Darkness and Scattered Light: Four Talks on the Future - William Irwin Thompson (b. 1938) (Anchor Books, 1978)
Future speculation by the founder of the Lindisfarne Community, in Southampton, NY, which was established in 1973. Although much of the text uses the language of the New Age and is vague about the eutopia to be produced, he suggests what he calls "The Metaindustrial Village" that will involve both agricultural and industrial work and be connected to the world through computer technology.
Parts of the first two chapters were originally published as "Beyond Civilization: Auguries of Planetization." Quest/77 1.2 (May/June 1977):69-72, 74, 92-93; and "Auguries of Planetization: Braving a New World." Quest/77 1.3 (July/August 1977): 55-60, 94-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Death in Florence - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Doubleday, 1978)
Utopia 3 is a postwar project designed to reform humanity and lead to a eutopia of common understanding. The novel follows three people who become part of the project and the various problems they and the project encounter.
Rpt. as Utopia 3. New York: Playboy Press Paperbacks, 1980.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Differences Are Cause For Joy. View from the Year Twenty-two Hundred. Essay in Feminist Theory" - Jessica Amanda Salmonson (b. 1950) (Mythologies, 1978)
Non-fiction feminist eutopia with gender equality, a population in balance, no more violence or war, a balanced ecology, agism and racism gone, and there is no religion.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Diggers: The Story of a Commune - David Starsmeare (Blackie, 1978)
Play about 1652 Winstanley and the Diggers.
Keywords: Male author

Dolphins and Killerwhales - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) (Mother Sea Publications, 1978)
Authoritarian dystopia and the struggle against it. Sequel to 1976 and 1977 Fisher.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Don't Pay Taxes - Wayne Innes (b. 1943) (Social Analysis Ltd, 1978)
Non-fiction eutopia describing the Suburban Work Alternative, a work-based community which is suburban with separate housing. Cottage industries. The author expects about 10% of the population to live in them. The title suggests one thing that everyone can do to help bring about change. The second edition is roughly twice as long with Part Two "Economic Restructuring" (88-136) added, which, except for a few lines reiterating what was said in the first part, is a critique of current government policy.
2nd ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Social Analysis Ltd., 1979.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Ed Dean is Queer - N[ikolas] A[nthony] Diaman (b. 1936) (Persona Press, 1978)
Future dystopia from a gay perspective but with the gay community fighting back against discrimination and the novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia. See also 1980 and 1997 Diaman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Eden - Jerome McDonough (I. E. Clark, Inc, 1978)
Dystopian play in which artificial people are manufactured at a profit because the political leader of the country is dissatisfied with the quality of the children produced naturally. The children, all age eighteen, are free to couples who choose an infertility drug.
Keywords: Male author

Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Jonathan Cape, 1978)
Authoritarian dystopia based on a Biological Communism that has created Homo Uniformis (Man Alike Throughout). They live in a flawed utopia (no passion, violence, or doubt) and meet primitive descendants of Homo Sapiens on the planet Lysenka II, named after Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), Joseph Stalin's director of biology, who believed the newly acquired characteristics could be passed on to descendants, a position generally rejected by geneticists.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1981. A story entitled "Enemies of the System" was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 54.6 (325) (June 1978): 5-65.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ennead - Jan Mark (1943-2006) (Kestrel, 1978)
Young adult novel set on a desolate planet where the human race is creating a new dystopia. At the end there is a revival of hope.
U.S. ed. New York: Crowell, 1978.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Equality in the Year 1977: An Expository Lump" - Arthur D. Hlavaty (b. 1942) (Mythologies, 1978)
Alternative history with the birth control pill being invented in the 1850s and widely accepted then.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Escape to the Suburbs" - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) (Cassandra Rising, 1978)
Overpopulation dystopia. Manhattan is cut off from the suburbs. The city government has fled to New Jersey and the tunnels have been blown up. Manhattan is now entirely black and Hispanic, extremely poor, and crowded. Those who try to escape are killed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Exercise for Madmen - Barbara [Jeanne] Paul (b. 1931) (Berkley Books, 1978)
Describes a scientific satellite that is a near eutopia and its corruption by an alien.
Keywords: US author

"The Eye of the Heron" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Millennial Women, 1978)
Dystopia and eutopia. An authoritarian dystopia on another world that was originally a penal colony and continues with men ruling and women severely restricted. This is contrasted with a group of later arrivals who came to establish a small, free, egalitarian farming community. The dystopia initially dominates the smaller community, but it manages to free itself with the help of a young woman from the dystopia.
Rpt. in The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories. By Ursula K. Le Guin and Others. Ed. Virginia Kidd (London: Panther, 1980), 109-251; and as The Eye of the Heron. London: Victor Gollancz, 1982. 122 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

False Dawn - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1978)
Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in a future U.S. where disease, pollution, and war has decimated both the land and the people.
Rpt. Northridge, CA: Babbage Press, 2002. U.K. ed. as False Dawn: Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979. The first chapter was published as "False Dawn." Strange Bedfellows; Sex and Science Fiction. Ed. Thomas N[icholas] Scortia (New York: Random House, 1972), 117-34; and rpt. in Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Stories By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 214-34; and in Women of Wonder: The Classic Years. Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 234-48.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Feelies - Mick [Michael Anthony] Farren (1943-2013) (Big O Publishing, 1978)
Dystopia. Future where the rich spend their lives in electronic private fantasies or "feelies" as described in Huxley's Brave New World (1932). The poor drink, drug and watch TV. The danger for the rich is that the feelies can break down.
Rev. ed. New York: del Rey, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Forbidden World a science fiction novel - David F[rederick] Bischoff (1951-2018); Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) (Popular Library, 1978)
Three flawed utopias are presented, an agrarian community run by women, Plato’s Republic, and Regency England. But all are just part of an experiment, which is itself presented as the central dystopia of the novel.
Part was published as "Breaking Point" by White writing as William C. Johnstone [pseud.]. Amazing Stories 43.6 (March 1970): 71-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Fragment of a Letter From a Non-Sexist Society" - Evelyn Rogers (Mythologies, 1978)
Feminist eutopia, "the United States of Isabella", which has always had gender equality.
Keywords: Female author

Garh City. Book II of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) (New Directions, 1978)
Second volume of four about a eutopia about a Southeast Asian country that has a fairly simple, agricultural life but a complex mythology. This volume describes a technologically sophisticated city (e.g., they have monorails and an advanced solar power system) with traditional kinships systems. See 1977 Nichols, the note there, and 1979 (2) Nichols.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Going Backward" - [David Eli] [Lilienthal] (b. 1927) (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 1978)
An attempt to recreate a eutopian nineteenth century farming life fails because it becomes a tourist attraction.
Rpt. in his Always Home and Other Stories (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991), 33-49.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia - Bernard [Herbert] Suits (1925-2007) (University of Toronto Press, 1978)
A fictional consideration of the nature of utopia that discusses a number of possible utopias. The basic position is that utopia would be the playing of games or activities valued only for themselves rather than being instrumental.
U.K. ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: Scottish Academic Press, 1978. Rpt. with a new Introduction by Thomas Hurka (7-20) and additional material. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2005. This should be read with his "The Grasshopper: Posthumous Reflections on Utopia." Utopias. Ed. Peter Alexander and Roger Gill (London: Duckworth, 1984), 197-209; first published as "Games and Utopia: Posthumous Reflections." Simulation and Games 15.1 (March 1984): 5-24.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Healers: An Historical Novel - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) (East African Publishing House, 1978)
The novel is set at the fall of the Ashanti Empire, destroyed by internal disunity in Africa combined with European power. The dystopia is offset by the vision of African unity of The Healers. Clearly a call for Africans to unify.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

"The House That Shulamith Built" - Avedon Carol (b. 1951) (Mythologies, 1978)
Non-fictional feminist eutopia stressing variety. Shulamith refers to Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: William Morrow, 1970. See 1970 Firestone.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"In a Petri Dish, Upstairs" - George [Reginald] Turner (1916-97) (Rooms of Paradise, 1978)
Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. A new society emerges in satellites orbiting Earth. The society has common property, authoritarian "communal fathers", and a system of effective slavery. Earth also has centralized power, but, with a dramatically lower population brought about by a series of catastrophes, it has abundance for all. The story is about conflicts between the satellites and Earth.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 325-59; in his A Pursuit of Miracles (North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications, 1990), 131-64; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 211-38.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Institute - Robert Petyo (Manor Books, 1978)
Authoritarian dystopia. The Institute is where scientists in the service of a power-hungry government bureaucracy experiment on humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Journey in Space with Alizantil - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) (Author/L.C.M., 1978)
Spiritualist eutopian poem in sequel to [1976], [1976?], and connected to 1983 Howard. Tour of the universe.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The King of Hell - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) (Robert Hale, 1978)
A penal colony planet controlled by an apparently eutopian world (Elysium) is a dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last Days of the Sunshine People - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1978)
A play about a plan to eliminate all Blacks in the U.S. showing the stages it goes through and the failure of Blacks to believe warnings. Closely related to his 1973 Count-Down to Black Genocide in that in both, a “Black Day” is proclaimed as a holiday to honor blacks, but it is actually the day on which the slaughter of blacks is to happen. At the end, some Blacks do come to believe the plan is real inspired by a man who has been given a book called The Code of the Black Brotherhood. These blacks decide to create a new nation, Afro-America, also mentioned in Count-Down to Black Genocide. See also 1971, 1974, and 1975 (2).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Last Rose of Summer - Stephen Gallagher (b. 1954 (Corgi Books, 1978)
Authoritarian dystopia with governmental control through computers that provided everything to the people except freedom. See also 1983 Gallagher.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Leprosarium" - Natalie L[evin] M[aines] Petesch (b.1924) (Seasons Such As These. Two Novels, 1978)
Dystopia in which a large insurance company punishes those who deviate from its rules by incarcerating them in the Leprosarium where large numbers of people are kept together but prohibited from most contact, with such contact warranting further physical punishment. Those who survive are sent to isolated islands, where they take large doses of the drug orgone, which causes hallucinations.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Long Walk to Wimbledon - H[enry] R[eymond] F[itzwalter] Keating (1926-2011) (Macmillan, 1978)
Dystopia in which extensive fighting has broken out in London, which lays in ruins as the conflicts continue. The novel focuses on one man who must navigate his way across the devastated city.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Love Me Tomorrow - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (New American Library, 1978)
Revision of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) to produce a highly eroticized eutopia. Although the theorist of the society presents himself as a reincarnation of Bellamy, and wrote a book entitled Looking Backward II, the economics are based on the people's corporation proposed by Louis Kelso (1913-91) and the political system on the ideas of Rexford G. Tugwell (1891-1979). The Church of United Love or Unilove is related to Tantrism and based in part on the ideas of Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957). There is also a new language called Loglan, which is used together with English.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Make Us Happy - Arthur [H.] Herzog [III] (1927-2010) (Thomas Crowell, 1978)
Dystopia controlled by computers where happiness is defined by a computer as including low self-esteem. Intergenerational sex is stressed. Looks are standardized with everyone colored beige. Constant manipulation by the computers ultimately leads to revolt.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Man Who Had No Idea" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1978)
Humorous dystopia about a society where speaking in public requires a license.
Rpt. in Winter's Tales 24. Ed. A.D. Maclean (New York: St. Martin's, 1978): 9-49; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #8. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 298-335.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mechman of the Dreaming" - [Francis] Frank Bryning (1907-99) (Ron Graham Presents Other Worlds, 1978)
Eutopia. A science fiction story about a future Australia with most Aborigines integrated into the larger society but with one reservation, called the "Wild Life Reserve", where the old ways are practiced. The story is about a mechanical man that is attacked by Aborigines because it resembles a monster from their early mythology.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Mirrors of the Apocalypse - Donald L[loyd] Moore (Charter House, 1978)
The novel is set in an authoritarian dystopia led by the Antichrist. Population control through sterilization for women and the requirement that potentially fertile women dress unattractively. Immortality for a few. Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming of Christ.
Keywords: Male author

The Moon Baby - John Bailey (b. 1944) (Angus & Robertson, 1978)
Dystopia of gender conflict in the future.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Motel Architecture" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Bananas, 1978)
Dystopia where everyone lives isolated from each other. Machines do most work, with TV repair one exception.
Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 178-94; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 989-99.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Motherlines - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) (Berkley Books, 1978)
Sequel to 1974 Charnas where Alldera, the woman who escaped from the Holdfast, discovers, first, the Horsewomen, and later the Free Fems. Both might be called flawed feminist utopias because while they are clearly much better than the slavery of the Holdfast, each has serious internal conflicts and problems, and, while they trade, they are deeply opposed to each other. See also 1994, and 1999 Charnas.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. Rpt. in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 217-436.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Night Above the Dingle Starry" - Terence M[ichael] Green (b. 1947) (Other Worlds, 1978)
Satire on education. Reformers have arranged for both teachers and pupils to be mildly sedated to avoid problems. All classes taped and inspected. Undermined by those pushing a franchised counseling service.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Paradise Crossed" - Sherri L. File (Janus, 1978)
Satire on anti-gay activist Anita Bryant (b. 1940) who, on dying first goes to all-male heaven, then to an all-female heaven, and then finds her rightful place in hell.
Keywords: Female author

"The People's Almanac's Exclusive Symposium on Utopia" - Isaac Asimov (1920-92); William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008); Ram Dass (1931-2019); Clifton Fadiman (1904-99); Allen Ginsburg (1926-97); James Michener (1907-97); Ashley Montagu (1905-99); Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) (The People's Almanac, 1978)
Isaac Asimov (1920-92), William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008), Ram Dass [also known as Baba Ram Das (original name Richard Alpert)] (1931-2019), Clifton Fadiman (1904-99), Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), James Michener (1907-97), Ashley Montagu (1905-99), and Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) answer nine questions regarding their own utopia. Asimov, Michener, Montagu, and Untermeyer make substantial statements.

Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) (Author, 1978)
Essay presenting a detailed utopian economic system based on what he calls a “Universal Law of Economics” that “Goods and services must be so priced in the retail trades that they remove from circulation all wages generated by industry and government in the production/distribution cycle, each fiscal period” (2). The title gives the general position--permanently available credit. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3.  See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Persistence of Vision" - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1978)
The protagonist is a man who, following a series of recessions and a nuclear reactor accident in the Midwest that left a band of the country radioactive is wandering the country Looking for himself. He spends time in the Taos area of New Mexico living briefly in communes and discovers an intentional community composed of deaf and blind people who were born during a rubella epidemic, although their children can see and hear but only rarely speak. He stays there and learns the various languages they use, beginning with handtalk, or spelling out words in the palm of the hand to bodytalk, where people communicate with their entire bodies. And there is a third language, simply known as Touch, in which people are communicating without any contact that he fears he could never learn.
Rpt. in his The Persistence of Vision (New York: Dial Press/James Wade, 1978), 227-72 (U.K. ed. as In the Hall of the Martian Kings [London: Futura, 1978], 263-316); in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 1-53; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 670-80 with an editor’s note on 670.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Phoenix in the Ashes" - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) (Millennial Women, 1978)
Authoritarian religious dystopia in a post-disaster primitive future. Women are controlled by their fathers and husbands.
Rpt. in her Phoenix in the Ashes (New York: Bluejay International Editions, 1985), 1-34 with "Afterword—Phoenix in the Ashes" (35-36).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Planet of the Rapes" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (The Shape of Sex to Come, 1978)
Dystopia in which rape is the only means of procreation. Otherwise, men and women live completely apart.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Prayer for My Daughter" - Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) (Millennial Women, 1978)
Eutopian poem of a future without men.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Ravens of the Moon - Charles L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) (Doubleday, 1978)
Dystopia. Mostly political intrigue set in a world constantly at war where suburbs had been abandoned and people retreated to an essentially walled, militarized city with a poor fringe and a wealthier center. An attempt to fake a revolution by the government for political purposes is taken over by a faction within government and turned into a real, but ultimately unsuccessful coup with both the government and the coup leaders eliminated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Report of the Committee on the Operation of the Sexual Containment Act. Chairman: Michael Schofield. Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales by Command of Her Majesty, October 1984 - Michael [George] Schofield (1919-2014) (Davis-Poynter, 1978)
Authoritarian dystopia under a law to control "excessive" sexual activity. Members of the Committee include Mr. Leopold Bloom and Mrs. Winston Smith.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Revolt of the Unemployables - Ray [Radell] Faraday Nelson (1931-2022) (Anthelion Press, 1978)
Dystopia which reflects the title. Anyone who fails academically becomes permanently a member of the unemployables living in camps. The men are sterilized. They revolt and much of the country is destroyed. Some of the characters, plot, and text are repeated in 1982 Nelson.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Road to Corlay - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) (Pocket Books, 1978)
Authoritarian religious dystopia set in a post-catastrophe future with the beginnings of both a new Enlightenment and a reformed religion. First volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship; see also 1981 and 1982 Murry.
The "Prologue. Piper at the Gates of Dawn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 50.3 (298) (March 1976): 4-51 is rpt. in the U.S. editions (11-73) (Book Club ed. 1-58), but not in the U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1978.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ruins of Isis - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (Starblaze/Donning, 1978)
Isis is a matriarchal eutopia going through a series of physical and political problems and being studied by an anthropologist from another planet. The ruins are ancient and thought to have been built by an extinct alien race.
Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978; and New York: Timescape, 1979.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Saint Francis Night” - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1978)
Dystopia set in a future with strict rules such as walking in only one direction on sidewalks and everyone is conditioned to be non-violent, but the conditioning is failing.
Rpt. in Stalking the Sun: Selected Stories Volume Three (Vancleave, MS: Surinam Turtle Press/Ramble House, 2017), 164-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Seven American Nights" - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (Orbit, 1978)
Dystopia of a destroyed future America.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 153-210; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 880-91 with an editor’s note on 880.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Seven Last Years - Carol Balizet (b. 1931) (Chosen Books, 1978)
Biblical dystopia of Armageddon (See Revelation 16), the seven years known as the "Tribulation" that, in this version, comes before the Millennium. Includes an "Appendix: Scriptural Prophecies for the Tribulation Period" (369-76).
Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Shipwright" - Donald [MacDonald] Kingsbury (b. 1929) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1978)
Gender-role reversal but more complex than the usual in that it involves two planets with different customs and different gender relations.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 110-52.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Space Station Eight: A Philosophical Novel Concerned with How Humanity Can Achieve Peace and Fulfillment in the Next One Thousand Years - Carlton C. Allen (b. 1911) (Vantage Press, 1978)
The novel is set in 1999 after a large space station where one thousand young people have spent time studying the desperate situation of the Earth and developing the ideas and principles needed to save Earth and create a eutopia, which they were expected to do within a year. The most basic principles were freedom and responsibility (97).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Speculations on a Non-Sexist Society" - Jennifer Bankier (Mythologies, 1978)
Non-fictional feminist eutopia attacking sexism and focusing on sexuality, reproduction, bond groups to replace marriage and the family of any combination of sexes, child-rearing, with parents required to been learn the responsibilities involved, and employment. Contraception is a right.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"SQ" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Cassandra Rising, 1978)
Dystopia. The SQ test is presumably able to distinguish the sane and the insane and becomes required world-wide. Gradually the majority of people are judged insane and most of the sane choose to live in the asylums both to care for their relatives and because life was better in them than outside where the world economy is collapsing.
Rpt. in her The Compass Rose (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 69-80.
Keywords: Female author; US author

SS-GB: Nazi-occupied Britain 1941 - Len [Leonard Cyril] Deighton (b. 1929) (Jonathan Cape, 1978)
The background of the novel is the Nazi dystopia as reflected in the title.
Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2021. U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Stand - Stephen [Edwin] King (b. 1947) (Doubleday, 1978)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which two surviving groups, one eutopian and the other an authoritarian dystopia come into conflict. Adapted for television by the author in a four-episode series 1994 and, with a new ending, in a nine-episode series beginning in December in 2020.
Uncut ed. as The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Subsidy - James Galen (Vantage Press, 1978)
Dystopia in which the U.S. has become so violent that all the major cities are compounds inside many walls to keep all the violence inside and multiple electronic checks on anyone having to enter or leave. Law enforcement is almost entirely private.
Keywords: Male author

"The Suicide of Man" - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 1978)
Future eutopia proves only a staging ground to an apparently higher existence.
Rpt. in The Best of John Brunner (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 239-66.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Tables Turned: an exercise in consciousness-raising” (Dialogue (Salt Lake City, UT), 1978)
Gender-role reversal presented as a play about the first day of school. The lone male student is treated as an inconvenience, except that the girls hope he will do their ironing and typing. Males are not allowed to travel alone.
Rpt. without the subtitle in LDSF-3: Latter-Day Science Fiction. Ed. Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, MA: Parables, 1987), 118-123.

"Three Ways" - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1978)
Men (no women were on the ship) return to Earth after a long trip to find it entirely under five dystopias. After a new ice age and two nuclear wars, most people live underground and there are constant wars among the dystopias, Corporatia, Socdemaria, Communia, Neutralia, and Third World. Widespread poverty and few human rights. The men end up in different countries, but their situations are much the same, except for one who moves to Zealandia, a colony of Australia, where he becomes a colonial boss. The others return to space.
Rpt. in his New Arrivals, Old Encounters: Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 25-51.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Tomorrow City - Monica [Mary] Hughes (1925-2003) (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
Young adult dystopia set in a city where a computer that was designed to determine what was best for its inhabitants becomes dictatorial. A boy and a girl come to recognize the problem and ultimately successfully defeat the computer, although at a high cost to the girl.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Trample an Empire Down - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Leisure Books, 1978)
Reynold’s standard utopia is boring, and some people decide to shake it up..
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Turner Diaries - [William Luther] [Pierce] (1933-2002) (National Alliance, 1978)
A future race war in the United States. One of the most important books for the survivalist and white supremacist right. The Oklahoma City bomber had a copy in his truck, and it was a basic text used by the insurrectionists at the U.S. capitol in 2021. A related book is his Hunter. A Novel. By Andrew Macdonald [pseud.]. Hillsboro, WV: National Vanguard Books, 1989.
2nd ed. [Washington, DC]: National Alliance, 1978. Rpt. New York: Barricade Books, 1996. Illus. ed. Washington, DC: National Alliance, 1978. Initially serialized in twenty-eight installments in Attack! no. 32 - 58 (January 1975 - February 1978) and its successor National Vanguard, which continued the numbering, no. 59 (April 1978), where it ends. All entries that I have seen (all but six) appear on pages 5-6.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Two of Them - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Berkley Publishing Co., 1978)
Dystopia set in a society that suppresses women and resonates with the most extreme forms of Wahhabism. Uses some characters from 1969 Elgin, “For the Sake of Grace,” and the book is dedicated to Elgin.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1979; and Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005 with a “Foreword” by Sharon LeFanu (vii-xv).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women - Sally Miller Gearhart (1931-2021) (Persephone Press, 1978)
Feminist eutopia presented through a series of linked stories. The primary eutopia is one of women without men. Other societies are also depicted, some of which are in conflict with these women.
Rpt. Denver, CO: Spinsters Ink Books, 2002. The first chapter, “Opening,” was published as “Freestanding: Jacqua’s Story.” Quest: A Feminist Quarterly 1.1 (Summer 1975): 20-26. Other material was first published as “Krueva and the Pony.” Ms. 5.2 (August 1976): 75-77, 87; “Jacqua.” The Witch and the Chameleon, no. 3 (April 1, 1975): 9-12, and “Alaka’s Story.” Woman-Spirit [2.8] (Summer solstice [1976]): 9.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Weave of Women - E[sther] M[asserman] Broner (1927-2011) (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978)
A feminist novel about a group of women who call themselves the Daughters of Jerusalem and the community they create among themselves in a house in Jerusalem where they regularly get together.
Rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985 with an “Introduction” by Marilyn French (ix-xv). Parts originally published as “The Bird and the Thieves.” Epoch 22.2 (Winter 1973): 160-176; “Habibi.” Florida Quarterly 6.1 (Spring 1974): 11-32; “On the Mt. of Meron.” Story Quarterly 1.1 (1975): 85-97.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Web of the Chozen - Jack L[aurence] Chalker (1944-2005) (Ballantine Books, 1978)
Eutopia. In the 21st century generation starships were sent out, mostly inhabited by political and religious groups hoping to establish their utopia. Earth has extended the lifespan to over 300 with two-thirds of the population in "near-guaranteed good health". No one has to work and most live in government flats on the adequate government dole. Nine large corporations "keep the resources flowing, provide the services, and thereby run the lives of just about everybody" (5). Earth is overpopulated and searching for places to offload surplus population. One planet that an explorer lands on radically transforms the human body into something like a horned kangaroo called the Chozen or Choz that lives in peaceful communities that seem eutopian in that there is plenty for all and little pain and death is rare. But they breed rapidly and overpopulation and conflict loom. The Chozen spread to all human worlds, and the humans become Chozen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"What Dreams May Come" - Angus McAllister (b. 1943) (Woman, 1978)
Dystopia in which access to the air has become a monopoly.
Rpt. in Starfield: The Anthology of Science Fiction by Scottish Writers. Ed. Duncan Lunan Kirkwall, Orkney, Scot.: The Orkney Press, 1989), 97-107. Collection rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: New Curiosity Shop, 2018.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

What Dreams May Come - Richard [Burton] Matheson (1926-2013) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1978)
Domestic heaven (called Summerland) to the extent of a dog that had died was in heaven at its prime. Reincarnation. A film was made in 1998 directed by Vincent Ward (b. 1955) with a screenplay by Ronald [Jay] Bass (b. 1942) and starring Robin Williams.
U.K. ed. London: Michael Joseph, 1979. Rpt. London: Sphere Books, 1981.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Wyst: Alastor 1716 - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (DAW Books, 1978)
Flawed utopia where everyone is equal, works little, and plays much, but it is centered around war games that are not really games.
Rpt. San Francisco, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1984. Repub. as vol. 31 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Your Place or Mine? - Patrick MacFadden; Rae Murphy (b. 1935); Robert Chodos (b. 1947) (Deneau & Greenberg, 1978)
A political satire set in the future dealing with the future of the Canadian nation.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Male author

After Utopia - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1977)
Flawed utopia in that it is too perfect, to the extent that all progress has ended,and people are escaping into permanent dreams.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Anarchistic Colossus - A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt (1912-2000) (Ace Books, 1977)
Anarchist eutopia as the setting for resistance to an alien invasion with the aliens believing that the apparently disorganized humans will be easy pickings. The system is tied together by a billions-strong network of AI (kirilian computers in the text) so that ethical and moral lapses can be identified and corrected.
U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Angels Wear Black - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) (Mother Sea Publications, 1977)
Vicious authoritarian dystopia and the struggle against it. See also 1976 and 1978 Fisher.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Anti-Matter - C. M. Stanbury (Dustbooks, 1977)
Satire on the contemporary U.S. as seen by an archeologist of the far future basing his analysis on science fiction, TV, and newspapers.

Arrival. Book 1 of Daily Lives in Nghsi-Altai - Robert [Molise Boyer] Nichols (1919-2010) (New Directions, 1977)
First volume of a four volume eutopia about a Southeast Asian country that has a fairly simple, agricultural life but a complex mythology, and the novel includes a number of stories and poems from Nghsi-Altai. The protagonists who visit the country include Santiago Alvarez (1919-98), a Cuban filmmaker, William Blake (1757-1827), Jack Kerouac (1922-69), and William Morris (1834-96) among other writers. See also 1978 and 1979 (2) Nichols.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ascension - Charles L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) (Berkley Books, 1977)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia set in 2247 in a collapsing world. Part of a series that follows the same family. See also 1976 and 1979 Grant.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Awakening Water - [Geoffrey Robins] [Crosher] (1911-90) (Chatto & Windus, 1977)
Young adult dystopia in which people are kept in line with drugs. A young man escapes to a democratic eutopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Hastings House, 1979.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Blue Chair. A Novel - Joyce [Marie] Thompson (b. 1948) (Avon Books, 1977)
Dystopia. Social institutions and personal relations produced in a society where immortality is available to those who choose not to have children.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Canada Cancelled Because of Lack of Interest - Eric [Patrick] Nicol (b. 1919); Peter [Graham] Whalley (b. 1921) (Hurtig Publishers, 1977)
Humor written from the point of view of the 21st century with one theme that of Canada disintegrated into a number of colonies or protectorates of other countries.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Canbe Collective Builds a Be-Hive - Bert Garskof (Dandelion Press, 1977)
Eutopia of a decentralized, collective future. Could be considered a young adult novel.
Keywords: Male author

The Cold Cash War - Robert [Lynn] Asprin (St. Martin's Press, 1977)
Dystopia in which multinationals conclude that war games are a good way to end disputes so the hire mercenaries to fight non-lethal wars, thus avoiding supervision by the legal system. But the fake war spirals out of control and corporate executives become targets and are assassinated. A sequel of sorts is Asprin with Bill Fawcett. Combat CommandTM In the World of Robert Asprin’s Cold Cash War. The Cold Cash Warrior. New York: Ace Books, 1989 (CU-Riv)
Keywords: Male author; US author

Colossus and the Crab - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) (Berkley Books, 1977)
Last volume of the Colossus series. See 1966 and 1974 Jones. In this volume the Martians propose to remove half of Earth's oxygen to use on Mars. After many adventures a reactivated Colossus produces a better plan acceptable to both Earth and Mars.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Colours of War - Matt[hew] Cohen (1942-1999) (McClelland and Stewart, 1977)
Near future dystopia. Civil war and revolution throughout North America. It is the second of four novels known as the Salem Quartet that are set in an around the fictional town of Salem, Ontario. The others, none of which have any utopian content, are The Disinherited (1974), The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone (1979), and Flowers of Darkness (1981).
Rpt. Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, 1986; and Kingston, ON, Canada: Quarry Press, 1993. U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1977.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Community Democracy: A Study in Alternative Economics - Gary [John] Williams (b. 1947) ([Author], 1977)
Includes a detailed description of a community-based economic system.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Confessions of Josef Baisz - Dan Jacobson (1929-2014) (Secker & Warburg, 1977)
Standard totalitarian dystopia as background to a autobiography of a man living in the dystopia and successfully rising within it.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author; US author

The Construction of an Aquarian Age City-State - David D'Ely Spain (Author, 1977)
A vague description of a fairly typical New Age eutopia of the time.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Crackpot - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Doubleday, 1977)
Post-World War III authoritarian, pleasure oriented automated society that is controlled by androids and robots.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dark Tower" - C[live] S[taples] Lewis (1898-1963) (The Dark Tower and Other Stories, 1977)
Dystopia of an evil society. Posthumously published incomplete story in which Ransom of the space trilogy appears. See 1938, 1943, and 1945 Lewis.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

"Design for the City of Women" - Lapidus, Jacqueline (Heresies, 1977)
Short sketch of a primitive lesbian eutopia with the rituals connected to their bodies and life stages.
Keywords: Female author

The Double E - Percival Goodman (1904-89) (Anchor Books, 1977)
Eutopia intended to revisited some of the issues raised in 1947 Goodman and Goodman. Double E refers to environment and economy. Includes both consideration of varied plans for ideal cities and proposals for ideal built environments. Some of the material is based on 1973 Goodman.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Dream of Wessex - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Faber and Faber, 1977)
The novel presents a future (2135-37) after a series of earthquakes has destroyed much of Britain, and it is a Soviet state, generally presented neutrally. Wessex is an island off the coast that is a holiday resort where many of the rules of the mainland do not apply and, as a result, it attracts many tourists from the Islamic North America. The focus of the novel is on two individuals projected to the future Wessex from the mid-1980s who choose to stay there.
U.S. ed. as The Perfect Lover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Drinking Sapphire Wine - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (DAW Books, 1977)
A group leave the domed cities described in 1976 Lee and establish a community in the desert. Initially attacked by the cities, they are eventually left alone and begin the process of living a life without robots, body and sex changes, and with the possibility of permanent death.
Rpt. in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 169-370.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Dwarf's Legacy - Tolly [Apostolos P.] Kizilos (Ashley Books, 1977)
Post-catastrophe dystopia bent on forgetting the past.
Keywords: Male author

The Earth Again Redeemed. May 26 to July 1, 1984 on this earth of ours and its alter ego. A Science Fiction Novel - Martin [Burgess] Green (1927-2010) (Basic Books, 1977)
Two alternative future dystopias set in 1984. One is post-nuclear catastrophe and the other is a world of seventeenth century colonial attitudes facing a religious war in Africa. Contact occurs between the two and both are changed.
Rpt. without the second subtitle. London: Sphere Books, 1979.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Ecolog - R[adell] Faraday Nelson (1931-2022) (Laser Books, 1977)
Feudal dystopia in which a woman, known as the Ecolog, rules a planet with a rigid division between the ruling class and the rest of society and with women holding power over men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Ecotopia 2001" - Irons, Greg; Tom Veitch (Slow Death, 1977)
Comic presenting an apparent eutopia of peace and plenty, with a particular emphasis on sexual relations and marijuana use. But the last few frames indicate that the "straights" or those who marry and have children are hunted down and killed.
Keywords: Male author

"An Elder Womon's Tale from the Year 2000" - Bonnie Sundance (Womanspirit (Portland, OR), 1977)
Short feminist eutopia tracing the first years of a "womyn's" community as told by a community elder.
Keywords: Female author

"Eldorado" - Charles L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) (The Arts and Beyond; Visions of Man's Aesthetic Future, 1977)
Dystopia. An artist colony that was designed so that artists would be free to be creative is run by an automated city in so stultifying a manner that most artists left.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Empty World - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Hamilton, 1977)
Young adult pandemic dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. 134 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Equality: In the Year 2000 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1977)
Sequel to 1973 Reynolds based on 1888 and 1897 Bellamy. In this novel the future utopia is shown to have dissidents, but the resuscitated protagonist from the past helps the society deal with them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Generation Removed - Gary K[enneth] Wolf (b. 1941) (Doubleday, 1977)
Dystopia of generational conflict in which the young rule with all teenagers having the vote. Retirement at 55, no medical care, and euthanasia for the ill. The dust jacket adds “In this brave new world, aging is a crime.” Euth Centres staffed by teenagers Anyone over 55 with a euthable disease was euthanized, and almost everything was euthable.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Gillan Is Not All” - Jonathan Farris (Janus, 1977)
Domed city on another planet where complete obedience is the norm, memories are wiped, and the basic myth is that there is nothing outside the dome.
Keywords: Male author

Heat - Arthur [H.] Herzog [III] (1927-2010) (Simon & Schuster, 1977)
Ecological dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Horsemen" - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, 1977)
A simple, agricultural eutopia is destroyed by people from Earth. The people are closely in tune with their planet, vegetarian, live in marriage groups, and have rich inner lives. The arriving Earth ship releases the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death) from the psyches of the nine people from Earth on the ship onto the planet.
Rpt. as “New Arrivals, Old Encounters.” In his New Arrivals, Old Encounters. Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 9-14.
Keywords: English author; Male author

In the Keep of Time - Margaret J[ean] Anderson (b. 1931) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1977)
First volume of a young adult trilogy. This volume sets the stage for the later volumes in the four children travel first to the past and then to the future. In the past, they deal with war between England and Scotland. In the future, they are faced with an environmentally damaged world. The female author was born in Scotland and lives in the U.S.
Keywords: Scottish author; US author

"In the Stocks" - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (New Dimensions Science Fiction, 1977)
Sequel to 1973 Malzberg in which women are sent into the homosexual enclave in attempt to "cure" the homosexuality of the men in the enclave.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Intensive Care Unit" - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Ambit, 1977)
Dystopia where all live isolated, meeting in person is illegal, with meetings of families particularly prohibited, and all communication is by television. The story focuses on a man who chooses to meet his wife and children in person, and they kill each other.
Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 195-205; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 946-52; and in a separately paged section entitled “P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . .” (1-18) at the end of the reprint of his High-Rise (London: Harper Perennial, 2006), 2-10.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Journey Among Women - Diana Fuller (Sun Books, 1977)
In early Australia, a group of women escape from abusive situations and create a primitive eutopia in the wild.
Keywords: Female author

Kampus. A Novel - James E[dwin] Gunn (1923-2020) (Bantam Books, 1977)
A dystopia of the future of universities where many students are illiterate, faculty market their classes to attract such students, and the students control much of the campus. Much sex and violence.
Rpt. as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Richard Powers and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Frederik Pohl.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Transaction - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Pinnacle Books, 1977)
Dystopia set in the near future when people gain control of U.S. nuclear reactors and try to force the country to disarm and establish a world government.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Little Knowledge - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) (Berkley/Putnam, 1977)
Dystopia of Christian fundamentalism and religious revivals in a future fragmented United States and the arrival of Aliens.
Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1978. Substantially revised 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), 228-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Logan's World - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) (Bantam Books, 1977)
Sequel to 1967 Nolan and Johnson in which Logan and the other runners settle a new world. Although there are problems that drive the plot, a nonviolent society is created that operates without a leader. See also 1980 Nolan.
Rpt. in Logan: A Trilogy (Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates, 1986), 139-259. Rpt. with the same pagination New York: Dell, 1992.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Majority Rule" - Sarah Greenwald (Janus, 1977)
The story focuses on a food additive, tested on people in poor countries, who mostly die, but is still approved.
Keywords: Female author

A Man Called Peters - Adrian [Goodenough] Hayter (b. 1914) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1977)
Political novel with New Zealand government as a dystopia. Both main political parties presented as corrupt and completely uninterested in the needs of the people. Pornography is being brought into the country to undermine the moral fiber of New Zealanders. Written from a loosely conservative perspective. Stresses the need for self-discipline and the equation between freedom and responsibility. At the end the government is defeated.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Molly Zero" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (Triax: Three Original Novellas by James Gunn, Keith Roberts, Jack Vance, 1977)
Authoritarian dystopia in which all children are raised together in single sex groups. One girl revolts, escapes, and experiences life on the outside.
Expanded into his Molly Zero. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Nemo - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Berkley Medallion, 1977)
Standard authoritarian dystopia with a successful revolt.
U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1979.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Dimension of Freedom - Le Grand E. Day (Mojave Books, 1977)
A pamphlet that includes a brief eutopia, "A Letter from the Future" (33-43), set in 2176 and a UFO story and essays explaining the institutions of the eutopia, which is essentially libertarian.

Nightwatch - Andrew M[ichael] Stephenson (b. 1946) (Futura, 1977)
Mostly adventure and intrigue. Authoritarian dystopia set in 2006 with the Earth near collapse and aliens arriving.
U.S. ed. New York: Dell, 1977.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"No Renewal" - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1977)
Dystopia created by a fixed period for life.
Rpt. in his Antinomy (New York: Dell, 1980), 240-45; and in his Melancholy Elephants (Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin, 1984), 125-30. U.S. ed. (New York: Tor, 1985), 135-40.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"One of Them" - T[homas] E[dwin] Dorman (b. 1914) (Landfall 121 (New Zealand), 1977)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which those choosing to live outside the clean areas are hunted down and killed. The protagonist, who is a young man on his first hunt, thinks of the clean area in both eutopian and dystopian terms (the beauty, the cleanliness, the punishment gangs) and chooses to join the outsiders.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Outbreak - Marianne Ruuth (1937-2007) (Manor Books, 1977)
Complex future dystopia located in seven domed cities with control through conditioning and drugs. The novel is concerned with the struggle to overthrow the dystopia and undo the conditioning.
Keywords: Female author; Swedish author; US author

Paradise I. A Novel - Alan Harrington (1919-97) (Little, Brown, 1977)
Eutopia and dystopia. Effect of the ability to bring immortality where there is not enough serum available for all and a computer selects who will become immortal plus a few who win immortality through a lottery. The period of transition is violent and confused, but the problems continue into what is expected to be the eutopia of the future in that immortality does not cure the lust for power. See also 1969 Harrington for a different take on immortality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Passion of New Eve - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) (Victor Gollancz, 1977)
Dystopia. The novel traces a man's travel across a disintegrating U.S., beginning with a violent New York City where African Americans blow up Columbia University and are building a wall around Harlem and women are attacking men. In the West he is captured by a women's group, who surgically turn him into a woman. Escaping he is captured and mistreated by various groups.
U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Petals of Blood - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (b. 1938) (Heinemann, 1977)
Complex novel depicting, among other things, a post-independence African dystopia and various people with utopian aspirations. Includes the idea that an African utopia will need to be found in the African past.
Keywords: Kenyan author; Male author

"Please Don't Shoot the Trees" - Patricia Highsmith (1921-95) (A Book of Contemporary Nightmares, 1977)
Horror tale based around a future of extreme pollution in which the cities have been abandoned to the poor. Nature fights back.
Keywords: English author; US author

Police Patrol: 2000 A.D - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1977)
The novel is set in Reynold’s future where everyone receives a basic income and housing and shows that the police are still needed.
Parts were original published as “Romp.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 78.2 (October 1966): 93-107; “Criminal in Utopia.” Galaxy Science Fiction 27.3 (October 1968): 72-92; rpt. in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 189-207; “Extortion, Inc.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 82.6 (February 1969): 83-99; and “Cry Wolf!” Galaxy Science Fiction 35.12 (December 1974): 6-32.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Realms of Tartarus - Brian [Michael] Stableford (1948-2024) (DAW Books, 1977)
A technological eutopia built above a polluted earth and the dystopia on the surface where humans, animals, and plants had evolved into a myriad of new species.
The first section had originally been published as The Face of Heaven. The Realms of Tartarus Volume One. London: Quartet, 1976 as the first of an intended three volumes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Right Hand of Dextra - David J[ohn] Lake (1929-2016) (DAW Books, 1977)
Background of dystopian Puritan society but includes a eutopia of humans transformed into centaurs. A non-utopian sequel is The Wildings of Westron. New York: DAW Books, 1977.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Indian author; Male author

A Scanner Darkly - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Doubleday, 1977)
Near future dystopia focusing on drug use.
U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1977. Rpt. in Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s. Martian Time-Slip; Dr. Bloodmoney; Now Wait for Last Year; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; A Scanner Darkly. Ed. Jonathan Lethem (New York: The Library of America, 2008), 859-1098, 1126-27. A film tie-in edition was published London: Victor Gollancz, 2006.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Screwfly Solution” - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, 1977)
The story is about the Sons of Adam, a growing religious movement that kills women.
Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 435-53; Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 83-101; in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 287-310, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 184-86; 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), 291-320, with a biographical note on 465-467 and a note on the text on 486.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Shack at Great Cross Halt" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (New Writings in SF, 1977)
Dystopia focusing on an isolated group of people living next to a major highway but completely disconnected from the larger world. The focus characters had escaped from the dystopia, and the story ends with the beginning of a fight back against the dystopia.
Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 54-85.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Shadow of a Snowstorm" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1977)
Dystopia in which there are so few jobs that humans replace mannequins in department stores.
Rpt. in his The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 66-90, with an author's note on 65-66.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shepherd - J[oan Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) (Laser Books, 1977)
Dystopia of Anti-Emotion Conditioners.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Sneak Previews" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (Penthouse, 1977)
The story is set in a future, presented as dystopian, in which marriage is required with a time limit on remaining single.
Rpt. in The Collected Short Fiction of Robert Sheckley. Book Four (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 77-84.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Strayed Sheep of Charun - John Maddox Roberts (b. 1947) (Doubleday, 1977)
Dystopia of a corrupt Roman planet. A combat trained Jesuit priest and a Franciscan friar are sent from Earth, which is now ruled by the Church of Rome, to try to convert the planet. If they fail, it will be destroyed.
Rev. ed. as Cestus Dei. New York: Tor, 1983.
Keywords: Male author; US author

That Good Between Us - Howard Barker (b. 1946) (Gambit: International Theatre Review, 1977)
Authoritarian dystopia created in the U.K. by a Labour government.
Rpt. in That Good Between Us. Credentials of a Sympathizer (London: John Calder, 1980), 1-59.
Keywords: English author; Male author

They: A Sequence of Unease - Kay [Kathleen Elsie] Dick (1915-2001) (Allan Lane, 1977)
The unnamed narrator lives on the Sussex Coast in an undefined future and describes life as everyone is menaced by a mysterious “they” who are enforcing conformity and the erasure of cultural memory by destroying books and art and killing those who resist. Anyone living alone, “they” see as reflecting an individualism that must be eliminated. “They” approve of children’s cruelty.
Rpt. London: Faber, 2022, with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. 107 pp. U.S. ed. New York: McNally Editions, 2022, with an Afterword by Lucy Scholes (103-112), parts of which originally appeared as “A Lost Dystopian Masterpiece” in The Paris Review (August 13, 2020). https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08/13/a-lost-dystopian-masterpiece/ 112 pp.
Keywords: English author; Lesbian author; Swiss author

The Time of Achamoth - M[ichael] K[ennedy] Joseph (1914-81) (Collins, 1977)
A time travel novel mostly set in the past. Includes travel to a series of future dystopias and eutopias including one based on class violence, a puritanical one based on the rejection of the values of the Sixties, one based on biotechnology in which all the people of the world are adequately fed, and one depicting a religious revival in space, among others.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Time-Swept City - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) (Popular Library, 1977)
Dystopia. The connected stories are about the city of Chicago over huge reaches of time into the future. The city becomes more and more automated and the inhabitants less and less necessary until the city becomes an automatic self-repairing system with no inhabitants. Outside the city humanity has regressed to a primitive level.
Parts published originally as "Chicago." Future City. Ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Trident Press, 1973), 219-35. Rpt. (New York: Pocket Book, 1974), 203-20; "Good and Faithful Servant." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 49.5 (March 1976): 110-18; "Breath's A Ware That Will Not Keep." Dystopian Visions. Ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1975), 2-19; and "Far From Eve and Morning." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 51.1 (October 1977): 20-29, 91.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Timewaves" - John Bartelt (Janus, 1977)
The story is set in a dystopian, bureaucratic future where no dissent is permitted, with those who do are assigned to menial jobs, and church attendance is required. Two men try to change the past in the hopes of eliminating the dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Town Planning for Christian Community" - John [Edward] Morton (Dialogue on Religion: New Zealand Viewpoints 1977, 1977)
An essay proposing a form of cooperative Christian community for within an Auckland neighborhood. Stress on family units. People will save money by owning much in common that is now purchased separately by each unit.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Ulster and Its Future After the Troubles - Michael [Steven] Sheane (b. 1946) (Highfield Press, 1977)
Non-fiction that ends with a chapter "Postscript Ulster: Its Future After the Troubles" (153-72) that projects the situation in 2000 after Britain has withdrawn from Northern Ireland and a federal Ireland is established. Quite modest in its ideas.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

[“Utopian Construction”] - Mulford Q[uickert] Sibley (1912-89) (Nature and Civilization: Some Implications for Politics, 1977)
Non-fictional description of a culturally diverse world eutopia. Universal language plus regional and sub-regional languages. Any family form accepted. Neighborhoods are the most important focus socially and politically. Complete free speech. Vegetarian, as was the author.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Work Song 2. A Vision" - Wendell Berry (b. 1934) (Clearing, 1977)
Poem describing an environmental eutopia of the future when the land has recovered.
Rpt. in his The Collected Poems 1957-1982 (San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1985), 187-88; and as “A Vision” in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998), 102.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Worlds for the Grabbing - Brenda Pearce (b. 1935) (Dennis Dobson, 1977)
As befits the title, the novel is about the corrupt system of colonization and the exploitation of other planets. The main character has too-high ethical standards for the system.
Keywords: English author; Female author

YV88; An Eco-Fiction of Tomorrow - Christopher Swan; Chet Roaman (b. 1939) (Sierra Club Books, 1977)
Ecological eutopia set in 1988 focusing on Yosemite National Park beginning with a ride on a new train into the park that replaces the road and runs on a combination of the roadbed and the right of way of an earlier train. Most of the facilities in the park have been removed to return the park to a wilderness. Wildlife is returning. Extensive use of improved solar power. De-damming. There is a chronology showing the changes between 1978 and 1988 (104-05). Presented in a wide variety of ways including letters, postcards, reminiscences, architectural plans, an argument between two people, a TV transcript, detailed plans for the train engine, stations, and rail cars. stories, and stories. The policies that were developed for reversing environmental damage, such as removing asphalt, are slowly being adopted elsewhere in the country.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Age of Libra” - Scott Edelstein (b. 1954) (Science Fiction Discoveries, 1976)
United States Retirement Services is an answer to overpopulation. It has established 1645 retirement villages, each holding 2900 people for one year. Retirement is mandatory at a specified age, which is lowered within the story but can be chosen earlier.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Alteration - Kingsley [William] Amis (1922-95) (Jonathan Cape, 1976)
Religious dystopia. Alternative history set in 1976 in which a Pope rules England from his seat in Yorkshire. No Reformation. No science.
Collector’s Edition illus. Debbie Hughes with an “Introduction” by Brian W. Aldiss (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Rpt. New York: New York Review of Books, 2013 with an “Introduction” by William Gibson (vii-x).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Anarchy Pedlars - [Christopher John] [Portway] (1923-2009) (Robert Hale, 1976)
Dystopia created by the future revival of a cult of assassins.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Another Eden - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) (Robert Hale, 1976)
The novel begins in the overpopulation dystopia of Earth, and then moves to a planet being settled to offload population. The people have been told that it is Edenic, but it is in fact extremely dangerous, and then the aliens attack.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Aqua Declaration - [Lyman Spicer] Vincent Judson (Apex University Press, 1976)
Sequel to 1973 Judson. Detailed eutopia in which all water-covered acres are taken over by the QNC (Quasi-Nation Corporation) or PNC (Pseudo-Nation Corporation).
Keywords: Male author

Arslan - M[ary] J[ane] Engh (b. 1933) (Warner Books, 1976)
Future dystopia in which a young Asian tyrant named Arslan conquers the U.S. and establishes his headquarters in a small town in Illinois. The novel focuses on the complex personal relations that develop.
Rpt. New York: Arbor House, 1987; and New York: Tor, 1988. U.K. ed. as A Wind from Bukhara. London: Grafton, 1989.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beasts - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1976)
Dystopia resulting from genetic experimentation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Framework of Modern Thought - Lessans, Seymour (New World Publishers, 1976)
Detailed eutopia in essay form based on the proposition that there is no free will “because his nature also compels him to prefer of available alternatives the one that offers greater satisfaction. . . (22). As a result, “THOU SHALL NOT BLAME” (23). The first result is that hurting others, even by accident, can no longer be justified. This is applied first to sexual relations, which will never happen unless both people want to get married, and marriage, which will last for life. In the economic sphere, everyone must benefit from transactions. No war. Guaranteed standard of living. Better child-rearing and education. Much greater freedom for all people.
Keywords: Male author

The Black Roads - J[oe] [Louis] Hensley (1926-2007) (Laser Books, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia following World Wars III and IV. Survivors rediscover some of the technology of the past and use it to consolidate their power. Violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Broken October: New Zealand 1985 - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) (A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia. The New Zealand government in 1985 is a military dictatorship, which violently puts down a revolt. New Zealand, in cooperation with the South African authorities, institutes a pass system for Maori. The U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and the U.S. government are involved to ensure access to New Zealand's mineral wealth and the use of New Zealand troops as needed. See also his plays Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and "Whites of Their Eyes" (1975), both of which came from this novel as it developed but before it was published.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Chauvinisto - Sam[uel Kimball] Merwin Jr. (1910-96) (Major Books, 1976)
Dystopia. Future with women dominating and men inferior socially and politically. Stress on the struggle for power.
Keywords: Male author

Cinnabar - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) (Macmillan, 1976)
Dystopia. Cinnabar is a city run by a failed computer that provides false images within which both people and simulcra live. Each story is about one individual, and, in the last story, they cooperate to destroy the computer.
Stories originally published as follows: "The Road to Cinnabar." Infinity Two. Ed. Robert Hoskins (New York: Lancer Books, 1971), 73-84 (1-12 here); "Jade Blue." Universe 1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 53-69; U.K. ed (London: Dennis Dobson, 1975), 53-69 (13-28 here); "Gray Matters" as "Their Thousandth Season." Clarion II: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism. Ed Robin Scott Wilson (New York: Signet, 1972), 127-39; and in his Among the Dead and Other Events Leading Up to the Apocalypse (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 164-79 (29-44 here); "The Legend of Cougar Lou Landis." Universe 3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Random House, 1973), 135-50 (45-61 here); "Hayes and the Heterogyne." Vertex 2.2 (June 1974): 16-20, 88-97 (62-103 here); "Sharking Down." Vertex 2.6 (February 1975): 16-20, 34-37 in slightly different form (115-56 here); and "Brain Terminal." Vertex 3.4 (August 1975): 2-6, 28 in slightly different form (157-86 here).
Keywords: Male author; US author

City of Darkness - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976)
Young adult dystopia with a division between poor city-dwellers and the elite who live outside the cities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Commodore Bork and the Compost (a homily)" - Madsen, Catherine (The Witch and the Chameleon, 1976)
Feminist eutopia on a starship sent out by the Earth Mothers' Organic Co-op and Dyke Farm. Stress on ecology.
Rpt. in Women (Baltimore, MD) 5.1 (1976): 32, 34-35.
Keywords: Female author

The Concrete Horizon - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) (Millington Books, 1976)
Dystopia--future over-organized urban monads are failing. Pressure grows from agricultural complexes. Disaster.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Contentment, Satisfaction, Cheer, Well-Being, Gladness, Joy, Comfort, and Not having To Get Up Early Any More" - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) (Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology, 1976)
Dystopia in which the world has been entirely homogenized and is ruled by six men, with one of them arranging the retirement of the other five one at a time. He then retires and the computer that has been effectively running the world takes over.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Crack in the Sky - Richard A[llen] Lupoff (1935-2020) (Dell Books, 1976)
Standard post-pollution dystopia. All live under domes, but there is further disaster.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Day After Tomorrow - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1976)
Conformist corporate dystopia and the revolt against it, which fails.
A shorter version was published earlier as "Status Quo." Analog Science Fact--Fiction 67.6 (August 1961): 4-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Day of the Big Test" - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) (Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology, 1976)
Testing of children in their seventh year determines family status, income, leisure, etc. Presented generally positively.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Decibels." - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) (Prompt Three: Five short modern plays, 1976)
Overpopulation dystopia where noise is a constant. To have a child, someone must die with voluntary euthanasia encouraged, and there are regulations on how much space a person can occupy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Deus Irae - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82); Roger [Joseph] Zelazny (1937-95) (Doubleday, 1976)
Post-catastrophe religious dystopia. Deus Irae is God of Wrath and is the head of a religion sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.
Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980; New York: DAW Books, 1983; and New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Diary of the Rose" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis.
Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 99-125.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Divers of Arakam - Bert Fisher (b. 1934) ([Bert Fisher], 1976)
Dystopia of an imaginary country that is obviously New Zealand with an authoritarian government. See also 1977 and 1978 Fisher.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Don't Bite the Sun - Tanith Lee (1947-2015) (DAW Books, 1976)
A novel about being a teenager in a future world designed to be eutopian with robots doing the work in domed cities and where you can die and be brought back and change your body type and your sex at will. The teenagers see the eutopia as deeply flawed. See also 1977 Lee.
Rpt. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1987; and in her Biting the Sun (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 1-167.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Double Time - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) (Robert Hale, 1976)
Dystopia. Overpopulation and conflict over agricultural property.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Eden Echo - Ruth Angell Purkey (Baker's Plays, 1976)
Satire in a play on a women's only future. Because men were warlike, God had removed all men and women had created a peaceful society. The play shows two older women who are bored, a vehemently anti-male woman, and a young woman who discovers a man in suspended animation. God blinds the anti-male woman so that she can't see the man, and he and the girl go off together.
Keywords: Female author

Floating Worlds - Cecelia [Anastasia Holland (b. 1943) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976)
The novel begins in an anarchist eutopia with some problems on a future, overpopulated, polluted, but high-tech Earth contrasted with Mars, which focuses on law and order. The protagonist of the novel is an anarchist woman in her late twenties living on Earth who can speak Syth, the language of aliens who threaten Earth and Mars. She is hired by the Committee for the Revolution to meet on Mars with Syth leaders to negotiate a truce, which is complicated by the fact that the Syth consider females inferior. The novel begins in Manhattan, which is below the surface of the ocean and is a tourist destination, and then moves to the largely underground, dome-covered, New York, where the woman lives in a commune and looks for temporary jobs to pay her minimal expenses. Men have a “plug” to keep them from impregnating a woman and must have a signed document from a woman to have the plug temporarily removed. The Committee for the Revolution has become a “vestigial government” to which people turn rather than dealing with problems themselves (10/Gollancz 2011, 10/Gollancz 2000, 12). The novel moves quickly to interstellar conflict.
Rpt. as the Collectors’ Edition. London: Gollancz, 2000. 542 pp.; and as SF Masterworks Edition. London: Gollancz, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Graham Sleight (vi-vii). viii + 628 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Florians - Brian M[ichael] Stableford (1948-2024) (DAW Books, 1976)
First of the six volume Daedalus Mission series in which the purpose of the Daedalus is to contact colony planets to find out what has happened and help if needed. The first planet contact, Floria, appears idyllic society, but the Planners have created an unequal society by limiting knowledge. The second volume is Critical Threshold. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 160 pp. In it, a colony that should have thrived has collapsed. The third volume is Wildeblood's Empire. New York: DAW Books, 1977. 192 pp. This colony, originally called Poseidon, has become an apparently thriving empire named after leader. Of course, the reality is different, and it is actually an authoritarian dystopia. The fourth volume, set on the planet Arcadia is The City of the Sun. New York: DAW Books, 1978. 189 pp. U.K. ed. London: Hamlyn 1980 had modelled its system on Tommaso Campanella’s (1568-1639) La Città del Sole (1611) but with changes that made it more dystopian than eutopian.  The fifth book is set on the planet Attica Balance of Power. New York DAW Books, 1979. 173 pp. and concerns a failing human colony, and its interactions with an alien colony also on the planet. The final volume, Paradox of the Sets. New York: DAW Books, 1979. 176 pp. is set on the Planet Geb where humans have enslaved what appears to be a semi-intelligent native population. All volumes are concerned with both the ecology of the planets and the forms of society established.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"From Utopia to Paradise" - Petamber Persaud (From Utopia to Paradise, 1976)
Dialect poem of Guyana as eutopia.
Keywords: Guyanese author

Future Sanctuary - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) (Laser Books, 1976)
Eutopia and dystopia. Fleeing from an authoritarian dystopia, the protagonist visits a number of simple eutopias that provide sanctuary.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Getting Away" - Steven [D.] Utley (1948-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1976)
Dystopia of environmental collapse as background to a time travel story.
Rpt. in his When or Where (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2006), 45-54.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Glutt" - Gladden Schrock (Guthrie New Theater, 1976)
Dystopia in which a man is executed for his lack of community feeling and involvement.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Good Society: A Primer of Its Social Practice - John Friedmann (b. 1926) ([School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA], 1976)
Eutopia. Small, person-centered, focusing on dialogue. It appears to be the first version of 1979 Friedmann, The Good Society A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice. See also 1979 Friedmann, Communalist Society.
Keywords: Austrian author; Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Governor-General - Christopher [John Douglass] Forsyth (b. 1939) (Widescope International Publishers, 1976)
Dystopia. Authoritarian dictatorship in Australia in the form of a political novel describing conflicts within the Labour Party, the seizure of power by the Governor-General, and interference by the United States government.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Gulliver's Visit to Walden III; A Report on Values in Education - William Clark Trow (1894-1982) (Kappa Delta Pi Press, 1976)
Detailed eutopia stressing education. A descendant of Lemuel Gulliver visits Walden III, which is described as "a laboratory, not only to introduce intuitive innovations, but to test hypotheses about the nature of a (not the) good society and how it might be built" (x). The book proposes a model of education based on what the author calls "The Seven Worlds" that include the mental, physical, aesthetic, social, political, economic, and ethical aspects of life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Hail to the Chief" - Lucy [Michaella] Cores (1912-2003) (Beyond Time, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia that would have developed if the Watergate burglary had succeeded.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Healer - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) (Doubleday & Co, 1976)
The central volume of the author’s series the LaNague Chronicles. Mostly science fiction adventure, but it includes a “neo-anarchist” eutopia, more accurately a libertarian eutopia with “a bare minimum of public institutions: police, judiciary, penal, and administration” (79). In the author’s introduction to The LaNague Chronicles. Ed. and sequenced by the author. New York: Baen Books, 1992, he says that his ideas were inspired by Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973), the Austrian economist who lived and worked in the U. S. from 1940 and Murray Rothbard (1926-1995), a U. S. member of the Austrian School of economics and one of the founders of the von Mises Institute, or, as Wilson puts it, “a rational anarchist, an advocate of laissez fire, a radical capitalist” (viii). In the introduction, he characterizes the LaNague Federation as encouraging “any type of society, no matter how bizarre or crazy the philosophy at its core. . . . With a single proviso: free egress must exist at all times. Anyone who wants to opt out of that society must be allowed to do so” (viii-ix). Other volumes in the series include: “Wheels Within Wheels.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 88.1 (September 1971): 8-49; rev. as Wheels Within Wheels: A Novel of the LaNague Federation. New York: Doubleday, 1978; U.K. ed. London: Sidgewick and Jackson, 1980; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2005, with the addition of “Preface to Wheels Within Wheels (v-vii) and two stories: “Higher Centers” (187-99) [rev. from its original publication illus. Vincent Di Fate in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.2 (April 1971): 149-60]; and “The Man With the Anteater” (201-11) [rev. from its original publication illus. Kelly Freas in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.5 (July 1971): 57-66]; An Enemy of the State [cover adds the subtitle A Novel of the La Nague Federation]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1984; rev. ed. Akron, OH: infrapress, 2001, with a “Preface” (i-iii) and the addition of two stories: “Ratman” (281-98) [originally published illus. Vincent Di Fate. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 87.6 (August 1971)]: 149-64; and “Lipidleggin’” (299-307) [originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 2.4 (7) (May-June 1978): 137-145]; and The Tery. New York: Baen Books, 1990. See also is 1989 Dydeetown World, which is connected to the series. The Complete LaNague (Kindle, 2013) contains all the material. The LaNague Chronicles sequences the series as An Enemy of the State, Healer I: Heal Thyself, Healer II: Heal Thy Neighbor, Healer III: Hide Thyself, Wheels Within Wheels, Healer IV: Find They Progeny, Healer V: Heal They Nation, and the text in the book is in this order. “The Complete LaNague Chronology” is provided on page xi. Wheels Within Wheels won the first Prometheus Award from the Libertarian Futurist Society. Both Healer and An Enemy of the State were elected by the Libertarian Futurist Society to the Promethean Hall of Fame.
Rpt. Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, 2001; and Akron, OH: Infrapress, 2005. U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977. Part was published as “Pard” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 90.4 (December 1972): 137-67. Rpt. in his The Tery (New York: Baen Books, 1990), 191-246.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Hostage for Hinterland - Arsen [Julius] Darnay (b. 1936) (Ballantine Books, 1976)
Post-catastrophe urban versus rural conflict. The urban areas were floating structures that needed helium, that only the rural areas could provide, to stay aloft. The rural people are religious and ecologically oriented. They believe, based on their reading of the Bible, that there is a prophecy that they must destroy the urban areas.
Different version serialized as "Helium." Galaxy Science Fiction 36.4 - 6 (April - July 1975): 18-74, 52-107, 87-145.
Keywords: Hungarian author; Male author; US author

Hotel De Dream - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) (Victor Gollancz, 1976)
A series of conflicting dreams by people living in a boarding house take on reality and merge. Some of the dreams are eutopian or dystopian; e.g., one is of an ideal city and one is of Amazonian women. Also, the characters in a novel being written by one of the tenants come to life.
Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (Aurora: Beyond Equality, 1976)
Feminist eutopia composed only of women, mostly clones but with a few new genotypes still being created, confronts men returning from a long space voyage. The eutopia came because an epidemic caused widespread infertility and no male babies were born. It has a small population and is without hierarchy or government and, while it has space travel, it is based more on agriculture than technology. The three men include an extreme chauvinist, a Christian who believes that God established a patriarchal system, and one man who struggles to understand and accept the situation.
Rpt. in Star Songs of an Old Primate (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), 164-226; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 582-632; under the title of the story New York: Tor, 1989 as part of Tor Double Novel # 11 bound with Joanna Russ’s Souls; and in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 168-222.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"I See You" - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1976)
Total surveillance presented positively.
Rpt. in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 91-101.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Islands - Marta Randall (b. 1948) (Pyramid Books, 1976)
Earth has become a world of immortals, but the treatments fail on one woman who leaves Earth but then returns, an old woman in a world of eternal youth.
Rev. ed. New York: Pocket Books, 1980.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"It's a Sunny Day" - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1976)
Dystopia and eutopia contrasting two planets, an overpopulated urban society where efficiency is the norm and an agricultural society where enjoying life is the norm.
Rpt. in Axiom 3.6 (November/December 1977): 42-45, 49-51, 57-58; and in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 193-202 with an editor's note on 192.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Keeper - J[oan Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) (Laser Books, 1976)
Dystopia of a society with no emotion and people programmed not to feel.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Kennaquhair - Ruth Hooker (Abingdon, 1976)
Children's eutopia. A group of racially mixed children escape from a heavily polluted world into a valley called Kennaquhair or "don't know where", where they learn to grow crops and care for animals and each other.
Keywords: Female author

"Last Man" - Jon Inouye (A Night Tide, 1976)
Future eutopia of homosexual men with one brutish earlier man left. Clearly a utopia, but the homosexual men are presented as generally negative stereotypes.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Thing You'd Want To Know - Eric Koch (b. 1919) (Tundra Books, 1976)
A witch becomes President of the U.S. Struggle between reason and unreason. Presented by an advocate of reason (an ex-Nazi) who sells out at the end.
Keywords: Canadian author; German author; Male author

Lifeline - [Jerome] [Gardner] (b. 1932) (Robert Hale, 1976)
Dystopia of a Soviet occupied U.K. in 1998.
Keywords: Male author; UK author