"The Matter of Seggri" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Crank! Science Fiction--Fantasy, 1994)
History of a society based on gender separation with women, who far outnumber the men, dominant. The men live in castles, play games, and have contests in order to be chosen by the women as sexual partners and, in particular, to father children. The women do everything else. Over the very long history small changes are made including the beginnings of education for some of the men.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 493-526; and in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1996), 253-92; in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Exploration in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 347-84; in Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 23-68. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 23-68; in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 133-73; in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 473-518; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 149-95.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Native Tongue III: Earthsong - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (DAW Books, 1994)
The third volume of a trilogy following 1984 and 1987 Elgin. In this volume the women’s revolution begins with a minority of the men supporting them, but most men are still violently resisting at the end of the novel.
Rpt. as Native Tongue 3: Earthsong. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 257-68. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with a “Foreword: Evolutionary Song” on v-ix and an “Afterword: The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 221-34. PSt
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Nekropolis" - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1994)
Dystopia of slavery as background to a love story about a slave and an android.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 77-110.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ngati Kangaru" - Patricia Grace (The Sky People and Other Stories, 1994)
Humorous Māori eutopia in which the Māori reclaim Aotearoa New Zealand from the pākehā (Europeans) who tricked their ancestors into signing over land. Since the pākehā used deeds signed by people who didn't own the land, they did the same and occupied resorts, summer homes, and golf courses when not being used and central Auckland where no one lived anymore. Families moved in and business catering to them opened. Her best-known novel, Potiki, Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books (N.Z.), 1986, resonates with this story in that it is concerned with Māori defending their ancestral land from developers.
Rpt. (London: Women's Press, 1994), 25-43. Story rpt. in Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. Comp. and ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas (Alice Springs, NT, Australia: Jukurrpa Books, 2000), 131-44.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Māori author

"No Uncertain Terms" - Kristy Schubert (Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future, 1994)
Dystopia of a society based on eugenic selection that kills anyone deemed not to meet their criteria, which includes any opposition to the criteria.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"One Night" - Stefanie Robinson (Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future, 1994)
Dystopia. A poor future with a child bringing a rat to a group of boys for dinner.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“The Place Between” - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) (Snows of Darkover, 1994)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

“Poetic License” - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) (Snows of Darkover, 1994)
Free Amazon story.
Rpt. in Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13. Ed. Elisabeth Waters (San Francisco, CA: The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works, 2013) 211-24 with an editor’s note on 211.
Keywords: Female author

Queen City Jazz - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor, 1994)
The novel begins in a rural eutopia in a post-catastrophe future brought about by nanotechnology which initially produced eutopian cities but then turned them into dystopian cities. The protagonist grows up in the rural enclave where everyone is forbidden to have contact with the cities but after the infection of the enclave she starts a trek down the Ohio River to Cincinnati, one of the dystopian cities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Second Chance" - Holley Cantine (Drunken Boat: Art, Rebellion, Anarchy, 1994)
Indians successfully revolt and reestablish their traditional way of life. Most of the story is about the build-up to the revolt.
Keywords: Female author

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

"Solitude" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1994)
Complex society in which men and women live separately. The men mostly live near the women's villages, where the women live in individual huts with extremely limited interaction, the children providing the chief means of contact. Gangs of boys and individual rogue males are dangerous to both the other men and the women, but most of the men live peacefully. Whether eutopian or not is likely to produce considerable debate. Some consider it a feminist eutopia and the point-of-view character presents the women's society as a good one.
Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 353-81; in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 119-51; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 119-51; in Diverse Energies. Ed. Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti (New York: Tu Books, 2012), 267-305; in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 175-203; in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 519-50; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 290-318 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (786).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stardust Bound - Karen [M.] Cadora (b. 1970) (Firebrand Books, 1994)
The novel in set in a future that has experienced a series of major catastrophe and is now controlled by UniTech that considered anything not related to Reconstruction a crime, which included science crimes, which included astronomy. The lesbian protagonist is an astronomer who makes her way to La Vista in the Andes, the last operating observatory and finds a community of other female astronomers, and one man. See the author’s “Feminist Cyberpunk.” Science-Fiction Studies 22.3 (67) (November 1995): 357-172. Rpt. in Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives. Ed. Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint (New York: Routledge, 2010), 157-172.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Strings" - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1994)
Dystopia in which all music must be played exactly as the notes are written on the page, no new music is allowed, and any performer who violates the rules is severely punished.
Rpt. in her Dangerous Space: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007), 9-35.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Trouble and Her Friends - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) (Tor, 1994)
Authoritarian dystopia with cyberpunk elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Utopia 2000 - Elizabeth Greenwood (The Book Guild, 1994)
Near future dystopia based on the conflict between Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and the Levellers, who are best-known for their advocacy of an extended suffrage.
Keywords: Female author

"Welcome to the World" - Edith Speers (b. 1949) (Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction, 1994)
Dystopia of required good health.
Keywords: Australian author; Canadian author; Female 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

Beggars in Spain - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Morrow, 1993)
Future dystopia of conflict created by development of gene altered humans with special powers. Sequels include Beggars and Choosers. New York: Tor, 1994; and Beggars Ride. New York: Tor, 1996.
Rpt. New York: Avon, 1994. Part originally published as “Beggars in Spain.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.4 & 5 (April 1991): 246-310. This part was simultaneously published as Beggars in Spain. Mountain View, CA: Axolotl Press, 1991. Rpt. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 1-62; and in Nebula Awards 27: SWFA’s Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Ed. James Morrow (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993), 243-321.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blindsided - Dick Richmond-Donahue; Leigh [Tucker] Richmond-Donahue (1911-95) (Interdimensional Sciences., 1993)
An ecological catastrophe on an already overpopulated, urban, poverty-stricken, and violent Earth. The last convulsions of Earth destroys the current "civilization" and allows some survivors to begin to develop a better rural and peaceful life.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

CrashCourse - [Joyce Carstairs] [Hutchinson] (b. 1935) (Ace Books, 1993)
Cyberpunk dystopia. Sequels include ClipJoint. By Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.].  New York : Ace Books, 1995 (PSt); and PsyKosis. By Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.]. New York: Ace Books, 1995 (PSt).
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Dancing on the Volcano - Anne Gay (Orbit, 1993)
Mostly romance and adventure set in an authoritarian matriarchal dystopia from which the protagonists escape. Much fantasy. Continued in her To Bathe in Lightning. London: Orbit, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Daughter of Elysium - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) (William Morrow, 1993)
Set in same world as her 1986 Door Into Ocean. In this volume the people of Elysium have achieved immortality which brings with it complacency and arrogance and the desire of other peoples to steal their secret.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Defense of the Social Contracts" - Martha [Clare] Soukup (b. 1959) (Science Fiction Age, 1993)
Eutopia in which a system of contracts regulates human interaction. The story illustrates that the system has flaws.
Rpt. in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996), 222-38.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Drylands - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) (Ballantine Books, 1993)
Authoritarian dystopia as a result of a long drought. Three related stories are “Water Bringer.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.3 (168) (March 1991): 16-21, 24-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-47; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 12-35; “Celilo.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.7 (172) (June 1991): 88-109; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 36-55; and “The Bee Man.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.10 (175) (September 1991): 44-48, 50-52, 54-63; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 56-72.
Rpt. with a brief "Foreword" (10-11) by the author in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 73-305.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ecstasia - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) (ROC, 1993)
Young adult eutopia of youth (Elysia) framed by the Desert (roughly normal life) and Under (the old).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Entrada" - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1993)
Deeply class-divided dystopia in a future U.S.
Rpt. in her Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1996), 32-61.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Escape to the Wind - Jennifer DiMarco (b. 1973) (Castillo International, 1993)
Dystopia of a patriarchal dictatorship with lesbian themes. The author was nineteen at the time of publication. A sequel, Fall Through the Sky. Radnor, OH: Pride Publications, 1997 expands the action to the surrounding area.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Eye For Dark Places - Norma Marder (Little, Brown, 1993)
Future tale describing a dystopian society in Britain and a woman fighting to free herself and help others. More complex than the usual. Some fantasy.
Keywords: Female author

The Fifth Sacred Thing - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) (Bantam Books, 1993)
Eutopia and dystopia. See her Walking to Mercury. New York: Bantam Books, 1997 for background.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Garden" - Alayne Gelfand (Worlds of Women: Sapphic Science Fiction Erotica, 1993)
While the emphasis in the story is on the sex, it is set in a future in which men and women do not know of the existence of the other. The female protagonist resents the authoritarianism of the women leaders and breaks the rule by regularly visiting a prohibited area.
Rpt. in The New Worlds of Women. Exp. ed. Ed. Cecilia Tan (Boston, MA: Circlet Press, 1996), 63-77; and in The Circlet Treasury of Lesbian Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Cecilia Tan (New York: Riverdale Avenue Books, 2013), 156-67.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Giver - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) (Houghton Mifflin, 1993)
Young adult flawed utopia that is technologically sophisticated but overly controlled. See also 2000 Lowry. Her Messenger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004 and Son. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2012, which includes characters from both this volume and 2000 Lowry but take place in an intentional community.
Rpt. New York: Dell. U.K. ed. London: Lions, 1994. A graphic novel version is The Giver. Based on the novel by Lois Lowry. Adapted by P. Craig Russell. Illus. P. Craig Russell, Galen Showman, and Scott Hampton. Colorist Lovern Kindzierski. Letterer Rich Parker. Scanning, cleanup, and digital coordination by Wayne Arnold Harold. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2019.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Granddads Last Swim" - Cath[erine] Clark (Phoenixine: The Phoenix Science Fiction Society Newsletter, 1993)
Pollution dystopia in which few people live past twenty.
Rpt. as by Catherine Clark in Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection. Ed. Warwick Bennett and Patrick Hudson (Wellington, New Zealand: IPL Books, 1995), 165-71.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934); Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) (Baen, 1993)
Fantasy about a matriarchy.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

In the Garden of Dead Cars - Sybil Claiborne (d. 1992) (Cleis Press, 1993)
Dystopia. Future in which, as a result of the AIDS epidemic, chastity is legally enforced. Revolt.
Keywords: Female author

"Mural" - Meryl Thompson (b. 1942) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1993)
Dystopia. Separate between employed and unemployed.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Parable of the Sower - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993)
Complex dystopia set in a future after a complete governmental collapse has resulted in a lack of security, scarcity, and poverty. The protagonist, who has what Butler calls “hyperempathy” or a high sensitivity to the sensations of others, leaves her community with some other survivors after her family is murdered. They try to start a new community where her religion, called “Earthseed” can take root. Bothered by writer’s block and health issues, she was unable to write the third volume. The fragments that exist are held in her papers at the Huntington Library. See Gerry Canavan, “‘There's Nothing New Under The Sun, But There Are New Suns’: Recovering Octavia E. Butler's Lost Parables.” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 9, 2014). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables/ An opera by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon premiered at New York University Abu Dhabi November 9, 2017, and had its U.S. premiere at the Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2017. It had its New York premiere July 13, 2023, at Lincoln Center. A religion emerged based on the novel; see https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ See also 1998 Butler.
See also Damian Duffy (Text) and John Jennings (Illus.) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020, with a brief introduction by Nalo Hopkinson (iv-v), a Q & A with Duffy and Jennings (265-268), Notes on Process (269-270), Visual Development (271), and a Teachers Guide to Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation by Kimberly N. Parker (272-277), About Octavia E. Butler (278), Further Reading (279), and About the Adaptor and About the Artist (280).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Price of Peace" - Joan Sowter (Starsongs Tau Whetu: The 1993 New Zealand Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1993)
Officially sanctioned vigilantes who enforce laws by killing the lawbreaker. The case described is of someone making too much noise.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Rainbow Man - M[ary] J[ane] Engh (b. 1933) (Tor, 1993)
Flawed utopia of a complex society that purports to have no laws but is actually highly regulated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ring of Swords - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Tor, 1993)
A difficult book to characterize in that it presents two societies, an extremely well-done alien society, the Hwarhath, where same-sex relations are the norm, and people from a future Earth. Both societies are presented with their good and not-so-good elements. See Brian Attebery, "Ring of Swords: A Reappreciation." New York Review of Science Fiction 16.8 (April 2004): 1, 8-10. Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.
Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rising of the Moon - Flynn Connolly (Ballantine Books, 1993)
Future Ireland totally dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and emphasizes the suppression of women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Somewhere Down the Diamondback Road" - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) (Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, 1993)
Dystopia of sex, violence, and driving with an unidentified Authority in control.
Rpt. in her Dangerous Space: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007), 131-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Songs of Chaos - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) (Ace Books, 1993)
The novel is partially set in a conformist dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Songs of Solomon" - Virginia Ellen Baker (Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor, 1993)
Future dystopia stressing punishment and the revolt against it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Taking Stock" - George Rosie (Unpublished play, 1993)
Satire. Describes a future Cabinet sub-committee getting rid of all the institutions that make Scotland unique.
Keywords: Female author

The Year Seven - Zanger, Molleen (Naiad Press, 1993)
Post-disaster future depicting a lesbian community. Children are deformed physically but advanced spiritually.
Keywords: Female author

Amazon - Barbara G. Walker (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)
Amazon eutopia in the past and the effect on the present of a woman from that eutopia.
Keywords: Female 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

Brazil-Maru - Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951) (Coffee House Press, 1992)
The novel is about the experience of some Japanese who immigrated to Brazil with one focus a Japanese intentional cooperative community called Esperança.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese American author

"Built on Blood" - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) (Interzone, 1992)
Dystopia of class differences.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Bushido Incident - Betty Anne Crawford (b. 1952) (DAW Books, 1992)
Dystopia. Earth dominated by a Japanese economic empire.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"California Dreaming" - Elizabeth A[nne] Lynn (b. 1946) (Omni Best Science Fiction One, 1992)
Cars are outlawed in California, and this produces the beginnings of a better society.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Cathy IV - Frances Lucas (b. 1956) (New Victoria Publishers, 1992)
Dystopia and struggle against it. A novel with lesbian interest set on a planet that has enslaved a large segment of its population, called Servos, who were a mix of android and human. Earth has been largely destroyed but had been saved by aliens, and everyone on Earth lives in identical domed cities. The dystopian society is depicted together with the struggle to free the Servos. In addition to the Servos, the planet’s inhabitants are divided between the Nots (from the planet’s name Saegrenot), who live off the work of the Servos and live in cities and the Assimi or those who refuse to be assimilated and live in the country and support freeing the Servos.
Keywords: Female 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

China Mountain Zhang - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Tor, 1992)
A dystopian future dominated by a still Communist China. There is a Socialist Union of America States that is considered a second rate country.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Couples" - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) (Tesseracts, 1992)
Authoritarian dystopia which has past a Fetal Rights Bill.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Crystal Drop - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) (HarperCollins, 1992)
Young adult climate-change dystopia where a drought has destroyed a family farm, and a young woman and her brother search for an uncle in a world a dangerous world.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. 212 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Even the Queen" - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1992)
A drug allows women to stop menstruating, and this allows the creation of an eutopian society in which women take the lead.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction. Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 62-75; in her Impossible Things (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 66-87; and in A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 35-54.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Feral City - Rosie [Judy Rosemary] Scott (b. 1948) (William Heinemann Australia, 1992)
Future dystopia of violence and poverty set in Auckland, New Zealand, brought about by government policies that undid the welfare system and turned New Zealand over to government by big business. Thousands of homeless are living in the inner city. Libraries were privatized and then closed. Although one of them is killed, two sisters become the center of a small amount of hope by opening a bookstore in the center of the ruins.
Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Reed Books, 1992; and Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Minerva, [1993].
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female 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

Glass Houses - Laura J. Mixon (b. 1954) (Tor, 1992)
Environmental dystopia inside and outside a domed New York City.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Hall of New Faces" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1992)
Dystopia concerned with the pressure on women to look good, and particularly to look young. Women go to the "Hall of New Faces" for plastic surgery, and all look worse.
Rpt. in her of Weird Women, Wired Women (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998), 133-43.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Illicit Passage - Alice Nunn (Women's Redress Press, 1992)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 2101 dealing with women's coping strategies. A space station designed to be a eutopia becomes a dystopia due to poor planning and a built-in class structure. Revolution.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; UK author

In the Heart of the Valley of Love - Cynthia Kadohata (b. 1956) (Viking, 1992)
Dystopia of violence and a deteriorating U.S. with a future Los Angeles divided between the white “Richtown” and the non-white slums.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese American author

Jack the Bodiless. Book One of The Galactic Milieu Trilogy - Julian [Clare] May (1931-2017) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992)
Earth has achieved peace, is developing significant psychic powers, and is ready to join the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of planets. But there is opposition that wants to maintain human individuality and believes in the superiority of humans over all others, and it is trying to kill the most psychically powerful humans. See also 1987 May. In the second volume in the trilogy, Diamond Mask. A Novel. Book Two of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, Earth has joined the Galactic Milieu and humans are preparing to join the Unity, a group mind that includes all the races of the Galactic Milieu, but the opposition described in the previous volume is trying to stop the process. In the third volume, Magnificat. A Novel. Book Three of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, the opposition continues but is ultimately defeated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Last Days of the Pleasurehouse - Agnetha Anders (Nexus, 1992)
Dystopia and revolt. Erotica set in 2031. Sequel to 1991 Anders.
Keywords: Female author

Last Refuge - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) (Bantam Books, 1992)
The eutopian Shambala (Shangri-la) and the devastated outer world as a dystopia. Loose sequel to the 1991 Scarborough. For the classic eutopian Shangri-la, see 1933 Hilton.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Madrelita" - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992)
Feminist dystopia focusing on class divisions and the exploitation of poor women by the rich. See also 1996 Ross.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Mountain to Mohammed" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1992)
Dystopia of extreme poverty. The story concerns a doctor who treats the poor.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 123-36.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mutagenesis - Helen [Francis] Collins (b. 1937) (Tor, 1992)
Religious patriarchy as a dystopia with a feminist theme developed as the alternative.
Keywords: Female 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

"Project Stone" - Elizabeth Engstrom (Nightmare Flower, 1992)
An isolated community creates a suburban, middle class eutopia based on adjusting the body's rhythms to a constantly sounded tone, but no one can survive if beyond the sound or if the tone is turned off.
Keywords: Female author

"Protection" - Maureen [F.] McHugh (b. 1959) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1992)
Dystopia set in a labor camp in a future America.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 312-45.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"A Question of Loyalty" - Sue Emms (b. 1954) (What on Earth: A Collection of Science Fiction and Related Short Stories by eight southern authors, 1992)
Brief authoritarian dystopia in which those found disloyal have their brains wiped.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Requiem for a Tarbaby" - Alice Peattie (What on Earth: A Collection of Science Fiction and Related Short Stories by eight southern authors, 1992)
Authoritarian, religious, and pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Return to Isis - Jean Stewart (b. 1953) (Rising Tide Press, 1992)
Feminist eutopia with lesbian interest. See also 1993, 1995, 2001, and 2004 Stewart.
Keywords: Female author; US author

River Rats - Caroline Stevermer (b. 1955) (Jane Yolen Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992)
Young adult, post-apocalyptic dystopia after a nuclear war, in which children who operate a paddle wheeler on the Mississippi River have to deal with another group of children known as the Wild Boys who control a riverside city.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound - Judith Katz (Firebrand Books, 1992)
A lesbian novel which includes a community of women (living and dead). The community is not clearly eutopian or dystopian. Some commentators have seen another utopia in the lesbians surrounding a university in central Massachusetts, but this is not presented in utopian terms.
Keywords: Female author

The Skinny Louie Book - Fiona Farrell (b. 1947) (Penguin, 1992)
The novel begins with New Zealand history of the post-World War II era with some fantastic elements as seen through the eyes of a girl growing up, going to university, getting pregnant, and beginning her career. It extends to an authoritarian dystopian future of age and class divisions brought about by current government policies and deliberately fostered by the government. It ends with a destroyed New Zealand with few survivors.
The first section is her “A Story About Skinny Louie.” New Zealand Listener 127.2620 (May 28, 1990): 96, 101-02 as by Fiona Farrell Poole. Story rpt. in Closing the File: American Express Short Story Award Winners, 1984-89 (Auckland, New Zealand: Godwit Press, 1990), 137-52; in Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories. Ed. Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire. New ed. (Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books, 1992), 278-90; and in The New Zealand Short Story Collection. Ed. Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire. 3rd ed. (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1997), 365-81. There is an abridged Talking Books version read by Liddy Holloway. Auckland, New Zealand: Word Pictures, Ltd., [1993].
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Winter of Fire - Sherryl Jordan (b. 1949) (Scholastic, 1992)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements. Future earth so polluted that the sky is not seen, and little grows. Division between the Chosen, who have power, and the Quelled, who are essentially slaves. A young woman from the Quelled who has unusual abilities is able to bring about changes, and the novel ends with the earth beginning to recover.
Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Ashton Scholastic, 1993. Rpt. as the 25th anniversary ed. New York: Scholastic, 2019, and Auckland, New Zealand: Scholastic, 2019.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"The Women Who Won the World: A Playful Segment" - [Betty Susan] Weinbaum (b. 1952) (Anything That Moves, 1992)
Feminist satire directed at feminist aspirations.
Rpt. in her The Island of Floating Women (San Diego, CA: Clothespin Fever Press, 1993), 169-175.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"About Time" - Patricia B. Cirone (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

Aleph - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) (Orbit, 1991)
Sequel to 1989 Constantine in which some of the protagonist of the first volume settle an area they call Freespace.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Amazon Fragment" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 43-80.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Avalon - Mary J. Jones (Naiad Press, 1991)
Adaptation of an Arthurian legend that includes a matriarchal eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

"Awakening" - Fenoglio, Mary (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

Beauty - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Doubleday, 1991)
Mostly fantasy deriving from the tale of Sleeping Beauty presented as “The Journal of Beauty daughter of the Duke of Westfaire” with interpolations by “Carabosse, the fairy of clocks, keeper of the secrets of time”. Beauty travels into various futures, including an authoritarian 21st century dystopia. On the dust jacket “A Note from the Author” connects the novel to the loss of natural habitat, the loss of beauty, which she hopes is only sleeping, not dying.
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1992. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1993.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Beginning" - Judith Kobylecky (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"The Birth of Sons" - Sharon Hall (Interzone, 1991)
Male homosexual society presented generally positively but based on the destruction of women.
Keywords: Female author

"Broken Vows" - Annette Rodriguez (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"A Butterfly Season" - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Carlina's Calling" - Patricia D. Novak (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"The City of a Seagull" - Lois [Ann] Tilton (b. 1946) (Interzone, 1991)
Dystopia-- a near future story of refugees forced to live on ships constantly wandering the seas.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cosmic Dusting" - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) (Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers, 1991)
Feminist version of the millennium. In this version the Messiah is an elected position held by 1,000 people (500 men and 500 women) for one year each, the earth returns to its condition prior to environmental damage, all plastics, bottles, and aluminum return to their original constituents, and extinct animals return. The coming of the millennium can be recognized when things work as they are supposed to, and committees function perfectly.
Rpt. in her Evolution Annie and Other Stories (London: The Women's Press, 1993), 31-36.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Dalereuth Guild House" - Priscilla W. Armstrong; Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Danila's Song" - Vera Nazarian (b. 1966) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author; Russian author; US author

Dark Paradise - Catherine Brophy (Wolfhound Press, 1991)
Dystopia. One group has evolved on mental lines, losing their legs, and becoming extremely weak and dependent on technology while being extremely powerful mentally. Another group, expelled by the first, are called bipeds in that they still have legs and live outside the controlled environment. The novel includes descriptions of the evolution of and stages in the lives of the first group. Food is developed to the point that elimination is no longer necessary. Artificial womb allowed early removal of the defective.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

"The Day of the Sun" - Maria McKernan (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1991)
Dystopian fantasy in which extremely poor people working under very harsh conditions to produce paper clothing experience the sun irregularly. On those days they have sex, but they forget everything about those days between them.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Dealer" - Michaelene Pendleton (1946-2019) (Amazing Stories (Lake Geneva, WI), 1991)
Future dystopia in which America has rejected everything foreign.
Rpt. in Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science fiction from the Corridor. Ed. M. Shayne Bell (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1993), 277-92.
Keywords: Female author

Death of a Sparrow - Barbara Ker-Mann (b. 1933) (Leafgreen, 1991)
Dystopia set in 2000 in a New Zealand with a corrupt government and society divided between the power brokers and the displaced with Australian and U.S. corporations dominating New Zealand. The novel centers on the construction of an American-built nuclear power plant and a nuclear accident that releases significant radioactivity, which, at the end, is killing people and wildlife. The author writes that she began the novel at the time of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Eye Witness - Caroline Macdonald (1948-97) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1991)
Young adult dystopia set in 2046 in which boys from the time and the past confront an authoritarian government and people who have become “feral.”
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Family Visit" - Margaret L. Carter (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

The Gilda Stories. A Novel - Jewelle [Lydia] Gomez (b. 1948) (Firebrand Books, 1991)
The novel is composed of separate stories set in different time periods beginning in Louisiana in 1850. The protagonist is a slave who becomes a vampire who is a lesbian, and most of the novel is set in places and periods (“Yerba Buena: 1890,” “Rosebud, Missouri: 1921,” “South End: 1955, “Off-Broadway: 1971,” and “Down by the Riverside: 1981”) that allow the author to explore the situation of African Americans, gay people, and other outsiders in that time and place. The last two stories (“Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: 2020” (219-31) and “Land on Enchantment: 2050” (233-52) are set in a future devastated by climate change and in which outsiders remain at risk. Her “Houston.” In her Don’t Explain. Short Fiction (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1998), 148-60 is set between these two stories. The title is pronounced like the New York city street, not like the Texas city.  “Caramelle 1864.” Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction. Ed. Stefanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle (Clayton, NC: BLF Press, 2019), 9-29 is set near the end of the Civil War. The most recent Gilda story, “Merida, Yucatan: 2060.” Baffling Magazine, no. 1 (October 2020) https://www.bafflingmag.com/issue-one/merida-yucatan-2060 begins at what had been the U.S. Mexico border before Trump’s policies had exacerbated climate change and destroyed and depopulated the area with Gilda moving toward the south where she plans to join others leaving the planet. Often compared to Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979).
[25th Anniversary ed.] San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2016, with a “Foreword” by the author (xi-xii) and an “Afterword. Blood Relations: Gilda and the Stakes of Our Future” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs  (253-59). U. K. ed. London: Sheba Feminist Press, 1992. Parts previously published as “. . . Night.” The American Voice, no. 4 (Fall 1986): 42-46; “No Day Too Long.” Lesbian Fiction: An Anthology. Ed. Elly Bulkin (Watertown, MA: Persephone Press, 1981), 219-24; rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Camilla DeCarin, Eric Garber, and Lyn Paleo (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1986), 215-23. “Woman Who Loved the Moon.” The Village Voice Literary Supplement.
Keywords: African American author; Female author; Native American author

Harmony - Marjorie Bradley Kellogg (b. 1945) (Roc, 1991)
Two differing future societies on a polluted earth, one under domes and one exposed to the elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hatching Stones - Anna Wilson (b. 1954) (Onlywomen Press, 1991)
The availability of cloning produces a split between men and women.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

He, She and It - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)
Complex future dystopia run by corporations with an embattled Jewish eutopia as the central focus.
U.K. ed. as Body of Glass. London: Michael Joseph, 1992.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hermetech - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) (Headline, 1991)
Post-ecological catastrophe novel with fantasy elements. The world is presented as dystopian, but there are a number of communities presented which are creating various versions of better lives.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"The Honor of the Guild" - Joan Marie Verba (b. 1953) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"How Utopia Works" - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93); Francis Golffing (1910-2012) (Possibility: An Essay in Utopian Vision, 1991)
Part non-fiction eutopia, part analysis in two sections, "The Social Fabric" and "The Economic Function." Not in the earlier edition--Possibility; An Essay in Utopian Vision. Foreword. Introductory. The Oedipal Personality. Amherst, MA: The Green Knight Press, 1963 (HRC). Summarized in the statement ". . . our utopia is a non-regulated society in which people choose as freely as possible among the options which life affords them" (72).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"If Only Banshees Could See" - Janet R. Rhodes (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

The Last Real New Yorker in the World” - James D. Macdonald (b. 1954); Debra Doyle (1952-2020) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
The dystopia of New York City as a theme park.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Lesson in the Foothills" - Lynne Armstrong-Jones (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

Mega - D. L. Holmes (Mother Courage Press, 1991)
Dystopia with lesbian themes.
Keywords: Female author

"A Midsummer Night's Gift" - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Misjudged Situations" - Kelly B. Jaggers (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Newton's Sleep." - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Full Spectrum, 1991)
The story begins in a very brief dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout.
Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Nice Place to Visit” - Warren Murphy (b. 1933); Molly Cochran (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Nothing Sacred - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) (Doubleday, 1991)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with fantasy elements.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"One World, Many Tribes" - Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) (Almanac of the Dead, 1991)
Describes the gathering of the tribes to reclaim the land and includes brief notes on how the world will be healed in the future. More suggestive than detailed.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

Pleasurehouse 13 - Agnetha Anders (Nexus, 1991)
Erotica set in 2030 in a class-based dystopia. Revolt. See also 1992 Anders.
Keywords: Female author

"A Proper Escort" - Elisabeth Waters (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Shut In" - Jean Lamb (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Slow Burn in Alphabettown" - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Dystopia of a future New York deeply divided between the rich and poor and cut off from electricity supplies. New Jersey is burning. There is no trash collection in New York, but at the end the poor people organize to clean up their areas.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stranded - [Marian] [Grace] (b. 1941) (Naiad Press, 1991)
Novel with lesbian themes that briefly describes a eutopian hermaphroditic society on another planet and Earth as a dystopia. Struggle to free Earth from evil powers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Strife" - Chel Avery (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Summer Fair" - Emily Alward (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female 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

“Tomb w/ View” - P[atricia] D[iana Joy Anne] Cacek (b. 1951) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

“Tunnel Vision” - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
A future violent New York City dystopia with live theater continuing in the disused tunnels.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Tunnel Vision” - Esther [Mona] Friesner (b. 1951) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
A future violent New York City dystopia with live theater continuing in the disused tunnels.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Varzil's Avengers" - Diann S. Partridge (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

A Woman of the Iron People - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Morrow, 1991)
A complex, multi-layered regarding the interactions of people from a technological, socialist Earth and aliens from a simple society, with the action taking place on the alien’s planet. Good and bad elements of both peoples are described, and there is a particular emphasis on gender. The book won the first James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender.
Rpt. as A Woman of the Iron People. Part One. In the Light of Sigma Draconis. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992; and A Woman of the Iron People. Part Two. Changing Women. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Amendment - Sue Robinson (Birch Lane Press, 1990)
Dystopia of anti-abortion forces in power.
Keywords: Female author

“Back From the Future: Reflections on trends of change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries” - [Susan] Furchgott (RockHEAD, 1990)
A brief eutopia of the global village that is seen to have developed out of rock and the communal movement.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bray House - Eilís Ní Dhuíbhne (b. 1954) (Attic Press, 1990)
Post-catastrophe novel in which  Ireland  is described as having been an economic and ecological dystopia even before the catastrophe.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Chicago Red - R[ebecca] M. Meluch (b. 1956) (Roc, 1990)
Future America as a dystopian monarchy. Stress on the revolution.
Keywords: Female 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

"Elly" - Mary O'Brien (1926-1998) (Issues in Reproductive and Genetic Engineering: Journal of International Feminist Analysis, 1990)
Post-nuclear war genetic engineering dystopia in which few women are born, and heterosexuality has been declared obsolete and is discouraged (138). Intent is a completely rational society. The protagonist, Elly, is a LT (Last Error), so called because she was born with brown skin, and her reproductive organs had been removed. Her one friend, Bessie, was engineered for a low I.G., but no more like her were created because too many were cunning and “cunning was the antithesis of intelligence” (137). The goal is “Total-tech repro” (140).
Rpt. in Angels of Power and other reproductive creations. Ed. Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein (West Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Spinifex Press, 1991), 150-58.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“The Forbidden Words of Margaret A” - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, 1990)
Dystopia as seen through the eyes of a journalist reporting on a meeting with an imprisoned woman, whose words, under a law called as “The Limited Censorship for the Preservation of National Security Act,” it is illegal to report or to be heard or read by anyone.
Rpt. in The Women Who Walk Through Fire. Ed. Susanna J. Sturgis (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1990), 53-75; Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 3-19; and Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville , TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2018), 333-50.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Future Sex - Stephen A. Davis (b. 1946); Lyssa Royal (Royal Priest Research, 1990)
The book is in the style of a self-help manual and explores sexual relations. It is accepting of multiple relationships. A section of the book includes channeled interviews with various aliens with a wide variety of different sexual practices, including virtual celibacy, but mostly with high levels of sexual activity.
Rev. ed. Phoenix, AZ: Personal Enhancement Press, 1991.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Game - Enid Richemont (Walker Books, 1990)
The Furies of Greek mythology give humans all their corrupted natures wish for, which produces an authoritarian dystopia. A group of children manage to defeat the system.
Keywords: Female author

A Gift Upon the Shore - [Martha Kay] [Renfroe] (1938-2016) (Ballantine Books, 1990)
Post-catastrophe novel that includes a dystopian religious intentional community as a focus.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Inertia" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Analog Science Fact and Fiction, 1990)
Dystopia. People who have contracted a contagious disease are permanently interned in camps, where they develop a sustainable non-violent society while the world outside disintegrates into chaos, violence, and authoritarianism. The camps are presented as better because they are characterized by the willingness to get along, but they are not eutopian.
Rpt. in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 1-34; and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 207-28.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"The Inkblot Test" - Rosalind A. Warren (The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia that uses rigged psychological testing to place people in occupations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Invitation to the Game - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) (Simon & Schuster Books for Children, 1990)
Young adult dystopia of joblessness enlivened by a game in which a new life on a primitive planet is given as a prize.
Rpt. as The Game. Previously published as Invitation to the Game. New York: Simon Pulse, 2010. U.K. ed. London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1991. Rpt. London: Mammoth, 1992.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female 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

Modern Daughters and the Outlaw West - Melissa Kwasny (b. 1954) (Spinsters Book Co, 1990)
Lesbian eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

"Net Songs" - Elaine Bergstrom (The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1990)
Right wing dystopia controlling human relationships through fear of disease.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"An Object Lesson" - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) (Domains of Darkover, 1990)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

The Others - Margaret Wander Bonanno (b. 1950) (St. Martin's, 1990)
First volume of a trilogy describing relations between a technologically advanced, peaceful eutopian people, called the Others, and what appears to be normal, vicious humans, known as the People. The Others and the People cooperate by the end of the third volume but not before the Others are almost destroyed. The second volume, Otherwhere. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991 focuses on the conflicts between the Others and the People that resulted in the near elimination of the Others and internecine war among the People. In the third volume, Otherwise. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993, the various conflicts are resolved.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Personal Silence" - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) (Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 1990)
The story is set in a future devastated by environmental damage and war and takes place in a mostly abandoned small town at the tip of the state of Washington. The protagonist’s campaign for peace involves walking across every country in the world and not speaking until he has finished.
Rpt. in her Unforeseen: Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019), 23-59.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Picnic Days" - Cleo [Fellers] Kocol (1927-2016) (The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1990)
Overpopulation dystopia in which the right to drive is considered more important than the safety of pedestrians, and traffic accidents are considered a means of reducing the population. The point of view character is the mother of sixteen living in a two-room apartment.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Raising the Stones - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Doubleday, 1990)
Novel about two planets, one, Voorstad, is a religious dystopia with slaves and women veiled and hidden. Violent. The other, Hobbs Land, is a simple agricultural society. It, and the rest of the settled planets, are matrilineal. Much fantasy in that one focus of the novel is the death and rebirth of the old gods of Hobbs Land.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Red Spider White Web - Misha [Nógha] (b. 1955) (Morrigan Publications, 1990)
Dystopia of extreme poverty.
Rpt. La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1999. An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 184-201 with an editor’s note on 184-86. Another excerpt was published in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 979-90 with an editors’ note on 977-78.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

Salt - Gabrielle [Craig] Lord (b. 1946) (McPhee, Gribble/Penguin Books Australia, 1990)
Dystopia set in Australia in 2075 after a Civil War. The environment collapses, and there is widespread social conflict. Sydney is a walled city with extreme poverty and warfare inside and almost complete destruction outside.
Rpt. South Yarra, VIC, Australia: McPhee, Gribble, 1991.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Stealing Time - Nicky Edwards (Onlywomen, 1990)
Dystopia--great wealth versus great poverty. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Female author

We, the Arcturians (A True Experience) - Norma J. Milanovich; Betty Rice; Cynthia Ploski (Athena, 1990)
New age eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

Winterlong - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) (Bantam, 1990)
Fantasy with some dystopian elements. Loose sequels include her Aestival Tide. New York: Bantam Books, 1992; and Icarus Descending. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Y Chromosome - Leona [Marie] Gom (Second Story Press, 1990)
Feminist critical utopia. The few men left are hidden and treated as inferiors and taught that they are inferior.
Keywords: Female author

"And the Truth Shall Set You Free" - Sharon Green (b. 1942) (Alternatives, 1989)
A eutopia set seventy-five years in the future where the justice system has shifted from concern with treating the accused fairly to insisting on getting the truth. The mantra of the society is that everyone has free choice, and many social and technological means are in place to achieve this, but anyone who chooses to violate the society's standards is sterilized and the worst cases are sent to wilderness settlements with no outside support.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Carpe Diem" - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 1989)
Concern with health develops into a dystopia of involuntary euthanasia.
Rpt. in Tesseracts3. Ed. Candas Jane Dorsey and Gerry Truscott (Victoria, BC, Canada: Porcépic Books, 1990), 197-206; in Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 275-81;  and in Aurora Awards: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Science Fiction & Fantasy [At the head of the title Award-Winning Canadian Fiction]. Ed. Edo van Belkom (Kingston, ON, Canada: Quarry Press, 1999), 18-25.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Cascade Empire - E[sther] M[arian] G[reenwell] Smith (Ashley Books, 1989)
Attempt to create an eutopia by rebuilding after a catastrophe.
Keywords: Female author

The Catalyst - Penny [Jane] Hall (b. 1941) (Collins Publishers Australia, 1989)
Sequel to 1987 Hall in which the same group of children continue their struggle to survive and plan for a better future.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Children of Time - Deborah [Stoddard] Moulton (b. 1952) (Dial, 1989)
Young adult novel of a computer controlled dystopia. Nuclear war is imminent.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Chimera" - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1989)
Future dystopia in which thirty percent have been sterilized in exchange for a higher income. Privacy very important and invasion of privacy laws strictly enforced. Eighty percent of the population lives in welfare ghettos. Various other themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The City, Not Long After - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) (Doubleday & Co., 1989)
Magical realism set in a post-catastrophe San Francisco in which the survivors are creating a better world but are threatened by totalitarians who are planning to invade.
U.K. ed. London: Pan Fantasy, 1990. Part was originally published as “Art in the War Zone”. Universe 14. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1984), 64-92.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Clicking Stones - Nancy Tyler Glenn (Naiad Press, 1989)
Lesbian future tale. Fantasy with eutopian elements.
Keywords: Female author

"Cronus" - Marianne Puxley (Interzone, 1989)
Future dystopia where people are encouraged to live in communities that where everything about their lives is controlled.
Keywords: Female author; South African author; UK author

Edgewise - [Marian] [Grace] (b. 1941) (Naiad Press, 1989)
The novel is about the development of a lesbian religious community, Circle Edge, known locally as the Ladies’ Farm, and its success. The novel details the interactions of the main protagonist with the community and her struggle to decide what to do with a large fortune she has inherited, ends with a future report on the community, from Womenworld Magazine (November 1999), which, with the protagonist’s money, has gradually bought up a town in Colorado and transformed it into a eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

“Hand-me-Down Town” - Maya Kaathryn Bonhhoff (b. 1954) (Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 1989)
Eutopia created by the homeless who were being ejected by a city. They resurrect a failed, half-built, and abandoned development using their own skills and donations from those opposed to their treatment. The eutopia created is a 1950s style small down, and at the end of the story other such towns are being created around the country. The story does not ignore the psychological problems and the alcoholism and drug abuse that frequently go with homelessness.
Keywords: Female author

"Harmonogmia 'of an integrated nature'" - William Glover; Hedde Gräfje; Steven Rising; Shingo Suekane; Mark Wettstone (Cloverleaf in the Grid, 1989)
Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Heartland - Nancy [J.] Corbett (b. 1944) (Black Swan, 1989)
A post-catastrophe future in which men and women live separately and both have developed eutopian societies. Both are fairly simple societies; the women are strongly in touch with nature; the men are concerned with avoiding the mistakes of the past by passing on knowledge of the mistakes that brought about the catastrophe. The novel concerns the problems that develop when the system of artificial insemination begins to fail. Reconciliation.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"The Human Shore" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Futures, 1989)
A future society in which gender differentiation is unknown.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"If You Go Down to the Park Today" - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) (The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories, 1989)
Satire on heaven.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

In the Blood - Lauren Wright Douglas (b. 1947) (Naiad Press, 1989)
Near future post-catastrophe tale that is mostly an adventure story from a lesbian perspective. There is a eutopian lesbian community.
Keywords: Female 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

"Itu's Sixth Winter Festival (Excerpts from Daughters of Gelasia)" - Shirley Hartwell (Memories and Visions: Women's Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1989)
Feminist eutopia describing a women-only community.
Keywords: 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

Junta - June Drummond (1923-2011) (Victor Gollancz, 1989)
Dystopian thriller. South Africa in the near future. Racial violence fomented by outside interests for their own purposes.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

The Last of the Green-Toed Fruit-Bats: A Fairy-Tale for Adults - Toni Jeffreys (Waiake Wordsmiths, 1989)
Part dystopia, part fantasy, part feminist eutopia. The story, written as if from 2019-20, is of an island in the eastern Pacific called New Balkland, which has an ecology and history similar to New Zealand. The novel is written from the point-of-view of one woman from her earliest years to her full development as a powerful witch. Her history parallels a series of environmental and political disasters that leads to the destruction of the world, except for New Balkland, which is saved by its women, with the help of the world's whales.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Monstrous Regiment - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) (Orbit, 1989)
Complex future. Feminist eutopia established by women fleeing the patriarchal Earth  becomes a dystopia in which any relationship between a man and a woman is unacceptable under the descendants of those women. Continued in 1991 Constantine.
Rpt. London Orbit, 1990 and London: Orbit, 1991.
Keywords: Female author; UK 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

"Our Town" - Peter Baltay; Catherine Briggs; Jeff Johansen; Staffan Nordlund (Cloverleaf in the Grid, 1989)
Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

The Outlander: Captivity - B. J. Salterberg (Harbinger House, 1989)
Post-catastrophe novel with Amazonian warriors and domesticated males versus a society of male chauvinists. Both groups must change to survive. Female author.
Keywords: Female author

"Star Wares: The Next Generation" - James A. Levin (Book); Linda Eisenstein (Music) (1989)
Satire. Struggle against the "Military Industrial Entertainment Complex" and the "Sludge Monsters" from Wango-Wango.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Strip-Runner" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov, 1989)
Dystopia of an enclosed world and its limitations on a teenage girl.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Tales of the Lost Formicans" - Constance [S.] Congdon (b. 1944) (American Theatre, 1989)
Satire on Middle America as seen by aliens.
Rpt. in Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville (New York: Broadway Publishing, 1989), 279-342; as Tales of the Lost Formicans. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1990; and as “Tales of the Lost Formicans.” In her Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1994), 1-76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Third Force" (RockHEAD, 1989)
The future of the Kerista commune as a eutopia where it covers an complete San Francisco block with the area in the center brought together. Highly developed technology. Different intentional communities throughout California.
Second part also published in The Node 6.1 (Spring 1991): 8-9, 20-21.
Keywords: Female author; US 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 Wall Around Eden - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) (Morrow, 1989)
Flawed utopia. A small town is isolated by aliens from a nuclear holocaust and re-learns the skills of a simple life. The next generation begins to see this life as too limiting.
U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1989.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) (HarperCollins Children's Books, 1989)
Weetzie Bat is the name of the main character, who creates a eutopian family around her comprised of two gay men, who father her child, a husband, his child by a witch, and various pets. Fantasy elements. Marketed as young adult. There are a number of other books in which Weetzie Bat plays a role or focus on characters from the original story, generally without the eutopian elements but with some fantasy. These include Witch Baby (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Cherokee Bat and The Goat Guys (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), Missing Angel Juan (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), Baby Be-bop (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), and Necklace of Kisses. A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 2005).
Rpt. in Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 1-70, which also includes Witch Baby (71-154), Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (155-252), Missing Angel Juan (253-373), and Baby Be-Bop (375-478).
Keywords: Female author; US author