“Rocket Night” - Alexander Weinstein (Southern Indiana Review, 2013)
Dystopia in which each year the children in a school choose one of their number to be fastened in a rocket and shot into space, the choice being the most unpopular child, and, in the story, the poorest child in the school.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 177-81.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Secession of Texas - Darrell Maloney ([CreateSpace], 2013)
Texas secedes from the U.S. and creates a free market eutopia. Non-utopian sequels include Meribel. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013; My Forever. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; and with Dawn Brand Hawkins. A New Reason for Being. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2015. Related books with some of the same characters include A Secret Life And Justice for All (A Secret Life). [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; The Hunted. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; and A New Beginning: A Secret Life. The Final Chapters. Np: Darrell Maloney Publishing, 2015 (Ebook).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Serene Invasion - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Solaris, 2013)
An alien invasion brings peace and prosperity to Earth, but some people and other aliens want a return to the conflict of the past.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Shopocalypse - David Gullen (Monico, 2013)
Unusually climate change dystopia in which a couple travel across America in a sentient car from shopping mall to shopping mall.
Rev. ed. [Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2019.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

"State of Imprisonment" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (New Taboos: plus “A state of imprisonment” and “Why we need forty years of hell” and “Pro is for professional” outspoken interview, 2013)
Dystopia in which the entire U.S. state of Arizona has become a prison under the control of the state government and a corporation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tales of New America - Gunther Roosevelt (Callister Green Publishing, 2013)
Although presented as twenty-three tales, the work constitutes a coherent picture of the future of the United States as it falls apart and regional groupings of states form new countries that become legal entities. Here the states of the northern mountain west forms the New American Republic, and the story of its somewhat violent formation and the establishment of a limited government is the focus of the work. Explicitly racist in that everyone not white is driven out. Patriarchal with a chapter entitled “How to Raise a Daughter in a Patriarchal Society (103-110).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Through Many Fires: Strengthen What Remains - Kyle Pratt (Camden Cascade Publishing, 2013)
The dystopia created when a nuclear bomb is detonated in Washington, DC and then in other cities. First volume of a series followed by A Time To Endure. Strengthen What Remains Book Two. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2014, which is a survivalist dystopia with the threat of civil war; and Braving the Storms. Strengthen What Remains Book Three. 3rd ed. [no indication of earlier eds.]. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2015 in which a flu epidemic strikes the country.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Tough Night in Tommyville” - Melvin Carter (Steamfunk!, 2013)
The story is set in a small town in a future United States that has disintegrated but is reforming. The town sits between factions and the story has all the flavor of the lawless, very violent Old West.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Trouble with Heaven” - [Albert Edward] [Cowdrey] (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia. A satellite serving the function of a gated community for the very rich with android servants and police collapses when the controls on the androids are manipulated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Under the Empyrean Sky. The Heartland Trilogy Book I - Chuck [Charles David] Wendig (b. 1976) (Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2013)
First volume of a trilogy. In this volume, those living in the Empyrean control those living on Earth to the extent of determining what is growth and choosing their marriage partners. The second volume is Blightborn. The Heartland Trilogy Book II. New York: Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2014. In this volume, a typical middle volume, there is a revolt against such control. The third volume is The Harvest. The Heartland Trilogy Book III. New York: Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2015. It is a bit more complex than many concluding volumes, and the ending does not make further volumes particularly difficult, but it does bring together the numerous plot lines to endings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Until the Little Birds Sing - Charles [Robert] Granquist (Big Sky Publishing, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“Utopia: On the Quality of Human Life” - Greg Brown (Voices of Central Pennsylvania, 2013)
An opinion piece that says that life in the U.S. would be radically improved by doubling the minimum wage and creating a “nouveau middle class” out of the poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wanderer - Roger Davenport (b. 1946) (Sky Pony Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia set in an environmentally damaged future. Two groups are antagonists, the City Dwellers and the Wanderers, but teenagers from both groups must cooperate. Something of a quest novel to find a better place to live.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Water" - Ramez Naam (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions of the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
A dystopia in which everyone has implants that allow the advertisements that are embedded in all products to adjust themselves to an individual’s needs.
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 43-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“When Appliances Go Green” - Matt[hew] Colborn (b. 1973) (Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate, 2013)
Satire on the dystopia created my connected appliances that are programmed to be environmentally conscious.
Originally published in Universe Magazine, no. 2 (2013), which is not available.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The World Coyote Made” - Jetse de Vries (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
Climate change dystopia in which technology is used to create food and return extinct animals to the wild.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author

"Zero Hours" - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) (2013)
In this future everyone has to bid on shifts at businesses, which keeps wages down. Constant surveillance. Part of a series of Ten Future Londoners of 2033. This is the only fiction; all the others are brief descriptions of individuals. The whole series can be found at Future Londoners | Nesta.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The 14th Reinstated - Bryce M. Towsley (BREN Publishing, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“2038: San Francisco Sojourn: The Wrath of God” - Paul Clayton (Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012)
The story is set in a California that has regulations for everything, the prime example given is that everyone is required to wear a helmet at all times, although undocumented workers generally don’t. In the story God objects to His laws not being followed and wreaks havoc wherever He goes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Orbit, 2012)
Complex novel set throughout the fully inhabited solar system with intrigue and conspiracies, but, while Earth is still riddled with problems, the rest of the planets are slowly working their way to a better system and hope to include Earth in it.
An excerpt was published in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 24 (May 2012).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"357" - Karp, Jesse (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a small, violent community on a high floor in a badly damaged building.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Apocalypse: The New Way - David Anderson (LuLu Publishing, 2012)
The novel begins with the apocalypse that occurs at the end of 2012 and then moves to 285 years later when the remnant of humanity are hunter gatherers. At that point a group of "Monks," who have remained hidden, emerge to teach these people a better way of life. The novel includes the Plan that had been worked out in 2012 (341-62) and "Blogs and Chats" about the Plan (363-524).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Agenda 21 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964); Harriet Parker (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2012)
Dystopia in which the United Nations has taken over the U.S. and enslaved its citizens. An “Afterword” (279-95) has additional information regarding Agenda 21 and includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. For the 1998 Agenda 21, see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“All Your Futures” - David Gullen (Arc 1.3 Afterparty Overdrive, 2012)
The story is set in a future eutopia with no government. Major decisions are made collectively through a device that everyone wears for regular interactions that can be used for discussion and decision-making. The story concerns the arrival of a spaceship that had left Earth before the technology was developed that allowed much faster travel and what to do with it and its one surviving crew member.
A podcast with the title as “All Your Futures Are Belong To Us” can be found on StarShipSofa, no. 480 (April 4, 2017). http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2017/04/04/starshipsofa-no-480-david-gullen/ With that title it can be read on the author’s website at https://davidgullen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Free-Fiction-All-Your-Futures-Are-Belong-To-Us.pdf and in his Open Waters. EXAGGERATEDpress, 2013. Not found. Not in the 2009 edition of Open Waters.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

Ameritopia 2075 - Corey L. Simmins ([CreateSpace], 2012)
At the beginning of the novel, the U.S. appears to be a eutopia created by shipping all criminals offshore and using the money saved by closing all the prisons to enhance education, eliminate debt, and solve a variety of other social problems. But this is a flawed utopia serving the interests of those in power in which a small group determines who gets education and work.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Amos Was Here” - Doug Donley (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
The story is set in a future dystopia resulting from current policies, particularly concerning the environment, and suggests actions that could help avoid the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ampted. A Novel - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) (Doubleday, 2012)
The novel is set in a future in which many people have a device implanted in their brains that eliminates a wide range of brain defects--in the case of the protagonist controls his epilepsy. But the U.S. Supreme Court rules that such “ampted” people are not truly fully human and no longer covered by a range of civil rights. The novel is set in the Cherokee Nation.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"The Appropriate Response: Class War" - Jeff Samson (Nature, 2012)
Dystopian classroom of the future where all students are assessed as to how they should be treated by the teacher and a bright student who accurately answers a question while disparaging her classmates is subdued and removed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arbeitskraft - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) (The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, 2012)
The complex satire is told from the point-of-view of Friedrich Engels and begins in a steampunk world in which the mechanicals that were made possible by Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine are treated as badly as human workers. Engels remains a revolutionary and repurposes the Difference Engine into a Dialectical Engine, essentially an Artificial Intelligence, designed to write the fifth volume of Marx’s Capital, which includes a description of a future in which the collective mind of the working class has been fed into the Difference Engine.
Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 105-23; and in the author's The People’s Republic of Everything (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 11-37, with an author’s note on 36-37.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arctic Rising - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Tor, 2012)
A climate change novel in which the melting of the ice caps leads to conflicts over access to the oil reserves that are now accessible.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

Armageddon 2019: Jesus Is Come The Pope of Rome is Fallen Perfection is Preached in Boston - Jeffrey Barrett (b. 1959) (CreateSpace, 2012)
Anti-Roman Catholic dystopia in which the Pope controls all religions and God deposes him.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Arose from Poetry” - Steve Berman (b. 1949) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a society divided between privileged citizens and everyone else.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Artistic License" - Robert H. Beer (Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound, 2012)
Authoritarian dystopia that is trying to suppress art.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Autoethnographic - Michael Brennan (b. 1973) (Giramondo Publishing Co., 2012)
Poems set in the present/near future free market dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Aviator. The Burning World Book One - Gareth Renowden (Limestone Hills Publishing, 2012)
Young adult climate change dystopia. See http://burningworldbooks.wordpress.com.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City - Axelrod, Jared; Steve Walker (Tor, 2012)
Young adult graphic novel dystopia about a young woman who uncovers the secrets of the authoritarian regime that runs the city. For more stories, see www.fablesoftheflyingcity.com
Keywords: Male author

Belle Isle - Rodney Lockwood (LuLu.com, 2012)
Eutopia of a future Detroit that has been transformed by the establishment of an independent Belle Island, an island in the Detroit River, that is sold to a group of capitalists who build a free market eutopia there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Blood Drive" - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which all child-labor laws have been overturned, seniors in high school carry guns, abortion has disappeared, church is required on Sundays, and same-sex relations are illegal.
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 119-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair [Preston] Reynolds (b. 1966) (Gollancz, 2012)
Science fiction novel that begins in a future eutopian Earth with most problems solved and Africa dominant. A loose sequel which follows the next generation into space is On the Steel Breeze. New York: Ace Books, 2013.
U.S. ed. New York: Ace Books, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Blueprints of the Afterlife - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) (Black Cat, 2012)
Dystopia. A complex novel set mostly after much of the world has been destroyed. It follows a number of individuals as the experience the new world, which is part virtual reality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"The Boy Who Shattered Time" - Mark D. Dunn (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2012)
The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia ruled by the TimeConstructCorp, which is trying to recreate the past of ancient Egypt as told from the viewpoint a man who appears to have spent his life trying to avoid getting caught in the system.
Keywords: Male author

“Bullseye, Inc.” - Brian D. Garrity (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
Dystopia of corporate uniformity.
Keywords: Male author

By Force of Patriots - Cameron Reddy (White Feather Press, 2012)
A dystopia brought about by liberals is overthrown by patriots. The author is a lawyer who says that "he has taught the lawful use of lethal force for over 10 years."
Keywords: Male author; US author

BZRK - [Michael] [Reynolds] (b. 1954) (Egmont USA, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with one group trying to control society with nanobots and the other fighting against them with different technology. Continued in BZRK Reloaded. New York: Egmont USA, 2013. U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2013; and concluded in BZRK Apocalypse. New York: Egmont USA, 2014. U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2014.
U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Chair Plays - Edward Bond (1934-2024) (Methuen Drama, 2012)
The text includes three one act plays set in a dystopian 2077. The plays are “Have I None” (1-36), was first performed in Birmingham November 2, 2000 and published in Children and Have I None. London: Methuen Drama, 2000; 57-89; “The Under Room” (37-73), was first performed in Birmingham October 9, 2000 (Plays 8 says October 12, 2000) and published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (169-203); and “Chair” (75-112), was written for radio first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on April 7, 2000. The Chair Plays and Plays 8 says that the first staged production was at the Avignon Festival on July 18, 2006. Wikipedia says it was in Lisbon, at the Teatro da Cornucópia in June 2005 and first published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (London: Methuen Drama, 2006), 109-144. The London premiere of the entire trilogy was at Lyric Hammersmith on April 19, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Children's Crusade" - Michael Alexander (1950-2012) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2012)
Religious dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

Collapse: America Will Fall - Richard Stephenson (b. 1975) (Stevenson & Powers Publishing House, 2012)
Dystopia in which the U.S. faces internal and external threats and a Second Great Depression. In a sequel, Resistance: America Has Fallen. Ed. Susan Hughes. Np: Richard Stephenson, 2013, the U.S. has been torn apart and the main protagonists in Collapse are trying to save it. A third volume was announced but has not appeared. A related story with characters from Collapse, “Spider: A Short Story.” Ed. Susan Hughes (2012) has been published on Kindle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Contrary Gardener” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Eclipse Online, 2012)
An odd story in which crops are grown to be turned into ammunition in a society that has advanced AIs but that have gained consciousness. The protagonist is an exceptional gardener who does not fit in.
Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 1-22.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Gospel of Anarchy. A Novel - Justin Taylor (Harper Perennial, 2011)
The novel is set in the late twentieth century and focuses on an urban intentional community trying to create utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Grass is Always Browner - Martin Knox (Zeus Publications, 2011)
Post-catastrophe dystopia and eutopia. Australia has experienced a Great Famine, Coal Wars, and other disasters, and it is slowly recovering under Aborigine leadership. But its neighbors covet its resources, and it is forced into an Asian alliance, has to change its name to Austrasia, and loses some of its resources. After a time, Aboriginal leadership is re-established and the renamed Australia is again recovering.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; UK author

"Heartland" - Alexander Weinstein (Pleiades: Literature in Context, 2011)
Dystopia in which almost nothing grows anymore, and everyone has sold whatever topsoil remains on any property they owned. Extreme rich/poor division.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 41-55.
Keywords: Male author; US author

King Freedom - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) (Fantastic Books, 2011)
The novel begins with a dystopia that combines church and state, where everyone must attend daily church services and anyone falling foul with either church or state is severely punished. The novel follows the trajectory of a man at the lowest rungs of society as he leaves prison and struggles to survive and very slowly begins to search for freedom.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Last Day of Work” - Douglas Rushkoff (b. 1961) (The Tomorrow Project: Bestselling Authors Describe Daily Life in the Future, 2011)
The story is told by the last man who will ever have to work, with even robots no longer needed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Election - Kevin [C.] Carrigan (CreateSpace, 2011)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. in which an incumbent president sets out to literally eliminate the opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners: Seeding a Revolution" - David L. Clements (Nature, 2011)
Dystopia in which commercial interests with the support of the police are destroying all plants and seeds not owned by companies. The story is continued in “Seed Dealer.” Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 25-36.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illustration in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 21-23; and in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 114-17.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Leftovers - Tom [Thomas R.] Perrotta (b. 1961) (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
Life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) with some struggling to create a good society, various religious fanatics, and some of the expected dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Manna - Marshall Brain (b. 1961) (2011)
Half dystopia in a U.S. that is spreading around the world and half a eutopia set in Australia. The dystopia is brought about by the gradual takeover of the control of almost all work by computers, which results in a few extremely wealthy and the majority unemployed, on welfare and living in specially built buildings. The Australian eutopia is based on principles that “1. Everyone is equal 2. Everything is reused 3. Nothing is anonymous 4. Nothing is owned 5. Tell the truth 6. Do no harm. 7. Obey the rules. 7. Live your life. 9. Better and better” (Chapter 5, p. 8).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Monopol City - [John T.] [Cullen] (Clocktower Books, 2011)
In a future authoritarian dystopia, political prisoners create a game called Monopol City and come to live within it.
Rpt. as Meta 4 City: A DarkSF Novel. DarkSF is the Dark Chocolate of Science Fiction. San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2017
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

A Nation of Ruins - Robert John Burke ([CreateSpace], 2011)
Dystopia of the American right in power.
Keywords: Male author

New Dystopia - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) (CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux/Sternberg Press, 2011)
A novel related to an art exhibition depicting, as did the exhibition, the dystopia of the current world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Patriot. A Novel - Theodore Doyle (Np, 2011)
Dystopia of a false religious fundamentalism combined with corporate dominance set in the 22nd century in the Confederacy of Incorporated States.
Keywords: Male author

“The Next Future” - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (Lapham’s Quarterly, 2011)
Essay in which the author describes various possible utopias, which he rejects, and one, briefly, that he accepts that combines anarchism and a command economy.
Rpt. as “Totalitopia.” In his Totalitopia plus “This Is Our Town” and “Everything That Rises” and “Paul Park’s Hidden World” and “I Did Crash a Few Parties” Outspoken Interview and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017), 23-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nowhere Fast” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, 2011)
The story is set in a future recovering from climate change and focuses on the damage down by private cars when a young man has cobbled together one from spare parts that runs on hemp oil. The background is a fragmented United States.
Rpt. Illus. John Coulthart. In Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 241-53; and in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 65-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Owners" - Gordon Wolfe (d. 2010) (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2011)
Having achieved space flight humans meet aliens who require them to change human behavior before they can join the Unity of worlds. Having created the required eutopia, the aliens mention the need to get the approval of the Owners who control all the galaxies races. The Owners turn out to be cats.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Paegonaean Story - David Blair (Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd., 2011)
One country has united the world through war and brought peace to all but a small enclave that they is isolated from the rest of the world. The novel is about the process of bringing that enclave into the fold with war erupting. In interviews the author presents the scenario positively.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Phoenix Rising - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004); J. A. Johnstone (Pinnacle Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a liberal U.S. with a foreign-born President trying to establish a world government which leads to a takeover by Islamic extremists and a remnant of American patriots fighting to reclaim the country. First volume of a trilogy followed by their Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2012, in which the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. In the final volume, Phoenix Rising. Day of Judgment. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2013, the U.S has become the United Islamic Republic of Enlightenment and is supported by the World Caliphate of Holy Path Islam and the survivalists of the earlier volumes fight to reestablish the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Point - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) (Angry Robot, 2011)
Sequel to 2010 [Meaney]. This volume focuses on suicide cults among teenagers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Postmortal [A Novel] - Drew [Andrew Schuyler] Magary (b. 1976) (Penguin Books, 2011)
Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a cure for aging. This is followed by a pandemic that decimates the world’s population presented through the recovery, in 2093, of sixty years of text files from an unidentified man recounting his experiences.
The ebook version includes bibliographical references and an index. U. K. ed. as The End Specialist. London: Harper Voyager, 2011. 419 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

President Michelle or Ten Days That Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) (Author, 2011)
During the 2012 election, Barak Obama has a heart attack, Michelle Obama is chosen to replace him as the candidate, and easily wins. The novel reports her first ten days in office during which she proposes and gets passed into law An Act to Restore Democracy to the United States of America that eliminates all contribution to politicians. In addition, she proposes to close all U.S. military bases abroad and bring all U.S. forces and material home while developing cooperation with other nations. And, among other things, she intends to radically improve the U.S. health care system.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author; South African author

"Prisoner 2501" - John Philip Corpuz (Philippine Speculative Fiction, 2011)
Dystopia present through the torture inflicted on prisoners to elicit information from them.
Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
Keywords: Filipino author; Male author

Project "New Jerusalem" - Geoff Thomas (b. 1970 or 71) (AuthorHouse, 2011)
The work begins in a dystopia in which the remains of humanity live behind a shield that protects them from “evil androids.” The humans manage to escape to a new planet, and the work ends. Described as the first chapter of a novel which will continue if sales justify, but there is also an ad at the end for a sequel Return to Eben as forthcoming, but it does not appear to have been published.
Keywords: Male author

"Pure" - Rio Youers (Dark Dreams, Pale Horses, 2011)
Dystopia created by a virulent disease and the restrictions used to contain it.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas (Toronto, ON: ChiZine Publications/Tightrope Books, 2012), 154-82.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Pym. A Novel - Mat Johnson (b. 1970) (Spiegel & Grau, 2011)
Dystopia. Something of a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s (1809-49) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. The novel begins as a realistic novel, but then the protagonist leads an all-black crew in Pym’s footsteps to the Antarctic, where they find, in addition to Pym still alive, not the blacks with whom Poe’s novel ends but white giants like Sasquatch or Yeti, who enslave them. Escaping they also find a painter who has escaped the U.S. to avoid taxes and is trying to create a eutopia that matches his paintings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rabbletown: Life in These United Christian States of Holy America - Randy Attwood (Smashwords/Kindle, 2011)
Religious dystopia that develops after a world-wide religious war. Fundamentalist Christians have replaced the U.S. political system with people serving for life and control all aspects of life. Rabbletown is where the poor live.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ramseyer’s Ghost - Manu Herbstein (b. 1936) (Author, 2011)
The novel is set in after the Third World War, which ended in a stalemate with the world now split between two powers, and the U.S. sends secret missions to Africa to find needed resources. One mission to Ghana goes missing, and an African American marine is sent to find it and arrange for its rescue. Ghana no longer has a functioning central government, and tribes have developed their own systems, including, where the protagonist lands, a local democracy.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author; South African author

“R-Complex” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2011)
A dystopia in which a theocratic dystopia is being opposed by a group of religious zealots with a different theocratic vision.
Originally published in Aoife’s Kiss, no. 37 (June 2011). Not found. Also published as a fourteen-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2016]. No longer available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (b. 1972) (Crown Publishers, 2011)
First of two volumes, the novel is set in 2044 where the world is generally dystopian, and many people escape into the eutopian virtual world of an extremely complex eutopian game where a person can be anyone they want. A film directed by Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) with a screenplay by Zak Penn (b. 1968) and Cline was released in March 2018. The second volume, Ready Player Two. A Novel. Penguin Random House/Ballantine, 2020. 370 pp. repeats most of the themes of the first novel centered on a different fame with some new characteristics. A film is expected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Reckoning: A Novel of the End of the United States - Seamus Branaugh (Silver Lake Publishing, 2011)
Survivalist dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

Resistance of a New America: The first 3 years of hell - [James] Percy Clay III (CreateSpace, 2011)
Dystopia in which the U.S. joins "other communist countries" and begins to take children to government camps. An additional chapter was published separately as R.O.N.A. (11 Months of torture). [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2011. PSt
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Revolt of 2020 - Dr. [James] Patrick Johnston [D.O.] (b. 1970) (Eloquent Books, 2011)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government tries to disarm citizens and impose the liberal agenda.  First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, The American Tyranny of 2020. Np: Xulon Press, 2011, is a dystopia brought about by those favoring abortion and the successful struggle by pro-life forces. In the third volume, The Uncivil War of 2020. Zanesville, OH: Right Remedy Publishing, 2012, the U.S. government suppresses the anti-abortion movement, a Coalition of Free Christian States secedes, and the U.S. invades. See also The Revolt Trilogy Workbook. [Zanesville, OH]: Right Remedy Publishing, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Robopocalypse. A Novel - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) (Doubleday, 2011)
Dystopia in which an Artificial Intelligence begins an attack on humanity, the remnants of which, located in Osage county, the center of the Osage Nation, fight back and appear to win. First of two novels followed by Robogenesis. A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2014 in which the apparently defeated artificial intelligence infiltrates many machine intelligences and the war is renewed.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition - Charles Eisenstein (b. 1967) (Evolver Editions, 2011)
Nonfiction that presents a new monetary system based on complete, public openness of all financial transactions and the gift economy that is expected to lead to the eutopia the author calls the Age of Reunion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Scorch City - Toby Ball (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
The second volume in alternative history dystopias about the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. In this novel, the Uhuru Community is a Black separatist shantytown community with utopian aspirations facing attacks from the people of the city after the discovery of a white woman’s body near the community. See also 2010 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Scrivener’s Moon. The Third Book in the Fever Crumb Series - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic, 2011)
Sequel to 2009 and 2010 Reeve. In this volume Fever Crumb becomes part of a Northern tribe planning to attack London, her home, and she must choose sides.
U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic Press, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Seed - Ziegler, Rob (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a collapsed environment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Sentence to Life: Pet project" - Igor Teper (Nature, 2011)
A flawed utopia in which the protagonist has been sentenced under the cybercrime laws to isolation from other people by not having a device the broadcasts information about him or one that receives information from others, including animals. A woman and a dog reintroduce him to the pleasure human interaction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadow of a Dead Star: Book One of The Wonderland Cycle - Michael Shean (b. 1978) (Curiosity Quills Press, 2011)
Dystopia of moral collapse. Sequels include Redeye. Book 2 of the Wonderland Sequel. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2013; and Gathering Ashes: Book Three of the Wonderland Cycle. Reston, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2016.. His Bone Wires. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2012 is a murder mystery set in the same future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Soft Apocalypse - Will[iam D.] McIntosh (b. 1962) (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a collapsing economy and social structure. Constant acts of biological terrorism, bombings, and so forth.
Based on the stories “Soft Apocalypse.” Interzone, no. 200 (October 2005): 18-25; and “Street Hero.” Interzone, no. 215 (April 2008): 40-47.
Keywords: Male author; US author

State of Mind - Sven Michael Davison (Bedouin Press, 2011)
Dystopia based around an attempt to control people’s minds through an implanted chip. Mostly adventure. First volume of a trilogy, followed by State of Union: Book Two of the God Head Trilogy. Tarzana, CA: Bedouin Press, 2012 in which mind control has been achieved; and State of Being: Book Three of the God Head Trilogy. Tarzana, CA: Bedouin Press, 2013 in which people manage to re-achieve personal control.
Keywords: Male author; US author