“The Perfect Match” - Ken Liu (b. 1976) (2012)
The dystopia created by a company selling everyone a personal attendant/adviser that collects an immense amount of information about each person.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 491-507; and in his The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 26-50.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author; US author

Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004); J. A. Johnstone (Pinnacle Books, 2012)
Sequel to 2011 Johnstone with Johnstone. In this novel the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. See also 2013 Johnstone with Johnstone
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Picking Up the Park” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. Public parks as common utopian spaces.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Pines. A Novel - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) (Thomas & Mercer, 2012)
Dystopia of a town cut off from the rest of the world and controlled by a few people with the leader claiming that he is God. There appears to be only desolation outside the town. First volume of a trilogy followed by Wayward: Book Two of the Wayward Pines Series. Las Vegas, NV: Thomas & Mercer, 2013 and The Last Town: Book Three of the Wayward Pines Series. Seattle, WA: Thomas & Mercer, 2014. Basis for the TV series Wayward Pines that ran May 14 – July 23, 2015, and May 25 – July 27, 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pure - Julianna Baggott (Grand Central, 2012)
Dystopia. First volume in the Pure trilogy in which what appears to have been a nuclear war leaves devastation and major physical changes. The “Pure” are those who avoided the fallout and live inside the Dome. The second volume, Fuse. New York: Grand Central, 2013, is mostly intrigue and adventure. In the third volume, Burn. New York: Grand Central, 2014, after much conflict, the Dome is destroyed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Quarantine: The Loners. Book One - [Lex] [Hrabe]; [Thomas] [Voorhees] (Egmont USA, 2012)
First volume of a young adult dystopia series originally intended as a trilogy but extended. A disease that kills adults but not teenagers, infects a high school, and all the students are quarantined. The sequels follow the conflicts that take place and their struggle to survive. See Quarantine: The Saints. Book Two. New York: Egmont USA, 2013; Quarantine: The Burnouts. Book Three. New York: Egmont USA, 2014; and Quarantine: The Giant. Book Four. New York: Egmost USA, 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Reality Girl" - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Post-ecological catastrophe ecological dystopia.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 99-120.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Red" - Amanda Downum (b. 1979) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the few surviving groups of teenagers live in boarded-up houses.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Remembering Mandy” - Paul Clayton (Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012)
The story takes place in a post-nuclear war future, and the protagonist is one of the very few people who survived and is now an old man. The overwhelming majority of people have been created from genetic material and are all young, vigorous and in their twenties. The story concerns the old man’s decision whether or not to sell his memories of his wife and child for enough money to live well, but in selling them he will lose them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Renegade - J[essica] A. Souders (Tor Teen, 2012)
Young adult flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect underground city called Elysium is a highly structured, inegalitarian dystopia that practices eugenics. The novel follows a young woman, whose mother is the dictator, and who has been chosen for the highest class as she learns the truth about her society and by the end of the novel escapes to the surface. Prequels are A Dark Grave: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2012. EBook in which a young man on the surface discovers the underground city and Rise: An Elysium Chronicles Short Story. New York: Tor.com, 2916. EBook in which a young man from the underground who is supposed to kill the protagonist of the first volumes but falls in love with her instead. A sequel is Revelations. New York: Tor Teen, 2013, in which the girl struggles to adjust to living on the surface. The third volume is Rebellion. New York: Tor Teen, 2016 in which the girl and her friends intend to kidnap her mother and exile her to the surface. The ending suggests that a further volume is possible.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Reunion" - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
A dystopia in which soldiers systematically took selected children from their homes to be adopted, killed, or enslaved. The story focuses on the search for one of the children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Right to Bear Arms: After the Riots Begin - Michael E. Foster (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia with a small group fighting an authoritarian government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Salt Sea and the Sky" - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a future Ireland where the need to respond to climate change means that the majority of the people will never have a job and live on a low minimum provided by the state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Second Mexican-American War - Les Harris (b. 1978) (Anderson & Petrova Publishers, 2012)
Dystopia in which Mexico, in alliance with China, invades the U.S. Continued in his Resistance and Alliances: Book Two of The Guns, Ammo and Alcohol Trilogy. Rio Rico, AZ: Anderson & Petrova Publishers, 2012. Both volumes stress the war and the individuals and small groups that provide most of the resistance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Seekers in the City” - Jeanne DuPrau (b. 1944) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Overpopulation, bureaucratic dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Segment" - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia of a future where the news is faked by agencies that completely control the lives of the young actors, who live in agency buildings. The story focuses on a news segment where it is intended that the actor be killed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Selection - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) (Harper Teen, 2012)
Young adult romance novel set in a dystopia with a caste system in which there is a formal competition among young women to be chosen by the prince. First volume in a series followed by The Elite. New York: HarperTeen, 2013; The One. New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard (The Selection Novella). New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Heir. New York: HarperTeen, 2015; and The Crown. New York: HarperTeen, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Semplica Girl Diaries” - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2012)
The story takes place in an undefined future with extreme differences of wealth, and the point-of-view character is a man who tries to emulate the rich to please his daughters. He buys a set of Semplica Girls, who are women trafficked from poor countries and used as lawn implements.
Rpt. in the author's Tenth of December. Stories (New York: Random House, 2013), 109-167
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Squealer: Mouthpiece for a Generation” - Robert Nathan Correll (Nature, 2012)
Brief dystopia in which lost knowledge is being replaced by fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Starters - Lissa Price (Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2012)
First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia set after a biological weapon kills everyone between twenty and sixty, with the younger people called Starters and the older ones known as Enders. The young people struggle to survive, and the protagonist learns of a way of earning money by allowing an Ender to temporarily inhabit her body. A malfunction has her inhabiting an Enders body where she learns of the corruption in the system In the sequel, Enders New York: Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2014, she retains memories from the Enders who had inhabited her body and are trying to use her for their own purposes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Surrender - Elana Johnson (Simon Pulse, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in sequel to 2011 Johnson in which the dictator tries to keep the protagonist of the first volume from remembering the past. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance. See also 2013 Johnson.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes One though Seven - Cheryl L. Cholley (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia. A sequel is Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes Eight though Twelve [The cover title is Survivalist by Circumstance--Novel Two]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2013. Volumes eight through twelve were published as ebooks in 2013, and volume thirteen was published as an ebook in 2013.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye - Paul [G.] Tremblay (b. 1971) (ChiZine Publications, 2012)
Humor/satire set in a dystopia where a large corporation controls the entire food supply.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Taft 2012. A Novel - Jason Heller (Quirk Books, 2012)
Satire. William Howard Taft (1857-1930. U.S. President 1909-13. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1921-30) returns from the past and gets involved with contemporary politics, running for president and being defeated in a campaign focusing on the poor quality of food in the U.S. At the end of the novel in 2021 his granddaughter, then President, appoints him to the Supreme Court.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tangerine, Nectarine, Clementine, Apocalypse" - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Interzone, 2012)
Flawed utopia seen through the eyes of a boy who believed its myths until he discovered the flaws.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Three - Annemarie Monahan (PM Press/Flashpoint Press, 2012)
One stream in the novel involves a lesbian intentional community, the eutopian goals that lead to its establishment, and the problems that lead to its collapse.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Times of Trouble. The End Times Saga Book 2 - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) (CreateSpace, 2012)
Despite being called Book 2, this was the first published volume in a multi-volume dystopia dealing with the end of the world from a Christian perspective. This volume presents a good Christian who begins to experience the way in which the U.S. government is trying to control all aspects of life. Times of Turmoil. The End Times Saga Book 1. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013 is a prequel that deals with events before Times of Trouble. In Times of Trial. The End Times Saga Book 3. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012 the government is attacking all Christians. Timothy Phillips. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013 [The Kindle ed. has the title Times of Rebellion. The End Times Saga Book 4. 2013] focuses on one young Christian. Times of Destruction. The End Times Saga Book 5. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 deals with the first half of the seven years of tribulation, and Times of Judgment. The End Times Saga Book 6. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 deals with the second half. The last volume, Times of Tribulation. The End Times Saga Book 7. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 ends with the beginning of Christ’s rule during the millennium. A minor character from this volume is developed in Jon Ryan: An End Times Short Story. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013. Another such character is developed in Xavier Doolittle. An End Times Short Story. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Tomorrow’s Dictator” - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) (Apex Magazine,, 2012)
The protagonist is the “Dictator” of Walden Three, a community where she “adjusts” the members to be productive workers.
Rpt. The Book of Apex: Volume Four of Apex Magazine. Ed. Lynne M. Thomas (Lexington, KY: Publications, 2013), 161-71; and 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), 220-29. © 2018
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tricentennial - IE Castellano (CreateSpace, 2012)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia where apparently ecologically sound enclosed cities were no longer necessary but used to sustain the power of those in control. At the end, the old U.S. is reestablished.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Troy Standard and the Men Behind the Desks - A. G. Fredericks ([CreateSpace], 2012)
The novel focuses on the struggle to achieve a new currency based on precious metals, which will bring about a much better world, the dystopia in creation by not having one, and the forces who oppose the change for their own benefit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Two Sisters in Exile” - Aliette de Bodard (b. 1982) (Solaris Rising1.5: An Exclusive Ebook of New Science Fiction, 2012)
A eutopia of peace threatened by the surrounding warrior peoples.
Keywords: Female author; French author; US author

"The Up" - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (b. 1955) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a post-catastrophe underground society that is slowly failing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Uptime Jazz 2084: Futuristic Nightmare /Time Train Blues. A Science Fiction Novel in the Time Train Series - John T. Cullen (Clocktower Books, 2012)
Dystopia with time travelers from the future trying to change to past to protect their future. The protagonist travels to a future 2084 U.S. that is a walled religious dystopia under the Good Shepherd.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

The Utopia Experiment - Lloyd Harrison Whitling (Whitling House. EBook., 2012)
The novel begins with the description of a eutopia of nudity and polygamous and polyandrous marriages in a very lively society. This is apparently the eutopia that it was hoped that the experimental intentional community in which most of the rest of the novel is set would produce. But most of the novel focuses on starting the community, located on an isolated island, and the personal, psychological, and social problems the community faced before it was destroyed by a tsunami.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The War Is Over and Everyone Wins" - Zachary Jernigan (Asimov's Science Fiction 36.1 (432), 2012)
Dystopia in which all whites were killed by a manufactured virus and U.S. cities have divided into ethnic enclaves that cannot safely be entered by someone of another ethnicity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Wardrobe Malfunction” - Dale Newton (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
High tech eutopia in which non-profits doing good have replaced corporations focused on making money.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Water Thief - Nicholas Lamar Soutter (Author, 2012)
In the novel individuals are the private property of corporations, and one such person discovers and oppositional movement. The author states in the Afterword that he wrote the book as a rebuttal to Ayn Rand (1905-1982), author of Anthem (1938), and Atlas Shrugged (1957).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"We Can Do This" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Arc 1.4: Forever Alone Drone, 2012)
The background to the story is a high-tech New York City that has solved the environmental problems, provides for the homeless, and can cure most diseases, but it focuses on the issues that develop when someone put in suspension because her brain tumor could not be cured is cured and brought out of suspension thirty-five years later.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Wool Omnibus - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) (CreateSpace, 2012)
Dystopia in which to escape the ruined earth people have lived for generations in an authoritarian dystopia in a huge underground silo. Sequels include Shift Omnibus. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which includes “First Shift” (April 14, 2012), “Second Shift” (November 20, 2012), and “Third Shift” (January 28, 2013), and Dust. Np: CreateSpace, 2013, which concludes the series. Additional material can be found at the author’s website http://www.hughhowey.com/ as well as the author’s “Story Behind Dust” at http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/story-behind-dust-by-hugh-howey.
Rpt. with some revisions as Wool. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. Much of the material was originally published online in the author’s blog as “Wool” (July 30, 2011), “Wool: Proper Gauge” (November 20, 2011), “Wool: Casting Off” (December 4, 2011), “Wool: The Unraveling” (December 25, 2011), and “Wool: The Stranded” (January 14, 2012).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Yellow Rose of Texas. A Novel - Dennis Snyder (Concerning Life Publishing, 2012)
Texas secedes from a dystopian anti-religious U.S. government which leads to a civil war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Zero Bar" - Tom Greene (Strange Horizons, 2012)
The story is set in a near-future that continues to be racist but where it is possible to adjust a fetus’s genes to ensure that the baby will be white. It focuses on a young woman whose genes had been adjusted deciding what to do when she is pregnant. A Zero Bar is a candy bar that is white on the outside and black inside.
Rpt. in How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2015), 41-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Zona - Nathan L. Yocum (Curiosity Quills Press, 2012)
Religious dystopia with preachers immediately killing people who are identified as sinners.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2019: Dystopia USA: A Novel of America’s Economic Twilight - David W. Latko (Tifda Press, 2011)
The U.S. economy has collapsed, the novel follows one family as they struggle to survive with lectures on how it came about.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America - Albert [Lawrence] Brooks (b. 1947) (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
The novel begins with the early stages of intergenerational conflict that could lead to a dystopia, followed by a massive earthquake that destroys Los Angeles and the failure of government to respond adequately. The novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia of intergenerational cooperation, the building of a new, eutopian Los Angeles under the auspices of China, the establishment of neighborhood health care based on a Chinese model, and the election of a naturalized Chinese politician as President after an amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed to make it possible.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2032 Was A Very Good Year - J, William Mauck (iUniverse, 2011)
Dystopia brought about by Islamic radicals taking over the world and the successful fight back by troops from Alaska.
Keywords: US author

2984 - R. Vincent Riccio (Strategic Book Group, 2011)
Authoritarian dystopia that presents itself as perfect.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Across the Universe - Beth Revis (Razorbill, 2011)
Young adult dystopia. The novel concerns a generation starship, with this novel focusing on the preparations for the trip and the dystopian Earth that they are leaving from the perspective of a young girl.  A related story is her “The Other Elder.” After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (New York: Hyperion, 2012), 109-27, and it focuses on the three rules of the starship society, 1. “No differences” 2. “The ship must have one strong, central leader to survive.” 3. “No individual thought.” Sequels include Million Suns. New York: Razorbill, 2012, where serious problems are discovered on the ship; and Shades of Earth: an Across the Universe Novel. New York: Razorbill, 2013, which is set on the planet that they arrive at and focuses on the problems of survival; and  As They Slip Away: An Across the Universe Novella. Np: Penguin Teen Ebook, 2013, which focuses on an additional character.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Apocalypse” - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (After the Apocalypse. Stories, 2011)
Dystopia of the immediate aftermath of the collapse of society.
Keywords: Female author; US author

America Pacifica. A Novel - Anna North (Little, Brown, 2011)
Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia that begins on an island dictatorship followed by the search, by a young woman, for her mother, who has disappeared from the island.
Keywords: Female author; US author

American Revolution. A Gay Novel (Keywords: Gay, American, President) - Byrne Fone (CreateSpace, 2011)
The novel begins in the development of an anti-gay dystopia in the U.S. and is largely a political novel about the apparent defeat of that dystopia, with the novel ending before the defeat is completely clear.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“And Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness” - Lisa Nohealani Morton (Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic, 2011)
Lesbian love story with fantasy elements set in an authoritarian dystopia where most interactions are with machines.
Rpt. in GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 5-17.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Apocalypse Law - John Grit ([CreateSpace], 2011)
Survivalist dystopia. First volume of five followed by Apocalypse Law 2. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011]. Rev. ed. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012; Apocalypse Law 3. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012]; Apocalypse Law 4: Raw Justice. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013; Apocalypse Law. and Apocalypse Law 5: Liberty or Tyranny. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014. Over the five volumes the story moves from a plague that decimates the world’s population through various stages of survival and rebuilding to when the rule of law is beginning to be reestablished.
Rev. ed. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Apple Jack" - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) (Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball, 2011)
A post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Away - Teri Hall (Dial Books, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2010 Hall. In this volume, some protagonists from the first volume have crossed the line and are living a fairly primitive life camping. See also 2013 Hall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beauty Queens - Libba [Martha Elizabeth] Bray (b. 1964) (Scholastic Press, 2011)
Take-off on 1954 Golding, The Lord of the Flies. Humorous novel about a planeload of teenage beauty queens that crash lands on an isolated island, and the society they create there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Bioshock: Rapture - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Titan Books, 2011)
The aftermath of World War 2 has produced a dystopian world where the creative person is neither honored nor rewarded. In response a man creates an underwater utopia where such people will be free and rewarded. Based on the Bioshock video games.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bumped - Megan [Fitzmorris] McCafferty (b. 1973) (Balzer & Bray, 2011)
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The California Queen Comes Calling" - Pat MacEwen (Welcome to the Greenhouse: New Science Fiction on Climate Change, 2011)
Dystopia brought about by the isolation created by the flooding caused by climate change. The story focuses on the attempt to reestablish a legal system. One subtheme is a law that limits a woman to having two children and the requirement that those children be registered. Any child beyond two is a non-person.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Ceiling is Sky" - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) (Interzone, 2011)
Dystopia of a future Earth with extreme poverty and very high unemployment, with most people working short term contracts.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Children of Paranoia - Trevor Shane (b. 1976) (Dutton, 2011)
Dystopia of constant war. First volume in a series. In this volume the young protagonist is an assassin who, meeting a young woman, tries to stop fighting, which is not permitted
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Curfew - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) (Vintage Books, 2011)
Dystopia. The novel focus on the close relationship between a father and daughter set in a violent authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dark Parties - Sara Grant (Indigo, 2011)
Authoritarian dystopia in which people are enclosed inside the "Protectosphere" where everyone is becoming more alike and are told that nothing survives outside. The novel focuses on the ultimately successful attempt to escape.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Daybreak Zero - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2011)
Sequel to 2010 Barnes. This novel shows the dystopia created by the catastrophe of the previous one. See also 2013 Barnes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Delirium - [Laura Suzanne] [Schecter] (b. 1982) (Harper, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which people are inoculated against love at eighteen. Followed by her Pandemonium. New York: HarperCollins, 2012, which follows the main protagonist and is clearly a middle volume; and her Requiem. New York: Harper, 2013 where more and more people come to be able to love. The first printing of Requiem contains a short story, “Alex,” about the protagonist separately paged at the end of the novel. Other related stories can be found in her Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, & Raven. New York: Harper, 2012. The stories were originally published online in 2011 and 2012.
UK ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Dewey Decimal System. A Novel - Nathan Larson (b. 1970) (Akashic Books, 2011)
The first volume in a post-catastrophe dystopian trilogy set in New York City after a flu epidemic and terrorist attacks. Corruption, violence. In the second volume, The Nervous System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2012, the same protagonist dealing with similar issues in the same future. In the third volume, The Immune System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2015, the same protagonist struggling to deal with the completely corrupt future system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Divergent - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) (Katherine Tegen Books, 2011)
First volume of young adult dystopian trilogy presented initially as a flawed utopia. At sixteen each person must choose among the five factions (Candor, Abnegation, Dauntless, Amity, and Erudite) to which they will devote their lives. The novel focuses on a young woman’s choice and her struggles to fit in.  A companion volume that tells the story of two characters and is set before the first volume of the trilogy is Four: A Divergent Collection. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014. An additional story is We Can Be Mended. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2018 was published as an ebook. The second volume, Insurgent. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2012, explores the personal loyalties and conflicts that develop as a result of the choices made in the first volume. In the third volume, Allegiant. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013, the dystopia is defeated, and, after many adventures, the people of the former dystopia and the people from outside it are brought together. A film of Divergent, directed by Neil Burger was released in 2014 with a screenplay with Evan Daugherty and Vanessa Taylor. A film of Insurgent, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Brian Duffield, Akiva Goldsman (b. 1962), and Mark Bomback (b. 1971) was released in 2015. A film of Allegiant, directed by Robert Schwentke (b. 1968) with a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper, and Bill Collage was released in 2017.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One - Linda Hawley (Nouveau Publishing, 2011)
Dystopia based on the author’s interpretation of the recent past (see “The Author’s Views” in the third volume ([281-83]). The dystopia is primarily concerned with the authoritarian nature of government and its attempts to control the population. Over the course of the three volumes people successful fight back against the government and win back their freedom. The other volumes of the trilogy are Guardian of Time. The Prophecies Book Two. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012; and Wisdom Keepers. The Prophecies Book Three. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012.
2nd ed. as Dreams Unleashed. The Prophecies Book One. A Dystopian Trilogy. Np: Nouveau Publishing, 2012. The three volumes were released together on Kindle as The Prophecies Trilogy. Np: 21st Publishing, 2012.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Drought - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) (Egmont USA, 2011)
Young adult dystopia about a girl living in a religious enclave in which the people are essentially slaves living a lifestyle of the early nineteenth century. She is essential to the existence of the community, everyone will die if she leaves, and she has the opportunity to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dry Souls - Denise Getson (CBAY Books, 2011)
Young adult dystopia set in a future where there is an extreme water shortage, and rationing is the basis of political power. The focus of the novel is a girl who discovers that she can produce water from the ground. The Last Tree. Austin, TX: CBAY Books, 2016 is a sequel in which the protagonist uses her talent to provide water while being pursued by those who want to control her for their own benefit.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Eating with Integrity: A question of taste" - David Berreby (b. 1958) (Nature, 2011)
Satire on eating fads in a future where all food has to be absolutely sterile, and people eat in individual sterilized tents with some people reverting to real food.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"On the Edge" - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, 2011)
Satire in which major figures from the past, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Washington, Emma Goldman, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin are living in Los Angeles and interact, with Jefferson accompanied by Sally Hemings. They all believe that the revolution is about to begin. The story is based on a verse from Ian’s “Guess You Had to be There.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Electric Kingdom - David Arnold (b. 1981) (Penguin Random House/Viking, 2011)
Young adult post-apocalyptic (pandemic caused by infected flies) dystopia. Much of the novel is similar to other young adult post-apocalyptic dystopias in which the protagonists search for a safe place to live and meet other survivors, some good, some evil. This novel has a third protagonist, called the Deliverer, who has lived multiple lives and hopes to be able to save the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Elephant Mountains - Scott Ely (Orca Book Publishers, 2011)
Young adult survivalist dystopia set after the flooding brought on by global warming. The U.S. author teaches English at Winthrop College.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Eleventh Plague - Jeff Hirsch (Scholastic Press, 2011)
Young adult post catastrophe dystopia. The U.S. has been devastated by a flu pandemic, and the novel follows young survivors searching for others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Expedition Beyond - Roger Bagg (Fiction Studio Books, 2011)
Hollow Earth lost race eutopia based on the peoples of the pueblos of the American Southwest. Much adventure with the men regularly enslaved by Neanderthals. Vegetarian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flashback - Dan Simmons (b. 1948) (Quercus, 2011)
Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has collapsed, nuclear weapons have been used against Israel by a resurgent Caliphate, and there is an extreme rich/poor division. People use a drug to escape by taking them back to the past. The Japanese, who are the rich and the strongest world power, prohibit its use in Japan.
U.S. ed. Reagan Arthur Books/Little Brown, 2011. An earlier story was "Flashback." Lovedeath (New York: Warner Books, 1993), 153-200. Rpt. The Year's Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 544-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Gospel of Anarchy. A Novel - Justin Taylor (Harper Perennial, 2011)
The novel is set in the late twentieth century and focuses on an urban intentional community trying to create utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Heartland" - Alexander Weinstein (Pleiades: Literature in Context, 2011)
Dystopia in which almost nothing grows anymore, and everyone has sold whatever topsoil remains on any property they owned. Extreme rich/poor division.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 41-55.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Heil America" Incorporated: We Thought It Couldn't Happen Here. Volume One - N. A. Forbush (np, 2011)
The contemporary U.S. as a corporate dystopia with plans by corporations and the government to take complete control and destroy the U.S. economy for profit. In this novel those who discover the plot are forced underground. Continued in “Heil America” Incorporated: We Didn’t Think It Could Happen Here. Volume Two. Np: np. where those forced underground are able to overcome the plotters and re-establish a Christian America.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Highest Frontier - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) (Tor, 2011)
Both eutopian and dystopian themes. The novel is set on an Earth and at a college established in orbit around Earth. Earth has undergone massive environmental changes, mostly negative, and equally massive technological changes, mostly presented positively, that people have adjusted to. The protagonist is a young woman from an important political family during her first year at the college. A story set in the same future and clearly from a forthcoming sequel is “Landfall. From The Blood Star Frontier.” The Other Half of the Sky. Ed. Athena Andreadis co-edited by Kay Holt (Bennington, VT: Candlemark & Gleam, 2013): 181-200. The female author is a Professor of Biology at Kenyon College specializing in Microbiology, and her biological knowledge is used to great effect  to create a consistent new environment and biologically based technology.
Keywords: Female author; US author

House of Holes: A Book of Raunch - Nicholson Baker (b. 1957) (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
Eutopian or dystopian depending on your perspective. Humorous pornography at the center of which is an elaborate sexual spa where almost everything goes, and everyone accepted into the spa can be sexually fulfilled.
Keywords: US author

How I Spent the Apocalypse - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Yard Dog Press, 2011)
The novel focuses on a woman who has planned well ahead for a future disaster and tells everyone that they should prepare and how to prepare. She is ignored, but the disaster comes, and she and some others survive. At the end, those survivors are creating small villages based on cooperation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Indra's Web" - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (TRSF. A special issue of Technology Review (MIT), 2011)
An SF story that focuses on a new power source set in a previous slum outside Delhi, India that had been completely rebuilt using traditional methods and providing a better life for its inhabitants.
Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 145-54.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

King Freedom - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) (Fantastic Books, 2011)
The novel begins with a dystopia that combines church and state, where everyone must attend daily church services and anyone falling foul with either church or state is severely punished. The novel follows the trajectory of a man at the lowest rungs of society as he leaves prison and struggles to survive and very slowly begins to search for freedom.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Last Day of Work” - Douglas Rushkoff (b. 1961) (The Tomorrow Project: Bestselling Authors Describe Daily Life in the Future, 2011)
The story is told by the last man who will ever have to work, with even robots no longer needed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Election - Kevin [C.] Carrigan (CreateSpace, 2011)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. in which an incumbent president sets out to literally eliminate the opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Leftovers - Tom [Thomas R.] Perrotta (b. 1961) (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
Life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) with some struggling to create a good society, various religious fanatics, and some of the expected dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Legend - Marie Lu (b. 1984) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011)
Young adult dystopia with the U.S. split into warring nations. The second volume in the series, Prodigy. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 continues the same themes with the protagonists having to choose sides. The third volume, Champion. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 is mostly adventure and intrigue but ends with the dystopia improved. The fourth volume and final volume is Rebel: A Legend Novel. New York: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, 2019. It is set in Antarctica and focuses on the three main characters from the earlier volumes, but they are older and is told from the points-of-view of two of them. A prequel to the series, Life Before Legend. New York: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 was published only as an ebook. There is a graphic novel series: Legend. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015; Prodigy. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016; and Champion. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Female author; US author

Manna - Marshall Brain (b. 1961) (2011)
Half dystopia in a U.S. that is spreading around the world and half a eutopia set in Australia. The dystopia is brought about by the gradual takeover of the control of almost all work by computers, which results in a few extremely wealthy and the majority unemployed, on welfare and living in specially built buildings. The Australian eutopia is based on principles that “1. Everyone is equal 2. Everything is reused 3. Nothing is anonymous 4. Nothing is owned 5. Tell the truth 6. Do no harm. 7. Obey the rules. 7. Live your life. 9. Better and better” (Chapter 5, p. 8).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Memento Nora - Angie Smibert (Marshall Cavendish, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which bad memories can be erased by going to a Therapeutic Forgetting Center and taking a pill designed to eliminate a specific memory. A young woman chooses not to have a memory erased, and she and others who have made the same choice publish a book of memories. They are then threatened with having all their memories erased. The first volume in a series. The second volume, The Forgetting Curve. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2012, is a standard middle volume, with things getting worse. The final volume is The Meme Plague. Las Vegas, NV: Skyscape, 2013, and in it people fight back against the dystopia, but it is not clear at the end if they have won or not.
Originated with "Momento Nora." Odyssey (Peterborough, NH) 17.5 (May-June 2008): 19-21.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Monopol City - [John T.] [Cullen] (Clocktower Books, 2011)
In a future authoritarian dystopia, political prisoners create a game called Monopol City and come to live within it.
Rpt. as Meta 4 City: A DarkSF Novel. DarkSF is the Dark Chocolate of Science Fiction. San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2017
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

"The New and Perfect Man" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (The New and Perfect Man, 2011)
Dystopia in which a couple decides to create the perfect child by raising it in a technologically advanced but artificial environment and the girl's revolt against them.
Keywords: Female author; US author

New Dystopia - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) (CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux/Sternberg Press, 2011)
A novel related to an art exhibition depicting, as did the exhibition, the dystopia of the current world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Next Future” - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (Lapham’s Quarterly, 2011)
Essay in which the author describes various possible utopias, which he rejects, and one, briefly, that he accepts that combines anarchism and a command economy.
Rpt. as “Totalitopia.” In his Totalitopia plus “This Is Our Town” and “Everything That Rises” and “Paul Park’s Hidden World” and “I Did Crash a Few Parties” Outspoken Interview and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017), 23-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nine-Tenths - Meira Pentermann (Author, 2011)
An authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a better alternative, an enclave that is only briefly described and that remains under threat from the dystopia. The conceit of the novel is that a momentary decision can completely change history.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Nowhere Fast” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, 2011)
The story is set in a future recovering from climate change and focuses on the damage down by private cars when a young man has cobbled together one from spare parts that runs on hemp oil. The background is a fragmented United States.
Rpt. Illus. John Coulthart. In Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 241-53; and in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 65-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Owners" - Gordon Wolfe (d. 2010) (Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine, 2011)
Having achieved space flight humans meet aliens who require them to change human behavior before they can join the Unity of worlds. Having created the required eutopia, the aliens mention the need to get the approval of the Owners who control all the galaxies races. The Owners turn out to be cats.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Patriot Girls" - Sisson, Amy (End of an Aeon, 2011)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is in constant future wars and does not produce enough lower-class boys to serve. The Patriot Girls are lower-class girls who sign up to mate with the boys to produce the future military.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Phoenix Rising - William W[allace] Johnstone (1938-2004); J. A. Johnstone (Pinnacle Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a liberal U.S. with a foreign-born President trying to establish a world government which leads to a takeover by Islamic extremists and a remnant of American patriots fighting to reclaim the country. First volume of a trilogy followed by their Phoenix Rising. Freebase Freedom. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2012, in which the President reveals that he is and always has been a Muslim and insists that all Americans pledge allegiance to the regime. A small group of survivalist rebels fight back. In the final volume, Phoenix Rising. Day of Judgment. New York: Pinnacle Books, 2013, the U.S has become the United Islamic Republic of Enlightenment and is supported by the World Caliphate of Holy Path Islam and the survivalists of the earlier volumes fight to reestablish the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Possession - Elana Johnson (Simon Pulse, 2011)
First volume of a young adult dystopia in which people are brainwashed and one teenage girl resists. See also 2012 and 2013 Johnson. Two stories set in the same dystopia were published as ebooks as Resist. A Possession Story. [Los Gatos, CA]: Smashwords, 2011 and Regret: A Possession Story. New York: Simon Pulse ebook, 2012. Both are about Resistance missions and personal relationships within the Resistance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Postmortal [A Novel] - Drew [Andrew Schuyler] Magary (b. 1976) (Penguin Books, 2011)
Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a cure for aging. This is followed by a pandemic that decimates the world’s population presented through the recovery, in 2093, of sixty years of text files from an unidentified man recounting his experiences.
The ebook version includes bibliographical references and an index. U. K. ed. as The End Specialist. London: Harper Voyager, 2011. 419 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pym. A Novel - Mat Johnson (b. 1970) (Spiegel & Grau, 2011)
Dystopia. Something of a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s (1809-49) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1838. The novel begins as a realistic novel, but then the protagonist leads an all-black crew in Pym’s footsteps to the Antarctic, where they find, in addition to Pym still alive, not the blacks with whom Poe’s novel ends but white giants like Sasquatch or Yeti, who enslave them. Escaping they also find a painter who has escaped the U.S. to avoid taxes and is trying to create a eutopia that matches his paintings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rabbletown: Life in These United Christian States of Holy America - Randy Attwood (Smashwords/Kindle, 2011)
Religious dystopia that develops after a world-wide religious war. Fundamentalist Christians have replaced the U.S. political system with people serving for life and control all aspects of life. Rabbletown is where the poor live.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“R-Complex” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2011)
A dystopia in which a theocratic dystopia is being opposed by a group of religious zealots with a different theocratic vision.
Originally published in Aoife’s Kiss, no. 37 (June 2011). Not found. Also published as a fourteen-page online Chapbook. [Np: J. Alan Erwine, 2016]. No longer available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (b. 1972) (Crown Publishers, 2011)
First of two volumes, the novel is set in 2044 where the world is generally dystopian, and many people escape into the eutopian virtual world of an extremely complex eutopian game where a person can be anyone they want. A film directed by Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) with a screenplay by Zak Penn (b. 1968) and Cline was released in March 2018. The second volume, Ready Player Two. A Novel. Penguin Random House/Ballantine, 2020. 370 pp. repeats most of the themes of the first novel centered on a different fame with some new characteristics. A film is expected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Resistance of a New America: The first 3 years of hell - [James] Percy Clay III (CreateSpace, 2011)
Dystopia in which the U.S. joins "other communist countries" and begins to take children to government camps. An additional chapter was published separately as R.O.N.A. (11 Months of torture). [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2011. PSt
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Revolt of 2020 - Dr. [James] Patrick Johnston [D.O.] (b. 1970) (Eloquent Books, 2011)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government tries to disarm citizens and impose the liberal agenda.  First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, The American Tyranny of 2020. Np: Xulon Press, 2011, is a dystopia brought about by those favoring abortion and the successful struggle by pro-life forces. In the third volume, The Uncivil War of 2020. Zanesville, OH: Right Remedy Publishing, 2012, the U.S. government suppresses the anti-abortion movement, a Coalition of Free Christian States secedes, and the U.S. invades. See also The Revolt Trilogy Workbook. [Zanesville, OH]: Right Remedy Publishing, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Revolution World. Ecodisasters. Torture prisons. Fire-breathing cows. A love story - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented into regions, although a U.S. government is involved in multiple wars and kidnaps and tortures anyone they think might have information useful in the wars. The focus of the novel is on Texas and genetic engineering.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition - Charles Eisenstein (b. 1967) (Evolver Editions, 2011)
Nonfiction that presents a new monetary system based on complete, public openness of all financial transactions and the gift economy that is expected to lead to the eutopia the author calls the Age of Reunion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Scorch City - Toby Ball (St. Martin's Press, 2011)
The second volume in alternative history dystopias about the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. In this novel, the Uhuru Community is a Black separatist shantytown community with utopian aspirations facing attacks from the people of the city after the discovery of a white woman’s body near the community. See also 2010 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Scored - Lauren McLaughlin (Random House, 2011)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone is given a score by ScoreCorp as a teenager that determines all one’s future prospects.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Searchers - Naomi Gladish Smith (Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2011)
The novel is similar to 2004 and 2007 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.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Seed - Ziegler, Rob (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a collapsed environment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Semiramis” - Genevieve Valentine (b. 1981) (Clarkesworld Magazine, 2011)
Dystopia concerned with people trying to protect the last seeds and seed banks.
Rpt. in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 352-62.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Sentence to Life: Pet project" - Igor Teper (Nature, 2011)
A flawed utopia in which the protagonist has been sentenced under the cybercrime laws to isolation from other people by not having a device the broadcasts information about him or one that receives information from others, including animals. A woman and a dog reintroduce him to the pleasure human interaction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadow of a Dead Star: Book One of The Wonderland Cycle - Michael Shean (b. 1978) (Curiosity Quills Press, 2011)
Dystopia of moral collapse. Sequels include Redeye. Book 2 of the Wonderland Sequel. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2013; and Gathering Ashes: Book Three of the Wonderland Cycle. Reston, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2016.. His Bone Wires. Dulles, VA: Curiosity Quills Press, 2012 is a murder mystery set in the same future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Silent Country” - Vicki Keire (Dark Tomorrows, 2011)
Essentially a horror story, but the background is a dystopia of extreme violence in a world fighting over the natural resources of South America.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Soft Apocalypse - Will[iam D.] McIntosh (b. 1962) (Night Shade Books, 2011)
Dystopia of a collapsing economy and social structure. Constant acts of biological terrorism, bombings, and so forth.
Based on the stories “Soft Apocalypse.” Interzone, no. 200 (October 2005): 18-25; and “Street Hero.” Interzone, no. 215 (April 2008): 40-47.
Keywords: Male author; US author

State of Mind - Sven Michael Davison (Bedouin Press, 2011)
Dystopia based around an attempt to control people’s minds through an implanted chip. Mostly adventure. First volume of a trilogy, followed by State of Union: Book Two of the God Head Trilogy. Tarzana, CA: Bedouin Press, 2012 in which mind control has been achieved; and State of Being: Book Three of the God Head Trilogy. Tarzana, CA: Bedouin Press, 2013 in which people manage to re-achieve personal control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Sweet Sixteen" - Kat Howard (Lightspeed, 2011)
A young adult story set on a women-only planet where each girl has multiple parents and, at age sixteen, must choose their future. At that point their DNA is adjusted so that they are completely fitted for the way of life they choose, and their name is changed to reflect that career.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tankborn - Karen Sandler (TU Books, 2011)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which people are genetically modified, some of them to be slaves in a well-defined caste system. The second volume, Awakening. a tankborn novel. New York: Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2013 is a typical middle volume in that things just get worse. The third volume, Rebellion. a tankborn novel. New York: Tu Books/Lee & Low Books, 2014 achieves a degree of equality among the different humans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

This Shared Dream - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor, 2011)
Alternative history that presents a world where the Cold War did not happen, JFK was not assassinated, and the world became a generally better place.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When She Woke. A Novel - Hillary Jordan (b. 1963) (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011)
A reimagining of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. A Romance (1850) set in a future dystopia where the church dominates the state. A woman convicted of murdering her unborn child is genetically engineered so that she is red. Other crimes lead to other colors.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Wither - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
Dystopia where genetic engineering has accidentally produced a situation where women die at twenty and men at twenty-five. The second volume, Fever. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012 U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2013, is very much a middle volume in which the main characters go through a series of adventures. The third volume, Server. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013 brings the various themes to a conclusion.
UK ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2011.
Keywords: Female author; US author

You’ll Like It Here (Everybody Does) - Ruth White (b. 1942) (Delacorte, 2011)
Young adult novel in which a family of aliens who had settled in North Carolina in search of a peaceful life are forced to flee their xenophobic neighbors. They end up in a dystopian city on another planet inhabited by both fictional people are some deceased people from Earth. Ultimately, they, and some friends from Earth, find a peaceful place to live and plan to free the people in the dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

"Amaryliss" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Lightspeed, 2010)
Post-catastrophe story with radically reduced resources but in which the people are making good adjustments and live in a basically good society. Birth rate restricted to food production. Households composed of unrelated people working together. See also 2012 Vaughn.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 127-38; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 127-38; and in her in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 290-305.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Are You Sannata3159?” - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) (Postscripts #22/23: The Company He Keeps, 2010)
Dystopia set in a future India with an extreme division by the rich and the poor in which the rich live in beautiful cities built on top of the areas in which the poor live. The establishment of a slaughterhouse brings well-paying jobs and hope, but the workers are all given a drug that keeps them from realizing the humans are part of the meat being processed.
Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 123-44.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author; US author

Ashwood - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2010)
First volume of a trilogy in which the U.S. no longer produces enough food, does little manufacturing, and specializes only selling intellectual capacity, thus produces an elite living in compounds and the rest barely surviving. Surrogacy provided for the elite women. This volume focuses on a compound called Ashwood established to produce food and the woman who is chosen to be its matron. Sequels include 2012 and 2014 Kraack.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Beautiful Girl" - Angeline Hawkes (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia of a post-atomic war future where very few men are born, and those few are tattooed with a barcode that identifies their owner.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Birthmarked - Caragh M. O'Brien (Roaring Brook Press, 2010)
A young adult dystopia depicting a world inside and outside a walled Enclave that demands children from those outside. In the middle volume, Prized: The Second Book in the Birthmarked Trilogy. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2011, the heroine escapes from the Enclave only to be captured by a dystopian society called Sylum that is dominated by women and that has outlawed love. In the final volume, Promised: The Third Book in the Birthmarked Trilogy. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2012, the heroine, having helped free the people of the Sylum, returns with them to the Enclave and brings about its reform.  A story set between the first two volumes is “Tortured.” http://www.tor.com/2011/12/08/tortured/. Rpt. in Fierce Reads Presents Kisses and Curses. Ed. Lauren Burniac (New York: Square Fish, 2012), 251-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Blind Pig. A Novel - Elizabeth Dougherty (School Street Books, 2010)
A dystopia similar to Upton Sinclair’s realistic novel, The Jungle (1906), which depicted the horrors of the meat processing industry. In the dystopia the NArc (Nutritional Architecture System) has been put in place to ensure that everyone eats only healthy food. But the system is run for profit by corporations and the food is not as healthy as it is supposed to be.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

"Castoff World" - Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
The castoff world is a pile of trash in the ocean which is inhabited by a young girl and her grandfather. The trash island is being created by advanced technology designed to gradually clean up the ocean. After the grandfather's death the island becomes sentient, transforms itself into a boat and takes the girl to what appears to be an environmental eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cathedral" - Tamara Wilhite (1976-2021) (Infinite Space, Infinite God II, 2010)
Dystopia in which genetically engineered people with short lives are created to be able to solve problems very quickly and are used to develop addictive drugs. The book is a collection of Catholic science fiction, and the focus of the story is on one of the short-lived women’s attempt to create an antidote, called Cathedral, to the other drugs she had created and involves a brief interaction with a Catholic priest.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

"Coward's Steel" - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, 2010)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements about a woman’s experiences dealing with both community and violence.
Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 124-37, with an author’s note on 215-16.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Dial Tone" - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) (Kasma Magazine, 2010)
Post-pandemic “last man” story.
Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 23-25, with an author’s note on 210.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

“Drafting Zoë” - Kelly Jennings (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2010)
The story is set in a future, after an unexplained “Big Melt,” that extremely intelligent children are drafted at age four to be integrated into the computer system as part of national security. The story is told from the viewpoint of a widowed father whose child is drafted.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

Empty - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic Press, 2010)
Young adult dystopia after the world runs out of fossil fuels.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

The Faithful: 23rd Century Morality. A Mystery Novel - Eileen Siedman (Xlibris, 2010)
The novel begins in a corporate dystopia, called the Faithful, that is overthrown and goes underground while the world is reorganized into a eutopia in which all nations disappear into seven regional federations, which brings peace and prosperity.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Faithful Soldier, Prompted.” - Saladin Ahmed (b. 1945) (Apex Magazine, 2010)
The story is set in a future after wars in the Middle East had devastated the area and faulty technology was still giving instructions to the former soldiers.
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 72-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

“For the Killing of the Happiest Man” - Hrabel, Max (The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1, 2010)
With over half the world population clinically depressed, a Happiness Movement institutes an International Day of Happiness and selects a regional Happiest Man, who commits suicide. The story is told through the eyes of a man who dreams of being a gardener with a family but is currently working underground in the sewers.
Keywords: US author

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

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

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

Grace - Elizabeth Scott (b. 1972) (Dutton Books, 2010)
Young adult religious dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

The Habitation of the Blessed: A Dirge for Prester John Volume One - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) (Night Shade Books, 2010)
A re-imagining of the Land of Prester John, one of the classic utopias of the middle ages. See also her The Folded World: A Dirge for Prester John Volume Two. San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011. The third volume, The Spindle of Necessity: A Dirge for Prester John was published in 2012 as an audio book read by Ralph Lister.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

"Independence Day. Inspired by 'The Rising' and 'Independence Day'" - Sarah Langan (b. 1974) (Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, 2010)
Dystopia of a U.S. that is still patriotic despite a fundamentally collapsed system.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 275-92; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 275-92.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ishin" - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction, 2010)
Post-catastrophe dystopia that focuses on two men using advanced technology to counter environmental damage and undermine corruption.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Line - Teri Hall (Dial Books, 2010)
Young adult dystopia in which there is a line at the border of the Unified States that is not to be crossed. See also 2011 and 2013 Hall.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

“Mammoths of the Great Plains” - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Mammoths of the Great Plains plus Writing Science Fiction During World War Three and “At the Edge of the Future” Outspoken Interview, 2010)
The story is set in a future that has been badly damaged environmentally, but in which Indians saved the mammoths from slaughter, which is the focus of the story. The setting has the suburbs gone and slowly being replaced by nature. The world is getting hotter and hotter.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Marketing Proposal" - Sara M. Harvey (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia similar to Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) "A Modest Proposal" (1729) on the eating of children. In this story, children are used to produce a fine version of ambergris to be used in perfume and for meat. The "Marketing Proposal" emphasis how well cared-for the children are.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Matched - Ally[son Braithwaite] Condie (Dutton Books, 2010)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in a society that chooses life partners at seventeen and a girl who rejects her chosen partner.  In the second volume, Crossed. New York: Dutton, 2011 two of the protagonists get separated amid much adventure. In the third volume, Reached. New York: Dutton, 2012, the heroine returns to the dystopia to lead a successful rebellion.
U.K. ed. London: Razorbill, 2010.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Meat World" - Michele Lee (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia of complete isolation in a world that has collapsed. The "meat world" is the world outside the habitats in which the few remaining people live.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Meeks. A Novel - Julia Holmes (Small Beer Press, 2010)
Rigidly conformist dystopia in which bachelors must wear a specific courting suit, and, if they don't find a wife, they are conscripted to work for the Brothers of Mercy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Memories of Hope City" - Slater, Maggie (Dark Futures, 2010)
Dystopia. A post-catastrophe city destroyed by an unidentified illness and the society its violent survivors have created.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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