NK3 - Michael Tolkin (b. 1950) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a microbe used as a weapon has deleted people’s memory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Noise and the Silence” - Christien Gholson (Interzone, 2017)
Dystopia in which there is constant loud noise and silence is consider opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“None But the Brave” - Dan Lee (American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia, 2017)
Dystopia brought about by the policies of the Trump administration. The story focuses on terrorism and anti-terrorism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"One of the Lucky Ones" - Wondra Vanian (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which all those resisting the government are being shipped off to rehabilitation camps, each person wearing a badge of their identity.
Keywords: Female author; US author; Welsh author

“The Ones Who Know Where They are Going” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017)
The situation of the child in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) from the point-of-view of the child when, apparently, everyone has left.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Only a Ten Hour Week: Architecture for a Sustainable Society of Plenty - Eli Berniker PhD ([CreateSpace], 2017)
Extremely detailed non-fiction description of the basis for a eutopia with a ten-hour work week that produces plenty for everyone. Detailed analysis of waste in the current system that, once eliminated, would make the ten-hour week possible. Throughout to book, the author repeats that “We live in a world of plenty that must be experience as scarcity for the economy to function. Scarcity is unsustainable. Plenty is sustainable” (339). Includes a “Glossary” (342-50) and an Index (351-77). Under the author’s name, the cover adds “Practical Utopian.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Oracle" - Dominica Phetteplace (Infinity Wars, 2017)
Satire on U.S. politics in which a “war of the month” is instituted to gain support for the President.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics” - Jess[ica] Barber; Sara Saab (Clarkesworld, 2017)
The story is set mostly in Beirut, Lebanon, and takes place during a dystopian period of extreme drought. It traces the life choices of two scientists as they work to help the planet recover, and the projects they develop  that will do that.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 293-316 with an editor’s note on 293.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Lebanese author; US author

“Parametrization of Complex Weather Patterns for Two Variables” - Alex Shvartsman (b. 1975) (Daily Science Fiction, 2017)
The story is set in a climate-change future in which weather control first produced conflict among nations using it against each other, then was internationalized, and, at the time of the story, has been taken over by hackers.
Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media. EBook
Keywords: Male author; Ukrainian author; US author

"Patti 209" - K[aren] G. Anderson (Alternative Truths, 2017)
The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) and others with similar policies. The focus is on the destruction of care for the elderly after the loss of Social Security and Medicare. The protagonist was one of the designers and founders of an old age home that had all the best conditions both for those living there and the environment. But with Social Security repealed and no Medicare, the home became just like the earlier nursing homes that provided minimal care. Conditions for the elderly outside this homes were worse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Perfect Little World - Kevin Wilson (b. 1978) (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2017)
A child psychologist tries to create the ideal family made up of several individuals and couples and orphaned children. It works for a while but then disintegrates. The novel focuses one young woman participant.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Persephone” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Tor.com, 2017)
Dystopia of a future with a deep divide between rich and poor.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Pink Life (La Vie En Rose)” - Nathan Susnik (Shoreline of Infinity, 2017)
The story is set in a dystopia future that is hidden because most people live entirely in virtual reality. The protagonist is forced to see the world as it is when a glitch occurs.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

"Pinwheel Party" - Victor D. Phillips (Alternative Truths, 2017)
The beginning and the end of the story are brief depictions of the dystopia inflicted on the poor and immigrants by current policies. The middle is a drug-induced dream of a eutopia in which everyone works together to improve the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Portlandtown” - Elly Blue (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
The story is set in a future Oregon divided by Portlandtown, an authoritarian dictatorship with some limited technology and conflict within the leadership, and a rural area that is essentially anarchist that surrounds it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Powers of Earth - Travis J. I. Corcoran (Morlock Publishing, 2017)
First volume in a series in which a libertarian moon struggles to maintain its freedom against an authoritarian Earth. Won the 2018 Prometheus Award for Best Novel from the Libertarian Futurist Society. The next volume in the series is Causes of Separation. Np: Morlock Publishing, 2018. 706 pp. It is a typical second volume in a series in which the situation worsens. Two further volumes, Right and Duty and Absolute Tyranny are planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society - Michael Albert (b. 1947) (Kairos/PM Press, 2017)
Albert is one of the theorists with the economist Robin [Eric] Hahnel (b. 1946) of Parecon (Participatory Economics); see 2003 Albert. The book deals with Parecon, Parpolity, feminism, race, environmentalism, and internationalism plus the strategy needed to achieve the goals.
Originated in the three volumes, Occupy Theory, Occupy Vision, and Occupy Strategy of his Fanfare for Democracy. Woods Hole, MA: Z Communications, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Questions with the First” - Jim Warrenfeltz (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Dystopia presented through an interview with the dictator as he discovers a threat to his rule.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Raid at 817 Maple Street” - Ken Staley (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government’s surveillance of everyone’s internet activity leads it to conclude that a teenager involved in a video game is the leader of a terrorist cell.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rangers - Blaze Ward (Knotted Road Press, 2017)
The stories are set in a dystopia brought about by the disintegration of the United States into warring sections. The Park Rangers from the part of the United States that is still democratic is the only effective force protecting citizens.
The first story, “The Last Ranger,” was originally published as “The Last Ranger (ANPS-1, CE 2053).” Alternative Truths. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B. Cubed Press, 2017), 160-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Relics: A Fable” - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Dystopia that is brought about by building the wall between Mexico and the U.S., the reduction of education, the radical division between rich and poor, and the warehousing of the elderly poor, known as Relics, who live in single room shacks near the wall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Resist Them: A Dystopian Thriller - Scott King ([CreateSpace], 2017)
A dystopia in which the government broadcasts into everyone’s mind each morning.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Retroactivist - Nate Ragolia (Spaceboy Books, 2017)
A technological eutopia, called the United Sociocracy of the Americas that the protagonist finds flawed. In the future, technology has replaced all necessary work leaving everyone able to follow whatever personal passions they choose. Everyone is provided with a basic income on which it is possible to live comfortably. Sexual expression is completely free. Replicators produce material goods, including food. Robotic health checks constantly available. Much extended lifespan. All religious faiths combined into the Universal Combined Church of Faiths. The protagonist comes to believe that the twentieth century is a better time, and much of the novel is concerned with his struggles to recreate the twentieth century.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Riding in Place" - Sarena Ulibarri (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
The story is set in a future in which the Earth is recovering from environmental damage. One of the procedures used is to draft individuals to do work where they can see how and where, for example, energy and food are produced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Rings" - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2017)
A matriarchal dystopia where women buy male slaves, who they control through implanted rings, with the story focusing on a woman who has finally saved enough money to buy her first man.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 322-35. PSt
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Rumpelstiltskin” - Jane Elliott (Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2017)
A dystopia in which climate-change has brought famine.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/rumplestiltskin/ (February 2018). Interview with that author at https://reckoning.press/jane-elliott-interview-rumplestiltskin/
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Salt Line - Holly Goddard Jones (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2017)
Dystopia in which a tick-borne disease has devastated the U. S., which has built a wall to protect itself from the disease. The novel focuses on the relationships within a group taking an adventure tour past the wall and being captured by people who survive outside the wall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Secondborn - Amy A. Bartol (47North, 2017)
Young adult dystopia in which the second child in a family is taken away by the government at eighteen. The young woman who is the protagonist comes from a privileged background but is still forced to join the military with other second children. First volume of a trilogy followed by Traitor Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2018, which is a typical middle volume in which various forces in the society are all trying to use the protagonist. In the third volume, Rebel Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2019, the protagonist faces betrayal on all sides.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Secret Files of The Donald - Leland Howell (Np, 2017)
A collection of stories all of which satirize the dystopian presidency of The Donald. The author notes that in 2019 he was banned from Twitter for calling Trump a “whiney little bitch” (2).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Shelter" - Cynthia Marts (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
In a dystopia of extreme male chauvinism where women lose everything if not tied to a man, a small community of women support each other.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Signal Lost" - Gretchin Lair (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Flawed utopia in which chips that constantly record one’s health and report the results to everyone deals with, which results in restaurants and stores refusing to sell you anything that the chip says you can’t have.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Snow Decils" - Charles Payseur (Persistent Visions, 2017)
Climate change dystopia in which it snows all year round in the North and the South has become crowded and dangerous.
Keywords: Bisexual author; US author

“Solar Child” - Camille Meyers (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
The story is set in a future climate-change dystopia in which genetic engineering is presented positively as a way of developing humans who can live in the new climate. The scientists are opposed by those who see climate-change as God’s punishment of sinful humanity.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sourdough. A Novel - Robin Sloan (b. 1979) (MCD/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2017)
The novel focuses a woman working in Silicon Valley who is given an unusual sourdough starter that transforms her life. It is difficult to classify in that it is neither a eutopia or dystopia as such but has episodes or fragments of each throughout. For an article on the novel and utopia, see Justin Nordstrom, “‘Food Is History of the Deepest Kind’: Eating and Utopia in Sloan’s Sourdough and Sargent’s ‘The American Cockaigne’.” Utopian Studies 31.2 (2020): 303-13.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Spider Queen in Every Home” - Mike Morgan (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
2017 Morgan, Mike. “A Spider Queen in Every Home.” More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Lou J Berger, and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B Cubed Press, 2017), 370-96. PSt The story takes place in the dystopia created by current policies. The protagonist is a statistician whose work has to be checked to the data fits policy and is not accepted if it doesn’t, even though it is accurate.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Spider Sat Beside Her - K[aren] E. Lanning (b. 1957) (Author, 2017)
After the ice has melted and much of the world is under water, Antarctica is in the beginning stages of development and settlement. What remains of Canada and the U.S. have become one country. Much of the action takes place on a much-expanded international space station, which is threatened by those on Earth opposed to the exploitation of what remains. First volume of the Melt Trilogy followed by The Sting of the Bee. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2018, in which there is a struggle to claim the newly available Antarctica for settlement; and Listen to the Birds. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2019, which is concerned with issues that arise after Antarctica is established as a new nation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Spring Break" - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (New Haven Noir, 2017)
The story, an example of noir crime fiction, is set mostly on the Yale University campus in a future where books are no longer used, and the only functioning part of the university are the sciences. The story won the 2018 Edgar Award for best short story.
Rpt. in his And Go Like This: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 73-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Store - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947); Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown, 2017)
In the novel, one store takes over a country with surveillance cameras and tracking not just in the store but in the streets, buildings, and private homes, all reinforced but what is essentially a private army. The protagonist is struggling to reveal the truth about the store.In the novel, one store takes over a country with surveillance cameras and tracking not just in the store but in the streets, buildings, and private homes, all reinforced but what is essentially a private army. The protagonist is struggling to reveal the truth about the store.
U.K. ed. London: Random House Century, 2017. 259 pp. + 26 pp. excerpt from a forthcoming novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Street Life in the Emerald City” - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
Technology, including surveillance technology being used to end homelessness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Swan Song to a Gold-Plated Mausoleum” - Priya Sridhar (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The story is set at the end of the Trump era amid the celebrations over his death.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Taming the Beast” - Bose, Robert (Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures, 2017)
Satire set in a high-tech world where all cars are being replaced by bicycles, and the protagonist struggles to manage the features of his new bicycle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State - Parag Khanna (b. 1977) (CreateSpace, 2017)
Mostly critique but includes a eutopia for the U.S. based on what the author calls “direct technocracy,” or a system of experts “perpetually consulting the people” (Back Cover), There will be a collective presidency, a strong civil service, a multi-party legislature, a Senate replaced by a “Governors Assembly,” “and a judicial branch that monitors international benchmarks and standards and proposes constitutional amendments. . . ” (5). Many of the institutions are drawn from the author’s analysis of institutions currently in existence around the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tell Me How This Ends Well. A Novel - David Samuel Levinson (b. 1969) (Hogarth, 2017)
The background to the novel is a dystopia set in 2022 when Israel has been eliminated in a war that the U. S. ignored. This led to millions of refugees moving to the U. S. and the rise of a virulent anti-Semitism that has become the norm.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Three Degrees. A Novel - Jim Wurst (Author, 2017)
A dystopia set in 2052 with many different plot lines including devasting climate-change, a satellite war twenty years in the past orchestrated by apocalyptic Christians in the U. S. military which left junk throughout the space around the Earth and badly damaged the world’s communication network, extreme rich-poor divisions, a plan by the current president to again steal the election by hacking the vote counting, and a “Chinese device” that may be a weapon that is activated at the end of the novel. The concluding sentence is “End of Book One.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Time Travel is Only for the Poor” - S. L. Huang (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2017)
The story is set in a future with a deep rich/poor divide, and the rich have passed a law requiring the poor to be frozen for awakening in 500 to a thousand years when, supposedly, compound interest will have made them rich. The story is told from the point-of-view of a street person who wants to stay where he is.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 351-65.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Tinker's Damn" - Edward Ahern (b. 1942) (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
A brief dystopia in which a conman becomes a political leader until the women in the community organize and drive him out.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow’s Kin. Book 1 of the Tomorrow’s Kin Trilogy - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Tor, 2017)
First volume of a trilogy that begins with first contact with people from another planet who originated from Earth based on her novella Yesterday’s Kin San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2014. There are dystopian elements as a disease that many, but not all, people of Earth are immune to spreads. Various plot lines are left for the forthcoming volumes. The second volume in the series is If Tomorrow Comes: Book 2 of the Yesterday’s Kin Trilogy. New York: Tor, 2018. In it, people from Earth travel to the World, the planet that the others had come from, but do not find the advanced civilization they expected. Again, various plot lines are left for the final volume, Terran Tomorrow. Book 3 of the Tomorrow’s Kin Trilogy. New York: Tor, 2019. In this volume, a mixed group of people from Earth and the World return to an Earth that has been devastated by plague and warfare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tool of War - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2017)
Dystopia brought about by climate change, resources running out, and the resulting constant wars, civil and between countries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Trans Liberty Riot Brigade. Book 1 - L[indsay] M. Pierce (Ninestar Press, 2017)
Walled dystopia at war with all its neighbors and trying to control its population. Being transgender is illegal and a group transgender people struggle to survive and manage to escape at the end. First volume in a planned series.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Transitions" - Eileen [Katherine] Gunn (b. 1945) (Seat 14 C [No longer available online], 2017)
All the stories in the original online anthology are present as if the protagonists had been on a flight that landed twenty years after it took off. A list can be found at https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?673124. In this story, the protagonist is a Black, female, engineer and is primarily concerned with her thoughts about how she will fit in and meeting her husband, who has remarried, her son and his wife and her grandchildren, and her parents. It takes place in a future U.S. that has broken up into nine sections, controlled by oligarchs.
Rpt. in her Night Shift plus Ursula and the Author plus Promised Lands and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022), 65-76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Treasures" - Rebecca McFarland Kyle (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which all scientists are imprisoned after being blamed for causing diseases and bringing about natural disasters.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Triage - [Tamela] [Larimer] (b. 1968) (Indigo Hour Press, 2017)
The story is set in a future dystopia brought about by the establishment in the U.S. of required, but underfunded, universal health care. Every hospital has a specified number of beds with no hope of more and is required to choose between those who can continue to receive care and those who are ejected to die.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Tricks Are Not For Kids” - Melissa R. Mendelson (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
The violent dystopian future brought about by Trump’s policies, which have led to starvation and food only available for the rich.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tropic of Kansas - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) (Harper Voyager, 2017)
Dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has become a wasteland and the country has fragmented. The novel is of a road trip through the wasteland. See also 2019 and 2020 Brown.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Trump Brand" - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) (Trump: Utopia or Dystopia, 2017)
Dystopia in which Trump puts his brand everywhere, including the moon, which displays an ad for Ivanka Trump’s clothing line and the White, now Trump, House.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Trumperor and the Nightingale” - Diana Hauer (Alternative Truths, 2017)
Satire on Donald Trump (b. 1946) as U.S. President.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Unbreakable - Will[iam D.] McIntosh (b. 1962) ([CreateSpace], 2017)
Dystopia in which some people are kept in a walled town to provide entertainment to those living outside by setting various new world records. The ending of the novel and an author’s note indicate that this is the first volume in a series, but no more appears to have been published
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Understanding" - Kelsey M. Young (Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Authors, 2017)
The story is set in Milan, which is named after the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf held in Milan in 1880 that concluded that speech rather than signing was the best approach to deaf education. The story is told from the point-of-view of someone hired by a university to help hard-of-hearing students cope. Signing is not permitted, and many teachers deliberately make it hard for hard-of-hearing students to succeed. See also 2013 Young.
Keywords: Deaf author; Female author; US author

"Underworld 101" - Mame Bougouma L. P. Diene (Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2017)
The story is set in a future dystopia in which Earth is almost entirely a desert and people have resorted to cannibalism.
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), 58-71.
Keywords: French author; Male author; Senegalese author; US author

Unregistered - Megan Lynch (City Owl Press, 2017)
A dystopia with in a one child limit, with each child registered and assigned a life with everything chosen for them. The novel focuses on what happens to the unregistered second children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Utopia LOL?” - Jamie Wahls (Strange Horizons, 2017)
Satire on a future where everyone has been uploaded into an AI and can be anything they want.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 394-407; and in The New Voices of Science Fiction. Ed. Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2019), 35-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopian Tetragon - S. C. Smith ([CreateSpace], 2017)
Satire set in Beverly Hummocks in the Former Republic of Sunny Emissions with an author as protagonist named Willing Participant. The story follows his trials and tribulations, mostly caused by a woman who dances all night in the apartment above his.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Vanilla Rice" - Angela Yuriko Smith (Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017)
The story is about the difficulty of choosing the looks of a child before it is born and the effect on the child. It appears to be a set in a society where police must be paid directly for their service.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Vibrating Mouth” - John Lee Clark (Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Authors, 2017)
The story depicts a world of mutual incomprehensive between those deaf and signing and the speaking as seen from a deaf person who sees the speaking as limited and inferior.
Keywords: Deaf author; Male author; US author

Void Star - Zachery Mason (b. 1990) (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2017)
The novel is set in a climate-change dystopia in which San Francisco is reserved for the rich.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Walkaway - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Tor, 2017)
The novel begins in a future authoritarian dystopia with very advanced technology in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed and abandoned and with extreme class divisions. Some people choose to walk away into the abandoned countryside hoping to create a freer society. While they are forcibly opposed by those in power and not all those who walk away are trustworthy, a freer society does emerge. The title resonates with Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973).
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

“Walks Home Alone at Night” - Wondra Vanian (Alternative Truth, 2017)
The dystopia of the present in which it is dangerous for a hijab wearing woman to walk alone at night. But in the story, the woman and her friends fight back.
Keywords: Female author; US author; Welsh author

Want - Cindy Pon (b. 1973) (Simon Pulse, 2017)
Young adult dystopia set in a society in which the rich can afford protection against the damaged environment and the poor cannot.
Keywords: Female author; Taiwanese author; US author

“Waving at Trains” - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (Boston Review, 2017)
Dystopia in which climate change has killed most people.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

"The Ways Out" - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) (Clarkesworld, 2017)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“We’re Still Here” - Rebecca McFarland Kyle (Alternative Truths, 2017)
A dystopia in which fake news is put out by the government to implicate illegal Mexican refugees in a riot that destroys a city in Texas. When pictures of the intact town leak out, the government destroys the town.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“What Does It Look Like When 1 Million People Are Deported at Once?” - Héctor Tobar (b. 1963) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story is about the attempt to do just what the title says and the response of the people being deported as seen through the eyes of one of them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“What Kind of Monster Are You?” - John E. Meredith (American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia, 2017)
The dystopia created by Trump’s presidency, including extreme poverty, environmental degradation, racial conflict, and discrimination against anyone not heterosexual.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“‘What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed’: Comforting the comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted” - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project, 2017)
The story is set in a future where Trump remains president, is implement his policies while trying to cancel the next election, Florida is under water, but climate-change deniers are in power, and so forth, and the protagonist writes fake news for a living.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“What We Knew Then, Before the Sky Fell Down” - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) (Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction, 2017)
Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia set in a collapsed Seattle Pike Place Market. The focus of the story is on a woman who is search for information that will help people recover from the disaster.
Keywords: Female author; US author

When the English Fall. A Novel - David Williams (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017)
Post-catastrophe dystopia set after a disastrous storm that destroys the power grid. The novel focuses on an Amish community that has always been off the grid must cope with people who are struggling have lost everything.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Where Eagles Dare” - R. Mike Burr (American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia, 2017)
Dystopia in which Trump has issued an order giving all police officers the right to immediately kill anyone the suspect of being a terrorist.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wilders: Project Earth Book One - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) (Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2017)
The novel is set in the megacity Seacouver (A merged Seattle and Vancouver) and the surrounding ecological disaster zone and focuses on the search by a young woman for her sister, who had left the city some years earlier. First volume in a series followed by Keeper: Project Earth Book Two. Amherst, NY: Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2018. In this volume the woman and her sister work to reintroduce wolves into the wilderness.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Wispy Chastening” - D. A. Xiaolin Spires (Reckoning 2: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2017)
In a future with major environmental damage, individuals who contributed to the damage, ranging from littering to dumping poisons in the water, are punished with very realistic bad dreams or extreme nightmares.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/a-wispy-chastening/ (January 11, 2018).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Woman Walks into a Bar” - Jill Zeller (More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance, 2017)
Dystopia in which women are being systematically suppressed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

World Without Work. A Novel - [Treichler, David H.] (Reelization Global Media, 2017)
The novel is set in a future in which corporations are automating, and there is only a minimal Federal Living Wage for support for the growing legions of unemployed. The protagonist is a young woman who is fired for refusing to report the profits her boss wanted rather than the actual earnings of the company.
Rpt. Np: Publisher Services, 2019. 355 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Wretched and the Beautiful” - E. Lily Yu (Terraform, 2017)
Dystopian allegory on alien refugees and their mistreatment on Earth written in response to Executive Order 13769 banning travel to the U.S. In her Contributor’s Note, the author says, “It was as close as I come to pitching a brick through a window.” For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu. The author, artist, and editor donated their fees to the International Rescue Committee.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 258-64, with a contributor’s note on 354; and without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 349-357; and in her Jewel Box: Stories (New York Erewhon Books/Kensington Publishing, 2023), 105-114.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“You and Me and the Deep Dark Sea” - Jess[ica] Barber (Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, 2017)
Climate-change dystopia set in an earthquake and flooding ravaged Los Angeles.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Your Lying Eyes” - Jack [John Charles] McDevitt (Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World, 2017)
The story is about glasses that can detect lies. Whether a eutopia or dystopia is left up to the reader.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: A Time Capsule Warning from the Future - Dr. T. F. Fieve [pseud.] (Dorrance Publishing Co., 2016)
A depiction of the dystopia brought about by climate-change, war, and other catastrophes and the way a small group of people survived in New Zealand. Includes a “Bibliography’ (197-98), a “Glossary: (199-200), and “MINI--Survival Manual” (201-07).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“2113. Inspired by ‘2112’” - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) (2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush, 2016)
Dystopia in which all creativity has been eliminated under a religious dictatorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Acqua Alta" - Ashley Bevilacqua Anglin (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Climate change dystopia in which Venice is under water, and a Venetian theme park has been created. Acqua Alta is the name given to peak high tides in the Veneto region of Italy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Advance Man. Part One of The Honeycomb Trilogy - Mac Rogers (Samuel French, 2016)
First volume of a trio of plays followed by Blast Radius. Part Two of The Honeycomb Trilogy. London: Samuel French, 2016; and Sovereign. Part Three of the Honeycomb Trilogy. London: Samuel French, 2016. The three plays were first performed at The Secret Theatre, Long Island City, NY, in January 2012, March-April 2012, and June 2012 directed by Jordana Williams. The plays, with the sequels set eight years after the first and then eight years after the second, are about what happens when a mission returning from Mars introduces aliens to Earth, who then occupy it. The second volume focus on a conflict between a bother, who sides with the aliens, and a sister, who is leading a revolt against them. In the third volume, the revolt has been successful, and the world is trying to rebuild.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Red Rain - Barry Lyga (b. 1971); Peter Facinelli (1973); Rob DeFranco (b. 1970) (Little, Brown, 2016)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia set on an Earth with limited resources.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After We Walked Away" - Erica L. Satifka (Apex Magazine, 2016)
A response to Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) in which the world outside is worse in its treatment of its children.
Rpt. in the author's How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2021), 117-129, with a note on the story on 324-325.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Algorithms of Value" - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Clarkesworld, 2016)
Flawed utopia in which everyone has the ability to create the world around them, but someone is still unhappy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American Fracture. Book One: American Confederation - Roy McElroy ([Create Space], 2016)
First volume of a series in which the United States has fractured into a five-part confederation. The second volume is American Fracture. Book Two: Separation of Power. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2018 in which the various parts of the U. S. and what remains of the national government are all fighting each other. No resolution at the end.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"An American Utopia" - Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) (An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army, 2016)
The author discusses his utopia based on a universal army, similar in some ways to Bellamy’s Industrial Army, as the best way to deal with the current economic situation. The utopia was originally given as a keynote address at the 2013 meeting of the Society of Utopian Studies in Charleston, SC, and the utopia in the address was much more detailed than in the published version. The comments are Robinson, “Mutt and Jeff Push the Button” (97-104), which is fiction (see 2016 Robinson); Jodi Dean, “Dual Power Redux” (105-32); Saroj Giri, “The Happy Accident of a Utopia” (133-45); Agon Hamza, “From the Other Scene to the Other State: Jameson’s Dialectic of Dual Power” (147-68); Kojin Karatani, “A Japanese Utopia” (169-82); Frank Ruda, “ Jameson and Method: On Comic Utopianism” (183-210); Alberto Toscano, “After October, Before February: Figures of Dual Power” (211-41); Kathi Weeks, “Utopian Therapy: Work, Nonwork, and the Political Imagination (243-65); and Slavoj Žižek, “The Seeds of Imagination” (267-308); followed by “An America Utopia: Epilogue” by Jameson (309-17).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Americus: Exscendent, Book 1. High Road Cross - [Tamela] [Larimer] (b. 1968) (Indigo Hour Press, 2016)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia where the U.S. has fragmented. First volume in a multi-volume series, with two more volumes expected in this first sub-series.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Amerita - Martin Medina; Luke Medina (Np, 2016)
The novel is based on a system called Meritism, which is defined as “An economical structure using productivity as the measure of currency. Compensation is based on an individual’s productivity leveled against their emotional quotient and intelligence quotient, measured by factual data, free from emotional bias, prejudice, and subjectivity” (Title page). A ten-point scale is used and any change at an individual’s annual evaluation means a change in where they live and go to school, the clothes they wear, and so forth. Generally presented positively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Apes and Satellites” - Mame Bougouma L. P. Diene (Brittle Paper: An African Literary Experience, 2016)
The story is told from the point-of-view of an ape whose habitat is being destroyed by satellite mining.
Keywords: French author; Male author; Senegalese author; US author

Apocalypse: An Epic Poem - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) (Ilium Press, 2016)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

“As Long as It Takes to Make the World” - Gabriela Santiago (People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!, 2016)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“At the Village Vanguard (Reflections on Blacktopia)” - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) (Mothership Zeta, 2016)
The story focuses by white supremacists on an attack on the Blacktopia that has been created on the moon twenty-five years after the attack. Only a brief description of the Blacktopia.
Keywords: African American author; English author; Male author; US author

“Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy” - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
Climate change dystopia in which the west coast of California is under water, much of North America is a wasteland, and Fairbanks, Alaska, is the only U.S. metropolis. Gender is flexible and varied.
Rpt. Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 213-26.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“The Bees of Kiribati” - Warren Hammond (Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, 2016)
The background to the story is a climate change dystopia in which some island states have disappeared underwater, and the refugees are essentially slaves.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Big Sheep - Robert Kroese (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press., 2016)
The novel is set in 2039 in a dystopian future Los Angeles where a part of the city, the Disincorporated Zone or DZ has been disowned by the rest of the city and become a very poor, lawless area.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bluescreen: A Mirador Novel - Dan Wells (b. 1977) (Balzer + Bray, 2016)
Young adult dystopia set in a future Los Angeles where, through a device implanted in the brain, everyone is online at all times. First volume of a series. Sequels include Ones and Zeroes: A Mirador Novel. New York: Balzer + Bray., 2017; and Active Memory: A Mirador Novel. New York: Balzer + Bray, 2018.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Bone-Runner" - Jennifer Campbell-Hicks (Galaxy’s Edge, 2016)
The story is set in a future where much of the western U.S. is desolate with the remains cities composed of the steel of buildings that haven’t yet collapsed. The protagonist is a scavenger hoping to find something in the nearest city valuable enough to pay her way to the east, where life was easier. Some fantasy.
Rpt. in The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2015-2017. Ed. Mike Resnick  (Rockville, MD: Arc/Manor/Phoenix Pick, 2018), 34-50.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Brownsville Station” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
Climate change dystopia in which the elaborate technology that has protected civilization is defeated by the rising water.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Camille Stories: Children of Compost” - Donna Haraway (b. 1944) (Duke University Press, 2016)
The stories trace five Camilles from 2025 to 2425, a period in which the human population, having at first risen from eight billion to ten billion, has dropped to three billion and only half of the species alive in 2015 still exist. Many humans have been modified to take on aspects of other species; in the case of the Camilles, the monarch butterfly.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Charge and the Storm” - An Owomoyela (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2016)
The story raises issues about the morality of choices made, whether rights should be absolute, and the problem of scarcity.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

Children of Eden. A Novel - Joey [Joseph Michael] Graceffa (b. 1991); Laura L. Sullivan (b. 1974) (Keywords Press/Atria, 2016)
Young adult dystopia about a girl who is the second child in a society that restricts families to one child. First volume of a trilogy followed by Elites of Eden. A Novel. Keywords Press/Atria, 2017 in which the protagonist of the first volumes finds an entire city of second children but also forms an alliance with one of the girls of the elite. The third volume is Rebels of Eden. A Novel. Keywords Press/Atria, 2018 in which the protagonist temporarily settles in a sustainable community called Harmonia that belies its name by being rule-bound. She then returns to Eden, finds it worse than before, and leads the revolution.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Children of Exile - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016)
Young adult dystopia. The novel opens in a village where children have been sent at birth to be raised by others. Suddenly they are all sent to be reunited with their parents who live in extreme poverty with a continuing war. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume is Children of Refuge. Children of Exile Book 2. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2017 is a typical middle volume where things get worse. The third volume is Children of Jubilee. Children of Exile Book Three. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. In this volume, the children are made slave labor on another planet and must cooperate with aliens in order to free themselves.
Keywords: Female author; US author

City Ash and Desert Bones - Laurel Myler (Dog Star Books, 2016)
Dystopia with elements of a horror novel set in a future in which most of the U.S. is desert, with Alaska the center of civilization, and a theocracy ruling the country.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

"Darkout" - E. Lily Yu (Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow, 2016)
Dystopia in which everyone can see what anyone else is doing at any time, which was justified as a way of reducing violence, which it did. The story focuses on a man compulsively viewing one woman. At the end of the story, the system goes down.
Rpt. in People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine. Ed. Nisi Shawl, no. 239 (June/July 2017): 32-49.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Day No One Died” - Gwen Bellinger (Islamicates Volume 1: Anthology of Science Fiction short stories inspired from Muslim Cultures, 2016)
The story is set in a future where people who left Earth to avoid its conflicts have returned and religion is outlawed because it is believed to have brought about the last nuclear war, and the protagonist is a believer.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“Delight®” - Allegra Hyde (Black Warrior Review, 2016)
Satire on planned communities. In this one absolutely everything is trademarked and is supposedly the ideal 1950s community. At the end, it seals itself off from the rest of the world.
Rpt. in her Of This New World (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2016), 104-09. The collection won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Department of Correction: A lesson learned” - Ninian Tan (Nature, 2016)
Future punishment in which the offender must relive the crime from the point-of-view of the offender for as many times as determined by the court.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

Everything That Isn’t Winter - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) (Tor.com, 2016)
The story is set in a post-apocalypse future Cascade mountains in what used to be the state of Washington. It focuses on a self-organized community growing tea that is attacked by a group trying to establish an authoritarian government to rebuild the old, bad system.
Rpt. in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 88-105.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

The Forgetting - Sharon Cameron (b. 1970) (Scholastic Press, 2016)
Young adult dystopia in which annually everyone, except for one girl. in an enclosed city loses their memories unless they have been written down. The girl then explores the basis of the dystopia and escapes with a boy. The Knowing. New York: Scholastic Press, 2017 is described as a companion volume and focuses on a woman who cannot forget anything and searches for the lost city of Canaan and a man from space who is also searching for it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

"The Future Is Blue" - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
Climate change dystopia in which so few children survive their first years that they do not get a name until they are ten. The story is continued in her The Past Is Red (2021).
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 167-197; in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 489-511; and in her The Future Is Blue (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2018), 7-28.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gifted - H[eather] A. Swain (b. 1969) (Feiwel and Friends, 2016)
Young adult dystopia in which exceptional talents can be purchased by the privileged, but some talents still occur naturally, and one focus of the novel is a young woman who is from the underclass and is musically gifted in a society that outlaws music making.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Glass" - Megan Dorei (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
Dystopia that focuses on the need for girls to be thin.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“Goodnight New York, New York” - Victoria Zelvin (Shoreline of Infinity, 2016)
Climate-change story in which the government has consistently lied about conditions in New York, where even some of the tallest buildings are completely submerged.
Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 91-97.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

Hillary Goes to Washington, A Liberals Dream - Kate Griffin ([CreateSpace], 2016)
The novel is about the election of Hillary Clinton to the presidency and her first term, during which the basics of the liberal agenda are passed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Hiroto’s Legacy” - Lisa M. Collins (Coming Around Again [At the head of the title The Central Arkansas Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group Presents], 2016)
The story is set in a future eutopian Japan that had been achieved through generations of technological innovation, particularly in horticulture. Prequel to her story “The Tree of Life.” Holdfast Magazine, no. 4 (2014). Rpt. in Holdfast Magazine Anthology 2013-2014. Ed. Laurel Still and Lucy Smee (Np: np, 2014); and on Kindle, 2015. 16 pp. in which the culture, now on a generation starship searching for new planets are passing the knowledge to the next generations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

I Love You*: *Subject to the Following Terms and Conditions. A Contract Killers Novel - Erin Lyon (Forge, 2016)
In the future, all marriages are specific time-limited contracts, and the novel follows the trials and tribulations of one woman’s search for love.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Imposter Syndrome” - Mari Kurisato [pseud.] (Love Beyond the Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology, 2016)
The story is set in a future where all “Non-Citizens” are banned from leaving the failing Earth and travelling to newly discovered inhabitable planets. In the story, the Non-Citizen is an alien, but she carries the memories of a First Nations woman who was among those torn from her family and sent to schools designed to strip them of their identity.
Keywords: Female author; First Nations author; US author

Infomocracy - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Tom Doherty Associates, 2016)
First volume of a trilogy that illustrates the problems of establishing and maintaining eutopia based on a world-wide electoral system that fosters micro-democracies. Among the problems are corruption and political maneuvering among the groups vying for electoral success at the level of global government. The title suggests a central theme, the importance of the control of information. In the second volume is Null States: The Centenal Cycle, Book 2. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2017, three different plots, in Darfur, Geneva, and Central Asia, pose challenges to the system. As the title suggests, in the final volume, State Tectonics: The Centenal Cycle, Book 3. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2018, the various groups vying for power produce something of an earthquake, and, at the end, there is many more sources of information. Whether this is good or not is left unclear.
An excerpt was published in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim. Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 304-10.
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

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

Judenstaat - Simone Zelitch (Tor, 2016)
Alternative history covering 1945-87 in which, following World War 2, a homeland for the Jews, Judenstaat, was established in Saxony in the eastern part of Germany.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Keepers of Madleen” - Sarah Lyn Eaton (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
An apparent eutopia in a future in which every village has walled themselves off from every other village to protect themselves from an unidentified threat. The village that is the focus of the story must face the fact of a rape, and the story is concerned with how they deal with it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Knocking on Heaven’s Door. A Novel - Sharman Apt Russell (b. 1954) (Yucca Publishing, 2016)
Post-catastrophe novel (epidemic/pandemic) in which the survivors have created a Paleolithic culture that they describe as a utopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

Learning to Speak Tiger" - Trina Marie Phillips (SciFutures presents The City of the Future, 2016)
The story is set in a very high-tech future Hanoi with strong eutopian elements but with the technology largely integrated into daily life. The story is about a poor, young girl struggle to find her place.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

The Mandibles. A Family, 2029-2047 - Lionel Shriver (b. 1957) (Borough Press, 2016)
Dystopia. The novel traces a well-off family through the collapse of the U.S. economy, followed by extreme poverty, and the establishment of an authoritarian government that confiscated all property (they became sharecroppers). The novel ends in Nevada, which has managed to secede from the U.S. and has considerable personal freedom but also has much violent crime and other serious problems.
U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2016.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"Masks" - Stirling Davenport (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Environmental dystopia set in an extremely polluted China. Hong Kong has been mostly destroyed by storms. Europe is, if anything, worse off.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Mighty Slinger" - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979); Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) (Bridging Infinity, 2016)
The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland.
Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398.
Keywords: Barbadian author; Female author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

“A Model Life” - Kim Antieau (b. 1955) (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
A retired couple, both of whom are dissatisfied with their lives, enter a program that purports to find the right life for them and ultimately does. Most of the story focuses on the dystopian testing the man is put through rather than the eutopian outcome.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Monuments" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Bridging Infinity, 2016)
Climate change dystopia set in a New York City with Brooklyn, Staten Island, and much of Queens under water and many Manhattan streets now canals. Huge drop in world population with “self-deliverance” (suicide) one of the most common forms of death.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“Mum’s Group” - Stephanie Burgis (Futuristica Volume 1, 2016)
Dystopia in which women are required to have a mothering implant that constantly directs them about childcare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

“New Wild of Generopia: A Hope of New Eaarth” - Julianne Lutz Warren (Talk given at the “Stories of the Anthropocene Festival,” Stockholm, Sweden, October 28, 2016, 2016)
The talk begins with Raphael Hythloday’s depiction of Utopia, moves to Utopia’s adoption of modern methods, which severely damages the country, and continues with Raquel Savetheday’s depiction of a group of Utopians who leave to create an ecological island utopia for the twenty-first century.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Nostalgia - M[oyez] G. Vassanji (b. 1950) (Penguin Random House Canada/Doubleday Canada, 2016)
In the future seeming immortal people regularly have their memories erased and replaced with more pleasant ones that help them fit in with their current reality, but the memories do not completely disappear.
Indian ed. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2016.
Keywords: African author; Canadian author; US author

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

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

“Order, Excellence, Prosperity” - Michelle Kaseler (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
Dystopia in which, while most diseases such as cancer have been eliminated, people are given drugs to ensure they focus on what the system has determined they are best at no matter their preferences before being given the drug.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Outliers - McCreight, Kimberly (Harper, 2016)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which to avoid war rulers must give one of their children as a hostage. If the ruler goes to war, the child is killed. The novel focuses on two such hostages, a boy and a girl, from different countries. The Scattering: The Second Book in the Outliers Trilogy. New York: Harper, 2017, focusing on the girl, is a typical middle volume in that the situation gets worse. In The Collide: The Final Book in the Outliers Trilogy. New York: Harper, 2018, which still focuses on the girl, she struggles, successfully to find out why the “Outliers” are targeted and who is doing trying to kill them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

“Plantation | Springtime: A day in the life of the automated body of the future” - Lia Swope Mitchell (Terraform, 2016)
The setting is a penitentiary in which the prisoners are treated as if they are plants with details on their care, feeding, and punishment followed by the prisoners’ thoughts. In the first reprint these are more effectively side by side columns.
Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. Big Echo: Critical SF, no. 7, Part 1 (January 2018). https://www.bigecho.org/plantation-springtime; and without the subtitle or the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 198-207.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“President John F. Kennedy, Astronaut” - Sandra [A.] McDonald ( b. 1966) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2016)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia with much of the land flooded.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Project Empathy" - Dominica Phetteplace (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2016)
The first of five stories about a future San Francisco and various ways artificial intelligence is used to both enhance and control people. The other stories, all with the same protagonists, are, in order, “Project Synergy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.4 & 5 (483 & 484) (April/May 2016): 70-82; “Project Symmetry.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.6 (485) (June 2016): 42-56; “Project Entropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.7 (486) (July 2016): 40-57; and “Project Extropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.10 & 11 (489 & 490) (October/November 2016): 124-39.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Rager in Space” - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) (Bridging Infinity, 2016)
A sometimes-humorous story set in a future dystopia in which all computers on Earth have failed, no one can ever pay off their student debts, and peonage has been reestablished for debtors.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

"The Rupture" - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) (Capricious (Aotearoa/New Zealand), 2016)
The story is set on a dystopian future Earth in which most animals and many plants are extinct, and the Earth regularly has major earthquakes and new volcanoes that become tourist sites. The story is told from the point-of-view of a visitor from another planet who initially visits Earth to attend university.
Rpt. in her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 17-35
Keywords: Female author; Latinx author; US author

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

“Shifting Gears” - Mackenzie Reide (Altered States of the Union, 2016)
The Northwest of the U.S. has seceded and formed a new country called Cascadia. The story is about the suppression by U.S. authorities of all contact with Cascadia. See also 2017 Reide.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

“Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Lightspeed, 2016)
The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which there is little land left and the wealthy life on cruise ships.
Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 33-56.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

“Standing Still” - Lindsay Redifer (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Climate change dystopia set in Madagascar.
Keywords: Female author; Mexican author; US author

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

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

"Thirteen Year" - Diana Rose Harper (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Poem set in the underground authoritarian dystopia where humans have retreated from the environmental damage at the surface.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Those Shadows Laugh” - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2016)
Eutopia occupied only by parthenogenetic women modelled on 1915 Gilman, “Herland.”
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 235-57.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

“Three Alternative Histories from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth” - Kate Schapira (Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, 2016)
Providence, Rhode Island, which is located bay that will flood the city as the ocean rises, dealing with climate-change. In one case, there is short-term success but long-term failure. In the other cases, the people achieve temporarily workable solutions. In all cases, the successes depend on community members working together and helping each other.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/three-alternate-histories/ (January 26, 2017).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Three Points Masculine” - An Owomoyela (Lightspeed, 2016)
Dystopia in which there is a war between those opposing and accepting/protecting transgender rights.
Rpt. in Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2017), 35-49
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

Time Zero - Carolyn Cohagan (She Writes Press, 2016)
Dystopia of a Manhattan ruled by religious extremists with particular emphasis on the restrictions on women. The novel focuses on one girl who rebels. Ends with “End of Book One.”
Began as an M.P.W. (Master of Professional Writing) thesis. Southern California, 2013.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Too Like the Lightning. Terra Ignota, Book I - Ada [Louise Grace] Palmer (b. 1981) (Tor, 2016)
A complex novel set in a 25th century technological flawed utopia. Abundance. Much on gender roles. The public practice of religion has been outlawed. Most people belong to world clans that are economic entities in competition with other clans. First volume in a series. The second volume is Seven Surrenders: Terra Ignota, Book II. New York: Tor, 2017. 384 pp. in which certain groups have conspired to maintain stability on the planet through selective murders. The third volume is The Will to Battle: Terra Incognita, Book III. New York: Tor, 2017. 352 pp. in which the utopia has collapsed and turned into a dystopia. The fourth volume is Perhaps the Stars: Terra Ignota, Book IV. New York: Tor, 2021. 593 pp. where war breaks out with devastating consequences, but at the end a better world is slowly being rebuilt. The series has explicitly utopian threads throughout. See https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/notes-on-oaths-and-laws-from-terra-ignota/utopia/ for the Utopian Oath from volume one.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

"Walkers" - Kelsey Shannahan (Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales, 2016)
Dystopia of an apparently unchanging society in which nothing dies, but, because change is essential, periodically turns some parents into “walkers,” part human/part machine beings that then search out and kill their own children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Waterdancer’s World - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Aqueduct Press, 2016)
A complex dystopia set on a world colonized so that its resources could be exploited, and the novel focuses on the relations among both the colonizers those who want to protect the planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author