"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

"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

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

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

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

"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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Elvissey - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (Tor, 1993)
A volume in the DryCo series. Dystopian satire of a corrupt urban future that involves an attempt to kidnap a young Elvis to turn him into a demigod in that future. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone. Although there are multiple alternative histories in the series, in timeline order, the volumes are 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence, 1990 Heathern, 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elivissey, and 2000 Going, Going, Gone.
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1993.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Land Fit for Heroes. Book 1: Escape to the Wild Wood - [Anthony] Phillip Mann (1942-2022) (Victor Gollancz, 1993)
The first volume of a four-volume alternative history of a Roman Britain in the late Twentieth Century and the conflicts between the Romans who deforested much of Britain as a source of food and the traditions of the native British. See also 1994, 1995 and 1996 Mann. In this volume, three young Romans flee to the forests and discover the older Britain. The novel stresses the cold rationality of the Romans in contrast to the more feeling British. See the note at 1982 Mann.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vurt - Jeff Noon (b. 1957) (Ringpull Press, 1993)
Dystopia set in Manchester, England. Vurt is a drug that creates almost a virtual reality.
U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1995. 342 pp. 0517599910. Rpt. as the 30th anniversary edition. London: Angry Robot/Watkins Media Ltd, 2023, with an Introduction by Adam Roberts (9-13) and an Afterword by Jeff Noon (373-375). 375 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Indiana Jones and the Interior World - MacGregor, Rob (Bantam Books, 1992)
An adventure novel set partially in a dystopian interior of the Earth.
Keywords: Male author

Jizz: The Story of a New Renaissance Man and the Riddle of Existence - John Hart (Black Swan, 1992)
Satire set in 21st century Europe which has broken up into city-states.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

A Journal of the Flood Year - [David Eli] [Lilienthal] (b. 1927) (David I. Fine, 1992)
Flawed eutopia. Follows the development of a catastrophe in a technologically advanced but authoritarian society. Socially this future has a "Second Bill of Rights" guaranteeing the right of each citizen "a healthy and pain-free longevity, and the full development of his or her capacity for physical pleasure." Almost no physical contact, drugs and machines for pleasure. No live births. The US that has built a wall far out into the Atlantic. The novel follows the protagonist through the US prison system where he has been sent for arguing that the wall is leaking.
U.K. ed. London: Phoenix, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee" - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) (Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales, 1992)
Near future dystopia of a collapsing high-tech society.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 346-56; and in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 365-79.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Heterosexual" - [Garvin Robert] [Gilbert] (b. 1917) (By the Light of the Moon, 1992)
Dystopia from the perspective of the point-of-view character, who lives in a eutopia from the point-of-view of the rest. See the note at 1952 Gilbert.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Last Human - Tom De Haven (b. 1949) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Fantasy that includes an attempt to build a eutopia. Mostly action. The first two books--Walker of Worlds (New York: Bantam Books, 1990) and The End-of-Everything Man (Garden City: Doubleday, 1991) are not utopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Let Us Prey - Bill Branon (Black Seal Press, 1992)
A dystopia of a U.S. with government waste and corruption and the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service) as an authoritarian institution trying to collect taxes by any means possible. A taxpayers' revolt overthrows the system, but the ending suggests further problems to come and possible sequels, but none were published.
Rpt. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995.
Keywords: Male author

Major Gentl and the Achimota War - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) (Heinemann, 1992)
Achimota City in 2020 A.D. is the scene of a war between good and evil. Some dystopia and some eutopia. Surreal. Includes a Glossary.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

A Million Open Doors - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Tor, 1992)
The first of four volumes set in the future of humanity’s spread across the galaxy, creating the Thousand Cultures. In this novel two different cultures are brought into contact, and both begin to change, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Sequels set in the same Thousand Culture future include 1998 Barnes: The Merchants of Souls. New York: Tor, 2001 and The Armies of Memory. New York: Tor, 2006 which are not utopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Miracle River (or Shit River)" - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) (The Fiction Review, 1992)
A future dystopian Los Angeles of extreme poverty overseen by the United Nations. In 2019 water appears in the Los Angeles River for the first time in years, followed by vegetation, which had not existed in Los Angeles since 2010, and animals followed, and people built shelters near the river even though it stank and was known colloquially as Shit River.
Rpt. in his Life at the End of Time: Stories and Essays (Seattle, WA: Black Heron Press, 1992), 39-42.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mountain Made of Light - Edward Myers (b. 1950) (Roc, 1992)
Lost race eutopia of an advanced Incan civilization. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Fire and Ice: Volume Two of The Mountain Trilogy. New York: Roc, 1992, the descendants of the Incans are divided into factions. In the final volume, The Summit. Book Three of The Mountain Made of Light. New York: Roc, 1994, the mountain is successfully climbed, and peace brought to the people.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Multiplex Man - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Anti-technology dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

Negrophobia: An Urban Parable - Darius James (b. 1954) (Citadel Press, 1992)
An experimental novel that explores the dystopia of American racism.
Rpt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993; and New York: New York Review Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Amy Abugo Ongiri (vii-xvi); and a “Preface” by the author (xvii-xxvi).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The New City - Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012) (Simon & Schuster, 1992)
Architectural eutopia. Architectural drawings, cityscapes, and buildings combined with short essays that make the utopianism explicit. Designed for people who are autonomous individuals living experimentally.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Next" - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992)
Dystopia of racism in the future when dark skins are preferred as protection against the hole in the ozone layer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Our Small Part" - Michael S. Cummings (b. 1943) (1992)
Unpublished novel that the author calls a practical utopia. The novel describes the town of Link, CO, includes a one-page constitution, and is organized around the way people live within the terms of the different articles of the constitution
Keywords: Male author; US author

Parsnips and Prune Juice: Comic Mayhem in the Year 2049 - Burnett R. Toskey (b. 1929) (University Editions, 1992)
Humor in a futuristic setting. Some eutopia; some dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Passion Play - [Michael Sean] [Irwin] (b. 1965) (Beach Holme Publishers, 1992)
Religious dystopia in which the pro-life Redemption Presidency rules and encourages vigilantes to kill and the police subcontracts to freelances to arrest criminals, who are executed on television.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1993.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Perfect Match" - Steve Stanton (On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic, 1992)
Dystopia set in a future in which the poor sell body-parts to survive.
Rpt. illus. Jose Beatas. Kasma Magazine (August 2010). https://www.kasmamagazine.com/perfect-match.html.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A Philosophical Investigation - Philip [Ballantyne] Kerr (1956-2018) (Chatto & Windus, 1992)
A murder mystery set in a high-tech dystopian future. A computer named Lombroso is supposed to be able to detect people with tendencies to violence, but a man using the name Wittgenstein thwarts the system.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Pro vs. Con" - Clay Caldwell (Drummer, 1992)
Dystopia. 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), 55-65.
Keywords: Male author

The Quicksilver Screen - Don H. DeBrandt (b. 1963) (Ballantine Books, 1992)
Dystopia in which Infinite Range TV allows people to view, and ultimately establish contact with alternative realities.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Rag Doll Plagues - Alejandro Morales (b. 1944) (Arete Público, 1992)
The novel is set in northwest Mexico/Southwest U.S. with the first book set in the past, the second in the present and the third in the future when the area is Lamex, a technocratic federation, where there is a sharp division between those living Higher Life Existence cities and those living in Lower Life Existence cities. Genetic engineering is a significant theme.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (HarperCollins, 1992)
The first volume of a trilogy focusing on the colonization of Mars with conflicts over what the future of Mars should be playing out both on Mars and on Earth. See also 1993 Robinson, Green Mars and 1996 Robinson, Blue Mars. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322/23/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79).
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1993. An excerpt was published as “Red Mars.” Interzone, no. 63 (September 1992): 6-15 followed by personal comment “I Go to Mars” by Robinson (15). Another excerpt was published as “Festival Night From Red Mars.” Nebula Awards 29. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 47-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Remember, the Dead Say" - Jean-Louis Trudel (b. 1967) (Tesseracts, 1992)
Dystopia. The U.S. has fragmented, with the capital of the Free State Alliance in Omaha, Nebraska. The FSA has been successfully invaded by the Franco-Maghrebi Coalition, which controls Eastern Canada and has imposed Sharia (Islamic) law. The opposition comes from net experts from both countries.
Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 102-13.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author