Executioner 2084 - David Tinling (Xlibris, 2006)
Dystopia set in the late twenty-first century when the culture wars have turned violent, the Bill of Rights has been rejected by the government, capital punishment has been privatized.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Farthing - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2006)
Alternative history dystopia which is ruled by those who overthrew Winston Churchill and made peace with Adolf Hitler. See also 2007 and 2008 Walton.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

Fat - Rob Grant (Gollancz, 2006)
Dystopia in which being fat is made illegal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Field Work" - J. Stern (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a divided U.S. with the liberal states having defeated the conservative states.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flavors of My Genius - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (PS Publishing, 2006)
Flawed utopia. Novella with extremely unreliable narrators to the extent that it is impossible to determine which, if any, of the depictions of the future is accurate. The main story is told of a future in which most peoples’ intelligence is greatly enhanced and most of them choose to live primarily in thought.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fledging of Az Gabrielson. The Clouded World: Book I - [James Matthew Herbert] [Lovegrove] [(b. 1965)] (Gollancz, 2006)
Describes two groups on a planet, the sky dwellers, who live in immensely tall cities and have developed wings, and those who live on the ground. The first group is described in eutopian terms and the second in dystopian terms. The book ends with the beginnings of a reconciliation, but Pirates of the Relentless Desert has the Groundlings attacked by the Airborn. The last two volumes continue the various stage of conflict and reconciliation.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Founding Five - Maud Muller (iUniverse, 2006)
A conservative Christian dystopia in the US in 2035 led by five men who established underground groups and front organizations after the defeat of Barry Goldwater (1909-98) in the 1964 presidential race.
Keywords: Female author

“Friends in Need” - Eliza Blair (Bug-Eyed Magazine, 2006)
The story, which is about a girl choosing a pet, is set in a technological eutopia where the animals can talk. The girl, who is in kindergarten speaks kidspiek, which is the language of much of the story.
Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin, 2007), 275-89.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Genesis - Bernard Beckett (b. 1968) (Longacre Press, 2006)
Two dystopias. In the first, after an environmental collapse, an authoritarian dystopia is established to protect the remnant from outsiders. In the second, sentient machines have replaced humans and destroy any machines that show initiative.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Genetopia - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2006)
The novel is set in a future where all plants and animals have been engineered to fulfill some purpose, and some characteristics people can be infected with new genes. Those who consider themselves True humans determine which of their offspring are Lost; i.e. not human, and must be exposed in the Wildlands or sold. The novel concerns a girl who is sold by her father, and her brother searches for her and what they discover. The novel ends with the brother, who has wandered for years in the Wildlands, learning about the many communities that have grown up, finding his sister, living in a community that has become her home.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Glasshouse - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Ace Books, 2006)
Dystopia. A future experimental polity ruled by the experimenters as one aspect of a novel about conflict in a high-tech future.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Go Tell the Phoenicians" - Matthew Hughes (b. 1949) (Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction, 2006)
Eutopia briefly described as part of a story about the difficulties of understanding an alien society. People in the alien society mature quickly without any adolescence, which only occurs at the end of life, which is a period of complete physical indulgence. The children have a scientifically advanced, equitable, and egalitarian society. The alien society is contrasted with the bureaucratic organizations of Earth.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Going to See the Beast" - William Sanders (1942-2017) (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, 2006)
Dystopian humor regarding life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17).
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

The Good Society. Compass Programme for Renewal (Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart, 2006)
Very broad and general statement of the current conditions in the U.K. and some things to be done to end poverty and produce both a sustainable and a caring society. This is accompanied by two other volumes, Hetan Shah and Martin McIvor, eds. A New Political Economy. Compass Programme for Renewal. London: Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart, 2006 proposing a wide range of economic reforms; and Hetan Shah and Sue Goss, eds. Democracy and the Public Realm. London: Compass in association with Lawrence & Wishart, 2006 proposing more direct democracy.

Hav comprising Last Letters from Hav and Hav of the Myrmidons - Jan Morris (1926-2020) (Faber and Faber, 2006)
Reprints 1985 Morris (1-187) and adds "Hav of the Myrmidons: Six Days in 2005" (189-297) plus a "Preface" (vii-viii) and an "Epilogue" (299-301). In the added material, the country of 1985 Morris has experienced an overthrow of its institutions, which have generally been replaced by more dystopian ones. The author says that this is designed to reflect September 11, 2001.
Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, [2011] with an "Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin (vii-xi).
Keywords: English author; Transgender author; Welsh author

"Here Comes the Flood" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia of official state terrorism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

High John the Conqueror - Jim Younger (Jonathan Cape, 2006)
A complex dystopia in which the British monarchy is now Roman Catholic, the U.S. has petitioned the monarch to become its leader, a coup d'état in Britain has overthrown the "Christian Coalition Socialists", and there is an underground group of "paramilitary sadomasochist flagellants".
Keywords: English author; Male author

"High Windows" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Strange Horizons, 2006)
Multiple dystopias. A form of slavery is permitted, and sexual slavery is described.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

"Homecoming At the Borderlands Cafe" - Carole McDonnell (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia in which the U.S. has divided into two countries, the liberal East and the conservative Christian West. Both are presented as intolerant of difference.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Homeland - Michael Amos (Samhain Publishing, 2006)
An authoritarian dystopia describing a shopping mall homeland controlled by security forces.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven" - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Futureshocks, 2006)
Authoritarian, right-wing, fundamentalist dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Hopkin's Well" - Adrienne Ray (Infinite Space, Infinite God, 2006)
Dystopia in which all humans have been genetically modified to create equality. It was made a crime to protect genetically inferior people, but the Roman Catholic Church did so and moved to Mars. The story is about a failed attempt by the Earth government to destroy the Catholic settlement on Mars.
Keywords: Female author

“A Hot Day’s Night” - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (High Country News, 2006)
Dystopian future of a drought-stricken U.S.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 129.3 & 4 (721) (September-October 2015): 48-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

I Have Waited, and You Have Come - McDonagh, Martine (Myriad Editions, 2006)
A psychological novel set in a global warming dystopia.
Rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Myriad Editions, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

“I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google” - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (New Scientist, 2006)
A brief story set in 2026 in a United States that has put strict restrictions on the activities and purchases of teenagers.
Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 9-12.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Icarus - Roger Levy (Gollancz, 2006)
Complex novel describing various dystopias created as Earth's ecological system collapsed and people escaped to space, under the earth's surface, into cyro-suspension, etc.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Idolon - [Robert] Mark Budz (b. 1960) (Bantam Spectra, 2006)
Dystopia. Deep rich poor division in a world of far advanced technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Imitation of Life" - Albert E[dward] Cowdrey (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Satire. A future small town eutopia based on Jane Austen (1775-1817) but connected electronically throughout the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Infoquake - David Louis Edelman (b. 1971) (Pyr, 2006)
Corporate dystopia based around conflicts over new technologies. Sequels that continue the same theme are MultiReal Volume 2 of the Jump 225 Trilogy. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2008; and Geosynchron Volume 3 of the Jump 225 Trilogy. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2010.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Instinct" - Joy Parks (The Future Is Queer, 2006)
Flawed eutopia. Problems with the eutopia of complete gender freedom and the ability to change gender at will. Domed communities in which freedom becomes restricting. Lesbian viewpoint. Isolated communities outside the domes established representing different periods of the past to allow people to choose their own eutopia. Lesbian viewpoint.
Keywords: Female author

Invisible Armies - Jon Evans (b. 1973) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Invisible Islands - Angus Peter Campbell (Otago Publishing, 2006)
A Scottish version of Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili (1972) describing twenty-one imaginary islands. Much fantasy. Each island and its people, if any, are briefly characterized, usually with one significant trait.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

John of Two Worlds - Robert Stott (First Edition Ltd, 2006)
Eutopia. A man from earth is revived on another planet far in the future. This world is a technological eutopia with environmentally sound and socially healthy policies. The Earth meanwhile is in serious trouble and a plan is put in place to save it. See also 2007 Stott.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Julian: A Christmas Story - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (PS Publishing, 2006)
Religious dystopia. See also 2009 Wilson.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007), 28-65.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Juneteenth" - K. M. Praschak (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia about a U.S. divided between liberals, the Democratic States, and conservatives, the United States, with strong racial themes. Juneteenth is an unofficial holiday to commemorate the end of slavery, a holiday generally ignored by whites in the conservative United States, which is becoming a security state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Just Do It!" - Heather Lindsley (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia in which companies hire snipers to shoot a chemical into people that produces an insatiable desire for their product.
Rpt. in Year’s Best SF 12. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2007), 74-88; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 357-67; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 357-67.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"Kansas, She Says, Is the Name of a Star" - R[odrigo] Garcia y Robertson (b. 1949) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. Earth is the place where interstellar slavers retire and take child brides.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Killers" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Vicious depleted future dystopia.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 257-66.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Kingdom Come - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Fourth Estate, 2006)
Contemporary dystopia of consumerism focused on a large mall in the suburbs and the violence and racism that surrounds it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Kyrie Eleison" - John G. Hemry (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2006)
Dystopia of male dominance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Mortal Man. Book One of the Deathless - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) (Roc, 2006)
Dystopia. The Deathless are those who have been turned into nanobiology and are presumably immortal but the technology is being attacked.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Last Straw" - Hal Duncan (b. 1971) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. Very near future authoritarian Britain and the terrorist response.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Lettuce" - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, 2006)
Brief surrealistic dystopia.
Rpt. in Ducornet, The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 123-25.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Library" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451, 2006)
Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a dictator tries to burn all the books in a library, but people have been memorizing them.
Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 63-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Library of Pi" - Ray Vukcevich (b. 1946) (Polyphony 6, 2006)
Dystopia of a police state.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) (Harcourt, 2006)
First volume of the Young Adult Last Survivor series. In this volume, a meteor hits the moon pushing it closer to the Earth and causing widespread destruction on the Earth. The novel follows a young woman's struggle to survive. The second volume, The Dead and the Gone. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, moves the action to New York City but continues the same themes. The third volume, This World We Live In. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 continues the same setting and themes as the first volume. In the fourth volume, The Shade of the Moon. Boston, MA: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, the protagonist is living in a safe community in Pennsylvania, but his ability to do so depends on his continued success at soccer and obeying the strict rules of the community. He violates the rules by falling in love.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Long After Midnight" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451, 2006)
Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a man is constantly worried about his books being burned.
Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 139-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Man From Missouri" - Patrick Thomas (b. 1952) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of the U.S. with slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Master Han's Daughter - Midori [pseud.] (Circlet Press, 2006)
Dystopia. A linked set of erotic stories set in a future dystopian Japan with a background of violence and poverty.
An earlier version of “Master Han’s Daughter” appeared in Asian Fever (2000) and “Aya’s Blade” as by Fetish Diva Midori appeared in Tough Girls: Down and Dirty Dyke Erotica. Ed. Lori Selke (San Francisco, CA: Black Books, 2001), 185-91.
Keywords: Female author

The Meadowlark Sings - Helen Ruth Schwartz (Alice Street Editions, Harrington Park Press, 2006)
Eutopia and dystopia. In the near future, an earthquake separates part of California from the United States. This provides the location for a new independent gay and lesbian country, which is needed because an anti-gay movement has come to dominate the U.S. Some reconciliation takes place throughout the novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mergers - Steven L. Layne (Pelican Publishing, 2006)
Young adult dystopia describing a future where all trace of racial identity has been eliminated. Four teenagers born with racial identities and unusual powers struggle against the dystopia and win by traveling into the past and helping to create a future with racial differences exist but are not considered important.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Messiah of Morris Avenue - Tony Hendra (b. 1941) (Henry Holt, 2006)
Near future U.S. as a religious dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Middle America - Anthony F. Lewis (Ten Mile Press, 2006)
Sequel to 2004 Lewis set five years later with the same main character. The revolution that began in the earlier volume was won, and the Rocky Mountain area is no longer part of the U.S. or Canada. The sequel emphasizes political intrigue, but since the protagonist has to fight government to protect freedom, it follows the themes of the previous novel and presents the U.S. in dystopian terms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

MindField. A Novel - Egbert, John F (iUniverse, 2006)
Many Americans suddenly become deaf, and the government responds poorly. The deaf, on the other hand, respond positively by teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to the newly deaf, making them bilingual in ASL and English.
Keywords: Deaf author; Male author; US author

"Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016" - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia of complete surveillance.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Missy Victoria" - Bruce Holland Rogers (b. 1958) (Polyphony, 2006)
Apparent dystopia with eutopian results. Names are seen to condition behavior and judges can require that names, including nicknames, be changed. In the case described, the required change improves the lives of family members.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Nation - Dean A. Buchanan (Tate Publishing, LLC, 2006)
The dystopia brought about by liberals, including world government with world taxes and making homeschooling illegal, leads to the successful secession of Alaska from the U.S. and the creation of a conservative eutopia there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Not Worth a Cent" - R. Neube (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. Future U.S. in which diseases are rampant and social security is broke and ends at 100.
Keywords: Male author

"Nowhere: A Dystopian Satire of Contemporary Society" (2006)
Dystopia of technology and human isolation.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

"The Patriot" - Fitzgerald, Erin (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopian background of a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Peace Criminal" - Vaughan Stanger (b. 1959) (Postscripts, 2006)
Alternative history dystopia in which a Nazi regime had been established in Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Pearl Diver" - Caitlín [Rebekah] Kiernan (b. 1964) (Futureshocks, 2006)
The story is set in an overpopulated, environmentally degraded dystopia in which both government and corporations have everyone under surveillance at all times.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 229-42; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 229-42.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; US author

"Places of Color" - David Bartell (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopian background about a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives with states seceding and visas needed to enter another state.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pop Squad" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. Deep division between the rich and poor. The rich get annual rejuvenation shots but cannot have children. The poor are those who choose to have children, which is illegal. The "Pop Squad" is the police who kill the children.
Rpt. in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 137-61; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 139-59; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 139-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Poundbury 2030" - Dennis Hardy (b. 1941) (Poundbury: The Town that Charles Built, 2006)
A brief, eutopian description of the town of Poundbury, England twenty-five years in the future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Prayers for the Assassin. A Novel - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) (Scribner, 2006)
Dystopia after a nuclear attack. Thirty-fives years in the future most of the U.S. is an Islamic Republic with a Bible Belt country in parts of the South. See also 2008 and 2009 Ferrigno.
U.K. ed. London: Hutchinson, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Printcrime" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Nature, 2006)
Dystopia in which the use of a 3-D printer is a crime.
Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2, which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Prodigy - Kalstein, Dave (St. Martin's Press, 2006)
Dystopian murder mystery set in 2036 in an exclusive school in which the students are part of an experiment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Punishment Fits the Crime: Everything's Going to Be all right" - David Berreby (b. 1958) (Nature, 2006)
Dystopia. A very brief description of a future in which people convicted of crimes are punished by being mentally impaired for a time.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 51-53.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Queen Camilla - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) (Michael Joseph, 2006)
Satire set in a dystopian England that is an extremely poor part of the United States and crime is so bad that the elderly feared to leave their homes after dark and children were not allowed to play outside at any time. To save money on pensions, the old were encouraged to commit suicide. Some council estates had been converted to Exclusion Zones were various misfits from criminals to the morbidly obese were sent, could not leave, and had to wear ankle braces. The Royal Family were among those sent to an Exclusion Zone, and much of the novel is about the relations among the various members. At the end of the novel, the Queen has abdicated, the monarchy has been restored, although must earn its keep, and Charles and Camilla’s son born when they were sixteen and eighteen has been relegated to a mental hospital in France.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Racists - Kunal Basu (b. 1956) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006)
Dystopian experiment in which a black and a white child are raised on a barren island cared for only by a mute nurse.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

Rainbow Bridge - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2006)
Sequel to 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005 Jones. Fantasy, dystopia, and a struggle to create a eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Rainbows End - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024) (Tor, 2006)
Flawed utopia set in 2025 in San Diego, California where everyone is wired, and all the computer chips include Homeland Security.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rash - Pete [Peter Murray] Hautman (b. 1952) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which the state tries to eliminate all disease.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Regime Change in Utopia" - Christopher Reid (Times Literary Supplement, 2006)
Brief satirical poem mentioning conflict between Utopia and Dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Renegade: Book Two of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2006)
Sequel to 2005 Duchamp; see the note there. This volume describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. See also 2007 (2) and 2008 Duchamp. Female author. The five volumes were written in the 1980s. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Republic of George's Island: One Man Against the Elements" - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) (Nature, 2006)
The background to the story is an ecological dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 197-99.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Return to Nowhere" - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958); Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a future U.S. with slavery and with an underground railway running to the free areas of the Northwest.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Rhymes With Jew" - Paul G. Tremblay (b. 1971) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a future U.S. that is conservative, anti-Semitic, racist, and very poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Road - Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of a destroyed America.
U.K. ed. London: Picador, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sailing to Utopia" - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) (Flytrap, 2006)
Flawed utopias. A woman travels to New Boston (Bellamy’s future), Gilman’s Herland, and More’s Utopia and finds them less than utopian.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Scenes from a Dystopia” - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) (Subterranean, 2006)
Satire on dystopian fiction.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scouring" - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Text:Ur: The New Book of Masks, 2006)
Dystopia in which humans have lost most natural functions.
Rpt. in her The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 112-16.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Send in the Swords: Fourth Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers - John David (b. 1955) (AuthorHouse, 2006)
Dystopia. Fourth of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume sets the stage for future war. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2007 (2).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

September Snow - Robert Balmanno (b. 1951) (Regent Press, 2006)
Dystopia created by a religion designed to respond to global warming and preserve the Earth, but its positive goals are perverted, and advanced technology is used to manipulate the climate and force people to live in domes. The novel ends with the beginnings of a rebellion. First volume of a series. The second volume is Runes of Iona: Book Two of the Four-Book Series THE BLESSING OF GAIA QUARTET. Oakland CA: Regent Press, 2010. It follows the adventures of the daughter of the protagonists of the first volume, opponents of the dystopia, and others as they fight to restore Earth. The third volume is Embers of Earth: Book Three of the Four-Book Series The Blessings of Gaia Quartet. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2016. It follows a young man who is sent to learn what is available of the knowledge of the past and returns to try to teach it to his people. The fourth  volume is Auger’s Touchstone or the Wrong Side of Contemporary History: Book Four of The Blessings of Gaia Quartet. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2021. It traces the history that led to the world described in the other three volumes. In this volume the civilization of the past, including advanced technology, exists, but barbarians remain outside the “civilized” area, which is dominated by the rich.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadow Waters - Chris[topher Ian] Baker (Huia, 2006)
Sequel to 2000 Baker in which the survivors of the catastrophe struggle to establish new lives while defending themselves against and being supported by the old gods and demons. This novel follows some characters from the previous one from where they were left there until they find the central protagonist of that novel. Then the focus becomes the struggle to rid their new community of the demons attacking them.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

She's Alone - Richard Bruce Clay (Poetry Monthly Press, 2006)
Dystopia. All women but one have been exterminated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Shuteye for the Timebroker" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Futureshocks, 2006)
The background to the story is an invention that means that no one has to sleep, and the developed world, where people can afford it, develops even faster, while the poor slip further behind.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Silicon Singularity" - Ernie Reimer (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2006)
Dystopia describing a future world in which a brain implant allows contact with others with the implant and the web. The U.S. is dominated by such people and is extremely security conscious. In this story a biological version begins to infect the world. His non-utopian "Cerenkov Blue" On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic 17.1 (60) (Spring 2005): 59-70 is set in the same future.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"A Song for Lisa" - Murray Bruce (Phoenixine: Magazine of the Phoenix Science Fiction Society (Auckland, New Zealand), 2006)
Dystopia. A poor future New Zealand where some people prey on others as food.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Song of the Brakeman - Bill [William John] Direen (b. 1957) (Titus Books, 2006)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia. Earth's natural resources are nearly exhausted. Body parts are harvested for use by the powerful.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"State of Blues" - Gene Stewart (b. 1958) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a divided U.S. with both sections intolerant but with the liberal states presented more positively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Steel Sky - Andrew C. Murphy (b. 1964) (Per Aspera Press, 2006)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian, highly stratified dystopia. Much intrigue and violence. Much of the novel is concerned with the struggle against the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sunlight or Rock" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Set in the same milieu as 2000, 2002, and 2003 Kessel. This is the story of a man expelled from the Society of Cousins for taking part in the men’s revolt. See also 2017 Kessel.
Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 177-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Surveillance - Jonathan Raban (b. 1942) (Picador, 2006)
Dystopia focusing on the war on terrorism and the potential for a surveillance society.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Switch" - Darby Harn (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a disintegrated United States with the parts in conflict.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Tamarisk Hunter" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (High Country News, 2006)
Environmental dystopia. Much of the central U.S. is a dust bowl, and what water there is sent to California.
Rpt. in The Magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction 112.5 (661) (May 2007): 64-77; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 123-35; in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 13-27; and in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 511-26.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Teeth and Tongue Landscape - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Avant Punk, 2006)
Dystopia in the Bizarro genre of a world made of meat.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ten With a Flag" - Joseph Paul Haines (Interzone, 2006)
Dystopia in which people are raised or lowered in economic and social status depending on their loyalty to the state.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 23-32; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 23-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"This Divided Land" - Michael Jasper (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a divided U.S. as background to the story.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Three - Meghan O'Brien (Quest Books, 2006)
Post-catastrophe lesbian dystopia. Disease and war have killed off most of the population. Religious fanatics try to force women into being nothing but breeders.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"To the Universal Station" - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Millennium 3001, 2006)
Dystopia. Future history detailing the collapse of earth’s economy and environment as a result of current policies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Twentytwelve - Keogh, Andrew (Adonis & Abbey, 2006)
Dystopia in which terrorism and violence has escalated ever since 9/11. Britain has collapsed economically and come under fascist rule. The novel focuses on an attempt by a man to get his mixed-race daughter out of the country.
Keywords: Male author

Underground - Andrew McGahan (b. 1966) (Allen & Unwin, 2006)
Dystopia. Near future Australian authoritarian dystopia brought about by the war on terrorism.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Undoing" - Totton, Sarah (Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia describing a future completely devoted to security and the vicious system of punishment used.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Unplugged" - Gupta, Vinay (Worldchanging, 2006)
Eutopia presented as an interview with someone who has "unplugged" or chosen to adopt a lifestyle that combines the outlook of Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) and some of the designs of Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983).
Reposted at Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/the-unplugged. Posted June 8, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011.
Keywords: Male author

"The Unsolvable Deathtrap" - Jack Mangan (Interzone, 2006)
Dystopia of poverty and violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Upgrade" - Karl [D.] Iagnemma (b. 1972) (Nerve.com, 2006)
Something of a flawed utopia. The story is about a man who has what he thinks of as the perfect female robot who cooks, cleans, and provides sex whenever and however he wants it. He has an upgrade installed that gives her the ability to reason, and she walks out on him.
Rpt. in 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future. Ed. The Editors of Nerve.Com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2007), 36-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

U.S.! A Novel - Chris Bachelder (b. 1971) (Bloomsbury, 2006)
Satire in which Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), U.S. socialist, founder of an intentional community, and author of many utopias, is brought back to life in the contemporary, conservative U.S.
U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Waking Waco" - Goodfellow, Cody (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
The background to the story is a disintegrated U.S. focusing on Waco, Texas, and the theme park Freedomland, which honors fighters for freedom, like Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001), the Oklahoma City bomber.
Keywords: Male author; US author

War Slut - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Avant Punk Books, 2006)
Dystopia of a world where everyone is drafted into the military.
Rpt. Portland, OR: Eraserhead Press, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Whitby Jets" - Jacey Bedford (Fabulous Whitby, 2006)
Dystopia. The setting for the story is a theocracy trying to eliminate British folk culture.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Winds Between the Worlds - Lark L. Burnham (BookSurge, 2006)
Dystopia of a corporate dominated future Earth which enslaves many other worlds. The complex plot involves people from the past and future interacting and both human and animal empaths.
Keywords: Female author

"Yellow Card Man" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia brought about by global warming, with a stress on the situation of refugees. 2005 and 2009 Bacigalupi are set in the same future.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 211-38; in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007), 431-56; and in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 163-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of our Future State(s)" - Bob Frame; Pala Molisa; Rhys Taylor; Hemi Toia; Wong Liu Shueng (New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations, 2005)
Set in 2055 in a much-diminished future. Describes four scenarios for a future New Zealand, two based on plenty and two based on depleted resources, in two of which the emphasis is on community cohesion and in two of which the emphasis is on the individual. The revised version of 2007 dispenses with the discussion format and changes the order of the scenarios and the names of two of them.
Published separately as a screenplay Wellington, New Zealand: Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd., 2005 [Available at http:www.landcareresearch.co.nz/services/sustainablesoc/futures/publications.asp]. A larger version published as Work in Progress. Four Scenarios for New Zealand. Developed by The Landcare Research Scenarios Working Group. 2nd ed. Lincoln, New Zealand: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2007.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Male author

2084: Tomorrow is Today - John William McMullen (AuthorHouse, 2005)
Dystopia. After various catastrophes, the world is united under a system called The Program that uses the immediate gratification of pleasure as a means of control. See also 2004 McMullen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Africa PLC - Mathias M. (Athena Press, 2005)
Dystopia. The first part of the book (vii-xl) is a non-fictional account of the world after September 11, 2001. The second part (41-303) is a fictional account of the revolt of black slaves on a plantation, their establishment of a democratic society, and its takeover by business interests. The novel ends with Africans poised to go to war to take Africa back from its exploiters.

Against Gravity - Gary Gibson (b. 1965) (Tor, 2005)
Dystopia of a late twenty-first century disintegrated U.S.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Air (or Have Not Have) - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Gollancz, 2005)
Dystopia with the possibility of eutopia held out at the end. The novel focuses on the conflict over a technology that will connect everyone in the world set in a poor, primitive village in Central Asia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2005)
First volume of a five-volume series. In this volume, an alien feminist eutopia that hopes to save Earth from itself is set against a near future authoritarian dystopia. A non-violent anarchist eutopia, known as the Free Zone, develops in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and is threatened by internal divisions and external forces. Renegade: Book Two of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006, describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the changes they want. In Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, the aliens return to see whether or not Earth should be quarantined. Stretto: Book Five of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2008, stresses the utopian elements, basically feminist and liberal, but the various political struggles continue, and there is no clear resolution at the end. All five volumes were written in the 1980s.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"All the Tea in China" - Yvonne Provonost (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2005)
Background of a dystopia of corporate control.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Alternate Beauty - Andrea Rains Waggener (Bantam Books, 2005)
A fat woman wakes up in a society in which "big is beautiful". She initially sees this world as eutopian but then finds it as superficial as her previous world's focus on thinness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Angel of Light" - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (Cosmos A Magazine of Ideas, Science, Society and the Future (Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia), 2005)
The background to a humorous Christmas story is a mildly dystopian future dominated by Islam.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), 571-77; and The Year’s Best SF 11. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2006), 425-34.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anywhere But Here - Jerry [Brian] Oltion (b. 1957) (Tor, 2005)
Humorous dystopia where the U.S. government, already dominating the Earth, tries to dominate those settling outer space. It ultimately fails.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Atomik Aztex - Sesshu Foster (b. 1957) (City Lights, 2005)
Dystopia in which Aztecs rule the Americas and are colonizing Europe. One of the protagonists has nightmares about American consumerism, and lives through a real nightmare working in a meatpacking plant reminiscent of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
Parts were published in different form as “Atomik Aztex.” Amerasia Journal 27.2 (2001): 145-66, in the L.A. Weekly, and on Salon.com.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Band of Gypsys - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2005)
Sequel to 2001, 2002, and 2003 Jones. This volume is concerned with the establishment of a dystopia in England with slave labor camps.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Believer. A Novel - Stephanie Black (Covenant Communications, 2005)
Dystopia requiring absolute conformity to the current belief system and the travails of a man who becomes convinced of the truth of the Book of Mormon.
Keywords: Female author

The Berlusconi Bonus - Allan Cameron (b. 1952) (Luath Press, 2005)
Dystopia in which the richest people are awarded freedom from the law, the Berlusconi Bonus, clearly named after the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (b. 1936; PM 1994-1995, 2001-2006, and 2008-11). Satire on Thatcherite Britain. Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Black Arrow: A Tale of Resistance - Vin Suprynowicz (b. 1950) (Mountain Media, 2005)
Dystopia from a libertarian perspective and the struggle against it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bloodsong# - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) (Andersen Press, 2005)
Related to 1999 Burgess. This novel, based very loosely on the Norse Volsunga Saga, is set in a future politically corrupt Britain that is in decline.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Blown Away - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
Dystopia brought about in northern and western Europe by global warming. Some hope held out of the human spirit overcoming conditions. Related to 2004 Cave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bodies and Soul - David Hill (b. 1941) (Scholastic New Zealand, 2005)
Young adult dystopia focusing on medical experimentation and the use of the poor to provide skin and body parts for the rich. Beginnings of improvement at the end.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The Book of Summer - James F. David (Tor, 2005)
Dystopia in sequel to his 2005 Judgment Day. In this volume, an Earth colony called Planet America has reestablished slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Box - Penelope Todd (b. 1958) (Longacre Press, 2005)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which the New Zealand government is experimenting with an implant that regulates body chemistry and controls emotion. Successful teenage revolt.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders (b. 1958) (Riverhead Books, 2005)
Satire and humor. Inner Horner can only hold one citizen at a time. Outer Horner, under its leader Phil, tries to collect taxes from those waiting to enter Inner Horner and starts a conflict.
U.K. ed. "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil." In his The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation (London Bloomsbury, 2006), 1-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

British Front - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Barrington Stoke, 2005)
Young Adult dystopia. No blacks or Asians left in 2055 Britain. Military rule.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

A Brother's Price - [Wendy] [Kosak] (b. 1963) (Roc, 2005)
Dystopia with a happy ending. Future where few males are born and the difficulty of true love when each male must marry many women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Building Harlequin's Moon - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938); Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Tor, 2005)
Authoritarian dystopia and the successful struggle against it.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Burn - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Tachyon Publications, 2005)
Flawed utopia. A planet is renamed Walden and intends to follow Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) practice of voluntary simplicity. The founder of the experiment is somewhat authoritarian, and the previous inhabitants fight against the new settlers using fire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Calorie Man" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2005)
Dystopia. Corporate control of most agricultural products, and the corporations rule the world through their control over the food supply. The story focuses on an attempt to help a geneticist spread free seeds. 2006 "Yellow Card Man" and 2009 Bacigalupi are set in the same future.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), 32-54; in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 337-66; and  Bacigalupi’s Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 93-121.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Capacity - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) (Tor, 2005)
Flawed utopia. Digital age where artificial intelligences are supposed to have solved the world's problems. See his Recursion. London: Tor, 2004 for background. See also 2007 Ballantyne.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"City of Reason" - Jarpe, Matthew (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2005)
Three different communities established to create eutopias on different principles come into conflict.
Keywords: Male author

City of the Sun - Sarah Bryant (b. 1973) (Snowbooks, 2005)
Post nuclear war dystopia set in Russia where a new dictator has plans for a utopia.
Keywords: Female author

“Cloud Dragon Skies” - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) (Strange Horizons, 2005)
The story is set in a future in which Earth’s environment is badly damaged and then destroyed through an experiment by those who had left Earth for life in space.
Rpt. in her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 113-26
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Company Secrets" - Kyle Kirkland (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2005)
Dystopia in which individuals incorporate themselves. High technology used in corporate conflict.
Keywords: Male author

Counting Heads - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Tor, 2005)
Flawed utopia. Overpopulated future earth which easily produces more than enough for everyone, but the ease of production has eliminated all but a few jobs. There is a planned reduction in population. See also 1999 and 2009 Marusek.
The first section, "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy" (9-46) is revised from a novella of the same title originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 19.12& 13 (237& 38) (November 1995): 48-54, 56-58, 60-97. Rpt. in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 111-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) (Ace Books, 2005)
Final volume of a trilogy. See 2002 and 2004 Steele. In this volume, while Coyote won its freedom from Earth, its infrastructure has deteriorated and requires costly replacement. Earth, meanwhile, is in ruins, and Coyote is the best available planet for its population. Conflicts develop among the people of Coyote and with the people from Earth. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010.; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011.  A related story that is set after the events of this novel is “Barren Isle.” Asimov’s Science Fiction (January-February 2018): 132-48.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The crime of the century: A little family planning" - Geoff Brumfiel (Nature, 2005)
Dystopia. To have a child someone in the family must die.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Daughters of an Emerald Dusk - Katherine [V.] Forrest (b. 1939) (Alyson Books, 2005)
Sequel to 1984 and 2002 Forrest. In this novel the women from Earth and the new planet get back together on the new planet. But those born on the new planet become more and more adapted to it and separated from their mothers. At the end of this novel, most of the women born on Earth, return to it.
Keywords: Canadian author; US author

Death by Chocolate - Toby Moore (Viking, 2005)
Dystopian satire. A religious and political crusade against obesity using the image of Our Lord, Christ the Fit. Those who are f*t get the attention of the Health Police. Set in New York City.
Keywords: Male author

"Deep Blue Sea" - Peter Hobbs (Picador New Writing, 2005)
Environmental dystopia.
Rpt. in his I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (London: Faber & Faber, 2006), 7-23.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Destroying Worlds: Second Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers - John David (b. 1955) (1st Books, 2005)
Dystopia. Second of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, but in this volume one of the themes is a hierarchical planet with slavery. See also 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007 (2).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Devil's Utopia. A Novel - J[ason] Schimschal (Trident Publishing, 2005)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which young people, as a rite of passage, must search the wasteland for relics and lost technologies. None have ever returned among those who went east, and the novel focuses on a new group who choose to go east. Sequels that are concerned with what they find there include Ruins of America. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2006, which sets the scene of war and mass destruction; Iron Messiah. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2007 about the search for an ultimate weapon; Prophet of Sorrow. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2010 about the problems faced in protecting the homeland; and Heroes of the Rising Moon. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2012 where success is achieved. See also http://www.darkenrealm.com/
Keywords: Male author

Dexta - C. J. Ryan [pseud.]. (Bantam Books, 2005)
Volume one of a series in each volume of which the heroine must defeat another dystopia on one of the planets she oversees for the Bureau of Extraterrestrial Affairs and combat the bureaucrats she works for. The other volumes are Glorious Treason. New York: Bantam Books, 2005; The Fifth Quadrant. New York: Bantam Books, 2006; Burdens of Empire. New York: Bantam Books, 2007; and Kiss of the Gods (2008).

The Diary of Pelly D - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) (Hodder Children's Books, 2005)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in the form of a girl’s diary found by a young man on a work gang salvaging material from ruins. One’s position in society is supposed to be based on genetic differences. See also 2007 Adlington. Female author.
U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"A Digital Day" - Jan [Johannes] Amkreutz (Moving Along: Far Ahead. Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today, 2005)
Technological eutopia.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author; US author

"Disposable Children" - M[arcia] Lynx Qualey (Lenox Avenue, 2005)
Just what it says. Purchase a kit at your genetics superstore, give birth in six days, and have the child grow from birth to teen in nineteen weeks, at which point they die.
Keywords: Egyptian author; Female author; US author

Divided Kingdom - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) (Bloomsbury, 2005)
Dystopia. The U.K. is divided into four districts reflecting personality types based on the idea of dominant humours.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Do No Harm" - Brian E. Moore (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Dystopia. Nonconformists are required to use a complex of drugs that make them "normal".
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Doctor Salt - Gerard Donovan (b. 1959) (Scribner, 2005)
Dystopia of corporate medicine.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; US author

Dr. Warpenstein: The Invisible Foe - Beaver, Bennie M (Xlibris, 2005)
Projected dystopia that fails to achieve its ends, which includes control of all humanity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dreamhunter - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) (Fourth Estate, 2005)
Young adult fantasy novel with dystopian elements. In a re-imagined New Zealand, Southland was settled in the eighteenth century by people from an island in the Aegean Sea, and some of their descendants can read dreams and then project them to an audience. This talent is used by some in the government to torture prisoners.
U.K. ed. as The Rainbow Opera. London: Faber & Faber, 2005. U.S. ed. as Dreamhunter. Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet. New York: Frances Foster Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Echo" - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2005)
Dystopia of a collapsing civilization. The dystopia is mostly in the background with the suggestion of successful terrorist attacks.
Rpt. in her Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories. A Collection (Milwaukee, WI: M Books, 2006), 208-18; and in Otherworldly Maine. Ed. Noreen Doyle (Camden, ME: Down East, 2008), 90-98.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Emperor" - Lucius [Taylor] Shepard (1943-2014) (Scifiction, 2005)
Dystopia. Corporate destruction of the environment.
Rpt. in his Viator Plus (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 3-63.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Empire of Texas and The Star of India - Rodger Olsen (Great Authors Online and Rodger Olsen, 2005)
Post-catastrophe dystopia. Various environmental and political problems are not dealt with adequately and the U.S. collapses. Texas is poor, violent, and without education but develops into a workable empire. It is attacked by Brazil but wins and is on the road back to technological rebirth. Generally conservative viewpoint.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Extinction - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) (Macmillan, 2005)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (PS Publishing, 2005)
Eutopia and dystopia. Jules Verne (1828-1905) travels into both the past and the future. In the future, he first visits an authoritarian dystopia that has so weakened the sun as to bring about a new ice age. Much further into the future, he visits a eutopia of peace and plenty with the sun restored with the assistance of visiting aliens.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Facing the New Atlantic. A Short Story" - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005)
Scotland after the Gulf Stream failed. Part climate change dystopia; part high tech eutopia with extensive use of virtual reality. The future is unsettled, and everything is presented as in process.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Fevreblau. A Novel - Kenneth Mark Hoover (b. 1959) (Five Star, 2005)
Dystopia set in Russia and its satellites in space but with a somewhat positive ending. The fevreblau was a disease the killed most of the women. A revolution against the Russian state leads initially to a continuing dystopia with various struggles among competing groups, but at the end hope is held out that positive change is beginning to take place.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Food for Thought" - Thomas Canfield (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2005)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Free the Sky" - Wendy S. Delmater (Little Blue Marble: Stories of Our Changing Climate, 2005)
The story is about those opposed to global weather control, which requires the world to be enveloped in a force field that will change the appearance of the sky.
Originally published in Spirit House (2005), an online anthology published to honor the victims of the 2004 tsunami. No longer available online.
Keywords: Female author

"Future Heroes 2035: My Friends and I" - John Smart (Futuristics: Looking Ahead. Volume One of Tackling Tomorrow Today, 2005)
Technological eutopia as seen through the eyes of a teenager. The story is continued in his “Future Heroes 2035: The Big Picture.” Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today. Ed. Arthur B. Shostak (Np: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005), 30-43, with the story on 30-41.
Keywords: Male author

"Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play" - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2005)
Humorous eutopia. A future recreated Arcadia with nymphs and satyrs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Goodness Gene - Sonia Levitin (b. 1934) (Dutton Books, 2005)
Young adult dystopia concerned with genetic engineering and cloning.
Keywords: Female author; German author; US author

"Gypsy Tail Wind" - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2005)
Dystopias as background. One is a future extremely strict Singapore. A gypsy community has suggestions of eutopia about it. Said to be set in the same future as her Eternity Shift (Not published under that title). See also her “Green Shift.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 29.3 (350) (March 2005): 108-30, which is set in the same future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hammered - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Bantam Books, 2005)
Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in 2062 with the world's ecosystem collapsing. Non-utopian sequels are Scardown. New York: Bantam Books, 2005; and Worldwired. New York: Bantam Books, 2005.
Keywords: Female author; US author

High in the Clouds - [James] Paul McCartney (b. 1942); Geoff Dunbar; Philip Ardagh (Faber and Faber, 2005)
Children's eutopia depicting Animalia, a tropical island where all animals live happily together. Contrasted with the dangers of Megatropolis.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Homestay" - Tim Jones (b. 1959) (Strange Horizons, 2005)
The story contrasts two eutopias or dystopias with the reader left to decide which. The point of view character normally lives in electronic form in a satellite above an earth that has lost all artificial power sources. He has taken on a physical body to visit earth. Both places are presented positively.
Rpt. in his Transported: Short Stories (Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand, 2008), 125-37.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Hunted - Alex Shearer (b. 1949) (Macmillan's Children Books, 2005)
Dystopia in which most people look youthful and live long lives and few children are born. The few children are consider prize possessions and are bought and sold or stolen.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"i, robot" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Infinite Matrix, 2005)
Two societies are described, both technologically advanced. The first is a flawed utopia in that the technology is in the service of Social Harmony and is used as much for control as for improving life. The second, less fully described, is a eutopia based on nanotechnology.
Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007, 101-57 which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 101-57.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"Ice Cream Doors" - Alan R. Barclay (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Alternative history authoritarian dystopia with deep rich/poor division.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Imagineers. A Short Story” - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) (Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005)
A climate change dystopian in which harsh winters have driven people in on themselves, but while the story says, “There is no happy ever after” (65), people are creating positive countermeasures.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Imprint - Paul L. Bates (Five Star, 2005)
Authoritarian dystopia. Nobody has any memory. No mass media. Violence. See also 2008 Bates.
Keywords: Male author

"Intervention" - Ruaridh Nicoll (b. 1969) (Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005)
The story is concerned with changing the mindset of people on disability who have been encouraged to consider themselves sick to reduce the number counted as unemployed. Scotland has developed a program to identify those who can work, the majority, and reintegrate them into the productive economy, even if not in their old jobs.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Invisible Power. A Philosophical Adventure Story - Philip Allott (Xlibris, 2005)
The novel is designed to show how it might be possible to bring about a eutopia. A sequel is Invisible Power 2. A Metaphysical Adventure Story. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2008. A third volume, Invisible Power 3. A Political Adventure Story, was announced but not published. Nonfiction explanations of the same ideas can be found in his Eunomia: New Order for a New World. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; and Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. Cheltenham, Eng./Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ivory Tower: A Place to call your own" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Nature 434.7034, 2005)
Technological eutopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 274-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Jack" - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Looking for Jake: Stories, 2005)
Dystopia set in the same city as 2000, 2002, and 2004 Miéville. This is the story of a "Robin Hood" figure in the city.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"January 2051: A Letter To My Best Bud in Bangladesh" - Linda Brown (America: Moving Ahead. Volume Two of Tackling Tomorrow Today, 2005)
Eutopia predicated on the world coming together after 9/11 and in the process of becoming unified.
Keywords: Female author

The Janus Effect - Alan Cash (Y Lolfa Cyf, 2005)
Authoritarian eugenic dystopia set in 2040.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Judgment Day - James F. David (Forge, 2005)
Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the coming of the Antichrist with the remnant of the faithful escaping to another planet. See also 2005 David, The Book of Summer.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Kingdom of America - E. B Alston (Righter Publishing, 2005)
Largely romance and adventure set in a future U.S. divided into two countries, with the larger part a Roman Catholic kingdom.

"Labor Day" - Patrick Tucker (Beacons of Tomorrow: First Collection, 2005)
Dystopia set in an ever-growing shopping mall in which people live permanently purchasing and immediately discarding goods.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Last Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book One - Terri Blackstock (b. 1957) (Zonderavan, 2005)
First volume of a Christian dystopian series in which God takes way all electricity. Followed by Night Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book Two. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2006; True Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Three. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2007; and Dawn’s Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Four. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2008. The series follows the experiences of various people, some of whom trust in God, who restores power at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Last Public Event” - Peter Murphy (Social Alternatives, 2005)
Dystopia set in an unnamed “banana republic” in which people are made brain dead so that they can their organs will remain functioning until their organs can be harvested.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Lone and Level Sands" - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Future Washington, 2005)
Libertarian eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Maddigan's Fantasia - Margaret Mahy (1936-2011) (HarperCollins, 2005)
Young adult post-catastrophe quest novel with both eutopian and dystopian elements and much fantasy. The Fantasia is a travelling circus. New Zealand is connected to Australia. Most technology has been lost but Solis, the major city, retains some knowledge and technology and has a solar converter, which is wearing out. The central quest is to find parts for the converter. A second quest is that of children from the future trying to change elements of the past to eliminate a future evil.
Rpt. as Maddigan's Quest. Auckland, New Zealand: HarperCollins, 2006.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Mercury Fur - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) (Methuen Drama, 2005)
Dystopian play set in future largely destroyed London, where many people are addicted to a drug that causes memory loss. The play focuses on a group of boys in the East End who earn money selling the drug and putting on parties in which wealthy people pay to live out their fantasies. In the part that is the focus of the play, that is the murder of a child.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mishka: Book One of The Quadrate Mind - Carrol Fix (iUniverse, Inc, 2005)
Eutopia and dystopia. The eutopian society is a peaceful alien culture; the dystopia is an authoritarian human regime trying to exploit the aliens. At the end of the novel, the dystopia has been defeated.
Keywords: Female author

"A Modest Proposal ... for the Perfection of Nature" - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) (Nature, 2005)
Flawed utopia. Eutopia that is based on the virtually complete destruction of the natural world, which is being used entirely to support the human race and anything not directly useful has disappeared.
Rpt. with the ellipsis but without the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 194-96; and in More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Lou J Berger, and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B Cubed Press, 2017), 176-79.
Keywords: Female author; US author