The Godhood of Man. His Religious, Political and Economic Development and the Sources of Social Inequality - [Nicholas] [Michels] (Author, 1899)
Eutopia. Mostly religion but also shows the human race in harmony with nature.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Awakening: The Story of the Twenty-second Century - Albert Adams Merrill (1875-1952) (George Book Publishing Company, 1899)
Eutopia. A colony, called the Money Republic, founded in Africa spreads around the world. It is based on the equal division of wealth among all who work.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Great Calamity on Robinson's Island" - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) (The Commercial Exchange Gazette. The Official Organ of the New Zealand Exchange Co., Ltd. (New Zealand), 1899)
Establishment of a commercial exchange bank and the concomitant ability to trade without money brings eutopia. See also 1896 Flürsheim and the two other 1899 Flürscheims.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; German author; Male author

"How the House of Commons became a Cycling School" - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) (A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction, 1899)
Satire. The House of Commons is accepted as completely useless and votes itself out of existence.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"How the 'House of Lords Question' Was Settled. A Tale of the Terrace or, Mrs. Ponsonby-Jones's Revenge" - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) (A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction, 1899)
Satire. Because women visitors are distracting the Peers from the business of Parliament, the Prime Minister gets a bill passed prohibiting them from the terrace. Women vote in a majority in favor of abolishing the House of Lords. A compromise is reached in which women elect women representatives to a female house and the entire House of Lords becomes the Privy Council.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Imperium in Imperio - Sutton E[lbert] Griggs (1872-1933) (Editor Publishing Company, 1899)
Eutopia. Black state in Texas called Imperium in Imperio with a government parallel to the U. S. government, although with some structural differences. Mostly on the problems of African-Americans and conflict among them over the use of violence, but there is some on the new government. This has long been considered the first utopia by an African-American author, and within a narrow definition of utopia, it still is. See also 1902 Griggs. Griggs wrote other works, both fiction and nonfiction, discussing the plight of African Americans. His fiction includes Overshadowed. A Novel. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1901. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1973 which documents the mistreatment of Negroes by Anglo-Saxons in the U. S., The Hindered Hand: or, The Reign of the Repressionist. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905. The 3rd ed. rev. Illus. Robert E. Bell. Nashville, TN: The Orion Pub. Co., 1905; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1969 which includes a positive description of the colonization of Africa by freed slaves; and Pointing the Way. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1908. The novel includes a depiction of the treatment of Negroes, the beginnings of a movement joining both blacks and whites, and the argument before the U.S. Supreme Court for the enfranchisement of blacks. The nonfiction includes The One Great Question: A Study of Southern Conditions at Close Range. Philadelphia, PA/Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1907 (58 pp.); Wisdom’s Call. Nashville, TN: The Orion Publishing Co., 1911; How to Rise. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1915] (72 pp.); Light on Racial Issues. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1921] (62 pp.); According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1916; The Reconstruction of a Race. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (62 pp.); Life’s Demands or According to Law. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, [1916] (122 pp.); rev. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1917 (170 pp.); The Guide to Racial Greatness or the Science of Collective Efficiency. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1923; Kingdom Builders’ Manual. Companion Book to Guide to Racial Greatness. Memphis, TN: National Public Welfare League, 1924.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969, with a “Preface by Hugh M. Gloster (iii-viii); with the subtitle, A Study of the Negro Race Problem. New York: Arno Press, 1969; and with a “Preface” by A.J. Verdelle (vii-xiii), an “Introduction” by Cornel West (xv-xvii), “Chronology of the Precocious Sutton E. Griggs” (xix-xx), and a “Reading Group Guide” ([179-81]). New York: The Modern Library, 2003; and in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 157-232.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Impression Club. A Novel - John Henton Carter, Commodore Rollingpin (Carter & Bro., 1899)
Religious novel showing how lives can be transformed through religious belief, temperance, and the influence of women. The focus is on a group of individuals, but the novel suggests the eutopia that is in the process of being created.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In a State of Nature - Alfred Clark (Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1899)
Primitive lost race dystopia with an English sect that believes in not doing anything to interfere with nature. They don't bathe, cook food, use money, or have a government.
Keywords: Male author

The Island Impossible - Harriet Morgan (Little, Brown & Co., 1899)
Children's eutopia with elements of fantasy. A group of children go to live on an island that they organize as they choose, with some adult direction.
Keywords: Female author

"Jacob's Dream" - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) (Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1899)
Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England.
Rpt. in Temple Magazine (Silas K. Hocking’s Illustrated Monthly) 3 (December 1899): 202-11.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Jamaican author; Male author; US author

The Light of Reason. Showing The First Step The Nation Should Take Toward A Social Order Based On Justice - A[braham] B[enjamin] Franklin (Charles H. Kerr, 1899)
Socialist eutopia with land and all natural resources owned collectively. Much discussion of the need to go off the gold standard. The work is structured as a book within a book with the fictional elements at the beginning and end.
Keywords: Male author

Looking Ahead: Twentieth Century Happenings - H[enry] Pereira Mendes (1852-1937) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
Struggle among all religions for control of holy places with arguments for each religion and a decision by a council giving them to the Jews. In the buildup to the conclusion an Anglo-Saxon Confederation of the British Empire and Canada and the U.S. is formed with a federal constitution based on that of the U.S. Also, a document was drawn up by Christians and Jews that established the basis for the eutopia to come.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Looking Forward; A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 - Arthur Bird ([Press of L.C. Childs & Son], 1899)
Eutopia stressing patriotism and the manifest destiny of the United States. The U.S. governs the entire Western Hemisphere, which is now known as the United States of the Americas and controls the Philippines. English is the universal language. The national capital moves to Mexico but is still known as Washington. The Papacy has moved to Rio de Janeiro. Technologically advanced. Racist with all Blacks transferred to Venezuela. Highly moral tone with, for example, cursing outlawed. Kissing prohibited as dangerous to health.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Looking Through the Mists; or, Every Hearth Knoweth Its Own Sorrow - L. Norton Thomson (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
Mostly romance but includes a scheme to help the poor build a town and industries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mathematics of Labor - Adhemer Brady (Charles H. Kerr, 1899)
Includes a eutopia of five thousand people that incorporates his detailed laws of economics, which are based on money representing labor. Money issued annually. Equality. Free travel. Land free but homes owned. Machinery used to reduce labor time.

Nequa or The Problem of the Ages - [Alcanoan O.] [Grigsby] (1837?-1925); [Mary Prather] [Lowe] (1858-1902) (Equity Publishing Company, 1899)
Standard communal eutopia. Country called Altruria in the interior of the world near the North Pole. Equitable exchange, democracy, education, communal houses. Gender equality.
Rpt. called 3rd ed. [Stevenson, WA?]: Green Snake Press, 2015, with an “Epilogue” (313-345) by Mark Esping. Originally serialized in Equity (Topeka, KS) (1899 - September 1901).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

New Orleans in 1950, Being a Story of the Carnival City, From the Pen of a Descendant of Herodotus, Possessing the Gift of Prescience - J. H. Whyte (A.W. Hyatt & Co, 1899)
Eutopia based on technology and municipal socialism. Mexico, many South and Central American states, and Canada are all part of the U.S. and Spain is applying to join. Great stress on technology, like the phono-typewriter (like email). The Nicaragua canal had been built; air travel is standard both between and within cities. Municipal ownership of utilities results in no taxes.

The No-Din': Romance, History and Science of the Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands With Illustrations - E[rastus] S. Curry (1837-1906) (Published by the Author, 1899)
Mostly adventure set in America in the time of the Biblical patriarchs. The world is dominated by the descendants of Cain. A small group of people establish a vaguely described eutopia that survives innumerable attacks. See also the author’s The Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands as Disclosed through Indian Traditions Comprehending also the Origin of Matter and the Formation of the World the Periodic Changes of the Earth the Glacial Periods and Astronomy Solving the Chronological Problems, Etc., Etc. In Five Volumes. Fully Illustrated. Volume I [only vol. published]. Christy, MO: Published by the Author, 1903.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Paul Rees: A Story of the Coming Reformation - Augustinus [pseud.] (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, 1899)
England declines due to laws passed against Roman Catholics but at the end the Roman Catholic Church is formally instituted as the established church. 1898 Augustinus and 1898 “In the Next World”: A Sequel to the Story “Two Brothers.”

Prince Timoteo - David Skaats Foster (1852-1926) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
Satire on lost race fiction. In the novel the lost race is found on top of a mesa in the middle of a lake in Tuscany, which they settled in the fifteenth century.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Probable Tales - W[illiam] Stebbing ed. [written by] (1832-1926) (Longmans, Green, 1899)
Series of mostly satirical short stories describing countries with one unusual custom.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Pure Causeway - Evelyn Harvey Roberts (Charles H. Kerr, 1899)
The first part of the book “The Travail of the Ages” (7-184) is on the travails of Christians in the contemporary world and discussion about the problems of being a true Christian in the modern world. Part II, “The Servant of JHVH” (185-263) is a eutopia describing the establishment of a city at Jerusalem that provides the basis for living a truly Christian life, which should involve an entire community. Limited hours of work. “You see, when all the people work, not for money-profit but simply for the needed things, and when we all co-operate in the making of them, there is enough made in much less time than you would think” (191-92). Arduous or particularly unpleasant work having even shorter hours, and such work is shared by everyone in the community. Each house is sufficiently isolated to ensure privacy. As much done in the open air as possible, including eating. People can “eat at home, in the ordinary lifeless way,” if they choose (196). No restricting clothes. People generally eat their two meals a day together with breakfast at home. Everyone must serve a year as a novice before being allowed to join. Stress on education from birth with everyone educated in productive work. The book is dedicated to Prof. George D. Herron (1862-1925), who was Professor of Applied Christianity at Iowa (now Grinnell) College and a leader of the Kingdom Movement, a particularly radical part of the Social Gospel Movement; see 1904 Herron.
Keywords: Male author

A Son of Africa. A Romamce - Anna [Dunphy] Brémont comtesse de (1864-1922) (Greening, 1899)
Mostly an adventure novel, but it includes a short section in which the immortal Queen of Sheba prophecies a New Jerusalem to be founded in South Africa by Jews and Christians (96-111). Extremely unusual for the time, the novel depicts an interracial marriage positively.
Rpt. as Was It a Sin? London: Hutchinson, 1906.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"A Story of The Days To Come" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Tales of Space and Time, 1899)
Dystopia controlled by trusts and the Labour Company. No family life.
U.S. ed. (New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899), 165-324. Rpt. in Amazing Stories 3.1-2 (April - May 1928): 6-25, 134-47; and in The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells. Ed. John Hammond (London: J.M. Dent, 1998), 333-98. Originally published as a linked series of stories in the Pall Mall Magazine in 1899 as follows: "The Cure for Love. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)" 18 (June): 186-99; "The Vacant Country. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)" 18 (July): 309-23; "The Ways of the City. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2090-2095.)" 18 (August): 491-505; "Underneath. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2098.)" 19 (September): 81-94; and "The Magnanimity of the Man of Pleasure. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2097.)" 19 (October): 222-34 [L(NL)]. In the 1900 version, the last story is changed significantly, and the title is changed to "Bindon Intervenes."
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Strange Discovery - Charles Romyn Dake (1849-99) (H. Ingalls Kimball, 1899)
Continuation of Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (New York: Harper & Bros., 1838). Eutopia near the South Pole controlled by "properly educated feeling" rather than reason. Lost race of Romans, with a monarchy and servants but also with liberty under a constitution.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Strange Story" - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) (The Commercial Exchange Gazette. The Official Organ of the New Zealand Exchange Co., Ltd. (New Zealand), 1899)
Establishment of a commercial exchange bank and the concomitant ability to trade without money brings eutopia. See also 1896 Flürsheim and the two other 1899 Flürscheims.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; German author; Male author

Tom Cannell's Holiday: A Queensland Tale of Love, Logic, and the Land Tax - James Wilkinson (1854-1915) (Railroad Times Office, 1899)
Fictional exposition of the tax on land values proposed by Henry George (1839-97) that suggests the eutopia it could produce. 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.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Trembling of Borealis - Paul D'Argenteuil [pseud.] (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
Dystopian satire showing the US as a plutocracy depicting stereotyped characters and the various machinations used to control or manipulate the poor. One theme is the attempted seduction of the beautiful daughter of a poor man. Includes a short list of mostly standard populist reforms (296-97) that will end the plutocracy and bring about a better society and which Congress is forced to pass. The reforms are on the conservative end of the populist spectrum and include taking the vote away from African Americans, who are depicted as illiterate and unintelligent, limiting the right to vote of immigrants, and “restricting emigration.”

"A Trip to Paradoxia" - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) (A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction, 1899)
Satire. Paradoxia has completely dysfunctional social arrangements, but its inhabitants believe everything is working well.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Uncle Sam in Business - Daniel Bond (Charles H. Kerr, 1899)
Populist eutopia established when the people were given the initiative and referendum as tools to bring about change directly. A Cooperative Commonwealth is established, and the government becomes a business paying the highest prices for products.
Keywords: Male author

When the Sleeper Wakes - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Harper & Bros, 1899)
Archetypal Wells dystopia in which class divisions have worsened. Rural life has disappeared and been replaced with great class-stratified cities. Religion, and everything else, has to be profit-making.
Originally pub. in The Graphic 59 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 9-11, 41-43, 73-75, 105-07, 137-39, 169-71, 201-03, 233-35, 265-67, 297-99, 329-31, 361-63, 393-95, 433-35, 465-67, 497-99, 529-31, 561-63. Rpt. in Harper's Weekly 43.2194 - 2211 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 11-13; 39-40; 65-69; 93-95; 117-19; 141-42; 165-67; 191-93; 215-17; 239-41; 263-65; 287-88; 311-13; 339-41; 376-77; 399-401; 427-28; 451-53. Rpt. as "The Sleeper Awakes" in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume II The Island of Doctor Moreau The Sleeper Awakes (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924), 173-480. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories Quarterly 1.1 (Winter 1928): 55-126, 136; ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1994. Later ed. entitled The Sleeper Wakes. London: Thomas Nelson, 1910. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000; ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Patrick Parrinder (xiii-xxvii), a "Note on the Text" by Patrick Parrinder (xxix-xxxvi), and "Notes" by Andy Sawyer (235-52); and ed. John Sutherland. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sutherland (9-41), “A Note on the Text” (43-46), “Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews” (61-65), “Appendix B: Two Prefaces and an ‘Afterword’” (267-71), “Appendix C: Illustrations by Henri Lanos” (273-76), “Appendix C: Utopian Quarrels [Brief excerpts from Hudson, A Crystal Age; Morris, News From Nowhere; and Bellamy, Looking Backward]” (277-88), “Appendix D: Film Versions of When the Sleeper Wakes (289-90), and “Works Cited and Select Bibliography” (291-92). Esperanto ed. as La Dormanto Vekigás. Tradukita De A. Frank. London: Esperanto Pub. Co., 1929.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Wise or Otherwise. How to Solve the Social Problem, and Reorganise Society on such a basis that class Distinction would cease to exist, and the Total Abolition of the Competitive System - Paul Ferris (P. Offer, Printer, 1899)
Eutopia. New Constitution, the first clause of which is to nationalise land. Abolish the military. No money. Stress on education. The bulk of the pamphlet consists of a legislative debate on the constitution, with members named Compassion, Imitation, Cautiousness, Calculation, Spirituality, Hope, and so forth.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Wonderful Story of a Shipwreck and Its Consequences" - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) (The Commercial Exchange Gazette. The Official Organ of the New Zealand Exchange Co., Ltd. (New Zealand), 1899)
Establishment of a commercial exchange bank and the concomitant ability to trade without money brings eutopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; German author; Male author

The Wreck of the "Erthshire" or, The Economics of Coral Island - [Richard Arthur] [Hould] (1839-1920); [Frederick M.] [King] (Published by the National Single Tax League. Printed by Isaac Dunshea, 1899)
Brief single tax eutopia. A shipwreck strands two men on an isolated island; the first to arrive claims all the land and rents a part to the other in exchange for a daily supply of coconuts. Years later they are found and discover that the world had all accepted the single tax and peace and prosperity reign. The idea of a single tax on land originated with 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.
Serialized in The Liberator (Auckland), no. 83 - 87 (December 19, 1906 - April 1907): 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Wreck of the South Pole" - Charles Curtz Hahn (1858-1934) (The Wreck of the South Pole or the Great Dissembler And Other Strange Tales, 1899)
Detailed eutopia located in a temperate area around the South Pole. Stress on purity in both men and women. "Mind power" allows a person to project themselves and to speak and act at a distance. The people call themselves theosophists or adepts in the occult sciences. Servants and lower classes do the work and fish by hypnotizing the fish. Hunters are licensed and required to work set hours to provide game for those assigned to them; they hunt by hypnosis. Class status determined by "mind power". Travel by astral projection; mail sent by astral projection. Weather made. Police prevent crime by reading minds, and those inclined to crime are treated by having thoughts projected into their minds rather than being punished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Zerelda. A Story of Love and Death - Louise F. Suddick (1856-1943) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
An unusual heaven as a eutopia, but there are higher heavens. The inhabitants come from a variety of planets. Those who die young become adults. Marriage can occur in heaven, and marriage partners will find each other. In this one there is a city with parks, trees, and fountains and without dust, smoke, or unpleasant noises. People work, but even physical labor is not tiring. No harsh weather but some seasonal change. A second city is inhabited by people from many planets and has architecture reflecting those planets. No poor. Those who lived selfish lives are servants as a way of overcoming their past. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Anglo-Saxons Onward! A Romance of the Future - Benj[amin] Rush Davenport (Hubbell Pub Co, 1898)
Mostly adventure and romance in a setting of patriotism and racism reflecting manifest destiny. Commerce and Christianity are the keys to a better future. His Blood Will Tell: The Strange Story of a Son of Ham. Illus. J.H. Donahey. Cleveland, OH: Caxton Book Co., 1902 is an even more explicitly white supremacist novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Armageddon. A Tale of Love, War, and Invention - Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) (Rand, McNally, 1898)
Dystopia. The world is constantly on the edge of war and the United States and Great Britain form an alliance against some European states, there is a brief battle, which the Anglo-Saxon alliance wins. The Alliance sets terms for peace and the construction of a very powerful weapon ensures that there will be peace. Strongly nationalist and racist.
Rpt. without the subtitle and with an "Introduction" by Richard Gid Powers (v-xviii). Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Awakening of Noahville - Franklin H. North (New York Publishing Co., 1898)
A satire, similar in some ways to 1889 Clemens, in which two Yankees visit a lost kingdom in North America that is still in the middle ages. Heavily illustrated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Belfast in the Year 2000 - Frank [Francis] McGibben (1833/34-1906) (Belfast News Letter, 1898)
Eutopia inspired by 1888 Bellamy.
Rpt. ed. Tom Donaldson [Belfast, Northern Ireland]: Donaldson Archive, [2000].
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

A Buried Mystery - Clement A[lfred] Mendham (1859-1941) (Digby, Long & Co., 1898)
Lost race novel that depicts a eutopian country in the interior of South America. The only limit on freedom is that no new ideas may be propagated because the people are happy as they are. All things taken from a public storehouse. Marriage by lot at age 20. Love enters and most of the novel concerns issues that arise from this "new idea." The eutopia is destroyed in an earthquake.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Can a Man Live Forever? - J. Emile Hix (Western News Company, 1898)
Answers the question yes. Use only distilled water. Replace blood with a substitute. The result is a eutopia of eternal life.

"The City Beyond: A Story of One Who Dwells in the Next Planet” - Agnes L. Pratt (Godey’s Magazine (New York), 1898)
A very detailed first heaven (there are higher ones) as a eutopia
Keywords: Female author

The Co-opolitan; A Story of the Co-operative Commonwealth of Idaho - [Francis H.] [Clarke] (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Detailed eutopia that is the result of a successful cooperative movement. Idaho is chosen as an appropriate state with a small enough population that cooperators would be able to take over the state politically within a short time after establishing cooperative communities there. The city of Co-opolis is established as the movement's center. The novel describes the success of cooperation in Idaho and its spread throughout the rest of the country.

A Corner in Lightning” - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Pearson’s Magazine, 1898)
The dystopia when capitalists try to control lightning to produce electricity. The author changed his legal name from Jones to Griffith in 1894. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Doctor Jones' Picnic - S[amuel] E. Chapman M.D. (1847-1930) (Whitaker & Ray Co., 1898)
The novel is primarily concerned with a voyage to the North Pole in an aluminum balloon, but there are discussions of the improvements in society and in medicine in particular.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Gloria Mundi” - Harold Frederic (1856-1898) (The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1898)
A romance and a depiction of English life but including a brief description of a community that can be thought of as utopian and a presentation of the emancipation of women. The American author was the London correspondent for The New York Times from 1884 until his death.
Repub. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1898. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1898. Rpt. ed. Larry Bromley as The Harold Frederic Edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986, with a “History of the Text” (345-70), “Textual Introduction” (371-87), and “Textual Apparatus” (387-481).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light - Samuel Bowles (Spirit) (1826-78); Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (Medium) (b. 1844) (Star Publishing Co, 1898)
Domestic Heaven. See also 1880 Twing, 1881 Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hellsville, U.S.A." - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Pearson's Weekly, 1898)
Economic reform in the United States beginning with anti-trust legislation followed by something close to civil war of rich against poor with the rich enlisting the Irish and black against white. After the war was won, the problem of what to do with the losers led to the worst and most useless people put on a reservation called Hellsville. While the U.S. becomes a eutopia, Hellsville is a dystopia is destroyed by meteors.
Rpt. in his Gambles With Destiny. By George Griffith [pseud.]. (London: F.V. White, 1899), 3-88.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"In the Next World" A Sequel to the Story "Two Brothers" (Ptd. by Chapple and Kemp, 1898)
Sequel to 1898 Augustinus following one brother to Heaven and the other to Hell and tracing their lives there in alternating chapters. Heaven is bliss, and Hell is eternal pain and regret. See also 1899 Augustinus.

Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven - Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832-1904) (David C. Cook, Publishing Co, 1898)
Heaven as a eutopia of perfection where the author says she lived with her family members who had died.
[2nd ed?] with a "Supplemental Chapter" and bound with David C. Cook "Jesus the Resurrection Now Or, Our Loved Ones Given Back to Us Here." Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, nd. Rpt. As Within Heaven's Gates. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1984. Rpt. as Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1914 including a “Supplemental Chapter” (137-48) responding to comments and “Jesus the Resurrection Now; Or, Our Loved Ones given back to us here” (149-65) by David C. Cook. 165 pp. Rpt. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1922. Rpt. with one illus., but without the “Supplementary Chapter” or the Cook as Intra Muros: My Dream of Heaven. Forest Grove, OR: Book Searchers, nd. [
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ionia; Land of Wise Men and Fair Women - Craig, Alexander (E.A. Weeks, 1898)
Detailed eutopia. All land owned by the municipality. Mixture of public and private ownership of other property. Little government and laws are few and simple. No alcohol, and temperance is a major theme of the novel. Population kept low. Small family farms with no hired farm laborers. Eugenics.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Keepers of the People - Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1898)
The novel focuses on the way an Englishman establishes a dynasty in an Asia country by first defeating its enemies and then establishing Western agriculture and ways of life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand." A Text Book of the Better Civilization Within Reach, Which Is Identical with the Kingdom of Heaven as it Was Proclaimed by Jesus of Nazareth - C[harles] W[illiam] Wooldridge M.D. (1847-1908) (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Detailed utopia. Religious version of the cooperative commonwealth. Working four hours a day between 21 and 50 means that most of a person's life is under their own control, and the social system is designed to assist in the best use of that time. Direct democracy through the initiative, referendum, and recall. Municipal ownership of utilities. See also 1902 Wooldridge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last War or The Triumph of the English Tongue. A Story of the Twenty-Sixth Century, Compiled from the Official Notes of Newman, Reporter to the President of the United America - S[amuel] W. Odell (1864-1948) (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Eutopia of a united Europe, the Americas, and the rest of the English-speaking world dominated by white Anglo-Saxons that have followed the lead of the U.S., which, after the voluntary, supported migration of blacks to Africa, has established a reformed capitalism. Limit on wealth; corporations replaced by large cooperative industries; and everyone is a property-holder with a homestead. Temperance. Eugenic laws and the examination of morals make marriage more difficult, but divorce is easier. The causes of crime have been eliminated. The text, though, is mostly on the preparations for war with a new Holy Empire led by the Czar-pope of the Russian Empire, which the Anglo Saxons win.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Legal Revolution of 1902 - [Bert J.] [Wellman] (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Populist eutopia. The revolution takes place through calling a constitutional convention to amend the U. S. Constitution, with details given on the amendments. Direct election of the President, Vice-President, and Senate. Graduated income tax. Future amendments possible by a direct vote of the people. Proportional representation. All property held by an individual over $500,000 to revert to the government. Concern to create uniform laws across the country. Nationalization of agriculture with huge irrigated, technologically sophisticated farms.
Rpt. incorrectly attributed to William Stanley Child. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Mission of Machinery” - Henry Matthews Williams (The Arena, 1898)
An essay that argues that machinery as used by capitalism is producing a dystopia, but that under public ownership will produce the standard socialist eutopia, which is briefly described.
Keywords: Male author

"A Modern Cooperative Colony (A Whimsey)" - J[ames] W[illiam] Sullivan (b. 1848) (So The World Goes, 1898)
Detailed description of an intentional community outside New York City with an easy commute by train to jobs in the city. No fences or telegraph poles. Separate houses built by individuals, so no uniformity. The people formed different cooperatives to undertake different activities, including building a town hall and running the school. No government; no police. Some satire on journalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mr. Jonnemacher's Machine. The Port to which we drifted - [Walter Doty] [Reynolds] (b. 1860) (Knickerbocker Book Company, 1898)
Dystopia in which machines put people out of work and only benefit the wealthy. Corrupt political system. Revolution. The book is written as if from a future eutopia, which is only alluded to in the preface and in the last chapter. In the eutopia machinery is used for the benefit of all under an honest political system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The [My on cover] Sovereign Guide; A Tale of Eden - William Amos Miller (Geo. Rice & Sons, 1898)
Short description of a eutopia inside the Earth called Eden, which is related to the Biblical Eden but is not identical to it. Perpetual summer with one rainy season. Language of thirty-six sounds. Hereditary monarchies, each with twelve counselors. National disputes settled by arbitration. Few laws. No capital punishment. Vegetarian. Christianity the only religion. No denominational differences. No fasting or penance but feast and enjoy.” Radical separation of church and state with no state law affecting the church and no church law affecting the state. Labor is compulsory for men between twenty and seventy-five; married woman cannot work outside the home if their husband is able to work.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mysteries of Destiny Island; or Champlain Valley and Settlers and Future - Alld, D. (Np, 1898)
The book is divided into four parts, with the third and fourth (45-82) describing the U. S. as a technologically advanced religious eutopia. Concerned with the dangers of “foreign” culture and religion. Set in the Champlain Valley of northeastern New York and western Vermont. Brief synopsis on page 2.
Keywords: US author

The New Gulliver - Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840-1907) (The Marion Press, 1898)
An American linguist is shipwrecked on the island of 1726 Swift's Houyhnhnms. After Gulliver had left, a large number of small, unintelligent animals without speech but shaped like the Houyhnhnms flooded the country and were only driven out with the help of the Yahoos. As a result, the belief in a Supreme Houyhnhnm became common, and this led to controversies and divisions. The Yahoos survive much as before. During a discussion of evolution, which is completely rejected by the religious Houyhnhnm, a disaster strikes and the island sinks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"One Afternoon: A Department Store Romance" - Isaac Anderson (The Yellow Book, 1898)
Satire on department stores set in the future. Everything, including marriages and divorces, is available.
Rpt. in The Railroad Trainmens’ Journal 15.2 (February 1898): 157-58.
Keywords: Male author

“Platform of The New Time” (The New Time. A Magazine of Social Progress/New Occasions, 1898)
Proposals for the development of a world-wide democracy, including “Direct Legislation by Majority Vote; a true and Practical Democracy; Public Ownership and Operation of Natural Monopolies; the first move for a perfect system of co-operation, production and distribution; a Scientific Money System; based on the Credit and Faith of the Government (The People); and a foreign policy designed to complete the overthrow of monarchical governments and to hasten the coming of an International Democracy.”

The Practical City. A Future City Romance; or A Study in Environment - [Warren S.] [Rehm] (Lancaster County Magazine, 1898)
Detailed authoritarian eutopia is presented in a small, 810-acre city in a square bordered on three sides with farmlands and a stream on the fourth. Land bought and sold by the city rather than individuals. Citizens vote on many issues with a two-thirds majority required for most decisions. Both men and women vote, although a certificate of education is required to be able to vote and to marry.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rev. Annabel Lee. A Tale of To-morrow - Robert [Williams] Buchanan (1841-1901) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1898)
A scientific eutopia set in the middle of the twenty-first century without religion needs a religious revival to overcome too great a dependence on reason. Eugenics policy, which prohibited marriage between those deemed unfit, is referred to favorably and quoted in Harry Campbell, “An Essay on the Marriage of the Unfit.” The Lancet 2.3915 (September 10, 1898):680. Euthanasia is practiced, mostly for the old but can also be applied to the disabled.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Rev. Josiah Hilton. The Apostle of the New Age - Farnell, George (Journal of Commerce Company, Printers and Publishers, 1898)
A novel about the needed transition between the present and the future of 1888 and 1897 Bellamy through an economy based on labor notes. Most of the novel concerns the conversion of the title character from supporting capitalism to opposing it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Revolt of the Horses - Walter Copland Perry (1814-1911) (Grant Richards, 1898)
Novel based on 1726 Swift. The Houyhnhnms lead a revolt of the horses in Great Britain and establish a Houyhnhnm state. The Yahoos are only adept at killing each other.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Rise and Fall of the United States; A Leaf from History. A.D. 2060 - A Diplomat [pseud.] (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898)
Political tract about the future collapse of the United States after a revolution against the over-centralized, corrupt plutocracy, which had brought poverty.

The Seal of Heaven - H. W. Fry (Marshall Brothers, 1898)
Depiction of the millennium. See also 1897 Fry.

"Sketches of the Future" - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) (Sketches of the Future, 1898)
Satire on women in power, including "The Foreign Secretary's Baby", where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); "The Lord Chancellor's Husband" (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; "The New Childhood", which describes the power of the "Children's Union" (31-42); and "The Pole of Heredity" (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst.
Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Socialist Parable” - Herbert N. Casson (The New Time. A Magazine of Social Progress, 1898)
A happy, agricultural, cooperative socialist village is briefly convinced by a warped man that capitalism is best.
Keywords: Male author

Society of the Future - Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) (J.A. Wayland, 1898)
Essay that, while mostly concerned with and critical of contemporary conditions, also describes a socialist utopia that has eliminated poverty and child labor and radically reduced the hours of work.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform - E[benezer] Howard (1850-1928) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1898)
Essay describing a suburban eutopia combining town and country. Basis for the Garden City Movement. On the movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
Rpt. of this edition with commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, and Colin Ward. London: Routledge, 2003. Better known as Garden Cities of To-Morrow (Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"). London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902.  As Garden Cities of To-Morrow. Ed., with a Preface (9-28) by F[rederic] J. Osborn [and] With an Introductory Essay [“The Garden City Idea and Modern Planning”] (29-40) by Lewis Mumford. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1965. With the exception of the 2003 edition, later editions are all under the title of the 2nd edition.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Travels of Chan Ching Chong: An Autobiography” (The Straits Chinese Magazine (Singapore), 1898)
The story traces the travels from an early age of a child who was swept away on a river and rescued by seamen. At each island that he visited, one focus was on the position of women. On one island, they dominated and mistreated the men. On others, there was considerable equality. The journal (1897-1907), a quarterly, was noted for its opposition to patriarchy and its support for women’s equality. Almost certainly a Singaporean male author, likely the journal’s editor Lim Boon Keng (1869-1957).
Keywords: Male author; Singaporean author

The Treasure of the Ice: A Romance - Eugene Shade Bisbee (1864-1933) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898)
A lost race novel depicting a classical Greek civilization near Antarctica as a eutopia. Mostly the type of adventure usual to lost race novels where conflict within the discovered society puts the discoverers at risk, and they must escape.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Two Brothers: A Story of the Twentieth Century - Augustinus [pseud.] (Ptd. by Chapple and Kemp, 1898)
The struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and materialism, with Wales becoming Roman Catholic, followed by Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming. See also 1898 “In the Next World”: A Sequel to the Story “Two Brothers” and 1899 Augustinus.

The Vicious Virtuoso - Louis Lombard (1861-1927) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898)
A romance and adventure novel that includes a story of an ancient Egyptian race that was greatly advanced both spiritually and scientifically and produced a society in which all lived well. Everyone had equal food and clothing. No money. No religion, no political factions, and no patriotism. Higher education only for the elite and women excluded because it made them "less fit to bear and nourish children" (111). Euthanasia encouraged. Eugenics. Divorce easy with remarriage within a year required. The eutopia is destroyed by organized religion.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Dana Estes, 1909
Keywords: French author; Male author; US author

Waiting for the Signal. A Novel - Henry O. Morris (The Schulte Publishing Company, 1898)
Mostly the story of a successful peaceful revolution in the U.S. against the "arrogant and vicious plutocracy" (v), but Chapter XL, "The Dawn of a New Day," presents a brief picture of the eutopia created. A constitutional convention is convened, which includes many of the well-known reformers of the time. The convention first drafts and adopts a new "Declaration of Independence" (335-36) and then a new Constitution (337-53). The constitution, which follows the basic structural outlines of the previous one, includes the Bill of Rights and previous amendments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944); E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) (J.W. Arrowsmith, 1898)
Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The Warstock: A Tale of To-morrow - [William Oliver] [Greener] (1862-1935) (W.W. Greener, 1898)
Mostly adventure and future war but is concerned with patent rights and shows how inventions can both improve life and give power for good to inventors. Argument that improved patent rights will inspire inventors to greater efforts. The first invention is wireless telegraphy, which allows instant communication. A "white" republic called Cristalla is established in Africa in which inventors will be the only aristocrats. A new weapon makes Cristalla invincible, and it defeats Europe and brings world peace.
Keywords: English author; Male author

When All Men Starve: Showing Home England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, and the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply - Charles [Henry Alfred] Gleig (1862-1945) (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1898)
As a result of the government’s poor policies, England loses its influence in Africa, is blockaded by European governments, the government falls, and a rebellion ensues followed by looting and killing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The White Women” - Mary E[lizabeth] Coleridge (1861-1907) (Poems, 1898)
Amazons presented in eutopian terms. Said to be “From a legend of Malay, told by Hugh Clifford (78).
Rpt. in The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge. Ed. Theresa Whistler (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954), 212-13. The “Preface” to the 1908 ed. says that this poem and eleven others were first published “in a volume by several authors called ‘The Garland’,” which is probably The Garland of New Poetry by Various Authors. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899, which contains twelve poems by the author but not this one. The 1954 edition places the poem as 1900 without explanation.
Keywords: English author; Female author

With Gyves of Gold. A Novel - Henry Athey; A. Herbert Bowers (G.W. Dillingham, 1898)
Eutopia. Much discussion of what the eutopia will look like and ends with a description of the Christian eutopia in operation. Believe in the nearness of the millennium. Spiritualism. Anti-egalitarian. Cooperation. With trusts/monopolies gone, business flourishes, wages rise, slums are cleared, and education improved. All other nations followed the lead of the U.S. Women's proper sphere is the home.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Aerial Brickfield” - John Mills (Windsor Magazine, 1897)
The dystopia created when a capitalist begins to sell air. For a work using a similar idea, see 1915 England, The Air Trust. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203.
Keywords: Male author

The Brand of Hell; Or, Life in Babylon - H. W. Fry (George Stoneman, 1897)
The coming of the Antichrist. See also 1898 Fry.

Colonizing in a Great City - [G. B] [De Bernardi] (Labor Exchange Publications, 1897)
Mutual aid checks improve society. The book is fiction describing the beginning of the system. . See also 1890 De Bernardi and his The Equitable Industrial Association of America. A Beneficent Co-operative Association for the Employment of Idle Labor Through Mutual Exchange. Sedalia, MO: J.C. Parmerlee, 1888 (NN).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dawn of Civilisation; or, England in the Nineteenth Century - J[ames] C[armichael] Spence (Watts & Co, 1897)
Future eutopia where all arbitrary laws and taxes have been abolished. See also his non-utopian Freedom--Our Birthright: A Protest Against Taxes. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. by Lambert & Co., 1887.
The cover says that the chapter on marriage had been issued as an official publication of the Legitimation League.
Keywords: Male author

The Day of Resis - Lillian Frances Mentor (G.W. Dillingham, 1897)
Lost Egyptian race eutopia in Africa. All the people are tall, well-formed, and appear to be no older than middle aged. This is made possible by controlling what people eat and limiting work hours. Everyone above twenty-five is a teacher and everyone learns a wide variety of trades. All goods are free for the asking. At eighteen couples are assigned marriage partners after a detailed mental and physical examination. Animals larger and better formed than usual. Lots of gold, onyx, and jewels. On the Day of Resis, the only national holiday, all who have reached the age of sixty-five are put to death. Much of the novel is a standard lost race novel with adventure and the escape of the outsiders.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Equality - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (D. Appleton, 1897)
Expansion and modification of the ideas found in his 1888 Looking Backward. The most significant changes are in women’s position, which is now clearly equal to men, and in the political system, which is international and much more democratic, including, in many circumstances direct votes by the people. Considerably more on the nineteenth century and on the revolution. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968; New York: Greenwood Press, 1969; and New York: AMS Press, 1970. Chapter 23 was often reprinted as The Parable of the Water Tank.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Faithful City. A Romance - Herbert Morrah (Methuen, 1897)
Adventure story with utopian elements. The faithful city was created and led by one man.
Keywords: Male author

The Future Power; or, the Great Revolution of 190- - Z. S. Hendow [pseud?] (The Roxburghe Press, 1897)
Fairly standard socialist eutopia sketched in. Women not financially dependent on husbands but only work in the home. The novel is mostly on the revolution.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 83-120. Editor's notes, 81, 202.

The Great Seven--The Greater Nine; A Story for the People - Jno. [John] H[eber] Flood, Jr. (W.B. Conkey, 1897)
Struggle against monopolies is successful, and this brings about a better society with much of the novel on the dystopia created by the monopolies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Henry Cadavere: A Study of Life and Work - H[enry] W[entworth] Bellsmith (1849-1926) (Commonwealth Company, 1897)
Eutopia presented through the story of a successful socialist intentional community. Emphasis on the period before the actual establishment of the community but includes statements about it after a year and after five years. Includes the "Constitution of the National Union of Co-operative Labor" (92-100). Separate households. A "matrons' guild" will be assigned "education of the young, the conduct of the supply and provision store, health medicine and amusement" (93).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Illusion of a Jubilee Committee-Man entitled "My Record or The Rusty Clock Tower of Christchurch" - Professor F. G. M. Wise [pseud?] (Irons, Clarke and Vaughan, 1897)
A dream of a future Christchurch with the emphasis on technological change and the improvements it brings.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

In Brighter Climes, Or Life in Socioland. A Realistic Novel - Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) (Chavannes and Company, 1897)
Continuation of 1892 Chavannes. This novel traces the experience of a young couple from the U.S. fleeing unemployment, settling in Socioland, and gradually becoming integrated into its society. There are no rich and poor and all must work; there are few laws and both men and women vote directly on legislation; much land and most manufacturing owned in common; and local townships mostly control their own affairs within the general egalitarian structure. See also his The Concentration of Wealth: A Study of its Causes, Results and Remedies. New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893. He wrote and mostly self-published many works on economic issues and health.
Keywords: Male author; Swiss author; US author

"In the Deep of Time" - George Parsons Lathrop (1851-98) (English Illustrated Magazine, 1897)
A man is put to sleep for three hundred years and awakens in a technological eutopia in communication with Mars, which is in advance of earth. World federalism without democracy. No one lived in cities except by government draft. If a person is exceptional, the government chooses who they will marry. "Degenerates," on the other hand, were kept in asylums and not allowed to marry. The author's note says that the story is based on conversations with the inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), and Edison provided notes to Lathrop, who wrote the story. Thirty-three pages of Edison’s notes for the story can be found in the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University (http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm).
Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket, 1972), 47-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In the New Capital - John Galbraith (1846-1914) (Toronto News, 1897)
A future eutopia in Ottawa. Canada is independent but with close ties to Britain. Christian. Social equality. Cooperation. Single tax on land. 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.
Rpt. ed. R. Douglas Francis with the subtitle A Nineteenth-century View of Ottawa in the Twenty-first Century. [Manotick, ON, Canada]: Penumbra Press, 2000.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Inequality" - Bellward Enemy [pseud.] (The Yellow Book, 1897)
Satire on 1888 Bellamy.

The Ivory Queen: A Story of Strange Adventure - John Pendleton (1848-1926?) (Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1897)
Lost race novel. Mostly adventure but ends with a eutopia in Africa which is a successful agricultural society in an isolated valley under a white king descended from early Egyptian settlers. Odd novel for the period in that it includes successful cross-dressing and, together with some fairly standard racism, a successful interracial marriage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

John Harvey. A Tale of the Twentieth Century - [James M.] [Galloway] (Charles H. Kerr, 1897)
Socialist eutopia created within the United States by a wealthy man. Includes a diagram of the proposed city. People are required to work, and the community is required to provide work. Becomes national.
2nd ed. as Lock and Key. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Loma; A Citizen of Venus - William Windsor (b. 1857?) (Windsor and Lewis, 1897)
Eutopia set on Venus and based on phrenology. Women and men are more nearly equal than they were at the time. Free love with the emphasis on love rather than sex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Tribes And The Land of Nod. An Original Natural Gas Story - Artemus P. Kerr (1851-1901) (Press of the Indiana Newspaper Union, 1897)
Lost race eutopia in which people rarely ate anything but fruits and vegetables, and men and women wear similar clothing. Simple furniture. Ten large households. Little work needed; men fished, and women did spun and wove. Gold common. The visitor from the outside (brought by a tornado) establishes a school to teach English and then various technologies that introduce complexity and conflict.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Marooned On Australia: Being the Narrative of Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits "In Terra Australis Incognita" About the Year 1630 - Ernest Favenc (1846?-1908) (Blackie and Sons, 1897)
Lost race novel that includes a short eutopian section describing an arcadia in a valley in the Australian desert (31-52). Simple religion. Racist.
New ed. London: Blackie and Sons, 1905.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"The Motor Car. A Drama of To-morrow" (Evening Post (New Zealand), 1897)
Satire set in a future in which cars have destroyed London and everyone has moved out. Uses the trope of a New Zealander visiting the ruins.
Rpt. from the London Referee (not located).

New Era. Presenting the Plans for the New Era Union To Help Develop and Utilize the Best Resources of this Country. Also to Employ the Best Skill There is Available to Realize the Highest Degree of Prosperity for All Who Will Help To Attain It. Based on Practical and Successful Business Methods - [Charles Willard] [Caryl] (1858-1926) (Author, 1897)
Detailed eutopia. The New Era Union will provide capital so that workers can buy their own mines and so forth with the Union making a profit. Includes illustrations and detailed plans of the city.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. There is also, in the New York Public Library, a typescript by Caryl entitled "THE NEW ERA A PLAY INTRODUCING THE PLANS FOR A GRAND NEW ERA MODEL CITY TO BE THE MOST COMPLETE, WONDERFUL AND GRAND PERMANENT EXPOSITION AND EMPORIUM FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD IN ADDITION TO BEING THE GRANDEST AND MOST PERFECT EDUCATIONAL, AMUSEMENT, INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENCE MODEL CITY OF THIS WORLD. ALSO REPRESENTING THE PLANS FOR AN ORGANIZATION TO BE CALLED 'THE NEW ERA UNION' THAT WILL UNITE UNDER THE MOST PERFECT SYSTEM POSSIBLE ALL HUMAN BEINGS IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD IN THE COURSE OF TIME WHO DESIRE THAT THEIR FELLOW MAN AS WELL AS THEMSELVES SHALL ENJOY THE MOST PERFECT PEACE, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY That is Possible Here on Earth Under the Laws of JUSTICE AND RECIPROCITY and who are willing TO DO ALL IN THEIR POWER TO ATTAIN THE SAME." © 1896. The "Introduction" to the book purports to reprint a lengthy article from the Rocky Mountain News of September 3, 1897, that discusses the project and the play, but September 3 is said to be Good Friday, which was April 18 in 1897, this is fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Industrial Era of Wealth and Prosperity or Social and Other Problems Solved - Eon [pseud.] (E.W. Cole, 1897)
Eutopia based on cooperatives. An appendix (47-49) includes the structure of a proposed Victorian Association of Rural Industries.
Keywords: Australian author

"The Passing of Niagara" - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) (The Independent, 1897)
Satire on the technological utopia. The United States becomes entirely practical, focused on making money and producing consumption goods. Niagara Falls is eliminated; the tides are fenced off to produce electricity; the churches all taken over and turned into commercial colleges; veterans benefits abolished; libraries and art galleries sold; horses, dogs, birds, trees, and flowers eliminated; and food made into pills. It was so unsatisfying that everyone left the country.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Perfection City - Mrs. [Adela Elizabeth] Orpen (1855-1928) (Hutchinson, 1897)
Novel about a rural U.S. intentional community. The novel traces the history of the community from its eutopian hopes to the collapses brought about by personal conflicts.
U.S. ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1897.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Posterity; Its Verdicts and Its Methods or Democracy A.D. 2100 - [Alex] [Newton] (Williams and Norgate, 1897)
Authoritarian eutopia based on eugenics--"We assist with evolution, which consists partly in the selection and rejection of the unfit" (13). Citizenship is restricted to the mentally, morally, and physically best. Education stresses vocational training.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

“Prehistoric Music. A Lecture Delivered by Professor Boremall Before the Members of the Society of Antediluvian Art, July, 2897” - Edward A[lgernon] Baughan (1865-1938) (Monthly Musical Record (London), 1897)
Satire presenting the music of the Victorian era from the perspective of a future eutopia. There is little about the future, but it is stated that peace prevails because disputes are settled by arbitration. Music in the future is a central part of moral teaching.
Keywords: English author; Male author

President John Smith; The Story of a Peaceful Revolution - Frederick Upham Adams (1859-1921) (Charles H. Kerr, 1897)
Socialist eutopia including direct democracy with a new constitution for the U.S. (237-46), which specifies that the legislative power rests with the people and that the people directly elect the Cabinet rather than have it appointed by the President. The cover of the Library of Progress edition has "The right of a citizen of the United States to demand and obtain work at wages sufficient to support himself and his family shall never be abridged. It shall be the duty of the government to guarantee employment to all who demand it" (on 147 of the Unity Library edition).  See also his non-utopian economic novel. The Kidnapped Millionaires; A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics. Boston, MA: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1901.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Another ed. adds (Written in 1920) to the title. No. 24 of the Library of Progress (August 1897). Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1897
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Raid of the "Detrimental": Being the True History of the Great Disappearance of 1862; Related By Several of Those Implicated And Others; And Now First Set Forth - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897)
Mostly adventure and satire set on a South Seas island with particular satire on gender relations.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rapara or the Rights of the Individual in the State - Archibald Forsyth (1826-1908) (T. Fisher Unwin, 1897)
Extremely detailed eutopia based on what the author calls "Equalistic Individualism" in which natural resources belong to the community and produced wealth belongs to those producing it. Land nationalization. History of a country generally accepted as New Zealand, with changes.
Australian ed. lists the publisher as Sydney, NSW, Australia: William Dymock/London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. The cover of the Australia ed. has Right rather than Rights, but with Rights on the title page.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Scottish author

The Star of the Sea: A Historical Novel - N. Ter Gregor [pseud?] (John Heywood, 1897)
Complex time travel novel in which the protagonists travel from Persia in the sixth century BCE to the past, the moon, Victorian Britain, and an undated eutopia that combines religion and technology.
Keywords: UK author

That Tree of Eden: A Study in the Real Decadence - Nicholas Christian (Hutchinson, 1897)
Satire on a utopian experiment.
Keywords: Male author

A Trip to Venus - John Munro (1849-1930) (Jarrold and Sons, 1897)
Arcadian, small-town eutopia on Venus. Abundance.
The first chapter is entitled “A Message from Mars” and was originally published under that title as by J[ohn] Munro, C.E. in Cassell's Family Magazine 21 (March 1895): 292-98.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Vision Out West" - Barcroft [Henry Thomas] Boake (1866-92) (Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems, 1897)
Poem describing a eutopia of a future tamed Australia.
2nd ed. (London: Angus and Robertson, 1913), 19-25. Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 40-44; Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 40-44; and in W[illiam] F. Refshauge, Barcroft Boake. Collected Works, Edited, with a Life (North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), 227-30 with an editor's note on 287.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

A Visit to Topos, and How the Science of Heredity is Practised There - William Little (1839-1916) (Berry, Anderson & Co, 1897)
Eugenic eutopia. Pre-natal teaching. Presentation from a newspaper from Topos, including a father's lengthy speech at his daughter's wedding. See also 1904 Little.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

What Christ Saw. . .: Sequel to If Christ Came to Congress - Congressman Milford W[riarson] Howard (1862-1937) (Author, 1897)
Most of the book is about the dystopia of contemporary conditions. It ends with the battle of Armageddon and one page of the eutopia that followed. See his If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: [Howard Publishing Co.], 1894 which includes a one paragraph vision of the better society that would follow if Congress followed Christ’s teachings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Without Bloodshed; A Probability of the Twentieth Century - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) (The Roxburghe Press, 1897)
Satire on English manners. Rich Americans take over all English property through political maneuvering. Intentional community in England. Gorst published a review of his own book in The Quilldriver, no. 1 (October 1897). The journal was the inhouse journal of the publisher and does not appear to be available. See also 1898 Gorst.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Yermah the Dorado - Frona Eunice Wait (1859-1946) (William Doxey, 1897)
Lost race novel describing a scientifically advanced colony of Atlantis located in what is now San Francisco. It is destroyed by an earthquake.
Rev. as by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn with the subtitle The Story of a Lost Race. New York: Alice Harriman Co., 1912. U.K. ed. of rev. ed. London: B.F. Stevens and Brown, 1913.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zelma, The Mystic: or, White Magic, Versus Black - Alwyn M. Thurber (Author's Publishing Co, 1897)
The novel includes an Ideal city and has a letter supposedly from 1907 describing the first steps to it.
3rd ed. Illus. W.L. Wells and L. Braunhold. Chicago, IL: The Alliance Publishing Co. 1897. © by C.M. Loomis.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1900; or, The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918) (The American News Company, 1896)
Dystopia in which the election of William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) as President causes the collapse of the American system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A.D. 2345" - Geo[rge] E[edes] Boxall (Weekly Times & Echo (London), 1896)
Eutopia modeled on 1888 Bellamy and set in Australia. Socialism. Stresses education and hygiene. Marriage considered a part of hygiene, and girls are given education regarding sex and birth. People still smoke. Guild system. Municipalization.
Keywords: Male author

The Angel Isafrel: A Story of Prohibition in New Zealand - G[eorge] M[cCullagh] Reed (1831/32?-1898) (Upton & Co, 1896)
Mostly a tale of the struggle for prohibition, which is achieved through a referendum. The last chapter (93-100) describes the eutopia that was produced. Violent crime virtually disappeared, as did most other crimes. Family life improved radically, earnings previously spent on drink provided better conditions for families and was also invested in cooperatives. Businesses encouraged investment of the extra money in exchange for part of the profits and guaranteed employment. Men became more economically independent. Mental and physical health improved significantly.
2nd ed. without the subtitle London: Gordon and Gotch, 1905.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Irish author; Male author

Artabanzanus: The Demon of the Great Lake. An Allegorical Romance of Tasmania. Arranged from the Diary of the late Oliver Ubertus - William M[oore] Ferrar (Elliot Stock, 1896)
Allegory presenting both a eutopia and a dystopia. The eutopia is the city of Eternity. The dystopia is Hell and the bulk of the book concerns Hell.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Banker Hypnotized: A Fiction. Sequel to “The Banker’s Dream. A Fiction. Sequel to “The Banker’s Dream.” An Argument for the Free Coinage of Silver - Thomas H. Proctor (b. 1842) (Progressive Book Publishing, 1896)
The protagonist from 1895 Proctor is hypnotized and experiences the eutopia that is possible if power is taken from the capitalists and their bought politicians and restored to the people. Public utilities owned by the government. Labor well paid. Government replaces banks and is the source of all loans and the recipient of all interest.
Keywords: Male author

Beyond the Ether - W. Cairns Johnston (Author, 1896)
Balloon journey to a eutopian Mars (all jewels and luxury for departed spirits from earth) and to Jupiter which is heaven. Side trip to a Hell-like asteroid.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Verge. Home of Ten Lost Tribes of Israel - De Witt C[harles] Chipman (1824-1910) (James H. Earle, 1896)
The ten lost tribes of Israel reside in a paradise in the center of the earth. Technologically advanced using knowledge of science and, particularly, of electricity. All live over 400 years. Chemists create most foods not grown; no animal food used.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Christmas Mystery - Charles O[scar] Boring (1846-1922) (The Forward Movement Publishing Co, 1896)
Short eutopia in which a reformed and revived religion based on The Forward Movement (which was part of the Social Gospel Movement) has brought about the eutopia. Set in 1949. No denominations (5-6). Church provides free food and lodging for all who need it (23-24) as well as a library and reading rooms and space for art, education, and physical culture (25). No saloons (9).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City of Gold; A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent - Edward Markwick (1851-1925) (Tower Publishing Company, 1896)
Lost race eutopia. Matriarchy. Both men and women work at a variety of jobs. Community cares for children from age one. Telepathy.
2nd ed. London: W. Thacker, 1898.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"City of Refuge" - Walter Besant (1836-1901) (The Pall Mall Magazine, 1896)
Much of the setting of the novel is an intentional community in the United States where a man from England is hiding from his past and the authorities. The community is, as the title suggests, presented, not entirely favorably, as a refuge from the world. The people wear unattractive clothing, work, eat, and meditate. No books allowed.
Rpt. in 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896
Keywords: English author; Male author

Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World - James Cowan (1870-1943) (George H. Richmond, 1896)
Christian, egalitarian, anarchist, suburban eutopia set on Mars, which had gone through a history directly parallel to that of Earth. Garden-like cities. Science. No private property. Gender equality. Christ had revealed himself on Mars, and the Martians took him seriously. Much adventure. Improved nature and even horses are born tame.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 2nd ed. New York: George H. Richmond, 1896.
Keywords: Male author; US author

From World to World. A Novel - D[avid] L[eroy] Stump (World to World Publishing Company, 1896)
Detailed eutopia. Cooperative system. No money. Farming, manufacturing and distribution, and childcare discussed in detail. A sequel, A Romance of Two Planets. A Sequel to From World to World was scheduled to have been published in May 1897 by World to World Publishing. It either was not published or no copies survive. See also 1913 Stump.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heaven on Earth - Gerald Thorne (Lovell Brothers, 1896)
Intentional community based on Christian socialism.
Keywords: Male author

"Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation" - Graul, Rosa (Lucifer, the Light Bearer, 1896)
Eutopia of a successful communal home. Mothers are free to choose the fathers of their children. Women are taught the skills needed for motherhood. The "Publisher's Preface" to the book describes the author as "a poor, hardworking, unlettered woman" (ii).  See Joan E. Passet, “Reading ‘Hilda’s Home’: Gender, Print Culture, and the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.” Libraries and Culture 40.3 (Summer 2005): 307-23.
Rpt. rev. Chicago, IL: Moses Harman, 1899. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 194-204 with an editor’s note on 192-93. Different selections rpt. in Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction By United States Woman Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 111-24.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"In a Strange Land" - Joannes Alethomythos [pseud.] (Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand), 1896)
Satire comparing a people discovered on an isolated island to the people of New Zealand in which the foolish practices of the island people, generally identical to those of New Zealand, are satirized.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

"In His Steps. 'What Would Jesus Do?'" - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) (Advance, 1896)
World changed by each person asking the question in the title before acting. See also 1913-14 Sheldon. Non-utopian sequels by Sheldon are In His Steps To-day: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO In Solving the Problems of Present Political, Economic and Social Life? New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1921; and In His Steps Today. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, [1928].
Rpt. Chicago, IL: Advance Publishing Company, [1897]; and New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. An ed. that reproduced most of the Advance series was published ed. John W. Ripley. Topeka, KS: Shawnee County Historical Society, 1967. A comic book version is Al Hartley, In His Steps. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1977. Spire Christian Comics. A graphic novel version is Martin Powell. In His Steps. Based on the Novel by Charles M. Sheldon. New York: Marvel Comics, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Industrial Army - Fayette Stratton Giles (1842-97) (Baker and Taylor, 1896)
Detailed exposition of 1888 Bellamy's Industrial Army.
Keywords: Male author; US author

It Might Be: A Story of the Future Progress of the Sciences, The Wonderful Advancement in the Methods of Government and the Happy State of the People - H[erbert] E. Swan (H.E. Swan, 1896)
Technological eutopia. Machine-governed eutopia. Government buys and sells goods and guarantees quality. Restricted immigration.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Killboylan Bank; or, Every Man His Own Banker. Being an Account of How Killboylan Characters Concerned Themselves About Co-operative Credit - E[dward] M[elville] Lynch (Kegan Paul, 1896)
A fictional account of the establishment of an agricultural bank set in an Irish village. There is a brief section at the end describing the positive results of the reform.
Keywords: Male author

The Light of Eden or A Historical Narrative of the Barbarian Age. A Scientific Discovery - [Swan] [Burg] (S. Burg, 1896)
Detailed single tax eutopia called Eden. Government guarantees full employment. 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.
Keywords: Male author

Man or Dollar, Which? A Novel - A Newspaper Man [pseud.] (Charles H. Kerr, 1896)
Standard socialist eutopia, which was brought about by a general strike. Eugenics.

A New Eden - Andrew Acworth (Ward and Lock, 1896)
Dystopia and a flawed utopia set in 2096. The human race has degenerated mentally and lost the science and technology of the past. There is a small island established in 1896 that has no government but has laws handed down by custom that everyone obeys. It is presented as dull, and the people are without emotion. Work only from 20-40. Technologically advanced.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 3-79. Editor's notes, 1, 201-02.
Keywords: Male author

An Outland Journey - Walter Leon Sawyer (1862-1915) (Copeland and Day, 1896)
Children’s book that tells the story of a boy who visits a fairyland that is a satire on capitalism. All the fairies must work constantly.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Prophetic Romance; Mars to Earth - [John] [McCoy] (1857-1924) (Arena Publishing Company, 1896)
Eutopia brought about by votes for women. Rule by those especially trained for job but elected. All laws must be approved by the people (102-103). Essentially socialist. Paternalistic. Technologically advanced. Eugenics. Stress of health, and children are taught correct “eating, sleeping, drinking, exercising, and in toil, mental and physical, constant regard is had to getting the most and best out of life” (212).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Real History of Money Island - Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912) (Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1896)
Monetary reform brings eutopia. Written in response to Ten Men of Money Island (1884) by Seymour F. Norton. See also 1899 Flürsheim (3).
[2nd ed.] London: "Clarion" Office/Manchester: Labour Press/Glasgow: "Labour Leader", 1897. The second ed. responds to criticisms and includes a "Preface to Second Edition" (xi-xii) explaining the additions and noting that he has taken practical steps to implement his ideas. It also includes "Appendix. Invitation to Become Members of a Co-operative Exchange Bank. A Fresh Outlet for Trade" (75-80).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; German author; Male author

The Sixteenth Amendment - [Stephen Henry] [Emmens] (G. W. Dillingham, 1896)
Founding of the Legion of Labor which is similar to 1888 Bellamy’s Industrial Army. Under this system everyone will be able to exchange their “labor for a sufficiency of food, clothing, shelter and enjoyment” (83). There will still be private property. Plans to clear slums by moving the people to rural areas. The entire amendment is given on 221-29.
Keywords: Male author; UK author; US author

The Time Is Coming - W[illiam] B[revoort] Bolmer (1845-97) (G.W. Dillingham, 1896)
The novel focuses on the struggle for a reformed Christianity that is mostly a critique of the Christianity as it existed at the time. A religious revival led by the returned prophet Elijah aims at the fusion of Judaism and Christianity and a Jewish state in Palestine. There have been technological advances, but these are incidental to the novel. Within the novel, reform is defeated but hope is held out for the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Utopia in a Nutshell” - [William Dwight Porter] [Bliss] (1856-1926) (American Fabian, 1896)
Brief Christian socialist eutopia set in Boston in 1946. Municipalization of most services, which are all free and paid for from the profits of the city-owned electric company. Six-hour workday five days a week. No work on Sunday with clergy working regular jobs. The author was a well-known Christian socialist minister, initially Congregational, then Episcopalian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Visit to Blestland - W. H. Galier (George Robertson & Co., 1896)
Eutopia. Mostly romance. Cooperative system. Republican form of government. No religion. Work guaranteed by the state. Limit on the return on capital invested in business.
UK ed. London: Gay and Bird, 1896.
Keywords: Australian author

The Wanderer in the Spirit Lands - [A.] [Farnese] (W.J. Sinkins, 1896)
The story of a sinner who dies and then experiences a number of different spirit realms in his search for salvation. His first experience is mildly dystopian and quite dark and cold. He next experiences what he calls the Land of Dawn because the light is like that, which is mildly eutopian, and where he reunites with his father and the woman he loved but mistreated in life. He then visits Hell, after which he works on Earth to help sinners there, is then advanced to the Morning Land, and finally to the Land of Bright Day.
U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: The Progressive Thinker Publishing House, 1901.

A Woman of To-Morrow: A Tale of the Twentieth Century - Hon. [Alice] Coralie Glyn (1866-1928) (Women's Printing Society, 1896)
Eutopia of greater gender equality in 100 years presented from the point of view of a modest, repressed, middle-aged spinster from the 1890s. There are still rich and poor. Some satire on both the 1890s and the 1990s.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Abolition of Money" - I[srael] Zangwill (1864-1926) (The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly, 1895)
Satire on the topic of the title. While workers do well through a system of barter, artists, writers, preachers, and the like do badly so eutopian for one group and dystopian for another, with the latter the focus of the story.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Altruria - Titus K[eiper] Smith (b 1859) (Altruria Publishing Company, 1895)
A Christian intentional community based on cooperation spreads around United States, creating a eutopia. Federal system. Annual elections. Referenda on all important issues. Technologically advanced. Those doing lighter work receive lower pay. See also 1932 Smith.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World - Castello N[ewton] Holford (1845-1905) (Arena Publishing Company, 1895)
Eutopia describing an alternative settlement of the Americas. The author says that it is based on More’s Utopia (88-92), but there are few similarities. The eutopia is based on Ralph Morton, one of the settlers of Jamestown, discovering a large gold deposit. Hiding his discovery from other settlers, he purchased land around the deposit and establishes a new colony that he names Mortonia (later changed to Aristopia) and appoints himself Governor for Life. He is presented as a benevolent dictator. Concerned to keep people from enriching themselves at the expense of others. Therefore, except for Morton, there is no private ownership of land, but land could be leased for a period of time determined by Morton. All buying and selling through public bodies and stores. Abolished primogeniture; limited inheritance. All roads and bridges public property. Laws proposed by an elected Congress but had to be approved by Morton. Widows over 30 could vote; women over 20 could vote for school officials. Reforming of criminals. Compulsory public education. Ultimately Aristopia comes to incorporate the rest of the U.S. and Canada.
Available as an audiobook at https://librivox.org/search?title=Aristopia%3A+A+Romance-History+of+the+New+World&author=HOLFORD&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Banker’s Dream. A Fiction. An Argument for the Free Coinage of Silver - Thomas H. Proctor (b. 1842) (Progressive Book Publishing Co., 1895)
Capitalist dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author

The Better World - E. B. Southwick (Truth Seeker Publishing Company, 1895)
Extraordinarily detailed eutopia in which the goal of life is happiness for all. The society was founded by women. Women are smarter than men and are generally the leaders, but men and women look and dress alike and are equally strong.
Keywords: US author

"A Brief History of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) (The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1895)
An incomplete history of a eutopia introduced in 1895 Walker.  Most of the story is concerned with the dystopian capitalist system that preceded the eutopia, which is led by intelligent, moral men who are dedicated to the interest of the society as a whole. Industry efficiently organized for use rather than profit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Christmas in the Year 2000" - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (Ladies Home Journal, 1895)
Picture of a future Christmas as an addition to 1888 Bellamy Looking Backward, the book for which he is best known. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City of Endeavor: A Religious Novel devoted to the interests of Good Citizenship in the City of Brooklyn - Harold McGill Davis (Collins & Day, 1895)
Christian Endeavorists, a movement in which people strive to be good Christians, takes hold in Brooklyn, and transforms the city. Stress on prohibition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Revolution - Henry L[aurens] Call (1867-1917) (Arena Publishing Co., 1895)
The book is primarily a critique of the existing system with one chapter presenting “The New Republic” (206-19) in which there will be no extremely rich or inheritance, which will result in the establishment of an equality of opportunity, no monopoly in land, government banking, publicly owned transportation and utilities, no speculation or trusts, and democratic government
Rpt. New York: Lovell Brothers, 1896.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Crankadom - Maud Daws (Jacob North & Co., Printers, 1895)
The novel describes a community established by self-described cranks, who create a eutopia in a fertile, isolated valley. The people re practicing Christians with no conflicts between Protestants and Catholics. Recruited the best “crank” teachers from around the U.S. and created an excellent educational system with a school in each district that boarded students.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Discovery of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) (The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1895)
Isolated eutopia established in 1641 in central Africa and called Virland. This story serves as the introduction to 1895-1896 Walker, which elaborates on the eutopia. Here there is mention of a rich country with many villages and two cities, advanced technology, and moral leaders.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Dream of the Future; or Home Rule for Ladies. A Comic Opera in One Act and Four Scenes - J. R[edfearn] Williamson; Fred Walters (Green & Sons, 1895)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Keywords: Male author

The Equalities of Para-Para, Written from the Dictation of George Rambler, M.D., F.R.G.S - Paul Haedicke (1852-1903) (The Schuldt-Gathmann Company, 1895)
Anti-union satire describing a country in which everyone is made equal in all things by disfiguring the favored. For example, everyone is bald. Exactly the same amount of food and water to everyone at the same time each day. No personal possessions or private life. Life led publicly at all times, including having sex in public.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Etidorhpa or The End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey as Communicated in Manuscript to Llewellyn Drury Who Promised to Print the Same, But Finally Evaded the Responsibility Which was Assumed by John Uri Lloyd - John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936) (Pub. by John Uri Lloyd, 1895)
Occult novel of a trip through the underworld. Etidorhpa is Aphrodite spelled backwards. Borderline but included by both Arthur O. Lewis, Utopian Literature in The Pennsylvania State University Libraries: A Selected Bibliography (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1984) 113; and Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 85-86. According to Negley some editions have Etidorpha.
2nd ed. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke Co., 1896. 11th ed. rev. and enl. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901. Rpt. as part of the series Inspired Novels, no. A-3 (Summer 1962) Mundelin, IL: Palmer Publications, 1962, and Albuquerque, NM: Sun Publishing Co., 1976. This ed. rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Few Years Hence" - [Lucy M.] [Jones] (A Secret of the Sea and Other Colonial Stories, 1895)
Set in 1922 and 1923 showing the effect of women gaining the vote. On the whole presented negatively, suggesting that women are not suited for political life, but the reforms put through by women are generally presented positively, particularly dress reform and temperance.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Forty Years With the Damned; or, Life Inside the Earth - Charles Aikin ([Regan Printing House], 1895)
A eutopia inside the Earth discovered by a man and a woman escaping from slavery. In the eutopia, which had been established by Christ, everyone helps everyone else, but “It is a law of nature and the will of God that the black man serve the white; yet with us it is no servitude, neither is required of us if no one cares not to do it, there is no compulsion” (110). No politics, no commerce, and no death. There is, though, in addition, a brief depiction of Death, Sin, and the damned on their way to the Inferno.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Four Girls at Cottage City - Emma D[unham] Kelley-Hawkins (1863-1938) (Continental Printing Co., 1895)
Mostly a sentimental novel, but includes a chapter, “The Dream that Saved a Soul,” that recounts a visit to a eutopian afterlife based on Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s popular Gates novels (see 1883 Phelps).
Rpt. Boston, MA: James H. Earle, Publishing, 1898 which is rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, with an “Introduction” by Deborah E. McDowell (xxvii-xxxviii).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

The Garden of Eden, U.S.A.: A Very Possible Story - W[illiam] H[enry] Bishop (Charles H. Kerr, 1895)
Eutopia with an emphasis on equality, particularly between men and women in North Carolina built by a wealthy man. Everyone one must work, but much work is mechanized. The author believes his Eden is possible, and there is an Appendix entitled "Why Not an Eden?" (357-69). A love story runs throughout the novel. No tobacco, no alcohol.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Government by the People - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914); [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) (Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1895)
Non-fiction presentation of a detailed scheme for a new political system stressing administration over politics and how to bring it about. Includes chapters on the civil service; the national assembly, which has no speaker or prime minister, and its committees; "The Chamber of Experts", which has educational qualifications for membership; local government; the constitution; rights of minorities; and social ethics.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

The Great Secret. A Tale of To-morrow - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) (F.V. White, 1895)
Begins as a novel of adventure with a conflict between anarchists set on destruction and the passengers and crew of a ship. The anarchists kill all the others and most of the anarchists come to a bad end. Three of the dead pass through the River Styx to a spirit world of almost static perfection where all the perfected spirits of the past together with a few immortals live in their own civilizations, which have been stripped of their imperfections. Two of the anarchists are reformed and become the center of a good society on an isolated island, which is only briefly described.  See also 1893, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Great Social Boycott; or, Society Readjusted and the Causes Leading to its Establishment. This is a small Picture Gallery and your portrait hangs in it - A. B. Wilkes (Author, 1895)
Eutopia. A world without vice in 1905 brought about by women refusing to have anything to do with men who were in any way touched by vice. Complete gender equality: both men and women are bound by the same law of chastity.
Keywords: US author

"Guesses at Futurity" - Francis Masey (Pall Mall Magazine, 1895)
One of a series of one-page satirical sketches. See 1894-95 Jane for the rest of the series.

Hedged With Divinities - Edward Tregear (1846-1931) (R. Coupland Harding, 1895)
All men die but one, who has been put into a trance by Maori elders. The women generally make a mess of things. When the man awakes, he is made king, whereupon he organizes the women, who only needed a man to direct them, and the road to recovery begins. But he is required to marry one hundred women and runs away for true love with a woman who won't share him with others.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

An Ideal Republic or Way Out of the Fog - Corwin Phelps (W.L. Reynolds, 1895)
Eutopia. Reformed capitalism with a limit on wealth.
Keywords: Male author

The Inhabitants of Mars. Their Manners and Advancement in Civilization and Their Opinion of Us - Professor W[illis] Mitchell (C.E. Spofford & Co, 1895)
Eutopia of physical perfection, telepathy, and advanced technology. All food is manufactured, predigested, and delivered to homes in electric wagons. Can choose the gender of their children.  The author was a revivalist and a member of New England Evangelical Association, and much of the novel expresses his religious views through the Martian interpretation of Christianity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Magazine Causerie" - L .F. Austin (Illustrated London News, 1895)
A spoof of H.G. Wells's 1895 "The Time Machine" set in the year 150,000. English spoken as spelt. Ghosts everywhere. Bored; sleep 20 hours per day; no knowledge of history. Women dominate men.

Marmaduke, Emperor of Europe. Being a Record of Some Strange Adventures in the Remarkable Career of a Political and Social Reformer Who Was Famous at the Commencement of the Twentieth Century - [Frank Attfield] [Fawkes] (Edmund Durrant/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1895)
In Chapter II there is a vision of a future eutopia in which capitalists help each other and cooperate with labor, prisons are industries, and agricultural workers are not oppressed. The only negative is a war with "Orientals". By the end of the book the vision has been realized.
Keywords: Male author

The Marshall Duke of Denver or The Labor Revolution of 1920. A Novel - [Ernest Hugh] [Fitzpatrick] (1863-1933) (Donohue and Henneberry Company, 1895)
Eutopia includes some reforms but mostly on the revolution to achieve the better society. Graduated income tax; tax on imported luxury items; free trade; government ownership of railroads and telegraph; municipal ownership of street railroads (201). All money replaced by script based on real estate (190-91). Standing army and a large navy. Capital punishment for murder a federal law.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Memorable Voyages of Rebel and Victory - Rev. A[lbert] B[arnes] King (1828-1914) (James H. Earle, 1895)
Bunyanesque Christian allegory with ships battling and visiting various countries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mercia, The Astronomer Royal: A Romance - A[melia] Garland Mears (ca. 1842-1920) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, 1895)
Eutopia focusing on a better life for women in 2002. Advanced technology. Population controlled voluntarily.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

The Milltillionaire - [Albert Waldo] [Howard] (np, 1895)
Rational, scientific, statist eutopia established by a wealthy man. From 24 to 40 everyone must provide a minimum amount of labor.
Another ed. has subtitle or, Age of Bardization. Boston, MA: Author, 1898. Rpt. American Utopias. Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Monomaniacs. A Fable in Finance - Henry [Albert] Seymour (1861-1938) (Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (London), 1895)
Satire on capitalism set in Lunarland.
Rpt. London: William Reeves, 1895. 8 pp.
Keywords: Male author

The Newest Woman: The Destined Monarch of the World - Millie Finkelstein (Pat Finn, 1895)
Anti-feminist satire set in 1950 showing the dangers of women taking on men's roles.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"The Opening of the Chamber" - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) (The King in Yellow, 1895)
After a series of conflicts and war with Germany, the United States has created a eutopian life, but the government begins to encourage suicide. No explanation is given.
Rpt. in The World's Shortest Stories: An Anthology. Ed. Richard G. Hubler (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961), 71-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens - David Hilton Wheeler (1829-1902) (A.C. McClurg and Company, 1895)
Essay arguing that the United States is currently a eutopia although more free competition would make things even better.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The People of the Moon. A Novel - [Edward] Tremlett Carter (1866-1903) ("The Electrician” Printing and Publishing Co. and Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., 1895)
A complex multi-genre novel set in a hollow moon combining adventure, fantasy, romance, and science fiction, which is the emphasis of the novel. Some on the lives of the people.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Problem of Civilization Solved - Mary Elizabeth [Clyens] Lease (1850-1933) (Laird and Lee, 1895)
Eutopia but also racist. Tropical emigration by whites--". . . fifty million white families as planters on estates of 200 acres each, with three families of Negroes or Orientals as tillers of the soil" (17).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Repairer of Reputations” - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) (The King in Yellow, 1895)
The story begins with a detailed description of a eutopia set in 1920. The eutopia was brought about following the almost successful invasion of the U.S. by Germany. The country is prosperous, the cities are being systematically improved, as are the fine arts and the national park system. Religious toleration has been established. Voluntary euthanasia has been instituted. Elements of racism in that racial and ethnic problems have been solved by limiting immigration, expelling all foreign-born Jews, establishing a separate Negro state, and recruiting Indians into separate squadrons in the military. The story then shifts to the protagonist’s belief that he is the descendent of American royalty and that he is fated to rule.
Also, in Neely’s Prismatic Library (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895), 9-54. Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 1-44; and in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 78-98.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Root of the Matter: Being a Series of Dialogues on Social Questions - H[enry] H[yde] Champion (1859-1928) (E.W. Cole, 1895)
Fiction in which one person describes socialism.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Secret of Mankind With Some Singular Hints Gathered in the Elsewheres or After-Life, From Certain Eminent Personages As Also Some Brief Account of the Planet Mercury and Of Its Institutions - [Willis] [Brewer] (1844-1912) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895)
The eutopia is on Mercury. Life is centered on the parish and in the parish on the communal hall, which is always open. Each hall has a library, museum, etc., and education takes place there through contact with educated people. Disputes are adjudicated there, contracts and marriages announced, plays performed, etc. Everyone works at a variety jobs. There are no taxes, no holidays, and estates vest in the parish on death. Only about 50% of the people marry. Marriage is seen as a partnership of equals and divorce is easy and frequent.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The State of Medicine in the Year 1945" - Albert Abrams (1863-1924) (Transactions of the Antiseptic Club Reported by Albert Abrams, A Member of the San Francisco Medical Profession, 1895)
Satire. Capsule food has eliminated most disease. The number of physicians limited by law. Prevention of illness was the responsibility of one group of doctors; another group consulted in cases of severe illness; another castrated those guilty of crimes (no capital punishment); and another practiced euthanasia when the illness was incurable. Novels included ads.
Rpt. (New York: E.B. Treat, 1902), 179-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Story of Strange Sights" - Ethel Turner (1870-1958) (Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1895)
Satire. Future in which many of the social fads of the time have been implemented, but with children raised by the state and everyone better off.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

The Time Machine: An Invention - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (William Heinemann, 1895)
Gradual development of two classes, the Eloi and the Morlocks, who are the final stages of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, respectively. An authorized sequel is 1995 Barnes. There are many unauthorized sequels.
Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume I The Time Machine The Wonderful Visit and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924), 1-118. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 2.2 (May 1927): 148-78; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 11.6 (August 1950): 10-53; in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books 1.4 (Winter 1951): 2-44; in Three Prophetic Novels of H.G. Wells. Ed. E.F. Bleiler (New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 263-335 [Follows the 1895 Heinemann ed. except for including an episode from the National Review serial left out of book versions (325-27); as The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition of H.G. Wells’s Scientific Romance With Introduction and Notes by Harry M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987; Ed. Michael Moorcock. London: Everyman, 1993; Rev. Centennial ed. ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1995; as The Time Machine: An Invention. A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996; Ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2001; Ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an “Introduction” by Marina Warner (xiii-xxviii), a “Note on the Text” by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxiv), and “Notes” by Steven McLean (97-104); and in London: Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Gwyneth Jones (vii-xi). Illustrated by Ale + Ale [Alessandro Lecis and Alessandra Panzeri]. Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers/Quarto Group, 2019. See also, “The Missing Pages from the Immortal Science Fiction Novel by H.G. Wells. The Time Machine XIII. The Further Vision.” Satellite Science Fiction 2.6 (August 1958): 98-109]; Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1964 illus. Joe Mugnaini and with an “Introduction” (v-xi) by George Zebrowski; the title page says that the introduction is by Brian W. Aldiss, but it is signed by Zebrowski. Differing text in New York: Henry Holt, 1895 [by three weeks, this is technically the first edition]. The Time Machine began life as “The Chronic Argonauts.” Science Schools Journal 2.11 - 13 (April - June 1888): 312-20, 336-41, 367-71. Serialized versions that differed from each other and from the first book version appeared as a series without a common title in the National Observer as follows: “Time Travelling: Possibility or Paradox?” 11.278 (March 17, 1894): 446-47; “The Time Machine.” 11.279 (March 24, 1894): 472-73; “A.D. 12,203: A Glimpse of the Future.” 11.280 (March 31, 1894): 499-500; “The Refinement of Humanity.” 11.283 (April 21, 1894): 581-82; “The Sunset of Mankind.” 11.284 (April 28, 1894): 606-08; “In the Underworld.” 12.287 (May 19, 1894): 14-15; and “The Time Traveller Returns.” 12.292 (June 23, 1894): 145-47; and as “The Time Machine.” New Review 12.68 - 72 (January - May 1895): 98-112, 207, 221, 329-43, 453-72, 577-88. Much of The National Observer version and some of the New Review version can be found in H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction. Ed. Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), 57-104.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Uncle Sam's" Cabins. A Story of American Life Looking Forward a Century - Benjamin Rush Davenport (The Mascot Publishing Company, 1895)
The novel begins in 1994 in a dystopia in which the military is used to control the poor and the poor are then enslaved. The U.S. produces very little that can be exported; an import tax supports the government and makes imported goods expensive. The U.S. has adopted primogeniture, and estates go to the eldest son. The solution, in about 2014, is to abolish serfdom, re-establish the original U.S. Constitution, and become a free trade nation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia"; The Story of a Strange Experience - Frederic Condé Williams (ed.) [written by] (1844-1917) (Metcalfe and Company, 1895)
An isolated island Arcadia. Nudity, no formal marriage. Children are raised by the community.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Who Wrote It? A Cabinet Meeting" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Impress (San Francisco, CA), 1895)
Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Edward Bellamy, shows the leaders of a future eutopian society deciding how to make their society better. The President and many members of the Cabinet are women.
Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (January 12, 1895): 3; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 329-30.
Keywords: Female author; US author