Transcension - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) (Tor, 2002)
Flawed utopia. A supposed utopia based on nanotechnology and ruled by an Artificial Intelligence. Outside the utopia but not necessarily better or worse is a religious community, "the Valley of the God of One's Choice," that has rejected technology. People from both join together and the conclusion suggests that they succeed in creating a eutopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Utopia" - Laura Turner (The Southland Times (New Zealand) (September 20, 2002), 2002)
Dystopia brought about by genetic engineering, which destroyed much of the planet and much of the population. The winner of the 2002 Dan Davin Literary Award. The article prints the story.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

V.A.O. - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (PS Publishing, 2002)
V.A.O. stands for Victim Activated Ordinance and includes a variety of mechanisms designed to protect people. The focus of this novella is its use to protect the elderly and its misuse both to control them and by some old people to fight back.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 339-366 with an editor’s introduction on 339; in Cities. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Gollancz, 2003), 247-92; and as "VAO." In his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 62-100.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

Viaduct Child - Patrick Wood (Scholastic Press, 2002)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Poverty and violence.
Keywords: Male author

“Waiting for the Zephyr” - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction, 2002)
Climate change dystopia.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 101-05.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

The Watch: Being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST--as imparted to Dennis Danvers by Ancee Mahur, traveler from a distant planet, or A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) (Eos, 2002)
The present as dystopia seen through the eyes of one of the greatest anarchist theorists, the novel presents Kropotkin (1842-1921) mostly in Richmond, Virginia in 1999 struggling against the legacy of the Confederacy, particularly regarding class and race. Most chapters have one or more epigrams by Kropotkin, which, collectively, give an overview of his thought. Some have quotations about Kropotkin or relate to the chapter.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Welcome to the Old South" - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
A black couple moves from the Northeast to a small town in the South that has decidedly dystopian features.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Wild Girls" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2002)
Dystopia of wealth and gender dominance in which the men of the city kill those outside the city and steal the children to become their wives. There is a complex set of relations among Crown People, Root People, and Dirt People (who are nomads) that is reflected in political power, economic relations, and the way the groups must marry with, for example, Crown men having to marry Dirt women and Crown women having to marry Root men.
Rev. ed. in her The Wild Girls plus “Staying Awake While We Read” and “A Lovely Art” Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CAL PM Press, 2011), 9-54; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 205-38; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 551-87.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Working the Game" - Michael Jasper (Future Orbits, 2002)
Dystopia. Physical separation of rich and poor. Poor being pushed further down by being replaced with androids.
Rpt. in his Gunning for the Buddha (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2005), 74-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Y: The Last Man - Brian K. Vaughan (b. 1976) (DC Comics, 2002)
A gendercide kills all men but one, and the graphic novel follows him in search of his lost girlfriend and the cause of the disease.
Originally published as issues 1 - 60 (2002 - 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Zoner" - Michael Barnette (Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe, 2002)
Dystopian erotica. Corporate control.

2007: A True Story, Waiting to Happen - Robyn Williams (Hodder, 2001)
Animals revolt against human environmental destruction.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; UK author

2024: A Graphic Novel - Ted [Frederick Theodore] Rall [III] (NBM/Comics Lit, 2001)
A modernized, graphic novel redoing of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Abaza: A Modern Encyclopedia. A Novel - Louis Nowra (b. 1950) (Picador, 2001)
An authoritarian dystopia described in an encyclopedia, which had been put together from the notes and scraps of paper collected in Abaza prison by prisoners hoping to save knowledge of the country in face of the dictatorship's desire to destroy all knowledge of the past.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Aftermath: A Novel of Survival - Samuel C. Florman (b. 1925) (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Press, 2001)
Post-catastrophe novel exploring the possibility of building a technological eutopia in its aftermath.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American Empire: Blood and Iron - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2001)
Alternative history in which North America is divided among the Confederate States of America, the United States of America, the Republic of Quebec, and Occupied Canada in a very fragile peace. Sequels include American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2002 [the title is also given as The Center Cannot Hold but the full title is on the title page] in which the North is becoming Socialist after the defeat of the South; and American Empire: The Victorious Opposition. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003 in which the South has become a dictatorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The American Zone - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Tor, 2001)
A sequel to 1980 Smith, The Probability Broach, in which refugees from various authoritarian versions of the United States arrive in the Confederacy. Last in the North American Confederacy series, preceded, in publication order, by The Probability Broach (1980); The Venus Belt (1981); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Among the Imposters - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998 Haddix. See also 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. This volume concerns a third child with a false identity hiding among the elite and 2003 Haddix continues his story.
U.K. ed. London: Red Fox, 2001.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Archangel Protocol - Lyda Morehouse (b. 1967) (New American Library/Roc, 2001)
The first volume of a series of set in a theocratic dystopia in which everyone has the LINK, an interactive computer implanted. In this volume, cybernetic angels appear who claim to be sent by God, and throughout the series, figures from the Bible appear. Sequels include Fallen Host. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2002, which explores, among other questions, whether AIs have souls. In Messiah Node. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2003, the prophet Elijah appears together with numerous false messiahs. In Apocalypse Array. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2004 Armageddon begins with a female Antichrist. Resurrection Code. New Orleans, LA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011 is a prequel that gives some background to the rise of the theocracy. Gender stereotypes are challenged throughout but particularly in the last volume.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Artie's Angels" - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) (Realms of Fantasy, 2001)
Post-nuclear war dystopia with a focus on class divisions among the survivors.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 165-75.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Atlas - Dylan Horrocks (b. 1966) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2001)
Graphic novel in which an artist tries to tell the life of another artist who lives and draws in an authoritarian dystopia. Numbers 2 (Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2005), 1-23; and 3 (Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006), unpaged have the subtitle A Life of Emil Kópen. No. 3 ends with “To Be Continued,” but no more was published.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Blackrose Avenue - Mark [Robert Marky] Shepherd (1961-2011) (Yard Dog Press, 2001)
Dystopia of the religious right in power and the fight against it.
2nd ed. Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Blue Neon Iris" - Miles Parently (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 2001)
Dystopia. A society fixated on replaceable human body parts.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Bold As Love. A Near Future Fantasy - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2001)
The novel takes place against the backdrop of the United Kingdom dissolving back into its constituent units. Northern Ireland is already part of a Federated Ireland. Elements of fantasy. Sequels are Castles Made of Sand (2002), Midnight Lamp (2003), Band of Gypsys (2005), Rainbow Bridge (2006), and The Grasshoppers's Child (2014). A story with the same characters is her “Big Cat.” Interzone, no. 209 (April 2007): 32-40. Rpt. in her Big Cat & Other Stories 2007 - 2019 (Alconbury, Weston, Eng.: Newcon Press, 2019), 7-32.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Chains of Freedom (The first book of the Chains Trilogy) - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2001)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy that traces a conflict between two interplanetary empires, both of which want to enslave everyone, and the ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Followed by Chains of Destruction (The second book of the Chains Trilogy). Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2002 and Chains of Redemption (The third book of the Chains Trilogy). Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press. 2008.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Child of Venus - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Eos, 2001)
The third volume of the series that includes her 1986 and 1988 Sargent. This volume focuses on a genetically engineered woman who has to deal with the conflicts of Venus while she and others begin to explore the galaxy. See also 2000 Sargent.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Crimson Dawn - Briarley, Derel (Paracosmia, 2001)
Young adult dystopia depicting evil and the return of good.
Keywords: Male author

Dance of Knives - Donna McMahon (b. 1959) (Tor, 2001)
Post-ecological disaster dystopia set in Vancouver. Tongs, violence. First volume in a series; see also 2010 McMahon.
Rpt. Gibsons Landing, BC, Canada: Drowned City Press, 2010.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Dark Millennium - Gerald James McManus (CeShore, 2001)
The novel follows the life of an ambitious white boy who becomes president of the U.S. with plans to conquer the world and eliminate all non-whites. A world government is created with the protagonist as President of Earth for life with a World Senate composed of other white leaders. Later they will be elected with voting limited to Caucasian college graduates. White women college graduates will be able to vote, but their primary role is defined as producing children. All non-whites and all Caucasians with “defective genes or had IQs below 90” were sterilized. An exception is made for Asians with an IQ over 140, who are not sterilized but are only allowed to reproduce with whites. These policies produce a eutopia by reducing the world’s population, cutting crime dramatically, and improving health and intelligence. See the author’s poem, “Crusade” at http://www.newnation.org/Archives/NNN-Guest-Column-26.html.
Keywords: Male author

"The Delectation Debates" - Renée M. Charles (Sextopia, 2001)
A future in which heterosexuals are in a minority and the multi-gendered get additional votes.
Keywords: Female author

"Ecovillage 2015: Algae, Giant 'Seashells', and Sustainable Culture" - Clearwater, Jeff (Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living, 2001)
Eutopian short story about an ecovillage in the future in which the ecovillage has developed quite a few biologically-based, sustainable technologies, most of which the author says are currently available. Little on daily life.
Keywords: Male author

Emergence - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) (Macmillan, 2001)
Corporate thriller set in the near future, which has dystopian elements.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Energized Gold: An Entrepreneurial Adventure in Business Finance Technology Mystery Money People Power & Pleasure. A Novel - David Fischer (Xlibris, 2001)
Fictional presentation of the author's views on the monetary system and entrepreneurship, which, if followed, will produce a much improved world.
Keywords: Male author

Event 16. An Original Screenplay. [A Science Fiction Thriller] Based on the original Screenplay 'History' - Derek Pearson (b. 1966) (Author, 2001)
No obvious relationship to his 1998 History and is more of a thriller than the other. Includes elements of a contemporary dystopia and the suggestion of a future eutopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Eyre Affair. A Novel - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001)
The first volume of the alternative history Thursday Next series that has both utopian and dystopia elements throughout the series, which currently includes six additional books. In the world in which Thursday Next, the female protagonist, lives England is a republic, Wales is the independent “Socialist Republic of Wales,” and genetic engineering has brought back extinct species, such as the dodo a Neanderthals. Subsequent volumes are Lost in a Good Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002; US. ed. New York Viking, 2003; The Well of Lost Plots. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004; and Something Rotten. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004. Second series: First Among Sequels. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007; US. ed. New York Viking, 2007; One of Our Thursdays Is Missing. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011; US. ed. New York Viking, 2011; and The Woman Who Died a Lot. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012; US. ed. New York Viking, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fast Eddie, King of the Bees - Robert Arellano (b. 1969) (Akashic Books, 2001)
Future dystopia set in Boston, Massachusetts. Rich-poor division. A street hustler is the hero.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Final Fantasy: The Spirits WithinTM - John [Blair] Vornholt [Jr.] (b. 1951) (Pocket Books, 2001)
Dystopia. Mostly adventure and war, but the background is a post-catastrophe earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fire & Ice - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Yard Dog Press, 2001)
A mystery novel with a dystopian background in which all sexual preferences are recorded and regulated in the name of equality, but this produces radical inequality and segregation. The story is told mostly from the lesbian perspective.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Flight from Eden - Kathryn A. Graham (Writer's Showcase, 2001)
Dystopia. Authoritarian dictatorship and the struggle against it.
Keywords: Female author

"The Frankenberg Process" - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Interzone, 2001)
Authoritarian dystopia. Complete control of history with all record of those who get on the wrong side of the authorities deleted. The story stresses the betrayal of friends by those committed to the system.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Fray - Joss Whedon (b. 1964) (Dark Horse Comics, 2001)
The author created and wrote Buffy the Vampire series, and in some senses this is a grittier version of that set in a future Manhattan dystopia inhabited by vampires and various monsters and mutants. Rich versus poor with no one caring about the people of the slums. Young girl from the slums saves the day.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Free Lunch - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) (Tor, 2001)
Dystopia with a eutopian amusement park and the effort to save it.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Futureland - Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952) (Aspect/Warner Books, 2001)
Nine related stories set in a future dystopia. Of the stories, Whispers in the Dark,” “Doctor Kismet,” “Angel’s Island,” “Little Brother,” “En Masse,” and “The Nig in Me” are the most explicitly dystopian, and in all of them African Americans and the poor are the oppressed.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Galton Principle” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2001)
A dystopia in which the ideas of Francis Galton (1822-1911), who coined the word eugenics, have led to a totalitarian system in which anyone who does not meet the regimes genetic standards is sterilized or killed.
Originally published in The Stars* Anthology (March 2001). Not found.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Gamekeeper's Night Dog - Dave Putnam (Bulldog Press, 2001)
First volume in an alternative history series in which Britain wins the Boer War, which sets the stage for the development of the dystopia in the later volumes. The first three volumes constitute his Gamekeeper Trilogy. In the second volume, The World War. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2004, Britain invades Germany, Russia and other countries. In the third volume, 10 Downing Street. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2004, Britain dominates the world, but there is a conflict between monopoly capitalism and communism. Britain Uber Alles. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2006, the fourth volume, is a sequel to the trilogy set in the twenty-eighth century. Britain has dominated the world for centuries but war looms again. It ends with “To Be Continued,” but there is no evidence that it was.
Keywords: Male author

Gardener of Stars - Carla Harryman (b. 1952) (Atelos, 2001)
An experimental novel exploring "the paradise and wastelands of utopian desire."
Chapters were originally published as “from Gardener of Stars.” Hambone, no. 15 (Fall 2000): 73-82; as “from Gardener of Stars (A Novel.” Shiny Magazine, no. 9/10 (1999): 193-200; and in The World, Jacket, Salt, LVNG, and The Detroit Metro Times.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Generica - Will [William Stener] Ferguson (b. 1964) (Penguin Books Canada, 2001)
Satire. A self-help book that actually works is published and brings too much happiness.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"A Good Place to Raise a Boy" - Aidan Doyle (Orb Speculative Fiction (South Preston, VIC, Australia), 2001)
Dystopia. A complex story of colonization by humans who have forgotten their own past of gender and racial discrimination.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Gray's Anatomy - Rachel Armstrong (Serpent's Tail, 2001)
The novel satirically explores various issues (sex and gender, the media, power, etc.) through contact among alien societies and with humans. Although one alien society (the telepathic Grays) is eutopian initially, it is negatively affected by the alien contact.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Green England" - David Redd (b. 1946) (Spectrum, 2001)
Sequel to 1989 Redd concerning contact between Green England and the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Green Music - Ursula Pflug (b. 1958) (Tesseract Books an Imprint of The Book Collective, 2001)
An odd magic realist novel set in Toronto and an alternative Toronto called Marina, which is also the name of the main protagonist, accessed through a painting by Susan, Marina’s partner. It is a paradise with people who had drowned in the other world.
Three chapters were previously published “in slightly different form”: Chapter One “Turtleness.” Quarry 35.3 (Summer 1986): 18-20. Chapter Two “Jack and Luna” as “The Turtle and the Moon.” Illus. by the author. Now 4, no. 29 (March 28, 1985): 21. https://nowtoronto.pressreader.com/now-magazine/19850328. Chapter Fourteen “Telepathic Fish.” Leviathan I: Into the Grey. Ed. Luke O'Grady & Jeff VanderMeer (Tallahassee, FL: Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1996), 67-80.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Tunisian author

A Halcyon Revolution - Will Edwinson (Femcor Press, 2001)
Dystopia of secession and civil war in the U.S.
Keywords: Male author

The Heaven Study and Lounge Book of Utopia - David Seedhouse ([Author], 2001)
A letter from the author accompanying the disk describes it as a eutopia, but the British Library does not have a program that will open the disk.
Keywords: Male author

Hold Back This Day - Ward Kendall (iUniverse, 2001)
Dystopia of required miscegenation. The author is described as a "pro-white activist", and the book has been called "The White man's 1984".
Keywords: Male author

"The Hope of Cinnamon" - M. Christian (Sextopia, 2001)
Gay male flawed utopia.

Human Stock - Vaughan Whitlock (b. 1950) (Sid Harta Publishers, 2001)
Dystopia. A post-catastrophe novel in which women dominate men and create a slave society of clones. Revolt.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

Ice - Stephen Bowkett (b. 1953) (Dolphin Paperbacks, 2001)
The young adult novel, which takes place in a future ice age, is set in a flawed utopia called Perth controlled by an artificial intelligence known as the All Mother. The protagonist finds the place oppressive and in the sequels, Storm [The Wintering at the head of the title]. London: Dolphin Paperbacks, 2002, and Thaw [The Wintering at the head of the title]. London: Dolphin Paperbacks, 2003, he escapes and finds freedom in an extremely harsh world. In the third volume he returns to Perth to defeat the All Mother.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Kalik - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) (Longacre Press, 2001)
Fourth volume of a series. In this volume, the young man and a small group, mostly children, find a valley where they hope they will be able to establish a small farming community. See also 1997, 1999 and 2001 Lasenby.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Kingdom - Christopher A. Zackey (b. 1949) (The Rose & Lily Press, 2001)
Part fantasy, part religious allegory. After a future catastrophe all humans and elves disappear and animals are able to speak. The animals create a eutopia for themselves that is described as that after the end of the New Testament.
Keywords: Male author

Kingdom of Cages - Sarah [Anne] Zettel (b. 1966) (Warner Books, 2001)
Flawed utopia. Environmental collapse and disease on most planets. One, Pandora, had a functioning ecosystem and a small genetically controlled population. Fanaticism, conflict between Pandora and other planets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Kingdom of Darkness: An Investigation into the Systematic Erosion of the Human Spirit - Michael Salt (Book Guild, 2001)
Near future dystopia brought about by Thatcherite [Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) UK Prime Minister 1979-90)] policies.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Human Spring. Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs! - Heatherly, L.S (Nature-Human Society, 2001)
New Age environmental eutopia.
Rev. as The Last Human Spring. Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs! Phoenix, AZ: Nature-Human Society and [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2002. Except for the title and some minor changes throughout, the texts are the same.
Keywords: US author

The Last Jet-Engine Laugh - Ruchir Joshi (b. 1960) (Harper Collins India, 2001)
The novel is set in a future India that is developing as a military superpower, but the focus is on the relations among the characters rather than on the society.
Rpt. London: Flamingo, 2001. [Book jacket adds India 1930-2030: A Novel]. Part was originally published in Civil Lines (Delhi, India).
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

The Last Underclass - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2001)
Overpopulation dystopia set in 2152 where AI have taken over many jobs. Genetic engineering controlled by the wealthy, known as Achievers, who plan to transplant the personalities of the wealthy aged into the improved bodies of the poor, known as “Welfies”.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Law, In Its Majestic Equality . . ." - Mary Catelli (Absolute Magnitude Science Fiction, 2001)
Satire on legal systems and economic status on the Earth and the Moon.
Keywords: Female author

The Legend of New Earth - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) (Australian Broadcasting Commission, 2001)
Eutopia with problems. Children's book. After earth was destroyed, humans settled Venus. Primitive but good life, but the cities dominate the countryside for the benefit of the rulers.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Man Over Mind: Control of the galaxy rests with the Minds--until one man rises against them - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2001)
Mostly space opera but the focus is a fight against the dystopia created by those who control the galaxy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mappa Mundi - Justina [Louise Alice] Robson (b. 1968) (Macmillan, 2001)
Mostly a science fiction adventure novel/thriller, but the invention central to the action leads to a eutopia/dystopia in which people can program their own perceptions and modify themselves and their relations with "reality", which can be dystopian. A related story is "The Girl Hero's Mirror Says He's Not the One." Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007), 41-54. PSt
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Marcher" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2001)
A story in which there are various time lines that people can switch through. The one in which the story is set has interned all its welfare cases in large, isolated camps. A non-utopian sequel is "Watching the Sea." Interzone, no. 173 (November 2001): 40-45.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Megiddo - Paul Crouch (1934-2013); Cyhthia Cirile (Charisma® House, 2001)
The story of the Antichrist and Armageddon.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Memoirs of the Future - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) (Cross Cultural Publications, 2001)
Contrasting eutopia and dystopia set 350 years in the future. The eutopia is Terra, which has no government, operates on the basis of local decision-making, and uses an advanced internet for coordination. The dystopia, the Free World Federation (FWF), is an all-encompassing government that uses an advanced internet to monitor and control people. See also 2002 Prugovecki.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic Press, 2001)
Dystopia. First volume of four young adult novels set in a future of “urban Darwinism” in which roving cities compete for survival and dominance. Sequels are Predator’s Gold. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2003. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003; Infernal Devices. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2005. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2005; and A Darkling Plain. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2006. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2006. A collection of three related stories is Reeve, Night Flights. Illus. Ian McCue. Nw York: Scholastic, 2018. For an illustrated guide to the four novels, see Reeve and Jeremy Levett, The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines. Illus. London: Scholastic UK, 2018. See 2009 Reeve, Fever Crumb for the first volume of a series that is a prequel to this series. A film directed by Christian Rivers with a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson released in December 2018.
U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"New York's Transportation Future Is Coming Tomorrow. 1925 travels to 1950, and boggles" - Bruce McCall (b. 1935) (The New Yorker, 2001)
Satire on future transportation taking some ideas from 1925 and placing them in a eutopian 1950 New York. Illustrations with captions.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Noughts and Crosses - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) (Doubleday, 2001)
Noughts, who are considered inferior and suppressed. The novel concerns a young couple who fall in love across this divide. Sequels include An Eye for an Eye. London: Corgi Books, 2003, which is a short piece originally published for World Book Day 2003 set in a time between her 2001 Noughts & Crosses and 2004 Knife Edge.  Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 447-78; Knife Edge. London: Doubleday,2004. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007; and Checkmate. London: Doubleday, 2005.
Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 7-443.
Keywords: English author

"Old Soldiers" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Infinity Plus One, 2001)
Dystopian senior citizens home where the quality of care depends on the wealth of the resident, which reflects the reality of such homes today. The story, though, is primarily concerned with an old soldier remembering the war and wanting answers.
Rpt. in her The Dogs of Truth: New and Uncollected Stories (New York: Tor, 2005), 158-77; and in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 311-25.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Paradigm of Earth - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) (Tor, 2001)
The background to a first contact story is an extrapolation into the near future of a right-wing Canada that is mildly dystopian but growing worse. Described as “The revolution of the haves against the have nots” (121). Also presents an egalitarian eutopia in a communal setting with humans and aliens.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Park Polar - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (PS Publishing, 2001)
Ecological and corporate dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule) - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2001)
First volume of the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony. This volume begins after a global war when the International Organization of Women declares female superiority and a women’s revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Perdita - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) (Wooded Hill Press, 2001)
Strongly pro- and anti-technology forces on a eutopian planet. Includes a list of the principal characters by group [(iv)], rules for the pronunciation of the languages of the planet ([v]), and a map of the planet ([vi]).
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Perfect Persecution. A Novel - J[ames] R[aymond] Lucas (Broadman & Holman, 2001)
Dystopia from a Christian, anti-abortion viewpoint. Abortion is common and an underground Christian movement rescues babies and fights abortion.
Keywords: Male author

The Pickup Artist - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Tor, 2001)
Dystopia in which artists, novelists, and other creative people are eliminated from the historical record, and all their works are picked up and destroyed. This is ostensibly to make room for new works.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Queen of Hearts" - Dominic Green (b. 1967) (Interzone, 2001)
Satire. The dystopia created by the worship of Princess Diana (1961-97).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Realtime - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) (ibooks, 2001)
Dystopian mystery novel set in 2050 when the U.S. has disintegrated.
Keywords: Male author

Red Heart - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) (Viking, 2001)
Children’s dystopia set in the aftermath of global warming.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; South African author

Requiem - Curtis White (b. 1951) (Dalkey Archive Press, 2001)
A dystopia showing the course of humanity from the Bible to the digital age, with some future projection.
Parts first published in Alt-X, Cyber Corpse, NY Press, and McSweeney's.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ritual of Proof - Dara Joy (William Morrow, 2001)
Romance novel set in a society in which women dominate.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scape-grace" - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 2001)
A flawed utopia in which a society damages a person as a symbol of human troubles.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Scorch - A. D. Nauman (Soft Skull Press, 2001)
Free market dystopia in which the U.S. government has been replaced by huge corporations.
Keywords: Female author

Second Contact - [Joshua A.] [Dann] (b. 1956) (Ace Books, 2001)
Earth contacts a planet inhabited by people very like themselves who have created a eutopia based on unlimited power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sex With an Alien" - Lori Ann White (Neverworlds, 2001)
Dystopia or flawed utopia from different points of view within the story. The collapse of the world economy and ecosystem led to the recreation of past small town life as a supposed eutopia. The reality is that political leaders have had greater sexual access to create particularly beautiful women. The "aliens" are real women with less than perfect bodies.
Rpt. in Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001. Ed. Brian Youmans (Boston, MA: Suddenly Press, 2002), 137-50 with an author's note on 136.
Keywords: Female author

"Skullier Than the Average Bod" - Christopher East (Challenging Destiny, 2001)
Dystopia. People given enhanced bodies in exchange for reduced intelligence.
Rpt. in Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001. Ed. Brian Youmans (Boston, MA: Suddenly Press, 2002), 31-41 with an author's note on 30.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Song of Earth - Hugh Nissenson (1933-2013) (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001)
A novel set in the future that follows the life of a boy who is genetically enhanced to be an artist, a few others so enhanced, his family and friends, and those who wish to exploit his talents. The setting is generally dystopian with a struggle between men and women; most of the main characters are gay.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Soul Twin - BoB B. Howson (Bastard Books, 2001)
Dystopia set in East Africa in 2100. Conflicts that are continuations of those of the late twentieth century. The possibility of a eutopian future is held out at the end.
Keywords: Male author

Starpeople: Mankind Gets a Second Chance: The Sirian Redemption - Linda Tuck-Jenkins (Inspirational Fiction, 2001)
Dystopia of the present situation but holds out hope for the eutopia to come. The ancestors of the human race came from the stars and such people are returning again to allow humans to correct their past mistakes.
Keywords: Female author

"Subs" - Lauren Halkon (b. 1973) (Albedo (Dublin, Ireland), 2001)
Dystopia in which everyone is programmed from birth. “Subs” is the abbreviation for subversives or those that the programing fails to control.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Technolife 2020: A Day in the World of Tomorrow - Lois Gresh (b. 1956) (ECW Press, 2001)
Humor and satire on the technologically "enhanced" life of the future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Terra Farma - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) (Viking Australia, 2001)
Sequel to the 2001 rev. ed. of her 1992 Galax-Arena in which some children have escaped from Galax-Arena. In trying to help other children, they get captured and taken to Terra-Farma, a cloning facility, which the ultimately managed to destroy. A third volume, Universercus, was planned but does not appear to have been published.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

This Side of Paradise - Steven L. Layne (North Star Books, 2001)
Young adult dystopia. The Village of Paradise, operated by the Eden Corporation, is actually an authoritarian dystopia where the rage for perfection brings a high price.  See Paradise Lost. Gretna, IL: Pelican Publishing Co., 2011 for a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Timebroker - Nan Weizenbaum (Xlibris, 2001)
Dystopia in which the life force can be drained from one person to give immortality to another. Political novel about the Chronogen's (the drained) fight for rights and better compensation.
Keywords: Female author

"To Love and Riot" - Eric Del Carlo (Sextopia, 2001)
Story with the somewhat implausible assumption that the perfect bodies created in the future will not have regular sexual outlets and will periodically riot. This requires a squad of sexual experts to quell the rioters by having intercourse with them.
Keywords: Male author

The Trench and Beyond - Ken Rowe (Minerva, 2001)
Young adult dystopia. Environmental catastrophe in 2013. People live in cities under water and in isolated spots around the earth, often in caves. Visits to other mentally advanced planets.
Keywords: Male author

Turning on the Girls - Cheryl Benard (b. 1953) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
Satire in which women create a feminist eutopia, but there is an underground men's movement trying to overthrow it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ultraviolet - Lesley Howarth (b. 1952) (Puffin Books, 2001)
Young adult dystopia of a society living underground as a result of becoming too hot and most people spending most of their time in virtual reality. One girl undertakes a quest to go outside.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Under the Saffron Tree" - Cherith Baldry (Interzone, 2001)
Eutopia brought about by a virus that eliminates aggression as well as maintaining good health. Simple life.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Undone" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2001)
Two conflicting utopias are presented, one stressing individuality and the other, called the Utopians, stressing social solidarity.
Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2001. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (New York: ibooks, 2002), 1-50.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia Closes. A Novel" - Fin Keegan (MFA thesis. Columbia, 2001)
Authoritarian dystopia. Ireland renamed Hibernia and is a police state.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; US author

The Velderet - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) (Circlet Press, 2001)
A sado-masochistic novel that begins in a eutopia and moves to a conflict in which s/m saves the day.
The first six of the twelve chapters were published serially in Taste of Latex, nos. 10 - 15 (1995-97).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Vile Village - [Daniel] [Handler] (b. 1970) (HarperCollins, 2001)
Dystopian children's book. Volume 7 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The vile village is the rule-ridden V.F.D. (The Village of Fowl Devotees), which abducts some children (on the principle that "it takes a village to raise a child") and then requires the children to do all of the work of the village.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“What Weena Knew” - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2001)
A story about Weena from H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine. In the story Weena is a rare intelligent, inquisitive Eloi.
Rpt. without the illus. in his Strangers and Beggars (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2002), 166-80; and without the illus. in The Best of James Van Pelt (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 200-14.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“When the World is All on Fire” - William Sanders (1942-2017) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2001)
Dystopia of conflict between whites and Indians during a period of a rapidly growing white population and an environmental collapse.
Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 149-70, with an editor’s note on 149-51, 247.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Whole Wide World - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (HarperCollins, 2001)
A mystery novel with a dystopian future of constant surveillance on both the streets and the internet as the background.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2002.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Yes--Utopia!--we have the technology - Ron Cook (Author, 2001)
Detailed The eutopia that can be achieved if capitalism is abolished. All goods free to everyone means that peoples’ wants will change and people will choose to have fewer possessions. Less need to work and more leisure with extensive travel.
Keywords: Male author

2037 NZ: One Hell of a Paradise - Carl Hoffmann (b. 1922) (R S V P Publishing, 2000)
New Zealand as a eutopia in 2037 in which everyone has a basic income and works at what they enjoy. Open immigration to age 45 with good health and skills designed to raise population to make the country more viable economically. Some problems, such as bored teenagers, are noted.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Austrian author; Male author

2084 - Howard [E.] Carmichael (1st Books Library, 2000)
Dystopia of the U.S. in 2084 where feminism and an intrusive government conditions all aspects of life.
Keywords: Male author

2084: The Year of the Liberal - David L. Hale (Elderberry Press, 2000)
Fairland is a supposedly liberal eutopia that is actually a dystopia with a woman as dictator. See 2003 Hale for a sequel.
Keywords: Male author

Angry Young Spaceman - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) (No Media Kings, 2000)
Set in 2959. An authoritarian earth is contrasted with a eutopia inhabited by eight-armed beings.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Appendix. Edilia, or 'Make of it what you will'" - David [W.] Harvey (b. 1933) (Spaces of Hope, 2000)
Appendix to his book on the power of the utopian imagination in which he sketches out his own utopian vision. The collapse of the world economy is followed by a period of harsh repression by the military and a revolution. After the revolution a eutopian society is created centered on a federal system that begins at the "hearth" or a small collective living arrangement. Environmentally conscious but using new technologies where possible. For a design research project inspired by Edilia, see Ifea Troiani, “Eco-topia: ‘Living with Nature’ in Edilia, Iceland.” Illus. Journal of Architectural Education 67.1 (2013): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2013.767129.
U.S. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 257-81.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Aquarius Rising - John Bown (b. 1924) (Hamilton, 2000)
Satire on a future corporate controlled U.K. set in 2030. The focus of the novel is on the opposition.
Keywords: Male author

"As the Angels in Heaven" - Maya Kaathryn Bonhhoff (b. 1954) (Sexcrime: Tales of Underground Love and Subversive Erotica, 2000)
A future in which sex between husbands and wives is unacceptable; each has a sexual partner who may or may not be shared with others.
Keywords: Female author

"At Bud Light Old Faithful" - M[ichael] Shayne Bell (b. 1957) (Interzone, 2000)
Satire on the commercialization of national parks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

ATM - Matthew Fuller (ShaKe Editions, 2000)
Dystopia of a collapsed future Britain.
Keywords: Male author

"Auspicious Eggs" - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2000)
Satire on the Roman Catholic Church, which practices the Sacrament of Terminal Baptism (killing those incapable of reproducing) and requires everyone to copulate when most fertile. The church has a copulatorium that is used for the Sacrament of Extramarital Intercourse with anyone who is fertile if one's partner is not.
Rpt. in Witpunk. Ed. Claude Lalumière and Marty Halpern (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), 26-49; in his The Cat’s Pajama’s & Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 111-32; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 161-78; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 161-78; in his Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 202-21.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Automatic Living - Outhwaite, Paul (DM Publications, 2000)
Dystopia of the New Right in which people are controlled by the media and law.
Keywords: Male author

"Bad Dream" - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Spectrum SF, 2000)
Dystopia of the European Union in twenty years still dealing with British nationalism, with Britain fighting for and winning independence.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Bergonia" (2000)
Detailed democratic socialist eutopia.

"A Better Job" - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) (The Coming Day and Other Stories, 2000)
Eutopia. A new Garden City, much more radical and egalitarian than the previous ones, is established in defiance of the government of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bikini Planet - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) (Orbit, 2000)
Satire. Mostly dystopian with the standard naive visitor from our day to the future, but there are some eutopian possibilities suggested. A sequel is Space Wasters. London: Orbit, 2001. 339 pp., and it begins in what appears to be a paradise in which the protagonist makes the mistake of finding it boring and hopes something happens. The rest is mostly intrigue and adventure.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Blind Assassin - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (Bloomsbury, 2000)
In a novel focusing on a family history two stories are told, one intermittently throughout the novel and one in a few brief sections. The first is a dystopia describing an authoritarian country on another planet and its institutions, particularly those around the sacrifice of virgins. The second is a male fantasy flawed eutopia which the men find fades over time.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Breakaway - Phil[lip Neal] Cummings (b. 1957) (Random House Australia, 2000)
Young adult dystopia divided between those who live in the Towers and street people. The novel focuses on a boy who has to leave the Towers and join a street gang when his father is arrested. This results in both he and his father being sent to a penal colony in space. See also 2002 Cummings.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

But n Ben A-Go-Go - Matthew Fitt (b. 1968) (Luath Press, 2000)
Future dystopian Scotland. An excerpt from a forthcoming sequel to be called Kaledonika, was published as "Criggie." Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction. Ed. Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson (Edinburgh, Scot.: Crescent Press, 2005), 191-99. Written in Scottish dialect.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Candle - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Tor, 2000)
Future dystopia in which almost every person is controlled by a central computer, with control relaxing at the end and the end of the novel. Develops from his Orbital Resonance. New York: Tor, 1991; and Kaleidoscope Century. New York: Tor, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Cold Dish" - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) (SciFiction, 2000)
Dystopia in which sex outside of marriage is outlawed and women are punished by being forced to have babies.
Rpt. in Interzone, no. 172 (October 2001): 17-21.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Collapsium - Wil[lliam Terence] McCarthy (b. 1966) (Random House, 2000)
Flawed utopia. First volume of four set in the far future "Queendom of Sol" where technology has provided immortality and riches. The second volume (see 2003 McCarthy) is the most explicitly utopian of the volumes. The third and fourth volumes, Lost in Transmission (New York: Random House, 2004) and To Crush the Moon: Being the Final Volume in the History of the Queendom of Sol (New York: Random House, 2005) record the disintegration of any hope of a good life as the problems of immortality grow.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 2000.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Colony Fleet - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) (Avon Eos, 2000)
Multiple generation space ship has a complex class structure which begins to break down, as does the ship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Coming Day" - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) (The Coming Day and Other Stories, 2000)
A dystopia presented through a number of episodes that illustrate corporate and political corruption.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Crescent City Rhapsody - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Avon Eos, 2000)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian, right-wing dystopia in the U.S. set in a world where nanotechnology and genetic engineering are out of control and provide the possibility for both better and worse futures. Aliens destroy Earth electronics and build the nanotechnology-based Crescent City to take humans off the dystopian Earth. Related to 1994, 1997, and 2002 Goonan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Cyberskin - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) (Hybrid Publishers, 2000)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

"Dear Nestor: A Letter from 2050” - William Douglass (Whole Earth, 2000)
Eutopia in a letter from a twelve year old boy living in Bangladesh, which is part of the South Asian Block of nations, in a high tech future. The U.S. is a member of the North American Trading Block, and power now resides in these blocks rather than in the individual countries; e.g. the U.S. President is largely a ceremonial position. The U.S. is somewhat backward in that it still requires human pilots on airplanes. There is a tunnel from Miami to Habana, Cuba. Genes are implanted to keep a child from developing cancer or HIV and to slow the aging process and increase intelligence. Trial marriages are common. People travel to Mars for holidays.
Originally published in Dudley Fishburn, ed. The World in 2001. London: Economist, 2000 [Not found].
Keywords: Male author

Dervish is Digital - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Macmillan, 2000)
Cyberpunk dystopia that is something of a sequel to her Tea From an Empty Cup (1998) in that the central character and some of the setting are the same. The female author was born in the U.S. and lives in England. Other cyberpunk dystopias by the author are 1991 and 1992 Cadigan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dove's Song - Eloise Rodkey Rees (1st Books, 2000)
A Christian, spiritualist eutopia. Other planets are more advanced than Earth, but an alien visits Earth and prods it in the right direction. There is a sequel to the alien’s visit in her Dove’s Duet. Novel. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2001, which is a love story helped along by the return visit of the alien.
Keywords: Female author

Dream of Venus - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Star Colonies, 2000)
The story is set in the same universe as 1986, 1988, and 2001 Sargent, but earlier than those novels, and focuses the development of a representation of Venus and the personalities and politics involved.
Rpt. in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 325-57 with "Afterword to 'Dream of Venus'" on 358-59.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dynamo - Hank Deadwood (b. 1959) (Regent Press, 2000)
The novel begins in a San Francisco dominated by sex and drugs seen through the eyes of a musician/poet struggling to survive playing on the streets and in clubs. The eutopia comes at the end of the novel with the development of a way for everyone to get high without side effects, a complete collective economy, a network of communities, and a new energy system.

Exterminance Cometh - Robert Segarra (Writers Club Press, 2000)
After a meteor strikes the Earth, an authoritarian world government is formed but resistance develops in the name of a eutopia of freedom.
Keywords: Male author

"The Eye of the Heart" - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction, 2000)
Dystopia. All married women are blinded after the honeymoon so that they will only remember their husbands as loving men.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Far Away - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) (Nick Hern Books in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 2000)
Brief ecological dystopia in which everything in the entire world, including animals and plants, is at war with each other.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Ferren and the Angel - Harland, Richard (Penguin Books Australia, 2000)
Children's post-catastrophe dystopia set in 3000 CE. First volume of the Heaven and Earth trilogy; see also 2002 and 2003 Harland.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Floodland - Marcus Sedgwick (b. 1968) (Dolphin, 2000)
Children's book about the degradation of the environment that leads to widespread flooding. A girl trying to find her parents comes across a 1954 Golding Lord of the Flies type dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Dell Yearling, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Forbidden Experiment” - Pamela [Lifton] Zoline (b. 1941) (Fence, 2000)
Depicts a dystopia where “corporate interests” are running an experiment on raising children who have never heard the spoken word, the children having been stolen from their poor parents. Described as a libretto.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Foreigners - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Victor Gollancz, 2000)
A murder mystery that takes place in a deeply flawed utopia in which aliens have provided Earth with technology that replaces its polluting power sources, but the aliens act like Earth’s sex tourists (the author’s comparison) exploiting human singers for their own pleasure.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Forge of the Elders - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Baen, 2000)
Standard libertarian analysis of dystopian collectivism and eutopian capitalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fountains of Youth - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 2000)
A continuation of his future history series; see 1998, 1999 and 2002 Stableford (2). This volume describes the life of a man who is five hundred years old, could live much longer, and is an historian of that generally obsolete phenomenon called death.
Part originally published as "Mortimer Gray's History of Death." Asimov's Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 254-305.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Four Short Novels" - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2000)
Four brief dystopias of immortality, each showings its disadvantages.
Originally pub. as "Quartre courts romans." Destination 3001. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. The original is held only in French libraries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fourth World - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) (Avon Eos, 2000)
Dystopia in a future controlled by those controlling the web and furnishing the materials for it for the millions of web addicts. Censorship. The novel is concerned with indigenous peoples, poverty, and the few rebels fighting back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

freaknest - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2000)
Dystopia with similarities to 1994 Olsen. Future with widespread disease brought about by overuse of antibiotics. Heavy pollution, widespread drug use, violence. The novel focuses on a small group of feral children and their experiences.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fresco - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Eos, 2000)
A first contact novel that uses the form to explore problems both in the alien society and on Earth. The alien society has based its social structure on a false reading of an ancient fresco covered in centuries of accumulated dirt. Cleaning the fresco threatens to destroy the society, which is based on the idea that each person has one and only one appropriate social role. On the basis of tradition outweighing truth, the fresco is repainted to reflect the traditional version. The Earth gains a eutopia of civility.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Friend of the Earth - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) (Viking, 2000)
Environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Gateway to the Past - Ronald Bast Nelson (d. 2013) (Vantage Press, 2000)
Trips to the past from an environmentally damaged future in 2500 where everyone has been live underground since 2050, but, due to scientific advances, people will be able to return to the surface. Very little on the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gathering Blue - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
A companion to but not a sequel to 1993 Lowry in which the author presents an alternative future that is primitive and simple with aspects of savagery. Her Messenger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004 and Son. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2012, which includes characters from both 1993 Lowry and this volume but take place in an intentional community.
UK ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Generals of October - John T. Cullen (Clocktower Books, 2000)
Dystopia. An attempt to re-write the U.S. Constitution through a Second Constitutional Convention leads to chaos and an attempted military coup.
Second release San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2002. Rpt. New York: ibooks, 2004. The ibooks ed. does not mention the existence of the previous eds.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Going, Going, Gone - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (HarperCollins, 2000)
The final volume of the DryCo series. The novel depicts multiple dystopias with the hope of a better world at the end. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Elivissey, and 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, in timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.
U.S. ed. New York: Voyager Books, 2000
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Greenhouse Chill” - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2000)
Climate changing dystopia in which most of the world has disappeared under water with a new ice age to follow. Reminiscences of the world before the flood suggest a technological eutopia.
Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 33-55.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Gulag Arizona - J. Hada (Pentland Press, 2000)
Dystopia. Arizona and some adjacent territory is expelled from the U.S. to become a vast prison when the U.S. prisons are emptied. The freed prisoners are left on their own to create whatever life they can.

Gulliver in Cloneland. The Fifth Travel of Gulliver. The Complete Text, including the passages deemed inappropriate for publication by the author - [Varoujan] [Kazanjian] (The Book Guild, 2000)
Satire on contemporary Egypt set in a land of clones.
Keywords: Egyptian author

Harrad/Premar Becomes The Love-Ed Solution: K-16 Sex and Education for the 21st Century - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (Writers Club Press, 2000)
Sequel to 1966 and 1975 Rimmer that follows their model in presenting excerpts from the diaries kept by students. This novel simply extends and combines the themes of the first two with a greater emphasis on multi-racial and multi-ethnic roommates and groups of roommates. See the note at 1966 Rimmer and 1968, 1978, 1980, and 1982 Rimmer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Harvest of Debts” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2000)
Future dystopia in which the old suppress the young and the beginnings of a youth rebellion.
Originally published in the online journal The Fifth Di... (June 2000), which is no longer available. Published separately by the author as an online ten-page chapbook in 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heart of Gold - Sharon Shinn (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2000)
Dystopia focusing on gender and racial relations.
Keywords: Female author

The Heart Political Party (2000)
Detailed critique of contemporary society and a eutopia, although the chapter "Heaven on Earth" says it is not a utopia. The future society cannot, it is said, be spelled out in detail but will include individual human rights; a revised national constitution; no money, or money system or subsystem of any kind; direct democracy; representative democracy; one government in form and substance; a cooperative and efficient socioeconomic system; a true demand and supply socioeconomic system; employment for all; a four-hour workday; absolute equality of consumption power; choice of basic needs and wants and desires available at any time; personally chosen careers; international trade to be conducted at the national level only; more free time; neuropsychological health care available to all; a vastly supreme national defense; public service for all; population management; science to serve humanity; strong ecological standards; standardization of laws; healthy natural families; elimination of crime; freedom of interpersonal and social relationships; individual achievement rewards; and participation in the United Nations.

He's Back - Theodore Roosevelt Gardner (Allen A. Knoll, Publishers, 2000)
Jesus returns.
Keywords: Male author

Hex: Ghosts - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) (Macmillan Children's Books, 2000, 2000)
Sequel to 1998 and 1999 Lassiter. In this volume, those carrying the gene giving direct access to computers share it with others and the ending suggests that a eutopia will develop.
Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 449-669.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“How Science Saved the World: Has science driven history for the past 50,000 years?” - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Nature, 2000)
A review of a book that argues that the eutopia of the future depended on a subset of scientists devoted to human betterment after a massive plunge in population that resulted from the sorts of issues we face at present.
Rpt. as “Review: Science in the Third Millennium.” Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 199-201.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea” - Cherrie L[awrence] Moraga (b. 1952) (Out of the Fringe: Latino/a Theater and Performance, 2000)
Alternative history projected into the twenty-first century. In this future, the U.S. has broken up into a number of small nations, many of which were based on ethnicity, including the Mechicano Nation of Aztlán, which includes some of the northern states of the former México. The new states are initially eutopia but after a second revolution become dystopian with all the traditional hierarchies.
Rpt. in her The Hungry Woman (Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 2001), 1-99, with a “Foreword Hungry for God” by the author (vii-x).
Keywords: Chicana author

Hypothesis - William A. Inglehart (Vantage Press, 2000)
Near future dystopia from a conservative perspective. Most of the novel is concerned with the history leading up to 2001, when Saddam Hussein plans to use biological weapons against his enemies. But he is killed by an Iraqi doctor who could not bring himself to be involved in the slaughter.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Icarus Ascending - Michael Zografakis (Minerva Press, 2000)
Dystopia. Conformity required and creativity punished. Rebellion.
Keywords: Male author

"In Silver A" - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) (Absolute Magnitude, 2000)
Dystopia. Silver A is Silver America, an enclave within what used to be the U.S., which is supposed to be a eutopia but is a dystopia. Non-citizens are forced into the military or used as experimental subjects by scientists.
Rpt. in The Mammoth Book of Future Cops. Ed. Maxim Jakubowski and M. Christian (London: Robinson, 2003), 456-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"In Utopia, Citizens free to turn minds to more creative pursuits" - Richard Dowden (Otago Daily Times (Dunedin, New Zealnd), 2000)
Eutopia. Short essay saying that "his utopia" will allow for greater education and creativity. Proposes that welfare ("the dole") be replaced with Citizen Right (CR) credits that will allow everyone a basic standard of living and, therefore, the freedom to pursue their own interests.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Incognito - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) (Random House Australia, 2000)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Every individual is stamped with a barcode, and the story is about a boy who is made a non-person by having his identity removed from the system.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; US author

"The Juniper Tree" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Science Fiction Age, 2000)
A society, called the Society of Cousins, formed to free women from the dominance of men and located in tunnels on the far side of the moon. The story shows both the eutopia created and its problems, which include discrimination against those perceived as not fitting in, issues of power, and issues of possessiveness and jealousy combined with a very free sexuality presented positively. See 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.
Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 49-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Junk DNA - Tania Glyde (Codex, 2000)
Dystopia produced by genetic engineering.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author

Killing Time: A Novel of the Future - Caleb Carr (Random House, 2000)
Dystopia set in 2023 following massive deaths brought about by poor access to both hygiene and health care when the world is deeply divided between rich and poor nations based on access to information technology with the IT companies the real rulers of the world. Due to strict drug and quality-of-life punishments, two percent of the U.S. population is in prison. Extreme pollution; no fish left.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kokopu Dreams - Chris[topher Ian] Baker (Huia Publishers, 2000)
A post-catastrophe novel in which much of the human race has been destroyed in retaliation for its destruction of nature. The novel follows one survivor as he traverses <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region></st1:place> from the North to the South meeting other survivors (both those who are trying to build renewed lives and those preying on others) until he settles into a community that is creating a healthy new eutopia. The Māori gods are active participants in the action, in initially bringing about the destruction and in both assisting and attacking the surviving remnant. The most successful of the surviving groups are those who are able to access traditional Māori ways of life. See also 2006 Baker. A story by Keri [Ann Ruhi] Hulme, “Getting It,” in her Stonefish (Wellington, New Zealand: Huia Publishers, 2004), 87-104 also shows the catastrophe brought about by the revenge of the Māori gods on human destruction of the environment.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Last Albatross - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) (Simon & Schuster Australia, 2000)
Dystopia brought about by a collapsing ecology. Ecoterrorism in conflict with a growing authoritarianism. See also 2003 and 2004 Irvine.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Last Book in the Universe - Rodman Philbrick (b. 1951) (The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, 2000)
Young adult dystopia set many years after a worldwide earthquake destroyed civilization. The novel is in the form of a quest by a young man, an old man in a society controlled by gangs from one area to another under a different gang. Along the way, a child and a genetically enhanced young woman from Eden, a high-tech enclave completely cut off from the surrounding area, joins them.
. Part originally published as “The Last Book in the Universe.” Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future. Comp. Michael Cart (New York: Scholastic Press, 1999), 9-23 with an “Author’s Note 22-23.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Learning to Mind" - Terry Hayman (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2000)
A future authoritarian dystopia where the state controls child-rearing. Escape to an undescribed anarchist eutopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Lima Beans Would be Illegal: Children's Ideas of a Perfect World (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000)
One sentence descriptions of children's views of a better world.

The Lost Thing - Shaun [Chi Yeong] Tan (b. 1974) (Thomas C. Lothian, 2000)
Dystopia. Picture book in which the post-industrial dystopia is conveyed through the illustrations rather than the words. Ends with an illustration of a paradise of sorts for things that don't belong.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Mammaries of the Welfare State - Upamanyu Chatterjee (b. 1959) (Penguin Books India, 2000)
Satire on the dystopian Indian bureaucracy. Sequel to his English, August: An Indian Story. London: Faber & Faber, 1988.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

The Memory of Fire - George Foy (b. 1952) (Bantam Books, 2000)
Authoritarian dystopia with eutopian anarchist enclaves called nodes or cruces. After one dedicated to the creative life and inhabited by artists, musicians, and writers is destroyed on the coast of South America, the protagonist flees to a similar one in Oakland, California. There she attracts the attention of the authorities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Midnight Robber - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (Warner Books, 2000)
The planet Toussaint has been colonized from the Caribbean and replicated the positive and negative aspects of Caribbean culture. It expels its criminals to the dystopian New Half-Way Tree.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

"Mind's Eye" - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966); Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Spectrum SF, 2000)
Dystopia set in a city built so that the poor live at the bottom and the rich and powerful live at the top. The story is about a young girl leaving the bottom and her experiences at the top.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Multum in Parvo" - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) (Amazing Stories, 2000)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New City. A Novel - Stephen Amidon (b. 1959) (Doubleday, 2000)
An ideal suburban community is created that is specifically designed for racial harmony, but over time the usual personality conflicts and differing needs and desires reveals it to be a better society albeit a flawed utopia. Set in 1973 and based on Columbia, MD, where the author once lived.
Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable - Jan Morris (1926-2020) (Gomer Press, 2000)
Satire. The creation of a truly independent Wales in an alternative history of World War II, which Germany won. The supposed puppet leader chosen by the Germans works to get the Americans and others, who had not fought in the war, to attack and defeat Germany.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author

Outlaw School - [Rebecca Bard] [Brown] (b. 1948) (Eos, 2000)
Dystopia. Authoritarian future controlling all aspects of life. There is a rebel who tries to open up possibilities for improvement.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Paradox - John Meaney (b. 1957) (Bantam Press, 2000)
Violent dystopia. Sequels are Context: Book Two of the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2002; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2005; and Resolution: Book Three in the Nulapeiron Sequence. London: Bantam, 2005; U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2006.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Parallel Highways" - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) (After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror, 2000)
As the anthology sub-title suggests, this is a dystopian horror story of a couple trapped on a Los Angeles freeway travelling constantly at 80 miles an hour hemmed in by trucks and other cars.
Rpt. in The Best of James Van Pelt. (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 17-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pastoralia" - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2000)
Dystopia in which people live in a cave in a zoo pretending to be early humans, which is considered a good job in what is obviously a poverty-stricken future.
Rpt. in his Pastoralia (New York: Riverhead Books, 2000), 1-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Patient Zero” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2000)
Post-apocalypse dystopia (pandemic) as seen by a small boy who has survived but is a carrier and is being kept in a medical facility that is slowly losing its ability to function and its staff.
Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 362-379.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2000)
The third volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, the recovering ecology is collapsing due to global warming and the Pax Femina has become ruthless, particularly in its control of its space colonies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2000)
The fourth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, Earth’s ecology continues to deteriorate, and what is now the Pax Humana, dominated by corporations, is determined to destroy the one space colony, on Callisto, that remains free of its control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2000)
The fifth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and 2001 Cantwell. This volume continues the themes of the earlier ones. Callisto was defeated and its people dispersed, and corporations rule, but the struggle between the Pax Humana and the dissidents continues until the Pax Humana fleet meets a stronger power from outer space.
Keywords: Male author; US author