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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bitch Planet - Kelly Sue Deconnick (b. 1970); Valentine De Landro (Image Comics, 2014)
Feminist dystopian take on exploitation films in which “non-compliant” women are sent to an off-planet prison.
Keywords: African Canadian author; Canadian author; Female author; Male author; US author

"Blessed Are the Hungry" - Victor Fernando R. Ocampo (Apex Magazine, 2014)
The story takes place of a multi-generations spaceship that is completely under the control of a conservative religious sect which ensures that its leaders and well-fed while those at the bottom of the hierarchy are starving even though they grow the food.
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author; Singaporean author

“The Bloody Deluge” - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) (Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus, 2014)
Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story focuses on conflicts among survivors.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Bone Clocks. A Novel - David [Steven] Mitchell (b. 1969) (Random House, 2014)
A wide-ranging novel that begins in 1984 and ends in 2043 with stops in 1991, 2004, 2015, and 2025. 2025 is largely fantasy, and 2043 is a dystopia with a collapsing technology and a deeply damaged environment.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The Boost - Stephan [L.] Baker (Tor, 2014)
Dystopia in which all humans have had their intellect boosted by an implant, which leads to many improvements but can also be used for advertising and controlling people. When an upgrade is announced that will have a open portal through which governments can invade everyone’s thoughts, one man revolts and escapes to join others who are unenhanced and leads a rebellion against all those who would control others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Chimpanzee - Darin Bradley (Underland Press, 2014)
Dystopia of a failed economy where intellectual and mental control are common.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future - Naomi Oreskes (b. 1958); Erik M. Conway (b. 1965) (Columbia University Press, 2014)
An historian observing the tercentenary of the collapse of Western civilization (1540-2073) tries to explain how a supposedly rational, scientific people could deny climate change. The explanation centers on an emergence of a new Dark Age in which reason was blinded by a non-rational belief in the “free market."
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Coming of Age - Thomas T[hurston] Thomas (b. 1948) (Author, 2014)
The two volumes project the future lives of what happens to two extended families of the first two people who, in the first volume, are given immortality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041 - Kurt Schlichter (Post Hill Press, 2014)
Future oral history of the ways in which conservatives take over the United States, seen as what needs to be done.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Convention: Book 1 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy” - [Chris] [Hambleton] (CreateSpace, 2014)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government is on the verge of collapse, and the Sons of Liberty threatens violence if the government continues to be dysfunctional. At the same time, a Convention of States is held to try to defuse the situation. Followed by his The Green Zone: Book 2 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy”. By C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and The Declaration: Book 3 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy”. By C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2015. The first volume contains proposals for reform, including a required balanced budget, term limits for the House, Senate, and Supreme Court, giving the states and Congress the power to overturn Supreme Court decisions, limitations on spending, requiring all federal departments to be reauthorized every three years, giving states to override Congress, and other limitations on the national government. Anti-Islamic. At the end of the third volume, the free state of Alaska is formed, and Israel offers to help it build up its citizen militias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Countermeasures” - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) (Twelve Tomorrows. MIT Technology Review SF Annual, 2014)
Dystopia in which the big Silicon Valley companies have become so powerful that they try to establish California as a a separate state and the U.S. government is forced to negotiate. The process is successfully undermined by hackers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Crocodile Ark” - Oluwole Talabi (b. 1986) (Omenena Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2014)
The story is set in a future Nigerian religious dystopia with the Prophet and Prophet and the rich live well in orbit and the rest survive on rations on Earth.
Rpt. without the illustration in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 86-96, with an author’s note on 257-258
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; Nigerian author

Cryptogram . . . because the past is never past - Michael Tobert (Cosmic Egg Books, 2014)
The novel focuses on two dystopias, one set in 2050 and the other the period of the suppression of the Cathars in the thirteenth century.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Dark Windows - Louis Greenberg (Umuzi, 2014)
Dystopia/thriller set in South Africa in which the political leader has been convinced that a New Age mystic can bring about the needed changed through supernatural means.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“Degrees of Freedom" - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
The story focuses on the control of or access to new tools for understanding demographics and their use politically. In the story, set in the near future, the Canadian government has restricted access to most tools so as to be able to ensure its reelection, but some indigenous communities gain access to them and force the government to become more open. At the end, there is a suggestion that a freer society will result.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Divided States of America" - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) (Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings, 2014)
The U.S. has divided into four political districts (conservative, liberal, libertarian, and socialist) that are about to become four separate countries, for good or ill. The book is a textbook with the fiction followed by questions about the selection and a number of readings from a variety of thinkers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Divided We Fall - Trent Reedy (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which the state of Idaho tries to separate from the U.S. because the U.S. is not supporting the Constitution. In the second volume, Burning Nation. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2015 the U.S. government invades Idaho, and more states secede and is mostly on the war. In the third volume, The Last Full Measure. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2016 the protagonist of the first two volumes concludes that groups within the now free Idaho are as bad as the U.S. government was and sets off to find a safer and more congenial place.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Dust and Blue Smoke” - Robert Dawson (The Colored Lens Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2014)
The story is about the last car in a climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“The Electrified Ants” - Jetse de Vries (Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology, 2014)
The story is set in a future where a system called the Panopticon, undoubtedly referring to the system of control proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which a all the prisoners could be observed by one guard without the prisoners knowing they were being watched. In the story this is done through surveillance technology that is controlling all aspects of a person’s life.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author

“The Empties” - Jess Row (b. 1974) (The New Yorker, 2014)
The dystopia created when the electrical system fails.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 268-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Europe in Autumn - Dave [David Christopher] Hutchinson (b. 1960) (Solaris/Solaris US, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian series known as the Fractured Europe Sequence set in an extremely fragmented future Europe. Sequels include Europe at Midnight. London: Oxford, Eng./New York: Solaris US, 2015; Europe in Winter. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2016; Europe at Dawn. Oxford, Eng.: Solaris/New York: Solaris US, 2018; and “Nightingale Floors.” London Centric: Tales of Future London. Ed. Ian [George] Whates ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2020), 93-121.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Faith Without Teeth” - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia in which everyone is expected to voluntarily have their teeth removed so that everyone is equal.
Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-199 with an author’s note on 199.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Forgotten Utopia” - Marko Ðurišić (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief eutopia seen as an internal state of mind.
Keywords: Male author; Serbian author

"Game" - Tabish Khair (The World to Come, 2014)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a virus has supposedly wiped out most humans and animals and an authoritarian government controls access to those areas outside the contained cities.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

“Happy Go Lucky” - Garth Nix (b. 1963) (Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which a test that supposedly shows how lucky a person is determines their place in society. The test is rigged.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Harmony" - Miodrag Regodić (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
Brief ecological, vegetarian eutopia located on an unknown island in the Pacific.
Keywords: Male author; Serbian author

“I m d 1 in 10” - Victor Fernando R. Ocampo (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia that is concerned with a person forced to leave their home country either as workers or as refugees.
Rpt. without the illustration in his The Infinity Library and Other Stories. (Singapore: Math Paper Press, 2017), 111-33; and in Big Echo: Critical SF, no. 13 (October 2019). I m d 1 in 10 — Big Echo
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author; Singaporean author

If Kids Ran the World - Leo Dillon (1933-2012); Diane Dillon (b. 1933) (Blue Sky Press, 2014)
Children’s picture book depicting the eutopia that children would create with equality, everyone well fed, good housing, good health care for all, a good education for all, strong families, protection for the environment, and freedom of religion. Includes two pages of text on “What Kids Are Doing Now.” Compare to 2014 Bailey, If Kids Ruled the World. Leo Dillon was a Caribbean American author born in the U.S. of Trinidadian parents.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Trinidadian American author; US author

Influx - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Dutton, 2014)
A dystopia in which one corporation controls all important technological innovations by force if necessary. One physicist, who has developed a way to offset gravity, has his experiments stopped and is imprisoned. He fights back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Invisible Streets. A Thriller - Toby Ball (Overlook Press, 2014)
The third volume of a series of alternative history dystopias set in the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s, which is when this novel is set. In this novel, a massive “urban renewal” project is destroying the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

J - Howard Jacobson (b. 1942) (Jonathan Cape, 2014)
Dystopia following a mass pogrom that is only referred to as “WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED.”
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Johnny Appledrone vs. the FAA” - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
Satire on the desire of the government to control the airspace during a period of extreme regulation versus the hacker mentality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jonesbridge: Echoes of Hinterland - M[itch] E. Parker (Diversion Books, 2014)
Dystopia. The Jonesbridge Industrial Complex is on an island and its workers are all prisoners. The novel focuses on the attempt by a man and a woman to escape. See also 2016 Parker.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The King of Flotsamland” - Tom Barlow (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
A dystopia set in a future where metals have become so scarce that corporations are harvesting the collections that the ocean currents created and are willing to kill to get it. The story’s focus is on a man trying to protect the rights to one such collection.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Kite for Sarah: In Search of Freedom” - David G. Blake (Nature, 2014)
Dystopia in which many positions are held by robots who can be switched off at will.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Lights On Water” - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) (The Short Anthology: Fiction From Photography. The First Issue, 2014)
Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone lives in an enclosed city. The protagonist, an artist, is given permission to go outside to paint and uses the opportunity to create a subversive work showing his daughter happily swimming with other happy people.
Rpt. in his A Killing in the Sun (Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa: Black Letter Media, 2014), 86-106.
Keywords: Male author; Ugandan author

The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma - Brian [Patrick] Herbert (b. 1947) (Tor, 2014)
Authoritarian dystopia with a green agenda.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lockstep - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Tor, 2014)
The novel is set in a far-future, galaxy-spanning civilization in which hibernation leads to extremely long lives, and the story focuses on the tyrant who controls the system and his brother, who awakes from an immensely long hibernation.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“The Lost Emotion” - Adrian Ellis (Arc. 2.1 Exit Strategies, 2014)
Corporate ownership of emotions, which they use primarily in advertising.
Keywords: Male author

“The Man Who Sold the Moon” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
Technology used to free people and help them freely make things for their use.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (Toronto, ON, Canada: CHiZine Publications, 2016), 400-76.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

“Market Forces: Paradise Revamped” - Ian Stewart (b. 1945) (Nature, 2014)
Satire on the afterlife, which is now a company.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Milkman: A Free World Novel - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2014)
Corporate dystopia in which governments became so deeply in debt that they were bought up by three corporations and everything is now based on how cost effective it is, including investigating crime. See also 2017 Martineck.
Keywords: Male author; US author

MiSTORY - Philip Temple (b. 1939) (Font Publishing, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future where most of the world’s governments have collapsed and the U.S. has broken up. Although it broadcasts its successes, Australia is losing a war against “eastasians”. New Zealand is a dictatorship cooperating with the dictators of Australia and California. The novel is set in the Southern half of the South Island of New Zealand and focuses on the resistance movement, which achieves some success but is still under threat by the end of the novel.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“MOS 6581” - Jovanović, Vuko (Embracing Utopian Horizons, 2014)
A “hive mind” that is briefly presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; Serbian author

Notes from the Internet Apocalypse - Gladstone, Wayne (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2014)
The dystopia that follows the collapse of the internet. Followed by Reports on the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2014; and Agents of the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2015.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Orbital Decay” - Malcolm Cross (Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus, 2014)
Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story is set in the International Space Station where people observe the deaths on Earth.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Outer Territories" - Tim Richards (The World to Come, 2014)
Dystopia of an Australian colony in space and the very beginnings of the ultimately successful overthrow of the colonists.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Palestinian Sweets” - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) (La Femme, 2014)
A very odd story in which London is divided into areas dominated by competing religions, with the areas demarcated by smell.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

“The People of the Underground” - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) (In his Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings, 2014)
A genetically enhanced humanity dominates Earth, and a remnant of the older humanity maintains what it sees as a better civilization underground.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Peripheral - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2014)
Dystopia of a future of the relatively well off and the poor. The Agency. New York: Berkley, 2019 is both a sequel and a prequel set in a 2017 in which Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Russell Brand Trickster Tales - Russell [Edward] Brand (b. 1975) (Atria Books, 2014)
A profusely illustrated retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Hamelin presented as a dystopia of narrow-minded people. One child who had been ostracized by the town does not follow the Piper, and he helps the people to be more open-minded.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Pop-Ups: Captive Audience” - Robert Dawson (Nature, 2014)
Satire on a future with unavoidable advertising.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Providence 2034” - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (College Hill Independent (Providence, RI), 2014)
Providence, RI as a high tech, green eutopia in the future due to its cooperation with São Vincente, Brazil, together with significant changes in Rhode Island politics. Interstate highway replaced by a thriving neighborhood. Higher education has become a citywide activity extending well beyond campus-based instruction. There is a large Community Land Trust Biosphere. Climate-change refugees from Asia have changed the political dynamic of the state. All legislators are required to serve a year in community service before being seated.
Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 141-46 with an author’s note (140)
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Rag and Bone” - Nicholas P. Oakley (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
The story is set in a future in which people have moved into space to escape the dangers of Earth. Living in individual space habitats is very expensive, and if someone falls behind in their mortgage payments, the habitat is simply retrieved, killing those inside. The story focuses on one of the men doing the retrieving who is sickened by his actions and starts a revolution.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

“Raising Hell” - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Raising Hell plus “The Abnormal New Normal” plus “No Regrets, No Retreat, No Surrender” Outspoken Interview, 2014)
Satire on both labor unions and hell, in which damned union leaders manage to organize the demons and win a contract with the Devil.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Red Rising - Pierce Brown (b. 1988) (Del Rey, 2014)
Dystopia set on Mars in which people known as Reds work underground in the false belief that they are helping prepare for a move to the surface, which, in fact, happened years ago. One Red infiltrates the society on the surface, which has characteristics of ancient Rome. Sequels include Golden Son. New York: Del Rey, 2015, which follows the main character through an attempt to change the system, which is initially defeated, then appears to win, but the novel ends with the system in chaos; Morning Star. New York: Del Rey, 2015 continues in the same vein but again with apparent victory; Iron Gold. New York: Del Rey, 2018, in which the continuing protagonist is leaser of the Republic that has replaced the dystopia, but it is still at war with some of the members of the old system; and Dark Age. New York: Del Rey, 2019, in which the protagonist has been overthrown and the conflicts continue. Red Rising: Sons of Ares. Runnemede, NJ: Dynamite Entertainment, May-October 2017 is a six-issue comic book prequel to the series.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sand - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) (CreateSpace, 2014)
Dystopia in which the Earth is deeply covered with sand and sand-diving is one of the few ways to make a living. A sequel, which is set in the future of the earlier volume is Across the Sand. New York: William Morrow/HarperColllins, 2022.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Scavengers - Michael Perry (b. 1964) (Harper, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which a family escapes an authoritarian environment into a dangerous outside where they live mostly by scavenging in abandoned junk heaps. While, by the end of the novel, the family is able to return to a reformed civilization, the young, female protagonist prefers the outside.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Second American Civil War: Freedom versus Tyranny - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) (Amazon Services.com [Kindle], 2014)
First volume in a five-volume series, with a fairly standard trajectory over the five volumes. The other volumes are The Second American Civil War. Book 2 (Version 2): The Balkanization of America. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014; The Second American Civil War. Book 3: United States Invaded. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition called Version 3; The Second American Civil War. Book 4: The Smiths and Jones. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition a corrected one from 2015; and The Second American Civil War. Book 5: War. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2015, with the available edition a corrected one. The United States is split between the Liberal States of America and the United States of America, the United Nations invades, and ultimately a civil war ensues. The one exception to the usual is volume 4 in which a television program contrasts similar families from the two countries.
The available edition is from 2015 and called the (Edited Edition). The original editions were riddled with typos.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sherwood Nation. A Novel - Benjamin [I.] Parzybok (b. 1970) (Small Beer Press, 2014)
The novel presents the rise of a small eutopian community within the confines of a future dystopian Portland, Oregon, which has been experiencing a long drought. The novel ends with a one-page ad for a nonexistence book on the history of Sherwood Nation by two of the main characters.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Shooting the Apocalypse" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych, 2014)
The background to the story is a climate change dystopia with radical division in Arizona between those with water and those without water. See also 2015 Bacigalupi, The Water Knife.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 1-24; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 273-294.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shovel Ready. A Novel - Adam Sternbergh (Crown ublishers, 2014)
Post-disaster dystopia in which the rich have escaped into virtual reality in guarded high rise buildings and the rest fight for survival in the streets. Continued in Near Enemy. A Spademan Novel. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015 set a year later when there is a threat to those living with government disappearing, everyone heavily armed, private armies, and corporations replacing what authority exists.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

“Silent Night” - Dana Rich (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
Utopian satire in which drop-outs respond to the surveillance society. The community of Turkey Creek Hollow, composed mostly of anarcho-capitalist squatters but including other versions of anarchism are being constantly surveilled by the authorities using drones as well as by advertising drones that collected information of the people living there. One man decides to fight back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

On Such a Full Sea - Chang-Rae Lee (b. 1965) (Riverhead Books, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future U.S. divided into enclaves, with urban neighborhoods turned into labor settlements controlled by and providing the goods desired by the Charters or enclosed communities of the rich. The surrounding areas have been largely abandoned but are occupied by other people struggling to get by. The novel focuses on one of the labor settlements, B-Mor, formerly Baltimore.
Keywords: Korean American author; Male author

"This is Africa" - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) (365 Tomorrows, 2014)
Flash fiction set in a future Africa, which is the only place in the world where “wildlife” exists outside zoos. Africa is still dependent on imported technology, including law enforcement robots, which are at times overzealous, but have been programmed to shoot any African head of state who tries to overstay their time in office.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"Tidings" - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2014)
Vignettes from Maradi, Niger in 2038, Prague, Czechia in 2044, an abandoned Australian detention center in 2066, a First Nations community in 2099, and Ko Phangan, Thailand Republic in 2132. The first is about an invention that eats plastic; the second about a way of helping refugees; the third concerns using memories to reinforce the changes achieved; the fourth is about the beginning of means of communicating with animals; and the last shows the full development of that communication.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Nigerien author; Spanish author; US author

“The Tiger Waiting on the Shore: Days of Remembrance” - Paul Currion (Nature, 2014)
Punishment in the future. For the crime of manslaughter, a person is put to sleep three times for a hundred years each. After the third they are released to a society composed entirely of other released sleepers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Time Passeth Away Like a Shadow” - Andrew Bryant (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2014)
The story begins in a climate-change dystopia in 3000 A.D. where a man visits a Christian religious site containing a large, partially carved stone and the skeleton discovered under it, one of the few such sites that exist in a society that has rejected superstition. It then moves back to 2000 A.D. and the discovery of the relics and to 1000 A.D. and the creation of the stone by a pagan carver, whose skeleton is the one found with the stone.
Keywords: Male author

“Transcripts from the Investigation on the Life and Death of Alastor de Roja” - Vincent Michael Simbulan (Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic, 2014)
The story is set in an alternative steampunk Spanish past in which the investigation is regarding the death of a man who becomes an activist supporting the colonies against the colonial power.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author

“Unit Simulation: Reconnect with Your Past” - Coy St. Clair (Nature, 2014)
Flawed utopia of a future where the breeding program had produced a generation where there was no disease or deformity, intelligence had increased, and peace had been achieved, but everyone was sterile and people longed for families.
Keywords: Male author

Virus - Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide (Lulu.com, 2014)
Pandemic dystopia
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“The Volunteer” - T. R. Napper (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
The story is set in a dystopian future Southeast Asia in a continuing war between Thailand and Vietnam.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Watcher - Nicholas P. Oakley (See Sharp Press, 2014)
Flawed utopia presented through a coming-of age story. A relatively primitive tribal society that operates on the basis of gender equality and consensus faces an internal problem with an individual who manipulates the system and an external problem of an invader. The Watcher is an alien representing a larger universe who asks a young woman for help in dealing with the invader.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Weary" - Christopher Ruz (Apollo's Daughters: Athena’s Daughters Companion Trilogy, 2014)
Dystopia set during a future war between Australia and China that has devastated the Australian economy and produced high levels of drug addiction.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“What Is Your Problem, Agent X9?” - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
Dystopia in which the human race is being eliminated seen through the eyes one of those doing the elimination who is interrogating someone seen as a traitor.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“When the Music Ends” Criminal Records” - Philip Ball (Nature, 2014)
Dystopia of a future where recorded music is illegal.
Keywords: Male author

“A Wife and a Slave.” - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) (A Killing in the Sun, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future where a self-proclaimed Emperor had instituted false African traditions that made normal relations between husbands and wives illegal.
Keywords: Male author; Ugandan author

The Wolf From the Door - Rory Mullarkey (b. 1987) (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Apocalyptic dystopia set in middle England depicting a violent revolution in progress. The play was the 2014 Pinter Commission for the Royal Court Theatre and premiered there September 10, 2014.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Irish author; Male author

The Wrath of the Brunists - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) (Dzanc Press, 2014)
Sequel of sorts to 1966 Coover in which some Brunists return to the village where they had previously been located. The novel is concerned with a number of the people from the community and among the Brunists and explores what had really happened during the events described in the 1966 novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

XOM-B - Jeremy Robinson (b. 1974) (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014)
The novel begins in a world-wide eutopia that has been achieved through overthrowing a slave system. Now it is threatened by a virus.
Rpt. as Uprising. New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2015
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Young World - Chris[opher John] Weitz (b. 1969) (Little, Brown and Co, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which a disease has killed all children and adults and only teenagers are left alive in parts of the world, and conflict among the surviving teens develops. It becomes a quest as a few teenagers combine to search for the hidden cure. First volume of a trilogy. The middle volume is The New World. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2015 in which the cure is found but the conflict continues and the main protagonists, a young man and a young woman are separated. The final volume is The Revival. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2016 in which the young man returns to New York with the cure and a desire to unite the warring factions, but the fighting continues. When the young woman returns to New York, they succeed in bring the fighting to an end.
Keywords: Male author; US author

13 - [Michael] Mike Bartlett (b. 1980) (Methuen/Bloomsbury, 2013)
The play takes place in an alternative England and begins with people waking up having all dreamed the same dream. England is facing the issues that the country actually faced at the time, but with different people in power and protesting. The protests coalesce around a messiah figure. It premiered at the National Theatre October 18, 2011, directed by Thea Sharrock.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2014 - Paul S. Anderson (b. 1974) (CreateSpace, 2013)
Dystopia of a Civil War in the U.S. that starts as Texas secedes in an attempt by an elite to take over the country. Other states follow, and, while the U.S. government finally wins, the war is a long and bloody one.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: When God Blessed America Again! - Rick Chapman (Trafford, 2013)
Dystopia in which Islamists now dominate eighty per cent of the world’s population and have imposed Shari`a law. The novel focuses on a man and a woman who have escaped to Alaska where they find other lovers of freedom. These Alaskans organize and free the U.S. from the Islamists and their supporters.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Adjacent - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Orion, 2013)
The complex novel operates on a number of different timelines, but it begins in a near-future dystopia of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain.
Rpt. London: Titan Books, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Amphibian Attack” - Afolabi Muheez Ashiru (Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria, 2013)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a Nigerian leader who is trying to lead the recovery is undermined by his corporate supporters who are solely concerned with making money.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“Annihilation” - Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu (Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria, 2013)
Dystopia of Lagos after climate change had flooded the city.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"Apricot Lane" - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
Satire on the over-networked future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aquifer. A Novel - Jonathan Friesen (Blink, 2013)
Young adult global warming dystopia in which water is in short supply and those who control it try to keep knowledge at a minimum and in their control also.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Assault on Sunrise - Michael Shea (1946-2014) (Tor, 2013)
Dystopia in which Hollywood studios completely control the lives of the people who work for them and the state of California. The novel is about a town named Sunrise that has welcomed extras from the studios and is being attacked by the State in revenge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Asterion - Kenneth Morvant (Author, 2013)
Dystopia with fantasy elements about an authoritarian government that the protagonist initially sees as doing good. A sequel Asterion II: Hail Caesar has been announced but not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Beautiful Land - Averill, Alan (Ace Book, 2013)
One theme of the novel is the search for utopia and the way that its possibility can corrupt some people while freeing and healing others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Beginner’s Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse” - Christopher Barzak (b. 1975) (Before and Afterlives. Stories, 2013)
Although most of the story is about survival, it is presented as taking place during a right-wing dystopia
Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 163-68.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Beginning of the End - Michael T. Snyder ([CreateSpace], 2013)
An exploration of the dystopia that is predicted written from a Christian perspective with the explicit message the Christian faith can help people survive the coming collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Benjamin’s Freedom Magic” - Ronald T. Jones (Steamfunk!, 2013)
The story is set in the Confederacy that is at peace with the United States, but is concerned with the independent country of Delany, probably Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), established by abolitionists. It is primarily concerned with weaponry being developed for the next war.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Bicycle Girl" - Tade Thompson (Expanded Horizons, 2013)
The story is set in a Nigerian prison, where a man is being tortured to get him to confess to murdering an entire village. The people disappeared, and he has no idea where they went, but he had driven a young girl to the village, and, at the end, she returns to take him to where they went.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

The Books of James C. Patch: Utopia - Gary D. Henry (AuthorHouse, 2013)
Sequel to Henry The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier (2000) and The Books of James C. Patch: Returning (2000). This novel presents the utopia that exists on the other side of the barrier and the people, mostly children, freed from the barrier finding a home.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Breathing Engine” - Matthew Lambert (Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology], 2013)
Dystopia of an environmentally depleted Earth.
Keywords: Male author

“Charlie’s Ant” - Adrian [Czajkowski] (b. 1972) (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
High-tech farming creates a dystopia..
Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 36-45.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Childhood of Jesus - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) (Harvill Secker, 2013)
The setting of the novel is the dystopia in which contemporary refugees live. First volume of a trilogy followed by The Schooldays of Jesus. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2016 and The Death of Jesus. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2020.
U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2013.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; South African author

The Circle - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) (Penguin, 2013)
The novel can be read as either a flawed utopia or a dystopia but is a eutopia from the perspective of the protagonist. The Circle is a large corporation that serves a very large and growing part of U.S. business with online services with the goal of absorbing all world business. The focus of the novel is first on the internal corporate cultural which is designed to absorb all of a worker’s life and make that life known to everyone else in the country. This leads to the idea of everyone becoming “transparent” by wearing a camera that shows what they are seeing at all times. This spreads into the world outside the corporation and particularly to politicians.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“City of Beauty, City of Scars” - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Impossible Futures: An Anthology, 2013)
Dystopia of a society that focuses on beauty.
Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 5-18 with an author’s note (4).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Competent Authority. A Novel - Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021) (Aleph Book Co., 2013)
The satirical novel is set in a future fragmented India with parts under the control of China, which has used nuclear weapons against India. In part of the remaining India, a man who is simply called the Competent Authority controls the system and has odd plans for the future.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

"Contraband" - Terry Martin (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Crecheling - D[avid] J[ohn] Butler (b. 1973) (WordFire Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia that begins in what appears to be a eutopia, but to achieve status in the society, the protagonist must go through a rite of passage that requires murder and that she may not survive. A sequel is Urbane: A Dystopia. Buza System #2. Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2016 in which, having survived without killing, she and the young man she was expected to kill return to confront the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Culling. The Torch Keeper: Book One - Steven dos Santos (Flux, 2013)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia based on a vicious form of advancement in the military that requires anyone failing to reach the next level to choose a relative to be killed. First volume of a series followed by The Sowing. The Torch Keeper: Book Two. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first volume continues to work his way up the levels of the military, while also trying to undermine the system. In the final volume, The Raising. The Torch Keeper: Book Three. Np: [Curtis Brown Unlimited], 2016, the dystopia is defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Death of Immortality - J. M. Cobb (Archway Publishing, 2013)
The “Introduction” (v-viii) gives an almost entirely positive picture of the eutopia that will result from an immortality achieved through scientific advances. No disease, no crime, hence no prisons, no religion, and no war. “Unfortunately,” no family because no children and marriage will fade away. But the novel is about a murder that does occur committed by members of a secret society that believed immortality was the wrong choice for humanity. The novel contradicts the introduction in that there is a detective available, doctors are busy, and there is a priest.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Detainee: No Escape from the Punishment - Peter Liney (Jo Fletcher Books, 2013)
Violent, authoritarian dystopia and survival. A sequel is Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, in which the protagonist from The Detainee escape to the mainland, only to discover that it is as bad. Sequels include Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, a typical middle volume in which things get worse; and In Constant Fear. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2015, in which, after further struggles, the people find peace.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Discovered Country” - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2013)
The story is set in what appears to be a heaven, called Farside, established specifically for the very rich. Current life, called Lifeside, is depicted in dystopian terms. 2013 MacLeod, “Entangled” is something of a sequel.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 1-22 with an editor’s note on 1; and in Macleod’s Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 3-33, with an “Afterword Silver Machines” by the author (34-36).
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Domechild - Shiv Ramdas (Penguin Random House India, 2013)
The protagonist is a man living in an authoritarian, surveilled dystopia who works in a small cubicle checking up on other people. “Perfection is vigilance. Nobody is perfect until everybody is perfect. Everybody is guilty until nobody is.” Any dissent means being taken away by “lawbots” to never be seen again. The man loses his way going to home and discovers people living rough outside the controlled area, saves one from the “lawbots,” takes her home, and then is blackmailed by an AI, with most of the rest of the novel about him dealing with the resulting problems. The novel ends with the suggestion of a sequel, but none has been published.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

Dreamer in the Dry - Peter Hannaford (AuthorHouse UK, 2013)
Australia as a dystopia effected by climate change that has brought drought. Australia is divided between the Islamic north, now known as Capricornia, and the United States of Southern Australia, with Tasmania having joined the regional economic powerhouse, New Zealand. Sheep and cattle can only be raised in the Islamic north with the south dependent on kangaroo farming.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

East of West. [The Promise] - Jonathan Hickman (b. 1972); Nick Dragotta (Image Comics, 2013)
The first volume of a violent graphic novel dystopian series depicting the Apocalypse which was first published as a monthly series in March 2013. Sequels are East of West Volume Two: [We Are All One]. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2014; and East of West Volume 3. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The End: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 1 of the New World Series - G. Michael Hopf (Plume, 2013)
Survivalist dystopia after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on North America, Europe and the Far East knocks out the entire electric power system. Sequels include The Long Road: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 2 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2014, in which the U.S. has collapsed; Sanctuary: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 3 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2014, which follows six people in search of a sanctuary; The Line of Departure: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 4 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2015, in which some people find a safe place within the devastated country; Blood, Sweat & Tears. A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 5 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015, in which the protagonist wages war against what is left of the U.S. while other areas secede; The Razor’s Edge, A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 6 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2016 in which what remains of the U.S. is close to collapse; and Those Who Remain. A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 7 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2016 in which the protagonist now fights for the U.S.
Originally published online in 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The End, My Friend: Prelude to the Apocalypse - KIrby Wright (Lemon Shark Press, 2013)
The novel has elements of a survivalist dystopia in that the U.S. economy and infrastructure collapses, the social order disintegrates, and violence predominates. But the novel does not have the political ranting of so many survivalist dystopias and focuses on a search for a safe place, a motif in some other survivalist novels, which is found at least temporarily at the end of the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

England’s Darkness - Stephen Barber (Sun Vision Press, 2013)
The collapse of the digital system results in the loss of knowledge and the end of all fossil-based fuel results in the complete collapse of England, the abandonment of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the deliberate depopulation of the north of England.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Entangled" - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2013)
Something of a sequel to 2013 MacLeod, “The Discovered Country.” This story is set in the future of the current life of the previous story where at least some things are improving due to mental connections among the people. There are various communal experiments where many people live.
Rpt. in his Frost on Glass (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2015), 275-303 with an “Afterword: Volcanoes and Dinosaurs” (304-06).
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Entropia - Samuel Alexander (Simplicity Institute Publishing, 2013)
Story of a successful experiment in simple living on an isolated island. See also, the author’s “A Prosperous descent: Telling new stories as the old book closes.” In Alexander Samuel and Bronwyn Adcock. Imagining the Future: Notes from the Frontier EBook to accompany Griffith Review No. 52. Ed. Julianne Schultz and Brendon Gleeson (South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing, 2016), 4-24. The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made. Available through https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/imagining-the-future/ The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Excerpts from The New World Authorized Dictionary” - Alexander Weinstein (Cream City Review, 2013)
Dystopia presented through a future dictionary stressing corporate, government, and personal control through technology.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 57-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Exodus: Book One of the Fundamentalists - Geoff Livingston (Lady Soleil, 2013)
First volume of a trilogy in which Christian fundamentalists impose of dictatorship on the East Coast of a largely destroyed America. The novel focuses on one village, Harpers Ferry, WV, whose people resist and ultimately escape across the country and settle in the remains of Colorado Springs, CO. In Perseverance. Book Two of the Fundamentalists. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2015, the people are found by the dictatorship, and they must decide on whether to fight back.  A third volume, tentatively entitled Hypocrisy. Book Three of the Fundamentalists, was announced but not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Eye of Moloch - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2013)
Dystopia of the attempted destruction of U.S. democracy by those trying to establish the New World Order and the fight back against it. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Factory World - Joseph Edward Ryan (Steam Press Ltd., 2013)
Somewhat surreal dystopia seen through the eyes of a boy who awakes in a pipe in a violent, badly damaged world with many abandoned factories. He has only vague memories. He, and the man who rescues him from the pipe and has no memories at all, explore the world.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Failed Cities - Matt Wallace (b. 1982) (The House of Murky Depths, 2013)
Dystopia set in cities that have been abandoned by government The novel focuses on eight individuals living in the cities.
Originally a series of podcasts, which were then remastered on Podiobooks. The written version was released digitally in 2012 and then published the following year.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fallen Summer - Richard E. Hydrick (Two Palmettos Publishing, 2013)
The novel focuses on the effects of the collapse of the U.S. on a small group of people and has elements of a survivalist dystopia but ends with the success of the group in establishing a decent life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fatherless: A Novel - Dr. James Dobson (b. 1936); Kurt Bruner (Faith Words, 2013)
Future dystopia from a Christian perspective suggesting the possible negative future of current anti-family trends.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Finches of Mars - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (The Friday Project, 2013)
Most of the novel centers on two dystopias, Earth as it is torn apart by ethnic, national, and religious conflict and the first settlement on Mars which, in addition to national tensions, produces only stillborn children. The novel ends, though, with the arrival on Mars of evolved humans from the future come back to ensure the survival of the Mars settlement. These future humans come from a eutopia that has solved gender conflict by becoming both female and male. Few other details are given.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Glass House 51. A Novel - Hampel, John (BZFF Books, 2013)
Corporate dystopia stressing the misuse of information technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Gray Wings” - Karl Bunker (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2013)
The background to the story includes a future that is eutopian for the rich and dystopian for the poor.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 140-47 with an editor’s note on 140.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Homeland - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor Teen, 2013)
Sequel to 2008 Doctorow in which the protagonist of that novel is again threatened by the growing homeland security apparatus. A third volume in the loosely related series his Attack Surface (2029). A related novella is his “Lawful Interception.” Illus. Yuko Shimizu. Tor.com. http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/08/lawful-interception.
Rpt. in Little Brother & Homeland (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 318-685, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

How To Like Everything: A Utopia - Paul Shepheard (b. 1947) (Zero Books, 2013)
Basically, an argument that the world we have is the best it gets. Set in Amsterdam.
Parts originally published in MAS Context issue 11 and in Kunstwerken voor de publieke ruimte, Podium Voor Architectuur Haarlemmermeer en Schiphol
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Indivisible: With Justice for Some - Troy J. Grice (Prepper Press, 2013)
Survivalist dystopia after the dollar collapses and the government becomes more authoritarian and uses the military to restore order. Sequels are planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Insistence of Vision” - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (Technology Review (MIT), 2013)
The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime.
Rpt. in his Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author’s note on 35; 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), 36-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Kindest Man in Stormland” - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Interzone, 2013)
Dystopia of environmental collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last President - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2013)
Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Barnes in which an effort is being made to bring the remnants of the U.S. back together under a President and Congress.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Reader - Thomas Norwood (Global Activision Limited. EBook, 2013)
Dystopia with a deep divide between rich and poor as seen by a poor boy who wants to learn how to read. 2013 Norwood, Perfectible Animals, is set in the same future.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Liquid Loyalty" - Redfern Jon Barrett (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia in which drugs have been developed so that each person is completely devoted to one and only one other person.
Rpt. without the illus. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 57-70.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Living in the Singularity” - Tom Borthwick (Bewildering Stories, 2013)
A corporation announces that, in exchange for all their possessions, it can upload a person’s consciousness into a supercomputer where they will be able to live happily ever after. Millions choose to do so. The story focuses on an individual who resists but finally decides to join his wife.
Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (London: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 33-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lone Star Daybreak - Erik L. Larson (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2013)
Dystopia in which political polarization leads Texas to secede and a civil war follows with both sides using nuclear weapons.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Looking Backward: 2050-2013 - Ravi Morey (CreateSpace, 2013)
The current situation rapidly deteriorates into a dystopia after Sarah Palin (b. 1964) supported by a Congress dominated by the far-right, was elected President in 2020. The U.S. economy collapses. As the price for bailing out the U.S., other countries insisted on the establishment of a world government (the United States of the World) and nation-states disappear. Presented as if a history of the period. Includes biographies of a number of recent and current political figures, some projected into the future.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

Looking Toward Eden - Pellman, Terry (CreateSpace, 2013)
Dystopia and an emerging eutopia. As the U.S. faces collapse as a result of liberal policies, a successful secessionist movement develops in the central U.S. which intends to institute conservative policies and return to the U.S. Constitution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Mango Republic” - Terh Agbedeh (Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria, 2013)
Climate change story set in a successful, corporate flawed utopia of the future Lagos.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"Meerga" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (New World eZine #2 [This version is no longer available online], 2013)
The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a “mere girl,” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation.
Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Melting Point 2040 - Mike Bushman (AirFuture, 2013)
Dystopia of a secessionist movement in the U.S. Followed by Secession 2041. [Naperville, IL]: AirFuture, 2013 which describes the civil war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Memory Palace - Hari [Mohan Nath] Kunzru (b. 1969) (V&A Publishing, 2013)
The book that was the basis of a Victoria and Albert Exhibition June 18 - October 20, 2013) depicted a dystopia where reading, writing, and remembering is prohibited. The book consists of the story by Kunzru illustrated by those listed (9-80), followed by a brief essay by the curators on curating a book (83-89), followed by a graphic story by Robert Hunter, “Making Memory Palace” about how the exhibit came together (91-107).
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Mesomorphic Woman” - David North-Martino (Daughters of Icarus: New Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Women’s Wings Unfurled], 2013)
Dystopia on a space habitat that had been planned as for women where a man is replacing them with clones and men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Neighborhoods" - Dean Wesley Smith (How to Save the World, 2013)
A wealthy man, upset by the continuing death in gang violence of Chicago teenagers decides to recreate the entire way of life by building huge, completely self-contained apartment complexes. The story includes details of power sources, gardening, schools, shopping, and so forth.
Rpt. in Smith’s Monthly #6 (March 2014): 66-78; ISSN 2474-5294 and in Colliding Worlds Vol. 1: A Science Fiction Story Series. By Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (Np: WMG Publishing, 2021), 419-436. 978-1-56146-387-9
Keywords: Male author; US author

News From the Squares - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) (Unbound, 2013)
The novel describes a society in which women are dominant and the entire country is laid out in squares. Loosely a sequel to 2012 Llewellyn. See also 2015 Llewellyn.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Notes from a Pleasant Land Where Broken Hearts are Like Broken Hands” - Kevin Waltman (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 2013)
Flawed religious eutopia contrasted with a free people seen from within the religion as living in a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nova’s Cycles” - Aaron M. Wilson (Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology], 2013)
Dystopia in which all the colonies built on the moon and other places in the solar system are being drained to support the rich colonists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Occupy Life: An Imaginative Fiction Novel - [William M.] [Badrick] (Cascadia Public House, 2013)
Dystopia in which animals, led by the whales, decide to take the Earth back from humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Odds Against Tomorrow - Nathaniel Rich (b. 1980) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)
Dystopia focusing on possible future catastrophes and a hurricane that hits New York that is even more damaging than the 2012 hurricane.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Perfect America - Peter Meredith (Author, 2013)
Dystopia of a totalitarian U.S. that hires people to kill its opponents.
Originally published online in 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Perfectible Animals: Conception (Part I) - Thomas Norwood (Global Activision Limited, 2013)
Dystopia set in Australia in the second half of the twenty-first century. Limited food. Radical rich-poor division. Gang violence. Biological warfare kills millions. A scientist develops a way of vaccinating animals and then humans that make them more cooperative, a characteristic that is passed on to the next generation, and, at the end of the novel, it is beginning to spread. 2013 Norwood, The Last Reader, is set in the same future. The novel continues with the same themes as Perfectible Animals: Connection (2014), available only as an ebook, which ends “To be continued.” 2013 Norwood, The Last Reader, is set in the same future.
Also published as an EBook.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Perseid Collapse. A Novel - Steven Konkoly ([CreateSpace], 2013)
First volume of a post-catastrophe dystopian series in which an electromagnetic pulse destroys the U.S. infrastructure. Sequels include Event Horizon. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; Point of Crisis. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and Dispatches. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015. G. Michael Hopf’s Detachment. A Persied Collapse Novella. Kindle Worlds, 2015 is set in the same future. The series is a sequel Konkoly’s The Jakarta Pandemic. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2013 in which a virus devastates the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prepper. Part One: The Collapse - Karl A. D. Brown (Author, 2013)
The future dystopia that emerges from current conditions that leads to limited nuclear war. A Prepper is one who is preparing for the coming global collapse. First volume in an intended series followed by 2015 Brown.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Proxy - [Charles] Alex[ander] London (b. 1980) (Philomel Books/Penguin, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a boy from the lower class is punished whenever a boy from the upper class does something wrong. The two come to cooperate to find out why the system was imposed. A sequel is Guardian. New York: Philomel Books/Penguin, 2014 in which the revolution against the regime has succeeded but is not universally popular. In this volume, people are becoming extremely ill. The projected third volume was not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Quis Custodiet: Complete control” - Brian Clegg (b. 1955) (Nature, 2013)
The flawed utopia of a “perfect” dictatorship controlled by a computer.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rat Runners - Oisín McGann (b. 1973) (Corgi Books, 2013)
The young adult novel is set in a world of constant surveillance.
US. ed. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

“Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a hard drive” - Eric Schwitzgebel; R. Scott Bakker (b. 1967) (Nature, 2013)
A scientist creates humans within a computer and builds a eutopia for them. The scientist that follows reveals their true nature to them, and they then take over their own destiny and, ultimately, that of the world outside the computer.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Rivers - Michael Farris Smith (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rock of Ages" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (METAropolis: Green Space, 2013)
The story focuses on an attempt to create a eutopian green future and attacks upon it. Related to Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake Tobias S. Buckell Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi, [II] Karl Schroeder. Ed. John [Michael] Scalzi, [II]. New York: Tor, 2009.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 73-126 with an editor’s note on 73.
Keywords: Male author; US author