"Love Conquers All" - Fred [Thomas] Saberhagen (1930-2007) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1974)
Dystopia based on Zero Population Growth.
Repub. New York: Ace Books, 1979. Rev. ed. New York: Baen, 1985.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Lust in Action" - John [Stinsom] Glassco (1909-81) (The Fatal Woman, 1974)
Lesbian dystopia. All men are castrated at age twenty. Any insult to a woman before that age results in prison and a band around the penis that causes intense pain if there is an erection. The women are generally presented negatively. The story takes place within a prison.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (The Octagon Press, 1974)
Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Messengers Will Come No More - Leslie A[aron] Fiedler (1917-2003) (Stein and Day, 1974)
Set in the twenty-fifth century with a variety of societies after a future catastrophe. The main society described has black women at the top of hierarchy with white men at the bottom and is an authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Militants - Nivi-Kofi A. Easley (Carlton Press, 1974)
Black and white men and women working together, and sometimes against each other, planning and fomenting a revolution against the white patriarchy.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Mother Earth Revisited: When Women in Politics Are Old Hat" - Bella [Savitsky] Abzug (1920-1998) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
An interview that is presented as having taken place in 2000 set in a world where Earth is primarily female and the moon and satellites in space are primarily male, a situation brought about by negotiation and political compromise. There had been a nuclear war, Earth had been made largely uninhabitable and people on Earth lived underground. Traditional gender roles have disappeared.
Keywords: Female author; US author

My Petition for More Space - John [Richard] Hersey (1914-93) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1974)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Lanark - W[illiam] L[eslie] Herd (P V Publications, 1974)
Poem with notes outlining the better society created by Robert Owen (1771-1858) at New Lanark, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2nd ed. Crowborough, Sussex, Eng.: P V Publications, 1974. 3rd ed. Crowborough, Sussex, Eng.: P V Publications, 1975.
Keywords: Male author

Noah’s Castle - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) (Oxford University Press, 1974)
Young adult dystopia set in a world with a collapsing economy with extreme inflation, based on Post-World War I Germany. The novel focus on a man who hoards non-perishable goods to protect his family while causing problems for others.
U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Pale Hands" - Doris Piserchia (1928-2021) (Orbit, 1974)
The story is set in a future New York City where sex is prohibited to control population and Fifth Avenue is lined with masturbation booths.
Rpt. in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 202-217, with a biographical note on 458-460 and a note on the text on 485.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Pale Invaders - [Geoffrey Robins] [Crosher] (1911-90) (Chatto and Windus, 1974)
A young adult post-catastrophe novel presenting a simple, agricultural society in eutopian terms. When girls are of an age to have children, they enter the "Parent's House" together with the boy of their choice, as long as he agrees. The Pale Invaders are outsiders who are searching for coal to use in re-starting the technology that brought about the catastrophe. The novel ends with the notion that this time it can be done better.
U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Paradise Game - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (DAW Books, 1974)
The planet Pharos is a paradise with no conflict, and the novel focuses on the conflict between those who want to package it for profit or conserve it.
U.K. ed. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1976. 158 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) (Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, 1974)
Simple, Edenic eutopia as setting for the sexual coming-of-age of twins.
Rpt. in her The Collected Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats. Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, 1995), 58-67.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"People's Park" - Charles Ott (Vertex, 1974)
Overpopulation dystopia. Parks have to exclude people because the parks were being destroyed by too many visitors.
Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 33-37.
Keywords: Male author

“Picnic on Nearside” - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1974)
The story takes place on the moon in a world where it is possible to change body type, gender, and so forth many times and many other technological changes, generally presented favorably. The protagonist, a boy, and a friend, who has recently had the change from male to female, visit to an undeveloped part of the moon, called Nearside, where they find an old man living, the last human on Nearside, and even though undeveloped and abandoned, Nearside is also presented mostly positively.
Rpt. in his The Barbie Murders (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 236-60; book reissued as Picnic on Nearside (New York: Berkley, 1984), 236-60; and in Humanity 2.0. Ed. Alex Shvartsman (Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick/Arc Manor, 2016), 111-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Power - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) (Dell Books, 1974)
A future Earth and its space empire is an autocratic system with an elected but all-powerful Emperor. It is faced with a mutiny led by the son of one of the Emperor's advisors, and much of the novel is about the struggle between father and son and about the uses of power for good and ill.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pre-Persons" - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1974)
Dystopia in which abortion is available until the child is 12.
Rpt. in his The Golden Man. Ed. Mark Hurst (New York: Berkley, 1980), 303-31; and in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Little Black Box (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 275-96. The paperback edition has it in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick. Volume 5 The Eye of the Sibyl (New York: Citadel Twilight, 1992), 275-96.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Prognosis: Terminal" - Dave [David Edward] McDaniel (2020 Vision, 1974)
The future society is generally presented positively, but there is still significant inequality and violence. Domed cities; light drugs readily available.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Proposed Constitutional Model for the Newstates of Americas" - Rexford G[uy] Tugwell (1891-1979) (The Emerging Constitution, 1974)
A proposed new constitution for the U.S. designed for a reconfigured United States and to correct flaws in the original document. Includes a section of rights and responsibilities, a single presidential term of nine years, an appointed Senate with life terms, a House of Representatives with some at-large members representing regions rather than the fifty states, a Electoral Branch to oversee elections, a Planning Branch to coordinate income and expenses over time, a Regulatory Branch to charter and regulate corporations, and a reformed judiciary designed to be more efficient. One underlying principle, particularly influencing the changes to Congress is to create a strong national government with lesser regional power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pyramids for Minnesota--A Serious Proposal" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Harper's Magazine, 1974)
A proposal to build pyramids in Minnesota that includes a brief suggestion of a voluntary corps reminiscent of 1905 Wells's samurai.
Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 167-69 with editor's notes on 167 and 170.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Ramparts" - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) (Universe, 1974)
A pastoral eutopia that is vegetarian, democratic, and completely peaceful has always sent its eccentrics and antisocial people into the surrounding forests and forgotten them. The forest people return and kill the inhabitants one of the towns.
Rpt. (New York: Popular Library, 1976), 165-91.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Rats - James [John] Herbert (1943-2013) (New English Library, 1974)
Dystopia in which rats destroy civilization but ultimately appear to be defeated. His Lair. London: New English Library, 1979. U.S. ed. New York: New American Library, 1979 (PSt) is a sequel where the rats return. His Domain. New York: Signet, 1985 is a post-nuclear war story where the survivors have to fight rats that thrive on radiation (CU-Riv).
U.S. ed. New York: New American Library, 1975. A graphic novel version is The City: The Rats Saga Continues.... London: Pan Books, 1994. Ellipses in the original. Illus. by Ian Miller. Lettered by Judy Balchin.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Sex Savages - [Jory] [Sherman] (Barclay House, 1974)
Erotic lost race tale. Amazons; strong, dominant women.
Keywords: Male author

The Sodom and Gomorrah Business - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Pocket Books, 1974)
Future dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Songs of War" - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Nova, 1974)
Satire on radical feminism in which an anti-male movement and solidarity among women fails.
Rpt. in her The Killer Mice (London: Victor Gollancz, 1976), 53-95; her Other Stories and The Attack of The Giant Baby (New York: Berkley, 1981), 50-95; and her Weird Women, Wired Women (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1998), 56-91.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Sunrise West" - William K. Carlson (b. 1937) (Vertex, 1974)
Post catastrophe dystopia focusing on something very like a Hippie commune that is composed of people and highly developed animals that is the beginning of a better future.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tales from the Golden Age [The Positive Image] - Inwood, Robert (Intermedia Press, 1974)
Ecological eutopia in the form of a cartoon book set in a post-catastrophe U.S.
Keywords: Male author

The Teacher As World Citizen - Theodore [Burghard Hurt] Brameld (1904-87) ([Kappa Delta Pi Press], 1974)
Eutopia set in 2000 stressing world government, socialist humanism, and ecology. The book is dedicated to his friend Marion Bellamy Earnshaw (1886-1978), daughter of Edward Bellamy, and he stresses the connection between his book and Bellamy's Looking Backward. The book begins December 26, 2000, which is the date of the "Preface" to Looking Backward.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Time Deer" - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 (Red Deer Planet, 1974)
The story begins in a near-future where “the Monday morning traffic jam was three days old” (54), but its focus is on an old man watching a boy (his younger self but with knowledge of his own future) who is watching a deer. The old man is on his way to a doctor’s appointment arranged by the boy as adult with the intent of having his father declared incompetent. The ending is eutopian.
Rpt. Worlds of If 22.8 (175) (November-December 1974): 45-50; and in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 54-60. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii].
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"Transhumans--2000" - F[ereidoun] M. Esfandiary (1930-2000) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Future eutopia in which human differentiation is overcome.
Keywords: Iranian author; Male author; US author

"The Utopian States of America" - Wilmot Robertson (Ventilations, 1974)
Racist utopia proposing separation of the racial and ethnic groups. This would result in “a colorful mosaic of small nation states and free municipalities, each with a differentiated gene pool, a differentiated way of life and differentiated styles of art, literature and music. . .” (54). Specifically, the “Yellow Races,” African Americans, Southern Europeans, and Jews will be put in separate enclaves, as will Native Americans, Latin Americans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans. The enclaves will have no contact with the white majority except as needed for defense and economic policies, which will be controlled by the whites. There is also some brief analysis of earlier utopias. His The Dispossessed Majority. Cape Canaveral, FL: Howard Allen Enterprises, 1973 (586 pp.) is described by the publisher as “A spirited defense of Americans of Northern European descent and a scholarly confutation of those who write wishfully of the Wasp’s demise.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Vision - David [R.] Wilkerson (1931-2011) (Spire Books Fleming H. Revell, 1974)
Prediction, some of which the author says occurred between writing and publication but others of which may take place generations in the future, culminating in Armageddon (See Revelation 16).
Rpt. New York: Pillar Books, 1975; and as The vision and beyond: prophecies fulfilled and still to come. Lindale, TX : World Challenge Publications, 2003. © David Wilkerson Youth Crusades.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Walk to the End of the World - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (Ballantine Books, 1974)
Post-catastrophe dystopia where almost all past knowledge has been lost and civilization, such as it is, is restricted to a small area called the Holdfast. Women are called Fems, are effectively slaves, and are believed by the men to be animals with no intelligence. The men have a rigid hierarchy based on age. The novel ends with Alldera, a Fem, escaping the Holdfast in hopes of finding the rumored Free Fems. See also 1978, 1994, and 1999 Charnas.
Rpt. in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 1-215.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Waves of Ecology" - Leonard Tushnet (1908-73) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1974)
Satire on a temporarily successful attempt to eliminate cars and improve the ecology.
Rpt. in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 145-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Web of Everywhere - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Bantam Books, 1974)
Future dystopia based on instant transportation to anyplace. The novel focuses on a man who visits places he is not supposed to visit.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1977.
Keywords: English author; Male author

What in the World Will Happen Next? - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) (Salem Kirban, Inc, 1974)
Heaven as eutopia. See also 1968 and 1970 Kirban; his I Predict Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1973 (with many later editions with updated predictions); and his New Age Secret Plan for World Conquest. Rev. ed. Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 1992.
Rpt. with the subtitle Answers to Life’s Four Most Important Questions What Is Life! Rapture! Hell! Heaven! Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wife Styles and Life Styles - Frank M. Darrow (Author, 1974)
Presents two societies, each a mixture of good and bad. One is a matriarchy and polygamous. The other is monogamous and very conservative. Attack on the birth control pill.
Keywords: Male author

Wild Jack - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Hamilton, 1974)
Young adult novel set in 23rd century England in which an authoritarian dystopia is contrasted with an outlaw culture.
U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Winter's Children - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (Gollancz, 1974)
Dystopia set in a new ice age in a small community threatened by cannibals and telepathic Pads controlled by a single man.
Rpt. London: Sphere Books, [1976]. Parts originally published as “Discover a Latent Moses.” Illus. Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) Galaxy Science Fiction 30.1 (April 1970): 32-53, 158; and “The Snow Princess.” Illus. Uncredited. Galaxy Science Fiction 31.2 (January 1971): 28-54.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Women in Motion" - Lucinda [Laura] Franks (b. 1946) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Eutopia stressing physical fitness for both men and women with schools no longer having boys' teams and girls' teams.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Wonderful All-Purpose Transmogrifier” - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology, 1974)
Dystopia about a machine that can provide all experience and is addictive.
U.K. ed. Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1975), 227-35. “Afterword” (235-36).
Keywords: Male author; US author

World Peace? Will women succeed where men consistently failed? - Dr. Charlotte M. Steiner (Author, 1974)
An odd pamphlet that argues “Prenatal Education” can produce children with specific characteristics, good or bad. The pamphlet outlines what the mother should do regarding diet, exercise, and “purposeful activities,” during pregnancy to bring about the only vaguely described eutopia. The author says that this is based on the writings of Dr. O. Z. Hanish (1844/56?-1936), whose writings on Prenatal Education were brought together in two collections published in Amsterdam in 1976. The book ends by mentioning a forthcoming novel, It All Starts in the Womb by Frank D. Steiner, which will illustrate Prenatal Education but does not appear to have even been published.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Young Love" - Grania [Eve] Davis (1943-2017) (Orbit 13, 1974)
Overpopulation dystopia. Sexless love in a disintegrating society where most people live in communities with all their activities regulated. From age 12 boys and girls live in separate communities. Chemical food. Large numbers are homeless. Generally unintelligent and uneducated. The Army does work like street cleaning that robots are not able to do.
Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 206-22.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Your Time, Your Station" - David [Allan] Saperstein (b. 1937) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
The present day presented from the point-of-view of a future eutopia that stresses great variety rather than the uniformity seen in the present.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"1984" - [Ed] [Bereal] (b. 1937) (Guerrilla Theatre, 1973)
Dystopia of a race war in 1984.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aftermath 15 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) (Robert Hale, 1973)
Authoritarian dystopia after a nuclear war with the U.S. divided into red, blue, and white zones based on exposure to radiation. Those released from the red to the blue become slaves as do those released from the blue to the white. The white zone includes a huge city, over a mile high which is an overpopulation dystopia except for those at the top. Outside the city is a gold zone for the elite of the elite. Described as the first volume of a trilogy and ends in a manner that requires a continuation, but no evidence can be found of later volumes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Altar Egoes" - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) (Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fact and Science Fiction, 1973)
Short satire on marriage in the future and the difficulties of the few who choose it.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Anti-Zota - Eric [Alexander] Burgess (1912-95); Arthur [Henry] Friggens (b. 1920) (Robert Hale, 1973)
Eutopia for some, dystopia for others. Long-lifers versus short-lifers.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Beachhead in Utopia" - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) (Omega, 1973)
Dystopia. International Poverty Control Agency--if, after retraining, a person cannot find a job, they and their family are executed. Successfully eliminates welfare.
Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1974), 143-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Beast in View" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Omega, 1973)
A eutopian society (peaceful, vegetarian) tries to deal with a throwback.
Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1973), 70-82.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains - Sylvia [Louise] Engdahl (b. 1933) (Atheneum, 1973)
Continuation of 1972 Engdahl. In this novel most of story is concerned with a villager who had earned the right to become a Scholar and his despair over what he learns. But at the end he reinterprets the Prophecy on which the civilization is built in a way that will bring about change in the future. See also 1981 Engdahl.
Rpt. with minor revisions in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 217-421 together with 1972 and 1981 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21), in which she notes that this volume was intended for teenagers, whereas the first was intended for children, and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]). Public US
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Breakout in Ecol 2." - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) (Nova, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 40-44
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Bridge - D. Keith Mano (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1973)
Post-catastrophe religious dysytopia. The novel consists of a "Prologue" and "Epilogue" that depict the dystopia, but the bulk of it is the true story of the man who is worshipped, a story that does not match the later beliefs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Captain Blackman - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (Doubleday, 1973)
Most of the novel is concerned with the experiences of African Americans in the U. S. military, specifically in Vietnam. It ends, though with two brief scenes, the first of depicting white officers planning to eliminate African Americans from the military. The second depicts the failure of the plan because African Americans have slowly established themselves in Africa, where they were free from surveillance and have gradually taken control of U. S. nuclear weapons and their delivery systems. The first scene is intended to be the culmination of the dystopian experience of African Americans in the military; the second is intended to be the first step to a better society.
Rpt. with an “Introduction” by Alexs Pate (i-ix). Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2000
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Changing of the Gods" - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) (Infinity Five, 1973)
Dystopia of violence with youth against age.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Children of Morrow - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) (Four Winds Press, 1973)
Two telepathic children born into a primitive post-nuclear war society that they flee to join a telepathic and technologically advanced eutopia. See also 1976 Hoover.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Clear Day in Motor City" - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) (New Worlds 6. The Science Fiction Quarterly, 1973)
Flawed utopia. The story begins in a future eutopian Detroit, Michigan, where everyone gets the day off on a clear day. But the eutopia exists only for those who take drugs, and there are human sacrifices to the old gods.
Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 109-16 with an editor's note on 108-09.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Cloud Walker - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973)
Post-catastrophe society that has abolished machinery and has achieved a good life. Story of a boy who dreams of flying and invents an air ship that brings the eutopian world closer together.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Cold War ... Continued" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Nova, 1973)
While the U.S. and U.S.S.R. are supposedly in détente, they both want to control the resources of the developing world. This story focus on a conflict between them over the resources of one North Africa country, with Japan also trying to gain control of them.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 45-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Complex Man - Marie C. Farca (b. 1935) (Doubleday, 1973)
The protagonist from 1972 Farca twenty-five years later in his advanced but troubled technological society as it undergoes change by trying to incorporate some of the principles of the society in the first novel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Conservations at Lothar's" - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Children of Infinity; Original Science Fiction Stories for Young Readers, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in The Liberated Future. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 229-34.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Count-Down to Black Genocide - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1973)
The dystopia brought about by a plan to eliminate the Black population of the United States in response to the energy crisis. The plan is carried out and most Blacks are killed. The remaining Blacks form Afro-America in what was Florida. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.
2nd ed. Washington, DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1973. The pagination of the two “editions” is identical.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Crash - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Jonathan Cape, 1973)
Dystopia--sex and technology.
Rpt. London: Triad/Panther, 1985. This ed. includes Ballard's "Introduction to the French Edition of Crash (1974)" (5-9). U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Crisis on Earth-X" “Thirteen Against the Earth” - Len [Leonard Norman] Wein (1948-2017) (Justice League of America,, 1973)
Comic in which superheroes overcome the dystopia created when the Nazis' win World War II. Continued in their 1973 "Thirteen Against the Earth."  Justice League of America, no. 108 (December 1973).
Keywords: Male author

"Culture Lock" - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Future City, 1973)
Future society in which homosexual men are given a walled enclave in which to live, but it is unclear whether this is a place to live freely or effectively a prison. The picture of homosexuality is highly ambivalent. 1977 Malzberg is a sequel.
Rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 21-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Death of China, Europe and . . . (The World Ecological Catastrophe). A Very Amusing Satire. A Scientific Tragi-Comedy in 3 Acts - Apollo Silva (b. 1920) (Author, 1973)
The first act is set in Rome in 1990, the second on the moon, and the third on a eutopian island called the Model Country off Sardinia.
Keywords: Male author; Portuguese author

"Desirable Lakeside Residence" - André Norton (1912-2005) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 69-88.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Disneyland Man" - Gustav Hasford (1947-93) (Edge, 1973)
Dystopia--poverty, conflict. Unfit humans used for food.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Don't Hold Your Breath" - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 203-24. Story rpt. in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 523-39.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Doomsday Gene - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright & Talley, 1973)
A gene for short, intense life to help control population growth creates a dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Examination Day" - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) (The Other Side of Tomorrow, 1973)
Authoritarian dystopia with machine-teaching to control action.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Exhibition." - Scott Edelstein (b. 1954) (Nova, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia focusing on the arts.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 141-49.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall and Rise of Man, If . . - Robert L[eonard] Evans (1917-2003) (Lund Press, 1973)
Mostly a detailed criticism of society but includes a set of proposals and a brief (231-33) outline of a eutopian society based on the ideas of Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). The eutopia is to be democratic, socialist, well-educated, protected from central power, and creative.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fanshen and the Magic Bear - Becky Sarah (New Seed Press, 1973)
Children’s story in which a young girl is the tax collector for a king and who hates taking from the poor for the rich king. The female bear, Fanshen, advises the girl to get all the people together and say that they were no longer going to pay taxes, and that they were going to divide the land up equally. They do and, in doing so, create a eutopia in which even the king is happy.
Keywords: Female author

"Faulty Register" - Joe [Joseph Nicholas] Gores (1931-2011) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia. Parallel world without any social or economic problems maintained by televised torture.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Final Solution - Richard E[arl] Peck (b. 1936) (Doubleday, 1973)
University problems of the 1960s and 1970s projected into a dystopian future. Graduates of universities, including some with graduate degrees, cannot read. Students are kept as children through drugs that delay puberty. Children of unwed mothers raised separately with no visits by the mothers. Standard English rejected; Black English required of all students. No grades. Positions like Professor of Shoe Repair. University level driver training.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"For the Good of Society" - Terri E. Pinckard (1930-2004) (Vertex, 1973)
Dystopia of criminality where the only decent people are in prison and it is prisoners who grow the food and manufacture the goods for the entire society.
Rpt as by T[erri] E. Merritt-Pinckard in Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts. Ed. Forrest J. Ackerman (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing, 1997), 241-44.
Keywords: Female author

"Free at Last" - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Infinity Five, 1973)
Dystopia of sex and death in the future with Wide Open Marriage and a U.S. Transition Service providing for death.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Friends Come in Boxes - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (DAW Books, 1973)
Authoritarian dystopia with control of access to immortality. The dystopia that is produced by an usual means of achieving immortality that requires the brains of the immortals to be kept in boxes until the body of a baby is available to receive it. But, with immortality available, few babies are born.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

Future Glitter - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Ace Books, 1973)
Anti-Communist dystopia, which the author makes clear in the "Author's Introduction" (5-8). Successful revolt against the dictatorship by a group of scientists. See the note at 1945 van Vogt.
U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976; and as Tyranopolis. London: Sphere, 1977.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"[Future History]. A Serviceable Past" - C. George Benello (1926-87) (1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume, 1973)
Detailed eutopia of two societies set in 2010. In one, depletion of resources has produced a poor society. In the other, a eutopia is presented that reflects growth and emphasizes ecology and religion. Decentralization, crafts, and education through apprenticeship.
Rpt. as "A Future History." In Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 561-91.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Future Perfect" - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Vertex, 1973)
Flawed utopia. A hyper-organized eutopia that controls all aspects of life for the benefit of each person is defeated by a young man in love with a young woman who, under the rules, he cannot marry.
Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 151-74; and in Transfinite: The Essential A.E. van Vogt. Ed. Joe Rico and Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2002), 389-407.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Futurology: The Real World of 2084" - Richard N. Farmer (d. 1987) (The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Forseeable Future, 1973)
A presentation of eutopian and dystopian scenarios for 1984 focused on the expansion or restriction of choice. The dystopian scenarios, which are only suggested, are environmental collapse, total war, and "mass mind control". The eutopian scenarios are technological and include the ability to choose the details of the child you want, choose your skin color, a radically extended healthy life span, technologically enhanced education with knowledge imprinted directly on the brain, and a variety of other ways that radical new technology might revolutionize life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Ghost Writer" - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Universe, 1973)
Flawed utopia presenting a society of high technical ability that is strongly opposed to change or difference. The story focuses on "authors" who simply repeat fragments of the great writers of the past and one who, having admitted that he writes his own material, is eliminated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (New Dimensions, 1973)
A eutopia that outlaws any misrepresentation of a product (advertising) is being successfully undermined by corporate interests.
Rpt. New York: Tor, 1989. Tor Double bound with Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019). Screwtop [Originally published in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1976), 151-208]; in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 44-79; in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 178-213; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 74-120; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 151-90; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 135-184, with a biographical note on 469-471 and notes on the text on 483-485.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The God Machine - William Jon Watkins (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1973)
Dystopia of a fascist United States creating a police state. There is an opposition movement that uses "The God Machine" to shrink people so that they can escape the authorities. In the end the opposition wins.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Great Wall of Mexico" - John T[homas] Sladek (1937-2000) (Bad Moon Rising, 1973)
Future satirical U.S. dystopia in which there is an incompetent president, the government spies on everyone, the elderly are warehoused, and a wall is built to keep out illegal immigrants. 1971 Waskow is probably the basis for this.
U.K. ed. without the T. in his name (London: Hutchinson of London, 1974), 125-58. Rpt. without the T. in his name in his Keep the Giraffe Burning (London: Panther, 1977), 168-99; and again without the T. in his name in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted December 22, 2005. No longer available online.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Green Gene - Peter [Malcolm de Brissac] Dickinson (1927-2015) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973)
Humorous dystopia in which Apartheid has been designed to exclude all Celts, who are literally green. The humor is directed both at the English and at the Celts and the Irish in particular.
U.S. ed. New York: Pantheon, 1973. Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Harriet" - Stephen [Charles] Goldin (b. 1947); C. F. Hensel (Frontiers 1: Tomorrow's Alternatives. Original Science Fiction, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heart Clock - [Reginald Charles] [Hill] (1936-2012) (Faber and Faber, 1973)
Dystopia in which life expectancy is controlled by the government depending on what the economy can bear.
Rpt. under the author's name as Matlock's System. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 1996.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Hours of Trust" - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (Bad Noon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia of a war in the United States, some of which is faked.
Keywords: Male author; US author

How It All Ended: The Decline and Demise of the West as Reconstructed by Johann Sebastian Barberini in the Year of Our Lord 4776 - Sergio [Franz] Funaro (1922-1986) (A. M. Aronowitz, 1973)
Satire on both Italian and U.S. politics.
Keywords: Male author; San Marino author; US author

If You Believe the Soldiers - [George Alexander] [Graber] (1914-97) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1973)
Dystopia of a right-wing military coup in Britain.
U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"IMT" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia. Disintegration of the cities of the future. Violence, poverty. Hope through a new technology but problems with how to introduce it for the best results.
Rpt. in her Starshadows: Ten Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1977), 88-108.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"In the Group" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Eros in Orbit: A Collection of All New Science-Fiction Stories About Sex, 1973)
Dystopia from the perspective of the protagonist. It is possible to teleport anywhere in the world, but closeness and emotion are considered atavisms. It is only acceptable to love Us, not an individual. In the Group one feels the sensations of a couple having sex and the experiences and responses of those who are experiencing their actions.
Rpt. in Penthouse 4.9 (May 1973): 80-82, 122, 124, 126, 128; in The Shape of Sex to Come. Ed. Douglas Hill (London: Pan Books, 1978), 12-29; in Beyond the Safe Zone: Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1986), 124-36; in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume 3: Beyond the Safe Zone (London: HarperCollins, 1994), 146-62; and in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Four: Trips: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009), 14-28 with an author’s note on 13.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kalos; What Is To Be Done With Our World - Alfred De Grazia (1919-2014) (Kalos Press, 1973)
Detailed eutopia with Tutors similar to the Samurai in 1905 Wells who will help bring it about. Includes specifics of the governmental structure and general statements of the conditions that should be reached in fifty years.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Left On! The Glorious Bourgeois Cultural Revolution - Harry [Heinrich August] Rositzke (1911-2003) (Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1973)
Satire on U.S. politics seen through a eutopia of "evolutionary democracy", which has striking affinities to aspects of China under Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976), including a "Cultural Revolution". Some have read it as intending to present a eutopia; others have read it as an attack on the left. The inside front and back covers have a Chronology of the period covered by the book (July 1972 to February 1975).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Leisure Riots; A Comic Novel - Eric Koch (b. 1919) (Tundra Books, 1973)
Dystopia of vast unemployment. People riot against leisure activities.
Keywords: Canadian author; German author; Male author

"Life in the Year 2000" - Percival Goodman (1904-89) (Royal Institute of British Architects Journal, 1973)
General overview of a better society. See also 1947 Goodman and Goodman and 1977 Goodman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"London Times, 2075 July 15. Reporter Visits Lincoln. First Reporter in 100 Years" - Marion L[undy] Dobbert (b. 1943) (1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume, 1973)
Detailed eutopia--ecologically sound society that stresses the human scale.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Lone Warrior" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
The story begins with the death by torture of a member of the opposition to an authoritarian dystopia with his lover being forced to watch and continues with her systematic attempt to reconnect with the opposition movement and get revenge.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Looking Backward, From the Year 2000 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1973)
Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy, waking in Reynold’s future, described here in the most eutopian of his novels. Everything automated. New world language. The woman he falls in love with rejects him as a throwback. See also 1977 Reynolds, Equality.
U.K. edition. Morley, West Yorkshire, Eng.: Elmfield Press, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lynchers - John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)
As a part of their protest against the dystopia created for blacks in the United States, four black man plan on lynching a white policeman.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Midway Priest - Louis Capson (b. 1944) (Playwrights Co-op, 1973)
Québec has established a separate government. The play centers on a plot to kill a member of the new government.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The National Pastime." - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Nova, 1973)
Dystopia of violence with combat football.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 96-113. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 171-97 with an "Introduction to The National Pastime" (169-70).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Nice Morning Drive" - Richard S. Foster (Road & Track, 1973)
A dystopian story in which government safety features on cars have gone overboard so that the cars are unwieldy, and few people drive for pleasure. The focus of the story is one such driver who drives an unimproved MG Roadster on the back roads, but encounters drivers in improved cars who try to crash into older cars knowing that they will be safe but destroying the older car.
Rpt. in Inspired ‘Red Barchetta’.” 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush. Ed. Kevin J. Anderson and John Mc Fetridge (Toronto, ON, Canada: ECW Press, 2016), 75-81 with a note by Anderson on 74 and an “Author’s Note” on 82-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Noonday Devil" - Dennis [Joseph] O'Neil (b. 1939) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 105-16.
Keywords: Male author

"Notes from 1999" - Arthur [Israel] Waskow (b. 1933) (Working Papers for a New Society, 1973)
Eutopia presented as a future history with the period from 1980 to 1990 called the Period of Transformation. In 1980 Quebec and northern New England become independent and other regional, ethnic, and workplace groups become autonomous. Between 1994 and 1999 the U.S. government collapses and, although there are some continuing problems, the autonomous groups simply work together outside and legal or political structure. The eutopia is presented through letters from a man in a "Irbutz", a farm and city kibbutz in the Washington, DC area that is part of the "Verein" or Jewish Commonwealth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (New Dimensions, 1973)
Flawed eutopia. The suffering of one child is necessary for the existence of a eutopia. See Sarah Pinsker, “The Ones Who Know Where They are Going.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 41.3 & 4 (494 & 495) (March-April 2017): 67-69 for a brief version giving the perspective of the child. Corey Doctorow’s Walkaway. New York: Tor, 2017 is clearly related. P. H. Lee’s “A House by the Sea.” Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 24 (September 2018). https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ is about the lives of the children after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child. Nora K. Jemisin’s,  “The One Who Stay and Fight.” In her How Long ‘Til Black Future Month (New York: Orbit, 2018), 1-13; rpt. Lightspeed Magazine, no. 116 (January 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-ones-who-stay-and-fight/ reflects the story’s title. Cynthia Gómez’s “The Ones Who Came Back to Heal.” Strange Horizons (July 17, 2023). http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-ones-who-come-back-to-heal/ concerns a trans person who had left but returns to try to help the child. A related story that connects the children in Omelas to the refugee crisis is Rene Denfeld, “The Ones Who Don’t Walk Away.” Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 112-116.
Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 224-31; in Utopian Studies 2.1 & 2 (1992): 1-5; in The Secret History of Science Fiction. Ed. James Patrick Kelly and John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2009), 39-44; without the subtitle in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 33-38; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 33-38; and with the subtitle in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume Two Outer Space, Inner Lands (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 1-7; with the subtitle in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 329-36; with the subtitle in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 87-94; and without the subtitle in Futures and Fictions. Ed. Henriette Gunkel, Ayesha Hameed, and Simon O’Sullivan (London: Repeater Press, 2017), 379-88.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Operation Burning Candle. A Novel - Blyden Jackson (1910-2000) (Third Press, 1973)
The dystopia of contemporary U.S. race relations gives rise to a successful plot to kill a number of racist Southern politicians while they are at a political convention in Madison Square Garden in New York City. The ending suggests both that the elimination of these politicians will ease the way to racial integration and that it creates greater solidarity among African Americans.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Our Brilliant Future" - [Bernhardt] Ben Klassen (1918-93) (Nature's Eternal Religion In Two Books. Book I. The Unavenged Outrage Book II: The Salvation, 1973)
Short National Socialist eutopia with the purified "White Race" completely dominant.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Outline of History" - Braly, Malcolm (Bad Moon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia in which most of the prisoners in California jails are dumped into a huge walled compound in the Nevada desert where they are expected to organize their own affairs, with the expected result.
Keywords: Male author

"Paradise Regained" - [Theodore Rose] [Cogswell] (1918-87); [Theodore Lockard] [Thomas] (1920-2005) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 171-79.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paramind - Jim Willer (b. 1921) (McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1973)
Computer dystopia showing the dangers of too much power being given to computers.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Parks of Rest and Culture" - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 19-30.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The People of the Wind" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Analog Science--Science Fact, 1973)
Eutopia of limited government.
Repub. New York: New American Library, 1973. Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Pity the Poor Outdated Man." - Philip Shofner (Nova, 1973)
Flawed utopia. Future eutopian world where myths have been brought to life. One man is bored and uses grenades against peaceful unicorns.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 124-40.
Keywords: Male author

A Plenteous Seed - D[enise] N[atalie] Sims (Robert Hale, 1973)
Revolt in a hierarchical dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

Port of Saints - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) (Covent Garden Press/Am Here Books, 1973)
Dystopia similar to that in 1959, 1961, 1962, and 1964 Burroughs. In this novel Burroughs includes a number of different plot lines, one of which is the attempt to change history by travelling through time.
Different version Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. U.K. ed. London: John Calder, 1983.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Pugilist" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1973)
Authoritarian dystopia. U.S. taken over by Communists. Militarism.
Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 85-117; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2011), 104-27.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Quality of the Product" - Lil Neville; Kris [Ottman] Neville (1925-1980) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 31-54.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Race Against Time - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Hawthorn, 1973)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. The Standards were the few survivors of bacterial warfare and lived on an Earth that was recovering slowly. They stressed no waste and no pollution, but their society was becoming stagnant. Since they still had the old technology, they created groups of individuals of high intelligence of various pure racial stocks who were to live in racially pure enclaves. These people decide to keep the races pure but to cooperate otherwise and will become examples to the Standards.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Randy-Tandy Man" - [Ross Louis] [Rocklin] (1913-88) (Universe, 1973)
The story is set in a society in which hate is controlled by forcing everyone to hate until they purge themselves. The protagonist, who is in the final stages of purges himself, sees the society in dystopian terms, but the story presents it in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Red Canary" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Orbit, 1973)
Bureaucratic welfare dystopia of extreme poverty and the rationing of health care.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 113-33.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Regiment of Women. A Novel - Thomas [Louis] Berger (1924-2014) (Simon & Schuster, 1973)
Dystopia. An extreme form of gender-role reversal in which men have breast implants, women have facial hair implants, and dress and behavior patterns reflect strong versions of female and male stereotypes.
U.K. ed. London: Eyre Methue, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Relatives" - Geo[rge] Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Bad Moon Rising, 1973)
Pollution, overpopulation, authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The R-Master - Gordon R[upert] Dickson (1923-2001) (J. B. Lippincott, 1973)
Flawed utopia governed by the bureaucracy of the Earth Council, which presents itself as governing in the interests of the people but in fact controls them and governs in its own interest. The society has an ideology of complete freedom, but a hidden practice of constant control.
Rev. and exp. as The Last Master. New York: Tor, 1984.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"Roller Ball Murder" - William [Neal] Harrison (1933-2013) (Esquire, 1973)
Dystopia of a future game of violence in a world run by corporations.
Rpt. in his Roller Ball Murder (New York: William Morrow, 1974), 77-95; U.K. ed. (London: Robson Books, 2005), 77-95; and in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 125-36.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Rope of Glass" - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia of a future society where having certain diseases is punishable by death.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Saving the World" - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia with a hopeful ending.
Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 2-17.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Season of Anomy - Wole [Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde] Soyinka (b. 1934) (Rex Collings, 1973)
The first two chapters present a communal eutopia. Much of the rest of the book presents current reality as dystopia, but the eutopian Aiyéró provides the possibility of something better.
Rpt. Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, Eng.: Nelson, 1980.
Keywords: Male author; Nigerian author

Shelter - Dan[iel John] Ljoka (b. 1935) (Manor Books, 1973)
Fallout shelter dystopia. The novel focuses on a shelter in Washington, DC and a shelter in New Zealand. Ultimately everyone dies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Slide Show" - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) (Omega, 1973)
Dystopia of poverty.
Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1973), 83-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Small War" - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia.
Book repub. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 61-67.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Solution PNC and PNCland - [Lyman Spicer] Vincent Judson (Apex University Press, 1973)
Extremely detailed eutopia. PNC = Pseudo-Nation Corporation. Corporations are preferable to governments. The Mideast problem is solved by having all disputed land taken over by the PNC and a new canal built to make the Sinai an island. Three day work week. See also 1976 Judson
Keywords: Male author

Sorry Wrong Number - Margaret Simpson (Andre Deutsch, 1973)
Dystopia. Near future regimented society. Everyone assigned a number. Those without numbers pose problems for the system.
Keywords: Female author

"The Square Root of MC" - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) (New Writings in SF, 1973)
Includes, briefly, a eutopia of peace and plenty on Earth brought about by aliens.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Stone That Never Came Down - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Doubleday, 1973)
Religious dystopia with very strict rules regarding behavior that is also racist. The novel focuses on the spread of a drug that radically improves sense impressions and raises awareness that undermines the dystopia and sets the stage for a better society.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sweet Dreams - Michael Frayn (b. 1933) (William Collins Sons, 1973)
Humor. A typical, upwardly mobile middle-class man dies and goes to a typical, upwardly mobile middle-class heaven.
Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1986. U.S. ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Tenth Planet. A Novel - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973)
Flawed utopia. The novel begins with Earth near death from pollution and war. Mars is to be the next center of human civilization, but it experiences the same problems as Earth. Far in the future the remnant of humanity exists in a society of 10,000 underground on the tenth planet where it is under a static, religious, but benevolent dictatorship that provides a good life for its inhabitants but severely restricts change. A man from the time of the dying Earth is cloned and becomes the focus of conflict and encourages conflict. At the end, he and some others leave to see if Earth can be revived.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Texts of Festival - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973)
Dystopia in which the remaining civilized community is surrounded by barbarians. The civilized community's gods are past rock stars.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Three Tinks on the House" - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby (1921-2005) (Vertex, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia focusing on daily life. The work week is thirty hours but must be done in three days to reduce commuting. Personal security is a major issue. Homosexuality is encouraged to reduce the birth rate.
Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 157-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Time Enough for Love: The Lives of Lazarus Long - Robert A[nson] Heinlein (1907-88) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973)
Wide-ranging detailed eutopia and dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974; and as vol. 2 of The Virginia Edition of his works. Decatur, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2006 and separately Houston, TX: The Virginia Edition, 2008. Excerpts of the aphorisms published as The Notebooks of Lazarus Long. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1978. Extract published in Science Fiction Monthly (London) 1.3 ([March 1974]): 2-4.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Transfer to Yesterday - Isidore Haiblum (1935-2012) (Ballantine Books, 1973)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia with history constantly being rewritten. Competing self-interest groups that replaced government are called Anny, a corruption of Anschluss; anny or anarchist replaces citizen because there is no longer a government. The novel focuses on a man who had chosen to no longer be affiliated with an Anny and was thus considered a Heretic liable to be hunted by anyone.
Rpt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1981.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Trullion: Alastor 2262" - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
A complex society set in an immense populated universe. The society is basically agricultural and generally very happy, but there are conflicts, crime, danger, and a group of outcast gypsies.
Repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973; and San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. U.K. ed. London: Mayflower, 1979. Repub. as vol. 25 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Two Thousand Seasons - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) (East African Publishing House, 1973)
A re-envisioned past of Africa as an egalitarian eutopia.
Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Heinemann Educational, 1979.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

"Two Urban Tomorrows" - Richard N. Farmer (d. 1987) (The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Forseeable Future, 1973)
The two scenarios set in 1984 are an environmental eutopia and, briefly, the dystopia that will be produced by following current policies. The eutopia has strict pollution controls; hydrogen power; a falling birth rate; many people working from home; and lots of two-story apartment building complexes appealing to different constituencies such as the elderly, families, and singles. Taxes within cities are assessed on what the land would be worth if developed so there is no rundown commercial property.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The U. F. O. Story - Robin Kenwood (International Friends, 1973)
The planet Oran is a low population planet. Communal. Cloning. No marriage or family. Live in large towers. The book includes a short section (38-43) on how the eutopia can be brought about on Earth.
Keywords: Male author

The Ultimate Solution - [Eric] [Pelletier] (1899-1979) (Warner Books, 1973)
Dystopia of the U.S. under Nazi rule. Slavery, homosexuality, and violence are the norm.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ultimatum - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) (Clarke, Irwin & Co, 1973)
First of two volumes on conflict between Canada and the United States. In this volume, which is set in 1980, the U.S. tries to get control of Canada's natural gas. See also 1974 Rohmer.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Undercity" - Dean R[ay] Koontz (b. 1945) (Future City, 1973)
Crime in a eutopian city of the future told from the point of view of a professional criminal. Most things like gambling, drugs, and sex that had financed the underworld in the past are now legal and even murder has been replaced by the "code duello". But there are still many opportunities for the creative professional.
Book rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 67-81; and story rpt. in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 218-30; and in Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction. Ed. Joseph D. Olander and Martin Harry Greenberg (New York: New Viewpoints, 1977), 4-15, with an editors’ note on 3-4..
Keywords: Male author; US author

Univaria; A Cultural Alternative" - Dorothy Kuer (b. 1924); Russell La Due (b. 1924) (1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume, 1973)
Detailed eutopia with leadership by people like the samurai in 1905 Wells. Ceiling on income, no inheritance, and no taxes. Decentralization. Limit on family size.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magaroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 593-612.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Unreal People - Martin Siegel (1938-72) (Lancer Books, 1973)
Post-catastrophe underground authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Up-Wingers - F[ereidoun] M. Esfandiary (1930-2000); [Rev. Dr.] [Joseph Denis] [Jackson] (1929-2008) (The John Day Co, 1973)
Detailed eutopia presented as optimistic prediction. Up-wing is the optimistic contract of right and left wing. The eutopia stresses a mobile, communal life with the abolition of possessiveness. The author was born in Iran, the son of an Iranian diplomat, and lived in many countries. He changed his name to FM-2030 and at his death he was frozen with the intent of later being brought back to life. See also 1974 Esfandiary and his Optimism One: The Emerging Radicalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970.
Keywords: Iranian author; Male author; US author

Urban the Ninth - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) (Constable, 1973)
A volume in a linked series on the future of the Roman Catholic Church. In this volume, Pope Marx the First is elected and intends to make radical changes in the Church, but he appears to be killed in a plane crash and a traditionalist from the first volume in the series is elected. See 1973, 1975, and 1976 Marshall for the other volumes in the series.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Velvet Monkey Wrench - John Muir (1918-77) (John Muir Publications, 1973)
Extremely detailed eutopia with a heavy technological element with computers central to almost all aspects of life and much production automated. Stresses cooperation, decentralization, and ecology with procedures for achieving the eutopia laid out in considerable detail.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Village" - Kate [Katie Gertrude Meredith] Wilhelm (1928-2018) (Bad Noon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia in which an absolutely typical U.S. village is invaded by U.S. forces raping the young women and killing everyone.
Rpt. in her The Infinity Box: A collection of speculative fiction (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 277-87.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Wagtail in the Morning" - Grahame Leman (New Writings in SF, 1973)
Dystopia. The leaders of a society that provides people (who they call liveware) with all the consumer goods they want develop a method of controlling people for life by implanting them with a slow-release drug as children.
Keywords: Male author

"The Weariest River" - Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (1926-86) (Future City, 1973)
Dystopia of immortality, which is for sale from the Company. Immortality had produced poverty and intense conflict between old and young. Sexually the young desire the old and vice versa. At an undefined point the old are placed in 'kraals' where they are essentially entombed but unable to die. The story is told from the viewpoint of the inventor of immortality, who stresses the guilt he feels.
Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 94-134; and in his Caution! Inflammable! (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 230-70.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Welcome to the Standard Nightmare." - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Nova, 1973)
The "standard nightmare" is Earth meeting superior aliens, in this case on an alien eutopian planet. The eutopia has all the usual elements of a society in balance and has no government. A man from Earth decides to become the ruler and then decides to invade Earth.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Five (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 85-99. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 11-24.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"When Petals Fall" - Sydney J[oyce] Van Scyoc (1939-2023) (Two Views of Wonder, 1973)
Dystopia. Society making itself poor by maintaining the aged against the hope of future medical advances.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Where Have All the Followers Gone?" - Raylyn [Thyrza] Moore (1928-2005) (Bad Moon Rising, 1973)
Dystopia in which all the hippies and acid heads in California are lured to a camp where they are gassed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Windmill" - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1973)
Ecological dystopia in a post-disaster society. Complex control on the use of resources.
Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 149-70.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Windows in Dante's Hell" - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (Orbit 12: An Anthology of New Science Fiction, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia that divides people based on their contributions to society with those who contribute the least living in the smallest residences in the deepest levels of the city. Everyone is constantly monitored.
Rpt. in his Catacomb Years. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1979), ; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The World as Will and Wallpaper" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Future City, 1973)
Dystopian satire referring to William Morris (1834-96), whose name is used for the protagonist. A city encompasses the world, which is built above land and oceans. The one area of trees in the city is considered huge in that it covers two blocks. The story follows a man who wants to explore the world and his trip reveals that most people are illiterate, communicate poorly, and have very limited lives, but that there is an elite who created the city to keep the majority of the people content and controlled.
Book rpt. (New York: Pocket Books, 1974), 28-43; story rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1974), 27-43; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 356-74, with an Introduction by Samuel R[ay] Delany (353-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Year of the Rats - Barbara Guignon Ricci (Walker, 1973)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

"2032: A Gay Odyssey" - Glenys Parry (Gay News (London), 1972)
Future dystopia of a State Registered Homosexual system that provides facilities for a minority of gays who accept an end to political activity. Those not State Registered are subject to harassment.

334 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (MacGibbon & Kee, 1972)
Near future U.S. as a dystopia with violence, overpopulation, and poverty.
U.S. ed. New York: Avon, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Good War; A Love Story - Peter Roger Breggin (b. 1936) (Stein and Day, 1972)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Great emphasis on sex but no emotional content.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Against Arcturus - Susan K. Putney (Ace Books, 1972)
A well-described alien eutopia on a planet that Earth plans to colonize to settle people from overpopulated worlds. This will require the elimination of the indigenous inhabitants, who are spiritually and socially advanced far beyond humans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Ahab’s Journey” - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Neggar Journeys into Nightmares. Stories, 1972)
The story is set in a religious dystopia in which all the details of life are dictated by the high priests. The story seems to be about being able to overcome those things that are powerful enough to control us, specifically religion, love/sex, and alcohol, but at the end the protagonist still hopes to find the high priests. See also 1971 (2), 1973, 1974, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Al" - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019); Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (Orbit 10: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories, 1972)
The story tells of a man who survives a plane crash in an isolated valley that seems to be a eutopia of artists and his experiences there. Told both from the point of view of the man and some of the inhabitants.
Rpt. in Best Stories from Orbit 1-10. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Berkley Publishing Co., 1975), 350-59; and in her Joy in Our Cause: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), 143-54.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Alien Heat - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) (MacGibbon & Kee, 1972)
World where each individual has control over matter which produces a eutopia of a balanced, loving society. Continued in The Hollow Lands. New York: Harper & Row, 1974; U.K. ed. London: Hart Davis MacGibbon, 1975, which is not a utopia. Other non-utopian titles in the series are The End of All Songs. London: Harper & Row, 1976; Legends from the End of Time. New York: Harper & Row, 1976; U.K. ed. London: W.H. Allen, 1977; and The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming. London: W.H. Allen, 1977; U.S. ed. as A Messiah at the End of Time or the Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming. New York: DAW Books, 1977. A story was published as "Ancient Shadows: A Tale of the Dancers at the End of Time." New Worlds 9. Ed. Hilary Bailey (London: Corgi Books, 1975), 48-119.
Rpt. as part of the Michael Moorcock Collection. Ed. John Davey. With The Beginning at the head of the title. London: Gollancz, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia in which humans become addicted to contact with aliens.
Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 52-60.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Arthuriad - John d'Arcy Badger (1917-2000) (Pendragon House Limited, 1972)
Eutopia in the form of fifty-six sonnets and fifty-five poetic commentaries reflecting the return of King Arthur as king of the Aquarian Age. Property sharing. Sexually freer. Rejects both left and right and Canto 4 (Sonnets 25-32) is called “The Revolution of the Centre”.
Keywords: Canadian author

At the Seventh Level - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (DAW Books, 1972)
Dystopia. Development of 1969 Elgin. "For the Sake of Grace," which is reprinted here (7-31). In the patriarchal society one woman has risen to the top level, where she is constantly under attack.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Barons of Behavior - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) (Ace Books, 1972)
Dystopia of behavior control.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Big Space Fuck" - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Satirical dystopia primarily concerned with overpopulation and pollution.
Rpt. in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 68-74; in his Novels & Stories, 1963-1973. Ed. Sidney Offit (New York: Library of America, 2011), 773-78 with a Note on the Text (835) and “Notes” on 850; and in his Complete Stories. Ed. Jerome Klinkowitz & Dan Wakefield (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 895-99. .
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Burning - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Dell Books, 1972)
Dystopia in which a future reaction against science destroys the world.
Originally published as "Witches Must Burn." Astounding Science Fiction 57.6 (August 1956): 52-91; "Trial By Fire." If 19.2 (February 1969): 67-98, 142-158; and "Witch Hunt." Galaxy Science Fiction 28.3 (April 1969): 5-55
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Cainⁿ" - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) (New Writings in S-F, 1972)
Eutopia of the future rehabilitation of criminals told from the point of view of one of the criminals being rehabilitated. Those considered “genetically criminal” are “permanently isolated;” those considered “low productive” have their memories permanently erased and are “restrained for base labor” (87). For those deemed capable of being rehabilitated, the regime consists of education, exercise, and humiliation at the hands of someone who, it turns out, had been through the process.
Rpt. in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 59-99.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Castle Keeps - Andrew J[efferson] Offutt V (1934-2013) (Berkley Books, 1972)
Overpopulation and pollution dystopia. Isolated, fortified homes provide the only hope for the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Catholics" - Brian Moore (1921-99) (New American Review, 1972)
A dystopian future is implied in which ecumenical Catholicism is contrasted with a traditionalist monastery. The focus of the novel is on the suppression of the practices of the monastery, on the Isle of Muck, off the Irish Coast.
Rpt. as Catholics. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. Rpt. London: Flamingo, 1996. U.S. ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; Northern Ireland author; US author

"Caught in the Organ Draft" - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (and walk now gently through the fire and other science fiction stories, 1972)
Transplant dystopia in which young, fit people are drafted ("the organ draft") to provide an organ to keep the elderly alive. This can be any organ and may result in death; if not, the person then becomes eligible to receive organs from others for as long as they live.
[Science Fiction Book Club ed.] (Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Books Co., 1972), 123-36. Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg. Volume Three: Something Wild is Loose: 1969-72 (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 368-80 with an author’s note on 367; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 375-84; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 375-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Century of the Manikin - E[dwin] C[harles] Tubb (1919-2010) (DAW Books, 1972)
Future society that is non-violent, and has heavy drug use and free sexuality, but there is underground sadism.
U.K. ed. London: Millington, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Ching Witch!" - [Ross Louis] [Rocklin] (1913-88) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Dystopia in which Earth is the only planet left where there are wars, and it is destroyed. The story is about the lone survivor who travels to the planet Zephyrus, which appears to be dominated by teenagers, where he represents himself as a representative from Earth and appeals to the teenagers with the music and dance fads of Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

City Beyond the Gates - N[orman] Roy Clifton (1909-85) (Saunders of Toronto, 1972)
Children’s book contrasting the eutopia of a simple agricultural life with the dystopia created by urban life destroying the environment.
3rd ed. Richmond Hill, ON. Canada: Scholastic-TAB Publications, 1979. 121 pp. This edition has added material from a play with the same title written by the author in 1978.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The City Machine - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) (DAW Books, 1972)
Class-based overpopulation dystopia on a colonized planet. Those in power had instituted a new language and destroyed the books so that no one had the knowledge to construct new cities and undermine the system. One man who can read searches for and finds the information to build new cities, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Cloak of Anarchy" - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1972)
Flawed utopia that presents freedom as possible only through control. Anarchism in the sense of order without rule is not possible. The story focuses on a park where everyone is completely free of fear of others but only because everyone is being constantly observed by the police; when the system breaks down chaos and violence erupts.
Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 41-61 with an editor’s note on 39; and in his Tales of Known Space: The Universe of Larry Niven (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975), 111-33; and in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 400-19.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Crabs?" - Peter Carey (b. 1943) (Overland, 1972)
A dystopia of collapsing civilization. Violence. Gangs.
Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1974), 7-21. This story does not appear in the collection of the same title published London: Faber & Faber, 1990. Also rpt. in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 38-50. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 38-50.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Cybernia - Lou Cameron (1924-2010) (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1972)
Flawed utopia. Computer eutopia gone wrong as the computer takes over more and more of the life of a community.
U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earth - Marie C. Farca (b. 1935) (Doubleday, 1972)
Eutopia. A future extremely polluted earth and a simple, individualistic, ecologically oriented culture surviving under a plastic dome. Each person is responsible for feeding themselves and building their own housing (a small hut). Community buildings (one each for the children and the old and one community building) are built by individuals not working in concert. The old, the children, and the fire are cared for by the adults in rotation. Cooperation exists in the form of "gifting". The society is presented through the eyes of a man from a very advanced technological society, which he returns to in 1973 Farca.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"East Wind, West Wind" - Frank M[alcolm] Robinson (1926-2014) (Nova 2, 1972)
Pollution dystopia with stringent controls that have failed, and as the developing countries industrialize air pollution is about to be pushed past the point that human life can be sustained.
U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 16-44. Rpt. in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 181-208; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 215-42; and in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 9-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ecce Femina!" - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1972)
Dystopia of violent male-female conflict.
Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publ. Co., 1972), 272-99.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ecodeath - William Jon Watkins (b. 1942); E[ugene] V[incent] Snyder (b. 1943) (Doubleday, 1972)
Pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Elouise and the Doctors of the Planet Pergamon" - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) (Again, Dangerous Visions: 46 Original Stories, 1972)
Dystopia. A society in which equality is achieved by making everyone ill.
Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 125-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Empire of Two Worlds - Barrington J. Bayley (Ace Books, 1972)
Dystopia of changeless authority as background. U.K. author.
U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1974. Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 1979.
Keywords: English author

The End of His Tether - [Martin] [Fehr] (1905-78) (Janay Publishing Co., 1972)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which people, with major genetic damage, fall back into a very simple, poor life. Partially set in Australia, which has survived marginally better than Europe and is rebuilding faster.
Keywords: English author; German author

The End of the Dream - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) (Doubleday, 1972)
Dystopia. The novel begins with the struggle to reconstruct a better human society after a disaster/catastrophe after systematic destruction of the environment for profit. The section, “‘Vengeance Is Mine,’ Sayeth Nature” (51-161), shows the various ways the world has been ravaged and the population decimated.
U.K. ed. Morley, Eng.: The Elmfield Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Escape to Elysium - L[eslie] J[ohn] J[arvis] Nye (1891-1976) (Wentworth Books, 1972)
Detailed eutopia called Elysium in the interior of New Guinea; based on combining Western and Buddhist values. The "Foreword" stresses the need for an international language, which explains why the book is published in SR1. The author was a physician, and there is much on the problems of contemporary medical care and the healthy lifestyle in the eutopia. See also his Homo Insipiens (man the fool). Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia: W.R. Smith & Paterson, 1968. [2nd and enl. ed.] Brisbane, QLD, Australia: W.R. Smith & Paterson, 1969, which includes an argument for world government. See also 1939 Bostock and Nye.
Published in SR1 based on Harry Lindgren, Spelling Reform--A New Approach. [Sydney, NSW, Australia]: Alpha Books, [1969].
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Exploring New Ethics for Survival: The Voyage of the Spaceship Beagle - Garrett [James] Hardin (1915-2003) (Viking, 1972)
Four sections of the book, “From the Spaceship Beagle: Embarkation” (3-15), “On Board the Beagle: The Dawn of Responsibility” (91-100), and “On Board the Beagle: Freedom’s Harvest” (155-67), and “The Return of the Beagle” (216-37) are fiction beginning on an Earth failing environmentally, and there is a backlash against ecologists, who are hunted down and killed. The other three sections are set on the spaceship Beagle, which is looking for other planets to colonize. The people on the spaceship repeat in a smaller space all the errors committed on Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author