"Blessed Are the Hungry" - Victor Fernando R. Ocampo (Apex Magazine, 2014)
The story takes place of a multi-generations spaceship that is completely under the control of a conservative religious sect which ensures that its leaders and well-fed while those at the bottom of the hierarchy are starving even though they grow the food.
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author; Singaporean author

“The Bloody Deluge” - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) (Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus, 2014)
Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story focuses on conflicts among survivors.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Bone Clocks. A Novel - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) (Random House, 2014)
A wide-ranging novel that begins in 1984 and ends in 2043 with stops in 1991, 2004, 2015, and 2025. 2025 is largely fantasy, and 2043 is a dystopia with a collapsing technology and a deeply damaged environment.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

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

The Boost - Stephan [L.] Baker (Tor, 2014)
Dystopia in which all humans have had their intellect boosted by an implant, which leads to many improvements but can also be used for advertising and controlling people. When an upgrade is announced that will have a open portal through which governments can invade everyone’s thoughts, one man revolts and escapes to join others who are unenhanced and leads a rebellion against all those who would control others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chimpanzee - Darin Bradley (Underland Press, 2014)
Dystopia of a failed economy where intellectual and mental control are common.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Coming of Age - Thomas T[hurston] Thomas (b. 1948) (Author, 2014)
The two volumes project the future lives of what happens to two extended families of the first two people who, in the first volume, are given immortality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041 - Kurt Schlichter (Post Hill Press, 2014)
Future oral history of the ways in which conservatives take over the United States, seen as what needs to be done.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Convention: Book 1 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy” - [Chris] [Hambleton] (CreateSpace, 2014)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government is on the verge of collapse, and the Sons of Liberty threatens violence if the government continues to be dysfunctional. At the same time, a Convention of States is held to try to defuse the situation. Followed by his The Green Zone: Book 2 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy”. By C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and The Declaration: Book 3 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy”. By C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2015. The first volume contains proposals for reform, including a required balanced budget, term limits for the House, Senate, and Supreme Court, giving the states and Congress the power to overturn Supreme Court decisions, limitations on spending, requiring all federal departments to be reauthorized every three years, giving states to override Congress, and other limitations on the national government. Anti-Islamic. At the end of the third volume, the free state of Alaska is formed, and Israel offers to help it build up its citizen militias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

“Countermeasures” - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) (Twelve Tomorrows. MIT Technology Review SF Annual, 2014)
Dystopia in which the big Silicon Valley companies have become so powerful that they try to establish California as a a separate state and the U.S. government is forced to negotiate. The process is successfully undermined by hackers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

“Crocodile Ark” - Oluwole Talabi (b. 1986) (Omenena Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2014)
The story is set in a future Nigerian religious dystopia with the Prophet and Prophet and the rich live well in orbit and the rest survive on rations on Earth.
Rpt. without the illustration in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 86-96, with an author’s note on 257-258
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; Nigerian author

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

Cryptogram . . . because the past is never past - Michael Tobert (Cosmic Egg Books, 2014)
The novel focuses on two dystopias, one set in 2050 and the other the period of the suppression of the Cathars in the thirteenth century.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

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

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

Dark Windows - Louis Greenberg (Umuzi, 2014)
Dystopia/thriller set in South Africa in which the political leader has been convinced that a New Age mystic can bring about the needed changed through supernatural means.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“Dead Kelly” - C. B. Harvey (Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus, 2014)
Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story takes place in Australia.

“Degrees of Freedom" - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
The story focuses on the control of or access to new tools for understanding demographics and their use politically. In the story, set in the near future, the Canadian government has restricted access to most tools so as to be able to ensure its reelection, but some indigenous communities gain access to them and force the government to become more open. At the end, there is a suggestion that a freer society will result.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

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

"The Divided States of America" - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) (Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings, 2014)
The U.S. has divided into four political districts (conservative, liberal, libertarian, and socialist) that are about to become four separate countries, for good or ill. The book is a textbook with the fiction followed by questions about the selection and a number of readings from a variety of thinkers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Divided We Fall - Trent Reedy (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which the state of Idaho tries to separate from the U.S. because the U.S. is not supporting the Constitution. In the second volume, Burning Nation. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2015 the U.S. government invades Idaho, and more states secede and is mostly on the war. In the third volume, The Last Full Measure. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2016 the protagonist of the first two volumes concludes that groups within the now free Idaho are as bad as the U.S. government was and sets off to find a safer and more congenial place.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Dust and Blue Smoke” - Robert Dawson (The Colored Lens Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2014)
The story is about the last car in a climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“The Electrified Ants” - Jetse de Vries (Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology, 2014)
The story is set in a future where a system called the Panopticon, undoubtedly referring to the system of control proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which a all the prisoners could be observed by one guard without the prisoners knowing they were being watched. In the story this is done through surveillance technology that is controlling all aspects of a person’s life.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author

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

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

“The Empties” - Jess Row (b. 1974) (The New Yorker, 2014)
The dystopia created when the electrical system fails.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 268-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Europe in Autumn - Dave [David Christopher] Hutchinson (b. 1960) (Solaris/Solaris US, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian series known as the Fractured Europe Sequence set in an extremely fragmented future Europe. Sequels include Europe at Midnight. London: Oxford, Eng./New York: Solaris US, 2015; Europe in Winter. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2016; Europe at Dawn. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2018; and “Nightingale Floors.” London Centric: Tales of Future London. Ed. Ian [George] Whates ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 93-121.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

“Faith Without Teeth” - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia in which everyone is expected to voluntarily have their teeth removed so that everyone is equal.
Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-199 with an author’s note on 199.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

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

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

“The Forgotten Utopia” - Marko Ðurišić (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief eutopia seen as an internal state of mind.
Keywords: Male author; Serbian author

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

"Game" - Tabish Khair (The World to Come, 2014)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a virus has supposedly wiped out most humans and animals and an authoritarian government controls access to those areas outside the contained cities.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

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

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

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

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

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

“Happy Go Lucky” - Garth Nix (b. 1963) (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which a test that supposedly shows how lucky a person is determines their place in society. The test is rigged.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Harmony" - Miodrag Regodić (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief ecological, vegetarian eutopia located on an unknown island in the Pacific.
Keywords: Male author; Serbian author

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

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

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

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

“I m d 1 in 10” - Victor Fernando R. Ocampo (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia that is concerned with a person forced to leave their home country either as workers or as refugees.
Rpt. without the illustration in his The Infinity Library and Other Stories. (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2017), 111-33; and in Big Echo: Critical SF, no. 13 (October 2019). I m d 1 in 10 — Big Echo
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author; Singaporean author

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

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

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

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

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

Influx - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Dutton, 2014)
A dystopia in which one corporation controls all important technological innovations by force if necessary. One physicist, who has developed a way to offset gravity, has his experiments stopped and is imprisoned. He fights back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Invisible Streets. A Thriller - Toby Ball (Overlook Press, 2014)
The third volume of a series of alternative history dystopias set in the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s, which is when this novel is set. In this novel, a massive “urban renewal” project is destroying the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

J - Howard Jacobson (b. 1942) (Jonathan Cape, 2014)
Dystopia following a mass pogrom that is only referred to as “WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED.”
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

“Johnny Appledrone vs. the FAA” - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
Satire on the desire of the government to control the airspace during a period of extreme regulation versus the hacker mentality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jonesbridge: Echoes of Hinterland - M[itch] E. Parker (Diversion Books, 2014)
Dystopia. The Jonesbridge Industrial Complex is on an island and its workers are all prisoners. The novel focuses on the attempt by a man and a woman to escape. See also 2016 Parker.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

“The King of Flotsamland” - Tom Barlow (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
A dystopia set in a future where metals have become so scarce that corporations are harvesting the collections that the ocean currents created and are willing to kill to get it. The story’s focus is on a man trying to protect the rights to one such collection.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

“A Kite for Sarah: In Search of Freedom” - David G. Blake (Nature, 2014)
Dystopia in which many positions are held by robots who can be switched off at will.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Lights On Water” - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) (The Short Anthology: Fiction From Photography. The First Issue, 2014)
Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone lives in an enclosed city. The protagonist, an artist, is given permission to go outside to paint and uses the opportunity to create a subversive work showing his daughter happily swimming with other happy people.
Rpt. in his A Killing in the Sun (Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa: Black Letter Media, 2014), 86-106.
Keywords: Male author; Ugandan author

The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma - Brian [Patrick] Herbert (b. 1947) (Tor, 2014)
Authoritarian dystopia with a green agenda.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Lockstep - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Tor, 2014)
The novel is set in a far-future, galaxy-spanning civilization in which hibernation leads to extremely long lives, and the story focuses on the tyrant who controls the system and his brother, who awakes from an immensely long hibernation.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

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

“The Lost Emotion” - Adrian Ellis (Arc. 2.1 Exit Strategies, 2014)
Corporate ownership of emotions, which they use primarily in advertising.
Keywords: Male author

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

“The Man Who Sold the Moon” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
Technology used to free people and help them freely make things for their use.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (Toronto, ON, Canada: CHiZine Publications, 2016), 400-76.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

“Market Forces: Paradise Revamped” - Ian Stewart (b. 1945) (Nature, 2014)
Satire on the afterlife, which is now a company.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

The Milkman: A Free World Novel - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2014)
Corporate dystopia in which governments became so deeply in debt that they were bought up by three corporations and everything is now based on how cost effective it is, including investigating crime. See also 2017 Martineck.
Keywords: Male author; US author

MiSTORY - Philip Temple (b. 1939) (Font Publishing, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future where most of the world’s governments have collapsed and the U.S. has broken up. Although it broadcasts its successes, Australia is losing a war against “eastasians”. New Zealand is a dictatorship cooperating with the dictators of Australia and California. The novel is set in the Southern half of the South Island of New Zealand and focuses on the resistance movement, which achieves some success but is still under threat by the end of the novel.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“MOS 6581” - Jovanović, Vuko (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
A “hive mind” that is briefly presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; Serbian author

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

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

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

Notes from the Internet Apocalypse - Gladstone, Wayne (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2014)
The dystopia that follows the collapse of the internet. Followed by Reports on the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2014; and Agents of the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2015.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

“Orbital Decay” - Malcolm Cross (Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus, 2014)
Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story is set in the International Space Station where people observe the deaths on Earth.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Outer Territories" - Tim Richards (The World to Come, 2014)
Dystopia of an Australian colony in space and the very beginnings of the ultimately successful overthrow of the colonists.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Palestinian Sweets” - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) (La Femme, 2014)
A very odd story in which London is divided into areas dominated by competing religions, with the areas demarcated by smell.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

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

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

“The People of the Underground” - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) (In his Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings, 2014)
A genetically enhanced humanity dominates Earth, and a remnant of the older humanity maintains what it sees as a better civilization underground.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Peripheral - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2014)
Dystopia of a future of the relatively well off and the poor. The Agency. New York: Berkley, 2019 is both a sequel and a prequel set in a 2017 in which Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Russell Brand Trickster Tales - Russell [Edward] Brand (b. 1975) (Atria Books, 2014)
A profusely illustrated retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Hamelin presented as a dystopia of narrow-minded people. One child who had been ostracized by the town does not follow the Piper, and he helps the people to be more open-minded.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

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

“Pop-Ups: Captive Audience” - Robert Dawson (Nature, 2014)
Satire on a future with unavoidable advertising.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

“Providence 2034” - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (College Hill Independent (Providence, RI), 2014)
Providence, RI as a high tech, green eutopia in the future due to its cooperation with São Vincente, Brazil, together with significant changes in Rhode Island politics. Interstate highway replaced by a thriving neighborhood. Higher education has become a citywide activity extending well beyond campus-based instruction. There is a large Community Land Trust Biosphere. Climate-change refugees from Asia have changed the political dynamic of the state. All legislators are required to serve a year in community service before being seated.
Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 141-46 with an author’s note (140)
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Rag and Bone” - Nicholas P. Oakley (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
The story is set in a future in which people have moved into space to escape the dangers of Earth. Living in individual space habitats is very expensive, and if someone falls behind in their mortgage payments, the habitat is simply retrieved, killing those inside. The story focuses on one of the men doing the retrieving who is sickened by his actions and starts a revolution.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

“Raising Hell” - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Raising Hell plus “The Abnormal New Normal” plus “No Regrets, No Retreat, No Surrender” Outspoken Interview, 2014)
Satire on both labor unions and hell, in which damned union leaders manage to organize the demons and win a contract with the Devil.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Red Rising - Pierce Brown (b. 1988) (Del Rey, 2014)
Dystopia set on Mars in which people known as Reds work underground in the false belief that they are helping prepare for a move to the surface, which, in fact, happened years ago. One Red infiltrates the society on the surface, which has characteristics of ancient Rome. Sequels include Golden Son. New York: Del Rey, 2015, which follows the main character through an attempt to change the system, which is initially defeated, then appears to win, but the novel ends with the system in chaos; Morning Star. New York: Del Rey, 2015 continues in the same vein but again with apparent victory; Iron Gold. New York: Del Rey, 2018, in which the continuing protagonist is leaser of the Republic that has replaced the dystopia, but it is still at war with some of the members of the old system; and Dark Age. New York: Del Rey, 2019, in which the protagonist has been overthrown and the conflicts continue. Red Rising: Sons of Ares. Runnemede, NJ: Dynamite Entertainment, May-October 2017 is a six-issue comic book prequel to the series.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

Sand - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) (CreateSpace, 2014)
Dystopia in which the Earth is deeply covered with sand and sand-diving is one of the few ways to make a living. A sequel, which is set in the future of the earlier volume is Across the Sand. New York: William Morrow/HarperColllins, 2022.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Scavengers - Michael Perry (b. 1964) (Harper, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which a family escapes an authoritarian environment into a dangerous outside where they live mostly by scavenging in abandoned junk heaps. While, by the end of the novel, the family is able to return to a reformed civilization, the young, female protagonist prefers the outside.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Second American Civil War: Freedom versus Tyranny - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) (Amazon Services.com [Kindle], 2014)
First volume in a five-volume series, with a fairly standard trajectory over the five volumes. The other volumes are The Second American Civil War. Book 2 (Version 2): The Balkanization of America. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014; The Second American Civil War. Book 3: United States Invaded. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition called Version 3; The Second American Civil War. Book 4: The Smiths and Jones. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition a corrected one from 2015; and The Second American Civil War. Book 5: War. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2015, with the available edition a corrected one. The United States is split between the Liberal States of America and the United States of America, the United Nations invades, and ultimately a civil war ensues. The one exception to the usual is volume 4 in which a television program contrasts similar families from the two countries.
The available edition is from 2015 and called the (Edited Edition). The original editions were riddled with typos.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Sherwood Nation. A Novel - Benjamin [I.] Parzybok (b. 1970) (Small Beer Press, 2014)
The novel presents the rise of a small eutopian community within the confines of a future dystopian Portland, Oregon, which has been experiencing a long drought. The novel ends with a one-page ad for a nonexistence book on the history of Sherwood Nation by two of the main characters.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Shooting the Apocalypse" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych, 2014)
The background to the story is a climate change dystopia with radical division in Arizona between those with water and those without water. See also 2015 Bacigalupi, The Water Knife.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 1-24; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 273-294.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shovel Ready. A Novel - Adam Sternbergh (Crown ublishers, 2014)
Post-disaster dystopia in which the rich have escaped into virtual reality in guarded high rise buildings and the rest fight for survival in the streets. Continued in Near Enemy. A Spademan Novel. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015 set a year later when there is a threat to those living with government disappearing, everyone heavily armed, private armies, and corporations replacing what authority exists.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

“Silent Night” - Dana Rich (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
Utopian satire in which drop-outs respond to the surveillance society. The community of Turkey Creek Hollow, composed mostly of anarcho-capitalist squatters but including other versions of anarchism are being constantly surveilled by the authorities using drones as well as by advertising drones that collected information of the people living there. One man decides to fight back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Spark. A Novel - John Twelve Hawks [pseud.] (Doubleday, 2014)
Corporate dystopia.

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

On Such a Full Sea - Chang-Rae Lee (b. 1965) (Riverhead Books, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future U.S. divided into enclaves, with urban neighborhoods turned into labor settlements controlled by and providing the goods desired by the Charters or enclosed communities of the rich. The surrounding areas have been largely abandoned but are occupied by other people struggling to get by. The novel focuses on one of the labor settlements, B-Mor, formerly Baltimore.
Keywords: Korean American author; Male author

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

"This is Africa" - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) (365 Tomorrows, 2014)
Flash fiction set in a future Africa, which is the only place in the world where “wildlife” exists outside zoos. Africa is still dependent on imported technology, including law enforcement robots, which are at times overzealous, but have been programmed to shoot any African head of state who tries to overstay their time in office.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"Tidings" - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2014)
Vignettes from Maradi, Niger in 2038, Prague, Czechia in 2044, an abandoned Australian detention center in 2066, a First Nations community in 2099, and Ko Phangan, Thailand Republic in 2132. The first is about an invention that eats plastic; the second about a way of helping refugees; the third concerns using memories to reinforce the changes achieved; the fourth is about the beginning of means of communicating with animals; and the last shows the full development of that communication.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Nigerien author; Spanish author; US author

“The Tiger Waiting on the Shore: Days of Remembrance” - Paul Currion (Nature, 2014)
Punishment in the future. For the crime of manslaughter, a person is put to sleep three times for a hundred years each. After the third they are released to a society composed entirely of other released sleepers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Time Passeth Away Like a Shadow” - Andrew Bryant (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2014)
The story begins in a climate-change dystopia in 3000 A.D. where a man visits a Christian religious site containing a large, partially carved stone and the skeleton discovered under it, one of the few such sites that exist in a society that has rejected superstition. It then moves back to 2000 A.D. and the discovery of the relics and to 1000 A.D. and the creation of the stone by a pagan carver, whose skeleton is the one found with the stone.
Keywords: Male author

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

“Transcripts from the Investigation on the Life and Death of Alastor de Roja” - Vincent Michael Simbulan (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic, 2014)
The story is set in an alternative steampunk Spanish past in which the investigation is regarding the death of a man who becomes an activist supporting the colonies against the colonial power.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author

“Two Scenarios for the Future of Solar Energy” - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
Two versions of sustainable urban futures, low tech and high tech.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Unit Simulation: Reconnect with Your Past” - Coy St. Clair (Nature, 2014)
Flawed utopia of a future where the breeding program had produced a generation where there was no disease or deformity, intelligence had increased, and peace had been achieved, but everyone was sterile and people longed for families.
Keywords: Male author

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

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

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

Virus - Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide (Lulu.com, 2014)
Pandemic dystopia
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“The Volunteer” - T. R. Napper (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
The story is set in a dystopian future Southeast Asia in a continuing war between Thailand and Vietnam.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Watcher - Nicholas P. Oakley (See Sharp Press, 2014)
Flawed utopia presented through a coming-of age story. A relatively primitive tribal society that operates on the basis of gender equality and consensus faces an internal problem with an individual who manipulates the system and an external problem of an invader. The Watcher is an alien representing a larger universe who asks a young woman for help in dealing with the invader.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

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

"Weary" - Christopher Ruz (Apollo's Daughters: Athena’s Daughters Companion Trilogy, 2014)
Dystopia set during a future war between Australia and China that has devastated the Australian economy and produced high levels of drug addiction.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

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

“What Is Your Problem, Agent X9?” - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
Dystopia in which the human race is being eliminated seen through the eyes one of those doing the elimination who is interrogating someone seen as a traitor.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

“When the Music Ends” Criminal Records” - Philip Ball (Nature, 2014)
Dystopia of a future where recorded music is illegal.
Keywords: Male author

“A Wife and a Slave.” - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) (A Killing in the Sun, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future where a self-proclaimed Emperor had instituted false African traditions that made normal relations between husbands and wives illegal.
Keywords: Male author; Ugandan author

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

The Wolf From the Door - Rory Mullarkey (b. 1987) (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Apocalyptic dystopia set in middle England depicting a violent revolution in progress. The play was the 2014 Pinter Commission for the Royal Court Theatre and premiered there September 10, 2014.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Irish author; Male author

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

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

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

The Wrath of the Brunists - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) (Dzanc Press, 2014)
Sequel of sorts to 1966 Coover in which some Brunists return to the village where they had previously been located. The novel is concerned with a number of the people from the community and among the Brunists and explores what had really happened during the events described in the 1966 novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

XOM-B - Jeremy Robinson (b. 1974) (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014)
The novel begins in a world-wide eutopia that has been achieved through overthrowing a slave system. Now it is threatened by a virus.
Rpt. as Uprising. New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2015
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Young World - Chris[opher John] Weitz (b. 1969) (Little, Brown and Co, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which a disease has killed all children and adults and only teenagers are left alive in parts of the world, and conflict among the surviving teens develops. It becomes a quest as a few teenagers combine to search for the hidden cure. First volume of a trilogy. The middle volume is The New World. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2015 in which the cure is found but the conflict continues and the main protagonists, a young man and a young woman are separated. The final volume is The Revival. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2016 in which the young man returns to New York with the cure and a desire to unite the warring factions, but the fighting continues. When the young woman returns to New York, they succeed in bring the fighting to an end.
Keywords: Male author; US author

13 - [Michael] Mike Bartlett (b. 1980) (Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2013)
The play takes place in an alternative England and begins with people waking up having all dreamed the same dream. England is facing the issues that the country actually faced at the time, but with different people in power and protesting. The protests coalesce around a messiah figure. It premiered at the National Theatre October 18, 2011, directed by Thea Sharrock.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2014 - Paul S. Anderson (b. 1974) (CreateSpace, 2013)
Dystopia of a Civil War in the U.S. that starts as Texas secedes in an attempt by an elite to take over the country. Other states follow, and, while the U.S. government finally wins, the war is a long and bloody one.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: When God Blessed America Again! - Rick Chapman (Trafford, 2013)
Dystopia in which Islamists now dominate eighty per cent of the world’s population and have imposed Shari`a law. The novel focuses on a man and a woman who have escaped to Alaska where they find other lovers of freedom. These Alaskans organize and free the U.S. from the Islamists and their supporters.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Abandon. A Possession Novel - Elana Johnson (Simon Pulse, 2013)
Sequel to 2011 and 2012 Johnson following the personal and political relationships of the Resistance to the dystopia. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Adjacent - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Orion, 2013)
The complex novel operates on a number of different timelines, but it begins in a near-future dystopia of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain.
Rpt. London: Titan Books, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

“Amphibian Attack” - Afolabi Muheez Ashiru (Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria, 2013)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a Nigerian leader who is trying to lead the recovery is undermined by his corporate supporters who are solely concerned with making money.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“Annihilation” - Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu (Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria, 2013)
Dystopia of Lagos after climate change had flooded the city.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"Apricot Lane" - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
Satire on the over-networked future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aquifer. A Novel - Jonathan Friesen (Blink, 2013)
Young adult global warming dystopia in which water is in short supply and those who control it try to keep knowledge at a minimum and in their control also.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Assault on Sunrise - Michael Shea (1946-2014) (Tor, 2013)
Dystopia in which Hollywood studios completely control the lives of the people who work for them and the state of California. The novel is about a town named Sunrise that has welcomed extras from the studios and is being attacked by the State in revenge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Asterion - Kenneth Morvant (Author, 2013)
Dystopia with fantasy elements about an authoritarian government that the protagonist initially sees as doing good. A sequel Asterion II: Hail Caesar has been announced but not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Beautiful Land - Averill, Alan (Ace Book, 2013)
One theme of the novel is the search for utopia and the way that its possibility can corrupt some people while freeing and healing others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

“A Beginner’s Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse” - Christopher Barzak (b. 1975) (Before and Afterlives. Stories, 2013)
Although most of the story is about survival, it is presented as taking place during a right-wing dystopia
Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 163-68.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Beginning of the End - Michael T. Snyder ([CreateSpace], 2013)
An exploration of the dystopia that is predicted written from a Christian perspective with the explicit message the Christian faith can help people survive the coming collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Benjamin’s Freedom Magic” - Ronald T. Jones (Steamfunk!, 2013)
The story is set in the Confederacy that is at peace with the United States, but is concerned with the independent country of Delany, probably Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), established by abolitionists. It is primarily concerned with weaponry being developed for the next war.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

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

"The Bicycle Girl" - Tade Thompson (Expanded Horizons, 2013)
The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

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

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

The Books of James C. Patch: Utopia - Gary D. Henry (AuthorHouse, 2013)
Sequel to Henry The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier (2000) and The Books of James C. Patch: Returning (2000). This novel presents the utopia that exists on the other side of the barrier and the people, mostly children, freed from the barrier finding a home.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Breathing Engine” - Matthew Lambert (Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology], 2013)
Dystopia of an environmentally depleted Earth.
Keywords: Male author

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

“Cellular Level” - J. E. Bryant (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
The story is told from the point of view of an engineer developing drones to replace pollinators killed by various environmental changes who needs the wisdom of an old woman who has spent her life on a farm to understand the workings of nature. The technology works but the bees still know more.
Keywords: English author

“Charlie’s Ant” - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
High-tech farming creates a dystopia..
Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 36-45.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Childhood of Jesus - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) (Harvill Secker, 2013)
The setting of the novel is the dystopia in which contemporary refugees live. First volume of a trilogy followed by The Schooldays of Jesus. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2016 and The Death of Jesus. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2020.
U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2013.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; South African author

The Circle - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) (Penguin, 2013)
The novel can be read as either a flawed utopia or a dystopia but is a eutopia from the perspective of the protagonist. The Circle is a large corporation that serves a very large and growing part of U.S. business with online services with the goal of absorbing all world business. The focus of the novel is first on the internal corporate cultural which is designed to absorb all of a worker’s life and make that life known to everyone else in the country. This leads to the idea of everyone becoming “transparent” by wearing a camera that shows what they are seeing at all times. This spreads into the world outside the corporation and particularly to politicians.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“City of Beauty, City of Scars” - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Impossible Futures: An Anthology, 2013)
Dystopia of a society that focuses on beauty.
Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 5-18 with an author’s note (4).
Keywords: Male author; US author