@booklet {11767, title = {Victory City. A Novel}, year = {2023}, month = {2023}, pages = {337 pp.}, publisher = {Random House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An epic novel that begins in an alternative fourteenth century India and follows the rise and fall of numerous empires through the story of Bisnaga or Victory City, a city brought into existence by a young woman who has been given powers by a goddess and the task of giving women equality in a patriarchal world.

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780593597217}, author = {[Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)} } @booklet {11812, title = {Visco}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {232 pp.}, publisher = { Habitat Press}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

Detailed eutopia that develops on an island in the Thames after people refuse to leave a festival. About half the book concerns the buildup to the festival and the festival. The rest covers the emergence of Care City based on a Declaration of Care, which then becomes Visco, the strong opposition to it brought by property developers, and the success of Visco, although not without problems and the fact that the property developers have not given up. The \“guiding mantra\” of Care City is \“Those who can, walk; those who can\’t, we carry\” (137).

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1739980368 }, author = {David Fell} } @booklet {11321, title = {Version Zero}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {354 pp.}, publisher = {G. P. Putnam{\textquoteright}s Sons}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is primarily concerned with the disillusionment of a top employee of a major social media company who had believed that the company was designed to improve the world. When he accidentally discovers what the company is doing with the personal information it is harvesting, he is fired and sets out to undermine the internet.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-0-59319035-7}, author = {David Yoon} } @booklet {11347, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Vladivostok{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {64-77}, publisher = {World Weaver Press}, address = {Albuquerque, NM}, abstract = {

The story is set in Vladivostok, Russia, where the people apparently get a universal basic income from the government, and the natural world. A man and a woman visit from the United States to get film of the Amur tigers to use in a massive computer game. The man feels uncomfortable outside the game; the woman loves being in touch with the natural world.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-734054521}, author = {Avital Balwit}, editor = {Christoph Rupprecht and Deborah Cleland and Norie Tamura and Rajat Chaudhuri and Sarena Ulibarri} } @booklet {11081, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Valley of Mothers{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn{\textquoteright}t Die}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {153-65}, abstract = {

Post-apocalyptic dystopia centered on four children living by themselves, dreaming of a home, and not knowing who to trust.\ 

}, keywords = {Transgender author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-952086-10-6 }, author = {Josie Columbus}, editor = {Dave Ring} } @booklet {11130, title = {"The Vastation"}, howpublished = {Slate}, year = {2020}, month = {December 29, 2020}, abstract = {

Pandemic dystopia in which the well-off live in protected cities and others live in compounds based on ethnicity that war with each other.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {{\textquotedblleft}The Vastation,{\textquotedblright} a new short story by Paul Theroux. (slate.com)}, author = {Paul [Edward] Theroux (b. 1941)} } @booklet {11080, title = {"Venom and Bite"}, howpublished = {Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn{\textquoteright}t Die}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {76-86}, publisher = {Neon Hemlock Press}, address = {[Washington, DC]}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {Female author, Native American author}, isbn = {978-1-952086-10-6 }, author = {Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987)}, editor = {Dave Ring} } @booklet {10838, title = {Viam Inveniemus Aut Faciemus{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {105-30}, publisher = {World Weaver Press}, address = {Albuquerque, NM}, abstract = {

The story is about the struggle to get through a blizzard to repair the failing electrical system in a refugee village set in a period of extreme climate change combined with a growing refugee crisis and government inaction.\ 

}, keywords = {Italian author}, isbn = {9781732254688}, author = {Tales from the EV Studio and Commando Jugendstil}, editor = {Sarena Ulibarri} } @booklet {10841, title = {Vulcan{\textquoteright}s Forge}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {229 pp.}, publisher = {Flame Tree Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel is set in the only colony of Earth that survived its destruction, which has a repressive regime and criminal gangs.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-78758-397-9 }, author = {Robert Mitchell Evans} } @booklet {11206, title = {Verify}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {307 pp. }, publisher = {HarperTeen}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

First of two volumes set in a future with extreme censorship, with all physical books removed, removing words from use, and revising history. In the second volume, Disclose. New York: HarperTeen, 2020, the protagonist of the first volume leads a band of truth-seekers who hope to overthrow the system.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, isbn = {9780062803627 }, author = {Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974)} } @booklet {10637, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Voice Lessons: Wishes to the Outside{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Articulation: Short Plays to Nourish the Mind \& Soul}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {102-17}, publisher = {Aqueduct Press}, address = {Seattle, WA}, abstract = {

In the play \“two celestial beings\” living in a \“Caribbean utopia somewhere between heaven and earth\” (103) are tasked with visiting Africans of the diaspora to learn lessons from them and pass them on to others. The becomes slaves, children in a school with little equipment, and so forth.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, author = {Davidson, Cesi [Cecelia]} } @booklet {10545, title = {Vigilance}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, pages = {191 pp.}, publisher = {Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A dystopia in which a reality game show creating active shooter situations is then used to control the population but becomes unmanageable.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Jackson Bennett} } @booklet {9839, title = {Vox}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, publisher = {Berkley}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which women are limited to speaking no more than one hundred words a day. prohibited from working, and girls cannot be taught to read or write.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {Christina [Villaf{\~a}na] Dalcher} } @booklet {10750, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Vade Retro Santana{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 2}, year = {2017}, month = {Spring 2017}, pages = {8-22}, abstract = {

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which missionaries convert the indigenous inhabitants by force as told by a missionary with doubts.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, English author, Male author}, author = {Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970)} } @booklet {9771, title = {"Vanilla Rice"}, howpublished = {Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {67-72}, publisher = {Laksa Media Group}, address = {Calgary, AB, Canada}, abstract = {

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

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Angela Yuriko Smith}, editor = {Lucas K. Law and Derwin Mak} } @booklet {10873, title = {"The Vermix"}, howpublished = {A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {76-82}, publisher = {Freight Books}, address = {Glasgow, Scot.}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future where much knowledge has been lost to those living outside high tech archologies that have completely closed themselves off.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-911332-50-3}, author = {Matthew Castle}, editor = {Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane} } @booklet {11535, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Vibrating Mouth{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Authors}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, pages = {76-79}, publisher = {Handtype Press}, address = {Minneapolis, MN}, abstract = {

The story depicts a world of mutual incomprehensive between those deaf and signing and the speaking as seen from a deaf person who sees the speaking as limited and inferior.

}, keywords = {Deaf author, Male author, US author}, isbn = {9781941960080}, author = {John Lee Clark}, editor = {Christopher Jon Heuer} } @booklet {9358, title = {Void Star}, year = {2017}, month = {2017}, publisher = {Farrar Straus \& Giroux}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is set in a climate-change dystopia in which San Francisco is reserved for the rich.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Zachery Mason (b. 1990)} } @booklet {8973, title = {"The Vanishing Kind"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {131.1 \& 2 (726) }, year = {2016}, month = {July/August 2016}, pages = {76-129}, abstract = {

Alternative history in which Germany won World War 2 and rules England.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Israeli author, Male author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Lavie Tidhar (b. 1976)} } @booklet {10090, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Victor and the Fish{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, pages = {Ebook}, publisher = {[Arizona State University]}, address = {[Tempe, Arizona]}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything\%20Change\%20An\%20Anthology\%20of\%20Climate\%20Fiction.epub?dl=0$\#$}, author = {Matthew Henry}, editor = {Manjana Milkoreit and Meredith Martinez and Joey Eschrich} } @booklet {10764, title = {"Virtual Snapshots"}, howpublished = {Terraform}, year = {2016}, note = {

Rpt. without the illus. in Terraform Watch Worlds Burn. Ed. Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans (New York: MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice, 2022), 410-417.

}, month = {February 18, 2016}, pages = {EJournal}, abstract = {

The story is set in a climate changed future where advanced technology allows the rich to redesign bodies.

}, keywords = {Female author, Motswanan author}, url = {https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aekvne/virtual-snapshots}, author = {Tlotlo Tsamaase (b. 1989)} } @booklet {9034, title = {The Velocipede Races}, year = {2015}, note = {

Part of the book was originally published in 2013 by Luminous Creatures Press, an epublisher, and a version of the \“Epilogue\” was originally published in Bikes in Space. Volume\ 2\ \ [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] (Portland, OR: Elly Blue Publishing, 2014), 20-33.

}, month = {2015}, publisher = {EBP/Emily Blue Publishing}, address = {Portland, OR}, abstract = {

The story is set in a world where women\’s activities are severely restricted, and one woman wants to be a bicycle racer, which is prohibited.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Emily June Street} } @booklet {8656, title = {Vestiges of Flames. A Novel}, year = {2015}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Lethe Press}, address = {Maple Shade, NJ}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) in which a small group of survivors in Wellington find some others, some of whom join the original group, and some of which the original group kill in order to survive. They gradually make their way to the northwest of Auckland where they create a good society, albeit with continuing problems. Lesbian themes.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Female author}, author = {Lyn McConchie (b. 1946)} } @booklet {9689, title = {Viral Airwaves}, year = {2015}, note = {

2nd ed. Np: Author, 2016. 467 pp.

}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Incandescent Phoenix Books}, address = {Riverview, FL}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia and its overthrow in favor of a green future. LGBTQIA characters. A prequel is White Renegade. Np: Author, 2015. 99 pp.\ 

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author}, author = {Claudie Arseneault} } @booklet {10163, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Valedictorian"}, howpublished = {Lightspeed Magazine}, volume = {no. 55}, year = {2014}, note = {

Rpt. in her How Long \‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 150-69.\ 

}, month = {December 2014}, abstract = {

The story takes place after a very long war in which humans have been defeated by other humans with embedded AI. The humans without AI have degenerated, despise intelligence, and see the only role from girls is to have babies. The story focuses on a girl who doesn\’t fit in.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Female author}, url = {http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/valedictorian/}, author = {N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972)} } @booklet {10823, title = {Virus}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {266 pp.}, publisher = {Lulu.com}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

Pandemic dystopia

}, keywords = {Male author, Nigerian author}, isbn = {9781312390324}, author = {Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide} } @booklet {10323, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Volunteer{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {72-89}, publisher = {Solarwyrm Press}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

The story is set in a dystopian future Southeast Asia in a continuing war between Thailand and Vietnam.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {T. R. Napper}, editor = {Dominica Malcolm} } @booklet {8362, title = {"Visiting Nelson"}, howpublished = {After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {65-87}, abstract = {

Young adult ecological dystopia.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Katherine Langrish}, editor = {Ellen [Sue] Datlow and Windling, Terri} } @booklet {9773, title = {The Vaults}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, publisher = {St. Martin{\textquoteright}s Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The first volume of a series alternative history dystopias about the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. The Vaults are the huge depository that holds all the court records of the city for seventy years. The archivist discovers an anomaly which leads him and others to uncover the deep corruption that pervades the city. See also 2011 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Toby Ball} } @booklet {6319, title = {Veracity. A Novel}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, publisher = {Pocket Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which half of the U.S. population has been killed and a new government exerts control through sex and drugs.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Laura Bynum (b. 1968)} } @booklet {6335, title = {Voyage to Utopias: A Fictional Guide Through Philosophy}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, publisher = {Policy Press}, address = {Bristol, Eng.}, abstract = {

Visits to the utopias that will be produced by eight different political theories/ideologies. The author, who teaches Sociology at the University of Nottingham, compares the book to 1995 Lukes and Jostein Gaardner\&$\#$39;s (b. 1952) Sophie\&$\#$39;s World (Sofies verden 1991/English 1995). For additional material see http://www.policy-press.co.uk/resources/fitzpatrick.

}, keywords = {Male author, UK author}, author = {Tony Fitzpatrick} } @booklet {9295, title = {Vulture{\textquoteright}s Gate}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, publisher = {Allen \& Unwin}, address = {Crows Nest, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Young adult dystopia set in a future Australia where children are captured, a girl rescues a boy, and they travel across Australia searching for freedom only to discover a colony that has captured many girls. The novel ends positively but says there is more to come.\ Intended to be first in a series, but no further volumes have been published.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Kirsty Murray (b. 1960)} } @booklet {6070, title = {Valley of Day-Glo}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, publisher = {Robert J. Sawyer Books}, address = {Calgary, AB, Canada}, abstract = {

Humorous dystopia set on a future desolate Earth where the protagonist searches for a legendary valley that still has plants and animals.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Nick DiChario} } @booklet {8989, title = {The Valley-Westside War}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Young adult dystopia in a series in which travel between parallel timelines, for the purpose of harvesting resources, has become possible in the late 21st century. This volume is set in a post-nuclear war future, Los Angeles is divided into small enclaves that at are at war with. \ Other volumes in the series include 2004, 2006, and 2007 Turtledove and two non-utopian volumes, Gunpowder Empire: Crosstime Traffic--Book One. New York: Tor, 2003; and In High Places: Crosstime Traffic--Book Three. New York: Tor, 2006.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949)} } @booklet {6022, title = {Valor Tale}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Xlibris}, address = {[Bloomington, IN]}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which a democratically elected government fails to respond to developing chaos and a war develops that lasts fifteen years. A new government is established that becomes corrupt, and this brings about a civil war that lasts eight years. Martial law follows and is opposed by a small group of freedom fighters, the Aurora Blade. The novel then follows eight main characters who are depicted and described at the beginning plus other characters and a Narrator as they struggle to restore freedom.

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {David Earl Williams III (b. 1984)} } @booklet {6006, title = {The Visitors}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, publisher = {Shepheard-Walwyn}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Labeled an allegory, the story is about advanced aliens who arrive on Earth with the intent of helping the human race. While they leave without bringing about dramatic change, their positive influence will produce a better world. Something of a New Age perspective.

}, keywords = {Irish author, Male author}, author = {John [Alexander] Stewart} } @booklet {5702, title = {Venusia: a true story}, year = {2005}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Semiotext(e)}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which people are controlled by drugs, nanotechnology, and a form of psychotherapy.\ The first volume in his \“System Series.\” See also 2009 and 2015 von Schlegell.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Mark [A.] von Schlegell (b. 1957)} } @booklet {5557, title = {"The Voluntary State"}, howpublished = {SciFiction}, year = {2004}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Year\&$\#$39;s Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\&$\#$39;s Griffin, 2005), 58-83;\ Science Fiction: The Best of 2004. Ed. Karen Haber and Jonathan Strahan (New York: iBooks, 2005);\ Beyond Singularity. Ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (New York: Ace Books, 2005);\ Nebula Awards Showcase 2006. Ed. Gardner Dozois. New York: Roc, 2006); Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 293-327; and in his Telling the Map: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 107-48.\ 

}, month = {Posted May 5, 2004}, abstract = {

Future dystopia in Tennessee in which everyone is controlled by a central computer contrasted with a free Kentucky. The story focuses on a successful attempt by men from Kentucky to destroy the computer. A related novella is \“The Border State.\” In his Telling the Map: Stories Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017), 149-269 which is set further in the future when Tennessee has infected the rivers around the state with various machines that kill anyone that crosses them or get wet. Kentucky has means of temporarily neutralizing the machines. A related novel set later in time is his These Prisoning Hills. New York: Tordotcom, 2022.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {www.scifi.com/scifiction/ }, author = {Christopher Rowe (b. 1969)} } @booklet {5337, title = {V.A.O.}, year = {2002}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Year\’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin\’s Griffin, 2003), 339-366 with an editor\’s introduction on 339; in\ Cities. Ed. Peter Crowther (London: Gollancz, 2003), 247-92; and as \"VAO.\" In his\ Paradise Tales\ (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2011), 62-100.

}, month = {2002}, publisher = {PS Publishing}, address = {Harrogate, Eng.}, abstract = {

V.A.O. stands for Victim Activated Ordinance and includes a variety of mechanisms designed to protect people. The focus of this novella is its use to protect the elderly and its misuse both to control them and by some old people to fight back.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, UK author, US author}, author = {Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951)} } @booklet {5353, title = {Viaduct Child}, year = {2002}, month = {2002}, publisher = {Scholastic Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Poverty and violence.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Patrick Wood} } @booklet {5234, title = {The Velderet}, year = {2001}, note = {

The first six of the twelve chapters were published serially in\ Taste of Latex, nos. 10 - 15\ (1995-97).

}, month = {2001}, publisher = {Circlet Press}, address = {Cambridge, MA}, abstract = {

A sado-masochistic novel that begins in a eutopia and moves to a conflict in which s/m saves the day.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Cecilia Tan (b. 1967)} } @booklet {5187, title = {The Vile Village}, year = {2001}, month = {2001}, publisher = {HarperCollins}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian children\&$\#$39;s book. Volume 7 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The vile village is the rule-ridden V.F.D. (The Village of Fowl Devotees), which abducts some children (on the principle that \"it takes a village to raise a child\") and then requires the children to do all of the work of the village.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Daniel] [Handler] (b. 1970)} } @booklet {5014, title = {Vienna Blood}, year = {1999}, note = {

Rpt. London: Vintage, 2000.

}, month = {1999}, publisher = {Jonathan Cape}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Murder mystery set in a technologically advanced, mildly dystopian 2026 Vienna.

}, keywords = {English author, French author, Male author}, author = {Adrian Mathews (b. 1957)} } @booklet {5040, title = {A Virtual Soul}, year = {1999}, month = {1999}, publisher = {del Rey}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of genetic engineering.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Kevin Teixeira} } @booklet {5046, title = {"{\textexclamdown}Viva Loisaida Libre!"}, howpublished = {Avant Gardening: Ecological Struggle in The City \& The World}, year = {1999}, month = {1999}, pages = {38-56}, publisher = {Autonomedia}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {

Proposal for a free lower East Side of New York City.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Bill Weinberg}, editor = {Peter Lamborn Wilson and Bill Weinberg} } @booklet {4920, title = {The Vision: An Imaginary View of a Better Future for Mankind and a Possible Way Forward}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, pages = {36 pp.}, publisher = {Published by Health Books for the Author}, address = {Sheringham, Norfolk, Eng.}, abstract = {

Eutopia based on anarchy, ecology, and socialism. Everything is small-scale and community based. Brought about by \“The Possibilists\” who formed independent groups of five to ten members to bring about change locally. Self-managed communities. No money. Local and a common language. Advanced technology.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Colin Millen} } @booklet {9327, title = {"Visitors"}, howpublished = {More Amazing Stories}, year = {1998}, month = {1998}, pages = {209-18}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe (unexplained) dystopia in which all cities have disappeared. The story focuses on an automated house protecting its dead owners.

}, author = {L. A. Taylor}, editor = {KIm Mohan} } @booklet {4812, title = {Valedictory}, year = {1997}, month = {1997}, publisher = {Minerva Press}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Pollution, corruption.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Neil Kemp} } @booklet {4738, title = {"The Virtual Time Machine: Part I"}, howpublished = {The Wellsian}, volume = {no. 19 }, year = {1996}, month = {Winter 1996}, pages = {22-26}, abstract = {

A sequel to 1895 Wells\ The Time Machine\ in which the Time Traveller sets out to return to the future and rescue Weena but ends up in a different future which has a \“World Brain\” even more sophisticated than Wells proposed. It tells him to go to 1995 where he might find the branch of time that led to the future he had previously visited. \“Part II.\”\ The Wellsian, no. 20 (Winter 1997): 20-31 explains the fictional material in the first part.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Alan Mayne} } @booklet {4744, title = {Virtual Zen}, year = {1996}, month = {1996}, publisher = {Avon Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Quite general dystopia of apathy and disillusionment with a musician providing a more positive image.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray [Radell Faraday] Nelson (1931-2022)} } @booklet {4717, title = {Voices of Hope}, year = {1996}, month = {1996}, publisher = {Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of extreme rich versus poor divisions.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David Feintuch (1944-2006)} } @booklet {4630, title = {The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture}, year = {1995}, month = {1995}, pages = {56 pp.}, publisher = {Global Cyber-Visions}, address = {Venus, FL}, abstract = {

Detailed technological urban eutopia with proposals, drawings, and illustrations of buildings, vehicles, ships, planes, and transportation systems. Some of the buildings have been constructed in Florida. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled \“Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century\” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, \“Introduction to the Venus Project\” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), \“The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. See also 1969 Keyes and Fresco, 2002 and 2007 Fresco, and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/.\ There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Jacque Fresco (1916-2017)} } @booklet {4598, title = {Virtual Death}, year = {1995}, month = {1995}, publisher = {HarperPrism}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia with a focus on death as entertainment.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Robert] [Boswell] (b. 1953)} } @booklet {4555, title = {Vital Star}, year = {1994}, month = {1994}, publisher = {Vantage}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Detailed technological eutopia on the planet Za Sa Sa. The people are smaller than those of Earth; they have mental enhancers implanted, which enhancers brain power to different degrees depending on the status of the person. It is, though, overpopulated, and short of water. Birthing permits required and generally not given to the working class.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Ray McLeod} } @booklet {4486, title = {"Vermin"}, howpublished = {The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction }, volume = {54.3 }, year = {1993}, month = {March 1993}, pages = {132-60}, abstract = {

Fundamentalist religious dystopia as background.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {00024-984X }, author = {Harry [Norman] Turtledove (b. 1949)} } @booklet {4433, title = {Virtual Light}, year = {1993}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Viking, 1993. 296 pp.\ 0-670-84081-5

}, month = {1993}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex dystopia set in the states of Northern and Southern California. Deep divisions between the rich and poor with the rich living in protected enclaves. Includes the development of a post-earthquake Tokyo, an anarchist community in the San Francisco area, and various other dystopian and potentially eutopian societies.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author, US author}, author = {William [Ford] Gibson (b. 1948)} } @booklet {4459, title = {Vurt}, year = {1993}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1995. 342 pp. 0517599910. Rpt. as the 30th anniversary edition. London: Angry Robot/Watkins Media Ltd, 2023, with an Introduction by Adam Roberts (9-13) and an Afterword by Jeff Noon (373-375). 375 pp.

}, month = {1993}, pages = {370 pp.}, publisher = {Ringpull Press}, address = {Littleborough, Eng.}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in Manchester, England. Vurt is a drug that creates almost a virtual reality.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, isbn = {1898051038 0517599910 978-1-91520-293-2}, author = {Jeff Noon (b. 1957)} } @booklet {4370, title = {"Virtuous Reality"}, howpublished = {Interzone}, volume = {no. 55 }, year = {1992}, month = {January 1992}, pages = {33-36}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Overpopulated world requiring licenses to have a child. Families tend to be eight to ten parents and one child. Man wants monogamy in a world of multiple partners both serially and living together at the same time. No passion.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024)} } @booklet {4223, title = {"The Vampire State"}, howpublished = {Omni }, volume = {14.2 }, year = {1991}, month = {November 1991}, pages = {78-80}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Extrapolation of contemporary U.S. to a future in which homeless children are hunted and killed by the police.

}, author = {W. E Gutman} } @booklet {4257, title = {"Varzil{\textquoteright}s Avengers"}, howpublished = {Renunciates Of Darkover}, year = {1991}, month = {1991}, pages = {231-42}, publisher = {DAW Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Free Amazon story.

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {Diann S. Partridge}, editor = {Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99)} } @booklet {11119, title = {Vortex}, year = {1991}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1991.\ 

}, month = {1991}, pages = {xiv + 670 pp. }, publisher = {Warner Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The novel is about political and military conflict in South Africa that result from negotiations to bring about the end of apartheid, with the focus on the military conflict, which involves nuclear weapons.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780446515665}, author = {Larry Bond and [Patrick] [Larkin]} } @booklet {4142, title = {"Vignette"}, howpublished = {Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)}, volume = {no. 2}, year = {1990}, note = {

}, month = {1990}, pages = {44-48}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia. Completely controlled life in a factory.\ 

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Stephen Higgins} } @booklet {3977, title = {Venus of Shadows}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1986 Sargent. This volume follows the next four generations of the Venus project, the society that is emerging, and the conflicts within it.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Pamela Sargent (b. 1948)} } @booklet {3929, title = {Vic and Blood: The Chronicles of a Boy and His Dog}, year = {1988}, note = {

Rpt. New York: St. Martin\’s Press, 1989; and with the subtitle The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog. New York: iBooks, 2003. The novel is composed of three stories: \“Eggsucker.\” Illus. Richard Corben. Ariel: The Book of Fantasy Vol. 2. Ed. Richard Durwood (Leawood, KS: Morning Star Press, 1977), 6-13; \“A Boy and His Dog.\” In his The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (New York: Avon, 1969), 208-45. Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 189 (April 1979): 4-16; rpt. in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 332-73; and in\ The Best of the Nebulas\ (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 359-89, with an \“Author\’s Foreword\” on 358;\ \“Run, Spot, Run.\” Mediascene Prevue (September/October 1980) [not found]; rpt. Illus. Richard [Vance] Corben. Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined With Fantastic 27.10 (January 1981): 15-25.\ 

}, month = {1988}, publisher = {Donning}, address = {Norfolk, VA}, abstract = {

Graphic novel. Post-nuclear war dystopia. Underground there is an authoritarian dystopia trying to maintain a conservative way of life. On the surface is a violent dystopia of male loners and small groups.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) and Richard [Vance] Corben (1940-2020)} } @booklet {3886, title = {Vacuum Flowers}, year = {1987}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Arbor House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex novel of various worlds--mostly dystopian--based on the ability to program people with different personae. Earth has been taken over by the Comprise--linked minds in many human bodies.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Michael [J{\"u}rgen] Swanwick (b. 1950)} } @booklet {3864, title = {"Veritas"}, howpublished = {Synergy: New Science Fiction }, volume = {Number 1}, year = {1987}, note = {

Rpt. in\ The Savage Humanists. Ed. Fiona Kelleghan (Calgary, AL, Canada: Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2008), 235-56 with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 233-34.

}, month = {1987}, pages = {84-110}, publisher = {Harcourt Brace Jovanovich}, address = {San Diego, CA}, abstract = {

Dystopia that uses technological means to kill fantasy.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {James [Kenneth] Morrow (b. 1947)}, editor = {George Zebrowski (b. 1945)} } @booklet {3803, title = {A Voyage to Inishneefa: A First-hand Account of the Fifth Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships)}, year = {1987}, month = {1987}, publisher = {John Daniel, Publisher}, address = {Santa Barbara, CA}, abstract = {

Satire on contemporary Ireland.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John Paul Brady} } @booklet {3774, title = {Venus of Dreams}, year = {1986}, note = {

Collectors\&$\#$39; Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Ron Miller and with an \"Introduction\" (v-vii) by Gregory Benford.

}, month = {1986}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The first volume of a trilogy about the Venus Project, a proposal to terraform Venus, which will take generations. The first volume lays out the beginnings of the project and some of the key people involved and suggests some of the problems to come. See also 1988, 2000, and 2001 Sargent.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Pamela Sargent (b. 1948)} } @booklet {3691, title = {"Visit Port Watson!"}, howpublished = {Semiotext[e] SF}, year = {1985}, month = {1985/1989}, pages = {313-30}, publisher = {Autonomedia}, address = {Brooklyn, NY}, abstract = {

Libertarian eutopia.

}, editor = {Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946) and Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007)} } @booklet {7002, title = {"Visitors"}, howpublished = {Stand Magazine (U.K.)}, volume = {27}, year = {1985}, note = {

Rpt. in Best Short Stories 1987. Ed. Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London: William Heinemann, 1987), 27-41; and in his Visitors (Auckland, New Zealand: Heinemann Reed, 1989), 1-15.

}, month = {Winter 1985-86}, pages = {28-37}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Story set in a world where an old man is being given regular electroshock treatments to take away his memories. The torturers, described as \"Pale Suits,\" are part of a movement suppressing the poor throughout the world. A revolt takes place but appears to fail. The point-of-view character, the grandson of the man being tortured, leaves to join the opposition.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author}, author = {John Cranna (b. 1954)} } @booklet {3510, title = {Vail}, year = {1984}, note = {

Rpt. London: Abacus, 1989.

}, month = {1984}, publisher = {John Calder/Riverrun Press}, address = {London/New York}, abstract = {

Near future dystopia in which toxic waste is deliberately dumped by the government on the overpopulated areas of England. London is an enclave for the rich and powerful.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Trevor Hoyle (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3586, title = {Valoric Fire and a Working Plan for Individual Sovereignty from the Valorian Society}, year = {1984}, month = {1984}, publisher = {Sovereign Press}, address = {Rochester, WA}, abstract = {

Individualist eutopia in which a group work out the outlines of their eutopia.\ 

} } @booklet {3426, title = {Valencies}, year = {1983}, month = {1983}, publisher = {University of Queensland Press}, address = {St. Lucia, Qld, Australia}, abstract = {

A novel set in 4004 A.D. with significant scientific advances and with both the negative and positive results of the changes shown. Immortality has been conferred but people continue to have children and all Earth-type planets have been colonized. Effortless learning is possible. People are still playing power games.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {[Keith] Rory Barnes (b. 1946) and Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944)} } @booklet {6999, title = {V for Vendetta}, year = {1982}, note = {

Books 1 and 2 \“Vertigo\” and \“Vincent\” published in the U.K. in Warrior in 1982 and 1983. Published in U.S. as V for Vendetta, nos. 1-10 (1987-1988). Collected ed. New York: DC Comics, 1989. Rev. exp. ed. New York: DC Comics, 1990. Rpt. New York: DC Comics, 2005.

}, month = {1982-83}, publisher = {DC Comics}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Graphic novel depicting a corrupt, totalitarian regime in England being resisted by a superhero.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Alan [Oswald] Moore (b. 1953) and David Lloyd (b. 1950)} } @booklet {3409, title = {A Very British Coup}, year = {1982}, note = {

Rpt. London: Corgi, 1988; and London: Politicos, 2001.\ 

}, month = {1982}, publisher = {Hodder and Stoughton}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The left wins an election, and the establishment works to overthrow it.\ A sequel is The Friends of Harry Perkins. London: Scribner, 2019 that is primarily a political novel set in the dystopia that Brexit has produced with a potential war between China and the U. S. in the background.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Chris[topher John] Mullin (b. 1947)} } @booklet {3365, title = {Voyage From Yesteryear}, year = {1982}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Baen, 1999. U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1984.

}, month = {1982}, pages = {377 pp.}, publisher = {Del Rey/Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Earth had established colonies of children in the Alpha Centuri system and decades later sent adult colonists and an army to take control. The first group and established a libertarian eutopia and had no intention of being taken over by the new one. The book won the Prometheus Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

}, keywords = {English author, Irish author, Male author, US author}, author = {James P[atrick] Hogan (1941-2010)} } @booklet {3315, title = {Vaneglory: A Science Fiction Novel}, year = {1981}, month = {1981}, publisher = {Faber and Faber}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Middle volume of a trilogy set in a future dystopia. In this volume the society evolving at the end of the previous volume has to deal with the discovery of a group of humans who do not die. See also 1978 and 1983 Turner.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97)} } @booklet {8799, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Venice Drowned{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Universe}, volume = {11}, year = {1981}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year $\#$11. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Timescape/Pocket Books, 1982), 109-30; Nebula Award Stories 17. Ed. Joe W. Haldeman (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983), 19-43; in his The Planet on the Table (New York: Tor, 1986), 1-25; U.K. ed. (London: Futura, 1987), 1-25; in his Vinland the Dream and Other Stories (London: Harper Collins, 2002), 165-93; and in Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 38-85.

}, month = {1981}, pages = {91-109}, publisher = {Doubleday \& Co}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Climate change dystopia in which Venice is underwater and its art treasures are being removed by outsiders.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952)} } @booklet {3312, title = {The Venus Belt}, year = {1981}, note = {

Rpt. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 163 pp.

}, month = {1981}, pages = {211 pp.}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The libertarian eutopia of Smith\’s 1980 The Probability Broach is threatened by an authoritarian dystopia. Second in the North American Confederacy series, followed, in publication order, by Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author\’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; and Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp. (1989), in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties\&$\#$39; Bucketeers. A story set in the same future is his 1989 \“The Spirit of Exmas Sideways.\”

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {0-343-28721-5 9781604504422}, author = {L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021)} } @booklet {3332, title = {Vision Tomorrow}, year = {1981}, note = {

Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Spiritual Venturers\&$\#$39; Educational Trust, 1986; and Richmond, VIC, Australia: Greenhouse Publications, 1988.

}, month = {1981}, publisher = {The Spiritual Venturers Associations, distributed by Arthur H. Stockwell}, address = {Ilfracombe, Devon, Eng.}, abstract = {

New Age spiritualism. Great sweep of time from Atlantis to the 23rd century. Ends in a dystopia of constant war, but the author holds out hope.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Harold, Edmund} } @booklet {3209, title = {Valhalla}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Little, Brown}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Near future post-catastrophe dystopia brought about by the collapse of the U.S. dollar. Government and jobs disappear and gangs control cities. Valhalla is an ex-monastery now the fortress compound of one man, and the novel focuses on the attacks on it and its defense.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Newton [Kendall] Thornburg (1929-2011)} } @booklet {3242, title = {Voices in Time}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rpt. Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin Canada, 1981. U.K. ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1983.

}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Macmillan of Canada}, address = {Don Mills, ON, Canada}, abstract = {

Post-catastrophe, looking backward. Authoritarian dystopia slowly being overcome and a better society created. The emphasis is on the period of conflict.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {[John] Hugh MacLennan (1907-90)} } @booklet {3153, title = {The Vandal}, year = {1979}, note = {

U.S. ed. New York: Crown, 1981.

}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Macmillan}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Young adult future dystopia run by scientists who use drugs to control the citizenry. Vandalism as an act of rebellion against authority. Solidarity with other young people who are being controlled by the authorities.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Ann [Acheson] Schlee (b. 1934)} } @booklet {3098, title = {A Voice Out of Ramah}, year = {1979}, month = {1979}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a male dominated society that uses religion to reinforce its power until a man begins to doubt and a woman begins to question.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {[Karen] Lee Killough (b. 1942)} } @booklet {2839, title = {Venus Development}, year = {1976}, month = {1976}, publisher = {Popular Library}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Corporate controlled authoritarian dystopia intent on establishing a colony on Mars and the successful revolt of the first colonists.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David Bergamini (1928-83)} } @booklet {10346, title = {"Vision 1-6"}, howpublished = {Undercurrents. Radical Technology}, year = {1976}, note = {

U.S. ed. (New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1976), 48-49, 94-85, 132-33, 168-69, 200-201, 228-29. Rpt. in a different order as foldout plates in Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society. Ed. Vernon Richards (London: Freedom Press, 1983), 149-54, with commentary by Colin Ward \ rather than the original description.

}, month = {1976}, pages = {48-49, 94-85, 132-33, 168-69, 200-201, 228-29}, publisher = {Wildwood House}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Anarchist utopia described in six illustrations with brief notes and some with captions. The visions are of a collectivised garden, a basement workshop, an autonomous village, an autonomous terrace, a community workshop, and a community media centre. Strikingly, the only people shown working are women, and Colin Ward comments on this saying, \“Note that the last male chauvinist is sulking in the corner. The women have taken over the shop\”\ (133/Why Work\ 153).

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Clifford Harper (b. 1949)} } @booklet {2708, title = {The Vision}, year = {1974}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Pillar Books, 1975; and as\ The vision and beyond: prophecies fulfilled and still to come.\ Lindale, TX : World Challenge Publications, 2003. \© David Wilkerson Youth Crusades.

}, month = {1974}, publisher = {Spire Books Fleming H. Revell}, address = {Old Tappan, NJ}, abstract = {

Prediction, some of which the author says occurred between writing and publication but others of which may take place generations in the future, culminating in Armageddon (See Revelation 16).

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David [R.] Wilkerson (1931-2011)} } @booklet {2590, title = {The Velvet Monkey Wrench}, year = {1973}, month = {1973}, publisher = {John Muir Publications}, address = {Santa Fe, NM}, abstract = {

Extremely detailed eutopia with a heavy technological element with computers central to almost all aspects of life and much production automated. Stresses cooperation, decentralization, and ecology with procedures for achieving the eutopia laid out in considerable detail.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {John Muir (1918-77)} } @booklet {2659, title = {"The Village"}, howpublished = {Bad Noon Rising}, year = {1973}, note = {

Rpt. in her\ The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction\ (New York: Harper \& Row, 1975), 277-87.

}, month = {1973}, pages = {147-57}, publisher = {Harper \& Row}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which an absolutely typical U.S. village is invaded by U.S. forces raping the young women and killing everyone.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018)}, editor = {Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008)} } @booklet {2455, title = {Volteface. Science Fiction}, year = {1972}, month = {1972}, publisher = {Sidgwick \& Jackson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1971 Adlard describing an authoritarian overpopulation dystopia in which the population is manipulated by a small group of executives. In this novel the executives decide to reintroduce work and intentionally appoint incompetent people to management positions because this will reproduce twentieth century business. See also 1975 Adlard.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932)} } @booklet {2398, title = {Vandenberg}, year = {1971}, note = {

Rpt. as Defiance; An American Novel. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.

}, month = {1971}, publisher = {Stein \& Day}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a communist takeover of the U.S.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[John] [Wadleigh] (1927-2013)} } @booklet {2401, title = {"A Vision of Environment"}, howpublished = {American Scholar }, volume = {40.3 }, year = {1971}, month = {Summer 1971}, pages = {421-31}, abstract = {

Essay describing an ecological eutopia that does away with existing political boundaries and replaces them with boundaries based on watersheds, each of which would contain one major city.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Peter L. Marks} } @booklet {2332, title = {"The Victory of the NIMs over the GEBs"}, howpublished = {Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future}, year = {1970}, month = {1970}, pages = {189-92}, publisher = {M. G. Hurtig}, address = {Edmonton, AB, Canada}, abstract = {

Satire. Education of the future turned away from technology. NIM refers to the New Image of Man which stresses self-realization. GEB refers to the alliance of government, education, and business which agreed to cooperate under the Orwell Treaty of 1984 that gave multinational corporations control of education.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Max Clarkson}, editor = {Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum} } @booklet {2374, title = {"A Visit to the Museum"}, howpublished = {Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future}, year = {1970}, month = {1970}, pages = {34-38}, publisher = {M. G. Hurtig}, address = {Edmonton, AB, Canada}, abstract = {

Dystopia of Canada as part of the United States with a tour through the Museum of the Man of Canada.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {Jean-Pierre Wallot}, editor = {Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum} } @booklet {2261, title = {A View of Century 21}, year = {1969}, month = {1969}, publisher = {The Claremont Colleges}, address = {Claremont, CA}, abstract = {

Mostly prediction but includes a technological eutopia. In \“A View of The Future--A Fictional Preview\” (20-27) Los Angeles has banned the internal combustion engine, highways are automated. Large buildings house both companies and their workers with 300,000 people living in a single building. Free underground public transportation. The distinction between weekdays and weekends has been abolished and everyone works four days out of the seven. Schools are largely computerized with access twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, and students work at their own pace. Medical care and finances will also be mostly computerized.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Walter Orr Roberts (1915-90)} } @booklet {2137, title = {A Very Private Life}, year = {1968}, month = {1968}, publisher = {Collins}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Technology brings isolation of people from each other. The rich live inside and have connection with each other only through television, telephone systems. There are a few who have to do some work outside, which is badly polluted.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Michael Frayn (b. 1933)} } @booklet {2098, title = {Vigilante--21st Century}, year = {1967}, month = {1967}, publisher = {Lancer}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Future dystopia in which criminals use science to control, but the good guys fight back.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Robert Moore Williams (1907-77)} } @booklet {2014, title = {A View of the Island: A Post-Atomic Fairy Tale}, year = {1965}, month = {1965}, publisher = {Hutchinson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

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}, author = {[Irene Dale] [Hewson] )1907-85)} } @booklet {2008, title = {Visa for Avalon}, year = {1965}, note = {

Rpt. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2004.

}, month = {1965}, publisher = {Harcourt, Brace \& World}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {[Annie Winifred] [Ellerman] (1894-1983)} } @booklet {1924, title = {A View of New World for World State}, year = {1963}, month = {1963}, publisher = {Author}, address = {Tokyo, Japan}, abstract = {

Eutopian essay with a world state developed from the United Nations. Democracy. World Law. Moral rearmament. Common property. Cooperation of capital and labor.\ 

}, keywords = {Japanese author}, author = {Issho Yasugi} } @booklet {1805, title = {Verwoerd--The End; A look-back from the Future}, year = {1961}, month = {1961}, publisher = {T.V. Broadman}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Apartheid as eutopia presented as the history of South Africa from 1960 to 1985.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, South African author}, author = {[Ernest George] [Alligan] (1898-1978)} } @booklet {1835, title = {"The Voice of the Dolphins"}, howpublished = {The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stores}, year = {1961}, note = {

Exp. ed. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992), 47-100. With an Introduction by Barton J. Bernstein (3-43, 175-82) and an \"Afterword\" by Helen Weiss (171-72).

}, month = {1961}, pages = {19-72}, publisher = {Simon and Schuster}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A story with eutopian elements in which scientists discover how to communicate with dolphins, who are immensely more intelligent than humans. An institute is founded that uses the dolphin\&$\#$39;s ideas, which eliminates hunger, reduce population growth, and ultimately ends the possibility of nuclear war.

}, keywords = {English author, German author, Hungarian author, Male author, US author}, author = {Leo Szilard (1898-1964)} } @booklet {1792, title = {Venus Plus X}, year = {1960}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an \“Introduction\” (v-xxi) by Paul Williams; and New York: Carroll \& Graf, 1988. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. Also published in New Worlds Science Fiction 34.102 \– 05 (January \– April 1961): 4-46; 90-126; 80-122, 124-25; 84-118, 120-23 with a \“Postscript\” (123-24).\ 

}, month = {1960}, publisher = {Pyramid}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Hermaphrodite eutopia. Each individual is created with both sexes. Small, isolated community of 800. Technology and an emphasis on change and forward movement.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985)} } @booklet {1777, title = {Village of Love}, year = {1960}, month = {1960}, publisher = {MacGibbon and Kee}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A successful intentional community established on an island in the West Indies. The community is designed for the homeless and the unemployed, and, holding everything in common, they find hope. Success breeds problems with the island\&$\#$39;s rulers and the community is destroyed.

}, keywords = {West Indian author}, author = {Merrill Ferguson} } @booklet {1773, title = {Vulcan{\textquoteright}s Hammer}, year = {1960}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979 with an \"Introduction\" (v-xi) by Fax Goodlife; and New York: Vintage Books, 2004. An earlier version was pub. in\ Future Science Fiction, no. 29 (1956): 4-60.

}, month = {1960}, publisher = {Ace Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Computer dystopia in which the computer, Vulcan 3, had been designed to be completely rational and the problems that arise when it has to deal with human irrationality.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82)} } @booklet {11610, title = {The Vulgarians}, year = {1960}, month = {[1960]}, pages = {[95 pp.]}, publisher = {New York Graphic Society}, address = {[Greenwich, CT}}, abstract = {

Art/comic book that begins with an idealized version of the early American settlers but focuses on the dystopian that has been created by greed.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Robert Chesley] Osborn (1904-1994)} } @booklet {1659, title = {"Virgin Planet"}, howpublished = {Venture Science Fiction}, volume = { 1.1 }, year = {1957}, note = {

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1959. Rpt. New York: Warner Books, 1970.

}, month = {January 1957}, pages = {4-69}, abstract = {

The story is set on a planet occupied only by women where a religion had developed around the expected return of men.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001)} } @booklet {1595, title = {"Vespers"}, howpublished = {Encounter }, volume = {4.2 }, year = {1955}, note = {

Rpt. in his The Shield of Achilles (New York: Random House, 1955), 77-80. U.K. ed. (London: Faber and Faber, 1955), 74-77; his Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 227-229; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume II 1940-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 439-441, with a Textual Note on 968-969.

}, month = {February 1955}, pages = {10-11}, abstract = {

Contrasts an Arcadia\ and a Utopian.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73)} } @booklet {1433, title = {The Veronian Truth}, year = {1952}, publisher = {N.p}, address = {N.p.}, abstract = {

Racist tract which presents a brief golden age of a pure white society.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Hollowell, Devero} } @booklet {1378, title = {"Venus is a Man{\textquoteright}s World"}, howpublished = {Galaxy Science Fiction (New York)}, volume = {2.4 }, year = {1951}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Square Root of Man\ (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 145-69; and in\ Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1\ (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 551-65 with an \"Afterword\" (565).

}, month = {July 1951}, pages = {3-20}, abstract = {

Satire. Contrasts the frontier world of Venus where men rule with an Earth ruled by women and where men cannot be citizens. Both have problems but Venus is presented more positively.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010)} } @booklet {6841, title = {A Visit to Mars}, year = {1951}, month = {[1951]}, publisher = {Moody Press}, address = {Chicago, IL}, abstract = {

Detailed eutopia on Mars with a focus on religion and technology. Struggle between good and evil. Stress on the nuclear family. There are various worlds even more advanced than Mars.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Garrett V. Albertson} } @booklet {6839, title = {Vistas of Coming Glory: A Defence of the Pre-millenial and Futurist Faith}, year = {1950}, month = {[195?]}, publisher = {City Service Press}, address = {Melbourne, VIC, Australia}, abstract = {

Millennium.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Pastor Wallace E. Jackel} } @booklet {1326, title = {A Visitor from Venus}, year = {1949}, note = {

Rpt. in\ Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950.\ Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 214-43 with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 212-13.

}, month = {1949}, publisher = {William-Frederick Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Venus presented as a eutopia in contrast with the dystopian Earth. On Venus people do the right thing simply because it is the right thing. Venus has a universal language and world government. Argues for a political and religious role for women, who, it is said, must save Earth.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Gertrude Short (1902-68)} } @booklet {6832, title = {Visit of the Princess: A Romance of the Nineteen-sixties}, year = {1946}, month = {[1946]}, publisher = {Hutchinson \& Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia seen through a romance in what appears to be a dull, egalitarian dystopia but is also a society giving much better life chances to children.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {R[alph] H[ale] Mottram (1883-1971)} } @booklet {1241, title = {The Valley of the Poor}, year = {1945}, month = {1945}, publisher = {Wetzel Pub. Co}, address = {Los Angeles, CA}, abstract = {

Science cures racial prejudice and brings eutopia.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Wertie Clarice [Blackwell] Weaver} } @booklet {1203, title = {A Voyage to Venus}, year = {1943}, month = {1943}, publisher = {Currawong Publishing Co}, address = {Sydney, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Two eutopias. The first, briefly described, is a socialist eutopia based on state-controlled trusts that developed on Earth after World War II. No unemployment. Much technological improvement. The Confederated States of America include all of North and South America. The second eutopia is on Venus and is a technologically based cockaigne, at least as far as food is concerned, with, for example, a Delicatessen Forest. Venus is one country with one government. Everything on Venus standardized and visitors from the old Earth find it too perfect. Much of the novel is taken up with the conflicts this produces.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author, Northern Ireland author}, author = {Dominic[k] Healy (1896-1954?)} } @booklet {1121, title = {Vision of a State of Rightness on a Spiritual Foundation. A Short Outline of Government Whereby All Men Have the Same Rights and Privileges With the Capitalistic System Abolished}, year = {1940}, month = {1940}, pages = {22 pp. printed on facing pages only.}, publisher = {Author}, address = {Huntington, NY}, abstract = {

A communal eutopia with a \"Civilian Army\". No money. No international trade except for things the U.S. cannot produce. Few laws. Races live separately but can visit each other.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Henry C[ornelius] Denturk (b. 1880)} } @booklet {1101, title = {Visit to Utopia}, year = {1939}, month = {1939}, pages = {vii + 14 pp.}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

Eutopia. One emphasis is on the beauty of the place. Another is on technology; for example, mining has been so improved that work underground is no longer needed. No unemployment. No war; hence no need for arms. Equal opportunity for higher education.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ohn] Howard Whitehouse (1873-1955)} } @booklet {1033, title = {The Virgin King. A Novel}, year = {1936}, month = {1936}, publisher = {D. Appleton-Century Co}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire on dictatorship.

}, keywords = {UK author}, author = {Francis Watson (b. 1907)} } @booklet {934, title = {Victorian Family Robinson. A Novel}, year = {1934}, month = {1934}, publisher = {Cassell \& Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Strait-laced Victorians are shipwrecked on a South Pacific island inhabited by the descendants of British sailors previously shipwrecked there. What follows is mostly adventure and romance with the required happy ending of marriages all around.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author, Irish author}, author = {Beatrice [Ethel] Grimshaw (1877-1953)} } @booklet {851, title = {"A Voice Across The Years"}, howpublished = {Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ)}, volume = { 5.1 }, year = {1932}, note = {

Rpt. as\ Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962.

}, month = {Winter 1932}, pages = {2-73}, abstract = {

Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Male author}, author = {[Inga Marie Stephens] [Pratt] (1906-70) and [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956)} } @booklet {11466, title = {The Valley of the Great Ray}, volume = {Science Fiction Series No. 11.}, year = {1930}, month = {1930}, pages = {28 pp.}, publisher = {Stellar Publishing Corporation}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Lost race story where no one grows old. Set in Australia.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Pansy E[llen] Black (1890-1957)} } @booklet {778, title = {"Vampires of Venus"}, howpublished = {Astounding Stories (New York)}, volume = {2.1 }, year = {1930}, month = {April 1930}, pages = {47-59}, abstract = {

Mostly adventure but very briefly describes a eutopia on Venus based on eugenics and gender equality.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Anthony Pelcher (1897-1981)} } @booklet {760, title = {"Via the Hewitt Ray"}, howpublished = {Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL) }, volume = { 1.3 }, year = {1930}, note = {

Rpt. in Fantastic Story Magazine (Kokomo, IN) 2.3 (Summer 1951): 95-114; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 103-40 with and editor\’s not on 103.

}, month = {Spring 1930}, pages = {370-83, 420}, abstract = {

World with women dominant and men kept for breeding.

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {M[argaret] F. Rupert} } @booklet {781, title = {"A Vision of the Future in Vocational Education"}, howpublished = {School and Society (New York)}, volume = {32.834 }, year = {1930}, note = {

Rpt. as three chapters (XV. \“Some Backgrounds of the Great American Developments of Vocational Education from 1935-1960;\” XVI. \“The Period of Critical Evaluations and Reconstructions of Vocational Education;\” and XVII. \“The 1960 Programs of Vocational Education in the United States\”) in his American High Schools and Vocational Schools in 1960 (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1931), 95-119.\ 

}, month = {December 20, 1930}, pages = {819-31}, abstract = {

Projects a eutopian education in 1960 with a stress on vocational education. Education compulsory until eighteen. Vocational education is compulsory for entering work, and this education starts at eighteen.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951)} } @booklet {759, title = {A Voyage to Purilla}, year = {1930}, month = {1930}, publisher = {Cosmopolitan Book Corp}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire on romantic films showing a planet based on such films.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Elmer Leopold] [Reitzenstein] (1892-1967)} } @booklet {714, title = {A Vision of Education; Being an Imaginary Verbatim Report of the First Interplanetary Conference}, year = {1929}, month = {1929}, publisher = {Williams \& Norgate}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Includes statements of a number of educational theories, some of which are focused on the individual and others on the good of the society. Includes a short Preface (7-11) by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).\ See Jerome Meckier, \“A Neglected Huxley \‘Preface\’: His Earliest Synopsis of Brave New World.\” Twentieth Century Literature 25.1 (Spring 1979): 1-20.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, UK author}, author = {J[ohn] H[enry] Burns} } @booklet {681, title = {"A Very Private Utopia"}, howpublished = {The Nation }, volume = {126.3280 }, year = {1928}, month = {May 16, 1928}, pages = {559-62}, abstract = {

First in a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. \ Proposes a series of reforms that would, among other things, enhance health, improve beauty by segregating industrial from living areas, ensure economic security, and make life-enhancing work possible. Stresses the importance of leisure. Not the same as 1975 Chase.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Stuart Chase (1888-1985).} } @booklet {686, title = {"The Vision of Utopia"}, howpublished = {The Day After To-Morrow: What Is Going to Happen to the World?}, year = {1928}, note = {

U.S. ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran \& Co., 1928), 168-71.

}, month = {1928}, pages = {170-74}, publisher = {Hutchinson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The book is written in the predictive mode, but it includes these few pages of an explicit eutopia. Medical research has abolished disease and the elimination of slums means that there are no more \"unfit\". People live longer in garden cities. Men and women are equal in all ways. No servants. Synthetic food. No poverty. Peace. No racial discrimination, and there is a general blending of types. No crime.\ On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E \& FN SPON, 1992.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Philip [Armand Hamilton] Gibbs (1877-1962)} } @booklet {696, title = {"A Visitor from the Twentieth Century"}, howpublished = {Amazing Stories (New York)}, volume = {3.2}, year = {1928}, month = {May 1928}, pages = {170-77}, abstract = {

Technological eutopia set in the late 21st century.

}, keywords = {Male author}, issn = {0002-6891 }, author = {Donitz, Harold} } @booklet {673, title = {"Venus"}, howpublished = {Unpublished play }, year = {1927}, month = {1927}, abstract = {

See the brief synopsis in Colette Lindroth and James Lincoln. Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995), 58-59, which refers to two people having returned from the advanced civilization of Venus.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Rachel Crothers (1878-1958)} } @booklet {652, title = {"The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis"}, howpublished = {The Forum (New York)}, volume = {75}, year = {1926}, note = {

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 34.2 (February 1968): 121-28; in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 95-103; and in More Voices from the Radium Age. Ed. Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023), 207-218.

}, month = {March 1926}, pages = {358-65}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Women achieve equality after they stop wearing their \“feminine\” veils. Some women then return to the veil, which reintroduces inequality but with women dominant. Conflict follows and brings about the destruction of Atlantis.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)} } @booklet {631, title = {Volonor}, year = {1925}, month = {1925}, publisher = {Thomas Seltzer}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopian free love colony in which women have no status and cannot own property.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Glen B[rian] Winship (1887-1966)} } @booklet {602, title = {The Valley of the Eyes Unseen}, year = {1924}, month = {1924}, publisher = {Robert M. McBride and Co}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Lost race eutopia with a classical Greek culture.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Gilbert [Henry] Collins (b. 1890)} } @booklet {607, title = {Venus}, year = {1924}, month = {1924}, publisher = {Dorrance \& Co}, address = {Philadelphia, PA}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Telepathy in an idyllic society about two thousand years in advance of Earth. Much romance and the picture of Venus comes out through the interactions of two Venusians with people on Earth during a visit to Earth.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Rena Oldfield Pettersen} } @booklet {6759, title = {A Voice from Mars; Adventure and Romance}, year = {1923}, month = {[1923]}, publisher = {Arthur H. Stockwell}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Mostly adventure and romance but includes a vaguely described eutopia on Mars. Mars is physically like Earth with many of the same plants and animals.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Reginald Broomhead} } @booklet {455, title = {A Vision of the Future}, year = {1916}, month = {1916}, publisher = {The Cosmopolitan Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Eutopia of a future society based on science and eugenics.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Richard Marvin Chapman} } @booklet {8727, title = {The Virgin{\textquoteright}s Treasure: A Romance of the Tropics}, year = {1915}, note = {

Rpt. London: Mills \& Boon, [1919?]. \ 245 pp.

}, month = {1915}, pages = {345 pp.}, publisher = {Mills \& Boon}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel is mostly romance and adventure but ends in a religious allegory in which a man struggles past the Tomb of Buried Hopes, the Tomb of Dead Desires, and the Plain of Despair and gets temporarily lost in the Mountains of Self-Abasement before winning through.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {[Amelia] Louise Gerard (1878-1979)} } @booklet {418, title = {"Votes for Men"}, howpublished = {All Story Cavalier Weekly}, volume = { 34.3 }, year = {1914}, month = {July 25, 1914}, pages = {577-83}, abstract = {

Gender-role reversal satire in which any single man asked by a woman to marry her must do so or go to jail.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Percy Atkinson} } @booklet {325, title = {The Voice in the Rice}, year = {1910}, month = {1910}, publisher = {Dodd, Mead}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A hidden country that maintains the culture of an idealized antebellum South, including slavery.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Gouverneur Morris [IV] (1876-1953)} } @booklet {292, title = {The Vision of New Clairvaux or Ethical Reconstruction Through combination of Agriculture and Handicraft, under Conditions which exercise Emotion, Sentiment and Imagination, with loyalty to a supreme Ideal}, year = {1909}, month = {1909}, publisher = {Sherman, French and Company}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Intentional community modeled on the vision of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), founder of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux. It is called \"an ethical experiment station\" (19), and stresses the advantages of country life, handicrafts, and small industries.\ The author, a Unitarian minister, founded such a community in Montague, Massachusetts in the 1890s.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Edward Pearson Pressey (b. 1869)} } @booklet {302, title = {"Votes for Men: A Dialogue"}, howpublished = {Cornhill Magazine}, volume = {ns 27 }, year = {1909}, note = {

Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: Murray, 1921), 200-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 200-15.\ 

}, month = {December 1909}, pages = {747-55}, abstract = {

Satire in which the female Prime Minister argues that men do not want the vote despite huge demonstrations and all the other activities of the women\&$\#$39;s suffrage movement.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925)} } @booklet {268, title = {A Voyage in the Motive Ship Pelican to the North Pole. Captain Solomon, Commander}, year = {1908}, month = {1908}, pages = {136 pp. }, publisher = {Record Publishing Co}, address = {Stockton, CA}, abstract = {

The motive ship is a form of airplane which flew from the U.S. to the North Pole, where there is a eutopian city. Technologically advanced. Stress on the beauty and grandeur of the city. People live to an average age of 133 with some living to over 200; this is based on moderation. Much adventure.

}, keywords = {US author}, author = {E. D. Eldridge} } @booklet {9426, title = {Valhalla. A Novel}, year = {1906}, month = {[1906?]}, publisher = {Henry J. Drane}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Mostly romance and adventure after earthquakes and floods devastate the planet, followed by violence and disease. But some survive, initially said to be just two, but others are found and then it is discovered that New Zealand survived intact with two million survivors. The spirits of the dead take a direct hand in assisting the survivors, but something of a better world does emerge.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {George Long} } @booklet {99, title = {The Vision of Nehemiah Sintram}, year = {1902}, month = {1902}, publisher = {Elliot Stock}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopian satire showing the evil effects of worshiping money in a world ruled by Satan.

}, keywords = {UK author}, author = {J. Wilkie} } @booklet {68, title = {Visitors from Mars; A Narrative}, year = {1901}, month = {1901}, publisher = {Ptd. by Beattie \& Hofmann}, address = {Portland, OR}, abstract = {

Mars as eutopia. Vegetarian with no cooking at all. Free love and gender equality.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Charles Cole} } @booklet {8030, title = {The Vicious Virtuoso}, year = {1898}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Dana Estes, 1909

}, month = {1898}, publisher = {F. Tennyson Neely}, address = {London/New York}, abstract = {

A romance and adventure novel that includes a story of an ancient Egyptian race that was greatly advanced both spiritually and scientifically and produced a society in which all lived well. Everyone had equal food and clothing. No money. No religion, no political factions, and no patriotism. Higher education only for the elite and women excluded because it made them \"less fit to bear and nourish children\" (111). Euthanasia encouraged. Eugenics. Divorce easy with remarriage within a year required. The eutopia is destroyed by organized religion.

}, keywords = {French author, Male author, US author}, author = {Louis Lombard (1861-1927)} } @booklet {8003, title = {"A Vision Out West"}, howpublished = {Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems }, year = {1897}, note = {

2nd ed. (London: Angus and Robertson, 1913), 19-25. Rpt. in\ Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 40-44; Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 40-44; and in W[illiam] F. Refshauge,\ Barcroft Boake. Collected Works, Edited, with a Life\ (North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), 227-30 with an editor\&$\#$39;s note on 287.

}, month = {1897}, pages = {19-25}, publisher = {Angus and Robertson}, address = {Sydney, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Poem describing a eutopia of a future tamed Australia.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Barcroft [Henry Thomas] Boake (1866-92)} } @booklet {7998, title = {A Visit to Topos, and How the Science of Heredity is Practised There}, year = {1897}, month = {1897}, pages = {28 pp.}, publisher = {Berry, Anderson \& Co}, address = {Ballarat, VIC, Australia}, abstract = {

Eugenic eutopia. Pre-natal teaching. Presentation from a newspaper from Topos, including a father\&$\#$39;s lengthy speech at his daughter\&$\#$39;s wedding.\ See also 1904 Little.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {William Little (1839-1916)} } @booklet {7972, title = {A Visit to Blestland}, year = {1896}, note = {

UK ed. London: Gay and Bird, 1896.

}, month = {1896}, publisher = {George Robertson \& Co.}, address = {Melbourne, VIC, Australia}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Mostly romance. Cooperative system. Republican form of government. No religion. Work guaranteed by the state. Limit on the return on capital invested in business.

}, keywords = {Australian author}, author = {W. H. Galier} } @booklet {6657, title = {Valdmer the Viking: A Romance of the Eleventh Century by Sea and Land}, year = {1893}, month = {[1893]}, publisher = {Hutchinson \& Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Vikings discover a lost race with a social system in which positions are assigned by lot at birth. The eutopia is a small part of an adventure story.\ See also 1895, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet.

}, keywords = {Australian author, English author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {[James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921)} } @booklet {7872, title = {["A Vision"]}, howpublished = {Civilization{\textquoteright}s Inferno, or, Studies in the Social Cellar}, year = {1893}, month = {1893}, pages = {217-21}, publisher = {Arena Publishing Co.}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Short sketch which contrasts the horrors of present poverty, which is the focus of the book, with a brief vision of a eutopian future with a much-improved\ Boston with large apartment blocks that have many social amenities and large halls with a gymnasium, restaurants with \“plain food at reasonable prices\” (220), free reading rooms and lecture halls, a free night school, beautiful homes for orphans set in parks with excellent education, including learning a trade. All special privileges and laws favoring the upper classes have been abolished.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {B[enjamin] O[range] Flower (1858-1918)} } @booklet {6648, title = {The Village Commune: A Labour Poem. Leaflets for the People. No. IV. For God and Home, Humanity, and Fatherland}, year = {1892}, note = {

Extracts were\ published in The Worker (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) 3.70 (September 3, 1892): 3; and the Bulletin (December24, 1892), 21.

}, month = {[1892]}, pages = {16 pp.}, publisher = {Queensland Social-Democratic Federation}, address = {Brisbane, QLD, Australia}, abstract = {

Poem in which the second part (10-16) describes a future communal eutopia.

}, keywords = {Australian author, English author, Male author}, author = {[Robert Michael] [Cochrane] (1862-1933)} } @booklet {7774, title = {The Valley Council; or, Leaves From the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W.}, year = {1891}, month = {1891}, publisher = {Sampson Low, Marston \& Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Authoritarian state socialism as a dystopia.\ Everyone tales turns as servant and master. There are daily changes in the President or Presidentess. When one of a married couple is high ranked the other is low ranked. Meals from the central kitchen. Houses changed at the state\’s direction. Vegetarian. State can separate couples if it chooses. Children considered to belong to the state. No animals.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Percy Clarke, ed. [written by]} } @booklet {7804, title = {Vetulia: or, Going to the Bottom of Things}, year = {1891}, note = {

Part first published as \"Vetulia.\" New Dominion Monthly (August 1875): 65-73. A note in the book says expanded in Advertiser (London, ON, Canada) (1880), but a search of this daily newspaper failed to find it. Rev. for book publication.

}, month = {1891}, publisher = {Dudley \& Burns}, address = {Toronto, ON, Canada}, abstract = {

Utopia based on long life, which is presented negatively, but other aspects of society are presented positively.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Male author}, author = {William Wye Smith (1827-1917)} } @booklet {7787, title = {The Vril Staff}, year = {1891}, month = {1891}, publisher = {David Stott}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia. A man invents something like Vril from 1871 Bulwer-Lytton and forces world change, including European disarmament and a degree of European unification.

}, author = {X. Y. Z. [pseud.]} } @booklet {7686, title = {The Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole}, year = {1888}, month = {1888}, publisher = {Ptd. at the "Examiner" and "Tasmanian" Office}, address = {Lauceston, TAS, Australia}, abstract = {

Lost race at a warm South Pole. People lead a simple, good life with few rules and almost no government. No money. Idleness is considered a crime but not directly punished.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Male author}, author = {Christopher Spotswood ed. [written by] (1813/14-90)} } @booklet {7635, title = {Voices from Many Hill Tops, Echoes from Many Valleys, or the Experiences of Spirits Eon and Eona, In Earth Life and Spirit Spheres, In Ages Past, In the Long, Long Ago, And their Many Incarnations in Earth Life, And On Other Worlds, Given Through the Sun Angels{\textquoteright} Order of Light}, year = {1886}, month = {1886}, publisher = {Press Springfield Printing Company}, address = {Springfield, MA}, abstract = {

Mostly set in the past, but includes a number of eutopias on various planets. For example, one is a primitive Eden called Harmona. Spiritualism.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[John B.] [Fayette] (1850?-1927)} } @booklet {7546, title = {Views of Our Heavenly Home. A Sequel to A Stellar Key to the Summerland}, year = {1878}, month = {1878}, publisher = {Colby \& Rich}, address = {Boston, MA}, abstract = {

Heaven as eutopia.\ See also 1847 and 1874 Davis; \“Traveling and Society in the Summer Land.\” In his\ A Stellar Key to the Summer Land\ (Boston, MA: William White \& Co./New York: Banner of Light Branch Office, 1867), 163-83; his \“Social Centers in the Summer-Land,\” \“Winter-Land and Summer-Land\” and \“Language and Life in the Summer-Land.\” In his\ Morning Lectures. Twenty Discourse, Delivered before the Friends ofProgress in the City of New York, in the Winter and Spring of 1863\ (New York: C.M. Plumb, 1865), 266-87 and 349-404.\ Earth is the Winter Land; and his\ The Grand Harmonia\ [Each volume has a different subtitle]. 5 vols. Boston, MA: Bela Marsh, 1852-56; and 5 vols.\  New York : A.J. Davis, 1864-80. There were at least five editions.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910)} } @booklet {9239, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Visit of Elidorus to the Fairy Kingdom Beneath the Bay{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Cambrian Sketch-Book. Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales }, year = {1875}, month = {[1875]}, pages = {267-315}, publisher = {Simpkin, Marshall/The Cambrian Welsh and English Book Publishing Co.}, address = {London/Swansea, Wales}, abstract = {

The fairy kingdom is described as a eutopia with good food and health and without crime, deceit, or any of the problems of humans.

}, keywords = {Male author, Welsh author}, author = {R[obert] Rice Davies} } @booklet {7516, title = {A Voice From Another World}, year = {1874}, month = {1874}, publisher = {James Parker}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, abstract = {

A Christian eutopia stressing science, art and religion. Little or no political, economic, or social material. Written in 1865. See also 1883 and 1887 Lach-Szyrma.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {W[ladislaw] S[omerville] L[ach]-S[zyrma] (1841-1915)} } @booklet {7507, title = {"A Vision of Communism. A Grotesque"}, howpublished = {Cornhill{\textquoteright}s Magazine }, volume = {28 }, year = {1873}, month = {September 1873}, pages = {300-10}, abstract = {

Anti-Communist story.

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {[Bertha] [Thomas]} } @booklet {7482, title = {The Very Latest News, Communicated Through the Medium of Mr. J. Smith, Printer, \&c. Edited for Contemporary Readers}, year = {1871}, month = {1871}, publisher = {William P. Nimmo}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

Satire. New Zealand newspaper from 2871, The Hourly News, and New Otago Literary Chronicle. Phonetic spelling. Ads for J.S. Mill Chapel, trips to the moon, robotic housemaid, a woman barrister, and a play performed by machines, among others. The king is a robot. Includes a report from Hell. Planets are inhabited.

}, author = {Algernon Reginald Hillearn Mortimer Esq. (ed.) [written by] [pseud.]} } @booklet {6587, title = {A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles: An Allegory of Life}, year = {1855}, month = {[1855]}, pages = {93 pp + 54 pp publisher{\textquoteright}s catalog.}, publisher = {Joseph Masters}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A series of allegories using the model of the fortunate isles with each followed by questions and answers to bring home their meaning. Designed for children.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author} } @booklet {7382, title = {"A Visit to the Moon"}, howpublished = {Freaks of Imagination; or, A Batch of Original Tales, Chiefly Facetious}, year = {1852}, month = {1852}, pages = {115-31}, publisher = {W. Kent and Co. \& Dawsons \& Sons}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia with no money and no lawyers. People are presented as still having faults and problems.

}, author = {Jocundus Steelnib [pseud.]} } @booklet {7375, title = {"A Vision of Our Country in the Year Nineteen Hundred"}, howpublished = {The Western Literary Magazine and Journal of Education, Science, Arts, and Morals (Columbus, OH)}, volume = {1}, year = {1851}, month = {1851}, pages = {81-84}, abstract = {

Eutopia set at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The U.S. includes all North and South America. Population growth through immigration and the country is well-settled. Churches everywhere but without denominational differences. More and better education, particularly at the post-secondary level. Equality. Invention and significant advances in the sciences. No prejudice. A congress of nations settles disputes among countries. Female author.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Miss J[ane] A. E[llis]} } @booklet {7374, title = {A Voice from Australia; or An Inquiry into the Probability of New Holland Being Connected with the Prophecies Relating to the New Jerusalem and the Spiritual Temple}, year = {1851}, note = {

2nd rev. ed. London: Partridge \& Co., 1856.

}, month = {1851}, publisher = {Ptd. by Robert Barr}, address = {Sydney, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

The author argues that Australia is the New Jerusalem. Mostly Biblical exegesis but includes some fairly vague discussion of the future of Australia as a better society.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Female author}, author = {Hannah Villiers Boyd} } @booklet {8401, title = {The Voyages, Adventures, and Miraculous Escapes of Raphael Scott, Being a Full and Authentic Account of His Villainous Betrayal and Abduction (By His Uncle, Who had been Appointed His Guardian) on Board the Merchant Ship Gazelle, of Philadelphia, Which Vessel, After Being at Sea Twenty Days, Was Plundered by a Piratical Craft Commanded by a Widely Known and Much Dreaded Buccaneer Chief, Miles! Together With a Complete History of a Romantic Nation of Pirates!! Now Residing on a Beautiful Island, Called The Isle of Happiness, Situated South of Cuba. Also, a Correct Statement of the Long Imprisonment and Deplorable Sufferings of Miss Edda Cramer, a Young Lady of Extraordinary Personal Beauty, Who Was for Seven Months Missing From New York City, and of Whose Fate Nothing Could Be Learned, Until She Was Nobly Rescued By the Hero of this Truly Interesting Work. To Which Is Added, Some Startling Passages in the Life of Charles Scattergood, a Young Man Likewise Found Among the Pirates, By Whom He Was Picked Up in the Middle of the Ocean, Where He Had Drifted in an Open Boat, In Which He Had Been Placed by a Cold-Hearted, Unfeeling Brother}, year = {1850}, month = {1850}, pages = {47 pp.}, publisher = {E.E. Barclay}, address = {Philadelphia, PA}, abstract = {

Includes a brief depiction of a pirate\’s eutopia on an island in the Caribbean with the stress on their law to protect young girls.

}, author = {Raphael Scott [pseud.]} } @booklet {7360, title = {"A Vision of Bangor, in the Twentieth Century"}, howpublished = {Voices from the Kenduskeag}, year = {1848}, note = {

Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. Also rpt. in Otherworldly Maine. Ed. Noreen Doyle (Camden, ME: Down East, 2008), 124-34.

}, month = {1848}, pages = {61-73}, publisher = {David Bugbee}, address = {Bangor, ME}, abstract = {

Eutopia presented as recording a dream of Bangor in 1978. Some satire. South America now part of the U.S., which has fifty-six states. No slavery. Temperance, traditional gender-roles. No writing.\ See also 1848 Appleton, which responds to Kent\&$\#$39;s treatment of women.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Edward] [Kent] (1802-77)} } @booklet {7334, title = {"The Vision: A Fragment"}, howpublished = {Southern Cross, New Zealand Guardian, Auckland, Thames, and Bay of Plenty Advertizer}, volume = { 1.33 }, year = {1843}, month = {December 2, 1843}, pages = {3-4}, abstract = {

A short vision of Auckland, New Zealand in the future. Some eutopian; some dystopian.

}, keywords = {Aotearoa New Zealand author, Male author, Scottish author}, author = {[John Logan] [Campbell] (1817-1912)} } @booklet {6916, title = {A Voyage from Utopia to Several Unknown Regions of the World. By Yarbfj. Translated from the American}, year = {1842}, note = {

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering \& Chatto, 1997), 7: 349-486. Claeys re-transcribed the text from the original manuscript.

}, month = {[1842]/1957}, publisher = {Lawrence and Wishart}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire on contemporary nations.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, US author}, author = {John Francis Bray (1809-97)}, editor = {M. F. Lloyd-Prichard} } @booklet {7285, title = {A Voyage to the Island of Philosophers. Part 1st, Containing an account of the Island and its Inhabitants, together with the Incidents which occurred there, during the sojourn of the Writer. Veni, Vidi, Scripsi}, year = {1830}, month = {1830}, pages = { 53 pp.}, publisher = {np}, address = {[Albany, NY]}, abstract = {

Satire on philosophers in a visit to an isolated island. Diversity of dress and architecture. City moated and walled to keep cattle from disturbing the reflections of the philosophers. Rampant hypochondria. No women or children, and the absence of women is considered essential. At the end the philosophers think that they are threatened by Amazons from another island; it is not clear whether or not they are.

}, keywords = {US author}, author = {Caesario San Blas, Bachelor [pseud.]} } @booklet {7277, title = {The Voyage of Captain Popanilla}, year = {1828}, note = {

Rpt. in his Alroy, Popanilla, Count Alarcos (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906), 361-494; as \“Popanilla.\” In Popanilla and Other Tales. Vol. 3 of The Bradenham Edition of the Novels and Tales of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (London: Peter Davies, 1926), 1-107; and rpt. from The Novels and Tales of Lord Beaconsfield (London: Longmans, Green, 1881), 4: 363-463 in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering \& Chatto, 1997), 7: 1-70. A new ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla to the glorious island of Vraibleusia, the wonderful city of Hubbabub, and the peaceable isle of Blunderland. With illustrations from drawings by Daniel Maclise. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. U.S. ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla. Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828.\ 

}, month = {1828}, publisher = {Henry Colburn}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Imaginary voyage to contemporary England (heavily satirized). Starts from a eutopia on a South Seas island with complete sexual freedom. Parts of the novel derive from his first, unpublished novel \"Aylmer Paillon\".

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {[Benjamin] [Disraeli] (1804-81)} } @booklet {7272, title = {A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians}, year = {1827}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with a brief \“Preface\” (vii-ix) by David G. Hartwell and reprinting\  (267-94) an anonymous review from the American Quarterly Review (Philadelphia, PA), no. 5 (March 1828): 61-88.

}, month = {1827}, publisher = {Elam Bliss}, address = {New-York}, abstract = {

Mostly satire but includes a eutopia called Okalbia, meaning Happy Valley, that is almost self-sufficient and has little outside contact. People marry young and limit family size to means. Traditional gender roles. See also 1841 Tucker.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {George Tucker (1775-1861)} } @booklet {7271, title = {Voyage to Immanuel{\textquoteright}s Land, in the Ship Hopewell; with an Account of the Many Remarkable Deliverances from Danger; A Description of the Countries Visited; Their Laws, Manners, and Habits; and A Statement of the Advantages of the Celestial Country}, year = {1826}, month = {1826}, publisher = {James Nisbet}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Allegory. Countries visited include Revelling Island, Popish Continent, Fanatics Land, Sceptics Point, etc. Eternal Rest is finally reached.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {[John] [Thornton]} } @booklet {7265, title = {The Vision of Hades, or the Region Inhabited by the Departed Spirits of the Blessed. With Cursory Notes, Theological and Metaphysical. To which is now added, The Vision of No{\"o}s}, year = {1825}, month = {1825}, publisher = {Ptd. for G.B. Whittaker}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Entirely concerned with religion, but the utopian form is used.

} } @booklet {7247, title = {Voyage to Locuta; A Fragment: With Etchings, and Notes of Illustration}, year = {1818}, month = {1818}, publisher = {Ptd. for J. Hatchard}, address = {London}, abstract = {

An imaginary country is used to present a grammar book.

}, keywords = {Female author}, author = {[Mrs.] [Elizabeth Susanna Davenport] [Graham] (1782/3-1844)} } @booklet {7230, title = {"A Voyage to the Moon"}, howpublished = {Satiric Tales: Consisting of A Voyage to the Moon; All the Tailors; or, the Old Cloak; and the Fat Witch of London}, year = {1808}, month = {1808}, pages = {25-160}, publisher = {Ptd. for J. Dean for George Hughes and H.D. Symonds}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A satire on contemporary England in which the faults of the people of the Moon are regularly compared to an England where these faults do not exist. For example, the traveler is shocked by prostitution, theft, corruption, venality, the concern with fashion, etc., none of which are said to exist in England. The voyage to the Moon was made in a balloon, to which was attached a boat with oars for steering. The language on the Moon is Welsh. Presents conflicts with Frogland (France), the Glum religion of Bogland (Ireland), the American revolution, and other issues.

}, author = {Nicholas Lunatic F.R.S. [pseud.]} } @booklet {7222, title = {The Vagabond. A Novel}, volume = {2 Vols.}, year = {1799}, note = {

Two other editions in 1799. The 2nd ed. is identical to the 1st and the 3rd ed. has changes. There is one edition with the subtitle or, Practical Infidelity: A Novel. Harrisonburg, VA: Davidson \& Bourne, 1814. Critical ed. in one vol. ed. W.M. Verhoeven. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2004, including relevant essays.

}, month = {1799}, publisher = {Ptd. for G. Walker}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire on William Godwin (1756-1836), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), David Hume (1711-76), and other mostly republican philosophers. Chaps. 7 and 8 of vol. 2 depict \"a perfect Republic on the Principles of Equality and Political Justice\" where nothing works the way it was intended.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {George Walker (1772-1847)} } @booklet {7215, title = {"On the Vicissitudes of States and Kingdoms"}, howpublished = {Gale{\textquoteright}s Cabinet of Knowledge; or, Miscellaneous Recreations. Containing Moral and Philosophical Essays, Propositions, Natural and Metaphysical Maxims, And Observations on Select Subjects of general Utility. With a Series of Easy, Entertaining and Interesting, Mechanical, Magnetical, \& Magical Experiments. Including the Most Celebrated Card Deceptions Ever Exhibited. Together With About Seven Hundred Serious, Comical, and Humorous Queries, Paradoxes, \&c. \&c. With Pertinent and Ingenious Answers. Being the Essence taken from The Lady{\textquoteright}s, Gentlemen{\textquoteright}s, \& Carnan{\textquoteright}s Diaries--Martin{\textquoteright}s Philosophical Magazines--Ozanam \& Hooper{\textquoteright}s Recreations, \&c. \&c. (Illustrated with Copper-plate Engravings). To Which Are Added A Great Number of Originals. Likewise, An Appendix; Containing Various Propositions Tending to Prove Light and Heat Two Distinct Beings. With some curious Definitions in Optics}, year = {1796}, note = {

Many editions.

}, month = {1796}, pages = {24-27}, publisher = {Ptd. for the Proprietors by W. Kemmish}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Reports on information provided by the Emperor of the Moon on \"the government, laws, and customs of the inhabitants of Jupiter\" (24). Jupiter is ruled by women with the men given \"employments suitable to their abilities\" (24-25) such as merchants and tradesmen (former courtiers), the military (former clergy), laboring on public works (former lawyers), the last of which eliminating corruption. All physicians are women also and take no fees but are paid salaries for preventing illness. The old men nurse old women and vise\ versa.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {Gale, John} } @booklet {7209, title = {"The Vision"}, howpublished = {Greenfield Hill: A Poem in Seven Parts. I. The Prospect. II. The Flourishing Village. III. The Burning of Fairfield. IV. The Destruction of the Pequods. V. The Clergyman{\textquoteright}s Advice to the Villagers. VI. The Farmer{\textquoteright}s Advice to the Villagers. VII. The Vision, or Prospect of the Future Happiness of America }, year = {1794}, note = {

Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1970.

}, month = {1794}, pages = {148-68. "Notes to Part VII" (179-83).}, publisher = {Childs and Swaine}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The future of the United States and Greenfield Hill, Connecticut in particular. Emphasizes escaping from the institutions and problems of Europe. Stress on freedom under law, morality, and education. Natural beauty. No slavery. No real rich or poor.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Timothy Dwight D.D. (1752-1817)} } @booklet {7205, title = {A Voyage to the Moon; Strongly Recommended to all Lovers of Real Freedom}, year = {1793}, note = {

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering \& Chatto, 1997), 4: 277-319.

}, month = {1793}, publisher = {Author}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia on the moon--allegory about contemporary England.

}, author = {Aratus [pseud.]} } @booklet {7191, title = {The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books}, year = {1787}, note = {

2nd ed. Hartford, CT: Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin, 1787. 5th ed. corrected as The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books. To Which is Added, The Conspiracy of Kings: A Poem, By the Same Author (Paris: Ptd. at the English Press, 1793), 1-275.

}, month = {1787}, publisher = {Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin}, address = {Hartford, CT}, abstract = {

A poem with millennial themes. Although most of the poem is concerned with the history of the Americas to date, it includes several visions of a future of universal peace and prosperity based on the flourishing of the arts and the sway of reason and science. Book IX (237-58) concludes the poem with a vision of the entire Earth, speaking one language and with all nations working together to form a world council to bring the world into harmony. This served as the basis for his better known The Columbiad A Poem. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Fry and Kammerer for C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas and Co. Baltimore, 1807.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Joel Barlow Esquire (1754-1812)} } @booklet {7179, title = {"A Vision"}, howpublished = {European Magazine and London Review}, volume = {1}, year = {1782}, note = {

Rpt. in Town and Country Magazine (London) 20 (February 1788): 66-68; with the \“M.\” as \“Negro Slavery.\” The American Magazine, containing a Miscellaneous Collection 1.6 (May 1788): 377-81; and as \“A Vision.\” The New-York Magazine, or Literary Repository 2.4 (April 1791): 198-201.

}, month = { June 1782}, pages = {408-11}, abstract = {

Presents an eloquent speech by an African American\ attacking U.S. policy and against slavery in the West Indies.

}, keywords = {Male author}, author = {[Leonard] [McNally]} } @booklet {7173, title = {"Vision of the Paradise of Female Patriotism"}, howpublished = {The United States Magazine, A Repository of History, Politics and Literature (Philadelphia, PA) }, volume = {1.3}, year = {1779}, month = {March 1779}, pages = {122-24}, abstract = {

A woman daydreaming by her window in Philadelphia is visited by the male, or at least that is the pronoun used, \“angel of the paradise of female patriotism,\” who urges her to visit this paradise, which requires an apparently dangerous trek over a mountain. On her arrival, she finds a garden where women from all eras, mostly in separate areas, live. Although some have already arrived, a separate hill is reserved for women from the thirteen colonies, and among the women who will reside there will be those who opposed the revolution but have seen their error and become patriotic Americans.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Clarissa, a Lady of this City [pseud.]} } @booklet {7156, title = {Various Prospects of Mankind, Nature, and Providence}, year = {1761}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. The \“Model of a Perfect Government for the Whole Earth\” is rpt. in John Finch, \“A Universal Government.\” The New Moral World [5].26 (April 20, 1839): 404-06.

}, month = {1761}, publisher = {Ptd. for A. Millar}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Short sketch of ideal government. Small government that is concerned with establishing and maintaining an equitable economic system. Stress on equality except where inequality is unavoidable.

}, keywords = {Scottish author}, author = {[Robert] [Wallace] (1697-1771)} } @booklet {6905, title = {The Voyages, Travels, And Wonderful Discoveries of Capt. John Holmesby. Containing A Series of the most Surprising and Uncommon Events, which befel the Author in his Voyage to the Southern Ocean, in the Year 1739}, year = {1757}, note = {

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering \& Chatto, 1997), 3: 39-97. Later ed. as The Uncommon Adventures, Voyages, Shipwreck, Travels, And Wonderful Discoveries of Capt. John Holmesby; who in a miraculous manner was preserved by a savage, while the rest of the Ship\&$\#$39;s Crew All Perished, on their passage to the Southern Ocean; his discovering a nation hitherto unknown; with their Manners, Laws, and Customs, faithfully described by the captain. London: Ptd. and sold by S. Fisher, 1798.

}, month = {[1757]}, publisher = {Ptd. for F. Noble and J. Noble}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire on contemporary foibles, particularly corruption and the desire for power. The initial inhabitants of the country of Nimpatan were healthy, vigorous, and free of vice, but they were conquered by people who established \"Luxury, Vice, and Slavery\".

}, author = {Capt. John Holmesby [pseud.]} } @booklet {7150, title = {A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** By a late Noble Writer}, year = {1756}, note = {

2nd ed. London: Ptd. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 adds The Second Edition: With a New Preface to the title. Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering \& Chatto, 1997), 3: 1-38.

}, month = {1756}, publisher = {Ptd. for M. Cooper}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire on the idealization of the state of nature.

}, keywords = {English author, Irish author}, author = {[Edmund] [Burke] (1729/30-97)} } @booklet {7148, title = {A Voyage to the World in the Centre of the Earth. Giving an account of the manners, customs, laws, government and religion of the inhabitants. Their Persons and Habits described: With several other Particulars. In which is introduced, The History of an Inhabitant of the Air, Written by Himself. With some account of the planetary worlds}, year = {1755}, note = {

Extract published as Bruce\’s Voyage to Naples, and Journey Up Mount Vesuvius; giving an account of the Strange Disaster Which Happened on his Arrival at the Summit; The Discovery of the Central World; with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of that Nation, described; their swift and Peculiar Mode of Travelling; the Wonderful Riches, Virtue, and Knowledge, the Inhabitants possess; the Author\’s Travels in that Country; and the Friendly Reception he met with from its Sovereign and His People. London: Ptd. by S. Fisher, [1802]. Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 249-97.

}, month = {1755}, publisher = {Ptd. for S. Crowder and H. Woodgate}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Vegetarian. Rational--all creatures are rational souls; therefore, there are no extremes of inequality. A strict life in which people spend as little time as possible on the needs of nature.

} } @booklet {7145, title = {A Voyage to O{\textquoteright}Brazeel: or, the Sub-Marine Island. Giving A brief Description of the Country; and a short Account of the Customs, Manners, Government, Law, and Religion of the Inhabitants. Faithfully translated out of the original Irish}, year = {1752}, note = {

Rpt. in The Ulster Miscellany. Containing, I. A Voyage to O\’BRAZEEL, a Sub-Marine Island, lying West of the Coast of Ireland. II Advice to a SON, in the exemplary Way of Stories, Fables, \&c. III. The Brute Philosophers: In Six Dialogues. IV. The Ladies Monitor; or, The Way of the Army. A FARCE. V. POEMS on Religious Subjects. V. Thoughts on Various Subjects. VII. POEMS on Humourous Subjects; consisting of Tales, Epistles, Songs, Epigrams, \&c. \&c. (Np: np, 1753), 1-64.

}, month = {1752}, publisher = {np}, address = {Np}, abstract = {

Detailed eutopia based on virtue brought about by a simplified Christianity.

}, keywords = {Irish author}, author = {Manus O{\textquoteright}Donnel} } @booklet {7136, title = {A Voyage to Lethe, By Captain Samuel Cock. Sometime Commander of the Good Ship the Charming Sally. Dedicated to the Right Worshipful Adam Cock, Esq.; of Black-Mary{\textquoteright}s-Hole, Coney-Skin Merchant}, year = {1741}, note = {

Another ed. without the plates but with \“Hudibrasso.\” Glasgow, Scot: Ptd. for Mrs. Laycock, at Mr. Clevercock\’s [Actually Ptd. for W. Forbes], 1756. Later rpt. without plates or \“Hudibrasso.\” Np: Np, nd. [One copy has a note written in--Published by Edward Avery].

}, month = {1741}, publisher = {J. Conybeare}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Imaginary voyage through life with the emphasis on sex.

}, author = {Samuel Cock [pseud.]} } @booklet {7126, title = {A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country}, year = {1727}, note = {

Rpt. with the subtitle Reproduced from the Original Edition, 1727, With an Introduction by Marjorie Nicolson. New York: Published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1940; New York: Garland, 1972; in The Virgin Seducer and The Batchelor-Keeper by John Clarke The State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput Anonymous A Voyage To Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt (New York: Garland, 1972), separately paged; and in Gulliveriana: IV. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars\’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973), 1-43.

}, month = {1727}, publisher = {Ptd. by J. Watson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire. Begins as a Robinsonade, and then becomes a Gulliver tale with the hero visiting a land of virtuous chickens that had become corrupt and petty. Here the stress is on the differences between theory and practice. Finally, the chickens fly the narrator to the moon, where he finds a eutopia. The moon is described as a beautiful, verdant Arcadia. The Selenites are the souls of the virtuous from Earth. They are vegetarians. All are equal and have no need for government but revere their eldest as their prince. All souls are masculine.

}, author = {Captain Samuel Brunt [pseud.]} } @booklet {7115, title = {["The Vision of Mirzah"]}, howpublished = {The Spectator }, volume = {2.150 }, year = {1711}, note = {

Rpt. in The Spectator (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. R. Fleming, 1753), 277-81; and in The Spectator. Ed. Donald F. Bond. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 2: 121-26.

}, month = {September 1, 1711}, pages = {[317-18]}, abstract = {

Allegory that presents heaven as a eutopia composed of islands that are \"the Mansions of good Men after Death.\" \"Every Island is a Paradise accommodated to its respective Inhabitants.\" Described as the first vision, but no more were published.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Joseph Addison (1672-1719)} } @booklet {7110, title = {A Voyage to the New Island Fonseca, Near Barbadoes, With some Observations Made in a Cruize among the Leward Islands. In Letters from Two Captains of Turkish Men of War, driven thither in the Year 1707. Translated out of Turkish and French}, year = {1708}, month = {1708}, publisher = {Np}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Two letters, both imaginary voyages. The first describes Fonseca as a dystopia. The people are dirty, uneducated, drunk, etc. The second is a straightforward imaginary voyage to the Caribbean.

} } @booklet {7092, title = {A Voyage into Tartary. Containing a Curious Description of that Country, with part of Greece and Turky [sic]; the Manners, Opinions, and Religion of the Inhabitants therein; with some other Incidents}, year = {1689}, month = {1689}, publisher = {Ptd. by T. Hodgkin}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Heliopolis where\ all goods are held in common. Men over 30 are enfranchised. No lawyers. New opinions must be approved by a council.

}, author = {M. Heliogenes de L{\textquoteright}Epy [pseud?]} } @booklet {9804, title = {A View of the State of Ireland, Written Dialogue-wise, betweene Eudoxus and Iren{\ae}us. By Edmund Spenser, Esq. In the Yeare 1596}, year = {1633}, note = {

Rpt. as \"A View of the Present State of Ireland.\" In The Works of Edmund Spenser. A Variorum Edition. Ed. Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Frederick Morgan Padelford, and Ray Heffner. Vol. X Spenser\’s Prose Works. Ed. Rudolf Gottfried (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1949), 39-231 with \“Appendix III A View of the Present State of Ireland (497-532); and as A View of the Present State of Ireland.\ Ed. W. L. Renwick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1970. Critical ed. as A View of the State of Ireland. From the first printed edition (1633). Ed. Andrew Hadfield and Willy Maley. Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. \“Ware\’s Annotations\” (162-69), \“Passages Omitted from Ware\’s Text\” (170-76), \“Glossary\” (190-92).\ 

}, month = {1633}, publisher = {Ptd. by the Society of Stationers as part of Ancient Irish Histories}, address = {Dublin, Ireland}, abstract = {

Apparently intended as a serious analysis of Ireland and its people, it proposes the complete suppression of the Irish people, the expropriation of all the land, exchange of the Irish among counties where they will work for English landlords, slaughter of cattle, and taxing the Irish to pay for the military that will suppress them. Argues that the Irish are descended from the barbarian Scythians and that resisting English law indicates that the Irish are \“the lowest form of savages\” (Hadfield and Maley ed., xx). Treated as a utopia in Sarah Hogan, Other Englands: Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Irish author, Male author}, author = {Edmund Spenser (1552?-99)}, editor = {[James] [Ware]} }