@booklet {3904, title = {Prelude to Foundation}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Prequel to the Foundation series. See note at 1982 Asimov. See also 1986 Asimov. Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {3699, title = {Foundation and Earth}, year = {1986}, month = {1986}, publisher = {Doubleday \& Co}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Continuation of the Foundation series that continues the eutopia of the sentient planet Gaia in 1982 Asimov. See also 1988 Asimov.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {3355, title = {Foundation{\textquoteright}s Edge}, year = {1982}, note = {

Excerpts published as \“Foundation\’s Edge.\” Omni 5.1 (October 1982): 64-68, 70, 156-58; and, under the same title, in Asimov\’s Science Fiction 6.12 (59) (December 1982): 44-49, 50-52, 54-61, 63-65, 67-71, 73-74, 76-77, 79, 81-82, 84-85, 87, with comments on the Foundation series by various authors on the intervening pages.

}, month = {1982}, publisher = {Doubleday \& Co}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Fourth vol. of the famous series. While the focus of the novel is on the sweep of historical change that was the focus of the trilogy, none of which were eutopian and are best characterized as early social science fiction, this volume includes a eutopia called Gaia, where the world is itself sentient. The entire planet including flora and fauna as well as the people have a group consciousness. Everything does what is needed for itself and the planet and no more. See also 1986 and 1988 Asimov.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {10277, title = {"Life"}, howpublished = {Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 204-06.\ 

}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Taplinger}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Brief story set in an overpopulated world.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Dennis R. Caro (b. 1944)}, editor = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92) and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) and Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939)} } @booklet {10303, title = {{\textquotedblleft}What I Did During My Park Vacation{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 267-68.\ 

}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Taplinger}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The brief story is about a high-tech society where most of the natural world is gone, and a park travels from roof top to roof top so that people can be temporarily exposed to it.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Ruth Berman (b. 1942)}, editor = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92) and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) and Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939)} } @booklet {3060, title = {"The People{\textquoteright}s Almanac{\textquoteright}s Exclusive Symposium on Utopia"}, howpublished = {The People{\textquoteright}s Almanac}, volume = {no. 2}, year = {1978}, month = {1978}, pages = {1349-53}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Isaac Asimov (1920-92), William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008), Ram Dass [also known as Baba Ram Das (original name Richard Alpert)] (1931-2019), Clifton Fadiman (1904-99), Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), James Michener (1907-97), Ashley Montagu (1905-99), and Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) answer nine questions regarding their own utopia. Asimov, Michener, Montagu, and Untermeyer make substantial statements.

}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92) and William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) and Ram Dass (1931-2019) and Clifton Fadiman (1904-99) and Allen Ginsburg (1926-97) and James Michener (1907-97) and Ashley Montagu (1905-99) and Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)}, editor = {David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace (1916-90)} } @booklet {2740, title = {"The Life and Times of Multivac"}, howpublished = {The New York Times Magazine }, year = {1975}, month = {January 5, 1975}, pages = {12, 51, 56, 58, 70}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia in which everyone lives well, but all important decisions are made by a large computer, which, for example, decides who can have children and when. Also, people are only allowed to do unimportant work and that only with permission.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {2275, title = {"2430 A.D.--Too Late For the Space Ark"}, howpublished = {IBM Magazine }, year = {1970}, note = {

Rpt. without the subtitle in his\ Buy Jupiter and Other Stories\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), 159-66.

}, month = {October 1970}, pages = {26-29}, abstract = {

Conformist dystopia in an overpopulated world. The focus of the story is one man who keeps the last zoo, holding the last few small animals on the planet. For the good of society, he is asked to get rid of them. He does and kills himself also. \"And after that there was really perfection. for all over the Earth, there was . . . not one unsettling thought, not one unusual idea, to disturb the universal placidity that meant that the exquisite nothingness of uniformity had at last been achieved\" (165-66).

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {10014, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteleft}All the Troubles of the World{\textquoteright}{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = { Super-Science Fiction }, volume = {2.3}, year = {1958}, note = {

Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 88-105.\ 

}, month = {April 1958}, pages = {34-53}, abstract = {

Flawed dystopia about a massive computer that runs the world. The story focuses on its ability to predict crime. See also 1975 Asimov.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {1661, title = {"Male Strikebreaker"}, howpublished = {The Original Science Fiction Stories}, volume = { 7.4 }, year = {1957}, note = {

Rpt. as \"Strikebreaker.\" In his\ Nightfall and Other Stories\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), 268-81.

}, month = {January 1957}, pages = {39-52}, abstract = {

A society with a rigid class structure based on inherited occupations. The story focuses on a man who inherits the job of running the machinery that recycles human waste and his position as an outcast.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {1660, title = {"Profession"}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction }, volume = {59.5}, year = {1957}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Nine Tomorrows; Tales of the Near Future\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 16-74; and in\ Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, nos. 18 - 20 (1984 - 85): 2-16; 2-13; 2-12.

}, month = {July 1957}, pages = {8-56}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {9255, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Naked Sun{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Astounding Science Fiction }, volume = {58. 2 - 4 }, year = {1956}, note = {

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday \& Co., 1957. Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1971; and in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 203-404.\ 

}, month = {October - December 1956}, pages = {8-62, 96-151, 89-146}, abstract = {

Related to 1953 Asimov, \“The Caves of Steel,\” and the beginning and ending of the novel is set in few years in the future of that dystopia. Most of the novel is in a dystopia on the planet Solaria, which has eliminated almost all human contact.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {1552, title = {"Franchise (with apologies to W. S. Gilbert)"}, howpublished = {If }, volume = {5.5 }, year = {1955}, note = {

Rpt. in his Earth Is Room Enough; science fiction tales of our own planet (Garden City, NY: Doubleday \& Co., 1957), 58-73; rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1959), 45-59; and in Election Day 2084: A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 11-24.\ 

}, month = {August 1955}, pages = {2-15}, abstract = {

Satire. One individual chosen by computer to vote in any given election.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {1523, title = {"It{\textquoteright}s Such a Beautiful Day"}, howpublished = {Star Science Fiction Stories}, volume = { No. 3}, year = {1954}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Through a Glass, Clearly\ (London: New English Library, 1967), 7-27; and in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 178-201.

}, month = {1954}, pages = {1-25}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Future where people have cut themselves off from the natural world.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)}, editor = {Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013)} } @booklet {1451, title = {"The Caves of Steel"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {7.1 - 3 }, year = {1953}, note = {

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1955. U.K. ed. London: T.V. Boardman, 1954; rpt. London: Panther, 1971. Also rpt. in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun. (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 1-202.\ 

}, month = {October - December 1953}, pages = {4-66, 98-159, 108-}, abstract = {

Overpopulation dystopia as background to a murder mystery solved by a robot and a human. The \"caves of steel\" are the cities of the future.\ A related novel in 1956 Asimov, \“The Naked Sun.\”

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {0016-4003 }, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {1368, title = {"Tyrann"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {1}, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. as\ The Stars, Like Dust. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951 and with unauthorized cuts as\ The Rebellious Stars. New York: Ace Books, 1954. U.K. ed. as\ The Stars Like Dust. London: Panther, 1958.

}, month = {January - March 1951}, pages = {4-65; 108-59; 98-160}, abstract = {

Standard authoritarian dystopia focusing on a rebellion based on a rediscovered revolutionary document, the \"Constitution of the United States of America\".

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} } @booklet {1339, title = {Pebble in the Sky}, year = {1950}, note = {

Rpt. as\ Galaxy Science Fiction Novel $\#$ 14. New York: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1953; and New York: Bantam Books, 1957; and in his\ Triangle. The Currents of Space Pebble in the Sky The Stars, Like Dust\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1961]), 173-346. Originally written as \"Grow Old With Me\" but not published as intended. That version was published in his\ The Alternate Asimovs\ (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986). 5-133 with a \"Foreword\" (1-4) and an \"Afterword\" (134-36).

}, month = {1950}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which a radioactive Earth is shunned by the other inhabited planets. There is a galactic empire that connects this book with his Foundation series. Earth is considered to be a backward, inferior planet inhabited by primitives and many Earthlings oppose the empire. Conflict ensues with a balance ultimately achieved.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Isaac Asimov (1920-92)} }