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

CODA - Trevayne, Emma (Running Press Teens, 2013)
Young adult corporate dystopia focusing on music as both a means of control and a way of achieving freedom. The first of two volumes. The sequel is Chorus. Philadelphia, PA: RP Teens, 2014 in which the corporation is ultimately defeated.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

The Competent Authority. A Novel - Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021) (Aleph Book Co., 2013)
The satirical novel is set in a future fragmented India with parts under the control of China, which has used nuclear weapons against India. In part of the remaining India, a man who is simply called the Competent Authority controls the system and has odd plans for the future.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

"Contraband" - Terry Martin (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Crecheling - D[avid] J[ohn] Butler (b. 1973) (WordFire Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia that begins in what appears to be a eutopia, but to achieve status in the society, the protagonist must go through a rite of passage that requires murder and that she may not survive. A sequel is Urbane: A Dystopia. Buza System #2. Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2016 in which, having survived without killing, she and the young man she was expected to kill return to confront the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Culling. The Torch Keeper: Book One - Steven dos Santos (Flux, 2013)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia based on a vicious form of advancement in the military that requires anyone failing to reach the next level to choose a relative to be killed. First volume of a series followed by The Sowing. The Torch Keeper: Book Two. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first volume continues to work his way up the levels of the military, while also trying to undermine the system. In the final volume, The Raising. The Torch Keeper: Book Three. Np: [Curtis Brown Unlimited], 2016, the dystopia is defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dandelion Insurrection: Love and Revolution - Rivera Sun (b. 1982) (Rising Sun Press Works, 2013)
The first volume of an intended trilogy in which a couple work to sow the seeds for a nonviolent revolt against the corporate dominated U. S. government. Followed by The Roots of Resistance. El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2018. 391 pp. in which the revolution appears to have succeeded, but the powerful still resist and a violent fringe group develops that challenges the nonviolent ethos of the revolution. There is also a companion volume, The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide. EL Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2015. 124 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dare" - Sophie Clarke (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2013)
The story is told from the point of view of a teenage girl who, under the Bill for the Protection of Young, Girls is living in the Academy of Virtue and Integrity where she is being prepared to be given to a “good man”.
Keywords: Female author

The Death of Immortality - J. M. Cobb (Archway Publishing, 2013)
The “Introduction” (v-viii) gives an almost entirely positive picture of the eutopia that will result from an immortality achieved through scientific advances. No disease, no crime, hence no prisons, no religion, and no war. “Unfortunately,” no family because no children and marriage will fade away. But the novel is about a murder that does occur committed by members of a secret society that believed immortality was the wrong choice for humanity. The novel contradicts the introduction in that there is a detective available, doctors are busy, and there is a priest.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Defenders of the Flame - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Ad Stellae, 2013)
Sequel to 2007 and 2009 Engdahl set two hundred years later in which a positive future is found.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Detainee: No Escape from the Punishment - Peter Liney (Jo Fletcher Books, 2013)
Violent, authoritarian dystopia and survival. A sequel is Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, in which the protagonist from The Detainee escape to the mainland, only to discover that it is as bad. Sequels include Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, a typical middle volume in which things get worse; and In Constant Fear. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2015, in which, after further struggles, the people find peace.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Difference of Opinion” - Meda Kahn (Strange Horizons, 2013)
Dystopia in which those with disabilities are treated as less than human and called “litches,” which is derived from leech. Autistic female author.
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/Podcast. Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 227-42; and in Strange Horizons (September 9, 2017). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion-2/. Podcast http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-difference-of-opinion-2/.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Disappearance of Ember Crow - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) (Walker Books, 2013)
Sequel to 2013 Kwaymullina. In this volume one of the young people with special talents goes missing. See also 2015 Kwaymullina.
U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2016.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

The Disappearances - Gemma Malley (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013)
Sequel to 2012 Malley. In this volume, two of the protagonists had escaped the city but had to return to face a new threat. See also 2013 Malley, The System.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Discovered Country” - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2013)
The story is set in what appears to be a heaven, called Farside, established specifically for the very rich. Current life, called Lifeside, is depicted in dystopian terms. 2013 MacLeod, “Entangled” is something of a sequel.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 1-22 with an editor’s note on 1; and in Macleod’s Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 3-33, with an “Afterword Silver Machines” by the author (34-36).
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

“Do Shepherds Dream of Electric Sheep” - Fleming, Sam (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Satire on a future in which most agriculture has been automated.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Dogsbody" - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) (Shards & Ashes, 2013)
Corporate dystopia that simply kills thousands of children in order to save the money of feeding them. The ones they allow to live work for the corporate at the lowest level, Dogsbody, at the worst jobs. The work focuses on a few young people fighting back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Domechild - Shiv Ramdas (Penguin Random House India, 2013)
The protagonist is a man living in an authoritarian, surveilled dystopia who works in a small cubicle checking up on other people. “Perfection is vigilance. Nobody is perfect until everybody is perfect. Everybody is guilty until nobody is.” Any dissent means being taken away by “lawbots” to never be seen again. The man loses his way going to home and discovers people living rough outside the controlled area, saves one from the “lawbots,” takes her home, and then is blackmailed by an AI, with most of the rest of the novel about him dealing with the resulting problems. The novel ends with the suggestion of a sequel, but none has been published.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

Dreamer in the Dry - Peter Hannaford (AuthorHouse UK, 2013)
Australia as a dystopia effected by climate change that has brought drought. Australia is divided between the Islamic north, now known as Capricornia, and the United States of Southern Australia, with Tasmania having joined the regional economic powerhouse, New Zealand. Sheep and cattle can only be raised in the Islamic north with the south dependent on kangaroo farming.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Droplet" - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) (We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology, 2013)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is poor and ravaged by climate change and has become extremely parochial and has pushed out most non-citizen immigrants and even many immigrants who had become citizens. Those who stay are subject to random violence.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

"Earthen" - Alicia Cole (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
The story presents a high-tech future with most farms fully mechanized with the focus on one woman who still lives on her farm and cares deeply for the land.
Keywords: Female author; US author

East of West. [The Promise] - Jonathan Hickman (b. 1972); Nick Dragotta (Image Comics, 2013)
The first volume of a violent graphic novel dystopian series depicting the Apocalypse which was first published as a monthly series in March 2013. Sequels are East of West Volume Two: [We Are All One]. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2014; and East of West Volume 3. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The End: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 1 of the New World Series - G. Michael Hopf (Plume, 2013)
Survivalist dystopia after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on North America, Europe and the Far East knocks out the entire electric power system. Sequels include The Long Road: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 2 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2014, in which the U.S. has collapsed; Sanctuary: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 3 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2014, which follows six people in search of a sanctuary; The Line of Departure: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 4 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2015, in which some people find a safe place within the devastated country; Blood, Sweat & Tears. A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 5 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015, in which the protagonist wages war against what is left of the U.S. while other areas secede; The Razor’s Edge, A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 6 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2016 in which what remains of the U.S. is close to collapse; and Those Who Remain. A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 7 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2016 in which the protagonist now fights for the U.S.
Originally published online in 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The End, My Friend: Prelude to the Apocalypse - KIrby Wright (Lemon Shark Press, 2013)
The novel has elements of a survivalist dystopia in that the U.S. economy and infrastructure collapses, the social order disintegrates, and violence predominates. But the novel does not have the political ranting of so many survivalist dystopias and focuses on a search for a safe place, a motif in some other survivalist novels, which is found at least temporarily at the end of the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

England’s Darkness - Stephen Barber (Sun Vision Press, 2013)
The collapse of the digital system results in the loss of knowledge and the end of all fossil-based fuel results in the complete collapse of England, the abandonment of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the deliberate depopulation of the north of England.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Entangled" - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2013)
Something of a sequel to 2013 MacLeod, “The Discovered Country.” This story is set in the future of the current life of the previous story where at least some things are improving due to mental connections among the people. There are various communal experiments where many people live.
Rpt. in his Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 275-303 with an “Afterword: Volcanoes and Dinosaurs” (304-06).
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Entropia - Samuel Alexander (Simplicity Institute Publishing, 2013)
Story of a successful experiment in simple living on an isolated island. See also, the author’s “A Prosperous descent: Telling new stories as the old book closes.” In Alexander Samuel and Bronwyn Adcock. Imagining the Future: Notes from the Frontier EBook to accompany Griffith Review No. 52. Ed. Julianne Schultz and Brendon Gleeson (South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing, 2016), 4-24. The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made. Available through https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/imagining-the-future/ The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Excerpts from The New World Authorized Dictionary” - Alexander Weinstein (Cream City Review, 2013)
Dystopia presented through a future dictionary stressing corporate, government, and personal control through technology.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 57-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Exodus: Book One of the Fundamentalists - Geoff Livingston (Lady Soleil, 2013)
First volume of a trilogy in which Christian fundamentalists impose of dictatorship on the East Coast of a largely destroyed America. The novel focuses on one village, Harpers Ferry, WV, whose people resist and ultimately escape across the country and settle in the remains of Colorado Springs, CO. In Perseverance. Book Two of the Fundamentalists. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2015, the people are found by the dictatorship, and they must decide on whether to fight back.  A third volume, tentatively entitled Hypocrisy. Book Three of the Fundamentalists, was announced but not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Eye of Moloch - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2013)
Dystopia of the attempted destruction of U.S. democracy by those trying to establish the New World Order and the fight back against it. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Eyeth: A Novel for the Deaf” - Kelsey [M.] Young (Gallaudet University, 2013)
The following is from the author’s abstract. The novel “focuses on a wide range of deaf people involved in intra-deafcentric conflicts; deaf sub-groups include a range of communication preferences (speaking, cued speech, signing) as well as multiple physical differences (deaf blind, cerebral palsy, wheelchair users) though not ethnic diversity. A critical introduction to the novel explains that science fiction allows the creation of a world that does not exist as a real physical place and allows exploration of intra group issues that a mainstream context of oppression of all deaf people obscures. The introduction also relates a discussion of the countries on Eyeth to colonialism and post-colonialism theory to provide a framework to the reader for the subsequent analysis of how Eyeth uses but also subverts colonialist thinking through characters' actions. The novel itself is about a young man, Virgil G, training under the tutelage of the current Guardian of Eyeth, Shawn Wright, who ensures Eyeth doesn't stray from its original goals of being a deaf world.”
Keywords: Deaf author; Female author; US author

The Factory World - Joseph Edward Ryan (Steam Press Ltd., 2013)
Somewhat surreal dystopia seen through the eyes of a boy who awakes in a pipe in a violent, badly damaged world with many abandoned factories. He has only vague memories. He, and the man who rescues him from the pipe and has no memories at all, explore the world.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Failed Cities - Matt Wallace (b. 1982) (The House of Murky Depths, 2013)
Dystopia set in cities that have been abandoned by government The novel focuses on eight individuals living in the cities.
Originally a series of podcasts, which were then remastered on Podiobooks. The written version was released digitally in 2012 and then published the following year.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fallen Summer - Richard E. Hydrick (Two Palmettos Publishing, 2013)
The novel focuses on the effects of the collapse of the U.S. on a small group of people and has elements of a survivalist dystopia but ends with the success of the group in establishing a decent life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fatherless: A Novel - Dr. James Dobson (b. 1936); Kurt Bruner (Faith Words, 2013)
Future dystopia from a Christian perspective suggesting the possible negative future of current anti-family trends.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Finches of Mars - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (The Friday Project, 2013)
Most of the novel centers on two dystopias, Earth as it is torn apart by ethnic, national, and religious conflict and the first settlement on Mars which, in addition to national tensions, produces only stillborn children. The novel ends, though, with the arrival on Mars of evolved humans from the future come back to ensure the survival of the Mars settlement. These future humans come from a eutopia that has solved gender conflict by becoming both female and male. Few other details are given.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“First Foot: Everything as it should be” - Deborah Walker (Nature, 2013)
Dystopia in which people have been enclosed in a zoo of one hundred homes, apparently by aliens, and are required to be happy and follow human holiday traditions.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"A Flag Still Flies Over Sabor City” - Welser, Tracie (Interzone, 2013)
Authoritarian conformist dystopia with a small free zone that has a curfew.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Flight of Little Bird” - Stephanie Writt (How to Save the World, 2013)
The story begins with a young woman working a dead-end job and just getting by has the idea to use social media to start a movement she calls Empower the Kind (ETK). It then shows how, over her lifetime, the movement transforms the world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gated - Amy Christine Parker (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a family joins an underground religious community with a charismatic leader to escape from the world’s problems.  First volume of a series followed by Astray. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2014 in which the protagonist from Gated has left the community, which is trying to get her back. No further volumes have been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Glass House 51. A Novel - Hampel, John (BZFF Books, 2013)
Corporate dystopia stressing the misuse of information technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Graveyard Shift” - Holly Schofield (Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast, 2013)
The background to the story is the dystopia created by online education for those hoping to teach.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Gray Wings” - Karl Bunker (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2013)
The background to the story includes a future that is eutopian for the rich and dystopian for the poor.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 140-47 with an editor’s note on 140.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Heaven Backwards" - Lisa Silverthorne (How to Save the World, 2013)
The story is set in a United States devastated by climate change inside a religious compound in which women are the collective property of the men. One woman makes contact with an outside world they had been told didn’t exist.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Hhsaslin” - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
A dystopian allegory on “systemic oppression, genocide, and colonialism” (76).
Rpt. in her All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2019), 77-101, with an author’s note on 76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Homeland - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor Teen, 2013)
Sequel to 2008 Doctorow in which the protagonist of that novel is again threatened by the growing homeland security apparatus. A third volume in the loosely related series his Attack Surface (2029). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception.
Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 318-685, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

How To Like Everything: A Utopia - Paul Shepheard (b. 1947) (Zero Books, 2013)
Basically, an argument that the world we have is the best it gets. Set in Amsterdam.
Parts originally published in MAS Context issue 11 and in Kunstwerken voor de publieke ruimte, Podium Voor Architectuur Haarlemmermeer en Schiphol
Keywords: Male author; UK author

In the After - Demitria Lunetta (HarperTeen, 2013)
Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia in which a young woman is rescued and brought to New Hope, a supposedly safe haven that turns out to be anything but. See also 2014 Lunetta.
Keywords: Female author

In Times Like These: A Fable - Maureen [Patricia] Duffy (b. 1933) ([Jonathan Clowes], 2013)
Dystopia of a disintegrating Britain with Scotland’s leaving the U.K. being followed by other parts of the country with a growing threat of parts of England becoming independent.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Indivisible: With Justice for Some - Troy J. Grice (Prepper Press, 2013)
Survivalist dystopia after the dollar collapses and the government becomes more authoritarian and uses the military to restore order. Sequels are planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Insistence of Vision” - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (Technology Review (MIT), 2013)
The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime.
Rpt. in his Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author’s note on 35; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 36-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Island - Teri Hall (Teri Hall, 2013)
Young adult dystopia following 2010 and 2011 Hall. In this volume, the protagonists of the second volume return back across the line to rescue a friend.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Kindest Man in Stormland” - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Interzone, 2013)
Dystopia of environmental collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last President - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2013)
Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Barnes in which an effort is being made to bring the remnants of the U.S. back together under a President and Congress.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Reader - Thomas Norwood (Global Activision Limited. EBook, 2013)
Dystopia with a deep divide between rich and poor as seen by a poor boy who wants to learn how to read. 2013 Norwood, Perfectible Animals, is set in the same future.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Later His Ghost” - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) (New Statesman, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Also online illus. Matt Saunders and Handsome Frank. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/then-later-his-ghost Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017), 99-119. US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 99-119.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Liquid Loyalty" - Redfern Jon Barrett (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia in which drugs have been developed so that each person is completely devoted to one and only one other person.
Rpt. without the illus. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 57-70.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Living in the Singularity” - Tom Borthwick (Bewildering Stories, 2013)
A corporation announces that, in exchange for all their possessions, it can upload a person’s consciousness into a supercomputer where they will be able to live happily ever after. Millions choose to do so. The story focuses on an individual who resists but finally decides to join his wife.
Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (London: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 33-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lone Star Daybreak - Erik L. Larson (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2013)
Dystopia in which political polarization leads Texas to secede and a civil war follows with both sides using nuclear weapons.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Long Indeed We Do Live. . .” - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
In a future after an undescribed environmental catastrophe, society has developed inside domes with different arbors devoted to different trees. Presented mostly positively. While there is much fantasy in the story, it appears that human life has also adapted to life outside the domes and that here is communication between life outside and the trees inside.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Looking Backward: 2050-2013 - Ravi Morey (CreateSpace, 2013)
The current situation rapidly deteriorates into a dystopia after Sarah Palin (b. 1964) supported by a Congress dominated by the far-right, was elected President in 2020. The U.S. economy collapses. As the price for bailing out the U.S., other countries insisted on the establishment of a world government (the United States of the World) and nation-states disappear. Presented as if a history of the period. Includes biographies of a number of recent and current political figures, some projected into the future.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

Looking Toward Eden - Pellman, Terry (CreateSpace, 2013)
Dystopia and an emerging eutopia. As the U.S. faces collapse as a result of liberal policies, a successful secessionist movement develops in the central U.S. which intends to institute conservative policies and return to the U.S. Constitution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Lotus" - Joyce Chng (We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology, 2013)
Dystopia in which much of the world has been inundated by melting ice caps and tsunamis produced by earthquakes and most people life on boats and scavenge from half-submerged buildings.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Singaporean author; Transgender author

Love in the Time of Global Warming - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) (Christy Ottaviano Books Henry Holt and Co., 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a young girl searches for her family after a devastating earthquake and discovers her own strength. Much fantasy. References throughout to Homer’s Odyssey.
Keywords: Female author

MaddAddam. A Novel - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (McClelland & Stewart, 2013)
Third volume of a dystopian trilogy following 2003 and 2009 Atwood. This volume has many of the same characters as the previous volumes and shows they struggling to survive in the changed world.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 2013.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Mango Republic” - Terh Agbedeh (Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria, 2013)
Climate change story set in a successful, corporate flawed utopia of the future Lagos.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"Meerga" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (New World eZine #2 [This version is no longer available online], 2013)
The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a “mere girl,” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation.
Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Meet the President - Zadie Smith (b. 1975) (The New Yorker, 2013)
The short story takes place in an apparent future with radical divisions between those who are technologically enhance and those who are not.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"M.E.L." - Dianne Homan (Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast, 2013)
Flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect but completely artificial world told from the point of view of a girl who does not fit in and who discovers the entrance to a natural world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Melting Point 2040 - Mike Bushman (AirFuture, 2013)
Dystopia of a secessionist movement in the U.S. Followed by Secession 2041. [Naperville, IL]: AirFuture, 2013 which describes the civil war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Memory Palace - Hari [Mohan Nath] Kunzru (b. 1969) (V&A Publishing, 2013)
The book that was the basis of a Victoria and Albert Exhibition June 18 - October 20, 2013) depicted a dystopia where reading, writing, and remembering is prohibited. The book consists of the story by Kunzru illustrated by those listed (9-80), followed by a brief essay by the curators on curating a book (83-89), followed by a graphic story by Robert Hunter, “Making Memory Palace” about how the exhibit came together (91-107).
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Mesomorphic Woman” - David North-Martino (Daughters of Icarus: New Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Women’s Wings Unfurled], 2013)
Dystopia on a space habitat that had been planned as for women where a man is replacing them with clones and men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Metal Feet” - Temitayo Olofinlua [Amogunla] (Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria, 2013)
Dystopia of robots taking over.
Keywords: Female author; Nigerian author

"Migration" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Beyond the Sun, 2013)
The story is set on a colony planet called Freedom, which is supposedly libertarian and allows extreme genetic manipulation, and focuses on the struggle to save some native animals from being exploited.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Ministry of Changes” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Tor.com, 2013)
A dystopia in which two peoples are at constant war. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young woman in one of the cities who discovers its secrets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"More" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia of conflict between rich and poor in a world in which the rich can afford protection from the deteriorating environment.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play - Anne Washburn (Playwrights Horizons, 2013)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with the first act set in the very near future, the second act seven years later, and the third act seventy-five years after that. In the play, a small group of people are trying to remember and re-enact the “Cape Feare” episode of The Simpsons, which originally aired October 7, 1993. The re-enactment changes dramatically over time.
Rpt. in Mr. Burns and other plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017), 115-228. The revised London script London: Oberon Books, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Neighborhoods" - Dean Wesley Smith (How to Save the World, 2013)
A wealthy man, upset by the continuing death in gang violence of Chicago teenagers decides to recreate the entire way of life by building huge, completely self-contained apartment complexes. The story includes details of power sources, gardening, schools, shopping, and so forth.
Rpt. in Smith’s Monthly #6 (March 2014): 66-78; ISSN 2474-5294 and in Colliding Worlds Vol. 1: A Science Fiction Story Series. By Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (Np: WMG Publishing, 2021), 419-436. 978-1-56146-387-9
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Neptune Project - Polly Holyoke (Hyperion/Disney, 2013)
First volume of a young adult series in which a group of genetically modified teens must, guided by dolphins, swim to the undersea Neptune Project, where they are expected to help create a better life than that on the surface. The second volume is The Neptune Challenge. New York: Disney/Hyperion, 2015; U.K. ed. as The Neptune Dilemma. London: Penguin Books, 2015, which is a typical middle volume where the struggle to survive. In the third volume, The Neptune Promise. Plano, TX: Holyoake Enterprises, 2017, the people fight to save the planet from climate change.
U.K. ed. The Neptune Conspiracy. London: Penguin Books, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A New Year’s Tale - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) (Author, 2013)
Dystopia in which senior citizens are considered an unnecessary expense and disposable. Everyone is forced to retire at 65, and the Senior Laws are designed to ensure no one reaches old age. For example, under the Diminished Culpability Act, if you kill someone who is 70, you get two-years in prison; if you kill someone 80, you get two years community service. The African gods, upset at the lack of respect for elders, choose four seniors to fight back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

New Zapata - Teri Hall (Author, 2013)
Dystopia in which Texas has seceded from the U.S. and outlawed abortion, birth control, and divorce. The novel follows one young woman trying to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

News From the Squares - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) (Unbound, 2013)
The novel describes a society in which women are dominant and the entire country is laid out in squares. Loosely a sequel to 2012 Llewellyn. See also 2015 Llewellyn.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Not a Drop to Drink - Mindy McGinnis (Katherine Tegen Books, 2013)
Young adult climate change dystopia in which a young woman, surviving alone while protecting her water source, has to adjust to nearby neighbors. In a sequel, In a Handful of Dust. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014, she and another young woman set out to try to find more water.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Notes from a Pleasant Land Where Broken Hearts are Like Broken Hands” - Kevin Waltman (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 2013)
Flawed religious eutopia contrasted with a free people seen from within the religion as living in a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nova’s Cycles” - Aaron M. Wilson (Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology], 2013)
Dystopia in which all the colonies built on the moon and other places in the solar system are being drained to support the rich colonists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“An Object In Motion” - Elizabeth Buchanan (Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology]., 2013)
Dystopia of Earth essentially flattened to provide the material to build habitats in space, which are initially promised for everyone but quickly are limited to the rich.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Occupy Life: An Imaginative Fiction Novel - [William M.] [Badrick] (Cascadia Public House, 2013)
Dystopia in which animals, led by the whales, decide to take the Earth back from humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Odds Against Tomorrow - Nathaniel Rich (b. 1980) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)
Dystopia focusing on possible future catastrophes and a hurricane that hits New York that is even more damaging than the 2012 hurricane.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Office of Mercy - Ariel Djanikian (Viking, 2013)
Flawed utopia in which America Five has been established underground after a catastrophe. The utopia is a totally planned society striving to achieve immortality, but it is trying to kill all humans who still live outside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Orleans - Sherri L. Smith (b. 1971) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2013)
Young adult post-catastrophe (hurricanes followed by disease). The entire Mississippi Delta region is walled off and inhabitants assumed to be dead. The young woman protagonist decides to take a baby, whose mother has died in childbirth, across the wall to give it a better life. African American female author.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Othello Pop” - Andaiye Reeves (Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, 2013)
Brief vignette set in a racist dystopia in which it is illegal to educate anyone not white, and “yellow” girls are supposed to be killed at birth. Some people resist.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Patriot Remnant: Return to Freedom - Siara Brandt (CreateSpace, 2013)
Survivalist dystopia in which a small group defeats a vicious government. The novel ends with the beginnings of a good, traditional, farming community.
Keywords: Female author

Pawn - Aimée Carter (b. 1986) (Harlequin Teen, 2013)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume a young woman can, with plastic surgery, move up in social rank, but she has been involved in trying to overthrow the regime. Captive. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2014 is the middle volume in which she has chosen the surgery and faces many perils. The third volume is Queen. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2015 in which the regime is defeated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Perfect America - Peter Meredith (Author, 2013)
Dystopia of a totalitarian U.S. that hires people to kill its opponents.
Originally published online in 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Perfect Ruin. The Internment Chronicles Book One - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2013)
First volume of a young adult series set, in this volume, on what appears to be a segment torn out of Earth and relocated in space above Earth. The society sees itself in utopian terms but is a highly structured authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist and her friends are discontented, and the novel ends with them stepping on Earth for the first time. In the second volume, Burning Kingdoms. The Internment Chronicles Book Two. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2015, the protagonists discover that Earth is also dangerous. In the third volume, Broken Crowns: The Internment Chronicles Book Three. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016 the protagonists discover that the segment in space is falling, and they must find a way for the two parts of Earth to cooperate. Related enovellas are No Intention of Dying. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014 http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Intention-of-Dying/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480674; and The Heir Apparent. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015. http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Heir-Apparent/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480681.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Perfectible Animals: Conception (Part I) - Thomas Norwood (Global Activision Limited, 2013)
Dystopia set in Australia in the second half of the twenty-first century. Limited food. Radical rich-poor division. Gang violence. Biological warfare kills millions. A scientist develops a way of vaccinating animals and then humans that make them more cooperative, a characteristic that is passed on to the next generation, and, at the end of the novel, it is beginning to spread. 2013 Norwood, The Last Reader, is set in the same future. The novel continues with the same themes as Perfectible Animals: Connection (2014), available only as an ebook, which ends “To be continued.” 2013 Norwood, The Last Reader, is set in the same future.
Also published as an EBook.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Perseid Collapse. A Novel - Steven Konkoly ([CreateSpace], 2013)
First volume of a post-catastrophe dystopian series in which an electromagnetic pulse destroys the U.S. infrastructure. Sequels include Event Horizon. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; Point of Crisis. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and Dispatches. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015. G. Michael Hopf’s Detachment. A Persied Collapse Novella. Kindle Worlds, 2015 is set in the same future. The series is a sequel Konkoly’s The Jakarta Pandemic. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2013 in which a virus devastates the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prepper. Part One: The Collapse - Karl A. D. Brown (Author, 2013)
The future dystopia that emerges from current conditions that leads to limited nuclear war. A Prepper is one who is preparing for the coming global collapse. First volume in an intended series followed by 2015 Brown.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Program - Suzanne Young (b. 1976) (Simon Pulse, 2013)
Dystopia in which an apparent epidemic of depression has led to widespread suicide, and “The Program” is supposedly the only treatment. The protagonist struggles to keep her growing depression hidden. The Treatment. New York: Simon Pulse, 2014 is a sequel where the main characters flee from those running the Program in search of a different treatment. The Remedy. New York: Simon Pulse, 2015 is a prequel about a girl who has the ability to emulate the deceased and does so for grieving families. The Epidemic. New York: Simon Pulse, 2016 is a prequel about the empowerment of the protagonist of The Remedy. The Adjustment. A Program Novel Book 5. New York: Simon Pulse, 2017 deals with the problems of those return after having their memories wiped. The final volume is The Complication. A Program Novel Book 6. New York: Simon Pulse, 2018 in which the main protagonist of the novels is finally able to stop the adjustment of the previous volume.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Proxy - [Charles] Alex[ander] London (b. 1980) (Philomel Books/Penguin, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a boy from the lower class is punished whenever a boy from the upper class does something wrong. The two come to cooperate to find out why the system was imposed. A sequel is Guardian. New York: Philomel Books/Penguin, 2014 in which the revolution against the regime has succeeded but is not universally popular. In this volume, people are becoming extremely ill. The projected third volume was not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Quis Custodiet: Complete control” - Brian Clegg (b. 1955) (Nature, 2013)
The flawed utopia of a “perfect” dictatorship controlled by a computer.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rat Runners - Oisín McGann (b. 1973) (Corgi Books, 2013)
The young adult novel is set in a world of constant surveillance.
US. ed. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Registry - Shannon Stoker (William Morrow, 2013)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are raised to be brides to be auctioned off at eighteen and boys are raised to be soldiers. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume is The Collection. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first novel escapes from the U.S. to Mexico but has to return to help her friends. The third volume is The Alliance. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2015 in which the protagonist is betrayed by everyone but wins through.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a hard drive” - Eric Schwitzgebel; R. Scott Bakker (b. 1967) (Nature, 2013)
A scientist creates humans within a computer and builds a eutopia for them. The scientist that follows reveals their true nature to them, and they then take over their own destiny and, ultimately, that of the world outside the computer.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Replica - Jenna [Jennifer] Black (b. 1965) (Tor Teen, 2013)
Young adult corporate dystopia where one company has developed human replication. Her Resistance. New York: Tor Teen, 2014 continues the story with the discovery of government corruption and the development of a resistance movement. The third volume, Revolution. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, continues the theme of resistance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Resistance - Zainab Amadahy (b.1956) (CreateSpace, 2013)
Corporate dystopia set in Toronto.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“Right to Choose” - India Edghill [pseud.] (Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13, 2013)
Free Amazon story. A related song by Rosemary Edghill is on 121-22.
Keywords: Female author

Rivers - Michael Farris Smith (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rock of Ages" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (METAropolis: Green Space, 2013)
The story focuses on an attempt to create a eutopian green future and attacks upon it. Related to Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake Tobias S. Buckell Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi, [II] Karl Schroeder. Ed. John [Michael] Scalzi, [II]. New York: Tor, 2009.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 73-126 with an editor’s note on 73.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Rocket Night” - Alexander Weinstein (Southern Indiana Review, 2013)
Dystopia in which each year the children in a school choose one of their number to be fastened in a rocket and shot into space, the choice being the most unpopular child, and, in the story, the poorest child in the school.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 177-81.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Root of Heaven & Earth - E. A. Grace (Ethosphere Press, 2013)
The novel begins in a high tech, overpopulated dystopia with a corporate world government (Corprogov). A physicist in that world accidentally projects himself to a parallel world that is a eutopia. He learns about the world through a book by the woman who brought about the eutopia, and the book is provided with some sections complete and others summarized as he travels to a retreat based on the teachings in the book. The eutopia has a limited population, strict environmental standards achieved through education not government.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Runners - Ann Kelley (b. 1941) (Luath Press, 2013)
Dystopia in which there is a systematic attempt to reduce the population by eliminating people. The novel focuses on a fourteen year old boy and his four year old sister, as they try to escape.
Originally published online in 2013.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Ryla 2212 - Ytasha L. Womack (YSolar, 2013)
The novel begins on a planet called Hope, which “was built on the principle of universal love and cooperation” (8), but conflict has emerged, and the young woman protagonist is on a quest to find answers and right wrongs. Hope is high tech, based on its own inventors, who developed flying cars, “a host of eco-friendly power sources,” “a lifestyle and herbs that prevented aging, and abolished disease” (8). Hope had “a system without currency, and education program that reinvigorated learning, punishment without prisons, and a score of never-before seen shifts in humanity” (8). There are two sequels. Ryla 2213. Vol. 2. Chicago, IL: YSolstar, 2015 129 pp. continues the adventures of Rayla, now in the waters under the Martian surface.  Eartha 2198. Chicago, IL: Uraeus88, 2019 103 pp. is a prequel.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"A Season" - Rebecca J. Payne (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
The story is about a man trying to save his land in a near-future dystopia of climate change and rapacious industrial agriculture.
Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Secession of Texas - Darrell Maloney ([CreateSpace], 2013)
Texas secedes from the U.S. and creates a free market eutopia. Non-utopian sequels include Meribel. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013; My Forever. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; and with Dawn Brand Hawkins. A New Reason for Being. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2015. Related books with some of the same characters include A Secret Life And Justice for All (A Secret Life). [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; The Hunted. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; and A New Beginning: A Secret Life. The Final Chapters. Np: Darrell Maloney Publishing, 2015 (Ebook).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Serene Invasion - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Solaris, 2013)
An alien invasion brings peace and prosperity to Earth, but some people and other aliens want a return to the conflict of the past.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Shopocalypse - David Gullen (Monico, 2013)
Unusually climate change dystopia in which a couple travel across America in a sentient car from shopping mall to shopping mall.
Rev. ed. [Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

Sister, Sister - Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) (Kwela Books, 2013)
Much of the novel is set in contemporary South Africa, but some is set in a near future dystopia after the end of oil.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

“Social Services” - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
Dystopia of social services seen through the eyes of one of the providers who is, herself, controlled by her superiors.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Ian C. Esslemont (Toronto, ON, Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2013), 249-62
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Solidarity" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” where the protagonist of the first two stories learns that the supposed libertarian utopia is, if anything, an authoritarian dystopia. See also 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Soul Food" - Lakin-Smith, Kim (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Climate-change dystopia made even worse by human intervention.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Stars Change - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) (Circlet Press, 2013)
The novel is set on a planet that had been settled by South Asians from England, where the University of All the Worlds had attracted students and teachers from all over the galaxy. A culture that accepted humans, modified and unmodified, and aliens had developed, and the novel focuses on an attack on that culture.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"State of Imprisonment" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (New Taboos: plus “A state of imprisonment” and “Why we need forty years of hell” and “Pro is for professional” outspoken interview, 2013)
Dystopia in which the entire U.S. state of Arizona has become a prison under the control of the state government and a corporation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Summer Prince - Alaya Dawn Johnson (b. 1982) (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013)
The young adult novel is set in a post-nuclear war future in an arcology in Brazil that is ruled by women who, over the centuries, have become a rather hidebound ruling class. The arcology has the poor at the bottom and the rulers at the top.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Swan Book - Alexis Wright (b. 1950) (Giramondo, 2013)
Dystopia set in a future Australia, particularly Aboriginal Australia, undergoing the effects of climate change.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“The Switch (Excerpt from the Switch II: Clockwork)” - Valjeanne Jeffers (b. 1967) (Steamfunk!, 2013)
The story takes place in a future of white privilege and supremacy.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The System - Gemma Malley (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013)
The third volume of the Killables Trilogy; see also 2012 Malley and 2013 Malley, The Disappearances. In this volume, one large company “owns everything and everyone” and everyone is online all the time with popularity the only real currency. But everyone must update every fifteen minutes and anyone who doesn’t is punished.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Taken - Erin Bowman (b. 1990) (HarperTeen, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which all boys are taken by the government at eighteen and the successful resistance to the program. Sequels include Frozen. A Taken Novel. New York: Harper Teen, 2014; and Forged. A Taken Novel. New York: HarperTeen, 2015, both of which follow the resistance to its ultimately successful conclusion. Stolen, New York: HarperTeen Impulse, 2014 is a prequel available as an ebook.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tales of New America - Gunther Roosevelt (Callister Green Publishing, 2013)
Although presented as twenty-three tales, the work constitutes a coherent picture of the future of the United States as it falls apart and regional groupings of states form new countries that become legal entities. Here the states of the northern mountain west forms the New American Republic, and the story of its somewhat violent formation and the establishment of a limited government is the focus of the work. Explicitly racist in that everyone not white is driven out. Patriarchal with a chapter entitled “How to Raise a Daughter in a Patriarchal Society (103-110).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Terminal City" - Zoë Blade (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2013)
The story is set in a dystopia with extreme rich/poor divisions and focuses on hackers who are trying to undermine the system.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 113-41.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which potential future leaders are put through a grueling, and potentially deadly test. First volume of a series. In the second volume, Independent Study. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the heroine begins to have memories that had supposedly been wiped and learns about the real nature of the government. In the final volume, Graduation Day (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the dystopia is defeated
Keywords: Female author; US author

“That the Machine May Progress Eternally” - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales, 2013)
A story inspired by 1909 Forster, “The Machine Stops,” in which a boy makes contact with the outside but will not leave the Underneath even when the machine stops
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Theatre 6" - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) (Madame Zero. 9 Stories, 2013)
The story is set in a future with extremely strict restrictions on obstetricians.
US ed. (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 47-57.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Through Many Fires: Strengthen What Remains - Kyle Pratt (Camden Cascade Publishing, 2013)
The dystopia created when a nuclear bomb is detonated in Washington, DC and then in other cities. First volume of a series followed by A Time To Endure. Strengthen What Remains Book Two. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2014, which is a survivalist dystopia with the threat of civil war; and Braving the Storms. Strengthen What Remains Book Three. 3rd ed. [no indication of earlier eds.]. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2015 in which a flu epidemic strikes the country.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Tough Night in Tommyville” - Melvin Carter (Steamfunk!, 2013)
The story is set in a small town in a future United States that has disintegrated but is reforming. The town sits between factions and the story has all the flavor of the lawless, very violent Old West.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Trouble with Heaven” - [Albert Edward] [Cowdrey] (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia. A satellite serving the function of a gated community for the very rich with android servants and police collapses when the controls on the androids are manipulated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Under the Empyrean Sky. The Heartland Trilogy Book I - Chuck [Charles David] Wendig (b. 1976) (Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2013)
First volume of a trilogy. In this volume, those living in the Empyrean control those living on Earth to the extent of determining what is growth and choosing their marriage partners. The second volume is Blightborn. The Heartland Trilogy Book II. New York: Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2014. In this volume, a typical middle volume, there is a revolt against such control. The third volume is The Harvest. The Heartland Trilogy Book III. New York: Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2015. It is a bit more complex than many concluding volumes, and the ending does not make further volumes particularly difficult, but it does bring together the numerous plot lines to endings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Until the Little Birds Sing - Charles [Robert] Granquist (Big Sky Publishing, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Utopia: On the Quality of Human Life” - Greg Brown (Voices of Central Pennsylvania, 2013)
An opinion piece that says that life in the U.S. would be radically improved by doubling the minimum wage and creating a “nouveau middle class” out of the poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wanderer - Roger Davenport (b. 1946) (Sky Pony Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally damaged future. Two groups are antagonists, the City Dwellers and the Wanderers, but teenagers from both groups must cooperate. Something of a quest novel to find a better place to live.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ward - Jordana Frankel (Katherine Tegel Books, 2013)
Young adult dystopia set in a flooded New York City ruled by a corrupt Governor where people are getting sick from the polluted water. In the sequel, The Isle. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016, a source of fresh water proves to be the cure for the disease, but the Governor wants to control it. A drought is coming so a future novel can be expected.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Water" - Ramez Naam (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions of the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
A dystopia in which everyone has implants that allow the advertisements that are embedded in all products to adjust themselves to an individual’s needs.
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 43-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Welcome to Ted Cruz’s Thunderdome” - Maureen [Brigid] Dowd (b. 1952) (The New York Times Sunday Review, 2013)
The 2084 dystopia created by the collapse of the U.S. government in 2013 set in “A Place Once Called Washington” where the animals released by the unpaid zookeepers roam the mall, the White House is empty, there are no police, and so forth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“When Appliances Go Green” - Matt[hew] Colborn (b. 1973) (Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate, 2013)
Satire on the dystopia created my connected appliances that are programmed to be environmentally conscious.
Originally published in Universe Magazine, no. 2 (2013), which is not available.
Keywords: English author; Male author

When We Wake - Karen Healey (b. 1981) (Allen & Unwin, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a young woman becomes part of an experiment in cryonics and is revived a hundred years later where is kept locked up. First novel of a series followed by While We Run. New York: Little, Brown, 2014 in which she and a young man are fleeing the authorities.
U.S. ed. New York: Little Brown, 2013
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“The World Coyote Made” - Jetse de Vries (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Climate change dystopia in which technology is used to create food and return extinct animals to the wild.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author

“Your Name Here” - Laura Resnick (b. 1961) (How to Save the World, 2013)
Humorous take on the overpopulation problem. Most of the world has signed the International Population Agreement that requires a license to be allowed to have a child and are well on the way to become truly good societies. The U.S. is a holdout, and the story traces the trajectory that led to its adoption by the United States (the key change is “requiring candidate in the House or Senate to pass written and oral exams in basic logic, science, history, and ethics, as well as a test on the US Constitution” [76-77]) and what one has to do to get such a license.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Zero Hours" - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) (2013)
In this future everyone has to bid on shifts at businesses, which keeps wages down. Constant surveillance. Part of a series of Ten Future Londoners of 2033. This is the only fiction; all the others are brief descriptions of individuals. The whole series can be found at Future Londoners | Nesta.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The 14th Reinstated - Bryce M. Towsley (BREN Publishing, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“2038: San Francisco Sojourn: The Wrath of God” - Paul Clayton (Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012)
The story is set in a California that has regulations for everything, the prime example given is that everyone is required to wear a helmet at all times, although undocumented workers generally don’t. In the story God objects to His laws not being followed and wreaks havoc wherever He goes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Orbit, 2012)
Complex novel set throughout the fully inhabited solar system with intrigue and conspiracies, but, while Earth is still riddled with problems, the rest of the planets are slowly working their way to a better system and hope to include Earth in it.
An excerpt was published in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 24 (May 2012).
Keywords: Male author; US author

299 Days: The Preparation - Glen Tate [pseud.] (Prepper Press, 2012)
Ten volumes of a survivalist dystopia that follows the protagonist from his realization that he must leave his comfortable life through the stages of social disintegration to the establishment of a community that, while successful, needs to be defended against those still loyal to what is left of the government. The following volumes trace the disappearance of freedom in the U.S. and the revolution that ultimately restores freedom.

"357" - Karp, Jesse (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a small, violent community on a high floor in a badly damaged building.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Apocalypse: The New Way - David Anderson (LuLu Publishing, 2012)
The novel begins with the apocalypse that occurs at the end of 2012 and then moves to 285 years later when the remnant of humanity are hunter gatherers. At that point a group of "Monks," who have remained hidden, emerge to teach these people a better way of life. The novel includes the Plan that had been worked out in 2012 (341-62) and "Blogs and Chats" about the Plan (363-524).
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Snow - S[ophie] D. Crockett (b. 1969) (Macmillans Childrens Books, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Agenda 21 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964); Harriet Parker (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2012)
Dystopia in which the United Nations has taken over the U.S. and enslaved its citizens. An “Afterword” (279-95) has additional information regarding Agenda 21 and includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. For the 1998 Agenda 21, see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"All I Know of Freedom" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which a girl sold to a couple to work as a servant escapes, and then briefly joins a cult that believes the world is ending and plan to leave the planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“All Them Pretty Babies” - Camille Alexa (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which very few babies are born that are “normal” and the issues that this raises for the society and those who try to save those who are not mutants.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“All Your Futures” - David Gullen (Arc 1.3 Afterparty Overdrive, 2012)
The story is set in a future eutopia with no government. Major decisions are made collectively through a device that everyone wears for regular interactions that can be used for discussion and decision-making. The story concerns the arrival of a spaceship that had left Earth before the technology was developed that allowed much faster travel and what to do with it and its one surviving crew member.
A podcast with the title as “All Your Futures Are Belong To Us” can be found on StarShipSofa, no. 480 (April 4, 2017). http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2017/04/04/starshipsofa-no-480-david-gullen/ With that title it can be read on the author’s website at https://davidgullen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Free-Fiction-All-Your-Futures-Are-Belong-To-Us.pdf and in his Open Waters. EXAGGERATEDpress, 2013. Not found. Not in the 2009 edition of Open Waters.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

Ameritopia 2075 - Corey L. Simmins ([CreateSpace], 2012)
At the beginning of the novel, the U.S. appears to be a eutopia created by shipping all criminals offshore and using the money saved by closing all the prisons to enhance education, eliminate debt, and solve a variety of other social problems. But this is a flawed utopia serving the interests of those in power in which a small group determines who gets education and work.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Amos Was Here” - Doug Donley (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
The story is set in a future dystopia resulting from current policies, particularly concerning the environment, and suggests actions that could help avoid the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ampted. A Novel - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) (Doubleday, 2012)
The novel is set in a future in which many people have a device implanted in their brains that eliminates a wide range of brain defects--in the case of the protagonist controls his epilepsy. But the U.S. Supreme Court rules that such “ampted” people are not truly fully human and no longer covered by a range of civil rights. The novel is set in the Cherokee Nation.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"The Appropriate Response: Class War" - Jeff Samson (Nature, 2012)
Dystopian classroom of the future where all students are assessed as to how they should be treated by the teacher and a bright student who accurately answers a question while disparaging her classmates is subdued and removed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arbeitskraft - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) (The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, 2012)
The complex satire is told from the point-of-view of Friedrich Engels and begins in a steampunk world in which the mechanicals that were made possible by Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine are treated as badly as human workers. Engels remains a revolutionary and repurposes the Difference Engine into a Dialectical Engine, essentially an Artificial Intelligence, designed to write the fifth volume of Marx’s Capital, which includes a description of a future in which the collective mind of the working class has been fed into the Difference Engine.
Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 105-23; and in the author's The People’s Republic of Everything (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 11-37, with an author’s note on 36-37.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arcadia - Lauren Groff (b. 1978) (Voice, 2012)
A novel about an intentional community intended to be a eutopia and that problems it faced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Arctic Rising - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Tor, 2012)
A climate change novel in which the melting of the ice caps leads to conflicts over access to the oil reserves that are now accessible.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

Armageddon 2019: Jesus Is Come The Pope of Rome is Fallen Perfection is Preached in Boston - Jeffrey Barrett (b. 1959) (CreateSpace, 2012)
Anti-Roman Catholic dystopia in which the Pope controls all religions and God deposes him.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Arose from Poetry” - Steve Berman (b. 1949) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a society divided between privileged citizens and everyone else.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Article 5 - Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen, 2012)
Young adult dystopia centered around “The Moral Statutes of the United States of America” formulated by the Federal Bureau of Reformation, which replaced the revoked Bill of Rights. The five statutes are 1. “The United States embraces the Church of America as her official religion.” 2. “Literature or other media considered immoral are hereby banned and shall not be owned. bought, sold, or traded in any capacity.” 3. “Whole families are to be considered one man, one woman, and child(ren).” 4. “Traditional male and female roles shall be observed.” 5. “Children are considered to be valid citizens only when conceived by a married man and wife.” All other children are to be removed from the home and subjected to rehabilitation” (53--Article 5 only; others appear only on the dust jacket). The entire list with much more detail can be found at http://www.kristensimmonsbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/the moral statutes.pdf. First volume in a series followed by Breaking Point. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, which is a typical middle volume where the protagonists escape from the authorities and go underground but remain in danger; and Three. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, in which the protagonists reach what they expected to be a safe house but find it destroyed. They then follow leads to where they finally reach safety and freedom.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese American author

"Artistic License" - Robert H. Beer (Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, 2012)
Authoritarian dystopia that is trying to suppress art.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Ashes of Twilight - [Cindy] [Holby] (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012)
Young adult dystopia set in a domed city built in the mid-nineteenth century as the resources are running out. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Shadows of Glass. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, the protagonist escapes from the domed community she lives in and discovers that the world outside is not as good as she had imagined. She returns to the domed community to help her friends and is recaptured. In the third volume, Remnants of Tomorrow. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, the protagonist is released into the custody of a group outside the dome that she must escape from, and the ending is positive.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Astrophilia" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Clarkesworld, 2012)
Eutopia set in the same world as her 2010 "Amaryliss". In this story there is a conflict over what is useful with one member of a community fascinated by astronomy, which she does on her own time, and one who wants to destroy her telescope.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 277-99; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013), 316-30 with an editor’s introduction on 316; in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 198-218; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 244-66.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Autoethnographic - Michael Brennan (b. 1973) (Giramondo Publishing Co., 2012)
Poems set in the present/near future free market dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Aviator. The Burning World Book One - Gareth Renowden (Limestone Hills Publishing, 2012)
Young adult climate change dystopia. See http://burningworldbooks.wordpress.com.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Bar Code Prophecy - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic Press, 2012)
Third volume in a series; see also 2004 and 2006 Weyn. In this volume, a girl who was happy to get the bar code tattoo, sets off a crusade against the system that ends with all satellites falling into the oceans, setting off massive tsunamis, and destroying the dystopian system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City - Axelrod, Jared; Steve Walker (Tor, 2012)
Young adult graphic novel dystopia about a young woman who uncovers the secrets of the authoritarian regime that runs the city. For more stories, see www.fablesoftheflyingcity.com
Keywords: Male author

Belle Isle - Rodney Lockwood (LuLu.com, 2012)
Eutopia of a future Detroit that has been transformed by the establishment of an independent Belle Island, an island in the Detroit River, that is sold to a group of capitalists who build a free market eutopia there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Berserker Eyes" - Maria V. Snyder (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which there is a recessive gene for berserker behavior and the society encourages that as a means of creating a berserker military.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beta - Rachel Cohn (b. 1968) (Hyperion, 2012)
Young adult dystopia of a future where clones can be created that are already teenagers and are for sale. They are supposed to be without emotion or souls, but the protagonist, a sixteen year old clone who is only weeks old, discovers that she has emotions and revolts. First volume in a series followed by Emergent. New York: Hyperion, 2014, where the clone and her source are in conflict. No further volumes appear to have been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blood Drive" - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which all child-labor laws have been overturned, seniors in high school carry guns, abortion has disappeared, church is required on Sundays, and same-sex relations are illegal.
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 119-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair [Preston] Reynolds (b. 1966) (Gollancz, 2012)
Science fiction novel that begins in a future eutopian Earth with most problems solved and Africa dominant. A loose sequel which follows the next generation into space is On the Steel Breeze. New York: Ace Books, 2013.
U.S. ed. New York: Ace Books, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Blueprints" - Anna Caro (Fat Girl in a Strange Land, 2012)
The Earth’s ecology has collapsed, and most people are being transported to Terra Nova, with the story told from the point-of-view of one of those left behind.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Blueprints of the Afterlife - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) (Black Cat, 2012)
Dystopia. A complex novel set mostly after much of the world has been destroyed. It follows a number of individuals as the experience the new world, which is part virtual reality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Borrowing from the Library” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. Public libraries as common utopian spaces.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Boy Who Shattered Time" - Mark D. Dunn (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2012)
The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia ruled by the TimeConstructCorp, which is trying to recreate the past of ancient Egypt as told from the viewpoint a man who appears to have spent his life trying to avoid getting caught in the system.
Keywords: Male author

“Brandy City” - Mia Arderne (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
Global warming dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

Breathe - Sarah Crossan (b. 1981) (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which oxygen depletion has destroyed the environment and killed everyone except those chosen by a lottery to live under a dome. There is a resistance movement and a belief that some areas outside the dome are still alive, and the novel focus on a quest to find those areas. First volume of two followed by Resist. New York: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2013. U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 in which the protagonists of Breathe are successful in finding fertile land.
U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author; US author

“Bullseye, Inc.” - Brian D. Garrity (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
Dystopia of corporate uniformity.
Keywords: Male author

By Force of Patriots - Cameron Reddy (White Feather Press, 2012)
A dystopia brought about by liberals is overthrown by patriots. The author is a lawyer who says that "he has taught the lawful use of lethal force for over 10 years."
Keywords: Male author; US author

BZRK - [Michael] [Reynolds] (b. 1954) (Egmont USA, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with one group trying to control society with nanobots and the other fighting against them with different technology. Continued in BZRK Reloaded. New York: Egmont USA, 2013. U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2013; and concluded in BZRK Apocalypse. New York: Egmont USA, 2014. U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2014.
U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Calculated Life - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) (47North, 2012)
Dystopia of corporate power and genetic engineering. The protagonist is a woman who has been engineered to be first-rate mathematical modeler who can forecast events. But some of her forecast are, unusually, wrong, and the novel follows her attempts to understand why. For a sequel, see 2020 Charnock, Bridge 108.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Captain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia” - J. Y. Yang (b. 1983) (The Steampowered Globe, 2012)
The story is set in an authoritarian future that prohibits most inventions and improvements on current technology. The protagonist is a spy for the government who is assigned to eliminate a man who breaks the rules.
Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 297-315. 9781616960865
Keywords: Non-binary author; Queer author; Singaporean author

The Chair Plays - Edward Bond (1934-2024) (Methuen Drama, 2012)
The text includes three one act plays set in a dystopian 2077. The plays are “Have I None” (1-36), was first performed in Birmingham November 2, 2000 and published in Children and Have I None. London: Methuen Drama, 2000; 57-89; “The Under Room” (37-73), was first performed in Birmingham October 9, 2000 (Plays 8 says October 12, 2000) and published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (169-203); and “Chair” (75-112), was written for radio first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on April 7, 2000. The Chair Plays and Plays 8 says that the first staged production was at the Avignon Festival on July 18, 2006. Wikipedia says it was in Lisbon, at the Teatro da Cornucópia in June 2005 and first published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (London: Methuen Drama, 2006), 109-144. The London premiere of the entire trilogy was at Lyric Hammersmith on April 19, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Children's Crusade" - Michael Alexander (1950-2012) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2012)
Religious dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

Collapse: America Will Fall - Richard Stephenson (b. 1975) (Stevenson & Powers Publishing House, 2012)
Dystopia in which the U.S. faces internal and external threats and a Second Great Depression. In a sequel, Resistance: America Has Fallen. Ed. Susan Hughes. Np: Richard Stephenson, 2013, the U.S. has been torn apart and the main protagonists in Collapse are trying to save it. A third volume was announced but has not appeared. A related story with characters from Collapse, “Spider: A Short Story.” Ed. Susan Hughes (2012) has been published on Kindle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Contrary Gardener” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Eclipse Online, 2012)
An odd story in which crops are grown to be turned into ammunition in a society that has advanced AIs but that have gained consciousness. The protagonist is an exceptional gardener who does not fit in.
Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 1-22.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Crimson Rain - Tex Leiko (World Castle Publishing, 2012)
Post-nuclear-catastrophe dystopia where only the rich are protected by the law. Corporations attempt to overthrow the existing government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dark Eden - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Corvus, 2012)
The novel describes the dystopia that resulted from inbreeding after a spacecraft crashed on planet. The novel focuses on a young man who tries to break the pattern and escape the small area in which the people, known as the Family, live.  See also 2015 Beckett.
U.S. ed. New York: Broadway Books, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken (b. 1987) (Hyperion, 2012)
Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman in a world in which most children have been killed by a disease that gave her and some others an unusual talent. All the children identified with such talents are incarcerated in a so-called rehabilitation camp. She escapes and becomes a leader of other children who are searching for a safe haven. A film, Darkest Minds, with a screenplay by Bracken and Chad Hodge (b. 1977) and directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (b. 1972) was released in 2018. Sequels include Never Fade. New York: Hyperion, 2013 in which the protagonist from the first volume leaves the other children to search for the answer to the disease; In the Afterlight. New York: Hyperion, 2014 in which the same protagonist works with others to find the solution to the disease and defeat the government; and The Darkest Legacy. New York: Hyperion, 2018, which concludes the series. A collection of related stories focusing on characters other than the main protagonist is Through the Dark. A Dark Minds Collection. New York: Hyperion, 2015. The stories had previously published online in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Keywords: Female author; US author