"The Politics of Ratology (a fantasy)" - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) (The Nation, 1960)
Satire on democracy. Machines replace voters and legislatures.
Rpt. in his Level 7. Ed. David Seed (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), 191-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Practicable Utopia - Donald McKelvey (Students for a Democratic Society, 1960)
The essay describes, at a very general level, what the author thinks is needed to create a cooperative “practicable utopia.” A cooperative society “is much more conducive to the desired love relationship and individual development than is the competitive society” (8). Decentralized into “administratively and economically independent areas” but with interactions among them as desired or needed as well as individuals interacting (9). Replaces all motorized transportation by “up to twenty parallel moving roads, each one moving five miles per hour faster than the next” as well as smaller local moving roads (10). No religion. No private property. Obligation to be productive in exchange for material goods.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Revolution" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction, 1960)
The story describes a Cold War in which Russia has been more successful economically than the U.S., and the U.S. supports the opposition in the hope of overthrowing the Russian government. But the opposition looks like it might be even more successful, and the U.S. is considering supporting the government.
Rpt. in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 78-113 with an author's note on 77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Sexless Dynasty - William W. Bolton M.D. (b. 1900) (Dorrance & Co, 1960)
Dystopia brought about by the reproductive independence of women. Sex role reversal with women considering eliminating men altogether. There is a men’s resistance movement, and the most anti-male woman falls in love.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Sight of Eden" - Howard [Melvin] Fast (1914-2003) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1960)
A eutopia of many planets of peace and plenty is discovered, but the human race is barred from entry as the only ones in the universe who are ashamed of their bodies and war on each other.
Rpt. in his The Edge of Tomorrow (New York: Bantam Books, 1961), 107-20; and in his Time and the Riddle (Pasadena, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, 1975), 391-403.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Smell of Burning: A Comedy of Menace - David Campton (1924-2006) (Samuel French, 1960)
Dystopia. With a revolt taking place offstage, a couple at breakfast listen to a very off stage radio broadcast until the radio goes off the air, talk at cross purposes, and sit quietly as a town official murders a neighbor and then the wife.
Rpt. in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 3-20.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Socialism [Subtitle on cover Blueprint for the New Life] - John Australis [pseud.] (Ptd. by Bira Printing, 1960)
Detailed socialist eutopia aiming at providing people with the basic needs for each stage of their lives, including provision for holidays and local clubs and sports fields. Trade unions would provide some leisure facilities, particularly for women. Each person would have their own income, thus freeing women from feeling they had to marry and making divorce possible financially. Free childcare as needed. No changes in churches.
Keywords: Australian author

Then . . . - David Campton (1924-2006) (David Campton, 1960)
Post-apocalyptic humor. Two people who have survived the destruction of most people by, as they believe, putting paper bags over their heads, meet.
Rp.t in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 21-38.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Tower" - Philip [Edmund] Booth (1925-2007) (Poetry, 1960)
Dystopian poem about a huge tower, which comes to dominate the lives of the people and was built by an authoritarian government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Venus Plus X - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) (Pyramid, 1960)
Hermaphrodite eutopia. Each individual is created with both sexes. Small, isolated community of 800. Technology and an emphasis on change and forward movement.
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).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Village of Love - Merrill Ferguson (MacGibbon and Kee, 1960)
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's rulers and the community is destroyed.
Keywords: West Indian author

Vulcan's Hammer - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1960)
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.
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.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Vulgarians - [Robert Chesley] Osborn (1904-1994) (New York Graphic Society, 1960)
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

When the Kissing Had to Stop - [Robert Louis] Constantine [Lee-Dillon] FitzGibbon (1919-83) (Cassell, 1960)
Dystopia of a collapsing Britain followed by a dystopia of a Communist takeover.
U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1960 with the author's name as Fitz Gibbon on the cover but FitzGibbon elsewhere; rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961 with the author's name as Fitzgibbon on the cover and FitzGibbon on the title page. UK ed. rpt. London: Pan, 1962; London: Tom Stacey Reprints, 1971 with an "Introduction" by the author (i-xi); London: Granada, 1978; and London: Bellew Publishing, 1989, with a brief "Foreword" by Julian Amery and a brief "Tribute" by Louis FitzGibbon. The Granada edition is a reprint of the Tom Stacey edition, but even though the title page says "With a new Introduction by the Author," there is no Introduction.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; US author

A Woman A Day - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Beacon Books, 1960)
Authoritarian, post-catastrophe, and anti-sex dystopia and the opposition to it.
Galaxy Novel No. 43.. New York: Lancer Books, 1968; as Timestop! New York: Lancer Books, 1970; and under the original title New York: Berkley Books, 1980. Earlier version pub. as "Moth and Rust." Startling Stories 30.2 (June 1953): 10-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The World Today and Tomorrow - Panayot Tzv Popoff (1902-87) (Author, 1960)
Detailed description of a new economic system called the Collaborative Economic system where capital, labor, the seller-producer, and the buyer are placed in institutional structures that allow them to work together. He briefly discusses associations for credit, purchases, "buyer-producers for purchases," "buyer-consumers," transformation, collective production, insurance, and professional and common unions. The pamphlet ends with two pages of organizational charts.
Keywords: Male author

World Without Women - Leonard Pruyn (1898-1973); [Gunnard] [Hjerststedt] (1904-69) (Fawcett, 1960)
Standard dystopia of a world with few women. Most women die and gang wars follow.
Keywords: US author

"The World-Timer" - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) (Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, 1960)
A parallel timeline that has solved human psycho-sexual problems and produced a eutopia. Each person goes through three stages. The first stage from age sixteen in which boys are paired with women in their thirties and girls are paired with men in their thirties and with whom they have and raise children to age six (after which the children are raised by the state). In the second stage the roles are reversed. Each of the first two stages last for ten years. In the third stage adults form relationships for as long as they choose.
Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [1 (1966)]: 77-101; and in his Last Rites. Volume 3 of The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Los Angeles, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1987), 11-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"X for Exploitation" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1960)
Earth is a colony. According to a note by Aldiss, the book is designed to show the dystopian nature of imperialism.
Repub. as Bow Down to Nul. New York: Ace Books, 1960. UK ed. as The Interpreter. London: Brown, Watson, 1961.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Adrift at the Policy Level" - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) (Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology, 1959)
Corporate dystopia.
Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 167-93. This is the author's preferred version. Originally published in a different version in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 5. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.], (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959), 66-85.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Anno Domini 2000 - Coury, Phil (Vantage Press, 1959)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia except that it is not yet too bad, and the right person wins an election.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Caduceus Wild" - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78); Robert Bradford (Original Science Fiction Stories, 1959)
Dystopia. Tyranny of doctors making sure everyone is healthy.
Rpt. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Dodkin's Job" - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1959)
Conformist dystopia with computers ruling and one man discovering how to undermine the system.
Rpt. his Future Tense (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 7-46; book rpt. as Dust of Far Suns (New York: DAW Books, 1981), 37-77. Story rev. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. Vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 153-201.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Eyes of Dust" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Rogue Magazine, 1959)
Flawed utopia that expects everyone to be physically perfect. A woman with a mole on her face and a blind man are shunned, marry, and give birth to a child who has the "eyes of dust", known only as Person, who they keep hidden. When Person is discovered, he is killed.
Rpt. in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Stories (New York: Pyramid Books, 1967), 65-73, with an author’s note on 64; and in his Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 187-206.
Keywords: Male author; US author

False Coin. A Novel - Harvey Swados (1920-72) (Little, Brown, 1959)
Novel set in an intentional community, called Harmony Farm, which is designed to provide artists a space to together create great art that is accessible to a mass public. The usual conflicts among individuals ensure failure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Funhouse: An Eyewitness Report of the historical search for the world's most dangerous weapon, the A-I-D. . . - Benjamin Appel (1907-77) (Ballantine Books, 1959)
Two worlds are shown, the Pleasure State and the Reservation. The Reservation has no machinery invented after 1879. The Pleasure State is a computer controlled eutopia based solely on pleasure. But there is a weapon that could destroy the world, and this report is by someone from the Reservation who is about the search for it. The report sees the Reservation positively and the Pleasure State, known in the Reservation as the Funhouse, negatively.
Also published as The Death Master. New York: Popular Library, [1980].
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

The Great Man's Life 1925-2000 A.C - Albert Archer Van Petten (1925-2005) (Utopian Publishers, Inc, 1959)
Detailed eutopia. Improved democracy based on a more egalitarian government structure. Prosperity assured by establishing a fund to guarantee a minimum income. Generally eliminates government regulations. A.C. stands for After Christ. See also 1972 and 1989 Van Petten.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Invaders are Coming! - Alan E[dward] Nourse (1928-92); J. A. Meyer (Ace Books, 1959)
Authoritarian dystopia of an America under the Department of Psychological Control, which wiped the brains of dissidents, who are then placed in labor camps.
Part originally published as "The Sign of the Tiger." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 32.5 (May 1958): 63-145.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The John Franklin Letters (Free Enterprise Publication distributed by The Bookmailer, Inc., 1959)
Right wing eutopia that is mostly on the struggle against a Communist takeover of the U.S., but with the overthrow of the Communists at the end. The letters of the title were sent by John Franklin, who was active in the Rangers, an underground group opposed to the direction the U.S. was taking, to his uncle in Illinois. The work is racist (Blacks and Jews), opposed to the New Deal, opposed to the United Nations, against immigration, against “social engineering,” anti-Communist, and anti-Union. It supports the National Rifle Association and is very patriotic. At the end of the novel, the resistance to “world government” has won in many countries. A last note indicates that while the next President is a Negro, he is solidly right-wing.
Keywords: US author

Last Division - Anthony [Ronald St. Martin] Delius (1916-89) (Human & Rousseau, 1959)
Poem. The first section briefly describes a technological eutopia and asks the question, “What happened to that curious lot/Of legislators in that Southern Land?” (5). The first Canto that follows is a satire on the stupidities of the human race and ends by focusing on South Africa and apartheid. The rest of the poem is a satire on South African politics. One of the politicians is Satan and takes all of them to Hell.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Level 7 - Mordecai [Marceli] Roshwald (1921-2015) (William Heinemann, 1959)
Dystopia in which the U.S. government, preparing for nuclear war, builds many fallout shelters at various levels, with level one for civilians, and others for the elite, government officials, and the military. Level 7 is the deepest and designed for those who will push the buttons to send the missiles. The novel is presented as a diary by X-127, one of the button-pushers, and presents the society created. When the war comes, apparently accidentally with automated responses on both sides, the world is destroyed, and the shelters all fail.
U.S. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1960]. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1962; London: Allison & Busby, 1981. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 1989; and ed. David Seed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Life and A Half" - [Frederik George] [Pohl] [Jr.] (1919-2013] (If Worlds of Science Fiction, 1959)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in his The Abominable Earthman (New York: Ballantine Books, 1963), 48-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lunatic Republic - [Edward Montague] Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) (Chatto and Windus, 1959)
Satiric authoritarian dystopia on the moon, the Lunatic Republic, in which everyone does the same thing at the same time. Names are three letters and a number. The moon had been mostly destroyed by war, which is why the part we see is desolate. On Earth the novel is set after the Chinese, which dominates the Prosperity Union of Asia, defeats of Russia. There is also a Welfare State of Europe, and the U.S. dominates all of North and South America.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Mad MacMullochs - [Edgar Austin] [Mittelhölzer] (1909-65) (Peter Owen, 1959)
The novel is set on Barbados, and while much of it concerns a love story, three of the women involved live on a plantation with white, colored, and black members living equally under a set of chosen rules.
Rpt. under the author’s name London: Peter Owen, 1961.
Keywords: English author; Guyanese author; Male author

Masters of Evolution - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (Ace Books, 1959)
Urban-rural conflict in 2064 with the two largely cut off from each other. The cities (five in the U.S.) are advanced in technology, have robot servants, synthetic food, and the like. The rural areas have rejected technology, grow their own food, raise animals, and are advanced in biology. The novel is concerned with the need for the two to interact, which leads to war and the collapse of New York City.
Shorter version originally published as "Natural State." Galaxy Science Fiction 7.5 (January 1954): 6-69. Story rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 215-78.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Naked Lunch - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Olympia Press, 1959)
One of many dystopias by Burroughs which generally share the same characteristics: authoritarian tending toward the paranoid and concern with drugs and homosexuality. His dystopia, known as the Interzone, was based on Tangier, Morocco.
Also pub. as Naked Lunch. New York: Grove Press, 1962. These two editions differ substantially. Grove Press ed. rpt. New York: Grove Press, 1992. UK ed. as The Naked Lunch. London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1964. Something approaching a critical edition is Naked Lunch: The Restored Text. Ed. James Grauerholz and Barry Miles. New York: Grove Press, 2001. This edition corrects errors and adds “Original Introductions and Additions by the Author” (197-229) and “Burroughs Texts Annexed by the Editors” (231-89), which includes “Editors' Note” (233-47). Rpt. as 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Grove Press, 2009 with an added “Afterword” by David L. Ulin (291-99). A bibliographic nightmare in that all the early editions differ because they are based on different versions of the text and have added differing front and back matter. Parts were originally published as by William Lee [pseud.] as “From: Naked Lunch, Book III: In Search of Yage.” Black Mountain Review, no. 7 (Autumn 1957): 144-48; “Have You Seen Pantapon Done.” Yūgen (New York), no. 3 (1958): 4-5; “Excerpt from Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.1 (Spring 1958): 25-30; and “Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.3 (Autumn 1958): 3-12. When further sections were stopped by the University of Chicago, Big Table was established to publish them and despite police attention published “Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch.” Big Table, no. 1 (Spring 1959): 79-137; and “In Quest of Yage.” Big Table 2 (Summer 1959): 44-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New School: A Novel of the Creation of a New Society - Howard William Ray (Exposition Press, 1959)
Series of utopian sketches beginning in contemporary Mexico and building through reincarnation to the development of a new school that develops into a community and influences the country as a whole. Vaguely religious.
Keywords: Male author

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

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

Ossian's Ride - [Sir] Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) (Heinemann, 1959)
Eutopia. A golden land of youth that had exploited technology fully, particularly nuclear technology. Set in Ireland.
Rpt. London: Four Square, 1961; U.S. ed. New York: Berkley, 1968.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pagan Passions - [Gordon] Randall [Philip David] Garrett (1927-87); Larry M[ark] Harris (1933-2002) (Galaxy Publishing Co, 1959)
The Greek Gods return and establish a Golden Age. No war, improved economic system, and greater sexual freedom. Conflict among the gods, who are in fact criminal aliens from another planet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pirates of Ersatz" - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1959)
Humor--planet called Walden whose inhabitants think they live in a eutopia but are mistaken.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Poorhouse Fair - John [Hoyer] Updike (1932-2009) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1959)
The background of the novel is a future United States that is slowly degenerating and becoming stagnant. The novel takes place on the day the poorhouse holds its annual fair and the people in the house revolt against the director of the home.
© 1958 and published January 12, 1959. Rpt. New York: Fawcett, [1964].
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Dell, 1959)
Satire. Depicts all of human history as brought about to deliver a spare part to a stranded alien spaceship on Titan. Various dystopias.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1961; and rpt. as the Collectors' Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Richard Powers and with an “Introduction” (vii-ix) by Vonnegut. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2006 with an “Introduction” by Jasper Fforde (ix-xiii); and in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 309-532, with a Note on the Text (819-23) and Notes (828-29).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Split Worlds: A Fabulous Story of the Future. - Tyrone C. Barr (Brown, Watson/Digit Books, 1959)
Post-nuclear war novel in which fourteen survivors (five women and nine men) settle a planet where they begin to create the conditions that led to the nuclear war on Earth.
Rpt. without the subtitle London: Brown, Watson/Digit Books, 1962. Different version as The Last 14. [Long, Island, NY]: Chariot Publishers, 1960.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Starship Troopers - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959)
Dystopia with constant war that presents the military, and particularly the infantry, positively.
Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1961; New York: Berkley, 1968; New York: Ace Books, 1987; and as vol. 3 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2006; and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Also published as “Starship Soldier.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 17.4 - 5 (101 - 102) (October - November 1959): 103-62; 51-95. Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. British Edition 1.8 - 10 (July - September 1960): 83-128; 96-128; 92-128.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Time Out of Joint - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (J.B. Lippincott, 1959)
The novel presents what appears to be a classic 1950s small town eutopia centered on family life, but this has been constructed by a militaristic dystopia to fill the paranoid fantasy of a man who does much of the calculations for the war with Venus.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979; and London: Gollancz, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tranquility, or Else!" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Fantastic Science Fiction, 1959)
Flawed utopia. Conditioning for freedom leaves people too controlled and in need of outlets for aggression.
Rpt. in his Mind Spider and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1961), 1-54. Rpt. as “The Haunted Future.” A Day in the Life. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 154-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wolfbane - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Ballantine Books, 1959)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the Earth has been moved by extraterrestrials resulting in the remaining humans dividing into two groups. One, called Sheep by the other group, that reduces its activities to a so as to conserve energy and kills anyone who violates their norms. The other, called Wolves by the first, who are much more active and establish a community of their own. But the aliens have a use for the wolves, and they become part of a machine.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. Shorter version in Galaxy Science Fiction 14.6 - 15.1 (October - November 1957): 8-52; 54-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"World of Heart's Desire" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Playboy, 1959)
In a post-nuclear war world, the eutopia becomes normal pre-war family life, which can only be experienced as fantasy.
Rpt. as "The Store of the Worlds." In his Store of Infinity (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 104-10; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 111-17; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 505-10.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"2000 A.D." - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) (Poetry Harbinger: Introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7), 1958)
Satire on New Zealand's future. Poem.
Rpt. in his Collected Poems (Christchurch, New Zealand: Pegasus Press, 1966), 141-42; and in Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand. Ed. Mark Pirie and Tim Jones (Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Interactive Press, 2009), 5-6.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

After the Rain - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) (Faber and Faber, 1958)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia (flooding). A play, with significant differences from the novel, was adapted by the author was based on the novel. After the Rain: A Play in Three Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1967 with production photographs. There is a note in the U.K. ed. ([9]) detailing tree objections that the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Cobbold, then censor, objected to that had to be changed in performance. First performed at the Hampstead Theatre Club on September 1, 1966 directed by Vivian Matalon. As originally performed, the play was innovative in that the audience was seated so as to be part of the play. When transferred to the Duchess Theatre and then to New York, the seating was as usual. The Library of Congress holds the Playbill 4.10 (October 1967) for the production at the John Golden Theatre in New York City, which starred Alec McCowen (1925-2017), who had also played the role in London.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“‘All the Troubles of the World’” - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Super-Science Fiction, 1958)
Flawed dystopia about a massive computer that runs the world. The story focuses on its ability to predict crime. See also 1975 Asimov.
Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 88-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) (Ace Books, 1958)
Dystopia using the same miniaturization trope as in 1922 Cummings.
Some was published under the same title in Astounding Stories 5.3 (March 1931): 314-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Big-Ball. A Novel - Frank Earl Jones (Jones Publication, 1958)
Eutopia on Mars. Mars has large domed cities, pooled resources, and concern for others. Earth considered backward. Very poorly written.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

A Case of Conscience - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Ballantine Books, 1958)
Two societies are presented, Lithia, a eutopia, and earth, a dystopia. Earth, which is called the Shelter Society because it emerged from entire cities moving underground as bomb shelters is stratified and hedonistic but with considerable alienation. Lithia is a eutopia that is entirely rational. The novel’s primary protagonist is a Jesuit who concludes that Lithia is a creation of Satan.
U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Rpt. New York: Walker & Co., 1969; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1963; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 492-547; London: Millennium, 1999; and in American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: Library of America, 2012), 373-553, with a “Biographical Note” (809-10), a “Note on the Text” (815-16), and “Notes” (823-29) and additional material on line at loa.org/sciencefiction. An illus. 300-copy edition has been published Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2021. Originally published abridged in If 2.4 (September 1953): 4-51, 116-17.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"A Dream of John Ball" - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957); Denis [James Matthews] Glover (1912-80) (Poetry Harbinger: Introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7), 1958)
Satire but depicting a populist eutopia. John Ball (ca. 1338-81) was a priest who was involved in the in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Eastward Ho!" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958)
Satire in which Indians have retaken the American continent.
Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 73-93; in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Ed. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Primus, 1985), 278-94; and in his Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 187-98 with an "Afterword" (199-200).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Examination Day" - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) (Playboy, 1958)
Brief dystopia. At age twelve each child takes an intelligence exam. Those with very low-level results are executed.
Rpt. in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 314-19; in A Legend in his own Lunchbox: English Workshop. Ed. Peter Forrestal and Jo-Anne Reid (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Nelson, 1970), 92-96; and in Weird Worlds, no. 4 (1980): 6-.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Golden Age" - Lee Priestley (Fantastic Universe, 1958)
Dystopia showing the boredom that comes with too much security and the danger to the system of thinking.

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

The Good Society: The Goal of Law and of the Religion of Jesus, the Unconscious Goal of Creative Evolution, and the Coming Purposeful Goal of Life - Hugh Evander Willis (b. 1875) (Vantage Press, 1958)
Criticism of contemporary society that includes a section describing some of the institutions of a future eutopia. The author contends that it is not "another dream utopia" but a realistic set of proposals based on Christ's plan.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Head in the Sand - Ewart C[harles] Jones (Arthur Barker, 1958)
Dystopia of England controlled by the U.S.S.R.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Illusionists" - Elder Olson (1909-92) (Plays & Poems, 1948-58, 1958)
Two dystopias. In the dominant one a few people acting like gods run the machines that give everyone their desired illusions. In the other, Earth is controlled by a dictator who provides happiness to all who are obedient.
Rev. as "A Crack in the Universe: A Play in Three Acts." First Stage: A Quarterly of New Drama 1.2 (Spring 1962): 9-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Immortality, Inc - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Avalon, 1958)
Dystopia. Suicide Act of 2102 in which a person joins a game as the Hunted and tries to elude professional killers. For different versions of the same theme, see 1960 and 1966 Sheckley.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1959; and in Dimensions of Sheckley: The Selected Novels of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 17-151. Short version as "Time Killer." Galaxy Magazine 16.6 - 17.3 (October 1958 - February 1959): 4-46, 94-137; 104-41, 156-94. Another short version as Immortality Delivered. New York: Avalon, 1959.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Invaders from Earth - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Ace Books, 1958)
Dystopia of capitalism and public relations in which a plan is hatched to destroy a world and its people for profit.
Invaders from Earth was published in a shorter version as "We the Marauders." Science Fiction Quarterly 2 (February 1958): 8-70, which was rpt. in A Pair From Space (New York: Belmont Books, [1965]), 5-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Invisible Barriers - [Robert] [Silverberg] (b. 1935) (Avalon Books., 1958)
Dystopia of a world where all countries have cut themselves off from each other.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"It Walks in Beauty" - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) (Star Science Fiction 1.1, 1958)
Dystopia in which career women are considered non-sexual, marriage is rare and disparaged, and wanting children slightly obscene.
Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 194-228.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Joy Wagon - Arthur T[wining] Hadley [II] (1924-2015) (Viking, 1958)
Humor in which a computer runs for President.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Letter" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1958)
Satire on a technologically oriented society that uses most of the technology for advertising. People live in hives overseen by a Queen Mother and every boy in the hive must marry one of the “Girls Next Door.”
Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 132-44; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 219-32. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 219-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last of the Deliverers" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958)
Conflict between Freeborn and Communist communities showing flaws in both systems. The Freeborn community appears to be a capitalist eutopia, but there is very little economic activity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Living City - Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959) (Horizon Press, 1958)
Architectural eutopia describing Wright’s eutopias Usonia and Broadacre City. Includes both building designs and layouts for towns and cities plus an argument for the beneficial effects of his ideas. See also his The Disappearing City. New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932; When Democracy Builds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945; and “Broadacre City: An Architect’s Vision.” The New York Times (March 20, 1932): 8.
Keywords: US author

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

"The Million Cities" - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) (Satellite Science Fiction, 1958)
Overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia with the Earth completely urbanized.
Repub. New York: Pyramid, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Minimum Man" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1958)
The background of the story is an overpopulation dystopia desperate for suitable planets to colonize. The story is about a program to test planets by sending incompetent, accident prone explorers to test them; if they survive, anyone can.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 71-101; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 463-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Mission to a Distant Star” - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) (Satellite Science Fiction, 1958)
Aliens, called Scorpions, who appear to be completely human but with much more advanced technology arrive on Earth. Much of the novel is concerned with the difficulties in understanding each other, based in part on their own failure to understand themselves. The Scorpions, it turns out, had as flawed a history as the humans and had thoroughly suppressed it.
Rpt. as by Frank B[elknap] Long as Mission to a Star. New York: Avalon Books, 1964
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Never Forever - Conyers, Bernard (Regency Press, 1958)
Astrological adventure story set in a generally eutopian future that has to deal with the issues raised by an elixir that will produce immortality without aging. Astrology used to choose members of the U.K. Cabinet, which includes the Ministers of Force, Economics, Education, Domesticity, the Arts, Diplomacy, Health, Justice, Commerce, Science, and Metaphysics plus the Prime Minister, each representing a sign of the zodiac. Technologically advanced. No alcohol; no tobacco..
Keywords: Male author

No Place on Earth - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) (Doubleday, 1958)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 2240 in which procreation without permission is treason.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Non-Stop - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Faber & Faber, 1958)
A multi-generation spacecraft that has developed an authoritarian religion and government as well as biological changes returns to earth, where the people decide to keep it in permanent orbit.
U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989. Repub. as Starship. New York: Criterion Books, 1959. There are textual differences between the editions.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Plenitude" - [William W.] [Mohler] (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958)
The story is told from the point of view of a father creating a good life for himself and his family using the traditional skills of farming, fishing, and hunting after the collapse of civilization brought about by most people choosing to live in spheres that maintain their lives artificially. No real explanation for the choice people made.
Rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 396-402 with an editors’ note on 395.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Reap the Dark Tide" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Vanguard Science Fiction, 1958)
Two dystopias, one at sea and one on land. The one at sea focuses on the desperate need to keep a convoy together and harvest enough to feed the thousands of people on each ship. The one on land develops into a cult of death. At the end of the story, one ship, expelled from a convoy, begins the process of starting over with land and sea connected.
Rpt. as "Shark Ship." In his A Mile Beyond the Moon (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958), 166-196; in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 1-35; and in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 268-305.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: An Essay on Education and Equality - Michael [Dunlop] Young (1915-2002) (Thames and Hudson, 1958)
The book has been read as both a eutopia and a dystopia with the author characterizing it as the latter. Development of a class system based on I.Q.
Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1961. U.S. ed. as The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033: The New Elite of Our Social Revolution. New York: Random House, 1959.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Secret of ZI - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) (Ace Books, 1958)
Authoritarian dystopia of aliens dominating earth with a revolt by the humans.
Rev. ed. as The Patient Dark. London: Robert Hale, 1969.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tale of Two Futures; A Novel of Life on Earth and the Planet Paliades in 1975 - William P. Heyne (1910-85) (Exposition Press, 1958)
Earth is a dystopia with class differences, gangs, and inflation. Paliades is a eutopia of religion and monogamy. Its constitution is on 154-58. Throughout the novel “human nature” tries to undermine the eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"This Crowded Earth" - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1958)
Overpopulation dystopia in which single people are allowed a small, one-room apartment. The decision is made to give women shots that will result in them giving birth to children who will only grow to be three feet tall. They come to be known as Yardsticks and slowly replace larger people. Complex story but the Yardsticks lose their vitality and knowledge and need the help of the few remaining full-size people to change.
Rpt. (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 1-109. Bound with 1968 Bloch.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Tide Went Out - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1958)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which atomic testing opens fissures in the earth and the oceans drain into them, causing worldwide drought, and the collapse of civilization.
Rpt. as Thirst! London: Sphere Books, 1977; and as The Tide Went Out. London: The British Library 2019. U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1959.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Tomorrow's Gift" - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Star Science Fiction Stories, 1958)
Dystopia of a four-class society based on I.Q. and H.Q. (Happiness Quotient). The classes are administrators, technicians, prefrontals (having failed in one of the top classes), and illiterates.
Rpt. in his Tomorrow's Gift (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958), 7-15. U.K. ed. (London: Brown, Watson/Digit Books, [1958]), 5-13.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Two Dooms" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Venture Science Fiction, 1958)
A future dystopia dominated by the Japanese because U.S. atomic scientists decided not to make the bomb.
Rpt. in Venture Science Fiction (U.K.), no. 20 (April 1965): 72-112; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 264-310; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 284-336; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 274-308.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ullward's Retreat" - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Galaxy Magazine, 1958)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in his Future Tense (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 47-71; book rpt. as Dust of Far Suns (New York: DAW Books, 1981), 78-103. Story rpt. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. Vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 91-121.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Uncertain Midnight - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Hutchinson, 1958)
Flawed utopia of a machine eutopia that is actually a dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

World Without Men - [David] [McIlwain] (1921-81) (Ace Books, with the name on the spine as Eric Maine, 1958)
Dystopia of a society without men and the effect on it of the creation of one. The all female society is presented negatively, and it is at least initially made worse by the creation of the man. In the revised version, the women gradually adjust to the experience of heterosexual love and sex.
U.K. ed. London: Digit, 1963. Rev. as Alph. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972. Rpt. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1972.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Alien Night" - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) (Science Fiction Adventures, 1957)
Flawed utopia in which immortality was available in twenty-five year increments with aliens experimenting on humans and multiple worlds. The blurb on the first page after the cover includes what could be a definition of a flawed utopia: “Utopia was no longer a beautiful dream but a horrifying reality. Perfection--pure, absolute and unchanging--was slowly mummifying the human race and the world had become a monstrous still life.”
Rpt. in Get Out of My Sky: Three Short Novels of Science Fiction. Ed. Leo Margulies (Greenwich, CT: Crest Book/Fawcett Publications), 1960), 129-176.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"All the Worlds Tears" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Nebula Science Fiction, 1957)
Authoritarian dystopia after a catastrophe. All whites are gone. Hatred and toughness are honored, and there is no love.
Rpt. in his The Canopy of Time (London: Faber and Faber, 1959), 25-38.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

On the Beach - Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960) (William Heinemann, 1957)
Dystopia. Most of the world has been destroyed in a nuclear war, and Australians are waiting for the radiation to reach them.
Rpt. London: Pan, 1966. Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC: Heinemann, 1957. There was a 1959 film directed by Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) and a 2000 TV remake directed by Russell Mulachy (b. 1953).
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Build-Up" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1957)
Overpopulation dystopia. The entire world is one city, and no one knows that the world is round.
Rpt. in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 175-93. Rpt. as “The Concentration City.” In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 33-57; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 1-20; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 23-38.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Burning World - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) (Infinity Science Fiction, 1957)
Flawed libertarian utopia struggling with those who wanted power internally and external enemies.
Rpt. Medford, OR: Armchair Press, 2012 bound with Chester S. Geier (1921-90), Forever Is Too Long originally published in Fantastic Adventures (March 1947).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Citadel, Market and Altar: Emerging Society. Outline of Socionomy. The New Natural Science of Society - Spencer Heath (1876-1963) (The Science of Society Foundation, Inc, 1957)
A treatise that includes a chapter "Towards the Utopian Dream: A Hypothetical Distribution of National Income under Proprietary Public Administration" (175-89 plus a foldout table). The eutopia is based on modified free enterprise in which the people of a community are the owners of businesses and hire administrators to run them for their benefit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Citizen of the Galaxy" - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1957)
A future dystopia where slavery is practiced on some planets, but every spaceship is a sovereign state.
Repub. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957; and as vol. 20 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Community of the Future and The Future of Community - Arthur E[rnest] Morgan (1878-1975) (Community Service, Inc, 1957)
Description in essay form of a face-to-face community as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Democracy at Ease: A New Zealand Profile - David Goldblatt (Pall Mall Press, 1957)
Non-fiction but presents New Zealand throughout as a realized eutopia. Largely glittering generalities but includes some minimal recognition that not everything has worked as designed. Written from the point of view of an outsider. There is an obviously faked picture of the author with "Maori friends".
Keywords: Male author

"Dio" - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (Infinity Science Fiction, 1957)
Flawed utopia in which immortality is achieved by indefinitely prolonging physical adolescence. Two classes develop, known as the players, who consume and enjoy, and the students, who are said to "remember" and do whatever planning is needed. The two classes normally have little to do with each other, but the novel is concerned with the relationship of a couple from the two classes, when the man is going through the lost experience of dying.
Rpt. in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 548-81.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Every Day is Christmas" - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Super Science Fiction, 1957)
Dystopian world in which subliminal advertising is aired twenty-four hours a day.
Rpt. in his Future Imperfect (New York: Bantam Books, 1964), 61-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Four Poems From the Strontium Age" - Louis [Albert] Johnson (1924-88) (New Worlds for Old. Poems, 1957)
The four poems are "Before the Day of Wrath", "It's An Ill Wind . . .", "Spring", and "Haven". The first three poems describe an atomic war and its effects. The fourth poem describes the discovery by the survivors of an unaffected valley described in eutopian terms, but the poem ends with the reappearance of dystopian officialdom.
Rpt. in Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand. Ed. Mark Pirie and Tim Jones (Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Interactive Press, 2009), 40-43.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“Friends and Enemies” - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Infinity Science Fiction, 1957)
The story focuses on the dystopia created by fear of science, particularly atomic physics, and speculation about alternative ways of life.
Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 107-25; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), . Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 199-218.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Future Took Us - [David Storr] [Unwin] (1918-2010) (The Bodley Head, 1957)
Children's dystopia. Destroyed future world dominated by religion with an underground city ruled by mathematicians trying to take over.
Rpt. London: Puffin, 1962.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Gates of Ivory, The Gates of Horn - Thomas McGrath (1916-1990) (Mainstream Publishers, 1957)
Authoritarian dystopia with an emphasis on a corrupt legal system following the basic precept of the society, "One nation indivisible with efficiency and punishment for all" (25 Original emphasis).
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Heaven Knows Where. A Novel - D[ennis] J[oseph] Enright (1920-2002) (Secker & Warburg, 1957)
Humorous eutopia set on a South Seas island where the people are "born anarchists".
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Hometown" - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) (1, 1957)
The Earth has been so damaged that most people live in sterile conditions on the moon and only visit the “Homeland” theme park that replicates a small town.
Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 315-315.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hothouse. A Science Fiction Novel - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Faber and Faber, 1957)
Dystopia in which humans have devolved into small, but still intelligent, creatures living in a world dominated by plants.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976, with an “Introduction” by Joseph Milicia (v-xvii). Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth. New York: Signet/New American Library, 1962, which had originally been serialized in slightly different form in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as “Hothouse.” 20.2 (117) (February 1961): 5-35; “Nomansland.” 20.4 (119) (April 1961): 99-129; “Undergrowth.” 21.1 (122) (July 1961): 84-130; “Timberline.” 21.3 (144) (September 1961): 99-129; and “Evergreen.” 21.6 (127) (December 1961): 82-128
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Land Fit for 'Eros - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009); J[ohn] B[arclay] Pick (1921-2015) (Arco, 1957)
Primarily humor. Satire on a British movement to root out "subversives" similar to that of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-57) in the U.S. that was known as McCarthyism.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Language of Love" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1957)
The setting of the story is a future eutopian earth in which the entire landscape is carefully tended, it rains as needed in the middle of the night, and all animals are in zoos. The story is about an inarticulate young man learning the rational language of love of extinct aliens and its effects.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 369-80; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 375-84; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 253-65 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"License" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1957)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in his Seven Conquests (New York: Collier Books, 1969), 140-66. UK ed. as Conquests (London: Granada, 1981), 157-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Lone Star Planet" - H[enry] Beam Piper (1917-81); John J[oseph] McGuire (1917-1981) (Fantastic Universe, 1957)
A planet settled by Texans with an almost anarchist society. The workings of its political and legal systems are presented positively, although with satirical elements.
Rpt. as A Planet for Texans. New York: Ace Books, 1958. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton (1912-2005), Star Born; and as Lone Star Planet. New York: Ace Books, 1979 with no mention of McGuire. Bound with his Four-Day Planet, which was originally published New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Made to Order” - Frank Belknap Long [Jr.] (1901-94) (Future Science Fiction, 1957)
Dystopia of a future where computers choose marriage partners and deny the right to marry based entirely on genetic factors. Sex outside marriage prohibited.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Male Strikebreaker" - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (The Original Science Fiction Stories, 1957)
A society with a rigid class structure based on inherited occupations. The story focuses on a man who inherits the job of running the machinery that recycles human waste and his position as an outcast.
Rpt. as "Strikebreaker." In his Nightfall and Other Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), 268-81.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mary's Country - Harold [Charles Hugh] Mead (1910-1997) (Michael Joseph, 1957)
Authoritarian dystopia called the Tote State. Some children bred for the Guardian class of future leaders are raised in the central nursery and then in a junior dormitory with no affection, no privacy, and no free time. There is a Cold War between the Tote State and the Democratic Union.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Master of Life and Death - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Ace Books, 1957)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mind Cage - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Simon and Schuster, 1957)
The background of the novel is an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Morning After" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, 1957)
Earth is a flawed utopia in which no one has to work and most things like food and entertainment is provided by politicians as part of their ongoing campaigns for election or re-election. People, though, are bored and the birth rate is going down while the suicide rate is going up.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 259-78.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"My Lady Green Sleeves" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1957)
Dystopia. Class society based on occupation with the Civil Service, which includes Congress, at the top.
Rpt. in his The Case Against Tomorrow (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957), 111-50.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The New Americanism" - Robert [Winborne] Welch [Jr.] (1899-1985) (The New Americanism And Other Speeches and Essays, 1957)
Welch, the co-founder of The John Birch Society, calls this essay his utopia. In it he lays out a generally anti-government position.
Keywords: Male author; US author

One Half of the World - James Barlow (1921-73) (Cassell, 1957)
The novel is set in a postwar authoritarian dystopia where Britain, having lost the war, is occupied. The novel follows a British member of Internal Security as he comes to question his loyalty of the occupiers.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"Profession" - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1957)
Dystopia. Imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society.
Rpt. in his Nine Tomorrows; Tales of the Near Future (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 16-74; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, nos. 18 - 20 (1984 - 85): 2-16; 2-13; 2-12.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Quest for Pajaro - Edward Maxwell [pseud.] (Heinemann, 1957)
Eutopia. A future society is destroyed in war and replaced by a world government, a universal language, and advanced technology.

"Remembrance Day 2010 A.D." - [John] Hugh MacLennan (1907-90) (The Montrealer, 1957)
Cold war dystopia. People had been so conditioned that they will choose to end life on Earth rather than peace, let alone defeat.
Rpt. in his Scotchman’s Return and Other Essays (Toronto, ON, Canada: Macmillan of Canada, 1960), 78-89; and in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 162-68 with an editor’s note on 161.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Sandra" - George P[aul] Elliott (1918-80) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1957)
Slavery in an alternative history United States in which slaves are available in department stores and your local corner store. The male protagonist buys a female slave, guaranteed good at housework and copulation.
Rpt.in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 370-79.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Saucer People - Ronald G. Garver (b. 1938) (Meador Publishing Co, 1957)
Eutopia of scientists with telepathy, which is used to operate machines as well as to communicate.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication - John Steinbeck (1902-68) (Viking Press, 1957)
Wide ranging political satire. France reestablishes the monarchy, and the king takes his position seriously so that he has to be deposed.
U.K. ed. London: Heinemann, 1957. Viking ed. rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Shrouded Planet - [Robert] [Silverberg] (b. 1935); [Gordon Randall Philip David] [Garrett] (1927-87) (Gnome Press, 1957)
A first contact story set in a theocracy where change is unthinkable. A sequel is “The Dawning Light.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 59.1 - 3 (March - May 1957): 8-55, 106-49, 96-145. Rpt. New York: Gnome, 1959. 189 pp.; and ed. Hank Stine and illus. Barclay Shaw. Virginia Beach, VA: Starblaze Editions, 1981. 125 pp. A novella set on the same planet is “All the King’s Horses.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 60.3 (January 1958): 84-119.
Rpt. ed. Hank Stine and illus. Barclay Shaw. Virginia Beach, VA: Starblaze Editions, 1980. Originated as three novellas: “The Chosen People.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 57.4 (June 1956): 73-96; “The Promised Land.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 57.6 (August 1956): 6-38; and “False Prophet.” Illus. [Henry Richard] van Dongen (1920-2010). Astounding Science Fiction 58.4 (December 1956): 8-43.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Shubshub Race" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Space, Time and Nathaniel (Presciences), 1957)
Satire that includes a planet called Upotia, the Health planet, which has a constant pleasant climate, but this is a minor part of the story.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

"There's No Business" - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) (Nebula (Glasgow, Scot.), 1957)
Dystopia in which all film and TV is banned.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"This Second Earth" - [John Stephen] [Glasby] (1928-2011) (John Spencer & Co. Cobra Books, 1957)
Dystopia after an atomic war that obliterated most of the world's cities. A "Homo Superior" is produced by the radioactivity and must be fought by the surviving humans while they try to create the basis for a new civilization. The normal humans win, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

"The Tunesmith" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (If, 1957)
Dystopia where all art is in the form of commercials.
Rpt. in his The Metallic Muse (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 4-48.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Virgin Planet" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Venture Science Fiction, 1957)
The story is set on a planet occupied only by women where a religion had developed around the expected return of men.
Repub. New York: Avalon, 1959. Rpt. New York: Warner Books, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Woman's World" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Imagination, 1957)
Dystopia of women dominating men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“World of the Future 1. A Man of the World” - Les Cole (Venture Science Fiction, 1957)
The first of two stories regarding the dystopia that would develop after an atomic war. In this story the “civilized” man of the future learns that survival means killing. See also 1957 [Merril].
Rpt. Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 78-82.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"World of Women" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Fantastic, 1957)
Dystopia describing a world where all men had been eliminated except for a few kept for breeding purposes on a neighboring planet. One man visits in disguise to find the reason, which turns out to be an insane leader, and once she is removed, normal relations will re-emerge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

You'll See: Report from the Future - [Egon] [Lehrburger] (1904-90) (Rider, 1957)
Technological eutopia set in 1982 described as a projection, and the author includes an “Appendix: Some Facts” that lists developments that exist or are being developed that he uses in the text (170-76). There is phone shopping and pneumatic tube delivery with a few shops with old-fashioned personal service. Food is delivered by tube right into the refrigerator. Three types of food are available, “old-fashioned,” “short-diet” or tablet food, and “new-food,” which is primarily produced from plankton and algae. Weather control with rain announced in advance. Central London is pedestrianized with walkways lined with trees, flowers, and grass and most transport underground and helicopters landing on rooftops. Outside London roads had been built above railroads. London is ethnically and racially mixed with over half the population originating overseas. Everybody works, and there are no class distinctions. India has industrialized using nuclear power.
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

“2066: Election Day” - Michael [Joseph] Shaara [Jr.] (1928-88) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1956)
In the future, the President of the United States is chosen through a battery of tests supervised by a computer. Anyone can take the tests. This has resulted in world peace and prosperity. The story is about when the computer no one is qualified.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) (Ball Publishing Co., 1956)
One of the earliest of his many books and pamphlets that present his eutopia, a system of national credit and its positive effects which is explained in “Man and His Politics!” (64-113) through a discussion between Mr. Bruneau and Mr. Complacency. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This book and some others also include his cosmological views and examples of his poetry. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3.  See also 1956 Ball, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball; 1956 Ball, The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories”] (1-164), “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Big Fix" - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) (Infinity Science Fiction, 1956)
A man is taken, through the use of a drug, to a planet that seems eutopian but is based on “recruits” such as him fighting to the death. A man is taken, through the use of a drug, to a planet that seems eutopian but is based on “recruits” such as him fighting to the death.
Rpt. in his Time Out for Tomorrow (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 9-30; and in The Man Without a Planet and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume #2. Ed. John Phelan (Np: Ramble House/Dancing Tuatara Press, 2012), 275-298.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Census Takers” - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1956)
A brief dystopia set in a future U.S. with serious population problems divided into Census Areas in which a census is taken annually. It is from the viewpoint of an Area Commander, who appears to have a set limit to the population in the area. While not stated explicitly, it is implied that those are the limit are killed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Consider Her Ways" - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) (Sometime, Never, 1956)
Future dystopia in which mothers are kept for breeding. They are grotesquely fat and stupid.
Rpt. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1967), 61-125; in his Consider Her Ways and Others (London: Michael Joseph, 1961), 7-87; and in his The Infinite Moment (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 7-65.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

"The Country of the Kind" - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York), 1956)
Eutopia of abundance, equality, and free love. But there is an individual who is a throwback to a time when people were violent, and the story is told by him. The problem for the eutopia is how to deal with such a person, and the solution is to give him a repulsive odor to identify him while leaving him free but with no one interacting with him at all. He is also conditioned to pass out when about to commit violence against a person.
Rpt. in Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 34-50 with an editors' note (33-34); in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 409-22; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 412-15 with an editor’s note on 412.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Crossroads to Nowhere - [Delbert] Raymond Stark (1919-83) (Ward, Lock & Co, 1956)
Two societies develop after a future war. One is anarchist with social pressure ("the silence") as a means of social control. Most people are settled but Wastelanders are nomadic. The other is an urban authoritarian dystopia with technology but also with shortages.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Death of Grass - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Michael Joseph, 1956)
Post-catastrophe dystopia. Violence, breakdown of communities, and the struggle to survive.
Rpt. as The Death of Grass. A Novel. Penguin, 2009 with an “Introduction” by Robert Macfarlane (v-xii). U.S. edition as No Blade of Grass. A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Avon, 1967. A film was made under the U.S. title and directed by Cornel Wilde (Cornelius Louis Wilde 1912-89) (1970) with a screenplay by Sean Forestal and Wilde writing as Jefferson Pascal. PSt
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Door Into Summer" - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York), 1956)
The novel is set in 1970 and 2000 and is primarily science fiction with a man who is frozen in 1970, wakes in 2000, time travels back to 1970, and returns to 2000 having resolved his 1970s problems in ways that will make his life in 2000 better. 2000 is generally presented positively and 1970 negatively but both have problems.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957. Rpt. as vol. 5 The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Doubting Thomas - Winston Brebner (1924-2004) (Rinehart, 1956)
Authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia that is effectively defeated by a clown who becomes so popular that the bureaucracy is forced to support him.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Drivers" - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) (Worlds of If Science Fiction, 1956)
Dystopia with population and aggression control through killing on highways.
Rpt. in Hallucination Orbit: Psychology in Science Fiction. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1983), 235-53; and in his The 7 Shapes of Solomon Bean and 14 Other Marvelous Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Los Gatos, CA: Polaris Press, 1983), 27-42.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Escape to Venus - S[tanley] Makepeace Lott (1920-1991) (Rich and Cowan, 1956)
Post-nuclear war dystopia of an authoritarian flawed utopia on Venus.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Everybody's Happy But Me" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Imagination Science Fiction (Evanston, IL), 1956)
Drug dystopia.
Rpt. as "What To Do Till the Analyst Comes." In his Alternating Currents (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 143-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Executioner" - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1956)
Standard authoritarian dystopia except for the judicial system which is based on a trial by ordeal. If you survive, you were innocent.
Rpt. in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 84-120. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 84-120.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Further Outlook - W[illiam] Grey Walter (1910-77) (Gerald Duckworth, 1956)
Egalitarian eutopia brought about through the development of cheap and abundant energy and a perfect form of contraception. Eugenics. This produces a society based as much on leisure as work.
Rpt. London: Science Fiction Book Club, 1957. US ed. as The Curve of the Snowflake. New York: W.W. Norton, 1956.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Genesis of Nam: A New Earth With Its Own Blue Heaven - Goodrich, Charles (Dorrance & Co, 1956)
Eutopia. Better world on Earth and a founding of a new and even better world in space.
Keywords: Male author

The Golden Archer; A Satirical Novel of 1975 - Gregory Mason (1889-1968) (Twayne, 1956)
Satirical dystopia of an overly efficient U.S. state under the combined rule of church and state. The urban Catholics of the North and the rural Protestants of the South had joined forces and eliminated freedom of religion. Only New Orleans retains any freedom of worship. Efficiency is symbolized by an “Efficiency Calendar” in which each month starts on a Monday.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Kazoo - John Schneider (1909-64) (Rinehart, 1956)
Satire on American presidential elections, which are run by ad men rather than politicians. The novel follows a specific future election.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gumption Island; A Fantasy of Coexistence - Felix M[uskett] Morley (1894-1982) (Caxton, 1956)
Conservative, capitalist eutopia founded on an island after a world-wide catastrophe caused by a "time-bomb" that temporarily separated the island in time from the rest of the U.S. with three years on the island being three days outside it. Includes a constitution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. An Advanced Theory of Government and Finance - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) (J. B. Ball, 1956)
This work describes the basics of National Credit Control, in which paper currency and coins are replaced by a credit card system. Any economic activity not considered in the public interest is outlawed and refused credit card privileges. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This pamphlet discusses farming, which is treated as any other industry, more than his others. Taxes are not levied on farm property or commodities but on produce as it is distributed. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball, Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: Ball Publishing Co.; The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications.  Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Into the Tenth Millennium - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) (William Heinemann, 1956)
Agrarian, somewhat nomadic eutopia, some of which is technically primitive (balloon transport, semaphores for communication) but is socially advanced. A catastrophe caused all metal to become useless; while this made war impossible, there was a widespread famine which produced a dramatic fall in world population. In the future population is controlled. Everyone is wealthy and self-assured. There is no government or belief in a god. Free love and one worldwide language. Initial education is with the mother (fathers are not identified) with no formal education until age forty. The author also wrote a utopian trilogy; see 1950, 1952, and 1954 Capon.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"It's Cold Outside" - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) (If Worlds of Science Fiction, 1956)
The story begins in a regimented New York City in which there is no rain because it has been diverted to where it will fill a reservoir. Any “Suggestion” of the City-State Council is, in effect, law. Children are grown in a laboratory from the egg and sperm of the parents because the Council “suggests” that parents don’t do it the old way. The focus of the story is a couples’ resistance to the entire system and their desire to escape to the outside.
Rpt. in Science Fantasy 8.22 (1957): 2-39; in his Those Idiots From Earth: Ten Science-Fiction Stories (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957), 115-60; and in The Man Without a Planet and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume #2. Ed. John Phelan (Ramble House/Dancing Tutara Press, 2012), 231-274.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Jackpot" - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1956)
Explorers of space hoping to find something that will make them a lot of money find a galactic university that teaches everything, beginning with honesty and honor, which leads most of the crew to want to share the knowledge with everyone.
Rpt. in Grotto of the Dancing Bear and Other Stories. The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak, Volume Four. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2016. EBook.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The "Lomokome" Papers - Herman Wouk (b. 1915) (Simon and Schuster, 1956)
Satire on the arms race in which the two countries of Lomokome and Lomadine practice "responsible war" because war is necessary for their economies and morale. Responsible war includes the regular announcement of war by a College of Judges followed by moving to a war economy, the invention but not building of new weapons, voluntary death by young men, the announcement of victory by the College of Judges, and the death of some of the leaders of the losers. Lomokome and Lomadine present themselves as very different but are quite similar. In the "Preface to the Paperback Edition," Wouk says that it was written in 1949 and that "Lomokome" is Hebrew for Utopia or Nowhere.
Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1968. Also published illus. Bernard Perlin in Collier's 137.4 (February 17, 1956): 69-84. The illustrations in the book and magazine versions are completely different but the texts are identical.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Love Incorporated" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Playboy, 1956)
Dystopia. Earth, exhausted of its natural resources, is a vacation planet selling true love (by hypnotizing the women), vicarious violence, and sexual perversion.
Rpt. as "Pilgrimage to Earth." Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 209-20; U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 209-20; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-18; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 347-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Man of Family" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (The Human Angle, 1956)
Overpopulation dystopia. Must have money and the right heredity to reproduce. The more money the more allowed children and losing money requires giving up a child.
Rpt. Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 415-25 ("Afterword" 425).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man Who Japed - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1956)
Dystopian satire on a future of required happiness through Moral Reclamation (Morec), a combination of religion and advertising.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Mankind on the Run - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) (Ace Books, 1956)
Standard authoritarian dystopia with a rebel.
Rpt. as On the Run. New York: Ace Books, 1979.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Modest Proposal: A Vice-Presidential Speech in a Surrealist Future" - Peter [Robert Edwin] Viereck (1916-2006) (The Unadjusted Man: A New Hero for Americans. Reflections on the Distinction Between Conforming and Conserving, 1956)
Satire. U.S. Republican Vice President stating that conformity and fun will be legally required.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Naked Sun” - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1956)
Related to 1953 Asimov, “The Caves of Steel,” and the beginning and ending of the novel is set in few years in the future of that dystopia. Most of the novel is in a dystopia on the planet Solaria, which has eliminated almost all human contact.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1957. Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1971; and in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 203-404.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Native Problem" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1956)
Humorous story which begins on a future earth that is a dystopia of conformity.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 279-99; and in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 357-74; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 145-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"New Arcadia" - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) (Future Science Fiction, 1956)
Three supposed utopias in conflict with each other. Two of the utopias are humans and represent a division within a colony called Nouvelle-Arcadie, settled by French-speaking Swiss pacifists. The split between the two groups was mostly based of two men each wanting power. The third utopia was a subgroup of advocates of violence settled from a pacifist planet.
Rpt. in his A Gun for Dinosaur And Other Imaginative Tales (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963), 315-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ninya: A Fantasy of a strange little world - Henry A[llan] Fagan (Jonathan Cape, 1956)
A world on the back of the moon that is mostly presented as a eutopia where labor is voluntary, but everyone must work. There are three racial groups with multiple languages, but all people sign, which acts as an international language. The three groups are white, which is the society, called Zelia, that is the center of the novel, brown, and black, and there is growing strife among them.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

No Refuge - [Bertram] John Boland (1913-1976) (Michael Joseph, 1956)
Flawed utopia located at the bottom of a crater in central north Greenland. Good life but authoritarian under control of doctors and scientists. Lower birth rate and higher standard of living. No disease. No marriage with children raised by the state.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Oil for the Light of the World - Frank [William] Hart (1891-1965) (Vantage Press, 1956)
A rich Texan builds a eutopian entertainment center (capitalism at its best and most humanitarian) and then helps spread his ideas throughout the United States. The eutopia becomes a subplot to a romance/adventure story.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pursuit Through Time: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination - [John Frederick] Burke (1922-2011) (Ward, Lock, 1956)
In the novel a man is sent back into the past to stop the creation of an authoritarian dystopia. He succeeds and, in doing, so creates the possibility of a better society in the future.
Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, nd.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Racer" - Ib Jørgen Melchior (1917-2015) (If This Goes On, 1956)
Dystopia in which five race drivers compete in a contest with the winner determined by finishing place combined with how many pedestrians they kill.
Originally published in Escapade (October 1956). Rpt. in Perry Rhodan , no. 97 (June 1976): 156-70 with a note by Forrest J. Ackerman on 154-56.
Keywords: Danish author; Male author; US author

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

The Secret People - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Avalon, 1956)
Eugenic dystopia.
U.S. ed. as Deviates. Boston: Beacon, 1959.
Keywords: Male author; US author