Unborn Tomorrow. A Last Story - Gilbert Frankau (1884-1952) (MacDonald, 1953)
Presented as a eutopia. The world in the 50th century has become Roman Catholic and monarchical. Jews have converted and Protestants and Orthodox Christians have returned to the Roman Catholic Church. Very few separate nations remain. Monopolies. Chivalry. Hierarchy. No democracy. No trial by jury. Eugenics. Capitalist.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Unites" - [Jessie] Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-90) (Fables, 1953)
Dull dystopia of equality with a revolution being prepared.
U.S. ed. of the book as A Woman As Great as the World and Other Fables (New York: Random House, 1953), 97-179.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The University of Utopia - Robert M. Hutchins (1899-1977) (University of Chicago Press, 1953)
Lectures presented at the University of Chicago in 1953 which both criticize contemporary university education in the U.S. and compare it to university education in what he calls Utopia.
2nd ed. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1964.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia [upside down & backwards]" - J[ohn] S[cott] Campbell (Science-Fiction Plus, 1953)
Eutopia is produced through thought transmission so that all people can meld together. Strong suggestion that this is a dystopia.
Rpt. in Science-Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 1 (September 1955): 31-45.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Watchbird" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1953)
Dystopia. A machine designed to identify murderers before they act is unable to make distinctions and kills anybody or anything that contemplates killing.
Rpt. in his Notions Unlimited (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), 27-46; in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley Book Two (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 221-42; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 73-96 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi). Rpt. separately as Watchbird. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

West of the Sun - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) (Doubleday, 1953)
The establishment of a new society on a previously unexplored planet that has various alien societies, some at war with each other and the humans and some peaceful and helpful. Concerned with the integration of alien and human, ending the war among the aliens, and the creation of an ideal small community.
Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"When Malan Goes": A Progressive Programme for South Africa - Jan Toekoms [pseud.] (Central News Agency, 1953)
Mostly non-fiction. A ten-point proposal for solving South Africa's problems with a brief future vignette showing them solved. The points are The Establishment of a Democratic Republic. The Maintenance of European Supremacy for the Next Hundred Years. The Maintenance of Social Apartheid. The Abolition of the Economic Colour Bar. The Establishment of Suburbs with Freehold Rights for Non-Europeans. The Representation of Non-Europeans in Local and Central Government. Better Pay and Conditions for the Police. The Simplification of the Pass Laws with a view to their Eventual Abolition. Recognition of the Plural Nature of South African Society. The Adoption of a Rigid South African Constitution.
Keywords: South African author

"Women's World" - Ted Taine (Fantastic Adventures, 1953)
Amazons on another planet are at least fifteen feet tall. A strong man, even though small by the standards of the planet, woos and wins the Queen.
Keywords: Male author

World Out of Mind - [James Murdoch] [MacGregor] (1925-2008) (Doubleday, 1953)
Eutopia as background to science fiction novel about an alien invasion. The entire social and political system is based on tests that are sometimes described as intelligence tests but are much more elaborate. Everyone wears a badge that shows their status based on the tests. The aliens lack emotion, which turns out to be a human strength.
Rpt. New York: Permabook, 1956. U.K. ed. with the pseudonym spelled McIntosh. London: Science Fiction Club, 1955.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"You Can't Stop a Spaceman" - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) (Action Monthly Magazine (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1953)
Men from another planet who had explored space return to their own planet, only to discover that thousands of years had passed, and it had become a completely organized dystopia that plans to colonize Earth.
Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 155-70.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Ah! Men! A Satirical Comedy in Three Acts - [Dagmar Vola] [Sandeen] (The Northwestern Press., 1952)
Sex role reversal satire that reverts at the end.
Rpt. Pasadena, CA: Stage Door Play Co., 1994.
Keywords: Female author

"Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!" - Stuart Friedman (1913-93) (Future Science Fiction, 1952)
Brief satire on an over-organized society.
The issue of the British edition was published as Future Science Fiction Stories, no. 7 (March 1952): 79-81
Keywords: Male author

"The Beautiful People" - Charles Beaumont (1929-67) (If Worlds of Science Fiction, 1952)
Dystopia in which all people are all made beautiful. One girl resists.
Rpt. as “The Beautiful Woman.” Nebula Science Fiction (Glasgow, Scot.) 1.3 (Summer 1953): 46-62. Broadcast adapted by John Tomerlin as “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.” Twilight Zone. Season 5, Episode 17 (<st1:date day="24" month="1" w:st="on" year="1964">January 24, 1964</st1:date>).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Best Policy" - Phyllis Sterling Smith (Startling Stories, 1952)
Humor and satire. Martians, who cannot tell a falsehood, visit Earth, and are not believed when they offer the science of government, which they feel Earth needs more than anything else, and other advances.
Keywords: Female author

"Big Planet" - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Startling Stories, 1952)
Includes chapters that describe a eutopian city where all take turns being rich, being servants to the rich, and being workers. These are chapters 11-13 in both versions. See also 1975 Vance.
Repub. New York: Avalon, 1957. Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1957. U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1977. All these versions are abbreviated from the original manuscript. Unabridged U.S. ed. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1978. Unabridged U.K. ed. London: VGSF, 1989. Also rpt. in The Rapparee Big Planet Vandals of the Void. vol. 4 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 157-364.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Born in Captivity - Bryan Berry (1930-55) (Hamilton & Co, 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 2018 with the obedient having a good life through technology and the minority who are not obedient oppressed. Androids. War. At the end people are starting over.
Keywords: Male author

"Bring the Jubilee" - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1952)
Alternative history in which the South wins the U.S. Civil War and creates a dystopia in the North.
Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 441-75 with an editor’s note on 441. Repub. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 1987.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Category Phoenix" - [Lyle Ardetia Gifford] [Boyd] (1907-82); [William Clouser] [Boyd] (1903-83) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1952)
Class (category) based authoritarian dystopia. Privacy is outlawed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City - Clifford D[onald] Simak (1904-88) (Gnome Press, 1952)
Pastoral, pacifist dogs pass down oral legends of a possibly mythical Man. In these legends, technology has ended city life and almost everyone has moved to the country. Cities become tourist attractions but not places to live.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1958]; rpt. New York: Ace Books, [1967]. Stories originally published in Astounding Science-Fiction as “City.” 33.3 (May 1944): 136-57. U.K. ed. Astounding Science-Fiction (August 1944): 43-55; Rpt. in The Ghost of a Model T and Other Stories: The Complete Short Stories of Clifford D. Simak Volume Three. New York: Open Road, 2015. EBook; “Huddling Place” 33.5 (July 1944): 133-49; “Census” 34.1 (September 1944): 6-28; “Desertion” 34.3 (November 1944): 64-74; “Paradise” 37.4 (June 1946): 46-65; “Hobbies” 38.3 (November 1946): 49-77; and “Aesop” 40.4 (December 1947): 7-31; plus “The Simple Way” originally published as “The Trouble with Ants.” Fantastic Adventures 13.1 (January 1951): 48-63; rpt. Fantastic 15.6 (July 1966): 46-65. The book version includes notes on each of the eight tales. Later Simak wrote an additional story in the City series, “Epilog.” Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology. Ed. Harry Harrison (New York: Random House. 1973), 259-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Cokaygne Fantasy" - A[rthur] L[eslie] Morton (1903-1987) (The English Utopia, 1952)
Poem. A brief modern cokaygne.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Conditionally Human" - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia. Experiments produce beings on the border between animal and human. Stresses the social effects of the experiments.
Rpt. in his Conditionally Human (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 7-66. U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963), 7-66. Rpt. (London: Panther, 1966), 7-60; and London: Corgi, 1982), 7-61; and The Best of Walter M. Miller, Jr (London Gollancz, 1980), 207-65; rpt. as Dark Benediction (London: Gollancz, 2007), 207-65.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Cost of Living" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1952)
Dystopia. People go into debt for consumer goods and many sign over their children's, grandchildren's, etc. earnings for their lifetime to a credit agency.
Rpt. in his Untouched by Human Hands (New York: Ballantine Books, 1954), 12-23; in The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology. Ed. , Brian W[ilson]. Aldiss and Sam Lundwall (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1986), 88-97; and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book One (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 17-26.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cybernetic Controller - A[ubrey] V[incent] Clarke (1922-98); H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) (Hamilton & Co, 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone is placed in a particular status at birth by the "cybernetic controller" or computer and stays there for life. A successful revolt produces a society that will use the technology more intelligently.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Dead End" - Wallace MacFarlane (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1952)
Flawed utopia that is only fit for androids or what is here called pseudo-life and the last human leaves.
Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 260-70.
Keywords: Male author

The Death of Metal - [William] Donald Suddaby (1900-64) (Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1952)
The disappearance of all metal brings, after a period of disruption and difficulty, a return to a simpler and better life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Defender of the Faith" - Alfred[o] [José Araña-Marini y] Coppel [Jr.] (1921-2004) (Science Fiction Quarterly, 1952)
War between the sexes.
Rpt. in Science Fiction Quarterly (British Edition), no 4 (November 1952): 59-67. C,
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Demolished Man" - Alfred Bester (1913-87) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1952)
Police procedural set in a future society where telepathy is recognized, and telepaths are ranked according to ability with the most powerful telepaths holding the most important positions.
Repub. Chicago, IL: Shasta, 1953. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1954, which is rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1953.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Devil's Advocate - [Janet Miriam] Taylor [Holland] Caldwell (1900-85) (Crown, 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia. The U.S. becomes weak through the adoption of the welfare policies of the New Deal and is ripe for takeover by a dictatorial system known as The Democracy. Constant wars. Extreme poverty. Surveillance. There is a underground movement known as the Minute Men, led from within The Democracy, that ultimately overthrows it.
Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1964; and New York: Pyramid, 1971.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

"Dumb Waiter" - Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr. (1923-96) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia in which an automated war continues long after the bombs are gone, and a computer-controlled city still enforces laws long out of date.
Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 323-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Earth Our New Eden" - F[rancis] G[eorge] Rayer (1921-81) (Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia and revolt. Factory cities underground.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Faq'" - George P[aul] Elliott (1918-80) (The Hudson Review, 1952)
A lost race story which the protagonist discovers is intended to be the perfect society, but which he ultimately finds boring and longs for pain and sorrow.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 21.5 (126) (November 1961): 29-39.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Glass-sharp and Poisonous - G[arvin] R[obert] Gilbert (b. 1917) (Caxton Press, 1952)
Surreal dystopia. One focus of this short (85 page) work is a small country at war and the patriotism that can lead to killing local "aliens". Another focus is on a hospital in the country in which a patient will be killed rather than allowed to leave. The title refers to a mountain behind the hospital.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Gunner Cade - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58); [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) (Simon and Schuster, 1952)
Dystopia. Future society that has become stultified in a caste structure. Shows the difficulty of convincing people that their ideology does not reflect the true state of affairs.
Also published in Astounding Science Fiction 49.1 - 3 (March - May 1952): 8-53; 114-60; 108-54. Rpt. in their Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2008), 9-135. Abbreviated as an Ace Double bound with 1957 Piper and McGuire. New York: Ace Books, 1957. UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author; US author

"Incubation" - John D[ann] Macdonald (1916-86) (Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction, 1952)
The story is set in a future where mechanization has gradually led to the acceptance by most people of the complete regimentation of daily life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Journey into Tomorrow" - [John F.] [Watt] (Futuristic Science Stories No. 9, 1952)
Dystopia on a Earth-like planet under an authoritarian ruler who is kidnapping Earth scientists to help it develop the science to conquer Earth.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Adam - Ronald [Frederick Henry] Duncan (1914-82) (Dennis Dobson, 1952)
The dystopia of being the last man, but the last man finds the last woman. He chooses not to repopulate the world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Last Days of Shandakor” - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) (Startling Stories, 1952)
The story is set on an inhabited Mars, and Shandakor is the eutopian city of Mars’s past, now in its last stages.
Rpt.  without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 346-52 with an editor’s note on 346.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Limbo - Bernard Wolfe (1915-85) (Random House, 1952)
Dystopia. After a world war that has destroyed most countries, the U.S. becomes the center for men voluntarily amputating limbs to stop them from waging war. The prosthetics are very advanced and are perceived as enhancing human abilities. War resumes anyway.
Rpt. Illus. London: Gollancz, 2016 xi + 413 pp. , with an “Introduction to Bernard Wolfe” by Harlan Ellison® (ix-xi) (Excepts had appeared in Again, Dangerous Visions. Ed Harlan Ellison. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972; other excerpts originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times (September 23, 1974); and an “Introduction to Limbo by David Pringle (1-2) Originally published in Science Fiction: The 100 best novels: An English-Language Selection, 1949-1984. Ed. David Pringle (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1985); New York: Ace Books, [1963]; and New York: Carroll & Graf, 1987. U.K. ed. as Limbo ‘90. London: Secker & Warburg, 1953. 438 pp. A story that became part of the novel is “Self Portrait.” Illus. Martin Schneider. Galaxy Science Fiction 3.2 (November 1951): 58-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Lion's Mouth" - Stephen Marlowe (1928-2008) (Fantastic Adventures, 1952)
Dystopia. After an alien invasion, children are brainwashed to become the enforcers of the alien rule. They regularly review people, including their relatives, and the story is about such a situation, but ends with some escaping and finding a better society being established in the countryside.
Rpt. in Looking Forward: An Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Milton [S.] Lesser (New York: The Beechhurst Press, 1953), 195-210.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lord Lollypop: A Timely Allegory - Hope Robertson Norburn (Exposition Press, 1952)
Satirical anti-communist poem.

"Love Story" - [Kendall Foster] [Crossen] (1910-81) (Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction, 1952)
Satire in which children in the United States discover that their parents tell them one thing and then behave differently and decide that what they are told is the truth. They then kill all the adults. The story is set many years later depicts the results.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Luckiest Man in Denv" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia. People live in huge high-rise buildings with their status determining how high they live. Constant war. The story focuses on intrigue in trying to move up the building.
Rpt. in his The Mindworm (London: Joseph, 1955), 188-202; in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 179-93; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 151-63; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 70-82; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 70-83; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 108-17. Merril, MoU-St, PSt
Keywords: Male author; US author

My Journeys With Astargo; A tale of past, present and future - Perl T[ravis] Barnhouse (1887-1964) (Bell Publications, 1952)
Includes an authoritarian dystopia where the state conditions people mentally and physically for the position they will hold in society. After leaving the dystopia travelers settle on another planet that they call Perfecto and found a city called Freeport where, over the years, they establish a decent society that is called a utopia. They visit other planets, return to earth, and then set off back to Perfecto.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"No Greater Wisdom" - [Roger Phillip] [Graham] (1909-65) (Amazing Stories, 1952)
Technological eutopia.
Rpt. In Future Science Fiction, no. 11 (September 1953): 4-9, 85-91, 93, 95-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

October Island - [William Edward March] [Campbell] (1893-1954) (Little, Brown, 1952)
South Sea island eutopia. The novel is initially concerned with the unsuccessful attempts of a missionary couple from a very strict sect to convert the natives, who wear few clothes, have an open sexuality, and worship their own gods. It then focuses on the way the missionary woman is integrated into the natives' beliefs.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1952. The initial story on which the novel is based was published in Good Housekeeping 123.4 (October 1946): 30-31, 296-312.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Offshore Light - Pamela [Sydney] Frankau (1908-67) (William Heinemann, 1952)
Eutopia of a simple, fairly authoritarian, ordered life, and craftsmanship. No money. The novel is divided into sections taking place on The Island and sections taking place in The World followed by a section posing the question "The World or the Island?" and ending on The Island.
Rpt. London: White Lion, 1977. US ed. as by Eliot Naylor [pseud.]. New York: Buell, Sloan & Pearce/Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1953.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Other Half of the Planet: A Sequel to "The Other Side of the Sun" - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) (William Heinemann, 1952)
Sequel to 1950 Capon. Authoritarian dystopia set on the other side of the planet that had not been visited in the first volume. The inhabitants of the dystopia are described as savages who hope to enslave or kill the protagonists, who ultimately escape back to the civilized side of the planet. The focus is on the struggle of the space explorers to survive. See also 1954 Capon. The author wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952)
Dystopia in which automation has eliminated the jobs and purpose in life of most laborers. Engineers and managers hold power and wealth, and there is a huge unemployed population.
Rpt. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1952; as the “Colonial Issue” London: Macmillan, 1953; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1966]; New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1974. 320 pp.; in Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano The Sirens of Titan Mother Night Stories. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 1-307, with a Note on the Text (819-23) and Notes (824-28); and as Utopia 14. New York: Bantam Books, 1954. 312 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Public Enemy" - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) (Dynamic Science Fiction, 1952)
Eutopia. Public officials are held responsible for the effects of their actions on citizens.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Red Court: Last Seat of National Government of The United States of America - Rena M[arie] Vale (1898-1983) (Nelson Publishing Co, 1952)
Dystopia of the Soviet takeover of the U.S. designed to alert Americans to the danger.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Shining City" - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) (Science Fiction Quarterly, 1952)
Authoritarian dystopia and generally unsuccessful revolt.
Keywords: US author

The Smashed World - Henry J. Slater (1879-1963) (Jarrolds, 1952)
Flawed utopia. An apparent future eutopia populated by reincarnated greats from the past becomes dystopian as they struggle for power.
Keywords: Male author

"The Smile" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Fantastic 1.1, 1952)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which even the best of the culture of the past is rejected.
Rpt. Amazing Stories 41.5 (December 1967); 24-29; Perry Rhodan, no. 75 (July 1975): 132-; in Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts. Ed. Forrest J. Ackerman (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing, 1997), 139-43; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 267-72;and in Bradbury’s A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010, 133-38.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Sound of His Horn - [John William] [Wall] (1910-89) (Peter Davies, 1952)
Dystopia of the success of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and National Socialism one hundred and two years into the Reich. Breeding humans for blood sport.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960, with an “Introduction by Kingsley Amis (5-12); in his The Sound of His Horn and The King of the Lake (Horam, East Sussex, Eng.: Tartarus Press, 1999), 1-102 with a biographical “Introduction” by an unidentified author (vii-xii); and in The Sarban Omnibus (Np: Blackmask, 2008), 117-214, with “Forward” by Kingsley Amis (119-24).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Space Merchants - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013); C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Ballantine Books, 1952)
Advertising, overpopulation and corporate dystopia. See also 1984 Pohl.
U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. U.S. ed. rpt. in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 1-155 with “Biographical Notes” (777-79) “Notes on the text” (783-86) and “Notes” (789-99); and in Venus, Inc. (New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1985), 1-158. [21st Century ed.]. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011, with “Preface The Story of the Space Merchants” (v-xii). A different version, was published as “Gravy Planet.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 4.3 - 5 (June - August 1952): 4-61, 108-59, 104-59. This version has some wording differences, mostly minor, throughout the text and three concluding chapters not found in the book. These three chapters are rpt. in the Library of American edition (791-99).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Star, Bright" - Mark [Irvin] Clifton (1906-63) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1952)
Dystopia of a society that won't accept the highly intelligent.
Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton. Ed. Barry N. Malzberg and Martin H. Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press/London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simon, 1980), 18-38.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Station 7 - [John William] [Jennison] (1911-80) (Curtis, Brown Limited, 1952)
Part of the novel concerns a matriarchal dystopia with workers treated as if they were slaves.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Terra Australis" - Douglas [Alexander] Stewart (1913-85) (An Anthology of Australian Verse, 1952)
A poem in which the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (1563?-1615) meets the utopian socialist William Lane (1861-1917), Quiros seeking utopia in the West and Lane in the East.
Also in his Sun Orchids and Other Poems (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1952), 37-40. Rpt. in his Collected Poems 1936-1967 (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1967), 168-72.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Things of Distinction" - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) (Startling Stories, 1952)
Satire on advertising.
Rpt. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 94-147.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Throwback" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Startling Stories, 1952)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 77-93; in her Xenogenesis (New York: Ballantine Books, 1969), 105-17; and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 99-107 with an editors' note on 98.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Veronian Truth - Hollowell, Devero (N.p, 1952)
Racist tract which presents a brief golden age of a pure white society.
Keywords: Male author

We Died in Bond Street - Julian Ward (Hodder & Stoughton, 1952)
An attempt to establish a dictatorship is successfully resisted.
Keywords: Male author

We the Few - John L. Hawkinson (Exposition Press, 1952)
Dystopia of the destruction of much of civilization followed by the gradual creation of a Christian eutopia among those left.
Keywords: Male author

Whirlwind Harvest. A Phantasy - Monica F. Van Winkle (Academy Library Guild, 1952)
Dystopia in which totalitarian regimes have taken over the world seen as a struggle between good and evil throughout history (God and Satan) with good winning in the end. Presented as a play with suggested music and a reading list.
Keywords: Female author

Whither Bharat? or, The Mission From Moonland - Jehangir F[ramjee] Kotewal (New Book Co, 1952)
Political satire using an imaginary country.
Keywords: Indian author

The Age of Longing - Arthur Koestler (1905-83) (The Macmillan Co., 1951)
The novel is set in the mid-1950s when a successful U.S.S.R., now known as the “Commonwealth of Freedomloving People” or “Free Commonwealth,” has taken over most of Western Europe and is waiting for the right moment to take France.
Keywords: Austrian author; English author; Hungarian author; Male author

"Age of Prophecy" - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Future Science Fiction Combined with Science Fiction Stories, 1951)
Dystopia of opposition to science and scientists.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Amazons of the Asteroids" - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) (Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1951)
Gender-role reversal satire in which Amazons riding flying are horses found in the asteroid belt. They hate men and keep them subservient.
Rpt. in Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming. Ed. Toby Burrows (Nedlands, WA, Australia: Hilliard Press, 2010), 314-30.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

“Appointment for Tomorrow” - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
The story is set in a dystopian U. S. after World War III and focuses on the struggle for power between scientists and charlatans.
Rpt. as “Poor Superman.” In Tomorrow the Stars. Ed. Robert Heinlein (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952); rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1967), 198-224; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 124-52; and in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., 1974), 115-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Beyond Bedlam" - Wyman [Woods] Guin (1915-89) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
Dystopia. In the future war and conflict has been eliminated through the establishment of a schizophrenic society in which every person has two personalities controlled by drugs and shifts between them on a regular schedule. The Medicorps stringently enforces the drug regimen.
Rpt. in Spectrum II: A Second Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1962), 17-73; in his Living Way Out (New York: Avon, 1967), 155-208; and in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 3-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City in the Sea - [Arthur] Wilson Tucker (1914-2006) (Rinehart, 1951)
Dystopia. One man and women from a country of women cross a U.S that has been devastated by a nuclear war and discover the beginnings of the redevelopment of civilization.
Rpt. with the subtitle A compelling human story of one man and an army of women! New York: Galaxy Publishing Co, [1951]. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 11.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Come Again - [Mary Rose] [Coulton] (1906-2002) (Peter Davies, 1951)
Historical novel with an Australian setting featuring a character like William Lane (1861-1917), the Australian labour leader), the Australian labour leader and founder of the New Australia and Cosme communities in Paraguay.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Female author

"Dark Interlude" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83); Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
Brief description of a future eutopia where everyone is a student because all the issues of production and distribution have been solved. All races in the future have blended into one, and a man from the future who said he is one-fourth black is killed because he married a white woman.
Rpt. in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 423-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Disappearance - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) (Rinehart, 1951)
Satire. With no real explanation, the sexes disappear from each other producing two single sex societies. Both societies have problems, and the sexes reappear to each other at the end. Compare to James Patrick Kelly, “Men Are Trouble” (2004) and “The Last Judgment” (2012).
UK ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004 with an "Introduction" by Robert Silverberg (v-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Escape to Paradise" - [Alan Geoffrey] [Yates] (1923-85) (Thrills Incorporated (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1951)
An authoritarian dystopia following atomic wars. The dystopia is enforced by the Bureau of Collective Freedom. The main characters escape the dystopia to a planet teeming with dinosaurs, which is where the story ends.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Farfetched Fables" - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (Buoyant Billions, Farfetched Fables, & Shakes Versus Shav, 1951)
Six fables ranging in time from the contemporary to the far future. A number are satires on utopian aspirations, with satires on diet, genetics, and education, among other topics.
Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 377-466. The first fable was originally published in German translation as “Phantastiche Fabel.” Neue Schweizer Rundschau (March 1950).  See “Preface.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1974), 7: 381-428. Rpt. as “Farfetched Fables (1951).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 494-531.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Great Idea - Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951)
Anti-communist dystopia. Conflict between the dictatorship of Wonworld (capital Moscow; calendar A.M. = After Marx) and Freeworld. Freeworld wins the war, and democracy and free enterprise is established and begins to succeed.
U.K. ed. as Time Will Run Back. London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1952. Rev. ed. as Time Will Run Back: A Novel About the Rediscovery of Capitalism. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1966. Rpt. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Historical Note" - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1951)
Satire on the Soviet Union. The Soviet invention of a personal flier, developed and sold in vast numbers by non-Soviet capitalists eliminates borders and undermines political control. As a result, the Soviet dystopia collapses.
Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 141-57; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 115-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Last Story" - Alexander Samuelson (Startling Stories, 1951)
Dystopia in which an overly rational society destroys fiction.
Keywords: Male author

Late Final - [Joseph Walter] [Cove] (b. 1891) (J.M. Dent, 1951)
Dystopia of a future where the human race has relapsed into barbarianism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Marching Morons" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1951)
Dystopia. High birth rate of the lower classes produces a nation of morons.
Rpt. in his The Mindworm (London: Joseph, 1955), 219-56; in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 23-54; in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 113-38, with an editor’s note on 113 and “Questions” on 138; in The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1976), 133-63; The Best of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 138-72; in The Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 47-82; in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A. Ed. Ben Bova (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973), 204-32; and in His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth. Ed. Timothy P. Szczesuil (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1997), 372-95. Merril, MoU-St, PSt
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mars Child" - [Cyril Michael] [Kornbluth] (1923-58); [Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman)] [Merril] (1923-97) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1951)
Dystopia. Large mining corporation on Mars in conflict with a small community of settlers, which could be seen in a eutopian light.
Rpt. as Outpost Mars. By Cyril Judd [pseud.]. New York: Abelard Press, 1952; and in their Spaced Out: Three Novels of Tomorrow (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2008), 137-296.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author; US author

Murder in Millennium VI - Curme Gray (1910-80) (Shasta Publishers, 1951)
Dystopia. A science fiction detective story set in a matriarchy 6000 years in the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nice Girl With 5 Husbands” - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1951)
Eutopia set in a high-tech future that includes space travel but with the emphasis on the way people live. There is what appears to be a group marriage, everyone has multiple professions and work assignments throughout the world, children raised collectively by the family, and no modesty.
Rpt. as “Nice Girl With Five Husbands.” Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 178-91; and in The Worlds of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ace Books, 1976), 95-109. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 95-109.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"No War Tomorrow" - Wallace [George] West (1900-80) (Science Fiction Quarterly, 1951)
Dystopia. Venus is where Earth offloads its misfits, troublemakers, and those who want to live without rules. These people have formed a community called Wildoatia, which implies that the people are there to sow their wild oats before, if they survive, settling down on Earth. The story focuses upon a conflict between the dominant people on Venus and Earth and a means of avoiding war.
Rpt. in Future Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.3 ([1954]): 35-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Null-P" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (Worlds Beyond, 1951)
Dystopia. A post atomic war satire in which the absolute average becomes the goal and the person representing that becomes President of what remains of the United States. The human race degenerates and is replaced by intelligent dogs.
Rpt. in his The Wooden Star (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 57-71; in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 121-31; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 201-09 with an "Afterword" (210-11).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Other Foot” - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (New-Story Magazine: The Monthly Magazine for the Short Story, 1951)
The story depicts a Mars that is inhabited by all the African Americans who left the United States as a result of the violence that had been inflicted on them. A spaceship with whites on board arrives from an Earth that has been destroyed by their wars.
Rpt. in The Illustrated Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1951), 43-67; and (New York: Bantam Books, 1952), 27-38.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Coming World - A[lfred] C[harles] Michaud (1876-1975) (World Publication Inc, 1951)
Detailed eutopia located on Mars. Technologically advanced. Extreme emphasis on cleanliness. Intensive agriculture. One nation, one language, and one religion. The elderly are provided support. Chapter IV Old Age Dependents (51-63) is a critique of the current system. Eugenics 130-131.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"The Pedestrian" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (The Reporter (New York), 1951)
Dystopia. A pedestrian is arrested and committed to jail by automated police for walking at night rather than staying home watching television. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1963 Leiber.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.1 (February 1952): 89-93; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (British Edition) 2.4 (8) (May 1954): 125-28; in his The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953), 25-30; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 1 [(1954)]: 64-68; in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 39 (July 1955): 32-34; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 253-58; in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 121-25; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 191-95; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 191-95; in McSweeney’s, no. 45 Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013): 143-48; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 678-682, with a Chronology (919-936), a Note on the Text (947) and Notes (971-972). Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]; and in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 25-29. Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]. A dramatized version was published as The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act. London: Samuel French, Inc., 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Red Sky at Night - Ronald [de Couves] Matthews (1903-67) (Hollis & Carter, 1951)
Communist dystopia overcome by religion with the stress on the battle.
Keywords: English author

"Restricted Clientele" - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) (Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York), 1951)
Monopoly capitalist dystopia and nonviolent revolution led by scientists. There are three classes in the future, the Investors (50 with 75 permitted), who own the wealth of the Galaxy and are the government under a Chairman, the Intellectuals, and the Manuals, who are 97.6% of the population. Social mobility possible in both directions. There are opposition Liberals among the Intellectuals.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Richardson Story - [Edward] Francis Williams (1903-70) (William Heinemann, 1951)
Dystopia of the effects of subliminal manipulation of the populace.
U.S. ed. as It Happened Tomorrow. New York: Abelard Press, 1952.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Rogue Queen - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) (Doubleday, 1951)
Society structured like a beehive or an ant colony with warriors, drones, and a queen. The novel concerns the arrival of humans who upset the system by introducing a supposedly neuter female to sex.
Rpt. New York: Dell, [1952]; New York: Ace Books, [1965]; New York: New American Library, 1972; and New York: Bluejay Books, 1985. Collector's Edition illus. Jill Bauman with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (3-8). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1996.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadows Move Among Them - Edgar [Austin] Mittelhölzer (1909-65) (Peter Nevill, 1951)
The novel is set in a religious community in British Guiana, the Brethren of Christ the Man, which can be considered a flawed utopia. The religion is open and treats Christ as a model rather than in any sense supernatural, but the treatment of the people in the community, particularly the natives, is both liberal and very cruel.
Keywords: Guyanese author; Male author; UK author

"Social Obligation" - Roy L. Clough, Jr. (Fantastic Adventures (Chicago, IL), 1951)
Anti-science dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Sonnet in the Bottle - [Alethea Catherine] [Hayter] (1911-2006) (Herbert Jenkins, 1951)
A lost race novel depicted a city of surviving Incas positively.
Keywords: Egyptian author; English author; Female author

"This Way to Mars" - William Campbell Gault (1910-95) (Startling Stories, 1951)
Gender-role reversal.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Tolliver’s Travels” - Frank Fenton; Joseph Petracca (New Tales of Space and Time, 1951)
Flawed utopia in which everyone must be happy or they are eliminated. Everything provided. Marriage only by permission.
U.K. ed. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1952), 45-67.  Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1952), 44-66.
Keywords: Male author

Tomorrow Sometimes Comes - F[rancis] G[eorge] Rayer (1921-81) (Home & Van Thal, 1951)
Post atomic war conflict between mutants produced by the radiation and “normal” humans. A central computer becomes the focus of the conflict. The machine was developed in his “The Peacemaker.” New Worlds: Fiction of the Future (London) 6.17 (September 1952): 51-65; and “Ephemeral This City.” New Worlds Science Fiction (London) 11.33 (March 1955): 94-118.
Parts published earlier as “Deus Ex Machina.” New Worlds: Fiction of the Future (London) 3.8 (Winter 1950): 30-40.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Tyrann" - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
Standard authoritarian dystopia focusing on a rebellion based on a rediscovered revolutionary document, the "Constitution of the United States of America".
Rpt. as The Stars, Like Dust. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951 and with unauthorized cuts as The Rebellious Stars. New York: Ace Books, 1954. U.K. ed. as The Stars Like Dust. London: Panther, 1958.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Venus is a Man's World" - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1951)
Satire. Contrasts the frontier world of Venus where men rule with an Earth ruled by women and where men cannot be citizens. Both have problems but Venus is presented more positively.
Rpt. in his The Square Root of Man (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), 145-69; and in Immodest Proposals: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume 1 (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 551-65 with an "Afterword" (565).
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Visit to Mars - Garrett V. Albertson (Moody Press, 1951)
Detailed eutopia on Mars with a focus on religion and technology. Struggle between good and evil. Stress on the nuclear family. There are various worlds even more advanced than Mars.
Keywords: Male author

"The Wrong Side of Paradise" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Amazing Stories, 1951)
A false paradise which appears to fill the wishes of every person.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1975; A New Social System For the World of To-morrow And How Provisions Will be Made For the Aged - O[scar] D[avid] Zieman (Gornall The Publisher, 1950)
Detailed eutopia based on a National Service Scheme for Youth. Epigram--"The Unbelievable Happened; Everything Went Right."
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

2,000 Years On - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) (Scion, 1950)
A man is resurrected in the future, and he is told he owns the world, which is being administered by an elite. The man sides with the non-elite.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bandersnatch - T[homas] E[van] Ryves (1895-1976) (The Grey Walls Press, 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia in which scientists rule. Society is highly structured with “Instigators” the ruling scientists, the “Influencers” directing everyone’s life, and the “Operatives,” or manufactured automata, that do all the work. The independent minded cannot become citizens.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Coming Attraction" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1950)
Dystopia set in a post-atomic war U.S. Vicious, violent society. Women must wear masks because the face is considered too sexual.
Rpt. in his A Pail of Air (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964), 173-77; in Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1965), 372-88; in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), 364-76; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 109-23; in The Best of Fritz Leiber (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1974), 101-14; in his Selected Stories. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2010), 33-44; and in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 221-33 with an editors’ note on 221-22.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Commonweal of Sitnalta: The Adventures of Phineas Smith in Another Dimension" - Mulford Q[uickert] Sibley (1912-89) (Unpub. Ms, 1950)
Socialist eutopia.
Unpub. Ms
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Cybernetic Brains" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Startling Stories (Chicago, IL), 1950)
Computer dystopia.
Repub. New York: Avalon, 1962.
Keywords: Male author; US author

". . . Divided We Fall" - Raymond F[isher] Jones (1915-94) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1950)
Dystopia of conflict among different types of humanity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Divine Right" - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York), 1950)
The story shows the beginning of a dystopia with a bad king after a series of good ones and the revolt against him that leads to the possibility of a democracy.
Keywords: Female author

Early Christians of the 21st Century - Chad Walsh (1914-91) (Harper & Bros., 1950)
Nonfiction eutopia. The first part of the book is a discussion of the problems of the present. The second part presents the positive effects of a rejuvenated Christianity.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Enemy Had It Too: A Play in Three Acts - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Viking Press, 1950)
Post-catastrophe dystopian play with elements of farce. A biological agent is loosed and devastates the world. The survivors include those who degenerate into primitive tribal warfare, a few survivors who had been protected from the pandemic/plague, and a group returning from Mars, who bring Martians with them who will rejuvenate the Earth. Mars had once had a great civilization, but Martians now live in tunnels.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Faster! Faster! - [David] [Groom] (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950)
Class based dystopia located on a constantly traveling train.
U.S. ed. New York Viking Press, 1950.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Furious Evangelist: Being the Memoirs of Richard Civet during a Time of Moral Breakdown and now at last set forth and edited by Hugh Hickling - [Reginald] Hugh Hickling, ed. [written by] (1920-2007) (Alvin Redman, 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia stressing party politics and the dangers of a leader with too much power and no scruples about how to use it. Defeated in the end.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hunt for Heaven - Elsie [Marion] Oakes Barber (b. 1914) (Macmillan, 1950)
Novel about a religious intentional community established after the Haymarket bombing in Chicago on May 4, 1886, with the usual tale of dreams unrealized.
Keywords: Female author

"If This Be Utopia" - Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1950)
Flawed utopia; perfection not possible.
Rpt. in Amazing Stories (Flushing, NY) 40.6 (June 1966): 61-71. Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), no. 3 (nd): 60-69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Immigrant" - Leslie A. Croutch (1915-69) (Light (Parry Sound, ON, Canada), 1950)
Québec is briefly depicted as an authoritarian dystopia in the future. The story centers around the demand by Québec that a Canadian citizen who left Québec illegally be returned from Ontario.
Rpt. in Years of Light: A Celebration of Leslie A. Croutch. Ed. John Robert Colombo (Toronto, ON, Canada: Hounslow Press, 1982), 5-9.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Land of Forgotten Women - F[rederick] A[nnesley] M[ichael] Webster (1886-1949) (Skeffington and Son, 1950)
Dystopian lost race matriarchy that practices human sacrifice.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Let Freedom Ring" - Fritz [Reuter] Leiber [Jr.] (1910-92) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia that drafts men to almost certain death.
Rpt. with the same pagination in Amazing Stories Quarterly Reissue (Chicago, IL) (Fall 1950). Also rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (New York), no. 23 (February 1972): 4-48. U.K. ed. Amazing Stories (London) (2nd series), [no. 1] (nd): 90-134.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Little Black Bag" - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1950)
A medical bag from an obviously medically eutopian future accidently appears in a contemporary slum and transforms the lives of the doctor who cared for the slum dwellers even though he had been prohibited from practicing and the people of the slum. Then the future takes the bag back.
Rpt. without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 415-21 with an editor’s note on 415.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Martian Chronicles - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Doubleday & Co., 1950)
Martians have a vaguely described eutopian society before the arrival of people from earth but are killed by the chicken pox, for which they have no immunity. The various stories recount the settlement of Mars by people from Earth who bring all Earth’s problems with them. But then there is war on Earth and settlers return. See Bradbury’s article “Where Are the Golden-Eyed Martians?” West (Los Angeles Times) (March 1972): 14-15 for his comments on the exploration of Mars. A related story that was not included in the book is “The Naming of Names.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 34.3 (August 1949): 137-44; rpt. in Great Science Fiction Stories (Flushing, NY), no. 3 (1966): 31-. A later Martian story is “The Love Affair.” In his The Love Affair A Short Story and Two Poems. Illus. Joe Mugnaini (Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982), 1-16; rpt. as “The Love Affair: A Martian Chronicles Story.” In The Planets. Ed. Byron Preiss (New York: Bantam Books, 1985), 104-12; rpt. without the subtitle in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 147-58; and in Mars Probe. Ed. Peter Crowther (New York: DAW Books, 2002), 13-22. A satire on The Martian Chronicles is John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000), “The Real Martian Chronicles.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 118.5 & 6 (689) (May-June 2010): 86-91.
There are later editions with many variants. Among the most important are the U.K. edition, which was published as The Silver Locusts. London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1951. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958 has illustrations by Karel Thole and William F. Nolan’s “Biographical Sketch and Bibliography of Ray Bradbury’s Books and Stories” with notes on where the stories were later collected. “The Martian Chronicles.” Ray Bradbury: Novels and Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: The Library of America, 2021), 1-230 is based on the 1973 Doubleday edition and includes a chronology of Bradbury’s life (843-861), a note on the text (863-866), textual notes (873-876), and Bradbury’s “A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles” (809-810), rpt. from Rhodomagnetic Digest (May 1950):21. Other significant editions include the following: The Martian Chronicles. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974, with the book designed by Ernst Reichl. an introduction by Martin Gardner, and illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini. The Collector’s ed. with an introduction by Damon Knight and an illus. by Joseph Mugnaini. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1989. The Martian Chronicles. The Fortieth Anniversary Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. 1990. The stories that were brought together to form the first edition are: “The Million Year Picnic.” Planet Stories (New York) 3.3 (Summer 1946): 95-100; “The Off Season.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 33.2 (March 1948): 99-104; “Mars Is Heaven!” Planet Stories (New York) 3.12 (Fall 1948): 56-66; collected as “The Third Expedition” in The Martian Chronicles; rpt. as “Welcome Brothers!” Authentic Science Fiction (London), no. 29 (January 1953): 31-52; “----And the Moon Be Still as Bright.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.2 (June 1948): 78-91; “The Earth Men.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.3 (August 1948): 69-77; “The Long Years.” Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 61.18 (September 15, 1948): 18-19, 38, 40, 42; rpt. as “Dwellers in Silence.” Planet Stories (New York) 4.2 (Spring 1949): 51-58; and in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 20 (December 1953): 22-29; “The Silent Towns.” Charm (New York) (March 1949): 111, 170-79; “There will come soft rains.” Colliers (New York) 125.18 (May 6, 1950): 34; rpt. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 321-28, with an editor’s note on 319; “Impossible.” Super Science Stories (Chicago, IL) 6.1 (November 1949): 72-79, 127-29 [Listed in Table of Contents of the version to be sold in Britain and Canada but not included]; rpt. as “September 2005: The Martian” in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 165-72; with an editors’ note on 164; “The Spring Night.” The Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI) (Winter 1949): 32-34, collected in The Martian Chronicles as “The Summer Night;” “I’ll Not Ask for Wine.” Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 63.1 (January 1, 1950): 20-21, 30-32; rpt. as “Ylla.” Avon Fantasy Reader (New York), no. 14 (1950): 20-29 and collected in The Martian Chronicles under that title; rpt. in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 165-86 with an editor’s note on 163. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet; “Carnival of Madness.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 36.1 (April 1950): 95-104, collected in The Martian Chronicles as “Usher II” [“Usher II was dropped from The Silver Locusts]; “Way in the Middle of the Air.” Other Worlds Science Stories (Evanston, IL) 2.1 (July 1950): 142-53 (Bradbury made a play of this story, which was performed at the Desilu Gower Studios, Hollywood in August 1962); “In This Sign.” Imagination Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Evanston, IL) 2.2 (April 1951): 56-71 and collected as “The Fire Balloons” in The Silver Locusts (117-37). “The Wilderness,” which was first published in Today (April 6, 1952) and rev. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.7 (November 1952): 118-26, was first collected in The Martian Chronicles (London: The Science Fiction Book Club, 1953), 130-39), which otherwise follows The Silver Locusts. The New York: Avon, 1997 ed. replaces “Way in the Middle of the Air” with “The Wilderness.” Fortieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Micro Men - [John Francis Russell] [Fearn] (1908-60) (Scion Press, 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia. A scientist invents a ray that can make people very small or very large, and it is used by others to create and control "micro men".
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Morning of the Day They Did It” - E[lwyn] B[rooks] White (1899-1985) (The New Yorker, 1950)
The story is about the complete destruction of Earth, but it includes a paragraph the describes the United States government as providing all an individual’s needs, while taking all but a very small part of their pay. It also notes in passing the disappearance of all but one bird species and other problems.
Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 322-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

My Dear, It's Heaven - Rowland [Denis Guy] Winn (Cassell, 1950)
A group of people are much surprised by a heaven created by an infinitely compassionate God.
Keywords: Male author

The Next 50 Years; A Forecast of the Triumphant Progress Of The Race In The Next Half-Century: 1950-1999 - Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) (Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1950)
Detailed eutopia presented as a forecast and based on the assumption of the end of war and the development of the scientific management of the economy. Religion mostly gone. Stress on education, health and recreation. Sexual freedom virtually complete. Nudity accepted. Emphasis on economic planning for the world as a whole. Frequent positive references to the experience of the Soviet Union.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nutro 29. A Romance - Frank [Callan] Norris (1907-67) (Rinehart & Co, 1950)
Discovery of a cheap food substitute and its consequences, which include competition between countries to control it and capitalists to produce it. The central theme of the novel is that with such a food substitute available, poorly paid and otherwise exploited workers will simply quit and leave, destroying the economy. To force people back to work the food is outlawed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Other Side of the Sun. A Novel - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) (William Heinemann, 1950)
Detailed eutopia based on custom. Advanced technology came slowly, and society had time to adjust. Vegetarian. No killing. First volumer in a trilogy; see also 1952 and 1954 Capon. The author also wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Out of Tomorrow" - Vivian Shirley (Other Worlds Science Fiction (Evanston, IL), 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia. Welfare through voluntary slavery. Individuality thought of as negative, considered aggressive.
Keywords: Female author

Pebble in the Sky - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (Doubleday, 1950)
Dystopia in which a radioactive Earth is shunned by the other inhabited planets. There is a galactic empire that connects this book with his Foundation series. Earth is considered to be a backward, inferior planet inhabited by primitives and many Earthlings oppose the empire. Conflict ensues with a balance ultimately achieved.
Rpt. as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel # 14. New York: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1953; and New York: Bantam Books, 1957; and in his Triangle. The Currents of Space Pebble in the Sky The Stars, Like Dust (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1961]), 173-346. Originally written as "Grow Old With Me" but not published as intended. That version was published in his The Alternate Asimovs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986). 5-133 with a "Foreword" (1-4) and an "Afterword" (134-36).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Plagiarist" - Peter Phillips (1920-2012) (New Worlds, 1950)
The story is set in a future that has rejects anything that is not quantifiable. A young boy still has an imagination that keeps getting him in trouble. Some undeveloped suggestions of significant social changes.
Rpt. without the illus. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 3-44.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Prison Planet" - [Sydney J.] [Bounds] (1920-2006) (Futuristic Science Stories, 1950)
Dystopia describing various exploitations of prisoners.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Raptured: A Novel of the Second Coming of the Lord - Ernest W. Angley (b. 1922) (Winston Press, 1950)
A novel of the Rapture (see Thessalonians 4:17) and the dystopia that follows it for those not taken.
There are several reprints by various publishers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rebirth" - E. K. Jarvis [pseud.] (Fantastic Adventures (British Edition), 1950)
Eutopia in which criminals are cured and given a new, better life.
Rpt. in the U. S. ed. 13.2 (February 1951): 84-93.

The Rural District Council of Utopia - Neville Hobson M.C., J.P. (Ptd. Archibold & Johnsons, 1950)
Eutopia. A short pamphlet fictionally presenting an ideal Rural District Council.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Spectator Sport" - John D[ann] Macdonald (1916-86) (Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York), 1950)
Dystopia. The first man to travel to the future is ignored by everyone because they have all had lobotomies (been "lobed"). Everything is run down because people have access to what Aldous Huxley called "feelies" in Brave New World (1932). These allow a person the complete, tactile experience of another existence. In this society they are available temporarily until one has earned enough to be permanently attached to the system.
Rpt. in Strange Adventures in Science Fiction. Ed. Groff Conklin (London: Grayson & Grayson, [1954]), 99-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Summer Day's Dream: A Play in Two Acts" - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) (The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III, 1950)
The play is set in midsummer 1975 after an atomic catastrophe which has resulted in England reverting to a simple agrarian life that is presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

On the Trail of 1960; A Utopian Novel - Ray H. Wiley (b. 1909) (Exposition Press, 1950)
Standard communal utopia following the nuclear war of 1952 and a new war initiated by those remaining from the old regimes. Change brought about by election. Money must be spent each year. Many small farms are established to end unemployment. No taxes. All those of voting age become shareholders in industry. The man who led all this is elected king.
Keywords: US author

"U-Turn" - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1950)
Science fiction story with a eutopian background of a society that allows its citizens the freedom to choose death.
Rpt. in his Somewhere a Voice (London: Dennis Dobson, 1965), 63-76. Rpt. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1968), 65-79.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Vistas of Coming Glory: A Defence of the Pre-millenial and Futurist Faith - Pastor Wallace E. Jackel (City Service Press, 1950)
Millennium.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Waker Dreams" - Richard [Burton] Matheson (1926-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction (New York), 1950)
Dystopia of people in cities kept dreaming on machines.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"World Without Men" - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1950)
Dystopia of a world dominated by women.
Rpt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Reissue) ([Winter 1950]): 60-85.
Keywords: Male author; US author

America Tomorrow - Eugene L[eslie] Howard (b. 1903) (Author, 1949)
Eutopia based on public ownership that, for the first time, guarantee real and complete equality of opportunity and eliminate racism and gender inequality. No taxes. Free medical care. Improved schools. Planned cities. See also 1934 Howard.
Booklet that he says is the first three chapters of his Must America Learn the Hard Way. Muskegon, MI: Author, 1946, which is not recorded in any library.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Atomic Civilization - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) (Author, 1949)
The text is primarily an argument for the combination of Eastern and Western civilizations. Plate four is a plan of Celestion, which in this case is a building that combines Eastern and Western features. Plate five shows the building from the front. Plate six shows the "Courtyard West Gate of 'Celestion'," presumably the city.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Christian World State - Arthur Wood (Independent Press, 1949)
A world state utopia based on a reading of the Bible. Very general with people said to follow Jesus’s example. Includes some brief consideration of earlier utopias.
Keywords: Male author

Earth Abides - George [Rippey] Stewart (1895-1980) (Random House, 1949)
Dystopia of catastrophe in which a pandemic kills all but a few people. The novel traces the life of one survivor who explores the U.S. and then settles in his old home near San Francisco. The novel then follows the slow growth of a small community that initially live off what was left behind but ultimately create the beginnings of a new society with the skills needed to live a simple, primitive life. The title reflects a recurring theme, that the earth will slowly adjust to the absence of human beings. Includes interracial marriage. The novel is at least in part a reworking of Jack London’s 1912 “The Scarlet Plague.”
Rpt. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1969; Los Altos, CA: Hermes Publications, 1974; and Boston, MA: Mariner Editions/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, with “Introduction to Earth Abides” by Kim Stanley Robinson (xi-xix). Collector's Edition illus. Toni L. Taylor with an "Introduction" by Arthur O. Lewis (ix-xiv). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Headlines of 1959 (United World Federalists (New Zealand), 1949)
With world federalism the headlines would be from a world at peace. "Headlines about building and trading and learning. About new benefits from atomic energy. About new conquests of disease." "About legislation in the World Assembly . . . legal precedents established by the World Courts . . . elections and politics and programmes and parties and all the desirable processes of a society based on reason and compromise" [4].
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The Humanoids - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Simon & Schuster, 1949)
Dystopia in which robots, which are designed to keep the peace among humans and avoid nuclear war, allow no activity that they perceive to be potentially harmful. See also 1980 Williamson, The Humanoid Touch.
Rpt. as the Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. David. G. Klein and with an "Introduction" (v-xiv) by F.M. Busby. Exp. ed. as The Humanoids. The expanded edition with "Me and My Humanoids," "With Folded Hands," and a new introduction by the author. New York: Avon, 1980. Based in part on". . . And Searching Mind." Astounding Science Fiction 41 [50 on cover].1 - 3 (March - May 1948): 7-61, 111-62, 97-147; rpt. in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 199-382. A related story is "With Folded Hands." Astounding Science Fiction 39.5 (July 1947): 6-45. Rpt. in Modern Masterpieces of Science Fiction. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1965), 110-64; in his The Pandora Effect (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 77-125; and in The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Seven: With Folded Hands and Searching Mind (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2010), 153-98. Williamson explains the evolution of the book in "Me and My Humanoids" in the expanded ed. (251-59).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Days of Our Fathers" - Winona McClintic (b. 1921) (The Magazine of Fantasy [and Science Fiction] (Concord, NH), 1949)
Flawed utopia. A story set in an odd future in which the language suggests the inhabitants are animals (parents are dam and sire; food is fodder), but which has a highly structured educational system and worries about atavism. One child grows up to be proud of her hidden atavism.
Keywords: Female author

Inherit the Night - Robert Christie (Farrar, Straus and Co, 1949)
A lost village in a valley in an unnamed mountain range (probably the Andes) has become a simple eutopia of peace under the direction of a good priest. Evil enters from the outside in the form of a wealthy criminal and the eutopia is disrupted. The criminal dies while trying to leave.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Space Ship - [William Fitzgerald] [Jenkins] (1896-1975) (Frederick Fell, 1949)
Authoritarian dystopia. Technology that allows government to punish selected individuals at a distance leads to universal tyranny. Emphasis on a successful revolt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Moment of Truth - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) (Macmillan, 1949)
Dystopia. Shortly after World War II the U.K. entered a new war with Germany and lost. The novel concerns the internal relations among a group of people waiting for the last plane to evacuate them to the U.S., and the dystopia is very much in the background.
U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan. 1949.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Nineteen Eighty-Four - [Eric] [Blair] (1903-1950) (Secker & Warburg, 1949)
Classic repressive totalitarian dystopia. The author's original title was The Last Man in Europe. A novel on Orwell writing Nineteen Eighty-Four is Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe. New York: Overlook Press, 2017.
Rpt. as vol. 9 of The Complete Works of George Orwell. Ed. Peter Davison. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987 with a "Textual Note (327-41). US ed. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1949. Edition With a Critical Introduction and Annotations by Bernard Crick. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1984 with the "Introduction" (1-154), the "Annotations to the Text" (429-49), and an "Index to Orwell's Text" (456-60). Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Gunn (iii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Centennial edition. New York: Harcourt Brace, 2003, with a “Foreword” by Thomas Pynchon (vii-xxvi) and an “Afterword” by Erich Fromm (324-37) originally published in 1984 (New York: Signet Classics, 1961) 257-67. A dramatized version was published as George Orwell's 1984. A Play in Three Acts. Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall, Jr. and William A. Miles, Jr. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing, Inc., 1963. A graphic novel version illustrated by Fido Nesti was published in Brazil as 1984 in 2020, as Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel. London: Penguin, 2020; and as 1984: The Graphic Novel. Boston, MA/New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. See also Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Ed. Peter Davison. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich/Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1984.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The NRACP" - George P[aul] Elliott (1918-80) (The Hudson Review, 1949)
Racist, authoritarian dystopia set in the U.S. in the near future with Colored Persons Reserves that are extermination camps. NRACP = National Relocation Authority: Colored Persons.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.3 (September 1960): 81-110; and in Human and Other Beings. Ed. Allen De Graeff (New York: Collier, 1963), 141-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Oasis - Mary [Theresa] McCarthy (1912-89) (Random House, 1949)
Story of an intentional community named Utopia and the problems that arise from disagreements among members.
UK ed. as Source of Embarrassment. London: William Heinemann, 1950.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus - Professor George Adamski (1891-1965) (Leonard-Freefield, 1949)
Travel through the solar system. The planets are inhabited by human beings living a better life than on the earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Portal in the Picture" - Henry Kuttner (1914-58); [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) (Startling Stories (Springfield, MA), 1949)
Technological authoritarian dystopia set on a parallel world. Mostly adventure.
Rpt. as by Lewis Padgett [pseud.] and C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore as Beyond Earth's Gates. New York: Ace, 1954. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton, Daybreak--2250 A.D., which was originally published as Star Man's Son: 2250 A.D. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Prodigy" - Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1949)
Eugenic eutopia/dystopia.
Rpt. in his Caviar (New York: Ballantine Books, 1955), 84-95; and in The Perfect Host. Volume V: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon. Ed. Paul Williams (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1998), 257-62.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Root of Ampoi" - Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) (Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI), 1949)
A fairly simple gender-role reversal. The women are eight feet tall, and the men are of normal stature.
Rpt. in Fantastic Stories of Imagination (Chicago, IL) 10.8 (August 1961): 31-46; and in his The End of the Story. The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith. Ed. Scott Connors and Ron Hilger (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 213-24.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow's Yesterday - A[lfred] M[ortimer] Stanley (1888-1966) (Dorrance & Co, 1949)
Satire on a society that has degenerated physically but advanced mentally. Most work is done by machines. Gender-role reversal because the men are too weak. Eugenics with children raised by the state. Socialism.
Keywords: Male author

A Visitor from Venus - Gertrude Short (1902-68) (William-Frederick Press, 1949)
Venus presented as a eutopia in contrast with the dystopian Earth. On Venus people do the right thing simply because it is the right thing. Venus has a universal language and world government. Argues for a political and religious role for women, who, it is said, must save Earth.
Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 214-43 with an editor's note on 212-13.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Watch the North Wind Rise - Robert [Von Ranke] Graves (1895-1985) (Creative Age Press, 1949)
Future medieval eutopia, which is a world of witches and warlocks ruled by the White Goddess.
U.K. ed. Seven Days in New Crete. London: Cassell, 1949. Rpt. under the U.K. title Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1983. The U.S. edition preceded the U.K. edition by about six months.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Weapon Shops of Isher - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Greenberg Publisher, 1949)
Shops with advanced science and powerful weapons make relative freedom possible.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, © 1951; Ace Double bound with Murray Leinster, Gateway to Elsewhere (1954); and in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 413-527.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

White City. A Novel - Paralee Sweeten Sutton (Palopress, 1949)
New Age lost race communal eutopia located in Antarctica. In parallel to the Flood, the people were warned, instructed how to build their city, and survived a catastrophe that covered Antarctica with ice. Quite a bit on the history of the eutopia. One focus is on the correct raising of children. Thought transference, stress on reading color and vibrations.
Keywords: Female author

Ape and Essence - Aldous [Leonard] Huxley (1894-1963) (Harper, 1948)
Post-atomic war dystopia. Barbarianism. Eugenic rules are in place due to mutations, and babies outside certain parameters are killed. Love is not allowed, and there are sexual orgies at specified times. Worship of the Devil. It was adapted for TV by John Finch and directed by David Benedictus, it aired as an episode of the Wednesday Play on BBC on May 18, 1966. Huxley wrote a dramatization that remain unpublished until 2019 when it appeared in the Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond, no. 19 (2019): 19-91, accompanied by James Sexton and Bernfried Nugel, “Aldous Huxley’s Unpublished Dramatization of Ape and Essence (1-12); their “Note on the Text” (13), and some pages of the manuscript (14-17).
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1958; and London: Flamingo, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Beyond This Horizon - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (Fantasy Press, 1948)
An essentially good society based on eugenic planning and with the idea of a future even better human race. The eutopia is generally libertarian with all men, and some women, always armed, thus ensuring peaceful relations. A group of men of lower quality try to gain control and fail.
Rpt. without the illustrations. New York: New American Library, 1960. Rpt. as vol. 7 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Part originally published as by Anson MacDonald [pseud.] as "Beyond This Horizon." Astounding Science Fiction (New York) 29.2 - 3 (April - May 1942): 9-50, 55-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Blonde Goddess - R. P. J. Richards (Ken-Pax Pub. Co, 1948)
Two eutopias are presented. The first is a Shangri-la type similar to 1933 Hilton. The second is set in the near future and presents many reforms. The book is dedicated to The Theosophical Society, The Rosicrucian Fellowship, and The Unity School of Christianity. The author says that the first part is a report of his visit to the Himalayas while out of body plus some material dictated to him through automatic writing. The second part reflects the reforms that were implemented after the protagonists have been given the truth in the first part. National debt wiped out by a one off tax followed by radically cutting spending. Eliminate all out-of-date laws.

The Bowl of Light - Edward [J.] Liston (1900-86) (Coward-McCann, 1948)
Lost race eutopia set in South America with advanced, rational people.
U.K. ed. London: Coward McCann, 1950.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Carnelian Cube; A Humorous Fantasy - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000); [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) (Gnome Press, 1948)
Satire in which the protagonist visits a series of worlds. The first is a purely rational world, followed by a world of individualism, and then a world of science with a medieval touch. All are unsatisfactory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Cities Under the Sea - E[dward] V[ivian] Timms (1895-1960) (Angus & Robertson, 1948)
Dystopia. Atlantis under the sea is a highly advanced but cruel society. Identified as a boys' book.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Concluding - [Henry] [Yorke] (1905-73) (Hogarth Press, 1948)
Authoritarian dystopia as background. Little detail on the dystopia, but it appears to be heavily bureaucratic.
Rpt. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1970; London: Hogarth Press, 1978; Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000; and New York: New Directions, 2017, with “Henry Green: Novelist of the Imagination” by Eudora Welty (v-xxi), which is rpt. from The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays & Reviews by Eudora Welty (London: Penguin Random House, 1961).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Domesday Village - Ian [Goodhope] Colvin (1912-75) (The Falcon Press, 1948)
Agrarian eutopia existing outside a deeply flawed socialist utopia that is inefficient and bureaucratic, and while it is supposed to be based on merit, it is actually an aristocracy based on heredity. The eutopia is a small town that had been missed in the reorganization and had succeeded very well using traditional methods.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Enterprise Island: "Old Joe's Way" - Hans Christian Sonne (The Business Bourse, 1948)
Fictional development of capitalism presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

Flight out of Fancy: An account of a brief detachment, or capriole, from the charted courses of the world: containing the writer's explanation of the hazards of his departure, of the puzzling rigours of his detention, and of the fortunate circumstances of his return (The Bodley Head, 1948)
Satire. Describes the State of Inadvertaby in which the people have reoriented their lives around projects, some of which are nonsensical, like a focus on understanding fish or training red heads as head measurers. Other projects, like "the germ-free delivery of absolutely tasteless milk" and "the powdered beer plant" (61) are clearly designed as satires on too much government regulation.

A Giant's Strength: Drama in Three Acts - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Author, 1948)
Nuclear war dystopia with a brief eutopian vignette at the end. The play follows a family through the bombing of Hiroshima, the buildup to the war, the planted bombs exploding throughout the country, and the retaliation. They escape to a cave in South Dakota where they begin to learn to live in the new circumstances, but two members leave with very different dreams of building a new life.
Rpt. as A Giant's Strength: A Three Act-Drama of the Atomic Bomb. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1948. U.K. ed. London: T.W. Laurie, [1948].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gone to Grass - [Alice Elizabeth] [Burton] (b. 1908) (Hutchinson, 1948)
Anti-socialist satire stressing the dullness of utopia.
US ed. as The Roaring Dove. By Susan Kerby [pseud.]. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Great Judge" - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Fantasy Book, 1948)
Authoritarian dystopia as background.
Rpt. in Authentic Science Fiction, no. 71 (July 1956): 127-32; in his Away and Beyond (New York: Avon, 1952), 69-73; (New York: Berkeley, 1959), 35-39; New ed. (New York: Berkeley, 1963); 40-45; U.K. ed. (London: Panther, 1963), 41-45; in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 104-09; and in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 329-32.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Hail Bolonia! - [Digby George] [Gerahty] (1898-1981) (Peter Davies, 1948)
Satire on attempts to modernize an agrarian eutopia. The modernization fails, and the eutopia of a happy, simple life continues.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Late Night Final" - Eric Frank Russell (1905-78) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1948)
Libertarian eutopia.
Rpt in Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 287-313.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Life and Times of the Shmoo - [Alfred Gerald] [Caplin] (1909-79 (Simon and Schuster, 1948)
Comic strip. The Shmoo is a creature who provides all the food anyone wants, thus producing a classic Cockaigne. The strips recount the eutopia produced, the troubles this gives rise to, and the attempts of government and business to destroy the Shmoo. Other Shmoo material includes Gerald Marks and Al Capp, Shmoo Songs. New York: Bristol Music Corp., 1949 [held by the Los Angeles Public Library]; and a series of Hanna-Barbera films in 1979 (Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo) and 1987-88 (sixteen films). See also Al Capp, The Return of the Shmoo. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Rpt. as “The Shmoo: 1959.” In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 93-143; rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.
U.K. ed. London: Convoy Publications, 1949. Rpt. as "The Shmoo: 1948." In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 1-93. All the strips rpt. in Al Capp's Shmoo: The Complete Newspaper Strips. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2011. See also Al Capp's Shmoo Comics, no. 1 - 5 (July 1949 - April 1950). 5 vols. New York: Toby Press, 1949 - 50 [held by Michigan State University]. Some rpt. in Washable Jones and the Shmoos, no. 1 (June 1953) [all published. Held by Michigan State University]. Rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson (1916-65) (The New Yorker, 1948)
Dystopia in which each year every community chooses one person by lot to be stoned to death in the belief that this will make for a better year to come.
Rpt. in her The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1949), 291-302; in ovels and Stories: The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Other Stories and Sketches. Ed Joyce Carol Oates (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 227-35; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 3-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 3-10; and illus. Garrett Grove. The New Yorker 96.21 (July 27, 2020): 50-53.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Man at the Crossroads - Margaret Loveseth (d. 1957) (The Rosicrucian Press, 1948)
New Age eutopia. An isolated valley in western China called Sangla-a that was once and is being recreated as a eutopia for adepts. The protagonist is a man from Canada who is chosen to be the next leader of the community. He takes a small group to Sangla-a where they are educated by a woman who is about the become an Ascended Master. Then hundreds and finally thousands of people are brought to Sangla-a and begin the process of transforming the world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"New Year's Revolution (A Satire)" - [Edythe] [Eyde] (1921-2015) (Vice Versa: America's Gayest Magazine (Los Angeles, CA), 1948)
A violent heterosexual man is transported to a future gay eutopia where the few heterosexuals are thought of the ways gays were at the time.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Penultimate Trump" - R[obert] C[hester] W[ilson] Ettinger (1918-2011) (Startling Stories (Springfield, MA), 1948)
Eutopia that resulted from people choosing to freeze themselves for later resurrection. A key is banishment for selfishness that causes harm to others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pillar of Fire" - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) (Planet Stories (New York), 1948)
Flawed utopia in which there is no crime or violence and a man from the past starts murdering people. Bradbury considers it a precursor to Fahrenheit 451 (1953).
Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 141-69; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 101-38; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 579-616, with a Chronology (919-936, a Note on the Text (947, with a minor correction noted on 949) and Notes (968-969).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution. As Proposed and Signed by Robert M. Hutchins, G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold A. Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles H. McIlwain, Robert Redfield, Rexford G[uy] Tugwell - [Committee to Frame a World Constitution] (University of Chicago Press, 1948)
A proposal for a constitution for a way of peacefully governing the entire world, including governmental structure and some material on the rights of citizens.
Rpt. in G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese (1882-1952), Foundations of a World Republic (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 305-20.
Keywords: Male author

The Purple Twilight - [Arthur John] [Pelham-Groom] (1906-78) (T. Werner Laurie, 1948)
Dystopia. Mars is inhabited by an advanced but dwindling people due to an anti-marriage ideology that saw marriage as being only to men's advantage. Telepathy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Spurious Sun - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) (T. Werner Laurie, 1948)
A novel in which the world initially appears to have created a eutopia in which nations disarm and those countries with food feed those whose people are underfed, but then war ensues, including nuclear war. The war is ended by the youth of the world cooperating, and after the war they oust the old diplomats who stood in the way of long-term peace, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.
Rpt. as Threatened People. London: Regular Publications, nd.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Russian author

"That Only a Mother" - Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman) Merril (1923-1997) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1948)
Dystopian background to a story about the deformities and mutations brought about by a nuclear war.
Rpt. in Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 279-87; in Homecalling and Other Stories: The Complete Solo Short Science Fiction of Judith Merril. Ed. Elisabeth Carey (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 11-19; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 211-20 with an editors’ note on 211-12; in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 433-34 with an editor’s note on 433; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 88-100. Additional material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Tory Heaven; or Thunder on the Right - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) (Cresset Press, 1948)
Satire on class--"The whole population has been formally divided into the five classes that it naturally comprises" (53). Everything is provided for the highest class. No mixing among classes. Strikes illegal. Women not allowed to work.
U.S. ed. as Toasted English. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. Rpt. from the U.S. edition but with the original title and with a new preface by David Kynaston (v-xii). London: Persephone Books, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Walden Two - B[urrhus] F[rederick] Skinner (1904-90) (Macmillan, 1948)
Eutopia brought about through behavioral engineering presented in the form of an intentional community, and a number of communities were established that intended to put Skinner's ideas into practice. While some are still in existence, all but one abandoned most of Skinner's specific ideas; see Hilke Kuhlmann, Living Walden Two: B.F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. See also 1985 Skinner.
Reissued with new introduction by the author, "Walden Two Revisited" (New York: Macmillan, 1976), v-xvi. Rpt. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2005. Chapter 14 is rpt. as "Instead of the Cross, the Lollipop" in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 145-56 with an editor's note on 144-45.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Warning From Mars - Edward Whiteside (Interplanetary Publications, 1948)
Mars, which had been functioning well under free enterprise, becomes a dystopia. The novel is an attack on the U.S. New Deal under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1946. President 1933-45), particularly welfare and big government.
The PSt copy has London: The Mitre Press stamped under the publisher's name on the title page.
Keywords: Male author

Adrift in the Boneyard - Robert Lewis Taylor (1912-98) (Doubleday, 1947)
A humorous post-catastrophe story (storm) in which only a few people survive. The story follows their struggles to find a place to live, and the end up on at a tropical island paradise, where the squabble on whether to develop it for a future tourist trade.
Rpt. New York: Avon, [1963]
Keywords: Male author; US author

Australian Dream. A Journey to Merrion. No. 393 of - D[enys] G[abriel] M[aurice] Jackson (1899-1986) (The Australian Catholic Truth Society Record, 1947)
Eutopia. A future Australia Roman Catholic and agricultural.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Back to the Future - Meaburn [Francis] Staniland (1914-92) (Nicholas Vane, 1947)
Authoritarian, bureaucratic, conformist dystopia.
Keywords: English author

Bend Sinister - Vladimir [Vladimirovich] Nabokov (1899-1977) (Henry Holt, 1947)
Novel set in an authoritarian dystopia. In the "Introduction" Nabokov insists that the dystopian setting is incidental to the novel which is concerned with the relationship between a father and son.
Rpt. New York: Time, Inc. 1964 with a new Introduction" by Nabokov. Rpt. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1974 with the "Introduction" (5-11); and in his Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951 (New York: Library of America, 1996), 161-358, with the "Introduction from the 1964 ed. (163-69) and "Notes on the Text" (680-95).
Keywords: Male author; Russian author; US author

Bright Morrow - Derek Neville (1911-76) (John Crowther, 1947)
Future conflict between democratic societies and communists, who are presented in extremely negative terms. A major theme is a man with the power to stop war and the way governments want to use him for their ends rather than for human betterment, which is his goal. He defeats the government and the communists and the novel ends with the projection of a better society.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Commissars Over Britain" - Philip Faulconbridge [pseud.] (London Tidings (London), 1947)
Communist dystopia under the guise of the United Nations enforcing international law. Considerable humor.
Repub. London: Beaufort Press Book Dept., [1948].

Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life - Percival Goodman (1904-89); Paul Goodman (1911-72) (University of Chicago Press, 1947)
Eutopia. Non-fiction presentation of ideal city planning with a number of specific proposals for ideal communities both in the text and in the appendices. Percival Goodman's "Afterword" also includes specific proposals for ideal communities and includes a fourth paradigm taken from his 1977 Goodman.
2nd ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1960. There appear to be two states of this paperback reprint, one of which has 2nd ed. rev. and the subtitle Ways of Livelihood and Means of Life on the cover but not the title page. Rpt. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990 with an “Afterword: Communitas Revisited” (225-55) by Percival Goodman and the subtitle Ways of Livelihood and Means of Life on the cover but not the title page.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Consider Her Ways - Frederick Philip Grove (1879?-1948) (Macmillan of Canada, 1947)
The novel compares ant society favorably to human society.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author