The Trumpet - John F. Cramer (Silk and Terry, 1940)
Flawed utopia. Machine perfection is dystopian.
Keywords: Male author

Utopia, Inc - Herman Everett Gieske (Fortuny's, 1940)
Capitalist, scientific eutopia. Stress on battle with Communism. A capitalist endows an island to give free reign to scientists.
Keywords: Male author

Vision of a State of Rightness on a Spiritual Foundation. A Short Outline of Government Whereby All Men Have the Same Rights and Privileges With the Capitalistic System Abolished - Henry C[ornelius] Denturk (b. 1880) (Author, 1940)
A communal eutopia with a "Civilian Army". No money. No international trade except for things the U.S. cannot produce. Few laws. Races live separately but can visit each other.
Keywords: Male author

When Loneliness Comes - Geo[rge] A[lan] Glenn (Author, 1940)
Lost race eutopia set in the South American jungle presented as if discovered on an actual expedition by the author. Emphasis on sexual activity as essential to health and the way it can lead to physical rejuvenation with photographs of the author before and after the expedition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

When the Soviets Come to America - C[lement] E[verett] Puterbaugh (Fortuny's, 1940)
Dystopia reflecting the title followed by a successful revolution.
Keywords: Male author

"World Without Sex" - [Edmond Moore] [Hamilton] (1904-77) (Marvel Tales (Chicago, IL), 1940)
Sex role reversal dystopia in which men, who had been enslaved, revolt and restore the "natural order" through violence with the focus on a man who beats a captured woman into "loving" him (and he her) after raping her. This is presented as the positive alternative to the woman dominated dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Adolf in Blunderland: A Political Parody of Lewis Carroll's Famous Story - Dyrenforth, James; Max Kester (Frederick Muller, 1939)
Satire on Nazi Germany.
2nd ed. December 1939. 3rd ed. December 1939. 4th ed. February 1940. 5th ed. rev. March 1940.
Keywords: Male author

The Arrogant History of White Ben - [Winifred] [Ashton] (1888-1965) (William Heinemann, 1939)
Allegory on the rise of National Socialism. A scarecrow comes to life dedicated to eliminating all crows and leads a campaign to exterminate them.
Rpt. Portway, Bath, Eng.: Cedric Chivers, 1971.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Brave New World" - Lawrence R. Newman (1925-2011) (The Deaf American, 1939)
Satire in which most of the population is deaf and uses signing and the hearing are a disadvantaged minority. One focus is a group of activists among the hearing who want to force the hearing to use signs.
Rpt. in his I Fill This Small Space: The Writings of a Deaf Activist, Ed. David J. Kurs (Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2009), 224-26.
Keywords: Deaf author; Male author; US author

"City of the Corporate Mind" - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) (Astounding Stories, 1939)
Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, "Past, Present and Future" and "City of the Rocket Horde" and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Cosmic Rays". The city in this story in designed like a human body with a brain and subordinate parts functioning under the control of the brain.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"City of the Cosmic Rays" - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1939)
Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, “Past, Present and Future” and “City of the Rocket Horde” and 1938 Schachner, “City of the Corporate Mind”. In this story, each, entirely different individual lives in a transparent cube.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Cooperative Cities--A New Civilization - A. L. Giberson (Giberson Mimeo, 1939)
Eutopia of cooperatives.

The Death Guard - Philip George Chadwick (1893-1955) (Hutchinson, 1939)
Creation of artificial life leads to a dystopia.
Rpt. London: Roc, 1992.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Enchanted Wood - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) (George Newes, 1939)
Children’s fantasy with three children exploring the Enchanted Wood and discovering the Faraway Tree that leads them to many unusual places where they meet a variety of characters including some from fairy tales.  Includes Cockaigne episodes together with other adventures. Continued in her The Magic Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1943; The Folk of the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1946; and Up the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1951, all of which is composed of illustrations with captions and have a similar format. The first part of Up the Faraway Tree was originally published in Enid Blyton’s Sunny Stories Magazine (1948).
Rpt. London: Deanes, 2012
Keywords: English author; Female author

Fool's Harvest - Erle [Harold] Cox (1873-1950) (The Argus (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1939)
Warning against invasion; "Its intention was to awaken the people of Australia to the tragic possibilities of apathy towards adequate defence measures" (Book i). Australia turned into an authoritarian dystopia by the invaders, who are identified as Cambasians. The "Prologue" to the novel, dated July 15, 1975, makes clear that after the loss of five million "white inhabitants" in the fight back, Australia was once again independent.
Rpt. Melbourne, VIC, Australia Robertson & Mullen, 1939 with two chapters added to the book.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Fortress of Utopia" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Startling Stories (Chicago, IL), 1939)
Anti-utopian story about a failed attempt to create a utopia.
Rpt. with the subtitle an incredible Science Fiction Classic novel. Brooklyn, NY: Gryphon Books, 1998; and in The Crucible of Power: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume Five (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2006), 209-328.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Giants of Anarchy" - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65); [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) (Weird Tales (New York), 1939)
Negative depiction of an anarchist society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

God’s Earth. A Novel - J[oseph] Arthur Horne (b. 1881) (Logan-Price Publishing Co, 1939)
The novel starts in the depths of the Depression and shows its effects on individuals. An instrument that makes viewing the future possible reveals that a religious eutopia will develop. The utopia is based on a policy of Production for All, which is actually a system of centralized planning in which a Board of Control will determine how much of a product is needed and factories will be assigned a quota. Civil service based rather than under political control. The book includes details of a new constitution for the United States, most of which concerns with government structure and the economy. Everyone must work but are free to choose work with wages adjusted to attract workers. The title refers to the fundamental premise that the earth belongs to God, and, as such, cannot be owned by anyone, only used.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Greater Than Gods” - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1939)
The story projects two dystopia futures depending on which woman a scientist marries. One ends in apathy; the other ends in a dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Hidden Universe” - [Roger Sherman] [Hoar] (1887-1963) (Amazing Stories, 1939)
Authoritarian dystopia presented as a utopia. The story is set during the depression when everyone is desperate for work. Some are sent to a colony in space named “Utopia.” The colonists, who did not know where they were being sent are told that each adult will be able to choose a plot of city or country land, build a house “on easy terms,” the land cannot be taken away, wages cannot be garnished, no taxes, no relief because everyone has a job, free medical care, paid fully during illness or disability, free education to limit of abilities, church in each town. There are twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night; it rains only at night; and there are no seasons. Their contract was for five years, but they learn it is forever.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Holy Terror - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Michael Joseph, 1939)
The novel presents the dystopia of the contemporary world and the difficult process of creating a eutopia. The eutopia is Wells's world state, which is brought into being through something very like his "open conspiracy" (see 1928 Wells). Here Wells presents an unusual, deeply flawed man leading the human race towards a good life who also develops dictatorial tendencies, has a mental breakdown, and is murdered.
U. S. ed. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Hopkins Manuscript - R[obert] C[edric] Sherriff (1896-1975) (Gollancz, 1939)
The novel concerns the run up to and results of the moon crashing into the Earth and lodging in the Atlantic Ocean with the focus on the survivors in Britain as described in a manuscript found by explorers from Abyssinia. Most of the manuscript is concerned with the disaster, but it includes the emergence of a system of mostly small towns described positively followed by the emergence of a power-hungry dictator.
Rpt. London/New York: Scribner, 2023. 387 pp. Also entitled The Cataclysm. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>: Pan, 1958.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Impromptu in Moribundia - [Anthony Walter] Patrick Hamilton (1904-62) (Constable and Co, 1939)
Satire on the caste/class system. Moribundia is England. People always behave correctly as defined by their class, and there are physical distinctions among the classes/castes.
Rpt. Nottingham, Eng.: Trent Editions, 1999.
Keywords: English author; Male author

John Innocent at Oxford - [Christopher] Richard [Sandford] Buckle (1916-2001) (Chatto and Windus, 1939)
Adventures in a reformed Oxford (no industry, no suburbs) that has replaced London as the center of English life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Lord of Tranerica" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Dynamic Science Stories (Chicago, IL), 1939)
Satire. Hereditary dictatorship in a supposedly computer-perfect, business-based, and leisure-oriented society set in the 25th century. Robots do all the work, and there are mechanical judges that decide cases and sentences. Tranerica is North and South America combined.
Repub. New York: Avalon, 1966.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Making of a New World - Abinash Chandra [Avināsa-Chandra] Lahiri (Pub. by the Author, 1939)
Essay. Detailed eutopia which stresses education and an economic system in which all are employed six hours a day producing for the good of society, goods are supplied free, and money, banks, interest, and rent have been abolished. Men and women are equal. Marriage is not permitted before 19 and must be based on consent. Divorce is possible.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

Man Finds the Way - Philip A[loysius] Sullivan (b. 1882) (Margent Press, 1939)
Eutopia set in 2000 that shows the development of the better world. Religion. United States of the World. National Peace Institute which educates for peace. A law establishing a United States Peace Institute was passed in 1984 and the Institute was established in 1986.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Industrial Dawn - A. T. Churchill (Press of Lowman and Hanford Co, 1939)
Eutopia. Abundance through state capitalism. Meritocracy.

Over the Mountain - Ruthven [Campbell] Todd (1914-78) (George G. Harrap & Co, 1939)
Authoritarian dystopia with some satire. The country described has spies throughout the population and concentration camps. It tortures its political prisoners, and all the secret police are recruited from among the mentally retarded.
Rpt. London: The Falcon Press, 1946. US ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Priestess Who Rebelled" - Nelson S[lade] Bond (1908-2006) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1939)
Blatantly sexist separation of the sexes. First story in a series set in a future after the collapse of civilization. “The Judging of the Priestess.” Fantastic Adventures (Chicago, IL) 2.4 (April 1940): 42-59 is racist, particularly anti-Japanese, as well as sexist. “Magic City.” Illus. M[anuel Rey] Isip (1904-87). Astounding Science Fiction 26.6 (February 1941): 9-36. Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 293-321 is set in the same future but significantly later in time when men and women are equals but there remain enclaves of the old way.
Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Walker & Co., 1972), 198-221. Rev. as “Pilgrimage.” In his The Thirty-First of February (Gnome Press, 1949), 246-72. Rpt. (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), 246-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rainbow in the Valley - James Creed Meredith (1875-1942) (Browne and Nolan The Richview Press, 1939)
The novel is mostly a discussion of the current situation on Earth and consideration of various philosophers, which he says was the main purpose of writing the book, but it also presents Mars as a eutopia organized from the top down that was brought about by a dictator, and the discussion presents contemporary European dictators positively.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"Sculptures of Life" - Wallace [George] West (1900-80) (Astounding Science-Fiction (New York), 1939)
The background to the story is a flawed utopia. In the future a technique for transferring the personality of a person into a newly created body allows some extremely rich people to live forever. While accumulating power and wealth for themselves, they build a high tech future that appears to be better but is entirely dependent on the whims of these few people.
Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 222-41.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Telepathy Is News!” - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) (Science Fiction, 1939)
The story is set in an authoritarian dystopia when telepathy becomes possible.
Rpt. without the illus. in The Watcher at the Door: The Early Kuttner Volume Two. Ed. Stephen Haffner (Royal Oaks, MI: Haffner Press, 2016), 83-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

This Is Armageddon - Muriel Howorth (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1939)
A novel about Armageddon (See Revelation 16) as seen through the eyes of individuals on both sides. As a result, there are dystopian pictures of the evil contrasted with eutopian ones of the good.
Keywords: Female author

Three Men Make a World - [Howell] [Davies] (1896-1985) (Victor Gollancz, 1939)
Includes a very English village eutopia at the end.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"The Ultimate Catalyst" - Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960) (Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York), 1939)
The background to the story is a future world that has exiled the last dictator and all his followers to Amazonia, thus creating a dystopia, where a scientist develops an elaborate technique for killing him.
Rpt. in Startling Stories 20.2 (November 1949): 84-97; and in Great Science Fiction By Scientists. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Collier Books, 1962), 35-59 with an editor's note on 34.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; US author

Union Now: A Proposal for a Federal Union of the Democracies of the North Atlantic - Clarence K[irshman] Streit (1896-1986) (Harper, 1939)
Non-fiction but it includes an "Illustrative Constitution" (325-35) for the proposed union, which is seen as a first step to world government. A revised version is Union Now With Britain New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1941. This includes an "Illustrative Declaration of Inter-Dependence and Union (207-11) as well as the constitution, slightly revised (215-23). A defense of world federalism, designed as similar to the U.S. Federalist Papers, is The New Federalist. By Publius Justice, Owen J. Roberts, John F. Schmidt, and [mostly] Clarence K[irshman] Streit. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950.
U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1939.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Unknown Citizen" - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) (The Listener (London), 1939)
Poem describing a bureaucratic dystopia that honors a man who is "normal in every way."
Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 142-143; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 146-147; in Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 85-86; in The Hedgehog Review (Charlottesville, VA) 10.3 (Fall 2008): 38-39; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume I 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 368-369, with a Textual Note on 767-768.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Visit to Utopia - J[ohn] Howard Whitehouse (1873-1955) (Oxford University Press, 1939)
Eutopia. One emphasis is on the beauty of the place. Another is on technology; for example, mining has been so improved that work underground is no longer needed. No unemployment. No war; hence no need for arms. Equal opportunity for higher education.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Way Out: An Essay on the Means of Averting the Recurring Disaster - [John] [Bostock] (b. 1892); [Leslie John Jarvis] [Nye] (1891-1976) (Halstead Press, 1939)
Essay describing the book as an answer to the problem they posed in their Whither Away? A Study of Race Psychology and the Factors Leading to Australia's National Decline (1934), which focused on the falling birth rate. Their solution, a Federal Union of countries, is based on Clarence K[irshman] Streit (See 1939 Streit). In addition, they argue that people must be educated for democracy (both in improved teaching of citizenship in democracies and in the elements of democracy in non-democratic countries), the political system must be reformed so as to attract the best people, and there must be much more community involvement. See also 1972 Nye.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

We Band of Brothers - [George Cecil] [Foster] (1893-1975) (Herbert Jenkins, 1939)
The dystopia created by Germany winning World War 2.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"When Time Stood Still" - Edwin K. Sloat (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1939)
Eutopia. A community called Futura is established in the Southwest U.S. desert where youth is prolonged and everyone lives peacefully.
Keywords: Male author

Why Not Now? A British Islander's Dream - Arthur St. John (1862-1938) (C.W. Daniel, 1939)
Eutopia. London is transformed, and the Thames is clean and a center of activity. More simple life stressing families and neighborhoods then districts or towns, countries, continents, and the world.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Women's World" - David C[oxe] Cooke (Science Fiction (Holyoke, MA), 1939)
Gender-role reversal.
Keywords: Male author

The Adventures of Wyndham Smith - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Herbert Jenkins, 1938)
Machine dystopia with a few rebels. “Original Sin” is set in a future eutopia where disease has been eliminated and all children are healthy. A decision is made that all children will be born within a five-year period every twenty-five years, which works very well. But a Doctrine of Futility spreads, and it is decided to eliminate the entire human race.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Anthem - Ayn Rand [pseud.] (Cassell, 1938)
Authoritarian dystopia. Sketches of an individualist eutopia.
Rpt. London: Cassell, 1953. Rev. US ed. Los Angeles, CA: Pamphleteers, 1946; rpt. New York: New American Library, 1946; and in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 14.4 (June 1953): 12-33, 113-14. Exp. 50th Anniversary ed. New York: Dutton, 1995 with an "Introduction to the 50th Anniversary American Edition" by Leonard Peikoff (v-xiii). The 50th anniversary edition uses the 1946 edition and includes Rand's marked up 1938 edition showing the extensive revisions (109-253). Graphic novel version as Anthem. The Graphic Novel. Script Charles Santino. Art Joe Staton. New York: New American Library, 2011
Keywords: Female author; Russian author; US author

Armageddon; A Tale of the Anti-Christ - Eleanor De Forest (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1938)
Dystopia with the stress on struggle between good and evil. Armageddon (see Revelation 16).
Keywords: Female author

At Midnight on the 31st of March - Josephine Young Case (1907-90) (Houghton, Mifflin, 1938)
A small town is totally cut off from the outside world and creates a eutopia. The novel is in blank verse.
Rpt. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990 with a “Foreword” by Frank Bergmann (vii-x).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dream Places" - Pat[rick Anthony] Lawlor (The New Zealand Railways Magazine, 1938)
Two brief eutopian visions. The first is a South Seas Island paradise, which is rejected as unrealistic in that there will be mosquitoes and sharks. The second is heaven after death.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Efforts of Chance - M[ontefiore] Follick (1887-1958) (Serjeant's Press, 1938)
Mostly adventure but describes a model town.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

"Flight of the Dawn Stars" - Robert Moore Williams (1907-77) (Astounding Science-Fiction (New York), 1938)
Earth as a future Eden after the need for urban life is gone.
Rpt. in A Treasury of Science Fiction. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Crown, 1948), 358-69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

General Manpower - John S. Martin (Simon and Schuster, 1938)
Dystopia. A man creates a company to provide a labor force for any company in the world and troops for any military need. The company includes a breeding program for future workers. Lower level leaders in the company try to use the military for world power and are defeated.
Keywords: Male author

Glorious Morning; A Play in Three Acts - Norman MacOwan (1877-1961) (Victor Gollancz, 1938)
Standard authoritarian dystopia in a fictional Eastern European country. Unsuccessful rebellion.
Rpt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939 with photographs from the play. The novel is based on a play with the same title first produced at the Duchess Theatre, London, May 26, 1938. The play was published as "Glorious Morning: A Play in Three Acts." In Famous Plays 1938-1939 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1939), 337-453; and as the Acting ed. London: Samuel French Ltd., 1939.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Hidden Tribe - S[ydney] Fowler Wright (1874-1965) (Robert Hale, 1938)
Lost race authoritarian dystopia in the Sahara following the practice of Egyptian pharaohs of marrying their sisters. The community has successfully practiced a eugenic program to enhance both physique and intelligence.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Lost Race Fantasy. [Holicong, PA]: Borgo Press, 2009.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Impregnable Women - Eric [Robert Russell] Linklater (b. 1899) (Jonathan Cape, 1938)
A modern version of Aristophanes's Lysistrata (411 BCE)  in which women take possession of Edinburgh Castle.
Rpt. in The Orkney Ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1952; and Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1959.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Island of the Individualists" - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1938)
Dystopia in a series with 1937 Schachner, “Past, Present and Future” and “City of the Rocket Horde” and 1939 Schachner, “City of the Corporate Mind” and “City of the Cosmic Rays”. In this story, the protagonists land on an island of isolated individuals who spend their entire lives in contemplation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Isle of Nowhere - Burns Llewellyn Williams (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1938)
Satire and allegory with a number of themes. Problems can be corrected through the light of General Intelligence.
Keywords: Male author

The Man Who Could Not Sin - Newman Watts (b. 1895) (Fleming H. Revell, 1938)
Eutopia with Christ on the throne in Jerusalem as the world ruler. The novel is a "sleeper awakes" story in which a militant atheist of the mid-twentieth century revives after 225 years asleep.
UK ed. as The Man Who Did Not Sin. London: Henry E. Walter, 1939.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Minimum Man or Time To Be Gone - [Howell] [Davies] (1896-1985) (Victor Gollancz, 1938)
Fascist dystopia. Armed police, leadership cult, fascist curriculum in schools, anti-Semitic, unions dissolved, and concentration camps ("Everyone knew of them"). Story of a small, advanced, mutant people who successfully revolt against the fascist state.
Rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 8.6 (August 1947): 6-112; and without the subtitle. London: Science Fiction Book Club, 1953.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

My Life in Time - Bertha Newton (C.W. Daniel, 1938)
Spiritualist novel in which the protagonist visits a golden city and tours the solar system. Quite vague.
Keywords: Female author

“Nightmare for Future Reference” - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) (The New Yorker, 1938)
Dystopian poem about the next world war and its effects.
Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 250.
Keywords: Male author; US author

No Borderland - M[artha] Marlowe Morris (b. 1867); Laura B[elle] Speer (b. 1883) (Mathis, Van Nort, 1938)
Atlantis as an agrarian, tribal, spiritualist eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

No Sting, No Honey - David [E.] Hussey (Arthur Barker, 1938)
Humor and satire including a matriarchal society organized like a bee-hive and a feminist eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

Out of the Silent Planet - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1938)
First volume of a trilogy on the struggle between good and evil. Presents a eutopia as a sub-theme in which the eutopia is given by God. The other volumes of the trilogy are 1943 and 1945 Lewis. In addition, one of the major characters of the trilogy appears in 1977 Lewis. The name of the indigenous inhabitants, the Hrossa, is also used by Judith Moffett in Pennterra (1987).
Rpt. with an “Introduction” (viii-xxvi) and “Notes” (175-94) by David Elloway. London: Longmans, 1966; and New York: Scribner Classics, 1996. Chapter 16 is rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 90-94.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Pagan City - W[illiam] N[oel] Chaplin (1892-1981) (John Long, 1938)
Ancient Rome as a dystopia that continues to exist inside the earth. In an Epilogue the author says that he was trying to demonstrate what a benefit the introduction of Christianity had been.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Professor. A Novel - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) (Boriswood, 1938)
Authoritarian dystopia derived from National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy.
Rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, [1944]. U.S. ed. as The Professor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Revolution of 1950" - Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum (1902-35); [Roger Sherman] [Hoar] (1887-1963) (Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL), 1938)
Mostly an adventure story set in a dictatorship in the US.
Rpt. as "The Revolution of 1960." In Weinbaum, The Red Peri (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952), 218-70; and under the latter title and with Farley [pseud.] as co-author in A Martian Odyssey and Other Science Fiction Stories. The Collected Short Stories of Stanley G. Weinbaum (Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974), 500-52.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Secret Island - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) (Basil Blackwell, 1938)
Three children who believe their parents are dead and are mistreated by the aunt and uncle and a boy who has been abandoned by his grandfather un away to an island in the middle of a large lack. Seen through their eyes, it is a utopia.
Rpt. illus. Dudley Wynne. Worksop, Eng.: Award Publications Limited, 2009. 190 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Secret Land - Hawker, Caleb (Blackie & Son, 1938)
Primarily a boy's adventure novel, but includes a religious eutopia in a hidden valley.
Keywords: Male author

The Sign of the Burning Hart - David H[enry] Keller M.D. (1880-1966) (Imprimerie de la Manche, 1938)
Set in a village called Arcadia in which people appear to lead contented lives.
Rpt. [Boston, MA]: National Fantasy Fan Federation, 1948.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Socialist Melbourne - Ralph Gibson (Communist Party (Victorian State Committee), 1938)
Socialist eutopia describing state owned factories, transport, and banks. Large stores have been nationalized and some smaller stores became cooperatives but many small, private stores continue. Freedom of religion, although churches cannot own property and there is considerable anti-religious propaganda. Democracy with immediate recall possible. Free education through university with access to university based solely on ability. Children's rights. Free medical care. There are both large state-owned and small privately-owned farms with extensive irrigation.
[2nd ed.] Melbourne, VIC, Australia: International Bookshop Pty, 1951. 43 pp.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Utopia" - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) (Dominion, 1938)
Political poem depicting the current situation in dystopian terms.
Rpt. in his Collected Poems (Christchurch, New Zealand: Pegasus Press, 1966), 15-20.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

When Woman Reigns - [Reginald William Malyon] [Gibbs] (1878-1942) (Pen-in-Hand Pub. Co, 1938)
Flawed utopia based on the rule of women set in the future in the Himalayas. All ferocious animals and vermin eliminated after a detailed classification and research program, called the War of Human Supremacy. No disease. Sexual men do not work but are adopted by women as consorts. Children vote. Votes for dogs being considered. Thorough censorship. Civil Service based on detailed examinations after twenty years of study.
Keywords: English author; Male author

World-Birth - Shaw Desmond (1877-1960) (Methuen, 1938)
Eutopia. Education. Cooperative system with production for use not profit.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

"Year Nine" - Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903-74) (The New Statesman and Nation (London), 1938)
Short authoritarian dystopia particularly concerned with censorship. Humor.
Rpt. in his The Condemned Playground. Essays: 1927-1944 (London: Routledge, 1945), 154-59. Rpt. (New York: Macmillan, 1946), 154-159; (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), 154-59; and in The Selected Works of Cyril Connolly. Volume Two: The Two Natures. Ed. Matthew Connolly (London: Picador, 2002), 322-27.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Abdera and the Revolt of the Asses - [Hyman] [Jaffe] (Clarion Pub. Co, 1937)
A satire on contemporary European politics focusing on Germany, which is taken over by Asses, and the role of a minority of humans, the Brehews (Hebrews).

Armada of the Air - Norman S. Bentley (b. 1867) (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1937)
Dystopia of the dictatorship produced as a result of disarmament.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Be Thou Prepared, For Jesus is Coming - Forrest Loman Oilar (b. 1880) (Meador Publishing Co, 1937)
Fictional representation of the dystopian events leading to the Second Coming and the eutopia to follow.
Keywords: Male author

"The Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa” - [George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977) (The Pittsburgh Courier, 1937)
Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 143-258 with a “Foreword” to the volume by John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (xvii-xx), an “Afterword” by the editors (259-323), “Schuyler’s story notes (ca. 1936-1937)” (325-27), and George S. Schuyler’s Pittsburgh Courier fiction, 1933-1939)” (337-44). Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (310-312), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359). PSt Sequel to 1936-7 Schuyler in which the Black Internationale is established in Liberia to carry out its mission of liberating Africa. After Liberia is attacked by European forces, much of the novel is on the war. Everyone is required to have a thorough physical exam, and if they are found to have an incurable disease, they are euthanized. On the other hand, they have developed permanent cures for many diseases. Model kitchens that will be established throughout Africa both prepare food for the district and are used to teach people the relationship between a good diet and health. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in “The Rise of the Black Internationale.” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler.
Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (310-312), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Carson of Venus - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, 1939, 1937)
Mostly a war story, but it includes a satire of Hitler and National Socialism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"City of the Rocket Horde" - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) (Astounding Stories, 1937)
Dystopia in sequel to 1937 Schachner, "Past, Present and Future" in which characters from the previous story visit another dystopian city on the same planet. This city, although highly advanced technically, is more a simple authoritarian system but with a hierarchical system similar to that in the previous story. See also 1938 and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Corporate Mind" and "City of the Cosmic Rays.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dream" - Pickles, L. (Tomorrow (Christchurch, New Zealand), 1937)
Brief socialist eutopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

Every Man a Millionaire: A Baloon Trip in the Mathematical Stratosphere of Social Relations - [David Eugene] [Smith] (Scripta Mathematica, 1937)
A mathematician brings about a rational, technological eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Festivity in the New Age" - Michael Goulding (Blackshirt: The Patriotic Worker's Paper (London), 1937)
Brief National Socialist eutopia. No cut price stores. “Now the Distributive Corporation decide the prices of goods, and no one is allowed to sell under the agreed price.” No foreign goods. No long hours with stores staying open but shop assistants working in shifts. Miners’ hours reduced, pay increased. No imported coal. New housing for workers.
Keywords: Male author

“Forgetfulness” - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) (Astounding Stories, 1937)
An extremely high-tech people chose to reject the technology and the violence that accompanied it and create a pastoral eutopia. Most of the story focuses on the people from another planet who plan to eliminate the eutopia to get access to the technology.
Rpt. in Adventures in Time and Space: An Anthology of Modern Science-Fiction Stories. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Random House, 1946), 20-45, which was rpt. as Famous Science-Fiction Stories: Adventures in Time and Space. Ed. Raymond J. Healy and J. Francis McComas (New York: Modern Library, 1957), 20-45; and in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 209-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Hobbit or There and Back Again - J[ohn] R[onald] R[eul] Tolkien (1897-1973) (George Allen & Unwin, 1937)
Classic children's fantasy novel. Hobbiton-across-the-Water is an arcadia.
2nd. ed. 1951; 3rd ed. 1966; 4th ed. 1978; [50th] anniversary ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1987 with a “Foreword” by Christopher Tolkien (i-xvi); 75th Anniversary Edition. London: Harper Collins, 2011, with a “Preface” that is excerpts from the 50th ed. “Foreword” (v-xiv). For further information see The Annotated Hobbit. Rev. and exp. ed. annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. Illus. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 2002. It includes “The Quest of Erebor” [“Gandalf’s explanation of how arranged Bilbo’s adventure”] (367-77); “On Runes” (368-69); and a bibliography that includes, among other things, an extensive list of editions of The Hobbit.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Last Act (A.D. 1995)” - F[rank] L[aurence] Lucas (1894-1967) (The Woman Clothed With the Sun and Other Stories, 1937)
Dystopia in which the world is divided between those nations subservient to Japan (Asia to the Urals and Australasia) and Germany (Europe, Asia Minor, and Africa), with the Pan-American Union between them. The story details the dystopia as it exists in the areas controlled by Germany and ends with the human race destroyed.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Love Starved World - Jacob Leon Pritcher (The Yale Pub. Co, 1937)
Eutopia with emphases on good medical care, a healthy sex life, and eugenics.
Keywords: Male author

Morwyn or the Vengeance of God - John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) (Cassell, 1937)
Hell as dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author; Welsh author

Old Goat: A fantasia on a theme of Blackmail and Sudden Death - [Theodore] Edwin Greenwood (1895-1939) (William Heinemann, 1937)
A novel that includes a description of a proto-fascist authoritarian intentional community and the plan for a future authoritarian order. Considerable humor.
U.S. ed. as Under the Fig Leaf. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Past, Present and Future" - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) (Astounding Stories, 1937)
A dystopia on a post catastrophe Earth of a hierarchical city with people living on levels appropriate to their status. First in a series of dystopias in which people from various past times experience various other dystopias. Sequels are 1937 Schachner, "City of the Rocket Horde," and 1938 and 1939 Schachner, "City of the Corporate Mind" and "City of the Cosmic Rays".
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Place of the Gods” - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) (Saturday Evening Post, 1937)
After an unexplained catastrophe called the Great Burning, a religious society has developed with strict taboos on travel to certain areas thought of as the place of the gods. Since metal is scarce and has been scavenged from most areas where travel is permitted, one man goes into the forbidden areas and discovers the ruins of the previous civilization.
Rpt. without the illus. as “By the Waters of Babylon.” In his Thirteen O’Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1937]), 3-20; in The Pocket Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: Pocket Books, 1943), 1-16; in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 103-17; in Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 103-17 with an editor’s note on 104; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 247-49 with an editor’s note on 247.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Problem Island - Francis Clement Kelley (1870-1948) (St. Anthony Guild Press, 1937)
A group of children are placed on an isolated island in an experiment to see if they will invent religion. Although there are problems, they create an egalitarian, democratic eutopia, and they invent religion. At the end they become Christians.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rhubarb Tree - Kenneth [Cyril Bruce] Allott (1912-73); Stephen Tait (The Cresset Press, 1937)
Satire in which one focus is a fascist dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Selestor’s Men of Atlantis - Clara Iza [Tibbets] Von Ravn (b. 1870) (Christopher Publishing House, 1937)
Presented as a depiction of the history of a real Atlantis described by Selestor. Includes descriptions of government, religion, marriage customs, and education, , which was available to all boys, language, music, farming, food, metallurgy, and other topics are touched on. Much of the book is on the decline of Atlantis through a king who broke the law that the king could only marry a woman born of parents from Atlantis.
Keywords: Female author

The Shelter in Bedlam - [Beatrice Lamberton Becker] [Warde] (1900-69) (Privately ptd, 1937)
Dystopia with everyone living in bomb shelters with the goal of everyone living permanently underground. Re-telling to a child of the Christmas story designed for the new circumstances but with an emphasis on how language has been warped to disguise the changes brought about by the dictator.
A short passage was rpt. in The Golden Road: An Anthology of Travel. Ed. Arthur Stanley (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1938), 283. Also, with a new appendix, entitled Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece by Denis Tegetmeier. London: Megaw, 1938. U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939.
Keywords: Female author

Some Plant Olive Trees - Emma Gelders Sterne (1894-1971) (Dodd, Mead, 1937)
A French settlement in Alabama with the intention to establish a community with the aims of the French Revolution. Combines fiction and non-fiction.
Keywords: Female author

Star Begotten: A Biological Fantasia - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (London Mercury, 1937)
The novel focuses on the belief that cosmic rays are causing positive mutations in humans and producing more rational people who will, over time, bring about a better world. Chapter 9 includes some eutopian material including better education, world peace and world citizenship with complete freedom of movement, abundance, the world turned into a garden, and individuality. Chapter 9 is 169-85 (C&W); 186-202 (Viking); 124-33 (WUP); London Mercury 36.212 (June 1937): 166-72.
Repub. London: Chatto & Windus. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 1937. Both U.K. and U.S. eds. published in June. Rpt. ed. John Huntington. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Star-Maker - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1937)
One of Stapledon's visions of the far, far future where the human race has been replaced by more advanced species.
Rpt. in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon. Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 221-412; rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 221-412; as The Star Maker. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1961; in Last and First Men & Star Maker: Two Science-Fiction Novels (New York: Dover, 1968), 247-438; Bath, Eng.: Lythway Press, 1974; and ed. Patrick McCarthy. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004 with a “Foreword” by Freeman Dyson (xi-xv) and an “Introduction” by the editor (xix-xxxiii). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 22-28. An earlier version was discovered and published as Nebula Maker. Hayes, Middlesex, Eng.: Bran's Head Books, 1976. Rpt. in Nebula Maker & Four Encounters with illustrations by Jim Starlin (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983), 1-124 with an "Introduction" by Arthur C. Clarke (vii-x).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Sterile Planet" - Nat[haniel] Schachner (1895-1955) (Astounding Stories, 1937)
The sterile planet is Earth in 4260 because humans had ignored the prophecies of the early twentieth century and had “denuded the forests, plowed up the soil, meddled recklessly with the delicate balance of nature” (52). The story is primarily concerned with a battle between the so-called civilized and those who had been left behind when the last places with water had been captured and enclosed and a conflict between the authoritarian leader of the “civilized” and a scientist with a plan to restore Earth.
Rpt. in Nature’s Warning: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction. Ed. Mike Ashley (London: British Library, 2021), 113-143.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Stop! . . . Distracted People! Two Mirrors of the Future. Romantic Double Utopia - Ludovicus Textoris Serly (Bookcraft [Stamped above publisher’s name: Pub. by L.T. Serly], 1937)
Small town and rural eutopia after disastrous earthquakes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sugar in the Air: A Romance - E[rnest] C[harles] Large (1902-76) (Jonathan Cape, 1937)
Satire on capitalism and big business. See his Asleep in the Afternoon. London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Rpt. London: Hyphen Press, 2008, which is a novel about the writing of Sugar in the Air.
Rpt. London: Hyphen Press, 2008.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Super-Woman - A. Oliver Sutter (Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd, 1937)
A woman produces a world eutopia in which class antagonisms and conflicts between the races and between capital and labor end.

Swastika Night - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) (Victor Gollancz, 1937)
Dystopia where there has been five hundred years of Nazi rule, and the Nazi creed has become transmuted into a religion which directly supports the current power structure of the future Germany. There is still a single Führer who rules with the blessing of Hitler and God the Thunderer over a clearly defined hierarchy that is nationalist, racist, sexist, with love only between men and women kept separate and only for breeding, and anti-Christian. Much of the book is about one of the German Knights who knows the truth of the past and works to preserve that knowledge the future. Female author.
Rpt. in the Left Book Club Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940; and by Burdekin writing as Murray Constantine. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michael Dirda (1-4); and under the author's real name Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1985  with an “Introduction” iii-xv) by Daphne Patai; and London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michel Dirda (1-4).
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Time is Now Ripe: Revolution Without Tears - Montague [MacGregor] Grover (1870-1943) (Robertson & Mullens, 1937)
Communist revolution and eutopia.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

To-morrow's Art and Recreation - A[rthur] Romney Green (d. 1945) (Vanguard Press, 1937)
Eutopia presented in an address delivered to the Economic Reform Club in September 1937. Return to handicrafts. Minimum wage.
Keywords: Male author

The Unholy City - Charles G[randison] Finney (1905-84) (The Vanguard Press, 1937)
Satire on the US seen as a fantastic imaginary country.
U.K. ed. London: Panther, 1965.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Unknown Dictator - L. H Ingham (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1937)
Beginnings of a dystopia of Fascism in Britain, but it is stopped.

"Utopia and/or Bust" - Paul McCrea (Nation's Business (Washington, DC), 1937)
Satire. Business collapses when everyone is given gold, and no one will work.
Keywords: Male author

Wednesday's Children - [Iris Guiver] [Wilkinson] (1906-39) (Hurst & Blackett, 1937)
A feminist novel in which a woman creates an ideal, eutopian family on an island in Auckland harbor as well as assisting poor people through her work as a fortune teller. The family is a fantasy, and she chooses to kill herself rather than give up her family and enter into a traditional marriage.
Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: New Women's Press, 1989; and Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 1993.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Wild Goose Chase - Rex [Reginald Ernest] Warner (1905-86) (Boriswood, 1937)
Three brothers separately set out on a search for the wild goose and find a town that is a dystopia with the people slaves and an extraordinarily corrupt and decadent government. The youngest of the brothers leads a successful revolution. Much on revolutionary strategy and tactics.
Rpt. in the Uniform Edition. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1944, 442 pp. and London: Merlin Press, 1990, with an “Introduction by Andrew Cramp (vii-xvii). xvii + 442 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. 454 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The World Ends - [Margaret Storm] [Jameson] (1891-1986) (J. M. Dent and Sons, 1937)
Massive earthquakes have been occurring in Europe, and one destroys most of England. In the novel, only one simple, farming family and the sophisticated protagonist author from London are depicted as surviving. Overwhelmingly dystopian, but the protagonist ultimately finds happiness in the simple life on the farm.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Young Men Are Coming! - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) (Vanguard Press, 1937)
Includes a fascist attempt to take over Britain.
U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1937. 375 pp.
Keywords: Creole author; English author; Male author; Montserrat British West Indies author

After Us or The World as it might be - J[ohn] P[ercy] Lockhart-Mummery (1875-1957) (Stanley Paul, 1936)
A rational anti-socialist eutopia written as a projection for AD 2536. Advanced technology. Eugenics. Genetically engineered food. Reason.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Amaranthers - Jack B[utler] Yeats (1871-1957) (William Heinemann, 1936)
An odd work about Ireland. It can be read as a eutopia with problems or as a fantasy and certainly has elements of each. As a eutopia, the stress is on the friendliness of the small town and the way the people support each other. There is also, at the beginning, a brief dystopian interlude.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

At the Dawn of the Millennium; A Scientific and Philosophical Treatise for the Advancement of Knowledge and the Promotion of World Peace - Nicholas Nicolaides (City Printing Co, 1936)
A eutopia set in the future that has a universal language and covers the entire world. Rural. Detached houses. Technologically advanced.
Keywords: Male author

"Australano" - [Nelson] [Tremaine] (1907-71) (Astounding Stories, 1936)
Dystopia. Future devastated by war rebuilds into two countries, one in North America and one in Australia. The former is a dictatorship; the latter is a benevolent monarchy.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Bensalem and New Jerusalem - [Philip Francis] [Samuels] (Samuels-Bacon Pub. Co, 1936)
Continuation of 1627 Bacon, New Atlantis. Conservative. Christian. Political representation by trade or profession.
Keywords: Male author

The Birds - Frank Baker (Peter Davies, 1936)
The bulk of the book is a dystopia of an attack by “birds” that destroys contemporary civilization. The explanation of the nature of the birds in Part III, Section VII suggests that they are reflections of human failings. After being forced to flee the cities, a simple agricultural society with eutopian aspects is established and briefly described in the concluding section.
Keywords: Male author

"The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World” - [George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977) (The Pittsburgh Courier, 1936)
A novella in which an African American brings together African American professionals, the Black Internationale, to liberate Africa from white colonial oppression using whatever means is available, including a level of violence comparable to that of the colonists. Schuyler stresses the exceptional quality of the people involved and makes clear that not all blacks as intelligent. 1937-8 Schuyler is a sequel. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in “The Rise of the Black Internationale.” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler.
Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (November 21, 1936 - July 3, 1937). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 1-168, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (307-310), Appendix B “Notes for ‘The Black Internationale’” (313-316), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes The Black Internationale (331-336) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Blackshirt the Adventurer - [Graham Montague] [Jeffries] (1900-82) (Hutchinson, 1936)
Authoritarian dystopia. Cave world (World of the Secret People) inhabited by criminals, and the criminals are slaves of the overlords.
Rpt. London: Hutchinson, 1945.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Chosen Race - Edgar Albion Lyons (The Cavalier Pub. Co, 1936)
Machine dystopia set in 2000 A.D. The dystopia was brought about by the inexorable process of automation that gradually threw everyone out of work. The few employed drove the unemployed out of cities and built huge walls around them. At the end the machines stop, but a small eutopia survives that had been established by a single wealthy man who made himself king, selected those who could settle, and, while providing a much better life for the people, also imposed strict rules.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Collective Insecurity - Kenneth Macassey (Longmans, Green & Co, 1936)
Dystopian satire of a future German empire.
Keywords: Male author

Co-op. A Novel of Living: Together - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (The Author, 1936)
Eutopia based on a cooperative system and consensus.
UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1936
Keywords: Male author; US author

E Pluribus Unum; A Story of Today and of Today's Tomorrow - Quoin [pseud.] (Patriot Publishing Co, 1936)
Eutopia but with the emphasis on the struggle with both Communism and Fascism before a form of socialism is established.

"Emotion Solution" - Arthur K. Barnes (1909-69) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1936)
Dystopia that eliminates emotion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Empty World (A Romance of the Future) - D[orothy] E[mily] Stevenson (1892-1973) (Herbert Jenkins, 1936)
Describes two societies after a catastrophe. One is purportedly a eutopia but is an authoritarian dystopia. The other is a simple society that has no eutopian aspirations but almost becomes a eutopia.
U.S. ed. A World in Spell. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Even a Worm - J. S. Bradford (Arthur Barker, 1936)
The novel is about the first stages of the dystopia that will be brought about by the revolt of the animals against their human oppressors.
Rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 6.5 (June 1945): 78-117.

“The God and the Man: A Saga of the Uphrigees” - Isaacson, Charles D. (The Californian (Pomona, CA), 1936)
Satire about the god Zoohm, who creates a eutopia where every person knows how they are to live and do so contentedly without thought. But Zhoom gets bored and asks a brother god for a troublesome human to shake things up. Initially the outsider has no impact, but then Zhoom grants the people the ability to think and act for themselves, and the human manages to start a revolution. Zhoom enjoys the result until the human tries to replace Zhoom, who kills him but quickly regrets his act and destroys Uphrigee.
Keywords: Male author

Greener Pastures; A Fable of Past, Present and Future - Howard Wolf (The Caxton Printers, 1936)
Satire. God has illusions of grandeur and thinks He is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945. President 1933-45).
Keywords: Male author

The Heritage of the Quest - Gertrude Venetta Cope (Marshall Jones, 1936)
Fantasy and allegory describing a vaguely described ideal world.
Keywords: Female author

The Hesperides: A Looking-Glass Fugue - John [Leslie] Palmer (1885-1944) (Martin Secker & Warburg, 1936)
Dystopia. Art and imagination discouraged. No emotions. Eating and sleeping completely private and are considered impolite.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Home Life in A.D. 2000" - E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949) (Life, Law & Letters, 1936)
Satire on overzealous law making.
Keywords: English author; Male author

In the Second Year - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) (Cassell, 1936)
Authoritarian dystopia set after World War I. The inability of governments to deal with post-war economic problems combined with communist agitation leads to the rise of a strong man. Labour and Training Camps are established, the former for the unemployed, the latter to punish dissidents. The novel traces three months under the regime as seen by an outsider.
Rpt. Ed. Stan Smith. Nottingham, Eng.: Trent Editions, 2004 with "Notes on the Text" (216-26).
Keywords: English author; Female author

Janice in Tomorrow-Land - [Rufus] Emory Holloway (1885-1977) (American Book Co, 1936)
Young adult high tech eutopia as seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Civilization: A Story of Adventure in Central Australia - Val[entine Voltaire] Heslop (1894-1936) (St. George Pub. Coy, 1936)
Lost race utopia in the center of Australia. A scientifically advanced society with similarities to both ancient Egypt and the Mayans. Vegetarian. Peaceful. Use Telepathy. There is an authoritarian monarch and vestal virgins, who cannot marry. All work for the good of the community and all needs are provided. Men marry whom they choose; women not consulted. Believe in a Supreme Being. Equality except for a few nobles. Standard evil High Priest, prohibited love, adventure, some escape.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Lost Paradise" - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) (Weird Tales, 1936)
A story in the author’s series about the character Northwest Smith in which he visits the far past when the inhabited moon was called Seles and in a golden age.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Machine Stops - [Victor] [Bayley] (1880-1972) (Robert Hale, 1936)
Disaster dystopia in which all metal disintegrates.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Man Who Could Still Laugh (A Story of the Future) - [Charles Houghton] [Oldfield] (1889-1961) (Bantam Books/Todd Publishing Co., 1936)
Satire on totalitarianism that sees laughter as the best defense.
Originally published in Prague newspaper (not found) and then Candide.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Martians Investigate This Crazy World! - Fred L. Dietz (Fred L. Dietz, 1936)
Primarily a criticism of contemporary society, but it also presents a cooperative system that the society will adopt in the near future.
Keywords: Male author

The Master Plan: Government Without Taxation - Herman Van Polen (Christopher Pub. Co, 1936)
One corporation takes over the assets of the United States and brings eutopia with much on the problems involved.
Keywords: Male author

"My Utopia: Address to the Cosmopolitan Club of the London School of Economics and Political Science (23rd October 1934)" - William H[enry] Beveridge, [Baron Beveridge] (1879-1963) (Planning under Socialism and Other Addresses, 1936)
A world eutopia is presented based on variety. A specific eutopia located in Scotland (now known as Econ) is based on an economic system that is fundamentally capitalist but that ensures the maintenance of all basic physical and psychological needs by providing publicly for everything related to education broadly defined plus housing, transport, and the maintenance of the countryside (134-26, 138). Stress on variety (137-38) with an educational system designed to reflect the variety of human needs and interests (138-40). Both individual and collective family systems exist in Econ. The world eutopia is based on the introduction of birth control and the resultant fall in population (133). London is thus depicted as emptier and greener. Immigration anywhere in the world is open to all, but national differences remain (134, 136).
Keywords: English author; Male author

A New Earth and A New Heaven - William Boyle Hill (ca. 1861-1953) (Watts & Co, 1936)
Two eutopias. Hopetown is a model town for workers. Dawn City stresses eugenics. Vegetarian. No religion. No money. Health examination every three months. Standardized dress. Set in Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Irish author; Male author

"Nightmare?--Or Vision" - F. E. Hayes (Action (London), 1936)
Brief fascist eutopia. Better roads. Improved life for farmers and workers with new housing for both.

Nobody Talks Politics; A Satire with an Appendix on Our Political Intelligentsia - Geoffrey [Edgar Solomon] Gorer (1905-85) (Michael Joseph, 1936)
Dystopia in which fascism is brought about by a lack of concern. Satire on the political awakening of the middle class.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Our Stranger; A Kinemato-Romance - Edgar Meredith (Grayson & Grayson, 1936)
Two utopias. The first is a vision of the far, far future. The second, set in the 1970s, is a communal eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Owl of Athene - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) (Hutchinson & Co, 1936)
Story told by the owl about the gods' concern with human conflict. The gods produce conflict between humans and crabs which forces the human race to work together. A vaguely described eutopia results.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Paradise Found or Where the Sex Problem has been solved (A Story from South America) - C[harles] Wicksteed Armstrong F.R.G.S. (1871-ca 1963) (John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1936)
A eutopia describing a eugenic colony in Brazil called Eugenia. Relatively few laws. The natural position of women is child-rearing and domestic labor while that of men is combat and work. Sexual freedom for the unmarried but self-control is stressed. Voluntary euthanasia. Defective children killed. The author had previously made a proposal for such a colony; see his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review (London) 25.2 (n.s. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97. See also 1892 Armstrong, The Yorl of the Northmen; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Prosperity In the Year 2000 A.D. Achieved by Democratic Steps As the natural result of abolishing all taxes upon business, industry, commerce and agriculture, leaving for the necessary expenses of government its natural revenue, economic rent as determined by the site value of land. As presented in a series of conversations between Justin Waterson, a retired Chicago merchant, eighty-five years of age, and his grandson, Charles Waterson, aged seventeen. A Challenge to State Socialism - Henry Ware Allen (Christopher Pub. House, 1936)
Detailed eutopia describing the operation of a federal world state with industry essentially self-governing. Includes the single tax on land. 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

Red Comet: A Tale of Travel in the U S S R - Geoffrey Trease (1909-98) (Co-operative publishing society of foreign workers in the U.S.S.R., 1936)
Children’s book that depicts the Soviet Union as a eutopia seen through the eyes of two children from the United States who are able to fly around the country. Particular emphasis on the Soviet children. An author’s note at the end says that it is based on his own travels around the country in 1935.
U.K. ed. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1937. U.S. ed. New York: International Publishers, 1937. Both the U.K. and U.S. eds. were printed in Moscow.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Retreat from Armageddon - Muriel Jaeger (1894-1969) (Duckworth, 1936)
Set in a house-party waiting for the coming of war. Each guest is asked to speak. One (a biologist) presents a eugenic eutopia; the next (an artist) presents a critique of the eugenic eutopia which stresses that it will become a dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Rude Awakening: A Story with a Warning" - F. A. S. Smith (Action (London), 1936)
Brief picture of the dystopia that will be created if the Jews control the world.

Sell England? - [John Percy Vyvian] Dacre Balsdon (1901-77) (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1936)
Satire on 20th Century England set in the future when Africa is the center of civilization.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Short History of the Future - John Langdon-Davies (1897-1971) (George Routledge & Sons, Ltd, 1936)
Twenty-four prophecies of the future, mostly fairly short term but with others extending to 4000 A.D. Both eutopian and dystopian projections.
U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles" - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (The Simpleton, The Six, and the Millionaires: Three Plays, 1936)
Satire describing a eugenic experiment on an isolated island using group marriage. Ends with a satire on the Day of Judgment, which Shaw presents as the point of the play.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Vision of Judgment. In The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 741-846, with the “Preface” on 745-64. See his “Preface on Days of Judgment.” The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 745-64. Rpt. with the subtitle “(The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles).” In his The Complete Prefaces. Volume 3: 1930-1950. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1997), 229-41. See also his “The Simple Truth of the Matter (A reply to the assertion of Joseph Wood Krutch in The Nation New York [140 (March 6, 1935): 286-87] that Shaw’s recent plays were merely vaudeville, quite devoid of meaning.” Malvern Festival Book, 1935). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays with their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1973), 6: 841-46.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"The Sleeper Wakes: A Christmas Eve Fantasia - Henry Gibbs (Blackshirt: The Patriotic Worker's Paper (London), 1936)
Brief fascist eutopia. Shops full of British made goods plus some from the Empire. Only a few items from outside those areas, and those things that the British "don't bother to make." No food from outside the empire. Many workers returned to farming; they have good housing, schools, and nurseries.
Keywords: Male author

Tartan Shirts - Archibald Crawford (Putnam, 1936)
Satire on the various pre-World War II movements that were identified by the color of their shirts.
Keywords: Male author

They Found Atlantis - Dennis [Yates] Wheatley (1897-1977) (Hutchinson, 1936)
Atlantis as a eutopia. The Azores are the peaks of the mountains of the submerged Atlantis. Most of the book is concerned with its discovery.
U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1936. Rpt. in his Worlds Far From Here (London: Hutchinson, [1954]), 745-1120.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Virgin King. A Novel - Francis Watson (b. 1907) (D. Appleton-Century Co, 1936)
Satire on dictatorship.
Keywords: UK author

The Wide, White Page - Beall Cunningham (Hutchinson, 1936)
A colony of men in Antarctica that is harmonious until the first woman arrives. The men decide to keep the harmony, and the woman leaves.
Keywords: Male author

Wild Harbour - Ian Macpherson (1905-44) (Paul Harris Publishing, 1936)
Dystopia. The novel is about a response to the forthcoming war in which a couple hide themselves on a remote Scottish island. At the end the war has occurred with devastating effects on the world which ultimately reach them.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

13 Seconds that Rocked the World, or the Mentator - John J[oseph] Meyer (1873-1948) (Rae D. Henkle, 1935)
Eutopia created by scientists taking control and using their knowledge to improve the human race. Telepathy. In 1942 Meyer where the eutopia is "The Mentator World". See also 1917 Meyer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Adam Revisits Paradise - Ralph Chaplin (1887-1961) (Pilgrimage Series No. 1, 1935)
Adam returns to Eden and finds that he could return permanently without Eve. Adam chooses Eve and expulsion from Eden.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Best Is Yet To Be; A Forecast of the Perfect Social State - Alfred Norman (James Clarke, 1935)
Non-fiction outline of a Christian democratic socialist eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

"The Celestial Visitor" - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
Satire on a visitor to Earth from Eutopia who is dissatisfied with contentment, and Earth provides the alternative. Eutopia has no laws and is based equality.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Comrade Gulliver: An Illustrated Account of Travel into that Strange Country the United States of America - Gellert, Hugo (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935)
Social satire. Vignettes of life in the United States presented as Gulliveriana.
Keywords: Male author

Depression Island - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Author, 1935)
The first part of the book is a satire on capitalism in which three men shipwrecked on an island recreate class. The second part of the book is a satire on gender relations.
The book originated as a few pages in his The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933), 25-31.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dissolution of Governments by Greed, Crime and Wars - L. P. Lidback (np, 1935)
The pamphlet has two sections, "The United States, Land of Individual Initiative in Industry, Crime, and Graft" (5-9) and "A Government of the People, By the People, and For the People" (11-27). The first shows what is wrong in the U.S., and the second presents the eutopia, which is an adaptation of the Industrial Army from 1888 Bellamy, through the 1965 inaugural address of the U.S. President. There is an organization chart of "The Edward Bellamy System of Industrial Government" on 27.

Doctor Crosby's Strange Experience or a New World By 1944 - Joseph W[illiam] Parker (The Peerage Press, 1935)
Detailed socialist eutopia based on the ideas of Edward Bellamy and set in Kansas City and its environs. Private property only in personal effects. All work for the government, guaranteed lifetime income. No money. Education to 25; work 26 years; retire at 50 or, by choice, continue to work. Hours of work determined by demand and difficulty. Considerable concern with farming, which is scientifically based and uses technology extensively. See also [1941?] Parker.
Some copies have Kansas City crossed out and replaced with Chicago, IL, and the press moved to Chicago at this time.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Escape" - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) (Astounding Stories (New York), 1935)
Eugenics. Initially presented as dystopian but given a positive twist at the end.
Rpt. in his Cloak of Aesir (Chicago, IL: Shasta, 1952), 47-69; rpt. (New York: Lancer Books, [1972]), 47-69; and in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 131-47.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Flight of the Blue Eagle. A Fantastic Story Portraying the Social and Political Evolution of a New Economic System in the United States between the years 1934 and 1945 - Francis Joseph Bingham (De Vorss & Co, 1935)
Mostly on the depression, its effects, an attempted Communist takeover of the United States, first by electoral means and then by civil war, and the successful resistance to it. The New Deal failed but laid the necessary basis for future change. The eutopia, which is presented piecemeal throughout the book includes an Industrial Army similar to that found in 1888 Bellamy and elements of Technocracy (see 1933 Loeb) and Upton Sinclair's EPIC program (see 1933 Sinclair).
Keywords: Male author

Fraudulent Conversion. A Romance of the Gold Standard - [Matilda Angela Antonia] [Hunter] (1877-1960) (Stanley Paul, 1935)
Eutopia. A wealthy man sets out to reform England and fights for reform against fascists. Gaining control of newspapers and the bank were essential to his success. He buys freedom for prisoners of dictators. Slum clearance and medical reform.
Keywords: English author; Female author

God's Secret - Arthur Stanwood Pier (1874-1966) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935)
Life without death. Last chapter describes a very general eutopia of peace and plenty.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Going West - James Bramwell (1911-1995) (Cobden-Sanderson, 1935)
A god creates an island (Land of Perpetual Love) and peoples it, expecting it to become eutopian. It has to be destroyed.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Green Child: A Romance - Herbert [Edward] Read (1893-1968) (William Heinemann, 1935)
Two imaginary countries. The first is located in South America and is a benevolent dictatorship. The second is under England, and, in it, mental perfection is the goal of life.
Rpt. without the subtitle London: Grey Walls Press, 1945 with illustrations by Felix Kelley; New York: New Directions, 1935 with an introduction by Graham Green, which is rpt. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1969.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hespamora - James Francis Dwyer (1874-1952) (Methuen & Co, 1935)
Includes a description of a dystopian community for the idle rich.
Keywords: Australian author; French author; Male author; US author

If I Were Dictator - [Charles] Vernon [Olldfield] Bartlett (1894-1983) (Methuen, 1935)
Benevolent dictatorship and its failures. Series of reforms. Tolerance. Eliminate the arms trade and replace the military with a League of Nations militia. Eliminate single family homes and replace them with apartment houses with facilities for interaction. Open up the countryside.
Keywords: English author; Male author

If I Were Dictator - H[ugh] R[ichard] L[awrie] Sheppard (1880-1937) (Methuen, 1935)
Proposals for church reform, although most of the book is criticism of the current churches. The proposed reforms include cooperation among denominations, the recognition of others than the Church of England by the state, and the pooling of church endowments.
Keywords: English author; Male author

If I Were Dictator - James Maxton (1885-1946) (Methuen, 1935)
A eutopia based on a series of reforms. World disarmament, world government with national and local governments abolished, a new currency, English as the universal language, no poverty, shorter work hours in better conditions, improved education, and women economically independent.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

If I Were Dictator. From a Speech delivered at Blackpool on May 24th 1935 - The Right Hon. Sir Herbert [Louis] Samuel (1870-1963) (Liberal Publication Department, 1935)
Outlines the policies of Liberalism at the time. Remove trade restrictions; stabilize currencies; limit armaments; stimulate employment; reduce taxation; extend social reforms; develop industrial self-government; and enhance liberty and equality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

If I Were New Zealand's Dictator - Irwin, Madeleine (Emeny & Co., Printers, 1935)
Essay supporting Social Credit. Detailed economic and parliamentary reforms.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"In Caverns Below" - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
Satire on the modern world, particularly world politics through a world inside the earth. Mechanically advanced authoritarian system in which war is considered good. Monopoly capitalism. Beauty consists of looking old and being fat.
Rpt. in Fantastic Stories Quarterly (New York) 1.3 (Fall 1950): 11-86; as Hidden World. New York: Avalon Books, 1957; and New York: Airmont, 1964; and as In Caverns Below. New York: Garland, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Inner Domain" - Phil [Felix Edward] Collas (1907-89) (Amazing Stories, 1935)
Technological eutopia of aborigines underground in the center of Australia. Includes descriptions of the mistreatment of the aborigines by the settlers and a projection into a future of cooperation and racial harmony.
Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 1989. 2nd ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 1994.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Island of Not-Me. A True Chronicle of the Life of Geoghan Willbe on The Island of Not-Me, preceded by an Account of His Person before His Arrival upon that famous Isle - Ezra Gerson Gotthelf (1907-81) (Galleon Press, 1935)
Dystopian satire mostly directed at religion and higher education. Not-me is supposed to reject vanity, but the main characters are vain.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Isle of Madness" - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
A dystopia that literally reflects the title.
Keywords: Female author; US author

It Can't Happen Here. A Novel - [Harry] Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) (Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1935)
Dystopia of Fascism in the United States. The novel focuses on a small-town New England journalist and his reactions to the rise and success of a U.S. fascist movement, its complete abrogation of the U.S. constitution, its violent suppression of anyone thought to be a less than wholehearted supportive, the establishment of concentration camps, and the beginnings of a resistance movement. The U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 includes a publisher’s note saying that while the title It Can’t Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the UK also. There is a theatrical version by Lewis and John C. Moffitt as It Can’t Happen Here: A New Version, by Sinclair Lewis of the Play by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis from the Lewis Novel. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1938. Produced by the Federal Theater Project in 1936 and re-written from those scripts. A new theatrical version written by Tony Taccone (b. 1951) and Bennett S. Cohen and directed by Lisa Peterson was produced at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2016 with a new production on You Tube October 13 - November 13, 2020. Also in October 2020 National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and other theaters produced a virtual, recorded reading of the 1936 script in Yiddish, English, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Hebrew with English subtitles.
Rpt. Garden City, NY: The Sun Dial Press, [1936?]; New York: Triangle Books, 1939; New York: Dell, 1961; and without the subtitle New York: New American Library, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Michael Meyer (v-xv). The UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 includes a publisher's note saying that while the title It Can't Happen in America was considered, it was felt that the circumstances fit the UK also.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Land Under England - [John] Joseph O'Neill (1886-1953) (Victor Gollancz, 1935)
Lost race dystopia of a Roman civilization under England in which all but a few people are absorbed mentally into the whole. Children are taught only what they need to know for their station in life.
U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935. Rpt. with an “Introduction” by Anthony Storr (1-4). Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1981.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Laughing Buccaneer - Will[iam] Lawson (1876-1957) (Angus and Robertson, 1935)
Dystopia. Amazons enslave men but a white man conquers and enslaves the women.
Rpt. with the subtitle on the cover A Romantic Story of the South Seas. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Frank Johnson, [1942].Also published as a supplement to the Australian Women’s Weekly 6.17 (October 1, 1938): 1-24.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

Lift Up Your Eyes - Ambrose [Goddard Hesketh] Pratt (1874-1944) (Robertson & Mullens, 1935)
Religious eutopia, mostly seen in the planning stages. Orphans are educated to be missionaries.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Machine" - [John Wood] [Campbell] [Jr.] (1910-71) (Astounding Stories, 1935)
A flawed utopia. In this case the flaw is complete dependence on a machine intelligence. First story in a sequence, followed by “The Invaders.” Illus. [Elliott] Dold. Astounding Stories 15.4 (June 1935): 54-67 in which aliens invade Earth and, while settling the planet, work to reinvigorate the humans who had become so dependent of machine intelligence; and “Rebellion.” Illus. [Elliott] Dold. Astounding Stories 15.6 (August 1935): 64-85 in which humans, with their intelligence revived, expel the aliens.
Rpt. in A New Dawn: The Complete Don A. Stuart Stories. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2003), 53-68.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Man With Four Dimensional Eyes” - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Wonder Stories, 1935)
The man of the title is blind in our world but can see in an alternative high-tech eutopian world that he has seen since he was a child and describes he some detail.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Martha Brown M.P.; A Girl of To-Morrow - [Annie Sophie ("Vivian")] [Cory] (1868-1952) (T. Werner Laurie, 1935)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Cheap ed. London: T Werner Laurie, [1936].
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Midas Touch” - John Millard (Story-teller (London), 1935)
Story of a modern man with the Midas touch. His use of it for good causes serious disruption but at the end, when he loses the touch, it has resulted in peace and prosperity.
Keywords: Male author

My First Days in the White House. Dedicated to the Lazarus of Today and Tomorrow - Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935) (The Telegraph Press, 1935)
Presentation of what Long (1893-1935) intended to do if elected President, including major government projects, particularly his Share the Wealth program that was designed to limit and redistribute wealth and to assist agriculture, all of which will produce a much better society. About half the novel is about the details of getting his economic plan accepted, defended in court, and implemented.
Rpt. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Nightmare Number Three” - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) (The New Yorker, 1935)
A revolt by machinery against humans. Animals and vegetation come to their aid.
Rpt. in The Complete Works of Stephen Vincent Benét. Volume One Poetry (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942), 452-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest - [William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) (Methuen, 1935)
Advanced human beings and the society they create. The eutopia is a small part of the work. Stapledon wrote many utopias.
Rpt. as the Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Wendy Snow-Lang and with a brief "Introduction" (unpaged) by Alfred Bester. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. Rpt. as Odd John: THE Masterpiece of the Superhuman Race that May Replace Humanity Sooner than You Think! New York: Galaxy, 1936. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 8. U.S. ed. rpt. with the original title in his To the End of Time: The Best of Olaf Stapledon Ed. Basil Davenport (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1953), 413-569. Rpt. (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), 413-569; as Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Ernest [sic]. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1965; and in Odd John & Sirius: Two Science Fiction Novels (New York: Dover Publications, 1972), 1-157.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Of Lunar Kingdoms; A Group of Informal Essays" - Henry Lovejoy Wilson (Dissertation. State University of Iowa., 1935)
A discussion of the elements of an aristocratic eutopia on the moon. Some humor, some fantasy, but mostly a general discussion of principles.
Published without the subtitle Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1937.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"One Hundred Generations" - Philip Jacques Bartel (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
Set in the same world as 1934 Bartel. Guilds based on family groups, such as Eugenics, Nutrition, Transportation, Science-Research, Construction, and Communications.
Keywords: Male author

Out of the Night: A Biologist’s View of the Future - H[ermann] J[oseph] Muller (1890-1967) (Vanguard, 1935)
While most of the book discusses the current poor state of the human race, the end of the book moves to what humanity can become if it chooses to take control of its own destiny through science, and eugenics specifically.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1984.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Perfect World" - Benson Herbert (1912-91) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
World inside a planet with perfect physical surroundings.
Abridged as Crisis! 1992. London: Grant Richards, 1936.
Keywords: English author; Male author