"Webs" - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2016)
Dystopia in which humans who have not been altered seek out and kill those with genetic modifications.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Wellesley Girl" - Brendan Pelsue (Unpublished play, 2016)
Dystopia set in 2465 in which the few Americans left have barricaded in Wellesley, Massachusetts to protect themselves from the army from Texas that is outside. See the review in The New York Times (April 12, 2016), C2.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"What Is" - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
Climate-change dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has experienced many years of extreme drought.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Who Do You Love?” - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond, 2016)
The background to the story is a climate change dystopia where much of Florida is underwater and there are regular devastating storms that get worse over the years during which the story takes place.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Without Walls" - A. Gislebertus (Solarpunk Press, 2016)
A eutopia of multicultural, multigendered community that encourages individuality that followed a dystopia that rejected all three.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Wonder of the World” - Kathryn Blume (Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, 2016)
Climate change fiction in which the survivors live in small communities with limited technology and without a reliable way to kept in touch with other communities. The story, though, is about the resilience of the people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zen City - Eliot Fintushel (John Hunt/Zero Books, 2016)
Zen City is presented as if it were the eutopia of Buddhism, a place where everyone has abandoned desire and gained enlightenment. But the novel focuses on the desires of those entering the city before they have eliminated those desires.
Keywords: Male author; US author

660ppm: A Novel of Climate Change - Clarke W. Owens (b. 1951) (Comic Egg Books, 2015)
Daily life in a climate-change dystopia where the sun never penetrates the cloud cover, most coastal cities are gone, food and water are rationed, there is little permanent work, and most people poorly educated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“After the New Dawn” - Joseph Tomaras (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story, from a child’s point of view, describes the effect of an authoritarian regime on a family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart - Leigh M. Lane (Cerebral Press, 2015)
Sequel to 2015 Lane, The Private Sector and 2015 Lane World-Mart. In this volume genetic engineering and bioterrorism has decimated the world’s population with the novel focusing on the survivors and the life that continues.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Alive. Book One of the Generations Trilogy - Scott Sigler (b. 1963) (Del Rey, 2015)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume, some teenagers wake up in coffins in an underground cavern with no memory of their past beyond their names. They confront various threats and struggle to find who they are and what they need to do. Sequels include Alight. Book Two of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2016, which is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and Alone. Book Three of the Generations Trilogy. New York: Del Rey, 2017 in which they must repel an alien invasion. A related story is “The Last Child.” Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 410-20, which is set at a key point in the third volume. First publication.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“All Along the Mal.” - Chloe [N.] Clark (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story is set in a future where everyone lives in a huge wall with various subsections, each with a mayor. People must shop constantly earning themselves credits that determine the size and amenities of the tiny room they sleep in between and the standards of the bathrooms they can use while shopping.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“All the Childhood You Can Afford” - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
Neoliberal dystopia in which parents cannot have a child unless they leave it as a frozen embryo connected with stocks, and the child, when born, is dependent on the value of the stock.
Keywords: Male author; US author

All Things Rise - Vaun, Missouri (Bold Strokes Books, 2015)
Lesbian romance set in a future where the rich have left a depleted Earth to establish “Cloud Cities” in space around Earth. There everything is synthetic while on Earth the survivors farm those areas not poisoned or otherwise unusable. Both have negative and positive elements to them. First volume of a series followed by The Time Before Now. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 2015 in which the protagonist travels across the desolate meeting danger and love. Another lesbian romance set in the same future is the novella The Ground Beneath. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books ebook, 2015. The final volume in the series, Valley of Fire. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 2016, follows a different character that appeared in the first volume, a pilot, who is assigned to fly a member of the ruling elite the cloud city of Miami but is forced to crash land by those who are in favor of a return to earth. Adventure and a lesbian romance ensue
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Art’s Appreciation” - Tom Doyle (Kasma Magazine, 2015)
The dystopia brought about by the Freedom of Corporate Speech Act that means people are constantly bombarded by ads.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ash: A Destined Novel - Shani Petroff; Darci Manley (Polis Books, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which every person’s destiny is determined by the government. First volume in a series. In this volume the contrast is set between those chosen for the top and the Ash, chosen for the bottom. The second volume, Ultraviolet: A Destined Novel. [Hoboken, NJ]: Polis Books, 2017, is what appears to be a middle volume in which the two struggle to survive.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“At the End of Babel” - Michael Livingston (Tor.com, 2015)
The story is set in a future U.S. under the Unity Government that enforces an English-only law by killing those who continue to speak any other language. It focuses on and Indian woman who returns to her home mesa to enact an old ceremony using the old language. In doing so, she awakens to old gods who fight back against the government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The August 5 - Jenna Helland (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which the daughter of a revolutionary who has only known poverty and the son of the dictator who has only known privilege and riches team-up to defeat his father.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel - Zachary Thomas Dodson (Doubleday, 2015)
Very complex, richly illustrated book, a dust jacket illustrated on both sides, books within books, and at least two stories running throughout. One story is set in the mid-nineteenth century and includes a trek across a very strange America. The other story is set in a dystopian future Republic of Texas, which is one of seven walled districts that are what remain after a catastrophe of some sort. The author is a book designer who created the elaborate presentation of the novel.
Keywords: Finnish author; Male author; US author

The Beautiful Bureaucrat. A Novel - Helen Phillips (b. 1983) (Henry Holt, 2015)
Kafkaesque take on a dystopian bureaucracy in a damaged future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blood-Kin" - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) (Gifts of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 15, 2015)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Broken Sky - L[ee] A. Weatherly (b. 1967) (Usborne, 2015)
First volume of the young adult Broken trilogy followed by Darkness Follows. London: Usborne, 2016, and Black Moon. London: Usborne, 2017. In this volume society that pretends to bring about eutopia through astrology is, in fact, deeply corrupt. The novel concerns a young woman who discovers the corrupt. In the second volume, the protagonist is in a prison camp that has one rule, obey or be killed. The third volume focuses on the resistance.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author; US author

The Cell: Into the Underground - [Chris] [Hambleton] (CreateSpace, 2015)
A dystopia in which the U.S. government is collapsing under debt and suppressing Christian churches. A small movement to restore America is started in the churches. A related book described as non-fiction is Chris Hambleton, The American Tyrant. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012 in which Obama is the tyrant.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Charlie, a Projecting Prestidigitator” - Megan [J.] Neumann (Shoreline of Infinity, 2015)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 25-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Chasing Freedom - Marina Fontaine ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Authoritarian dystopia and the revolt against it from a libertarian perspective.
Keywords: Female author; Russian author; US author

“Children Who Fly” - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (b. 1975) (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
Climate-warming dystopia with LSBT themes.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"City of Ash" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Matter, 2015)
Climate-change dystopia.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 322-27 with an editor’s note on 327; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 53-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City of Savages - Lee Kelly (Saga Press, 2015)
Young adult post World War Three dystopia in which all of Manhattan is a prisoner-of-war camp
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Consolation" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Twelve Tomorrows: MIT Technology Review SF Annual 2016, 2015)
Dystopia in which much of the U.S. has been destroyed by climate change and parts of the U.S. has joined Canada, which is having to deal with refugees from the U.S.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 263-75 with an editor’s note on 263; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 463-481, with a note on the story on 577-576.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist Utopia” - Tessa Smith (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
The essay is primarily a critique of current practices while stressing that mental illness is real. The main focus, though, is the argument that in “The culture of the feminist utopia must be one in which people experiencing extraordinary mental states can both survive and thrive” (306).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Day Without Body Shame” - Erin Matson (b. 1980) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief feminist utopia in which all people are accepted for who they are rather than for how they look.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Depth - Lev A. C. Rosen (b. 1981) (Regan Arts, 2015)
The adventure and mystery novel is set in a climate change dystopia in which the U.S. coastline is at Chicago. The novel is set on the island of New York City.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition” - Dara Lind (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Speech describing the changes in immigration policy from rejection to welcome and the awareness of what even so-called unskilled immigrants contribute.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Disconnected" - Vanessa Fogg (The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction, 2015)
The story is set in a future in which most people have implanted “mods” that allow them to become deeply connected with computers for their work in virtual reality environments and which constantly monitor them both in those environments and at all other times. The story focuses on a woman with mods, her live in one of the few remaining cities, all of which are falling apart, and her interaction with her mother and sister, who could not be modified.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Dispatch From the Post-Rape Future: Against Consent, Reciprocity, and Pleasure” - Maya Dusenbery (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Reflections on the past from someone living in a future where the word “rape” no longer exists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Dispatches from a Body Perfect World” - Jenny Trout (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief depiction of a feminist eutopia where all bodies are considered perfect.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution - Benjamin H. Bratton (b. 1968) (e-flux Sternberg Press, 2015)
A combination of theory and fiction that includes both utopian and dystopian elements.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dove Arising - Karen Bao (Viking, 2015)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia on the moon in which a young woman joins the militia to protect her siblings from the government. First volume of the Dove Chronicles. In the second volume, Dove Exiled. New York: Viking, 2016, the protagonist is on the Earth she had been taught to fear but where she finds the people welcoming until the moon attacks Earth, and she must find a way to bring the two together. In the third volume, Dove Alight. New York: Viking, 2017, the protagonist leads a revolution by people on both the Earth and the moon against the dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Duller’s Peace” - Jason Sanford (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
Technology controls everyone in an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Egg Island” - Karen Heuler (b. 1949) (Clarkesworld, 2015)
A pollution dystopia that appears to be evolving to incorporate the plastic pollutants into new life forms seen from the point-of-view of those who themselves have plastic parts to their bodies and are working to help the evolution along.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Embroidering Revolution” - Flores, Verónica Bayetti (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Eutopia in which women’s traditional work is recognized and considered art.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Equity Eats” - Eileen McFarland (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
The eutopian restaurant of the future that is welcoming to all people, has an equality among the staff, and with workers protected by the Restaurant Workers’ Rights Declaration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Evening in the Talk House - William Shawn (b. 1943) (Faber and Faber, 2015)
Fascist dystopia set in the near future. Play first performed directed by Ian Rickson (b. 1963) at the National Theatre in London November 24, 2015, with a U.S. premiere directed by Scott Elliott (b. ca 1963) at The New Group in New York January 31, 2017.
U.S. ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017
Keywords: Male author; US author

Exit: The Van Zandt Chronicles - G. Michael Hopf ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Continuation of the series that began with 2013 Hopf, which has the same protagonist. In this series, the protagonist begins to confront a man he came into conflict with in the first series. Described as volume one. See also 2015 Hopf, Nemesis: Inception.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Falling Away. Book 1 of the Perilous Times Series - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) (CreateSpace, 2015)
Dystopia of the beginning of the Christian end times with a race war in the U.S., an Ebola epidemic, and the suppression of Christians. Followed by The Great Deception. Book 2 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016 in which the anti-Christ appears; and The Great Tribulation. Book 3 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Feminist Constitution” - Katherine Cross (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Reflections on what a utopian feminist constitution would include. Clauses include “We the people, in Order to Defend Our Humanity” (63), “Establish Justice, Ensure Freedom from Violence, and Freedom to Be” (65), “The Right of a Person to Have Sovereignty Over Their Body Shall Not Be Infringed” (66), “And Liberty of Kith and Self Shall be Secure” (69), “These Rights Shall Not be Subject to the Vagaries of the Market or Depravation” (70), and “All Shall Have a Right to the Conditions Necessary For Life and Dignity” (71).
Keywords: Latina author; Transgender author; US author

Find Me - Laura van den Berg (b. 1981) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Flesh & Wires - Jackie Hatton (Aqueduct Press, 2015)
Complex post-catastrophe novel (alien invasion) that focuses on a small community of survivors, mostly women, facing different aliens who are planning to occupy Earth. The ending suggests that there will be a sequel.
Keywords: Australian author; Dutch author; Female author; US author

“Follicular” - David Ohle (b. 1941) (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
Dystopia of bullying in a world where boys must have facial hair by sixteen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Footsteps in the Sky - J. Gregory Keyes (b. 1963) (Open Road Integrated Media, 2015)
Much of the novel is about conflict among versions of the good life, human and alien. A dominant theme is conflict among humans who come from a Native American Indian background between the old ways and new ones. The book was written in 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gold Fame Citrus - Claire Vaye Watkins (b. 1984) (Riverhead Books, 2015)
Climate-change dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy - Chandler Duke (Np, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia in which after the South won Civil War, parts of what had been the United States are controlled by different countries, including Britain and the Soviet Union. The novel also has racial subthemes, with slavery still in existence and the British using the Black Panthers as part of an invasion force.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heat 30:1 - Douglas E. Congdon (Np, 2015)
First volume of a trilogy followed by 2019 Congdon, Above Sea Level. A third volume, They Are Coming Tomorrow, set between the other novels, has been announced. This volume is a climate change dystopia that has radically reduced the world food supply. The novel is set in Kansas where farmers are struggling to produce food while also ensuring that they treat the land and water so that they can continue to do so.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hit - Delilah S. Dawson (b. 1977) (Simon Pulse, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which a young woman is forced to become a killer by the bank that now owns the United States. The first volume of a series, followed by Strike. New York Simon Pulse, 2016 in which the protagonist of the first volume fakes her death to escape and joins freedom fighters, who may not be much better than the bank, and from whom she also has to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hollow" - Meg Mingus (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
The story is about a future in which all disabled people (known as U.P.s or UnPerfects) have been sent to another planet where they have created a good life for themselves but are threatened with the Perfects, or the ones who sent them, coming to take over and create a new dystopia for them.
Keywords: Female author; Korean author; US author

“An Honest World” - Catherine Lacey (b. 1985) (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
Dystopia brought about by everyone telling the truth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Immunity - Taylor Antrim (b. 1974). (Regan Arts, 2015)
Dystopia in which a widespread viral infection leads to the health police quarantining anyone with an above-normal temperature.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land” - Robin Wasserman (b. 1978) (The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych, 2015)
Post-catastrophe dystopia seen through the eyes of a very old man who had created the religious basis for the reviving society. Stories that provide background to the dystopia are “The Balm and the Wound.” The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 5-22; and “Dear John.” The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 293-315.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Increasing Police Visibility” - Bogi Takács (b. 1983) (Queers Destroy Science Fiction Lightspeed, 2015)
The story is set in a country in which algorithms are used to supposedly deny entry, but they have at least a two-thirds error rate. But a visible police presence is considered more important because the right wing wants it.
Rpt. GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 47-; Sunspot Jungle Volume 2 [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2020), 436-39; and in his The Trans Space Octopus Congregation: Stories (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2019), 111-15.
Keywords: Hungarian author; Transgender author; US author

Ink and Bone - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) (NAL/New American Library, 2015)
Young adult dystopia in which the Great Library of Alexandria has survived into the modern world and controls all dissemination of knowledge with the individual possession of books illegal. The novel focuses on those who illegally own and trade books. The next three volumes continue the fight against the power of the Great Library. They are Paper and Fire. The Great Library. New York: NAL/New American Library, 2016; Ash and Quill. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2017; Smoke and Iron. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2018. In the concluding volume, Sword and Pen. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2019, the corrupt leaders are overthrown but other attempts to take over the library must be defeated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Interchange" - Elizabeth Poley (Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia of a largely abandoned U.S. where people can transport themselves to other parts of the world to work. The story focuses on a meeting of two women in these circumstances.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Interview with Chloe Angyal” - Chloe [S.]. Angyal (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Romance in a feminist utopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; US author

"Interview with Ileanna Jiménez” - Ileanna Jiménez (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Feminist utopian education. Suggests that the curriculum should be built by students and teachers working together in collaboration with students and teachers from other schools. Schools should reflect their communities. Interdisciplinary education. No tests or exams but projects that put into practice what they have learned. Inculcate inclusiveness and international awareness. Teachers would have the time and support to do research.
Keywords: Female author; Puerto Rican author; US author

"Interview with Jessica Luther" - Luther, Jessica (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Gender equal sport in a feminist future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Joe Steele - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (DAW Books, 2015)
Alternative history dystopia with an American dictator followed by an even worse dictatorship led by J. Edgar Hoover as the Director of the FBI, who was the actual Director from its founding in 1935 until 1972, having been the Director of its predecessor from 1924 to 1935.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Jubilee: A Seastead Story” - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” and 2013 and 2014 Kritzer. In this story the flawed utopia has turned into a dystopia, but those who choose to live there hope to overcome the dystopia. See also 2015 Kritzer “The Silicon Curtain: A Seastead Story.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Kafka’s Last Laugh” - Vagabond [Beaumont] (Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, 2015)
Dystopia in which protest is extremely limited and those who are in prison are indoctrinated with the beauties of capitalism and drugged with Contentina. It turns out that laughter defeats the drug.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Keep Mars Weird - Neal Pollack (b. 1970) (47 North, 2015)
The novel opens in an egalitarian eutopia on Earth in which everyone has “Enough,” but young men are bored and travel to an extremely inegalitarian Mars.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Land of Promise. Book 1 of the Counter-Caliphate Chronicles - James Wesley Rawles (b. 1960) (Liberty Paradigm Publishing, 2015)
An anti-Islamic novel that depicts the establishment of a free micro-state eutopia with considerable detail on citizenship, which requires ownership of a minimum of one hectare of land and military service for full citizenship, which gives the individual ten votes. Described as volume one with Piece of Resistance scheduled for late 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Language of Paradise - Barbara Klein Moss (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015)
Critique of utopianism. The novel follows the experiences woman whose husband is influenced by a man hoping to create a eutopia, a eutopia that she finds troubling.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves” - William Schlesinger (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Essay on how, beginning with premedical education, to improve medical service for women and others “whose have identities have been pathologized, whose health and life quality have been systematically undervalued” (142). Says that “In my feminist utopia, premedical education would be designed to instill an understanding that health care inequality and unequal distribution of life chances are not genetically programmed inevitabilities, but rather the result of structural oppression” (143). Also suggests that medical education needs to be more interdisciplinary and specifically mentions medical anthropology, gender studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Free medical education (243). Access to medical care a fundamental right (144).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Lesbo Island" - Jill Soloway (b. 1965) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Humorous call for the establishment of a women-only state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Let Him Wear a Tutu” - Yamberlie Tavarez (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A very brief eutopia of a gender-neutral childhood. See also 1972 Gould.
Keywords: Latina author; US author

“Lightning Jack’s Last Ride” - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
The dystopia created by oil running out.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2016. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), 174-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Love in the Anthropocene - Dale Jamieson (b. 1947); Bonnie Nadzam (O/R Books, 2015)
A series of stories set in a future in which the natural world is almost entirely created by humans.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

MARTians - Blythe Woolston (Candlewick Press, 2015)
Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman suddenly graduated from school when all the public schools are closed to balance the budget within a goal of eliminating all services and therefore all taxes. The society is primarily concerned with consumption with an ignored and mistreated class of workers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Mémé” - Juliana Rew (Clockwise: The Darkest Hour, 2015)
Dystopia in which most older people have died in an epidemic, government has disappeared, been replaced by a single corporation that relies on AIs to organize everything, and the AIs come to rely on the few remaining elders until the economy begins to fail.
Rpt. in Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2019): 71-81.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Morning of My Meat Marking” - Alissa Nutting (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
Brief dystopia in which environmental collapse has eliminated all animals and vegetables and humans have resorted to a organized, structured cannibalism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Nemesis: Inception - G. Michael Hopf ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Survivalist dystopia with women as central protagonists. Related to the series that began with 2013 Hopf and 2015 Hopf, Exit in that all begin with a major attack on the U.S. A trilogy is planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future” - Ellen Bravo (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
A poor woman cleaner is briefly transported to a future where people like her are fully equal and collectively control their workplace.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Oathkeeper - Troy J. Grice (Prepper Press, 2015)
Survivalist dystopia pitting a local sheriff against the federal government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering. A Novel - Jeffrey Rotter (Metropolitan Books Henry Holt and Co., 2015)
Dystopia set in a world with a deep division between the rich and poor and little knowledge of past science, particularly astronomy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Dried Voices - Greg Hickey (b. 1985) (Scribe Publishing House, 2015)
The novel is set in a future eutopia after humans have left Earth and settled on a planet called Pearl where everything is left to machines to decide, and people stop thinking for themselves.
[2nd ed. Royal Oak, MI: Scribe Publishing House, 2017]
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Our Lady of the Open Road” - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
The first in a series of stories related to 2019 Pinsker, A Song for a New Day. In this story, the protagonists, a touring rock band, is trying to survive in a future in which there are no large venues and people life isolated lives. The other stories are “A Song Transmuted.” Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow. Ed. Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Erie, CO: Hex Publishers 2016), 151-60; rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018), 35-42; and “Everything Is Closed Today.” Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory. Ed. Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2019), 149-74; rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 79-102.
Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 169-209.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Our New Neighborhood” - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Problems in a suburb that the people had hoped would meet their eutopian expectations. In this suburb the value of the property fluctuates based on constant reports from inspectors who measure the height of the grass, whether the bird feeders are full and other such important measures of the good life. But there are, of course, some actual problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Outland Exile: Book 1 of Old Men and Exiles - W. Clark Boutwell (iUniverse, 2015)
Dystopia in which the U. S. is divided between the authoritarian Unity that rules the East drugs and implants to control its citizens, who do not have long lives. Beyond its borders are the Outlands, supposedly inhabited by savages, who captures the young female protagonist. The protagonist, a young woman, enters the outlands and discovers that the reality is more complex. First volume of a series followed by Exiles Escape. Book 2 of Old Men and Exiles. Pensacola, FL: Indigo River Publishing, 2018 in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to stay free from both the Democratic Unity and those who had held her in the Outlands. A third volume is projected.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Packets in the Tube” - Siddanta Bastola (Journeys through Time and Space, 2015)
The story is set in a future where the combination of the internet and the hyperloop means that anyone can live anywhere and commute to anyplace else and goods can be shipped almost instant anywhere. Presented as eutopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prepper. Part Two: Kings - Karl A. D. Brown (Author, 2015)
Sequel to 2013 Brown. In this volume, the family at the center of the first volume continue to live their hidden life but conclude that they have to join others fighting a plan to exterminate most of the world’s population.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prey - Tom Isbell (b. 1957) (HarperTeen, 2015)
First volume of a young adult dystopia following a catastrophe. The new government in the U.S. raises children to be hunted for sport when they are teens. The second volume, The Capture. New York: HarperTeen, 2016. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2016, follows the protagonists of the first volume as they try to free others. In the third volume, The Release. New York: HarperTeen. U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2017, the protagonists of the previous volumes manage, after many more difficulties to win their freedom.
U.K. ed. London: Harper Voyager, 2015.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Private Sector - Leigh M. Lane (Eldritch Press, 2015)
Dystopia of corporate corruption that leads to the collapse of government services and their privatization. Prequel to her 2015 World-Mart.
2nd ed. Henderson, NV: Cerebral Press, 2015
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Promised" - Aisteach, Kyle (Little Dystopias. A Collection, 2015)
Post-catastrophe dystopia called the Great Default when government was unable to pay its bills.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Puma Blue. The Complete Saga in One Volume - Stephen Murphy; Michael Zulli (b. 1952) (Dover Publications, 2015)
The story begins in 2000 after a white supremacist group sets off a small nuclear bomb in the Bronx, which no longer exists. The world is technologically advance, but the environment has been badly damaged, and some species have mutated. The primary protagonist is a “fauna agent” or game warden assigned to a reservoir in Massachusetts. Later the story follows him as he leaves government service and travels around the country, and the entire series has a strong environmental message.
Originally published as a comic between 1986 and 1989. The book version also includes “Acts of Faith: A Coda” by Stephen R. Bissette (527-40), “Act of Faith” (541-44) and the “Puma Blues. Number 24 1/2” (545-60).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Quiet Town” - Gurley, Jason (Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Raising Generation E [For Empathy]: The Final Frontier of Feminism” - Mindi Rose Englart (b. 1965) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Brief eutopia based on educating children to be empathetic and using restorative justice.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Rattlesnakes and Men” - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
A satire of gun culture in which everyone in s small town in Georgia is required by law to keep a rattlesnake in their home that has supposedly been bioengineered to not bite family members. One of Bishop’s “Georgia stories.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

Reset: The ReSociety Book One - Linda Hawley; Paul Hawley (21st Century Publishing, 2015)
First volume of a dystopian series in which many people are surgically altered, and called SurgiAlts, to meet a standard of human physical perfection. Anyone who speaks against the political leaders considered a terrorist. Extreme surveillance with everyone tracked all the time, with all the information shared with the Department of Homeland Affairs. High tech with much of the technology used in surveillance and in security, with examples given regarding airports. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) defines the entire U.S. as a war zone and allows the military to arrest anyone considered a threat. “Terrorists” have no rights, and no trial is needed. One focus is a group of descendants of signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence who have worked to maintain its principles since its signing.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Rex" - Laird Barron (Gigantic Worlds, 2015)
After the passing of all humans, an “animal heaven,” or the ideal world that would exist without humans, develops. But time moves in a circle and primitive humans reemerge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Riley Marigold and the Winged Lizards of Tel Aviv” - Kayla Bashe (Solarpunk Press, 2015)
The story is set in a post-climate change world in which in the U. S. the protagonist, a teenage girl, lives in a rural intentional community, and then is moved to Tel Aviv, where she lives in a high rise with community features. Israel is struggling to deal with the results on climate change.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Rites" - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) (One Story, 2015)
An overpopulation dystopia where everyone is expected to arrange their death at seventy and one man who chooses to live.
Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 23-40.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rules for Werewolves. Novel - Kirk Lynn (b. 1972) (Melville House Publishing, 2015)
Dystopia resulting from the housing crisis and set in the mostly empty suburbs of Los Angeles. Gangs of young people hope to build a better society and roam the suburbs plundering the abandoned or otherwise empty properties.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Scroogled” - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Surveillance dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

Seveneves - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (William Morrow, 2015)
Post-catastrophe novel of the moon breaking up and raining down on Earth. Much of the novel is hard science fiction with most of the text concerned with the science and technology, but the rest is concerned with three sets of survivors, the seven eves who were the survivors of those who were in space, and, unknown to them, two sets of survivors on Earth, one that went underground and the other that went under the sea. The seven eves created seven different genetic lines with different cultures, including one that isolated itself and developed into an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Share and Share Alike” - Wayne Carey (A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar, 2015)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia where equality means no one does anything well.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Silicon Curtain: A Seastead Story” - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2015)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” and 2013 and 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer “Jubilee: A Seastead Story.” In this story that rebuilding has failed, and people are being evacuated, but, for all the problems, the protagonist of all the stories still thinks of the seastead as her home.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (b. 1979) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)
Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia. A theatre troupe travels around the remaining settlements and the dystopia is seen largely through the eyes of the actors. Includes a religious enclave with a prophet who intends that no one shall leave his community alive. A ten-episode HBO series created by Patrick Somerville premiered December 16, 2021.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

“Stripped to Zero: Someone to watch over you” - Stephen S. Power (Nature, 2015)
Dystopia of an over-automated future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sundogz. a diffusion - Mark A. von Schlegell (b. 1957) (Semiotext(e), 2015)
Third volume of a trilogy following 2005 and 2009 von Schlegell. This volume is set on the moons of Uranus where an aquatic world is hidden from the rest of the system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Surfacing - Mark Magro (Jolly Fish Press, 2015)
Young adult dystopia set in an underground facility in a post-nuclear war future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

System: With His Face in the Sun - Jon A. Davidson (Author, 2015)
Dystopia in which a computerized system has become a dictator.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“They Have All One Breath” - Karl Bunker (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2015)
Flawed utopia in which artificial intelligences have stopped war and provide everyone with what they need, and then begin to control human and animal behavior.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Thirteen Ways of Being Looked at by a Blackbird SR71” - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Watchlist: 32 Short Stories by Persons of Interest, 2015)
Satire on surveillance society detailing many ways of avoiding surveillance and how they were met.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Tip of the Tongue” - Felicia Davin (Queers Destroy Science Fiction, 2015)
Dystopia of a future where the ability to read has been taken away.
Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 253-67.
Keywords: Bisexual author; Female author; US author

“Undercover in Tanah Firdaus” - [Syamsuriatina] [Ishak] (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
In a future Kuala Lumpur, the city is divided horizontally between the rich and poor, who, except for those who work for the rich, are starving and without medical care.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Malaysian author; US author

"Unforgivable" - Aisteach, Kyle (Little Dystopias. A Collection, 2015)
Dystopian prison of the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“An Unremarkable Bar on an Unremarkable Night” - s. c. smith (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
The depiction of an evening among friends who include a woman in a wheelchair, one who is blind, and one who is breastfeeding, and everyone is treated as perfectly normal.
Keywords: US author

“The Unveiling” - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015)
Dystopia of a polluted, authoritarian state and the beginning of the revolution that would overthrow it.
Rpt. in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 51-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Velocipede Races - Emily June Street (EBP/Emily Blue Publishing, 2015)
The story is set in a world where women’s activities are severely restricted, and one woman wants to be a bicycle racer, which is prohibited.
Part of the book was originally published in 2013 by Luminous Creatures Press, an epublisher, and a version of the “Epilogue” was originally published in Bikes in Space. Volume 2  [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] (Portland, OR: Elly Blue Publishing, 2014), 20-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Wall That Wasn’t a Wall” - Kris Wlliamson (Cyberpunk: Malaysia, 2015)
The story is set in a future Malaysian that has essentially enslaved its foreign workers.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author; US author

The Water Knife - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)
Near future dystopia brought about by a shortage of water. A related story is 2014 Bacigalupi, “Shooting the Apocalypse.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

We Defy! A Tale Set in the Near Future - Tommy L. Attaway Jr. ([CreateSpace], 2015)
Fed up with regulations from the U. S. national government, some Texans refuse to accept them. Independence! A Tale Set in the Near Future. Np: Author, 2016 shows the route taken to independence. A third volume, Republic! A Tale Set in the Near Future that would describe the Republic of Texas, was announced in Independence but has not appeared.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Welcome to Arcadia” - Julie Zeilinger (b. 1993) (The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future, 2015)
Blogging in a feminist eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) (Catapult Magazine, 2015)
The setting for the story is a climate-change dystopia in which most of Europe and North America are under water, and the European powers have re-colonized Africa, with the French slaughtering the Senegalese and the British establishing a caste system in Nigeria. For a story set in the same future, see Edwin Okolo, “When the Levees Break.” Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 213-26.
Rpt. in her What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 151-74.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Nigerian author; US author

The Why - Dr. [James] Patrick Johnston [D.O.] (b. 1970) (Right Remedy Publishing., 2015)
Survivalist dystopia focusing on the siblings of a family after their parents are killed. The focus of the novel is the possibility that they may lose their faith in God, but, of course, they don’t.
Keywords: Male author; US author

World-Mart - Leigh M. Lane (Cerebral Press, 2015)
Dystopia in which corporations control all aspects of life. See also a prequel, 2015 Lane, The Private Sector, and a sequel, 2015 Lane, Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart.
Keywords: Female author; US author

10:04. A Novel - Ben[jamin] Lermer (b. 1979) (Granta, 2014)
The novel takes place against the minimal background of a developing climate-change dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Faber and Faber, 2014
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The 3 Little Pigs: Part 2” - Ric Driver (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume One], 2014)
Utopian satire in which the pigs build a straw bale house, and the wolf becomes a gardener.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Abattoir Blues” - James A. Moore (b. 1965) (Piercing the Darkness: A Charity Anthology for the Children’s Literacy Initiative, 2014)
The story is set in a post-collapse future where gladiatorial contests are used to decide legal disputes and who gets medical care.
Rpt. in The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation. Ed. Matt Bechtel (Haverill, MA: Haverill House, 2020), 79-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“After the Water: Straws” - Rebecca Adams Wright (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
The story is set in a future when water is being siphoned off by private interests and the ecosystem and the people that depend on it are desperate. Ecoterrorists plot to restore the balance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The Floating of New Chicago” - Tricia Bobeda (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
Chicago in the future divided by class and water, with the rich living on an island in Lake Michigan and the poor “wet-workers” left in the city. Read by the author. For an interview with the author, see https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-an-interview-with-author-tricia-bobeda. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The Last Cribkeeper” - Peter Orner (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series., 2014)
The story is about the reminiscences of an old man who had been a keeper of one of the water intakes that controlled the quality of Chicago water.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“After the Water: The Way of the River” - Roxane Gay (b. 1974) (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series., 2014)
Dystopia in which Chicago had been badly reengineered, earthquakes are constant, and the only water available is the little that is distributed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: The World After Water” - Abby Geni (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series., 2014)
The story is set in a future in which four boys must steal water from the wealthy who live on higher ground.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“After the Water: Thirst” - Max Andrew Dubinsky (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
Dystopia of California running out of water, and then the rest of the West and Southwest.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“After the Water: Water Men” - Tim Akimoff (WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series, 2014)
The story is set in the U.S. and Canada after the water wars when the decisions were made to control the Great Lakes watershed which made the area became a dominant world power with positive and negative results. The area secedes from both Canada and the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Afterparty - Daryl Gregory (b. 1965) (Tor, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future in which new drugs can be created at home, and their use causes social and psychological problems, and one changes people’s religious beliefs
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Allegiance Device. Rebellion. Book 1 - Darrell Maloney (Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2014)
Dystopia in which the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is turned into a tool of the government to suppress dissent. It simply arrests and executes dissenters. There is a plan to implant everyone with a device that allows them to be followed at all times and be remotely executed. Intended to be the first volume in a series, but no more appear to have been published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Bartleby the Scavenger” - Katie Boyer (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future society that is poor and kills “non-contributing” members when they reach sixty.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Beekeeper” - Helen Phillips (b. 1983) (Isthmus (Seattle, WA), 2014)
A somewhat vague dystopia with a domed city cut off from the countryside, with both the city-dwellers and those living in the countryside afraid of the other.
Rpt. in her Some Possible Solutions (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2016), 163-83.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Bitch Planet - Kelly Sue Deconnick (b. 1970); Valentine De Landro (Image Comics, 2014)
Feminist dystopian take on exploitation films in which “non-compliant” women are sent to an off-planet prison.
Keywords: African Canadian author; Canadian author; Female author; Male author; US author

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife - Meg Elison (b. 1982) (Sybaritic Press, 2014)
Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which there is one woman for every ten men. The novel focuses on the experience of one woman. First volume of The Road to Nowhere Series. The second, volume, 2017 Elison, is set in the same future but 100 years later. The third volume, 2018 Elison, begins in the same time period as the preceding volume, but then follows the very long life of the protagonist.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Boost - Stephan [L.] Baker (Tor, 2014)
Dystopia in which all humans have had their intellect boosted by an implant, which leads to many improvements but can also be used for advertising and controlling people. When an upgrade is announced that will have a open portal through which governments can invade everyone’s thoughts, one man revolts and escapes to join others who are unenhanced and leads a rebellion against all those who would control others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“By the Time We Get to Arizona” - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
The story is set in and around a new town that straddles the border between Mexico and Arizona where some workers are welcomed on short term contracts for tech jobs that, if they prove themselves fit, can earn longer contracts and admission to the U.S. The story focuses on just what “fit” means.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

California. A Novel - Edan Lepucki (b. 1981) (Little, Brown, 2014)
Dystopia following an unexplained catastrophe in which the rich live in guarded compounds and the poor live dangerous lives in damaged cities or in countryside inhabited by various gangs.
Keywords: Female author; Polish author; US author

“The Capitalist Party” - Alou Randon (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
Dystopian satire on commodity fetishism in which the commodities are the leaders.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Chameleon Moon - RoAnna Sylver (The Zharmae Publishing Press, 2014)
Parole is a dystopian city inhabitant by many different beings, many with supernatural talents, who are under constant surveillance by spy cameras. There are three other volumes in the Chameleon Moon series: Life Within Parole. Volume 1 [Columbia, SC: CreateSpace], 2016. 269 pp., which is a collection of stories, most of which are set shortly before Chameleon Moon. One, “Happy Regards (7-65), has been rpt. in Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2017), 121-55. A sequel is The Lifeline Signal: Chameleon Moon Book 2. [San Bernardino, CA: CreateSpace], 2017. 447 pp. Life Withi Parole. Volume 2 [Columbia, SC: CreateSpace], 2018. 253 pp. is also a collection of stories, mostly set between Chameleon Moon and The Lifeline Signal.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Chimpanzee - Darin Bradley (Underland Press, 2014)
Dystopia of a failed economy where intellectual and mental control are common.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future - Naomi Oreskes (b. 1958); Erik M. Conway (b. 1965) (Columbia University Press, 2014)
An historian observing the tercentenary of the collapse of Western civilization (1540-2073) tries to explain how a supposedly rational, scientific people could deny climate change. The explanation centers on an emergence of a new Dark Age in which reason was blinded by a non-rational belief in the “free market."
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Coming of Age - Thomas T[hurston] Thomas (b. 1948) (Author, 2014)
The two volumes project the future lives of what happens to two extended families of the first two people who, in the first volume, are given immortality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Commons - Susan Dworkin (b. 1941) (Author, 2014)
Climate-change dystopia in which most crops were lost, and one huge agricultural company became all-powerful. The novel focuses on the search for and development of seeds that could grow in the new conditions together with the struggle to keep them from the company.
2nd rev. ed. [Tallahassee], FL: Divided Light Projects, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2009-2041 - Kurt Schlichter (Post Hill Press, 2014)
Future oral history of the ways in which conservatives take over the United States, seen as what needs to be done.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Containment Zone: A Seastead Story” - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2014)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” and 2013 Kritzer dealing with the problem of a rapidly spreading illness. See also 2015 Kritzer (2)
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Convention: Book 1 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy” - [Chris] [Hambleton] (CreateSpace, 2014)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government is on the verge of collapse, and the Sons of Liberty threatens violence if the government continues to be dysfunctional. At the same time, a Convention of States is held to try to defuse the situation. Followed by his The Green Zone: Book 2 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy”. By C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and The Declaration: Book 3 of “The Sons of Liberty Trilogy”. By C.W. Hambleton [pseud.]. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2015. The first volume contains proposals for reform, including a required balanced budget, term limits for the House, Senate, and Supreme Court, giving the states and Congress the power to overturn Supreme Court decisions, limitations on spending, requiring all federal departments to be reauthorized every three years, giving states to override Congress, and other limitations on the national government. Anti-Islamic. At the end of the third volume, the free state of Alaska is formed, and Israel offers to help it build up its citizen militias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Countermeasures” - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) (Twelve Tomorrows. MIT Technology Review SF Annual, 2014)
Dystopia in which the big Silicon Valley companies have become so powerful that they try to establish California as a a separate state and the U.S. government is forced to negotiate. The process is successfully undermined by hackers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Country of Ghosts: A Book of The Anarchist Imagination - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) (Combustion Books, 2014)
Anarchist novel focusing on the attempt of a growing authoritarian empire to defeat and incorporate an anarchist eutopia, the city of Hronopole. The information on the eutopia comes through the story about the war and the methods it uses to resist the empire.
Rpt. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2021. Black Dawn Series #2. 212 pp.
Keywords: Female author; Transgender author; US author

The Country of Ice Cream Star - Sandra Newman (b. 1965) (Chatto & Windus, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone dies by twenty. Much of the novel focuses on the search for a cure. The novel is written in a dialect. The ending implies further volumes.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Cycling to Asylum. A Novel - Su J. Sokol (b. 1961) (Deux Voiliers Publishing, 2014)
The novel begins with the mistreatment by police in Brooklyn of a man and the ongoing threat to him. It continues with he, his wife, and two children bicycling to Québec, asking for asylum, and the varied problems that the entire family face adjusting to a new country, culture, and language, with the search for utopia a theme throughout.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Deliver Me - Kate Jarvik Birch (Bloomsbury Spark, 2014)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are chosen at sixteen to be bred to produce the next generation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Divided States of America" - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) (Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings, 2014)
The U.S. has divided into four political districts (conservative, liberal, libertarian, and socialist) that are about to become four separate countries, for good or ill. The book is a textbook with the fiction followed by questions about the selection and a number of readings from a variety of thinkers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Divided We Fall - Trent Reedy (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2014)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy in which the state of Idaho tries to separate from the U.S. because the U.S. is not supporting the Constitution. In the second volume, Burning Nation. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2015 the U.S. government invades Idaho, and more states secede and is mostly on the war. In the third volume, The Last Full Measure. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2016 the protagonist of the first two volumes concludes that groups within the now free Idaho are as bad as the U.S. government was and sets off to find a safer and more congenial place.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Elysium Or, The World After - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) (Aqueduct Press, 2014)
Complex post-catastrophe dystopia with an authoritarian government, eutopian enclaves, and aliens.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

“The Empties” - Jess Row (b. 1974) (The New Yorker, 2014)
The dystopia created when the electrical system fails.
Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2015. Ed. Joe Hill (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), 268-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Feuds - Avery Hastings (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014)
The first volume in young adult dystopia series set in a society divided between the Priors, who aim at perfection, and the Imperfects or “Imps”. Also, in the series is Rival. A Feuds Novella. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin 2015, a prequel published as an ebook that introduces the social structure. The final volume is Torn. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin 2015 in which all the tensions of the earlier novels are resolved, and a much better future is suggested at the end.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Firstborn - Lorie Ann Grover (Blink, 2014)
Christian dystopia in which all first born children must be male. The novel is about a first born girl who lives her life as a male until she must pass the rites of manhood.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Girl Called Fearless - Catherine Linka (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which all women, but not girls, have been killed by a synthetic hormone in beef. In the novel a teenager girl is sold by her father into marriage to a powerful politician. She chooses to run away. First of two volumes followed by A Girl Undone. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015 in which the dominant political party is undone by the discovery of huge loans from Saudi Arabia given interest-free on the condition that the U.S. restrict women’s rights. At the end of the novel, women’s rights are slowly being reestablished.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. A Novel - A[my] S[arig] King (b. 1970) (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2014)
The novel is told from the point-of-view of a young woman about to graduate from high school who comes to be able to see the past and future generations of people she meets. Beginning about a third of the way through, there are one and two page reports (a total of ten) entitled “Glory O’Briens History of the Future” that recount the division of the U.S. based on an extreme anti-woman agenda; e.g. no woman can be employed, and a new civil war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Goodhouse - Peyton Marshall (b. 1972) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014)
Dystopia in which boys who are the sons of convicted felons are tested for a genetic marker, and, if they have it, are incarcerated in a Goodhouse where they are supposedly taught how to control the effects of their inheritance. Based in part on the nineteenth century Preston School of Industry.
U.K. ed. London: Doubleday, 2015. Rpt. London: Transworld, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hungry - H[eather] A. Swain (b. 1969) (Feiwel and Friends, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which food is replaced by drugs, but some people still get hungry, and there is an underground food movement.
Keywords: Female author; US author

If Kids Ran the World - Leo Dillon (1933-2012); Diane Dillon (b. 1933) (Blue Sky Press, 2014)
Children’s picture book depicting the eutopia that children would create with equality, everyone well fed, good housing, good health care for all, a good education for all, strong families, protection for the environment, and freedom of religion. Includes two pages of text on “What Kids Are Doing Now.” Compare to 2014 Bailey, If Kids Ruled the World. Leo Dillon was a Caribbean American author born in the U.S. of Trinidadian parents.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Trinidadian American author; US author

In Ark: A Promise of Survival - Lisa Devaney (Lisa Devaney Publishing, 2014)
The background to the novel is a climate-change dystopia in which a woman is trying to create an extensive archive people’s stories. She is then kidnapped by a group from a community that presents itself as having the same goal but is, in fact, a completely controlled and controlling community.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Influx - Daniel Suarez (b. 1964) (Dutton, 2014)
A dystopia in which one corporation controls all important technological innovations by force if necessary. One physicist, who has developed a way to offset gravity, has his experiments stopped and is imprisoned. He fights back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Invisible Streets. A Thriller - Toby Ball (Overlook Press, 2014)
The third volume of a series of alternative history dystopias set in the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s, which is when this novel is set. In this novel, a massive “urban renewal” project is destroying the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Jewel - Amy Ewing (HarperTeen, 2014)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy in which teenage girls are purchased to produce children for their owners. Sequels include a novella published online, The House of the Stone. New York: HarperTeen, 2015, which focuses on a different character, and The White Rose. New York: HarperTeen, 2015.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Johnny Appledrone vs. the FAA” - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
Satire on the desire of the government to control the airspace during a period of extreme regulation versus the hacker mentality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jonesbridge: Echoes of Hinterland - M[itch] E. Parker (Diversion Books, 2014)
Dystopia. The Jonesbridge Industrial Complex is on an island and its workers are all prisoners. The novel focuses on the attempt by a man and a woman to escape. See also 2016 Parker.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The King of Flotsamland” - Tom Barlow (Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction, 2014)
A dystopia set in a future where metals have become so scarce that corporations are harvesting the collections that the ocean currents created and are willing to kill to get it. The story’s focus is on a man trying to protect the rights to one such collection.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"King Tide" - Alison Wilgus (Terraform, 2014)
Climate change dystopia of a New York City mostly under water.
Rpt. in GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 81-86; and in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Kite for Sarah: In Search of Freedom” - David G. Blake (Nature, 2014)
Dystopia in which many positions are held by robots who can be switched off at will.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Supper - Allison M. Dickson (Hobbes End Publishing, 2014)
Dystopia that follows a disaster. In the dystopia everyone must pass an annual trial called “Justification;” those who fail are killed. The book includes an “Introduction” (i-xii) by Vincent Hobbes that discusses the characteristics of dystopias.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Leaving Ashwood - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2014)
Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Kraack. In this volume, the protagonists become involved in the process of trying to reestablish democracy in the U.S.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma - Brian [Patrick] Herbert (b. 1947) (Tor, 2014)
Authoritarian dystopia with a green agenda.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) (Author, 2014)
First volume of a series set in a future with many species, including AIs, interacting with each other in mundane, everyday life activities like shopping for food and working together, as well as developing animosities, friendships, and love. The future depicted has both dystopian and eutopian elements with the author stressing the positive more than the negative. The second volume A Closed and Common Orbit. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyage, 2016 is mostly about personal relations, and love in particular, with a main character on the Asperger’s/Autism spectrum. The third volume Record of a Spaceborn Few. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 is the history of those who left the decaying Earth and stayed together as a fleet of ships, known as the Exodus Fleet, as it faces a crisis. The fourth volume The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 focuses on cultural differences among various aliens temporarily trapped on a transit planet.
Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2015.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Milkman: A Free World Novel - Michael J. Martineck (b. 1965) (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2014)
Corporate dystopia in which governments became so deeply in debt that they were bought up by three corporations and everything is now based on how cost effective it is, including investigating crime. See also 2017 Martineck.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Murder Complex - Lindsay Cummings (Greenwillow Books, 2014)
Young adult dystopia set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate.  A prequel is The Fear Trials. New York: HarperCollins e-books, 2014. The series is concluded in The Death Code: A Murder Complex Novel. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2015 where the protagonists struggle against the system and succeed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Nether, A Play - Jennifer Haley (Northwestern University Press, 2014)
The Nether is a virtual world where anyone can log in, claim an identity, and live out their fantasies. The play concerns a subsection of the Nether designed for pedophiles and depicts the investigation of this subsection by an online detective. The play received its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in California in March 2013, after being first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center as part of the 2011 National Playwrights Conference. Subsequent productions have been mounted at the Royal Court Theatre in 2013, MCC Theater in 2014 and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2015. It won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
U.K. edition London: Samuel French, 2015
Keywords: Female author; US author

Notes from the Internet Apocalypse - Gladstone, Wayne (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2014)
The dystopia that follows the collapse of the internet. Followed by Reports on the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2014; and Agents of the Internet Apocalypse. New York: Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2015.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“One Out, One In: The greatest gift” - Batstone, Aislinn (Nature, 2014)
The story is set in a future where, to control population growth, a person can designate someone who can have a child when the person dies.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Panther in the Hive: Chicago has fallen. She will not - Olivia A. Cole (Fletchero Publishing, 2014)
Dystopia set in a future Chicago deeply divided by access to healthcare and a chip that supposedly cures all possible diseases. When all those who are chipped are suddenly turned extremely violent, a mixed-race young woman must travel across Chicago to find safety. First volume of a trilogy followed by  The Rooster’s Garden: When the Rooster Crows, the Hive Will Burn. Np: Fletchero Publishing, 2016. 537 pp. in which the protagonist and some friends travel West looking for safety and answers.
Rpt. Np: Fletchero Publishing © 2016 without mention of the earlier printing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The People of the Underground” - Thomas D. Davis (b. 1941) (In his Contemporary Moral and Social Issues: An Introduction through Original Fiction, Discussion, and Readings, 2014)
A genetically enhanced humanity dominates Earth, and a remnant of the older humanity maintains what it sees as a better civilization underground.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Perfected - Kate Jarvik Birch (Entangled Teen, 2014)
First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia in which girls are bred to be sold as pets. In the sequel, Tarnished. Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, 2015, the protagonist discovers that the reality of the pets’ situation is much different than they had been told.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Peripheral - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2014)
Dystopia of a future of the relatively well off and the poor. The Agency. New York: Berkley, 2019 is both a sequel and a prequel set in a 2017 in which Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Pills and Starships - Lydia Millet (b. 1968) (Black Sheep, 2014)
Global warming dystopia in which the rich are kept happy through drugs, and, if they live too long, buy “death contracts” so that they can die peacefully.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Providence 2034” - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (College Hill Independent (Providence, RI), 2014)
Providence, RI as a high tech, green eutopia in the future due to its cooperation with São Vincente, Brazil, together with significant changes in Rhode Island politics. Interstate highway replaced by a thriving neighborhood. Higher education has become a citywide activity extending well beyond campus-based instruction. There is a large Community Land Trust Biosphere. Climate-change refugees from Asia have changed the political dynamic of the state. All legislators are required to serve a year in community service before being seated.
Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 141-46 with an author’s note (140)
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Raising Hell” - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Raising Hell plus “The Abnormal New Normal” plus “No Regrets, No Retreat, No Surrender” Outspoken Interview, 2014)
Satire on both labor unions and hell, in which damned union leaders manage to organize the demons and win a contract with the Devil.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Red Rising - Pierce Brown (b. 1988) (Del Rey, 2014)
Dystopia set on Mars in which people known as Reds work underground in the false belief that they are helping prepare for a move to the surface, which, in fact, happened years ago. One Red infiltrates the society on the surface, which has characteristics of ancient Rome. Sequels include Golden Son. New York: Del Rey, 2015, which follows the main character through an attempt to change the system, which is initially defeated, then appears to win, but the novel ends with the system in chaos; Morning Star. New York: Del Rey, 2015 continues in the same vein but again with apparent victory; Iron Gold. New York: Del Rey, 2018, in which the continuing protagonist is leaser of the Republic that has replaced the dystopia, but it is still at war with some of the members of the old system; and Dark Age. New York: Del Rey, 2019, in which the protagonist has been overthrown and the conflicts continue. Red Rising: Sons of Ares. Runnemede, NJ: Dynamite Entertainment, May-October 2017 is a six-issue comic book prequel to the series.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Remake - Ilima Todd (b. 1976) (Shadow Mountain, 2014)
First volume of a young adult dystopia series. In this volume, on a world, where they are told that at age seventeen, they will be able to choose everything about themselves from name to gender. This is, of course, a lie. A sequel is Resist. Salt Lake City, UT: Shadow Mountain, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Salvage - Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow Books, 2014)
Young adult feminist dystopia in which women are kept illiterate and pregnant. The novel focuses on a woman who escapes to a floating continent of garbage in the Pacific Ocean where she builds a new life.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sand - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) (CreateSpace, 2014)
Dystopia in which the Earth is deeply covered with sand and sand-diving is one of the few ways to make a living. A sequel, which is set in the future of the earlier volume is Across the Sand. New York: William Morrow/HarperColllins, 2022.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Sassy Chassis Lassies and the Devolution Revolution” - Lisa Sargati (Bikes in Space Volume 2 [Cover adds More feminist science fiction], 2014)
Corporate dystopia in which all vehicles are provided by corporations and are very inefficient. Bicyclists bring freedom.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Scavengers - Michael Perry (b. 1964) (Harper, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which a family escapes an authoritarian environment into a dangerous outside where they live mostly by scavenging in abandoned junk heaps. While, by the end of the novel, the family is able to return to a reformed civilization, the young, female protagonist prefers the outside.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Second American Civil War: Freedom versus Tyranny - Ira Tabankin (b. 1949) (Amazon Services.com [Kindle], 2014)
First volume in a five-volume series, with a fairly standard trajectory over the five volumes. The other volumes are The Second American Civil War. Book 2 (Version 2): The Balkanization of America. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014; The Second American Civil War. Book 3: United States Invaded. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition called Version 3; The Second American Civil War. Book 4: The Smiths and Jones. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2014, with the available edition a corrected one from 2015; and The Second American Civil War. Book 5: War. Np. Amazon.com Services [Kindle], 2015, with the available edition a corrected one. The United States is split between the Liberal States of America and the United States of America, the United Nations invades, and ultimately a civil war ensues. The one exception to the usual is volume 4 in which a television program contrasts similar families from the two countries.
The available edition is from 2015 and called the (Edited Edition). The original editions were riddled with typos.
Keywords: Male author; US author