Sherwood Nation. A Novel - Benjamin [I.] Parzybok (b. 1970) (Small Beer Press, 2014)
The novel presents the rise of a small eutopian community within the confines of a future dystopian Portland, Oregon, which has been experiencing a long drought. The novel ends with a one-page ad for a nonexistence book on the history of Sherwood Nation by two of the main characters.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Shooting the Apocalypse" - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych, 2014)
The background to the story is a climate change dystopia with radical division in Arizona between those with water and those without water. See also 2015 Bacigalupi, The Water Knife.
Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 1-24; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 273-294.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shovel Ready. A Novel - Adam Sternbergh (Crown ublishers, 2014)
Post-disaster dystopia in which the rich have escaped into virtual reality in guarded high rise buildings and the rest fight for survival in the streets. Continued in Near Enemy. A Spademan Novel. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015 set a year later when there is a threat to those living with government disappearing, everyone heavily armed, private armies, and corporations replacing what authority exists.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

“Silent Night” - Dana Rich (AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1], 2014)
Utopian satire in which drop-outs respond to the surveillance society. The community of Turkey Creek Hollow, composed mostly of anarcho-capitalist squatters but including other versions of anarchism are being constantly surveilled by the authorities using drones as well as by advertising drones that collected information of the people living there. One man decides to fight back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tabula Rasa - Kristen Lippert-Martin (Egmont USA, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which some people’s memories are being surgically removed. The novel focuses on a girl whose memories were supposed to have been removed but the operation was interrupted. A sequel is Incognita in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to survive. Minneapolis, MN: CarolhodaLab, 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Tidings" - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) (Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, 2014)
Vignettes from Maradi, Niger in 2038, Prague, Czechia in 2044, an abandoned Australian detention center in 2066, a First Nations community in 2099, and Ko Phangan, Thailand Republic in 2132. The first is about an invention that eats plastic; the second about a way of helping refugees; the third concerns using memories to reinforce the changes achieved; the fourth is about the beginning of means of communicating with animals; and the last shows the full development of that communication.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Nigerien author; Spanish author; US author

“Two Scenarios for the Future of Solar Energy” - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) (Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society, 2014)
Two versions of sustainable urban futures, low tech and high tech.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

“Welcome to the World, Trilby Freedom” - Vizcarra, Marcelina (Nature, 2014)
A future of over-concerned, over-hygienic parenting.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Word Exchange. A Novel - Alena Graedon (Doubleday, 2014)
Dystopia in which most people lose the ability to communicate.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Wordless - AdriAnne Strickland (b. 1984) (Flux, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which the underclass is illiterate, and a wordless boy helps a girl from the upper class, who has healing powers, to escape. First volume in a series to be followed by Lifeless. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2015 in which the boy is captured and given the power to kill at a touch with the intend of using him as a weapon. The ending of Lifeless suggests a sequel, but none has been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Wrath of the Brunists - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) (Dzanc Press, 2014)
Sequel of sorts to 1966 Coover in which some Brunists return to the village where they had previously been located. The novel is concerned with a number of the people from the community and among the Brunists and explores what had really happened during the events described in the 1966 novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

XOM-B - Jeremy Robinson (b. 1974) (Thomas Dunne Books, 2014)
The novel begins in a world-wide eutopia that has been achieved through overthrowing a slave system. Now it is threatened by a virus.
Rpt. as Uprising. New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2015
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Young World - Chris[opher John] Weitz (b. 1969) (Little, Brown and Co, 2014)
Young adult dystopia in which a disease has killed all children and adults and only teenagers are left alive in parts of the world, and conflict among the surviving teens develops. It becomes a quest as a few teenagers combine to search for the hidden cure. First volume of a trilogy. The middle volume is The New World. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2015 in which the cure is found but the conflict continues and the main protagonists, a young man and a young woman are separated. The final volume is The Revival. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2016 in which the young man returns to New York with the cure and a desire to unite the warring factions, but the fighting continues. When the young woman returns to New York, they succeed in bring the fighting to an end.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2014 - Paul S. Anderson (b. 1974) (CreateSpace, 2013)
Dystopia of a Civil War in the U.S. that starts as Texas secedes in an attempt by an elite to take over the country. Other states follow, and, while the U.S. government finally wins, the war is a long and bloody one.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: When God Blessed America Again! - Rick Chapman (Trafford, 2013)
Dystopia in which Islamists now dominate eighty per cent of the world’s population and have imposed Shari`a law. The novel focuses on a man and a woman who have escaped to Alaska where they find other lovers of freedom. These Alaskans organize and free the U.S. from the Islamists and their supporters.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Abandon. A Possession Novel - Elana Johnson (Simon Pulse, 2013)
Sequel to 2011 and 2012 Johnson following the personal and political relationships of the Resistance to the dystopia. 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

"Apricot Lane" - Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
Satire on the over-networked future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aquifer. A Novel - Jonathan Friesen (Blink, 2013)
Young adult global warming dystopia in which water is in short supply and those who control it try to keep knowledge at a minimum and in their control also.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Assault on Sunrise - Michael Shea (1946-2014) (Tor, 2013)
Dystopia in which Hollywood studios completely control the lives of the people who work for them and the state of California. The novel is about a town named Sunrise that has welcomed extras from the studios and is being attacked by the State in revenge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Asterion - Kenneth Morvant (Author, 2013)
Dystopia with fantasy elements about an authoritarian government that the protagonist initially sees as doing good. A sequel Asterion II: Hail Caesar has been announced but not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“At the Crossroads” - Barb Caffrey (Stars of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 14, 2013)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Beautiful Land - Averill, Alan (Ace Book, 2013)
One theme of the novel is the search for utopia and the way that its possibility can corrupt some people while freeing and healing others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Beginner’s Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse” - Christopher Barzak (b. 1975) (Before and Afterlives. Stories, 2013)
Although most of the story is about survival, it is presented as taking place during a right-wing dystopia
Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 163-68.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Beginning of the End - Michael T. Snyder ([CreateSpace], 2013)
An exploration of the dystopia that is predicted written from a Christian perspective with the explicit message the Christian faith can help people survive the coming collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Black Helicopters - Blythe Woolston (Candlewick Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which the Black Helicopters, generally considered a fantasy of the extreme right, are real and represent Fedgov’s attempt to gain greater power. The novel explores the motivations of a young woman who intends to become a suicide bomber.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Books of James C. Patch: Utopia - Gary D. Henry (AuthorHouse, 2013)
Sequel to Henry The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier (2000) and The Books of James C. Patch: Returning (2000). This novel presents the utopia that exists on the other side of the barrier and the people, mostly children, freed from the barrier finding a home.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Burn 3” - Kami Garcia (b. 1972) (Shards & Ashes, 2013)
Authoritarian dystopia of life inside a dome designed to protect people from the sun due to holes in the ozone layer, which it fails to do. The water requires purification tablets and the atmosphere inside the dome is often dangerous. Extremely crowded conditions and Burn 3 is the worst area.
Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 435-454.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Circle - Dave Eggers (b. 1970) (Penguin, 2013)
The novel can be read as either a flawed utopia or a dystopia but is a eutopia from the perspective of the protagonist. The Circle is a large corporation that serves a very large and growing part of U.S. business with online services with the goal of absorbing all world business. The focus of the novel is first on the internal corporate cultural which is designed to absorb all of a worker’s life and make that life known to everyone else in the country. This leads to the idea of everyone becoming “transparent” by wearing a camera that shows what they are seeing at all times. This spreads into the world outside the corporation and particularly to politicians.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“City of Beauty, City of Scars” - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (Impossible Futures: An Anthology, 2013)
Dystopia of a society that focuses on beauty.
Rpt. in his Lost Among the Stars (Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2017), 5-18 with an author’s note (4).
Keywords: Male author; US author

CODA - Trevayne, Emma (Running Press Teens, 2013)
Young adult corporate dystopia focusing on music as both a means of control and a way of achieving freedom. The first of two volumes. The sequel is Chorus. Philadelphia, PA: RP Teens, 2014 in which the corporation is ultimately defeated.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Crecheling - D[avid] J[ohn] Butler (b. 1973) (WordFire Press, 2013)
Young adult dystopia that begins in what appears to be a eutopia, but to achieve status in the society, the protagonist must go through a rite of passage that requires murder and that she may not survive. A sequel is Urbane: A Dystopia. Buza System #2. Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2016 in which, having survived without killing, she and the young man she was expected to kill return to confront the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Culling. The Torch Keeper: Book One - Steven dos Santos (Flux, 2013)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia based on a vicious form of advancement in the military that requires anyone failing to reach the next level to choose a relative to be killed. First volume of a series followed by The Sowing. The Torch Keeper: Book Two. Woodbury, MN: Flux, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first volume continues to work his way up the levels of the military, while also trying to undermine the system. In the final volume, The Raising. The Torch Keeper: Book Three. Np: [Curtis Brown Unlimited], 2016, the dystopia is defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dandelion Insurrection: Love and Revolution - Rivera Sun (b. 1982) (Rising Sun Press Works, 2013)
The first volume of an intended trilogy in which a couple work to sow the seeds for a nonviolent revolt against the corporate dominated U. S. government. Followed by The Roots of Resistance. El Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2018. 391 pp. in which the revolution appears to have succeeded, but the powerful still resist and a violent fringe group develops that challenges the nonviolent ethos of the revolution. There is also a companion volume, The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide. EL Prado, NM: Rising Sun Press Works, 2015. 124 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Death of Immortality - J. M. Cobb (Archway Publishing, 2013)
The “Introduction” (v-viii) gives an almost entirely positive picture of the eutopia that will result from an immortality achieved through scientific advances. No disease, no crime, hence no prisons, no religion, and no war. “Unfortunately,” no family because no children and marriage will fade away. But the novel is about a murder that does occur committed by members of a secret society that believed immortality was the wrong choice for humanity. The novel contradicts the introduction in that there is a detective available, doctors are busy, and there is a priest.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Defenders of the Flame - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Ad Stellae, 2013)
Sequel to 2007 and 2009 Engdahl set two hundred years later in which a positive future is found.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Difference of Opinion” - Meda Kahn (Strange Horizons, 2013)
Dystopia in which those with disabilities are treated as less than human and called “litches,” which is derived from leech. Autistic female author.
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion/Podcast. Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 227-42; and in Strange Horizons (September 9, 2017). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/difference-of-opinion-2/. Podcast http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-difference-of-opinion-2/.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dogsbody" - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) (Shards & Ashes, 2013)
Corporate dystopia that simply kills thousands of children in order to save the money of feeding them. The ones they allow to live work for the corporate at the lowest level, Dogsbody, at the worst jobs. The work focuses on a few young people fighting back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Domechild - Shiv Ramdas (Penguin Random House India, 2013)
The protagonist is a man living in an authoritarian, surveilled dystopia who works in a small cubicle checking up on other people. “Perfection is vigilance. Nobody is perfect until everybody is perfect. Everybody is guilty until nobody is.” Any dissent means being taken away by “lawbots” to never be seen again. The man loses his way going to home and discovers people living rough outside the controlled area, saves one from the “lawbots,” takes her home, and then is blackmailed by an AI, with most of the rest of the novel about him dealing with the resulting problems. The novel ends with the suggestion of a sequel, but none has been published.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

"Droplet" - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) (We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology, 2013)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is poor and ravaged by climate change and has become extremely parochial and has pushed out most non-citizen immigrants and even many immigrants who had become citizens. Those who stay are subject to random violence.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

"Earthen" - Alicia Cole (Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers, 2013)
The story presents a high-tech future with most farms fully mechanized with the focus on one woman who still lives on her farm and cares deeply for the land.
Keywords: Female author; US author

East of West. [The Promise] - Jonathan Hickman (b. 1972); Nick Dragotta (Image Comics, 2013)
The first volume of a violent graphic novel dystopian series depicting the Apocalypse which was first published as a monthly series in March 2013. Sequels are East of West Volume Two: [We Are All One]. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2014; and East of West Volume 3. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The End: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 1 of the New World Series - G. Michael Hopf (Plume, 2013)
Survivalist dystopia after an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on North America, Europe and the Far East knocks out the entire electric power system. Sequels include The Long Road: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 2 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2014, in which the U.S. has collapsed; Sanctuary: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 3 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2014, which follows six people in search of a sanctuary; The Line of Departure: A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 4 of the New World Series. New York: Plume, 2015, in which some people find a safe place within the devastated country; Blood, Sweat & Tears. A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 5 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015, in which the protagonist wages war against what is left of the U.S. while other areas secede; The Razor’s Edge, A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 6 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2016 in which what remains of the U.S. is close to collapse; and Those Who Remain. A Postapocalyptic Novel. Book 7 The New World Series. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2016 in which the protagonist now fights for the U.S.
Originally published online in 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The End, My Friend: Prelude to the Apocalypse - KIrby Wright (Lemon Shark Press, 2013)
The novel has elements of a survivalist dystopia in that the U.S. economy and infrastructure collapses, the social order disintegrates, and violence predominates. But the novel does not have the political ranting of so many survivalist dystopias and focuses on a search for a safe place, a motif in some other survivalist novels, which is found at least temporarily at the end of the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Excerpts from The New World Authorized Dictionary” - Alexander Weinstein (Cream City Review, 2013)
Dystopia presented through a future dictionary stressing corporate, government, and personal control through technology.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 57-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Exodus: Book One of the Fundamentalists - Geoff Livingston (Lady Soleil, 2013)
First volume of a trilogy in which Christian fundamentalists impose of dictatorship on the East Coast of a largely destroyed America. The novel focuses on one village, Harpers Ferry, WV, whose people resist and ultimately escape across the country and settle in the remains of Colorado Springs, CO. In Perseverance. Book Two of the Fundamentalists. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2015, the people are found by the dictatorship, and they must decide on whether to fight back.  A third volume, tentatively entitled Hypocrisy. Book Three of the Fundamentalists, was announced but not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Eye of Moloch - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2013)
Dystopia of the attempted destruction of U.S. democracy by those trying to establish the New World Order and the fight back against it. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Eyeth: A Novel for the Deaf” - Kelsey [M.] Young (Gallaudet University, 2013)
The following is from the author’s abstract. The novel “focuses on a wide range of deaf people involved in intra-deafcentric conflicts; deaf sub-groups include a range of communication preferences (speaking, cued speech, signing) as well as multiple physical differences (deaf blind, cerebral palsy, wheelchair users) though not ethnic diversity. A critical introduction to the novel explains that science fiction allows the creation of a world that does not exist as a real physical place and allows exploration of intra group issues that a mainstream context of oppression of all deaf people obscures. The introduction also relates a discussion of the countries on Eyeth to colonialism and post-colonialism theory to provide a framework to the reader for the subsequent analysis of how Eyeth uses but also subverts colonialist thinking through characters' actions. The novel itself is about a young man, Virgil G, training under the tutelage of the current Guardian of Eyeth, Shawn Wright, who ensures Eyeth doesn't stray from its original goals of being a deaf world.”
Keywords: Deaf author; Female author; US author

The Failed Cities - Matt Wallace (b. 1982) (The House of Murky Depths, 2013)
Dystopia set in cities that have been abandoned by government The novel focuses on eight individuals living in the cities.
Originally a series of podcasts, which were then remastered on Podiobooks. The written version was released digitally in 2012 and then published the following year.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fallen Summer - Richard E. Hydrick (Two Palmettos Publishing, 2013)
The novel focuses on the effects of the collapse of the U.S. on a small group of people and has elements of a survivalist dystopia but ends with the success of the group in establishing a decent life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fatherless: A Novel - Dr. James Dobson (b. 1936); Kurt Bruner (Faith Words, 2013)
Future dystopia from a Christian perspective suggesting the possible negative future of current anti-family trends.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Flag Still Flies Over Sabor City” - Welser, Tracie (Interzone, 2013)
Authoritarian conformist dystopia with a small free zone that has a curfew.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Flight of Little Bird” - Stephanie Writt (How to Save the World, 2013)
The story begins with a young woman working a dead-end job and just getting by has the idea to use social media to start a movement she calls Empower the Kind (ETK). It then shows how, over her lifetime, the movement transforms the world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gated - Amy Christine Parker (Random House Books for Young Readers, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a family joins an underground religious community with a charismatic leader to escape from the world’s problems.  First volume of a series followed by Astray. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2014 in which the protagonist from Gated has left the community, which is trying to get her back. No further volumes have been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Glass House 51. A Novel - Hampel, John (BZFF Books, 2013)
Corporate dystopia stressing the misuse of information technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Gray Wings” - Karl Bunker (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2013)
The background to the story includes a future that is eutopian for the rich and dystopian for the poor.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 140-47 with an editor’s note on 140.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Heaven Backwards" - Lisa Silverthorne (How to Save the World, 2013)
The story is set in a United States devastated by climate change inside a religious compound in which women are the collective property of the men. One woman makes contact with an outside world they had been told didn’t exist.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Hhsaslin” - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
A dystopian allegory on “systemic oppression, genocide, and colonialism” (76).
Rpt. in her All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2019), 77-101, with an author’s note on 76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Indivisible: With Justice for Some - Troy J. Grice (Prepper Press, 2013)
Survivalist dystopia after the dollar collapses and the government becomes more authoritarian and uses the military to restore order. Sequels are planned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Insistence of Vision” - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (Technology Review (MIT), 2013)
The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime.
Rpt. in his Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author’s note on 35; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 36-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Island - Teri Hall (Teri Hall, 2013)
Young adult dystopia following 2010 and 2011 Hall. In this volume, the protagonists of the second volume return back across the line to rescue a friend.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Kindest Man in Stormland” - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Interzone, 2013)
Dystopia of environmental collapse.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last President - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2013)
Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Barnes in which an effort is being made to bring the remnants of the U.S. back together under a President and Congress.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Living in the Singularity” - Tom Borthwick (Bewildering Stories, 2013)
A corporation announces that, in exchange for all their possessions, it can upload a person’s consciousness into a supercomputer where they will be able to live happily ever after. Millions choose to do so. The story focuses on an individual who resists but finally decides to join his wife.
Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (London: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 33-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lone Star Daybreak - Erik L. Larson (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2013)
Dystopia in which political polarization leads Texas to secede and a civil war follows with both sides using nuclear weapons.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Looking Backward: 2050-2013 - Ravi Morey (CreateSpace, 2013)
The current situation rapidly deteriorates into a dystopia after Sarah Palin (b. 1964) supported by a Congress dominated by the far-right, was elected President in 2020. The U.S. economy collapses. As the price for bailing out the U.S., other countries insisted on the establishment of a world government (the United States of the World) and nation-states disappear. Presented as if a history of the period. Includes biographies of a number of recent and current political figures, some projected into the future.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author; US author

Looking Toward Eden - Pellman, Terry (CreateSpace, 2013)
Dystopia and an emerging eutopia. As the U.S. faces collapse as a result of liberal policies, a successful secessionist movement develops in the central U.S. which intends to institute conservative policies and return to the U.S. Constitution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Meerga" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (New World eZine #2 [This version is no longer available online], 2013)
The story is set in a surveillance dystopia with automated controls on any movement outside houses. In this setting, where most people stay home, an AI is created as what is called a “mere girl,” but is designed to look like a very beautiful, fully developed woman, and the story is concerned with how the family she lives with, and particularly the father and son, deal with the situation.
Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (Np: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 82-90; and in Big Echo, no. 14 (January 2020). https://www.bigecho.org/meerga.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Melting Point 2040 - Mike Bushman (AirFuture, 2013)
Dystopia of a secessionist movement in the U.S. Followed by Secession 2041. [Naperville, IL]: AirFuture, 2013 which describes the civil war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Mesomorphic Woman” - David North-Martino (Daughters of Icarus: New Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Women’s Wings Unfurled], 2013)
Dystopia on a space habitat that had been planned as for women where a man is replacing them with clones and men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Migration" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Beyond the Sun, 2013)
The story is set on a colony planet called Freedom, which is supposedly libertarian and allows extreme genetic manipulation, and focuses on the struggle to save some native animals from being exploited.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Ministry of Changes” - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) (Tor.com, 2013)
A dystopia in which two peoples are at constant war. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young woman in one of the cities who discovers its secrets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"More" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia of conflict between rich and poor in a world in which the rich can afford protection from the deteriorating environment.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play - Anne Washburn (Playwrights Horizons, 2013)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with the first act set in the very near future, the second act seven years later, and the third act seventy-five years after that. In the play, a small group of people are trying to remember and re-enact the “Cape Feare” episode of The Simpsons, which originally aired October 7, 1993. The re-enactment changes dramatically over time.
Rpt. in Mr. Burns and other plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2017), 115-228. The revised London script London: Oberon Books, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Neighborhoods" - Dean Wesley Smith (How to Save the World, 2013)
A wealthy man, upset by the continuing death in gang violence of Chicago teenagers decides to recreate the entire way of life by building huge, completely self-contained apartment complexes. The story includes details of power sources, gardening, schools, shopping, and so forth.
Rpt. in Smith’s Monthly #6 (March 2014): 66-78; ISSN 2474-5294 and in Colliding Worlds Vol. 1: A Science Fiction Story Series. By Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith (Np: WMG Publishing, 2021), 419-436. 978-1-56146-387-9
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Neptune Project - Polly Holyoke (Hyperion/Disney, 2013)
First volume of a young adult series in which a group of genetically modified teens must, guided by dolphins, swim to the undersea Neptune Project, where they are expected to help create a better life than that on the surface. The second volume is The Neptune Challenge. New York: Disney/Hyperion, 2015; U.K. ed. as The Neptune Dilemma. London: Penguin Books, 2015, which is a typical middle volume where the struggle to survive. In the third volume, The Neptune Promise. Plano, TX: Holyoake Enterprises, 2017, the people fight to save the planet from climate change.
U.K. ed. The Neptune Conspiracy. London: Penguin Books, 2014.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A New Year’s Tale - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) (Author, 2013)
Dystopia in which senior citizens are considered an unnecessary expense and disposable. Everyone is forced to retire at 65, and the Senior Laws are designed to ensure no one reaches old age. For example, under the Diminished Culpability Act, if you kill someone who is 70, you get two-years in prison; if you kill someone 80, you get two years community service. The African gods, upset at the lack of respect for elders, choose four seniors to fight back.
Keywords: Female author; US author

New Zapata - Teri Hall (Author, 2013)
Dystopia in which Texas has seceded from the U.S. and outlawed abortion, birth control, and divorce. The novel follows one young woman trying to escape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Not a Drop to Drink - Mindy McGinnis (Katherine Tegen Books, 2013)
Young adult climate change dystopia in which a young woman, surviving alone while protecting her water source, has to adjust to nearby neighbors. In a sequel, In a Handful of Dust. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014, she and another young woman set out to try to find more water.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Notes from a Pleasant Land Where Broken Hearts are Like Broken Hands” - Kevin Waltman (Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 2013)
Flawed religious eutopia contrasted with a free people seen from within the religion as living in a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nova’s Cycles” - Aaron M. Wilson (Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology], 2013)
Dystopia in which all the colonies built on the moon and other places in the solar system are being drained to support the rich colonists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“An Object In Motion” - Elizabeth Buchanan (Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology]., 2013)
Dystopia of Earth essentially flattened to provide the material to build habitats in space, which are initially promised for everyone but quickly are limited to the rich.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Occupy Life: An Imaginative Fiction Novel - [William M.] [Badrick] (Cascadia Public House, 2013)
Dystopia in which animals, led by the whales, decide to take the Earth back from humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Odds Against Tomorrow - Nathaniel Rich (b. 1980) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)
Dystopia focusing on possible future catastrophes and a hurricane that hits New York that is even more damaging than the 2012 hurricane.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Office of Mercy - Ariel Djanikian (Viking, 2013)
Flawed utopia in which America Five has been established underground after a catastrophe. The utopia is a totally planned society striving to achieve immortality, but it is trying to kill all humans who still live outside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Pawn - Aimée Carter (b. 1986) (Harlequin Teen, 2013)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume a young woman can, with plastic surgery, move up in social rank, but she has been involved in trying to overthrow the regime. Captive. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2014 is the middle volume in which she has chosen the surgery and faces many perils. The third volume is Queen. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2015 in which the regime is defeated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Perfect America - Peter Meredith (Author, 2013)
Dystopia of a totalitarian U.S. that hires people to kill its opponents.
Originally published online in 2013.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Perfect Ruin. The Internment Chronicles Book One - Lauren DeStefano (b. 1984) (Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2013)
First volume of a young adult series set, in this volume, on what appears to be a segment torn out of Earth and relocated in space above Earth. The society sees itself in utopian terms but is a highly structured authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist and her friends are discontented, and the novel ends with them stepping on Earth for the first time. In the second volume, Burning Kingdoms. The Internment Chronicles Book Two. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2015, the protagonists discover that Earth is also dangerous. In the third volume, Broken Crowns: The Internment Chronicles Book Three. New York: Simon & Schuster BFYR, 2016 the protagonists discover that the segment in space is falling, and they must find a way for the two parts of Earth to cooperate. Related enovellas are No Intention of Dying. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2014 http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/No-Intention-of-Dying/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480674; and The Heir Apparent. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2015. http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Heir-Apparent/Lauren-DeStefano/The-Internment-Chronicles/9781442480681.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Perseid Collapse. A Novel - Steven Konkoly ([CreateSpace], 2013)
First volume of a post-catastrophe dystopian series in which an electromagnetic pulse destroys the U.S. infrastructure. Sequels include Event Horizon. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; Point of Crisis. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2014; and Dispatches. [North Charleston, SC: Create Space], 2015. G. Michael Hopf’s Detachment. A Persied Collapse Novella. Kindle Worlds, 2015 is set in the same future. The series is a sequel Konkoly’s The Jakarta Pandemic. [North Charleston, SC]: Create Space, 2013 in which a virus devastates the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prepper. Part One: The Collapse - Karl A. D. Brown (Author, 2013)
The future dystopia that emerges from current conditions that leads to limited nuclear war. A Prepper is one who is preparing for the coming global collapse. First volume in an intended series followed by 2015 Brown.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Program - Suzanne Young (b. 1976) (Simon Pulse, 2013)
Dystopia in which an apparent epidemic of depression has led to widespread suicide, and “The Program” is supposedly the only treatment. The protagonist struggles to keep her growing depression hidden. The Treatment. New York: Simon Pulse, 2014 is a sequel where the main characters flee from those running the Program in search of a different treatment. The Remedy. New York: Simon Pulse, 2015 is a prequel about a girl who has the ability to emulate the deceased and does so for grieving families. The Epidemic. New York: Simon Pulse, 2016 is a prequel about the empowerment of the protagonist of The Remedy. The Adjustment. A Program Novel Book 5. New York: Simon Pulse, 2017 deals with the problems of those return after having their memories wiped. The final volume is The Complication. A Program Novel Book 6. New York: Simon Pulse, 2018 in which the main protagonist of the novels is finally able to stop the adjustment of the previous volume.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Proxy - [Charles] Alex[ander] London (b. 1980) (Philomel Books/Penguin, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which a boy from the lower class is punished whenever a boy from the upper class does something wrong. The two come to cooperate to find out why the system was imposed. A sequel is Guardian. New York: Philomel Books/Penguin, 2014 in which the revolution against the regime has succeeded but is not universally popular. In this volume, people are becoming extremely ill. The projected third volume was not published.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Registry - Shannon Stoker (William Morrow, 2013)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are raised to be brides to be auctioned off at eighteen and boys are raised to be soldiers. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume is The Collection. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2014 in which the protagonist of the first novel escapes from the U.S. to Mexico but has to return to help her friends. The third volume is The Alliance. A Registry Novel. New York: William Morrow, 2015 in which the protagonist is betrayed by everyone but wins through.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a hard drive” - Eric Schwitzgebel; R. Scott Bakker (b. 1967) (Nature, 2013)
A scientist creates humans within a computer and builds a eutopia for them. The scientist that follows reveals their true nature to them, and they then take over their own destiny and, ultimately, that of the world outside the computer.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Replica - Jenna [Jennifer] Black (b. 1965) (Tor Teen, 2013)
Young adult corporate dystopia where one company has developed human replication. Her Resistance. New York: Tor Teen, 2014 continues the story with the discovery of government corruption and the development of a resistance movement. The third volume, Revolution. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, continues the theme of resistance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Resistance - Zainab Amadahy (b.1956) (CreateSpace, 2013)
Corporate dystopia set in Toronto.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Rivers - Michael Farris Smith (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
Climate change dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rock of Ages" - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) (METAropolis: Green Space, 2013)
The story focuses on an attempt to create a eutopian green future and attacks upon it. Related to Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake Tobias S. Buckell Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi, [II] Karl Schroeder. Ed. John [Michael] Scalzi, [II]. New York: Tor, 2009.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 73-126 with an editor’s note on 73.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Rocket Night” - Alexander Weinstein (Southern Indiana Review, 2013)
Dystopia in which each year the children in a school choose one of their number to be fastened in a rocket and shot into space, the choice being the most unpopular child, and, in the story, the poorest child in the school.
Rpt. in his Children of the New World: Stories (New York: Picador, 2016), 177-81.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Root of Heaven & Earth - E. A. Grace (Ethosphere Press, 2013)
The novel begins in a high tech, overpopulated dystopia with a corporate world government (Corprogov). A physicist in that world accidentally projects himself to a parallel world that is a eutopia. He learns about the world through a book by the woman who brought about the eutopia, and the book is provided with some sections complete and others summarized as he travels to a retreat based on the teachings in the book. The eutopia has a limited population, strict environmental standards achieved through education not government.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Secession of Texas - Darrell Maloney ([CreateSpace], 2013)
Texas secedes from the U.S. and creates a free market eutopia. Non-utopian sequels include Meribel. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013; My Forever. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; and with Dawn Brand Hawkins. A New Reason for Being. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2015. Related books with some of the same characters include A Secret Life And Justice for All (A Secret Life). [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; The Hunted. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014; and A New Beginning: A Secret Life. The Final Chapters. Np: Darrell Maloney Publishing, 2015 (Ebook).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Social Services” - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
Dystopia of social services seen through the eyes of one of the providers who is, herself, controlled by her superiors.
Rpt. in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Ian C. Esslemont (Toronto, ON, Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2013), 249-62
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Solidarity" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” and “High Stakes” where the protagonist of the first two stories learns that the supposed libertarian utopia is, if anything, an authoritarian dystopia. See also 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Stars Change - Mary Anne Mohanraj (b. 1971) (Circlet Press, 2013)
The novel is set on a planet that had been settled by South Asians from England, where the University of All the Worlds had attracted students and teachers from all over the galaxy. A culture that accepted humans, modified and unmodified, and aliens had developed, and the novel focuses on an attack on that culture.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"State of Imprisonment" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (New Taboos: plus “A state of imprisonment” and “Why we need forty years of hell” and “Pro is for professional” outspoken interview, 2013)
Dystopia in which the entire U.S. state of Arizona has become a prison under the control of the state government and a corporation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Taken - Erin Bowman (b. 1990) (HarperTeen, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which all boys are taken by the government at eighteen and the successful resistance to the program. Sequels include Frozen. A Taken Novel. New York: Harper Teen, 2014; and Forged. A Taken Novel. New York: HarperTeen, 2015, both of which follow the resistance to its ultimately successful conclusion. Stolen, New York: HarperTeen Impulse, 2014 is a prequel available as an ebook.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tales of New America - Gunther Roosevelt (Callister Green Publishing, 2013)
Although presented as twenty-three tales, the work constitutes a coherent picture of the future of the United States as it falls apart and regional groupings of states form new countries that become legal entities. Here the states of the northern mountain west forms the New American Republic, and the story of its somewhat violent formation and the establishment of a limited government is the focus of the work. Explicitly racist in that everyone not white is driven out. Patriarchal with a chapter entitled “How to Raise a Daughter in a Patriarchal Society (103-110).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974) (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
Young adult dystopia in which potential future leaders are put through a grueling, and potentially deadly test. First volume of a series. In the second volume, Independent Study. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the heroine begins to have memories that had supposedly been wiped and learns about the real nature of the government. In the final volume, Graduation Day (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the dystopia is defeated
Keywords: Female author; US author

“That the Machine May Progress Eternally” - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) (Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales, 2013)
A story inspired by 1909 Forster, “The Machine Stops,” in which a boy makes contact with the outside but will not leave the Underneath even when the machine stops
Keywords: Female author; US author

Through Many Fires: Strengthen What Remains - Kyle Pratt (Camden Cascade Publishing, 2013)
The dystopia created when a nuclear bomb is detonated in Washington, DC and then in other cities. First volume of a series followed by A Time To Endure. Strengthen What Remains Book Two. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2014, which is a survivalist dystopia with the threat of civil war; and Braving the Storms. Strengthen What Remains Book Three. 3rd ed. [no indication of earlier eds.]. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2015 in which a flu epidemic strikes the country.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Trouble with Heaven” - [Albert Edward] [Cowdrey] (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2013)
Dystopia. A satellite serving the function of a gated community for the very rich with android servants and police collapses when the controls on the androids are manipulated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Under the Empyrean Sky. The Heartland Trilogy Book I - Chuck [Charles David] Wendig (b. 1976) (Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2013)
First volume of a trilogy. In this volume, those living in the Empyrean control those living on Earth to the extent of determining what is growth and choosing their marriage partners. The second volume is Blightborn. The Heartland Trilogy Book II. New York: Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2014. In this volume, a typical middle volume, there is a revolt against such control. The third volume is The Harvest. The Heartland Trilogy Book III. New York: Skyscape/Amazon Publishing, 2015. It is a bit more complex than many concluding volumes, and the ending does not make further volumes particularly difficult, but it does bring together the numerous plot lines to endings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Utopia: On the Quality of Human Life” - Greg Brown (Voices of Central Pennsylvania, 2013)
An opinion piece that says that life in the U.S. would be radically improved by doubling the minimum wage and creating a “nouveau middle class” out of the poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ward - Jordana Frankel (Katherine Tegel Books, 2013)
Young adult dystopia set in a flooded New York City ruled by a corrupt Governor where people are getting sick from the polluted water. In the sequel, The Isle. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2016, a source of fresh water proves to be the cure for the disease, but the Governor wants to control it. A drought is coming so a future novel can be expected.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Water" - Ramez Naam (An Aura of Familiarity: Visions of the Coming Age of Networked Matter, 2013)
A dystopia in which everyone has implants that allow the advertisements that are embedded in all products to adjust themselves to an individual’s needs.
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), 43-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Welcome to Ted Cruz’s Thunderdome” - Maureen [Brigid] Dowd (b. 1952) (The New York Times Sunday Review, 2013)
The 2084 dystopia created by the collapse of the U.S. government in 2013 set in “A Place Once Called Washington” where the animals released by the unpaid zookeepers roam the mall, the White House is empty, there are no police, and so forth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Your Name Here” - Laura Resnick (b. 1961) (How to Save the World, 2013)
Humorous take on the overpopulation problem. Most of the world has signed the International Population Agreement that requires a license to be allowed to have a child and are well on the way to become truly good societies. The U.S. is a holdout, and the story traces the trajectory that led to its adoption by the United States (the key change is “requiring candidate in the House or Senate to pass written and oral exams in basic logic, science, history, and ethics, as well as a test on the US Constitution” [76-77]) and what one has to do to get such a license.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The 14th Reinstated - Bryce M. Towsley (BREN Publishing, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“2038: San Francisco Sojourn: The Wrath of God” - Paul Clayton (Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012)
The story is set in a California that has regulations for everything, the prime example given is that everyone is required to wear a helmet at all times, although undocumented workers generally don’t. In the story God objects to His laws not being followed and wreaks havoc wherever He goes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2312 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Orbit, 2012)
Complex novel set throughout the fully inhabited solar system with intrigue and conspiracies, but, while Earth is still riddled with problems, the rest of the planets are slowly working their way to a better system and hope to include Earth in it.
An excerpt was published in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 24 (May 2012).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"357" - Karp, Jesse (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a small, violent community on a high floor in a badly damaged building.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Apocalypse: The New Way - David Anderson (LuLu Publishing, 2012)
The novel begins with the apocalypse that occurs at the end of 2012 and then moves to 285 years later when the remnant of humanity are hunter gatherers. At that point a group of "Monks," who have remained hidden, emerge to teach these people a better way of life. The novel includes the Plan that had been worked out in 2012 (341-62) and "Blogs and Chats" about the Plan (363-524).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Agenda 21 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964); Harriet Parker (Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts, 2012)
Dystopia in which the United Nations has taken over the U.S. and enslaved its citizens. An “Afterword” (279-95) has additional information regarding Agenda 21 and includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. For the 1998 Agenda 21, see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"All I Know of Freedom" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which a girl sold to a couple to work as a servant escapes, and then briefly joins a cult that believes the world is ending and plan to leave the planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ameritopia 2075 - Corey L. Simmins ([CreateSpace], 2012)
At the beginning of the novel, the U.S. appears to be a eutopia created by shipping all criminals offshore and using the money saved by closing all the prisons to enhance education, eliminate debt, and solve a variety of other social problems. But this is a flawed utopia serving the interests of those in power in which a small group determines who gets education and work.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Amos Was Here” - Doug Donley (Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities, 2012)
The story is set in a future dystopia resulting from current policies, particularly concerning the environment, and suggests actions that could help avoid the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Appropriate Response: Class War" - Jeff Samson (Nature, 2012)
Dystopian classroom of the future where all students are assessed as to how they should be treated by the teacher and a bright student who accurately answers a question while disparaging her classmates is subdued and removed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arbeitskraft - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) (The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, 2012)
The complex satire is told from the point-of-view of Friedrich Engels and begins in a steampunk world in which the mechanicals that were made possible by Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine are treated as badly as human workers. Engels remains a revolutionary and repurposes the Difference Engine into a Dialectical Engine, essentially an Artificial Intelligence, designed to write the fifth volume of Marx’s Capital, which includes a description of a future in which the collective mind of the working class has been fed into the Difference Engine.
Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2012), 105-23; and in the author's The People’s Republic of Everything (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 11-37, with an author’s note on 36-37.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arcadia - Lauren Groff (b. 1978) (Voice, 2012)
A novel about an intentional community intended to be a eutopia and that problems it faced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Arctic Rising - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Tor, 2012)
A climate change novel in which the melting of the ice caps leads to conflicts over access to the oil reserves that are now accessible.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

Armageddon 2019: Jesus Is Come The Pope of Rome is Fallen Perfection is Preached in Boston - Jeffrey Barrett (b. 1959) (CreateSpace, 2012)
Anti-Roman Catholic dystopia in which the Pope controls all religions and God deposes him.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Arose from Poetry” - Steve Berman (b. 1949) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a society divided between privileged citizens and everyone else.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ashes of Twilight - [Cindy] [Holby] (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012)
Young adult dystopia set in a domed city built in the mid-nineteenth century as the resources are running out. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Shadows of Glass. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, the protagonist escapes from the domed community she lives in and discovers that the world outside is not as good as she had imagined. She returns to the domed community to help her friends and is recaptured. In the third volume, Remnants of Tomorrow. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, the protagonist is released into the custody of a group outside the dome that she must escape from, and the ending is positive.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Astrophilia" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Clarkesworld, 2012)
Eutopia set in the same world as her 2010 "Amaryliss". In this story there is a conflict over what is useful with one member of a community fascinated by astronomy, which she does on her own time, and one who wants to destroy her telescope.
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), 277-99; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013), 316-30 with an editor’s introduction on 316; in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 198-218; and in her Amaryllis and Other Stories (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2016), 244-66.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bar Code Prophecy - Suzanne Weyn (b. 1955) (Scholastic Press, 2012)
Third volume in a series; see also 2004 and 2006 Weyn. In this volume, a girl who was happy to get the bar code tattoo, sets off a crusade against the system that ends with all satellites falling into the oceans, setting off massive tsunamis, and destroying the dystopian system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Belle Isle - Rodney Lockwood (LuLu.com, 2012)
Eutopia of a future Detroit that has been transformed by the establishment of an independent Belle Island, an island in the Detroit River, that is sold to a group of capitalists who build a free market eutopia there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Berserker Eyes" - Maria V. Snyder (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which there is a recessive gene for berserker behavior and the society encourages that as a means of creating a berserker military.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beta - Rachel Cohn (b. 1968) (Hyperion, 2012)
Young adult dystopia of a future where clones can be created that are already teenagers and are for sale. They are supposed to be without emotion or souls, but the protagonist, a sixteen year old clone who is only weeks old, discovers that she has emotions and revolts. First volume in a series followed by Emergent. New York: Hyperion, 2014, where the clone and her source are in conflict. No further volumes appear to have been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Blood Drive" - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which all child-labor laws have been overturned, seniors in high school carry guns, abortion has disappeared, church is required on Sundays, and same-sex relations are illegal.
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), 119-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Blueprints of the Afterlife - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) (Black Cat, 2012)
Dystopia. A complex novel set mostly after much of the world has been destroyed. It follows a number of individuals as the experience the new world, which is part virtual reality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Breathe - Sarah Crossan (b. 1981) (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which oxygen depletion has destroyed the environment and killed everyone except those chosen by a lottery to live under a dome. There is a resistance movement and a belief that some areas outside the dome are still alive, and the novel focus on a quest to find those areas. First volume of two followed by Resist. New York: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2013. U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 in which the protagonists of Breathe are successful in finding fertile land.
U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author; US author

By Force of Patriots - Cameron Reddy (White Feather Press, 2012)
A dystopia brought about by liberals is overthrown by patriots. The author is a lawyer who says that "he has taught the lawful use of lethal force for over 10 years."
Keywords: Male author; US author

BZRK - [Michael] [Reynolds] (b. 1954) (Egmont USA, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with one group trying to control society with nanobots and the other fighting against them with different technology. Continued in BZRK Reloaded. New York: Egmont USA, 2013. U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2013; and concluded in BZRK Apocalypse. New York: Egmont USA, 2014. U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2014.
U.K. ed. London: Electric Monkey, 2012.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Collapse: America Will Fall - Richard Stephenson (b. 1975) (Stevenson & Powers Publishing House, 2012)
Dystopia in which the U.S. faces internal and external threats and a Second Great Depression. In a sequel, Resistance: America Has Fallen. Ed. Susan Hughes. Np: Richard Stephenson, 2013, the U.S. has been torn apart and the main protagonists in Collapse are trying to save it. A third volume was announced but has not appeared. A related story with characters from Collapse, “Spider: A Short Story.” Ed. Susan Hughes (2012) has been published on Kindle.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Crimson Rain - Tex Leiko (World Castle Publishing, 2012)
Post-nuclear-catastrophe dystopia where only the rich are protected by the law. Corporations attempt to overthrow the existing government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Darkest Minds - Alexandra Bracken (b. 1987) (Hyperion, 2012)
Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman in a world in which most children have been killed by a disease that gave her and some others an unusual talent. All the children identified with such talents are incarcerated in a so-called rehabilitation camp. She escapes and becomes a leader of other children who are searching for a safe haven. A film, Darkest Minds, with a screenplay by Bracken and Chad Hodge (b. 1977) and directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (b. 1972) was released in 2018. Sequels include Never Fade. New York: Hyperion, 2013 in which the protagonist from the first volume leaves the other children to search for the answer to the disease; In the Afterlight. New York: Hyperion, 2014 in which the same protagonist works with others to find the solution to the disease and defeat the government; and The Darkest Legacy. New York: Hyperion, 2018, which concludes the series. A collection of related stories focusing on characters other than the main protagonist is Through the Dark. A Dark Minds Collection. New York: Hyperion, 2015. The stories had previously published online in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Deciding for Ourselves” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Graphic eutopian story with words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin. In the story a neighborhood where no one interacts builds a community; it later falls apart, but some people decide to start again.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Declaration" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Rip-off!, 2012)
The story involves students, who live most of their lives as avatars online are required to participate in a cooperative group project, and they choose the “Declaration of Independence.” They decide to try to bring about their own independence, each with a different motive, each hoping for a better life for themselves.
The paperback version is entitled Mash Up: Stories Inspired by Famous First Lines. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (London: Titan Books, 2016), 371-411. Rpt. in his The Promise of Space and Other Stories ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 140-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Defiance - C. J. Redwine (Balzer + Bray, 2012)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia stressing adventure and romance.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Devil’s Hit List. Book Three of the Underground - Frank Creed (b. 1966) (Splashdown Books, 2012)
Sequel to 2007 and 2010 Creed. In this volume, the government and a large corporation introduce a lethal virtual reality experience in an attempt to reduce the world’s population. The Christian underground fights back.See also Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Distant Eden - Lloyd [L.] Tackitt ([CreateSpace], 2012)
Survivalist eutopia after the electrical grid is destroyed. Most people die, but a few, who had prepared in advance, survive and prosper. First volume in a series. The second volume is Adrian’s War. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2012, in which one of the survivors travels from Texas to Colorado, where, when he arrives, he runs into an armed gang who want to make him a prisoner. The third volume is Eden’s Hammer. Book III of the “Distant Eden” Series. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, which deals with a threat to the village. The fourth volume is Eden’s Warriors. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2013, in which the protagonist leads the fight against a Mexican invasion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dog Stars - Peter Heller (b. 1959) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012)
After the world is largely depopulated by a flu pandemic, the protagonist lives next to a small airfield Colorado with his dog and a heavily armed survivalist who also ended up there. The protagonist rations the small amount of aviation fuel left and regularly survey the area looking for game and the scavengers they have to fight off. Ultimately, he hears an odd signal on his radio and discovers other survivors.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Don’t Mess with Travis - Bob Smiley (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
The novel depicts the U.S. under a Democratic president (clearly modeled on President Obama) as a tyranny. The governor of Texas leads a movement to allow states to secede.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Dream Eater” - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia of a society built around one suffering individual.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Drowned Cities - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) (Little, Brown, 2012)
Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia described as a companion to his 2010 Ship Breaker. In this novel two young people try to escape the poverty and violence of the cities only for one of them to be captured by a group of child soldiers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Elected - Rori Shay (Silence in the Library, 2012)
First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in 2185 after an environmental crisis in which all countries are isolated from each other and technology is outlawed to protect what is left of the environment. Also, the countries have agreed to a system in which one family in each country is elected to rule for one hundred years, with men ruling and women reproducing. In this novel, a girl has been raised to replace her father as the Elected so that her family can continue in power, and she must disguise herself as a boy and marry a woman to replace her father. Her country has a small technology faction, but it is following the agreement that prohibited its re-development. The second volume, Suspected. Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015, complicates the personal relations but focuses on conflict between the country the girl leads and its neighbor, which is much more authoritarian than hers and is developing the outlawed technology and planning for war. In the third volume, Perfected: Book 3 of The Elected Series. Washington, DC: Silence in the Library, 2015, the countries are no longer as isolated from each other and gradually come to cooperate and begin to repair the environment. A prequel, “The Pendant.” Illus. Ginger Breo was published in Athena’s Daughters Volume 2 (Salt Lake City, UT: Silence in the Library, 2015), 193-203 with and “Author’s Note” on 202-03 and as an ebook with the subtitle A Short Story from the World of the Elected Series explains how the girl became the heir.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Empty Pocket” - Seth Cadin (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia and a young woman’s successful journey through the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the one functioning entertainment company.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Energized - Edward M. Lerner (b. 1949) (Tor, 2012)
Science fiction novel set in a dystopia brought about be severe energy shortage. The novel focuses on capturing an asteroid to mine it to replace the depleted energy sources of Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Erasing Time - [Janette] [Rallison] (b. 1966) (Katherine Tegen Books, 2012)
Young adult dystopia about time travel and the struggle to keep the dystopian regime from using the time machine.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Eric and Pan” - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Young adult dystopia with constant surveillance and severe punishment for minor infractions of the rules. The story focuses on two boys and their escape to where their love will be acceptable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Escape to Freedom. Book One of the Freedom Redux Series - A. J. Reissig (b. 1973) (Freedom Notes Press, 2012)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. with the President intent on ruling the world. First volume of an intended series, but no further volumes have been published. This volume just gets to the beginnings of the development of an opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Essential Liberty. A Thriller - Rob Olive (Author, 2012)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the U.S. government bans and tries to confiscate firearms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Everything Is Broken - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Prime Books, 2012)
The novel is mostly about the effects of a tsunami on the people of the West Coast of California, but one focus is a small town called Freedom that has cut itself off from all contact with governmental authorities, which was supposed to be eutopian but seems rather dystopian when faced with a disaster.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Exile - Banerjee, Neelanjana (Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired to the Ramayana, 2012)
The story is set in a post-catastrophe Las Vegas in a world where India is the dominant economic force, and Indians stuck in the U.S. are desperate to get permission to immigrate to India.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Feathers on Wings of Love and Hate: Let the Gun Speak - John Grit (CreateSpace, 2012)
Dystopia in which world government, cooperating with an authoritarian U.S. government, eliminate civil rights in the U.S. The novel focuses on two individuals whose families have been murdered by the government, who fight back. A sequel is Feathers on Wings of Love and Hate 2: Call Me Timucua 2nd ed. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012, in which the resistance expands and is ultimately successful.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Foundlings - Diana Peterfreund (b. 1979) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which a concern for unborn children has led to an authoritarian program to monitor all girls who might get pregnant and control of them if they did.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Freakling - Lana Krumwiede (Candlewick Press, 2012)
Young adult dystopia depicting a society where being different is unacceptable. First volume of a trilogy. The middle volume, Archon. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2013, continues the story of one of the protagonists. The third volume is True Son. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2015 in which a final battle is fought.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Free Radicals: A Novel of Utopia and Dystopia - [Chaz (Charles)] [Bufe]; [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (See Sharp Press, 2012)
The novel begins on a run down, violent Earth, moves to an even worse prison planet, and ends with an anarchist community that the author says is based on the German Zegg community.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Gaiastan - Troy J. Grice (CreateSpace, 2012)
Authoritarian, hierarchical (Overmen and Undermen) dystopia with Undermen enslaved. The novel ends with the development of a resistance movement.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Glitch - Heather Anastasiu (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which everyone is implanted with a chip that eliminates destructive emotions. First volume of a trilogy followed by Override. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, which focuses on the development of a resistance movement; and Shutdown. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, which deals with the overthrow of the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Going Home - A[ngery] American [pseud.] (Plume, 2012)
First volume of a survivalist dystopia series. Followed by Surviving Home. New York: Plume, 2013; and Escaping Home. Book 3 of the Survivalist Series. New York: Plume, 2013, in which they fight the U.S government, which is establishing relocation camps, to stay in their homes; and Forsaking Home. A Novel. Book 4 of the Survivalist Series. New York Plume, 2014, in which the protagonist plots to bring down the entire system. See also 2016 American and Hopf.
Keywords: US author

“Good Girl” - Malinda Lo (Diverse Engines, 2012)
Dystopia with people living in tunnels in cities. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Good Intentions. A Novel - Zeidman, Bob (Swiss Creek Publications, 2012)
Satire depicting a future dystopian U.S. of complete government control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Grid City Overload - Steven T. Bramble (CreateSpace, 2012)
Dystopia set in Grid City, CO in 2025 stressing the negative effects of technology and the problems of sensory overload. Additional material is available at http://gridcityoverload.blogspot.com/
Keywords: Male author; US author

Harvesting Ashwood: Minnesota 2037 - Cynthia Kraack (North Star Press of St. Cloud, 2012)
Sequel to 2010 Kraack. In this volume, protagonists of the first volume are successful in reviving the fortunes of Ashwood, and the U.S. goes through a scandal around surrogacy. See also 2014 Kraack.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hidden Ribbon" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
The setting for the story is a dystopia in which the poor live at the top of buildings with constant violence and the rich live in enclosed domes in the hills.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"High Stakes" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2012)
Sequel to 2012 Kritzer, “Liberty’s Daughter” about the making of a film, “High Stakes, on the seastead and the experiences of the protagonist of the first story as she learns more about the problems there. See also 2013 and 2014 Kritzer and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

High-Opp - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) (WordFire Press, 2012)
Dystopia of a society using manipulated public opinion polls to place people in one of the two statuses available, the Labor pool at the bottom and the "High-Opps" at the top. The novel follows one man from the High-Opps to the Labor Pool through a revolution.. First publication of an early novel by the author of the Dune series.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"How Th'irth Wint Rong by Hapless Joey @ homeskool.gov" - Gregory Maguire (b. 1954) (After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, 2012)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Immobility - Brian [Keith] Evenson (b. 1966) (Tor Books, 2012)
Post-apocalyptic novel set after an unspecified Kollaps in which almost every living thing on Earth is killed. The story is told by a man who had been in suspended animation for a long time, who is paralyzed from the waist down but goes on a quest, carried by two men, to find and steal an important cylinder.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“In the Clearing” - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Young adult dystopia in which all people are drugged through their food. There is a small community of people who have escaped, and the story focuses on the relationship between a boy from the outside and a girl from inside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“In Which Dimitri Returns the Elgin Marbles” - Kenneback, Paul (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 2012)
Dystopia in which there is an authoritarian New Government that, for example, chooses people’s occupations for them
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ink - Sabrina Vourvoulias (Crossed Genres Publications, 2012)
In the future immigrants have their status permanently tattooed on their wrists. A prequel that focusses on the protagonist is “The Memory of Chemistry,” Fantasy, no. 81 (July 2022). https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/the-memory-of-chemistry/ with an Author Spotlight at https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/non-fiction/author-spotlights/author-spotlight-sabrina-vourvoulias/ that includes discussion of the story’s relationship to her Ink.
Rpt. Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018, with an Introduction by Kathleen Alcalá. 465 pp.
Keywords: Female author; Latina author; US author

The Last Diplomat - Don [F.] Marrs (Don F. Marrs, 2012)
Dystopia in which nuclear weapons are detonated in U.S. cities and China invades.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Judgment" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2012)
This is framed as a detective story in a future in which aliens have removed all men from the planet and women are struggling to adjust. Some of the aliens are having second thoughts, but this theme is not developed. His “Men Are Trouble.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 28.6 (341) (June 2004): 104-35 is set in the same future and has the same protagonist, Fay Hardaway, a private detective. Compare to Philip Wylie, The Disappearance (1951).
Rpt. in his The Promise of Space and Other Stories ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 300-75.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Liberty Gulch: Part One - A. G. Fredericks (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia after the collapse of the U.S. economy and the government of what it calls large farms and food camps that are in fact concentration camps. Continued in his Liberty Rekindled. Part Two. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2013], in which a small group at one of the camps tries to reestablish some liberty.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Liberty's Daughter" - Kritzer, Naomi (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2012)
Flawed libertarian utopia that has indentured labor and is much more authoritarian than it pretends to be. It is a seastead, a set of man-made islands off the west coast of the U.S. See also 2012 Kiritzer, “High Stakes,” 2013 and 2014 Kritzer, and 2015 Kritzer (2).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“LIMBs” - Julia Elliott (b. 1968) (Tin House, 2012)
A dystopia of growing old in the future. The story is set in an old age home where the residents are being used to test high-tech ways of improving their ability to think and remember as well as to move around.
Rpt. without the illus. in her The Wilds: Stories (Portland, OR/Brooklyn, NY: Tin House, 2014), 45-74; and in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 59-77.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Looking Backward: 2162-2012: A View from a Future Libertarian Republic - Beth Cody ([CreateSpace], 2012)
Libertarian eutopia in which the U.S. has been reorganized into a number of independent nations with a focus on the Free States of America located in the middle west and mountain region. Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy lives there.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Lost Code. Book One of the Atlanteans - Emerson, Kevin (Katherine Tegen Books, 2012)
Young adult dystopia set on an Earth that continues to damage its environment. The protagonist is a descendent of Atlantis, which had done the same, and is searching for the code that would help him reverse the process. First volume in a series followed by The Dark Shore. Book Two of the Atlanteans. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2013 is a typical middle volume in which everything gets worse; and The Far Dawn. Book Three of the Atlanteans. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014 resolves the issues raised in the previous volumes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lost Everything - Brian Francis Slattery (b. 1975) (Tor, 2012)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which war has ravaged the countryside along the Susquehanna River and individuals are struggling to survive and reconnect.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Match Made in Heaven - Randy Attwood (2012)
Mormons on the planet Moroni where they had moved 285 years earlier to avoid Earth laws, with the Equal Rights Amendment given as an example. Genetic manipulation allowed them to breed cattle the size of the extinct Earth elephants, and the meat was their main export. All men eighteen to twenty were required to work in the slaughterhouses. Practiced polygamy. Men are required to find a wife from off-planet to enlarge the gene pool. Most buy wives from a planet with slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mirage - Matt[hew Theron] Theron] Ruff (b. 1965) (Harper, 2012)
Dystopian alternative history in which U.S. Christian fundamentalists attack the Tigris and Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Next Door" - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) (Diverse Energies, 2012)
Dystopia in which most people are homeless and living in garages and other places not suitable for human life. Gay male themes.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

The Not Yet - Moira Crone (b. 1952) (University of New Orleans Press, 2012)
Dystopia of the division between the long-lived and those trying to become the long-lived.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Now Purple with Love’s Wound" - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) (Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire, 2012)
Dystopia in which girls are injected with a serum that makes them love the boy who claims them for marriage.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Paths to Utopia” - Milstein, Cindy; Erik Ruin (b. 1978) (Paths Toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism, 2012)
Words by Milstein and illustrations by Ruin that suggest various activities that individuals and groups can undertake to bring about a better society. Some of the other stories focus on specific things that could or have done.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Patriot Dawn: The Resistance Rises - [Max] [Alexander] (CreateSpace, 2012)
Survivalist dystopia after the development of an authoritarian regime in the U.S. The novel was written to accompany his Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival. 2nd ed. rev. and exp. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2012. A sequel under the author’s name is Patriot Rising: The Unbroken. 2nd ed. [No indication of a 1st ed.]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2015, with a “Glossary” on pp. 407-09. In this volume there is a civil war in the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Patriots of Treason. A Novel - David Thomas Roberts ([AKA yoLa], 2012)
Dystopia in which the State of Texas defends freedom, and the Tea Party in particular, against a corrupt and authoritarian government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Pattern Recognition.” - Ken Liu (b. 1976) (Diverse Energies, 2012)
Dystopia in which small children from the slums of various countries are bought from their parents and raised in a completely closed and regulated environment where they are trained in pattern recognition skills with the results sold to large corporations.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author; US author