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

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

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

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

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

The Pure Cold Light - Gregory [Dee] Frost (b. 1951) (Avon, 1993)
Dystopia of drugs and corporate control.
Keywords: US author

Rainbow Man - M[ary] J[ane] Engh (b. 1933) (Tor, 1993)
Flawed utopia of a complex society that purports to have no laws but is actually highly regulated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Reverse Angle - G. Sacerdote (Dorrance Publishing Co, 1993)
The legalization of drugs produces an immediate positive result, but then the drug cartels fight back killing everyone that gets in their way. Ultimately, they are defeated.
Keywords: Peruvian author; UK author; US author

Ring of Swords - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Tor, 1993)
A difficult book to characterize in that it presents two societies, an extremely well-done alien society, the Hwarhath, where same-sex relations are the norm, and people from a future Earth. Both societies are presented with their good and not-so-good elements. See Brian Attebery, "Ring of Swords: A Reappreciation." New York Review of Science Fiction 16.8 (April 2004): 1, 8-10. Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.
Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rising of the Moon - Flynn Connolly (Ballantine Books, 1993)
Future Ireland totally dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and emphasizes the suppression of women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shadow Hunter - Will[iam Edwin] Baker (1935-2005) (Viking Press, 1993)
Dystopia of a world where almost everything natural has been eliminated.
U.S. ed. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
Keywords: US author

"Somewhere Down the Diamondback Road" - Kelley Eskridge (b. 1960) (Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, 1993)
Dystopia of sex, violence, and driving with an unidentified Authority in control.
Rpt. in her Dangerous Space: Short Fiction (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007), 131-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Songs of Chaos - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) (Ace Books, 1993)
The novel is partially set in a conformist dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Songs of Solomon" - Virginia Ellen Baker (Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor, 1993)
Future dystopia stressing punishment and the revolt against it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Bushido Incident - Betty Anne Crawford (b. 1952) (DAW Books, 1992)
Dystopia. Earth dominated by a Japanese economic empire.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"California Dreaming" - Elizabeth A[nne] Lynn (b. 1946) (Omni Best Science Fiction One, 1992)
Cars are outlawed in California, and this produces the beginnings of a better society.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

China Mountain Zhang - Maureen F. McHugh (b. 1959) (Tor, 1992)
A dystopian future dominated by a still Communist China. There is a Socialist Union of America States that is considered a second rate country.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

"Even the Queen" - Connie [Constance Elaine Trimmer] Willis (b. 1945) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1992)
A drug allows women to stop menstruating, and this allows the creation of an eutopian society in which women take the lead.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction. Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 62-75; in her Impossible Things (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 66-87; and in A Woman's Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 35-54.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Fools - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1992)
Cyberpunk dystopia with people able to create new personalities for both themselves and others and others stealing memories.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

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

Glass Houses - Laura J. Mixon (b. 1954) (Tor, 1992)
Environmental dystopia inside and outside a domed New York City.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"The Hall of New Faces" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1992)
Dystopia concerned with the pressure on women to look good, and particularly to look young. Women go to the "Hall of New Faces" for plastic surgery, and all look worse.
Rpt. in her of Weird Women, Wired Women (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998), 133-43.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Jack the Bodiless. Book One of The Galactic Milieu Trilogy - Julian [Clare] May (1931-2017) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992)
Earth has achieved peace, is developing significant psychic powers, and is ready to join the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of planets. But there is opposition that wants to maintain human individuality and believes in the superiority of humans over all others, and it is trying to kill the most psychically powerful humans. See also 1987 May. In the second volume in the trilogy, Diamond Mask. A Novel. Book Two of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, Earth has joined the Galactic Milieu and humans are preparing to join the Unity, a group mind that includes all the races of the Galactic Milieu, but the opposition described in the previous volume is trying to stop the process. In the third volume, Magnificat. A Novel. Book Three of the Galactic Milieu Trilogy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, the opposition continues but is ultimately defeated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

Last Refuge - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) (Bantam Books, 1992)
The eutopian Shambala (Shangri-la) and the devastated outer world as a dystopia. Loose sequel to the 1991 Scarborough. For the classic eutopian Shangri-la, see 1933 Hilton.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Madrelita" - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1992)
Feminist dystopia focusing on class divisions and the exploitation of poor women by the rich. See also 1996 Ross.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

"The Mountain to Mohammed" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1992)
Dystopia of extreme poverty. The story concerns a doctor who treats the poor.
Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 123-36.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Mutagenesis - Helen [Francis] Collins (b. 1937) (Tor, 1992)
Religious patriarchy as a dystopia with a feminist theme developed as the alternative.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

"Protection" - Maureen [F.] McHugh (b. 1959) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1992)
Dystopia set in a labor camp in a future America.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), 312-45.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

Return to Isis - Jean Stewart (b. 1953) (Rising Tide Press, 1992)
Feminist eutopia with lesbian interest. See also 1993, 1995, 2001, and 2004 Stewart.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

River Rats - Caroline Stevermer (b. 1955) (Jane Yolen Books/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992)
Young adult, post-apocalyptic dystopia after a nuclear war, in which children who operate a paddle wheeler on the Mississippi River have to deal with another group of children known as the Wild Boys who control a riverside city.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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 Women Who Won the World: A Playful Segment" - [Betty Susan] Weinbaum (b. 1952) (Anything That Moves, 1992)
Feminist satire directed at feminist aspirations.
Rpt. in her The Island of Floating Women (San Diego, CA: Clothespin Fever Press, 1993), 169-175.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Amazon Fragment" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 43-80.
Keywords: Female 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

Beauty - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Doubleday, 1991)
Mostly fantasy deriving from the tale of Sleeping Beauty presented as “The Journal of Beauty daughter of the Duke of Westfaire” with interpolations by “Carabosse, the fairy of clocks, keeper of the secrets of time”. Beauty travels into various futures, including an authoritarian 21st century dystopia. On the dust jacket “A Note from the Author” connects the novel to the loss of natural habitat, the loss of beauty, which she hopes is only sleeping, not dying.
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1992. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1993.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"The City of a Seagull" - Lois [Ann] Tilton (b. 1946) (Interzone, 1991)
Dystopia-- a near future story of refugees forced to live on ships constantly wandering the seas.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Danila's Song" - Vera Nazarian (b. 1966) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author; Russian author; US 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

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

Harmony - Marjorie Bradley Kellogg (b. 1945) (Roc, 1991)
Two differing future societies on a polluted earth, one under domes and one exposed to the elements.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hatching Stones - Anna Wilson (b. 1954) (Onlywomen Press, 1991)
The availability of cloning produces a split between men and women.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

He, She and It - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)
Complex future dystopia run by corporations with an embattled Jewish eutopia as the central focus.
U.K. ed. as Body of Glass. London: Michael Joseph, 1992.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Honor of the Guild" - Joan Marie Verba (b. 1953) (Renunciates Of Darkover, 1991)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author; US 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 Inquisitor - Jerome Gold (b. 1943) (Black Heron Press, 1991)
Keywords: Male author; US 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

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

"Newton's Sleep." - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Full Spectrum, 1991)
The story begins in a very brief dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout.
Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Nothing Sacred - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (b. 1947) (Doubleday, 1991)
Post-catastrophe dystopia with fantasy elements.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

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

"Slow Burn in Alphabettown" - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
Dystopia of a future New York deeply divided between the rich and poor and cut off from electricity supplies. New Jersey is burning. There is no trash collection in New York, but at the end the poor people organize to clean up their areas.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Stranded - [Marian] [Grace] (b. 1941) (Naiad Press, 1991)
Novel with lesbian themes that briefly describes a eutopian hermaphroditic society on another planet and Earth as a dystopia. Struggle to free Earth from evil powers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Synners - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) (Bantam Books, 1991)
Cyberpunk dystopia with computer viruses and designer drugs. Synners are human synthesizers who take images from people’s brains and package them for consumption by others.
U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1991. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1991. Chap. 14 was also published in The South Atlantic Quarterly 92.4 (Fall 1993): 669-80.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

“Tunnel Vision” - Esther [Mona] Friesner (b. 1951) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
A future violent New York City dystopia with live theater continuing in the disused tunnels.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Tunnel Vision” - Esther M[ona] Friesner (b. 1951) (Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City, 1991)
A future violent New York City dystopia with live theater continuing in the disused tunnels.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"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

"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

A Woman of the Iron People - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (Morrow, 1991)
A complex, multi-layered regarding the interactions of people from a technological, socialist Earth and aliens from a simple society, with the action taking place on the alien’s planet. Good and bad elements of both peoples are described, and there is a particular emphasis on gender. The book won the first James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender.
Rpt. as A Woman of the Iron People. Part One. In the Light of Sigma Draconis. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992; and A Woman of the Iron People. Part Two. Changing Women. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Back From the Future: Reflections on trends of change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries” - [Susan] Furchgott (RockHEAD, 1990)
A brief eutopia of the global village that is seen to have developed out of rock and the communal movement.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Chicago Red - R[ebecca] M. Meluch (b. 1956) (Roc, 1990)
Future America as a dystopian monarchy. Stress on the revolution.
Keywords: Female 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

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

"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

Doc and Fluff: The Distopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker - Pat[rick] Califia[-Rice] (b. 1954) (Alyson Publications, 1990)
Lesbian dystopia that includes a description of a lesbian intentional community that could be considered a eutopia.
Rpt. Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Publications, 1996.
Keywords: Transgender author; US 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

“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

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

“The Forbidden Words of Margaret A” - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) (Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, 1990)
Dystopia as seen through the eyes of a journalist reporting on a meeting with an imprisoned woman, whose words, under a law called as “The Limited Censorship for the Preservation of National Security Act,” it is illegal to report or to be heard or read by anyone.
Rpt. in The Women Who Walk Through Fire. Ed. Susanna J. Sturgis (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1990), 53-75; Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 3-19; and Broad Knowledge: 35 Women Up to No Good. Ed. Joanne Merriam (Nashville , TN: Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2018), 333-50.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

A Gift Upon the Shore - [Martha Kay] [Renfroe] (1938-2016) (Ballantine Books, 1990)
Post-catastrophe novel that includes a dystopian religious intentional community as a focus.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

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

"Inertia" - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) (Analog Science Fact and Fiction, 1990)
Dystopia. People who have contracted a contagious disease are permanently interned in camps, where they develop a sustainable non-violent society while the world outside disintegrates into chaos, violence, and authoritarianism. The camps are presented as better because they are characterized by the willingness to get along, but they are not eutopian.
Rpt. in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 1-34; and Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 207-28.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Inkblot Test" - Rosalind A. Warren (The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1990)
Authoritarian dystopia that uses rigged psychological testing to place people in occupations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Net Songs" - Elaine Bergstrom (The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1990)
Right wing dystopia controlling human relationships through fear of disease.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Others - Margaret Wander Bonanno (b. 1950) (St. Martin's, 1990)
First volume of a trilogy describing relations between a technologically advanced, peaceful eutopian people, called the Others, and what appears to be normal, vicious humans, known as the People. The Others and the People cooperate by the end of the third volume but not before the Others are almost destroyed. The second volume, Otherwhere. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991 focuses on the conflicts between the Others and the People that resulted in the near elimination of the Others and internecine war among the People. In the third volume, Otherwise. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993, the various conflicts are resolved.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Personal Silence" - Molly Gloss (b. 1944) (Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, 1990)
The story is set in a future devastated by environmental damage and war and takes place in a mostly abandoned small town at the tip of the state of Washington. The protagonist’s campaign for peace involves walking across every country in the world and not speaking until he has finished.
Rpt. in her Unforeseen: Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2019), 23-59.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Picnic Days" - Cleo [Fellers] Kocol (1927-2016) (The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1990)
Overpopulation dystopia in which the right to drive is considered more important than the safety of pedestrians, and traffic accidents are considered a means of reducing the population. The point of view character is the mother of sixteen living in a two-room apartment.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

Raising the Stones - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) (Doubleday, 1990)
Novel about two planets, one, Voorstad, is a religious dystopia with slaves and women veiled and hidden. Violent. The other, Hobbs Land, is a simple agricultural society. It, and the rest of the settled planets, are matrilineal. Much fantasy in that one focus of the novel is the death and rebirth of the old gods of Hobbs Land.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.
Keywords: Female 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

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

Winterlong - Elizabeth [Francis] Hand (b. 1957) (Bantam, 1990)
Fantasy with some dystopian elements. Loose sequels include her Aestival Tide. New York: Bantam Books, 1992; and Icarus Descending. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"And the Truth Shall Set You Free" - Sharon Green (b. 1942) (Alternatives, 1989)
A eutopia set seventy-five years in the future where the justice system has shifted from concern with treating the accused fairly to insisting on getting the truth. The mantra of the society is that everyone has free choice, and many social and technological means are in place to achieve this, but anyone who chooses to violate the society's standards is sterilized and the worst cases are sent to wilderness settlements with no outside support.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Angel Station - Walter Jon Williams (b. 1953) (Tor, 1989)
Cyberpunk dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US 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 Time - Deborah [Stoddard] Moulton (b. 1952) (Dial, 1989)
Young adult novel of a computer controlled dystopia. Nuclear war is imminent.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Chimera" - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) (Synergy: New Science Fiction, 1989)
Future dystopia in which thirty percent have been sterilized in exchange for a higher income. Privacy very important and invasion of privacy laws strictly enforced. Eighty percent of the population lives in welfare ghettos. Various other themes.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The City, Not Long After - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) (Doubleday & Co., 1989)
Magical realism set in a post-catastrophe San Francisco in which the survivors are creating a better world but are threatened by totalitarians who are planning to invade.
U.K. ed. London: Pan Fantasy, 1990. Part was originally published as “Art in the War Zone”. Universe 14. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1984), 64-92.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Edgewise - [Marian] [Grace] (b. 1941) (Naiad Press, 1989)
The novel is about the development of a lesbian religious community, Circle Edge, known locally as the Ladies’ Farm, and its success. The novel details the interactions of the main protagonist with the community and her struggle to decide what to do with a large fortune she has inherited, ends with a future report on the community, from Womenworld Magazine (November 1999), which, with the protagonist’s money, has gradually bought up a town in Colorado and transformed it into a eutopia.
Keywords: Female 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

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

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

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

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

"The Human Shore" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Futures, 1989)
A future society in which gender differentiation is unknown.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"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

John Dollar. A Novel - Marianne Wiggins (b. 1947) (Harper & Row, 1989)
The novel has some resonances with 1954 Golding except with girls rather than boys, with the girls on an isolated after an earthquake destroys the boats they arrived on and kills the adults, except for one man who is badly injured and paralyzed.
Rpt. New York: Perennial Library, 1990. U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989.
Keywords: English author; Female 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 Last of the Green-Toed Fruit-Bats: A Fairy-Tale for Adults - Toni Jeffreys (Waiake Wordsmiths, 1989)
Part dystopia, part fantasy, part feminist eutopia. The story, written as if from 2019-20, is of an island in the eastern Pacific called New Balkland, which has an ecology and history similar to New Zealand. The novel is written from the point-of-view of one woman from her earliest years to her full development as a powerful witch. Her history parallels a series of environmental and political disasters that leads to the destruction of the world, except for New Balkland, which is saved by its women, with the help of the world's whales.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

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

"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

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

"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

"Strip-Runner" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Foundation's Friends: Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov, 1989)
Dystopia of an enclosed world and its limitations on a teenage girl.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Subterranean Gallery - Richard Paul Russo (b. 1954) (Tor, 1989)
Near future dystopia set in a collapsing San Francisco.
U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tales of the Lost Formicans" - Constance [S.] Congdon (b. 1944) (American Theatre, 1989)
Satire on Middle America as seen by aliens.
Rpt. in Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville (New York: Broadway Publishing, 1989), 279-342; as Tales of the Lost Formicans. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1990; and as “Tales of the Lost Formicans.” In her Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1994), 1-76.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tangled Webs - Steve Mudd (Popular Library, 1989)
Authoritarian dystopia. The protagonist thinks he lives in a law-based universe but discovers that he lives in a universe at war with itself.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Third Force" (RockHEAD, 1989)
The future of the Kerista commune as a eutopia where it covers an complete San Francisco block with the area in the center brought together. Highly developed technology. Different intentional communities throughout California.
Second part also published in The Node 6.1 (Spring 1991): 8-9, 20-21.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Wall Around Eden - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) (Morrow, 1989)
Flawed utopia. A small town is isolated by aliens from a nuclear holocaust and re-learns the skills of a simple life. The next generation begins to see this life as too limiting.
U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1989.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"We See Things Differently." - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) (Semiotext[e] SF, 1989)
Dystopia of a collapsed U.S. and dominant Islamic Middle East, which, in the name of jihad, is killing individuals who might assist U.S. recovery.
Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), 130-46 with an editor's note on 129; and in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 762-79.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) (HarperCollins Children's Books, 1989)
Weetzie Bat is the name of the main character, who creates a eutopian family around her comprised of two gay men, who father her child, a husband, his child by a witch, and various pets. Fantasy elements. Marketed as young adult. There are a number of other books in which Weetzie Bat plays a role or focus on characters from the original story, generally without the eutopian elements but with some fantasy. These include Witch Baby (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Cherokee Bat and The Goat Guys (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), Missing Angel Juan (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), Baby Be-bop (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), and Necklace of Kisses. A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 2005).
Rpt. in Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 1-70, which also includes Witch Baby (71-154), Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (155-252), Missing Angel Juan (253-373), and Baby Be-Bop (375-478).
Keywords: Female author; US author