ReGenesis: An Alternative Future - Benjamin Lightfoot (Xlibris, 2009)
An authoritarian society in the thirty-fourth century that has solved most problems and appears to be utopian in that there is no war, little poverty, and a cleaned-up environment. The United States rules the entire planet, and all the improvements are at the expense of freedom. People designated as Unfit for Society--defined as evil and cannot be rehabilitated--are executed after 36 hours. A sequel with some of the same protagonists that is primarily space opera concerning a struggle between two alien races, one freedom-loving and the other statist, is Scions: Aliens from Earth. A ReGenesis Adventure. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2014. 258 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Requiem of the Human Soul - Jeremy R. Lent (b. 1960) (Libros Libertad Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia of a future in which all unaltered humans are being considered for elimination.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Rogue Progeny. TO WILL Dreams do come true - L. Rolland Williams (Xlibris, 2009)
Dystopian science fiction focusing on androids gaining independent emotion and intelligence and the attempts of corporation to regain control of them. The androids ultimately succeed in being accepted.
Keywords: Male author

"Sacrament" - Matt Williamson (Barrelhouse, 2009)
Dystopia of extreme torture and of the ways torturers justify their actions to themselves.
Rpt. in  Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 314-26; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 314-26.
Keywords: Male author

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) (Viking, 2009)
Humorous dystopia set in Chromatica where status is determined by the range of colors that a person can see, and lower status people are subservient to the higher status. Life is determined by “The Rules”, which the protagonist discovers to be more controlling than he had thought. For a sequel that continues where that novel ended, see Red Side Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 376 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Soho Press, 2024. Originally described as the first volume of a trilogy to be followed by Shades of Grey 2: Painting by Numbers and Shades of Grey 3: The Gordini Protocols, but they disappeared from his website.
U.K. ed. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Both carry the 2010 copyright, but the U.S. ed. was published in December 2009 and the U.K. ed. in January 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sheriff of Yrnameer - Michael Rubens (Pantheon Books, 2009)
Satire on capitalism in which all worlds are branded except Yrnameer or Your Name Here, which is a pastoral eutopia that is under threat for its independence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Shop Talk" - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) (Warrior Wisewoman, 2009)
The story, which has elements of humor and fantasy, is set on a future Earth that had colonized space but had become extremely insular and tried to keep everyone in the town in which they were born.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sin of Addison Hall - Jeffrey A. Onorato (Bryant Park, 2009)
Dystopia in which the unattractive are lower class citizens slated for elimination.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sky City" - Sesshu Foster (b. 1957) (McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
The story is set in a future dystopian Los Angeles with much violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Snakeskin Road - James Braziel (b. 1967) (Bantam Books, 2009)
Sequel to 2008 Braziel. This novel elaborates on the dystopia brought about by climate change and focuses on a woman's attempt to escape the slavery that is the fate of most of the inhabitants of the Southwest of the US.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Stochasti-city" - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Lake, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a dystopian Detroit and deals with the beginnings of an attempt to reclaim it.
Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 78-152. PSt, PTU
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

"Surveillance" - Jonathan Cresswell-Jones (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2009)
Brief dystopia of a future where surveillance is so pervasive that a teenage girl living in Toronto chooses to wear a burka.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Things We Didn't See Coming - Steven Amsterdam (b. 1966) (Sleepers Publishing, 2009)
Post-catastrophe dystopia that follows a man as a copes with floods, plague, and other disasters beginning when he and his parents flee in fear of the collapse of civilization expected to be brought about the Y2K problem in 2000.
Parts originally published  as and “The Theft That Got Me Here.” The Sleepers Almanac 2007: The Family Affair. Ed. Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn [(Collingwood, Vic, Australia: Sleepers Publishing, 2007]), 73-84 and “Best Medicine.” The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 (Collingwood, Vic, Australia: Sleepers Publishing, 2008): 224-32.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

"Thirteen" - Peter Andrew Smith (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2009)
Dystopia of a world in which human physical contact has disappeared from fear of disease.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Timed release: Clean Thoughts" - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Nature, 2009)
Satire on a society in which it is possible to purchase time release housecleaning capsules that require one to clean until they are finished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"To Hie from Far Cilenia" - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Wishnevsky. This story is about a supposedly eutopian city hidden in virtual reality, but there is little detail.
(New York: Tor, 2009), 231-86. Story rpt. in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 317-52.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Tomas - James [Rudolph] Palumbo (b. 1963) (Quartet, 2009)
Dystopian satire. Tomas = There's Only Money and Sex. Much fantasy. The dominant media network is SHIT-TV, and life is a meaningless round of false pleasure. On the French Riviera, women have such large breasts that they have to support them on mobile trolleys. Extreme corruption. Violence. A time machine hidden in a fairground allows visits to the near and far future. The protagonist, Tomas, is something of a Messiah bent on changing this world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Transition - Iain [Menzies] Banks (1954-2013) (Little Brown, 2009)
Dystopia of global terrorism and a secretive authoritarian world power.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Turban Tan - Jeff Philips (CreateSpace, 2009)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

Twenty16Vision. A Novel - [William John] [McCormack] (Duras Press in association with Linden Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia in which a coup in 2016, the centenary of the Irish Easter Uprising, combines with a German invasion circa 1941. Some humor.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Unincorporated Man - Dani Kollin (b. 1964); Eytan Kollin (b. 1964) (Tor, 2009)
Dystopia. In the far future every person is a legal corporation and spends most of their life trying to get ownership of all of their shares. A man from the 21st century is revived as the only unincorporated man. The Unicorporated War. New York: Tor, 2010 and The Unincorporated Woman. New York: Tor, 2011 are sequels that are mostly space opera. The fourth and final volume is The Unincorporated Future. New York: Tor, 2012, in which the war ends, and a treaty is signed that is designed to bring peace and freedom.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unplugging Philco - Jim Knipfel (b. 1965) (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
Dystopian satire set in the near future after an unexplained catastrophe where everyone is expected to spy on their neighbors.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utere Nihil Non Extra Quiritationem Suis" - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in New St. Louis, a walled eutopian community with occupations assigned by aptitude. There is a group outside the walls that has refused to conform.
Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 174-230.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The War after Armageddon - Ralph Peters (Forge Books, 2009)
Dystopia. After jihadist nuclear attacks on Europe all Muslims are murdered or expelled. The State of Israel is destroyed. A Holy War between Christianity and Islam follows with all Muslims in the world killed. The U.S. becomes a right-wing Christian dictatorship. Most of the novel is on the war.
Keywords: Male author

"White Fungus" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Beyond: Scenarios and Speculations, 2009)
The story takes place in a future in which the economy and all political systems have collapsed, and people are left to their own devices. White fungus refers to the suburbs around European cities, and the protagonist is a male architect raising his son and repurposing areas and buildings to provide food, housing, education, and all their and the community’s needs.
Rpt. at https://bruces.medium.com/white-fungus-by-bruce-sterling-2009-b737317c965a; in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 377-87; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 63-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“White Skies” - Chaz Brenchley (b. 1959) (When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology, 2009)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Winding Down of the World" - Rjurik Davidson (Edison's Frankenstein, 2009)
Dystopia reflecting the title.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Windup Girl - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Night Shade Books, 2009)
Dystopia of genetic engineering. Set in the same future as 2005 and 2006 "Yellow Card Man" Bacigalupi.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Witch and the Wizard - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) (Little Brown, 2009)
Young adult dystopia of a modern-day witch hunt. Sequels include Patterson and Ned Rust. Witch & Wizard: The Gift. New York: Little, Brown, 2010 which focuses on the resistance to the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Fire. Little, Brown, 2011, which focuses on the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Kiss. New York: Little, Brown, 2013; and Patterson and Emily Raymond. Witch & Wizard: The Lost. New York: Little, Brown, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Without a Shell” - Adam Marek (When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology, 2009)
The story is set in a dystopia in which suicide bombers are attacking schools in a society with deep rich-poor divisions.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Wives" - Paul Haines (1970-2012) (X6 A Novellanthology, 2009)
Dystopia of a near future environmentally damaged Australia sharply divided between rich and poor, urban and rural, and, in particular, men and women told from the point of view of a violent, poor, rural man.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

X Isle - Steve [Andre] Augarde (b. 1950) (David Fickling Books, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in which children are essentially prisoners on an island where they had expected to find a better life. At the end of the novel, they revolt and kill their captors.
U.S. ed. New York: Random House/Fickling, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2020 Vision. A Novel - Roy S[alant] Neuberger (b. 1942) (Feldheim Publishers, 2008)
Dystopia brought about by a series of attacks on the US by Islamist terrorists. The novel focuses on the struggle of a couple to travel first from New York to New England and then to Israel, which is presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: A Tale of Post America - W. Milton Timmons (b. 1933) (AuthorHouse, 2008)
Dystopia of a U.S. fragmented as a result of the collapse of the environment and with different churches governing different sections and a few free, secular areas.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy. THE 4400 created by Scott Peters and René Echevarria - Greg Cox (b. 1959); Dayton Ward (b. 1967); Dilmore, Kevin; David [Alan] Mack (Pocket Star Books, 2008)
Four novels based on a CBS TV series that was aired from 2004 to 2007 that focus on the 4400 who disappear and that reappear with unusual powers. The first two volumes are dystopias about the conflicts that occur as a result. The third volume suggests the possibility of a eutopia when a virus kills thousands in Seattle but gives others new powers. They take over the city, rename it Promise City, and intend to build a new civilization. Those in power attempt to destroy Promise City in this and the fourth volume.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Above Empyrean: A Novel of the Final Days of the War Against Islamist Terrorism - Bruce Herschensohn (b. 1932) (Beaufort Books, 2008)
2008 Herschensohn, Bruce (b. 1932). Above Empyrean: A Novel of the Final Days of the War Against Islamist Terrorism. New York: Beaufort Books. DLC Dystopia of the takeover of the U.S. by Islamists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Adjudicator--for Peter Straub" - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) (Fugue State: Stories, 2008)
Dystopia after a catastrophe (disease/pandemic) with few survivors, who turn against each other.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 12-24.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Age of the Conglomerates: A Novel of the Future - Thomas Nevins (Ballantine Books, 2008)
Dystopia in which a political party created by the very top financial elite takes over the U.S. economic and political system. The old, known as Coots, are shipped off to “retirement” communities, people were allowed to discard a child, known as Dyscards who live in subway tunnels, and genetic engineering aims at producing the “perfect” child. The novel focuses on one family where the parents who are Coots, an adult daughter who is a Dyscard, and an adult daughter who is a leading genetic engineer and depicts both the complex dystopia and the struggle against it. It ends with the Coots, who have been expelled from the communities they were sent to organizing themselves into a functioning community, and the Dyscards effectively defeating the Conglomerate in the New York City area.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Alone With an Inconvenient Companion" - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) (Fast Forward, 2008)
Dystopia. The story is about the way in which humans are replacing their biological parts with mechanical ones, and it is set in a society that is constantly monitoring and correcting everyone.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American Rules - Stephen Gray (b. 1957) (Book Guild, 2008)
The novel is set in a future where England, Scotland, and Wales are affiliated with the United States and what was Northern Ireland is now known as The Counties and is locally ruled “in voluntary association with the United States and Ireland.” There is “Mandatory Information” on the use of certain words on vii that includes the words quoted and a “Limited Dictionary” on 278-79.
Keywords: Male author

Anathem - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (William Morrow, 2008)
The novel is set in a world where there is an enclosed eutopian organization for mathematicians who rarely have contact with the outer world and is concerned with a situation in which such contact is essential.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Army of the Republic - Stuart Archer Cohen (b. 1958) (St. Martin's Press, 2008)
Dystopia of powerful corporations and a corrupt government in which one man tries to control all water in the Pacific Northwest and is opposed by the Army of the Republic, a group trying to fight the system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arrowhead - Paul Kane (b. 1973) (Abaddon Books, 2008)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. In this volume, England is seeing struggles amongst warlords for domination of particular areas. A direct sequel is his Arrowland. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2010. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Keywords: Male author

"Arties Aren't Stupid" - Tolbert, Jeremiah (Seeds of Change, 2008)
Dystopia of artists in a society where independent art is punished.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 401-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 401-10.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Attached to the Land" - Donald J. Bingle (b. 1954) (Future Americas, 2008)
Libertarian eutopia. The mountain states of the U.S. plus Alaska and western Canada secede and form a new country, the Western Range and Mountains--known as the Range. The central institution, designed in part to keep population growth under control, is that every person must have a certain minimum amount of land, initially provided by parceling out public lands. Those who fall below the minimum are forced to leave. Since the rest of North America is a poverty-stricken, violent dystopia, this rule is effective.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Baby Store" - Gorman, Ed (Future Americas, 2008)
Dystopia brought about by the ability to create designer babies, who must be perfect.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bad Faith - Philip, Gillian (Strident Publishing, 2008)
Religious dystopia from the point of view of a teenage girl.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Bass Fishing With the Enemy" - Daniel Hatch (Otherworldly Maine, 2008)
Dystopia in the U.S. brought about by Homeland Security, which has set up detention camps and completely controls information, even prohibiting watching television from Canada.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Birmingham, 35 Miles - James Braziel (b. 1967) (Bantam Books, 2008)
The dystopia produced by global warming. See also 2009 Braziel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Black Glass - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Elder Signs Press, 2008)
Cyberpunk dystopia constructed as a mystery novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Blind Savior, False Prophet - Joseph DeMarco (AuthorHouse, 2008)
Dystopia written partially in honor of Philip K. Dick (1928-82) and depicting his paranoia through a future prophet who thought he was Dick reincarnated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Book, Theatre, and Wheel" - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, 2008)
Religious dystopia..
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Brown Revolution: No longer number two" - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Nature, 2008)
Satire. The global warming and oil crises are solved by using the manure produced by all life to replace oil.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Butt: An Exit Strategy - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (Bloomsbury, 2008)
Dystopian satire using an imaginary country to skewer the modern world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Caliphate - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) (Baen, 2008)
A future Islamic dystopia in Europe contrasted with the eutopia of a free-enterprise America. Includes an anti-Europe and anti-Islam “Afterword” (371-82), called an “Authorial editorial,” that has the subtitle “A World Without Europe (except as a geographic expression” and is something of a rant against liberals and Muslims, who will become the majority in Europe and suppress non-Muslims. The author retired from the U.S. Army in 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Champagne award: Planning for the Future" - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Nature, 2008)
Dystopia of government control of permits to have children.
Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2015), 505-07.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Chinese Opera - Ian Wedde (b. 1946) (Victoria University Press, 2008)
Dystopia showing the effects of global warming on Wellington, New Zealand, including the flooding of much of the central city, the massive displacement of people from other countries, extreme poverty, and the rise of gangs and violence to control the new situation. The story is told from the point of view of an elderly man who had once controlled the area.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Clementa - Jim Martin (b. 1937) (Lupine Press, 2008)
A future Italy has broken up into small city states. The focus of the novel is on one of these states that is a dystopia in which there is an underclass that revolts. Another of these states, Cosmopolis, is briefly presented positively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Commentary: America's Chilling Future" - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) (CNNPolitics.com, 2008)
Brief description of the dystopia that exists in 2076 because people became too partisan and trusted politicians too much. From a conservative, anti-socialist perspective.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cry Wolf: A Political Fable - Paul Lake (BenBella Books, 2008)
Dystopia on the model of Orwell's 1945 Animal Farm, where an attempt to create a eutopia that extends to animals beyond the farm fails.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dawn Over Doomsday - Jaspre Bark (b. 1969) (Abaddon Books, 2008)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of cults in conflict with Native Americans trying to reclaim the U.S. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Kane, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Keywords: Male author

"The Day Out" - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) (The Garden of Bad Dreams, 2008)
Dystopia. The story is particularly concerned with genetic engineering. While the people are healthy and have long lives, they live in a world where food animals have been engineered for less fat and more flavor, the trees are dying, being out in the sun is dangerous, and whole areas have been depopulated by viral infections. Those remaining in such areas could not leave and depended on food drops from China. No medical care for any condition that could conceivably be the fault of the person. All the poets had been shot.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; Ukrainian author

Deadly Verdict - Andrew Neiderman (b. 1940) (Severn House, 2008)
Dystopia. Mystery novel set in a future where the jury system has been replaced by professional jurors trained to make decisions objectively. The jurors and their families are being murdered.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Digital Destiny. A Novel - Jeromie Carr (b. 1980); James Dunn (iUniverse, 2008)
Dystopia of violent conflict between those favoring and opposing technology in a high-tech future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Digital Plague - Jeff Somers (b. 1971) (Orbit, 2008)
Dystopia of a nanotech plague. Sequel to 2007 Somers.
U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dreamer - Paul L. Bates (Five Star, 2008)
Authoritarian dystopia and the resistance movement. Companion to 2005 Bates and is set in roughly the same timeframe. Considerable fantasy.
Keywords: Male author

Ecumensus: The Next Vision. A Novel - Clifford Lane Mark (iUniverse, 2008)
Spiritual novel developing visions for the period 2010-2019, a period which is expected to include the end of the current Age. Ecumensus means “Hold to and act on a vision of unity for the world.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Egg Man - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Avant Punk, 2008)
Urban, industrial dystopia in the sub-genre known as Bizarro. People reproduce like insects and the corporations own all children.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Escape from Hell! - Hal Duncan (b. 1971) (MonkeyBrain Books, 2008)
Dystopia. Four damned souls decide to escape from Hell, which is a version of New York City. They defeat both devils and angels and escape, leading all of the rest of the damned out.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Eyes of God" - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Two, 2008)
Technology that reads the brain can detect possible deviance and at least temporarily correct it. The story focuses of a potential pedophile who sees the technology negatively, but it could also be read positively.
Rpt. in his Beyond the Rift (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2013), 107-16.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Filling the Isles" - Tim Jones (b. 1959) (Transported: Short Stories, 2008)
Very brief dystopia of extreme overpopulation with standing room only.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Gambler" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Fast Forward, 2008)
Dystopia of instant communication with over-reliance on the internet. A sub-theme is environmental collapse.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 32-49 with an editor’s introduction on 32; and in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 51-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Gather" - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices, 2008)
Religious dystopia in which God lives on one side of a river and the people live on the other. Only clergy are allowed to go to God’s side of the river where the only fertile soil is found. It is unclear just who or what God is, but when the protagonist, Gather, and a friend find an image of God, the decide to return it to God’s side.
Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 83-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Geriatric Ward" - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) (Keeper of Dreams, 2008)
Dystopia of a short intense life.
Rpt. Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 385-99; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 385-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Glister - John Burnside (b. 1955) (Jonathan Cape, 2008)
Ecological and authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse - Victor Gischler (b. 1969) (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 2008)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the only "civilization" left in the U.S. appears to be a chain of strip clubs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gone - Michael Grant (Harper Teen, 2008)
The first volume in a long. young adult dystopian series in which everyone over fifteen disappears. Sequels are Hunger. A Gone Novel. New York: Harper Teen, 2009; Lies: A Gone Novel. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegan Books, 2010; Plague. A Gone Novel. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2011; Fear. A Gone Novel. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2012; Light: A Gone Novel. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2013. An additional trilogy set a few years later includes Monster. New York: HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2017; Villain. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2018; and Hero. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books, 2019.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Gone-Away World - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) (William Heinemann, 2008)
Dystopia of a postwar world divided between a livable zone and the rest.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred K. Knopf, 2008.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Gool - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) (Puffin Books, 2008)
Sequel to 2007 Gee. Young adult fantasy adventure set in a post-catastrophe dystopia where young people must defeat a being from outside nature that is destroying what is left of New Zealand. See also 2010 Gee.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Greenland" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2008)
Global warming dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Grid - Jeremy Reed (b. 1951) (Peter Owen, 2008)
Dystopia in which London has merged with Tokyo under a Commissar. Background to a novel about the Elizabethans and the murder of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Half Healed - Michael Symmons Roberts (b. 1969) (Cape Poetry, 2008)
A sequence of poems, many previously published or broadcast, depicting the dystopia of contemporary violence. “Last Words” which appears twelve different poems throughout the text, are abbreviated telephone calls on 9/11 and were commission by BBC Radio 4 to mark the anniversary of the attacks.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The House Left Empty" - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2008)
Post-catastrophe eutopia of decentralized areas, called Self-Governing Districts.
Rpt. in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 274-93 with an editors' note on 273.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"How Community Values Conquered Climate Change. A Future History" - Malcolm Hollick (COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, 2008)
Written as if from 2050 when, after some major problems caused by climate change, there was a shift in values that allowed the world to deal with the issue and begin the process of building a good society.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush - Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927) (University of Michigan Press, 2008)
Designed to be a "realistic utopia" written from the perspective of a liberal. Imagines four presidential administrations and their policies. Depicts a fairer more egalitarian America.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

"In From the Snow" - Len Battersby (b. 1970 (Dreaming Again, 2008)
Dystopia based on the stories of Sawney Bean, the legendary fifteenth-sixteenth century Scottish cannibal.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Irreconcilable Differences - James R. Strickland (Flying Pen, 2008)
Corporate dystopia in a disintegrated U.S. The corporations are active both on the ground and in cyberspace to keep their power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Jesus Runs" - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Future Americas, 2008)
Religious dystopia in which a clone of Jesus plans to run for President of the United States, which had fragmented as power had shifted to the states. The Supreme Court had become irrelevant as a result of partisan decisions, but since there were a dozen clones, it got involved.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Jigsaw Chronicles - Kevin Ireland (Cape Catley Ltd, 2008)
Dystopia. A man finds himself in an alternative world where the idea of a "permanent revolution" of Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) has succeeded and produced a repressive society.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Kemistry" - Terry Grimwood (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2008)
In the story a woman and her husband return to the UK and discover that while they were gone, divorce was made illegal and applied retroactively. The woman, thus, is still married to her abusive husband, and her children by her second husband are considered illegitimate and will be put into care.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) (Subterranean Press, 2008)
In 2122 the Eutopian worlds were terraformed in orbit around the Earth and seventy-three groups were allowed to create their utopia. The Prologue (7-9) refers to the failures of a few and mentions that some flourished and others failed for a variety of reasons. Here the focus is on the evolution of a Maasai utopia  that they call Kilimanjaro showing a series of decisions that had to be made to reconcile Maasai traditions to current conditions. A companion to 1998 Resnick, Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia, and the Maasai had studied the mistakes made by the Kikuyu as described in that volume. At the time of this work, Kirinyaga still functions but no longer with a utopian vision.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Knife of Never Letting Go. Chaos Walking: Book One - Patrick Ness (b. 1971) (Walker Books, 2008)
First volume of a dystopian series. People had settled on a new planet and lost a war with the indigenous inhabitants, who had released a germ that made the thoughts of all humans and animals constantly audible. Quiet is discovered, but at the end of this volume, the world is taken over by the authoritarian leaders of the remaining humans. The Ask and the Answer. Chaos Walking: Book Two. London: Walker Books, 2009, the second volume, stresses the struggle against the authoritarian leaders who gained power at the end of the previous volume. In the third volume, Monsters of Men. Chaos Walking: Book Three. London: Walker Books, 2010. U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, [2011], the two protagonists are forced to choose sides.
U.S. ed. New York: Candlewick Press, 2009.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Last Actor" - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020); Linda L. Donahue (Future Americas, 2008)
Dystopia brought about by poor quality education and the growth of mass culture.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Leaving Fortusa: A Novel in Ten Episodes - [Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020) (Norilana Books, 2008)
Dystopia in ten loosely related chapters. The epigrams to each chapter suggest a connection to the presidency of George W. Bush (2001-09), but much of the action is set in a variety of futures of growing violence and authoritarian governance. There is some suggestion that in the future of the future a better society will be reestablished.
Parts originally published as "The Hard Stuff." Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction. Ed. Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson (Edinburgh, Scot.: Crescent Press, 2005), 229-70; "Q." Sci-Fiction (2004) [No longer available online]; "The Unforbidden Playground." Postscripts, no. 9 (Winter 2006): 54-87; and "The Most Marvelous Story in the Whole Wide World." Whispers of Wickedness [No longer available online].
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Let Their People Go: The Left Left Behind" - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Postscripts, 2008)
Satire on the Left Behind series (see 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins) in which the capitalists, conservatives, and religious bigots  are removed, which allows the remaining people to begin to create a cooperative, world-wide eutopia.
Rpt. as “The Left Left Behind: ‘Let Their People Go!’” In his The Left Left Behind: ‘Let Their People Go!’ plus Special Relativity and ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009), 11-48.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Letter From Utopia” - Nick Bostrom (b. 1973) (Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology [An online journal], 2008)
A letter from a posthuman future. Very general and mostly on the problems of the present.
Keywords: Male author; Swedish author; UK author

Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) (Tor, 2008)
Humorous dystopia of the economic collapse of the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Little Brother - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor Teen, 2008)
Young adult dystopia of U.S. Home Security targeting San Francisco because the administration sees it as too liberal. Home Security is fought by a group of teenage hackers with some success and ends with the administration freeing those responsible and the hackers continuing their opposition. The title refers to “Big Brother” in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. First volume in a loosely connected series; see also his Homeland (2013) and Attack Surface (2020). 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), 11-317, with an “Introduction” by Edward Snowden (7-9).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Looking for Mr Piggy-Wig - Andy [Andrew] Secombe (b. 1953) (Macmillan, 2008)
Dystopia as background to a detective story. After the Second Battle of Britain, Britain is poor and has rationing, and the world is experiencing the effects of severe global warming.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Lost Arts" - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) (Dreaming Again, 2008)
Technological eutopia on a planet colony of Earth that is benevolently controlled by Artificial Intelligences. The focus of the story is how to deal with aberrant behavior in a eutopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Lost Colours of the Chameleon - Mandla Langa (b. 1950) (Picador Africa, 2008)
The novel is set in the fictitious country, Bangula, which was supposed to become a eutopia but is faced with all the usual problems of an ex-colony. Satire on the politics of developing nations set on an island after the founder, who had a vision of transforming the lives of the inhabitants, dies.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

"Lost Continent" - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows. An Original Science Fiction Anthology, 2008)
Dystopia of the then current situation in Iraq and the refugee crisis it caused projected into the future.
Rpt. in his Crystal Nights and Other Stories Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 11-37.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Love in the Time of Fridges - Tim Scott (b. 1962) (Bantam Spectra, 2008)
Dystopia of a future Seattle, Washington, a walled city, that has become obsessed with health and safety. Considerable humor. There are refrigerators hoping to escape to Mexico where electric goods have rights, and they help the protagonist to bring freedom to Seattle. See also 2007 Scott.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Man in the Dark - Paul Auster (b. 1947) (Holt, 2008)
Dystopia. A story told by the central character is set in a parallel America in which the 2000 Presidential election led to secession and civil war.
UK ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Man of the Strong Arm" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association, 2008)
Dystopia with elements of satire on SF. The dystopia is a male chauvinist society that honors the strongest man and keeps most men in ignorance. Women are essentially slaves, but there is a strong women's underground.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Manumission" - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Lightspeed, 2008)
Dystopia of a future where individuals are enslaved by corporations.
Originally published online in Jim Baen's Universe 2.6 (12) (April 2008) but no longer available online. Rpt. in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 70-85.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

Marseguro - Edward Willett (b. 1959) (DAW Books, 2008)
First volume of a duology of a eutopia and dystopia in conflict. The dystopia is a theocratic Earth. The eutopia is the planet Marseguro, where unmodified humans and the water dwelling Selkies live in peaceful harmony. The second volume is Terra Insegura. New York: DAW Books, 2009 Marseguro becomes essential to Earth’s survival. Marseguro won the 2015 Aurora Award for Best Novel. They were published together in The Helix War New York: DAW Books, 2012.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Martin Martin's on the Other Side - Mark Wernham (Jonathan Cape, 2008)
Dystopia. Most people are employed by the state and spend their lives paying off their student loans. Pornography and recreational drugs are freely available.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Matter - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) (Orbit, 2008)
Large novel set in Banks's Culture that includes a small amount of explicitly eutopian description of the Culture. See 1987 and 1988 Banks.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Mitigation" - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962); Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Fast Forward 2, 2008)
Environmental dystopia designed to keep people ignorant.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 527-55.
Keywords: Canadian author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author

"Murder in Geektopia" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Sideways in Crime: An Alternative Mystery Anthology, 2008)
A eutopia for Geeks with a stress on technology and popular culture in an alternative future of world peace.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Night Sessions - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Orbit, 2008)
Conflict over religion in which Christians had used nuclear weapons on the U.S. Partially set in New Zealand, which is presented generally positively.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"No Other Country" - Shaun [Chi Yeong] Tan (b. 1974) (Tales From Outer Suburbia, 2008)
Eutopia in words and illustrations describing an "inner courtyard" hidden in all the homes of an otherwise dreary country. The "inner courtyard" is an enclosed garden with seasons opposite to those of the country.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Our Flag Was Still There" - Steven Mohan Jr. (Future Americas, 2008)
Dystopia in which each antagonistic ethnic, ideological, political, or religious group was isolated in separate virtual "Habitats".
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Pacification of Earth - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2008)
Dystopia. Mostly a future war story, but it begins in a future overpopulation dystopia and proceeds through the war to the suggestion of a better future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pandemonium in 2012 - Lee [Leland W.] Cross (Virginia City Publishing, 2008)
Dystopia of a future U.S. under the usual politicians is challenged by patriots.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association, 2008)
Dystopia in which Europe and the Islamic countries have agreed to end conflict with Europe agreeing to ban alcohol and the Islamic countries agree to end honor killing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Perfect Choice - John W. Herbert (Vantage Press, 2008)
A couple is taken into space by a UFO and spends time on a eutopian planet where people are still improving mentally by accepting the love of God. It is hoped that the couple can bring that message back to Earth.
Keywords: Male author

The Philosopher's Apprentice - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (William Morrow, 2008)
Near future dystopias created by both sides in struggles over genetic engineering. One dystopia is an extrapolation of the growing political power of fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. The other dystopia is brought about by a genetic experiment by women trying to create a eutopia.
Rpt. with an added, separately paged section "P.S. Insights, Interviews & More. . ." at the end. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Pisstown Chaos. A Novel - David Ohle (b. 1941) (Soft Skull Press, 2008)
Religious dystopia. Sequel to 2004 Ohle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Protocol: Your children deserve the best" - Ralph Greco [Jr.] (Nature, 2008)
Dystopia. Children are genetically manipulated after birth to produce what their parents want.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Publicani - Zak Maymin (CreateSpace Publishing, 2008)
Dystopia focusing on one family's response to an authoritarian government that wants to take even one's intellect.
Keywords: Male author; Russian author; US author

"Pump Six" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Pump Six and Other Stories, 2008)
Dystopia. General environmental collapse which has led to a biological and intellectual collapse among humans.
Rpt. in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.3 (676) (September 2008): 9-43; and in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 106-43 with an editors' note on 105 .
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Resistance" - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Seeds of Change, 2008)
The problems faced by those resisting a technological solution to decision making where neither approach is particularly good.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author

"Revolt of the Ultraists!" - Richard A. Becker (Spicy Slipstream Stories, 2008)
Dystopia of a collapsed city. Violence, new drugs, intrusive advertising.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rx for Chaos - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) (Baen Books, 2008)
Satire on the problems that arise from a drug that makes everyone happy all the time.
A collection of related stories published previously as "Rx for Chaos." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 72.6 (February 1964): 72-80; "Cinderella, Inc." Imagination 3.7 (December 1952): 72-75 as Crosby; "Roll Out the Rolov!" Imagination 4.10 (November 1953): 96-103 as Crosby; "The New Boccaccio." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 64.5 (January 1965): 74-77; "Is Everybody Happy?" Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction Science Fact--Science Fiction 81.2 (April 1968): 67-85; "A Handheld Primer." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 51.2 (January 1978): 32-39; "The Great Intellect Boom." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction Science Fact--Science Fiction 83.5 (July 1969): 38-55; "Interesting Times." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 107.12 (December 1987): 104-16; "Superbiometalemon." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 63.1 (374) (July 1982): 37-43; "Speed-Up!" Amazing Stories 38.1 (January 1964): 6-32; "Rags from Riches." Amazing Stories 62.4 (537) (November 1987): 122-27; "Bugs." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 106.6 (June 1986): 90-113; "Positive Feedback." 75.6 Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction (August 1965): 47-63; "Two-Way Communication." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 77.3 (May 1966): 72-83; "High G." Worlds of If Science Fiction 15.6 (91) (June 1965): 76-100; "Doc's Legacy." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 108.2 (February 1988): 158-83; "Negative Feedback." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 114.4 (March 1994): 58-73; "The New Way." Beyond Infinity 1.1 (November/December 1967): 150-60; "Identification." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 57.3 (May 1961): 8-32; "The Golden Years." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 107.3 (March 1977): 110-20; "No Small Enemy." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 68.3 (November 1961): 7-51; and "Not in the Literature." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 71.1 (March 1963): 60-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden - Cameron Pierce (b. 1988) (Eraserhead Press, 2008)
Satire in the Bizarro mode on the Garden of Eden, which is visited by religious fanatics from the future who find that it is nothing like they expected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat: An Epic Cycle of Short Plays - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) (Methuen Drama, 2008)
Dystopia. Sixteen very short plays plus an Appendix that publishes the revised radio version of one of the plays. Many of the plays are explicitly dystopian focusing on violence and war; others depict authoritarian dystopias.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sins of the Assassin. A Novel - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) (Scribner, 2008)
Dystopia. Sequel to 2006 Ferrigno. See also 2009 Ferrigno. In this volume, the U.S. disintegrates further, and factions fight each other in all of its segments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Soft Viscosity" - David Conyers (b. 1971) (2012, 2008)
Dystopia that oil companies and the U.S. create to be able to build pipelines in the indigenous areas of Ecuador.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Sputnik Caledonia - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) (Picador, 2008)
Alternative history dystopia in which, after World War II, Scotland is Communist and has its own space program. Part of the novel focuses on the Installation, a dystopia within the dystopia which is a military controlled space center.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (2008)
Dystopia seen through the eyes of someone who has been a secular monk living inside a walled compound for sixteen years who has to go out into the world of an authoritarian dystopia where everyone must conform to unstated rules.
Rpt. in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 202-46 with an editors' note on 201; in Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download. Ed. Rich Horton ([Stirling, NJ]: Wyrm Publishing, 2009), 256-95; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 197-228.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

The Tomorrow Code - Brian Falkner (b. 1962) (Random House, 2008)
Young adult dystopia in which the future selves of two contemporary teens ask for help in averting the environmental catastrophe that has devastated their world.
Australian ed. Newtown, NSW, Australia: Walker Books Australia, 2008.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Truancy - Isamu Fukui (b. 1990) (Tor, 2008)
School as dystopia. The authoritarian mayor of a city rules the school system and its teachers and students. Revolt by the students. His Truancy Origins. New York: Tor, 2009, is a prequel in which two children are raised by the authoritarian mayor of a city dedicated to a harsh educational system. Truancy City. New York: Tor Teen, 2012, focuses on the struggle between the truants and those controlling the city with the city ultimately abandoned and destroyed. The author was fifteen when he wrote the first novel, and it was published in Italian and Spanish translations before being published in English.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Under the Amoral Bridge. A Cyberpunk Novel Originally told in Serial Blog Form - Gary A. Ballard ([CreateSpace], 2008)
Corporate dystopia. The Know Circuit. The Bridge Chronicles, Book 2. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2010 is a sequel. More material can be found at http://www.bridgechronicles.info.
Originally published serially between January and August 2008 on line at http://amoralbridge.blogspot.com.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unholy Domain - Dan Ronco (Kunati, 2008)
Dystopia. Cyberterrorism produces a world-wide economic collapse and results in conflict between supporters and opponents of technology, with the latter developing into a religion. Preceded by his PeaceMaker. Waterville, OH: Winter Wolf, 2004, which sets the stage for this novel, and followed by 2010 Ronco.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Valley of Day-Glo - Nick DiChario (Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008)
Humorous dystopia set on a future desolate Earth where the protagonist searches for a legendary valley that still has plants and animals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Valley-Westside War - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2008)
Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for the purpose of harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a post-nuclear war future, Los Angeles is divided into small enclaves that at are at war with.  Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, and 2007 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

"Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang" - Sellar, Gord (Tesseracts Twelve, 2008)
Korea, North and South, as dystopias but with North Korea especially dystopian, with genetic engineering to meet the leader's whims.
Keywords: Canadian author; Malawian author; Male author; South Korean author

World Made by Hand - James Howard Kunstler (b. 1948) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of a post-oil America set in Union Grove, NY, with no electricity, few resources, terrorism, bandits, and cults. First of four volumes. The second volume is The Witch of Hebron. A World Made by Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010, which is set a few months in the future. The third volume is A History of the Future: A World Made By Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014, in which the situation in the United States, which has broken up into three independent countries, is described together with the re-emergence of the traditional American small-town, which is present very positively, albeit with problems. The final volume is The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016 in which the town is cut off further by a landowner with feudal aspirations and a radical group wants to establish the Berkshire Peoples Republic.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Wylde's Kingdom" - David Nickle (b. 1964) (Tesseracts Twelve, 2008)
Dystopia brought about by climate change.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

2050. A Novel - Dave Borland (Red Anvil Press, 2007)
In 2050, the United States has broken up into seven new countries, all facing drought. The Pittsburgh aquifer, controlled by Atlantica, is a source of contention and of possible reunification.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2050 Volume One: Gods of Little Earth. A Novel - J[oseph] Zornado (SpeculativeFictionReview, 2007)
First volume in a trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic 2050 that is primarily concerned with a struggle between good and evil. Continued in his 2050: A Future History Volume II: The Power at the Bottom of the World. A Novel. Np: Iron Diesel Press, 2012; and 2050 When Immortals Reign. A Future History Volume 3. West Warwick, RI: Merry Blacksmith Press, 2015.
[Rev. ed.] as 2050: A Future History, Volume I: Gods of Little Earth. Np: Iron Diesel Press, 2011. There is no reference to the earlier publication in the 2011 version.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2236 A Novel - Milton McGriff (AMM Publishing, 2007)
A dystopia in which race relations have degenerated and African Americans fight back against their systematic mistreatment. The work originated as a one-act play entitled The Nigger Killer that the author wrote in the 1970s.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

29 Inches - Mark Amerika (Chiasmus Press, 2007)
Dystopian cyberpunk poem.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Accidental Time Machine - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (Ace Books, 2007)
A doctoral student at MIT accidentally invents a time machine and travels into the future. At his first stop, people are aware of his invention, although they cannot replicate it, and he is honored. His second stop is a dystopian theocracy that has rejected all knowledge of the past. The third stop is highly developed technologically with an economy based on barter in which everyone is rich. It is said to be boring. Various other stops are treated briefly.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Adjudication" - Simon Brown (b. 1956) (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia. Extrapolation of working conditions in private prisons as the prison companies go into business with criminals to keep prisons full.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Adolf in Wonderland - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Avant Punk Books, 2007)
Alternative future dystopia in which Germany won World War II and established the National Socialist version of a utopia. A search for imperfect humans reveals a weird isolated society. Part of a literary movement called Bizarro, which refers to fiction with a stress on weirdness and absurdism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After the Patriarchy" - Jay [John Barrett] McInerney (b. 1955) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Sex role reversal satire with the emphasis on sex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

AmericA, Inc. In Corporation We Trust. A Novel in Stream of Voice - David [B.] Lentz (Wordsworth Greenwich Press, 2007)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days - Matthew Moses (Booklocker.com, 2007)
Dystopia of a war between Heaven and Hell with Earth a neutral zone. Armageddon (See Revelation 16).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arapeta: A Futuristic Ethnic Adventure - Peter Tashkoff (Artemis Associates Ltd, 2007)
The conflict between Māori and Pākehā replayed in science fictional form in the future with the Māori ultimately winning after initial defeat.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Best of Your Life" - Benjamin Stoddard (Interzone, 2007)
Satire and dystopia in which it is possible to purchase a better life, but everything goes wrong.
Keywords: Male author

"Black and Bitter, Thanks" - Nathan Burrage (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia. Australia has too few working young to support the pensions of the old and introduces a system in which people vote on those who should lose their pensions and be placed in what are essentially prisons.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Black Man - Richard [Kingsley] Morgan (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2007)
Adventure story set against an Earth that has finally achieved a decent balance.
U.S. ed. as Thirteen. New York: Del Rey, 2007.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Black Sheep. 'A Dystopian Novel' - Ben [Michael] Peek (b. 1976) (Prime Books, 2007)
Dystopia of ethnic separation set in Sydney, Australia, where the African, Asian, and Caucasian communities are physically separated, and multiculturalism is a crime.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Blind Faith - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) (Bantam Press, 2007)
Dystopia in which climate-change has produced immense flooding, a backlash against science, and a religious revival in which everyone is expected to share everything about themselves online all the time. The protagonist values his privacy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Designing the Future - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (The Venus Project, 2007)
Technological eutopia with designs for many different projects. Law will be necessary, and people will be changed. See also 1995 and 2002 Fresco, 1969 Keyes and Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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