule Press, 2009)
Dystopia in which almost all food animals have become extinct and the handicapped and others who are considered unfit become food.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2010.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Antidote" - Russ Colson (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2009)
Dystopian fantasy of two very similar peoples at war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Assignment Yggdrasil. Democracy. . .By Any Means - Chris[topher James] Dubey (Chipmunkapublishing The Mental Health Publisher, 2009)
Dystopia set in 2006 in which a potential terrorist attack is used by the U. S. Department of Defense as an excuse for greater control. Those thought to be mentally ill are used in the plot, Mental illness is a theme throughout the novel. Includes a bibliography (213-217), a glossary (218-219), and a list of sources consulted (219-243). The revised edition focuses more on the development of genetically engineering a virus to create transhumans and the way the government infect many citizens with the same virus by introducing into food, drink, and medicine.
Rev. ed. Luton, Eng.: Andrews UK/Auk Authors, 2014. 205 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bad Tuesdays: Twisted Symmetry - Benjamin J. Myers (b. 1967) (Orion Children's Books, 2009)
First of six volumes of a series of young adult dystopias. Thousands of children are being stolen by the Twisted Symmetry, somehow connected with its goal of immortality. It is opposed by the Committee. The three Tuesday children, who are street children and known as the Bad Tuesdays, may be a key to the situation. In the second volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Strange Energy. London: Orion, 2009, the Tuesday children help the Committee. The third volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Blood Alchemy. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2010 follows the adventures of one of the Tuesday children. The Bad Tuesdays: The Nonsuch King. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 follows the continuing adventures of all three of the Tuesday children. And in The Bad Tuesdays: A Crystal Horsemen. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 two of the Tuesday children have been captured by the Twisted Symmetry. In The Bad Tuesdays: The Spiral Horizon. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2012 all the conflicts are resolved, at least temporarily.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe: The Return of Nephilim - Michael C. Thorp (Free House Publishing, 2009)
Young adult adventure novel that includes a dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Blond Curls" - Nicole R. Murphy (Masques, 2009)
Authoritarian dystopia. Police with flawed technology misidentify a suspect and have the power to completely undo her life.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Bradbury Report. A Novel - Steven Polansky (Weinstein Books, 2009)
Dystopia. A future U.S. where most people have a clone for use in medical care. The clones are kept in Clearances, areas of the U.S. that have been cleared of their previous residences, such as the Dakotas. The novel is about a man whose clone wanders off a Clearance and his attempts to save it from being captured and killed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Brain Jack - Brian Falkner (b. 1962) (Random House, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in which the web can be fed directly to the brain.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

A Brief History of the Recent Future: A Dystopian Fantasy - David Manning (dhm imPRESSions. LuLu.com, 2009)
Humor and satire on the 1970s, and written then, that projects that period into a dystopian future.
Parts were originally published in The Sun (Chapel Hill, NC), The Guide (Durham, NC), and The Record (Hackensack, NJ)
Keywords: Male author; US author

Broken Arrow - Paul Kane (b. 1973) (Abaddon Books, 2009)
A volume in the Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of the violent world after a plague. Includes “The Man Who Would Not Be King” [295-318] by Scott Andrews. 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

"Bunsen versus the Republic" - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) (Living as a Moon, 2009)
Satire in which, after it is discovered that vegetables feel pain, it is illegal to eat vegetables.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Bute View - Janice Marriott (b. 1946) (Mallinson Rendal, 2009)
Young adult dystopia. Sequel to 2006 Marriott in which the young protagonist is taken to the headquarters of the rich and powerful who hope to exploit his inventiveness.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Buyout - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Ballantine Books, 2009)
Capitalist dystopia in which a murderer can choose death in exchange for a payment to the heirs of a percentage of the estimated cost of life imprisonment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Candor - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) (Egmont USA, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in which messages designed to control people are embedded in the music they listen to.
UK ed. London: Egmont, 2010.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Carbon Diaries 2017 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) (Hodder Children's Books, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2008 Lloyd. This novel concerns the growing restrictions on CO2 and other pollutants but in a situation in which the rich and powerful benefit and the poor and weak continue to be exploited.
U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

The Caryatids - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Ballantine Books, 2009)
An SF novel with fantasy elements set in an environmental dystopia. China is the only remaining nation state and has a drastically reduced population. The Acquis is a green enclave creating a networked utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Chalcot Crescent - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) (Corvus, 2009)
Dystopia set in 2013 with a U.K. with a collapsed economy and a National Unity Government (NUG). Rationing. Worthless currency. Gangs.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Female author

The Chosen One - Carol Lynch Williams (St. Martin's Griffin, 2009)
Young Adult communal fiction about a Mormon polygamous sect presented as a dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Collision" - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (When It Changed. Science Into Fiction: An Anthology, 2009)
Science fiction story which has as its background a future where there is an anti-science dystopia on Earth and advanced technology in space.
Rpt. in her The Universe of Things: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2011), 106-20.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Contact With Chaos - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2009)
A newly discovered wealthy planet becomes the focus of a conflict among the authoritarian United Nations forces of Earth, the libertarians of Freehold, and a group of do-gooders saying the people should be left alone.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Crossing. Blood of the Lamb Book One - Mandy [Amanda] Hager (b. 1960) (Random House New Zealand, 2009)
Young adult religious dystopia. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, Into the Wilderness. Blood of the Lamb Book Two. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand, 2010, deals with the relationships and conflicts among four children who have fled to an apparently uninhabited island. In the third volume, Resurrection. Blood of the Lamb Book Three. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House, 2011. U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2014, the protagonist returns to the religious dystopia and struggles to convince the people to overcome their brainwashing.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Daemon. A Novel - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Dutton, 2009)
Dystopia in which the entire world is run by computers that develop a glitch. See also 2010 Suarez.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Dark Coffee, Bright Light and the Paradoxes of Omnipotence" - Ben Burgis (People of the Book ([In Hebrew]): A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2009)
Dystopia of a future where the Palestinians defeated Israel and now treat Jews the way Israel treat the Palestinians and the way this turns a secular Jew into a suicide bomber.
Originally published in AtomJack Magazine (October 2009), an online journal that is no longer available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Death Got No Mercy - Al Ewing (b. 1977) (Abaddon Books, 2009)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of extreme violence. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 439-623.
Keywords: Male author

"Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse" - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020); Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) (Live Without a Net, 2009)
Dystopia in which computers are DNA based and, in each person, because terrorist viruses had completely destroyed the possibility of silicon-based computers and the Web. The result is extreme isolation and terrorist attacks on any gathering of people.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Dominion - J[effrey] L. Bryan (Author, 2009)
Dystopia of a future world largely under the control of the U.S., which is led by a capitalist, fundamentalist religious group of men who have abolished all freedoms and placed everyone under constant surveillance. The protagonist is a news reader who knows that he is reading lies. Ends with a nuclear war with China.
Keywords: Male author

"Eighth Wonder” - Chris Bachelder (b. 1971) (McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
A climate change dystopia with people living inside a flooded domed stadium and beginning to build a better life there.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 341-61.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Executioner" - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) (Warrior Wisewoman, 2009)
Dystopia in which when a person is to be executed, an individual is chosen by lot to be the executioner. The story is from the point-of-view of a woman who was chosen.
Rpt. in People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine. Ed. Nisi Shawl, no. 239 (June/July 2017): 50-57; and in in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 296-302.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Far North - Marcel [Raymond] Theroux (b. 1968) (Faber and Faber, 2009)
A global warming dystopia in which most of the world's civilizations have collapsed and violence is the norm.
U.S. ed. "in slightly different form" New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic Press, 2009)
Young adult dystopia. First volume of a series that is a prequel to his Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, a young woman named Fever Crumb lives in a society that does not consider women rational, but she is a member of the elite Engineers. See also 2010 and 2011 Reeve.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Finitude - [Alistair] Hamish MacDonald (b. 1969) (Published and hand-bound by the author, 2009)
Climate-change dystopia. The novel begins in a future that pretends it has solved the catastrophe brought on by climate-change. Rationing and other limits have been removed; technology has supposedly solved problems like pollution and waste disposal. All food is synthetic. But the ice that remains continues to melt and some of it is releasing massive amounts of methane. It is possible to buy a subscription to a service that protects the person from “all targeted messaging” (2).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The First Stone - Elliott Hall (b. 1978) (John Murray, 2009)
Dystopia of a U.S. under religious fundamentalism. The first volume of the Strange Trilogy. Continued in his The Rapture: The Innocent Disappear First. London: John Murray, 2010; and The Children’s Crusade: Only One Man Stands In Their Way. London: John Murray, 2011.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author

"For the love of mechanical minds: Survival of the fittest?" - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Nature, 2009)
Dystopia. Artificial Intelligences raise most children and continue to work with them throughout life. While this produces superbly intelligent people and much innovative work, no one chooses to reproduce.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Forest of Hands and Teeth - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) (Delacorte Press, 2009)
Young adult religious dystopia with zombies. A small group of people dominated by a religious cult live in a compound surrounded by a forest inhabited by zombies. Sequels include The Dead-Tossed Waves. New York: Delacorte Press, 2010, focuses on the protagonist of the previous volume escaping from her town and the zombies; and The Dark and Hollow Places. New York: Delacorte Press, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Forever Pleasure: A Utopian Novel - Theodore [R.] Eastman (iUniverse, 2009)
Eutopia. A man from the 1980s travels to 2076 where he finds a technological eutopia, which is described in some detail. But the novel begins with a being who had been downloaded into a machine many millennia ago who is chasing the last remaining intelligent beings in the nearby galaxies to force them to become part of the Hedonistic Expansion Crusade. The two ultimately come into conflict, a conflict that is resolved with the machine intelligences, posthuman, and transhumans all cooperating.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Forgive Them Their Trespasses” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2009)
Theocratic dystopia.
Originally published online in Afterburn SF (March 2009). No longer available.  Also published as a twelve-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2015]. No longer available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Freedom" - Amy Waldman (b. 1969) (Boston Review, 2009)
Dystopia. The story is about an island designed for the terrorists who no country would take and the society that develops there as told by the first overseer.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Galatea’s Stepchildren” - Sam S. Kepfield (b. 1963) (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2009)
In a post-plague U.S. where everything has disintegrated, android women are created, officially for work but mostly used sexually. It is illegal to educated them, but a man allows one to read.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Goldstein - Troy [J.] Grice (Trafford Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia of a future fascist U.S. controlled by twelve corporate cartels. The free state of Goldstein, using advanced Chinese technology, overthrows the cartels by disabling their technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Good Humor Man, Or, Calorie 3501 - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) (Tachyon Publications, 2009)
Dystopia where it is illegal to eat fattening foods.
Keywords: Male author

Grasses of a Thousand Colors - William Shawn (b. 1943) (Theatre Communications Group, 2009)
Post-catastrophe (pandemic) dystopia background to a play the focuses on the sexual fantasies and memories of the main character, who caused the pandemic. Play that opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, May 18, 2009.
Rpt. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2014. U.K. ed. London: Nick Hern Books, 2009.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Guerilla Infrastructure HOWTO" - Hawkes-Reed, John (Future Bristol, 2009)
The story describes the beginnings of a ecological eutopia in a corporate controlled future with dystopian elements.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Heart for the Assassin. A Novel - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) (Scribner, 2009)
Dystopia. Sequel to 2006 and 2008 Ferrigno. This volume continues most of the themes of the earlier ones with only partial resolutions of the conflicts.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hope - Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010); L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor, 2009)
Libertarian dystopian political thriller where a President of the U.S. tries to uphold the libertarian version of the Second Amendment to the Constitution on the right to carry weapons.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Human Disguise - [James O.] [Born] (b. 1960) (Tor, 2009)
Dystopia about aliens warring on an Earth where Germany threatens Europe, New York City has been obliterated in a nuclear attack, and Miami is a prison.
Keywords: Male author

Ice Song - Kirsten Imani Kasai (Ballantine Books, 2009)
Mostly adventure but the background is a dystopia of environmental degeneration and human mutation. The story is continued in her Tattoo. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.
Keywords: Female author

"In Paradisum" - Lee Sands (Times Literary Supplement, 2009)
Brief satirical poem on the character of paradise.

In Sparta - Mark Wagstaff (Matador, 2009)
The novel is set in a near future dystopian London in which a disaffected man becomes a bomb maker.
Keywords: Male author

“In the Event Of” - Arditti, Michael (When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology, 2009)
Although the protagonist is a clone, the story is set in an underground, technological dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"In the Forests of the Night" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a city in Northern California based on sharing that is mostly underground to protect it from its predatory, capitalist neighbors.
Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 13-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Inside Out" - Viki Chua (Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy/Two Trees, 2009)
Two societies in conflict. One, inside a dome, which presents the outside as so damaged environmentally as to be unlivable. The other very different from what the Inside protagonist has been taught.
Keywords: Female author; Singaporean author

"Julia" - Erin Thomas (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2009)
Dystopia set in what seems to be the standard fantasy world of an ancient aristocracy, but is a world where people are produced to be donors of body parts for that nobility.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Tor, 2009)
Young adult dystopia. Sequel to and expansion of his Julian: A Christmas Story (2006). Julian Comstock is a secularist who believes in evolution in a society that rejects both.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Killswitch Review - Steven-Elliot Altman (b. 1968); Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse (Yard Dog Press, 2009)
Dystopia set in 2156 when it is possible to live as long as one wants. Since overpopulation is a threat, contraception is compulsory, and the U.S. has closed its borders. The focus of the novel is technologically assisted suicide, and the Killswitch is a handheld suicide device that is officially called the Kevorkian Unit, named after Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) who was found guilty of second-degree murder for his work in assisting people to kill themselves and spent 1999-2007 in prison. Given the lack of opportunity, young people are illegally killing themselves.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Last Wild Witch - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) (Mother Tongue Ink, 2009)
Children's book describing a "perfect" over-organized town improved by a bit of natural wildness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Last Word. Writer's Block" - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (RSA Journal, 2009)
Dystopian satire in which the Ministry of Fiction controls the production of fiction. Writers work in offices at desks set in long rows and produce fiction on topics they are set.
An extract was published as “Ministry of Fiction.” The Guardian Review (March 4, 2009): 5.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Light of Day - James Byrd (Booksurge, 2009)
Dystopia in which the environmental movement has gained power throughout the world and forced everyone underground as a means of protecting nature. An enclave of survivalists continues to live above ground, fight back, and win.
Keywords: Male author

"Long Stay" - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three, 2009)
Dystopia. The Luton-Stansted car park stretches for twenty-six miles between the two airports with crops growing among the cars. The story focuses on people who got stuck in the car park and have ended up living there permanently.
Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-99 with an author’s note on 199.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Lost in sun and silence: The Golden Age of Communications" - Vincenzo Palermo (Nature, 2009)
Dystopia. In a world of constant connectivity, a man tries to escape to silence.
Keywords: Italian author; Male author

Lunar Braceros 2125-2148 - Rosaura Sánchez; Pita, Beatrice (Calaca Press, 2009)
Dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, and the parts are under corporate control. The poor and minorities are held in enclosed reservations with some sent to the moon to help bury nuclear and toxic waste because there is no longer space on Earth. The novel follows one family on Earth and on the moon.
Keywords: Chicana author

Makers - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2009)
A high-tech eutopia begins to transform the U.S., but then the economy collapses producing a dystopia. Various eutopian and dystopian scenarios follow.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"Making Memories: You must remember this . . ." - Frizell, John (Nature, 2009)
Eutopia is created by implanting memories. Aggressive people have peaceful memories implanted and so forth. Can also be read as a dystopia with memories implanted as a means of social control.
Keywords: Male author

Mariposa - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Vanguard Press, 2009)
Primarily a thriller but with dystopian elements describing a near future U.S. in economic decline.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Material Proof of the Failure of Everything" - Heidi [Suzanne] Julavits (b. 1968) (McSweeney's Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
Dystopian of a failing future Hungary that is also bringing down the European Union as the background to a story of intrigue.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Memory Wall" - Anthony Doerr (b. 1973) (McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
Dystopia in a future South Africa in which people’s memories are harvested, taped, and sold to the wealthy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mercury Station - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) (Semiotext(e), 2009)
Loosely a prequel to 2005 von Schlegell and called the second volume in his “System Series.” This volume begins in a juvenile detention center on Mercury run mostly by out-of-date robots and focuses on time travel. See also 2015 von Schlegell. In addition, see 2011 von Schlegell.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mere Future - Sarah Schulman (b. 1958) (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009)
Flawed utopia in which an apparently eutopian New York City (no ads, no franchises, cheap and available housing, high minimum wage) is still controlled by the same rich people as before. There is one large corporation, THE MEDIA HUB. The court system takes lifestyle into account and the rich are presumed innocent and the poor presumed guilty.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Metamorphosis of Samuel Freeman: A Prophetic Look at the Prospects for the Human Race in the Year 2000 in a World of Ten Billion - Kent H. Wilcoxson (Trafford, 2009)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mind Over Ship - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Tor, 2009)
Sequel to 2005 Marusek. This volume includes struggles among clones, artificial intelligences, and wealthy immortals. See also 1999 Marusek.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Minnesota Cold. A Novel - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2009)
Dystopia. After a nuclear war, Minnesota becomes independent under the rule of the old politicians and business leaders, who controlled both the political system and the economy and undermined education to make it serve their purposes. They set up a program using Minnesota’s biomedical expertise to provide the world with medicine, breeding people with genetic enhancements, and establishing a means of judging whether a person is worth keeping alive and killing those judged not. The novel’s protagonist is a healthy older woman judged not worth keeping alive and her successful resistance that uncovers the breeding program and overthrows the dystopia. The novel ends with the difficult transition from authoritarian rule, a normal economy, the re-establishment of the education system, the problems raised by integrating the “breeders” produced by the genetics program. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Mohammed's Angel" - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) (Overland, 2009)
Dystopia of religious conflict.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

“Mr Goop” - Ivor W. Hartmann (African Writing online, 2009)
Post-global warming dystopia set in Africa with extreme differences between the rich and poor. The story focuses on a poor boy.
Rpt. in The Apex Book of World SF 2 (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2012), 16-29.
Keywords: Male author; Zimbabwean author

"The Netherlands Lives With Water" - Jim Shepard (b. 1956) (McSweeney's Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
Dystopia of global warming with Holland struggling to stay above the sea.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 143-71.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Terra and Beyond: The Expanding Human Universe - Richard Michael (Xlibris, 2009)
Religious dystopia set on a colony planet which is provided with advanced technology but where the people are afraid to use it. A religious leader who opposes its use targets those who use it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

One Second After - William R. Forstchen (b. 1950) (Tor/Forge, 2009)
Dystopia in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages. First volume of a trilogy. His One Year After. New York: Forge Books, 2015, is set in one small community as it begins to recover from the events of the earlier novel, but it has to face the forces of a supposed national government that wants to take control of their lives. In The Final Day. New York: Tor/Forge. 2016, a push by a new, authoritarian government tries to bring the group into line, but they manage to stay relatively free. The author is a professor of History at Montreat College in North Carolina.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" - Ralph Nader (b. 1934) (Seven Stories Press, 2009)
The author calls it a "practical utopia" in which the "super-rich", led by the billionaire Warren Buffett (b. 1930) and others he recruits organize a program to reform America.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Operation Motherland - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) (Abaddon Books, 2009)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series in sequel to 2007 Andrews. This volume follows events in various countries. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, 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

Perfect Union - Goodfellow, Cody (Swallowdown Press, 2009)
Dystopia of an intentional community as a human hive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pet: An exercise in control" - Bob James (Nature, 2009)
Satire on automation in which an android housekeeper replaces a woman.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Pirates of the Cumberland Basin" - Joanne Hall (Future Bristol, 2009)
Dystopia of a flooded Bristol with extensive organized crime and pirates living outside the law. Much of Europe is flooded.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) (Harper Perennial, 2009)
Dystopian satire. The "Freedom Coalition" is attacking all anti-capitalists, and the fundamentalist right is growing in strength.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The President's Book Tour" - M[ary Beth] Rickert (b. 1959) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2009)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive mutations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Promise of the Flame - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Ad Stellae, 2009)
Sequel to 2007 Engdahl. In this volume, the small group of people with "psi powers" settle a new planet and develop a new and better culture based on those powers. See also 2013 Engdahl.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ragged Claws" - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) (Edison's Frankenstein, 2009)
Dystopia of a disintegrating society in which people have the dream of going to the planet Eden and starting over on a pristine world. But it is a fake; all that exists is a virtual reality Eden and the myth serves to make money for its sellers.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author; UK author; US author

"Raw Water" - Wells Tower (b. 1973) (McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
The story is set in a dystopian future U.S. southwest where an attempt to mitigate climate change has gone badly wrong.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Red in the Sky Is Our Blood." - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Schroeder. This story is about a Detroit dystopia with the beginnings of a eutopia based on dispersing people throughout a connected system hidden in the ruins, farming abandoned areas, and gradually developing connections to all the services people can provide.
Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 133-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

ReGenesis: An Alternative Future - Benjamin Lightfoot (Xlibris, 2009)
An authoritarian society in the thirty-fourth century that has solved most problems and appears to be utopian in that there is no war, little poverty, and a cleaned-up environment. The United States rules the entire planet, and all the improvements are at the expense of freedom. People designated as Unfit for Society--defined as evil and cannot be rehabilitated--are executed after 36 hours. A sequel with some of the same protagonists that is primarily space opera concerning a struggle between two alien races, one freedom-loving and the other statist, is Scions: Aliens from Earth. A ReGenesis Adventure. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2014. 258 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Remembering Green - Lesley Beake (b. 1949) (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2009)
Young adult post- environmental catastrophe dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

Requiem of the Human Soul - Jeremy R. Lent (b. 1960) (Libros Libertad Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia of a future in which all unaltered humans are being considered for elimination.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"Riot on the State Library Lawn, or Utopia Is the Mother of Dystopia" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Overland, 2009)
Humor in which three authors of 1889 utopias--Joseph Fraser, Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910), and Sir Julius Vogel (1835-99)--visit an exhibit on the future of Melbourne.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Rogue Progeny. TO WILL Dreams do come true - L. Rolland Williams (Xlibris, 2009)
Dystopian science fiction focusing on androids gaining independent emotion and intelligence and the attempts of corporation to regain control of them. The androids ultimately succeed in being accepted.
Keywords: Male author

"Sacrament" - Matt Williamson (Barrelhouse, 2009)
Dystopia of extreme torture and of the ways torturers justify their actions to themselves.
Rpt. in  Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 314-26; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 314-26.
Keywords: Male author

"The Seed" - Joan L. Savage (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2009)
Dystopia of a future conflict between Mars and Earth brought about by immortality and the need for more space. Birth is illegal and emotions have withered.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Seventeen" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Masques, 2009)
Dystopia in which there are deep division between rich and poor with a focus on care for the elderly. The protagonist is a girl whose job is to pretend to be the daughter of an old woman, in which role she leads a good life, and gives some meaning to the old woman’s life. Outside the retirement community the girl is homeless in a violent world.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) (Viking, 2009)
Humorous dystopia set in Chromatica where status is determined by the range of colors that a person can see, and lower status people are subservient to the higher status. Life is determined by “The Rules”, which the protagonist discovers to be more controlling than he had thought. For a sequel that continues where that novel ended, see Red Side Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 376 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Soho Press, 2024. Originally described as the first volume of a trilogy to be followed by Shades of Grey 2: Painting by Numbers and Shades of Grey 3: The Gordini Protocols, but they disappeared from his website.
U.K. ed. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Both carry the 2010 copyright, but the U.S. ed. was published in December 2009 and the U.K. ed. in January 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sheriff of Yrnameer - Michael Rubens (Pantheon Books, 2009)
Satire on capitalism in which all worlds are branded except Yrnameer or Your Name Here, which is a pastoral eutopia that is under threat for its independence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Shop Talk" - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) (Warrior Wisewoman, 2009)
The story, which has elements of humor and fantasy, is set on a future Earth that had colonized space but had become extremely insular and tried to keep everyone in the town in which they were born.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sin of Addison Hall - Jeffrey A. Onorato (Bryant Park, 2009)
Dystopia in which the unattractive are lower class citizens slated for elimination.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Six" - Leah Bobet (Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, 2009)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with much fantasy. Large office buildings are being reclaimed from the top down with different floors used for housing, manufacturing, crops, etc.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Sky City" - Sesshu Foster (b. 1957) (McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
The story is set in a future dystopian Los Angeles with much violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Snakeskin Road - James Braziel (b. 1967) (Bantam Books, 2009)
Sequel to 2008 Braziel. This novel elaborates on the dystopia brought about by climate change and focuses on a woman's attempt to escape the slavery that is the fate of most of the inhabitants of the Southwest of the US.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Stochasti-city" - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Lake, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a dystopian Detroit and deals with the beginnings of an attempt to reclaim it.
Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 78-152. PSt, PTU
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

"Surveillance" - Jonathan Cresswell-Jones (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2009)
Brief dystopia of a future where surveillance is so pervasive that a teenage girl living in Toronto chooses to wear a burka.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam (b. 1966) (Sleepers Publishing, 2009)
Post-catastrophe dystopia that follows a man as a copes with floods, plague, and other disasters beginning when he and his parents flee in fear of the collapse of civilization expected to be brought about the Y2K problem in 2000.
Parts originally published  as and “The Theft That Got Me Here.” The Sleepers Almanac 2007: The Family Affair. Ed. Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn [(Collingwood, Vic, Australia: Sleepers Publishing, 2007]), 73-84 and “Best Medicine.” The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 (Collingwood, Vic, Australia: Sleepers Publishing, 2008): 224-32.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

"Thirteen" - Peter Andrew Smith (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2009)
Dystopia of a world in which human physical contact has disappeared from fear of disease.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Is This Your Day To Join the Revolution?" - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) (Futurismic, 2009)
Dystopia in which people are controlled through a fake scare about a disease.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 267-74; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 267-74.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Timed release: Clean Thoughts" - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Nature, 2009)
Satire on a society in which it is possible to purchase time release housecleaning capsules that require one to clean until they are finished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"To Hie from Far Cilenia" - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Wishnevsky. This story is about a supposedly eutopian city hidden in virtual reality, but there is little detail.
(New York: Tor, 2009), 231-86. Story rpt. in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 317-52.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Tomas - James [Rudolph] Palumbo (b. 1963) (Quartet, 2009)
Dystopian satire. Tomas = There's Only Money and Sex. Much fantasy. The dominant media network is SHIT-TV, and life is a meaningless round of false pleasure. On the French Riviera, women have such large breasts that they have to support them on mobile trolleys. Extreme corruption. Violence. A time machine hidden in a fairground allows visits to the near and far future. The protagonist, Tomas, is something of a Messiah bent on changing this world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Transition - Iain [Menzies] Banks (1954-2013) (Little Brown, 2009)
Dystopia of global terrorism and a secretive authoritarian world power.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Turban Tan - Jeff Philips (CreateSpace, 2009)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

Twenty16Vision. A Novel - [William John] [McCormack] (Duras Press in association with Linden Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia in which a coup in 2016, the centenary of the Irish Easter Uprising, combines with a German invasion circa 1941. Some humor.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Unincorporated Man - Dani Kollin (b. 1964); Eytan Kollin (b. 1964) (Tor, 2009)
Dystopia. In the far future every person is a legal corporation and spends most of their life trying to get ownership of all of their shares. A man from the 21st century is revived as the only unincorporated man. The Unicorporated War. New York: Tor, 2010 and The Unincorporated Woman. New York: Tor, 2011 are sequels that are mostly space opera. The fourth and final volume is The Unincorporated Future. New York: Tor, 2012, in which the war ends, and a treaty is signed that is designed to bring peace and freedom.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unplugging Philco - Jim Knipfel (b. 1965) (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Dystopian satire set in the near future after an unexplained catastrophe where everyone is expected to spy on their neighbors.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Until the Solid Earth Dissolves" - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) (Overland, 2009)
Environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Utere Nihil Non Extra Quiritationem Suis" - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in New St. Louis, a walled eutopian community with occupations assigned by aptitude. There is a group outside the walls that has refused to conform.
Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 174-230.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vulture's Gate - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) (Allen & Unwin, 2009)
Young adult dystopia set in a future Australia where children are captured, a girl rescues a boy, and they travel across Australia searching for freedom only to discover a colony that has captured many girls. The novel ends positively but says there is more to come. Intended to be first in a series, but no further volumes have been published.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Walls Have Eyes - Clare B[unkalew] Dunkle (b. 1964) (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009)
Dystopia in sequel to 2008 Dunkle in which the young protagonist, having rescued his parents, discovers that his sister and the other genetically engineered children are in trouble.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The War after Armageddon - Ralph Peters (Forge Books, 2009)
Dystopia. After jihadist nuclear attacks on Europe all Muslims are murdered or expelled. The State of Israel is destroyed. A Holy War between Christianity and Islam follows with all Muslims in the world killed. The U.S. becomes a right-wing Christian dictatorship. Most of the novel is on the war.
Keywords: Male author

"White Fungus" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Beyond: Scenarios and Speculations, 2009)
The story takes place in a future in which the economy and all political systems have collapsed, and people are left to their own devices. White fungus refers to the suburbs around European cities, and the protagonist is a male architect raising his son and repurposing areas and buildings to provide food, housing, education, and all their and the community’s needs.
Rpt. at https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a; in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 377-87; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 63-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“White Skies” - Chaz Brenchley (b. 1959) (When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology, 2009)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Winding Down of the World" - Rjurik Davidson (Edison's Frankenstein, 2009)
Dystopia reflecting the title.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Windup Girl - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Night Shade Books, 2009)
Dystopia of genetic engineering. Set in the same future as 2005 and 2006 "Yellow Card Man" Bacigalupi.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Witch and the Wizard - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) (Little Brown, 2009)
Young adult dystopia of a modern-day witch hunt. Sequels include Patterson and Ned Rust. Witch & Wizard: The Gift. New York: Little, Brown, 2010 which focuses on the resistance to the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Fire. Little, Brown, 2011, which focuses on the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Kiss. New York: Little, Brown, 2013; and Patterson and Emily Raymond. Witch & Wizard: The Lost. New York: Little, Brown, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Without a Shell” - Adam Marek (When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology, 2009)
The story is set in a dystopia in which suicide bombers are attacking schools in a society with deep rich-poor divisions.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Wives" - Paul Haines (1970-2012) (X6 A Novellanthology, 2009)
Dystopia of a near future environmentally damaged Australia sharply divided between rich and poor, urban and rural, and, in particular, men and women told from the point of view of a violent, poor, rural man.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

X Isle - Steve [Andre] Augarde (b. 1950) (David Fickling Books, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in which children are essentially prisoners on an island where they had expected to find a better life. At the end of the novel, they revolt and kill their captors.
U.S. ed. New York: Random House/Fickling, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Year of the Flood - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (McClelland & Stewart, 2009)
Ecological dystopia with a eutopian enclave set roughly at the same time as 2003 Atwood with some of the same characters. See also 2013 Atwood.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009. U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“1968: A ShortSpan Snackfood. Valid for Year 7 Student Use. Calories: 231” - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) (’68: New Stories from Children of the Revolution, 2008)
A “eutopia” where one can take pills to learn or have the information slowly entered into a persons brain. All the information is validated as accurate.
Keywords: English author; Female author

2020 Vision. A Novel - Roy S[alant] Neuberger (b. 1942) (Feldheim Publishers, 2008)
Dystopia brought about by a series of attacks on the US by Islamist terrorists. The novel focuses on the struggle of a couple to travel first from New York to New England and then to Israel, which is presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: A Tale of Post America - W. Milton Timmons (b. 1933) (AuthorHouse, 2008)
Dystopia of a U.S. fragmented as a result of the collapse of the environment and with different churches governing different sections and a few free, secular areas.
Keywords: Male author; US author