The Plains of Heaven - Thomas S. Bloom (RavenHaus, 2000)
Post nuclear war dystopia. The first part of the book is about the war but most of the novel is on the struggle for survival afterwards, following individuals and communities at various places throughout the world.
Keywords: Male author

Quest for Genesis: A Journey of Discovery - David Gau-Ghan (b. 1955) (Writers Club Press, 2000)
New Age eutopia in sequel to 1995 Gau-Ghan. The main alien protagonist of the previous novel discovers a eutopia inside the earth. Conflict between good and evil. Stresses the need to discover the power within yourself to change your world.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Rat Squad - Nick Warburton (b. 1947) (Oxford University Press, 2000)
Children's flawed utopia. In Grace City everyone appears to be happy, safe, and free, but there is a deliberate policy to allow rats to kill people as a means of population control and creating a common enemy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Recluse - Timothy Hodor (b. 1955) (Monte Verita Verlag, 2000)
Kafkaesque dystopia of an alienated individual in an uncaring society.
Keywords: Austrian author; Male author; US author

Resisting Adonis - Timothy J[ohn] Anderson (Tesseract Books, 2000)
Complex, violent dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Salt - Adam [Charles] Roberts (b. 1965) (Golancz, 2000)
2000 Roberts, Adam [Charles] (b. 1965). Salt. London: Gollancz. PU  The novel beings on a spaceship on its way to establishing a colony. A difference in cultures or ideologies emerges and continues after the settle with one faction a military dictatorship and the other an anarchist society.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Saturn's Race - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938); Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Tor, 2000)
Mostly adventure and conflict but begins with a flawed eutopia. An apparently ideal island for the world's rich is a base for illegal genetic manipulation and world conquest.
Keywords: African American author; Male author; US author

SB: 1 or God. Everyone has the Hidden Question - Karl Mark Maddox (Vantage Press, 2000)
Most of the novel leads up to Armageddon (See Revelation 16), but there is a brief eutopia set in the far future with advanced humans.
Keywords: Male author

The Secret Under My Skin - Janet [Elizabeth] McNaughton (b. 1953) (HarperCollins, 2000)
Set in 2368 after a series of environmental catastrophes and orchestrated attacks on science and technology designed to justify government policy. The result is an authoritarian dystopia with an underground network of scientists. The novel focuses on the struggle against the dystopia and the reestablishment of democratic institutions. Classified as Young Adult.
U.S. ed. New York: Eos, 2005.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Separation Anxiety" - Evie Shockley (b. 1965) (Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, 2000)
Racial and ethnic communities in the U.S. are separated with the intent to allow each to develop. The story presents both positive and negative effects.
Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. 2nd ed. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017),  509-524.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"The Sin Eaters" - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) (The Toughest Indian in the World, 2000)
Dystopia in which all Native Americans are violently rounded up and taken to prison camps. The pure blooded then have their bone marrow taken and forced to have sex to produce children who will also be used to harvest bone marrow to suppress cancers in the white majority.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Soulsaver - James Stevens-Arce (b. 1945) (Harcourt, 2000)
Religious dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Puerto Rican author; US author

SRM - Chris McQuillan (Hamilton & Co, 2000)
Dystopia based on nanotechnology.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Super-Cannes - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Flamingo, 2000)
Corporate dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Picador, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Talossa (2000)
Detailed micro-state democratic eutopia represented as having seceded from the Kingdom of Talossa.

The Telling - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Harcourt, 2000)
Anthropological science fiction in her Hainish cycle. There are two dystopias, one religious and one scientific and anti-religious. The latter is trying to suppress the traditional culture on its planet, which is centered around the Telling, an extremely complex set of stories that provide a guide to most aspects of life on the planet. This culture is a flawed or ambiguous utopia because the attempts to suppress it meant that it could not incorporate new knowledge and because in the past one part of the planet had used it for power rather than enlightenment.
U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2000. Rpt. 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), 589-750 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787-89).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Time Capsule" - Raybon Kan (b. 1966) (2000 AD Millennium. The Anthology. Sunday Star Times (New Zealand), 2000)
Brief satire. Social welfare has corporate sponsors. Education funds itself as a reality TV show. Jesus returns on January 2, 2000 but thinks it is 1971.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

'Tomorrow Town" - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) (Infinity Plus One, 2000)
Satire. Humor. A town designed to be the eutopian city of the future fails to work as intended as a result of relying too heavily on an advanced computer.
Rpt. in his The Man from the Diogenes Club (Austin, TX: MonkeyBrain Books, 2006), 59-82.
Keywords: English author; Male author

USSA 2020 - James E. Couch (Ridge Pub. Co, 2000)
Dystopia of the United Socialist States of America.
Rpt. Lincoln, NB: Authors Choice Press, 2002 with cover adding A Novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia - Bovard, Barbara Zimmer (1st Books, 2000)
New Age eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

The Utopian - D[ennis] Samarand (Xlibris, 2000)
New Age eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Utopian Crescendo of Hope! - Ronald Alan Duskis (toExcel, 2000)
Christian eutopia based on the Book of Revelation of John/Apocalypse of John, which is gone through book by book and verse by verse within books quoting the verse and then briefly commenting on it. The same thing is done with 2 Peter 1, Ezekiel 1, Daniel 10, 1 Corinthians 13, 1 John 3, and Matthew 24 and 25.
Keywords: Male author; US author

UtopianWorld (2000)
Ecological eutopia. Includes a brief description of the world in 2100.

We Are Not Alone: Messages from the Hollow Earth and the Subterranean City of Telos - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) (Mt. Shasta Light Pub., 2000)
New age, hollow earth eutopia. The hollow earth is inhabited by the very long-lived, telepathic, vegetarian, descendants of Lemuria, who settled under Mt. Shasta, California, and, nearer the center, descendants of peoples from other worlds. The hollow earth is threaded with tunnels, and all planets and stars are hollow. The people take pride in their physical form. See also Robbins 1996 and 2003.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"White Empire" - Rev. Kenneth Molyneaux (World Church of the Creator, 2000)
Racist novel set in 2250 depicting the White Empire and its Racial Holy War (The acronym RAHOWA is used regularly). The capital city is Klassengrad, after [Bernhardt] Ben Klassen (see 1973 Klassen). Eugenic policy in place. Much is on the war to eliminate non-whites. The cover states, “I dedicate this novel to the White Race.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources: Containing the original Notes, Errata, Commentary, and the Preface to the Second Edition - David [Alan] Mamet (b. 1947) (Faber and Faber, 2000)
Humor and satire set in a future in which the internet crashes, taking with it the collective memory of the human race. The novel presents a wildly inaccurate picture of the past, complete with many footnotes.
U.S. ed. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2001.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wind Singer - William [Benedict] Nicholson (b. 1948) (Mammoth, 2000)
First volume of a dystopian fantasy trilogy for young adults set in a city where advancement is based on success in examinations. A girl revolts against the system and, with her twin brother, sets out to find the Singers. In the second volume, Slaves of the Mastery. An Adventure. Book Two of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Mammoth. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2001, the twins, separated for the first time, separately fight against a new enemy. In the final volume, Firesong. An Adventure. Book Three of The Wind Singer Trilogy. Illus. Peter Sis. London: Egmont. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2002, after further problems, the secret of the Singers is found, the people are freed, and the twins find the eutopia, but the girl has to die.
Rpt. London: Egmont, 2002. U.S. ed. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Year of the Lemming - Robert Smart (Xlibris, 2000)
Violent, male-dominated dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

Zollocco--A Novel of Another Universe - Cynthia Joyce Clay (b. 1954) (Bookbooters Press, 2000)
A tour through a number of societies, some eutopian and some dystopian. Strong environmental content. Humor.
Keywords: Female author; US author

2099: A Eutopia - [Frank] Yorick Blumenfeld (1932) (Thames & Hudson, 1999)
Detailed eutopia which is partially a technological eutopia that both provides all and his quite controlling. The other aspect of the eutopia is on improved human relations in communities. Some history of the development to the eutopia is given.
Keywords: Dutch author; English author; Male author; US author

3 Passports to Paradise - R. A. Leigh (Spectrutek, 1999)
The story of three groups that are trying to create their utopias on a planet--New Age people, genetically-enhanced humans (aquatic, avian, and feline), and patriots from the U.S. The novel ends in the middle of a crisis among the three groups and outsiders who want to control them.

Aberrant: Project Utopia. Creating a Brighter Future with the Power of Today! - Carl Bowen (b. 1975); Steven [S.] Long; Angel [Leigh] McCoy (b. 1962); Kraig Blackwelder; John Chambers (White Wolf, 1999)
Supplement to the Aberrant game and book series describing superheroes creating a eutopia of peace, plenty, and health and the super-villains opposed to them. While the text states that a much better world has been created, there is little description of the eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Action News: 2099. Brought To You By the MS-ABCNNBCBS-Fox News Network" - [Dan] [Perkins] (b. 1961) (The New Yorker, 1999)
Six panel dystopian cartoon of a broadcast by the one remaining news organization. One large corporation controlling all business. Required consumption. Theocracy of Kansas put heretics teaching evolution to death. Most people live in bunkers due to radiation and because the climate is intolerable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Altergeist. A Novel - Tim Booth (Fish Publishing, 1999)
Dystopia set in a future Ireland that has been largely destroyed by internal conflict with the Church now the most powerful force. The novel focuses on a number of mostly young people and the lives their lives amid the chaos with one of them having had a program implanted in her brain.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Amerikan Sunset. A Novel - Jennifer Ladewig (b. 1966) (Trafford, 1999)
Dystopia of a collapsing U.S. and the struggle for survival.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Another Chance - Martha T[herrin] Brescia (1917-2015) (American Literary Press, 1999)
A religious novel in which the current system ends, and civilization is re-emerging in an area named Paradise that appears to be a eutopia, but is also a staging ground, a place of preparation for an even better life, with the novel focused on the period of preparation. A sub-theme concerns aliens who are defeated by prayer. .
Keywords: Female author; US author

Apollinare: Life in the New Millennium - Colin Retnap (Nimcol, 1999)
Flawed utopia set in the 24th century. Environmental damage -- global warming has obliterated much land, and outdoors people must wear protection suits. Indoors they are generally nude. Machines do much of the work. All essentials like food and accommodation are free. Soulless bureaucracy. Lots of sex.
Keywords: Male author

Architects of Emortality - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 1999)
Continuation of the setting and issues of 1998 Stableford. In this volume people generally live three hundred years and some live much longer. Includes characters named Holmes and Watson, who are policemen, and an amateur detective called Oscar Wilde.
Part originally published as "Les Fleurs du Mal." Asimov's Science Fiction 18.11 (221) (October 1994): 104-61. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 627-89.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Auckland Herald (16 August 2020) - Vision Reference Group, Strategic Development Group, Auckland City Council (Strategic Development Group, Auckland City Council, 1999)
Four page newspaper of the future with Auckland known as "the First City of the Pacific". Stress on environmentalism.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

Better Angels - Howard V[incent] Hendrix (b. 1959) (Ace Books, 1999)
The background to the novel includes a Christian fundamentalist government as a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bios - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Tor, 1999)
The background to the novel is a dystopian authoritarian where people are controlled by implants that monitor and control them emotionally, mentally, and physically. The focus of the novel is a woman engineered to be able to survive on a planet rich in plants and animals that are lethal to humans. While of her protections fail, she discovers that most planets, Earth being an exception, are living organisms that communicate with unique voices.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Bloodtide - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) (Andersen Press, 1999)
Near future dystopia set in a gang ruled London. See also 2005 Burgess.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Bloodwood Clan - Beryl Fletcher (b. 1938) (Spinifex, 1999)
The novel is about fictional contemporary Australian religious intentional community with a focus on gender relations.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Border Guards" - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (Interzone, 1999)
The story begins with the protagonist joining a game of Quantum Soccer, in which is team is beaten because a woman on the other team has extraordinary skills. The game takes place in a eutopia of immortality and deals with the way people have dealt over thousands of years with the issues that immortality raises. For information on Quantum Soccer, see https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Soccer/Soccer.html
Rpt. in his Crystal Nights and Other Stories Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 235-258; and online at https://www.gregegan.net/BORDER/Complete/Border.html
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Bouncing Babies" - Kara Dalkey (b. 1953) (Not of Woman Born, 1999)
Satire on what society will look like if a major market in women's eggs develops.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Cabbages and Kales, or, How We Downsized North America" - David Marusek (b. 1951) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1999)
Written as a prequel to the story that became the first part of 2005 Marusek giving the background to that story.
Rpt as "Cabbages and Kale or: How We Downsized North America." In his Getting to Know You (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 221-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cave of Stars - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (HarperPrism, 1999)
Clash of mostly dystopian cultures in the far future after Earth has been destroyed. One is a world theocracy that has made advocating change a crime. Others are artificial worlds where many have chosen to live entirely in virtual reality. Described as a companion to his 1979 Macrolife in that the same “macrolife habitats” are central to the novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Christendom - Neil Cross (b. 1969) (Jonathan Cape, 1999)
Dystopia in which the  United States  is dominated by fundamentalist Christians, who suppress all opposition. Much of the novel is about how the situation arose.
Keywords: Male author

Climb the Wind: A Novel of Another America - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (HarperPrism, 1999)
Alternative history in which the American Indians fought back at the end of the Civil War and won.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Conqueror's Child - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (Tor, 1999)
Fourth volume of series that includes 1974, 1978, and 1994 Charnas. In this volume, the men of the Holdfast have been enslaved by the freed women, but Alldera's daughter arrives bringing with her a boy child who she has effectively adopted, and the society begins to struggle toward a more balanced relationship between men and women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Copper Elephant - Adam Rapp (b. 1968) (Front Street Books, 1999)
Young adult dystopia in which children under twelve are used as slave labor.
Rpt. HarperTempest, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Crime of the Twenty-First Century - Edward Bond (1934-2024) (Methuen Drama, 1999)
Dystopia set in a desolate landscape and ruins that appear to be the result of some sort of catastrophe.
Rpt. in his Plays: 7 (London: Methuen Drama, 2003), 217-74.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Crime Zero - Michael Cordy (b. 1961) (Bantam Books, 1999)
Genetic engineering dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Crowlings - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (Collins, 1999)
Young adult novel in which a traditional society has to deal with people from space coming to their planet. The novel is concerned with the conflicts, both personal and societal, regarding the temptations of modern civilization.
Rpt. London: Collins, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

The Cure - Sonia Levitin (b. 1934) (Silver Whistle Harcourt Brace & Co, 1999)
Young adult novel set in a 2047 flawed utopia stressing conformity, harmony, and tranquility. An individual whose strong emotions seem to threaten the society is sent to the dystopian past of anti-Semitic Strasbourg of 1348. Returning to the future, he decides to try to change it.
Keywords: Female author

"Curtains", "The Writing on the Wall", "Safe Sex", "Charmed Life", and "Gamblers" - Andrew [Henry] Vachss (b. 1942) (Everybody Pays: Stories, 1999)
Series of linked stories with no overall title. Underground authoritarian dystopia with an active opposition. One focus is the opposition; another is the system of prostitution. Violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dark Entity - J. T. Best (d. 2009) (Certes Press, 1999)
Dystopia. Much of the novel is concerned with one man's struggle with evil, but it is set within an authoritarian dystopia called Flatland, which has quite traditional gender roles, with status for men achieved through competitive games. The people are generally uneducated.
Rev. without any reference to the earlier version as When Darkness Fell. Cook Islands: Jaala, 2005.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; US author

"Dawnings" - Zelda Curtis (1923-2012) (The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, 1999)
Egalitarian eutopia set in the U.K. in 2010 seen from the perspective of an old woman who had gone through the transition. The protagonist describes her flat in a collectively owned and managed building with a large communal space and a computer room. Adjacent buildings have different amenities such as a swimming pool, gym, art studio, music room, or meeting room. Clinic on site as is a nursery and crèche. Employment is arranged so that “no one has to work more than a three-day shift for a wage sufficient for their needs” (102). Equal pay for all. Cheap public transport.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Deep Field - James Bradley (b. 1967) (Hodder Headline, 1999)
Dystopia. The Prologue is set far in the future, written by an author who is over 280 years old and describes an old book published in 2031. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan had occurred, and the U.S. had gone through another civil war. The rest of the book starts about 2010 and describes an authoritarian Australia.
U.K. ed. London: Review, 1999.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024) (Tor, 1999)
Libertarian science fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dementia Island - Ernest [Michael] Hekkanen (b. 1947) (New Orphic Publishers, 1999)
A dystopia describing an island where those considered undesirable are sent.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Down There In Darkness - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) (Tor, 1999)
The novel begins in a future dystopia of class-stratification and then shifts a hundred years further into the future where an attempt to create a eutopia is being worked out. There is considerable reflection on the nature of utopianism. Sequel to 1993 Turner and related to 1989 Turner.
Chapter 2 was originally published as "Worlds." Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 4 (1.4) (March 1991): 36-58.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Downsiders. A Novel - Neal Shusterman (b. 1962) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1999)
Young adult novel in which there is an entirely separate society beneath the streets with the focus on a relationship between a girl from above and a boy from below.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dream Archipelago - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Earthlight, 1999)
The Dream Archipelago is made of thousands of islands in an ocean belt around the middle of a planet with a large continent to the north, with many countries regularly at war, wars that are fought on the continent to the south, which is sparsely populated. Various islanders tell stories, some eutopian, some dystopian, and some with elements of fantasy about their islands. Two further volumes are set in the Dream Archipelago. The first is The Islanders. London: Victor Gollancz, 2011, which as short descriptions of many islands. An excerpt from “The Drone” (150-87) was published as “Fireflies.” Celebration: An anthology of short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: New Con Press, 2008), 207-14. “The Trace of Him” is rpt. from his 2009 The Dream Archipelago retitled “The Trace” (235-43). The second is The Gradual. London: Gollancz, 2016; rpt. London: Titan Books, 2016, in which a composer, who is from a fascist dystopia, twice tours the Dream Archipelago.
Includes the first publication of “The Equatorial Moment” (1-6); “The Negation” (7-48) originally published in Anticipations. Ed. Christopher Priest (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978), 55-86; “Whores” (49-) originally published in New Dimensions 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 27-40; “The Cremation” (71-114) originally in Andromeda 3. Ed. Paul Weston (London: Futura, 1978); “The Miraculous Cairn” (115-85) originally published in New Terrors #2. Ed. Ramsey Campbell (London: Pan, 1980), 11-55; and “The Watched” (186-264) originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 54.4 (323) (April 1978): 124-60. Book rpt. London: Gollancz, 2009 with “The Equatorial Moment” (1-5); “The Negation” (6-44); “Whores” (45-65); “The Miraculous Cairn” (74-140); “The Cremation” (141-81); and “The Watched” (182-255-) and two additional stories, “The Trace of Him” (66-73) originally published in Interzone, no. 214 (February 2008): 36-38; and “The Discharge” (256-301) which was originally published in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted February 13, 2002. No longer available online, but it was rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2002. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (Np: ibooks, 2003), 156-210.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Earthfuture: Stories from a Sustainable World - Guy Dauncey (New Society Publishers, 1999)
Stories and poems, only one of which is noted as having been previously published, that depict an environmental eutopia and the means of achieving it. A couple of failures are also included. Each of the stories is followed by a note on the current situation regarding the issues raised in the story. “Cobble Hills” (79-83) is on ecovillages. “The Economists’ Celebration” (121-25) is the most explicitly eutopian of the stories in that it briefly shows the results of a new form of governmental budgeting in which it is recognized that all expenses are connected. The main example given is that spending money on youth a community development is much cheaper than spending money on crime and prisons, but the principle is extended to many different areas and produces a much better world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Endland Stories or Bad Lives - Tim Etchells (b. 1962) (Pulp Faction, 1999)
Stories connected by being set in a disintegrating, future England--"Endland (sic)"--of violence and environmental degradation.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Everywhere" - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Interzone, 1999)
Near future eutopia based on technology that keeps everyone busy. Written as part of the Visions of Utopia project.
Rpt. in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 717-26 with an editors’ note on 717-18.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

The Fence - Anne [N.] Steinberg (Citron Press, 1999)
Dystopia with fantasy elements that reflects an attempt to reestablish National Socialism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Foreign Bodies - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) (Tor, 1999)
Dystopia set in 2014 in which racists are in power in the U.S.
Part originally published as "Foreign Bodies." Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 8 (1992): 10-18.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Frequencies - Joshua Ortega (Omega Point Productions, 1999)
Authoritarian dystopia. Many technologically enhanced people.
Rev. ed. Seattle, WA: Omega Point Productions, 2001.
Keywords: Male author

Fuh-kar-wee Indians and the Christian Year 2000 - Kurt Vonnegut [Jr.] (Ragged Edge Press, 1999)
Satire on Y2K and the human race in general.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gardens in the Dunes - Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
Eutopia. In the beginning and at the end of the novel, the "gardens in the dunes" are presented as reflecting a Native American Indian eutopia. The rest of the novel is concerned, among other things, with the dystopia created for Native Americans by U.S. policies toward them.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

"The Grammarian's Five Daughters" - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Realms of Fantasy, 1999)
Eutopian fantasy in which a poor grammarian gives each daughter a sack of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions respectively), and they go off and find a country without those words. Releasing the words transforms each country for the better. Ultimately all five countries are united.
Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 6-20.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Great Debate: The Need for Constitutional Reform - Rodney D. Scott (Rampant Lion Press, 1999)
Non-fiction critique of the U.S. constitutional system but includes a proposed new constitution (277-305) and a defense of it. The proposed constitution is similar to the parliamentary system in that the executive is a prime minister within the legislature.
Keywords: Male author

Greenhouse Summer - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Tor, 1999)
Ecological dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Heavenly Village - Cynthia Rylant (The Blue Sky Press, 1999)
The Heavenly Village is a domestic heaven existing between this life and the true afterlife where people wait until they are prepared to let go of life. Young adult novel.
Keywords: Female author

Hex: Shadows - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1999)
Sequel to 1998 Lassiter. In this volume, the gene giving direct access to computers has supposedly been eliminated and the people killed, but some of them survive. See also 2000 Lassiter.
Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 241-448.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Hisland: Adventures in Ac-Ac-ademe - Fedwa Malti-Douglas (b. 1946) (State University of New York Press, 1999)
Satire on contemporary academia, particularly the treatment of women.
Keywords: Female author; Lebanese-American author

“Holographic Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve: 2999!” - [Dan] [Perkins] (b. 1961) (The New Yorker, 1999)
Comic strip depicting a New Year’s Eve celebration on an Earth that has been turned into a prison camp by aliens.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Horse Latitudes - Jay Merrick (Fourth Estate, 1999)
Dystopia. Set in an area of a future England that is severely polluted and inhabited by the poor who have been pushed out of safe areas.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Hothouse Flowers" - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 1999)
A dystopia of future care for the elderly, who are kept alive far past any time they were still even aware of their surroundings told from the viewpoint of one of the caregivers. The focus is on the extension of life with no concern for the quality of life. The story shifts to a man who is being kept alive who is still aware of his surroundings, resents being surrounded by those who no longer are, and who wants to die, which challenges the entire worldview of the protagonist.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 527-38 with an editor’s note on 526.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Idol Love - Anuradha Marwah-Roy (Ravi Dayal Publisher, 1999)
Dystopia with the first part set in the present depicting a woman whose live choices are restricted by social norms. The other two parts are set in a future where religious rules restrict women even more.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

In the Name of God - Scott Smith (Buy Books on the web.com, 1999)
Dystopia. Fundamentalist minister becomes President of the United States. Science is made illegal. All clones killed. Gays killed or deported. Government control of all aspects of life through the Christian Police Force. Successful revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"India 2099" - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (In a special issue entitled India 999-1999 Millennium Special of Outlook (New Delhi), 1999)
Future of India that has been changed first by two atomic bombs, then by Indians establishing space colonies which transform the remaining parts of India into an apparent eutopia.
Rpt. as “2099.” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 149-60.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

"Jordan's Waterhammer" - Joe Mastroianni (Realms of Fantasy, 1999)
Dystopia of miners who are in effect slaves.
Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 411-29.
Keywords: Male author

"Just for Beautiful" - Marlene Wurfel (b. 1974) (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 1999)
A flawed environmental utopia with population balanced by restricting births to the replacement level. The people can change genders at will and see all activities as either female or male. They try unsuccessfully to integrate a group arriving on a space ship who cannot change.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Justus--A Utopia: Formation of a Tax Free Constitutional Democracy - Michael Marx (Author, 1999)
Laissez faire eutopia with no taxation and no public property. Sexual relations that are not heterosexual are illegal as are any sex by or with anyone under the age of eighteen. No one under eighteen can smoke or drink alcohol. “The Constitution of Justus” is on pp. 177-259.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Lady Macbeth Blues" - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) (Interzone (Brighton, Eng.), 1999)
Dystopia of immorality.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Last Dog" - Katherine Paterson (Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future, 1999)
Flawed utopia. A young adult story about a domed community that is rigidly controlled to exclude any possibility of illness and a young man's venture outside.
Keywords: Female author

The Last Testament - Marcel M. Monfort (Minerva, 1999)
A very odd post-catastrophe novel. The town of Paraíso in western North America is one of few communities left after the catastrophe. Initially it is completely isolated, but refugees come and the population grows until it becomes a problem. There is a revolution and the town is divided into the states of Para (democratic) and Bator (a Communist dictatorship).
Keywords: Male author

The Letter Girl - Andrew Masterson (b. 1961) (Picador, 1999)
Future dystopia in which books are banned.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"A Life in a Day" - Shelley Bovey (The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, 1999)
A eutopia where being fat is the norm and honored. The protagonist is a fat woman living comfortably in a society designed for her remembering what it was like to live when being fat was treated as a fault open to criticism.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

"Lifework" - Mary Soon Lee (Interzone, 1999)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the government believes it knows better than the individual how to achieve an individual's happiness. Marriage considered to have been superseded; partners chosen by the state.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century - Susan George (b. 1934) (Pluto, 1999)
Dystopia. A report on what is required to keep free market capitalism in control in the future that identifies a number of major issue, the most important being the growth of population in the developing world. The report says that policies should be implemented to ensure that starvation, disease, war, and so forth ensures that this problem is controlled. Compare to 1967 Lewin, Report from Iron Mountain.
New ed. London: Pluto, 2003.
Keywords: Female author; French author; US author

"Macs" - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1999)
Dystopia. Cloning. Exceptional criminals (The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh [1968-2000] provides the title) are cloned so that their victim’s families can execute them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mara and Dann: An Adventure - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (HarperCollins, 1999)
The setting is a post-apocalyptic climate change dystopia in which war, a new ice age, and drought have left only the remains of cities and people are migrating north across Ifrik (Africa). Mara and Dann are brother and sister who have been abducted and the novel follows their experiences as the age into adulthood. A sequel is General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, the Griot and the Snow Dog. London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 282 pp. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 282 pp. In this novel, Mara dies in childbirth and Dann, is now a respected General who is expected to bring order to an ice covered Yerrup (Europe) inhabited by warring tribes of refugees. Both novels place considerable emphasis on personal relationships.
U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 407 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Mister Molasses and the Alabama Ant” - Andi Douglas (Albedo (Dublin, Ireland), 1999)
Satire depicting a world in which everyone is required to act, move, and speak quickly.
Keywords: Male author

The Mistress of Lilliput - Alison Fell (b. 1944) (Doubleday, 1999)
Lemuel Gulliver’s wife follows him after he leaves her hoping to return to Houyhnhnmland. Other stories from the point-of-view of Mrs. Gulliver are John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel, “Gulliver at Home.” In his The Pure Product: Stories (New York: Tor, 1997), 329-43; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fifteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998), 565-75; and in Kessel’s Rpt. in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 303-316, with a note on the story on 572-573; Karen Joy Fowler’s “The Travails.” In her Black Glass: Short Fiction (New York: Henry Holt, 1998), 84-95 provides letters written by Mrs. Gulliver after Gulliver leaves the second time; and Lauren Chater, Gulliver’s Wife. Cammeray, NSW, Australia: Simon & Schuster (Australia), 2020, about the life that Mrs. Gulliver builds for herself after he leaves, and the disruption caused by his return.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Monster Mission - Eva [Maria Charlotte Michelle] Ibbotson (1925-2010) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1999)
Young adult novel in which children are kidnapped to an isolated island to help care for unusual sea creatures.
Keywords: Austrian author; English author; Female author

"My Recent Visit to Xanadu" - John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) (Xanadu, the Imaginary Place, 1999)
A brief description of a eutopia written for children in which there is racial harmony, no tobacco or weapons, no crime and no police, and “love, justice, and tolerance.” The eutopia is accompanied by stories and poems about and illustrations of Xanadu by children that range from the traditional Cockaige with a volcano the expels candy to the poignant desire that every child has a mother and father to racial diversity and world peace. All the children are in elementary school.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

My Utopia, One Person's Dream (1999)
Eutopia. A few pages set in 2099 stressing individuality, end of war, and world government.

"Nadiria" - Stephen Barnwell (1999)
Fictional religious utopian community founded in Antarctica.
Keywords: Male author

"News from the 21st Century" - Vanessa Baird (b. 1955) (The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century, 1999)
Short news reports from a future of much greater equality, particularly gender equality.
Keywords: Belgian author; English author; Female author

“Nor a Lender Be” - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1999)
All U.S. public schools have been closed and the educational system is now run for a profit by the Disney Company. The story’s focus is a charismatic teacher in one of the few in-person schools left who is convinced to allow Disney to use map all his classroom behaviors so that they can create AI teachers.
Rpt. without the illus. in his Strangers and Beggars (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2002), 50-67; and without the illus. The Best of James Van Pelt (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 64-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Old Music and the Slave Women" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, 1999)
A fifth novella to add to her 1995 Four Ways to Forgiveness. This story is mostly about the continuing struggle for control of the planet Werel.
Rpt. in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 153-211. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 153-211; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 429-87; 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), 518-69 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Other Place - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) (HarperCollins, 1999)
Young adult dystopia in which the World Government exiles those considered subversive to penal colonies and then erases their previous lives. This is contrasted with "the Other Place", a planet where children are sent when rescued from the penal colonies and where they are in the process of creating a eutopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Pay It Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde (Simon & Schuster, 1999)
Eutopia. A twelve year old boy takes seriously a teacher's assignment to come up with a way of improving the world and making it happen. His proposal is to pay gratitude forward by helping someone else. The idea sweeps the world, which makes significant differences at the personal level. Made into a film in 2000 directed by Mimi Leder with a screenplay by Leslie Dixon.
Rpt. New York: Pocket, 2001.
Keywords: Female author

Phallicide - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) (Science Fiction Age, 1999)
Dystopia of a polygamous religious sect that does not practice birth control and mates girls at thirteen.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 383-410 with an editor’s note on 383.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Plato Papers - Peter [Warwick] Ackroyd (b. 1949) (Chatto & Windus, 1999)
Satire. Description of our time, known as Mouldwarp, from the point of view of a far future society (after A.D. 3700), that has a very imperfect understanding of the past. In that society, Plato, described as “the great orator of London,” presents wildly inaccurate public orations describing Mouldwarp but when he gains a more accurate picture of the past, he is persecuted.
U.S. ed. as The Plato Papers. A Prophesy [Prophecy on the dust jacket]. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Principality of New Utopia (1999)
Web site describing a libertarian eutopia based on Ayn Rand and Robert A. Heinlein.

Prokaryote Rising - Islwyn Welch (b. 1961) (Minerva Press, 1999)
Authoritarian dystopia. Suburbs are a no-go area; rich have security. Rebellion.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"The Queen of Erewhon" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1999)
Anthropological science fiction with both eutopian and dystopian elements describing a society where a woman takes multiple husbands. Lesbian themes.
Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 18-42; in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 391-413; and in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 22-43.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

Raiders of the Low Forehead - Stanley Manly (Attack! Books, 1999)
Dystopia mostly sex and violence.
Keywords: Male author

Revelations 2 - Eddie E. Malone (b. 1922) (Minerva, 1999)
A eutopia brought about by science and technology is challenged by catastrophe.
Keywords: Male author

Rumours of Dreams - Sandi Hall (b. 1942) (Spinifex Press, 1999)
Set mostly in the early Christian era, but from the perspective of a violent dystopia in New Zealand in 2002. A woman is leading a rebellion against the dystopia. A eutopian enclave, Istadevata, is shown that indicates that New Zealand still has eutopian potential.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Secret of Shambhala: In Search of the Eleventh Insight - James Redfield (b. 1950) (Warner Books, 1999)
New Age eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Shaman and the Droll - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) (Longacre Press, 1999)
Third volume of a series. In this volume, the young man lives in an underground world on the South Island, learns from a Shaman, and meets a young woman. See also 1997, 1998 and 2001 Lasenby.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Sky Road - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Orbit, 1999)
Post-catastrophe dystopia followed by a further attempt at space exploration. The final volume of his Fall Revolution series. See also 1995, 1996, and 1998 MacLeod.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1999. Rpt. in The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 495-710.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Smart Alec" - Kage [Kate Genevieve] Baker (1952-2010) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1999)
A dystopia in which all the health and social worries of the late 20th century have been enforced and become social practice. Children do not play together for fear of disease. Only licensed adults are allowed to hug a child. Only healthy foods are allowed.
Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 169-201 with a note on 169.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Souls in the Great Machine - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) (Tor, 1999)
The first volume of a trilogy, known as the Greatwinter trilogy, set two thousand years in the future in a world threatened with a new ice age. There is no electricity and very limited technology. The “Great Machine” is a calculator based on enslaving thousands of “components” who do the calculations. Sequels are The Miocene Arrow. New York: Tor, 2000, which is set in an America of rigid class distinctions being undermined by some Australians; and Eyes of the Calculor. New York: Tor, 2001 in which the elaborate social structure is falling apart and group of librarians plot to build a new calculating machine.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Spew" - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (WIRED, 1999)
Dystopia of total surveillance in which the information is used in advertising.
Rpt. in his Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writings (New York: William Morrow, 2012), 84-102; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 170-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Spring of Souls - William Cobb (b. 1937) (Crane Hill Publishers, 1999)
Dystopian satire about a small racist Southern town.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Star Split - [Kathryn Lasky] [Knight] (b. 1944) (Hyperion Books for Children, 1999)
Genetic engineering dystopia. Marketed for 10-14 age group.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Terrorists of Irustan - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Ace Books, 1999)
Essentially a political novel of revolt by women in a society similar to that of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tod in Biker City - Anthony [Richard] Masters (1940-2003) (Barrington Stoke, 1999)
Children's dystopia. An extended drought brings conflict over water supplies and a young boy has to deal with an outlaw gang of bikers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tribes - Anne Lewington (Wight Diamond Press, 1999)
Ecological dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

"A Trip to the Mall" - Jan Spencer (Talking Leaves, 1999)
Ecological eutopia set in a future Eugene, Oregon. In 2013 the U.S. Federal government announced that it had failed to respond to environmental changes, that it no longer had the resources to do so, and indicated that all it could deal with was defense and communications with everything else devolved to the states. The eutopia is set ten years later. US now stands for Untied States. See the author’s “Green and Resilient Neighborhoods: Portland, Oregon and Beyond.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 177 (Winter 2017): 49-54; “From Five Earths to One.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture. No. 187 (Summer 2020): 25-28; “From Five Earths to One: Implementing the Change.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 188 (Fall 2020): 20-29; “From Five Earths to One, Part Three: Transforming Our Economy.” COMMUNITIES: Life in Cooperative Culture, No. 189 (Winter 2020): 59-62; and his website https://www.suburbanpermaculture.org/
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vienna Blood - Adrian Mathews (b. 1957) (Jonathan Cape, 1999)
Murder mystery set in a technologically advanced, mildly dystopian 2026 Vienna.
Rpt. London: Vintage, 2000.
Keywords: English author; French author; Male author

A Virtual Soul - Kevin Teixeira (del Rey, 1999)
Dystopia of genetic engineering.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"¡Viva Loisaida Libre!" - Bill Weinberg (Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in The City & The World, 1999)
Proposal for a free lower East Side of New York City.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Waking Day" - Robert H. Beer (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 1999)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

We Rule the World - Doug Turner (Turpentine Publications, 1999)
Conspiracy theory dystopia in which a very small number of people actually rule the world.
Keywords: Male author

The Weatherman - Emmel Pound (Uncle Publishing, 1999)
Authoritarian dystopia. A warped man gains power and uses it to support his fantasies.
Keywords: Male author

Weslandia - Paul Fleischman (b. 1952) (Candlewick Press, 1999)
Eutopia. A children's book describing a child's creation of an entire new world in his back yard.
U.K. ed. London: Walker Books, 1999.
Keywords: Male author; US author

White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017); Roger Penrose (b. 1931) (Little, Brown, 1999)
Detailed eutopia in creation on Mars including the presentation of alternative points-of-view. A sub-theme is the initial identification of an alien life form..
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World Celaeno Chose - Jane Fletcher (The Dimsdale Press, 1999)
Religious dystopia with lesbian interest. There are no men, and one of the few women who can manipulate DNA to create life is owned by the Church.
Keywords: Female author

World Military Control: Futureistic Concepts Ideas Poetry - Raymond B[arry] Mehlhopt (b. 1954) (Seagull Press, 1999)
Eutopia. Rather disconnected ideas regarding his role as World Military Dictator. Suggests a New World Military Headquarters near Christchurch in a nuclear-proof bunker, a sanctuary for aliens, the development of the Australian outback, a new World City in south westland New Zealand, the development of the New Zealand section of Antarctica, and other ideas. See also 1987, 1988, and 1997 Mehlhopt.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Yanked! - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Avon, 1999)
Eutopia as background to an adventure story. In the twenty-first century the Earth begins a long period of decline, but humanity recovers and eliminates all the traditional problems like poverty and disease. Little detail.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"17" - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (Asimov’s Science Fiction, 1998)
Dystopia set in a destroyed future worlds with people struggling to survive salvaging toxic wastes and a young woman’s struggle to get out.
Rpt. in his A Very British History: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Paul McAuley, 1985-2011 (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2013), 211-24 with an author’s note on 429-30.
Keywords: English author; Male author

51st State - Peter Preston (1938-2018) (Viking, 1998)
A rather unlikely political novel by the long-time Editor of The Guardian in which England joins the United States as the 51st state.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Access Fantasy" - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) (Starlight 2, 1998)
Overpopulation dystopia. Vast numbers of people live in their cars stuck in an endless traffic jam and cut off from the wealthy who live on the other side of barriers that keep the two groups mostly separate.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Accidental Creatures - Anne [L.] Harris (b. 1964) (Tor, 1998)
Dystopian background to biological science fiction. Society divided into the very rich and the very poor. Powerful corporation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Advent of the Incredulous Stigmata Man - Kelvin Mason (Citron Press, 1998)
Authoritarian dystopia governed by the Extended European Community. The Antipodes are under a hole in the ozone layer and the people are very likely to die of skin cancer. Beer limited to 2% alcohol. Tobacco is outlawed and very hard to get on the black market. Unauthorized pregnancy is illegal; the mother is sent to prison and the child is taken by the state. Abortion is illegal an impossible to obtain. The novel focuses on a man who develops the stigmata and his relations with others living on the margins of the dystopia. The novel is set in Scotland.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author; Zimbabwean author

Afrolantica Legacies - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) (Third World Press, 1998)
The author introduced the idea of Afrolantica in his “The Afrolantica Awakening.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 32-46, 203-04. In it, Afrolantica emerges 900 miles east of South Carolina as an area about the size of New England complete with flourishing flora and fauna and valuable mineral deposits but no humans. In fact, it appeared that humans could not survive there, but it becomes obvious that African Americans and only African Americans can survive there. What the first African American explorers felt “was an invigorating experience of heightened self-esteem, of liberation, of waking up. All four agreed that, while exploring what the media were now referring to as ‘Afrolantica,’ they felt free.” The essay/story then reprises some of the history of Black Nationalism and details the conflict among blacks over whether or not to settle Afrolantica. The piece then ends where the Afrolantica Legacies begins, and the rest of the volume has his fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw time travel to points key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. See also, 1987, 1991, and 1992 Bell.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Against the Day - Michael Cronin (b. 1942) (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Young Adult dystopia of a Nazi occupied Britain and the struggle against it. Sequels include Through the Night. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002; and In the Morning. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“All the Birds of Hell” - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1998)
The story is set in a climate-change dystopia brought on by a new ice age.
Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 209-32.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. The focus of the novel is on the "shadow children" or those who are the third or more children. See also 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Aptious Thinking - David Roseman (Bear Publications, 1998)
Essay but self-labeled as a utopia. Aptious is a word coined by the author “to be synonymous with, but more penetrating than, ‘apt’,” and the book is a consideration of “which bases of day-to-day philosophy are apt for the future” (1). Proposes “a free, mutually respecting society” that will allow individuals to “take responsibility for their own actions” and leave government to “take responsibility for the adverse actions of others” (33). There is a constitution with only seven laws. These are general principles except for the law on taxation, which suggests a new system of taxation with the tax imposed whenever money exchanges hands. Crime is an illness and the patient should not be released until cured. Family allowance as a tax credit paid for the first child and, if the government chooses, the second but not for a third or more. Workers should be shareholders in the business for which they work.
Keywords: Male author

THE ARK of Ao Tea Roa: A Quavel - Miguel Orio (Janus Publishing Co, 1998)
Middle volume of his The Hermit Islands trilogy set in New Zealand. This volume includes a Maori eutopia. The first volume, The Feather Chest (Te Wakahuia [Te Waka Huia on the dust jacket]. London: Janus Publishing Co., 1996, provides background. The third volume, The Torn Tiki: A Quavel. Durham, Eng.: The Pentland Press, 1999, provides an overall history. Quavel = quasi-novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Asonu" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Orion: People and Nature, 1998)
An odd society where people speak very little and live good lives. Satire on those who want them to be mystics.
Rpt. as "The Silence of the Asonu." In her Changing Planes. Illus. by Eric Beddows (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 19-29; online in Lightspeed in December 2010; in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 328-33; and 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), 253-63; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 605-12.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Atrocity Shop - Kurt [Oscar Eugene] von Trojan (b. 1937) (Altair, 1998)
Dystopia. Much sex and violence. Fascists versus Communists versus corrupt politicians, judges, and religious leaders of all types.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“‘Battle Neverending’” - Saab Lofton (Battle Neverending, 1998)
A fictional interview of the African American superhero Tommorrowman by the U.S. journalist Bill Moyers (b. 1934). Tommorowman has been given his powers by an alien from a “pacifist, democratic, multicultural, and egalitarian” Interstellar Community (47). Mostly commentary on contemporary events.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Beautiful City - [Chris] [Humphrey] (1998)
Detailed eutopia that includes the author’s opinions on a range of issues. The website is no longer live.
Keywords: US author

Blue Light. A Novel - Walter [Ellis] Mosley (b. 1952) (Little, Brown, 1998)
A light from space transforms those it touches by giving them a special talent and raises them to their highest potential, except for one who is turned into a demon intent on killing all the others. The protagonist is a bi-racial man.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Body Politic" - Tess Williams (b. 1954) (Dreaming Down Under, 1998)
Dystopia of extreme poverty contrasted with great wealth.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Brainjoy - Chris Else (b. 1942) (Tandem Press, 1998)
Dystopia of a near future New Zealand where everything, including police services, has been privatized.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

Brown Girl in the Ring - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (Warner Books, 1998)
Magic realism set in a future Toronto dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

Brute Orbits - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (HarperPrism, 1998)
Dystopia. Earth decides to cleanse itself of criminals by sending them off into orbit in hollowed-out asteroids. Extended to political dissidents and, ultimately, anyone who upsets the powerful. The novel explores the process of adaptation on a number of the asteroids.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bunny Modern. A Novel - David [Anthony] Bowman (1957-2012) (Little, Brown, 1998)
Dystopia. Future United States in which all electricity has failed and the birthrate has dropped precipitously.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cassini Division - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Orbit, 1998)
The third volume of his Fall Revolution series, which also includes 1995, 1996, and 1999 MacLeod. This volume, in which every chapter is the title of a utopia, develops the description of two contrasting eutopias, anarcho-socialist and anarcho-capitalist in conflict with post-humans.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

A Chance of Safety - Henrietta [Diana Primrose Longstaff] Branford (1946-99) (Hodder Children's Books, 1998)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between the rich and the poor. Children escape to a more primitive society which is set to replace the dystopia.
Keywords: English author

Circuit of Heaven - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) (Avon Eos, 1998)
Immortality gained by uploading personality into a large computer. Inside is a eutopia; outside is a gradually decaying dystopia. A sequel is End of Days. New York: Avon Eos, 1999.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Commitment Hour - James Alan Gardner (b. 1955) (Avon Eos, 1998)
Future primitive dystopia in which each person must choose their gender or become a "Neut" or hermaphrodite. Conflict with a more advanced society.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Computopia - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks, 1998)
The setting for the novel is a high tech eutopia that has solved the Earth’s environmental problems, but the action of the novel focuses on a man who tries to use the web to gain power. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1997 Brown, Untouchable. 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 2028 (London: Millennium, 1999), 219-324.
Keywords: English author; Male author

C.S.A.: Confederate States of America - Howard Means (William Morrow & Co., 1998)
Alternative history. The South had won the Civil War and established a segregated society, which works fine as long as the color lines are strictly kept. The North is a wasteland. The system in the South is corrupt and collapses.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cythera - Richard Calder (b. 1955) (Orbit, 1998)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Dark Water" - Danel Spragg (Millennium Nights, 1998)
Science fiction story that begins on the Utopia Habitat, a huge Dyson Sphere that is a technological eutopia. Most of the story is an adventure tale that takes place on a space ship.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Days of Solomon Gursky" - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1998)
Sequel to his Necroville (1994) but with eutopian possibilities.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Distraction - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Bantam Books, 1998)
Political novel set in a future United States that is disintegrating as a result of various environmental and other problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Dream" - John Seymour (The Aisling Quarterly (Aran Islands, Ireland), 1998)
Set on the Aran Islands, which have become dependent on tourists and government handouts. Proposal, originating in a dream showing the life being sucked out of the islands, that they return to the eutopian self-sufficiency (described at the beginning of the story). Specifically, re-establish dairying, fishing, gardening, and other farming and wool-production, work toward energy self-sufficiency through wind power, and get rid of cars.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Earth Made of Glass - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Tor, 1998)
Sequel to 1992 Barnes. This novel focuses on a planet with a culture based on an African American millennialist group that believes it is the spiritual descendant of Chaka or Shaka Zulu [Shaka kaSenzangakhona] (1787-1828). Non-utopian sequels include The Merchants of Souls. New York: Tor, 2001 and The Armies of Memory. New York: Tor, 2006
U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1998.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Eclipse of the Sun - Michael [David] O'Brien (Ignatius Press, 1998)
Roman Catholic dystopia of the end times.
Keywords: Male author

England, England - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) (Jonathan Cape, 1998)
Satire. An England theme park is built on the Isle of Wight with all of the attractions of England available. It becomes an independent state, and England collapses into a medieval society called Anglia that can be read as eutopian or dystopian.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Extensions - Mark W. Tiedemann (b. 1954) (Yard Dog Press, 1998)
Corporate dystopia in the future.
Keywords: Male author

"Fairest Isle" - Elizabeth Counihan (Interzone, 1998)
Future dystopia of a poverty-stricken Britain.
Keywords: Female author

The Fantasy Machine - Andrew Sewell-Crooke (Falcon, 1998)
Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia. Virtual reality and drugs can create any world for a person. All services on a fee for service basis. Global warming, so England is sub-tropical.
Keywords: Male author

Feral - Kerry Greenwood (b. 1959) (Hodder Children’s Books Australia, 1998)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in sequel to 1996 and 1997 Greenwood. This novel focuses on a university that has been taken over by a group known as the Management and the struggle to restore order there.
Rpt. with 1996 and 1997 Greenwood separately paged and with no separate title Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hodder Headline, 2002.
Keywords: Australian author

The First Immortal - James L. Halperin (b. 1952) (del Rey, 1998)
Partially a sequel to his 1996 The Truth Machine and partially the story of various attempts to achieve immortality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flee the Darkness - Grant R[eid] Jeffrey (1948-2012); Angela [Elwell] Hunt (b. 1957) (Word Publishing, 1998)
Using the fear of possible computer crashes at the beginning of 2000, the novel is concerned with the struggle between good and evil, the antichrist, Armageddon (See Revelation 16), and the millennium. Their By Dawn’s Early Light. Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 1999 and The Spear of Tyranny. Nashville, TN: Word Publishing, 2000 are sequels. See also 1990 Jeffrey, his Final Warning. Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1996; and his Surveillance Society: The Rise of Antichrist. Toronto, ON, Canada: Frontier Research Publications, 2000.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

"Founding Fathers" - Stephen Dedman (b. 1959) (Science Fiction Age, 1998)
Dystopia on a planet trying to establish a patriarchal, white-only culture. With only a few exceptions, the rest of the known universe has gender equality and is multicultural and peaceful. A sequel is “Unequal Laws.” Science Fiction Age 7.3 (March 1999): 39-53.
Rpt. in his The Lady of Situations (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 1999), 99-126.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Gertrude and the Printed Page - Stanley L. Alpert (Alpert's Bookery, 1998)
A future dystopia where publishing new books is outlawed and the experiences of the owner of the last bookstore.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Girl in Landscape - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) (Doubleday, 1998)
The novel begins in a dystopia on Earth brought about by environmental collapse. Everyone must live underground and avoid the sun completely. A family moves to a new planet, and the novel shifts to the relations among the new inhabitants and their relations with the indigenous inhabitants seen through the eyes of a girl as she becomes an adult.
U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Globe - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) (Ace Books, 1998)
Libertarian science fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Halfway Human - Carolyn Ives Gilman (b. 1954) (Avon Eos, 1998)
Describes a planet that appears eutopian but is dependent on the labor of an underclass of ungendered people. Describes another planet whose economy is based on the sale of information.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hand of Prophecy - [Suzanne] [Feldman] (b. 1958) (Avon Eos, 1998)
Dystopia with slavery.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Hardware Scenario G-49” - James Alan Gardner (b. 1955) (More Amazing Stories, 1998)
Dystopia in which almost the entire population of Earth is boxed up and tended by robots.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Harvest - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (Kali for Women, 1998)
Dystopian play focusing on the sale of body parts by the poor to the rich.
Rpt. in Black and Asian Plays (London: Aurora Metro Books/The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, 2000), 10-89. A standalone version of the play with unauthorized cuts was published by the same publisher in 2003. Rev. in Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology. Ed. Helen Gilbert (London: Routledge, 2011), 217-249, with an editor’s “Introduction” (214-216). Rev & exp. ed. Gurgram, India: Hachette India, 2017 with a new introduction by the author (unpaged); and Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Ed. W[illiam] B. Worthen. 6th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011), 1727-1755.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

Hex - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1998)
Young adult dystopia where some people are genetically modified to have direct access to all computers, which gives them immense power. See also 1998 and 2000 Lassiter. The three volumes have been published together as Void (2011).
Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 1-240.
Keywords: English author; Female author

History. A Two Hour Sci-Fi Drama - Derek Pearson (b. 1966) (Author/Halcyon Pictures, 1998)
Authoritarian dystopia but includes a brief depiction of a future eutopian Wellington. See also 2001 Pearson.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The History of Our World Beyond the Wave - R[obert] E. Klein (Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1998)
Allegory. Civilization is destroyed by a great wave. The few survivors gradually congregate on a large island, battle and defeat evil, and establish the equivalent of a small-town, democratic eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

I Am Not Esther - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) (Longacre Press, 1998)
Young adult dystopia set in a communal fundamentalist sect. The title refers to the practice of changing the names of members who join to Biblical names.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

I Hated Heaven: A Novel of Love After Death. To Keep a Promise he made on Earth, he had to break every rule in Heaven - Kenny Kemp (Alta Films Press, 1998)
Dystopian heaven which is overly bureaucratic.
Keywords: Male author

The Ice People - Maggie [Margaret Mary] Gee (b. 1948) (Richard Cohen Books, 1998)
Post-catastrophe dystopia. Depicts the collapse of civilization as a new ice age takes hold. Various dystopian scenarios develop in the process.
Rev. <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>: Telegram Books, 2008.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Infinite Race" - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1998)
Authoritarian dystopia in Australia, but an attempt to destroy the Republic is thwarted.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Inherit the Earth - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Tor, 1998)
Background to a complex adventure is a society the people call the New Utopia. A post-catastrophe society which has extended life spans significantly and in which most people are fairly well off, but in which there is still poverty and life-extension is expensive. See also 1999, 2000, and 2002 Stableford (2).
A different, shorter version originally published as "Inherit the Earth" Analog Science Fiction and Fact 115.8 & 9 (July 1995): 122-75.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Iron Bridge - David Morse (b. 1940) (Harcourt Brace & Co, 1998)
Mostly set in the past. A woman from an ecological eutopian enclave in a post-catastrophe dystopian future U.S. has been sent to the past to attempt to stop the development of the Industrial Revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

June, 2004 - Laurence W. Britt (BookWorld Press, 1998)
Near future political novel in which current trends produce a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Keeping the Meter Running" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1998)
A flawed utopia become dystopia on the 40th anniversary of the revolution. This story together with 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General".
Rpt. in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 109-31.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) (Ballantine Books, 1998)
A collection of connected stories about an attempt to create a Kikuyu eutopia on a terraformed world known as Kirinyaga. The novel begins in a future Kenya where the animal herds are no more, only crops bound for Europe are grown, and polluted cities encroached on the sacred mountain Kirinyaga. An attempt is made to impose a single, unchangeable vision. A companion volume is 2008 Resnick, Kilimanjaro: A Fable of Utopia.
Stories originally published as "Kirinyaga." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 75.5 (November 1988): 6-8, 10-12, 14-26; rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 148-63 with an editor's note on 147; "For I Have Touched the Sky." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 77.6 (December 1989): 135-59. Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction. Seventh Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), 57-77 with an editor's note on 56; and in Future Earths: Under African Skies. Ed. Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 15-44; "Bwana." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.1 (152) (January 1990): 134-76; "The Manamouki." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.7 (158) (July 1990): 16-20, 22-25, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-53. Rpt. in Stalking the Wild Resnick (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1991), 3-42; "One Perfect Morning, With Jackels." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.3 (168) (March 1991): 130-37. Rpt. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), 520-26; and in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 97-107 with a note on 97-98; "Song of a Dry River." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 16.3 (183) (March 1992): 56-62, 65-76. Rpt. in Stalking the Wild Resnick (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1991), 81-106; "The Lotus and the Spear." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 16.9 (18) (August 1992): 16-25, 28-30, 32-35; "A Little Knowledge." Asimov's Science Fiction 18.4 & 5 (214 & 215) (April 1994): 92-117; "When the Old Gods Die." Asimov's Science Fiction 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 68-89; and "The Land of Nod." Asimov's Science Fiction 20.6 (246) (June 1996): 10-16, 18-24, 26-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Land of the Golden Clouds - Archie Weller (b. 1957) (Allen & Unwin, 1998)
Dystopia. Set in a post-catastrophe Australia 3000 years in the future. Conflict among the surviving groups, all of whom have taken on at least part of the Aboriginal world view. The groups that are closest to the Aboriginal way of life are presented most positively.
An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 131-40 with an editor’s note on 131-32, 247.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Male author