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

"Immortality" - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) (Tomorrow We Save the Orphans. Fiction, 1992)
A brief story set in a dystopia brought about the development of a method of ensure immortality that only works on some people and only if done before age eighteen.
Rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 140-44.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

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

Indiana Jones and the Interior World - MacGregor, Rob (Bantam Books, 1992)
An adventure novel set partially in a dystopian interior of the Earth.
Keywords: Male author

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

Jizz: The Story of a New Renaissance Man and the Riddle of Existence - John Hart (Black Swan, 1992)
Satire set in 21st century Europe which has broken up into city-states.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

A Journal of the Flood Year - [David Eli] [Lilienthal] (b. 1927) (David I. Fine, 1992)
Flawed eutopia. Follows the development of a catastrophe in a technologically advanced but authoritarian society. Socially this future has a "Second Bill of Rights" guaranteeing the right of each citizen "a healthy and pain-free longevity, and the full development of his or her capacity for physical pleasure." Almost no physical contact, drugs and machines for pleasure. No live births. The US that has built a wall far out into the Atlantic. The novel follows the protagonist through the US prison system where he has been sent for arguing that the wall is leaking.
U.K. ed. London: Phoenix, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Kingdom of Kanawha: An Allegory for America - L. A. Wheeler (McClain Printing Co, 1992)
Future West Virginia overrun by fleeing mobs and the response by West Virginians.

"The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee" - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) (Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales, 1992)
Near future dystopia of a collapsing high-tech society.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 346-56; and in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 365-79.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"The Last Heterosexual" - [Garvin Robert] [Gilbert] (b. 1917) (By the Light of the Moon, 1992)
Dystopia from the perspective of the point-of-view character, who lives in a eutopia from the point-of-view of the rest. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Last Human - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Fantasy that includes an attempt to build a eutopia. Mostly action. The first two books--Walker of Worlds (New York: Bantam Books, 1990) and The End-of-Everything Man (Garden City: Doubleday, 1991) are not utopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Let Us Prey - Bill Branon (Black Seal Press, 1992)
A dystopia of a U.S. with government waste and corruption and the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service) as an authoritarian institution trying to collect taxes by any means possible. A taxpayers' revolt overthrows the system, but the ending suggests further problems to come and possible sequels, but none were published.
Rpt. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995.
Keywords: Male author

"Looking Back From 2992. A World History, Chapter 13: The Disastrous 21st Century" (The Economist, 1992)
A history of the dystopian twenty-first century written from the perspective of a eutopian thirtieth century.

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

Major Gentl and the Achimota War - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) (Heinemann, 1992)
Achimota City in 2020 A.D. is the scene of a war between good and evil. Some dystopia and some eutopia. Surreal. Includes a Glossary.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

A Million Open Doors - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Tor, 1992)
The first of four volumes set in the future of humanity’s spread across the galaxy, creating the Thousand Cultures. In this novel two different cultures are brought into contact, and both begin to change, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Sequels set in the same Thousand Culture future include 1998 Barnes: The Merchants of Souls. New York: Tor, 2001 and The Armies of Memory. New York: Tor, 2006 which are not utopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Miracle River (or Shit River)" - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) (The Fiction Review, 1992)
A future dystopian Los Angeles of extreme poverty overseen by the United Nations. In 2019 water appears in the Los Angeles River for the first time in years, followed by vegetation, which had not existed in Los Angeles since 2010, and animals followed, and people built shelters near the river even though it stank and was known colloquially as Shit River.
Rpt. in his Life at the End of Time: Stories and Essays (Seattle, WA: Black Heron Press, 1992), 39-42.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mountain Made of Light - Edward Myers (b. 1950) (Roc, 1992)
Lost race eutopia of an advanced Incan civilization. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Fire and Ice: Volume Two of The Mountain Trilogy. New York: Roc, 1992, the descendants of the Incans are divided into factions. In the final volume, The Summit. Book Three of The Mountain Made of Light. New York: Roc, 1994, the mountain is successfully climbed, and peace brought to the people.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

Negrophobia: An Urban Parable - Darius James (b. 1954) (Citadel Press, 1992)
An experimental novel that explores the dystopia of American racism.
Rpt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993; and New York: New York Review Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Amy Abugo Ongiri (vii-xvi); and a “Preface” by the author (xvii-xxvi).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The New City - Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) (Simon & Schuster, 1992)
Architectural eutopia. Architectural drawings, cityscapes, and buildings combined with short essays that make the utopianism explicit. Designed for people who are autonomous individuals living experimentally.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Next" - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992)
Dystopia of racism in the future when dark skins are preferred as protection against the hole in the ozone layer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Our Small Part" - Michael S. Cummings (b. 1943) (1992)
Unpublished novel that the author calls a practical utopia. The novel describes the town of Link, CO, includes a one-page constitution, and is organized around the way people live within the terms of the different articles of the constitution
Keywords: Male author; US author

Parsnips and Prune Juice: Comic Mayhem in the Year 2049 - Burnett R. Toskey (b. 1929) (University Editions, 1992)
Humor in a futuristic setting. Some eutopia; some dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Passion Play - [Michael Sean] [Irwin] (b. 1965) (Beach Holme Publishers, 1992)
Religious dystopia in which the pro-life Redemption Presidency rules and encourages vigilantes to kill and the police subcontracts to freelances to arrest criminals, who are executed on television.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1993.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Perfect Match" - Steve Stanton (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 1992)
Dystopia set in a future in which the poor sell body-parts to survive.
Rpt. illus. Jose Beatas. Kasma Magazine (August 2010). https://www.kasmamagazine.com/perfect-match.html.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A Philosophical Investigation - Philip [Ballantyne] Kerr (1956-2018) (Chatto & Windus, 1992)
A murder mystery set in a high-tech dystopian future. A computer named Lombroso is supposed to be able to detect people with tendencies to violence, but a man using the name Wittgenstein thwarts the system.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

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

"Pro vs. Con" - Clay Caldwell (Drummer, 1992)
Dystopia. Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica; presents sexual slavery as desirable.
Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 55-65.
Keywords: Male author

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

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

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

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

The Quicksilver Screen - Don H. DeBrandt (b. 1963) (Ballantine Books, 1992)
Dystopia in which Infinite Range TV allows people to view, and ultimately establish contact with alternative realities.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Rag Doll Plagues - Alejandro Morales (b. 1944) (Arete Público, 1992)
The novel is set in northwest Mexico/Southwest U.S. with the first book set in the past, the second in the present and the third in the future when the area is Lamex, a technocratic federation, where there is a sharp division between those living Higher Life Existence cities and those living in Lower Life Existence cities. Genetic engineering is a significant theme.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (HarperCollins, 1992)
The first volume of a trilogy focusing on the colonization of Mars with conflicts over what the future of Mars should be playing out both on Mars and on Earth. See also 1993 Robinson, Green Mars and 1996 Robinson, Blue Mars. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322/23/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79).
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1993. An excerpt was published as “Red Mars.” Interzone, no. 63 (September 1992): 6-15 followed by personal comment “I Go to Mars” by Robinson (15). Another excerpt was published as “Festival Night From Red Mars.” Nebula Awards 29. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 47-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Remember, the Dead Say" - Jean-Louis Trudel (b. 1967) (Tesseracts, 1992)
Dystopia. The U.S. has fragmented, with the capital of the Free State Alliance in Omaha, Nebraska. The FSA has been successfully invaded by the Franco-Maghrebi Coalition, which controls Eastern Canada and has imposed Sharia (Islamic) law. The opposition comes from net experts from both countries.
Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 102-13.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

"Requiem for the General" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Perth, WA, Australia), 1992)
See also 1990 Maloney (2); 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver"; and 1998 Maloney. Set in the same future as these other stories, but this story focuses on the manipulation of history to buttress support for the regime.
Rpt. in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 178-98.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

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

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

Right Now - Olaf Egeberg (b. 1937) (McGee Street Press, 1992)
Eutopia based on cooperation with the focus on small communities. Refers to a number of intentional communities as models. Suggests the need for a universal language such as Esperanto. The book ends with specific suggestions on how to start at the local level. See also his Coming Home: A Crossover Bible for Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and members of other religious faiths, as well as thoroughly non-religious persons. Np.: Lulu Press, 2006.  http://changesahead.net/files/TheBook.pdf
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

"Scenes From Successive Futures" - Tom Marshall (1938-93) (Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction, 1992)
Flawed utopia. A city, probably an enlarged Toronto and enlarged Montréal combined, is under a great dome with a germ and virus-free environment and people no longer leaving the city. Little crime or violence. Behind the façade there had been nuclear war and the dome is actually a spaceship; the news of the world outside is manufactured; even though people vote, there is no national government; the Prime Minister is an actor; and Canada is a fiction.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Sheltered Lives - Charles [G.] Oberndorf (b. 1959) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Government control of AIDS-like disease brings dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Snow Crash - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Slightly revised 30th Anniversary ed. New York: Del Rey/Penguin Random House, 2022.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sojourn in Tomorrow: a possible voyage into man's future - Julius K. Vogel ([Author], 1992)
Detailed eutopia continuing 1966 Vogel and examines two parts of a city, the suburbs, and the entertainment district, which is an older part of the city. The former has new houses with substantial space around them and the latter is much more concentrated with old buildings. The latter also has beggars, poverty, violence, and prostitution. The visitor from the past is convinced that having spent time in the suburbs, he needs to move to the entertainment district to get complete picture.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Space Traders" - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) (Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, 1992)
Dystopian satire. Aliens visiting the US offer to provide the country with everything needed to solve many of its problems in exchange for the entire African American population. Offered enough gold to bail out the country, chemicals that can un-pollute the environment, and a safe nuclear energy and fuel to overcome the energy crisis, the US government agrees, and all African Americans are loaded onto what are obviously slave ships. See also 1987, 1991, and 1998 Bell. For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu.
Rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 326-55. An earlier, shorter version was published as “The Chronicles of the Space Traders” as part of his “After We're Gone: Prudent Speculations on America in a Post-Racial Epoch A Forum on Derrick Bell's Civil Rights Chronicles--1989 Sanford E Sarasohn Memorial Lecture.” Saint Louis University Law Journal 34.3 (Spring 1990): 397-400. The issue of the journal includes articles discussing the story. A slightly different version was published under the same title as part of his “Racism: A Prophecy for the Year 2000.” Rutgers Law Review 42.1 (Fall 1989): 96-100.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Steel Beach - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) (Ace Books/Putnam's, 1992)
A flawed utopia on the moon (Luna) after Earth was destroyed by aliens. No illness, climate control, people can change gender at will, racial characteristics are rare, extremely long lives. But people, and even the Central Computer, which runs pretty-much everything, are feeling depressed. The protagonist is a newspaperman/woman who is given the assignment to develop a series on Earth’s past. The book includes an “Author’s Note” (480) explaining that while the novel is set in the same future as his Eight Worlds future history, which includes four novels and eighteen stories, he has not bothered to try to keep the chronology straight. For an overview of the Eight Worlds, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds. For publication details, see http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?567.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Taxi-Driver" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Aurealis: The Australian Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1992)
This story together with 1990 Maloney "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future flawed utopia become dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General".
Rpt. as “The Taxi Driver.” In his Tales from the Crypto-System ( Canton, OH : Prime Books, 2003), 87-103
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

This Day and Age - Mike Nicol (b. 1951) (Bloomsbury, 1992)
Dystopia. Reworking of South African history.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

The Throwaways - Ian Strachan (b. 1938) (Methuen, 1992)
The novel is set in the near future and concerns a group of homeless children, who re known as the throwaways.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Truth Is In The Word" - Werner Goers (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1992)
Dystopia presenting the Second Coming and the Antichrist and the New World Order. Labeled an advertisement.
Keywords: Male author

Underworld - Peter Conrad (b. 1948) (Chatto & Windus, 1992)
Dystopia. Division between haves and have-nots.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

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

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

Worlds Enough and Time: The Conclusion of the "Worlds" Trilogy - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (William Morrow, 1992)
Sequel to 1981 and 1983 Haldeman. In this volume, thousands of people leave Earth for a new planet on the spaceship Newhome, which, during the trip, experiences conflict among the passengers and sabotage of the ship. They finally reach a planet inhabited by a space faring race that had directed them there and settle.
Rpt. without the subtitle New York: AvoNova, 1993. The poem "Benny's Song" (p. 11 without a title) first appeared in Pulpsmith 6.2 (Summer 1986): 147 as by Joe and Gay Haldeman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: A Novel - Larry W. Poland Ph.D. (b. 1939) (Here's Life Publishers, 1991)
Eutopia and dystopia contrasting the millennial reign of Christ with the “World of Imprisoned Souls” with Biblical references (259-63). Three people from the past are transported to the millennial kingdom, which is nearing the end of the thousand years and approaching Armageddon. Not belonging there, they become a focus for competition between the two realms. Earth, which is composed of 144 kingdoms, each led by a governor appointed by God, has been renovated by God so as to be Eden-like, albeit with cities. Strict deference to authority. All minds open to everyone, but, of course, all thoughts are virtuous. Each person has a “perfect body” (70). Animals, such as tigers, are vegetarians.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Achilles' Choice - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938); Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Tor, 1991)
Eutopia based on a dystopian authoritarian system in which selection for the top the elite is made by an Olympics that combines mental and physical skills with the losers not surviving.
Keywords: African American author; Male author; US author

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

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

"Any Major Dude" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (New Worlds, 1991)
Eutopia in Africa being brought about by nanotechnology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

"The Barn Raising" - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) (In the Air, 1991)
Contrast between the elaborate plans for a utopia to be adopted by government and the actual eutopia of small town cooperation.
Originally published in Mesechabe.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Below the Line - Eric [Paul] Willmot (b. 1938) (Hutchinson Australia, 1991)
An Indonesian invasion of Australia divides it into two countries, both authoritarian dystopias and creates an Asian Australia. At the end of the novel, the dystopias are becoming less authoritarian.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

The Book of Love. Part One of a trilogy, begun in 1984 from a remark made by a friend, Jagdish Parikh, who said, in Kausani, foothills of the Himalaya, "What is Love?" - Aaron John Beth'el (b. 1954) (Puriri Press, 1991)
New Age eutopia. No more of the trilogy published, but the author published a collected of love poems entitled Sacred Promise fleches d'amour. Auckland, New Zealand: Puriri Press, 1993. 2nd ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Puriri Press, 1994.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

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

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

A Candle or the Sun - Gopal Baratham (1935-2002) (Serpent’s Tail., 1991)
The novel is set in an authoritarian dystopia that is in conflict with a cult called the Children of the Book.
Keywords: Male author; Singaporean author

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

"Centigrade 233" - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (The Bradbury Chronicles: Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury, 1991)
Another version of the burning of books inspired by 1953 Bradbury.
Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 239-49. U.K. ed. (London: Severn House, 1992), 190-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

"Creating an Ecologically Sustainable Australia for 2001" - Phillip Toyne (Social Alternatives (Brisbane, QLD, Australia), 1991)
Ecological eutopia described in a section entitled "A Vision of Future Australia" (8-9).
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Crows" - Bart Meehan (Aurealis (Melbourne, Vic, Australia), 1991)
Authoritarian dystopia with all aspects of life regulated and punishment for breaking any of the many rules. A small group of young friends, the existence of which breaks rules, undermines the system.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Dog's Chance - Michael Haughney (b. 1963) (The Book Guild, 1991)
Surreal dystopia set in 2002 with lots of sex and violence.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Dominant Style" - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1991)
Flawed utopia. Far future genetically engineered eutopia which has produced an unchanging, inflexible society because everyone’s position in life, including occupation, is genetically determined. Following the story is a footnote on 245 that concludes “Imagine a world where industry and population are balanced and sustainable, where war is a hazy memory, and where crime seldom amounts to more than petty theft. If the people were happy, healthy and free, would it matter that they lived under some constraints?”
Rpt. in his Call to the Edge (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion, 1992), 225-45.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath) A Narrative in Twelve Tales - Iain [MacGregor] Sinclair (b. 1943) (Paladin, 1991)
Dystopia of the East End of London being destroyed under the policies of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. Prime Minister 1979-90).
U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Empire of Green - Paul Cheo (b. 1919) (Vantage Press, 1991)
Detailed ecological eutopia that begins in the Garden of Eden and briefly follows Biblical history. A group of Christians called Saners decide to leave Europe in the 14th century to find a place where they will be able to live a life in tune with their beliefs. They create the Empire of Green, and over time, they choose to shrink their size and become green. High tech. All menial work shared among all. No money.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author; US author

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

Fallen Angels - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938); Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017); Michael [Francis] Flynn (1947-2023) (Baen, 1991)
Greens produce an anti-technological dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. An excerpt was published in Niven’s Playgrounds of the Mind (New York: Tor, 1991), 684-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

“Foreword: The Final Civil Rights Act” - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) (California Law Review, 1991)
Congress passes an act under which “all employers, proprietors of public facilities, and owners and managers of dwelling places, homes and apartments could, on application to the federal government, obtain a license authorizing the holders, their managers, agents, and employees to exclude or separate persons on the basis of race and color” (47-48). See also, 1987, 1992, and 1998 Bell.
Rpt. as “The Racial Preference Licensing Act.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 47-64, 204-06.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

A Generation of the Dark Heart - Sorel-Cameron, James (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991)
Surreal dystopia created through the fantasies of one man. Extremely violent.
Keywords: Male author

Ghost of Chance - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991)
Complex short work that includes a suggestion of a eutopia based on Libertalia settlement possibly established by the pirate Captain Misson (ca 1660-ca 1690s) on Madagascar together with an authoritarian dystopia that fails to contain plagues unleashed by its own actions. 1981 Burroughs is also partially based on the pirate settlement.
Rpt. London: Serpent's Tail, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Halo - Tom [Daniel Thomas] Maddox (1945-2022) (Tor, 1991)
Eutopian cyberpunk set on a space station using Artificial Intelligence that puts a positive spin on the idea of people being uploaded into a machine intelligence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

The Heirs of Columbus - Gerald [Robert] Vizenor (b. 1934) (Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, 1991)
Future Caribbean Island Indian eutopia using elements of past Indian cultures. See also 1978 and 2016 Vizenor.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Hellbound Train - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) (Popular Library, 1991)
Sequel to 1990 [Sanders]. In this novel, some individuals collaborate to defeat a man set on killing all those opposing him.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

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

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

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

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

The Illuminati - Larry Burkett (Thomas Nelson, 1991)
Dystopia in which a secret society manages to gain control of the U.S. and, as a result, the world's finances. It establishes the Data-Net, through which it is able to target any group of people and interfere with their finances.
Keywords: Male author

"I.M. Australia" - Jack Hibberd (Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers, 1991)
In 2000 James Joyce and his wife visit a future dystopia in which a seriously polluted Australia has become dominated by Americans and Japanese.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Inquisitor - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) (Black Heron Press, 1991)
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Island Civilization: A Vision For Planet Earth in the Year 2992" - Roderick Frazier Nash (Wild Earth, 1991)
Environmental eutopia. The 1.5 billion humans will live in 500 "concentrated habitats which would incorporate "food and material production and energy generation." These habitats would hold about three million people each and could rise a mile above the earth or ocean and go a mile deep. The rest of the planet would be wilderness.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Judson's Eden - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Baen, 1991)
The creation of a eutopia and the attempts to destroy it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Satire on a future New York that has outlawed candy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lunar Justice - Charles L[eonard] Harness (1915-2005) (Avon, 1991)
Dystopia focusing on a corrupt legal system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Madlands - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
Dystopia. A reality-challenged Los Angeles.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mating - Norman Rush (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)
Search for a purported feminist utopia in Africa founded by a male scholar.
Rpt. New York: Vintage International, [1992].
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

"Mega Medicine" - B. Harrison (Social Alternatives (Brisbane, QLD, Australia), 1991)
Humor on future technological medical care.
Keywords: Australian author

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

Mirage - Perry Brass (Belhue Press, 1991)
Erotic novel that includes a gay male eutopia. His Circles.  Bronx , NY: Belhue Press, 1993 is a sequel.
Keywords: Male author

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

"The Moat" - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (Aurealis, 1991)
The story concerns the possible emergence of a new, superior species of humans set in a future Australia with a worsening climate crisis that becomes an excuse for the country’s mistreatment of refugees. It ends with a worry about all current humans becoming the “other” to the new ones.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

The Next Three Futures: Paradigms of Things to Come - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) (Greenwood Press, 1991)
Most of the book is about the study of the future and alternative scenarios that such a study can produce. The last chapter suggests that the actual future can be a world-wide eutopia.
U.K. ed. London: Adamantine Press, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

No Such Country: A Book of Antipodean Hours - Gary [David] Crew (b. 1947) (William Heinemann Australia, 1991)
Young adult authoritarian religious dystopia called New Canaan that is ruled by one man and the successful struggle against him.
Rpt. Port Melbourne, VIC, VIC, Australia: Mammoth Australia, 1992.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

Omnicron - R. K. Hughes (Ashley Books, 1991)
Dystopia--focus on attempts to control AIDS.

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

Planet Way Over Yonder - Stephen Ryan (Department of Communication, Gallaudet University., 1991)
An American Sign Language story set on a planet where the majority of inhabitants are deaf while a small minority is hearing.
Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qn-6AO48ec&list=PLa0CgD4r5VYhSr9XdWqT3DnAJbAZScZ8N&index=5
Keywords: Deaf author; Male author; US author

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

"Pogrom" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1991)
Dystopia of youth versus age told from the point-of-view of a well-off older woman who does not understand the antagonism of the young who live in dormitories. Said to be “a companion pieces to 1988 Kelly, “Home Front”.
Rpt. in Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns. Ed. Anne Devereaux Jordan (New York: St. Martins, Press, 1991), 81-99; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 422-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Prince" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology, 1991)
Dystopia of corporate greed, environmental collapse and violence.
Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 197-223, with an author's note on 197.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

A Reasonable World - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (Tor, 1991)
Development of a peaceful world against the background of authoritarian governments. The third volume of a trilogy with the first two non-utopian; see CV. New York: Tor, 1985. Originally published in a shorter version in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1984); and The Observers New York: Tor, 1988.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Remembering the Future" - John Hepworth (Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers, 1991)
Humor tracing changes between 1990 and 2015 with some presentation of a future eutopia in which racism and sexism have disappeared, environmental damage has ended, and religion has declined in power because the human race had become more ethical by following the beliefs of the Australian Aborigines, who are revealed as the earliest humans.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Russian Spring - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Bantam Books, 1991)
A future with a revitalized Russia and Europe and a stagnating United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sacred Fire." - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (There Won't Be War, 1991)
World built around nuclear terror as a method of peacekeeping.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Savior of Fire - Robert B. Boardman (Blue Note Books, 1991)
Eutopian planet in balance and harmony is discovered by Earth, whose representatives try to dominate it and extract its resources. Ultimately the planet remains free.
Keywords: Male author

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

Serpent's Walk - Randolph D. Calverhall (National Vanguard Books, 1991)
A successful revolution in 2049 by followers of Hitler. A fascist eutopia is created. The stress is on the war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

South Africa 1994-2004: A Popular History - [Deon] [Geldenhuys] (Southern Book Publishers, 1991)
Future history of South Africa under Black rule. South Africa ends divided between an Afrikaans-dominated state and a Black-dominated state. The novel moves oddly between very sophisticated political analysis and rather simplistic depiction of racial divisions and infighting.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Steps of Destiny - Mark Bement (Vantage Press, 1991)
Technically advanced society and its search for an even better society while it faces a possible holocaust.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

The Sympathetic Undertaker and Other Dreams - Biyi Bandele-Thomas (b. 1967) (Bellew, 1991)
The novel can be characterized as an African dictator dystopia, similar to others of the time period, but it is more complex than most. Set in Nigeria, the novel follows two young brothers and a young woman (lover of both) as they try to make their way in the corrupt world of a near-future Nigeria. One of the brothers writes notes (bold face in the text) of his experiences and dreams. In one of these dreams (Chapter 23 [134-69]), he writes about Zowabia, a country that is a caricature of such dictatorships. There is a Glossary on 202.
Rpt. London: Heinemann, 1993. Nigerian ed. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books, 1993.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

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

"To Touch a Comyn" - Andrew Rey (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
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Keywords: Male author

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

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

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

"Under Old New York" - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1991)
Dystopia of a future U.S. of a collapsed economy, and extreme poverty with New York City an African American enclave cut off from the rest of the U.S. except for one bridge the only place with jobs available.
Rpt. in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 429-50.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Vampire State" - W. E Gutman (Omni, 1991)
Dystopia. Extrapolation of contemporary U.S. to a future in which homeless children are hunted and killed by the police.

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

Vortex - Larry Bond; [Patrick] [Larkin] (Warner Books, 1991)
The novel is about political and military conflict in South Africa that result from negotiations to bring about the end of apartheid, with the focus on the military conflict, which involves nuclear weapons.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Walden 1.9: Successive Approximations" - Mark A. Mattaini (Behavior and Social Issues, 1991)
Stages to 1948 Skinner, Walden Two.
Keywords: Male author

"A Walk Through Beirut" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Wetherweed” - Michael Bridge (Pillow Mountain: Notes On Inhabiting a Living Planet, 1991)
New Age eutopia. Villages. Unity with nature. Some of the rituals of daily life.
Keywords: Male author

"When the Rose Is Dead." - David [Neil] Zindell (b. 1952) (Full Spectrum, 1991)
Authoritarian dystopia in a war setting. A character is said to be "suffering from an illness the doctors call 'Desire for Utopia'."
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wicked - Andrea Arven (Nexus, 1991)
Erotica for women set in A.D. 2075. Dystopian world divided by skilled and unskilled. Decaying cities with urban outlaws preying on the rich. Sequels include her Wild. London: Nexus Books, 1992. Repub. as Saskia Hope. Outlaw Fantasy. London: Black Lace, 1994; and The Reality Game. London: Nexus, 1992; and Wanton. London: Nexus, 1994.
Repub. as Saskia Hope. Outlaw Lover. London: Black Lace, 1994.

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

"1953": A version of Racine's "Andromaque" - Craig Raine (b. 1944) (Faber & Faber, 1990)
Alternative history play set in a fascist Italy in 1953 in which Mussolini's son is king. The setting is certainly dystopian, but the play is a modern version of Racine.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1990)
A successful revolution against corporate control produces another authoritarian dystopia in the name of the revolution. This story together with 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future flawed utopia become dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General".
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), 67-77; and in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 74.86.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Age of Democracy" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Perth, WA, Australia), 1990)
Dystopia set in very near future in which everyone is spied on and manipulated to perform the tasks the bureaucracy wants. See also 1990 Maloney "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes"; 1992 Maloney (2); and 1998 Maloney.
Rpt. in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 58-73.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

"Axiomatic" - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (Interzone, 1990)
The story is set in a future where it is possible to buy a temporary implant that will change your personality.
Rpt. in The Best of Greg Egan (Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2019), 25-40.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

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

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

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

“Buddha Nostril Bird” - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 1990)
A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.
Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

City of Truth - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (Century/Legend, 1990)
Satire. Dystopia in which all people are electroshocked into having to tell the truth.
Rpt. in Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Ed. James Morrow (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994), 228-317; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 790-807 with an editor’s note on 790.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Contact and Commune - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Popular Library, 1990)
Alien contact with libertarian themes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Dead Morn - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934); Roberto Fuentes (b. 1934) (Tafford Publishing Co, 1990)
Future repressive dystopia and time travel into the past.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Death of a Native Alien - Stephen W. DeBrew (b. 1956) ([Steladon Press], 1990)
Race relations in the United States in the twentieth century, depicted through the experiences of a Zirconian on the planet Terra where the Gringoa are Dominant.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Death of Hieronymus Bosch" - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) (Another Chicago Magazine, 1990)
Dystopia set in a future U.S. of extreme poverty, violence, and corporate power that uses some of the imagery of Bosch's (1450-1516) paintings.
Rpt. in his Scherzi, I Believe: Short Fiction with collages by Andi Olsen. Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series (La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1994), 91-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Difference Engine - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948); [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Victor Gollancz, 1990)
Alternative history in which the computer age emerges in Britain in the nineteenth century, and, as a result, the British Empire is even stronger than it was in our history. There was no famine in Ireland and, therefore, no Irish Diaspora and no independent Ireland. The United States has fragmented. The 1993 video game Chaos Engine (United States as Soldiers of Fortune.
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Doc and Fluff: The Distopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker - Pat[rick] Califia[-Rice] (b. 1954) (Alyson Publications, 1990)
Lesbian dystopia that includes a description of a lesbian intentional community that could be considered a eutopia.
Rpt. Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Publications, 1996.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

Double Helix Fall - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) (Abacus, 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia after a large earthquake in San Francisco and the takeover of the U.S. by an organization that controls everything through computers. Rebels manipulate their own DNA in the struggle against the rulers.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Dr. Pak's Preschool" - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1990)
Dystopia set in Japan and South Korea in which the gender of a child is ensured and then education is provided for the fetus. The story is told by a mother who is unhappy with the process. Surprise ending.
Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #45; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 30-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earth - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (Bantam Books, 1990)
Dystopia of a collapsed environment. One thread of the novel is set in New Zealand and uses Māori myth. In this thread a black hole is created to provide power, but the power plant is destroyed, and the black hole begins to absorb material the center of the Earth and cause earthquakes and other disasters. Another thread is a future where very little of the natural world remains, resulting in mass migration, and conflicts among the remaining nations.
Keywords: Male author; US author