Death by Chocolate - Toby Moore (Viking, 2005)
Dystopian satire. A religious and political crusade against obesity using the image of Our Lord, Christ the Fit. Those who are f*t get the attention of the Health Police. Set in New York City.
Keywords: Male author

"Deep Blue Sea" - Peter Hobbs (Picador New Writing, 2005)
Environmental dystopia.
Rpt. in his I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (London: Faber & Faber, 2006), 7-23.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Destroying Worlds: Second Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers - John David (b. 1955) (1st Books, 2005)
Dystopia. Second of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, but in this volume one of the themes is a hierarchical planet with slavery. See also 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2007 (2).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Devil's Utopia. A Novel - J[ason] Schimschal (Trident Publishing, 2005)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which young people, as a rite of passage, must search the wasteland for relics and lost technologies. None have ever returned among those who went east, and the novel focuses on a new group who choose to go east. Sequels that are concerned with what they find there include Ruins of America. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2006, which sets the scene of war and mass destruction; Iron Messiah. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2007 about the search for an ultimate weapon; Prophet of Sorrow. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2010 about the problems faced in protecting the homeland; and Heroes of the Rising Moon. A Novel. Northglenn, CO: Fossil Ridge Books, 2012 where success is achieved. See also http://www.darkenrealm.com/
Keywords: Male author

"A Digital Day" - Jan [Johannes] Amkreutz (Moving Along: Far Ahead. Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today, 2005)
Technological eutopia.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author; US author

Divided Kingdom - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) (Bloomsbury, 2005)
Dystopia. The U.K. is divided into four districts reflecting personality types based on the idea of dominant humours.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Do No Harm" - Brian E. Moore (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Dystopia. Nonconformists are required to use a complex of drugs that make them "normal".
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Doctor Salt - Gerard Donovan (b. 1959) (Scribner, 2005)
Dystopia of corporate medicine.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; US author

Dr. Warpenstein: The Invisible Foe - Beaver, Bennie M (Xlibris, 2005)
Projected dystopia that fails to achieve its ends, which includes control of all humanity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Emperor" - Lucius [Taylor] Shepard (1943-2014) (Scifiction, 2005)
Dystopia. Corporate destruction of the environment.
Rpt. in his Viator Plus (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 3-63.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Empire of Texas and The Star of India - Rodger Olsen (Great Authors Online and Rodger Olsen, 2005)
Post-catastrophe dystopia. Various environmental and political problems are not dealt with adequately and the U.S. collapses. Texas is poor, violent, and without education but develops into a workable empire. It is attacked by Brazil but wins and is on the road back to technological rebirth. Generally conservative viewpoint.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Extinction - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) (Macmillan, 2005)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (PS Publishing, 2005)
Eutopia and dystopia. Jules Verne (1828-1905) travels into both the past and the future. In the future, he first visits an authoritarian dystopia that has so weakened the sun as to bring about a new ice age. Much further into the future, he visits a eutopia of peace and plenty with the sun restored with the assistance of visiting aliens.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Facing the New Atlantic. A Short Story" - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005)
Scotland after the Gulf Stream failed. Part climate change dystopia; part high tech eutopia with extensive use of virtual reality. The future is unsettled, and everything is presented as in process.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Fevreblau. A Novel - Kenneth Mark Hoover (b. 1959) (Five Star, 2005)
Dystopia set in Russia and its satellites in space but with a somewhat positive ending. The fevreblau was a disease the killed most of the women. A revolution against the Russian state leads initially to a continuing dystopia with various struggles among competing groups, but at the end hope is held out that positive change is beginning to take place.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Food for Thought" - Thomas Canfield (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2005)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Future Heroes 2035: My Friends and I" - John Smart (Futuristics: Looking Ahead. Volume One of Tackling Tomorrow Today, 2005)
Technological eutopia as seen through the eyes of a teenager. The story is continued in his “Future Heroes 2035: The Big Picture.” Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today. Ed. Arthur B. Shostak (Np: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005), 30-43, with the story on 30-41.
Keywords: Male author

"Girls and Boys, Come Out to Play" - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2005)
Humorous eutopia. A future recreated Arcadia with nymphs and satyrs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

High in the Clouds - [James] Paul McCartney (b. 1942); Geoff Dunbar; Philip Ardagh (Faber and Faber, 2005)
Children's eutopia depicting Animalia, a tropical island where all animals live happily together. Contrasted with the dangers of Megatropolis.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Homestay" - Tim Jones (b. 1959) (Strange Horizons, 2005)
The story contrasts two eutopias or dystopias with the reader left to decide which. The point of view character normally lives in electronic form in a satellite above an earth that has lost all artificial power sources. He has taken on a physical body to visit earth. Both places are presented positively.
Rpt. in his Transported: Short Stories (Auckland, New Zealand: Random House New Zealand, 2008), 125-37.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Hunted - Alex Shearer (b. 1949) (Macmillan's Children Books, 2005)
Dystopia in which most people look youthful and live long lives and few children are born. The few children are consider prize possessions and are bought and sold or stolen.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"i, robot" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Infinite Matrix, 2005)
Two societies are described, both technologically advanced. The first is a flawed utopia in that the technology is in the service of Social Harmony and is used as much for control as for improving life. The second, less fully described, is a eutopia based on nanotechnology.
Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007, 101-57 which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 101-57.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"Ice Cream Doors" - Alan R. Barclay (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Alternative history authoritarian dystopia with deep rich/poor division.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Imprint - Paul L. Bates (Five Star, 2005)
Authoritarian dystopia. Nobody has any memory. No mass media. Violence. See also 2008 Bates.
Keywords: Male author

"Intervention" - Ruaridh Nicoll (b. 1969) (Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation, 2005)
The story is concerned with changing the mindset of people on disability who have been encouraged to consider themselves sick to reduce the number counted as unemployed. Scotland has developed a program to identify those who can work, the majority, and reintegrate them into the productive economy, even if not in their old jobs.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Invisible Power. A Philosophical Adventure Story - Philip Allott (Xlibris, 2005)
The novel is designed to show how it might be possible to bring about a eutopia. A sequel is Invisible Power 2. A Metaphysical Adventure Story. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2008. A third volume, Invisible Power 3. A Political Adventure Story, was announced but not published. Nonfiction explanations of the same ideas can be found in his Eunomia: New Order for a New World. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; and Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. Cheltenham, Eng./Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ivory Tower: A Place to call your own" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Nature 434.7034, 2005)
Technological eutopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 274-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Jack" - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Looking for Jake: Stories, 2005)
Dystopia set in the same city as 2000, 2002, and 2004 Miéville. This is the story of a "Robin Hood" figure in the city.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Janus Effect - Alan Cash (Y Lolfa Cyf, 2005)
Authoritarian eugenic dystopia set in 2040.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Judgment Day - James F. David (Forge, 2005)
Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the coming of the Antichrist with the remnant of the faithful escaping to another planet. See also 2005 David, The Book of Summer.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Labor Day" - Patrick Tucker (Beacons of Tomorrow: First Collection, 2005)
Dystopia set in an ever-growing shopping mall in which people live permanently purchasing and immediately discarding goods.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Last Public Event” - Peter Murphy (Social Alternatives, 2005)
Dystopia set in an unnamed “banana republic” in which people are made brain dead so that they can their organs will remain functioning until their organs can be harvested.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Lone and Level Sands" - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Future Washington, 2005)
Libertarian eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mercury Fur - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) (Methuen Drama, 2005)
Dystopian play set in future largely destroyed London, where many people are addicted to a drug that causes memory loss. The play focuses on a group of boys in the East End who earn money selling the drug and putting on parties in which wealthy people pay to live out their fantasies. In the part that is the focus of the play, that is the murder of a child.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Moped Army - Paul Sizer (b. 1963) (Café Digital Comics, 2005)
Graphic novel dystopia set in a world where gasoline was illegal with a focus on conflict between the very wealth young people who live high in the cities and the poor young people who live in the crumbling underground.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954) (Faber and Faber, 2005)
Dystopia describing a future society where children are cloned and raised to become organ donors. The story is told from the point of view of one of the clones.
Rpt. with minor revisions and illus. Kate Miller. London: The Folio Society, 2012, with an Introduction by Claire Mussud (vii-xiv). U.S. ed. <st1:placetype w:st="on">New York</st1:placetype>: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Keywords: Japanese author; Male author; UK author

Notes From a Coma - Mike McCormack (b. 1965) (Jonathan Cape, 2005)
Dystopia in which deep comas are tried to replace prison.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Overdrive - Phillip W. Simpson (b. 1971) (Arete Publishing Ltd, 2005)
Dystopian science fiction novel set in 3149. Primarily adventure and intrigue, but the setting includes a struggle for power in an authoritarian society.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Patralmador Paradox: Seduction and Salvation of Planet Earth - Paul [S.] Sandhaus (iUniverse, Inc, 2005)
Flawed utopia on the planet Patralmador, which is trying to recruit people from Earth who are likely to shake up Patralmador’s complacency. Equality. Live in compatible groups; no families. Children live by age group. No competitive sport; no organized religion; abundance.
Keywords: Male author

Perfect Dark Initial Vector - Greg[ory] Rucka (b. 1969) (Tor, 2005)
Corporate dystopia in sequel to the XBox 360 game Perfect Dark Zero and © by the Microsoft Corporation. See also his Perfect Dark Second Front. New York: Tor, 2007, which is a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Piccadilly Circus" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2005)
Dystopia of a future ruined, depopulated London.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006), 244-57.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Pigs on the Wing: Aurorae in the sky with diamonds, just $10.99 (exc. tax)" - K. Erik Ziemelis (Nature, 2005)
Pollution dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 318-20.
Keywords: Male author

"Prometheus Unbound, At Last: And not a moment too soon" - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Nature, 2005)
Satire on the themes of science fiction and utopian literature.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 239-41; and in The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 361-63.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Promised Land" - Antonio Ruffini (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Dystopia. Immortality or at least extremely long life is available to some, which produces a deeply divided society.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

The Protector's War - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) (Roc, 2005)
Post-catastrophe societies, some dystopian and others struggling to be good societies.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Punk Land - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Eraserhead Press, 2005)
Dystopia of a Punk Heaven.
Keywords: Male author; US author

RebelFire 1.0: Out of the Gray Zone - Claire Wolfe; Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010) (RebelFire Press, 2005)
A future as a dystopia in which everyone is surveilled and drugged, and there are armed patrols to ensure compliance. One young boy resists, and he finds others who are rebels. The authors include an Afterword (225-27) giving details of existing or proposed institutions and weapons that are the basis for their picture of the future.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Republic of Trees - Sam Taylor (Faber and Faber, 2005)
Four children "on the edge of adolescence" run away to a forest where they attempt to establish a eutopia based on Jean-Jacque Rousseau's (1712-78) Social Contract (1762). Another joins them and the eutopia takes a dystopian turn with the imposition of authority and conformity.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Running on at Adventures" - Angus McAllister (b. 1943) (Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction, 2005)
Enclosed dystopia of over-regulation with no contact with the outside. The protagonist experiences the outside and decides that the regulated life is preferable.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

A Short History of Paradise - Norman Bilbrough (b. 1941) (Penguin Books, 2005)
A communal experiment designed to be eutopian is undermined by "human nature".
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Six Days Till Sunday - Fred Gaertner (Xlibris, 2005)
Dystopia of a future where blacks enslave whites and argue that their slaves are all content. To fight this future slavery, blacks are sent back to experience the dystopia of slavery in the American South before the Civil War. At the end of the novel, former slave owners are freeing their slaves and working to end slavery. A non-utopian sequel is Preacher Sean, Antiterrorist. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2009.
Keywords: Male author

Soul City. A Novel - Touré [Nesblett] (b. 1971) (Little, Brown, 2005)
Humorous, satirical eutopia of a vibrant city that lives all the fables of the swinging African American life. Additional Soul City stories that can be found in his The Portable Promised Land. Stories. New York: Little, Brown, 2002 include “The Steviewondermobile” (3-8), “A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love” (9-24); originally published illus. in Zoetrope All-Story 3.4 (Winter 1999): 40-46. http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=57&part=all; “The Breakup Ceremony” 25-31); “Soul City Gazette Profile: Crash Jinkins, Last of the Chronic Crashees” (142-45), and “Falcon Malone Can Fly No More” (201-17). In addition, there is an ad for the forthcoming The Black Utopia, A History of Soul City, by Cadillac Johnson, a protagonist in Soul City, to be published by Negritude University Press. 1369 pp. (257).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Stelzer's Travels: A Voyage to a Sensible Planet - Dan Hurwitz (Booklocker, 2005)
Detailed eutopia of a planet with a history closely paralleling Earth's covering international relations, ecology, economics, politics, and religion. Jewish themes throughout.
Keywords: Male author

The Stone Ship - Peter Raftos (Pandanus Books, 2005)
Dystopia with fantasy elements focusing on a university and its complex physical structure and bureaucracy and the struggles for power and status within it.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Summer Isles - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Aio Publishing, 2005)
Alternative history dystopia describing a Britain in which fascists came to power. Particular focus on its anti-gay agenda.
A shorter version was originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.10 (274) (October/November 1998): 172-226; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Sixteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 544-602 with an editor’s note on 544.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Towards a Liberal Utopia - Philip Booth (IEA The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2005)
Liberal in this case means "free market". The first part of the book, "Times Future?", is a series of essays describing how specific policy areas could be improved using market mechanisms. The result, although it is clear that many of the authors are uncomfortable with the word, would be a free market utopia. The essays are "Health 2055" by Tim Evans and Helen Evans (41-55/2nd ed. 11-21), "Education Reclaimed" by James Tooley (56-66/2nd ed. 22-30), "Policing a Liberal Society" (67-85/2nd ed. 31-44), "Pension Provision in 2055" by Philip Booth (86-98/2nd ed. 45-55), "Social Security in a Free Society" by David G. Green (99-107/2nd ed. 56-63), "Limits on the Tax Burden" by Tim Congdon (108-18/2nd ed. 64-71), "Britain's Relationship with the European Union" by Patrick Minford (119-27/2nd ed. 72-79), "Regulating the Labour Market" by J.R. Shackleton (128-43/2nd ed. 80-91), "Free Trade: The Next Fifty Years" by Razeen Sally (144-54/2nd ed. 92-100), "Competition in Land Use Planning: An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century" (155-65/2nd ed. 101-09), "Beyond Kyoto: Real Solutions to Greenhouse Emissions From Developing Countries" by Roger Bate and David Montgomery (166-86/2nd ed. 110-25), "The Environment in 2055" by Julian Morris (187-99/2nd ed. 126-36), "Capitalism" by David Henderson and Geoffrey Owen (200-11/2nd ed. 137-45), "A Constitution for Liberty" by John Meadowcraft (212-21/2nd ed. 146-53), and "The Hayekian Future of Economic Methodology" by Paul Ormerod (222-32/2nd ed. 154-61). The second part includes five essays on past activities of the IEA.
2nd ed. London: Continuum/IEA The Institute for Economic Affairs, 2006.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

The Traveler - John Twelve Hawks [pseud.] (Bantam Press, 2005)
Dystopia. Book One of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. The world, known as the Vast Machine, is populated by citizens who think they know what is going on and drones who are too tired to care. Unknown to them, there is a continuing conflict between the Tabula (the bad guys) and the Harlequins (the good guys). The second volume, The Dark River. Book Two of The Fourth Realm Trilogy. London: Bantam Press, 2007. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, 2007, describes those who attempt to live free lives outside the grip of the authoritarian dystopia. The third volume, The Golden City: Book Three of the Fourth Realm Trilogy. New York: Doubleday, 2009 resolves the conflicts developed in the first two volumes and suggests a positive outcome.
U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Random House/Vintage, 2006.
Keywords: Male author

Troubadour. An epic, utopian, otherworldly quest-adventure - Don Fenn (Synergy Books., 2005)
Eutopia on the planet Troubadour where people are free to make their own choices and any cooperation has to rise spontaneously and through agreement. The Earthman who is taken to the planet is a psychologist who has serious problems adjusting to the lack of structure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Uglies - Scott [David] Westerfeld (b. 1963) (Simon Pulse, 2005)
First volume of a series originally called the Uglies trilogy, but a fourth volume was added. The first volume describes a technological eutopia in which everyone can become beautiful at age sixteen is an authoritarian dystopia. In the second volume, Pretties. New York: Simon Pulse, 2005, a girl who becomes beautiful discovers that what she thought would be eutopia is not. In the third volume, Specials. <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: Simon Pulse. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.K.</st1:place></st1:country-region> ed. London: Simon & Schuster, 2006, the main character becomes part of the group controlling the Uglies and keeping the Pretties stupid. The fourth volume, Extras. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007, includes the arrival of aliens, but the focus is on the role of celebrity in the future society. See also the graphic novels by Scott Westerfeld and Devin Grayson. Uglies: Cutters. Illus. Steven Cunningham. New York: Ballantine Books, 2012; and Uglies: Shay’s Story. Illus. Steven Cunningham. New York: Ballantine Books, 2012. A series of four volumes set in the same world as the Uglies series began with Impostors. New York: Scholastic Press, 2018, which describes one of the dystopian cities that emerges after the revolution in the Uglies series. The second volume, Shatter City. New York: Scholastic Press, 2019, is set in a city in which people use implants to control their emotions. The third volume, Mirror’s Edge. New York: Scholastic Press, 2021, follows one of the characters, a rebel, of the previous novels when she returns to her home city and the problems that ensue. The ending sets up a connection to the preceding Uglies series for the next volume.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

uTOpia: TOwards a New TOronto (Coach House Books, 2005)
A collection of thirty-three essays that together create a realistically eutopian Toronto. Includes maps of the future Toronto. Includes a brief “Foreword” by Mayor David Miller. Most of the essays, many of which are reprints, propose changes or reforms referring to specific Toronto individuals, groups, and institutions. The essays in the section “TOmorrow” are somewhat more broadly eutopian in that they move beyond specific reforms to more general depictions of the good society, mostly along environmental lines. These include “Making a Toronto of the imagination” by Bert Archer (220-28); “Making a green scene” by Jonny Dovercourt (230-37); “A funny thing happened on the way to the future” by Barbara Rahder and Patricia Wood (238-42); “2019” by David Meslin (244-48) presenting a decentralized eutopia; “An age-old idea” by Adam Vaughan (250-54) on accessibility; “Situationist Toronto, ON: three mappings” by Mark Fram (256-67) on architecture; and “Between utopias” by Deanne Taylor (268-75). See also 2007 Wilcox, Palassio, and Dovercourt, eds.; Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds. The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. uTOpia Two. Toronto, ON, Canada: 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; Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds. The Edible City: Toronto’s food from farm to work. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2009; and Dave Meslin, Christina Palassio, and Alana Wilcox, eds. Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2010.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

Venusia: a true story - Mark [A.] von Schlegell (b. 1957) (Semiotext(e), 2005)
Dystopia in which people are controlled by drugs, nanotechnology, and a form of psychotherapy. The first volume in his “System Series.” See also 2009 and 2015 von Schlegell.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Weapon - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2005)
Primarily a war and adventure story, but the setting is a future dystopia of a Fascist earth.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

X out of Wonderland: A Saga - David Allan Cates (b. 1956) (Steerforth Press, 2005)
Satire on the best of all possible worlds created by the beneficent "Global Free Market".
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Yuhana Am" - David Redd (b. 1946) (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2005)
Dystopian background. All of life is organized by the authorities and each person is placed where the authorities conclude they belong.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Zanesville - Kris Saknussemm (b. 1961) (Villard Books, 2005)
Corporate dystopia with fantasy elements.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"According to Their Need" - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Eutopia of no government or laws but with a paternalistic computer system that fills needs as it perceives them.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 377-401.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Affinity Trap - Martin Sketchley (b. 1967) (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia, but the emphasis is on adventure. Collapsed social order and environmental degradation has forced people to live inside large towers. Military dictatorship.
Keywords: English author; Male author

After the Deluge - Chris Carlsson (b. 1957) (Full Enjoyment Books, 2004)
San Francisco in 2157 has been partially submerged as a result of global warming but has recreated itself as a eutopian city with no private property. The novel focuses on how this eutopia deals with an outbreak of crime.
Keywords: Male author

The Age of Sinatra. A Novel - David Ohle (b. 1941) (Soft Skull Press, 2004)
Surrealistic dystopia set in an alternative history. Elective surgery to change body parts. Sailing on the Titanic, which has not sunk. Drugs. Weird animals, reanimated dead; regular periods of forgetting. Described as a sequel to his Motorman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972; rpt. Brooklyn, NY: 3rd Bed Press, 2004, which is not utopian. See also 2008 Ohle.
Parts published in different form as “Chili Hearts.” Harper’s 249.1492 (September 1974): 64-67; “Hogshead.” Transatlantic Review, no. 49 (Summer, 1974): 130-38; “The Boy Scout.” TriQuarterly 35.1 (Winter 1976): 39-40; rpt. in The Pushcart Prize, II: Best of the Small Presses (Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1977), 464-67; “Onebe and the Neutrodynes.” New Mexico Humanities Review 2.2 (Summer 1979): 51-57; “The Flocculus.” Paris Review 22.77 (Winter-Spring 1980): 16-25; rpt. in Pushcart Prize, VI: Best of the Small Presses (Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, 1981), 79-87; “Easy Neutronics.” A Reader of New American Fiction. Ed. Robert Fromberg and Rebecca West (Peoria, IL: I-74 Press, 1981), 37-49; “Fastest Brains Preserved.” Review of Contemporary Fiction 41 (Spring 1984): 121-24; “The Log of the Pipistred.” Missouri Review 9.2 (1986): 32-41; “The Work of Art.” Caliban, no. 8 (1990): 85-89; “The Flum.” Conjunctions 26 (Spring 1996): 236-46; “Der Kroetenkusser” Elimae http://www.elimae.com/fiction/ohle/kroetenkusser.html. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Mother and Son” Failbetter, no. 5 http://failbetter.com/05/Mother%20and%20Son.htm. Accessed March 13, 2020; and “Ratt from The Flocculus.” 3rd bed, no. 6 (2002): 131-52 http://calamaripress.com/3rdBed/3rd_Bed_Issues.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010. Other portions, some in different form, have appeared in City Moon (which was a journal co-edited by Ohle with much of the unsigned material written by the editors, and Dominion Review.
Keywords: Male author; US author

America 2012. A Novel - Erik Gregory; Todd Gregory (iUIniverse, 2004)
Dystopia in which a Muslim terrorist network threatens the U.S. and world opinion and American intellectuals undermine the possibility of an effective U.S. response leading to the collapse of the U.S. “A Factual Epilogue” (245-300) and “Suggested Readings” (301-02) provide what the authors say is the factual basis for the novel. See also http://www.america2012.info.
Keywords: Male author

America 2014: An Orwellian Tale - [Jonathan] [Greenberg] (Progressive Source Publishing, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia based on contemporary U.S. politics. George W. Bush is in his fourth term as President, the U.S. has been renamed “God’s United States,” and the Bill of Rights has been replaced. “The Revised Constitution of God’s United States. A Patriot Citizen’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” is on pages 219-222. It includes the current Bill of Rights with each amended with a phrase like “except in during Time of War, or serious threat of war or terrorism” as determined by the President. It also specifies that “actual abortionists, illicit drug users, subversives, terrorists, enemy sympathizers or propagandists” have no rights.
Keywords: Male author

American Odyssey - Alvin Levie (b. 1927) (Trafford, 2004)
Dystopia of a future U.S. under a dictatorship. The novel follows an individual searching for those resisting the regime and the overthrow of the dictatorship and the beginnings of the reestablishment of democracy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Asphalt - Rux, Carl Hancock (Atria Books, 2004)
A complex novel set in a war-torn New York City. The protagonist, who has recently returned from France, ends up in a poor, deteriorating neighborhood in Brooklyn and the novel follows his interactions with his neighbors and flashbacks to his childhood. Although much of the novel was written before 9/11, the novel is obviously influenced by that day.
The novel was made into a play by the author with live music and video and performed at the CalArts Theater February 2 - 4, 2006.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Beyond Infinity - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Aspect/Warner Books, 2004)
The novel is an expansion of Benford’s novella in 1990 Clarke and Benford and begins in an apparent eutopia, but the bulk of the novel is concerned, as was the novella, with an attack on the eutopia and its response. See the “Afterword” (337-38/Orbit 450-51) for an explanation of the relationship of this book to 1953 Clarke and 1990 Clarke and Benford.
U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Church Invisible: A Journey into the Future of the UK Church - Nick Page (b. 1961) (Zondervan, 2004)
Dystopia. In fifty years, the church has disappeared in the U.K.
Part originally published as "Invisible Church." Christianity and Renewal (July - May 2002): 40-43; 30-32; 28-30; 28-30; 36-38; 46-48; 46-48; 48-49, 50; 42-43; 36-38; 22-23, 25.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Civilization" - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) (McSweeney's, 2004)
Dystopia. A society where teenagers may be required to kill their parents as a duty; parents are expected to cooperate. No justification given. Refers to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as important early literature, but it is a Nineteen Eighty-Four rewritten to reflect current expectations.
Rpt. in The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2. Ed. Dave Eggers (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005), 20-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cloud Atlas - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) (Sceptre, 2004)
A large novel with multiple story lines ranging from the past to the future, including a future authoritarian dystopia, "An Orison of Sonmi~451" (185-245). Sonmi~451 is the name of a "fabricant" or clone created to work in a fast food restaurant. The clones are drugged to sleep and wake on schedule and to keep their intelligence low and are indoctrinated into complete obedience. Sonmi~451 becomes part of a botched experiment on raising the intelligence of fabricants and experiences the world outside the restaurant. The names and the language used suggests that this part of the novel is set in a future North Korea. Part of the novel is set in the Chatham Islands of New Zealand.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"The Colonizing of Tharle" - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia in which an invading force tries and fails to find a government with which to negotiate. The invasion is foiled through simple non-cooperation.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 485-509.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

Coyote Rising: A Novel of Interstellar Revolution - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) (Ace Books, 2004)
Sequel to 2002 Steele. After settling a new planet and establishing a free system, the planet Coyote receives more ships from Earth and a repressive government. Struggle for freedom. See also 2005 Steele. An additional story that fits between this volume and the next one is “The River Horses.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 31.4 & 5 (375 & 376) (April-May 2007): 26-71; rpt. as The River Horses.  Burton ,  MI : Subterranean Press, 2007. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011. An additional story that fits between this volume and the next one is “The River Horses.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 31.4 & 5 (375 & 376) (April-May 2007): 26-71; rpt. as The River Horses. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007.
Rev. from "The Mad Woman of Shuttlefield." Asimov's Science Fiction 27.5 (328) (May 2003): 64-85; rpt. in The Year's Best SF 9. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 354-87; "Benjamin the Unbeliever." Asimov's Science Fiction 27.8 (August 2003): 86-130; "The Garcia Narrows Bridge." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.1 (336) (January 2004): 66-85; "Thompson's Ferry." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.3 (338) (March 2004): 84-96; "Incident at Goat Kill Creek." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.4 & 5 (339 & 340) (April/May 2004): 82-124; "Shady Grove." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.7 (342) (July 2004): 16-47; "Liberation Day." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.10 & 11 (October-November 2004): 188-229; and "Home of the Brave." Asimov's Science Fiction 28.12 (347) (December 2004): 46-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Crux - Albert E[dward] Cowdrey (b. 1933) (Tor, 2004)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cuma's Voice: An Environmental Utopia - William Young (Xlibris, 2004)
The novel is composed entirely of a discussion between a woman on Earth and an alien on another planet that is presented as a naturally occurring eutopia without any technology with the Earth not quite a dystopia but considerably less appealing than the Forest of the other planet, which provides all that the inhabitants need. The inhabitants of the eutopia are similar to the birds of Earth in that they are feathered and fly, but they do not lay eggs, but they are neither female nor male with everyone capable of bearing offspring. They give live birth with the offspring carried in pouches until they mature. While they have personal names and differing interests and skills, they do not think of themselves as individuals and live in close-knit communities.
Keywords: Male author

Curious Notions. Crosstime Traffic--Book Two - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2004)
Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. In this volume, Germany won World War I and now dominates the world. Other volumes in the series include 2006, 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

"Deletion" - Steven Bratman (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2004)
Genetic engineering in a world in which genes for emotional connection had been removed and which shows the flawed utopia produced.
Keywords: Male author

"Devil's Star" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia with a barter economy, custom, and altruism contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia fearful of all free societies.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 431-51; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 369-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dogs and Water - Anders Nilsen (b. 1973) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2004)
Graphic novel dystopia with no words in which a boy wanders through a largely destroyed landscape.
Rpt. with a few additional pages Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Epic - Conor Kostick (b. 1964) (O'Brien Press, 2004)
Dystopia in which ending violence depends on everyone playing the Epic game, which is controlled by the anonymous Committee. First volume of a trilogy, The Avatar Chronicles, followed by Saga. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2006; U.S. ed. New York: Viking Children’s Edition, 2006; and Edda. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2011; U.S. ed. New York: Viking Press, 2011, both of which are set in dystopias within other computer games with characters from the first part of the second and characters from the first two parts part of the third.
U.S. ed. New York: Viking Press, 2007
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; UK author

"Falling Star" - Brendan DuBois (Space Stations, 2004)
Dystopia of a future anti-technological, religious U.S. small town.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 471-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Field of Honor - D. L. Birchfield (1948-2012) (University of Oklahoma Press, 2004)
Satire set in a future in which the Choctaw nation has been living under the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma and have evolved a high-tech society based in part on white slaves captured on the surface, where a cultural genocide is been implemented. Disruption occurs when a half-Choctaw marine deserter discovers the underground civilization.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

The First Space Pioneers: Perilous Space Voyages - Clyde B. Harvey (iUniverse, 2004)
Simplistic presentation of space voyages in the near future. Includes the presentation of many colonies, mostly vaguely eutopian.
Keywords: Male author

Fitzpatrick's War - Theodore Judson (b. 1951) (DAW Books, 2004)
The novel is structured as a critical edition of a memoir of a future conflict published in a postwar dystopia with rigid class and gender distinctions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Folkhaven - Robert L. Courtney (Trafford, 2004)
The novel focuses on a successful family with deep roots in a small farming community. The community experiences ethnic and racial issues, and the novel has clear racist and anti-immigrant themes, and the family goes on to create the first of what is to become white-only, Nordic-based Folkhaven communities. The book ends with “The Folkhaven Community Concept” (348-62).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Footvote" - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Postscripts, 2004)
Eutopia of a planet named New Suffolk that can be reached through a wormhole. New Suffolk is a purified, and white only, U.K., and some of its rules are spelled out throughout the story.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 552-66.
Keywords: English author; Male author

For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Scribner, 2004)
Written in 1939. This is Heinlein's first novel, which was rejected by publishers at the time and thought lost. Libertarian eutopia with clear divisions between what is in the public and private spheres and a system of social credit or "heritage checks" that provides everyone a basic guaranteed income. Many technological advances, some of which Heinlein used later.
Rpt. as vol. 4 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Forced Conversion - Donald J. Bingle (b. 1954) (Five Star, 2004)
Dystopia in which most people have retreated to virtual reality, and there is an organized effort to force the rest to join them. Struggle between the two groups.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Freehold - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2004)
Dystopia and eutopia describing an authoritarian government and a libertarian enclave primarily concerned with conflict. First volume in a long series with a sub-series. Other volumes include The Weapon. New York: Baen, 2005; Contact with Chaos. New York: Baen, 2009; Rogue. New York: Baen, 2011; and Angeleyes. New York: Baen, 2016. The Ripple Creek subseries includes Better to Forgiveness. New York: Baen, 2007; Do Unto Others. New York: Baen, 2010; and When Diplomacy Fails. New York: Baen, 2012. There are also three anthologies edited by Williamson with contributions by him and others Forged in Blood. New York: Baen, 2017  Freehold Resistance. New York: Baen, 2019; and Freehold Defiance. New York: Baen, 2019.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Frek and the Elixir - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) (Tor, 2004)
A humorous flawed utopia set in 3003. An apparent eutopia based on biotechnology is an authoritarian dystopia using memory control. All Earth's plant and animal species have disappeared or been modified out of recognition and replaced with species that could be sold at a profit, and part of the novel is concerned with the attempt to restore them.
Part originally published as "Frek in the Grulloo Woods." Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (New York: Roc, 2003), 213-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Galileo Syndrome - Daniel H. Gottlieb (Canopy Publishing, 2004)
Environmental dystopia in which global warming has forced extreme restrictions on power use.
Keywords: Male author

The Gift Moves - Steve Lyon (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
Young adult eutopia describing a future that has little technology and operates on the basis of gifting.
Keywords: Male author; US author

God in the Image of Woman - D[avid] V. Bernard (Strebor Books International, 2004)
Dystopia where no women are born.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Gods and Their Machines - Oisín McGann (b. 1973) (O'Brien Press, 2004)
Young adult novel depicting conflict between a technological society and a supposedly primitive society. The book cover compares the conflict to that between Israel and the Palestinians. The beginning of reconciliation is brought about by young protagonists from each side.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2004.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Humanism: A Philosophic-Ethical-Political-Economic Study of the Development of Society - Aleksandar Šarović (2004)
Detailed non-fiction eutopia based on direct democracy. His “Heaven.” http:/www/sarovic.com/screenplay.html [2010]. Accessed June 17, 2010 is a fictional version.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Iron Council - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Ballantine Books, 2004)
Set in New Crobuzon, the city that plays a role in both 2000 and 2002 Miéville but set earlier than in those novels. Iron Council is a train that is a socialist society constantly moving, picking up the track behind it and laying it in front to go wherever the inhabitants choose. The leaders of New Crobuzon are set on destroying it, and various threads of the novel following characters involved on both sides. See also 2005 Miéville.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Jigsaw Men - Gary Greenwood (PS Publishing, 2004)
Alternative history dystopia in which Dr. Frankenstein succeeded in creating “monsters”, known as “Jigsaw Men” or “Jiggers”, out of spare parts, the Martians had invaded Earth but failed to conquer it and had left some advanced technology behind, and the British Empire continues. France is divided by the British and the Prussians into North and South with a wall between the two. The U.S. still has slavery.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

KD Rebel - David [Eden] Lane (1938-2007) (jrbooksonline.com, 2004)
Rebels against miscegenation move to the Rocky Mountain states and establish “Kinsland” and call themselves the Kinsland Defenders (KD). The novel is about the beginnings of an ideal white society. For his “88 Precepts,” the principles on which the society is based, and which is referred to throughout the novel, see https://archive.org/stream/88Precepts_937/88Precepts_djvu.txt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kindling - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Tor, 2004)
The novel is set in a fragmented world with an authoritarian religious dystopia in conflict with the remaining areas of freedom. Much fantasy. English author best-known as a musician.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last Love Story: A fairytale of the day after tomorrow - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) (Picador, 2004)
City divided between a brutal, religious dystopia and a wealthy, free eutopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the desire and attempt to escape from one to the other. A note by the author (256) refers to the divisions of Germany and Korea and the beginnings of the wall between Israel and Palestine.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Leviathan Wept" - Daniel [James] Abraham (b. 1969) (SciFiction, 2004)
Authoritarian dystopia produced by the policies against terrorism in which both sides kill with impunity.
Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 283-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Life in Globus Cassus" - Michael Stauffer; Christian Waldvogel (Globus Cassus, 2004)
Essay briefly describing the eutopian life, which emphasizes equality and freedom, in their newly created space, which is described as “a successful social sculpture” (93). Globus Cassus has been created from Earth but is larger than Earth so as to be able to hold Earth’s large and growing population.
Keywords: Male author; Swiss author

Life Lottery - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) (Pocket Books, 2004)
Ecological dystopia. The final volume of the three the author wrote on ecological subjects. See also 2000 and 2003 Irvine. This volume focuses on the disruptions caused by climate change, particularly the radical increase in the number of refugees and the growth of an anti-refugee movement.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green Party President. Imagine if we had a Green Party President on September 11, 2001 - Mark A. Dunlea (Big Toad Books, 2004)
Eutopia produced by a Green Party US president, who improves the environment and health care and puts the Green Party vision of gender and racial relations, energy policy, and foreign policy into practice.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Malachi - Bestwick, Simon (A Hazy Shade of Winter, 2004)
Dystopia of near future racist Britain with National Socialists killing Jews and anyone racially mixing.
Rpt. in Never Again. Ed. Allyson Bird and Joel Lane ([Wyke, Eng.]: Gray Friar Press, 2010), 272-81.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Market Forces - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2004)
Future dystopia where companies hire out to kill.
U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. 441 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Men Are Trouble" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
A future world without men in which most work is done by robots, and the women struggle to find meaning in their lives. His “The Last Judgment.” Asimov's Science Fiction 36.4&5 (435 & 436) (April/May 2012): 10-49 is set in the same future and has the same protagonist, Fay Hardaway, a private detective.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Molôn Labé! - [Kenneth W.] [Royce] (Javelin Press, 2004)
The United States has become an authoritarian dystopia, but the state of Wyoming stands up for independence and freedom. The author says that the novel is based on the assumption that the federal government will try to confiscate guns, that there will be a depression deliberately brought about by the government, that parts of the U.S. will try to secede, and that the government will try to crush the rebellion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Moments of Inertia" - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
A complex story with various flashbacks and flash forwards. The end of the world but with a small group moved to a heaven in which they are nude and younger.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nectar" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
Eutopia through advanced biotechnology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Newton's Wake: A Space Opera - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Tor, 2004)
While the novel is largely as described in its subtitle, it includes a flawed utopia in which all goods are available to all.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

One Nation Under God - Vincent M. Wales (DGC Press, 2004)
Religious dystopia set in 2021 to 2030 in which fundamentalist Christians have come to power in the U.S., eliminated civil liberties, and instituted rigid control. By the end of the novel, the regime has been defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ordinary - Jim Grimsley (b. 1955) (Tom Doherty Associates, 2004)
Overpopulated, technological, authoritarian dystopia in contact with what they think of as a primitive culture. The primitive society is a complex ancient flawed eutopia based on magic. Some of the background is given in his fantasy Kirith Kirin. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000. His The Last Green Tree. New York: Tor, 2006 is set in the same universe but is fantasy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ourtopia - [John] Garrett Jones (Authors OnLine, 2004)
Detailed eutopia with brief analyses of the current situation and brief statements about solutions and lists of desired outcomes. The author uses "ourtopia" to differentiate his eutopia as a possible future better society from the "nowhere" of the word utopia.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Oval Menace - James E. Couch (iUniverse, 2004)
Dystopia in the U.S. after a Democratic woman is elected President in 2004. She quickly emerges as a dictator who will stop at nothing to get her own way. She pulls all troops back to the U.S. to create an isolationist Fortress America, which leads to major geopolitical shifts in the world and damages the economy. The author was a foreign service office and then a professor at Florida International University, retiring in 1993.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Party's Over: Blueprint for a Very English Revolution - Keith Sutherland (Imprint Academic, 2004)
Nonfiction proposal for government without political parties, which will produce a eutopia. Somewhat revised as A People's Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic. Bound back to back with Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips. A Citizen Legislature. O
Somewhat revised as A People’s Parliament: A (Revised) Blueprint for a Very English Revolution. Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 1985.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The People of Sand and Slag" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2004)
Far future environmental dystopia.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 122-36; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 39-54; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 49-67; and in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 148-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pervert" - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2004)
Dystopia of complete separation of men and women with both having to be covered from head to toe when they might be in the same areas. The pervert is a heterosexual.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 97-106; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 97-106.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Peter Skilling" - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Salon.com, 2004)
Future authoritarian dystopia based on the U.S. response to terrorism.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science 107.3 (632) (September 2004): 116-29; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 179-89; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 179-89.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Planet for the President - Alistair Beaton (b. 1947) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)
Near future dystopia brought about by current U.S. environmental policies. The novel ends with only one person alive, the U.S. President whose policies led to the destruction of the eco-system.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Plot Against America - Philip [Milton] Roth (1933-2018) (Houghton, Mifflin, 2004)
Alternative history in which Charles A. Lindbergh (1902-74) won the 1940 presidential election and Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer who cooperated with Adolf Hitler. Roth called it “an American dystopia;” qtd. in the TLS (December 23 & 30, 2005): 20. A six-episode television mini-series created and directed by David Simon (b. 1960) and Ed Burns (b. 1946) was shown on HBO March 16 - April 20, 2020, with the first three episodes directed by Minkie Spiro and the last three by Thomas Schlamme (b. 1950).
Rpt. in Philip Roth, Novels 2001-2007 (New York: The Library of America, 2013), 93-458 with “Notes on the Text” by Ross Miller (683-89).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Prince of Christler-Coke - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) (Golden Gryphon Press, 2004)
Dystopia of struggle among the nobility in a future degenerated America.
Parts were originally published in different form in his Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales. Austin, TX: Swan Press, 1992, 5-19, which says that “Buckstop” (5-19) will be chapter 10 of Prince of Christler-Coke, but it isn’t, and the chapters have no titles. Parts were also originally published in Ten Tales. Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rapture of the Nerds: Jury Service and Appeals Court - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971); Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (The Coppervale Company, 2004)
Satire. Complex depiction of a future world and the thousands of inhabited areas in space around it. Many different cultures on Earth. Focus on technology.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

"[Rated]" - Ben [Michael] Peek (b. 1976) (Agog! Smashing Stories, 2004)
Dystopia. The Ministry of Sanitation proclaims and enforces different lifestyles for different people. White Anglo-Saxons get a eutopia with sexual restrictions.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"A Reception at the Anarchist Embassy" - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Discussion of various anarchist attempts at eutopia and their differences contrasted with an Earth that has become rule-bound.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 363-76.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Renegade" - Mark Tier (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian society in which insurance companies have replaced most government. The system of justice and law enforcement is through profit-making companies. Presented positively.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Right's Tough" - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia, which needs no government because every detail of everyone's life is instantly accessible by web to everyone else, who then shun those who do not conform to the society's standards of good behavior.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 337-45; n his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 195-204; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 51-59.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Rings of Allah - Lee Boyland (AuthorHouse, 2004)
Dystopia. The lead up to a successful Islamist terrorist attack on five cities in the U.S. using nuclear weapons. First volume of a trilogy In the middle volume by Boyland with Vista Boyland, Behold, an Ashen Horse. A Novel. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007, Islamist terrorists strike throughout the world and the U.S. defends itself using nuclear weapons against many countries throughout the world and, at the end, on Mecca. In the final volume, by Boyland and Boyland, America Reborn. [Bangor, ME]: BookLocker.com, 2009, where for the first time the trilogy is called The Clash-of-Civilizations Trilogy, the U.S. successfully struggles against both internal and external enemies and ends with the re-election of the heroic president with plans for a new U.S. Constitution.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

River of Gods - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
Massive future history of India seen through the eyes of a number of different protagonists. Both eutopian and dystopian elements. India is both high tech and very traditional. Related stories include “The Little Goddess.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 29.6 (353) (June 2005): 102-34; “The Djinn’s Wife.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 30.7 (366) (July 2006): 102-32; rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 445-78; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007), 81-111; “Sanjeev and Robotwallah.” Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2007), 226-43; Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 297-308 with an editor’s introduction on 297; and in Mithila, no. 2 (April 2016) http://mithilareview.com/mcdonald_04_16/; “The Dust Assassin.” The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows. An Original Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Viking, 2008), 236-71 with a note on the author and the author’s note on the story (272-73); rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 3. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2009), 97-117; and “An Eligible Boy.” Fast Forward 2. Ed. Lou Anders (Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2008), 241-72; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 120-39 with an editor’s introduction on 120; and in Rpt. in Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers. Ed. Ed. Ian [George] Whates (Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2020). EBook. These stories plus “Vishnu at the Cat Circus” are rpt. in his Cyberabad Days. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2009. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2009. A film was said to be in process but has not appeared.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Sancho's Golden Age - Robin [John] Chapman (b. 1933) (Aris & Phillips, 2004)
Satire in which the plan of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to re-establish the Age of Gold is attempted by Sancho. The middle volume of a trilogy between the Duchess’s Diary. London : Boudicca Books of Battersea, 1980; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1985; and Oxford, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region>: Aris & Phillips, and Pasamonte’s Life. Oxford, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Eng.</st1:country-region>: Aris & Phillips, 2008. Neither of the other volumes are utopian.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Second Coming - [John Robert] [Jones] (b. 1926) (Baen, 2004)
Second Coming of Christ as a Black Canadian. Emphasis is on the struggle between his message and the expectations of Christians.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Shackles of Freedom" - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020); Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
The Amish, presented in their most extreme form, move to a new planet, New Pennsylvania, to be free to follow their beliefs. The stress is on the lack of medical care that results from their unwillingness to use modern technology.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 347-62.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

Sharp North - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) (Simon and Schuster, 2004)
Dystopia brought about by global warming, genetic manipulation, and cloning. Some hope held out for the human spirit overcoming conditions. See also 2005 Cave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Silence - Jim Kraus (Barbour, 2004)
Dystopia and eutopia. A series of natural catastrophes leads to violent conflict , but the novel also focuses on a small town Christian eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Society of Others - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) (Doubleday, 2004)
The background to part of the novel is a dystopia set in an exaggerated contemporary East European country.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Start the Clock" - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2004)
Dystopia in which people can control the process of aging and many choose to stop before puberty and these people dominate society.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 22-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sun and Wind - Standish James O'Grady (1846-1928) (University College Dublin Press, 2004)
First publication of a eutopia stressing nature and the simple life that was written between 1911 and 1928.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Sunshine Patriots - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) (Hats Off Books, 2004)
Satirical corporate dystopia.
Rpt. College Park, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2014. U.K. ed. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House UK, 2012.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Supernaturalist - Eoin Colfer (b. 1965) (Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children, 2004)
A quite complicated young adult dystopia set in a future satellite city controlled by an authoritarian corporation. Orphans are sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys are used to test dangerous products and generally have a short life expectancy. The novel follows a group of young people through a number of different sub-plots. A sequel was planned but not published.
U.K. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2004. Graphic novel version by Colfer and Andrew Donkin with art by Giovanni Rigano and color by Paolo Lamanna as The Supernaturalist: The Graphic Novel. New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, 2012.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"Sweet Dreams" - Charles Johnson (Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, 2004)
Political satire. After voters dropped most taxes, government developed "dream meters" so that dreams, including daydreams could be taxed.
An earlier, shorter version was originally published in StoryQuarterly, no. 36 (2000): 111-16.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Third Party" - David Moles (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
Dystopia of conflict between capitalists and socialists trying to dominate an apparently primitive world.
Keywords: Male author

The Third Revolution - Anthony F. Lewis (Ten Mile Press, 2004)
Dystopia in which the governor of Montana fights back against attempts by the federal government to take over state functions. He is joined by leaders from North and South Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. See also 2006 Lewis.
2nd ed. [Fort, Bragg, CO]: Ten Mile Press, 2005
Keywords: Male author; US author

"'Tis the Season" - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Socialist Review, 2004)
Dystopia in which Christmas has been sold to companies.
Rpt. in his Looking for Jake: Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 2005), 183-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Truesight - David Stahler Jr. (Eos, 2004)
Young adult dystopia. Authoritarian community where everyone is supposed to be blind; stress on the struggles of dissidents and a boy who gains his sight. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, The Seer. New York: Eos, 2007, the boy escapes to a sighted city which turns out to be another dystopia. At the end of the novel he returns to his first community but with a sense of a better possibility. In the third volume, Otherspace. New York: Eos, 2008, the protagonist searches for, and finds, a planet where those who were blind but can now see will be safe.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Turing Test" - Robert R[eynolds] Chase (b. 1948) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2004)
Eutopian and dystopia potential of computer programs and computer viruses.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ultraviolet Night" - Jim [James M.] Young (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2004)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Unnullified World" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (Visions of Liberty, 2004)
Libertarian eutopia with no laws and everyone collectively enforces the society's standards of good behavior. Property ownership can be enforced by the owner.
Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 315-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia Revisited: A 21st Century Account of a Diplomatic Visit to the Island Nation of Utopia. The Best State of a Commonwealth. A Novella - John William McMullen (iUniverse, 2004)
The country of Utopia is now a dystopia seen through the eyes of a member of the Vatican Diplomatic Corps visiting Utopia to try to secure the release of a cousin of Houghton Hythloday, a descendent of Raphael Hythloday. The Vatican representative ends up being jailed. Written from a Roman Catholic viewpoint. See also 2005 McMullen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia X - [William] Scott Wilson (iUniverse, 2004)
The dystopia brought about by multiculturalism in the U.S. by 2048 where “political correctness” is enforced by law.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Voluntary State" - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (SciFiction, 2004)
Future dystopia in Tennessee in which everyone is controlled by a central computer contrasted with a free Kentucky. The story focuses on a successful attempt by men from Kentucky to destroy the computer. A related novella is “The Border State.” In his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 149-269 which is set further in the future when Tennessee has infected the rivers around the state with various machines that kill anyone that crosses them or get wet. Kentucky has means of temporarily neutralizing the machines. A related novel set later in time is his These Prisoning Hills. New York: Tordotcom, 2022.
Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 58-83; Science Fiction: The Best of 2004. Ed. Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan (New York: iBooks, 2005); Beyond Singularity. Ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (New York: Ace Books, 2005); Nebula Awards Showcase 2006. Ed. Gardner Dozois. New York: Roc, 2006); Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 293-327; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 107-48.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wired - Robert L. Wise (b. 1939) (Warner Faith, 2004)
Post rapture dystopia (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). His Tagged. New York: Warner Faith, 2004 is a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Word for Heathens” - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) (ReVision, 2004)
Religious dystopia.
Rpt. in his Beyond the Rift (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2013), 83-98.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Zoo Force: Bean and Nothingness - John Ira Thomas; Jeremy Smith (Candle Light Press, 2004)
The middle volume of a trilogy about an odd group of animal and human superheroes. This volume is a satire on Christian fundamentalism. The other volumes, which are not utopian, are Zoo Force: [Dear Eniko]. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2003 and Zoo Force: BBQ. [Iowa City, IA]: Candle Light Press, 2007. All volumes also include "Not Zoo Force".
Keywords: Male author

2084: The Mental Evolution of America - R[obert] M. Harrison (b. 1946) (iUniverse, 2003)
Dystopia dominated by the Citizens Protective Services. No families; children taken at three.
Keywords: Male author

America II: The Second Republic 2004 - 2204. An Historic and Historical Novel about the Future of America - [Thomas Renfro] [Henley] (b. 1931) (Trafford, 2003)
Right wing eutopia based on a radically downsized federal government with all constitutional amendments after the Bill of Rights rescinded, power in state governments, and few national administrative bodies. English the official language. All non-citizens expelled. Eliminate all state departments of education, schools of education, tenure, and teachers; unions, and return to the curriculum of the past. Children have no rights before age twenty-one.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Annuity Clinic" - Nigel Brown (Interzone, 2003)
Dystopia about the selling of body parts to purchase an annuity.
Rpt. in The Year's Best SF 9. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 335-53.
Keywords: Male author

The Baby Squad - Andrew Neiderman (b. 1940) (Pocket Star Books, 2003)
Dystopia in which natural birth is outlawed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Better World's in Birth! - Howard Waldrop (1946-2024) (Golden Gryphon Press, 2003)
Ghost story set in a dystopian people's republic in an alternative history.
Rpt. in Other Worlds, Better Lives: Selected Long Fiction 1989-2005. A Howard Waldrop Reader (Baltimore, MD: Old Earth Books, 2008), 231-58 with an "Afterword" (259-60).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bird Is Gone: A Monograph Manifesto - Stephen Graham Jones (b. 1972) (Fiction Collective Two, 2003)
A future where parts of the United States are Indian territory again, with the more progressive Indians reestablishing traditional ways.
An excerpt from the novel was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 232-37 with an editor’s note on 232-33.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"Birth Days" - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Interzone, 2003)
Dystopia and eutopia. Future in which the identification of homosexual genes allows such fetuses to be aborted. This is followed by the development of technology that allows homosexuals to give birth and the growth of large families of gay men and their children.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004), 388-98; and in his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 47-61.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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