"IMT" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia. Disintegration of the cities of the future. Violence, poverty. Hope through a new technology but problems with how to introduce it for the best results.
Rpt. in her Starshadows: Ten Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1977), 88-108.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"London Times, 2075 July 15. Reporter Visits Lincoln. First Reporter in 100 Years" - Marion L[undy] Dobbert (b. 1943) (1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume, 1973)
Detailed eutopia--ecologically sound society that stresses the human scale.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Lone Warrior" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
The story begins with the death by torture of a member of the opposition to an authoritarian dystopia with his lover being forced to watch and continues with her systematic attempt to reconnect with the opposition movement and get revenge.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (New Dimensions, 1973)
Flawed eutopia. The suffering of one child is necessary for the existence of a eutopia. See Sarah Pinsker, “The Ones Who Know Where They are Going.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41.3 & 4 (494 & 495) (March-April 2017): 67-69 for a brief version giving the perspective of the child. Corey Doctorow’s Walkaway. New York: Tor, 2017 is clearly related. P. H. Lee’s “A House by the Sea.” Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 24 (September 2018). https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ is about the lives of the children after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. Nora K. Jemisin’s,  “The One Who Stay and Fight.” In her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 1-13; rpt. Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/ reflects the story’s title. Cynthia Gómez’s “The Ones Who Came Back to Heal.” Strange Horizons (July 17, 2023). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-ones-who-come-back-to-heal/ concerns a trans person who had left but returns to try to help the child. A related story that connects the children in Omelas to the refugee crisis is Rene Denfeld, “The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away.” Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 112-116.
Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 224-31; in Utopian Studies 2.1 & 2 (1992): 1-5; in The Secret History of Science Fiction. Ed. James Patrick Kelly and John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2009), 39-44; without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 33-38; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 33-38; and with the subtitle in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 1-7; with the subtitle in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 329-36; with the subtitle in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 87-94; and without the subtitle in Futures and Fictions. Ed. Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, and Simon O’Sullivan (London: Repeater Press, 2017), 379-88.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Plenteous Seed - D[enise] N[atalie] Sims (Robert Hale, 1973)
Revolt in a hierarchical dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

"The Quality of the Product" - Lil Neville; Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 31-54.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Red Canary" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Orbit, 1973)
Bureaucratic welfare dystopia of extreme poverty and the rationing of health care.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 113-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Small War" - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 61-67.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sorry Wrong Number - Margaret Simpson (Andre Deutsch, 1973)
Dystopia. Near future regimented society. Everyone assigned a number. Those without numbers pose problems for the system.
Keywords: Female author

Univaria; A Cultural Alternative" - Dorothy Kuer (b. 1924); Russell La Due (b. 1924) (1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume, 1973)
Detailed eutopia with leadership by people like the samurai in 1905 Wells. Ceiling on income, no inheritance, and no taxes. Decentralization. Limit on family size.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magaroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 593-612.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Village" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Bad Noon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia in which an absolutely typical U.S. village is invaded by U.S. forces raping the young women and killing everyone.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 277-87.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"When Petals Fall" - Sydney J[oyce] Van Scyoc (1939-2023) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia. Society making itself poor by maintaining the aged against the hope of future medical advances.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Where Have All the Followers Gone?" - Raylyn [Thyrza] Moore (1928-2005) (Bad Moon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia in which all the hippies and acid heads in California are lured to a camp where they are gassed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Year of the Rats - Barbara Guignon Ricci (Walker, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

Against Arcturus - Susan K. Putney (Ace Books, 1972)
A well-described alien eutopia on a planet that Earth plans to colonize to settle people from overpopulated worlds. This will require the elimination of the indigenous inhabitants, who are spiritually and socially advanced far beyond humans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Al" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019); Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (Orbit 10: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories, 1972)
The story tells of a man who survives a plane crash in an isolated valley that seems to be a eutopia of artists and his experiences there. Told both from the point of view of the man and some of the inhabitants.
Rpt. in Best Stories from Orbit 1-10. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Berkley Publishing Co., 1975), 350-59; and in her Joy in Our Cause: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 143-54.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia in which humans become addicted to contact with aliens.
Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 52-60.
Keywords: Female author; US author

At the Seventh Level - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (DAW Books, 1972)
Dystopia. Development of 1969 Elgin. "For the Sake of Grace," which is reprinted here (7-31). In the patriarchal society one woman has risen to the top level, where she is constantly under attack.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Earth - Marie C. Farca (b. 1935) (Doubleday, 1972)
Eutopia. A future extremely polluted earth and a simple, individualistic, ecologically oriented culture surviving under a plastic dome. Each person is responsible for feeding themselves and building their own housing (a small hut). Community buildings (one each for the children and the old and one community building) are built by individuals not working in concert. The old, the children, and the fire are cared for by the adults in rotation. Cooperation exists in the form of "gifting". The society is presented through the eyes of a man from a very advanced technological society, which he returns to in 1973 Farca.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Dystopia. A society in which equality is achieved by making everyone ill.
Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 125-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Factory" - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) (Nova Three, 1972)
The story is set in a present-day, completely realistic dystopia in which a factory’s emissions kills all the animals near it.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"The Funeral" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Post catastrophe dystopia with society divided into castes. The center of power is the schools and teachers hold great authority, and children are under the complete control of the teachers. The old resent the young and had most of them killed three times in the past.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 288-318; in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1976), 175-213; in In the Field of Fire. Ed. Jeanne Van Buren Dann and Jack Dann (New York: Tor, 1987), 157-68 with an editors’ note on 158; 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), 263-87; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 47-67; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 47-67; 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), 23-58, with a biographical note on 474-476 and a note on the text on 479-481.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Gift of Nothing" - Joan C[arol Hunter] Holly (1932-82) (and walk now gently through the fire and other science fiction stories, 1972)
Eutopia. A planet is being opened up to colonization, which will destroy the existing society, which is presented as a eutopia paralleling those of traditional Native American Indians.
[Science Fiction Book Club ed.] (Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Books Co., 1972), 57-95.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972)
Surrealistic dystopia in which a man destabilizes reality, thus producing many fantastic events. Much violence including violent sex. The novel describes one man's successful attempt to find the source of the problem and defeat it. In the course of his search, he comes across a number of small societies, all of them ultimately dystopian.
U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Les Blancs. A Drama in Two Acts. Final Text Adapted by Robert Nemiroff - Lorraine [Vivian] Hansberry (1930-65) (Samuel French, 1972)
The play explores the dystopia of colonialism in Africa. The title refers to Jean Genet’s Les Nègres (1958).
Also published in Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. Ed. Robert Nemiroff. New York: Random House, 1972. “Les Blancs is 47-172, with “A Critical Background” (35-46) and “Postscript” by Neimroff (173-86) that discusses reviews of the play. Includes materials not part of the Broadway production. The play is also analyzed by Julius Lester in his “Introduction” (3-32).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"Nobody's Home" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (New Dimensions II, 1972)
Eutopia. The focus of the story is an extended family of eighteen adults living in a future world with a fairly low population. The main technological change is a matter transmitter that allows nearly instantaneous travel to any place on Earth, which means that only some are living together at any one time. The family described values high intelligence, and it is implied that this is the norm. Each person must contribute "tax labor" to the Earth community.
Rpt. in Women of Wonder. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1974), 231-56; illus. Dennis Neal Smith in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 52-69; 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), 249-62.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Soundless Evening" - [Shirley Bell] Hoffman (1932-2007) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Overpopulation dystopia in which each person could have one child and any children beyond that were killed at age five.
Rpt. in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 152-55.
Keywords: Female author; US author

This Star Shall Abide - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Atheneum, 1972)
Young adult highly structured, religious, authoritarian dystopia which turns out to be better than it initially seems. The society is led by Scholars, who keep knowledge to themselves, in the middle are the Technicians, who keep the machines running that make the planet inhabitable, and at the bottom are the villagers, who work the land. See also 1973 and 1981 Engdahl.
U.K. ed. as Heritage of the Star. London: Victor Gollancz, 1973. Rev. in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 15-215 together with 1973 and 1981 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21) and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Thrumthing and Out” - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
The story is set in a society that has cut itself off from the outside world, the Out, which is considered to be a deadly threat. The society inside the walls is slowly decaying as are the walls and most knowledge has been lost.
Rpt. in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 419-46.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Total Influence or Outcome of the Matter: THE SUN." Part 11 of "Laying down the tower" - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (off our backs, 1972)
Fairly vague eutopian poem regarding children and their need for freedom. See also 1970, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.
Rpt. as "Outcome of the Matter: The Sun." In her Circles on the Water: Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 137-38.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"When It Changed" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Eutopia without men, who had all died in a plague, and the clash that occurs when men from Earth arrive. The eutopia is called Whileaway, the name of the eutopia in 1975 Russ. The story is told from the point-of-view of one of two happily married women with three children.
Rpt. in her The Zanzibar Cat ([Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House, 1983), 3-11; in The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1977), 227-39; in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 45-53; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 204-10, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 203; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 333-40; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 507-15 with an editors’ note on 507-08; in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 194-202; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 603-07 with an editors’ note on 602; in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 59-69, with a biographical note on 492-493, and notes on the text on 481-483; and in Russ, Novels and Stories. Ed. Nicole Rudick (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 621-629, with a Chronology on 681-694 that includes chronologically references to Russ’s publications, notes on the text on 697, and notes on 708-710.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Word for World is Forest" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Human colonial dystopia versus indigenous eutopia. Exploitative colonization that treats the indigenous inhabitants as if they were animals, enslaving them, raping them, and destroying their way of life to ship timber back to Earth, which had been denuded of it. The indigenous inhabitants have a very complex, non-technological life deeply in tune with their planet. No government or overall authority with significant cultural difference among the communities. The women in each community, and the especially the headwoman, and the practical organizers of their communities’ activities. Some of the men were active dreamers in touch with a different reality.
. Published separately New York: Berkley, 1976. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 1977, with an “Author’s Introduction" (5-10); London: Gollancz, 2014, with an “Introduction” by Ken MacLeod (1-3) and the “Author’s Introduction” (5-10); and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume Two. The World for Word Is Forest Stories Five Ways to Forgiveness The Telling. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 1-104 with a “Note on the Text” (780), “Notes (783-84), and “Introduction to The Word for World Is Forest” from the 1977 Gollancz edition (753-57).
Keywords: Female author; US author

2150 A.D - Thea Plym Alexander (b. 1936) (Macro Books, 1971)
Detailed eutopia--technologically advanced, telepathic, vegetarian. Unified society on high emotional, intellectual, and spiritual plane. There is a “Micro Island” where the ways of the past are still practiced. See also Don Plym and Thea Ann Plym. A Macro Philosophy for the Aquarian Age. 2nd ed. Grosse Pointe, MI: Macro Development Center, 1971; and Thea Alexander, The Prophetess; Conversations With Rana. Book Four of the How to Develop series. Tempe, AZ: Macro Books, 1972. 47 pp. where the differences between Micro and Macro lives are contrasted regarding past and future, love and hate, government and politics, freedom and bondage, wisdom and folly, crime and punishment, war and peace, religion and god, law and injustice, sex and marriage, good and evil, and life and death. For a plan to put some of the ideas into practice, see Macro Associates. Micro Society Community. Phase II. Phoenix, AZ; Macro Associates, nd.
Tempe, AZ Macro Books_
Keywords: Female author; US author

Andra - [Elizabeth Rhoda Wintle] [Holden] (1943-2013) (William Collins, 1971)
Young adult dystopia set in an authoritarian underground city and a revolt by the young people.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

"As Simple as That" - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Holding Wonder, 1971)
Post-apocalyptic (unknown cause) dystopia told from the point of view of the only remaining teacher and the few surviving children.
Rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 188-99; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 305-14. 978-1-61037-338-8
Keywords: Female author; US author

Blueprint for Yesterday - June Wetherell (1909-2010) (Walker, 1971)
Dehumanized technological dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Daughter" - Anne [Inez] McCaffrey (1926-2011) (The Many Worlds of Science Fiction, 1971)
Coming of age story with a background of a society that carefully chooses the occupations of its citizens based on their aptitudes.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; US author

The Far Side of Evil - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Athenaeum, 1971)
Young adult novel in which a planet has reached the stage in which they are likely to annihilate itself with nuclear weapons. The same protagonist as and called a sequel to 1970 in Engdahl, although in her “Afterword” to the 2003 edition, the author says this work is aimed at an older audience.
Rpt. Illus. Richard Cuffari. New York: Collier, 1989; and Illus. Jody Hewgill. New York: Walker, 2003, with an “Afterword” by the author (321-24). U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1975.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Frog Pond" - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1971)
Pollution dystopia but shows a small community adapting to the new conditions.
Rpt. in her Cautionary Tales (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 9-17; 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), 11-22, with a biographical note on 477-478.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Furthest - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (Ace Books, 1971)
Authoritarian dystopia with women in an inferior position.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Guest of Honour - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) (Jonathan Cape, 1971)
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 future of South Africa.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

"Incident After" - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Holding Wonder, 1971)
Post-apocalyptic (unknown cause) dystopia told primarily from the point of view of the few remaining people, a woman who is afraid to leave her house, her two daughters, and her husband.
Rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 256-62; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 367-72.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Lathe of Heaven" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Amazing Stories, 1971)
Begins with a dystopian background stressing pollution and overpopulation. Search for eutopia driven by a power-hungry psychiatrist controlling a man whose dreams can change reality.
Repub. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1973. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1972.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Military Hospital" - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) (Fourteen Stories High, 1971)
Dystopia. The setting is a military hospital that is run entirely by robots except for one supervisor, who is there to ensure that nothing goes wrong and to adjust settings as needed. The hospital is primarily designed for casualties of all the wars around the world so that the soldiers can return to the front line. Outside the hospital the city's citizens are at war with each other.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Out There - Adrian [Pearl] Stoutenburg (1916-82) (Viking Press, 1971)
Young adult future tale in which children from a dystopian domed city experience nature for the first time and work together to protect it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Saltflower - Sydney [Joyce] Van Scyoc (b. 1939) (Avon Books, 1971)
Includes some consideration of a eutopia based on privacy and a dystopia that eliminates it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Short Visit to Ergon - E[dith] M. Osborn (b. 1902) (Marlowe House Ltd, 1971)
Detailed eutopia set on another planet. The people, who are all of one race, are telepathic in varying degrees. They believe that behind all matter is mind, and some of the people are developing significant mental powers, such as levitation. All people work to the extent they choose, and as long as they work two days a week they are provided with their basic needs. Includes a proposal for an ideal city on earth set in the U.S. (131-34) that is not related to the eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

"Where Have You Been, Billy Boy, Billy Boy?" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Quark, 1971)
A story of multiple futures for one person. One is an authoritarian dystopia where everyone is required to watch a TV channel a specified number of hours each day. Another is an overpopulation dystopia. None are positive.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 219-32.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Adam and Eve and Newbury - Diana Bennett (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970)
Humor set in a dystopia of an overzealous welfare state. The novel focuses on those who do not fit in.
Keywords: Female author

And Chaos Died - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Ace Books, 1970)
Telepathy on a eutopian planet with Earth an authoritarian dystopia. Children are considered babies until they are prepubescent, after which they become capable of acting telepathically. They can slow down their maturation, in the case mentioned because the girl wants to develop intellectually. Adults rarely talk. In the third section of the novel, the novel shifts abruptly among times and places. In one future Earth, the population has grown immensely, with some cities constructed underground and on and under the sea and few animals are plants remain. Food is manufactured and what plants still grow are contaminated. Few people are literate. People were generally free to do as they choose; drugs are commonly to induce experiences, including death. But there is no organized crime, sex is no one’s business except for the people involved, people have practically unlimited credit. One couple has traditional gender roles, as defined by the man.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1978, with an “Introduction” by Robert Silverberg (v-xi).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Chosen" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Orbit 6, 1970)
Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Communipaths - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (Ace Books, 1970)
Dystopia that uses those with telepathic ability, known as Communipaths, to send information throughout the galaxy. They are raised them in a crèche and are assigns them to a particular location where they live their brief lives communicating. This changes with the birth of a particularly powerful telepath.
Ace Double bound with 1970 Trimble.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Dance the Eagle to Sleep - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (Doubleday, 1970)
Dystopia which has a required "19th Year of Service" seen through the eyes of various young people who are suppressed by their parents, their schools, and the social order in which they live. This part of the novel reads like a realistic novel which then shifts to the youth rebellion and the rest of the novel focuses on the rebellion, the people involved in it, their relations and conflicts, and the organizations they establish including urban and rural communities. See also 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.
Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971; and Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012, with an "Introduction to the New Edition" by the author (vii-ix).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution - Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012) (William Morrow, 1970)
One of the more radical feminist texts of the time, which ends with a chapter entitled "The Ultimate Revolution: Demands and Speculations" (183-224) [called "Conclusion: The Ultimate Revolution" (232-74) in the U.K. ed.]; and, in the rev. ed. a section called "Alternatives" (226-42) outlining a future feminist eutopia. The book ends with a chart outlining the history of the position of women from the beginnings into a far future "cosmic consciousness".
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. Rev. ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Enchantress of the Stars - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Athenaeum, 1970)
Young adult novel about a colonization scheme that has no concern about the welfare of the inhabitants. The same protagonist as in 1971 Engdahl.
Rpt. illus. Leo and Diane Dillon. New York, Walker, 2001, with a “Foreword to the 2001 Edition” by Lois Lowry (vi-xi) and an “Afterword to the 2001 Edition” by the author (287-88).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Intensive Care - Janet [Paterson] Frame (1924-2004) (George Braziller, 1970)
Dystopian ending to a family chronicle projected into a future in which a world war leads to a plan to improve the human race and the economy by eliminating all the unfit, including those susceptible to minor illnesses.
Rpt. Wellington, New Zealand: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1971; London: W.H. Allen, 1971; and Auckland, New Zealand: Century Hutchinson, 1987.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"No More Fun and Games" - Rosemary Cook (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on feminism. Government, among other advances, abolishes the masculine gender in French and prohibits marriage and heterosexual relations.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Paradise Lost" - H[elen] M[ary] Tolcher (1928-2014) (Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1970)
Pollution dystopia. A pristine planet is discovered, but the man doing so keeps it a secret to avoid it being destroyed by others.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

“Report of the Fact-finding Committee on Food” - Farmiloe, Dorothy (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Dystopia in which all agricultural land has been turned over to industry and Canadians are starving.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"SCORE/SCORE" - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Future education. A teaching machine has a breakdown and wants to control the world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"Some People, Places and Attitudes that Won't Appear in My Next Paradise" - Christina Newman (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on feminism but stressing equality without separation, which is the goal of much feminism.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Taurus Four - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) (Paperback Library, 1970)
Satire centered on descendants of the Hippies who had been forcibly settled on another planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Year of the Last Eagle - Leona Train Rienow (1903-83); Robert Rienow (1909-89) (Ballantine Books, 1970)
A satire on the future U.S. centered on the 1989 Bicentennial but with no eagle.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Armed Camps - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Faber & Faber, 1969)
Military dominated dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The CRIB Circuit" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Future dystopia with rigid population control.
Rpt. in her Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow: Collected Stories (New York: Walker & Co., 1971), 158-71.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Day of the Drones - A[lice] M[artha] Lightner (1904-1988) (W.W. Norton, 1969)
In a future post-catastrophe Africa, Blacks rule and believe that their civilization is the only one left. Whites are drones. An expedition led by a young African woman is allowed to search for others and finds both that others do exist and that there are the remains of Western civilization, both of which are likely effect to African civilization.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Day of the Women - [June] Pamela Kettle (b. 1934) (Leslie Frewin, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia in which women dominate.
Rpt. London: New English Library, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"For the Sake of Grace" - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Patriarchal dystopia. Women considered inferior and adult males dominate all women. Resistant women are medicated. Occupation by competitive exam with poetry the occupation with the highest status. See also 1972 Elgin and 1978 Russ.
Rpt. in World's Best Science Fiction 1970. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1970), 105-27; in her At the Seventh Level (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 7-31; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 215-36.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Four-Gated City - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (MacGibbon & Kee, 1969)
The "Appendix" (560-614) presents a future, post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Telepathy.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Zimbabwean author

Heroes and Villains - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) (William Heinemann, 1969)
Post-catastrophe (nuclear war) dystopian novel presenting a contrast between civilization (rational) and barbarians (irrational). Isolated fortified villages divided among the hereditary Professor, Soldiers, and Workers with various other groups outside the social structure.
Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1981; and London: Penguin Books, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Robert Coover (vii-ix).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"J-Line To Nowhere" - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Completely controlled society that appears to be entirely enclosed with all air and water artificial and no greenery or insects. Age groups not allowed contact with older age groups. Dull, boring work. Education by machines. All as seen by a disaffected pre-teen who accidentally discovers nowhere, or the outside.
Rpt. in her Holding Wonder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 33-50; rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 40-58; U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972), 33-50; in The Venus Factor. Ed. Vic Ghidalia and Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1977), 96-116; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 181-96.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Ace Books, 1969)
Eutopia and dystopia. The novel is best known for its depiction of a hermaphrodite or ambisexual (both words are used in the text) society in which the people are neuter most of the time but can become female or male for a period with another person and can both sire and give birth to children. The novel is primarily concerned with relations between two countries on the planet and within each country during the period after initial contact with an envoy from off planet. A related story is her "Winter's King." Orbit 5. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969), 67-88; rev. with the pronouns changed to they in her The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 75-95, which has some revisions (see the note on 75); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 301-16 with an editors' note on 200; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 923-43 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and the original Orbit 5 version (1044-64). See also, 1995 Le Guin, "Coming of Age in Karhide." Three stories by Stevan Allred set in Gethen are “Ib & Nib and the Ice Berries”, “Ib & Nib and the Golden Ring”, and “Ib & Nib and the Hemmens Tree” in Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 76-82, 216-223, 358-362.
Also published New York: Walker and Co., 1969. The New York: Ace Books, 1976 edition has an unnumbered six-page introduction by Le Guin which is rpt. in her The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979), 155-59; Rev. ed. ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (London: Women's Press, 1989), 130-34. 1st American ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 150-54. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Kelly Freas with an "Preface" by Joan D. Vinge (v-xiii) and the 1976 "Introduction" by Le Guin xv-xviii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. The 25th anniversary ed. New York: Walker, 1994 contains an important "Afterword" (287-93) and appendices (295-345) concerning the issue of gendered language. The 40th Anniversary ed. London: Gollancz, 2009 includes an "Introductory Note for the 40th Anniversary Edition" (ix-xii), 1995 Le Guin (249-68), "Some Kardish Words, and Two Songs from the Domain of Estre" (269-72), and "Author's working sketch map" (273). The Library of America edition reprints the 1969 Ace Books edition; Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 385-611 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), “Notes” (1090-91), and “Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1023-27). The London: Gollancz, 2017 ed. has an “Introduction” by China Miéville (ix-xii) and the 1976 “Introduction” by Le Guin (xiii-xvii), albeit not identified as such. 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Ace Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by David Mitchell (ix-xiv) and an “Afterword” by Charlie Jane Anders (305-15).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Man on the Mountain - Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904-99) (Little, Brown, 1969)
Dystopia. A country where race and class no longer matter but in which people are separated into four different regions on the basis of age.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Residence Afresh - [Mrs.] [Arthur E.] [Towle] (1889-1969) (Robert Hale, 1969)
Domestic heaven.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Teg's 1994; An Anticipation of the Near Future - Robert Theobald (1929-99); J[ean] M. Scott ([Theobald and Scott], 1969)
Detailed eutopia based on ecology, personal growth, and interpersonal communication. Problems remain, and the author's say, "In our opinion, Teg's world would make a very poor Utopia for anybody" (x, 1972 ed.). See also 1968 Theobald and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
New ed. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1972.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Throwaways" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Consumption (Seattle, WA), 1969)
Dystopian satire on future consumption patterns, which focuses on everything being a throwaway.
Rpt. in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 98-102.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Twig Benders - [Wilda] [Holst] (The Feminists, 1969)
Sex role reversal dystopia set in the Eastgate Finishing School for Boys where the boys are “required to be naked at all times” and “The Instructors, all women, are expected to use the boys sexually, as such experience counts as part of the boy’s training for the Masculine Role” (1).
Rpt. in Everywoman 1.3 (June 19, 1070), 5, 11 with an introduction by Varda One, “Woman as Masochist, Man as Sadist” (1)); and under the author’s name in The SCUM Manifesto and The Twig Benders. (Np: Gynarchy Poche, [2017?]), 67-78 with a note (7) on the author by Aline d’Arbrant (1952-2015).
Keywords: Female author; US author

1993: The World of Tomorrow - Paul Orr; Violet Orr (1918-76) (Pacific Progress Publishers, 1968)
Detailed socialist eutopia stressing decentralization set in the Los Angeles area. Some technological advances. Some technological advances. Sleeper wakes motif with a died-in-the-wool capitalist waking in a socialist future.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Freezer" - Candice Bergen (b. 1946) (The Best Short Plays 1968. The Margaret Mayorga Series, 1968)
Dystopia in which everyone is frozen and repaired at 65 so that they can be useful citizens in an authoritarian state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Return to the Starship - [Diane] [Detzer de Reyna] (1930-92) (Avalon, 1968)
Dystopia of a city which was designed to be a eutopia with everything provided but everyone isolated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

They - Marya Mannes (1904-90) (Doubleday & Co, 1968)
A dystopia in which a computer decides on the value of each person and decides that the old are worthless, isolate them, and kills all those who have not committed suicide by sixty-five. The computer also establishes the appropriate values in the arts. They refers to the young.
Keywords: Female author; US author

When Rain Clouds Gather - Bessie Head (1937-86) (Victor Gollancz, 1968)
A novel set in Botswana that presents a village that is both described as a eutopia and is the location of an attempt to create one. As a result, the novel also indirectly discusses what might constitute utopia in the poverty of modern Africa.
Rpt. London: William Heinemann, 1972. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
Keywords: Botswanan author; Female author; South African author

"At Central" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Mister da V. and other Stories, 1967)
Dystopia in which all people stay inside watching television.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Beyond - Jean Sutton (1915-2003); Jeff[erson Howard] Sutton (1913-79) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967)
A dystopia describing a prison planet for telepaths and others with unusual psychic capacities, but the society that exiles its paranormals is vaguely described in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

City of Illusions - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Ace, 1967)
Dystopia. Aliens have taken over Earth. The novel is primarily concerned with the successful struggle against them. Cooperation.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1971.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Golden Acres" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Mister da V. and other Stories, 1967)
Dystopian old age home. An elderly couple moves into an old age home and quickly find that all the rules and regulations mean that their lives are completely controlled.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 51-66; and in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 170-90.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ice - [Helen Emily] [Woods] (1901-68) (Peter Owen, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age. Surrealistic novel in which the unnamed narrator searches through the ice fields for a woman held captive by a man known as the Warden. The ice is also generally interpreted as a metaphor for the author’s addition to heroin. The English female author was born in France; her first six books were published as by Helen Ferguson, after which she used Anna Kavan for all her books and in her personal life and changed her name legally. She was also known as Helen Woods Edmond.
Rpt. London: Picador, 1970; London: Peter Owen, 1997; London: Peter Owen, 2006 with a foreword by Christopher Priest (unpaged); in My Madness: The Selected Writings of Anna Kavan. Ed. Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (London: Picador, 1990), 199-318; and as The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Penguin Books, 2017, with a “Foreword” by Jonathan Lethem (vii-x) and an “Afterword” by Kate Zambreno (183-93).
Keywords: English author; Female author

Megan Terry's Home: or, Future Soap - Megan Terry (b. 1932) (Samuel French, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

This Business of Bomfog: A Cartoon - Madelaine [Elizabeth] Duke (1925-96) (Heinemann, 1967)
Satire. Bomfog means Brotherhood-of-Man-Fatherhood-of-God, a coalition to end war and get rid of politicians. Directed particularly against armament manufacturers. Sequel to 1964 Duke.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
Keywords: Dutch author; Female author; Scottish author

The People: No Different Flesh - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Victor Gollancz, 1966)
More stories of “The People” similar to those in 1961 Henderson.
Stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as follows: “The Return” (148-84) 20.3 (118) (March 1961): 5-37;  rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 100-28; “Shadow on the Moon” (185-223) 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 94-129; “Deluge” (47-80) 25.4 (149) (October 1963): 24-54; “No Different Flesh” (9-46) 28.5 (168) (May 1965): 97-128; “Angels Unaware” (81-114) 30.3 (178) (March 1966): 5-35; and “Troubling of the Waters” (115-47) 31.3 (184) (September 1966): 100-28. U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1968. Collected with other related materials in The People Collection. London: Corgi, 1991; and in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Mark and Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1995), 217-422.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Tomorrow is Another World" - H[elen] M[ary] Tolcher (1928-2014) (Man (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1966)
Dystopia in which an overpopulated earth is also over-regulated.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Beyond the Sealed World - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) (Paperback, 1965)
A dystopia of stagnant science versus a dystopia of barbarianism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Journal from Ellipsia - Hortense Calisher (1911-2009) (Little, Brown, 1965)
Complex novel with some reminders of Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland (1884) but developing a non-gendered society.
U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, l966. Excerpt published in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 197-211.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Utopia: A Vision and an Exercise" - Dorothy Samuel (Way Out, 1965)
Agrarian eutopia described as “an anarchy of self-disciplined adults living in loving cooperation. Almost no city larger than 50,000. Parks and gardens everywhere. Although most art is individual and local, there are some large buildings for concerts and similar activities, and the buildings are also used as libraries. Living a more natural life and eating better food has eliminated obesity and improved health. There is no longer a need for a medical profession, but there are healers. No money with goods distributed without charge. Privacy is valued. Only beneficial technology. Family-centered child-rearing.
Keywords: Female author

A View of the Island: A Post-Atomic Fairy Tale - [Irene Dale] [Hewson] )1907-85) (Hutchinson, 1965)
The novel traces responses to an atomic war among some people who fled to Scotland to escape it and various religious groups from the area. The war brings life on Earth to an end, and the saved and damned separated, although damnation seems to be like the continued pettyness of contemporary life. Scottish author.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Visa for Avalon - [Annie Winifred] [Ellerman] (1894-1983) (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965)
The novel takes place just as England is being taken over by an authoritarian movement that is already producing a dystopia. People escape to Avalon, but it is reached in the last sentence of the book and not described.
Rpt. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Big Switch - [Violet] Muriel Box (1905-91) (Macdonald, 1964)
Gender-role reversal in which women have created a eutopia after an accidental atomic war.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Claret, Sandwiches and Sin - [Madelaine Elizabeth] [Duke] (1925-96) (Heinemann, 1964)
Satire. Humor about the period after the next nuclear war. Technically advanced; Africa united. Political assassinations have been organized to avoid another war. See also 1967 Duke.
Rpt. London: Four Square, 1966 under her real name.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"The Fall of Frenchy Steiner" - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia in which Germany has won World War II and England is being run down (no water, gas, electricity, etc.) under German rule.
Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merrill (New York: Dell, 1968), 94-126; in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), 132-64; and in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II. Ed. Gregory [Albert] Benford and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Garland, 1986), 53-81. U.K. ed. (London: Grafton, 1988), 83-123.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Mandrake - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia in which people are required to live in the district in which they are born; movement around the country is restricted; the main cities are re-walled; and immigration is eliminated. The country is under the control of the Ministry of Planning.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Not a Cloud in the Sky - Josephine Lawrence (1889-1978) (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1964)
A dystopia in which the elderly forced to move into rest homes at 65. At Tranquil Acres everything has been designed for what is good for them and also functions as “a center for the study of geriatrics” (41). Must move in no later than the morning of the day one turns 65. A spouse who is not yet 65 can move in or wait until they are. No one over 65 can smoke or drive. Ramps, no stairs, ground floor living except for the very wealthy. Moving sidewalks. The elderly poor and controlled even more than the others, which leads the protagonist to reflect that “money is the elderly’s best friend” (92). There is an underground railroad to help people escape to Canada. The author’s papers are held at Boston University.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Out - Christine [Frances Evelyn] Brooke-Rose (1923-2012) (Michael Joseph, 1964)
Dystopia in which light skinned people are suppressed.
Keywords: English author; Female author; French author

The Rim of Eternity - Adrienne [Marie Kelliher] Geddes (Collins, 1964)
Alien invaders produce a eutopian response, although a nuclear war devastates most of the world between the first visit of the aliens and their return to establish a colony next to Lake Taupo. This first settlement is destroyed by the eruption of Mount Tongariro. The emphasis is on the conflict with the aliens, but, after the aliens easily defeat a Chinese invasion of Australia and New Zealand, that conflict ultimately brings humanity, including the Chinese, together in an attempt to defeat the next wave of alien colonists. The novel ends there, so its success or failure is not known. The aliens are depicted in both a eutopian and a dystopian light. The alien society is briefly described from the alien perspective; it is completely collective with ties only to the community and, since they do not sleep, they live virtually their entire lives as part of a collective. Their complete reliance on logic and reasons produces the dystopian characteristics.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Shining East; A Story of Life After Death - Cornelia Hinkley Hotson (Vantage Press, 1964)
Heaven as eutopia following the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Intended to be the first of three volumes, but there is no evidence of later volumes.
Keywords: Female author

A State of Mind - [Elaine Kidner] [Dakers] (1905-1978) (Frederick Muller, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia ruled by the Brotherhood after an atomic war. Forced nationalization of people to create “one big family, whose head is the State.” People, though, are not equal. The State provides all and controls everything, but “recognizes that some require more than others. . .” (11). No gods and no religious people allowed with Christians banished the Hebrides. Both voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia, with permission required for voluntary. Suicide without permission is opposed. Criminals euthanized. “Compulsory birth-control and State-elimination prevented overpopulation” (12).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"We Serve the State of Freedom" - [Mary Jane] [Engh] (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1964)
Eutopia embedded in a number of dystopias. Those who follow the Star of Freedom give and take gifts freely but are surrounded by the Star of Battle, the Star of the Market, and the Star of Beauty, all of which exchange less freely.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"1974: An Orwellian Fantasy" - Barbara Stephens (Ladder (San Francisco, CA), 1963)
Short sketch of a future dystopia especially concerned with suppressing Lesbians.
Keywords: Female author

"Another Rib" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99); [Juanita Ruth Wellons] [Coulson] (b. 1933) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1963)
An early transgender story in which the sun has exploded and destroyed Earth and all the other planets. The only survivors are a group of sixteen men on a distant planet they had recently discovered.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Happy Planet - Joan B. Clarke (b. 1921) (Jonathan Cape, 1963)
Children's post-catastrophe novel. Earth, the Happy Planet, had supposedly been destroyed by a meteor with some of Earth's population established on the planet Tuan, which had no plants or animals and was heavily regimented. An expedition discovers an inhabitable world, and after various conflicts people begin to rebuild.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"My Own Utopia" - Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) (Ascent of Woman, 1963)
All people female until forty-four and then become male presented positively.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; German author; US author

Possibility; An Essay in Utopian Vision. Foreword. Introductory. The Oedipal Personality - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93); Francis Golffing (1910-2012) (The Green Knight Press, 1963)
Non-fiction and largely a critique of the present and on the preliminaries to a utopia. But a eutopia is sketched that stresses diversity, variety, and equality. There is a common language added to the vernaculars. Technology. For a revised ed. see 1991 Golffing and Gibbs. See also 1962 Golffing and Gibbs and 1975 Gibbs and Golffing.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Rebellers - Jane Roberts [Butts] (1929-84) (Ace Books, 1963)
Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia. The emphasis of the novel is on the revolt against it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Catacombs - Helga [Susan Barbara] Harrison (b. 1923) (Chatto & Windus, 1962)
Post catastrophe authoritarian dystopia called the Communes. There is a group practicing a crude Christianity living underground and dependent on food they steal from the Communes.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"The Deer Park" - [Mary Russell] [Standard] (b. 1926) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1962)
The story is set in a future that would now be characterized as with people living in Virtual Reality. In the story, told from the point of view of the man, the protagonist lives the world he created with a woman he created. He is challenged by a woman from outside his reality who completely rejects his sense of reality.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 3.6 (May 1962): 38-; and in Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1958-1963). Ed. A. J. Howells, Janice Marcus, and Erica Frank (Visa, CA: Journey Press, 2019), 142-54, with an introduction by Claire Weaver on 142-43.
Keywords: Female author; US author

[“A Fable for Tomorrow”] - Rachel Carson (1907-64) (The New Yorker, 1962)
Rpt. with the chapter title in her Silent Spring. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3. Rpt. With an Introduction by Vice President Al Gore. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3; and in Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. Ed. Sandra Steingraber (New York: The Library of America, 2018, 9-11 with a note on the text (514-15).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Garthians - Decima Leach (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1962)
Technologically advanced eutopia in which the basis for the good society is the correct early training of children.
Keywords: Female author

It Shall Be Conquered - Jo Leslee (Christopher Pub. House, 1962)
Detailed eutopia based on science and religion on the planet Maresdon, which cannot be seen from Earth. Telepathy. No illness.
Keywords: Female author

The Perfect Planet - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) (Avalon, 1962)
Satire. Artemis was an isolated planet that served as a health resort but was cut off during Earth’s wars. Earth has become prudish, and the people are overweight and physically weak. A man and a woman from Earth arrive on Artemis, and they find a society in which the brochures from the past are infallible, sacred texts. The people are required by law to keep at their ideal weight and wear few clothes, shocking the overdressed and overweight Earthlings. A continuing sub-theme is that the women treat the men as the “superior sex” while being in complete control.
Rpt. New York: Lancer, 1963.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) (Ariel Books, 1962)
A young adult science fiction novel about the struggle between good and evil that depicts an authoritarian dystopia on another planet. A film with a screenplay by Jennifer Lee (b. 1971) and directed by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972) was released in 2018. On the film, see Kate Egan, The World of A Wrinkle in Time: The Making of the Movie. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers/Macmillan, 2018. See also the non-utopian sequels, A Wind in the Door. New York: Crosswind, 1973; A Swiftly Tilting Planet. New York: Crosswind, 1978; and Many Waters. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.
25th anniversary ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987 (500 numbered copies). 50th anniversary ed. with an "Afterword" (205-22), her "Newberry Medal Acceptance Speech" (255-62), and other material. New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2012. Rpt. in The Wrinkle in Time Quartet: A Wrinkle in Time A Wind in the Door A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters with The Kairos Novels at the head of the title. Ed. Leonard S. Marcus (New York The Library of America, 2018), 1-151, with “The Expanding Universe, Newberry ward Acceptance Speech” (747-51), “Unpublished Essay on Time” (752-54, “Childlike Wonder and the Truths of Science Fiction” (755-63), “Dare To Be Creative! Lecture at the Library of Congress” (764-75) “Four Deleted Sections from A Wrinkle in Time” (776-99), a Note on the Text (830-32), and Notes (835-40). See also Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. The Graphic Novel. Adapted and illus. Hope Larson. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012. A film tie-in edition of the book New York: Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017 was published with “An Appreciation” by Ava DuVernay (1-3), “Go Fish Questions for the Author” (203-06), the author’s “Newbury Acceptance Speech The Expanding Universe” (207-12), and “The L’Engle Cast of Characters” (214-15).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Judas Bomb" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1961)
Dystopia of biker gangs controlling all cities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Mantrap" - [Joyce Carstairs] [Hutchinson] (b. 1935) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1961)
The story includes an anarchist eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Mystery-Wisdom From Mars - Katherine Winterburn ([Ptd. by Photolith Printing Co.], 1961)
Detailed eutopia. Mars is advanced both technically and spiritually and most of the book is on spiritualism. Eugenics and rule by the most fit. Little need to work. Children are socialized for "brotherhood" and service, and people are not self-centered but are concerned about the community as a whole.
Keywords: Female author

Pilgrimage: The Book of the People - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Doubleday, 1961)
The People are extraterrestrials that crash-landed on Earth. The stories are about the adventures of their descendants as they discover their powers and each other. They form something very like a utopian community as they come together. A related story is "The Closest School." Fantastic Science Fiction Stories 9.4 (April 1960): 45-54. See also 1966, 1968, 1971, 1975, and 1980 Henderson.
Rpt. <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>: <st1:place w:st="on">Avon</st1:place>, 1963. Collected with other related material in The People Collection. London: Corgi, 1991; and in Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Mark and Priscilla Olson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1995), 1-215. Related stories first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as follows: “Ararat.” 3.6 (October 1952): 103-23; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 181-200; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (U.K. ed.) 1.2 (November 1953): 73-94; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 3 [(1955)]: 95-115. “Gilead.” 7.2 (39) (August 1954): 28-54; “Pottage.” 9.3 (52) (September 1955): 99-126; “Wilderness.” 12.1 (68) (January 1957): 3-37; “Captivity.” 14.6 (85) (June 1958): 5-45; and “Jordan.” 16.3 (94) (March 1959): 28-53.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Purple Armchair - Olga [Lynford] Hesky (1912-74) (Anthony Blond, 1961)
Computer conformist dystopia. Humans have lost initiative, imagination, and all aggression. An extraterrestrial who looks like a purple armchair is studying humanity for possible elimination and the decision is to eliminate.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

"The Tunnel Ahead" - Alice Glaser (b. 1929) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1961)
Overpopulation dystopia in which an arbitrarily selected group of people are gassed on a regular basis to help keep the population down.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 3.4 (March 1962): 64-; in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 239-48; in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp. and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 129-36; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 340-50. Addition material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Unsleep - Diana [Pleasance Tikva Case] Gillon (b. 1915); Meir [Selig] Gillon (b. 1907-89) (Barrie & Rockliff, 1961)
Dystopia caused by no longer needing to sleep and the desperate need to fill time.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

The Conquest of Life - [Diane] [Detzer de Reyna] (1930-92) (Avalon Publishers, 1960)
The novel begins as a dystopia in which human males are remade as controllable and robot-like but with human intelligence and an infinite lifespan. Most are said to be purchased by women to work for them and as playthings. One woman, who had herself, been captured and held by aliens, was interested in the inner life of the man she purchased and together they topple the system.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Day in the Suburbs" - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1960)
Dystopia of future violence with war among the women living in different styles of housing in the suburbs, with a truce at night so that the men know nothing about the violence.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Puritan Planet" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (Original Science Fiction Stories, 1960)
Religious dystopia about a planet called Brotherhood that would allow a human to die but not a cat.
Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 115-21.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Day at the Beach" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1959)
Post-nuclear war dystopia presented through the eyes of a surviving housewife.
Rpt. in SF: The Best of the Best. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Delacourt, 1967), 274-84. U.K. ed. (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968), 274-84; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 97-107; and in The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller Vol. 1 (New York: Nonstop Press, 2011), 108-14.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"For Sale, Reasonable" - Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1959)
Dystopia written as a job application by a human in an automated future.
Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 170-72 with an editor’s note on 169; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 321-24. Addition material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org; and as “To Whom It May Concern.” In her To Whom It May Concern (New York: George Braziller, 1960), 25-29.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; German author

A Gap in the Spectrum - Marilyn Duckworth (b. 1935) (New Authors Ltd, 1959)
A woman "remembers" a eutopian country called Micald and compares it to the contemporary world, which is described in dystopian terms. The eutopian world is only briefly described but appears to be much more family oriented with various formal rites of passage. London, where she "awakes" was the name of a dystopian city she and her sister invented as children. According to Duckworth Micald is New Zealand and while better in some ways is narrow and boring.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

God Gives Us Time - Pearl Alice Freeman (Vantage Press, 1959)
Heaven as eutopia and Hell as dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

"Nor Custom Stale" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1959)
Flawed utopia of a house, which is supposed to be immortal, that took care of all needs of its occupants for many generations and its gradual failure.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) 1.5 (April 1960): 34-; and in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 124-37.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Offshore Island: A Play in Three Acts - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) (Cresset Press, 1959)
Post catastrophe dystopia following nuclear war. It focuses on a family who survived the war and shows them ten years later.
Rpt. London: May Fair, 1961
Keywords: English author; Female author

Providence Island: An Archaeological Tale - [Jessie] Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-90) (Chatto & Windus, 1959)
Eutopian elements in a primitive society which has developed psychic powers.
U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1959.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Season of the Babies" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Fantastic Universe, 1959)
Dystopia presenting a people who have all their children in one season, choose the best to be raised, and eat the others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Birthright." - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Fantastic Universe, 1958)
Satire on the growing tendency to provide medical treatment in the most extreme cases. The story is about a baby needing heart surgery to survive who already needs regular insulin shots and who has significant visual problems and will be deaf at a young age.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Debt of Lassor” - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) (Nebula Science Fiction, 1958)
Dystopia of a future Earth where the people have accepted being completely oppressed. The story is about the colonizers struggling to get the people to recover their humanity.
Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 23-37; and in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 64-84.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Forty Years On - Doreen [Dora Eileen Agnew] Wallace (1897-1989) (Collins, 1958)
After an atomic war a surviving British village creates a decent life which is, on some dimensions, better than the previous one.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Golden Phoenix - Mary Shaffer Carlton (Vantage Press, 1958)
Visit to a eutopian planet named Oopana. Technically advanced, no poor, with each continent having a monarchy. Religious. Large military for fear of other planets. Each class (rich, middle, lower) based on intelligence and skill and can advance with higher education. Each class lives in a separate district with more or less elaborate housing (47) and wear different clothing (53). Deported if unwilling to work. Traditional gender roles.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Matriarchy of Renok” - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) (Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming, 1958)
A matriarchy that keeps men in their “proper” role as slaves is visited by a man from Earth. which leads the all-powerful Galactic Empire. The man is crass in the extreme and assumes that the women will fall for him. They don’t.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

The Mysterious Stranger - Olive Gundran (A Milestone Book/Comet Press Books, 1958)
The female protagonist falls in love with a visiting man from Mars and is taken there with the intent that she will learn their secret of creating a worldwide eutopia and then return to Earth to teach it there. While secret is not revealed in the book, she learns to fly on wings she is taught to make. Martians are beautiful, never sick or in pain. Supposedly there has never been strife, but later she flies over an island where people are isolated, without wings, of can’t get along with others. No money. No classes. The laws are the Ten Commandments.
Keywords: Female author

"The Wait" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958)
Dystopia set in an isolated Georgia town that enforces a ritual deflowering of eighteen-year-old girls.
Rpt. Illus. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 26 (October 1965): 2-15; rpt. Venture Science Fiction (Australia), no. 26 (December 1965): 2-15. Rpt. with typographical variations as “To be Taken in a Strange Country.” In her Mister da V. And Other Stories (London: Faber and Faber, 1967), 11-31.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand [pseud.] (Random House, 1957)
The novel begins in an authoritarian dystopia in which most of the world is composed of collectivist "People's States". Over the course of the novel the U.S. is transformed into an individualistic, capitalist eutopia. The recurrent positive symbol throughout the book is the dollar sign. See also 1938 Rand.
Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1959. 35th anniversary ed. New York: Dutton, 1992. Rpt. New York: Plume, 2005. This is labeled "The Centennial Edition" on the cover and the copyright page, but it is simply a reprint of the 1992 edition. Given name of Alisa Rosenbaum was never used. A three-part film was announced. Part I was released in 2011 directed by Paul Johansson (b. 1964) a screenplay by John Aglialoro and Bryan Patrick O'Toole. Part II was released in 2012 directed by John Putch (b. 1961) with a screenplay by Duke Sandefur, Bryan Patrick O'Toole, and Duncan Scott.
Keywords: Female author; Russian author; US author

A Constitution for the Brotherhood of Man. The United Communities Bill, and How It Came to Be Written - Anna Gtregson Loutrel (1903-1986) (Greenwich Book Publishers, 1957)
Constitution for a eutopia of industrial and agricultural communities, called “The United Communities Bill” (22-30), which was drawn up at the Newllano community and  in the U.S.  Senate on April 4, 1933, when it was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and died in committee. The female author was a member of the community.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Doomsday Morning - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) (Doubleday, 1957)
An authoritarian dystopia with the United States ruled by Comus or Communications U.S. in which  controls the media, education, and public relations. The novel focuses on the successful revolt against Comus and ends with the collapse of Comus.
Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1987; and London: Gollancz, 2019.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Green Kingdom - Rachel Maddux (1912-83) (Simon & Schuster, 1957)
Primitive, Arcadian eutopia with little social content. Much of the novel is concerned with the responses of and difficulties experienced by the five people who find and live in the Green Kingdom.
Rpt. with an "Introduction" (ix-xiv) by Nancy A. Walker. Nashville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993. Rachel Maddux Series Vol. 4.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Sea People. A Fantasy - Julius C. Sizemore; Wilkie G. Sizemore (Exposition Press, 1957)
Vague and generally conservative eutopia stressing marriage and family life called Aquaria under the sea peopled by Americans of varied social and economic backgrounds. Telepathic. They are mutations who can live under water, but there are questions about what characteristics the future generation might have. Much of the novel focuses on the people drawn to Aquaria and why they choose it.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Strange Evil - Jane Gaskell (b. 1941) (Hutchinson, 1957)
A eutopia that leads a fairly simple life and represents good is under attack by evil forces.
U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1958.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Through a Glass Darkly - Kathleen Norris (1880-1966) (Doubleday, 1957)
Something like Heaven presented as a eutopia based on the ideas of Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. Contrasted to the real world in the second half of the book.
UK ed. as Cheery. London: John Murray, 1958. Rpt. London: Kaye & Ward, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Unemployed" - Doris Greenberg (Fantastic, 1957)
Short humorous flawed utopia that has outlawed books and all fairy tales and replaced most work with machines that run on atomic power. The fairy tale characters revolt and destroy the atomic pile along with all human life and get their world back.
Keywords: Female author

“World of the Future 2. A Woman of the World” - [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) (Venture Science Fiction, 1957)
The second of two stories regarding the dystopia that would develop after an atomic war. In this story the “civilized” woman of the future learns that survival means finding the strongest man. See also 1957 Cole.
Rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 83-89.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

"Consumership" - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Original Science Fiction Stories, 1956)
Dystopia in which children are taught to be consumers.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Man Who Lived Forever - R[ichard] De Witt Miller; Anna Hunger. (Ace Books, 1956)
Dystopia. The human race versus machines in which one immortal man is essential for controlling the machines. The novel is mostly adventure.
Ace Double bound with Jerry [Gerald Allan] Sohl, [Sr] (1913-2002). The Mars Monopoly (1956). A shorter version by Miller only was published as "The Master Shall Not Die!" Astounding Science Fiction 21.1 (March 1938): 38-55.  U.K. ed. of The Man Who Lived Forever rpt. as Year 3097. [London]: Satellite, 1958.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Rocket to Freedom" - Aileen [Lucia] Fisher (1906-2002); Olive Rabe (Patriotic Plays and Programs, 1956)
Dystopia. Three men escape what they see as restrictions on their freedoms in the U.S., which are in fact quite minor, and land on another planet that brainwashes its captives until they are in effect robots.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Woman's Work" - Garen Drussaï (1916-2009) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York), 1956)
Dystopian satire focusing on door-to-door salesmen.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Before the Fact” - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (Universe Science Fiction, 1955)
The story is set in a future eutopia of complete security, health, no government “except in a coordinating capacity” (61) in which the suicide rate is rising, and some people find boring. The story turns, though, on the idea that children’s games and rhymes anticipate the future and, in this case, suggest a dramatic change.
Rpt. in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 411-17.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Birthright" - April Smith (If: Worlds of Science Fiction, 1955)
Eutopia of a beautiful planet that has never experienced problems, where the people work when and as they choose, where the children are raised with love to be independent. While there is a council, there is very little government.
Keywords: Female author

"The Climbing Wave" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1955)
Anarchist eutopia with a balanced and sustainable attitude toward technology and the environment. Live in small communities. Traditional gender roles. The story is about the crew of a spacecraft that returns to the Earth after hundreds of years and their response to the situation they find.
Rpt. in Science Fantasy (U.K.) 7.19 (1956): 2-60; in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 172-240; and in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1985), 50-120.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Created He Them" - Alice Eleanor Jones (1916-81) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1955)
Post-nuclear war dystopia in which those few children born normal are taken to be raised by an authoritarian state. The story is told from the point of view of an abused wife and mother.
Rpt. in Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Justine Larbalestier (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006), 65-75; and in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 305-17, with an editor’s note on 303.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Deep in the Sky. A Science Fiction Novel - Helga Nielsen (Exposition Press, 1955)
Eutopia called Salomnia, with some problems, on a planet called Canta. Everyone must consult with the Board of Adaptation about appropriate work. All medical care free. No alcohol. No tipping. Technologically advanced. Another country on the planet is called Seva is in conflict with Salomnia.
Keywords: Danish author; Female author; US author

"The Happy Clown" - Alice Eleanor Jones (1916-81) (If: Worlds of Science Fiction, 1955)
Flawed eutopia. The eutopia is consumer oriented and misfits are lobotomized to ensure that everyone fits in.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Image of Splendor" - Lu Kella (Planet Stories, 1955)
Gender-role reversal.
Keywords: Female author

"Life, Incorporated" - Alice Eleanor Jones (1916-81) (Fantastic Universe, 1955)
Eutopia where everyone knows their life span is visited by a thief from Earth who temporarily brings corruption.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Long Tomorrow - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) (Doubleday, 1955)
After an atomic war the New Mennonites become powerful because they know how to survive on the land. They pass the thirtieth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads "No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." Other religious groups are even more extreme than the New Mennonites. There is a small, threatened enclave that hopes to bring back the old technology.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Mistress of Viridis" - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Universe Science Fiction, 1955)
Class based authoritarian dystopia primarily as background to a science-out-of-control story.
Repub. as The Green Queen. New York: Ace Books, 1956. Ace Double bound with Thomas Calvert McClary, Three Thousand Years (1954).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“This Thing Called Love” - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) (Future Science Fiction, 1955)
In a future dominated by television, people are expected to fall in love with TV stars whose programs are designed specific to cater to them. In the story, a man wants love from his wife.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Twilight Years” - Kirk Drussaï (1919-2001); Garen Drussaï (1916-2009) (If, 1955)
The story takes place in a future where those over sixty are being killed by the young with such killings broadcast on television on a program “sponsored, as a Public Service, by the National Casket Company” (117).
Rpt. in The First World of If. Ed. James L. Quinn and Eva Wulff (Kingston, NY: Quinn Publishing Co., 1957): 102-.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Two-Handed Engine" - Henry Kuttner (1914-58); Catherine L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1955)
Dystopia of a machine-dominated society with the judicial system and police replaced by almost infallible machines.
Rpt. in their No Boundaries (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 123-49; in Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction. Ed. Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg (New York: New Viewpoints, 1977), 146-67, with an editors’ note on 146; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 267-97, with an editor’s note on 265.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Whooping Crane - H[elen] C. Kreisheimer (1897-1972) (Pageant Press, 1955)
Dystopia of communism.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Foundling on Venus” - Dorothy de Courcy; John de Courcy (Fantastic Universe, 1954)
The story is set on a Venus that is divided into four sections, one of “Negroes,” one of Asians, one a Martian prison camp, and one of people from Earth trying, and usually failing, to strike in rich from Venus’s minerals. Everyone is miserable, everything is filthy, and most people are violent and short-lived.
Rpt. in Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 97-107, with an introduction to Venus on 88-95.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

"Invasion from the Stratosphere" - Aileen [Lucia] Fisher (1906-2002); Olive Rabe (United Nations Plays and Programs, 1954)
Brief eutopia. An invading force of aliens, who were counting on the propensity of Earth's population for fighting each other, discovers a unified Earth starting to fight Earth's problems.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Laminated Woman" - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) (Fantastic Universe, 1954)
Satire in which women regularly change their skin and hair color and body shape.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Long Way Back - Margot M. Bennett (1912-80) (The Bodley Head, 1954)
Future authoritarian dystopia of science in Africa whose explorers discover primitive life in Britain.
US ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author; Scottish author

Lovers in Mars - Lucile Palmer (Sargent House Publishers, 1954)
A eutopian Mars that is extremely wealthy due to very advanced technology, an elaborate eugenic program, and a limited population. The focus of the novel is on the group marriage system, which is unappealing to the young lovers from earth.
Keywords: Female author

"The Rations of Tantalus" - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Fantastic Universe, 1954)
An apparently eutopian society of near immortals that is controlled through the pills everyone takes daily, one of which controls their moods.
Rpt. as “The Rages.” In her Three Worlds of Futurity (New York: Ace, 1964), 76-113. Ace Double bound with her Message from the Eocene (1964).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Servant Problem" - T[helma] D. Hamm (1905-94) (Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, 1954)
Humorous dystopian story about a robot servant.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Stand Fast Beloved City - [Martha Edith von] Almedingen (1898-1971) (Hutchinson, 1954)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a small, isolated city. A small group of people, fourteen men and fourteen women, who are known as the Centre, control everything.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Russian author

"Captive Audience" - Ann Warren Griffith (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York), 1953)
Dystopia in which commercials are broadcast by the products that are available for purchase and earplugs are illegal.
Keywords: Female author

Drovers Road - Joyce [Tarleton] West (1908-85) (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1953)
Young adult novel presenting a back country New Zealand farm as a eutopia. Sequels include Cape Lost with three different descriptions of the publisher. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1963; Auckland, New Zealand: Paul's Book Arcade, 1963; and Auckland, New Zealand: Paul's Book Arcade/London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1963; rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (161-280); and The Golden Country. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1965; and Hamilton, New Zealand: Janet and Blackwood Paul, 1965; rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (283-416).
Rpt. in The Drovers Road Collection (Bathgate, ND: Bethlehem Books/San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 2002), 1-59 with a "Glossary" (417-18).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Grim Tomorrow - [Kathleen] [Lindsay] (1903-73) (Wright & Brown, 1953)
Future war from the perspective of a briefly described eutopia created by the survivors after the war. An author's note says that while fiction it is intended as a warning of what will happen unless people come together to oppose war.
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

"Homo Inferior" - Mari Wolf (b. 1927) (If: Worlds of Science Fiction, 1953)
Flawed utopia. A telepathic future race and the remnant of the older race told from the point of view of a boy of the older race. The telepathic race has created a static utopia, and the boy wants the stars.
Rpt. in Women Resurrected: Stories from Women Science Fiction Writers of the 50's. Ed, Greg Fowlkes (Np: Resurrected Press, 2010), 341-87 with an editor’s note on 342.
Keywords: Female author

"Temptress of Planet Delight" - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) (Planet Stories, 1953)
Bureaucratic dystopia in the process of being overthrown with the potential of becoming a eutopia. Permits required for everything; rationing for everything even though the planet produces enough for all. Eugenic experiment designed to produce the perfect bureaucrat. Anyone who forgets a permit loses their job; these people revolt with the assistance of beings of pure energy, who can choose to become material, who are never explained.
Rpt. with the author as B. Curtis in Planet Stories (British Edition), no. 7 (nd): 4-31.
Keywords: Female author

"The Unites" - [Jessie] Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-90) (Fables, 1953)
Dull dystopia of equality with a revolution being prepared.
U.S. ed. of the book as A Woman As Great as the World and Other Fables (New York: Random House, 1953), 97-179.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"You Can't Stop a Spaceman" - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) (Action Monthly Magazine (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1953)
Men from another planet who had explored space return to their own planet, only to discover that thousands of years had passed, and it had become a completely organized dystopia that plans to colonize Earth.
Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 155-70.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Ah! Men! A Satirical Comedy in Three Acts - [Dagmar Vola] [Sandeen] (The Northwestern Press., 1952)
Sex role reversal satire that reverts at the end.
Rpt. Pasadena, CA: Stage Door Play Co., 1994.
Keywords: Female author

"The Best Policy" - Phyllis Sterling Smith (Startling Stories, 1952)
Humor and satire. Martians, who cannot tell a falsehood, visit Earth, and are not believed when they offer the science of government, which they feel Earth needs more than anything else, and other advances.
Keywords: Female author

The Devil's Advocate - [Janet Miriam] Taylor [Holland] Caldwell (1900-85) (Crown, 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia. The U.S. becomes weak through the adoption of the welfare policies of the New Deal and is ripe for takeover by a dictatorial system known as The Democracy. Constant wars. Extreme poverty. Surveillance. There is a underground movement known as the Minute Men, led from within The Democracy, that ultimately overthrows it.
Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1964; and New York: Pyramid, 1971.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Gunner Cade - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58); [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) (Simon and Schuster, 1952)
Dystopia. Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs.
Also published in Astounding Science Fiction 49.1 - 3 (March - May 1952): 8-53; 114-60; 108-54. Rpt. in their Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2008), 9-135. Abbreviated as an Ace Double bound with 1957 Piper and McGuire. New York: Ace Books, 1957. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author; US author

“The Last Days of Shandakor” - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) (Startling Stories, 1952)
The story is set on an inhabited Mars, and Shandakor is the eutopian city of Mars’s past, now in its last stages.
Rpt.  without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 346-52 with an editor’s note on 346.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Offshore Light - Pamela [Sydney] Frankau (1908-67) (William Heinemann, 1952)
Eutopia of a simple, fairly authoritarian, ordered life, and craftsmanship. No money. The novel is divided into sections taking place on The Island and sections taking place in The World followed by a section posing the question "The World or the Island?" and ending on The Island.
Rpt. London: White Lion, 1977. US ed. as by Eliot Naylor [pseud.]. New York: Buell, Sloan & Pearce/Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1953.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Red Court: Last Seat of National Government of The United States of America - Rena M[arie] Vale (1898-1983) (Nelson Publishing Co, 1952)
Dystopia of the Soviet takeover of the U.S. designed to alert Americans to the danger.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Throwback" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Startling Stories, 1952)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 77-93; in her Xenogenesis (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 105-17; and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 99-107 with an editors' note on 98.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Whirlwind Harvest. A Phantasy - Monica F. Van Winkle (Academy Library Guild, 1952)
Dystopia in which totalitarian regimes have taken over the world seen as a struggle between good and evil throughout history (God and Satan) with good winning in the end. Presented as a play with suggested music and a reading list.
Keywords: Female author

"Age of Prophecy" - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Future Science Fiction Combined with Science Fiction Stories, 1951)
Dystopia of opposition to science and scientists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Amazons of the Asteroids" - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) (Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1951)
Gender-role reversal satire in which Amazons riding flying are horses found in the asteroid belt. They hate men and keep them subservient.
Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 314-30.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Come Again - [Mary Rose] [Coulton] (1906-2002) (Peter Davies, 1951)
Historical novel with an Australian setting featuring a character like William Lane (1861-1917), the Australian labour leader), the Australian labour leader and founder of the New Australia and Cosme communities in Paraguay.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Female author

"Mars Child" - [Cyril Michael] [Kornbluth] (1923-58); [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1951)
Dystopia. Large mining corporation on Mars in conflict with a small community of settlers, which could be seen in a eutopian light.
Rpt. as Outpost Mars. By Cyril Judd [pseud.]. New York: Abelard Press, 1952; and in their Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2008), 137-296.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author; US author

The Sonnet in the Bottle - [Alethea Catherine] [Hayter] (1911-2006) (Herbert Jenkins, 1951)
A lost race novel depicted a city of surviving Incas positively.
Keywords: Egyptian author; English author; Female author