"Evidence" - Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
The story looks back from a future eutopia to the dystopian past of the twenty-first century, known as the period “Before Silence Broke,” with the period “Breaking the Silence” seen as the beginning of the changes that brought about the eutopia. The eutopia which has eliminated capitalism, money, and private property is an open society where everyone is encouraged to develop in their own unique way with a twelve-year-old from the future writing to the author describing a little of the life.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Exit: The Van Zandt Chronicles - G. Michael Hopf ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Continuation of the series that began with 2013 Hopf, which has the same protagonist. In this series, the protagonist begins to confront a man he came into conflict with in the first series. Described as volume one. See also 2015 Hopf, Nemesis: Inception.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Extracts from DMZINE #13 [January 2115]” - Foo Han Sek (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
After nuclear weapons are used, Malaysia has fractured into zones representing the Ruling Party, Secessionists, and the DMZ (Demilitarized but there are disputes over what the Z refers to). The DMZINE is paper magazine (paper is “the best way to hide information from probes and hacks”) that reports on the conditions there.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author

The Falling Away. Book 1 of the Perilous Times Series - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) (CreateSpace, 2015)
Dystopia of the beginning of the Christian end times with a race war in the U.S., an Ebola epidemic, and the suppression of Christians. Followed by The Great Deception. Book 2 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016 in which the anti-Christ appears; and The Great Tribulation. Book 3 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Feminist Constitution” - Katherine Cross (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Reflections on what a utopian feminist constitution would include. Clauses include “We the people, in Order to Defend Our Humanity” (63), “Establish Justice, Ensure Freedom from Violence, and Freedom to Be” (65), “The Right of a Person to Have Sovereignty Over Their Body Shall Not Be Infringed” (66), “And Liberty of Kith and Self Shall be Secure” (69), “These Rights Shall Not be Subject to the Vagaries of the Market or Depravation” (70), and “All Shall Have a Right to the Conditions Necessary For Life and Dignity” (71).
Keywords: Latina author; Transgender author; US author

“Feminist Utopia Teen Mom Schedule” - Gloria Malone (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Description of a day in the life of a teenage mother in a society that provides support.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Find Me - Laura van den Berg (b. 1981) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Fish on Friday” - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) (Interzone, 2015)
Dystopia that followed Scottish independence in which a socialist government imposes healthy living.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Flamingo Land" - Ruby Cowling (Flamingo Land and Other Stories, 2015)
Dystopia in which a family must meet specified weight standards. If they are collectively too heavy, their wages are cut and if they continue to be overweight, children are removed from the family.
Rpt. in the author's This Paradise: Stories (Norwich, Eng.: Boiler House Press, 2019), 135-60.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Flesh & Wires - Jackie Hatton (Aqueduct Press, 2015)
Complex post-catastrophe novel (alien invasion) that focuses on a small community of survivors, mostly women, facing different aliens who are planning to occupy Earth. The ending suggests that there will be a sequel.
Keywords: Australian author; Dutch author; Female author; US author

“Follicular” - David Ohle (b. 1941) (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
Dystopia of bullying in a world where boys must have facial hair by sixteen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Footsteps in the Sky - J. Gregory Keyes (b. 1963) (Open Road Integrated Media, 2015)
Much of the novel is about conflict among versions of the good life, human and alien. A dominant theme is conflict among humans who come from a Native American Indian background between the old ways and new ones. The book was written in 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Foretelling of Georgie Spider - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) (Walker Books, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 and 2013 Kwaymullina. In this volume, the people with special talents finally win acceptance.
Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2015.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

“The Free Girl Who Is Everything" - Janet Mock (b. 1984) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Feminist utopia in which all women are free and safe.
Keywords: African American author; Hawaiian author; Transgender author

A Free Man or #6ix a pre-apocalyptic dystopia - Michel Basilières (b. 1960) (ECW Press, 2015)
Odd dystopia in which an unreliable narrator visits the future ruled by robots with humans treated like vermin. He appears to get compounds established in which human life is somewhat better, but it is left unclear. Canadian author.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Frost on Glass” - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Frost on Glass, 2015)
An authoritarian, economically poor dystopia exiles all creative people to an island where they are supported as long as they produce work. If they do not, they are returned to the mainland.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Glass Arrow - Kristen Simmons (Tor Teen, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which girls are marketable products.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese American author

Gold Fame Citrus - Claire Vaye Watkins (b. 1984) (Riverhead Books, 2015)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - Chandler Duke (Np, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia in which after the South won Civil War, parts of what had been the United States are controlled by different countries, including Britain and the Soviet Union. The novel also has racial subthemes, with slavery still in existence and the British using the Black Panthers as part of an invasion force.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Half of What I Say - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) (Bloomsbury India, 2015)
A complex novel set in a future India that is trying to police contemporary culture with the aim of eliminating everything that conflicts with the government’s image of India.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

hang - debbie tucker green (Nick Hern Books, 2015)
Play that is best described as Kafkaesque in that it is a trial of sorts in which the victim considers the methods of punishing the perpetrator in her/his presence. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, June 11, 2015, directed by the author.
Keywords: Black author; English author; Female author

Heads or Hearts - Paul Johnston (b. 1957) (Severn House, 2015)
A volume in the series begun in 1997 Johnston and the following four volumes, but this version of the future Edinburgh is going through a significant transition. While the novel has the same main protagonist and a central concern is, as with the others, corruption at the heart of an Edinburgh supposedly modelled on Plato’s Republic, the city has been opened to tourists, and there are plans to reunite with the other city-states that comprise the future Scotland. A sequel set in the same time period is Skeleton Blues. Sutton, Eng.: Severn House, 2016, in which the protagonist is fighting the usual corruption, but the novel ends with a successful revolution. The next novel in the series, Impolitic Corpses. Sutton, Eng.: Severn House, 2019, is set in the post-revolution future with Scotland reunited and reformed, but there is still corruption, greed, and struggles for power. The novel’s ending requires a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Heart Goes Last - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (McClelland & Stewart, 2015)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which some people are given the choice to join Consilience/Positron in which they spend one month in prison and one month in a house, which is used by others when they are in prison.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Heat 30:1 - Douglas E. Congdon (Np, 2015)
First volume of a trilogy followed by 2019 Congdon, Above Sea Level. A third volume, They Are Coming Tomorrow, set between the other novels, has been announced. This volume is a climate change dystopia that has radically reduced the world food supply. The novel is set in Kansas where farmers are struggling to produce food while also ensuring that they treat the land and water so that they can continue to do so.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hit - Delilah S. Dawson (b. 1977) (Simon Pulse, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which a young woman is forced to become a killer by the bank that now owns the United States. The first volume of a series, followed by Strike. New York Simon Pulse, 2016 in which the protagonist of the first volume fakes her death to escape and joins freedom fighters, who may not be much better than the bank, and from whom she also has to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hollow" - Meg Mingus (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
The story is about a future in which all disabled people (known as U.P.s or UnPerfects) have been sent to another planet where they have created a good life for themselves but are threatened with the Perfects, or the ones who sent them, coming to take over and create a new dystopia for them.
Keywords: Female author; Korean author; US author

“Homing Instinct” - Dani McClain (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
Dystopia in which climate change moves the U.S. government to tell people to move to where they want to live permanently with travel no longer permitted. The story focuses on a woman’s decision on how to respond.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“An Honest World” - Catherine Lacey (b. 1985) (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
Dystopia brought about by everyone telling the truth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hot Rods" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (Lightspeed Magazine, 2015)
The story is set in a future drought-stricken Australia in which the only work available for those living outside the wealthy cities of Sydney and Melbourne, where work permits are required for the available work as pool boys and white maids, is contract labor on U.S. military bases. It takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of her 2017 Lotus Blue. A related story is her 2016 “Jericho Blush.”
Rpt. in her Dark Harvest ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 7-25, with a brief author’s note on 25.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"A House of Her Own" - Bo[ukje] Balder (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
Dystopia that developed among human colonists interacting with the alien life forms that grew into houses. Males were culled to keep their population only at the level needed for reproduction.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 85-98.
Keywords: Dutch author; Female author

"The Human Thing" - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) (Sub-Saharan Magazine, 2015)
The story follows human history from 2058 to 2505, during which overpopulation leads to the supposed elimination of all nations and the construction of huge city towers to hold the world’s population under the United Nations, now known as The Human Centre, which is a world government. All people are adequately fed, clothed, and housed, but because nations didn’t really disappear, nuclear war breaks out with Israel eliminating the entire population of Iran and New Arabia destroying Haifa in retaliation. This is then followed by the creation of one world religion, SHINRAH, which, while saying it has eliminated government becomes an all-powerful government.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; Nigerian author

If Then - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (Angry Robot, 2015)
Dystopia in which one English town is protected by the Process from the collapse of society. The Process provides everyone with exactly what they need, but it then begins to manufacture soldiers, who are fated to repeatedly fight World War I battles. Connected with 2007 and 2016 De Abaitua
Keywords: English author; Male author

Immunity - Taylor Antrim (b. 1974). (Regan Arts, 2015)
Dystopia in which a widespread viral infection leads to the health police quarantining anyone with an above-normal temperature.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land” - Robin Wasserman (b. 1978) (The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych, 2015)
Post-catastrophe dystopia seen through the eyes of a very old man who had created the religious basis for the reviving society. Stories that provide background to the dystopia are “The Balm and the Wound.” The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 5-22; and “Dear John.” The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 293-315.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Increasing Police Visibility” - Bogi Takács (b. 1983) (Queers Destroy Science Fiction Lightspeed, 2015)
The story is set in a country in which algorithms are used to supposedly deny entry, but they have at least a two-thirds error rate. But a visible police presence is considered more important because the right wing wants it.
Rpt. GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 47-; Sunspot Jungle Volume 2 [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2020), 436-39; and in his The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2019), 111-15.
Keywords: Hungarian author; Transgender author; US author

“An Indigo Song for Paradise” - Efe Tokunbo Okogu (AfroSFv2, 2015)
Complex dystopia of a future African told from a variety of points of view, both human (hueman in the book) and non-human. The future society has many deep divisions and is extremely violent. At the end the various beings come together.
Keywords: Male author; Mexican author; Nigerian author; UK author

Inevitable: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 1 - Robert Reed (b. 1956) (Trilobite Press, 2015)
First volume of four set in a dystopia focused on war and preparations for war. Sequels are Insatiable: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 2. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016; Ephemeral: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 3. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016; and Everlasting: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 4. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016. All Ebooks. The last volume holds out hope for improvement.
Keywords: Male author

Ink and Bone - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) (NAL/New American Library, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which the Great Library of Alexandria has survived into the modern world and controls all dissemination of knowledge with the individual possession of books illegal. The novel focuses on those who illegally own and trade books. The next three volumes continue the fight against the power of the Great Library. They are Paper and Fire. The Great Library. New York: NAL/New American Library, 2016; Ash and Quill. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2017; Smoke and Iron. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2018. In the concluding volume, Sword and Pen. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2019, the corrupt leaders are overthrown but other attempts to take over the library must be defeated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Intentionality - Rebekah Johnson (Matador, 2015)
Young adult dystopia about a post-environmental catastrophe world where children are brainwashed to conform. The novel focuses on a small number who struggle, successfully, to free themselves and, less successfully, to free others. The ending suggests the possibility of a sequel.
Keywords: Female author

"Interchange" - Elizabeth Poley (Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia of a largely abandoned U.S. where people can transport themselves to other parts of the world to work. The story focuses on a meeting of two women in these circumstances.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Internal Drive” - Heidi Benefiel (Journeys through Time and Space, 2015)
The story is set in a future where Earth is dying, and everyone is being moved to a high-tech sphere. The story is told by the scientist who is given the task of choosing the five, and only five, plants that will be taken to the new habitat. All animals are left behind, and cities are dismantled so that the entire Earth will be available to them.
Keywords: Female author

“Interview with Chloe Angyal” - Chloe [S.]. Angyal (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Romance in a feminist utopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; US author

“Interview with Cindy Ok” - Ok, Cindy (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Feminist utopian education with suggestions for the arrangement of the classroom (circles, pods) to empower students, individualized learning, and recognizing the difference backgrounds that students bring to the class.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

"Interview with Ileanna Jiménez” - Ileanna Jiménez (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Feminist utopian education. Suggests that the curriculum should be built by students and teachers working together in collaboration with students and teachers from other schools. Schools should reflect their communities. Interdisciplinary education. No tests or exams but projects that put into practice what they have learned. Inculcate inclusiveness and international awareness. Teachers would have the time and support to do research.
Keywords: Female author; Puerto Rican author; US author

"Interview with Jessica Luther" - Luther, Jessica (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Gender equal sport in a feminist future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Interview with Lauren Chief Elk” - Lauren Chief Elk (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
The problem of interpersonal violence in a feminist utopia.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

“Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy” - Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (b. 1940) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
In answers to questions about her utopia, the author describes a world where transgender people are considered normal.
Keywords: African American author; Transgender author

“Interview with Suey Park” - Suey Park (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Emotional life in a feminist utopia.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

“An Invisible Tide” - Jo [M.] Thomas (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story is set in a polluted future in Wales, where the algal blooms have destroyed fishing and an invisible tide of toxic gas forces everyone to wear protective gear.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Island of Lost Girls - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (Hachette, India, 2015)
Sequel to 2008 Padmanabhan in which the girl and her father hve escaped India and live of the Island of Lost Girls, where they are having difficulties adapting to the modern world and the girl is having to learn what it means to be a woman.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

Joe Steele - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (DAW Books, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia with an American dictator followed by an even worse dictatorship led by J. Edgar Hoover as the Director of the FBI, who was the actual Director from its founding in 1935 until 1972, having been the Director of its predecessor from 1924 to 1935.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Jubilee: A Seastead Story” - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” and 2013 and 2014 Kritzer. In this story the flawed utopia has turned into a dystopia, but those who choose to live there hope to overcome the dystopia. See also 2015 Kritzer “The Silicon Curtain: A Seastead Story.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Justice" - Mariame Kaba (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Eutopia based on intense community interaction, its disruption by a woman from Earth who commits a murder, and the way the community responds.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“Kafka’s Last Laugh” - Vagabond [Beaumont] (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
Dystopia in which protest is extremely limited and those who are in prison are indoctrinated with the beauties of capitalism and drugged with Contentina. It turns out that laughter defeats the drug.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Kakak" - William Tham Wai Liang (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story, which is primarily about androids and how they are exploited, is set in a future Malaysia deeply divided between rich and poor.
Keywords: Canadian author; Malaysian author; Male author

Keep Mars Weird - Neal Pollack (b. 1970) (47 North, 2015)
The novel opens in an egalitarian eutopia on Earth in which everyone has “Enough,” but young men are bored and travel to an extremely inegalitarian Mars.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lament for the Fallen - Chait, Gavin (Doubleday/Transworld Publishers, 2015)
The novel is set in a West African community when a space craft crashes nearby with a human-like being who has escaped from Tartarus, “a place where hope doesn’t exist” (back cover). As he heals, he helps his rescuers to a better life, but of course complications arise. A novel set after Lament for the Fallen and with some of the same characters is Usan Abasi’s Lament, available at https://gavinchait.com/w/X3zHq2t7da4e/.
Rpt. London: Black Swan/Transworld Publishers, 2017. Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; UK author

"Land of Light" - Stephen Embleton (Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa, 2015)
The story set is set in The Congo in a future eutopian high-tech, unified Africa.
Rpt. in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7680.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Land of Promise. Book 1 of the Counter-Caliphate Chronicles - James Wesley Rawles (b. 1960) (Liberty Paradigm Publishing, 2015)
An anti-Islamic novel that depicts the establishment of a free micro-state eutopia with considerable detail on citizenship, which requires ownership of a minimum of one hectare of land and military service for full citizenship, which gives the individual ten votes. Described as volume one with Piece of Resistance scheduled for late 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Language of Paradise - Barbara Klein Moss (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015)
Critique of utopianism. The novel follows the experiences woman whose husband is influenced by a man hoping to create a eutopia, a eutopia that she finds troubling.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Last Wave" - Ivor W. Hartmann (Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s), 2015)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Zimbabwean author

“Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves” - William Schlesinger (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Essay on how, beginning with premedical education, to improve medical service for women and others “whose have identities have been pathologized, whose health and life quality have been systematically undervalued” (142). Says that “In my feminist utopia, premedical education would be designed to instill an understanding that health care inequality and unequal distribution of life chances are not genetically programmed inevitabilities, but rather the result of structural oppression” (143). Also suggests that medical education needs to be more interdisciplinary and specifically mentions medical anthropology, gender studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Free medical education (243). Access to medical care a fundamental right (144).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Lesbo Island" - Jill Soloway (b. 1965) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Humorous call for the establishment of a women-only state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Lesson - Sowmya Rajendran (HarperCollins India, 2015)
Dystopia satire in which the Adjustment Bureau enforces the Conduct Book but people, and women in particular, still do not always follow the rules, and that calls for additional means to bring them under control.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

“Let Him Wear a Tutu” - Yamberlie Tavarez (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A very brief eutopia of a gender-neutral childhood. See also 1972 Gould.
Keywords: Latina author; US author

Lie of the Land - Michael F. Russell (Polygon, 2015)
Near future post-apocalypse dystopia set in the Scottish Highlands.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Lightning Jack’s Last Ride” - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
The dystopia created by oil running out.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2016. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), 174-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lost Girl - Adam Nevill (b. 1969) (Pan Books, 2015)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

“Love and Prejudice” - Dore, Amatesiro (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2015)
The story is set in a future where same-sex marriages are the norm, and parents have a legal right to forbid marriages.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

Love in the Anthropocene - Dale Jamieson (b. 1947); Bonnie Nadzam (O/R Books, 2015)
A series of stories set in a future in which the natural world is almost entirely created by humans.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Luna: A New Moon - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Tor, 2015)
Dystopia of a future settled moon where a feudal system has been established with various dynasties fighting for control of the moon’s resources. First volume in a series. The second volume is Luna: Wolf Moon. London: Gollancz, 2017. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2017, which follows the complexities of the fighting among the dynasties. The third volume is Luna: Moon Rising. London: Gollancz, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2019, in which continues the struggles with an apparent resolution at the end.
U.S. Ed. New York: Tor, 2017. The U.K. ed. was published a week before the U.S. one.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Madagaskar Plan. A Novel - Guy Saville (b. 1973) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia in sequel to 2011 Saville in which Hitler plans to resettle European Jews in Madagascar and Britain tries to foster a revolt.
U.S. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 2015
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Manhunters" - Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947) (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
The story begins with a woman’s memory of having to escape from a dystopia as a child because she was going to be punished for being smarter than her status permitted. She currently lives as a warrior in a society dominated by women with most, but not all, men having low status.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

MARTians - Blythe Woolston (Candlewick Press, 2015)
Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman suddenly graduated from school when all the public schools are closed to balance the budget within a goal of eliminating all services and therefore all taxes. The society is primarily concerned with consumption with an ignored and mistreated class of workers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Mémé” - Juliana Rew (Clockwise: The Darkest Hour, 2015)
Dystopia in which most older people have died in an epidemic, government has disappeared, been replaced by a single corporation that relies on AIs to organize everything, and the AIs come to rely on the few remaining elders until the economy begins to fail.
Rpt. in Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2019): 71-81.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Morning of My Meat Marking” - Alissa Nutting (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
Brief dystopia in which environmental collapse has eliminated all animals and vegetables and humans have resorted to a organized, structured cannibalism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mother of Eden - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Broadway Books, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Beckett set in the future of the previous one, in which humanity now occupies most of the planet and two empires have emerged, both dominated by men and both claiming descent from the same woman among the early settlers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Mother's Love" - Dayo [Adewunmi] Ntwari (Water: New Short Fiction from Africa, 2015)
The story is set in an evangelical religious dystopia in which adherents of the old religions are being killed. Much fantasy.
Rpt. (Oxford, Eng.: New Internationalist Publications, 2015), 217-31; and in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7855.
Keywords: German author; Male author; Nigerian author; Rwandan author

Murder With Bengali Characteristics - Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021) (Aleph Book Company, 2015)
Murder mystery and humor set in a future dystopian India that is ruled by China.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

“My Own Sound” - Christine Sun Kim (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief depiction of a future where being deaf will not be considered different.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

The Natural Way of Things - Charlotte Wood (b. 1965) (Allen & Unwin, 2015)
Dystopia in which a group of young women are kidnapped, drugged, and imprisoned in an abandoned building somewhere in the outback of Australia. The novel focuses on the growing friendship between two of the women.
U.S. ed. New York: Europa Editions, 2016.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

‘Naw First Minister!’ Irascible Big Nellie Nellis Becomes First Minister . . . pity help Scotland! - Allan Morrison (Luath Press Limited, 2015)
Satire on Scottish politics.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Nemesis: Inception - G. Michael Hopf ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Survivalist dystopia with women as central protagonists. Related to the series that began with 2013 Hopf and 2015 Hopf, Exit in that all begin with a major attack on the U.S. A trilogy is planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Hokkaido - James McNaughton (b. 1968) (Victoria University Press, 2015)
Dystopian alternative history in which Japan did not bomb Pearl Harbor, the U.S. stayed out of World War 2, and Japan occupied New Zealand in 1942. The novel is set during the occupation.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The New US" - Pepe Rojo (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
Dystopia of genetic engineering.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

News from the Clouds - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) (Unbound, 2015)
A volume in a series with 2012 and 2013 Llewellyn in which the protagonist travels to three futures. In this volume, Earth has been devastated by the effects of the environmental policies of the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Nothing grows on the surface of the planet and only a few insects remain. Humans live in cities, called culverts, built to survive 500 kilometers per hour winds and in huge balloon-like “clouds” traveling around the planet. Scientifically and technologically advanced.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future” - Ellen Bravo (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A poor woman cleaner is briefly transported to a future where people like her are fully equal and collectively control their workplace.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Not on My Block: Envisioning a World without Street Harassment” - Giorgis, Hannah (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief essay presenting the eutopia of the title.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Oathkeeper - Troy J. Grice (Prepper Press, 2015)
Survivalist dystopia pitting a local sheriff against the federal government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Occidental Bride” - Benjanun Sriduangkaew (Clarkesworld, 2015)
Lesbian love story set in a dystopia in which to atone for past actions, one woman has to purchase the other as a wife in the hopes that she will attract someone trying to rescue her.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 41-58.
Keywords: Female author; Thai author

Occupied - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) (Author, 2015)
Dystopia based on the occupations of Kurdistan, Palestine, and Tibet.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“October 11” - Chin Ai-May (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story is set in a future, authoritarian Malaysia that is trying to eliminate all genetic defects.
Keywords: Female author; Malaysian author

“One Hundred Years: Machine” - Rafil Elyas (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
Presented as a speech, “Deviant Correction Using Preemptive Neuro-Regulation,” detailing one hundred years of research an implementation of means to “correct” behavior that diverges from conservative Muslim teaching beginning with therapy and incarceration and ending with mandated fetal implantation of a control mechanism.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author

“One Wit’ This Place” - Muthi Nhlema (Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa, 2015)
Climate change dystopia with a secondary theme of the damage of war on individuals.
Rpt. in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7902
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering. A Novel - Jeffrey Rotter (Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Co., 2015)
Dystopia set in a world with a deep division between the rich and poor and little knowledge of past science, particularly astronomy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Orchid Nursery - Louise Katz (b. 1959) (Lacuna, 2015)
Dystopia of complete male domination.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Our Dried Voices - Greg Hickey (b. 1985) (Scribe Publishing House, 2015)
The novel is set in a future eutopia after humans have left Earth and settled on a planet called Pearl where everything is left to machines to decide, and people stop thinking for themselves.
[2nd ed. Royal Oak, MI: Scribe Publishing House, 2017]
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Our Lady of the Open Road” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
The first in a series of stories related to 2019 Pinsker, A Song for a New Day. In this story, the protagonists, a touring rock band, is trying to survive in a future in which there are no large venues and people life isolated lives. The other stories are “A Song Transmuted.” Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow. Ed. Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Erie, CO: Hex Publishers 2016), 151-60; rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018), 35-42; and “Everything Is Closed Today.” Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory. Ed. Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2019), 149-74; rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 79-102.
Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 169-209.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Our New Neighborhood” - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Problems in a suburb that the people had hoped would meet their eutopian expectations. In this suburb the value of the property fluctuates based on constant reports from inspectors who measure the height of the grass, whether the bird feeders are full and other such important measures of the good life. But there are, of course, some actual problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Out of the Storm” - Ian O'Reilly (Solarpunk Press, 2015)
Climate change dystopia focusing on people living at sea and building a cooperative community among themselves that they are beginning to extend to land-based communities.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Outland Exile: Book 1 of Old Men and Exiles - W. Clark Boutwell (iUniverse, 2015)
Dystopia in which the U. S. is divided between the authoritarian Unity that rules the East drugs and implants to control its citizens, who do not have long lives. Beyond its borders are the Outlands, supposedly inhabited by savages, who captures the young female protagonist. The protagonist, a young woman, enters the outlands and discovers that the reality is more complex. First volume of a series followed by Exiles Escape. Book 2 of Old Men and Exiles. Pensacola, FL: Indigo River Publishing, 2018 in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to stay free from both the Democratic Unity and those who had held her in the Outlands. A third volume is projected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Packets in the Tube” - Siddanta Bastola (Journeys through Time and Space, 2015)
The story is set in a future where the combination of the internet and the hyperloop means that anyone can live anywhere and commute to anyplace else and goods can be shipped almost instant anywhere. Presented as eutopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Paragon of Knowledge” - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
A flawed utopia in which everything is supposedly neatly ordered, and everyone cared for, but the old are warehoused in Sunny Senile Centres.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; Zambian author

The Philosopher Kings - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2015)
Sequel to 2014 Walton in which the attempt to create Plato’s Republic has fragmented into a number of “Republics” based on disagreements over what Plato wanted and the belief of some that they know better than Plato what makes for a good society. See also 2016 Walton.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

The Prepper. Part Two: Kings - Karl A. D. Brown (Author, 2015)
Sequel to 2013 Brown. In this volume, the family at the center of the first volume continue to live their hidden life but conclude that they have to join others fighting a plan to exterminate most of the world’s population.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prey - Tom Isbell (b. 1957) (HarperTeen, 2015)
First volume of a young adult dystopia following a catastrophe. The new government in the U.S. raises children to be hunted for sport when they are teens. The second volume, The Capture. New York: HarperTeen, 2016. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2016, follows the protagonists of the first volume as they try to free others. In the third volume, The Release. New York: HarperTeen. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2017, the protagonists of the previous volumes manage, after many more difficulties to win their freedom.
U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2015.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Private Sector - Leigh M. Lane (Eldritch Press, 2015)
Dystopia of corporate corruption that leads to the collapse of government services and their privatization. Prequel to her 2015 World-Mart.
2nd ed. Henderson, NV: Cerebral Press, 2015
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Promised" - Aisteach, Kyle (Little Dystopias. A Collection, 2015)
Post-catastrophe dystopia called the Great Default when government was unable to pay its bills.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Puma Blue. The Complete Saga in One Volume - Stephen Murphy; Michael Zulli (b. 1952) (Dover Publications, 2015)
The story begins in 2000 after a white supremacist group sets off a small nuclear bomb in the Bronx, which no longer exists. The world is technologically advance, but the environment has been badly damaged, and some species have mutated. The primary protagonist is a “fauna agent” or game warden assigned to a reservoir in Massachusetts. Later the story follows him as he leaves government service and travels around the country, and the entire series has a strong environmental message.
Originally published as a comic between 1986 and 1989. The book version also includes “Acts of Faith: A Coda” by Stephen R. Bissette (527-40), “Act of Faith” (541-44) and the “Puma Blues. Number 24 1/2” (545-60).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Quiet Town” - Gurley, Jason (Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Radiant Vermin - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015)
Dystopia based on the housing crisis in the U.K. in which a young couple finds that they can get their ideal home, room by room, by murdering a homeless person. Play first performed February 27, 2015, in Bristol, with its London Opening March 10, 2015.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Raft - Fred Strydom (Umuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa, 2015)
A complex dystopia in which on Day Zero everyone loses their memories. The novel follows one man through his encounters with those trying to control everyone, those trying to help others regain their memories, and other individuals with varied mental powers.
U.S. ed. New York: Talos Press, 2016.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“Raising Generation E [For Empathy]: The Final Frontier of Feminism” - Mindi Rose Englart (b. 1965) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief eutopia based on educating children to be empathetic and using restorative justice.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Rattlesnakes and Men” - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
A satire of gun culture in which everyone in s small town in Georgia is required by law to keep a rattlesnake in their home that has supposedly been bioengineered to not bite family members. One of Bishop’s “Georgia stories.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Red Is the Color of Mother Dirt” - J. Y. Yang (b. 1983) (Athena's Daughters Volume 2, 2015)
Dystopian society on Mars that suppresses and isolates women. One young woman takes a stand against this suppression, wins a first round in court, but loses on appeal and spends time in prison during which she becomes the focuses of a widening rebellion by women.
Keywords: Singaporean author; Transgender author

"Reproductive Supporters" - Justine [Peen] Wu (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A eutopia in which each girl is assigned a “reproductive supporter” at puberty who provides birth control, abortion if needed, and support when the girl chooses to have a child.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

Reset: The ReSociety Book One - Linda Hawley; Paul Hawley (21st Century Publishing, 2015)
First volume of a dystopian series in which many people are surgically altered, and called SurgiAlts, to meet a standard of human physical perfection. Anyone who speaks against the political leaders considered a terrorist. Extreme surveillance with everyone tracked all the time, with all the information shared with the Department of Homeland Affairs. High tech with much of the technology used in surveillance and in security, with examples given regarding airports. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) defines the entire U.S. as a war zone and allows the military to arrest anyone considered a threat. “Terrorists” have no rights, and no trial is needed. One focus is a group of descendants of signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence who have worked to maintain its principles since its signing.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Rex" - Laird Barron (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
After the passing of all humans, an “animal heaven,” or the ideal world that would exist without humans, develops. But time moves in a circle and primitive humans reemerge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Riley Marigold and the Winged Lizards of Tel Aviv” - Kayla Bashe (Solarpunk Press, 2015)
The story is set in a post-climate change world in which in the U. S. the protagonist, a teenage girl, lives in a rural intentional community, and then is moved to Tel Aviv, where she lives in a high rise with community features. Israel is struggling to deal with the results on climate change.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Rites" - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) (One Story, 2015)
An overpopulation dystopia where everyone is expected to arrange their death at seventy and one man who chooses to live.
Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 23-40.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rules for Werewolves. Novel - Kirk Lynn (b. 1972) (Melville House Publishing, 2015)
Dystopia resulting from the housing crisis and set in the mostly empty suburbs of Los Angeles. Gangs of young people hope to build a better society and roam the suburbs plundering the abandoned or otherwise empty properties.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Scroogled” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

The Sellout - Paul Beatty (b. 1962) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
Satire on U.S. race relations in which an African-American man tries to re-introduce slavery and segregation to his local school in a poor small town in southern California. His goal is to improve education and provide for the homeless. Much of the novel is about the case as it is argued before the Supreme Court. African-American author.
U. K. ed. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“Serenade on Lake Ontario” - Rimar, Mike (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia with a Nazi controlled Canada.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Seveneves - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (William Morrow, 2015)
Post-catastrophe novel of the moon breaking up and raining down on Earth. Much of the novel is hard science fiction with most of the text concerned with the science and technology, but the rest is concerned with three sets of survivors, the seven eves who were the survivors of those who were in space, and, unknown to them, two sets of survivors on Earth, one that went underground and the other that went under the sea. The seven eves created seven different genetic lines with different cultures, including one that isolated itself and developed into an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Share and Share Alike” - Wayne Carey (A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar, 2015)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia where equality means no one does anything well.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Short History of Migration in Five Fragments of You” - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2015)
The story depicts points in the lives of a young woman from her time on a slave ship to a future her on a craft about to land on a moon of Jupiter.
Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 5-10, with an author’s note on 255.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; Nigerian author

“The Silicon Curtain: A Seastead Story” - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” and 2013 and 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer “Jubilee: A Seastead Story.” In this story that rebuilding has failed, and people are being evacuated, but, for all the problems, the protagonist of all the stories still thinks of the seastead as her home.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Sliding Doors” - Jasmine Giuliani (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A critique of a recently discovered poem from the late twentieth century before the passage of the Sexual Liberation Act.
Keywords: Female author

“Space, Mk 4 Mod 3” - David Lagerman (Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture, 2015)
Description of a self-sufficient eutopia in a large space habitat with the emphasis on what is necessary for it to succeed but with some on life as lived.
Keywords: Male author

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (b. 1979) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia. A theatre troupe travels around the remaining settlements and the dystopia is seen largely through the eyes of the actors. Includes a religious enclave with a prophet who intends that no one shall leave his community alive. A ten-episode HBO series created by Patrick Somerville premiered December 16, 2021.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Stations" - Nick Mulgrew (Terra Incognita: New Short Speculative Futures from Africa, 2015)
An African heaven in which the colonial rulers and those who exploited the indigenous population are being punished. Something of a flawed utopia.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“Stripped to Zero: Someone to watch over you” - Stephen S. Power (Nature, 2015)
Dystopia of an over-automated future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Subprimes - Karl Taro Greenfeld (b. 1964) (Harper, 2015)
Dystopia of a future U.S. where corporations are all-powerful and the poor, the Subprimes, are dispossessed of everything they once owned and struggle to survive. One focus of the novel is a community established by a group of Subprimes in a town where all the houses have been abandoned. They create what for them is a eutopia and struggle to keep it against the corporations that forced the previous owners out.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Male author

"Summertime" - Anatoly Belilovsky (SF Comet, 2015)
Climate-change dystopia in which Dublin, Ireland is under water.
Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (June 19, 2017). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/06/19/summertime/; and in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media, 2017. EBook.
Keywords: Male author; Russian-American author

Sundogz. a diffusion - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) (Semiotext(e), 2015)
Third volume of a trilogy following 2005 and 2009 von Schlegell. This volume is set on the moons of Uranus where an aquatic world is hidden from the rest of the system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Surfacing - Mark Magro (Jolly Fish Press, 2015)
Young adult dystopia set in an underground facility in a post-nuclear war future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

System: With His Face in the Sun - Jon A. Davidson (Author, 2015)
Dystopia in which a computerized system has become a dictator.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“They Have All One Breath” - Karl Bunker (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2015)
Flawed utopia in which artificial intelligences have stopped war and provide everyone with what they need, and then begin to control human and animal behavior.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Thirteen Ways of Being Looked at by a Blackbird SR71” - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Satire on surveillance society detailing many ways of avoiding surveillance and how they were met.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tiny Dots" - Tuntufye Simwimba (Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa, 2015)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

“The Tip of the Tongue” - Felicia Davin (Queers Destroy Science Fiction, 2015)
Dystopia of a future where the ability to read has been taken away.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 253-67.
Keywords: Bisexual author; Female author; US author

Tlön: Journey to a Utopian Civilization - Aristidis G. Romanos (AuthorHouse, 2015)
Architectural eutopia.
Keywords: Greek author; Male author

“To the Havens” - Ariel Hogan (Flash Fiction Online, 2015)
Climate-change fantasy/dystopia in which elves are enslaved.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Trademark Bugs: A Legal History” - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Reach for Infinity, 2015)
Dystopia in which Big Pharma releases trademarked viruses, makes huge profits from the “cures”, and becomes more powerful than any government.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015. Ed. Rich Horton ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2015), 351-65; in A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction. Ed. Gavin Miller and Anna MacFarlane (Glasgow, Scot.: Freight Books, 2017), 172-92; and in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020), 352-66. EBook.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Transition - R[yan] J[ames] Tomlin (Author, 2015)
The novel is set in a future where, in order to give everyone an even start in life, all children are taken to Nethertower at eleven and stay there until they are eighteen when, “as a complete and independent adult ready to face the outside world, they transition back. During their time there, they must work, earn credits by, among other things, riding bicycles that produce the electricity the powers everything, and rise from Recruit, to Senior, to Elite. Everything in Nethertower is controlled, apparently by technology. Health checks are regular and detailed and identified lacks like vitamins or water intake are immediately provided. This takes up the first part of the book and is mostly untrue. Most who transition die, the outside work is derelict with cannibals, zombies, and a resistance movement.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Trigger Point” - C[aerwyn] A[llegra] Hawksmoor (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story is set in a future in which every soldier is controlled individually and focuses on a female ex-soldier dealing with the effects on her and others.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

Under Ground - [Louis] [Greenberg]; [Sarah] [Lotz] (b. 1971) (Macmillan, 2015)
Dystopia set in a missile silo that has been repurposed as secure condominiums for the wealthy, and conflicts that develop among the inhabitants.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; South African author

“Undercover in Tanah Firdaus” - [Syamsuriatina] [Ishak] (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
In a future Kuala Lumpur, the city is divided horizontally between the rich and poor, who, except for those who work for the rich, are starving and without medical care.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Malaysian author; US author

“Underneath Her Tudung” - Angeline Woon (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story is set in a future authoritarian Malaysia with robots enforcing the restrictive laws and cyborg doctors, with the protagonist one of the doctors.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Malaysian author

"Unexpected Dawn" - Musinguzi Ray Robert (Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa, 2015)
The United African States is the world superpower because it has the only clean water in the world. The story concerns a plot by Texas, Africa’s closest competitor, to destroy Africa’s advantage.
Keywords: Male author; Ugandan author

"Unforgivable" - Aisteach, Kyle (Little Dystopias. A Collection, 2015)
Dystopian prison of the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“An Unremarkable Bar on an Unremarkable Night” - s. c. smith (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
The depiction of an evening among friends who include a woman in a wheelchair, one who is blind, and one who is breastfeeding, and everyone is treated as perfectly normal.
Keywords: US author

“Unusual Suspects” - Tariq Kamal (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story is set in what little remains of a Malaysia that is deeply divided between rich and poor with powerful corporations controlling most of the area but with many hidden, illegal operations that provided needed services to the poor. The story focuses on unapproved technology developed by the corporations that was stolen by the resistance.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author

“The Unveiling” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
Dystopia of a polluted, authoritarian state and the beginning of the revolution that would overthrow it.
Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 51-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia: Three Plays for a Postdramatic Theatre - Claire MacDonald (b. 1954) (Intellect, 2015)
The three plays, the first inspired by J.G. Ballard’s works, depict various dystopian settings and the characters imagine other ones.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Velocipede Races - Emily June Street (EBP/Emily Blue Publishing, 2015)
The story is set in a world where women’s activities are severely restricted, and one woman wants to be a bicycle racer, which is prohibited.
Part of the book was originally published in 2013 by Luminous Creatures Press, an epublisher, and a version of the “Epilogue” was originally published in Bikes in Space. Volume 2  [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] (Portland, OR: Elly Blue Publishing, 2014), 20-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Vestiges of Flames. A Novel - Lyn McConchie (b. 1946) (Lethe Press, 2015)
Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) in which a small group of survivors in Wellington find some others, some of whom join the original group, and some of which the original group kill in order to survive. They gradually make their way to the northwest of Auckland where they create a good society, albeit with continuing problems. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Viral Airwaves - Claudie Arseneault (Incandescent Phoenix Books, 2015)
Authoritarian dystopia and its overthrow in favor of a green future. LGBTQIA characters. A prequel is White Renegade. Np: Author, 2015. 99 pp.
2nd ed. Np: Author, 2016. 467 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Wall That Wasn’t a Wall” - Kris Wlliamson (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story is set in a future Malaysian that has essentially enslaved its foreign workers.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; US author

The Water Knife - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)
Near future dystopia brought about by a shortage of water. A related story is 2014 Bacigalupi, “Shooting the Apocalypse.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ways of the Doomed. Book 1 of the Sun Song Trilogy - Moira McPartlin (Saraband, 2015)
First volume of a planned young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, set in 2089 where there is a deep divide between the Privileged and the Celtic underclass, a boy from the Privileged is forced to live with his grandfather in a penal colony after his parents die.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

We Defy! A Tale Set in the Near Future - Tommy L. Attaway Jr. ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Fed up with regulations from the U. S. national government, some Texans refuse to accept them. Independence! A Tale Set in the Near Future. Np: Author, 2016 shows the route taken to independence. A third volume, Republic! A Tale Set in the Near Future that would describe the Republic of Texas, was announced in Independence but has not appeared.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Welcome to Arcadia” - Julie Zeilinger (b. 1993) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Blogging in a feminist eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) (Catapult Magazine, 2015)
The setting for the story is a climate-change dystopia in which most of Europe and North America are under water, and the European powers have re-colonized Africa, with the French slaughtering the Senegalese and the British establishing a caste system in Nigeria. For a story set in the same future, see Edwin Okolo, “When the Levees Break.” Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 213-26.
Rpt. in her What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 151-74.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Nigerian author; US author

“What the Andromaid Reads at Night” - Ted Mahsun (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story is set in a future authoritarian, secular Malaysian that followed religious wars that tore the country apart, where any religious activity is illegal.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author

“What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like for Parents of Color?” - Victoria Law (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A eutopian neighborhood with children at play where no one is advantaged or disadvantaged by gender, race, or any of the other form of discrimination.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Female author

“When We Had Faith” - Lauri Kubuitsile (Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa, 2015)
Religious dystopia with a movement opposed to it.
Keywords: Botswanan author; Female author

Where We Land - Tim Jones (b. 1959) (Cuba Press Novella Series, 2015)
Dystopia in which New Zealand has become extremely anti-immigrant.
Originally published online as Landfall. Wellington, New Zealand: Paper Road Press, 2015, which is only available onsite at the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library on New Zealand. An excerpt can be found at https://paperroadpress.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/free-excerpt-landfall-tim-jones/
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Why - Dr. [James] Patrick Johnston [D.O.] (b. 1970) (Right Remedy Publishing., 2015)
Survivalist dystopia focusing on the siblings of a family after their parents are killed. The focus of the novel is the possibility that they may lose their faith in God, but, of course, they don’t.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wordsmith - Patricia Forde (b. 1960) (Little Island, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which art and music are banned and everything is rationed, including words.
U.S. ed. as The List. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2017
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

World-Mart - Leigh M. Lane (Cerebral Press, 2015)
Dystopia in which corporations control all aspects of life. See also a prequel, 2015 Lane, The Private Sector, and a sequel, 2015 Lane, Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The 1000 Year Reich” - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (Squirrel, Reich, and Lavender. Bonus Stories, 2014)
Satire in which three powers vie with each other, the remnant of the US, the Japanese, and the German Reich, each with a settlement on the moon. Reich refers both to the German Reich and Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957).
Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng].: NewCon Press, 2016), 15-34 with an author’s note on 34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

10:04. A Novel - Ben[jamin] Lermer (b. 1979) (Granta, 2014)
The novel takes place against the minimal background of a developing climate-change dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Faber and Faber, 2014
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084 - Dirk Strasser (The World to Come, 2014)
Dystopia in which people can be controlled by implants in the brain.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“2121 AD: Sustainable Cities of the Future" - Alan Marshall (b. 1969) (Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, 2014)
Pictures of the future, generally positive, of Wellington, New Zealand; Minsk, Belarus; Los Angeles; Singapore; Accra, Ghana; Salvador, Brazil; and New Amundsen, Antarctica in 2121 after global warming and other changes has forced major changes in the way cities are design and people live.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“The 3 Little Pigs: Part 2” - Ric Driver (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume One], 2014)
Utopian satire in which the pigs build a straw bale house, and the wolf becomes a gardener.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Abattoir Blues” - James A. Moore (b. 1965) (Piercing the Darkness: A Charity Anthology for the Children’s Literacy Initiative, 2014)
The story is set in a post-collapse future where gladiatorial contests are used to decide legal disputes and who gets medical care.
Rpt. in The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation. Ed. Matt Bechtel (Haverill, MA: Haverill House, 2020), 79-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

ACID - Emma Pass (Delacorte Press, 2014)
Authoritarian dystopia based on a violent police force known as ACID or the Agency for Crime Investigation and Defence.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“After the Water: Show Me the Well” - Kristiana Rae Colón (b. 1986) (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
The story is set in Detroit, supposedly one hundred years in the future but sounding contemporary, with water cut off from the African American community and bureaucracy going out of its way to make it difficult to get reconnected.
Keywords: African American author; Latina author

“After the Water: Straws” - Rebecca Adams Wright (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
The story is set in a future when water is being siphoned off by private interests and the ecosystem and the people that depend on it are desperate. Ecoterrorists plot to restore the balance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The Floating of New Chicago” - Tricia Bobeda (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
Chicago in the future divided by class and water, with the rich living on an island in Lake Michigan and the poor “wet-workers” left in the city. Read by the author. For an interview with the author, see https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-an-interview-with-author-tricia-bobeda. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The Last Cribkeeper” - Peter Orner (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series., 2014)
The story is about the reminiscences of an old man who had been a keeper of one of the water intakes that controlled the quality of Chicago water.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“After the Water: The Way of the River” - Roxane Gay (b. 1974) (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series., 2014)
Dystopia in which Chicago had been badly reengineered, earthquakes are constant, and the only water available is the little that is distributed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The World After Water” - Abby Geni (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series., 2014)
The story is set in a future in which four boys must steal water from the wealthy who live on higher ground.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: Thirst” - Max Andrew Dubinsky (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
Dystopia of California running out of water, and then the rest of the West and Southwest.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“After the Water: Water Men” - Tim Akimoff (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
The story is set in the U.S. and Canada after the water wars when the decisions were made to control the Great Lakes watershed which made the area became a dominant world power with positive and negative results. The area secedes from both Canada and the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Afterparty - Daryl Gregory (b. 1965) (Tor, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future in which new drugs can be created at home, and their use causes social and psychological problems, and one changes people’s religious beliefs
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Aipotu” - Aleksandra Kokora (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
A brief eutopia that has a hereditary ruler but is a free and radically decentralized society. Serbian female author.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

The Allegiance Device. Rebellion. Book 1 - Darrell Maloney (Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2014)
Dystopia in which the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is turned into a tool of the government to suppress dissent. It simply arrests and executes dissenters. There is a plan to implant everyone with a device that allows them to be followed at all times and be remotely executed. Intended to be the first volume in a series, but no more appear to have been published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“And Then It Rained” - Rebecca Freeman (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
Climate-change dystopia with Aboriginal themes set in Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“And These were the Names of the Vanished” - Rochita Loenen-Ruiz (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic, 2014)
Dystopia in which a democratically elected leader allows a colonial power, called the “Compassionate,” to take over his country and then enslave his people.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.
Keywords: Dutch author; Female author; Filipina author

“Anixitopia” - Vesna Savić; Viktor Sakać (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief eutopia “Anixitopia” comes from the Greek and means “the land of spring” and was established first on Madagascar and then in space. There are three leaders, “the Man of Science, the Woman of Religion, and the Man of Society.”
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Serbian author

"Arcadia" - Naida Rastoder; Ilda Ramović (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief Arcadian eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; Serbian author

"Bad Bodies" - K. G. Nderitu (Will This Be a Problem: The Anthology, 2014)
The story is set in Kenya in 2199 when the country is a corporate monarchy.
Keywords: Kenyan author

“Baggage” - Lisa L. Hannett; Angela [Gaye] Slatter (b. 1967) (The Female Factory, 2014)
Dystopia of a future in which few women are fertile, and technology has made it possible for poor, fertile women to carry the fertilized eggs for a number of different wealthy couples at the same time. The story is told from the viewpoint of one of the poor, fertile women.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Bald New World - Peter Tieryas (b. 1979) (Perfect Edge Books, 2014)
Dystopia set in a world in which all humans lose all their hair.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Male author

Barricade - Jon Wallace (Gollancz, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which a continuing war has broken out between reengineered humans who were designed to create a better future and Reals, unmodified humans. Much of the world has been destroyed in the process. Sequels include Steeple. London: Gollancz, 2015 and Rig. London: Gollancz, 2016.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Bartleby the Scavenger” - Katie Boyer (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future society that is poor and kills “non-contributing” members when they reach sixty.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Because I Prayed This Word" - Alex Dally Macfarlane (Strange Horizons, 2014)
A eutopian city welcoming to lesbians discovered by an illiterate nun in a medieval convent. There are references to Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405), but the cities are different.
Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-because-i-prayed-this-word/ Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2015: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Jean Roberta and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2015), 161-73.
Keywords: English author; Female author