"No Uncertain Terms" - Kristy Schubert (Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future, 1994)
Dystopia of a society based on eugenic selection that kills anyone deemed not to meet their criteria, which includes any opposition to the criteria.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"The Occupation: A Guide for Tourists" - Mike McCormack (b. 1965) (Ambit, 1994)
Dystopia around the occupation of a country. Allegory on the crucifixion of Christ.
Rpt. in Best Short Stories 1995. Ed. Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London: Heinemann, 1996), 149-55; and in his Getting It In the Head (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 169-76.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"One Night" - Stefanie Robinson (Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future, 1994)
Dystopia. A poor future with a child bringing a rat to a group of boys for dinner.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Only Forward - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) (HarperCollins, 1994)
Surreal dystopia set in a U.K. that is a sprawl of neighborhoods composing the City, which covers the entire country. Each neighborhood is inhabited by a different group of people. Considerable conflict among the groups. Some are eutopian, some dystopian, and some just very odd. Mostly adventure.
Rpt. London: HarperCollins, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 2000; and Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2002.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest - Peter Huber (b. 1952) (Free Press, 1994)
Rewriting of 1949 Blair stressing communications technology.
Keywords: Male author

“The Place Between” - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) (Snows of Darkover, 1994)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

The Plot to Win the White House and How It Succeeded - Jack Catran (1918-2001) (Jade Publications, 1994)
Satirical novel directed at the misuse of language in politics, particularly in campaigning. Ends with what appears to be the emergence of a eutopia in which all large cities in the U.S. are replaced with Garden Cities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Poetic License” - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) (Snows of Darkover, 1994)
Free Amazon story.
Rpt. in Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13. Ed. Elisabeth Waters (San Francisco, CA: The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works, 2013) 211-24 with an editor’s note on 211.
Keywords: Female author

"Professionals" - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia of corporate dominance.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Queen City Jazz - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor, 1994)
The novel begins in a rural eutopia in a post-catastrophe future brought about by nanotechnology which initially produced eutopian cities but then turned them into dystopian cities. The protagonist grows up in the rural enclave where everyone is forbidden to have contact with the cities but after the infection of the enclave she starts a trek down the Ohio River to Cincinnati, one of the dystopian cities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Rama Revealed - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008); [Bert] Gentry Lee (b. 1942) (Bantam Books, 1994)
Dystopia. Inside an alien artifact traveling through space, humans intending to create a good society actually create a dictatorship. Ultimately this is overcome. This is the last volume of the co-authored trilogy, although written mostly by Lee, and follows Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama. London Gollacnz, 1973; Collector’s Edition illus. Bob Eggleton with an “Introduction” by George Zebrowski (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. The other volumes are Rama II. London Gollancz, 1989 and The Garden of Rama. London: Gollancz, 1991, which includes, in the second half, anti-utopianism typical of Clarke’s work. In addition, Lee wrote Bright Messengers. New York: Bantam Books, 1995, which is set before Rama II.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"Report 323: A Quebecois Infiltration Attempt" - Jean-Louis Trudel (b. 1967) (New Canadian Speculative Fiction. Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of New Writing, 1994)
Dystopia of a Canadian future of ethnic cleansing.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Republic of Nothing - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) (Goose Lane, 1994)
An island off the coast of Nova Scotia declares its independence and a society of free expression develops. Elements of magic realism.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality - Alexander Besher (b. 1951) (HarperCollins West, 1994)
Corporate dystopia. Sequels include Mir.  New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998; and Chi. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
U.K. edition London: Orbit, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Bantam Books, 1994)
Future dystopia set mostly in a Japan with corporate protective services.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"Second Chance" - Holley Cantine (Drunken Boat: Art, Rebellion, Anarchy, 1994)
Indians successfully revolt and reestablish their traditional way of life. Most of the story is about the build-up to the revolt.
Keywords: Female author

The Sex Offender - Matthew Stadler (b. 1959) (HarperCollins, 1994)
Dystopia in which a man who has had sex with a twelve-year old is put through an extreme form of aversion therapy by the “Criminal and Health Ministry.” He then joins a rebellion against the government.
Rpt. New York: HarperPerennial, 1995
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Skriker - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) (Nick Hern, 1994)
Dystopian fantasy which includes a polluted underground.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Slow News Day" - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia in which  Germany  won World War II, and there is a Fascist  Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Solitude" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1994)
Complex society in which men and women live separately. The men mostly live near the women's villages, where the women live in individual huts with extremely limited interaction, the children providing the chief means of contact. Gangs of boys and individual rogue males are dangerous to both the other men and the women, but most of the men live peacefully. Whether eutopian or not is likely to produce considerable debate. Some consider it a feminist eutopia and the point-of-view character presents the women's society as a good one.
Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 353-81; in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 119-51; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 119-51; in Diverse Energies. Ed. Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti (New York: Tu Books, 2012), 267-305; in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 175-203; in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 519-50; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 290-318 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (786).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stardust Bound - Karen [M.] Cadora (b. 1970) (Firebrand Books, 1994)
The novel in set in a future that has experienced a series of major catastrophe and is now controlled by UniTech that considered anything not related to Reconstruction a crime, which included science crimes, which included astronomy. The lesbian protagonist is an astronomer who makes her way to La Vista in the Andes, the last operating observatory and finds a community of other female astronomers, and one man. See the author’s “Feminist Cyberpunk.” Science-Fiction Studies 22.3 (67) (November 1995): 357-172. Rpt. in Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives. Ed. Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint (New York: Routledge, 2010), 157-172.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Strings" - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1994)
Dystopia in which all music must be played exactly as the notes are written on the page, no new music is allowed, and any performer who violates the rules is severely punished.
Rpt. in her Dangerous Space: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007), 9-35.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Supremacist" - Damien Jones; Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) (Revelation Magazine (Perth, WA, Australia), 1994)
Future dystopia of violence. The rich live high in buildings above the extreme pollution found at street level. The poor live violent lives but are also preyed upon by the rich for sadistic entertainment.
Rpt. in Paul [A.] Collins. The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 149-62.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

Tonguing the Zeitgeist - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) (Permeable Press, 1994)
Complex dystopia set after various catastrophes, including earthquakes, a wide range of epidemics, and reactor explosions. Widespread extreme poverty, very high levels of pollution, and violence. Pornography a normal part of entertainment; drugs taken regularly by most people; much body sculpting, both by choice and forced. Africa has united with Nairobi the capitol. A 51st state has been formed in the U.S. out of Eastern Washington, Western Idaho, and Northern Montana.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Trouble and Her Friends - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) (Tor, 1994)
Authoritarian dystopia with cyberpunk elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Utopia 2000 - Elizabeth Greenwood (The Book Guild, 1994)
Near future dystopia based on the conflict between Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and the Levellers, who are best-known for their advocacy of an extended suffrage.
Keywords: Female author

Vital Star - Ray McLeod (Vantage, 1994)
Detailed technological eutopia on the planet Za Sa Sa. The people are smaller than those of Earth; they have mental enhancers implanted, which enhancers brain power to different degrees depending on the status of the person. It is, though, overpopulated, and short of water. Birthing permits required and generally not given to the working class.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wallace Report - Roy V[ictor] Wallace (1927-2017) (Down to Earth, 1994)
Pamphlet outlining a eutopia based around small communities. See also 1980 Wallace.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Welcome to the World" - Edith Speers (b. 1949) (Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction, 1994)
Dystopia of required good health.
Keywords: Australian author; Canadian author; Female author

"The West is Red" - Greg[ory John] Costikyan (b. 1959) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1994)
Alternative history in which the U.S. lost the Cold War and is poor and backward technologically. Ends with a Communist takeover of the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Where It's Safe" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror, 1994)
Dystopia of environmental collapse brought about by personal and corporate greed.
Rpt. with the subtitle only on the cover (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf Publishing, [1994]), 188-215; and in Shirley’s The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 239-59, with an author’s note on 239.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wildlife - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Tor, 1994)
Cyberpunk dystopia in which the elite can change their bodies at will.
Portions appeared in different form as “Solstice.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9.6 (92) (June 1985): 148-81; “The Prisoner of Chillon.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1.6 (105) (June 1986): 148-83; and “Mr. Boy.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 118-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Word of Mouth and an Imaginary Flánerie: On Reading Word of Mouth. A Novel and a Critical Commentary on the Creative Process” - Rolf Hughes (Dissertation. University of East Angla, 1994)
Dystopia set in a York, England, based on the conditions of the 1980s but much worse.
Keywords: Male author

Ammonite - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) (Ballantine Books, 1993)
Complex novel set on a fairly primitive planet inhabited only by women that includes a lesbian, feminist eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Arc d'X - Steve [Stephen Michael] Erickson (b. 1950) (Poseidon Press, 1993)
Complex novel that is set in both the past and the future with the future as a religious dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Baby and Fly Pie - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) (Anderson Press, 1993)
Young adult future dystopia of extreme poverty.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Beautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century - Harvey [Jay] Jacobs ( 1930-2017) (Celadon Press, 1993)
Near future dystopian satire in which everyone is barcoded at birth. The novel focuses on a man who, due to an accident in a supermarket, has his barcode replaced by one for a brand of soup.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beggars in Spain - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Morrow, 1993)
Future dystopia of conflict created by development of gene altered humans with special powers. Sequels include Beggars and Choosers. New York: Tor, 1994; and Beggars Ride. New York: Tor, 1996.
Rpt. New York: Avon, 1994. Part originally published as “Beggars in Spain.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 14.4 & 5 (April 1991): 246-310. This part was simultaneously published as Beggars in Spain. Mountain View, CA: Axolotl Press, 1991. Rpt. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 1-62; and in Nebula Awards 27: SWFA’s Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Ed. James Morrow (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993), 243-321.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Beyond - José Sigaud M.D. (Dorrance Publishing Co., 1993)
Detailed eutopia presented through abduction by aliens. The eutopia is a fairly standard world of peace and prosperity that parallels the Earth. Education, health along with getting rid of social classes made achieving the utopia possible. “In our society, we do not strive for accumulation of goods, which is granted to each one of us from birth to the end of our lives. . . . Rather, we strive for excellence” (11).
Keywords: Male author; Paraguayan author; US author

Blindsided - Dick Richmond-Donahue; Leigh [Tucker] Richmond-Donahue (1911-95) (Interdimensional Sciences., 1993)
An ecological catastrophe on an already overpopulated, urban, poverty-stricken, and violent Earth. The last convulsions of Earth destroys the current "civilization" and allows some survivors to begin to develop a better rural and peaceful life.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"By Permit Only" - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Interzone, 1993)
Satire on a system of permits sold by government to allow people to get around laws and regulations. Pollution permits, sexual harassment permits, and so forth are available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor" - Hama Tuma (b. 1949) ("The Case of the Socialist Witchdoctor" and Other Stories, 1993)
Dystopia set in Ethiopia after the revolution showing the reality of frustrated hopes.
Keywords: Ethiopian author; Male author

"Chaff" - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (Interzone, 1993)
Drug dystopia.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction. Eleventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994): 333-51; and in The Best of Greg Egan (Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2019), 115-39. No. 486 of 1000 numbered copies.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

City-Death - Stephen Booth (Green Anarchist Books, 1993)
The first half of the book is set in a London effectively ruled by a supposedly secret security service. People are being pushed out of their already dilapidated housing to construct more office buildings and housing for the security service and the wealthy. The state has created a mythical rebel group that it uses to justify whatever actions it takes. The story follows one poorly educated low-level member of the security service who, in the second half of the novel, survives a helicopter crash near an anarchist community that developed from what was originally a single farm, and decides to stay. The community uses a form of participatory democracy with everyone, including children, taking part. People work cooperatively at what needs to be done but have their own homes and farms together with a community building and a cottage hospital where they teach the children the basics of health care. Under the circumstances, everyone is armed and willing and able to use them, with one chapter devoted to fighting off armed scavengers (187-198).The book ends with a chapter “The City Has to Die (199-207), that gives reasons for what is wrong with city life and better in the countryside.
Keywords: Male author

Coelestis - Paul [Claiborne] Park (b. 1954) (HarperCollins, 1993)
Dystopia set in a future U.S. with substantial radiation causing genetic damage. Division between humans and aborigines.
U.S. ed. as Celestis. New York: Tor, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

CrashCourse - [Joyce Carstairs] [Hutchinson] (b. 1935) (Ace Books, 1993)
Cyberpunk dystopia. Sequels include ClipJoint. By Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.].  New York : Ace Books, 1995 (PSt); and PsyKosis. By Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.]. New York: Ace Books, 1995 (PSt).
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Dancing on the Volcano - Anne Gay (Orbit, 1993)
Mostly romance and adventure set in an authoritarian matriarchal dystopia from which the protagonists escape. Much fantasy. Continued in her To Bathe in Lightning. London: Orbit, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Darwin's Children" - Grey Rollins (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1993)
Libertarian eutopia. Sequels include “Survival of the Fittest.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.6 (May 1994): 110-58; “The Missing Link.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.12 (October 1994): 90-121; and “Evolution.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact 114.14 (December 1994): 12-16, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30-31, 34-36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-67.​
Keywords: Male author

Daughter of Elysium - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) (William Morrow, 1993)
Set in same world as her 1986 Door Into Ocean. In this volume the people of Elysium have achieved immortality which brings with it complacency and arrogance and the desire of other peoples to steal their secret.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Defense of the Social Contracts" - Martha [Clare] Soukup (b. 1959) (Science Fiction Age, 1993)
Eutopia in which a system of contracts regulates human interaction. The story illustrates that the system has flaws.
Rpt. in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996), 222-38.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Democracy (b. 1984) - Robert Leon (Vantage Press, 1993)
Proposal for the direct election of the U.S. President after candidates have been pre-approved by computers. No direct presentation of the expected eutopia, but discussion throughout the book suggests its outlines.
Keywords: Male author

Demolition Man: A Novel by Richard Osborne based on a story by Peter M. Lenkov and Robert Reneau and a Screenplay by Daniel Waters, Robert Reneau, and Peter M. Lemkov - Richard Osborne (Signet, 1993)
A behavioral engineering dystopia set in San Angeles in 2032.
Keywords: Male author

The Destiny Makers - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) (William Morrow, 1993)
Dystopia of extreme overpopulation, corruption, and a radical gap between the rich and the poor. A plan had been developed to kill much of the world’s population so that the earth can recover and much of the novel centers on personal and political intrigue. See also 1999 Turner.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Deus X - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Bantam Books, 1993)
The setting of the novel is a future Earth so devastated by the results of current environmental policies that human life on Earth is in danger. The novel focuses on the creation of people within an electronic net and the problems this poses for the Catholic Church and its female pope.
Rpt. in his Deus X and Other Stories (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2003), 90-140.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Distances" - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, 1993)
Apocalyptic story based on the recovery of Native American Indian lands through the intercession of the Indian ancestors. In the book, the story is told by Thomas Builds-the-Fire, an Indian visionary.
Rpt. (New York: Grove Press, 2005), 104-09. Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 143-48 with an editor’s note on 143-45.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Doc Forest and the Blue Mountain Ecostery: A Narrative of Creating Ecological Harmony in Daily Life - Alan R[odney] Drengson (b. 1934) (Ecostery House, 1993)
Ecological eutopia based on an intentional community called an Ecostery or “a place where ecological wisdom and harmony (ecosophy) is learned, practiced and taught” (xii) that reflects deep ecology, which is based on the ideas of Arne Naess (1912-2009). Ecosophy, coined by Naess, comes from the Greek “oikos” or household place and “sophia” or wisdom and “refers to the wisdom to dwell harmoniously” (23). There are appendices that include the “Ecostery Foundation of North America (TEFNA): Statement of Philosophy” (175-86), an “Ecostery Brief Constitutional Model” (187-87), and an “Ecostery Long Constitution & Bylaws Model” (188-99) plus a “Select Ecostery Booklist” (201-05).
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Dream of Glass - Jean Mark Gawron (b. 1953) (Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1993)
Resistance to a fascist dystopia.
Keywords: US author

The Drylands - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) (Ballantine Books, 1993)
Authoritarian dystopia as a result of a long drought. Three related stories are “Water Bringer.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.3 (168) (March 1991): 16-21, 24-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-47; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 12-35; “Celilo.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.7 (172) (June 1991): 88-109; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 36-55; and “The Bee Man.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 15.10 (175) (September 1991): 44-48, 50-52, 54-63; rpt. in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 56-72.
Rpt. with a brief "Foreword" (10-11) by the author in her Water Rites (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2007), 73-305.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ecstasia - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) (ROC, 1993)
Young adult eutopia of youth (Elysia) framed by the Desert (roughly normal life) and Under (the old).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Elvissey - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (Tor, 1993)
A volume in the DryCo series. Dystopian satire of a corrupt urban future that involves an attempt to kidnap a young Elvis to turn him into a demigod in that future. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 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: HarperCollins, 1993.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Entrada" - Mary Rosenblum (1952-2018) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1993)
Deeply class-divided dystopia in a future U.S.
Rpt. in her Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1996), 32-61.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Escape to the Wind - Jennifer DiMarco (b. 1973) (Castillo International, 1993)
Dystopia of a patriarchal dictatorship with lesbian themes. The author was nineteen at the time of publication. A sequel, Fall Through the Sky. Radnor, OH: Pride Publications, 1997 expands the action to the surrounding area.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Eye For Dark Places - Norma Marder (Little, Brown, 1993)
Future tale describing a dystopian society in Britain and a woman fighting to free herself and help others. More complex than the usual. Some fantasy.
Keywords: Female author

Femala - C. R. Spohrer (Dorrance, 1993)
Anti-feminist novel depicting the triumph of male dominance. Earth, and the U.S. in particular, is depicted as a dystopia due to feminism. Femala is a planet where women dominate but treat men well although they are drugged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fifth Sacred Thing - [Miriam] [Simos] (b. 1951) (Bantam Books, 1993)
Eutopia and dystopia. See her Walking to Mercury. New York: Bantam Books, 1997 for background.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Firedance - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Tor, 1993)
Sequel to 1983 and 1989 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the previous volumes has to fight clones of himself and the dictator of United Africa.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Folks" - Michael [Joseph] Cassutt (b. 1954) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1993)
In the story, a man decides to visit his parents, who are in their 90s and live in the Sun Villa South retirement home. He finds that his parents, due to an advanced and a “brain booster and stimulant,” are living the good life and are in good shape both mentally and physically. Sun Villa South is depicted as the ideal place for retirees to live, fully support by takes, paid, of course, by current workers. The outside world is only suggested, but it appears that everyone is struggling to just get by.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Folly - Ivan Vladislavić (b. 1957) (David Philip Publishers,, 1993)
Allegory. The novel describes the relationship between two men as a fantasy house is built.
Rpt. London: Serif, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

"A Four Letter Word" - Ivan Dorin (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 1993)
A society where food is considered sinful, but sex is not.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Freedom Convoy - Chola Mahes (Dorrance Publishing Co., 1993)
Post-catastrophe (nuclear war initiated by the U.S. against Iran) survivors searching for a better life while crossing the country. Mostly dystopian with a stress on violence. There is a Glossary of the terms used in the book (266-74).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Garden" - Alayne Gelfand (Worlds of Women: Sapphic Science Fiction Erotica, 1993)
While the emphasis in the story is on the sex, it is set in a future in which men and women do not know of the existence of the other. The female protagonist resents the authoritarianism of the women leaders and breaks the rule by regularly visiting a prohibited area.
Rpt. in The New Worlds of Women. Exp. ed. Ed. Cecilia Tan (Boston, MA: Circlet Press, 1996), 63-77; and in The Circlet Treasury of Lesbian Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Cecilia Tan (New York: Riverdale Avenue Books, 2013), 156-67.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Giver - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) (Houghton Mifflin, 1993)
Young adult flawed utopia that is technologically sophisticated but overly controlled. See also 2000 Lowry. Her Messenger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004 and Son. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2012, which includes characters from both this volume and 2000 Lowry but take place in an intentional community.
Rpt. New York: Dell. U.K. ed. London: Lions, 1994. A graphic novel version is The Giver. Based on the novel by Lois Lowry. Adapted by P. Craig Russell. Illus. P. Craig Russell, Galen Showman, and Scott Hampton. Colorist Lovern Kindzierski. Letterer Rich Parker. Scanning, cleanup, and digital coordination by Wayne Arnold Harold. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2019.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Glory - Alfred[o] [José Araña-Marini y] Coppel [Jr.] (1921-2004) (Tor, 1993)
Primarily an adventure novel but includes a future society on the planet Voerster based on South African apartheid. Sequels include Glory’s War. Book Two of The Goldenwing Cycle. New York: Tor, 1995; and Glory’s People. Book Three of The Goldenwing Cycle. New York: Tor, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Glory Season - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (Bantam Books, 1993)
Male--female conflict in a future matriarchal society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Goodfood" - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) (Journeys to the Twilight Zone, 1993)
The story is set in a future (eutopian or dystopian is left to the reader) in which food that is deemed not good for you is illegal, culinary porn (old cookbooks) are kept in locked sections of libraries, and to be married a couple must be tested for serum cholesterol. An underground system of dealers and grillers provide bacon and eggs, hamburgers, and so forth. The F.F.F. or Food Freedom Fighters torch saladerias, bomb Goodfood rallies and fight back in other ways. The Goodfood Bureau of Investigation enforces the laws.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Granddads Last Swim" - Cath[erine] Clark (Phoenixine: The Phoenix Science Fiction Society Newsletter, 1993)
Pollution dystopia in which few people live past twenty.
Rpt. as by Catherine Clark in Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection. Ed. Warwick Bennett and Patrick Hudson (Wellington, New Zealand: IPL Books, 1995), 165-71.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (HarperCollins, 1993)
Complex social science and science fiction about the terraforming of Mars and the growth of societies there. Mars is threatened by a dystopian Earth of corporate power and environmental degradation that hopes to exploit Mars’s resources rather than create healthy societies. Sequel to 1992 Robinson, Red Mars. See also 1996 Robinson, Blue Mars. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322/23/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79).
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1994. Based on a shorter piece of the same title in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 9.9 (September 1985): 112-82; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 552-619 with an editor’s note on 551. Chapter one was also published as “A Martian Childhood.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.2 (212) (February 1994): 128-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gulliver - Michael Ryan (Autonomedia, 1993)
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels re-done with a distinctively anarchist message. All the countries of the former are visited under different names and with more explicitly political and economic characteristics. They are: Grossartiga--Lilliputians. Pretense is the rule. The poor are kept in their place. Plintablandina--Giants. No property. No money. Worship nature. Craftsmanship. Free sexuality among young. Poetry very important. The wisest are chosen as administrators. Academica (Conflict within education), Lexonomia (Language satire), Freedonia (Free Market), and Several Other Remote Regions, including Carnivalia, Imperia. Land of the Retrievers (Dogs), which is also called Ecologia --No exploitation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Halcyon City - Merle Glasson (Fast Books, 1993)
Flawed utopia. A city that prides itself on being progressive is in fact beholden to the elderly, who do not work but do vote. The employed need to have two jobs to pay their taxes. The young are indulged.
Keywords: Male author

Harvest of Stars - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Tor, 1993)
Dystopia with individuals and a free enterprise society as opponents. Sequels include his The Stars Are Also Fire. New York: Tor, 1994, in which machine intelligences are dominant; and The Fleet of Stars. New York: Tor, 1997 where the machine intelligences have become more and more controlling, and a few humans struggle to stop them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Headhunter - Timothy Findley (1930-2002) (Crown, 1993)
The focus of the novel is on a modern conflict between Kurtz and Marlow from Heart of Darkness (1902) by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), but the setting is dystopian and has elements of both science fiction and fantasy.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Hear the Cradle Song - O. T Gunnarsson ([Noontide Press], 1993)
Right-wing, racist depiction of the collapse of the United States. It ends with the beginnings of a right-wing eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Heart of the Overchild" - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) (REAL: RE Arts & Letters, 1993)
Overpopulation dystopia. An Overchild is one who is in excess of the permitted number. Their body parts are used to keep endangered species alive.
Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 33-44.
Keywords: Male author; US author

How To Save Our Country: A Nonpartisan Vision for Change - Mike [Miklos N.] Szilagyi (b. 1936) (Pallas Press, 1993)
Presents a detailed critique of the U.S. in the early 1990s and suggests specific reforms for how to stop the decay. The book is based on the premise that the problems the U.S. faces are based on “the defective value system of our society” (12).
Keywords: Hungarian author; Male author; US author

“I’m a Big Cat Now” - David Heydt (Towers of Darkover, 1993)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Male author

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934); Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) (Baen, 1993)
Fantasy about a matriarchy.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

. . . In a World Not of His Own Making - Stephen Papson (Blue Canary Publishing, 1993)
Ecological dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

In the Cube - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953) (Tor, 1993)
Future Boston, Massachusetts dystopia. See also 1994 Smith, ed. Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In the Garden of Dead Cars - Sybil Claiborne (d. 1992) (Cleis Press, 1993)
Dystopia. Future in which, as a result of the AIDS epidemic, chastity is legally enforced. Revolt.
Keywords: Female author

Informational Society: An Economic Theory of Discovery, Invention and Innovation - Alfred Lorn Norman (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993)
Detailed eutopia stressing-automation and the flow of information. Decentralization.
Published in much briefer form as Informational Society. Paper Number Five. Office for Applied Social Science and the Future, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 1972. Summary in "Informational Society." Futures 7.4 (August 1975): 321-28.
Keywords: Male author

The Initiation of PB 500 - Kyle Stone (Badboy, 1993)
Gay male erotic fiction that includes an authoritarian dystopia. The authoritarianism is used primarily for erotic purposes.
Parts originally published as "The Ceremony" in Huge (September 1992) and "The Ultimate Test" in Torso.
Keywords: Male author

The Iron Woman - Ted [Edward James] Hughes (1930-98) (Faber and Faber, 1993)
Anti-pollution story with a eutopian ending. Sequel to 1968 Hughes.
Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Jacob with a 'C' - Edward Lurie (The Carrefour Press, 1993)
Satire and dystopia. A novel about a couple trying to create a life together in a vaguely described post-apartheid South Africa which has failed to live up to its promises.
Keywords: Male author

Kalifornia - Marc Laidlaw (b. 1960) (St. Martin's Press, 1993)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 1: Escape to the Wild Wood - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Victor Gollancz, 1993)
The first 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. See also 1994, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, three young Romans flee to the forests and discover the older Britain. The novel stresses the cold rationality of the Romans in contrast to the more feeling British. See the note at 1982 Mann.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

The Last Dancer - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) (Bantam Spectra, 1993)
Third volume in a trilogy. This volume is set in 2076 with the authoritarian United Nations ruling Earth but with various forces, including the two remaining telepaths, opposed to its rule. See also 1988 and 1989 Moran.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Local Code: The Constitution of a City at 42° N Latitude - Michael [David] Sorkin (1948-2020) (Princeton Architectural Press, 1993)
The presentation of an ideal city through its building code.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Love Under Siege" - Carrington McDuffie (Future Sex, 1993)
Dystopian setting for pornography.

A Machynlleth Triad/Triawd Machynlleth - Jan Morris (1926-2020) (Gwasg Gregynog, 1993)
The book is divided into three parts, The Past: Y Gorfennol, The Present: Y Presennol, and The Future: Y Dyfodol, with the English and Welsh reversed in the part titles in the Welsh half of the book, with all three in the town of Machynlleth. The past is the early fifteenth century, the present is 1993, and the future is sometime in the first half of the twenty-first century in which Machynlleth is the capital of an independent Welsh republic within the European Confederation and a founding member of the League of Neutrals. The future Wales is a utopia, albeit not without problems, based on the “Principle of Simplicity” or “Egwyddor Symlrwydd,” “a commitment to restraint in all things” (64), which is enshrined in the constitution. The section on the future is present as a tour and description of Machynlleth Triad of the Saint David’s Day or Republic Day when Wales is celebrating twenty-five years of independence.
Rpt. with the Welsh text. New York/London: Viking, 1994; and London: Penguin, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author; Welsh author

Mad Boys - Ernest Hebert (University Press of New England, 1993)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Male author

Mindstar Rising - Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Pan, 1993)
Dystopia of global warming and corporate domination.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Moving Mars - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Tor, 1993)
Mars had been colonized from Earth, but the two planets were growing apart and war was coming. Mars was then moved to another sun and over time Mars became more inhabitable and evolved a decent, limited government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mural" - Meryl Thompson (b. 1942) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1993)
Dystopia. Separate between employed and unemployed.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Nation's Party Concept: A Political Alternative - Jack W. Boone (Grafco Productions, 1993)
A detailed proposal regarding what should constitute an American eutopia and how to bring it about. Generally conservative.
The author, in a letter of January 17, 2002, says that he included here most of the book Rage in Utopia that he published under the name Jack Warren [pseud.]. Marietta, GA: Grafco Productions, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Near the Driver” - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) (Ten Tales Tall and True, 1993)
The dystopia of a future highly automated Britain with the focus on British Rail.
U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 129-53. Rpt. in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 653-70.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Nomansland - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Victor Gollancz, 1993)
Dystopia--a society which is getting rid of men by ensuring that there are no boy babies.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Open Season - Scott Moon (Dorrance Publishing Co, 1993)
Sport, which is a multibillion-dollar business, in a future dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pallas - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Tor, 1993)
Having escaped from a prison planet, a man creates a libertarian eutopia on a terraformed asteroid which is contrasted with an authoritarian dystopia. First in a planned four volume series, known as the Ngu Family Saga, with the second volume being Ceres (Published online on his website one chapter each week beginning March 23,2009. There are 45 chapter and an Epilogue). It was then published as a paperback. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. The third volumes, Ares, has not been published. This volume follows the further adventures of main protagonists of Pallas.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1995. 447 pp.; and Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2011. 324 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Parable of the Sower - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993)
Complex dystopia set in a future after a complete governmental collapse has resulted in a lack of security, scarcity, and poverty. The protagonist, who has what Butler calls “hyperempathy” or a high sensitivity to the sensations of others, leaves her community with some other survivors after her family is murdered. They try to start a new community where her religion, called “Earthseed” can take root. Bothered by writer’s block and health issues, she was unable to write the third volume. The fragments that exist are held in her papers at the Huntington Library. See Gerry Canavan, “‘There's Nothing New Under The Sun, But There Are New Suns’: Recovering Octavia E. Butler's Lost Parables.” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 9, 2014). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables/ An opera by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon premiered at New York University Abu Dhabi November 9, 2017, and had its U.S. premiere at the Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2017. It had its New York premiere July 13, 2023, at Lincoln Center. A religion emerged based on the novel; see https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ See also 1998 Butler.
See also Damian Duffy (Text) and John Jennings (Illus.) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020, with a brief introduction by Nalo Hopkinson (iv-v), a Q & A with Duffy and Jennings (265-268), Notes on Process (269-270), Visual Development (271), and a Teachers Guide to Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation by Kimberly N. Parker (272-277), About Octavia E. Butler (278), Further Reading (279), and About the Adaptor and About the Artist (280).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Pax Femina Series: Book II. The Kinslow Project - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 1993)
Sequel to 2001 Cantwell, Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule). See also 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony.  In this volume, the Pax Femina appears to have created a eutopia with no crime or war and a recovering ecology but has done so by suppressing all men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Plastic Paradise - D[avid] W[illiam] Walker (b. 1943) (Boris Books, 1993)
Dystopia set in a future Canberra, Australia. Plastic has replaced money and anyone without the right card is a non-person. The focus of the novel is on rampant development destroying the character of the city and a fight against the developers and the politicians.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Price of Peace" - Joan Sowter (Starsongs Tau Whetu: The 1993 New Zealand Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1993)
Officially sanctioned vigilantes who enforce laws by killing the lawbreaker. The case described is of someone making too much noise.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

“The Punishment of Luxury.” - Michael Carson (b. 1946) (Serving Suggestions: Stories, 1993)
Satire on environmentalism in which a man is executed for owning a car.
Keywords: Male author

The Pure Cold Light - Gregory [Dee] Frost (b. 1951) (Avon, 1993)
Dystopia of drugs and corporate control.
Keywords: US author

"Rain" - Kenneth Doyle (It Happened Tomorrow: An Anthology of Select Science Fiction Stories, 1993)
A climate change story in which everyone lives in domes, with only desert and acid rain outside the domes.
Keywords: Male author

Rainbow Man - M[ary] J[ane] Engh (b. 1933) (Tor, 1993)
Flawed utopia of a complex society that purports to have no laws but is actually highly regulated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (HarperCollins, 1993)
A volume in the DryCo series. The dystopia of the contemporary inner cities set in the near future. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Elvissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, n 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.S. ed. Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Reunion" - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) (Towers of Darkover, 1993)
Free Amazon story.

Reverse Angle - G. Sacerdote (Dorrance Publishing Co, 1993)
The legalization of drugs produces an immediate positive result, but then the drug cartels fight back killing everyone that gets in their way. Ultimately, they are defeated.
Keywords: Peruvian author; UK author; US author

Ring of Swords - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Tor, 1993)
A difficult book to characterize in that it presents two societies, an extremely well-done alien society, the Hwarhath, where same-sex relations are the norm, and people from a future Earth. Both societies are presented with their good and not-so-good elements. See Brian Attebery, "Ring of Swords: A Reappreciation." New York Review of Science Fiction 16.8 (April 2004): 1, 8-10. Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.
Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rising of the Moon - Flynn Connolly (Ballantine Books, 1993)
Future Ireland totally dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and emphasizes the suppression of women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Rose on the Ash-Heap" - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) (A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield, 1993)
Dystopia of control through providing people with bread and circuses.
Keywords: English author

The Sabbath Chapter: A Novel of the Apocalypse - Grant Garber (Fithian Press, 1993)
Just what it says.

Serpentine Wisdom - Frank W. Hatfield (b. 1917) (Vantage Press, 1993)
The author writes that “This is a book about the best form of government” (5) and that “The thesis of this book is that the best form of government is philosophical anarchy” (6), although no anarchist would recognize the result. He says that “The best form of government is no government, because no one likes to be pushed around” (6), and that “All that is needed is that everyone do the right thing voluntarily at all times” (6). He explains the book’s title by quoting Matthew 10:16, “Be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (KJV) and basis his utopia on Christ’s teachings. Includes an “Appendix: The Constitution of the World” (255-275) that is structurally modeled on the U.S. Constitution. The author says he was a lawyer and that the book was written in 1986 and 1987 and revised in 1988 and again for publication.

Shadow Hunter - Will[iam Edwin] Baker (1935-2005) (Viking Press, 1993)
Dystopia of a world where almost everything natural has been eliminated.
U.S. ed. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
Keywords: US author

Sing the Body Electric: A Novel in Five Movements - Adam Lively (b. 1961) (Chatto & Windus, 1993)
Novel set in a future that has tried to create enclaves that incorporate past ways of life. Part of the novel reads as if it were set in one of those pasts.
Keywords: English author

"Somewhere Down the Diamondback Road" - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) (Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, 1993)
Dystopia of sex, violence, and driving with an unidentified Authority in control.
Rpt. in her Dangerous Space: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007), 131-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Songs of Chaos - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) (Ace Books, 1993)
The novel is partially set in a conformist dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Songs of Solomon" - Virginia Ellen Baker (Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor, 1993)
Future dystopia stressing punishment and the revolt against it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Taking Stock" - George Rosie (Unpublished play, 1993)
Satire. Describes a future Cabinet sub-committee getting rid of all the institutions that make Scotland unique.
Keywords: Female author

Testing - Charles [G.] Oberndorf (b. 1959) (Bantam Books, 1993)
Dystopia. A novel presenting a future in which the U.S. has experienced an economic collapse. The poor economic situation has led to a dramatic social change in which marriage has virtually disappeared. Brothers are expected to work to support their sisters and their sisters' children. The focus of the novel is on morality testing, which is essential for entrance to university and the possibility of a good income. One of the characters notes that it was later abolished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Thine is the Kingdom - Leicester Chilton (b. 1929) (University Editions, 1993)
A eutopian planet decides to deport its anti-social misfits to Earth, while monitoring them and feeding them suggestions. The eutopia is only vaguely described with the emphasis being on those Thirsans sent to Earth. They include Akhenaten, Moses, Jesus, Attila, and Muhammad.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The Third Millennium. A Novel - Paul [D.] Meier (b. 1947) (A Janet Thoma Book/Thomas Nelson Publisher, 1993)
The novel describes the period of Tribulation in the End Times (See The Book of Revelation) based to some extent on Jewish sources but from a Christian perspective. The novel does this by focusing on a non-practicing Jewish family from 1995 to 2000 as narrated by Michael, their Guardian Angel See also 1996 Meier and Wise.
Keywords: Male author; US author

This Other Eden - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) (Simon & Schuster, 1993)
Humorous take on the end of the world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Trendelenburg Position” - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) (Ten Tales Tall and True, 1993)
Odd story in which a dentist talks to a patient and, in doing so, describes aspects of a future dystopian Britain.
U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1993), 102-10. Rpt. in his Every Short Story, 1952-2012 (Edinburgh, Scot.: Canongate, 2012), 633-39.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Twilight Beach - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) (Aphelion Publications, 1993)
Continuation of his Rynosseros series. See also 1990, 1992, 2007 and 2009 Dowling. In this collection of stories, the main protagonist of the series is searching for information about his past. A related story is “Down Flowers.” Orb Speculative Fiction (South Preston, VIC, Australia), no. 0 (1999): 29-43. See also “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).
Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-290. Part originally published as "Larrikin Wind." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 1 (1.1) (Autumn 1990): 42-54; "Roadsong. From the Further Adventures of Tom Rynosseros." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 6 (2.2) (Spring 1991): 64-97; "Ship's Eye." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 8 (2.4) (Autumn 1992): 55-75; "The Final Voyage of Captain Gelise." Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 9 (1992): 41-48; "Shatterwrack at Breaklight." Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 21] (July/August 1985): 110-16; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 78.3 (466) (March 1990): 118-31; in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. by Terry Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 79-95; in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 63-77; and in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 77-90.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Vermin" - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1993)
Fundamentalist religious dystopia as background.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Virtual Light - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948) (Bantam Books, 1993)
Complex dystopia set in the states of Northern and Southern California. Deep divisions between the rich and poor with the rich living in protected enclaves. Includes the development of a post-earthquake Tokyo, an anarchist community in the San Francisco area, and various other dystopian and potentially eutopian societies.
U.K. ed. London: Viking, 1993. 296 pp. 0-670-84081-5
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Vurt - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) (Ringpull Press, 1993)
Dystopia set in Manchester, England. Vurt is a drug that creates almost a virtual reality.
U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Wall At the Edge of the World - Jim [James Douglas] Aikin (b. 1948) (Ace Books, 1993)
Flawed utopia--efficient, peaceful walled city. Telepathy ensures that those who think wrongly are removed. Discovery of the world beyond the walls brings change.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"We Shall Sing for the Fatherland" - Zakes [Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni] Mda (b. 1948) (We Shall Sing for the Fatherland and Other Plays, 1993)
Dystopia of South Africa after the beginning of Africanisation in which power remains with the rich and the ex-freedom fighters freeze to death.
Keywords: Lesotho author; Male author; South African author

"The Welfare Man" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 1993)
Class-based dystopia with welfare recipients walled off from the others.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Year Seven - Zanger, Molleen (Naiad Press, 1993)
Post-disaster future depicting a lesbian community. Children are deformed physically but advanced spiritually.
Keywords: Female author

"2011: A Vision" - Richard Giles (Rainbow Network (New Zealand), 1992)
New Age eutopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The 21st Century Constitution: A New America for a New Millennium - Barry Krusch (b. 1958) (Stanhope Press, 1992)
An argument that the U.S. needs a new constitution and a proposal that a constitutional convention be called plus a detailed new constitution showing the current U.S. Constitution with the proposed changes and explanations for the changes. The underlying motif is to place power in the people of the country nationally rather than in the states. Includes a right to education.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Acts of Terror and Delight. Book One. Winners May Weep - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) (dean farran printproductions, 1992)
Part of his unpublished dystopia "Energy Island"; see 1988 Gilbert. See also 1985 Gilbert and 1986 Gilbert. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Alien Sex Slave" - Clay Caldwell (Guys, 1992)
Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica. Presents sexual slavery as desirable.
Rpt. as “A Dort Called Tiger.” In QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 45-53.
Keywords: Male author

Amazon - Barbara G. Walker (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)
Amazon eutopia in the past and the effect on the present of a woman from that eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

Another World - Elaine O'Reilly (b. 1942) (Addison Wesley Longman, 1992)
Children’s flawed utopia. A reader designed for beginners set in the underground Eden City, where everyone has a number, is under twenty-five, and the law requires that everyone be very happy. As a test of his suitability for leadership, one man is introduced to the contrasting real world of dirt, aging, and poverty. While it is not explained, at twenty-five everyone enters the Long Dream, although the last line of the text suggests it may be yet another world.
New ed. Harlow, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000. 44 pp. Rpt. Harlow, Eng.: Penguin Education, 2007. 44 pp. The new ed. has a CD.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Anthropolis: A Tale of Two Cities - Daniel P. Fischer (Mercer University Press, 1992)
In a future where oil shortages have led to significant changes, with, for example, the interstate highway network replace by MagLev trains. The novel focuses on the city of Anthropolis in Colorado, an ecological eutopia with a stress on neighborhoods and the economy based around cooperatives. Native American Indian spirituality provides part of the ethos. Anthropolis works to share its experience with the rest of the world. There is a comparison of the city of Anthropolis and Atlanta on 111-30.
Keywords: Male author

"Apocalyptic Narrative" - Rodney Jones (b. 1950) (New England Review, 1992)
Poem about the dystopia created by nuclear war.
Rpt. in his Apocalyptic Narrative and Other Poems (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993), 24-29; and in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 25-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arcadia - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). (Jonathan Cape, 1992)
A wealthy man decides to replace a local marketplace with Arcadia, described as a modern utopia of glass and greenery. He succeeds. Set in the future.
Rpt. London: Penguin, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Arena - John Cranna (b. 1954) (Minerva, 1992)
Degenerate, authoritarian post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive environmental damage. Roman-style gladiatorial games are the focus of the novel.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Aristoi - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) (Tor, 1992)
High tech eutopia that needs people, the Aristoi, who can live in both virtual reality and “the realized world” at the same time. These people control the technology and terraform and settle new planets. But problems arise when an Aristoi creates a new world outside the system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Back Door Man - Ian McAuley Hails (1957-2002) (Aphelion Publications, 1992)
Dystopia of nationalism and religious fundamentalism in Australia in 1996.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Best of Both Worlds" - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) (Tesseracts, 1992)
Flawed utopia focusing on the development of instantaneous human transport and the power that gives to remodel humanity mentally and physically.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Black Rainbow - Albert Wendt (b. 1939) (Penguin, 1992)
Dystopia set in New Zealand in which the government is erasing the history of each individual and the country, a process known as dehistorising. Kafkaesque elements with the narrator appearing before an ever-changing Tribunal. He then becomes part of the "Game of Life" in which he is hunted as he searches for his wife and family, who have been taken by the authorities, with the Game providing entertainment for the people. See also his 1992 "The Don'ts of Whistling."
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Samoan author

Blue Tyson - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) (Aphelion Publications, 1992)
Linked collection of stories continuing his Rynosseros series. In one of the stories, "Going to the Angels" (39-73) the Tribes have orbiting satellites where Nationals can serve as menials, but they can never return to Earth or communicate freely with Earth and are generally badly treated. An addition that fits between 1992 and 1993 Dowling is “The Library.” X6 A Novellanthology. Ed. Keith Stevenson ([Bentley, VIC, Australia]: Coeur de Lion, 2009), 505-636. Rpt. in his Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 263-358 with an “Afterword” (359-60); and in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume I (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 489-591. See also 1990, 1993, 2007, and 2009 Dowling; and “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56).
Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume I (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 252-488. Parts were published separately as "A Dragon Between His Fingers." Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 31] (May/June 1986): 110-17; rpt. in Matilda at the Speed of Light. Ed. Damien [Francis] Broderick (North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1988), 1-20; and "Vanities." Glass Reptile Breakout and Other Australian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin ([Perth, WA, Australia]: The Centre for the Study of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, 1990), 49-60. "Privateers' Moon" was rpt. in Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien [Francis] Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 273-98; and in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 277-304
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Brazil-Maru - Karen Tei Yamashita (b. 1951) (Coffee House Press, 1992)
The novel is about the experience of some Japanese who immigrated to Brazil with one focus a Japanese intentional cooperative community called Esperança.
Keywords: Female author; Japanese American author

Brother to Dragons - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) (Baen, 1992)
Future dystopia. Extreme class differences with a powerful elite. Serious environmental problems.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"Built on Blood" - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) (Interzone, 1992)
Dystopia of class differences.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Bushido Incident - Betty Anne Crawford (b. 1952) (DAW Books, 1992)
Dystopia. Earth dominated by a Japanese economic empire.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"California Dreaming" - Elizabeth A[nne] Lynn (b. 1946) (Omni Best Science Fiction One, 1992)
Cars are outlawed in California, and this produces the beginnings of a better society.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Caprolen Captivity - Zeal I. Fisher (1930-2013) (Vantage Press, 1992)
The novel begins on an Earth that is an ecological dystopia with no clean water, the air oxygen depleted, and much of the Earth deserts. The novel, though, focuses on the abduction of ten young women and one man by aliens, who take them to their planet. After many adventures, the novel ends by the humans being accepted as citizens of the planet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Careperson" - Graham Joyce (1954-2014) (Interzone, 1992)
Social work, now called “care work” “because nobody cares” (39), in a dystopian future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Cathy IV - Frances Lucas (b. 1956) (New Victoria Publishers, 1992)
Dystopia and struggle against it. A novel with lesbian interest set on a planet that has enslaved a large segment of its population, called Servos, who were a mix of android and human. Earth has been largely destroyed but had been saved by aliens, and everyone on Earth lives in identical domed cities. The dystopian society is depicted together with the struggle to free the Servos. In addition to the Servos, the planet’s inhabitants are divided between the Nots (from the planet’s name Saegrenot), who live off the work of the Servos and live in cities and the Assimi or those who refuse to be assimilated and live in the country and support freeing the Servos.
Keywords: Female author

The Children of Men - P[hyllis] D[orothy] James (1920-2014) (Faber & Faber, 1992)
Dystopia. No children are born and the population ages. A Warden and Council establish an authoritarian government, kill off the incompetent, establish the Isle of Man as a prison camp, and treat refugees from other countries as slaves. At the end of the novel the Warden is killed, and a baby is born.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Keywords: English author; Female author

China Mountain Zhang - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Tor, 1992)
A dystopian future dominated by a still Communist China. There is a Socialist Union of America States that is considered a second rate country.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Codgerspace - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) (Ace Books, 1992)
Satiric novel set in a future where Earth is mostly a vacation spot and retirement home for the galaxy. An accident leads an AI that creates most of the other AIs to reprogram to search for life that is more intelligent than humans. Such life is accidentally found in a cavern in a retirement village by five retirees. This leads to considerable turmoil throughout the galaxy, but all the potential conflicts are at least temporarily settled.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Come Lucky April - Jean [Neville] Ure (b. 1943) (Methuen Children's Books, 1992)
One hundred years after the plague described in her Plague 99. London: Methuen Teens, 1989. Rpt. London: Octopus, 1989; London: Teens Mandarin, 1991; and Oxford: Heinemann New Windmills, 1993. U.S. ed as Plague. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Contrasts two societies, one dominated by men and identified with the problems of the past and one in which women hold power and male aggression has been eliminated. While the latter is generally better than the former, it is still trying to find the right balance. The struggle to reunite the communities is described in her Watchers at the Shrine. London: Methuen Children’s Books, 1994.
Rpt. as After the Plague. London: Teens Mandarin, 1993; and London: Mammoth, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Conjuror - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) (Oxford University Press, 1992)
A young adult post-catastrophe dystopia with fantasy elements. Future racial division between Browns and Greys with the Greys the slaves of the Browns with a third group, the Blues, outcasts. The two groups are not even allowed to talk to each other. Reading and writing are prohibited. Women rule through their control of knowledge and the use of violence. A Brown girl slated for leadership, which will require her to murder her father, befriends a Grey boy, and they escape together.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Corner One: The People and the 'Perfect Political Structure'." Part of his The Four Corners of the Coffin Lid" - S. T. Cambridge [pseud.] (The Tenth Leper and Other Stories, 1992)
Short defense of democracy.
Keywords: South African author

"Couples" - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) (Tesseracts, 1992)
Authoritarian dystopia which has past a Fetal Rights Bill.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Crystal Drop - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) (HarperCollins, 1992)
Young adult climate-change dystopia where a drought has destroyed a family farm, and a young woman and her brother search for an uncle in a world a dangerous world.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1993. 212 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Dark Streets - Huw [Thomas] Merlin (b. 1956) (S.T.W. Publishing, 1992)
Authoritarian dystopia in Australia and the resistance to it. New South Wales is an independent country with a "Gratification District" served by "Pleasure Technicians" controlled by the State Army.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Dead Girls - Richard Calder (b. 1955) (HarperCollins, 1992)
Cyberpunk dystopia. Continued in his Dead Boys.  London : HarperCollins, 1994; and Dead Things.  London : HarperCollins, 1996.
Rpt. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Graphic novel ed. by Calder with Pencils, Colours & letters by Leonardo M. Girton as The Dead Girls: The Graphic Novel. [UK]: The House of Murky Depths, 2014.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Deus Ex Machina - Ivan Millett (b. 1944) (TTTM, 1992)
Machine run future. Variety of worlds presented. Some good and some not. See also his related but non-utopian Tu. Auckland, New Zealand: TTTM, 1994; and Nummus. Auckland, New Zealand: TTTM, 1993.
Rpt. on disk 1993. 2nd ed. 1994 on disk only.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time - James Gurney (b. 1958) (Turner Publishing Co, 1992)
A fantasy in which dinosaurs and humans live together in harmony. Sequels include Gurney, Dinotopia: The World Beneath. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1995; Midori Snyder (b. 1954), Dinotopia: Hatchling. New York: Bullseye Books, 1995; Scott Ciencin (b. 1962), Dinotopia. Windchaser. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1995; John Vornholt (b. 1951), Dinotopia. River Quest. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1995; Ciencin, Dinotopia: Lost City. New York: Bullseye Books, 1996; Ciencin, Dinotopia. Thunder Falls New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1996; Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946), Dinotopia Lost. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing Co., 1996; U.K. ed. London: Severn House, 1998; John Vornholt (b. 1951), Dinotopia. Sabertooth Mountain. New York: Bullseye Books/Random House, 1996; Gene DeWeese, Dinotopia. Firestorm. New York: Random House, 1997; Ciencin, Dinotopia. Sky Dance. Illus. Michael Welpy. New York: Random House, 1999; Peter [Allen] David, Dinotopia. The Maze. New York: Random House, 1999; Foster, Hand of Dinotopia. New York: Harper Collins, 1999; Mark A. Garland, Dinotopia. Rescue Party. New York: Random House, 1999; Gurney, Dinotopia: First Flight. [New York]: HarperCollins, 1999; Ciencin, Dinotopia: Return to Lost City. New York: Random House, 2000; Donald F. Glut, Dinotopia. Chomper. New York: Random House, 2000; Ciencin, Dinotopia. The Explorers. New York: Random House, 2001; Brad Strickland, Dinotopia. Survive! New York: Random House, 2001; Cathy [Catherine] Hapka, Dinotopia: Oasis. New York: Random House, 2002; Vornholt, Dinotopia: Dolphin Watch. New York: Random House, 2002; and Gurney, Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2007. There was a three-part TV miniseries as Code of Dinotopia written by Gurney and Simon Moore on the Disney Channel in 2002. This was followed by a thirteen-part miniseries.
20th Anniversary ed. New York: Calla Editions, 2011.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Don'ts of Whistling" - Albert Wendt (b. 1939) (Landfall 184 (New Zealand), 1992)
The story is about the relationship of a boy to his mostly absent father and other family members, but the background to the story is the dystopia developed in his 1992 Black Rainbow.
The Table of Contents adds the subtitle "(Chapter 1 of The Guide to Whistling, a sequel to Black Rainbow). No more appears to have been published.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Samoan author

"Ecotopia Revisited" - Peter H. Marshall (b. 1946) (Nature's Web: An Exploration of Ecological Thinking, 1992)
Nonfiction description of an ecological society.
Rpt. as Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth (New York: Paragon House, 1994), 448-63.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Even the Queen" - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1992)
A drug allows women to stop menstruating, and this allows the creation of an eutopian society in which women take the lead.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction. Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 62-75; in her Impossible Things (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 66-87; and in A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 35-54.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Evolution of Social Values on Planets and Their Biological Bases: From Waste Dumps to Pristine Biotas - Arlan J. Brownmiller (Vantage Press, 1992)
Ecological eutopia on a planet that the explorers from Earth named Pan. Even though none of the species of humans or animals has become extinct, there is a limited population. Telepathy. Each child has four biological parents so that it carries all their genes, thus producing greater variation. Despite the title, the work is fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fatherland - Robert [Dennis] Harris (b. 1957) (Hutchinson, 1992)
Dystopia. Hitler won.
Rpt. as the 20th Anniversary Edition. London: Arrow Books, 2012 with “Introduction to the 20th Anniversary Edition of Fatherland” by the author (xi-xvi).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Feral City - Rosie [Judy Rosemary] Scott (b. 1948) (William Heinemann Australia, 1992)
Future dystopia of violence and poverty set in Auckland, New Zealand, brought about by government policies that undid the welfare system and turned New Zealand over to government by big business. Thousands of homeless are living in the inner city. Libraries were privatized and then closed. Although one of them is killed, two sisters become the center of a small amount of hope by opening a bookstore in the center of the ruins.
Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Reed Books, 1992; and Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Minerva, [1993].
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Fools - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Cyberpunk dystopia with people able to create new personalities for both themselves and others and others stealing memories.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"Fragment from the Future" - Barbara Goodwin (b. 1946) (Justice by Lottery, 1992)
Introductory chapter to a treatise in political theory that presents a eutopian society in which all major decisions are made by lot. The author is a well-known scholar of utopian social theory and uses many examples from utopian literature throughout the book.
2nd ed. (Exeter, Eng.: Imprint Academic, 2005), 3-28.
Keywords: English author; Female author

From the District File - Kenneth Bernard (Fiction Collective Two, 1992)
Dystopia. Future tale of an anonymous but controlling government and its Burial Clubs.
Connected short stories. Three were previously published as “From the District File.” The Quarterly; “Waiting for Mrs. Slotnik.” 2PLUS2 (Switzerland), [no. 6] (1987): 44-46; and “Supermarket.” Iowa Review 20.3 (Fall 1990): 45-53.
Keywords: Male author

The Future Is Free - Ronald [A.] Beck (1940) (Vantage Press, 1992)
Flawed utopia set in 2084 with all social and environmental problems apparently solved but with meaning lost. Presented as evolution to a future in which sentient machines will replace humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Galax-Arena - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) (Hyland House, 1992)
Dystopia in which children are kidnapped by aliens to entertain them by doing dangerous acts. Some hope held out as the children begin to cooperate with each other. See also her 2001 Terra Farma.
Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin Books, 1994. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1993. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995. Rev. ed. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin Books, 2001.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Gehenna - [Thomas] Paul Thigpen (b. 1954) (Creation House, 1992)
A trip through Hell.
Keywords: Male author

Glass Houses - Laura J. Mixon (b. 1954) (Tor, 1992)
Environmental dystopia inside and outside a domed New York City.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Guns of the South: A Novel of the Civil War - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Ballantine Books, 1992)
With the help from future South African supporters of apartheid, who provide Robert E. Lee with AK-47s, the South wins the Civil War. After the war, Lee wants to gradually abolish slavery, and the Confederacy has to defeat the technologically advanced South Africans before that becomes possible. Other, non-utopian, alternative futures by Turtledove set after the South won the Civil war are How Few Remain. New York: del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1997; and The Great War: American Front. New York: Del Rey, 1998.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Hall of New Faces" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1992)
Dystopia concerned with the pressure on women to look good, and particularly to look young. Women go to the "Hall of New Faces" for plastic surgery, and all look worse.
Rpt. in her of Weird Women, Wired Women (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998), 133-43.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hearts, Hands and Voices - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Victor Gollancz, 1992)
Eutopia and dystopia. The eutopia is a village in which people get along with each other and with nature and even religious differences do not cause conflict. The dystopia comes about when the divided nation within which the village exists brings its conflicts to the village.
U.S. ed. as The Broken Land. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

High Aztech - Ernest Hogan (b. 1955) (Tor, 1992)
Religious dystopia set in a future Central America that has seen the collapse of the United States and Europe and the ascendancy of Africa and, to a lesser extent, Central and South America.
An excerpt was published in Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 7 (January-March 1997). http://mithilareview.com/hogan_01_16
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

"Horse Meat" - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Interzone, 1992)
Violent dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Idea of Home - Curtis White (b. 1951) (Sun & Moon Press, 1992)
A collection of stories, many with elements of fantasy, that is called a utopia by the author. The first three stories, collectively called "An Available World" (7-34) describes a 1940-50s small-town, middle class eutopia in California.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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