The Kindling - Jennifer [Mary] Armstrong (b. 1961); Nancy Butcher (HarperCollins Children's Books, 2002)
Post-catastrophe children’s dystopia. First volume of the Fire-Us trilogy. In this volume, the seven children who survive a catastrophe create a functional society based on the family. When another child survivor arrives, they set off to find help. The second volume is The Keepers of the Flame. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books. 2002, in which the surviving children discover a group of adults living in a mall, but they prove to be dangerous. The final volume is The Kiln. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2003, in which the children are travelling again searching for the answer to their situation.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Light Music - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Tor, 2002)
Sequel to 2000 Goonan In this volume, the Crescent City has become vulnerable to attack and the technology that built it and could rescue it has been lost. Ultimately, alien technology brings about a positive ending. humanity appears to be on the edge of a major evolutionary step forward. Loosely related to 1994 and 1997 Goonan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Maquisarde - Louise Marley (b. 1952) (Ace Books, 2002)
Dystopia of divisions between the rich and poor. Revolt.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mindful of Utopia - Merritt [Gold] Abrash (b. 1930) (1st Books, 2002)
Detailed anarchist eutopia by one of the founders of the Society for Utopian Studies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"My Flamboyant Grandson" - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2002)
Corporate controlled, required consumption dystopia.
Rpt. in his In Persuasion Nation. Stories (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006), 13-22.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Notable American Women - Ben Marcus (b. 1967) (Vintage Contemporaries, 2002)
Experimental novel which presents a dystopia in which silence is imposed on a family.
Parts originally published as “Woman’s Pantomime.” Bomb, no. 69 (Fall 1999): 91-93; “The Faiting Project.” Tin House 1.4 (Spring/Summer 2000), 189-92; “The Launch.” Conjunctions 36 (2001): 167-99; “A Message from the Father of Fathers.” Fence 3.2 (Fall/Winter 2000-2001): 170-81; “The New Female Head.” Harper’s 304.1820 (January 2002): 84-87; “Women’s Pantomime.” The Pushcart Prize 25 (Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 2001), 248-54; “Literary Enhancement Through Food Intake: A Dietary Guideline for Reading.” McSweeney’s, no. 5 (2000): 165-74; and “The Name Machine.” McSweeney’s, no. 8 (2002): 77-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Paradises Lost" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The Birthday of the World and Other Stories, 2002)
Includes two societies, both with eutopian elements, on a multi-generation starship. The primary society is the one designed for the people on the starship, as modified by the people themselves. It is explicitly eutopian with an emphasis on "Peace and plenty. Light and warmth. Safety and freedom" (300). But it nearly succumbs to the religious belief of those who conclude there is nothing outside the ship. At the end, the first group begin to build a new society on a planet, while the second choose to travel forever.
Rpt. in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 689-801.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Political Officer" - Charles Coleman Finlay (b. 1964) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2002)
The story is set on a spaceship sent out by a patriarchal religious dystopia and emphasizes the divisions among the crew. The sequel “The Political Prisoner.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.2 (675) (August 2008): 44-113. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 280-326 with an editor’s introduction on 280 is located on Mars and is primarily concerned with conflicts among the powerful within the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Right to Life" - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) (Talebones, 2002)
Dystopia in which the few people who have jobs are generally free to do as they choose but jobless people who commit any crime whatsoever are executed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Salt Fish Girl - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) (Thomas Allen, 2002)
The novel is set in 19th century China and in a future Pacific Northwest, which is a corporate dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Scrunched Up" - Barton Paul Levenson (b. 1960) (Future Orbits, 2002)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Social Dreaming of the Frin" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2002)
A short story with both eutopian and dystopian elements describing a world in which everyone experiences the dreams of other people and of animals (animals are not used for food). This creates a “communion of all sentient creatures” (U.S. ed. 88) but also involves a radical questioning of the self.
Rpt. in her Changing Planes (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 76-88. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2004), 65-75.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Solitaire - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) (Eos, 2002)
Corporate dystopia in which a corporation controls a country. Lesbian themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Stories for Men" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2002)
Set in the same milieu as 2000 Kessel. This story gives more detail regarding the society described in the first story with the emphasis on an abortive male movement for more rights. See 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 243-301 with an editor’s introduction on 243; in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 85-163; and in his The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2022), 199-280, with a note on the story on 570-571.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Technogenesis - Syne Mitchell (b. 1970) (Roc, 2002)
Dystopia in which most people are connected to the net at all times, and the protagonist, who becomes disconnected, discovers the poverty and homeless of the "real" world and that those connected to the net are being controlled.
Keywords: Female author; US author

V.A.O. - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) (PS Publishing, 2002)
V.A.O. stands for Victim Activated Ordinance and includes a variety of mechanisms designed to protect people. The focus of this novella is its use to protect the elderly and its misuse both to control them and by some old people to fight back.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003), 339-366 with an editor’s introduction on 339; in Cities. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Gollancz, 2003), 247-92; and as "VAO." In his Paradise Tales (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 62-100.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; UK author; US author

“Waiting for the Zephyr” - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) (Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction, 2002)
Climate change dystopia.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 101-05.
Keywords: British Virgin Islands author; Grenadian author; Male author; US author; US Virgin Islands author

The Watch: Being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's MEMOIRS OF A REVOLUTIONIST--as imparted to Dennis Danvers by Ancee Mahur, traveler from a distant planet, or A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) (Eos, 2002)
The present as dystopia seen through the eyes of one of the greatest anarchist theorists, the novel presents Kropotkin (1842-1921) mostly in Richmond, Virginia in 1999 struggling against the legacy of the Confederacy, particularly regarding class and race. Most chapters have one or more epigrams by Kropotkin, which, collectively, give an overview of his thought. Some have quotations about Kropotkin or relate to the chapter.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Wild Girls" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2002)
Dystopia of wealth and gender dominance in which the men of the city kill those outside the city and steal the children to become their wives. There is a complex set of relations among Crown People, Root People, and Dirt People (who are nomads) that is reflected in political power, economic relations, and the way the groups must marry with, for example, Crown men having to marry Dirt women and Crown women having to marry Root men.
Rev. ed. in her The Wild Girls plus “Staying Awake While We Read” and “A Lovely Art” Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CAL PM Press, 2011), 9-54; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 205-38; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 551-87.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Working the Game" - Michael Jasper (Future Orbits, 2002)
Dystopia. Physical separation of rich and poor. Poor being pushed further down by being replaced with androids.
Rpt. in his Gunning for the Buddha (Canton, OH: Prime Books, 2005), 74-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Y: The Last Man - Brian K. Vaughan (b. 1976) (DC Comics, 2002)
A gendercide kills all men but one, and the graphic novel follows him in search of his lost girlfriend and the cause of the disease.
Originally published as issues 1 - 60 (2002 - 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

2024: A Graphic Novel - Ted [Frederick Theodore] Rall [III] (NBM/Comics Lit, 2001)
A modernized, graphic novel redoing of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Aftermath: A Novel of Survival - Samuel C. Florman (b. 1925) (Thomas Dunne Books St. Martin's Press, 2001)
Post-catastrophe novel exploring the possibility of building a technological eutopia in its aftermath.
Keywords: Male author; US author

American Empire: Blood and Iron - Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949) (Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2001)
Alternative history in which North America is divided among the Confederate States of America, the United States of America, the Republic of Quebec, and Occupied Canada in a very fragile peace. Sequels include American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2002 [the title is also given as The Center Cannot Hold but the full title is on the title page] in which the North is becoming Socialist after the defeat of the South; and American Empire: The Victorious Opposition. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003 in which the South has become a dictatorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The American Zone - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Tor, 2001)
A sequel to 1980 Smith, The Probability Broach, in which refugees from various authoritarian versions of the United States arrive in the Confederacy. Last in the North American Confederacy series, preceded, in publication order, by The Probability Broach (1980); The Venus Belt (1981); 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.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists. 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

Among the Imposters - Margaret Peterson Haddix (b. 1964) (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2001)
Young adult overpopulation dystopia in which each family is limited to two children. Sequel to 1998 Haddix. See also 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Haddix. This volume concerns a third child with a false identity hiding among the elite and 2003 Haddix continues his story.
U.K. ed. London: Red Fox, 2001.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Archangel Protocol - Lyda Morehouse (b. 1967) (New American Library/Roc, 2001)
The first volume of a series of set in a theocratic dystopia in which everyone has the LINK, an interactive computer implanted. In this volume, cybernetic angels appear who claim to be sent by God, and throughout the series, figures from the Bible appear. Sequels include Fallen Host. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2002, which explores, among other questions, whether AIs have souls. In Messiah Node. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2003, the prophet Elijah appears together with numerous false messiahs. In Apocalypse Array. New York: Roc/New American Library, 2004 Armageddon begins with a female Antichrist. Resurrection Code. New Orleans, LA: Mad Norwegian Press, 2011 is a prequel that gives some background to the rise of the theocracy. Gender stereotypes are challenged throughout but particularly in the last volume.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Artie's Angels" - [Catherine Jean Wells] [Dimenstein] (b. 1952) (Realms of Fantasy, 2001)
Post-nuclear war dystopia with a focus on class divisions among the survivors.
Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 165-75.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blackrose Avenue - Mark [Robert Marky] Shepherd (1961-2011) (Yard Dog Press, 2001)
Dystopia of the religious right in power and the fight against it.
2nd ed. Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Chains of Freedom (The first book of the Chains Trilogy) - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2001)
First volume of a dystopian trilogy that traces a conflict between two interplanetary empires, both of which want to enslave everyone, and the ultimately successful struggle for freedom. Followed by Chains of Destruction (The second book of the Chains Trilogy). Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2002 and Chains of Redemption (The third book of the Chains Trilogy). Alma, AR: Yard Dog Press. 2008.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Child of Venus - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Eos, 2001)
The third volume of the series that includes her 1986 and 1988 Sargent. This volume focuses on a genetically engineered woman who has to deal with the conflicts of Venus while she and others begin to explore the galaxy. See also 2000 Sargent.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Fast Eddie, King of the Bees - Robert Arellano (b. 1969) (Akashic Books, 2001)
Future dystopia set in Boston, Massachusetts. Rich-poor division. A street hustler is the hero.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Final Fantasy: The Spirits WithinTM - John [Blair] Vornholt [Jr.] (b. 1951) (Pocket Books, 2001)
Dystopia. Mostly adventure and war, but the background is a post-catastrophe earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fire & Ice - Selina Rosen (b. 1960) (Yard Dog Press, 2001)
A mystery novel with a dystopian background in which all sexual preferences are recorded and regulated in the name of equality, but this produces radical inequality and segregation. The story is told mostly from the lesbian perspective.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Fray - Joss Whedon (b. 1964) (Dark Horse Comics, 2001)
The author created and wrote Buffy the Vampire series, and in some senses this is a grittier version of that set in a future Manhattan dystopia inhabited by vampires and various monsters and mutants. Rich versus poor with no one caring about the people of the slums. Young girl from the slums saves the day.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Free Lunch - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) (Tor, 2001)
Dystopia with a eutopian amusement park and the effort to save it.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

“The Galton Principle” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2001)
A dystopia in which the ideas of Francis Galton (1822-1911), who coined the word eugenics, have led to a totalitarian system in which anyone who does not meet the regimes genetic standards is sterilized or killed.
Originally published in The Stars* Anthology (March 2001). Not found.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gardener of Stars - Carla Harryman (b. 1952) (Atelos, 2001)
An experimental novel exploring "the paradise and wastelands of utopian desire."
Chapters were originally published as “from Gardener of Stars.” Hambone, no. 15 (Fall 2000): 73-82; as “from Gardener of Stars (A Novel.” Shiny Magazine, no. 9/10 (1999): 193-200; and in The World, Jacket, Salt, LVNG, and The Detroit Metro Times.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Kingdom of Cages - Sarah [Anne] Zettel (b. 1966) (Warner Books, 2001)
Flawed utopia. Environmental collapse and disease on most planets. One, Pandora, had a functioning ecosystem and a small genetically controlled population. Fanaticism, conflict between Pandora and other planets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Last Human Spring. Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs! - Heatherly, L.S (Nature-Human Society, 2001)
New Age environmental eutopia.
Rev. as The Last Human Spring. Silent Spring II, Origin of Species II, Walden III, Nurturome I Vs. Genome: Breakthroughs! Phoenix, AZ: Nature-Human Society and [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2002. Except for the title and some minor changes throughout, the texts are the same.
Keywords: US author

The Last Underclass - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2001)
Overpopulation dystopia set in 2152 where AI have taken over many jobs. Genetic engineering controlled by the wealthy, known as Achievers, who plan to transplant the personalities of the wealthy aged into the improved bodies of the poor, known as “Welfies”.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Man Over Mind: Control of the galaxy rests with the Minds--until one man rises against them - Dean Warren (Xlibris, 2001)
Mostly space opera but the focus is a fight against the dystopia created by those who control the galaxy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Old Soldiers" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Infinity Plus One, 2001)
Dystopian senior citizens home where the quality of care depends on the wealth of the resident, which reflects the reality of such homes today. The story, though, is primarily concerned with an old soldier remembering the war and wanting answers.
Rpt. in her The Dogs of Truth: New and Uncollected Stories (New York: Tor, 2005), 158-77; and in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 311-25.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule) - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2001)
First volume of the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony. This volume begins after a global war when the International Organization of Women declares female superiority and a women’s revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Perdita - Arwen Spicer (b. 1975) (Wooded Hill Press, 2001)
Strongly pro- and anti-technology forces on a eutopian planet. Includes a list of the principal characters by group [(iv)], rules for the pronunciation of the languages of the planet ([v]), and a map of the planet ([vi]).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Pickup Artist - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) (Tor, 2001)
Dystopia in which artists, novelists, and other creative people are eliminated from the historical record, and all their works are picked up and destroyed. This is ostensibly to make room for new works.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Requiem - Curtis White (b. 1951) (Dalkey Archive Press, 2001)
A dystopia showing the course of humanity from the Bible to the digital age, with some future projection.
Parts first published in Alt-X, Cyber Corpse, NY Press, and McSweeney's.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ritual of Proof - Dara Joy (William Morrow, 2001)
Romance novel set in a society in which women dominate.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Second Contact - [Joshua A.] [Dann] (b. 1956) (Ace Books, 2001)
Earth contacts a planet inhabited by people very like themselves who have created a eutopia based on unlimited power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Skullier Than the Average Bod" - Christopher East (Challenging Destiny, 2001)
Dystopia. People given enhanced bodies in exchange for reduced intelligence.
Rpt. in Best of the Rest 3: The Best Unknown Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2001. Ed. Brian Youmans (Boston, MA: Suddenly Press, 2002), 31-41 with an author's note on 30.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Song of Earth - Hugh Nissenson (1933-2013) (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001)
A novel set in the future that follows the life of a boy who is genetically enhanced to be an artist, a few others so enhanced, his family and friends, and those who wish to exploit his talents. The setting is generally dystopian with a struggle between men and women; most of the main characters are gay.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Technolife 2020: A Day in the World of Tomorrow - Lois Gresh (b. 1956) (ECW Press, 2001)
Humor and satire on the technologically "enhanced" life of the future.
Keywords: Female author; US author

This Side of Paradise - Steven L. Layne (North Star Books, 2001)
Young adult dystopia. The Village of Paradise, operated by the Eden Corporation, is actually an authoritarian dystopia where the rage for perfection brings a high price.  See Paradise Lost. Gretna, IL: Pelican Publishing Co., 2011 for a sequel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Turning on the Girls - Cheryl Benard (b. 1953) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)
Satire in which women create a feminist eutopia, but there is an underground men's movement trying to overthrow it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Undone" - James Patrick Kelly (b. 1951) (Asimov's Science Fiction, 2001)
Two conflicting utopias are presented, one stressing individuality and the other, called the Utopians, stressing social solidarity.
Rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2001. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (New York: ibooks, 2002), 1-50.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia Closes. A Novel" - Fin Keegan (MFA thesis. Columbia, 2001)
Authoritarian dystopia. Ireland renamed Hibernia and is a police state.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; US author

The Velderet - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) (Circlet Press, 2001)
A sado-masochistic novel that begins in a eutopia and moves to a conflict in which s/m saves the day.
The first six of the twelve chapters were published serially in Taste of Latex, nos. 10 - 15 (1995-97).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Vile Village - [Daniel] [Handler] (b. 1970) (HarperCollins, 2001)
Dystopian children's book. Volume 7 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The vile village is the rule-ridden V.F.D. (The Village of Fowl Devotees), which abducts some children (on the principle that "it takes a village to raise a child") and then requires the children to do all of the work of the village.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“What Weena Knew” - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2001)
A story about Weena from H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine. In the story Weena is a rare intelligent, inquisitive Eloi.
Rpt. without the illus. in his Strangers and Beggars (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press, 2002), 166-80; and without the illus. in The Best of James Van Pelt (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 200-14.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Appendix. Edilia, or 'Make of it what you will'" - David [W.] Harvey (b. 1933) (Spaces of Hope, 2000)
Appendix to his book on the power of the utopian imagination in which he sketches out his own utopian vision. The collapse of the world economy is followed by a period of harsh repression by the military and a revolution. After the revolution a eutopian society is created centered on a federal system that begins at the "hearth" or a small collective living arrangement. Environmentally conscious but using new technologies where possible. For a design research project inspired by Edilia, see Ifea Troiani, “Eco-topia: ‘Living with Nature’ in Edilia, Iceland.” Illus. Journal of Architectural Education 67.1 (2013): 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2013.767129.
U.S. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 257-81.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"At Bud Light Old Faithful" - M[ichael] Shayne Bell (b. 1957) (Interzone, 2000)
Satire on the commercialization of national parks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Auspicious Eggs" - James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2000)
Satire on the Roman Catholic Church, which practices the Sacrament of Terminal Baptism (killing those incapable of reproducing) and requires everyone to copulate when most fertile. The church has a copulatorium that is used for the Sacrament of Extramarital Intercourse with anyone who is fertile if one's partner is not.
Rpt. in Witpunk. Ed. Claude Lalumière and Marty Halpern (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), 26-49; in his The Cat’s Pajama’s & Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 111-32; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 161-78; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 161-78; in his Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 202-21.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Candle - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) (Tor, 2000)
Future dystopia in which almost every person is controlled by a central computer, with control relaxing at the end and the end of the novel. Develops from his Orbital Resonance. New York: Tor, 1991; and Kaleidoscope Century. New York: Tor, 1995.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Cold Dish" - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) (SciFiction, 2000)
Dystopia in which sex outside of marriage is outlawed and women are punished by being forced to have babies.
Rpt. in Interzone, no. 172 (October 2001): 17-21.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Collapsium - Wil[lliam Terence] McCarthy (b. 1966) (Random House, 2000)
Flawed utopia. First volume of four set in the far future "Queendom of Sol" where technology has provided immortality and riches. The second volume (see 2003 McCarthy) is the most explicitly utopian of the volumes. The third and fourth volumes, Lost in Transmission (New York: Random House, 2004) and To Crush the Moon: Being the Final Volume in the History of the Queendom of Sol (New York: Random House, 2005) record the disintegration of any hope of a good life as the problems of immortality grow.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 2000.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Colony Fleet - Susan R. Matthews (b. 1952) (Avon Eos, 2000)
Multiple generation space ship has a complex class structure which begins to break down, as does the ship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Crescent City Rhapsody - Kathleen Ann Goonan (1952-2021) (Avon Eos, 2000)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian, right-wing dystopia in the U.S. set in a world where nanotechnology and genetic engineering are out of control and provide the possibility for both better and worse futures. Aliens destroy Earth electronics and build the nanotechnology-based Crescent City to take humans off the dystopian Earth. Related to 1994, 1997, and 2002 Goonan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dervish is Digital - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Macmillan, 2000)
Cyberpunk dystopia that is something of a sequel to her Tea From an Empty Cup (1998) in that the central character and some of the setting are the same. The female author was born in the U.S. and lives in England. Other cyberpunk dystopias by the author are 1991 and 1992 Cadigan.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dream of Venus - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Star Colonies, 2000)
The story is set in the same universe as 1986, 1988, and 2001 Sargent, but earlier than those novels, and focuses the development of a representation of Venus and the personalities and politics involved.
Rpt. in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 325-57 with "Afterword to 'Dream of Venus'" on 358-59.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Forbidden Experiment” - Pamela [Lifton] Zoline (b. 1941) (Fence, 2000)
Depicts a dystopia where “corporate interests” are running an experiment on raising children who have never heard the spoken word, the children having been stolen from their poor parents. Described as a libretto.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Forge of the Elders - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) (Baen, 2000)
Standard libertarian analysis of dystopian collectivism and eutopian capitalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Four Short Novels" - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2000)
Four brief dystopias of immortality, each showings its disadvantages.
Originally pub. as "Quartre courts romans." Destination 3001. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. The original is held only in French libraries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fourth World - Dennis [Howard] Danvers (b. 1947) (Avon Eos, 2000)
Dystopia in a future controlled by those controlling the web and furnishing the materials for it for the millions of web addicts. Censorship. The novel is concerned with indigenous peoples, poverty, and the few rebels fighting back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

freaknest - Lance Olsen (b. 1956) (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2000)
Dystopia with similarities to 1994 Olsen. Future with widespread disease brought about by overuse of antibiotics. Heavy pollution, widespread drug use, violence. The novel focuses on a small group of feral children and their experiences.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fresco - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Eos, 2000)
A first contact novel that uses the form to explore problems both in the alien society and on Earth. The alien society has based its social structure on a false reading of an ancient fresco covered in centuries of accumulated dirt. Cleaning the fresco threatens to destroy the society, which is based on the idea that each person has one and only one appropriate social role. On the basis of tradition outweighing truth, the fresco is repainted to reflect the traditional version. The Earth gains a eutopia of civility.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Friend of the Earth - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) (Viking, 2000)
Environmental dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Gateway to the Past - Ronald Bast Nelson (d. 2013) (Vantage Press, 2000)
Trips to the past from an environmentally damaged future in 2500 where everyone has been live underground since 2050, but, due to scientific advances, people will be able to return to the surface. Very little on the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gathering Blue - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
A companion to but not a sequel to 1993 Lowry in which the author presents an alternative future that is primitive and simple with aspects of savagery. Her Messenger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004 and Son. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2012, which includes characters from both 1993 Lowry and this volume but take place in an intentional community.
UK ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Generals of October - John T. Cullen (Clocktower Books, 2000)
Dystopia. An attempt to re-write the U.S. Constitution through a Second Constitutional Convention leads to chaos and an attempted military coup.
Second release San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2002. Rpt. New York: ibooks, 2004. The ibooks ed. does not mention the existence of the previous eds.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Going, Going, Gone - Jack [Wylie] Womack [Jr.] (b. 1956) (HarperCollins, 2000)
The final volume of the DryCo series. The novel depicts multiple dystopias with the hope of a better world at the end. For other volumes in the series see his 1987 Ambient, 1988 Terraplane, 1990 Heathern, 1993 Elivissey, and 1993 Random Acts of Senseless Violence. 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.S. ed. New York: Voyager Books, 2000
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Greenhouse Chill” - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2000)
Climate changing dystopia in which most of the world has disappeared under water with a new ice age to follow. Reminiscences of the world before the flood suggest a technological eutopia.
Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 33-55.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Harrad/Premar Becomes The Love-Ed Solution: K-16 Sex and Education for the 21st Century - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (Writers Club Press, 2000)
Sequel to 1966 and 1975 Rimmer that follows their model in presenting excerpts from the diaries kept by students. This novel simply extends and combines the themes of the first two with a greater emphasis on multi-racial and multi-ethnic roommates and groups of roommates. See the note at 1966 Rimmer and 1968, 1978, 1980, and 1982 Rimmer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Harvest of Debts” - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) (J Alan Erwine’s Tales of Dystopia, 2000)
Future dystopia in which the old suppress the young and the beginnings of a youth rebellion.
Originally published in the online journal The Fifth Di... (June 2000), which is no longer available. Published separately by the author as an online ten-page chapbook in 2014.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“How Science Saved the World: Has science driven history for the past 50,000 years?” - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) (Nature, 2000)
A review of a book that argues that the eutopia of the future depended on a subset of scientists devoted to human betterment after a massive plunge in population that resulted from the sorts of issues we face at present.
Rpt. as “Review: Science in the Third Millennium.” Envisioning the Future: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003), 199-201.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hypothesis - William A. Inglehart (Vantage Press, 2000)
Near future dystopia from a conservative perspective. Most of the novel is concerned with the history leading up to 2001, when Saddam Hussein plans to use biological weapons against his enemies. But he is killed by an Iraqi doctor who could not bring himself to be involved in the slaughter.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In Silver A" - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) (Absolute Magnitude, 2000)
Dystopia. Silver A is Silver America, an enclave within what used to be the U.S., which is supposed to be a eutopia but is a dystopia. Non-citizens are forced into the military or used as experimental subjects by scientists.
Rpt. in The Mammoth Book of Future Cops. Ed. Maxim Jakubowski and M. Christian (London: Robinson, 2003), 456-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Incognito - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) (Random House Australia, 2000)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Every individual is stamped with a barcode, and the story is about a boy who is made a non-person by having his identity removed from the system.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; US author

"The Juniper Tree" - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) (Science Fiction Age, 2000)
A society, called the Society of Cousins, formed to free women from the dominance of men and located in tunnels on the far side of the moon. The story shows both the eutopia created and its problems, which include discrimination against those perceived as not fitting in, issues of power, and issues of possessiveness and jealousy combined with a very free sexuality presented positively. See 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2017 Kessel for other works about the Society of Cousins.
Rpt. in his The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2008), 49-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Killing Time: A Novel of the Future - Caleb Carr (Random House, 2000)
Dystopia set in 2023 following massive deaths brought about by poor access to both hygiene and health care when the world is deeply divided between rich and poor nations based on access to information technology with the IT companies the real rulers of the world. Due to strict drug and quality-of-life punishments, two percent of the U.S. population is in prison. Extreme pollution; no fish left.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Book in the Universe - Rodman Philbrick (b. 1951) (The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic, 2000)
Young adult dystopia set many years after a worldwide earthquake destroyed civilization. The novel is in the form of a quest by a young man, an old man in a society controlled by gangs from one area to another under a different gang. Along the way, a child and a genetically enhanced young woman from Eden, a high-tech enclave completely cut off from the surrounding area, joins them.
. Part originally published as “The Last Book in the Universe.” Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future. Comp. Michael Cart (New York: Scholastic Press, 1999), 9-23 with an “Author’s Note 22-23.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Memory of Fire - George Foy (b. 1952) (Bantam Books, 2000)
Authoritarian dystopia with eutopian anarchist enclaves called nodes or cruces. After one dedicated to the creative life and inhabited by artists, musicians, and writers is destroyed on the coast of South America, the protagonist flees to a similar one in Oakland, California. There she attracts the attention of the authorities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Midnight Robber - [Noelle] Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) (Warner Books, 2000)
The planet Toussaint has been colonized from the Caribbean and replicated the positive and negative aspects of Caribbean culture. It expels its criminals to the dystopian New Half-Way Tree.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Guyanese author; Jamaican author; Trinidadian author; US author

"Multum in Parvo" - Michael Kandel (b. 1941) (Amazing Stories, 2000)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New City. A Novel - Stephen Amidon (b. 1959) (Doubleday, 2000)
An ideal suburban community is created that is specifically designed for racial harmony, but over time the usual personality conflicts and differing needs and desires reveals it to be a better society albeit a flawed utopia. Set in 1973 and based on Columbia, MD, where the author once lived.
Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Outlaw School - [Rebecca Bard] [Brown] (b. 1948) (Eos, 2000)
Dystopia. Authoritarian future controlling all aspects of life. There is a rebel who tries to open up possibilities for improvement.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Parallel Highways" - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) (After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror, 2000)
As the anthology sub-title suggests, this is a dystopian horror story of a couple trapped on a Los Angeles freeway travelling constantly at 80 miles an hour hemmed in by trucks and other cars.
Rpt. in The Best of James Van Pelt. (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 17-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pastoralia" - George Saunders (b. 1958) (The New Yorker, 2000)
Dystopia in which people live in a cave in a zoo pretending to be early humans, which is considered a good job in what is obviously a poverty-stricken future.
Rpt. in his Pastoralia (New York: Riverhead Books, 2000), 1-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2000)
The third volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, the recovering ecology is collapsing due to global warming and the Pax Femina has become ruthless, particularly in its control of its space colonies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2000)
The fourth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, Earth’s ecology continues to deteriorate, and what is now the Pax Humana, dominated by corporations, is determined to destroy the one space colony, on Callisto, that remains free of its control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) (Xlibris, 2000)
The fifth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and 2001 Cantwell. This volume continues the themes of the earlier ones. Callisto was defeated and its people dispersed, and corporations rule, but the struggle between the Pax Humana and the dissidents continues until the Pax Humana fleet meets a stronger power from outer space.
Keywords: Male author; US author

PDU-1 - F[red] E. Potts (ACS Publishing, 2000)
PDU-1 is an orbiting computer into which the personalities of those convicted of crimes on earth are transported. Primitive eutopia on PDU-1 contrasted with a dystopian earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

The Telling - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Harcourt, 2000)
Anthropological science fiction in her Hainish cycle. There are two dystopias, one religious and one scientific and anti-religious. The latter is trying to suppress the traditional culture on its planet, which is centered around the Telling, an extremely complex set of stories that provide a guide to most aspects of life on the planet. This culture is a flawed or ambiguous utopia because the attempts to suppress it meant that it could not incorporate new knowledge and because in the past one part of the planet had used it for power rather than enlightenment.
U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2000. Rpt. in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 589-750 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787-89).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Old Music and the Slave Women" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction, 1999)
A fifth novella to add to her 1995 Four Ways to Forgiveness. This story is mostly about the continuing struggle for control of the planet Werel.
Rpt. in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 153-211. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 153-211; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 429-87; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 518-69 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (787).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The Asonu" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Orion: People and Nature, 1998)
An odd society where people speak very little and live good lives. Satire on those who want them to be mystics.
Rpt. as "The Silence of the Asonu." In her Changing Planes. Illus. by Eric Beddows (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 19-29; online in Lightspeed in December 2010; in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 328-33; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 253-63; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 605-12.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Masque - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946); Matthew J[ohn] Costello (b. 1948) (Warner Books, 1998)
Dystopia. Far future warring corporations.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Matrix. Shooting Script August 12, 1998" - Larry [Laurence] Wachowski (b. 1965); Andy [Andrew] Wachowski (b. 1967) (The Art of The Matrix, 1998)
Dystopian film released in 1999, followed by “The Matrix Revolution” (2003), “Matrix Reloaded (2003), and “The Matrix Resurrections” (2021), written by Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, and Aleksandar Hemon. “The Animatrix,” an animated series of nine short films, four written by the Wachowskis, set in the Matrix universe was released in 2003 (see http://www.intothematrix.com/). A satire is [Adam Roberts], McAtrix Derided. By The Robertski Brothers [pseud.]. London: Gollancz, 2004.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

Maximum Light - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Tor, 1998)
A near future dystopia in which the birth rate drops precipitously, which the economy cannot handle, and the resulting poverty and violence.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Moonwar - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Avon Eos, 1998)
The moon has become a high tech eutopia, while the Earth has become an anti-technology dystopia. Sequel to his Moonrise. New York: Avon, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Mulatto Millennium” - Danzy Senna (Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural, 1998)
Satire on racial identity and politics in the United States where suddenly being mixed race is the only acceptable identity.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Noir - K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter (b. 1950) (Bantam Books, 1998)
Background of an authoritarian dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1999.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Originator - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) (Random House Australia, 1998)
Young adult authoritarian dystopia focusing on genetic engineering. A rigidly hierarchical society, divided into Leets, Mids, and Subs, faces a scientist creating super-humans. Her Fabricant. Milsons Point, NSW, Australia: Random House Australia, 1999 is a sequel.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; US author

"On the Penal Colony" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1998)
Dystopia in which an historic site is actually a prison with all the people playing the roles of historic inhabitants as prisoners.
Rpt. in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 229-39.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Planet Dreams - Michaela Carlock (Keswick House, 1998)
The novel presents two near future Earths. One is an ecologically oriented, non-violent, egalitarian eutopia, and the others is an extremely polluted, violent, poor, authoritarian dystopia. They begin to interact, changing both, but the eutopia survives without serious damage. New Age themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Really Know Love for all-that-is - Roslynn Webb Cady (RosTer Publications, 1998)
New Age eutopia, See also 2008 Cady. A related work is her The Final Quantum: A New Thought Novel. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform in conjunction with RosTer Publications Cañon City, CO., 2016.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Republic of Dreams: A Reverie - G. Garfield Crimmins (W.W. Norton, 1998)
Something of a modern cockaigne under attack by rationalists. The Republic of Dreams where good food, good sex, and good wine are the norm. The book is heavily illustrated and includes foldouts and various inserts.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Seal of Gaia: A Novel of the Antichrist - [Robert] Marlin Maddoux (Word Publishing Co, 1998)
Dystopia centering on the Antichrist.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tea From An Empty Cup - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (HarperCollins, 1998)
Cyberpunk dystopia. See also 2000 Cadigan.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Texas 2077: A Futuristic Novel - Carlos Miralejos (Outer Space Press, 1998)
A Hispanic political party develops and becomes a major force nationally, but Texas is planning to secede, and that would seriously weaken the Hispanic part. The novel has a number of other plot lines.
Keywords: Male author; US 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

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

"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

The Dazzle of Day - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) (Tor, 1997)
Critical eutopia. Troubled Quaker society near the end of a multi-generation space flight trying to decide on settling a rather undesirable planet. Ends with a picture of the society established there after a few generations.
Rpt. New York: Saga Press, 2019 with the story “Lambing Season” appended unpaged at the end. It was originally published illus. Lourie Harden. Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.7 (318) (July 2002): 83-91; rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 200-13; and in her Unforeseen: Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019), 203-19.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

Exit to Reality - Edith Forbes (b. 1954) (Seal Press, 1997)
After a world-wide environmental collapse, a plan is put in place to replace human bodies and, by doing so, create a eutopia. In the eutopia, where the novel begins, people regenerate themselves and live very long lives, and the protagonist is over 600 years old. Most of the world’s land is under agriculture with all housing on land that is too steep to be used for mechanized farming. Income and housing depend on one’s level of employment. People are kept in balance psychologically chemically. Everyone has a virtual mother and father, even someone as old as the protagonist. But the eutopia is ruled by corporations and is deeply flawed.
Keywords: Female 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