A Utopia. A Tale - Phoebe Carlile ([Penumbra Press], 1982)
Includes a two page, very general eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Way of the Wolf” - Lynne Holdom (Sword of Chaos and Other Stories, 1982)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

Aventine - [Karen] Lee Killough (b. 1942) (Ballantine Books, 1981)
A linked set of short stories set in a flawed utopia for the very rich.
Parts were originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as “The Siren Garden.” 46.3 (March 1974): 62-78; “Tropic of Eden.” 53.2 (August 1977): 141-56; “A House Divided.” 54.6 (June 1978): 82-99; “Broken Stairways, Walls of Time.” 56.3 (March 1979): 8-21; and “Ménage Outré.” 60.2 (February 1981): 5-18. “Bête et Noir” was originally published in Universe 10. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980), 49-78.
Keywords: Female author; US author

But We Are Not of Earth - Jean E[dna] Karl (1927-2000) (E. P. Dutton, 1981)
Companion to 1976 Karl. In this volume four teenagers who are in a school for discovers, are led to a planet that is Earth normal and appears to be uninhabited. But there is a small settlement that had hoped to add the teenagers to its population. After the teenagers escape, Earth, which had no colonies, decided to try to establish a few for people looking for such a life.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Ceremony of Discontent" - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (A Room of One's Own, 1981)
Feminist eutopia set in a society where each woman had to make an irrevocable choice between motherhood and independent creativity and trading. Men would marry at least one of each. The story is about an independent woman, who is discontented but does not want to be a mother either.
Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 21-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Daughters of Copper Woman - [Barbara] Anne Cameron (b. 1938) (Press Gang Publisher, 1981)
North American Indian matriarchal society presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Devil We Know" - Eileen [Shirley Monk] Kernaghan (b. 1939) (Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women, 1981)
Flawed utopia. A women's society that struggles to sustain itself while rejecting the technology that would allow them to produce more. The story is driven by the arrival of a man farming with technology near them and the tensions this produces.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Doors of the Universe - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Atheneum, 1981)
Third volume of a trilogy following 1972 and 1973 Engdahl. In this volume, the protagonist of the first two still doubts his ability to solve the problems his culture faces, but he ultimately succeeds.
Rpt. with minor revisions in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 423-717 together with 1972 and 1973 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21), in which she notes that this volume was intended for adults, and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gor Saga - Maureen [Patricia] Duffy (b. 1933) (Eyre Methuen, 1981)
A novel about a boy whose mother was a gorilla set in a class divided dystopia controlled by computers.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Guardian of Isis - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) (Hamish Hamilton, 1981)
Young adult dystopia which expels a young woman. A new world is created.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Home Ground - Cecelia [Anastasia Holland (b. 1943) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1981)
An intentional community in California in the seventies where some people are trying to create a eutopia, others are simply living, and others are primarily concerned with sex and drugs.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Judgement: 2110 A.D." - Maureen Ahern (b. 1981) (WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction, 1981)
A future New Zealand wholly dominated by women (FEM). The men born are designated MAL (Malformed) and kept on reserves.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

July's People - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) (Jonathan Cape, 1981)
Dystopia. A future civil war in South Africa in which servants save the people they had worked for by taking them to their village.
Rpt. London: Penguin, 1982.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"A Miracle, And Other Solutions" - Carole Rosenthal (Woman Space; Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women, 1981)
Dystopia created by doming cities and then deliberately neglecting them.
Keywords: Female author

"Once Upon a Future: the name gathering" - Pirtle, Sara (Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living, 1981)
A story and a story about telling the story to different groups of children with the children’s reactions determining the direction of the story. The story is an eco-feminist one in which a girl from an ecologically sensitive community meets a girl from a technological community. Name gathering is a rite of passage in which at puberty everyone goes on a solo journey during which they choose their own name.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Orange Blossom Time" - Pat[rice Anne] Murphy (b. 1955) (Chrysalis, 1981)
Future dystopia of urban crime and pollution.
Rpt. (New York: Zebra, [1981]), 87-100.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Sardonyx Net - Elizabeth A[nne] Lynn (b. 1946) (G.P. Putnam's Son, 1981)
Dystopia in which convicted felons serve their terms as drugged slaves working for a large corporation run by a sadist.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1982.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Snake Who Read Chomsky” - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) (Universe, 1981)
The setting of the story is a dystopia with a rigid division between the upper and lower classes, with the latter considered of no value whatsoever.
Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 142-64; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 700-11 with an editors’ note on 699.
Keywords: Female author

"Suffering Machines" - Margaret Kingery (Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women, 1981)
Post-nuclear war dystopia in which a woman becomes the despot and is killed by other women.
Keywords: Female author

"The Tale of the Illicit Ape" - Penney Kome (New Bodies; Nine Science Fiction Short Stories, 1981)
The background to a story of about a trained chimpanzee is a future dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Female author

"Third from the Son" - Elinor Busby (Room of One's Own, 1981)
Satire on Sixties communalism.
Keywords: Female author

"To Market, to market" - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) (Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women, 1981)
Post-catastrophe dystopia of cannibalism.
Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 95-96.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Zero Sum Game" - Claudia Lamperti; Jennifer Malik (Woman Space: Future and Fantasy Stories and Art by Women, 1981)
A story about a woman with unusual psychic talents in a hierarchical dystopia based on a complex computer game that resonates with Herman Hesse's Das Glasperlenspiel. 2 vols. Zürich: Fretz & Wasmuth, 1943) [English as Magister Ludi. Trans. Mervyn Savill. New York: Ungar, 1949].
Keywords: Female author

"1980-2020: Evolution of a Network Nation" - Myra [Smillie] Harpham (b. 1931) (Pictures of the Future, 1980)
Eutopia of a future New Zealand based on a service economy focusing on information and tourism. Radical decentralization with people working from home or in cooperatives and running family companies. Small towns have revived. Greater equality. Manufacturing and polluting industries in general have been moved out of New Zealand to poor Pacific Island countries, thus improving New Zealand, but, while providing jobs in the poor countries, clearly damages their environments. The book is composed of five short future scenarios for New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Abominable" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (Orbit 21, 1980)
Dystopia in which men pursue the elusive creature, woman, about whom they have many false ideas.
Rpt. in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 105-11; and in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 293-96.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Assignment on Bleaker Street" - Bettye Caldwell (Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1980)
Eutopia, although there are elements that suggest problems, focusing on child-rearing. In the future, there is a limit of two children with birth having to be approved and licensed in advance, varied family forms, with varied forms of childcare, all of which have to be regularly inspected and licensed. In the larger facilities, the children tend to live there permanently. Technology is a central part of most childcare.  Surveillance technology is said to make the streets safe.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Banshee" - [Sherry] [Kramer] (Tales of the Free Amazons, 1980)
Free Amazon story.
Rpt under the author's name in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 52-65.
Keywords: Female author

The Beehive - Margaret O'Donnell (Eyre Methuen, 1980)
Authoritarian dystopia in which women, in particularly are suppressed and their successful revolution.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (as narrated by the Chroniclers of Zone Three) - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1980)
The second of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume cross zone marriages bring together opposites. An opera with music by Philip Glass (b. 1937) was created based on the novel with the libretto by Lessing. The first performance was in German in Heidelberg May 10, 1997, trans. Saskia M. Wesnigk. The first performance in English was June 7, 2001, in Chicago.
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Sirian Experiments. The Report by Ambian II, of the Five - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1980)
The third of the five volumes in her Canopus in Argos: Archives series. See also 1979, 1980 Canopus in Argos: Archives. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, 1982, and 1983 Lessing. In this volume Ambian II, a Sirian bureaucrat, is used by the Canopeans to introduce the Sirians, who believe themselves the superior beings, to higher ways.
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Cast Off Your Chains" - Silvestri, Margaret (Tales of the Free Amazons, 1980)
Free Amazon story.
Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 34-49.
Keywords: Female author

"Child and Family Programs and Concerns in the 21st Century" - Grotberg, Edith H. (Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1980)
Mostly analysis but includes a brief eutopian description of future childcare in a family center.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Children and Their Schools at the Quadcentennial" - Irwin Hyman; Sherone Sherone Levow Maital (Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 9.2 (Summer 1980):, 1980)
Two scenarios of future education, eutopian and dystopian. The dystopian system is all technology in isolation and is controlled by corporations. The eutopian system focuses on family life and the rights of children, is well-funded, and teachers all hold doctorates and schools have no administrators.
Keywords: Female author; Israeli author; Male author; US author

Delos - Veronica Robinson (André Deutsch, 1980)
Young adult novel about the attempt to establish a society on a planet after years traveling in space. Success is achieved after many problems and a good society is created.
Keywords: Female author

The Demeter Flower - Rochelle Singer (b. 1939) (St. Martin's Press, 1980)
Feminist eutopia in which a successful women-only community has to face a generational conflict and a visit of a couple from a patriarchal community.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Demeter's Palace" - Debi [Deborah L. Hodgeson] Kean (WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction, 1980)
An authoritarian dystopia in which business has taken over government. There is a rigid separation of the rich and the poor and between men and women.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Docket, 2028: Supreme Council on Psycho-Ethics" - Gertrude J. Rubin Williams (1927-86) (Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1980)
Briefly presents a series of cases to come before the Council on Psycho-Ethics that give a picture of the world in 2028, whether it is eutopian or dystopian is up to the reader. The cases include such issues as psychotropic drugs that are required to prevent mental illness, required licenses for parenthood (contraceptives are in the water supply), rights for clones, applications for euthanasia (117), surrogacy (117-18), and the sale of body parts (118).  Half the world’s population had requested exemption from the military on moral grounds (118).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dustland - Virginia [Esther] Hamilton (1934-2002) (Greenwillow Books, 1980)
The second volume of the Justice Cycle. The first volume, Justice and Her Brothers. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1978, is not utopian but introduces the characters, who have exceptional powers. In this volume, they travel to a barren future characterized by the title. See also 1981 Hamilton.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Ecological Impact" - Patricia Mathews (Tales of the Free Amazons, 1980)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"Filth" - Gilfillan, Caroline (Crystal Crone (London), 1980)
Eutopia of a woman’s revolution taking place throughout the world. The Scottish Highlands has become Women’s Territory with men driven out. Australia and The Philippines are Women’s territories. England has become a dystopia for women because of the men’s fears of the revolution. Women from another planet are planning to help.
Keywords: Female author

"Freelance" - Nina Boal (Tales of the Free Amazons, 1980)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

Green is for Galanx - [Jeanne] [Dixon] (b. 1936) (Atheneum, 1980)
Young adult novel in which a dystopian society puts the gifts of unusually talented children into androids. Social control through entertainment.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Happiness Is the Needle on Full" - Caroline Forbes (b. 1952) (Crystal Crone (London), 1980)
Dystopia of an overpopulated, energy short, class ridden future. The story begins in the dystopia and evolves into a lesbian love story.
Rpt. as "The Needle on Full." The Needle on Full [Cover adds the subtitle Lesbian Feminist Science Fiction] (London: Onlywomen Press, 1985), 9-37.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"The King Is Dead! Long Live--" - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) (Chrysalis, 1980)
Dystopia of a future in which an electronic chastity belt produces great pain in rapists and is used by women to punish men.
Rpt. (New York: Zebra Books), 60-74.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"'Looking Backward' from 2030 (with apologies to Edward Bellamy)" - Jayne Burks; Melvin Rubenstein (Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1980)
History of the period from the mid-twentieth century to 2030 with a focus on child-rearing and education, both of which change to take individual differences into account. Governmentally supported childcare facilities. Parents are encouraged to raise their children at home and are provided with financial support to do so after taking parenting courses.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Magic Time - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Berkley Books, 1980)
Eutopian amusement park that is really a dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Meeting" - Nina Boal (Tales of the Free Amazons, 1980)
Free Amazon story.
Rev. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover, Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 97-109.
Keywords: Female author

"Mind and World in the 21st Century: An Interview with a Future Being" - Gertrude J. Rubin Williams (1927-86) (Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 1980)
Eutopia with the focus on changes in the family and child-rearing. Pluralism in family structure and community childcare. Children have the right to divorce their parents. Technological solutions to disabilities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Nealities: Doc Genius and Henry the Stud - Merzie Wilson (Vantage Press, 1980)
African American eutopia using African and African American history and legend.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Peggy" - Gilfillan, Caroline (Crystal Crone (London), 1980)
Eutopia of a woman's revolution taking place throughout the world. The Scottish Highlands has become Women's Territory with men driven out. Australia and The Philippines are Women's territories. England has become a dystopia for women because of the men's fears of the revolution. Women from another planet are planning to help.
Keywords: Female author

"The Perpetual Migration" - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (The Moon Is Always Female, 1980)
Short eutopian poem on the joy of life. Part of her "The Lunar Cycle".
Rpt. in her Circles On the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 273-74.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Rescue” - Linda MacKendrick (The Keeper’s Price and Other Stories, 1980)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

Return to Earth: A Novel of the Future - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) (Viking Press, 1980)
Young adult novel in which corporations own most countries but, although there are radical differences in income, try to create good lives for all their inhabitants. The relatively good societies are contrasted with a charismatic religious leader and his control of his followers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Scorched Supper on New Niger" - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (New Voices III; The Campbell Award Nominees, 1980)
A story of corporate conflict in space that includes a feminist eutopia based on African traditions.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Pocket Books, 1981), 23-61; and in The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s. Presented by Isaac Asimov. Ed. Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993), 90-125. U.K. ed. (London: Robinson Publishing, 1993), 90-125.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Still Forms on Foxfield - Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956) (Ballantine Books, 1980)
Eutopia based on Quaker (Society of Friends) beliefs. The novel is concerned with how the society deals with potential conflict with more technologically advanced later settlers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"That's No Way to Treat a Fairy" - Fitzgerald, Luchia (Crystal Crone (London), 1980)
Eutopia. The Leprechauns ruled the small people enslaving some their own people, the workers, and the fairies, and the women were treated worst of all. A women's revolution brings about communities of mixed men and women, all men, and all women, which is presented as a eutopia within the post-revolutionary eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

“There Is Always an Alternative” - Patricia Mathews (The Keeper’s Price and Other Stories, 1980)
Free Amazon story.
Keywords: Female author

"This One Time" - Joan [Marie] Verba (b. 1953) (Tales of the Free Amazons, 1980)
Free Amazon story.
Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 228-39.
Keywords: Female author

This Time of Darkness - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) (Viking, 1980)
Children's dystopia set in an extensive, class-ridden city. Outside the city is a village presented as a contrasting eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Travails of Jane Saint - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) (Virgin Books, 1980)
The novel begins with Jane Saint being sentenced to total reprogramming in an isolation chamber for being a revolutionary, which, in the context, means an advocate for women’s liberation. The novel then follows her “experiences” during the period she is in the chamber, experiences that center around a quest to free women. Much fantasy, with talking dogs, one of whom is named Merleau-Ponty, after the French philosopher; a friendly, supportive demon; a witch; a shaman; and so forth. See also 1989 Saxton, which is a sequel.
Part previously published as "Jane Saint's Travails." Amazons! Ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson (New York: DAW Books, 1979), 107-16.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Watchstar - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Pocket Books, 1980)
First volume in a young adult trilogy followed by her Eye of the Comet. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New York</st1:state></st1:place>: Harper & Row, 1984; and Homesmind. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. This volume takes place in a future that has rejected technology or, to their way of thinking, outgrown it. People live in small villages, communicate only by telepathy, are telekinetic, and can fly. Those born without these abilities are killed. Each person must go through an individual rite of passage, and the protagonist is going through hers when she meets a boy who has descended to Earth from a comet in which he lives. He is from the without telepathic powers who were people left behind and fled Earth to live on comets in space. Eye of the Comet focuses on a young woman who is set the task by Homesmind, a cybernetic mind, of reconciling the two societies. Homesmind concludes with the conflict between the two worldviews and its impact on the various protagonists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“What I Did During My Park Vacation” - Ruth Berman (b. 1942) (Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories, 1980)
The brief story is about a high-tech society where most of the natural world is gone, and a park travels from roof top to roof top so that people can be temporarily exposed to it.
Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 267-68.
Keywords: Female author; US author

World Without Money--An Alternative - A[nnemarie] Wicklow (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1980)
Eutopia--title says it. Details of how it would work.
Keywords: Austrian author; Female author; Irish author

Benefits - Zoë Fairbairns (b. 1948) (Virago, 1979)
Feminist dystopia. Government encourages and then forces women to stay home and care for their families. It then tries to control conception by requiring contraception and later putting a contraceptive in the water. This causes major fetal damage and creates the beginnings of a backlash.
Rpt. with an "Introduction" by the author (i-iv) Nottingham, Eng.: Five Leaves, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) (Jonathan Cape, 1979)
As with much of Gordimer’s fiction, the novel is concerned with racial strife in the dystopia that is South Africa, with what she calls “the interregnum”, and, in this case, with the coming revolution. On the censorship of the novel, see What Happened to Burger’s Daughter: or How South African Censorship Works. Emmarentia, South Africa: Taurus, 1980.
On the censorship of the novel, see What Happened to Burger’s Daughter: or How South African Censorship Works. Emmarentia, South Africa: Taurus, 1980.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

Canopus in Argos: Archives. Re: Colonised Planet 5. Shikasta. Personal, Psychological, Historical Documents Relating to Visit by Johor (George Sherban) Emissary (Grade 9) 87th of the Period of the Last Days - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979)
The first of five volumes detailing the history and future of earth and other zones. See also 1980 (2), 1982, and 1983 Lessing. The Canopeans are the most advance beings and watch over others, interfering from time to time, not always successfully. Colonised Planet 5 appears to be Earth.
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Charlottesville: A Fictional Account” - Nan Randall (The Effects of Nuclear War, 1979)
A day-by-day account of the effects of nuclear war on Charlottesville, Virginia. The story provided the basis for the television film The Day After (1983) written by Edward Hume (b. 1936) and directed by Nicholas Meyer (b. 1945).The author had written with William Kincade (1939-2017), the executive director of the Arms Control Association, a series describing the effect of two nuclear bombs dropped on the Tampa Bay area. See “Doomsday.” St. Petersburg Times (February 25-28, 1979): 1A, 20A; 1A, 13A-14A; 1A, 7A; 12A.  For background to the story, see Alexis C. Madrigal, “The People Who Would Survive Nuclear War.” The Atlantic.com (January 25, 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/that-time-the-government-commission-fiction-about-nuclear-war/551303/
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dark Wing - Carl West; Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) (Atheneum, 1979)
Young adult dystopia in which medical care is illegal and the ill are put to death. Corporate power.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

From Blight to Height - Marinelli, Jean (Vantage Press, 1979)
Eutopia in which a new form of society, called a Region, is established with sixty thousand people. Most decision-making is by a computer known as Comp-U, which is said to know what is best for everyone. The first is successful in eliminating poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, and its people are able to reach their full potential. People wore the same clothing and housing was identical. Standardized names plus a number. Contraceptives required and sexual activity limited to Friday nights. People ate together. No tobacco but marijuana was used. No children initially. As a result, more such Regions are established. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gallagher's Glacier - Walt[er R.] Richmond (1922-77); Leigh [Tucker] Richmond (1911-95) (Ace Books, 1979)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the universe is ruled by giant corporations. Rebellion.
Part originally published as "Gallagher's Glacier." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 74.3 (November 1964): 37-42. Short version published New York: Ace Books, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

In the Circle of Time - Margaret J[ean] Anderson (b. 1931) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979)
Young adult novel in sequel to 1977 Anderson. This novel is set in 2179 in which two children from our time assist a eutopian society in its struggle against a mechanized dystopia. See also 1984 Anderson.  The female author was born in Scotland and lives in the U.S.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author; US author

Juniper Time - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Harper & Row, 1979)
Background of a post-disaster (drought) dystopia where the western part of the U.S. is abandoned, and people move east to settle in what are in effect concentration camps. The novel follows the experience of one woman who flees west and is taught survival skills by the Indians who have reclaimed the land.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Kindred - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) (Doubleday & Co., 1979)
The dystopia of U.S. slavery written in the form of a slave narrative by a woman who lives simultaneously in the past and the present.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1988 with an “Introduction” by Robert Crossley (ix-xxvii); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 1-271, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (756-757), and Notes (761-769). Adapted as a graphic novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. New York: AbramsComicArt, 2017, with an “Introduction” by Nnedi Okorafor (iv-vi).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Land - [Mary Vigliante] [Szydlowski] (b. 1946) (Manor, 1979)
Women are rulers and men are "Beasts" not considered human. One woman starts a movement to free the Beasts, who almost enslave the women, until a balance is achieved with hope of turning the dystopia into a eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Land of the Possible: A Report of the First Visit to Prire - Mary Alice White Ph.D. (1920-2000) (Warner Books, 1979)
A very detailed eutopia depicting Prire, a long established, isolated country that welcomes its first visitor in many years. Variety of ways of life, with the novel depicting Capital City, Blue Lake Village, which is a cooperative, Mountgate, a village of artists, Ponyo City, which has a university, and Shin, a factory town. There is also an area set aside for those who simply want to be left alone. Experiments are being constantly run to provide the evidence for policy choices. Stress on the small, local face-to-face community using appropriate technology that was available in the late 1970s. Every person from age twelve has two jobs, a community service job as well as an occupation. Life-long education. Gender and age equality.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Legend of Lady Bruna" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (Legends of Hastur and Cassilda, 1979)
This is a story of a strong woman who fought to keep her people free and is one of the legends of the Free Amazons.
Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 24-32 with an introductory note on 23. No copy of the Legends appears to be held in any library. Information from Catherine Coker, “The Friends of Darkover: An Annotated Bibliography and History.” Foundation 37.104 (Winter 2008): 52.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Leviathan's Deep - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) (Doubleday, 1979)
Conflict within a world dominated by women over how to respond to contact and growing conflict with Earth. Part of the solution is to educate the men on the woman-dominated world.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mindsong - Joan [Irene] Cox (1942-2009) (Avon, 1979)
.Science fiction novel that includes a description of a terraformed planet called Eden that exists in an age similar to Earth’s Hellenic age and is presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The New Gulliver or The Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, Jr. in Capovolta - Esmé Dodderidge (1916-97) (Taplinger, 1979)
Gender reversal satire.
U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent, 1980.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

News from the City of the Sun - Isabel [Diana] Colegate (b. 1931) (Hamish Hamilton, 1979)
A novel about the history of an intentional community from the 1930s to 1970s. The members have divergent views of what eutopia will be like and how to bring it about.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Offworld - [Roberta Leah Jacobs] [Gellis] (1927-2016) (Pocket Books, 1979)
Mostly adventure but begins in a standard utopia that is terribly dull.
Keywords: Female author

Praise All the Moons of Morning - [Jeanne] [Dixon] (b. 1936) (Atheneum, 1979)
Young adult dystopia in which the inhabitants are kept passive with a drug. A young girl in the dystopia and a woman from the past help free the people.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Retreat: As It Was! A Fantasy - Donna J. Young (Naiad Press, 1979)
Lesbian eutopia. After a war that killed everyone, women were given a second chance. Since then, they have learned parthenogenesis and spread around the galaxy. The novel is set on a frontier world called Retreat and follows the development and relationships of a number of women living in one of the communities there. The back cover has "What It Was Like Before the Men Came", but there is no mention of men in the book.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shadow of Earth - Phyllis [Leah Kleinstein] Eisenstein (1946-2020) (Dell, 1979)
Dystopian parallel history in which the Spanish Armada defeats England in 1588 and the middle ages continue.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Sudden Star - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1979)
Dystopia of overpopulation and violence. Medical care severely restricted.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Talking Coffins of Cryo-City - Shirley [Laurolyn] Parenteau (b. 1935) (Elsevier/Nelson Books, 1979)
A young adult novel which describes a flawed utopia based on the control of the weather. The world is run by machines. Criminals are frozen.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"To Keep the Oath" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (The Bloody Sun, 1979)
Story about her Free Amazons with an emphasis on why women choose to join them.
Rpt. in The Bloody Sun and "To Keep the Oath" (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 373-408; and in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 15-42. It is not in The Bloody Sun. New York: Ace Books, 1964.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Ultima Thule" - Arline Todd (Chrysalis, 1979)
Transplant dystopia in which needed organs are harvested from unwilling donors.
Keywords: Female author

The Vandal - Ann [Acheson] Schlee (b. 1934) (Macmillan, 1979)
Young adult future dystopia run by scientists who use drugs to control the citizenry. Vandalism as an act of rebellion against authority. Solidarity with other young people who are being controlled by the authorities.
U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1981.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Voice Out of Ramah - [Karen] Lee Killough (b. 1942) (Ballantine Books, 1979)
Dystopia of a male dominated society that uses religion to reinforce its power until a man begins to doubt and a woman begins to question.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Abra - Joan [Louise] Barfoot (b. 1946) (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1978)
Sort of a modern feminist Robinsonade in which a woman leaves home and family to live an isolated life and creates a good life for herself.
U.K. ed. as Gaining Ground. London: Women's Press, 1980.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Alien Sensation." - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) (Cassandra Rising, 1978)
Far future dystopia. Humans spend life drugged and dreaming, being fed experiences in pill form. They are maintained by aliens, and apparently humans had already chosen this way of life before the aliens arrived to colonize the planet.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Best Interests" - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) (Chrysalis, 1978)
An over-caring apartment computer system produces a dystopia.
Rpt. as "Best Interest." In her Signs and Portents (Santa Cruz, CA: Dream Press, 1984), 75-85.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Judy Barrett (b, 1941) (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1978)
Picture book for children. Life in the town of Chewandswallo where food fell from the sky three times a day and was a Cockaigne until the weather changed and storms of food forced the people to flee.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Differences Are Cause For Joy. View from the Year Twenty-two Hundred. Essay in Feminist Theory" - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (b. 1950) (Mythologies, 1978)
Non-fiction feminist eutopia with gender equality, a population in balance, no more violence or war, a balanced ecology, agism and racism gone, and there is no religion.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Ennead - Jan Mark (1943-2006) (Kestrel, 1978)
Young adult novel set on a desolate planet where the human race is creating a new dystopia. At the end there is a revival of hope.
U.S. ed. New York: Crowell, 1978.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Escape to the Suburbs" - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) (Cassandra Rising, 1978)
Overpopulation dystopia. Manhattan is cut off from the suburbs. The city government has fled to New Jersey and the tunnels have been blown up. Manhattan is now entirely black and Hispanic, extremely poor, and crowded. Those who try to escape are killed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Eye of the Heron" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Millennial Women, 1978)
Dystopia and eutopia. An authoritarian dystopia on another world that was originally a penal colony and continues with men ruling and women severely restricted. This is contrasted with a group of later arrivals who came to establish a small, free, egalitarian farming community. The dystopia initially dominates the smaller community, but it manages to free itself with the help of a young woman from the dystopia.
Rpt. in The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories. By Ursula K. Le Guin and Others. Ed. Virginia Kidd (London: Panther, 1980), 109-251; and as The Eye of the Heron. London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. 122 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

False Dawn - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1978)
Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in a future U.S. where disease, pollution, and war has decimated both the land and the people.
Rpt. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2002. U.K. ed. as False Dawn: Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. The first chapter was published as "False Dawn." Strange Bedfellows; Sex and Science Fiction. Ed. Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (New York: Random House, 1972), 117-34; and rpt. in Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 214-34; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 234-48.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Fragment of a Letter From a Non-Sexist Society" - Evelyn Rogers (Mythologies, 1978)
Feminist eutopia, "the United States of Isabella", which has always had gender equality.
Keywords: Female author

"The House That Shulamith Built" - Avedon Carol (b. 1951) (Mythologies, 1978)
Non-fictional feminist eutopia stressing variety. Shulamith refers to Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: William Morrow, 1970. See 1970 Firestone.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Leprosarium" - Natalie L[evin] M[aines] Petesch (b.1924) (Seasons Such As These. Two Novels, 1978)
Dystopia in which a large insurance company punishes those who deviate from its rules by incarcerating them in the Leprosarium where large numbers of people are kept together but prohibited from most contact, with such contact warranting further physical punishment. Those who survive are sent to isolated islands, where they take large doses of the drug orgone, which causes hallucinations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Motherlines - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (Berkley Books, 1978)
Sequel to 1974 Charnas where Alldera, the woman who escaped from the Holdfast, discovers, first, the Horsewomen, and later the Free Fems. Both might be called flawed feminist utopias because while they are clearly much better than the slavery of the Holdfast, each has serious internal conflicts and problems, and, while they trade, they are deeply opposed to each other. See also 1994, and 1999 Charnas.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. Rpt. in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 217-436.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Paradise Crossed" - Sherri L. File (Janus, 1978)
Satire on anti-gay activist Anita Bryant (b. 1940) who, on dying first goes to all-male heaven, then to an all-female heaven, and then finds her rightful place in hell.
Keywords: Female author

"Phoenix in the Ashes" - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) (Millennial Women, 1978)
Authoritarian religious dystopia in a post-disaster primitive future. Women are controlled by their fathers and husbands.
Rpt. in her Phoenix in the Ashes (New York: Bluejay International Editions, 1985), 1-34 with "Afterword—Phoenix in the Ashes" (35-36).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Prayer for My Daughter" - Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) (Millennial Women, 1978)
Eutopian poem of a future without men.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Ruins of Isis - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (Starblaze/Donning, 1978)
Isis is a matriarchal eutopia going through a series of physical and political problems and being studied by an anthropologist from another planet. The ruins are ancient and thought to have been built by an extinct alien race.
Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978; and New York: Timescape, 1979.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Seven Last Years - Carol Balizet (b. 1931) (Chosen Books, 1978)
Biblical dystopia of Armageddon (See Revelation 16), the seven years known as the "Tribulation" that, in this version, comes before the Millennium. Includes an "Appendix: Scriptural Prophecies for the Tribulation Period" (369-76).
Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Speculations on a Non-Sexist Society" - Jennifer Bankier (Mythologies, 1978)
Non-fictional feminist eutopia attacking sexism and focusing on sexuality, reproduction, bond groups to replace marriage and the family, child-rearing, and employment.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"SQ" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Cassandra Rising, 1978)
Dystopia. The SQ test is presumably able to distinguish the sane and the insane and becomes required world-wide. Gradually the majority of people are judged insane and most of the sane choose to live in the asylums both to care for their relatives and because life was better in them than outside where the world economy is collapsing.
Rpt. in her The Compass Rose (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 69-80.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Tomorrow City - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
Young adult dystopia set in a city where a computer that was designed to determine what was best for its inhabitants becomes dictatorial. A boy and a girl come to recognize the problem and ultimately successfully defeat the computer, although at a high cost to the girl.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Two of Them - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Berkley Publishing Co., 1978)
Dystopia set in a society that suppresses women and resonates with the most extreme forms of Wahhabism. Uses some characters from 1969 Elgin, “For the Sake of Grace,” and the book is dedicated to Elgin.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1979; and Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005 with a “Foreword” by Sharon LeFanu (vii-xv).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) (Persephone Press, 1978)
Feminist eutopia presented through a series of linked stories. The primary eutopia is one of women without men. Other societies are also depicted, some of which are in conflict with these women.
Rpt. Denver, CO: Spinsters Ink Books, 2002. The first chapter, “Opening,” was published as “Freestanding: Jacqua’s Story.” Quest: A Feminist Quarterly 1.1 (Summer 1975): 20-26. Other material was first published as “Krueva and the Pony.” Ms. 5.2 (August 1976): 75-77, 87; “Jacqua.” The Witch and the Chameleon, no. 3 (April 1, 1975): 9-12, and “Alaka’s Story.” Woman-Spirit [2.8] (Summer solstice [1976]): 9.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Weave of Women - E[sther] M[asserman] Broner (1927-2011) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978)
A feminist novel about a group of women who call themselves the Daughters of Jerusalem and the community they create among themselves in a house in Jerusalem where they regularly get together.
Rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985 with an “Introduction” by Marilyn French (ix-xv). Parts originally published as “The Bird and the Thieves.” Epoch 22.2 (Winter 1973): 160-176; “Habibi.” Florida Quarterly 6.1 (Spring 1974): 11-32; “On the Mt. of Meron.” Story Quarterly 1.1 (1975): 85-97.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Your Place or Mine? - Patrick MacFadden; Rae Murphy (b. 1935); Robert Chodos (b. 1947) (Deneau & Greenberg, 1978)
A political satire set in the future dealing with the future of the Canadian nation.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

The Blue Chair. A Novel - Joyce [Marie] Thompson (b. 1948) (Avon Books, 1977)
Dystopia. Social institutions and personal relations produced in a society where immortality is available to those who choose not to have children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Design for the City of Women" - Lapidus, Jacqueline (Heresies, 1977)
Short sketch of a primitive lesbian eutopia with the rituals connected to their bodies and life stages.
Keywords: Female author

Drinking Sapphire Wine - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (DAW Books, 1977)
A group leave the domed cities described in 1976 Lee and establish a community in the desert. Initially attacked by the cities, they are eventually left alone and begin the process of living a life without robots, body and sex changes, and with the possibility of permanent death.
Rpt. in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 169-370.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"An Elder Womon's Tale from the Year 2000" - Bonnie Sundance (Womanspirit (Portland, OR), 1977)
Short feminist eutopia tracing the first years of a "womyn's" community as told by a community elder.
Keywords: Female author

Journey Among Women - Diana Fuller (Sun Books, 1977)
In early Australia, a group of women escape from abusive situations and create a primitive eutopia in the wild.
Keywords: Female author

"Majority Rule" - Sarah Greenwald (Janus, 1977)
The story focuses on a food additive, tested on people in poor countries, who mostly die, but is still approved.
Keywords: Female author

Outbreak - Marianne Ruuth (1937-2007) (Manor Books, 1977)
Complex future dystopia located in seven domed cities with control through conditioning and drugs. The novel is concerned with the struggle to overthrow the dystopia and undo the conditioning.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish author; US author

The Passion of New Eve - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) (Victor Gollancz, 1977)
Dystopia. The novel traces a man's travel across a disintegrating U.S., beginning with a violent New York City where African Americans blow up Columbia University and are building a wall around Harlem and women are attacking men. In the West he is captured by a women's group, who surgically turn him into a woman. Escaping he is captured and mistreated by various groups.
U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Screwfly Solution” - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, 1977)
The story is about the Sons of Adam, a growing religious movement that kills women.
Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 435-53; Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 83-101; in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 287-310, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 184-86; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 291-320, with a biographical note on 465-467 and a note on the text on 486.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shepherd - J[oan Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) (Laser Books, 1977)
Dystopia of Anti-Emotion Conditioners.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Worlds for the Grabbing - Brenda Pearce (b. 1935) (Dennis Dobson, 1977)
As befits the title, the novel is about the corrupt system of colonization and the exploitation of other planets. The main character has too-high ethical standards for the system.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Arslan - M[ary] J[ane] Engh (b. 1933) (Warner Books, 1976)
Future dystopia in which a young Asian tyrant named Arslan conquers the U.S. and establishes his headquarters in a small town in Illinois. The novel focuses on the complex personal relations that develop.
Rpt. New York: Arbor House, 1987; and New York: Tor, 1988. U.K. ed. as A Wind from Bukhara. London: Grafton, 1989.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Commodore Bork and the Compost (a homily)" - Madsen, Catherine (The Witch and the Chameleon, 1976)
Feminist eutopia on a starship sent out by the Earth Mothers' Organic Co-op and Dyke Farm. Stress on ecology.
Rpt. in Women (Baltimore, MD) 5.1 (1976): 32, 34-35.
Keywords: Female author

"The Diary of the Rose" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis.
Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 99-125.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Don't Bite the Sun - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (DAW Books, 1976)
A novel about being a teenager in a future world designed to be eutopian with robots doing the work in domed cities and where you can die and be brought back and change your body type and your sex at will. The teenagers see the eutopia as deeply flawed. See also 1977 Lee.
Rpt. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1987; and in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 1-167.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Eden Echo - Ruth Angell Purkey (Baker's Plays, 1976)
Satire in a play on a women's only future. Because men were warlike, God had removed all men and women had created a peaceful society. The play shows two older women who are bored, a vehemently anti-male woman, and a young woman who discovers a man in suspended animation. God blinds the anti-male woman so that she can't see the man, and he and the girl go off together.
Keywords: Female author

Floating Worlds - Cecelia [Anastasia Holland (b. 1943) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976)
The novel begins in an anarchist eutopia with some problems on a future, overpopulated, polluted, but high-tech Earth contrasted with Mars, which focuses on law and order. The protagonist of the novel is an anarchist woman in her late twenties living on Earth who can speak Syth, the language of aliens who threaten Earth and Mars. She is hired by the Committee for the Revolution to meet on Mars with Syth leaders to negotiate a truce, which is complicated by the fact that the Syth consider females inferior. The novel begins in Manhattan, which is below the surface of the ocean and is a tourist destination, and then moves to the largely underground, dome-covered, New York, where the woman lives in a commune and looks for temporary jobs to pay her minimal expenses. Men have a “plug” to keep them from impregnating a woman and must have a signed document from a woman to have the plug temporarily removed. The Committee for the Revolution has become a “vestigial government” to which people turn rather than dealing with problems themselves (10/Gollancz 2011, 10/Gollancz 2000, 12). The novel moves quickly to interstellar conflict.
Rpt. as the Collectors’ Edition. London: Gollancz, 2000. 542 pp.; and as SF Masterworks Edition. London: Gollancz, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Graham Sleight (vi-vii). viii + 628 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hail to the Chief" - Lucy [Michaella] Cores (1912-2003) (Beyond Time, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia that would have developed if the Watergate burglary had succeeded.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hotel De Dream - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) (Victor Gollancz, 1976)
A series of conflicting dreams by people living in a boarding house take on reality and merge. Some of the dreams are eutopian or dystopian; e.g., one is of an ideal city and one is of Amazonian women. Also, the characters in a novel being written by one of the tenants come to life.
Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (Aurora: Beyond Equality, 1976)
Feminist eutopia composed only of women, mostly clones but with a few new genotypes still being created, confronts men returning from a long space voyage. The eutopia came because an epidemic caused widespread infertility and no male babies were born. It has a small population and is without hierarchy or government and, while it has space travel, it is based more on agriculture than technology. The three men include an extreme chauvinist, a Christian who believes that God established a patriarchal system, and one man who struggles to understand and accept the situation.
Rpt. in Star Songs of an Old Primate (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), 164-226; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 582-632; under the title of the story New York: Tor, 1989 as part of Tor Double Novel # 11 bound with Joanna Russ’s Souls; and in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 168-222.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Islands - Marta Randall (b. 1948) (Pyramid Books, 1976)
Earth has become a world of immortals, but the treatments fail on one woman who leaves Earth but then returns, an old woman in a world of eternal youth.
Rev. ed. New York: Pocket Books, 1980.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Keeper - J[oan Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) (Laser Books, 1976)
Dystopia of a society with no emotion and people programmed not to feel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Kennaquhair - Ruth Hooker (Abingdon, 1976)
Children's eutopia. A group of racially mixed children escape from a heavily polluted world into a valley called Kennaquhair or "don't know where", where they learn to grow crops and care for animals and each other.
Keywords: Female author

The Mind Gods; A Novel of the Future - Marie Jakober (1941-2017) (Macmillan of Canada, 1976)
The novel begins in a eutopia on a beautiful planet with very strict birth and pollution controls to correct past bad practice on Earth. Most children are born in machines and raised in "child communes". The people recognize that they are far from perfect and something like a slum exists among the wealth and the beautiful architecture. No religion. The eutopia is attacked and almost defeated by the followers of a charismatic religious leader who has taken over an entire planet through drugs that enhance psychic ability and allows people to be controlled.
U.K. ed. London: Macmillan, 1976.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Nozama" - Estacada, Alix; Maridee Bona Dea (Women (Baltimore, MD), 1976)
Brief feminist eutopia. Excerpt from planned larger work that appears to have never been published.
Keywords: Female author

The Shattered Chain - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (DAW Books, 1976)
Part of her Darkover series concerned with the Free Amazons, a utopian sub-culture. There are a large number of books and stories by Bradley and others that are set in Darkover. Here I have included only those works that are clearly eutopian, and most of the works included focus on the Free Amazons. See 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991 Bradley; 1979 Breen; 1980 Boal (2), Mathews, Silvestri, Verana, and Verba; 1985 Armistead, Bigelow, Boal, Carter, Holtzer, Jaida nha Sandra, Kramer, Lackey, Paxson, Riggs, Schwartz, Shannon, Mathews (2), Silvestri, Verba, Waters, and Wheeler; 1982 Holdom, 1987 Boal, Buchanan, and Fenoglio; 1990 Lackey; 1991 Alward, Armstrong, Armstrong-Jones, Avery, Carter, Cirone, Fenoglia, Jaggers, Kobylecky, Lamb, Nazarian, Novak, Partridge, Paxson, Rey, Rhodes, Rodriguez, Verba, Waters, and Wheeler; 1993 Heydt and Schimel; 1994 Pierson, Paxson, and Lackey; 2013 Caffrey and Edhghill; 2014 Paxson; 2015 Paxson.
Rpt. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979; and in Oath of the Renunciates (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1983), 1-212. U.K. ed. of The Shattered Chain. London: Arrow Books, 1978; rpt. London: Severn House, 1985
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Thanatos" - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) (Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia in a world where all plants and animals have died. Everyone convicted of a crime is kept alive while attached to machines that pump from them all the nutrients needed to sustain others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Time of the Fourth Horseman - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. with disease as a means of population control.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1977.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Treasures of Morrow - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) (Four Winds Press, 1976)
Sequel 1973 Hoover in which the children live in the eutopia but also return to the primitive society to try to assist it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Turning Place: Stories of a Future Past - Jean E[dna] Karl (1927-2000) (E. P. Dutton, 1976)
Young adult eutopia presented in a series of linked stories beginning with a destroyed Earth and its slow rebirth. In the process of rebirth, human beings come to recognize the ties that bind them all together. They also become more inward looking at the same time that they are in contact with other planets and ultimately with the galaxy, where humans have a role in creating a galactic government. 1981 Karl is a companion volume.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976)
Detailed feminist eutopia that is half a realistic novel about the mistreatment of the poor by the police, social workers and the medical/psychiatric profession. Eliminates gendered pronouns; replaced with "per".
Rpt. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1983. [40th anniversary edition]. London: Gollancz, 2016 with “Introduction to the 2016 Edition” by Piercy (vii-xi).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light." - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (Aurora: Beyond Equality, 1976)
Future dystopia of violence directed particularly at women.
Rpt. in James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.], Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr. (Suak City, WI: Arkham House, 1990), 149-67; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 247-63.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Be Ye Perfect" - M[artha] A[nn] Bartter (1932-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1975)
Dystopia. Population control through forced breeding between two communities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Come See the Last Man Cry" - Joan [Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) (Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction, 1975)
Dystopia. Emotionless people who need to torment a child into expressing unhappiness for public viewing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Come Take a Dip With Me in the Genetic Pool" - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia in which an authoritarian genetic council decides who can have children and requires abortions when a relationship is not approved.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Comet - [Jane Francis] [Brady] (1934-85) (Hamilton, 1975)
Dystopia. After a catastrophe, there has been a growth of violence and an authoritarian system. Population severely depleted. Books banned. Domestic animals have become wild.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Concert: A Short Story of Paradise Found" - [Susan] [Furchgott] (Utopian Eyes, 1975)
Eutopia. Story of the future of the Kerista polyfidelity community.
Rpt. in Kerista; Journal of Utopian Group Living 3.2 (Autumn, 1986): 1-27
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Day They Cut Off the Power" - Vera Johnson (New Writings in SF, 1975)
Students of every college of the United States of Europe plan a revolt, but all the colleges are closed and turned over to the local governments to use as housing. All education will be by television. Extreme pollution. Neo-Luddites destroying cars and planes.
Keywords: Female author

Doomsday Clock - Elizabeth S. Benoist (1901-99) (Naylor Co, 1975)
A novel about the build-up to nuclear war and the aftermath of the war. A small group of survivors is shown in an almost eutopian underground shelter. Conflicts develop among them, and they work to return to the surface.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Exile Waiting - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) (Nelson Doubleday, 1975)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia set in the Center, a domed city that involves slavery located in a cave system connected to an old missile site. The novel is unusual for the time including disabled characters. For a study of disability in science fiction, see Kathryn Allan, ed. Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Her Dreamsnake. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1978 is set in the same universe. Dreamsnake is based on revisions of her “A Broken Dome.” Illus. Janet Aulisio. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 98.3 (March 1978): 50-66, 68-72, 74-100; “The Serpent’s Death.” Illus. Janet Aulisio. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 98.2 (February 1978): 67-93; and “Of Mist and Grass.” Illus. Leo Summers. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 92.2 (October 1973): 73-92.
Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, [1976]]; and Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with “Cages.” Illus. Olivier Olivier. Quark/4. Ed. Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker (New York: Paperback Library, 1971), 163-73, which includes characters who then appear in the novel, rpt. on 281-91, a “Note on the text” on 280; an “Afterword” by Una McCormack (293-312); “Further Reading” (313-14) and a “List of [McIntyre’s] works” (315-16).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Female Man - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Bantam Books, 1975)
A complex feminist novel that includes a eutopia without men. The focus of the novel is on three women who are genetically identical but, as a result of the different worlds they live in, completely different. See also 1972 Russ, “When It Changed”.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977, with an “Introduction” by Marilyn Hacker (v-xxvii); Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986; in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Gwyneth Jones (ix-xii); and in Russ, Novels and Stories. Ed. Nicole Rudick (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 1-191, with a Chronology on 681-694 that includes chronologically references to Russ’s publications, notes on the text on 694 and 697, and notes on 699-702. Selections from throughout the novel are rpt. as “A Few Things I Know About Whileaway.” The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 82-97 with an editor’s note on 81.
Keywords: Female author

From the Legend of Biel - Mary Staton (b. 1945?) (Ace Books, 1975)
A complex novel focusing on a highly advanced society both technically and socially trying to push human evolution along faster with both positive and negative results. This culture, which is part of a vast federation of worlds, meets a primitive culture on one world and the humans who visit that planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Missing Man - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) (Berkley Books, 1975)
Dystopia. Overpopulation leads to break up into small, hostile communities.
Part originally published under this title in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 87.1 (March 1971): 8-51. Rpt. in Analog 9. Ed. Ben[jamin William] Bova (London: Dennis Dobson, 1973), 110-66; Nebula Award Stories Seven. Ed. Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 206-260, with an editor’s note on 206-07; and in her The Trouble with You Earth People (Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1980), 189-237. Other parts published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as "The Fear Hound" 81.3 (May 1968): 102-24; and "Rescue Squad For Ahmed" 86.2 (October 1970): 72-104.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The New Atlantis" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, 1975)
Bureaucratic, authoritarian, and violent dystopia. War is constant; global warming is destroying the planet; the government controls all power sources, which are failing; food and medication are in short supply; marriage and the nuclear family are illegal; women cannot be admitted to medical school; and minor bureaucratic rules are used to keep people in line for fear of being imprisoned.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), 165-92; in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 185-205; in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 12-40. U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 12-40; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 317-36; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 229-56, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 228.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Peddler's Apprentice" - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024); Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1975)
Dystopia--a small section of the story describes a world government that through drugs and manipulation has kept the world unchanging.
Rpt. in Vernor Vinge, True Names . . . and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 146-97; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 55-89. This ed. has notes by Vernor Vinge.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

A Place Beyond Man - Cary [Carolyn A.] Neeper (b. 1937) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975)
Gives glimpses of an alien culture that is a eutopia but the eutopia is not developed. Commentary on the contemporary human world.
Keywords: Female author

"A Prologue to Utopia: The Six Days of its Creation (out of the conditions of the now-existing world)" - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93); Francis Golffing (1910-2012) (Northern New England Review, 1975)
Short description of the beginnings of a eutopia based on "a psychological revolution" which allows human beings to see themselves as one world-wide society. See also 1962 and 1991 Golffing and Gibbs.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Ransome Revisited - Elisabeth Mace (b. 1933) (André Deutsch, 1975)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which children are brutally treated. A group of children leave to seek a better society and may find one. In the sequel her The Rushton Inheritance. London: Andre Deutsch, 1978 (rpt. as The Rushton Treasure. London: Magnet, 1980 with no mention of the earlier title), there is a beginning in recovering knowledge of the past. See also the non-utopian prequel to the novel, The Travelling Man. London André Deutsch, 1976.
U.S. ed. as Out There. New York: Greenwillow, 1975.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"Risk" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1975)
A man resurrected from the past hates the future eutopia in which technology keeps people from being injured.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Solution Three - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) (Dennis Dobson, 1975)
The novel is set after a nuclear war in a society that is experiencing overpopulation and food shortages. The first two solutions fail, but the third appears to be working. It requires prohibits heterosexuality, with some exceptions, who are looked down upon and discriminated against, and requires homosexuality. Reproduction is through cloning, with the original parents a black man and a white woman, thus eliminating racism. Children are raised collectively until weaned and then they are “strengthened,” by having their individuality removed and replaced with conditional responses through behavioral engineering. But Solution Three is also failing.
U.S. ed. New York: Warner Books, 1975. Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995, with an “Afterword Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult” by Susan M. Squier (161-83).
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Unpopular Planet - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) (Dell, 1975)
Authoritarian dystopia. No violence. Sex only with permission.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Unto the Last Generation - Juanita [Ruth Welllons] Coulson (b. 1933) (Lancer, 1975)
Dystopia in which people have lost the ability to breed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Utopia" - Miriam [Dworkin] Waddington (1917-2004) (Waves (York University, Canada), 1975)
Short poem of a dream of a mountain of roses with thorns.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Weapons" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948); George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia that violently enforces racial and class discrimination.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Where Summer Song Rings Hollow" - Gail Kimberly [Francis] (1927-2011) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Eternally renewable youth seen as a eutopia by some and a dystopia by others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“And Keep Us From Our Castles” - [Cynthia A.] [Morgan] (Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 1974)
The story focuses on a technological form of punishment, but it is used by a dystopian, authoritarian government that is shutting down dissent.
Rpt. in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 168-94.
Keywords: Female author

"Born Free: A Feminist Fable" - Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939) (Woman in the Year 2000, 1974)
Feminist eutopia. The story follows the first thirteen years of the life of a girl born into an egalitarian society at midnight on January 1, 2000. Each person works twenty-five hours a week with an additional six hours a month of volunteer work, although they can arrange their hours as they choose (11-12). Much of the story concerns childbirth, day-care, which is available everywhere, and education, all with many alternative arrangements. People are completely free to arrange their relationships (6). Male and female contraception is freely available, and abortion is a woman’s right (7). Cooperative housekeeping (9). All sport, including professional sport is mixed sex (18). Gay people are now completely accepted (22-23). The U.S. is now a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one (4). The female author was an editor of Ms. Magazine.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Chief Justice Wore a Red Dress" - Doris L[ipson] Sassower (1932-2019) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Eutopia of gender equality with a focus on the legal profession presented partially fictionally and partially in an historical essay. In the eutopia, the Equal Rights Amendment had passed. A Parental Responsibility Act limited the hours of work of parents with pre-school-age children to twenty-five hours a week, and there was free federally funded day care for twenty-five hours per week.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) (Jonathan Cape, 1974)
As with much of Gordimer's fiction, the novel is concerned with racial strife in the dystopia that is South Africa, with what she calls "the interregnum".
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"The Day Before the Revolution" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1974)
The story of Odo, theorist of the revolution in 1974 Le Guin, The Dispossessed, as an old woman just before the revolution. The Galaxy version is dedicated “in memoriam Paul Goodman 1911-1972”. Although the story takes place before the novel, it was written after it. See the note on the story in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, where she also says, “This story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas” [1973 Le Guin] (232).
Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 232-46; in Nebula Award Stories Ten. Ed. James Gunn (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 129-45; in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1976), 279-301; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 391-401, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 390; in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 344-57; in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 407-22; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 483-96; in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 975-89 with a “Note on the Text” (1084); and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 218-237, with a biographical note on 454-456 and notes on the text on 485-486.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Harper & Row, 1974)
Detailed anarchist eutopia with problems.
Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Avon, 1975; and with the subtitle as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Pat Morrissey and with an "Introduction" (unpaged) by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.]; New York: Harper, 1991. U.K. ed. without the subtitle and with a brief introduction, "Welcome (back) to Anarres" by Richard Morgan (ix-xii). London: Gollancz, 2006; and, with the subtitle, in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 613-919 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and “Notes” (1091-92).  An extract was published as “News from Anarres.” Social Revolution: Paper of the Social Revolution Group (Aberdeen, Scot.), no. 4 ([1977]): 12.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Eat, Drink, and Be Merry" - Dian Girad (2020 Vision, 1974)
Computer dystopia. Computer perfection regulates diet and will not allow a person to get more than five pounds off their ideal weight.
Keywords: Female author

"The Eggs of Eden" - M[artha] A[nn] Bartter (1932-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1974)
Satire on progressive education.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Femininity: 2000" - Carol [Gene Eisen] Rinzler (1941-90) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Short story of the future for women. Some technological eutopia, some dystopia, some unchanged, which can be read as part of the dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Impact of the Mid-Twentieth Century Movement for Sex Equality in Employment On Three Contemporary Economic Institutions" - Caroline Bird (1915-2011) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Eutopia. “A paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association” illustrating the effect of gender equality on the National Employment Exchange (115-18), the Neighborhood Play Group System (118-21), and the Minimum Income Security System (121-25). The Equal Rights Amendment had passed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Last of the Country House Murders - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) (Jonathan Cape, 1974)
Authoritarian overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (The Octagon Press, 1974)
Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Mother Earth Revisited: When Women in Politics Are Old Hat" - Bella [Savitsky] Abzug (1920-1998) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
An interview that is presented as having taken place in 2000 set in a world where Earth is primarily female and the moon and satellites in space are primarily male, a situation brought about by negotiation and political compromise. There had been a nuclear war, Earth had been made largely uninhabitable and people on Earth lived underground. Traditional gender roles have disappeared.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Pale Hands" - Doris Piserchia (1928-2021) (Orbit, 1974)
The story is set in a future New York City where sex is prohibited to control population and Fifth Avenue is lined with masturbation booths.
Rpt. in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 202-217, with a biographical note on 458-460 and a note on the text on 485.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) (Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, 1974)
Simple, Edenic eutopia as setting for the sexual coming-of-age of twins.
Rpt. in her The Collected Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats. Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, 1995), 58-67.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Ramparts" - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) (Universe, 1974)
A pastoral eutopia that is vegetarian, democratic, and completely peaceful has always sent its eccentrics and antisocial people into the surrounding forests and forgotten them. The forest people return and kill the inhabitants one of the towns.
Rpt. (New York: Popular Library, 1976), 165-91.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Songs of War" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Nova, 1974)
Satire on radical feminism in which an anti-male movement and solidarity among women fails.
Rpt. in her The Killer Mice (London: Victor Gollancz, 1976), 53-95; her Other Stories and The Attack of The Giant Baby (New York: Berkley, 1981), 50-95; and her Weird Women, Wired Women (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998), 56-91.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Walk to the End of the World - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (Ballantine Books, 1974)
Post-catastrophe dystopia where almost all past knowledge has been lost and civilization, such as it is, is restricted to a small area called the Holdfast. Women are called Fems, are effectively slaves, and are believed by the men to be animals with no intelligence. The men have a rigid hierarchy based on age. The novel ends with Alldera, a Fem, escaping the Holdfast in hopes of finding the rumored Free Fems. See also 1978, 1994, and 1999 Charnas.
Rpt. in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 1-215.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Women in Motion" - Lucinda [Laura] Franks (b. 1946) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Eutopia stressing physical fitness for both men and women with schools no longer having boys' teams and girls' teams.
Keywords: Female author; US author

World Peace? Will women succeed where men consistently failed? - Dr. Charlotte M. Steiner (Author, 1974)
An odd pamphlet that argues “Prenatal Education” can produce children with specific characteristics, good or bad. The pamphlet outlines what the mother should do regarding diet, exercise, and “purposeful activities,” during pregnancy to bring about the only vaguely described eutopia. The author says that this is based on the writings of Dr. O. Z. Hanish (1844/56?-1936), whose writings on Prenatal Education were brought together in two collections published in Amsterdam in 1976. The book ends by mentioning a forthcoming novel, It All Starts in the Womb by Frank D. Steiner, which will illustrate Prenatal Education but does not appear to have even been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Young Love" - Grania [Eve] Davis (1943-2017) (Orbit 13, 1974)
Overpopulation dystopia. Sexless love in a disintegrating society where most people live in communities with all their activities regulated. From age 12 boys and girls live in separate communities. Chemical food. Large numbers are homeless. Generally unintelligent and uneducated. The Army does work like street cleaning that robots are not able to do.
Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 206-22.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Beast in View" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Omega, 1973)
A eutopian society (peaceful, vegetarian) tries to deal with a throwback.
Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1973), 70-82.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Atheneum, 1973)
Continuation of 1972 Engdahl. In this novel most of story is concerned with a villager who had earned the right to become a Scholar and his despair over what he learns. But at the end he reinterprets the Prophecy on which the civilization is built in a way that will bring about change in the future. See also 1981 Engdahl.
Rpt. with minor revisions in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 217-421 together with 1972 and 1981 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21), in which she notes that this volume was intended for teenagers, whereas the first was intended for children, and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]). Public US
Keywords: Female author; US author

Children of Morrow - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) (Four Winds Press, 1973)
Two telepathic children born into a primitive post-nuclear war society that they flee to join a telepathic and technologically advanced eutopia. See also 1976 Hoover.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Clear Day in Motor City" - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (New Worlds 6. The Science Fiction Quarterly, 1973)
Flawed utopia. The story begins in a future eutopian Detroit, Michigan, where everyone gets the day off on a clear day. But the eutopia exists only for those who take drugs, and there are human sacrifices to the old gods.
Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 109-16 with an editor's note on 108-09.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Complex Man - Marie C. Farca (b. 1935) (Doubleday, 1973)
The protagonist from 1972 Farca twenty-five years later in his advanced but troubled technological society as it undergoes change by trying to incorporate some of the principles of the society in the first novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Desirable Lakeside Residence" - André Norton (1912-2005) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 69-88.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Fanshen and the Magic Bear - Becky Sarah (New Seed Press, 1973)
Children’s story in which a young girl is the tax collector for a king and who hates taking from the poor for the rich king. The female bear, Fanshen, advises the girl to get all the people together and say that they were no longer going to pay taxes, and that they were going to divide the land up equally. They do and, in doing so, create a eutopia in which even the king is happy.
Keywords: Female author

"For the Good of Society" - Terri E. Pinckard (1930-2004) (Vertex, 1973)
Dystopia of criminality where the only decent people are in prison and it is prisoners who grow the food and manufacture the goods for the entire society.
Rpt as by T[erri] E. Merritt-Pinckard in Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts. Ed. Forrest J. Ackerman (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing, 1997), 241-44.
Keywords: Female author

"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (New Dimensions, 1973)
A eutopia that outlaws any misrepresentation of a product (advertising) is being successfully undermined by corporate interests.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1989. Tor Double bound with Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019). Screwtop [Originally published in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1976), 151-208]; in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 44-79; in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 178-213; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 74-120; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 151-90; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 135-184, with a biographical note on 469-471 and notes on the text on 483-485.
Keywords: Female author; US author