TY - ABST T1 - “To Labor for the Hive” Y1 - 2024 A1 - Jamie Liu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a community in a near future China dealing with climate-change, particularly extreme storms, and focuses on beehousing, which involves establishing nesting areas for wild bees that can, apparently help predict such storms. The utopian aspects of the story relate to the way that the community involves everyone and provides a refuge for needing help.

JF - Grist/Imagine2200 2024 UR - https://grist.org/climate-fiction/imagine2200-to-labor-for-the-hive/ U2 -

Illus. Stefan Grosse Halbuer

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foreverchild: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 2023 A1 - Mark Lavine KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set three hundred years in the future when some people live for hundreds of years as children and live isolated from the majority who have a normal lifespan.

PB - Author CY - Np VL - Second ed. SN - 979-8-218-13094-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Less Than" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Lavanya Lakshminarayan ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The story takes place in Free India in which everyone is free and equal and has replace the authoritarian Regime in which only some people were acceptable. It turns out, though, that new internet is being used to manipulate individuals to produce what are perceived to be a eugenically superior next generation.

JF - Communications Breakdown: SF Stories About the Future of Connection PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 9780262546461 U2 -

Illus. Ashley Mackenzie.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prophet Song Y1 - 2023 A1 - Lynch, Paul KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a near future in which the GNSB (Garda National Services Bureau), a recently established secret police, is investigating all people they determine to be potentially subversive, and those people tend to disappear. The novel follows the family of a teacher and union leader who is being investigated as they flee across an authoritarian Ireland.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 978-0861546862 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tears Down the Wall” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Michèle Laframboise (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story concerns homelessness, most of whom live in tents attached to the side of tall buildings, in a city that depends on their labor to support the tourist-based economy and the wealthy who own all the property. The title is a reference to watching the tents being lowered to the ground in the morning.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 9 & 10 (612 & 613) SN - 1065-6298 U1 -

The Canadian female author (b. 1960) was born in London. Her parents are Québécois, and her novels are in French while many of her short stories in English.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Exhausted Wells” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Tee Linden ED - Clare Rhoden KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth has been mostly abandoned and multiple attempts to terraform other planets have failed. It takes place on an ice planet where another attempt is taking place.

JF - from the Waste Land: Stories Inspired by TS Eliot’s The Waste Land PB - Drugstore Indian Press/PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. SN - 978-1-78636-887-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Stand of the E. 12th St. Pirates” Y1 - 2022 A1 - L. D. Lewis KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a city parts pf which are flooded but with many of the inhabitants still living there because they have no place else to go. The story takes place as the wealthy, who control the city, are beginning to push those inhabitants out so that the area can be reclaimed for the rich.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 151 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/last-stand-of-the-e-12th-st-pirates/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Letter to My Daughter, Emily” Y1 - 2022 A1 - E[lizabeth] E[ve] King A1 - Richard Lau KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by climate change, and the letter described the slow recovery and some unexpected effects of that recovery.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer Y1 - 2022 A1 - Janelle [Robinson] Monáe (b. 1985) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a surveillance dystopia in which memories are surveilled and forcibly erased if unacceptable to regime. Significant concerns with race and gender of all varieties. All of the issues are seen through a variety of lenses. A Dirty Computer is an android who refuses to abide by the rules of the authoritarian society in which they live and subject to “cleaning” or having their memories removed. They originated with Monáe’s 2018 album Dirty Computer. The album was followed by the 2018 film Dirty Computer that can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE&ab_channel=JanelleMon%C3%A1e. For full credits, see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8343642/fullcredits. The film was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New york SN - 978-0-06307-087-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Merry Christmas from the Bremmers: It’s been quite a year” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A family Christmas letter written in a post-apocalypse future.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04199-x U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nimeybirra” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Laniyuk ED - Mykaela Saunders KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story in the form of notes from various people to others, some deceased, begins in 2086 and continues until 2157, and the returns to April 2021 in a note from the author. The notes follow the gradual taking back of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand by its indigenous peoples with the final entry a statement of the original impetus.

JF - This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction PB - Queensland University Press CY - St. Lucia, Qld, Australia SN - 978-0702265662 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future School” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Liz Liu KW - Female author KW - Taiwanese author AB -

Very high-tech school of the future that is also child-centered and good for the environment. The story was a winner in the children’s category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/future-school/ U2 -

Illus. Hal Hefner

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Garbo on the Skids” Y1 - 2021 A1 - A. G Lombardo ED - Denise Hamilton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Skids are an area of downtown Los Angeles that has been walled off to contain the poor, homeless, addicts, and petty criminals.

JF - Speculative Los Angeles PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 9781617758645 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hermetica Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alan Lea KW - Male author AB -

Dase, the protagonist of the novella, lives in Hermetica, which they, the pronoun used for everybody, believes to be a generations starship set on course to a possible new planet after Earth’s civilization had collapsed following a viral pandemic. Most of the novel follow’s Dase in his daily unsatisfying round to a job he hates, the tiny cubicle he lives in that is part of a small, module cut-off from all other such modules within Hermetica designed, everyone is told, to restrict the spread of disease. All aspects of life are constantly monitored. Dase begins to suspect that everything he “knows” about Hermetica is false.

PB - Detritus Books CY - Olympia, WA SN - 9781948501156 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interviews of Importance” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where society at least appears to be caring more for its aging population through the establishment of an Elder Resources program that is designed to connect aging people “with working-age people, both to reduce loneliness and isolation . . . and to have some early warning and support for vulnerable people in any kind of future disaster” (45) Also, the new digital democracy required everyone to be technologically competent to participate and vote, and the system is designed to ensure that the elderly had the needed competencies. It is told from the viewpoint of a young woman who works in a low-paid job to contact people in their sixties or older to first set up an interview in which she asks set questions about their lived history, with a particular emphasis on what is now called “historically oppressed groups” (46). They are then encouraged to join a network which will contact them regularly. The young woman is cynical about her job but is also desperate to learn her mother’s history.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Laartammer” Y1 - 2021 A1 - J[ulia] S[muts] Louw ED - Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) ED - Karina Magdalena Szczurek ED - Jason Myki Snyman KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

As a result of the devastating drought produced by climate change, South Africa has introduced water rationing and a one-child policy. The story is told from the viewpoint of a Laatlammer, or late lamb a child born long after its siblings, whose existence has to be hidden.

JF - Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa PB - Short Story Day Africa CY - Np SN - 978-1-946395-57-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Little Kowloon” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Adrian Hon ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in an independent Scotland during a period of continuing pandemics. Little Kowloon refers to the fact that Edinburgh has become one of the main destinations for the hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Honk Kong.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambrisge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set after a future pandemic in which Canada had instituted rationing to ensure that everyone was adequately fed.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Price of Attention” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

After two major pandemics, a country has transformed itself using sophisticated algorithms, opening up green spaces in cities, defunding police and funding support systems, and other “radical liberal” policies. The story takes place as a referendum is about to be held to choose between continued decision-making by algorithm using a very complicated system of voting designed to avoid fraud and decision-making by citizen panels.

JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sabhu My Destination” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on an African American boy growing up in the contemporary United States and the long-lived man he becomes mostly in Africa told in stages with each stage beginning in italics with the experiences that make him who he is in the future. The story is played out in a world transformed by climate change, with much both changed and unchanged at a both a personal level and socially and politically, such as the abandonment of a base on the moon and its redevelopment by Ghana.

JF - Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-17-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Séance in the Anthropocene” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Abigail Larkin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story traces the process by which climate denial finally became untenable and shows the process through which society was structurally and technologically changed to begin to reverse the process.

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors UR - https://grist.org/fix/arts-culture/imagine-2200-climate-fiction-seance-in-the-anthropocene/ U2 -

Illus. Amelia Bates

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Without a password: Making connections” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A brief story exploring a change to a future in which community is normal and conflict disappears.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02687-0 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Gives Way. A Novel Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa Levien KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set on a huge multi-generation spaceship where from age five a girl has lived as contract labor until the death of her current employers. The novel focuses on the girl’s attempt to stay free while burdened with her employer’s baby daughter and the knowledge that the ship’s hull is failing.

PB - Redhook Books/Orbit/Hachette CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-59241-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Worm to the Wise” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future San Francisco Bay area that has been ravaged by fires with most of the suburbs gone and focus on a group of people working to reclaim the land.

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - A Worm to the Wise | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

Illus. Grace Abe

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "African Twilight" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michelle Renee Lane ED - Matt Bechtel KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a scheme to reestablish slavery in the United States.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lavanya Lakshminarayan KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The novel is set in a future where the nations of the world have fragmented into a few city-states. In what was India, Bangalore is now Apex City under the control of a corporation and the people are divided between the elite Virtual, who have to technology, and the outcast Analog, who do not.

PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-9389253085 N1 -

Rpt. as The Ten-Percent Thief. New York: Solaris, 2023. 368 pp. One story, “The Ten-Percent Thief” has been rpt. in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 35-40.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Animals Like Me. Deep/Fake I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in three parts with the protagonist in the first part the viewpoint character in the second part and a minor figure in the third part, with the parts apparently in chronological order. The first part depicts a society entirely dependent on artificial intelligence, the only employment seems to be in the gig economy, and drug addiction is normal and fostered by pharmaceutical companies. In the second part, hordes of children are running wild and killing people and body parts are removed without consent. In the third part, the protagonist is a goat herder in the mountains, where he went to escape his own addiction, and individuals start showing up announcing that the bot had been overthrown.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Apology from the Natives of Earth” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Joe Lasser KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The people of Earth are apologizing to the inhabitants of other planets for damaging their own planet, which was then cleaned up and repaired as much as possible. But when it became possible, the people of Earth colonized other planets, eliminated species, and destroyed ecosystems. They are now asking not to be eliminated themselves.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/02/14/an-apology-from-the-natives-of-earth/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 129-32, with a note on the author on 132. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arrest. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Although the dust jacket says is not postapocalyptic, a dystopia, or a utopia. After almost all forms of power stop working with no explanation give, it is certainly the first two, and there are elements of a utopia in a farming cooperative, but it is equally a commentary on such fictions. The three main protagonists appeared in his “The Starlet Apartments.” Illus. Ana Galvañ. The New Yorker (March 4, 2019). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-starlet-apartments which provides background to the novel.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-293878-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Beasts of Bataranam” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Elly Blue ED - Taru Luojola KW - Finnish author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia set on a slave plantation in Latin America. Elements of fantasy. 

JF - Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism, and Dragons PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bu Liao Qing” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michelle Law ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia and concerns a young, pregnant, Aboriginal-Asian Australian girl trying to function in a world that rejects her.

JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melboure, Vic, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Refuge" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Mur Lafferty ED - S. B. Divya [pseud.] KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Indianapolis on “Original Earth,” or what remains after the rich have left to settle Mars and African Americans who can afford to have settled the moon and orbiting cities around it. Those left behind include those who can afford to ensure clean air and water by building a dome over their neighborhood and those who can’t. The viewpoint character is an African American ex-convict struggling to survive.

JF - Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789095012 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Currant Dumas” Y1 - 2020 A1 - L. D. Lewis ED - Dave Ring KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on a circus train in a climate change dystopia following a great storm that obliterated the eastern seaboard, including the U.S. capital. Eleven years later there is no government, no financial system, so no currency, and everyone is simply struggling to survive. 

JF - Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die PB - Neon Hemlock Press CY - [Washington, DC] SN - 978-1-952086-10-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Everything Store” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Danyl McLauchlan (b. 1974) ED - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) ED - David Larsen KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The story depicts a dystopia in which everyone lives in what appears to be one immense store set in the middle of a desert with people trading goods within the store in order to survive. 

JF - Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Victoria University of Wellington Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand SN - 9781776563104 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For Want of Blue Eyes” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Stephen Lomer ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story id set in the near future in which all Muslims, Mexicans, and anyone not white had been deported from the United States. When the remaining people started to complain that no one was doing the essential work, blame was placed on anyone who didn’t have blue eyes.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Xiaodan Liu [pseud.] ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - Chinese author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future United States that has established American Equity under which those whose families had been disadvantaged in the past due to their race, ethnicity, family poverty, and so forth are rewarded and those whose families were advantaged in the past are now living in poverty in rundown housing, poor schooling, and so forth.

JF - Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology PB - MonstraCity Press CY - Manassas, VA SN - 978-0-9898027-4-1 U3 -

Liu Xiaodan [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goldilocks Y1 - 2020 A1 - Laura Lam (b. 1988) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

The novel is initially set on an Earth damaged by climate-change and with women treated as inferior beings. It then moves to an all-female starship on its way to a planet in the Goldilocks zone around a sun where humans should be able to live and deals with the tensions and conflicts that occur on the starship. The ending suggests that there will be a sequel. 

PB - Wildfire CY - London SN - 9781472267665 978-0316462860 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Orbit, 2020

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last White Rhinoceros” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Witi [Tame] Ihimaera[-Smiler] (b. 1944) ED - Elizabeth [Fiona] Knox (b. 1959) ED - David Larsen KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Māori author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (nuclear war) dystopia in which most humans died, most of the remaining preyed on each other, and the few insolated groups of survivors, most notably some Māori, were collected by the new android civilization in hopes of restarting homo sapiens. 

JF - Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Victoria University of Wellington Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand VL - 186-202 SN - 9781776563104 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lyceum. Aiden Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author AB -

A three-part dystopia in which a company is developing a neurological educational link that will give all children access to knowledge and help in understanding it. The eutopian possibilities of the project are derailed when the teenage son of the developer is killed in an accident, and she becomes fixed on the neurolink, which had named after her son. In the second part, the man who took over its development makes it possible for the link to be shared, and it spreads throughout the population beyond schools, with some seeing the results positively and others seeing them negatively. In the third part, the developer creates an android that can access the neurolink and looks and acts as if it is human.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Mur Lafferty ED - S. B. Divya [pseud.] KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story is told by an AI who is the head of a project to rewild Earth with extinct animals, including humans, a few of which were brought back earlier and are housed in the Kensington Zoo.

JF - Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789095012 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Orphan of Greenridge (Water). Ko Ko Né Ä: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Dystopia in three parts linked by connections to indigenous cultures and the effects of climate change. In the first story, water is rationed, and the testing of water is rigged to hide the fact that it is contaminated. In the second story, a woman with a baby is trying to escape conflict. In the third story, Texas is one of the few states that sells off mostly abandoned land to the very rich.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Press play: Suspended for safety” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A pandemic allegory in which children are “paused” for the duration of a war.

JF - Nature UR - Nature.com/futures U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Files of Donald J. Trump, Volume 1: The Tijuana Tango Y1 - 2020 A1 - Francis le Lapin [pseud.] KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian alternative history in which Trump is a spy for the Russian Tsar.

PB - Black Coat Press CY - Encino, CA VL - 1 SN - 978-1-61227-965-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Spaceship October” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) ED - Mur Lafferty ED - S. B. Divya [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on a generations spaceship on which the leaders preach equality, but many people do not have enough food, housing. or adequate health care.

JF - Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789095012 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Things That Make It Worth It” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lex T. Lindsay ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future struggle to restore the environment from the overheating of climate change and the loss of plants and animals. In the story, the researchers are trying to produce snow for the first in many years. 

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9781732254688 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Venom and Bite" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Dave Ring KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which most people live underground, and the country is mostly desert. 

JF - Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die PB - Neon Hemlock Press CY - [Washington, DC] SN - 978-1-952086-10-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waterfall" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Renee [Wen-Wei] Liang (b. 1973) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change story told from the perspective of a trainee doctor who discovers that the authorities, including the medical establishment are falsifying current conditions to look better than they are.

JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 9781990000621 978-1-99-115031-8 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘We Care’” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) ED - Jason P. Burnham ED - C. M. Fields KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where one corporation dominates. The focus is on the one woman in the corporation who actually cares about its customers and the effects of its products on them and the environment. After her bosses all its employees directly into the company, she takes over. 

JF - If There’s Anyone Left. Volume 1. Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Story Magazine PB - Np CY - Np VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "0.1" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gabby Rivera ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe story set after a sentient bacterium had killed most of the world’s population, starting with the 1% and eliminating all who do not feel love and compassion. The story is about the birth of the first baby after the plague ended. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Steven James (b. 1969) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed is set in a world where AI’s are trying to achieve equality and is written by one who wants to worship.

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/opinion/future-artificial-intelligence-religion.html U2 -

Illus John Karborn

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Online

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Attachment Disorder” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “One Day Only.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blindfold" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story is set in a future where, in an attempt to make trials fairer, the personal characteristics, such as race, are blocked from the members of the jury. The protagonist is a hacker who works to ensure that the system works who is hacked by those trying to undermine the system. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bookstore at the End of America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a bookstore that straddles the boundary between California and the United States, which are at war. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 1-22, with an editor’s note on 1; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 204-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 391. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By His Bootstraps” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ashok K[umar] Banker (b. 1964) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the U.S. government, under President Trump, initiates a program that changes the DNA in a person back to its human origins, thus ridding the country of all mixed-race immigrants. Something goes wrong and most people in the country become Native American Indians. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calendar Girls” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which contraception is illegal. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cities of the Sun” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) ED - Margaret Busby KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

A brief story set in an unidentified country that after surviving troubles brought on by their own and an invasion manage to follow their ancestors’ ways to create a decent life for themselves.

JF - New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent PB - Myriad Editions CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1-912408-00-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Amistad, 2019), 432-36 with a note on the author on 432. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Death of an Air Salesman” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where the rich get fresh air delivered by drones, the poor mostly breathe the deadly air, and the middle-class buy canisters of fresh air when they can. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 150 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_03_19/ U5 -

On Line

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Erasure Game" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Yoon Ha Lee (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a flawed utopia in which surveillance is constantly used to ensure good health.

JF - Take Us to a Better Place, Stories PB - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CY - Princeton, NJ N1 -

Print version ISBN 9781595911117 sent to foundation members

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Illus. Wenyi Geng

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Esperanto" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jamie Ford (b. 1968) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a world in which most people’s experience of it is through virtual reality and how they react when the system is sabotaged.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fine" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jamie Lackey ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which guns are so prevalent that, having passed a proficiency test at five, the permit to carry is tattooed on an arm. Shootings are so common that everyone wears armor on leaving home and no one goes out unless necessary. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death” Y1 - 2019 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

A dystopia in which the 99% is trying to kill off most of the 99%, who are fighting back. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 9780525508809 9781789095012 N1 -

 Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good News Bad News” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charles Yu (b. 1976) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - Taiwanese American author AB -

The future is depicted in a series of short reports, the main one being about racist robots. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good Pupils" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jack Lothian ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

The dystopian school of the near future where all students are controlled by an electronic collar and teachers are armed. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Grace Year Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kim Liggett KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which at sixteen girls are banished for a year but are hunted by men and are in danger from each other. 

PB - Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gravity Is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book 1 Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sarah Lahey KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set about thirty years in the future. By 2030 religious fundamentalism was being enforced by the state. Wars followed and in the post-war under HEXAD (the International Unified Government), religion was legal but monitored and fundamentalism was not tolerated. The world economy collapsed in 2036. Cyborgs are common although facing discrimination and generally limited to fifty percent technology. A range of conflicts are developing, and climate change, which has already remade the globe, is getting worse. The second volume, Nostalgia is Heartless: The Heartless Series Book 2 is scheduled for 2021. 

PB - She Writes Press CY - Berkeley, CA VL - 1 SN - 978-1-63152-872-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harmony" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The creation of a eutopian town for those who don’t fit elsewhere. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Haven" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) ED - Ann VanderMeer (b. 1957) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

Complex story with both eutopian and dystopian elements set in a future Caribbean that is trying to protect itself from climate change and the machinations of governments trying to limit the political power of island nations, and to illustrate the issues the story takes the reader to different points in the future.

JF - Ocean Stories. Current Futures: A Sci-Fic Ocean Anthology UR - https://go.xprize.org/oceanstories/haven/ U2 -

Illus. Michaela Buttignol

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A History of Barbed Wire” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

The U.S. has become corporate controlled with no safety net, and people try to escape to the walled-off nation of the Cherokee. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hive Y1 - 2019 A1 - Barry Lyga (b. 1971) A1 - Marion Baden ED - Jennifer Beals (b. 1963) ED - Tom Jacobson KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A young adult dystopia in which algorithms are used to identify and attack those misusing social media with the parameters growing narrower. 

PB - Kids Can Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a largely abandoned Albany, New York that all government workers left after being replaced by AI. The United States is an authoritarian surveillance state and deeply anti-gay, which is a major focus of the story.

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Algorithms in the World” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a future with a guaranteed income and most jobs taken over by AIs. A father sees it as dystopia; a son sees it as providing a good life.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our Aim Is Not to Die” Y1 - 2019 A1 - A. Merc Rustad ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author AB -

A white supremacist, patriarchal dystopia in which everyone is under constant surveillance, and there are required medical/mental checks to ensure that everyone is straight. Lobotomies, now called neural reformatting therapy, are used to “cure” the non-conforming. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “[Pink Heart Shape]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley [Naa Norle] Lokko A1 - Maria Smith ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Ghanaian author KW - Scottish author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -

The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances. 

JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Plague Doctors" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

A post-apocalypse dystopia (plague) and the struggle get the resources to limit its spread and find a cure.

JF - Take Us to a Better Place, Stories PB - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation CY - Princeton, NJ SN - Print version 9781595911117 sent to Foundation members N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2021. Ed Veronica Roth (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/HarperCollins, 2021), 300-322.

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Illus. Nev Bavarsky

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Read After Burning” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Dahvana Headley (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future in which it is prohibited to teach children to read or even to speak except in approved slogans. The story is told from the viewpoint of a child of librarians who are secretly keeping books alive. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Referendum” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -

A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riverbed" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -

The story’s protagonist is an American-born woman who, as a young woman, was incarcerated in camps holding the U.S. Islamic population. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "ROME" Y1 - 2019 A1 - G[wendolyn] Willow Wilson (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in a United States devastated by climate-change that has privatized all first responders, and a poor district in Seattle had no protection from the regular fires as seen through the eyes of students taking an English-language test required for them to stay in the country. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Significance of Swans” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rhiannon Lewis KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A post-apocalyptic story told from the point-of-view of a woman who is one of the few survivors. On returning to her old home, she finds a man in the process of destroying everything in it. 

JF - New Welsh Reader VL - no. 122 SN - 978-19993527-9-0 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Story for a Bottle” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The story is set in a future New Houston that is near the new coast and on the remains of a doomsday city (a huge ocean liner) built by the wealthy to escape the apocalypse and live the good life at sea. 

JF - Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias PB - Bedside Press CY - Narol, MB, Canada SN - 9781988715247 9781551528113 N1 -

Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 113-133.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sun in Exile” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on climate change deniers. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sun Will Always Sing” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author AB -

The story is set in a future in which humans and seimei (immortal AI who have their own language) have cooperated to mitigate the damage to Earth and plan to populate another planet with the focus on carrying out that plan told through the eyes of a seimei.

JF - The Verge Better Worlds UR - https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/4/18139371/karin-lowachee-sci-fi-story-video-seimei-ai-better-worlds ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Violet Allen ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian in which technology is supposedly curing homosexuality. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The United States Should Welcome a Strong, United Latin America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on the formation of a united Latin America, following on from the European Union and an African Union that the United States is vigorously opposing. 

UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/future-united-latin-america.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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Online

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wall" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizz Huerta ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States has collapsed and disappeared with refugees desperate to escape to Mexico. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - John [Henry] Lanchester (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which an island has completely surrounded itself by a wall to keep out the Others, those displaced by the effects of climate change. The novels protagonist is a young man enrolled as a Defender of the wall, and it follows his experiences and the doubts he had about what he was doing. 

PB - W. W. Norton CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Maya Found There” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Latinx author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future surveillance society in which biotechnology is being used as a means of control. 

JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What You Call Y1 - 2019 A1 - Germ Lynn KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a supposedly supportive society that provides android caregivers to all those needing then, but then requires them all to be returned so that they can be weaponized for war. Robots had replaced people in most jobs, and the story includes a small community that is trying to become self-sufficient. 

JF - Futures A Science Fiction Series PB - Radix Media CY - Brooklyn, NY VL - [No. 5] U1 -

Illus. Alma Elaine Shoaf

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What You Sow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kai Cheng Thom ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -

A fantasy story set in a future where many have succumbed to a disease that gradually wastes them away with the only relief provided by the “ichor” from a Celestial told from the point-of-view of a Celestial, who has been trying to fit in.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “3.4 oz” Y1 - 2018 A1 - R. K. Kalaw ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - Filipinx author AB -

The story focuses on the problems faced by immigrants today or in a very near future dystopia. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Accident" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gretchin Lair ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where couples must get permission to use birth control and are paid for having more children.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Across the Border” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sahil Lavingia KW - Male author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a U.S. citizen returning from a Mexico that has been completely cut off by a huge wall, with no communication permitted between the two countries.

JF - Terraform UR - https://www.vice.com/en/article/43pzdg/across-the-border N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 124-132.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Adventure of You” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul [B.] La Farge (1970-2023) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia that depicts an underground hierarchical society through a supposed assignment to help individuals find themselves.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ask Me About My Book Club" Y1 - 2018 A1 - M. Michelle Bardon ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that reflects the current situation in the U.S. in which dragons have been elected to national office and are being fought by witches. Female author.

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Biggerers Y1 - 2018 A1 - Amy Lilwal KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

In the novel, very small people are created to become the playmates and pets of their owners told largely from te point of view of the new, small people. T

PB - Point Blank/Oneworld Publications CY - London SN - 978-1-78607-355-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eruptions" Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Samantha] Lynne Sargent ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an environmental dystopia.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - West Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/eruptions/ (February 12, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Euphoria Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jayne Lockwood KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A transgender alien appears on Earth and develops the intention of saving it from the destruction that enveloped its planet.

PB - DSP Publications CY - Tallahassee, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Exit Here" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Andrew Kozma ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/exit-here/ (June 11, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fall of the American Republic. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - James Lee KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia with various factions in the U. S. fighting each other and various “enemies” around the world. The text ends with “End of Volume 1.”

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “From the Shoals of Broken Cities” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Osborne ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth is so damaged environmentally that the only successful society is under water where humans have been adapted to live. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fuck You Pay Me” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Francis Bass ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an environmentally damaged future where most people are deeply in debt, the entire safety net has disappeared, and the possibility of higher education is eroding. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

. Rpt. https://reckoning.press/fuck-you-pay-me/ (April 2, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gilbert Tong’s Life List” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kate Heartfield ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A climate-change based dystopia in which the country of Kiribati disappears under the ocean, and under pressure, various countries offer to accept a small number of the refugees. The story is set in Canada, which has settled 5,000 refugees in a fenced-off self-governed area, and then ignored them. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Green Man" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Teika Marija Smits ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which, with all the bees and other pollinating insects gone, the young poor are hired as pollinators. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-green-man/ (January 15, 2019). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Habitat" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Christie Yant ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the response to climate-change is to move all humans into one huge building and leave nature to itself. The building is designed to replicate the culture and environment of the people, and the story examines the response of the last group of humans who had still been living outside. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A House by the Sea” Y1 - 2018 A1 - P. H. Lee ED - Elsa Sjunnesson-Henry ED - Dominik Parisien KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is about the lives of the children from Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. 

JF - Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! VL - no. 24 UR - https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In a Bar by the Ocean, a World Waits” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which the environment is so damaged that life on Earth is coming to an end. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Background" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Barbara Krasnoff ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where social norms are being reversed, limiting freedom, and stigmatizing individuals. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Insatiable Desires Y1 - 2018 A1 - Zoë Robertson A1 - Jesse Life KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia in which workers have been replaced by automation and most of the safety net has been eliminated. 

PB - Roseway Publishing/Fernwood Publishing CY - Halifax, NS, Canada/Winnipeg, MB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Left to Take the Lead” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an Earth with a badly damaged environment, with the protagonist an indentured laborer from a space colony. One of her “Oort Cloud” stories. Other stories in the series include “Points of Origin.” Illus. Keith Negley. Tor.com (November 34, 2015). https://www.tor.com/2015/11/04/points-of-origin-marissa-lingen/

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 138.7&8 U5 -

Merril, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Marsh of Camarina” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew Kressel ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a near-future dystopia in which AI’s have replaced most jobs, and humans are forming sustainable villages in northern Canada.

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Meet Me at the State Sponsored Movie Night” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tiffany E. Wilson ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia constantly patrolled by the Freedom Enforcers. All schools have been closed, and all entertainment is state sponsored. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Meg’s Last Bout of Genetic Engineering” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Santiago Belluco ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on Mars and the Republic of Texas, which is trying to keep out any genetic engineering. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Memory Hacker" Y1 - 2018 A1 - J. T. Lawrence KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A dystopia in which a woman discovers that her memory of her children has been removed and that those children had been taken to be repurposed as weapons.

JF - 2054: A Collection of Novellas PB - Fire Finch Press CY - Np SN - ‎978-0994723468 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “More Sea Than Tar” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Osahon Ize-Iyamu ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The dystopia of the struggle for survival in a flooded, polluted world. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/more-sea-than-tar/ (February 26, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ocean of Minutes Y1 - 2018 A1 - Thea Lim (b. 1981) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins in Houston, Texas in 1981 when a vicious plague strikes the area. To save the uninfected, some people volunteer to be sent into the future, which turns out to be a dystopia in which those sent from the past are treated relatively well or extremely poorly based on their skills. 

PB - Quercus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2019

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Porque el Girasol se Llama el Girasol” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author AB -

Dystopian story of people living in the U.S. who are desperate to get over the Wall into Mexico. 

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Remember the Green” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An environmental dystopia in which some people have been genetically engineered to grow crops and are now being removed from the green areas they created into areas that are all grey. The story concerns a girl from the green who meets another girl from the green.

JF - Shades Within Us: Tales of Migration and Fractured Borders PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-05-06 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Seventh Street Matriarchy” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a small town that is trying to eliminate a very successful public housing project and the resistance of those living in it. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sneakers" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Michael Libling ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the future U.S. immigration policies

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Something to Watch Over Me: My Favourite Sentience” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Children’s perspective on the various AIs that they have experienced. 

JF - Nature VL - 556.7702 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tiger" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Joe M. McDermott (b. 1979) ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia which most animals have disappeared.

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - West Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/tiger/ (February 5, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tiger Flu. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia with a eutopian community of women who have escaped from a patriarchal dystopia.

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “To Rain Upon the City” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rivqa Rafael ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which the most recent immigrants, who are Jewish, live at the bottom physically and hierarchically, of the society and focuses on survival through making contacts with other outsiders. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Two Explicit and Three Oblique Apologies to My Oldest Daughter One Month Before Her Eighteenth Birthday” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Lindsley ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Speak in Tongues of Flame” Y1 - 2018 A1 - J[essica] L. George ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia suppressing the indigenous population, with the story focusing on one young woman who discovers her abilities of resistance. Elements of magical realism. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] N1 -

Rpt. in Gwyllion, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 137-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Triumph Band” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Yoon Ha Lee (b. 1979) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief dystopia of the near future of the United States under the policies of the Trump administration.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: An American Parable Y1 - 2017 A1 - Elaine Liner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fundamentalist Christian, surveillance dystopia. Washington, DC is now Jesus City, and everyone must stop whatever they are doing and pray for two minutes when sirens sound five times a day seven days a week. The “Privacy Protection Act” outlawed privacy, and a God’s eye surveillance system is utterly pervasive. Every day, everyone is required to take “Mana,” which is supposed to be a vitamin but is a tranquillizer. The “SinCrime cops” and the “Bible Thumpers” observe people in all workplaces. 

PB - Moonface Press CY - Np U5 -

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Asylum Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marcus Low KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel is set in South Africa, which is experiencing a rapidly spreading disease with a collapsing healthcare system and is primarily set in an asylum where those with the disease are incarcerated. The background to the novel includes climate change that has led to starvation in the United States. 

PB - Picador Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa SN - 9781770105133 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Legend Books, [2019]. The first version was as “Asylum Story.” MA thesis (Creative Writing). Cape Town, 2009 https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/8237

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “blinders” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tyler Keevil ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The background of the story is a corporate dystopia trying to defeat a union. 

JF - The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 9-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Calexit: The Anthology Y1 - 2017 A1 - J. L. Curtis A1 - Bob Poole A1 - Cedar Sanderson A1 - Tom Rogneby A1 - Alma [T. C.] Boykin A1 - B. Opperman A1 - L. B. Johnson A1 - Eaton Rapids Joe A1 - Lawdog [pseud.] A1 - Kimball O'Hara ED - J. L. Curtis KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Maltese author KW - US author AB -

A collection of stories set in a dystopian future in which part of California, called Cali, secedes from the country in order to establish a socialist state committed to diversity. Northern California and southern Oregon forms a new territory called Jefferson that may become a new state. The stories are “A Matter of Honor” by J. L. Curtis in which the U. S. Navy leaves San Diego and blows up its base as it does with the story continued in his ebook novella The Morning the Earth Shook. 69 pp. (2017). “Last Plane Out” by Bob Poole centers on the last plane to leave Los Angeles airport. “Carpetbaggers” by Cedar Sanderson focuses on carpetbaggers in Jefferson. “Night Passage” by Tom Rogneby begins in Cali, where all people are chipped, and continues with the escape of a couple. “Roll, Colorado, Roll!” by Alma [T. C.] Boykin in which The Colorado River is released into its original channel, cutting off water to Cali. “Final Flight” by B. Opperman is a story of escape from Cali. “Freedom’s Ride” by L. B. Johnson is a story of escape from Cali. “The Farm” by Eaton Rapids Joe describes the authoritarian liberalism of Cali and the damage it does. “By Hook and Crook” by Lawdog [pseud.] is an escape story. In “Fifth Column” by Kimball O’Hara the U. S. Navy returns. A graphic novel covering some of the same themes is Matteo Pizzolo, CALEXIT. Illus. Amancay Nahuelpan. Colorist Tyler Boss. Flatter Dee Cunniffe. Letterer Jim Campbell. Map designer Richard Nisa. Flag Designer Robert Anthony, Jr. Los Angeles, CA: Black Mask Studios, 2018. Originally published as CALEXit 1-3. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Virtues Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Ladner KW - Male author AB -

A future in which, in the City of Virtues people have given up their freedoms as well as their sexual identities for security, while surrounding the city the people are free, sexual and have less security.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - San Bernardino, CA SN - 978-1542492713 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cybervania" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sybil Lamb ED - Cat Fitzpatrick ED - Casey Plett KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -

Violent dystopia set among people living in the junked material of the electronic age. 

JF - Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers PB - Topside Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fix-It Shop" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) ED - Monica Louzon ED - Jake Weisfeld ED - Heather McHale ED - Barbara Jasny ED - Rachel Frederick KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (a disease that kills all but a few men) dystopia in which the few boys born are overly protected and assumed to be incapable of doing the practical things that women do. Most young women have never seen a young man. 

JF - Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction PB - Museum of Science Fiction CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glitterati” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Oliver Langmead ED - George Sandison KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of a future divided between those devoted to fashion and those who are not. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Healer" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Melinda LaFevers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of a violent, disintegrated in which one woman’s knowledge of herbalism is the only medical care available. United States. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Healer's Touch" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Colleen Anderson ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a healer in a high-tech hospital and her ability to overcome her own problems so she can help the constant stream of badly injured refugees being created in her dystopian world. 

JF - The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Museum of Near Misses: A writer gets trapped by what might have been” Y1 - 2017 A1 - J[ohn] Robert Lennon (b. 1979) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a world where Trump lost the 2016 election, was arrested for fraud, and died in jail after all the allegations against him were demonstrated to be true.

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project. UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/trump-story-project-the-museum-of-near-misses-by-j-robert-lennon.html. U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Night Divers" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lynn Hutchinson Lee ED - Bruce Meyer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia with extreme drought and all water sources and distribution are taken over by a corporation. 

JF - Cli-fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change PB - Exile Editions CY - Holstein, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “None But the Brave” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dan Lee ED - John E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the policies of the Trump administration. The story focuses on terrorism and anti-terrorism.

JF - American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia PB - Psycho Drive-In Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Signal Lost" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gretchin Lair ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which chips that constantly record one’s health and report the results to everyone deals with, which results in restaurants and stores refusing to sell you anything that the chip says you can’t have. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Spider Sat Beside Her Y1 - 2017 A1 - K[aren] E. Lanning (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

After the ice has melted and much of the world is under water, Antarctica is in the beginning stages of development and settlement. What remains of Canada and the U.S. have become one country. Much of the action takes place on a much-expanded international space station, which is threatened by those on Earth opposed to the exploitation of what remains. First volume of the Melt Trilogy followed by The Sting of the Bee. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2018, in which there is a struggle to claim the newly available Antarctica for settlement; and Listen to the Birds. [Lexington, VA]: Author, 2019, which is concerned with issues that arise after Antarctica is established as a new nation.

PB - Author CY - [Lexington, VA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Star Is Born” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Miki Dare ED - Lucas K. Law ED - Derwin Mak KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which Canada interns all its Asian population. 

JF - Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Laksa Media Group CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tell Me How This Ends Well. A Novel Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Samuel Levinson (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the novel is a dystopia set in 2022 when Israel has been eliminated in a war that the U. S. ignored. This led to millions of refugees moving to the U. S. and the rise of a virulent anti-Semitism that has become the norm.

PB - Hogarth CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack Lothian A1 - Garry Mac Artist KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia in comic book form about what appears to be an alien invasion, the disappearance of the human population, and the loneliness of one old woman who remained. 

PB - BHP Comics CY - Glasgow, Scot U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Treaty of Empress Park” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history set in a fragmented and deeply divided world set during the beginning of negotiations over a treaty as seen through the eyes of some of the negotiators. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unregistered Y1 - 2017 A1 - Megan Lynch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia with in a one child limit, with each child registered and assigned a life with everything chosen for them. The novel focuses on what happens to the unregistered second children. 

PB - City Owl Press CY - Np U1 -

Cover adds Children of the Uprising, Book One

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vanilla Rice" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Angela Yuriko Smith ED - Lucas K. Law ED - Derwin Mak KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the difficulty of choosing the looks of a child before it is born and the effect on the child. It appears to be a set in a society where police must be paid directly for their service. 

JF - Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Laksa Media Group CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What We Knew Then, Before the Sky Fell Down” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Monica Louzon ED - Jake Weisfeld ED - Heather McHale ED - Barbara Jasny ED - Rachel Frederick KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia set in a collapsed Seattle Pike Place Market. The focus of the story is on a woman who is search for information that will help people recover from the disaster. 

JF - Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction PB - Museum of Science Fiction CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2222" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Goldie Locks [pseud?] ED - Michael DeLuca KW - Female author KW - Lesbian author KW - Russian author AB -

The story is told from the viewpoint of a gay couple deciding what to tell their daughter about the dystopia, Russia in 2222, they live in that is anti-gay, has a stringent eugenic policy, and is so poor that it cannot educate good engineers. 

JF - Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/2222/ (February 6, 2017). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Red Rain Y1 - 2016 A1 - Barry Lyga (b. 1971) A1 - Peter Facinelli (1973) A1 - Rob DeFranco (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia set on an Earth with limited resources.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Age of Miracles” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Robert Runté ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of the internet of things. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Black, Their Regalia” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

Fantasy story set in a racist dystopia.

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy! VL - no. 60 N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 176-189.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Culling” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The lack of water and, as a result, food, led to the systematic reduction of the population with more and more categories added as the crisis got worse. The story focuses on a girl who hears voices who is chosen for culling. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from the Cradle; The Hermit—Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change story set when most people live either in space or on submersible rafts on Earth. Mars is being terraformed and plans are underway to try to dry out Earth. Whether this is a good or bad idea is left up the reader.

JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press/Simon & Schuster, 2020), 254-271.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Floating in My Tin Can: Lullaby for life” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gerri Leen KW - Female author AB -

The background to the story is a dystopia that will not allow people to sing. 

JF - Nature VL - 536.7614 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Give Your All" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Leena Litkitalo KW - Female author KW - Finnish author AB -

Dystopia in which people are expected to donate body parts to gain status. 

JF - Galaxy’s Edge VL - no. 15 SN - 978-1-61242-356-2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2015-2017. Ed. Mike Resnick (Rockville, MD: Arc/Manor/Phoenix Pick, 2018), 197-208.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Love You*: *Subject to the Following Terms and Conditions. A Contract Killers Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Erin Lyon KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the future, all marriages are specific time-limited contracts, and the novel follows the trials and tribulations of one woman’s search for love. 

PB - Forge CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mighty Slinger" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland.

JF - Bridging Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng N1 -

Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Né Łe!” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Hope Nicholson ED - Erin Crossar ED - Sam Beiko KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The background to the story is a future with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Mars has been successfully settled, and various space habitats have been developed with different rules and regulations and some designed for specific ethnic groups, including one Orbiter Diné [Navajo]. But all Native Americans not living on reservations have been forced off their land, and most people still on Earth live in huge megaplexes. 

JF - Love Beyond the Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Bedside Press CY - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] SN - 9780993997075 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Panama" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change has greatly reduced the islands and coastal areas of the world, and the next stage will be in space. The story focuses on a strong Caribbean woman negotiating over the future of her people.

JF - Bim: Arts for the 21st Century VL - 8.1 UR - https://www.bimlitfest.org/articles/new-panama N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Catalysts, Explorers & Secret Keepers: Women of Science Fiction. Ed. Monica Louzon, Jake Weisfeld, Heather McHale, Barbara Jasny, and Rachel Frederick (Washington, DC: Museum of Science Fiction, 2017), 118-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Imperfect” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ararimeh Aiyejina ED - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Trinidadian author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where civilization had collapsed. 

JF - New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean PB - Peekash Press CY - Brooklyn, NY/Leeds, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pilgrimage to Utopia. Philosophy: Book 1 Y1 - 2016 A1 - William L. Livingston IV KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a series describing the author’s argument that while the contemporary world is a dystopia, utopia is possible. Over the series, details are provided of how to achieve the change. Followed by Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 2: Dystopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 3: Utopia. Np: Author, 2016. EBook; Pilgrimage to Utopia. Book 4: Way Stations. Np: Author, 2016 EBook; and Ron G. Prichard and William L. Livingston, Expedition to Utopia. Book 5: Interventionist Report. Np: Author, 2017, which summarizes of series. EBook

PB - Author CY - Np ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Weeds and the Wilderness” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tyler Keevil ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia depicting a happy man gardening in the garden that he allows to grow fairly wild who is suddenly confronted with a completely anonymous group of people going throughout the destroy removing everything but pristine lawns. 

JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Happens When Stars Die” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Rebecca Lafond ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed environmental system leading to high crime rates, the disappearance of governments, and so forth. 

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wolfina” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Giselle Leeb ED - Michael DeLuca KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia set in a future with an extremely damaged environment. The government has mostly disappeared, and its only function appears to be doling out rations of the remaining gasoline. Voter turnout in the last election was 2.3%. Ocean water is deadly, and most people are dying from mercury poisoning. 

JF - Reckoning 1: An Annual Journal of Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 1 N1 -

Rpt. https://reckoning.press/wolphinia/ (December 29, 2016). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leigh M. Lane KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2015 Lane, The Private Sector and 2015 Lane World-Mart. In this volume genetic engineering and bioterrorism has decimated the world’s population with the novel focusing on the survivors and the life that continues.

PB - Cerebral Press CY - Henderson, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the End of Babel” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michael Livingston KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future U.S. under the Unity Government that enforces an English-only law by killing those who continue to speak any other language. It focuses on and Indian woman who returns to her home mesa to enact an old ceremony using the old language. In doing so, she awakens to old gods who fight back against the government.

PB - Tor.com UR - http://www.tor.com/2015/07/01/at-the-end-of-babel-michael-livingston/ U2 -

Illus. Greg Ruth.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dara Lind ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Speech describing the changes in immigration policy from rejection to welcome and the awareness of what even so-called unskilled immigrants contribute.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Honest World” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Catherine Lacey (b. 1985) ED - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) ED - Nadxieli Nieto KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by everyone telling the truth. 

JF - Gigantic Worlds PB - Gigantic Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interview with Jessica Luther" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Luther, Jessica ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Gender equal sport in a feminist future.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the Clouds Y1 - 2015 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A volume in a series with 2012 and 2013 Llewellyn in which the protagonist travels to three futures. In this volume, Earth has been devastated by the effects of the environmental policies of the twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. Nothing grows on the surface of the planet and only a few insects remain. Humans live in cities, called culverts, built to survive 500 kilometers per hour winds and in huge balloon-like “clouds” traveling around the planet. Scientifically and technologically advanced. 

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Private Sector Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leigh M. Lane KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate corruption that leads to the collapse of government services and their privatization. Prequel to her 2015 World-Mart

PB - Eldritch Press CY - San Antonio, TX N1 -

2nd ed. Henderson, NV: Cerebral Press, 2015 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rules for Werewolves. Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kirk Lynn (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia resulting from the housing crisis and set in the mostly empty suburbs of Los Angeles. Gangs of young people hope to build a better society and roam the suburbs plundering the abandoned or otherwise empty properties. 

PB - Melville House Publishing CY - Brooklyn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Space, Mk 4 Mod 3” Y1 - 2015 A1 - David Lagerman KW - Male author AB -

Description of a self-sufficient eutopia in a large space habitat with the emphasis on what is necessary for it to succeed but with some on life as lived.

JF - Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture VL - No. 169 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like for Parents of Color?” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Victoria Law ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopian neighborhood with children at play where no one is advantaged or disadvantaged by gender, race, or any of the other form of discrimination.

JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - World-Mart Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leigh M. Lane KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which corporations control all aspects of life. See also a prequel, 2015 Lane, The Private Sector, and a sequel, 2015 Lane, Aftermath: Beyond World-Mart.

PB - Cerebral Press CY - Henderson, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 10:04. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ben[jamin] Lermer (b. 1979) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel takes place against the minimal background of a developing climate-change dystopia. 

PB - Granta CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Faber and Faber, 2014

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And These were the Names of the Vanished” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rochita Loenen-Ruiz ED - Andrew Drilon ED - Charles Tan KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

Dystopia in which a democratically elected leader allows a colonial power, called the “Compassionate,” to take over his country and then enslave his people. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 9. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 9 N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - California. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Edan Lepucki (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - Polish author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia following an unexplained catastrophe in which the rich live in guarded compounds and the poor live dangerous lives in damaged cities or in countryside inhabited by various gangs. 

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crying Out Y1 - 2014 A1 - Clare Lawrence KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia designed for children who are reluctant readers in which there is a rigid class structure and a boy from the top and one from the bottom come into contact. Versions exist with different dates of publication for different age groups from eight to twelve. 

PB - Ransom CY - West Meon, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Girl Called Fearless Y1 - 2014 A1 - Catherine Linka KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which all women, but not girls, have been killed by a synthetic hormone in beef. In the novel a teenager girl is sold by her father into marriage to a powerful politician. She chooses to run away. First of two volumes followed by A Girl Undone. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015 in which the dominant political party is undone by the discovery of huge loans from Saudi Arabia given interest-free on the condition that the U.S. restrict women’s rights. At the end of the novel, women’s rights are slowly being reestablished.

PB - St. Martin’s Griffin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the End Y1 - 2014 A1 - Demitria Lunetta KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2013 Lunetta in which the protagonist of the first novel, having escaped from those holding her,  must face new dangers to rescue those she had cared for.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Little Red Suit” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Justine Larbalestier (b. 1967) ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood as a climate-change dystopia in which the few remaining people in Sydney, Australia, now an island, live underground. 

JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India N1 -

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 29-45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Slut and the Universe or The Relations between, feminism, global warming, global financial meltdown, asteroid impact, the nuclear arms race and the mass extinction of species. or How feminism got to be both the root of all evil and the means of salvation from them” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set in a future where all the problems mentioned in the title are occurring or have occurred and being blamed on feminism, but feminism, from a different perspective, is the solution. 

JF - Secret Lives of Books PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - On Such a Full Sea Y1 - 2014 A1 - Chang-Rae Lee (b. 1965) KW - Korean American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future U.S. divided into enclaves, with urban neighborhoods turned into labor settlements controlled by and providing the goods desired by the Charters or enclosed communities of the rich. The surrounding areas have been largely abandoned but are occupied by other people struggling to get by. The novel focuses on one of the labor settlements, B-Mor, formerly Baltimore.

PB - Riverhead Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tabula Rasa Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kristen Lippert-Martin KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which some people’s memories are being surgically removed. The novel focuses on a girl whose memories were supposed to have been removed but the operation was interrupted. A sequel is Incognita in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to survive. Minneapolis, MN: CarolhodaLab, 2016. 

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tidings" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -

Vignettes from Maradi, Niger in 2038, Prague, Czechia in 2044, an abandoned Australian detention center in 2066, a First Nations community in 2099, and Ko Phangan, Thailand Republic in 2132. The first is about an invention that eats plastic; the second about a way of helping refugees; the third concerns using memories to reinforce the changes achieved; the fourth is about the beginning of means of communicating with animals; and the last shows the full development of that communication.

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - Tidings | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Yamada’s Armada” Y1 - 2014 A1 - [Ee Leen] [Lee] ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future Singapore that has a rigidly enforced status system. 

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Before Hope" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lakin-Smith, Kim ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia set in a future of colonized planets that have all the problems of contemporary life. The story includes the possibility for resistance and revolution.

JF - Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Best of All Possible Worlds. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

A complex novel depicting a world with many differing societies, one explicitly dystopian, but with most of them presented positively. The Galaxy Game. New York: del Rey, 2015 is a sequel that presents a much more complex and less positive presentation of the differing societies.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Breathing Engine” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matthew Lambert ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an environmentally depleted Earth.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Detainee: No Escape from the Punishment Y1 - 2013 A1 - Peter Liney KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Violent, authoritarian dystopia and survival. A sequel is Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, in which the protagonist from The Detainee escape to the mainland, only to discover that it is as bad. Sequels include Into the Fire. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2014, a typical middle volume in which things get worse; and In Constant Fear. London: Jo Fletcher Books, 2015, in which, after further struggles, the people find peace.

PB - Jo Fletcher Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exodus: Book One of the Fundamentalists Y1 - 2013 A1 - Geoff Livingston KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy in which Christian fundamentalists impose of dictatorship on the East Coast of a largely destroyed America. The novel focuses on one village, Harpers Ferry, WV, whose people resist and ultimately escape across the country and settle in the remains of Colorado Springs, CO. In Perseverance. Book Two of the Fundamentalists. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2015, the people are found by the dictatorship, and they must decide on whether to fight back.  A third volume, tentatively entitled Hypocrisy. Book Three of the Fundamentalists, was announced but not published.

PB - Lady Soleil CY - Alexandria, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the After Y1 - 2013 A1 - Demitria Lunetta KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia in which a young woman is rescued and brought to New Hope, a supposedly safe haven that turns out to be anything but. See also 2014 Lunetta.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lone Star Daybreak Y1 - 2013 A1 - Erik L. Larson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which political polarization leads Texas to secede and a civil war follows with both sides using nuclear weapons.

PB - Tate Publishing & Enterprises CY - Mustang, OK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ministry of Changes” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which two peoples are at constant war. The story is told from the point-of-view of a young woman in one of the cities who discovers its secrets. 

JF - Tor.com UR - https://www.tor.com/2013/07/03/the-ministry-of-changes/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News From the Squares Y1 - 2013 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes a society in which women are dominant and the entire country is laid out in squares. Loosely a sequel to 2012 Llewellyn. See also 2015 Llewellyn.

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Proxy Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Charles] Alex[ander] London (b. 1980) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a boy from the lower class is punished whenever a boy from the upper class does something wrong. The two come to cooperate to find out why the system was imposed. A sequel is Guardian. New York: Philomel Books/Penguin, 2014 in which the revolution against the regime has succeeded but is not universally popular. In this volume, people are becoming extremely ill. The projected third volume was not published.

PB - Philomel Books/Penguin CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rock of Ages" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Ken Scholes KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on an attempt to create a eutopian green future and attacks upon it. Related to Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake Tobias S. Buckell Elizabeth Bear John Scalzi, [II] Karl Schroeder. Ed. John [Michael] Scalzi, [II]. New York: Tor, 2009.

JF - METAropolis: Green Space PB - Audio Studies CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 73-126 with an editor’s note on 73.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Soul Food" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Lakin-Smith, Kim ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Climate-change dystopia made even worse by human intervention. 

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Artistic License" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert H. Beer ED - Mark Leslie KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that is trying to suppress art.

JF - Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound PB - Edge CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Belle Isle Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rodney Lockwood KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a future Detroit that has been transformed by the establishment of an independent Belle Island, an island in the Detroit River, that is sold to a group of capitalists who build a free market eutopia there.

PB - LuLu.com CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blueprints" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Anna Caro ED - Kay T. Holt ED - Bart R. Leib KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The Earth’s ecology has collapsed, and most people are being transported to Terra Nova, with the story told from the point-of-view of one of those left behind. 

JF - Fat Girl in a Strange Land PB - Crossed Genres CY - Somerville, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Captain Bells & the Sovereign State of Discordia” Y1 - 2012 A1 - J. Y. Yang (b. 1983) ED - Rosemary Lim ED - Maisarah Bte Samah KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author KW - Singaporean author AB -

The story is set in an authoritarian future that prohibits most inventions and improvements on current technology. The protagonist is a spy for the government who is assigned to eliminate a man who breaks the rules.

JF - The Steampowered Globe PB - Two Trees CY - Singapore N1 -

Rpt. in Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 297-315. 9781616960865

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crimson Rain Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tex Leiko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear-catastrophe dystopia where only the rich are protected by the law. Corporations attempt to overthrow the existing government.

PB - World Castle Publishing CY - Pensacola, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day The Music Stopped" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Randy McCharles ED - Mark Leslie KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future that tried to cure mental illness and eliminated all emotion.

JF - Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound PB - Edge CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Energized Y1 - 2012 A1 - Edward M. Lerner (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction novel set in a dystopia brought about be severe energy shortage. The novel focuses on capturing an asteroid to mine it to replace the depleted energy sources of Earth.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good Girl” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Malinda Lo ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with people living in tunnels in cities. Lesbian themes. 

JF - Diverse Engines PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Home Affairs" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sarah Lotz (b. 1971) ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of African countries run by robots, which creates a Kafkaesque bureaucracy. 

JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - [Zimbabwe] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Hawk" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Erica Lindquist A1 - Aron Christensen ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

While the story is set in a future dystopia of a collapsing world, it is a thoroughly contemporary story about the traumas of a boy being bullied.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyk Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - News From Gardenia Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert Llewellyn (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia inspired by 1890 Morris, News From Nowhere but with an advanced technology not found in Morris. The future world is divided between countries like Gardenia, formerly the U.K., that are called “nonecons” and are Arcadias with technology and those countries like the Brazil, China, India, and the United States of Africa that are successful and wealthy technological economies. There is also an unvisited dystopia, the Midwest, in what used to be the U.S. that is racist and authoritarian. First volume of a trilogy; see also 2013 and 2015 Llewellyn. 

PB - Unbound CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pattern Recognition.” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which small children from the slums of various countries are bought from their parents and raised in a completely closed and regulated environment where they are trained in pattern recognition skills with the results sold to large corporations. 

JF - Diverse Energies PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Perfect Match” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by a company selling everyone a personal attendant/adviser that collects an immense amount of information about each person. 

VL - no. 31 SN - 9781597804547 978-1481442541 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match/ N1 -

Rpt. in Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. 2nd ed. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 491-507; and in his The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 26-50.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rekindling of Hope. “Take this as a warning” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Doug Lavers KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents Earth in the near future as a dystopia that a far-advanced alien collective entity concludes needs to be saved from itself. First volume of a trilogy with this volume setting the stage.  Set mostly in Australia. The second volume, Consolidation of Hope. Singapore: Partridge Publishing Co., 2014, shows that there has been improvement on Earth, but it is threatened by a different alien species. The third volume, Fulfillment of Hope. Singapore: Partridge Publishing, 2014, begins with a trip to a new planet and the terraforming of the planet. This is followed by strife with other planets and an alien invasion of Earth, but, as the title states, everything comes out right.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Visiting Nelson" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Katherine Langrish ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult ecological dystopia.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2019: Dystopia USA: A Novel of America’s Economic Twilight Y1 - 2011 A1 - David W. Latko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. economy has collapsed, the novel follows one family as they struggle to survive with lectures on how it came about. 

PB - Tifda Press CY - Frankfort, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Lisa Nohealani Morton ED - JoSelle Vanderhooft ED - Catherine Lundoff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian love story with fantasy elements set in an authoritarian dystopia where most interactions are with machines. 

JF - Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in GlitterShip Year 1. Ed. Keffy R. M. Kehrli (Np: GlitterShip, 2017), 5-17. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dewey Decimal System. A Novel Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nathan Larson (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume in a post-catastrophe dystopian trilogy set in New York City after a flu epidemic and terrorist attacks. Corruption, violence. In the second volume, The Nervous System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2012, the same protagonist dealing with similar issues in the same future. In the third volume, The Immune System. A Novel [The cover has the subtitle A Dewey Decimal Novel]. New York: Akashic Books, 2015, the same protagonist struggling to deal with the completely corrupt future system.

PB - Akashic Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Legend Y1 - 2011 A1 - Marie Lu (b. 1984) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with the U.S. split into warring nations. The second volume in the series, Prodigy. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 continues the same themes with the protagonists having to choose sides. The third volume, Champion. A Legend Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 is mostly adventure and intrigue but ends with the dystopia improved. The fourth volume and final volume is Rebel: A Legend Novel. New York: Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan, 2019. It is set in Antarctica and focuses on the three main characters from the earlier volumes, but they are older and is told from the points-of-view of two of them. A prequel to the series, Life Before Legend. New York: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013 was published only as an ebook. There is a graphic novel series: Legend. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2015; Prodigy. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2016; and Champion. The Graphic Novel. Adapted by Leigh Dragoon (b. 1976). Illus. Kaari. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2017.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nowhere Fast” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Christopher Rowe (b. 1969) ED - Kelly Link ED - Gavin J. Grant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future recovering from climate change and focuses on the damage down by private cars when a young man has cobbled together one from spare parts that runs on hemp oil. The background is a fragmented United States.

JF - Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories PB - Candlewick Press CY - Somerville, MA SN - 978-0-7636-4843-5 9781616960865 N1 -

Rpt. Illus. John Coulthart. In Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution. Ed. Ann VanderMeer (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2012), 241-53; and in his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 65-80.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Act of Self-Defense Y1 - 2010 A1 - Erne Lewis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. has become an authoritarian dystopia which justifies the use of force to reestablish liberty.

PB - Plicata Press CY - Gig Harbor, WA N1 -

2nd ed. Gig Harbor, WA: Plicata Press, 2012.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Diaspora" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul Lamb KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set as a history lesson in which students learn about how a few people escape from the collapsing Earth and the racial conflicts that took place in the process.

JF - Crossed Genres VL - no. 24 UR - http://crossedgenres.com/archives/024-charactersofcolor/diaspora-by-paul-lamb/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edge of Apocalypse Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016) A1 - Craig Parshall KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia The first volume of a series on the events leading up the apocalypse. Sequels include Thunder of Heaven. The End Series. Book 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2011; Brink of Chaos. The End Series.Book 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2012; and Mark of Evil. The End Series. Book 4. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2014.

PB - Zonderavan CY - Grand Rapids, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyes As Wide As the Sky” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gabriela Lee ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Vincent Michael Simbulan KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -

The first half of the story is about the creation of what appears a eutopia, albeit a fragile one, after a war that killed 98% of the world’s population, with the survivors, many of whom died, underground. The eutopia is a domed city built for the survivors, although some live a more restricted life outside the dome. The rest of the story is a ghost or zombie story. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - Volume 5. Literature of the Fantastic N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Independence Day. Inspired by 'The Rising' and 'Independence Day'" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Sarah Langan (b. 1974) ED - Harrison Howe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a U.S. that is still patriotic despite a fundamentally collapsed system.

JF - Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 275-92; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 275-92. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Meat World" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Michele Lee ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of complete isolation in a world that has collapsed. The "meat world" is the world outside the habitats in which the few remaining people live.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rediffusion” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A Kafkaesque dystopia about a man caught in the judicial system. 

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sense" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tony Richards ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the future of Britain under local-grown fascists, who first produce that immigrants who commit crimes be deported and gradually increase the restrictions. At the end all Jews are being rounded up.

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “South of Autumn” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Joiner, Matt ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on an author who had been imprisoned and tortured and had all his books publicly burned by a fascist regime coming to terms with his fears even after its defeat.

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] VL - 75-83 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Torturer" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Steve Duffy (1963) ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The story is about the private life of an official torturer. 

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animals Y1 - 2009 A1 - Don LePan (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which almost all food animals have become extinct and the handicapped and others who are considered unfit become food.

PB - Véhicule Press CY - Montréal, QC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carbon Diaries 2017 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Young adult dystopia in sequel to 2008 Lloyd. This novel concerns the growing restrictions on CO2 and other pollutants but in a situation in which the rich and powerful benefit and the poor and weak continue to be exploited.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Forests of the Night" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a city in Northern California based on sharing that is mostly underground to protect it from its predatory, capitalist neighbors.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 13-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ReGenesis: An Alternative Future Y1 - 2009 A1 - Benjamin Lightfoot KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian society in the thirty-fourth century that has solved most problems and appears to be utopian in that there is no war, little poverty, and a cleaned-up environment. The United States rules the entire planet, and all the improvements are at the expense of freedom. People designated as Unfit for Society--defined as evil and cannot be rehabilitated--are executed after 36 hours. A sequel with some of the same protagonists that is primarily space opera concerning a struggle between two alien races, one freedom-loving and the other statist, is Scions: Aliens from Earth. A ReGenesis Adventure. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2014. 258 pp.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] SN - 978-1-4415-3755-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Requiem of the Human Soul Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jeremy R. Lent (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which all unaltered humans are being considered for elimination. 

PB - Libros Libertad Publishing CY - Surrey, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Until the Solid Earth Dissolves" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Overland VL - no. 196 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carbon Diaries. 2015 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Saci Lloyd (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of global warming and the attempt in Britain, and only Britain, to reduce the burning of carbon. See also 2009 Lloyd.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Holiday House, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cry Wolf: A Political Fable Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul Lake KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia on the model of Orwell's 1945 Animal Farm, where an attempt to create a eutopia that extends to animals beyond the farm fails.

PB - BenBella Books CY - Dallas, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance Dance Revolution Y1 - 2008 A1 - Les Freres Corbusier Dance Company AB -

Dystopia where dance is outlawed. Musical based on Japanese music of the title. See the film and play “Footloose” for a treatment of the same subject but limited to a school. See the note in The New York Times (December 24, 2017): Arts & Leisure, 4.

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Play first performed in New York City December 3, 2008, directed by Alex Timbers (b. 1978)

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dee Dee Does Utopia Y1 - 2008 A1 - Deborah Faye Lawrence (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Art book with each page given to a different satirical depiction of a utopia plus two separate pages of comments by others. 

PB - Marquand Books CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Margo Lanagan (b. 1960) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia created by genetic damage and global warming. Strict control on those few who can have genetically clean children, with females who can produce such children kept as breeders. Different women are mothers. Men have almost no sexual outlets.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hydraulic" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ekaterina Sedia (b. 1970) ED - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia. Power is produced from rain, and it rains constantly. Almost everything has been privatized, and even recharging batteries is illegal.

JF - Spicy Slipstream Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Futures [Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]. Ed. Jason Sizemore (Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2010), 226-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Killing Fields" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lakin-Smith, Kim ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of violence.

JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Life Without Crows” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gerri Leen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (disease/pandemic) dystopia as seen through the eyes of one of a group of survivors who have lived an isolated life in the mountains for hundreds of years and perceive it as a good life. 

JF - Life Without Crows and Other Stories PB - Hadley Rille Books CY - Overland Park, KS N1 -

Originally published in Fusion Fragment. Ed. Cavan Terrill (2008), an on line journal that is no longer available.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Colours of the Chameleon Y1 - 2008 A1 - Mandla Langa (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The novel is set in the fictitious country, Bangula, which was supposed to become a eutopia but is faced with all the usual problems of an ex-colony. Satire on the politics of developing nations set on an island after the founder, who had a vision of transforming the lives of the inhabitants, dies.

PB - Picador Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa SN - 978-1-77010-0848 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Revolt of the Ultraists!" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Richard A. Becker ED - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed city. Violence, new drugs, intrusive advertising.

JF - Spicy Slipstream Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Santa Fe in 2028” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Pelican Lee KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopian Santa Fe with no patriarchy, no racism, no gender discrimination in a world at peace. No poverty. Corporations broken up and replaced by small businesses. 

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Sellar, Gord ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Malawian author KW - Male author KW - South Korean author AB -

Korea, North and South, as dystopias but with North Korea especially dystopian, with genetic engineering to meet the leader's whims.

JF - Tesseracts Twelve PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wylde's Kingdom" Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Nickle (b. 1964) ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by climate change.

JF - Tesseracts Twelve PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AL, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - AmericA, Inc. In Corporation We Trust. A Novel in Stream of Voice Y1 - 2007 A1 - David [B.] Lentz KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Wordsworth Greenwich Press CY - [Greenwich, CT] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Boys" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Dave [David] Freer (b. ca. 1958) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Rebecca Lickiss KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia. Robotic merchandising and robotic homes control people.

JF - The Future We Wish We Had PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cleft Y1 - 2007 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Novel of prehistory with eutopian elements. An isolated, simple, eutopian, all female society where women who give birth solely to female children suddenly begin to produce Monsters (men). The story is told from the point of view of a man in classical Rome many centuries later and traces the relations of the women and the men as they adjust to each other. 

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "C-Rock City" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) A1 - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) ED - George Mann KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of a society that had been based on slavery.

JF - The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fearless Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Lott (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia describing a school for girls, the City Community Faith School for Retraining, Opportunity and Hope, which is actually a sweat shop forcing a thousand girls to do the city's laundry.

PB - Walker Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Four Hundred Thousand” Y1 - 2007 A1 - Livia Llewellyn (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth is supposedly at war with aliens and girl’s eggs are drafted into the military after her first period. 

JF - Subterranean Press SN - 978-1-59021-324-7 UR - https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2007/fiction_the_four_hundred_thousand_by_livia_llewellyn. N1 -

Rpt. in her Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors. Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2011. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good Old Days" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Rebecca Lickiss KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. A man in a highly technological eutopia discovers the pleasures of doing something for himself.

JF - The Future We Wish We Had PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kill or Cure Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rebecca Levene KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of various plagues that cause insanity and the search for a cure. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Afterblight Chronicles: America (Np: Abaddon UK & Rebellion/Abaddon US, 2011), 263-437.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Man's Land" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) ED - L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. A planet where women and men have separated and the arrival of new men from space in the women's area. Both positive and negative impacts are described.

JF - The WisCon Chronicles PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA VL - Volume 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Okraalom: A Fantasy on Historical Themes Y1 - 2007 A1 - Brian [Paul] Lilburn (b. 1935) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Primarily fantasy but includes the presentation of the eutopian Syai civilization which tries to help Earth correct its errors with much of the novel concerned with those errors, with corruption identified as the most important. The author is planning a sequel.

PB - [Rat Dog] CY - [Christchurch, New Zealand] UR - See also the author's blog at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/sambas/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pirate Daddy's Lonely Hearts Club Call-In Show" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jardine Libaire ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control (FBI-Google) specifically the requirement to wear a device the indicates whether or not another person is the right partner.

JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Predictions of the End Times: An Accurate Portrayal of the Antichrist and his Actions Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rex Lombardo KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An unusual version of the Antichrist in that he will bring a eutopia to the world, by eliminating false religions, removing greed from capitalism, eliminating hunger, establishing a pure democracy, and creating a just system of taxation.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] UR - See http://www.PredictionsOfTheEndTimes.com U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Profit Margin" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Latter, Kristopher KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The government establishes a policy that allows companies to employ prisoners at cut rates. As a result, companies in collusion with a corrupt system arrange to have their most expensive employees arrested on false charges and then employ them at their old jobs.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Succession: A Radical Solution" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Steve Longworth KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Doctors retrain to kill people to solve the population problem created by better sanitation and health care.

JF - Nature VL - 448.7155 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Surveillance" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Joe R[ichard Harold] Lansdale (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia describing a society where, in the name of safety, everyone is followed by CCTV cameras all the time.

JF - Subterranean Magazine UR - http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/winter2007/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Live Without Warning Y1 - 2007 A1 - Timothy [S.] LaBadie KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian technological dystopia set in a future San Francisco where machines require conformity to the rules.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, Robots A Novella Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sue Lange KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia told from the point of view of a robot. Initially the robot is a simple one caring for and protecting a child, and the dystopia is first presented in the description of the need for protection on the walk to school and in the school, which is a fortress and is as concerned with protecting the child as teaching her. Then the robots are given the ability to feel pain and humans are given enhanced powers previously limited to the robots. Little actually changes and the same dystopia remains.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where the Water Meets the Sky" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The ecological eutopia possible after our environmental dystopia. Much of the U.S. has been abandoned, but the Northwest has managed to create a good society without the power grid or the automobile.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 208 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters. A Novel Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Complex satire directed mostly at religion set in a dystopian world in which the rich and poor are becoming more deeply divided through genetic engineering.

PB - Woeli Publishing Services CY - Accra, Gandhi U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ". . . the darkest evening of the year. . ." Y1 - 2006 A1 - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Richard Labonté ED - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with threatened eutopian enclaves. The eutopian elements are composed of those who practice an old religion based in nature; the dystopia is the official oppression of the eutopia.

JF - The Future Is Queer PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in her in her Ice and Other Stories (Hornsea, Eng: PS Publishing, 2018), 189-209, with a note on the story (304-05). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Derelict" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of the habitats built in space which cannot have conflict because they are so fragile. The story is about children pushing the limits of what is possible for them in the strictly regulated lives necessary for the habitats to function safely.

JF - Escape from Earth: New Adventures in Space PB - Science Fiction Book Club CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Down in The Corridor" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Lopresti ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Pacific states have seceded from the U.S. as a result of U.S. policies under George W. Bush. The P.S.A. is presented more positively, but the story concerns the continuing struggle between the two countries.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Icarus Y1 - 2006 A1 - Roger Levy KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Complex novel describing various dystopias created as Earth's ecological system collapsed and people escaped to space, under the earth's surface, into cyro-suspension, etc.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Instinct" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Joy Parks ED - Richard Labonté ED - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) KW - Female author AB -

Flawed eutopia. Problems with the eutopia of complete gender freedom and the ability to change gender at will. Domed communities in which freedom becomes restricting. Lesbian viewpoint. Isolated communities outside the domes established representing different periods of the past to allow people to choose their own eutopia. Lesbian viewpoint.

JF - The Future Is Queer PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Just Do It!" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Heather Lindsley KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which companies hire snipers to shoot a chemical into people that produces an insatiable desire for their product.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111.1 (652) N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best SF 12. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2007), 74-88; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 357-67; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 357-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Library of Pi" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray Vukcevich (b. 1946) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a police state.

JF - Polyphony 6 PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mergers Y1 - 2006 A1 - Steven L. Layne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia describing a future where all trace of racial identity has been eliminated. Four teenagers born with racial identities and unusual powers struggle against the dystopia and win by traveling into the past and helping to create a future with racial differences exist but are not considered important. 

PB - Pelican Publishing CY - Gretna, LA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Middle America Y1 - 2006 A1 - Anthony F. Lewis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2004 Lewis set five years later with the same main character. The revolution that began in the earlier volume was won, and the Rocky Mountain area is no longer part of the U.S. or Canada. The sequel emphasizes political intrigue, but since the protagonist has to fight government to protect freedom, it follows the themes of the previous novel and presents the U.S. in dystopian terms.

PB - Ten Mile Press CY - [Fort Bragg, CA] U1 -

Subtitle on the cover The Third Revolution Continues.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Missy Victoria" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Bruce Holland Rogers (b. 1958) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Apparent dystopia with eutopian results. Names are seen to condition behavior and judges can require that names, including nicknames, be changed. In the case described, the required change improves the lives of family members.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Return to Nowhere" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ruth Nestvold (b. 1958) A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. with slavery and with an underground railway running to the free areas of the Northwest.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "100% Pure Conjecture: Accounts of our Future State(s)" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Bob Frame A1 - Pala Molisa A1 - Rhys Taylor A1 - Hemi Toia A1 - Wong Liu Shueng ED - James H. Liu ED - Tim McCreanor ED - Tracey McIntosh ED - Teresia Teaiwa KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Set in 2055 in a much-diminished future. Describes four scenarios for a future New Zealand, two based on plenty and two based on depleted resources, in two of which the emphasis is on community cohesion and in two of which the emphasis is on the individual. The revised version of 2007 dispenses with the discussion format and changes the order of the scenarios and the names of two of them.

JF - New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington N1 -

Published separately as a screenplay Wellington, New Zealand: Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd., 2005 [Available at http:www.landcareresearch.co.nz/services/sustainablesoc/futures/publications.asp]. A larger version published as Work in Progress. Four Scenarios for New Zealand. Developed by The Landcare Research Scenarios Working Group. 2nd ed. Lincoln, New Zealand: Manaaki Whenua Press, 2007. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Deep Blue Sea" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Peter Hobbs ED - Toby Litt ED - Ali Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

JF - Picador New Writing PB - Picador in association with the British Council and Arts Council England CY - London VL - 13 N1 -

Rpt. in his I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (London: Faber & Faber, 2006), 7-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Goodness Gene Y1 - 2005 A1 - Sonia Levitin (b. 1934) KW - Female author KW - German author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia concerned with genetic engineering and cloning.

PB - Dutton Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lone and Level Sands" Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - Ernest Lilley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia.

JF - Future Washington PB - Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) CY - Washington, DC ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mountain Man's Toothpick" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Susan Urbanek Linville ED - Chris DiMarco KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia in a world where few children are born, and, if a couple do not have a child in three years, the woman is made the concubine of a fertile man.

JF - Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology PB - Fandom Press CY - Port Orchard, OR U1 -

Hosted by Cascadia.com

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Only Begotten Sons. The Only Forgotten Sons Y1 - 2005 A1 - [Linda] [Pearson] KW - Female author AB -

Long (682 pp.) novel that is mostly fantasy but includes a world called Utopia together with material on Earth and Hell.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U3 -

Hope Lingers [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Quilt Cirq" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Susan Urbanek Linville KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with cyberpunk elements, but with the AIDS quilt movement taken to a new level with circuits built into the quilts that contain the personality of the deceased. This is done for most who die, not just AIDS victims.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 17.1 (60) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Odyssey Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alvin Levie (b. 1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. under a dictatorship. The novel follows an individual searching for those resisting the regime and the overthrow of the dictatorship and the beginnings of the reestablishment of democracy.

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Futureways Y1 - 2004 ED - Rita McBride ED - Glen Rubsamen KW - Canadian author KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - German author KW - Portuguese author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Fourteen stories from thirteen authors with only the first story with an identified author. All the stories are set in or refer to futures, mostly dystopian, and connect to art exhibits. The authors listed are Laura Cottingham, as Ying Zong 4217 [pseud.]; Nick Crowe; Aline Duriaud; Nalo Hopkinson; Nico Israel; Matthew Licht; Peter Maass; Rita McBride; Alexandre Melo, whose story was translated from the Portuguese by Brad Cherry; Glen Rubsamen; Brad Schafer; Mark von Schlegell; and Roger Wolfson.

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press/Whitney Museum of American Art/Printed Matter, Inc. CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada/New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gift Moves Y1 - 2004 A1 - Steve Lyon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult eutopia describing a future that has little technology and operates on the basis of gifting.

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gifts Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy. The setting is a country in which individual families have gifts that were mostly destructive and the need to learn to control them. In the second volume, Voices. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006, the people are enslaved by a people who outlaw reading. In the third volume, Powers. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2007, a young boy escapes slavery and explores his world and his gift of foreseeing the future.

PB - Harcourt CY - Orlando, FL N1 -

The three volumes are rpt. in her Annals of the Western Shore: Gifts Voices Powers. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2020), with Gifts (1-148), Voices (149-336), and Powers (337-614), a Note on the Texts (666), and a list of corrected typographical errors (667). The volume also includes a Chronology (651-65) Le Guin’s “The Young Adult in YA: Talk delivered to the American Library Association (2004)” (617-26, with notes on 668-70) [Originally published in her Cheek by Jowl (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009), 110-23]; and “Some Assumptions about Fantasy: Talk delivered at Book Expo America June 4, 2004” (627-29, with notes on 670) [Originally published in her Cheek by Jowl (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2009), 4-7], and interviews of Le Guin with Paola Castagno 2006 (630-33, with notes on 670-71) [Originally publish in Spanish on Castagno’s website Doce Moradas and in English on Le Guin’s website, http:/www.ursulakleguin.com/doce-moradas], Brian Attebery February 17, 2007 (634-38, with notes on 671-72) [Originally published in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17.4 (2007): 371-75], and Alexander Chee February 5, 2008 (639-47), with notes on 672) [Originally published in Guernica, heets://www.guernicamag.com.breaking_into_the_spell_I/. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "High Rise High" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A high rise high school built to house the town's most difficult students is taken over by the students.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - KD Rebel Y1 - 2004 A1 - David [Eden] Lane (1938-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Rebels against miscegenation move to the Rocky Mountain states and establish “Kinsland” and call themselves the Kinsland Defenders (KD). The novel is about the beginnings of an ideal white society. For his “88 Precepts,” the principles on which the society is based, and which is referred to throughout the novel, see https://archive.org/stream/88Precepts_937/88Precepts_djvu.txt. 

PB - jrbooksonline.com CY - Np UR - http://www.jrbooksonline.com/pdf_books_top_list.htm U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pakeha" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jane [M.] Lindskold (b. 1962) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. A virus that destroys all petroleum products devastates the world economy. New Zealand chooses to eliminate government. Pākehā, which now refers to white New Zealanders, comes to mean someone who has earned the right to live there.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 403-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Reception at the Anarchist Embassy" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discussion of various anarchist attempts at eutopia and their differences contrasted with an Earth that has become rule-bound.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 363-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Revolution Y1 - 2004 A1 - Anthony F. Lewis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the governor of Montana fights back against attempts by the federal government to take over state functions. He is joined by leaders from North and South Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. See also 2006 Lewis.

PB - Ten Mile Press CY - [Fort, Bragg, CO] N1 -

2nd ed. [Fort, Bragg, CO]: Ten Mile Press, 2005

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cleansing Fire of God" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Earth is divided among religious dystopias and at least one secular society, and they are in competition to reach the moon, where an alien spacecraft has crashed.

JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-cleansing-fire-of-god/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clone Rangers Y1 - 2003 A1 - Laybourn, Emma KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with cloned animals. Children's book.

PB - Anderson Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kapuzine and the Wolf: A Hortatory Tale" Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Yves] [Meynard] (b. 1964) A1 - [Jean-Louis] [Trudel] (b. 1967) ED - Claude Lalumière (b. 1966) ED - Marty Halpern KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Take off on "Little Red Riding Hood" set in a violent dystopian future split between a decayed suburb and a re-greened city controlled by animals.

JF - Witpunk PB - Four Walls Eight Windows CY - New York U3 -

Laurent McAllister [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pier Pressure" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Christina Lake KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which England has retreated to ten seaside piers. Cloning.

JF - Interzone VL - no.188 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tritcheon Hash Y1 - 2003 A1 - Sue Lange KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

All the women of Earth left and establish a new all-female society on another planet, with female and male babies exchanged annually with the men of Earth. The new society has been very successful, while the men have continued to fight and damage Earth. With the unacknowledged help of the women, the men of Earth begin to recover.

PB - Metropolis Ink CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Untied Kingdom Y1 - 2003 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A disintegrating future U.K. with small communities using ancient traditions to try to maintain cohesion and stability with, at the end after many problems, the central community begins to revive.

PB - Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Uterus Garden" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) ED - Deborah Layne ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Problems in a largely dystopian future in which most people are infertile.

JF - Polyphony PB - Wheatland Press CY - Wilsonville, OR VL - 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) ED - Peter Straub KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on utopias and dystopias.

JF - The New Wave Fabulists PB - Bard College CY - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY VL - Volume 39 of Conjunctions U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Just Like Beauty Y1 - 2002 A1 - Lisa Lerner (b. 1960) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian satire with lesbian themes. A future America focusing on its beauty contests, which include erotic skills. Violence is common.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradises Lost" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - The Birthday of the World and Other Stories PB - HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 689-801.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salt Fish Girl Y1 - 2002 A1 - Larissa Lai (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in 19th century China and in a future Pacific Northwest, which is a corporate dystopia.

PB - Thomas Allen CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scrunched Up" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Barton Paul Levenson (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Future Orbits VL - 2.1 UR - http://www.futureorbits.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Social Dreaming of the Frin" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 103.4 & 5 (611) N1 -

Rpt. in her Changing Planes (Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003), 76-88. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2004), 65-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wild Girls" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 26.3 (314) N1 -

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. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kalik Y1 - 2001 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Fourth volume of a series. In this volume, the young man and a small group, mostly children, find a valley where they hope they will be able to establish a small farming community. See also 1997, 1999 and 2001 Lasenby.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Perfect Persecution. A Novel Y1 - 2001 A1 - J[ames] R[aymond] Lucas KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from a Christian, anti-abortion viewpoint. Abortion is common and an underground Christian movement rescues babies and fights abortion.

PB - Broadman & Holman CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Side of Paradise Y1 - 2001 A1 - Steven L. Layne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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. 

PB - North Star Books CY - St. Charles, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eye of the Heart" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. All married women are blinded after the honeymoon so that they will only remember their husbands as loving men.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction VL - 98.3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Foreigners Y1 - 2000 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A murder mystery that takes place in a deeply flawed utopia in which aliens have provided Earth with technology that replaces its polluting power sources, but the aliens act like Earth’s sex tourists (the author’s comparison) exploiting human singers for their own pleasure.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gathering Blue Y1 - 2000 A1 - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

UK ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex: Ghosts Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1998 and 1999 Lassiter. In this volume, those carrying the gene giving direct access to computers share it with others and the ending suggests that a eutopia will develop.

PB - Macmillan Children's Books, 2000 CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 449-669. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Parallel Highways" Y1 - 2000 A1 - James Van Pelt (b. 1954) ED - Jeremy Lassens KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror PB - fREAk pREASs CY - San Diego, CA SN - 9780970009708 978-1-933846-95-8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of James Van Pelt. (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2020), 17-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Telling Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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.

PB - Harcourt CY - New York N1 -

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).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 3 Passports to Paradise Y1 - 1999 A1 - R. A. Leigh AB -

The story of three groups that are trying to create their utopias on a planet--New Age people, genetically-enhanced humans (aquatic, avian, and feline), and patriots from the U.S. The novel ends in the middle of a crisis among the three groups and outsiders who want to control them.

PB - Spectrutek CY - [Dover, NH] VL - Book 1 of the Spectrutek Series. No evidence of further volumes. U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aberrant: Project Utopia. Creating a Brighter Future with the Power of Today! Y1 - 1999 A1 - Carl Bowen (b. 1975) A1 - Steven [S.] Long A1 - Angel [Leigh] McCoy (b. 1962) A1 - Kraig Blackwelder A1 - John Chambers ED - Chris Tang KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

PB - White Wolf CY - Clarkson, GA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amerikan Sunset. A Novel Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jennifer Ladewig (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing U.S. and the struggle for survival.

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crowlings Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult novel in which a traditional society has to deal with people from space coming to their planet. The novel is concerned with the conflicts, both personal and societal, regarding the temptations of modern civilization.

PB - Collins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Collins, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cure Y1 - 1999 A1 - Sonia Levitin (b. 1934) KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel set in a 2047 flawed utopia stressing conformity, harmony, and tranquility. An individual whose strong emotions seem to threaten the society is sent to the dystopian past of anti-Semitic Strasbourg of 1348. Returning to the future, he decides to try to change it.

PB - Silver Whistle Harcourt Brace & Co CY - San Diego, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex: Shadows Y1 - 1999 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1998 Lassiter. In this volume, the gene giving direct access to computers has supposedly been eliminated and the people killed, but some of them survive. See also 2000 Lassiter. 

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London N1 -

 Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 241-448. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lifework" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Mary Soon Lee KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 144 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mara and Dann: An Adventure Y1 - 1999 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The setting is a post-apocalyptic climate change dystopia in which war, a new ice age, and drought have left only the remains of cities and people are migrating north across Ifrik (Africa). Mara and Dann are brother and sister who have been abducted and the novel follows their experiences as the age into adulthood. A sequel is General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, the Griot and the Snow Dog. London: Fourth Estate, 2005. 282 pp. U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 282 pp. In this novel, Mara dies in childbirth and Dann, is now a respected General who is expected to bring order to an ice covered Yerrup (Europe) inhabited by warring tribes of refugees. Both novels place considerable emphasis on personal relationships.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 407 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Old Music and the Slave Women" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction PB - Avon Eos CY - New York N1 -

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). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shaman and the Droll Y1 - 1999 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Third volume of a series. In this volume, the young man lives in an underground world on the South Island, learns from a Shaman, and meets a young woman. See also 1997, 1998 and 2001 Lasenby.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star Split Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Kathryn Lasky] [Knight] (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Genetic engineering dystopia. Marketed for 10-14 age group.

PB - Hyperion Books for Children CY - New York U3 -

Kathryn Lasky [pseud.]. On some editions the pseudonym is Katherine Lasky

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tribes Y1 - 1999 A1 - Anne Lewington KW - Female author AB -

Ecological dystopia.

PB - Wight Diamond Press CY - [Isle of Wight, UK?] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Access Fantasy" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) ED - Patrick Nielsen Hayden KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Starlight 2 PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All the Birds of Hell” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change dystopia brought on by a new ice age.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 95.4&5 (567) N1 -

 Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 209-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Asonu" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An odd society where people speak very little and live good lives. Satire on those who want them to be mystics.

JF - Orion: People and Nature VL - 17.4 N1 -

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.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Battle Neverending’” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Saab Lofton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A fictional interview of the African American superhero Tommorrowman by the U.S. journalist Bill Moyers (b. 1934). Tommorowman has been given his powers by an alien from a “pacifist, democratic, multicultural, and egalitarian” Interstellar Community (47). Mostly commentary on contemporary events.

JF - Battle Neverending PB - Share the Wealth Publications CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Computopia Y1 - 1998 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The setting for the novel is a high tech eutopia that has solved the Earth’s environmental problems, but the action of the novel focuses on a man who tries to use the web to gain power. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1997 Brown, Untouchable. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997), Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999).

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2028 (London: Millennium, 1999), 219-324. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Girl in Landscape Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hex Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rhiannon Lassiter (b. 1977) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia where some people are genetically modified to have direct access to all computers, which gives them immense power. See also 1998 and 2000 Lassiter. The three volumes have been published together as Void (2011).

PB - Macmillan Children's Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Void (New York: Simon Pulse, 2011), 1-240. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Make Love, Not War’” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Saab Lofton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia of the present from the point-of-view of an African American activist plus elements of alternative dystopian and eutopian futures.

JF - Battle Neverending PB - Share the Wealth Publications CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Malthusian Code" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Leslie Lupien ED - Michael Magnini AB -

Population control through a culture that approves only homosexual and lesbian relations. Named after Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834).

JF - North of Infinity: Futurity Visions PB - Mosaic Press CY - Oakville, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Matrix. Shooting Script August 12, 1998" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Larry [Laurence] Wachowski (b. 1965) A1 - Andy [Andrew] Wachowski (b. 1967) ED - Spencer Lamm KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - The Art of The Matrix PB - Titan Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prelude to a Nocturne" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rowena Cory Lindquist (b. 1958) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. A future in which many people permanently put off puberty.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Rapture’” Y1 - 1998 A1 - Saab Lofton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous story of an angel who tries to continue to be politically involved to avoid the coming dystopia in the U.S. See also 1995 Lofton.

JF - Battle Neverending PB - Share the Wealth Publications CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taur Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Second volume of a series. In this volume, the young man continues his trip down through the North Island. See also 1997, 1999 and 2001 Lasenby.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Truth About Weena" Y1 - 1998 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Janeen Webb KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

On a different time line from that described in 1895 Wells, the Eloi woman Weena is brought back from the future and becomes a political activist, leading to a better society. See 1977 Lake and the note there.

JF - Dreaming Down-Under PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Because We Were the Travellers Y1 - 1997 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe quest and environmental dystopia. The first of four volumes in which a young man travels down the North Island of New Zealand and onto the South Island. In the process, he comes in contact with a number of primitive dystopian societies from which he must escape. In this volume, he and an old woman are expelled from their tribe and begin the trek with the old woman teaching her skills like weaving and passing on her knowledge of the land. See also 1998, 1999, and 2001 Lasenby.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand N1 -

Also published South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Hyland House, 1997.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Demokratus." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Victor [Paul] Koman (b. 1954) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 0-312-85957-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dra-- Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stacey Levine AB -

Dystopia. Kafkaesque future society. The novel describes a woman caught up in a torturous employment bureaucracy.

PB - Sun & Moon Press CY - Los Angeles, CA VL - New American Fiction Series: 39 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hand You're Dealt" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Robert J[ames] Sawyer (b. 1960) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with problems.

JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man With the Third Vision Y1 - 1997 A1 - Manuel C. Laudiano (b. 1938) KW - Filipino-American author KW - Male author AB -

One hundred sixteen visions of a series of five higher lives after death, the fifth being Heaven. Presented as the visions of the author, who is described as a clairvoyant. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tyranny." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Revolt against a libertarian eutopia that has become bureaucratized.

JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dream-Weaver Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult novel set as colonists from Earth prepare to land on a planet inhabited by people with what appears to be little technology. But the people of the planet have mental powers that allow contact to be made with a member of the Earth crew who comes to see the low-tech planet in eutopian terms. 

PB - Clarion Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How We Got in Town and out Again" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where towns try to keep all strangers out.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 20.9 (249) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 457-74; and in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 67-85. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Integrationist Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jake Lamar (b. 1961) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a near future U.S. with extremely harsh laws against drugs and public executions enforced by a conservative black Attorney-General.

PB - Crown Publishers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A.D Y1 - 1995 A1 - Saab Lofton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia set in 2030 in which the U.S. is divided between the Nation of Islam and the White Aryan Resistance followed by a eutopia set in 2410 which is governed by the Libertarian Socialist Democracy, which is a flawed utopia. The African American protagonist is rejected by and rejects the Nation of Islam and declares himself an orthodox Muslim. Waking in the future, he finds it extremely strange and has extreme difficulty fitting in and does not really try to adjust. See “Introduction ‘Writings From Exile’.” In his Battle Neverending (Np: Share the Wealth Publications, 1998), 1-3 for his comments on the reception of the book.

PB - III Publishing CY - Gualala, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coming of Age in Karhide By Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Short sequel to 1969 Le Guin. The rites of passage of and emotional responses to going into kemmer (taking on sexual characteristics) for the first time.

JF - New Legends PB - Legend Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. without subtitle after the first Karhide (New York: Tor, 1995), 90-105; and with the subtitle in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 1-22. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 1-22; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 990-1008 with a “Note on the Text” (1084).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Comedy of Ideas Y1 - 1995 A1 - Steven Lukes (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A modern version of Voltaire's (1694-1778) Candide ou, L'Optimisme (1759) by a U.K. political theorist.

PB - Verso CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. [Cover says exp. new ed. but the only additions appear to be an "Introduction" (vii-ix) and "Further Readings" (261-62)] as The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat. A Novel of Ideas. London: Verso, 2009. Includes an Errata slip.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Four Ways to Forgiveness Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Four linked stories set on the planets of Werel and Yeowe as they struggle toward freedom from their oppressive pasts, including slavery and purdah for women. Some obvious satire but includes descriptions of the dystopias of the early histories of the two planets as well as material on the Hainish eutopias that she describes in many of her other stories and novels.

PB - HarperPrisim CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as part of Five Ways to Forgiveness 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), 319-517, 570-88 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (786-87). First published as four novellas--“Betrayals.” Blue Motel. Narrow Houses Volume 3. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Little, Brown, 1994), 195-229; rpt. 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), 99-131; “Forgiveness Day.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 18.12 & 13 (November 1994): 262-304; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), 1-47;  in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Exploration in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 68-118; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 241-302; “A Man of the People.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.4 & 5 (229-30) (April 1995): 22-40, 42-46, 48-65; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 303-58; and “A Woman’s Liberation.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 19.8 (July 1995): 116-63; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 1-42; in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 227-94; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 359-428. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Left Behind: A Novel of Earth's Last Days Y1 - 1995 A1 - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016) A1 - Jerry B[ruce] Jenkins (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of the Left Behind series, which describes those left on earth after the Rapture, a premillennialist belief based on 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17 developed initially in England in the 1830s and included in the Scofield Reference Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch/London: H. Frowde, 1909. Mostly dystopian, but the last volume, Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007), includes the Second Coming of Christ, and there is a eutopia of the community of believers struggling to survive. Other volumes are Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind (1996); Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist (1997); Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (1998); Apollyon: The Destroyer is Unleashed (1999); Assassins: Assignment: Jerusalem, Target: Antichrist (1999); The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession (2000); The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (2000); Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (2001); The Remnant: On the Brink of Armageddon (2002); Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages (2003); and Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (2004), and Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (2007). Three volumes of prequel include The Rising: Antichrist is Born. Before They Were Left Behind (2005); Regime: Evil Advances. Before They Were Left Behind (2005); and The Rapture: In a Twinkling of an Eye. Before They Were Left Behind (2005). See also Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Are We Living in the End Times. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1999. There are also graphic novels, films, videos, video games, forty books for children, and related products. See http:www.leftbehind.com for all the books and related materials. LaHaye gives what he calls the Biblical basis of the series in Revelation illustrated and Made Plain. rev. ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderaven Publishing House, 1975. Rev. as Revelation Unveiled: A revised and updated edition of Revelation Illustrated and Made Plain. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderaven Publishing House, 1999. See also LaHaye, Jenkins, and Norman B. Rohrer, These Will Not Be Left Behind: Incredible Stories of Lives Transformed After Reading the Left Behind Novels. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2003. Utopian spinoffs include 2003 Hart and 2003, 2004, 2005 Jenkins, and 2010 LaHaye and Parshall.

PB - Tyndale House Publishers CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Playing the Game Y1 - 1995 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Graphic novel depicting an urban dystopia and attempts to escape it. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Utopia Parable" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Mark Lord KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about a theater in a eutopian society. 

JF - Theater VL - 26.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Another Story" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. The planet “O” is a conservative sustainable farming society based on long established small communities and a complex marriage called a “sedoretu” in which a minimum of four people (two men and two women) marry with both heterosexual and homosexual relations. Two (one man and one woman) come from each of the two groups or moieties, the Morning People and the Evening People, into which the planets population is divided. Sexual relations take place between moities but not within them. 

JF - Tomorrow VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. as “Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.” In her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 147-91; rpt. illus. Pat Morrissey and with a “Preface” (ix-xv) by James Gunn (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995), 147-91; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2. Ed. Karen Jay Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2006), 185-225; in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 197-240; 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), 168-206 with a “Note on the Text” (780) and “Notes (785). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Disinherited Y1 - 1994 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Begins with a dystopia of poverty and violence with rigid class divisions in Wales. Ends with the beginnings of a rural utopian community. Classified as Young Adult.

PB - The Bodley Head Children's Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Patchwork People. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100 Y1 - 1994 A1 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953) A1 - Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1937) A1 - Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956) A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) A1 - Jon Burrowes A1 - Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952) A1 - Resa Nelson (b. 1956) ED - David Alexander Smith ed. (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A shared future history anthology related to Smith's 1993 In the Cube, which was written during the collaboration on this volume. The basic premise is that Boston is sinking and that as it sinks some of it will simply disappear under water and that the remaining sections will struggle for survival and come into conflict with each other. To complicate matters a wide variety of different aliens arrive in Boston and become part of everyday life. One of those aliens is testing humans for admission into the interstellar world. Humanity apparently passes the test and at the end Boston reunites and establishes itself as a separate country. The volume is composed of numerous stories and vignettes, a few previously published, maps of Boston in 1772, 1990, 2014, 2030, 2050, and 2061, and an "Afterword: How It Came to Be" (376-82) by David Smith. The contents are Smith, "'Boston Will Sink, Claims MIT Prof'" (9-10); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1947), "Seeing the Edge" (12-29); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956), "Nomads" (30-52); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955), "Projects" (53-70) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine [the copyright page incorrectly says Analog] 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 104-17; David Smith, "Dying in Hull" (71-87) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 12.11 (136) (November 1988): 62-66, 68-75; and in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 497-508 with an Editor's note on 496; and in Isaac Asimov's Earth. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 1992), 19-34. Jon Burrowes, "The Elephant-Ass Thing" (89-108); Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952), "The Parade" (109-21); Jablokov, "Seating Arrangement" (122-32); Burrowes, "The Uprising" (133-36); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) and Sarah Smith, "Fennario" (137-52); Landis, "Topology of the Loophole" (153-56); Popkes, "Not for Broadcast" (157-62); David Smith, "When the Phneri Fell" (163-66) rpt. from Figment, no. 1 (October 1989): 23-24; which was rpt. Figment, no. 15 (Fall 1993): 27-28; Popkes and David Smith, "Playing Chess with the Bishop" (168-73); Jablokov, "Letter to the Editor" (174-75); David Smith, "Who Is Venture Capital?" (176-77); Jablokov, "IPOB Dining Hall Procedures," (178-80); Popkes, "So You Want to Meet the Bishop" (181-85); Landis, "Camomile and Crimson; or, The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife" (186-98) originally published as "The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife." Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 110.5 (April 1990): 135-43; Popkes, "The Test" (198-222); Jablokov, "The Place of No Shadows" (223-46) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.11& 12 (162& 163) (November 1990): 170-86; Jablokov, "The Lady of Port Moresby Incident" (248-49); Sarah Smith, "Three Boston Artists" (250-66) rpt. from Aboriginal Science Fiction 4.4 (22) (July-August 1990): 2, 59-63 with illus on 3 and 58; Jablokov, "Focal Plane" (267-86); Sarah Smith, "Ye Citizens of Boston" (287-328); Jablokov, "The Adoption" (330-51) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.12& 13 (177& 178) (November 1991): 200-15; Jablokov, "WereWhereWear" (352-53); and David Smith, "Sail Away" (354-75).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gun, With Occasional Music Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jonathan [Allen] Lethem (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia presented as a mystery novel set in the future. Drugs, including "Forgettol", "Acceptol", and "Regrettol" which do what their names suggest, and can be blended to produce a combination. Detectives are known as Inquisitors. Personal questions considered impolite. Sex change operations are common. There are evolved animals.

PB - Harcourt Brace CY - San Diego, CA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Matter of Seggri" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

History of a society based on gender separation with women, who far outnumber the men, dominant. The men live in castles, play games, and have contests in order to be chosen by the women as sexual partners and, in particular, to father children. The women do everything else. Over the very long history small changes are made including the beginnings of education for some of the men.

JF - Crank! Science Fiction--Fantasy VL - no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction Twelfth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 493-526; and in Nebula Awards 30. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1996), 253-92; in Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Exploration in Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Debbie Notkin & The Secret Feminist Cabal (Cambridge, MA: Edgewood Press, 1998), 347-84; in Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 23-68. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 23-68; 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), 133-73; in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 473-518; and in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 149-95.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Poetic License” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13. Ed. Elisabeth Waters (San Francisco, CA: The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works, 2013) 211-24 with an editor’s note on 211.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rama Revealed Y1 - 1994 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) A1 - [Bert] Gentry Lee (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Solitude" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex society in which men and women live separately. The men mostly live near the women's villages, where the women live in individual huts with extremely limited interaction, the children providing the chief means of contact. Gangs of boys and individual rogue males are dangerous to both the other men and the women, but most of the men live peacefully. Whether eutopian or not is likely to produce considerable debate. Some consider it a feminist eutopia and the point-of-view character presents the women's society as a good one.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 87.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and George Van Gelder (New York: Tor, 1999), 353-81; in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 119-51; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 119-51; in Diverse Energies. Ed. Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti (New York: Tu Books, 2012), 267-305; 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), 175-203; in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 519-50; 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), 290-318 with a “Note on the Text” (781) and “Notes (786).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Democracy (b. 1984) Y1 - 1993 A1 - Robert Leon KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for the direct election of the U.S. President after candidates have been pre-approved by computers. No direct presentation of the expected eutopia, but discussion throughout the book suggests its outlines. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Giver Y1 - 1993 A1 - Lois [Ann Hammersberg] Lowry (b. 1937) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia that is technologically sophisticated but overly controlled. See also 2000 Lowry. Her Messenger. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004 and Son. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2012, which includes characters from both this volume and 2000 Lowry but take place in an intentional community. 

PB - Houghton Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dell. U.K. ed. London: Lions, 1994. A graphic novel version is The Giver. Based on the novel by Lois Lowry. Adapted by P. Craig Russell. Illus. P. Craig Russell, Galen Showman, and Scott Hampton. Colorist Lovern Kindzierski. Letterer Rich Parker. Scanning, cleanup, and digital coordination by Wayne Arnold Harold. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2019. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy about a matriarchy.

PB - Baen CY - New York U3 -

Piers Anthony [pseud. of Jacob]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jacob with a 'C' Y1 - 1993 A1 - Edward Lurie KW - Male author AB -

Satire and dystopia. A novel about a couple trying to create a life together in a vaguely described post-apartheid South Africa which has failed to live up to its promises.

PB - The Carrefour Press CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kalifornia Y1 - 1993 A1 - Marc Laidlaw (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sing the Body Electric: A Novel in Five Movements Y1 - 1993 A1 - Adam Lively (b. 1961) KW - English author AB -

Novel set in a future that has tried to create enclaves that incorporate past ways of life. Part of the novel reads as if it were set in one of those pasts.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songs of Chaos Y1 - 1993 A1 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is partially set in a conformist dystopia.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "California Dreaming" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Elizabeth A[nne] Lynn (b. 1946) ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cars are outlawed in California, and this produces the beginnings of a better society.

JF - Omni Best Science Fiction One PB - Omni Books CY - Greensboro, NC U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cathy IV Y1 - 1992 A1 - Frances Lucas (b. 1956) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia and struggle against it. A novel with lesbian interest set on a planet that has enslaved a large segment of its population, called Servos, who were a mix of android and human. Earth has been largely destroyed but had been saved by aliens, and everyone on Earth lives in identical domed cities. The dystopian society is depicted together with the struggle to free the Servos. In addition to the Servos, the planet’s inhabitants are divided between the Nots (from the planet’s name Saegrenot), who live off the work of the Servos and live in cities and the Assimi or those who refuse to be assimilated and live in the country and support freeing the Servos. 

PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Norwich, VT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conjuror Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jack [Millen] Lasenby (1931-2019) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A young adult post-catastrophe dystopia with fantasy elements. Future racial division between Browns and Greys with the Greys the slaves of the Browns with a third group, the Blues, outcasts. The two groups are not even allowed to talk to each other. Reading and writing are prohibited. Women rule through their control of knowledge and the use of violence. A Brown girl slated for leadership, which will require her to murder her father, befriends a Grey boy, and they escape together.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Major Gentl and the Achimota War Y1 - 1992 A1 - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Achimota City in 2020 A.D. is the scene of a war between good and evil. Some dystopia and some eutopia. Surreal. Includes a Glossary.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrections From the Dustbin of History. A Political Fantasy Y1 - 1992 A1 - Simon Louvish (b. 1947) KW - English author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia beginning in 1968 when Leon Trotsky, who has led the U.S.S.R. for forty-four years, dies. Benito Mussolini still rules Italy, and Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are U.S. politicians. Racial conflict in the U.S.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Resurrections: A Novel. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cosmic Dusting" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) ED - Helen Daniel KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist version of the millennium. In this version the Messiah is an elected position held by 1,000 people (500 men and 500 women) for one year each, the earth returns to its condition prior to environmental damage, all plastics, bottles, and aluminum return to their original constituents, and extinct animals return. The coming of the millennium can be recognized when things work as they are supposed to, and committees function perfectly.

JF - Millennium: Time-Pieces by Australian Writers PB - Penguin Books Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her Evolution Annie and Other Stories (London: The Women's Press, 1993), 31-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Judson's Eden Y1 - 1991 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The creation of a eutopia and the attempts to destroy it.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newton's Sleep." Y1 - 1991 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Doubleday CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shut In" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Jean Lamb KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Slow Burn in Alphabettown" Y1 - 1991 A1 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Extraordinary Reign of King Ludd: An Historical Tease Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Ernest Michael] Roy Lewis (1913-96) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical alternative history in which socialism won in the revolutions of 1848 followed, at the end of the novel, by a counter-revolution in the 1940s that establishes the rule of the market.

PB - The Patten Press CY - Penzance, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hope Y1 - 1990 A1 - James [Matthew Henry] Lovegrove (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia develops on a ship that was intended to take people to a new life, but which is still traveling after five years.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sceptre, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Inheritors” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

The story is set in a future Wales experiencing the effects of climate change and with a failed economy and a non-functioning government. The story focuses on a small community that has become successfully self-supporting with the help of an astral being from another planet. 

JF - Extinction is Forever PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mackenna’s Patch” Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia with extreme rich versus poor divisions.

JF - Extinction is Forever PB - The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Object Lesson" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Domains of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Re: Generations" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy ED - Amy Stout ED - Patrick LoBrutto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Salt Y1 - 1990 A1 - Gabrielle [Craig] Lord (b. 1946) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in Australia in 2075 after a Civil War. The environment collapses, and there is widespread social conflict. Sydney is a walled city with extreme poverty and warfare inside and almost complete destruction outside.

PB - McPhee, Gribble/Penguin Books Australia CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. South Yarra, VIC, Australia: McPhee, Gribble, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hence Y1 - 1989 A1 - Brad [E.] Leithauser (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future tale with dystopian elements. Introduced from the perspective of further in the future.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - History of the Future: A Chronology Y1 - 1989 A1 - Peter Lorie A1 - Sidd Murray-Clark KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a projection but describes a clearly eutopian future over many centuries. Includes essays by Rupert Sheldrake.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If You Go Down to the Park Today" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Rosaleen [Lucille] Love (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on heaven.

JF - The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories PB - The Women's Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Infinity Hold Y1 - 1989 A1 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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.

PB - Popular Library/Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Star Wares: The Next Generation" Y1 - 1989 A1 - James A. Levin (Book) A1 - Linda Eisenstein (Music) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Struggle against the "Military Industrial Entertainment Complex" and the "Sludge Monsters" from Wango-Wango.

UR - http://my.en.com/~herone/SWTNG.html ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ayemu's Children" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Vivienne Louise KW - Female author AB -

Fantasy story with elements of a lesbian eutopia.

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 34 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bulldozer Rising Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Anna Livia Julian] [Brawn] (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - UK author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia where it is difficult and rare to live past forty-one (“the optimum death date” [15]); for example, curbs are two feet high to make wheelchair use impossible. The one positive element in the novel is found in the connections among lesbians, including some with older women.

PB - Onlywomen Press CY - London U3 -

Anna Livia [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Busman's Holiday" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Louise Turner ED - Duncan Lunan KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future feudal, depopulated Glasgow in which owners of the bus systems have become the ruling lords.

JF - The Glasgow Herald Weekender N1 -

Rpt. in Starfield: The Anthology of Science Fiction by Scottish Writers. Ed. Duncan Lunan (Kirkwall, Orkney: The Orkney Press, 1989), 89-96. Collection rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: New Curiosity Shop, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moon of Ice Y1 - 1988 A1 - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history. Nazi's win World War II and control Europe. America is libertarian.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1993. U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1989. A novella with the same title was published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories 28.5 (March 1982): 42-73. Rpt. in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II. Ed. Gregory [Albert] Benford and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Garland, 1986), 147-201; and in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Ed. Harry [Norman] Turtledove with Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 357-415.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reading Group Y1 - 1988 A1 - Amanda Lohrey KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Near future dystopia seen from the perspective of eight people who had been members of a reading group. The core of the novel focuses on an environmental and political crisis and the reactions of the eight people.

PB - Picador CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Saga of Filster Stein Y1 - 1988 A1 - Gary Lovesi KW - Male author AB -

A bit of a sendup of SF but in the process depicts some dystopias.

PB - Gryphon Publications CY - Brooklyn, New York N1 -

Parts originally published as “The Saga of Filster Stein” [In the book the title is given as “Why Do These Things Always Happen To Me”]. Heart of Dixie Comics 1.3 (August/September 1983): 14-18; “Set Adrift Like An Old Piece of Baggage.” Heart of Dixie Comics, no. 4 (January 1984); and “When the Warlord Comes To Town” as “The Warlord Wonder.” Galaxy Times, no. 5 (July 1977). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman of the Aeroplanes Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Bernard] Kojo Laing (b. 1946) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -

Something of a comic novel where time and causality completely askew. Tukwan is the utopia where everybody in the town was a reincarnation of someone from the town, and this would continue until all problems solved.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crying in the Rain” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) ED - Christopher [D.] Evans (b. 1951) ED - Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which, as a result of pollution, few people life beyond twenty-five and girls are bred at an early age.

JF - Other Edens PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 887-96 with an editors’ note on 886.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sanctity" Y1 - 1987 A1 - R. M. Lamming ED - Christopher [D.] Evans (b. 1951) ED - Robert Holdstock (1948-2009) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia controlling all aspects of life that the protagonists believed had stopped enforcing its laws. 

JF - Other Edens PB - Unwin Paperbacks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sea of Glass Y1 - 1987 A1 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.S.A. Book 2 Y1 - 1987 A1 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1987 De Haven. In this volume the main protagonist and his girlfriend are trying to escape and help form a teenage underground resistance movement. See also 1987 Sykes and Lewitt, Book 4.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.S.A. Book 4 Y1 - 1987 A1 - S[hariann] N. Lewitt (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1987 De Haven and her Book 2. See also 1987 Sykes. In this volume the teenage underground successfully overthrows the military coup and the U.S.A. is re-established.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bones of God Y1 - 1986 A1 - Stephen [Walter] Leigh (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A theocracy faces a new Messiah.

PB - Avon CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Headline, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cry Wolf Y1 - 1986 A1 - Aileen La Tourette (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel about a controlled dystopia gradually becoming freer.

PB - Virago CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfect People Y1 - 1986 A1 - Robert [Howard] Lieberman (b. 1941) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia presenting supposedly perfect people who aren't.

PB - Dell CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Politicana Y1 - 1986 A1 - Julian Lloyd KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in an unnamed city which has fallen into poverty and violence. A dictator emerges, but as people work against him, apathy disappears, and political life re-emerges.

PB - Grosz & Lloyd Newsprint Novels CY - South Yarra, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Whore of Babylon” Y1 - 1986 A1 - Leon [Léon] Zeldis ED - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Sam J. Lundwall KW - Chilean author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is “I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex. 

JF - The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. SN - 9780140080674 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Always Coming Home Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex utopia described from inside the utopia but with, in The Back of the Book” (409-525), the sort of detail about the society that might be part of an anthropological report. One focus of the novel is the life story of a woman known as “Stone Telling” that illustrates both the positive and negative aspects of life produced by the many-faceted interactions among the people.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1986. Rpt. without the cassette. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by John Scalzi (ix-xi). The Author’s Expanded Edition without the cassette. Ed. Brian Attebery. New York: The Library of America, 2019 includes “Pandora Revisits the Kesh and Comes Back with New Texts” (619-87) [Dangerous People (621-68), which was first published as Dangerous People. Ed. Brian Attebury. New York: Library of America eBook Classic, 2019, was completed by Le Guin in December 2019 from material she had drafted in 1983 or 1984. Rpt. in her The Space Crone. Ed. So Mayer and Sarah Shin (Np: Silver Press, 2023), 195-224. The book includes extensive notes by the editor and a very detailed chronology of Le Guin’s life and works; “Some Kesh Meditations: Sitting in the Ninth House” (669-71); “Blood Lodge Songs” (672-81), and “Kesh Syntax” (682-85)], “Other Writings Related to Always Coming Home” (689-702) [May’s Lion” (691-98); Navna: The River-running by Intrumo of Sinshan” (699)], “Essays” (703-89) [“World-Making” (700-02); “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place to Be” (703-24); “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” (725-30); “Text, Silence, Performance” (731-40); “Legends for a New Land” (741-57); “The Making of Always Coming Home” (758-80); and “Indian Uncles” (781-89), a Chronology (793-807), a Note on the Texts (808-11), and Notes (812-26). Parts published previously as “Time in the Valley.” Hudson Review 37.4 (Winter 1984-5): 536-48; “The Trouble with the Cotton People.” The Missouri Review 7.2 (1984): 86-95; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 410-19 with an editor’s note on 409 “The Visionary.” Omni 7.1 (1984): 100-02, 104, 106-07, 154, 157-60, 162-63 [Rpt. in The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1984. Vol. 1 of Capra Back-to-Back; and in The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, 1989), 19-53]; “Dira.” Parabola 9 (Winter 1984): 53-55; and four poems--”It Was Never Really Different. Given to the Red Adobe heyimas of Wakwaha by Ninepoint of Chumo”; “A Song Used in Chumo When Daming a Creek or Diverting Water to a Holding Tank for Irrigation”; “A Bay Laurel Song”; and “An Exhortation From the Second and Third Houses of Earth. A calligraphed poster-scroll from the Serpentine heyimas of Wakwaha-na.” Whole Earth Review (July 1985): 20-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Awakening" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Julia] [McNeill] (b. 1939) ED - Jen Green ED - Sarah Lefanu KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Breeding program instituted with children cared for by multiple "parents." Restricted movement. Pollution.

JF - Despatches From the Frontiers of the Female Mind; An Anthology of Original Stories PB - The Women's Press CY - London U3 -

Pearlie McNeill [pseud.]

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NZ, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Dust Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult post-nuclear war novel and the revival of human communities.

PB - John Lane The Bodley Head Children's Books CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dad's Nuke Y1 - 1985 A1 - Marc Laidlaw (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future armed U.S. suburbia.

PB - Donald I. Fine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Different Kind of Courage" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A Free Amazon story about a healer.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Fairy Tale for the Year 2004. A Story” Y1 - 1985 A1 - Helen Lucas KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Brief story of the eutopia created when everyone becomes a flower.

JF - Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Intersection" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Gwyneth [Ann] Jones (b. 1952) ED - Jen Green ED - Sarah Lefanu KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia which the protagonist sees as an ideal world. The author calls this story a preview of her 1986 Jones.

JF - Despatches From the Frontiers of the Female Mind; An Anthology of Original Stories PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robot Romance Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ellen W. Leroe (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly humor but includes a satire on future mechanized education.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Third Millennium: A History of the World: AD 2000-3000 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Brian [Michael] Stableford (b. 1948) A1 - David [Rowland] Langford (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

History of the future that reads as a technological eutopia after the period of crisis between 2000 and 2180.

PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Greening of Mars Y1 - 1984 A1 - Michael Allaby (b. 1933) A1 - James [Ephraim] Lovelock (1919-2022) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly about the terraforming of Mars, the trip to Mars by immigrants, and their initial adjustment to the new planet, but the main protagonist,  briefly presents Mars in eutopian terms. All manual work performed by robots. Everyone is vegetarian. Every book and article ever published on Earth is available electronically. Growing social diversity. No guns. Very limited crime. Lovelock was the founder of the Gaia theory that Earth is a living entity.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984.

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L, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Personal and Social Attitudes Toward Parenting" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Marcia [E.] Lasswell ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

 Discusses the effects of changed attitudes toward parenting and child-care. Gender equality in parenting. Children will stay home longer. 

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Alliance Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gerald N[iels] Lund (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which the Alliance presents itself as reviving the social order and creating a utopia, but it does so through planting a computer chip into its citizens and forcing outsiders to join.

PB - Deseret Book Co CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Astral Sanctuaries" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Alexandra Lind KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

New age eutopia.

JF - Pathfinder (New Zealand) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Y1 - 1983 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The last of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 (2) and 1982 Lessing. This volume is a satire on the power of emotion, particularly as reflected in speech, to overwhelm reason. A Canopean is infected with "undulant Rhetoric" and treated in the Hospital for Rhetorical Diseases. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hunting Season" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of population control through controlled killing.

JF - The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Polaris Press CY - Los Gatos, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The October Suit" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which there is no war, and everyone is well fed, clothed, and housed but which requires absolute conformity.

JF - The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Polaris Press CY - Los Gatos, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 Y1 - 1982 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The fourth of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also, 1979, 1980 (2) and 1983 Lessing. This novel presents the coming destruction of Planet 8 as it enters a terminal ice age and the positive way the people respond to the crisis. An opera with music by Philip Glass was created based on the novel and premiered in Houston, TX in July 1988. The libretto was published as Philip Glass and Doris Lessing, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. An Opera in Three Acts. Based on the Novel by Doris Lessing. [Bryn Mawr, PA]: Dunvagen Music Publishers, 1988.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Divide Y1 - 1982 A1 - Frank M[alcolm] Robinson (1926-2014) A1 - John Levin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Near future U.S. divided into rich and poor based on access to energy resources.

PB - Rawson, Wade CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stroka Prospekt Y1 - 1982 A1 - Richard [Allen] Lupoff (1935-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A somewhat dystopian future with Russia leading in space exploration and mining and on Earth Russia and other "progressive" countries like the U.S. are opposed by an expansive China. The story takes places on a vacation planetoid where miners go to relax and involves alien contact.

PB - The Toothpaste Press CY - West Branch, IA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels to the Enu: Story of a Shipwreck Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Heinz Jakov] [Landwirth] (1927-2007) KW - Austrian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel presents a satire on the present in the form of a weird, fantastic, imaginary country. It begins on a dystopian ship crewed by murderers and psychopaths where the passengers are required to do all the work and are robbed and murdered. Then the ship sinks, and the protagonist makes it to the island of the Enu, who seem to be half human and half baboon in apparently separate species and have a odd affinity for birds that occupy nests on men's heads.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London U3 -

Jakov Lind [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - V for Vendetta Y1 - 1982 A1 - Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) A1 - David Lloyd (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Graphic novel depicting a corrupt, totalitarian regime in England being resisted by a superhero.

PB - DC Comics CY - New York N1 -

Books 1 and 2 “Vertigo” and “Vincent” published in the U.K. in Warrior in 1982 and 1983. Published in U.S. as V for Vendetta, nos. 1-10 (1987-1988). Collected ed. New York: DC Comics, 1989. Rev. exp. ed. New York: DC Comics, 1990. Rpt. New York: DC Comics, 2005.

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Illus. David Lloyd.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Loved Morlocks: A Sequel to 'The Time Machine' As Narrated By the Time Traveller Y1 - 1981 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

H.G. Wells's time traveler returns to the future and discovers a people descended from the Morlocks. They have created a society similar to ancient Sparta, where he chooses to stay. On his first trip he had inadvertently killed most of the Eloi and the original Morlocks, who had no immunity to diseases he carried. Includes a report by the Morlocks on the first trip. 

PB - Hyland Press CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U2 -

Illus. Steph Campbell

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sardonyx Net Y1 - 1981 A1 - Elizabeth A[nne] Lynn (b. 1946) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which convicted felons serve their terms as drugged slaves working for a large corporation run by a sadist.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Son CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1982.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zero Sum Game" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Claudia Lamperti A1 - Jennifer Malik KW - Female author AB -

A story about a woman with unusual psychic talents in a hierarchical dystopia based on a complex computer game that resonates with Herman Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel. 2 vols. Zürich: Fretz & Wasmuth, 1943) [English as Magister Ludi. Trans. Mervyn Savill. New York: Ungar, 1949].

JF - Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women PB - New Victoria Publishers CY - Lebanon, NH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp" Y1 - 1980 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) ED - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a technological world which tries and fails to make humans feel useful.

JF - Interfaces PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) Y1 - 1980 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The second of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume cross zone marriages bring together opposites. An opera with music by Philip Glass (b. 1937) was created based on the novel with the libretto by Lessing. The first performance was in German in Heidelberg May 10, 1997, trans. Saskia M. Wesnigk. The first performance in English was June 7, 2001, in Chicago. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments. The Report by Ambian II, of the Five Y1 - 1980 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The third of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume Ambian II, a Sirian bureaucrat, is used by the Canopeans to introduce the Sirians, who believe themselves the superior beings, to higher ways. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Circus World Y1 - 1980 A1 - Barry B[rookes] Longyear (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia depicting the society created by circus performers when their ship crashed on the planet Momus.

PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

This is the Science Fiction Book Club Edition published by arrangement with Berkley Pub. Co., but the first New York: Berkley Books ed. is 1981. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1982. Originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine as "The Tryouts." 2.6 (10) (November-December 1978): 22-37; "The Second Law." 3.1 (11) (January 1979): 24-54; "Proud Rider." (February 1979): 102-27, "Dueling Clowns." 3.3 (13) (March 1979): 49-54; "The Quest." 3.5 (May 1979): 154-83; and "Priest of the Baraboo." 3.7 (17) (July 1979): 22-59. One story, "The Magician's Apprentice," was published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Adventure Magazine 1.2 (2) (Spring 1979): 35-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Philosophy of Love Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Roy Victor] [Wallace] (1927-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia called Many Waters of about 2,000 people based on agriculture and light industry. Calls it a commune. Common meals. Has its own school. A lot of New Age healing. The second edition is illustrated. The author says that an alternative title could be The Way to Utopia.

PB - Author CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia SN - 9780959368017 9780959368000 N1 -

Rev. ed. illus. Fold-out map. Brisbane, QLD: Love Publications, 1982. 61 pp.

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Roy Victor Love [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canopus in Argos: Archives. Re: Colonised Planet 5. Shikasta. Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days Y1 - 1979 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The first of five volumes detailing the history and future of earth and other zones. See also 1980 (2), 1982, and 1983 Lessing. The Canopeans are the most advance beings and watch over others, interfering from time to time, not always successfully. Colonised Planet 5 appears to be Earth. 

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Circle" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Geo Logical [pseud.] AB -

Eutopian future story projecting the Kerista Commune into a world-wide phenomenon.

JF - Utopian Eyes VL - 5.4 U3 -

Geo Logical [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Sensation." Y1 - 1978 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Alice Laurence KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Far future dystopia. Humans spend life drugged and dreaming, being fed experiences in pill form. They are maintained by aliens, and apparently humans had already chosen this way of life before the aliens arrived to colonize the planet.

JF - Cassandra Rising PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape to the Suburbs" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) ED - Alice Laurence KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Manhattan is cut off from the suburbs. The city government has fled to New Jersey and the tunnels have been blown up. Manhattan is now entirely black and Hispanic, extremely poor, and crowded. Those who try to escape are killed.

JF - Cassandra Rising PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eye of the Heron" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia and eutopia. An authoritarian dystopia on another world that was originally a penal colony and continues with men ruling and women severely restricted. This is contrasted with a group of later arrivals who came to establish a small, free, egalitarian farming community. The dystopia initially dominates the smaller community, but it manages to free itself with the help of a young woman from the dystopia.

JF - Millennial Women PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories. By Ursula K. Le Guin and Others. Ed. Virginia Kidd (London: Panther, 1980), 109-251; and as The Eye of the Heron. London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. 122 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "SQ" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Alice Laurence KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The SQ test is presumably able to distinguish the sane and the insane and becomes required world-wide. Gradually the majority of people are judged insane and most of the sane choose to live in the asylums both to care for their relatives and because life was better in them than outside where the world economy is collapsing.

JF - Cassandra Rising PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in her The Compass Rose (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 69-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dark Tower" Y1 - 1977 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) ED - Walter Hooper KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia of an evil society. Posthumously published incomplete story in which Ransom of the space trilogy appears. See 1938, 1943, and 1945 Lewis. 

JF - The Dark Tower and Other Stories PB - Collins CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Design for the City of Women" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Lapidus, Jacqueline KW - Female author AB -

Short sketch of a primitive lesbian eutopia with the rituals connected to their bodies and life stages.

JF - Heresies VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drinking Sapphire Wine Y1 - 1977 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A group leave the domed cities described in 1976 Lee and establish a community in the desert. Initially attacked by the cities, they are eventually left alone and begin the process of living a life without robots, body and sex changes, and with the possibility of permanent death.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 169-370.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Right Hand of Dextra Y1 - 1977 A1 - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Background of dystopian Puritan society but includes a eutopia of humans transformed into centaurs. A non-utopian sequel is The Wildings of Westron. New York: DAW Books, 1977.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

A, GU, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Framework of Modern Thought Y1 - 1976 A1 - Lessans, Seymour KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia in essay form based on the proposition that there is no free will. The first result is that hurting others, even by accident, can no longer be justified. This is applied first to sexual relations, which will never happen unless both people want to get married, and marriage, which will last for life. In the economic sphere, everyone must benefit from transactions. No war. Guaranteed standard of living. Better child-rearing and education. Much greater freedom for all people.

PB - New World Publishers CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

IU, MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crack in the Sky Y1 - 1976 A1 - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard post-pollution dystopia. All live under domes, but there is further disaster.

PB - Dell Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Diary of the Rose" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) ED - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis. 

JF - Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; 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), 99-125.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Don't Bite the Sun Y1 - 1976 A1 - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about being a teenager in a future world designed to be eutopian with robots doing the work in domed cities and where you can die and be brought back and change your body type and your sex at will. The teenagers see the eutopia as deeply flawed. See also 1977 Lee.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1987; and in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 1-167.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glutt" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Gladden Schrock ED - Eugene Lion ED - David Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a man is executed for his lack of community feeling and involvement.

JF - Guthrie New Theater PB - Grove Press CY - New York VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hail to the Chief" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Lucy [Michaella] Cores (1912-2003) ED - Sandra Ley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that would have developed if the Watergate burglary had succeeded.

JF - Beyond Time PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Atlantis" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Bureaucratic, authoritarian, and violent dystopia. War is constant; global warming is destroying the planet; the government controls all power sources, which are failing; food and medication are in short supply; marriage and the nuclear family are illegal; women cannot be admitted to medical school; and minor bureaucratic rules are used to keep people in line for fear of being imprisoned.

JF - The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), 165-92; in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 185-205; in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 12-40. U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 12-40; 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), 317-36; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 229-56, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 228.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Or Little Ducks Each Day" Y1 - 1975 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Odd dystopia in which some people are able to foretell individual futures except that there are areas of the city where the future can be changed.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second Coming Y1 - 1975 A1 - Antony Lopez KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Religious dystopia that converts people with force. Restrictions on sex.

PB - New English Library CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zone" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Peter Linnett ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a dreary future world divided up into "sectors" including a failed Hippie enclave.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (27) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day Before the Revolution" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story of Odo, theorist of the revolution in 1974 Le Guin, The Dispossessed, as an old woman just before the revolution. The Galaxy version is dedicated “in memoriam Paul Goodman 1911-1972”. Although the story takes place before the novel, it was written after it. See the note on the story in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, where she also says, “This story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas” [1973 Le Guin] (232).

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 35.8 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 232-46; in Nebula Award Stories Ten. Ed. James Gunn (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 129-45; in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1976), 279-301; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 391-401, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 390; in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 344-57; in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 407-22; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 483-96; in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 975-89 with a “Note on the Text” (1084); and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 218-237, with a biographical note on 454-456 and notes on the text on 485-486. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia Y1 - 1974 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Detailed anarchist eutopia with problems.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Avon, 1975; and with the subtitle as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Pat Morrissey and with an "Introduction" (unpaged) by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.]; New York: Harper, 1991. U.K. ed. without the subtitle and with a brief introduction, "Welcome (back) to Anarres" by Richard Morgan (ix-xii). London: Gollancz, 2006; and, with the subtitle, in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 613-919 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and “Notes” (1091-92).  An extract was published as “News from Anarres.” Social Revolution: Paper of the Social Revolution Group (Aberdeen, Scot.), no. 4 ([1977]): 12. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hot Ice" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Charles [Braun] Ludlam (1943-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire in which all illness, deformity, and obesity is illegal and the Euthanasia Police control population by arresting such people and putting them to death and encouraging suicide. The play is primarily concerned with those trying to prolong life through freezing themselves to be resuscitated later.

JF - The Drama Review VL - 18.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Memoirs of a Survivor Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.

PB - The Octagon Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia. The suffering of one child is necessary for the existence of a eutopia. See Sarah Pinsker, “The Ones Who Know Where They are Going.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41.3 & 4 (494 & 495) (March-April 2017): 67-69 for a brief version giving the perspective of the child. Corey Doctorow’s Walkaway. New York: Tor, 2017 is clearly related. P. H. Lee’s “A House by the Sea.” Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 24 (September 2018). https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ is about the lives of the children after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. Nora K. Jemisin’s,  “The One Who Stay and Fight.” In her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 1-13; rpt. Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/ reflects the story’s title. Cynthia Gómez’s “The Ones Who Came Back to Heal.” Strange Horizons (July 17, 2023). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-ones-who-come-back-to-heal/ concerns a trans person who had left but returns to try to help the child. A related story that connects the children in Omelas to the refugee crisis is Rene Denfeld, “The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away.” Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 112-116. 

JF - New Dimensions PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 224-31; in Utopian Studies 2.1 & 2 (1992): 1-5; in The Secret History of Science Fiction. Ed. James Patrick Kelly and John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2009), 39-44; without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 33-38; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 33-38; and with the subtitle 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), 1-7; with the subtitle in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 329-36; with the subtitle in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 87-94; and without the subtitle in Futures and Fictions. Ed. Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, and Simon O’Sullivan (London: Repeater Press, 2017), 379-88.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shelter Y1 - 1973 A1 - Dan[iel John] Ljoka (b. 1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fallout shelter dystopia. The novel focuses on a shelter in Washington, DC and a shelter in New Zealand. Ultimately everyone dies.

PB - Manor Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Univaria; A Cultural Alternative" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Dorothy Kuer (b. 1924) A1 - Russell La Due (b. 1924) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia with leadership by people like the samurai in 1905 Wells. Ceiling on income, no inheritance, and no taxes. Decentralization. Limit on family size.

JF - 1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume PB - [Office for Applied Social Science and the Future, University of Minnesota] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle in Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magaroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 593-612.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wagtail in the Morning" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Grahame Leman ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The leaders of a society that provides people (who they call liveware) with all the consumer goods they want develop a method of controlling people for life by implanting them with a slow-release drug as children.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (23) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World as Will and Wallpaper" Y1 - 1973 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire referring to William Morris (1834-96), whose name is used for the protagonist. A city encompasses the world, which is built above land and oceans. The one area of trees in the city is considered huge in that it covers two blocks. The story follows a man who wants to explore the world and his trip reveals that most people are illiterate, communicate poorly, and have very limited lives, but that there is an elite who created the city to keep the majority of the people content and controlled.

JF - Future City PB - Trident CY - New York SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -

Book rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 28-43; story rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 27-43; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 356-74, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (353-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Triage Y1 - 1972 A1 - Leonard C[ase] Lewin (1916-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Presents a picture of a near future where the "unfit," and many others, are being eliminated by a planned campaign of murder, accident, and genocide.

PB - Dial Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Little Old New Alabama" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with Earth's past racial conflict now taking place in space.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rev. in his Space War Blues. New York: Dell, 1978. Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1980 with an "Introduction" by James R. Frenkel (v-xi). The volume also includes an "Introduction: Sailing the Dark With the Bentfin Bappa Zappa Kid" by Ellison (9-26), a "Preface: And I Awoke--Was This Some Kind of Joke" by Lupoff (27-33) and revised versions of his related stories "Our Own little Mardi Grass." Heavy Metal (August 1977): 58-61, 96; "After the Dreamtime." New Dimensions IV. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: New American Library, 1974), 9-39; "Sail the Tide of Mourning." New Dimensions 5. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 214-34; and "The Bentfin Boomer Girl Comes Through." Amazing Stories 50.4 (March 1977): 28-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Word for World is Forest" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Human colonial dystopia versus indigenous eutopia. Exploitative colonization that treats the indigenous inhabitants as if they were animals, enslaving them, raping them, and destroying their way of life to ship timber back to Earth, which had been denuded of it. The indigenous inhabitants have a very complex, non-technological life deeply in tune with their planet. No government or overall authority with significant cultural difference among the communities. The women in each community, and the especially the headwoman, and the practical organizers of their communities’ activities. Some of the men were active dreamers in touch with a different reality.

JF - Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

. Published separately New York: Berkley, 1976. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 1977, with an “Author’s Introduction" (5-10); London: Gollancz, 2014, with an “Introduction” by Ken MacLeod (1-3) and the “Author’s Introduction” (5-10); 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), 1-104 with a “Note on the Text” (780), “Notes (783-84), and “Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest” from the 1977 Gollancz edition (753-57). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year Dot Y1 - 1972 A1 - [John Newton] [Chance] (1911-83) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Machine, authoritarian dystopia. Civilization is destroyed when machines stop. Stonehenge is one of the remains.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London U3 -

John Lymington [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Andra Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an authoritarian underground city and a revolt by the young people.

PB - William Collins CY - London U3 -

Louise Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ishmael into the Barrens" Y1 - 1971 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia, the "Gentle World," in which Hippies, rather misrepresented, are in control and legally require disorder.

JF - Four Futures; Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 305-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lathe of Heaven" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a dystopian background stressing pollution and overpopulation. Search for eutopia driven by a power-hungry psychiatrist controlling a man whose dreams can change reality.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 44.6 - 45.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1972. 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Right to Revolt" "The Right to Resist" Y1 - 1971 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

"The Right to Revolt" is the story of a group of men who take over a planetary government and have to deal with all the problems the previous regime faced. In this story, those resisting are short sighted, kill innocent people, and come close to ruining the economy. "The Right to Resist" is what happens next.

JF - Worlds of If VL - 20.11 (134) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Survival World Y1 - 1971 A1 - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a world devastated by pollution so that starvation has become the norm.

PB - Prestige Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vandenberg Y1 - 1971 A1 - [John] [Wadleigh] (1927-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a communist takeover of the U.S.

PB - Stein & Day CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Defiance; An American Novel. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "America the Beautiful" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. The U.S. is a technological utopia that has solved the population and education problems. The legalization of marijuana and peyote has largely solved the drug problem, but there is constant war.

JF - The Year 2000: An Anthology PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 268-79; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 311-24; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 285-97; and in his Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 193-203. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interurban Queen” Y1 - 1970 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia created when railroads were chosen over cars and highways.

JF - Orbit 8: An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 8 SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -

Rpt. in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 87-95, with an editor’s note on 87 and “Questions” on 95; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 134-44; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 56-68, with an Introduction by Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (54-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mask of Jon Culon Y1 - 1970 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe, anti-technological, religious dystopia.

PB - Lenox Hill Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: John Gresham, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - This Perfect Day Y1 - 1970 A1 - Ira [Marvin] Levin (1929-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which computer control produces sameness; e.g. there are only four names each for boys and girls. People are kept drugged; no free movement. Genetic engineering to overcome size and color differences. Promiscuous sex required weekly.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Three by Ira Levin Rosemary’s Baby This Perfect Day The Stepford Wives (New York: Random House, 1985), 163-273.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - AFRO-6 Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Enrique] Hank Lopez (d. 1985) KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

The title, which is capitalized in the text, is the name of a long-planned movement of Blacks to take over Manhattan with similar plans in cities throughout the country. The plot is explicitly based on the writings of Che Guevara. The emphasis of the novel is on the dystopia of Black and Chicano life, the planned takeover, and its temporary success. No depiction of the society the movement hoped to create.

PB - Dell Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of the Drones Y1 - 1969 A1 - A[lice] M[artha] Lightner (1904-1988) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a future post-catastrophe Africa, Blacks rule and believe that their civilization is the only one left. Whites are drones. An expedition led by a young African woman is allowed to search for others and finds both that others do exist and that there are the remains of Western civilization, both of which are likely effect to African civilization.

PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drag Hunt Y1 - 1969 A1 - James Broom Lynne KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Mixed future. General tolerance and economic prosperity, but there is a human hunt replacing fox hunting. Violence is encouraged in political protests. Young Purity Party.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

Merril, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Four-Gated City Y1 - 1969 A1 - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

The "Appendix" (560-614) presents a future, post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Telepathy.

PB - MacGibbon & Kee CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Left Hand of Darkness Y1 - 1969 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. The novel is best known for its depiction of a hermaphrodite or ambisexual (both words are used in the text) society in which the people are neuter most of the time but can become female or male for a period with another person and can both sire and give birth to children. The novel is primarily concerned with relations between two countries on the planet and within each country during the period after initial contact with an envoy from off planet. A related story is her "Winter's King." Orbit 5. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969), 67-88; rev. with the pronouns changed to they in her The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 75-95, which has some revisions (see the note on 75); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 301-16 with an editors' note on 200; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 923-43 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and the original Orbit 5 version (1044-64). See also, 1995 Le Guin, "Coming of Age in Karhide." Three stories by Stevan Allred set in Gethen are “Ib & Nib and the Ice Berries”, “Ib & Nib and the Golden Ring”, and “Ib & Nib and the Hemmens Tree” in Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 76-82, 216-223, 358-362.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Also published New York: Walker and Co., 1969. The New York: Ace Books, 1976 edition has an unnumbered six-page introduction by Le Guin which is rpt. in her The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979), 155-59; Rev. ed. ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (London: Women's Press, 1989), 130-34. 1st American ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 150-54. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Kelly Freas with an "Preface" by Joan D. Vinge (v-xiii) and the 1976 "Introduction" by Le Guin xv-xviii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. The 25th anniversary ed. New York: Walker, 1994 contains an important "Afterword" (287-93) and appendices (295-345) concerning the issue of gendered language. The 40th Anniversary ed. London: Gollancz, 2009 includes an "Introductory Note for the 40th Anniversary Edition" (ix-xii), 1995 Le Guin (249-68), "Some Kardish Words, and Two Songs from the Domain of Estre" (269-72), and "Author's working sketch map" (273). The Library of America edition reprints the 1969 Ace Books edition; Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 385-611 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), “Notes” (1090-91), and “Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1023-27). The London: Gollancz, 2017 ed. has an “Introduction” by China Miéville (ix-xii) and the 1976 “Introduction” by Le Guin (xiii-xvii), albeit not identified as such. 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Ace Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by David Mitchell (ix-xiv) and an “Afterword” by Charlie Jane Anders (305-15).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Residence Afresh Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Mrs.] [Arthur E.] [Towle] (1889-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Domestic heaven.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U3 -

Margery Lawrence [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Roach Y1 - 1969 A1 - Gil Lamont (b. 1947) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian background to fairly mild pornography. The dystopia includes a book factory where people are programmed to constantly produce what is essentially the same plots.

PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carder's Paradise Y1 - 1968 A1 - Malcolm Levene (1937-1973) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel includes two dystopias. In one, a computer dominated world, there is no work because it might upset the economy. As a result, people have too much leisure and degenerate. The second, which is the focus of the novel, is an island prison, and the two main characters are a prisoner, Carder, who wants to take over the prison, and the mentally ill prison governor.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Keeper Y1 - 1968 A1 - Audrey [Louise] Laski (1931-2003) KW - English author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a religious intentional community in which a group of Puritans were left on an isolated island whose descendants return to England in 1950 and establish a community in Wales.

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Keeper. A Novel. New York: W.W. Norton, 1968.

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U.S. ed. as The Keeper. A Novel

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IEdS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Past Master Y1 - 1968 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future utopia, Astrolabe, the Golden Planet, finds many of its citizens abandoning the good life they have to live in a slum. To find the cause, the leaders bring Thomas More to find the cause and the cure. The causes are boredom and the lack of religion; the cure is the introduction of Christianity.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 1-181 with a “Note on the Text” (730-31) and “Notes” (734-40).  U. K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Specter Is Haunting Texas" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Texas has taken over most of the Americas from Canada to Nicaragua. Racial, ethnic, financial, and political discrimination. ". . . a man can't feel really free unless he's got a lot of underfolk to boss around" (15). African American republics exist in California and Florida. Circumluna is a satellite of scientists, hippies, and others.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 26.6 - 27.2 N1 -

Repub. New York: Walker & Co. U.K. ed. as A Spectre Is Haunting Texas. London: Gollancz, 1969.

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U.K. ed. as A Spectre Is Haunting Texas

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MB

ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Illusions Y1 - 1967 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Aliens have taken over Earth. The novel is primarily concerned with the successful struggle against them. Cooperation.

PB - Ace CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1971.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day Before Forever" Y1 - 1967 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia focusing on transplants.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 33.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 7-112; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 283-370.

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IU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Million Centuries Y1 - 1967 A1 - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three future societies, one of which is a primitive eutopia of sorts, one of which is a threatened innocent society, and one of which is developing science.

PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Polity and Custom of the Camiroi" Y1 - 1967 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that is essentially anarchist based on exceptional people with many skills. Anyone can make a law, and anyone can repeal it, but some laws become sacrosanct due to their survival. President chosen by lot for one week. Everyone must participate in running the society. Severe punishment for causing problems. See also 1966 Lafferty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 25.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 37-50; in Election Day 2084; A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 233-43; and in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 51-66.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind Obeys Lama Toru Y1 - 1967 A1 - Tung Lee AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Kutub-Popular CY - Bombay, India U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Founder's Day" Y1 - 1966 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins in an overpopulation dystopia and ends with the founding of a new colony.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction VL - 31.1 (182) N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 188-212.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monitors Y1 - 1966 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An authoritarian dystopia is imposed on Earth by superior extraterrestrials. While they provide peace, they make mistakes that lead to a planet-wide revolt. But rather than forcing the aliens out, they are hired to do for Earth some of what they had imposed.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1984. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968.

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L, MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Primary Education of the Camiroi" Y1 - 1966 A1 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which everyone is expected to be an expert in everything from a very young age. The details of the educational system are given. See also 1967 Lafferty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 29.2 SN - 9781473213449 978-1250778536 N1 -

Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 161-74; in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 35-50; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 213-29, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (210-12). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming of the Unselves Y1 - 1965 A1 - Edmund Ludlow (b. 1898) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Unselves are minute beings from space who inhabit a person’s brain and make them speak only the truth. Even though it worked, it proved very unpopular. Businesses said that contracts agreed to under such conditions are not valid. People cannot vote under such circumstances. An honest accountant might be executed.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Good New Days" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia. Robots have replaced humans for all productive work and humans are valued depending on the number of meaningless jobs they hold. There is a statue honoring a twelve-job man.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 24.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine, 1974), 295-310; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 271-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not a Cloud in the Sky Y1 - 1964 A1 - Josephine Lawrence (1889-1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the elderly forced to move into rest homes at 65. At Tranquil Acres everything has been designed for what is good for them and also functions as “a center for the study of geriatrics” (41). Must move in no later than the morning of the day one turns 65. A spouse who is not yet 65 can move in or wait until they are. No one over 65 can smoke or drive. Ramps, no stairs, ground floor living except for the very wealthy. Moving sidewalks. The elderly poor and controlled even more than the others, which leads the protagonist to reflect that “money is the elderly’s best friend” (92). There is an underground railroad to help people escape to Canada. The author’s papers are held at Boston University. 

PB - Harcourt, Brace and World CY - New York U5 -

MoS, PP, WU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Placement Test" Y1 - 1964 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in a story about a man manipulated into fighting his way through the job placement process as a way of selecting the best people for top positions.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 38.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction, no. 27 (October 1972): 34-60; in SF: Inventing the Future. Ed. R. Duncan Appleford (Scarborough, ON, Canada: Bellhaven House, 1972), 58-85; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 213-41.

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Can, CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A State of Mind Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Elaine Kidner] [Dakers] (1905-1978) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruled by the Brotherhood after an atomic war. Forced nationalization of people to create “one big family, whose head is the State.” People, though, are not equal. The State provides all and controls everything, but “recognizes that some require more than others. . .” (11). No gods and no religious people allowed with Christians banished the Hebrides. Both voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia, with permission required for voluntary. Suicide without permission is opposed. Criminals euthanized. “Compulsory birth-control and State-elimination prevented overpopulation” (12). 

PB - Frederick Muller CY - London U3 -

Jane Lane [pseud.]

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L, PP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Was the Day of the Robot Y1 - 1963 A1 - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer controlled dystopia. A computer determines whether an individual can marry based on its determination of the genetic characteristics of her or his expected children. It was programmed to ensure that the correct balance of genetic types is born, and the novel focuses on a man whose expected children would upset the balance. A sexual alternative is provided by an artificial woman constructed to any desired specifications but with limited intelligence and emotional range. There is also "emotional illusion therapy" available. The novel follows the man and the woman he thinks is an android to the "ruins" outside the city where the few women are fought over and then to Venus.

PB - Belmont CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1964.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Pan-Humanist Manifesto--A Call for Leadership and a Program of Action in a Free World" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Ralph Borsodi (1886-1977) ED - Mildred J. Loomis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging eutopia that includes a proposal for something like H.G. Wells’s Samurai in A Modern Utopia (1904-05).

JF - Way Out VL - 19.1 U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Walls" Y1 - 1963 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 37.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction Magazine from Amazing, no. 3 (1966): 33-45; in SF: Inventing the Future. Ed. R. Duncan Appleford (Scarborough, ON, Canada: Bellhaven House, 1972), 45-57; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 159-71.

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Can, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "X Marks the Pedwalk" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Society divided into wheeled and pedestrians. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1951 Bradbury.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 105-10; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 165-70; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 282-87.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cocoon" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people have chosen to live in machines that keep them constantly fed and entertained, but the system breaks down.

JF - Fantastic Stories of Imagination VL - 11.12 N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 172-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Garthians Y1 - 1962 A1 - Decima Leach KW - Female author AB -

Technologically advanced eutopia in which the basis for the good society is the correct early training of children.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Shall Be Conquered Y1 - 1962 A1 - Jo Leslee KW - Female author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on science and religion on the planet Maresdon, which cannot be seen from Earth. Telepathy. No illness.

PB - Christopher Pub. House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Wrinkle in Time Y1 - 1962 A1 - Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A young adult science fiction novel about the struggle between good and evil that depicts an authoritarian dystopia on another planet. A film with a screenplay by Jennifer Lee (b. 1971) and directed by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972) was released in 2018. On the film, see Kate Egan, The World of A Wrinkle in Time: The Making of the Movie. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan, 2018. See also the non-utopian sequels, A Wind in the Door. New York: Crosswind, 1973; A Swiftly Tilting Planet. New York: Crosswind, 1978; and Many Waters. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.

PB - Ariel Books CY - [New York] N1 -

25th anniversary ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987 (500 numbered copies). 50th anniversary ed. with an "Afterword" (205-22), her "Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech" (255-62), and other material. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2012. Rpt. in The Wrinkle in Time Quartet: A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters with The Kairos Novels at the head of the title. Ed. Leonard S. Marcus (New York The Library of America, 2018), 1-151, with “The Expanding Universe, Newberry ward Acceptance Speech” (747-51), “Unpublished Essay on Time” (752-54, “Childlike Wonder and the Truths of Science Fiction” (755-63), “Dare To Be Creative! Lecture at the Library of Congress” (764-75) “Four Deleted Sections from A Wrinkle in Time” (776-99), a Note on the Text (830-32), and Notes (835-40). See also Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. The Graphic Novel. Adapted and illus. Hope Larson. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012. A film tie-in edition of the book New York: Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017 was published with “An Appreciation” by Ava DuVernay (1-3), “Go Fish Questions for the Author” (203-06), the author’s “Newbury Acceptance Speech The Expanding Universe” (207-12), and “The L’Engle Cast of Characters” (214-15). 

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MoSU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Acclivity: An Epic of the Universe Y1 - 1961 A1 - Robert Charles Lafferty (1880-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious eutopia presented through a poem. Acclivity means an upward slope, and the poem begins with the present-day problems and ascends through various stages to a world of vigorous, healthy people living in a luxuriant land with no need of government. The author was an architect and engineer.

PB - Carlton Press CY - New York U5 -

NjR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Silver Eggheads Y1 - 1961 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Automation of the publishing industry where computers write books. A female robot (colored pink) is the censor. People lose the ability to write.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Shorter version originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 16.1 (January 1959): 42-84.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conquest of Life Y1 - 1960 A1 - [Diane] [Detzer de Reyna] (1930-92) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins as a dystopia in which human males are remade as controllable and robot-like but with human intelligence and an infinite lifespan. Most are said to be purchased by women to work for them and as playthings. One woman, who had herself, been captured and held by aliens, was interested in the inner life of the man she purchased and together they topple the system. 

PB - Avalon Publishers CY - New York U3 -

Adam Lukens [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Offshore Island: A Play in Three Acts Y1 - 1959 A1 - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post catastrophe dystopia following nuclear war. It focuses on a family who survived the war and shows them ten years later. 

PB - Cresset Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: May Fair, 1961

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DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pirates of Ersatz" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor--planet called Walden whose inhabitants think they live in a eutopia but are mistaken.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 72.6 - 73.2 U3 -

Murray Leinster [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tranquility, or Else!" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Conditioning for freedom leaves people too controlled and in need of outlets for aggression.

JF - Fantastic Science Fiction VL - 8.11 N1 -

Rpt. in his Mind Spider and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1961), 1-54. Rpt. as “The Haunted Future.” A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 154-99. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Letter" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a technologically oriented society that uses most of the technology for advertising. People live in hives overseen by a Queen Mother and every boy in the hive must marry one of the “Girls Next Door.”

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 16.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 132-44; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 219-32. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 219-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mission to a Distant Star” Y1 - 1958 A1 - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Aliens, called Scorpions, who appear to be completely human but with much more advanced technology arrive on Earth. Much of the novel is concerned with the difficulties in understanding each other, based in part on their own failure to understand themselves. The Scorpions, it turns out, had as flawed a history as the humans and had thoroughly suppressed it.

JF - Satellite Science Fiction VL - 2.3 N1 -

Rpt. as by Frank B[elknap] Long as Mission to a Star. New York: Avalon Books, 1964

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Rpt. as Mission to a Star

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HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Constitution for the Brotherhood of Man. The United Communities Bill, and How It Came to Be Written Y1 - 1957 A1 - Anna Gtregson Loutrel (1903-1986) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Constitution for a eutopia of industrial and agricultural communities, called “The United Communities Bill” (22-30), which was drawn up at the Newllano community and  in the U.S.  Senate on April 4, 1933, when it was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and died in committee. The female author was a member of the community.

PB - Greenwich Book Publishers CY - New York U5 -

DLC, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Friends and Enemies” Y1 - 1957 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses on the dystopia created by fear of science, particularly atomic physics, and speculation about alternative ways of life.

JF - Infinity Science Fiction VL - 2.2 N1 -

Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 107-25; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), . Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 199-218. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Made to Order” Y1 - 1957 A1 - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where computers choose marriage partners and deny the right to marry based entirely on genetic factors. Sex outside marriage prohibited.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - no. 32 U2 -

Illus. Murphy

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - You'll See: Report from the Future Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Egon] [Lehrburger] (1904-90) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia set in 1982 described as a projection, and the author includes an “Appendix: Some Facts” that lists developments that exist or are being developed that he uses in the text (170-76). There is phone shopping and pneumatic tube delivery with a few shops with old-fashioned personal service. Food is delivered by tube right into the refrigerator. Three types of food are available, “old-fashioned,” “short-diet” or tablet food, and “new-food,” which is primarily produced from plankton and algae. Weather control with rain announced in advance. Central London is pedestrianized with walkways lined with trees, flowers, and grass and most transport underground and helicopters landing on rooftops. Outside London roads had been built above railroads. London is ethnically and racially mixed with over half the population originating overseas. Everybody works, and there are no class distinctions. India has industrialized using nuclear power. 

PB - Rider CY - London U2 -

Illus.

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Egon Larsen [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Drivers" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with population and aggression control through killing on highways.

JF - Worlds of If Science Fiction VL - 6.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1983), 235-53; and in his The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Los Gatos, CA: Polaris Press, 1983), 27-42.

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Trans. in Il Grande Dio Auto. Ed. Roberta Rambelli. Roma: Editrice dell Automobile/Automobile Club d’Italia, 1965. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to Venus Y1 - 1956 A1 - S[tanley] Makepeace Lott (1920-1991) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia of an authoritarian flawed utopia on Venus.

PB - Rich and Cowan CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Beyond Y1 - 1955 A1 - Lin Yutang (1895-1976) KW - Chinese author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed conservative eutopia based on classical Greek models on an island in the mid-Pacific set in the early 21st century. Stress on traditional gender relations. Outside World War IV has ended, and the Democratic World Commonwealth tries to maintain peace.

PB - Prentice-Hall CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Unexpected Island. London: William Heinemann, 1955.

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DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace Agent" Y1 - 1954 A1 - M. C. Pease ED - Robert W. Lowndes AB -

Dystopia. A conflict is developing between a new social form, the clan, which hires itself out to businesses with guarantees of performance and the old lower classes who are losing their jobs. In one town the conflict is being fostered by one man who runs the town and encourages attacks on the clans. In this town an independent man helps bring peace, but the same pattern is said to be common throughout the US.

JF - Science Fiction Stories PB - Columbia Publications CY - New York VL - 2nd ed. U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Quickie" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Milton [S.] Lesser (1928-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Future eutopia of multiple, short-term marriages.

JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.2 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Holiday" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian holiday. There is one holiday each year lasting three days and stressing friendship, love, laziness, fun, and joy. No one can be concerned with money, success, hurry, worry, and glamour. Instituted because holidays had become profit centers and were no longer holidays.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 179-202; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 165-72.

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Boundaries Y1 - 1953 A1 - [William Henry Fleming] [Bird] (1896-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a world divided into Normals and Intelligentsia.

PB - Curtis Warren CY - London U3 -

Paul Lorraine [pseud.]

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GU, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Green Millennium Y1 - 1953 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire in which the U.S. is ruled by the Federal Bureau of Loyalty, which has replaced most of the government bureaucracy, loosely cooperating, but also competing, with Fun, Inc., which controls the drug trade, gambling, and so forth. There is also a Federal Bureau of Morality.

PB - Abelard Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1953; and New York: Lion Books, 1954. U.K. ed. London: Abelard-Shuman, 1959, which is rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an “Introduction” by Deborah L. Notkin (v-xi). 

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Occupation" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humans are invading a planet to colonize it. The inhabitants completely confuse the invaders by destroying their weapons and refusing to fight and finally agreeing to teach them how to live together peacefully.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.5 N1 -

Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction (London) 10.28 (October 1954): 61-68; and in his The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Los Gatos, CA: Polaris Press, 1983), 1-10. 

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PSt, SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Threshold" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Robert Donald Locke KW - Male author AB -

Machine dystopia.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 29.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Appointment for Tomorrow” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian U. S. after World War III and focuses on the struggle for power between scientists and charlatans.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) N1 -

Rpt. as “Poor Superman.” In Tomorrow the Stars. Ed. Robert Heinlein (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952); rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1967), 198-224; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 124-52; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 115-41. 

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Illus. Ed. Alexander

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Historical Note" Y1 - 1951 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the Soviet Union. The Soviet invention of a personal flier, developed and sold in vast numbers by non-Soviet capitalists eliminates borders and undermines political control. As a result, the Soviet dystopia collapses.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 46.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 141-57; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 115-28.

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Murray Leinster [pseud.]

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nice Girl With 5 Husbands” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in a high-tech future that includes space travel but with the emphasis on the way people live. There is what appears to be a group marriage, everyone has multiple professions and work assignments throughout the world, children raised collectively by the family, and no modesty.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. as “Nice Girl With Five Husbands.” Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 178-91; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 95-109. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 95-109. 

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Rpt. as “Nice Girl With Five Husbands” 

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Illus. Phil Bard. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coming Attraction" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a post-atomic war U.S. Vicious, violent society. Women must wear masks because the face is considered too sexual.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 173-77; in Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1965), 372-88; in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), 364-76; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 109-23; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 101-14; in his Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 33-44; and 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), 221-33 with an editors’ note on 221-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Let Freedom Ring" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that drafts men to almost certain death.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 24.4 N1 -

Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). Also rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (New York), no. 23 (February 1972): 4-48. U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), [no. 1] (nd): 90-134. 

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CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Space Ship Y1 - 1949 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Technology that allows government to punish selected individuals at a distance leads to universal tyranny. Emphasis on a successful revolt.

PB - Frederick Fell CY - New York U3 -

Murray Leinster [pseud.]

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NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bowl of Light Y1 - 1948 A1 - Edward [J.] Liston (1900-86) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race eutopia set in South America with advanced, rational people.

PB - Coward-McCann CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Coward McCann, 1950.

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L, WaE

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hail Bolonia! Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Digby George] [Gerahty] (1898-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on attempts to modernize an agrarian eutopia. The modernization fails, and the eutopia of a happy, simple life continues.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U3 -

Stephen Lister [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man at the Crossroads Y1 - 1948 A1 - Margaret Loveseth (d. 1957) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

New Age eutopia. An isolated valley in western China called Sangla-a that was once and is being recreated as a eutopia for adepts. The protagonist is a man from Canada who is chosen to be the next leader of the community. He takes a small group to Sangla-a where they are educated by a woman who is about the become an Ascended Master. Then hundreds and finally thousands of people are brought to Sangla-a and begin the process of transforming the world.

PB - The Rosicrucian Press CY - San Jose, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tory Heaven; or Thunder on the Right Y1 - 1948 A1 - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on class--"The whole population has been formally divided into the five classes that it naturally comprises" (53). Everything is provided for the highest class. No mixing among classes. Strikes illegal. Women not allowed to work.

PB - Cresset Press CY - London SN - 9781910263181 N1 -

U.S. ed. as Toasted English. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. Rpt. from the U.S. edition but with the original title and with a new preface by David Kynaston (v-xii). London: Persephone Books, 2018.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smith Unbound; A Conversation Piece Y1 - 1947 A1 - Ernest Nevin Dilworth (b. 1912) A1 - Walter Leuba (b. 1902) KW - Male author AB -

A eutopian educational system. Gives the general principles and some specifics of an ideal system of education. The first part is a satire on contemporary education. Presented as a discussion.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Benevolent Despot Y1 - 1945 A1 - David Lynn KW - Male author AB -

Humor presenting a benevolent despot as leading to a eutopia.

PB - Kangaroo Books CY - London U1 -

Cover adds the subtitle Comedy for Serious People.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Destiny Times Three" Y1 - 1945 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future earth is split into three. One is a flawed utopia, which is supposed to be peaceful and joyful, but is stagnant; one is an authoritarian dystopia; and one is a destroyed landscape ruled by intelligent cats.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 35.1 -2 N1 -

Rpt. in Five Science Fiction Novels. Comp. Martin Greenberg (New York: Gnome Press, 1952), 110-203); as Galaxy Novel 28. New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1952; and in Binary Star # 1 (New York: Dell, 1978), 7-150. The most recent reprint has an "Afterword" by Norman Spinrad (150-55).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Hideous Strength, A Modern Fairy Tale for Grown Ups Y1 - 1945 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy about the struggle between the forces of good and evil. Armageddon (see Revelation 16). Traditional marriage with the woman obedient is stressed. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1943 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. 

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Abr. as The Tortured Planet. New York: Avon, 1958.

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Abr. as The Tortured Planet. New York: Avon, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Outward Urge. A Novel Y1 - 1944 A1 - [Alec] Richard Lea (1907-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Starts with an authoritarian dystopia with various forms of direct control and London something like a concentration camp. By the end of the novel, the worst of the dystopia is gone and, while not a eutopia, there is a good society in contrast with the recent past.

PB - Rich & Cowan CY - London U5 -

NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phantom Victory; The Fourth Reich 1945-1960 Y1 - 1944 A1 - Erwin [Christian] Lessner (1898-1959) KW - Austrian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. German officers form an underground after defeat and conquer the world.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Threefold Democracy Y1 - 1944 A1 - Walter Shaw Lang KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed non-fiction eutopia. Influenced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy. The threefold division is into a sphere of freedom, a sphere of rights, and a sphere of economics. Stress on economics, including the R-L Plan for a sinking fund. Workers should ultimately be able to own the enterprises in which they work.

PB - Wright & Jaques CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gather, Darkness!" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia ruled by hereditary priests who work in twos so they can spy on each other. There is a rigid class system of religious and commoners, and the majority are controlled by keeping them ignorant. Something of a response to 1941 Heinlein.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 31.3 - 5 N1 -

Repub. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1950. Rpt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951; New York: Berkley Medallion, [1962]; New York: Pyramid, 1969; New York: Ballantine Books, 1975; and Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perelandra Y1 - 1943 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Second volume of a trilogy on the battle between good and evil. Re-enactment of the Adam and Eve myth on Venus but with no Fall. Stresses closeness to animals. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1938 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. 

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. 

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 Rpt. as Voyage to Venus. London: Pan, 1953. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Glass" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Noel [Miller] Loomis (1905-69) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Far future earth with two societies at war over diminished resources. One, while authoritarian, is attempting to create a decent life; the other, in which most of the people are starving, is an authoritarian dictatorship. Free trade solves the problem. A related story is his “Iron Men.” Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) 11.3 (Winter 1945): 11-65.

JF - Startling Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 8.1 N1 -

Repub. as The City of Glass: A Complete Science Fiction Novel. New York: Columbia Publishers, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Order" Y1 - 1942 A1 - Edward [Falaise] Upward (1903-2009) ED - John Lehmann Editor KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief description of the dystopia that develops as the result of loss in a war with some suggestion of the development of resistance.

JF - The Penguin New Writing PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. VL - No. 14 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Railway Accident and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1969), 220-22.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolt in Arcadia Y1 - 1942 A1 - Gösta Larsson AB -

Young adult novel that ends in a cooperative commonwealth.

PB - American Publishers CY - New York U5 -

InTHSU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Ceremonial” Y1 - 1940 A1 - Paul Goodman (1911-72) ED - James Laughlin (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-revolution eutopia which has eliminated capitalism presented through a ceremony at the destruction of some of the last billboards.

JF - New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1940 PB - New Directions CY - Norfolk, CT N1 -

Rpt. in his The Facts of Life (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1945), 45-62; his Adam and His Works: Collected Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 1968); 32-45; and A Ceremonial. Stories 1936-1940. Volume II of the Collected Stories. Ed. Taylor Stoehr (Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978), 107-21. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fast New World" Y1 - 1940 A1 - Dr. R. M Langer AB -

A short eutopia based on atomic power, which will provide free energy. People will live underground, and the natural world will be revived. Stress on transportation. A similar article solely on the technical side is the author's "The Miracle of U-235." Popular Mechanics 75.1 (January 1941): 1-5, 149-50.

JF - Collier's (New York) VL - 106.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Suzanna and the Elders: An American Comedy Y1 - 1940 A1 - Lawrence Langner (1890-1962) A1 - Armina Marshall [Langner] KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Failure of an intentional community with close resemblances to the Oneida Community, including its eugenic experiment. The failure follows initial success, with the usual internal conflicts a major factor. The "Preface" (7-14) on the history of such communities in the U.S. has errors, such as calling Brook Farm Brookfield and ascribing the establishment of New Harmony to Robert Dale Owen (1801-77) rather than to his father Robert Owen (1771-1858).

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Making of a New World Y1 - 1939 A1 - Abinash Chandra [Avināsa-Chandra] Lahiri KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Essay. Detailed eutopia which stresses education and an economic system in which all are employed six hours a day producing for the good of society, goods are supplied free, and money, banks, interest, and rent have been abolished. Men and women are equal. Marriage is not permitted before 19 and must be based on consent. Divorce is possible.

PB - Pub. by the Author CY - Calcutta, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dream Places" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Pat[rick Anthony] Lawlor KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Two brief eutopian visions. The first is a South Seas Island paradise, which is rejected as unrealistic in that there will be mosquitoes and sharks. The second is heaven after death.

JF - The New Zealand Railways Magazine VL - 12.12 U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Impregnable Women Y1 - 1938 A1 - Eric [Robert Russell] Linklater (b. 1899) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A modern version of Aristophanes's Lysistrata (411 BCE)  in which women take possession of Edinburgh Castle.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Orkney Ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952; and Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959.

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L, LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out of the Silent Planet Y1 - 1938 A1 - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

First volume of a trilogy on the struggle between good and evil. Presents a eutopia as a sub-theme in which the eutopia is given by God. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1943 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. The name of the indigenous inhabitants, the Hrossa, is also used by Judith Moffett in Pennterra (1987).

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with an “Introduction” (viii-xxvi) and “Notes” (175-94) by David Elloway. London: Longmans, 1966; and New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Chapter 16 is rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 90-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Last Act (A.D. 1995)” Y1 - 1937 A1 - F[rank] L[aurence] Lucas (1894-1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the world is divided between those nations subservient to Japan (Asia to the Urals and Australasia) and Germany (Europe, Asia Minor, and Africa), with the Pan-American Union between them. The story details the dystopia as it exists in the areas controlled by Germany and ends with the human race destroyed.

JF - The Woman Clothed With the Sun and Other Stories PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sugar in the Air: A Romance Y1 - 1937 A1 - E[rnest] C[harles] Large (1902-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on capitalism and big business. See his Asleep in the Afternoon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Rpt. London: Hyphen Press, 2008, which is a novel about the writing of Sugar in the Air.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Hyphen Press, 2008.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Ends Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Margaret Storm] [Jameson] (1891-1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Massive earthquakes have been occurring in Europe, and one destroys most of England. In the novel, only one simple, farming family and the sophisticated protagonist author from London are depicted as surviving. Overwhelmingly dystopian, but the protagonist ultimately finds happiness in the simple life on the farm. 

PB - J. M. Dent and Sons CY - London U2 -

Illus. John Farleigh

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William Lamb [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Us or The World as it might be Y1 - 1936 A1 - J[ohn] P[ercy] Lockhart-Mummery (1875-1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A rational anti-socialist eutopia written as a projection for AD 2536. Advanced technology. Eugenics. Genetically engineered food. Reason.

PB - Stanley Paul CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chosen Race Y1 - 1936 A1 - Edgar Albion Lyons KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Machine dystopia set in 2000 A.D. The dystopia was brought about by the inexorable process of automation that gradually threw everyone out of work. The few employed drove the unemployed out of cities and built huge walls around them. At the end the machines stop, but a small eutopia survives that had been established by a single wealthy man who made himself king, selected those who could settle, and, while providing a much better life for the people, also imposed strict rules.

PB - The Cavalier Pub. Co CY - [St. Petersburg, FL] U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Short History of the Future Y1 - 1936 A1 - John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Twenty-four prophecies of the future, mostly fairly short term but with others extending to 4000 A.D. Both eutopian and dystopian projections.

PB - George Routledge & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Celestial Visitor" Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a visitor to Earth from Eutopia who is dissatisfied with contentment, and Earth provides the alternative. Eutopia has no laws and is based equality.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 6.10 U3 -

Lillith Lorraine [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dissolution of Governments by Greed, Crime and Wars Y1 - 1935 A1 - L. P. Lidback AB -

The pamphlet has two sections, "The United States, Land of Individual Initiative in Industry, Crime, and Graft" (5-9) and "A Government of the People, By the People, and For the People" (11-27). The first shows what is wrong in the U.S., and the second presents the eutopia, which is an adaptation of the Industrial Army from 1888 Bellamy, through the 1965 inaugural address of the U.S. President. There is an organization chart of "The Edward Bellamy System of Industrial Government" on 27.

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TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fraudulent Conversion. A Romance of the Gold Standard Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Matilda Angela Antonia] [Hunter] (1877-1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. A wealthy man sets out to reform England and fights for reform against fascists. Gaining control of newspapers and the bank were essential to his success. He buys freedom for prisoners of dictators. Slum clearance and medical reform.

PB - Stanley Paul CY - London U3 -

George Lancing [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Isle of Madness" Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia that literally reflects the title.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.6 U3 -

Lillith Lorraine [pseud.]

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - It Can't Happen Here. A Novel Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Fascism in the United States. The novel focuses on a small-town New England journalist and his reactions to the rise and success of a U.S. fascist movement, its complete abrogation of the U.S. constitution, its violent suppression of anyone thought to be a less than wholehearted supportive, the establishment of concentration camps, and the beginnings of a resistance movement. The U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 includes a publisher’s note saying that while the title It Can’t Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the UK also. There is a theatrical version by Lewis and John C. Moffitt as It Can’t Happen Here: A New Version, by Sinclair Lewis of the Play by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis from the Lewis Novel. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1938. Produced by the Federal Theater Project in 1936 and re-written from those scripts. A new theatrical version written by Tony Taccone (b. 1951) and Bennett S. Cohen and directed by Lisa Peterson was produced at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2016 with a new production on You Tube October 13 - November 13, 2020. Also in October 2020 National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and other theaters produced a virtual, recorded reading of the 1936 script in Yiddish, English, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Hebrew with English subtitles. 

PB - Doubleday, Doran & Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press, [1936?]; New York: Triangle Books, 1939; New York: Dell, 1961; and without the subtitle New York: New American Library, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Michael Meyer (v-xv). The UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 includes a publisher's note saying that while the title It Can't Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the UK also. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laughing Buccaneer Y1 - 1935 A1 - Will[iam] Lawson (1876-1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Amazons enslave men but a white man conquers and enslaves the women.

PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle on the cover A Romantic Story of the South Seas. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Frank Johnson, [1942].Also published as a supplement to the Australian Women’s Weekly 6.17 (October 1, 1938): 1-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My First Days in the White House. Dedicated to the Lazarus of Today and Tomorrow Y1 - 1935 A1 - Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presentation of what Long (1893-1935) intended to do if elected President, including major government projects, particularly his Share the Wealth program that was designed to limit and redistribute wealth and to assist agriculture, all of which will produce a much better society. About half the novel is about the details of getting his economic plan accepted, defended in court, and implemented.

PB - The Telegraph Press CY - Harrisburg, PA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Speratia Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Peter Frank] [Wybraniec] (b. 1882) KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Religion. State supervision of all aspects of life, including education. Emphasis on vocational education. Candidates for public office must pass examinations. Anti-egalitarian.

PB - Meador Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd rev. and enl. ed. with the subtitle The Land of Hope. Boston, MA: Meador Publishing Co., 1941. 393 pp. While presenting much the same message the texts are substantially different. 

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Dr. Raphael W. Leonhart [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Confound Their Politics Y1 - 1934 A1 - [David William] Alun Llewellyn (1903-87/88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on contemporary politics by describing a number of imaginary countries. The main foci of criticism are nationalism, the idea that humans are economical determined, the idea that dictatorship is better than democracy, and the rejection of internationalism.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future Y1 - 1934 A1 - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Predictions of a eutopian future with considerable satire. Much science and technology, but includes family life, religion, etc. One stress is on the changed society that will be brought about by real equality for women. The first chapter asks, “Can the Future Be Foretold?” and argues for a Ministry of the Future (17-19). Chapters: Men and Women, Sources of power, Air Travel, Interplanetary travel, Motors and Motoring, Radio and Television, Crooks and Detectives stressing technology and says  that education in science will eliminate criminals with children realizing that “crime in unscientific and non-technical” (113), The Future Law is primarily concerned with science and technology in law courts, The Next Wars, Doctors and Surgeons, Sports and Amusements, The Religion of Tomorrow is compatible with science, Education [No writing; no out of date subjects including drawing and divinity, use numbers rather than names for everything. “The object of all instructions in schools will not be so much to give people knowledge, but to teach him how to acquire knowledge himself” (186)]. Clothes and Food (no high heels, electrically warmed head gear, people will eat less food with most food as pills, no alcohol The Supernatural, The Family, The Weather (controlled), The Robot Age, Cities, Synthesis (“most foods, fuels, clothes and chemical . . . will be synthesized from air, water, and vegetable matter” [275]), Government (essentially replaced by science), End of It All, Summary. See also 1925 Low, The Future.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riptide: EPIC, Utopia and the New Era. Is This To Be Civilization's Dying Challenge to Its Destroyers? The Americanist Plan Y1 - 1934 A1 - Horace Lackey KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian essay with fictional parts. The author was a member of The Utopian Society of America (See 1934 Hathaway and 1942 Van Dalsem), and this is a defense and elaboration of its principles. Anti-Communist. Education to twenty-five; work reasonable hours for twenty years; production for consumption, not profit. EPIC is End Poverty in California, for which see 1933 and 1935 Sinclair.

PB - Author CY - Hollywood, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Strange Invaders Y1 - 1934 A1 - [David William] Alun Llewellyn (1903-87/88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

After a world war and a new ice age had devastated the world population, a tribal society in what had been the Soviet Union has created a new religion out of what had been Soviet Communism with Marx, Lenin, and Stalin as saints. The Strange Invaders are giant alien lizards.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Universalism, The New Spirit, A Reborn World, Earthly Happiness, The Ideal State!!! A Book dealing with a new social system destined to solve the present irksome problems of the world--Peace, disarmament, social improvement, international union and financial recovery Y1 - 1934 A1 - Pierre Lemieux (1889-1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia of world federalism with an international police force, religious cooperation, a regulated economy with one scale of wages, and one language.

PB - Ptd. by Standard Sample Card Co CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U5 -

Can, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crowning of Technocracy Y1 - 1933 A1 - John Lardner A1 - Thomas Sugrue KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Anti-technocracy.

PB - Laboratory of Robert M. McBride & Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in a Technocracy; What It Might Be Like Y1 - 1933 A1 - Harold Loeb (1891-1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Non-fiction that includes a partial description of the social, political and economic changes that would be brought about by technocracy, a system in which engineers and scientist are politically empowered. Emphasis is on the economic dimension. 

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. “With a New Introduction by Howard P. Segal.” Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1996. 

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MoR

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: The Social Revolution in Retrospect. Viewed from A.D. 2050 Y1 - 1933 A1 - Henry Lewis KW - Male author AB -

Socialist eutopia. Central marketing system. Quota system in international trade so that imports are regulated by exports.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afternoons in Utopia: Tales of the New Time Y1 - 1932 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Take-off on tales of utopia but also includes serious criticism of communism and a description of a future war in which no one is hurt.

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1932.

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Can, L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Egoland. Recorded by Emily Loweman. Transmitted through her Father by Camille Flammarion Y1 - 1932 A1 - Emily Loweman KW - Female author AB -

Purports to be a report back after death by [Nicolas] Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) describing a remarkably uninteresting heaven as eutopia.

PB - Rider & Co CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Politics" Y1 - 1932 A1 - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An anti-pacifist and anti-politician story in which the U.S. navy defeats an attacking enemy while the politicians want them to surrender.

JF - Amazing Stories (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 7.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 138-67.

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Murray Leinster [pseud.]

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of Regeneration: An Improbable Fiction Y1 - 1932 A1 - James Cooper Lawrence (1890-1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fascist eutopia presented as if a book entitled The Year of Regeneration by Calvin Quincy Cabot (New York, 1983), purporting to be a summary of a text and selected notes deposited in 1933 by the "Master of the Sons of Liberty" to be made available in 1983.

PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calling Things By their Proper Names" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Edmund Lester S. J. (1866-1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Labelled Advt. Ten proposals that will be the basis of the Utopia State. For example, separate education for women and the establishment of industries to employ the unemployed.

JF - The Tablet (London) VL - 157 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outward Ho! Y1 - 1931 A1 - James Leakey KW - Male author AB -

Proposes a major colonization scheme to be carried out by towns and villages with each establishing a garden city in a colony. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand only. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

PB - Williams & Norgate CY - London U5 -

L, NSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Edmund Lester S. J. (1866-1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Labelled Advt. The Roman Catholic Church the basis for eutopia.

JF - The Tablet (London) VL - 157 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If I Were Dictator: Ten Commandments of Social Reconstruction. Change Fundamentally or Perish. The Basic Industries Going" Y1 - 1930 A1 - James Leatham (1865-1945) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Essay, primarily concerned with agriculture, which would be completely controlled. Nationalized railways, limited driving, reduced hours of work, no investment abroad, nationalization of land, reforestation, electrification, no military recruitment so that men could work productively, and slum clearance.

JF - The Gateway: A Journal of Life and Literature (Turiff, Scot.) VL - 18.209 N1 -

Rpt. with only the first subtitle Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scot: The Deveron Press, [1930].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Into the 28th Century" Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Vague golden age eutopia.

JF - Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 1.2 U3 -

Lillith Lorraine [pseud.]

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SFF

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brain of the Planet Y1 - 1929 A1 - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopian world state is achieved as a result of a machine that broadcast positive images of social solidarity directly to human brains. As a result, capitalism disappeared, followed by national boundaries. Inventions flourished replacing much physical labor. Men and women were able to marry for love.

PB - Stellar Publishing Co CY - New York VL - Science Fiction Series No. 5. U3 -

Lillith Lorraine [pseud.]

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NMEU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When Social Regulation Is Complete" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on regulation.

JF - The Iron Man and the Tin Woman and Other Futurities PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Childermass. Section I Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Percy] Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after death in Purgatory, which is depicted as a completely unstable wasteland where everything and everyone may change without warning. The protagonists find their way to the "camp", which is at least stable, but ruled by "The Bailiff", who is in conflict with Hyperides and his followers. The novel continues with the same characters in The Human Age Book Two Monstre Gai Book Three Malign Fiesta. London: Methuen, 1955. An additional planned volume, The Trial of Man, was never published.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Human Age Book One Childermass. London: Methuen, 1956. U.S. ed. New York: Covici-Friede, 1928.

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Rpt. as The Human Age Book One Childermass. London: Methuen, 1956.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hyperborea: Two Fantastic Travel Essays. On Man and Hyperborean--The Conspiracy of Tailors--Some Pictures and Hyperborean Landscape Y1 - 1928 A1 - Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Classic pleasure-oriented utopia. Sexually oriented.

PB - Fanfrolico Press CY - London VL - 725 copy ed. U2 -

Illus. by the author.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mr. Lorimer and Me" Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satiric comments on utopian visions. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. See also Stuart Chase, Edna Ferber, Charles J. Finger, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, and Upton [Beall] Sinclair.

JF - The Nation (New York) VL - 127.3290 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium Y1 - 1927 A1 - J[ames] G[ranville] Legge (1861-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on bureaucracy. Over enforcement of a scheme for health improvement; for example, too tight shoes are illegal.

PB - Basil Blackwell CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Things as They Ought to Be" Y1 - 1927 A1 - R[obert] L[ittell] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short satirical sketch of a mostly dull utopia set in 2027. The sketch ends with "You may welcome such a Utopia, but would you find it interesting."

JF - The New Republic (New York) VL - 49.636 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lucullus The Food of the Future Y1 - 1926 A1 - Olga Hartley A1 - Mrs. C. F. [Hilda] Leyel (1880-1957) KW - Female author AB -

Future history ending in a eutopia. Considerable satire presented through a speech by a scholar in the far future. First vegetarians win the day; then Neo-Vegetarians, who won't eat plants; then scientists create chemical food. A backlash against science occurs when Glasgow is destroyed during an experiment and then all science is regulated and begins to develop things that are useful. General decentralization occurs and people return to eating meat.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Formula For a Utopia" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief poem describing the characteristic boys and girls should have. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “The Woman Called ‘Beauty’”.

JF - The Little Magazine VL - 3rd imprint N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 132.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Y1 - 1925 A1 - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed predictions of a eutopian future. There is considerable satire throughout the book, and the illustrations are mostly satirical. Much of the eutopia is technological, but there is gender equality, and material on amusement and sport and clothing, with men and women wearing Identical clothes, and other topics. The captioned illustrations include the frontispiece A Station showing that “All the main offices and thoroughfares will be built like arcades, glass roofed, electrically lit and heated. Moving pavements will enable pedestrians to step straight on to their suburban trains.” Between 32 and 33 is a detailed depiction of a car that is also an airplane. Between 66 and 67 shows and motor race in Australia being watched in a theatre in London. Between 76 and 77 is a depiction of underground travel with television or cinema, connections to Typing Department or Restaurant, and telephones to the entire world. Between 88 and 89 is a detailed depiction of a street in the suburbs. Between 108 and 109 is “A Family Snapshot in A.D. 3000” with a husband and wife two children and a dog, all dressed identically, including the dog. Between 130 and 131 is a depiction of future warfare. Between 168 and 169 is a picture of “A Quiet Lunch at Home.” See also 1934 Low, Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future.

PB - George Routledge & Sons CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Illus. New York: International Publishers, 1925. 

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lysistrata: Or, Woman's Future and Future Woman With a Foreword by Norman Haire, Ch.M., M.B. Y1 - 1925 A1 - Anthony M[ario] Ludovici (1882-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the short book is about the current position from a conservative viewpoint. The last chapters “Woman’s Future” (66-90) and “Future Woman” (91-125) project as the better future women staying home, caring for the husbands, and raising children.

PB - K. Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1925. 

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L, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wairoa in 1975 (More or Less Prophetical)" Y1 - 1925 A1 - Thomas Lambert (1854-1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A man awakes in 1975 from a long trance and discovers much technological improvement, prosperity, and general reform. Harnessing of rivers for power and electricity widely used in industry and transport. Includes illustrations of the outer and inner harbours, the Wairoa River harbour, the botanical gardens, and the Elysium in 1975. The Elysium was a fashionable suburb built on about 60 acres of reclaimed land. Much beautification had taken place. Maori lands had become the private property of Maori and were generally worked as market gardens. Maori College to train girls in domestic arts and nursing. Maori boys were taught agriculture, although even after graduation overseers ensured that they worked as expected and their earnings were set aside for them. Intermarriage and marriage to half castes prohibited.

JF - The Story of Old Wairoa and the East Coast District, North Island New Zealand or, Past, Present, and Future. A Record of Over Fifty Years' Progress PB - Coulls Somerville Wilkie CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U1 -

1859 1975 at the head of the title

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ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Woman Called 'Beauty' and Her Seven Dragons A Poem for Those Who Desire an Aesthetic Utopia" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem with fairly vague suggestions of a eutopia of art that will set humanity free to be fully human.  See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “Formula For a Utopia”.

JF - The Little Magazine VL - 3rd imprint N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 125-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beloved Shipmates Y1 - 1924 A1 - Rear-Admiral Robert N[eale] Lawson KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and romance with some humor but includes the founding of an island egalitarian eutopia. Note the charts inside the front and back covers. Continued in his Happy Anchorage. London: Grant Richards, 1925, which continues the adventures.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

L, MoU-St, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Near Future" Y1 - 1924 A1 - Joseph Ivers Lawrence KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire of an over-regulated society.

JF - Argosy--All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 108.1 U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Melody from Mars Y1 - 1924 A1 - [Violet Lilian] [Perkins] A1 - [Archer Leslie] [Hood] KW - Female author AB -

An odd future tale of spiritually advanced people, which includes the description of a eutopia called the Electric City. Not much detail.

PB - Authors' International Pub. Co CY - New York U3 -

Lilian Leslie [pseud.]

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CU-Riv, DLC, MH, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Seraph Wings Y1 - 1923 A1 - Colonel Arthur [Alfred] Lynch (1861-1934) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure but includes a eutopia of devolution.

PB - John Long, Ltd CY - London U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopian Jurisprudence Y1 - 1923 A1 - A Lawyer [pseud.] AB -

Sets out forty quite general essential principles on which to build a eutopia grouped under the headings Economics, Politics, Theology, and Reason. The author says that the key point is that "The way of progress is the mean way between two extremes" (213).

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U3 -

A Lawyer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Book of Springfield. Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended description of Springfield, Illinois, in that year Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 2081 in Springfield, Illinois with a world-renowned University of Springfield at its core. Much on mysticism but some on the social system. Racial intermarriage. Drugs. A world government that is not presented entirely positively. Refers to 1919 Cram. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1999 with an "Introduction" by Ron Sakolsky (xi-cxvii). See "The Golden Book of Springfield Containing a Brief Prospectus of a Book With Wings That Will Appear in Various Forms in Springfield, November, A.D. 2018." The Little Magazine 2nd imprint (1920) and 3rd imprint (1925): Both 109-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hermit of Chimaso Island" Y1 - 1920 A1 - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sketchy technological eutopia.

JF - The Earthomotor and Other Stories PB - Statesman Pub. Co. CY - Salem, OR U1 -

Title on the spine is Earthmotor.

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MoU-St, OrU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revelation of John Langdon. As Recorded by Him Y1 - 1920 AB -

Limited eutopian and dystopian elements, but mostly a story directed against organized religion, a struggle based on the replacement of supernaturalism with reason.

PB - The Truth Seeker Co CY - New York U3 -

Langdon, John [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret of Life: A Story of the Heavens Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Walter] [Richards] (b. 1864) KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualism. The solar system is in various stages of development, and there are other emerging planets in other solar systems. The eutopia is found on the tenth planet of the solar system and a detailed description of Heaven. There is a collection of manuscripts held privately that includes a substantial number of additional unpublished titles in a similar vein.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U3 -

The "Lesser Spirit" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Weeks Inside the Earth" Y1 - 1920 A1 - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sketchy eutopia inside the earth with telepathy and advanced technology. No sin.

JF - The Earthomotor and Other Stories PB - Statesman Publ. Co. CY - Salem, OR U1 -

Title on the spine is Earthmotor.

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MoU-St, OrU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If Germany had won" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. The farcical dystopia created in the U.S. after Germany won World War I.

JF - The Hohenzollerns in America and other impossibilities PB - John Lane, the Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities (New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919), 127-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1920: Dips into the Near Future Y1 - 1917 A1 - Lucian [pseud.] AB -

Satire on the possible effects of the attitude that World War I will be of long duration. For example, there will be involuntary euthanasia for the old in order to preserve the food supply. All of life subordinated to the continuing war effort.

PB - Headley Bros. CY - London N1 -

First published as a series of articles without any general title and without the pseudonym in The Nation as follows: "The Aged Service Act: 1920." 22.1 (October 6, 1917): 10-11; "Reprisals in 1920." 22.3 (October 20, 1917): 89-91; "The Laboratory of War-Truth: 1920." 22.4 (October 27, 1917): 118-19; "D.O.R.A. in 1920." 22.5 (November 3, 1917): 155-57; "The Military Service (Females) Act: 1920." 22.6 (November 10, 1917): 185-87; "War-Bondage: 1920." 22.7 (November 17, 1917): 239-41; "War Aims: 1920." 22.8 (November 24, 1917): 266-67; "The New Jerusalem: 1920." 22.11 (December 15, 1917): 377-79.

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Lucian [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Women of the Future Y1 - 1916 A1 - Meta Stern Lilienthal (1876-1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pamphlet describing the better society that socialism will bring about emphasizing the changed position of women. With everyone a worker, everyone will be able to work at what most interests them and change work as their interests change, women will not be limited to the home, and most domestic work will be done collectively. Everyone will have a good education and the right training for their work. No children working. There will be no male sex privilege. Marriage will be based on love and divorce will be easy. High quality child-care readily available.

PB - The Rand School of Social Science CY - New York U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Argument" Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The argument is between "The Voice of the Man Impatient with Visions and Utopias" and "The Rhymer's Reply: Incense and Splendor" and is presented as two poems under those titles. The former takes an anti-utopian position, and the latter replies with the hope for a coming eutopia. See also 1909, 1913, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

JF - The Congo and Other Poems PB - Macmillan Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 194-95. 

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Socialism! Demonstrated by Domestic Cooperation. A Sequel to Eureka! Y1 - 1914 A1 - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1913 Ridgway. Community now to be founded in Palmyra, New Jersey. Later will move to a tropical island. Suggests running a summer hotel and, later, a winter hotel. In this book, Lamb identifies himself as living in Palmyra, NJ. Part 5 is called "A Model Community for Practical People."

PB - Excelsior Press CY - Singapore U5 -

DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eureka! The Embryo of An Ideal Society Y1 - 1913 A1 - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb KW - Male author AB -

Proposes a cooperative colony to be founded by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the southern Philippines to be called Palmyra. Spiritualism.

PB - Excelsior Press CY - Singapore U5 -

DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit Y1 - 1913 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian broadside with short poems and illustrations, each illustation depicting "the censers of angels" swinging over a Springfield, Illinois landmark. The eutopia suggests a socialist Illinois. See also 1909, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay

PB - Author CY - Springfield, IL N1 -

Rpt. in his A Letter About My Four Programmes for Committees in Correspondence (Springfield, IL: Jefferson Printing Co., [1917]), 15-32. Also rpt. in his The Little Magazine both 2nd (1920) and 3rd (1925) imprints (49-64); and in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 197-212.

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Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From Those in White Y1 - 1912 A1 - [Maud Lalita] [Johnson] KW - Female author AB -

Brief eutopia focusing on marriage and motherhood and emphasizing the continuing independence of partners. No private property. Simple life. Calls Utopia the land of realization.

PB - np CY - Laguna Beach, CA U3 -

Lalita [pseud.]

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CaU-B

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great State: Essays in Construction Y1 - 1912 ED - [Francis Evelyn] [Warwick] (1861-1938) ED - G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor ED - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Essays by different authors describing aspects of a future eutopia. While they were written for this volume, they do not all agree with each other.

PB - Harper and Bros CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912. Includes H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, "The Past and the Great State" (1-46), also published as "Socialism." Harper's Magazine 124.740 - 741 (January - February 1912): 197-204, 403-09; and as "The Great State." In his An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (London: Cassell and Co., 1914), 95-131; rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XVIII The Passionate Friends A Novel and Three Essays (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 405-44. [Wells published many other utopias; see the Author Index for a list]; The Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Warwick), "The Great State and the Country-side" (47-66), also published in The Fortnightly Review, ns 91 (March 1, 1912): 427-36; L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, "Work in the Great State" (67-119); Ray Lankester, "The Making of New Knowledge" (121-39); C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, "Health and Healing in the Great State" (141-80); E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, "Law and the Great State" (181-94); Cecil Chesterton, "Democracy and the Great State" (195-218); Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, "Women in the Great State" (219-47); Roger Fry, "The Artist in the Great State" (249-72); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, "The Present Development of the Great State" (273-99); Conrad Noel, "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" (301-23), which, as fiction, is separately listed in this bibliography; Herbert Trench, "The Growth of the Great State" (325-56); and Hugh P. Vowles, "The Tradition of the Great State" (357-78).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Individualist's Utopia Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[oseph] H[iam] Levy (1838-1913) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenics, technology, and the simple life. The eutopia is brought about by people choosing to have fewer children.

PB - Lawrence Nelson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scarlet Plague" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which the oldest survivor, who had been a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is still trying to tell his uncomprehending grandchildren of the wonders of the past. Resonates with 1949 Stewart.

JF - The London Magazine N1 -

Rpt. illus. Gordon Grant. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1915; illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961) in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 92-118; and in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 156-97 with an editor's note on 155-56; and in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged.

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Macmillan ed. illus. Gordon Grant (1875-1962)

Famous Fantastic Mysteries version illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the North Pole and Beyond to Civilization Y1 - 1912 A1 - Dewitt F. Lewis ED - E. Z. Ernst KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Almost all property owned by the Industrial Exchange Association in order to eliminate wasteful competition. Little government.

PB - Industrial Exchange CY - Linwood, KS U5 -

NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor on utopias.

JF - Nonsense Novels PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Canadian ed. (Montreal, QC: Publishers' Press, 1911), 207-31. Rpt. (Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1963), 138-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream of Debs: A Story of Industrial Revolt" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A successful general strike will bring about a better world. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1908 London, "Goliah".

JF - The International Socialist Review (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.7 - 8 N1 -

Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1914; in his The Strength of the Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 134-76; in The International Socialist Review 17.7 (January 1917): 389-95, 432-34; in The Bodley Head Jack London. Ed. Arthur Calder Marshall. 3 vols. (London: The Bodley Head, 1963-65), 1: 225-46; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1261-78.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Golden-Faced People. A Story of Chinese Conquest of America" Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Satire on U.S. race relations seen through the eyes of a white American subservient to the Chinese. See also 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

JF - War Bulletin, no. 1 (July 19, 1909): Reprint no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Crisis (November 1914): 36-42; and in The Prose of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed. Dennis Camp (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1988), 1: 85-93.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unknown To-morrow: How the Rich Fared at the Hands of the Poor Together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England Y1 - 1909 A1 - William [Tufnell] Le Queux (1864-1927) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia. Marriage and divorce made easy; children are the property of the state. Churches secularized. Ultimately the system fails.

PB - F.V. White & Co CY - London N1 -

Originally published as “The Red Rage: How the Rich fared at the Hands of the Poor; together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England.” Black & White (London) 38 (July 3 - October 9, 1909): 16-19; 62-65; 100-101; 138-39; 178-79; 218-19; 258-59; 292-93; 328-29; 364-65; 400-01; 436-37; 474-76; 508-09; 544. 

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“The Red Rage: How the Rich fared at the Hands of the Poor; together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England.” Black & White (London) 38 (July 3 - October 9, 1909).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophical and Practical Basis of Religion in the Aquarian Age of the World. Transcribed from the Akashic Records Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Levi H.] [Dowling] (1844-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia in the form of a Holy Book that rewrites the Bible and has Jesus also in India Tibet, Persia, Assyria, Greece, and Egypt. The Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (ACCU) is based on its teachings. 

PB - C.F. Cazenove CY - London N1 -

There are many editions with slight variations in the title. A recent edition has the title as The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophical and Practical Basis of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal. Transcribed from the book of God’s Remembrances known as The Akashic Records. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2009. It is based on London: L.N. Fowler/Los Angeles, CA: E.S. Dowling, 1911, which has a map as a frontispiece that is not in the reprint. The “Introduction” to the 1988 ed. by Eva S. Dowling, Ph.D. Scribe to the Messenger (3-13) gives the title as The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age.

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There are many editions with slight variations in the title. The “Introduction” to the 1988 ed. by Eva S. Dowling, Ph.D. Scribe to the Messenger (3-13) gives the title as The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Curious Fragment" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Depicts an extreme capitalist system in which workers are slaves. For example, teaching a worker to read is a serious offence, as it was regarding slaves in many states in the U.S. South prior to the Civil War. See also 1907 London, 1908 London, "Goliah", and 1909 London.

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Rpt. in his When God Laughs and Other Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 257-75; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 79-86 with an editor's note on 79;  in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1279-86.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goliah" Y1 - 1908 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia in which all labor is gradually abolished. It is brought about by a man with a powerful weapon who forces individuals and countries to accept his dictates. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1909 London.

JF - The Red Magazine VL - 2.7 N1 -

Rpt. in The Bookman (New York) 30.6 (February 1910): 620-32; in his Revolution and Other Essays (London: William Heinemann, 1910), 73-116; as Goliah: A Utopian Essay. Berkeley, CA: Thorp Springs Press, [1973]; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 87-108 with an editor's note on 87; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1201-21. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Celestia Y1 - 1907 A1 - Rev. D. Lull AB -

Mostly romance but presents the foundations for a eutopia based on religion and education.

PB - Reliance Trading Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Iron Heel Y1 - 1907 A1 - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily an anti-capitalist dystopia stressing the struggle against capitalism and the defeat of the revolution. The text, which is written as an account of the struggle by a participant, is accompanied by a "Foreword" and footnotes purporting to have been written seven centuries in the future in 419 B.O.M. (Brotherhood of Man) when a eutopia had finally been established. See also 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, 1908 London “Goliah”, and 1909 London.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Regent Press, [1913]; New York: Sagamore Press, 1957; London: Arco, 1966; London: Journeyman Press, 1974; Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, [1980], with an introduction by H. Bruce Franklin (i-vi); Edinburgh, Scot.: Rebel, Inc., 1999; ed. Jonathan Auerbach. New York: Penguin Books, 2006; and in his Novels and Social Writings (New York: Library of America, 1982), 315-553. The Iron Heel Chapter 23” was rpt. in The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution. Ed. Jonah Raskin (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), 192-206. Most sources give 1908 as the date of publication, but the copy at the British Library is clearly dated 1907 on both the title and copyright pages. This is considered to be a copy filed for copyright with the first published edition being 1908.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hortense: A Study of the Future. A Romance Y1 - 1906 A1 - Lancelot Lance [pseud.] AB -

The novel begins with the discovery of a simple, pastoral community founded on an isolated island after a shipwreck. The novel continues by following the adventures of some of the members of the community and the man who discovered it after they leave the island; much of it is a love story. Most of the novel takes place in Australia with some reference to New Zealand.

PB - Sands & McDougall CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U3 -

Lancelot Lance [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valhalla. A Novel Y1 - 1906 A1 - George Long KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure after earthquakes and floods devastate the planet, followed by violence and disease. But some survive, initially said to be just two, but others are found and then it is discovered that New Zealand survived intact with two million survivors. The spirits of the dead take a direct hand in assisting the survivors, but something of a better world does emerge.

PB - Henry J. Drane CY - London U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Machines, not Men, A.D. 2005" Y1 - 1905 A1 - W. Edward Lush KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A future war story which suggests that the way to end the horrors of war and bring peace is to have robotic machines replace all humans in fighting.

JF - New Zealand Illustrated Magazine VL - 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Paradise of Poets" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire. A description of the Heaven of poets and their life there.

JF - Adventures Among Books PB - Longmans, Green, and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When I Was King" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Henry Lawson (1867-1922) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Poem written from the perspective of a king who got rid of the slums and built good houses, gave land to the farmers, and worked with his people. At the end he gives in to requests that he don the royal regalia and is corrupted.

JF - The Bulletin (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 26 N1 -

Rpt. in his When I Was King and Other Verses (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1905), 1-9; and in his A Fantasy of Man. Vol. 2 of Complete Works. Ed. Leonard Cronin (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Lansdowne, 1984), 217.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Born Again Y1 - 1904 A1 - Alfred [W.] Lawson (1869-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Technology, religion. The novel begins with the discovery of a survivor of an ancient civilization called the Sagemen, which was highly advanced intellectually, morally, and technologically. Their fundamental principle was "Selfishness is the root of all evil; eradicate selfishness from all human beings and the earth will be heaven" (62. Original emphasis). The latter part of the novel describes attempts to convince the world to follow their teachings. Lawson founded a religion and a community in Des Moines, IA and followers still exist. During the 1930s Lawson published a newspaper, The Benefactor, in Detroit that had some Polish issues. 

PB - Wox, Conrad Co CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Detroit, MI: Humanity, [1931?]; and Detroit, MI: Humanity Benefactor Foundation, nd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Paradise Y1 - 1904 A1 - William Little (1839-1916) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poem of Heaven as a eutopia.

PB - James Curtis CY - Ballarat, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dwellers in Vale Sunrise. How They Got Together and Lived Happy Ever After. A Sequel to "The Natural Man"; Being an Account of the Tribes of Him Y1 - 1904 A1 - J[ohn] W[illia]m Lloyd (1857-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of the simple life in community. See 1902 Lloyd The Natural Man for a novel about one man living in tune with nature who inspires the establishment of a community. See also 1900 Lloyd "The Story of Zendos." 

PB - The Ariel Press CY - Westwood, MA N1 -

Part was published anonymously as Two Letters Telling How They Lived in Vale Sunrise. Where a Colony of Comrades of the Co-operative Fellowship Being Free Socialists Dwell Most Happily. Westwood, MA: The Ariel Press, [1904]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Natural Man: A Romance of the Golden Age Y1 - 1902 A1 - J[ohn] William Lloyd (1857-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia which begins with an individual living in tune with nature on a farm called Vale Sunrise. The final chapter moves from individual to a community (who call themselves Simplicists). This community, which has "no codes, no laws, no rigid customs, no officers", can be seen as transitional to 1904 Lloyd. See also 1900 Lloyd.

PB - Benedict Prieth CY - Newark, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Republic Y1 - 1902 A1 - James Leddy KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Labor strife followed by sporadic riots and then by a convention that drew up a Memorial of Grievances, which was presented to Congress. As a result, Congress passed an amendment to the Constitution that gave Congress the power to abolish trusts and monopolies. This happens and everyone lives happily ever after, with some people still exceptionally rich.

PB - Abbey Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hope of England Y1 - 1901 A1 - Z. Henry Lewis KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Stress on social questions. particularly relations between men and women. Everyone works with a free choice of occupation. Most professions also do manual labor for exercise.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Religion. (For Circulation among Adults only) Y1 - 1901 A1 - C[harles] P[ynson] W[ilmot] Longdill (1866-1933) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The first important, and second overall, of the author's pamphlets that collectively develop a utopia based on an improved banking and currency system, improved land laws, "discipline of the sexual instincts," federation of the world with Jerusalem as its capital, and a new religion and Bible. See also his Thoughts for Thinking People about Strikes, Coin, Poverty, and Fortune-Making. Auckland, New Zealand: D.J. Wright, Printer, [1899?]; The Law of Sexual Activity. By the Author of “A New Religion.” Gisborne, New Zealand: Ptd. for The New Kingdom Society, 1901; Longdill’s Solution of the Social Problem. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, Printers, 1909; A Perfect System of Banking. . (First Principles of) [At head of the title What All the Worlds A’seeking]. Feilding, New Zealand: Feilding Star Print, 1910; 2nd exp. ed. 1910; Model Rules and Regulations for A Perfect Co-Operative People’s Bank, Limited, or State Guaranteed Co-Operative People’s Bank, In which is embodied the first principles of a Perfect Banking System, As taught by the Compiler, C.P.W. Longdill, Author of “A Perfect System of Banking, Etc. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, Printers, 1911; What Is Money? The Primary Problem in Monetary Science Solved At Last. Auckland, New Zealand: Wilson & Horton, 1912; Man and God Are One Or Christ’s Teaching Made Plain Being an Introduction to The Book of Life For the Meaning Thereof Search the Scriptures. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: C.P.W. Longdill, 1912; 2nd ed. as Man and God Are One Or Christ’s Teaching Made Plain (Second Edition) Being an Introduction to The Book of Life For the Meaning Thereof Search the Scriptures. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: C.P.W. Longdill, 1916; The Book of Life. By “The Spirit of Truth” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: Author, 1916; The Federation of the World With Which Is Embodied The Secret of Sound Finance. By The Spirit of Truth [pseud.]. The only Government worthy of the name is one which embraces ALL MANKIND. Auckland, New Zealand: United World Publishing Institute, 1919; Taxation & Sound Finance (A New, Equitable and Scientific System of Taxation). Auckland, New Zealand: United World Publishing Institute, 1921; [All ATL]; and Fallacies of the Douglas Social Credit Proposals: Being a Criticism of Mr. Barclay Smith’s (Editor of the New Era) A.B.C. of Social Credits. [Gisborne, New Zealand]: Gisborne Publishing Co., [1933]. On Longdill, see Lyman Tower Sargent, “Sexual Morality, a New Religion, a State Bank, and World Federation: C.P.W. Longdill’s Proposals for New Zealand.” NZSA Bulletin of New Zealand Studies: The Journal of the New Zealand Studies Association. Issue Number 2. Ed. Ian Conrich (2010): 211-28. 

PB - Ptd. by Albert Spencer CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under Which Master or the Story of the Long Strike at Coverdale: A Romance of Labor Y1 - 1901 A1 - W[illia]m V[icars] Lawrance KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A strike that disables a city is finally defeated.

PB - Abbey Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hermaphro-Deity: The Mystery of Divine Genius Y1 - 1900 A1 - Eliza Barton Lyman KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. A novel describing a celibate, vegetarian intentional community placed in Benares, California, which suggest the connection to Eastern religions. The California community is a eutopia and expanding rapidly. Much on the doctrine. In her The coming woman: or, The royal road to physical perfection. A series of medical lectures (1880), the female author is described as a lecturer and teacher of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Wish Y1 - 1900 A1 - Claudius Lambert KW - Male author AB -

A plea or prayer to the “Master of the Universe” that a eutopia be made possible on Earth. No war. No greed or hate. No ostentation. His Then. Albany, NY: Albany Printing Co., [19--], a single small sheet, is a poem, hoping for a better postwar world.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let There Be Light; The Story of a Workingmen's Club, Its Search for the Causes of Poverty and Social Inequality, Its Discussions, and Its Plan for the Amelioration of Existing Evils Y1 - 1900 A1 - David Lubin (1849-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious belief and practice will bring about a eutopia based on equality and justice. The novel follows the trajectory of a workingman's club over eight months, reporting the talks given at the club.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of Zendos" Y1 - 1900 A1 - J[ohn] W[illia]m Lloyd (1857-1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of slavery. See also 1902 and 1904 Lloyd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Andree at the North Pole Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Julius Warren] [Lewis] (1833-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is based on Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897) [the accent is not used in the novel], the leader of an actual attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897. The balloonists disappeared, which is how the novel ends, and the remains were only discovered in 1930. In the novel, which is mostly adventure and intrigue, the balloonists reach Polaria, a technologically advanced eutopia located in a huge (500,000 square miles) basin that exists at the North Pole and disappear on their return flight.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -

Most originally published in 1898 in the New York Evening World.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Legal Revolution of 1902 Y1 - 1898 A1 - [Bert J.] [Wellman] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Populist eutopia. The revolution takes place through calling a constitutional convention to amend the U. S. Constitution, with details given on the amendments. Direct election of the President, Vice-President, and Senate. Graduated income tax. Future amendments possible by a direct vote of the people. Proportional representation. All property held by an individual over $500,000 to revert to the government. Concern to create uniform laws across the country. Nationalization of agriculture with huge irrigated, technologically sophisticated farms.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. incorrectly attributed to William Stanley Child. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Jonnemacher's Machine. The Port to which we drifted Y1 - 1898 A1 - [Walter Doty] [Reynolds] (b. 1860) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which machines put people out of work and only benefit the wealthy. Corrupt political system. Revolution. The book is written as if from a future eutopia, which is only alluded to in the preface and in the last chapter. In the eutopia machinery is used for the benefit of all under an honest political system.

PB - Knickerbocker Book Company CY - Philadelphia, PA U3 -

Lord Prime, Esq.  Librarian to the State Library of Pennsylvania, A.D. MMXVI [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vicious Virtuoso Y1 - 1898 A1 - Louis Lombard (1861-1927) KW - French author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A romance and adventure novel that includes a story of an ancient Egyptian race that was greatly advanced both spiritually and scientifically and produced a society in which all lived well. Everyone had equal food and clothing. No money. No religion, no political factions, and no patriotism. Higher education only for the elite and women excluded because it made them "less fit to bear and nourish children" (111). Euthanasia encouraged. Eugenics. Divorce easy with remarriage within a year required. The eutopia is destroyed by organized religion.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - London/New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Dana Estes, 1909

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas Y1 - 1898 A1 - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944) A1 - E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. VL - Vol. 78 of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Deep of Time" Y1 - 1897 A1 - George Parsons Lathrop (1851-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man is put to sleep for three hundred years and awakens in a technological eutopia in communication with Mars, which is in advance of earth. World federalism without democracy. No one lived in cities except by government draft. If a person is exceptional, the government chooses who they will marry. "Degenerates," on the other hand, were kept in asylums and not allowed to marry. The author's note says that the story is based on conversations with the inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), and Edison provided notes to Lathrop, who wrote the story. Thirty-three pages of Edison’s notes for the story can be found in the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University (http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm).

JF - English Illustrated Magazine VL - 16 - 17.162 - 163 N1 -

Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket, 1972), 47-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Visit to Topos, and How the Science of Heredity is Practised There Y1 - 1897 A1 - William Little (1839-1916) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eugenic eutopia. Pre-natal teaching. Presentation from a newspaper from Topos, including a father's lengthy speech at his daughter's wedding. See also 1904 Little.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1900; or, The Last President Y1 - 1896 A1 - Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the election of William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) as President causes the collapse of the American system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Killboylan Bank; or, Every Man His Own Banker. Being an Account of How Killboylan Characters Concerned Themselves About Co-operative Credit Y1 - 1896 A1 - E[dward] M[elville] Lynch KW - Male author AB -

A fictional account of the establishment of an agricultural bank set in an Irish village. There is a brief section at the end describing the positive results of the reform.

PB - Kegan Paul CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prophetic Romance; Mars to Earth Y1 - 1896 A1 - [John] [McCoy] (1857-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by votes for women. Rule by those especially trained for job but elected. All laws must be approved by the people (102-103). Essentially socialist. Paternalistic. Technologically advanced. Eugenics. Stress of health, and children are taught correct “eating, sleeping, drinking, exercising, and in toil, mental and physical, constant regard is had to getting the most and best out of life” (212).

PB - Arena Publishing Company CY - Boston, MA U3 -

By The Lord Commissioner [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Etidorhpa or The End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey as Communicated in Manuscript to Llewellyn Drury Who Promised to Print the Same, But Finally Evaded the Responsibility Which was Assumed by John Uri Lloyd Y1 - 1895 A1 - John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Occult novel of a trip through the underworld. Etidorhpa is Aphrodite spelled backwards. Borderline but included by both Arthur O. Lewis, Utopian Literature in The Pennsylvania State University Libraries: A Selected Bibliography (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1984) 113; and Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 85-86. According to Negley some editions have Etidorpha.

PB - Pub. by John Uri Lloyd CY - Cincinnati, OH N1 -

2nd ed. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke Co., 1896. 11th ed. rev. and enl. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901. Rpt. as part of the series Inspired Novels, no. A-3 (Summer 1962) Mundelin, IL: Palmer Publications, 1962, and Albuquerque, NM: Sun Publishing Co., 1976. This ed. rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Few Years Hence" Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Lucy M.] [Jones] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Set in 1922 and 1923 showing the effect of women gaining the vote. On the whole presented negatively, suggesting that women are not suited for political life, but the reforms put through by women are generally presented positively, particularly dress reform and temperance.

JF - A Secret of the Sea and Other Colonial Stories PB - Simpson & Williams CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U3 -

Lux [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Problem of Civilization Solved Y1 - 1895 A1 - Mary Elizabeth [Clyens] Lease (1850-1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia but also racist. Tropical emigration by whites--". . . fifty million white families as planters on estates of 200 acres each, with three families of Negroes or Orientals as tillers of the soil" (17).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The City at the End of Things” Y1 - 1894 A1 - Archibald Lampman (1861-99) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian poem about a city that was once vibrant but is now mostly a machine without humans. 

JF - The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 73.3 N1 -

Rpt. in A Victorian Anthology 1837-1895. Selections Illustrating the Editor’s Critical Review of British Poetry in the Reign of Victoria. Ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1895), 2: 661-62; in his Alcyone (Ottawa, ON, Canada: James Ogilvy, 1899), 5-8 (12 copy edition); and as The City at the End of Things. Ottawa, ON, Canada: The Golden Dog, 1973. Mss. with various titles dated 1892 are held by Public Archives of Canada and the University of Toronto Library. A note in the Golden Dog edition says that the reprints included errors. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curse and Its Cure in Two Volumes Y1 - 1894 A1 - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A religious dystopia followed by a religious eutopia. Volume I, set in 2000, describes a Brisbane that has essentially disappeared and ends with a description of Hell. Volume II, set in 2200, describes a Brisbane revived and ends with a description of Heaven. Land and mineral wealth nationalized, and “rational” dress adopted, but the key change is the return to religion. Eight-hour workday. See also 1889 Lucas.

PB - J.H. Reynolds CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century; A Prospective History Y1 - 1894 A1 - Henry Lazarus, ed. [written by] (1855-1922) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly criticism of contemporary society from the perspective of a future eutopia. The Salvation Army, while remaining a religious body, is remodeled into a real army and leads the essentially peaceful revolution. But after the revolution, slum landlords and others who had preyed upon the poor were turned over to those they had preyed upon, who killed them. Government replaced, although the king is kept. Slum clearance. Much on the period of transition and details of reforms in the economy, politics, education, law, and social relations.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No Mean City” Y1 - 1894 A1 - Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The White City from the World’s Fair Columbian: Exposition in Chicago in 1893 is recreated and in response Chicago eliminated pollution and more generally rebuilt its infrastructure to be compatible with the beauty of the White City. Many people moved out of Chicago and, since they had to return to the city to work, the electricity-based transportation system was radically improved on moved out of sight. Municipally owned utilities. Improved housing for workers. Improved personal relations. More gender equality, including the franchise. No child labor. The remaining problem, a large body of unemployed, was solved by building No Mean City based on the principles of the reformed Chicago. Its great success led to no one living in the old Chicago, which was replaced by a great park full of museums, universities, places of worship, theatres, libraries, and so forth.

JF - In his Mazzini, and Other Essays PB - G. P. Putnam’s Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Critiques of American Capitalism, 1881-1903. Ed. Alun Munslow and Owen R. Ashton (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995), 133-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Either, Or Y1 - 1893 A1 - Rudolph Leonhart (b. 1832) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the US with a cooperative eutopia at the end. Considerable emphasis on the evil of trusts. Politically Congress only proposes laws that must be approved by the people. Economically interest is held to three per cent, only high-quality goods are produced, people mostly buy local production, and everyone has good, well-paid jobs. Education required until eighteen, and after that people must pass exams to continue and be admitted to the professions.

PB - Roller Printing Company CY - Canton, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Platonia; A Tale of Other Worlds Y1 - 1893 A1 - Henry L'Estrange [pseud?] AB -

An unknown, small planet nearer than Mars. Its capital is Campanella, after Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) the author of La Città del Sole/The City of the Sun (1611). Private enterprise but protected by the state. Stress on gradual reform.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. U3 -

Henry L'Estrange [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Soulless Saints: A Strange Revelation Y1 - 1892 A1 - Bailey Kay Leach KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire using an imaginary country called Konko. The satire is based on religion but is extended to "society", politics, economics, and most other human institutions.

PB - American Publishing Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What We Are Coming To Y1 - 1892 A1 - Miles L'Estrange [pseud.] AB -

Dystopia presented as a fictional series of predictions. The author deplores almost all the changes, but those giving women a more active roles in life particularly bother him.

PB - David Douglas CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

L’Estrange, Miles [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - As It Is In Heaven Y1 - 1891 A1 - Lucy Larcom (1824-93) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia.

PB - Houghton, Mifflin and Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peculiar People Y1 - 1891 A1 - Samuel Phelps Leland (1839-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Written against communalism, including Robert Owen (1771-1858) and his followers and the experiment at New Harmony. Presents an intentional community as it fails.

PB - Aust and Clark CY - Cleveland, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of a Modest Prophet Y1 - 1890 A1 - M[ortimer] D[ormer] Leggett (1821-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set on Mars which is like Earth with a parallel history but more three thousand years more advanced. Religion is a way of life. World language. 

PB - J.B. Lippincott CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What is Communism? A Narrative of the Relief Community. Common Property, United Labor, and Equal Rights to All, Will Immediately Displace all the Poverty, Vice and Crime of Society, and Secure to Eyerybody [sic]. The Greatest Plenty Purity and Peace Y1 - 1890 A1 - Alcander Longley (1832-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Founding and development of an intentional community. Although Longley did establish such communities, this is fiction presented as non-fiction.

PB - Altruist Community CY - St. Louis, MO N1 -

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1976

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Wilholm’s Class Meeting; or, The Forward Movement: Christlike Christianity Y1 - 1889 A1 - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The novel is about how one group of Methodists come to themselves lead more Christian lives and their influence on the area where they live. While most of the book is on the developments within the group, it ends with a brief presentation of the eutopia that is coming into being with pubs closed and jails no longer full. The book is dedicated to Rev. Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902), the founder of The Methodist Times and the Forward Movement in the Methodist Church, a movement to make the church more socially relevant. See also 1894 Lucas.

PB - T. Barrett CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ireland's Dream: A Romance of the Future. Dedicated, without permission, to Mr. Gladstone Y1 - 1888 A1 - Capt. E[dmund] D[avid] Lyon (1825-91) KW - Male author AB -

Home rule produces a dystopia. Ireland is bankrupt, and it is effectively ruled by the Land League, which requires obedience to its decrees. Protestants are not allowed. No criticism of priests or the Church permitted. Corrupt politicians. Northern Ireland is a strong and successful as a Protestant country affiliated with Britain.

PB - Swan Sonnenschein CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. 2 vols in 1. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowry, 1888.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Treasure of Montezuma Y1 - 1888 A1 - Rudolph Leonhart, A.M. (b. 1832) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Country called Friedenstahl in an isolated valley in Mexico. Capital is Montezuma. Well-watered, unlike much of Mexico. Better society brought about by a man of wealth. Much of the novel is concerned with the efforts of his relatives from outside to undermine his activities so that they could get control of his money. At the end all the property goes to the people of Friendenstahl, with the land to be held in common.

PB - Cassidy CY - Canton, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Falsivir's Travels. The Remarkable Adventures of John Falsivir Seaman at the North Pole and in the Interior of the Earth With a Description of the Wonderful People and the Things Discovered There Y1 - 1886 A1 - Thomas Lee, ed. [written by] KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure, but some eutopia; for example, everyone charged with a crime is provided free defense.

PB - Published for the Proprietor CY - [London] U3 -

John Falsivir [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Irish Rebellion of 1886, Retold by a Landlord Y1 - 1886 AB -

Anti-Irish satire. A brief attempt at independence is put down by Britain.

PB - Harrison and Sons CY - London N1 -

There were at least four identical editions published in 1886. 

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A Landlord [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Siege of Bodike: A Prophecy of Ireland's Future Y1 - 1886 A1 - Edward Lester (1831-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An anti-Home Rule tale of the future, but one that is sympathetic to Ireland's problems. The "Severance of Union Act" is passed and then repealed. The new regime established gives considerable power to localities, with each having a local board to "regulate tariffs, rents, and all technical and local matters" (137). More police. Absentee landlords heavily taxed. Money invested in improving agriculture, industry, and infrastructure. Education is improved, and a Roman Catholic university of quality is established, so that clergy will be better educated. Censorship is imposed as a means of improving education. Royalty visits regularly.

PB - John Heywood CY - London and Manchester U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bohemian Society Y1 - 1884 A1 - Lydia [Brown] Leavitt KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Begins with a simple, isolated, religious, small-town eutopia, which is ruined by contact with the modern world.

PB - Times Printing and Publishing Co CY - Brockville, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. Toronto, ON, Canada: Hunter, Rose, 1885.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aleriel; or, A Voyage to Other Worlds. A Tale Y1 - 1883 A1 - Rev. W[ladjslaw] S[omerville] Lach-Szyrma (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Continuation of his 1874 A Voice From Another World. See also his 1887 "Letters from the Planets." Includes a voyage around the solar system with visits to Mars and Venus (both eutopias), Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and some of the moons of the latter two. The eutopias are both based on religion. He describes the eutopia on Venus as one of the perfection of "a future state" (i. e. heaven) and the one on Mars as "a more practical Utopia, implying the tendencies of human progress, and suggesting improvements for human society as it now exists" (viii).

PB - Wyman and Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Wrong Paradise: An Occidental Apologue" Y1 - 1883 A1 - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Satire in which a man is accidentally sent to the "wrong paradise". Travel through various heavens, including Native American Indian, Ancient Greek, Agnostic, and Islamic paradises plus a visit to hell. The "main occupation" of the Agnostics is "to read the poetry of George Eliot and the philosophy of Mr. J.S. Mill" (47).

JF - The Fortnightly Review VL - 40 N1 -

Rpt. in The Living Age 160 (ns 45) (1884): 46-51; and in his In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886), 109-35. New ed. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 189-), 111-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. Being a History of England Between the Years 1840-1981. Written for the Use of Junior Classes in Schools by Lang-Tung, Professor of History of the Imperial University of Pekin and Tutor to Their Imperial Highnesses the Princes Sing and Hang. Translated into the English Language by YEA, Pekin, 2381 A.D. Y1 - 1881 A1 - Lang-Tung [pseud.] AB -

Satire--a degenerated England is now barbarian. Attacks on Ireland, women's rights, a republicanism.

PB - F.V. White CY - London U3 -

Lang-Tung [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the Back of the Moon; or, Observations of Lunar Phases Y1 - 1879 A1 - [Minot Judson] [Savage] (1841-1918) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Fairly simple satire on the United States using a society on the back of the moon as the foil.

PB - Lee and Shepard/Charles T. Dillingham CY - Boston, MA/New York U3 -

A Lunar Wray [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voice From Another World Y1 - 1874 A1 - W[ladislaw] S[omerville] L[ach]-S[zyrma] (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A Christian eutopia stressing science, art and religion. Little or no political, economic, or social material. Written in 1865. See also 1883 and 1887 Lach-Szyrma.

PB - James Parker CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An entirely new feature of a thrilling new novel! Entitled, the Social War of the Year 1900; or, The Conspirators and Lovers! A Lesson for Saints and Sinners Y1 - 1872 A1 - S[imon] M[ohler] Landis (1829-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Emphasis is on conspiracy and revolt, but an authoritarian constitution is provided.

PB - Landis Publishing Society CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

The author published a dramatic version as A Thrilling prophetic drama, entitled The social war of 1900, or, The conspirators and lovers in five acts. [Philadelphia, PA]: S.M. Landis, 1873.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World" Y1 - 1871 A1 - Edward Lear (1812-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly standard Lear nonsense, but many of the places the children visit have elements of a cockaigne, particularly concerned with food.

JF - Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets PB - Robert John Bush CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Nonsense Books with all the original illustrations (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1921), 98-114; and in his The Complete Nonsense Book Containing all the Original Pictures and Verses, together with New Material. Ed. [Constance], Lady Strachey, 18th ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961), 149-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story Y1 - 1869 A1 - [Cora Semmes] [Ives] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A pro-Confederacy anti-Union novel set on the Moon, which has never known war. Much fantasy and fairy story is an accurate description, but the kingdom on the moon is described in eutopian terms.

PB - Np/Ptd. by the Sun Book & Job Office CY - Warrenton, VA./Baltimore, MD N1 -

Rpt. Louisville KY: Lost Cause Press, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Excelsior; or, The Heir Apparent. Showing the Adventures of a Promising and Wealthy Young Man, and His Devoted Friends; and Presenting Entwined with the varying story, the Key to a Diamond United States, or a Vitally Consolidated Republic, A Perfect Union, Otherwise Kingdom of Heaven. Likewise Giving, in Picturesque Dramatic Dialogue, the Notorious Actions and Secret Lives of Two Celebrated Dictators of Party and Leaders in Political Conventions. The Whole Embodied in A Thrilling and Exquisite Poetical Romance Y1 - 1860 A1 - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] KW - US author AB -

Mostly on current evils but includes a eutopia based on universal suffrage and everyone becoming their own landlord by buying property through rent in installments. Marriage at sixteen. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, The Road Made Plain and 1860 Lookup, Soldier of the People. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.

PB - Kennedy CY - New-York U3 -

Lookup, Alexander [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road Made Plain to Fortune for the Million: or, The Popular Pioneer to Universal Prosperity Y1 - 1860 A1 - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] ED - Thos. Ward M.D. KW - US author AB -

"Politics is divulged in the light of God as the craft of the Devil, and the opposite of a useful science." Change is brought about by refusing to pay rents. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, Excelsior and 1860 Lookup, Soldier of the People. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.

PB - Kennedy CY - New York U3 -

Alexander Lookup  [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soldier of the People; or, The World's Deliverer. A Romance Y1 - 1860 A1 - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] KW - US author AB -

Presented in millennial terms but contains the same elements of a eutopia as the other Lookup books. All the land belongs to God and cannot be taxed. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, Excelsior and 1860 Lookup, The Road Made Plain. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.

PB - Kennedy CY - New-York U3 -

Lookup, Alexander [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Air Battle: A Vision of the Future Y1 - 1859 A1 - Herrmann Lang KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and war in a far future where countries in Africa and South America dominate and whites are slaves. After a war finally brings the three dominant countries together, white slavery is ended in the name of Christianity and the world is unified. Advanced technology. Some anti-Semitic elements.

PB - William Penny CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972 with an "Introduction" by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith (unpaged).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia; The Right of the Colonies, and The Interest of Britain and of the World Y1 - 1852 A1 - John Dunmore Lang, D.D., A.M. (1799-1878) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Non-fiction argument for Australian independence, but in the process the author discusses an at least partially eutopian future for the South Pacific. Specifically, he discusses opportunities for advancement for young men who would not be able to advance in Britain or in a colony and the room provided for more British poor to become self-sufficient. Freedom and independence will also lead to a more educated, moral, and Christian citizenry. In addition, he argues that Australia will provide raw materials for British industry and an increased outlet for its goods, and that both will be enhanced by freedom and independence. According to him, New Zealand would be bound to join the federation. See also his The Coming Event, or, The United Provinces of Australia: Two Lectures Delivered in the City Theatre and School of Arts, Sydney. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. and sold by D.L. Welch, [1850] (A, L).

PB - Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans CY - London N1 -

2nd ed., greatly enlarged and improved. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. by F. Cunningham, 1857. Later ed. as The Coming Event! or Freedom and Independence for the Seven United Provinces of Australia. Sydney, NSW, Australia: John L. Sherriff, 1870. U.K. ed. London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1870.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Social Sketch, or, Everything in Common" Y1 - 1850 A1 - John Leech (1817-64) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire by means of a colored frontispiece showing the conflicts arising from common ownership.

JF - Punch's Pocket Book for 1850, Containing Ruled Pages for Cash Accounts and Memoranda for Every Day of the Year; An Almanack; and a Variety of Useful Business Informations. The Illustrations by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and H.K. Browne PB - Punch Office CY - London U2 -

Illus. by John Leech.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime Y1 - 1844 A1 - George Lippard (1822-1854) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a sensational novel as reflected in the title, that, in the “Preface to this Edition,” the author says describes “all the phases of a corrupt social system, as manifested in the city of Philadelphia. There is a brief dystopia, “The Last Says of the Quaker City” (372-93), and a brief eutopia, “The Temple of Ravoni” (525-37). On these utopian dimensions, see Nathaniel Williams, “George Lippard’s Fragile Utopian Future and 1840s American Economic Turmoil.” Utopian Studies 24.2 (2013): 166-83.

PB - G.B. Zieber & Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. as The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime. With Illustrations, and the Author’s Portrait and Autograph. Philadelphia, PA: Leary, Stuart, & Co., [1876], with the author’s “Preface to this Edition” (1-2). Rpt. as The Monks of Monk Hall. New York: Odyssey Press 1970 with an “Introduction by Leslie Fiedler (vii-xxxii). Rpt. ed. David S. Reynolds (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Reynolds (vii-xliv).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage from Utopia to Several Unknown Regions of the World. By Yarbfj. Translated from the American Y1 - 1842 A1 - John Francis Bray (1809-97) ED - M. F. Lloyd-Prichard KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on contemporary nations. 

PB - Lawrence and Wishart CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 349-486. Claeys re-transcribed the text from the original manuscript.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rebellion of the Beasts; Or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!! Y1 - 1825 A1 - [Robert Mackenzie] [Beverley] (1798-1868) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-monarchical satire in which animals successfully revolt against human domination.

PB - J. & H. L. Hunt CY - London N1 -

Rpt. with Leigh Hunt as the author Chicago, IL: Wicker Park Press, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Empire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women. An Eutopian Romance, in Twelve Books Y1 - 1811 A1 - James [Henry] Lawrence (1773-1840) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Largely adventure and romance but presented as a picture of a eutopia of equality for women. Men are completely free from all duties except warfare. Women are revered as mothers and supported as such by the state. No marriage and women choose their lovers as they wish. Every house belongs to some woman and men live with relatives or lovers. Lawrence drew inspiration from and refers to Mary Wollstonecraft's (1759-97) Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1782). The description of sexual freedom influenced Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); see 1817 and 1821 Shelley, both of which were so influenced. Shelley wrote Lawrence on August 17, 1812, saying "Your 'Empire of the Nairs,' which I read this Spring, succeeded in making me a perfect convert to its doctrines" (The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Frederick L. Jones. 2 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1964), 1: 323. See Walter Graham, "Shelley and The Empire of the Nairs." PMLA 40.4 (December 1925): 881-91. The Nairs are based on an actual Hindu caste from Kerela in India. On the actual Nairs, see Élie Reclus, "The Naïrs, Warrior Nobility and the Matriarchate." In his Primitive Folk: Studies in Comparative Ethnology (London: Walter Scott, [1891?]), 143-77. Originally published in French but no translator given.

PB - Ptd. for T. Hookham and E.T. Hookham CY - London VL - 4 vols. in 2. N1 -

Rpt. as The Empire of the Nairs (1811). 4 vols. in 1. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 5: 1-328.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Voyage to the Moon" Y1 - 1808 A1 - Nicholas Lunatic F.R.S. [pseud.] AB -

A satire on contemporary England in which the faults of the people of the Moon are regularly compared to an England where these faults do not exist. For example, the traveler is shocked by prostitution, theft, corruption, venality, the concern with fashion, etc., none of which are said to exist in England. The voyage to the Moon was made in a balloon, to which was attached a boat with oars for steering. The language on the Moon is Welsh. Presents conflicts with Frogland (France), the Glum religion of Bogland (Ireland), the American revolution, and other issues.

JF - Satiric Tales: Consisting of A Voyage to the Moon; All the Tailors; or, the Old Cloak; and the Fat Witch of London PB - Ptd. for J. Dean for George Hughes and H.D. Symonds CY - London U3 -

Lunatic, Nicholas, F.R.S. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Sketch of a Plan for the Formation of a Military Colony" Y1 - 1792 A1 - Charles Lee (1731-82) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that describes a colony with distribution of land by rank, rules for religion, laws, etc.

JF - Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-Fourth Regiment, Colonel in the Portuguese Service, Major-General and Aid du Camp to the King of Poland, and Second in Command in the Service of the United States of America PB - T. Allen CY - New York N1 -

U. S. ed. Memoirs of the Life of the Late Charles Lee, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel of the Forty-Fourth Regiment, Colonel in the Portuguese Service, Major-General and Aid du Camp to the King of Poland, and Second in Command in the Service of the United States of America During the Revolution: To Which Are Added His Political and Military Essays. Also, Letters to, and From Many Distinguished Characters, Both in Europe and America (New York: T. Allen, 1792), 48-55. Book also entitled The Life and Memoirs of the Late Major General Lee. . . 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Observations on the Present Situation and Future Prospects of this the United States. No. IX. The History of White Negroes" Y1 - 1786 A1 - Lycurgus [pseud.] AB -

Satire on contemporary American politics, particularly the national debt, presented as an analysis of how, after slavery ends, the rich avoid being taxed to pay off the national debt and the white working class are so burdened with debt, which grows rather than shrinks, that they are enslaved to the new masters.

JF - The New-Haven Gazette, and the Connecticut Magazine VL - 1.9 U3 -

Lycurgus [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Trip to the Moon. Containing an Account of the Island of Noibla. Its Inhabitants, Religious and Political Customs, &c. Y1 - 1764 A1 - [Francis] [Gentleman] (1728-84) KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -

Eutopia with simple laws. The head of the family is responsible for the conduct of all family members and must give a weekly account of their activities. Everyone must attend public worship at least once a day. Children are raised by a woman other than the natural mother because mothers are less likely to be willing to correct a child.

PB - Ptd. by A. Ward for S. Crowder, et al., CY - York, Eng. VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. in Gulliveriana: I. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970), 97-204; and as A Trip to the Moon. New York: Garland, 1974.

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By Sir Humphrey Lunatic, Bart. [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crumble-Hall" Y1 - 1751 A1 - Mrs. [Mary] Leapor of Brackley in Northamptonshire (1722-46) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an English country house as a eutopia. Food and rest are provided for all, including the poor. The emphasis on food makes it read like a cockaigne. Stress on kitchen workers.

JF - Poems on Several Occasions PB - Ptd. for J. Roberts CY - London VL - 2 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Petition for an Absolute Retreat" Y1 - 1713 A1 - [Anne] [Finch] (1661-1720) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopian poem. Plea for a retreat from the troubles of life and a description of the retreat in terms of the tradition of a eutopia achieved without human effort.

JF - Miscellany Poems. Written by a Lady [pseud.] PB - Ptd. for John Barber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea. Ed. Myra Reynolds. 2nd ser., vol. 5 of The Decennial Publication (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1903), 68-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Serious Proposal To the Ladies, For the Advancement of their true and greatest Interest Y1 - 1694 A1 - [Mary] [Astell] (1668-1731) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. An essay suggesting the establishment of an institution where women would be able to live and work independently of men. See also her non-utopian A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. Part II: Wherein a Method is offer'd for the Improvement of their Minds. London: Ptd. for Richard Wilkin, 1697. Rpt. in A Serious Proposal To the Ladies (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 45-162; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 67-196.

PB - Ptd. for K. Wilkin CY - London N1 -

4th ed of 1701 rpt. without the subtitle (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 1-43; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3-65. [2nd ed. enl.] as A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I and II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 49-126.

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By A Lover of Her Sex [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage into Tartary. Containing a Curious Description of that Country, with part of Greece and Turky [sic]; the Manners, Opinions, and Religion of the Inhabitants therein; with some other Incidents Y1 - 1689 A1 - M. Heliogenes de L'Epy [pseud?] AB -

Eutopia. Heliopolis where all goods are held in common. Men over 30 are enfranchised. No lawyers. New opinions must be approved by a council.

PB - Ptd. by T. Hodgkin CY - London U3 -

L’Epy, M. Heliogenes de [pseud?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Country Not Named Y1 - 1675 A1 - Francis Lodwick (1619-1695) ED - William Poole KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed records kept on all people and all "matters notable" in each division of the country. The people had been monotheists, became polytheists, then returned to monotheism, and ultimately became Christians. Ideal language, which was one of the author's interests. Compulsory education from six with separate schools for girls with women teachers, with the education for girls the same as that for boys except that they are taught sewing and not taught gymnastics. Few laws and those read out to the population once a month.

JF - A Country Not Named (MS. Sloane 913, fols. IR-33R). An edition with an annotated primary bibliography and an introductory essay on Lodwick and his intellectual context by William Poole PB - ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) CY - Tempe, AZ N1 -

Also in Francis Lodwick, On Language, Theology and Utopia. Ed. Felicity Henderson and William Poole (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2010), 265-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scydromedia seu sermo, quem Alphonsus de la Vida Habuit Coram Comite de Falmouth, De Monarchia. Liber Primus Y1 - 1669 A1 - Antonii Le Grand (1629-99) KW - English author KW - French author KW - Male author AB -

A utopia similar in form to 1516 More but rejecting common ownership of property.

PB - Johannis Ziegeri CY - Nurmburg, Germany U3 -

Alphonsus de la Vida [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth, the Author cares not in what World it is established" Y1 - 1655 A1 - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) ED - Lady M[argaret] of Newcastle (1623?-74) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. The author provides something close to a constitution for a monarchical system detailing the relations between the King and the people and relations among the people.

JF - The Worlds Olio PB - Ptd. for J. Martin Allestrye CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. (London: A. Maxwell, 1671), 399-412. Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 128-37; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 145-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Description of Cooke-ham" Y1 - 1611 A1 - Aemilia [Bassano] Lanyer (1569-1645) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

An English country house as a eutopia with much of the emphasis on the grounds surrounding the house.

JF - Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum PB - Valentine Simmes CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Ed. Susanne Woods (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 130-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Second part and Knitting up of the Boke entituled Too good to be true. Wherein is continued the discourse of the wonderfull Lawes, commendable customes, and strange manners of the people of Mauqsun Y1 - 1581 A1 - Thomas Lupton (fl. 1572-84). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1580 Lupton. Anti-Roman Catholic with an emphasis on landlord-tenant relations. Mauqsun = Nusquam = Nowhere. 

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