Ring of Violence - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) (Robert Hale, 1968)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

Rite of Passage - Alexei [Alexis Adams] Panshin (1940-2022) (Ace Books, 1968)
The novel is concerned with the society that develops on a spaceship and particularly with the rite of passage to adulthood in which young people are put on a colony world to survive or perish. Can be classified as eutopian, dystopian, or a flawed utopia depending on the reader's perspective. Related stories are "What Size Are Giants." Worlds of Tomorrow 3.1 (13) (May 1965): 8-47; and "The Sons of Prometheus." Analog Science Fiction Science-Fact 78.2 (October 1966): 50-71.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with "Introduction: The Story of Rite of Passage" (v-xiv) by the author; and as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Debbie Hughes and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Edward Bryant; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, no. 22 (1986): 3-24. To be continued but the journal stopped publication. Part was originally published as "Door to the Worlds of Men." Worlds of If Science Fiction 13.3 (July 1963): 89-112.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Santaroga Barrier - Frank [Patrick] Herbert (1920-86) (Berkley Books, 1968)
Flawed utopia. An additive to food gives people an expanded awareness that allows them to create an inward looking, small town eutopia, but they are ready to kill to keep the community as it is.
U.K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1970. Rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. A shorter version was published in Amazing Stories 41.4 - 6 (October 1967 - February 1968): 6-51, 119-33, 147-54, 156, 158, 160; 129-40, 144; 67-123.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shellbreak - John William Groves (1910-70) (Robert Hale, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 2505. An enclosed world cut off from the outside.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Six Gates from Limbo - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) (Michael Joseph, 1968)
Various societies connected by gateways. The first, Limbo, is the only somewhat positive one and provides a refuge for a man as he visits the other societies, all dystopias in different ways.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Spartan Planet" - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) (Fantastic Science Fiction--Fantasy, 1968)
Militaristic dystopia on New Sparta that is all male. Children born in a Birth Machine. Same sex relations are the norm. See also 1984 Chandler.
Rpt. as False Fatherland. London: Horwitz Publications, 1968. U.S. ed. as Spartan Planet. New York: Dell, 1969.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"A Specter Is Haunting Texas" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Dystopia. Texas has taken over most of the Americas from Canada to Nicaragua. Racial, ethnic, financial, and political discrimination. ". . . a man can't feel really free unless he's got a lot of underfolk to boss around" (15). African American republics exist in California and Florida. Circumluna is a satellite of scientists, hippies, and others.
Repub. New York: Walker & Co. U.K. ed. as A Spectre Is Haunting Texas. London: Gollancz, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Stand on Zanzibar - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Doubleday, 1968)
A complex novel that takes place in a future overpopulation and corporate dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Orb, 2011 with a new “Foreword The Happening World” (vii-xiv) by Bruce Sterling; as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Vincent DiFate and with an “Introduction” (unpaged) by David Brin; as 300 copy ed. illus. Jacob McMurray and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson” (9-13 misnumbered 7 in the Table of Contents) and “Viewpoint. Childless Couples and Delinquent Children” (549-56 misnumbered 543 in the Table of Contents) by Brunner rpt. from Science and Public Policy 12.3 (June 1985): 149-52. Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009; and as New York: Tor Essentials, 2021, with the foreword “The Happening World” by Bruce Sterling from the Orb 2011 ed. (v-xii). Extracts were published in New Worlds Science Fiction 51.177 (November 1967): 34-49.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Story of Operation Atlantis - [Werner K.] [Stiefel] (1921-2006) (Atlantis Publishing Co, 1968)
Outlines a libertarian eutopia. Gives credit to Ayn Rand (1905-82). For an article on Operation Atlantis, see http://shimajournal.org/issues/v10n2/e.-Simpson-Shima-v10n2.pdf
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Overpopulation dystopia. Includes an automated city with a mother complex.
Rpt. in The Liberated Future. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 139-58; in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 62-78.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Time Machine That Never Got Past First Base: A Laugh--at the Future? - [March] [Laumer] (1923-2000) (Opium Books, 1968)
Humor of boring people visiting boring futures.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Total Environment" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Overpopulation dystopia. An experiment called the Ultra High Density Research Establishment (UHRDE) or the Total Environment is set up by the UN and the Indian government to test whether or not extreme crowding produces telepathy. The conditions inside the experiment, which is completely cut off from the outside world except for the anonymous provision of food and electronic monitoring, become horrifying but also produce the desired results.
Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1969. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 287-331; and in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 109-51.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Tunc. A Novel - Lawrence [George] Durrell (1912-1990) (Faber and Faber, 1968)
The background to the novel is a dystopia where one company is gaining control of the world. Tunc in Latin means “then,” “next,” or “next in succession”. Continued with somewhat less of the dystopia in Nunquam. A Novel. London: Faber and Faber. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1970. Collected in The Revolt of Aphrodite. Tunc and Nunquam (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), separately paged. Nunquam means “never” in Latin.
U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1969. Collected in The Revolt of Aphrodite. Tunc and Nunquam (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Very Private Life - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) (Collins, 1968)
Technology brings isolation of people from each other. The rich live inside and have connection with each other only through television, telephone systems. There are a few who have to do some work outside, which is badly polluted.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Welcome to the Monkey House" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Playboy, 1968)
Birth control through deadening sensation below the waist and reducing the population by voluntary euthanasia. A few people fight back.
Rpt. in his Welcome to the Monkey House. A Collection of Short Works (New York: Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte Press, 1968), 27-45. Rpt. (New York: Dell, 1970), 28-47. U.K. ed. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), 27-45. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1972), 38-55; in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 737-55 with a Note on the Text (834-35) and "Notes" on 850; in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 863-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

West of the Moon - Howard Simpson (Vantage Press, 1968)
Satire. Voyage to a number of planets. Various eutopias and dystopias, including a world of Amazons and Pluto, which is the Greek Hell.
Keywords: Male author

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

Wild in the Streets - Robert Thom (1929-79) (Pyramid, 1968)
Dystopia of a teenage takeover.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Will It End This Way? - Vance A[cton] Geigley (1907-96) (Vantage Press, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia from a conservative perspective.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Without Apology: The Autobiography of Sir George Maudesley, Bart. Edited with Notes and a Postscript - Ewan Butler (Cassell, 1968)
Britain under the Nazis. It is liberated in 1952.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Affluence of Edwin Lollard" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Writings in S-F, 1967)
Future dystopia in which it is a crime to be poor and illiteracy is normal.
Rpt. in his White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 138-51.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Agent of Chaos - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Belmont, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia set in the twenty-fourth century with all of the solar system inhabited. Small rebel group and another violent group that ultimately destroys the dictatorship.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Alpaca Revisited - H[aroldson] L[afayette] Hunt [Jr.] (1889-1974) (H.L.H. Products, 1967)
Sequel to 1960 Hunt that includes a new constitution (153-95) detailing his proposal for ensuring that the wealthy will have the most power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anarchaos - [Donald Edwin Edmond [Westlake] (1933-2008) (Ace Books, 1967)
A dystopia of anarchism as popularly understood as a situation where the strong will kill the weak.
U.K. ed. under the author's name London: Severn House, 2004. Ace ed. rpt. under the author's name in his Tomorrow's Crimes (New York: Mysterious Press, 1989), 115-263.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"Aye, and Gomorrah" - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
The story is set in a future in which spacers must be neutered and focuses on how this affects both the spacers and the population, some of whom are sexually attracted to them.
Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 111-20. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 101-11; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 143-50, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 142; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 118-30; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

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

The Black Commandos. A Novel - [Rev. Dr.] [Joseph Denis] [Jackson] (1929-2008) (The Cultural Institute Press, 1967)
The novel begins with the dystopia of the Black experience in the American South and then turns to the formation of a large group of Black Commandos who, with a new weapon, defeat the U.S. government. The novel ends with the statement that there will be thirty years of Black dominance before real equality will be possible.
Rpt. under the authors name as The Black Commandos: Warriors Forged in Blood. 2nd ed. Np: Julian Jackson and Commando Publishing Group, 2013, with an Introduction by Julian Jackson, the author’s son.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Bright New Universe - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Ace Books, 1967)
A combination of adventure novel regarding the successful search for extraterrestrial life, Sixties protest novel in the description of contemporary conditions, and suggestions of the utopia possible made possible by the educational technology discovered through contact.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brothers of Uterica - Benjamin Capps (b. 1922) (Meredith Press, 1967)
Founding and failure of an intentional community based on the La Réunion community founded in Texas by Victor Considerant (1808-93).
Rpt. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1988, with a "Preface" (vii-ix) by the author and an "Afterword" (311-14) by C.L. Sonnichsen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bull on the Bench - Lowell B[lake] Mason (1893-1983) (Arcturus Pub, 1967)
Satire. After a nuclear war cattle gain the ability to speak and come to rule the world, with, for example, the U.S. becoming the United States of Moovalia, while the remaining humans lose all sense of their abilities. The world produced largely replicates the previous world except with cattle replacing humans. At the end, humans are regaining confidence and control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Chthon - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Ballantine, 1967)
Dystopia describing a prison world. A sequel is Phthor. New York: Berkeley Medallion, 1975, which continues into the next generation of the family that is central to Chthon.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Computer Takes All - [Leonard Owen] [John] (1918-95) (Cassell, 1967)
Computer dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

Confessions of a People Lover - Paul Ritchie (b. 1923) (Calder and Boyars, 1967)
Dystopia. Stress on health and youth leads to older people being attacked and ultimately killed. Wigs, false teeth, and all other attempts to disguise age are outlawed. Prostitution is a recognized, state-supported profession.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Counter-Clock World - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Berkley Medallion, 1967)
The world runs backward with the dead being reborn and then getting younger until the sperm and ovary are reabsorbed into their parents' bodies. A number of subthemes are developed regarding a variety of subjects ranging from religion to black power.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979, with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-x); and New York: Vintage Books, 2002. Expanded from his "Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday." Amazing Stories 40.7 (August 1966): 6-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Criminal Act" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1967)
A future dystopia in which no couple is allowed to have more than two children.
Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 350-62.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

The Crimson Capsule - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Avalon Books, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia ruled by mutants.
Rev. as The Animal People. New York: Belmont Books, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Day Before Forever" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia focusing on transplants.
Rpt. in his The Day Before Forever and Thunderhead (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 7-112; and in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 283-370.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Death Is a Dream - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967)
Dystopia. A future world with the knowledge of previous reincarnations. Extreme laissez-faire capitalism. Selfishness.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ersatz" - Henry Slesar (1927-2002) (396-413 with an “Introduction” (396-99) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (402-03) by the Slesar, 1967)
A brief future war dystopia in which most civilians have been killed and most things, such as food, are now made from fake materials.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Eskimo Invasion - [John] Hayden Howard (1925-2014) (Ballantine Books, 1967)
Complex future novel a number of different  with dystopias.
Keywords: Male author

"Eutopia" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Flawed utopia modeled on classical Athens complete with accepted homosexuality. But the utopia has become so planned and ordered as to become dull. The story only reveals this at the end and is concerned with a member of Eutopia visiting another country where he is liable to being killed for his homosexuality.
Rpt. in his Past Times (New York: Tor, 1996), 112-39, with the "Afterword" (139-41); in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Ed. Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 251-68; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2011), 334-47 with the "Afterword" entitled "Eutopia Afterword" (348-49).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Farewell to the Bomb - A[ugustus] C[aesar] Webb (1894-1985) (Vantage Press, 1967)
Dystopia established on Earth by demons. The emphasis is on the successful attempt to overcome them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Five Against Arlane - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) (Ace Books, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia under the control of one man, who has gained psychological control of almost the entire population. The novel emphasizes the successful revolt against it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Flesh or Fantasy - Ken Hall (Pad Library, 1967)
Lost race pornography that set in Vietnam that includes a sexual free society presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Male author

Garbage World - Charles Platt (b. 1945) (Berkley Books, 1967)
Pleasure worlds as dystopias with one asteroid used as a garbage dump for the pleasure worlds.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Gogglers: A Political Satire - Edward Raiden (Saturn Books, 1967)
Satire set in an imaginary country with comments on politics, race relations, and relations between the sexes.
Keywords: Male author

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

"The Happy Breed" - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Dystopia of a world without pain. The Therapeutic Environment Machines initially provide therapy, thus putting all therapists out of work, but gradually they come to control all aspects of life. They provided complete medical care, thus putting all doctors out of work. The only jobs were “Happiness Jobs--make-work invented by the Machines.” The Machines then regress everybody back to childhood. U.S. author who lived in the U.K. for about twenty years from 1966.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Hole in the Zero - M[ichael] K[ennedy] Joseph (1914-81) (Gollancz, 1967)
Bizarre dystopia of probability gone haywire in which the author traces out a number of scenarios, mostly dystopian or fantastic, although there are also some brief utopian vignettes. "We've got utopia here . . . and in utopia, time stops, inevitably. The end of an evolutionary chain, perfect adaptation, perfect stability (83)."
New Zealand ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1967. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

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

"If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Eutopia based on incest, which is the one thing that people on other planets find unacceptable. See the note at 1949 Sturgeon.
Rpt. in his Case and the Dreamer (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 52-102; and in The Nail and the Oracle. Volume XI. The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007), 137-80.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Implosion - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967)
A fall in the birthrate produces dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Journal of David Q. Little - R. Daniel McMichael (d. 2013) (Arlington House, 1967)
Dystopia of a Communist takeover of the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Logan's Run - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021); George Clayton Johnson (1929-2015) (Dial, 1967)
Dystopia in which everyone is killed at 21 but those who manage to win a race get to live. See also 1977 and 1980 Nolan, which focus on, Logan, the protagonist.
Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy (Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1986), 21-137. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lord of Light - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) (Doubleday, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia based on control of technology by a group ruling as the Hindu pantheon.
UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 2006 with an "Introduction" by George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (vii-xii). Chapter 2 was previously published as "Dawn" and Chapter 3 as "Death and the Executioner." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 32.4, 6 (April, June 1967): 4-36; 4-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lords of the Starship - Mark S[ymington] Geston (b. 1946) (Ace Books, 1967)
Dystopia of militarism in a post-catastrophe world.
UK ed. London: Sphere, 1971. Rpt. in his The Books of the Wars (New York: Baen, 2009), 15-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man Who Cried I Am - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (Little, Brown and Co., 1967)
Commentary on the racial situation in the U.S. in the form of a fictionalized biography of the writer Richard Wright (1908-60) plus the fictional Central Intelligence Agency plan called the King Alfred Plan for future control of African Americans by cordoning them off from the rest of the country. Many African Americans came to believe in the reality of the plan, which mirrored some actual proposals.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

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

The Men in the Jungle - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Doubleday, 1967)
Dystopia of militarism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Night Walk - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) (Banner, 1967)
Novel set on the Planet Emm Luther, a strict Lutheran dystopia. Mostly adventure and intrigue.
UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz. Rpt. London: Corgi, 1977; and London: VGSF, 1987.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"Nightmare" - George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-67) (White Power, 1967)
Dystopia. A takeover of the U.S. by Communists, Jews, and Blacks set in 1971. Pages 339-57 is his commentary on his fiction.
2nd ed. (Dallas, TX: Ragnarock Press, 1967), 327-39.
Keywords: Male author; US author

One Magpie for Sorrow - Norman [Bruce] Harvey (b. 1931) (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1967)
Chinese invasion dystopia. Most of the novel is concerned with the guerrilla war against the occupation.
U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1967.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

One Million Centuries - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) (Lancer Books, 1967)
Three future societies, one of which is a primitive eutopia of sorts, one of which is a threatened innocent society, and one of which is developing science.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paradise Island - Lester C. Evans (Amherst Press, 1967)
Eutopia. An airplane crashes on an unknown island in the Pacific, which the survivors conclude is the lost Paradise. Elements of a religious eutopia and elements of a South Seas island eutopia with food available with minimal labor and sexual freedom.

Phoenix. A Novel - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) (Ballantine Books, 1967)
Authoritarian dystopia followed by its collapse and the descent into a primitive society.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Polity and Custom of the Camiroi" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1967)
Eutopia that is essentially anarchist based on exceptional people with many skills. Anyone can make a law, and anyone can repeal it, but some laws become sacrosanct due to their survival. President chosen by lot for one week. Everyone must participate in running the society. Severe punishment for causing problems. See also 1966 Lafferty.
Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 37-50; in Election Day 2084; A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 233-43; and in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 51-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Quicksand - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Doubleday, 1967)
Flawed utopia. Dictatorship of immortals. Sex as a drug. Neutered women act as sexual experts.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace - [Leonard Case] [Lewin] (1916-99) (Dell Publishing Co., 1967)
Satire on the problems that will arise if permanent peace should occur and some possible solutions.
Rpt. under the author's name. New York: Free Press, 1996 with an "Introduction" by Victor Navasky (v-xvi), an "Afterword by the Author (119-21), and "Appendixes. The Iron Mountain Affair" (123-52) of reviews and comments on the first edition and the issue of authorship.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Riders of the Purple Wage or the Great Gavage" - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories, 1967)
Background includes a future authoritarian and corrupt dystopia. Most people are apparently well off but without much focus or depth.
Rpt. in his The Purple Book (New York: Tom Doherty & Associates 1982), 29-143; in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 30-103; and in The Philip José Farmer Centennial Collection. Ed. Michael Croteau (Np: Meteor House, 2018), 363-437.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Riot '71 - [Peter] [Brent] (1931-84) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1967)
An economic depression leads to blaming colored immigrants and a fascist, racist dystopia called the Nordic Union.
U.S. ed. New York: Walker and Co., 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author

'Sippi - John Oliver Killens (1916-87) (Trident Press, 1967)
Dystopia of contemporary race relations in the U.S. and the state of Mississippi in particular. The novel ends with the murder of one of the Black protagonists leading to a world-wide uprising of Black peoples.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“The Star-Pit” - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1967)
A very complex dystopia. Set in a future where, as the human race expanded into space, it came up against a psychological barrier that caused insanity in those who went further, except for a few who found to have psychological abnormalities that allow them to pass through. The story focuses of a man who feels excluded because he cannot pass through the barrier and deeply resents that fact. The story makes an explicit connection between white supremacy and those who can pass through the barrier, but at the end, such people are being created by manipulating them so as to develop the needed abnormality for the benefit of those in power. For a radio play first broadcast on WBAI (New York) in November 1967 and re-broadcast regularly for years, see Delany’s “Notes on The Star Pit.” https://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/TheStarPit/SamuelRDelany-NotesOnTheStarPit.html
Rpt. in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 13-71. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 1-61; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 17-93; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 91-101.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

“Station HR972” - H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1967)
The dystopia brought about the car, with a 32-lane highway with minimum speeds of 125 to 150 miles an hour.
Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 91-103; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 62-75.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Stranger from the Depths - Gerry Turner (1921-82) (Doubleday & Co, 1967)
A young adult novel about the discovery of an undersea technological eutopia with gender equality that predates humanity and disappeared because of a plague. This is contrasted with a dystopian community from the same time that survived. The dystopia has gender inequality, drugged citizens, and violence.
An abridged paperback version as published by New York: Scholastic, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Sun Push” - Graham M. Hall (New Worlds SF, 1967)
Dystopia. Story of a war in Britain in which British troops supported by the U.S. are fighting British troops supported by Russia.
Rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 282-98, with additional material on 299-301.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Superstoe - William [Vickers] Borden (b. 1938) (Victor Gollancz, 1967)
Humor in which a group of brilliant men take over the U.S. and the control of the world. They bring world peace, plenty, raised intelligence, and boredom.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“There is a Crooked Man” - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) (Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, 1967)
Satire on crime in the future with criminals confounding the legal system with new crimes.
Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 115-65.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Third Policeman - [Brian] [Ó Nualláin] (1911-66) (MacGibbon & Kee, 1967)
Has been called a dystopia. The author calls it a description of hell.
Rpt. London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973; London: Flamingo, 1993; and London: HarperCollins/Flamingo, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1967.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

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

"The Throwaway Age" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1967)
In a future where there is a détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which are described as having different forms of state capitalism, a small group of U.S. people want to move in the direction of a better socio-economic system. The protagonist is the same as in the works in his series about the Soviet Union; see also 1973 Reynolds, “The Cold War . . . Continued” and 1975 Reynolds, Tomorrow Might Be Different.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Time-Hoppers - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Doubleday, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To Open the Sky - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Ballantine Books, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia. Mass hysteria, cults, and fads in the third millennium.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1984. Originally published in Galaxy Magazine as "Blue Fire." 23.5 (June 1965): 105-30; "The Warriors of Light." 24.2 (December 1965): 99-134; "Where the Changed Ones Go." [Journal title changed back to] Galaxy Science Fiction 24.3 (February 1966): 83-121; "Lazarus Comes Forth." 24.4 (April 1966): 82-113; and "Open the Sky." 24.5 (June 1966): 165-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow's Harvest Or Death Takes A Holiday - Albert Root (Vantage Press, 1967)
Detailed religious eutopia on Saturn of immortal human beings who are clearly a separate creation with their own revelation. Technically advanced. No money. No government.
Keywords: Male author

A Torrent of Faces - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75); Norman L[ouis] Knight (1895-1972) (Doubleday, 1967)
Earth has a very large and growing population following what they call the “Age of Waste”. This does not produce the usual dystopia because the Earth can support its population if well organized. The political system is a corporate state (the authors call it Fascism), and at the beginning of the novel it is working well, but the plot is driven by a forthcoming disaster, a meteor strike, and the system struggles to deal with it. Still, at the end the system survives. Said to be “a sequel of sorts” to Knight’s “Frontier of the Unknown.” Illus. [William Elliott] Dold (1889-1957). Astounding Stories 19.5 - 6 (July - August 1937): 8-33; 122-54; and his “Crisis in Utopia.” Astounding Science-Fiction 25.5 - 6 (July - August 1940), 9-38; 126-54.
Novelization of “The Shipwrecked Hotel.” Galaxy Magazine 23.6 (August 1965): 151-85; “The Piper of Dis.” Galaxy Science Fiction 24.6 (August 1966): 56-87; and “To Love Another.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 79.2 (April 1967): 8-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Trap" - Howard [Melvin] Fast (1914-2003) (The Hunter and the Trap, 1967)
Eutopia. A project to find and develop the next stage of humans creates an enclave where the project leaders create a community based on love, freedom, and freedom from guilt. Mostly nude, open sexuality, and mentally far beyond current humans. Develop telepathy. At the end the U.S. government decides they must all but killed, but it is not clear that that will be possible.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utonia: Social-Economic Survey of a Fictitious Country - J[ozef] G[ijsbertus] M[aria] Hilhorst ed. [written by] (Mouton, 1967)
Description of a fictional country, complete with maps. Designed for teaching development planning.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author

Vigilante--21st Century - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) (Lancer, 1967)
Future dystopia in which criminals use science to control, but the good guys fight back.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The White Mountains - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Macmillan, 1967)
First volume of a young adult trilogy, followed by The City of Gold and Lead. New York: Macmillan and The Pool of Fire. New York: Macmillan, 1968. The trilogy is concerned with the dystopia created by alien invaders and the successful fight against them, and the dystopia of mental and physical control occurs throughout the trilogy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Whosaw Whatsa” - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) (Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, 1967)
Satire on sex changes.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Why Call Them Back from Heaven? - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) (Doubleday, 1967)
The dystopia produced by potential immortality, which is achieved by freezing and then thawing. The society is extremely safety oriented and Puritanical. People are desperate to be able to accumulate enough wealth to be well-off in the future. The world is effectively run by the Forever Center that oversees the system, but a plot is discovered to identify the wealthiest of those frozen, not thaw them, and steal their money..
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1967.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wind Obeys Lama Toru - Tung Lee (Kutub-Popular, 1967)
Overpopulation dystopia.

A World Beyond - George E[rnest] Shirley (1898-2002) (Vantage Press, 1967)
Simple life eutopia taken over by Communists from the U.S.S.R., which produces a dystopia. In the eutopia there is no money, and the economy is based on barter. Rape results in jail for life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Adventures in Selfhood Architecture - Leopold Solomon Moscowitz B.Arch. (Selfhood Architecture Press, 1966)
Detailed architectural eutopia with descriptions of buildings and their uses.
Keywords: Male author

"Amazon Planet" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1966)
The novel is set in Reynolds's United Planets Federation with the planet Amazonia presenting itself as ruled by a caste of women warriors with men in inferior positions. This was, in fact, the premise on which Amazonia was established, and it has been maintained as a cover for the fact that it has no army, not even a police force. While enclaves of the original vision remain, gender equality and monogamy are the norm.
Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"And Madly Teach" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1966)
Extrapolation of the dystopian effect of technology on teaching and the response of one excellent teacher who manages to overcome the negative impact of the technology.
Rpt. in The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sixteenth Series. Ed. Edward L. Ferman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 25-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Blue World - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1966)
Floating islands of vegetation support a highly developed society with a caste system based on occupation, which over time has become completely rigid changing a eutopia into a dystopia. The ocean contains dangerous predators. A rebel saves the society from itself and the predators.
Rpt. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1979; and as vol. 16 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: The Vance Integral Edition, 2005. First appeared in a shorter form as "The Kragen." Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.7 (July 1964): 7-69. Rpt. in The Great SF Stories: 1964. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2001), 47-102; in Wild Thyme and Violets. Other Unpublished Works and Addenda. Vol. 44 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 115-202; and as The Kragen. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Colossus - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1966)
Computer dystopia set in the United States of North America in which large computer called Colossus is given complete control over the USNA's nuclear weapons and the U.S.S.R. does the same with their great computer called Guardian and their nuclear weapons. The two computers are linked with predictable results. See also 1974 and 1977 Jones.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Crack In Space - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1966)
Overpopulation dystopia.
UK ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1977. Rpt. in A Philip K. Dick Omnibus (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1970), separately paged. The first half was originally published as "Cantata 140." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.1 (158) (July 1964): 5-61; and rpt. as Cantata-140. London: Gollancz, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Danger: Religion!" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths, 1966)
Parallel history presenting a religious dystopia.
Rpt. (London: Sphere, 1968), 89-131; and in Mervyn Peake, J[ames] G[raham] Ballard and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss. Inner Landscape (London: Allison & Busby, 1969), 101-51. Earlier version as “Matrix.” Science Fantasy 19.55 ([October] 1962): 2-39.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Day of Absence: A Satirical Fantasy” - Douglas Turner Ward (b. 1939) (Happy Ending and Day of Absence. Two Plays, 1966)
The play takes place in one typical dystopian small Southern town in which all the Negroes disappear for one day and shows how completely the whites are dependent on them. The play was first performed November 15, 1965, at the St. Mark’s Playhouse, New York.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Devil and Democracy” - Brian [Brendon Talbot] Cleeve (1921-2003) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1966)
Satire on the unionization of Hell.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Enlightened Ones Beyond the Icebergs - Reuben Sam Shodall (b. 1889) (Exposition Press, 1966)
Those who left when Atlantis, which is depicted as an earthly paradise where nature provided, became corrupt and relocated in the Far North. The novel includes histories of Atlantis, the first settlement in the north, and a description of the eutopian society established there, including a brief period of internal disagreement. Men appear to hold all the political positions, but women are engineers and appear to be equally educated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall of the Towers - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Ace Books, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a free, communal eutopia.
Contains revised versions of Captives of the Flame. New York: Ace Books, 1963; rev. as Out of the Dead City which was Delany’s original title. New York: Ace Books, 1966. U.K. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1968; Towers of Toron. New York: Ace Books, 1964. Rev. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1968; and City of a Thousand Suns. New York: Ace Books, 1965. Rev. ed. London: Sphere Books, 1969.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Farewell, Earth's Bliss - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia with Mars as a penal colony.
Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Flame - Jim Hunter (b. 1939) (Faber and Faber, 1966)
Right wing dystopia brought about by a charismatic religious leader and his Christian New Vigour Movement.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Founder's Day" - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1966)
The story begins in an overpopulation dystopia and ends with the founding of a new colony.
Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. Ed. Eric Flint (New York: Baen, 2003), 188-212.
Keywords: Male author; US author

From Carthage Then I Came - Douglas R[ankine] Mason (1918-2013) (Doubleday, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia brought about by a new ice age with everyone living in domes. At the end a new colony is about to be founded as technology provides a way to defeat the ice in defined areas.
UK ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Also entitled Eight Against Utopia. New York: Paperbook Library, 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

Giles Goat-Boy or, The Revised New Syllabus - John [Simmons] Barth (1930-2024) (Doubleday, 1966)
Complex comic novel that includes a dystopia set in a university and ruled by a computer. Giles is a boy raised as an animal who becomes a spiritual leader at New Tammany College (the U.S.).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Harrad Experiment - Robert [Henry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (Sherburne Press, 1966)
The good life through sex, but while the emphasis is on the sex, there is a section (225-37) giving the details of a plan for reforming society and the means and stages of doing so, primarily by revamping education with some material on economics and the laws regarding marriage and divorce. Harrad is a college in which men and women are assigned as roommates with the expectation of sexual relations. The men are taught the system of birth control used in the Oneida Community under the leadership of John Humphrey Noyes (1811-86). See also 1968, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1967. 25th anniversary ed. with Exciting New Material. New York: Prometheus Books, 1990. The additions include "The Harrad/Premar Solution" (252-75), an expanded "Annotated Bibliography" (277-90), and "Loving, Learning, Laughter & Ludamus: The Autobiography of Robert H. Rimmer" (291-324).
Keywords: Male author; US author

.... in the stars--The Great Society! - I. M. Pernow [pseud.] (Vantage Press, 1966)
Detailed eutopia described by a man from space who shows how it should be applied on Earth, led by the U.S. The book is dedicated to President Lyndon B[aines] Johnson (1908-73. President 1963-69), and the eutopia, although it goes much further, is loosely based on Johnson's program for the Great Society. No war, poverty, crime, or disease. Stress on education. Overpopulation defeated by rigorous birth control and eugenic policies. Deformed children and mentally retarded children not allowed to live. Limit on the number of children.
Keywords: Canadian author; German author; Male author

Inner Circle - Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1916-2007) (Macmillan, 1966)
A weird ritualized, overpopulation dystopia set in the far future.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Polish author

"Invaded by Love" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1966)
An alien creates a religion of universal love based on pills that make everyone love each other which brings civilization to a collapse.
Rpt. in his One hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 152-75. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 119-43. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 82-102. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 173-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Refuge - John Petty (1919-73) (Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia. The countryside has been paved over, and private homes have been replaced with huge apartment blocks.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mad Metropolis - Philip E[mpson] High (1914-2006) (Ace Books, 1966)
Computer eutopia that is actually a dystopia.
UK ed. as Double Illusion. London: Dennis Dobson, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Make Room! Make Room!" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Impulse, 1966)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. with a brief "Afterword" (232-33). London: Penguin Books, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Monitors - [John] Keith Laumer (1925-93) (Berkley Books, 1966)
An authoritarian dystopia is imposed on Earth by superior extraterrestrials. While they provide peace, they make mistakes that lead to a planet-wide revolt. But rather than forcing the aliens out, they are hired to do for Earth some of what they had imposed.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1984. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966)
Libertarian eutopia emerges on the Moon after a struggle with an authoritarian government. Free market. New social forms, such as a wide range of forms of marriage, have developed. Slogan is TANSTAAFL--There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1996. Rpt. as vol. 33 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2010. A shorter version was originally published in If 15.12 - 16.4 (December 1965 - April 1966): 8-57; 42-98, 103-47, 93-159, 111-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"No Other Gods But Me" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (No Other Gods But Me, 1966)
Religious dystopia in which adepts keep people at the level of earl agriculture with no technology.
Rpt. in his Entry to Elsewhen (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 91-172; rpt. with a different cover in October 1972. Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Of Godlike Power - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Belmont Books, 1966)
A prophet, preaching a perfect society, disrupts the current one.
Also entitled Earth Unaware. New York: Belmont, 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Origin of the Brunists - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966)
Origin, development, and collapse of a religious sect. Brunist comes from Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), a Dominican friar who was burned at the stake for heresy. See also 2014 Coover.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967; and New York: A Richard Seaver Book/The Viking Press, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

"The Post-mortem People" - Peter Tate (b. 1940) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1966)
Transplant dystopia in which the ability to transplant organs leads to the development of an elaborate system to profit from the death of others by claiming their bodies.
Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 383-97.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"The Primary Education of the Camiroi" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1966)
Eutopia in which everyone is expected to be an expert in everything from a very young age. The details of the educational system are given. See also 1967 Lafferty.
Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 161-74; in his The Man with the Speckled Eyes. The Collected Short Fiction Volume Four (Lakewood, CA: Centipede Press, 2017), 35-50; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 213-29, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (210-12). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rat Race" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1966)
Flawed utopia. Computer perfect society where any productive activity is illegal, which leaves no one with anything to do and many people are extremely bored. One man starts a fad for model trains and finds a way around the rules.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Pub. Co., 1972), 247-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Return of Arthur - Martyn Skinner (1906-93) (Chapman and Hall, 1966)
Epic poem most of which is concerned with the dystopia of the modern age, particularly that of Communism. The work ends though with the reestablishment of the best of the past and a eutopia.
Parts originally published as Merlin or the Return of Arthur. A Satiric Epic. Part One. London: Frederick Muller, 1951; The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. London: Chapman & Hall, 1955; and The Return of Arthur. A Poem of the Future. Part Two. London: Chapman & Hall, 1959. The utopia is only found in the 1966 version.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Richest Corpse in Show Business - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) (Compact Books, 1966)
Future dystopia of organized human hunts. Some humor.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Saga of Lost Earths - Emil [Theodore] Petaja (1915-2000) (Ace Books, 1966)
Authoritarian dystopia as setting at the beginning. The bulk of the book is a heroic saga based on the Finnish Kalevala.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Tenth Home - F[rancis] O[swald] Bennett (1898-1976) (Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1966)
Fictional home for the elderly which is both an analysis of such homes and a description of an ideal one. Presented as combining fiction and the stories of actual people in such homes. The ideal home is one that is not simply warehousing its people but responding to their individual needs and interests, and in an opening eutopian vignette involving children, animals, and the neighborhood with the home (3-8). The New Zealand author was a doctor who served as medical officer at several such homes.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The Tenth Victim - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Ballantine Books, 1966)
Dystopia of legal hunts of humans by other humans. See also 1958 and 1960 Sheckley. His Hunter/Victim. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a prequel, and his Victim Prime. New York: New American Library, 1987 is a sequel. The film Le Decima Vittima (1965) directed by Elio Petri (1929-82) with a screenplay by Tonino Guerra (1920-2012) Giorgio Salvioni (d. 1994), Ennio Flaiano (1910-72), and Petri is based on “The Seventh Victim” and this is the novelization of the film.
U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1966. Rpt. London: Methuen, 1987. Originated as “The Seventh Victim” Galaxy Science Fiction 6.1 (April 1953): 38-51. Story rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 300-11; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 109-22; in his The Masque of Mañana. Ed. Sharon L. Sbarsky (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 61-72; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 14-29 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Tomorrow Is Now--a possible voyage into man's future - Julius [K.] Vogel ([Author], 1966)
Play set in the country of Tomorrow, which is visited by a man who the inhabitants of Tomorrow think of as a barbarian. The inhabitants of Tomorrow see it as a eutopia while the visitor sees it as flawed. Children born artificially, no marriage or family life. Focus on individual achievement. This is, in effect, an introduction to 1992 Vogel, which has more details.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Turning Into Tomorrow - Watson Thomson (d. 1969) (Philosophical Library, 1966)
Essay with a focus on communal or "group" utopias.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Utopia Minus X - [Stanley Bennett] [Hough] (1917-1998) (Ace Books, 1966)
Flawed utopia which is believed to be the Perfect World in which no change is needed faced with a space explorer returning from space after two hundred years.
UK ed. as The Paw of God. London: Anthony Gibbs Library 33 Ltd., 1967. Rpt. London: Tandem, 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Watch Below - James White (1928-1999) (Whiting & Wheaton, 1966)
Two societies developing in isolation over generations are presented, one in a tanker at the bottom of the sea and the other in an alien starship approaching Earth. The potential war between Earth and the aliens is avoided through contact between those in the tanker and the other two. Both the undersea society and the alien society have eutopian elements, with the alien society the more complex one.
U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1966. Rpt. New York: Walker, 1969. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: Ryerson Press, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

"We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1966)
Dystopia in which false memories can be implanted.
Rpt. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 57.4 (341) (October 1979): 248-65; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 191-212; in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Little Black Box (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 157-74; The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 2 We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 35-52; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 46-73; and in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 385-404 with an editors’ note on 385-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wonderful World of Tomorrow: What It Will Be Like - Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986); Garner Ted Armstrong (1940-2003) (Ambassador College Press, 1966)
Tract deploring present conditions and foretelling the Second Coming of Christ and the conditions when God rules directly and church and state are unified. Supernatural force will eliminate crime and rebellion, and then people will be reeducated into God's truth. See also, 1979 Armstrong.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"102 H-Bombs" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, 1965)
Dystopia of militarism in which in what is officially a "non-war" 30,000 U.S. men are killed every year. To provide more soldiers, all orphanages are taken over by the military and the age for active service is lowered to 14 (the Pentagon wants to lower it to 10). People from a briefly depicted future eutopia visit and help people to recognize the futility of war.
Rpt in his one hundred and two H-Bombs and other science fiction stories (London: Roberts & Vinter, 1966), 9-38. U.S. ed. as One Hundred and Two H-Bombs (New York: Berkley, 1971), 8-38. Book repub. with different contents as White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 7-33. Story rpt. in The Early Science Fiction Stories of Thomas M. Disch (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977), 130-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Age of the Pussyfoot" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Galaxy Magazine [Galaxy changed its name back to Galaxy Science Fiction with the 24.3 (February 1966) issue.], 1965)
Eutopia with problems. In a pleasure-oriented future everyone has a personal computer that provides anything desired, at least for the wealthy. There is widespread drug use, leisure, sexual freedom, and immortality through freezing and resuscitation. While there are various conflicts that drive the plot, the ending is positive.
Exp. under the same title New York: Trident Press, 1969. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Atrophy" - Ernest Hill (1915-2003) (New Writings in S-F, 1965)
Dystopia. Machines allow humans to atrophy then the machines break down.
U.S. ed. of the book as New Writings in SF-6. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 117-36.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

Bill, The Galactic Hero - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Doubleday, 1965)
Militaristic dystopia. This was the first volume of a series, the other volumes of which are anti-military but not dystopias.
Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1969. First published serially in New Worlds Science Fiction 49.153 - 155 (August - October 1965): 4-60; 45-99; 4-35. Part two has the title “A Dip in the Swimming-Pool Reactor,” and part three has the title “E=mc2 . . . OR BUST.” The first version was published in Italian as “Un Eroe Gallatico.” Trans. Lella Pollini. Galassia #47 (1984). The earliest English version was published as “Starsloggers.” Galaxy Magazine 23.2 (December 1964): 7-82.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Calling Dr. Clockwork” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Amazing Stories, 1965)
Satire on medical care in an automated future.
Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction: 1966. Ed. Donald A, Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1966), 31-41; Science Fiction Greats, no. 15 (Summer 1969), 90-98; and in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 51-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Caves of Mars - Emil [Theodore] Petaja (1915-2000) (Ace Books, 1965)
Dystopia in which a drug that provides perfect health also makes a person amenable to control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Code Three - Rick Raphael (Simon and Schuster, 1965)
Future dystopia of violence centered on superhighways.
UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. Rpt. London: Panther, 1968. Parts originally published as "Code Three." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.6 (February 1963): 8-57; and "Once a Cop." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 73.3 (May 1964): 38-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming of the Unselves - Edmund Ludlow (b. 1898) (Exposition Press, 1965)
The Unselves are minute beings from space who inhabit a person’s brain and make them speak only the truth. Even though it worked, it proved very unpopular. Businesses said that contracts agreed to under such conditions are not valid. People cannot vote under such circumstances. An honest accountant might be executed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Coming-of-Age Day" - A. K Jorgensson (Science Fantasy, 1965)
Dystopia of a new Victorian age in which information about sex is limited. Presented from the viewpoint of a growing boy as he learns about the new approach, which is to provide each person with a living organism that provides sex without contact with another human being.
Rpt. in Dark Stars. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 51-64; in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 261-71; in Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 148-63 with an editors’ note (147-48); and in The Shape of Sex to Come. Ed. Douglas Hill (London: Pan Books, 1978), 52-65.
Keywords: Male author

"Cynia: An Original Utopia" - Gary G. Shriver (University of Wyoming, 1965)
Individualist anarchist eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earthworks - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Faber & Faber, 1965)
The setting is a future England has been devasted by an ecological disaster fueled by overpopulation that left the countryside poisoned and the cities disease-ridden.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1966. 154 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Eight Billion" - Richard Wilson (1920-1987) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1965)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. separately as an ebook. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2009; and in his The Story Writer and Other Stories. The Selected Stories of Richard Wilson Volume 1. Ed. John Pelan (Np: Dancing Tuatara Press/Ramble House, 2011), 154-164.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fable IV" - Fred Uhlman (1901-85) (The Aylesford Review, 1965)
Dystopia. Bored young people of the future try out various possibilities for entertainment and remain bored. Everyone has a holiday of six months and is looking for excitement. No monogamy. Modern art criticized. Religion emasculated. Commit suicide.
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

Flying High - Dewey C. Brookins (1904-82) (Vantage Press, 1965)
A trip to an inhabited moon set in 2000 while Earth is preparing for the next world war, which appears to not happen. People on the moon far in advance of Earth. Buildings on the moon underground. Monarchy. Christianity and the religion of the moon are similar. The people from Earth are not allowed to return to Earth, and one marries the Queen. Other planets are also inhabited.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fourth Reich: A Fantasy of the United Nations - Martin Hale [pseud?] (Jonathan Cape, 1965)
Dystopian thriller set in a future Africa in which the U.N. had been taken over by followers of Hitler.

The God Killers - John [Martin] Baxter (b. 1939) (Horwitz, 1965)
Authoritarian, religious, anti-science dystopia.
Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction 50.163 - 164 (June - July 1966): 4-65, 74-129; and as The Off-Worlders. New York: Ace Books, 1966. Ace Double bound with Lin Carter, The Star Magicians.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Good New Days" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Magazine, 1965)
Humorous dystopia. Robots have replaced humans for all productive work and humans are valued depending on the number of meaningless jobs they hold. There is a statue honoring a twelve-job man.
Rpt. in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine, 1974), 295-310; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 271-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"I Always Do What Teddy Says" - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 1965)
Teddy bear robots are used to socialize and educate small children. One is tampered with to allow the person to kill a political enemy, but he doesn't. According to Harrison, he had to change the ending to one he dislikes.
Rpt in The Days After Tomorrow. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1971), 145-56; in The New Improved Sun. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 157-66; and in Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come. Ed. Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992), 137-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The Loafers of Refuge - Joseph L[ee] Green (b. 1931) (Victor Gollancz, 1965)
Blending of two branches of humanity on a distant planet, one stressing technology and one stressing mental control. Problems and possibilities of both but with a particularly sympathetic portrayal of the latter.
Rpt. London: Pan, 1967. Earlier version published in New Worlds Science Fiction as "The Colonist." 41.121 (August 1962): 4-34; "The-Old-Man-In-The-Mountain." 44.131 (June 1963): 4-30; and "Refuge." 44.132 (July 1963): 4-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Diaries of Albert Smith - Robert Muller (b. 1925) (Jonathan Cape, 1965)
Dystopia in which Fascists come to power in Britain.
Later ed. as After all, this is England. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1967.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

A Man of Double Deed - Leonard [John] Daventry (1915-87) (Victor Gollancz, 1965)
Dystopia set in 2090 with an "Atomic Disaster" having occurred in 1990. Division between an orientation to pleasure and the existence of youth gangs killing at random. Telepathy. Polygamy is standard with the main character thought of as odd because he limited himself to two women.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable - Ronald L. Fair (b. 1932) (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965)
The novel is set in one dystopian county in Mississippi created through the machinations of a corrupt lawyer and an equally corrupt judge, killing or driving out the indigenous population, and re-establishing what amounted to slavery after the Civil War, a system that continued to the time of the novel. When the Federal government finally tries to bring change to the county, the federal marshals are thrown in jail. At this point, the Negroes revolt, burn down the town, and kill most of the tormentors while saving the white women and children. The title refers to the thousands of Negroes who had been killed previously.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"The Masculinist Revolt" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1965)
Satire. A pro-male revolt follows the reintroduction of the codpiece but ultimately fails.
Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 213-51; and in his Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 213-35 with an "Afterword" (236-37).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nobody Axed You" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1965)
Overpopulation dystopia in which violence is normal and the top-rated TV programs show people being killed.
Rpt. in his Time-Jump (New York: Dell, 1973), 130-60.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Plague of Pythons - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1965)
Dystopia in the classic power corrupts mode.
Rev. as Demon in the Skull. New York: DAW Books, 1984. A shorter version was published as "Plague of Pythons" in Galaxy Magazine 21.1 - 2 (October - December 1962): 112-58, 136-89.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Project Plowshare. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces" - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Worlds of Tomorrow, 1965)
Dystopia brought about by world disarmament combined with the continued manufacture of weapons to keep the world economy going.
Rpt. as The Zap Gun. Being that Most Excellent Account of Travails and Contayning Many Pretie Hystories By Him Set Foorth in Comely Colours and Most Delightfully Discoursed Upon as Beautified and Well Furnished Divers Good and Commendable in the Gesiht of Men of That Most Lamentable Wepens Fasoun Designer Lars Powderdry and What Nearly Became of Him Due to Certain Most Dreadful Forces. New York: Pyramid, 1967. The copyright page of the book gives the title of the first publication as "Operation Plowshare", but it is as given here.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Psychedelic-40 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) (Bantam Books, 1965)
Dystopia of control through drugs and pleasure. Psychedlic-40 is a drug known as PSI-40 that produces dreams of extreme sensuality, but it also allows the taker's mind to be probed or even controlled.
UK ed. as The Specials. London: Herbert Jenkins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Red Dust - Bee [Beatrice Lillian] Baldwin (b. 1920) (Robert Hale/Whitcombe & Tombs, 1965)
A pandemic is brought about by spores, the red dust, from Antarctica and most of the world's population dies. In New Zealand a survivor briefly establishes an authoritarian dystopia, but is finally overthrown by some survivors who are immune to the disease. The Immunes are changed by the spores both physically and morally and the possibility of a future eutopia is held out.
Also published London: Robert Hale, 1965.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author

"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Galaxy Magazine, 1965)
Dystopia in which everyone is controlled by the clock.
Rpt. in his Alone Against Tomorrow: Stories of Alienation in Speculative Fiction (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 130-44 [The first eight stories in Alone Against Tomorrow, including this story, rpt. as All the Sounds of Fear (London: Panther, 1973), 129-43]; in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publ. Co., 1972), 87-96; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 199-208; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 63-71, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 62; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 257-661; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 492-99 with an editors’ note on 491. Edition as “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman. The Classic Story by Harlen Ellison illustrated by Rick Berry. Designed by Arnie Farmer. Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1997 with a “Foreword Stealing Tomorrow” continued as an “Afterword Stealing Tomorrow” by Ellison (unpaged).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Smallcreep's Day - Peter Currell Brown (b. 1936) (Victor Gollancz, 1965)
Satire on the dystopia that is factory system seen through the eyes of one man who spends a day wandering around a huge factory.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Space Pioneer" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Analog Fiction--Science Fact, 1965)
Story of the classic conflict between those who want to settle a newly discovered planet and those who want to simply strip of its resources for a profit.
Repub. London: Four Square/New English Library, 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Squares of the City - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ballantine Books, 1965)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a newly built, intended to be ideal, city in a South American dictatorship. The novel is modeled on a game of chess and deals with a power struggle between the dictator and his main opponent.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Starchild - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Ballantine Books, 1965)
Sequel to 1963 Pohl and Williamson, "The Reefs of Space". In this volume the computer has tightened its grip but is threatened by unknown forces.
Originally published in a shorter version in Worlds of If Science Fiction 15.1 -3 (86 - 88) (January - March 1965): 6-52, 101-29, 91-128. Also published in their The Starchild Trilogy. The Reefs of Space Starchild Rogue Star (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1969), 151-286, which includes the third volume, the non-utopian "Rogue Star." Worlds of If Science Fiction 18.6 - 8 (127 - 29) (June - August 1968): 10-43; 119-59; 125-58; repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Survivor" - Walter F[rank] Moudy (1929-73) (Amazing Stories, 1965)
War replaced by the Olympic War Games in which there is real fighting between teams representing countries. The story stresses the importance of replacing war but also emphasizes that the traumas inflicted on the people fighting are real and long lasting.
Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelly (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 357-81.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Terminal” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Fantastic Stories of Imagination, 1965)
The story is set is an automated future where the problems of old age are solved by the United States Welfare Squad that monthly randomly “collects” one hundred “old timers” and takes them to Senior Citizen Terminals. If they are not claimed within thirty days, they are terminated. The protagonist is a man who has been misidentified by the machines.
Rpt. in the author’s Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 182-192.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Doubleday, 1965)
Dystopia where a drug is used that can induce eutopia to hide the horrors of contemporary life.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979; and in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan Allen Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 231-430 with "Notes" on 828.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

"Wasted on the Young" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Galaxy Magazine, 1965)
Future society with wealth for all in return for work. The young may borrow against future earnings. Story is about a young man who tries to beat the system and fails.
Rpt. in his From This Day Forward (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 63-77.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Weather in the Underworld" - Colin [Lewis] Free (1925-96) (Squire (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1965)
Dystopia set in UnderEarth, an underground haven designed to be a eutopia with no memories and technological control of thought and emotion. Drugs for every emotion and situation. A man whose conditioning fails is expelled to the surface where he is killed and eaten by those who had been left outside.
Rpt. in The Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1968), 49-57. Book rpt. as The Pacific Book of Science Fiction. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1969), 49-57.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

White Lotus - John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1965)
Authoritarian dystopia in which the Chinese suppress whites. Recreates the history of African Americans from slavery to a non-violent civil rights movement with whites as the oppressed and the Chinese as the oppressor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

You Sane Men - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) (Lancer, 1965)
Dystopia of sadism. An insane world where pain is essential for the maintenance of civilization.
​Rpt. as Bloodworld. New York: Lodestone, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Animal Farm: A Fable in Two Acts - Nelson [Slade] Bond (1908-2006) (Samuel French, 1964)
Adaptation of 1945 Blair.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Aristos; A Self-Portrait in Ideas - John [Robert] Fowles (1926-2005) (Little Brown, 1964)
Mostly commentary on contemporary life, but a eutopia is suggested in the last two sections, "A New Education" (183-223) and "The Aristos" (234-39). The revised edition is a significantly different book but includes the same themes, with "A New Education" (141-83), and "The Aristos in the Individual" (212-14).
UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Rev. ed. without the subtitle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 1968. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1970. [4th] rev. ed. without the subtitle. London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

The Burning World - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Berkley Medallion/Berkley Publishing Co, 1964)
Climate-change dystopia.
Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Clans of the Alphane Moon - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1964)
A mental hospital moon is trying to achieve independence. The paranoids are the leaders, the manics are the warriors, the depressed are the realists, and the schizophrenics are the visionaries.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

Davy - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) (St. Martin's Press, 1964)
Future barbarianism but with elements of a dystopia dominated by religion.
UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1966. Expanded from "The Golden Horn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 22.2 (129) (February 1962): 98-129; and "A War of No Consequence." 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 51-73.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day the Machines Stopped - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) (Monarch Books, 1964)
All electrical power disrupted. This produces authoritarian dystopias plus an attempt to rebuild civilization.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Deathworld 2 - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (Bantam, 1964)
Dystopia of violence.
Rpt. in The Deathworld Trilogy (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 149-283. UK ed. as The Ethical Engineer. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. Originally published in a shorter version as "The Ethical Engineer." Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 71.5 - 6 (July - August 1963): 17-40; 53-80. Other volumes of the trilogy are Deathworld. New York: Bantam Books, 1960; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction 64.5 - 65.1 (January - March 1960): 10-56, 104-41; 62-82, 129-54 [the journal became Astounding/Analog Science Fact & Fiction with the February 1960 issue]; and Deathworld 3. New York: Dell, 1968. U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1969; originally published as "The Horse Barbarians." Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 80.6 - 81.2 (February - April 1968): 6-69; 86-137; 100-42. There are five additional Deathworld volumes that were written for the Russian market.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Escape" - Marsh Haris (1936-93) (Overture in G Minor and Other Stories, Photographs and Drawings, 1964)
Earth is destroyed and five people set off to a new planet, which turns out to be a eutopia inhabited entirely by homosexual men. The women from Earth die within hours.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Evening Fool - [Arthur L.] [Greenaway] (1927-88) (Hutchinson, 1964)
Communal eutopia established on an island in the Pacific and its problems. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says “almost certainly the working name of UK lawyer, actor, scriptwriter and author Arthur Greenaway” with the birth year as 1927 (Wikipedia gives 1929). For various pieces of information that support both the name and the birth date, see https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2010/06/peter-van-greenaway.html.
Keywords: English author; Male author

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

Farnham's Freehold - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia of future war with a libertarian enclave surviving and flourishing.
U.K. ed. London: Dobson Books, 1965. Rpt. as vol. 42 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2007. Also published as ed. by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (b. 1919) in If 14.3 - 5 (July - October 1964): 6-77, 72-130, 66-130. The third issue was originally dated September, but October 1964 was printed over September 1964.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Gas Mask" - James D. Houston (The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future, 1964)
Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.
Originally pub. in Nugget (1964).
Keywords: Male author

"Man on Bridge" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (New Writings in S-F, 1964)
Dystopia in which the unintelligent rule the intelligent, who are kept in camps where they do all the menial work.
Repub. in his Who Can Replace a Man? (New York: New American Library, 1965), 82-98. UK ed. as Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), 96-115; rev. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1971), 56-75.
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Mandrake - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1964)
Authoritarian dystopia in which people are required to live in the district in which they are born; movement around the country is restricted; the main cities are re-walled; and immigration is eliminated. The country is under the control of the Ministry of Planning.
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