Vienna Blood - Adrian Mathews (b. 1957) (Jonathan Cape, 1999)
Murder mystery set in a technologically advanced, mildly dystopian 2026 Vienna.
Rpt. London: Vintage, 2000.
Keywords: English author; French author; Male author

White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017); Roger Penrose (b. 1931) (Little, Brown, 1999)
Detailed eutopia in creation on Mars including the presentation of alternative points-of-view. A sub-theme is the initial identification of an alien life form..
Keywords: English author; Male author

"17" - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 1998)
Dystopia set in a destroyed future worlds with people struggling to survive salvaging toxic wastes and a young woman’s struggle to get out.
Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 211-24 with an author’s note on 429-30.
Keywords: English author; Male author

51st State - Peter Preston (1938-2018) (Viking, 1998)
A rather unlikely political novel by the long-time Editor of The Guardian in which England joins the United States as the 51st state.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Against the Day - Michael Cronin (b. 1942) (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Young Adult dystopia of a Nazi occupied Britain and the struggle against it. Sequels include Through the Night. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002; and In the Morning. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“All the Birds of Hell” - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1998)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia brought on by a new ice age.
Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 209-32.
Keywords: English author; Female author

A Chance of Safety - Henrietta [Diana Primrose Longstaff] Branford (1946-99) (Hodder Children's Books, 1998)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between the rich and the poor. Children escape to a more primitive society which is set to replace the dystopia.
Keywords: English author

Computopia - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks, 1998)
The setting for the novel is a high tech eutopia that has solved the Earth’s environmental problems, but the action of the novel focuses on a man who tries to use the web to gain power. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1997 Brown, Untouchable. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997), Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999).
Rpt. in Web 2028 (London: Millennium, 1999), 219-324.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cythera - Richard Calder (b. 1955) (Orbit, 1998)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

England, England - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) (Jonathan Cape, 1998)
Satire. An England theme park is built on the Isle of Wight with all of the attractions of England available. It becomes an independent state, and England collapses into a medieval society called Anglia that can be read as eutopian or dystopian.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hex - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1998)
Young adult dystopia where some people are genetically modified to have direct access to all computers, which gives them immense power. See also 1998 and 2000 Lassiter. The three volumes have been published together as Void (2011).
Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 1-240.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Ice People - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) (Richard Cohen Books, 1998)
Post-catastrophe dystopia. Depicts the collapse of civilization as a new ice age takes hold. Various dystopian scenarios develop in the process.
Rev. <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>: Telegram Books, 2008.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Inherit the Earth - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 1998)
Background to a complex adventure is a society the people call the New Utopia. A post-catastrophe society which has extended life spans significantly and in which most people are fairly well off, but in which there is still poverty and life-extension is expensive. See also 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford (2).
A different, shorter version originally published as "Inherit the Earth" Analog Science Fiction and Fact 115.8 & 9 (July 1995): 122-75.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Off the Road - Nina Bawden (1925-2012) (Hamish Hamilton, 1998)
Young adult novel set in 2040 contrasting a highly organized, sterile, supposed eutopia with largely traditional country life. Country life is marred by wandering gangs; the eutopia is based on regulating consumption by removing all to Nostalgia homes at age 65.
U.S. ed. New York: Clarion Books, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Pesthouse - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). (Picador, 1998)
Post-catastrophe dystopia that includes a religious intentional community called The Blessed Ark.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2007.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Psylicon Beach - Philip Gross (b. 1952) (Scholastic Press, 1998)
Dystopia stressing pollution, poverty versus wealth, and corrupt authority. Described as for Young Adults.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tea From An Empty Cup - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (HarperCollins, 1998)
Cyberpunk dystopia. See also 2000 Cadigan.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

ThigMOO - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
A satirical take on university life and technology in which faculty and students at a third-rate British university establish a Museum of the Mind online by creating fictional electronic characters with the histories and personalities of characters from the past. The escape from the Museum and go through many battles among themselves but ultimately produce a socialist eutopia.
U,K. ed. London: Earthlight, 1999. Part originally published as "ThigMOO." Interzone, no. 120 (June 1997): 40-51.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"Tough Girls Don't Dream" - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) (The New Yorker, 1998)
Dystopia of a world where sleep is illegal.
Rpt. as "Disappearance I." In The World and Other Places (London: Jonathan Cape, 1998), 101-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 101-15.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Trajectories - Julian Rathbone (1935-2008) (Victor Gollancz, 1998)
Dystopia. Britain has collapsed into various small city-states of various sizes. The largest, centered on Birmingham, is essentially governed by a secret service. The rich live in enclaves which they rarely if ever leave. The poor, many suffering from radiation sickness, are kept under control by a powerful police force.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Truth About Weena" - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) (Dreaming Down-Under, 1998)
On a different time line from that described in 1895 Wells, the Eloi woman Weena is brought back from the future and becomes a political activist, leading to a better society. See 1977 Lake and the note there.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Indian author; Male author

“After Henderson” - David Gullen (Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland), 1997)
Dystopia of war among the parts of the previous United Kingdom.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

Back in the USSA - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959); Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) (Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997)
Alternative history. United States had a Communist revolution and formed the United Socialist States of America; Russia had no such revolution.
Parts published as "In the Air" [Cover adds "In Al Capone's Communist America"]. Interzone, no. 43 (January 1991): 6-30; "Ten Days That Shook the World." Interzone, no. 48 (June 1991): 48-63; "Tom Joad." Interzone, no. 65 (November 1992): 6-21; and "Teddy Bears' Picnic." Interzone, nos. 122 - 123 (August - September 1997): 6-21; 36-51.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"Glass Earth, Inc." - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) (Future Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications, 1997)
Flawed utopia in which a murder is committed in a London in which it is possible for the police to view the incident as it was happening and from all angles.
Rpt. in his Phase Space (London: HarperCollins/Voyager, 2002), 48-69.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Gulliverzone - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) (Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks, 1997)
GulliverZone is a virtual reality theme park based on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and, on World Peace Day, it is freely open to everyone, even children. But GulliverZone is a dystopia with real Lilliputians being dominated by an evil woman.
Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 1-102.
Keywords: English author; Male author

K - [Denis M.] [MacEoin] (b. 1949) (HarperCollins, 1997)
Dystopia of the Ku Klux Klan, called the Aryan Alliance, in power in the U.S. Extremely violent against African Americans, Jews, and all dissidents. The novel focuses on the successful resistance to the regime.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

No Man's Land - Barry England (1932-2009) (Jonathan Cape, 1997)
Dystopia. Violent struggle to survive by a small group of people after the collapse of civilization.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Novel of Queen the Eye - Paul Darrow (b. 1941) (Boxtree, 1997)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Based on the computer game "Queen the Eye."
Keywords: English author; Male author

Nymphomation - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) (Doubleday, 1997)
Dystopian future society focused on a lottery that is controlled and manipulated by a corporation.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Scientific Romance - Ronald Wright (b. 1948) (Transworld, 1997)
A man uses the time machine from 1895 Wells to visit the future and arrives in a future that the author entitles "After London" following 1885 Jefferies. This future appears to be completely without humans until the protagonist reaches Scotland where there are a few survivors.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author

Transmetropolitan - Warren G[irard] Ellis (b. 1968); Darick W. Robertson (b. 1967) (DC Comics, 1997)
Graphic novel set in a violent, corrupt dystopia and the fight against it.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Untouchable - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks, 1997)
This short novel includes two dystopias. The first is a version of contemporary India from the perspective of a Dalit (Untouchable) girl. The second is a version of virtual reality where children kidnapped from the streets of Delhi. But within virtual reality there are also eutopian spaces where the girl is treated as an equal. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1998 Lovegrove. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997), Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999).
Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 195-285.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

'48 - James [John] Herbert (1943-2013) (HarperCollins, 1996)
The novel is set in an alternative history dystopia in which, just as he was being defeated, Hitler fired rockets into London containing deadly diseases that wipes out much of the world’s population. The focus is on one of the few healthy survivors who is being sought so his blood can be used to cure the leader of the local Blackshirts.
Rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Babel Tower - A[ntonia] S[usan] Byatt ( 1936-2023) (Chatto & Windus, 1996)
The third volume of a family history begun in The Virgin in the Garden. London: Chatto & Windus, 1978 and continued in Still Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 1985. The series is concluded in A Whistling Woman. London: Chatto and Windus, 2002. This volume contains a novel within the novel by one of the characters about the establishment and history of an attempt to establish a utopia.
Rpt. London: Vintage, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Beach - Alex[ander Medawar] Garland (b. 1970) (Viking, 1996)
Idyllic life on an isolated beach in Thailand contrasted with the dystopian realities of contemporary life in the area.
U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Building Babel - Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941) (Spinifex Press, 1996)
Feminist fairy tale in which a number of women from fables and fairy tales build various versions of Babel. Throughout, but particularly at the end, a variety of utopian motifs are employed.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; Indian author

“Downtime With the Virtual Dead” - Mike O’Driscoll (Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland), 1996)
Cyberpunk set in a future dystopian Europe under the rule of a degenerate Islam.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dream-Weaver - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (Clarion Books, 1996)
Young adult novel set as colonists from Earth prepare to land on a planet inhabited by people with what appears to be little technology. But the people of the planet have mental powers that allow contact to be made with a member of the Earth crew who comes to see the low-tech planet in eutopian terms.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

Fremder - Russell [Conwell] Hoban (1925-2011) (Jonathan Cape, 1996)
Complex novel of personal identity with a dystopian background.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Higher Education. A Jupiter™ Novel - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017); Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) (Tor, 1996)
World divided into the very rich and the very poor. Right wing take on problems of U.S.
Includes material first published in Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 227-94. Rpt. rev. in How To Save the World. Ed. Charles Sheffield (New York: Tor, 1995), 275-346; and as “Higher Education.” Illus. George H. Krauter. Analog Science Fiction and Fact 116.3 - 6 (February - May 1996): 12-16, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30-32, 34-36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-48, 50-60; 108-144, 104-144, 102-122.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Keepers - Pauline Kirk (Virago, 1996)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a future England.
Keywords: English author; Female author

A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 4: The Burning Forest - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Gollancz, 1996)
The fourth volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1995 Mann. In this volume, <st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city> decides to burn the British forests to use the land for agriculture and a struggle between rational, scientific, technological <st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city> and the myth-based British ensues.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Making History - Stephen [John] Fry (b. 1957) (Hutchinson, 1996)
Alternative history with various dystopias.
Rpt. London: Arrow Books, 2004. U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Paths to Otherwhere - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Baen, 1996)
Dystopia of totalitarian states with a wide variety of alternative futures available.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

Protektor - Charles Platt (b. 1945) (Avon Books, 1996)
Future computer controlled eutopia that develops flaws.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Spares - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) (HarperCollins, 1996)
Post-catastrophe dystopian thriller about people bred as "spares."
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Age of Innocence" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1995)
Dystopia. With longevity greatly increased, the old become infantile and must be cared for by the young.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Blasted" - Sarah Kane (1971-1999) (Frontline Intelligence 2: New Plays for the Nineties, 1995)
The play, which was almost universally panned when first performed, is now considered to have been an important contribution to British theatre. It begins with a man and a much younger woman entering an expensive hotel room in Leeds. Over five scenes a soldier enters the room, the woman has escaped through the bathroom, the room is hit by a mortar bomb, the soldier rapes and blinds the man and later commits suicide, and much more violence follows. It was first performed at the Royal Court Upstairs, London, January 12, 1995. Significant revivals and restagings too place at the Royal Court Downstairs in 2001, the Queen’s Hotel in Leeds in 2008, the Soho Rep in New York City in 2008, the Lyric Hammersmith in London in 2010, and the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 2015.
Rpt. in Blasted and Phaedra’s Love (London: Methuen Drama, 1996), 1-58; in her Complete Plays: Blasted Phaedra’s Love Cleansed Crave 4.48 Psychosis Skin (London: Methuen Drama, 2001), 1-61. This version of the play incorporates revisions made shortly before the author’s death. Published separately as Blasted. London: Methuen Drama, 2002.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Comedy of Ideas - Steven Lukes (b. 1941) (Verso, 1995)
A modern version of Voltaire's (1694-1778) Candide ou, L'Optimisme (1759) by a U.K. political theorist.
2nd ed. [Cover says exp. new ed. but the only additions appear to be an "Introduction" (vii-ix) and "Further Readings" (261-62)] as The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Novel of Ideas. London: Verso, 2009. Includes an Errata slip.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fairyland - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (VGSF, 1995)
Future society divided into rich (based on advanced technology) and extremely poor.
Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2007; and London: Victor Gollancz, 2015 with an “Introduction” by Stephen Baxter (v-vii). U.S. ed. New York: Avon, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hotwire - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) (HarperCollins, 1995)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Land Fit for Heroes Book 3: The Dragon Wakes - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Gollancz, 1995)
The third volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mann. In this volume,  Rome  is preparing to conquer those parts of  Britain  it does not control.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Mink! - Peter Chippindale (1945-2014) (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Mink organize to escape from a mink farm while the “Concerned Woodland Guardians,” which is led by rabbits is trying to protect their habitat. When the mink escape, they prey on the other woodland animals until the two groups have to combine to fend off the more dangerous humans.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Out of Touch" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1995)
Immortality and the problems of those not qualifying. The focus of the story of a man who was born to early, but mention is made of people from the Third World and others who were not eligible for the treatment. The immortals live in a high tech eutopia that for most is an enclosed virtual world.
Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 33-61 with a note on 33-34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Playing the Game - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (HarperCollins, 1995)
Graphic novel depicting an urban dystopia and attempts to escape it.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Slow River - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) (Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1995)
The novel is set in a future with a deep rich-poor divide and focuses on a woman from the top who is stripped of her identity and her adjustment to living at the bottom.
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Thief! - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) (Doubleday, 1995)
Young adult dystopia in which a young girl is falsely accused of being a thief and, running away, is caught in a storm that projects her into her town’s dystopian future where she meets her classmates now middle aged.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Time Ships - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) (HarperCollins, 1995)
Authorized sequel to Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) with the one branch of the Morlocks an advanced eutopian race and the Eloi depend on them for their food and clothing. The Time Traveler saves Weena from being killed, as she was in the original novel, and encourages the Eloi to become independent of the Morlocks. A variety of alternative futures are described. There are many references to works of Wells throughout the text.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Arts & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) (Jonathan Cape, 1994)
The novel is set in a vaguely dystopian future.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Crime Studio - Steve Aylett (b. 1967) (Serif, 1994)
The first of several volumes and stories set in the dystopian city Beerlight. See also his Slaughtermatic. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows/London: Phoenix House, 1998; and Atom. London: Phoenix House, 2000. U.S. ed. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Additional stories are “The Siri Gun.” Crime Time England (1999); rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 45-52; “Shifa.” BritPulp. Ed. Tony White (London: Sceptre, 1999), 105-10. Rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 42-45; and “Fiasco.” Why2K: Anthology for a New Era. Ed. Stephen Howard (London: Booth Clibborn Editions, 2000); rpt in his Toxicology (London: Gollancz, 2001), 102-05. L, O
U.S. ed. New York: Fall Walls Eight Windows, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Disinherited - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (The Bodley Head Children's Books, 1994)
Begins with a dystopia of poverty and violence with rigid class divisions in Wales. Ends with the beginnings of a rural utopian community. Classified as Young Adult.
U.S. ed. as The Patchwork People. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

Eat Reecebread" - Graham Joyce (1954-2014); Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia depicting the prejudiced response against a growing number of hermaphrodites.
Rpt. in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 177-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020); Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017); Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) (William Morrow, 1994)
Dystopia but with some hope of improvement. A future world deeply divided between the rich and the poor but with positive change taking place.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"Golden Swan" - Leigh Kennedy (b. 1951) (Interzone, 1994)
World with few children and its effects.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"Jazamine in the Green Wood" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 1994)
Women dominant portrayed as a dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Justice City - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Victor Gollancz, 1994)
Thriller set in a dystopian penal system of the future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 2: Stand Alone Stan - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Gollancz, 1994)
The second volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1993, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, the three young Romans are forced to flee the security of the village in the forests where they found refuge in the first volume.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

No Retreat - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
Alternative history dystopia in which Nazis rule Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Only Forward - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) (HarperCollins, 1994)
Surreal dystopia set in a U.K. that is a sprawl of neighborhoods composing the City, which covers the entire country. Each neighborhood is inhabited by a different group of people. Considerable conflict among the groups. Some are eutopian, some dystopian, and some just very odd. Mostly adventure.
Rpt. London: HarperCollins, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 2000; and Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2002.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Professionals" - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia of corporate dominance.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rama Revealed - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008); [Bert] Gentry Lee (b. 1942) (Bantam Books, 1994)
Dystopia. Inside an alien artifact traveling through space, humans intending to create a good society actually create a dictatorship. Ultimately this is overcome. This is the last volume of the co-authored trilogy, although written mostly by Lee, and follows Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama. London Gollacnz, 1973; Collector’s Edition illus. Bob Eggleton with an “Introduction” by George Zebrowski (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. The other volumes are Rama II. London Gollancz, 1989 and The Garden of Rama. London: Gollancz, 1991, which includes, in the second half, anti-utopianism typical of Clarke’s work. In addition, Lee wrote Bright Messengers. New York: Bantam Books, 1995, which is set before Rama II.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Skriker - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) (Nick Hern, 1994)
Dystopian fantasy which includes a polluted underground.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Slow News Day" - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia in which  Germany  won World War II, and there is a Fascist  Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Supremacist" - Damien Jones; Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) (Revelation Magazine (Perth, WA, Australia), 1994)
Future dystopia of violence. The rich live high in buildings above the extreme pollution found at street level. The poor live violent lives but are also preyed upon by the rich for sadistic entertainment.
Rpt. in Paul [A.] Collins. The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 149-62.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

The Wallace Report - Roy V[ictor] Wallace (1927-2017) (Down to Earth, 1994)
Pamphlet outlining a eutopia based around small communities. See also 1980 Wallace.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Ammonite - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) (Ballantine Books, 1993)
Complex novel set on a fairly primitive planet inhabited only by women that includes a lesbian, feminist eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Baby and Fly Pie - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) (Anderson Press, 1993)
Young adult future dystopia of extreme poverty.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Freedom Convoy - Chola Mahes (Dorrance Publishing Co., 1993)
Post-catastrophe (nuclear war initiated by the U.S. against Iran) survivors searching for a better life while crossing the country. Mostly dystopian with a stress on violence. There is a Glossary of the terms used in the book (266-74).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Iron Woman - Ted [Edward James] Hughes (1930-98) (Faber and Faber, 1993)
Anti-pollution story with a eutopian ending. Sequel to 1968 Hughes.
Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 1: Escape to the Wild Wood - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Victor Gollancz, 1993)
The first volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1994, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, three young Romans flee to the forests and discover the older Britain. The novel stresses the cold rationality of the Romans in contrast to the more feeling British. See the note at 1982 Mann.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

A Machynlleth Triad/Triawd Machynlleth - Jan Morris (1926-2020) (Gwasg Gregynog, 1993)
The book is divided into three parts, The Past: Y Gorfennol, The Present: Y Presennol, and The Future: Y Dyfodol, with the English and Welsh reversed in the part titles in the Welsh half of the book, with all three in the town of Machynlleth. The past is the early fifteenth century, the present is 1993, and the future is sometime in the first half of the twenty-first century in which Machynlleth is the capital of an independent Welsh republic within the European Confederation and a founding member of the League of Neutrals. The future Wales is a utopia, albeit not without problems, based on the “Principle of Simplicity” or “Egwyddor Symlrwydd,” “a commitment to restraint in all things” (64), which is enshrined in the constitution. The section on the future is present as a tour and description of Machynlleth Triad of the Saint David’s Day or Republic Day when Wales is celebrating twenty-five years of independence.
Rpt. with the Welsh text. New York/London: Viking, 1994; and London: Penguin, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author; Welsh author

Mindstar Rising - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Pan, 1993)
Dystopia of global warming and corporate domination.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Nomansland - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Victor Gollancz, 1993)
Dystopia--a society which is getting rid of men by ensuring that there are no boy babies.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Rose on the Ash-Heap" - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) (A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield, 1993)
Dystopia of control through providing people with bread and circuses.
Keywords: English author

Sing the Body Electric: A Novel in Five Movements - Adam Lively (b. 1961) (Chatto & Windus, 1993)
Novel set in a future that has tried to create enclaves that incorporate past ways of life. Part of the novel reads as if it were set in one of those pasts.
Keywords: English author

This Other Eden - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) (Simon & Schuster, 1993)
Humorous take on the end of the world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Vurt - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) (Ringpull Press, 1993)
Dystopia set in Manchester, England. Vurt is a drug that creates almost a virtual reality.
U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1995. 342 pp. 0517599910. Rpt. as the 30th anniversary edition. London: Angry Robot/Watkins Media Ltd, 2023, with an Introduction by Adam Roberts (9-13) and an Afterword by Jeff Noon (373-375). 375 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Welfare Man" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 1993)
Class-based dystopia with welfare recipients walled off from the others.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Another World - Elaine O'Reilly (b. 1942) (Addison Wesley Longman, 1992)
Children’s flawed utopia. A reader designed for beginners set in the underground Eden City, where everyone has a number, is under twenty-five, and the law requires that everyone be very happy. As a test of his suitability for leadership, one man is introduced to the contrasting real world of dirt, aging, and poverty. While it is not explained, at twenty-five everyone enters the Long Dream, although the last line of the text suggests it may be yet another world.
New ed. Harlow, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000. 44 pp. Rpt. Harlow, Eng.: Penguin Education, 2007. 44 pp. The new ed. has a CD.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Arcadia - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). (Jonathan Cape, 1992)
A wealthy man decides to replace a local marketplace with Arcadia, described as a modern utopia of glass and greenery. He succeeds. Set in the future.
Rpt. London: Penguin, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Brother to Dragons - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) (Baen, 1992)
Future dystopia. Extreme class differences with a powerful elite. Serious environmental problems.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Careperson" - Graham Joyce (1954-2014) (Interzone, 1992)
Social work, now called “care work” “because nobody cares” (39), in a dystopian future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Children of Men - P[hyllis] D[orothy] James (1920-2014) (Faber & Faber, 1992)
Dystopia. No children are born and the population ages. A Warden and Council establish an authoritarian government, kill off the incompetent, establish the Isle of Man as a prison camp, and treat refugees from other countries as slaves. At the end of the novel the Warden is killed, and a baby is born.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Come Lucky April - Jean [Neville] Ure (b. 1943) (Methuen Children's Books, 1992)
One hundred years after the plague described in her Plague 99. London: Methuen Teens, 1989. Rpt. London: Octopus, 1989; London: Teens Mandarin, 1991; and Oxford: Heinemann New Windmills, 1993. U.S. ed as Plague. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Contrasts two societies, one dominated by men and identified with the problems of the past and one in which women hold power and male aggression has been eliminated. While the latter is generally better than the former, it is still trying to find the right balance. The struggle to reunite the communities is described in her Watchers at the Shrine. London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1994.
Rpt. as After the Plague. London: Teens Mandarin, 1993; and London: Mammoth, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Dead Girls - Richard Calder (b. 1955) (HarperCollins, 1992)
Cyberpunk dystopia. Continued in his Dead Boys.  London : HarperCollins, 1994; and Dead Things.  London : HarperCollins, 1996.
Rpt. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Graphic novel ed. by Calder with Pencils, Colours & letters by Leonardo M. Girton as The Dead Girls: The Graphic Novel. [UK]: The House of Murky Depths, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ecotopia Revisited" - Peter H. Marshall (b. 1946) (Nature's Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking, 1992)
Nonfiction description of an ecological society.
Rpt. as Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth (New York: Paragon House, 1994), 448-63.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fatherland - Robert [Dennis] Harris (b. 1957) (Hutchinson, 1992)
Dystopia. Hitler won.
Rpt. as the 20th Anniversary Edition. London: Arrow Books, 2012 with “Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition of Fatherland” by the author (xi-xvi).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fools - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Cyberpunk dystopia with people able to create new personalities for both themselves and others and others stealing memories.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"Fragment from the Future" - Barbara Goodwin (b. 1946) (Justice by Lottery, 1992)
Introductory chapter to a treatise in political theory that presents a eutopian society in which all major decisions are made by lot. The author is a well-known scholar of utopian social theory and uses many examples from utopian literature throughout the book.
2nd ed. (Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 2005), 3-28.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Galax-Arena - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) (Hyland House, 1992)
Dystopia in which children are kidnapped by aliens to entertain them by doing dangerous acts. Some hope held out as the children begin to cooperate with each other. See also her 2001 Terra Farma.
Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin Books, 1994. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1993. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995. Rev. ed. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin Books, 2001.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

"Horse Meat" - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Interzone, 1992)
Violent dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Multiplex Man - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Anti-technology dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

A Place to Scream - Jean [Neville] Ure (b. 1943) (Doubleday, 1992)
Young adult dystopia set in 2015 in which the stress of making a living means that the elderly are dumped on the highway because they are too expensive to keep, teenage beggars crowd the streets, and unemployment is standard. The protagonist is a sixteen year old girl who has a job and a home but dreams of a better life for herself and her sick grandfather.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Queen and I - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) (Methuen, 1992)
Satire. The U.K. becomes a republic, and the Queen is given a pensioner's flat where she lives with her family. See also 2006 Townsend.
Part republished as The Queen in Hell Close. London: Penguin, 2005. Theatre version as The Queen and I: The Play With Songs. London: Methuen Drama in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 1994 [Songs by Ian Dury and Mickey Gallagher]. Rev. and re-written as The Queen and I: A Play. London: Samuel French, 1996.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Resurrections From the Dustbin of History. A Political Fantasy - Simon Louvish (b. 1947) (Bloomsbury, 1992)
Alternative history dystopia beginning in 1968 when Leon Trotsky, who has led the U.S.S.R. for forty-four years, dies. Benito Mussolini still rules Italy, and Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are U.S. politicians. Racial conflict in the U.S.
U.S. ed. as The Resurrections: A Novel. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

The Revengers - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Young adult post-nuclear catastrophe dystopian series focusing on the experiences five boys. Sequels include, in order, Beyond the Grave. London: Bantam, 1992; The Horned God. London: Bantam, 1992; and The Plague. London: Bantam, 1992.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Virtuous Reality" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Interzone, 1992)
Dystopia. Overpopulated world requiring licenses to have a child. Families tend to be eight to ten parents and one child. Man wants monogamy in a world of multiple partners both serially and living together at the same time. No passion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Invisible Country" - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology, 1991)
Dystopia of an extreme division between the rich and the poor where gangs run the poor areas and violence is common. A biological agent that makes people caring is spread around the world and the dystopia is being replaced with a better society.
Rpt. in his The Invisible Country (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996), 13-34, with an "Afterword" on 35.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Jago - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
Surrealistic dystopia with elements of a horror novel centered on a small religious community that is based on an actual English community, Agapemone (meaning the Abode of Love), established in England in the mid-nineteenth century whose last member died in the mid-twentieth century.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Journey South" - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Interzone, 1991)
Depopulated future and its problems and prophets. Appears to be eutopian but not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Maze of Stars - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ballantine Books, 1991)
Tour of worlds seeded by humans showing their development. Most are dystopian; a few have eutopian elements.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"SEAQ and Destroy." - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (There Won't Be War, 1991)
Humorous satire of a capitalist Cold War with Russian corporations attacking stock markets in London with the U.S. under President Michael Jackson (1958-2009) cooperating with the Russia capitalists to take over Europe.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Synners - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1991)
Cyberpunk dystopia with computer viruses and designer drugs. Synners are human synthesizers who take images from people’s brains and package them for consumption by others.
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1991. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1991. Chap. 14 was also published in The South Atlantic Quarterly 92.4 (Fall 1993): 669-80.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Beyond the Fall of Night - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008); Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990)
Sequel to 1953 Clarke, which is rpt. as the “Part I” (14-145). Part II (146-298), by Benford, is set far in the future where there are highly evolved beings, enhanced humans, and others at various stages of enhancement. Much of the story is about the reemergence of some who seek power over others and are willing to go to war to further their ambitions See the “Afterword” to 2004 Benford for the relationship among the three books.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Darcy's Utopia - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) (Collins, 1990)
The novel includes the description of a utopian vision of a “the multiracial, unicultural, secular society” (17).
Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1991.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Female author

Daz 4 Zoe - Robert [Edward] Swindells (b. 1939) (Hamish Hamilton, 1990)
A young adult dystopia in the near future in which society is divided into the affluent and the poor. Two teenagers bridge the gap and leave to find a better life.
Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: Pearson Education, 2000, with analysis and notes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Extraordinary Reign of King Ludd: An Historical Tease - [Ernest Michael] Roy Lewis (1913-96) (The Patten Press, 1990)
Satirical alternative history in which socialism won in the revolutions of 1848 followed, at the end of the novel, by a counter-revolution in the 1940s that establishes the rule of the market.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Furniture of Life’s Ambition” - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction, 1990)
Satire on a William Morris of the future who is bound to a company producing fact versions of food but then he establishes a firm to produce high-tech furniture.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Hope - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Macmillan, 1990)
A dystopia develops on a ship that was intended to take people to a new life, but which is still traveling after five years.
Rpt. London: Sceptre, 1991.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Inheritors” - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (Extinction is Forever, 1990)
The story is set in a future Wales experiencing the effects of climate change and with a failed economy and a non-functioning government. The story focuses on a small community that has become successfully self-supporting with the help of an astral being from another planet.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

Keepers of the Peace - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Victor Gollancz, 1990)
Much adventure but includes a dystopia of warring nations on a future Earth.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Land Beyond - Gill[ian] Alderman (b. 1941) (HarperCollins, 1990)
Anthropological science fiction presenting a remnant of the people of the far north who are kept in city in the ice working for their captives. The arrival of the Democratic Travelling Circus brings ferment.
Rpt. London: Grafton, 1992.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Mackenna’s Patch” - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (Extinction is Forever, 1990)
Dystopia with extreme rich versus poor divisions.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

Many Lives - [Claud] Geoffrey [Rowden] Chavasse (1920-1995) (Vantage Press, 1990)
Eutopia. Mostly romance and political novel but set in a future New Zealand of racial harmony and good Asian relations that is dealing successfully with its environmental problems.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

"A Matter of Survival" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 1990)
Separation of the sexes as dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Threads" - Barry Hines (1939-2016) (Threads and Other Sheffield Plays, 1990)
Dystopia depicting in detail the effects of nuclear war on Sheffield, England. The television film with a running time of 112 minutes was first broadcast on BBC 2 on September 23, 1984, produced and directed by Mick Jackson. It was nominated for five BAFTA awards and won five of them.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts - Louis De Bernières (b. 1954) (Martin Secker & Warburg, 1990)
Consistently listed as a utopia (e.g., DLC lists it as a utopia under subject), but no actual fictional utopia is described. A potentially eutopian community begins to emerge at the end of the novel, but it is not developed in any detail. His Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1991. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 and his The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1992. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 include some more mention of the potentially eutopian community. The dystopian reality of recent South American history is depicted.
Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998. U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Armageddon Crazy - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (del Rey, 1989)
Near future United States religious dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Children of the Thunder - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ballantine, 1989)
Dystopia with a low birthrate because most men are infertile, and the development of children with unusual talents who could lead to a solution.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Dream" - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) (A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, 1989)
In the story a man wakes up in a new version of Heaven where everyone gets the Heaven they want. The Old Heaven was found to be out of date, and Hell had never existed but been invented as a useful rhetorical device. Now Hell exists only for those who want it to exist and is an obvious fake. Bored after a few centuries of getting just what he wants, the man decides to want to dream that he wakes up alive again and does.
U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 279-307. Rpt. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 298-307.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The End of This Day's Business - Katharine Penelope [Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) (Feminist Press of the City University of New York, 1989)
Feminist eutopia. Sex role reversal, but more complex than most. Women in power and intelligent; men are strong, immature, and kept uneducated because male violence in the twentieth century brought about the situation that required the women to take power. One woman decides to tell her son why this situation came about.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"An Eye in Paradise" - John [Raymond] Brosnan (1947-2005) (Interzone (Brighton, Eng.), 1989)
World divided between the extremely rich who can create their own eutopias and the poor who live in a polluted, overpopulated world with rampant inflation.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Free Zone: Volume One of the Epic Unilogy - Charles Platt (b. 1945) (Avon Books, 1989)
Complex, humorous eutopia and dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Island Paradise - Kathy Page (b. 1958) (Methuen, 1989)
A future in which war has been averted, rigid controls on population growth have been put in place, and people are required to die on schedule.
Rpt. London: Minerva, 1990. The chapter entitled "The Lens" was originally published as "From Two Women in a Boat (Work in Progress)." Writing Women 4.3 ([1988?]): 8-22.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Travails of Jane Saint" - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) (The Consciousness Machine. Jane Saint and the Backlash: The Further Adventures of Jane Saint, 1989)
Sequel to 1980 Saxton in which men are again dominant.
Keywords: English author; Female author

John Dollar. A Novel - Marianne Wiggins (b. 1947) (Harper & Row, 1989)
The novel has some resonances with 1954 Golding except with girls rather than boys, with the girls on an isolated after an earthquake destroys the boats they arrived on and kills the adults, except for one man who is badly injured and paralyzed.
Rpt. New York: Perennial Library, 1990. U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Largest Theme Park in the World - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (The Guardian, 1989)
Satire on European union. When the single currency is created all Europeans move to the Mediterranean resorts and refuse to return until non-Europeans start to move in to their abandoned properties.
Rpt. in his War Fever (London: William Collins Sons, 1990), 73-80; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1139-44.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Love in a Colder Climate" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Interview Magazine, 1989)
As a result of the AIDS epidemic, sex is made compulsory as part of national service for virgins.
Rpt. as “Love in a Cold Climate.” Observer Magazine (July 16, 1989): 36-37, 39, 40; as “Love in a Colder Climate.” In his War Fever (London: Collins, 1990): 65-72; and in The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1124-38.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Men's Room" - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) (Interzone, 1989)
Gender-role reversal story.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mirror Maze - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Bantam Books, 1989)
Dystopia and struggle to create a eutopia of freedom. Irish author.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

The Mothers of Maya Dip - Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941) (Women's Press, 1989)
Matriarchy with problems. Feminist humor.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; Indian author

"Mr Smith's privatised penis" - Sue [Susan Lillian] Townsend (1946-2014) (Mr. Bevan's Dream, 1989)
The concluding chapter of an attack on the failure to fully implement the welfare state and the bureaucratic inefficiencies of what was put into place. A dystopia showing how privatization would be worse.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Philosophers - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) (Duckworth, 1989)
The dystopia that is contemporary Britain. While the author is best known for his books on sexual technique like The Joy of Sex (1972), his career ranged through fiction, poetry, anarchist theory, the biology of aging, and geriatric psychology. For an extremely detailed biography, see Eric Laursen, Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort Author of the Joy of Sex. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2023. 740 pp. See also 1943, 1961 and 1980 Comfort.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Skreemer - Peter Milligan (b. 1961) (DC Comics, 1989)
Graphic novel dystopia of gangsters and terrorists set thirty-eight years after the fall of New York City.
Originally published in six issues in 1989.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Stark - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) (Michael Joseph, 1989)
Environmental dystopia set mostly in Australia. In a future of environmental collapse, the rich are shipping goods into space so that they can leave the Earth and the poor who cannot leave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Transfer Station - Russell Haley (1934-2016) (Nagare Press, 1989)
A connected series of short stories presenting an ecological dystopia. A part of the coast has been destroyed for the convenience of a refuse station, which pumps waste into the sea, which has killed all marine life, and the fumes from the station have killed most of the plant life in the area. France controls New Zealand, and New Zealanders are expected to speak French. Youth despair and the suicide rate is high.
Rpt. with minor corrections in A Spider-Web Season & The Transfer Station: Two Story Sequences (Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2000), 126-86. Three of the stories were previously published--“Ash.” Landfall 167 42.3 (September 1988): 232-33; “Out on the Coast.” Metro 9.91 (January 1989): 106-07, 109; and “The Preacher.” Landfall 167 42.3 (September 1988): 228-32.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

Undermining the Central Line - Ruth Rendell (1930-2015); Colin Ward (1924-2010) (Chatto and Windus, 1989)
The first chapter (1-8) is a decentralized eutopia set in 2051 emphasizing the revival of village life. The other chapters reinforce the eutopia by looking at various examples of successful decentralization with considerable discussion of the bad examples of centralism that currently exist.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

The Utopian - Michael Westlake (b. 1942) (Carcanet Press, 1989)
Future tale of a new age, sexually free eutopia. The novel presents the eutopia through the point-of-view of someone living in the eutopia and the point-of-view of his psychotherapist, who sees the eutopia as a reflection of mental illness.
Keywords: English author; Male author

WHOM - Matthew Francis (b. 1956) (Bloomsbury, 1989)
WHOM is the gigantic computer system that dominates and completely controls the activities of the White House. Surreal dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Abandonati - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) (Unwin Hyman, 1988)
Near future tale of cities given over to the homeless.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Atlantis: Centre international culturel, scientifique, politique et économique a Tenerife Islas Canarias/International Centre for Culture, the Sciences, Politics and Economics at Tenerife Islas Canarias - Léon Krier (b. 1946) (Archives d'Architecture Moderne, 1988)
Architectural eutopia which includes designs and commentary plus essays by Maurice Culot, "Une ile/An Island" (5-14); Demetri Porphyrios, "The Meaning of Atlantis et sa signification" (15-16, 20-22); and Frank Werner, "Atlantis une nouvelle culture en gestation/Atlantis a new Urban Culture in Gestation" (87-90, 91).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"From Homogenous to Honey." - Neil [Richard] Gaiman (b. 1960) (AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia), 1988)
Dystopia. Graphic story depicting the destruction of difference, particularly differences in sexual preference, and the creation of sameness, with all people alike.
Rpt. in The Future Is Queer. Ed. Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006), 112-15; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 107-11.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Genesis: An Epic Poem - Frederick Turner (b. 1943) (Saybrook Publishing Co, 1988)
Poem about the terraforming of Mars and the conflicts it engenders with a mild dystopia as background.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Greenland - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) (Methuen in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 1988)
Two act play. The first act presents contemporary Britain almost as a dystopia. The second act is set seven hundred years in the future in an apparently anarchist eutopia. The author describes it as the culmination of his attempts to create a utopia on the stage, preceded by Sore Throats (first performed in 1978 at the Royal Shakespear Company's Warehouse Theatre in London), available in his Sore Throats & Sonnets of Love and Opposition (London: Eyre Methuen, 1979), 5-31; and with the subtitle "An Intimate Play in Two Acts" in his Plays: One (London: Methuen, 1986), 337-90; and Bloody Poetry. London: Methuen, 1985 (first performed in 1984 at the Foco Novo Theatre in Hampstead, England).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Happiness - Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) (Collins Harvill, 1988)
A satirical tour of a modern Heaven by a young woman, her dog, and her pet cockroach, who immediately escapes. Heaven is overcrowded and full of people who had hoped for more from Heaven. The young woman, Sumdy (Somebody) interviews many of the occupants in search of her guardian angel. Includes extended satires of universities and other institutions and social practices.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Henceforward. . . - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) (Faber & Faber, 1988)
Offstage in the background is a near-future dystopia of violence. Most of London is dangerous and people live with armed security guards and some of London are "no-go" areas controlled by local gangs.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Kairos - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Unwin Hyman, 1988)
Corporate dystopia--U.K. Ltd. Pollution.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Long Orbit - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1988)
Complex future dystopia where many people lived fantasy lives and robots did their work for them. The novel focuses on a man who lived the fantasy of being a detective in the 1940s but is hired to be a detective in the real world of corporate conflict.
U.K. ed. as Exit Funtopia. London: Sphere, 1989.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Scudder's Game - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Kerosina Books, 1988)
Radical reduction in population based on a device that weakened sperm while giving control over one’s orgasm. Behind the eutopia created is a dystopia that controls the social system.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sykaos Papers: Being An Account of the Voyages of the Poet Oi Paz to the System of Strim in the Seventeenth Galaxy; of his Mission to the Planet Sykaos; of his First Cruel Captivity; of his Travels about its Surface; of the Manners and Customs of its Beastly People; of his Second Captivity; and of his Return to Oitar. To which are added many passages from the Poet's Journal, documents in Sykotic script, and other curious matters. Selected and Edited by Q, Vice-Provost of the College of Adjusters - E[dward] P[almer] Thompson (1924-93) (Bloomsbury, 1988)
Rational dystopia contrasted to dystopian earth. While the latter is generally preferable, it destroys itself.
U.S. ed. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The War Against Chaos - Anita [Frances] Mason (b. 1942) (Hamish Hamilton, 1988)
Complex dystopia. An authoritarian company in growing conflict with an authoritarian government. There are also Marginals who live outside the system.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Woman Who Was God - Francis [Henry] King (1923-2011) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988)
Fiction about a religious intentional community depicting the conflicts taking place within it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Apocalypse 2000: Economic Breakdown and the Suicide of Democracy 1989-2000 - Peter Jay (b. 1937); Michael [James] Stewart (b. 1933) (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987)
Dystopian future history showing the effects of poor policy choices made in all the major countries into the collapsing world that they produce. There is an index..
Rpt. London: Sphere, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Balmoral - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) (Methuen, 1987)
Dystopia. The 1917 revolution had taken place in Britain rather than Russia and now, in 1937, Britain is a Soviet Republic. The play is set in Balmoral Castle, which is now a State Home for Writers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Book of Mrs. Noah - Michèle [Brigitte] Roberts (b. 1949) (Methuen, 1987)
Feminist eutopian fantasy that also includes a future dystopian chapter. A modern woman brings the Ark into existence and undertakes a voyage in which five sybils each create different worlds for themselves and tell stories about women of the past, and the woman who brought the Ark into existence visits islands that reflect on the human condition. The Ark is also visit by a man who says he is the voice of God and expects the women to listen to him.
Rpt. London: Minerva, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Brazil" - Terry Gilliam (b. 1940); Tom Stoppard (b. 1937); Charles McKeown (b. 1946) (The Battle of Brazil, 1987)
Screenplay of the famous 1985 dystopian film directed by Terry Gilliam.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Budspy - David Dvorkin (b. 1943) (Franklin Watts, 1987)
Alternate future in which the Nazis won World War 2.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Child In Time - Ian [Russell] McEwan (b. 1948) (Jonathan Cape, 1987)
Near future dystopia as a background.
U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1987.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Crying in the Rain” - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (Other Edens, 1987)
Dystopia in which, as a result of pollution, few people life beyond twenty-five and girls are bred at an early age.
Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 887-96 with an editors’ note on 886.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Dream Wall - Graham Dunston Martin (b. 1932) (Unwin Paperbacks, 1987)
Soviet controlled Britain as a dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Dreams of Leaving - Rupert [William Farquhar] Thomson (b. 1955) (Macmillan, 1987)
Authoritarian, isolated small town as a dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Endgame Enigma - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Bantam Books, 1987)
Soviet space colony seemingly a utopian experiment.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

Expecting Someone Taller - Tom [Thomas Charles Louis] Holt (b. 1961) (St. Martin's Press, 1987)
An innocent Englishman gets the ring and the Tarnhelm of the Niebelung (the magic helmet in Wagner’s Ring) and controls the world. He produces a eutopia.
Rpt. London: Macmillan, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Her Story - Dan Jacobson (1929-2014) (André Deutsch, 1987)
The bulk of the novel is set in Biblical times, but the frame is set in a future Britain that is a conservative Islamic country presented as not particularly good or bad. There is also a section on a future dystopian religious intentional community.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; US author

The King Awakes - Janice Elliott (1931-95) (Walker Books, 1987)
Arthurian sword and sorcery set within a post-nuclear war dystopia. A sequel is The Empty Throne. Illus. Grahame Baker. London: Walker Books, 1988 in which the protagonist of the first volume travels, with his family and Arthur, to the Isles of the Blest.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Kisses of the Enemy - Rodney Hall (b. 1935) (Penguin Australia, 1987)
Near future dystopia. Much of the novel follows the political career of the first President of the Republic of Australia, who seems to be primarily interested in power for its own sake. Wealth dominates Australia. Corruption. Drugs. Other strands follow individuals, including the President's wife and child, those political dependent on him, a growing opposition movement, and figures from Australia's past.
U.S. ed. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988. U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1989.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Knights of God - Richard [Fairhurst] Cooper (1930-98) (Lions, 1987)
Authoritarian dystopia in a failed Britain where the economy has ground to a halt. There is a dictator whose rule is enforced by the Knights of God. There is a growing movement against the dictatorship and much of the novel is concerned with that.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Makers - Victor [Michael Kitchener] Kelleher (b. 1939) (Viking Kestrel assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, 1987)
Young adult dystopia in which children are taken to a castle, called the Keep, and trained as warriors.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; South African author

Mind Players - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1987)
Dystopia in which one can enliven one's life by acquiring neuroses or even a whole new personality but being actually insane requires a license.
Includes her “Variations on a Man.” Omni 6.4 (January 1984): 68-70, 110-12, 114-16. Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 769-81 with an editors’ note on 768. U.K. edition as Mindplayers. London: Victor Gollancz, 1988. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1989.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"The Night Walk" - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) (The Night Walk and Other Stories, 1987)
Capitalist dystopia in an England occupied by an unidentified foreign power with reactionary policies. Some discussion of resistance/revolutionary tactics.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Reparations - Gordon Wardman (b. 1947) (Secker & Warburg, 1987)
Dystopia of a future Britain generally in collapse.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Return to Shangri-La - [Robert James] Leslie Halliwell (1929-89) (Grafton, 1987)
A sequel to 1933 Hilton that is mostly adventure but with a search for and discovery of Shangri-la, which is presented as a eutopia in much the same terms as in the original.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Rules of Life - Fay Weldon (1931-2023) (Harper & Row, 1987)
Near future satire. New religion can communicate with the dead.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Female author

"Sanctity" - R. M. Lamming (Other Edens, 1987)
Authoritarian dystopia controlling all aspects of life that the protagonists believed had stopped enforcing its laws.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Sexual Chemistry" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Interzone, 1987)
Developments in biochemistry aimed at sexual prowess result in a vaguely described eutopia.
Rpt. as “A Career in Sexual Chemistry.” In his Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution (London: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 21-41.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Temporary King” - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1987)
In the story a mother is telling her child about growing up in an enclave established by the Marginal Cultures Council (MCC) which was a traditional agricultural community with traditional gender roles and no technology. None of the inhabitants (three generations are depicted) know that there is an advanced technological society nearby. After it is revealed, many leave for the city.
Rev. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 23-49 with an author’s note on 425.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Three Fingers in Utopia" - Philip Sidney Jennings (Dream Magazine, 1987)
Flawed utopia. Eutopia of love and ease is maintained by individuals experiencing a dream of past ugliness.
Rpt. in A Book of Dreams: An Anthology of the best SF from ‘DREAM’ and ‘NEW MOON’ 1985-1987. Ed. Trevor Jones and George P. Townsend (Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Cambs., Eng.: Weller Publications, 1990), 38-44.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Torch - Jill Paton Walsh (b. 1939) (Viking Kestrel, 1987)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which most civilizations have disappeared, and people live in small settlements scratching a living. The novel focuses on two young people forced to marry who are passed on the last Olympic torch and try to return to its home.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Winston Three Three Three - Dennis [Malcolm] Barker (1929-2015) (Grafton, 1987)
Dystopia set in 2089. The Imperial Russian Empire rules Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Year Before Yesterday - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Franklin Watts, 1987)
Alternative history including a fascist Britain.
Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. Contains his “The Impossible Smile” first published in a different form under the pseudonym Jael Craken in Science Fantasy 23 - 24.72 - 73 (May – June 1965): 5-43, 5-44. Rpt. in SF Reprise 6 (1966): 5-43, 5-44; and “Equator” first published in New Worlds Science Fiction 25.75 - 76 (September - October 1958): 4-41; 80-121; and as Vanguard from Alpha. New York: Ace Books, 1959. Ace Double bound with Kenneth Bulmer’s The Changeling Worlds.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"And He Not Busy Being Born. . . ." - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Interzone, 1986)
Eutopian/dystopian society of the future. Virtually immortal people remain children physically, know no difficulties. Story is about a man from the past who is revived.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019. A Day In the Life of the 21st Century - Arthur C[harles] Clarke ed. [written by] (1917-2008) (Grafton Books, 1986)
Although Clarke gives credit to a number of people for their contributions, this is not an edited collection. Presented as a series of predictions, but the general effect is so positive that it can be called a eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ballad of Halo Jones - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953); Ian Gibson (Titan Books, 1986)
Cartoon series. Includes a dystopia near New York where all the unemployed are sent.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Corpse - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (New English Library, 1986)
Future dystopia. Corporate control with corporations fiercely competitive, to the extent of putting arranging to have competitors killed. Large scale permanent unemployment. Lots of violence, conflict among groups struggling for power.
U.S. ed. as Vickers. New York: Ace Books, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Escape Plans - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) (Orion, 1986)
Eutopia for elites; effectively slavery for the rest. See also 1985 Jones.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Last War - Martyn Godfrey (1949-2000) (Collier Macmillan, 1986)
Young adult dystopia set after a nuclear war.
US ed. Illus. Greg Ruhl. New York: Collier Books/Macmillan, 1989. 91. pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Less Than Human - [Charles] [Platt] (b. 1945) (Avon Books, 1986)
Humor set in a future New York City dystopia. The main character is a flawed robot.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Man for the Job - Laurie Graham (b. 1947) (Chatto & Windus, 1986)
Humor. Future dystopia of violence and human degeneration as the setting.
Rpt. London: Penguin, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

"Reichs-Peace" - Sheila [Rosemary] Finch (b. 1935) (Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II, 1986)
Germany wins World War II, but Eva Hitler survives and moderates its aggressiveness.
Rpt. in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 172-90.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Settlement - Russell Haley (1934-2016) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1986)
Dystopia. New Zealand being taken over by its military. The novel focuses on an old man living in a hospital complex and observing the activities around him; thus, the developing dystopia is largely in the background except for times when it directly affects his life.
Part originally published as "The Middle of the Mere." Landfall, no. 155 (39.3) (September 1985): 269-88.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author