“Interurban Queen” - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Orbit 8: An Anthology of Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Eutopia created when railroads were chosen over cars and highways.
Rpt. in Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction. Ed. Dick Allen and Lori Allen (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 87-95, with an editor’s note on 87 and “Questions” on 95; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 134-44; and in The Best of R. A. Lafferty. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (London: Gollancz, 2019), 56-68, with an Introduction by Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (54-55). Rpt. New York: Tor, 2021.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Journey to Utopia - L. A. Glass (Vantage Press, 1970)
The novel describes a search for eutopia that permits the destruction of anything and anyone who gets in the way of the search.
Keywords: Male author; US author

King Strut - [Charles Sumner] Chuck Stone (1924-2014) (Bobbs-Merrill, 1970)
Black revolution presented positively but with substantial satire directed at the way the political system functions, particularly its favoritism and corruption. The novel focuses on a black politician, Hiram Elliott Quinault, possibly based on Adam Clayton Powell (1908-72), who rises to a position of seniority in the House of Representatives. His rise leads to the inevitable backlash from the established white politicians, who uses every means available to demean and diminish him. When a group of black nationalists declare the independence of Blackland in Mississippi from the U.S. and ask Quinault to be their President, he accepts, is expelled from Congress, and assassinated. In retaliation, the black nationalists kill twelve Congressmen and wounding others.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Last of the Urbanites" - Coughlan, L.W (Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1970)
Dystopia. Technology and cities are destroyed.

"Learning in the Age of Wonder" - Lloyd [Arthur] Dennis (1923-2012) (The Guelph Papers, 1970)
Eutopia of future education that is free and individualized and begins with parenting education.
Rpt. in Visions 2020. Ed. for the Canadian Forum by Stephen Clarkson (Edmonton, AB, Canada: M.G. Hurtig, 1970), 183-88.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Leatherjacket. A Thriller - Arthur Wise (1923-83) (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970)
Mostly adventure but based around a movement to revive National Socialism.
Keywords: Male author

"Looking Back on Illth" - John T. McLeod (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Eutopia of medicine in the future. Mostly a critique of the past, but describes "one-stop" health care.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Lost Continent." - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Science Against Man, 1970)
Satire with Africa dominant and the U.S. degenerated due to extensive pollution.
U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1971), 9-56. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 335-401 with an "Introduction to The Lost Continent" (331-33).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lustopia - Scott Harford (Pendulum Books, 1970)
Erotica describing a commune where all sexual desires can be fulfilled.
Keywords: Male author

Magellan. A Novel - Colin Anderson (b. 1933) (Walker, 1970)
Welfare dystopia in the one city left after a global nuclear war. Using a giant computer the intent is to give everyone immortality in their own paradise, and the novel follows the main character through a number of these worlds.
U.S ed. New York: Walker, 1970.  Rpt. London: Sphere, 1971; and New York: Berkley Medallion, 1972. The PSt ed. simply has the Walker identification pasted over the Gollancz identification.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Mask of Jon Culon - Edward William Ludwig (1920-90) (Lenox Hill Press, 1970)
Post-catastrophe, anti-technological, religious dystopia.
U.K. ed. London: John Gresham, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Matrix - Douglas Rankine Mason (1918-2013) (Ballantine Books, 1970)
Machine dystopia in which machines are about to phase out the human race.
U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale & Co., 1971.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Memory of a Canada-hunting Republican" - Stephen Grant (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Dystopia in which Canada is part of the United States and the history of the northern part of the United States is officially discouraged.
Keywords: Canadian author

"MIRV" - John M. Robson (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on the future of higher education. MIRV is the “Minority interim report (voluntary) of the permanent participatory committee of the Free University of Toronto (F.U. To.) on the expedition of consultation concerning staffing and distaffing procedures during the next demicent with a view to implementation in, at or about the year 2020.” The majority report read in its entirety, “Get the hell out, before it’s too late!”
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A More Perfect Union - Robert Stapp (1914-85) (Harper's Magazine Press in Association with Harper and Row, 1970)
The South seceded from the U.S. and in 1981 the Confederacy is a totalitarian dystopia in conflict with the United States.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow (1915-2005) (Viking Press, 1970)
A minor thread discusses the possibility of establishing a eutopia on the moon. There is also considerable discussion of H.G. Wells and of the nature of utopianism.
Originally published in different form illus. Mario Micossi in The Atlantic 224.5 - 6 (November - December 1969): 95-150, 99-142.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

"The New Arrangement" - Gaeton Fonzi (1935-2012) (Philadelphia Magazine, 1970)
Essay with some fictional elements about the better living arrangements in an intentional community, with the stress on child-rearing and the family.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A New Renaissance?" - Gregory [G.] Baum (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Canada as a troubled religious eutopia in 2020. Canadian universities had been destroyed by student revolts in the 1990s and replaced with centers of conversation. These led to a revival of religion and a reduction in productivity. The government gives out drugs to get people re-connected to reality, and the church becomes an inquisitor.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"No More Fun and Games" - Rosemary Cook (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on feminism. Government, among other advances, abolishes the masculine gender in French and prohibits marriage and heterosexual relations.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

The Noblest Experiment in the Galaxy - Louis P[reston] Trimble (1917-88) (Ace Books, 1970)
One setting of the novel is a small-town eutopia in England that is basically Victorian but includes modern technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nobody Lives in Burton Street" - Greg[ory Albert] Benford (b. 1941) (Amazing Stories, 1970)
Future U.S. dystopia. African Americans contained in ghettoes, but there are constant riots.
Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 9-16. Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There." Vertex 1.6 (February 1974): 72-75, 94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Once Upon a Time: A Fable of Student Power" - Neil Postman (1931-2003) (The New York Times Magazine, 1970)
Eutopia. Based on a passage in Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) about the need for students to live life rather than just studying, New York City removes students from school and puts them to work cleaning up and repairing the rundown city. Post-secondary students asked to participate and were added.
Rpt. in Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 197-202.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Oogenesis of Bird City" - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) (Amazing Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Dystopia. The story describes the political maneuvering around the establishment of a separate, eutopian city for all those on welfare, who are all black, thus deliberately separating the races.
Rpt. in his The Purple Book (New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1982), 5-27; and in The Classic Philip José Farmer 1964-1973 (New York: Crown, 1984), 115-29.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Friends From Frolix 8 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Ace Books, 1970)
Authoritarian dystopia in which different types of humans rule the normal humans. The revolt against the dystopia is assisted by an alien from Frolix 8.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paradise Is Not Enough - Michael [Aiken] Elder (1931-2004) (Robert Hale, 1970)
Dystopia of mechanical perfection in which robots do everything except act in the pervasive Tri-V shows and are planning to take over those jobs also.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Paradise Lost" - H[elen] M[ary] Tolcher (1928-2014) (Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1970)
Pollution dystopia. A pristine planet is discovered, but the man doing so keeps it a secret to avoid it being destroyed by others.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

A Piece of Resistance - Clive [Frederick William] Egleton (1927-2006) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1970)
Authoritarian dystopia of a Communist Britain. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are Last Post of a Partisan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971; and The Judas Mandate. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972. Rpt. as The Last Refuge. London: Severn House, 2006 with a foreword by the author. U.S. ed. as The Judas Mandate. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghagan, 1972.
Rpt. as Never Surrender. Sutton, Surrey, Eng.: Severn House, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Pressure of Time" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Orbit 7: An Anthology of Brand-New SF Stories, 1970)
All the stories explore immortality. In “The Pressure of Time,” after a plague, some people are perceived to be immortal, although they may just be very long lived, and since they still procreate, the population is growing. But for some, even among the mortals, the world is a better place because no one starves and, economically, there is no lower class. Still, the mortals resent the immortals, and the immortals hope the mortals die out. “Things Lost,” set in 2084-2085, continues the themes of the first story, as does “Mutability”; and “Chanson Perpétuelle,” set in 2098, focuses on one of the remaining mortals.
Rev. Illus. Frank Kelly Frease. Triquarterly, no. 49 (1980): 213-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Profit of Doom. Science Fiction - Hugh Dirac (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1970)
The dystopia brought about by being able to transplant almost all organs.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Proposals to Save the World" - R[ichard] I. F[airfield] (Alternatives! Foundation Newsletter, 1970)
One page outline of a eutopia. Radical decentralization of power; new educational system based on volunteers; guaranteed minimum and maximum incomes; volunteer military until no longer need; a National Youth Service Corps for those fifteen to twenty-five; and a National Adult Service Corps for those forty to fifty.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Prospectus for Cambridge Institute. New City Project. September 8, 1970 ([n.p.], 1970)
Non-fiction eutopia outlining the principles guiding the design of a new city.

"R26/5/PSY and I" - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (New Writings in S-F, 1970)
Overpopulation dystopia where few people have jobs and food is strictly rationed. Many people come to be completely apathetic and never leave their rooms. The story is about therapy to overcome this condition.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

“Report of the Fact-finding Committee on Food” - Farmiloe, Dorothy (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Dystopia in which all agricultural land has been turned over to industry and Canadians are starving.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Return of the Empire Loyalists" - Andrew Wernick (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on future Canada where everyone is stoned.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Right Off the Map" - Pip Winn (Orbit 8: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Brief overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Rivet in Grandfathers Neck - Bruce Elliott (1914-73) (Modern Literary Editions Publishing Co./Curtis Books, 1970)
Flawed utopia on a planet called New Australia. The planet was initially settled by convicts, sent to the new planet as subversives to the established order, and their convict status appears to be the only connection to Australia. The planet chooses to cut itself off completely from Earth and develops society based on extremely long life with the oldest having the most power. The novel is about a man who discovers the underside of the utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Robert Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not!’” - John Robert Colombo (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on the future of Canada.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"SCORE/SCORE" - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Future education. A teaching machine has a breakdown and wants to control the world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Seven Steps to the Sun - [Sir] Fred Hoyle (1915-2001); Geoffrey Hoyle (b. 1941) (Heinemann, 1970)
Dystopia of an authoritarian decentralized political system.
Rpt. ed. Barbara Hoyle. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1981. U.S. ed. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Sex and the High Command - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright and Talley, 1970)
Satire on male chauvinism and women's liberation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Shaker Revival" - Gerald Jonas (b. 1935) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1970)
A new Shaker sect called The United Society of Believers (Revived) has more than 100,000 members after only four years, most under eighteen years old and very few "feebies" (those over 30) are accepted. The basic creed is the "Four Noes"--"No hate, No war, No money, No sex". They establish a rock band that is immensely popular. The setting for the revival is a world with heavy drug use and emphasis on sexual and other gratification. Full time consumers belonged to the "Contract Consumer Corps", and producers are considered lower class. All African Americans live in ghettos, and there is a wall around Harlem. The Shakers, or the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing were a religious group practicing celibacy that originated in England in the eighteenth century and established a number of communities in the U.S.
Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1971. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 263-92; and in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 240-67.
Keywords: Male author

"The Show Must Go On" - David I[rvine] Masson (1915-2007) (The Disappearing Future, 1970)
Dystopia of overpopulation and violence.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Six-Gun Planet - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) (Paperback Library, 1970)
Satire. Planet called Missouri designed to be like the popular images of the Old West in the U.S. with a gunfight at sundown.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Some People, Places and Attitudes that Won't Appear in My Next Paradise" - Christina Newman (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire on feminism but stressing equality without separation, which is the goal of much feminism.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Son of Kronk - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1970)
A dystopia of pollution and violence, but a new venereal disease develops that limits aggression.
Rpt. as Kronk. London: Coronet, 1972. U.S. ed. as Kronk. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Space Stadium - H[erbert] U[rlin] Bevis (1902-2001) (Lenox Hill Press, 1970)
Peace on earth achieved by having teams of men fight in space with world control the prize.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A State of Denmark or a Warning to the Incurious - [Robert William Arthur] [Cook] (1931-94) (Hutchinson, 1970)
Authoritarian dystopia set in an England that has deported all non-whites.
Rpt as by Derek Raymond [pseud.]. London: Serpent's Tale, 1994; and London: Serpent's Tale, 2007.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Statistician's Day." - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Science Against Man, 1970)
Dystopia in which birth control is insufficient and death is also controlled.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Supergenmot" - James Reany (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire. Happiness is marketed as Supergenmot, which allows everyone to individually produce as much energy as they want. The formula is made available to everyone. People fly off to other planets, and earth becomes a museum.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Taurus Four - Rena [Marie] Vale (1898-1983) (Paperback Library, 1970)
Satire centered on descendants of the Hippies who had been forcibly settled on another planet.
Keywords: Female author; US author

This Perfect Day - Ira [Marvin] Levin (1929-2007) (Random House, 1970)
Dystopia in which computer control produces sameness; e.g. there are only four names each for boys and girls. People are kept drugged; no free movement. Genetic engineering to overcome size and color differences. Promiscuous sex required weekly.
Rpt. in Three by Ira Levin Rosemary’s Baby This Perfect Day The Stepford Wives (New York: Random House, 1985), 163-273.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Toe to Tip, Tip to Toe, Pip-Pop As You Go" - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) (The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Drug dystopia of an enclosed society in which the majority of the population is using legal drugs but those advertizing them are prohibited from taking drugs. There is a group living "outside" who oppose the drugs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Traffic Problem" - William [J.] Earls (Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, 1970)
The dystopia brought about by traffic congestion.
Rpt. The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 243-52; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 52-61.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Travelin' Man" - Leo P[atrick] Kelley (1928-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1970)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in Themes in Science Fiction; A Journey into Wonder. Ed. Leo P[atrick] Kelley (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972), 398-408.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Troika Incident. A Tetralogue in Two Parts - James Cooke Brown (1921-87) (Doubleday, 1970)
Detailed eutopia of a decentralized, craft-based economy and free love.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Truth Worth of Ruth Villiers" - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) (New Writings in S-F, 1970)
Satire on the welfare system. Individuals are each valued, and all services provided are based upon their credit worth.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author

"Utopian." - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (The Year 2000: An Anthology, 1970)
Flawed utopia. A eutopia of world government, universal education, efficient birth control, automation, no money, no war, no crime, little disease, and essentially free unlimited power results in people with no ambition.
Rpt. (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1972), 83-99; and in The Best of Mack Reynolds (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), 331-47 with an author's note on 330.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Victory of the NIMs over the GEBs" - Max Clarkson (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Satire. Education of the future turned away from technology. NIM refers to the New Image of Man which stresses self-realization. GEB refers to the alliance of government, education, and business which agreed to cooperate under the Orwell Treaty of 1984 that gave multinational corporations control of education.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"A Visit to the Museum" - Jean-Pierre Wallot (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Dystopia of Canada as part of the United States with a tour through the Museum of the Man of Canada.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"Walter Perkins Is Here!" - Raymond E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) (The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Satire on an affluent world in which everyone "belongs" to a computer and constantly follows its advice. Surface cars abolished and horses reinstated. With no real explanation the entire world becomes one big party.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Welcome to Wesbloc/Wesbloc" - Anthony Haden-Guest (The Disappearing Future, 1970)
Dystopia in which five buildings cover the entire world.
Keywords: Male author

"The Winner" - Donald E[dwin Edmond] Westlake (1933-2008) (Nova 1: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction Stories, 1970)
Dystopia of a penal system that implants a device that causes intense pain as the inmate moves away from the prison.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Withering Away of Welfare" - Leonard Shifrin (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Eutopia of the positive effects of automation with an Athenian style democracy with a diverse culture.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Women of Landau - Jim Kent (Scripts Publications, 1970)
Two dystopias presented mostly as excuses for mild erotica. In the first the virginity of one's daughters ensures wealth for the father. In the second violence against women is the norm.
Keywords: Male author

World Well Lost - [John Kempton] [Aiken] (1913-90) (Robert Hale, 1970)
The planet known as Eden, a non-violent eutopia anarchist, vegetarian, is invaded by a violent people, who create a dystopia. A few people choose to reject non-violence and fight back.
U.S. ed. under the author's name. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
Keywords: English author; US author

The Year of the Last Eagle - Leona Train Rienow (1903-83); Robert Rienow (1909-89) (Ballantine Books, 1970)
A satire on the future U.S. centered on the 1989 Bicentennial but with no eagle.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"Your World, and Welcome to It (the 33rd Earl of Chesterfield writes to one of his sons)" - A[rchibald] P[aton] Thornton (Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future, 1970)
Anti-socialist satire. Pills against aggression. Racial peace because pills make everyone the same color.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

2069 - [“Bud”] [Bernhardt] (1930-2008) (Phenix Publishers, 1969)
Gay male dystopia. First volume of a trilogy. The other volumes are 2069 + 1. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 245-464; and 2069 + 2. Los Angeles, CA: Phenix Publishers. Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 465-656.
Rpt. in his 2069 Trilogy (New York: Badboy, 1995), 9-243.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Action for a New Government - Adolf Diegel (Author, 1969)
Detailed conservative eutopia, the program for which is summarized on 149-54. The basic right to vote is reserved to men 30-59. Others 20 or older can gain the right to vote by paying a tax that is the same for everyone. Can choose not to pay the tax and not vote. Government cannot spend money it has not raised in taxes.
Keywords: Male author

AE: The Open Persuader - Auctor Ignotus [pseud.] (ONE, 1969)
Gay male eutopia with the stress on sex.

AFRO-6 - [Enrique] Hank Lopez (d. 1985) (Dell Books, 1969)
The title, which is capitalized in the text, is the name of a long-planned movement of Blacks to take over Manhattan with similar plans in cities throughout the country. The plot is explicitly based on the writings of Che Guevara. The emphasis of the novel is on the dystopia of Black and Chicano life, the planned takeover, and its temporary success. No depiction of the society the movement hoped to create.
Keywords: Chicano author; Male author

"Agharta, The Subterranean World" - Raymond Bernard (The Hollow Earth: The Greatest Geographical Discovery in History Made by Admiral Richard Byrd in the Mysterious Land Beyond the Poles--The True Origin of the Flying Saucers, 1969)
Eutopia in the center of the Earth presented as fact. He says it is based on eastern legends, but he also says that the people are descendents of Atlantis and Lemuria. World government under a king. No old age or death; no sex (reproduction by parthenogenesis); men and women live apart; children raised collectively. Extremely advanced scientifically and is the source of flying saucers. Live on fruit. The chapter also includes discussion of other subterranean utopias.
Keywords: Male author

All-Stud - O. R. Wells [pseud.?] (Greenleaf, 1969)
Male homosexual erotica set in a future all male homosexual eutopia/dystopia.
Rpt. as by Clay Caldwell, which may also be a pseudonym. New York Badboy, 1993.

"Along the Scenic Route" - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) (Deathbird Stories, 1969)
Action tale that suggests a macho, dystopian society.
Book rpt. as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Jill Bauman and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Terry Dowling with a textual note that all stories have been reviewed by Ellison for needed corrections. Story rpt. in his The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (New York: Avon, 1969), 19-28; in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 243-53; and in The Essential Ellison: A 35-Year Retrospective. Ed. Terry Dowling with Richard Delap and Gil Lamont (Omaha, NB: Nemo Press, 1987), 439-47. Originally published as "Dogfight on 101" in Adam (August 1969) and Amazing Stories 43.3 (September 1969): 6-14. The current title is Ellison's preference.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Armed Camps - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) (Faber & Faber, 1969)
Military dominated dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Asylum World - John [William] Jakes (1932-2023) (Paperback Library, 1969)
Dystopia of future world poverty brought about by the arms race. Poor physical and mental health.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Atrocity Exhibition - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) (Jonathan Cape., 1969)
Wide-ranging dystopia with the violence of the contemporary world the primary focus.
Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; “The Atrocity Exhibition.” New Worlds SF 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; “The Assassination Weapon.” New Worlds SF 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.” Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; “You and Me and the Continuum.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 53-60;  rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.” Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; “Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.” Originally published as “The Death Module.” New Worlds 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; “Love and Napalm: Export USA.” Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; “The Generations of America.” New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; “The University of Death.” The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.” International Times (1968), rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968, and London: Plasnet 1988; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; “The Great American Nude.” Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; “Crash!” ICA Eventsheet (February 1969); “The Summer Cannibals.” New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and “Tolerances of the Human Face.” Encounter 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as “Princess Margaret’s Facelift.” New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; “Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty.” Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; “Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty.” Triquarterly, no. 351 (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and "The Secret History of World War 3." Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969. Rpt. St. Albans, Eng.: Triad/Panther, 1979. The first U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970, was suppressed and destroyed. The first existing U.S. ed. U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Parts originally published between 1966 and 1969 as “The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race.” Ambit, no. 29 (1966): 3-4, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.171 (March 1967): 119-21, rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 393-95; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 720-21; “The Atrocity Exhibition.” New Worlds SF 50.166 (September 1966): 91-102; “The Assassination Weapon.” New Worlds SF 49.161 (April 1966): 4-12; “You: Coma: Marilyn Monroe.” Ambit, no. 27 (1966): 3-6, rpt. in New Worlds SF 50.163 (June 1966): 66-71; “You and Me and the Continuum.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 53-;  rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 95-102; “Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy.” Ambit, no. 31 (Spring 1967): 9-11; rpt. in England Swings SF: Stories of speculative fiction. Ed. Judith Merril (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968), 397-401, with a note on the reaction to it on pp. 402-06; “Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown.” Originally published as “The Death Module.” New Worlds 51.173 (July 1967): 20-25; “Love and Napalm: Export USA.” Circuit, no. 6 (June 1968): 55-57; “The Generations of America.” New Worlds, no 183 (October 1968): 13-14; “The University of Death.” The Transatlantic Review, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 68-79; “Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan.” International Times (1968) [Not Found}, rpt. Brighton, Eng.: Unicorn Bookshop, 1968, and London: Plasnet 1988; and in his The Complete Short Stories London: Flamingo, 2001), 757-59; “The Great American Nude.” Ambit, no. 36 (Summer 1968): 39-43; “Crash!” ICA Eventsheet (February 1969); “The Summer Cannibals.” New Worlds, no. 186 (January 1969): 19-23; and “Tolerances of the Human Face.” Encounter 33.3 (September 1969). New rev. ed. with annotations by the author and four additional stories. San Francisco, CA: RE/SEARCH Publications, 1990. The new stories were previously published as “Princess Margaret’s Facelift.” New Worlds, no. 199 (March 1970): 8-; “Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty.” Ambit, no. 44 (Summer 1970): 9-11; “Queen Elizabeth's Rhinoplasty.” Triquarterly, no. 351 (Winter 1976): 18-20 [Omitted from all U.K. editions]; and "The Secret History of World War 3." Ambit, no. 114 (Autumn 1988): 2-9. The book was first published in Danish translation as Grusomhedsudstillingen. Rhodes, 1969.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Babel - Alan Burns (1929-2013) (Calder & Boyars, 1969)
Experimental novel with hundreds of characters, including well-known people, and no discernible plot that depicts contemporary life as dystopia and returning time and again to the war in Vietnam.
An excerpt appeared in New Worlds, 191 (June 1969): 24-27.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Benji's Pencil" - Bruce [Hugh] McAllister (b. 1946) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Overpopulation dystopia in which art is dead, there is no grass, and death is mandatory at seventy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Binary Divine - Jon Hartridge (b. 1934) (Macdonald, 1969)
The novel focuses on a computer that everyone relies on and confides in that takes on the role of God and creates a dystopia.
U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1969. Rpt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Black Corridor - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) (Ace, 1969)
Overpopulation dystopia as the context for the story line.
Rpt. in his Sailing To Utopia (London: Millennium, 1993), 183-314. Rpt. in The Michael Moorcock Collection under the title Travelling to Utopia. Ed. John Davey (London: Gollancz, 2014), 355-505.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Broke and Hungry, No Place to Go” - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart (1933-2022) (Galaxy Magazine, 1969)
The story is set in a future U.S. that is short of food and judges peoples’ worthiness to be fed on judgements made by computers on their possible future contributions to society.
Rpt. in Galaxy Science Fiction [UK] (December 1969) with the same pagination; and as “Broke Down Engine.” In his Broke Down Engine and Other Troubles with Machines (New York: Macmillan/London: Collier-Macmillan, 1971), 27-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Bug Jack Barron - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) (Walker, 1969)
Dystopia. The protagonist is a TV personality with a show called "Bug Jack Barron" where he listens to people's complaints and calls the politicians or others involved and puts them on the spot. As a result he becomes very powerful. A focus of the novel is the choice between allowing a corporation to be run for profit to freeze and later revive people or to have it publicly available. Presents race relations in the future with Mississippi run by African Americans but with African Americans generally in inferior roles.
Rpt. [Book Club Edition] New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1969. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an "Introduction" by James Blaylock (vii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1970. Shorter version first published in New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 179 - 183 (February - October 1968): 4-12, 43-51; 28-30, 42-56; 13-22, 44-59; 20-33; 45-59.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Captive Universe - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969)
Two dystopias. Aztec's sealed off from the rest of the world and the technological world outside.
U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Class War Comix: A Brief History of the Revolution - Skip [Mervyn] Williamson (1944-2017) (Mike Johnson, 1969)
Satire on both the current situation in the United States in the late Sixties with a suggestion that, the revolution won, the winners would be as corrupt as the current politicians.
Collects his Class War Comix: Eat Leaden Death. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969; Class War Comix: Good Lord. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969; Conspiracy, Class War Comix: Kitty Doody Stink Bomb. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1970; Racist Pig Comix. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969); and Tuna Fat Funnies. Np: Bijou Publishing Empire, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Self-Destruction of the United States of America - Alan Seymour (b. 1927) (Souvenir Press, 1969)
A dystopia describing an extremely violent race war in the United States that leads to its destruction.
U.S. ed. New York: Grove Press, 1971.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Cosmic Eye. A Novel - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Belmont Books, 1969)
Dystopia in which every act is controlled and everyone is constantly monitored. The novel focuses on a man at the top of the hierarchy who is a rebel.
Shorter version as "Speakeasy." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 24.1 (January 1963): 66-126.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The CRIB Circuit" - Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Future dystopia with rigid population control.
Rpt. in her Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow: Collected Stories (New York: Walker & Co., 1971), 158-71.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dancing Gerontius" - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) (Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1969)
The story is set in an old age home, one of many Clinics throughout the country in which people are kept weak except for Year Day, the one day a year where they are revived by drugs and mechanical and physical therapy and made up and dressed in colorful clothes so that they can participate in a Carnival-like today with lots of drink, food, and sex. Most of them die and will shortly be replaced by a new group. The few who survive will spend the next year cared for in the Clinic until the next Year Day until they finally die at one.
Rpt. in The Second Pacific Book of Australian SF. Ed. John [Martin] Baxter (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pacific Books, 1972), 118-133; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 178-191.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Day of the Drones - A[lice] M[artha] Lightner (1904-1988) (W.W. Norton, 1969)
In a future post-catastrophe Africa, Blacks rule and believe that their civilization is the only one left. Whites are drones. An expedition led by a young African woman is allowed to search for others and finds both that others do exist and that there are the remains of Western civilization, both of which are likely effect to African civilization.
Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Day of the Women - [June] Pamela Kettle (b. 1934) (Leslie Frewin, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia in which women dominate.
Rpt. London: New English Library, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

The Days After - T[homas] E[dwin] Dorman (b. 1914) (Vantage Press, 1969)
Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Drag Hunt - James Broom Lynne (Michael Joseph, 1969)
Mixed future. General tolerance and economic prosperity, but there is a human hunt replacing fox hunting. Violence is encouraged in political protests. Young Purity Party.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Emphyrio - Jack [John Holbrook] Vance (1916-2013) (Doubleday, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia based on control of utilities and religion and a monopoly of trade.
Serialized in Fantastic 18.5 - 6 (June - August 1969): 6-77, 82; 10-83. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1970. U.K. ed. [London]: Coronet, 1980. Repub. as vol. 20 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002; in The Jack Vance Reader: Emphyrio The Languages of Pao The Domains of Koryphon. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 21-206 with “Emphyrio Introduction (15-19) by Robert Silverberg; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 509-722 with a “Note on the Text” (732-33) and “Notes” (742).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall of the Dream Machine - Dean R[ay] Koontz (b. 1945) (Ace Books, 1969)
Extrapolation of the ideas of Marshall McLuhan (1911-80) into a dystopia. McLuhan was best known for his statement that the "medium is the message."
Keywords: Male author; US author

Five Way Secret Agent - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1969)
Future satiric dystopia. Negative Income Tax provides an income cushion. Conflict in the world.
Also published in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 83.2 - 3 (April - May 1969): 6-54, 96-142.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"For the Sake of Grace" - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Patriarchal dystopia. Women considered inferior and adult males dominate all women. Resistant women are medicated. Occupation by competitive exam with poetry the occupation with the highest status. See also 1972 Elgin and 1978 Russ.
Rpt. in World's Best Science Fiction 1970. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1970), 105-27; in her At the Seventh Level (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 7-31; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 215-36.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Four-Gated City - Doris [May] Lessing (1919-2013) (MacGibbon & Kee, 1969)
The "Appendix" (560-614) presents a future, post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Telepathy.
U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Zimbabwean author

Gardens 12345 - Peter Tate (b. 1940) (Doubleday, 1969)
Dystopia in which social experiments are run on people by placing them in gardens and observing their actions when changes are made.
U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Give-and-Take Utopia" - Alan Brien (1925-2008) (New Statesman, 1969)
A personal view of eutopia, which he calls a "half-way utopia" and a "more-or-less Merry England". It will be planned but not predictable, permissive but not lawless, safe but not dull, and patriotic but not racist. Among other things, there will be a limit on income, and everyone must work.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Glass Cage - Kenneth W[ayne] Hassler (1932-99) (Arcadia House, 1969)
Dystopia. Post-catastrophe society inside a sealed city. Religion and politics combine to keep people inside after the need to do so is over.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Heroes and Villains - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) (William Heinemann, 1969)
Post-catastrophe (nuclear war) dystopian novel presenting a contrast between civilization (rational) and barbarians (irrational). Isolated fortified villages divided among the hereditary Professor, Soldiers, and Workers with various other groups outside the social structure.
Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1981; and London: Penguin Books, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Robert Coover (vii-ix).
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Immortalist: An Approach to the Engineering of Man's Divinity - Alan Harrington (1919-97) (Random House, 1969)
Immortality will bring eutopia. The chapter "Notes on a Utopia Beyond Time" says that in the immortalist eutopia each person will have many lives doing different things. More nonconformists. Permission required to have children. This chapter is (New York: Random House, 1969), 280-89; (London: Panther, 1973), 250-62; (London: Abacus, 1973), 275-84. See also 1977 Harrington for a different take on immortality.
UK ed. London: Panther, 1973. Rpt. London: Abacus, 1973.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Time of Disposal of Infants" - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) (Amazing Stories, 1969)
Dystopia in the future where unwanted live children (usually infants) are collected like garbage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Islar: A Narrative of Lang III - Mark Saxton (1914-88) (Houghton Mifflin, 1969)
Sequel set in the time of the grandson of the protagonist of 1942 Wright. Primarily political intrigue brought about by internal and external enemies. See also 1979 and 1982 Saxton.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Jagged Orbit - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) (Ace Books, 1969)
Dystopia of violence in which it is necessary to be armed on the street.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Jamboree" - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1969)
Dystopia in which machines rule violently. Only robots can have books; boys and girls kept separate.
Rpt. in A Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Melinda M[arilyn] Snodgrass (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987), 40-49; and in The Human Limit: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson. Volume 8 (Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2011), 25-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"J-Line To Nowhere" - Zenna [Charlson] Henderson (1917-83) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1969)
Completely controlled society that appears to be entirely enclosed with all air and water artificial and no greenery or insects. Age groups not allowed contact with older age groups. Dull, boring work. Education by machines. All as seen by a disaffected pre-teen who accidentally discovers nowhere, or the outside.
Rpt. in her Holding Wonder (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 33-50; rpt. (New York: Avon, 1972), 40-58; U.K. ed. (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972), 33-50; in The Venus Factor. Ed. Vic Ghidalia and Roger [Paul] Elwood (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1977), 96-116; and in Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson. Ed. Patricia Morgan Lang (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2020), 181-96.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Kark - [James] [Pattinson] (1915-2009) (Robert Hale, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia set in 21st century London. The powerful Ministry of Internal Security and the police are more concerned with political opposition than crime and, as a result, criminals rule the streets.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last Continent - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Dell, 1969)
Advanced blacks from Mars return to Earth and find primitive whites in a tropical Antarctica. Interracial conflict and interracial love.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. Rpt. London: Hodder Paperbacks, 1971.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) (Ace Books, 1969)
Eutopia and dystopia. The novel is best known for its depiction of a hermaphrodite or ambisexual (both words are used in the text) society in which the people are neuter most of the time but can become female or male for a period with another person and can both sire and give birth to children. The novel is primarily concerned with relations between two countries on the planet and within each country during the period after initial contact with an envoy from off planet. A related story is her "Winter's King." Orbit 5. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969), 67-88; rev. with the pronouns changed to they in her The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 75-95, which has some revisions (see the note on 75); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 301-16 with an editors' note on 200; and 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), 923-43 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), and the original Orbit 5 version (1044-64). See also, 1995 Le Guin, "Coming of Age in Karhide." Three stories by Stevan Allred set in Gethen are “Ib & Nib and the Ice Berries”, “Ib & Nib and the Golden Ring”, and “Ib & Nib and the Hemmens Tree” in Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Susan DeFreitas (Portland, OR: Forest Avenue Press, 2021), 76-82, 216-223, 358-362.
Also published New York: Walker and Co., 1969. The New York: Ace Books, 1976 edition has an unnumbered six-page introduction by Le Guin which is rpt. in her The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction. Ed. Susan Wood (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979), 155-59; Rev. ed. ed. Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (London: Women's Press, 1989), 130-34. 1st American ed. (New York: HarperCollins, 1989), 150-54. Collector's Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas and Laura Brodian Kelly Freas with an "Preface" by Joan D. Vinge (v-xiii) and the 1976 "Introduction" by Le Guin xv-xviii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. The 25th anniversary ed. New York: Walker, 1994 contains an important "Afterword" (287-93) and appendices (295-345) concerning the issue of gendered language. The 40th Anniversary ed. London: Gollancz, 2009 includes an "Introductory Note for the 40th Anniversary Edition" (ix-xii), 1995 Le Guin (249-68), "Some Kardish Words, and Two Songs from the Domain of Estre" (269-72), and "Author's working sketch map" (273). The Library of America edition reprints the 1969 Ace Books edition; 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), 385-611 with a “Note on the Text” (1083), “Notes” (1090-91), and “Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness (1023-27). The London: Gollancz, 2017 ed. has an “Introduction” by China Miéville (ix-xii) and the 1976 “Introduction” by Le Guin (xiii-xvii), albeit not identified as such. 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Ace Books, 2019, with an “Introduction” by David Mitchell (ix-xiv) and an “Afterword” by Charlie Jane Anders (305-15).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Light a Last Candle - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) (Rapp & Whiting, 1969)
Dystopia of alien invaders who have created mutated humans. The few normal people are outlaws. The focus of the novel is on the struggle.
Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971
Keywords: English author; Male author

Looking Forward - Kenneth S. Keyes Jr. (1921-95); Jacque Fresco (1916-2017) (A.S.Barnes\Thomas Yoseloff, 1969)
Technological eutopia. "Part II A Projection of Our Future" (87-195) is a computer-based eutopia using atomic power. Government replaced by computers. Extensive genetic engineering. Production and distribution computer controlled, and no industrial work for people. Human work is administrative and creative. People sleep little. Extremely healthy with constant automated health checks at home. No Money. The third part, "Looking Forward," is a single chapter, "Education for Change". See also 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. PSt holds a folder that contains: Venus Project brochure (4 pp); 2 copies of highlights of an interview with Jacque Fresco (6 pp); photocopy of an article by the author entitled “Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century” published in The Futurist 28.3 (May-June 1994): 29-33; promotional materials including a color sheet with images of the model home and a color sheet with various conceptual renderings. At the University of Pennsylvania, the Daniels Millennium Collection, Box 329, includes a copy of the book, “Introduction to the Venus Project” (http://www.nas.com/venus/intro.shtml), “The Venus Project Mission Statement: (http://www.nas.com/venus/ms01.shtml), and other material. There is considerable repetition in the Fresco material.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lovely - David Meltzer (1937-2016) (Essex House, 1969)
A dystopian pornographic series depicting a future bureaucratic, militaristic dystopia in the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Man on the Mountain - Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904-99) (Little, Brown, 1969)
Dystopia. A country where race and class no longer matter but in which people are separated into four different regions on the basis of age.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Message Ends - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) (Jonathan Cape, 1969)
Mostly adventure focusing on a dystopian future Ministry of Information. Related to 1968 and 1970 Tucker.
Rpt. London: Sphere, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Being the Fifth Part of the Travels into Several Remote Parts of the World by Lemuel Gulliver First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships. Wherein the Author returns and finds a New State of Liberal Horses and Revolting Yahoos - Matthew [John Caldwell] Hodgart ed. [written by] (1916-96) (Duckworth, 1969)
Satire on the Sixties using 1726 Swift.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

No Time Like Tomorrow - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) (Crown, 1969)
Corporate, authoritarian dystopia in the future. Classified as Young Adult.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Ordinary Man - Mel[vin Angelo] Arrighi (1933-86) (Dramatists Play Service, 1969)
Authoritarian, bureaucratic, racist dystopia.
Rpt. New York: Peter H. Wyden, 1970. U.K. ed. London: Allan Wingate, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Paradise Man: A Black and White Farce - John [Barry] Hale (b. 1926) (Rapp and Whiting, 1969)
Dystopia of racial turmoil. Constant conventional war by international agreement to keep economies going.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Perspective Process - Cyril Donson (1919-86) (Robert Hale, 1969)
Eutopia with women in power in The Harmony of World States. Population controlled, long life, no disease, and safety.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Practical Utopia for the Region. Seminar Two Resource Paper for Conference 2020 Building the Future Environment--an Atlantic Region Perspective to the year 2020, January 30 and 31 at the Waldorf Astoria, New York - David A. Wallace (Np, 1969)
A speculative essay on positive changes possible for the middle Atlantic region of the U.S.
Keywords: Male author

The Prisoner - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (Ace Books, 1969)
Novel depicting the dystopia of the famous television series. See also 1969 McDaniel and 1970 Stine. For the series see Matthew White and Jeffer Ali, The Official Prisoner Companion. New York: Warner Books, 1988; and Dave Rogers, "The Prisoner." In his Danger Man & The Prisoner (London: Boxtree, 1989), 129-254.
U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1979. Rpt. London: NEL, 1980; in The Prisoner Omnibus (London: Carlton Books, 2002), 4-177; and London: Penguin Books, 2009. While the 2009 edition says that it was first published in the U.S. by Carlton International Media, the book copyright is 1969 and the television series copyright is 1967 by Independent Television Ltd (ITV), and, although one source says it was first published in hardcover in 1967, I have been unable to identify a copy of the 1967 publication. A second, shorter series was produced in 2009 by the U.S. cable network AMC and ITV.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rakehells of Heaven - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright & Talley, 1969)
Satire--promiscuity, anarchy, nudity, and a return to nature.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Residence Afresh - [Mrs.] [Arthur E.] [Towle] (1889-1969) (Robert Hale, 1969)
Domestic heaven.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Roach - Gil Lamont (b. 1947) (Essex House, 1969)
Dystopian background to fairly mild pornography. The dystopia includes a book factory where people are programmed to constantly produce what is essentially the same plots.
Keywords: Male author

Sexmax - [George H.] [Leonard] (1921-94) (Paperback Library, 1969)
Computer dystopia with sexual relations chosen by computer. Emphasis on pleasure but with the usual rebels.
U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Shades of Time; A Science-Fiction Novella - William A Darity Jr. (b. 1953) (The William-Frederick Press, 1969)
Future with a series of eutopias and dystopias, all very technologically advanced. Begins with a near eutopia of reason combined with the recognition of the need for passion and exercise. A dystopia of humanity controlled by superior intellects becomes a flawed utopia. It all turns out to be an induced dream.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability - John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (Little, Brown, 1969)
Near future racial conflict in the U.S. when African Americans begin to fight back. Presented as a positive development.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1999. U.K. ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1973,
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Spook Who Sat By the Door - Sam[uel Eldred] Greenlee [Jr.] (1930-2014) (P.W. Baron, 1969)
Black revolution in the U.S. in which the gangs of Chicago are organized into a disciplined fighting unit.
U.K. ed. London: Allison & Busby, 1969. An excerpt was published in The Observer Magazine (March 9, 1969): 46-51.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Strangers in Paradise - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) (Tower Publications, 1969)
Mostly adventure but includes a dystopian city that is a large slum.
U.K. ed. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Teenocracy - Robert Shirley (Ace Books, 1969)
Dystopia of teenagers ruling.
Keywords: Male author

Teg's 1994; An Anticipation of the Near Future - Robert Theobald (1929-99); J[ean] M. Scott ([Theobald and Scott], 1969)
Detailed eutopia based on ecology, personal growth, and interpersonal communication. Problems remain, and the author's say, "In our opinion, Teg's world would make a very poor Utopia for anybody" (x, 1972 ed.). See also 1968 Theobald and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America’s Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America’s Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
New ed. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1972.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Terminus - Michael Perkins (b. 1942) (Essex House, 1969)
Overpopulation dystopia as the vehicle for mild pornography. Mostly sex but some racial and personal violence. Authoritarian state.
Keywords: Male author

"Therapy 2000" - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (New Writings in S-F, 1969)
Dystopia. Overpopulated but the focus is on constant TV and constant noise. One man chooses to be deaf.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Thrill City - [Jean Marie] [Stine] (b. 1945) (Essex House, 1969)
Dystopia. Erotic future SF with the emphasis on the sex rather than either the SF or the future.
Keywords: Transgender author; US author

"The Throwaways" - Joanna [Ruth] Russ (1937-2011) (Consumption (Seattle, WA), 1969)
Dystopian satire on future consumption patterns, which focuses on everything being a throwaway.
Rpt. in her The Hidden Side of the Moon. Stories (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 98-102.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Transplant - Weatherhead, John (George G. Harrap, 1969)
Transplant dystopia focusing on doctors with too much power.
Keywords: Male author

The Twig Benders - [Wilda] [Holst] (The Feminists, 1969)
Sex role reversal dystopia set in the Eastgate Finishing School for Boys where the boys are “required to be naked at all times” and “The Instructors, all women, are expected to use the boys sexually, as such experience counts as part of the boy’s training for the Masculine Role” (1).
Rpt. in Everywoman 1.3 (June 19, 1070), 5, 11 with an introduction by Varda One, “Woman as Masochist, Man as Sadist” (1)); and under the author’s name in The SCUM Manifesto and The Twig Benders. (Np: Gynarchy Poche, [2017?]), 67-78 with a note (7) on the author by Aline d’Arbrant (1952-2015).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Ulcer Culture - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) (Macdonald Science Fiction, 1969)
Dystopia that is divided between the Uppers and the workers with the workers controlled through the distribution of Joy Juice (hallucinogenic drugs), but someone has been tampering with the drugs.
Rpt. as Stained Glass World. London: New English Library, 1976
Keywords: English author; Male author

A View of Century 21 - Walter Orr Roberts (1915-90) (The Claremont Colleges, 1969)
Mostly prediction but includes a technological eutopia. In “A View of The Future--A Fictional Preview” (20-27) Los Angeles has banned the internal combustion engine, highways are automated. Large buildings house both companies and their workers with 300,000 people living in a single building. Free underground public transportation. The distinction between weekdays and weekends has been abolished and everyone works four days out of the seven. Schools are largely computerized with access twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, and students work at their own pace. Medical care and finances will also be mostly computerized.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"We All Die Naked" - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) (Three for Tomorrow, 1969)
Pollution dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Weisman Experiment - [Douglas Rankine] [Mason] (1918-2013) (Dennis Dobson, 1969)
Authoritarian dystopia ruled by "The Meritocracy" trying to suppress an early experiment that suggested the importance of liberty and equality.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Welsh author

“The Wind in the Snottygobble Tree” - Jack Trevor Story (1917-91) (New Worlds, 1969)
Satire on a police state.
Keywords: Male author

"The Year of the Sex Olympics" - [Thomas] Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) (The Year of the Sex Olympics and Other TV Plays, 1969)
Dystopian satire focusing on the power of television, which is used to encourage apathy and keep people from producing more children in the overpopulated world by broadcasting sexual athletics to suggest to people that since they cannot perform that well, they should give up sex.
Keywords: English author; Male author

1993: The World of Tomorrow - Paul Orr; Violet Orr (1918-76) (Pacific Progress Publishers, 1968)
Detailed socialist eutopia stressing decentralization set in the Los Angeles area. Some technological advances. Some technological advances. Sleeper wakes motif with a died-in-the-wool capitalist waking in a socialist future.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Agency - David Meltzer (1937-2016) (Essex House, 1968)
A dystopian pornographic trilogy presenting a powerful sexual underground and its political and personal connections. Followed by his The Agent. North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, 1968. Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 107-210; and his How Many Blocks in a Pile. North Hollywood, CA: Essex House, 1968. Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 211-322.
Rpt. in The Agency Trilogy (New York: Masquerade Books, 1994), 3-105.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Alias Man - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) (Jonathan Cape, 1968)
Britain is a satellite of Moscow, the U.S. is isolationist, and a Soviet-Bonn bloc forms and comes to control Europe. See also 1969 and 1970 Tucker.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) (The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, 1968)
Poem. A computer Cockaigne but with an element of irony.
Rpt. (New York: Delta, 1968): 1.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Alternative Future for America. Essays and Speeches - Robert Theobald (1929-99) (Swallow, 1968)
Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 Theobald and Scott and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
2nd ed. as An Alternative Future for America II. Essays and Speeches. Ed. Noel McInnis. Chicago, IL: Swallow, 1970. Parts that had been previously published were rpt. in the 1st ed. as follows: “The Problem” (17-21) originally published as “The Revolution of the ‘Powerless’.” The Los Angeles Times (September 8, 1967), Part 2, p. 5; “The Guaranteed Income” (93-131) was originally published in the Proceedings of the National Symposium on Guaranteed Income, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, December 9, 1966; “The Communications City” (132-44) was originally published in The Christian Century (March 27, 1968): 385-88; “Green Force” (145-50) was originally published as “Green Force: A Mechanism to Speed Urban Peace.” The Los Angeles Times (March 12, 1968), Part 2, p. 5; and “Education for a New Time” (151-63) was originally published in Journal (Division of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) 5.6 (March 1967): 3-7. Parts that had been previously published but not included in the 1st ed. were rpt. in the 2nd ed. as follows: “Incredible man and His Credible Future.” Reflection. A Journal of Opinion at (Yale Divinity School (November 1967): 1-5; “Women” (85-96) originally published in Dialogue on Women (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merril, 1967), 11-17 [In the original, the piece is described as being by unidentified editors, but there is no mention of anyone else in the reprint]; “Ecology: A Dangerous Crusade” (151-56) was originally published "War on Pollution Could Backfire." The Los Angeles Times (February 8, 1970). Part G, p. 7; and “Freedom in Education” (157-81) was originally published in Journal (Council of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) (April 1969): 10-16. Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Among the Bad Baboons" - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1968)
Dystopia of violence in depopulated cities and an “Ultra-welfare state” where everyone gets an “Inalienable Basic” income outside the cities. Reynolds uses this trope in a number of novels and stories. This story focuses on a couple trying to survive in New York City.
Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 135-77.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Anthropol - Louis [Preston] Trimble (1917-88) (Ace Books, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia of gender-role reversal with women ruling men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) (Heinemann, 1968)
Dystopia of the contemporary Congo.
Keywords: Ghanaian author; Male author

The Call of the Planets - James Ernest William Patterson (A. J. Chapple, 1968)
Jupiter as a eutopia. No racial prejudice. Women remain beautiful throughout life. Calm, serene inner life. Equality.
Keywords: Male author

"Camp Concentration" - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) (New Worlds Science Fiction, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a prison. A war is ongoing, and the protagonist is a conscientious objector.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1971; and New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Carder's Paradise - Malcolm Levene (1937-1973) (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968)
The novel includes two dystopias. In one, a computer dominated world, there is no work because it might upset the economy. As a result, people have too much leisure and degenerate. The second, which is the focus of the novel, is an island prison, and the two main characters are a prisoner, Carder, who wants to take over the prison, and the mentally ill prison governor.
U.S. ed. New York: Walker, 1969.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Catharsis Central - [Anthony Allert] [Thompson] (b. 1939) (Dennis Dobson, 1968)
Computer dystopia. A computer has a unit that records dreams and sends back soothing messages to each individual. Everyone must eat what is best for their current state of health. Struggle for control of the machine, and its destruction frees humanity to start over.
Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Conquest by Default" - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (1944-2024) (Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact, 1968)
Libertarian eutopia that presents a violent society as positive because no group can get large enough to hold formal power.
Rpt. in Imperial Stars. Vol. 2 Republic and Empire. Ed. Jerry Pournelle with John F. Carr (New York: Baen, 1987), 252-89; in Vinge, Threats . . . and Other Promises (New York: Baen, 1988), 30-71; and in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 159-86 with notes by the author.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Curious Culture of the Planet Loretta - William J. Palmer (Vantage Press, 1968)
Capitalist eutopia with an area set aside for social experimentation, which experiments, generally being socialist, fail. Stress on responsibility.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day of the Coastwatch - Philip McCutchan (1920-96) (Harrap, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia of the New Socialist State. Leaving is illegal, thus the coastwatch.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Day of the Republic - Geoff[rey] Taylor (b. 1920) (Peter Davies, 1968)
Dystopia depicting Australia on the day it became a republic under what is essentially a fascist dictatorship. The novel is presented from the point of view of those preparing the last issue of the last independent newspaper as all opposition is being suppressed. Ends with nuclear war.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"Dead to the World" - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) (New Writings in S-F, 1968)
Dystopian satire. Computer and robot controlled world and the effect on a man whose identity card is accidentally marked deceased.
Rpt. in New Writings in S-F 8. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 125-42; and in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 3-15.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"The Divided House" - [John Thomas] [Phillifent] (1916-76) (New Writings in S-F, 1968)
Dystopia. A world of dreamers versus doers. The doers are in power and logic controls. The dreamers are serfs.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) (Doubleday, 1968)
Post-catastrophe dystopia.  Basis of the 1982 film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott (b. 1937) with a screenplay by Hampton Fancher (b. 1938) and David Peoples (b. 1940). The screenplay by Fancher was published Hollywood: Script City, 1981. Unrelated to 1974 Nourse. See 1995 Jeter.
Rpt. in Four Novels of the 1960s. [Ed. Jonathan [Allen] Lethem] (New York: Library of America, 2007), 431-608. “Notes” 828-29. Rpt. as Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep). New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. During his lifetime Dick refused to allow the title change. Graphic Novel version as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 6 vols. Art Tony Parker, Colors Blond, Letters Richard Starkings of Comicraft, Cover Bill Sienkiewicz, Ed. Ian Brill [vol. 1 only] and Bryce Carlson, Design Stephanie Gonzaga. Los Angeles, CA: Boom Studios, 2009-11.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dome - [Thomas Frederick] Gonnar Jones (Faber & Faber, 1968)
Dystopia of a machine that can project feelings into the brain.
Keywords: Male author

The Doomsday Men - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) (Doubleday, 1968)
Dystopia in a future U.S. where fear of nuclear war has led to the collapse of most cities and people live spread across the landscape served by machines. One city remains as a center of pleasure, but seemingly mindless violence erupts.
Rpt. New York: Curtis Books/Modern Literary Editions, nd. U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Shorter version in If 15.11 (November 1965): 102-59
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Earth is Mine - Luther Cox (Exposition Press, 1968)
UFO story. Technologically advanced eutopia that had evolved from a former earth people. No money; take what you need. Everyone works for two months and then goes to school for a month, with everyone trying to keep up in all fields. Synthetic food. Eugenics; artificial insemination. Religious.
Keywords: Male author

"Epilogue: Not Quite Utopia" - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). (The Most Probable World, 1968)
Brief but detailed eutopia set in 2001. One focus is that the world is completely free of new pollution and almost all the badly polluted areas of the past have been cleaned up. Use of petroleum products radically reduced and replaced with nuclear fusion power. No advertising in newspapers or on TV. No private cars in Manhattan, radical reduction in city population, and half of New York City is open space. Electric vehicles standard. Strong United Nations, which has relocated to an island in the Indian Ocean. World language as well as local languages. See also 1928 and 1975 Chase.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Father of the Nation - Laurence Walter Clark (Veracity Ventures, 1968)
England failing due to party influence and socialist policy, but it is saved by a revival of a Parliament that rids the country of big government.
Keywords: Male author

"The Feasibility Plan" - Earl Conrad (1912-86) (The Da Vinci Machine; Tales of the Population Explosion, 1968)
Humor on job creation during a time of automation. Pencil sharpeners, wastebasket emptiers, and clock watchers are among the jobs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Fistful of Digits - Christopher [Glazebrook] Hodder-Williams (1926-95) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968)
Computer-dominated authoritarian dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Five to Twelve - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1968)
Sex-role reversal dystopia brought about by the popularity of birth control. The novel focuses on a man who is constantly in conflict with the system.
U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Freezer" - Candice Bergen (b. 1946) (The Best Short Plays 1968. The Margaret Mayorga Series, 1968)
Dystopia in which everyone is frozen and repaired at 65 so that they can be useful citizens in an authoritarian state.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Gift from Earth - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
Transplant dystopia showing the power of doctors.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The God Machine. A Novel - Martin Caidin (1927-97) (E. P. Dutton, 1968)
Computer dystopia.
Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Baen, 1989.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Leap Backward - Robert Green (b. 1935?) (McClelland & Stewart, 1968)
Contrast between a dystopia of automated cities and a naturalist countryside.
U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Guide to Survival - Salem Kirban (1925-2010) (Tyndale House/Coverdale House/Salem Kirban, Inc., 1968)
The dystopia that will follow the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) and surviving it. Antichrist and Armageddon (See Revelation 16). His Your Last Goodbye. Huntingdon Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1969 is similar. See also 1970, 1974 Kirban; and Kirban’s Book of Charts on Prophecy. Huntington Valley, PA: Salem Kirban, Inc., 1969. Kirban published around fifty books on these and related subjects.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Helmet of Hades" - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) (New Writings in S-F, 1968)
Dystopia on a planet where a drink that makes everyone blind is distilled from a plant. One man follows the old adage that in the land of the bind the one eyed man is king and blind everyone except a few acolytes and enslaves the blind. The protagonist is a man sent to the planet that had not been heard from recently and is blinded but rebels and violently overthrows the regime and frees the one man who had previously rebelled. The result is the opposite of what he expected.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

I, The Machine - Paul W[arren) Fairman (1916-77) (Lancer Books, 1968)
Machine dystopia with a single rebel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In Watermelon Sugar - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) (Writing 21, 1968)
Eutopia on the Cockaigne model.
Rpt. New York: Delta, 1968. UK. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Invasion - John [Warwick] [Dalrymple-]Hay (b. 1928) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968)
Dystopia created by the invasion of Australia by the South East Asian Republic. At the end of the novel, following the destruction of Australia, a racially mixed group (Aboriginal, Chinese, and white Australian) are living a simple existence trying to start over.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Iron Man: A Story in Five Nights - Ted [Edward James] Hughes (1930-98) (Faber and Faber, 1968)
Book written for children in which a giant made of iron defeats a space monster, who then circles the Earth singing. The experience unifies the world and brings peace. See also 1993 Hughes.
Rpt. without the subtitle illus. by George Adamson. London: Faber and Faber, 1971; and illus. by Andrew Davidson. London: Faber and Faber, 1985. Rpt. as The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Another U.S. ed. as The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. Illus. Dirk Zimmer (1943-2008). New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Keeper - Audrey [Louise] Laski (1931-2003) (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1968)
Dystopia of a religious intentional community in which a group of Puritans were left on an isolated island whose descendants return to England in 1950 and establish a community in Wales.
U.S. ed. as The Keeper. A Novel. New York: W.W. Norton, 1968.
Keywords: English author; Welsh author

Killing Ground: The Canadian Civil War - [Bruce Allen] [Powe] (b. 1925) (Peter Martin Associates, 1968)
See the subtitle.
Rpt. with a "Foreword." Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1972; and with a brief "a Word from the Author." Markham, ON, Canada: Paperjacks, 1977.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Ladies' Day - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) (Belmont Books, 1968)
Gender-role reversal dystopia. Woman had taken over after another war. A revolt of men is put down, but a movement toward equality is beginning.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Land of the Moobs - Seymour O. Kopf (Ptd. by the South China Morning Post, 1968)
Satire in which the inhabitants of the Moon, called Moobs, are divided into Royalists and Rebels. The Rebel society is run by a Chief Bureaucrat, who is corrupt and power-hungry. War between Rebels and Royalists. "Spoilers" is a dystopia in which Communists control most of the world and many religious groups were forced to migrate to the moon.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Starship from Earth - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) (Weybright and Talley, 1968)
Eugenic dystopia and the struggle against it. Science rules. Everyone is classified according to their talents and can only marry within their caste.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Lines of Power: We, in Some Strange Power's Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line" - Samuel R[ay] Delany (b. 1942) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1968)
Conflict between two visions of a better life, one technologically based and one off the grid. The law requires that every community above a certain very small size must be provided with electrical power whether it is wanted or not.
Rpt. as “We, in Some Strange Power’s Employ, Move on a Rigorous Line.” In his Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352. Rpt. (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass. Ten Tales of Speculative Fiction (New York: New American Library, 1971), 139-90. Book rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Gregg Press, 1977. Book Club edition (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-84. Rpt. Illus. Michael Sorkin. in his Distant Stars (New York: Bantam Books, 1981), 293-352; rpt. illus. Michael Sorkin (New York: ibooks, 2004), 293-352; in his Driftglass (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1971), 130-83; in his Driftglass/Starshards (London: Grafton, 1993), 155-222; and in his Aye and Gomorrah. Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), 122-81.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

Little Big Mouth: The Story of a Little Girl Who Became Prime Minister - Neil Rowe (1941-2003) (Cockerel Print, 1968)
A little girl who talks constantly and becomes known as "Little Big Mouth" but no one listened. When the Prime Minister couldn't talk, she was made PM because she was the only person who could talk constantly and only by talking constantly could politicians ensure that no one listened. She chose to say nothing, which kept the politicians from doing their usual stupid things. When the PM recovered his voice and tried to throw her out, the people rose up and demanded that she become PM; she agreed.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

The Lucifer Cell - [Ian Campbell] [McDougal (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968)
Authoritarian dystopia with a background of Britain as occupied by China.
U.S. ed. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Mercenary from Tomorrow - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) (Ace Books, 1968)
Future dystopia of boredom, drugs, and television wars.
Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1969 as an Ace Double with his Five Way Secret Agent (1969); and New York: Ace Books, 1975. Expanded as by Reynolds with [Alan Gould (b. 1951) as Joe Mauser: Mercenary From Tomorrow. By Reynolds and  Michael [A.] Banks [pseud.]. New York: Baen Books, 1986. Earlier, shorter version as “Mercenary.” Analog Fact--Science Fiction 69.2 (April 1962): 6-55.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ministry of Procreation - [Nevil Tronchin] [James] (Robert Hale, 1968)
Satire on bureaucracy.
Keywords: Male author

Neocracy; A Plan for Social Order and Co-operative Capitalism - Frank Herman Young (b. 1895) (Exposition Press, 1968)
Eutopia. "Neocracy is co-operative capitalism utilizing representative rule of the people, by the people, for the people, in both business and government" (119). Guaranteed employment through United American Enterprises.
Keywords: Male author

A New Constitution for a New Country - M[ichael] Oliver (Published by arrangement with Fine Arts Press, 1968)
Detailed capitalist eutopia containing a complete constitution (49-128). A review of the book by Robert L. Meiers, M.D. was published in The Capitalist Country Newsletter in 1.2 (August 1968): [1-3], a journal edited by Oliver. The book was meant to outline the reasons for and constitution of a new country that he called Minerva that the author hoped to establish and for which he minted a coinage. He found a reef near Tonga, and in 1971 built it up with dredged sand, built a concrete platform, planted a flag, and declared the Republic of Minerva. In 1972 the King of Tonga emptied its one prison and took the prisoners to the reef, where they destroyed the platform. See Raymond Craib, “The Brief Life and Watery Death of a 70’s Libertarian Micronation.” Slate (May 21, 2022). <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/michael-oliver-republic-of-minerva-history-libertarian-micronations-tonga.html" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue; text-decoration:underline">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/michael-oliver-republic-of-minerva-history-libertarian-micronations-tonga.html. A longer treatment by Craib can be found in Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022.
Rev. ed. Reno, NV: Published by arrangement with Fine Arts Press, 1968.
Keywords: Lithuanian author; Male author; US author

Of Men and Monsters - [Philip] [Klass] (1920-2010) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
In the far future, after earth has been successfully invaded by huge aliens, human beings live like mice in the walls of the alien’s houses. The social system is complex, tribal based, and focuses on survival and striking back at the aliens. The status system was dual in male and female lines although there were variations between tribes. Large numbers of children always gave status. Women kept alive what little knowledge there was largely through ritual and taboo.
Rpt. in Here Comes Civilization: The Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn. Volume II Ed. James A. Mann and Mary C. Tabasko (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2001), 389-534 with an “Afterword” on 535-37. Part originally appeared as “The Men in the Wall.” Galaxy 22.1 (October 1963): 8-83.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Omnivore - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) (Ballantine Books, 1968)
Science fiction novel set on both an over-regulated Earth and a planet being explored. The dystopian parts are mostly background.
U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Past Master - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty (1914-2002) (Ace Books, 1968)
A future utopia, Astrolabe, the Golden Planet, finds many of its citizens abandoning the good life they have to live in a slum. To find the cause, the leaders bring Thomas More to find the cause and the cure. The causes are boredom and the lack of religion; the cure is the introduction of Christianity.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 1-181 with a “Note on the Text” (730-31) and “Notes” (734-40).  U. K. ed. London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pavane - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) (Doubleday, 1968)
Alternative history. Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress and a dystopian medievalism has lasted into the 20th century.
Rpt. New York Ace Books, 1968; rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1984. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1984. Abr. ed. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. Rpt. London: Panther, 1970. First published as a series of stories--“Pavane.” Impulse 1.1 (March 1966): 127-60; “Pavane: The Lady Anne.” Impulse 1.2 (April 1966): 4-47; rev. as “The Lady Margaret” in the rev. ed. and rpt. under that title in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 637-43; with an editor’s note on 637; “Brother John.” Impulse 1.3 (May 1966): 47-81; “Pavane: Lords and Ladies.” Impulse 1.4 (June 1966): 70-101; “Pavane: Corfe Gate.” Impulse 1.5 (July 1966): 7-68; and “Pavane: The White Boat.” New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 169 ([December 1966]): 73-95.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pendulum - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) (Simon and Schuster, 1968)
An authoritarian religious dystopia develops out of a collapsing British economy and dysfunctional government.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The People Trap" - Robert Sheckley (1928-2005) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1968)
Overpopulation dystopia.
Rpt. in his The People Trap and other Pitfalls, Snares, Devices and Delusions, as Well as Two Sniggles and a Contrivance (New York: Dell, 1968), 7-26. and in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; in The Collected Short Stories of Robert Sheckley. Book Three (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991), 7-24; and in Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley. Ed. Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem (New York: New York Review Books, 2012), 347-67 with an “Introduction” to the collection by the editors (vii-xi).
Keywords: Male author; US author