Easy Millions. A Story of Adventure and the Discovery of How to Make and Keep Everybody Rich - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Frank Rosewater, 1925)
As in most of Rosewater's works, eutopia can be achieved by all income being spent each year. Cooperative system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Formula For a Utopia" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (The Little Magazine, 1925)
Brief poem describing the characteristic boys and girls should have. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “The Woman Called ‘Beauty’”.
Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 132.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Future - A[rchibald] M[ontgomery] Low (1888-1956) (George Routledge & Sons, 1925)
Detailed predictions of a eutopian future. There is considerable satire throughout the book, and the illustrations are mostly satirical. Much of the eutopia is technological, but there is gender equality, and material on amusement and sport and clothing, with men and women wearing Identical clothes, and other topics. The captioned illustrations include the frontispiece A Station showing that “All the main offices and thoroughfares will be built like arcades, glass roofed, electrically lit and heated. Moving pavements will enable pedestrians to step straight on to their suburban trains.” Between 32 and 33 is a detailed depiction of a car that is also an airplane. Between 66 and 67 shows and motor race in Australia being watched in a theatre in London. Between 76 and 77 is a depiction of underground travel with television or cinema, connections to Typing Department or Restaurant, and telephones to the entire world. Between 88 and 89 is a detailed depiction of a street in the suburbs. Between 108 and 109 is “A Family Snapshot in A.D. 3000” with a husband and wife two children and a dog, all dressed identically, including the dog. Between 130 and 131 is a depiction of future warfare. Between 168 and 169 is a picture of “A Quiet Lunch at Home.” See also 1934 Low, Our Wonderful World of To-Morrow: A Scientific Forecast of the Men, Women, and the World of the Future.
U.S. ed. Illus. New York: International Publishers, 1925.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Gazetted for Matrimony" - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) (Yellow Magazine (London), 1925)
Humor. Eugenics--between 2000 and 2150 marriage was prohibited to the unfit and required of the fit. A man required to marry is unhappy with the choices available and runs away, where he meets a woman who had also run away after rejecting her choices. The illustrations depict a far from fit man and an attractive woman, but the illustrations do not fit the story.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

A Hazard at Hansard: The Speech from the Throne, Ottawa, Fourth August 2014 - Hamilton Craig (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1925)
Eutopia. A cut in government expenditures results in a return to a simpler but better life.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Latin Blood - [David Graham] [Fischer] (Authors Pub. Corp, 1925)
The novel presents two islands -- an authoritarian dystopia and a capitalist eutopia with a good government -- and relations among them. The dystopia is destroyed in a natural disaster.
Keywords: Male author

Looking Forward - Arthur Williams (Author, 1925)
Detailed cooperative, democratic eutopia with a new world constitution with five national governments and an international government. All property to be under the control of the governments.
Keywords: Male author

Lysistrata: Or, Woman's Future and Future Woman With a Foreword by Norman Haire, Ch.M., M.B. - Anthony M[ario] Ludovici (1882-1971) (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925)
Most of the short book is about the current position from a conservative viewpoint. The last chapters “Woman’s Future” (66-90) and “Future Woman” (91-125) project as the better future women staying home, caring for the husbands, and raising children.
U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1925.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mighty Heart; A Survey of England As It Is and A Vision of What It Might Be - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) (Watts & Co, 1925)
Largely a plea for new, strong leadership. Includes a vision of cooperation between the classes and a cleaned up, purer Britain. Reason replacing religion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Murderers' Island - [Hilda C.] [Adshead] (1901?-85?) (Methuen, 1925)
Romance but includes both a eutopia and a dystopia. The eutopia is a reformed future world. The emphasis in the novel is on the legal system, but hints of more general reform abound. The dystopia is a self-governing island to which convicted murderers are sent.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Neutopia - E[mmeline] Richardson (b. 1867) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1925)
Lost race socialist eutopia. Revolution had been brought about by women. Eugenics; hygienic life. If health standards are not met, health workers are punished. Mostly vegetarian. Free education. Stress on development and self-control. Training to be parents. Telepathy. Food, housing free. Solar power. Individual flight through a counter-gravity device. Main government departments are ones of Health and Education, Labour and Land, and Law and Economics. Changes are suggested and voted on by the people; if accepted, put into place for ten years and then resubmitted.
Keywords: Female author

The People on Other Planets - Richard A. Fox (The Walter Southworth Co. Distributors, 1925)
Spiritual journeys to other planets in the form of fifty-five short dated entries in a diary together with one undated chapter entitled Mind Power that is in effect an introduction. Everyone has the power to use their minds to replace machinery if they live right (vegetarian) and keep their minds free of "injustice, hatred, vengeance, and sensuality" (2). In the Preface the author says that his descriptions reflect actual occurrences (viii).
Keywords: Male author

Quo Vadimus? Some Glimpses of the Future - E[dmund] E[dward] Fournier d'Albe (1868-1933) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925)
Eutopia presented as mostly fairly conservative predictions with some more wide-ranging, long-term projections at the end. Topics covered include transport and communications, privacy, clothing, housing, automation, children, education, labor, and government.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Rule of the Beasts - V[iolet] T[orlesse Holland] Murray (b. 1874) (Stanley Paul & Co, 1925)
After a catastrophe, animals bring about a eutopia among themselves and the remaining humans with an emphasis on the spiritual.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Sacred Giraffe; Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval - Salvador de Madariaga [y Rojo] ed. [written by] (1886-1978) (Harper and Brothers, 1925)
The novel begins in a future society where women dominate but men are beginning to gain some recognition as being more than decorative. The novel is then concerned with how this state of affairs came about and how Europe and the white race disappeared.
UK ed. London: Martin Hopkinson, 1925. Also published as La jirafa sagredo, o El buho de plata. Novela cuasi una fantasia, dedicada en prueba de gratitud a A.J.C. Pues con ella está en dueda esta libro en más de una manera, por Julio Arceval. Madrid, Spain: Mundo Editorial Latino, [1925].
Keywords: Male author; Spanish author

"Shamballah" - Bliss Carman (1861-1929) (Far Horizons, 1925)
Poem about a Golden Age city written in 1922.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Silent Voice - Berenice V. Dell (The Four Seas Co, 1925)
Gender-role reversal in the far future City of New Thought initially presented as a feminist eutopia. But it is a dystopia because there is no religion, and women have given up their true place. Some young escape to True America, which is a eutopia because it is religious and Aryan. Both countries are technologically advanced.
Keywords: Female author

Ten Years Hence? - Hannah Coron (J.M. Ouseley & Son, Ltd, 1925)
The novel satirizes the pacifist tendencies of the Labour Party and predicts war and the easy defeat of Britain if it gains power. Right thinking men establish a secret air force and are able to win when the predictions come true.
Keywords: Female author

Through the Needle's Eye; A narrative of the restoration of the Davidic Kingdom of Israel in Palestine with Jesus Christ as King. Based Upon The Bride of Christ By Emry Davis - Frank Willoughby (The Palestine Press, 1925)
Millennial eutopia stressing equality and honesty set at the beginning of the 21st century. Climate restored. Rejects the Rapture (see 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). See 1923 Davis, The Bride of Christ.
Keywords: Male author

The Ultimate Island: A Strange Adventure - L[ancelot] de Giberne Sieveking (1896-1972) (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1925)
Mostly adventure but includes a flawed utopia, an almost inaccessible island that provides a relaxed life of equality, including gender equality, and freedom. The flaw is that in order to maintain the population at the correct point, childbirth is rigidly controlled, and eugenically imperfect children are killed, as is anyone who tries to leave.
U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1925.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Volonor - Glen B[rian] Winship (1887-1966) (Thomas Seltzer, 1925)
Dystopian free love colony in which women have no status and cannot own property.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Wairoa in 1975 (More or Less Prophetical)" - Thomas Lambert (1854-1944) (The Story of Old Wairoa and the East Coast District, North Island New Zealand or, Past, Present, and Future. A Record of Over Fifty Years' Progress, 1925)
Eutopia. A man awakes in 1975 from a long trance and discovers much technological improvement, prosperity, and general reform. Harnessing of rivers for power and electricity widely used in industry and transport. Includes illustrations of the outer and inner harbours, the Wairoa River harbour, the botanical gardens, and the Elysium in 1975. The Elysium was a fashionable suburb built on about 60 acres of reclaimed land. Much beautification had taken place. Maori lands had become the private property of Maori and were generally worked as market gardens. Maori College to train girls in domestic arts and nursing. Maori boys were taught agriculture, although even after graduation overseers ensured that they worked as expected and their earnings were set aside for them. Intermarriage and marriage to half castes prohibited.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Irish author; Male author

A War on Poverty - [Edward Alexander] [Partridge] ([Wallingford Press], 1925)
Detailed eutopia, particularly in the chapter "Things As They Might Be" (109-56). Cooperative commonwealth. Designed for Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and part of Ontario), the area to be called COALSAMAO and created as a separate country. It will have a unicameral legislature of 25 members elected annually. Something like 1888 Bellamy's Industrial Army in that local control is in Camps of 3500-7000 people organized to carry out work. The book is mostly quotations.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

“White Man’s Madness” - Lenore E[dith Johnstone] Chaney (1881-1972) (Weird Tales, 1925)
Lost race story in which the protagonist is a white man searching for the storied riches of the Incas. He accidentally discovers a peaceful, sheep-tending pre-Incan Aryan community that worships the sun and uses gold for their dishes and jewels as decoration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Woman Called 'Beauty' and Her Seven Dragons A Poem for Those Who Desire an Aesthetic Utopia" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (The Little Magazine, 1925)
Poem with fairly vague suggestions of a eutopia of art that will set humanity free to be fully human.  See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “Formula For a Utopia”.
Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 125-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Young Winkle - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) (Duckworth, 1925)
The novel describes the founding of a secret society aimed at boys and intended to bring them closer to nature, much like the Kibbo Kift that the author founded. Based loosely on Kim (serially 1900-1901/Book 1901) by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). See also 1924 and 1927 Hargrave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Amphibians. A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Merton Press, 1924)
Set 300,000 years in the future and mostly dystopian. The Amphibians are one of the species in that future. They are small, furred, sexless creatures who communicate telepathically and mostly live peacefully. And there are other species of both plants and animals that are extremely violent. The Dwellers, the dominant species, live underground. The novel is concerned with a conflict between the Amphibians and the Dwellers, and how it is settled.
Rpt. London: Merton Press, 1925. 2nd ed. London: Merton Press, 1926. Also included in Wright, The World Below (London: Collins, 1929), 3-186; U.S. ed. (New York: Longmans, Green, 1930), 1-203; rpt. (Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949), 1-203. Rpt. without the subtitle on the book but with the subtitle A Suspenseful, Haunting Masterpiece of Earth's Far-Distant Future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 4. New York: World Editions, 1949.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"And So It Came To Pass" - Leonard Flemming (1880-1946). (A Crop of Chaff, 1924)
Dystopia. Blacks take over, eliminate all pure whites, and mixed-race work for blacks under an apartheid system. Blacks then start warring among themselves, and the human race comes to an end. Introduced by General the Right Honorable J.C. Smuts (1870-1950), who was Prime Minister of South Africa (1919-1924 and 1939-48).
2nd ed. (Pietermaritsburg, South Africa: The Natal Witness, 1924), 26-31. ​May have been published earlier in a South African newspaper.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Beloved Shipmates - Rear-Admiral Robert N[eale] Lawson (Grant Richards, 1924)
Mostly adventure and romance with some humor but includes the founding of an island egalitarian eutopia. Note the charts inside the front and back covers. Continued in his Happy Anchorage. London: Grant Richards, 1925, which continues the adventures.
Keywords: Male author

“Eliza Fanshawe, K.C. (A Story of 2000 A.D.)” - E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949) (Fritto Misto, 1924)
Brief sex-role reversal story.
Keywords: English author; Male author

England at the Flood Tide - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) (Damian Press, 1924)
Eutopia. Natural aristocracy with checks on the power of the people. Guild system. Women economically independent but to a large extent men and women are separate.
Keywords: English author; Male author

God's Holy Kingdom of United Israel. A Remarkable Book. A Bible Study for all Thinking People. The Kingdom of Melchezedek--The Construction by Him of the Great Pyramid, God's Witness, or 'The Bible in Stone'--The Discontinuance of the Kingdom of Melchezedek and the Covenant with Abraham--The Kingdom Transferred to Israel; the Two Houses of Israel, the Two Witnesses of Jehovah--Anglo Saxons the House of Israel--The Coming Union of Israel and Judah--The Sealing of the 144,000 out of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and their Administration of Affairs in 'The New Earth'--The New Heaven and the New Earth, and the New Covenant with United and Restored Israel. The Book of the Hour. Every Student of the Bible should read and study it - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) (United Israel Publishing Department, 1924)
Eutopia of the saints.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Green Machine - [Francis Ambrose] Ridley (1897-1994) (Noel Douglas, 1924)
Gigantic rational ants on Mars. Before meeting the ants, the protagonist has run into various Martian monsters. The human population of Mars had been conquered by the ants and enslaved, after which they degenerated into monkeys. The ants were socialist with their position in society determined at birth. No word for "I", only for "we" or the plural "you". No war; no religion.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Harbottle; A Modern Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is To Come - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) (Duckworth, 1924)
Allegory based loosely on John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) in which a better future is briefly described. The English author was the founder of the Kibbo Kift and later became involved in the Social Credit movement. See also 1925 and 1927 Hargrave.
U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1924
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Heaven" - Basil [William Benjamin] King (1859-1928) (Cosmopolitan (New York), 1924)
Heaven as eutopia.
Rpt. in his The Spreading Dawn: Stories of the Great Transition (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927), 123-57; and in Mind, Inc. (Camden, NJ) 3.3 (September 1930): 62-.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Idealism and the Ideal State" - Hugh W[heeler] Sanford (1880-1961) (The Business of Life, 1924)
Eutopia of eugenics--keep the "inefficient" from breeding--and a reformed capitalism. No unions and no collective bargaining. No minimum wage. Elected representatives are not delegates reflecting the opinion of their district but are expected to vote to support the "ideal state".
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Near Future" - Joseph Ivers Lawrence (Argosy--All-Story Weekly (New York), 1924)
Dystopian satire of an over-regulated society.
Keywords: Male author

The Last of My Race. A Dream of the Future - J[ohn] Lionel Tayler M.R.C.S. (1874-1930) (J.W. Ruddock & Sons/Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent, 1924)
In the very far future Homo sapiens, now known as Homo Ignorans, has long disappeared and been replaced by what was then called Homo sapiens, who was then replaced by Homo Sapiens Varius, a species far above the human race, who was then replaced by Sapiens minimus, who is close to pure intelligence.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Lost Car" - James J. Hayden (Odds and Ends (Miscellaneous Writings), 1924)
Detailed eutopia of New Hellas (later just Hellas), a society of four million square miles in the Southern Hemisphere descended from classical Greece, which has chosen to remain isolated until the rest of the world becomes peaceful The story includes both a description of the eutopia by an outsider and a history of the eutopia by a resident. No poverty because land cannot be privately owned, and everyone works. Taxation based on the use of the land, which covers all costs. A brief vignette at the end set in 3003 AD shows contact between the Hellenes and future, peaceful humanity with wings but no legs.
In his "Note The Lost Car" (xvii-xxi) the author says that the story was originally published in "over a dozen installments" in the "Journal", previously the Sewanee Banner (presumably Sewanee, OH). No such paper appears to survive.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man Who Mastered Time - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) (Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York), 1924)
Third of the Golden Atom stories (see 1922 Cummings). Six thousand years in the future there is a class-based dystopia.
Rpt. Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg, 1924; and in Fantastic Novels Magazine (New York) 3.6 (March 1950): 10-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Melody from Mars - [Violet Lilian] [Perkins]; [Archer Leslie] [Hood] (Authors' International Pub. Co, 1924)
An odd future tale of spiritually advanced people, which includes the description of a eutopia called the Electric City. Not much detail.
Keywords: Female author

A Message from "Mars" including The "Martians" Plan for World Peace and Permanent Prosperity via a New Monetary System - [Samuel] [Bottomley] (b. 1858) (The Martian Pub. Co, 1924)
Eutopia. Monetary reform establishes a non-fluctuating currency. The author also wrote The Second Message from "Mars": The Gold Standard, its Relation to Business, Labor and World Peace. Providence, RI: The Martian Publishing Co., 1925 (PSt); and The Third Message from "Mars": World Reformation By Monetary Revolution. Providence, RI: The Martian Publishing Co., 1926.
Keywords: Male author

Modern Lilliput: A History of the recent re-discovery of the Lilliput Archipelago, and what has been happening there - David Alec Wilson (1864-1933) (C.W. Daniel, 1924)
A history of Lilliput after Lemuel Gulliver of 1726 Swift left up to the late nineteenth century and the events that resulted from its rediscovery.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Negrolana - [Henry Franklin] [Triplett] (1854-1928) (Christopher Publishing House, 1924)
Paternalistic eutopia. Land founded for freed slaves by wealthy slave owners. Single tax. Very strict. Stress on a good, broad education. 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.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paul's School of Statesmanship - William H[ope] Harvey (1851-1936) (Mundus Pub. Co, 1924)
Eutopia. Monetary reform results in money being tied to the amount of goods. As a result, it can be constantly in circulation rather than saved.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The People's Corporation - King C[amp] Gillette (1855-1932) (Boni and Liveright, 1924)
Non-fictional explanation of his ideas for eutopia. The People's Corporation is the only employer, owner, and seller. "All property and wealth in individual or corporate ownership shall be acquired by purchase. . ." (219). See also 1894 Gillette and 1910 Gillette Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Supercity: A Planned Physical Equipment for City Life - Robert R[uss] Kern (Np [Ptd. Binghamton, NY: Vail-Ballou, Inc.], 1924)
Very detailed description of an ideal city and the way it will improve peoples’ lives.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Symbolic Island - Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) (The Damian Press, 1924)
Eutopia. A group is temporarily marooned on an isolated island. After an over-organized beginning, many of the people manage to create a relaxed society. Much satire.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Temple of the Forgotten Dead" - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) (Undream'd of Shores, 1924)
This story is said to be the basis for his 1930 Pantopia. In the story, a storyteller tells two stories. The eutopian one, which gives the story its title, describes an isolated island which has developed a religion with gods representing each virtue and bases its society on self-development and duty to others. It is also technologically advanced.
The manuscript is at Princeton University.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

"Utopia Interpreted" - Sarah N[orcliffe] Cleghorn (1876-1959) (Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1924)
Traces the history of the world up to a future eutopia. Four "interpretations" of the future are presented--a new ice age, a modern Franciscan movement among women, technological change, and the new nomads. Written as if from July 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Valley of the Eyes Unseen - Gilbert [Henry] Collins (b. 1890) (Robert M. McBride and Co, 1924)
Lost race eutopia with a classical Greek culture.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Venus - Rena Oldfield Pettersen (Dorrance & Co, 1924)
Eutopia. Telepathy in an idyllic society about two thousand years in advance of Earth. Much romance and the picture of Venus comes out through the interactions of two Venusians with people on Earth during a visit to Earth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A World I’d Have” - J[onathan] E. Hoag (1831-1927) (The Troy Times, 1924)
Something of an Arcadia, a paean to nature. And near the end he writes, “Let sturdy yeomen man their ploughs/Till not a mouth for bread need crave.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The World’s May Day: A Celebration - J[ohn] H[enry] Bingham (The Co-operative Union Ltd., 1924)
Children’s play with an ambassador from Mars, which only sends “children as ambassadors because they tell the truth to each other” (3). In the play the ambassador begins to understand that Earth’s problem is primarily the division among countries and brings everyone together.
Keywords: Male author

The Battle of London - [Harry Collinson] [Owen] (1881-1956) (Herbert Jenkins, 1923)
Anti-Communist dystopia. Mostly on the revolution and the fight to defeat it. The Liberty League of England, which the author compares to the Fascist Party in Italy, which meets his approval, saves the day.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Bride of Christ. A Message from Jerusalem to the True and Faithful Subjects of Jesus Christ throughout the World - Emry Davis (The Palestine Press, 1923)
Religious eutopia (primarily for Baptists) in which Jerusalem is restored to its former state but is now for Christians. Detailed reforms, including abolishing interest, dividends, rent, and high salaries and fees. Uniform wage of five dollars a day. Provides a constitution consisting of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and new rules and regulations. Racist. See his Introductory Edition to The Bride of Christ and a Message from Jerusalem. Jerusalem, (Palestine) and New York: The Palestine Press, nd. (CtY), where he argues that Anglo-Saxons, and Baptists in particular, are the ten lost tribes and blood descendants of Israel but specifically rejects the argument that the British Empire is the new Israel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Collapse of Homo Sapiens - P[eter] Anderson Graham (1856-1925) (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923)
Dystopia. A man is projected two centuries into the future and discovers a world without any trace of human civilization, with humans, now much smaller, living isolated lives in forests hunting each other for food. On a second visit he discovers a remnant of a primitive civilization and learns the history of the collapse.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Day of Judgment and the Celestial Missionaries of Life - Louis Pauer (Author, 1923)
Socialist eutopia introduced to Earth by visitors from space. People from Earth then carry the message to other planets.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 23. What Hackensaw Found on the Moon" - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) (Science and Invention (New York), 1923)
Advanced beings on the moon who change shapes and sexes at will. Humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dream" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine, 1923)
The present seen as a dystopia from the perspective of a eutopia 2000 years in the future. Although there is little of the eutopia, it is presented as having overcome the economic and social problems of Wells's time and is reminiscent of his 1923 Men Like Gods. The dystopia reads like one of Wells's novels describing the problems of the poor prior to World War I. One emphasis is on the ignorance of sexual relations in the past contrasted to the free and open sexual relations of the future.
Repub. London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. Rpt. London: The Hogarth Press, 1987, with an "Introduction" by Brian Aldiss [3-7]. US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 329-654. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Eurekanian Paternalism. For an economic expedition to explore and exploit Eurekania, the New State in the Realm of Utopia. With Aims and Plans of Providence, final and immediate, for the Development of the Latent Qualities and Resources inherent in Society under Advanced Organization, Production and Distribution through the Administration, eventually, of a Non-Politic, Quasi-Public Economic Institution, which shall be promoted, in the early stages of its development, by a Foundation Society and other Subsidiary Organizations - Louis Pauer (Np, 1923)
Odd version of a cooperative eutopia that combines considerable public control and privately owned corporations with limits on profit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Age or The Depth of Time - Fred M. Clough (The Roxburgh Pub. Co, 1923)
Eutopia 1000 years in the future. Science. Reason. Easy travel in the solar system; other planets being inhabited by people from Earth. Rural life with 2-10 acres per home to grow food, which is then liquefied because food is only consumed in liquid form.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Golgotha & Co." - Robert [Malise Bowyer] Nichols (1893-1944) (Fantastica; Being the Smile of the Sphinx and Other Tales of Imagination, 1923)
Dystopia in which plutocrats try to use Christianity to help them control the proletariat. It backfires when people take Christianity seriously.
U.S. ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1923), 129-375 with a brief "Foreword" by John Masefield (xi-xii) and without Romances of Idea.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Gopher Prairie--A.D. 2000" - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) (School and Society (New York), 1923)
Educational eutopia with a stress on culture.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Harilek: A Romance of Modern Central Asia - [Martin Louis Alan] [Gompertz] (1886-1951) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1923)
Lost Nordic race influenced by Classical Greece in Central Asia. Mostly adventure and romance, but the society is morally better than contemporary society.  The continuation, Wrexham’s Romance being a continuation of “Harilek”. By Ganpat [pseud.].  London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1935, has more on the society.
U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1923. Rpt. in Adventures in Sakaeland Comprising Harilek and Wrexham's Romance (New York: Arno Press, 1978), separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Idealia: A Utopia Dream; or, Resthaven - [Mrs.] [Harriet Alfarata (Chapman)] [Thompson] (d. 1922) ([Ptd. by J.B. Lyon Co.], 1923)
Arcadia. Simple life in one large family in one large house with extensive grounds.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Last Millionaire; A Tale of the Old World and the New - Duncan Campbell (Heath Cranton, 1923)
Nationalization of land and a limit on income brings a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Lavender Dragon - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) (Grant Richards, 1923)
A delightful satire with a rational, vegetarian dragon and a rather dull knight. The dragon creates a eutopia by picking up unhappy people and children from the area and bringing them to an isolated area where they create a eutopia of equality without money. Includes a reflection, by the dragon, on the positive and negative aspects of human hope and dreaming.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Medical Utopia” - Dr. J. Walter Carr (b. 1862) (The Hospital and Health Review, 1923)
Brief report on Dr. J. Walter Carr’s (b. 1862) oration at the Medical Society of London. The oration probably had the title “From Cradle to Crematorium” and depicts a dystopia in which a socialist government functioning as a “medical autocracy” sets the rules governing health care in ways that severely restrict freedom. He concluded that it would be better to be free than healthy. At the time Carr was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Memories of the Future; Being Memoirs of the years 1915-1972. Written in the year of Grace, 1988, by Opal, Lady Porstock - Ronald A[rbuthnott] Knox (ed.) [written by] (1888-1957) (Methuen, 1923)
Utopian satire on Britain from 1915 to the end of the Great War of 1972. Significant technological improvements like moving sidewalks.
An extract appeared in The Book of the Queen's Doll House. Ed. E.V. Lucas. 2 vols. (London: Methuen, [1924]), 2: 202-09.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Modest Proposal to the Public of Eutopia. Being both a humble tribute to one of the Immortals and a tentative contribution towards a remedy for our present distresses - A. B. Rytoun (C. North, The Blackheath Press, 1923)
Satire with utopian elements describing the establishment a voluntary fund designed to reduce government debt by giving money, shares, and so forth to the fund. Contributions to the fund eliminated the debt and reduced taxes and, as a result, prosperity was returning.

Mr. Podd - Freeman Tilden (1883-1980) (Macmillan, 1923)
An intentional community founded on an island is a failure. Satire on the Peace Ship, which Henry Ford (1863-1947) sponsored to sail to Stockholm, Sweden during World War I in a failed attempt to negotiate an Armistice.
Keywords: Male author; US author

My Wondrous Dream - Frank P. Ball (Frank P. Ball, 1923)
Rigid control of blacks by whites presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Capitalism - S[imon] A[lexander Baldus (The O'Donnell Co, 1923)
Non-fiction plan for a new capitalist order, with pp. 1-242 on “The Established Order” and pp. 243-489 on “The New Order,” which is based on capitalists stopping being greedy and will require no fundamental structural changes.
Keywords: Male author

“Our All - American Almanac and Prophetic Messenger” - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) (Vanity Fair, 1923)
Selections from January, April, July, and September from an almanac that describing events taking place in a future that becomes more and more restrictive and puritanical. Happy New Year changed to Virtuous New York; dancing abolished; the Society for the Suppression of Imagination in Children censors children’s stories; women’s clothing regulated in the name of modesty; dancing outlawed; compulsory church attendance; co-education abolished; and more.
Rpt. as by Nancy Boyd in Distressing Dialogues. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924), 29-37. Rpt. under the author’s real name in her Poems and Satires. Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester, Eng.: Carcarnet, 2021), 165-69
Keywords: Female author; US author

Seraph Wings - Colonel Arthur [Alfred] Lynch (1861-1934) (John Long, Ltd, 1923)
Mostly adventure but includes a eutopia of devolution.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence. An Interesting Scientific Forecast of the Important Progressive Changes That Will Likely Take Place On Our Earth During the Next Thousand Years - Professor Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Olerich Pub. Co, 1923)
Detailed eutopia presented as a forecast. A third version of 1893 Olerich. In this volume he stresses the improved status of women that will be brought about if his ideas are adopted. Initial education through play and everyone is both a student and teacher for life; for his educational theories, see his Viola Olerich, the Famous Baby Scholar. Chicago, IL: Laird and Lee, 1900. Marriage and divorce are entirely up to the couple, who are educated about both sex and eugenics. On these issues, see 1927 Olerich, The New Life and Future Mating. Racial and national prejudice will die out.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Under the Desert Stars - Frank Koester (1876-1927) (Washington Square, 1923)
Chapter 10 describes a eutopian Mars that is scientifically advanced, particularly in radio technology. Radio had replaced the entire written language; schools, churches, and all other meetings had been superseded. Used waterpower. Each person is responsible for some work. On returning to Earth the protagonists discover that thousands of years have passed and that much of the world is primitive. Africa and Asia dominate. All a dream.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

"Utopian Conversation" - Richard Marsden (Germinal Monthly Illustrated (London), 1923)
Short eutopia modeled on 1890 Morris.
Keywords: Male author

Utopian Essays. 1. The Flowers of Democracy. 2. For "Sports" Only. 3. The Powers That Be - Veiby, John (John Veiby, 1923)
Series of essays on aspects of a eutopian society. Anti-press; anti-religious. Proposes establishing social experiments. See also 1917 Veiby and his Jingo. South Bend, IN: John Veiby, 1927 which is an argument for a national religion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopian Jurisprudence - A Lawyer [pseud.] (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1923)
Sets out forty quite general essential principles on which to build a eutopia grouped under the headings Economics, Politics, Theology, and Reason. The author says that the key point is that "The way of progress is the mean way between two extremes" (213).

A Voice from Mars; Adventure and Romance - Reginald Broomhead (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1923)
Mostly adventure and romance but includes a vaguely described eutopia on Mars. Mars is physically like Earth with many of the same plants and animals.
Keywords: Male author

The Welcome Island Story and Laws - Wilhelm [C.] Griesser (Tucker-Kenworthy, 1923)
Detailed eutopia of reformed capitalism. The first part is the story of the conflict between two societies, one fun-loving, the other Puritanical, up to the establishment of a new society on an island. The reforms include prohibiting combinations of capital, labor, dealers, producers, or manufacturers. There is a minimum wage, which is lower for women, and there is a limit to the workday of twelve hours. Traditional gender roles. Radicals will be deported.
Keywords: Male author

When Gubbins Ruled - Joscelyne, Cyril (Fortune & Merriman, 1923)
Anti-labor humor. A workman becomes Prime Minister and does poorly.
Keywords: Male author

When Woman Rules! A Tale of the First Women's Government - A Well-Known Member of Parliament [pseud.] (John Long, 1923)
Satire on women in government; they are so given to gossip and scandal that they cannot govern.

1943 - Mr. X [pseud.] (Dorrance, 1922)
Satire in which all the reformers of the 1920s succeed after they come together and form the American Reform League, known as Puritans. For example, the society is generally vegetarian (meat is legal, but frowned upon), teetotal, hair and clothes styles are regulated, the speed limit is ten miles an hour, and there is no tobacco, tea, or coffee.

The Aerial Flight to the Realm of Peace - Martha [Cabanné] Kayser (b. 1871) (Lincoln Press & Pub. Co, 1922)
The eutopia is based on religion, and there is only one throughout the world. Equality. Arbitration. Early education is the key. Each nation has distinctive dress. Marriage--men cannot marry before eighteen, women before sixteen; most marry by twenty-two. See also 1931 Kayser.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Against the Red Sky. Silhouettes of Revolution - H[erbert] R. Barbor (C.W. Daniel, 1922)
Story of a future successful revolution bringing about a better society. Almost nothing specific about the eutopia except that it is Communist but with much private enterprise.
2nd ed. London: Noel Douglass, 1925.
Keywords: Male author

The Bladed Barrier - Joseph Bushnell Ames (1878-1928) (The Century Co., 1922)
Typical lost race dystopia, in this case led by an evil Chinaman.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Originally published by Street & Smith (1922-1923).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Captain Youth: A Romantic Comedy for All Socialist Children - Ralph [Winston] Fox (1900-1936) (C. W. Daniel, 1922)
A play in three short acts describing the horrors of the capitalists system from the point-of-view of two children who are desperate to escape the system, their escape with the help of Captain Youth, and their return to lead a successful revolution, with the ending suggesting the eutopia to come.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dalleszona and the Seventh Treasure - Allen Kendrick Wright (1861-1948) (The Roxburgh Pub. Co., 1922)
Eutopia. Pure democracy. Compulsory education. Each person receives a living wage but must work for it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 11. Journey to the Year 2025" - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) (Science and Invention (New York), 1922)
Technological eutopia. Humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Girl in the Golden Atom - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) (Methuen, 1922)
Gulliveriana with the world in an atom. Monarchy with advisers (half men and half women). No money. See also 1924 and 1958 Cummings.
Textual differences in U.S. ed. New York: Harper, 1923. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Part originally published as “The Girl in the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 95.1 (March 15, 1919): 1-29. This was rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.1 (September-October 1939): 75-99; Super Science and Fantastic Stories 1.20 (October 1945): 4-29; Fantastic Novels Magazine 5.1 (June 1951): 40-69; and Famous Science Fiction 1.1 (Winter 1966/67): 11-60. Part was also originally published as “The People of the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 106.2 - 107.3 (January 24 - February 28, 1920): 161-81, 173-89, 583-602; 127-41, 296-316, 373-89, 445-60. This was rpt. in Fantastic Novels (New York) 1.2 (September 1940): 6-117; and in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of “The Scientific Romance” in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 175-219.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ideal Community: A Rational Solution of Economic Problems - K. Van Gelder (Publicity Press Ltd, 1922)
Proposes an experimental community as a means of bringing about the needed better society through evolution rather than revolution. The proposed community is intended to be as self-sufficient as possible. Financed as a joint stock company to be initially subscribed by intending members. Will purchase 10,000 acres of irrigated land. Details are given on the economic structure of the community, the administration, education, and how to realize the scheme, and a brief description is given of life in the community (29-34). There are communal kitchens, factories are isolated from the city, transport allows farmers to live in the city, and entertainment is provided through a theatre and a cinema. An appendix gives details of successful schemes such as garden cities (35-47).
Keywords: Australian author

An Ideal World - Nobuya Hamada M.C. (Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1922)
Essay presenting a eutopia. Free trade, no crime, controlled population, international language, international constitution, international banking corporation, and harmony between capital and labor. Disease prevention and environmental protection. Stress on dedication and the leadership of the few best.
There is no indication in the book that this is a translation, but, although no German or Japanese version has been found, it probably is.
Keywords: Japanese author; Male author

The Interpreters - [George William] [Russell] (1867-1935) (Macmillan, 1922)
Dystopian setting but with little detail. Discussion among those who have been arrested during an attempted revolution against a dictatorship. The revolution is still in process during the discussion but fails. The discussion focuses on the spiritual basis of various political theories and, in particular, whether capitalism or socialism, the individual or the collective, provides the best basis for the good society.
U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1923.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Lost Chord: A Description of the Future Society - Carl M. Ofsthun (b. 1885?) (np, 1922)
Eutopia. Cooperative commonwealth and workers' control.
Keywords: Male author

"Men Like Gods: An Original Romance" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (The Westminster Gazette, 1922)
A world composed entirely of the Samurai of 1905 Wells.
U.S. serialization illus. George W. Bellows. Hearst's International 42.5 - 43.6 (November 1922 - June 1023): 9-15, 136-39; 42-48, 128-31; 32-38, 124-25, 110; 42-48, 151-53;38-43, 149-53; 56-61, 154-55; 89-92, 130, 132-34; 83-84, 146-48. Repub. without the subtitle. London: Cassell, 1923. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXVIII Men Like Gods and The Dream (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927), 1-328. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"New New Zealand" - A[lfred] Ernest Mander (b. 1892) (Clarté, 1922)
Eutopia of Guild Socialism specifically adapted to the conditions of New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

A New Utopia Called A League-for-A Living (League-For-A-Living Committee, 1922)
A detailed proposal to provide everyone with the basic necessities of life; everyone will work productively from 18 to 33 and live simply during that period, thereby providing sufficient goods for everyone for the rest of their lives.

The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places - Ella M[arie] Scrymsour[-Nicol] (1888-1962) (Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd., 1922)
A complex novel that includes both a dystopia and a eutopia. The dystopia is in the center of the Earth and is inhabited by the descendants of Jews condemned by God to be swallowed by the Earth. The protagonists from the surface escape the dystopia, and, while the Earth is destroyed, they escape in a "airship", which takes them directly to a eutopian Jupiter. Jupiter had a separate Adam and Eve, but without the Fall and has developed a good society that, while hierarchical, is based on pro rata sharing.
U.S. ed New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. A Psychic Revelation. Being a Comprehensive Outline of the Planet's Physical Features, Which Includes Its Geographic, Topographic and Meterologic Aspects; a History of Its People and the Plan of Their Utopian, Industrial and Economic System; of their Knowledge concerning our Theories of Relativity, Constitution of Matter, Interatomic and Cosmic Energy, Electricity, Hyperspace, Neutralization of Gravity; including a History of the Spiritual Progress of the People of Mars and Christ's Visit to their Planet Ten Thousand Years Ago - [James Scott] [Marshall] (N.p, 1922)
Detailed communal eutopia on Mars. No government. No profit. Cooperation. Homeschooling for basic education. Scientific determination of vocation. No divorce because each person finds their true mate. Spiritualism. Some on life on other planets.
Rpt. as The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants. By Eros Urides (A Martian) [pseud.]. N.p.: N.p., 1956.
Keywords: Male author; South African author; US author

The Superman - Frank Willoughby (Authors & Publishers, 1922)
Eutopia. Begins in what is the dystopia of contemporary life and most of the novel is concerned with the struggles against the dystopia. Ends with the Second Coming of Christ and the establishment of a eutopia of peace and plenty under the rule of Christ and the Apostles.
Keywords: Male author

Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) (Leonard Parsons, 1922)
Presents a picture of a destroyed civilization that manages to create a new, more primitive lifestyle that is initially violent becomes more settled over time. Science is rejected, and the human race slowly rebuilds a healthy hunting, fishing, and farming life structured around tribes. This is depicted as more in tune with our capacities than the civilization that it replaced. The revised volume is slightly more positive than the original.
Rpt. Boston, MA: HiLo Books, 2013 with an introduction “A Cargo Cult in Reverse” by Gary Paynter (13-17); and without the subtitle Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with “Introduction: The Wars of the Air and the Laboratory’: Theodore Savage at 100” by Susan R. Grayzel (xiii-xxi). Rev. ed. entitled Lest Ye Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Three Worlds - Isabel Griffiths (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1922)
Heaven presented as a eutopia on Jupiter. Little detail. Abundant food. Hell or purgatory is on Mars.
Keywords: Female author

Towards a New Social Order - Johan August Schvan (George Allen and Unwin, 1922)
Eutopia. Single tax. Absolute freedom of exchange. No monopolies. Many reforms. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For his 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

"Worlds Within Worlds" - Philip M[elancthon] Fisher Jr. (1891-1973) (Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York), 1922)
Dystopia of assigned marriage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Yezad; A Romance of the Unknown - George [Henry] Babcock (1863-1942) (Cooperative Pub. Co., 1922)
A few pages of a scientific Martian eutopia, which had been settled from a planet highly advanced in science. Martians can renew body parts. No central government: local self-rule through bodies based on education. No printed laws but custom sets standards. Citizenship depends on passing exams.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Back to Methuselah; A Metabiological Pentateuch - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (Brentano's, 1921)
Satire. Traces the history of humankind from prior to Adam to the distant future. Some people become long-lived, initially living for 300 years. In 3000 this divides the world into the long-lived, who live in the British Isles, and the short-lived, who inhabit the rest of the world. In 31920, there are no more short-lived, and the long-lived live hundreds of years.
U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1921. The U.S. ed. is marginally the first ed. Rev. and rpt. for the Standard Edition. London: Constable, 1931. Rpt. further rev. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, which includes “Postscript After Twenty Years” (257-71); rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 685-703; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 251-713, which also includes “A Glimpse of the Domesticity of Franklyn Barnabas (632-84), which was first published in the Collected Edition: Volume 6 Short Stories, Scraps and Shavings (London: Constable, 1932), 141-85; “Birmingham as a Home of Dramatic Art (Curtain speech after first performance of Birmingham Repertory Theatre production on 12 October, Birmingham Gazette 13 October 1923)” (703-04); “The Serial Play (Interview drafted by Shaw, The Observer, London, 21 October 1923)” (704-07); “Bernard Shaw Piqued (Written statement, presented as interview, Daily Express, London, 22 February 1924” (707-09); and “Letters to the Editor of The Times” (709-13). See Shaw’s “Preface: The Infidel Half Century” (London: Constable, 1931), vii-lxxxvi; and The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1972), 5: 255-339. Rpt. rev. in his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 2: 1914-1929. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1995), 373-430.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"The Blind Spot" - Austin [Javen] Hall (1880-1933); Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-Allstory Weekly (New York), 1921)
A greatly advanced race both spiritually and technically. A non-utopian sequel was published as “The Spot of Life.” Argosy Weekly (New York) 231.6 - 232.4 (August 13 - September 10, 1932) : 3-22; 55-75, 108-23, 123-41, 122-41. Rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1965]. Both with Hall listed as the sole author.
Rpt. in Fantastic Novels 1.1 (July 1940): 3-141; Philadelphia, PA: Prime Press, 1951; and London: Greenhill Books, 1987. A six part serial reprint was announced but only three parts were published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.6 - 2.2 (March - May/June 1940): 6-40; 34-63; 46-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Canadian Money and Progress - W[illiam] C[harles] Paynter (1866-1934) (Np, 1921)
Proposal for a new monetary system that would have no interest or credit and no debt. Says that the medium of exchange should be “As elastic and plentiful as the goods and services to be exchanged.” Based on the Harmony Co-operative Industrial Association” founded in Saskatchewan in 1895 that issued script within the community and lasted for five years. Proposes the same for Canada as legal tender. This would be a “scientific money, owned and controlled by the Sovereign People as plentiful as the commodities or services to be exchanged, we would lay the foundation for uniform and permanent commercial progress that would grow and expand without any setback, to the limit of the labour power to be obtained” (11). Would be issued by a central bank. Stresses its compatibility with Christianity. Most of the changes among additions are added quotations from other people.
2nd ed. [Tantallon, SK, Canada]: Np., 1924. 27 pp. Rpt. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. 3rd ed. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1931. 61 pp. 4th ed. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. Illus. covers. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1932. 71 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Council of Seven - J[ohn] C[ollis] Snaith (1876-1936) (D. Appleton, 1921)
An authoritarian dystopia in which a group of newspaper editors bias and falsify the news in order to enrich themselves and control the world. Against them is the "Council of Seven" or the "Society of the Friends of Peace" who use murder to fight them. Mostly intrigue.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Day of Faith - Arthur Somers Roche (1883-1935) (Little, Brown, 1921)
Anti-utopian novel. A eutopia where everyone is honest, and there are no police or jails proves weak and collapses.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Devolutionist" - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York), 1921)
Earth scientists visit other planets using a form of telepathy and an argument emerges on the advantages of power in the hands of an elite or in the hands of the people. A loose sequel is “The Emancipatrix.” Argosy-All Story Weekly 136.5 (September 3, 1921): 631-80; rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 96-191 in which the same argument takes place on another planet.
Rpt. in his The Devolutionist and The Emancipatrix (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 5-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fly-By-Nights - Major-General Charles Ross (1864-1930) (John Murray, 1921)
Anti-Communist, anti-alien dystopia, but at the end hope is held out that people the eutopia can reemerge.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great Image - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) (Odhams Press, 1921)
Conflict between capitalists and socialists set one hundred years in the future. The world is decimated but gradually rebuilds.
Keywords: English author; Male author

How the King Reigned in Ariel. "Behold, a King shall reign in Righteousness" - Richard Hayes McCartney (The Book Stall, 1921)
A detailed eutopia depicting the world with Christ returned. No enmity among animals, no child labor, pleasant work, no class conflict, and a restored Temple.
Keywords: Male author

The Industrial Public. A Plan of Social Reconstruction in Line with Evolution - Horace N. Fowler (b. 1848); Samuel T. Fowler (b. 1821) (H.N. Fowler Co, 1921)
Eutopia. Common ownership of property frees women from the marriage bond and dependence on men. Vegetarian. There is a "Constitution" with comments on pp. 210-24. This is followed by the "Covenant" that members would sign on pp. 224-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Island of Eugenia; The Phantasy of a Foolish Philosopher" - William McDougall (1871-1938) (Scribner's Magazine (New York), 1921)
Presented as a dialogue between a practical man and a scientist. Eugenics. Children will be brought up to be devoted to saving the world. The island would be closed regarding marriage and education, but otherwise open to outsiders. After the initial establishment, it would recruit new members mostly from their own children. Early marriage encouraged. The state will be politically independent but economically dependent on the outside world; uses the analogy of a university. Appeals to a millionaire to help establish it. T
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

John Sagur - Nedram [pseud.] (Heath Cranton, 1921)
A benevolent dictatorship based on the control of all electrical power brings about a world state and a peaceful world. An aristocracy of merit is imposed. A fold-out between 150 and 151 shows the structure of the dictatorship, from which the Master chooses his successor. Birth control and its positive effects (243-244). Eugenics: “lunatics and the feeble minded” could be destroyed (the word used in the text) if their parents requested, with “every possible precaution taken against misuse of power by the “Medical Council” (245-246), “Tainted persons” were not allowed to breed (246).

"Lolly-pop Land. A Poem" - Minna B. Noyes (The Brownies' Book, 1921)
A children's cockaigne. The Brownies' Book was a periodical for African-American children founded in 1920 by W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1868-1963).
Rpt. in facsimile in The Best of the Brownies' Book. Ed. Dianne Johnson Feelings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 316-17.
Keywords: Female author

"A Message from Space" - George Goodchild (1888-1969) (The Children's Newspaper, 1921)
Young adult adventure tale that includes two eutopias. The first is a lost race in the middle South America; the second is on Mars. The South American eutopia is a society like ancient Greece whose highest value is happiness. The Martian eutopia is based on reason.
Rpt. London: Jarrolds, [1931].
Keywords: English author; Male author

A New Constitution for a New America - William Macdonald (1863-1938) (B.W. Huebsch, 1921)
Precisely what the title says. Includes explanations for the changes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Race of Devils - [Anna O'Meara de Vic] [Beamish] (b. 1883) (Anglo-Eastern Pub. Co, 1921)
Dystopia in which Germany creates supermen.
Keywords: Female author

A Race Awakened - Edmund H. Burke (np, 1921)
An egalitarian socialist eutopia with world peace set in 1968. It was achieved by educated blacks and women getting the vote.
Keywords: Male author

Revolution: A Novel - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) (W. Collins & Sons, 1921)
Dystopia depicting a revolution as it effects one parish as seen primarily through the eyes of a man who tries to see both sides. A labour dictatorship emerges that plans to establish a socialist system, but the people reject equality and common property. The counter-revolution succeeds but simply replaces one dictatorship with another. At the end the protagonist is at the beginning of a campaign to bring the country back together.
U.S. ed. as Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Secret Power - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) (Methuen, 1921)
Most of the novel is romance with a somewhat demented scientist who develops a weapon that he hopes will stop war. Embedded in the novel is a brief description of the “Golden City,” where people much advanced beyond normal humans live.
U.S. ed. without the subtitle Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Seeds of Enchantment: Being Some Attempt to Narrate the Peculiar Discoveries of Doctor Cyprian Beamish, M.D., Glasgow; Commandant René de Gys, Annamite Army, and the Honourable Richard Assheton Smith, in the Golden Land of Indo-China - Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) (Hutchinson, 1921)
Lost race novel that describes two societies. The first is a warrior society (authoritarian but fair); the second is socialist eutopia shown to be based on drug-taking and deeply flawed and parts of the novel reads like an anti-socialist tract.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. Rpt. as a volume of The Definitive Edition of Gilbert Frankau's Novels and Short Stories. London: Macdonald, [1945].
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Starting Point - Hiram W[allace] Hayes (b. 1858) (The Harmony Shop, 1921)
Most of the novel is about labor and other conflicts, but the ending suggests that Christianity will bring about a eutopia of human harmony.
Keywords: Male author

“The Tax-Wise Men of Aristopia: A Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer” - Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) (The World’s Work, 1921)
Satire on current education. The Aristopians tax the use of abstract words such as “equality” and “liberty” that the user cannot precisely define.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) (Williams and Norgate, 1921)
A collection of essays presenting a eutopia of regionalism and decentralization. The two page "What To Do" summarizes the eutopia. See also 1917 Branford and Geddes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World in 1931 - Stewart E. Bruce (F.L. Searl & Co, 1921)
Eutopia of a cooperative, profit-sharing commonwealth. Interest is illegal. Labor certificates replace money. Uniform cars to emphasize equality. Stresses that there is no unemployment, and there are no drones.
Keywords: Male author

The Writing on the Wall In Three Parts Past, Present and Future - [Hilda (Glynn)] [Howard] (1887-1966) (Sun Pub. Co., 1921)
Dystopia. Chinese immigration and Japanese invasion lead to their domination of Canada.
Rpt. without the subtitle Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1974.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

Anona of the Moundbuilders: A Story of Many Thousand of Years Ago - J[ames] Clarence Marple; Albert Nelson Dennis (Progressive Publishers, 1920)
Simple, primitive, agrarian eutopia. The Moundbuilders are “tall, symmetrical, fair-skinned.” Attacked by “black savages” from south of the Gulf of Mexico. The Princess Anona builds a less primitive social order as part of the process of defeating the enemy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Beyond" - [John Macmillan] [Brown] (1846-1935) (1920)
An unpublished sequel to 1901 and 1903 Brown. 185 pages. Set after World War I. One of the protagonists of Limanora discovers records of the Limanoran's researches into extraterrestrial life. Similar to Riallaro in that it is structured as a visit to many different societies. Includes many eutopias and dystopias. Emphasis on religion. Those beings who have managed to eliminate religion, particularly organized religion, are more likely to have achieved a eutopia.
Ms. John Macmillan Brown Papers 118 B2, John Macmillan Brown Library, Canterbury University.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Scottish author

A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - Sidney Webb (1859-1947); Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) (Longmans, 1920)
Just what the title says. Most of the book focuses on the political organization of a socialist state, but there are chapters on voluntary associations concerning the Co-operative Movement, other consumers’ associations, adult education, and the press, among other issues, and work, which is primarily about the nature and organization of vocations, with both obligatory and voluntary associations based on vocation, and the development of professional ethics, among other issues. The final chapter is on the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Rpt. London: London School of Economics and Political Science/Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

The Cow Pasture Road - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) (Art in Australia, 1920)
An ideal city called Celestium. Includes plates showing the location of Celestium and its layout.
There were versions of 25 copies that specified that 20 were for sale in Australia and 600 copies with 500 for sale in Australia with the same publishing details.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920)
cken Books, 1969; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (xxv-xxxix). U.K. ed. London: Constable, 1920. Du Bois called it the second of his volume of essays between The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Dusk of Dawn (1940). PSt Eutopia. A collection of essays, poems, and short stories that culminates in a eutopia in the story “The Comet” (253-73), which is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180; and the poem “A Hymn to the Peoples” (275-76) in both of which the importance of racial differences disappears.
“The Comet” (253-73) is rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 5-18; in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew [Andrew] Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2016), 10-24; in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 24-31; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 141-180.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax - [John W.] [Hultberg] (1872-1951) (Dent Publishing Co, 1920)
Collection of stories/essays reflecting various reforms. "Dead Men's Shoes or The One Hundred Per Cent Inheritance Tax. The Pro and Con Of It" (11-104) is concerned with the way that inheritance continues the power and influence of "dead men". "Putting a Meter on Your Windpipe" (105-12) and "Old Man Noah's Shoes" (113-26) are attacks on monopolies. The first concerns the control of breathable air; in the second Noah claims ownership of the world after the flood. "Happy Days in the Moon" (127-42) and "Old Satan Turns a Trick" (143-61) describe capitalist dystopias. "Democracy Come True" (162-245) is a cooperative eutopia set in Chicago in 2000.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; US author

Democracy--False or True? A Prologue and Dream - Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921) (Cecil Palmer, 1920)
Detailed eutopia entitled "A Dream of England" (72-172). Democratic socialism. Decentralization (home rule for each county). Science. There are still classes, and there is continuing stress on the working class needing the right leaders and avoiding agitators.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day - Robert [James Campbell] Stead (1880-1959) (The Musson Book Co, 1920)
Mostly family history and romance, but it includes a land settlement scheme that will bring about a better society.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Doomed. A Startling Message to the People of Our Day, interwoven in an Antediluvian Romance of Two Old Worlds and Two Young Lovers, by Queen Metel and Prince Loab of Atlo, Re-incarnated in its Editors, Marian and Franklin Mayoe. By the Atlon Calendar, the Year 14,909; by Our Calendar the Year 1920 - [Frank] [Rosewater] (1856-1934) (Frank Rosewater, Publisher, 1920)
Atlism, in which everyone must spend their entire income to promote production, brings eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dream City - Unitas [pseud.] (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, 1920)
Christian socialist eutopia initially established as an intentional community, but it grew in numbers and prestige until it was possible to form a national government.

"The Fall of Atlantis" - G[ranville] Stanley Hall (1844-1924) (Recreations of a Psychologist, 1920)
Begins with a brief description of the year 2000 in which there is high technology, but a loss of religious belief has produced something like a dystopia. This is followed by the description of the end of the eutopia of Atlantis through the failure of the people, particularly professional people. Satire on medicine, law, education, religion, and women.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Book of Springfield. Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended description of Springfield, Illinois, in that year - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (Macmillan, 1920)
Eutopia set in 2081 in Springfield, Illinois with a world-renowned University of Springfield at its core. Much on mysticism but some on the social system. Racial intermarriage. Drugs. A world government that is not presented entirely positively. Refers to 1919 Cram. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.
Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1999 with an "Introduction" by Ron Sakolsky (xi-cxvii). See "The Golden Book of Springfield Containing a Brief Prospectus of a Book With Wings That Will Appear in Various Forms in Springfield, November, A.D. 2018." The Little Magazine 2nd imprint (1920) and 3rd imprint (1925): Both 109-24.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gullible's Travels in Little-Brit - William Hodgson Burnett (Westall & Co, 1920)
Satire on British politics and manners.
Keywords: Male author

"The Hermit of Chimaso Island" - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) (The Earthomotor and Other Stories, 1920)
Sketchy technological eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Moonward" - Mary Keyt Isham (1871-1947) (Moonward and Other Orientations, 1920)
A trip to the moon in 1935 to escape an overpopulated, polluted, violent, dystopian Earth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A New Robinson Crusoe. A New Version of His Life and Adventures With an Explanatory Note - [Henry] Gilson Gardner (1869-1935) (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920)
Purports to be a volume co-authored by Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) and Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), generally considered to be the original of Robinson Crusoe. Presents the history of Crusoe’s island in economic terms, stressing the system of competition and exchange that results from trade with other islands. Ends with a revolution with the intention of establishing common ownership of land.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Reductio ad Absurdum" - Mary Keyt Isham (1871-1947) (Moonward and Other Orientations, 1920)
Anti-socialist satire. No traffic laws because they interfered with freedom. No requirements for drivers because such requirements curtailed the freedom of "defectives".
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Revelation of John Langdon. As Recorded by Him (The Truth Seeker Co, 1920)
Limited eutopian and dystopian elements, but mostly a story directed against organized religion, a struggle based on the replacement of supernaturalism with reason.

The Secret of Life: A Story of the Heavens - [Walter] [Richards] (b. 1864) (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1920)
Spiritualism. The solar system is in various stages of development, and there are other emerging planets in other solar systems. The eutopia is found on the tenth planet of the solar system and a detailed description of Heaven. There is a collection of manuscripts held privately that includes a substantial number of additional unpublished titles in a similar vein.
Keywords: Male author

Sweet Rocket - Mary Johnston (1870-1936) (Harper & Brothers, 1920)
Sweet Rocket is an estate/farm in Virginia that is in effect a religious, agrarian eutopia.
U.K. ed. London: Constable & Co., 1920.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Termitodoxa, or Biology and Society” - William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937) (Scientific Monthly, 1920)
While the purpose of the essay is the illumination of the way a termite colony functions, it is done so through a letter from “Wee-Wee 43rd Neotenic King of the 8429th Dynasty of the Bellicose Termites” who describes the eutopia that is the colony with some disparaging comments on human society.
Rpt. in his Foibles of Insects and Men (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), 207-17; and Essays in Philosophical Biology. Selected by Professor G. W. Parker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939), 71-88.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Three Weeks Inside the Earth" - Dr. C[harles] E[llsworth] Linton (1865-1930) (The Earthomotor and Other Stories, 1920)
Sketchy eutopia inside the earth with telepathy and advanced technology. No sin.
Keywords: Male author; US author

West Wind Drift - George Barr [Greaves Richard] McCutcheon (1866-1928) (Dodd Mead, 1920)
Eutopia that evolves from a shipwreck on an isolated island. Many problems and internal conflicts, but eventually harmony is achieved, and the people are able to lead a comfortable life.
Rpt. New York: A.L. Burt, 1920.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The White Dawn - [Ingeborg] Belle Hagen Winslow (1872-1956) (Augsburg Publishing House, 1920)
Religious dystopia set inside the Earth where people descended from a Jew who cursed and spat on Christ were condemned to live without souls. The novel is set in Norway as it transitioned from the ancient gods to Christianity.
Keywords: Female author

The White Pope, Called "The Light Out of the East" - S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett (1860-1914) (Books Limited, 1920)
A new Pope, rejected by his own church for his radical ideas, transforms Jerusalem and then the entire world into a eutopia. Peace and prosperity reign.
U.S. ed. as The Light Out of the East. New York: George H. Doran, 1920.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Anymoon. With a Foreword by Harold Cox - Horace [William] Bleackley (1868-1931) (John Lane, The Bodley Head/The John Lane Co., 1919)
Anti-socialist, anti-egalitarian, anti-feminist dystopia
Keywords: English author; Male author

Aristokia - A[lphonso] Washington Pezet (b. 1889) (The Century Co., 1919)
Humor set in an imaginary country. Contrasts an over-technological society (motorized shoes, food tablets) with a better, less mechanized society, which is then overthrown.
Keywords: Male author

The Castle in the Air or The Might Be Land - Clara Gilbert Cole (1868-1956) (The Dreadnought Press, 1919)
Communist eutopia. "No buying and selling; only giving, taking and making" (2). Education mostly through play outdoors among flowers and gardens. Everyone works. No Parliament. No money.
Keywords: Female author

Cause and Cure of the High Cost of Living. Reconstruction Program for Political, Social and Industrial Democracy - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Author, 1919)
A pamphlet describing a system of cooperative industrialism. See also 1893, 1915, 1923, and 1927 Olerich.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Christmas 1969; The Kind of World in Which I Should Like It to Dawn" - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) (Pear's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Eutopia. World community of nations; all nations republics. Nationalized industries. Technology. Rights of children. Education. No fashion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Christmas House-Party in 1969 (Being extracts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys the Second)" - [John] Twells Brex (1874-1920) (Pears' Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Satire on women in political and economic control.
Keywords: English author; Male author

City of Endless Night - Milo [Milton] Hastings (1884-1957) (Dodd, Mead, 1919)
Dystopia. A remarkably accurate picture of a future fascist society in Berlin. The society is completely authoritarian, completely racist, and completely sexist. There is a tremendous emphasis on eugenics with marriages arranged by the state. Berlin is completely underground, and there is a constant war with free democracies outside. One emphasis in the work is the status of women, who are primarily used for breeding. In the end Berlin is defeated.
Rpt. with an introduction “Milo Hastings: Prophet of Totalitarianism” by Sam Moskowitz (unpaged). Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Originally published as "Children of 'Kultur'." True Story Magazine 1.1 - 7 (May - November 1919): 21-[26,] 83; 33-38, 88, 90, 92-94; 33-39, 90-92; 33-39, 80, 82-83; [September - October not seen;] 39-44, 81-82, 84-85, 97-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A City Without a Church - John Colwyn (A.H. Stockwell, 1919)
The revolution of 1938 leads, after a period without religion, to a realization of the need for religion.
Keywords: Male author

Crucible Island; A Romance, An Adventure and an Experiment - Condé B[enoist] Pallen (1858-1929) (Manhattanville Press, 1919)
Anti-socialist dystopia showing weaknesses of a seemingly good society. The society had been established as an island prison for subversives but allowed to rule themselves and the initial depiction of the society implies that it is an entirely successfully socialist eutopia, but this is a centralized, state socialist system and those holding power use their position for their own advantage.
U.K. ed. London: Harding & More, 1920.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dark Cottage" - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) (Pears's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Eutopia in which a man who had been a relatively enlightened industrialist wakes up fifty years after being injured in World War I and is led to see how unenlightened he had actually been. Examples given are that he introduced electricity to his own estate but not, although easily able to do so, to his works, built houses for his workers but in an extremely unhealthy, swampy area because it was convenient to his factories, which were polluting the atmosphere, opposed women's suffrage, and generally opposed any legislation that would have improved the education, health, or working conditions of the lower classes. The eutopia, though, is still class based and the upper classes still have servants.
Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: John Murray, 1921), 55-82. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 55-82.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"England in 1919; Being an Extract From a School History of the Period published in 1969" - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (Pear's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
1919 seen as a dystopia called the period of the Plutocracy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Fall: Being a True Account of What Happened in Paradise, for the Benefit of All Scandal-Mongers, With a New Interpretation of Sacred History, Vindicating Snakes and Apples - George Seibel (1872-1958) (The Lessing Co., 1919)
Eutopia brought about by conquering the physical universe, such as controlling gravity and changing anything into gold. Men and women separated. Scientific control of procreation. No private property. No gods. Entire planet moved from Earth to Venus to assist the younger Venusians to civilization. Two malcontents, Adam and Eve, are left behind.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fifty Years of Peace 1919-1969" - [Henry] Powell Spring (1891-1950) (Trinity Review (University of Toronto, ON, Canada), 1919)
Eutopia resulting from a nine-year peace conference. Christian, rational, and scientific. Disarmament in favor of the United Nations. World union and international democracy. Esperanto.
Repub. as "Utopia or Common Sense." In his The Peace Aims of Humanity (Winter Park, FL: The Orange Press, 1943), 177-91. Published as a pamphlet Winter Park, FL: Cultural World Center Assoc., 1945.
Keywords: Male author

"Further East Than Asia." A Romantic Adventure - Ward Muir (1878-1927) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1919)
Oriental tale of romance and adventure in which an apparently eutopian island of long life, produced by radium, is discovered. But the apparent eutopia is deeply flawed. Racist.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Heads of Cerberus" - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). (Thrill Book (New York), 1919)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel Philadelphia in 2118. There is a corrupt government with many petty rules.
Repub. illus. Ric Binkley. Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1952 with an "Introduction" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (13-16). Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978;  New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984 with an "Introduction" by Robert Weinberg ([15-18]); and New York: The Modern Library, 2019 with an Introduction by Naomi Alderman (vii-xi).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"If Germany had won" - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) (The Hohenzollerns in America and other impossibilities, 1919)
Humor. The farcical dystopia created in the U.S. after Germany won World War I.
U.S. ed. as The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities (New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1919), 127-33.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Land of Whereisit - Henry E[rnest] Boote (1868-1949). (Judd Publishing Co, 1919)
Eutopian allegory in which God teaches lessons to the leaders of a country who are only concerned with maintaining their power and benefiting themselves.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd" - John Cournos (1881-1966). (The Nineteenth Century and After, 1919)
Anti-communist dystopia. The author was born in Russia and lived in the US from age ten, except for 1912-30, which he spent in England. The author contends that this is factual rather than fictional.
Repub. as London Under the Bolsheviks: A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd. London: Russian Liberation Committee. No 4 of Russian Liberation Committee Publications, 1919.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Russian author; US author

"The Mind Machine" - Michael Williams (All-Story Weekly, 1919)
Generally considered the first work to describe the dystopia brought about by a rogue artificial intelligence.
Rpt. in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 75-113, with an editor’s note on 73.
Keywords: Male author

A New Heaven - G[eorge] Warren Russell (1854/5-1937) (Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1919)
Heaven as a eutopia. Technically as well as spiritually advanced. The ability to determine a person's talent and a good educational system makes for eutopia. Intense mental activity. No money.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

New Town, A Proposal in Agricultural, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Reconstruction - W[illiam] R[avenscroft] Hughes, M.A. (b. 1880), ed. for The New Town Council (Pub. for The New Town Council by J.M. Dent, 1919)
Non-fiction presenting a detailed cooperative eutopia. Specifically, it proposes to establish a new country town, and a slip dated June 1921 tipped into the CtY copy says that “The proposals contained in this book are being put into operation at Welwyn Garden City. . . . .” Discusses industry, which must “enrich the lives of all associated with it. . .” (45), agriculture, education, which will include learning handicrafts and vocational skills in school workshops and adult education, and homes, which will include grouped cooperative homes, professional household services, and social life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

New Zealand in 1980: A Glimpse Forward - Cha[rle]s August Wilson (1883-1962) (Walsh Print, 1919)
Brief socialist eutopia in which the society is highly advanced technically. Equality for women. Solar heat and light. Stress on reason. No tariffs. Government is always meeting--a People’s Council half men and half women. One representative for each thousand people. Science used for human betterment.
Another version with the author's name as Charles A[ugustus] Wilson, F.R.A.I. was published as England in 1980: A Glimpse Forward. London: The Angus Press, 1936.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Our Temporary Civilization" - James Edmond (1859-1933) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1919)
Satire. The first section is a fairly straightforward description of the depletion of resources. The second part begins with the age of "Coal, Iron and Hurry" and projects that depletion into the very far future (the last date is 2744 followed by periods where dates are not knowable. The gradual degeneration of humanity.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author; Scottish author

"Out of the Silence: A Romance" - Erle [Harold] Cox (1873-1950) (The Argus (Melbourne, Vic, Australia), 1919)
Flawed utopia. A past society had a highly developed, but authoritarian civilization with exceptional art and science . Explicitly racist and with a focus on eugenics, although the author of the Postscript in the Capricorn edition argues that the book is a warning against such thinking rather than supporting it. The argument is, essentially, that Cox is presenting the Eugenic Utopia as it would develop, which later became the goal of Nazi Germany, but that Cox intended it to be read as a dystopia. No direct evidence is presented, but it is a plausible interpretation. Survivors who had been put in suspended animation are discovered, which is initially perceived positively, but they are found to have no concern at all for humans, who they consider to be the lower beings.
Rpt. Melbourne, VIC: Edward A. Vidler, [1925]; Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1981; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Van Ikin (ii-iv). U.K. edition London: John Hamilton, [1927]. U.S. edition New York: Rae D. Henkle, 1928. 4th edition Melbourne, VIC: Robertson & Mullens, 1932. 1947 edition by the same publisher, labeled a reprint, is, in fact, substantially revised, cut by 15% and with an added Prologue (vii-xxii). This edition reprinted Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. The edition published [Appleton, WI]: Capricorn Publishing, 2006 restores cuts and includes the “Prologue” from the 1947 edition (228-236), which makes this the first complete edition. It also includes “A Note on the Text” ([iii] and “Book Wrangler’s Postscript” The Intellectual Sources of Erle Cox’s Out of the Silence” by John Costello (237-[248]) A daily comic strip version by Hix [Reginald E. Hicks] was published in The Argus (August 4 - December 21, 1934), generally on page 2. Radio serial version on 2CH Sydney March 11 - June 10, 1940, and 3BD Melbourne April 7 - September 2, 1943.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The People of the Ruins; A Story of the Future" - Edward [Richard Buxton] Shanks (1892-1953) (The County Gentleman & Land and Water (London), 1919)
A general strike followed by a revolution, fifty years of world war, and one hundred years of famine and disease produce a loss of technology and arts and craft and a resurgence of religion. Return to a more primitive life.
Repub. with the subtitle A Story of the English Revolution and After. London: W. Collins Sons, 1920. U.S. ed. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1920.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Plus Ultra" - Edward Lucas White (1866-1934) (1919)
Detailed eutopia stratified upon the basis of intelligence and contributions to society. Highly technological.
Hand written manuscript at The Johns Hopkins University. Typescript at the Maryland Historical Society Library. Summary in A. Langley Searles, "'Plus Ultra': An Unknown Science-Fiction Utopia." Fantasy Commentator 4.2 - 5.2 (Winter 1979-80 - Winter 1984): 51-59; 162-69, 176-77; 240-42; 44-49; 100-05.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Prophecy; The Human Community or The True Social Order - L[ouis] H[erman] Koepsel (Human Community, 1919)
Detailed theocratic eutopia. An entire community meets to discuss world problems and establishes a committee to propose solutions to the problems. A new constitution is written. The entire community meets every seven days. Each person can have as much land as can be worked but must work six days a week. There are strict laws regarding morality, such as outlawing too tight clothes.
Keywords: Male author

The Psychic Trio or Nations Reconciled - Charles Edmund DeLand (1854-1935) (Richard G. Badger The Gorham Press, 1919)
The end of the book tells of the development of a reformed world order that will bring peace and prosperity to the entire world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Queen of Life" - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (Argosy-All Story Weekly (New York), 1919)
Flawed utopia. An apparently eutopian Venus continues conflict between men and women.
Rpt. in his The Lord of Death and The Queen of Life (New York: Ace Books, [1965]), 78-143.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Romance of Two Centuries. A Tale of the Year 2025 - Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (1871-1940) (The Platonist Press, 1919)
Sleeper wakes story. A controlled eutopia stressing efficiency and equality with extremely detailed regulations. Includes as an appendix an "International Calendar of Heroes" with each month dedicated to different types of heroes (368-69).
Keywords: Scottish author; US author

Somewhere in Christendom - Evelyn [Jane] Sharp (1869-1955) (George Allen & Unwin, 1919)
The novel describes a small country between two regularly warring large countries that establishes an egalitarian, Christian cooperative eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

A Story of the City of Works; A Community of Peace and Plenty Where Every Man is His Own Policeman. A New Order of Government. Anti-Socialistic. Free Street Cars and Telephones. No Middleman. No Capitalist Class. All Profit Accrues to Labor. Farm and City Life Conjoined - Fairfield, Frederick Pease ([Author], 1919)
A company town as eutopia. Every person is constantly under the surveillance of specially appointed people to ensure good behavior.
Keywords: Male author

The Story of the Lost Planet or the Wonderful Submarine - Dominic[k] Healy (1896-1954?) (The Worker Trade Union Print, 1919)
There is a very brief description of a socialist eutopian society on a planet near Canopus, but the bulk of the 41 pages is concerned with the stupidities of the human race destroying itself and the Earth. Set in the future, there are a number of war-mongering dystopian societies briefly described.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Universal Panacea in a Nick of Time. Intellectual Determination of Unity and Perfection The Only Complete Explanation of the Golden Rule First Proclamation of the Goldless Rule Ennobling Free-Will-Less Truth Enthroning Health and Justice. At the head of the title The True, The Beautiful, The Good "Man Know Thyself" and Final Era Science of Government - Nelson Dwight Sickels (b. 1859) (Sickels & Lindquist/Ptd. Rogers & Hall, 1919)
Extremely detailed description of how to live and organize society but rambling and repetitive. Millennial.
All copies examined have Lindquist and Los Angeles crossed out and Chicago written in as location of the publisher.
Keywords: Male author

"Utopia" - Henry C[ottrell] Rowland (1874-1933) (The Popular Magazine (New York), 1919)
Playground for dull, prohibition-ridden US. Assumes that post-war America will continue prohibition and will become very pure and dull. Therefore, the author proposes ". . . to provide a gorgeous and well-ordered playground [in Haiti] where practically no form of physical or mental delight would be tabooed, but, on the contrary, furnished by the management on a magnificent scale. . . ." The only prohibition is violence.
Keywords: Male author

Walled Towns - Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) (Marshall Jones Co, 1919)
Medieval eutopia--Although the author said he was not intending to write a eutopia, this essay presents a eutopia that is rural, with a guild system, crafts, a limit on profit, and a maximum of thirty hours work per week in mills. Closeness of church and state. Anti-democratic. Emphasis on the human scale and small communities. The author sees it as a prediction based on an interpretation of the past.
Rpt. Seattle, WA: Entropy Conservationists, [1987].
Keywords: Male author

Beyond the Horizon - Fred B[rown] Morrill (1858-1949) (Neale Publ. Co, 1918)
Eutopia. System of voluntary cooperatives with no government and no weapons of destruction. Animals are no longer afraid of humans. No private property.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Calno, The Super-Man. A Fictional Study of the Antichrist - Lewis Erwin Finney (Ozark Pub. Co, 1918)
Authoritarian dystopia stressing the antichrist.
Keywords: Male author

The City of the Second Life - Edwin H. Byington (The Pilgrim Press, 1918)
When a person dies on Earth, they appear on a distant planet where each person must re-live each year of their previous life in a house that reflects their moral character during that year. Details on the way the houses reflect the person during that year and the position of children and those killed in war.
Keywords: Male author

"The Coöperative Commonwealth." - William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) (The Forgotten Man and Other Essays, 1918)
A critique of intentional communities and cooperation in the form of a future newspaper.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Democracy Made Safe - Paul Harris Drake (b. 1889) (LeRoy Phillips, 1918)
Eutopia will be brought about by abolishing money and capitalism.
Rpt. Boston, MA: The Four Seas Co., 1920
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Earthians: From Cave Man in One Thousand to the Cave Man in Ten Thousand - [Simon] [Wardwell] (np, 1918)
Poem with a brief introduction. Recounts the history of the human race comparing it, unfavorably, with that of Mars, which has a limited population. See also his 1918 "Worms of The Earth".
Keywords: Male author