Liam Hannigan's Hyperbreed Robowar - Liam Hannigan (b. 1978) (Author, 1998)
Comic. First, and apparently last, of a series about a future eutopia based on limited population and the labor of robots. The Hyperbreed are genetically created superior humans. The robots and disaffected Hyperbreed revolt and civil war begins.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora. A Novel - [Robert] Michael Nesmith (b. 1942) (St. Martin’s Press, 1998)
The novel includes both eutopian and dystopian elements and fantasy.
Keywords: Male author

“‘Make Love, Not War’” - Saab Lofton (Battle Neverending, 1998)
The dystopia of the present from the point-of-view of an African American activist plus elements of alternative dystopian and eutopian futures.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Malthusian Code" - Leslie Lupien (North of Infinity: Futurity Visions, 1998)
Population control through a culture that approves only homosexual and lesbian relations. Named after Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834).

Masque - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946); Matthew J[ohn] Costello (b. 1948) (Warner Books, 1998)
Dystopia. Far future warring corporations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Matrix. Shooting Script August 12, 1998" - Larry [Laurence] Wachowski (b. 1965); Andy [Andrew] Wachowski (b. 1967) (The Art of The Matrix, 1998)
Dystopian film released in 1999, followed by “The Matrix Revolution” (2003), “Matrix Reloaded (2003), and “The Matrix Resurrections” (2021), written by Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, and Aleksandar Hemon. “The Animatrix,” an animated series of nine short films, four written by the Wachowskis, set in the Matrix universe was released in 2003 (see http://www.intothematrix.com/). A satire is [Adam Roberts], McAtrix Derided. By The Robertski Brothers [pseud.]. London: Gollancz, 2004.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

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

The Mayor of Aln - James Rourke (b. 1960) (Parthian Press, 1998)
Failed religious eutopia that is reminiscent of Münster, Germany and Thomas Müntzer. A leader proclaims himself King and Messiah and abolishes property and marriage. The city is then besieged and defeated.
Keywords: Male author

The Mean Green Machine - Alan M. Brooker (b. 1934) (Orca Publishing, 1998)
Dystopia--political novel depicting a violent, bisexual environmental movement in New Zealand with neo-Nazi connections.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Moonwar - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Avon Eos, 1998)
The moon has become a high tech eutopia, while the Earth has become an anti-technology dystopia. Sequel to his Moonrise. New York: Avon, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Noir - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) (Bantam Books, 1998)
Background of an authoritarian dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1999.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Off the Road - Nina Bawden (1925-2012) (Hamish Hamilton, 1998)
Young adult novel set in 2040 contrasting a highly organized, sterile, supposed eutopia with largely traditional country life. Country life is marred by wandering gangs; the eutopia is based on regulating consumption by removing all to Nostalgia homes at age 65.
U.S. ed. New York: Clarion Books, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Female author

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

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

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

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

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

The Pesthouse - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). (Picador, 1998)
Post-catastrophe dystopia that includes a religious intentional community called The Blessed Ark.
U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2007.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

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

Psylicon Beach - Philip Gross (b. 1952) (Scholastic Press, 1998)
Dystopia stressing pollution, poverty versus wealth, and corrupt authority. Described as for Young Adults.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“‘Rapture’” - Saab Lofton (Battle Neverending, 1998)
Humorous story of an angel who tries to continue to be politically involved to avoid the coming dystopia in the U.S. See also 1995 Lofton.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

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

The Republic of Dreams: A Reverie - G. Garfield Crimmins (W.W. Norton, 1998)
Something of a modern cockaigne under attack by rationalists. The Republic of Dreams where good food, good sex, and good wine are the norm. The book is heavily illustrated and includes foldouts and various inserts.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Scepticism Inc - Bo Fowler (Jonathan Cape, 1998)
Satire on religion.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Seal of Gaia: A Novel of the Antichrist - [Robert] Marlin Maddoux (Word Publishing Co, 1998)
Dystopia centering on the Antichrist.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Second Angel - Philip [Ballantyne] Kerr (1956-2018) (Orion, 1998)
Authoritarian dystopia based on the control of blood supplies. World divided into the well and the potentially ill. Successful revolt.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Snowdome - Bernard Cohen (b. 1963) (Allen & Unwin, 1998)
Dystopia set in the early twenty-first century. Sydney is now a museum.
Parts were originally published in different form as “from Inflation.” Screens and Tasted Parallels. No. 2 (1990): 93-95; as “No One Lives Here Anymore.”  Picador New Writing. Ed. Helen Daniel and Robert Dessaix (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador Australia): 2: 265-72, Meanjin, Southerly, Otis Rush, Hermes, the Canberra Times, Between U&S, Analects, and presented in Volume 8 (First Draft West Gallery, Annandale), the Performance Space, and on Sideshow (radio 2SER).
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Square Apples Start Wars - James Howell (Minerva Press, 1998)
Dystopian thriller. Africa is under a dictatorship and threatens the European Alliance with a nuclear attack.
Keywords: Male author

Taur - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) (Longacre Press, 1998)
Second volume of a series. In this volume, the young man continues his trip down through the North Island. See also 1997, 1999 and 2001 Lasenby.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Tea From An Empty Cup - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (HarperCollins, 1998)
Cyberpunk dystopia. See also 2000 Cadigan.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Testimony: A Poetic Future World Adventure - John Foster (b. 1942) (Silverhill Press, 1998)
Authoritarian dystopia, with the emphasis on the successful struggle against it. Advanced technology, including perpetual motion.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Texas 2077: A Futuristic Novel - Carlos Miralejos (Outer Space Press, 1998)
A Hispanic political party develops and becomes a major force nationally, but Texas is planning to secede, and that would seriously weaken the Hispanic part. The novel has a number of other plot lines.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

ThigMOO - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
A satirical take on university life and technology in which faculty and students at a third-rate British university establish a Museum of the Mind online by creating fictional electronic characters with the histories and personalities of characters from the past. The escape from the Museum and go through many battles among themselves but ultimately produce a socialist eutopia.
U,K. ed. London: Earthlight, 1999. Part originally published as "ThigMOO." Interzone, no. 120 (June 1997): 40-51.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"Tough Girls Don't Dream" - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) (The New Yorker, 1998)
Dystopia of a world where sleep is illegal.
Rpt. as "Disappearance I." In The World and Other Places (London: Jonathan Cape, 1998), 101-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 101-15.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Trajectories - Julian Rathbone (1935-2008) (Victor Gollancz, 1998)
Dystopia. Britain has collapsed into various small city-states of various sizes. The largest, centered on Birmingham, is essentially governed by a secret service. The rich live in enclaves which they rarely if ever leave. The poor, many suffering from radiation sickness, are kept under control by a powerful police force.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Transit" - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1998)
A young girl from a dystopian traditional Islamic planet meets and falls in love with a boy/girl of a hermaphrodite planet. The hermaphrodite planet is presented in a generally positive light. Clash and mixing of cultures in the future.
Rpt. in his The Lady of Situations (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 1999), 71-93; and in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 135-68 with a note on 135.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Truman Show: The Shooting Script - Andrew Niccol (b. 1964) (Nick Heron Books, 1998)
A TV program, the Truman Show, is a 24 hour a day program broadcasting the life a man in an apparent paradise, but he does not know that everyone else is an actor.
U.K. ed. London: Nick Heron Books, 1998.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Truth About Weena" - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) (Dreaming Down-Under, 1998)
On a different time line from that described in 1895 Wells, the Eloi woman Weena is brought back from the future and becomes a political activist, leading to a better society. See 1977 Lake and the note there.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Indian author; Male author

Utopia Now: The Ultimate Success Story - Dan[ny L.] Cahill [III] (Chiyoko Publishing, 1998)
Detailed New Age eutopia and argument that it is possible.
Keywords: Male author

The Vision: An Imaginary View of a Better Future for Mankind and a Possible Way Forward - Colin Millen (Published by Health Books for the Author, 1998)
Eutopia based on anarchy, ecology, and socialism. Everything is small-scale and community based. Brought about by “The Possibilists” who formed independent groups of five to ten members to bring about change locally. Self-managed communities. No money. Local and a common language. Advanced technology.
Keywords: Male author

"Visitors" - L. A. Taylor (More Amazing Stories, 1998)
Post-catastrophe (unexplained) dystopia in which all cities have disappeared. The story focuses on an automated house protecting its dead owners.

Which World? Scenarios for the 21st Century: Global Destinies, Regional Choices - Allen Hammond (Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1998)
Presents three scenarios: “Market World: A New Golden Age of Prosperity? (26-36); “Fortress World: Instability and Violence?” (37-46); and “Transformed World: Changing the Human Endeavor?” (47-61). The first two, “the single-minded pursuit of prosperity” and “the descent into chaos and cruelty” (47) are clearly dystopian. The third depicts “a society that seeks not just wealth but also human welfare, not just security but also fairness. A society that is a steward, not an exploiter, of Earth” (47).
Keywords: Male author

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

"Who Plays with Sin" - Don Bassingthwaite (Bending the Landscape:Science Fiction. [Subtitle only on the cover Original Gay and Lesbian Writing], 1998)
Future anti-gay dystopia. Same sex activity is outlawed and very harshly punished. It is not clear whether the laws apply to women as well as men. There are other stories in the volume that suggest this theme, but this is the only one that develops it.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The 0's - Jekyll R. Salmon (Vantage Press, 1997)
Dystopian future set in 2007 (thus the 0’s). Liberalism has produced a diminished U. S. The first woman President is elected by conservatives and plans reform through persuasion. After a massacre of school children, the equivalent of the National Rifle Association comes out in support of stringent regulations of guns. Stress on the election campaign and sex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“After Henderson” - David Gullen (Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland), 1997)
Dystopia of war among the parts of the previous United Kingdom.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

Aftermath - LeVar Burton (Warner Books/Aspect, 1997)
Dystopia depicting the development of racial conflict in the U.S. leading to a civil war on racial lines between 2015-2018, the collapse of the U.S., and the situation in the year after the war ends.
An excerpt from the novel was published in Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Ed. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (Oakland, CA: AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2015), 215-23.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Antarctica - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (HarperCollins, 1997)
Most of the novel is concerned with conflicts over the protection or development of Antarctica. But the novel ends with the agreement to establish a system that would be environmentally sound and put the future of Antarctica in the hands of those who care for it rather that companies concerned with making a profit. While there are few details and nothing on how it works out, the novel is regularly classified as a utopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1998.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Back in the USSA - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959); Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) (Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1997)
Alternative history. United States had a Communist revolution and formed the United Socialist States of America; Russia had no such revolution.
Parts published as "In the Air" [Cover adds "In Al Capone's Communist America"]. Interzone, no. 43 (January 1991): 6-30; "Ten Days That Shook the World." Interzone, no. 48 (June 1991): 48-63; "Tom Joad." Interzone, no. 65 (November 1992): 6-21; and "Teddy Bears' Picnic." Interzone, nos. 122 - 123 (August - September 1997): 6-21; 36-51.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Because We Were the Travellers - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) (Longacre Press, 1997)
A young adult post-catastrophe quest and environmental dystopia. The first of four volumes in which a young man travels down the North Island of New Zealand and onto the South Island. In the process, he comes in contact with a number of primitive dystopian societies from which he must escape. In this volume, he and an old woman are expelled from their tribe and begin the trek with the old woman teaching her skills like weaving and passing on her knowledge of the land. See also 1998, 1999, and 2001 Lasenby.
Also published South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Hyland House, 1997.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Body Politic - Paul Johnston (b. 1957) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1997)
First volume of a murder mystery series set in a future dystopian Edinburgh, which is an authoritarian enclave in a collapsed Britain. People are kept near starvation, and Edinburgh caters to wealthy tourists on sex and drugs holidays. Its social system is supposed to be based on Plato’s Republic. Sequels include The Bone Yard. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998; Water of Death. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999; The Blood Tree. London Hodder & Stoughton, 2000; and The House of Dust. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2001. See also 2015 Johnston, Heads and Hearts, which, while with the same protagonist and setting, involves significant changes in the system.
Rpt. London: New English Library, 1998.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Canary Land" - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1997)
Dystopia. The moon is supposed to provide a better life than the overpopulated Earth, but most of the population is only marginally better-off and are exploited by the few powerful. Told from the point of view of an immigrant from Earth.
Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 108-34 with a note on 108.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cave Rats - Kerry Greenwood (b. 1959) (Hodder SF/Fantasy, 1997)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 1996 Greenwood. This volume focuses on feral children, the “cave rats,” living in tunnels and a telepathic boy rescued from them.
Rpt. with 1996 and 1998 Greenwood separately paged and with no separate title Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hodder Headline, 2002.
Keywords: Australian author

"The City of Ecstasy" - Monica Papendick (Women and Urban Environments, 1997)
Feminist eutopia.

Contraband - George Foy (b. 1952) (Bantam Books, 1997)
A future dystopia characterized by poverty, disease, and control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue - Neale Donald Walsch (Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 1997)
The second volume (1997) includes God's guidelines for a worldwide eutopia. Volume 1 discusses personal issues; volume 3 discusses "universal truths". See also his The New Revelations: A Conversation with God. New York: Atria Books, 2002.
Keywords: Male author

"A Day in 2020" - Judith Mandel (The Futurist, 1997)
A half page eutopia presenting a summary of a day in the life of a woman in 2020 stressing technology, cohousing, and a fifteen-hour work week.

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

"Demokratus." - Victor [Paul] Koman (b. 1954) (Free Space, 1997)
The protagonist is a man who has lived in space, which is a libertarian utopian with “customs” rather than laws where the words “taxer” and “government” are profane (198-199), who, looking for “freedom from choice,” decides to “self-banish” to a planet where he assumes a government will make choices for him. The first places he lands is Demokratus where everyone is a “voter” and everything and voting is mandatory and constant. But, as it turns out, most people simply ignore the results they don’t agree with.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dra-- - Stacey Levine (Sun & Moon Press, 1997)
Dystopia. Kafkaesque future society. The novel describes a woman caught up in a torturous employment bureaucracy.

"Easter Egg Hunt: A Christmas Story" - Jeffery D. Kooistra (b. 1959) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1997)
The Republic of Currier and Ives (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and parts of Massachusetts). Trying to create the old U.S. of the 18th century.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Echoes from the Future" - Colin Wisely (Twenty-first Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas For a New Millennium, 1997)
A combination of essay and fiction that includes future scenarios after the collapse of states throughout the world, mostly dystopia but with some suggestions of a possible anarchist eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

"On the Edge" - Keith Scott (Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, 1997)
Deep divisions and violence in an alternate Canada as a result of the independence of Québec.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Edward Bellamy Writes Again - Joseph R. Myers (J.R. Myers, 1997)
Eutopia. Author believes that he is the reincarnation of Bellamy and rewrites Looking Backward to fit the 20th century, largely from a right wing perspective.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

"Exodus" - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1997)
Dystopia for the many who have to support the eutopia for old age pensioners. The protagonist is a 145-year-old woman in one of the many walled compounds set aside for seniors who are living on their pensions, which are paid by the young. The Exodus is a jumpship about to leave with thousands of the young happy to take a chance on finding a livable planet where they will be able to work for themselves rather than just to support the Seniors.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fourth Reich - Robert [D.} Van Kampen (1938-99) (Fleming H. Revell, 1997)
Dystopia of the coming of the Antichrist followed by the events as described in the Bible. The author says that it is prophecy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Getting to Know You" - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Future Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications, 1997)
Dystopia of division between the rich and poor with immortality and cloning eliminating both jobs and pre-clone humans. Set in the same world as his 2005 Counting Heads.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 267-87 with an Editor’s note on 267; and in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 109-134. Substantially revised in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.3 (267) (March 1998): 120-141. Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 62-96 with a note on 62; and in his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 255-287.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Glass Earth, Inc." - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) (Future Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications, 1997)
Flawed utopia in which a murder is committed in a London in which it is possible for the police to view the incident as it was happening and from all angles.
Rpt. in his Phase Space (London: HarperCollins/Voyager, 2002), 48-69.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

The Great Wheel - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Harcourt Brace, 1997)
Dystopia in what used to be Africa and a flawed utopia in Europe.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Gulliverzone - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) (Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks, 1997)
GulliverZone is a virtual reality theme park based on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and, on World Peace Day, it is freely open to everyone, even children. But GulliverZone is a dystopia with real Lilliputians being dominated by an evil woman.
Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 1-102.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Halls of Burning" - Jake West (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1997)
Educational dystopia after a gang takeover.
Keywords: Male author

"The Hand You're Dealt" - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) (Free Space, 1997)
Libertarian eutopia with problems.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Hanging Man - S[tanton] Darnbrook Colson (Cyber-Psychos AOD, 1997)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Male author

Harry from the Agency - Philip Gluckman (Reed, 1997)
A dystopia set in 2205 after global warming has destroyed most of the world. Auckland is islands; most of the world's population lives in Antarctica. Corruption. Multi-planetary corporate power. Disease from deep space is decimating the population. At the end, Earth collapses completely and Earth's population moves off-planet to start a new life.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

How Few Remain [Cover adds A Novel of The Second War Between the States] - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Del Rey/Ballantine, 1997)
The first volume of a long alternative history series set after the Confederacy wins the American Civil War in 1862 with the help of the United Kingdom and France and is still an independent nation in the 20th century. There are two sub-series, The Great War and Settling Accounts. This volume is set in 1881 when the North attacks the South after it annexes parts of Mexico and gets a Pacific port. A Socialist Party emerges in the North led by Lincoln. The Great War sub-series includes The Great War: American Front. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1998, which is set during World War I when the North again invades South; The Great War: Walk in Hell. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1999, which is on the war; The Great War: Breakthroughs. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2000, which is set in 1917 with the North fighting two wars, one on its Northern border against Canada and Great Britain and in the South with the Confederate States of America. The South is dealing with an Insurgency of African Americans trying to establish an independent socialist republic. The Settling Accounts sub-series includes Settling Accounts: Return Engagement. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2004, in which South, under a dictatorship, invades North but is defeated; Settling Accounts: Drive to the East. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2005, which is on war; Settling Accounts: The Grapple. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2006, in which both sides are trying to create a nuclear weapon, the South is murdering African Americans, and the North has a socialist Vice-President; Settling Accounts: In at the Death. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 2007 in which the South is defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Idol Killing - Mark J. White (AK Press, 1997)
Dystopia of class warfare, drugs, and extreme violence.
Keywords: Male author

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

Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth - Max McCoy (b. 1958) (Bantam Books, 1997)
Primarily adventure, but the hollow earth is a Nazi dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

K - [Denis M.] [MacEoin] (b. 1949) (HarperCollins, 1997)
Dystopia of the Ku Klux Klan, called the Aryan Alliance, in power in the U.S. Extremely violent against African Americans, Jews, and all dissidents. The novel focuses on the successful resistance to the regime.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

"Lethe" - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1997)
Eutopia of cloning. See also 2003 Williams.
Rpt. in his The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 29-59 with an "Afterword" on 59-61.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Life House - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) (Baen, 1997)
Dystopia in which it is possible for others to edit a person’s memories. The third volume of what comes to be called the Lifehouse Trilogy, which includes his 1982 Mindkiller and 1992 Time Pressure.
Rpt. in The Lifehouse Trilogy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007), 439-632.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Life on Planet Heaven - Tony Zuly (Antonio Zuliani Publisher, 1997)
UFO novel in which the abductee visits a planet very similar to Earth that is deeply concerned with the possibility of nuclear warfare on Earth. Heaven is a eutopia with no money. It purports to have gender equality, but women choose to stay out of politics because it requires masculine characteristics. Girls and boys are separated at fifteen for education but encouraged to develop relations with the opposite sex, including sexual relations, outside the educational environment. Generally marry after 25. Numbers rather than names. Very religious but no denominational differences. Constant computer surveillance everywhere as a means of social control.
Keywords: Male author

Lightpaths - Howard V[incent] Hendrix (b. 1959) (Ace Books, 1997)
Orbital habitat that is supposed to be a eutopia undermined by the usual human foibles. His Standing Wave. New York: Ace Books, 1998 uses the same setting.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Like the Gentle Rain" - Lewis [Gordon] Shiner (b. 1950) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1997)
Dystopia in which science appears to dominate everything with human considerations considered irrelevant. In fact, extremely wealthy humans control the robotic scientists in order to make even more money. An author’s note on 167 says that the story “was presented at an academic conference on J.D. Bernal’s essay ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul’.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man With the Third Vision - Manuel C. Laudiano (b. 1938) (Vantage Press, 1997)
One hundred sixteen visions of a series of five higher lives after death, the fifth being Heaven. Presented as the visions of the author, who is described as a clairvoyant.
Keywords: Filipino-American author; Male author

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

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

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

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

"Nevermore" - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Dying For It: More Erotic Tales of Unearthly Love, 1997)
Dystopia. Virtual reality becomes standard, and most people seem to live in it rather in the "foreal", which has become run down. During life people keep records of all their actions so that they can live on in virtual reality after death. The story focuses on an artist who prefers to live in the "foreal".
Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 22.7 (271) (July 1998): 14-22, 24-32; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 488-504 with an Editor’s note on 488; and in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 202-34 with a note on 202; and in his Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013, an ebook with an “Afterword” by the author.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

No Man's Land - Barry England (1932-2009) (Jonathan Cape, 1997)
Dystopia. Violent struggle to survive by a small group of people after the collapse of civilization.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Novel of Queen the Eye - Paul Darrow (b. 1941) (Boxtree, 1997)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Based on the computer game "Queen the Eye."
Keywords: English author; Male author

Nymphomation - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) (Doubleday, 1997)
Dystopian future society focused on a lottery that is controlled and manipulated by a corporation.
Keywords: English author; Male author

One World Leader - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) (Seagull Press, 1997)
Eutopia. 46 page pamphlet with drawings and some words on each page. A single world leader is chosen by the world's military leaders, and a Christian world government is instituted with many reforms. See also 1987, 1988, and 1999 Mehlhopt.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse - James Wesley Rawles (b. 1960) (Ulysses Press, 1997)
Dystopia of economic and social collapse in the U.S. The novel focuses on a group struggling to get to a safe enclave in northern Idaho and then try to recreate constitutional government. His Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. New York: Atria Books, 2011 is described as a companion volume. Sequels include Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. New York: Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2012, a dystopia set in a collapsing U.S. being rescued by survivalists; Expatriates: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. New York: Dutton, 2013; and Liberators: A Novel of the Coming Global Collapse. New York: Dutton, 2014.
3rd exp. ed. as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2006. [4th ed.] as Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2009. 1st ed. The novel was originally self-published as TEOTWAWKI: The End of the World as We Know It (1997). Before that parts of the novel were distributed as shareware with the title The Gray Nineties and Triple Ought.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Physiognomy - Jeffrey Ford (b. 1955) (Avon Books, 1997)
The first volume in a series. This volume depicts a corrupt, authoritarian dystopia based on the detailed study of the shapes of the parts the human body with people being disfigured or condemned based on those shapes. After the dystopia collapses, a primitive eutopia is briefly presented in the last chapter. His Memoranda. New York: Avon Eos, 1999 is a sequel in which the primitive eutopia is attacked by the leader of the failed dystopia. In the third volume, The Beyond. New York: Tor, 2001 the protagonist of the first two searches “the Beyond,” which appears to be a version of Hell, hoping for forgiveness for his actions in the first volume.
Rpt. New York: AvonEos, 1998.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Point - Peter Vaughan Williams (b. 1944) (Boltonia Print, 1997)
Dystopia. Children throughout the world conclude that "There is no point" to anything and become totally passive. Struggle to bring meaning back to all people.
Keywords: Male author

Polymorph - Scott [David] Westerfeld (b. 1963) (Roc, 1997)
Biological science fiction set against a dystopian background of social collapse.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

The Principality of Freedonia (1997)
Detailed libertarian eutopia.

Private Nation - N[ikolas] A[nthony] Diaman (b. 1936) (Persona Press, 1997)
Begins with a future dystopia of extreme privatization from a gay perspective. Ends with at least the outlines of a gay eutopia. Mostly from the male point of view.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Prologue: A Glimpse of Things to Come” and “Epilogue: Human Destiny?” - Lee M. Silver (b. 1952) (In his Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World, 1997)
An imaginative projection into the future of genetic engineering, with, in the “Prologue,” stops in 2010, 2050, and 2350, and, in the “Epilogue,” in 2350, 2997, and the far future designated as ???? Projects a deep division between the “Naturals” and the “GenRich” or genetically enriched with, ultimately, divisions within the human species and the development of what later came to be called the Posthuman. Due to the division into Natural and Gen-Rich, by 2350 ethnic and racial differences are no longer important. Within the Gen-Rich, significant subtypes have emerged, with fundamental differences among, for example, athletes, scientists, businessmen, musicians, artists. “and even GenRich intellectual generalists” (5). Natural children are only taught basic skills to fit them for low-paid service jobs. Natural and GenRich come to live segregated lives and are biologically separate species. Later GenRich reshape themselves to fit the environments on different planets and finally evolve into what is now called Posthumans.
U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2001.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Pyrexia (A sapiens-fiction novel) - Michel Méry (III Publishing, 1997)
In a future where people can travel to alternative realities through a machine interface, a man, Abelard, tries to re-find Pyrexia, a sex goddess, but keeps ending up in the past (our present). Both his future and our present are depicted in dystopian terms.
Keywords: French author; Male author; US author

"Quin's Shanghai Circus" - Jeff[rey Scott] VanderMeer (b. 1968) (Interzone, 1997)
Dystopia brought about by free enterprise.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Rest Is Silence - Jonathan C. Dalby (Minerva Press, 1997)
Dystopian thriller. Authoritarian dystopia with dictator and militarized police. Violence.
Keywords: Male author

Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) (Bantam Books, 1997)
Sequel of sorts to 1960 Miller set after events of most of the first novel but before the conclusion. Most of the novel is concerned with relations among the various peoples of what remains of the U.S. and conflicts within the Church.
U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 1997.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Scientific Romance - Ronald Wright (b. 1948) (Transworld, 1997)
A man uses the time machine from 1895 Wells to visit the future and arrives in a future that the author entitles "After London" following 1885 Jefferies. This future appears to be completely without humans until the protagonist reaches Scotland where there are a few survivors.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author

Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy - Matt[hew Theron] Theron] Ruff (b. 1965) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997)
Humorous dystopia with much fantasy set in 2023. One sub-theme is that a new Tower of Babel is being built in Manhattan. While the book is dedicated to Ayn Rand (see 1938 and 1957 Rand), the presentation of Rand in the novel is almost entirely negative.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shade's Children - Garth Nix (b. 1963) (HarperCollins, 1997)
Young adult dystopia of a world violently controlled through the creation and use of manufactured creatures, some based on humans. Children are kept, half-starved, in dormitories; those who resist are sent to the meat factories. A story set in the same world but ten years earlier with more of the dystopia is his “You Won’t Feel a Thing.” After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (New York: Hyperion, 2012), 319-33.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Silicon Karma - Thomas A[twood] Easton (b. 1944) (White Wolf Publishing, 1997)
Dystopia in a virtual world where those who had been criminals and so forth when in bodies continue their activities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

/ [Slant] - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Tor, 1997)
The novel is something of a sequel to 1990 Bear in that it includes some of the same characters and issues.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Thermometers Melting" - Glenn Grant (Arrowdreams: An Anthology of Alternate Canadas, 1997)
Extracts from an alternative history novel and the report on it by the Canadian “Literary Hygiene Committee,” which censors books and, in this case, says that the author should be in a Work Centre for Political Correction.”
Rpt. in his Burning Days (Montréal, QC, Canada: Nanopress, 2011), 60-76.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Toward the End of Time - John [Hoyer] Updike (1932-2009) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997)
The background of the novel is a dystopia following a Sino-American war, but the dystopian institutions play only a minor role in the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Transmetropolitan - Warren G[irard] Ellis (b. 1968); Darick W. Robertson (b. 1967) (DC Comics, 1997)
Graphic novel set in a violent, corrupt dystopia and the fight against it.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

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

"Tyranny." - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Free Space, 1997)
Revolt against a libertarian eutopia that has become bureaucratized.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Untouchable - Eric Brown (1960-2023) (Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks, 1997)
This short novel includes two dystopias. The first is a version of contemporary India from the perspective of a Dalit (Untouchable) girl. The second is a version of virtual reality where children kidnapped from the streets of Delhi. But within virtual reality there are also eutopian spaces where the girl is treated as an equal. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1998 Lovegrove. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997), Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999).
Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 195-285.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Valedictory - Neil Kemp (Minerva Press, 1997)
Dystopia. Pollution, corruption.
Keywords: Male author

Warriors from the Lord Wulah. A Play - [David] Bernard Gadd (1935-2007) (Hallard Press, 1997)
Young adult play about a group of young people escaping an authoritarian dystopia and beginning the creation of a better society.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

We Can Save the World: The Uniworld Plan - Robert Greenberg [S.] (Metro-West Publishing, 1997)
Detailed eutopia with a world government, the reduction of the world’s population to two billion, a protected environment, a new cashless economic system that will stress basic goods and services, and other reforms, including a common language, and universal social security and health insurance. Cities of about 100,000 so that most people can walk or bike to work. There will be a limit of longevity to about 80 with three methods of achieving this goal suggested. Includes a Bibliography (216-20) and and Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, “Ehrlich’s Fables.” Illus. Bruce Maddocks. Technology Review (MIT) 39.1 (January 1997): 221-36, but for the book adapted from the much longer version in their Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future (Washington, DC: Island Press/Covelo, CA: Shearwater Books, 1996), 125-87, 282-309.
Keywords: Male author

"Wellbeing: A Fiction" - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) (Why Scots Should Rule Scotland 1997: A Carnaptious History of Britain from Roman Times until Now, 1997)
Rpt. as “Well Being.” In his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 759-65.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Winter - Simon Brown (b. 1956) (HarperCollins, 1997)
Dystopia set in a nuclear winter in which a corrupt and vicious Australia is the most successful country.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 - Jonathan Westminster Ph.D. [pseud.] (The Thomas Jefferson Press, 1996)
Dystopia of the rise of fascism in the U.S. followed by a restorationist movement that ultimately brings back the U.S. Constitution.
Rpt. as The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022. with a New Introduction. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2004.
Keywords: Male author

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

'48 - James [John] Herbert (1943-2013) (HarperCollins, 1996)
The novel is set in an alternative history dystopia in which, just as he was being defeated, Hitler fired rockets into London containing deadly diseases that wipes out much of the world’s population. The focus is on one of the few healthy survivors who is being sought so his blood can be used to cure the leader of the local Blackshirts.
Rpt. London: Pan Macmillan, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Adiamante - L[eland] E[xton] Modesitt Jr. (b. 1943) (Tor, 1996)
Background of a decentralized eutopia threatened by a militaristic, authoritarian regime.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American Solutions Without Sacrifice: An End to Special Interests A Return to American Middle-Class Interests - Ronald A. Drum (Pitbull Press, 1996)
Mostly a diatribe against the then-current U. S. economic and political system with a special focus on health care. At the end of the book the author proposes a series of changes to the system that are designed to produce a much better life. The most important of these are a National Health Insurance Program, a radical downsizing of government at all levels, national and state referenda, recall, elimination of seniority in legislatures, eliminating the electoral college, a single progressive tax, greater regulation of the economy, changes in the way judges are chosen, eliminating donations to candidates for office from “special interest groups, legalizing drugs, eliminating coeducation, changes in social security.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Amnesiascope - Steve [Stephen Michael] Erickson (b. 1950) (Henry Holt, 1996)
A satirical, magical-realist, post-catastrophe dystopia set in Los Angeles.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Babel Tower - A[ntonia] S[usan] Byatt ( 1936-2023) (Chatto & Windus, 1996)
The third volume of a family history begun in The Virgin in the Garden. London: Chatto & Windus, 1978 and continued in Still Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 1985. The series is concluded in A Whistling Woman. London: Chatto and Windus, 2002. This volume contains a novel within the novel by one of the characters about the establishment and history of an attempt to establish a utopia.
Rpt. London: Vintage, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Beach - Alex[ander Medawar] Garland (b. 1970) (Viking, 1996)
Idyllic life on an isolated beach in Thailand contrasted with the dystopian realities of contemporary life in the area.
U.S. ed. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Bethlehem" - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) (Tesseracts: The Anthology of New Canadian Speculative Fiction, 1996)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Bicycle Repairman" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, 1996)
Dystopia set in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2037. The background to the story is the NAFTA Government, a new country that has abolished the U.S. Constitution. The story focuses on an independent bicycle repairman working in a shop in part of a building that was burned out in a riot in an area where people are leading independent lives free from the authoritarian system that surrounds them. The ending suggests that the area will regenerate, and the rich will move back.
Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 20.10&11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 156-85; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 254-78; in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 234-78 without the added material and with a note on 234-35; in his A Good Old-Fashioned Future. Stories New York: Bantam Books, 1999, 188-228; U.K. ed. as A Good Old-Fashioned Future (London: Gollancz, 2001), 188-228; and in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 3-35; 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

Biograph - John White (Fractal Press, 1996)
Detailed eutopia set in 2155 centered around a form of electronic democracy in which everyone votes on every imaginable issue. The novel is presented as the autobiography required of a man convicted, by a world-wide vote, of the crime of being exposed to an alien and hence, possibly bringing contagion to Earth. He tells the story of his education, entirely through the internet, his gaining the right to vote and access to the entire web and age ten, and his life and loves until his encounter in space with an alien and his return to Earth, showing the strengths and weaknesses of the system. There is a satellite of the moon created from an asteroid that is attracting people who want to leave Earth and head for the stars, which becomes an issue for the protagonist.
Keywords: Male author

Bloody Mary - Garth Ennis; Carlos Ezquerra (DC Comics, 1996)
Comic book. Primarily future war but includes a dystopia of a fascist Europe. Set in 2012.
Keywords: Male author

Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (HarperCollins, 1996)
Third volume in a trilogy describing the terraforming of Mars and the growth of societies there. Sequel to 1992 Robinson, Red Mars.  and 1994 Robinson, Green Mars. This volume describes the terraformed Mars, the continuing conflicts over what should be done to change Mars, and the eutopian society that develops there contrasted with the dystopia that Earth has become. The eutopian is one in which a variety of societies coexist peacefully with an emphasis on community. A story set further into the future of Mars is his “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. 23.10 (285) (October/November 1999): 14-28; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 434-47 with an editor’s note on 433. 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, 1997. Rpt. illus. Ron Miller with an “Introduction” by James Gunn (v-viii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Building Babel - Suniti [Manohar] Namjoshi (b. 1941) (Spinifex Press, 1996)
Feminist fairy tale in which a number of women from fables and fairy tales build various versions of Babel. Throughout, but particularly at the end, a variety of utopian motifs are employed.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Female author; Indian author

"The Burn" - Dan Rubin (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 1996)
Environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

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

"Community" - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1996)
Religious dystopia in which whatever, in the church's view, stands in the way of a person's "redemption" by destroying it. The two examples are a woman with too many cats, which are killed, and a woman whose husband and son are the problem, and both of them are killed.
Rpt. in his When the Great Days Come ([Canton, OH]: Prime Books, 2011), 315-22.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Darkest England - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) (Macmillan, 1996)
Satire in which a black South African is sent by his tribe to ask the English Queen for the help that had been offered at the time of the Boer War.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; UK author

The Designated Mourner - William Shawn (b. 1943) (Faber and Faber, 1996)
Dystopia set in the near future with a regime supressing all dissent. Play directed by David Hare (b. 1947) first performed at the Royal National Theatre in London April 18, 1996.
U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Downtime With the Virtual Dead” - Mike O’Driscoll (Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland), 1996)
Cyberpunk set in a future dystopian Europe under the rule of a degenerate Islam.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dream-Weaver - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (Clarion Books, 1996)
Young adult novel set as colonists from Earth prepare to land on a planet inhabited by people with what appears to be little technology. But the people of the planet have mental powers that allow contact to be made with a member of the Earth crew who comes to see the low-tech planet in eutopian terms.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

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

"The Farm" - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) (The Raven Chronicles, 1996)
Dystopia. Concentration camps for American Indians in which they are required to breed to provide bone marrow to cure the cancers of whites.
Rpt. in Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. Comp. and ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas (Alice Springs, NT, Australia: Jukurrpa Books, 2000), 42-56.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Fight Club - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) (W.W. Norton, 1996)
Dystopia best known in the 1999 film version directed by David Fincher and with a screenplay by Jim Uhis.
U.K. ed. London: Vintage, 1997. A comic book series Fight Club 2, nos. 1-10 and Fight Club 2 Free Comic Book Day 2015 are collected in Fight Club 2: The Tranquility Gambit. Art by Cameron Stewart, Colors by Dave Stewart, Letters and logo by Nate Piekos of Blambot®, and Cover and chapter break by David Mack. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2016.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Flying Dreams” - Raven Kaldera (b. 1966) (The New Worlds of Women, 1996)
One character in this erotic lesbian story is from a religious planet that clothes its people in underwear that constantly monitors them from a young age and sends its results back to the leadership.
Rpt. in The Circlet Treasury of Lesbian Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Cecilia Tan (New York: Riverdale Avenue Books, 2013), 168-81.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

The Fortunate Fall - Raphael Carter (Tor, 1996)
Set in a future authoritarian dystopia with a vague image of a eutopia in Africa. Dystopia ultimately overthrown, apparently peacefully.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fourth Millennium: The Sequel - Paul [D.] Meier (b. 1947); Robert [L.] Wise (b. 1939) (A Janet Thoma Book/Thomas Nelson Publisher, 1996)
Sequel to 1993 Meier with this novel set in 997 N.E. (New Era) near the end of Christ’s millennial rule. Earth is an environmentally renewed eutopia with greatly improved technology that has been at peace since the Tribulation and people live hundreds of years. But those who did not experience the Tribulation have grown cynical, and preparations are being made for the final battle between good and evil with the outcome as described in the Book of Revelation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fraternity Reigns" - Richard [McKay] Rorty (1931-2007) (The New York Times Magazine, 1996)
Written as the article on "Fraternity" in the 7th ed. of A Companion to American Thought, published in 2095 and edited by Cynthia J. Rodriguez, S.J. and Youzheng Patel. It looks at the collapse of the U.S. under capitalism and its slow rebirth based on fraternity. In his Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (xvi), Rorty discusses his utopia, and in Philosophy and Social Hope (xiii-xiv), he argues for the importance of utopias.
Rpt. as "Looking Backwards from the Year 2096." In his Philosophy and Social Hope (London: Penguin Books, 1999), 243-51.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fremder - Russell [Conwell] Hoban (1925-2011) (Jonathan Cape, 1996)
Complex novel of personal identity with a dystopian background.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

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

Higher Education. A Jupiter™ Novel - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017); Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) (Tor, 1996)
World divided into the very rich and the very poor. Right wing take on problems of U.S.
Includes material first published in Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 227-94. Rpt. rev. in How To Save the World. Ed. Charles Sheffield (New York: Tor, 1995), 275-346; and as “Higher Education.” Illus. George H. Krauter. Analog Science Fiction and Fact 116.3 - 6 (February - May 1996): 12-16, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30-32, 34-36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-48, 50-60; 108-144, 104-144, 102-122.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Holy Fire - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Bantam Books, 1996)
Complex future world based on ability to extend life. Gerontocrats rule.
U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1999.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"How We Got in Town and out Again" - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 1996)
Post-catastrophe dystopia where towns try to keep all strangers out.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 457-74; and in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 67-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

In Heaven As On Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife - M[organ] Scott Peck M.D. (1936-2005) (Hyperion, 1996)
Self-help book presented as a story of heaven. Some eutopian elements.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Infinite Jest. A Novel - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) (Little, Brown, 1996)
Dystopia. Near future stress on gratification in which a film called "Infinite Jest" is so appealing that all anyone wants to do is to see it repeatedly.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 4: The Burning Forest - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Gollancz, 1996)
The fourth volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1995 Mann. In this volume, <st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city> decides to burn the British forests to use the land for agriculture and a struggle between rational, scientific, technological <st1:city w:st="on">Rome</st1:city> and the myth-based British ensues.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

The Last Capitalist: A Dream of a New Utopia - Steve Cullen (Freedom Press, 1996)
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Last Glypt on Demeter - Henry M. Greenwald (Vantage Press, 1996)
The history of a planet from its peak to its destruction by aliens as told by the last man. Demeter was a flawed utopia with a world government, a single language, no disease, and with all weapons and weapon delivery systems outlawed. The people lived over 350 years, which required population control. The family had been abolished, couples or singles got an apartment with a garden and aquarium where they produced their own food. But few people ever had jobs, and most people spent their time as spectators at a wide range of games (cards, computer games, and sports).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Homosexual" - Paul [Claiborne] Park (b. 1954) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1996)
Dystopia in which the U.S. has broken up into individual states, and the story focuses on Louisiana under the New Baptists.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 167-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Integrationist - Jake Lamar (b. 1961) (Crown Publishers, 1996)
Dystopia set in a near future U.S. with extremely harsh laws against drugs and public executions enforced by a conservative black Attorney-General.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Life in Our Solar System - J. H. Vernon (b. 1916) (Silver Fern Press, 1996)
New Age eutopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

Making History - Stephen [John] Fry (b. 1957) (Hutchinson, 1996)
Alternative history with various dystopias.
Rpt. London: Arrow Books, 2004. U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice - James Cowan (b. 1942) (Shambala, 1996)
Written from the viewpoint of a monk in the 16th century who is trying to create a perfect map of the world based on travelers' reports. He includes descriptions of the land of Prester John and other traditional eutopias.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Message From Yon - Dr. P[eter] Schenkel (Minerva Press, 1996)
A higher civilization contacts Earth (known to them as Barbaria) to assist it to overcome its problems. The focus of the book is on Earth's problems, but the planet Yon, with its global democracy, egalitarian economy, and developed culture provides the eutopian contrast.
Keywords: Male author

Metal Fatigue - Sean [Llewellyn] Williams (b. 1967) (HarperCollins, 1996)
Dystopia set in the U.S. after a nuclear war. A city designed to be a eutopia walled off from the devastation is slowly failing technologically. A Re-United States wants to incorporate the city and conflict develops.
U.K. ed. Sheffield, Eng.: Swift, 1999.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Missing Time" - Allen M[ulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) (Worcester Magazine, 1996)
Alternative eutopian and dystopian futures for Worcester, Massachusetts based on current policies. The first is based on reduced investment and produces a violent dystopia. The second is based on innovative, environmentally friendly investment and produces a vibrant eutopian future. The third continues current policies and produces a mildly dystopian run-down future.
Rpt. in his American Beauty (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2003), 106-20.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Moonhare - Kirk Hampton (b. 1948) (York Press, 1996)
The planet Wemm has been deprived of its technology and must live in a pastoral setting.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

“Passion, Digitally” - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) (The New York Times Magazine, 1996)
A future dictionary entry on the word date and the way had been used earlier provides a comparative perspective on and some social history of sexual relations and gender norms from the early twentieth century to 2096. Both can be read as dystopian.
Rpt. as “Datum Centurio.” In his Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (New York: Little, Brown/Hachette, 1999), 106-10. 978-0-316-92541-9
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Patches" - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) (Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction, 1996)
Computer controlled dystopia in which children are given knowledge through implants, which also removes their memories. As a result, everyone is rational and equal. The story is about a group of students who remove their patches and their conversation with an android who, linked to the computer, cannot understand their choice.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Paths to Otherwhere - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Baen, 1996)
Dystopia of totalitarian states with a wide variety of alternative futures available.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

Pirates of the Universe - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Tor, 1996)
The future Earth is a violent and depleted dystopia. One Refuge is a utopian theme park called “Pirates of the Universe”. Much adventure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Plan for Wellington until the Destruction: Utopic Excavations at the Palisade" - Donald James Dunham (b. 1962) (Victoria University of Wellington, 1996)
Plans for a future Wellington, New Zealand. The thesis is divided into two parts, the first surveying the history of utopian planning, the second (101-23) describing fictionally a future Wellington that has arisen after an earthquake. In this section, there are two main flawed utopias. The City is a technological eutopia with an extremely harsh criminal code. The Island is completely non-technological, with no electricity. On the Island nine leaders are chosen by lot to serve for 27 days only. There are communal meals every day. Most of the inhabitants of the Island are people who broke one of the many City laws and chose to live permanently on the Island rather than undergoing The Penalty (being blinded and crippled), which is the only other punishment in the City. Another island which serves as a refuge for women and animals is briefly mentioned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Principles of Animal Eugenetics" - Yves Meynard (b. 1964) (Tomorrow, 1996)
Dystopia. The story is concerned with genetic manipulation, but the society in which it is taking place is an authoritarian dystopia, which appears to be failing.
Rpt. in Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman ( Calgary , AB,  Canada : Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2005), 27-49.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Prisoner's Son: Homage to Anthony Burgess - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) (Black Heron Press, 1996)
Dystopia that takes place some years after 1991 Gold, The Inquisitor which is a sequel showing the further impoverishment, disintegration, and degradation of the US. The Southwest and Pacific states have been sold to México. The novel focuses on Seattle, which has no effective government or even social rules.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Protektor - Charles Platt (b. 1945) (Avon Books, 1996)
Future computer controlled eutopia that develops flaws.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author