"The Little Book of All Colors" - James B[unyan] Parsons (b. 1948) (Papers in Honor of Professor Woodbridge Bingham: A Festschrift for His Seventy-fifth Birthday, 1976)
Eutopia describing the country of Seeklaria, a small country located in the European Alps. Constitutional monarchy. Influenced by Christianity and China. Racially mixed and culturally well integrated. A modern society with the charms of the past. Based on interviews with the King. Much comment on current affairs, particularly Vietnam.
Keywords: Male author

The Lost Traveller; A Motorcycle Grail Quest Epic and Science Fiction Western - Steve Wilson (b. 1943) (Macmillan, 1976)
Post-catastrophe dystopia centered on biker gangs.
U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man With Two Memories - J[ohn] B[urdon] S[anderson] Haldane (1892-1964) (Merlin Press, 1976)
Detailed eutopia with a stress on psychoanalysis and drugs to control both the mind and body. Two-thirds of the children are clones who are chosen by the society for desirable characteristics with the other third being normal births.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

Millennium: A Novel About People and Politics in the Year 1999 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Random House, 1976)
Dystopia. In caverns in the moon Russian and American colonies cooperate to try to save the Earth from mass destruction.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1976. U.K. ed. rpt. without the subtitle London: Methuen, 1988. Rpt. with the non-utopian Kinsman (1979) in The Kinsman Saga (New York: Tor, 1987), 271-566.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mind Gods; A Novel of the Future - Marie Jakober (1941-2017) (Macmillan of Canada, 1976)
The novel begins in a eutopia on a beautiful planet with very strict birth and pollution controls to correct past bad practice on Earth. Most children are born in machines and raised in "child communes". The people recognize that they are far from perfect and something like a slum exists among the wealth and the beautiful architecture. No religion. The eutopia is attacked and almost defeated by the followers of a charismatic religious leader who has taken over an entire planet through drugs that enhance psychic ability and allows people to be controlled.
U.K. ed. London: Macmillan, 1976.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Miracle: A Romance - Vincent [Gerard] O'Sullivan (b. 1937) (John McIndoe, 1976)
A political satire that includes a potentially authoritarian government that starts a war at the request of the U.S. The Head of Security believes that everyone is a security risk. A girl who becomes a virgin again after each of many rapes becomes the center of national worship. Ends with a spontaneously arising eutopia that may presage a better future in which all share with each other. Much farce.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Missa Privata" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (New Worlds, 1976)
Dystopia of a Communist dominated Britain. Poor, dull, drab, and with a dominant military. White party members are fairly free.
Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 173-98.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Navigator - Morris [Langlo] West (1916-99) (Collins, 1976)
The novel describes the search for a possibly mythical paradise island and the attempt to create a community on the island discovered.
U.S. ed. New York: William Morrow, 1976.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

New Atlantis: The Secret of the Sphinx - Colin Amery (Regency Press, 1976)
Treatment of the Atlantis legend by a believer. The hope of a eutopia is held out after the coming Armageddon (See Revelation 16), which will be followed by the re-emergence of occult masters and the return of people from space. Presented as non-fiction.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"Nozama" - Estacada, Alix; Maridee Bona Dea (Women (Baltimore, MD), 1976)
Brief feminist eutopia. Excerpt from planned larger work that appears to have never been published.
Keywords: Female author

Peter the Second - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) (Constable, 1976)
Last volume of a series on the future of the Roman Catholic Church. In this volume a citizen of the Soviet Union is elected pope and the Soviet Union controls much of the world, but conflict continues. See also 1970, 1973, and 1975 Marshall for other volumes in the series.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

A Planetary Saga Almega: The Multi-coloured Sphere Within the Timeless Vortex - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) (Author/L.C.M., 1976)
Spiritualist eutopia.  Poem received "inspirationally" that traces the past, present, and future of earth. This volume introduces the Brotherhood of the Beings of the Great Galactic-Order, also known as the White Brotherhood, and suggests future turmoil on earth but also the salvation of those who have treated others well. See also [1976?], [1978?], and 1983 Howard.
The copy at ATL has only the New Zealand publication information.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Predators" - Steven [D.] Utley (1948-2013) (The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror, 1976)
Dystopia of violence as background to a time travel story.
Rpt. in his When or Where (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2006), 55-64.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Return of Alizantil: A Continuation of a Planetary Saga - Frank Howard (b. 1910?) ([Alpine Printers], 1976)
Spiritualist eutopia. 39 double-columned page poem sequel to [1976] Howard. Separation of higher and lower orders on different planets. See also [1978?] and 1983 Howard.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Rolltown - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1976)
Large mobile homes, collectively creating towns, trying to deal with a damaged environment and attempting to escape an authoritarian meritocracy.
Originally published in a shorter version as "The Towns Must Roll." If Worlds of Science Fiction 19.6 - 7 (139 - 40) (July - September 1969): 7-46, 114-48. The copyright page in the book says that the earlier version was in Galaxy; that is wrong.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Section G: United Planets - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1976)
Part of Reynolds's loosely connected United Planets series. In this novel, secret agents of the United Planets battle against oppressive governments modeled after Earth dictatorships. Other Section G novels include “Beehive.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 76.4 - 76.6 (December 1965 - January 1966): 8-53, 90-142. Rpt. as Dawnman Planet. New York: Ace Books, 1966. An Ace Double bound with Claude Nunes, Inherit the Earth. New York: Ace Books, 1966); Code Duello. New York: Ace Books, 1968. Ace Double bound with John M. Faucette, [Jr.]. The Age of Ruin. New York: Ace Books, 1968); and Brain World. New York: Leisure Books, 1978.
Parts published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as "Fiesta Brava." 80.1 (September 1967): 74-132; and "Psi Assassin." 80.4 (December 1967): 142-159.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Separation - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) (McClelland and Stewart, 1976)
Sequel to 1975 Rohmer in which Québec narrowly votes not to secede. His Separation Two. Markham, ON: Paperjacks, 1981 is a revision with more elaborate subplots.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Shadow of Alpha - C[harles] L[ewis] Grant (1942-2006) (Berkley Books, 1976)
The background to a catastrophe (plague) thriller is a standard authoritarian dystopia set in 2189. Sequels that follow the same family are 1977 and 1979 Grant. A related story is his "Seven Is a Burning." Analog Science Fiction Science Fact 96.1 (January 1976): 124-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Shadrach in the Furnace - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) (Bobbs-Merrill, 1976)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia with a leader compulsively concerned with immortality. Most of the novel is concerned with the leader's doctor, Mordecai Shadrach, and the decisions he has to make.
Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 96.8 - 10 (August - October 1976): 97-162; 88-162; 88-127; 10-74, 76-91, 129-56.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Shattered Chain - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) (DAW Books, 1976)
Part of her Darkover series concerned with the Free Amazons, a utopian sub-culture. There are a large number of books and stories by Bradley and others that are set in Darkover. Here I have included only those works that are clearly eutopian, and most of the works included focus on the Free Amazons. See 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991 Bradley; 1979 Breen; 1980 Boal (2), Mathews, Silvestri, Verana, and Verba; 1985 Armistead, Bigelow, Boal, Carter, Holtzer, Jaida nha Sandra, Kramer, Lackey, Paxson, Riggs, Schwartz, Shannon, Mathews (2), Silvestri, Verba, Waters, and Wheeler; 1982 Holdom, 1987 Boal, Buchanan, and Fenoglio; 1990 Lackey; 1991 Alward, Armstrong, Armstrong-Jones, Avery, Carter, Cirone, Fenoglia, Jaggers, Kobylecky, Lamb, Nazarian, Novak, Partridge, Paxson, Rey, Rhodes, Rodriguez, Verba, Waters, and Wheeler; 1993 Heydt and Schimel; 1994 Pierson, Paxson, and Lackey; 2013 Caffrey and Edhghill; 2014 Paxson; 2015 Paxson.
Rpt. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979; and in Oath of the Renunciates (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1983), 1-212. U.K. ed. of The Shattered Chain. London: Arrow Books, 1978; rpt. London: Severn House, 1985
Keywords: Female author; US author

Steppe - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Millington, 1976)
Dystopia of a future oriented around a complex game run by the Game Machine, which has the power to bring people from the past to fill essential roles in the game.
U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1985.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Survivors - Terry Nation (1930-1997) (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976)
The novel is based on a BBC TV program created by the author that ran in three series from 1975 to 1977 for a total of thirty-eight episodes. It concerned the responses of a small group of survivors of a pandemic. In 2008 BBC produced a new program by Adrian Hodges (b. 1957) based loosely on the 1976 novel. This program ran in two series, the first in 2008 and the second in 2010, when it was cancelled due to low viewership.
Rpt. London: Orion Books, 2008. U.S. ed. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

The Termination. A One-Act Play - Samuel Birnkrant (Pioneer Drama Service, 1976)
Satirical on the bureaucratic Termination Bureau in an overpopulated world.
Keywords: Male author

"Thanatos" - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) (Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia in a world where all plants and animals have died. Everyone convicted of a crime is kept alive while attached to machines that pump from them all the nutrients needed to sustain others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Then Beggars Could Ride - R[adell] F[araday] Nelson (1931-2022) (Laser Books, 1976)
The protagonist searches throughout history for his own utopia finding only disillusionment until the end where he finds a low tech community. The author's "Introduction" (5-7) calls the book a utopia and says that it is possible.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Time of the Fourth Horseman - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (b. 1942) (Doubleday, 1976)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. with disease as a means of population control.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1977.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Travels in Oudamovia - John Austin Baker (The Faith Press, 1976)
Detailed Christian eutopia describing a lost group of early Christians who survived into the 20th century living a truly Christian way of life.
Keywords: Male author

Treasures of Morrow - H[elen] M[ary] Hoover (1935-2018) (Four Winds Press, 1976)
Sequel 1973 Hoover in which the children live in the eutopia but also return to the primitive society to try to assist it.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Triage" - William [Herbert] Walling (b. 1926) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1976)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in International Relations Through Science Fiction. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: New Viewpoints, 1978), 142-60.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tricentennial" - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) (The Exploded Heart, 1976)
Extremely violent, poverty stricken, overpopulated urban dystopia.
Originally published in the Portland Scribe.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tricentennial" - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1976)
Dystopia set in 2075 in which guilds have come to dominate the political system; only about two percent of the population vote.
Rpt. in his Infinite Dreams (New York: Avon, 1978), 200-19; in Galaxy’s Edge, no. 36 (January 2019): 61-71; and in Shapers of Worlds: Science fiction & fantasy by authors featured on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worshippers. Ed. Edward Willett (Regina, SK, Canada: Shadowpaw Press, 2020), 317-53.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Triton - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Bantam Books, 1976)
Detailed eutopia and dystopia. All things are easily possible, including sex changes, and everyone is free to do almost anything. Much conflict and political intrigue but on balance more eutopian than dystopian.
Rpt. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1977; in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and as Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Turning Place: Stories of a Future Past - Jean E[dna] Karl (1927-2000) (E. P. Dutton, 1976)
Young adult eutopia presented in a series of linked stories beginning with a destroyed Earth and its slow rebirth. In the process of rebirth, human beings come to recognize the ties that bind them all together. They also become more inward looking at the same time that they are in contact with other planets and ultimately with the galaxy, where humans have a role in creating a galactic government. 1981 Karl is a companion volume.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Venus Development - David Bergamini (1928-83) (Popular Library, 1976)
Corporate controlled authoritarian dystopia intent on establishing a colony on Mars and the successful revolt of the first colonists.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Vision 1-6" - Clifford Harper (b. 1949) (Undercurrents. Radical Technology, 1976)
Anarchist utopia described in six illustrations with brief notes and some with captions. The visions are of a collectivised garden, a basement workshop, an autonomous village, an autonomous terrace, a community workshop, and a community media centre. Strikingly, the only people shown working are women, and Colin Ward comments on this saying, “Note that the last male chauvinist is sulking in the corner. The women have taken over the shop” (133/Why Work 153).
U.S. ed. (New York: Pantheon Books/Random House, 1976), 48-49, 94-85, 132-33, 168-69, 200-201, 228-29. Rpt. in a different order as foldout plates in Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society. Ed. Vernon Richards (London: Freedom Press, 1983), 149-54, with commentary by Colin Ward  rather than the original description.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Way Out - John [Blair] Vornholt [Jr.] (b. 1951) (Dramatic Publishing Co, 1976)
Humorous play. To escape the overpopulated dystopia of Earth a family rents a planet they think is uninhabited, as has an alien family, with another different alien showing up later.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Why the U.S. Never Fought the Indians” - Vine Deloria Jr. (b. 1933) (The Christian Century, 1976)
Alternative history in which, for reasons given in the essay, the Eastern Indian tribes sold land and invested in industry, which meant that there were no wars against the Indians. There were wars by the Eastern Indians against the Western Indians as the former built railroads across the lands of the latter.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976)
Detailed feminist eutopia that is half a realistic novel about the mistreatment of the poor by the police, social workers and the medical/psychiatric profession. Eliminates gendered pronouns; replaced with "per".
Rpt. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1983. [40th anniversary edition]. London: Gollancz, 2016 with “Introduction to the 2016 Edition” by Piercy (vii-xi).
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Young Tom" - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) (New Writings in SF, 1976)
Overpopulation dystopia in which one can get a "life credit" permitting the birth of a child on the death of a relative.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Your Cruel Face” - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 (Computer Decisions, 1976)
Dystopia in which six misdemeanors merit instant execution.
Rpt. in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 115-19. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii)]; and in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 187-89.
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

"Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light." - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) (Aurora: Beyond Equality, 1976)
Future dystopia of violence directed particularly at women.
Rpt. in James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.], Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr. (Suak City, WI: Arkham House, 1990), 149-67; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 247-63.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ability Quotient - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1975)
Pills are given people to increase intelligence and their ability to absorb knowledge. They are then encouraged to marry others who have taken the pills with their abilities passed on to their children. This will lead to a better society. Reynolds uses the idea of an "ability quotient" in other works.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Adventures of Chet Blake--Plastic Man - Richard Weekley (Crescent Publications, 1975)
Social and political satire set in the future in which a rock group's songs influence the behavior of politicians.
Keywords: Male author

All the Curious Traveler Would Want to Know About the Only Remaining Utopia for the Average Man--New Zealand - Seymour [O.] Kopf ([Ptd. by South China Morning Post], 1975)
New Zealand as eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Be Ye Perfect" - M[artha] A[nn] Bartter (1932-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1975)
Dystopia. Population control through forced breeding between two communities.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Birdbrain - [Jerome] [Gardner] (b. 1932) (Robert Hale, 1975)
Dystopia. Soviet of a occupied U.K. in 1991.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Book of Rewi: A Utopian Tale - David P[atrick] O'Neill (b. 1946) (Seabury Press, 1975)
A group of young people of different races, classes, and languages are marooned on a South Pacific island. They develop a social order with a system of conflict resolution, ceremonies, and rites of passage. The Library of Congress catalogs as a book for young adults.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“Breath’s a Ware That Will Not Keep” - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia in which a computer is programmed to produce people for the city of Chicago from a breeder tank.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Brother Gib - [Albert] [King] (1924-94) (Robert Hale, 1975)
Revolt in a robot dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; Northern Ireland author

Building Entopia - C[onstantinos] A[postolou] Doxiadis (1913-75) (W. W. Norton, 1975)
Detailed description of his vision of a global eutopian city with plans for its realization. Entopia means a city that is both desirable and realistic. Details of the furniture (72-82), room (86-95), and house (100-10) of the future, all depending on advanced technology, and all designed to be very flexible. In addition, he explains the “housegroup” of about fifty families (116-25), the neighborhood (136-47), and other larger groups, such as the polis, the metropolis, the megalopolis, the Eperopolis, and the Ecumenopolis, or the global city. In each case, he begins with the current situation and ends with steps toward the better future. All groupings are designed for flexibility and freedom of choice within rules set by the group. The author provides something of a summary in “The real Entopia 2121 A.D.” (301-07). The author develops his arguments in a series of related books, all of which add substance to his eutopia, with Building Entopia described as the third volume in the series. The first volume is Anthropopolis: City for Human Development. Athens: Athens Publishing Center, 1974 by Doxiadis (1-206), with a symposium with Doxiadis, Rene Dubos, Erik H. Erikson, Dennis Gabor, Reginald S. Lourie, Margaret Mead, C. H. Waddington, Thomas A. Doxiadis, and Spyros A. Doxiadis (207-357). The second volume is Ecumenopolis: The Inevitable City of the Future. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974 by Doxiadis and J. G. Papaioannou. The fourth volume is Doxiadis, Action for Human Settlements. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976. See also his Between Dystopia and Utopia. Hartford, CT: The Trinity College Press, 1966.
Keywords: Greek author; Male author

"Civis Lapvtvs Svm" - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia describing a community that is isolated on a flying island and the tensions that develop between the dominant groups.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Civis Obit" - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia of old people being kept technically alive but warehoused.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Come See the Last Man Cry" - Joan [Carol] Hunter Holly (1932-82) (Tomorrow: New Worlds of Science Fiction, 1975)
Dystopia. Emotionless people who need to torment a child into expressing unhappiness for public viewing.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Come Take a Dip With Me in the Genetic Pool" - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia in which an authoritarian genetic council decides who can have children and requires abortions when a relationship is not approved.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Comet - [Jane Francis] [Brady] (1934-85) (Hamilton, 1975)
Dystopia. After a catastrophe, there has been a growth of violence and an authoritarian system. Population severely depleted. Books banned. Domestic animals have become wild.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Concert: A Short Story of Paradise Found" - [Susan] [Furchgott] (Utopian Eyes, 1975)
Eutopia. Story of the future of the Kerista polyfidelity community.
Rpt. in Kerista; Journal of Utopian Group Living 3.2 (Autumn, 1986): 1-27
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Counter Ecology" - Norman Kagan (b. 1943) (Tomorrow Today, 1975)
Authoritarian, violent dystopia of a destroyed ecology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Crucifixion of Brotherman (The Man Behind the Laughing Shadow). A Play (from the Notes of Brotherman) - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1975)
The dystopia of being a Black man, particularly a Black scientist, in the U.S. The play focuses on the mistreatment of an up-and-coming Black graduate student. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, I Am Ishmael, and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Curse of the Ring - Melvin [Ezell] Gorham (1910-94) (Sovereign Press, 1975)
Richard Wagner's (1813-83) opera set in the 21st century. See also 1970 and 1979 Gorham. For other works from the same general perspective, see 1984 von Konen and the note there, 1984 Valoric Fire, and 1987 Pedersen.
Rev. and exp. as Melvin Gorham's Interpretation of Richard Wagner's The Rhinegold [Cover adds side by side with Wagner's Libretto]. Rochester, WA: Sovereign Press, 1990.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Day They Cut Off the Power" - Vera Johnson (New Writings in SF, 1975)
Students of every college of the United States of Europe plan a revolt, but all the colleges are closed and turned over to the local governments to use as housing. All education will be by television. Extreme pollution. Neo-Luddites destroying cars and planes.
Keywords: Female author

"A Death in Coventry" - Joseph [Lee] Green (b. 1931) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia of human alien relations on a developing planet, with the humans entirely at fault.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dhalgren - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (Bantam Books, 1975)
Complex dystopia set in a city called Bellona in what appears to be a post-catastrophe America where reality is constantly shifting. Much violence, including sexual violence. Includes a commune in a park.
Rev. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Doomsday Clock - Elizabeth S. Benoist (1901-99) (Naylor Co, 1975)
A novel about the build-up to nuclear war and the aftermath of the war. A small group of survivors is shown in an almost eutopian underground shelter. Conflicts develop among them, and they work to return to the surface.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Drumble" - [Charles Dodd] [Naylor] (1941-2005) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
Flawed utopia in which an English village is encapsulated and kept forever unchanged as a tourist attraction. Everyone inside, who live forever, is provided with all material needs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Dybbuk Dolls" - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) (New Dimensions Number 5, 1975)
Dystopia of poverty and anti-Semitism. Most groups live in high-rise ghettos. The dybbuk dolls are alien artifacts that reinforce a person's worst characteristics.
Rpt. in Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time. Ed. Michael Bishop (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 78-92.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ecotopia. The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) (Banyan Tree Books, 1975)
Ecological eutopia. See also 1981 Callenbach, Ecotopia Emerging; his “Chocco.” Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias. Ed. Kim Stanley Robinson (New York: Tor, 1994), 189-213; his Living Poor With Style. Illus. Judith Clancy Johns. New York: Bantam Books, 1972; A later version which is said to “evolved” from this book and The Ecotopian Encyclopedia (1980) is Living Cheaply With Style. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1993; and Callenbach and Michael Phillips, A Citizen Legislature. Berkeley/Bodega, CA: Banyan Tree Books/Clear Glass, 1985
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1977. 181 pp.; 30th anniversary edition, Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books in Association with Heyday Books, 2004, with a “Foreword” by Malcolm Margolin (); and the 40th anniversary edition as Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books in Association with Heyday Books, 2014, with a “Foreword” by Malcolm Margolin (iii-ix) and Callenbach’s “Epistle to the Ecotopians” (173-81) that was found on his computer after his death in 2012. Part first published as “First Days in Ecotopia.” American Review 19 (January 1974): 79-102. Part later published as “Ecotopia.” Oregon Times (October - November 1975): 32-36, 22-23; and as “Journey to Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston.” Harper’s Weekly 65 (May 17, 1976): 11-18.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Electronic Lullaby Meat Market - John [Barry] Spencer (1944-2002) (Quartet Books, 1975)
Humor. Authoritarian dystopia with brainwashing through musak.
Keywords: English author; Male author

End Product - Barry [Leslie] Norman (1933-2017) (Quartet Books, 1975)
A grim satire on race relations in which a black, African hominid becomes an edible herd animal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Exile Waiting - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) (Nelson Doubleday, 1975)
Post-apocalyptic dystopia set in the Center, a domed city that involves slavery located in a cave system connected to an old missile site. The novel is unusual for the time including disabled characters. For a study of disability in science fiction, see Kathryn Allan, ed. Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Her Dreamsnake. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1978 is set in the same universe. Dreamsnake is based on revisions of her “A Broken Dome.” Illus. Janet Aulisio. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 98.3 (March 1978): 50-66, 68-72, 74-100; “The Serpent’s Death.” Illus. Janet Aulisio. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 98.2 (February 1978): 67-93; and “Of Mist and Grass.” Illus. Leo Summers. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 92.2 (October 1973): 73-92.
Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, [1976]]; and Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with “Cages.” Illus. Olivier Olivier. Quark/4. Ed. Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker (New York: Paperback Library, 1971), 163-73, which includes characters who then appear in the novel, rpt. on 281-91, a “Note on the text” on 280; an “Afterword” by Una McCormack (293-312); “Further Reading” (313-14) and a “List of [McIntyre’s] works” (315-16).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Exodus/UK - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) (McClelland and Stewart, 1975)
Arab countries pull all money from the U.K. causing the collapse of the British economy. Canada accepts unlimited immigration from Britain, which causes Québec to threaten to withdraw from the Confederation. Alberta and British Columbia threaten to withdraw if the immigration does not go ahead. U.S. also accepts unlimited immigration from the U.K. under provisions which make the U.K. dependent on the U.S., even excluding U.K. workers from participating in the development of North Sea oil. See also 1976 and 1981 Rohmer.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Faces Forward" - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945); George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
A series of brief and quite varied dystopian vignettes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Female Man - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Bantam Books, 1975)
A complex feminist novel that includes a eutopia without men. The focus of the novel is on three women who are genetically identical but, as a result of the different worlds they live in, completely different. See also 1972 Russ, “When It Changed”.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977, with an “Introduction” by Marilyn Hacker (v-xxvii); Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986; in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged. U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Gwyneth Jones (ix-xii); and in Russ, Novels and Stories. Ed. Nicole Rudick (New York: The Library of America, 2023), 1-191, with a Chronology on 681-694 that includes chronologically references to Russ’s publications, notes on the text on 694 and 697, and notes on 699-702. Selections from throughout the novel are rpt. as “A Few Things I Know About Whileaway.” The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 82-97 with an editor’s note on 81.
Keywords: Female author

The Freeway: A Play in Two Acts - Peter Nichols (b. 1927) (Faber and Faber, 1975)
Dystopia which the author says should not be compared to the classic dystopias, involving a massive traffic jam where people have to live for an extended period in their cars and motor homes. Set in a violent future where roads other than the freeways are not safe.
Rev. in his Plays: One (London: Methuen Drama, 1991), 407-510, with an introduction by the author (409-11); and London: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Keywords: English author; Male author

From the Legend of Biel - Mary Staton (b. 1945?) (Ace Books, 1975)
A complex novel focusing on a highly advanced society both technically and socially trying to push human evolution along faster with both positive and negative results. This culture, which is part of a vast federation of worlds, meets a primitive culture on one world and the humans who visit that planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Future's Advocate - E[dwin] G[eorge] Carr (Herald Publishing House, 1975)
The eutopia of life after the Second Coming of Christ but before all have been saved with those not saved still resisting.
Keywords: Male author

"The Gift" - Laurence M[ark] Janifer (1933-2002) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
A future where all lifestyles are acceptable. The focus is on homosexuality. Parts can be read as dystopian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Girl Who Owned a City - O. T. Nelson (Lerner Publications, 1975)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which all adults die, and the children struggle to survive. The novel focuses on a girl who takes over a high school building to provide security for her group.
Adapted by Dan Jolley. Illus. Joëlle Jones. Colored by Jenn Manley Lee. Letters by Grace Lu. Minneapolis, MN: Graphics Universe™, 2012. There are quite a few other editions and reprints.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Going - Sumner Locke Elliott (1917-1991) (Harper & Row, 1975)
Future dystopia of love and patriotism Set in the U.S. People are euthanized at an age not specified in the novel The protagonist is an elderly woman on the day she will be euthanized remembering her life and her family, particularly her husband who committed suicide, her rebellious daughter who had been lobotomized, and her powerful, hated son-in-law who had created the dystopia, and kept her other daughter sedated.
Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Macmillan Company of Australia, 1975.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; US author

"Going Down" - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia of sexual gratification in which an Institute ensures that all fantasies and fetishes are fulfilled with no concern for the other people involved.
Rpt. in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 99-119.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Grimus - [Ahmed] Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) (Victor Gollancz, 1975)
Something of a metaphysical adventure novel with science fiction elements. The main society described is labeled "utopian" (186) because it functions on a basis of rough equality and with no money.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

"Growing Up in Edge City" - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) (Epoch, 1975)
Dystopia describing a totally enclosed city where every person is constantly monitored. One boy discovers a way outside and people living there. Punished, he ultimately arranges for the destruction of those outside to advance his career.
Rpt. in his Pohlstars (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 126-39.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Growing Up in Tier 3000 - Felix C[harles] Gotschalk [Jr.] (1929-2002) (Ace Books, 1975)
Grotesque dystopia in which children kill parents as part of the rites of passage because constraint on energy resources necessitates a limit on population. People have implants that greatly expand physical powers, and instruments are available to measure all bodily functions. Rule by clones of past leaders.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Heavens Below: Fifteen Utopias" - John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
Series of short utopias gone wrong. Some are jokes rather than serious comment.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Hero as Werwolf - Gene [Rodman] Wolfe (1931-2019) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
Dystopia in which the rebel against the dystopian order is a werewolf.
Keywords: Male author; US author

High-Rise - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Jonathan Cape, 1975)
Dystopia of violence within an apartment block.
Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2006 with an added, separately paged section at the end entitled "P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . ." (1-18), which includes 1977 Ballard (2-10).
Keywords: English author; Male author

“A Horse of a Different Technicolor” - Craig [Kee] Strete (b. 1950 (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1975)
Something of a surveillance dystopia in which some of the means of surveillance are embedded in a person’s body and used to implant thoughts. The story is told from the point-of-view of someone who, as a result, is no longer sure who they are.
Rpt. in his If All Else Fails . . . (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1980), 44-53. [The book includes an “Introduction: Notes on a Dangerous Writer” by Jorge Luis Borges (vii-viii].
Keywords: Male author; Native American author

I Am Ishmael, Son of the Blackamoor. A Play - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1975)
The play is about a charismatic African American who, because he is so popular, becomes Vice President of the U. S., marries a white woman, and then, on the death of the President, becomes President. Although his progressive policies are both popular and successful, because he married the white woman, a white man who wanted her vows to kill him and so do black women, who feel betrayed by him. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 Shears, The Crucifixion of Brotherman, and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye of the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, and Leviathan - Robert [Joseph] Shea (1933-94); Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) (Dell, 1975)
Dystopia that revels in conspiracy theories and secret societies. The novels have significant libertarian themes, and in 1986 the book won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award of the Libertarian Futurist Society. Adapted as a series of five plays, The Eye of the Pyramid, Swift Kick Inc., The Man Who Murdered God, Walpurgisnacht Rock, and Leviathan, with each play consisting of five twenty-three-minute acts and first performed in Liverpool in 1976. It was also adapted as a comic book with three issues formally published and a fourth issue distributed at comic book conventions. Wilson was more identified with the novels than Shea, and he published three autobiographical novels that continued to considered themes of the trilogy, Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati. Grand Junction, CO: Hilaritas Press, 1977; Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth. Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1991; and Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death. Las Vegas, NV: New Falcon Publications, 1995. He also published The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, comprised of The Earth Will Shake. A Novel. Los Angeles, CA: J. P. Tarcher, 1982; The Widow’s Son. New York: Bluejay Books, 1985; and Nature’s God. New York: Roc, 1991; and Masks of the Illuminati. New York Dell, 1981. See also 2017 [Drummond and Cauty].
Originally published as Illuminatus, Part I The Eye of the Pyramid. New York: Dell, 1975. 304 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (1-305); Illuminatus Part II The Golden Apple New York: Dell, 1975. 272 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (305-562); and Illuminatus Part III Leviathan. New York: Dell, 1975. 253 pp. Cover as Illuminatus! (563-805).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Irish Rose - Patrick Wyatt [pseud.?] (Michael Joseph, 1975)
Dystopia. Depopulated future with a hierarchical society. Women are kept solely for breeding, and all affection is homosexual. The novel focuses on a girl who learns to read.
Rpt. Newton Abbot, Eng.: Readers Union, 1975.
Keywords: UK author

The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (DAW Books, 1975)
Dystopia. Society where personal slavery has replaced imprisonment for certain crimes.
U.K. ed. as The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers. Morley, Eng.: The Elmfield Press, 1975.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

The Karma Machine - [Michael] [Zeik] (Popular Library, 1975)
Dystopia in which ancient Eastern wisdom is wedded with a modern computer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

King Creature Come - John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) (Oxford University Press, 1975)
Borderline young adult novel in which society is divided into Persons, who rule and are indulged, and Creatures, who revolt with the assistance of two young people from the colony of Persons.
U.S. ed. as The Creatures. New York: J.B. Lippincott. 1980.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Letter from London, 1985" - Robert Moss (b. 1946) (The Collapse of Democracy, 1975)
Socialist dystopia. Buckingham Palace is now the Ministry of Equality. Northern Ireland and Scotland have declared independence. The U.S. has been expelled from what is now the Socialist United Nations. Rationing. While the dystopia is presented as economically unsuccessful, it uses its majority in Parliament to push through all the changes it wants to make.
U.S. ed. (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1976), 21-35. Updated ed. (London: Abacus, 1977), 23-34.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Life and Times of Multivac" - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) (The New York Times Magazine, 1975)
Flawed utopia in which everyone lives well, but all important decisions are made by a large computer, which, for example, decides who can have children and when. Also, people are only allowed to do unimportant work and that only with permission.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Log of a Superfluous Son. A Novel - Michael Henderson (b. 1942) (John McIndoe, 1975)
The novel focuses on the experiences and thoughts of a successful lawyer who chooses to quit his well-paying job and work on a cattle boat between Auckland, New Zealand and Guam, but in the background is the contemporary dystopia of the Vietnam War and a growing authoritarianism and militarism in New Zealand.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Man Who Wanted to Save Canada: A Prophetic Novel - R. J. Chick Childerhose (b. 1928) (Hoot Publications, 1975)
Canada has become a capitalist dystopia that, for the good of the capitalists that are ruining the country, wants to merge with the U.S. The protagonist tries and fails to alert Canadians to the situation and proposes various reforms.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Marx the First - [Claude Cunningham] Bruce Marshall (1899-1987) (Constable, 1975)
Volume in a linked series on a future of a Soviet controlled Vatican. In this volume Pope Marx I, having not been killed, returns and institutes his reforms, including married clergy and free sexuality for novices. Conflict erupts inside and outside the Church, with Spain and Britain going to war and with Britain losing. See 1970, 1973, and 1976 Marshall for other volumes in the series.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The Ministry of Children" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (New Worlds, 1975)
Dystopia. The negative effects of the establishment of large, general schools in Britain. Violence, illiteracy. The setting is an overpopulated future but that is not a focus.
Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 86-126. SFF,
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Missing Man - Katherine [Anne] MacLean (1925-2019) (Berkley Books, 1975)
Dystopia. Overpopulation leads to break up into small, hostile communities.
Part originally published under this title in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 87.1 (March 1971): 8-51. Rpt. in Analog 9. Ed. Ben[jamin William] Bova (London: Dennis Dobson, 1973), 110-66; Nebula Award Stories Seven. Ed. Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 206-260, with an editor’s note on 206-07; and in her The Trouble with You Earth People (Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1980), 189-237. Other parts published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as "The Fear Hound" 81.3 (May 1968): 102-24; and "Rescue Squad For Ahmed" 86.2 (October 1970): 72-104.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Modest Utopia" - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). (The Futurist, 1975)
Essay presenting an environmentally sound world society. A steady-state society based on world-wide negative population growth would be able to provide food, shelter, education, and health care for all. World energy authority. World police/military in charge of all weapons of war. World administrative body. Not the same as 1928 Chase. See also 1968 Chase.
Rpt. as "Toward a Steady-State Society." Current 179 (January 1976): 3-8.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Morrow's Ants - Edward [Solomon] Hyams (1910-75) (Allen Lane, 1975)
Dystopia. An industrialist applies his knowledge of ant colonies to human workers and develops a new community on the same principles. Set in Wales.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Multiface. Science Fiction - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1975)
Picture of a controlled society of the future that is presented as a eutopia, albeit with problems. See also 1971 and 1972 Adlard.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The New Atlantis" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, 1975)
Bureaucratic, authoritarian, and violent dystopia. War is constant; global warming is destroying the planet; the government controls all power sources, which are failing; food and medication are in short supply; marriage and the nuclear family are illegal; women cannot be admitted to medical school; and minor bureaucratic rules are used to keep people in line for fear of being imprisoned.
Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), 165-92; in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 185-205; in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 12-40. U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 12-40; in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin and Brian Attebery. Karen Joy Fowler, Consultant (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 317-36; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 229-56, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 228.
Keywords: Female author; US author

No Man's Land - Simon Watson (Victor Gollancz, 1975)
Young adult dystopia describing a future in which the past is being destroyed in the name of progress.
U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1976.
Keywords: Male author

"Or Little Ducks Each Day" - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Odd dystopia in which some people are able to foretell individual futures except that there are areas of the city where the future can be changed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Parable: The Isle of Erg" - Peter Chapman (Fuel's Paradise; Energy Options for Britain, 1975)
Short sketch of an energy efficient eutopia with a guaranteed annual income.
Keywords: Male author

The Pawn - Arthur Mather (b. 1925) (Wren, 1975)
Authoritarian, overpopulation dystopia which hopes to solve its problems by creating artificial satellites that can absorb 500,000 people each. Military government on Earth controlled by a small elite and the secret service. The novel is about the first experimental satellite, which is destroyed at the end.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Peddler's Apprentice" - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024); Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge (b. 1948) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1975)
Dystopia--a small section of the story describes a world government that through drugs and manipulation has kept the world unchanging.
Rpt. in Vernor Vinge, True Names . . . and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 146-97; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 55-89. This ed. has notes by Vernor Vinge.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Pessimist Utopia - Theo Crosby (1925-94) (Pentagram Papers 2, 1975)
A plea for small is beautiful, individuality.
Keywords: English author; Male author; South African author

The Peter Plan; A Proposal for Survival - Laurence J[ohnston] Peter (1919-90) (William Morrow, 1975)
A future eutopia based on political participation. An emphasis on ecology.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

A Place Beyond Man - Cary [Carolyn A.] Neeper (b. 1937) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975)
Gives glimpses of an alien culture that is a eutopia but the eutopia is not developed. Commentary on the contemporary human world.
Keywords: Female author

The Premar Experiments - Robert H[enry] Rimmer (1917-2001) (Crown, 1975)
A sequel to 1966 Rimmer. Premar = premarital. In this novel, Harrad College expands its experiment as described in 1966 Rimmer to include an ethnically, financially, and racially diverse population living communally. In the earlier novel all the people were white, extremely intelligent, and of similar ethnicity. Here the sexual relations cross all those borders. A part of the plan is to rejuvenate the generally poor areas within which the communes are established. See 1966, 1968, 1978, 1982, and 2000 Rimmer.
Rpt. New York: Signet, 1976
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Prologue to Utopia: The Six Days of its Creation (out of the conditions of the now-existing world)" - Barbara Gibbs (1912-93); Francis Golffing (1910-2012) (Northern New England Review, 1975)
Short description of the beginnings of a eutopia based on "a psychological revolution" which allows human beings to see themselves as one world-wide society. See also 1962 and 1991 Golffing and Gibbs.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Ransome Revisited - Elisabeth Mace (b. 1933) (André Deutsch, 1975)
Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which children are brutally treated. A group of children leave to seek a better society and may find one. In the sequel her The Rushton Inheritance. London: Andre Deutsch, 1978 (rpt. as The Rushton Treasure. London: Magnet, 1980 with no mention of the earlier title), there is a beginning in recovering knowledge of the past. See also the non-utopian prequel to the novel, The Travelling Man. London André Deutsch, 1976.
U.S. ed. as Out There. New York: Greenwillow, 1975.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Return to the Gate - William Corlett (1938-2005) (Hamish Hamilton, 1975)
A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.
1975 Corlett, William [Harold] (1938-2005). Return to the Gate. London: Hamish Hamilton. U.S. ed. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1977. NZ A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Risk" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1975)
A man resurrected from the past hates the future eutopia in which technology keeps people from being injured.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Satellite City - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1975)
Dystopia of a satellite free from government control that serves as a pleasure ground for the rich and powerful where anything goes. It is actually mostly run by the Mafia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Scenario for a New Medicine” - Rick J. Carlson (b. 1940) (The End of Medicine, 1975)
This section brings together the argument of the book describing medicine in the year 2000 saying that the medical care system “will be smaller than at present and will consume far fewer resources” (238). There will be neighborhood hospitals and learning centers with emergency services, regional health centers, and residential complexes for the elderly that “will stress self-care and responsibility but will provide all necessary medical care on site” (239). Hospital based medical teams will replace independent office practices. Overseeing the system will be a Department of Health Affairs with the mission of ensuring that the environment is “as conducive to health as possible” (239).
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Scenario: Religion 2101: The Monkey Rite or Whatever Happened to the Pewsitters and Sunday-Dress-Up People” - Hiley H. Ward (d. 2009) (Religion 2101 A.D., 1975)
Dystopia of a future authoritarian system using religion as one of its control mechanisms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Scraping at the Bones" - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) (Blood and Burning, 1975)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Second Coming - Antony Lopez (New English Library, 1975)
Religious dystopia that converts people with force. Restrictions on sex.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Seeds of Change - Thomas F[rancis] Monteleone (b. 1946) (Laser Books, 1975)
Authoritarian dystopia set in Denver 200 years in the future. The society is technologically far advanced, and computers are used to identify possible deviations from the genetic norm. Escapees have established an underground complex outside the city, and they ultimately defeat and destroy the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Settling the World" - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
An odd utopia in which god has been found behind the moon and brought back to Earth, where what appears to be a eutopia of peace, plenty, and security develops. But god is an immense beetle, which no one notices, and beetles are replacing humans in positions of authority.
Rpt. in Best SF: 75. The Ninth Annual. Ed. Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976), 126-53; and in his The Ice Monkey and other stories (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983), 59-79.
Keywords: English author; Male author

She Would Have Been a Taxi Dancer, but He Couldn’t Hail a Cab. A Novel - David Manning (Loom Press, 1975)
A dystopian novel that follows a couple called the Typewriter and the Road Map in their constantly frustrated attempts to leave New York City.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Shockwave Rider - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Harper & Row, 1975)
A complex dystopia that has an embedded eutopia opposed to the dystopia. The focus of the dystopia is on a program to identify geniuses, particularly among orphans and other children who can be taken without being noticed. They are then educated and trained (brainwashed and conditioned) to develop their particular bent so as to be most useful to the system. One man uses his talent with computer systems to escape, although much of the novel follows him as his memories are searched after he is captured. The eutopia, called Precipice, is a small town with advanced, ecologically sensitive architecture, a radically decentralized political system, and an egalitarian population. The man, who again escapes, uses his talents to save Precipice from attack by the government.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Showboat World - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Pyramid, 1975)
Set in same world as 1952 Vance but presenting a different aspect of the planet focusing on the eccentrics inhabiting Big Planet and the showboats that provide entertainment.
U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1977. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1990. Rpt. as The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River Lune XXIII South, Big Planet. San Francisco, CA:/Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983; and as vol. 19 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2005.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sierra Maestra" - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1975)
The revolutionaries of the New Left abandon revolution and infiltrate the economic and political system until they can take over and institute their policies. The story ends just as they succeed. The policies mentioned include 100 per cent tax on profits, forgiveness of all government debt, and prohibition of private ownership of all cars.
Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 293-305 with an "Introduction to Sierra Maestra" (291-92).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Solution Three - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) (Dennis Dobson, 1975)
The novel is set after a nuclear war in a society that is experiencing overpopulation and food shortages. The first two solutions fail, but the third appears to be working. It requires prohibits heterosexuality, with some exceptions, who are looked down upon and discriminated against, and requires homosexuality. Reproduction is through cloning, with the original parents a black man and a white woman, thus eliminating racism. Children are raised collectively until weaned and then they are “strengthened,” by having their individuality removed and replaced with conditional responses through behavioral engineering. But Solution Three is also failing.
U.S. ed. New York: Warner Books, 1975. Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995, with an “Afterword Naomi Mitchison: The Feminist Art of Making Things Difficult” by Susan M. Squier (161-83).
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Starcrossed - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) (Chilton, 1975)
Background of a future polluted dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Jove/HBJ, 1979.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Stork Factor - [Hugh] [Zachary] (1928-2016) (Berkley Books, 1975)
Religious dystopia with advancement only within the religious hierarchy and medical care reserved for the powerful.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Tomorrow File - Lawrence [A.] Sanders (1920-98) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975)
Authoritarian dystopia in the form of a mystery novel set in a complex future U.S. Drugs, biological advances. Power has moved to the bureaucracy, which is primarily concerned with itself rather than the country. The Department of Bliss replaces the Department of Health and Human Services and other, similar changes have taken place in U.S. government. The U.S. has added states from throughout the world. Language has changed: Love means money, Objects means people, Obso. means old referring to both people and artifacts, Profit means benefit or enjoying, Service means work, and Using means sex.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Books, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Corgi, 1977.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow Might Be Different - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1975)
Dystopias of a future in which the world is dominated by a Soviet Union that is successful, hedonistic, and consumer-oriented.
Shorter version as "Russkies Go Home!" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 19.5 (November 1960): 94-130.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) (A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1975)
Dystopia. The military takes over New Zealand after a revolt by young Māori against both pākehā and their elders who have accommodated to a system based on prejudice and discrimination. The politicians dither and conspire against each other, and the U.S. CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) offers “its usual support” to the military dictator, who will shortly be replaced in a coup by younger officers. See also his 1975 “The Whites of Their Eyes” and his Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1976).
Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: Longman Paul, 1981.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

The Towers of Utopia - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Bantam Books, 1975)
Eutopia based on the Negative Income Tax but with reflections on possible problems. Life in a huge, almost self-contained apartment complex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Uncoupling" - Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (b. 1939) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Overpopulation dystopia with regulated access to sexual fulfillment of all one's desires.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unpopular Planet - Evelyn E. Smith (1927-2000) (Dell, 1975)
Authoritarian dystopia. No violence. Sex only with permission.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Unto the Last Generation - Juanita [Ruth Welllons] Coulson (b. 1933) (Lancer, 1975)
Dystopia in which people have lost the ability to breed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Utopia" - Miriam [Dworkin] Waddington (1917-2004) (Waves (York University, Canada), 1975)
Short poem of a dream of a mountain of roses with thorns.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Walls Within Walls - Arthur [Reginald] Tofte (1908-80) (Laser Books, 1975)
Authoritarian dystopia concerned with controlling mutants. The mutant society is also described.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Warriors of Dawn - M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster (b. 1939) (DAW Books, 1975)
The novel is mostly adventure and romance, but it includes some description of an apparently eutopian society of advanced aliens that had been created by humans on an overpopulated Earth trying to speed up human evolution. The aliens, called Ler, have a long adolescence (until about thirty), a short period of fertility (about 30 to 40), and a low birthrate. Families (braids) include an original couple, added mates for each, the children produced, their mates, and their children, at which point the original couple leaves singly or together and are free to do as they like. Each braid has a defined occupational role. Related novels are The Gameplayers of Zan. New York: DAW Books, 1977, which is set before The Warriors of Dawn, and The Day of the Klesh. New York: DAW Books, 1979, which is a sequel, are mostly adventure. The three volumes are rpt. in his The Book of Ler: The Gameplayers of Zan The Warriors of Dawn The Day of the Klesh. New York: DAW Books, 2006, with The Gameplayers on 1-432, The Warriors on 433-692, and The Day on 693-923.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Weapons" - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948); George Zebrowski (b. 1945) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia that violently enforces racial and class discrimination.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"What You Get For Your Dollar" - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
Future development of the Middle East based on the United Nations establishing M.E.R.O. or the Middle East Reclamation Organization designed to reclaim the Sinai and Negev deserts. Cooperation of Arabs and Israelis, who establish the independent State of Sinai and live together without amicably. Development of science and art.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Where Summer Song Rings Hollow" - Gail Kimberly [Francis] (1927-2011) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Eternally renewable youth seen as a eutopia by some and a dystopia by others.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Whites of Their Eyes" - Craig Harrison (b. 1942) (Act, 1975)
Dystopia. Future violent conflict between Māori  and Pākehā. See also his Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1975) and Broken October: New Zealand 1985 (1985).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Wooden Centauri: A Science Fiction Novel - Paul [Raymond] Drennan (1949-2003) (Elmfield, 1975)
A far future authoritarian dystopia in which many planets are under one government with a law that prohibits any knowledge of the past. Two people from the past arrive and change begins to take place.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Xenofreak/Xenophobe" - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) (Dystopian Visions, 1975)
Dystopia brought on by contact with aliens far in advance of humans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Year of the Spiatnik - Robert Betchov (1919-96) (CPRI Press, 1975)
Overwhelmingly about war and the preparations for war, but it ends with world peace and the establishment of a World Authority. The Pact for the World Authority is provided in an appendix.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"You Get Lots of Yesterdays, Lots of Tomorrows, and Only One Today" - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) (New Writings in SF, 1975)
Dystopia where all everyone sleeps except for one supposedly perfect day.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Zen Archer" - Jonathan Greenblatt (The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F, 1975)
A Zen Buddhist monastery presented as an ideal way of life is undermined by contact with the outside world and its temptations.
Keywords: Male author

"Zone" - Peter Linnett (New Writings in SF, 1975)
Dystopia of a dreary future world divided up into "sectors" including a failed Hippie enclave.
Keywords: Male author

"2005 . . . A Mind Bending Experience" - [Claudio] Frank Baron Kreffl (Man (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1974)
Eutopia. A future earth where all problems, except the occasional murder, have been solved. Emphasis is on sexual relations.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Albion! Albion! - [Reginald Charles] [Hill] (1936-2012) (Faber & Faber, 1974)
Dystopia of violence. England without a Parliament and with football/soccer hooligans in control. The country has been broken up into four districts representing four football/soccer clubs.
Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 1986. Rpt. under the author's name as Singleton's Law. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

All Times Possible - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) (DAW Books, 1974)
Alternative futures centering on authoritarian dystopias.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Robert Nozick (1938-2002) (Basic Books, 1974)
A treatise in political theory, but Part III "Utopia" (297-334 with footnotes on 351-53) describes in detail an anarcho-capitalist eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“And Keep Us From Our Castles” - [Cynthia A.] [Morgan] (Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, 1974)
The story focuses on a technological form of punishment, but it is used by a dystopian, authoritarian government that is shutting down dissent.
Rpt. in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 168-94.
Keywords: Female author

Android Armageddon - [Sandor] Robert Tralins (1926-2010) (Pinnacle Books, 1974)
Authoritarian dystopia in which a machine, called Justivac, creates a "perfect" society where humans no longer need to make decisions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Battle of Disneyland - Thom[as Francis] Keyes (1943?-95?) (W. H. Allen, 1974)
Future destruction of the U.S. with California an island floating toward Hawaii.
Keywords: Male author; UK author; US author

Before the Setting Sun: The Age Before Hambone - [Carl Lee] [Shears] (1937-79) (Nuclassics and Science Publishing, 1974)
Details the rise to power of a Black general that resulted from the dystopia created by government in eliminating individual freedom and favoring the wealthy. See also 1971 (2), 1972, 1973, 1975 (2), and 1978 Shears.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Bitter Pill - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) (Wren, 1974)
Dystopia of generational conflict in which individuals are classified as a "Senior Citizen" at 45 and given the "choice" of voluntary euthanasia or working in an Australian forced labour camp or a Martian penal colony. Mars is being developed to take Earth's excess population. A revolt on Mars frees the people to build a new life there with no compulsory retirement, but the ending suggests that Mars faces an uncertain future of conflicts over power.
Developed from his "The Bitter Pill." Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.9 (June 1970): 52-63.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Bladerunner - Alan E[dward] Nourse (1928-92) (David McKay, 1974)
Medical dystopia. Bladerunners are those who secure black market medical supplies for the underground medical system. See also 1979 Burroughs, Blade Runner.
Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Blood Sport: A Journey Up the Hassayampa - Robert F[rancis] Jones (1934-2002) (Simon & Schuster, 1974)
Dystopia of a overpopulated, polluted future compared to a dystopia/eutopia of violent but integrated outlaw community.
Rpt. New York: Lyons & Burford, [1997]. U.K. ed. as Ratnose: A Journey Up the Hassayampa. London: London Magazine Editions, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Born Free: A Feminist Fable" - Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939) (Woman in the Year 2000, 1974)
Feminist eutopia. The story follows the first thirteen years of the life of a girl born into an egalitarian society at midnight on January 1, 2000. Each person works twenty-five hours a week with an additional six hours a month of volunteer work, although they can arrange their hours as they choose (11-12). Much of the story concerns childbirth, day-care, which is available everywhere, and education, all with many alternative arrangements. People are completely free to arrange their relationships (6). Male and female contraception is freely available, and abortion is a woman’s right (7). Cooperative housekeeping (9). All sport, including professional sport is mixed sex (18). Gay people are now completely accepted (22-23). The U.S. is now a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one (4). The female author was an editor of Ms. Magazine.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Brown Pelican - George Sklar (1908-88) (Dramatists Play Service, 1974)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Catman" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology, 1974)
A dystopia of corrupt capitalism is the background to the story.
The author's original version was published in the U.K. ed. Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Edward L. Ferman and Barry N[athaniel] Malzberg (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1975), 134-70. "Afterword" (170-75). Rpt. in Ellison, Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow. Eleven Uncollected Stories (New York: Walker & Co., 1974), 141-77; and in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 126-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Centauri Device - M[ichael] John Harrison (b. 1945) (Doubleday, 1974)
Dystopia. The world is divided between the Israeli World Government and the Union of Arab Socialist Republics, with the Earth destroyed at the end. A contrasting anarchist planet is presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: English author; Male author

CenterForce - T[homas] A[llen] Waters (1938-98) (Dell Books, 1974)
Authoritarian dystopia in which a group called CenterForce rules the U.S. through violent suppression of all opposition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Chief Justice Wore a Red Dress" - Doris L[ipson] Sassower (1932-2019) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Eutopia of gender equality with a focus on the legal profession presented partially fictionally and partially in an historical essay. In the eutopia, the Equal Rights Amendment had passed. A Parental Responsibility Act limited the hours of work of parents with pre-school-age children to twenty-five hours a week, and there was free federally funded day care for twenty-five hours per week.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Chocolate War. A Novel - Robert [Edmund] Cormier (1925-2000) (Pantheon Books, 1974)
Young adult dystopia set in a Catholic boys’ school with the temporary head trying to be appointed permanently by encouraging the usual bullying and competition. Among the books most banned in schools. A film written and directed by Keith Gordon (b. 1961) was released in 1988. A sequel, Beyond the Chocolate War. A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, is set a few months later with the temporary head now Headmaster and the corruption and conflicts continuing.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Churchill Play, As it will be performed in the winter of 1984 by the internees of Churchill Camp somewhere in England - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) (Eyre & Methuen, 1974)
England as an authoritarian dystopia in 1984 with a concentration camp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

City in the Sky - Curt Siodmak (1902-2000) (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974)
Mostly adventure but depicts both a dystopian prison in a satellite in space and a large space satellite community that is described positively.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Class War Comik Number 1 New Times - Clifford Harper (b. 1949) (Epic Publications, 1974)
Intended to be the first of six issues, but no more were published. In this issue, the people in a rural anarchist intentional community are completely disengaged from politics and only interested in themselves as individuals so that little work gets done, and the work that gets done is not necessarily what is needed.
New ed. as Class War Comix No. 1.  Princeton, WI: Kitchen Sink Enterprises, 1979.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Commune 2000 A.D - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Bantam Books, 1974)
Flawed utopia with a Universal Guaranteed Income and sexual freedom but with people growing bored and disaffected and establishing many different intentional communities.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) (Jonathan Cape, 1974)
As with much of Gordimer's fiction, the novel is concerned with racial strife in the dystopia that is South Africa, with what she calls "the interregnum".
Keywords: Female author; South African author

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) (Victor Gollancz, 1974)
Media dystopia in which a reporter has his eyes replaced with TV cameras which transmits everything he sees. His first assignment is to film Katherine Mortenhoe’s death in a world where disease no longer exists, and the title of the TV series is “The Unsleeping Eye”. A film entitled Death Watch directed by Bernard Tavernier (b. 1941) was produced in 1980.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an "Introduction" by Susan Wood (v-xix); as Death Watch. London: Magnum Books, 1981. U.S. ed. as The Unsleeping Eye. New York: DAW Books, 1974. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1980; and under the original title New York: New York Review Books, 2016 with an “Introduction” by Jeff Vandermeer (vii-xii). .
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Day Before the Revolution" - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1974)
The story of Odo, theorist of the revolution in 1974 Le Guin, The Dispossessed, as an old woman just before the revolution. The Galaxy version is dedicated “in memoriam Paul Goodman 1911-1972”. Although the story takes place before the novel, it was written after it. See the note on the story in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, where she also says, “This story is about one of the ones who walked away from Omelas” [1973 Le Guin] (232).
Rpt. in her The Wind’s Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 232-46; in Nebula Award Stories Ten. Ed. James Gunn (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 129-45; in More Women of Wonder: Science Fiction Novelettes By Women About Women. Ed. Pamela Sargent (New York: Vintage, 1976), 279-301; in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 391-401, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 390; 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), 344-57; in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 407-22; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 483-96; in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 975-89 with a “Note on the Text” (1084); 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), 218-237, with a biographical note on 454-456 and notes on the text on 485-486.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Depression or Bust - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1974)
Satire on economic cycles. One man decides he can't afford the new freezer he bought and sends it back; the seller of the freezer cancels the new car he had ordered; the car dealer cancels the house he was to have built; and so forth. The economic downswing becomes a full-blown depression until the government gives money to the first man to start buying and the cycle is reversed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Harper & Row, 1974)
Detailed anarchist eutopia with problems.
Rpt. without the subtitle New York: Avon, 1975; and with the subtitle as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1986 illus. Pat Morrissey and with an "Introduction" (unpaged) by Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.]; New York: Harper, 1991. U.K. ed. without the subtitle and with a brief introduction, "Welcome (back) to Anarres" by Richard Morgan (ix-xii). London: Gollancz, 2006; and, with the subtitle, in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 613-919 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and “Notes” (1091-92).  An extract was published as “News from Anarres.” Social Revolution: Paper of the Social Revolution Group (Aberdeen, Scot.), no. 4 ([1977]): 12.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Eat, Drink, and Be Merry" - Dian Girad (2020 Vision, 1974)
Computer dystopia. Computer perfection regulates diet and will not allow a person to get more than five pounds off their ideal weight.
Keywords: Female author

"The Eggs of Eden" - M[artha] A[nn] Bartter (1932-2013) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1974)
Satire on progressive education.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The EM Discoveries: An Account of the Three Technological Wonders That Opened the EM Age - Robert Gibbons (Exposition Press, 1974)
A technological eutopia brought about through weather and climate control, what he calls "elemental separators" that allow for the separation and recombination of basic elements, and "projected magnetic image propulsion that allows for space travel. All were developed in 1985, and the book is presented as being written a thousand years later.
Keywords: Male author

Exxoneration - Richard [Heath] Rohmer (b. 1924) (McClelland and Stewart, 1974)
Second of two volumes on conflict between Canada and the United States. In this volume Canada wins a war with the U.S. and develops a strong industrial base. See also 1973 Rohmer
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Fall of Colossus - D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones (1918?-81) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1974)
Dystopia. Sequel to 1966 Jones. See also 1977 Jones. In this volume the computer Colossus has ended war but uses its power to control all human activity. A successful conspiracy disables Colossus with help from Mars.
New York G.P. Putnam's Sons_
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Fat Man in History" - Peter Carey (b. 1943) (Stand (U.K.), 1974)
Dystopia. After a revolution, fat people are seen negatively as symbols of the previous regime because under it only Americans and stooges of the dictatorship could get enough food to be fat. Told from the point of view of a fat revolutionary.
Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (St. Lucia. QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1974), 114-41; in a collection with the same title (London: Faber & Faber, 1980), 9-33; and in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia. QLD. Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 182-205. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 182-205.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Femininity: 2000" - Carol [Gene Eisen] Rinzler (1941-90) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Short story of the future for women. Some technological eutopia, some dystopia, some unchanged, which can be read as part of the dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Flow my tears, the policeman said - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Doubleday, 1974)
Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. following a "Second Civil War". A police state is established under the National Guard and a U.S. police force with forced labor camps. Communities of former university students exist underground where they are barely surviving. Over the course of the novel the situation gradually improves.
Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1975; and 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), 669-858, 1125-26.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Forever War - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (St. Martin's Press, 1974)
Most of the novel is a war novel set in space, but there are sections that show the effects of the war on Earth. Elements of both eutopia and dystopia. Poverty and unemployment. Homosexuality encouraged as a means of birth control. People are highly educated. Most crime down. Strict limits on private property. Huge cities. Seas are farmed so that everyone is fed. At 70 people are rated for medical coverage; zero rating means no coverage. Sequels include “A Separate War.” Far Horizons. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Avon Eos, 1999), 55-87 with an author’s note on 53-54; and Forever Free. New York: Ace Books, 1999; U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1997; rpt. from the U.K. ed. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 232-427. A graphic novel edition was published London: Titan Comics, 2018. His Forever Peace. New York: Ace Books, 1997; U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1999; rpt. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 428-697 is considered a companion piece.
U.K. ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. U.S. ed. rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1976; London: Gollancz, 2001; and London: Gollancz, 2006 with an “Introduction” by Peter F. Hamilton (ix-xi). An “Author’s Note” (unpaged in 2001 and vii-viii in 2006) says this is “the definitive edition” and explains the history of the various versions. Rpt. from the U.K. ed. in his Peace and War [Cover adds The Omnibus Edition] (London: Gollancz, 2006), 1-231. Parts originally published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as follows: “Here” 89.4 (June 1972): 8-59; “We Are Very Happy Here” 92.3 (November 1973): 104-147; “A Mind of His Own.” 92.6 (February 1974): 80-96; “The Mazel Tov.” 94.1 (September 1974): 77-92; “Truth To Tell” 94.2 (October 1974): 12-24; and “The Best of All Possible Worlds” 94.3 (November 1974): 137-49. “You Can Never Go Back” was originally intended to be the middle part of the series but was rejected. It was published in Amazing Science Fiction 49.3 (November 1975): 6-61 and included in later versions of the book.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Future Sex - Saul Kent (Warner Books, 1974)
Intended to be eutopian. A fictional description of future sexual activities that the author says are simply extensions of current knowledge. Includes robots designed for sexual pleasure; lovers grown to specifications, and so forth.
Keywords: Male author

The Godwhale - [Thomas J.] [Bassler] [M.D.] (1932-2011) (Ballantine Books, 1974)
The novel includes societies that are very advanced in biology, societies that are degenerating, and authoritarian dystopias. On the whole, the human race and its societies are presented as first improving and then degenerating.
U.K. ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1975. Part originally published as "Rorqual Maru." Illus. Galaxy Science Fiction 32.4 (January-February 1972): 58-86, 88-91.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Gomorrah - Marvin Karlins (b. 1941); Lewis M. Andrews (b. 1946) (Doubleday, 1974)
Dystopia of violence.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Hot Ice" - Charles [Braun] Ludlam (1943-97) (The Drama Review, 1974)
Dystopian satire in which all illness, deformity, and obesity is illegal and the Euthanasia Police control population by arresting such people and putting them to death and encouraging suicide. The play is primarily concerned with those trying to prolong life through freezing themselves to be resuscitated later.
Keywords: Male author; US author

House of Stairs - William [Warner] Sleator [III] (1945-2011) (E. P. Dutton, 1974)
Young adult dystopia in which a doctor tries to condition five orphans to become perfect tools of the state. He succeeds with three of them. A group of talented children are run through a maze ("This book is dedicated to all the rats and pigeons who have already been here.") in an attempt to create an elite. Authoritarian dystopia in the background.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“I Bought a Little City” - Donald Barthelme [Jr.] (1931-1989) (The New Yorker, 1974)
The story of a man who bought Galveston, Texas and set out to change it into the city he wanted.
Rpt. in his Amateurs (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 50-58; in his Sixty Stories (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981), 295-301;  and in Collected Stories. (New York: Library of America, 2021), 474-79, with a Chronology (929-935). a Note on the Text (940), and Notes (964).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Impact of the Mid-Twentieth Century Movement for Sex Equality in Employment On Three Contemporary Economic Institutions" - Caroline Bird (1915-2011) (Woman In the Year 2000, 1974)
Eutopia. “A paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association” illustrating the effect of gender equality on the National Employment Exchange (115-18), the Neighborhood Play Group System (118-21), and the Minimum Income Security System (121-25). The Equal Rights Amendment had passed.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Inheritors of Earth - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945); Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) (Chilton Book Co, 1974)
Future dystopia. Authoritarian. Religious revival. Telepathy leads to ability to control minds.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Inverted World. A Novel - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) (Faber and Faber, 1974)
Primarily a science-oriented science fiction novel, but the social setting is an authoritarian, controlling dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: New York Review Books, 2008 with an “Afterword” by John Clute (315-22).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Juryrigged" - Joe [Joseph William] Haldeman (b. 1943) (Vertex, 1974)
Dystopia. One person wired into a computer as a jury.
Rpt. in his Infinite Dreams (New York: Avon, 1978), 126-40.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Days of the American Empire - Bruce [Allen] Powe (1925-2018) (Macmillan of Canada, 1974)
Most of the world is experiencing a long drought, have little technology, and people are starving. North and South America consists of two empires that have extensive advanced technology and are wealthy, but much of the population is being kept alive by medical science. Unable to survive in drought conditions, people in Africa and Europe invade North America.
U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1975.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Last of the Country House Murders - Emma [Christina] Tennant (1937-2017) (Jonathan Cape, 1974)
Authoritarian overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1986.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

The Legacy. A Drama in One Act - Paul Elliott (Samuel French, 1974)
Post-catastrophe dystopia in which around a quarter century has passed since the last child was born and people are living in the remains of damaged buildings.
Keywords: Male author

Life and Times of Michael K - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) (Ravan Press, 1974)
Dystopia that follows a poor, uneducated man through the turmoil of social conflict/civil war with South Africa under the control of the military.
U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
Keywords: Male author; South African author