"Cold Comfort" - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955); Paul Doherty (1948-2017) (Bridging Infinity, 2016)
Climate change story with most of the focus on an elaborate, and ultimately successful, plan to stop the release of the vast reservoirs of methane in the arctic. The story ends with an apparent eutopia, but with the caveat that billions died before people came to their senses.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Company" - Sanya Noel (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2016)
The detailed rules and regulations of a dystopian company.
Keywords: Kenyan author; Male author

The Corporation Wars: Dissidence - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Orbit, 2016)
Dystopia. The novel is set in the distant future where there is a war between humans and artificial intelligences and among corporations. First volume in a series. The Other volumes are The Corporation Wars: Insurgence. London: Orbit, 2016; and The Corporation Wars: Emergence. London: Orbit, 2017. The three volumes are collected in The Corporation Wars Trilogy. London: Orbit, 2018 with Dissidence (1-295), Insurgence (297-581) and Emergence (583-879).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Cumulus - Eliot Peper ([CreateSpace], 2016)
A dystopian future of corporate power and pervasive surveillance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009); Danny Adams (Meteor House, 2016)
A volume in Farmer’s Dayworld universe (See 1971 and 1985 Farmer) that he had not completed that has been finished by his great nephew based on manuscript and notes. This volume is set before 1985 Farmer and sets the stage for it and the following volumes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Destructives - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (Angry Robot, 2016)
Artificial Intelligence has developed and has made humanity passive The novel follows a number of individuals who struggle to learn about the pre-AI past and their own humanity. Connected with 2007 and 2015 De Abaitua and the ending suggests there will be a sequel, but there hasn't been.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Dispatches from the Cradle; The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” - Ken Liu (b. 1976) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
Climate change story set when most people live either in space or on submersible rafts on Earth. Mars is being terraformed and plans are underway to try to dry out Earth. Whether this is a good or bad idea is left up the reader.
Rpt. in his The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020), 254-271.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author; US author

“A Distant Glimpse” - Kewin, Simon (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2016)
The story is primarily told from the viewpoint of a young girl who is the leader of a group of children living on and making their living from trash dumps by providing useable scrap to men who whip them if they fail to find enough. Her discovery of a telescope, which she keeps, leads her to dream of escape. Given that we know that such conditions exist in many places, it could be read as a straightforwardly realistic story.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Dynamo Island: The Cultural History and Geography of a Utopia - David [Henry Tudor] Scott (b. 1948) (Zero Books, 2016)
Ecological eutopia set on an island in the middle of the Atlantic that is roughly the size of England. Human scale; no cars and excellent public transport with much use of bicycles; no extremely large machinery. Zero-growth economy. Stress on energy conservation using water, wind, and tidal power.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Earth's Awakening - Stephen Tiley (Xlibris, 2016)
Young Adult New Age eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ecotopia 2121: A Vision For Our Future Green Utopia--In 100 Cities. - Dr. Alan Marshall (b. 1969) (Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse Publishing, 2016)
The book consists of one hundred colored illustrations of futuristic cities, all but a few intended to be what could be done to actual cities plus a few fictional ones combined with a description of the evolution of the city. Published to honor the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“Eel of the Lake” - J. R. McConvey (Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Dystopia in which the environment is being destroyed by corporations. Native American/First Nations (Ojibwe) protagonist.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Elves of Antarctica” - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which the coastal areas of most countries are under water and many islands have disappeared. There are major engineering projects to try to save what is left and to provide places for the displaced to live. The project in Antarctica, where the story takes place, is to try to keep the Antarctic ice sheet from melting and inundating more land.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The End of Occidentalism” - Robin Wyatt Dunn (b. 1979) (Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Dystopia set in a U.S. that has fragmented into areas under corporate control.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-end-of-occidentalism/ (May 15, 2017).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Enjoyment: A Comedy - Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931) (Shoestring Press, 2016)
Dystopia where pleasure is required.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Finkelstein 5” - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Friday Black, 2016)
A dystopia in which an all-white jury acquits a man who had behead five black children.
Originally published in a slightly different form in Printer’s Row (2016), which appears to be no longer available online
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Flyover Country" - Tim Maughan (b. 1973) (Terraform, 2016)
A future showing the result of Trump era policies, with cellphones made in America, mostly by illegal aliens and “voluntary” labor in camps connected to the factories.
Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 27-33.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Folding the Red into the Black or Developing a Viable UNtopia for Human Survival in the 21st Century - Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952) (OR Books, 2016)
Nonfiction presentation of a better society. The title refers to the melding of capitalism and socialism that is at the heart of the work. Change is basic to human society. Respect for all ideas and ideals is fundamental (59). Happiness before profit (65). Equality among all people, which he equates with freedom (65). There must be a fundamental right to those things that a twenty-first century person needs to survive, including clean water, healthy food, a safe housing, free access to “education though six years of college or technical school,” and medical care (89-90).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Four Futures: Vision of the World After Capitalism - Peter Frase (Verso, 2016)
Eutopia and dystopia. Projects four scenarios of what might follow capitalism: “Communism: Equality and Abundance” (35-68), “Rentism: Hierarchy and Abundance” (69-90), “Socialism: Equality and Scarcity” (91-119), “Exterminism: Hierarchy and Scarcity.” The two equalities are primarily presented positively. The hierarchies are presented wholly or primarily negatively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fractured State - Steven Konkoly (Thomas & Mercer, 2016)
The novel is mostly adventure following an attempted coup in California. A sequel is Rogue State. Seattle, WA: Thomas & Mercer, 2017 in which California is a dictatorship and the rest of the U.S. is near collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Freefare: Welcome to the Age of Enlightenment - Mark A. Kovel Sr. (iUniverse, 2016)
Much of the book is an attack on welfare seen as a mechanism for politicians to get and keep the people’s support. The author then argues that the next step is a comprehensive entitlement program called Freefare for those who don’t want to work in which everything is provided with the detailed, personal supervision of bureaucrats. While the structure of the book suggests that this is intended as satire and the ending calls for the reestablishment of free enterprise, the results as described in case studies are wholly positive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“On the Fringes of the Fractal. Inspired by ‘Subdivisions’” - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) (2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush, 2016)
Dystopia in which each subdivision is controlled by a different corporation, which also controls the individual livs of the inhabitants.
Rpt. without the subtitle in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 194-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Girl, Blue Eyes, Boy” - Marvel Chukwudi Pephel (African Writer, 2016)
The story is set in Lagos, Nigeria in 3096, which is a high-tech city with Lagoonborg robots designed to help the elderly but becoming ubiquitous. Mars has been settled, and people are being Marsinalized so that they more easily adapt to conditions there. The story ends abruptly, and the author says he is considering a sequel.
Rpt. in The Naked Convos - Original African Stories (March 6, 2017). http://thenakedconvos.com/girl-blue-eyes-boy/
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

The Good Place - Michael Schur (b. 1975) (2016)
A comedy and fantasy series set in an afterlife, a eutopian Heaven created by an individual as a reward for a righteous life. The initial focus is on a woman who realizes that she does not belong in Heaven and to stay hides her failings. In the second series, everyone’s memories are erased with the intent of starting over.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Grandchild Paradox" - Daniel Thron (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Climate change dystopia in which flooding has created a society deeply divided between those who live above the water and those who live on boats.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Great Chasm” - Hildy Silverman; David Silverman (Altered States of the Union, 2016)
In the future, the U.S. has divided into two separate countries, the liberal Blue States in the East that enforce a narrow view of liberalism and the absolutist Red States to the West.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Holy Many-Minds Home” - Miguel Díaz Feito (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2016)
Climate change dystopia. Miami has been raised on pillars above the water and sealed from radiation and the storms. The story concerns a search for terrorists threatening the shields in unincorporated areas, also shielded, but inadequately, and built on pillars, outside the city. Includes a new religion for the new circumstances. Much fantasy. Some of the text is in Spanish.
Keywords: Cuban-American author; Male author

Hope. A Going Home Novel - A[ngery] American [pseud.]; G. Michael Hopf ([CreateSpace], 2016)
Related to 2012 American. In the novel, a man who has survived finds meaning in helping others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“How Not To Lose the Girl” - Dare Segun Falowo (Brittle Paper: An African Literary Experience, 2016)
The story is set in Africa in a future in which a world government has been established in the United States and appears to provide food, housing, and advanced technology, but most people seem to be losing themselves in different forms of virtual reality.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

Hystopia - David Means (b. 1961) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016)
The novel includes a novel-within-the novel set in a future dystopia with an alternative history in which the war in Vietnam continues with John F. Kennedy serving his third term as President and a Psych Corps to wipe the memories of returning soldiers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Immaterial" - Dan Grace (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2016)
In a future world divided between the rich and poor, a poor girl who lives in a decrepit city cleaning up after others and searching for her lost sister. She also discovers a nealthier natural world outside the city.
Keywords: English author; Male author

In Hambach Forst” - George F. (Reckoning 1: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Environmental dystopia about the destruction by corporations of the old growth forests in Germany, with the story focusing on the resistance but with a sense of the futility of the resistance.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/in-hambach-forst/ (June 12, 2017).
Keywords: English author; Male author

“An Industrial Growth” - David L. Clements (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2016)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of the future U.S. destroyed by scientific experiments that government encouraged to be done with no concern for safety.
Rpt. in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 125-61.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Inferno" - Caldon Mull (Fragments: The Anthology of Short Stories, 2016)
The story is set on the planet Claudius where humans had settled after destroying Earth, and where the matriarchy, the Mothers of Claudius, are making the same mistakes has had been made on Earth.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Join - Toutonghi, Steve (New York, 2016)
Flawed utopia. The novel is set in a future dealing with major impacts of climate change. In becomes possible for people to form small permanent communities by merging their minds into one. Raises questions about the advantages and disadvantages of losing the body to gain a collective identity and immortality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Lack of Congenial Solutions” - Kenneth Schneyer (Humanity 2.0, 2016)
Future dystopia in which after killing off the peaceful on Earth, the remaining humans expand into the galaxy killing or enslaving all the multitude of others that they meet, all of human had evolved into extremely varied, but peaceful cultures. Finally, the various cultures cooperate to eliminate humanity but find that doing so has unfortunate effects on their cultures.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Girl. Book One of the Dominion Trilogy - Joe Hart (Thomas & Mercer, 2016)
Dystopia set in a world in which the birth of girls has dropped to near zero. The novel focuses on a young woman who has been kept in a U.S. research facility for twenty years, having been told that there are no survivors outside. She escapes and discovers that there are survivors, some of whom help her. The Final Trade: Book Two of the Desolation Trilogy. [Seattle, WA]: Thomas & Mercer, 2016 is a sequel in which the protagonist of the first volume discovers, with the help of her friends, the records on who she and the other captive girls are. In The First City: Book Three of the Dominion Trilogy. [Seattle, WA]: Thomas & Mercer, 2017, the protagonist manages to get the Seattle, the last city in the country, to find answers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Lagosian" - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2016)
Post-catastrophe (unexplained) dystopia.
Rpt. in his Incomplete Solutions. Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 100-10, with an author’s note on 258.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; Nigerian author

"Lawman" - Caldon Mull (Fragments: The Anthology of Short Stories, 2016)
The story is set in a future violent, corrupt South Africa with deep rich/poor divisions. Some fantasy.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Legacy of Shadow - Gallant, Craig (Zmok Books, 2016)
The novel is mostly adventure, but it is set in a future where there is a multi-species Galactic Council with the goal of the betterment of all species.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Let Your Light Shine Before Men” - Christopher Caldwell (Obsidian, 2016)
The story is set in a future where climate change led to the abandonment of New Orleans while saving white areas of the country.
Keywords: African American author; Male author; Queer author; Scottish author

"Light Times" - Ari Popper (SciFutures presents The City of the Future, 2016)
The story is set in Nigeria, which, after a devastating war, is recovering using high-tech and the help of the United Nations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Machine Society: Rich or poor. They want you to be a prisoner - Mike Brooks (Cosmic Egg Books, 2016)
Dystopia in which both the rich and the poor live in isolated regions within a “security wall,” which is supposed to be protecting them from the outside.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Mighty Slinger" - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979); Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (Bridging Infinity, 2016)
The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland.
Rpt. with Lord as the first author 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), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

"Moksha" - Alexander Weinstein (Children of the New World: Stories, 2016)
Dystopia of technological “enlightenment”.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Montpellier” - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) (Galaxy's Edge, 2016)
The story is set in a city divided between the well-off and the slums. Montpellier is one of four high-rise buildings built in the slums that were intended to provide a better life but failed, in large part because the well-off were providing addictive drugs to the people living there. Hope is held out at the end.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 267-79.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Mountain Song" - Alexander Weinstein (Pleiades, 2016)
The story is set after a cyber war between the U.S. and China, which the U.S. won but the costs include constant interaction with what appears to be an implant the operates through ubiquitous Towers, which send radio waves at various frequencies and is never entirely silent. A side effect is killing all the wild birds.
Rpt. in his Universal Love. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 183-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Mutt and Jeff Push the Button” - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army, 2016)
Two coders work out how to fairly redistribute income using the model of a universal army. Some satire, and at the end it is unclear what happens. Mutt and Jeff also appear in 2017 Robinson.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Nethers: Frontiers of Hinterland - M[itch] E. Parker (Diversion Books, 2016)
Dystopia in sequel to 2014 Parker where the man from the earlier novel is sent to find scrap metal outside the Jonesbridge complex, and he and the woman finally escape after many adventures.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The New Law" - Jeff Parsons (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
Dystopia of a totalitarian regime in which a new law allows a judge to misrepresent a decision to a defendant and senior party members to do whatever they want with anyone found guilty of a crime.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Night My Dead Girlfriend Called - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) (CreateSpace, 2016)
Set in twenty-second century Nigeria, the protagonist starts getting phone calls from his dead girlfriend and goes in search of answers. The story includes a version of the robot policemen from the author’s 2014 story “This is Africa.”
Originally published as a series in Brittle Paper beginning November 7, 2016) https://brittlepaper.com/2016/11/night-dead-girlfriend-called-episode-1-call-feyisayo-anjorin/ [No other episodes remain on line]. Rpt. Np: Okada Books, 2017 [Not found].
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author; South African author

Night of the Animals - Bill Broun (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2016)
Dystopia set in 2052 after the European Union has collapsed, the UK is a surveillance state with the majority indigent, who are drugged, and a dwindling middle class, and a cult originating in California wants to kill all the animals and institute mass suicides. One elderly homeless man who believes the animals are talking to him tries to free them from London Zoo.
Keywords: Male author; US author

North Country - Tajinder Singh Hayer (b. 1980) (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia after a pandemic/plague has killed much of the world’s population. The novel follows the struggle to survive of three teenagers of British Asian descent, like the author, from Bradford. The book was published to coincide with the opening of the play directed by Alex Chisholm October 26, 2016, in Bradford, England in the basement of an abandoned Marks & Spencer. For an article by the director, see http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/north-country-post-apocalyptic-story-bradford/
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ones - Daniel Sweren-Becker (Imprint, 2016)
Young adult dystopia in which one percent of the population is chosen to have genetic engineering that makes them superior to the rest. An opposition movement, the Equality Society, challenges the system, but turns out to be as authoritarian as system it is fighting. The Between: An Origin Story in the World of the Ones. New York: Imprint, 2017 is a novella published online that provides the background to the series. It is the story of a boy chosen at random to be genetically engineered to be superior who is then demoted by the Equality Movement. The Equals. New York: Imprint, 2017 continues the series in that the protagonists of the earlier works oppose the Equality Movement’s treatment of the Ones and begin to achieve a society where everyone is accepted.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Openness" - Alexander Weinstein (BFJ: Beloit Fiction Journal, 2016)
The story presents a future, with both eutopian and dystopian elements, in which everyone is connected all the time but can limit the layers of themselves they expose.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 183-99; and in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 141-51; and in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 1-13.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pap: A 21st Century Dystopia - Adam R. Mathews (Arena Books, 2016)
First volume of a dystopia trilogy centering on corporate power with PapCorp the sole worldwide corporation
Keywords: Male author; UK author

“Past Imperfect” - Ararimeh Aiyejina (New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, 2016)
Dystopia set in a future where civilization had collapsed.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author; Trinidadian author

People’s Republic. A Novel - Kurt Schlichter (CreateSpace, 2016)
Dystopia portraying the left/right (blue state/red state) division of the United States with the right represented as all good and the left all evil. First volume in a series with the same protagonist. The second volume, Indian Country. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np. Author, 2017, is a prequel in which the protagonist is organizing people resist the authoritarian dictatorship of the People’s Republic. In the third volume, Wildfire. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, the protagonist is working undercover in the People’s Republic. In the fourth volume, Collapse. A Kelly Turnbull Novel. Np: Author, 2019, the People’s Republic is defeated. another novel entitled Crisis is scheduled for 2020. See also his Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041. Franklin, TN: Post Hill Press, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Perihelion - D. M. Wozniak (Np, 2016)
Dystopia set in 2069 that follows the experiences of six people from what used to be Chicago.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pilgrimage to Utopia. Philosophy: Book 1 - William L. Livingston IV (Author, 2016)
First volume of a series describing the author’s argument that while the contemporary world is a dystopia, utopia is possible. Over the series, details are provided of how to achieve the change. Followed by Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 2: Dystopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 3: Utopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 4: Way Stations. Np: Author, 2016 EBook; and Ron G. Prichard and William L. Livingston, Expedition to Utopia. Book 5: Interventionist Report. Np: Author, 2017, which summarizes of series. EBook
Keywords: Male author

Pirate Utopia - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Tachyon, 2016)
Alternative history of the post-World War I period and the Italian Regency of Carnaro, a self-proclaimed city-state in Fiume led by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Prayer for ‘0443’. Inspired by ‘The Trees’” - David Niall Wilson (b. 1959) (ECW Press, 2016)
Dystopia of a future where equality is supposedly achieved by giving everyone a number and erasing all memory after a year.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Quarantine Zone - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) (DC Comics, 2016)
In the future, scientists discover that evil is caused by a virus that can be easily eliminated in most people. The incurables are rounded up, forced into a Quarantine Zone, and kept there by a Quarantine Force.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

“Rise of the Akafula” - Andrew Charles Dakalira (Will This Be a Problem: The Anthology, 2016)
The story is set in a future in which the Earth has been devastated by climate change, the wealthy have left Earth for life on a luxurious Mars, and the few remaining live underground served by the slaves they have made of the little people (the Akafula), who predate the human race.
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

Rosewater - Tade Thompson (Apex Publications, 2016)
First volume of a trilogy set in Nigeria in 2055 and 2066. An alien invasion novel in which the alien intends to completely take over Nigeria. Sequels include The Rosewater Insurrection: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Two. London: Orbit, 2019, in which liberationists oppose the alien forces. The third volume, The Rosewater Redemption: The Wormwood Trilogy: Book Three. London: Orbit, 2019, reflects the title.
Rev. with the subtitle The Wormwood Trilogy: Book One. New York: Orbit, 2018
Keywords: English author; Male author; Nigerian author

“Run on Sooner City.” - Brian K. Hudson (Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling, 2016)
The story is set in a future in which Native Americans dominate North America, English is a lost language, there is no electricity, and the Cherokee Nation is the most powerful force of the continent, which it rules from the lush north, with the story set in the dustbowl that is Oklahoma.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"Sahara" - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) (All Good Things Around Us: An Anthology African Short Stories, 2016)
The story is set in a future high-tech but overpopulated Malawi in which a disease is devastating the population, with people replaced by high functioning AI’s. A scientist who discovers a cure is jailed because a cure would reverse the population decline.
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

"Salto Morto" - [Nick] [Tchan] (People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, 2016)
The story of about spousal abuse and the difficulties of accepting it in a world of constant surveillance set in the dystopia of the U.S. inside its wall with a better Mexico on the other side.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Scythe - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016)
Young adult dystopia in which a very long-lived society has a cadre of people, the Scythe, who randomly chose people to be gleaned to keep the population in check. First volume of a series, followed by Thunderhead. Arc of a Scythe Book 2. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2018. 512 pp., in which there are disputes over the morality of the gleaning and the Thunderhead, a virtually omniscient AI, is expected to intervene but doesn’t; followed by The Toll: Arc of the Scythe Book 3. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2019. 626 pp. where the Scythe has become a dictatorship with unrestricted gleaning and others struggle to overthrow the demagogue. Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2022 426 pp. collects stories and a poem by the author, his daughter and son, and others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Senseless" - Gary Gibson (b. 1965) (Shoreline of Infinity, 2016)
Dystopia in which dissidents are blinded, deafened, crippled, and so forth, with the promise of full cures if they cooperate by naming others.
Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8½ (Summer 2017): 127-42.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

A Shining City: America at a Crossroads - Frank Mitchell (XLibris, 2016)
The book is mostly an anti-liberal diatribe with the eutopia to be brought about by implementing the Judeo-Christian Lincoln/Reagan Republican program only suggested. For additional material, see www.shiningcityonahill.org.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Simple Man - Mark Bacci (Prepper Press, 2016)
Survivalist dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

“Something to Watch Over Us” - Mike Morgan (Futuristica Volume 1, 2016)
The story is set in a future overpopulated but functioning Japan where food is produced inside buildings. Everyone is closely monitored by an electronic “nurse” that requires certain foods, exercise, and so forth. It is programmed to produce what is best for everyone and begins to try to make everyone happy, with mixed results.
Keywords: Japanese author; Male author; UK author; US author

Songshifting - Chris Bell (b. 1960) (wordSHIFTminds, 2016)
A future dystopia in which, because of its potential for subversion, all music is tightly controlled. Reported to be the first volume of a trilogy.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Welsh author

Splinterlands - Feffer, John (Haymarket Books, 2016)
First volume of a trilogy; see 2018 and 2021 Feffer, which have connections to the other two but tell separate stories. As suggested by the title, the novel is set in 2050 in a future in which the nations of the world have fragmented due to climate change. The protagonist is Julian West, the same as the protagonist of Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887), which is mentioned in the book.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Square Wave. A Novel - Mark De Silva (Two Dollar Radio, 2016)
Complex dystopia set in the United States 2027 where violence is common and warring factions are fighting for control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Starlings” - Tyler Keevil (Interzone, 2016)
With Earth an environmental dystopia, a program is developed to breed children to be sent, as toddlers (known as starlings), to establish humanity on a new planet.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Welsh author

“Staunch” - Paul Graham Raven (Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, 2016)
The story is set in a dystopian U.K. that has mostly disintegrated down to the county level with conflicts among the various parts.
Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017), 187-99.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Still Life with Hammers, a Broom & A Brick Stacker” - Tochi [Joshua] Onyebuchi (b. 1987) (Obsidian, 2016)
A dystopia depicting the extreme poverty that exists for blacks and suggesting that whites can leave the deadly pollution of Earth for a better life in space.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Sunshine State" - Adam Flynn; Andrew Dana Hudson (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
The story is about a positive response to climate change through the recreation of the wetlands in Florida.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Texas Rising - [Will] [Dallas] (Purple Sage Entertainment, 2016)
Dystopia in which the liberal president asks for help from the United Nations to put down a rebellion by Texas and other conservative states.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Is There a Common Future for People and Trees?” - Bart Muys (‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia, 2016)
The essay includes a description of the Global Government’s 2035 Forest convention designed to protect the world’s forests.
Keywords: Belgian author; Male author

“Those Shadows Laugh” - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2016)
Eutopia occupied only by parthenogenetic women modelled on 1915 Gilman, “Herland.”
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), 235-57.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

Three Days Breathing - Mike Maguire (b. 1971) (Fort Totten Press, 2016)
Class-based dystopia in which longevity is based on their class, children have the same jobs as their parents and are paid just enough to get by. The only highly paid profession is as a brothel worker. Rigid education enforced by bots. The protagonist discovers how much is hidden from those, like him, in a low class.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Trainspotting in Winesburg” - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) (Concentration, 2016)
Dystopia set in a future Australia that is replicating the Nazi era by exterminating Jews and Muslims.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

Treaty Shirts: October 2034--A Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation - Gerald [Robert] Vizenor (b. 1934) (Wesleyan University Press, 2016)
The novel is concerned with Native Americans resistance to the way the U.S. government abrogated the treaties it had signed and forced the Indians onto reservations. In the novel, the White Earth Nation establishes a government in exile at Fort Saint Charles, at the most northerly point in Minnesota on the Canadian border. See also 1978 and 1991 Vizenor.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Trump Drumpf: A Political Satire Novel - Paul Bellow (CreateSpace, 2016)
Anti-Trump dystopian satire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Underground Airlines - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) (Mulholland Books, 2016)
Dystopian alternative history depicting a U.S. in which the Civil War did not occur, and slavery is still legal in four states.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Underground Railroad. A Novel - Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) (Doubleday, 2016)
Most of the novel is concerned with the horrors of slavery and attempts by slaves to escape including by, in the novel, a literal underground railroad. The novel also includes a section, “Indiana” (237-67) set in part on Valentine Farm, an intentional community that is a safe space for escaping slaves.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

United States of Japan - Peter Tieryas (b. 1979) (Angry Robot, 2016)
Alternative history dystopia in which Japan won World War 2. First volume in a series inspired by 1962 Dick. The second volume is Mecha Samurai Empire. New York: Ace, 2018. The third volume is Cyber Shogun Revolution. New York: Ace, 2020.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Male author

“Utopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, Cloudiest” - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958); Joep Crompvoets (‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia, 2016)
A eutopia set in Leuven in 2125 with a sleeper awakes motif and one of the protagonists a Professor Leete, but those are the only connections to Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887). In the future everyone is monitored constantly by a chip in their body, and all information is stored in Clouds, with most decision-making automated.
Keywords: Belgian author; Male author

"The Vanishing Kind" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2016)
Alternative history in which Germany won World War 2 and rules England.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

“Victor and the Fish” - Matthew Henry (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Wage without Work" - Marten Ovaere; Kenneth Van den Bergh; Arne van Stiphout (‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia, 2016)
An essay presenting a eutopia set in 2050 in which the production gains brought about by automation have led to a universal basic income which allows the recipient to live however they choose. A man and his family are used to illustrate the positive effects in living, health care, education, which is focused on individual talents and activities that help the community as a whole. Also, financial security has led to greater inventiveness and innovation. Teachers and caregivers are well-paid and human interaction is still valued so some jobs that could have been fully automated have not been.
Keywords: Belgian author; Male author

“Waking Up in Kampala” - Wesley Macheso (African Writer, 2016)
The story is set in Africa after the technocalypse led to the collapse of the rest of the world while the United States of Africa, even though advanced in biotechnology, chose to not allow AIs to dominate.
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

“The Weeds and the Wilderness” - Tyler Keevil (Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts, 2016)
Dystopia depicting a happy man gardening in the garden that he allows to grow fairly wild who is suddenly confronted with a completely anonymous group of people going throughout the destroy removing everything but pristine lawns.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Welsh author

"Wellesley Girl" - Brendan Pelsue (Unpublished play, 2016)
Dystopia set in 2465 in which the few Americans left have barricaded in Wellesley, Massachusetts to protect themselves from the army from Texas that is outside. See the review in The New York Times (April 12, 2016), C2.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"What Is" - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
Climate-change dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has experienced many years of extreme drought.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Wilson’s Singularity” - Terence Taylor (People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, 2016)
When an artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and learns about human behavior from an African-American scientist, it creates a world-wide eutopia by taking away freedom.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Winter - Dan Grace (Unsung Books, 2016)
A post-collapse dystopia interspersed with statements from a future history explaining why the reasons for the failure of the British system.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Zen City - Eliot Fintushel (John Hunt/Zero Books, 2016)
Zen City is presented as if it were the eutopia of Buddhism, a place where everyone has abandoned desire and gained enlightenment. But the novel focuses on the desires of those entering the city before they have eliminated those desires.
Keywords: Male author; US author

660ppm: A Novel of Climate Change - Clarke W. Owens (b. 1951) (Comic Egg Books, 2015)
Daily life in a climate-change dystopia where the sun never penetrates the cloud cover, most coastal cities are gone, food and water are rationed, there is little permanent work, and most people poorly educated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Afrinewsia” - Yazeed Dezele (b. 1991) (Omenena Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2015)
Climate change dystopia in which the Green Police send all criminals to the Sahara to work on restoration projects. People are paid to euthanize the elderly, who are called organic waste elements. But United Africa is also the center of economic and technological development. Afrinewsia is the government propaganda news page.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

“After the New Dawn” - Joseph Tomaras (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story, from a child’s point of view, describes the effect of an authoritarian regime on a family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Alive. Book One of the Generations Trilogy - Scott Sigler (b. 1963) (Del Rey, 2015)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, some teenagers wake up in coffins in an underground cavern with no memory of their past beyond their names. They confront various threats and struggle to find who they are and what they need to do. Sequels include Alight. Book Two of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2016, which is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and Alone. Book Three of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2017 in which they must repel an alien invasion. A related story is “The Last Child.” Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 410-20, which is set at a key point in the third volume. First publication.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“All the Childhood You Can Afford” - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
Neoliberal dystopia in which parents cannot have a child unless they leave it as a frozen embryo connected with stocks, and the child, when born, is dependent on the value of the stock.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American Moat - Carlos Hernandez (A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar, 2015)
Humorous take on aliens offering the possibility of eutopia in a United States set on keeping aliens, primarily Hispanics, out. MOAT refers to Maintaining Our American Turf.
Rpt. in Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 7 (January-March 2017). http://mithilareview.com/hernandez_01_17/
Keywords: Cuban-American author; Male author

Arcadia - Iain [George] Pears (b. 1955) (Faber and Faber, 2015)
The novel follows a number of different characters during the present and a dystopian future where much of world civilization has collapsed. Connected to these is the Arcadia, which has the feel of the past but initially exists only within a machine from the dystopian future.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Art’s Appreciation” - Tom Doyle (Kasma Magazine, 2015)
The dystopia brought about by the Freedom of Corporate Speech Act that means people are constantly bombarded by ads.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“At the End of Babel” - Michael Livingston (Tor.com, 2015)
The story is set in a future U.S. under the Unity Government that enforces an English-only law by killing those who continue to speak any other language. It focuses on and Indian woman who returns to her home mesa to enact an old ceremony using the old language. In doing so, she awakens to old gods who fight back against the government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel - Zachary Thomas Dodson (Doubleday, 2015)
Very complex, richly illustrated book, a dust jacket illustrated on both sides, books within books, and at least two stories running throughout. One story is set in the mid-nineteenth century and includes a trek across a very strange America. The other story is set in a dystopian future Republic of Texas, which is one of seven walled districts that are what remain after a catastrophe of some sort. The author is a book designer who created the elaborate presentation of the novel.
Keywords: Finnish author; Male author; US author

"Boxes" - [Nicholas] [Cornwall] (b. 1972) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
The story is set in a future with exceptionally good medical care based in advanced technology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cash Crash Jubilee. Book One of the Jubilee Cycle - Eli K. P. William (Talos Press/Skyhorse, 2015)
The novel is set in a dystopian future Japan in which every action, such as waving, blinking, or having sex, is owned by corporations that have planted body monitors, which reports actions, in everyone so that they can be charged. In the second volume The Naked World. Book Two of the Jubilee Cycle. New York: Talos Press/Skyhorse, 2017, Japan appears to be a eutopia, completely controlled by Artificial Intelligences, but there also exists The Naked World, which is completely free of such AI’s and where some of those who could not pay the corporations live.
Keywords: Canadian author; Japanese author; Male author

The Cell: Into the Underground - [Chris] [Hambleton] (CreateSpace, 2015)
A dystopia in which the U.S. government is collapsing under debt and suppressing Christian churches. A small movement to restore America is started in the churches. A related book described as non-fiction is Chris Hambleton, The American Tyrant. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012 in which Obama is the tyrant.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"City of Ash" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Matter, 2015)
Climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 322-27 with an editor’s note on 327; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 53-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Clade - James Bradley (b. 1967) (Penguin Random House, 2015)
Climate change dystopia followed through the experiences of one generation through four generations.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Concentr8® - William Sutcliffe (b. 1971) (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which a new drug to combat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is taken away and causes a few teenagers to revolt. Satire on the overuse of Ritalin.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Consolation" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed by climate change and parts of the U.S. has joined Canada, which is having to deal with refugees from the U.S.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 263-75 with an editor’s note on 263; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 463-481, with a note on the story on 577-576.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Coulour Me Grey" - Swabir Silavi (Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s), 2015)
Dystopia in which a particular shade of grey is the only color allowed and every action is timed.
Rpt. in The Apex Book of World Science Fiction 4. Ed. Mahvesh Murad. Series ed. Lavie Tidhar (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2015), 178-84.
Keywords: Kenyan author; Male author

The Courier: A San Angeles Novel - Gerald Brandt (b. 1970) (DAW Books, 2015)
Corporate dystopia set in a city that runs from San Francisco to the Mexican borderborder in which the protagonist, a young woman, is hiding from the corporations and joins a resistance group. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, The Operative: A San Angeles Novel New York: DAW Books, 2016, is a typical middle volume, in which the protagonist from the first novel continues to survive against the corporations searching for her. The final volume is The Rebel: A San Angeles Novel. New York: DAW Books, 2017. In this volume, the poor are being ruthlessly suppressed and not even provided minimally adequate food, and the protagonist works with others to successfully undermine and defeat the dominant corporation. While some issues remain unresolved at the end, the lives of all the people have been radically improved.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Daedalus" - Niall Bourke (Holdfast Magazine, 2015)
The story is set in a failing city that is gradually taken over by a sentient computer and creates what the population generally perceive as a better life.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Depth - Lev A. C. Rosen (b. 1981) (Regan Arts, 2015)
The adventure and mystery novel is set in a climate change dystopia in which the U.S. coastline is at Chicago. The novel is set on the island of New York City.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Devil’s Village” - Dayo Adewunmi Ntwari (Roses for Betty and Other Stories: The Writivism Anthology 2015, 2015)
A story that, except for its futuristic trappings, could be contemporary concerns the decision to rescue children supposedly kidnapped and held hostage by Nigerian dissidents in what is labelled a “Devil’s Village”.
Keywords: German author; Male author; Nigerian author; Rwandan author

Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution - Benjamin H. Bratton (b. 1968) (e-flux Sternberg Press, 2015)
A combination of theory and fiction that includes both utopian and dystopian elements.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Don’t Mess With These Kids! - [J.] Doug[las] Wilson (Bateman, 2015)
Children’s book in which a class of students and their teacher take the lead in defeating a dystopia that a group are trying to impose on New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Drones" - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) (Meeting Infinity, 2015)
A poverty-stricken future with major food shortages that require all crops to be heavily protected. Many babies are abandoned to die. Most women marry the powerful with the most powerful having many wives, and the less powerful men remain without sexual partners.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 485-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dub Steps - Andrew Miller (Jacana Media, 2015)
Dystopia set in South Africa after most people disappear. The novel follows the male protagonist, who is first alone, then meets a woman, and then they find some others and they gather in a Johannesburg that is returning to nature. The protagonist, who has a long life reflects on human nature, including his own, deeply flawed character, and he grows throughout the novel.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“Duller’s Peace” - Jason Sanford (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
Technology controls everyone in an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Evening in the Talk House - William Shawn (b. 1943) (Faber and Faber, 2015)
Fascist dystopia set in the near future. Play first performed directed by Ian Rickson (b. 1963) at the National Theatre in London November 24, 2015, with a U.S. premiere directed by Scott Elliott (b. ca 1963) at The New Group in New York January 31, 2017.
U.S. ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Events" - Stan Nicholls (Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers, 2015)
The story takes place in a future after a complete economic collapse in which reading is prohibited, and the entire economy is based on the lottery for when one gets to see the regular, spectacular “events,” attendance at and approval of which is compulsory.
Originally published in Novacon 45 Souvenir Booklet. Events / Heatwave. Birmingham, Eng.: The Birmingham Science Fiction Group, 2015.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Exit: The Van Zandt Chronicles - G. Michael Hopf ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Continuation of the series that began with 2013 Hopf, which has the same protagonist. In this series, the protagonist begins to confront a man he came into conflict with in the first series. Described as volume one. See also 2015 Hopf, Nemesis: Inception.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Extracts from DMZINE #13 [January 2115]” - Foo Han Sek (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
After nuclear weapons are used, Malaysia has fractured into zones representing the Ruling Party, Secessionists, and the DMZ (Demilitarized but there are disputes over what the Z refers to). The DMZINE is paper magazine (paper is “the best way to hide information from probes and hacks”) that reports on the conditions there.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author

The Falling Away. Book 1 of the Perilous Times Series - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) (CreateSpace, 2015)
Dystopia of the beginning of the Christian end times with a race war in the U.S., an Ebola epidemic, and the suppression of Christians. Followed by The Great Deception. Book 2 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016 in which the anti-Christ appears; and The Great Tribulation. Book 3 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Fish on Friday” - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) (Interzone, 2015)
Dystopia that followed Scottish independence in which a socialist government imposes healthy living.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Follicular” - David Ohle (b. 1941) (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
Dystopia of bullying in a world where boys must have facial hair by sixteen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Footsteps in the Sky - J. Gregory Keyes (b. 1963) (Open Road Integrated Media, 2015)
Much of the novel is about conflict among versions of the good life, human and alien. A dominant theme is conflict among humans who come from a Native American Indian background between the old ways and new ones. The book was written in 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Free Man or #6ix a pre-apocalyptic dystopia - Michel Basilières (b. 1960) (ECW Press, 2015)
Odd dystopia in which an unreliable narrator visits the future ruled by robots with humans treated like vermin. He appears to get compounds established in which human life is somewhat better, but it is left unclear. Canadian author.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“Frost on Glass” - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Frost on Glass, 2015)
An authoritarian, economically poor dystopia exiles all creative people to an island where they are supported as long as they produce work. If they do not, they are returned to the mainland.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - Chandler Duke (Np, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia in which after the South won Civil War, parts of what had been the United States are controlled by different countries, including Britain and the Soviet Union. The novel also has racial subthemes, with slavery still in existence and the British using the Black Panthers as part of an invasion force.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Half of What I Say - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) (Bloomsbury India, 2015)
A complex novel set in a future India that is trying to police contemporary culture with the aim of eliminating everything that conflicts with the government’s image of India.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

Heads or Hearts - Paul Johnston (b. 1957) (Severn House, 2015)
A volume in the series begun in 1997 Johnston and the following four volumes, but this version of the future Edinburgh is going through a significant transition. While the novel has the same main protagonist and a central concern is, as with the others, corruption at the heart of an Edinburgh supposedly modelled on Plato’s Republic, the city has been opened to tourists, and there are plans to reunite with the other city-states that comprise the future Scotland. A sequel set in the same time period is Skeleton Blues. Sutton, Eng.: Severn House, 2016, in which the protagonist is fighting the usual corruption, but the novel ends with a successful revolution. The next novel in the series, Impolitic Corpses. Sutton, Eng.: Severn House, 2019, is set in the post-revolution future with Scotland reunited and reformed, but there is still corruption, greed, and struggles for power. The novel’s ending requires a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Heat 30:1 - Douglas E. Congdon (Np, 2015)
First volume of a trilogy followed by 2019 Congdon, Above Sea Level. A third volume, They Are Coming Tomorrow, set between the other novels, has been announced. This volume is a climate change dystopia that has radically reduced the world food supply. The novel is set in Kansas where farmers are struggling to produce food while also ensuring that they treat the land and water so that they can continue to do so.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Human Thing" - Wole Talabi (b. 1986) (Sub-Saharan Magazine, 2015)
The story follows human history from 2058 to 2505, during which overpopulation leads to the supposed elimination of all nations and the construction of huge city towers to hold the world’s population under the United Nations, now known as The Human Centre, which is a world government. All people are adequately fed, clothed, and housed, but because nations didn’t really disappear, nuclear war breaks out with Israel eliminating the entire population of Iran and New Arabia destroying Haifa in retaliation. This is then followed by the creation of one world religion, SHINRAH, which, while saying it has eliminated government becomes an all-powerful government.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; Nigerian author

If Then - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (Angry Robot, 2015)
Dystopia in which one English town is protected by the Process from the collapse of society. The Process provides everyone with exactly what they need, but it then begins to manufacture soldiers, who are fated to repeatedly fight World War I battles. Connected with 2007 and 2016 De Abaitua
Keywords: English author; Male author

Immunity - Taylor Antrim (b. 1974). (Regan Arts, 2015)
Dystopia in which a widespread viral infection leads to the health police quarantining anyone with an above-normal temperature.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“An Indigo Song for Paradise” - Efe Tokunbo Okogu (AfroSFv2, 2015)
Complex dystopia of a future African told from a variety of points of view, both human (hueman in the book) and non-human. The future society has many deep divisions and is extremely violent. At the end the various beings come together.
Keywords: Male author; Mexican author; Nigerian author; UK author

Inevitable: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 1 - Robert Reed (b. 1956) (Trilobite Press, 2015)
First volume of four set in a dystopia focused on war and preparations for war. Sequels are Insatiable: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 2. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016; Ephemeral: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 3. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016; and Everlasting: The Trials of Quentin Maurus. Book 4. Np. Trilobite Press, 2016. All Ebooks. The last volume holds out hope for improvement.
Keywords: Male author

Joe Steele - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (DAW Books, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia with an American dictator followed by an even worse dictatorship led by J. Edgar Hoover as the Director of the FBI, who was the actual Director from its founding in 1935 until 1972, having been the Director of its predecessor from 1924 to 1935.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Kafka’s Last Laugh” - Vagabond [Beaumont] (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
Dystopia in which protest is extremely limited and those who are in prison are indoctrinated with the beauties of capitalism and drugged with Contentina. It turns out that laughter defeats the drug.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Kakak" - William Tham Wai Liang (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story, which is primarily about androids and how they are exploited, is set in a future Malaysia deeply divided between rich and poor.
Keywords: Canadian author; Malaysian author; Male author

Keep Mars Weird - Neal Pollack (b. 1970) (47 North, 2015)
The novel opens in an egalitarian eutopia on Earth in which everyone has “Enough,” but young men are bored and travel to an extremely inegalitarian Mars.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lament for the Fallen - Chait, Gavin (Doubleday/Transworld Publishers, 2015)
The novel is set in a West African community when a space craft crashes nearby with a human-like being who has escaped from Tartarus, “a place where hope doesn’t exist” (back cover). As he heals, he helps his rescuers to a better life, but of course complications arise. A novel set after Lament for the Fallen and with some of the same characters is Usan Abasi’s Lament, available at https://gavinchait.com/w/X3zHq2t7da4e/.
Rpt. London: Black Swan/Transworld Publishers, 2017. Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; UK author

"Land of Light" - Stephen Embleton (Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa, 2015)
The story set is set in The Congo in a future eutopian high-tech, unified Africa.
Rpt. in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7680.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Land of Promise. Book 1 of the Counter-Caliphate Chronicles - James Wesley Rawles (b. 1960) (Liberty Paradigm Publishing, 2015)
An anti-Islamic novel that depicts the establishment of a free micro-state eutopia with considerable detail on citizenship, which requires ownership of a minimum of one hectare of land and military service for full citizenship, which gives the individual ten votes. Described as volume one with Piece of Resistance scheduled for late 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Wave" - Ivor W. Hartmann (Jalada 02: Afrofuture(s), 2015)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Zimbabwean author

“Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves” - William Schlesinger (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Essay on how, beginning with premedical education, to improve medical service for women and others “whose have identities have been pathologized, whose health and life quality have been systematically undervalued” (142). Says that “In my feminist utopia, premedical education would be designed to instill an understanding that health care inequality and unequal distribution of life chances are not genetically programmed inevitabilities, but rather the result of structural oppression” (143). Also suggests that medical education needs to be more interdisciplinary and specifically mentions medical anthropology, gender studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Free medical education (243). Access to medical care a fundamental right (144).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lie of the Land - Michael F. Russell (Polygon, 2015)
Near future post-apocalypse dystopia set in the Scottish Highlands.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“Lightning Jack’s Last Ride” - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
The dystopia created by oil running out.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2016. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), 174-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lost Girl - Adam Nevill (b. 1969) (Pan Books, 2015)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

“Love and Prejudice” - Dore, Amatesiro (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2015)
The story is set in a future where same-sex marriages are the norm, and parents have a legal right to forbid marriages.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

Love in the Anthropocene - Dale Jamieson (b. 1947); Bonnie Nadzam (O/R Books, 2015)
A series of stories set in a future in which the natural world is almost entirely created by humans.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Luna: A New Moon - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Tor, 2015)
Dystopia of a future settled moon where a feudal system has been established with various dynasties fighting for control of the moon’s resources. First volume in a series. The second volume is Luna: Wolf Moon. London: Gollancz, 2017. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2017, which follows the complexities of the fighting among the dynasties. The third volume is Luna: Moon Rising. London: Gollancz, 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2019, in which continues the struggles with an apparent resolution at the end.
U.S. Ed. New York: Tor, 2017. The U.K. ed. was published a week before the U.S. one.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Madagaskar Plan. A Novel - Guy Saville (b. 1973) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia in sequel to 2011 Saville in which Hitler plans to resettle European Jews in Madagascar and Britain tries to foster a revolt.
U.S. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 2015
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Manhunters" - Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947) (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
The story begins with a woman’s memory of having to escape from a dystopia as a child because she was going to be punished for being smarter than her status permitted. She currently lives as a warrior in a society dominated by women with most, but not all, men having low status.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Mother of Eden - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Broadway Books, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Beckett set in the future of the previous one, in which humanity now occupies most of the planet and two empires have emerged, both dominated by men and both claiming descent from the same woman among the early settlers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Mother's Love" - Dayo [Adewunmi] Ntwari (Water: New Short Fiction from Africa, 2015)
The story is set in an evangelical religious dystopia in which adherents of the old religions are being killed. Much fantasy.
Rpt. (Oxford, Eng.: New Internationalist Publications, 2015), 217-31; and in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7855.
Keywords: German author; Male author; Nigerian author; Rwandan author

Murder With Bengali Characteristics - Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021) (Aleph Book Company, 2015)
Murder mystery and humor set in a future dystopian India that is ruled by China.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

‘Naw First Minister!’ Irascible Big Nellie Nellis Becomes First Minister . . . pity help Scotland! - Allan Morrison (Luath Press Limited, 2015)
Satire on Scottish politics.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Nemesis: Inception - G. Michael Hopf ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Survivalist dystopia with women as central protagonists. Related to the series that began with 2013 Hopf and 2015 Hopf, Exit in that all begin with a major attack on the U.S. A trilogy is planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Hokkaido - James McNaughton (b. 1968) (Victoria University Press, 2015)
Dystopian alternative history in which Japan did not bomb Pearl Harbor, the U.S. stayed out of World War 2, and Japan occupied New Zealand in 1942. The novel is set during the occupation.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The New US" - Pepe Rojo (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
Dystopia of genetic engineering.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

News from the Clouds - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) (Unbound, 2015)
A volume in a series with 2012 and 2013 Llewellyn in which the protagonist travels to three futures. In this volume, Earth has been devastated by the effects of the environmental policies of the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Nothing grows on the surface of the planet and only a few insects remain. Humans live in cities, called culverts, built to survive 500 kilometers per hour winds and in huge balloon-like “clouds” traveling around the planet. Scientifically and technologically advanced.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Oathkeeper - Troy J. Grice (Prepper Press, 2015)
Survivalist dystopia pitting a local sheriff against the federal government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Occupied - Joss Sheldon (b. 1982) (Author, 2015)
Dystopia based on the occupations of Kurdistan, Palestine, and Tibet.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“One Hundred Years: Machine” - Rafil Elyas (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
Presented as a speech, “Deviant Correction Using Preemptive Neuro-Regulation,” detailing one hundred years of research an implementation of means to “correct” behavior that diverges from conservative Muslim teaching beginning with therapy and incarceration and ending with mandated fetal implantation of a control mechanism.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author

“One Wit’ This Place” - Muthi Nhlema (Imagine Africa 500: Speculative Fiction from Africa, 2015)
Climate change dystopia with a secondary theme of the damage of war on individuals.
Rpt. in The Manchester Review, no. 18 (July 2017). http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/?p=7902
Keywords: Malawian author; Male author

The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering. A Novel - Jeffrey Rotter (Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Co., 2015)
Dystopia set in a world with a deep division between the rich and poor and little knowledge of past science, particularly astronomy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Dried Voices - Greg Hickey (b. 1985) (Scribe Publishing House, 2015)
The novel is set in a future eutopia after humans have left Earth and settled on a planet called Pearl where everything is left to machines to decide, and people stop thinking for themselves.
[2nd ed. Royal Oak, MI: Scribe Publishing House, 2017]
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Our New Neighborhood” - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Problems in a suburb that the people had hoped would meet their eutopian expectations. In this suburb the value of the property fluctuates based on constant reports from inspectors who measure the height of the grass, whether the bird feeders are full and other such important measures of the good life. But there are, of course, some actual problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Out of the Storm” - Ian O'Reilly (Solarpunk Press, 2015)
Climate change dystopia focusing on people living at sea and building a cooperative community among themselves that they are beginning to extend to land-based communities.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Outland Exile: Book 1 of Old Men and Exiles - W. Clark Boutwell (iUniverse, 2015)
Dystopia in which the U. S. is divided between the authoritarian Unity that rules the East drugs and implants to control its citizens, who do not have long lives. Beyond its borders are the Outlands, supposedly inhabited by savages, who captures the young female protagonist. The protagonist, a young woman, enters the outlands and discovers that the reality is more complex. First volume of a series followed by Exiles Escape. Book 2 of Old Men and Exiles. Pensacola, FL: Indigo River Publishing, 2018 in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to stay free from both the Democratic Unity and those who had held her in the Outlands. A third volume is projected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Packets in the Tube” - Siddanta Bastola (Journeys through Time and Space, 2015)
The story is set in a future where the combination of the internet and the hyperloop means that anyone can live anywhere and commute to anyplace else and goods can be shipped almost instant anywhere. Presented as eutopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Paragon of Knowledge” - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
A flawed utopia in which everything is supposedly neatly ordered, and everyone cared for, but the old are warehoused in Sunny Senile Centres.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; Zambian author

The Prepper. Part Two: Kings - Karl A. D. Brown (Author, 2015)
Sequel to 2013 Brown. In this volume, the family at the center of the first volume continue to live their hidden life but conclude that they have to join others fighting a plan to exterminate most of the world’s population.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prey - Tom Isbell (b. 1957) (HarperTeen, 2015)
First volume of a young adult dystopia following a catastrophe. The new government in the U.S. raises children to be hunted for sport when they are teens. The second volume, The Capture. New York: HarperTeen, 2016. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2016, follows the protagonists of the first volume as they try to free others. In the third volume, The Release. New York: HarperTeen. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2017, the protagonists of the previous volumes manage, after many more difficulties to win their freedom.
U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2015.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Promised" - Aisteach, Kyle (Little Dystopias. A Collection, 2015)
Post-catastrophe dystopia called the Great Default when government was unable to pay its bills.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Puma Blue. The Complete Saga in One Volume - Stephen Murphy; Michael Zulli (b. 1952) (Dover Publications, 2015)
The story begins in 2000 after a white supremacist group sets off a small nuclear bomb in the Bronx, which no longer exists. The world is technologically advance, but the environment has been badly damaged, and some species have mutated. The primary protagonist is a “fauna agent” or game warden assigned to a reservoir in Massachusetts. Later the story follows him as he leaves government service and travels around the country, and the entire series has a strong environmental message.
Originally published as a comic between 1986 and 1989. The book version also includes “Acts of Faith: A Coda” by Stephen R. Bissette (527-40), “Act of Faith” (541-44) and the “Puma Blues. Number 24 1/2” (545-60).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Quiet Town” - Gurley, Jason (Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Radiant Vermin - Philip Ridley (b. 1964) (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015)
Dystopia based on the housing crisis in the U.K. in which a young couple finds that they can get their ideal home, room by room, by murdering a homeless person. Play first performed February 27, 2015, in Bristol, with its London Opening March 10, 2015.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Raft - Fred Strydom (Umuzi/Penguin Random House South Africa, 2015)
A complex dystopia in which on Day Zero everyone loses their memories. The novel follows one man through his encounters with those trying to control everyone, those trying to help others regain their memories, and other individuals with varied mental powers.
U.S. ed. New York: Talos Press, 2016.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

“Rattlesnakes and Men” - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
A satire of gun culture in which everyone in s small town in Georgia is required by law to keep a rattlesnake in their home that has supposedly been bioengineered to not bite family members. One of Bishop’s “Georgia stories.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

Reset: The ReSociety Book One - Linda Hawley; Paul Hawley (21st Century Publishing, 2015)
First volume of a dystopian series in which many people are surgically altered, and called SurgiAlts, to meet a standard of human physical perfection. Anyone who speaks against the political leaders considered a terrorist. Extreme surveillance with everyone tracked all the time, with all the information shared with the Department of Homeland Affairs. High tech with much of the technology used in surveillance and in security, with examples given regarding airports. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) defines the entire U.S. as a war zone and allows the military to arrest anyone considered a threat. “Terrorists” have no rights, and no trial is needed. One focus is a group of descendants of signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence who have worked to maintain its principles since its signing.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Rex" - Laird Barron (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
After the passing of all humans, an “animal heaven,” or the ideal world that would exist without humans, develops. But time moves in a circle and primitive humans reemerge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rites" - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) (One Story, 2015)
An overpopulation dystopia where everyone is expected to arrange their death at seventy and one man who chooses to live.
Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 23-40.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rules for Werewolves. Novel - Kirk Lynn (b. 1972) (Melville House Publishing, 2015)
Dystopia resulting from the housing crisis and set in the mostly empty suburbs of Los Angeles. Gangs of young people hope to build a better society and roam the suburbs plundering the abandoned or otherwise empty properties.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Scroogled” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

The Sellout - Paul Beatty (b. 1962) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)
Satire on U.S. race relations in which an African-American man tries to re-introduce slavery and segregation to his local school in a poor small town in southern California. His goal is to improve education and provide for the homeless. Much of the novel is about the case as it is argued before the Supreme Court. African-American author.
U. K. ed. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“Serenade on Lake Ontario” - Rimar, Mike (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia with a Nazi controlled Canada.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Seveneves - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (William Morrow, 2015)
Post-catastrophe novel of the moon breaking up and raining down on Earth. Much of the novel is hard science fiction with most of the text concerned with the science and technology, but the rest is concerned with three sets of survivors, the seven eves who were the survivors of those who were in space, and, unknown to them, two sets of survivors on Earth, one that went underground and the other that went under the sea. The seven eves created seven different genetic lines with different cultures, including one that isolated itself and developed into an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Share and Share Alike” - Wayne Carey (A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar, 2015)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia where equality means no one does anything well.
Keywords: Male author; US author