If I Were Dictator. From a Speech delivered at Blackpool on May 24th 1935 - The Right Hon. Sir Herbert [Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) (Liberal Publication Department, 1935)
Outlines the policies of Liberalism at the time. Remove trade restrictions; stabilize currencies; limit armaments; stimulate employment; reduce taxation; extend social reforms; develop industrial self-government; and enhance liberty and equality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Martha Brown M.P.; A Girl of To-Morrow - [Annie Sophie ("Vivian")] [Cory] (1868-1952) (T. Werner Laurie, 1935)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Cheap ed. London: T Werner Laurie, [1936].
Keywords: English author; Female author

Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1935)
Advanced human beings and the society they create. The eutopia is a small part of the work. Stapledon wrote many utopias.
Rpt. as the Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Wendy Snow-Lang and with a brief "Introduction" (unpaged) by Alfred Bester. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. Rpt. as Odd John: THE Masterpiece of the Superhuman Race that May Replace Humanity Sooner than You Think! New York: Galaxy, 1936. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 8. U.S. ed. rpt. with the original title in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 413-569. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 413-569; as Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Ernest [sic]. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1965; and in Odd John & Sirius: Two Science Fiction Novels (New York: Dover Publications, 1972), 1-157.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Perfect World" - Benson Herbert (1912-91) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
World inside a planet with perfect physical surroundings.
Abridged as Crisis! 1992. London: Grant Richards, 1936.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Purple Plague; A Tale of Love and Revolution - [Archibald] Fenner Brockway (1888-1988) (Sampson, Low & Marston, 1935)
Egalitarian eutopia on a ship where people have had to live for years as a result of the purple plague.
Rewritten as Red Liner: A Novel in TV Form. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1962.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Shroud as Well as a Shirt - Shamus [James Ian Arbuthnot] Frazer (1912-66) (Chapman & Hall, 1935)
Dystopia of a near future fascist takeover in England.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Soul of Man in the Age of Leisure - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) (Stanley Nott, 1935)
Non-fiction but projects a better future society based on leisure. The pamphlet series is a Social Credit series, but this one does not mention Social Credit.
Rpt. in The Social Credit Pamphleteer by Various Hands being Numbers 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 17 of the Listed material opposite [A full list of the Pamphlets on the New Economics] (London: Stanley Nott, 1935). Items separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Sun Shall Rise - Richard Heron Ward (1910-69) (Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1935)
Fascist dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

When Yvonne Was Dictator - Elsie [Elizabeth] Kay Gresswell (1877-1944) (John Heritage, 1935)
A woman becomes a benevolent dictator after the mass suicide of the unemployed and the failure of three parties to form a government. She ends unemployment and brings about a number of other reforms, particularly in the area of gender equality.
Keywords: English author; Female author

With the Lid Off - [Mary Eliza Louise] [Cooke] (1883-1941) (T. Werner Laurie, 1935)
A benevolent dictatorship transforms England. Nationalization with people forced to work. if necessary, eugenics, required exercise, and slum clearance. Most of the novel is on the battle for success.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Woman Alive - Susan Ertz (1887-1985) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1935)
War and a disease it produced left only one woman alive. Drama of convincing her to marry and start again. Suggests that eutopia will be possible.
US ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1936. Also published as "One Woman Alive." The Delineator 128.3 - 5 (March - May 1936): 4, 6, 7, 42-44, 46-47; 16-19, 21, 47-50; 24-25, 56-58, 60.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Woman Triumphant: A Comedy - Hugh [Oswald] Blaker (1873-1936) (Grant Richards, 1935)
Women get the vote in 1928 and come to dominate men. The novel describes a men's liberation movement.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Black August. A Novel - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) (Hutchinson, 1934)
Dystopia. The depression of the thirties brings about the collapse of governments and, in Britain, the emergence of a Communist dictatorship.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Blind Mouths - Thomas [Frederick] Tweed (1890-1940) (Arthur Barker, Ltd, 1934)
Dystopia. The Federation of Danubian States rejects a Christ figure.
U. S. ed. by T[homas] F[rederick] Tweed, Destiny’s Man. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Confound Their Politics - [David William] Alun Llewellyn (1903-87/88) (George Bell & Sons, 1934)
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.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The First Workers' Government or New Times for Henry Dubb - G[ilbert] R[ichard] Mitchison (1894-1970) (Victor Gollancz, 1934)
Keywords: English author; Male author

If I Were Dictator - Lord [Fitzroy Richard Somerset] Raglan (1885-1964) (Methuen, 1934)
Presented as a eutopia based on a number of reforms, including a limit on freedom of the press, various means of encouraging trade and industry while protecting workers from exploitation, compulsory sterilization of those deemed unfit, abolition of the jury system, and harsh punishment for hardened criminals
Keywords: English author; Male author

If I Were Dictator - Julian Huxley (1887-1975) (Methuen, 1934)
Eutopia. Detailed reform. Application of the scientific method to the problems of dictatorship. Based on scientific humanism and an experimental outlook and support for scientific research. Planned society with a Central Planning Council. Freedom of belief. Support public art. Reform marriage and divorce with trial marriage and sex education. Civic conscription for both men and women eighteen to twenty. Reorganize government. Industrial corporations such as steel, coal, building, and milk. Ownership, management, and labor equally represented on the central council of each corporation, which has significant self-government..
Excerpts published as "If I Were Dictator." Harper's Monthly Magazine 169 (October 1934): 529-39. Much expanded version New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Landslide - Monica [Mary] Curtis (1892-1956) (Victor Gollancz, 1934)
Political novel set in an alternative future in which nothing was done after World War I to support the peace and another brief war followed that united Europe as the Confederation of Western Powers, which continued after the war under a leader who became a dictator.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Lost City of Light - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) (Frederick Warne, 1934)
Most of the novel is about the quest by a descendant of the Templars for a lost Christian city, during which he is captured and taken to a dystopian Chinese city that has enslaved the Christians, who are allowed, at night, to live in their own city and govern themselves. He leads them to freedom.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Manifesto: Being the Book of The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953); Allan Young; W[illiam Edward] Arnold-Forster; Francis Meynell; W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950); Janet Chance; D[ennis] N[owell] Pritt; Clough Williams-Ellis; G[eoffrey] M[axwell] Boumphrey; Archibald Robertson; J[ohn] C[arl] Flugel (George Allen & Unwin, 1934)
Similar to 1912 The Great State in that the essays collectively describe a vision of a future eutopia that is, in essence, a socialist world state. See also Plan for World Order and Progress: A Constructive Review (The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals) 1.1 - 1.9 (April - September 1934), which published a review of the Manifesto by Aldous Huxley in 1.4 (July 1934): 7, 15.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) (Ward, Lock & Co, 1934)
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.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Proud Man - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) (Boriswood, 1934)
Complex satire on contemporary Britain from the point of view of a future human visiting in a dream. The future is a eutopia in which the people appear to be hermaphrodites, and there are no national governments and no class structure. Calls contemporary people sub-human.
Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press, 1993 with a “Foreword (ix-xxiv) and an “Afterword” (319-50) by Daphne Patai.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Strange Invaders - [David William] Alun Llewellyn (1903-87/88) (George Bell & Sons, 1934)
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.
Keywords: English author; Male author

War Upon Women; A Topical Drama - Maboth Mosely (1906-75) (Hutchison, 1934)
Authoritarian dystopia. England with a dictator and war with an emphasis on the impact of war on women.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Acorned Hog - Shamus [James Ian Arbuthnot] Frazer (1912-66) (Chapman & Hall, 1933)
Satirical novel about two dystopias, a socialist that closes universities and forces the students into low-level jobs followed by a revived monarchy that turns England back into an agricultural country by destroying its industries and shipping the industries, cities, and people to the United States.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Astonishing Island; Being a Veracious Record of the Experience, Undergone by Robinson Lippingtree Mackintosh from Tristan Da Cunha during an Accidental Visit to Unknown Territory in the Year of Grace MCMXXX---? - Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) (Lovat Dickson, 1933)
Satire on English customs.
Part originally published as "Freedom of Speech." Radio Times 38.489 (February 10, 1933): 321.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Australia, 1999" - Helen [de Guerry] Simpson (1897-1940) (The Woman on the Beast, Viewed from Three Angles, 1933)
Dystopia as the third part of three stories representing the history of religion. Mrs. Emma Jordan Sopwith (a thinly disguised Aimee Semple Macpherson--1890-1944), the Antichrist, becomes world ruler through conversion and violent suppression of all opposition. All books are burnt except Mrs. Sopwith’s writings and her version of the Bible, Rome is bombed, Ireland depopulated, privacy abolished, and thought is controlled. Australia is the only holdout, although the entire population has become nomadic to avoid assault. End of the world.
(U.S. ed Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Banking (being a chapter from the History of the 1935 Socialist Government, written in 1970) - G[ilbert] R[ichard] Mitchison (1894-1970) (Socialist Programme Series, 1933)
A detailed description of what the author thought the Labour Party should do regarding banking once in power, mostly on the specific actions immediately after election in 1935, with some on the long-term effects. The establishment of many municipal savings banks, the closure of superfluous banks, and the improvement in the conditions of bank workers. An “Appendix” (18-29 includes the “Emergency Powers (Financial) Act, 1935” (18-21) and the “Banking Act, 1935” (21-29). See also 1934 Mitchison.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Death Rocks the Cradle. A Strange Tale - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) (Collins, 1933)
Flawed utopia. An over-concern with health leads to an authoritarian dystopia. Those who get sick are permanently removed to a penal settlement, where all their descendants must remain. The penal settlement is itself a flawed utopia. There is no work required because technology does most of it. No buying and selling. No money. One meal per day has to be eaten communally in one of the many restaurants. A electrical fence surrounds each city. Children are named by the state, taken from their parents at birth, and raised in crèches without contact with their parents. Compulsory regular medical examinations. Lots of hospitals in penal settlements; none outside.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Life in the Year 2106” - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (The Rotarian, 1933)
A brief but detailed eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Little Arthur's History of the Twentieth Century - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1933)
Transition to a world state. Satire both on failed experiments and on the uniformity of the future world state.
Parts originally published in Time and Tide 14.6 - 12 (February 11 - March 19, 1933): 141-43; 174-76; 210-12; 243-45; 283-85; 314-16; 351-53.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Lost Horizon - James Hilton (1900-54) (William Morrow & Co, 1933)
Classic lost race eutopia set in Tibet. Longevity.
UK ed. London: Macmillan & Co., 1933. Films directed by Frank Capra (1937) and Charles Jarrott (1973).
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The New Pleasure - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) (George Allen & Unwin, 1933)
Most of the novel is concerned with the introduction of a substance that enhances the power of smell and its effects. The novel ends with the eutopia that is produced in which cities have been replaced by gardens, and the world is unified.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Power - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Jarrolds, 1933)
Dystopia based on the possession of a weapon that could destroy entire areas and the story of the rise and fall of the dictatorship that the man who controlled it produced.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rinehard: A Melodrama of the Nineteen-Thirties - [Thomas Frederic] [Tweed] (1890-1940) (Arthur Barker, 1933)
Political novel with a touch of the supernatural but includes a reformed U.S. and peace in the world.
U.S. ed. as Gabriel Over the White House; A Novel of the Presidency. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. Also published under the U. S title. London: Cherry Tree Books, 1952.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Saint on Holiday - Geoffrey Dearmer (1893-1996) (William Heinemann, 1933)
Dystopia in which the Ministry of Grace--consumer advocates, government critics, and others like them--gain power.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Hutchinson, 1933)
Eutopia. Detailed future world state. More than half the book is concerned with the old world up to 1933 and much of the description of the future is concerned with the difficulties of the transition to the eutopia.
Rpt. Ed. John Hammond. London: J.M. Dent, 1993. Chronology by John Lawton (xi-xxix) "Introduction" by Hammond (xxxi-xxxix), "Notes" (419-23), "H.G. Wells and His Critics" (425-28), "Further Reading" (429-30), and "Text Summary" (431-33); and London: Gollancz, 2011. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1933. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Macmillan, 1945. A film was produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies as Things to Come (1936) with the screenplay by Wells; see Things to Come: A Film Story Based on the Material Contained in His History of the Future "The Shape of Things to Come". London: The Cresset Press, 1935. Serialized as "Things to Come." Evening Standard (November 18 - 30, 1935): 22-23; 22-23; 22-23; 26-27; 22-23; 17-18; 23-24; 22-23; 22-23; 19, 22; 22-23; 17-18. Illus. with drawings and stills from the film. A short version was published as "Things To Come: The Story of the Film." The New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine 96.509 (October 1935): 107-14, 116-18, 120-28. Book rpt. Things to Come. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction" by Allan Asherman (vii-xiv), cast and credits (xv-xvi), stills (xvii-xxxii), and an "Introduction" by George Zebrowski (xxxiii-xxxix). For related material, see Leon Stover, The Prophetic Soul: A Reading of H.G. Wells's "Things to Come" Together with His Film Treatment, "Whither Mankind?" and the Postproduction Script (Both Never Before Published). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1987. See also Things to Come. A Critical Text of the 1935 London First Edition with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. The Annotated H.G. Wells. Volume 9. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tom's A-Cold - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) (Macmillan, 1933)
Dystopia. England has reverted to a savage state as a result of war and famine and consists of marauding bands. The novel focuses on one such band, with memories of better times.
US ed. entitled Full Circle. New York: D. Appleton, 1933.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Unborn Tomorrow - [Margaret Maud] [Brash] (1880-1965) (W. Collins & Co, 1933)
Anti-Communist dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"When the Crash Comes; A Play In Three Acts and a Prologue" - [John] Beverley Nichols (1898-1983) (Failures: Three Plays, 1933)
Dystopia of a Communist takeover of Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Approaching Storm - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) (Hutchinson, 1932)
Dystopia of a Communist dictatorship in Britain. See also 1930 Tillyard, Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Awakening - Geo[rge] C[ecil] Foster (1893-1975) (Chapman and Hall, 1932)
Mostly a romance but includes a few pages describing a conservative eutopia set in 1981. Monarchies have been restored in most of the world. Low taxes. Cars abolished.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Beyond the Rim - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Jarrolds, 1932)
Lost race religious dystopia set in Antarctica based on a group of seventeenth century English Protestants who had been shipwrecked.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Lost Race Fantasy. [Holicong, PA]: Borgo Press, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Brave New World - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) (Chatto & Windus, 1932)
Classic authoritarian dystopia with drugs, behavior modification, and promiscuity. Huxley later argued that the world depicted in this novel was approaching much faster than he had expected.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. Rpt. New York: The Modern Library, 1946 With a special Foreword by the author (unpaged); New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950, with an “Introduction” by Charles J. Rolo (vii-xviii); [Avon, CT]: The Limited Editions Club, 1974; illus. Mara McAfee and with an “Introduction” by Ashley Montagu (v-xi); illus. Leonard Rosoman. London: The Folio Society, 1971; in Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 1-231, with a “Foreword” by Christopher Hitchins (vii-xxi); and Toronto, ON, Canada: Vintage Canada, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Margaret Atwood (v-xiv); and illus. Finn Dean. London: The Folio Society, 2013, with an “Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin (ix-xiv), which was rpt. as Huxley’s Bad Trip.” In her Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books 2000-2016 (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer, 2016), 127-32.  Also, Brave New World. A Graphic Novel. Adapted and illus. by Fred Fordham. New York: HarperCollins, 2022.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Cosmopolis - Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-1979) (Jarrolds, 1932)
A supposedly perfect school, called the Institut Utopia, starts the movement toward eutopia but fails. The novel is mostly about the personal dynamics among the people.
U. S. ed. New York, L. MacVeagh, Dial Press, Inc., 1933. 323 pp. Rev. as The White Mountain. London: Falcon Press, 1949 325 pp. with a note that the original 1932 issue was withdrawn within a week of being issued. Rpt. London: White Lion Publishers, 1975. There are no obvious differences between the two editions.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Isle of Men - Volk, Gordon (Skeffington & Son, 1932)
Mostly romance and adventure but includes a well-ordered, balanced eutopia on a Pacific island. Everyone in the community contributes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Last Men in London - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1932)
Loosely related to 1930 Stapledon, Last and First Men, but, even though it begins with a message from the last humans of two thousand million years in the future, the book is more restricted in scope. The people of this future have both evolved and re-designed themselves to live on Neptune. Children spend their first thousand years in a children's club, which they run, and which includes basic education. The second thousand years is spent on a separate continent, the Land of the Young. There are 96 sub-sexes. Telepathic. More leisure than work with each person specializing. Most of the book is then concerned with the modern world before, during, and after World War I. It then ends back on Neptune and with an "Epilogue" by Stapledon.
2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1934. There do not appear to be any differences in the editions. First ed. rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an "Introduction" by Curtis C. Smith and Harvey J. Satty (v-xiv). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 11-14.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Liberalism and the Revolutionary Spirit. Address to the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, July 1932” - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Forward View The Young Liberal’s’ Paper, 1932)
Eutopia. World state and the Open Conspiracy (see 1928 Wells), called the X Society and elaborated in the footnote.
Rpt. in his After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation (London: Watts & Co., 1932), 1-28. A badly cut version appeared in The Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1932): 393.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The New Gods Lead - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Jarrolds, 1932)
A collection of stories, mostly linked by a concern with science, and eugenics in particular, from a dystopian point of view. “Justice” is concerned with a relaxation of penalties for killing old people in automobile accidents. “This Night” and “P.N. 40” are concerned with the manipulation of the laws so that rich, old men could have access to the most beautiful, young women. “Brain” describes a scientists’ government that eliminates democracy. “Proof” is concerned with the elimination of the unfit, and the problems that develop. “Original Sin” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race.
Enlarged as The Throne of Saturn. Sauk City, IA: Arkham House, 1949, with the addition of two stories, “The Temperature of Gehenna Sue”, originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 135-48; and rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 170-79; and “Original Sin” [see 1938 Wright], which was written in 1936 and originally published in The Witchfinder (London: Books of To-Day, [1946]), 166-76, rpt. in Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 13 (1950): 68-73; and in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 180-87. Parts were originally published as “Justice.” Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine 86.451 (December 1930): 26-29, 102, 104; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 24-36; “P.N. 40--and Love.” Britannia and Eve 1.4 (August 1929): 45-48, 160-163; rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 96-120 [also pub. as “Love in the Year 93 E.E.” Red Book (1929): 66-69, 116, 119, 122, 124-25; rpt. in Fantasy Book 1.4 (May 1982): 73-80]; “The Rat.” Weird Tales 13.3 (March 1929): 337-50; rpt. as “Where the Rat Bites.” Fantasy: A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction (UK), no. 3 (1939): 33-44; and under the original title in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 133-52; and “Automata” Weird Tales 14.3 (September 1929): 337-44; rpt. Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 97-107; in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 121-32; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 117-132, with an editor’s note on 115-16. In The New Gods Lead, the Table of Contents is divided into “Where the New Gods Lead” and “Also”. The first group includes “Justice,” “This Night,” “Brain,” “Appeal,” “Proof”; “P.N. 40,” and “Automata.” The second group includes “The Rat,” “Rule,” and “Choice”. There is no such division in The Throne of Saturn. “This Night” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 37-49; “Brain” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 50-74; “Appeal” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 75-85; “Proof” is rpt. in Magazine of Horror 3.2 (14) (Winter 1966/67): 29-39; and in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 86-95’ “Rule” is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 153-64; and “Choice”, which was originally published in Eve 36.473 (1929) is rpt. in S. Fowler Wright’s Short Stories (Ludlow, Eng.: FWB, 1996), 165-69.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Spacetime Inn - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) (G. P. Putnam, 1932)
Play set outside of time with two cockney men who have won the “sweep” together with Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Dr. Johnson, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, the Queen of Sheba, and Eve. Napoleon and the two queens are presented as having extremely narrow views of the world. The others are somewhat caricatured, but there is serious debate, particularly between Shaw and Marx with occasional involvement by Shakespeare and Johnson, over whether and/or how to improve the lot of men like the two cockneys. Eve presents a eutopia of the simple enjoyment of life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

To-Morrow's Yesterday - John [Edwards] Gloag (1896-1981) (George Allen & Unwin, 1932)
Mostly destructive barbarianism with a takeover by beings evolved from cats, who argue that humans are controlled by sex. Describes the present as leading inevitably to war.
Rpt. in his First One and Twenty (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1946), 13-120.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Voice Across The Years" - [Inga Marie Stephens] [Pratt] (1906-70); [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ), 1932)
Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching.
Rpt. as Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

"What I Would Do With the World. A Talk broadcast in September, 1931" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation, 1932)
Non-fiction outlining a better future world in which he poses the question of what would he do if he had the power to bring about change? There would be a world state that would abolish war, an integrated world economy with a single currency and a world-controlled credit system, and a reorganized educational system, including much expanded adult education.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The World is Red" - F[rederick] Britten Austin (1885-1941) (The Red Flag, 1932)
The final chapter of a novel that fictionally describes the great revolutions from ancient Egypt to the “World Republic” of 2036, which is the dystopia that results from the success of Communism.
U. S. ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1934]), 371-400.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The World of Our Grandchildren. A Talk broadcast to U.S.A., November 1930" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation, 1932)
Non-fiction but outlining a better future world. Socialism seen as a system of community buying that building beautiful, functional towns and community health services that would ensure healthy people.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Citizen of the Future" - Sir Josiah [Charles] Stamp [1st Baron Stamp] (1880-1941) (Criticism and Other Address, 1931)
Essentially better educated people will create a eutopia which has gotten over democracy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Emperor of Hallelujah Island - George Goodchild (1888-1969) (Houghton Mifflin Co, 1931)
Dystopia. Island of slaves recruited from among murderers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Future of the Human Race" - W[illiam] R[alph] Inge (1860-1954) (Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1931)
Eutopia of England about 3,000 A.D. A simple life lived in villages and small towns. Eugenic controls. No war. No tariffs. Most nations are essentially self-supporting. Little central government. No lawyers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Gas War of 1940. A Novel. Being an account of the world catastrophe as set down by Raymond Denning, the first Dictator of Great Britain - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) (Eric Partridge at the Scholaris Press, 1931)
Most of the novel focuses on a war of all nations using advanced weapons that leads to the destruction of human civilization. The Prologue (9-27) describes the emergence of the dictator of the subtitle.
Rpt. as Valiant Clay. By Eric Bell [pseud.]. London: Collins, 1934.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hunger and Love - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) (Putnam, 1931)
The novel is mostly concerned with the trials and tribulations of its main protagonist, an intelligent but poor man, and is an attack on the dystopian of the contemporary capitalist order. But the novel also suggests, without going into detail, that a literal unification of the human race is necessary to being about a better life. As Bertrand Russel puts it in his “Introduction,” "It may be that the complete organic unification of the human race, which Mr. Britton regards as the ideal, is the only way in which a scientific civilisation can survive. It is, at any rate, practically certain that it cannot survive while the anarchism of private profit” [x]. The author says that the theory developed in Hunger and Love is presented in his plays Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930 and Animal Ideas: A Dramatic Symphony of the Human in the Universe. London: Putman, 1935. 134 pp.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931, with an “Introduction” by Bertrand Russell (vii-x). 623 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"If the General Strike Had Succeeded (Being Extracts from an Imaginary Newspaper June 1930)" - Rev. Fr. Ronald [Arbuthnott] Knox (1888-1957) (If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses into Imaginary History, 1931)
Satire suggesting the negative effects of the power of labor.
Book rpt. without the subtitle (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972), 277-89.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lost Children - H[enry] Herman Chilton (1863-1945) (Hutchinson, 1931)
Although it all turns out to be a dream, the novel describes the eutopia formed where the children were taken by the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Simple life. Arcadian. Crafts.
Keywords: Belgian author; English author; Male author

No Traveller Returns - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) (White Owl Press, 1931)
Future dystopia brought about by science; people selected for their scientific ability. All animals are destroyed. All culture eliminated.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"Our World in Fifty Years' Time" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation, 1931)
Non-fiction outlining a better future world. Although Wells says people might be worse off in fifty years, the world can be made a better place with the right education, all working short hours, and cooperation of the most prosperous countries.
Originally published in John o' London's Weekly (October 1931).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Seven Niches: A Legend - Egerton [Arthur Crossman] Clarke (1899-1944) (Cecil Palmer, 1931)
Eutopia. A poem about an imaginary city, called Tombelaine, which typifies Christendom.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Strange Hunger - Michael Hervey (1915-79) (Hamilton & Co, 1931)
A rich man and some scientists decide to establish a eutopia on an isolated island to counter the drift to war. It is established and manages to stop the next war.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930)
Dystopia. A giant brain built in the Sahara comes to control the entire world followed by a catastrophe when a Dark Star that the Brain cannot control destroys the Earth. The play opens with a discussion, between the Librarian of the British Museum, a conservative, and a professor of philosophy, who is more open to alternatives, of a manuscript, obviously Britton’s Hunger and Love (1931), and why it will be difficult to get it published.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Chronos or the Future of the Family. - [Maurice] Eden Paul M.D. (1865-1944) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1930)
Mostly an argument that the family as then known was coming to an end for economic and sexual reasons. Also argues that from the point-of-view of child-rearing, large families are better than small ones because children should interact with other children rather than adults. Suggests that in the future related and unrelated adults with and without children of their own but with a talent for parenthood raising a group of children, again related and unrelated, in large homes. Refers positively to two existing examples, the Beacon Hill School founded in 1927 by Dora and Bertrand Russell, which closed in 1947, and the Caldecott Community, which still exists.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) (Hutchinson, 1930)
Dystopia of reason and communism. Had abolished poverty and war. All goods free. People are euthanized the second time they fail a physical. Kissing children is illegal because it is unhygienic. People are bored. See also 1932 Tillyard, The Approaching Storm.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Drink Up, Gentlemen - J[ohn Cameron Audrieu] B[ingham Michael] Morton (1893-1979) (Chapman & Hall, 1930)
Satire describing a near future mildly repressive and puritanical dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" - John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) (The Nation and Athenaeum (London), 1930)
Essay that argues that within a hundred years the fundamental economic problems could be solved, and a society based on leisure created. Speculates on what such a society would look like. Three-hour workday fifteen hours per week will suffice.
Rpt. in his Essays in Persuasion (London: Macmillan, 1931), 358-73; and in Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. Ed. Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008), 17-26.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Here Is Thy Victory - Iris Barry (1895-1969) (Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930)
Involuntary immortality and its generally bad effects, which are reversed when death returns.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1930)
One of Stapledon’s visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species. It begins with an Introduction by One of the Last Men and then moves initially to World War I and after and the relatively near future. It then traces humanity through millions of years with both eutopian and dystopian periods to the end where a eutopian cosmic consciousness is developing and humans as such will disappear. Loosely related is 1932 Stapledon, Last Men in London.
U.S. ed. as by W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon with editorial cuts and “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3). Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 1-220; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 1-220; and in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 1-246, which includes “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3) and “Preface to the English Edition (9). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 3-11; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 436-52, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 434-35. Chapter IX: Earth and Mars in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 57-70.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lost Garden - Geo[rge] Cecil Foster (1893-1975) (Chapman & Hall, 1930)
Golden Ages at various times and places beginning with Atlantis and ending in the contemporary world. None are quite as “golden” as the myth suggests.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pantopia - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) (The Panurge Press, 1930)
Eutopia located on a contemporary isolated island. Natural aristocracy of talent/performance combined with essential equality. Communal economics. Eugenics. See also 1924 Harris, “The Temple of the Forgotten Dead,” which is said to be the basis for Pantopia.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

The People of the Blue Mountains - H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky (1831-91) (Theosophical Press, 1930)
An odd book that is often cataloged as an ethnography, but it presented as an account of an obviously fictional trip into an earthly paradise in the mountains of India. Lost race eutopia used as an excuse to teach Theosophy.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Russian author

The Seventh Bowl - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) (Eric Partridge, 1930)
Dystopia of immortality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Storm Over Europe. A Novel - Douglas [Francis] Jerrold (1893-1964) (Ernest Benn, 1930)
History of a Cisalpania, a small country between Hungary and Russia, from monarchy to liberalism to socialism and back to monarchy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

At the End of the World: A Vision - [Henry] [Gilbert] (1868-1937) (Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd, 1929)
End of the world and last man novel which includes a eutopia. The world experiences the return of the ice age, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc. During the period humanity becomes both personally and socially more integrated and less egotistical and creates a world state, known as the Perfect State. Reproduction is limited; work is social and fulfilling; cultural, national, racial, and religious differences disappear or lose importance; and there is high-quality education for all. But conditions continued to worsen, and most people come to lead a simple, primitive life. Emphasis on the search for God, who appears at the end.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, 1929)
Dystopia of a Fascist dictatorship in Britain.
Repub. without the subtitle London: William Heinemann, 1930. US ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Capitalist Utopia; A Message for Workers, Politicians, and Employers - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) (Watts & Co, 1929)
Capitalist eutopia. One company takes over the government; affiliated firms are designed to create wealth. Efficiency. Eugenics.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Children’s Country - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) (William Morrow & Co., 1929)
Children’s story in which two Earth children visit and have adventures in The Children’s Country, where children, none of whom will ever grow up to be a man of a woman, rule.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Dawn - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Cosmopolitan Book Co., 1929)
Sequel to 1927 Wright, Deluge, that details the experiences of a number of people following the events of the Deluge as they try to first simply survive and then build the beginnings of decent life, which is where the novel ends.
U.K. ed. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1930. Rpt. as Dawn: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2009; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Halcyon or The Future of Monogamy - Vera Brittain (1893-1970) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1929)
Presented as part of a book from the mid-21st century. Chapter I "Morals in the Post-Victorian Era, 1900-1930 (9-28); Chapter II "The Period of Sexual Reform, 1930-1975" (29-52); Chapter III "Scientific Progress, 1950-2000, and Its Relation to the Moral Revolution" (53-78); Chapter IV "The Triumph of Voluntary Monogamy, 2000-2030" (79-92).
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Rebel Passion - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) (Thornton Butterworth, 1929)
Traces history through the past and the then present to a religious, medieval, Christian eutopia in about 3150 (US 254-305). Women priests who serve women; the male priests serve men. No divorce. Everyone works. Some machinery including a “flying boat,” electricity that powers lights and radio. There has been no history in Europe since the passing of the machine age. If a country is happy, it has none.” Throughout it is suggested that the main character is not wholly male but a mix of male and female.
U.S. ed. as by Kay Burdekin [pseud.]. New York: Morrow, 1929.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Robinson the Great; A Political Fantasia on the Problems of To-day and the Solutions of To-morrow. Extracted from the works of Solomon Slack, LL.D. - [John Ramsay Bryce] [Muir] (1872-1941) (Christophers, 1929)
Eutopia calling for freeing Parliament from party rule, more Parliamentary power, and the re-organization of government. Describes the good society that results.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Thirteen O'Clock; A Play in Three Acts - [Eric] Anthony Thorne (1904-73) (Contemporary British Dramatists, 1929)
The setting of the play is "a super-city of the future" which is in fact a dreary place where little works right. Conflict over its future makes it worse.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast based on Present Possibilities With Illustrations by Sir Edwin Luytens. Professor A.E. Richardson. Ethelwyn Baker. Jean Campbell. Albert Daenins. Mervyn Wilson. and The Editor - John [Lawrence] Hodgson, ed. [written by] (1881-1936) (John Hodgson, 1929)
A leisure based eutopia set in 3927. Reason, eugenics, free love. Mostly technical. See also his 1929 "The War of the Rockets."  See also his 1929 “The War of the Rockets.”
Also published as a serial with the author given as John L. Hodgson in The Star Review (England) 2.4 - 12 (April - December 1929): 188-93, 279-84, 330-39, 398-405, 448-55, 510-20, 595-98, 634-51, 720-35 (NN). His The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual]. Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933 (L) reprints parts of The Time Journey (5-7 and 82-100) and the whole of “The War of the Rockets” (122-27) plus some other pieces.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The War of the Rockets" - John [Lawrence] Hodgson (1881-1936) (The Star Review (England), 1929)
Brief dystopia describing how "the Resourceless Ones" are controlled by their economic and political masters, who create an arms race that brings about a devastating war. The survivors create a eutopia based on a world government with a World Council and a World Police.
Rpt. in his The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual] (Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933), 122-27.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Woman Dominant - E[velyn] Charles H. Vivian (1882-1947) (Ward, Lock, 1929)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World Below - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (W. Collins Sons, 1929)
Part I repeats 1924 Wright. The Amphibians. The rest, entitled “The World Below”, presents “The Dwellers”, an advanced humanity who rule the world. The Dwellers are free of disease and injury. As they age, the body remains strong, but the mind begins to lose vitality and longs for death, which it ultimately wills to happen. Very few women were being born and the end of the race was possible. A non-utopian authorized sequel is Brian [Michael] Stableford, The World Beyond Being a Sequel to S. Fowler Wright’s Classic Science Fiction Novel, The World Below. [Rockville, MD]: The Borgo Press, 2009; 2nd ed. [Holicong, PA]: The Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2013.
Rpt. London: Books for Today, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Longman, Green, 1930. and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. These eds. include both 1924 Wright, The Amphibians and The World Below. The World Below is rpt. separately Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949; Shasta ed. rpt. with the subtitle A pulse-pumping, mind-prodding, sequel to THE AMPHIBIANS , . . just as haunting as that masterpiece of Earth’s far-distant future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 5. New York: World Editions, [1949].
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World in 2030 A.D - [Frederick Edwin] [Smith] [1st Earl of Birkenhead] (1872-1930) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1929)
Presented as a prediction. Technology will have improved life greatly. Little change in politics or economics. Women intellectually inferior to men.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul - J[ohn] D[esmond] Bernal (1901-71) (Kegan Paul & Co, 1929)
The book is presented as speculative prediction that focuses on space travel, the physical modification of humans, and the psychological changes these will bring about (and the resistance to them based in human psychology), but the section on human modification includes a brief non-fictional eutopia in the Stapledonian mode. After a life of 60 to 120 years of living, people will be surgically modified and provided with mechanical extensions of their senses and re-educated. In addition, people will develop mental connections to others that will ultimately produce a group mind, and this entity will be essentially immortal.
The book was originally announced under the title “Possibilities” and published in the “To-Day and To-Morrow” series. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

But Soft--we are observed! - [Joseph] Hilaire [Pierre René] Belloc (1870-1953) (Arrowsmith, 1928)
Satire on a conflict between the major political parties of the future: the Communists and the Anarchists.
US ed. as Shadowed! New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Childermass. Section I - [Percy] Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) (Chatto and Windus, 1928)
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.
Rpt. as The Human Age Book One Childermass. London: Methuen, 1956. U.S. ed. New York: Covici-Friede, 1928.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Coming Country. A Pre-Vision - Sir Francis [Edward] Younghusband (1863-1942) (John Murray, 1928)
Rebirth of England through religion leads to a eutopia called Ourownland. Stress on love and the family.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The End of the Marriage Vow - J[ohn] H[enry] Symons (1873-1951) (Hutchinson, 1928)
All worlds are stages of evolution; earth is on the low end of the scale. At the next stage men and women are free and equal. No procreation and no marriage, but love exists. This life is preparation for the next stage; failure leads to low status in the next stage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Victor Gollancz, 1928)
Program to bring about the Wellsian eutopia. Here Wells stresses the need for some form of world political control, economic unity, and a limit on population growth.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1928. Serialized without the subtitle in T.P.'s Weekly 9 - 10 (April 7 - July 7, 1928): 853-54, 856; 891-92; 7-8; 26, 39-40; 75-76; 112, 120; 53-54; 156; 188, 190; 220, 222; 249-51; 280-84; 321, 323; 351-52. Rev. ed. The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution. A Second Version of this faith of a modern man made more explicit and plain. London: Hogarth Press, 1930. U.S. ed. of rev. ed. entitled What Are We To Do With Our Lives? Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. Rpt. as The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1933 [In addition to The Open Conspiracy, the volume contains, separately paged, First and Last Things and Russia in the Shadows]; rpt. as What Are We To Do With Our Lives? No. 55 of The Thinker's Library. London: Watts & Co., 1935 [This ed. includes a page on the movement with an address to which to apply for membership. Annual subscription of 5 shillings brings the monthly bulletin]; and with the subtitle H.G. Wells on World Revolution. Ed. W[alter] Warren Wagar with a "Critical Introduction" by Wagar (1-44) and the corrected text using the 1933 Waterlow & Sons ed. (45-136). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002. See pp. 11-12 of the Wagar ed. for a description of the variations in the various editions. The Wagar text does not include the "Preface" (7-9) or the "Marginal Note" (154-56) from the 1928 ed.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Utopia--Made to Suit" - Charles J[oseph Frederick] Finger (1867-1941) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
A world where all family members would each be able to develop individually. Anti-urban. Separate space for the young. Each member would have a separate apartment while the family unit was maintained. Freedom of expression. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Vision of Utopia" - Philip [Armand Hamilton] Gibbs (1877-1962) (The Day After To-Morrow: What Is Going to Happen to the World?, 1928)
The book is written in the predictive mode, but it includes these few pages of an explicit eutopia. Medical research has abolished disease and the elimination of slums means that there are no more "unfit". People live longer in garden cities. Men and women are equal in all ways. No servants. Synthetic food. No poverty. Peace. No racial discrimination, and there is a general blending of types. No crime. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
U.S. ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928), 168-71.
Keywords: English author; Male author

What I Know! Reflections by a Philosophic Punter. With an extraordinary dream of 'The Cosmic Mystery Cup' run at Randwick - [Rev.] [Wyndham Selfe] [Heathcote] (1862-1955) (Cornstalk Pub. Co, 1928)
Satire describing a horse race among religions, plus the Agnosticism, Idealism, Materialism, and Pragmatism, but there is no winner. Includes an argument against betting on races.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Coming Hour(?) - Felix J[ohn] Blakemore, O.B.E., F.S.S., F.G.I. (1872-1948) (Sands, 1927)
Although there is very advanced technology and pollution has been eliminated, the novel presents a standard anti-socialist dystopia. Tablet food, which is extremely unpopular and not used by the leaders, became necessary because equalizing income required eliminating expensive imports. The people then vote to abolish state control.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Confession of the Kibbo Kift: A Declaration and General Exposition of the Work of the Kindred - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) (Duckworth, 1927)
Very detailed eutopia based on something like the Samurai in 1905 Wells, here called The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift; Kibbo Kift, the Woodcraft Kindred; or just The Kindred. Economically based on the “Just Price.” Traditional gender roles. See also 1924 and 1925 Hargrave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Deluge - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Fowler Wright, 1927)
For an unexplained reason, the oceans of the world flood all low-lying land and destroys contemporary civilization. The survivors discover that their reliance of technology and industry has deprived them of the skills need to survive. Those who do survive struggle to create a better life based on community and traditional skills and practices. 1929 Wright is a sequel.
Rpt. Ed. Michael Stableford. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003 with the editor’s “Introduction” (xi-lviii, 307-318), notes on the text (318-22), and a “Bibliography” (323-29). U.S. ed. New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1928. Serialized in the Sunday Express (June - July 1931). Rpt. as Deluge: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2010; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Fairy Tales of Socialism - Cumberland Clark (1862-1941) (Wass, Pritchard, 1927)
Three stories ("The Fairy Tale of Socialism" (27-42); "If Bolshevism Comes" (63-78); and "Bill's Dream" (189-206) present socialist societies and the terrible conditions in them. Lawlessness, boredom, hunger, etc.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hymen or The Future of Marriage - Norman Haire (1892-1952) (Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1927)
Eutopia. Stress on the need for happy marriages with concern that they should be sexually fulfilling. Sex education. Early sexual relations desirable. Early marriage and, although lifelong, monogamous marriage is the ideal, there is easy divorce. Eugenics. State support of children. Birth control.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Ideal Island - C[harles] V[ictor] A[lexander] Peel (1869-1931) (Old Royalty Book Publishers, 1927)
Mostly an adventure story but includes the establishment of a communal experiment on an isolated island and a presentation of the social and economic ideals motivating it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Man Who Would Save the World - [William Arthur] [Dunkerley] (1852-1941) (Longmans, Green and Co, 1927)
The novel is mostly about a one-man campaign to transform the world by bringing it to Christianity. It concludes with a brief worldwide eutopia in which the great estates are turned to productive use, disbanded soldiers and sailors are settled on land, scientific farming is introduced, and labor and capital are brought into harmony. There is worldwide disarmament with an international police force under the League of Nations, and a universal language is taught as a second language in all countries.
New ed. with the subtitle The Supreme Adventure of Col. Carthew. V.C. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1930.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Millennium - J[ames] G[ranville] Legge (1861-1940) (Basil Blackwell, 1927)
Satire on bureaucracy. Over enforcement of a scheme for health improvement; for example, too tight shoes are illegal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Red Pen - A[lan] P[atrick] Herbert (1890-1971) (BBC, 1927)
Satire on socialism. The Red Pen is The General Federation of Poets and Writers which wants the nationalization of writing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Right Off the Map. A Novel - C[harles] E[dward] Montague (1867-1928) (Chatto and Windus, 1927)
Although most of the novel is on war, it is partially set in a recreated British industrial feudalism presented as a dystopia.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1927.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Story of a Great Experiment. How England Produced the First Superman - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) (Watts, 1927)
Eugenics--select the best for work then bring the best women around with concerts and other entertainment and let nature take its course--"A living wage all round is the best form of practical eugenics" (116). Women's role is to be mothers of a healthy race, and they are not allowed to vote.
Keywords: English author; Male author

To-Morrow; A Romance of the Future - Alfred Ollivant (1874-1927) (Alston Rivers, 1927)
Arcadia. Simple life but with ten years required labor service from age 18.
US ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Children of the Morning - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) (Chapman & Hall, 1926)
Similar to 1954 Golding in that the novel presents children shipwrecked on an isolated island, but here the children are marooned for a much longer time. The children grow up, a dictator emerges in part of the island, and there are struggles over various issues.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927. Originally published in The American Weekly, a Sunday supplement to U.S. newspapers in 1926.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Dream City" - Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) (Humbert Wolfe, 1926)
A short poem describing an idyllic city based on London.
Rpt. in The Argosy (UK) 5.36 (May 1929): viii. Set to music by Gustav Holst (1874-1934); see Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Eng.: Galliard Ltd., 1970), 31-35.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dymer - [Clive] [Staples] [Lewis] (1898-1963) (John Dent, 1926)
Book length poem in which the hero is born in a dystopian city, where religion is prohibited, marriage partners are chosen by the state, and all aspects of daily life are regulated by the state. Dymer is the rebel who is, although conditioned by the state, inspired by a spring day to leave the city.
U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1926. Rpt. London: J.M. Dent/New York: Macmillan, 1950. Later reprints under the author's name.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Emperor of the If - Guy [Herbert de Boisragon] Dent (1892-1954) (William Heinemann, 1926)
Dystopia. A man invents a means of changing history with the idea of forcing people to face greater challenges in order to improve the race. Instead, they degenerate. He then uses the same means to visit the future, which he finds to be in continuous war. The novel ends with the suggestion that a better, more Christian future is still possible.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Human Hive: Its Life and Law - A[rthur] H[eygate] Mackmurdo (1851-1942) (Watts & Co., 1926)
An extremely detailed non-fiction eutopia based on what the author calls “the law of personal and social evolution” (x). Humans are social animals that naturally form associations and communities. Stresses the importance of the traditional family. Emphasis on Christianity. Much detail on the economic system, which is based on the production of food. Representative government. Details on education. Free press. The author reiterates and develops aspects of his eutopia in Money and Food: Discoveries by a Group of Scientists. Introduction by A. H. Mackmurdo, M.I.S. London: C. W. Daniel, 1939. 91 pp.; and in The New Social Order: Its Mechanism [cover adds By A Group of Scientists and lists Mackmurdo as the editor]. London: C. W. Daniel [1941]. 24 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Orphans of Space; A Tale of Downfall - Reginald Glossop (1880-1955) (G. MacDonald, 1926)
Dystopia. Communism and the "Yellow Peril" sweep over the West with divine intervention saving the day.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Posterity; A Novel - Diane Boswell (1899-1995) (Jonathan Cape, 1926)
Good life brought about by a reduction in the birth rate, which becomes a required limit. This leads to a mixed result, some good, some bad. Good living conditions but strict rule.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Question Mark - M[uriel] Jaeger (1894-1969) (Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926)
The author notes that however attractive she finds the utopias of her day, the people in them do not seem real. Ursula K. Le Guin made a similar point in her “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown” (1976), The author depicts a deeply flawed utopia in which everyone is well off, but there is a divide between intellectuals, who tend to be overly rational and non-intellectuals (known as normals), who are driven by emotion. The novel stresses how they have grown more and more apart, with marriage mostly within the group, but with the family depicted in the novel a dysfunctional mixed marriage. Religion is a popular hobby for the normals. Much boredom that leads to hero worship and temporary enthusiasms among the normals. Euthanasia is common. Eugenic themes.
US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 249 pp. Rpt. London: British Library, [2019], with an “Introduction” by Dr. Mo Moulton (7-15). 205 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Ragnarok - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) (Duckworth, 1926)
Most of the novel focuses on a coming world war with the end describing the dystopia created.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The Return of Don Quixote - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (Dodd, Mead, 1926)
Eutopia presented in a play at a country-house weekend. Return to the medieval ideals of craftsmanship, nobility, and usufruct.
UK ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1927. Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Donald Barr (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1999), 8: 45-251.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sibylla or The Revival of Prophecy - C[ecil] A[lex] Mace (1894-1971) (Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1926)
Presented in eutopian terms but can be read in dystopian ones because the stress is on the scientific management and deliberate manipulation of the population to produce desired results. Stresses the need to manipulate workers and children should be educated to meet the needs of the state.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Future - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) (George Routledge & Sons, 1925)
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.
U.S. ed. Illus. New York: International Publishers, 1925.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Lysistrata: Or, Woman's Future and Future Woman With a Foreword by Norman Haire, Ch.M., M.B. - Anthony M[ario] Ludovici (1882-1971) (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925)
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.
U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1925.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mighty Heart; A Survey of England As It Is and A Vision of What It Might Be - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) (Watts & Co, 1925)
Largely a plea for new, strong leadership. Includes a vision of cooperation between the classes and a cleaned up, purer Britain. Reason replacing religion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Rule of the Beasts - V[iolet] T[orlesse Holland] Murray (b. 1874) (Stanley Paul & Co, 1925)
After a catastrophe, animals bring about a eutopia among themselves and the remaining humans with an emphasis on the spiritual.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Ultimate Island: A Strange Adventure - L[ancelot] de Giberne Sieveking (1896-1972) (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1925)
Mostly adventure but includes a flawed utopia, an almost inaccessible island that provides a relaxed life of equality, including gender equality, and freedom. The flaw is that in order to maintain the population at the correct point, childbirth is rigidly controlled, and eugenically imperfect children are killed, as is anyone who tries to leave.
U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1925.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Young Winkle - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) (Duckworth, 1925)
The novel describes the founding of a secret society aimed at boys and intended to bring them closer to nature, much like the Kibbo Kift that the author founded. Based loosely on Kim (serially 1900-1901/Book 1901) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). See also 1924 and 1927 Hargrave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Amphibians. A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Merton Press, 1924)
Set 300,000 years in the future and mostly dystopian. The Amphibians are one of the species in that future. They are small, furred, sexless creatures who communicate telepathically and mostly live peacefully. And there are other species of both plants and animals that are extremely violent. The Dwellers, the dominant species, live underground. The novel is concerned with a conflict between the Amphibians and the Dwellers, and how it is settled.
Rpt. London: Merton Press, 1925. 2nd ed. London: Merton Press, 1926. Also included in Wright, The World Below (London: Collins, 1929), 3-186; U.S. ed. (New York: Longmans, Green, 1930), 1-203; rpt. (Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949), 1-203. Rpt. without the subtitle on the book but with the subtitle A Suspenseful, Haunting Masterpiece of Earth's Far-Distant Future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 4. New York: World Editions, 1949.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Eliza Fanshawe, K.C. (A Story of 2000 A.D.)” - E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949) (Fritto Misto, 1924)
Brief sex-role reversal story.
Keywords: English author; Male author

England at the Flood Tide - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) (Damian Press, 1924)
Eutopia. Natural aristocracy with checks on the power of the people. Guild system. Women economically independent but to a large extent men and women are separate.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Harbottle; A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is To Come - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) (Duckworth, 1924)
Allegory based loosely on John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) in which a better future is briefly described. The English author was the founder of the Kibbo Kift and later became involved in the Social Credit movement. See also 1925 and 1927 Hargrave.
U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1924
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Symbolic Island - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) (The Damian Press, 1924)
Eutopia. A group is temporarily marooned on an isolated island. After an over-organized beginning, many of the people manage to create a relaxed society. Much satire.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Temple of the Forgotten Dead" - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) (Undream'd of Shores, 1924)
This story is said to be the basis for his 1930 Pantopia. In the story, a storyteller tells two stories. The eutopian one, which gives the story its title, describes an isolated island which has developed a religion with gods representing each virtue and bases its society on self-development and duty to others. It is also technologically advanced.
The manuscript is at Princeton University.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

The Valley of the Eyes Unseen - Gilbert [Henry] Collins (b. 1890) (Robert M. McBride and Co, 1924)
Lost race eutopia with a classical Greek culture.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Battle of London - [Harry Collinson] [Owen] (1881-1956) (Herbert Jenkins, 1923)
Anti-Communist dystopia. Mostly on the revolution and the fight to defeat it. The Liberty League of England, which the author compares to the Fascist Party in Italy, which meets his approval, saves the day.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Collapse of Homo Sapiens - P[eter] Anderson Graham (1856-1925) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923)
Dystopia. A man is projected two centuries into the future and discovers a world without any trace of human civilization, with humans, now much smaller, living isolated lives in forests hunting each other for food. On a second visit he discovers a remnant of a primitive civilization and learns the history of the collapse.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Dream" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine, 1923)
The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a eutopia 2000 years in the future. Although there is little of the eutopia, it is presented as having overcome the economic and social problems of Wells's time and is reminiscent of his 1923 Men Like Gods. The dystopia reads like one of Wells's novels describing the problems of the poor prior to World War I. One emphasis is on the ignorance of sexual relations in the past contrasted to the free and open sexual relations of the future.
Repub. London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Rpt. London: The Hogarth Press, 1987, with an "Introduction" by Brian Aldiss [3-7]. US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 329-654. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Golgotha & Co." - Robert [Malise Bowyer] Nichols (1893-1944) (Fantastica; Being the Smile of the Sphinx and Other Tales of Imagination, 1923)
Dystopia in which plutocrats try to use Christianity to help them control the proletariat. It backfires when people take Christianity seriously.
U.S. ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1923), 129-375 with a brief "Foreword" by John Masefield (xi-xii) and without Romances of Idea.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Harilek: A Romance of Modern Central Asia - [Martin Louis Alan] [Gompertz] (1886-1951) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1923)
Lost Nordic race influenced by Classical Greece in Central Asia. Mostly adventure and romance, but the society is morally better than contemporary society.  The continuation, Wrexham’s Romance being a continuation of “Harilek”. By Ganpat [pseud.].  London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1935, has more on the society.
U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1923. Rpt. in Adventures in Sakaeland Comprising Harilek and Wrexham's Romance (New York: Arno Press, 1978), separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lavender Dragon - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) (Grant Richards, 1923)
A delightful satire with a rational, vegetarian dragon and a rather dull knight. The dragon creates a eutopia by picking up unhappy people and children from the area and bringing them to an isolated area where they create a eutopia of equality without money. Includes a reflection, by the dragon, on the positive and negative aspects of human hope and dreaming.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Medical Utopia” - Dr. J. Walter Carr (b. 1862) (The Hospital and Health Review, 1923)
Brief report on Dr. J. Walter Carr’s (b. 1862) oration at the Medical Society of London. The oration probably had the title “From Cradle to Crematorium” and depicts a dystopia in which a socialist government functioning as a “medical autocracy” sets the rules governing health care in ways that severely restrict freedom. He concluded that it would be better to be free than healthy. At the time Carr was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Memories of the Future; Being Memoirs of the years 1915-1972. Written in the year of Grace, 1988, by Opal, Lady Porstock - Ronald A[rbuthnott] Knox (ed.) [written by] (1888-1957) (Methuen, 1923)
Utopian satire on Britain from 1915 to the end of the Great War of 1972. Significant technological improvements like moving sidewalks.
An extract appeared in The Book of the Queen's Doll House. Ed. E.V. Lucas. 2 vols. (London: Methuen, [1924]), 2: 202-09.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Captain Youth: A Romantic Comedy for All Socialist Children - Ralph [Winston] Fox (1900-1936) (C. W. Daniel, 1922)
A play in three short acts describing the horrors of the capitalists system from the point-of-view of two children who are desperate to escape the system, their escape with the help of Captain Youth, and their return to lead a successful revolution, with the ending suggesting the eutopia to come.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Men Like Gods: An Original Romance" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (The Westminster Gazette, 1922)
A world composed entirely of the Samurai of 1905 Wells.
U.S. serialization illus. George W. Bellows. Hearst's International 42.5 - 43.6 (November 1922 - June 1023): 9-15, 136-39; 42-48, 128-31; 32-38, 124-25, 110; 42-48, 151-53;38-43, 149-53; 56-61, 154-55; 89-92, 130, 132-34; 83-84, 146-48. Repub. without the subtitle. London: Cassell, 1923. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 1-328. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places - Ella M[arie] Scrymsour[-Nicol] (1888-1962) (Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd., 1922)
A complex novel that includes both a dystopia and a eutopia. The dystopia is in the center of the Earth and is inhabited by the descendants of Jews condemned by God to be swallowed by the Earth. The protagonists from the surface escape the dystopia, and, while the Earth is destroyed, they escape in a "airship", which takes them directly to a eutopian Jupiter. Jupiter had a separate Adam and Eve, but without the Fall and has developed a good society that, while hierarchical, is based on pro rata sharing.
U.S. ed New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) (Leonard Parsons, 1922)
Presents a picture of a destroyed civilization that manages to create a new, more primitive lifestyle that is initially violent becomes more settled over time. Science is rejected, and the human race slowly rebuilds a healthy hunting, fishing, and farming life structured around tribes. This is depicted as more in tune with our capacities than the civilization that it replaced. The revised volume is slightly more positive than the original.
Rpt. Boston, MA: HiLo Books, 2013 with an introduction “A Cargo Cult in Reverse” by Gary Paynter (13-17); and without the subtitle Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with “Introduction: The Wars of the Air and the Laboratory’: Theodore Savage at 100” by Susan R. Grayzel (xiii-xxi). Rev. ed. entitled Lest Ye Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Council of Seven - J[ohn] C[ollis] Snaith (1876-1936) (D. Appleton, 1921)
An authoritarian dystopia in which a group of newspaper editors bias and falsify the news in order to enrich themselves and control the world. Against them is the "Council of Seven" or the "Society of the Friends of Peace" who use murder to fight them. Mostly intrigue.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Fly-By-Nights - Major-General Charles Ross (1864-1930) (John Murray, 1921)
Anti-Communist, anti-alien dystopia, but at the end hope is held out that people the eutopia can reemerge.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great Image - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) (Odhams Press, 1921)
Conflict between capitalists and socialists set one hundred years in the future. The world is decimated but gradually rebuilds.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Island of Eugenia; The Phantasy of a Foolish Philosopher" - William McDougall (1871-1938) (Scribner's Magazine (New York), 1921)
Presented as a dialogue between a practical man and a scientist. Eugenics. Children will be brought up to be devoted to saving the world. The island would be closed regarding marriage and education, but otherwise open to outsiders. After the initial establishment, it would recruit new members mostly from their own children. Early marriage encouraged. The state will be politically independent but economically dependent on the outside world; uses the analogy of a university. Appeals to a millionaire to help establish it. T
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"A Message from Space" - George Goodchild (1888-1969) (The Children's Newspaper, 1921)
Young adult adventure tale that includes two eutopias. The first is a lost race in the middle South America; the second is on Mars. The South American eutopia is a society like ancient Greece whose highest value is happiness. The Martian eutopia is based on reason.
Rpt. London: Jarrolds, [1931].
Keywords: English author; Male author

Revolution: A Novel - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) (W. Collins & Sons, 1921)
Dystopia depicting a revolution as it effects one parish as seen primarily through the eyes of a man who tries to see both sides. A labour dictatorship emerges that plans to establish a socialist system, but the people reject equality and common property. The counter-revolution succeeds but simply replaces one dictatorship with another. At the end the protagonist is at the beginning of a campaign to bring the country back together.
U.S. ed. as Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Secret Power - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) (Methuen, 1921)
Most of the novel is romance with a somewhat demented scientist who develops a weapon that he hopes will stop war. Embedded in the novel is a brief description of the “Golden City,” where people much advanced beyond normal humans live.
U.S. ed. without the subtitle Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Peculiar Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China - Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) (Hutchinson, 1921)
Lost race novel that describes two societies. The first is a warrior society (authoritarian but fair); the second is socialist eutopia shown to be based on drug-taking and deeply flawed and parts of the novel reads like an anti-socialist tract.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. Rpt. as a volume of The Definitive Edition of Gilbert Frankau's Novels and Short Stories. London: Macdonald, [1945].
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Tax-Wise Men of Aristopia: A Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer” - Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) (The World’s Work, 1921)
Satire on current education. The Aristopians tax the use of abstract words such as “equality” and “liberty” that the user cannot precisely define.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) (Williams and Norgate, 1921)
A collection of essays presenting a eutopia of regionalism and decentralization. The two page "What To Do" summarizes the eutopia. See also 1917 Branford and Geddes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - Sidney Webb (1859-1947); Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) (Longmans, 1920)
Just what the title says. Most of the book focuses on the political organization of a socialist state, but there are chapters on voluntary associations concerning the Co-operative Movement, other consumers’ associations, adult education, and the press, among other issues, and work, which is primarily about the nature and organization of vocations, with both obligatory and voluntary associations based on vocation, and the development of professional ethics, among other issues. The final chapter is on the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Rpt. London: London School of Economics and Political Science/Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

Democracy--False or True? A Prologue and Dream - Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) (Cecil Palmer, 1920)
Detailed eutopia entitled "A Dream of England" (72-172). Democratic socialism. Decentralization (home rule for each county). Science. There are still classes, and there is continuing stress on the working class needing the right leaders and avoiding agitators.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Anymoon. With a Foreword by Harold Cox - Horace [William] Bleackley (1868-1931) (John Lane, The Bodley Head/The John Lane Co., 1919)
Anti-socialist, anti-egalitarian, anti-feminist dystopia
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Christmas 1969; The Kind of World in Which I Should Like It to Dawn" - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) (Pear's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Eutopia. World community of nations; all nations republics. Nationalized industries. Technology. Rights of children. Education. No fashion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Christmas House-Party in 1969 (Being extracts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys the Second)" - [John] Twells Brex (1874-1920) (Pears' Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Satire on women in political and economic control.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Dark Cottage" - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) (Pears's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Eutopia in which a man who had been a relatively enlightened industrialist wakes up fifty years after being injured in World War I and is led to see how unenlightened he had actually been. Examples given are that he introduced electricity to his own estate but not, although easily able to do so, to his works, built houses for his workers but in an extremely unhealthy, swampy area because it was convenient to his factories, which were polluting the atmosphere, opposed women's suffrage, and generally opposed any legislation that would have improved the education, health, or working conditions of the lower classes. The eutopia, though, is still class based and the upper classes still have servants.
Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: John Murray, 1921), 55-82. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 55-82.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"England in 1919; Being an Extract From a School History of the Period published in 1969" - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (Pear's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
1919 seen as a dystopia called the period of the Plutocracy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Further East Than Asia." A Romantic Adventure - Ward Muir (1878-1927) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1919)
Oriental tale of romance and adventure in which an apparently eutopian island of long life, produced by radium, is discovered. But the apparent eutopia is deeply flawed. Racist.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd" - John Cournos (1881-1966). (The Nineteenth Century and After, 1919)
Anti-communist dystopia. The author was born in Russia and lived in the US from age ten, except for 1912-30, which he spent in England. The author contends that this is factual rather than fictional.
Repub. as London Under the Bolsheviks: A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd. London: Russian Liberation Committee. No 4 of Russian Liberation Committee Publications, 1919.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Russian author; US author

New Town, A Proposal in Agricultural, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Reconstruction - W[illiam] R[avenscroft] Hughes, M.A. (b. 1880), ed. for The New Town Council (Pub. for The New Town Council by J.M. Dent, 1919)
Non-fiction presenting a detailed cooperative eutopia. Specifically, it proposes to establish a new country town, and a slip dated June 1921 tipped into the CtY copy says that “The proposals contained in this book are being put into operation at Welwyn Garden City. . . . .” Discusses industry, which must “enrich the lives of all associated with it. . .” (45), agriculture, education, which will include learning handicrafts and vocational skills in school workshops and adult education, and homes, which will include grouped cooperative homes, professional household services, and social life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The People of the Ruins; A Story of the Future" - Edward [Richard Buxton] Shanks (1892-1953) (The County Gentleman & Land and Water (London), 1919)
A general strike followed by a revolution, fifty years of world war, and one hundred years of famine and disease produce a loss of technology and arts and craft and a resurgence of religion. Return to a more primitive life.
Repub. with the subtitle A Story of the English Revolution and After. London: W. Collins Sons, 1920. U.S. ed. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Somewhere in Christendom - Evelyn [Jane] Sharp (1869-1955) (George Allen & Unwin, 1919)
The novel describes a small country between two regularly warring large countries that establishes an egalitarian, Christian cooperative eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Fair Inez: A Romance of Australia - Douglas [Brooke Wheelton] Sladen (1856-1947) (Hutchinson & Co, 1918)
Conservative eutopia set in 2000 A.D. Technological changes have produced few social changes. Argues that colonies produce better people. The novel ends with a new king, who had lived and worked in Australia and his Australian wife planning to change the monarchy into a more open and democratic institution.
2nd ed. London: Hutchinson & Co., [1918].
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Kingdom of Content - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) (Mills & Boon, 1918)
Rule by trusts followed by revolution and war. A small group survive and create an Eden.
Keywords: English author; Male author

What Not; A Prophetic Comedy - [Emilie] Rose Macauley (1881-1958) (Constable and Co., 1918)
Satire on bureaucracy. A Ministry of Brains is established concerned, among other things, to implement a eugenic policy to produce the most intelligent children. Rational social policy is in conflict with human needs and differences, and the rational social policy fails.
Rpt. from a copy of the first edition. Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sarah Lonsdale (vii-xxx) and “Notes” by Kate Macdonald (187-95) including a note on 194-95 showing what was put in place of the original text. Rpt. without the subtitle from a copy of the second edition Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions” by Matthew De Abaitua (xvii-xxviii) with no mention of the missing material beyond Macauley’s original vague note on xxix.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Coming Polity: A Study in Reconstruction - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930); Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) (Williams and Norgate, 1917)
First volume of a series concerned with post-war reconstruction. Most of the book is concerned with history, showing how the world has reached its current situation. The last chapter, “Summary and Conclusion--Regional Eutopias”, makes a distinction between Utopia and Dystopia and briefly develops a eutopia based on regionalism. That chapter and other material is dropped in the 2nd ed. This material is replaced with a section called “Practice,” which has three chapters, “The Renewing of Christendom,” “The Post-Germanic University,” and “From the Old State to the New,” with the last chapter proposing ideas similar to the “Summary” in the 1st ed. See also 1921 Branford.
New & enl. ed. London: Williams & Norgate, 1919.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Messiah of the Cylinder" - [Avigdor Rousseau] [Emanuel] (1879-1960) (Everybody's Magazine, 1917)
Scientific dystopia. A leader uses science and religion to take control of the world. A successful revolt frees people, and the ending suggests that a better world is being created.
Rpt. illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Chicago, IL: A .C. McClurg & Co., 1917; and illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974, with an unpaged introduction, “A Neglected Masterpiece,” by Lester Del Rey, who characterizes it as an “anti-utopia (or dystopia,” written in opposition to H. G. Wells. U.K. ed. without the illus. as The Apostle of the Cylinder. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]. A few libraries catalog the U.K. ed. as [1919?].
Keywords: English author; Male author

And It Came to Pass - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) (Jarrold & Sons, 1916)
Essentially a religious novel, but a brief section (234-42) describes the conservative post-World War I eutopia brought about by the development of a "United Council of Empire" that brought the countries of the British Empire together. This eliminated liberal education, which was replaced by vocational education and common sense. Trade unionism eliminated. Piece-work and short contracts replaced union contracts; this produced prosperity for all. Feudalism reinstated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"1925": The Story of a Fatal Peace - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) (George Newnes, 1915)
Description of the dystopia that will come about if Germany is not completely subjugated after the war. Since Germany was not disarmed at the end of the war, it increased the armaments of its navy and plans to attack England and then America. The novel ends with the beginning of the invasion.
Rpt. as separately paged four-page supplements to The War of the Nations (London) 7.78 - 86 (February 19 - April 15, 1916) (AR, L). The War of the Nations was the author’s history of World War I, which was issued weekly. At the head of all installments is the following: “One of the most successful books of the War is Mr. Edgar Wallace’s ‘“1925’”: the Story of a Fatal Peace.’ The purpose Mr. Wallace, who is the author of ‘The War of the Nations,’ had in view in writing ‘1925’ was to bring home to readers the inevitable consequence of ending the war in any other way than by the complete defeat of Germany and the destruction of Prussian militarism. There are many people who are not alive to the certain terrible sequel of an unfortunate peace. The story is one of the most powerful and enthralling that Mr. Wallace has ever written. It will be continued in ‘The War of the Nations’ from week to week.”
Keywords: English author; Male author

King of Kulturia - W[illiam] Hugh Higginbottom (1881-1937) (The Walter Scott Company, 1915)
An anti-German satire describing an attempt to control artistic production. The Greek gods are awakened, wreak havoc, and are put back to sleep.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Paradise Found or The Superman Found Out in Three Acts - Allen Upward (1863-1926) (Houghton Mifflin, 1915)
Dystopian satire in which two hundred years in the future, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) awakes in a world based on a misreading of his ideas. The British Empire has collapsed, and England is under a corrupt Indian Empire. Canada is part of the U.S. Australia is controlled by Aborigines. South African natives are cannibals. In England, doctors are in power, and the entire system is corrupt.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Upsidonia - [Arthur Hammond] [Marshall] (1866-1934) (Stanley Paul, 1915)
Satire of reversal in the tradition of 1872 Butler. In this case the reversal concerns wealth, which is considered undesirable. Those of high status life poorly and those of low status live in luxury.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Virgin’s Treasure: A Romance of the Tropics - [Amelia] Louise Gerard (1878-1979) (Mills & Boon, 1915)
The novel is mostly romance and adventure but ends in a religious allegory in which a man struggles past the Tomb of Buried Hopes, the Tomb of Dead Desires, and the Plain of Despair and gets temporarily lost in the Mountains of Self-Abasement before winning through.
Rpt. London: Mills & Boon, [1919?].  245 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Windmills: A Book of Fables - Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955) (Martin Secker, 1915)
Two utopias--the first starts as a Robinsonade in "Samways Island" but concludes as a eutopia stressing world peace as "Ultimus." The second, "Gynecologia," is a typical gender-role reversal story. Much heavy-handed satire in both.
Keywords: English author; Male author

2010 - [Frederic] [Carrel] (1869-1945) (T. Werner Laurie, 1914)
Mechanical improvement of brains leads to eutopia. Stress is on the struggle to get the brains accepted.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Elixir of Life or 2905 A.D. A Novel of the Far Future - Herbert Gubbins (1887-1950) (Henry J. Drane, 1914)
Contemplative, technological eutopia set a thousand years in the future. Described as an ". . . age of calm reflection and freedom from every form of physical exertion. . ." (73). Telepathy. Tablet food. Life-long clothes. Emphasis on electricity and solar energy (manufactured in concentrated form). International law. Accurate news. Trusts and syndicates control all the technology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Flying Inn - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (Methuen, 1914)
Humor--Europe is part of the Moslem Empire, as it is spelled in the book. Effect of the closing of the pubs on the British.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Iain T. Benson (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 2004), 7: 421-665. The songs found throughout the text were originally published in The New Witness as follows: “A Song Against Grocers.” 1.2 (November 14, 1912): 47; “The Song of the English.” 1.4 (November 28, 1912): 111; “A Song of Songs.” 1.7 (December 19, 1912): 207; “The Song of the Good Rich Man.” 1.9 (January 2, 1913): 271; “A Song of Strange Drinks.” 1.12 (January 23, 1913): 367; “Song of the Happy Vegetarians.” 1.13 (January 30, 1913): 398; “Song of the Temperance Hotel.” 1.14 (February 6, 1913): 436; “The Song of the Strange Ascetic.” 1.16 (February 20, 1913): 495; “The Song of the Second Deluge.” 1.17 (February 27, 1913): 527; “A Song of Dietetic Logic.” 2.45 (September 11, 1913): 591; “A Song of Temperance Reform.” 2.47 (September 25, 1913): 658; “The Song of the Alternative Explanations of the Curvature of the English Country Road.” 2.51 (October 23, 1913): 785; and “Song of the Dog named Quoodle.” 3.56 (November 27, 1913): 111.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Perhaps: A Tale of Tomorrow - [Henry] Norman Davey (1888-1949) (Methuen, 1914)
A humorous novel describing the secession of the Isle of Wight from the U.K.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Goslings - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) (William Heinemann, 1913)
The novel describes the results of a plague that mostly affects men but not women. One focus is on a group of women who organize a generally successful community based on the principle that everyone earned a right through labor to a share in what could be produced. After contact is made with parts of the world less affected by the plague, the outlines are given of a future eutopia based on greater gender equality.
Rpt. Boston, MA/Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2013 with an “An Un-Cozy Atmosphere. Introduction” by Astra Taylor (13-17); and Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp. U.S. ed. as A World of Women. New York: Macauley Co., 1913. Rpt. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Man Who Would Not Be King. Being the Adventures of one Fenimore Slavington, who was neither born great nor achieved greatness, but had greatness thrust upon him much to his own discomfort and the discomfort of many others - Sidney Dark (1874-1947) (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1913)
Socialist dystopia brought about by too great a desire for efficiency, exemplified for the author by Sidney Webb (1859-1947). He prefers the approach of Robert Blatchford (see 1906-7 Blatchford) and says, "I believe that the real business of man is to live--to throw stones into pools and watch the ripples, to dream, to loaf, to love, to play the fool, to begin and never to end, to read poetry (if he cannot write it), to grow roses" (viii-ix).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pages for Young Socialists With Prefaces by H. M. Hyndman and J. Keir Hardie and Illustrations by Walter Crane - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) (National Labour Press, 1913)
The book is a collection of essays and stories designed to describe socialism to children. Three of the stories. “The Stickleback” (74-78), “Red Tunic,” and “Thrift” (101-105) include brief descriptions of what a socialist eutopia would be like. In addition, there are essays on “Robert Owen” (183-87) and “William Morris” (194-97).
Keywords: English author; Male author

When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns - H[ector] H[ugh] Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) (John Lane, 1913)
Dystopia of life in England after a German conquest.
U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 1913. U.K. ed. rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1941; in England Invaded: A Collection of Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Michael Moorcock (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 79-245; and in The Battle of Dorking George Tomkyns Chesney & When William Came Saki. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997), 49-182. An excerpt was rpt. in The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Ed. I.F. Clarke (Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1997), 368-77.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (The English Review, 1913)
Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia.
Three excerpts were published in Century Magazine--“A Trap to Catch the Sun” 87 (January 1914): 331-34; “The Last War in the World” 87 (February 1914): 566-85; and “The World Set Free” 87 (March 1914): 696-711. Repub. as The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind. London: Macmillan, 1914. Rpt. as The World Set Free. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988, with an  “Introduction” by Brian Aldiss [1-7]; and as The Last War. A World Set Free. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1914. Rpt. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder” by Sarah Cole (xv-xiv), a “Preface” by Wells from 1921 (xxv-xxvii), and an “Afterword: Shall We Play the Game” by Joshua Glenn (243-252), originally published as “War and Peace Games: H. G. Wells’s battle against kriegspiel.” Cabinet Magazine, no. 45 (Spring 2012). https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/glenn.php. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXI The World Set Free and Other War Papers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), 1-249. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"As Easy as A.B.C.; A Tale of 2150 A.D." - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (London Magazine, 1912)
The future is presented with both eutopian and dystopian elements depending on one's perspective. The world is controlled by the Aerial Board of Control. People have rejected democracy and returned to an agricultural economy. A reduced birth rate means that the world population falling. See also 1909 Kipling, which is, in effect, Part I.
Rpt. as As Easy as A. B. C. London: A.P. Watt & Son, 1912. On the first page of the text, “Part II” is added after the title. Repub. without the subtitle in his A Diversity of Creatures (London: Macmillan, 1917), 1-44; book rpt. ed. Paul Driver (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1987), 29-57. Rpt. as “As Easy as A.B.C. (1912)”. In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures Letters of Travel 1892-1913 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 3-40 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Rpt. as “As Easy as ABC.” The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 33-58; and with the original title in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 165-83. Rpt. from A Diversity of Creatures in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 91-139 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Child of the Dawn - Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) (Smith, Elder and Company, 1912)
Heaven as a eutopia. No sex. No property. Reincarnation. Each person enters heaven with the understanding with which they left life, and work in heaven involves helping other souls to advance. There are souls who try to stop others advancing. Hell is described as a meaningless round of pleasure that becomes less and less satisfying.
U.S.. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Rpt. Indian Hills, CO: Falcon’s Wing Press, 1957.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Child of the Future: When the Stains are Washed Away” - Margaret McMillan (1860-1931) (The Labour Leader, 1912)
A brief eutopia depicting healthy young girls in a future where children are fed right, get good health care, and learn how to correctly care for themselves. The author includes one-paragraph exhortation to the Labour Party saying that it needs to learn what needs to be done to produce the eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

The Civil War of 1915 - J[ohn] Twells Brex (1874-1920) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1912)
Anti-socialist dystopia.
Originally serialized in The Sporting Times.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Day That Changed the World - [Edward Harold] [Begbie] (1871-1929) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912)
Through what may or may not be a miracle, people change their behavior so they behave as good Christians should, which at least begins the process toward eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great State: Essays in Construction (Harper and Bros, 1912)
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.
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).
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

An Individualist's Utopia - J[oseph] H[iam] Levy (1838-1913) (Lawrence Nelson, 1912)
Eugenics, technology, and the simple life. The eutopia is brought about by people choosing to have fewer children.
Keywords: English author; Male author