“One Rainy Day in a Circus Far Away” - Craig Cormick (Elsewhere: An Anthology of Incredible Places, 2003)
Dystopia where all the women have disappeared.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Other Cities - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) (Small Beer Press, 2003)
Collection of very short descriptions of imaginary cities. Given how short each description is, it is impossible to treat any single one as utopian, but collectively there are a number of utopian and dystopian motifs present.
All but one, "The City of Peace", were previously published; "The White City" was published in Vestal Review, no 9 (April 2002) [www.vestalreview.net] and the rest in Strange Horizons (September 17, 2001; October 15, 2001; November 19, 2001; December 17, 2001; January 21, 2002; February 18, 2002; March 18, 2002; April 15, 2002; May 20, 2002; June 17, 2002; July 15, 2002; August 19, 2002) [www.strangehorizons.com].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Out from the Darkness - Richard Thomas (Goodread Books, 2003)
Authoritarian dystopia as a setting for an adventure novel. The dystopia is one of a growing tyranny in Britain that treats its opponents as mentally ill.
Keywords: Male author

“Out of Plato’s Cave” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (Aphelion, 2003)
The story is set in a future where many people are living underground to escape radiation and is told from the perspective of a young boy with cancer who is attracted to the surface.
Rpt. in the author's J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia (Np: [J. Alan Erwine, 2016]), 64-69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Parecon: Life After Capitalism - Michael Albert (b. 1947) (Verso, 2003)
Non-fiction that includes a section on "Daily Life in a Participatory Democracy" (171-230) that is eutopian. See also 2017 Albert.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Passion for Dead Leaves: Third Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers - John David (b. 1955) (1st Books, 2003)
Dystopia. Third of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume is particularly concerned with the struggle against an Empire and a colonial system. See also 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Pillowman - Martin [Faranan] McDonagh (b. 1970) (Faber and Faber, 2003)
Dystopia focusing on a writer in a totalitarian state.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Project Utopia 2030 - R. Norman Johnson (1st Books, 2003)
A novel that sets the Christian conflict between good and evil in a high-tech future ending with Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.
Keywords: Male author

"The Rule of Terror" - Dominic Green (b. 1967) (Interzone, 2003)
Future dystopia of violence, mass suicide, environmental degradation, and state terror.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Saturn - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003)
A trip to Saturn from an Earth that is a religious dystopia. The religious leaders infiltrate the crew in an attempt, which fails, to establish the same regime on Saturn.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Say Hello to Jupiter: The Memoirs of BB Boris - Bouqueret, Boris (Xlibris, 2003)
A visitor for a future eutopian Jupiter stuck on the contemporary Earth comments on its negative features, particularly the environmental crisis, and compares it to the better Jupiterian system.
Keywords: Male author

Seventh Seal: A Novel of the Last Days - Jessica Draper; Richard Draper (Covenant Communications, 2003)
Dystopia of the end of the world in Revelations from a Mormon perspective. First volume of a trilogy. This volume introduces the subject. In the second volume, Rising Storm: The Seventh Seal Epic Continues. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004, natural and human disasters escalate. The final volume, Final Hour: The Dramatic Conclusion to the Seventh Seal Epic. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2004, volume takes the story to Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Sex Life. A Novel - [Gary] [Hardwick] (b. 1960) (HardBooks, 2003)
Flawed utopia. A high tech eutopia with a disease that kills if people don't have sex five times a day. Said to be the first volume of a trilogy.
Keywords: Male author

Singularity Sky - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Ace Books, 2003)
Eutopia and dystopia. A colony in space that had rejected modern technology is forcibly reintroduced to technology. A non-utopian sequel is Iron Sunrise. New York: Ace Books, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Soon: The Beginning of the End - Jerry B[ruce] Jenkins (b. 1949) (Tyndale House Publishers, 2003)
First volume of the Left Behind Soon Series, a spinoff from 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins. This series has been renamed the Underground Zealot Series. In this volume religion is outlawed. Sequels include Silenced: The Wrath of God Descends. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2004, in which the persecuted church has gone underground; and Shadowed: The Final Judgement. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2005, in which God intervenes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Cambrian Publications, 2003)
Eutopia and dystopia. Begins in the Amana colonies on the day of their becoming a joint stock company but has nothing else to say about the colonies. Family history from then into the near future. Future Hoboken is initially mildly dystopian and then is briefly partially transformed into a eutopia by the introduction of labor based money.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Stanley Cup Caper" - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) (The Toronto Star, 2003)
Dystopia. A future Toronto that exists in a divided Canada. High technology with heavy pollution. All North American cities are surrounded by huge security fences.
Rpt. in his Identity Theft and Other Stories (Calgary, AL, Canada: Red Deer Press, 2008), 127-30.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A State of Disobedience - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) (Baen, 2003)
Eutopia. Thinly disguised right-wing political tract. Includes a set of amendments to the U.S. Constitution including most of the goals of the U.S. far right.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Sunburnt Country - Andrew Sullivan (b. 1968) (Ginninderra Press, 2003)
Dystopia of a future Australia following an ecological catastrophe in which there is no rain for over thirty years. Australia disintegrates into city states, and Melbourne becomes an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Super Flat Time. Stories - Matthew Derby (Little Brown, 2003)
Dystopia. Linked stories about a period of violence and attempts to remember the past at stages of the future.
Parts previous published as “Home Recordings.” 3rd Bed, no. 2 (Spring-Summer 2000) http://calamaripress.com/3rdBed/3rd_Bed_Issues.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Behavior Pilot.” Failbetter (Brooklyn, NY), no. 5 Posted February 18, 2002; http://failbetter.com/05/Behavior%20Pilot.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; “Instructions.” 5 Trope, no. 13 (May 2002) http://webdelsol.com/5_trope/13/derby.htm. Accessed March 13, 2010; and “Sky Harvest.” Pindeldyboz 3 (Fall 2002): 1-6. “Joy of Eating.” Conjunctions; “The Father Helmet.” Fence; “The Boyish Mulatto.” American Journal of Print; and “Meat Tower.” Elimae (nd). http://www.elimae.com/fiction/derby/tower.html. Accessed March 13, 2010.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Surrender or Die - Brian Harding ([Author], 2003)
Dystopia and the beginnings of a better life. China attacks England with small nuclear bombs. After an initial surrender, England and other countries fight back and defeat the Chinese. The peaceful new world has few fossil fuels left, but begins to rebuild a simpler, better society.
Keywords: Male author

Terminator Gene - Ian Irvine (b. 1950) (Earthlight, 2003)
Ecological dystopia. Middle volume of three that the author wrote concerning ecological and related issues. See also 2000 and 2004 Irvine. This volume focuses on the dangers of a virus that could end all life on Earth.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

There Will Be Dragons - John Ringo (b. 1963) (Baen, 2003)
Technological eutopia in which all needs are met until the council controlling the technology starts warring against itself. Those who lived off the net provide the basis for rebuilding. Sequels include Emerald Sea. New York: Baen, 2004; Against the Tide. New York: Baen, 2005; and East of the Sun, West of the Moon. New York: Baen, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tomorrow Station" - Daniel Ksenych (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2003)
A world of multiple realities.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Twenty-First Century. A Novel - Bruce Schwartz (Park Avenue Press, 2003)
A terrorist attack leads to a new civil war in the US based on class and race. A central theme is the establishment of HOPE (With Housing and Opportunity comes Peace and Prosperity) Cities that were transforming the US ghettos into areas of opportunity; it was these twelve cities that were destroyed in the terrorist attack.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Under the Lunchbox Tree" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2003)
Set in the same milieu as 2000 and 2002 Kessel. A brief story of a girl growing up in the Society of Cousins. See also 2006 and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins The lunchbox tree is an image in L. Frank Baum’s (1856-1919) Ozma of Oz. Chicago, Reilly & Britton, 1907.
Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 164-76.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Untied Kingdom - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2003)
A disintegrating future U.K. with small communities using ancient traditions to try to maintain cohesion and stability with, at the end after many problems, the central community begins to revive.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Urinetown. The Musical" - Greg Kotis (Faber and Faber, 2003)
Dystopia in which all facilities for peeing are controlled by a large corporation in order to limit the use of water. The corporation kills those peeing outside their facilities. A revolt is successful but water begins to quickly run out.
Selections from the score were published as Urinetown. The Musical. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard, 2001.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Uterus Garden" - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Polyphony, 2003)
Problems in a largely dystopian future in which most people are infertile.
Keywords: Male author; US author

WAR or The World of Light (a fable of science fantasy) - Alex Babula (b. 1950) (Xlibris, 2003)
Eutopia with much fantasy. A man with extraordinary powers sets about to unite the universe and bring peace and prosperity. He succeeds but is opposed and must fight a war that destroys the universe.
Keywords: Male author

Welcome to Coolsville - Jason Mordaunt (Jonathan Cape, 2003)
Corporate dystopia set in Dublin with a number of subplots, one of which is a project to turn the inmates of a local prison into meek workers to work for the corporation.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Wellstone - Wil[lliam Terence] McCarthy (b. 1966) (Bantam Books, 2003)
Immortality and the problems it poses for the younger generation. Sequel to 2000 McCarthy. The third and fourth volumes in the series, Lost in Transmission (New York: Random House, 2004) and To Crush the Moon: Being the Final Volume in the History of the Queendom of Sol (New York: Random House, 2005) record the disintegration of any hope of a good life as the problems of immortality grow.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The X President - Philip E[dward] E[dward] Baruth (b. 1962) (Bantam Books, 2003)
Set in 2055 and various dates in the past. An ex-President, known as B[ill] C[linton], is 109. History is revised to avoid the dystopia and the war between the right and the U.S. government that has developed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Zero Calvin - Brian [J.] Cramer (iUniverse, 2003)
Future flawed utopia run by an artificial intelligence that has killed those who do not fit in. Arrival of a man from the past.
Keywords: Male author

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre. Director; Cut - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) (Grove Press, 2002)
A dystopia depicting the life of a male porn star from the points of view of his nine female directors. His, and everyone else's, reality is infinitely malleable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Albertine Notes” - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) (McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, 2002)
The dystopia brought about by a drug that brings back memories, good and bad, that was introduced after a major disaster meant that many people wanted to retrieve good memories.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Alienations" - David Murphy (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers’ Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of stories set in the near future. "Overload" (99-103) is set in a near-future dystopian Dublin; violence, poverty; anti-gay; corrupt police and politicians.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

All This Is So - John F. Roe (b. 1935) (Wakefield Press, 2002)
A complex novel set in a post-catastrophe non-technological society, some aspects of which can be read as dystopian and some aspects of which can be read as a flawed utopia.
Keywords: African author; Australian author; Male author; UK author

The American Praetorians. A Novel - Dennis C[arroll] Purdy (b. 1952) (Trafford, 2002)
A dystopia imposed on the U.S. by liberal policies, which include very high taxes, elimination of freedoms enumerated in the Constitution, and a weakened military, results in a new American revolution. The Praetorians motto is “A man who saves a nation, commits no crime.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

Becoming Death: Pilot Episode of Enemies of Society (The Future of Special Forces?). Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers - John David (b. 1955) (1st Books, 2002)
Dystopia. First of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, but in this volume one of the subjects is the dystopia brought about by a corrupt, dominant church. See also 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (Global Cyber-Visions, 2002)
Detailed eutopia in essay form based around the Venus Project. See also 1969 Keyes and Fresco, 1995, 2002, and 2007 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. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.
6th ed. Venus, FL: Global Cyber-Visions, 2013. 8th ed. Venus, FL: Global Cyber-Visions, 2018.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Big Brother Iron" - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Toast and other rusted futures, 2002)
Sequel to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which modern technology is used to successfully revolt.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Big Rock Candy Mountain" - Andy [Andrew Robert] Duncan (b. 1964) (The New Wave Fabulists, 2002)
Story based on the song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" apparently written by Harry K. McClintock (Haywire Mac) around 1905 based on earlier oral sources. The song is generally identified with the depression of the 1930s when it became popular. The story uses the basic motif of the song of a hobos paradise contrasted to the world outside.
Rpt. in his The Pottawatomie Ghost and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2012), 41-62, with an author's story note on 309-10; and in his An Agent of Utopia: New & Selected Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 141-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Bigger Fool” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
The story depicts a high-tech society based on slavery and a slave revolt.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Bike Tour" - Richard Register (b. 1943) (Ecocities: Building Cities in Balance With Nature, 2002)
A tour of a eutopian ecocity set a hundred years in the future. No cars, hence the tour by bicycle. Neighborhoods surrounding a central city. To get from the neighborhood to the city center, there is a bike and foot trail and a separate two lane, mostly underground, route for the few vehicles that are used. Buildings have plantings. Bridges between buildings, with some for both bikes and pedestrians and some just for pedestrians. Varied architecture with buildings linked by bridges, windmills, and solar collectors. Mentions ramps for handicapped. Neighborhood police stations throughout the city. Small businesses flourish. Ambulances are gurneys pushed by paramedics on roller skates.
2nd ed. with additional illus. and minor textual differences as Ecocities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature. Illus. by the Author (Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2006), 184-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“By the Way, Mom, I’ve Turned Gay” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
Satire in which a virus is released that temporarily turns men gay.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) (Ace Books, 2002)
The novel begins on an authoritarian dystopia on Earth and ends with a group of libertarian rebels settling a new planet. See also 2004 and 2005 Steele. His Spindrift. New York: Ace Books, 2007. U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007 is a first contact novel that uses the setting of the Coyote novels, and his Galaxy Blues. New York: Ace Books, 2008 is set in the same universe. Three novels that relate to and continue aspects of Coyote history are Coyote Horizon: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2009; part originally published as “Walking Star.” Forbidden Planets. Ed. Marvin Kaye (New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2006), 49-98; Coyote Destiny: A Novel of Interstellar Discovery. New York: Ace Books, 2010; and Hex. New York: Ace Books, 2011. A related story is “Tagging Bruno.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41 1 & 2 (492 & 493) (January-February 2017): 28-47.
Originally published in different versions as "Stealing Alabama." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.1 (300) (January 2001): 86-130; "The Days Between." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.3 (302) (March 2001): 14-34; "Coming to Coyote." Asimov's Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 92-135; Liberty Journals." Asimov's Science Fiction 25,10 & 11 (309 & 310) (October/November 2001): 128-42; "The Boid Hunt." Star Colonies. Ed. Martin Greenberg and John Helfers (New York: DAW Books, 2000), 70-94; "Across the Eastern Divide." Asimov's Science Fiction (February 2002); "Lonesome and a Long Way Home." Asimov's Science Fiction 26.6 (317) (June 2002): 76-96; and "Glorious Destiny." Asimov's Science Fiction 26.12 (323) (December 2002): 92-131. Copyright page notes that this story is completely unaltered.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Cricket on the Hearth" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (One More for the Road, 2002)
Dystopia of government spying.
Rpt. in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright, Donn and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 219-48; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010) 111-20.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dark Ararat - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 2002)
A continuation of his future history series; see 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, The Omega Expedition. This volume is about the settlement of a colony planet.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dawn of the New Man: A Futuristic Novel of Social Change - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) (Xlibris, 2002)
Sequel to 2001 Prugovecki. This volume continues the story of two countries described in the first volume, the libertarian Terra and the authoritarian FWF (Free World Federation). The citizens of the FWF are enslaved and the protagonist initiates a successful struggle to free them.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Design Your Own Utopia - Chaz [Charles] Bufe; [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (See Sharp Press, 2002)
Mostly a lengthy questionnaire intended to assist people thinking about utopia but includes short descriptions of a local eutopia or intentional community and a global eutopia. See also 1988 and 1994 Hubbard; and 2012 Bufe and Hubbard.
The text can also be found at http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Destiny Restored - Arthur M. Becker (Elderberry Press, 2002)
A near future dystopia in which the United States is collapsing and terrorism is common with hope for a eutopia held out at the end.
Keywords: Male author

Discarded Faces - Steve Cross (King Roy Publishing, 2002)
Authoritarian religious dystopia on another planet and the revolt against it. Hierarchical social structure with whites at the top. Gays and lesbians eliminated.
Keywords: Male author

"The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) (The New Wave Fabulists, 2002)
Satire on utopias and dystopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Eight-Moon Dollar" - Daniel Kaysen (Interzone, 2002)
Dystopia of corporate control. Corporate domination of everyday activities, with a stress on limited sexual activities.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Ersatz Nation - Tim Kenyon (Big Engine, 2002)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel world. Successful revolt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Escarpment - Bill Queen (SterlingHouse, 2002)
Alternative history that includes a flawed post-Civil War utopian community in the West.
Keywords: Male author

Evan's Land - Emlyn-Jones, Ben (Aldyth Press, 2002)
Dystopia of a future Wales fighting a civil war. Global dictator.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Everyone in Silico - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) (No Media Kings, 2002)
Dystopia set in Vancouver in 2036 and in Frisco, a virtual reality San Francisco that was created by a company after the real San Francisco was hit by an earthquake. The novel follows a number of characters struggling to make their way in a world dominated by corporations.
Rpt. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Feed - M[atthew] T[obin] Anderson (b. 1964) (Candlewick Press, 2002)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone is controlled by a transmitter implanted in their brain.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flowercrash - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) (Cosmos Books, 2002)
Fantasy flawed utopia set in the far future. Struggle to ensure the continuance of the good society.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Growing Young: An Old Man Who Suddenly Becomes Young Must Help the World Accept an Age Cure - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2002)
The title is a good summary. When a cure is found for aging, and a newly young man works to avoid the overpopulation dystopia that could result. The ending of the novel implies a sequel, but none has been published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Hardest Part" In "Nanonights. A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories by Authors from New Zealand" - Tim Elphick (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited, 2002)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“Hitman for a Day” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
Dystopia of a lottery in which the winner gets to kill one person told from the perspective of the one killed.
Keywords: African author; Male author

"Holy Terror" - Simon Sheppard (Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe, 2002)
Dystopian erotica. After a cure for AIDS is found, the Christian right decide that gays must be controlled. Women are used for breeding and men as slave labor and for sex.
Keywords: Male author

Hominids - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) (Tor, 2002)
Depicts a Neanderthal eutopia in a world where they became the dominant species. First volume of a trilogy; followed by Humans. New York: Tor, 2003 and Hybrids. New York: Tor, 2003.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“I am Four Years Old I Don’t Want To Be a Soldier” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
In the story, children as young as four are exposed to the horrors of war in the hopes that the memory will keep the world peaceful.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Impossible Bird - Patrick O'Leary (b. 1952) (Tor, 2002)
Flawed utopia. Perfection provided by aliens is found to lack the emotional connection humans need.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In Arcadia - Ben Okri (b. 1959) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)
The search for real and imagined arcadias with much discussion of the nature of arcadia and utopia from the perspective of contemporary dystopian times.
Rpt. London: Phoenix, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author; UK author

Inside the Rainbow: A Search for Solutions to Reality's Riddles - Eugene Goheen (Author, 2002)
Science fiction concerned with a new form of energy that will transform the world for the better and the earliest stages of its use.
Keywords: Male author

"The Invisible Empire" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (The New Wave Fabulists, 2002)
Dystopia in which an organization of women kill men who abuse women.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Its Hour Cometh" - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) (Talebones, 2002)
Dystopia describing future prisoner "rehabilitation".
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Kismet" - Malcolm Twigg (Writers of the Future. First Edition. devised by Pipers' Ash Limited, 2002)
Series of stories. "Floater" (123-28) is a dystopia that describes a penal colony. "Pacificalia" (133-41) presents a flawed utopia on Earth in which all needs are catered to, but the people spend all their time tied into the Vid-ex. Under the oceans are cities of mutated humans, also utopian but with only legends of "Topside".
Keywords: Male author

"Liking What You See: A Documentary" - Ted Chiang (b. 1967) (Stories of Your Life and Others, 2002)
Whether this suggests a eutopia or a dystopia is up to the reader. "Lookism", or prejudice against unattractive people, has been added to racism and sexism as a social problem and a solution has been found in a neurological treatment that ensures that "good" looks do not register with the viewer. A campaign to require the treatment at a college campus fails, but it does so as a result of the enhancement of a speaker against it, a speaker paid by the cosmetics industry.
Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 113-49.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author

Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Aspect/Warner Books, 2002)
An alternative history novel in which Africans are the slave owners and whites the slave in a North America, known as Bilalstan, which is divided among Zulus, Arabs, Aztecs, Vikings and Native Indians. The novel focus on the relationship between the Irish Christian Aidan O’Dere and his owner the African Muslim African Muslim, Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid. A sequel, Zulu Heart. New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2003. 463 pp. continues the story with O'Dere, now free, must accept being re-enslaved for the chance of gaining permanent freedom for himself and his sister while his former owner, now friend, struggles with the immorality of the slavery that underpins his status and wealth. A third volume was mentioned in a blog post in 2007 but has not been published.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Millennial Dream - [Paul] [Premsagar] (1st Books, 2002)
Series of eutopias and dystopias after death and on planets both more and less advanced than Earth.
Keywords: Male author

Mindful of Utopia - Merritt [Gold] Abrash (b. 1930) (1st Books, 2002)
Detailed anarchist eutopia by one of the founders of the Society for Utopian Studies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"MODYSSEY: An allegorical fantasy colour strip cartoon. The SS Modernismus Embarks on a Voyage to Discover the Mythical Land of URBANUTOPIA" - Louis Hellman (b. 1936) (Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement, 2002)
Cartoon satire on modernist utopianism.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Muezzinland - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) (Cosmos Books, 2002)
Dystopia set in Africa in the mid-22nd century. Struggle to escape from the dystopia and find/establish a better society connected with the African past.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"My Flamboyant Grandson" - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2002)
Corporate controlled, required consumption dystopia.
Rpt. in his In Persuasion Nation. Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 13-22.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"My Huckleberry Friend" - Ken Honeywell (Future Orbits, 2002)
Authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

Notable American Women - Ben Marcus (b. 1967) (Vintage Contemporaries, 2002)
Experimental novel which presents a dystopia in which silence is imposed on a family.
Parts originally published as “Woman’s Pantomime.” Bomb, no. 69 (Fall 1999): 91-93; “The Faiting Project.” Tin House 1.4 (Spring/Summer 2000), 189-92; “The Launch.” Conjunctions 36 (2001): 167-99; “A Message from the Father of Fathers.” Fence 3.2 (Fall/Winter 2000-2001): 170-81; “The New Female Head.” Harper’s 304.1820 (January 2002): 84-87; “Women’s Pantomime.” The Pushcart Prize 25 (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 2001), 248-54; “Literary Enhancement Through Food Intake: A Dietary Guideline for Reading.” McSweeney’s, no. 5 (2000): 165-74; and “The Name Machine.” McSweeney’s, no. 8 (2002): 77-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Omega Expedition - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 2002)
Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. See 1998 Stableford, the note there, and 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford, Dark Ararat. This volume is a sequel to 2000 Stableford and is about the life of the man who developed the technology that made immensely long life possible.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Onævia - William [John] Direen (b. 1957) (Alpha Books, 2002)
The history of a simple joyous eutopia destroyed by "civilization". The 2004 edition is substantially revised but tells much the same story. The cover of the 2002 edition describes this as the third volume of his "utopian trilogy" after "Wormwood." Sport (Wellington), no. 18 (Autumn [April] 1997): 53-119; and Nusquama. Auckland, New Zealand: Alpha Books, 2002, neither of which are utopias.
Rev. ed. Waimauku, New Zealand: Titus Books, 2004.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Opium of the People - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (Writers Club Press, 2002)
Theocratic fundamentalist dystopia that eliminates personal freedom.
Rev. ed. Denver, CO: Nomadic Delirium Press, 2007. This is an expansion of a story first published in Aphelion, no. 37 (July 2000) https://www.aphelion-webzine.com/shorts/2000/07/OpiumOfPeople.htm; and rpt. in his J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia (Np: [J. Alan Erwine, 2016]), 21-30. In the 2007 ed. the author says that there were two previous editions with the first edition published by ProMart Publishing “almost a decade ago.” Not found.
Keywords: Male author

The Peshawar Lancers - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) (ROC/New American Library/Penguin Putnam, 2002)
Alternative history novel in which Europe has been destroyed by a meteor shower in 1878 and in 2025 Delhi is the center of the Angrezi Raj (formerly the British Empire). His “Shikiri in Galveston.” Worlds That Weren’t. New York: ROC/New American Library, 2005 is set a bit earlier in the same future.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Political Officer" - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2002)
The story is set on a spaceship sent out by a patriarchal religious dystopia and emphasizes the divisions among the crew. The sequel “The Political Prisoner.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.2 (675) (August 2008): 44-113. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 280-326 with an editor’s introduction on 280 is located on Mars and is primarily concerned with conflicts among the powerful within the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Practical Utopia - John C[harles] Marple (b. 1926) ([Author], 2002)
Detailed eutopia stressing equality and democracy from the bottom up.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Promised Land” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
After the Confederacy wins the Civil war and secedes from the Union, it becomes a successful industrial country and finds slaves an incumbrance. They solve the problem by forcibly marching all the slaves into the western territories, purportedly to settle them on reservation, Instead, they slaughter them all.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Rebel Hearts - Daryl McCann (University of Queensland Press, 2002)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“The Redemption of Robert E. Lee” - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
After the South wins the Civil War, Robert in Lee plans to end slavery and is willing to start a second Civil War within the Confederate States of America to do so.
Keywords: African author; Male author

"Right to Life" - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) (Talebones, 2002)
Dystopia in which the few people who have jobs are generally free to do as they choose but jobless people who commit any crime whatsoever are executed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Scales of Justice" - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
The story depicts a new system of justice in which mass murderers are executed, brought back to life, and executed again until executed as many times as the number of people they killed.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Scar - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Macmillan, 2002)
Set in the same world as 2000 Miéville. In this novel, people fleeing New Crobuzon are captured by the piates of the floating dystopian city of Armada, which is made up of thousands of ships, and is planning to invade New Crobuzon. The Scar is a place where reality breaks down. See also 2004 and 2005 Miéville.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Scheme for Full Employment - Magnus Mills (b. 1954) (Flamingo, 2002)
Satire on a full employment scheme which collapsed due to internal conflict and because too many, from workers through supervisors, tried to manipulate it for their own benefit.
U.K. ed. London: Flamingo, 2003. Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2004. 256 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Scrunched Up" - Barton Paul Levenson (b. 1960) (Future Orbits, 2002)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Short Stories and Other Excuses - Ben Coulson (Vanguard Press, 2002)
Dystopia of death and destruction in related stories.
Keywords: Male author

The Sink: The Last Days of Driving - W[endell] Messer (b. 1939) (Breller Books, 2002)
Dystopia set in a future Canada where there is a revolt against bad behavior on the roads, which turns Canada into a much better place.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Snowball's Chance - John Reed (b. 1969) (Roof Books, 2002)
Sequel to Orwell's Animal Farm (1945) in which Snowball returns and brings capitalism to Animal Farm, with similar results as in the original.
Keywords: Male author

Son of France - Geoffrey Cush (b. 1956) (Vintage, 2002)
Dystopia. An alternative history in which <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region> settled <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:place></st1:country-region>. The novel focuses on a French officer who loves the scenery and comes to love a Māori woman.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; UK author

Songs of the Cockroach - Robert Kirby (1936-2007) (Spearhead/New Africa Books; Johannesburg: [Distributed by] Thorold's Africana Books, 2002)
Satire on a future South Africa with multiple themes and sub-plots but generally concerned with the corruption left over from the apartheid years.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

"Stories for Men" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2002)
Set in the same milieu as 2000 Kessel. This story gives more detail regarding the society described in the first story with the emphasis on an abortive male movement for more rights. See 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 243-301 with an editor’s introduction on 243; in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 85-163; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 199-280, with a note on the story on 570-571.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Orbit, 2002)
Satire on the rich and powerful in a future European Union.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Swiftly" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (SciFiction, 2002)
Dystopia in which the Lilliputians from Swift's Gulliver's Travels are slaves in a late nineteenth-century Britain, the Brobdingnagians have been hunted, and the Houyhnhnms are for sale. A French invasion led by the Brobdingnagians and with inventions from Laputa ends the system. A related story with the Lilliputians as slaves is his "Eleanor", which was first published in Swiftly (167-247).
Rpt. in his Swiftly: Stories That Never Were and Might Not Be (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2004), 1-34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tearaway - Phil[lip Neal] Cummings (b. 1957) (Random House Australia, 2002)
Sequel to 2000 Cummings set in the penal colony in which the people struggle successfully to free themselves.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives & Our World - Mark Allen (New World Library, 2002)
A self-help book that includes a chapter entitled “A Utopian Novel” (29-40) that introduces the theme of the book, which is community involvement. See his The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Living the Life of Your Dreams. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2003 for a scheme without the social content.
Keywords: Male author

A Time to Run - Colin Hudson (Rapture Books, 2002)
Dystopia of the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). Compare to 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins.
Keywords: Male author

The Towers of Eden - Ward Kendall (iUniverse, 2002)
In the future almost all people have been thrown out of work by automation with no plans or programs to deal with the situation. The novel focuses on a "humanitarian" former British army officer who works to provide an alternative to a proposed "final solution". See the note at 2001 Kendall.
Rpt. Np: Alternative Future Publishing, 2012. The 2012 ed. has no indication of an earlier publication.
Keywords: Male author

Transcension - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) (Tor, 2002)
Flawed utopia. A supposed utopia based on nanotechnology and ruled by an Artificial Intelligence. Outside the utopia but not necessarily better or worse is a religious community, "the Valley of the God of One's Choice," that has rejected technology. People from both join together and the conclusion suggests that they succeed in creating a eutopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

V.A.O. - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (PS Publishing, 2002)
V.A.O. stands for Victim Activated Ordinance and includes a variety of mechanisms designed to protect people. The focus of this novella is its use to protect the elderly and its misuse both to control them and by some old people to fight back.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 339-366 with an editor’s introduction on 339; in Cities. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Gollancz, 2003), 247-92; and as "VAO." In his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 62-100.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

Viaduct Child - Patrick Wood (Scholastic Press, 2002)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Poverty and violence.
Keywords: Male author

“Waiting for the Zephyr” - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction, 2002)
Climate change dystopia.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 101-05.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

The Watch: Being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST--as imparted to Dennis Danvers by Ancee Mahur, traveler from a distant planet, or A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) (Eos, 2002)
The present as dystopia seen through the eyes of one of the greatest anarchist theorists, the novel presents Kropotkin (1842-1921) mostly in Richmond, Virginia in 1999 struggling against the legacy of the Confederacy, particularly regarding class and race. Most chapters have one or more epigrams by Kropotkin, which, collectively, give an overview of his thought. Some have quotations about Kropotkin or relate to the chapter.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Welcome to the Old South" - John M[atthew] Faucette Jr. (1943-2003) (Black Science Fiction Stories, 2002)
A black couple moves from the Northeast to a small town in the South that has decidedly dystopian features.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Working the Game" - Michael Jasper (Future Orbits, 2002)
Dystopia. Physical separation of rich and poor. Poor being pushed further down by being replaced with androids.
Rpt. in his Gunning for the Buddha (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2005), 74-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Y: The Last Man - Brian K. Vaughan (b. 1976) (DC Comics, 2002)
A gendercide kills all men but one, and the graphic novel follows him in search of his lost girlfriend and the cause of the disease.
Originally published as issues 1 - 60 (2002 - 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2007: A True Story, Waiting to Happen - Robyn Williams (Hodder, 2001)
Animals revolt against human environmental destruction.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; UK author

2024: A Graphic Novel - Ted [Frederick Theodore] Rall [III] (NBM/Comics Lit, 2001)
A modernized, graphic novel redoing of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Abaza: A Modern Encyclopedia. A Novel - Louis Nowra (b. 1950) (Picador, 2001)
An authoritarian dystopia described in an encyclopedia, which had been put together from the notes and scraps of paper collected in Abaza prison by prisoners hoping to save knowledge of the country in face of the dictatorship's desire to destroy all knowledge of the past.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Aftermath: A Novel of Survival - Samuel C. Florman (b. 1925) (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Press, 2001)
Post-catastrophe novel exploring the possibility of building a technological eutopia in its aftermath.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American Empire: Blood and Iron - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2001)
Alternative history in which North America is divided among the Confederate States of America, the United States of America, the Republic of Quebec, and Occupied Canada in a very fragile peace. Sequels include American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2002 [the title is also given as The Center Cannot Hold but the full title is on the title page] in which the North is becoming Socialist after the defeat of the South; and American Empire: The Victorious Opposition. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003 in which the South has become a dictatorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The American Zone - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Tor, 2001)
A sequel to 1980 Smith, The Probability Broach, in which refugees from various authoritarian versions of the United States arrive in the Confederacy. Last in the North American Confederacy series, preceded, in publication order, by The Probability Broach (1980); The Venus Belt (1981); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Atlas - Dylan Horrocks (b. 1966) (Drawn & Quarterly, 2001)
Graphic novel in which an artist tries to tell the life of another artist who lives and draws in an authoritarian dystopia. Numbers 2 (Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2005), 1-23; and 3 (Montréal, QC, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2006), unpaged have the subtitle A Life of Emil Kópen. No. 3 ends with “To Be Continued,” but no more was published.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Blackrose Avenue - Mark [Robert Marky] Shepherd (1961-2011) (Yard Dog Press, 2001)
Dystopia of the religious right in power and the fight against it.
2nd ed. Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Blue Neon Iris" - Miles Parently (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 2001)
Dystopia. A society fixated on replaceable human body parts.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Crimson Dawn - Briarley, Derel (Paracosmia, 2001)
Young adult dystopia depicting evil and the return of good.
Keywords: Male author

Dark Millennium - Gerald James McManus (CeShore, 2001)
The novel follows the life of an ambitious white boy who becomes president of the U.S. with plans to conquer the world and eliminate all non-whites. A world government is created with the protagonist as President of Earth for life with a World Senate composed of other white leaders. Later they will be elected with voting limited to Caucasian college graduates. White women college graduates will be able to vote, but their primary role is defined as producing children. All non-whites and all Caucasians with “defective genes or had IQs below 90” were sterilized. An exception is made for Asians with an IQ over 140, who are not sterilized but are only allowed to reproduce with whites. These policies produce a eutopia by reducing the world’s population, cutting crime dramatically, and improving health and intelligence. See the author’s poem, “Crusade” at http://www.newnation.org/Archives/NNN-Guest-Column-26.html.
Keywords: Male author

"Ecovillage 2015: Algae, Giant 'Seashells', and Sustainable Culture" - Clearwater, Jeff (Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living, 2001)
Eutopian short story about an ecovillage in the future in which the ecovillage has developed quite a few biologically-based, sustainable technologies, most of which the author says are currently available. Little on daily life.
Keywords: Male author

Emergence - Ray Hammond (b. 1936) (Macmillan, 2001)
Corporate thriller set in the near future, which has dystopian elements.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Energized Gold: An Entrepreneurial Adventure in Business Finance Technology Mystery Money People Power & Pleasure. A Novel - David Fischer (Xlibris, 2001)
Fictional presentation of the author's views on the monetary system and entrepreneurship, which, if followed, will produce a much improved world.
Keywords: Male author

Event 16. An Original Screenplay. [A Science Fiction Thriller] Based on the original Screenplay 'History' - Derek Pearson (b. 1966) (Author, 2001)
No obvious relationship to his 1998 History and is more of a thriller than the other. Includes elements of a contemporary dystopia and the suggestion of a future eutopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Eyre Affair. A Novel - Jasper Fforde (b. 1961) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001)
The first volume of the alternative history Thursday Next series that has both utopian and dystopia elements throughout the series, which currently includes six additional books. In the world in which Thursday Next, the female protagonist, lives England is a republic, Wales is the independent “Socialist Republic of Wales,” and genetic engineering has brought back extinct species, such as the dodo a Neanderthals. Subsequent volumes are Lost in a Good Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002; US. ed. New York Viking, 2003; The Well of Lost Plots. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004; and Something Rotten. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2004; US. ed. New York Viking, 2004. Second series: First Among Sequels. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007; US. ed. New York Viking, 2007; One of Our Thursdays Is Missing. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011; US. ed. New York Viking, 2011; and The Woman Who Died a Lot. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2012; US. ed. New York Viking, 2012.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fast Eddie, King of the Bees - Robert Arellano (b. 1969) (Akashic Books, 2001)
Future dystopia set in Boston, Massachusetts. Rich-poor division. A street hustler is the hero.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Final Fantasy: The Spirits WithinTM - John [Blair] Vornholt [Jr.] (b. 1951) (Pocket Books, 2001)
Dystopia. Mostly adventure and war, but the background is a post-catastrophe earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Frankenberg Process" - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Interzone, 2001)
Authoritarian dystopia. Complete control of history with all record of those who get on the wrong side of the authorities deleted. The story stresses the betrayal of friends by those committed to the system.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Fray - Joss Whedon (b. 1964) (Dark Horse Comics, 2001)
The author created and wrote Buffy the Vampire series, and in some senses this is a grittier version of that set in a future Manhattan dystopia inhabited by vampires and various monsters and mutants. Rich versus poor with no one caring about the people of the slums. Young girl from the slums saves the day.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Free Lunch - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) (Tor, 2001)
Dystopia with a eutopian amusement park and the effort to save it.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Futureland - Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952) (Aspect/Warner Books, 2001)
Nine related stories set in a future dystopia. Of the stories, Whispers in the Dark,” “Doctor Kismet,” “Angel’s Island,” “Little Brother,” “En Masse,” and “The Nig in Me” are the most explicitly dystopian, and in all of them African Americans and the poor are the oppressed.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Galton Principle” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2001)
A dystopia in which the ideas of Francis Galton (1822-1911), who coined the word eugenics, have led to a totalitarian system in which anyone who does not meet the regimes genetic standards is sterilized or killed.
Originally published in The Stars* Anthology (March 2001). Not found.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Gamekeeper's Night Dog - Dave Putnam (Bulldog Press, 2001)
First volume in an alternative history series in which Britain wins the Boer War, which sets the stage for the development of the dystopia in the later volumes. The first three volumes constitute his Gamekeeper Trilogy. In the second volume, The World War. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2004, Britain invades Germany, Russia and other countries. In the third volume, 10 Downing Street. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2004, Britain dominates the world, but there is a conflict between monopoly capitalism and communism. Britain Uber Alles. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2006, the fourth volume, is a sequel to the trilogy set in the twenty-eighth century. Britain has dominated the world for centuries but war looms again. It ends with “To Be Continued,” but there is no evidence that it was.
Keywords: Male author

Generica - Will [William Stener] Ferguson (b. 1964) (Penguin Books Canada, 2001)
Satire. A self-help book that actually works is published and brings too much happiness.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"A Good Place to Raise a Boy" - Aidan Doyle (Orb Speculative Fiction (South Preston, VIC, Australia), 2001)
Dystopia. A complex story of colonization by humans who have forgotten their own past of gender and racial discrimination.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Green England" - David Redd (b. 1946) (Spectrum, 2001)
Sequel to 1989 Redd concerning contact between Green England and the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

A Halcyon Revolution - Will Edwinson (Femcor Press, 2001)
Dystopia of secession and civil war in the U.S.
Keywords: Male author

The Heaven Study and Lounge Book of Utopia - David Seedhouse ([Author], 2001)
A letter from the author accompanying the disk describes it as a eutopia, but the British Library does not have a program that will open the disk.
Keywords: Male author

Hold Back This Day - Ward Kendall (iUniverse, 2001)
Dystopia of required miscegenation. The author is described as a "pro-white activist", and the book has been called "The White man's 1984".
Keywords: Male author

Human Stock - Vaughan Whitlock (b. 1950) (Sid Harta Publishers, 2001)
Dystopia. A post-catastrophe novel in which women dominate men and create a slave society of clones. Revolt.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

Ice - Stephen Bowkett (b. 1953) (Dolphin Paperbacks, 2001)
The young adult novel, which takes place in a future ice age, is set in a flawed utopia called Perth controlled by an artificial intelligence known as the All Mother. The protagonist finds the place oppressive and in the sequels, Storm [The Wintering at the head of the title]. London: Dolphin Paperbacks, 2002, and Thaw [The Wintering at the head of the title]. London: Dolphin Paperbacks, 2003, he escapes and finds freedom in an extremely harsh world. In the third volume he returns to Perth to defeat the All Mother.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Kalik - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) (Longacre Press, 2001)
Fourth volume of a series. In this volume, the young man and a small group, mostly children, find a valley where they hope they will be able to establish a small farming community. See also 1997, 1999 and 2001 Lasenby.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Kingdom - Christopher A. Zackey (b. 1949) (The Rose & Lily Press, 2001)
Part fantasy, part religious allegory. After a future catastrophe all humans and elves disappear and animals are able to speak. The animals create a eutopia for themselves that is described as that after the end of the New Testament.
Keywords: Male author

Kingdom of Darkness: An Investigation into the Systematic Erosion of the Human Spirit - Michael Salt (Book Guild, 2001)
Near future dystopia brought about by Thatcherite [Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) UK Prime Minister 1979-90)] policies.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Jet-Engine Laugh - Ruchir Joshi (b. 1960) (Harper Collins India, 2001)
The novel is set in a future India that is developing as a military superpower, but the focus is on the relations among the characters rather than on the society.
Rpt. London: Flamingo, 2001. [Book jacket adds India 1930-2030: A Novel]. Part was originally published in Civil Lines (Delhi, India).
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

The Last Underclass - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2001)
Overpopulation dystopia set in 2152 where AI have taken over many jobs. Genetic engineering controlled by the wealthy, known as Achievers, who plan to transplant the personalities of the wealthy aged into the improved bodies of the poor, known as “Welfies”.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Legend of New Earth - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) (Australian Broadcasting Commission, 2001)
Eutopia with problems. Children's book. After earth was destroyed, humans settled Venus. Primitive but good life, but the cities dominate the countryside for the benefit of the rulers.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Man Over Mind: Control of the galaxy rests with the Minds--until one man rises against them - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2001)
Mostly space opera but the focus is a fight against the dystopia created by those who control the galaxy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Marcher" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2001)
A story in which there are various time lines that people can switch through. The one in which the story is set has interned all its welfare cases in large, isolated camps. A non-utopian sequel is "Watching the Sea." Interzone, no. 173 (November 2001): 40-45.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Megiddo - Paul Crouch (1934-2013); Cyhthia Cirile (Charisma® House, 2001)
The story of the Antichrist and Armageddon.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Memoirs of the Future - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) (Cross Cultural Publications, 2001)
Contrasting eutopia and dystopia set 350 years in the future. The eutopia is Terra, which has no government, operates on the basis of local decision-making, and uses an advanced internet for coordination. The dystopia, the Free World Federation (FWF), is an all-encompassing government that uses an advanced internet to monitor and control people. See also 2002 Prugovecki.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Mortal Engines - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic Press, 2001)
Dystopia. First volume of four young adult novels set in a future of “urban Darwinism” in which roving cities compete for survival and dominance. Sequels are Predator’s Gold. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2003. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003; Infernal Devices. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2005. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2005; and A Darkling Plain. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2006. U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2006. A collection of three related stories is Reeve, Night Flights. Illus. Ian McCue. Nw York: Scholastic, 2018. For an illustrated guide to the four novels, see Reeve and Jeremy Levett, The Illustrated World of Mortal Engines. Illus. London: Scholastic UK, 2018. See 2009 Reeve, Fever Crumb for the first volume of a series that is a prequel to this series. A film directed by Christian Rivers with a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson released in December 2018.
U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2003.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"New York's Transportation Future Is Coming Tomorrow. 1925 travels to 1950, and boggles" - Bruce McCall (b. 1935) (The New Yorker, 2001)
Satire on future transportation taking some ideas from 1925 and placing them in a eutopian 1950 New York. Illustrations with captions.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Park Polar - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (PS Publishing, 2001)
Ecological and corporate dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule) - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2001)
First volume of the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony. This volume begins after a global war when the International Organization of Women declares female superiority and a women’s revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Perfect Persecution. A Novel - J[ames] R[aymond] Lucas (Broadman & Holman, 2001)
Dystopia from a Christian, anti-abortion viewpoint. Abortion is common and an underground Christian movement rescues babies and fights abortion.
Keywords: Male author

The Pickup Artist - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Tor, 2001)
Dystopia in which artists, novelists, and other creative people are eliminated from the historical record, and all their works are picked up and destroyed. This is ostensibly to make room for new works.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Queen of Hearts" - Dominic Green (b. 1967) (Interzone, 2001)
Satire. The dystopia created by the worship of Princess Diana (1961-97).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Realtime - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) (ibooks, 2001)
Dystopian mystery novel set in 2050 when the U.S. has disintegrated.
Keywords: Male author

Red Heart - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) (Viking, 2001)
Children’s dystopia set in the aftermath of global warming.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; South African author

Requiem - Curtis White (b. 1951) (Dalkey Archive Press, 2001)
A dystopia showing the course of humanity from the Bible to the digital age, with some future projection.
Parts first published in Alt-X, Cyber Corpse, NY Press, and McSweeney's.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Second Contact - [Joshua A.] [Dann] (b. 1956) (Ace Books, 2001)
Earth contacts a planet inhabited by people very like themselves who have created a eutopia based on unlimited power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Skullier Than the Average Bod" - Christopher East (Challenging Destiny, 2001)
Dystopia. People given enhanced bodies in exchange for reduced intelligence.
Rpt. in Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001. Ed. Brian Youmans (Boston, MA: Suddenly Press, 2002), 31-41 with an author's note on 30.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Song of Earth - Hugh Nissenson (1933-2013) (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001)
A novel set in the future that follows the life of a boy who is genetically enhanced to be an artist, a few others so enhanced, his family and friends, and those who wish to exploit his talents. The setting is generally dystopian with a struggle between men and women; most of the main characters are gay.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Soul Twin - BoB B. Howson (Bastard Books, 2001)
Dystopia set in East Africa in 2100. Conflicts that are continuations of those of the late twentieth century. The possibility of a eutopian future is held out at the end.
Keywords: Male author

This Side of Paradise - Steven L. Layne (North Star Books, 2001)
Young adult dystopia. The Village of Paradise, operated by the Eden Corporation, is actually an authoritarian dystopia where the rage for perfection brings a high price.  See Paradise Lost. Gretna, IL: Pelican Publishing Co., 2011 for a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"To Love and Riot" - Eric Del Carlo (Sextopia, 2001)
Story with the somewhat implausible assumption that the perfect bodies created in the future will not have regular sexual outlets and will periodically riot. This requires a squad of sexual experts to quell the rioters by having intercourse with them.
Keywords: Male author

The Trench and Beyond - Ken Rowe (Minerva, 2001)
Young adult dystopia. Environmental catastrophe in 2013. People live in cities under water and in isolated spots around the earth, often in caves. Visits to other mentally advanced planets.
Keywords: Male author

"Undone" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2001)
Two conflicting utopias are presented, one stressing individuality and the other, called the Utopians, stressing social solidarity.
Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2001. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (New York: ibooks, 2002), 1-50.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia Closes. A Novel" - Fin Keegan (MFA thesis. Columbia, 2001)
Authoritarian dystopia. Ireland renamed Hibernia and is a police state.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; US author

The Vile Village - [Daniel] [Handler] (b. 1970) (HarperCollins, 2001)
Dystopian children's book. Volume 7 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The vile village is the rule-ridden V.F.D. (The Village of Fowl Devotees), which abducts some children (on the principle that "it takes a village to raise a child") and then requires the children to do all of the work of the village.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“What Weena Knew” - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2001)
A story about Weena from H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine. In the story Weena is a rare intelligent, inquisitive Eloi.
Rpt. without the illus. in his Strangers and Beggars (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2002), 166-80; and without the illus. in The Best of James Van Pelt (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 200-14.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“When the World is All on Fire” - William Sanders (1942-2017) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2001)
Dystopia of conflict between whites and Indians during a period of a rapidly growing white population and an environmental collapse.
Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 149-70, with an editor’s note on 149-51, 247.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Whole Wide World - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (HarperCollins, 2001)
A mystery novel with a dystopian future of constant surveillance on both the streets and the internet as the background.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2002.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Yes--Utopia!--we have the technology - Ron Cook (Author, 2001)
Detailed The eutopia that can be achieved if capitalism is abolished. All goods free to everyone means that peoples’ wants will change and people will choose to have fewer possessions. Less need to work and more leisure with extensive travel.
Keywords: Male author

2037 NZ: One Hell of a Paradise - Carl Hoffmann (b. 1922) (R S V P Publishing, 2000)
New Zealand as a eutopia in 2037 in which everyone has a basic income and works at what they enjoy. Open immigration to age 45 with good health and skills designed to raise population to make the country more viable economically. Some problems, such as bored teenagers, are noted.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Austrian author; Male author

2084 - Howard [E.] Carmichael (1st Books Library, 2000)
Dystopia of the U.S. in 2084 where feminism and an intrusive government conditions all aspects of life.
Keywords: Male author

2084: The Year of the Liberal - David L. Hale (Elderberry Press, 2000)
Fairland is a supposedly liberal eutopia that is actually a dystopia with a woman as dictator. See 2003 Hale for a sequel.
Keywords: Male author

Angry Young Spaceman - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) (No Media Kings, 2000)
Set in 2959. An authoritarian earth is contrasted with a eutopia inhabited by eight-armed beings.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Appendix. Edilia, or 'Make of it what you will'" - David [W.] Harvey (b. 1933) (Spaces of Hope, 2000)
Appendix to his book on the power of the utopian imagination in which he sketches out his own utopian vision. The collapse of the world economy is followed by a period of harsh repression by the military and a revolution. After the revolution a eutopian society is created centered on a federal system that begins at the "hearth" or a small collective living arrangement. Environmentally conscious but using new technologies where possible. For a design research project inspired by Edilia, see Ifea Troiani, “Eco-topia: ‘Living with Nature’ in Edilia, Iceland.” Illus. Journal of Architectural Education 67.1 (2013): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2013.767129.
U.S. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 257-81.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Aquarius Rising - John Bown (b. 1924) (Hamilton, 2000)
Satire on a future corporate controlled U.K. set in 2030. The focus of the novel is on the opposition.
Keywords: Male author

"At Bud Light Old Faithful" - M[ichael] Shayne Bell (b. 1957) (Interzone, 2000)
Satire on the commercialization of national parks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

ATM - Matthew Fuller (ShaKe Editions, 2000)
Dystopia of a collapsed future Britain.
Keywords: Male author

"Auspicious Eggs" - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2000)
Satire on the Roman Catholic Church, which practices the Sacrament of Terminal Baptism (killing those incapable of reproducing) and requires everyone to copulate when most fertile. The church has a copulatorium that is used for the Sacrament of Extramarital Intercourse with anyone who is fertile if one's partner is not.
Rpt. in Witpunk. Ed. Claude Lalumière and Marty Halpern (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), 26-49; in his The Cat’s Pajama’s & Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 111-32; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 161-78; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 161-78; in his Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 202-21.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Automatic Living - Outhwaite, Paul (DM Publications, 2000)
Dystopia of the New Right in which people are controlled by the media and law.
Keywords: Male author

"Bad Dream" - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Spectrum SF, 2000)
Dystopia of the European Union in twenty years still dealing with British nationalism, with Britain fighting for and winning independence.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Better Job" - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) (The Coming Day and Other Stories, 2000)
Eutopia. A new Garden City, much more radical and egalitarian than the previous ones, is established in defiance of the government of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bikini Planet - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) (Orbit, 2000)
Satire. Mostly dystopian with the standard naive visitor from our day to the future, but there are some eutopian possibilities suggested. A sequel is Space Wasters. London: Orbit, 2001. 339 pp., and it begins in what appears to be a paradise in which the protagonist makes the mistake of finding it boring and hopes something happens. The rest is mostly intrigue and adventure.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Breakaway - Phil[lip Neal] Cummings (b. 1957) (Random House Australia, 2000)
Young adult dystopia divided between those who live in the Towers and street people. The novel focuses on a boy who has to leave the Towers and join a street gang when his father is arrested. This results in both he and his father being sent to a penal colony in space. See also 2002 Cummings.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

But n Ben A-Go-Go - Matthew Fitt (b. 1968) (Luath Press, 2000)
Future dystopian Scotland. An excerpt from a forthcoming sequel to be called Kaledonika, was published as "Criggie." Nova Scotia: New Scottish Speculative Fiction. Ed. Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson (Edinburgh, Scot.: Crescent Press, 2005), 191-99. Written in Scottish dialect.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Candle - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Tor, 2000)
Future dystopia in which almost every person is controlled by a central computer, with control relaxing at the end and the end of the novel. Develops from his Orbital Resonance. New York: Tor, 1991; and Kaleidoscope Century. New York: Tor, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Collapsium - Wil[lliam Terence] McCarthy (b. 1966) (Random House, 2000)
Flawed utopia. First volume of four set in the far future "Queendom of Sol" where technology has provided immortality and riches. The second volume (see 2003 McCarthy) is the most explicitly utopian of the volumes. The third and fourth volumes, Lost in Transmission (New York: Random House, 2004) and To Crush the Moon: Being the Final Volume in the History of the Queendom of Sol (New York: Random House, 2005) record the disintegration of any hope of a good life as the problems of immortality grow.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 2000.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Coming Day" - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) (The Coming Day and Other Stories, 2000)
A dystopia presented through a number of episodes that illustrate corporate and political corruption.
Keywords: English author; Male author