Pussy, King of the Pirates - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) (Grove Atlantic Press, 1996)
Complex dystopia. As with many of Acker's novels, this has connections with works of others, in this case Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-94) Treasure Island (1883) and Pauline Réage's [pseud.] [Anne Declos (1907-98)] Histoire d'O (1954).
Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador, 1996.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Rebel Moon - Bruce [Raymond] Bethke (b. 1955); [Theodore] [Beale] {b. 1968) (Pocket Books, 1996)
By 2069 the United Nations had brought about peace and order on Earth, but the inhabitants of the Moon rebelled. While the Moon was defeated, its leaders hoped to continue the war, suggesting a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sacrifice of Fools - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Victor Gollancz, 1996)
The novel is primarily concerned with alien contact, but as a background it has a future Northern Ireland with new political and judicial institutions.
Rpt. London: Vista, 1997
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

A Second Infinity - Michael D[avid] Weaver (1961-98) (Avon Books, 1996)
The novel is about efforts to save a fragile future eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shangri-La: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon - Eleanor Cooney; Daniel [Peter] Altieri (b. 1046) (William Morrow, 1996)
Sequel to 1933 Hilton in which a Chinese general plans to find and plunder Shangri-La but is thwarted by the guardian of Shangri-La and the general’s daughter.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Silicon Embrace - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Mark V. Ziesing Books, 1996)
Various dystopias in a post-catastrophe future in which the United States has broken up into warring factions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Snugglarea - Dan Weiss (Black Plankton Press, 1996)
Dystopia. People put in storage until needed. Opinionmeter constantly judges the popularity of people and places.
Keywords: Male author

Space on Earth: The Story of Urban Mountain - Joel H. Rosenblatt P.E. (Vantage Press, 1996)
Non-fictional description of a future eutopia which stresses huge buildings that contain all the activities of a city. The internal arrangements are said to be on a human scale.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Spares - Michael [Philip] Marshall Smith (b. 1965) (HarperCollins, 1996)
Post-catastrophe dystopian thriller about people bred as "spares."
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Stolen Hours" - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) (Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories, 1996)
The setting of a science fiction story is a dystopia of rigid class distinction based on ethnicity and immigration .
Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 169-83.
Keywords: Female author; Indian author

The Stone Canal - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Legend, 1996)
Complex novel set on New Mars, a Mars-like planet being terraformed, where there is a struggle for power among various groups and sentient machines. Includes a functioning libertarian, but called anarchist, society but without much detail. Quite a bit on post-humans. The second volume of his Fall Revolution series, which also includes 1995, 1998, and 1999 MacLeod.
U.S. ed. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>: Tor, 2000. Rpt. in The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 251-493; and in his Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (New York: Orb, 2008), 331-640.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Stone, Still" - A. R. Morlan (Sextopia: Stories of Sex and Society, 1996)
The story describes a woman with a disease, scleroderma, that makes her body rigid in a society that requires everyone to have a compatible sexual partner and finds and assigns such a partner and the successful match found for her.
Keywords: Female author

"Sum of their Parts" - Stephanie Bedwell-Grime (NorthWords (Napean, ON, Canada), 1996)
Dystopia of a future without women where men fight for power and prestige.
Rpt. in North of Infinity II. Ed. Mark Leslie (Oakville, ON, Canada: Mosaic Press, 2006), 100-11.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Telos: The Call Goes Out from the Hollow Earth and the Underground Cities - Dianne Robbins (b. 1939) (Author, 1996)
Detailed, although vague on some points, eutopia presented through communications received telepathically from the hollow center of the sun and the planets of the solar system. The focus is on the cities in the hollow Earth, particularly Telos which is under Mount Shasta, California. All those living in these hollows are connected into one cooperating eutopia under the rule of Ascended Masters, as is each hollow, and the people living in them are spiritually advanced. See also 2000 and 2003 Robbins.
Rev. & exp. ed. Mt. Shasta, CA: Mt. Shasta Light Pub, 2000.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Time Famine: A Novel - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) (Permeable Press, 1996)
Complex dystopia set in a corporate dominated future with massive environmental damage. For example, the novel begins in a post-"shimmer" (earthquake) Los Angeles that had experience the rupture of nuclear power plants (and immediately has another) and with a concentration camp theme park. The latest nuclear power plant rupture sends some people into different time periods.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Truth Machine: A Speculative Novel - James L. Halperin (b. 1952) (Ivy Press, 1996)
An infallible machine that detects the truth and its effects. See also 1998 Halperin.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ultimate Philosophy: A Man To Utopia - Jon Will (Utopian Pathway Fund, 1996)
Very general depiction of the principles on which a eutopia depends.
Keywords: Male author; US author

U.S.A. 2012: After the Middle-Class Revolution - Kenneth M. Dolbeare (b. 1930); Janette Kay Hubbell (Chatham House Publishers, 1996)
Mostly non-fiction on the problems of the present with two brief fictional sections written as if from 2012 that frame the book. “A New Declaration of Independence” (21-24) and four amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The first amendment (118-19) establishes the procedures national initiatives and referenda; the second amendment (120) puts severe restrictions on political campaigning and campaign finance; the third amendment (127-28) mandates proportional representation in the electoral college and state legislatures, easing the voting process, and adding “None of the Above” to all ballots; the fourth amendment (134) mandates that federal and state courts must take economic and social considerations into account in their decisions, permits the review of “excessive” awards by juries and fees charged by lawyers, and other devices designed to discourage litigation.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Utopia Revisited - James Blunt (Merlin Books, 1996)
Detailed eutopia. Describes a planet with various countries parallel with those on Earth including the eutopia called Naturalia that bases its policies on the objective observations of nature.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Virtual Time Machine: Part I" - Alan Mayne (The Wellsian, 1996)
A sequel to 1895 Wells The Time Machine in which the Time Traveller sets out to return to the future and rescue Weena but ends up in a different future which has a “World Brain” even more sophisticated than Wells proposed. It tells him to go to 1995 where he might find the branch of time that led to the future he had previously visited. “Part II.” The Wellsian, no. 20 (Winter 1997): 20-31 explains the fictional material in the first part.
Keywords: Male author

Virtual Zen - Ray [Radell Faraday] Nelson (1931-2022) (Avon Books, 1996)
Quite general dystopia of apathy and disillusionment with a musician providing a more positive image.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Voices of Hope - David Feintuch (1944-2006) (Warner Books, 1996)
Dystopia of extreme rich versus poor divisions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Washington Transformed: The Radical Future of the Northwest" - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Paradoxa, 1996)
High tech eutopian projection but with clear indications of problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Welcome, Kid, to the Real World" - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Tales of the Unanticipated, 1996)
Dystopia in which children are required to choose their future physical and mental shape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Whakaari - David McGill (b. 1942) (Silver Owl Press, 1996)
Dystopia. Thriller set in a near future New Zealand with an authoritarian Green government, fascist youth gangs, and a Māori liberationist movement.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Whaleroad - Kerry Greenwood (b. 1959) (Hodder SF/Fantasy, 1996)
Post-catastrophe dystopia. The U.S. Star Wars defense system is hit by a meteorite, knocked out of its orbit, and destroys much of life on Earth with the resultant loss of knowledge.
Rpt. with 1997 and 1998 Greenwood separately paged and with no separate title Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hodder Headline, 2002.
Keywords: Australian author

Whiteout - Sage Walker (Tor, 1996)
Very near future U.S. dystopia as background. In this overpopulated future government is controlled by multinational corporations and people are poverty-stricken and going hungry.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zeitgeist - Todd Wiggins (Victor Gollancz, 1996)
A road novel set in 1999 U.S. Elements of an authoritarian dystopia with various rebels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Aachen Memorandum - Andrew Roberts (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)
European superstate of 2045 as a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

A.D - Saab Lofton (III Publishing, 1995)
A dystopia set in 2030 in which the U.S. is divided between the Nation of Islam and the White Aryan Resistance followed by a eutopia set in 2410 which is governed by the Libertarian Socialist Democracy, which is a flawed utopia. The African American protagonist is rejected by and rejects the Nation of Islam and declares himself an orthodox Muslim. Waking in the future, he finds it extremely strange and has extreme difficulty fitting in and does not really try to adjust. See “Introduction ‘Writings From Exile’.” In his Battle Neverending (Np: Share the Wealth Publications, 1998), 1-3 for his comments on the reception of the book.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Age of Innocence" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1995)
Dystopia. With longevity greatly increased, the old become infantile and must be cared for by the young.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"And Baby Makes Five" - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) (The Final Dream and Other Fictions, 1995)
Overpopulation dystopia in which one has to pay penalties for each child.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Angel Thing" - Petrina Smith (She's Fantastical, 1995)
Religious dystopia. The story depicts a fundamentalist church controlled by a charismatic leader. Women considered inferior. When there is an attempt to kill an angel, one woman and her daughter revolt to save it.
Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 420-33.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Animal Planet - Scott [Michael] Bradfield (b. 1955) (Picador, 1995)
Satire. Animals revolt but are turned into workers. Some animals cooperate and do well.
Parts previously published as “Animals Behind Bars.” Conjunctions 21 (Fall 1993): 144-65; and “Penguins for Lunch.” Triquarterly 93 (Spring/Summer 1995): 21-43.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Astonishing the Gods - Ben Okri (b. 1959) (Phoenix House, 1995)
Eutopia with a search for perfection.
Rpt. London: Phoenix, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author; UK author

“Awake / asleep” - Liz Diamond (Theater, 1995)
Brief, but detailed egalitarian eutopia. Free education. Much free time. The author calls it a Scandinavian social democracy with a Mediterranean feel.
Keywords: Female author

"Balancing" - Ann K. Schwader (Green Echo: Ecological SF& F, 1995)
Overpopulation dystopia. Every birth requires a death; if no balancing death is provided, a member of the family or the baby must die. Voluntary suicide is common.
Keywords: Female author

"A Birthday" - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1995)
Dystopia in which anyone having an abortion is required to see images of a growing child for six years.
Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 183-99.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Black Fury - Abaidoo, Kodwo (Woeli Publishing Services, 1995)
Imaginary dystopian colony and the successful revolt to establish freedom.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) (Bantam Books, 1995)
Novel stemming from Ridley Scott's movie Blade Runner (1982), which was based on Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1969). Sequels include Blade Runner: Replicant Night. New York Bantam Books, 1996 (PSt); and Blade Runner 4: Eye & Talon. London: Victor Gollancz, 2000 (L).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Blue Star: A Science Fiction, With Hope - David Gau-Ghan (b. 1955) (The Bradbury House of Words, 1995)
New Age eutopia. The novel depicts two advanced alien civilizations, representing good and evil, in conflict over Earth. The good civilization tries unsuccessfully to save humankind from itself by leading a crusade against environmental destruction. Earth goes through a cataclysmic change as it had when Atlantis and Lemuria sank, and they rise to the surface again. Both civilizations repopulate Earth, and the cycle can be either repeated or broken. See also 2000 Gau-Ghan.
Rpt. with a new title on the cover as The Blue Star Millennium: A Science Fiction, With Hope. Auckland, New Zealand: The Bradbury House of Words, 1998. Some copies have Millennium pasted over the subtitle on the title page; others do not.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Bohr Maker - Linda Nagata (b. 1960) (Bantam Books, 1995)
Conflict over access to nanotechnology in a fairly standard authoritarian dystopia. First volume in her The Nanotech Succession series. While all of the volumes share the influence of nanotechnology and are what is called hard science fiction, they all have different foci. The other volumes are volumes are Tech-Heaven. New York: Bantam Books, 1995; Deception Well. New York: Bantam Books, 1997; Vast. New York: Bantam Books, 1998; and Edges. Kula, HI: Mythic Island Press, 2019, which is the first volume of her Inverted Frontier sub-series.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Bounty: A Novella In Which a Genetically Flawed Hero Flees Through an American Dystopia, Evading Slave Traders and Regaining His Liberty" - George Saunders (b. 1958) (Harper's Magazine, 1995)
Dystopia as reflected in the title.
Rpt. without the subtitle in his Civilwarland in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 88-179.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brazen Rule - Steven Burgauer (Northwest Publishing, 1995)
Dystopia in which the U.S. is ruled by an imperial Senate. Mostly adventure. A non-utopian sequel is Fornax. Salt Lake City, UT: Northwest Publishing, 1994.
Keywords: Male author

The Buchanan Campaign - Rick Shelley (1947-2001) (Ace Books, 1995)
Invasion of a colony planet that is presented positively becomes a focus of the conflict between the two major empires. The novel focuses on the conflict.
Keywords: Male author

"The City of God" - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018); Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick (b. 1950) (Omni Online, 1995)
An exploration of the nature of utopianism and the way that the desire for power can corrupt it. Includes both an authoritarian dystopia of grinding poverty and violence and a now deserted eutopia.
Rpt. in Asimov's Science Fiction 20.10& 11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 208-74; and in Michael [Jürgen] Swanwick with Jack [Mayo] Dann, Avram Davidson, and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois. Moon Dogs. Ed. Ann A. Broomhead & Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2000), 155-231.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City of God - Tom Grimes (W. W. Norton, 1995)
Near future dystopia of violence and rich/poor division.
U.K. ed. London: Picador, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Coming of Age in Karhide By Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (New Legends, 1995)
Short sequel to 1969 Le Guin. The rites of passage of and emotional responses to going into kemmer (taking on sexual characteristics) for the first time.
U.S. ed. without subtitle after the first Karhide (New York: Tor, 1995), 90-105; and with the subtitle in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 1-22. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 1-22; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 990-1008 with a “Note on the Text” (1084).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Completion - Chris Marsh (b. 1942) (BackWater Publishing, 1995)
Evolution of the human race through various better and worse social orders all the way to the end of humanity. Among the better futures is what the author calls her own “extreme form of permaculture”.
Keywords: Female author

The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Comedy of Ideas - Steven Lukes (b. 1941) (Verso, 1995)
A modern version of Voltaire's (1694-1778) Candide ou, L'Optimisme (1759) by a U.K. political theorist.
2nd ed. [Cover says exp. new ed. but the only additions appear to be an "Introduction" (vii-ix) and "Further Readings" (261-62)] as The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Novel of Ideas. London: Verso, 2009. Includes an Errata slip.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Curtain Falls" - David W. Hill (Green Echo: Ecological SF& F, 1995)
Ecological dystopia with growing pollution, rising skin cancer rates. Most people live underground. Sale of body parts, including the entire body is common.
Keywords: Male author

“Delenda” - Andrea Thomas (Albedo One (Dublin, Ireland, 1995)
Last woman story in which sickness was followed by madness and violence with a few immune left. The story focuses on a woman and the man who rescues her from final violence, the problems they have, and the freedom she feels after he is killed by dogs.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Deucalion - Brian [Paul] Caswell (b. 1954) (University of Queensland Press, 1995)
Young adult flawed utopia describing the development of an effective world government on Earth, the colonization of the planet Deucalion, the positive and negative interactions with the indigenous population, and the establishment of a new, separately located society by the indigenous people.
U.K. ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: Flyways, 2002.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Welsh author

The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (Bantam Books, 1995)
Technological Victorian age of the future and some alternatives.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Distress. A Novel - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (HarperPrism, 1995)
A science fiction novel that includes two eutopias. One is a small South Pacific island, called Stateless that welcomes immigrants from anywhere and is essentially anarchist. The second is a world-wide one that develops after the discovery of TOE or the Theory of Everything which creates a completely diverse but united world population. Australian author.
U.S. ed. New York: HarperPrism, 1997. 341 pp. 0-06-105264-7
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Doomsday Scenario: A story set in an imaginary Britain of the present in the very near future, whenever that may happen to be - Jack Ramsay (Publishing Associates, 1995)
Near future dystopia where crime, both violent and nonviolent, is the norm. The middle class is hiring armed security forces and building fences around their suburbs. Police all armed with silenced automatic pistols. One focus of the novel is the controversy surrounding the proposal to re-introduce capital punishment.
Keywords: Male author

A Dream that needs abuildin' - Russell Voorhees (Chayah Press, 1995)
Architectural eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

Dryland's End - Felice Picano (Richard Kasak, 1995)
A matriarchy with problems set in the far future.
Keywords: Female author

The End of the Age. A Novel - Pat [Marion Gordon] Robertson (1930-2023) (Word Publishing, 1995)
Christian novel focusing on the dystopia on the period before the Second Coming of Christ.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Excerpt from Enter: The Night” - Maria Irene Fornes (b. 1930) (Theater, 1995)
The play had its world premiere in 1993 at Theater Zero, Seattle, WA, and was revised for presentation in Dallas, TX in 1994. This excerpt is about the creation of a play. The Cuban-American female author is a prolific playwright.
Keywords: Cuban-American author; Female author

"Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture" - Rem[ment Lucas] Koolhaas (b. 1944) (Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, 1995)
Design for London with both dystopian and eutopian elements.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author; US author

Fairyland - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (VGSF, 1995)
Future society divided into rich (based on advanced technology) and extremely poor.
Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2007; and London: Victor Gollancz, 2015 with an “Introduction” by Stephen Baxter (v-vii). U.S. ed. New York: Avon, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Farewell Reverberated Vault of Detentions.” - Lionel G. Fogarty (b. 1958) (New and Selected Poems: Mualdjali, Mutuerjaraera, 1995)
Poem depicting the aboriginal eutopia possible without the effects of the white colonizers.
Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse. Ed. Peter Porter (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1996), 266.
Keywords: Aboriginal author; Australian author; Male author

Femini Island - Godfrey Otiri (b. 1942) (Vantage Press, 1995)
Anti-feminist novel in which a man is shipwrecked on an isolated island populated only by beautiful women. Other sailors followed, boys were born, and conflicts developed among the women on a wide range of issues.
Keywords: Danish author; Male author; Nigerian author; US author

"The First Interview" - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) (Social Alternatives, 1995)
Dystopia of a society that executes women who have abortions.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Fortress Manhattan - David Callinan (VGSF, 1995)
Dystopia of a fortress for the rich surrounded by the poor.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Four Ways to Forgiveness - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (HarperPrisim, 1995)
Four linked stories set on the planets of Werel and Yeowe as they struggle toward freedom from their oppressive pasts, including slavery and purdah for women. Some obvious satire but includes descriptions of the dystopias of the early histories of the two planets as well as material on the Hainish eutopias that she describes in many of her other stories and novels.
Rpt. as part of Five Ways to Forgiveness 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), 319-517, 570-88 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (786-87). First published as four novellas--“Betrayals.” Blue Motel. Narrow Houses Volume 3. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Little, Brown, 1994), 195-229; rpt. 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), 99-131; “Forgiveness Day.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 18.12 & 13 (November 1994): 262-304; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 1-47;  in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Exploration in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 68-118; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 241-302; “A Man of the People.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 22-40, 42-46, 48-65; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 303-58; and “A Woman’s Liberation.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.8 (July 1995): 116-63; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 1-42; in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 227-94; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 359-428.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Fragments From: LINDA SUSAN" - Mac Wellman (b. 1945) (Theater, 1995)
Brief eutopian play in fragments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Freefalling Toward a Borderless Future” - Guillermo Gómez-Peña (b. 1955) (Theater, 1995)
The brief play reflects the focus of much of the author’s work, borders between countries.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

Gaia's Toys - [Rebecca Bard] [Brown] (b. 1948) (Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1995)
Genetic engineering dystopia where genetic manipulation is standard practice. Deep rich-poor division, those without a job have no option but to become a drone for the military, and saving endangered species is a fad for the rich. Eco-terrorists are trying to stop the government’s plan for a new genetic mutation that will take away the last vestiges of personal freedom.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Genesis" - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) (Coming Home in the Dark, 1995)
Brief satire on Heaven which is a corporation known as G.O.D. Lucifer is in charge of Creations and Gabriel goes around him directly to G.O.D. to propose a new creation, Earth, which Lucifer concludes is very poorly design both as a planet and in its proposed inhabitants,
Rpt. in The Best of Owen Marshall’s Short Stories (Auckland, New Zealand: Vintage/Random House, 1997), 354-56.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Great State." - Clay Caldwell (QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction, 1995)
Gay male eutopia with the emphasis on the sex.
Keywords: Male author

Headcrash - Bruce [Raymond] Bethke (b. 1955) (Warner Aspect, 1995)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
U.K. edition London: Orbit, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Hidden Mask - John Elder (b. 1933) (Octant Press, 1995)
Complex future tale in which a wealthy woman leads the successful effort to reverse population growth and produce a livable world. A World-literacy council creating a single world-language, world-speak based on English, was instrumental in bringing people together, but local languages remain, so everyone is bilingual. This council ultimately gives way to a World-council elected by everyone on Earth, with all political organizations prohibited. Ends with extracts from the world encyclopedia of 5164 covering the years 2000-2100.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Home" - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Interzone, 1995)
Dystopia in which people prey on the elderly.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 495-99; and in his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 123-29.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

"Horn of Plenty" - Joan Sowter (Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection, 1995)
A man leaves Earth, which is a dystopia of extreme poverty, as a mail-order husband of a woman on a newly opened planet. Both misrepresented themselves, but the story implies that with hard work and adaptability they will be able to create a better life together.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Hotwire - Simon [David] Ings (b. 1965) (HarperCollins, 1995)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

If I Die on the Jersey Front - Matthew Collins (Orchard Press, 1995)
Dystopia in which the United States is divided by race war. New Africa is a country within what had been the U.S. Most of the novel is on the conflict, but it includes a cross-racial relationship between a man and a woman. The ending suggests a sequel, but none appears to have been published.
Keywords: Male author

"In the Green Shade of a Bee-Loud Glade" - L[eslie] A[nn] Hall (b. 1949) (The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, 1995)
Raises the issue of "who will guard the guardians" about a eutopian protected environment. The sanctuary is being destroyed by those who are supposed to protect it.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Jigoku No Mokushiroku (The Symbolic Revelation of the Apocalypse)" - John G. McDaid (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1995)
Religious dystopia. A future U.S. dominated by the followers of David Koresh (1959-93), the leader of the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas fame.
Keywords: Male author

Johnny Mnemonic - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Pocket Books, 1995)
Based on the story and screenplay by Gibson. See 1981 Gibson for the story and 1995 Gibson for the screenplay.
Keywords: Male author; US author

K-PAX - Gene Brewer (b. 1937) (St. Martin's Press, 1995)
Anarchist eutopia. Sequels are On a Beam of Light. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001 and K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot. London: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Land Fit for Heroes Book 3: The Dragon Wakes - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Gollancz, 1995)
The third volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. The third of four volumes. See 1993, 1994 and 1996 Mann. In this volume,  Rome  is preparing to conquer those parts of  Britain  it does not control.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

The Last Real Cirkus: A Futuristic Fairytale - Bottari, Bridie (Angus & Robertson, 1995)
Background is a fairly near future of excessive regulation.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Left Behind: A Novel of Earth's Last Days - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016); Jerry B[ruce] Jenkins (b. 1949) (Tyndale House Publishers, 1995)
The first volume of the Left Behind series, which describes those left on earth after the Rapture, a premillennialist belief based on 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17 developed initially in England in the 1830s and included in the Scofield Reference Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch/London: H. Frowde, 1909. Mostly dystopian, but the last volume, Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007), includes the Second Coming of Christ, and there is a eutopia of the community of believers struggling to survive. Other volumes are Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (1996); Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (1997); Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (1998); Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed (1999); Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist (1999); The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (2000); The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (2000); Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (2001); The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (2002); Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (2003); and Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (2004), and Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007). Three volumes of prequel include The Rising: Antichrist is Born. Before They Were Left Behind (2005); Regime: Evil Advances. Before They Were Left Behind (2005); and The Rapture: In a Twinkling of an Eye. Before They Were Left Behind (2005). See also Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Are We Living in the End Times. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1999. There are also graphic novels, films, videos, video games, forty books for children, and related products. See http:www.leftbehind.com for all the books and related materials. LaHaye gives what he calls the Biblical basis of the series in Revelation illustrated and Made Plain. rev. ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderaven Publishing House, 1975. Rev. as Revelation Unveiled: A revised and updated edition of Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderaven Publishing House, 1999. See also LaHaye, Jenkins, and Norman B. Rohrer, These Will Not Be Left Behind: Incredible Stories of Lives Transformed After Reading the Left Behind Novels. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2003. Utopian spinoffs include 2003 Hart and 2003, 2004, 2005 Jenkins, and 2010 LaHaye and Parshall.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Living in Paradox: A Utopian Soap Opera" - John Frederick Heider (1936-2010) (Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living, 1995)
The story depicts a new eutopian college located in Paradox, Kansas based on “human potential theory”. Excerpt from a work in progress, and this excerpt focuses on an initial encounter group among the faculty and their partners and an explanation of the purpose of the education, which is to raise awareness.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Living Theatre's Utopia" - Judith Malina (1926-2015); Hanon Reznikov (1950-2008) (Theater, 1995)
Notes for a play called Utopia by Malina with sketches by Reznikov.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Lure of Satyria - Cheryl Mildenhall (Black Lace, 1995)
In a series of erotica for women. Includes a number of dystopian communities and one, Satyria, that the heroine finds eutopian.

A Many Coated Man - [Owen Marshall] [Jones] (b. 1941) (Longacre Press, 1995)
A political novel set in a near future, mildly dystopian New Zealand. A charismatic leader emerges in opposition to those in power. He leads a campaign to restore individual and national purpose and return power to the people of the country. He stresses community solidarity against political elitism. He is incarcerated in a mental hospital and later assassinated.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Metropolitan - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) (HarperPrism, 1995)
Complex future dystopian society of a world under a globe encompassing shield. The novel concerns various struggles for power focusing on a substance called "plasm" that called used to create almost any substance. A sequel that does continues the various power struggles is City of Fire. New York: HarperPrism, 1997. A third volume is planned but has not been written.
Rpt. as "Signed First Edition" illus. Pat Morrissey and with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mink! - Peter Chippindale (1945-2014) (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Mink organize to escape from a mink farm while the “Concerned Woodland Guardians,” which is led by rabbits is trying to protect their habitat. When the mink escape, they prey on the other woodland animals until the two groups have to combine to fend off the more dangerous humans.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Montezuma Strip - Alan Dean Foster (b. 1946) (Warner Books, 1995)
Dystopia of poverty and corription.
Parts originally published as by James Lawson [pseud.] as “Sanctuary.” Amazing Stories 63.4 (November 1988): 118-60; “Heartwired.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 82.2 (February 1992): 81-104; “Gagrito.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 84.4 (April 1993): 80-114; “Hellado.” Amazing 68.6 (September 1993): 22-32; and by Foster as “Our Lady of the Machine.” Amazing Stories 69.1 (Spring 1994): 119-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mystery of the Third Seal - Margaret Pearce (Longman Australia, 1995)
Young adult flawed utopia. Post-catastrophe society of seeming perfection under the control of the Shepherds, who are like the Morlocks of 1895 Wells.
Keywords: Female author

Newtopia - D. K. Paul (b. 1914) (PakDonald Publishing Co, 1995)
A detailed proposal for founding a series of ecological communities based on some similarity, such as race or ethnicity, in the population forming it. The author argues that it is completely practical, and compares the idea to the Twin Oaks Community in Louis, VA.

Non-Money: that “other money” you didn’t know you had - Olaf Egeberg (b. 1937) (McGee Street Foundation, 1995)
“Non-money is everything you have (besides money) that you can use to get what you want, and to do what you want to do” (12). Begins with trading skills, work for services, paying bills, and so forth and expands into community-based systems including LETS. . See also 1992 Egeberg and his Coming Home: A Crossover Bible for Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and members of other religious faiths, as well as thoroughly non-religious persons. Np.: Lulu Press, 2006. http://changesahead.net/files/TheBook.pdf
Keywords: Male author; US author

"One Day in the Life of the Landfords" - Tammy Jo Eckhart (S/M Futures: Erotica On the Edge, 1995)
A somewhat isolated community that is a sado-masochistic eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa, Past, Present and Future - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) (Per Ankh, 1995)
Uses the Osiris myth to explore the current authoritarian dystopia that is many African states and suggests a way forward based on the African past.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

Other Nature - Stephanie A[nn] Smith (b. 1959) (Tor, 1995)
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Out of Touch" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1995)
Immortality and the problems of those not qualifying. The focus of the story of a man who was born to early, but mention is made of people from the Third World and others who were not eligible for the treatment. The immortals live in a high tech eutopia that for most is an enclosed virtual world.
Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 33-61 with a note on 33-34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pfitz - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) (Dedalus, 1995)
A prince creates imaginary cities and devotes the resources of his country to the development of plans for them. The novel focuses on characters created to inhabit one of them. The middle volume of a trilogy, which begins with the unrelated 1994 Crumey and ends with the non-utopian D'Alembert's Principle: Memory, Reason and Imagination. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng.: Dedalus, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Playing the Game - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (HarperCollins, 1995)
Graphic novel depicting an urban dystopia and attempts to escape it.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Profiteer. Hostile Takeover # 1 - [Steven A.] [Swiniarski] (b. 1966) (DAW Books, 1995)
Planet Bakunin (an anarchist society that would be unrecognizable by Mikhail Bakunin 1814-76) fights off control by others. Sequels include his Partisan. Hostile Takeover # 2. By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.].  New York : DAW Books, 1995; and Hostile Takeover #3: Revolutionary. By S. Andrew Swann [pseud.].  New York : DAW Books, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Psalms of Herod - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) (White Wolf Publishing, 1995)
Post-catastrophe primitive dystopia focusing on gender relations. A sequel is The Sword of Mary.  Clarkston ,  GA : White Wolf Publishing, 1996.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Puzzle, Gentlemanly" - Elizabeth [Edwina] Smither (Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection, 1995)
Technological future world that has lost most of its past knowledge and culture. Satire.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Quasar - Jamil Nasir (b. 1955) (Bantam Books, 1995)
Dystopia of extreme wealth and poverty set against a deteriorating earth.
Keywords: Israeli author; Male author; US author

The Ravengers - Stephen Billias (b. 1949) (Warner Books, 1995)
Cyberpunk dystopia. See also his HoloMen.  New York : Warner Books, 1996 (Cover title Cyberpunk® 2.0.2.0.: HoloMen), which uses the same future.
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Keywords: Male author; US author

Resurrection 2037 - J. G. Eccarius (III Publishing, 1995)
Religious dystopia that develops after what is called the Apocalypse with a matriarchal religion. Much lower population and children are said to being Resurrected to grow the population. The matriarchy is violent, killing all outsiders, and brooking no internal dissent.

Revolt of the Naked - D. V. Sadero (Badboy, 1995)
Eutopia and dystopia with stress on the erotic content. A country that is entirely male has a sub-class, the Naked, who are used both as guards and for sex. They ultimately revolt.
Excerpt as "Revolt of the Naked." A Century of Gay Erotica. Ed. Phil Andros (New York: Masquerade Books, 1998), 377-88.

Ru$$ia: A Novel - David Evan Kaun (Fithian Press, 1995)
Satirical dystopia in which Russia becomes the freest market economy in the world. The transition is overseen by Paula T. Barnum, granddaughter P[hileas] T[ayor] Barnum's (1810-91), the American showman and the founder of the circus that became Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey.
Keywords: Male author

Running Out of Time - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1995)
Dystopia in which a girl growing up in a 1840s village where children are dying due to the lack of medicine discovers that the village is a tourist site in the 1990s.
Keywords: Female author

Sex, Age, and the Last Caste - Lawrence [H.] Taub (Clear Glass Press, 1995)
The book presents Earth's history from earliest times to 2100 plus with the focus on the spiritual, which will, in the future, bring about eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

Shadow Man - Melissa [Elaine] Scott (b. 1960) (Tor, 1995)
The novel is set in a future where most of the human worlds recognize five sexual identities and nine sexual preferences, but on one world individuals must choose to be either a man or a woman. The novel focuses on a person on that planet who chose to be male but is a hermaphrodite.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Silent City - Erez Yakin (Kitchen Sink Press, 1995)
Dystopia of violent, robotic men entirely in illustrations.
Rpt. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1997.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Slow River - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) (Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 1995)
The novel is set in a future with a deep rich-poor divide and focuses on a woman from the top who is stripped of her identity and her adjustment to living at the bottom.
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Star Fraction - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) (Legend, 1995)
Dystopia of a fragmented Earth with constant surveillance conflict between pro- and anti-technology forces. Some eutopian elements. The first volume of his Fall Revolution series. See also 1996, 1998, and 1999 MacLeod.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2001 with an “Introduction to the American Edition” (11-12). U.S. ed. rpt. in his Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (New York: Orb, 2008), 7-330. Also rpt. without the “Introduction to the American Edition” in The Fall Revolution. The Star Fraction The Stone Canal The Sky Road [(New York]: SFBC, 2001), 1-250.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"A System of Lights" - Anna Deavere Smith (b. 1950) (Theater, 1995)
The piece describes what plays should be like in Utopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"TeleAbsence" - Michael A. Burstein (b. 1970) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1995)
Dystopia. Virtual schools are created to reduce violence with everyone at home attending through virtual reality machines, but the funding for the poor to attend is not provided and the separation between rich and poor becomes even more extreme. A non-utopian sequel is "TelePresence." Analog Science Fiction and Fact 125.7& 8 (July/August 2005): 160-87.
Rpt. in his I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2008), 20-36 with an "Afterword" (37-39).
Keywords: Male author

“The Theater of Utopia” - Tony Kushner (b. 1956) (Theater, 1995)
The piece describes what plays will be like in Utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Thief! - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) (Doubleday, 1995)
Young adult dystopia in which a young girl is falsely accused of being a thief and, running away, is caught in a storm that projects her into her town’s dystopian future where she meets her classmates now middle aged.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Thor Conspiracy: The Seventy-Hour Countdown to Disaster - Larry Burkett (Thomas Nelson, 1995)
Dystopia. Sequel to 1991 Burkett in which the US government is controlled by an autocratic Environmental Protection Agency.
Keywords: Male author

The Time Ships - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) (HarperCollins, 1995)
Authorized sequel to Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) with the one branch of the Morlocks an advanced eutopian race and the Eloi depend on them for their food and clothing. The Time Traveler saves Weena from being killed, as she was in the original novel, and encourages the Eloi to become independent of the Morlocks. A variety of alternative futures are described. There are many references to works of Wells throughout the text.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Tour Guide in Utopia" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (She's Fantastical, 1995)
Humor. A woman writing her thesis on Australian women writers of utopias meets one of them traveling into the future and acts as her guide. The utopia published in the past improved substantially on the future the writer visited.
Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 108-15; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 121-28.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

"Traffic" - Robert Onopa (b. 1943) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1995)
Dystopia with a background of rigid rich-poor division and many people living permanently in moving vehicles.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Translations and Fragments from the New Panic Compound in Damascus, Kansas. 15 Plays for the New Utopian Theater Symposium (N.U.T.S.)" - Ehn, Erik (Theater, 1995)
Play fragments, some of which are eutopian and some of which are dystopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia" - Anne [Rosalind] Hamburger (Theater, 1995)
Lists of elements of the author’s eutopia regarding the theater and the world. The female author is a theater producer.
Keywords: Female author

"The Utopia Parable" - Mark Lord (Theater, 1995)
Poem about a theater in a eutopian society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture - Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (Global Cyber-Visions, 1995)
Detailed technological urban eutopia with proposals, drawings, and illustrations of buildings, vehicles, ships, planes, and transportation systems. Some of the buildings have been constructed in Florida. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. See also 1969 Keyes and Fresco, 2002 and 2007 Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Virtual Death - [Robert] [Boswell] (b. 1953) (HarperPrism, 1995)
Dystopia with a focus on death as entertainment.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“What the SysOp Saw” - Paul McKinley (Theater, 1995)
Online discussion of theater and utopia with the participants including Gertrude Stein, Richard Wagner, Plato, Yeats, Tolstoy, Artaud, and de Sade.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The World's Last Dictator - Dwight L. Kinman (1922-2010) (Whitaker Press, 1995)
Dystopia of the conspiracy to bring thye U.S. into "The New World Order". Presented as factual.
2nd ed. Woodburn, OR: Solid Rock Books, 1995. 3rd ed. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1999.
Keywords: Male author; US author

4000: The Fifth Milenium. Six Revolooshunairy Iedeeas - Timothy F. Travis (Aster Esprit Press, 1994)
Proposals for spelling reform with most of the book a list of words with the new spelling, a new calendar, a duodecimal system, education reform designed to encourage the regularly improvement of knowledge and skills (163-65), revised citizenship with individuals being given ribbons annually based on their activities (166-67), and a revised epistemology based on the idea that truth can be scientific or spiritual that will create a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Age of Light - Simon Wilson (b. 1955) (Penguin Books, 1994)
Dystopia. The background to the novel is a near-future run-down, violent society. The world is divided into the rich and poor, and the poor are ignored and isolated.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Another Story" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Tomorrow, 1994)
Eutopia. The planet “O” is a conservative sustainable farming society based on long established small communities and a complex marriage called a “sedoretu” in which a minimum of four people (two men and two women) marry with both heterosexual and homosexual relations. Two (one man and one woman) come from each of the two groups or moieties, the Morning People and the Evening People, into which the planets population is divided. Sexual relations take place between moities but not within them.
Rpt. as “Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.” In her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 147-91; rpt. illus. Pat Morrissey and with a “Preface” (ix-xv) by James Gunn (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995), 147-91; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2. Ed. Karen Jay Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2006), 185-225; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 197-240; 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), 168-206 with a “Note on the Text” (780) and “Notes (785).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Arts & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd - Jeanette Winterson (b. 1959) (Jonathan Cape, 1994)
The novel is set in a vaguely dystopian future.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Asylum" - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) (Interzone, 1994)
Military coup in the US back by fundamentalist religious groups.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 549-80.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Atlantis Papers including The Constitution and The Law of Oceania - Jim Davidson; Eric Klein; Norm Doering; Lee Crocker (Jim Davidson, 1994)
Detailed mostly libertarian eutopia that was begun on the Internet and intended to be put into practice by establishing a new country. Governments and the taxes they impose are considered the major problem facing the United States. Among a number of provisions that are not accepted by many libertarians is a prohibition of abortion after three months with the provision that voters can impose further restrictions. Includes “The Constitution of Oceania” (118-50) and “The Laws of Oceania” (151-88), both © Erick Klein. There is an Index, which is not entirely accurate, to the Constitution and Laws (189-96).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Awakening” - Roxana Pierson (Snows Over Darkover, 1994)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

Bachelor Butterflies - Jeff Probst (Roslyn Press, 1994)
Vaguely dystopian. A country decides to solve its crime problem by deporting all unemployed, single men. Includes a description of the area to which they are deported, but the novel focuses on the personal reactions of an individual man.
Keywords: Male author

The Black Ship - Gerry William (b. 1952) (Theytus Books, 1994)
Dystopian novel in which two star-faring nations are in conflict. Uses some of the history of the treatment of the First Nations in Canada and Canadian First Nations imagery.
Exp. as The Black Ship. [Pinticion, BC, Canada]: Theytus Books, 2015. A second volume has been announced as forthcoming
Keywords: Canadian author; First Nations author; Male author

"The Blue Stream" - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1994)
Dystopia. All teenagers are put to sleep until they are into their twenties.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Bodyguard - William C[orey] Dietz (b. 1945) (Ace Books, 1994)
"Military SF" with a dystopian background.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Brave New World" - Leah Bloch (Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future, 1994)
Flawed utopia. Set in what appears to be a utopian community, where, although poor, everyone has enough, but overheard snatches of a radio broadcast show that the world is highly controlled and ensures that people fit the norm.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Butterfly Tastes the Darkness" - Robin Wayne Bailey (Meltdown! An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy for Gay Men, 1994)
Erotic story using a future dystopian setting in which AIDS has been used as an excuse to prohibit most sexual activity.
Keywords: Male author

"Carrying Capacity" - Sean Carruthers (Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect, 1994)
Pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Changing the System of Government in the United States From Two Party to Bipartite: Resolve the Question of Capitalism Versus Socialism" - Carl F. Schulder (Typescript, 1994)
Short description of a new government.

"Chocco" - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) (Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias, 1994)
An ecotopia that presents a future Native American Indian based culture as a simple eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Cold Sleep, Cold Dreams" - [Sean Llewellyn] [Williams] (b. 1967) (Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction, 1994)
Dystopia of gang violence.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Crime Studio - Steve Aylett (b. 1967) (Serif, 1994)
The first of several volumes and stories set in the dystopian city Beerlight. See also his Slaughtermatic. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows/London: Phoenix House, 1998; and Atom. London: Phoenix House, 2000. U.S. ed. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Additional stories are “The Siri Gun.” Crime Time England (1999); rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 45-52; “Shifa.” BritPulp. Ed. Tony White (London: Sceptre, 1999), 105-10. Rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 42-45; and “Fiasco.” Why2K: Anthology for a New Era. Ed. Stephen Howard (London: Booth Clibborn Editions, 2000); rpt in his Toxicology (London: Gollancz, 2001), 102-05. L, O
U.S. ed. New York: Fall Walls Eight Windows, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Crimes Against Nature" - Mary A. Turzillo (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia of genetic engineering and manufactured viruses that can both create new people and provide manufactured beliefs and languages. The central character is a pregnant man, who is killed by those opposing the unnatural.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Crowd Control" - Ian McAuley Hails (1957-2002) (Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction, 1994)
Corrupt authoritarian dystopia and the underground opposition.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Dead Space for the Unexpected" - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia of corporate life in the future. The author was born in Canada and left at age 11, but he identifies himself as Canadian.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 406-19; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 243-56; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 243-56.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

Deadly Care - Richard W. Fulmer (Vantage Press, 1994)
The dystopia created by government involvement in health care in which patients have absolutely no choices.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Deersnake - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Hodder Headline, 1994)
Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements which may be LSD-induced visions.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

The Disinherited - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (The Bodley Head Children's Books, 1994)
Begins with a dystopia of poverty and violence with rigid class divisions in Wales. Ends with the beginnings of a rural utopian community. Classified as Young Adult.
U.S. ed. as The Patchwork People. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

Dr Orwell and Mr. Blair - David Caute (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994)
A retelling of Orwell's Animal Farm.
Keywords: Male author

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm - Nancy [Forsythe Coe] Farmer (b. 1941) (Orchard Books, 1994)
An authoritarian dystopia for young adults set in Zimbabwe in 2194.
Rpt. New York: Firebird, 2002. U.K. ed. London: Orion's Children's Books, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Eat Reecebread" - Graham Joyce (1954-2014); Peter F. Hamilton (b. 1960) (Interzone, 1994)
Dystopia depicting the prejudiced response against a growing number of hermaphrodites.
Rpt. in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 177-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

End Time: Notes On the Apocalypse - G. A. Matiasz (b. 1952) (AK Press, 1994)
Dystopia in 2007 leading to the apocalypse.

"The Fabulous Yesterdays" - Arthur Goldstuck (Playboy (South Africa), 1994)
Dystopia. Future South Africa in which the Boers suppress all opposition.
Rpt. http://www.legends.org.za/arthur/yester.htm.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Fair New World - Lou Tafler (Backlash Books, 1994)
The novel presents three societies, two dystopias Feminania and Bruteland, representing extreme feminism and extreme machismo, and a eutopia, Melior that recognizes that men and women differ but that both should be able to lead a fulfilling life. Includes a vocabulary of Fairspeak.

"Fall From Grace" - J. P. Kansas (Future Sex, 1994)
Dystopia of a future society of women where heterosexual activity is considered fetishistic.

Fools Errant: A Fantasy Picaresque - Matt[hew] Hughes (b. 1949) (Maxwell Macmillan, 1994)
Part Voltaire’s (1694-1778) Candide (1759) and part satire in which a number of countries are presented with each one is focused on one principle taken to an extreme. A sequel is Fool Me Twice. New York: Warner Books. Rpt. in his Gullibles Travels. ([New York]: SFBC, 2001), 194-401. These novels take place in his Archonate universe, which he writes about in various subseries.
Rpt. with full first name and without the subtitle. New York: Warner Books, 2001; and in his Gullibles Travels ([New York]: SFBC, 2001), 1-193.
Keywords: Canadian author

Freeze Frames - Katharine [Nancy Brahtin] Kerr (b. 1944) (HarperCollins, 1994)
Science fiction novel taking place on a number of different timelines, one of which includes a Calvinist dystopia in the United States. This changes when aliens arrive and convert to a reformed Roman Catholicism.
Rpt. London: Severn House, 1995. U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Furies - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (Tor, 1994)
Sequel to 1974 and 1978 Charnas. In this volume, Alldera leads a troop of Free Fems and Horsewomen back to the Holdfast, where they defeat the men and free the women. See also 1999 Charnas.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1937); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955); Jon Burrowes; Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) (Tor, 1994)
A shared future history anthology related to Smith's 1993 In the Cube, which was written during the collaboration on this volume. The basic premise is that Boston is sinking and that as it sinks some of it will simply disappear under water and that the remaining sections will struggle for survival and come into conflict with each other. To complicate matters a wide variety of different aliens arrive in Boston and become part of everyday life. One of those aliens is testing humans for admission into the interstellar world. Humanity apparently passes the test and at the end Boston reunites and establishes itself as a separate country. The volume is composed of numerous stories and vignettes, a few previously published, maps of Boston in 1772, 1990, 2014, 2030, 2050, and 2061, and an "Afterword: How It Came to Be" (376-82) by David Smith. The contents are Smith, "'Boston Will Sink, Claims MIT Prof'" (9-10); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1947), "Seeing the Edge" (12-29); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956), "Nomads" (30-52); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955), "Projects" (53-70) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine [the copyright page incorrectly says Analog] 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 104-17; David Smith, "Dying in Hull" (71-87) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 12.11 (136) (November 1988): 62-66, 68-75; and in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 497-508 with an Editor's note on 496; and in Isaac Asimov's Earth. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 1992), 19-34. Jon Burrowes, "The Elephant-Ass Thing" (89-108); Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952), "The Parade" (109-21); Jablokov, "Seating Arrangement" (122-32); Burrowes, "The Uprising" (133-36); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) and Sarah Smith, "Fennario" (137-52); Landis, "Topology of the Loophole" (153-56); Popkes, "Not for Broadcast" (157-62); David Smith, "When the Phneri Fell" (163-66) rpt. from Figment, no. 1 (October 1989): 23-24; which was rpt. Figment, no. 15 (Fall 1993): 27-28; Popkes and David Smith, "Playing Chess with the Bishop" (168-73); Jablokov, "Letter to the Editor" (174-75); David Smith, "Who Is Venture Capital?" (176-77); Jablokov, "IPOB Dining Hall Procedures," (178-80); Popkes, "So You Want to Meet the Bishop" (181-85); Landis, "Camomile and Crimson; or, The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife" (186-98) originally published as "The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife." Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 110.5 (April 1990): 135-43; Popkes, "The Test" (198-222); Jablokov, "The Place of No Shadows" (223-46) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.11& 12 (162& 163) (November 1990): 170-86; Jablokov, "The Lady of Port Moresby Incident" (248-49); Sarah Smith, "Three Boston Artists" (250-66) rpt. from Aboriginal Science Fiction 4.4 (22) (July-August 1990): 2, 59-63 with illus on 3 and 58; Jablokov, "Focal Plane" (267-86); Sarah Smith, "Ye Citizens of Boston" (287-328); Jablokov, "The Adoption" (330-51) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.12& 13 (177& 178) (November 1991): 200-15; Jablokov, "WereWhereWear" (352-53); and David Smith, "Sail Away" (354-75).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020); Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017); Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) (William Morrow, 1994)
Dystopia but with some hope of improvement. A future world deeply divided between the rich and the poor but with positive change taking place.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

“Future Schlock” - Arthur Goldstuck (Playboy (South Africa), 1994)
Dystopia. A future society without rain in which water becomes a medium of exchange. Books have been outlawed, and there is an illicit trade in them.
Rpt. as “December Rain.” http://www.legends.org.za/arthur/rain.htm.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

"Gaia, The Planetary Religion: The Sacred Marriage of Art and Science" - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) (Dissertation, 1994)
New Age eutopia. See also 1988 Hubbard and 2002 Bufe and Hubbard.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Galac 19" - Clay Caldwell (Honcho Overload, 1994)
Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica. Presents sexual slavery as desirable.
Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 77-87.
Keywords: Male author

Genetic Soldier - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) (William Morrow, 1994)
The novel begins in a simple, fairly primitive future earth that practices eugenics. Conflict arises when a starship returns from its search for a new earth.
Rpt. New York: AvoNova, 1995.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Go Down, Moses" - Gillian [Margaret] Rubinstein (b. 1942) (The Patternmaker: Nine Science Fiction Stories, 1994)
Dystopia of a future world divided between vegetarians and meat eaters with the meat eaters killing any vegetarians who wander into their territory.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Golden Swan" - Leigh Kennedy (b. 1951) (Interzone, 1994)
World with few children and its effects.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Gun, With Occasional Music - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) (Harcourt Brace, 1994)
Future authoritarian dystopia presented as a mystery novel set in the future. Drugs, including "Forgettol", "Acceptol", and "Regrettol" which do what their names suggest, and can be blended to produce a combination. Detectives are known as Inquisitors. Personal questions considered impolite. Sex change operations are common. There are evolved animals.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2001.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Hard Drive" - Steven A. Bonvissulo (Meltdown! An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy for Gay Men, 1994)
Dystopia about the suppression of homosexuals and the homosexual rebels.
Keywords: Male author

Heavy Weather - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Bantam Books, 1994)
World depicted after ecological disaster. Various social systems develop to cope with the situation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Hidden War - Michael [Allan] Armstrong (b. 1956) (TSR, 1994)
Flawed technological utopia that suppresses knowledge of the fact that the utopia is at war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A History Maker - Alasdair [James] Gray (1934-2019) (Canongate, 1994)
Complex novel of a future world in which women have used a free source of power to create a decentralized eutopia and men fight wars. Temporary destruction of some of the power sources may lead to men being more involved.
[Rev. ed.]. London: Penguin Books, 1995. Part originally published as "The History Maker." Chapman, no. 50-51 (10.1& 2) (Summer 1987): 128-31.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Horseman - Mike Nicol (b. 1951) (Bloomsbury, 1994)
Early South Africa as dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Hot Sky At Midnight - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Bantam Books, 1994)
Dystopia concerned with technology and its effects.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Jazamine in the Green Wood" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 1994)
Women dominant portrayed as a dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Jericho Iteration - Allen [Mulherin] Steele [Jr.] (b. 1958) (Ace Books, 1994)
Authoritarian dystopia. Hard SF set in St. Louis after the next great earthquake.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Justice City - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Victor Gollancz, 1994)
Thriller set in a dystopian penal system of the future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Kay and Phil" - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) (Alien Shores: An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction, 1994)
Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) visits her dystopia, Swastika Night (1937) with Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) when he was working on The Man in a High Castle (1962).
Rpt. in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (London: Viking, 1995), 533-53; in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 116-39; in her Absolute Uncertainty: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006), 21-47; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 49-69.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

The Kolbrin (The Hope Trust, 1994)
A conservative eutopia in the form of a collection of holy books. In particular, the eutopia is presented in “The Book of Morals and Precepts” (246-315). A sequel is The Gospel of the Kailedy. Previously called The Book of The Illuminators Having The Authority of The Nasorines. This being the second volume of The Kolbrin. Coromandel, New Zealand: The Culdian Trust, 1998, which ties the material explicitly to Christianity. See also 1981 The Book of Gwineva.

A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 2: Stand Alone Stan - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Gollancz, 1994)
The second 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 1993, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, the three young Romans are forced to flee the security of the village in the forests where they found refuge in the first volume.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Land O'Goshen - Charles McNair (A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press, 1994)
Future war between government and Christian right. Religious dictatorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Last Resort" - Jain Scott (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1994)
Eutopia and dystopia. Rich people can choose a eutopian life inside a computer system.
Keywords: Australian author

Little Sisters of the Apocalypse - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Black Ice Books, 1994)
Unusual dystopia. The "Little Sisters of the Apocalypse" are biker nuns who are expert hackers. Focus is on a society of women waiting for men to return from the war.
Rpt. in her Seven for the Apocalypse. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1999), 73-203.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Marisol - José Rivera (b. 1955) (Dramatists Play Service, 1994)
Dystopia with hope for transformation held out at the end. The dystopia is a version of contemporary urban reality.
Rpt. in Marisol and Other Plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1997), 1-68. Rev. ed. Marisol. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1999.
Keywords: Male author; Puerto Rican author; US author

The Mask of Freedom - Peter Wilhelm (1943-2021) (Ad Donker Press, 1994)
Near future, post-revolutionary dystopia in South Africa with both white and black dystopias.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

"The Matter of Seggri" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Crank! Science Fiction--Fantasy, 1994)
History of a society based on gender separation with women, who far outnumber the men, dominant. The men live in castles, play games, and have contests in order to be chosen by the women as sexual partners and, in particular, to father children. The women do everything else. Over the very long history small changes are made including the beginnings of education for some of the men.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 493-526; and in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1996), 253-92; in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Exploration in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 347-84; in Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 23-68. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 23-68; 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), 133-73; in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 473-518; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 149-95.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mission in Space - John B. Selby Sr., M.D. (b. 1916) (Vantage Press, 1994)
The brief novel presents two worlds, both of which can be considered flawed utopias with an abrupt shift between the two and an equally abrupt ending. The first, Antiochus, is a high-tech society with no nations, no racial issues due to interbreeding, a carefully maintained ecology. Women deal with public matters, men mostly with the domestic. But everyone is entirely focused on themselves with no interest in others and production declining and lots of accidents and no one cares. The other, Earth in 2379, has all intellectuals on the moon and everyone on the surface of the Earth is focused on their bodies. Gender equality. Solar power. Not really developed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Music, in a Foreign Language - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) (Dedalus, 1994)
The background to the novel is an authoritarian dystopia in England. First volume of a trilogy, although this volume has little to do with the other two. See also 1995 Crumey and the non-utopian D’Alembert’s Principle: Memory, Reason and Imagination. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng.: Dedalus, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

My Journey With Aristotle to the Anarchist Utopia - Graham Purchase (III Press, 1994)
An Australian laborer is beaten by the police and wakes up in and anarchist eutopia in which nation states no longer exist and people live in communities based on the way they want to live. The city that is the main focus is a high-tech society with the technology entirely biologically based, including an about to be launched spaceship. The people are predominantly vegetarian supplemented by fish from the rivers that run through it, chickens raised locally, and game from the surrounding wilderness. Most local transport by bicycle, and there are tunnels for bicycles throughout the city. It turns out to be a dream.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Mysterium - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1994)
A small town in Michigan is suddenly thrust into an alternative timeline and finds itself in an authoritarian, religious dystopia. Martial law and rationing are instituted, and people are regularly executed for any resistance. Much of the novel is about the resistance.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Native Tongue III: Earthsong - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (DAW Books, 1994)
The third volume of a trilogy following 1984 and 1987 Elgin. In this volume the women’s revolution begins with a minority of the men supporting them, but most men are still violently resisting at the end of the novel.
Rpt. as Native Tongue 3: Earthsong. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with an “Afterword The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 257-68. 2nd ed. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2002 with a “Foreword: Evolutionary Song” on v-ix and an “Afterword: The Meandering Feminist Revolution of Earthsong” by Susan M. Squiers and Julie Vedder on 221-34. PSt
Keywords: Female author; US author

Necroville - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Gollancz, 1994)
Dystopia with the dead revived.
U.S. ed. as Terminal Cafe. New York: Bantam Books, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"Nekropolis" - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 1994)
Dystopia of slavery as background to a love story about a slave and an android.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 77-110.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ngati Kangaru" - Patricia Grace (The Sky People and Other Stories, 1994)
Humorous Māori eutopia in which the Māori reclaim Aotearoa New Zealand from the pākehā (Europeans) who tricked their ancestors into signing over land. Since the pākehā used deeds signed by people who didn't own the land, they did the same and occupied resorts, summer homes, and golf courses when not being used and central Auckland where no one lived anymore. Families moved in and business catering to them opened. Her best-known novel, Potiki, Auckland, New Zealand: Penguin Books (N.Z.), 1986, resonates with this story in that it is concerned with Māori defending their ancestral land from developers.
Rpt. (London: Women's Press, 1994), 25-43. Story rpt. in Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. Comp. and ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas (Alice Springs, NT, Australia: Jukurrpa Books, 2000), 131-44.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Māori author

No Retreat - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
Alternative history dystopia in which Nazis rule Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author