"Steve Sepp, Tasty! Tasty! No Mean Feast" - Matthew Sanborn Smith (Nature, 2011)
Dystopia in which the parts removed in surgery are served in the hospital canteen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Technicolor Ultra Mall - Ryan Oakley (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011)
Dystopia of class and violence.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"That Creeping Sensation" - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) (Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change, 2011)
Dystopia. Climate change has produced a radical increase in the size of insects and all human life has had to be reoriented around protection from them.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 229-39.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Theme Planet. A Novel of the Anarchy - Andy [Andrew John] Remic (1971-2022) (Solaris, 2011)
Dystopia of a pleasure planet that turns violent.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Thing of Beauty” - Dr. Charles E. Gannon (b. 1960); McPhail, Mike (By Other Means, 2011)
Corporate dystopia set on a newly opened planet controlled by a corporation that owns most of Earth and the other colonized planets and has no interest beyond its profits.
Rpt. in Baen Books: Free Stories 2014. New York: Baen Books, 2014. https://www.baen.com/free-short-stories-2014.html; in Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, no. 54 (December 2016) http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=issue&vol=i54&article=_vintage; and in Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers. Ed. Edward Willett (Regina, SK, Canada: Shadowpaw Press, 2020), 252-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Those That Wake - Karp, Jesse (Harcourt, 2011)
Young adult technological dystopia and the search for a more humane life. A sequel is What We Become. New York: Harcourt, 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To Faithfully Execute: A Pug Conner Novel. Book Three - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) (CreateSpace, 2011)
Third volume in a series. See 2010 Ryan, State of Rebellion and 2010 Ryan, Uncivil Liberties. In this volume, assassination is used to counter terrorism and the U.S. has fragmented. Separate countries, the Republic of Western America and the Republic of Eastern America have been formed with a proposed third country in the Deep South.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; US author

A Toxic Ambition - Erik A. Otto (Dog Ear Publishing, 2011)
Environmental dystopia brought about by industrial accidents and climate change where the rich live inside domes, and the only way an outsider can get in is through success in games.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Swiss author; US author

Truth City - Nick Sapien (AuthorHouse, 2011)
Truth City is presented as if it is a eutopia, in which no wants for work, food, or medical care and everyone is supposedly free, except that it is in fact a genetic engineering dystopia of a future where everyone is constantly tested in a “Truth Machine.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Turtle Love" - Joseph [Lee] Green (b. 1931) (Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change, 2011)
Dystopia of climate change and the need to abandon large parts of the coastal U.S., forcing people to leave their homes. The U.S. is undertaking massive construction projects and trying to save what it can of animals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"[Utopia]" - Alastair Campbell (b. 1957) (2011)
Very brief eutopia. Mostly very general and simple and a bit of a rant, but includes compulsory voting, lowering the voting age to sixteen, teaching politics and its importance and citizenship in primary schools together with how to live a healthy life. The first in an intended series of utopias written by prominent people.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Utopia Rising - Matthew L. Sexton (CreateSpace, 2011)
The novel outlines the evolution of the human race toward a potential eutopia and outlines some of the principles and elements of the eutopia. What he calls “The Core Theory” consists of three points, 1. “Human Tend to Progress over Time. 2. Short of extinction, this progression will eventually lead to the creation of an idyllic society. 3. Given these two points are facts, the appropriate action is to hasten this progression by discovering the ideals of life and to adopt principles that will benefit this cause.”
Keywords: Male author

Walden 3.0: A Dystopian Romance - Phil Fragasso (Erewhon Press, 2011)
The novel presents a very successful intentional community which the members see as eutopian, and on many dimensions it is presented as such, but the outside observer sees as dystopian, particularly on marriage and sexual relations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Water Wars - Cameron Stracher (Sourcebooks Fire, 2011)
Young adult dystopia of a future where water has become extremely scarce and rationed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

What So Proudly We Hailed - James Howard (CreateSpace, 2011)
Dystopia following a nuclear attack and the loss of the entire electrical grid, and the experiences of one family trying to survive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Zone One. A Novel - Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) (Doubleday, 2011)
Post-apocalyptic (pandemic) and Zombie dystopia in which New York City is divided into Zones in an attempt to control its spread.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

100 Months: The End of All Things - John Hicklenton (1967-2010) (Cutting Edge Press, 2010)
Apocalyptic dystopian graphic novel in which Earth revolts against the damage done to her.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2031: The Singularity Pogrom - Dan Ronco (All Things That Matter Press, 2010)
Violent near future U.S. with integration of human/artificial intelligence. Loosely a sequel to Unholy Domain (2008). The two novels were preceded by his PeaceMaker. Waterville, OH: Winter Wolf, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Act of Self-Defense - Erne Lewis (Plicata Press, 2010)
The U.S. has become an authoritarian dystopia which justifies the use of force to reestablish liberty.
2nd ed. Gig Harbor, WA: Plicata Press, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Afterlight - Alex Scarrow (b. 1966) (Orion, 2010)
Sequel to 2007 Scarrow. In this volume, small communities are rebuilding in a world without oil after the catastrophe in the previous volume. But the usual problems of human greed and hunger for power threaten to overwhelm even these small steps up.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Arrowland - Paul Kane (b. 1973) (Abaddon Books, 2010)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series in sequel to 2008 Kane. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, and 2010 Andrews.
Keywords: Male author

“Bicyclopolis” - Ken Avidor (b. 1955) (The Twin Cities. Cifiscape, 2010)
Story told in graphic form of the future dystopic North America. An exploration by bicycle discovers huge clouds of plastic bags and the remains of cars, which are the object of worship by some survivors. Ends with “To Be Continued” but not within the volume. There is a blog “Bicyclopolis” at http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Blending Time - Michael [P.] Kinch (Flux, 2010)
Young adult post-collapse dystopia in which everyone must undertake mandatory work at age seventeen. In the novel the three protagonists are sent to help repopulate Africa in a program called “The Blending” that is fiercely opposed by many in Africa. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, The Fires of New Sun. A Blending Time Novel. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2012 there is war between those trying to impose the blending and those opposing it. SUN is the Society to Unify Nations. In the third volume, The Rebels of New Sun. A Blending Time Novel. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2013, those imposing the blending infiltrate the city controlled by the corporation imposing the blending.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bloodstained Man - Christopher Rowley (b. 1948) (Tor, 2010)
Sequel to 2010 Rowley, Pleasure Model. This volume focuses on a gang-controlled New Jersey. A third volume is primarily a thriller; see Money Shot. New York: Tor, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Books of James C. Patch: Returning - Gary D. Henry (Xlibris, 2010)
Sequel to his The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier (2010). In this volume, the protagonist struggles successful to free those kept from the eutopia of Paradise by the barrier described in the first volume. See also 2013 Patch.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier - Gary D. Henry (Xlibris, 2010)
Spiritualist work concerned with the barrier between this world and the next, which is a eutopia. This is followed by his The Books of James C. Patch: Returning (2010) and 2013 Patch.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cell: Twilight’s Last Gleaming - Chris Hambleton (Xulon Press, 2010)
Dystopia in which religious liberty has been abridged by the U.S. government with the agreement of the courts. Alaska secedes. The basis for the attack on religion is secular humanism which is founded on the erroneous belief in evolution.
Rpt. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2013].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Children's Crusade - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) (Abaddon Books, 2010)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. In this volume, children are being taken from their homes by organized teams. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 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

Cinco de Mayo - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) (EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2010)
The novel begins with everyone in the world suddenly sharing the memories of another person and then follows a number of people and the way this changes their lives. It then ends suggesting that a situation where everyone understands another person, often of a different gender and/or from a different culture, will produce a level of world understanding that is at least potentially eutopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Constitution for The New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) From the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA - Bob [Robert Bruce] Avakian (b. 1949) (RCP Publications, 2010)
A constitution for a future socialist republic giving the organizational structure and laying out the rights of citizens. Includes the possibility of autonomous regions within the country for African Americans and "Mexican-Americans". Stresses rights for women.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Cull" - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Clarkesworld, 2010)
Dystopia in which anyone who doesn't fit in is killed.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 473-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Diaspora" - Paul Lamb (Crossed Genres, 2010)
The story is set as a history lesson in which students learn about how a few people escape from the collapsing Earth and the racial conflicts that took place in the process.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Directive 51 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2010)
Dystopia of a catastrophe that pushes the U.S. back to a primitive time. See also 2011 and 2013 Barnes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Duncan the Wonderdog - Adam Hines (AdHouse Books, 2010)
Graphic novel in which animals can talk, and, as a result of their treatment, start a revolution against humans. Won the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize from the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. Originally said to be the first of nine volumes, with the second scheduled for 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Earth of Yunhe" - Eric Gregory (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
A dystopia of extreme poverty that had developed when a Chinese village that was destroyed through lack of environmental controls can be re-created. Images of the old village suggest an Arcadia, but it is made clear that the re-creation will be hard work and probably never quite as good.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Edge - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) (Angry Robot, 2010)
Dystopia in which dueling has been legalized and violence is common. Corporate control and extreme pollution.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Edge of Apocalypse - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016); Craig Parshall (Zonderavan, 2010)
Dystopia The first volume of a series on the events leading up the apocalypse. Sequels include Thunder of Heaven. The End Series. Book 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2011; Brink of Chaos. The End Series.Book 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2012; and Mark of Evil. The End Series. Book 4. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Endangered" - Robby Sparks (Dark Futures, 2010)
A dystopia in which the government limits births to clones and the resistance to it.
Keywords: Male author

Epitaph Road - David Patneaude (b. 1944) (Egmont USA, 2010)
Young adult dystopia set near the end of the twenty-first century where most men died from an illness and the women have eliminated crime and poverty while severely restricting the remaining men. The novel focuses on a young boy trying to save his father.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Eutopia: The Gnostic Land of Prester John. A Novella - Alan Jacobs (O Books, 2010)
The Land of Prester John, which is also the Garden of Eden, is located in Ethiopia in the “Happy Valley” that Samuel Johnson describes in The Prince of Abissinia, better known as Rasselas (1759). It is a eutopia based on astrology and a generally New Age outlook as well as good education. There is no government or money.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Everything is Clickable" - Jack Graham (Shareable Futures, 2010)
The story presents a future in which "augspace" or augmented reality is ever-present and presents that reality as mostly enhancing life because, except for some commercial applications, it is a public space under personal control. This is a fiction development of his "5 Ways Augmented Reality Is Making Your Life More Shareable." Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/5-ways-augmented-reality-is-making-your-life-more-shareable. Posted July 8, 2010.
Keywords: Male author

"The Exterminator's Want-Ad" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Shareable Futures, 2010)
Socialist dystopia.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.5&6 (692) (November/December 2010): 44-55; and in his Gothic High-Tech: Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2011), 75-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Faithful Soldier, Prompted.” - Saladin Ahmed (b. 1945) (Apex Magazine, 2010)
The story is set in a future after wars in the Middle East had devastated the area and faulty technology was still giving instructions to the former soldiers.
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), 72-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Farewell, My Republic - Binder, John F (BookLocker.com, Inc, 2010)
Dystopia brought about by apathetic Americans who choose to be uninvolved and politicians who call a new constitutional convention. A vote on the new constitution results in a majority for "Don't Know" or "Don't Care".
Keywords: Male author; US author

Feisengrad: A Social Novel. Book 1 - Aaron Richard Golub (CreateSpace, 2010)
An odd dystopia about the three days of the life of a boy born from an egg and living in a world with umpires. The boy appears to be the only one who questions the system, which he does in a constant inner dialogue. No evidence of further volumes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season - Brian Conn (FC2, 2010)
Odd dystopia focusing on a small, pastoral community afflicted with a plague and a brutal government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

For the Win - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2010)
The novel, written for young adults, has dystopian elements and uses online gaming to illustrate and the possible connections among gamers throughout the world to critique the way that powerful people can, for profit and with the cooperation of governments, control the lives of the gamers, and presents unions as the best way of fighting back.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

The Four Fingers of Death. A Novel - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) (Little, Brown, 2010)
Dystopia. Complex comic novel about a failed Mars mission and the return from Mars of one arm and its experiences as it discovers the dystopia the U.S. has become.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Freedom Island - J. R. Sinclair (Secret Staircase Books, 2010)
The U.S. has become a liberal authoritarian dystopia, and to escape it a group establish a eutopia based on the free market on an island in the Pacific. Some of the people choose to return to the U.S. to start a reform movement based around removing all politicians from office.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Freedom™. A Novel - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Dutton, 2010)
Sequel to 2009 Suarez in which the flawed computers are destroying and rebuilding civilization, but the rebuilding is threatened by both populist revolt and corporate desire to destroy the system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Goin' Down to Anglotown" - William F. Wu (b. 1951) (The Dragon and the Stars, 2010)
Dystopia of future ethnic relations in the U.S. where Asian Americans now dominate on the coasts and the large cities. White ethnic enclaves exist primarily to service and prey on the dominant group. The story plays with the reversal of ethnic expectations.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Male author

“A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now Is the Best Time of Your Life” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Godlike Machines, 2010)
The story is about a transhuman teenager living in a post catastrophe (virus) dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle in his A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2011), 9-106. The book also includes his “Creativity vs. Copyright” (107-21), “‘Look for the Lake’ Cory Doctorow Interviewed by Terry Bisson” (123-34), a “Bibliography) (135-36).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up Up" - Jacques Barcia (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
A future of environmental restraint in Brazil that followed an environmental dystopia and a war to establish better practice. The focus of the story is a man tracing the trading of carbon by a corporation trying to avoid the laws.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Male author

"The Guy Who Worked For Money" - Benjamin [Micah] Rosenbaum (b. 1969) (Shareable Futures, 2010)
A completely connected society. Can be read as both a technological eutopia and a technological dystopia in that it clearly begins as the former but transitions to the latter. Everyone’s status is based on their contributions to society, but more importantly, how others evaluate those contributions. His “Falling.” Illus. Jacey. Nature 437.7058 (September 22, 2005): 594; rpt. Shareable Futures. http://shareable.net/blog/falling (July 7, 2010) is set in the same future.
Rpt. as “The Man Who Worked for Money.” In How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 79-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

H2O - Grant Calof (Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2010)
Graphic novel climate-change dystopia. First volume in a series, followed by H2O. Issue 2. Runnemede, NJ: Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2014; and H2O. Issue 3. Runnemede, NJ: Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2014 (Both EBooks), with the continuations simply continuing the story.
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Keywords: Male author; US author

Half Past Midnight - Jeff Brackett ([Red Adept Publishing], 2010)
Post-nuclear war survivalist dystopia with the emphasis on the immediate survival.Continued in The Road to Rejas: A Half Past Midnight Novella. Ebook, 2012. A more substantial sequel is Year 12: A Half Past Midnight Novel. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2017. 406 pp. which is set as the survivalists discover that civilization is being rebuilt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

He Walked Among Us - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Tor, 2010)
Dystopia. Long, complex novel focusing on a man from a dystopian future created because the biosphere was destroyed, and people live in sealed shopping malls. In the past (our present) the man hopes to stop the actions that brought about the future. The novel focuses on his activities in the present and the people who make him a media star.
First published in French translation as Il est parmi nous: roman. Trans. Sylvie Denis and Roland C. Wagner. Paris: Fayard, 2009.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Helix - J[effrey] L. Bryan (JLBryanbooks.com, 2010)
Religious dystopia of genetic engineering set in Earth’s orbital colonies in the twenty-eighth century. The aim of the religion is to manage evolution through genetically engineering the reproduction of their followers, who can, within some parameters, choose the characteristics of their children. The novel, though, is more concerned with conflict among the religion, whose priests have created new human forms that are rebelling, the Earth government, and a large corporate, all of whom hope to control the colonies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Human Blend - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) (del Rey, 2010)
Dystopia in which criminals are punished by surgically reshaping their bodies and genetic manipulation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Jackie's Boy" - Steve[n Earl] Popkes (b. 1955) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2010)
Dystopia of a collapsed and extremely violent U.S. where animals from zoos have escaped and are slowing making a place for themselves. The story focuses on a boy and talking elephants.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Johnny's New Job" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 2010)
Dystopia in which welfare officers are regularly killed by the people if any child is harmed.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Kinney and the Vaporworld. A Noah Novel - Noah Snider (Xlibris, 2010)
Dystopia of present and near future conditions countered by one man starting a movement based on small groups of people from varied backgrounds.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Christian. A Novel - David Gregory (WaterBrook Press, 2010)
Dystopia set in 2088 when the U.S. is no longer Christian and the struggle to re-introduce it.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Trumpet Project. A Novel - Kevin MacArdry ([lulu.com], 2010)
In a future in which a significant part of the population has been uploaded into computers and live their lives in alternative realities, both religion and government are set upon keeping power and destroying the hidden computer banks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Liberal Utopianism Is Destroying the United States: Liberal Secularism Is Destroying Our Christian Values - Charles Keitz (b. 1954) (Xulon, 2010)
The U.S. in 2010 as a dystopia as a resulting from liberal policies and liberalisms perceived attack on Christianity. Obama is said to be the forerunner of the coming of the Anti-Christ. Presented as non-fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Libertarian Russia" - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2010)
Dystopia of a future depopulated Russia that keeps rigid control of population centers seen through the eyes of someone who hopes to find a libertarian Russia but fails.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011), 468-76 with an editor’s introduction on 468.; and in his Not So Much, Said the Cat (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 182-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Life in the Anthropocene" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF, 2010)
Post-catastrophe society in which all humans live above or below the 45th parallel. Appears to be a high tech eutopia, but it is absolutely dependent on a fragile power supply. Extreme limits on uses of fossil fuels, so very little travel.
Rpt. in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 407-422.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Limping Man - Maurice [Gough] Gee (b. 1931) (Puffin Books, 2010)
Third volume in a series of related young adult dystopias. This volume sees the rise of a dictator in the city who controls his followers with an exceptionally strong mental control. He is ultimately defeated and the peaceful society that had been growing in the countryside is saved. See also 2007 and 2008 Gee.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Little Brother's World - T[homas] Jackson King Jr. (b. 1948) (Fantastic Books, 2010)
Dystopia of extreme rich poor divisions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Long Night" - J[effrey] L. Bryan (Dark Tomorrows, 2010)
Essentially a horror story, but the background is a religious dystopia.
Rpt. in Dark Tomorrows. 2nd ed. Ed. J[effrey] L. Bryan (Lexington, KY: CreateSpace, 2011), 202-17.
Keywords: Male author

The New Millennium - Dennis Pimm (Xlibris, 2010)
Authoritarian dystopia but with the emphasis on the opposition to it.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

New Model Army - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Gollancz, 2010)
In a sense this is a future war novel, but it is set in a future where it has become clear that Britain is ruled by similar competing oligarchy who periodically hold an election to give themselves a spurious legitimacy. The people are fed up and an army is created that is an Artificial Intelligence that is a real democracy in which everyone helps choose what it is to do.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 - Joel Kotkin (b. 1952) (Penguin Press, 2010)
A projection of the next forty years that is so optimistic that it can be read as a eutopia. America will solve all its problems and absorb a hundred million more people from a high birth rate and immigration with no serious problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Noise - Darin Bradley (Ballantine Books, 2010)
Dystopia of a future violent America with a eutopian enclave that holds hope for the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nostalgia" - Gene O'Neill (b. 1938) (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia of a world where immortality is available and those who fail the screening test become illegal and are hunted.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Of One Mind" - Shane [Michael] Tourtellotte (b. 1968) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2010)
Dystopia of a technique to surgically get terrorists to cooperate being used by the government on all those it considers threats. Related stories in Analog Science Fiction and Fact are "A New Man" 123.10 (October 2003): 49-61; "Acts of Conscience" 125.3 (March 2005): 8-29; and "Trial by Fire" 127.4 (April 2007): 8-43.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Orgasmachine - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (Newcon Press, 2010)
Dystopia in which women are manufactured to the specifications of their owners. Two revolt and free all women.
According to the author, the novel was written in the early seventies, published in French as Orgasmachine. Trans. Michel Pétris. Paris: Éditions Champ Libre, 1976 and in Japanese, revised, as Orugasumashin. Trans. Yutaka Ooshima. Tokyo: Koamagajin, 2001. Part was published as “Custom-Built Girl.” Cybersex [Subtitle on the cover Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms]. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (London: Raven Books, 1996). U.S. ed. (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 307-32.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Osama the Gun - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Wildside Press, 2010)
Dystopia in which descendants of Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), the al-Qaeda leader, have established a Caliphate in Pakistan and have nuclear weapons. The novel follows one such man who becomes a secret agent to escape the Caliphate and see the world.
Originally published as Oussama: Roman. Trans. Niki Copper. Paris: Fayard, 2010. First published in English as an ebook.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Overhead" - Jason Stoddard (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Earth had established a settlement on the moon but abandons it. The Earth is a corporate dystopia. The moon settlement is a very fragile eutopia with leaders chosen by lottery and everyone working for the community. It survives and manages to set off into space.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Overton Window - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964); Kevin Balfe; Emily Bestler; Jack Henderson (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2010)
Dystopia in which liberal attempts to take over the U.S. are thwarted. An “Afterword” (293-321) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Patriot League Civilian Border Patrol - Herman R. Willett (LuLu Publishing, 2010)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is declared an open country with free immigration. The Patriot League, which has been monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border, fights back and keeps those they consider illegal immigrants out. See also 2010 Willett The Patriot League Origins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Patriot League Origins - Herman R. Willett (LuLu Publishing, 2010)
Dystopia in which patriotic Americans are forced to band together to protect the border between the U.S. and Mexico. See also 2010 Willett, The Patriot League Civilian Border Patrol.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Paul Kishosha's Children" - Edgett, Ken (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Eutopia brought about by an individual scientist dedicating himself to effectively teaching science to African children. The story traces the transformation of a single African village where the scientist lives as the influence of his teaching gradually spreads throughout African and the rest of the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep” - Jason Sanford (Interzone, 2010)
An odd story in which, for unexplained reasons related to dreams, people from churches kill many people including both criminals and police.
Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 75-106.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pleasure Model - Christopher Rowley (b. 1948) (Tor, 2010)
Dystopia in which some women are created solely for the pleasure of their owners. See also 2010 Rowley, The Bloodstained Man.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Precedent" - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2010)
Dystopia. All those born in the twentieth century are assumed to be guilty of contributing to the destruction of the environment, which carries the death penalty.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 172-202. Merril
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Price of Tranquility - Arnold J. Inzko (Great Authors, 2010)
The novel begins in a technological eutopia in which the CNAS (Consolidated North American States) and the CSE (Consolidated States of Europe), both with female heads of state, cooperate but also have a very well-established secret service with cameras throughout the world. Issues arise around aliens in space, states outside these two, and a civilization underground. After various adventures, everything comes right.
Keywords: Male author

"Pump House Farm" - Hawkes-Reed, John (Dark Spires, 2010)
Dystopia in which radical environmentalists are the bad guys who, gaining power in England, shut down most power sources, overstate potential dangers, and institute a repressive regime.
Keywords: English author; Male author

PushBack - Alfred Wellnitz (iUniverse, 2010)
Dystopia. In 2033 the US experiences hyperinflation and disintegrates. One of the countries formed out of the former US is a white supremacist state and a black insurgency uses a nuclear bomb against it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Rediffusion” - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) (Never Again, 2010)
A Kafkaesque dystopia about a man caught in the judicial system.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Rivers of Gold. A Novel - Adam Dunn (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Near future dystopia of crime and violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rohan Nation: Reinventing America after the 2020 Collapse - Dr. Drew Miller (b. 1958) (Responsibility Press, 2010)
Post-catastrophe survivalist dystopia. A biological and electro-magnetic attack destroys the US. Libertarian perspective on the attempt to reinvent the country. Rohan means horse land and is an area in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Runners" - Christopher Snape (Aurealis: Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2010)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Rut. A Novel - Scott Phillips (b. 1961) (Concord Free Press, 2010)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive damage to the environment and continuing warfare.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sarging Rasmussen: A Report (by Organic)" - Sellar, Gord (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
The story is about techniques for influencing other people set among the people fighting against the environmental dystopia that has developed, but no one is presented positively.
Keywords: Canadian author; Malawian author; Male author; South Korean author

"Scheherazade Cast in Starlight" - Jason Andrew (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Revolution in the dystopia of contemporary Iran brought about through communications technology with the suggestion of the better society to follow.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Second Journey of the Magus” - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Subterranean, 2010)
The last surviving of the three Magi travels back to the Holy Land and discovers a land where Christ had given in to the temptation to rule the world. Israel is a eutopia, but he has to make his way through the remains of the slaughtered Roman army to reach it, and the rest of the world will be subdued in the same way.
Rpt. in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013. Ebook.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"Sense" - Tony Richards (Never Again, 2010)
Dystopia of the future of Britain under local-grown fascists, who first produce that immigrants who commit crimes be deported and gradually increase the restrictions. At the end all Jews are being rounded up.
Keywords: Male author

Ship Breaker - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2010)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in a world with a collapsed economy and environment and with extreme differences between rich and poor. A companion volume is 2012 Bacigalupi.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sic Semper Tyrannus: A novel of liberty and the future of America - Seamus Branaugh (Silver Lake Publishing, 2010)
Dystopia following the collapse of the U.S. and the establishment of walled city-states, which are beginning to fail, and the struggle to reestablish a functioning civilization.
Keywords: Male author

"The Solnet Ascendency" - Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Technological and sustainable eutopia in Vanuatu brought about through modern technology and the ability to get political support.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

“South of Autumn” - Joiner, Matt (Never Again, 2010)
The story focuses on an author who had been imprisoned and tortured and had all his books publicly burned by a fascist regime coming to terms with his fears even after its defeat.
Keywords: Male author

"Spindizzy" - Colin Harvey (Dark Spires, 2010)
Dystopia of a high tech, overpopulated future dominated by China and India. The story focuses on a very low-level businessman and his growing perception of the negative aspects of his society. The Spindizzies are a religious sect that are used as a scapegoat by the authorities.
Keywords: English author; Male author

State of Rebellion: A Pug Conner Novel. Book One - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) (CreateSpace, 2010)
The first volume in a dystopian series about a future U.S. facing both domestic and foreign terrorism and corporate power with growing restrictions on individual freedom. In this volume, California is considering seceding. See also 2010 Ryan, Uncivil Liberties and 2011 Ryan.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; US author

"A Stone Cast into Stillness" - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia where procreation is tightly controlled, and the bureaucrats are machines.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author

Strange Fire. The Anchor & Sophia: Book One - Tommy Wallach (b. 1982) (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2010)
A post-catastrophe young adult novel in which after an asteroid hits Earth, a religion blames the catastrophe on the science of the past, which is suppressed. In the novel, three young people, adherents to the religion, discover a community bent on rediscovering that science. First volume in a trilogy followed by Slow Burn. The Anchor & Sophia: Book Two. New York Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2018, which is a typical middle volume, complicating everyone’s lives and challenging their beliefs. The third volume is Scorched Earth. The Anchor & Sophia: Book Three. New York Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2020. It continues the many conflicts while coming to a resolution at the end.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Strange machine: A fair exchange?" - Taik Hobson (Nature, 2010)
Dystopia in which girls can no longer have children but must hire a machine, for which some trade body parts.
Keywords: Japanese author; Male author

Super Sad True Love Story. A Novel - Gary Shteyngart (b. 1972) (Random House, 2010)
Dystopian background to an odd love story. The dystopia is mostly concerned with the way high tech companies control people's lives. A related story is "Lenny Hearts Eunice." The New Yorker 86.17 (June 14 & 21, 2010): 92-103.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sword of My Mouth: A post-Rapture graphic novel - Jim Munroe (b. 1972) (IDW Publishing/No Media KIngs, 2010)
Related to 2007 Munroe. This novel moves the post-rapture action to Detroit, where people have turned the ruined city into farms and are beginning to be able to feed themselves, but problems arise.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Terra Tango 3" - James Reilly (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. with most people living in cubicles in huge, orbiting spaceships. The story focuses on a popular extremely violent TV program.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Their Faces Were Shining - Tim Wilson (Victoria University Press, 2010)
Satire on the rapture and its effects (See 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) and its effects.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Third Foundation Revealed - Dean Auger (James A. Rock & Co, 2010)
Despite the title, the novel is unrelated to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, but has affinities to his Second Foundation. Homo sapiens have conquered the galaxy, which will be destroyed within three hundred years without dramatic changes. Some experimental psychologists discover a way of raising very intelligent children who will have the ability to create a much better future. For Asimov’s Foundation series; see the note at 1982 Asimov Foundation’s Edge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Till the Eagle Screams - Paul Rawlings (Xlibris, 2010)
The contemporary U.S. as dystopia, and the beginnings of a violent revolutionary movement to combat it.
Keywords: Male author

"The Torturer" - Steve Duffy (1963) (Never Again, 2010)
The story is about the private life of an official torturer.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Travesty - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) (Titus Books, 2010)
The worst sort of slum living as dystopia. A number of individuals are presented who live in a building called the rathouse in the city of Travesty.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Uncivil Liberties: A Pug Conner Novel. Book Two - Gordon Ryan (1943-2012) (CreateSpace, 2010)
Second volume in a series. See 2010 Ryan, State of Rebellion and 2011 Ryan. In this volume, Congress gives significant additional powers to both traditional law enforcement agencies and private security firms.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; US author

Under the Harrow. A Novel - Mark Dunn (b. 1956) (Macadam/Cage, 2010)
The novel begins in an isolated community in a valley in Pennsylvania that is a Victorian eutopia based on the Bible, Charles Dickens (1812-70), and an old encyclopedia. It is destroyed by corporate greed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Underground Rising (Writers’ Café Press, 2010)
Dystopian stories set in the future of Creed’s three Underground novels. See 2007, 2010, and 2012 Creed. The stories are Greg Mitchell, “Ex-Communicator” (7-26), Lydia Daffenberg, “The Injection Site” (27-34), Terri Main, “Voices of the Underground” (35-39, 53-55, 72-75, 103-05, 112-15, 135-38), Frank Creed, “Natalia” (40-52), Stephen Leon Rice, “Bear Feat” (56-59), Gavin Patchett and Frank Creed, “Resolutions” (60-71), Karen McSpadden, “Daffodil Season” (76-93), Deborah Cullins Smith, “Solitaire” (94-102), Frank Creed, “The Last Newspaper” (106-11), Timothy Hicks and Frank Creed, “The Sandman Cometh” (116-27), Grace Bridges and Frank Creed, “Underground . . . Undersea” (128-34), and Frank Creed, “Whiskey in the Jar” (139-48).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Urbis Morpheos - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) (PS Publishing, 2010)
Dystopia in which two ecosystems appear to be in conflict, one natural and the other manufactured. Throughout the novel the latter is dominant and the natural exists only in enclaves.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Usurper - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) (Author, 2010)
Dystopia in which Russians and Al Qaeda destroy the US and a resistance movement is defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia for the Devil - James Parkes (Author, 2010)
An apparent eutopia is actually an authoritarian dystopia that appears to have been defeated at the end of the novel. In the sequel Utopia for the Devil: New Dawn. Np: Author, 2011, the dystopia remains and must be again defeated, which appears to have occurred by the end of the novel. According to a March 25, 2013, post on the author’s website, a complete rewriting of the two volumes, to be called Phantom Eden, is nearing completion.
2nd ed. without the subtitle on the cover. Np: Author, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Utopia Revisited - John B. Mooney (PublishAmerica, 2010)
A rewriting of 1516 More with Raphael Hythloday a visitor from a planet in the area of Alpha Centauri that is a eutopia. World government with information on geography. Free enterprise. Competition. Elected representatives and appointed bureaucrats are limited to one six-year term. Includes a constitution (Online 41-49/Book 92-104). The book also includes a “Utopianized Constitution of the State of Wyoming” (104-210) that is intended to “demonstrated the practicality of the utopian concepts” (Back Cover).
A note on the last page calls this the 2nd ed. Part originally published online at http://www.geocities.com/utopiarevisit [2001?].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Vaults - Toby Ball (St. Martin's Press, 2010)
The first volume of a series alternative history dystopias about the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. The Vaults are the huge depository that holds all the court records of the city for seventy years. The archivist discovers an anomaly which leads him and others to uncover the deep corruption that pervades the city. See also 2011 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Voyage to Utopias: A Fictional Guide Through Philosophy - Tony Fitzpatrick (Policy Press, 2010)
Visits to the utopias that will be produced by eight different political theories/ideologies. The author, who teaches Sociology at the University of Nottingham, compares the book to 1995 Lukes and Jostein Gaardner's (b. 1952) Sophie's World (Sofies verden 1991/English 1995). For additional material see http://www.policy-press.co.uk/resources/fitzpatrick.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Wall of Days - Alastair Bruce (b. 1972) (Umuzi, 2010)
Global warming dystopia. A man is living alone on an island where he voluntarily exiled himself and where it has been raining for ten years. The novel follows his choice to return to the mainland and confront his memories and then his return to the island.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; UK author

War of Attrition: Part Two of the Underground - Frank Creed (b. 1966) (Writers' Café Press, 2010)
Sequel to 2007 Creed with much the same themes. The underground Christian group known as The Body of Christ is attacked by the Federal Bureau of Terrorism. See also 2012 Creed and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.
Keywords: Male author; US author

WE - John Dickinson (b. 1962) (David Fickling Books, 2010)
Dystopia of an all-controlling state.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Web of Air. The Second Book of the Fever Crumb Series - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic, 2010)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 2009 Reeve. The series is a prequel to the Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, Fever Crumb meets a young man who wants to re-introduce manned flight, which is opposed by those in power. See also 2011 Reeve.
U.S. ed. New York Scholastic Press, 2011.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Yarn - Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books, 2010)
Companion to 2010 Armstrong. This novel is from the point og view of someone outside the corporate realm.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Yo, Tyrania - Ric Weiss (Outskirts Press, 2010)
Humorous dystopian satire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The 2012 Revolution - Herman R. Willett (Lulu Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia of a liberal tyranny with Barack Obama (b. 1961) becoming president-for-life followed by a conservative counter-revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2034 - Robert Renfield (Eloquent Books, 2009)
Mostly adventure but includes a primitive village society in a different world that is clearly better than contemporary society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2034: The Corporation Post 2012 - Whistler, Mark (Author, 2009)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is failing due to the actions of politicians, and the media and the people vote to get rid of the Constitution and replace it with a Social Enterprise Stock Ownership Country (SEESOC), which builds walls along the borders with Canada and Mexico to keep Americans in and under the corporation and the Security Services. Americans are essentially enslaved and tagged with a barcode.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2045: A Story of Our Future - Peter Seidel (b. 1926) (Prometheus Books, 2009)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084 - Combe, Kirk (Mayhaven Publishing, 2009)
High tech corporate dystopia with one corporation controlling the entire world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Accord - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Solaris. BL Publishing, 2009)
The Accord is a virtual world that brings together all the desires of all people throughout the world and can be entered at death. It is presented as a eutopia for all. The current world is an authoritarian dystopia, and the novel is driven by the desire of the authoritarian leader to destroy a couple in The Accord.
Parts were published in a different form as “The Accord.” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Ed. George Mann (Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris Books, 2007), 301-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 461-79 with an editor’s introduction on 461; and “The Man Who Built Heaven.” Postscripts, no. 15 (Summer 2008): 24-31.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"After Everything Woke Up" - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) (Interzone, 2009)
Ecological eutopia in which humans can read the minds of even inanimate material such as rocks. The eutopian elements are a small part of the story.
Also published in his Hylozoic (New York: Tor, 2009), 15-31 where it is the first chapter of the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Car - Kingsley [L.] Dennis; John Urry (1946-2016) (Polity, 2009)
Primarily a discussion of the effects of the car and the desirability of eliminating it, but it also includes three brief scenarios of a carless life, "local sustainability", "local warlordism", and "digital networks of control". Only the first is eutopian.
Keywords: English author; Male author

American Apocalypse: The Beginning - [Steve (Stephen)] [Campbell] (1957-2012) (Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2009)
Dystopia. Mostly adventure, but the series traces the stages of an American version of the apocalypse brought on by the economic collapse of 2008. The second volume is American Apocalypse II: Refuge. By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2010 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com]; the third volume is American Apocalypse III: Migration. By Nova [pseud]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2010 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com]. In both these volumes a small group of people struggle to survive, and others join them. In the fourth volume American Apocalypse IV: Rescue. By Nova [pseud.]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com], recovery is beginning. A further volume is American Apocalypse: Wastelands. By Nova [pseud.]. Berkeley CA: Ulysses Press, 2011. This volume, like the others, is mostly adventure with a focus on those trying to survive and salvage something of what was once good in America. Related volumes include his The Chosen. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Previously published unedited at http://the americanapocalypse.blogspot.com], a survivalist novel, Gardener Summer [The cover adds Includes the Short Story, “The Lion.”]. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2011 [Originally published as an ebook in 2010], which is concerned with violent conflict in a section of a city in a collapsing U.S. in a world where China is economically dominant; and Gardener Winter. Np: Flying Turtles of Doom Press, 2012, in which the protagonist is an old man and faces one more challenge.
Rev. as American Apocalypse: The Collapse Begins. By Nova [pseud.]. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2011
Keywords: Male author; US author

America's Future. A Novel - Dan Mason (Infinity Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia centered around an age-old conspiracy by the Illuminati to establish global rule, which they have succeeded in doing.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Animals - Don LePan (b. 1954) (Véhicule Press, 2009)
Dystopia in which almost all food animals have become extinct and the handicapped and others who are considered unfit become food.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2010.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Antidote" - Russ Colson (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2009)
Dystopian fantasy of two very similar peoples at war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Assignment Yggdrasil. Democracy. . .By Any Means - Chris[topher James] Dubey (Chipmunkapublishing The Mental Health Publisher, 2009)
Dystopia set in 2006 in which a potential terrorist attack is used by the U. S. Department of Defense as an excuse for greater control. Those thought to be mentally ill are used in the plot, Mental illness is a theme throughout the novel. Includes a bibliography (213-217), a glossary (218-219), and a list of sources consulted (219-243). The revised edition focuses more on the development of genetically engineering a virus to create transhumans and the way the government infect many citizens with the same virus by introducing into food, drink, and medicine.
Rev. ed. Luton, Eng.: Andrews UK/Auk Authors, 2014. 205 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bad Tuesdays: Twisted Symmetry - Benjamin J. Myers (b. 1967) (Orion Children's Books, 2009)
First of six volumes of a series of young adult dystopias. Thousands of children are being stolen by the Twisted Symmetry, somehow connected with its goal of immortality. It is opposed by the Committee. The three Tuesday children, who are street children and known as the Bad Tuesdays, may be a key to the situation. In the second volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Strange Energy. London: Orion, 2009, the Tuesday children help the Committee. The third volume, The Bad Tuesdays: Blood Alchemy. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2010 follows the adventures of one of the Tuesday children. The Bad Tuesdays: The Nonsuch King. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 follows the continuing adventures of all three of the Tuesday children. And in The Bad Tuesdays: A Crystal Horsemen. London: Orion’s Children’s Books, 2011 two of the Tuesday children have been captured by the Twisted Symmetry. In The Bad Tuesdays: The Spiral Horizon. London: Orion Children’s Books, 2012 all the conflicts are resolved, at least temporarily.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe: The Return of Nephilim - Michael C. Thorp (Free House Publishing, 2009)
Young adult adventure novel that includes a dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Bradbury Report. A Novel - Steven Polansky (Weinstein Books, 2009)
Dystopia. A future U.S. where most people have a clone for use in medical care. The clones are kept in Clearances, areas of the U.S. that have been cleared of their previous residences, such as the Dakotas. The novel is about a man whose clone wanders off a Clearance and his attempts to save it from being captured and killed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Brain Jack - Brian Falkner (b. 1962) (Random House, 2009)
Young adult dystopia in which the web can be fed directly to the brain.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

A Brief History of the Recent Future: A Dystopian Fantasy - David Manning (dhm imPRESSions. LuLu.com, 2009)
Humor and satire on the 1970s, and written then, that projects that period into a dystopian future.
Parts were originally published in The Sun (Chapel Hill, NC), The Guide (Durham, NC), and The Record (Hackensack, NJ)
Keywords: Male author; US author

Broken Arrow - Paul Kane (b. 1973) (Abaddon Books, 2009)
A volume in the Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of the violent world after a plague. Includes “The Man Who Would Not Be King” [295-318] by Scott Andrews. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, and 2010 Andrews.
Keywords: Male author

"Bunsen versus the Republic" - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) (Living as a Moon, 2009)
Satire in which, after it is discovered that vegetables feel pain, it is illegal to eat vegetables.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Buyout - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) (Ballantine Books, 2009)
Capitalist dystopia in which a murderer can choose death in exchange for a payment to the heirs of a percentage of the estimated cost of life imprisonment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Caryatids - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Ballantine Books, 2009)
An SF novel with fantasy elements set in an environmental dystopia. China is the only remaining nation state and has a drastically reduced population. The Acquis is a green enclave creating a networked utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Contact With Chaos - Michael Z. Williamson (b. 1967) (Baen, 2009)
A newly discovered wealthy planet becomes the focus of a conflict among the authoritarian United Nations forces of Earth, the libertarians of Freehold, and a group of do-gooders saying the people should be left alone.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Daemon. A Novel - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Dutton, 2009)
Dystopia in which the entire world is run by computers that develop a glitch. See also 2010 Suarez.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Dark Coffee, Bright Light and the Paradoxes of Omnipotence" - Ben Burgis (People of the Book ([In Hebrew]): A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2009)
Dystopia of a future where the Palestinians defeated Israel and now treat Jews the way Israel treat the Palestinians and the way this turns a secular Jew into a suicide bomber.
Originally published in AtomJack Magazine (October 2009), an online journal that is no longer available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Death Got No Mercy - Al Ewing (b. 1977) (Abaddon Books, 2009)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of extreme violence. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 439-623.
Keywords: Male author

"Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse" - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020); Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) (Live Without a Net, 2009)
Dystopia in which computers are DNA based and, in each person, because terrorist viruses had completely destroyed the possibility of silicon-based computers and the Web. The result is extreme isolation and terrorist attacks on any gathering of people.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Dominion - J[effrey] L. Bryan (Author, 2009)
Dystopia of a future world largely under the control of the U.S., which is led by a capitalist, fundamentalist religious group of men who have abolished all freedoms and placed everyone under constant surveillance. The protagonist is a news reader who knows that he is reading lies. Ends with a nuclear war with China.
Keywords: Male author

"Eighth Wonder” - Chris Bachelder (b. 1971) (McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
A climate change dystopia with people living inside a flooded domed stadium and beginning to build a better life there.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 341-61.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Far North - Marcel [Raymond] Theroux (b. 1968) (Faber and Faber, 2009)
A global warming dystopia in which most of the world's civilizations have collapsed and violence is the norm.
U.S. ed. "in slightly different form" New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve (b. 1966) (Scholastic Press, 2009)
Young adult dystopia. First volume of a series that is a prequel to his Mortal Engines series; see 2001 Reeve. In this volume, a young woman named Fever Crumb lives in a society that does not consider women rational, but she is a member of the elite Engineers. See also 2010 and 2011 Reeve.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Finitude - [Alistair] Hamish MacDonald (b. 1969) (Published and hand-bound by the author, 2009)
Climate-change dystopia. The novel begins in a future that pretends it has solved the catastrophe brought on by climate-change. Rationing and other limits have been removed; technology has supposedly solved problems like pollution and waste disposal. All food is synthetic. But the ice that remains continues to melt and some of it is releasing massive amounts of methane. It is possible to buy a subscription to a service that protects the person from “all targeted messaging” (2).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The First Stone - Elliott Hall (b. 1978) (John Murray, 2009)
Dystopia of a U.S. under religious fundamentalism. The first volume of the Strange Trilogy. Continued in his The Rapture: The Innocent Disappear First. London: John Murray, 2010; and The Children’s Crusade: Only One Man Stands In Their Way. London: John Murray, 2011.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author

Forever Pleasure: A Utopian Novel - Theodore [R.] Eastman (iUniverse, 2009)
Eutopia. A man from the 1980s travels to 2076 where he finds a technological eutopia, which is described in some detail. But the novel begins with a being who had been downloaded into a machine many millennia ago who is chasing the last remaining intelligent beings in the nearby galaxies to force them to become part of the Hedonistic Expansion Crusade. The two ultimately come into conflict, a conflict that is resolved with the machine intelligences, posthuman, and transhumans all cooperating.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Forgive Them Their Trespasses” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2009)
Theocratic dystopia.
Originally published online in Afterburn SF (March 2009). No longer available.  Also published as a twelve-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2015]. No longer available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Galatea’s Stepchildren” - Sam S. Kepfield (b. 1963) (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2009)
In a post-plague U.S. where everything has disintegrated, android women are created, officially for work but mostly used sexually. It is illegal to educated them, but a man allows one to read.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Goldstein - Troy [J.] Grice (Trafford Publishing, 2009)
Dystopia of a future fascist U.S. controlled by twelve corporate cartels. The free state of Goldstein, using advanced Chinese technology, overthrows the cartels by disabling their technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Good Humor Man, Or, Calorie 3501 - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) (Tachyon Publications, 2009)
Dystopia where it is illegal to eat fattening foods.
Keywords: Male author

Grasses of a Thousand Colors - William Shawn (b. 1943) (Theatre Communications Group, 2009)
Post-catastrophe (pandemic) dystopia background to a play the focuses on the sexual fantasies and memories of the main character, who caused the pandemic. Play that opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, May 18, 2009.
Rpt. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2014. U.K. ed. London: Nick Hern Books, 2009.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Guerilla Infrastructure HOWTO" - Hawkes-Reed, John (Future Bristol, 2009)
The story describes the beginnings of a ecological eutopia in a corporate controlled future with dystopian elements.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Heart for the Assassin. A Novel - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) (Scribner, 2009)
Dystopia. Sequel to 2006 and 2008 Ferrigno. This volume continues most of the themes of the earlier ones with only partial resolutions of the conflicts.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hope - Aaron [S.] Zelman (1946-2010); L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor, 2009)
Libertarian dystopian political thriller where a President of the U.S. tries to uphold the libertarian version of the Second Amendment to the Constitution on the right to carry weapons.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Human Disguise - [James O.] [Born] (b. 1960) (Tor, 2009)
Dystopia about aliens warring on an Earth where Germany threatens Europe, New York City has been obliterated in a nuclear attack, and Miami is a prison.
Keywords: Male author

In Sparta - Mark Wagstaff (Matador, 2009)
The novel is set in a near future dystopian London in which a disaffected man becomes a bomb maker.
Keywords: Male author

“In the Event Of” - Arditti, Michael (When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology, 2009)
Although the protagonist is a clone, the story is set in an underground, technological dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"In the Forests of the Night" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder, 2009)
A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a city in Northern California based on sharing that is mostly underground to protect it from its predatory, capitalist neighbors.
Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 13-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Tor, 2009)
Young adult dystopia. Sequel to and expansion of his Julian: A Christmas Story (2006). Julian Comstock is a secularist who believes in evolution in a society that rejects both.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Killswitch Review - Steven-Elliot Altman (b. 1968); Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse (Yard Dog Press, 2009)
Dystopia set in 2156 when it is possible to live as long as one wants. Since overpopulation is a threat, contraception is compulsory, and the U.S. has closed its borders. The focus of the novel is technologically assisted suicide, and the Killswitch is a handheld suicide device that is officially called the Kevorkian Unit, named after Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) who was found guilty of second-degree murder for his work in assisting people to kill themselves and spent 1999-2007 in prison. Given the lack of opportunity, young people are illegally killing themselves.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Last Word. Writer's Block" - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) (RSA Journal, 2009)
Dystopian satire in which the Ministry of Fiction controls the production of fiction. Writers work in offices at desks set in long rows and produce fiction on topics they are set.
An extract was published as “Ministry of Fiction.” The Guardian Review (March 4, 2009): 5.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Light of Day - James Byrd (Booksurge, 2009)
Dystopia in which the environmental movement has gained power throughout the world and forced everyone underground as a means of protecting nature. An enclave of survivalists continues to live above ground, fight back, and win.
Keywords: Male author

"Long Stay" - Ian Watson (b. 1943) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three, 2009)
Dystopia. The Luton-Stansted car park stretches for twenty-six miles between the two airports with crops growing among the cars. The story focuses on people who got stuck in the car park and have ended up living there permanently.
Rpt. in his The 1000 Year Reich and Other Stories ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 189-99 with an author’s note on 199.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Lost in sun and silence: The Golden Age of Communications" - Vincenzo Palermo (Nature, 2009)
Dystopia. In a world of constant connectivity, a man tries to escape to silence.
Keywords: Italian author; Male author

Makers - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2009)
A high-tech eutopia begins to transform the U.S., but then the economy collapses producing a dystopia. Various eutopian and dystopian scenarios follow.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"Making Memories: You must remember this . . ." - Frizell, John (Nature, 2009)
Eutopia is created by implanting memories. Aggressive people have peaceful memories implanted and so forth. Can also be read as a dystopia with memories implanted as a means of social control.
Keywords: Male author

Mariposa - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Vanguard Press, 2009)
Primarily a thriller but with dystopian elements describing a near future U.S. in economic decline.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Memory Wall" - Anthony Doerr (b. 1973) (McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
Dystopia in a future South Africa in which people’s memories are harvested, taped, and sold to the wealthy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mercury Station - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) (Semiotext(e), 2009)
Loosely a prequel to 2005 von Schlegell and called the second volume in his “System Series.” This volume begins in a juvenile detention center on Mercury run mostly by out-of-date robots and focuses on time travel. See also 2015 von Schlegell. In addition, see 2011 von Schlegell.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Metamorphosis of Samuel Freeman: A Prophetic Look at the Prospects for the Human Race in the Year 2000 in a World of Ten Billion - Kent H. Wilcoxson (Trafford, 2009)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mind Over Ship - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Tor, 2009)
Sequel to 2005 Marusek. This volume includes struggles among clones, artificial intelligences, and wealthy immortals. See also 1999 Marusek.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mohammed's Angel" - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) (Overland, 2009)
Dystopia of religious conflict.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

“Mr Goop” - Ivor W. Hartmann (African Writing online, 2009)
Post-global warming dystopia set in Africa with extreme differences between the rich and poor. The story focuses on a poor boy.
Rpt. in The Apex Book of World SF 2 (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2012), 16-29.
Keywords: Male author; Zimbabwean author

"The Netherlands Lives With Water" - Jim Shepard (b. 1956) (McSweeney's Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
Dystopia of global warming with Holland struggling to stay above the sea.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 143-71.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Terra and Beyond: The Expanding Human Universe - Richard Michael (Xlibris, 2009)
Religious dystopia set on a colony planet which is provided with advanced technology but where the people are afraid to use it. A religious leader who opposes its use targets those who use it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

One Second After - William R. Forstchen (b. 1950) (Tor/Forge, 2009)
Dystopia in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages. First volume of a trilogy. His One Year After. New York: Forge Books, 2015, is set in one small community as it begins to recover from the events of the earlier novel, but it has to face the forces of a supposed national government that wants to take control of their lives. In The Final Day. New York: Tor/Forge. 2016, a push by a new, authoritarian government tries to bring the group into line, but they manage to stay relatively free. The author is a professor of History at Montreat College in North Carolina.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" - Ralph Nader (b. 1934) (Seven Stories Press, 2009)
The author calls it a "practical utopia" in which the "super-rich", led by the billionaire Warren Buffett (b. 1930) and others he recruits organize a program to reform America.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Operation Motherland - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) (Abaddon Books, 2009)
A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series in sequel to 2007 Andrews. This volume follows events in various countries. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 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

Perfect Union - Goodfellow, Cody (Swallowdown Press, 2009)
Dystopia of an intentional community as a human hive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pet: An exercise in control" - Bob James (Nature, 2009)
Satire on automation in which an android housekeeper replaces a woman.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) (Harper Perennial, 2009)
Dystopian satire. The "Freedom Coalition" is attacking all anti-capitalists, and the fundamentalist right is growing in strength.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Raw Water" - Wells Tower (b. 1973) (McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D., 2009)
The story is set in a dystopian future U.S. southwest where an attempt to mitigate climate change has gone badly wrong.
Keywords: Male author; US author