"Requiem for the General" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Perth, WA, Australia), 1992)
See also 1990 Maloney (2); 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver"; and 1998 Maloney. Set in the same future as these other stories, but this story focuses on the manipulation of history to buttress support for the regime.
Rpt. in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 178-98.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Resurrections From the Dustbin of History. A Political Fantasy - Simon Louvish (b. 1947) (Bloomsbury, 1992)
Alternative history dystopia beginning in 1968 when Leon Trotsky, who has led the U.S.S.R. for forty-four years, dies. Benito Mussolini still rules Italy, and Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are U.S. politicians. Racial conflict in the U.S.
U.S. ed. as The Resurrections: A Novel. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Israeli author; Male author

The Revengers - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Young adult post-nuclear catastrophe dystopian series focusing on the experiences five boys. Sequels include, in order, Beyond the Grave. London: Bantam, 1992; The Horned God. London: Bantam, 1992; and The Plague. London: Bantam, 1992.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Right Now - Olaf Egeberg (b. 1937) (McGee Street Press, 1992)
Eutopia based on cooperation with the focus on small communities. Refers to a number of intentional communities as models. Suggests the need for a universal language such as Esperanto. The book ends with specific suggestions on how to start at the local level. See also 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

"Scenes From Successive Futures" - Tom Marshall (1938-93) (Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction, 1992)
Flawed utopia. A city, probably an enlarged Toronto and enlarged Montréal combined, is under a great dome with a germ and virus-free environment and people no longer leaving the city. Little crime or violence. Behind the façade there had been nuclear war and the dome is actually a spaceship; the news of the world outside is manufactured; even though people vote, there is no national government; the Prime Minister is an actor; and Canada is a fiction.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Sheltered Lives - Charles [G.] Oberndorf (b. 1959) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Government control of AIDS-like disease brings dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Snow Crash - Neal [Town] Stephenson (b. 1959) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Slightly revised 30th Anniversary ed. New York: Del Rey/Penguin Random House, 2022.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sojourn in Tomorrow: a possible voyage into man's future - Julius K. Vogel ([Author], 1992)
Detailed eutopia continuing 1966 Vogel and examines two parts of a city, the suburbs, and the entertainment district, which is an older part of the city. The former has new houses with substantial space around them and the latter is much more concentrated with old buildings. The latter also has beggars, poverty, violence, and prostitution. The visitor from the past is convinced that having spent time in the suburbs, he needs to move to the entertainment district to get complete picture.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Space Traders" - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) (Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, 1992)
Dystopian satire. Aliens visiting the US offer to provide the country with everything needed to solve many of its problems in exchange for the entire African American population. Offered enough gold to bail out the country, chemicals that can un-pollute the environment, and a safe nuclear energy and fuel to overcome the energy crisis, the US government agrees, and all African Americans are loaded onto what are obviously slave ships. See also 1987, 1991, and 1998 Bell. For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu.
Rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 326-55. An earlier, shorter version was published as “The Chronicles of the Space Traders” as part of his “After We're Gone: Prudent Speculations on America in a Post-Racial Epoch A Forum on Derrick Bell's Civil Rights Chronicles--1989 Sanford E Sarasohn Memorial Lecture.” Saint Louis University Law Journal 34.3 (Spring 1990): 397-400. The issue of the journal includes articles discussing the story. A slightly different version was published under the same title as part of his “Racism: A Prophecy for the Year 2000.” Rutgers Law Review 42.1 (Fall 1989): 96-100.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Steel Beach - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) (Ace Books/Putnam's, 1992)
A flawed utopia on the moon (Luna) after Earth was destroyed by aliens. No illness, climate control, people can change gender at will, racial characteristics are rare, extremely long lives. But people, and even the Central Computer, which runs pretty-much everything, are feeling depressed. The protagonist is a newspaperman/woman who is given the assignment to develop a series on Earth’s past. The book includes an “Author’s Note” (480) explaining that while the novel is set in the same future as his Eight Worlds future history, which includes four novels and eighteen stories, he has not bothered to try to keep the chronology straight. For an overview of the Eight Worlds, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds. For publication details, see http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?567.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Taxi-Driver" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Aurealis: The Australian Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1992)
This story together with 1990 Maloney "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future flawed utopia become dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General".
Rpt. as “The Taxi Driver.” In his Tales from the Crypto-System ( Canton, OH : Prime Books, 2003), 87-103
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

This Day and Age - Mike Nicol (b. 1951) (Bloomsbury, 1992)
Dystopia. Reworking of South African history.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

The Throwaways - Ian Strachan (b. 1938) (Methuen, 1992)
The novel is set in the near future and concerns a group of homeless children, who re known as the throwaways.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Truth Is In The Word" - Werner Goers (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1992)
Dystopia presenting the Second Coming and the Antichrist and the New World Order. Labeled an advertisement.
Keywords: Male author

Underworld - Peter Conrad (b. 1948) (Chatto & Windus, 1992)
Dystopia. Division between haves and have-nots.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Virtuous Reality" - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Interzone, 1992)
Dystopia. Overpopulated world requiring licenses to have a child. Families tend to be eight to ten parents and one child. Man wants monogamy in a world of multiple partners both serially and living together at the same time. No passion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Worlds Enough and Time: The Conclusion of the "Worlds" Trilogy - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (William Morrow, 1992)
Sequel to 1981 and 1983 Haldeman. In this volume, thousands of people leave Earth for a new planet on the spaceship Newhome, which, during the trip, experiences conflict among the passengers and sabotage of the ship. They finally reach a planet inhabited by a space faring race that had directed them there and settle.
Rpt. without the subtitle New York: AvoNova, 1993. The poem "Benny's Song" (p. 11 without a title) first appeared in Pulpsmith 6.2 (Summer 1986): 147 as by Joe and Gay Haldeman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2084: A Novel - Larry W. Poland Ph.D. (b. 1939) (Here's Life Publishers, 1991)
Eutopia and dystopia contrasting the millennial reign of Christ with the “World of Imprisoned Souls” with Biblical references (259-63). Three people from the past are transported to the millennial kingdom, which is nearing the end of the thousand years and approaching Armageddon. Not belonging there, they become a focus for competition between the two realms. Earth, which is composed of 144 kingdoms, each led by a governor appointed by God, has been renovated by God so as to be Eden-like, albeit with cities. Strict deference to authority. All minds open to everyone, but, of course, all thoughts are virtuous. Each person has a “perfect body” (70). Animals, such as tigers, are vegetarians.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Achilles' Choice - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938); Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Tor, 1991)
Eutopia based on a dystopian authoritarian system in which selection for the top the elite is made by an Olympics that combines mental and physical skills with the losers not surviving.
Keywords: African American author; Male author; US author

"Any Major Dude" - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) (New Worlds, 1991)
Eutopia in Africa being brought about by nanotechnology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Barn Raising" - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) (In the Air, 1991)
Contrast between the elaborate plans for a utopia to be adopted by government and the actual eutopia of small town cooperation.
Originally published in Mesechabe.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Below the Line - Eric [Paul] Willmot (b. 1938) (Hutchinson Australia, 1991)
An Indonesian invasion of Australia divides it into two countries, both authoritarian dystopias and creates an Asian Australia. At the end of the novel, the dystopias are becoming less authoritarian.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Book of Love. Part One of a trilogy, begun in 1984 from a remark made by a friend, Jagdish Parikh, who said, in Kausani, foothills of the Himalaya, "What is Love?" - Aaron John Beth'el (b. 1954) (Puriri Press, 1991)
New Age eutopia. No more of the trilogy published, but the author published a collected of love poems entitled Sacred Promise fleches d'amour. Auckland, New Zealand: Puriri Press, 1993. 2nd ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Puriri Press, 1994.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

A Candle or the Sun - Gopal Baratham (1935-2002) (Serpent’s Tail., 1991)
The novel is set in an authoritarian dystopia that is in conflict with a cult called the Children of the Book.
Keywords: Male author; Singaporean author

"Centigrade 233" - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (The Bradbury Chronicles: Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury, 1991)
Another version of the burning of books inspired by 1953 Bradbury.
Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 239-49. U.K. ed. (London: Severn House, 1992), 190-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Creating an Ecologically Sustainable Australia for 2001" - Phillip Toyne (Social Alternatives (Brisbane, QLD, Australia), 1991)
Ecological eutopia described in a section entitled "A Vision of Future Australia" (8-9).
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Crows" - Bart Meehan (Aurealis (Melbourne, Vic, Australia), 1991)
Authoritarian dystopia with all aspects of life regulated and punishment for breaking any of the many rules. A small group of young friends, the existence of which breaks rules, undermines the system.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

A Dog's Chance - Michael Haughney (b. 1963) (The Book Guild, 1991)
Surreal dystopia set in 2002 with lots of sex and violence.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Dominant Style" - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1991)
Flawed utopia. Far future genetically engineered eutopia which has produced an unchanging, inflexible society because everyone’s position in life, including occupation, is genetically determined. Following the story is a footnote on 245 that concludes “Imagine a world where industry and population are balanced and sustainable, where war is a hazy memory, and where crime seldom amounts to more than petty theft. If the people were happy, healthy and free, would it matter that they lived under some constraints?”
Rpt. in his Call to the Edge (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion, 1992), 225-45.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Downriver (Or, The Vessels of Wrath) A Narrative in Twelve Tales - Iain [MacGregor] Sinclair (b. 1943) (Paladin, 1991)
Dystopia of the East End of London being destroyed under the policies of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. Prime Minister 1979-90).
U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Empire of Green - Paul Cheo (b. 1919) (Vantage Press, 1991)
Detailed ecological eutopia that begins in the Garden of Eden and briefly follows Biblical history. A group of Christians called Saners decide to leave Europe in the 14th century to find a place where they will be able to live a life in tune with their beliefs. They create the Empire of Green, and over time, they choose to shrink their size and become green. High tech. All menial work shared among all. No money.
Keywords: Chinese-American author; Male author; US author

Fallen Angels - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938); Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017); Michael [Francis] Flynn (1947-2023) (Baen, 1991)
Greens produce an anti-technological dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. An excerpt was published in Niven’s Playgrounds of the Mind (New York: Tor, 1991), 684-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Foreword: The Final Civil Rights Act” - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) (California Law Review, 1991)
Congress passes an act under which “all employers, proprietors of public facilities, and owners and managers of dwelling places, homes and apartments could, on application to the federal government, obtain a license authorizing the holders, their managers, agents, and employees to exclude or separate persons on the basis of race and color” (47-48). See also, 1987, 1992, and 1998 Bell.
Rpt. as “The Racial Preference Licensing Act.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 47-64, 204-06.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

A Generation of the Dark Heart - Sorel-Cameron, James (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991)
Surreal dystopia created through the fantasies of one man. Extremely violent.
Keywords: Male author

Ghost of Chance - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991)
Complex short work that includes a suggestion of a eutopia based on Libertalia settlement possibly established by the pirate Captain Misson (ca 1660-ca 1690s) on Madagascar together with an authoritarian dystopia that fails to contain plagues unleashed by its own actions. 1981 Burroughs is also partially based on the pirate settlement.
Rpt. London: Serpent's Tail, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Halo - Tom [Daniel Thomas] Maddox (1945-2022) (Tor, 1991)
Eutopian cyberpunk set on a space station using Artificial Intelligence that puts a positive spin on the idea of people being uploaded into a machine intelligence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Heirs of Columbus - Gerald [Robert] Vizenor (b. 1934) (Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, 1991)
Future Caribbean Island Indian eutopia using elements of past Indian cultures. See also 1978 and 2016 Vizenor.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Hellbound Train - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) (Popular Library, 1991)
Sequel to 1990 [Sanders]. In this novel, some individuals collaborate to defeat a man set on killing all those opposing him.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"How Utopia Works" - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93); Francis Golffing (1910-2012) (Possibility: An Essay in Utopian Vision, 1991)
Part non-fiction eutopia, part analysis in two sections, "The Social Fabric" and "The Economic Function." Not in the earlier edition--Possibility; An Essay in Utopian Vision. Foreword. Introductory. The Oedipal Personality. Amherst, MA: The Green Knight Press, 1963 (HRC). Summarized in the statement ". . . our utopia is a non-regulated society in which people choose as freely as possible among the options which life affords them" (72).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Illuminati - Larry Burkett (Thomas Nelson, 1991)
Dystopia in which a secret society manages to gain control of the U.S. and, as a result, the world's finances. It establishes the Data-Net, through which it is able to target any group of people and interfere with their finances.
Keywords: Male author

"I.M. Australia" - Jack Hibberd (Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers, 1991)
In 2000 James Joyce and his wife visit a future dystopia in which a seriously polluted Australia has become dominated by Americans and Japanese.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Inquisitor - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) (Black Heron Press, 1991)
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Invisible Country" - Paul J[ames] McAuley (b. 1955) (When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology, 1991)
Dystopia of an extreme division between the rich and the poor where gangs run the poor areas and violence is common. A biological agent that makes people caring is spread around the world and the dystopia is being replaced with a better society.
Rpt. in his The Invisible Country (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996), 13-34, with an "Afterword" on 35.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Island Civilization: A Vision For Planet Earth in the Year 2992" - Roderick Frazier Nash (Wild Earth, 1991)
Environmental eutopia. The 1.5 billion humans will live in 500 "concentrated habitats which would incorporate "food and material production and energy generation." These habitats would hold about three million people each and could rise a mile above the earth or ocean and go a mile deep. The rest of the planet would be wilderness.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Jago - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
Surrealistic dystopia with elements of a horror novel centered on a small religious community that is based on an actual English community, Agapemone (meaning the Abode of Love), established in England in the mid-nineteenth century whose last member died in the mid-twentieth century.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Journey South" - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Interzone, 1991)
Depopulated future and its problems and prophets. Appears to be eutopian but not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Judson's Eden - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Baen, 1991)
The creation of a eutopia and the attempts to destroy it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Real New Yorker in the World” - James D. Macdonald (b. 1954); Debra Doyle (1952-2020) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
The dystopia of New York City as a theme park.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” - Michael A[ustin] Stackpole (b. 1957) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Satire on a future New York that has outlawed candy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lunar Justice - Charles L[eonard] Harness (1915-2005) (Avon, 1991)
Dystopia focusing on a corrupt legal system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Madlands - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
Dystopia. A reality-challenged Los Angeles.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mating - Norman Rush (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)
Search for a purported feminist utopia in Africa founded by a male scholar.
Rpt. New York: Vintage International, [1992].
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Maze of Stars - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ballantine Books, 1991)
Tour of worlds seeded by humans showing their development. Most are dystopian; a few have eutopian elements.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mirage - Perry Brass (Belhue Press, 1991)
Erotic novel that includes a gay male eutopia. His Circles.  Bronx , NY: Belhue Press, 1993 is a sequel.
Keywords: Male author

"The Moat" - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (Aurealis, 1991)
The story concerns the possible emergence of a new, superior species of humans set in a future Australia with a worsening climate crisis that becomes an excuse for the country’s mistreatment of refugees. It ends with a worry about all current humans becoming the “other” to the new ones.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Next Three Futures: Paradigms of Things to Come - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) (Greenwood Press, 1991)
Most of the book is about the study of the future and alternative scenarios that such a study can produce. The last chapter suggests that the actual future can be a world-wide eutopia.
U.K. ed. London: Adamantine Press, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Nice Place to Visit” - Warren Murphy (b. 1933); Molly Cochran (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

No Such Country: A Book of Antipodean Hours - Gary [David] Crew (b. 1947) (William Heinemann Australia, 1991)
Young adult authoritarian religious dystopia called New Canaan that is ruled by one man and the successful struggle against him.
Rpt. Port Melbourne, VIC, VIC, Australia: Mammoth Australia, 1992.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Planet Way Over Yonder - Stephen Ryan (Department of Communication, Gallaudet University., 1991)
An American Sign Language story set on a planet where the majority of inhabitants are deaf while a small minority is hearing.
Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qn-6AO48ec&list=PLa0CgD4r5VYhSr9XdWqT3DnAJbAZScZ8N&index=5
Keywords: Deaf author; Male author; US author

"Pogrom" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1991)
Dystopia of youth versus age told from the point-of-view of a well-off older woman who does not understand the antagonism of the young who live in dormitories. Said to be “a companion pieces to 1988 Kelly, “Home Front”.
Rpt. in Fires of the Past: Thirteen Contemporary Fantasies About Hometowns. Ed. Anne Devereaux Jordan (New York: St. Martins, Press, 1991), 81-99; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 422-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Prince" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (When the Music's Over: A Benefit Anthology, 1991)
Dystopia of corporate greed, environmental collapse and violence.
Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 197-223, with an author's note on 197.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Reasonable World - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (Tor, 1991)
Development of a peaceful world against the background of authoritarian governments. The third volume of a trilogy with the first two non-utopian; see CV. New York: Tor, 1985. Originally published in a shorter version in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1984); and The Observers New York: Tor, 1988.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Remembering the Future" - John Hepworth (Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers, 1991)
Humor tracing changes between 1990 and 2015 with some presentation of a future eutopia in which racism and sexism have disappeared, environmental damage has ended, and religion has declined in power because the human race had become more ethical by following the beliefs of the Australian Aborigines, who are revealed as the earliest humans.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Russian Spring - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Bantam Books, 1991)
A future with a revitalized Russia and Europe and a stagnating United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sacred Fire." - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (There Won't Be War, 1991)
World built around nuclear terror as a method of peacekeeping.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Savior of Fire - Robert B. Boardman (Blue Note Books, 1991)
Eutopian planet in balance and harmony is discovered by Earth, whose representatives try to dominate it and extract its resources. Ultimately the planet remains free.
Keywords: Male author

"SEAQ and Destroy." - Charles [David George] Stross (b. 1964) (There Won't Be War, 1991)
Humorous satire of a capitalist Cold War with Russian corporations attacking stock markets in London with the U.S. under President Michael Jackson (1958-2009) cooperating with the Russia capitalists to take over Europe.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Serpent's Walk - Randolph D. Calverhall (National Vanguard Books, 1991)
A successful revolution in 2049 by followers of Hitler. A fascist eutopia is created. The stress is on the war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

South Africa 1994-2004: A Popular History - [Deon] [Geldenhuys] (Southern Book Publishers, 1991)
Future history of South Africa under Black rule. South Africa ends divided between an Afrikaans-dominated state and a Black-dominated state. The novel moves oddly between very sophisticated political analysis and rather simplistic depiction of racial divisions and infighting.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Steps of Destiny - Mark Bement (Vantage Press, 1991)
Technically advanced society and its search for an even better society while it faces a possible holocaust.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Sympathetic Undertaker and Other Dreams - Biyi Bandele-Thomas (b. 1967) (Bellew, 1991)
The novel can be characterized as an African dictator dystopia, similar to others of the time period, but it is more complex than most. Set in Nigeria, the novel follows two young brothers and a young woman (lover of both) as they try to make their way in the corrupt world of a near-future Nigeria. One of the brothers writes notes (bold face in the text) of his experiences and dreams. In one of these dreams (Chapter 23 [134-69]), he writes about Zowabia, a country that is a caricature of such dictatorships. There is a Glossary on 202.
Rpt. London: Heinemann, 1993. Nigerian ed. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books, 1993.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

"To Touch a Comyn" - Andrew Rey (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Male author

"Under Old New York" - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1991)
Dystopia of a future U.S. of a collapsed economy, and extreme poverty with New York City an African American enclave cut off from the rest of the U.S. except for one bridge the only place with jobs available.
Rpt. in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 429-50.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Vortex - Larry Bond; [Patrick] [Larkin] (Warner Books, 1991)
The novel is about political and military conflict in South Africa that result from negotiations to bring about the end of apartheid, with the focus on the military conflict, which involves nuclear weapons.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Walden 1.9: Successive Approximations" - Mark A. Mattaini (Behavior and Social Issues, 1991)
Stages to 1948 Skinner, Walden Two.
Keywords: Male author

"A Walk Through Beirut" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Wetherweed” - Michael Bridge (Pillow Mountain: Notes On Inhabiting a Living Planet, 1991)
New Age eutopia. Villages. Unity with nature. Some of the rituals of daily life.
Keywords: Male author

"When the Rose Is Dead." - David [Neil] Zindell (b. 1952) (Full Spectrum, 1991)
Authoritarian dystopia in a war setting. A character is said to be "suffering from an illness the doctors call 'Desire for Utopia'."
Keywords: Male author; US author

"1953": A version of Racine's "Andromaque" - Craig Raine (b. 1944) (Faber & Faber, 1990)
Alternative history play set in a fascist Italy in 1953 in which Mussolini's son is king. The setting is certainly dystopian, but the play is a modern version of Racine.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1990)
A successful revolution against corporate control produces another authoritarian dystopia in the name of the revolution. This story together with 1992 Maloney "The Taxi Driver" and 1998 Maloney "Keep the Meter Running" are part of a single story regarding corruption in a future flawed utopia become dystopia. See also 1990 Maloney "The Age of Democracy and 1992 Maloney "Requiem for the General".
Rpt. in The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press. Ed. Stephen Pasechnick and Brian Youmans (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1991), 67-77; and in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 74.86.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Age of Democracy" - Geoffrey [Peter] Maloney (b. 1956) (Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Perth, WA, Australia), 1990)
Dystopia set in very near future in which everyone is spied on and manipulated to perform the tasks the bureaucracy wants. See also 1990 Maloney "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes"; 1992 Maloney (2); and 1998 Maloney.
Rpt. in his Tales from the Crypto-System (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2003), 58-73.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Axiomatic" - Greg[ory Mark] Egan (b. 1961) (Interzone, 1990)
The story is set in a future where it is possible to buy a temporary implant that will change your personality.
Rpt. in The Best of Greg Egan (Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2019), 25-40.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Beyond the Fall of Night - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008); Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990)
Sequel to 1953 Clarke, which is rpt. as the “Part I” (14-145). Part II (146-298), by Benford, is set far in the future where there are highly evolved beings, enhanced humans, and others at various stages of enhancement. Much of the story is about the reemergence of some who seek power over others and are willing to go to war to further their ambitions See the “Afterword” to 2004 Benford for the relationship among the three books.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

“Buddha Nostril Bird” - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 1990)
A satire on Allen Bloom (1930-1992) and his The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987 using characters from Plato’s Republic, except for the main charter Blume.
Rpt. in his Pure Product. Stories (New York: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997), 31-54; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 317-338, with a note on the story on 573-574.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City of Truth - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (Century/Legend, 1990)
Satire. Dystopia in which all people are electroshocked into having to tell the truth.
Rpt. in Nebula Awards 28: SFWA's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Ed. James Morrow (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994), 228-317; 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

Contact and Commune - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Popular Library, 1990)
Alien contact with libertarian themes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Daz 4 Zoe - Robert [Edward] Swindells (b. 1939) (Hamish Hamilton, 1990)
A young adult dystopia in the near future in which society is divided into the affluent and the poor. Two teenagers bridge the gap and leave to find a better life.
Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: Pearson Education, 2000, with analysis and notes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dead Morn - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934); Roberto Fuentes (b. 1934) (Tafford Publishing Co, 1990)
Future repressive dystopia and time travel into the past.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Death of a Native Alien - Stephen W. DeBrew (b. 1956) ([Steladon Press], 1990)
Race relations in the United States in the twentieth century, depicted through the experiences of a Zirconian on the planet Terra where the Gringoa are Dominant.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Death of Hieronymus Bosch" - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) (Another Chicago Magazine, 1990)
Dystopia set in a future U.S. of extreme poverty, violence, and corporate power that uses some of the imagery of Bosch's (1450-1516) paintings.
Rpt. in his Scherzi, I Believe: Short Fiction with collages by Andi Olsen. Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series (La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1994), 91-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Difference Engine - William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948); [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Victor Gollancz, 1990)
Alternative history in which the computer age emerges in Britain in the nineteenth century, and, as a result, the British Empire is even stronger than it was in our history. There was no famine in Ireland and, therefore, no Irish Diaspora and no independent Ireland. The United States has fragmented. The 1993 video game Chaos Engine (United States as Soldiers of Fortune.
U.S. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 20th Anniversary ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 2011.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Double Helix Fall - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) (Abacus, 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia after a large earthquake in San Francisco and the takeover of the U.S. by an organization that controls everything through computers. Rebels manipulate their own DNA in the struggle against the rulers.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Dr. Pak's Preschool" - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1990)
Dystopia set in Japan and South Korea in which the gender of a child is ensured and then education is provided for the fetus. The story is told by a mother who is unhappy with the process. Surprise ending.
Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #45; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 30-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earth - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (Bantam Books, 1990)
Dystopia of a collapsed environment. One thread of the novel is set in New Zealand and uses Māori myth. In this thread a black hole is created to provide power, but the power plant is destroyed, and the black hole begins to absorb material the center of the Earth and cause earthquakes and other disasters. Another thread is a future where very little of the natural world remains, resulting in mass migration, and conflicts among the remaining nations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Elephant Memories" - Ping Chong (b. 1946) (1990)
Dystopia of environmental degradation and computer control of the population.
Multi-media first presented at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, La Mama Annex, New York in November 1990.
Keywords: Asian-American author; Canadian author; Male author

“Embarrassment Box” - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (New Libertarian, 1990)
The story takes place in a future where White House II, a replica, in Cody, Wyoming is presided over an incompetent, doddering man who inherited the presidency from his father and grandfather. In this future tobacco illegal but cannabis legal, and there are no wheeled vehicles. The development of “placers,” or instant transportation booths means the people are free to move from place to place and time to time as they choose, thus undermining any government authority. Part of the author’s long series of libertarian eutopias and dystopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Emperor of America - Richard [Thomas] Condon (1915-96) (Simon and Schuster, 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia. Mostly satire.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Extraordinary Reign of King Ludd: An Historical Tease - [Ernest Michael] Roy Lewis (1913-96) (The Patten Press, 1990)
Satirical alternative history in which socialism won in the revolutions of 1848 followed, at the end of the novel, by a counter-revolution in the 1940s that establishes the rule of the market.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fitting Suits” - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1990)
Although problems exist due to lawyers, something of a eutopia created by replacing all civil servants with computers.
Rpt. in The Best of Bova Volume 1 (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 77-81, with a note on the text on 77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

From Evolution to Utopia - T[om] N[ewey] Ratcliffe (The Book Guild, 1990)
Autobiography but includes a eutopia for 2100 to 2150 at the end. World government, circular cities, ecology.
Keywords: Male author

“The Furniture of Life’s Ambition” - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction, 1990)
Satire on a William Morris of the future who is bound to a company producing fact versions of food but then he establishes a firm to produce high-tech furniture.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Future Sex - Stephen A. Davis (b. 1946); Lyssa Royal (Royal Priest Research, 1990)
The book is in the style of a self-help manual and explores sexual relations. It is accepting of multiple relationships. A section of the book includes channeled interviews with various aliens with a wide variety of different sexual practices, including virtual celibacy, but mostly with high levels of sexual activity.
Rev. ed. Phoenix, AZ: Personal Enhancement Press, 1991.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Future X. A Novel - Kent Smith (Holloway House Pub. Co, 1990)
The focus of the novel is time travel, with a man from the future trying to keep Malcolm X from being assassinated and taking him to the future, which is a violent dystopia similar to the worst of the present, where his leadership is needed.
Keywords: Male author

God Is Love (Get It In Writing) - Jeremy Clarke (Fourth Estate, 1990)
Satire on religion as big business.
Keywords: Male author

Heathern - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (Tom Doherty Associates, 1990)
A volume in his DryCo series. In this volume, the DryCo Corporation is trying to find a messiah that it can promote under its brand. For other volumes in the series, see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1993 Elvissey, 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: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heaven . . . The Last Frontier - Grant R[eid] Jeffrey (1948-2012) (Frontier Research Publications, 1990)
Heaven as eutopia. Detailed description of both heaven and life after the Second Coming. The scientific truth of the Bible. See also 1998, 1999, and 2000 Jeffrey and Hunt.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Hocus Pocus, Or What's the Hurry Son? - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1990)
Early twenty-first century dystopia. The United States is essentially owned by Japanese corporations. This acts as the background to the novel.
U. K. ed. London; Jonathan Cape, 1990. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Berkley, 1991. Rpt. in Novels 1987-1997 Bluebeard Hocus Pocus Timequake. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2016), 217-479, with a Note on the Text (727-28) and Notes (757-40). An excerpt was published as “Hocus Pocus.” Illus. Norman Catherine. Penthouse (September 1990): 92-94, 172-73, 192.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Hope - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) (Macmillan, 1990)
A dystopia develops on a ship that was intended to take people to a new life, but which is still traveling after five years.
Rpt. London: Sceptre, 1991.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"I Still Call Australia Home" - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1990)
Returning spaceship discovers an Earth destroyed by their generation and regenerating into a religious matriarchy which rejects them. Presented as a troubled utopia that is clearly better than the past, which, from our perspective, would be the near-term future.
Rpt.in Metaworlds: Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins (Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1994), 197-218.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

I Was Robot (Utopia Now Possible) - Ernest Mann (1927-96) (Little Free Press, 1990)
Detailed libertarian eutopia reflecting on the author’s life and the current situation in the U.S. and proposing a “Priceless Economic System,” in which everything is free and freely exchanged. See also his Free I Got. Little Falls, MN: Little Free Press, 1993; and the single-sheet depiction of his eutopia, Portals to Paradise. Little Falls, MN: Little Free Press, nd with art by Carol Gatts.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Instinct" - John Schneider (1990)
Dystopia. Milwaukee has been sanitized and domed to be a refuge for the privileged.
Keywords: Male author

Keepers of the Peace - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) (Victor Gollancz, 1990)
Much adventure but includes a dystopia of warring nations on a future Earth.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Many Lives - [Claud] Geoffrey [Rowden] Chavasse (1920-1995) (Vantage Press, 1990)
Eutopia. Mostly romance and political novel but set in a future New Zealand of racial harmony and good Asian relations that is dealing successfully with its environmental problems.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

"A Matter of Survival" - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) (Interzone, 1990)
Separation of the sexes as dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Memetic Drift” - Glenn Grant (Interzone, 1990)
The story is set in a climate-change, authoritarian dystopia.
Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 203-18; and in his Burning Days (Montréal, QC, Canada: Nanopress, 2011), 5-23.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"One-Way to Wap Wap - Neil Ferguson (b. 1947) (Interzone, 1990)
Complex story with a background of the dystopian corporate control of politics.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Orbitsville Judgement - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) (Victor Gollancz, 1990)
A continuation of his 1983 Orbitsville Departure which was a sequel to his 1974 "Orbitsville". In this volume, the artificial world is somehow moved in space, and the world becomes more eutopian. The author was born in Northern Ireland.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Outnumbering the Dead - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Century, 1990)
Eutopia with near immortality and the problems for those who are mortal.
U.S. ed. Illus. Steve Crisp. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 519-82. Based on the U.S. publication, Dozois gives date of first publication as 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pacific Edge - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Tor, 1990)
Flawed utopia with conflict between those trying to create an environmental eutopia and those hoping to increase development. While the former win in the specific situation, the overall issue is set to continue. Sequel to 1984, The Wild Shore and 1988 Robinson, The Gold Coast, which are reprinted in Three Californias. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12), The Wild Shore (13-292), The Gold Coast (293-653), and Pacific Edge (655-895). The three volumes have the same physical location, but the futures presented are different.
Rpt. New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991; and in Three Californias (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2020), 655-895, with an introduction “Triptych, with Softball” by Francis Spufford (7-12).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Past Magic” - Ian R[oderick] MacLeod (b. 1956) (Interzone, 1990)
Future dystopia set on the Isle of Man. The mainland of the U.K. has been devastated by climate change with severe floods and extreme violence. The Isle of Man is a haven for the extremely rich and has become a center for medical care with the dead brought back from samples of their DNA.
Rpt. in Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod. [New York]: Open Road Integrated Media. Includes an “Afterword” by the author.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"The Permacity Theory: Agapé-papatuanuku In Action" - Jonathan S. Port (Auckland, New Zealand, 1990)
Depicts Sustainable Living Settlements in great detail. Based on transferring the concept of permaculture to the urban area.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Piecework" - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) (Interzone, 1990)
Dystopia of genetic manipulation in which women are used to give birth to industrial products.
Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #23; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 550-76; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 225-258.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pill" - Jojo Bling (Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction, 1990)
The story revolves round a drug that appears to be intended to produce a better life but doesn’t.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Pockets of Resistance - [William] [Sanders] (1942-2017) (Popular Library, 1990)
Survivalist dystopia set in a future totalitarian U.S. See also 1991 [Sanders]. Native American Indian (Cherokee) author.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Public Eye: An Investigation Into the Disappearance of the World - Brian Fawcett (b. 1944) (Grove Weidenfeld, 1990)
An experimental novel that on the top two-thirds of the page has a presentation of the dystopia of contemporary life projected slightly into the future with periodic boxes specifying ways of countering the dystopia. The bottom third of the page is a running commentary on the top two-thirds.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Queen of Angels - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Warner Books, 1990)
The novel is a complex exploration of human self-awareness, the growing knowledge of how the mind works, artificial intelligence, the future of psychotherapy, and nanotechnology with both positive and negative elements. See also 1997 Bear.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1990. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1991 and London: Legend, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Re: Generations" - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) (Full Spectrum, 1990)
Dystopia in which all television is designed to sell products, with both the television stations and the stores owned by the Company. But the system is beginning to fall apart, creating a different dystopia, with shortages of the goods being sold, people developing psychological problems, and mass suicides.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Requiem Aeternam" - Richard [John] Bowker (b. 1950) (Aboriginal Science Fiction, 1990)
Dystopia. When your money runs out after retirement, you are put to death.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rynosseros - Terry [Terence William] Dowling (b. 1947) (Aphelion Publications, 1990)
A complex future Australia with both eutopian and dystopian elements. There is a deep division between the powerful descendants of the Aborigines who are able to tap into the Dreamtime and the Nationals, the descendants of the current non-Aboriginal population. Many of the stories take place in the desolate center of Australia. Much concern with artificial intelligence. The main protagonist of the series has an uncertain past but has won the right from the tribes to captain one of the sandships that travel the interior of Australia. See also 1992, 1993, 2007, and 2009 Dowling. An additional Rynosseros story that fits between Rynosseros and 1992 Dowling is “Marmordesse.” Omega Science Digest (January/February 1987): 47-61. Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume I (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 219-52. 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. [New York]: Guild America Books, 1993; Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse, 2003; Alexandria, NSW, Australia: Coeur de Lion Publishing, 2007; and in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-218. Parts were published separately as "What We Did to the Tyger." Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 29] (January/February 1986): 76-80; "The Only Bird in Her Name." Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia), no. 1 (Summer 1985/86): 22-33; "Time of the Star." Aphelion (Adelaide, SA, Australia), no. 3 (Winter 1986): 3-22; rpt. in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 369-404. "Mirage Diver" (163-89) was rpt. in The Best of the Rest 1990: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Small Press. Ed. Stephen Pasechnick and Brian Youmans (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1991), 3-31; "The Robot Was Running Away from the Trees" and "Spinners" were rpt. in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 131-59 and 281-303; and they were rpt. in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 109-36 and 217-38.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Sacred Fire - Isi Beller (Robert Laffont, 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia focusing on an AIDS like disease and government controls imposed to deal with it. Described as a medical thriller.
U.S. ed. New York: Arcade, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Secret Matter - [Edwin Clark] Toby Johnson (Lavender Press, 1990)
Aliens arrive at the beginning of a gay coming out story. The aliens are humans who did not experience the Fall and follow their God's commandment to mate man-to-man and woman-to-woman. This produces eutopia.
New ed. as Secret Matter: With an Afterword by Mark Jordan for this revised, expanded, and updated edition. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2005. An "Excerpt from Secret Matter" was published with a copyright of 2006 in Gaylaxicon Sampler 2006. Ed. Don Sakers (Linthicum, MD: Speed-of-C Productions, 2006), 51-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Smart Rats. A Novel - Thomas [Patton] Baird (b. 1923-90) (Harper & Row, 1990)
Young adult dystopia in which the world can no longer carry its current population, and the government institutes what is intended to be, in effect, a program to kill one child from every two-child family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

State of Play - Doug[las John] Buckley (b. 1934) (Albatross Books, 1990)
Corporate dystopia. Sydney becomes an independent country called HarborCity. Conflict with the corporation that dominates both Australia and HarborCity.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Story of the Planet Candy - Robert Skaf (Vantage Press, 1990)
Purported eutopia where no one needs to work, feel sad, or wear clothes, and disease, hunger, and poverty have been eliminated. The focus is on the flaws as seen from a conservative perspective. Canadian author born in Lebanon.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Threads" - Barry Hines (1939-2016) (Threads and Other Sheffield Plays, 1990)
Dystopia depicting in detail the effects of nuclear war on Sheffield, England. The television film with a running time of 112 minutes was first broadcast on BBC 2 on September 23, 1984, produced and directed by Mick Jackson. It was nominated for five BAFTA awards and won five of them.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Transform Node: Science Fiction Mystical Adventures - Ronn Parker (Vantage Press, 1990)
A collection of related stories with a stress on Extrasensory Perception (ESP) that allows better connections among people. A number of the stories, including the title story, are primarily concerned with mysticism, which will help the people create a future eutopia.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Two Tomorrow" - Steven Paulsen (b. 1955) (Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 1990)
A dystopia in 650 words that presents a world with very strict population controls. Only people of a certain status can have any children, only the highest status people can have two, and after a child reaches two years, only two generations are permissible, and the oldest must be terminated.
Rpt. in his Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: IWWG International, 2018), 21-22 with an “Afterword--Two Tomorrow” on 23.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Vignette" - Stephen Higgins (Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia. Completely controlled life in a factory.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts - Louis De Bernières (b. 1954) (Martin Secker & Warburg, 1990)
Consistently listed as a utopia (e.g., DLC lists it as a utopia under subject), but no actual fictional utopia is described. A potentially eutopian community begins to emerge at the end of the novel, but it is not developed in any detail. His Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1991. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 and his The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1992. Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998 include some more mention of the potentially eutopian community. The dystopian reality of recent South American history is depicted.
Rpt. London: Vintage, 1998. U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Zulus - Everett, Percival (The Permanent Press, 1990)
Apocalyptic science fiction set after a nuclear war in which all but one 300-pound woman are no longer fertile.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Angel Station - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) (Tor, 1989)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Armageddon Crazy - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (del Rey, 1989)
Near future United States religious dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Black Milk - Robert [David] Reed (b. 1956) (Donald I. Fine, 1989)
Future high-tech eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Body Mortgage - Richard [David George Patrick] Engling (b. 1952) (New American Library, 1989)
Dystopia in which people can mortgage their bodies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Bound for Glory" - Lucius [Taylor] Shepard (1943-2014) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1989)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in a badlands in the middle of the U.S. Some fantasy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Buying Time - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (William Morrow, 1989)
Dystopian adventure novel in which  life can be extended for ten years multiple times at the cost of at least a million dollars each time. This produces a deeply divided social system with power held by those controlling the process. Some limited comparison to a better, libertarian society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Child Garden or A Low Comedy - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (Unwin Hyman, 1989)
Authoritarian dystopia with fantasy elements. In a future sub-tropical London, people photosynthesize, and children are infected with viruses that produce social conformity. The novel focuses on a girl who is immune and follows her throughout her life.
An expansion of his “Love Sickness.” Interzone, nos. 20 - 21 (Summer – Autumn) 1987): 4-23, 36-55.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

Children of the Thunder - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ballantine, 1989)
Dystopia with a low birthrate because most men are infertile, and the development of children with unusual talents who could lead to a solution.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dollarville - Pete Davies (b. 1959) (Random House, 1989)
Satire. One theme is a near future right wing Christian dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"The Dream" - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) (A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, 1989)
In the story a man wakes up in a new version of Heaven where everyone gets the Heaven they want. The Old Heaven was found to be out of date, and Hell had never existed but been invented as a useful rhetorical device. Now Hell exists only for those who want it to exist and is an obvious fake. Bored after a few centuries of getting just what he wants, the man decides to want to dream that he wakes up alive again and does.
U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 279-307. Rpt. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 298-307.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dydeetown World - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) (Baen Books, 1989)
Violent dystopia with very strict population control. People are generally illiterate. A volume in a series set in the so-called LaNague Federation; see his Healer (1976). Three non-utopian sequels are “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971): 149-64]; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307)[originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-45]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material.
Parts were previously published as "Kids." New Destinies 7 (Spring 1989). Ed. Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1989), 229-87; and "Dydeetown Girl." Far Frontiers 4 (Winter 1985). Ed. Jerry Pournelle [Eugene] and Jim Baen (New York: Baen Books, 1985), 9-69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The End-of-the-World Ball" - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1989)
Various catastrophes bring about dystopia and the end of the world.
Rpt. in his Millennium Blues ([New York]: e-reads, 1999), 165-83; rpt. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2001; and in Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 29-48 with an "Afterword" by the author (48).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Enigma Variations - John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) (Ace Books, 1989)
Future dystopia after various environmental catastrophes. Corporate struggle for power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"An Eye in Paradise" - John [Raymond] Brosnan (1947-2005) (Interzone (Brighton, Eng.), 1989)
World divided between the extremely rich who can create their own eutopias and the poor who live in a polluted, overpopulated world with rampant inflation.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Farewell Horizontal - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) (St. Martin's Press, 1989)
Dystopia of conflict among tribes in a large construct rising from earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Final Dream" - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1989)
Amoral dystopia in which dreams are broadcast to subscribers. The one whose dreams are broadcast and becomes other people's dreams becomes insane.
Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 221-68.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Folk of the Fringe - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) (Phantasia, 1989)
Post-nuclear war science fiction set in and around Deseret, the Mormon homeland in Utah, which provides a safe, almost eutopian, refuge from the devastation of the rest of the U.S. Others in the area, "the folk of the fringe", develop a more restrictive society, verging on the dystopian.
U.K. ed. London: Century, 1990. Parts originally published as “The Fringe.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 69.4 (413) (October 1985): 140-60; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 145-65 with an editor’s note on 144; “Salvage.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 10.2 (101) (February 1986): 56-60, 62-75; rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 23-38; “America.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction 11.1 (113) (January 1987): 22-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-50, 52-53; and “West.” Free Lancers. Ed. Elizabeth Mitchell (New York: Baen, 1987), 1-82. “Author’s Note: From Sycamore Hill” (218-38) was originally published as “On Sycamore Hill: A Personal View.” Science Fiction Review, no. 55 (Summer 1985): 6-11. Includes an “Afterword: The Folk of the Fringe” (230-43) by Michael R[obert] Collings (b. 1947).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fourth Horseman - John A. Moller (b. 1943) (Moana Press, 1989)
Mostly on a nuclear war in the South Pacific, but New Zealand is depicted as an authoritarian dystopia and a small group of teenage survivors temporarily create something like a utopian community.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Free Zone: Volume One of the Epic Unilogy - Charles Platt (b. 1945) (Avon Books, 1989)
Complex, humorous eutopia and dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Gentle Warriors - Geoff Mains (Knights Press, 1989)
Very near future dystopia from a homosexual perspective. AIDS a deliberate creation of the CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency).
Keywords: Male author

The Glimpses - Laurence [Frederick] Staig (b. 1950) (Macmillan Children's Books, 1989)
A young adult dystopia in which a fascist political party gains power through violence. A second theme is genetic manipulation, which produces a group of super children.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Good News From Outer Space - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Tor, 1989)
Set in 1999 and centers on the belief in the approaching millennium. Dystopian background. Strong Christian fundamentalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gorgon Child - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) (Tor, 1989)
Sequel to 1983 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the first volume has to fight against a religious dystopia. See also 1993 Barnes.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Green and Pleasant Land" - David Redd (b. 1946) (Interzone, 1989)
Authoritarian, ecological dystopia. See also 2001 Redd
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Green-eyed Monstera" - Andrew Ferguson (b. 1963) (Interzone, 1989)
Future story with advanced technology producing a society with dystopian elements.
Keywords: Male author

"Harmonogmia 'of an integrated nature'" - William Glover; Hedde Gräfje; Steven Rising; Shingo Suekane; Mark Wettstone (Cloverleaf in the Grid, 1989)
Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Hence - Brad [E.] Leithauser (b. 1953) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1989)
Near future tale with dystopian elements. Introduced from the perspective of further in the future.
U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

History of the Future: A Chronology - Peter Lorie; Sidd Murray-Clark (Doubleday & Co, 1989)
Presented as a projection but describes a clearly eutopian future over many centuries. Includes essays by Rupert Sheldrake.
Keywords: Male author

I Feel Like the Morning Star - Gregory Maguire (b. 1954) (Harper & Row, 1989)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia located underground and designed to survive the wars above. Three teenagers lead people out to the surface, where there is no war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Idiot Played Rachmaninov - Michael Brown (b. 1948) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1989)
Dystopia. Political novel with fantasy elements set in the near future about a dispute between a local community and a repressive right-wing government over . Emphasis on the use of the military to put down resistance to government policy and on the resilience of people of the West Coast of New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"In Blue" - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (Novelty, 1989)
Misfit in a conforming eutopia.
Rpt. in his Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction (New York: Perennial, 2004), 216-75.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Infinity Hold - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) (Popular Library/Warner Books, 1989)
The novel begins in a prison on Earth where all the most incorrigible prisoners, and since there it is not enough room, they are shipped off planet to, in essence, survive or die. It ends with the beginning of the imposition of law, end the abolition or murder. The first volume of a trilogy followed by Kill All the Lawyers (2010) and Keep the Law (2010), both of which are ebooks. The ebook Infinity Hold3.collects all three volumes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Justice Plan: The only way to ensure widespread, well-founded justice in any society. Justice Liberty Prosperity - Albert Archer Van Petten (1925-2005) (Van Petten Co., 1989)
Complex proposal mostly in question and answer form for how to align the people’s wishes with government policy. See also 1959 and 1972 Van Petten.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Key West, 2720 A.D - William K. Eakins (b. 1944) (Knights Press, 1989)
Dystopia in which one main thread of the novel is a future world that has broken up into corporate-ruled city states, mostly brought about by climate change, and gay men are excluded and live in the wild. Key West, Florida, is an exception where gay men are welcomed and protected. Another thread is the struggles for power among the city-states in the U.S. And a third thread involves visitors from space who support Key West.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Largest Theme Park in the World - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (The Guardian, 1989)
Satire on European union. When the single currency is created all Europeans move to the Mediterranean resorts and refuse to return until non-Europeans start to move in to their abandoned properties.
Rpt. in his War Fever (London: William Collins Sons, 1990), 73-80; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1139-44.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Long Habit of Living - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (William Morrow, 1989)
Problems of immortality.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time - Daniel Keys Moran (b. 1962) (Bantam Spectra, 1989)
Authoritarian dystopia. The middle volume in a trilogy. This volume is primarily adventure as the United Nations Peaceforce tries to eliminate the few remaining telepaths. See also 1988 and 1993 Moran.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Love in a Colder Climate" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Interview Magazine, 1989)
As a result of the AIDS epidemic, sex is made compulsory as part of national service for virgins.
Rpt. as “Love in a Cold Climate.” Observer Magazine (July 16, 1989): 36-37, 39, 40; as “Love in a Colder Climate.” In his War Fever (London: Collins, 1990): 65-72; and in The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1124-38.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Men's Room" - Garry [Douglas] Kilworth (b. 1941) (Interzone, 1989)
Gender-role reversal story.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mirror Maze - James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010) (Bantam Books, 1989)
Dystopia and struggle to create a eutopia of freedom. Irish author.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

My Chocolate Redeemer - Christopher [David Tully] Hope (b. 1944) (Heinemann, 1989)
Dystopia set in France and an imaginary African country as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl. The African country is a fairly typical authoritarian dystopia.
Rpt. London: Minerva, 1990; and London: Atlantic, 2010.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; UK author

Nightshade - Jack [Armand] Butler (b. 1944) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nuclear War Diary - James E. Stanford Jr. (Front Row Experience, 1989)
The diary of a teenager for the first year after a nuclear war.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Our Town" - Peter Baltay; Catherine Briggs; Jeff Johansen; Staffan Nordlund (Cloverleaf in the Grid, 1989)
Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Out On Blue Six - Ian [Neil] McDonald (b. 1960) (Bantam Books, 1989)
The attempt to achieve a perfect society creates a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"The Outside Door" - Hopwood, Lyle (Interzone, 1989)
Dystopia of a future collapse of civilization.
Keywords: Male author

The Philosophers - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) (Duckworth, 1989)
The dystopia that is contemporary Britain. While the author is best known for his books on sexual technique like The Joy of Sex (1972), his career ranged through fiction, poetry, anarchist theory, the biology of aging, and geriatric psychology. For an extremely detailed biography, see Eric Laursen, Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort Author of the Joy of Sex. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2023. 740 pp. See also 1943, 1961 and 1980 Comfort.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Piñons" - [Stephen] [Kaufman] (b. 1947) (Tales of the Unanticipated, 1989)
Dystopia in the sense that, while there is advanced technology, the world's economy and environment have collapsed, cities are violent and full of the unemployed, and many have left for other planets. The dystopia is contrasted with the essentially good life of the protagonist, who lives in rural New Mexico, where the author lives, poor but embedded within a spread-out community of friends and neighbors.
Rpt. Challenging Destiny: New Fantasy and Science Fiction, no. 22 (April 2006): 75-94. Also at http://www.challengingdestiny.com/index.htm; and in his Counting Tadpoles (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2009), 193-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Prison Planet - William C[orey] Dietz (b. 1945) (Ace Books, 1989)
Dystopian prison system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Renegade" - Clay Caldwell (Inches, 1989)
Dystopia. Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica.
Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 67-75.
Keywords: Male author

"Salmpala" - John Barnes; Richard Iredale; William Martin; Thomas Veith (Cloverleaf in the Grid, 1989)
Manifesto and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.
Keywords: Male author

The Scapeweed Goat - Frank Schaefer (Poseidon Press, 1989)
Dystopian religious cult set in the past.
U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1991.
Keywords: Male author

A Short History of the Future - W[alter] Warren Wagar (1932-2004) (University of Chicago Press, 1989)
A future history divided into three parts. In the first, current major trends are followed to one logical conclusion. In the second, a eutopian socialist, world state is developed. In the third, a small, decentralized utopia is envisioned. See also the author’s 1971 Building the City of Man Future and 1991 The Next Three Futures.
2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992, with a “Foreword to the Second Edition” (ix-x) indicating that substantial parts of three chapters had been rewritten, an “Afterword” by Immanuel Wallerstein (295-96), a genealogy of two families (298), and a chronology (299-305). xvi + 324 pp. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999, with the “Afterword” by Immanuel Wallerstein (295-96), the genealogy of two families (298), and the chronology (299-305). xviii + 324 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sisters" - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) (Tangents, 1989)
Dystopia of genetic engineering. The point-of-view character is a teenager who was not engineered by her parents and is upset to be different, but those of her age group who had been engineered start dying from an engineering error.
Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1990), 199-238; Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #43; and in Just Over the Horizon: The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear Volume One (New York: Open Media, 2016), 1-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Six Kinds of Darkness." - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Semiotext[e] SF, 1989)
Violent dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Skreemer - Peter Milligan (b. 1961) (DC Comics, 1989)
Graphic novel dystopia of gangsters and terrorists set thirty-eight years after the fall of New York City.
Originally published in six issues in 1989.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Skyrider" - William [John] King (b. 1959) (Zenith: The Best in New British Science Fiction, 1989)
The story is set in a future in which those called the “Workfree” life in enclaves on state pensions, where many succumb to a drug that can cause Parkinson’s. The story focuses on a man who has been rebuilt to meld with aircraft and whose only joy is flying joins the Workfree but is enticed into delivering the drugs.
Rpt. in Thirty Years of Rain. Ed. Elaine Gallagher, Cameron Johnston, and Neil Williamson (Glasgow, Scot.: Taverna Press, 2016), 21-34.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Spirit of Exmas Sideways" - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Alternatives, 1989)
Alternative history libertarian eutopia connected to his 1980 The Probability Broach. The U.S. Constitution was overturned and replaced with a reformed Articles of Confederation, which became the basis of the North American Confederacy in which everyone carries a weapon. Related novels include, in publication order, in addition to The Probability Broach, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Star Wares: The Next Generation" - James A. Levin (Book); Linda Eisenstein (Music) (1989)
Satire. Struggle against the "Military Industrial Entertainment Complex" and the "Sludge Monsters" from Wango-Wango.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Stark - Ben[jamin Charles] Elton (b. 1959) (Michael Joseph, 1989)
Environmental dystopia set mostly in Australia. In a future of environmental collapse, the rich are shipping goods into space so that they can leave the Earth and the poor who cannot leave.
Keywords: English author; Male author