Brennan - Bernard Knight (b. 1931) (Robert Hale, 2003)
Post-catastrophe dystopia. Stress on conflict among factions with one group rebuilding a decent society.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Random House, 2003)
Mildly dystopian young adult novel of a dying underground city and the struggle of two young people to find the way out. Her The Prophet of Yonwood. New York: Random House, 2006 is a prequel See also 2004 and 2008 DuPrau.
The City of Ember. Deluxe Edition. the first Book of Ember. New York: Random, 2013, includes “Introduction to the Deluxe Edition” (ix-xii) and “On the Day of the Bombs” (277-92) , which gives the background to the establishment of the city of Sparks, the focus of the second volume in the series, and, inside the back cover, a poster.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Clade - [Robert] Mark Budz (b. 1960) (Bantam Books, 2003)
Future dystopia set mostly in San Jose, California. Genetic engineering, drugs, violence, and struggles for power. Crache. New York: Bantam Books, 2004 is a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Cleansing Fire of God" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (Strange Horizons, 2003)
The Earth is divided among religious dystopias and at least one secular society, and they are in competition to reach the moon, where an alien spacecraft has crashed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Clone Rangers - Laybourn, Emma (Anderson Press, 2003)
Authoritarian dystopia with cloned animals. Children's book.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Coalescent: Destiny's Children Book One - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) (Gollancz, 2003)
The first volume in a series that includes an isolated religious sect that has survived from Roman times and created a eutopian community. See also Exultant. Destiny’s Children 2. <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: Ballantine Books, 2004; Transcendent: Destiny’s Children 3. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005 which has two parallel stories, one of an earth deeply affected by global warming and another set in the far future with a young woman being prepared to join the “Transcendence”, the next step beyond the limits of humanity (during which she visits a Coalescent planet, which is reminiscent of Wells’s 1901 First Men in the Moon), but the Transcendence is rejected and dies; and Resplendent: Destiny's Children: Book 4. <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>: Gollancz, 2006, which is a linked set of stories illustrating aspects of the series. The stories, all revised, are: “Cadre Siblings.” Interzone, no. 153 (March 2000): 6-18. Resplendent (5-19; Paper ed. 5-20), which gives a bit of the dystopia created on Earth by an alien invasion; “Conurbation 2473.” Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: Roc, 2003), 58-69. Resplendent (20-31; Paper ed. 21-33) which begins with more detail of the dystopia but shifts immediately to the dystopias created by humans in the overthrow of that dystopia and the imposition of their own, which is overthrown and another human dystopia created, and so on; Reality Dust. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Leeds</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region></st1:place>: PS Publishing, 2000. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2002 bound with Paul McAuley, Making History. The items are bound back-to-back and separately paged. Resplendent (32-80; Paper ed. 34-86), which continues the conflict among humans and the dystopia they have created; “All in a Blaze.” Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Ed. Janis Ian and Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: DAW Books, 2003), 292-301. Resplendent (81-90; Paper ed. 87-97), in which humans prepare to travel outside the solar system; “Silver Ghost.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24.9 (296) (September 2000): 84-95. Resplendent (93-106; Paper ed. 101-15) on alien contact; “The Cold Sink.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.8 (307) (August 2001): 36-45. Resplendent (107-17; Paper ed. 116-27) on war; “On the Orion Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24. 10 & 11 (297 & 298) (October/November 2000): 62-86. Resplendent (118-51; Paper ed. 128-63) on war; “Ghost Wars.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 30.1 (360) (January 2006): 98-126. Resplendent (152-89; Paper ed. 164-204) on war; “The Ghost Pit.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 62-73. Resplendent (190-204; Paper ed. 205-20) on war; “Lakes of Light.” Constellations: The Best of New British SF. Ed. Peter Crowther (<st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: DAW Books, 2005), 57-77. Resplendent (207-23; Paper ed. 223-41) on the discovery of a sun inhabited by posthumans who have a simple agricultural society, which is implied to be eutopian but with no real detail; “Breeding Ground.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.2 (325) (February 2003): 10-27. Resplendent (224-47; Paper ed. 242-67) on war; “The Dreaming Mould.” Interzone, no. 179 (May 2002): 16-20. Resplendent (248-60; Paper ed. 268-81) on war; “The Great Game.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.3 (326) (March 2003): 58-71. Resplendent (261-79; Paper ed. 282-301) on war; “The Chop Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.12 (335) (December 2003): 70-91. Resplendent (283-312; Paper ed. 305-36) on war; “In the Un-Black.” Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Al Sarrantonio (New York: ROC, 2001), 201-17. Resplendent (313-30; Paper ed. 337-56), which is a dystopia of the Coalescent style; Riding the Rock. Harrogate, England: PS Publishing, 2002. Resplendent (331-74; Paper ed. 357-404) on war; Mayflower II. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Harrogate</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region></st1:place>: PS Publishing, 2004. Resplendent (377-438); Paper ed. 407-73); rpt. in The Year’s Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005), 405-49 with an editor’s introduction on 404, which describes a multi-generation starship evolving a number of societies over thousands of years, from the initially eutopian gradually in a more and more dystopian direction; “Between Worlds.” Between Worlds. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Science Fiction Book Club, 2004), 1-59. Resplendent (439-94; Paper ed. 474-533) about post-humans; and “The Siege of Earth.” Previously unpublished. Resplendent (497-546; Paper ed. 537-90) about post-humans.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Coolton Ascent - Rebecca J. Cunningham (Blujah Books, 2003)
Dystopia. Environmental destruction. Story told in flashbacks and flashforwards from the 1960s to the mid-21st century. Stress on corrupt journalism and political spin.
Keywords: Female author

Darwin’s Children - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Del Rey/Ballantine, 2003)
Sequel to Darwin’s Radio. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1999, which concerned the discovery of the DNA that brought about the disease that resulted in the children. The volume includes an “Afterword” (419), “A Short Biological Primer” (422-23) and a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (423-27). The advanced children described in that novel have matured and ae threatened by those who resent their powers. As a result, they are interned in special schools and targeted by bounty hunters as part of a plan to eliminate them. The volume includes “Caveats” (375-76), a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (377-83), and “A Brief Reading List” (385-87).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dear Abbey - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (PS Publishing, 2003)
Time travel tale which takes two people through many future stops to the end of the human race millions of years in the future. The first stops include environmental catastrophes, while later stops briefly depict eutopias built on the ruins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2003)
Humorous eutopia and dystopia where people live in Disney World, which has been maintained as it was but is now part of a world without death or scarcity. But other people take it over and use its displays, enhanced and changed, to control people.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Drop City - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) (Viking, 2003)
The novel uses the name of an actual intentional community but has little to do with that community. The community the novel presents is dystopian in all the ways that the Sixties communities were assumed to be but rarely were, a depiction disputed by those who lived there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Electraglade - Chris[topher] Firth (b. 1962) (SINAP, 2003)
Authoritarian dystopia. Linked stories selected by Andrew Motion and Anne Fine for the Arts Council Writers Award 2000. Future of poverty and violence. Electraglade is a computer game that is addictive.
All stories previously published in the following outlets: Quality Women’s Fiction; Metropolitan; Aquarius Short Story Collection; Tubthumping; Dreamcatcher; Hocus Pocus Hullabaloo; Gamad www. gamad.htm; and Texts’ Bones: Proto-Volume, The Ready Made Issue www.skrev-press.com.
Keywords: Male author

End of State. Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series - Neesa Hart (Tyndale House Publishers, 2003)
First volume of a spinoff from 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins following the political results of the Rapture (See 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). The other volumes are Impeachable Offense: Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2004; and Necessary Evils: Based on the Best Selling Left Behind® Series. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Enemies Foreign and Domestic - Matthew Bracken (b. 1957) (Steelcutter Publishing, 2003)
The U.S. government uses a rigged attack on people in a football stadium as an excuse for confiscating all assault weapons and more generally restricting freedom. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Domestic Enemies. The Reconquista. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2006, the U.S. begins to fall apart and loses the Southwest, which becomes a separate nation called Aztlan. The third volume, Foreign Enemies and Traitors [Cover adds The Greater Depression and Civil War 2]. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2009, focuses on the struggle to defend the U.S. Constitution during Civil War and economic depression.
7th ed. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2009.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Etched City - K[irsten] J. Bishop (b. 1972) (Prime Books, 2003)
A fantasy novel that includes an authoritarian dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 2003. [New ed.] New York: Bantam Spectra, 2004. Although there is no indication in the book, in conversation the author said that there are changes in the latest edition and that this is her preferred version.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"General Density" - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) (Challenging Destiny, 2003)
Dystopian background to a science story. The dystopia developed after both the world economic and environmental systems collapse. Most people left for space colonies around the Earth.
Rpt in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology. Ed. Chris DiMarco (Port Orchard, OR: Fandom Press, 2005), 303-22; and in his Counting Tadpoles (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 173-91.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Goorg-Chee: A Sci-Fi Quest for Freedom - C. G. Sherrow (iUniverse, 2003)
Most of the novel is taken up with the gradual meeting of aliens from various civilizations, but it ends with suggestions for bringing about cooperation among the various civilizations.
Keywords: Male author

"The Green Leopard Plague" - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2003)
Eutopia brought about through cloning and biotechnology. Set in the same universe as 1997 Williams.
Rpt. in his The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 107-63 with an "Afterword" on 164-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Greetings" - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (SciFiction, 2003)
A story with a theme similar to Trollope’s (1881-2) “The Fixed Period” and others in which there is an agreement to die at a certain age and the effects on people as they approach that age to die, including, in this case, a resistance movement. In the story, people are chosen by lot for the Sunset Brigade and are informed ten days before they must appear. Many people who are terminally ill volunteer, but improved medical care for the young, means that the age at which people are chosen must be lowered, with the man chosen in the story being 70. A “hemlock kit” is provided for those who choose to die at home.
Rpt. in his Greetings and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2005), 191-276.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Happiness Code - Amy Herrick (Viking, 2003)
The effects of finding a gene for happiness focusing on one family that finds a "perfectly happy baby" in its back garden.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hard Choices - Carole Hayman (b. 1945) (Aurora Metro Press, 2003)
Dystopian near future which functions as an attack on New Labour.
In 2002 it was posted on the web at http://www.hardchoices.co.uk claiming that it could not find a publisher due to political pressure.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Hard Times" - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2003)
Dystopia. An extreme version of owing the company store in that it control your genitals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heligoland - Shena Mackay (b. 1944) (Jonathan Cape, 2003)
Communal fiction and the search for utopia about a building designed on “modernist and utopian principles” and its inhabitants in South London in the 1930s.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

A Hill of the Ravens - H[arold] A[rmstead] Covington (b. 1953) (1st Books, 2003)
Dystopia at the end of the twenty-first century in a North America that has broken up into separate enclaves based on ethnicity or ideology. The Southwest is Aztlan, a Spanish-speaking state. The Northwest to Alaska is a white, fascist dictatorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Holy Land - Robert Zubrin (b. 1952) (Polaris Books, 2003)
Dystopia. Satire on current world politics.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Holy Machine - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Cosmos Press, 2003)
Technological dystopia set in a future of religious conflict, both between religions and between the religious, some of whom established a fundamentalist Christian theocracy in the U.S., and the non-religious. There is also a robot messiah which is worshipped.
Rpt. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Hummingbird Saint - Hector Macdonald (Michael Joseph, 2003)
A philanthropist has created his own utopian community governed by a strict moral code. He has promised financial aid to anyone who can satisfy him of their good character.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Hyperthought - M[ary] M. Buckner (Ace Books, 2003)
Ecological and corporate dystopia set in 2125 with the only people in the world in the Arctic, the dystopia, and in the Antarctic, where there is a small community of free people. Has a subtheme of the problems brought about by a process for supposedly improving brain function. Includes a small community of free people. See also 2004 Buckner.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"I Feed the Machine" - Del Stone Jr. (Living without a Net, 2003)
Dystopia in which love is forbidden and homosexual love is "an abomination".
Keywords: Male author

The Identity of Diaconis Eprom - Laurence Howard (Creative Arts Book Co, 2003)
The novel focuses on a project to fight terrorism by developing a method for accurately predicting the future but evolves into a process by which humanity makes the next, positive step in evolution. The main character is based on J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67), the scientific director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb.
Keywords: Male author

In & Oz - Steve Tomasula (Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2003)
A somewhat surrealistic dystopia describing two flawed cities, representing current reality and dreams of a better place, and the way five people, all artists in one way or another, move between them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In the Presence of Mine Enemies - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (New American Library, 2003)
Alternative history in which National Socialists dominate.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Incompetence: A Novel of the Far Too Near Future - Rob Grant (Gollancz, 2003)
Dystopia of a future where incompetence is a protected category along with gender, race, etc.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Jennifer Government - Max Barry (b. 1973) (Doubleday, 2003)
Humorous corporate dystopia where people take their surnames from the name of the corporation they work for, taxes are illegal, and the police have been privatized and are expected to make a profit by billing for crime detection.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Jesus Freaks" - Jennifer [Mitchell] Roberson (b. 1953) (Women Writing Science Fiction as Men, 2003)
Jesus returns regularly to various times and places for brief periods to try to correct faults being made in his name. In this case, it is to a religious dystopia dominated by Christian fundamentalists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Jon" - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2003)
Dystopia in which most children are raised in a controlled environment where they help develop products contrasted with an outside world in which people are free to live in families but have more difficult lives.
Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2003. Ed. Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan (New York: iBooks, 2004), 149-83; and in his In Persuasion Nation. Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 23-61.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale" - [Yves] [Meynard] (b. 1964); [Jean-Louis] [Trudel] (b. 1967) (Witpunk, 2003)
Take off on "Little Red Riding Hood" set in a violent dystopian future split between a decayed suburb and a re-greened city controlled by animals.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Liberal Masters. A Satire - David L. Hale (Elderberry Press, 2003)
Sequel to 2000 Hale in which authoritarian “liberals” from another planet invade Earth and the resistance that develops. Considerable humor.
Keywords: Male author

"Line of Defence" - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) (Aurealis (Australia), 2003)
Dystopia of Homeland Security.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Looking Through Lace" - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2003)
A feminist eutopia with female and male languages.
Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2003), 131-86.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Magister - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) (Spinsters Ink Books, 2003)
Book Two of Earthkeep. See 2002 Gearhart. In the first volume all the animals in the world had disappeared; in this volume the children begin to die. The novel focuses on the developing understanding of the need to abolish all authority structures. At the end, both the children and the animals reappear. New Age anarchism. A third volume, The Steward, was announced but disappeared from the author’s website. The author’s best-known book is The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women, 1978.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Mask and the Maze" - Bannerman, K[im] (Aphelion, 2003)
A eutopia created by one wealthy capitalist proves boring to him, and he plays the Minotaur in the maze. The eutopia is largely in the background.
Rpt. in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, no. 7 (2005): 8-37.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Maul - Tricia Sullivan (b. 1968) (Orbit, 2003)
Violent dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Memini - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) (Prime Books, 2003)
Satire. A dystopian future with the mentally damaged in power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Messages from the Hollow Earth - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) (Trafford, 2003)
New Age eutopia. See also 1996 and 2000 Robbins.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Midnight Lamp - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2003)
Sequel to 2001 and 2002 Jones. In this volume, the Green Nazi's have been defeated and the action moves to Mexico and North America. Mostly fantasy.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Milan - Nick Sturley (b. 1967) (Trafford, 2003)
In 2030, with signing a recognized language, a deaf teacher of history in the London Model Deaf School, is teaching his last class before retirement. In it he tells a story about the struggle against oralism, an attempt to impose oralism, the requirement that the deaf speak and cannot sign. In the novel, the story is fantasy and science fiction, but it was inspired by the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf held in Milan in 1880 that concluded that speech rather than signing was the best approach to deaf education. The delegates from Great Britain and the United States voted against the resolutions. There was only one deaf delegate to the conference. Signing was banned in many schools for the deaf and deaf teachers lost their jobs. Some schools chose to keep signing, and, of course, many deaf students continued to sign among themselves. The novel ends with the suggest that attempts to impose oralism will continue. There is a “Visual Glossary” illus. Adam Hoy on 212-33 of “Key Characters” (214-21) and Architectural Features (223-33).
Keywords: Deaf author; English author; US author

"Nimby and the Dimension Hoppers" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2003)
Satire but includes a future in which houses are grown from seed. The story is set in Canada and the author is Canadian.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"No Solace for the Soul in Digitopia" - [Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020) (Living without a Net, 2003)
Presents what can be considered a sexual eutopia in a world of multiple realities.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) (Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction, 2003)
Flawed eutopia in which one can have everything one could want for nine days in exchange for one day of hell.
Rpt. in Nebula Awards Showcase 2005: The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America®. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (New York: Roc, 2005), 227-47; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 431-49; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 431-49.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The One and the Golden Circle - Don Allen Beene (1936-2012) (iUniverse, 2003)
New Age novel presenting the dystopia of contemporary and near future Haiti with the suggestion of a eutopian future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“One Rainy Day in a Circus Far Away” - Craig Cormick (Elsewhere: An Anthology of Incredible Places, 2003)
Dystopia where all the women have disappeared.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Oryx and Crake - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (McClelland & Stewart, 2003)
Dystopia. Most of the novel is set in a post-catastrophe future, but some is set in the dystopia of our day and a near future dystopia of corporate competition over genetic manipulation, which leads to the catastrophe. See also 2009 and 2013 Atwood.
U.S. ed. as Oryx and Crake. A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Other Cities - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) (Small Beer Press, 2003)
Collection of very short descriptions of imaginary cities. Given how short each description is, it is impossible to treat any single one as utopian, but collectively there are a number of utopian and dystopian motifs present.
All but one, "The City of Peace", were previously published; "The White City" was published in Vestal Review, no 9 (April 2002) [www.vestalreview.net] and the rest in Strange Horizons (September 17, 2001; October 15, 2001; November 19, 2001; December 17, 2001; January 21, 2002; February 18, 2002; March 18, 2002; April 15, 2002; May 20, 2002; June 17, 2002; July 15, 2002; August 19, 2002) [www.strangehorizons.com].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Out from the Darkness - Richard Thomas (Goodread Books, 2003)
Authoritarian dystopia as a setting for an adventure novel. The dystopia is one of a growing tyranny in Britain that treats its opponents as mentally ill.
Keywords: Male author

“Out of Plato’s Cave” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (Aphelion, 2003)
The story is set in a future where many people are living underground to escape radiation and is told from the perspective of a young boy with cancer who is attracted to the surface.
Rpt. in the author's J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia (Np: [J. Alan Erwine, 2016]), 64-69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Parecon: Life After Capitalism - Michael Albert (b. 1947) (Verso, 2003)
Non-fiction that includes a section on "Daily Life in a Participatory Democracy" (171-230) that is eutopian. See also 2017 Albert.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Passion for Dead Leaves: Third Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers - John David (b. 1955) (1st Books, 2003)
Dystopia. Third of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume is particularly concerned with the struggle against an Empire and a colonial system. See also 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Pier Pressure" - Christina Lake (Interzone, 2003)
Dystopia in which England has retreated to ten seaside piers. Cloning.
Keywords: Female author

The Pillowman - Martin [Faranan] McDonagh (b. 1970) (Faber and Faber, 2003)
Dystopia focusing on a writer in a totalitarian state.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Project Utopia 2030 - R. Norman Johnson (1st Books, 2003)
A novel that sets the Christian conflict between good and evil in a high-tech future ending with Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.
Keywords: Male author

"The Rule of Terror" - Dominic Green (b. 1967) (Interzone, 2003)
Future dystopia of violence, mass suicide, environmental degradation, and state terror.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Runaways" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction, 2003)
Anthropological science fiction describing a multi-generational extended family (both related and not related) that originated as runaways and now exists in the interstices of a collapsed, dystopian world. The runaway society has eutopian elements to it.
Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 213-33; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 415-33.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Saturn - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003)
A trip to Saturn from an Earth that is a religious dystopia. The religious leaders infiltrate the crew in an attempt, which fails, to establish the same regime on Saturn.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Say Hello to Jupiter: The Memoirs of BB Boris - Bouqueret, Boris (Xlibris, 2003)
A visitor for a future eutopian Jupiter stuck on the contemporary Earth comments on its negative features, particularly the environmental crisis, and compares it to the better Jupiterian system.
Keywords: Male author

Seventh Seal: A Novel of the Last Days - Jessica Draper; Richard Draper (Covenant Communications, 2003)
Dystopia of the end of the world in Revelations from a Mormon perspective. First volume of a trilogy. This volume introduces the subject. In the second volume, Rising Storm: The Seventh Seal Epic Continues. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004, natural and human disasters escalate. The final volume, Final Hour: The Dramatic Conclusion to the Seventh Seal Epic. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004, volume takes the story to Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Sex Life. A Novel - [Gary] [Hardwick] (b. 1960) (HardBooks, 2003)
Flawed utopia. A high tech eutopia with a disease that kills if people don't have sex five times a day. Said to be the first volume of a trilogy.
Keywords: Male author

Singularity Sky - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Ace Books, 2003)
Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is Iron Sunrise. New York: Ace Books, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"A Small Planet of Our Own" - T[erri] E[llen] Merritt-Pinckard (Sci-Fi Womanthology, 2003)
Lesbian eutopia on a planet settled only by lesbians.
Keywords: Female author

Snare: A Novel of the Far Future - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) (Tor, 2003)
Islamic fundamentalists control a planet. Includes an attempt at reform
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2003.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Soon: The Beginning of the End - Jerry B[ruce] Jenkins (b. 1949) (Tyndale House Publishers, 2003)
First volume of the Left Behind Soon Series, a spinoff from 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins. This series has been renamed the Underground Zealot Series. In this volume religion is outlawed. Sequels include Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2004, in which the persecuted church has gone underground; and Shadowed: The Final Judgement. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2005, in which God intervenes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Cambrian Publications, 2003)
Eutopia and dystopia. Begins in the Amana colonies on the day of their becoming a joint stock company but has nothing else to say about the colonies. Family history from then into the near future. Future Hoboken is initially mildly dystopian and then is briefly partially transformed into a eutopia by the introduction of labor based money.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Stanley Cup Caper" - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) (The Toronto Star, 2003)
Dystopia. A future Toronto that exists in a divided Canada. High technology with heavy pollution. All North American cities are surrounded by huge security fences.
Rpt. in his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 127-30.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A State of Disobedience - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) (Baen, 2003)
Eutopia. Thinly disguised right-wing political tract. Includes a set of amendments to the U.S. Constitution including most of the goals of the U.S. far right.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Sunburnt Country - Andrew Sullivan (b. 1968) (Ginninderra Press, 2003)
Dystopia of a future Australia following an ecological catastrophe in which there is no rain for over thirty years. Australia disintegrates into city states, and Melbourne becomes an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Super Flat Time. Stories - Matthew Derby (Little Brown, 2003)
Dystopia. Linked stories about a period of violence and attempts to remember the past at stages of the future.
Parts previous published as “Home Recordings.” 3rd Bed, no. 2 (Spring-Summer 2000) http://calamaripress.com/3rdBed/3rd_Bed_Issues.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Behavior Pilot.” Failbetter (Brooklyn, NY), no. 5 Posted February 18, 2002; http://failbetter.com/05/Behavior%20Pilot.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Instructions.” 5 Trope, no. 13 (May 2002) http://webdelsol.com/5_trope/13/derby.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; and “Sky Harvest.” Pindeldyboz 3 (Fall 2002): 1-6. “Joy of Eating.” Conjunctions; “The Father Helmet.” Fence; “The Boyish Mulatto.” American Journal of Print; and “Meat Tower.” Elimae (nd). http://www.elimae.com/fiction/derby/tower.html. Accessed March 13, 2010.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Surge” - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) (Elsewhere: An anthology of incredible Places, 2003)
Far future dystopia reflecting the effects of climate change and rising ocean levels.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Surrender or Die - Brian Harding ([Author], 2003)
Dystopia and the beginnings of a better life. China attacks England with small nuclear bombs. After an initial surrender, England and other countries fight back and defeat the Chinese. The peaceful new world has few fossil fuels left, but begins to rebuild a simpler, better society.
Keywords: Male author

Terminator Gene - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) (Earthlight, 2003)
Ecological dystopia. Middle volume of three that the author wrote concerning ecological and related issues. See also 2000 and 2004 Irvine. This volume focuses on the dangers of a virus that could end all life on Earth.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

There Will Be Dragons - John Ringo (b. 1963) (Baen, 2003)
Technological eutopia in which all needs are met until the council controlling the technology starts warring against itself. Those who lived off the net provide the basis for rebuilding. Sequels include Emerald Sea. New York: Baen, 2004; Against the Tide. New York: Baen, 2005; and East of the Sun, West of the Moon. New York: Baen, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tomorrow Station" - Daniel Ksenych (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2003)
A world of multiple realities.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Tritcheon Hash - Sue Lange (Metropolis Ink, 2003)
All the women of Earth left and establish a new all-female society on another planet, with female and male babies exchanged annually with the men of Earth. The new society has been very successful, while the men have continued to fight and damage Earth. With the unacknowledged help of the women, the men of Earth begin to recover.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Twenty-First Century. A Novel - Bruce Schwartz (Park Avenue Press, 2003)
A terrorist attack leads to a new civil war in the US based on class and race. A central theme is the establishment of HOPE (With Housing and Opportunity comes Peace and Prosperity) Cities that were transforming the US ghettos into areas of opportunity; it was these twelve cities that were destroyed in the terrorist attack.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Under the Lunchbox Tree" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2003)
Set in the same milieu as 2000 and 2002 Kessel. A brief story of a girl growing up in the Society of Cousins. See also 2006 and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins The lunchbox tree is an image in L. Frank Baum’s (1856-1919) Ozma of Oz. Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1907.
Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 164-76.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Untied Kingdom - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2003)
A disintegrating future U.K. with small communities using ancient traditions to try to maintain cohesion and stability with, at the end after many problems, the central community begins to revive.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Urinetown. The Musical" - Greg Kotis (Faber and Faber, 2003)
Dystopia in which all facilities for peeing are controlled by a large corporation in order to limit the use of water. The corporation kills those peeing outside their facilities. A revolt is successful but water begins to quickly run out.
Selections from the score were published as Urinetown. The Musical. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2001.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Uterus Garden" - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Polyphony, 2003)
Problems in a largely dystopian future in which most people are infertile.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Walking Contradiction" - Nancy Jane Moore (Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction, 2003)
Future in which there are a wide range of genders available at choice. The story is written from the point of view of an "Ambi" or hermaphrodite in conflict with a cult that neuters people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

WAR or The World of Light (a fable of science fantasy) - Alex Babula (b. 1950) (Xlibris, 2003)
Eutopia with much fantasy. A man with extraordinary powers sets about to unite the universe and bring peace and prosperity. He succeeds but is opposed and must fight a war that destroys the universe.
Keywords: Male author

Welcome to Coolsville - Jason Mordaunt (Jonathan Cape, 2003)
Corporate dystopia set in Dublin with a number of subplots, one of which is a project to turn the inmates of a local prison into meek workers to work for the corporation.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Wellstone - Wil[lliam Terence] McCarthy (b. 1966) (Bantam Books, 2003)
Immortality and the problems it poses for the younger generation. Sequel to 2000 McCarthy. The third and fourth volumes in the series, 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.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The X President - Philip E[dward] E[dward] Baruth (b. 1962) (Bantam Books, 2003)
Set in 2055 and various dates in the past. An ex-President, known as B[ill] C[linton], is 109. History is revised to avoid the dystopia and the war between the right and the U.S. government that has developed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Zero Calvin - Brian [J.] Cramer (iUniverse, 2003)
Future flawed utopia run by an artificial intelligence that has killed those who do not fit in. Arrival of a man from the past.
Keywords: Male author

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre. Director; Cut - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) (Grove Press, 2002)
A dystopia depicting the life of a male porn star from the points of view of his nine female directors. His, and everyone else's, reality is infinitely malleable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Afrofuture--Dystopic Unity" - Tracie Morris (Social Text, 2002)
Poem--dystopia of keeping blacks in inferior roles.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

“The Albertine Notes” - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) (McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, 2002)
The dystopia brought about by a drug that brings back memories, good and bad, that was introduced after a major disaster meant that many people wanted to retrieve good memories.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Alienations" - David Murphy (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers’ Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of stories set in the near future. "Overload" (99-103) is set in a near-future dystopian Dublin; violence, poverty; anti-gay; corrupt police and politicians.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"All the Room in the World" - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) (Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction, 2002)
Overpopulation dystopia in which millions of refugees are being moved to the supposedly empty areas of the world, like northern Canada. There are plans to ship future refugees into space as slave labor. Climate-change is part of the reason for needing to move people. Canada has fragmented, and it is no longer possible to move freely among the provinces.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

All This Is So - John F. Roe (b. 1935) (Wakefield Press, 2002)
A complex novel set in a post-catastrophe non-technological society, some aspects of which can be read as dystopian and some aspects of which can be read as a flawed utopia.
Keywords: African author; Australian author; Male author; UK author

The American Praetorians. A Novel - Dennis C[arroll] Purdy (b. 1952) (Trafford, 2002)
A dystopia imposed on the U.S. by liberal policies, which include very high taxes, elimination of freedoms enumerated in the Constitution, and a weakened military, results in a new American revolution. The Praetorians motto is “A man who saves a nation, commits no crime.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

Among the Betrayed - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998 and 2001 Haddix. See also 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. In this volume, a third child is arrested by the Population Police and forced to spy on the other Shadow Children.
U.K. ed. London: Red Fox, 2002.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Aristotle's Lantern" - Kim Edwards (b. 1958) (Zoetrope: All-Story, 2002)
Eutopian community established in the South China Sea and the conflicts that arise in trying to make it work.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Becoming Death: Pilot Episode of Enemies of Society (The Future of Special Forces?). Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers - John David (b. 1955) (1st Books, 2002)
Dystopia. First of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, but in this volume one of the subjects is the dystopia brought about by a corrupt, dominant church. See also 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (Global Cyber-Visions, 2002)
Detailed eutopia in essay form based around the Venus Project. See also 1969 Keyes and Fresco, 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.
6th ed. Venus, FL: Global Cyber-Visions, 2013. 8th ed. Venus, FL: Global Cyber-Visions, 2018.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Big Brother Iron" - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Toast and other rusted futures, 2002)
Sequel to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which modern technology is used to successfully revolt.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Big Rock Candy Mountain" - Andy [Andrew Robert] Duncan (b. 1964) (The New Wave Fabulists, 2002)
Story based on the song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" apparently written by Harry K. McClintock (Haywire Mac) around 1905 based on earlier oral sources. The song is generally identified with the depression of the 1930s when it became popular. The story uses the basic motif of the song of a hobos paradise contrasted to the world outside.
Rpt. in his The Pottawatomie Ghost and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2012), 41-62, with an author's story note on 309-10; and in his An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 141-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Bigger Fool” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
The story depicts a high-tech society based on slavery and a slave revolt.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Bike Tour" - Richard Register (b. 1943) (Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance With Nature, 2002)
A tour of a eutopian ecocity set a hundred years in the future. No cars, hence the tour by bicycle. Neighborhoods surrounding a central city. To get from the neighborhood to the city center, there is a bike and foot trail and a separate two lane, mostly underground, route for the few vehicles that are used. Buildings have plantings. Bridges between buildings, with some for both bikes and pedestrians and some just for pedestrians. Varied architecture with buildings linked by bridges, windmills, and solar collectors. Mentions ramps for handicapped. Neighborhood police stations throughout the city. Small businesses flourish. Ambulances are gurneys pushed by paramedics on roller skates.
2nd ed. with additional illus. and minor textual differences as Ecocities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature. Illus. by the Author (Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2006), 184-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Bitter Nigger Inc." - Tana Hargest (Social Text, 2002)
Brief introduction to a company with illustrations (mostly illegible) of its products. The company's divisions are Bitter Nigger Broadcast Network, Bitter Nigger Product Division, and Bitter Nigger Pharmaceuticals. One product, Tominex, is the “go-along-to-get-along medication” and said to be “the only over the counter medication to remove your yearning for fairness or human decency.”
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Bone House - Luanne Armstrong (b. 1949) (New Star Books, 2002)
Dystopia of global warming and corporate control.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Burning Bombing of America" - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) (Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S., 2002)
Dystopia with America destroyed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“By the Way, Mom, I’ve Turned Gay” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
Satire in which a virus is released that temporarily turns men gay.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Castles Made of Sand - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Gollancz, 2002)
Sequel to 2001 Jones. Much fantasy, but this volume follows the disintegration of the U.K. Environmental activists, labeled Green Nazis, are fighting to correct major damage. See also 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2014 Jones.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) (Ace Books, 2002)
The novel begins on an authoritarian dystopia on Earth and ends with a group of libertarian rebels settling a new planet. See also 2004 and 2005 Steele. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011. A related story is “Tagging Bruno.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41 1 & 2 (492 & 493) (January-February 2017): 28-47.
Originally published in different versions as "Stealing Alabama." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.1 (300) (January 2001): 86-130; "The Days Between." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.3 (302) (March 2001): 14-34; "Coming to Coyote." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 92-135; Liberty Journals." Asimov's Science Fiction 25,10 & 11 (309 & 310) (October/November 2001): 128-42; "The Boid Hunt." Star Colonies. Ed. Martin Greenberg and John Helfers (New York: DAW Books, 2000), 70-94; "Across the Eastern Divide." Asimov's Science Fiction (February 2002); "Lonesome and a Long Way Home." Asimov's Science Fiction 26.6 (317) (June 2002): 76-96; and "Glorious Destiny." Asimov's Science Fiction 26.12 (323) (December 2002): 92-131. Copyright page notes that this story is completely unaltered.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Cricket on the Hearth" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (One More for the Road, 2002)
Dystopia of government spying.
Rpt. in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright, Donn and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 219-48; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010) 111-20.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dark Ararat - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 2002)
A continuation of his future history series; see 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, The Omega Expedition. This volume is about the settlement of a colony planet.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Daughters of an Amber Moon - Katherine [V.] Forrest (b. 1939) (Alyson Books, 2002)
Sequel to 1984 Forrest. This volume concerns the women who chose to stay on Earth and their struggle to survive in the face of the dystopia that is the Earth. At the end of the novel, some of the women from the new planet return to Earth, which is converted from a dystopia to a eutopia. See also 2005 Forrest.
Keywords: Canadian author; US author

"Daughters of the Distant Dream" - Yvonne Eve Walus (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of stories about women in the future. "The Learning Experience" (31-34) is about a visit to a eutopian (?) world. All subservient positions are filled by robots. All flora and fauna protected (said to be a fad that would last a century or two). High noise level (speech and broadcast) to avoid seeming clandestine. All virtual reality. "Glance at Eden" (36-40) includes gender-role reversal in which men do the physical tasks that are considered less important. Another world advanced in bio-technology, genetic engineering. A character from that planet says, "'We created everything around here. We also engineered ourselves, rooting out the undesirable characteristics until we achieved total perfection'" (38). "The Vanishing Race" (42-44) depicts a world where people never go outside; "no more inter-human contacts" (43).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Dawn of the New Man: A Futuristic Novel of Social Change - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) (Xlibris, 2002)
Sequel to 2001 Prugovecki. This volume continues the story of two countries described in the first volume, the libertarian Terra and the authoritarian FWF (Free World Federation). The citizens of the FWF are enslaved and the protagonist initiates a successful struggle to free them.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Design Your Own Utopia - Chaz [Charles] Bufe; [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (See Sharp Press, 2002)
Mostly a lengthy questionnaire intended to assist people thinking about utopia but includes short descriptions of a local eutopia or intentional community and a global eutopia. See also 1988 and 1994 Hubbard; and 2012 Bufe and Hubbard.
The text can also be found at http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Destiny Restored - Arthur M. Becker (Elderberry Press, 2002)
A near future dystopia in which the United States is collapsing and terrorism is common with hope for a eutopia held out at the end.
Keywords: Male author

Discarded Faces - Steve Cross (King Roy Publishing, 2002)
Authoritarian religious dystopia on another planet and the revolt against it. Hierarchical social structure with whites at the top. Gays and lesbians eliminated.
Keywords: Male author

"The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) (The New Wave Fabulists, 2002)
Satire on utopias and dystopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Eight-Moon Dollar" - Daniel Kaysen (Interzone, 2002)
Dystopia of corporate control. Corporate domination of everyday activities, with a stress on limited sexual activities.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Ersatz Nation - Tim Kenyon (Big Engine, 2002)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel world. Successful revolt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Escarpment - Bill Queen (SterlingHouse, 2002)
Alternative history that includes a flawed post-Civil War utopian community in the West.
Keywords: Male author

Evan's Land - Emlyn-Jones, Ben (Aldyth Press, 2002)
Dystopia of a future Wales fighting a civil war. Global dictator.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Everyone in Silico - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) (No Media Kings, 2002)
Dystopia set in Vancouver in 2036 and in Frisco, a virtual reality San Francisco that was created by a company after the real San Francisco was hit by an earthquake. The novel follows a number of characters struggling to make their way in a world dominated by corporations.
Rpt. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Exodus - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) (Young Picador, 2002)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy. The dystopia was brought about by global warming in which the island home of the protagonist, based on Kiribati, is disappearing under water. There are hints of a better world elsewhere, and the entire community goes in search of it. Sequels include Zenith. London: Young Picador, 2007, about the search for a better place that was begun at the end of Exodus; and Aurora. London: Macmillan, 2011 which is about a struggle of a powerful force that wants to control the world. Elements of fantasy in all three novels.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Feed - M[atthew] T[obin] Anderson (b. 1964) (Candlewick Press, 2002)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone is controlled by a transmitter implanted in their brain.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flowercrash - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) (Cosmos Books, 2002)
Fantasy flawed utopia set in the far future. Struggle to ensure the continuance of the good society.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Free Spirit" - Val Kyrie [pseud.] (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of brief dystopian vignettes. "3 City Sports" (12-14) describes a 21st century in which nations have collapsed and city-states emerged. Street children shot for sport." "4  Second Chance" (14-18) describes a 21st century described as without crime because it has a system of extremely harsh punishment, but it in fact still has crime, just less.

God Bless Fortress America - Henry P. Mitchell [pseud.] (Writers Advantage, 2002)
Dystopia set ten years after the 9/11 attacks. 9/11 was followed by a the purge of “undesirable” elements of the U.S. population, such as Arabs; cutting off aid to the rest of the world; shifting spending to defense and security, including building a high tech shield around the country; developing energy independence, largely through oil and gas development throughout the Western Hemisphere, which was unified under an America Fortress plan; and destroying all the enemies of the U.S. with no concern for the civilian populations. At the end the author suggests that this was not the right approach.

The Golden Age - John C[harles] Wright (b. 1961) (Tor, 2002)
Future interplanetary flawed utopia; the utopia is not what it appears to be in that it suppresses dissent. First volume of The Golden Age trilogy. The trilogy concerns the original utopia, a rebel against it, and the temporary merging of all sentient life into a supermind. See also 2003 Wright (2). Elements of space opera.
Keywords: US author

Green Boy - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2002)
Young adult novel with children shifting between two worlds, the present and a polluted, overpopulated dystopia. Environmental concerns.
UK ed. London: Bodley Head, 2002.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Growing Young: An Old Man Who Suddenly Becomes Young Must Help the World Accept an Age Cure - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2002)
The title is a good summary. When a cure is found for aging, and a newly young man works to avoid the overpopulation dystopia that could result. The ending of the novel implies a sequel, but none has been published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hammer Town - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Yard Dog Press, 2002)
Corporate authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Hardest Part" In "Nanonights. A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories by Authors from New Zealand" - Tim Elphick (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited, 2002)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“Hitman for a Day” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
Dystopia of a lottery in which the winner gets to kill one person told from the perspective of the one killed.
Keywords: African author; Male author

"Holy Terror" - Simon Sheppard (Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe, 2002)
Dystopian erotica. After a cure for AIDS is found, the Christian right decide that gays must be controlled. Women are used for breeding and men as slave labor and for sex.
Keywords: Male author

Hominids - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) (Tor, 2002)
Depicts a Neanderthal eutopia in a world where they became the dominant species. First volume of a trilogy; followed by Humans. New York: Tor, 2003 and Hybrids. New York: Tor, 2003.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Hopeful Traveller - Fiona Farrell (b. 1947) (Vintage, 2002)
Two novels published back to back that focus on a single island off the coast of New Zealand. One includes a Robinsonade and comments satirically on eighteenth century utopianism in showing a utopian experiment on the island failing. The other is a modern novel about a group of friends who had once lived together in an intentional community.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The House of the Scorpion - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002)
Young adult dystopia. Two countries, Opium and Aztlán, near the southern border of United States are dystopias. Opium, which supplies drugs to the U.S., is completely ruled by one man, who has cloned himself, so that he can live forever. Aztlán, where people escape to from Opium, is, on its border, controlled by the Keepers, who use the escapees as slave labor. The novel is about one of the clones of El Patrón who escapes from both Opium and the Keepers and manages to destroy both.
Rpt. New York: Simon Pulse, 2004.
Keywords: Female author

“I am Four Years Old I Don’t Want To Be a Soldier” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
In the story, children as young as four are exposed to the horrors of war in the hopes that the memory will keep the world peaceful.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Impossible Bird - Patrick O'Leary (b. 1952) (Tor, 2002)
Flawed utopia. Perfection provided by aliens is found to lack the emotional connection humans need.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In Arcadia - Ben Okri (b. 1959) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)
The search for real and imagined arcadias with much discussion of the nature of arcadia and utopia from the perspective of contemporary dystopian times.
Rpt. London: Phoenix, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author; UK author

Inside the Rainbow: A Search for Solutions to Reality's Riddles - Eugene Goheen (Author, 2002)
Science fiction concerned with a new form of energy that will transform the world for the better and the earliest stages of its use.
Keywords: Male author

"The Invisible Empire" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (The New Wave Fabulists, 2002)
Dystopia in which an organization of women kill men who abuse women.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Its Hour Cometh" - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) (Talebones, 2002)
Dystopia describing future prisoner "rehabilitation".
Keywords: Male author; US author

Just Like Beauty - Lisa Lerner (b. 1960) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)
Dystopian satire with lesbian themes. A future America focusing on its beauty contests, which include erotic skills. Violence is common.
Keywords: Female author

The Kanshou - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) (Spinsters Ink Books, 2002)
Future history including a chronology, a glossary, and the details of a Global Government. All animals died and women take power. The Kanshou are the women warriors who keep the peace. The first volume of the Earthkeep books that includes 2003 Gearhart. A third volume, The Steward, was announced but disappeared from the author’s website. The author’s best-known book is The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women, 1978. The female author was a gay rights activist and a Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University. Her papers are held at the University of Oregon.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Kindling - Jennifer [Mary] Armstrong (b. 1961); Nancy Butcher (HarperCollins Children's Books, 2002)
Post-catastrophe children’s dystopia. First volume of the Fire-Us trilogy. In this volume, the seven children who survive a catastrophe create a functional society based on the family. When another child survivor arrives, they set off to find help. The second volume is The Keepers of the Flame. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books. 2002, in which the surviving children discover a group of adults living in a mall, but they prove to be dangerous. The final volume is The Kiln. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2003, in which the children are travelling again searching for the answer to their situation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Kismet" - Malcolm Twigg (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of stories. "Floater" (123-28) is a dystopia that describes a penal colony. "Pacificalia" (133-41) presents a flawed utopia on Earth in which all needs are catered to, but the people spend all their time tied into the Vid-ex. Under the oceans are cities of mutated humans, also utopian but with only legends of "Topside".
Keywords: Male author

The Lapsit Chronicles - Edith Shaw (Dealan-dé Publishing, 2002)
Environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

Light Music - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor, 2002)
Sequel to 2000 Goonan In this volume, the Crescent City has become vulnerable to attack and the technology that built it and could rescue it has been lost. Ultimately, alien technology brings about a positive ending. humanity appears to be on the edge of a major evolutionary step forward. Loosely related to 1994 and 1997 Goonan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Liking What You See: A Documentary" - Ted Chiang (b. 1967) (Stories of Your Life and Others, 2002)
Whether this suggests a eutopia or a dystopia is up to the reader. "Lookism", or prejudice against unattractive people, has been added to racism and sexism as a social problem and a solution has been found in a neurological treatment that ensures that "good" looks do not register with the viewer. A campaign to require the treatment at a college campus fails, but it does so as a result of the enhancement of a speaker against it, a speaker paid by the cosmetics industry.
Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 113-49.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author

Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Aspect/Warner Books, 2002)
An alternative history novel in which Africans are the slave owners and whites the slave in a North America, known as Bilalstan, which is divided among Zulus, Arabs, Aztecs, Vikings and Native Indians. The novel focus on the relationship between the Irish Christian Aidan O’Dere and his owner the African Muslim African Muslim, Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid. A sequel, Zulu Heart. New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2003. 463 pp. continues the story with O'Dere, now free, must accept being re-enslaved for the chance of gaining permanent freedom for himself and his sister while his former owner, now friend, struggles with the immorality of the slavery that underpins his status and wealth. A third volume was mentioned in a blog post in 2007 but has not been published.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Little Sister" - Donna Bowman (Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction, 2002)
Authoritarian dystopia. Canada disintegrated after Québec withdrew from the confederation, and most power now is held by corporations. The prairie provinces are extremely poor and the story focuses on the use of prison labor to search in old garbage for antiques to be sold to people in the wealthy provinces.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Little Utopias" - Jo Thorpe (Takahe (Christchurch, New Zealand), 2002)
A poem that presents an evening at a Māori marae in utopian terms.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Maquisarde - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Ace Books, 2002)
Dystopia of divisions between the rich and poor. Revolt.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Millennial Dream - [Paul] [Premsagar] (1st Books, 2002)
Series of eutopias and dystopias after death and on planets both more and less advanced than Earth.
Keywords: Male author

Mindful of Utopia - Merritt [Gold] Abrash (b. 1930) (1st Books, 2002)
Detailed anarchist eutopia by one of the founders of the Society for Utopian Studies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"MODYSSEY: An allegorical fantasy colour strip cartoon. The SS Modernismus Embarks on a Voyage to Discover the Mythical Land of URBANUTOPIA" - Louis Hellman (b. 1936) (Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement, 2002)
Cartoon satire on modernist utopianism.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Muezzinland - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) (Cosmos Books, 2002)
Dystopia set in Africa in the mid-22nd century. Struggle to escape from the dystopia and find/establish a better society connected with the African past.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"My Flamboyant Grandson" - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2002)
Corporate controlled, required consumption dystopia.
Rpt. in his In Persuasion Nation. Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 13-22.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"My Huckleberry Friend" - Ken Honeywell (Future Orbits, 2002)
Authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

"The New World Disorder: a global network of direct democracy and community currency" - T. R. O. Y. (2002)
Winner of The Utopian World Championship 2001. See the title for the position.

The Noble Society: Adult Fairy Tales From Another Dimension - [Veronique] [Collignon] (Thoughtmill Press, 2002)
A collection of related stories describing a fantastic eutopia called Bullford, where no money is used and there is no competition. There is added material on the website http://www.novatownsite.org/nova-building-unknown.html. A second volume of stories that includes a section of illustrations in color is Vera Nova [pseud.], The Noble Society of Bullford: The Wonder-World beyond time, space or . . .Np: Outskirts Press, 2018.
There is added material on the website http://www.novatownsite.org/nova-building-unknown.html.
Keywords: Female author

Notable American Women - Ben Marcus (b. 1967) (Vintage Contemporaries, 2002)
Experimental novel which presents a dystopia in which silence is imposed on a family.
Parts originally published as “Woman’s Pantomime.” Bomb, no. 69 (Fall 1999): 91-93; “The Faiting Project.” Tin House 1.4 (Spring/Summer 2000), 189-92; “The Launch.” Conjunctions 36 (2001): 167-99; “A Message from the Father of Fathers.” Fence 3.2 (Fall/Winter 2000-2001): 170-81; “The New Female Head.” Harper’s 304.1820 (January 2002): 84-87; “Women’s Pantomime.” The Pushcart Prize 25 (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 2001), 248-54; “Literary Enhancement Through Food Intake: A Dietary Guideline for Reading.” McSweeney’s, no. 5 (2000): 165-74; and “The Name Machine.” McSweeney’s, no. 8 (2002): 77-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Omega Expedition - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 2002)
Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. See 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, Dark Ararat. This volume is a sequel to 2000 Stableford and is about the life of the man who developed the technology that made immensely long life possible.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Onævia - William [John] Direen (b. 1957) (Alpha Books, 2002)
The history of a simple joyous eutopia destroyed by "civilization". The 2004 edition is substantially revised but tells much the same story. The cover of the 2002 edition describes this as the third volume of his "utopian trilogy" after "Wormwood." Sport (Wellington), no. 18 (Autumn [April] 1997): 53-119; and Nusquama. Auckland, New Zealand: Alpha Books, 2002, neither of which are utopias.
Rev. ed. Waimauku, New Zealand: Titus Books, 2004.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Opium of the People - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (Writers Club Press, 2002)
Theocratic fundamentalist dystopia that eliminates personal freedom.
Rev. ed. Denver, CO: Nomadic Delirium Press, 2007. This is an expansion of a story first published in Aphelion, no. 37 (July 2000) https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2000/07/OpiumOfPeople.htm; and rpt. in his J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia (Np: [J. Alan Erwine, 2016]), 21-30. In the 2007 ed. the author says that there were two previous editions with the first edition published by ProMart Publishing “almost a decade ago.” Not found.
Keywords: Male author

Paradise - Tina Shaw (b. 1961) (Penguin Books (NZ), 2002)
Flawed utopia of corporate control. The novel is set in a resort for the rich called Paradise in which everything controlled to ensure their pleasure. The resort has both metaphorical and real snakes.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Paradises Lost" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, 2002)
Includes two societies, both with eutopian elements, on a multi-generation starship. The primary society is the one designed for the people on the starship, as modified by the people themselves. It is explicitly eutopian with an emphasis on "Peace and plenty. Light and warmth. Safety and freedom" (300). But it nearly succumbs to the religious belief of those who conclude there is nothing outside the ship. At the end, the first group begin to build a new society on a planet, while the second choose to travel forever.
Rpt. in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 689-801.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Past Imperfect/Future Perfect?” - Teresa Holmes (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers’ Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of stories set in futures regarding the past. Generally too brief to do more than suggest some dystopian future. “Seen from the future, the past is viewed as happier, more secure, more pleasant, more friendly than the time in which the characters now live” (223).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Peshawar Lancers - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) (ROC/New American Library/Penguin Putnam, 2002)
Alternative history novel in which Europe has been destroyed by a meteor shower in 1878 and in 2025 Delhi is the center of the Angrezi Raj (formerly the British Empire). His “Shikiri in Galveston.” Worlds That Weren’t. New York: ROC/New American Library, 2005 is set a bit earlier in the same future.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Political Officer" - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2002)
The story is set on a spaceship sent out by a patriarchal religious dystopia and emphasizes the divisions among the crew. The sequel “The Political Prisoner.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.2 (675) (August 2008): 44-113. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 280-326 with an editor’s introduction on 280 is located on Mars and is primarily concerned with conflicts among the powerful within the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Practical Utopia - John C[harles] Marple (b. 1926) ([Author], 2002)
Detailed eutopia stressing equality and democracy from the bottom up.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Promised Land” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
After the Confederacy wins the Civil war and secedes from the Union, it becomes a successful industrial country and finds slaves an incumbrance. They solve the problem by forcibly marching all the slaves into the western territories, purportedly to settle them on reservation, Instead, they slaughter them all.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Protection" - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (Femspec, 2002)
Brief dystopia in which the right to have children is strictly limited, which puts those children born at risk from those wanting children.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Rebel Hearts - Daryl McCann (University of Queensland Press, 2002)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“The Redemption of Robert E. Lee” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
After the South wins the Civil War, Robert in Lee plans to end slavery and is willing to start a second Civil War within the Confederate States of America to do so.
Keywords: African author; Male author

"Right to Life" - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) (Talebones, 2002)
Dystopia in which the few people who have jobs are generally free to do as they choose but jobless people who commit any crime whatsoever are executed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Salt Fish Girl - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) (Thomas Allen, 2002)
The novel is set in 19th century China and in a future Pacific Northwest, which is a corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Scales of Justice" - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
The story depicts a new system of justice in which mass murderers are executed, brought back to life, and executed again until executed as many times as the number of people they killed.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Scar - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Macmillan, 2002)
Set in the same world as 2000 Miéville. In this novel, people fleeing New Crobuzon are captured by the piates of the floating dystopian city of Armada, which is made up of thousands of ships, and is planning to invade New Crobuzon. The Scar is a place where reality breaks down. See also 2004 and 2005 Miéville.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Scheme for Full Employment - Magnus Mills (b. 1954) (Flamingo, 2002)
Satire on a full employment scheme which collapsed due to internal conflict and because too many, from workers through supervisors, tried to manipulate it for their own benefit.
U.K. ed. London: Flamingo, 2003. Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2004. 256 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Scrunched Up" - Barton Paul Levenson (b. 1960) (Future Orbits, 2002)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Short Stories and Other Excuses - Ben Coulson (Vanguard Press, 2002)
Dystopia of death and destruction in related stories.
Keywords: Male author

The Sink: The Last Days of Driving - W[endell] Messer (b. 1939) (Breller Books, 2002)
Dystopia set in a future Canada where there is a revolt against bad behavior on the roads, which turns Canada into a much better place.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Snowball's Chance - John Reed (b. 1969) (Roof Books, 2002)
Sequel to Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) in which Snowball returns and brings capitalism to Animal Farm, with similar results as in the original.
Keywords: Male author

"Social Dreaming of the Frin" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2002)
A short story with both eutopian and dystopian elements describing a world in which everyone experiences the dreams of other people and of animals (animals are not used for food). This creates a “communion of all sentient creatures” (U.S. ed. 88) but also involves a radical questioning of the self.
Rpt. in her Changing Planes (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 76-88. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2004), 65-75.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Solitaire - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) (Eos, 2002)
Corporate dystopia in which a corporation controls a country. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Son of France - Geoffrey Cush (b. 1956) (Vintage, 2002)
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Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; UK author

Songs of the Cockroach - Robert Kirby (1936-2007) (Spearhead/New Africa Books; Johannesburg: [Distributed by] Thorold's Africana Books, 2002)
Satire on a future South Africa with multiple themes and sub-plots but generally concerned with the corruption left over from the apartheid years.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

"Stories for Men" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2002)
Set in the same milieu as 2000 Kessel. This story gives more detail regarding the society described in the first story with the emphasis on an abortive male movement for more rights. See 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 243-301 with an editor’s introduction on 243; in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 85-163; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 199-280, with a note on the story on 570-571.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Orbit, 2002)
Satire on the rich and powerful in a future European Union.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Swiftly" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (SciFiction, 2002)
Dystopia in which the Lilliputians from Swift's Gulliver's Travels are slaves in a late nineteenth-century Britain, the Brobdingnagians have been hunted, and the Houyhnhnms are for sale. A French invasion led by the Brobdingnagians and with inventions from Laputa ends the system. A related story with the Lilliputians as slaves is his "Eleanor", which was first published in Swiftly (167-247).
Rpt. in his Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2004), 1-34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tearaway - Phil[lip Neal] Cummings (b. 1957) (Random House Australia, 2002)
Sequel to 2000 Cummings set in the penal colony in which the people struggle successfully to free themselves.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Technogenesis - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) (Roc, 2002)
Dystopia in which most people are connected to the net at all times, and the protagonist, who becomes disconnected, discovers the poverty and homeless of the "real" world and that those connected to the net are being controlled.
Keywords: Female author; US author