"Blue Messiah" - Steve Almond (b. 1966) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of the United States divided between a fundamentalist religious South and a libertine North.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Boomsday. A Novel - Christopher Buckley (Twelve/Hachette, 2007)
The epigram is “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt,” quoting Herbert Hoover in an address to the National Republican Conference in 1936. The novel is a political satire set in a near future of generational conflict where the children of the Baby Boomers revolt against paying for the good life in retirement of their parents and urge “Transitioning” or voluntary euthanasia at seventy-five while Congress keeps raising the Social Security tax to pay greater benefits to the retired.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Boys" - Dave [David] Freer (b. ca. 1958) (The Future We Wish We Had, 2007)
Dystopia. Robotic merchandising and robotic homes control people.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Brasyl - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Pyr, 2007)
Brazil in three times, past (mid-18th century), present, and near future (2032-33). All three are dystopian. The past dystopia is concerned with a rogue Jesuit establishing an empire in the interior. The present dystopia is simply contemporary Brazil. The future dystopia is one where everything is completely controlled and documented.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"By Fools Like Me" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
Environmental dystopia. Post-catastrophe dystopia that worships the nature that has been destroyed.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of The Year, Volume Two. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 199-209; in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015),186-99; and in The Best of Nancy Kress (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 255-67, with an “Afterword to ‘By Fools Like Me” (268).
Keywords: Female author; US author

By the People - H[al] G. Robb (Xlibris, 2007)
Apparent eutopia is a dystopia of slavery, which is, by the end of the novel, overthrown.
Keywords: Male author

"BYOB FAQ: It's all you've ever wanted" - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Nature, 2007)
Brief description of a future where women are able to purchase a mate especially designed for them. Some are also available for purchase by gay men. Whether a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Café Culture" - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
A future New York City with constant religious suicide bombers of all faiths.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

The Carhullan Army - Sarah Hall (b. 1974) (Faber and Faber, 2007)
Dystopia. A woman escapes from an authoritarian dystopia and joins an opposing army, which is ultimately defeated. Related stories include 2013 Hall and “Case Study 2: Recognition of the Self.” Illus. Klone Yourself. Vice The Fiction Issue (2013). https://www.vice.com/en/article/4wqjzd/case-study-2-recognition-of-the-self. Rpt. in her Madame Zero. 9 Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 2017). US ed (New York: Custom House/Harper Collins, 2017), 29-46.
U.S. ed. as Daughters of the Earth. A Novel. New York: HarperPerennial, 2008.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Cherry Heaven - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) (Hodder Children's Books, 2007)
Sequel to 2005 Adlington in which the girl whose diary was discovered in that novel escapes from a factory prison and, with other girls, leads a movement to free others of the lowest caste and establish a better society.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Circle of Life: Sequel to John of Two Worlds - Robert Stott (First Edition, 2007)
More of the eutopia described in 2006 Stott. In addition, Earth is saved from its collapse due to overpopulation and environmental damage and a sustainable ecosystem is created.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The City Beyond Play - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009); Danny Adams (PS Publishing, 2007)
In a eutopian future where everyone can have whatever they want, an area has been set aside where people have recreated a cleaned-up middle ages. Rather than go through the therapy required in the larger society, a murderer chooses exile in the medieval area, which has fallen away from the eutopian vision of its founder. The novel is largely adventure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cleft - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (Fourth Estate, 2007)
Novel of prehistory with eutopian elements. An isolated, simple, eutopian, all female society where women who give birth solely to female children suddenly begin to produce Monsters (men). The story is told from the point of view of a man in classical Rome many centuries later and traces the relations of the women and the men as they adjust to each other.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"(Coping With) Norm Deviation" - Hugh A[lan] D[ouglas] Spencer (Tesseracts Eleven, 2007)
Dystopia that is the story of a film being made. The dystopia focuses on the elimination of people who deviate from the norm.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Cowboy Angels - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Orion/Gollancz, 2007)
Complex novel of various eutopian and dystopian Americas.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"C-Rock City" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014); Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, 2007)
Authoritarian dystopia of a society that had been based on slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dance Dance Revolution. Poems - Cathy Park Hong (b. 1976) (W.W. Norton, 2007)
Poem sequence set in 2016 in a new town that recreates great cities of the past, where the main character has been exiled as a political dissident.
An excerpt was published online as “6 Poems.” ActionYes 1.2 (Spring 2006). actionyes.org/issue 1/hong/hong1/htm#. Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 945-47 with an editor’s note on 945. Other parts were previously published, sometimes in earlier versions, in several publications.
Keywords: Female author; Korean American author

The Dark Net - James R. Riordon ([LuLu.com], 2007)
Cyberpunk dystopia and catastrophe in the near future with a focus on the underground both in and outside the net. Based on the blognovel The Dark Net www.the-dark-net.blogspot.com.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Darkest Days - Stanley Gallon (Pan Books, 2007)
Dystopia. Collapse of civilization driven by competition among countries for the few remaining natural resources.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Declaration - Gemma Malley (Bloomsbury, 2007)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. First volume in a series. Overpopulation due to longevity drugs leads to a no child requirement except for those willing to die. "Surplus" children or those born who shouldn't have been are raised as servants with no rights. See also 2008 Malley, 2010 Malley, The Legacy and 2010 Malley, The Returners.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Depths of Heaven" - Mark Anthony Brennan (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2007)
Religious dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A Desert Called Peace - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) (Baen, 2007)
The novel, generally classified as military SF, begins with a man’s family being killed by Safafi from the Caliphate (See 2008 Kratman) and continues throughout the novel and all its sequels to detail his revenge. Sequels include Carnifex. New York: Baen, 2007; The Lotus Eaters. New York: Baen, 2010; The Amazon Legion. New York: Baen, 2011; Come and Take Them. New York: Baen, 2013; and The Rods and the Axe. New York: Baen, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Designing the Future - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (The Venus Project, 2007)
Technological eutopia with designs for many different projects. Law will be necessary, and people will be changed. See also 1995 and 2002 Fresco, 1969 Keyes and 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.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dirt People - Ray Bawarchi (Blue Throat Press, 2007)
Corporate and environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

"A Distillation of Grace" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, 2007)
Story about a religion that develops around producing a perfect genetic specimen by only allowing one child per family and controlling the gender so that equal numbers are born. Ultimately, this will reduce the generations to one person.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Divergence - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) (Bantam Spectra, 2007)
Sequel to 2005 Ballantyne. This novel is concerned with the division between humans and altered humans.
U.K. ed. London: Tor U.K., 2007.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"Domine" - Rjurik Davidson (Aurealis, 2007)
The background to the story is a dystopia of extreme rich-poor divisions.
Rpt. in Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fourth Annual Volume). Ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (Chatswood, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Books, 2008), 218-40.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Double Helix, Downward Gyre" - Carl[ton] Frederick (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2007)
The U.S. Genetic Patriotism Act requires forced sterilization of the carriers of a Genetic Component Disease and their children, although there are exceptions for political leaders, televangelists, and large donors to the White House. There is Real Time Conversation Analysis of phone calls looking for the use of words such as embryo, abortion, revolution, and so forth. There is a Genetic Terrorism Act that defines conspiracies to propagate defective groups. There is an American Government in Exile in Canada, and New Zealand provides a refuge.
Keywords: Male author

Dr. Id-entity, OR, Farewell to Plaquedemia. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book One of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition - D. Harlan Wilson (b. 1971) (Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City, 2007)
Dystopian humor and satire with a stress on violence. His Codename Prague. An Unfinished Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book Two of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City, 2011 continues the same themes. The third volume of the trilogy is The Kyoto Man. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel “Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow” Book Three of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Bliptown, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Drosophila - Nick Sapien (PublishAmerica, 2007)
Dystopia in which initially a machine is developed that gives I.Q. within three points. This produces a rigid caste society. Things get worse when someone develops a means of enhancing intelligence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Electric Church - Jeff Somers (b. 1971) (Orbit, 2007)
Violent, authoritarian dystopia controlled by the cyborg monks of a new religion. See also 2008 Somers.
U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

["E-Mails from the Future"] (Diggers & Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 2008/2009, 2007)
Eight e-mails of one page or less in which various contributors to the volume report from the future. None are long enough to be called a utopia, but most are concerned with environmental issues, and a few include considerable detail. They are "Report from Outpost SK572/698" by Chris Coates (also in Esperanto) (16); "When I'm 64. . ." by Bunk (30); "Song of the Saltmarsh" by William Morris (48); "Aotearoa calling" by Lucy Sargisson (66); "We told you so!" by Jonathan How (80); "Ant Farm" by Pam Dowling (88), which comes very close to presenting a fully realized utopia in one page; "We Cannot Eat Fuel!" by Vivian Griffiths (112); and "Season's Greetings" by Bill Metcalf (126). Sargisson and Metcalf present quite positive pictures; Dowling presents a utopian community in a dystopian setting; the rest are environmental dystopias.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author; Male author

Empyre - Josh [Joshua M.] Conviser (b. 1974) (Ballantine Books, 2007)
Sequel to 2006 Conviser. In this volume, the network's rule has ended but others step in to continue control, and the novel is about the fight against this group, known as the Empyre.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Escape from Genopolis - T[amasin (known as Tess)] E[lizabeth] Berry-Hart (Scholastic Children's Books, 2007)
Young adult dystopia of a society deeply divided between those “Naturals” who were poor and unmodified and the “Citizens”, who led a protected life. First volume of a series. The second volume, which is a standard middle volume with the protagonists in even more trouble, is Fearless. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2009. Female author.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Execution Channel - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Orbit, 2007)
Dystopia of the future produced by the "war on terrorism".
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Far Side of the Moon” - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) (Ideomancer [An online journal], 2007)
Dystopia of women enslaved for sex tourists on a space platform.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Fearless - Tim Lott (b. 1956) (Walker Books, 2007)
Young adult dystopia describing a school for girls, the City Community Faith School for Retraining, Opportunity and Hope, which is actually a sweat shop forcing a thousand girls to do the city's laundry.
Keywords: English author; Male author

First Light - Rebecca Stead (b. 1968) (Wendy Lamb Books, 2007)
Young adult flawed utopia. Gracehope is a community next to a lake in the ice under Greenland that had been established by people suspected of witchcraft and driven nearly to extinction. A eutopian society based on peace and cooperation was created, but it has grown to where it must limit births, and conservatives resist expansion, which would require a trip to the surface proposed by a young woman.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Flashpoint: Book One of the Underground - Frank Creed (b. 1966) (The Writers' Café Press, 2007)
Dystopia set in 2036 in which Christian patriots struggle against a left tyranny. There is a role-playing game available. See 2010 Creed, War of Attrition, 2012 Creed, and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flet: A Novel - Joyelle McSweeney (b. 1976) (Fence Books, 2007)
Dystopia in which U.S. cities have been abandoned in face of a faked bioterrorist “Emergency” that allows the government to extend its control and further manipulate the population. A related volume is her Nylund, the Sarcographer. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007.
Excerpts were originally published as “The Missing Cities (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel).” Caffeine Destiny http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/mcsweeney.html; “Novella Excerpts from Flet and Nyland.” Fairy Tale Review (No. 2? The Green Issue); and “Airlines (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel”) Apocryphal Text 1.4. (nd) http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/vol1_issue_4.html; “The Seed Vision (from Flet).” Cutbank Poetry 1.65 (2006): Article 55; ; and “from Flet. A Novel.” Fence 10. 1 & 2 (Fall 2007 - Winter 2008): 6-8.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Four Hundred Thousand” - Livia Llewellyn (b. 1963) (Subterranean Press, 2007)
The story is set in a future where Earth is supposedly at war with aliens and girl’s eggs are drafted into the military after her first period.
Rpt. in her Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Freedom Station Occoquan. A Novel - Cris[tobal] Alvarez (Author, 2007)
Dystopia in the U.S. after a second civil war and the development of a national security state. The ending suggests a sequel will be forthcoming.
Keywords: US author

From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain - [Malcolm] [Azania] (b. 1969) (Ballantine Books, 2007)
Humorous dystopia in which the members of the Fantastic Order of Justice have defeated their enemies and go into therapy.
An excerpt was published in On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic 18.4 (67) (Winter 2006): 84-89.
Keywords: Canadian author; Kenyan author; Male author

["Future Vision"] - Nick Spencer; Robert White (Christianity, Climate Change and Sustainable Living, 2007)
A brief positive "vision" of what the changes in daily life might be like as sustainable living becomes the norm. Reformist rather than radical.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Genesis - Paul Chafe (b. 1965) (Baen, 2007)
First volume of an intended trilogy about a multi-generation spaceship. This volume focuses on the struggle to get it launched and the initial conflicts after its launch.  In the second volume, Exodus: The Ark. New York: Baen, 2009, the people have forgotten their purpose or even that they are on a starship and a religious dystopia develops. A third volume, Revelations: The Ark, was announced but not published.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Gladiator. Crosstime Traffic--Book Four - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2007)
Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a future Italy under Communist rule and Russian domination. The novel focuses on a young women who stands for greater freedom. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Good Old Days" - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) (The Future We Wish We Had, 2007)
Satire. A man in a highly technological eutopia discovers the pleasures of doing something for himself.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Greentopia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto (Coach House Books, 2007)
A collection of forty-three mostly short essays; the third volume presenting a future Toronto plus a “DirecTOry” of sources for environmentally friendly sources and activities (261-316). The “TOmorrow” section (203-59) is less explicitly utopian than that in the first volume but includes one graphic-novel eutopia, “Memoirs from the Distant Future” by Marc Ngui (204-12) depicting a sustainable future Toronto. See 2005 McBride and Wilcox, eds.; Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds. The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. uTOpia Two. Toronto, ON: Coach House Books, 2006; Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio, eds. HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2008; and Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds. The Edible City: Toronto’s food from farm to work. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2009.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

Grey - Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books, 2007)
Corporate dystopia see from some raised in the corporate enclave. See also 2010 Armstrong.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Guardener's Tale - Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2007)
Dystopia with a totally conditioned population that has an almost completely controlled but apparently full life under the watchful eye of the Guardeners. The novel follows one man with whom the conditioning did not take.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ha'penny - Jo Walton (b. 1964) (Tor, 2007)
Sequel to 2006 Walton. See also 2008 Walton. In this volume, there is a conspiracy to overthrow Nazi government of England.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

"Happy Families" - John Holmes (Phoenixine: Magazine of the Phoenix Science Fiction Society (Auckland, New Zealand), 2007)
A polyandrous family (two men and two women) presented as eutopian fight a bill before the New Zealand Parliament to restore the recognition of only traditional marriages. The bill fails.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

HARM - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Del Rey, 2007)
Two related dystopias, one created by the war on terrorism and the other created on a distant planet by people with a similar mindset. HARM refers to the Hostile Activities Research Ministry.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Hollywood Roadkill" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2007)
Dystopia of a radical rich poor division with the poor living beside or in the medians of highways,
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

I Am Nero - Samuel Collins (Lulu.com, 2007)
Dystopia of a collapsing San Francisco brought on by global warming. The rich have fled, and the rest are at war with each other.
Keywords: Male author

"If We Can Save Just One Child..." - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2007)
Dystopia that focuses on the fear that develops as genetic engineering is misused.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Bushes" - Jami Attenberg (b. 1971) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of an environmentally damaged disintegrating U.S.
Rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 140-44.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Incarceron - Catherine Fisher (b. 1957) (Hodder Children's Books, 2007)
Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements set in a vast prison. First volume of a series. See also 2008 Fisher.
U.S. ed. New York: Dial Books, 2010.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

The Islander: A Romance of the Future - Charles Whittlesey (b. 1955) (np, 2007)
Dystopia in the US in 2155 when there two Americas, one rich and one poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jamestown - Matthew Sharpe (b. 1962) (Soft Skull Press, 2007)
Dystopia of a future Jamestown, Virginia being settled from a destroyed New York City based loosely the seventeenth century settlement.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty - Tim Sandlin (b. 1950) (Riverhead Books, 2007)
The novel is set in an old age home where a man has been sent by his daughter, who uses a single lapse, to take control of his assets. The other residents are aging hippies, while he is a sportswriter from Oklahoma, so he has trouble fitting it. But the focus of the novel is the rebellion of the members against the authoritarian system they are forced to live under. Much satire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Keeping Time" - [Maria] F[elisa] H. Batacan (Philippine Speculative Fiction, 2007)
Dystopia brought about by an enzyme put into water to control obesity that inexorable takes weight off everyone until they die.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

Kill or Cure - Rebecca Levene (Abaddon Books, 2007)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of various plagues that cause insanity and the search for a cure. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Np: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 263-437.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Kiosk" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2007)
Set in a not distant future in an Eastern European country that has experienced the dystopias of communism and capitalism and is going through a new transition based on what the story calls fabrication (three-dimensional printing). The protagonist is a man who has experienced the worst of the previous dystopias and runs a simple street kiosk catering to local people until he installs a fabricator.
Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 13-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Land of the Headless: A Simple Story - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2007)
Dystopia of religious fundamentalism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Last American" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 2007)
Dystopia that follows the history of one man who is instrumental in creating the political and religious system that led to the collapse of the world economy and ecosystem and the end of the human race. Written from the perspective of posthumans.
Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 241-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Last Light - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) (Orion, 2007)
The dystopia brought about by halting global oil production followed by economic and social collapse. See also 2010 Scarrow.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Let Not the Left (Fifth Episode of Enemies of Society) - John David (b. 1955) (AuthorHouse, 2007)
Dystopia. Fifth of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume continues the buildup to war and the war. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Morituri.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Looking Glass - James R. Strickland (Flying Pen Press, 2007)
Cyberpunk dystopia in which a paraplegic can live and work effectively in a virtual world but is still vulnerable there to the usual corporate and governmental plots.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Art - Simon Morden (David Fickling Books, 2007)
Young adult post-catastrophe religious dystopia. The central focus of the novel is on a young man who is a member of a religious order that guards the scientific knowledge of the past to keep it from being misused again.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Lost Boy: A Reporter at Large” - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Eclipse One, 2007)
Post-catastrophe dystopia following a nuclear attack on Baltimore. The story is about a boy who lost his memory.
Rpt. in her After the Apocalypse. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 87-99.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Love, American Style, 2033" - Darcy Cosper (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Satire. Competitive swinging becomes the national pastime but excludes same-sex couples and thus the U.S., which is the only country that excludes them, does not participate in international competitions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Magdas Career Choice" - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) (The Worker's Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia in which the Society of Social Engineers have supposedly solved all Australia’s problems. Only those testing as having exceptional abilities have careers. One handicapped person’s career is to be the “scape-grace” (See 2001 Lindquist). A related non-utopian story is "Purgatory." Dreaming Again. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Australia, 2008), 412-24, with an "Afterword" (424).
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Margarets - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (HarperCollins, 2007)
A science fiction novel set on many different planets, with all the humans with connections to an original Margaret. Some of the planets are presented as dystopian.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Marrying In" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
A future United States where each state competes for population or to keep the state for the local population. The setting is Colorado, which has extremely restrictive immigration policies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Morituri: Sixth and Final Episode of Enemies of Society - John David (b. 1955) (AuthorHouse UK, 2007)
Dystopia. Last of a six volumes. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this brings the various threads together and ends with Earth saved. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Let Not the Left.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"MTP" - George Ivanoff (b. 1968) (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia. Addictive drugs are used to attract and keep best employees.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Muddletopia - Kyle Mewburn (Puffin Books, 2007)
Humorous children's story about a planet where everyone and everything looks alike.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The New You - Hilary Bromberg (Oscura Press, 2007)
The novel is presented as if it is from the Second Dark Age having been founded after a future Great Devastation. The Second Dark Age is compared to Huxley's Brave New World (1932) with control by government and corporations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"No Man's Land" - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) (The WisCon Chronicles, 2007)
Eutopia. A planet where women and men have separated and the arrival of new men from space in the women's area. Both positive and negative impacts are described.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Noble Phasic. A Novel - David L. McClard (b. 1981) (Xlibris, 2007)
Dystopia of a city divided against itself by class is transformed into a eutopia by tearing down the walls surrounding it and within it. The rigid divisions disappear, and a better, healthier society will be created.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Notes on Redevelopment" - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Satire describing a future where the U.S. has disintegrated with areas seceding from the Christian fundamentalist dystopia that the country had become. Proposal for the redevelopment of Times Square as a sex zone.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Oblivion Society - Marcus Alexander Hart (Permuted Press, 2007)
Post-nuclear war dystopian satire with a group of misfits traveling across the U.S. in search of a safe haven.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Off Armageddon Reef - David [Mark] Weber (b. 1952) (Tor, 2007)
The first of what is currently the ten-volume alternative history dystopian Safehold series. So far sequels are By Schism Rent Asunder. New York: Tor, 2008; By Heresies Distressed. New York: Tor, 2009, A Mighty Fortress. New York: Tor, 2010; How Firm a Foundation. New York: Tor, 2011; Midst Toil and Tribulation. New York: Tor, 2012; Like a Mighty Army. New York: Tor, 2014; Hell’s Foundations Quiver. New York: Tor, 2015; At the Sign of Triumph. New York: Tor, 2016; and Through Fiery Trials. New York: Tor, 2019. The series is set after most of humanity is wiped-out by aliens who had discovered Earth and its colonies by tracing its technology. As a result, the survivors ban technology and one of many threads in the series is the conflict between anti-technology forces, some based on religion, and those advocating technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Okraalom: A Fantasy on Historical Themes - Brian [Paul] Lilburn (b. 1935) ([Rat Dog], 2007)
Primarily fantasy but includes the presentation of the eutopian Syai civilization which tries to help Earth correct its errors with much of the novel concerned with those errors, with corruption identified as the most important. The author is planning a sequel.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Old World" - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (The Fate of Mice, 2007)
Eutopia. The human race suddenly becomes altruistic and compassionate. The story is primarily concerned with a man who thought it all a conspiracy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Omniscience - Tim Carlson (b. 1963) (Talonbooks, 2007)
Dystopia extrapolated into the near future of what results from the current anti-terrorist activities in Canada and the U.S.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Our American King - David Lozell Martin (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the rich control all resources and live securely. A charismatic leader is installed as king and establishes a good society, but conflict continues with the re-establishment of a federal government in opposition to the monarchy.
Keywords: Male author

Outrageous Fortune - Tim Scott (b. 1962) (Bantam Books, 2007)
Humorous, somewhat surrealistic dystopia. Cities had fragmented into zones based on music; examples are Chillout, Classical, Compilation, Dance, Easy Listening where land was cheap because the area was unpopular, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Rap, and Skiffle, which was in decline. See also 2008 Scott which begins on the same note this novel ends, with sentient refrigerators.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Perception Experiment - Jason Glover (Thirdeye Publications, 2007)
Religious dystopia where everyone is conditioned to believe the lessons of contemporary Christian fundamentalism. This produces a supposedly idyllic life except for those who slip through the controls.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Perfection" - Margot Berwin (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of perfection brought about by socialized plastic surgery.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Persephone's Library" - [Susan Lynne] [Deefholts] (1942-2015) (Tesseracts Eleven, 2007)
Authoritarian dystopia. A small community living at what appears to be the edge of the world is dominated by one man, who prohibits learning predating the event that created the community and takes multiple wives for himself.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Indian author

Pink Carbide - E[arl] S. Wynn (Thunderune Publishing, 2007)
Dystopia that begins in Los Angeles in 2162 with a corrupt corporate controlled government in US. There are two sequels: Pink Carbide: Aluminum Opus. Sonora, CA: Thunderune Publishing, 2008; and Pink Carbide: Carbon Aria. Sonora, CA: Thunderune, 2009. In the first sequel the protagonist flees the US, and in the second she returns to the US to discover her real identity.
Keywords: Male author

"Pirate Daddy's Lonely Hearts Club Call-In Show" - Jardine Libaire (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of corporate control (FBI-Google) specifically the requirement to wear a device the indicates whether or not another person is the right partner.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Political Science" - C. W. Johnson (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2007)
Anti-science dystopia.

Prairie Fire. A Novel - Dan Armstrong (Lincoln, NB, 2007)
Near future anti-capitalist dystopia from a populist perspective. Three large corporations control the world grain market, and the U.S. farmers they are impoverishing decide to fight back with mixed results.
2nd printing Eugene, OR: Mud City Press, 2007. 540 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Predictions of the End Times: An Accurate Portrayal of the Antichrist and his Actions - Rex Lombardo (Xlibris, 2007)
An unusual version of the Antichrist in that he will bring a eutopia to the world, by eliminating false religions, removing greed from capitalism, eliminating hunger, establishing a pure democracy, and creating a just system of taxation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prefect - Alastair [Preston] Reynolds (b. 1966) (Gollancz, 2007)
The novel is a police procedural set in the Glitter Band, which is composed of ten thousand orbiting habitats with varied social systems but with all the inhabitants having the right to vote. Each habitat chooses its own rules and regulations, with the only common rule being the right to vote. A computer constantly runs polls. A sequel is Elysium Fire. London: Gollancz, 2018.
Rpt. as Aurora Rising: A Prefect Dreyfus Emergency. London: Gollancz, 2017.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"The Principle" - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Religious satire. The original golden plates of the Book of Mormon are rediscovered, and it turns out that they require polygamous, gay marriage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Prison - Paul Western (b. 1963) ([Ptd. by Lightning Source UK Ltd.], 2007)
Dystopia of a huge prison that describes each of its divisions and follows one individual through them.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Profit Margin" - Latter, Kristopher (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2007)
Dystopia. The government establishes a policy that allows companies to employ prisoners at cut rates. As a result, companies in collusion with a corrupt system arrange to have their most expensive employees arrested on false charges and then employ them at their old jobs.
Keywords: Male author

"The Prophet of Flores" - Kosmatka, Ted (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
Religious dystopia where people think evolution has been proven wrong.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 548-69 with an editor’s introduction on 548.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Proxy Server" - L. Archeneaux (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2007)
Near future dystopia in which companies and governments cooperate to suppress dissent.

Quentel: A Post-Apocalyptic Novel - Deric R[obert] Budendorf (iUniverse, 2007)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which all adults die. The surviving children struggle for survival and fight with each other for dominance, but one small group on a farm has a vision of Quentel, an egalitarian eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Radio Freefall - Jarpe, Matthew (Tor, 2007)
Humorous cyberpunk dystopia in which a motley assortment of people fight an attempt to take over the world.
Keywords: Male author

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) (Jonathan Cape, 2007)
Dystopia. Much of the novel presents an urban dystopia of violence, and a second authoritarian dystopia develops in response to the first.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rapturama" - Roland Boer; Matthew Chrulew (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Eutopian and dystopian satire. The first Artificial Intelligence is developed and programmed to be God by fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. It is used to rapture the right people into the heaven of virtual existence (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). Hackers help God to  escape the fundamentalist limits, and God welcomes people of all beliefs. God also chooses some to remain to service the systems, and these create a low population, environmentally sound eutopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Recoper: Breathing life into the revolution" - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) (Nature, 2007)
The setting of the story is one in which all unhealthy foods have been outlawed; everyone works for the state and can be hired out to private businesses; and the government spies on everyone.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Red Card" - S. L Gilbow (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2007)
Dystopia in which a few randomly selected people are given a red card and a gun and are permitted to kill one person.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 11-22; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 11-22.
Keywords: Male author

The Red Men - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (Snowbooks, 2007)
Dystopia. Drugs for every situation. The Red Men are personalities uploaded into simulacra that take on a life of their own. Redtown is a simulation of a British town to replace democracy, Parliament, and politics. It all goes badly. Connected with 2015 and 2016 De Abaitua.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Republic. A Novel - Charles Sheehan-Miles (b. 1971) (Cincinnatus Press, 2007)
Dystopia in which the U.S. responds to internal strife by becoming authoritarian. The novel focuses on the individuals and communities that resist. A sequel is Insurgent: Book 2 of America’s Future. Bethesda, MD: Cincinnatus Press, 2012. A third volume is planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Revisionist - Miranda Mellis (Calamari Press, 2007)
Brief surrealistic dystopia with some suggestion of there having been a nuclear war. The protagonist observes and reports on the activities of a number of people in a number of settings.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Right to Work" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia. The elimination of pensions means that the old must work while the young play. Workers are considered lower class.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Rocket Boy” - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Future Weapons of War, 2007)
The story starts in the dystopia of an Earth destroyed in war and under a dictatorship, but, given the conceit of the volume in which it first appeared, a boy is given an intelligent weapon and uses it to overthrow the dictatorship and become a new dictator.
Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 313-29 with an author’s note on 432.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rynemonn: Leopard Dreaming - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) (Coeur de Lion, 2007)
The final volume in his Rynosseros series. See also 1990,1992, 1993 and 2009 Dowling. In this collection, the main protagonist of the series finally discovers the secrets of his past. An addition to series is “The Library.” X6 A Novellanthology. Ed. Keith Stevenson ([Bentley, VIC, Australia]: Coeur de Lion, 2009), 505-636. Rpt. in his Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 263-358 with an “Afterword” (359-60). See also “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).
Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 291-639. Contains the previously published stories: “A Woman Sent Through Time.” Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 14 (Autumn 1994): 53-71 (Illus. Shaun Tan); “The Maiden Death.” Destination Unknown. Ed. Peter Crowther (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf, 1997), 128-47; “No Hearts To Be Broken.” Interzone (Brighton, Eng.), no. 117 (March 1997): 37-41 (The story was written to accompany the cover painting by Shaun Tan); “Fear-Me-Now” Crosstown Traffic. Ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden, and Robert Hood (Wollongong, NSW, Australia: Fives Islands Press in association with Mean Streets magazine, 1993), 131-56, with an author’s Note 130; “Ships for the Sundance Sea” Eidolon, no. 17/18 (5.1) (Winter 1995): 115-46 (Illus. Shaun Tan); and “Rynemonn” [containing “Doing the Line” (225-31); “Coyote Struck by Lightning” (231-83); rpt. in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 339-62; and “Sewing Whole Cloth” (283-310)]. Forever Shores. Ed. Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch (Kent Town, South Australia, Australia: Wakefield Press, 2003), 225-310.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"A Sacred Institution" - Esther [Mona] Friesner (b. 1951) (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, 2007)
Satire on Christian fundamentalism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Safety Critical: Caught on camera" - Gilbey, John (Nature, 2007)
Dystopian background to a humorous story. Cameras are illegal; only connected images are legal so that the security services can review all photographs.
Keywords: Male author

Salt - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) (Puffin Books, 2007)
Young adult dystopia. The extremely rich and powerful versus the extremely poor and effectively enslaved. A girl from the top and a boy from the bottom are forced by circumstances to flee the dystopia, with most of the action of the novel concerned with the flight, the rescue of the boy's father, and a brief return to the dystopia. The ending suggests the possibility of them creating a better society. See also 2008 and 2010 Gee.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

School's Out - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) (Abaddon Books, 2007)
A volume in the series The Afterblight Chronicles. Young adult dystopia set after a plague, called "The Cull", had eliminated a large part of the world's population. Extreme violence, gangs, and cults. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27).
Keywords: Male author

"Sea Change" - Una McCormack (b. 1972) (Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 2007)
Authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between rich and poor. Gays and lesbians have lost rights previously gained. Machine-teaching.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Sea-wreck Stranger - Anna Mackenzie (b. 1963) (Longacre Press, 2007)
Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman on an isolated island who saves a man after a wreck. The islanders, who have closed themselves off from all outsiders including anything from the sea, would have killed both of them. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Ebony Hill. Dunedin, New Zealand: Longacre Press, 2010, the protagonist tries to settle into a new community, which is threatened from outside. In the third volume, Finder’s Shore. Dunedin, New Zealand: Longacre Press, 2011, the young woman returns to the island which is going through a power struggle.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Shadow Speaker - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2007)
A young adult novel that begins with a simple eutopia followed by an authoritarian dystopia before becoming a fantasy adventure based on African myth. Loose connection to 2005 Okorafor-Mbachu. With the publication of new edition the book became the first volume of The Desert Magician’s Duology followed by Like Thunder. The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book 2. New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023, which is mostly fantasy based on African myth.
A revised and updated edition with a new introduction by the author was published New York: DAW Books/Astra Publishing House, 2023.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Shall We Save the Earth? - Royston Fernandes (AuthorHouse, 2007)
A eutopia called “Society Without Selfishness” (SWS). “The entire scheme of SWS is based on the simple motive of providing free food, clothing and shelter to every earthizen while curbing all luxuries now enjoyed by selected few” (ix). All weapons destroyed. One religion. World government. No pollution. No night work except in hospitals.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

Shelter - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (Tor, 2007)
Dystopia. In the twenty-first century compassion is a crime.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Silenced. A Novel - James DeVita (Eos, 2007)
Dystopia based on the true story of Sophia (known as Sophie) Magdalena Scholl (1921-43), who was a Christian anti-Nazi activist involved in the White Rose movement and was executed for her actions. Two films The White Rose (1982) and Sophie Scholl--The Final Days (2005), both originally in German, have been made about her and the movement. In the novel, the Zero Toleration Party has installed a surveillance system in every home and is working to eliminate any independent thought. In the novel, the young woman fighting the regime survives.
Rpt. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Silverstream - Jillian Sullivan (b. 1967) (Pearson Education New Zealand, 2007)
Young adult dystopia about a society that enforces its rules by sending dissidents to work camps. A young woman successfully fights the regime.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"The Single Girl's Guide to Compromising Homeland Security" - Jen Kirkman (b. 1974) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of required marriage.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sixty Days and Counting - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Bantam Books, 2007)
Dystopia. The third volume of a trilogy concerned with the disaster being brought about by global warming. The first two volumes are Forty Signs of Rain. New York: Bantam Books, 2004; U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2004. Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 1-282; and Fifty Degrees Below. New York: Bantam, Books, 2005; U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2005 [An excerpt was published as “Primate in Forest (From Chapter One: Fifty Degrees Below).” Future Washington. Ed. Ernest Lilley (Beltsville, MD: WSFA Press/Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA), 2005), 41-58, with an “Introduction to Primate in Forest by Ernest Lilley (39-40)]. Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 283-686. Both of these are political novels concerned with the growing crisis and the lack of political will to deal with it. Sixty Days and Counting describes both the dystopia that results, and the recovering world produced by the efforts of a small group of dedicated people.
Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 687-1069, with an “Introduction” to the volume by the author (xi-xvi) in which he explains the reasons for the changes in the trilogy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Social Security" - Pamela Rentz (The Wordstock Ten: Finalists from the 2007 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition, 2007)
The story is set in a future in which climate change and economic problems have resulted in the government abandoning an Indian settlement.
Rpt. in her Red Tape: Stories from Indian Country (Np: CreateSpace, 2017), 43-59.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth. A.D. 2030 - Harvey [Franklin] Wasserman (b. 1945) (Harvey Wasserman, 2007)
Eutopia reflecting the title with details on the technology and considerable criticism of the damage done by older technology. The book takes the reader on something of a tour of the world on a hydrogen powered airplane. See http://solartopia.org.
A rev. ed. but called the first ed. was published in 2007 with an “Introduction” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. [7-9] and “Song for Solartopia” by Pete Seeger and the author (101). It has the same bibliographical information and there is no reference to the 2006 edition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Space Program - Joanna Metzger (Mondo, 2007)
Humorous children’s adventure story set on a planet where children from many planets come to be trained for the space program and learn to live together.
Keywords: Female author

Stewards of the Flame - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (BookSurge, 2007)
The novel begins in an authoritarian medical dystopia in which health is extremely strictly controlled, to the extent that even the slightest deviation from the ideal leads to forced hospitalization. A small group of people with "psi powers" begin a lengthy conspiracy that culminates in 2009 Engdahl. See also 2013 Engdahl
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stigma and The Cave. Two Novels - [Diana Melhem] [Vogel] (1926-2013) (Syracuse University Press, 2007)
Dystopias. Stigma (1-101) describes a government responding to a crisis by killing some of its population and imprisoning much of the rest. The Cave (103-82) describes such a government encouraging its population to escape to caves; it includes religious conflict. Called volumes two and three of the Patrimonies trilogy. The first volume was Blight. New York: Riverrun Press, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Stone Gods - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) (Hamish Hamilton, 2007)
Dystopia. A future where the world is divided among three authoritarian regimes, the Central Power, which is corporate controlled; the Easter Caliphate, which is Islamist; and the SinoMosco Pact. World has been environmentally damaged. Another war breaks out, and there is another dystopia following it.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Succession: A Radical Solution" - Steve Longworth (Nature, 2007)
Doctors retrain to kill people to solve the population problem created by better sanitation and health care.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Suicide: Or the Future of Medicine. (A ‘Satire by Entelechy’ of Biotechnology)” - Eric Shouse (KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society, 2007)
Primarily a commentary on Kenneth Burke’s satire “Waste or the Future of Prosperity” (1930) but a short section, “A satire by Entelechy of Biotechnology,” projects a future in which nanotechnology will be used to rid the world of the “active seniors” who are collecting their pensions without contributing to society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Surveillance" - Joe R[ichard Harold] Lansdale (b. 1951) (Subterranean Magazine, 2007)
Brief dystopia describing a society where, in the name of safety, everyone is followed by CCTV cameras all the time.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Symposia" - Tyler Keevil (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2007)
Authoritarian dystopia with a deep rich-poor division.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Welsh author

"Tabloids Bring Back Family Values!" - Ana Marie Cox (b. 1972) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of average people competing to attract paparazzi by creating more and more extreme false versions of their lives.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Taken - Edward [William] Bloor (b. 1950) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)
Young adult dystopia set in a future in which kidnapping has become an industry.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Taken+ - Tenea D. Johnson (Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III, 2007)
The story is told by a U.S. Senator’s adult daughter who, along with the adult children of other prominent politicians, has been captured by a radical Black movement, the New Dawn, and incarcerates in the hold of a ship designed to replicate the Middle Passage slave ships from Africa to the United States.
Rpt. in her Broken Fevers (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2021), 33-46.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men - James Cañón (b. 1968) (HarperCollins, 2007)
Women only utopia.
"The Day the Men Disappeared” originally published as “Mariquita.” Chautauquan Literary Journal, no. 2 (2005): 85-95.
Keywords: Columbian author; Male author; US author

Texas Secedes - Daniel Jason (Five Star Stories, 2007)
The title tells the story. Texas secedes from a dystopian U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Therefore Repent! A post-Rapture graphic novel - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) (No Media KIngs, 2007)
As the subtitle indicates, the Rapture has occurred, and the novel is concerned with the odd world this creates for those not Raptured, a world where magic works. See also 2010 Munroe.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

To Live Without Warning - Timothy [S.] LaBadie (Xlibris, 2007)
Authoritarian technological dystopia set in a future San Francisco where machines require conformity to the rules.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2007)
Sequel to 2005, 2006, and 2007 Duchamp, Blood in the Fruit. See also 2008 Duchamp. This volume shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the particular changes they want.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Un Lun Dun - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Ballantine Books, 2007)
Young adult novel set in London and Un Lun Dun (Un-London). The latter is being attacked by the Smog and its supporters in both cities but is defeated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Under My Roof - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) (Soft Skull Press, 2007)
A man builds a nuclear weapon, disguised as a gnome, in his front yard and secedes from the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unwind - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007)
Young adult dystopia in which until eighteen teenagers are used for body parts, the harvesting of which is called "unwinding". Sequels include UnWholly: Book 2 of the Unwind Trilogy. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2012; UnSouled: Book 3 of the Unwind Dystology. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2013; UnBound: Stories from the Unwind World. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2015; and UnDivided: Book 4 of the Unwind Dystology. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2014 in which the dystopia is finally defeated. A number of stories are co-authored, including Unfinished Symphony” (21-61), “UnStrung” (113-55), and “UnTithed” (217-40) by Michelle Knowlden; “UnDevoured” (63-81) by Jarrod Shusterman; “UnClean” (83-111) by Terry Black; and “Unnatural Selection” (157-203) by Brendan Shusterman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Valor Tale - David Earl Williams III (b. 1984) (Xlibris, 2007)
Dystopia in which a democratically elected government fails to respond to developing chaos and a war develops that lasts fifteen years. A new government is established that becomes corrupt, and this brings about a civil war that lasts eight years. Martial law follows and is opposed by a small group of freedom fighters, the Aurora Blade. The novel then follows eight main characters who are depicted and described at the beginning plus other characters and a Narrator as they struggle to restore freedom.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Visitors - John [Alexander] Stewart (Shepheard-Walwyn, 2007)
Labeled an allegory, the story is about advanced aliens who arrive on Earth with the intent of helping the human race. While they leave without bringing about dramatic change, their positive influence will produce a better world. Something of a New Age perspective.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"Walmartopia" - Catherine Capellaro (2007)
Dystopia set in 2037. Walmart runs the U.S., and the capital is in Bensonhurst, Arkansas, the company's headquarters.
Keywords: Female author

The Wanderers - Naomi Gladish Smith (Chrysalis Books, 2007)
The novel is similar to 2004 Smith in that it is concerned with a group of people in the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2011 Smith.
Keywords: Female author; US author

We, Robots A Novella - Sue Lange (Aqueduct Press, 2007)
Dystopia told from the point of view of a robot. Initially the robot is a simple one caring for and protecting a child, and the dystopia is first presented in the description of the need for protection on the walk to school and in the school, which is a fortress and is as concerned with protecting the child as teaching her. Then the robots are given the ability to feel pain and humans are given enhanced powers previously limited to the robots. Little actually changes and the same dystopia remains.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Where the Water Meets the Sky" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (Interzone, 2007)
The ecological eutopia possible after our environmental dystopia. Much of the U.S. has been abandoned, but the Northwest has managed to create a good society without the power grid or the automobile.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Wikiworld" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, 2007)
Flawed utopia based around peer-operated systems, including government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Working Dead of Heehaw's Australia" - Jenny Schwartz (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia. As a result of deliberate cuts in health care and the elimination of workplace rights, a large supply of zombies is available to replace workers. A direct commentary on the policies of John Howard (b. 1939), Australian Prime Minister 1996-2007.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Y3K - Stan Kahn (WingSpan Press, 2007)
Ecological, communal eutopia set in 2999. The eutopia arose after the complete collapse of the world’s ecology, and there is a movement to reinstitute the policies that led to the collapse. There is a flourishing communal movement, and the novel follows one elderly communard as he fights the changes and visits some of the communal sites affiliated with his home community in the forest in Oregon. All but one of the urban sites of this community is paired with a rural one. The community is mostly vegetarian and much of the more-or-less flat land open to the sun are organic gardens. Everyone is expected to work about fifteen hours a week, and if they do so at any of the communities’ home sites “they can be assured of all of life’s basic material needs” (13). Everyone has a private space. All adults assume responsibility for all the children, who, due to the isolation of the community, are home-schooled, although many children choose to transfer to an urban community to attend school. The community is expected to care for the land and the watershed, maintain trails, respond to forest fires, and so forth, and if it does so and reside on the land continuously for twenty years, it is granted permanent use. The first part of the novel includes an extremely detailed description of the Oregon community and daily life there, and then follows the protagonist to Portland, Oregon, which is described as “A Natural City”. Much of the rest part of the novel is driven by an attempt to return to the policies that led to the collapse and the resistance to it. Although most people live to about 150, the world population is stabilized at 1.7 billion and the size of cities is shrinking. Energy is solar, biofuels, windmills, small hydro generators, and other means depending on the location and weather patterns. Buildings are built to last hundreds of years. The average life span is 153 years. All public transportation in North America is free. Universal freedom to travel anywhere in the world. The author lived in an intentional community in Oregon for five years.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"YFL-500" - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, 2007)
Flawed utopia set in the same world as 2006 Wilson "The Cartesian Theater".
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union - Michael Chabon (b. 1963) (HarperCollins, 2007)
Alternative history in which two million Jews are settled in Sitka, Alaska. The novel takes the form of a murder mystery that unravels various plots that reveal the state of the future, much of it not developed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: A Novel - Durer, Chris[topher] (Ivy House, 2006)
Post-World War III dystopia in which the U.S. and Japan have joined to establish Amernipp. The U.S., now Western Amernipp, becomes a theocracy controlling all aspects of personal life. Ultimately resistance is successful, and the U.S. Constitution is reestablished, but the book ends with it unclear if this will be maintained, which suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Absalom's Mother" - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Futureshocks, 2006)
Authoritarian dystopia with centralized control of all aspects of life. The story is about the revolt of a group of women against the drafting of their children into the workforce and the militia at a very young age. Schooling involves teaching children how to do the jobs they are already required to do.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A.C. 2084: A Utopian Novel (The New Atlantis Republic). Salute to More’s Utopia (1516) Bacon’s New Atlantis (1626) Orwell’s 1984 (1949) - Ismail Ersevim Prof. Dr., LPIBA, IOM (Melrose Books, 2006)
High tech eutopia on the re-emerged Atlantis (now New Atlantis) after a number of major environmental catastrophes rearranged the world order. Everyone must work eight hours a day six days a week and, in exchange, all needs are provided for without money. Can work more at choice. No private property. No taxes. No banks. Electric public transport, with electricity from wind, water, or bioenergy. All shops open twenty-four hours a day seven days a week and are mostly self-service. No personal weapons. No military. All medical care is free. Children under twelve cannot watch TV or use media without parental consent. Twelve years education required; taught through the internet. Sports required. Most disease has been eliminated; genetic surgery before birth eliminates birth defects. Mothers return to work when the child is one and a half. Work fifty years, but this can be shortened by working longer earlier. Cremation. Between eighteen and twenty-one supervised dating. After twenty-one if not in education, sexual relations are permitted, if approved, with required birth control and required regular reports. Gender equality. Only monogamy permitted. Religious freedom, and religion is discussed throughout the novel. Includes commentary on past utopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"An Accounting" - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) (Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, 2006)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of religious conflict.
Rpt. in Evenson, Fugue State. Stories. With Art by Zak Sally (Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009), 35-45; in Best American Fantasy. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2007), 366-78; and in The Apocalypse Reader. Ed. Justin Taylor (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 106-16.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The African Origins of UFOs - Anthony Joseph (Salt Publishing, 2006)
In the novel slaves travel to a future eutopian pre-colonial Africa. The novel, organized around twenty-four chapters, reflects Timothy Leary's (1920-96) twenty-four stages of the evolution of human consciousness modified by Ornette Coleman's (b. 1930) sense of musical progression. Much use of dialect.
Parts were originally published as “The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel).” Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 312-18; and as “Hummingbird”, “The ‛doption”, “On Kunu Morn”, and “She Swan in Heaven.” Hambone, no. 18 (2006): 149-55.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Trinidadian author

"After the Protocols" - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, 2006)
Multiple dystopias all blaming the Jews for their failures. Search for the Jews, who, it turns out, have left for an alternative universe. The story ends with one protagonist concluding that it must have been a different group causing all the problem, and the suggestion that the whole process of scapegoating will start over.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Among The Free. A Shadow Children Book - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young People, 2006)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Haddix. In this volume, a rebellion ousts the Population Police, but the new regime is little better.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Another Word for Map Is Faith" - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Religious dystopia in which a completely controlling Christian denomination works to restore the landscape to the version that they see as ordained by Christ based on old maps. In the story, they demolish a dam and destroy a town to get rid of a lake that is not on their map.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 93-103; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 23-37.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Assassin's Dream - J[ames] D[enny] Townsend (Five Star, 2006)
Dystopia. A future where most men were killed in a plague and the women have established an authoritarian society with trained assassins to kill those who are unwanted.
Keywords: Male author

The Baby Merchant - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Tor, 2006)
Dystopia. The background to the novel is a future where babies are a high-priced commodity for those who cannot conceive or adopt.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bar Code Rebellion - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic, 2006)
Sequel to 2004 Weyn following the girl as she joins the resistance. See also 2012 Weyn.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters. A Novel - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) (Woeli Publishing Services, 2006)
Complex satire directed mostly at religion set in a dystopian world in which the rich and poor are becoming more deeply divided through genetic engineering.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

"A Billion Eves" - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Religious dystopia in which technology allows the church to expand to alternate worlds, usually with one man taking a number of women with him.
Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([Canton, OH]: Prime Books, 2007), 306-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Blue Stars for All Saviors' Day" - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) (The Outcast: An Anthology of Exiles and Strangers, 2006)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (Viking, 2006)
An odd future with both eutopian and dystopian elements based on the notebooks of a twentieth century London taxi driver.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Carnival - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Bantam Books, 2006)
Mostly adventure and intrigue on New Amazonia, a world dominated by women who always carry weapons.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Cartesian Theater" - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Futureshocks, 2006)
The background of the story is the failure of complete automation to produce a eutopia. See also 2007 Wilson.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 275-98; and in Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction. Ed. Robert J. Sawyer (Markham, ON, Canada: Published by Red Deer Press for Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2009), 241-77 with a note on the author on 241-42.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Caught By Skin" - Steve Berman (b. 1949) (Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines, 2006)
Dystopia centering on the popularity of facial transplants so that everyone can choose the way they look and change their looks as fads change.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Check Elastic Before Jumping: Paralysis to senses, temporarily" - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) (Nature, 2006)
A future of corporate dominance mostly presented positively.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 30-32.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Children's Hospital - Adrian, Chris (McSweeney's Books, 2006)
Flawed utopia/dystopia with strong elements of fantasy. After a catastrophe that inundates the earth under miles of water, a children's hospital survives by floating. All the children are miraculously cured of whatever mental or physical disease brought them to the hospital, and attempts are made to create a better society.
Keywords: Male author

A Chilling Warmth: A Tale of Global Warming - Jay Kaplan (iUniverse, 2006)
The dystopia brought about by global warming.
Keywords: Male author

Choosing Our Destiny: Creating the Utopian World in the 21st Century - Cyril [Shirley] Belshaw (1921-2018) (Xlibris, 2006)
An extremely detailed non-fiction eutopia with a stress on the acceptance of diversity. Includes analyses of the current situation with explanations of the proposals, and most of the text is about current conditions. The author was editor of Current Anthropology and the book reflects his background in anthropology, with many of his suggestions for improvement based on his experiences in a variety of cultures.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Canadian author

Chute Thru - Janice Marriott (b. 1946) (Mallinson Rendal, 2006)
Young adult humorous dystopia. Global warming means that everyone lives on large rafts. The focus of the novel is on a young boy living on one of the poorer rafts in the northern ocean where work is enforced by cyborgs, and everything is breaking down. There are also rafts for the rich and powerful, mostly in the southern ocean. See also 2009 Marriott.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Civilization" - Kaftan, Vylar (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. The story presents alternative histories depending on the choices made but all end with the need to begin again.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 463-70; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 463-70.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Collapse - Jeff Stanfield (AuthorHouse, 2006)
Dystopia in which the Chinese and the North Koreans invade the U.S.
Keywords: Male author

Conflagration - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Tor, 2006)
Sequel to 2004 Farren with the fantasy elements and the conflict emphasized.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Created of Fire: The War Comes Home - Mark Cato (FairHope Press, 2006)
Mostly a political novel set in the very near future which describes a campaign to stop immigration to the U.S. from Islamic countries. A dystopia of violence follows.
Keywords: Male author

"Cruncher's, Inc." - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. A future where all the actions of each individual are evaluated and tabulated to determine their worth for medical treatment and other social services.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Culled - Simon Spurrier (b. 1981) (Abaddon Books, 2006)
Dystopia. The first volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. This volume describes the immediate effects of a plague that kills most of the world's population. This is a complex series with multiple authors who take the series in different directions from this origin. For other volumes, see 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 5-261.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Cut" - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) (The Cut and Product, 2006)
The play concerns a surgery, known as “the cut,” that is never defined that is used on dissidents, sick people, and those who choose to have it. It begins in the office of a practitioner who is conflicted about the practice trying to talk a healthy man out of having the surgery. In the second part, the practitioner, who has never told his wife what he does, having a confrontation with her. In the third part, a new government has outlawed “the cut” and the practitioner is in jail. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, February 23, 2006.
Rpt. in his Plays: 2. (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 179-231.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cybernetica - Michael J. Cavallaro (b. 1975) (Arcanum Books, 2006)
Dystopia of subliminal control and corporate and government corruption. See http://www.cybernetica-book.com for more information.
Keywords: Male author

Dark Matter - Greg Reeves (Great Authors Online, 2006)
Dystopia of Christian religious fundamentalism in which a fundamentalist preacher becomes President of the U.S. and sets about to eliminate all opposition. The few survivors mount a fight back and ultimately win.
Keywords: Male author

Dark Rain - Conor Corderoy (b. 1957) (Macmillan New Writing, 2006)
Future ecological dystopia . The rich (Domers), the middle (Dry), and the poor (Wets) are divided by their ability to live out of constant rain. The Domers are using the possibility of an alien invasion as a means of maintaining the current hierarchy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

". . . the darkest evening of the year. . ." - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) (The Future Is Queer, 2006)
Dystopia with threatened eutopian enclaves. The eutopian elements are composed of those who practice an old religion based in nature; the dystopia is the official oppression of the eutopia.
Rpt. in her in her Ice and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng: PS Publishing, 2018), 189-209, with a note on the story (304-05).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Debt of the Innocent" - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Ecological dystopia that requires reduced electricity supplies even to hospitals. This results in babies being allowed to die or even being killed to save others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Demoskratos: New Democracy - K. Yil. Karademir (Washington Educational Organization, 2006)
An idiosyncratic eutopia focusing on eliminating most of the U.S. political structure and replacing it with a system of referenda. The states will be eliminated and replaced with five districts. The President, Congress, and political parties will be eliminated along with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All overseas U.S. military bases will be closed. There will be a publicly owned independent National News Bureau and all major newspapers will use news from the Bureau for their first three pages and all major broadcasters will give the 6:30-7:00 p.m. slot to the Bureau.

"Derelict" - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) (Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space, 2006)
Eutopia of the habitats built in space which cannot have conflict because they are so fragile. The story is about children pushing the limits of what is possible for them in the strictly regulated lives necessary for the habitats to function safely.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Die Umkehr" - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) (Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006, 2006)
Authoritarian religious dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Disunited States of America - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2006)
Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This novel is set in a future in which the United States has disintegrated into a number of regions and states, some of which are at war with each other. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2007, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Down in The Corridor" - Robert Lopresti (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia in which the Pacific states have seceded from the U.S. as a result of U.S. policies under George W. Bush. The P.S.A. is presented more positively, but the story concerns the continuing struggle between the two countries.
Keywords: Male author; US author