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

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

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

"The Day The Music Stopped" - Randy McCharles (Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, 2012)
Dystopia of a future that tried to cure mental illness and eliminated all emotion.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Deciding for Ourselves” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Graphic eutopian story with words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. In the story a neighborhood where no one interacts builds a community; it later falls apart, but some people decide to start again.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Declaration" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Rip-off!, 2012)
The story involves students, who live most of their lives as avatars online are required to participate in a cooperative group project, and they choose the “Declaration of Independence.” They decide to try to bring about their own independence, each with a different motive, each hoping for a better life for themselves.
The paperback version is entitled Mash Up: Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (London: Titan Books, 2016), 371-411. Rpt. in his The Promise of Space and Other Stories ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 140-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Defiance - C. J. Redwine (Balzer + Bray, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia stressing adventure and romance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Devil’s Hit List. Book Three of the Underground - Frank Creed (b. 1966) (Splashdown Books, 2012)
Sequel to 2007 and 2010 Creed. In this volume, the government and a large corporation introduce a lethal virtual reality experience in an attempt to reduce the world’s population. The Christian underground fights back.See also Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Distant Eden - Lloyd [L.] Tackitt ([CreateSpace], 2012)
Survivalist eutopia after the electrical grid is destroyed. Most people die, but a few, who had prepared in advance, survive and prosper. First volume in a series. The second volume is Adrian’s War. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2012, in which one of the survivors travels from Texas to Colorado, where, when he arrives, he runs into an armed gang who want to make him a prisoner. The third volume is Eden’s Hammer. Book III of the “Distant Eden” Series. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, which deals with a threat to the village. The fourth volume is Eden’s Warriors. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, in which the protagonist leads the fight against a Mexican invasion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dog Stars - Peter Heller (b. 1959) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012)
After the world is largely depopulated by a flu pandemic, the protagonist lives next to a small airfield Colorado with his dog and a heavily armed survivalist who also ended up there. The protagonist rations the small amount of aviation fuel left and regularly survey the area looking for game and the scavengers they have to fight off. Ultimately, he hears an odd signal on his radio and discovers other survivors.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dominion - C[hristopher] J[ohn] Sansom (b. 1952) (Mantle, 2012)
Alternative history dystopia in which Germany defeated Britain was defeated in World War 2. The novel stressed the ultimately successful resistance. Includes a “Bibliographical Note” (605-610) and a “Historical Note” (611-28).
U. S. ed. New York: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Don’t Mess with Travis - Bob Smiley (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
The novel depicts the U.S. under a Democratic president (clearly modeled on President Obama) as a tyranny. The governor of Texas leads a movement to allow states to secede.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Dream Eater” - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a society built around one suffering individual.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Drowned Cities - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2012)
Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia described as a companion to his 2010 Ship Breaker. In this novel two young people try to escape the poverty and violence of the cities only for one of them to be captured by a group of child soldiers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earth Girl - Janet Edwards (b. 1958) (Harper Voyager, 2012)
First volume of a young adult trilogy set in 2778 in which humans have spread throughout the galaxy, but some people have an immune system that will not allow them to leave Earth. The novel is about one such girl.
U.S. ed. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Elected - Rori Shay (Silence in the Library, 2012)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in 2185 after an environmental crisis in which all countries are isolated from each other and technology is outlawed to protect what is left of the environment. Also, the countries have agreed to a system in which one family in each country is elected to rule for one hundred years, with men ruling and women reproducing. In this novel, a girl has been raised to replace her father as the Elected so that her family can continue in power, and she must disguise herself as a boy and marry a woman to replace her father. Her country has a small technology faction, but it is following the agreement that prohibited its re-development. The second volume, Suspected. Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015, complicates the personal relations but focuses on conflict between the country the girl leads and its neighbor, which is much more authoritarian than hers and is developing the outlawed technology and planning for war. In the third volume, Perfected: Book 3 of The Elected Series. Washington, DC: Silence in the Library, 2015, the countries are no longer as isolated from each other and gradually come to cooperate and begin to repair the environment. A prequel, “The Pendant.” Illus. Ginger Breo was published in Athena’s Daughters Volume 2 (Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015), 193-203 with and “Author’s Note” on 202-03 and as an ebook with the subtitle A Short Story from the World of the Elected Series explains how the girl became the heir.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Empty Pocket” - Seth Cadin (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia and a young woman’s successful journey through the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the one functioning entertainment company.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Energized - Edward M. Lerner (b. 1949) (Tor, 2012)
Science fiction novel set in a dystopia brought about be severe energy shortage. The novel focuses on capturing an asteroid to mine it to replace the depleted energy sources of Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Erasing Time - [Janette] [Rallison] (b. 1966) (Katherine Tegen Books, 2012)
Young adult dystopia about time travel and the struggle to keep the dystopian regime from using the time machine.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Eric and Pan” - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with constant surveillance and severe punishment for minor infractions of the rules. The story focuses on two boys and their escape to where their love will be acceptable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Escape to Freedom. Book One of the Freedom Redux Series - A. J. Reissig (b. 1973) (Freedom Notes Press, 2012)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. with the President intent on ruling the world. First volume of an intended series, but no further volumes have been published. This volume just gets to the beginnings of the development of an opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Essential Liberty. A Thriller - Rob Olive (Author, 2012)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the U.S. government bans and tries to confiscate firearms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Everything Is Broken - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Prime Books, 2012)
The novel is mostly about the effects of a tsunami on the people of the West Coast of California, but one focus is a small town called Freedom that has cut itself off from all contact with governmental authorities, which was supposed to be eutopian but seems rather dystopian when faced with a disaster.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Exile - Banerjee, Neelanjana (Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired to the Ramayana, 2012)
The story is set in a post-catastrophe Las Vegas in a world where India is the dominant economic force, and Indians stuck in the U.S. are desperate to get permission to immigrate to India.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Feathers on Wings of Love and Hate: Let the Gun Speak - John Grit (CreateSpace, 2012)
Dystopia in which world government, cooperating with an authoritarian U.S. government, eliminate civil rights in the U.S. The novel focuses on two individuals whose families have been murdered by the government, who fight back. A sequel is Feathers on Wings of Love and Hate 2: Call Me Timucua 2nd ed. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012, in which the resistance expands and is ultimately successful.
Keywords: Male author; US author

For the Mercy of Water - Karen Jayes (Penguin Books (South Africa), 2012)
The South African situation projected into a drought-stricken future with monopolistic control of the water supply.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

The Forsaken - Lisa M. Stasse (Simon & Schuster BYYR, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in the United Northern Alliance (Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.). First volume in a trilogy. The second volume is The Uprising. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2013 in which the protagonist escapes from a prison camp and joins rebels against the regime. And the final volume is The Defiant. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014 in which the United Northern Alliance is defeated.
Keywords: Female author

Foundlings - Diana Peterfreund (b. 1979) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which a concern for unborn children has led to an authoritarian program to monitor all girls who might get pregnant and control of them if they did.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Freakling - Lana Krumwiede (Candlewick Press, 2012)
Young adult dystopia depicting a society where being different is unacceptable. First volume of a trilogy. The middle volume, Archon. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013, continues the story of one of the protagonists. The third volume is True Son. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2015 in which a final battle is fought.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Free Radicals: A Novel of Utopia and Dystopia - [Chaz (Charles)] [Bufe]; [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (See Sharp Press, 2012)
The novel begins on a run down, violent Earth, moves to an even worse prison planet, and ends with an anarchist community that the author says is based on the German Zegg community.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Gaiastan - Troy J. Grice (CreateSpace, 2012)
Authoritarian, hierarchical (Overmen and Undermen) dystopia with Undermen enslaved. The novel ends with the development of a resistance movement.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Gift of Touch” - Chinelo Onwualu (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
In a future of regular travel in space, there are a number of dystopias presented, including a religious group that practices child sacrifice.
Rpt. in The Apex Book of World Science Fiction 4. Ed. Mahvesh Murad. Series ed. Lavie Tidhar (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2015), 19-38.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Nigerian author

Glitch - Heather Anastasiu (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone is implanted with a chip that eliminates destructive emotions. First volume of a trilogy followed by Override. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, which focuses on the development of a resistance movement; and Shutdown. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, which deals with the overthrow of the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Going Home - A[ngery] American [pseud.] (Plume, 2012)
First volume of a survivalist dystopia series. Followed by Surviving Home. New York: Plume, 2013; and Escaping Home. Book 3 of the Survivalist Series. New York: Plume, 2013, in which they fight the U.S government, which is establishing relocation camps, to stay in their homes; and Forsaking Home. A Novel. Book 4 of the Survivalist Series. New York Plume, 2014, in which the protagonist plots to bring down the entire system. See also 2016 American and Hopf.
Keywords: US author

“Good Girl” - Malinda Lo (Diverse Engines, 2012)
Dystopia with people living in tunnels in cities. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Good Intentions. A Novel - Zeidman, Bob (Swiss Creek Publications, 2012)
Satire depicting a future dystopian U.S. of complete government control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Grid City Overload - Steven T. Bramble (CreateSpace, 2012)
Dystopia set in Grid City, CO in 2025 stressing the negative effects of technology and the problems of sensory overload. Additional material is available at http://gridcityoverload.blogspot.com/
Keywords: Male author; US author

Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037 - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2012)
Sequel to 2010 Kraack. In this volume, protagonists of the first volume are successful in reviving the fortunes of Ashwood, and the U.S. goes through a scandal around surrogacy. See also 2014 Kraack.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hidden Ribbon" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
The setting for the story is a dystopia in which the poor live at the top of buildings with constant violence and the rich live in enclosed domes in the hills.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"High Stakes" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2012)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” about the making of a film, “High Stakes, on the seastead and the experiences of the protagonist of the first story as she learns more about the problems there. See also 2013 and 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

High-Opp - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) (WordFire Press, 2012)
Dystopia of a society using manipulated public opinion polls to place people in one of the two statuses available, the Labor pool at the bottom and the "High-Opps" at the top. The novel follows one man from the High-Opps to the Labor Pool through a revolution.. First publication of an early novel by the author of the Dune series.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Home Affairs" - Sarah Lotz (b. 1971) (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
Dystopia of African countries run by robots, which creates a Kafkaesque bureaucracy.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Honey Bear" - Sofia Samatar (b. 1971) (Clarkesworld Magazin, 2012)
Climate-change dystopia combined with an alien invasion.
Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 56-68.
Keywords: Female author; Somali-American author

"How Th'irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.gov" - Gregory Maguire (b. 1954) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Immobility - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) (Tor Books, 2012)
Post-apocalyptic novel set after an unspecified Kollaps in which almost every living thing on Earth is killed. The story is told by a man who had been in suspended animation for a long time, who is paralyzed from the waist down but goes on a quest, carried by two men, to find and steal an important cylinder.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In Autotelia” - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) (Arc Magazine 1.1. The future always wins, 2012)
An odd, rather indeterminate story told from the point of view of an aging woman doctor traveling from a rundown apparently contemporary London to another city, which appears to be in an alternative universe, to give medical tests to those applying to immigrate.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“In the Clearing” - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which all people are drugged through their food. There is a small community of people who have escaped, and the story focuses on the relationship between a boy from the outside and a girl from inside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

In the Republic of Happiness: An Entertainment in Three Parts - Martin Crimp (b. 1956) (Faber & Faber, 2012)
Three versions of dystopia. The three parts are Destruction of the Family, The Five Essential Freedoms of the Individual, and In the Republic of Happiness. The first part takes place at a family Christmas lunch in which Uncle Bob and his wife Madeleine show up to tell the family that they are leaving forever and why Madeleine hates every member of the family. The is simply five lists of the characteristics of the supposed freedoms, which are solipsistic in the extreme. The third part has Uncle Bob and Madeleine in a large white room with windows that suggest a vague green landscape and they have a meandering conversation. The review in the Guardian, suggests, on the basis of an epigram from Dante’s Paradiso before the third act, which is the only epigram in the text, that the play is Crimp’s take on the Divine Comedy. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/dec/13/republic-of-happiness-review. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, December 6, 2012.
Rpt. in his Plays Three (London: Faber & Faber, 2015), 269-358.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“In Which Dimitri Returns the Elgin Marbles” - Kenneback, Paul (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2012)
Dystopia in which there is an authoritarian New Government that, for example, chooses people’s occupations for them
Keywords: Male author; US author

Incontrovertibility of Rainbows (Lemage, 2012)
The novel begins in a dystopia where the well-off elderly are in power and use it to suppress anyone over fifty. The elderly poor are warehoused in huge hospices and kept alive at any cost. The Young People Party wins a presidential election supported by many of the elderly who want to be allowed to die. The solution proposed, though, is the execution of everyone over 74. The bulk of the novel is set after the election and details the often-difficult transition to a much better, more balanced, and healthy society.

Ink - Sabrina Vourvoulias (Crossed Genres Publications, 2012)
In the future immigrants have their status permanently tattooed on their wrists. A prequel that focusses on the protagonist is “The Memory of Chemistry,” Fantasy, no. 81 (July 2022). https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-memory-of-chemistry/ with an Author Spotlight at https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/non-fiction/author-spotlights/author-spotlight-sabrina-vourvoulias/ that includes discussion of the story’s relationship to her Ink.
Rpt. Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018, with an Introduction by Kathleen Alcalá. 465 pp.
Keywords: Female author; Latina author; US author

The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf - Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975) (Walker Books, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements based partially on Aboriginal beliefs. At fourteen everyone has to be assessed for illegal talents. The focus is on a group of children who escape and are being hunted. See 2013 and 2015 Kwaymullina for sequels.
U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Female author

Intrusion - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Orbit, 2012)
Dystopia in which a pill, taken when pregnant, eliminates many common genetic defects in the unborn child. The novel focuses on a woman who refuses to take the pill and the organized government attempts to force her to do so.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Killables - Gemma Malley (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which the “evil” part of people’s brains is removed. If anyone shows signs that the operation was not successful, they are labelled “K” “killable” and disappear. First volume of a series; see also 2013 Malley, The Disappearances and The System.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Last Diplomat - Don [F.] Marrs (Don F. Marrs, 2012)
Dystopia in which nuclear weapons are detonated in U.S. cities and China invades.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Judgment" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2012)
This is framed as a detective story in a future in which aliens have removed all men from the planet and women are struggling to adjust. Some of the aliens are having second thoughts, but this theme is not developed. His “Men Are Trouble.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 28.6 (341) (June 2004): 104-35 is set in the same future and has the same protagonist, Fay Hardaway, a private detective. Compare to Philip Wylie, The Disappearance (1951).
Rpt. in his The Promise of Space and Other Stories ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 300-75.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Liberty Gulch: Part One - A. G. Fredericks (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia after the collapse of the U.S. economy and the government of what it calls large farms and food camps that are in fact concentration camps. Continued in his Liberty Rekindled. Part Two. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2013], in which a small group at one of the camps tries to reestablish some liberty.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Liberty's Daughter" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2012)
Flawed libertarian utopia that has indentured labor and is much more authoritarian than it pretends to be. It is a seastead, a set of man-made islands off the west coast of the U.S. See also 2012 Kiritzer, “High Stakes,” 2013 and 2014 Kritzer, and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“LIMBs” - Julia Elliott (b. 1968) (Tin House, 2012)
A dystopia of growing old in the future. The story is set in an old age home where the residents are being used to test high-tech ways of improving their ability to think and remember as well as to move around.
Rpt. without the illus. in her The Wilds: Stories (Portland, OR/Brooklyn, NY: Tin House, 2014), 45-74; and in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 59-77.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Lips & Teeth" - Jon Wallace (Interzone, 2012)
Dystopia of a future North Korea.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Little Hawk" - Erica Lindquist; Aron Christensen (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
While the story is set in a future dystopia of a collapsing world, it is a thoroughly contemporary story about the traumas of a boy being bullied.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Looking Backward: 2162-2012: A View from a Future Libertarian Republic - Beth Cody ([CreateSpace], 2012)
Libertarian eutopia in which the U.S. has been reorganized into a number of independent nations with a focus on the Free States of America located in the middle west and mountain region. Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy lives there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Lost Code. Book One of the Atlanteans - Emerson, Kevin (Katherine Tegen Books, 2012)
Young adult dystopia set on an Earth that continues to damage its environment. The protagonist is a descendent of Atlantis, which had done the same, and is searching for the code that would help him reverse the process. First volume in a series followed by The Dark Shore. Book Two of the Atlanteans. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013 is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and The Far Dawn. Book Three of the Atlanteans. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014 resolves the issues raised in the previous volumes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lost Everything - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) (Tor, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which war has ravaged the countryside along the Susquehanna River and individuals are struggling to survive and reconnect.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner (Hot Keys Press, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist, who everyone considers to be stupid, is dyslexic, which the author says she is and reflects how she was treated.
U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Female author

A Match Made in Heaven - Randy Attwood (2012)
Mormons on the planet Moroni where they had moved 285 years earlier to avoid Earth laws, with the Equal Rights Amendment given as an example. Genetic manipulation allowed them to breed cattle the size of the extinct Earth elephants, and the meat was their main export. All men eighteen to twenty were required to work in the slaughterhouses. Practiced polygamy. Men are required to find a wife from off-planet to enlarge the gene pool. Most buy wives from a planet with slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mirage - Matt[hew Theron] Theron] Ruff (b. 1965) (Harper, 2012)
Dystopian alternative history in which U.S. Christian fundamentalists attack the Tigris and Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Nature of Ash - Mandy [Amanda] Hager (b. 1960) (Random House New Zealand, 2012)
Young adult dystopia set in a world where two power blocs, one led my China and one led by the United States have formed are in conflict. New Zealand is caught in the middle, and one university student is drawn into the conflict after his father’s murder. A sequel is Ash Arising. Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2018 in which his exposure of the corruption at the heart of New Zealand political life only brings more danger.
Random House New Zealand
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

News From Gardenia - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) (Unbound, 2012)
A eutopia inspired by 1890 Morris, News From Nowhere but with an advanced technology not found in Morris. The future world is divided between countries like Gardenia, formerly the U.K., that are called “nonecons” and are Arcadias with technology and those countries like the Brazil, China, India, and the United States of Africa that are successful and wealthy technological economies. There is also an unvisited dystopia, the Midwest, in what used to be the U.S. that is racist and authoritarian. First volume of a trilogy; see also 2013 and 2015 Llewellyn.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Next Door" - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) (Diverse Energies, 2012)
Dystopia in which most people are homeless and living in garages and other places not suitable for human life. Gay male themes.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

The Not Yet - Moira Crone (b. 1952) (University of New Orleans Press, 2012)
Dystopia of the division between the long-lived and those trying to become the long-lived.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Now Purple with Love’s Wound" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which girls are injected with a serum that makes them love the boy who claims them for marriage.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Osiris. Book One of the Osiris Project - E[mma] J. Swift (Night Shade Books, 2012)
Dystopia. Osiris is a ocean city that had been cut off from land in a huge storm fifty years earlier, and most of the inhabitants believe it is the only city on Earth. Deep rich/poor powerful/powerless divisions. First volume of a trilogy. Cataveiro: Book Two of the Osiris Project. [London: Del Rey, 2014 is a typical middle volume where events become both more complicated and more dangerous. In Tamaruq: Book Three of the Osiris Project. London: Del Rey, 2015, after initial difficulties, the conflicts are mostly resolved.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Otherwise" - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Post-catastrophe, violent dystopia seen through the eyes of a lesbian teenager.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 133-157; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 356-378.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Panopticon. A Novel - Jenni Fagan (b. 1977) (William Heinemann, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which a fifteen year old girl who has gone through the Scottish foster care system is sent to The Panopticon, a type of prison proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which prisoners can be efficiently observed. There she finds a helpful social worker and the prisoners ultimately destroy the prison.
U.S. ed. New York: Hogarth, 2013. Rpt. with a “Reader’s Guide,” “Recommended Reading,” and “A Playlist for The Panopticon” (287-300) New York: Hogarth, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

“Paths to Utopia” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin that suggest various activities that individuals and groups can undertake to bring about a better society. Some of the other stories focus on specific things that could or have done.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Patriot Dawn: The Resistance Rises - [Max] [Alexander] (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia after the development of an authoritarian regime in the U.S. The novel was written to accompany his Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival. 2nd ed. rev. and exp. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012. A sequel under the author’s name is Patriot Rising: The Unbroken. 2nd ed. [No indication of a 1st ed.]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2015, with a “Glossary” on pp. 407-09. In this volume there is a civil war in the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Patriots of Treason. A Novel - David Thomas Roberts ([AKA yoLa], 2012)
Dystopia in which the State of Texas defends freedom, and the Tea Party in particular, against a corrupt and authoritarian government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Pattern Recognition.” - Ken Liu (b. 1976) (Diverse Energies, 2012)
Dystopia in which small children from the slums of various countries are bought from their parents and raised in a completely closed and regulated environment where they are trained in pattern recognition skills with the results sold to large corporations.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author; US author

“The Perfect Match” - Ken Liu (b. 1976) (2012)
The dystopia created by a company selling everyone a personal attendant/adviser that collects an immense amount of information about each person.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 491-507; and in his The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 26-50.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author; US author

Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004); J. A. Johnstone (Pinnacle Books, 2012)
Sequel to 2011 Johnstone with Johnstone. In this novel the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. See also 2013 Johnstone with Johnstone
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Pines. A Novel - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) (Thomas & Mercer, 2012)
Dystopia of a town cut off from the rest of the world and controlled by a few people with the leader claiming that he is God. There appears to be only desolation outside the town. First volume of a trilogy followed by Wayward: Book Two of the Wayward Pines Series. Las Vegas, NV: Thomas & Mercer, 2013 and The Last Town: Book Three of the Wayward Pines Series. Seattle, WA: Thomas & Mercer, 2014. Basis for the TV series Wayward Pines that ran May 14 – July 23, 2015, and May 25 – July 27, 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pirate Cinema - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2012)
Young adult dystopia focusing on the control of the internet by media companies that get laws passed to criminalize and impose severe penalties on sampling and other common ways of using the internet. The focus of the novel is on artists and activists fighting a proposed new law that will criminalize other activities.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

“Proposition 23” - Efe [Tokunbo] Okogu (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
An authoritarian dystopia planning to give citizenship rights to Artificial Intelligences.
Keywords: Male author; Mexican author; Nigerian author; UK author

Pure - Julianna Baggott (Grand Central, 2012)
Dystopia. First volume in the Pure trilogy in which what appears to have been a nuclear war leaves devastation and major physical changes. The “Pure” are those who avoided the fallout and live inside the Dome. The second volume, Fuse. New York: Grand Central, 2013, is mostly intrigue and adventure. In the third volume, Burn. New York: Grand Central, 2014, after much conflict, the Dome is destroyed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Quarantine: The Loners. Book One - [Lex] [Hrabe]; [Thomas] [Voorhees] (Egmont USA, 2012)
First volume of a young adult dystopia series originally intended as a trilogy but extended. A disease that kills adults but not teenagers, infects a high school, and all the students are quarantined. The sequels follow the conflicts that take place and their struggle to survive. See Quarantine: The Saints. Book Two. New York: Egmont USA, 2013; Quarantine: The Burnouts. Book Three. New York: Egmont USA, 2014; and Quarantine: The Giant. Book Four. New York: Egmost USA, 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Reality Girl" - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Post-ecological catastrophe ecological dystopia.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 99-120.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Red" - Amanda Downum (b. 1979) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the few surviving groups of teenagers live in boarded-up houses.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Rekindling of Hope. “Take this as a warning” - Doug Lavers ([Partridge Publishing Co.], 2012)
The novel presents Earth in the near future as a dystopia that a far-advanced alien collective entity concludes needs to be saved from itself. First volume of a trilogy with this volume setting the stage.  Set mostly in Australia. The second volume, Consolidation of Hope. Singapore: Partridge Publishing Co., 2014, shows that there has been improvement on Earth, but it is threatened by a different alien species. The third volume, Fulfillment of Hope. Singapore: Partridge Publishing, 2014, begins with a trip to a new planet and the terraforming of the planet. This is followed by strife with other planets and an alien invasion of Earth, but, as the title states, everything comes out right.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Remembering Mandy” - Paul Clayton (Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012)
The story takes place in a post-nuclear war future, and the protagonist is one of the very few people who survived and is now an old man. The overwhelming majority of people have been created from genetic material and are all young, vigorous and in their twenties. The story concerns the old man’s decision whether or not to sell his memories of his wife and child for enough money to live well, but in selling them he will lose them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Renegade - J[essica] A. Souders (Tor Teen, 2012)
Young adult flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect underground city called Elysium is a highly structured, inegalitarian dystopia that practices eugenics. The novel follows a young woman, whose mother is the dictator, and who has been chosen for the highest class as she learns the truth about her society and by the end of the novel escapes to the surface. Prequels are A Dark Grave: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2012. EBook in which a young man on the surface discovers the underground city and Rise: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2916. EBook in which a young man from the underground who is supposed to kill the protagonist of the first volumes but falls in love with her instead. A sequel is Revelations. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, in which the girl struggles to adjust to living on the surface. The third volume is Rebellion. New York: Tor Teen, 2016 in which the girl and her friends intend to kidnap her mother and exile her to the surface. The ending suggests that a further volume is possible.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Reservation 2020" - Bayo Ojikutu (b. 1971) (Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, 2012)
Dystopian projection of the U.S. inner cities that are now walled compounds.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Return to Nowhere: Revisiting Morris's Utopian Romance" - George W. J. Duncan (William Morris Society in the United States, Newsletter, 2012)
A man visits 1890 Morris in a dream arriving twenty years after "Guest", the protagonist of Morris's novel, had been there. Much is the same as in Morris, but the society is more culturally diverse than it was in Morris; there is limited use of a substitute for money, primarily as a means of keeping track of how much needs to be produced, but also to avoid some people taking more than they need; and there are a few "refusers", who will not work.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Reunion" - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
A dystopia in which soldiers systematically took selected children from their homes to be adopted, killed, or enslaved. The story focuses on the search for one of the children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Right to Bear Arms: After the Riots Begin - Michael E. Foster (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia with a small group fighting an authoritarian government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Sale" - Tendai Huchu (b. 1982) (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
Dystopia in which African countries have sold themselves to corporations or other countries.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; Zimbabwean author

"The Salt Sea and the Sky" - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a future Ireland where the need to respond to climate change means that the majority of the people will never have a job and live on a low minimum provided by the state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scrap Collectors" - Arlynn Despi (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 7. Literature of the Fantastic, 2012)
Climate-change dystopia showing a people trying to salvage the remnants of their lost civilization.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

The Second Mexican-American War - Les Harris (b. 1978) (Anderson & Petrova Publishers, 2012)
Dystopia in which Mexico, in alliance with China, invades the U.S. Continued in his Resistance and Alliances: Book Two of The Guns, Ammo and Alcohol Trilogy. Rio Rico, AZ: Anderson & Petrova Publishers, 2012. Both volumes stress the war and the individuals and small groups that provide most of the resistance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Seekers in the City” - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Overpopulation, bureaucratic dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Segment" - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia of a future where the news is faked by agencies that completely control the lives of the young actors, who live in agency buildings. The story focuses on a news segment where it is intended that the actor be killed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Selection - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) (Harper Teen, 2012)
Young adult romance novel set in a dystopia with a caste system in which there is a formal competition among young women to be chosen by the prince. First volume in a series followed by The Elite. New York: HarperTeen, 2013; The One. New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard (The Selection Novella). New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Heir. New York: HarperTeen, 2015; and The Crown. New York: HarperTeen, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Semplica Girl Diaries” - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2012)
The story takes place in an undefined future with extreme differences of wealth, and the point-of-view character is a man who tries to emulate the rich to please his daughters. He buys a set of Semplica Girls, who are women trafficked from poor countries and used as lawn implements.
Rpt. in the author's Tenth of December. Stories (New York: Random House, 2013), 109-167
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadows Cast by Stars - Catherine Knutsson (Athenaeum Books for Young Readers, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with eutopian elements in which a plague is ravaging the world and the only cure is found in antigens in the blood of Aborigines. An Aboriginal family escapes to an enclave on an island (Vancouver island according to an author's note) where she helps strengthen the old ways.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; First Nations author

Slated - Teri [Teresa] Terry (Orchard Books, 2012)
First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy in which rebellious teenagers have their memories wiped and given a new identity, or “slated.” The novel’s protagonist is a young woman who has been slated but some of whose memories come back, which puts her in danger from the leaders of the dystopia. The second volume, Fractured. London: Orchard Books, 2013. U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013, is a typical middle volume in which things get worse. In the third volume, Shattered. London: Orchard Books, 2014 U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2014, the protagonist continues to face danger but finds her family. There is also a prequel, Fated. London: Orchard Books, 2019.
U.S. ed. New York: Nancy Paulsen Books\Penguin, 2013
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Squealer: Mouthpiece for a Generation” - Robert Nathan Correll (Nature, 2012)
Brief dystopia in which lost knowledge is being replaced by fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Starters - Lissa Price (Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2012)
First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia set after a biological weapon kills everyone between twenty and sixty, with the younger people called Starters and the older ones known as Enders. The young people struggle to survive, and the protagonist learns of a way of earning money by allowing an Ender to temporarily inhabit her body. A malfunction has her inhabiting an Enders body where she learns of the corruption in the system In the sequel, Enders New York: Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2014, she retains memories from the Enders who had inhabited her body and are trying to use her for their own purposes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Surprises: Three Linked Romances - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) (Faber and Faber, 2012)
Three interrelated love stories set initially in what is described as the near future but one in which androids do much of the work and the class system remains. The third act is set fifty years later with must more elaborate technology. The play was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough July 17, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Surrender - Elana Johnson (Simon Pulse, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in sequel to 2011 Johnson in which the dictator tries to keep the protagonist of the first volume from remembering the past. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance. See also 2013 Johnson.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes One though Seven - Cheryl L. Cholley (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia. A sequel is Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes Eight though Twelve [The cover title is Survivalist by Circumstance--Novel Two]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2013. Volumes eight through twelve were published as ebooks in 2013, and volume thirteen was published as an ebook in 2013.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye - Paul [G.] Tremblay (b. 1971) (ChiZine Publications, 2012)
Humor/satire set in a dystopia where a large corporation controls the entire food supply.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Taft 2012. A Novel - Jason Heller (Quirk Books, 2012)
Satire. William Howard Taft (1857-1930. U.S. President 1909-13. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1921-30) returns from the past and gets involved with contemporary politics, running for president and being defeated in a campaign focusing on the poor quality of food in the U.S. At the end of the novel in 2021 his granddaughter, then President, appoints him to the Supreme Court.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tangerine, Nectarine, Clementine, Apocalypse" - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Interzone, 2012)
Flawed utopia seen through the eyes of a boy who believed its myths until he discovered the flaws.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Three - Annemarie Monahan (PM Press/Flashpoint Press, 2012)
One stream in the novel involves a lesbian intentional community, the eutopian goals that lead to its establishment, and the problems that lead to its collapse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Magnus Books, 2012)
The novel follows two men through their lives from about 2007 to 2077, and throughout it reflects on the nature of utopia from the perspective of black, gay men and refers to a black gay utopian community that one of the men had belonged to. The novel problematizes utopia, as do other works of Delany. See Timothy M. Griffiths, “Queer Black Communities: Touching the Utopian Frame in Delany’s Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.” African American Review 48.3 (Fall 2015): 305-17.
Parts were previously published as “In the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.” Black Clock 7. Ed. Steve Erickson (Spring/Summer 2007): 116-34; and in Coilhouse A Love Letter to Alternative Culture #01 (2007): 12-17; and as “Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders.” The Unbearables’ Big Book of Sex. Ed. Ron Kolm, Carol Wierzbicki, Jim Feast, Steve Dalachinsky, Yuko Otomo, and Shalom Neuman (Williamsburg, NY: Autonomodia /Unbearable Books, 2011), 221-41.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Times of Trouble. The End Times Saga Book 2 - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) (CreateSpace, 2012)
Despite being called Book 2, this was the first published volume in a multi-volume dystopia dealing with the end of the world from a Christian perspective. This volume presents a good Christian who begins to experience the way in which the U.S. government is trying to control all aspects of life. Times of Turmoil. The End Times Saga Book 1. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013 is a prequel that deals with events before Times of Trouble. In Times of Trial. The End Times Saga Book 3. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012 the government is attacking all Christians. Timothy Phillips. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013 [The Kindle ed. has the title Times of Rebellion. The End Times Saga Book 4. 2013] focuses on one young Christian. Times of Destruction. The End Times Saga Book 5. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 deals with the first half of the seven years of tribulation, and Times of Judgment. The End Times Saga Book 6. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 deals with the second half. The last volume, Times of Tribulation. The End Times Saga Book 7. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 ends with the beginning of Christ’s rule during the millennium. A minor character from this volume is developed in Jon Ryan: An End Times Short Story. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013. Another such character is developed in Xavier Doolittle. An End Times Short Story. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“To Gaze at the Sun” - Clifton Gachagna (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
A dystopian in which a corporation produces replaceable sons to fight in an undescribed war.
Keywords: Kenyan author; Male author

“Tomorrow’s Dictator” - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) (Apex Magazine,, 2012)
The protagonist is the “Dictator” of Walden Three, a community where she “adjusts” the members to be productive workers.
Rpt. The Book of Apex: Volume Four of Apex Magazine. Ed. Lynne M. Thomas (Lexington, KY: Publications, 2013), 161-71; and in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 220-29. © 2018
Keywords: Male author; US author

Toxicity. A Novel of the Anarchy - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) (Solaris, 2012)
Dystopia of a planet that a corporation uses solely to dispose of the toxic wastes of other planets.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Trial” - Joan De La Haye (AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, 2012)
Overpopulation dystopia in which all deemed not useful are killed.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

Tricentennial - IE Castellano (CreateSpace, 2012)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia where apparently ecologically sound enclosed cities were no longer necessary but used to sustain the power of those in control. At the end, the old U.S. is reestablished.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Troy Standard and the Men Behind the Desks - A. G. Fredericks ([CreateSpace], 2012)
The novel focuses on the struggle to achieve a new currency based on precious metals, which will bring about a much better world, the dystopia in creation by not having one, and the forces who oppose the change for their own benefit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Two Sisters in Exile” - Aliette de Bodard (b. 1982) (Solaris Rising1.5: An Exclusive Ebook of New Science Fiction, 2012)
A eutopia of peace threatened by the surrounding warrior peoples.
Keywords: Female author; French author; US author

Under the Never Sky - Veronica Rossi (b. 1973) (Harper, 2012)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. First volume of a trilogy to be followed by Through the Ever Night (2013). In this volume, the protagonists, a woman from an enclosed city and a man from the Outside, meet and struggle to survive and learn from each other. The concluding volume, Into the Still Blue. New York: Harper, 2014 has the two leading a group of people to bring about peace.
Keywords: Brazilian American author; Female author

"The Up" - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a post-catastrophe underground society that is slowly failing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Uptime Jazz 2084: Futuristic Nightmare /Time Train Blues. A Science Fiction Novel in the Time Train Series - John T. Cullen (Clocktower Books, 2012)
Dystopia with time travelers from the future trying to change to past to protect their future. The protagonist travels to a future 2084 U.S. that is a walled religious dystopia under the Good Shepherd.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

The Utopia Experiment - Lloyd Harrison Whitling (Whitling House. EBook., 2012)
The novel begins with the description of a eutopia of nudity and polygamous and polyandrous marriages in a very lively society. This is apparently the eutopia that it was hoped that the experimental intentional community in which most of the rest of the novel is set would produce. But most of the novel focuses on starting the community, located on an isolated island, and the personal, psychological, and social problems the community faced before it was destroyed by a tsunami.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Visiting Nelson" - Katherine Langrish (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult ecological dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The War Is Over and Everyone Wins" - Zachary Jernigan (Asimov's Science Fiction 36.1 (432), 2012)
Dystopia in which all whites were killed by a manufactured virus and U.S. cities have divided into ethnic enclaves that cannot safely be entered by someone of another ethnicity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Wardrobe Malfunction” - Dale Newton (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
High tech eutopia in which non-profits doing good have replaced corporations focused on making money.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Water Catchment: Fast Forward to the Past” - Josepha Dietrich (Queensland University of Technology, 2012)
Young adult dystopia plus exegesis. From the author’s abstract. “The genre in which the protagonist's journey is charted and represented is dystopian young adult fiction; hence my creative piece, The Water Catchment, is a novel manuscript for a dystopian young adult fantasy. It is a speculative novel set in a possible future and poses (and answers) the question: What might happen if water becomes the most powerful commodity on earth? There are two communities, called ‘worlds’ to create a barrier and difference where physical ones are not in evidence. A battle ensues over unfair conditions and access to water. In the end the protagonist, Caitlyn, takes over leadership heralding a new era of co-operation and water management between the two worlds.”
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Water Thief - Nicholas Lamar Soutter (Author, 2012)
In the novel individuals are the private property of corporations, and one such person discovers and oppositional movement. The author states in the Afterword that he wrote the book as a rebuttal to Ayn Rand (1905-1982), author of Anthem (1938), and Atlas Shrugged (1957).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"We Can Do This" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Arc 1.4: Forever Alone Drone, 2012)
The background to the story is a high-tech New York City that has solved the environmental problems, provides for the homeless, and can cure most diseases, but it focuses on the issues that develop when someone put in suspension because her brain tumor could not be cured is cured and brought out of suspension thirty-five years later.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Whisper - Emma Clayton (b. 1968) (Chicken House, 2012)
Sequel to 2008 Clayton. This volume has the same protagonists as the first novel with them successfully fighting a potential dictator and united their world.
U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic/Chicken House, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Wool Omnibus - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) (CreateSpace, 2012)
Dystopia in which to escape the ruined earth people have lived for generations in an authoritarian dystopia in a huge underground silo. Sequels include Shift Omnibus. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which includes “First Shift” (April 14, 2012), “Second Shift” (November 20, 2012), and “Third Shift” (January 28, 2013), and Dust. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which concludes the series. Additional material can be found at the author’s website http://www.hughhowey.com/ as well as the author’s “Story Behind Dust” at http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-dust-by-hugh-howey.
Rpt. with some revisions as Wool. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. Much of the material was originally published online in the author’s blog as “Wool” (July 30, 2011), “Wool: Proper Gauge” (November 20, 2011), “Wool: Casting Off” (December 4, 2011), “Wool: The Unraveling” (December 25, 2011), and “Wool: The Stranded” (January 14, 2012).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Write Rules: Character development” - Freya Morris (Nature, 2012)
A brief dystopia in which writing is a capital crime.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Year 3000. New World, New Government - Rod Sydney Brant (iUniverse, 2012)
A short novel about the struggle to create a world-wide eutopia with a world government and courts to settle disputes.
Keywords: Male author

The Yellow Rose of Texas. A Novel - Dennis Snyder (Concerning Life Publishing, 2012)
Texas secedes from a dystopian anti-religious U.S. government which leads to a civil war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Yesterday - C. K. Kelly Martin (Random House, 2012)
Young adult dystopia depicting a police state with a primarily robot work force. Climate change has forced the now United North America to abandon its coastal regions.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Irish author

"Zero Bar" - Tom Greene (Strange Horizons, 2012)
The story is set in a near-future that continues to be racist but where it is possible to adjust a fetus’s genes to ensure that the baby will be white. It focuses on a young woman whose genes had been adjusted deciding what to do when she is pregnant. A Zero Bar is a candy bar that is white on the outside and black inside.
Rpt. in How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 41-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Zona - Nathan L. Yocum (Curiosity Quills Press, 2012)
Religious dystopia with preachers immediately killing people who are identified as sinners.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2019: Dystopia USA: A Novel of America’s Economic Twilight - David W. Latko (Tifda Press, 2011)
The U.S. economy has collapsed, the novel follows one family as they struggle to survive with lectures on how it came about.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2020 Vision - Steve Rushton (CreateSpace, 2011)
Dystopia that follows a number of protagonists with quite different perspectives as the U.S. faces major problems. The perspective is anti-extremist.
Keywords: Male author

2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America - Albert [Lawrence] Brooks (b. 1947) (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
The novel begins with the early stages of intergenerational conflict that could lead to a dystopia, followed by a massive earthquake that destroys Los Angeles and the failure of government to respond adequately. The novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia of intergenerational cooperation, the building of a new, eutopian Los Angeles under the auspices of China, the establishment of neighborhood health care based on a Chinese model, and the election of a naturalized Chinese politician as President after an amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed to make it possible.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2032 Was A Very Good Year - J, William Mauck (iUniverse, 2011)
Dystopia brought about by Islamic radicals taking over the world and the successful fight back by troops from Alaska.
Keywords: US author

2084 - Troy David Newham ([Swamp Fox Press], 2011)
Dystopia where an authoritarian regime controls people through drugs.
Keywords: Male author

2084: Don’t be scared, be prepared - Simon Q [pseud.] (LeanTeam, 2011)
Post-economic and environmental collapse dystopia. The novel focuses on a town in Switzerland where an individual lives who begins the process of reuniting the fragmented world by establishing groups of travelers to visit different places, beginning in Europe, and then spreading.
Keywords: Swiss author

2984 - R. Vincent Riccio (Strategic Book Group, 2011)
Authoritarian dystopia that presents itself as perfect.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Across the Universe - Beth Revis (Razorbill, 2011)
Young adult dystopia. The novel concerns a generation starship, with this novel focusing on the preparations for the trip and the dystopian Earth that they are leaving from the perspective of a young girl.  A related story is her “The Other Elder.” After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (New York: Hyperion, 2012), 109-27, and it focuses on the three rules of the starship society, 1. “No differences” 2. “The ship must have one strong, central leader to survive.” 3. “No individual thought.” Sequels include Million Suns. New York: Razorbill, 2012, where serious problems are discovered on the ship; and Shades of Earth: an Across the Universe Novel. New York: Razorbill, 2013, which is set on the planet that they arrive at and focuses on the problems of survival; and  As They Slip Away: An Across the Universe Novella. Np: Penguin Teen Ebook, 2013, which focuses on an additional character.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Afrika Reich - Guy Saville (b. 1973) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011)
An alternative history dystopia. Britain is defeated at Dunkirk and negotiates a peace in which Nazi Germany and Britain divide Africa between them. The novel is set in the 1952 that such an arrangement produced. See also 2015 Saville.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

“After the Apocalypse” - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (After the Apocalypse. Stories, 2011)
Dystopia of the immediate aftermath of the collapse of society.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ai's Journal: Galaxy 22--Book 1 - The Kite [pseud.] (AuthorHouse, 2011)
The novel depicts a eutopia with direct contact with something like angels and the Creator and a dystopia with an evil leader. Said to be first of five volumes, but there is no evidence of further volumes.

All Good Children - Catherine Austen (Orca Book Publishers, 2011)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia with a boy who wants to maintain his own identity.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

America Pacifica. A Novel - Anna North (Little, Brown, 2011)
Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia that begins on an island dictatorship followed by the search, by a young woman, for her mother, who has disappeared from the island.
Keywords: Female author; US author

American Revolution. A Gay Novel (Keywords: Gay, American, President) - Byrne Fone (CreateSpace, 2011)
The novel begins in the development of an anti-gay dystopia in the U.S. and is largely a political novel about the apparent defeat of that dystopia, with the novel ending before the defeat is completely clear.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“And Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness” - Lisa Nohealani Morton (Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic, 2011)
Lesbian love story with fantasy elements set in an authoritarian dystopia where most interactions are with machines.
Rpt. in GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 5-17.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Apocalypse Law - John Grit ([CreateSpace], 2011)
Survivalist dystopia. First volume of five followed by Apocalypse Law 2. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011]. Rev. ed. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012; Apocalypse Law 3. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012]; Apocalypse Law 4: Raw Justice. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013; Apocalypse Law. and Apocalypse Law 5: Liberty or Tyranny. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014. Over the five volumes the story moves from a plague that decimates the world’s population through various stages of survival and rebuilding to when the rule of law is beginning to be reestablished.
Rev. ed. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Apple Jack" - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) (Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball, 2011)
A post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ashes, Ashes - Jo Treggiari (Scholastic Press, 2011)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which a young woman joins a gang in order to survive and then, with the gang, fights against those trying to infect people with a plague.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Away - Teri Hall (Dial Books, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2010 Hall. In this volume, some protagonists from the first volume have crossed the line and are living a fairly primitive life camping. See also 2013 Hall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beauty Queens - Libba [Martha Elizabeth] Bray (b. 1964) (Scholastic Press, 2011)
Take-off on 1954 Golding, The Lord of the Flies. Humorous novel about a planeload of teenage beauty queens that crash lands on an isolated island, and the society they create there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Bioshock: Rapture - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Titan Books, 2011)
The aftermath of World War 2 has produced a dystopian world where the creative person is neither honored nor rewarded. In response a man creates an underwater utopia where such people will be free and rewarded. Based on the Bioshock video games.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Black Glass - Meg Mundell (Scribe, 2011)
Dystopia set in a rundown city deeply divided between rich and poor. Stresses the culture of surveillance that is becoming normal in cities.
An earlier version was part of the author's M.A. thesis "Intimate Distance: Surveillance, Detection and Power in Contemporary Culture and Literature: Black Glass: A Novel." Melbourne, 2008.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Blood Red Road. Dustlands Book One - Moira Young (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which a young woman’s twin brother is taken, and she discovers the world outside her isolated homeland where she has to search for him. In the sequel Rebel Heart. Dustlands Book Two. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2012 the heroine rescues her brother. In the final volume, Raging Star. Dustlands Book Three. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014 the heroine is tempted by a vision of a proposed improved Earth called New Eden, which she realizes is deeply flawed and successfully continues her opposition.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Bonehead's Utopia - Andrew Jordan (Smokestack Books, 2011)
A prison holding refugees and others who have been incarcerated without trial declares itself free. Based on the author's experience writer-in-residence at HMP [Her Majesty's Prison] Haslar, a Home Office Holding Centre, now a Removal Centre.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Bridge - Jane Higgins (Text Publishing, 2011)
Young adult dystopia set in a violent future in which groups on each side of a river are constantly at war and the effort to bring about reconciliation.
U.S. ed. New York: Tundra Books, 2012.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Bumped - Megan [Fitzmorris] McCafferty (b. 1973) (Balzer & Bray, 2011)
Keywords: Female author; US author

"By Any Other Name" - Kim Westwood (Anywhere But Earth: New Tales of Outer Space, 2011)
The story is set on a world that is trying to erase the past, with everything destroyed when a person dies except for living spaces that the Housing Authority assigns to a new person. Dissident is a bad word and “those called it tend to disappear” (488).
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

By Light Alone - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2011)
Dystopian satire focusing on the greed of the extremely wealthy with an extreme rich/poor divide and with the poor fed so inadequately, women can’t have children.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The California Queen Comes Calling" - Pat MacEwen (Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change, 2011)
Dystopia brought about by the isolation created by the flooding caused by climate change. The story focuses on the attempt to reestablish a legal system. One subtheme is a law that limits a woman to having two children and the requirement that those children be registered. Any child beyond two is a non-person.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Ceiling is Sky" - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Interzone, 2011)
Dystopia of a future Earth with extreme poverty and very high unemployment, with most people working short term contracts.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Children of Paranoia - Trevor Shane (b. 1976) (Dutton, 2011)
Dystopia of constant war. First volume in a series. In this volume the young protagonist is an assassin who, meeting a young woman, tries to stop fighting, which is not permitted
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Choice" - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2011)
Global warming dystopia.
Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012), 2-31 with an editor's note on 1; and in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 385-423 with an author’s note on 433-35.
Keywords: English author; Male author

City of Bohane - Kevin Barry (b. 1969) (Jonathan Cape, 2011)
Dystopia set in western Ireland in 2053. The city is deeply divided between rich and poor and under the control of a gangland boss. The inside back cover has a map of Bohane.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Courier's New Bicycle - Kim Westwood (HarperCollins, 2011)
Religious dystopia following a flu pandemic that radically lowered fertility.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Curfew - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) (Vintage Books, 2011)
Dystopia. The novel focus on the close relationship between a father and daughter set in a violent authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dark Grid: When the Lights Go Out . . . Permanently - David C. Waldron ([CreateSpace], 2011)
Dystopia in which unusual activity on the sun knocks out Earth’s entire electrical grid. Similarities to survivalist dystopias in that people form an isolated community to protect themselves. Continued in Dark Road: Second Book of the DARK GRID Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012, which follows a different family from the one in the first volume; and Dark Coup. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013, which brings together the people of the first two to fight against a conspiracy to establish a dictatorship.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Dark Parties - Sara Grant (Indigo, 2011)
Authoritarian dystopia in which people are enclosed inside the "Protectosphere" where everyone is becoming more alike and are told that nothing survives outside. The novel focuses on the ultimately successful attempt to escape.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Daybreak Zero - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2011)
Sequel to 2010 Barnes. This novel shows the dystopia created by the catastrophe of the previous one. See also 2013 Barnes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dead Lands. A Deadlands Novel - [Sarah] [Lotz] (b. 1971); [Savannah] [Lotz] (Penguin Books (South Africa), 2011)
First volume of a young adult trilogy in which South Africa has been invaded by zombies and some teenagers, known as the Mall Rats, organize to fight both the zombies and the corrupt government. The second volume is Death of a Saint. A Deadlands Novel. By Lily Herne [pseud.]. Cape Town, SA: Penguin Books (South Africa), 2012. Rpt. London: Corsair/Constable & Robinson, 2013. The third volume is The Army of the Lost. A Deadlands Novel. By Lily Herne [pseud.]. Cape Town, SA: Penguin Books (South Africa), 2013. Rpt. London: Much-in-Little/Constable & Robinson, 2014.
Rpt. London: Much-in-Little/Constable & Robinson, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

Delirium - [Laura Suzanne] [Schecter] (b. 1982) (Harper, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which people are inoculated against love at eighteen. Followed by her Pandemonium. New York: HarperCollins, 2012, which follows the main protagonist and is clearly a middle volume; and her Requiem. New York: Harper, 2013 where more and more people come to be able to love. The first printing of Requiem contains a short story, “Alex,” about the protagonist separately paged at the end of the novel. Other related stories can be found in her Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, & Raven. New York: Harper, 2012. The stories were originally published online in 2011 and 2012.
UK ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Departure. The Owner - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) (Tor, 2011)
Dystopia in which a group controlling an orbiting space station keeps the station's inhabitants enslaved and is coming to control the Earth. Sequels include Zero Point: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2012 and Jupiter War: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2013, both of which are mostly adventure and war.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Dewey Decimal System. A Novel - Nathan Larson (b. 1970) (Akashic Books, 2011)
The first volume in a post-catastrophe dystopian trilogy set in New York City after a flu epidemic and terrorist attacks. Corruption, violence. In the second volume, The Nervous System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2012, the same protagonist dealing with similar issues in the same future. In the third volume, The Immune System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2015, the same protagonist struggling to deal with the completely corrupt future system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Differences” - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Albedo (Dublin, Ireland), 2011)
Dystopia in which any human difference is unacceptable.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Divergent - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (Katherine Tegen Books, 2011)
First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy presented initially as a flawed utopia. At sixteen each person must choose among the five factions (Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite) to which they will devote their lives. The novel focuses on a young woman’s choice and her struggles to fit in.  A companion volume that tells the story of two characters and is set before the first volume of the trilogy is Four: A Divergent Collection. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014. An additional story is We Can Be Mended. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2018 was published as an ebook. The second volume, Insurgent. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2012, explores the personal loyalties and conflicts that develop as a result of the choices made in the first volume. In the third volume, Allegiant. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013, the dystopia is defeated, and, after many adventures, the people of the former dystopia and the people from outside it are brought together. A film of Divergent, directed by Neil Burger was released in 2014 with a screenplay with Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor. A film of Insurgent, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman (b. 1962), and Mark Bomback (b. 1971) was released in 2015. A film of Allegiant, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper, and Bill Collage was released in 2017.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One - Linda Hawley (Nouveau Publishing, 2011)
Dystopia based on the author’s interpretation of the recent past (see “The Author’s Views” in the third volume ([281-83]). The dystopia is primarily concerned with the authoritarian nature of government and its attempts to control the population. Over the course of the three volumes people successful fight back against the government and win back their freedom. The other volumes of the trilogy are Guardian of Time. The Prophecies Book Two. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012; and Wisdom Keepers. The Prophecies Book Three. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012.
2nd ed. as Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012. The three volumes were released together on Kindle as The Prophecies Trilogy. Np: 21st Publishing, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Drought - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) (Egmont USA, 2011)
Young adult dystopia about a girl living in a religious enclave in which the people are essentially slaves living a lifestyle of the early nineteenth century. She is essential to the existence of the community, everyone will die if she leaves, and she has the opportunity to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dry Souls - Denise Getson (CBAY Books, 2011)
Young adult dystopia set in a future where there is an extreme water shortage, and rationing is the basis of political power. The focus of the novel is a girl who discovers that she can produce water from the ground. The Last Tree. Austin, TX: CBAY Books, 2016 is a sequel in which the protagonist uses her talent to provide water while being pursued by those who want to control her for their own benefit.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Eating with Integrity: A question of taste" - David Berreby (b. 1958) (Nature, 2011)
Satire on eating fads in a future where all food has to be absolutely sterile, and people eat in individual sterilized tents with some people reverting to real food.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Eden Paradox - Barry Kirwan (Summertime Publications, 2011)
A novel in which people from Earth, which has become a violent authoritarian dystopia hope to settle a new planet but encounter aliens. The first of four volumes followed by Eden’s Trial. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2012; Eden’s Revenge. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2013; and Eden’s Endgame. An Eden’s Paradox Novel. Scottsdale, AZ: Summertime Publications, 2014, which includes a “Glossary” (340-46). All of the sequels are mostly adventure and war.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"On the Edge" - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, 2011)
Satire in which major figures from the past, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Washington, Emma Goldman, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin are living in Los Angeles and interact, with Jefferson accompanied by Sally Hemings. They all believe that the revolution is about to begin. The story is based on a verse from Ian’s “Guess You Had to be There.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Electric Kingdom - David Arnold (b. 1981) (Penguin Random House/Viking, 2011)
Young adult post-apocalyptic (pandemic caused by infected flies) dystopia. Much of the novel is similar to other young adult post-apocalyptic dystopias in which the protagonists search for a safe place to live and meet other survivors, some good, some evil. This novel has a third protagonist, called the Deliverer, who has lived multiple lives and hopes to be able to save the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Elephant Mountains - Scott Ely (Orca Book Publishers, 2011)
Young adult survivalist dystopia set after the flooding brought on by global warming. The U.S. author teaches English at Winthrop College.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Eleventh Plague - Jeff Hirsch (Scholastic Press, 2011)
Young adult post catastrophe dystopia. The U.S. has been devastated by a flu pandemic, and the novel follows young survivors searching for others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Eternal Winter" - Maria Pia Benosa (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 6: Literature of the Fantastic, 2011)
Climate-change dystopia in which all but a few remnants of the Philippines have disappeared, and one of the remaining is evacuating all the rich and powerful and leaving all the rest behind.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Female author; Filipina author

Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism - David Nickle (b. 1964) (ChiZine Publications, 2011)
Dystopia, with elements of horror, about an attempt to create a "perfect" community. A sequel set about twenty years later is Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination. Peterborough, ON, Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2017. It follows the same characters dealing with about the same issues.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Expedition Beyond - Roger Bagg (Fiction Studio Books, 2011)
Hollow Earth lost race eutopia based on the peoples of the pueblos of the American Southwest. Much adventure with the men regularly enslaved by Neanderthals. Vegetarian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fear Index - Robert [Dennis] Harris (b. 1957) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011)
Computer dystopia in which a computer program designed to predict movements in the market runs out of control.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Flashback - Dan Simmons (b. 1948) (Quercus, 2011)
Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has collapsed, nuclear weapons have been used against Israel by a resurgent Caliphate, and there is an extreme rich/poor division. People use a drug to escape by taking them back to the past. The Japanese, who are the rich and the strongest world power, prohibit its use in Japan.
U.S. ed. Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown, 2011. An earlier story was "Flashback." Lovedeath (New York: Warner Books, 1993), 153-200. Rpt. The Year's Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 544-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author