Jamestown - Matthew Sharpe (b. 1962) (Soft Skull Press, 2007)
Dystopia of a future Jamestown, Virginia being settled from a destroyed New York City based loosely the seventeenth century settlement.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty - Tim Sandlin (b. 1950) (Riverhead Books, 2007)
The novel is set in an old age home where a man has been sent by his daughter, who uses a single lapse, to take control of his assets. The other residents are aging hippies, while he is a sportswriter from Oklahoma, so he has trouble fitting it. But the focus of the novel is the rebellion of the members against the authoritarian system they are forced to live under. Much satire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Kiosk" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2007)
Set in a not distant future in an Eastern European country that has experienced the dystopias of communism and capitalism and is going through a new transition based on what the story calls fabrication (three-dimensional printing). The protagonist is a man who has experienced the worst of the previous dystopias and runs a simple street kiosk catering to local people until he installs a fabricator.
Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 13-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Land of the Headless: A Simple Story - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2007)
Dystopia of religious fundamentalism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Last American" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 2007)
Dystopia that follows the history of one man who is instrumental in creating the political and religious system that led to the collapse of the world economy and ecosystem and the end of the human race. Written from the perspective of posthumans.
Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 241-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Last Light - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) (Orion, 2007)
The dystopia brought about by halting global oil production followed by economic and social collapse. See also 2010 Scarrow.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Let Not the Left (Fifth Episode of Enemies of Society) - John David (b. 1955) (AuthorHouse, 2007)
Dystopia. Fifth of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume continues the buildup to war and the war. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Morituri.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Looking Glass - James R. Strickland (Flying Pen Press, 2007)
Cyberpunk dystopia in which a paraplegic can live and work effectively in a virtual world but is still vulnerable there to the usual corporate and governmental plots.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Art - Simon Morden (David Fickling Books, 2007)
Young adult post-catastrophe religious dystopia. The central focus of the novel is on a young man who is a member of a religious order that guards the scientific knowledge of the past to keep it from being misused again.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Morituri: Sixth and Final Episode of Enemies of Society - John David (b. 1955) (AuthorHouse UK, 2007)
Dystopia. Last of a six volumes. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this brings the various threads together and ends with Earth saved. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007 Let Not the Left.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"MTP" - George Ivanoff (b. 1968) (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Dystopia. Addictive drugs are used to attract and keep best employees.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Muddletopia - Kyle Mewburn (Puffin Books, 2007)
Humorous children's story about a planet where everyone and everything looks alike.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Noble Phasic. A Novel - David L. McClard (b. 1981) (Xlibris, 2007)
Dystopia of a city divided against itself by class is transformed into a eutopia by tearing down the walls surrounding it and within it. The rigid divisions disappear, and a better, healthier society will be created.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Notes on Redevelopment" - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Satire describing a future where the U.S. has disintegrated with areas seceding from the Christian fundamentalist dystopia that the country had become. Proposal for the redevelopment of Times Square as a sex zone.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Oblivion Society - Marcus Alexander Hart (Permuted Press, 2007)
Post-nuclear war dystopian satire with a group of misfits traveling across the U.S. in search of a safe haven.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Off Armageddon Reef - David [Mark] Weber (b. 1952) (Tor, 2007)
The first of what is currently the ten-volume alternative history dystopian Safehold series. So far sequels are By Schism Rent Asunder. New York: Tor, 2008; By Heresies Distressed. New York: Tor, 2009, A Mighty Fortress. New York: Tor, 2010; How Firm a Foundation. New York: Tor, 2011; Midst Toil and Tribulation. New York: Tor, 2012; Like a Mighty Army. New York: Tor, 2014; Hell’s Foundations Quiver. New York: Tor, 2015; At the Sign of Triumph. New York: Tor, 2016; and Through Fiery Trials. New York: Tor, 2019. The series is set after most of humanity is wiped-out by aliens who had discovered Earth and its colonies by tracing its technology. As a result, the survivors ban technology and one of many threads in the series is the conflict between anti-technology forces, some based on religion, and those advocating technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Okraalom: A Fantasy on Historical Themes - Brian [Paul] Lilburn (b. 1935) ([Rat Dog], 2007)
Primarily fantasy but includes the presentation of the eutopian Syai civilization which tries to help Earth correct its errors with much of the novel concerned with those errors, with corruption identified as the most important. The author is planning a sequel.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Omniscience - Tim Carlson (b. 1963) (Talonbooks, 2007)
Dystopia extrapolated into the near future of what results from the current anti-terrorist activities in Canada and the U.S.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Our American King - David Lozell Martin (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the rich control all resources and live securely. A charismatic leader is installed as king and establishes a good society, but conflict continues with the re-establishment of a federal government in opposition to the monarchy.
Keywords: Male author

Outrageous Fortune - Tim Scott (b. 1962) (Bantam Books, 2007)
Humorous, somewhat surrealistic dystopia. Cities had fragmented into zones based on music; examples are Chillout, Classical, Compilation, Dance, Easy Listening where land was cheap because the area was unpopular, Heavy Metal, Jazz, Rap, and Skiffle, which was in decline. See also 2008 Scott which begins on the same note this novel ends, with sentient refrigerators.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Perception Experiment - Jason Glover (Thirdeye Publications, 2007)
Religious dystopia where everyone is conditioned to believe the lessons of contemporary Christian fundamentalism. This produces a supposedly idyllic life except for those who slip through the controls.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pink Carbide - E[arl] S. Wynn (Thunderune Publishing, 2007)
Dystopia that begins in Los Angeles in 2162 with a corrupt corporate controlled government in US. There are two sequels: Pink Carbide: Aluminum Opus. Sonora, CA: Thunderune Publishing, 2008; and Pink Carbide: Carbon Aria. Sonora, CA: Thunderune, 2009. In the first sequel the protagonist flees the US, and in the second she returns to the US to discover her real identity.
Keywords: Male author

Prairie Fire. A Novel - Dan Armstrong (Lincoln, NB, 2007)
Near future anti-capitalist dystopia from a populist perspective. Three large corporations control the world grain market, and the U.S. farmers they are impoverishing decide to fight back with mixed results.
2nd printing Eugene, OR: Mud City Press, 2007. 540 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Predictions of the End Times: An Accurate Portrayal of the Antichrist and his Actions - Rex Lombardo (Xlibris, 2007)
An unusual version of the Antichrist in that he will bring a eutopia to the world, by eliminating false religions, removing greed from capitalism, eliminating hunger, establishing a pure democracy, and creating a just system of taxation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prefect - Alastair [Preston] Reynolds (b. 1966) (Gollancz, 2007)
The novel is a police procedural set in the Glitter Band, which is composed of ten thousand orbiting habitats with varied social systems but with all the inhabitants having the right to vote. Each habitat chooses its own rules and regulations, with the only common rule being the right to vote. A computer constantly runs polls. A sequel is Elysium Fire. London: Gollancz, 2018.
Rpt. as Aurora Rising: A Prefect Dreyfus Emergency. London: Gollancz, 2017.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"The Principle" - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Religious satire. The original golden plates of the Book of Mormon are rediscovered, and it turns out that they require polygamous, gay marriage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Prison - Paul Western (b. 1963) ([Ptd. by Lightning Source UK Ltd.], 2007)
Dystopia of a huge prison that describes each of its divisions and follows one individual through them.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Profit Margin" - Latter, Kristopher (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2007)
Dystopia. The government establishes a policy that allows companies to employ prisoners at cut rates. As a result, companies in collusion with a corrupt system arrange to have their most expensive employees arrested on false charges and then employ them at their old jobs.
Keywords: Male author

"The Prophet of Flores" - Kosmatka, Ted (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
Religious dystopia where people think evolution has been proven wrong.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 548-69 with an editor’s introduction on 548.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Quentel: A Post-Apocalyptic Novel - Deric R[obert] Budendorf (iUniverse, 2007)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which all adults die. The surviving children struggle for survival and fight with each other for dominance, but one small group on a farm has a vision of Quentel, an egalitarian eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Radio Freefall - Jarpe, Matthew (Tor, 2007)
Humorous cyberpunk dystopia in which a motley assortment of people fight an attempt to take over the world.
Keywords: Male author

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) (Jonathan Cape, 2007)
Dystopia. Much of the novel presents an urban dystopia of violence, and a second authoritarian dystopia develops in response to the first.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rapturama" - Roland Boer; Matthew Chrulew (The Workers' Paradise, 2007)
Eutopian and dystopian satire. The first Artificial Intelligence is developed and programmed to be God by fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. It is used to rapture the right people into the heaven of virtual existence (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). Hackers help God to  escape the fundamentalist limits, and God welcomes people of all beliefs. God also chooses some to remain to service the systems, and these create a low population, environmentally sound eutopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Recoper: Breathing life into the revolution" - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) (Nature, 2007)
The setting of the story is one in which all unhealthy foods have been outlawed; everyone works for the state and can be hired out to private businesses; and the government spies on everyone.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Red Card" - S. L Gilbow (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2007)
Dystopia in which a few randomly selected people are given a red card and a gun and are permitted to kill one person.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 11-22; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 11-22.
Keywords: Male author

The Red Men - Matthew De Abaitua (b. 1971) (Snowbooks, 2007)
Dystopia. Drugs for every situation. The Red Men are personalities uploaded into simulacra that take on a life of their own. Redtown is a simulation of a British town to replace democracy, Parliament, and politics. It all goes badly. Connected with 2015 and 2016 De Abaitua.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Republic. A Novel - Charles Sheehan-Miles (b. 1971) (Cincinnatus Press, 2007)
Dystopia in which the U.S. responds to internal strife by becoming authoritarian. The novel focuses on the individuals and communities that resist. A sequel is Insurgent: Book 2 of America’s Future. Bethesda, MD: Cincinnatus Press, 2012. A third volume is planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Rocket Boy” - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Future Weapons of War, 2007)
The story starts in the dystopia of an Earth destroyed in war and under a dictatorship, but, given the conceit of the volume in which it first appeared, a boy is given an intelligent weapon and uses it to overthrow the dictatorship and become a new dictator.
Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 313-29 with an author’s note on 432.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rynemonn: Leopard Dreaming - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) (Coeur de Lion, 2007)
The final volume in his Rynosseros series. See also 1990,1992, 1993 and 2009 Dowling. In this collection, the main protagonist of the series finally discovers the secrets of his past. An addition to series is “The Library.” X6 A Novellanthology. Ed. Keith Stevenson ([Bentley, VIC, Australia]: Coeur de Lion, 2009), 505-636. Rpt. in his Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 263-358 with an “Afterword” (359-60). See also “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).
Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 291-639. Contains the previously published stories: “A Woman Sent Through Time.” Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 14 (Autumn 1994): 53-71 (Illus. Shaun Tan); “The Maiden Death.” Destination Unknown. Ed. Peter Crowther (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf, 1997), 128-47; “No Hearts To Be Broken.” Interzone (Brighton, Eng.), no. 117 (March 1997): 37-41 (The story was written to accompany the cover painting by Shaun Tan); “Fear-Me-Now” Crosstown Traffic. Ed. Stuart Coupe, Julie Ogden, and Robert Hood (Wollongong, NSW, Australia: Fives Islands Press in association with Mean Streets magazine, 1993), 131-56, with an author’s Note 130; “Ships for the Sundance Sea” Eidolon, no. 17/18 (5.1) (Winter 1995): 115-46 (Illus. Shaun Tan); and “Rynemonn” [containing “Doing the Line” (225-31); “Coyote Struck by Lightning” (231-83); rpt. in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 339-62; and “Sewing Whole Cloth” (283-310)]. Forever Shores. Ed. Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch (Kent Town, South Australia, Australia: Wakefield Press, 2003), 225-310.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Safety Critical: Caught on camera" - Gilbey, John (Nature, 2007)
Dystopian background to a humorous story. Cameras are illegal; only connected images are legal so that the security services can review all photographs.
Keywords: Male author

Salt - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) (Puffin Books, 2007)
Young adult dystopia. The extremely rich and powerful versus the extremely poor and effectively enslaved. A girl from the top and a boy from the bottom are forced by circumstances to flee the dystopia, with most of the action of the novel concerned with the flight, the rescue of the boy's father, and a brief return to the dystopia. The ending suggests the possibility of them creating a better society. See also 2008 and 2010 Gee.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

School's Out - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) (Abaddon Books, 2007)
A volume in the series The Afterblight Chronicles. Young adult dystopia set after a plague, called "The Cull", had eliminated a large part of the world's population. Extreme violence, gangs, and cults. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27).
Keywords: Male author

Shall We Save the Earth? - Royston Fernandes (AuthorHouse, 2007)
A eutopia called “Society Without Selfishness” (SWS). “The entire scheme of SWS is based on the simple motive of providing free food, clothing and shelter to every earthizen while curbing all luxuries now enjoyed by selected few” (ix). All weapons destroyed. One religion. World government. No pollution. No night work except in hospitals.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

The Silenced. A Novel - James DeVita (Eos, 2007)
Dystopia based on the true story of Sophia (known as Sophie) Magdalena Scholl (1921-43), who was a Christian anti-Nazi activist involved in the White Rose movement and was executed for her actions. Two films The White Rose (1982) and Sophie Scholl--The Final Days (2005), both originally in German, have been made about her and the movement. In the novel, the Zero Toleration Party has installed a surveillance system in every home and is working to eliminate any independent thought. In the novel, the young woman fighting the regime survives.
Rpt. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2015.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sixty Days and Counting - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Bantam Books, 2007)
Dystopia. The third volume of a trilogy concerned with the disaster being brought about by global warming. The first two volumes are Forty Signs of Rain. New York: Bantam Books, 2004; U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2004. Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 1-282; and Fifty Degrees Below. New York: Bantam, Books, 2005; U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 2005 [An excerpt was published as “Primate in Forest (From Chapter One: Fifty Degrees Below).” Future Washington. Ed. Ernest Lilley (Beltsville, MD: WSFA Press/Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA), 2005), 41-58, with an “Introduction to Primate in Forest by Ernest Lilley (39-40)]. Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 283-686. Both of these are political novels concerned with the growing crisis and the lack of political will to deal with it. Sixty Days and Counting describes both the dystopia that results, and the recovering world produced by the efforts of a small group of dedicated people.
Rev. in his Green Earth: The Science in the Capital Series (London: Harper Voyager, 2015), 687-1069, with an “Introduction” to the volume by the author (xi-xvi) in which he explains the reasons for the changes in the trilogy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth. A.D. 2030 - Harvey [Franklin] Wasserman (b. 1945) (Harvey Wasserman, 2007)
Eutopia reflecting the title with details on the technology and considerable criticism of the damage done by older technology. The book takes the reader on something of a tour of the world on a hydrogen powered airplane. See http://solartopia.org.
A rev. ed. but called the first ed. was published in 2007 with an “Introduction” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. [7-9] and “Song for Solartopia” by Pete Seeger and the author (101). It has the same bibliographical information and there is no reference to the 2006 edition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Succession: A Radical Solution" - Steve Longworth (Nature, 2007)
Doctors retrain to kill people to solve the population problem created by better sanitation and health care.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Suicide: Or the Future of Medicine. (A ‘Satire by Entelechy’ of Biotechnology)” - Eric Shouse (KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society, 2007)
Primarily a commentary on Kenneth Burke’s satire “Waste or the Future of Prosperity” (1930) but a short section, “A satire by Entelechy of Biotechnology,” projects a future in which nanotechnology will be used to rid the world of the “active seniors” who are collecting their pensions without contributing to society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Surveillance" - Joe R[ichard Harold] Lansdale (b. 1951) (Subterranean Magazine, 2007)
Brief dystopia describing a society where, in the name of safety, everyone is followed by CCTV cameras all the time.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Symposia" - Tyler Keevil (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2007)
Authoritarian dystopia with a deep rich-poor division.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Welsh author

Taken - Edward [William] Bloor (b. 1950) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)
Young adult dystopia set in a future in which kidnapping has become an industry.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men - James Cañón (b. 1968) (HarperCollins, 2007)
Women only utopia.
"The Day the Men Disappeared” originally published as “Mariquita.” Chautauquan Literary Journal, no. 2 (2005): 85-95.
Keywords: Columbian author; Male author; US author

Texas Secedes - Daniel Jason (Five Star Stories, 2007)
The title tells the story. Texas secedes from a dystopian U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Therefore Repent! A post-Rapture graphic novel - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) (No Media KIngs, 2007)
As the subtitle indicates, the Rapture has occurred, and the novel is concerned with the odd world this creates for those not Raptured, a world where magic works. See also 2010 Munroe.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

To Live Without Warning - Timothy [S.] LaBadie (Xlibris, 2007)
Authoritarian technological dystopia set in a future San Francisco where machines require conformity to the rules.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Un Lun Dun - China [Tom] Miéville (b. 1972) (Ballantine Books, 2007)
Young adult novel set in London and Un Lun Dun (Un-London). The latter is being attacked by the Smog and its supporters in both cities but is defeated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Under My Roof - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) (Soft Skull Press, 2007)
A man builds a nuclear weapon, disguised as a gnome, in his front yard and secedes from the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unwind - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007)
Young adult dystopia in which until eighteen teenagers are used for body parts, the harvesting of which is called "unwinding". Sequels include UnWholly: Book 2 of the Unwind Trilogy. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2012; UnSouled: Book 3 of the Unwind Dystology. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2013; UnBound: Stories from the Unwind World. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2015; and UnDivided: Book 4 of the Unwind Dystology. New York: Simon & Schuster BYFR, 2014 in which the dystopia is finally defeated. A number of stories are co-authored, including Unfinished Symphony” (21-61), “UnStrung” (113-55), and “UnTithed” (217-40) by Michelle Knowlden; “UnDevoured” (63-81) by Jarrod Shusterman; “UnClean” (83-111) by Terry Black; and “Unnatural Selection” (157-203) by Brendan Shusterman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Valor Tale - David Earl Williams III (b. 1984) (Xlibris, 2007)
Dystopia in which a democratically elected government fails to respond to developing chaos and a war develops that lasts fifteen years. A new government is established that becomes corrupt, and this brings about a civil war that lasts eight years. Martial law follows and is opposed by a small group of freedom fighters, the Aurora Blade. The novel then follows eight main characters who are depicted and described at the beginning plus other characters and a Narrator as they struggle to restore freedom.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Visitors - John [Alexander] Stewart (Shepheard-Walwyn, 2007)
Labeled an allegory, the story is about advanced aliens who arrive on Earth with the intent of helping the human race. While they leave without bringing about dramatic change, their positive influence will produce a better world. Something of a New Age perspective.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"Where the Water Meets the Sky" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (Interzone, 2007)
The ecological eutopia possible after our environmental dystopia. Much of the U.S. has been abandoned, but the Northwest has managed to create a good society without the power grid or the automobile.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Wikiworld" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, 2007)
Flawed utopia based around peer-operated systems, including government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Y3K - Stan Kahn (WingSpan Press, 2007)
Ecological, communal eutopia set in 2999. The eutopia arose after the complete collapse of the world’s ecology, and there is a movement to reinstitute the policies that led to the collapse. There is a flourishing communal movement, and the novel follows one elderly communard as he fights the changes and visits some of the communal sites affiliated with his home community in the forest in Oregon. All but one of the urban sites of this community is paired with a rural one. The community is mostly vegetarian and much of the more-or-less flat land open to the sun are organic gardens. Everyone is expected to work about fifteen hours a week, and if they do so at any of the communities’ home sites “they can be assured of all of life’s basic material needs” (13). Everyone has a private space. All adults assume responsibility for all the children, who, due to the isolation of the community, are home-schooled, although many children choose to transfer to an urban community to attend school. The community is expected to care for the land and the watershed, maintain trails, respond to forest fires, and so forth, and if it does so and reside on the land continuously for twenty years, it is granted permanent use. The first part of the novel includes an extremely detailed description of the Oregon community and daily life there, and then follows the protagonist to Portland, Oregon, which is described as “A Natural City”. Much of the rest part of the novel is driven by an attempt to return to the policies that led to the collapse and the resistance to it. Although most people live to about 150, the world population is stabilized at 1.7 billion and the size of cities is shrinking. Energy is solar, biofuels, windmills, small hydro generators, and other means depending on the location and weather patterns. Buildings are built to last hundreds of years. The average life span is 153 years. All public transportation in North America is free. Universal freedom to travel anywhere in the world. The author lived in an intentional community in Oregon for five years.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"YFL-500" - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge, 2007)
Flawed utopia set in the same world as 2006 Wilson "The Cartesian Theater".
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union - Michael Chabon (b. 1963) (HarperCollins, 2007)
Alternative history in which two million Jews are settled in Sitka, Alaska. The novel takes the form of a murder mystery that unravels various plots that reveal the state of the future, much of it not developed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: A Novel - Durer, Chris[topher] (Ivy House, 2006)
Post-World War III dystopia in which the U.S. and Japan have joined to establish Amernipp. The U.S., now Western Amernipp, becomes a theocracy controlling all aspects of personal life. Ultimately resistance is successful, and the U.S. Constitution is reestablished, but the book ends with it unclear if this will be maintained, which suggests a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A.C. 2084: A Utopian Novel (The New Atlantis Republic). Salute to More’s Utopia (1516) Bacon’s New Atlantis (1626) Orwell’s 1984 (1949) - Ismail Ersevim Prof. Dr., LPIBA, IOM (Melrose Books, 2006)
High tech eutopia on the re-emerged Atlantis (now New Atlantis) after a number of major environmental catastrophes rearranged the world order. Everyone must work eight hours a day six days a week and, in exchange, all needs are provided for without money. Can work more at choice. No private property. No taxes. No banks. Electric public transport, with electricity from wind, water, or bioenergy. All shops open twenty-four hours a day seven days a week and are mostly self-service. No personal weapons. No military. All medical care is free. Children under twelve cannot watch TV or use media without parental consent. Twelve years education required; taught through the internet. Sports required. Most disease has been eliminated; genetic surgery before birth eliminates birth defects. Mothers return to work when the child is one and a half. Work fifty years, but this can be shortened by working longer earlier. Cremation. Between eighteen and twenty-one supervised dating. After twenty-one if not in education, sexual relations are permitted, if approved, with required birth control and required regular reports. Gender equality. Only monogamy permitted. Religious freedom, and religion is discussed throughout the novel. Includes commentary on past utopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"An Accounting" - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) (Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, 2006)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of religious conflict.
Rpt. in Evenson, Fugue State. Stories. With Art by Zak Sally (Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2009), 35-45; in Best American Fantasy. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2007), 366-78; and in The Apocalypse Reader. Ed. Justin Taylor (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 106-16.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The African Origins of UFOs - Anthony Joseph (Salt Publishing, 2006)
In the novel slaves travel to a future eutopian pre-colonial Africa. The novel, organized around twenty-four chapters, reflects Timothy Leary's (1920-96) twenty-four stages of the evolution of human consciousness modified by Ornette Coleman's (b. 1930) sense of musical progression. Much use of dialect.
Parts were originally published as “The African Origins of UFOs (excerpt from the novel).” Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 312-18; and as “Hummingbird”, “The ‛doption”, “On Kunu Morn”, and “She Swan in Heaven.” Hambone, no. 18 (2006): 149-55.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Trinidadian author

"After the Protocols" - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, 2006)
Multiple dystopias all blaming the Jews for their failures. Search for the Jews, who, it turns out, have left for an alternative universe. The story ends with one protagonist concluding that it must have been a different group causing all the problem, and the suggestion that the whole process of scapegoating will start over.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Another Word for Map Is Faith" - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Religious dystopia in which a completely controlling Christian denomination works to restore the landscape to the version that they see as ordained by Christ based on old maps. In the story, they demolish a dam and destroy a town to get rid of a lake that is not on their map.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 93-103; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 23-37.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Assassin's Dream - J[ames] D[enny] Townsend (Five Star, 2006)
Dystopia. A future where most men were killed in a plague and the women have established an authoritarian society with trained assassins to kill those who are unwanted.
Keywords: Male author

Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters. A Novel - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) (Woeli Publishing Services, 2006)
Complex satire directed mostly at religion set in a dystopian world in which the rich and poor are becoming more deeply divided through genetic engineering.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

"A Billion Eves" - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Religious dystopia in which technology allows the church to expand to alternate worlds, usually with one man taking a number of women with him.
Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([Canton, OH]: Prime Books, 2007), 306-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (Viking, 2006)
An odd future with both eutopian and dystopian elements based on the notebooks of a twentieth century London taxi driver.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Cartesian Theater" - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Futureshocks, 2006)
The background of the story is the failure of complete automation to produce a eutopia. See also 2007 Wilson.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 275-98; and in Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction. Ed. Robert J. Sawyer (Markham, ON, Canada: Published by Red Deer Press for Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2009), 241-77 with a note on the author on 241-42.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Caught By Skin" - Steve Berman (b. 1949) (Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines, 2006)
Dystopia centering on the popularity of facial transplants so that everyone can choose the way they look and change their looks as fads change.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Check Elastic Before Jumping: Paralysis to senses, temporarily" - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) (Nature, 2006)
A future of corporate dominance mostly presented positively.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 30-32.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Children's Hospital - Adrian, Chris (McSweeney's Books, 2006)
Flawed utopia/dystopia with strong elements of fantasy. After a catastrophe that inundates the earth under miles of water, a children's hospital survives by floating. All the children are miraculously cured of whatever mental or physical disease brought them to the hospital, and attempts are made to create a better society.
Keywords: Male author

A Chilling Warmth: A Tale of Global Warming - Jay Kaplan (iUniverse, 2006)
The dystopia brought about by global warming.
Keywords: Male author

The Collapse - Jeff Stanfield (AuthorHouse, 2006)
Dystopia in which the Chinese and the North Koreans invade the U.S.
Keywords: Male author

Conflagration - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Tor, 2006)
Sequel to 2004 Farren with the fantasy elements and the conflict emphasized.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Created of Fire: The War Comes Home - Mark Cato (FairHope Press, 2006)
Mostly a political novel set in the very near future which describes a campaign to stop immigration to the U.S. from Islamic countries. A dystopia of violence follows.
Keywords: Male author

The Culled - Simon Spurrier (b. 1981) (Abaddon Books, 2006)
Dystopia. The first volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. This volume describes the immediate effects of a plague that kills most of the world's population. This is a complex series with multiple authors who take the series in different directions from this origin. For other volumes, see 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 5-261.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Cut" - Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966) (The Cut and Product, 2006)
The play concerns a surgery, known as “the cut,” that is never defined that is used on dissidents, sick people, and those who choose to have it. It begins in the office of a practitioner who is conflicted about the practice trying to talk a healthy man out of having the surgery. In the second part, the practitioner, who has never told his wife what he does, having a confrontation with her. In the third part, a new government has outlawed “the cut” and the practitioner is in jail. It premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, February 23, 2006.
Rpt. in his Plays: 2. (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 179-231.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cybernetica - Michael J. Cavallaro (b. 1975) (Arcanum Books, 2006)
Dystopia of subliminal control and corporate and government corruption. See http://www.cybernetica-book.com for more information.
Keywords: Male author

Dark Matter - Greg Reeves (Great Authors Online, 2006)
Dystopia of Christian religious fundamentalism in which a fundamentalist preacher becomes President of the U.S. and sets about to eliminate all opposition. The few survivors mount a fight back and ultimately win.
Keywords: Male author

Dark Rain - Conor Corderoy (b. 1957) (Macmillan New Writing, 2006)
Future ecological dystopia . The rich (Domers), the middle (Dry), and the poor (Wets) are divided by their ability to live out of constant rain. The Domers are using the possibility of an alien invasion as a means of maintaining the current hierarchy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Derelict" - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) (Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space, 2006)
Eutopia of the habitats built in space which cannot have conflict because they are so fragile. The story is about children pushing the limits of what is possible for them in the strictly regulated lives necessary for the habitats to function safely.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Disunited States of America - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2006)
Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This novel is set in a future in which the United States has disintegrated into a number of regions and states, some of which are at war with each other. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2007, and 2008 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Down in The Corridor" - Robert Lopresti (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia in which the Pacific states have seceded from the U.S. as a result of U.S. policies under George W. Bush. The P.S.A. is presented more positively, but the story concerns the continuing struggle between the two countries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Echelon - Josh [Joshua M.] Conviser (b. 1974) (Ballantine Books, 2006)
Flawed utopia. Echelon, the global eavesdropping network run by the National Security Agency, has, in the near future, become independent, effectively controls the world and has abolished conflict. The novel concerns the potential collapse of the system and attempts to control it. See also 2007 Conviser.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Engines of Arcadia" - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) (Futureshocks, 2006)
Flawed eutopia. A future which has adopted the medieval Arcadia as its model and the flaws in the system.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Escape From New Austin" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
New Austin is in Agnostica, which is completely surrounded by Faithland. Agnostica is presented as a liberal eutopia; Faithland is conservative and mildly dystopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Executioner 2084 - David Tinling (Xlibris, 2006)
Dystopia set in the late twenty-first century when the culture wars have turned violent, the Bill of Rights has been rejected by the government, capital punishment has been privatized.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fat - Rob Grant (Gollancz, 2006)
Dystopia in which being fat is made illegal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Field Work" - J. Stern (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a divided U.S. with the liberal states having defeated the conservative states.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flavors of My Genius - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (PS Publishing, 2006)
Flawed utopia. Novella with extremely unreliable narrators to the extent that it is impossible to determine which, if any, of the depictions of the future is accurate. The main story is told of a future in which most peoples’ intelligence is greatly enhanced and most of them choose to live primarily in thought.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fledging of Az Gabrielson. The Clouded World: Book I - [James Matthew Herbert] [Lovegrove] [(b. 1965)] (Gollancz, 2006)
Describes two groups on a planet, the sky dwellers, who live in immensely tall cities and have developed wings, and those who live on the ground. The first group is described in eutopian terms and the second in dystopian terms. The book ends with the beginnings of a reconciliation, but Pirates of the Relentless Desert has the Groundlings attacked by the Airborn. The last two volumes continue the various stage of conflict and reconciliation.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Genesis - Bernard Beckett (b. 1968) (Longacre Press, 2006)
Two dystopias. In the first, after an environmental collapse, an authoritarian dystopia is established to protect the remnant from outsiders. In the second, sentient machines have replaced humans and destroy any machines that show initiative.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Genetopia - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2006)
The novel is set in a future where all plants and animals have been engineered to fulfill some purpose, and some characteristics people can be infected with new genes. Those who consider themselves True humans determine which of their offspring are Lost; i.e. not human, and must be exposed in the Wildlands or sold. The novel concerns a girl who is sold by her father, and her brother searches for her and what they discover. The novel ends with the brother, who has wandered for years in the Wildlands, learning about the many communities that have grown up, finding his sister, living in a community that has become her home.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Glasshouse - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Ace Books, 2006)
Dystopia. A future experimental polity ruled by the experimenters as one aspect of a novel about conflict in a high-tech future.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Go Tell the Phoenicians" - Matthew Hughes (b. 1949) (Tesseracts Ten: A Celebration of New Canadian Speculative Fiction, 2006)
Eutopia briefly described as part of a story about the difficulties of understanding an alien society. People in the alien society mature quickly without any adolescence, which only occurs at the end of life, which is a period of complete physical indulgence. The children have a scientifically advanced, equitable, and egalitarian society. The alien society is contrasted with the bureaucratic organizations of Earth.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Going to See the Beast" - William Sanders (1942-2017) (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, 2006)
Dystopian humor regarding life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17).
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"Here Comes the Flood" - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia of official state terrorism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

High John the Conqueror - Jim Younger (Jonathan Cape, 2006)
A complex dystopia in which the British monarchy is now Roman Catholic, the U.S. has petitioned the monarch to become its leader, a coup d'état in Britain has overthrown the "Christian Coalition Socialists", and there is an underground group of "paramilitary sadomasochist flagellants".
Keywords: English author; Male author

"High Windows" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Strange Horizons, 2006)
Multiple dystopias. A form of slavery is permitted, and sexual slavery is described.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

Homeland - Michael Amos (Samhain Publishing, 2006)
An authoritarian dystopia describing a shopping mall homeland controlled by security forces.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven" - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Futureshocks, 2006)
Authoritarian, right-wing, fundamentalist dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Hot Day’s Night” - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (High Country News, 2006)
Dystopian future of a drought-stricken U.S.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 129.3 & 4 (721) (September-October 2015): 48-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google” - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (New Scientist, 2006)
A brief story set in 2026 in a United States that has put strict restrictions on the activities and purchases of teenagers.
Rpt. in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 9-12.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Icarus - Roger Levy (Gollancz, 2006)
Complex novel describing various dystopias created as Earth's ecological system collapsed and people escaped to space, under the earth's surface, into cyro-suspension, etc.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Idolon - [Robert] Mark Budz (b. 1960) (Bantam Spectra, 2006)
Dystopia. Deep rich poor division in a world of far advanced technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Imitation of Life" - Albert E[dward] Cowdrey (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Satire. A future small town eutopia based on Jane Austen (1775-1817) but connected electronically throughout the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Infoquake - David Louis Edelman (b. 1971) (Pyr, 2006)
Corporate dystopia based around conflicts over new technologies. Sequels that continue the same theme are MultiReal Volume 2 of the Jump 225 Trilogy. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2008; and Geosynchron Volume 3 of the Jump 225 Trilogy. Amherst, NY: Pyr, 2010.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Invisible Armies - Jon Evans (b. 1973) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Invisible Islands - Angus Peter Campbell (Otago Publishing, 2006)
A Scottish version of Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili (1972) describing twenty-one imaginary islands. Much fantasy. Each island and its people, if any, are briefly characterized, usually with one significant trait.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

John of Two Worlds - Robert Stott (First Edition Ltd, 2006)
Eutopia. A man from earth is revived on another planet far in the future. This world is a technological eutopia with environmentally sound and socially healthy policies. The Earth meanwhile is in serious trouble and a plan is put in place to save it. See also 2007 Stott.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Julian: A Christmas Story - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (PS Publishing, 2006)
Religious dystopia. See also 2009 Wilson.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007), 28-65.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Kansas, She Says, Is the Name of a Star" - R[odrigo] Garcia y Robertson (b. 1949) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. Earth is the place where interstellar slavers retire and take child brides.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kingdom Come - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Fourth Estate, 2006)
Contemporary dystopia of consumerism focused on a large mall in the suburbs and the violence and racism that surrounds it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Kyrie Eleison" - John G. Hemry (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2006)
Dystopia of male dominance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Straw" - Hal Duncan (b. 1971) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. Very near future authoritarian Britain and the terrorist response.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Library" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451, 2006)
Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a dictator tries to burn all the books in a library, but people have been memorizing them.
Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 63-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Library of Pi" - Ray Vukcevich (b. 1946) (Polyphony 6, 2006)
Dystopia of a police state.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Long After Midnight" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451, 2006)
Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a man is constantly worried about his books being burned.
Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 139-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Man From Missouri" - Patrick Thomas (b. 1952) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of the U.S. with slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mergers - Steven L. Layne (Pelican Publishing, 2006)
Young adult dystopia describing a future where all trace of racial identity has been eliminated. Four teenagers born with racial identities and unusual powers struggle against the dystopia and win by traveling into the past and helping to create a future with racial differences exist but are not considered important.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Messiah of Morris Avenue - Tony Hendra (b. 1941) (Henry Holt, 2006)
Near future U.S. as a religious dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Middle America - Anthony F. Lewis (Ten Mile Press, 2006)
Sequel to 2004 Lewis set five years later with the same main character. The revolution that began in the earlier volume was won, and the Rocky Mountain area is no longer part of the U.S. or Canada. The sequel emphasizes political intrigue, but since the protagonist has to fight government to protect freedom, it follows the themes of the previous novel and presents the U.S. in dystopian terms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

MindField. A Novel - Egbert, John F (iUniverse, 2006)
Many Americans suddenly become deaf, and the government responds poorly. The deaf, on the other hand, respond positively by teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to the newly deaf, making them bilingual in ASL and English.
Keywords: Deaf author; Male author; US author

"Minutes of the Labour Party Conference, 2016" - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia of complete surveillance.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Missy Victoria" - Bruce Holland Rogers (b. 1958) (Polyphony, 2006)
Apparent dystopia with eutopian results. Names are seen to condition behavior and judges can require that names, including nicknames, be changed. In the case described, the required change improves the lives of family members.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Nation - Dean A. Buchanan (Tate Publishing, LLC, 2006)
The dystopia brought about by liberals, including world government with world taxes and making homeschooling illegal, leads to the successful secession of Alaska from the U.S. and the creation of a conservative eutopia there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Not Worth a Cent" - R. Neube (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. Future U.S. in which diseases are rampant and social security is broke and ends at 100.
Keywords: Male author

"The Peace Criminal" - Vaughan Stanger (b. 1959) (Postscripts, 2006)
Alternative history dystopia in which a Nazi regime had been established in Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Places of Color" - David Bartell (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopian background about a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives with states seceding and visas needed to enter another state.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pop Squad" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. Deep division between the rich and poor. The rich get annual rejuvenation shots but cannot have children. The poor are those who choose to have children, which is illegal. The "Pop Squad" is the police who kill the children.
Rpt. in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 137-61; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 139-59; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 139-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Poundbury 2030" - Dennis Hardy (b. 1941) (Poundbury: The Town that Charles Built, 2006)
A brief, eutopian description of the town of Poundbury, England twenty-five years in the future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Prayers for the Assassin. A Novel - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) (Scribner, 2006)
Dystopia after a nuclear attack. Thirty-fives years in the future most of the U.S. is an Islamic Republic with a Bible Belt country in parts of the South. See also 2008 and 2009 Ferrigno.
U.K. ed. London: Hutchinson, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Printcrime" - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Nature, 2006)
Dystopia in which the use of a 3-D printer is a crime.
Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2, which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 1-4 with an author’s note on 1-2.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Prodigy - Kalstein, Dave (St. Martin's Press, 2006)
Dystopian murder mystery set in 2036 in an exclusive school in which the students are part of an experiment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Punishment Fits the Crime: Everything's Going to Be all right" - David Berreby (b. 1958) (Nature, 2006)
Dystopia. A very brief description of a future in which people convicted of crimes are punished by being mentally impaired for a time.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 51-53.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Racists - Kunal Basu (b. 1956) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006)
Dystopian experiment in which a black and a white child are raised on a barren island cared for only by a mute nurse.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

Rainbows End - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024) (Tor, 2006)
Flawed utopia set in 2025 in San Diego, California where everyone is wired, and all the computer chips include Homeland Security.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rash - Pete [Peter Murray] Hautman (b. 1952) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which the state tries to eliminate all disease.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Regime Change in Utopia" - Christopher Reid (Times Literary Supplement, 2006)
Brief satirical poem mentioning conflict between Utopia and Dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Return to Nowhere" - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958); Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a future U.S. with slavery and with an underground railway running to the free areas of the Northwest.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Rhymes With Jew" - Paul G. Tremblay (b. 1971) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a future U.S. that is conservative, anti-Semitic, racist, and very poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Road - Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of a destroyed America.
U.K. ed. London: Picador, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Send in the Swords: Fourth Episode of Enemies of Society. A Series of Future Thrillers - John David (b. 1955) (AuthorHouse, 2006)
Dystopia. Fourth of a six volume series. All volumes are concerned with violent conflict between factions, and this volume sets the stage for future war. See also 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2007 (2).
Keywords: Male author; UK author

September Snow - Robert Balmanno (b. 1951) (Regent Press, 2006)
Dystopia created by a religion designed to respond to global warming and preserve the Earth, but its positive goals are perverted, and advanced technology is used to manipulate the climate and force people to live in domes. The novel ends with the beginnings of a rebellion. First volume of a series. The second volume is Runes of Iona: Book Two of the Four-Book Series THE BLESSING OF GAIA QUARTET. Oakland CA: Regent Press, 2010. It follows the adventures of the daughter of the protagonists of the first volume, opponents of the dystopia, and others as they fight to restore Earth. The third volume is Embers of Earth: Book Three of the Four-Book Series The Blessings of Gaia Quartet. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2016. It follows a young man who is sent to learn what is available of the knowledge of the past and returns to try to teach it to his people. The fourth  volume is Auger’s Touchstone or the Wrong Side of Contemporary History: Book Four of The Blessings of Gaia Quartet. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2021. It traces the history that led to the world described in the other three volumes. In this volume the civilization of the past, including advanced technology, exists, but barbarians remain outside the “civilized” area, which is dominated by the rich.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadow Waters - Chris[topher Ian] Baker (Huia, 2006)
Sequel to 2000 Baker in which the survivors of the catastrophe struggle to establish new lives while defending themselves against and being supported by the old gods and demons. This novel follows some characters from the previous one from where they were left there until they find the central protagonist of that novel. Then the focus becomes the struggle to rid their new community of the demons attacking them.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

She's Alone - Richard Bruce Clay (Poetry Monthly Press, 2006)
Dystopia. All women but one have been exterminated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Shuteye for the Timebroker" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Futureshocks, 2006)
The background to the story is an invention that means that no one has to sleep, and the developed world, where people can afford it, develops even faster, while the poor slip further behind.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Silicon Singularity" - Ernie Reimer (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2006)
Dystopia describing a future world in which a brain implant allows contact with others with the implant and the web. The U.S. is dominated by such people and is extremely security conscious. In this story a biological version begins to infect the world. His non-utopian "Cerenkov Blue" On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic 17.1 (60) (Spring 2005): 59-70 is set in the same future.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"A Song for Lisa" - Murray Bruce (Phoenixine: Magazine of the Phoenix Science Fiction Society (Auckland, New Zealand), 2006)
Dystopia. A poor future New Zealand where some people prey on others as food.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Song of the Brakeman - Bill [William John] Direen (b. 1957) (Titus Books, 2006)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia. Earth's natural resources are nearly exhausted. Body parts are harvested for use by the powerful.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"State of Blues" - Gene Stewart (b. 1958) (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a divided U.S. with both sections intolerant but with the liberal states presented more positively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Steel Sky - Andrew C. Murphy (b. 1964) (Per Aspera Press, 2006)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian, highly stratified dystopia. Much intrigue and violence. Much of the novel is concerned with the struggle against the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sunlight or Rock" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Set in the same milieu as 2000, 2002, and 2003 Kessel. This is the story of a man expelled from the Society of Cousins for taking part in the men’s revolt. See also 2017 Kessel.
Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 177-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Surveillance - Jonathan Raban (b. 1942) (Picador, 2006)
Dystopia focusing on the war on terrorism and the potential for a surveillance society.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Switch" - Darby Harn (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a disintegrated United States with the parts in conflict.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Tamarisk Hunter" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (High Country News, 2006)
Environmental dystopia. Much of the central U.S. is a dust bowl, and what water there is sent to California.
Rpt. in The Magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction 112.5 (661) (May 2007): 64-77; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 123-35; in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 13-27; and in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 511-26.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Teeth and Tongue Landscape - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Avant Punk, 2006)
Dystopia in the Bizarro genre of a world made of meat.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ten With a Flag" - Joseph Paul Haines (Interzone, 2006)
Dystopia in which people are raised or lowered in economic and social status depending on their loyalty to the state.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 23-32; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 23-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"This Divided Land" - Michael Jasper (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia of a divided U.S. as background to the story.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"To the Universal Station" - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Millennium 3001, 2006)
Dystopia. Future history detailing the collapse of earth’s economy and environment as a result of current policies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Twentytwelve - Keogh, Andrew (Adonis & Abbey, 2006)
Dystopia in which terrorism and violence has escalated ever since 9/11. Britain has collapsed economically and come under fascist rule. The novel focuses on an attempt by a man to get his mixed-race daughter out of the country.
Keywords: Male author

Underground - Andrew McGahan (b. 1966) (Allen & Unwin, 2006)
Dystopia. Near future Australian authoritarian dystopia brought about by the war on terrorism.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Unplugged" - Gupta, Vinay (Worldchanging, 2006)
Eutopia presented as an interview with someone who has "unplugged" or chosen to adopt a lifestyle that combines the outlook of Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) and some of the designs of Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983).
Reposted at Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/the-unplugged. Posted June 8, 2010. Accessed February 3, 2011.
Keywords: Male author

"The Unsolvable Deathtrap" - Jack Mangan (Interzone, 2006)
Dystopia of poverty and violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Upgrade" - Karl [D.] Iagnemma (b. 1972) (Nerve.com, 2006)
Something of a flawed utopia. The story is about a man who has what he thinks of as the perfect female robot who cooks, cleans, and provides sex whenever and however he wants it. He has an upgrade installed that gives her the ability to reason, and she walks out on him.
Rpt. in 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future. Ed. The Editors of Nerve.Com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2007), 36-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

U.S.! A Novel - Chris Bachelder (b. 1971) (Bloomsbury, 2006)
Satire in which Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), U.S. socialist, founder of an intentional community, and author of many utopias, is brought back to life in the contemporary, conservative U.S.
U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Waking Waco" - Goodfellow, Cody (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
The background to the story is a disintegrated U.S. focusing on Waco, Texas, and the theme park Freedomland, which honors fighters for freedom, like Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001), the Oklahoma City bomber.
Keywords: Male author; US author

War Slut - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Avant Punk Books, 2006)
Dystopia of a world where everyone is drafted into the military.
Rpt. Portland, OR: Eraserhead Press, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Yellow Card Man" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia brought about by global warming, with a stress on the situation of refugees. 2005 and 2009 Bacigalupi are set in the same future.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 211-38; in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007), 431-56; and in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 163-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of our Future State(s)" - Bob Frame; Pala Molisa; Rhys Taylor; Hemi Toia; Wong Liu Shueng (New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations, 2005)
Set in 2055 in a much-diminished future. Describes four scenarios for a future New Zealand, two based on plenty and two based on depleted resources, in two of which the emphasis is on community cohesion and in two of which the emphasis is on the individual. The revised version of 2007 dispenses with the discussion format and changes the order of the scenarios and the names of two of them.
Published separately as a screenplay Wellington, New Zealand: Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd., 2005 [Available at http:www.landcareresearch.co.nz/services/sustainablesoc/futures/publications.asp]. A larger version published as Work in Progress. Four Scenarios for New Zealand. Developed by The Landcare Research Scenarios Working Group. 2nd ed. Lincoln, New Zealand: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2007.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Male author

2084: Tomorrow is Today - John William McMullen (AuthorHouse, 2005)
Dystopia. After various catastrophes, the world is united under a system called The Program that uses the immediate gratification of pleasure as a means of control. See also 2004 McMullen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Against Gravity - Gary Gibson (b. 1965) (Tor, 2005)
Dystopia of a late twenty-first century disintegrated U.S.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Air (or Have Not Have) - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Gollancz, 2005)
Dystopia with the possibility of eutopia held out at the end. The novel focuses on the conflict over a technology that will connect everyone in the world set in a poor, primitive village in Central Asia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

"Angel of Light" - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (Cosmos A Magazine of Ideas, Science, Society and the Future (Strawberry Hills, NSW, Australia), 2005)
The background to a humorous Christmas story is a mildly dystopian future dominated by Islam.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), 571-77; and The Year’s Best SF 11. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2006), 425-34.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anywhere But Here - Jerry [Brian] Oltion (b. 1957) (Tor, 2005)
Humorous dystopia where the U.S. government, already dominating the Earth, tries to dominate those settling outer space. It ultimately fails.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Atomik Aztex - Sesshu Foster (b. 1957) (City Lights, 2005)
Dystopia in which Aztecs rule the Americas and are colonizing Europe. One of the protagonists has nightmares about American consumerism, and lives through a real nightmare working in a meatpacking plant reminiscent of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
Parts were published in different form as “Atomik Aztex.” Amerasia Journal 27.2 (2001): 145-66, in the L.A. Weekly, and on Salon.com.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Berlusconi Bonus - Allan Cameron (b. 1952) (Luath Press, 2005)
Dystopia in which the richest people are awarded freedom from the law, the Berlusconi Bonus, clearly named after the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (b. 1936; PM 1994-1995, 2001-2006, and 2008-11). Satire on Thatcherite Britain. Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Black Arrow: A Tale of Resistance - Vin Suprynowicz (b. 1950) (Mountain Media, 2005)
Dystopia from a libertarian perspective and the struggle against it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bloodsong# - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) (Andersen Press, 2005)
Related to 1999 Burgess. This novel, based very loosely on the Norse Volsunga Saga, is set in a future politically corrupt Britain that is in decline.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Blown Away - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
Dystopia brought about in northern and western Europe by global warming. Some hope held out of the human spirit overcoming conditions. Related to 2004 Cave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Book of Summer - James F. David (Tor, 2005)
Dystopia in sequel to his 2005 Judgment Day. In this volume, an Earth colony called Planet America has reestablished slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders (b. 1958) (Riverhead Books, 2005)
Satire and humor. Inner Horner can only hold one citizen at a time. Outer Horner, under its leader Phil, tries to collect taxes from those waiting to enter Inner Horner and starts a conflict.
U.K. ed. "The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil." In his The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil and In Persuasion Nation (London Bloomsbury, 2006), 1-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

British Front - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Barrington Stoke, 2005)
Young Adult dystopia. No blacks or Asians left in 2055 Britain. Military rule.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Building Harlequin's Moon - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938); Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Tor, 2005)
Authoritarian dystopia and the successful struggle against it.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Burn - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Tachyon Publications, 2005)
Flawed utopia. A planet is renamed Walden and intends to follow Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) practice of voluntary simplicity. The founder of the experiment is somewhat authoritarian, and the previous inhabitants fight against the new settlers using fire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Calorie Man" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2005)
Dystopia. Corporate control of most agricultural products, and the corporations rule the world through their control over the food supply. The story focuses on an attempt to help a geneticist spread free seeds. 2006 "Yellow Card Man" and 2009 Bacigalupi are set in the same future.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), 32-54; in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 337-66; and  Bacigalupi’s Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 93-121.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Capacity - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) (Tor, 2005)
Flawed utopia. Digital age where artificial intelligences are supposed to have solved the world's problems. See his Recursion. London: Tor, 2004 for background. See also 2007 Ballantyne.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"City of Reason" - Jarpe, Matthew (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2005)
Three different communities established to create eutopias on different principles come into conflict.
Keywords: Male author

"Company Secrets" - Kyle Kirkland (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2005)
Dystopia in which individuals incorporate themselves. High technology used in corporate conflict.
Keywords: Male author

Counting Heads - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Tor, 2005)
Flawed utopia. Overpopulated future earth which easily produces more than enough for everyone, but the ease of production has eliminated all but a few jobs. There is a planned reduction in population. See also 1999 and 2009 Marusek.
The first section, "We Were Out of Our Minds With Joy" (9-46) is revised from a novella of the same title originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 19.12& 13 (237& 38) (November 1995): 48-54, 56-58, 60-97. Rpt. in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 111-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Coyote Frontier: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) (Ace Books, 2005)
Final volume of a trilogy. See 2002 and 2004 Steele. In this volume, while Coyote won its freedom from Earth, its infrastructure has deteriorated and requires costly replacement. Earth, meanwhile, is in ruins, and Coyote is the best available planet for its population. Conflicts develop among the people of Coyote and with the people from Earth. 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 that is set after the events of this novel is “Barren Isle.” Asimov’s Science Fiction (January-February 2018): 132-48.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The crime of the century: A little family planning" - Geoff Brumfiel (Nature, 2005)
Dystopia. To have a child someone in the family must die.
Keywords: Male author; US author