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

The Gate to Women's Country - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Foundation Books/Doubleday/Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1988)
Post-catastrophe world divided into a women’s and men’s communities in which the women try to keep alive the best of the post-catastrophe world and the men are warriors. There is a mixed carnival once a year, and boys stay with their mothers until five, when they join their fathers, visiting their mothers twice a year. At fifteen the boys choose to be warriors or live with their mothers with some having been rejected by their fathers. The novel begins with two ceremonies, the first on a boy’s fifteen birthday and the second at a boy’s fifth birthday, both reflecting the pain experienced by the mothers. In fact, the women have been using birth control and selecting the men who father children to try to breed out male violence. There are a number of subplots that make it a quite complicated novel.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1989
Keywords: Female author; US author

The General's President - [John Robert] [Jones] (b. 1926) (Baen, 1988)
Political novel set in a future dystopia in which, after a depression and rioting, the President and Vice President resign, and the Join Chiefs of Staff chooses the next President. He establishes a dictatorship but is also independent minded.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Genocide The Anthology - Tim[othy Patrick] Barrus (b. 1950) (Knights Press, 1988)
Dystopia in which all gays are suppressed. The author presents this as actually expected in the future.
Keywords: Male author

The Gold Coast - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (St. Martin's Press, 1988)
An affluent future that could be read as a eutopia or as a dystopia depicting the effects of the military-industrial complex, but the discontent of the main characters suggests the latter. See also 1984 Robinson, The Wild Shore, and 1990 Robinson, Pacific Edge, 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, 1988; and in Three Californias (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 293-653, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12). U.K. ed. London: Futura, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Handbook of Scientific Utopianism (Utopia 2: Blueprint for Heaven on Earth, 1988)
Contains many statements describing the utopia the community thinks it already is together with some that suggest the wider utopia that will be brought about through its example. Includes an “Introduction. Ruled by Rock: the Party Culture” by Even Eve (1-2); “Origins. Neotribal Roots” (No author) (3-6); Sex & Family Life. Polyfidelity Explained” by Even Eve (7-8), “Nuns and Monks in Love: Polyfidelity as a Religious Practice” by Tip Tye and Paz Now (9); “Sex and Family Life. Coming on the Sleeping Schedule: A Personal Story” by Paz Now (10-12); “Utopian Psychology. Fundamental Principles for Mental Health” by Geo Logical (13-14); “Gestalt-O-Rama™ for Beginners” By Ram Star (15-16); “Children. Multiple Parenting” By Esperanta Rio (17-18); Religion & Mythology. Birth of the Goddess” By Geo Logical (19-21); Religion & Mythology. Eleven Basic Metaphysical Premises & Beliefs” By Bluejay Way (22-24); “Economics. TASK: the Tribal Accounting System by Kerista” By Even Eve (25, 28); “Abacus, Inc.: A Vision with a Business” By Eden Zia (29-30); “Future Vision. The Kerista Planetary Prosperity Plan. As explained by Bro Jud and discussed at a Monday Night service. Tape Transcribed by Esperanto Rio” (31-36); “Future Fantasy” By Even Eve (37-38); “Messiah 2.0” By Tip Tye (39); Decision-Making. Shared Leadership and Direct Democracy” By Even Eve (40); Social Contracts. The Oral and Written Law” By Even Eve (41); Social Contracts. The 88 Basic Standards of the Gestalt-O-Rama™ Growth Process& the Club Utopia Growth Co-Op” (No author) (42-46); “Do-It-With-Friends. Mental Health Techniques 82 Fun Ways to Work on Yourself” By Sym Com (47-50); and “Getting Closer. A Step that will Change Your Life” By Paz Now (51-52). Most articles include sidebars either directly related to the article or concerning material discussed in other articles.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

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

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

"Home Front" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1988)
Dystopia presented through the eyes of a teenager in a society that arbitrarily drafts young people into the military. See also 1988 Kelly, “Pogrom”.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 52-61 with an editor's note on 51.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"House Rules" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (Four Moons of Darkover, 1988)
Free Amazon story.
Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 61-69.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hustler" - Pat[rick] Califia[-Rice] (b. 1954) (Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction, 1988)
Dystopia set after a very long war followed by a struggle for power between men and women. While the women win and establish a women-oriented society, it requires women to spend a period of time caring for babies and has a very narrow range of acceptable sexual behavior.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

The Inheritors - Jill Dobson (b. 1969) (University of Queensland Press, 1988)
Post-catastrophe (nuclear war) young adult dystopia in which a young woman begins to resist the though control and the rejection of the past of the leaders.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Isaac Asimov Presents Antibodies - David J[ohn] Skal (1952-2024) (Congdon & Weed, 1988)
Dystopia of people replacing their bodies with machines a bit at a time.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Islands in the Net - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Arbor House, 1988)
A future high tech, networked eutopia that has access to data tightly controlled is being undermined by those trying to control people through the net. One woman manages to defeat them.
Rpt. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1994 with an unpaged “Introduction” by James E. Gunn, which was rpt. in his Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 73-76. . U.K. ed. London: Century, 1988.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jaiyavara - Eleanor Glaze (b. 1930) (St. Luke's Press, 1988)
The novel focuses on the dystopia brought about by ecological collapse and the spread of disease and ends with the beginnings of rebuilding from a communal base.
Keywords: Female author

Johnny Zed - John Gregory Betancourt (b. 1963) (Popular Library, 1988)
Dystopia of a corrupt, authoritarian future U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Journals of the Plague Years." - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Full Spectrum, 1988)
Dystopia. An AIDS-like pandemic/plague spreads throughout the world and anyone with it is put into a quarantine zone. Written from the point of view of both those with the plague and those fighting it. At the end a virus defeats the plague, and an introductory statement written fron Luna City in 2143 suggests a eutopian outcome.
Rpt. as Journals of the Plague Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Krono - Charles [Leonard] Harness (1915-2005) (Franklin Watts, 1988)
Includes an overpopulation dystopia. Corruption.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"La Vie Continue" - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Other Americas, 1988)
Dystopia of a future America that tries to co-opt or, if that fails, kill authors who oppose the current regime.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lake At the End of the World - Caroline Macdonald (1948-97) (Viking Kestral, 1988)
Set in 2025. Story of a post-catastrophe world with few survivors, some of whom are in an underground dystopia with a dictator. Two teenagers bring the people together and move them above ground where a new beginning is possible.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author

The Last Bank on Earth - Michael S. Cummings (b. 1943) (Play performed by the Pepperdine University Mini-theatre, April 5, 1988., 1988)
Dystopian satire of a bank after a nucear war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last of the Winnebagoes" - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1988)
Ecological dystopia in which there are severe restrictions on vehicles and travel and most animals have died.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 182-222 with an editor's note on 181.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) (Ballmark Publications, 1988)
Detailed eutopia following on his 1961 Cosmocracy, which he here spells “CosMocRacy.” This volume also includes a theory of creation first described in his The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government as well as some more personal material. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; and 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

"The Lunatics" - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Terry's Universe, 1988)
Dystopia of mining on the moon which is the equivalent of slavery.
Rpt. in his Remaking History (New York: Tor, 1991), 236-63; and in Infinity Plus one. Ed. Keith Brooke and Nick Gevers (Leeds, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2001), 255-81; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 293-313; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 293-313; and in Alaya Dawn Johnson and Kim Stanley Robinson. Metamorphosis (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2015), 59-91.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Maiden Flight - Eric Vinicoff (b. 1951) (Baen Books, 1988)
Post-catastrophe novel about building a new, better society where non-violent societies must fight the remains of previous military.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Man Plague” - Zama [pseud.] (Sinister Wisdom, 1988)
A plague that eliminates all men creates a rural eutopia for lesbians.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Marching Through Georgia - S[tephen] M[ichael] Stirling (b. 1954) (Baen, 1988)
Alternative history in which the losers in the American Revolution establish The Domination based on slavery, initially, in this volume, in Africa but, in Under the Yoke. New York: Tor, 1989, spreading to Asia and continental Europe. In the final volume, The Stone Dogs. New York: Tor, 1990, The Alliance and The Dominion have a final confrontation.
His Domination. New York: Tor, 1999 is an abridged and revised single volume edition of his Draka series, Marching through Georgia (1988), Under the Yoke (1989), and The Stone Dogs (1990).
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Metaphysica" - Daniel John Zutter (M.Arch. thesis. Minnesota., 1988)
Architectural utopia.
Keywords: Male author

Metrophage (A Romance of the Future) - Richard [Albert] Kadrey (b. 1957) (Ace Books, 1988)
Dystopia of a future Los Angeles ravaged by poverty and disease.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mona Lisa Overdrive - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) (Victor Gollancz, 1988)
Future cyberpunk dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1988.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Moon of Ice - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) (Arbor House, 1988)
Alternative history. Nazi's win World War II and control Europe. America is libertarian.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1993. U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1989. A novella with the same title was published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories 28.5 (March 1982): 42-73. Rpt. in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II. Ed. Gregory [Albert] Benford and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Garland, 1986), 147-201; and in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Ed. Harry [Norman] Turtledove with Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 357-415.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Moses in the Promised Land - R. Howard Bloch (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1988)
Complex satire. Sixties people grown older but with the same fads and reforms with the satire suggesting that there were dystopian elements. There is conflict corrupt politicians and large developers, which, when the developers and politicians win, produces a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mundane's World - Judy [Rae] Grahn (b. 1940) (The Crossing Press, 1988)
Feminist eutopia set in a preliterate society in which the people are organized into clans that fill different functions in the society. The people are intimately connected to and communicate with the natural environment. Men and women used to after separate languages, but these have mostly disappeared.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"My Lady Tongue" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Matilda at the Speed of Light, 1988)
A lesbian community as a eutopia in conflict with men. The community is presented as a set of complex interactions among the women within the community, with issues around the degrees of lesbianism. Much of the story is also concerned with a relationship the protagonist had with a man.
Rpt. in The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 2. Ed. Susanna J. Sturgis (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1990), 208-55; in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 75-133 [London edition has Stories rather than Tales]; in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. Terry [Terence William] Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 274-320; in Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien [Francis] Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 150-87; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 71-112.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

"My Year With the Aliens." - Lisa Goldstein (b. 1953) (Full Spectrum, 1988)
Satirical take on a world formed by middle-class intellectual radicals after a Communist revolution on Earth. No private property; criticism/self-criticism sessions; children raised communally. The story is told from the point-of-view of a mildly disaffected teenager.
Keywords: Female author; US author

NEO Party Politics - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) (Seagull Press, 1988)
Detailed eutopia non-fiction for New Zealand with a stress on political organization, in particular the restructuring of New Zealand into two state governments representing the North and South Islands. NEO = Newness with Equality and Organisation. See 1987 Mehlhopt for a set of detailed economic proposals. See also 1997 and 1999 Mehlhopt.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Nick and the Glimmung - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Gollancz, 1988)
Humorous children's story that begins on an overpopulated Earth with an anti-pet policy and moves to a planet with various sentient beings under threat of one powerful one. A young boy defeats the threat, and all will be able to live happily.
U.S. ed. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Overshoot - Mona [Ann] Clee (b. 1952) (Ace Books, 1988)
Dystopia of global warming.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Peaches for Mad Molly" - Steven [Charles] Gould (b. 1955) (Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 1988)
Dystopia in which the homeless live hanging on the outsides of buildings.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 82-100 with an editor's note on 81.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Player of Games - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) (Macmillan, 1988)
One of his Culture novels presenting a complex future society where everyone appears to live in complete luxury with both eutopian and dystopian elements. See 1987 and 2008 Banks.
U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Prelude to Foundation - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Doubleday, 1988)
Prequel to the Foundation series. See note at 1982 Asimov. See also 1986 Asimov. Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rabelaisian Reprise - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) (Doubleday & Co, 1988)
Dystopia set on the same planet and with many of the same characters as 1983 Krueger.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Reading Group - Amanda Lohrey (Picador, 1988)
Near future dystopia seen from the perspective of eight people who had been members of a reading group. The core of the novel focuses on an environmental and political crisis and the reactions of the eight people.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Resurrection, Inc - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) (New American Library, 1988)
Dystopia--dead revived to be used as slaves. They revolt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Revolution of Saint Jone - Lorna Mitchell (Women's Press, 1988)
Religious dystopia. After a catastrophe, a new religion of reason and order is bringing its truth to the far-flung planets. A newly ordained priest sent to one of the furthest and most primitive planets begins to question what she was taught and was to teach.
Keywords: Female author

"The Rise of the Luddites" - Laurie Hogan (Computing Australia (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1988)
Satire--a man named Ludd (after Ned Lud or Ludd) leads a temporary revolt against the insolent machines of the future.

The Rivers of China - Alma De Groen (b. 1941) (Currency Press, 1988)
A play with two threads, both concerned with the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923. Born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp). One thread is about the actual experience of Mansfield in the Gurdjieff Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in Fontainebleau, France, where she died of TB. The other thread is set in a future gender-role reversal Australia. In this thread Mansfield is recreated in a man's mind, and the play looks at her/his experiences.
Rpt. in Australia Plays: New Australian Drama (London: Nick Hern Books, 1989), 339-97.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author

The Saga of Filster Stein - Gary Lovesi (Gryphon Publications, 1988)
A bit of a sendup of SF but in the process depicts some dystopias.
Parts originally published as “The Saga of Filster Stein” [In the book the title is given as “Why Do These Things Always Happen To Me”]. Heart of Dixie Comics 1.3 (August/September 1983): 14-18; “Set Adrift Like An Old Piece of Baggage.” Heart of Dixie Comics, no. 4 (January 1984); and “When the Warlord Comes To Town” as “The Warlord Wonder.” Galaxy Times, no. 5 (July 1977).
Keywords: Male author

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

Sideshow - W[illiam] R[och] Thompson (b. 1955) (Baen, 1988)
Future United States during a new Great Depression. Three extremist groups fight for power: The Iron Guard, who are Neo-Nazis; the New Redeemers, who are religious fanatics; Sere, who believe that civilization must be destroyed to save the planet. In addition, there are telepaths who are treated as witches and being hunted.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sleeping in a Box" - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) (Machine Sex. . . and Other Stories, 1988)
Dystopia of life on the moon with myriad restrictions due to the cost of shipment from earth.
Book rpt. as Machine Sex and Other Stories (London: Women's Press, 1990), 1-8. Story rpt. 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), 11-17; and in her Ice and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng: PS Publishing, 2018), 25-32, with a note on the story (299).
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Stairs" - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1988)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in his Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales (Austin, TX: Swan Press, 1992), 114-27; and in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 229-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Stone Hands” - Cheryl Elaine Davis (Sinister Wisdom, 1988)
A religious dystopia that institutionalizes patriarchy, and a woman’s discovery of desire for another woman.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Synthetics - Karen Clark (b. 1960) (Merlin Books, 1988)
Set in 2015. Truants from school are given the equivalent of a lobotomy.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Taking From the Top" - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1988)
Future tale in which death is required after eighty except for those who have made or are making a major contribution to society.
Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 45-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Terraplane - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988)
A volume in the DryCo series. This volume is an alternative history dystopia in which some characters in the first volume are sent to the period of the Great Depression. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1990 Heathern, 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, 1988.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"This Is the Year Zero" - Andrew [Simon] Weiner (1949-2019) (Full Spectrum, 1988)
Alien invasion followed by authoritarian dystopia in which humans become slaves working in fields with no machines. Most familiar things are abolished--no money, no meat or green vegetables, no TV, no cars, no cities, no schools, no telephones, no sex. Old and ill disappear. Children run things for the aliens and appear content but say that there is now no past and no future, just the present.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“The Time of No Troubles” - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1988)
Third in a dystopian series following 1986 and 1987 Wagar. In this story, initially the world appears to be divided between altros, or slaves, and egos, or bosses, a division includes animals. The system breaks down with altros killing themselves for no known reason.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Toast of Babatine" - Donna Allegra (b. 1953) (Sinister Wisdom, 1988)
Lesbian eutopia that has been in existence for six generations. Operates with no rules but selects what they call servants, who appear to be something like overseers, each season.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Tower to the Sky - Phillip C[harles] Jennings (b. 1946) (Baen, 1988)
Background of a largely destroyed future earth. Complex political novel with some dystopian elements.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Turbo Cowboys 1. Jump Start - [Cunningham, Chet] (Ballantine Books, 1988)
The first volume of the ten volume young adult post-catastrophe Turbo Cowboys series in which five of young men fight for freedom on their motorcycles. Other volumes include three more written by Cunningham, Turbo Cowboys 2 Spin Out (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 3 Full Throttle (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), and Turbo Cowboys 4 Spark Fire (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989). The other six volumes were written by Paul Bagdon, Turbo Cowboys 5 Super Charge (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 6 Rat Trap (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 7 Night Riders (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 8 Speed Shift (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990), Turbo Cowboys 9 Duster Trouble (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990), and Turbo Cowboys 10 City of Glass (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990). The Science Fiction Encyclopedia attributes Rat Trap to John Read.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unquenchable Fire - Rachel [Grace] Pollack (b. 1945) (Century Hutchinson, 1988)
A dystopian future United States where magic and ritual are common. See her Temporary Agency. London: Orbit, 1994 for a sequel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Usurper - [Simon] [Michael] (b. 1955); [Peter] [Rosenberg] (Grafton Books, 1988)
Future dystopia with deep division between the employed and the unemployed. Usurping is killing someone for their job.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Utopia" (Omni, 1988)
Brief statements regarding their utopias by well-known people. The contributors are, in order, Rita Mae Brown, Mister Rogers [Fred Rogers], Christina Crawford, David Rockefeller, Harvey Feinstein, Roy Rogers, Grace Slick, Steve Wosniak, Lina Wertmuller, Thomas Szasz, Hans Küng, Tammy Faye Bakker, José Miguez-Bonino, Linda Ellerbee, Michael Harrington, Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Jonas Salk, Philip Glass, Joseph Kennedy II, Kurt Vonnegut, and Donald Trump. As might be expected the utopias range from the purely self-indulgent to the self-serving to serious statements regarding a possible better future.

Venus of Shadows - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Doubleday, 1988)
Sequel to 1986 Sargent. This volume follows the next four generations of the Venus project, the society that is emerging, and the conflicts within it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Vic and Blood: The Chronicles of a Boy and His Dog - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018); Richard [Vance] Corben (1940-2020) (Donning, 1988)
Graphic novel. Post-nuclear war dystopia. Underground there is an authoritarian dystopia trying to maintain a conservative way of life. On the surface is a violent dystopia of male loners and small groups.
Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989; and with the subtitle The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog. New York: iBooks, 2003. The novel is composed of three stories: “Eggsucker.” Illus. Richard Corben. Ariel: The Book of Fantasy Vol. 2. Ed. Richard Durwood (Leawood, KS: Morning Star Press, 1977), 6-13; “A Boy and His Dog.” In his The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (New York: Avon, 1969), 208-45. Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 189 (April 1979): 4-16; rpt. in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 332-73; and in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 359-89, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 358; “Run, Spot, Run.” Mediascene Prevue (September/October 1980) [not found]; rpt. Illus. Richard [Vance] Corben. Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined With Fantastic 27.10 (January 1981): 15-25.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Walden Three - Jack Catran (1918-2001) (Pygmalion Books, 1988)
Future technological eutopia designed and controlled by scientists with all the “work not fit for humans” done by robots. The author presents the society as the solution to ethnic, gender, and racial discrimination and as a means of eliminating poverty without creating a welfare state. One character is based on Jacque Fresco (1916-2017); see 1969, 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Way to Neutopia. Poems and Woodcuts - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (Ken John, 1988)
Poems that describe a eutopia. Each poem begins with "WE HAVE A PROBLEM . . ." and then continues with a statement of what we need. Covers many topics, including leadership, religion, inequality, the nuclear family, poverty, unemployment, prostitution, medical care, among others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Where We’ll Never Grow Old” - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) (Sunburn Lake, 1988)
The story is set in a post-catastrophe (pandemic) in 2028.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Woman of the Aeroplanes - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) (Heinemann, 1988)
Something of a comic novel where time and causality completely askew. Tukwan is the utopia where everybody in the town was a reincarnation of someone from the town, and this would continue until all problems solved.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

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

"womanmansion to my sister mourning her mother - Gossett, Hattie (Presenting . . . Sister No Blues, 1988)
Poem describing a feminist heaven.
Rpt. in Memories and Visions. Ed. Susana Sturgis (Freedom, CAL The Crossing Press, 1989), 197-201.
Keywords: Female author

World of One - Charles [Bardley] Templeton (1915-2001) (Doubleday Canada, 1988)
Novel about a future corrupt cult.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (Bloomsbury, 1988)
Environmental dystopia seen through the eyes of an environmental activist.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1984 Here and Now - Thuan Chye Kee (b. 1954) (K. Das Ink, 1987)
Dystopia. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four adapted to contemporary Malaysia.
Keywords: Malaysian author; Male author

After the Bomb: Week One - Gloria [Dubov] Miklowitz (b. 1927) (Scholastic, 1987)
Dystopia of a military state after an accidental nuclear explosion. See also 1985 Miklowitz.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ambient - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987)
The first volume in the DryCo series. DryCo refers to the Dryden Corporation, and the connections among the volumes in the series are tenuous, but all refer to DryCo. This volume is set in a future New York City, a future violent corporate, cyberpunk dystopia. Considerable use of invented language. The Ambients are people who have been badly disfigured survivors of a nuclear accident. For other volumes in the series see his 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 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, 1988
Keywords: Male author; US author

Amerika - Brauna E. Pouns [pseud.]; Donald Wrye (1934-2015) (Pocket Books, 1987)
Dystopia of the United States dominated by the U.S.S.R.
Keywords: Male author

And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) (Basic Books, 1987)
The “Prologue to Part I” introduces the fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw (13-25) who then time travels to ten key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. Other stories using Geneva Crenshaw can be found throughout his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992 and in Afrolantica Legacies. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1998. See also 1991 Bell.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Anthills of the Savannah - Chinua [Chinụalụmọgụ] Achebe (1930-2013) (William Heinemann, 1987)
Dystopia. An imaginary country based on Nigeria describing a military dictatorship.
Rpt. with an "Introduction" by Maya Jaggi (vii-xiv). London: Penguin Books, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1988.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

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

Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles of 1967-1987 - Peter [Robert Edwin] Viereck (1916-2006) (W. W. Norton, 1987)
Epic poem. Alternative history from Adan and Eve to the present with both eutopian and dystopian periods.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Armageddon Outtahere” - Paul Mavrides (b. 1952); Jay Kinney (b. 1950) (Anarchy Comics, 1987)
Satire on Armageddon in which the gods of many different religions arrive all at once to punish the human race.
Rpt. in Anarchy Comics. The Complete Collection. Ed. Jay Kinney (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2013), 149-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Bats" - Leon Rooke (b. 1934) (Tesseracts2, 1987)
Dystopia in which all the old people are moved to a huge domed area where they wait to die. Gin keeps people content. Everyone lives in large domes in a controlled environment and appear to be hurried along to death. Some touches of fantasy.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Bedmates - Kurt [Oscar Eugene] von Trojan (b. 1937) (Petala, 1987)
Future, poor, authoritarian Australian dystopia. Artificial sexual partners provided by the state.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Beloved. A Novel - Toni Morrison (1931-2019) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987)
A complex novel based reflecting on the dystopia of American slavery and the way memory reconstructs the past.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Boiled Frog Syndrome: A Novel of Love, Sex and Politics - Marty Rubin (d. 1994) (Alyson Publications, 1987)
Anti-gay dystopia in the United States, including concentration camps for gays, and the revolt against it. The “boiled frog syndrome” refers to the fact that if a frog is put it hot water, it will leap out, but if put in cold water that is slowly heated, it will be not but will be boiled to death. In the novel this refers to the slow, insidious destruction of the rights of gays.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

Consider Philebas - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) (Macmillan, 1987)
Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of which have explicitly utopian content but can collectively be seen as utopian. . See also 1988 and 2008 Banks. Other Culture novels include The State of the Art. Willimantec, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989; rpt. in his The State of the Art (London: Orbit, 1991), 83-172; rpt. (London: Orbit, 1993), 99-205 [First contact of The Culture with Earth]; Use of Weapons. London: Macmillan, 1990; Excession. London: Macmillan, 1996; Inversions. London: Orbit, 1998; Look to Windward. London: Orbit, 2000; Surface Detail. London: Orbit, 2010; and The Hydrogen Sonata. New York: Orbit, 2012. Other Culture material includes “A Gift from the Culture.” Interzone, no. 20 (Summer 1987): 44-51. Rpt. in his The State of the Art (London: Orbit, 1991), 7-22. Rpt. (London: Orbit, 1993): 8-28; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 865-74 with an editors’ note on 964.
Rpt. London: Orbit, 1991
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Copernick's Rebellion - Leo A. Frankowski (1943-2008) (Ballantine Books, 1987)
Satirical novel about the advantages and disadvantages of genetic engineering. On the positive side, it can be used to create housing, food, and many other things and the inventors plan to give it all away free, which obvious creates conflict. On the negative side, it can be used to create whatever oddities people want to make of themselves.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cruise of the Skuld - Marguerite Pedersen (Sovereign Press, 1987)
Individualist anarchist eutopia presented mostly in a discussion on a ship.
Keywords: Female author

A Cry In the Desert - Jed A. Bryan (Banned Books, 1987)
Dystopia from the gay male perspective focusing on the initial response to the AIDS epidemic.
Keywords: Male author

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

Daughters of Khaton - [Merril] [Harris] (b. 1942) (Lace Publications, 1987)
Lesbian feminist eutopia on another planet visited by a spaceship with a mostly male crew and the problems that ensue.
Part originally published as by Merril Harris. "From Sisterworld." Sinister Wisdom (Charlotte, NC), no. 3 (July 1976): 57-59.
Keywords: Female author

Dawn: Xenogenesis - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Warner Books, 1987)
Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. see her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books. 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books. 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746.
Rpt. in her Lilith's Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Dawn: Xenogenesis - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Warner Books, 1987)
Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. See her Adulthood Rites. <st1:placetype w:st="on">New York</st1:placetype>: Warner Books, 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. <st1:placetype w:st="on">New York</st1:placetype>: Warner Books, 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (<st1:placetype w:st="on">New York</st1:placetype>: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746.
Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (<st1:placetype w:st="on">New York</st1:placetype>: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Death Arms - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) (Morrigan Publications, 1987)
Future dystopia of a Los Angeles abandoned to criminals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Death of Honor - Joe Clifford Faust (b. 1957) (Ballantine Books, 1987)
A mystery set in an overpopulation dystopia that encourages people to have more children, which are then taken and raised by the state with payment to the parents.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Different Paths" - Penny Buchanan (Red Sun of Darkover, 1987)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

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

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

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

“The Evening and the Morning and the Night” - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Omni Magazine, 1987)
Dystopia. The story concerns a disease that causes people to violently kill themselves and the discovery of a way to mitigate the effects through made possible by a genetic abnormality in some women. The dystopia is the way that society treats those with the disease, which is to isolate and exclude them, which can be read as a metaphor for the way society treats various classes of “others”.
Rpt. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback # 38. Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 33-84 with an “Afterword” on 85; in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 171-95 with the “Afterword” on 195-96; in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 200-18; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 642-667, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772-773).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

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

"Falling Free" - Lois McMaster [Joy] Bujold (b. 1949) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1987)
Dystopia of an all-controlling galactic corporation which has bread “Quaddies,” humans, although not classified as such, who have an extra pair of arms rather than legs and are ideal for working in zero gravity. The corporation treats them as slaves, and the novel is about an attempt to free them. Included in multi-volume Vorkosigan Saga, but it is set two hundred years before Miles Vokosigan’s birth. Intended to be the first half of the story, but the second half was never written. The author revisited the subject is her Diplomatic Immunity. New York: Baen Books, 2002, but it has little to do with the subject of Falling Free. A “Prologue” that was not published in the volume can be found at http://www.dendarii.com/excerpts/prologue.html.
Rpt. New York: Baen Books, 1988 and Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2004 and rpt. 2017.
Keywords: Female author; US author

First Citizen - Thomas T[hurston] Thomas (b. 1948) (Baen Books, 1987)
After the U.S. repudiated its national debt and a nuclear attack on the capitol, the country collapses into regions, each with a private army. One man takes advantage of the situation to build a huge fortune and ultimately reunited the country under his leadership.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Flight" - Nina Boal (The Red Sun of Darkover, 1987)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

God Help the Queen - Geoffrey Cush (b. 1956) (Abacus, 1987)
Britain as an authoritarian dystopia. All people are shareholders but are poor.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; UK author

Goodstuff Any Moment - Mike Paterson (b. 1946) (Hard Echo Press, 1987)
A dystopia based on the usual corruption and cruelties with the emergence of a eutopia based on people helping each other. People create a cooperative system of both education and exchange that allows those living on the margins to improve their lives. Religious overtones with the emergence near the end of an Antichrist figure and the possibility of the Second Coming.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Green Man of Knowledge" - Wendy G[ay] Pearson (Tesseracts2, 1987)
In the future capital punishment is replaced by dying the skin of murderers green. Those dyed green live in the world and work in munitions factories but are generally treated as non-persons. The story is about a terrorist and his punishment.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

“Harry Protagonist, Inseminator General” - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) (The Kid from Ozone Park and Other Stories, 1987)
Satire on gender relations in which men and women choose to separate and men lose the ability to impregnate.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Hormone Jungle - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Donald I. Fine, 1987)
Dystopia set two thousand years in the future where female cyborgs are created solely to give pleasure and powerful criminal figures are still powerful. Much of the novel is adventure and romance with the dystopia as its setting.
Rpt. New York: Warner Books, 1987. UK ed. London: Futura, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Hub - Chris Beebee (Macdonald, 1987)
Future black humor. Some eutopia, some dystopia. See also the sequel The Main Event. Book 2 of the Cipola Sequence. London: Futura, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Hunter and Victim or The Invisible Her Is the Whore - Steven Fuson ([Author], 1987)
Dystopia. Anti-feminist. Reflects the position of the Padanaram Community located in Indiana..
Keywords: Male author; US author

In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster (b. 1947) (Viking, 1987)
Dystopia of a collapsing city and a degenerating civilization. A film directed by Alejandro Chomski with a screenplay by the director was released in Spanish in 2020 and in English in 2022.
U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1988
Keywords: Male author; US author

Intervention. A Root Tale to the Galactic Milieu and a Vinculum between it and The Saga of Pliocene Exile - Julian [Clare] May (1931-2017) (Houghton Mifflin Co, 1987)
Complex future history in which an evolutionary change has produced telepathic people and their relationship with the non-telepathic, which has both eutopia and dystopian dimensions. Presented through a family history. See also 1992 May and its sequels.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Isaac Asimov Presents Pennterra - Judith Moffett (b. 1942) (Congdon & Weed, 1987)
Troubled eutopia. Society of Friends (Quaker) society settlement on a planet named after William Penn (1644-1718), the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania. The novel is primarily concerned with relations between the settlers and the indigenous inhabitants, who prohibit settlement outside a small valley and the use of much technology. The society of the indigenes, who are constantly aware of each other and plants and animals, is presented in eutopian terms. A second group of settlers who are not Quakers and refuse to accept the restrictions. The indigenes are called Hrossa, which is the same name use by C.S. Lewis in Out of the Silent Planet (1938).
Rpt. Toronto, ON, Canada: Worldwide, 1988. Often listed as Pennterra, but this is the title on the title page. Rpt. with no reference to an earlier publication as Pennterra. Blacksburg, VA: Fantastic Books, 2009. Advertised as with rev. text, but I can find no differences. The copyright page, which lists the pages on which previously published poems appear, is identical to that in the earlier publication, but since the type sizes are different, these page numbers are wrong. Extracts from her own previously published poem are from “Unicorn” in her Whinny Moor Crossing (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), 74-76.
Keywords: Female author

The Island Worlds - [Yoji] [Kondo] (1933-2017); John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) (Baen, 1987)
The novel is set in the twenty-first century when there is a right-left conflict on Earth and a war for independence by the asteroid belt. See also their 1988 Between the Stars and their non-utopian Act of God. New York: Baen, 1985 that sets the stage for the other novels by introducing the technologies that make space exploration possible.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jacob's Ladder. A Novel - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1987)
The novel is about a fictitious African country that has won its freedom and has a leader who is struggling, with some success,  to bring a better life to the people while avoiding the dystopia that corruption and neocolonialism that had undermined such efforts in most actual African countries at the time.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Journey to Zelindar: The Personal Account of Sair of Semasi. Book 986 of the Hadra Archives - Diana Rivers (b. 1931) (Lace Publications, 1987)
Lesbian feminist eutopia continued in her Daughters of the Great Star: Book 57 of the Hadra Archives, as recorded by Tazmirrel of Nemanthi under the guidance of Alyeeta the Witch. Boston, MA: Lace Publications, 1992, which provides the background; The Hadra: Book 57, Part 2, of the Hadra Archives, as recorded by Tazzil of Zelindar for Alyeeta the Witch. Boston, MA: Lace Publications, 1995; Clouds of War. Ferndale, MI: Bella Books, 2002; The Red Line of Yarmald. Ferndale, MI: Bella Books, 2003; and Her Sister’s Keeper. Tallahassee, FL: Bella Books, 2008.
Keywords: Female author

“Just Suppose: An Imagining Exercise” - Shevy Healey (1922-2001) (Sinister Wisdom, 1987)
An egalitarian eutopia focusing on the elimination of ageism. The female author was born in Poland and was brought to the U.S. at age two. She was the founder of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change.
Originally published on page 85 of The Facilitator’s Handbook of the First West Coast Conference and Celebration, Southern California, 1987.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Kayo: The Authentic and Annotated Autobiographical Novel from Outer Space - James [Rodney] McConkey (b. 1921) (E. P. Dutton, 1987)
Satire on human foibles as seen on a parallel, similar world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Kindly Ones - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) (Baen Books, 1987)
Authoritarian dystopia based on strict rules of behavior based on kinship facing changed conditions where it becomes essential to peacefully settle differences.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

Legend - Barry Maher (Freedeeds Library, 1987)
Complex dystopia on a future Earth after some unidentified catastrophe had destroyed much of the Earth and left the people deeply divided into those few with jobs (the bureaurers), majority of people (the folkers), and the disciples of new, authoritarian religions. At the end no one is left on Earth.
Rpt. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2002.
Keywords: Male author

Life in a Peaceful World (Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1987)
Six page tract depicting the world after the millennium.

Little Heroes - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Bantam Books, 1987)
Complex novel depicting a future U.S. dystopia. Commercial control; drugs; financial depression. Reality Liberation Front and rock and roll will provide a touch of hope, but they will probably lose out to commercialization.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

A Mask for the General - Lisa Goldstein (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1987)
Future authoritarian dystopia in the United States.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Memory Wire - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1987)
Authoritarian dystopia in which individuals are wired to be cameras and operate solely as machines recording what happens.
U.K. ed. London: Futura, 1990.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Mercedes Nights - Michael D[avid] Weaver (1961-98) (St. Martin's Press, 1987)
Dystopia with a black market in clones.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Miamigrad - Jerry [Jerome Morrell] Ahern (1946-2012); Sharon Ahern (b. 1948) (Pocket Books, 1987)
Dystopia. Soviet controlled Miami and the revolt against it.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

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

The Movement of Mountains - Michael [John] Blumlein (1948-2019) (St. Martin's Press, 1987)
Dystopia as a background. Rich-poor division. Genetically manufactured humans designed for a specific job and a short life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Native Tongue II: The Judas Rose - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (DAW Books, 1987)
Sequel to 1984 Elgin in which the women’s plan to teach more women the women’s language is complicated by the presence of aliens on Earth and the infiltration of their movement by a woman at the instigation of the men. The aliens note that Earth women are ready to move onto a higher stage of civilization but that the me are not.
Rpt. as Native Tongue 2: The Judas Rose. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword: Gender, Technology, and Violence” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 365-80. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2019 with a “Foreword: The Veil of Language” by Rebecca Romney on vii-ix and an “Afterword: Gender, Technology, and Violence” by Susan M. Squier and Julie Vedder on 407-25.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A New World" - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) (Fiction Magazine, 1987)
A dystopia in which everyone is under corporate control and limited to one room. People are promised a new world where they are promised they will have more room, which is achieved by shrinking them.
Rpt. illus. by the author in his Ten Tales Tall and True (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 1993), 97-101. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 97-101; and in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 621-24.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Night of No Joy" - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1987)
The second of three dystopian stories set in a world in which reality is unravelling and nothing rational appears to remain and violence erupts everywhere. See also 1986 and 1988 Wagar.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Obernewtyn - Isobelle Jane Carmody (b. 1958) (Puffin Books assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council, 1987)
The first of a seven-volume series known as the Obernewtyn Chronicles that begins as a post-catastrophe young adult eugenic dystopia in which eugenic regulations are used to control those with advanced mental powers. Obernewtyn is an enclave on this world, and in this novel the Misfits win and bring peace to Obernewtyn. In the second volume, The Farseekers. Book 2 of The Obernewtyn Chronicles. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Viking, 1990, the authoritarian regime of the Council threatens the peace of Obernewtyn and some of the Misfits and the Farseeker go on a quest that they hope will give them the information necessary to keep the peace. In the third volume, Ashling. Book 3 of The Obernewtyn Chronicles. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Viking, 1995, the Farseeker travels to the city of the Council to forge an alliance, and she begins a search for the weapons that had almost destroyed the world earlier and might do so again. In the fourth volume, The Keeping Place. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books, 1999. 754 pp., volume the various themes of the previous volumes appear to be brought to a successful resolution, but the series continues. In the fifth volume, The Stone Key. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2008. 1000 pp. Published in the U.S. as two volumes, The Stone Key. New York: Random House, 2008; and Wavesong. New York: Random House, 2008, the Farseeker discovers that there is opposition to the reforms brought about in the previous volume, and she must stop a plot against them. In the sixth volume, The Sending. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2011. 756 pp., the quest continues with new obstacles to be overcome. And in the seventh volume, The Red Queen. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2015. 1108 pp., after many further adventures, the issues are resolved. Related stories are “The Dark Road: An Obernewtyn Story.” Legends of Australian Fantasy. Ed. Jack Dann and Jonathan Strahan (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Harper Voyager Australia, 2010), 131-56, with an author’s “Afterword” on 156-57; and “The Journey.” Trust Me Too. Ed. Paul Collins. Ormond, Vic, Australia: Hybrid Publishers/Ford Street Publishing, 2012. Ebook.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Paperchaser - Penny [Jane] Hall (b. 1941) (Walter McVitty Books, 1987)
Young adult dystopia of an authoritarian twenty-first century Sydney. There is danger on the one side from the security services and on the other from violent gangs. An underground of homeless youth live outside the system in various places around the city. See also 1989 Hall.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Penal Colony - Richard Herley (Grafton, 1987)
Dystopia. Britain has island prison colonies for the worst offenders, and they are run by the prisoners.
Keywords: Male author

Project Millennium - Curtis H[oward] Hoffmann (b. 1956) (Ace Books, 1987)
War as entertainment on a peaceful planet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Promise" - Fenoglio, Mary (Red Sun of Darkover, 1987)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Rain" - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) (Tesseracts2, 1987)
Class-based dystopia. The poor living deepest underground.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A Recent Martyr - Valerie Martin (b. 1948) (Houghton, Mifflin Co, 1987)
Near future tale set in a dystopia in New Orleans including the bubonic plague and collapsing social services.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

Revolutionary Politics - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) (Seagull Press, 1987)
Detailed non-fiction eutopia for New Zealand with a stress on economic issues. See 1988 Mehlhopt for a detailed set of political proposals. See also 1997 and 1999 Mehlhopt.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Revolutionizing Reform - Jerome Shuchter (Dorrance & Co, 1987)
Non-fiction socialist eutopia with suggestions for the period of transition.
Keywords: Male author

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

Running Away From Home - Rachel McAlpine (b. 1940) (Penguin Books (N.Z.), 1987)
A dystopia with some eutopian elements in which big government and big business have no concern for the people. Related to 1985 McAlpine in that the dominant world power is the RUSA. Also related in that one of the centers of concern is the environmental destruction caused by government and business and in its antinuclear theme. The eutopian elements are found in the ability of people to work together cooperatively and in a strong feminist current showing women freeing themselves from the dominance of men and then being able to create equal partnerships with men who are also capable of doing so.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Running on Empty - Heifner, Jack (Dramatists Play Service, 1987)
Environmental dystopia set in a U.S. that has depleted its resources.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Sea and Summer - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) (Faber and Faber, 1987)
Class divided future dystopia.
Rpt. London: Grafton, 1989. U.S. ed. as Drowning Towers. New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988. Part originally published as "The Fittest." Urban Fantasies. Ed. David King and Russell Blackford (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Ebony Books, 1985), 105-31. Story rpt. in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 175-207; and in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. Terry Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 229-62.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Sea of Glass - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) (St. Martin's Press, 1987)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Second Third of C" - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) (Interzone, 1987)
Authoritarian dystopia. A society with extreme rich-poor divisions, books largely gone, government in the poor areas collapsed but remaining strong and ruthless in the rich areas.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Secret Ascension: Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (Tor, 1987)
Alternative history. The United States won the war in Vietnam and President Nixon is in his fourth term.
U.K. ed. as Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas. London: Grafton, 1988.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Shelter - Mary Kittredge (b. 1949); Kevin O'Donnell Jr. (1950-2012) (Tor, 1987)
Eutopian city that becomes insane.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Smiles and the Millennium - Miranda Miller (b. 1950) (Virago, 1987)
Future dystopia featuring the extremely wealthy contrasted with the extremely poor.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Spiral of Fire - Michael Cope (b. 1941) (David Philip, 1987)
Set in 1986 and thus contemporary but depicts Cape Town, South Africa as a dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

A Sport of Nature - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987)
Includes a brief description of a racially inclusive, democratic eutopia in a future Africa called Azania. Azania was the preferred name for South Africa of the Black Consciousness movement.
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1988.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Squirrels in Frankfurter Highlight" - Rhea Rose (Tesseracts2, 1987)
Dystopia of people living by playing computer games to try to earn enough to protect themselves from being forcibly enrolled in the military and sent into space. The poor sell body parts so that the rich can live better.
Keywords: Canadian author

The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Bantam Books, 1987)
Primarily an adventure novel, but part of the adventure is set in an egalitarian eutopia with no crime.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Star Griffin - Michael [Joseph] Kurland (b. 1938) (Doubleday & Co., 1987)
Dystopia of overpopulation and violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Stepfather Bank - D[avid] C[harles] Poyer (b. 1949) (St. Martin's Press, 1987)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 2110 under the control of a single monopolistic, fully automated bank that owns the entire world and employs everyone except one man who defies and undermines the system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sylviron - Joel David Welty (1927-2012) (Sylviron Foundation, 1987)
Dystopia of bigness contrasted with a small cooperative village. The dystopia is a hierarchical, authoritarian system that uses social welfare as a means of control. All citizens are required to visit their case worker every week, and in return they get a wide range of benefits tailored to their status. The eutopia is an ecologically designed cooperative village called Sylviron where everyone lives outside the control of the dystopia, and the plot of the novel focuses on the attempts of the dystopia to control Sylviron and the successful resistance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Texas Triumphant - Daniel da Cruz [Jr.] (1921-1991) (Ballantine Books, 1987)
Third in a series. See 1982 and 1986 da Cruz. In this volume a libertarian eutopia is established with local independence. Anti-Communist novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Thanatos Syndrome - Walker Percy (1916-90) (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987)
Dystopia of the very near future United States in which scientists chemically suppress human individuality. The protagonist's name, Dr. Tom More, continues the connection with the author of Utopia mentioned in 1971 Percy.
A limited first edition signed by the author and with a frontispiece by Jim Spanfeller and “A Special message for the first edition from Walker Percy” for the members of The Signed First Edition Society. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Time Pressure - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) (Ace Books, 1987)
Prequel to his 1982 Mindkiller in which a woman has travelled to the past to bring about changes that will make it possible to avoid the conditions described in Mindkiller. It includes a description of communal life in Nova Scotia that could be construed as eutopian. The second volume of what comes to be called the Lifehouse Trilogy, which includes his 1982 Mindkiller and 1997 Life House.
Rpt. in The Lifehouse Trilogy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007), 231-437
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

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

USSA. A Novel - James N[orbert] Frey (b. 1943) (Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing, 1987)
Dystopia about an American capitalist about to become head of the Federal Reserve who is in fact an agent of the Soviet KGB planning to create a Soviet U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

U.S.S.A. Book 1 - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) (Avon Books, 1987)
Young adult dystopia about a military coup in the U.S. that produced the United Secure States of America.
Keywords: Male author; US author

U.S.S.A. Book 2 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) (Avon Books, 1987)
Sequel to 1987 De Haven. In this volume the main protagonist and his girlfriend are trying to escape and help form a teenage underground resistance movement. See also 1987 Sykes and Lewitt, Book 4.
Keywords: Female author; US author

U.S.S.A. Book 3 - S[ondra] C[atharine] Sykes (1943-2005) (Avon Books, 1987)
Sequel to 1987 De Haven and 1987 Lewitt. See also Lewitt, Book 4. In this volume the protagonist’s father is put in a “reorientation camp”.
Keywords: Female author; US author

U.S.S.A. Book 4 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) (Avon Books, 1987)
Sequel to 1987 De Haven and her Book 2. See also 1987 Sykes. In this volume the teenage underground successfully overthrows the military coup and the U.S.A. is re-established.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Utopia 3200: A Political, Social, and Economic Fantasy - Levin Wilson Foster (b. 1907) (Vantage Press, 1987)
After a nuclear war, the U.S. emerges and the sole power, and it establishes one-world government that eliminates all opposition throughout the world. While the government the successfully improves the lot of the remaining people, anyone who dissents is imprisoned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vacuum Flowers - Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) (Arbor House, 1987)
Complex novel of various worlds--mostly dystopian--based on the ability to program people with different personae. Earth has been taken over by the Comprise--linked minds in many human bodies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Veritas" - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1987)
Dystopia that uses technological means to kill fantasy.
Rpt. in The Savage Humanists. Ed. Fiona Kelleghan (Calgary, AL, Canada: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008), 235-56 with an editor's note on 233-34.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Voyage to Inishneefa: A First-hand Account of the Fifth Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships) - John Paul Brady (John Daniel, Publisher, 1987)
Satire on contemporary Ireland.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Western Lands - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Viking, 1987)
The final volume of a trilogy that also includes 1981 Cities of the Red Night and his 1983 The Place of Dead Roads. The title refers to the ancient Egyptian land of the dead west of the Nile. The novel, taking place in the past and the present includes the typical Burroughs’s dystopian themes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When Gravity Fails - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Arbor House, 1987)
Future dystopia of adventure and violence written as a mystery novel set in a future Middle East, which is the dominant area in a world where both the Western countries and the Soviet Union have broken up into smaller units. The novel has been called cyberpunk because people plug modules, known as "moddies", into their brains to become whoever they want. The sequels A Fire in the Sun. New York: Doubleday, 1989, The Exile Kiss. New York: Doubleday, 1991 have the same setting, as do some of the stories in a posthumous collection Budayeen Nights. Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon, 2003.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Collector's Edition illus. Mark Maxwell and with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wild Card Run - Sara [Lucinda] Stamey (b. 1953) (Berkley Books, 1987)
Dystopia in which computers are forcing evolutionary changes in humans. Sequels include Win, Lose, Draw. New York: Ace Books, 1988; and Double Blind. New York: Ace Books, 1990.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Wingwomen of Hera - Sandi Hall (b. 1942) (Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987)
Feminist eutopia. Two planets are described. The feminist eutopia is Hera, which appears to be inhabited only by telepathic, winged women. The other planet, Maladar, exists in caves in the Ice and is dominated by men. The novel deals with a deadly disease found on both planets, with the struggles of one woman on Maladar, and with the spacefaring of the women on Hera.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

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