"Elephant Memories" - Ping Chong (b. 1946) (1990)
Dystopia of environmental degradation and computer control of the population.
Multi-media first presented at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, La Mama Annex, New York in November 1990.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Canadian author; Male 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

“Embarrassment Box” - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (New Libertarian, 1990)
The story takes place in a future where White House II, a replica, in Cody, Wyoming is presided over an incompetent, doddering man who inherited the presidency from his father and grandfather. In this future tobacco illegal but cannabis legal, and there are no wheeled vehicles. The development of “placers,” or instant transportation booths means the people are free to move from place to place and time to time as they choose, thus undermining any government authority. Part of the author’s long series of libertarian eutopias and dystopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Emperor of America - Richard [Thomas] Condon (1915-96) (Simon and Schuster, 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia. Mostly satire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Fitting Suits” - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1990)
Although problems exist due to lawyers, something of a eutopia created by replacing all civil servants with computers.
Rpt. in The Best of Bova Volume 1 (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 77-81, with a note on the text on 77.
Keywords: Male author; US 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

From Evolution to Utopia - T[om] N[ewey] Ratcliffe (The Book Guild, 1990)
Autobiography but includes a eutopia for 2100 to 2150 at the end. World government, circular cities, ecology.
Keywords: Male author

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

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

Future X. A Novel - Kent Smith (Holloway House Pub. Co, 1990)
The focus of the novel is time travel, with a man from the future trying to keep Malcolm X from being assassinated and taking him to the future, which is a violent dystopia similar to the worst of the present, where his leadership is needed.
Keywords: Male 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

God Is Love (Get It In Writing) - Jeremy Clarke (Fourth Estate, 1990)
Satire on religion as big business.
Keywords: Male author

Heathern - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (Tom Doherty Associates, 1990)
A volume in his DryCo series. In this volume, the DryCo Corporation is trying to find a messiah that it can promote under its brand. For other volumes in the series, see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elvissey, 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, in timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.
U.K. ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heaven . . . The Last Frontier - Grant R[eid] Jeffrey (1948-2012) (Frontier Research Publications, 1990)
Heaven as eutopia. Detailed description of both heaven and life after the Second Coming. The scientific truth of the Bible. See also 1998, 1999, and 2000 Jeffrey and Hunt.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Hocus Pocus, Or What's the Hurry Son? - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990)
Early twenty-first century dystopia. The United States is essentially owned by Japanese corporations. This acts as the background to the novel.
U. K. ed. London; Jonathan Cape, 1990. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Berkley, 1991. Rpt. in Novels 1987-1997 Bluebeard Hocus Pocus Timequake. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2016), 217-479, with a Note on the Text (727-28) and Notes (757-40). An excerpt was published as “Hocus Pocus.” Illus. Norman Catherine. Penthouse (September 1990): 92-94, 172-73, 192.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"I Still Call Australia Home" - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1990)
Returning spaceship discovers an Earth destroyed by their generation and regenerating into a religious matriarchy which rejects them. Presented as a troubled utopia that is clearly better than the past, which, from our perspective, would be the near-term future.
Rpt.in Metaworlds: Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins (Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1994), 197-218.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

I Was Robot (Utopia Now Possible) - Ernest Mann (1927-96) (Little Free Press, 1990)
Detailed libertarian eutopia reflecting on the author’s life and the current situation in the U.S. and proposing a “Priceless Economic System,” in which everything is free and freely exchanged. See also his Free I Got. Little Falls, MN: Little Free Press, 1993; and the single-sheet depiction of his eutopia, Portals to Paradise. Little Falls, MN: Little Free Press, nd with art by Carol Gatts.
Keywords: Male 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

"Instinct" - John Schneider (1990)
Dystopia. Milwaukee has been sanitized and domed to be a refuge for the privileged.
Keywords: Male 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

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

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

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

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

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

“Memetic Drift” - Glenn Grant (Interzone, 1990)
The story is set in a climate-change, authoritarian dystopia.
Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 203-18; and in his Burning Days (Montréal, QC, Canada: Nanopress, 2011), 5-23.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male 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

"One-Way to Wap Wap - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) (Interzone, 1990)
Complex story with a background of the dystopian corporate control of politics.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Orbitsville Judgement - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) (Victor Gollancz, 1990)
A continuation of his 1983 Orbitsville Departure which was a sequel to his 1974 "Orbitsville". In this volume, the artificial world is somehow moved in space, and the world becomes more eutopian. The author was born in Northern Ireland.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland 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

Outnumbering the Dead - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Century, 1990)
Eutopia with near immortality and the problems for those who are mortal.
U.S. ed. Illus. Steve Crisp. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 519-82. Based on the U.S. publication, Dozois gives date of first publication as 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pacific Edge - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Tor, 1990)
Flawed utopia with conflict between those trying to create an environmental eutopia and those hoping to increase development. While the former win in the specific situation, the overall issue is set to continue. Sequel to 1984, The Wild Shore and 1988 Robinson, The Gold Coast, which are reprinted in Three Californias. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12), The Wild Shore (13-292), The Gold Coast (293-653), and Pacific Edge (655-895). The three volumes have the same physical location, but the futures presented are different.
Rpt. New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991; and in Three Californias (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 655-895, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Past Magic” - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Interzone, 1990)
Future dystopia set on the Isle of Man. The mainland of the U.K. has been devastated by climate change with severe floods and extreme violence. The Isle of Man is a haven for the extremely rich and has become a center for medical care with the dead brought back from samples of their DNA.
Rpt. in Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media. Includes an “Afterword” by the author.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"The Permacity Theory: Agapé-papatuanuku In Action" - Jonathan S. Port (Auckland, New Zealand, 1990)
Depicts Sustainable Living Settlements in great detail. Based on transferring the concept of permaculture to the urban area.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male 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

"Piecework" - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (Interzone, 1990)
Dystopia of genetic manipulation in which women are used to give birth to industrial products.
Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #23; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 550-76; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 225-258.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pill" - Jojo Bling (Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction, 1990)
The story revolves round a drug that appears to be intended to produce a better life but doesn’t.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Pockets of Resistance - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) (Popular Library, 1990)
Survivalist dystopia set in a future totalitarian U.S. See also 1991 [Sanders]. Native American Indian (Cherokee) author.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World - Brian Fawcett (b. 1944) (Grove Weidenfeld, 1990)
An experimental novel that on the top two-thirds of the page has a presentation of the dystopia of contemporary life projected slightly into the future with periodic boxes specifying ways of countering the dystopia. The bottom third of the page is a running commentary on the top two-thirds.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Queen of Angels - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Warner Books, 1990)
The novel is a complex exploration of human self-awareness, the growing knowledge of how the mind works, artificial intelligence, the future of psychotherapy, and nanotechnology with both positive and negative elements. See also 1997 Bear.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1990. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1991 and London: Legend, 1991.
Keywords: Male 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

"Re: Generations" - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) (Full Spectrum, 1990)
Dystopia in which all television is designed to sell products, with both the television stations and the stores owned by the Company. But the system is beginning to fall apart, creating a different dystopia, with shortages of the goods being sold, people developing psychological problems, and mass suicides.
Keywords: Male 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

"Requiem Aeternam" - Richard [John] Bowker (b. 1950) (Aboriginal Science Fiction, 1990)
Dystopia. When your money runs out after retirement, you are put to death.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rynosseros - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) (Aphelion Publications, 1990)
A complex future Australia with both eutopian and dystopian elements. There is a deep division between the powerful descendants of the Aborigines who are able to tap into the Dreamtime and the Nationals, the descendants of the current non-Aboriginal population. Many of the stories take place in the desolate center of Australia. Much concern with artificial intelligence. The main protagonist of the series has an uncertain past but has won the right from the tribes to captain one of the sandships that travel the interior of Australia. See also 1992, 1993, 2007, and 2009 Dowling. An additional Rynosseros story that fits between Rynosseros and 1992 Dowling is “Marmordesse.” Omega Science Digest (January/February 1987): 47-61. Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume I (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 219-52. See also “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).
Rpt. [New York]: Guild America Books, 1993; Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse, 2003; Alexandria, NSW, Australia: Coeur de Lion Publishing, 2007; and in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-218. Parts were published separately as "What We Did to the Tyger." Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 29] (January/February 1986): 76-80; "The Only Bird in Her Name." Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia), no. 1 (Summer 1985/86): 22-33; "Time of the Star." Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia), no. 3 (Winter 1986): 3-22; rpt. in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 369-404. "Mirage Diver" (163-89) was rpt. in The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press. Ed. Stephen Pasechnick and Brian Youmans (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1991), 3-31; "The Robot Was Running Away from the Trees" and "Spinners" were rpt. in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 131-59 and 281-303; and they were rpt. in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 109-36 and 217-38.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Sacred Fire - Isi Beller (Robert Laffont, 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia focusing on an AIDS like disease and government controls imposed to deal with it. Described as a medical thriller.
U.S. ed. New York: Arcade, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US 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

Secret Matter - [Edwin Clark] Toby Johnson (Lavender Press, 1990)
Aliens arrive at the beginning of a gay coming out story. The aliens are humans who did not experience the Fall and follow their God's commandment to mate man-to-man and woman-to-woman. This produces eutopia.
New ed. as Secret Matter: With an Afterword by Mark Jordan for this revised, expanded, and updated edition. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2005. An "Excerpt from Secret Matter" was published with a copyright of 2006 in Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006. Ed. Don Sakers (Linthicum, MD: Speed-of-C Productions, 2006), 51-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Smart Rats. A Novel - Thomas [Patton] Baird (b. 1923-90) (Harper & Row, 1990)
Young adult dystopia in which the world can no longer carry its current population, and the government institutes what is intended to be, in effect, a program to kill one child from every two-child family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

State of Play - Doug[las John] Buckley (b. 1934) (Albatross Books, 1990)
Corporate dystopia. Sydney becomes an independent country called HarborCity. Conflict with the corporation that dominates both Australia and HarborCity.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

The Story of the Planet Candy - Robert Skaf (Vantage Press, 1990)
Purported eutopia where no one needs to work, feel sad, or wear clothes, and disease, hunger, and poverty have been eliminated. The focus is on the flaws as seen from a conservative perspective. Canadian author born in Lebanon.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

Transform Node: Science Fiction Mystical Adventures - Ronn Parker (Vantage Press, 1990)
A collection of related stories with a stress on Extrasensory Perception (ESP) that allows better connections among people. A number of the stories, including the title story, are primarily concerned with mysticism, which will help the people create a future eutopia.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Two Tomorrow" - Steven Paulsen (b. 1955) (Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1990)
A dystopia in 650 words that presents a world with very strict population controls. Only people of a certain status can have any children, only the highest status people can have two, and after a child reaches two years, only two generations are permissible, and the oldest must be terminated.
Rpt. in his Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: IWWG International, 2018), 21-22 with an “Afterword--Two Tomorrow” on 23.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Vignette" - Stephen Higgins (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia. Completely controlled life in a factory.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

We Should Have Killed the King - J. G. Eccarius (III Publishing, 1990)
Replay of the fourteenth-century Jack Straw (one of the leaders of the 1381 peasant’s revolt) story in a dystopian modern America. It follows “one person’s personal development from a severely damaged product of capitalism, the nuclear family, patriarchy and religion, to being a relatively whole human being” (7).The novel concludes with the establishment of an anarchist eutopia community that is trying to get established (172-178).The last chapter is a projection into the future in which the anarchist communities survive as the world environment collapses (179-185).

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

Zulus - Everett, Percival (The Permanent Press, 1990)
Apocalyptic science fiction set after a nuclear war in which all but one 300-pound woman are no longer fertile.
Keywords: African American author; Male 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

Angel Station - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) (Tor, 1989)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Black Milk - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Donald I. Fine, 1989)
Future high-tech eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Body Mortgage - Richard [David George Patrick] Engling (b. 1952) (New American Library, 1989)
Dystopia in which people can mortgage their bodies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Bound for Glory" - Lucius [Taylor] Shepard (1943-2014) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1989)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in a badlands in the middle of the U.S. Some fantasy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Buying Time - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (William Morrow, 1989)
Dystopian adventure novel in which  life can be extended for ten years multiple times at the cost of at least a million dollars each time. This produces a deeply divided social system with power held by those controlling the process. Some limited comparison to a better, libertarian society.
Keywords: Male 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

The Child Garden or A Low Comedy - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Unwin Hyman, 1989)
Authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements. In a future sub-tropical London, people photosynthesize, and children are infected with viruses that produce social conformity. The novel focuses on a girl who is immune and follows her throughout her life.
An expansion of his “Love Sickness.” Interzone, nos. 20 - 21 (Summer – Autumn) 1987): 4-23, 36-55.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

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

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

Dollarville - Pete Davies (b. 1959) (Random House, 1989)
Satire. One theme is a near future right wing Christian dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

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

Dydeetown World - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) (Baen Books, 1989)
Violent dystopia with very strict population control. People are generally illiterate. A volume in a series set in the so-called LaNague Federation; see his Healer (1976). Three non-utopian sequels are “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971): 149-64]; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307)[originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-45]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material.
Parts were previously published as "Kids." New Destinies 7 (Spring 1989). Ed. Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1989), 229-87; and "Dydeetown Girl." Far Frontiers 4 (Winter 1985). Ed. Jerry Pournelle [Eugene] and Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1985), 9-69.
Keywords: Male author; US 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

"The End-of-the-World Ball" - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1989)
Various catastrophes bring about dystopia and the end of the world.
Rpt. in his Millennium Blues ([New York]: e-reads, 1999), 165-83; rpt. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2001; and in Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 29-48 with an "Afterword" by the author (48).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Enigma Variations - John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) (Ace Books, 1989)
Future dystopia after various environmental catastrophes. Corporate struggle for power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Farewell Horizontal - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) (St. Martin's Press, 1989)
Dystopia of conflict among tribes in a large construct rising from earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Final Dream" - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1989)
Amoral dystopia in which dreams are broadcast to subscribers. The one whose dreams are broadcast and becomes other people's dreams becomes insane.
Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 221-68.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Folk of the Fringe - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) (Phantasia, 1989)
Post-nuclear war science fiction set in and around Deseret, the Mormon homeland in Utah, which provides a safe, almost eutopian, refuge from the devastation of the rest of the U.S. Others in the area, "the folk of the fringe", develop a more restrictive society, verging on the dystopian.
U.K. ed. London: Century, 1990. Parts originally published as “The Fringe.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 69.4 (413) (October 1985): 140-60; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 145-65 with an editor’s note on 144; “Salvage.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 10.2 (101) (February 1986): 56-60, 62-75; rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 23-38; “America.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction 11.1 (113) (January 1987): 22-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-50, 52-53; and “West.” Free Lancers. Ed. Elizabeth Mitchell (New York: Baen, 1987), 1-82. “Author’s Note: From Sycamore Hill” (218-38) was originally published as “On Sycamore Hill: A Personal View.” Science Fiction Review, no. 55 (Summer 1985): 6-11. Includes an “Afterword: The Folk of the Fringe” (230-43) by Michael R[obert] Collings (b. 1947).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fourth Horseman - John A. Moller (b. 1943) (Moana Press, 1989)
Mostly on a nuclear war in the South Pacific, but New Zealand is depicted as an authoritarian dystopia and a small group of teenage survivors temporarily create something like a utopian community.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

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

Gentle Warriors - Geoff Mains (Knights Press, 1989)
Very near future dystopia from a homosexual perspective. AIDS a deliberate creation of the CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency).
Keywords: Male author

The Glimpses - Laurence [Frederick] Staig (b. 1950) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1989)
A young adult dystopia in which a fascist political party gains power through violence. A second theme is genetic manipulation, which produces a group of super children.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Good News From Outer Space - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Tor, 1989)
Set in 1999 and centers on the belief in the approaching millennium. Dystopian background. Strong Christian fundamentalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gorgon Child - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Tor, 1989)
Sequel to 1983 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the first volume has to fight against a religious dystopia. See also 1993 Barnes.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Green and Pleasant Land" - David Redd (b. 1946) (Interzone, 1989)
Authoritarian, ecological dystopia. See also 2001 Redd
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Green-eyed Monstera" - Andrew Ferguson (b. 1963) (Interzone, 1989)
Future story with advanced technology producing a society with dystopian elements.
Keywords: Male 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

Hence - Brad [E.] Leithauser (b. 1953) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1989)
Near future tale with dystopian elements. Introduced from the perspective of further in the future.
U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

History of the Future: A Chronology - Peter Lorie; Sidd Murray-Clark (Doubleday & Co, 1989)
Presented as a projection but describes a clearly eutopian future over many centuries. Includes essays by Rupert Sheldrake.
Keywords: Male author

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

I Feel Like the Morning Star - Gregory Maguire (b. 1954) (Harper & Row, 1989)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia located underground and designed to survive the wars above. Three teenagers lead people out to the surface, where there is no war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Idiot Played Rachmaninov - Michael Brown (b. 1948) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989)
Dystopia. Political novel with fantasy elements set in the near future about a dispute between a local community and a repressive right-wing government over . Emphasis on the use of the military to put down resistance to government policy and on the resilience of people of the West Coast of New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male 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 Blue" - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (Novelty, 1989)
Misfit in a conforming eutopia.
Rpt. in his Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction (New York: Perennial, 2004), 216-75.
Keywords: Male author; US 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

Infinity Hold - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) (Popular Library/Warner Books, 1989)
The novel begins in a prison on Earth where all the most incorrigible prisoners, and since there it is not enough room, they are shipped off planet to, in essence, survive or die. It ends with the beginning of the imposition of law, end the abolition or murder. The first volume of a trilogy followed by Kill All the Lawyers (2010) and Keep the Law (2010), both of which are ebooks. The ebook Infinity Hold3.collects all three volumes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"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 Justice Plan: The only way to ensure widespread, well-founded justice in any society. Justice Liberty Prosperity - Albert Archer Van Petten (1925-2005) (Van Petten Co., 1989)
Complex proposal mostly in question and answer form for how to align the people’s wishes with government policy. See also 1959 and 1972 Van Petten.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Key West, 2720 A.D - William K. Eakins (b. 1944) (Knights Press, 1989)
Dystopia in which one main thread of the novel is a future world that has broken up into corporate-ruled city states, mostly brought about by climate change, and gay men are excluded and live in the wild. Key West, Florida, is an exception where gay men are welcomed and protected. Another thread is the struggles for power among the city-states in the U.S. And a third thread involves visitors from space who support Key West.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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 Long Habit of Living - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (William Morrow, 1989)
Problems of immortality.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) (Bantam Spectra, 1989)
Authoritarian dystopia. The middle volume in a trilogy. This volume is primarily adventure as the United Nations Peaceforce tries to eliminate the few remaining telepaths. See also 1988 and 1993 Moran.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

The 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

My Chocolate Redeemer - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) (Heinemann, 1989)
Dystopia set in France and an imaginary African country as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl. The African country is a fairly typical authoritarian dystopia.
Rpt. London: Minerva, 1990; and London: Atlantic, 2010.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; UK author

Nightshade - Jack [Armand] Butler (b. 1944) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nuclear War Diary - James E. Stanford Jr. (Front Row Experience, 1989)
The diary of a teenager for the first year after a nuclear war.
Keywords: Male author; US 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

Out On Blue Six - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Bantam Books, 1989)
The attempt to achieve a perfect society creates a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland 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

"The Outside Door" - Hopwood, Lyle (Interzone, 1989)
Dystopia of a future collapse of civilization.
Keywords: Male author

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

"Piñons" - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) (Tales of the Unanticipated, 1989)
Dystopia in the sense that, while there is advanced technology, the world's economy and environment have collapsed, cities are violent and full of the unemployed, and many have left for other planets. The dystopia is contrasted with the essentially good life of the protagonist, who lives in rural New Mexico, where the author lives, poor but embedded within a spread-out community of friends and neighbors.
Rpt. Challenging Destiny: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, no. 22 (April 2006): 75-94. Also at http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm; and in his Counting Tadpoles (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 193-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Prison Planet - William C[orey] Dietz (b. 1945) (Ace Books, 1989)
Dystopian prison system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants - Y York [pseud.] (Broadway Play Publishing Inc, 1989)
Dystopian satire set in a future where it has been raining for decades and the icecaps have melted inundating all coastal cities. Authoritarian government, and everyone has been genetically encoded to perform specific tasks. The play focus on one odd family and their trials and tribulations in trying to survive with much knowledge gone and then trying to escape.

"Renegade" - Clay Caldwell (Inches, 1989)
Dystopia. Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica.
Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 67-75.
Keywords: Male author

"Salmpala" - John Barnes; Richard Iredale; William Martin; Thomas Veith (Cloverleaf in the Grid, 1989)
Manifesto and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.
Keywords: Male author

The Scapeweed Goat - Frank Schaefer (Poseidon Press, 1989)
Dystopian religious cult set in the past.
U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1991.
Keywords: Male author

A Short History of the Future - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) (University of Chicago Press, 1989)
A future history divided into three parts. In the first, current major trends are followed to one logical conclusion. In the second, a eutopian socialist, world state is developed. In the third, a small, decentralized utopia is envisioned. See also the author’s 1971 Building the City of Man Future and 1991 The Next Three Futures.
2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992, with a “Foreword to the Second Edition” (ix-x) indicating that substantial parts of three chapters had been rewritten, an “Afterword” by Immanuel Wallerstein (295-96), a genealogy of two families (298), and a chronology (299-305). xvi + 324 pp. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999, with the “Afterword” by Immanuel Wallerstein (295-96), the genealogy of two families (298), and the chronology (299-305). xviii + 324 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sisters" - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Tangents, 1989)
Dystopia of genetic engineering. The point-of-view character is a teenager who was not engineered by her parents and is upset to be different, but those of her age group who had been engineered start dying from an engineering error.
Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1990), 199-238; Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #43; and in Just Over the Horizon: The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear Volume One (New York: Open Media, 2016), 1-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Six Kinds of Darkness." - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Semiotext[e] SF, 1989)
Violent dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Skyrider" - William [John] King (b. 1959) (Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction, 1989)
The story is set in a future in which those called the “Workfree” life in enclaves on state pensions, where many succumb to a drug that can cause Parkinson’s. The story focuses on a man who has been rebuilt to meld with aircraft and whose only joy is flying joins the Workfree but is enticed into delivering the drugs.
Rpt. in Thirty Years of Rain. Ed. Elaine Gallagher, Cameron Johnston, and Neil Williamson (Glasgow, Scot.: Taverna Press, 2016), 21-34.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Spirit of Exmas Sideways" - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Alternatives, 1989)
Alternative history libertarian eutopia connected to his 1980 The Probability Broach. The U.S. Constitution was overturned and replaced with a reformed Articles of Confederation, which became the basis of the North American Confederacy in which everyone carries a weapon. Related novels include, in publication order, in addition to The Probability Broach, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.
Keywords: Male author; US 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

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

"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

Subterranean Gallery - Richard Paul Russo (b. 1954) (Tor, 1989)
Near future dystopia set in a collapsing San Francisco.
U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Svaha - Charles [Henri Diederick Hoefsmit] de Lint (b. 1951) (Ace Books, 1989)
A high tech North American Indian eutopia that exists in enclaves completely cut off from a destroyed United States. The novel follows one Indian as he explores the white world and discovers that not all whites are evil. He decides to create a decent place to build a society in which Indians and whites can work together. Uses myths from a number of indigenous peoples. Svaha is said to be “Amerindian; the time between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder; a waiting for promises to be fulfilled.”
Keywords: Canadian author; Male 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

Tangled Webs - Steve Mudd (Popular Library, 1989)
Authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist thinks he lives in a law-based universe but discovers that he lives in a universe at war with itself.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Terrible Threes - Ishmael [Scott] Reed (b. 1938) (Atheneum, 1989)
Sequel to 1982 Reed. Dystopian satire on U.S. politics emphasizing religion. See also his 2021 The Terrible Twos.
Keywords: African American author; Male 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

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

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

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

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

"We See Things Differently." - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Semiotext[e] SF, 1989)
Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. and dominant Islamic Middle East, which, in the name of jihad, is killing individuals who might assist U.S. recovery.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 130-46 with an editor's note on 129; and in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 762-79.
Keywords: Male 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

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

Why Weeps the Brogan? - Hugh Scott (Walker Books, 1989)
Dystopia of children surviving in the British Museum after a nuclear war. Published as a children's book.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Winter Vision - Geoff Page (b. 1940) (University of Queensland Press, 1989)
Dystopia set in the late 1990s. The novel is primarily concerned with the difficulties of a middle-aged schoolteacher, who gets caught up in the machinations of various people who use government policy for their own ends. He becomes involved with protests against nuclear brinksmanship and the novel ends with nuclear war.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

1998 - Richard Turner; William Osborne (b. 1960) (Sphere, 1988)
Humor. Future focusing on instant stardom for cash. Based on a radio series.
Keywords: Male author

1999: Customised for the Digital - Audio Age - Michael J[ohn] Weller (ITMA, 1988)
Eutopia. History is traced from 1988, which is presented in dystopian terms, to 1999. The youth culture begins to create a new consciousness which leads to political changes with the Labour Party ultimately becoming the Democratic Socialist Party with policies that encourage local democracy and environmental improment.
Keywords: Male author

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

"Ado" - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1988)
Dystopia of political correctness and religious oversight gone seriously wrong in a university.
Rpt. in her Impossible Things. New York: Bantam Books, 1993; rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 115-24.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Adventures of Mr. Snozzlefozzle and the Golden Planet - W[illiam] E. Drake (Author, 1988)
A planet, the Golden Planet with a parallel history to that of Earth, destroys its entire population in a war, but a far-sighted scientist has saved sperm and eggs and is able to repopulate the planet. In its new life, the population creates a eutopia based on education and a sense of community.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Alternities - [Michael Paul] [McDowell] (b. 1954) (Ace Books, 1988)
Dystopia. Alternate universes that can be reached from Earth are used by the powerful of Earth to play out their fantasies of even greater power, although one man sees them as a chance to start over.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anti Body Positive - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) (Hard Echo Press, 1988)
A complex, humorous novel satirizing science fiction while presenting an authoritarian dystopia that includes elements of science fiction and refers to specific science fiction texts.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

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

"Ayemu's Children" - Vivienne Louise (Sinister Wisdom, 1988)
Fantasy story with elements of a lesbian eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

"Backward, Turn Backward." - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1988)
Love story with a background of a future dystopia--a deeply divided society with the middle class and above living in enclaves.
Rpt. in her Crown of Stars (New York: Tor, 1988), 208-70.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Barking Dogs - Terence M[ichael] Green (b. 1947) (St. Martin's Press, 1988)
Dystopia of violence in near future Toronto. His Blue Limbo. New York: Tor, 1997 is a sequel.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Being - Michael Redfinn (Leisure Books, 1988)
Apocalyptic novel set in the days before Armageddon (See Revelation 16). Presents world utopia as inspired by the Devil.
Keywords: Male author

Between the Stars - [Yoji] [Kondo] (1933-2017); John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) (Baen, 1988)
Sequel to 1987 [Kondo] and Roberts. In this volume, the discovery of alien artifacts that provide a major source of power are used to free the solar system from the repressive regimes that have developed there,
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bulldozer Rising - [Anna Livia Julian] [Brawn] (b. 1955) (Onlywomen Press, 1988)
Future authoritarian dystopia where it is difficult and rare to live past forty-one (“the optimum death date” [15]); for example, curbs are two feet high to make wheelchair use impossible. The one positive element in the novel is found in the connections among lesbians, including some with older women.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; UK author

"Busman's Holiday" - Louise Turner (The Glasgow Herald Weekender, 1988)
Future feudal, depopulated Glasgow in which owners of the bus systems have become the ruling lords.
Rpt. in Starfield: The Anthology of Science Fiction by Scottish Writers. Ed. Duncan Lunan (Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1989), 89-96. Collection rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: New Curiosity Shop, 2018.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Carmen Dog - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (Women's Press, 1988)
Surrealistic. Women turning into animals and animals into women.
U.S. ed. San Francisco, CA: Mercury House, 1990.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Catspaw - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) (Warner Books, 1988)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Cityscape - Frances Thomas (b. 1943) (Heinemann, 1988)
A young adult authoritarian dystopia where reading is prohibited.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

The Company Man - Joe Clifford Faust (b. 1957) (del Rey, 1988)
Future world run by huge corporations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dance of the Warriors - Kevin Esser (b. 1953) (Acolyte Press, 1988)
Story of man-boy love and sexual relations set in a future dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Death and Morning" - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) (Machine Sex. . . and Other Stories, 1988)
Fantastic dystopia in which a person is re-shaped for the purpose of political assassination.
Book rpt. as Machine Sex and Other Stories (London: Women's Press, 1990), 17-26.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Dreams of Flesh & Sand - W[illiam] T[homas] Quick (b. 1946) (New American Library, 1988)
Mostly a technological adventure story, but as background the world is totally dominated by private corporations. 1989 Quick Dreams of Gods and Men. New York: New American Library, 1989, in which an artificial intelligence is taking over all the corporations and 1990 Quick, Singularities. <st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state>: ROC, 1990, are sequels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Emerald Eyes - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) (Bantam Spectra, 1988)
An attempt to genetically engineer super soldiers goes wrong and creates a telepath instead. More were created designed to be completely obedient soldiers, but they thought otherwise. See also 1989 and 1993 Moran
Keywords: Male author; US author

Empire of the Senseless - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) (Grove Press, 1988)
Dystopia set in vaguely described future with a number of loosely connected themes such as Algerian terrorists taking over Paris. Much sex and violence.
U.K. ed. London: Picador, 1988.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Energy Island" - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) (G. R. Gilbert Papers, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury. MB 957, Boxes 8-9, items 33-59., 1988)
Dystopia. In order to create the fuels necessary for the country, the government decides that much of the South Island of New Zealand should be used for the production of ethanol and methanol from beets and trees. It authorizes the South Island Office (SIO) of the Department of Internal Affairs to undertake the project, and it quickly effectively establishes itself as the ruler of the South Island, which becomes an authoritarian dystopia with all aspects of life controlled. A resistance movement develops, first bombing electricity pylons and ultimately setting off a small nuclear bomb in central Christchurch. The SIO is disbanded and initially leaderless self-help groups spring up, order is quickly restored throughout the South Island, and the self-help groups become small cooperative communities. A new religious community in the mountains begins to raid the plains and a war breaks out. The religious community wins the war and establishes control over much of the South Island. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.
Parts were published; see 1985, 1986, and 1992 Gilbert, Acts of Terror and Delight; and there is a privately published version of the first 628 pages, ending in mid-sentence. Energy Island. Lincoln, New Zealand: Clear Light & Self Revelation Institute, 1988, which says "This edition is not for sale. Privately printed and produced it is limited to five copies autographed by the author." G.R. Gilbert Papers, Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury. MB 957, Box 5, item 16, and there are other manuscripts of parts of the text--Box 3, item 7; Box 4, item 10; and Box 6, item 17.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Entangled World - H[erb] Deesen (Book Services Partnership, 1988)
Poem on the founding and foundering of a commune.
Keywords: Male author

"Face Lift - Susan Beetlestone (Interzone, 1988)
Future dystopia. People wear masks.
Keywords: Female author; UK author