Kalomera; The Story of a Remarkable Community - W[illiam] J[ohn] Saunders (1873-1928) (Elliot Stock, 1911)
Communist eutopia in which each town manages its own affairs under the supervision of the central government. Each town also provides some national service like producing goods for the national stores and working on construction projects. All people equal. Gender roles are fairly traditional but the head of state and the heads of all departments that concern both sexes rotate. Separate gender authority in those areas where only men or women work. Religion that teaches morality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Kantsaywhere" - Francis Galton (1822-1911) (University College, London, Galton Papers 138/6, 1911)
Eugenic eutopia.
The work, which was significantly cut by Galton’s relatives after his death, is described and most of what remains is published in Karl Pearson, “Francis Galton’s Utopia.” The Life and Letters of Francis Galton. 4 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1930), 3A: 411-425. Pearson published the corrected manuscript without indicating the changes made in the original draft. Pearson changed the paragraphing found in the original. A critical edition was published with the permission of University College as “The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere. Critical Edition.” Ed. Lyman Tower Sargent. Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 191-209.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Laws of Leflo - [Beatrice May Butt] [Allhusen] (1853-1918) (John Ouseley, 1911)
Leflo is a lost colony in Africa that has been isolated for over a century. The community was established with very strict laws that were to be followed to the letter. The result was a peaceful community, but the negative effects outweighed the positive. An example is that at eighteen girls must choose to marry or not. They are provided for by the community whatever their choice, but if they choose not to they wear distinctive dress and can never marry. Much of the novel is romance.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future" - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) (Nonsense Novels, 1911)
Humor on utopias.
Canadian ed. (Montreal, QC: Publishers' Press, 1911), 207-31. Rpt. (Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1963), 138-53.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Military Socialism - [Jacob W.] [Horner] (Author, 1911)
Authoritarian eutopia organized along military lines. For example, "Every man who attains the rank of major-general, through whatever channel, is by virtue of his rank, a member of parliament" (34). Racist, sexist.
Keywords: Male author

"Moving the Mountain" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1911)
Detailed feminist eutopia. "'Moving the Mountain' is a short distance Utopia, a baby Utopia, a little one that can grow. It involves no other change than a change of mind, the mere awakening of people, especially the women, to existing possibilities. It indicates what people might do, real people, now living, in thirty years--if they would" (6). No poverty, no pollution, no racial problems, no gender conflict, and little disease. A two-hour workday is required, but most work four.
Repub. New York: Charlton Company, 1911. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 37-149. This ed. compares The Forerunner version with the Clarion version and includes the brief "Preface" from the Clarion version that was not in The Forerunner (37). Excerpt published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 178-88; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 159-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Mud Pies: A Fable for Australians" - Arthur H[enry] Adams (1872-1936) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1911)
Play depicting a racist dystopia both in the treatment of other racial groups by white Australians and, when they gain power, the treatment of white Australians by the others with the focus on the latter. This is the result of the failure of Australians to cooperate.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

The New Order: Social Revolution of Free Groups - W[illiam] Allen Macdonald; Helen Meredith Macdonald (Questell Press, 1911)
Outlines of an anarchist eutopia in which everyone respects everyone else’s freedom and individuality. The pamphlet identifies the most fundamental social problem as the dominance of money. The solution is that every individual should produce their own food on one-third of an acre of land, thus implying vegetarianism, and also producing for each other’s needs. Although there is no money, there is a medium of exchange which is said to simply be account books where resources, labor, and exchange of goods are recorded. People keep the resources they hold on entering the group, although this will gradually disappear over time. Each person or family would have their own housing depending on their needs.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

The Nut Cracker and Other Human Ape Fables - Charles Elton Blanchard (1868-1945) (Broadway Publishing Co., 1911)
The book combines a critique of capitalism and the outlines of his eutopia through essays and stories. The expanded edition includes more of the eutopia, which is further developed in 1932 Blanchard.
Exp. ed. with the added subtitle A Study in Socialism. Youngstown, OH: Now and Here Press, 1916.
Keywords: Male author; US author

One Hundred Years Hence. Being Some Extracts from "The Hourly Mail" of A D 2000 - Walter Emanuel (1869-1915) (Eveleigh Nash, 1911)
Satire, much of it through the advertisements in the newspaper.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Our Sister Republic: A Single Tax Story (Cochrane Pub. Co., 1911)
Humorous attack on the income tax and an argument for the single tax. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

The Pilgrim Ship - James Black (The Christian Herald, Bible House, 1911)
Christian allegory in which various lands are visited, such as the land of delusion, lotus land, and so forth.
Keywords: Male author

Quest of the Silver Fleece. A Novel - W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) (A. C. McClurg, 1911)
Most of the novel concerns the mistreatment of African-Americans in the South, but the protagonists, particularly a feisty woman, outwit their main opponents. The ending of the book describes the beginnings of the development of project that will include a school, a home for orphan girls, and an entire community providing a better life for its inhabitants. Silver fleece refers a patch of outstanding cotton; see the chapter “Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece” in his The Souls of Black Folks. .
Rpt. Illus. H. S. De Lay. New York; Negro Universities Press, 1969; Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1989, with a “Foreword to the 1989 Edition” (1-11) by Arnold Rampersand; Illus. H. S. De Lay. Philadelphia, PA: Pine St. Books. 2004; and as a volume in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” by William L. Andrews (xxv-xxvii).
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"Ralph 124C 41+ ["One two foresee for one"]" - Hugo Gernsback (1887-1964) (Modern Electrics (New York), 1911)
Technological eutopia.
Rpt. with the subtitle A Romance of the Year 2660. New York: Stratford Co., 1925, with a “Preface” by Hugo Gernsback (3-5); and in Amazing Stories Quarterly 2.1 (Winter 1929): 4-53; 2nd ed. New York: Frederick Fell, 1950, with a different “Preface” by Hugo Gernsback. Rpt. illus. Paul. Merril. New York: Fawcett, 1958 with an unpaged “A Preview of Tomorrow” by Fletcher Pratt; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000, with an “Introduction” by Jack Williamson (vii-xi), the two Gernsback prefaces (xiii-xix), and a “List of Specially Named Inventions and Technological Devices” (295-300).
Keywords: Luxemburg author; Male author; US author

The Reign of the Saints - [Ernest George] [Henham] (1870-1948) (Alston Rivers, 1911)
Anti-socialist, racist, sexist dystopia and a failed attempt to re-establish a true English life. Britain becomes part of the Japanese Empire.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Road to Avalon - Coningsby [William] Dawson (1883-1959) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911)
Allegory in a medieval setting with various fantastic countries. Avalon, which is reached in the last chapters, is the goal.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Savage Strain" - William H. Greene (The Argosy, 1911)
A flawed utopia set in 2410 in which the people have forgotten how to fight.
Keywords: Male author

"A Servantless House. A Domestic Version of the Near Future" - E. S. Valentine (The Strand Magazine, 1911)
Satire. Technological solutions to the "servant problem", which was a staple of literature and comment at the time.

The Seven Sons of Ballyhack - Thomas Sawyer Spivey (1857-1938) (Cosmopolitan Press, 1911)
Mostly fantasy and adventure, but the last chapter includes twenty points of the "Essentials to National Government" (307-10) outlining the elements of what is needed to create a eutopia. The points include few, simple laws; no war; no personal weapons; no secrecy; limited taxation; the arts; particularly music; and others primarily concerned with limiting governmental power.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Seventeenth Episode. A Voyage in the Vague" - Frank Morton (1869-1923) (The Yacht of Dreams, 1911)
Anarchist eutopia on Mars, which is much more advanced than Earth. Each person has her or his own home. Long life, tolerance. Jupiter holds an emerging new race just gaining intelligence. Saturn, although not described, has a race far beyond that of Mars.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

Shanghaied Socialists: A Romance - Captain Will J. Ward (The Maritime Review, Ltd, 1911)
Anti-socialist novel in which the British government is taken over by socialists, which produces chaos, industrial breakdown, and violence. A socialist colony is established by capitalists to prove that socialism is unworkable, which it succeeds in doing.
Keywords: Male author

The Simple Life Limited - [Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox] [Hueffer] (1873-1939) (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1911)
Satire directed against an experimental community of people trying to live the simple life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Spirit Messages with an Introductory Essay on Spiritual Vitality - Hiram Corson (1828-1911) (Austin Pub. Co, 1911)
The work is mostly composed of messages from well-known writers of the past (Longfellow, Tennyson, Whitman), friends of the family, and family members. But buried in the messages are descriptions of the afterlife, which is a standard "domestic heaven".
New ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1919.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To Mars via the Moon: An Astronomical Story - Mark Wicks (Seeley & Company, 1911)
About half the book is a story of the flight to the moon and then to Mars with considerable detail on the landscape of the moon and the controversy over the "canals" on Mars. Mars is a eutopia with advanced technology, separate buildings with plenty of open space. Vegetarian. Gender equality. World government. All of Mars is publicly owned and must be used for the good of the entire community. Six-hour workday. No Crime. Those who die on earth are reincarnated on Mars. Those who die on Mars are reincarnated on another planet.
U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1911. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Transformation. Photographic Studies by X.O. Howe - John Herman Wishar (The Reynard Press, 1911)
Eutopia. Christian Science among a small group shipwrecked on a South Sea Island.
Keywords: Male author

"When the New Zealander Comes" - Professor Blyde Muddersnook, P.O.Z.A.S. [pseud.] (The Strand Magazine, 1911)
Humor of a depopulated Britain.
Rpt. in England Invaded: A Collection of Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Michael Moorcock (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 25-35.

Astria The Ice Maiden - Ernest Mansfield (Lonsdale Press, 1910)
Lost race technological eutopia in which people live 1400 years (50 active followed by 50 in “repose”). Each person generally has three husbands or wives, and love is a central fact of life.
Keywords: Male author

The Building of Thelema - C[harles] R[obert] Ashbee (1863-1942) (J.M. Dent, 1910)
Fantasy with utopian elements. Thelema is the reconstructed city of the dreamers of all times and the protagonist sees it from a variety of perspectives.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Courtship Under Contract: The Science of Selection: A Tale of Woman's Emancipation - James Henry Lovell Eager (The Health-Culture Co./L.N. Fowler, 1910)
Proposal for a trial marriage without sexual relations. The couple lives together but with separate bedrooms.
Keywords: Male author

The Five Bakers of Dubhampool: A Peep into the Future With Full Freedom Given to the Imagination - Arthur A. Clift (A. A. Clift, 1910)
Christian and socialist eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

"Gulliver Redivivus" - Algernon Cecil (1879-1953) (Essays in Imitation, 1910)
Satire. Lemuel Gulliver from 1726 Swift had visited an island called Callimago during his voyages and married a woman of the island. In this work a descendant of theirs visits England or Isotaria and Ireland or the Isles of Saints and describes their oddities.
Keywords: Male author

The Judgment Day: A Story of the Seven Years of Great Tribulation - Joshua H[ill] Foster (1861-1947) (Baptist World Publishing Co., 1910)
Fictional interpretation of Revelations including the Rapture (see 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 and 1 Corinthians 15:51-52) and the dystopia that follows up to the battle at Armageddon.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man From Mars or Service, for Service's Sake - Henry Henry Wallace (Dunraven) Dowding (1867?-1938) (Cochrane Publishing Company, 1910)
Detailed Christian eutopia on Mars. No large cities. No military. Stress on the home. Martians are both rational and artistic. Many completely equipped school buildings. "On the planet Mars education starts with a principle called Service" (251). Individual talents developed. Universal language. Includes extracts from a constitution.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Mayor of New York: A Romance of Days to Come - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap (1851-1917) (G.W. Dillingham, 1910)
A dystopia of corrupt upper classes and irreligious lower classes. Revolution. There is a religious revival, and the Pope comes to the U.S. See also 1903 Gratacap.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mirage of the Many - William Thomas Walsh (1891-1949) (Henry Holt, 1910)
Socialism as dystopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Newæra. A Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination - Edward G[eisler] Herbert (1869-1938) (P.S. King & Son, 1910)
Socialist intentional community founded with careful selection of members fails due to an inefficient bureaucracy and malice on the part of elected leaders toward the founders. Suggests that socialism is impossible, and the chapter on vaccination is an argument that experiments like Newæra (New Era) can vaccinate a country against the sickness that is socialism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

An Original Comic Opera, in Three Acts, entitled, The Superior Sex - H. D Banning (A. Abbott, 1910)
Sex role reversal set in 2005 A.D. but with the traditional order re-established at the end.

Outland - [Mary Hunter] [Austin] (1868-1934) (John Murray, 1910)
Tale of a hidden hunter gatherer society, called the Outliers, with a simple, balanced life.
U.S. ed. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Prospectus of New Zealand Limited (Limited as to Area Only) A Company not incorporated under the Companies Act of 1908 - [Wynford Ormsby] [Beere] (1874?-1964) (Edward Bellamy Society (N.Z.), 1910)
One-page eutopia in the form of a company prospectus that is designed to express the ideas of Edward Bellamy (1850-1898), author of Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940 - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) (King, Sell & Olding, 1910)
Anti-socialist and anti-democratic dystopia. When women got the vote, the votes of the uneducated led to the election of the Labour Party, the triumph of socialism, and the weakening of the British Empire. The "Author's Note" says that it is partially a sequel to 1906 Ford.
Originally published serially.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Roadtown - Edgar [Stephen] Chambless (1870-1936) (Roadtown Press, 1910)
A cooperative eutopia built as a long, road-like city written as a serious proposal with a considerable amount on how it will be constructed and operate. Cooperative housework and cooking. Cottage industry in which each house has a work room and machines can be purchased or rented. The illustration on the cover shows the structure of the city.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Startling Statements or the Downfall of the Great Republic: Facts and Figures for the People - Ralston J. Markoe (1854-1927) (Np, 1910)
Eutopia. Mostly criticism of contemporary conditions, but the last section (237-95) is a detailed authoritarian eutopia (said to have been written in 1897) stressing efficiency, training, and administrative responsibility with little or no popular participation in government. All “citizens” (but only men) must join the army or navy, and the national games and the national music have a military character
Keywords: Male author; US author

The United Kingdom, Ltd. A Prospectus addressed to the Man in the Street - F[rederick] W[illiam] Hayes (1848-1918) (1910)
Eutopia presented, as the title says, a prospectus for a form of “national cooperation” that will gradually grow until the government owns the land and its resources and operates most businesses.
Keywords: Male author

The Voice in the Rice - Gouverneur Morris [IV] (1876-1953) (Dodd, Mead, 1910)
A hidden country that maintains the culture of an idealized antebellum South, including slavery.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Waste of War - W. G. Bennett (Wisbech Local Peace Association, 1910)
Poem that describes the eutopia possible if the costs of war were devoted to peace. Good clothing, universal education, help for the poor, aged, and ill, the arts science, and labor all rewarded, Christianity.

World Corporation - King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) (New England News Company, 1910)
Non-fiction eutopia. Proposes forming a cooperative to absorb the world's economy and put it on a sound financial basis. See also 1894 and 1924 Gillette Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After the Cataclysm. A Romance of the Age to Come - H[enry] Percy Blanchard (1862-1939) (Cochrane Publishing Company, 1909)
Post-catastrophe religious eutopia that, it is suggested, is the period of the millennium, and it takes place 33 years in the future, which is the traditional age of Christ at the time of the crucifixion. The catastrophe changed the Earth's alignment and its weather patterns producing permanent Spring and natural abundance. No one has to work but everyone helps as needed. Little social organization and people are naturally good. There is a contradiction in that while there appears to be no industry, there are airplanes. The last sentences quote Matthew 22:30 that there is "no marriage or giving in marriage" in heaven (The actual passage is a bit different and says "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the Angels of God in heaven" KJV.)
Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 46-102 with an editor's note on 45.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

An Amazing Revolution and After (George Allen & Sons, 1909)
Evolution to a cooperative eutopia with a stress on the way people were convinced to change. Cooperatives are formed, old age pensions established, railways nationalized, highways built, public provision of legal assistance provided in every town, temperance succeeds, education improves, the state church is disestablished, the House of Lords is occupied by men who have contributed to the Commonwealth, the land law is reformed, and there is universal free trade, home rule, and financial reform. The author calls the system sane socialism.

The Angel of the Earthquake - Frank Morton (1869-1923) (Atlas Press, 1909)
Set in Wellington, New Zealand in 1960. Mostly on the destruction by an earthquake but includes a eutopia based on individualism and personal morality, although with an elite group of vigilantes with a strong leader. The churches are gone, and there is a strong anti-religious thread. No votes for women. No party politics. See also 1911 Morton (2).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

"The Appeal to the Artist [To Professor Patrick Geddes.]" - Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960) (Rose and Vine, 1909)
Poem reflecting the ideas of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) and depicting a eutopia of regionalism.
2nd ed. (London: Elkin Mathews, 1910), 162-67. Rpt. without the subtitle in Victor Branford, Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia (London: Williams and Norgate, 1921), xi-xiii.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Atalanta; or, Twelve Months in the Evening Star - Charles Napier Richards (H. & C. Treacher, 1909)
Venus presented initially in dystopian and then in eutopian terms. Men from Earth visit Venus which is inhabited by humans with a monarchy, and the novel then follows the difficulties of the men from Earth almost like a standard "lost race" novel where there is a struggle between good and bad Venusians. The Earth men bring Christianity to Venus and all ends well.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Beatrice the Sixteenth - [Thomas] [Baty] (1869-1954) (George Bell & Sons, 1909)
While the novel is largely taken up with palace intrigue and conflicts with neighbors, there are eutopian elements in its presentation of an aristocratic society based on slavery and servants (both well treated of course) that is almost entirely female.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author

Captain Tatham of Tatham Island - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) (Gale & Polden, 1909)
Mostly an adventure novel but includes a vague plan for turning an isolated island into a eutopia. Some discussion of alternative ideas.
Rpt. with an added first chapter “The Genesis of the History” as The Island of Galloping Gold. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1916, which was rpt. as Eve’s Island. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1926.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Coming Conflict of Nations; or, The Japanese American War. A Narrative - Ernest Hugh Fitzpatrick (1863-1933) (H.W. Rokker, 1909)
While most of the novel is on the war, the last two chapters (273-306) following the “Anglo-Saxon” victory describe the way the world becomes unified, first through the confederation of the English-speaking nations and then with the development in an International Parliament and free trade.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Comrades; A Story of Social Adventure in California - Thomas [Frederick] Dixon [Jr.] (1864-1946) (Grosset & Dunlap, 1909)
Standard failure of an intentional community, with the founding of a community where no one will do the dirty work followed by infighting and collapse. Middle volume of an anti-socialist trilogy, with the other two being mostly concerned with romance and personal conflicts between the wealthy and reformers. The first volume is The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia. Illus. B[enjamin] West Clinedinst (1859-1931). New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903; and the third volume is The Root of Evil. A Novel. Illus. George Wright [probably George Hand Wright (1872-1951)]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. Also pub. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911, illus. George Wright; and Toronto, ON, Canada: Musson Book Co., 1911, illus. W[illiam] Sherman Potts (1876-1930), but they are the same illus., and the book says printed in New York.
Rpt. New York: Doubleday Page, [1909]
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Divine Seal - Emma Louise Orcutt (C.M. Clark, 1909)
Mostly a lost race adventure set in a future after 2100. Includes, at the beginning, a brief picture of the eutopian future stressing both technology and politics. Atlantis has been discovered, Atlantean records show a rich continent near the North Pole, and an expedition is mounted to find it. Alaska is now warm. The American Republic includes most of North America and has four capitals, including Yu-kon-il-i-a in Alaska. No one can vote who cannot pass a test on the principles of republican government. No one can be elected to office without a certificate of good character. The expedition includes "several professors from Indian and negro colleges" (4). Women hold office. Technologically advanced. The expedition quickly discovers people of the lost country, some of whom are highly civilized and one of whom is evil. The novel then becomes a typical lost race adventure.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Dream of Debs: A Story of Industrial Revolt" - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (The International Socialist Review (Chicago, IL), 1909)
A successful general strike will bring about a better world. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1908 London, "Goliah".
Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1914; in his The Strength of the Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1914), 134-76; in The International Socialist Review 17.7 (January 1917): 389-95, 432-34; in The Bodley Head Jack London. Ed. Arthur Calder Marshall. 3 vols. (London: The Bodley Head, 1963-65), 1: 225-46; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1261-78.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fate of Iciodorum: Being The Story of a City Made Rich By Taxation - David Starr Jordon (1851-1931) (Henry Holt and Co, 1909)
Satire on protectionism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Finding of Mercia - [Harold Northway]] [Robbins] (1874-1973) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1909)
Detailed eutopia inhabited by Puritans. Austere, devoted Christians. No money. State ownership. Mercia equals Mercy Land.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Free Prince and The New World's Laws and A Vision of the Outer World - G[eorge] H[arris] Freeman (J. Ingleson Print, 1909)
Detailed egalitarian eutopia based on equal access to property, particularly land. Part fiction; part non-fiction. The part entitled "A Vision of the Outer World" (31-51) describes eutopias on other planets, including one earthly paradise, a world of immortals, and one where the people achieved world peace after centuries of conflict.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

“The Future in London” - [Joseph Leopold] Ford [Hermann] Madox Hueffer (1873-1939) (In W.W. Hutchings. London Town Past and Present With a Chapter on the Future in London by Ford Madox Hueffer. Profusely Illustrated from Old Prints and from Photographs and Drawings, 1909)
Divided into Futures Probable and Futures Utopian. People will move to the suburbs with good transportation into London. This will lessen traffic and radically reduce pollution. Poor quality housing will be removed, and many parks will be created. The changes will improve human health. Says there is nothing utopian about his proposals.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Glimpse into the Future" (Popular Electricity and the World's Advance (Chicago, IL), 1909)
Technological utopia.  War still exists. Communication with the other planets.

"The Golden-Faced People. A Story of Chinese Conquest of America" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (War Bulletin, no. 1 (July 19, 1909): Reprint no. 3, 1909)
Dystopia. Satire on U.S. race relations seen through the eyes of a white American subservient to the Chinese. See also 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.
Rpt. in The Crisis (November 1914): 36-42; and in The Prose of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed. Dennis Camp (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1988), 1: 85-93.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Red Dragon or the Flaming Red Devil - [Cyrus Reed] [Teed] (1838-1908) (Guiding Star Pub. House, 1909)
Japan and China overrun the earth but ultimately Christianity and astrology win. See also his The Cellular Cosmogony or The Earth a Concave Sphere. Estero, FL: Guiding Star Pub. House, 1905. A community based on Teed's ideas was established in Florida.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In the Grip of the Trusts - J. C. Haig (Methuen & Co., 1909)
Dystopia showing the bad effects of protective tariffs that support monopolies.

John Bull: Socialist - Everett, Frances (Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1909)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia. Financial problems so that pensioners are barely kept alive. Stresses the problems of majority rule such as restrictions on women because men were the majority. Failures by the state lead to it becoming more ruthless. Revolt and a return to capitalism.
Rpt. as by Edward Prince as Wake Up, England! Being the Amazing Story of John Bull--Socialist. Westminster, Eng.: St. Stephen's Press, 1910.

"The Land of the Blow (After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others.)" - Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?) (Collected Works, 1909)
Gulliveriana. The protagonist visits a number of countries which provide the basis for wide-ranging satire, particularly on religion, capitalism, and politics.
Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 89-196; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 32-74. According to Joshi and Schultz "The Land of the Blow" is composed of a number of short stories previously published as follows: "Sons of the Fair Star." San Francisco Examiner (June 10, 1888): 11; "An Interview with Gnarmag-zote" (published as "The Golampians." San Francisco Examiner (November 24, 1889): 11; "The Tamtonians: Some Account of Politics in the Uncanny Islands." San Francisco Examiner (November 11, 1888): 9; "Marooned on Ug." San Francisco Examiner (February 20), 1898): 18; "The War with Wug." San Francisco Examiner (September 11, 1898), 20; "The Dog in Ganewag." New York American (May 12, 1904): 14; "A Conflagration in Gharagarod." Cosmopolitan (New York) (February 1906): 457-58; "An Execution in Batrugia." from "A Letter from Btrugumian." New York American (April 30, 1903): 16; "Small Contributions." Cosmopolitan (New York) (May 1907): 96-97; "The Jumjum of Gokeetle-guk" (published as "Trustland: A Tale of a Traveller"). San Francisco Examiner (November 19, 1899): 15; and "The Kingdom of Tortirra." San Francisco Examiner (April 22, 1888): 12.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Persecution - S[idney] N[ewman] Sedgwick (1872-1941) (Grant Richards, 1909)
A successful Chinese invasion of Europe is possible due to a falling away from God. A religious revival brings the overthrow of the Chinese.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon and Mars. Together with an Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann - James B[radun] Alexander (1831-1914) (Np, 1909)
Presents a variety of pictures of the future. In the main eutopia a reformed government for the United States is shown, which puts more power in the House of Representatives. Strict control of population. People have an instinct to work for the community and to respect others. In one the single tax system is tried and fails. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Machine Stops" - E[dward] M[organ] Forster (1879-1970) (Oxford and Cambridge Review, 1909)
Classic dystopia in which people become dependent on a machine.
Repub. in his The Eternal Moment and Other Stories (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928), 1-61. Rpt. in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 164-95; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 173-98; in his The Machine Stops and Other Stories. Ed. Rod Mengham. Vol. 7 of The Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster (London: André Deutsch, 1997), 87-118, with editor’s notes 187-88; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 50-78 with an editors’ note on 50; illus Chris Bird in AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1]. Ed. Dana Rich (Victor, IA: Obsolete Press, 2014), 127-59; in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 135-74, with an editor’s note on 133; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 35-80.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Morgan Rockefeller's Will; A Romance of 1991-2 - Francis H. Clarke (Clarke-Cree Publishing Company, 1909)
The Rockefeller estate (accumulated for five generations) is donated to the government and is controlled by a paternal brotherhood for the good of the people.
Keywords: US author

The New Columbia or the Re-United States - [George Hamilton] [Phelps] (b. 1854) (New Columbia Publishing Company, 1909)
Eutopia. Public ownership; no private monopolies. Deport all who won't work. United States and Canada united. Get rid of all current money and use labor checks instead. Land cannot be held for speculative purposes, and no rent can be charged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Regime, A.D. 2202 - John Ira Brant (1872-1959) (Cochrane Publishing Company, 1909)
Eutopia brought about by ending competition. Basically, uses the model of 1888 Bellamy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paradise Found and the Society of New Epoch (An Ergocracy) - J. A. Cole M.D. ([Author], 1909)
A detailed eutopia describing a successful community in South America with a stress on cooperation and eugenics. Ergocracy refers to cooperative industrialism.
Keywords: US author

The Peacemakers (A Tale of Love) - Hiram W[allace] Hayes (b. 1858) (Reid, 1909)
Christian utopia. Peace brought about through love. Reciproca is a school based on Christian principles. See also 1921 Hayes.
Keywords: Male author

"The Pills of Joy" - Burnett Gray; H[ugh] C[leland] McKay (1878-1962) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1909)
Chemical pleasure brings dystopia because everyone who takes the pills becomes totally addicted to pleasure. The story ends with the destruction of the machine that produces the pills and the death of the inventor from a mob trying to get more pills.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Press Cuttings: A Topical Sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers, as performed by the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909 - [George] Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (Archibald Constable & Co., 1909)
Satire on women's suffrage, the military, and politics and politicians set three years in the future.
Rpt. in Translations and Tomfooleries. Vol. 18 of The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable & Co., 1930), 129-68; and The Bodley Head Collected Plays With Their Prefaces. Volume III (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodlery Head, 1971), 837-95, which includes “Banned Play. Censor’s Objection to ‘Press Cuttings’” (886-95). Originally published in German translation as “Zeitungsausschnitte.” März (Berlin) (July 1909).
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Real Man - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) (John Long, 1909)
A farce that redoes the material in 1907 Byatt as a group of anarchists whose leader comes to rule Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Reciprocity (Social and Economic) In the Thirtieth Century The Coming Co-operative Age. A Forecast of the World's Future - [Thomas] [Kirwan] (1829-1911) (Cochrane Publishing Company, 1909)
Detailed socialist eutopia brought about by election. Use of eminent domain with restitution. Strong emphasis on vocational or practical education. All religions are dead. Women sit on juries where women are on trial, but juries are not mixed. Must have high physical, mental, and moral qualifications to be allowed to marry; examined by physicians of one's own sex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Reconstructing Eden: "Steve" Crabtree's scheme to eliminate temptation and abolish evil - Howard Louis Conrad (New Eden Pub. Co., 1909)
Humor--presents a eutopia based on eliminating temptation and then criticizes it.
Keywords: Male author

Red England: A Tale of the Socialist Terror (John Milne, 1909)
Anti-socialist dystopia. A successful socialist revolution turns into terror by insisting on complete efficiency.

Redemption - E[phraim] Peterson (Author, 1909)
Proposal for an intentional community with a constitution. City on about 2500 acres plus 5000 acres of agricultural land. All land and property are held in common. No money. No lawyers. Christian but without ministers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rescue of Victoria The Beautiful Nihilist - T[homas] P[atrick] Deegan (H. Hearne & Co, 1909)
A romantic adventure story that includes a proposal on how the rich could help the poor through the establishment of a "Millionaires' Sodality", by which the rich will establish a fund designed to eradicate poverty. The volume ends with the statement that there will be a sequel, but none appears to have been published.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Shanghaied Through Space or A Trip To Mars and Other Psychic Experiences - W. Bronson Taylor (W. Bronson Taylor, 1909)
Eutopia on Mars, which is technically and socially advanced. Food produced industrially. No divorce.
Keywords: Male author

The Soul of the World - Estella Bachman (Equitist Publishing House, 1909)
Single tax eutopia and theosophy. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Female author

Thro' Space - [Clinton A.] [Patten] (New England Druggist Publishing Co., 1909)
All planets are inhabited. Venus is a eutopia, but there is little detail.
Keywords: Male author; US author

To the Poles by Airship or Around the World Endways - Allen Kendrick Wright (1861-1948) (Baumgardt Publishing Co, 1909)
Mostly a rather odd book about flying around the world but includes a fairly vague eutopia after Armageddon (See Revelation 16) that stresses religion and scientific development.
2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1910.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Unknown To-morrow: How the Rich Fared at the Hands of the Poor Together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England - William [Tufnell] Le Queux (1864-1927) (F.V. White & Co, 1909)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia. Marriage and divorce made easy; children are the property of the state. Churches secularized. Ultimately the system fails.
Originally published as “The Red Rage: How the Rich fared at the Hands of the Poor; together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England.” Black & White (London) 38 (July 3 - October 9, 1909): 16-19; 62-65; 100-101; 138-39; 178-79; 218-19; 258-59; 292-93; 328-29; 364-65; 400-01; 436-37; 474-76; 508-09; 544.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Utopian Snapshots - A[rthur] J[ames] Kappele (1876-1944) (Ptd. for the Booksellers by Evans & Hastings, 1909)
Personal reflections on life that the author clearly sees as expressing a eutopia.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Vision of New Clairvaux or Ethical Reconstruction Through combination of Agriculture and Handicraft, under Conditions which exercise Emotion, Sentiment and Imagination, with loyalty to a supreme Ideal - Edward Pearson Pressey (b. 1869) (Sherman, French and Company, 1909)
Intentional community modeled on the vision of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), founder of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux. It is called "an ethical experiment station" (19), and stresses the advantages of country life, handicrafts, and small industries. The author, a Unitarian minister, founded such a community in Montague, Massachusetts in the 1890s.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Votes for Men: A Dialogue" - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) (Cornhill Magazine, 1909)
Satire in which the female Prime Minister argues that men do not want the vote despite huge demonstrations and all the other activities of the women's suffrage movement.
Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: Murray, 1921), 200-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 200-15.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"What Diantha Did" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1909)
The initial development of a eutopia in which a woman creates a for-profit housekeeping business which gradually expands to a complete housing system with professionals doing the cooking, cleaning, and so forth.
Rpt. New York: Charlton, 1910. Rpt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 123-40; and in Carol Farley Kessler’s Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 137-46.
Keywords: Female author; US author

When the Women Reign. 1930 - Jesse Wilson (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1909)
Begins with the reform of the British system set twenty-five  years in the future: temperance, old age pensions, railroads nationalized, disestablishment of the church, reform of education, House of Lords abolished, redistribution of land and money, and reduction of work to six hours a day six days a week for all men. Votes for women turned out of office all those who had achieved this eutopia. Women were corrupted by power and wealth. Presents all the standard anti-feminist arguments. In the end all women are voted out of office.

Where Men Have Walked; A Story of the Lucayos - H. Henry Rhodes (C. M. Clark Publishing Co., 1909)
Lost race novel with a cooperative egalitarian eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

White Australia; or, The Empty North - [George] Randolph Bedford (1868-1941) (Playlab, 1909)
Racist dystopia about the collaboration between China and Japan to invade Australia, supported by one traitorous Australian. Most of the play is about the actual invasion, which is initially successful, as seen through the eyes of various white Australians and two loyal Aboriginals. The Australians ultimately repulse the invasion by using an airship developed by an Australian engineer.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Zarlah, the Martian - R[obert] Norman Grisewood (1876-1923) (R. F. Fenno, 1909)
Eutopia. Technologically and ethically advanced civilization on Mars. World government, universal language. Much romance and adventure.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophical and Practical Basis of Religion in the Aquarian Age of the World. Transcribed from the Akashic Records - [Levi H.] [Dowling] (1844-1911) (C.F. Cazenove, 1908)
New Age eutopia in the form of a Holy Book that rewrites the Bible and has Jesus also in India Tibet, Persia, Assyria, Greece, and Egypt. The Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (ACCU) is based on its teachings.
There are many editions with slight variations in the title. A recent edition has the title as The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophical and Practical Basis of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal. Transcribed from the book of God’s Remembrances known as The Akashic Records. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2009. It is based on London: L.N. Fowler/Los Angeles, CA: E.S. Dowling, 1911, which has a map as a frontispiece that is not in the reprint. The “Introduction” to the 1988 ed. by Eva S. Dowling, Ph.D. Scribe to the Messenger (3-13) gives the title as The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Aunt Mary's Pie Plant" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (Woman's Home Companion, 1908)
Women establish businesses and turn a small town into a eutopia.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 117-28.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Australia 1960" - Kevin Ryan (Sub-Senior) (Our Alma Mater (St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, NSW, Australia), 1908)
Very brief eutopian description of a future Australia following on the same author's "Australia, 1909" (103-104), which proposes setting up factories to tin rabbits, abolishing all the state legislatures, eliminating pay for legislators, and damming all rivers. The result is shown in the eutopian fragment, which describes a flourishing irrigated, agriculture country and a thriving Sydney.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

A Captain of Industry - Enoch Johnson (C.M. Clark Publishing Co, 1908)
Eutopia. Most of the novel is on the industrial strife that precedes the reform that produces the eutopia, which is based on the workers participating in the profits of the company, earning more as it does and less as it does.
Keywords: Male author

"The Commonwealth Crisis" - [Frank Ignatius] [Fox] (1874-1960) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1908)
The Japanese invade Australia and establish a dystopia in the North. Set in 1922, the Japanese have been defeated and Australia has recovered, although Japan still occupies a small part of the North. The story ends by calling for white settlement of the North and says that a white Christian Australia is essential for the survival of Christian civilization.
Rpt. as The Australian Crisis. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson & Co., 1909.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; UK author

"A Conservative Utopia" - R. F. P. (The Eagle (St. John's College, Cambridge, Eng.), 1908)
Poem, possibly satirical, presenting a conservative position.

The Coup D'Etat of 1961" - Henry Dwight Sedgwick [III] (1861-1957) (The New American Type and Other Essays, 1908)
Dystopia of rampant capitalism that results in an effective monarchy in the U.S.
Rpt. American Utopias. Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Curious Fragment" - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (Town Topics, 1908)
Dystopia. Depicts an extreme capitalist system in which workers are slaves. For example, teaching a worker to read is a serious offence, as it was regarding slaves in many states in the U.S. South prior to the Civil War. See also 1907 London, 1908 London, "Goliah", and 1909 London.
Rpt. in his When God Laughs and Other Stories (New York: Macmillan, 1911), 257-75; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 79-86 with an editor's note on 79;  in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1279-86.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Eve and the Evangelist; A Romance of A.D. 2108 - Harry E. Rice (The Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1908)
The Brotherhood of Man rules North America. Christianity. Free education through university. Blacks are in the process of relocating to Liberia. All laws passed by initiative and referendum. Technologically advanced with flight; a submarine tube between Britain and the continent; an electric typewriter that could be connected to another on another continent; trains that reach 300 mph, and other such advances.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Geyserland; Empiricisms in Social Reform. Being Data and Observations Recorded By the Late Mark Stubble, M.D., Ph.D. [A Tentative Edition] - Richard Hatfield, ed. [written by] (b. 1853) (Ptd. for Richard Hatfield, 1908)
Eutopia. No money. All property common. Eugenics with no marriage or families. Stress on prudential restraint. Elders or a Council of Doctors administers the island; there is also a representative government. Jobs are rotated. Occupation and status revealed by dress. Much of the text is composed of lectures to the reader.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Goliah" - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (The Red Magazine, 1908)
Socialist eutopia in which all labor is gradually abolished. It is brought about by a man with a powerful weapon who forces individuals and countries to accept his dictates. See also 1907 London, 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, and 1909 London.
Rpt. in The Bookman (New York) 30.6 (February 1910): 620-32; in his Revolution and Other Essays (London: William Heinemann, 1910), 73-116; as Goliah: A Utopian Essay. Berkeley, CA: Thorp Springs Press, [1973]; in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 87-108 with an editor's note on 87; in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged; and in The Complete Short Stories of Jack London. Ed. Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), 2: 1201-21.
Keywords: Male author; US author

How England Was Saved; History of the Years 1910-1925 - Agricola [pseud.] (Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1908)
The eutopia that is possible through a series of reforms, particularly in land use and the application of science to agriculture. Argues that to bring about change, it is necessary for them to be considered outside the realm of party politics. As a result, party politics is only allowed four days a month, and government is essentially by a non-political ministry. The Board of Agriculture was reconstituted as the Agricultural Department with a statistical department, a research bureau, and other bureaus studying conditions in England and throughout the world. Experimental Farming Stations were established in every county. Farming as a business. Intensive farming. Heavy use of artificial fertilizer. Written as from 1930.

How the Vote Was Won. Produced for the First Time at the Royalty Theatre, London, April 13, 1909 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952); [Christabel] [Marshall] (ca. 1875-1960) (Edith Craig, 1908)
Successful general strike of all women who do not have the means to support themselves. Those who are refused support by their male relatives (most of them) go on relief.
U.S. ed. as How the Vote Was Won. A Play on One Act. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing Company, 1910. Rpt. in How the Vote Was Won and Other Suffragette Plays (London: Methuen, 1985), 23-33, with production notes by Carole Hayman (19-21); and in The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays. Ed. Naomi Paxton (London: Methuen, 2013), 1-28. The play is best known in this version, but it originated as “How the Vote Was Won (Some Short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s Political History of the Twentieth Century published in the Year 2007 A.D.).” By Cicely [Mary] Hamilton. Woman’s Franchise, no. 20 (November 14, 1907): 227-28, which was published separately as How the Vote Was Won (Some short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s ‘Political History of the Twentieth Century,’ published in the year 2008 A.D.). [London]: Women’s Writers’ Suffrage League, [1908].
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Last Generation: A Story of the Future - James [Herman] Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) (New Age Press, 1908)
Dystopia produced by trying to achieve eutopia. People stopped producing children in order to live better. Horrors of the last generation.
Rpt. in his Collected Prose (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), 1-32; rpt. (London: William Heinemann, 1922), 1-32; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 46-64, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 44-45. Expanded version of a story first published in his privately printed The Best Man. Eights Weeks, 1906. Oxford: np, 1906), 9-13.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Legions of the Dawn. A Novel - [G. H.] [Davis] (T. Fisher Unwin, 1908)
Gender-role reversal set in a hidden area of Africa with some satire but presented somewhat more positively than most such fiction in that one of the men chooses to stay.
Rpt. in Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction. Ed. Kate Macdonald. Volume 2 Fictions of a Feminist Future. Ed. Kate Macdonald (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 1-67 with “Commentary on the Texts” (267-74, 285) and “Editorial Notes” (287-96).
Keywords: UK author

The Liberators; A Story of Future American Politics - Isaac N. Stevens (1858-1920) (B.W. Dodge & Company, 1908)
Eutopia based on the nationalization of utilities and railroads. The attention of the book focuses on one individual who fights throughout the entire time for these changes, including battles in the streets and almost class war. The ultimate conversion of one of the capitalists due to the love of his daughter for this man is the key to getting the railroad bill passed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Light of Centuries: The Forecast of a Practical Millennium. Peace Progress Prosperity Will Perfect Present Order. Dangers and Fallacies of both Socialism and Capitalism Exposed - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Century Publishing Co., 1908)
1908 Rosewater, Frank (1856-1934). Light of Centuries: The Forecast of a Practical Millennium. Peace Progress Prosperity Will Perfect Present Order. Dangers and Fallacies of both Socialism and Capitalism Exposed. Chicago, IL: Century Publishing Co. NN Proposes what he calls “Centrism,” a two-money system, one used by buyers the other by sellers, which is given when receiving money. The system will require that money be spent. No usury. See also 1894, 1908 Rosewater, The Making of a Millennium, 1917, 1920, and 1924 Rosewater.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Lord of Lands - [Percival] Ramsey Benson (Henry Holt & Co, 1908)
Formation of an intentional community for a group of poor people from a city with the usual trials and tribulations.
Keywords: Male author

The Making of a Millennium; The Story of a Millennial Realm and Its Laws - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Century Publishing Company, 1908)
Eutopia named Temploria with a new monetary system. See also 1894, 1908 Rosewater, Light of Centuries, 1917, 1920, and 1924 Rosewater.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Man's Machine-Made Millennium" - Hudson Maxim (1853-1927) (Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1908)
Technological eutopia based on the discovery of a method of producing unlimited power. Every want will be filled by pressing a button, except for human companionship and sympathy. No one will need to work except as recreation. No disease. Cities will be replaced by one immense building.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Mystery of the North Pole - Mrs. C. A. Scrymsour Nichol (1830-1916) (Francis Griffiths, 1908)
Christian eutopia at the North Pole.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Nutopia; or, Nineteen-Twenty One - Edward Omen [pseud?] (Henry J. Drane, 1908)
Eutopia. Women rule and improve Britain. All advancement by merit through government exams. Workers get shares in companies until they own them.

A Pilgrim's Progress in Other Worlds; Recounting the Wonderful Adventures of Ulysum Storries and His Discovery of the Lost Star "Eden" - [Marie Antoinette Parish Hough] Martin (1840-1915) (Mayhew Publishing Company, 1908)
Spiritualism. Immature, crude Earthman travels around the planets. Most planets advanced spiritually and socially beyond Earth. The advance is largely due to the improved status of women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Planetary Journeys and Earthly Sketches - George Raffalovich (1880-1958) (Arnold Fairbairns, 1908)
Four connected stories. "A Trip to Another Planet" is about a vaguely described eutopia with no prejudice, a single language, no politics or religion, no marriage and few women or children. "On the Loose" renews contact with the visitors from another planet and is mostly a critique of the Earth. In "The Hardy Annual" another planet is visited that is inhabited by the Greek Empedocles, his descendants, and beings he has created. "The Windmillers" describes the society of that planet, which stresses science and mutual respect. The other stories, two of which were also published in New Age, are not utopian.
New ed. as On the Loose (London: Publishing Office of the Equinox, [1910]), 1-52. Collection of stories, the first four of which were originally published in New Age--“A Trip to a Planet” (1-16) in no. 692 (ns 2.7) (December 14, 1907): 132-33; “On the Loose” (17-30) in no. 695 (ns 2.10) (January 4, 1908): 192-93; “The Hardy Annual” (31-41) in no. 698 (ns 2.13) (January 25, 1908): 252-53); and “The Windmillers” (42-52) as “The Wind-Millers” no. 702 (ns 2.17) (February 22, 1908) 331-32.
Keywords: French author; Male author; UK author; US author

"The Princess Steel" - W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1858-1963) (PMLA, 1908)
Fantastic story that is a critique of capitalism, trust building, and the exploitation of African Americans and Africans.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Prodigal City - Tristam Coutts (Greening & Co., 1908)
Anti-socialist novel depicting a model town and its failure.
Keywords: Male author

The Realm of Light - [John] [Stevens] (Reid Publishing Company, 1908)
An isolated socialist eutopia in Africa. Class system based on merit with everyone starting as workers. Socialism possible due to religion.
Keywords: Male author

The Rev. John Smith Died--and Went to Jupiter via Hell (The Juno Society, 1908)
A good minister appears to die and first visits Hell, where Satanita, the Queen of Hell, shows him around while expounding Christian doctrine and noting that if ministers advocated change rather than saying that the established system had to be accepted, Hell would not be so crowded. He then moves on the Jupiter, which is a eutopia. There is no greed, money, competition, or alcohol. Science and commonsense are emphasized. No churches.

The Singular Republic - W[illiam] H[enry] Koebel (1872-1923) (Francis Griffiths, 1908)
The failure of an attempt to establish a utopian community called Neuvonie in South America.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Smoky God or A Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George Emerson (1856-1918) (Forbes & Co., 1908)
A lost race eutopia of giants who live 600 to 800 years in the center of the earth. The basis is a cloud of electricity ("the smoky god") that drives an advanced technology. Also, the vegetation is luxurious, and there is a thriving agricultural economy.
Rpt. New York: Fieldcrest Publishing Co., 1964; and Mundelin, IL: Palmer Publications, 1965; rpt. Pomeroy, WA: Health Research, [1965].
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Soldier of the Future - W[illiam] J[ames] Dawson (1854-1928) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1908)
The protagonist, a minister, dreams of the Second Coming of Christ. Most of the novel is on the problem of poverty, but it ends with the reformation of a few men, the Second Coming, and the beginnings of a new non-denominational Christianity.
U.S. ed. New York: F.H. Revell, [1908].
Keywords: Male author

A Strange Land - [Jane] [Barlow] (1857-1917) (Hutchinson & Co, 1908)
Fantasy and eutopia depicting an isolated island somewhere in Southeast Asia. There are no animals, birds, or insects. Plants do not die a lingering death but simply disappear in an instant. Something of an Arcadia physically but with a degree of technology such as gas and electricity. The protagonist is an accomplished musician, and the advanced people of the island fear music because it always precedes the disappearance/death of someone.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

"Suffrage Island" - Wardle, Jane (The Red Magazine, 1908)
Anti-feminist satire.
Keywords: Female author

Toronto in 1928 - Frederick Nelson (National Business Methods & Publishing Co, 1908)
A fictional forecast describing Toronto as a modern city. Regularly notes fire and safety improvements. The University of Toronto had expanded significantly and absorbed much of the area around it for academic buildings, faculty housing, sports grounds, and student residences (mostly in boarding houses). Immigrants and the poorest Canadians had created a slum, similar to those found in other modern cities. There were also Chinese and Jewish sections of the city.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A Trip to Hades. Being the substance of a Lecture delivered - H. M. Fitzgerald (Ptd. and Pub. for the Editor of "Commonweal" by the New Zealand Times, 1908)
Satire in which Hades is a socialist eutopia, and Heaven is undergoing a revolution.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The Triumph of Socialism and How It Succeeded - John D[awson] Mayne (1828-1917) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1908)
Anti-socialist dystopia. The socialists win the 1912 election, establish a republic and nationalize industry while raising parliamentary pay. This proves to be a disaster. Cuts in the military leads Germany to invade, but the socialists are overthrown, and Germany is defeated by a reinvigorated Britain.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

A Voyage in the Motive Ship Pelican to the North Pole. Captain Solomon, Commander - E. D. Eldridge (Record Publishing Co, 1908)
The motive ship is a form of airplane which flew from the U.S. to the North Pole, where there is a eutopian city. Technologically advanced. Stress on the beauty and grandeur of the city. People live to an average age of 133 with some living to over 200; this is based on moderation. Much adventure.
Keywords: US author

When the Saints are Gone - Constancia Serjeant (John Long, 1908)
The novel begins with a critique of the Anglican church and its neglect of the poor, even among its own clergy, while the church hierarchy lives in luxury. All the saved are "raptured" from the world (see 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17), and a dystopia is created by the Antichrist. Christ returns on the last pages.
Keywords: Female author

When Things Were Doing - C[harles] A[llen] Steere (Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1908)
Socialist eutopia. Much of the novel is concerned with the initial revolution, which is simple and bloodless because almost all the workers are already socialists. Rapid transformation of the United States as a result of new technology, which is described in detail, and hard work.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Woman's Aye and Nay - [Adelina Georgina] [Kingscote] (d. 1908) (John Long, 1908)
Satire in which votes for women are a disaster.
Keywords: Female author

"The Altrurian Era" - Albert Bancroft Firmin (Altruria, 1907)
Series of standard reforms of the time such as monopolies taken over by the government, referendum, recall, and initiative. Set in 2007.
Keywords: Male author

Behold the Days to Come: A Fancy in Christian Politics - James [Granville] Adderley (1861-1942) (Methuen, 1907)
Eutopia of Christian Socialism that depicts a Garden City. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Celestia - Rev. D. Lull (Reliance Trading Company, 1907)
Mostly romance but presents the foundations for a eutopia based on religion and education.

The Demetrian - [Edmond] [Kelly] (1851-1909) (Brentano's, 1907)
Romance and adventure set in a collectivist eutopia with problems in 2004. All land owned by the state. No city versus country division; people changed residences from time to time and do physical as well as mental labor. Classical Greek culture plus Christianity. Political parties organized around principles with the main parties being the conservatives who support the current system and the radicals who want to reestablish private property. Eugenics. The novel focuses on the love between a man and a woman who had been “selected” to marry someone chosen by the Cult of Demeter, the consequences of which brought about violence and almost a revolution. The author also wrote Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not, What It Is, and How It May Come. Ed. Florence Kelly. New York: Longman, Green, 1910. In the section “What Socialism Is” (202-411) describes in detail the utopia that socialism could become including a lengthy discussion of the Farm Colonies (263-277) that play an important role in Demetrian. The author was a lawyer who spent most of his life in Europe and was, at his death, Lecturer on Municipal Government at Columbia University. Shortly before his death, he was planning to join Upton Sinclair’s (1878-1968) Helicon Hall community in New Jersey. The Penn State copy includes a photocopy of an excerpt from the chapter on Kelly in James Gilbert, “Edmond Kelly and the Socialism of Order.” Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in American, 1880-1940 (Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 125-158, 301-303.
UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dust which is God; An Undimensional Adventure - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) (Samurai Press, 1907)
Eutopia of evolution and religion. A man is shown the First, Second, and Third Worlds, which are stages of human evolution, with the First World the beginning of consciousness, the Second World the contemporary world, and the Third World the eutopia to which evolution is tending. In the Third World friction has been overcome and humanity has evolved wings.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Elixir of Life - William [Arthur] Satchell (1861-1942) (Chapman & Hall, 1907)
Various themes, but one is building a good society on an isolated island after a shipwreck. Stress on the need for authority.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

An Episode in Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension. To Which Is Added A Outline of the History of UNÆA - C[harles] H[oward] Hinton (1853-1907) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1907)
Satire on contemporary England set in Flatland (See 1884 Abbott) or Astria, as it is called here, which is divided between the savage Scythians and the civilized Unæans, who are the focus of the novel.
Keywords: English author; US author

"Every-day Life in a Socialist State" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Christian Commonwealth, 1907)
Eutopia as described in the title stressing education, the home and family, and work.
Rpt. in "Notes of the Week." New Age 2.5 (November 30, 1907): 84.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Extracts from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven Taken from His Own Ms" - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) (Harper's Monthly Magazine (New York), 1907)
Satire on heaven as eutopia.
Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909; and Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996. Rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” In The Speculative Fiction of Mark Twain (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2018), 123-74. Editions with additional materials can be found in his Report from Paradise. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952, which includes “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (1-83), “Letter from the Recording Angel” (84-94), “Report from Paradise Introduction” by Dixon Wecter (ix-xxv), and drawings by Charles Locke; and Ray Browne, ed. Mark Twain’s Quarrel with Heaven: “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” and Other Sketches. New Haven, CT: College and University Press, 1970, which includes an “Introduction” by Browne (11-37), “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” (39-110), which is based on the manuscript in the Twain papers at the University of California, Berkeley, “The Late Reverend Sam Jones’s Reception in Heaven” (111-16), with the note “Not published--forbidden by Mrs. Clemens.--S.L.C., “Mental Telegraphy” (117-19), and two brief appendices. This version rpt. as “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” in The Science Fiction of Mark Twain. Ed. David Ketterer (Hartford, CT: Archon Books, 1984), 14-58; book rpt. as Mark Twain, Tales of Wonder. Ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 14-58.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Flight of Icarus - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) (Sisley's Ltd., 1907)
An apostate Jew with magical powers rules the world. See also 1909 Byatt.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Hidden Country" - [Janet] Syrett (1865-1943) (Our Jabberwock (London), 1907)
A story for children about the Kingdom of Progressia, which is based on rationality, equality, and freedom but has no fantasy, color, trees, grass, birds, and so forth. Children have no toys. The King and Queen live in a house the same as everyone else and must hold down regular jobs like everyone else. The Fairy Morgana creates a fairy tale setting in the center of the city that only believers can see. Conflict arises between those who can see it and those who can't, and they divide into two cities.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Immortal Light - John Mastin F.S.A. Scot. F.L.S., F.C.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., R.B.A. (1865-1932) (Cassell, 1907)
The life of reincarnated souls in an underground eutopia. Well developed people both physically and mentally. Water provides all the nourishment needed. Advanced technology, particularly in the use of glass and electricity. Egalitarian. See also 1906 Mastin.
Rpt. London Charles Griffin & Co., [ca 1910]. The rpt. has the publisher as stated on the title page but Selfridge on the spine.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Industrial Republic; A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1907)
Socialist eutopia brought about by the vote rather than revolution. Industries nationalized. Permanent employment. No servants. Simpler life; no luxuries. No private schools. Cooperative farms. Includes a description of the Helicon Home Colony in Englewood, NJ, where the author lived while writing the book.
U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1907.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Iron Heel - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (Macmillan, 1907)
Primarily an anti-capitalist dystopia stressing the struggle against capitalism and the defeat of the revolution. The text, which is written as an account of the struggle by a participant, is accompanied by a "Foreword" and footnotes purporting to have been written seven centuries in the future in 419 B.O.M. (Brotherhood of Man) when a eutopia had finally been established. See also 1908 London “A Curious Fragment”, 1908 London “Goliah”, and 1909 London.
Rpt. New York: The Regent Press, [1913]; New York: Sagamore Press, 1957; London: Arco, 1966; London: Journeyman Press, 1974; Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, [1980], with an introduction by H. Bruce Franklin (i-vi); Edinburgh, Scot.: Rebel, Inc., 1999; ed. Jonathan Auerbach. New York: Penguin Books, 2006; and in his Novels and Social Writings (New York: Library of America, 1982), 315-553. “The Iron Heel Chapter 23” was rpt. in The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution. Ed. Jonah Raskin (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), 192-206. Most sources give 1908 as the date of publication, but the copy at the British Library is clearly dated 1907 on both the title and copyright pages. This is considered to be a copy filed for copyright with the first published edition being 1908.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Knight of the Holy Ghost - Edith Searle Grossmann (1863-1931) (Watts & Co, 1907)
Describes the establishment in Australia of a communal settlement of women and, a little later, an associated Brotherhood of Men. Successful reaction against women's rights. Strong prohibition message. See also her In Revolt. London & Sydney: Eden, Remington & Co., 1893 (ATL, L), to which this is a sequel of sorts.
Rpt. as Hermione: A Knight of the Holy Ghost [A Novel of the Woman Movement at the head of the title]. London: Watts & Co., 1908.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female author

The Light of Mars: An Extraordinary Communication - Will[iam] Ford (Ptd. for the Proprietor by the Co-operative Printing Works, 1907)
A conversation with a man from Mars, who lectures the man from Earth on the failings of Earth and describes a eutopian Mars. Earth is primarily faulted for its religious superstitions, its class system, and the way it chooses its leaders. Mars stresses reason/knowledge, has no money and no competition, is egalitarian (including economic, gender, and racial equality), is spiritually advanced and can communicate with the dead, and has evolved past war. Politically it is described as scientific anarchism and has evolved past socialism, although socialism is described as better than the Earth's competitive capitalism.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Limit of Wealth - Alfred L. Hutchinson (Macmillan, 1907)
Eutopia in which a limit on wealth is the solution to all social problems. Stresses morality.
Keywords: Male author

Lord of the World - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1907)
Armageddon (See Revelation 16) after split between secular humanism and the Roman Catholic Church. See 1911 Benson for an alternative future.
Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908; New York: Arno Press, 1975; South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2001; and in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 101-481, with a brief note by the editor (97-99).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Love Hath Wings. Time: 2007" - Henry Fletcher (1856-1932) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1907)
Eugenic marriage laws enforced by the Sydney Marriage Bureau of the Co-operative Commonwealth in conflict with love. Hygienic clothes for all. Notes that for all the control of marriage, most people had false teeth and had to wear glasses.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Major Barbara" - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) (John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara: also How he Lied to Her Husband, 1907)
While the play's focus is elsewhere, Act III, Scene ii includes a factory town eutopia called Percivale St. Andrews, which includes excellent facilities and a pension system.
Rev. in The Works of Bernard Shaw (London: Constable, 1930), 11: 249-350, with his Preface “First Aid to Critics” (205-47). Rpt. in The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw. Collected Plays With Their Prefaces (London: Max Reinhardt The Bodley Head, 1971), 3: 67-200 with the “Preface” with its 1933 “Postscript” (15-63); as Major Barbara: Definitive Text. Ed. Nicholas Grene. London: Methuen, 2008 with the “Preface” (133-67). The “Preface” is rpt. in his The Complete Prefaces Volume 1: 1889-1913. Ed. Dan H. Laurence and Daniel J. Leary (London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1993), 245-77.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Marriage Lease; The Story of a Social Experiment - [Francis] Frank Frankfort Thomas Moore (1855-1931) (Hutchinson, 1907)
Flawed utopia with considerable satire. A wealthy man decides to establish a eutopia and purchases a small, mostly abandoned island called Azalea and populates it with selected people, with the willingness to work the major qualification. It was very successful, but a proposal was adopted for a limited-term marriage contract, and this was a failure.
U.S. ed. as A Trial Marriage. New York: Empire Book Co., [1907].
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; Northern Ireland author

The Master Beast; Being a True Account of the Ruthless Tyranny Inflicted on the British People by Socialism A.D. 1888-2020 - Horace W[ykeham] Newte (1870-1949) (Rebman Ltd, 1907)
Anti-socialist dystopia.
Repub. as The Red Rosette. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1913]. 2nd ed. as The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism. London: Holden & Hardingham, Ltd., [1919].
Keywords: English author; Male author

Maud Muller's Ministry or The Claims of Christian Socialism - Rev. James Lawrenson Smiley (Np, 1907)
Presents part of the process of the transition to 1888 Bellamy's future and the arguments for it.
Keywords: Male author

The Message - A[lec] J[ohn] Dawson (1872-1951) (E. Grant Richards, 1907)
Germany successfully invades Britain. In a fairly short period of time and with the help of people from the colonies, Britain is converted to Christian duty and the simple life, defeats the Germans in Britain, and then defeats Germany everywhere in the world. The text is written from the perspective of the future eutopia of Christian duty and simplicity. An Imperial State and Imperial Parliament are formed, and the British Empire and the United States form an economic and military alliance.
U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Dana, Estes. [1907]. Excerpt rpt. in The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Ed. I.F. Clarke (Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1997), 339-56.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"My Utopia" - Cecil [Edward] Chesterton (1879-1918) (The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, and Art, 1907)
A non-fiction description of his eutopia stressing socialism, nationality, religion, festivity, the family, and a fairly conservative gender equality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Proposals for a Voluntary Nobility (Samurai Press, 1907)
Development of the idea of the samurai from 1904-05 Wells.

The Soldiers of the Common Good. Part II, The Soldiers in a Melbourne Bank Parlour (Fraser & Morphet for the Malvern Division of the Soldiers of the Common Good, 1907)
Christian eutopia. Lists Part I. The Soldiers in the Market Place and Part III. The Soldiers in the City Council Chambers (preparing for the press) and says to contact a Mr. H. Bell, Deakin St., Malvern.
Keywords: Australian author

Through the Eye of the Needle; A Romance with an Introduction - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) (Harper and Bros., 1907)
Sequel to 1894 Howells describing an altruistic Arcadian eutopia. The "Introduction" critiques the picture of the U.S. presented in the first volume by the man from Altruria and suggests that the depiction of Altruria in this volume presents a flawed utopia.
Part I had been originally published as the last six (except for part of “Letter IX”) of “Letters of An Altrurian Traveller.” The Cosmopolitan 16 - 17 (April - September 1894): 697-704 with the subtitle “How People live in a Plutocratic City”; 46-58 with the subtitle “Plutocratic Housing”; 221-28 with the subtitle “Dinner, Very Informally”; 352-59 with the subtitle “The Selling and Giving of Dinners”; 495-99 with the subtitle “An Altruistic Plutocrat”; and 610-18 with the subtitle “A Plutocratic Triumph.” The first two letters 16 (November - December 1893): 110-16, 218-32 were first rpt. in Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94). Ed. Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Fascimiles & Reprints, 1961, which includes all the letters. Letters III, IV, V and part of IX became essays in his Impressions and Experiences. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Critical ed. as The Altrurian Romances. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. Text Established by Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 265-442.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Tyranny - James Blyth (1864-1933) (William Heinemann, 1907)
Dystopia. A tyrant rules Britain and war with Germany leads to a mass uprising.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Utopia" - E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924) (The New Age: An Independent Review of Politics, Literature, and Art, 1907)
A short poem that compares contemporary life to the possibility of eutopia. See also 1906 Nesbit.
Keywords: English author; Female author

What Might Have Been; The Story of a Social War - [Ernest Bramah] [Smith] (1868-1942) (John Murray, 1907)
Anti-socialist dystopia. Street names were changed to codes in the name of efficiency. The upper classes revolt, restore capitalism, and everybody is better off.
Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2017, with an “Introduction. The History of a Novel” by Jeremy Hawhorn (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (330-32), and “Works by Ernest Brahman” (329-34). An abridged ed. entitled The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1909] omitted the “Preface” and Chapter III, rearranges the order of other chapters, and makes other internal changes. U.S. ed. of the abridged ed. Atlanta, GA: Specular Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Dennis Jencke (i-iv) and a “Glossary” [287-91). L, NLS
Keywords: English author; Male author

When Theodore is King. Extracts Taken From a Complete Account of the New Declaration of the Change From the United States of America To the United Kingdom of America and the Establishing of Theodore on the Throne - [Wayland] [Spaulding] (1850-1918) (Chauncey Holt, 1907)
Detailed egalitarian eutopia. Class conflict followed by a peaceful revolution and the establishment of a monarchy that creates economic and racial equality. The wives and daughters of the rich supported the changes and that is what tipped the balance in support of a peaceful revolution.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Woman's Utopia" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (The Times Magazine, 1907)
A feminist eutopia with Gilman writing "Now is the time for practical utopias" (Kessler 135). The eutopia was brought about through a new religion with a social conscience and, even more, by women no longer being treated as inferiors and becoming involved in politics and the work force. Radical improvement of the environment. Cooperative housekeeping.
To be continued but not. An additional chapter can be found in the Gilman Collection at Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA). Rpt., including the first publication of the additional chapter, in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 133-74 with an editor's note on 131-32.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A.D. 2006. A Romance of Australia" - Louis de Faix [pseud.] (The British-Australasian (London), 1906)
Britain has degenerated and Australia is flourishing under a combination of private enterprise and state socialism. Racist. Foreigners are restricted.

An Anglo-American Alliance. A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future - Gregory Casparian (1856-1942) (Mayflower Presses, 1906)
Eutopia that includes a wide variety of reforms. Odd, in that the main character begins as a woman and becomes a man. Co-education had been abandoned. Women's Clubs are a vehicle to bring about reform but vote to not be involved in politics. Central Africa colonized by the poor and homeless from Britain and the U.S. An American penal colony is established on an island in the Philippines. See https://gizmodo.com/the-first-lesbian-science-fiction-novel-published-in-1-5847805.
Keywords: Armenian author; Male author; US author

As It Is In Heaven - Mary Sparkes Wheeler (1835-1919). (Universal Book and Bible House, 1906)
Heaven as eutopia.
Also published as by One of the Redeemed [pseud.] (Mary Sparks Wheeler). Illus. Philadelphia, PA: P.W. Ziegler Co., 1906.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Balmanno; The City of Our Quest and Its Social Problems (Alexander Gardner, 1906)
Christian city eutopia combining urban and rural, different classes living near each other. Factories are away from the city. Established through a wealthy man deciding to use his estate to establish a suburban eutopia. Profit sharing.
Some copies have Paisley, Scot.: Alexander Gardner /London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.

The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills - John Trotwood Moore (1858-1929) (The John C. Winston Co., 1906)
A southern preacher becomes concerned with labor conditions, and, while most of the novel is about the problems, the last chapter (633-44) has him building a cotton mill owned by the workers and transforming the town into a eutopia with no child labor, a library and school, and every mill worker having a home. Since the author was an apologist for the South and blatantly racist, the good society only applied to white Americans.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Burden of Troisilia" - T. Evan Jacob (Westminster Review, 1906)
Anti-labor satire. Labor takes over, establishes a government, and raises taxes.
Keywords: Male author

The City That Lieth Four-Square or Things Above - Kummer, Alfred (Mayhew Publishing Co, 1906)
Heaven as eutopia. Purports to be non-fiction.
Keywords: Male author

Decimon Hûŷdas: A Romance of Mars. A Story of actual experiences in Ento (Mars) many centuries ago given to the Psychic Sara Weiss and by her transcribed under the editorial direction of Spirit Carl De L'Ester - Sara Weiss (d. 1904) (Austin Publishing Co, 1906)
Story of life on Mars related to 1903 Weiss.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Discriminators - [J. Hugh] [Davies] (Probable author) (R.A. Thompson & Co, 1906)
Reform tract in the form of a novel, much of which concerns wreck of a Welsh ship on the Australian coast and a young woman held captive by Aborigines. This takes up the first half of the novel; the second half is largely speeches. Imperial cooperation. Industrial homes for the unemployed. Preferential trade, which refers to protecting workers and industries from cheap foreign labor and limiting imports. Penal reform. Dedicated to Right Hon. Richard J. Seddon, P.C. LL.D., Prime Minister of New Zealand.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Further Surprising Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon and then Captain of several Ships) in Topsy-Turvy Isle - [Elliott E.] [Mills] (1881-1956) (Alden & Co, 1906)
Satire on contemporary English politics and manners.
Another copy has the publisher as Oxford, Eng.: Alden & Co., Ltd., Bocardo Press/London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great Weather Syndicate - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (F.V. White, 1906)
Weather is controlled initially for political purposes, but it is then controlled to improve life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hortense: A Study of the Future. A Romance - Lancelot Lance [pseud.] (Sands & McDougall, 1906)
The novel begins with the discovery of a simple, pastoral community founded on an isolated island after a shipwreck. The novel continues by following the adventures of some of the members of the community and the man who discovered it after they leave the island; much of it is a love story. Most of the novel takes place in Australia with some reference to New Zealand.

The Land of Nison - [Charles Percy] [Sanger] (1871-1930) (C.W. Daniel, 1906)
Nison means no sin and generally the language is simply the reversal of letters. Rule of wisdom. Few institutions. Women are considered to be inferior to men.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Looking Forward; The Phenomenal Progress of Electricity in 1912 - H[arry] W. Hillman (b. 1870) (Valley View Publishing Company, 1906)
Eutopia by 1912 through cooperation and electricity. Based on 1888 Bellamy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Made in His Image - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) (Hutchinson and Company, 1906)
The establishment of slavery in England and how Christianity overcomes it.
U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Missing Empire: A Tale of the “Kittatinnies” - A[lphonso] M[oser] Gher (b. 1858) (Np, 1906)
Begins with a vision of a peaceful world ruled by a queen who is fair to everyone. Her followers spread throughout the world bringing at least temporary peace. The stress of the book is on motherhood and home life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Plan of Laughing Land. A Money Back Book - W. Costley (World Press, 1906)
Detailed socialist eutopia. All children are taught political economy. No waste of any sort and land not used for another purpose is planted with trees that produce nuts that can be eaten or fed to animals. A tree is planted every time a child is born, and the child is taught to care for it. Details on housing and affiliated public facilities. Details on agriculture. Every child is taught practical work, with traditional gender divisions, and everyone does some such work. Money in the form of labor checks and goods cost the amount of labor put into them.
Rev. ed. Oakland, CA: B.W. Costley, [1921?] which has an additional subtitle on the cover--The Science of Political Economy in a Nut Shell. Looking Forward.

Robinson Crusoe's Return - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1906)
Satire on Crusoe's return to modern England.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Scarlet Empire - David M[aclean] Parry (1852-1915) (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1906)
Authoritarian dystopia set in Atlantis practicing precise equality, to the extent of limiting the number of words spoken each day. A full quarter of the population are inspectors to ensure that the rules are obeyed. Satire attacking socialism and labor unions.
Rpt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1911]; New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Sorcery Shop; an Impossible Romance" - Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) (The Clarion, 1906)
Anarchist eutopia.
Repub. London: The Clarion Press, 1907.  Serial rpt. in British Socialist Fiction 1884-1914. Ed. Deborah Mutch. 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 4: 3-104.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy" - E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924) (The Strand Magazine, 1906)
Written for children but a good satire on the Wellsian future by a friend of H.G. Wells (1866-1946).
Rpt. in her The Story of the Amulet. Illus. H.R. Millar (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), 288-318; and (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Puffin Books, 1959), 217-38; rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Puffin Books, 1996), 224-47. The first Puffin Books ed. has the story copyright of 1901, but The Strand Magazine publication is clearly the first publication. The general title of The Strand Magazine version is “The Amulet: A Story for Children” and appears in 29.173 - 31.184 (May 1905 - April 1906).
Keywords: English author; Female author

Star of the Morning; A Chronicle of Karyl the Great and the Revolt of 1920-22 (Thomas Burleigh, 1906)
Almost entirely a romance of the revolt of 1920-22 in which Karyl, a woman, becomes ruler. But at the end a list of thirty reforms is given (213-22). These include the reform of Parliament, reformed education, including equality for women in higher education, a tax on bachelors, high taxes on the rich, and regulation of wages. The Truth About Man. London: Hutchinson, 1905 is By A Spinster [pseud.] Illustrated by facts from her own personal history.
Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 5: 7-252, with a brief note by the editor (1-5).

The Stolen Planet: A Scientific Romance - John Mastin R.B.A., F.R.M.S. (1865-1932) (Philip Wellby, 1906)
Young adult novel. The chapter describing Venus, "The Star of Love" (215-30), presents a eutopia without the Fall. See also 1907 Mastin.
Keywords: Male author

"The Superannuation Department A.D. 1945" - E[dward] F[rederic] Benson (1867-1940) (Windsor Magazine, 1906)
Satire on the balance between individuals and the collective good. Everyone over 65 has to regularly demonstrate their usefulness to society with the testimony of witnesses--usefulness, beauty, moral improvement, and happiness are central but other answers are acceptable. Death for those who fail.
Rpt. in his Desirable Residences and Other Stories. Selected by Jack Adrian (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1991), 197-207.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D., 1910) - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) (Greening & Company, 1906)
Dystopia set in 1910. Terror as the poor are manipulated by agitators. Attacks on law and lawyers but with a strong suggestion that the legal system is corrupt. Anti-socialist; anti-women's rights. The novel ends with the defeat of the terrorists and the recognition that England must reform. See also 1910 Ford.
2nd ed. A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D. 1912). London: Hurst and Blackett, 1912 under the author's name as D[ouglas] Morey Ford.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Trust Trusted - W. T. F. Smith M.D. (Primo Press, 1906)
Detailed eutopia brought about by all property being owned by a single combine in which everyone is a shareholder. The combine takes over from the government. Very strict immigration. Religion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Valhalla. A Novel - George Long (Henry J. Drane, 1906)
Mostly romance and adventure after earthquakes and floods devastate the planet, followed by violence and disease. But some survive, initially said to be just two, but others are found and then it is discovered that New Zealand survived intact with two million survivors. The spirits of the dead take a direct hand in assisting the survivors, but something of a better world does emerge.
Keywords: Male author

"The Week. The Invasion of New Zealand" (The Star (Christchurch, New Zealand), 1906)
Satire on future war stories, New Zealand's military, and New Zealand society in general. Inspired by the serialization of William [Tufnell] Le Queux's (1864-1927) Invasion of England in 1910 (1906).

Arcadian Adelaide - Thistle [M.C.] Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher). (b. 1879?) (Modern Printing Co, 1905)
Satire on Adelaide and its inhabitants. In the “Foreword” the author writes, “Adelaide has crushed my youthful ambitions, and, possibly, narrowed my ideas--and you, her people, have done your best (by force of example), and other methods) to root out any broad or human sentiment that was in me” ([5]), but in an undated “Preface to the II., III., IV., V., VI., and VII Editions” on the next page she says she had no malicious intent. There is no evidence of such editions. See also her 1905 The Arcadians.  Mrs. F. Ellis responded in A Scratch from an Adelaide Cat in vindication of Adelaide and its people. Adelaide, SA, Australia: G. Hassell & Co., 1905 (M).
Rpt. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Wakefield Press, 1985.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

The Arcadians. Sequel to Arcadian Adelaide - Thistle [M.C.] Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher). (b. 1879?) (Modern Printing Co, 1905)
Sequel to her 1905 Arcadian Adelaide in which she adds additional individuals and responds to critics.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

As It May Be; A Story of the Future - Bessie Story Rogers (Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1905)
Eutopia of great technological advances, including control of the weather, personal airplanes, and no illness and no death. Religious but no churches (praise God every day and everywhere) (pp. 68-73). Vegetarian and all animals tame. Set in 2905.
Keywords: Female author; US author