"The Future of the Human Race" - W[illiam] R[alph] Inge (1860-1954) (Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1931)
Eutopia of England about 3,000 A.D. A simple life lived in villages and small towns. Eugenic controls. No war. No tariffs. Most nations are essentially self-supporting. Little central government. No lawyers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Gas War of 1940. A Novel. Being an account of the world catastrophe as set down by Raymond Denning, the first Dictator of Great Britain - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) (Eric Partridge at the Scholaris Press, 1931)
Most of the novel focuses on a war of all nations using advanced weapons that leads to the destruction of human civilization. The Prologue (9-27) describes the emergence of the dictator of the subtitle.
Rpt. as Valiant Clay. By Eric Bell [pseud.]. London: Collins, 1934.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Grand Mysterious Secret Marriage Temple - H. George Schuette (1850-1935) (Np, 1931)
Eugenic eutopia. Heredity and eugenics taught in schools. Two different marriage certificates, one permitting children for the eugenically fit and one prohibiting children for the eugenically unfit. Tax bachelors. Married men paid more than unmarried and retained over unmarried men in times of economic downturn. Only men between 55 and 70 to fight in wars, which would produce fewer wars.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Hothouse World" - Fred[erick John] MacIsaac (1886-1940) (Argosy (New York), 1931)
Dystopia set 100 years in the future after a new ice age in which relatively few people survive under a dome. Similar to 1899 Wells When the Sleeper Wakes in that the man who awakes has ended up owning all the property. Struggle for power. In the end contact is made with other survivors, and it is suggested that the dystopia is overcome.
Rpt. in Fantastic Novels 4.4 (November 1950): 12-92; and New York: Avalon Books, 1965.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hunger and Love - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) (Putnam, 1931)
The novel is mostly concerned with the trials and tribulations of its main protagonist, an intelligent but poor man, and is an attack on the dystopian of the contemporary capitalist order. But the novel also suggests, without going into detail, that a literal unification of the human race is necessary to being about a better life. As Bertrand Russel puts it in his “Introduction,” "It may be that the complete organic unification of the human race, which Mr. Britton regards as the ideal, is the only way in which a scientific civilisation can survive. It is, at any rate, practically certain that it cannot survive while the anarchism of private profit” [x]. The author says that the theory developed in Hunger and Love is presented in his plays Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930 and Animal Ideas: A Dramatic Symphony of the Human in the Universe. London: Putman, 1935. 134 pp.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931, with an “Introduction” by Bertrand Russell (vii-x). 623 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"If the General Strike Had Succeeded (Being Extracts from an Imaginary Newspaper June 1930)" - Rev. Fr. Ronald [Arbuthnott] Knox (1888-1957) (If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses into Imaginary History, 1931)
Satire suggesting the negative effects of the power of labor.
Book rpt. without the subtitle (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972), 277-89.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lost Children - H[enry] Herman Chilton (1863-1945) (Hutchinson, 1931)
Although it all turns out to be a dream, the novel describes the eutopia formed where the children were taken by the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Simple life. Arcadian. Crafts.
Keywords: Belgian author; English author; Male author

Migrants of the Stars: Being an Account of the Discovery of the Marvelous Land of Niames, and of the Secret of its Inhabitants - A. H. Barzevi, ed. [written by]; Marc F. Keller, ed. [written by] (The Classic Press, 1931)
A number of eutopias and dystopias, with one an isolated eutopia on earth with advanced technology and telepathy, a second eutopia on a planet called Niames that actually surrounds the Earth, and the rest discovered on a tour of the universe showing a variety of different cultures, all of which are inhabited through the transmigration of souls. Considerable satire.
Keywords: Male author

No Traveller Returns - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) (White Owl Press, 1931)
Future dystopia brought about by science; people selected for their scientific ability. All animals are destroyed. All culture eliminated.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Our Glorious Future. A Novel in Two Parts. The Miracle Child. The Battle of the Spirits - [John] [Hettinger] (C.W. Daniel, 1931)
The spiritual world contacts the human race, spiritualism is proven a science, and the afterlife is demonstrated. A eutopia of world peace results.
Keywords: Male author

"Our World in Fifty Years' Time" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (After Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation, 1931)
Non-fiction outlining a better future world. Although Wells says people might be worse off in fifty years, the world can be made a better place with the right education, all working short hours, and cooperation of the most prosperous countries.
Originally published in John o' London's Weekly (October 1931).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Outward Ho! - James Leakey (Williams & Norgate, 1931)
Proposes a major colonization scheme to be carried out by towns and villages with each establishing a garden city in a colony. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand only. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
Keywords: Male author

The Richest Man on Earth - [Charles] Test Dalton (1877-1945) (Lowe Shearon, 1931)
Reformed capitalist eutopia, known as the Plateau Republic, founded in Africa by an American. The basic idea is a voluntary limits on profit that the publisher of the book had developed where “managers of industrial enterprises and all those engaged in trade should state in advance a fee (so much per year) with which they will content themselves and prorate all surplus profits to the buyer in accordance with the amount of his purchases” (5-6). Labor unions are permitted. Workers receive a base pay sufficient to support a family and give college education to children. Single tax on land is the only and is used to pay government expenses. The author refers to Henry George (1839-97) but rejects the specifics of George’s single tax. A strong colonialist mentality pervades the book. Although the eutopia is brought about by a single, rich man, references are made throughout the book to Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930), an economist and President of Yale University as supporting the basic theory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Service First" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories, 1931)
Airplanes adapted for living provide cheap homes for all and produce eutopia.
Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 98-116.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Seven Niches: A Legend - Egerton [Arthur Crossman] Clarke (1899-1944) (Cecil Palmer, 1931)
Eutopia. A poem about an imaginary city, called Tombelaine, which typifies Christendom.
Keywords: English author; Male author

On the Shores of the Infinite - Mrs. G. Stuart (:Simpkin Marshall/Jarrold & Sons., 1931)
Theosophical novel that tours the solar system and the afterlife with depictions of higher beings.
Keywords: Female author

Strange Hunger - Michael Hervey (1915-79) (Hamilton & Co, 1931)
A rich man and some scientists decide to establish a eutopia on an isolated island to counter the drift to war. It is established and manages to stop the next war.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"They Should Be Slaves" - R[onald] A[llison] K[ells] Mason (1874-1964) (Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1931)
Dystopia. Ten Year Plan to help workers by making them slaves on the principle that property owners will take care of their property but, since no one owns workers, no one takes care of them.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"The Time Stream" - [Eric Temple] [Bell] (1883-1960) (Wonder Stories, 1931)
Mostly an adventure story, but it includes a future eutopian world based on reason and individual freedom. A eugenic sub-theme is concerned with the conflict between reason and love.
Rpt. as The Time Stream. By John Taine [pseud]. [Providence, RI: Buffalo Book Co. and G.H.E., 1946; and New York: Garland, 1975. Slightly rev. rpt. New York: Dover, [1971].
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; US author

True Riches - Adrian R. Apple (Adrian R. Apple, 1931)
A Christian eutopia where money has been eliminated and replaced with certificates indicating merit and everyone of merit is guaranteed abundance.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia" - Edmund Lester S. J. (1866-1934) (The Tablet (London), 1931)
Labelled Advt. The Roman Catholic Church the basis for eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

A Woman's Utopia - [Mrs.] [Ellen Warner (Olney)] [Kirk] (1842-1928) (Ernest Benn, 1931)
Eutopia. The introduction summarizes Gerhart Hauptmann's (1862-1946) The Island of the Great Mother or The Miracle of Île des Dames. A Story from the Utopian Archipelago. Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: B.W. Huebach and The Viking Press, 1925. Originally published as Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (1924). The first chapter then follows with a critique of utopias created by men. This is followed by her eutopia. Two houses in Parliament, men's and women's. Ability and intelligence rewarded. Best salaries for the worst work such as mining.
Keywords: Female author; US author

1957 - [Andrew James Fraser] [Blair] (1872-1935) (William Blackwood and Son, 1930)
A rebellion in India brought about by the dereliction of duty to the Empire by a socialist government in Britain, which is described in the standard terms as a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

After - M[ary Helena] Saltoun (Duckworth, 1930)
Hell as dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

Anna Perenna - Alan Sims (Chatto & Windus, 1930)
Satire set one hundred years in the future attacking capitalists and workers as well as all governments and religion.
Keywords: Male author

"The Ape Cycle" - Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968) (Science Wonder Quarterly, 1930)
A dystopia is created when apes are trained to be servants and come to find their servitude unacceptable
Rpt. in her Away From the Here and Now: Stories in Pseudo-Science (Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Co., 1947), 296-365.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Bamboa - Garrett Baxter (Economic Press, 1930)
Eutopia in which workers take over. Individualism, democracy, and minimal cooperation with restraint on monopolies. See also 1932 Baxter.
Keywords: Male author

The Boys of Ben Eadar: A School Story of 1950 - Rev. M[ichael] H[enry] Gaffney O.P. (b. 1895) (The Talbot Press, 1930)
Boys adventure story set in a technologically improved future without social changes.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930)
Dystopia. A giant brain built in the Sahara comes to control the entire world followed by a catastrophe when a Dark Star that the Brain cannot control destroys the Earth. The play opens with a discussion, between the Librarian of the British Museum, a conservative, and a professor of philosophy, who is more open to alternatives, of a manuscript, obviously Britton’s Hunger and Love (1931), and why it will be difficult to get it published.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Chronos or the Future of the Family. - [Maurice] Eden Paul M.D. (1865-1944) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1930)
Mostly an argument that the family as then known was coming to an end for economic and sexual reasons. Also argues that from the point-of-view of child-rearing, large families are better than small ones because children should interact with other children rather than adults. Suggests that in the future related and unrelated adults with and without children of their own but with a talent for parenthood raising a group of children, again related and unrelated, in large homes. Refers positively to two existing examples, the Beacon Hill School founded in 1927 by Dora and Bertrand Russell, which closed in 1947, and the Caldecott Community, which still exists.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The City of the Living Dead" - Laurence [Edward] Manning (1899-1972); [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) (Science Wonder Stories, 1930)
Dystopia. Everyone spends their time dreaming in machines and the human race degenerates.
Rpt. in Startling Stories 4.1 (July 1940): 94-104; and Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 108-30.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) (Hutchinson, 1930)
Dystopia of reason and communism. People are euthanized if they fail a physical. Kissing children is illegal because it is unhygienic. People are bored. See also 1932 Tillyard, The Approaching Storm.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Creatures of the Light" - Sophie Wenzel Ellis (1893-1984) (Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York), 1930)
The focus of the story is the struggle between good and evil, but the setting is an attempt to create perfect human beings and shows that apparent perfection is undesirable.
Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp. and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 169-202; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 176-212 with an editor’s note on 176. PUP
Keywords: Female author

Drink Up, Gentlemen - J[ohn Cameron Audrieu] B[ingham Michael] Morton (1893-1979) (Chapman & Hall, 1930)
Satire describing a near future mildly repressive and puritanical dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren" - John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) (The Nation and Athenaeum (London), 1930)
Essay that argues that within a hundred years the fundamental economic problems could be solved, and a society based on leisure created. Speculates on what such a society would look like. Three-hour workday fifteen hours per week will suffice.
Rpt. in his Essays in Persuasion (London: Macmillan, 1931), 358-73; and in Revisiting Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. Ed. Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008), 17-26.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The End of the World" - Helen Sutherland (Truth, 1930)
The story depicts the world as it faces the period after a plague kills most men with few men born afterwards until the last man dies. Women successfully fulfil all the roles that men had held, but they will all gradually die.
Rpt. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 31-35, with an editor’s note on 29.
Keywords: Female author

The Eternal Man Revives - D[rury] D. Sharp (1880-1960) (Wonder Stories Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL), 1930)
Authoritarian dystopia. Overpopulation. No animal life left. Sequel to his "The Eternal Man." Science Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) 1.3 (August 1929): 230-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Graphopolis--A Utopia for Literature" - Albert [Joseph] Guérard (b. 1914). (The Nineteenth Century and After. A Monthly Review (London), 1930)
A eutopia for artists that specifically rejects the technological utopia, saying "Poetry is the eternal protest against the mechanising trends towards Utopia" (256).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Here Is Thy Victory - Iris Barry (1895-1969) (Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930)
Involuntary immortality and its generally bad effects, which are reversed when death returns.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

“The High School Library of the Future” - Aniela Poray (Wilson Library Bulletin, 1930)
Satire on the library of the future where knowledge is provided chemically and the librarians choose what students should know.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"If I Were Dictator: Ten Commandments of Social Reconstruction. Change Fundamentally or Perish. The Basic Industries Going" - James Leatham (1865-1945) (The Gateway: A Journal of Life and Literature (Turiff, Scot.), 1930)
Essay, primarily concerned with agriculture, which would be completely controlled. Nationalized railways, limited driving, reduced hours of work, no investment abroad, nationalization of land, reforestation, electrification, no military recruitment so that men could work productively, and slum clearance.
Rpt. with only the first subtitle Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scot: The Deveron Press, [1930].
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Into the 28th Century" - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL), 1930)
Vague golden age eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1930)
One of Stapledon’s visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species. It begins with an Introduction by One of the Last Men and then moves initially to World War I and after and the relatively near future. It then traces humanity through millions of years with both eutopian and dystopian periods to the end where a eutopian cosmic consciousness is developing and humans as such will disappear. Loosely related is 1932 Stapledon, Last Men in London.
U.S. ed. as by W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1931. Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon with editorial cuts and “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3). Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 1-220; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 1-220; and in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 1-246, which includes “Foreword to the Original American Edition” (3) and “Preface to the English Edition (9). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 3-11; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 436-52, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 434-35. Chapter IX: Earth and Mars in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 57-70.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lost Garden - Geo[rge] Cecil Foster (1893-1975) (Chapman & Hall, 1930)
Golden Ages at various times and places beginning with Atlantis and ending in the contemporary world. None are quite as “golden” as the myth suggests.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Man with a Scarred Hand” - Henry Kitchell Webster (1875-1932) (The American Magazine, 1930)
The novel includes some material on a successful anarchist and atheist intentional community but most of it is adventure with elements of mystery and detection.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Modern Prometheus" - Cyril G[eoffrey] Wates (1884-1946) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY), 1930)
1930 Wates, Cyril G[eoffrey] (1884-1946). “A Modern Prometheus.” Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) 3.4 (Fall 1930): 436-91, 574. CU-Riv Among other things, the story describes a eutopia that began to emerge in the 1950s called the Age of Social Enlightenment. Based initially on “The Law of the Triangle”--“Healthy and congenial occupation with an adequate income for all. Equal opportunities to all and to each the full reward of his accomplishment. Unfair privileges at the expense of others, to none” (445 Emphasis in the original). Stresses gradual change. People neglected the physical sciences for the social sciences, which caused future problems; the renaissance of the physical sciences solved the problems and an even better interplanetary eutopia developed.
Keywords: Male author

The Narrative of Jasper Weeple: Being an Account of His Strange Journey to the Land of Midanglia and of all that happened to him in that country - James [Runciman] Sutherland (1900-96) (Eric Partridge, 1930)
Eutopia with a benevolent monarchy. All people are paid equally. Education by apprenticeship. No marriage, religion, or technology. There is then a revolution by power hungry capitalists.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Pantopia - [James Thomas] [Harris] (1855/6-1931) (The Panurge Press, 1930)
Eutopia located on a contemporary isolated island. Natural aristocracy of talent/performance combined with essential equality. Communal economics. Eugenics. See also 1924 Harris, “The Temple of the Forgotten Dead,” which is said to be the basis for Pantopia.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author; US author

"Paradise and Iron" - Miles J[ohn] Breuer [M.D.] (1889-1947) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY), 1930)
Flawed utopia of an idyllic island in which all work is done by automatic machinery with minimal human supervision, but the machines are beginning to act on their own, endangering the people and producing a dystopia. The people fight back, and at the end they defeat the machines and accept that they will have to work.
Rpt. in his The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 44-256.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The People of the Blue Mountains - H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky (1831-91) (Theosophical Press, 1930)
An odd book that is often cataloged as an ethnography, but it presented as an account of an obviously fictional trip into an earthly paradise in the mountains of India. Lost race eutopia used as an excuse to teach Theosophy.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Russian author

Possibilities - Gezá Schinagel (Meador Publ. Co, 1930)
Eutopia. Reason. Abundance based on unlimited power. Education becomes the main goal in life. Stress on health and extremely advanced medically.

"A Problem in Communication" - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) (Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York), 1930)
An apparently eutopian Science Community with a new religion in which science replaces God is closed off from the outside world with only the truly faithful allowed to come and go because the leader intends a coup in the U.S.
Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 257-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Seventh Bowl - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) (Eric Partridge, 1930)
Dystopia of immortality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Storm Against the Wall - Laurence Meynell (1899-1988) (Hutchinson, 1930)
Dystopia of the Proletarian State of Britain, those who fight against it, and, at the end, the reestablishment of the monarchy.
US ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1931.
Keywords: Male author

Storm Over Europe. A Novel - Douglas [Francis] Jerrold (1893-1964) (Ernest Benn, 1930)
History of a Cisalpania, a small country between Hungary and Russia, from monarchy to liberalism to socialism and back to monarchy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Terrania; or, The Feminization of the World - Columbus Bradford (1901-38) (Christopher Pub. House, 1930)
Eutopia ruled by women where men are admitted to citizenship if they agree to vote only for women. During a war women had struck against matrimony until the war was ended. With the war over and women in power, all weapons are destroyed throughout the world.
Keywords: Male author

"This Monkey Business" - R[onald] A[llison] K[ells] Mason (1874-1964) (Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1930)
Dystopia. Scientist blackmailed into developing a means of breeding "monkmen" or men like monkeys, who are ideal workers. The scientist then develops a means of turning men into monkeys, administers it to his blackmailer, and frees the monkmen.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Ultimo: An imaginative narration of life under the earth with projections by John Vassos and text by Ruth Vassos - John Vassos (1898-1985); Ruth Vassos (1896?-1965) (E. P. Dutton, 1930)
Flawed utopia. A new ice age forces people to develop a new society underground where the heat of the earth's core is balanced by the ice above. Almost all travel stops, and there is no communication among cities. Industry, which is mostly for the production of food, is separate from housing. The little work needed is distributed equally. No money. Population kept balanced. No marriage. No crime. Unrest results from the monotony of life and rules become necessary.
Keywords: Female author; Italian author; Male author; Romanian author; UK author; US author

The Valley of the Great Ray - Pansy E[llen] Black (1890-1957) (Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1930)
Lost race story where no one grows old. Set in Australia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Vampires of Venus" - Anthony Pelcher (1897-1981) (Astounding Stories (New York), 1930)
Mostly adventure but very briefly describes a eutopia on Venus based on eugenics and gender equality.
Keywords: Male author

"Via the Hewitt Ray" - M[argaret] F. Rupert (Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL), 1930)
World with women dominant and men kept for breeding.
Rpt. in Fantastic Story Magazine (Kokomo, IN) 2.3 (Summer 1951): 95-114; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 103-40 with and editor’s not on 103.
Keywords: Female author

"A Vision of the Future in Vocational Education" - David [Samuel] Snedden (1868-1951) (School and Society (New York), 1930)
Projects a eutopian education in 1960 with a stress on vocational education. Education compulsory until eighteen. Vocational education is compulsory for entering work, and this education starts at eighteen.
Rpt. as three chapters (XV. “Some Backgrounds of the Great American Developments of Vocational Education from 1935-1960;” XVI. “The Period of Critical Evaluations and Reconstructions of Vocational Education;” and XVII. “The 1960 Programs of Vocational Education in the United States”) in his American High Schools and Vocational Schools in 1960 (New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1931), 95-119.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Voyage to Purilla - [Elmer Leopold] [Reitzenstein] (1892-1967) (Cosmopolitan Book Corp, 1930)
Satire on romantic films showing a planet based on such films.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Waste--The Future of Prosperity” - Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993) (Whither, Whither, or After Sex, What? A Symposium to End Symposiums, 1930)
Satire on conspicuous consumption including such outlandish ideas for the time as bottled water. See 2007 Shouse for a commentary and a new satire. For Burke’s own reflections on the essay, see his “Recipe for Prosperity: ‘Borrow, Buy, Waste, Want’.” The Nation (New York) 183.10 (September 8, 1956): 191-93; and 1971 Burke.
A shorter version rpt. in The New Republic (New York) 63 (July 16, 1930): 228-31; and in The New Republic Anthology 1915 : 1935. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1936), 330-37. A condensed version was published in The Reader’s Digest (Chappaqua, NY) 17.102 (October 1930): 481-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"After 12,000 Years" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1929)
A future divided into three nations and four species. Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements.
Repub. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1950.
Keywords: Male author; US author

At the End of the World: A Vision - [Henry] [Gilbert] (1868-1937) (Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd, 1929)
End of the world and last man novel which includes a eutopia. The world experiences the return of the ice age, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc. During the period humanity becomes both personally and socially more integrated and less egotistical and creates a world state, known as the Perfect State. Reproduction is limited; work is social and fulfilling; cultural, national, racial, and religious differences disappear or lose importance; and there is high-quality education for all. But conditions continued to worsen, and most people come to lead a simple, primitive life. Emphasis on the search for God, who appears at the end.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Autocracy of Mr. Parham: His Remarkable Adventures in this Changing World" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, 1929)
Dystopia of a Fascist dictatorship in Britain.
Repub. without the subtitle London: William Heinemann, 1930. US ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Barton's Island" - [Harold Vincent] [Schoepflin] (1893-1968) (Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY), 1929)
The U.S. is a dictatorship with the poor, dressed in grey, kept from education, decent housing, and so forth. A scientist develops a means of changing minds and brings about the beginnings of improvement.
Rpt. in Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) 7.2 (Fall 1934): 6-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Between Worlds - Garret Smith (1876?-1954) (Stellar Publishing Co, 1929)
Begins on a Venus that is a eutopia based on long tradition and a rejection of coercion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Selvas. A Vision of a Republic That Might Have Been--and Still May Be - Frederick T. Fuller (Np, 1929)
Christian Socialist eutopia located off a branch of the Amazon River.
Keywords: Male author

The Brain of the Planet - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Stellar Publishing Co, 1929)
A eutopian world state is achieved as a result of a machine that broadcast positive images of social solidarity directly to human brains. As a result, capitalism disappeared, followed by national boundaries. Inventions flourished replacing much physical labor. Men and women were able to marry for love.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Capitalist Utopia; A Message for Workers, Politicians, and Employers - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) (Watts & Co, 1929)
Capitalist eutopia. One company takes over the government; affiliated firms are designed to create wealth. Efficiency. Eugenics.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Children’s Country - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) (William Morrow & Co., 1929)
Children’s story in which two Earth children visit and have adventures in The Children’s Country, where children, none of whom will ever grow up to be a man of a woman, rule.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Dawn - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Cosmopolitan Book Co., 1929)
Sequel to 1927 Wright, Deluge, that details the experiences of a number of people following the events of the Deluge as they try to first simply survive and then build the beginnings of decent life, which is where the novel ends.
U.K. ed. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1930. Rpt. as Dawn: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2009; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Dawn of a New Civilization - [William] Hardy Wilson (1881-1955) (Cecil Palmer, 1929)
Eutopia. Follows the life and wanderings of an architect, very like those of the author, searching for beauty and meaning. Ends with the design of a city and new buildings that combine the attributes of Eastern and western culture.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Decadence: An Excerpt from "A History of the Triumph and Decay of England," dateable 1949. With a Preface by A Conservative - L. Macaulay (Watts & Co, 1929)
Great Britain is in terminal decline because it has not adopted free trade, and the book combines a future history showing that decline with arguments for free trade and against its oponents.
Keywords: Male author

Elenchus Brown, The Story of an Experimental Utopia - Bertha Louisa Bowhay (H.R. Allenson, 1929)
Satire on the failure of an intentional community.
Keywords: Female author

"Fifty Years Hence" - [Hugh] [MacDiarmid] (1892-1978) (The Scots Independent, 1929)
A commentary, mostly positive, on Scottish nationalism but with a sense that it has been made acceptable. For example, while eighty percent of literature produced in Scotland was in “new standard Gaelic, which was approved by the Scottish Academy of Letters in 1969” (1), but older Gaelic literature, mostly by poets, is still published. See also his Albyn or Scotland in the Future. By C. M. Grieve [pseud.]. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co./New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927, a volume in the To-day and Tomorrow series, which deplores current conditions and has little on the future.
Rpt. as Scotland in 1980. By C.M. Grieve [pseud.]. Montrose, Scotland: Gillechriosd Mac a Ghreidir, 1929. 4 pp. The first, and apparently only, in an intended series Scotland To-morrow.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Goat: Cardiff A.D. 1935" - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) (Barbarian Stories, 1929)
Near future tale in which each year one of the rich is chosen by lot to be executed. Background of extreme poverty.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Halcyon or The Future of Monogamy - Vera Brittain (1893-1970) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1929)
Presented as part of a book from the mid-21st century. Chapter I "Morals in the Post-Victorian Era, 1900-1930 (9-28); Chapter II "The Period of Sexual Reform, 1930-1975" (29-52); Chapter III "Scientific Progress, 1950-2000, and Its Relation to the Moral Revolution" (53-78); Chapter IV "The Triumph of Voluntary Monogamy, 2000-2030" (79-92).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"How We Made Utopia" - Will[iam James] Durant (1885-1981) (The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny, 1929)
Story of a community that agrees to the basic program for establishing a eutopia. The proposals include a program of eugenic education; radically improved education, including Schools of Public Administration to train those wanting to be public officials; municipalization of utilities and services; inexpensive housing; and, to pay for it all, a reformed tax system and contributions from the rich. All the proposals are rejected by the politicians.
Book rpt. as The Pleasures of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953), 319-32. Story rpt. with no indication of an earlier publication in The Thinker (New York) 4.2 (September 1931): 18-28.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The King of Cosmopoland. A Farce in One Act - Margaret Brown (Repertory Farces. No. 10, 1929)
Humor using an imaginary country after a revolution.
Keywords: Female author

"The Last Man" - Wallace G[eorge] West (1900-80) (Amazing Stories (New York), 1929)
Dystopia. Sexless women rule a dull and dying world.
Rpt. in Amazing Stories 40.5 (April 1966): 64-87; and in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 104-30.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY), 1929)
Brief depiction of a future eutopia based on a rural world-wide democracy.
Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp, and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 9-13; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 23-28 with an editor’s note on 23.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Light In the Sky - Herbert Clock (1890-1979); Eric Boetzel (Coward-McCann, 1929)
Lost race novel that is more of a eutopia than many. Descendants of the Aztecs who are advanced scientifically live in caverns under Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. They do not die and use both a spoken language and telepathy. The people live well, and there is a project designed to end war everywhere. As in most lost race novels, a struggle takes place and the protagonist and the princess escape while the society is destroyed.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.
Keywords: Male author

"Men With Wings" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Air Wonder Stories, 1929)
The first of two stories about winged people in South America that were created by an English scientist and have evolved into a substantial, well-established civilization, conflicts with the outside world, and, finally, acceptance and integration. In comparison to the men, the women are small and weak. The second story is “Women With Wings.” Illus. [Ed] Leonard. Air Wonder Stories 1.11 (May 1930): 984-1003. Rpt. in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 131-210. In it, the political geography of the world has changed substantially, primarily through consolidation, and the world is ruled by the representatives (all men) of the ten most powerful nations. “Color was of no consequence” (986). Universal language (987). Use the sun and radium for energy (988). The issue faced by the culture is that a high percentage of women are dying in childbirth. Contact is made with Venus where an amphibious race has evolved, also with wings, in which the women are dominant, and the men are weak and small. The solution for Earth is interbreeding which is successful.
Rpt. without the illus. in Femspec 11.1 (2010): 86-155, with an editor’s note on 86-87; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 32-139, with an editor’s note on 29-31 that covers this and “Women With Wings” below.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Mernos" - [L.C.?] [Kellenberger] (Amazing Stories (New York), 1929)
Mernos is a small, inhabited planet in the asteroid belt visited by an astronomer from Earth, who decides to stay there. The Mernosians are far in advance of Earth technologically, communicate telepathically, and live to be about 300. They worship Zerno, the creator of the universe, who is all good. World-wide government. No money: everything provided. Most work is done by electricity, but “Everyone has an allotted task” (1011). Henry James is the name of the person telling the story.

The Metropolis of Tomorrow - Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962) (Ives Washburn, 1929)
Architectural utopia. The book is illustrated by drawings of contemporary and proposed buildings. Includes a final section--"An Imaginary Metropolis"--that describes an ideal city. No people mentioned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Moon Woman: A Tale of the Future" - [Minna] [Odell] (c.1857-1940) (Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY), 1929)
Eutopia set in 3014. Earth is technologically and socially advanced with the help of the inhabitants of the moon. World government. Food in liquid form.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Nephelococcygia or Letters from Paradise - Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan (1870-1948) (W. Spurrell and Son, 1929)
Heaven as a eutopia with an even, monastic life. Inhabited by famous people.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Out of the Void" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Amazing Stories, 1929)
Mostly adventure and romance, but a flawed high-tech utopia is present that is vegetarian, telepathic, can communicate with animals, has painless euthanasia for both humans and animals, and has an island with no government set aside for higher education where men and women are free to go to study and teach. But the society is also hierarchical with slavery and has treated one group as not even able to be slaves. The ending indicates that some of this will change.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Philosophic Tales of the "Arabian Nights." The Three Voyages of Omar and Micromegas - Emil St. Cyr M.D. (b. 1865) (Author's Art Press, 1929)
Includes a eutopia on Saturn (81-127) where a highly advanced race with great mental powers have built gorgeous cities. Perfect memory both individually and as a race. Technologically advanced. Television has been sufficiently advanced to be able to view the entire city, thus eliminating crime, with privacy rewarded for good citizenship. This system is no longer needed because the people have evolved to the point that crime is unthinkable.
Keywords: Male author

The Prince of Atlantis - Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1868-1932) (Educational Press, 1929)
Atlantis as a eutopia with classical trappings but democratic and egalitarian. Includes an Appendix (344-51) presenting material that the author contends relates to Atlantis and the Atlanteans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rebel Passion - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) (Thornton Butterworth, 1929)
Traces history through the past and the then present to a religious, medieval, Christian eutopia in about 3150 (US 254-305). Women priests who serve women; the male priests serve men. No divorce. Everyone works. Some machinery including a “flying boat,” electricity that powers lights and radio. There has been no history in Europe since the passing of the machine age. If a country is happy, it has none.” Throughout it is suggested that the main character is not wholly male but a mix of male and female.
U.S. ed. as by Kay Burdekin [pseud.]. New York: Morrow, 1929.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Robinson the Great; A Political Fantasia on the Problems of To-day and the Solutions of To-morrow. Extracted from the works of Solomon Slack, LL.D. - [John Ramsay Bryce] [Muir] (1872-1941) (Christophers, 1929)
Eutopia calling for freeing Parliament from party rule, more Parliamentary power, and the re-organization of government. Describes the good society that results.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Should a Child Have More Than One Mother? A Psychologist's Nation of a Better Way to Grow Up" - John B[roadus] Watson (1878-1958) (Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody (New York), 1929)
Detailed eutopia. The author says, "Let us build a Utopia where we can dream of a different kind of family life" (32) and describes a society in which all children are raised collectively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Squareheads; the Story of a Socialized State. A Futuristic Novel - William Salisbury (b. 1875) (Independent Pub. Co, 1929)
Anti-socialist dystopia. Squareheads are symbols of conformity--must speak in phrases of four syllables and in sentences of equal metric value. Official thought. Eugenics. Some hypocrisy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Thirteen O'Clock; A Play in Three Acts - [Eric] Anthony Thorne (1904-73) (Contemporary British Dramatists, 1929)
The setting of the play is "a super-city of the future" which is in fact a dreary place where little works right. Conflict over its future makes it worse.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Time-Journey of Dr. Barton: An Engineering and Sociological Forecast based on Present Possibilities With Illustrations by Sir Edwin Luytens. Professor A.E. Richardson. Ethelwyn Baker. Jean Campbell. Albert Daenins. Mervyn Wilson. and The Editor - John [Lawrence] Hodgson, ed. [written by] (1881-1936) (John Hodgson, 1929)
A leisure based eutopia set in 3927. Reason, eugenics, free love. Mostly technical. See also his 1929 "The War of the Rockets."  See also his 1929 “The War of the Rockets.”
Also published as a serial with the author given as John L. Hodgson in The Star Review (England) 2.4 - 12 (April - December 1929): 188-93, 279-84, 330-39, 398-405, 448-55, 510-20, 595-98, 634-51, 720-35 (NN). His The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual]. Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933 (L) reprints parts of The Time Journey (5-7 and 82-100) and the whole of “The War of the Rockets” (122-27) plus some other pieces.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Utopia College: A Prospectus" - Addison Hibbard (1887-1945) (Outlook and Independent (New York), 1929)
Eutopian university stressing independent, interdisciplinary study and a focus on intelligence rather than character.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Vision of Education; Being an Imaginary Verbatim Report of the First Interplanetary Conference - J[ohn] H[enry] Burns (Williams & Norgate, 1929)
Includes statements of a number of educational theories, some of which are focused on the individual and others on the good of the society. Includes a short Preface (7-11) by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). See Jerome Meckier, “A Neglected Huxley ‘Preface’: His Earliest Synopsis of Brave New World.” Twentieth Century Literature 25.1 (Spring 1979): 1-20.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The War of the Rockets" - John [Lawrence] Hodgson (1881-1936) (The Star Review (England), 1929)
Brief dystopia describing how "the Resourceless Ones" are controlled by their economic and political masters, who create an arms race that brings about a devastating war. The survivors create a eutopia based on a world government with a World Council and a World Police.
Rpt. in his The Great God Waste [subtitle on first title page A Study of certain phases of the present world-wide tendency--as exemplified by Capitalist, Communist, and Fascist practices--to impoverish and robotise the Individual] (Eggington, Beds., Eng.: John Hodgson, 1933), 122-27.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"When Social Regulation Is Complete" - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) (The Iron Man and the Tin Woman and Other Futurities, 1929)
Satire on regulation.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

When the Sun Went Out - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Stellar Publishing Co., 1929, 1929)
The sun is dying, and the human population has declined in numbers, intelligence, and physique from relying on the machines and production of the past, machines that are also dying. The most intelligent of the remaining population build great caves far underground to which the remaining population of the Earth retreated after the sun died. The decline was from a scientific world eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"White Collars" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1929)
Dystopia in which the educational system produces too many professional people for the positions available, rather like India today, and they, refusing to take readily available blue-collar jobs, live in ghettos and starve. A bill is passed forcing them to work at the well-paying blue-collar jobs, and they all, but one family, adjust rapidly. The story has a sexist ending in that a young plumber kidnaps the daughter of the family trying to leave. She has turned him down many times but is instantly convinced to marry him on seeing the nice kitchen she, a lawyer, will have.
Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL:. Black Dog Books, 2012), 66-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Woman Dominant - E[velyn] Charles H. Vivian (1882-1947) (Ward, Lock, 1929)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World Below - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (W. Collins Sons, 1929)
Part I repeats 1924 Wright. The Amphibians. The rest, entitled “The World Below”, presents “The Dwellers”, an advanced humanity who rule the world. The Dwellers are free of disease and injury. As they age, the body remains strong, but the mind begins to lose vitality and longs for death, which it ultimately wills to happen. Very few women were being born and the end of the race was possible. A non-utopian authorized sequel is Brian [Michael] Stableford, The World Beyond Being a Sequel to S. Fowler Wright’s Classic Science Fiction Novel, The World Below. [Rockville, MD]: The Borgo Press, 2009; 2nd ed. [Holicong, PA]: The Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2013.
Rpt. London: Books for Today, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Longman, Green, 1930. and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. These eds. include both 1924 Wright, The Amphibians and The World Below. The World Below is rpt. separately Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers, 1949; Shasta ed. rpt. with the subtitle A pulse-pumping, mind-prodding, sequel to THE AMPHIBIANS , . . just as haunting as that masterpiece of Earth’s far-distant future as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, No. 5. New York: World Editions, [1949].
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World in 2030 A.D - [Frederick Edwin] [Smith] [1st Earl of Birkenhead] (1872-1930) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1929)
Presented as a prediction. Technology will have improved life greatly. Little change in politics or economics. Women intellectually inferior to men.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul - J[ohn] D[esmond] Bernal (1901-71) (Kegan Paul & Co, 1929)
The book is presented as speculative prediction that focuses on space travel, the physical modification of humans, and the psychological changes these will bring about (and the resistance to them based in human psychology), but the section on human modification includes a brief non-fictional eutopia in the Stapledonian mode. After a life of 60 to 120 years of living, people will be surgically modified and provided with mechanical extensions of their senses and re-educated. In addition, people will develop mental connections to others that will ultimately produce a group mind, and this entity will be essentially immortal.
The book was originally announced under the title “Possibilities” and published in the “To-Day and To-Morrow” series. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"2014 A.D." - E. Carlson Holmes (The Weekly Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), 1928)
Mostly future war with vastly improved technology. The war had been brought about by overpopulation, and at the end of a very destructive war a compromise is achieved through which empty areas of the world are opened to settlement through technology and peace and plenty reign.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

Astro Bubbles - Marlo Field (The Four Seas Co, 1928)
Detailed eutopia. Worlds connected in a string at the poles. Earth one of the spiritually lowest due to the development of science. Spiritually higher world connected at the South Pole. Highly refined people. Eat only fruit. Equality.

"A Biological Experiment" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories (New York), 1928)
Dystopia. Far in the future "companionate marriage" without children is standard, a license is required before a child is permitted, and then children are born artificially and raised by trained nurses rather than mothers and fathers.
Rpt. in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 149-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Blessing of Azar. A Tale of Dreams and Truth - E[dith] V[irginia] Gazella (The Christopher Publishing House, 1928)
Founding of a eutopia by a group of wealthy friends, one of whom contributes thirty million dollars in gold. The novel starts with vague plans, veers into adventure and romance, and ends back with the plans and their fulfillment through commerce. The very end shows a eutopian Cuba with very little detail, but service is honored.
Also published Passaic, NJ: George Dixon Press, 1928.
Keywords: Female author

But Soft--we are observed! - [Joseph] Hilaire [Pierre René] Belloc (1870-1953) (Arrowsmith, 1928)
Satire on a conflict between the major political parties of the future: the Communists and the Anarchists.
US ed. as Shadowed! New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Challenge; A Story of Conspiracy and the Coming Crash - Eustace Dudley, B.A. (Longmans, Green and Co, 1928)
A socialist revolution brings problems, but Catholicism saves the day.
Keywords: Male author

The Childermass. Section I - [Percy] Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) (Chatto and Windus, 1928)
Dystopia after death in Purgatory, which is depicted as a completely unstable wasteland where everything and everyone may change without warning. The protagonists find their way to the "camp", which is at least stable, but ruled by "The Bailiff", who is in conflict with Hyperides and his followers. The novel continues with the same characters in The Human Age Book Two Monstre Gai Book Three Malign Fiesta. London: Methuen, 1955. An additional planned volume, The Trial of Man, was never published.
Rpt. as The Human Age Book One Childermass. London: Methuen, 1956. U.S. ed. New York: Covici-Friede, 1928.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Coming Country. A Pre-Vision - Sir Francis [Edward] Younghusband (1863-1942) (John Murray, 1928)
Rebirth of England through religion leads to a eutopia called Ourownland. Stress on love and the family.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Common Round - Dolores Charlotte Frederica Harding (Hurst & Blackett, 1928)
Spiritualism in which an advanced planet, Icar, is described.
Keywords: Female author

Dark Princess. A Romance - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) (Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1928)
The novel begins with an excellent African-American medical student being denied the right to continue because, as a black, he is not permitted to do the required section on obstetrics. He flees the country and meets other colored people who hope to create a united body to work for their betterment. For personal reasons, he rejects their overtures and returns to the U.S., where he becomes an up-and-coming politician married to a wealthy, well-connected woman. After numerous setbacks, he reconnects with the other colored peoples who have a plan for a better future that will be developed over the coming fifteen years. There is, though, a disagreement, which, not resolved with in novel, between those who believe in violence as a means and those who reject it.
Rpt. Millwood, NY: Kraus Thompson, 1974, with an “Introduction” by Herbert Aptheker (5-29); Jackson: Banner Books University Press of Mississippi, 1995; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 with an "Introduction" by Homi K. Bhabha (xxv-xxxi).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The End of the Marriage Vow - J[ohn] H[enry] Symons (1873-1951) (Hutchinson, 1928)
All worlds are stages of evolution; earth is on the low end of the scale. At the next stage men and women are free and equal. No procreation and no marriage, but love exists. This life is preparation for the next stage; failure leads to low status in the next stage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Few Things Altered or Abolished" - Edna Ferber (1887-1968) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Critical of the idea of utopia. She would change marriage but unsure how, abolish automobiles, ensure work for all, require gardens and trees with all homes, require open wood-burning fireplaces, and other very miscellaneous changes. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Greed's Grip Broken or the Right to Live - Joseph W[eber] Savage (b. 1861) (The Avondale Press, 1928)
The United States has fallen completely into the hands of the plutocrats, who plan to abolish the republic. War. Monopolists defeated. Stress is on the conflict, but in the final chapter, a eutopia is outlined. Nationalization of railroads, telegraph, telephone, and public utilities. Worker representation on the boards of companies; sharing of profit with the citizenry. Child labor eliminated. Required voting. Amendments to the Constitution go to referenda in each state. Possible limitation on the right of suffrage. Universal education.
Keywords: Male author

Heart of the Moon - Francis D[urham] Grierson (1888-1972) (Alston Rivers, 1928)
Scientific dystopia in the interior of the moon. Society is generally good and could be thought of as a flawed utopia, but science is misused by the powerful.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; UK author

“Hicks Inventions with a Kick. The Perambulating House” - [Ernest Clement] [Fezandié] (1856-1959) (Amazing Stories (New York), 1928)
One of a series of satire on technology on technology gone wrong, in this case a house that can move of its own volition. The other stories in the series are “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Automatic Self-Serving Dining Table” By Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963) Amazing Stories 2.1 (April 1927): 52-57, 99; “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Automatic Apartment.” By Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963) Amazing Stories 2.5 (August 1927): 493-97, 512, 514; and “Hicks’ Inventions with a Kick: The Electro-Hydraulic Bank Protector.” Henry Hugh Simmons [pseud.]. Illus. [Frank R.] Paul (1884-1963). Amazing Stories 2.9 (Dec 1927): 860-69.
Rpt. as “The Perambulating House.” New Horizons: Yesterday’s Portraits of Tomorrow. The Last Science Fiction Anthology Edited by August Derleth With Introduction and Biographical Notes by Joseph Wrzor (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1998), 143-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hyperborea: Two Fantastic Travel Essays. On Man and Hyperborean--The Conspiracy of Tailors--Some Pictures and Hyperborean Landscape - Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) (Fanfrolico Press, 1928)
Classic pleasure-oriented utopia. Sexually oriented.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Little Husbands" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Weird Tales (New York), 1928)
Minor gender-role reversal story. Seventy-foot-tall Amazons with normal sized husbands.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mountain of Gold - E[velyn] or E[dgar] Winch (Hurst & Blackett, 1928)
Lost tribe. Arcadia. No life taken even through hunting and fishing. The eutopia is a small part of an adventure tale set in South America.
Keywords: Male author

"Mr. Lorimer and Me" - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Satiric comments on utopian visions. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. See also Stuart Chase, Edna Ferber, Charles J. Finger, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, and Upton [Beall] Sinclair.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"My Private Utopia" - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Comments on the experiment at Helicon Hall. Socialism. Sinclair. On Helicon Hall, see Lawrence Kaplan, "A Utopia During the Progressive Era: The Helicon Home Colony 1906-1907." American Studies 25.2 (Fall 1984): 59-73. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in. See also Stuart Chase, Edna Ferber, Charles J. Finger, Sinclair Lewis, and H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nor Shall My Sword Sleep - Stella Callaghan (Skeffington & Son, 1928)
Presents a successful struggle to establish an intentional community on an estate. A physically good city for the poor and fair treatment for employers.
Keywords: Female author

The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Victor Gollancz, 1928)
Program to bring about the Wellsian eutopia. Here Wells stresses the need for some form of world political control, economic unity, and a limit on population growth.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1928. Serialized without the subtitle in T.P.'s Weekly 9 - 10 (April 7 - July 7, 1928): 853-54, 856; 891-92; 7-8; 26, 39-40; 75-76; 112, 120; 53-54; 156; 188, 190; 220, 222; 249-51; 280-84; 321, 323; 351-52. Rev. ed. The Open Conspiracy; Blue Prints for a World Revolution. A Second Version of this faith of a modern man made more explicit and plain. London: Hogarth Press, 1930. U.S. ed. of rev. ed. entitled What Are We To Do With Our Lives? Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1931. Rpt. as The Open Conspiracy and Other Writings. London: Waterlow & Sons, 1933 [In addition to The Open Conspiracy, the volume contains, separately paged, First and Last Things and Russia in the Shadows]; rpt. as What Are We To Do With Our Lives? No. 55 of The Thinker's Library. London: Watts & Co., 1935 [This ed. includes a page on the movement with an address to which to apply for membership. Annual subscription of 5 shillings brings the monthly bulletin]; and with the subtitle H.G. Wells on World Revolution. Ed. W[alter] Warren Wagar with a "Critical Introduction" by Wagar (1-44) and the corrected text using the 1933 Waterlow & Sons ed. (45-136). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002. See pp. 11-12 of the Wagar ed. for a description of the variations in the various editions. The Wagar text does not include the "Preface" (7-9) or the "Marginal Note" (154-56) from the 1928 ed.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Political Utopia" - Frederic Clemson Howe (1867-1940) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Eutopia based on a natural aristocracy and the single tax. Cooperative system designed to eliminate economic privilege. Public ownership of all transportation, gas and electricity, and the telephone and telegraph. No protective tariffs. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Redemption Island - Charles M[aynard] Hale (b. 1889); Evan John [Simpson] (1901-53) (William Morrow & Company/J. M. Dent, 1928)
Novel about an island prison or reformatory with a system designed to reform or redeem people, who are not known as prisoners but as "Probationers on Redemption Island". The novel traces the experience of one woman's experience serving her sentence on the island. Canadian setting.
New York William Morrow & Company/London J.M. Dent.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"The Revolt of the Pedestrians" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories (New York), 1928)
Dystopia. Pedestrians outlawed, but a small group survives and successfully revolt. Compare to 1951 Bradbury and 1963 Leiber.
Rpt. in Beyond Time and Space. Ed. August Derleth (New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1950), 347-76; and in his The Threat of the Robot and other Nightmarish Futures with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 13-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street - Eimar [Ultan] O'Duffy (1893-1935) (Macmillan, 1928)
Part eutopia and part satire. Eutopia with little government, no money, and sexual freedom. The usual traveler compares the better society unfavorably to earth, and while in a few instances that comparison is accurate, in most cases it is not.
Rpt. Victoria, TX: Dalkey Archive Press, 2018.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"Stenographers' Hands" - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1928)
Dystopia of a successful eugenic experiment by a corporation to produce stenographers who do not make mistakes.
Rpt. in Avon Fantasy Reader (New York), no. 2 (1947): 7-26; and in his The Threat of the Robot and Other Nightmarish Stories with an introduction by Gene Christie (Normal, IL: Black Dog Books, 2012), 117-34.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Sunken World" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York), 1928)
Atlantis as a eutopia. Athenian democracy limited in size to 600,000 residents. Common property except for personal property. Free housing. All posts gained by defeating rivals in debate. Education by the wise. Laws approved by 100 citizens and then put to a referendum within thirty days.
Rpt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) 7.2 (Fall 1934): 28-108. Repub. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1948. 2nd ed. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1950. U.K. ed. of 1st ed. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. London: Fantasy Books, [1948].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Through the Visograph - J[ohn] W[alter] Chancellor (1876-1954) (Christopher Pub. Co, 1928)
The visograph allows the viewer to see far into the past. A despotic world is found on Earth and a eutopian but non-human world on another planet.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Time Will Come" - Will MacMahon (Weird Tales (Chicago, IL), 1928)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Keywords: Male author

"Utopia--Made to Suit" - Charles J[oseph Frederick] Finger (1867-1941) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
A world where all family members would each be able to develop individually. Anti-urban. Separate space for the young. Each member would have a separate apartment while the family unit was maintained. Freedom of expression. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"A Very Private Utopia" - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). (The Nation, 1928)
First in a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.  Proposes a series of reforms that would, among other things, enhance health, improve beauty by segregating industrial from living areas, ensure economic security, and make life-enhancing work possible. Stresses the importance of leisure. Not the same as 1975 Chase.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Vision of Utopia" - Philip [Armand Hamilton] Gibbs (1877-1962) (The Day After To-Morrow: What Is Going to Happen to the World?, 1928)
The book is written in the predictive mode, but it includes these few pages of an explicit eutopia. Medical research has abolished disease and the elimination of slums means that there are no more "unfit". People live longer in garden cities. Men and women are equal in all ways. No servants. Synthetic food. No poverty. Peace. No racial discrimination, and there is a general blending of types. No crime. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
U.S. ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928), 168-71.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Visitor from the Twentieth Century" - Donitz, Harold (Amazing Stories (New York), 1928)
Technological eutopia set in the late 21st century.
Keywords: Male author

What I Know! Reflections by a Philosophic Punter. With an extraordinary dream of 'The Cosmic Mystery Cup' run at Randwick - [Rev.] [Wyndham Selfe] [Heathcote] (1862-1955) (Cornstalk Pub. Co, 1928)
Satire describing a horse race among religions, plus the Agnosticism, Idealism, Materialism, and Pragmatism, but there is no winner. Includes an argument against betting on races.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"What Is This Talk About Utopia?" - H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken (1880-1956) (The Nation 126.3284 (June 13, 1928):, 1928)
Satire on utopias and utopianism but concludes that Maryland is as close as it gets. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Almost Perfect State - Don[ald Robert Perry] Marquis (1878-1937) (Doubleday, Page, 1927)
Newspaper articles and essays from utopia. Considerable satire.
U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1927. Originally published in “The Sun Dial” in the New York Evening Post and “The Lantern” in the New York Tribune.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Hour(?) - Felix J[ohn] Blakemore, O.B.E., F.S.S., F.G.I. (1872-1948) (Sands, 1927)
Although there is very advanced technology and pollution has been eliminated, the novel presents a standard anti-socialist dystopia. Tablet food, which is extremely unpopular and not used by the leaders, became necessary because equalizing income required eliminating expensive imports. The people then vote to abolish state control.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Confession of the Kibbo Kift: A Declaration and General Exposition of the Work of the Kindred - John [Gordon] Hargrave (1894-1982) (Duckworth, 1927)
Very detailed eutopia based on something like the Samurai in 1905 Wells, here called The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift; Kibbo Kift, the Woodcraft Kindred; or just The Kindred. Economically based on the “Just Price.” Traditional gender roles. See also 1924 and 1925 Hargrave.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Deluge - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Fowler Wright, 1927)
For an unexplained reason, the oceans of the world flood all low-lying land and destroys contemporary civilization. The survivors discover that their reliance of technology and industry has deprived them of the skills need to survive. Those who do survive struggle to create a better life based on community and traditional skills and practices. 1929 Wright is a sequel.
Rpt. Ed. Michael Stableford. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003 with the editor’s “Introduction” (xi-lviii, 307-318), notes on the text (318-22), and a “Bibliography” (323-29). U.S. ed. New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1928. Serialized in the Sunday Express (June - July 1931). Rpt. as Deluge: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2010; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Exile - Mary Johnston (1870-1936) (Little, Brown, 1927)
The novel begins with Eldorado Island, where English settlers are shipwrecked in the eighteenth century and establish a flourishing community, which grows with additions from visiting ships and the birth of children. Presented as a eutopia of simplicity. But on the mainland war and a dictatorship develop and Eldorado Island is used as a place of exile for dissidents. The novel follows the latest exile's experience on the island, the coming of another war, and its ending with a worldwide spiritual awakening that suggests that a eutopia will follow.
U.K. ed. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Fairy Tales of Socialism - Cumberland Clark (1862-1941) (Wass, Pritchard, 1927)
Three stories ("The Fairy Tale of Socialism" (27-42); "If Bolshevism Comes" (63-78); and "Bill's Dream" (189-206) present socialist societies and the terrible conditions in them. Lawlessness, boredom, hunger, etc.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hymen or The Future of Marriage - Norman Haire (1892-1952) (Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1927)
Eutopia. Stress on the need for happy marriages with concern that they should be sexually fulfilling. Sex education. Early sexual relations desirable. Early marriage and, although lifelong, monogamous marriage is the ideal, there is easy divorce. Eugenics. State support of children. Birth control.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Ideal Island - C[harles] V[ictor] A[lexander] Peel (1869-1931) (Old Royalty Book Publishers, 1927)
Mostly an adventure story but includes the establishment of a communal experiment on an isolated island and a presentation of the social and economic ideals motivating it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ideal State. The greatest poem of all the ages.--Critic - John Allen Mette (b. 1864) (Southern Printing and Pub. Co, 1927)
Poem. Racist, socialist eutopia. No profits, interest, rent, dividends, religion, or lawyers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Light from Sealonia - Arthur W. Barker (The Four Seas Co, 1927)
Mostly romance and adventure but includes a lost race eutopia at the North Pole with a racist theme. “The Nodolians are not our equals, and their tainted blood would soon contaminate your racial purity, for history proves that they are not assimilable” (83).
Keywords: Male author

“The Machine Man of Ardathia” - [Henry George ] [Weiss] (1898?-1946) (Amazing Stories, 1927)
A visitor from thousands of years in the future describes what, is in his eyes, a eutopia in which people are born and spend their lives within a capsule in which they are integrated into machinery. See also the very loosely related 1932 Weiss.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man Who Would Save the World - [William Arthur] [Dunkerley] (1852-1941) (Longmans, Green and Co, 1927)
The novel is mostly about a one-man campaign to transform the world by bringing it to Christianity. It concludes with a brief worldwide eutopia in which the great estates are turned to productive use, disbanded soldiers and sailors are settled on land, scientific farming is introduced, and labor and capital are brought into harmony. There is worldwide disarmament with an international police force under the League of Nations, and a universal language is taught as a second language in all countries.
New ed. with the subtitle The Supreme Adventure of Col. Carthew. V.C. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1930.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Messiah. A Problem - Rev. William Murray (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1927)
A fake messiah on the radio convinces people to give up competition and stress quality.
Keywords: Male author

The Millennium - J[ames] G[ranville] Legge (1861-1940) (Basil Blackwell, 1927)
Satire on bureaucracy. Over enforcement of a scheme for health improvement; for example, too tight shoes are illegal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The New Life and Future Mating - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Olerich Pub. Co, 1927)
An elaboration of various points made in 1893, 1915, 1919, and 1923 Olerich. This short book stresses a world court, disarmament, and pacifism (all political candidates must be pacifists), with war only being able to be declared after a referendum. Eugenics is an important theme.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Red Octopus": An Allegory in the Form of a Novel - Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) (Hermes Press, 1927)
An anti-Semitic novel showing Jews taking over the world, but they are defeated by Christians. This novel was by The Paraclete or Coming World Mother. Pretoria, South Africa, 1936 that was said to be a eutopia, but no evidence copies exist outside South Africa. See also 1918 Brandt.
Keywords: Female author; German author; South African author

The Red Pen - A[lan] P[atrick] Herbert (1890-1971) (BBC, 1927)
Satire on socialism. The Red Pen is The General Federation of Poets and Writers which wants the nationalization of writing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Right Off the Map. A Novel - C[harles] E[dward] Montague (1867-1928) (Chatto and Windus, 1927)
Although most of the novel is on war, it is partially set in a recreated British industrial feudalism presented as a dystopia.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1927.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Story of a Great Experiment. How England Produced the First Superman - W[illiam] Margrie (1877-1960) (Watts, 1927)
Eugenics--select the best for work then bring the best women around with concerts and other entertainment and let nature take its course--"A living wage all round is the best form of practical eugenics" (116). Women's role is to be mothers of a healthy race, and they are not allowed to vote.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Things as They Ought to Be" - R[obert] L[ittell] (The New Republic (New York), 1927)
Short satirical sketch of a mostly dull utopia set in 2027. The sketch ends with "You may welcome such a Utopia, but would you find it interesting."
Keywords: Male author; US author

To-Morrow; A Romance of the Future - Alfred Ollivant (1874-1927) (Alston Rivers, 1927)
Arcadia. Simple life but with ten years required labor service from age 18.
US ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Venus" - Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) (Unpublished play, 1927)
See the brief synopsis in Colette Lindroth and James Lincoln. Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995), 58-59, which refers to two people having returned from the advanced civilization of Venus.
Keywords: Female author; US author

When Parliaments Fail: A Synthetic View from the Gallery - A Sympathiser [pseud.] (Thacker, Spink & Co, 1927)
Discusses Parliaments in England, France, Germany, and Italy and the utopian Parliaments envisaged in each country.
Keywords: Indian author

"A World of Index Numbers" - Will McMorrow (Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York), 1927)
Dystopia set in 2053 in which those living in the air dominate those on the ground.
Keywords: Male author

"3000 A.D." - I. S. (Otago University Review (Dundedin, New Zealand), 1926)
Short, humorous story on the impact of telepathy.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

And a New Earth: A Romance - C[harles] E[rnest] Jacomb (b. 1888) (George Routledge, 1926)
Disaster followed by the creation of a Christian eutopia created by one wealthy man on Easter Island.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Blue Shirts - J. J .J. [pseud.] (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co, 1926)
Anti-socialist. Socialists gain power and establish a dictatorship. A revolt against the dictatorship is successful.

A Candle in the Hills - I[sabell] F[rancis] Grant (1887-1983) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1926)
Dystopia of a Communist Britain and a successful revolt against it inspired by a woman.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Children of the Morning - W[alter] L[ionel] George (1882-1926) (Chapman & Hall, 1926)
Similar to 1954 Golding in that the novel presents children shipwrecked on an isolated island, but here the children are marooned for a much longer time. The children grow up, a dictator emerges in part of the island, and there are struggles over various issues.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927. Originally published in The American Weekly, a Sunday supplement to U.S. newspapers in 1926.
Keywords: English author; Male author

City of Desire - Juanita Savage (Geoffrey Bles, 1926)
Lost race novel set in a Mayan city where a young woman finds a handsome, white, English-speaking king, and, after the usual adventures, they fall in love and everything ends happily.
U. S. ed. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh/The Dial Press, 1930; and Chicago: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, 1930.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Devil's Henchman - John Oldrey (Methuen, 1926)
Lost race novel that depicts a conflict between good and evil through eutopian and dystopian groups in the mountains of Afghanistan. Both groups originated in ancient Egypt as followers of Set (evil) and Isis (good). The followers of Isis have established a eutopia; the followers of Set have enslaved the area they control and are planning to take over the world.
Keywords: Male author

"The Dream City" - Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) (Humbert Wolfe, 1926)
A short poem describing an idyllic city based on London.
Rpt. in The Argosy (UK) 5.36 (May 1929): viii. Set to music by Gustav Holst (1874-1934); see Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Eng.: Galliard Ltd., 1970), 31-35.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dymer - [Clive] [Staples] [Lewis] (1898-1963) (John Dent, 1926)
Book length poem in which the hero is born in a dystopian city, where religion is prohibited, marriage partners are chosen by the state, and all aspects of daily life are regulated by the state. Dymer is the rebel who is, although conditioned by the state, inspired by a spring day to leave the city.
U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1926. Rpt. London: J.M. Dent/New York: Macmillan, 1950. Later reprints under the author's name.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Emperor of the If - Guy [Herbert de Boisragon] Dent (1892-1954) (William Heinemann, 1926)
Dystopia. A man invents a means of changing history with the idea of forcing people to face greater challenges in order to improve the race. Instead, they degenerate. He then uses the same means to visit the future, which he finds to be in continuous war. The novel ends with the suggestion that a better, more Christian future is still possible.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Human Hive: Its Life and Law - A[rthur] H[eygate] Mackmurdo (1851-1942) (Watts & Co., 1926)
An extremely detailed non-fiction eutopia based on what the author calls “the law of personal and social evolution” (x). Humans are social animals that naturally form associations and communities. Stresses the importance of the traditional family. Emphasis on Christianity. Much detail on the economic system, which is based on the production of food. Representative government. Details on education. Free press. The author reiterates and develops aspects of his eutopia in Money and Food: Discoveries by a Group of Scientists. Introduction by A. H. Mackmurdo, M.I.S. London: C. W. Daniel, 1939. 91 pp.; and in The New Social Order: Its Mechanism [cover adds By A Group of Scientists and lists Mackmurdo as the editor]. London: C. W. Daniel [1941]. 24 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"If I Were Dictator" - John Maurice Clark (1884-1963) (Social Control of Business, 1926)
Essay proposing the establishment of industrial councils in each industry composed of employers, workers, consumers, and others with related interests. They would operate under the principles laid out in “An Economic Constitution for the State” (170-89), which proposes limited economic regulation. The councils would take over some of the regulatory functions of the state. This chapter in the second edition published during the Depression and New Deal is vague and general with no specific proposals and a call for more research, and in the “Preface to the Second Edition,” the author says that the chapter, “picturing an imaginary democratic dictator, came close to being abandoned, but a brief fresh treatment was finally retained, with mention of such matter from the earlier version as might still be pertinent” (ix).
1926 Clark, John Maurice (1884-1963). “If I Were Dictator.” In his Social Control of Business (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1926), 461-73. The 2nd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939), 520-25 is completely different and has the title as “If I Were Dictator”. PSt
Keywords: Male author; US author

King Goshawk and the Birds - Eimar [Ultan] O'Duffy (1893-1935) (Macmillan, 1926)
Fantasy set in a future dystopian world in which a monopolist who already controls much of the world's food supply tries to buy all the songbirds. Most governments in the world had introduced harsh laws designed to eliminate all temptations. Ireland is presented as particularly oppressive.
Rpt. Victoria, TX: Dalkey Archive Press, 2017.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Lamentations of a New Jeremiah. Translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Appointed to be Read Surreptitiously in Churches - Herbert Vivian (1865-1940) (Allen and Unwin, 1926)
Satire on England using the form of a jeremiad.
U.S. ed. New York: Brentano’s, 1926?.
Keywords: Male author

Lucullus The Food of the Future - Olga Hartley; Mrs. C. F. [Hilda] Leyel (1880-1957) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926)
Future history ending in a eutopia. Considerable satire presented through a speech by a scholar in the far future. First vegetarians win the day; then Neo-Vegetarians, who won't eat plants; then scientists create chemical food. A backlash against science occurs when Glasgow is destroyed during an experiment and then all science is regulated and begins to develop things that are useful. General decentralization occurs and people return to eating meat.
Keywords: Female author

Man's World - Charlotte [Franken] Haldane (1894-1969) (Chatto and Windus, 1926)
Satire. The novel presents a future devoted to the improvement of the white race through eugenics. On the whole, the society is presented positively, but there is a strong satiric thread throughout. In her Women's Utopias in British and American Utopian Fiction Nan Bowman Albinski calls this an ambiguous eutopia and simply a eutopia (79-80). I initially called it a eugenic dystopia, but I have concluded that dystopia is too strong a label.
US ed. New York: George H. Doran, 1927.
Keywords: Female author

A Message to Thee ([Radford, Alington], 1926)
Authoritarian eutopia with new regulations for all aspects of life. Middle class. Aliens return home. Censorship. No rights without prior training. No alcohol. Controlled birth rate.
Keywords: South African author

Midas or The United States and the Future - C[yril] H[erbert Emmanuel] Bretherton (1878/9-1939) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926)
A combination of predictions, mostly wrong, some of which were intended to have a eutopian flavor. The entire North America continent (Canada and the U.S.) is to become one country, the U.S. will eliminate immigration entirely, and politics will disappear
Keywords: Male author

The Orphans of Space; A Tale of Downfall - Reginald Glossop (1880-1955) (G. MacDonald, 1926)
Dystopia. Communism and the "Yellow Peril" sweep over the West with divine intervention saving the day.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Plato's American Republic. Done out of the original by Douglas Woodruff - Douglas Woodruff (1892-1978) (Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1926)
Satire set in Athens in 1925 with Socrates and some of his interlocutors from the Republic discussing contemporary America.
Keywords: Male author

Posterity; A Novel - Diane Boswell (1899-1995) (Jonathan Cape, 1926)
Good life brought about by a reduction in the birth rate, which becomes a required limit. This leads to a mixed result, some good, some bad. Good living conditions but strict rule.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Question Mark - M[uriel] Jaeger (1894-1969) (Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926)
The author notes that however attractive she finds the utopias of her day, the people in them do not seem real. Ursula K. Le Guin made a similar point in her “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown” (1976), The author depicts a deeply flawed utopia in which everyone is well off, but there is a divide between intellectuals, who tend to be overly rational and non-intellectuals (known as normals), who are driven by emotion. The novel stresses how they have grown more and more apart, with marriage mostly within the group, but with the family depicted in the novel a dysfunctional mixed marriage. Religion is a popular hobby for the normals. Much boredom that leads to hero worship and temporary enthusiasms among the normals. Euthanasia is common. Eugenic themes.
US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 249 pp. Rpt. London: British Library, [2019], with an “Introduction” by Dr. Mo Moulton (7-15). 205 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Ragnarok - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) (Duckworth, 1926)
Most of the novel focuses on a coming world war with the end describing the dystopia created.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The Return of Don Quixote - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (Dodd, Mead, 1926)
Eutopia presented in a play at a country-house weekend. Return to the medieval ideals of craftsmanship, nobility, and usufruct.
UK ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1927. Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Donald Barr (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1999), 8: 45-251.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sibylla or The Revival of Prophecy - C[ecil] A[lex] Mace (1894-1971) (Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1926)
Presented in eutopian terms but can be read in dystopian ones because the stress is on the scientific management and deliberate manipulation of the population to produce desired results. Stresses the need to manipulate workers and children should be educated to meet the needs of the state.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Utopia Lost" - William Walsh (Catholic World (U.S.), 1926)
An authoritarian dystopia on another planet in which the "intelligentsia" daily judge the mental health of all its citizens and locks up those who fail. As a result virtually the entire population is locked up. By contrast a eutopia is present in which all property is collectively owned and distributed as needed and government and education are concerned with human happiness.
Keywords: Male author

"The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis" - Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) (The Forum (New York), 1926)
Dystopia. Women achieve equality after they stop wearing their “feminine” veils. Some women then return to the veil, which reintroduces inequality but with women dominant. Conflict follows and brings about the destruction of Atlantis.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 34.2 (February 1968): 121-28; in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 95-103; and in More Voices from the Radium Age. Ed. Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023), 207-218.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets. No. 35 [bis]. A Journey to the Year 3000" - [Ernest] Clement Fezandié (1865-1959) (Science and Invention (New York), 1925)
Technological eutopia. Humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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