A Paradigm of Earth - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) (Tor, 2001)
The background to a first contact story is an extrapolation into the near future of a right-wing Canada that is mildly dystopian but growing worse. Described as “The revolution of the haves against the have nots” (121). Also presents an egalitarian eutopia in a communal setting with humans and aliens.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Perdita - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) (Wooded Hill Press, 2001)
Strongly pro- and anti-technology forces on a eutopian planet. Includes a list of the principal characters by group [(iv)], rules for the pronunciation of the languages of the planet ([v]), and a map of the planet ([vi]).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ritual of Proof - Dara Joy (William Morrow, 2001)
Romance novel set in a society in which women dominate.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scape-grace" - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 2001)
A flawed utopia in which a society damages a person as a symbol of human troubles.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Scorch - A. D. Nauman (Soft Skull Press, 2001)
Free market dystopia in which the U.S. government has been replaced by huge corporations.
Keywords: Female author

"Sex With an Alien" - Lori Ann White (Neverworlds, 2001)
Dystopia or flawed utopia from different points of view within the story. The collapse of the world economy and ecosystem led to the recreation of past small town life as a supposed eutopia. The reality is that political leaders have had greater sexual access to create particularly beautiful women. The "aliens" are real women with less than perfect bodies.
Rpt. in Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001. Ed. Brian Youmans (Boston, MA: Suddenly Press, 2002), 137-50 with an author's note on 136.
Keywords: Female author

Starpeople: Mankind Gets a Second Chance: The Sirian Redemption - Linda Tuck-Jenkins (Inspirational Fiction, 2001)
Dystopia of the present situation but holds out hope for the eutopia to come. The ancestors of the human race came from the stars and such people are returning again to allow humans to correct their past mistakes.
Keywords: Female author

"Subs" - Lauren Halkon (b. 1973) (Albedo (Dublin, Ireland), 2001)
Dystopia in which everyone is programmed from birth. “Subs” is the abbreviation for subversives or those that the programing fails to control.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Technolife 2020: A Day in the World of Tomorrow - Lois Gresh (b. 1956) (ECW Press, 2001)
Humor and satire on the technologically "enhanced" life of the future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Terra Farma - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) (Viking Australia, 2001)
Sequel to the 2001 rev. ed. of her 1992 Galax-Arena in which some children have escaped from Galax-Arena. In trying to help other children, they get captured and taken to Terra-Farma, a cloning facility, which the ultimately managed to destroy. A third volume, Universercus, was planned but does not appear to have been published.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Timebroker - Nan Weizenbaum (Xlibris, 2001)
Dystopia in which the life force can be drained from one person to give immortality to another. Political novel about the Chronogen's (the drained) fight for rights and better compensation.
Keywords: Female author

Turning on the Girls - Cheryl Benard (b. 1953) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
Satire in which women create a feminist eutopia, but there is an underground men's movement trying to overthrow it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ultraviolet - Lesley Howarth (b. 1952) (Puffin Books, 2001)
Young adult dystopia of a society living underground as a result of becoming too hot and most people spending most of their time in virtual reality. One girl undertakes a quest to go outside.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Under the Saffron Tree" - Cherith Baldry (Interzone, 2001)
Eutopia brought about by a virus that eliminates aggression as well as maintaining good health. Simple life.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Velderet - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) (Circlet Press, 2001)
A sado-masochistic novel that begins in a eutopia and moves to a conflict in which s/m saves the day.
The first six of the twelve chapters were published serially in Taste of Latex, nos. 10 - 15 (1995-97).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"As the Angels in Heaven" - Maya Kaathryn Bonhhoff (b. 1954) (Sexcrime: Tales of Underground Love and Subversive Erotica, 2000)
A future in which sex between husbands and wives is unacceptable; each has a sexual partner who may or may not be shared with others.
Keywords: Female author

The Blind Assassin - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) (Bloomsbury, 2000)
In a novel focusing on a family history two stories are told, one intermittently throughout the novel and one in a few brief sections. The first is a dystopia describing an authoritarian country on another planet and its institutions, particularly those around the sacrifice of virgins. The second is a male fantasy flawed eutopia which the men find fades over time.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"A Cold Dish" - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) (SciFiction, 2000)
Dystopia in which sex outside of marriage is outlawed and women are punished by being forced to have babies.
Rpt. in Interzone, no. 172 (October 2001): 17-21.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Colony Fleet - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) (Avon Eos, 2000)
Multiple generation space ship has a complex class structure which begins to break down, as does the ship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Crescent City Rhapsody - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Avon Eos, 2000)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian, right-wing dystopia in the U.S. set in a world where nanotechnology and genetic engineering are out of control and provide the possibility for both better and worse futures. Aliens destroy Earth electronics and build the nanotechnology-based Crescent City to take humans off the dystopian Earth. Related to 1994, 1997, and 2002 Goonan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dervish is Digital - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Macmillan, 2000)
Cyberpunk dystopia that is something of a sequel to her Tea From an Empty Cup (1998) in that the central character and some of the setting are the same. The female author was born in the U.S. and lives in England. Other cyberpunk dystopias by the author are 1991 and 1992 Cadigan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dove's Song - Eloise Rodkey Rees (1st Books, 2000)
A Christian, spiritualist eutopia. Other planets are more advanced than Earth, but an alien visits Earth and prods it in the right direction. There is a sequel to the alien’s visit in her Dove’s Duet. Novel. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2001, which is a love story helped along by the return visit of the alien.
Keywords: Female author

Dream of Venus - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Star Colonies, 2000)
The story is set in the same universe as 1986, 1988, and 2001 Sargent, but earlier than those novels, and focuses the development of a representation of Venus and the personalities and politics involved.
Rpt. in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 325-57 with "Afterword to 'Dream of Venus'" on 358-59.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Eye of the Heart" - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction, 2000)
Dystopia. All married women are blinded after the honeymoon so that they will only remember their husbands as loving men.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Far Away - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) (Nick Hern Books in association with the Royal Court Theatre, 2000)
Brief ecological dystopia in which everything in the entire world, including animals and plants, is at war with each other.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Forbidden Experiment” - Pamela [Lifton] Zoline (b. 1941) (Fence, 2000)
Depicts a dystopia where “corporate interests” are running an experiment on raising children who have never heard the spoken word, the children having been stolen from their poor parents. Described as a libretto.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Fresco - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Eos, 2000)
A first contact novel that uses the form to explore problems both in the alien society and on Earth. The alien society has based its social structure on a false reading of an ancient fresco covered in centuries of accumulated dirt. Cleaning the fresco threatens to destroy the society, which is based on the idea that each person has one and only one appropriate social role. On the basis of tradition outweighing truth, the fresco is repainted to reflect the traditional version. The Earth gains a eutopia of civility.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gathering Blue - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
A companion to but not a sequel to 1993 Lowry in which the author presents an alternative future that is primitive and simple with aspects of savagery. Her Messenger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004 and Son. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2012, which includes characters from both 1993 Lowry and this volume but take place in an intentional community.
UK ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Heart of Gold - Sharon Shinn (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 2000)
Dystopia focusing on gender and racial relations.
Keywords: Female author

Hex: Ghosts - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) (Macmillan Children's Books, 2000, 2000)
Sequel to 1998 and 1999 Lassiter. In this volume, those carrying the gene giving direct access to computers share it with others and the ending suggests that a eutopia will develop.
Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 449-669.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"In Silver A" - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) (Absolute Magnitude, 2000)
Dystopia. Silver A is Silver America, an enclave within what used to be the U.S., which is supposed to be a eutopia but is a dystopia. Non-citizens are forced into the military or used as experimental subjects by scientists.
Rpt. in The Mammoth Book of Future Cops. Ed. Maxim Jakubowski and M. Christian (London: Robinson, 2003), 456-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Incognito - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) (Random House Australia, 2000)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Every individual is stamped with a barcode, and the story is about a boy who is made a non-person by having his identity removed from the system.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; US author

Midnight Robber - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (Warner Books, 2000)
The planet Toussaint has been colonized from the Caribbean and replicated the positive and negative aspects of Caribbean culture. It expels its criminals to the dystopian New Half-Way Tree.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

Outlaw School - [Rebecca Bard] [Brown] (b. 1948) (Eos, 2000)
Dystopia. Authoritarian future controlling all aspects of life. There is a rebel who tries to open up possibilities for improvement.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Patient Zero” - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2000)
Post-apocalypse dystopia (pandemic) as seen by a small boy who has survived but is a carrier and is being kept in a medical facility that is slowly losing its ability to function and its staff.
Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 362-379.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Secret Under My Skin - Janet [Elizabeth] McNaughton (b. 1953) (HarperCollins, 2000)
Set in 2368 after a series of environmental catastrophes and orchestrated attacks on science and technology designed to justify government policy. The result is an authoritarian dystopia with an underground network of scientists. The novel focuses on the struggle against the dystopia and the reestablishment of democratic institutions. Classified as Young Adult.
U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2005.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Separation Anxiety" - Evie Shockley (b. 1965) (Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, 2000)
Racial and ethnic communities in the U.S. are separated with the intent to allow each to develop. The story presents both positive and negative effects.
Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017),  509-524.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Telling - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Harcourt, 2000)
Anthropological science fiction in her Hainish cycle. There are two dystopias, one religious and one scientific and anti-religious. The latter is trying to suppress the traditional culture on its planet, which is centered around the Telling, an extremely complex set of stories that provide a guide to most aspects of life on the planet. This culture is a flawed or ambiguous utopia because the attempts to suppress it meant that it could not incorporate new knowledge and because in the past one part of the planet had used it for power rather than enlightenment.
U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2000. Rpt. 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), 589-750 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787-89).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Utopia - Bovard, Barbara Zimmer (1st Books, 2000)
New Age eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

We Are Not Alone: Messages from the Hollow Earth and the Subterranean City of Telos - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) (Mt. Shasta Light Pub., 2000)
New age, hollow earth eutopia. The hollow earth is inhabited by the very long-lived, telepathic, vegetarian, descendants of Lemuria, who settled under Mt. Shasta, California, and, nearer the center, descendants of peoples from other worlds. The hollow earth is threaded with tunnels, and all planets and stars are hollow. The people take pride in their physical form. See also Robbins 1996 and 2003.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zollocco--A Novel of Another Universe - Cynthia Joyce Clay (b. 1954) (Bookbooters Press, 2000)
A tour through a number of societies, some eutopian and some dystopian. Strong environmental content. Humor.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Aberrant: Project Utopia. Creating a Brighter Future with the Power of Today! - Carl Bowen (b. 1975); Steven [S.] Long; Angel [Leigh] McCoy (b. 1962); Kraig Blackwelder; John Chambers (White Wolf, 1999)
Supplement to the Aberrant game and book series describing superheroes creating a eutopia of peace, plenty, and health and the super-villains opposed to them. While the text states that a much better world has been created, there is little description of the eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Amerikan Sunset. A Novel - Jennifer Ladewig (b. 1966) (Trafford, 1999)
Dystopia of a collapsing U.S. and the struggle for survival.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Another Chance - Martha T[herrin] Brescia (1917-2015) (American Literary Press, 1999)
A religious novel in which the current system ends, and civilization is re-emerging in an area named Paradise that appears to be a eutopia, but is also a staging ground, a place of preparation for an even better life, with the novel focused on the period of preparation. A sub-theme concerns aliens who are defeated by prayer. .
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bloodwood Clan - Beryl Fletcher (b. 1938) (Spinifex, 1999)
The novel is about fictional contemporary Australian religious intentional community with a focus on gender relations.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Bouncing Babies" - Kara Dalkey (b. 1953) (Not of Woman Born, 1999)
Satire on what society will look like if a major market in women's eggs develops.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Climb the Wind: A Novel of Another America - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (HarperPrism, 1999)
Alternative history in which the American Indians fought back at the end of the Civil War and won.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Conqueror's Child - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (Tor, 1999)
Fourth volume of series that includes 1974, 1978, and 1994 Charnas. In this volume, the men of the Holdfast have been enslaved by the freed women, but Alldera's daughter arrives bringing with her a boy child who she has effectively adopted, and the society begins to struggle toward a more balanced relationship between men and women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Crowlings - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (Collins, 1999)
Young adult novel in which a traditional society has to deal with people from space coming to their planet. The novel is concerned with the conflicts, both personal and societal, regarding the temptations of modern civilization.
Rpt. London: Collins, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

The Cure - Sonia Levitin (b. 1934) (Silver Whistle Harcourt Brace & Co, 1999)
Young adult novel set in a 2047 flawed utopia stressing conformity, harmony, and tranquility. An individual whose strong emotions seem to threaten the society is sent to the dystopian past of anti-Semitic Strasbourg of 1348. Returning to the future, he decides to try to change it.
Keywords: Female author

"Dawnings" - Zelda Curtis (1923-2012) (The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, 1999)
Egalitarian eutopia set in the U.K. in 2010 seen from the perspective of an old woman who had gone through the transition. The protagonist describes her flat in a collectively owned and managed building with a large communal space and a computer room. Adjacent buildings have different amenities such as a swimming pool, gym, art studio, music room, or meeting room. Clinic on site as is a nursery and crèche. Employment is arranged so that “no one has to work more than a three-day shift for a wage sufficient for their needs” (102). Equal pay for all. Cheap public transport.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Fence - Anne [N.] Steinberg (Citron Press, 1999)
Dystopia with fantasy elements that reflects an attempt to reestablish National Socialism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gardens in the Dunes - Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
Eutopia. In the beginning and at the end of the novel, the "gardens in the dunes" are presented as reflecting a Native American Indian eutopia. The rest of the novel is concerned, among other things, with the dystopia created for Native Americans by U.S. policies toward them.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

"The Grammarian's Five Daughters" - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Realms of Fantasy, 1999)
Eutopian fantasy in which a poor grammarian gives each daughter a sack of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions respectively), and they go off and find a country without those words. Releasing the words transforms each country for the better. Ultimately all five countries are united.
Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 6-20.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Heavenly Village - Cynthia Rylant (The Blue Sky Press, 1999)
The Heavenly Village is a domestic heaven existing between this life and the true afterlife where people wait until they are prepared to let go of life. Young adult novel.
Keywords: Female author

Hex: Shadows - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1999)
Sequel to 1998 Lassiter. In this volume, the gene giving direct access to computers has supposedly been eliminated and the people killed, but some of them survive. See also 2000 Lassiter.
Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 241-448.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Hisland: Adventures in Ac-Ac-ademe - Fedwa Malti-Douglas (b. 1946) (State University of New York Press, 1999)
Satire on contemporary academia, particularly the treatment of women.
Keywords: Female author; Lebanese-American author

Idol Love - Anuradha Marwah-Roy (Ravi Dayal Publisher, 1999)
Dystopia with the first part set in the present depicting a woman whose live choices are restricted by social norms. The other two parts are set in a future where religious rules restrict women even more.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"India 2099" - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (In a special issue entitled India 999-1999 Millennium Special of Outlook (New Delhi), 1999)
Future of India that has been changed first by two atomic bombs, then by Indians establishing space colonies which transform the remaining parts of India into an apparent eutopia.
Rpt. as “2099.” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 149-60.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"Just for Beautiful" - Marlene Wurfel (b. 1974) (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 1999)
A flawed environmental utopia with population balanced by restricting births to the replacement level. The people can change genders at will and see all activities as either female or male. They try unsuccessfully to integrate a group arriving on a space ship who cannot change.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Last Dog" - Katherine Paterson (Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future, 1999)
Flawed utopia. A young adult story about a domed community that is rigidly controlled to exclude any possibility of illness and a young man's venture outside.
Keywords: Female author

"A Life in a Day" - Shelley Bovey (The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, 1999)
A eutopia where being fat is the norm and honored. The protagonist is a fat woman living comfortably in a society designed for her remembering what it was like to live when being fat was treated as a fault open to criticism.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

"Lifework" - Mary Soon Lee (Interzone, 1999)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the government believes it knows better than the individual how to achieve an individual's happiness. Marriage considered to have been superseded; partners chosen by the state.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century - Susan George (b. 1934) (Pluto, 1999)
Dystopia. A report on what is required to keep free market capitalism in control in the future that identifies a number of major issue, the most important being the growth of population in the developing world. The report says that policies should be implemented to ensure that starvation, disease, war, and so forth ensures that this problem is controlled. Compare to 1967 Lewin, Report from Iron Mountain.
New ed. London: Pluto, 2003.
Keywords: Female author; French author; US author

Mara and Dann: An Adventure - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (HarperCollins, 1999)
The setting is a post-apocalyptic climate change dystopia in which war, a new ice age, and drought have left only the remains of cities and people are migrating north across Ifrik (Africa). Mara and Dann are brother and sister who have been abducted and the novel follows their experiences as the age into adulthood. A sequel is General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, the Griot and the Snow Dog. London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 282 pp. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 282 pp. In this novel, Mara dies in childbirth and Dann, is now a respected General who is expected to bring order to an ice covered Yerrup (Europe) inhabited by warring tribes of refugees. Both novels place considerable emphasis on personal relationships.
U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 407 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Mistress of Lilliput - Alison Fell (b. 1944) (Doubleday, 1999)
Lemuel Gulliver’s wife follows him after he leaves her hoping to return to Houyhnhnmland. Other stories from the point-of-view of Mrs. Gulliver are John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel, “Gulliver at Home.” In his The Pure Product: Stories (New York: Tor, 1997), 329-43; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 565-75; and in Kessel’s Rpt. in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 303-316, with a note on the story on 572-573; Karen Joy Fowler’s “The Travails.” In her Black Glass: Short Fiction (New York: Henry Holt, 1998), 84-95 provides letters written by Mrs. Gulliver after Gulliver leaves the second time; and Lauren Chater, Gulliver’s Wife. Cammeray, NSW, Australia: Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2020, about the life that Mrs. Gulliver builds for herself after he leaves, and the disruption caused by his return.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Monster Mission - Eva [Maria Charlotte Michelle] Ibbotson (1925-2010) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1999)
Young adult novel in which children are kidnapped to an isolated island to help care for unusual sea creatures.
Keywords: Austrian author; English author; Female author

"News from the 21st Century" - Vanessa Baird (b. 1955) (The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, 1999)
Short news reports from a future of much greater equality, particularly gender equality.
Keywords: Belgian author; English author; Female author

"Old Music and the Slave Women" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, 1999)
A fifth novella to add to her 1995 Four Ways to Forgiveness. This story is mostly about the continuing struggle for control of the planet Werel.
Rpt. in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 153-211. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 153-211; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 429-87; 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), 518-69 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Other Place - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) (HarperCollins, 1999)
Young adult dystopia in which the World Government exiles those considered subversive to penal colonies and then erases their previous lives. This is contrasted with "the Other Place", a planet where children are sent when rescued from the penal colonies and where they are in the process of creating a eutopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Pay It Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
Eutopia. A twelve year old boy takes seriously a teacher's assignment to come up with a way of improving the world and making it happen. His proposal is to pay gratitude forward by helping someone else. The idea sweeps the world, which makes significant differences at the personal level. Made into a film in 2000 directed by Mimi Leder with a screenplay by Leslie Dixon.
Rpt. New York: Pocket, 2001.
Keywords: Female author

"The Queen of Erewhon" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1999)
Anthropological science fiction with both eutopian and dystopian elements describing a society where a woman takes multiple husbands. Lesbian themes.
Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 18-42; in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 391-413; and in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 22-43.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Rumours of Dreams - Sandi Hall (b. 1942) (Spinifex Press, 1999)
Set mostly in the early Christian era, but from the perspective of a violent dystopia in New Zealand in 2002. A woman is leading a rebellion against the dystopia. A eutopian enclave, Istadevata, is shown that indicates that New Zealand still has eutopian potential.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Smart Alec" - Kage [Kate Genevieve] Baker (1952-2010) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1999)
A dystopia in which all the health and social worries of the late 20th century have been enforced and become social practice. Children do not play together for fear of disease. Only licensed adults are allowed to hug a child. Only healthy foods are allowed.
Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 169-201 with a note on 169.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Star Split - [Kathryn Lasky] [Knight] (b. 1944) (Hyperion Books for Children, 1999)
Genetic engineering dystopia. Marketed for 10-14 age group.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Terrorists of Irustan - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Ace Books, 1999)
Essentially a political novel of revolt by women in a society similar to that of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tribes - Anne Lewington (Wight Diamond Press, 1999)
Ecological dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

The World Celaeno Chose - Jane Fletcher (The Dimsdale Press, 1999)
Religious dystopia with lesbian interest. There are no men, and one of the few women who can manipulate DNA to create life is owned by the Church.
Keywords: Female author

Yanked! - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Avon, 1999)
Eutopia as background to an adventure story. In the twenty-first century the Earth begins a long period of decline, but humanity recovers and eliminates all the traditional problems like poverty and disease. Little detail.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Accidental Creatures - Anne [L.] Harris (b. 1964) (Tor, 1998)
Dystopian background to biological science fiction. Society divided into the very rich and the very poor. Powerful corporation.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. The focus of the novel is on the "shadow children" or those who are the third or more children. See also 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Asonu" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Orion: People and Nature, 1998)
An odd society where people speak very little and live good lives. Satire on those who want them to be mystics.
Rpt. as "The Silence of the Asonu." In her Changing Planes. Illus. by Eric Beddows (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 19-29; online in Lightspeed in December 2010; in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 328-33; and 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), 253-63; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 605-12.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Body Politic" - Tess Williams (b. 1954) (Dreaming Down Under, 1998)
Dystopia of extreme poverty contrasted with great wealth.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Brown Girl in the Ring - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (Warner Books, 1998)
Magic realism set in a future Toronto dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

"Fairest Isle" - Elizabeth Counihan (Interzone, 1998)
Future dystopia of a poverty-stricken Britain.
Keywords: Female author

Flee the Darkness - Grant R[eid] Jeffrey (1948-2012); Angela [Elwell] Hunt (b. 1957) (Word Publishing, 1998)
Using the fear of possible computer crashes at the beginning of 2000, the novel is concerned with the struggle between good and evil, the antichrist, Armageddon (See Revelation 16), and the millennium. Their By Dawn’s Early Light. Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 1999 and The Spear of Tyranny. Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 2000 are sequels. See also 1990 Jeffrey, his Final Warning. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1996; and his Surveillance Society: The Rise of Antichrist. Toronto, ON, Canada: Frontier Research Publications, 2000.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

Halfway Human - Carolyn Ives Gilman (b. 1954) (Avon Eos, 1998)
Describes a planet that appears eutopian but is dependent on the labor of an underclass of ungendered people. Describes another planet whose economy is based on the sale of information.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hand of Prophecy - [Suzanne] [Feldman] (b. 1958) (Avon Eos, 1998)
Dystopia with slavery.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Harvest - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (Kali for Women, 1998)
Dystopian play focusing on the sale of body parts by the poor to the rich.
Rpt. in Black and Asian Plays (London: Aurora Metro Books/The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, 2000), 10-89. A standalone version of the play with unauthorized cuts was published by the same publisher in 2003. Rev. in Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology. Ed. Helen Gilbert (London: Routledge, 2011), 217-249, with an editor’s “Introduction” (214-216). Rev & exp. ed. Gurgram, India: Hachette India, 2017 with a new introduction by the author (unpaged); and Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Ed. W[illiam] B. Worthen. 6th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011), 1727-1755.
Keywords: Female author; Indian 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

I Am Not Esther - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) (Longacre Press, 1998)
Young adult dystopia set in a communal fundamentalist sect. The title refers to the practice of changing the names of members who join to Biblical names.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand 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

Maximum Light - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Tor, 1998)
A near future dystopia in which the birth rate drops precipitously, which the economy cannot handle, and the resulting poverty and violence.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Mulatto Millennium” - Danzy Senna (Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural, 1998)
Satire on racial identity and politics in the United States where suddenly being mixed race is the only acceptable identity.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Originator - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) (Random House Australia, 1998)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia focusing on genetic engineering. A rigidly hierarchical society, divided into Leets, Mids, and Subs, faces a scientist creating super-humans. Her Fabricant. Milsons Point, NSW, Australia: Random House Australia, 1999 is a sequel.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; US author

Parable of the Talents - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Seven Stories Press, 1998)
Sequel to 1993 Butler in which the community started in the previous volume is taken over by religious fundamentalists.
An excerpt was published as “Parable of the Talents Chapter Four.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 6.2 (1999): 135-48 followed by Susan Palwick, “Imagining a Sustainable Way of Life: An Interview with Octavia Butler” (149-58).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Paradise - Toni Morrison (1931-2019) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998)
The novel is based around a community of African Americans that was founded to be a utopian enclave.
UK ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1998.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"On the Penal Colony" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1998)
Dystopia in which an historic site is actually a prison with all the people playing the roles of historic inhabitants as prisoners.
Rpt. in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 229-39.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Perverse Acts - Camilla Nelson (b. 1967) (Text Publishing Co, 1998)
A political novel set in near-future Australia depicted as a dystopia of conflict between an activist right and a fairly conservative middle.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Planet Dreams - Michaela Carlock (Keswick House, 1998)
The novel presents two near future Earths. One is an ecologically oriented, non-violent, egalitarian eutopia, and the others is an extremely polluted, violent, poor, authoritarian dystopia. They begin to interact, changing both, but the eutopia survives without serious damage. New Age themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Prelude to a Nocturne" - Rowena Cory Lindquist (b. 1958) (Dreaming Down-Under, 1998)
Dystopia. A future in which many people permanently put off puberty.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Really Know Love for all-that-is - Roslynn Webb Cady (RosTer Publications, 1998)
New Age eutopia, See also 2008 Cady. A related work is her The Final Quantum: A New Thought Novel. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform in conjunction with RosTer Publications Cañon City, CO., 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Scavenger's Tale - Rachel Anderson (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in 2015. The world is radically divided between the rich and the poor. Authoritarian government and authoritarian church.
Keywords: Female 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

"Thanksgiving Day at the Temple" - Donna Farley (Divine Realms: Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1998)
A future dystopia in which religion is suppressed.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female 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

The Whistler - Stephanie Johnson (b. 1961) (Allen & Unwin, 1998)
Complex novel set in a future, overpopulated, violent Australia. Stories are told by a genetically re-engineered dog (no legs and no bark among other changes) who both remembers past lives and describes and comments on the current situation. In the future Australia, prostitution has become the official Relief Corps, half the population barely ever leaves their homes while others risk the constant violence for thrills, and tower blocks are ruled by local kings. Chapter 10 describes one of the dog's earlier lives in a lesbian eutopia.
New Zealand ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Vintage, 1998.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Dazzle of Day - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) (Tor, 1997)
Critical eutopia. Troubled Quaker society near the end of a multi-generation space flight trying to decide on settling a rather undesirable planet. Ends with a picture of the society established there after a few generations.
Rpt. New York: Saga Press, 2019 with the story “Lambing Season” appended unpaged at the end. It was originally published illus. Lourie Harden. Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.7 (318) (July 2002): 83-91; rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 200-13; and in her Unforeseen: Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019), 203-19.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Essence of Gandhi” - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (New Internationalist Magazine, 1997)
Satire on genetic manipulation that begins in a dystopia that controls all genes and then moves toward a eutopia based on the genes of Gandhi.
Rpt. as “Gandhi-Toxin.” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 91-98.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

Exit to Reality - Edith Forbes (b. 1954) (Seal Press, 1997)
After a world-wide environmental collapse, a plan is put in place to replace human bodies and, by doing so, create a eutopia. In the eutopia, where the novel begins, people regenerate themselves and live very long lives, and the protagonist is over 600 years old. Most of the world’s land is under agriculture with all housing on land that is too steep to be used for mechanized farming. Income and housing depend on one’s level of employment. People are kept in balance psychologically chemically. Everyone has a virtual mother and father, even someone as old as the protagonist. But the eutopia is ruled by corporations and is deeply flawed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Glimmering: A Novel - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) (HarperPrism, 1997)
Near future (1999) ecological dystopia. The new edition is revised throughout but does not change the fundamentals.
Rev. ed. Portland, OR: Underland Press, 2012 with "Author's Notes to This Revised Edition" (xiii-xiv) and Kim Stanley Robinson, "Introduction" (xvii-xviii).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Imperfect Utopia" - Irshad Manji (b. 1968) (Risking Utopia: On the Edge of a New Democracy, 1997)
Diversity, radical democracy that the author calls the “Utopia of Complexity,” a utopia that “revels” in its own complexity but with no “drive to perfection.” Canadian female author born in Uganda presenting a eutopia she thinks Canada is best suited to develop.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Misconceiver - Lucy Ferriss (b. 1954) (Simon & Schuster, 1997)
The dystopia of a future  United States  with abortion outlawed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mississippi Blues - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor, 1997)
Sequel to 1994 Goonan. In this novel the protagonist continues her trip down the Ohio and into the Mississippi River toward New Orleans. Loosely related to 2000 and 2002 Goonan with the four volumes together called her “Nanotech Quartet.”
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Moons of Palmares - Zainab Amadahy (b.1956) (Sister Vision Black Women and Women of Color Press, 1997)
Dystopia of commercial exploitation of a colony for its mineral resources and the successful fight for independence.
An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 171-81 with an editor’s note on 171-73.
Keywords: African American author; Canadian author; Female author; Native American author

Mother Grimm - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) (Roc, 1997)
Dystopia contrasting the sterile world of the Biodome with the vicious world outside.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Plague Saint - Rita [Mary] Donovan (b. 1955) (Tesseract Books, 1997)
Dystopia. Canada post-plague is dominated by the authoritarian Church of the Survivors.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Pukeko Tuawhaa" - Hinemoana Baker (b. 1968) (1997)
Set in 2999 when Te Reo Māori is the one recognized language. Appears to be mostly science fiction adventure, but clearly there are utopian elements.
Unpublished play performed at Taki Rua Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (August 1997).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Māori author

“Rent-A-Crowd” - Christine Harris (Deadly Friends. Stories by Claire Carmichael Margaret Clark and Christine Harris, 1997)
Flawed utopia in which people are not supposed to think for themselves but let government do it because thinking for themselves disrupts the supposedly ideal society.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Studmuffin - Marilyn Duckworth (b. 1935) (Vintage, 1997)
Includes an authoritarian intentional community led by an old man who wants to control people by taking away their ability to speak.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Tropic of Orange. A Novel - Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951) (Coffee House, 1997)
Magical realist dystopia set in Los Angeles.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Undesirables - Mary C. Smith (b. 1936) (Black Heron Press, 1997)
An apparent eutopia (no war, no gender or racial discrimination) is in fact an authoritarian dystopia. The bureaucracy manipulates the apparent direct democracy, mates people to produce the “right” offspring, and uses drugs as a means of social control. Those who don’t fit in are brainwashed or sterilized. The novel focuses on the struggle to reform it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2006: 20 Stories of Life, Love and Death on the Roads early in the 21st Century as seen by young writers ten years earlier (New Zealand Police, 1996)
Chosen from stories submitted by forty-seven schools plus one by [Anthony] Phillip Mann, who selected the ones published. Although individually none of these mostly very short pieces have enough detail to warrant inclusion, collectively they provide glimpses of both eutopias and dystopias concerned with road safety. Two approaches dominate, technological solutions that take control away from drivers and harsh punishment, including death, particularly for drunk driving.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Male author

Anarchist Farm - Jane Doe [pseud.] (III Publishing, 1996)
1945 Blair, Animal Farm (1945) from an anarchist perspective, with a pig driven out of Animal Farm one of the characters. Animals from both a farm where they had been treated well and from the forest near it cooperate to combat polluting corporations and extensive logging of the forest.
Keywords: Female 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

‘Bods’ - Sylvia Nickels (Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living, 1996)
Brief dystopia about organ and tissue farms with the people fighting back.
Keywords: Female author

The Bones of Time - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1996)
Eutopian and dystopian aspects of genetic engineering set mostly in Hawaii at different times from the late nineteenth century to into the future.
Originated in her novella “Kamehameha’s Bones.” Illus. Laurie Harden. Asimov’s Science Fiction 17.10 (205) (September 1993): 132-74.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"The Canon" - Elizabeth Young (Interzone, 1996)
Future education in which university faculty are functionally illiterate.
Keywords: Female author

"Community Service" - Molly [Doris Mary] Brown (Interzone (Brighton, Eng.), 1996)
Dystopia focusing on conflict between police and an underclass.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

“The Cost to Be Wise” - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Starlight 1, 1996)
Dystopia on a planet that was a colony of Earth, forgotten by Earth and having forgotten Earth, which is rediscovered but remains a generally primitive, ignorant, and violent society. The novella describes the conflict that takes place during a visit by people from Earth. Female author.
Rpt. in Lightspeed: Women Destroy Science Fiction. Ed. Christie Yant. No 49 of Lightspeed (June 2014): 206-48.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Faraday's Orphans - N[ancy] Lee Wood (b. 1955) (Victor Gollancz, 1996)
Dystopia after an environmental catastrophe in which the lucky live in domed cities. Largely adventure novel in the horrible conditions outside the domes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gibbon's Decline and Fall - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Bantam Books, 1996)
Dystopia of a future that is becoming increasingly anti-woman. There is cooperation between the Vatican, Islamic leaders, and right-wing Christians to force women to be subservient to men.
Keywords: Female author; US author

How To Mutate and Take Over the World - [Ken] [Goffman]; [Judith] [Milhon] (Ballantine Books, 1996)
Beginning in 2000 with an authoritarian government and a growing revolt against it.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

The Immortals - Tracy [Raye] Hickman (b. 1955) (Roc, 1996)
Authoritarian dystopia develops in response to a major epidemic.
Keywords: Female author

“Javier, Dying in the Land of Flowers” - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1996)
A dystopia set in the same future as 1992 Ross focusing on some of the secondary characters from that story. This story emphasizes the deep division between the rich and the poor and the extreme pollution that makes the poor sick but for there are treatments for the rich, if ever contaminated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Map of Power - Tess Williams (b. 1954) (Arrow, 1996)
Post-catastrophe dystopia focusing on three survivors, one in a dying orbital biosphere, one in a primitive Antarctic community where she is a visionary, and a third exiled from Western Australia for wanting to revive the old technology. The first two are women and the third a man. They struggle to cooperate to bring about change.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Mother Tongue - Joan Rosier-Jones (David Ling, 1996)
Dystopia in which a future dictator institutes Māori as the only official language in New Zealand. The author says it reflects what had been done previously to the Māori. Much of the focus of the novel is on those resisting the new regime.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Old Bruises" - Heather Fraser (Tesseracts5: The Anthology of New Canadian Speculative Fiction, 1996)
Dystopia of corporate control, male dominance.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Pussy, King of the Pirates - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) (Grove Atlantic Press, 1996)
Complex dystopia. As with many of Acker's novels, this has connections with works of others, in this case Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-94) Treasure Island (1883) and Pauline Réage's [pseud.] [Anne Declos (1907-98)] Histoire d'O (1954).
Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador, 1996.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shangri-La: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon - Eleanor Cooney; Daniel [Peter] Altieri (b. 1046) (William Morrow, 1996)
Sequel to 1933 Hilton in which a Chinese general plans to find and plunder Shangri-La but is thwarted by the guardian of Shangri-La and the general’s daughter.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

"Stolen Hours" - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories, 1996)
The setting of a science fiction story is a dystopia of rigid class distinction based on ethnicity and immigration .
Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 169-83.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"Stone, Still" - A. R. Morlan (Sextopia: Stories of Sex and Society, 1996)
The story describes a woman with a disease, scleroderma, that makes her body rigid in a society that requires everyone to have a compatible sexual partner and finds and assigns such a partner and the successful match found for her.
Keywords: Female author

"Sum of their Parts" - Stephanie Bedwell-Grime (NorthWords (Napean, ON, Canada), 1996)
Dystopia of a future without women where men fight for power and prestige.
Rpt. in North of Infinity II. Ed. Mark Leslie (Oakville, ON, Canada: Mosaic Press, 2006), 100-11.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Telos: The Call Goes Out from the Hollow Earth and the Underground Cities - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) (Author, 1996)
Detailed, although vague on some points, eutopia presented through communications received telepathically from the hollow center of the sun and the planets of the solar system. The focus is on the cities in the hollow Earth, particularly Telos which is under Mount Shasta, California. All those living in these hollows are connected into one cooperating eutopia under the rule of Ascended Masters, as is each hollow, and the people living in them are spiritually advanced. See also 2000 and 2003 Robbins.
Rev. & exp. ed. Mt. Shasta, CA: Mt. Shasta Light Pub, 2000.
Keywords: Female author; US author

U.S.A. 2012: After the Middle-Class Revolution - Kenneth M. Dolbeare (b. 1930); Janette Kay Hubbell (Chatham House Publishers, 1996)
Mostly non-fiction on the problems of the present with two brief fictional sections written as if from 2012 that frame the book. “A New Declaration of Independence” (21-24) and four amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The first amendment (118-19) establishes the procedures national initiatives and referenda; the second amendment (120) puts severe restrictions on political campaigning and campaign finance; the third amendment (127-28) mandates proportional representation in the electoral college and state legislatures, easing the voting process, and adding “None of the Above” to all ballots; the fourth amendment (134) mandates that federal and state courts must take economic and social considerations into account in their decisions, permits the review of “excessive” awards by juries and fees charged by lawyers, and other devices designed to discourage litigation.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Welcome, Kid, to the Real World" - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Tales of the Unanticipated, 1996)
Dystopia in which children are required to choose their future physical and mental shape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Whiteout - Sage Walker (Tor, 1996)
Very near future U.S. dystopia as background. In this overpopulated future government is controlled by multinational corporations and people are poverty-stricken and going hungry.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Angel Thing" - Petrina Smith (She's Fantastical, 1995)
Religious dystopia. The story depicts a fundamentalist church controlled by a charismatic leader. Women considered inferior. When there is an attempt to kill an angel, one woman and her daughter revolt to save it.
Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 420-33.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Awake / asleep” - Liz Diamond (Theater, 1995)
Brief, but detailed egalitarian eutopia. Free education. Much free time. The author calls it a Scandinavian social democracy with a Mediterranean feel.
Keywords: Female author

"Balancing" - Ann K. Schwader (Green Echo: Ecological SF& F, 1995)
Overpopulation dystopia. Every birth requires a death; if no balancing death is provided, a member of the family or the baby must die. Voluntary suicide is common.
Keywords: Female author

"A Birthday" - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1995)
Dystopia in which anyone having an abortion is required to see images of a growing child for six years.
Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 183-99.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Bohr Maker - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) (Bantam Books, 1995)
Conflict over access to nanotechnology in a fairly standard authoritarian dystopia. First volume in her The Nanotech Succession series. While all of the volumes share the influence of nanotechnology and are what is called hard science fiction, they all have different foci. The other volumes are volumes are Tech-Heaven. New York: Bantam Books, 1995; Deception Well. New York: Bantam Books, 1997; Vast. New York: Bantam Books, 1998; and Edges. Kula, HI: Mythic Island Press, 2019, which is the first volume of her Inverted Frontier sub-series.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Coming of Age in Karhide By Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (New Legends, 1995)
Short sequel to 1969 Le Guin. The rites of passage of and emotional responses to going into kemmer (taking on sexual characteristics) for the first time.
U.S. ed. without subtitle after the first Karhide (New York: Tor, 1995), 90-105; and with the subtitle in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 1-22. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 1-22; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 990-1008 with a “Note on the Text” (1084).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Completion - Chris Marsh (b. 1942) (BackWater Publishing, 1995)
Evolution of the human race through various better and worse social orders all the way to the end of humanity. Among the better futures is what the author calls her own “extreme form of permaculture”.
Keywords: Female author

“Delenda” - Andrea Thomas (Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland, 1995)
Last woman story in which sickness was followed by madness and violence with a few immune left. The story focuses on a woman and the man who rescues her from final violence, the problems they have, and the freedom she feels after he is killed by dogs.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Dryland's End - Felice Picano (Richard Kasak, 1995)
A matriarchy with problems set in the far future.
Keywords: Female author

“Excerpt from Enter: The Night” - Maria Irene Fornes (b. 1930) (Theater, 1995)
The play had its world premiere in 1993 at Theater Zero, Seattle, WA, and was revised for presentation in Dallas, TX in 1994. This excerpt is about the creation of a play. The Cuban-American female author is a prolific playwright.
Keywords: Cuban-American author; Female author

"The First Interview" - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) (Social Alternatives, 1995)
Dystopia of a society that executes women who have abortions.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (HarperPrisim, 1995)
Four linked stories set on the planets of Werel and Yeowe as they struggle toward freedom from their oppressive pasts, including slavery and purdah for women. Some obvious satire but includes descriptions of the dystopias of the early histories of the two planets as well as material on the Hainish eutopias that she describes in many of her other stories and novels.
Rpt. as part of Five Ways to Forgiveness 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), 319-517, 570-88 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (786-87). First published as four novellas--“Betrayals.” Blue Motel. Narrow Houses Volume 3. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Little, Brown, 1994), 195-229; rpt. 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), 99-131; “Forgiveness Day.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 18.12 & 13 (November 1994): 262-304; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 1-47;  in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Exploration in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 68-118; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 241-302; “A Man of the People.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 22-40, 42-46, 48-65; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 303-58; and “A Woman’s Liberation.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.8 (July 1995): 116-63; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 1-42; in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 227-94; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 359-428.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gaia's Toys - [Rebecca Bard] [Brown] (b. 1948) (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1995)
Genetic engineering dystopia where genetic manipulation is standard practice. Deep rich-poor division, those without a job have no option but to become a drone for the military, and saving endangered species is a fad for the rich. Eco-terrorists are trying to stop the government’s plan for a new genetic mutation that will take away the last vestiges of personal freedom.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Horn of Plenty" - Joan Sowter (Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection, 1995)
A man leaves Earth, which is a dystopia of extreme poverty, as a mail-order husband of a woman on a newly opened planet. Both misrepresented themselves, but the story implies that with hard work and adaptability they will be able to create a better life together.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"In the Green Shade of a Bee-Loud Glade" - L[eslie] A[nn] Hall (b. 1949) (The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, 1995)
Raises the issue of "who will guard the guardians" about a eutopian protected environment. The sanctuary is being destroyed by those who are supposed to protect it.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Last Real Cirkus: A Futuristic Fairytale - Bottari, Bridie (Angus & Robertson, 1995)
Background is a fairly near future of excessive regulation.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"The Living Theatre's Utopia" - Judith Malina (1926-2015); Hanon Reznikov (1950-2008) (Theater, 1995)
Notes for a play called Utopia by Malina with sketches by Reznikov.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Mystery of the Third Seal - Margaret Pearce (Longman Australia, 1995)
Young adult flawed utopia. Post-catastrophe society of seeming perfection under the control of the Shepherds, who are like the Morlocks of 1895 Wells.
Keywords: Female author

"One Day in the Life of the Landfords" - Tammy Jo Eckhart (S/M Futures: Erotica On the Edge, 1995)
A somewhat isolated community that is a sado-masochistic eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

Other Nature - Stephanie A[nn] Smith (b. 1959) (Tor, 1995)
Keywords: Female author; US 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

The Psalms of Herod - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) (White Wolf Publishing, 1995)
Post-catastrophe primitive dystopia focusing on gender relations. A sequel is The Sword of Mary.  Clarkston ,  GA : White Wolf Publishing, 1996.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Puzzle, Gentlemanly" - Elizabeth [Edwina] Smither (Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection, 1995)
Technological future world that has lost most of its past knowledge and culture. Satire.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Running Out of Time - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995)
Dystopia in which a girl growing up in a 1840s village where children are dying due to the lack of medicine discovers that the village is a tourist site in the 1990s.
Keywords: Female author

Shadow Man - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) (Tor, 1995)
The novel is set in a future where most of the human worlds recognize five sexual identities and nine sexual preferences, but on one world individuals must choose to be either a man or a woman. The novel focuses on a person on that planet who chose to be male but is a hermaphrodite.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"A System of Lights" - Anna Deavere Smith (b. 1950) (Theater, 1995)
The piece describes what plays should be like in Utopia.
Keywords: 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

"A Tour Guide in Utopia" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (She's Fantastical, 1995)
Humor. A woman writing her thesis on Australian women writers of utopias meets one of them traveling into the future and acts as her guide. The utopia published in the past improved substantially on the future the writer visited.
Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 108-15; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 121-28.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

"Utopia" - Anne [Rosalind] Hamburger (Theater, 1995)
Lists of elements of the author’s eutopia regarding the theater and the world. The female author is a theater producer.
Keywords: Female author

"Another Story" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Tomorrow, 1994)
Eutopia. The planet “O” is a conservative sustainable farming society based on long established small communities and a complex marriage called a “sedoretu” in which a minimum of four people (two men and two women) marry with both heterosexual and homosexual relations. Two (one man and one woman) come from each of the two groups or moieties, the Morning People and the Evening People, into which the planets population is divided. Sexual relations take place between moities but not within them.
Rpt. as “Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.” In her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 147-91; rpt. illus. Pat Morrissey and with a “Preface” (ix-xv) by James Gunn (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995), 147-91; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2. Ed. Karen Jay Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2006), 185-225; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 197-240; 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), 168-206 with a “Note on the Text” (780) and “Notes (785).
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Asylum" - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) (Interzone, 1994)
Military coup in the US back by fundamentalist religious groups.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 549-80.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Awakening” - Roxana Pierson (Snows Over Darkover, 1994)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"The Blue Stream" - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1994)
Dystopia. All teenagers are put to sleep until they are into their twenties.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Brave New World" - Leah Bloch (Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future, 1994)
Flawed utopia. Set in what appears to be a utopian community, where, although poor, everyone has enough, but overheard snatches of a radio broadcast show that the world is highly controlled and ensures that people fit the norm.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Crimes Against Nature" - Mary A. Turzillo (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia of genetic engineering and manufactured viruses that can both create new people and provide manufactured beliefs and languages. The central character is a pregnant man, who is killed by those opposing the unnatural.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Deersnake - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Hodder Headline, 1994)
Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements which may be LSD-induced visions.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female 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

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) (Orchard Books, 1994)
An authoritarian dystopia for young adults set in Zimbabwe in 2194.
Rpt. New York: Firebird, 2002. U.K. ed. London: Orion's Children's Books, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Freeze Frames - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) (HarperCollins, 1994)
Science fiction novel taking place on a number of different timelines, one of which includes a Calvinist dystopia in the United States. This changes when aliens arrive and convert to a reformed Roman Catholicism.
Rpt. London: Severn House, 1995. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Furies - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (Tor, 1994)
Sequel to 1974 and 1978 Charnas. In this volume, Alldera leads a troop of Free Fems and Horsewomen back to the Holdfast, where they defeat the men and free the women. See also 1999 Charnas.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1937); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955); Jon Burrowes; Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) (Tor, 1994)
A shared future history anthology related to Smith's 1993 In the Cube, which was written during the collaboration on this volume. The basic premise is that Boston is sinking and that as it sinks some of it will simply disappear under water and that the remaining sections will struggle for survival and come into conflict with each other. To complicate matters a wide variety of different aliens arrive in Boston and become part of everyday life. One of those aliens is testing humans for admission into the interstellar world. Humanity apparently passes the test and at the end Boston reunites and establishes itself as a separate country. The volume is composed of numerous stories and vignettes, a few previously published, maps of Boston in 1772, 1990, 2014, 2030, 2050, and 2061, and an "Afterword: How It Came to Be" (376-82) by David Smith. The contents are Smith, "'Boston Will Sink, Claims MIT Prof'" (9-10); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1947), "Seeing the Edge" (12-29); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956), "Nomads" (30-52); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955), "Projects" (53-70) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine [the copyright page incorrectly says Analog] 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 104-17; David Smith, "Dying in Hull" (71-87) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 12.11 (136) (November 1988): 62-66, 68-75; and in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 497-508 with an Editor's note on 496; and in Isaac Asimov's Earth. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 1992), 19-34. Jon Burrowes, "The Elephant-Ass Thing" (89-108); Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952), "The Parade" (109-21); Jablokov, "Seating Arrangement" (122-32); Burrowes, "The Uprising" (133-36); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) and Sarah Smith, "Fennario" (137-52); Landis, "Topology of the Loophole" (153-56); Popkes, "Not for Broadcast" (157-62); David Smith, "When the Phneri Fell" (163-66) rpt. from Figment, no. 1 (October 1989): 23-24; which was rpt. Figment, no. 15 (Fall 1993): 27-28; Popkes and David Smith, "Playing Chess with the Bishop" (168-73); Jablokov, "Letter to the Editor" (174-75); David Smith, "Who Is Venture Capital?" (176-77); Jablokov, "IPOB Dining Hall Procedures," (178-80); Popkes, "So You Want to Meet the Bishop" (181-85); Landis, "Camomile and Crimson; or, The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife" (186-98) originally published as "The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife." Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 110.5 (April 1990): 135-43; Popkes, "The Test" (198-222); Jablokov, "The Place of No Shadows" (223-46) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.11& 12 (162& 163) (November 1990): 170-86; Jablokov, "The Lady of Port Moresby Incident" (248-49); Sarah Smith, "Three Boston Artists" (250-66) rpt. from Aboriginal Science Fiction 4.4 (22) (July-August 1990): 2, 59-63 with illus on 3 and 58; Jablokov, "Focal Plane" (267-86); Sarah Smith, "Ye Citizens of Boston" (287-328); Jablokov, "The Adoption" (330-51) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.12& 13 (177& 178) (November 1991): 200-15; Jablokov, "WereWhereWear" (352-53); and David Smith, "Sail Away" (354-75).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Gaia, The Planetary Religion: The Sacred Marriage of Art and Science" - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (Dissertation, 1994)
New Age eutopia. See also 1988 Hubbard and 2002 Bufe and Hubbard.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Go Down, Moses" - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) (The Patternmaker: Nine Science Fiction Stories, 1994)
Dystopia of a future world divided between vegetarians and meat eaters with the meat eaters killing any vegetarians who wander into their territory.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

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

"Kay and Phil" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction, 1994)
Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) visits her dystopia, Swastika Night (1937) with Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) when he was working on The Man in a High Castle (1962).
Rpt. in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (London: Viking, 1995), 533-53; in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 116-39; in her Absolute Uncertainty: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006), 21-47; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 49-69.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Little Sisters of the Apocalypse - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Black Ice Books, 1994)
Unusual dystopia. The "Little Sisters of the Apocalypse" are biker nuns who are expert hackers. Focus is on a society of women waiting for men to return from the war.
Rpt. in her Seven for the Apocalypse. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1999), 73-203.
Keywords: Female author; US author