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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Bicycle Repairman" - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology, 1996)
Dystopia set in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2037. The background to the story is the NAFTA Government, a new country that has abolished the U.S. Constitution. The story focuses on an independent bicycle repairman working in a shop in part of a building that was burned out in a riot in an area where people are leading independent lives free from the authoritarian system that surrounds them. The ending suggests that the area will regenerate, and the rich will move back.
Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 20.10&11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 156-85; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 254-78; in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 234-78 without the added material and with a note on 234-35; in his A Good Old-Fashioned Future. Stories New York: Bantam Books, 1999, 188-228; U.K. ed. as A Good Old-Fashioned Future (London: Gollancz, 2001), 188-228; and in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 3-35; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 790-807 with an editor’s note on 790.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (HarperCollins, 1996)
Third volume in a trilogy describing the terraforming of Mars and the growth of societies there. Sequel to 1992 Robinson, Red Mars.  and 1994 Robinson, Green Mars. This volume describes the terraformed Mars, the continuing conflicts over what should be done to change Mars, and the eutopian society that develops there contrasted with the dystopia that Earth has become. The eutopian is one in which a variety of societies coexist peacefully with an emphasis on community. A story set further into the future of Mars is his “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction. 23.10 (285) (October/November 1999): 14-28; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Seventeenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 434-47 with an editor’s note on 433. Materials related to the trilogy were published as The Martians. New York: Bantam Books, 1999. U.K. edition. London: HarperCollins, 1999, which reprints his “Exploring Fossil Canyon.” Universe 12. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982), 26-47; “Sexual Dimorphism.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.6 (281) (June 1999): 28-39; and “A Martian Romance.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.10[/11] (285) (October-November 1999): 14-28. In addition, The Martians includes poems “Six Poems from If Wang Wei Lived on Mars rpt. in his Stan’s Kitchen: A Robinson Reader. Ed. David C. Grubbs (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 125-143 [“Crossing Mather Pass” (311-11/127-28), “Invisible Owls” (315-16/129-30), “Tenzing” (317-19/131-33), “The Red’s Lament” (322/23/135-136), “A Report on the First Recorded Case of Areophagy” (320-21/137-39)], and “Two Years” (324/27/141-43), and the story “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars” (179-88/171-79).
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1997. Rpt. illus. Ron Miller with an “Introduction” by James Gunn (v-viii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

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

"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

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

"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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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