"Seniorsource" - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) (Fast Forward, 2008)
SF story with a dystopian background. Generational conflict has placed many old people in orbiting satellites or on the moon with settlement of Mars in process. This has impoverished Earth. “The old were warehoused with the  terminally ill, and depending on how much money they had, they either got personal care or they didn’t” (275).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden - Cameron Pierce (b. 1988) (Eraserhead Press, 2008)
Satire in the Bizarro mode on the Garden of Eden, which is visited by religious fanatics from the future who find that it is nothing like they expected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shift - Charlotte Agell (b. 1959) (Henry Holt, 2008)
Young adult religious dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish author; US author

"Sideways (Excerpt from forthcoming novel, Compostable)" - Sharon Wachsler (b. 1969) (Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, 2008)
Dystopia extrapolated from current political and social conditions, particularly a projection of extreme discrimination against the disabled.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sins of the Assassin. A Novel - Robert Ferrigno (b. 1948) (Scribner, 2008)
Dystopia. Sequel to 2006 Ferrigno. See also 2009 Ferrigno. In this volume, the U.S. disintegrates further, and factions fight each other in all of its segments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Sky Inside - Clare B[unkalew] Dunkle (b. 1964) (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008)
Flawed utopia of genetically engineered children living in a suburban dome, which is supposed to be eutopian, and the need for one of the children to venture outside. See also 2009 Dunkle.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stretto: Book Five of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2008)
Final volume. See also 2005, 2006, and 2007 (2) Duchamp. This volume stresses the utopian elements, basically feminist and liberal, but the various political struggles continue, and there is no clear resolution at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Suffer the Children" - Barbara Nickless (Future Americas, 2008)
Dystopia in which children are kept as slaves in mines.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Switching to Goddess: Humanity’s Ticket into the Future - Jeri Lyn Studebaker (b. 1948) (O Books, 2008)
Mostly a non-fiction exposition of the author’s views on the good society of Neolithic times that she argues was based on goddesses and the problems related to losing the goddess, but the section “The Fix” (238-70) lays out the eutopia she sees arising from “switching to goddess.” It is “peaceful and fiercely environmentally conscious” with communities organized around particular local goddesses who encourage societies that are “playful, risk-taking, sensual, peaceful, and exhilarating.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

They Is Us: A Cautionary Horror Story. Including special supplementary material 'Lonely Bob' by Willow Hunt - Tama Janowitz (b. 1957) (The Friday Project, 2008)
Odd dystopia of extreme pollution, violence, and general decay set in U.S.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Truancy - Isamu Fukui (b. 1990) (Tor, 2008)
School as dystopia. The authoritarian mayor of a city rules the school system and its teachers and students. Revolt by the students. His Truancy Origins. New York: Tor, 2009, is a prequel in which two children are raised by the authoritarian mayor of a city dedicated to a harsh educational system. Truancy City. New York: Tor Teen, 2012, focuses on the struggle between the truants and those controlling the city with the city ultimately abandoned and destroyed. The author was fifteen when he wrote the first novel, and it was published in Italian and Spanish translations before being published in English.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Under the Amoral Bridge. A Cyberpunk Novel Originally told in Serial Blog Form - Gary A. Ballard ([CreateSpace], 2008)
Corporate dystopia. The Know Circuit. The Bridge Chronicles, Book 2. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2010 is a sequel. More material can be found at http://www.bridgechronicles.info.
Originally published serially between January and August 2008 on line at http://amoralbridge.blogspot.com.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unholy Domain - Dan Ronco (Kunati, 2008)
Dystopia. Cyberterrorism produces a world-wide economic collapse and results in conflict between supporters and opponents of technology, with the latter developing into a religion. Preceded by his PeaceMaker. Waterville, OH: Winter Wolf, 2004, which sets the stage for this novel, and followed by 2010 Ronco.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Unnameables - Ellen Booraem (Harcourt, 2008)
Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements about a strict community that only gives names to acceptable things.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Valley of Day-Glo - Nick DiChario (Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008)
Humorous dystopia set on a future desolate Earth where the protagonist searches for a legendary valley that still has plants and animals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Valley-Westside War - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2008)
Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for the purpose of harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a post-nuclear war future, Los Angeles is divided into small enclaves that at are at war with.  Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, and 2007 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

“The Wimmin of Our Dreams” - Jae Haggard (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
Lesbian eutopia. Extract/summary of her book The Wimmin of Our Dreams. Outland, NM: Author, [1995].
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Womelia of Estesusa” - Ellen Williams (Sinister Wisdom, 2008)
A lesbian eutopia with New Age elements that contrasts the over-busy, over-populated, polluted Earth with an alternative peaceful eutopia in which the world is cared for and produces plenty for all.
Keywords: Female author; US author

World Made by Hand - James Howard Kunstler (b. 1948) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of a post-oil America set in Union Grove, NY, with no electricity, few resources, terrorism, bandits, and cults. First of four volumes. The second volume is The Witch of Hebron. A World Made by Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010, which is set a few months in the future. The third volume is A History of the Future: A World Made By Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014, in which the situation in the United States, which has broken up into three independent countries, is described together with the re-emergence of the traditional American small-town, which is present very positively, albeit with problems. The final volume is The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand Novel. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016 in which the town is cut off further by a landowner with feudal aspirations and a radical group wants to establish the Berkshire Peoples Republic.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2050. A Novel - Dave Borland (Red Anvil Press, 2007)
In 2050, the United States has broken up into seven new countries, all facing drought. The Pittsburgh aquifer, controlled by Atlantica, is a source of contention and of possible reunification.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2050 Volume One: Gods of Little Earth. A Novel - J[oseph] Zornado (SpeculativeFictionReview, 2007)
First volume in a trilogy set in a post-apocalyptic 2050 that is primarily concerned with a struggle between good and evil. Continued in his 2050: A Future History Volume II: The Power at the Bottom of the World. A Novel. Np: Iron Diesel Press, 2012; and 2050 When Immortals Reign. A Future History Volume 3. West Warwick, RI: Merry Blacksmith Press, 2015.
[Rev. ed.] as 2050: A Future History, Volume I: Gods of Little Earth. Np: Iron Diesel Press, 2011. There is no reference to the earlier publication in the 2011 version.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2060: A Love Story in a Utopian Future - Janette Rainwater (iUniverse, 2007)
A virus has killed most men, but women have used sperm banks to create a multi-racial society and produce a group of boys. As the boys grow up, they question the system, but by 2072 and the end of the novel the issues have been resolved and a good, well-integrated society exists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

29 Inches - Mark Amerika (Chiasmus Press, 2007)
Dystopian cyberpunk poem.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Accidental Time Machine - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (Ace Books, 2007)
A doctoral student at MIT accidentally invents a time machine and travels into the future. At his first stop, people are aware of his invention, although they cannot replicate it, and he is honored. His second stop is a dystopian theocracy that has rejected all knowledge of the past. The third stop is highly developed technologically with an economy based on barter in which everyone is rich. It is said to be boring. Various other stops are treated briefly.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Adolf in Wonderland - Carlton Mellick III (b. 1977) (Avant Punk Books, 2007)
Alternative future dystopia in which Germany won World War II and established the National Socialist version of a utopia. A search for imperfect humans reveals a weird isolated society. Part of a literary movement called Bizarro, which refers to fiction with a stress on weirdness and absurdism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After the Patriarchy" - Jay [John Barrett] McInerney (b. 1955) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Sex role reversal satire with the emphasis on sex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

AmericA, Inc. In Corporation We Trust. A Novel in Stream of Voice - David [B.] Lentz (Wordsworth Greenwich Press, 2007)
Corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days - Matthew Moses (Booklocker.com, 2007)
Dystopia of a war between Heaven and Hell with Earth a neutral zone. Armageddon (See Revelation 16).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Atlanteans: A Contemporary Novel. An adventure romance, in an unusual setting, leading to a story of mystery and suspense - Dorothy Cora Moore (iUniverse, 2007)
New Age eutopia. Although much of the novel is concerned with Atlanteans in the contemporary U.S., it includes a description of a eutopian Atlantis at the time of its collapse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq’ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2007)
Sequel to 2005, 2006, and 2007 Duchamp, Tsunami. See also 2008 Duchamp. In this volume the aliens return to see whether or not Earth should be quarantined.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blood Kin - Ceridwen Dovey (b. 1980) (Penguin Books (South Africa), 2007)
Dystopia in which two authoritarian leaders struggle for power as seen through the eyes of aids to one of them, who has been captured by the other.
U.K. ed. London: Atlantic, 2007. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2008.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; South Korean author; US author

"Blue Messiah" - Steve Almond (b. 1966) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of the United States divided between a fundamentalist religious South and a libertine North.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Boomsday. A Novel - Christopher Buckley (Twelve/Hachette, 2007)
The epigram is “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt,” quoting Herbert Hoover in an address to the National Republican Conference in 1936. The novel is a political satire set in a near future of generational conflict where the children of the Baby Boomers revolt against paying for the good life in retirement of their parents and urge “Transitioning” or voluntary euthanasia at seventy-five while Congress keeps raising the Social Security tax to pay greater benefits to the retired.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"By Fools Like Me" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
Environmental dystopia. Post-catastrophe dystopia that worships the nature that has been destroyed.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of The Year, Volume Two. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 199-209; in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015),186-99; and in The Best of Nancy Kress (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 255-67, with an “Afterword to ‘By Fools Like Me” (268).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"BYOB FAQ: It's all you've ever wanted" - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Nature, 2007)
Brief description of a future where women are able to purchase a mate especially designed for them. Some are also available for purchase by gay men. Whether a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Café Culture" - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
A future New York City with constant religious suicide bombers of all faiths.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

The City Beyond Play - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009); Danny Adams (PS Publishing, 2007)
In a eutopian future where everyone can have whatever they want, an area has been set aside where people have recreated a cleaned-up middle ages. Rather than go through the therapy required in the larger society, a murderer chooses exile in the medieval area, which has fallen away from the eutopian vision of its founder. The novel is largely adventure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"C-Rock City" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014); Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, 2007)
Authoritarian dystopia of a society that had been based on slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dark Net - James R. Riordon ([LuLu.com], 2007)
Cyberpunk dystopia and catastrophe in the near future with a focus on the underground both in and outside the net. Based on the blognovel The Dark Net www.the-dark-net.blogspot.com.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Darkest Days - Stanley Gallon (Pan Books, 2007)
Dystopia. Collapse of civilization driven by competition among countries for the few remaining natural resources.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Desert Called Peace - Tom [Thomas P.] Kratman (b. 1956) (Baen, 2007)
The novel, generally classified as military SF, begins with a man’s family being killed by Safafi from the Caliphate (See 2008 Kratman) and continues throughout the novel and all its sequels to detail his revenge. Sequels include Carnifex. New York: Baen, 2007; The Lotus Eaters. New York: Baen, 2010; The Amazon Legion. New York: Baen, 2011; Come and Take Them. New York: Baen, 2013; and The Rods and the Axe. New York: Baen, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Designing the Future - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (The Venus Project, 2007)
Technological eutopia with designs for many different projects. Law will be necessary, and people will be changed. See also 1995 and 2002 Fresco, 1969 Keyes and Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dr. Id-entity, OR, Farewell to Plaquedemia. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book One of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition - D. Harlan Wilson (b. 1971) (Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City, 2007)
Dystopian humor and satire with a stress on violence. His Codename Prague. An Unfinished Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book Two of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City, 2011 continues the same themes. The third volume of the trilogy is The Kyoto Man. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel “Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow” Book Three of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Bliptown, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Drosophila - Nick Sapien (PublishAmerica, 2007)
Dystopia in which initially a machine is developed that gives I.Q. within three points. This produces a rigid caste society. Things get worse when someone develops a means of enhancing intelligence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Electric Church - Jeff Somers (b. 1971) (Orbit, 2007)
Violent, authoritarian dystopia controlled by the cyborg monks of a new religion. See also 2008 Somers.
U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Empyre - Josh [Joshua M.] Conviser (b. 1974) (Ballantine Books, 2007)
Sequel to 2006 Conviser. In this volume, the network's rule has ended but others step in to continue control, and the novel is about the fight against this group, known as the Empyre.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Far Side of the Moon” - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) (Ideomancer [An online journal], 2007)
Dystopia of women enslaved for sex tourists on a space platform.
Keywords: Female author; US author

First Light - Rebecca Stead (b. 1968) (Wendy Lamb Books, 2007)
Young adult flawed utopia. Gracehope is a community next to a lake in the ice under Greenland that had been established by people suspected of witchcraft and driven nearly to extinction. A eutopian society based on peace and cooperation was created, but it has grown to where it must limit births, and conservatives resist expansion, which would require a trip to the surface proposed by a young woman.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Flashpoint: Book One of the Underground - Frank Creed (b. 1966) (The Writers' Café Press, 2007)
Dystopia set in 2036 in which Christian patriots struggle against a left tyranny. There is a role-playing game available. See 2010 Creed, War of Attrition, 2012 Creed, and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flet: A Novel - Joyelle McSweeney (b. 1976) (Fence Books, 2007)
Dystopia in which U.S. cities have been abandoned in face of a faked bioterrorist “Emergency” that allows the government to extend its control and further manipulate the population. A related volume is her Nylund, the Sarcographer. Grafton, VT: Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007.
Excerpts were originally published as “The Missing Cities (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel).” Caffeine Destiny http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/mcsweeney.html; “Novella Excerpts from Flet and Nyland.” Fairy Tale Review (No. 2? The Green Issue); and “Airlines (Excerpt from Flet a Sci-Fi Novel”) Apocryphal Text 1.4. (nd) http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/vol1_issue_4.html; “The Seed Vision (from Flet).” Cutbank Poetry 1.65 (2006): Article 55; ; and “from Flet. A Novel.” Fence 10. 1 & 2 (Fall 2007 - Winter 2008): 6-8.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Four Hundred Thousand” - Livia Llewellyn (b. 1963) (Subterranean Press, 2007)
The story is set in a future where Earth is supposedly at war with aliens and girl’s eggs are drafted into the military after her first period.
Rpt. in her Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Freedom Station Occoquan. A Novel - Cris[tobal] Alvarez (Author, 2007)
Dystopia in the U.S. after a second civil war and the development of a national security state. The ending suggests a sequel will be forthcoming.
Keywords: US author

The Gladiator. Crosstime Traffic--Book Four - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Tor, 2007)
Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a future Italy under Communist rule and Russian domination. The novel focuses on a young women who stands for greater freedom. Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, 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

"Good Old Days" - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) (The Future We Wish We Had, 2007)
Satire. A man in a highly technological eutopia discovers the pleasures of doing something for himself.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Grey - Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books, 2007)
Corporate dystopia see from some raised in the corporate enclave. See also 2010 Armstrong.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Guardener's Tale - Bruce Boston (Sam's Dot Publishing, 2007)
Dystopia with a totally conditioned population that has an almost completely controlled but apparently full life under the watchful eye of the Guardeners. The novel follows one man with whom the conditioning did not take.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"If We Can Save Just One Child..." - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2007)
Dystopia that focuses on the fear that develops as genetic engineering is misused.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Bushes" - Jami Attenberg (b. 1971) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of an environmentally damaged disintegrating U.S.
Rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 140-44.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Islander: A Romance of the Future - Charles Whittlesey (b. 1955) (np, 2007)
Dystopia in the US in 2155 when there two Americas, one rich and one poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"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

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 Boy: A Reporter at Large” - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Eclipse One, 2007)
Post-catastrophe dystopia following a nuclear attack on Baltimore. The story is about a boy who lost his memory.
Rpt. in her After the Apocalypse. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 87-99.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Love, American Style, 2033" - Darcy Cosper (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Satire. Competitive swinging becomes the national pastime but excludes same-sex couples and thus the U.S., which is the only country that excludes them, does not participate in international competitions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Margarets - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (HarperCollins, 2007)
A science fiction novel set on many different planets, with all the humans with connections to an original Margaret. Some of the planets are presented as dystopian.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Marrying In" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2007)
A future United States where each state competes for population or to keep the state for the local population. The setting is Colorado, which has extremely restrictive immigration policies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The New You - Hilary Bromberg (Oscura Press, 2007)
The novel is presented as if it is from the Second Dark Age having been founded after a future Great Devastation. The Second Dark Age is compared to Huxley's Brave New World (1932) with control by government and corporations.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"The Old World" - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (The Fate of Mice, 2007)
Eutopia. The human race suddenly becomes altruistic and compassionate. The story is primarily concerned with a man who thought it all a conspiracy.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Perfection" - Margot Berwin (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of perfection brought about by socialized plastic surgery.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pirate Daddy's Lonely Hearts Club Call-In Show" - Jardine Libaire (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of corporate control (FBI-Google) specifically the requirement to wear a device the indicates whether or not another person is the right partner.
Keywords: Female author; US 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 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

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

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

The Revisionist - Miranda Mellis (Calamari Press, 2007)
Brief surrealistic dystopia with some suggestion of there having been a nuclear war. The protagonist observes and reports on the activities of a number of people in a number of settings.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Sacred Institution" - Esther [Mona] Friesner (b. 1951) (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, 2007)
Satire on Christian fundamentalism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shelter - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (Tor, 2007)
Dystopia. In the twenty-first century compassion is a crime.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"The Single Girl's Guide to Compromising Homeland Security" - Jen Kirkman (b. 1974) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of required marriage.
Keywords: Female 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

Stewards of the Flame - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (BookSurge, 2007)
The novel begins in an authoritarian medical dystopia in which health is extremely strictly controlled, to the extent that even the slightest deviation from the ideal leads to forced hospitalization. A small group of people with "psi powers" begin a lengthy conspiracy that culminates in 2009 Engdahl. See also 2013 Engdahl
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stigma and The Cave. Two Novels - [Diana Melhem] [Vogel] (1926-2013) (Syracuse University Press, 2007)
Dystopias. Stigma (1-101) describes a government responding to a crisis by killing some of its population and imprisoning much of the rest. The Cave (103-82) describes such a government encouraging its population to escape to caves; it includes religious conflict. Called volumes two and three of the Patrimonies trilogy. The first volume was Blight. New York: Riverrun Press, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Tabloids Bring Back Family Values!" - Ana Marie Cox (b. 1972) (2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future, 2007)
Dystopia of average people competing to attract paparazzi by creating more and more extreme false versions of their lives.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2007)
Sequel to 2005, 2006, and 2007 Duchamp, Blood in the Fruit. See also 2008 Duchamp. This volume shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the particular changes they want.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

The Wanderers - Naomi Gladish Smith (Chrysalis Books, 2007)
The novel is similar to 2004 Smith in that it is concerned with a group of people in the first stage of the afterlife described by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and their preparations for moving to other stages. See also 2011 Smith.
Keywords: Female author; US author

We, Robots A Novella - Sue Lange (Aqueduct Press, 2007)
Dystopia told from the point of view of a robot. Initially the robot is a simple one caring for and protecting a child, and the dystopia is first presented in the description of the need for protection on the walk to school and in the school, which is a fortress and is as concerned with protecting the child as teaching her. Then the robots are given the ability to feel pain and humans are given enhanced powers previously limited to the robots. Little actually changes and the same dystopia remains.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Absalom's Mother" - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Futureshocks, 2006)
Authoritarian dystopia with centralized control of all aspects of life. The story is about the revolt of a group of women against the drafting of their children into the workforce and the militia at a very young age. Schooling involves teaching children how to do the jobs they are already required to do.
Keywords: Female 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

"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

Among The Free. A Shadow Children Book - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young People, 2006)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Haddix. In this volume, a rebellion ousts the Population Police, but the new regime is little better.
Keywords: Female 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 Baby Merchant - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Tor, 2006)
Dystopia. The background to the novel is a future where babies are a high-priced commodity for those who cannot conceive or adopt.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bar Code Rebellion - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic, 2006)
Sequel to 2004 Weyn following the girl as she joins the resistance. See also 2012 Weyn.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Carnival - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Bantam Books, 2006)
Mostly adventure and intrigue on New Amazonia, a world dominated by women who always carry weapons.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Civilization" - Kaftan, Vylar (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. The story presents alternative histories depending on the choices made but all end with the need to begin again.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 463-70; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 463-70.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cruncher's, Inc." - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia. A future where all the actions of each individual are evaluated and tabulated to determine their worth for medical treatment and other social services.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Debt of the Innocent" - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) (Glorifying Terrorism: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction, 2006)
Ecological dystopia that requires reduced electricity supplies even to hospitals. This results in babies being allowed to die or even being killed to save others.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Die Umkehr" - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) (Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006, 2006)
Authoritarian religious dystopia.
Keywords: Female 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

"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

"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

“Friends in Need” - Eliza Blair (Bug-Eyed Magazine, 2006)
The story, which is about a girl choosing a pet, is set in a technological eutopia where the animals can talk. The girl, who is in kindergarten speaks kidspiek, which is the language of much of the story.
Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin, 2007), 275-89.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

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

"Juneteenth" - K. M. Praschak (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopia about a U.S. divided between liberals, the Democratic States, and conservatives, the United States, with strong racial themes. Juneteenth is an unofficial holiday to commemorate the end of slavery, a holiday generally ignored by whites in the conservative United States, which is becoming a security state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Just Do It!" - Heather Lindsley (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Dystopia in which companies hire snipers to shoot a chemical into people that produces an insatiable desire for their product.
Rpt. in Year’s Best SF 12. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2007), 74-88; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 357-67; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 357-67.
Keywords: English author; Female 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

"Killers" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2006)
Vicious depleted future dystopia.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 257-66.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Last Mortal Man. Book One of the Deathless - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) (Roc, 2006)
Dystopia. The Deathless are those who have been turned into nanobiology and are presumably immortal but the technology is being attacked.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Lettuce" - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Paraspheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, 2006)
Brief surrealistic dystopia.
Rpt. in Ducornet, The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 123-25.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Life As We Knew It - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) (Harcourt, 2006)
First volume of the Young Adult Last Survivor series. In this volume, a meteor hits the moon pushing it closer to the Earth and causing widespread destruction on the Earth. The novel follows a young woman's struggle to survive. The second volume, The Dead and the Gone. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, moves the action to New York City but continues the same themes. The third volume, This World We Live In. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 continues the same setting and themes as the first volume. In the fourth volume, The Shade of the Moon. Boston, MA: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, the protagonist is living in a safe community in Pennsylvania, but his ability to do so depends on his continued success at soccer and obeying the strict rules of the community. He violates the rules by falling in love.
Keywords: Female 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

The Meadowlark Sings - Helen Ruth Schwartz (Alice Street Editions, Harrington Park Press, 2006)
Eutopia and dystopia. In the near future, an earthquake separates part of California from the United States. This provides the location for a new independent gay and lesbian country, which is needed because an anti-gay movement has come to dominate the U.S. Some reconciliation takes place throughout the novel.
Keywords: Female 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

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

"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

"The Patriot" - Fitzgerald, Erin (Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession, 2006)
Dystopian background of a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Pearl Diver" - Caitlín [Rebekah] Kiernan (b. 1964) (Futureshocks, 2006)
The story is set in an overpopulated, environmentally degraded dystopia in which both government and corporations have everyone under surveillance at all times.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 229-42; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 229-42.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; US 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

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

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

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

Renegade: Book Two of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2006)
Sequel to 2005 Duchamp; see the note there. This volume describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. See also 2007 (2) and 2008 Duchamp. Female author. The five volumes were written in the 1980s. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Sailing to Utopia" - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) (Flytrap, 2006)
Flawed utopias. A woman travels to New Boston (Bellamy’s future), Gilman’s Herland, and More’s Utopia and finds them less than utopian.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Scenes from a Dystopia” - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) (Subterranean, 2006)
Satire on dystopian fiction.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scouring" - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) (Text:Ur: The New Book of Masks, 2006)
Dystopia in which humans have lost most natural functions.
Rpt. in her The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 112-16.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"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

"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

The Three - Meghan O'Brien (Quest Books, 2006)
Post-catastrophe lesbian dystopia. Disease and war have killed off most of the population. Religious fanatics try to force women into being nothing but breeders.
Keywords: Female 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

"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

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

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

Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq'ssan Cycle - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2005)
First volume of a five-volume series. In this volume, an alien feminist eutopia that hopes to save Earth from itself is set against a near future authoritarian dystopia. A non-violent anarchist eutopia, known as the Free Zone, develops in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and is threatened by internal divisions and external forces. Renegade: Book Two of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006, describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the changes they want. In Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, the aliens return to see whether or not Earth should be quarantined. Stretto: Book Five of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2008, stresses the utopian elements, basically feminist and liberal, but the various political struggles continue, and there is no clear resolution at the end. All five volumes were written in the 1980s.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Alternate Beauty - Andrea Rains Waggener (Bantam Books, 2005)
A fat woman wakes up in a society in which "big is beautiful". She initially sees this world as eutopian but then finds it as superficial as her previous world's focus on thinness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Among the Enemy. A Shadow Children Book - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 Haddix. See also 2006 Haddix. In this volume, a third child joins the Population police to subvert them.
Keywords: Female author; US author