TY - ABST T1 - The Alphabet Tax Y1 - 2023 A1 - Rosa Woolf Ainley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -
An odd novel in which the price of a universal welfare system that appears to have created utopia is silence.
PB - Grand Iota UK CY - St. Leonards and Brighton, UK SN - 978-1-874400-88-2 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Broodmare" Y1 - 2023 A1 - Flossie Arend KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The protagonist of the story is a woman who regularly travels over the fortified border between Texas and surrounding states to assist women who need an abortion, which is illegal in Texas.
JF - Fantasy VL - no. 87 UR - https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/broodmare/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chain-Gang All-Stars Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia set in a future where prisoners in for-profit prison fight in staged, trademarked matches where the winner gets their freedom, and the loser dies.
PB - Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - Boston, MA SN - 978-1328911261 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "El Chivo" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mario Acevedo (b. 1955) ED - Scott Russell Duncan ED - Armando Rendó ED - Jenny Irizary KW - Chicano author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future where the poor live on a Basic Uniform Income, which is not enough to live on and is easily taken away for various offenses. In the story one woman in a family adds to their income by renting/selling her womb to the Basel-Big Sur Health Initiative, and she must keep perfect health or lose that income.
JF - El Porvenir. ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatli, a Chicano Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press CY - Berkeley, CA SN - 978-8-409-93671-6 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything for Everybody: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 Y1 - 2022 A1 - M. E. O’Brien A1 - Eman Abdelhadi KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Pretty much what the title says presented as interviews with the revolutionaries who brought about the change together with an introduction that gives the history of the initial insurrection and its key dimensions.
PB - Common Notions CY - Brooklyn, NY/Philadelphia, PA SN - 978-1-94217-358-8 U5 -NNU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights” Y1 - 2021 A1 - B. G. Alder KW - Genderqueer author KW - US author AB -The story is told from the point of view of an individual on a break with a friend from working for eighteen weeks in a space station combing through algorithms that generate jokes. The break is for four days in BLAM!, The City of Corporate-Sanctioned Delights where everything is artificial and most people simply spend their break getting wasted. Instead, they look for something natural.
JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 26 N1 -Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 29 ( December 2021) : 84-94.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dust" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kwasi Adi-Dako KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -Climate change story set in a future Ghana when the rains stopped. In the story an old man who stayed in his village is being interviewed by a young man from the city and reminds the young man of how hard life had always been for people in the countryside.
JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 20 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/dust-by-kwasi-adi-dako/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hospitalized in Utopia" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Caroline Ailanthus KW - Female author KW - US author AB -After the collapse of civilization, a new, better, sustainable, one is built, which is described by an elderly, partially paralyzed woman being treated in Hospital City and then released into to her own apartment with all the support she needs. In this future there are relatively few cities, and those quite small, but advanced medicine, major museums, and the like need a certain population base. The hospital grows most of its own food. No fossil fuels but with the internet. Everything had slowed down. The story was one of the five in the runner up category of XR’s 2021 Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.
JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/hospitalized-utopia/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love at the End" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Deborah Germaine Augustin KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author AB -Climate change story in which Malaysian and Singapore are mostly under water. It is told backwards from 2060 to 2040.
JF - khōréō magazine VL - 1.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Gideon Lichfield KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set after a future pandemic in which Canada had instituted rationing to ensure that everyone was adequately fed.
JF - Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-54240-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pod Tower Y1 - 2021 A1 - Pete Alexander KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia. The novel focus on a man trying to understand the society he lives in. Ending suggests a possible sequel.
PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1-291875683 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sanctuary Y1 - 2021 A1 - Grace J. Agnew KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A slow moving apocalypse as people overpopulation continues together with damage to the planet. The story novel concerns a privileged woman and her son living in a protected city. The son leaves to be with his father and the mother follows, and the novel follows their experiences in working to correct the problems.
PB - Woodhall Press CY - Norwalk, CT SN - 978-1-949116-50-2 U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Static" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alithnayn Abdulkareem ED - Rachel Zadok (b. 1972) ED - Karina Magdalena Szczurek ED - Jason Myki Snyman KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated by climate change and the rich are leaving for space and is told from the perspective of an African woman who has been selected to immigrate to improve the diversity of the inhabitants. Her lover chooses to stay on Earth. It was the second runner up in the 2019/2020 Short Story Day Africa Prize.
JF - The Johannesburg Review of Books VL - 5.3 SN - 9781946395573 UR - [The JRB Daily] [Exclusive] Read ‘Static’ by Alithnayn Abdulkareem, 2nd Runner-up in the 2019/20 Short Story Day Africa Prize – The Johannesburg Review of Books N1 -Rpt. in Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 15-27.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia in the Sewers” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Özkan Akman KW - Male author AB -An odd story in which those living underground live in a eutopia in which everything is free but will most likely be killed if they venture to the surface.
JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/utopia-sewers/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Walls of Benin City” Y1 - 2021 A1 - M[odupe].H. Ayinde KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a future where Earth has been devastated in conflict with the unidentified Reapers. The protagonist is a man struggling to reach the last remain bit of human civilization, Benin City, having abandoned family and friends along the way. He is rescued by an AI version of a Benin bronze.
JF - Omenana VL - no. 20 SN - 978-1-7396736-7-3 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/the-walls-of-benin-city-m-h-ayinde N1 -Rpt. in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 33 (Winter 2022): 30-40.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wipe Y1 - 2021 A1 - [Nicola] [Vincent-Abnett] (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -The novel is set in a posy-pandemic future where everyone has to go through a disinfectant space entering and leaving all buildings and even some rooms, where workspaces are all sealed, and all small spaces like elevators have been eliminated. The protagonist is a woman searching and finding connection.
PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-912950-83-6 U3 -Nik Abnett [pseud.].
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Animals Like Me. Deep/Fake I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rich[ard William] Larson (b. 1992) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Nigerien author KW - Spanish author KW - US author AB -A dystopia in three parts with the protagonist in the first part the viewpoint character in the second part and a minor figure in the third part, with the parts apparently in chronological order. The first part depicts a society entirely dependent on artificial intelligence, the only employment seems to be in the gig economy, and drug addiction is normal and fostered by pharmaceutical companies. In the second part, hordes of children are running wild and killing people and body parts are removed without consent. In the third part, the protagonist is a goat herder in the mountains, where he went to escape his own addiction, and individuals start showing up announcing that the bot had been overthrown.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bu Liao Qing” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michelle Law ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a climate change dystopia and concerns a young, pregnant, Aboriginal-Asian Australian girl trying to function in a world that rejects her.
JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melboure, Vic, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Department of Talent Resources. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Carrie Vaughn (b. 1973) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The first part of a three-part story developed over three volumes. In this part, a young woman who is struggling to survive financially after a bad accident is approach by a recruiter for a corporation that promises to take care of everything if she signs on. In the second part, “Keep Your Streak Going! We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 3-16, she has been working for the corporation for six years, health problems solved, living on its campus, which she never leaves, and appears happy while under constant pressure to fulfill set tasks within specified time periods to gain or lose credits, which are needed for everything. She and a man she just met even conceive a child to gain credit. The man is not a hard worker and falls down in the system. The woman does well, but at the end of the story her now-grown daughter chooses to leave the corporation and strike out on her own. In the third part, “You Have Been Crowdfunded. We Can Take Care of Everything: Part II.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 3-16, she and three friends are looking to retire at one of the corporation’s retirement homes but cannot actually confirm their existence or contact anyone they know who has retired.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Displaced” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Zoya Patel ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Fijian author AB -The story is set in a future in which Fiji and many other islands and coasts have been flooded. The protagonist is a Fijian who immigrated to Australia and become a citizen, who is hoping that her relatives will be accepted for immigration. It also notes the racism of the immigration process, and the growing racism directed at people of color.
JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melbourne, VIC, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Girl Y1 - 2020 A1 - Asphyxia [pseud.] KW - Australian author KW - Deaf author KW - Female author AB -The setting for the novel is a future Australia is dominated by a corporation that has developed an artificial food and has made the growing and consumption of “wild” food illegal. The point-of-view character is a sixteen-year-old girl who is deaf and whose hearing mother, concerned that she be able to fully integrate into hearing society, sends her to a regular school, go through speech therapy, and fails to realize that even with hearing aids and lipreading she struggles to understand most of what people say or, because she cannot sign or fingerspell, communicate with other deaf people. Her one love is art, and the novel is heavily illustrated in color on every page. The novel has two intertwined threads as the girl comes into her own as she learns Auslan (Australian sign language) and finger spelling, begins to become integrated into the Deaf community, and becomes an advocate for natural food.
PB - Allen & Unwin Australia CY - Crows Nest, NSW, Australia SN - 9781760294373 U2 -Illus.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glass Houses. Letters: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cadwell Turnbull ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -Dystopia in three parts in which a U. S. President is elected on a Right to Work platform, which turns out to mean that if you don’t contribute to society at an acceptable level as set by the government, such as doing poorly in high school, you will be forced to work on a farm for minimal food, housing, and wages. The second part is set on such a farm with those who refuse to work on the farm, and anyone considered a danger to society including everyone in jail, are frozen in a cyro chamber. The third part illustrates the conflicts taking place within a family where a child is not doing well at school.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glasslands. Wrack: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tim[othy Aaron] Pratt (b. 1976) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Three-part story set in a future where people from a different reality arrive on Earth intending to set everything straight and create a eutopia for all. The story is told from the point of view of three people from a band All You Need to Change the World is Faith and a Chainsaw who do not want to be Harmonized, as the invaders call it. Chronologically, the invasion is described as seen by the woman who leads the band members and who immediately wants to start a revolution in “Spheres and Harmonies. Wrack: Part III.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-33. In Glasslands. Wrack: Part I.” Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 15-28, a woman who is an artist whose desire to burn her creations is sent a reserve for the disaffected. And in “Cacophany. Wrack: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-32, a man who is an urban explorer and would be happy to be if he could explore other realms is not allowed to, so he joins the woman from Part III to invade the reserve.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heap Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sean Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which a huge apartment building, known as Los Verticalés, collapses and life for many of the survivors focuses on digging into the remains of the building, call the Heap. Others begin to create a new community called CamperTown. Themes include climate change and corporate and government corruption.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hierarchies. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ros Anderson KW - Female author AB -The novel follows the life of Sylv.ie, a synthetic woman, designed to be a “pleasure doll,” as she gains awareness she develops a sense of herself. She must follow the Four Hierarchies: “Love, obey, and delight your Husband [owner]. You exist to serve him. Honor his family above yourself and never come between them. You must not harm your Husband, nor his family, nor any Human. Make no demands, but meet them, and obey every reasonable Human request” (13). A film is in production.
PB - Dutton/Penguin Random House CY - [New York] SN - 978-0-593-18287-1 U5 -PU, Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Idle Hands. Robots Rise: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -Dystopia in three parts set on Moreland, a seasteading built outside the U.S. territorial waters so that the extremely wealthy can live free of taxes and any laws but their own. The second generation discovers that there is no one to do the work, so they bring in thousands of robots, including sentient AIs, one of whom is the protagonist in all three stories. In the first story, the AI is bored and arranges to be thrown into the ocean to kill him. In the second story set some years later, the AI has been found and restored to life by a dissident faction that is trying to foment revolution. In the third story, after the owner of Moreland has killed the AI, it is again restored to run in an election.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Inheritors. The Inheritors: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in three parts. In the first part, a researcher who develops a cure for cancer and wants it freely available has it taken by her university so it can make huge profits. She then develops a simple genetic manipulation that produces highly intelligent and physically able children and gives it secretly to the extremely disadvantaged. In the second part, “normal” humans are trying, with considerable success, to eliminate the enhanced humans. In the third part, while the violence against the advanced continues, a rapprochement seems possible.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lyceum. Aiden Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karin Lowachee (b. 1973) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Guyanese author AB -A three-part dystopia in which a company is developing a neurological educational link that will give all children access to knowledge and help in understanding it. The eutopian possibilities of the project are derailed when the teenage son of the developer is killed in an accident, and she becomes fixed on the neurolink, which had named after her son. In the second part, the man who took over its development makes it possible for the link to be shared, and it spreads throughout the population beyond schools, with some seeing the results positively and others seeing them negatively. In the third part, the developer creates an android that can access the neurolink and looks and acts as if it is human.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mister Dawn, How Can You Be So Cruel? Slumberland: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Violet Allen ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia in three parts in which, in the first story, dreams are first curated for wealthy individuals. In the second story, drugs become common to enhance shared dreaming. In the third story, dreams become for entertainment for everyone in dream shows but also used for social control.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Opt-In. Harvest: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in three parts focusing on the sale of body parts. In the first story, a poor woman sells organs in order to pay her bills. In the second story, a law is passed legalizing the sale of body parts that, with amendments, means that anyone in debt can be required to sell their body parts to pay it off, and a woman has her womb and uterus harvested. In the third part, a resistance has arisen with the story told by a woman in the resistance trying to get access to the records that show whose organs were harvested and who they went to
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Orphan of Greenridge (Water). Ko Ko Né Ä: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -Dystopia in three parts linked by connections to indigenous cultures and the effects of climate change. In the first story, water is rationed, and the testing of water is rigged to hide the fact that it is contaminated. In the second story, a woman with a baby is trying to escape conflict. In the third story, Texas is one of the few states that sells off mostly abandoned land to the very rich.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ostraka" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -The protagonist is an Aboriginal woman who on returning to Australia is detained at declared stateless under a 2039 law that allows the government to ostracize anyone who it decides is a person of bad
JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melbourne, Vic, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Red Sky at Morning: Nil Desperandum: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in three parts that begins in a climate change dystopia in Downeast Maine. Fires fill the air with smoke. No power. Massive flooding. The protagonist is a woman raising her granddaughter. In the second part that granddaughter is trying to survive alone in her grandmother’s house in an area that has been taken over by vigilantes who kill all “foreigners,” but particular Blacks, ethnic minorities, and anyone gender nonconforming. The woman is part of an underground railroad hiding fugitives. In the third part, the last of those fugitives visits the remains of the burned-out house where the woman was killed trying to save her, a killing that started a revolt against vigilantes.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Revolution Will Be Pirated” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Bobuq Sayed ED - Leah Jing McIntosh ED - Cher Tan ED - Adalya Nash Hussein ED - Hassan Abul KW - Australian author KW - Non-binary author AB -The story is set in a future Australia under a racist, anti-immigrant/refugee Prime Minister.
JF - Collisions: Fictions of the Future. A Liminal Anthology PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia SN - 9780648795186 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rise & Shine Y1 - 2020 A1 - Patrick Allington (b. 1969) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Rise and shine are the only two city-states that have survived an ecological catastrophe that has destroyed most living things. The two are perpetually at war, and the people feed, literally, off the news footage from the war.
PB - Scribe Publications CY - Brunswick, Vic, Australia SN - 9781925849769 978-1-950354-42-9 N1 -U.S. ed. Minneapolis, MN: Scribe, 2021. 233 pp.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Scarf for Janice” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sandra Ulbrich Almazan ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set some years after an unexplained Change when much of the natural world collapsed. In the story, a transgender person joins a bird count to be able to honor her transgender great aunt by visiting where she grew up, was tormented at school, and disowned by her parents. In this future all such prejudice has disappeared.
JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9781732254688 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Shadow Prison Experiment. Shadow Prisons: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Three-part dystopia in which a everyone has an implant that regulates everything they see and the corporation that controls it develops a technology that replaces prisons by taking a person offline so that no one can see who it is. The Shades, as they are called, state popping up everywhere as more and more “crimes” warrant temporary or permanent exclusion. In the first story, the protagonist, who is in a single-sex marriage and has a transgender child, is given a permanent sentence. The second story is a decade or so later, and she is trying to survive, and her partner divorced her and has re-married, and she sometimes meets with her child, now a marred adult. In the third story, the corporation she is a leader in a revolution against the Shadow Prisons.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 N1 -The three stories were rpt. in Lightspeed, nos. 123 - 125 (August - October 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prison-experiment/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shadow-prisons-of-the-mind/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prisoners-dilemma/
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Solitude, in Silent Sun” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mike Adamson KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future where people have returned to Earth from space with the goal of rejuvenating it under strict environmental regulations, but some people are starting to break the rules to make a profit.
JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/07/17/solitude-in-silent-sun/ N1 -Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 68-74, with a note on the author on 75.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trust in the Law, For the Law Trusts in You. Lawless: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (b. 1986) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in three parts. In the first story, mass shootings are a constant, and children are taught using VISIONS, a virtual reality system that supposedly allows safe education. In the second story, there is enforced church membership and attendance, patriarchy, marriage between a man and a woman, with the woman expected to have children, and constant updates rating on every individual with penalties for falling too low. CUSN, developed from VISIONS, connects everyone, but becomes infected with a virus. In the third story, a small group of people try to bring down the system.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “we live on, in story” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Karen Wyld ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -The story is told by a mixed race descendent of an Aboriginal woman who had been raped by the head of the settler family who had disposed her people from their land.
JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melbourne, VIC, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “West of the Sun and Sea” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mako, CB ED - Leah Jing McIntosh ED - Cher Tan ED - Adalya Nash Hussein ED - Hassan Abul KW - Australian author KW - Non-binary author AB -The story is set in a future Australia that has embraced equality for the disabled.
JF - Collisions: Fictions of the Future. A Liminal Anthology PB - Allen & Unwin CY - Neutral Bay, NSW, Australia SN - 9780648795186 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "White Flu" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Omar Sakr ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -The story takes place in a future Australia in which a deadly pandemic only white people. The protagonist is a queer Arab Australian who mostly concerned with the conflicts within his extended family, most of whom shun him.
JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melbourne, VIC, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "0.1" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gabby Rivera ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe story set after a sentient bacterium had killed most of the world’s population, starting with the 1% and eliminating all who do not feel love and compassion. The story is about the birth of the first baby after the plague ended.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Aqueduct" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Webb, Steve ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Artificials Should Be Allowed to Worship” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Steven James (b. 1969) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The Op-Ed is set in a world where AI’s are trying to achieve equality and is written by one who wants to worship.
Illus John Karborn
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Attachment Disorder” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia (disease/pandemic) where those infected are trying to stay free from either being herded into camps or killed. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “One Day Only.”
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bittersweet Building” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rachel Armstrong ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The story describes an experiment in “living architecture” in which the responds to and changes the people living in it.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blindfold" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -The story is set in a future where, in an attempt to make trials fairer, the personal characteristics, such as race, are blocked from the members of the jury. The protagonist is a hacker who works to ensure that the system works who is hacked by those trying to undermine the system.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Bookstore at the End of America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -The story takes place in a bookstore that straddles the boundary between California and the United States, which are at war.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 N1 -Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 1-22, with an editor’s note on 1; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 204-22, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 391.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By His Bootstraps” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ashok K[umar] Banker (b. 1964) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -Satire in which the U.S. government, under President Trump, initiates a program that changes the DNA in a person back to its human origins, thus ridding the country of all mixed-race immigrants. Something goes wrong and most people in the country become Native American Indians.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Calendar Girls” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Justina Ireland (b. 1985) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia in which contraception is illegal.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cat" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Deepak Unnikrishnan ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Abu Dhabi author KW - Male author AB -The story takes place in a city in one of the Gulf states that was almost wiped out when a plane full of bombs crashed and the bombs detonated. As a child, the protagonist was severely injured, and the focus is on years later, after multiple surgeries, when all nations have closed their borders that closed off further treatment, and everyone is struggling to survive and get some pleasure out of life.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Chapter 5: Disruption and Continuity [excerpted]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -Excerpts from a future book written after the United States has disappeared and been replaced by voluntary associations, some in virtual reality.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City in the Middle of the Night Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -A complex dystopia set on a planet settled from Earth. There are two cities, one authoritarian and one libertarian, both of which aspire to being utopian and both of which are deeply flawed.
PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Divide Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia based on the teachings of The Preacher as found in the Book of Certitude in which men and women from age eighteen live in different parts of the country. Both must be robed and masked when they must meet.
PB - Drugstore Indian Press/PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “EasyCity” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Manuel B. Aalbers ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -The EasyJet version of a city as seen by a couple wanting to rent an inexpensive EasyFlat in EasyCity, a new suburb being built near the airport that EasyJet has renamed to suggest it is closer to a major city than it actually is and going through all the add-on extras. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The EasyJet version of a city as seen by a couple wanting to rent an inexpensive EasyFlat in EasyCity, a new suburb being built near the airport that EasyJet has renamed to suggest it is closer to a major city than it actually is and going through all the add-on extras. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecological Memory Y1 - 2019 A1 - Caroline Ailanthus KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The novel is set after a pandemic, probably started deliberately, that wipes out all but 10% of the world’s population and depicts that relatively good society that is emerging after a period of conflict. Some technology, like the internet, has been revived, but the new society is based on independent but cooperating communities, each of which has its own money, called shares, that expire after two years. Occupations are organized into guilds, whose members wear identifiable clothing which, because clothing is expensive, are worn both when working and as leisure wear. The author says that she “writes post-apocalyptic optimism” (11). The text has Appendices “The Science of Ecological Memory (269-291), “An Annotated Reading List” (292-299), and “A Glossary of Sorts” (300-301) that describes the plants depicted at the beginning of each of the nine chapters.
PB - Salt Water Media CY - Berlin, MD SN - 978-1628062212 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Esperanto" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jamie Ford (b. 1968) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story depicts a world in which most people’s experience of it is through virtual reality and how they react when the system is sabotaged.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Give Me Cornbread or Give Me Death” Y1 - 2019 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -A dystopia in which the 99% is trying to kill off most of the 99%, who are fighting back.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York SN - 9780525508809 9781789095012 N1 -Rpt. in Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Mur Lafferty and S. B. Divya [Divya Srinivasan Breed] (London: Titan Books, 2020), 303-11.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good News Bad News” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Charles Yu (b. 1976) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - Taiwanese American author AB -The future is depicted in a series of short reports, the main one being about racist robots.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Good Plan" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mikael Awake KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -The story is set “somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere” but concerns Africa. The Good People have the Good Plan to wall themselves off from the rest of the world to protect themselves from refugees, whose memories they take. The protagonist, who is being escorted in chains back to Africa, describes what little he can remember of the Crisis that the Good People blame on everyone but themselves.
JF - McSweeney’s 58. 2040 A.D. PB - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern CY - San Francisco, CA VL - 58 U2 -Illus. Wesley Allsbrook
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Growing the New City: London 2039” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Robin Robinson (b. 1944) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -London in 2039 is becoming a sustainable city after years of demonstrations by the youth of the city.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - DLC 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harmony" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Seanan McGuire (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The creation of a eutopian town for those who don’t fit elsewhere.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A History of Barbed Wire” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -The U.S. has become corporate controlled with no safety net, and people try to escape to the walled-off nation of the Cherokee.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Arms" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jo Lindsay Walton (b. 1982) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A complex future tale with what appears to be two separate story lines (one indicated by black dots in the left margin) plus some explanation of the how the current situation evolved (indicated by red dots in the left margin). Reference to the Palace of Westminster/Wetminster in England’s green and pleasant seas suggests a climate change dystopia, but there are also suggestions of having achieved sustainability, and at for a time.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Internment Y1 - 2019 A1 - Samira Ahmed KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -A young adult dystopia in which American Muslims are being forced into internment camps as Japanese Americans were in World War 2.
PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Was Saturday Night, I Guess That Makes It All Right” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sam J[oshua] Miller (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in a largely abandoned Albany, New York that all government workers left after being replaced by AI. The United States is an authoritarian surveillance state and deeply anti-gay, which is a major focus of the story.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lay Low" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Smith ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a future where the .1% control the world and people exist of allowances allocated for specific things such as water and transport.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - DLC 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Luna 6000" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Lauren Cherelle KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia in which advanced monitoring technology makes life and death decisions.
JF - Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction PB - BLF Press CY - Clayton, NC U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Materiality" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story of told from the point-of-view of young boy living in southern California in a future that is dealing with the effects of climate change. A class project at the end of middle school is to act as a model classroom in a model Twenty-first Century Town, including wearing the clothes of the time.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 978-1-958121313 N1 -Rpt. in Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales. Ed. Phoebe Warner (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 186-201. 978-
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Algorithms in the World” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story depicts a future with a guaranteed income and most jobs taken over by AIs. A father sees it as dystopia; a son sees it as providing a good life.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Oli Away" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Edward Davey ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The story describes a trip around the world made sustainable that describes all the advances made in protecting the environment.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Day Only” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -A Nayima story in the series se in a post-plague dystopia with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story Nayima has temporary settled with an older woman in an abandoned beachfront house and puts on a comedy show for the few other Natural Immune/Carriers and survivors who have not yet gotten vaccinated and settled in one of the few remaining cities.
JF - Wastelands: The New Apocalypse PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9871785658952 N1 -Rpt. in the author’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 205-226.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our Aim Is Not to Die” Y1 - 2019 A1 - A. Merc Rustad ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author AB -A white supremacist, patriarchal dystopia in which everyone is under constant surveillance, and there are required medical/mental checks to ensure that everyone is straight. Lobotomies, now called neural reformatting therapy, are used to “cure” the non-conforming.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “[Pink Heart Shape]” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley [Naa Norle] Lokko A1 - Maria Smith ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Ghanaian author KW - Scottish author KW - South African author KW - US author AB -The story begins and ends with a young woman living in poverty in Ghana, dependent of remittances from her sister in London. In between is a discussion African migration, the causes of the woman’s poverty, and the importance of such remittances.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Placation" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sophie Mackintosh (b. 1988) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -In the story, the Earth requires that it be placated annually with the body part of a human and focuses on a girl who cannot decide what part of her body to sacrifice. Compare to 1948 Jackson, “The Lottery.”
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Read After Burning” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maria Dahvana Headley (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in a future in which it is prohibited to teach children to read or even to speak except in approved slogans. The story is told from the viewpoint of a child of librarians who are secretly keeping books alive.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Referendum” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -A referendum is being held to repeal the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “(R)evolution” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sam Agro ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future where all a cities rubbish, toxic chemicals, and so forth have been dumped outside it where the poor live, and those living in the area begin to become mutants.
JF - Nourishment: A One-Shot Anthology of Science Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riverbed" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Omar El Akkad (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Qatari author KW - US author AB -The story’s protagonist is an American-born woman who, as a young woman, was incarcerated in camps holding the U.S. Islamic population.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "ROME" Y1 - 2019 A1 - G[wendolyn] Willow Wilson (b. 1982) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A dystopia set in a United States devastated by climate-change that has privatized all first responders, and a poor district in Seattle had no protection from the regular fires as seen through the eyes of students taking an English-language test required for them to stay in the country.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Same Place as the Last” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Nina Anana ED - Rowan B. Fortune KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The story begins in a near future England divided, often violently, between those accepting of immigrants from countries disappearing under rising oceans. One man is badly hurt by a police attack and appears to wake up in a high-tech future cared for by the immigrants he had been trying to save.
JF - Citizens of Nowhere: An Anthology of Utopic Fiction PB - Cinnamon Press/Rowan Tree Editing, 2019 CY - Gwynedd, Wales SN - 978-1788640947 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Seeking Follows” Y1 - 2019 A1 - James Ash ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Male author AB -In the story, Twitter has taken over London after the collapse of democracy in 2038 and “follows” have become the main medium of exchange with those with the most follows selling their ability to gain attention to advertisers. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens. The author is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University.
JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables PB - Meatspace Press CY - Np SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sun in Exile” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Satire on climate change deniers.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Synapse Will Free Us from Ourselves” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Violet Allen ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Dystopian in which technology is supposedly curing homosexuality.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Testaments Y1 - 2019 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Sequel to 1985 Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale that begins during the establishment of Gilead but the shifts to the internal and external opposition to it, and it ends with a lecture at “The Thirteenth Symposium on Gilead Studies” from the same professor whose lecture ended The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel was serialized on BBC Radio 4 in fifteen installments between September 16 and October 4, 2019.
PB - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday CY - New York N1 -Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, 2019. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. An audiobook was released simultaneously with the print version.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Therapies for World’s End” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stefani Cox ED - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Lauren Cherelle KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a post-apocalypse dystopia that has divided the rich and poor even more, with the rich closing themselves off and the poor, known as Dusties left to try to survive.
JF - Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing PB - BLF Press CY - Clayton, NC SN - 978-0-578-50213-7 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ungovernable Cities” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Will[iam Woodward] Self (b. 1961) ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire describing a number of fantastic or just very odd cities. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s La città invisibili/Invisible Cities 1972/1974).
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The United States Should Welcome a Strong, United Latin America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -Reflections on the formation of a united Latin America, following on from the European Union and an African Union that the United States is vigorously opposing.
UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/opinion/future-united-latin-america.html U2 -Illus. John Karborn
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Wall" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lizz Huerta ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which the United States has collapsed and disappeared with refugees desperate to escape to Mexico.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Gray” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cyd Athens ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in an extremely polluted future where clean water is the main medium of exchange.
JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Maya Found There” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Daniel José Older (b. 1980) ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Latinx author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A future surveillance society in which biotechnology is being used as a means of control.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What You Sow” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kai Cheng Thom ED - Victor LaValle (b. 1972) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -A fantasy story set in a future where many have succumbed to a disease that gradually wastes them away with the only relief provided by the “ichor” from a Celestial told from the point-of-view of a Celestial, who has been trying to fit in.
JF - A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers PB - One World CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wishbone" Y1 - 2019 A1 - K[aren] G. Anderson ED - Juliana Rew KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which the Age Equity Act gives everyone health care, housing, and other essentials from 72 until they reach 80, when they must report to an End of Life Center and be euthanized.
JF - Infinite Lives: Short Tales of Infinity. Third Flatiron Anthologies PB - Third Flatiron Publishing CY - [Boulder, CO/Ayr, Scotland] VL - 8, Book 26 SN - 9781733920742 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You Wanted This” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lev Bratishenko ED - Edwina Attlee ED - Phineas Harper ED - Maria Smith KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -A meeting in which reports proposals are made for how to save the planet by eliminating the primary source of damage, human beings.
JF - Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture PB - The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale CY - London SN - 978-1-9996462-3-3 U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And the Rest Is Music” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Allor ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A future story in comic form in which each person lives in a pod that creates their ideal world for them, with the intent to keep humans from destroying the planet. The story is about an old woman who leaves her pod and experiences what is left of the world.
Illus. and colored by Juan Romera. Letters by Matt Krotzer.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cold as Thunder Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jerrold W. Apps (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Surveillance and climate-change dystopia in which the Eagle Party has taken over the United States, privatized all schools, closed libraries and churches, and closed all independent media.
PB - University of Wisconsin Press CY - Madison U5 -WMU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Completionist Y1 - 2018 A1 - Siobhan Adcock KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which mothers are required to give up their jobs to raise their children and must do so to rigidly enforced standards helped/supervised by “nurse completionists.”
PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Derisyone High-City” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ahmet Mesut Ateş ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - Turkish author AB -The story is set in an authoritarian society in which individuals choose their name at a specific time on a specific day.
JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -NjP
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Era" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -An odd dystopia in which everyone is expected to tell the truth as they see it.
JF - Friday Black PB - Mariner\Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Flight of the Storm God” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Mike Adamson KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future in which environmental collapse has completely devastated Earth and only 29,000 people are left, kept alive in stasis by Artificial Intelligences. It is told by the one who is periodically awakened and takes place when humans who had left Earth return.
JF - Endless Apocalypse: Short Stories PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - Lonson SN - 9781786647672 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/06/25/flight-of-the-storm-god/ N1 -Rpt. illus. Little Blue Marble (June 25, 2021). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/06/25/flight-of-the-storm-god/
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I, Lilli Man” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rahad Abir KW - Bangladeshi author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia in which the Lilliputians of Defoe’s Gulliver’s Travels are rediscovered and used for food.
JF - Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - 10 UR - http://mithilareview.com/abir_06_18/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Minnesota Diet" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Christopher Wharton KW - Male author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -Satire on the failure of high-tech systems.
JF - Slate UR - https://slate.com/technology/2018/01/the-minnesota-diet-a-new-short-story-by-charlie-jane-anders.html. N1 -Rpt., without the response, in Future Tense Fiction: Stories of the Tomorrow. Ed. Kirsten Berg, Torie Bosch, Joey Eschrich, Ed Finn, Andrés Martinez, and Juliet Ulman (Los Angeles, CA: The Unnamed Press, 2019), 225-39.
U2 -Illus. Laura Callaghan
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Ecotopia" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Heather Alberro ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Brief but fairly detailed communal anarchist eutopia with an emphasis on the environment and comparisons to the current situation. The protagonist is a woman journalist being given a tour of Anakai, with her tour guide giving her a very detailed description. Anakai is composed of “federations of autonomous, self-sufficient, yet interconnected eco-communities of around 500 inhabitants each” (103). “All children . . .are taught from early childhood the basic principles of ecology, how to live sustainably, the unique characteristics of the wonderful animal life with which we share our planet, and how the grand and complex earth systems that support life function" (104).
JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng SN - 978-1-5275-1317-4 U5 -NjP
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pain Camp Economics” Y1 - 2018 A1 - AUDNIT [pseud.] ED - William Davies AB -Dystopia set in 2056 in which corporations have taken over nations and are known as CorpoNations, and the environment has been largely destroyed.
JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London N1 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Phantasmatopia” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Hüseyin Alhas ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - Turkish author AB -Poem touching on justice, religion, ecology, and politics comparing elements of a eutopia with the current dystopia.
JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -NjP
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rock Manning Goes for Broke Y1 - 2018 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -The novel is set in a United States that is becoming a dystopia with the use of what may or may not be a false war to exercise control.
PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -Parts were previously published as “Break! Break! Break!” In The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 39-50; “Rock Manning Can’t Hear You.” In The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 55-67; and “The Last Movie Ever Made.” In The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. John Joseph Adams and Hugh Howey (Np: Editors, 2015), 211-23. Chapter 1 was published as “Break! Break! Break!” Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy, no. 43 (March 2014). http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/break-break-break/ and in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Rich Horton ([Germantown, MD]; Prime Books, 2015), 217-27.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Skinned" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in an unnamed African country in which women past puberty are expected, based on religion and tradition, to wear no clothes until they are married. Most do, and the story is told from the perspective of an older, never married woman.
JF - McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern VL - no. 53 U5 -PU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “This is an Optimistic Story about the Future” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) ED - Katrina Archer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Satirical story about a future that has effective mechanisms to eliminate misunderstandings among people.
JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2018/05/25/this-is-an-optimistic-science-fiction-story-about-the-future/ N1 -Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bluebird" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Benjamin Cort ED - B. Morris Allen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future in which the City is taking over the United States, destroying all buildings outside the City using a huge metallic bird. People are trying to escape to areas rumored to still be safe. The protagonist is the caretaker of the bird.
JF - Metamorphosis SN - 978-1-64076-002-9 UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2017/bluebird-benjamin-cort/ N1 -Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2018), 9-25.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darlingtonia Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alba Roja [pseud.] KW - US author AB -Dylan is a bored graphic artist working for OingoBoingo, a copy that makes electronic psychological memory games. Ricky, her only friend and the only brown person at the company is found murdered. Dylan, who love lifestyle her work her. The novel contrasts the easy life of tech works like Dylan with the poverty of everyone else in the SF Bay area, and she gradually becomes disillusioned as she discovers what OnigoBoingo is actually doing. “Alba Roja is an anonymous collective of individuals strewn along the West Coat of the United States.”
PB - Left Bank Books CY - Seattle, WA SN - 978-0939306138 U3 -Alba Roja [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Detour in Space" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Emad El-Din Marei Aysha KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - Palestinian author KW - UK author AB -A brief dystopia in which Mars has been settled by countries from the middle east, bring with them all the same issues as on Earth. For an interview with the author that discusses the origins of the story, see https://the-levant.com/egyptian-science-fiction-criticises-arabs/
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Don’t Press Charges and I Won’t Sue” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Junot Díaz KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -Dystopia that tries to eliminate anyone who doesn’t fit in. The story focuses on the oppression of people who are transgender.
Rpt. in Transcendent 3: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2018), 197-213; in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 170-87; in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 639-657; and in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: 2018 Edition. Ed. Rich Horton ([New York]: Prime Books, 2018), 141-55.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ghost in the Machine” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Susan Pieters ED - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) ED - James Alan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a future that can be read as either eutopian or dystopian. It is presented as much better than the past in that war has disappeared, but the future is controlled through an AI. The DNA of boys is analyzed at birth and aggressive and religious features removed.
JF - Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty PB - Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Healer's Touch" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Colleen Anderson ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The story is about a healer in a high-tech hospital and her ability to overcome her own problems so she can help the constant stream of badly injured refugees being created in her dystopian world.
JF - The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound PB - Laksha Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leila Y1 - 2017 A1 - Prayaag Akbar (b. 1982) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -In a future India that is a dictatorship and dealing with climate change, a woman’s husband is killed, her daughter is abducted, and she is sent to a prison camp. Escaping, she searches for her daughter.
PB - Simon & Schuster India CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India SN - 9780571341313 N1 -Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2018. 265 pp.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midnight at the Electric Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jodi Lynn Anderson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The novel, which is marketed as young adult, is set in three time periods in one family--1919, 1934, and 2065--is not obviously eutopian or dystopian, but the first period is set in postwar England, the second is set in dust bowl Kansas, and the third is set in a U.S. struggling with the effects of climate-change. The coasts have largely been abandoned, and, because Washington, DC is a swamp, the government has moved to the Midwest.
PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patti 209" Y1 - 2017 A1 - K[aren] G. Anderson ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The dystopia that results from the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) and others with similar policies. The focus is on the destruction of care for the elderly after the loss of Social Security and Medicare. The protagonist was one of the designers and founders of an old age home that had all the best conditions both for those living there and the environment. But with Social Security repealed and no Medicare, the home became just like the earlier nursing homes that provided minimal care. Conditions for the elderly outside this homes were worse.
JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA SN - 9780998963419 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Albert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Albert is one of the theorists with the economist Robin [Eric] Hahnel (b. 1946) of Parecon (Participatory Economics); see 2003 Albert. The book deals with Parecon, Parpolity, feminism, race, environmentalism, and internationalism plus the strategy needed to achieve the goals.
PB - Kairos/PM Press CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -Originated in the three volumes, Occupy Theory, Occupy Vision, and Occupy Strategy of his Fanfare for Democracy. Woods Hole, MA: Z Communications, 2012.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Shadowed Forest” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rati Mehrotra ED - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) ED - James Alan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Dystopia in which everyone is expected to have a divide implanted so that everything that they and those they are with do and say is recorded.
JF - Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tinker's Damn" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Edward Ahern (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A brief dystopia in which a conman becomes a political leader until the women in the community organize and drive him out.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2100: A Good Life in a Global Economy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Erik Schokkaert ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -An essay that presents a better future that has overcome the most important problems of the early twenty-first century, which are identified as the environment, including climate-change, migration from the South to the North, and international inequalities, which are said to be interrelated. The eutopia has a world, but decentralized, governmental structure, with the world government elected through the internet with everyone voting on the same list of candidates. There is a CO2 tax that encouraged local production and stimulated investment in clean technologies. There are no limits on migration and an international open market, international social insurance, and income redistribution. There are multi-generational living arrangements and joint leisure activities and cultural and religious diversity. The essay ends with a brief section on how to achieve these goals.
JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -MH
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2113. Inspired by ‘2112’” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - John McFetridge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which all creativity has been eliminated under a religious dictatorship.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Acqua Alta" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ashley Bevilacqua Anglin ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Climate change dystopia in which Venice is under water, and a Venetian theme park has been created. Acqua Alta is the name given to peak high tides in the Veneto region of Italy.
JF - Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction PB - [Arizona State University] CY - [Tempe, AZ] UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/kl2lb81mh2u88rj/Everything%20Change%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Climate%20Fiction.epub?dl=0 U5 -EBook
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -Climate change dystopia in which the west coast of California is under water, much of North America is a wasteland, and Fairbanks, Alaska, is the only U.S. metropolis. Gender is flexible and varied.
JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 9781849979306 978-1- 4399-1623-0 N1 -Rpt. Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 213-26.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Common Tongue, the Present Tense, the Known” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The story is set after most of the world is drowned and is the protagonist is a marine biologist reflecting on the past and trying to understand the present and how both humans and the oceans and their inhabitants are responding to the new situation.
JF - Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Company Town Y1 - 2016 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The background to the novel is a climate-change dystopia and is set on an oil rig that is now a complete town owned by one company, but the focus of the novel is a young woman hired to protect the heir to the company from those who want to inherit instead.
PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Culling” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The lack of water and, as a result, food, led to the systematic reduction of the population with more and more categories added as the crisis got worse. The story focuses on a girl who hears voices who is chosen for culling.
JF - Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day No One Died” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Gwen Bellinger ED - Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future where people who left Earth to avoid its conflicts have returned and religion is outlawed because it is believed to have brought about the last nuclear war, and the protagonist is a believer.
JF - Islamicates Volume 1: Anthology of Science Fiction short stories inspired from Muslim Cultures PB - Mirza Book Agency CY - Np VL - 1 UR - http://www.islamscifi.com/islamicates-volume1/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dayworld: A Hole in Wednesday Y1 - 2016 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) A1 - Danny Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A volume in Farmer’s Dayworld universe (See 1971 and 1985 Farmer) that he had not completed that has been finished by his great nephew based on manuscript and notes. This volume is set before 1985 Farmer and sets the stage for it and the following volumes.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Depot 256" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lisa Allen-Agostini ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - Trinidadian author AB -Dystopia of extreme poverty.
JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "THe Eaters" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -Aliens who had earlier visited Earth to other isolate evil aliens return to begin to repair the damage the descendants of those aliens have done by removing all who have retained the characteristics of those evil aliens. The sudden removal of millions upon millions of people, including almost all political and corporate leaders, opens the way for the indigenous peoples of the earth, some of whom were taken, to undertake the process of renewal.
JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The End of the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nora Salem ED - Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad KW - Arab-American KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a future where a drought has destroyed most plant life and there are few human survivors.
JF - Islamicates Volume 1: Anthology of Science Fiction short stories inspired from Muslim Cultures PB - Mirza Book Agency CY - Np VL - 1 SN - 978-1537372105 UR - http://www.islamscifi.com/islamicates-volume1/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Finkelstein 5” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -A dystopia in which an all-white jury acquits a man who had behead five black children.
JF - Friday Black PB - Mariner\Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CY - New York N1 -Originally published in a slightly different form in Printer’s Row (2016), which appears to be no longer available online
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flawed Y1 - 2016 A1 - Cecelia Ahern KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -Young adult dystopia in which perfection is the standard and anyone flawed is branded with an “F”. The novel focuses on a young woman who risks being labelled flawed by helping someone in trouble. First of two volumes followed by Perfect. New York: Feiwel and Friends, 2017 in which, after many more problems, the dystopia is defeated.
PB - Feiwel and Friends CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “On the Fringes of the Fractal. Inspired by ‘Subdivisions’” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Greg[ory John] van Eekhout (b. 1967) ED - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - John McFetridge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which each subdivision is controlled by a different corporation, which also controls the individual livs of the inhabitants.
JF - 2113: Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -Rpt. without the subtitle in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2017. Ed. Charles Yu (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 194-205.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hope. A Going Home Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - A[ngery] American [pseud.] A1 - G. Michael Hopf KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Related to 2012 American. In the novel, a man who has survived finds meaning in helping others.
PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Le Carré rouge” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Claudie Arseneault KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Dystopian depiction of the future of Québec under a repressive government and powerful corporations, particularly one that, with the cooperation of the government, controls all food production and distribution. The story focuses on the resistance to the dystopia over the lifetime of the protagonist.
JF - Solarpunk Press UR - http://www.solarpunkpress.com/stories/2016-11-7/011-le-carr-rouge-by-claudie-arseneault ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lutopia: An Ideal City in an Ideal World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Hilde Heynen (b. 1959) ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Female author AB -An essay describing a eutopian 2116 Leuven, then known as Lutopia, with an emphasis of blending heritage an ecology. World-wide people have been concentrated into cities to radically reduce the negative impact of humans on the environment. The essay is an expansion of the ideal city tradition, with in addition to the usual architectural and city-layout details, material on the organization of housing, schooling from elementary through university, energy use, transportation, the economy, labor, the social life, and governance. It ends with a brief comment on the remaining problems.
JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -MH
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Model Life” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kim Antieau (b. 1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A retired couple, both of whom are dissatisfied with their lives, enter a program that purports to find the right life for them and ultimately does. Most of the story focuses on the dystopian testing the man is put through rather than the eutopian outcome.
JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Press CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Night My Dead Girlfriend Called Y1 - 2016 A1 - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - South African author AB -Set in twenty-second century Nigeria, the protagonist starts getting phone calls from his dead girlfriend and goes in search of answers. The story includes a version of the robot policemen from the author’s 2014 story “This is Africa.”
PB - CreateSpace CY - Middletown, DE SN - 978-1722408978 N1 -Originally published as a series in Brittle Paper beginning November 7, 2016) https://brittlepaper.com/2016/11/night-dead-girlfriend-called-episode-1-call-feyisayo-anjorin/ [No other episodes remain on line]. Rpt. Np: Okada Books, 2017 [Not found].
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panic City Y1 - 2016 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Jason Heller ED - Joshua Viola KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia of an automated city designed to protect its inhabitants that ends up killing them.
JF - Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow PB - Hex Publishers CY - Erie, CO U2 -Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Past Imperfect” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ararimeh Aiyejina ED - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - Trinidadian author AB -Dystopia set in a future where civilization had collapsed.
JF - New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean PB - Peekash Press CY - Brooklyn, NY/Leeds, Eng U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Power Y1 - 2016 A1 - Naomi Alderman (b. 1974) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia presented as a novel within the novel written by a man in a society in which Mother Eve has replaced Adam as the central figure and women are dominant. The Power is an ability that women develop that allows them to treat men as women are treated today. The man’s novel presents a situation with strong men. Female author.
PB - Viking CY - London N1 -Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2017
U2 -Illus. Marsh Davies
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Prayer for ‘0443’. Inspired by ‘The Trees’” Y1 - 2016 A1 - David Niall Wilson (b. 1959) ED - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - John McFetridge KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a future where equality is supposedly achieved by giving everyone a number and erasing all memory after a year.
PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Race Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The setting of the novel is a climate change dystopia.
PB - Titan Books CY - London U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rager in Space” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Charlie Jane Anders (b. 1969) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -A sometimes-humorous story set in a future dystopia in which all computers on Earth have failed, no one can ever pay off their student debts, and peonage has been reestablished for debtors.
JF - Bridging Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U4 - U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sahara" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) ED - Ivor Agyeman-Duah KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future high-tech but overpopulated Malawi in which a disease is devastating the population, with people replaced by high functioning AI’s. A scientist who discovers a cure is jailed because a cure would reverse the population decline.
JF - All Good Things Around Us: An Anthology African Short Stories PB - Ayebia Clarke Publishing, Ltd. CY - Oxfordshire, UK SN - 9780992843663 U5 -TRL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stewardship" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Katrina Archer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -In the story an AI and a robot are caring for a fenced-off area designed to contain one of the few remaining areas that are in ecological balance.
JF - Unsung Stories UR - https://www.unsungstories.co.uk/short/2016/2/3/stewardship N1 -Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2018: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media epub, 2018.
U5 -EBook
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Target" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eliza Victoria ED - Dean Francis Alfar ED - Nikki Alfar KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -The background to the story is a hierarchical dystopia as reflected in extremely high buildings with the higher status, richest people at the top and the poorest in what are called the Shadows at the bottom. The story is about a wealthy man hiring people to kill someone.
JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 10. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 10 N1 -Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Is There a Common Future for People and Trees?” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bart Muys ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -The essay includes a description of the Global Government’s 2035 Forest convention designed to protect the world’s forests.
JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U2 -Illus
U5 -MH
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, Cloudiest” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) A1 - Joep Crompvoets ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -A eutopia set in Leuven in 2125 with a sleeper awakes motif and one of the protagonists a Professor Leete, but those are the only connections to Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887). In the future everyone is monitored constantly by a chip in their body, and all information is stored in Clouds, with most decision-making automated.
JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -MH
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wage without Work" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marten Ovaere A1 - Kenneth Van den Bergh A1 - Arne van Stiphout ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -An essay presenting a eutopia set in 2050 in which the production gains brought about by automation have led to a universal basic income which allows the recipient to live however they choose. A man and his family are used to illustrate the positive effects in living, health care, education, which is focused on individual talents and activities that help the community as a whole. Also, financial security has led to greater inventiveness and innovation. Teachers and caregivers are well-paid and human interaction is still valued so some jobs that could have been fully automated have not been.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Watershed Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jane Abbott KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -A climate change dystopia set in an Australia with rising sea levels and a years-long drought so that water is the most precious commodity. An authoritarian dystopia controls the remaining population and hires people to search for and kill any dissidents.
PB - Vintage Books Australia CY - North Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -CSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carriers" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -A post-plague dystopia with the carriers of the plague forced to live outside what remains of civilization with the focus on the protagonist, who, like all the NIs (Naturally Immunes), is a carrier. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, Removal Order,” 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”
JF - The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Editors CY - Np SN - 9781497484405 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flamingo Land" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ruby Cowling ED - Ellah Wakatama Allfrey KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia in which a family must meet specified weight standards. If they are collectively too heavy, their wages are cut and if they continue to be overweight, children are removed from the family.
JF - Flamingo Land and Other Stories PB - Freight Press CY - London N1 -Rpt. in the author's This Paradise: Stories (Norwich, Eng.: Boiler House Press, 2019), 135-60.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heart Goes Last Y1 - 2015 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia in which some people are given the choice to join Consilience/Positron in which they spend one month in prison and one month in a house, which is used by others when they are in prison.
PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immunity Y1 - 2015 A1 - Taylor Antrim (b. 1974). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which a widespread viral infection leads to the health police quarantining anyone with an above-normal temperature.
PB - Regan Arts CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Valley of the Shadow of the Promised Land” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Robin Wasserman (b. 1978) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia seen through the eyes of a very old man who had created the religious basis for the reviving society. Stories that provide background to the dystopia are “The Balm and the Wound.” The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams ([Np: np], 2014), 5-22; and “Dear John.” The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych. Ed. Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams (Np: Np, 2014), 293-315.
JF - The End Has Come. The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Editors CY - Np U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Chloe Angyal” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chloe [S.]. Angyal ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Romance in a feminist utopia.
JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Promised" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Aisteach, Kyle KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia called the Great Default when government was unable to pay its bills.
JF - Little Dystopias. A Collection PB - Lightning Cellar Publications CY - Fresno, CA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Red Is the Color of Mother Dirt” Y1 - 2015 A1 - J. Y. Yang (b. 1983) ED - Maggie Allen ED - Janine Spendlove KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -Dystopian society on Mars that suppresses and isolates women. One young woman takes a stand against this suppression, wins a first round in court, but loses on appeal and spends time in prison during which she becomes the focuses of a widening rebellion by women.
JF - Athena's Daughters Volume 2 PB - Science in the Library CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Unforgivable" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Aisteach, Kyle KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopian prison of the future.
JF - Little Dystopias. A Collection PB - Lightning Cellar Publications CY - Fresno, CA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Viral Airwaves Y1 - 2015 A1 - Claudie Arseneault KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Authoritarian dystopia and its overthrow in favor of a green future. LGBTQIA characters. A prequel is White Renegade. Np: Author, 2015. 99 pp.
PB - Incandescent Phoenix Books CY - Riverview, FL N1 -2nd ed. Np: Author, 2016. 467 pp.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We Defy! A Tale Set in the Near Future Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tommy L. Attaway Jr. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Fed up with regulations from the U. S. national government, some Texans refuse to accept them. Independence! A Tale Set in the Near Future. Np: Author, 2016 shows the route taken to independence. A third volume, Republic! A Tale Set in the Near Future that would describe the Republic of Texas, was announced in Independence but has not appeared.
PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charles, SC] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lesley Nneka Arimah (b. 1983) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -The setting for the story is a climate-change dystopia in which most of Europe and North America are under water, and the European powers have re-colonized Africa, with the French slaughtering the Senegalese and the British establishing a caste system in Nigeria. For a story set in the same future, see Edwin Okolo, “When the Levees Break.” Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. Ed. Rachel Zadok, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, and Jason Mykl Snyman (Np: Short Story Day Africa, 2021), 213-26.
JF - Catapult Magazine UR - https://catapult.co/stories/some-mathematicians-remove-pain-some-of-us-deal-in-negative-emotions-we-all-fix-the-equation-of-a-person N1 -Rpt. in her What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 151-74.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: Water Men” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tim Akimoff KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in the U.S. and Canada after the water wars when the decisions were made to control the Great Lakes watershed which made the area became a dominant world power with positive and negative results. The area secedes from both Canada and the United States.
JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-water-men. ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By the Time We Get to Arizona” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in and around a new town that straddles the border between Mexico and Arizona where some workers are welcomed on short term contracts for tech jobs that, if they prove themselves fit, can earn longer contracts and admission to the U.S. The story focuses on just what “fit” means.
JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-220469-1 U5 -NNU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cast Out" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Sanhita Arni ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Feminist fantasy story with eutopian elements. A community punishes women who practice magic, even to save their lives, and casts them out to die at sea. But other women who practice magic and have created a women-only eutopia on an island rescues the cast out women and brings them to the island.
JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India N1 -Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 70-83.
U5 -PUP, Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Herd Immunity” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Removal Order,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.” In this story, Nayima, who is one of the few people who are immune, meets a man who she thinks is also immune.
JF - The End Is Now: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9781497484375 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Removal Order" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tananarive [Priscilla] Due (b. 1966) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -The first of a continuing series of stories featuring Nayina, a young African woman dealing with a plague (the 72-hour flu, 72 hours being how long one might live after contracting it) while caring for her grandmother, who had cancer. They had stayed behind in a town that everyone else had left and then were forced to move because the town was going to be burned in hopes of stopping the plague. A Nayima story in the series with 2014 Due, “Herd Immunity,” 2015 Due, “Carriers,” 2019 Due, “One Day Only,” and 2019 Due, “Attachment Disorder.”
JF - The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9781495471179 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shooting the Apocalypse" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The background to the story is a climate change dystopia with radical division in Arizona between those with water and those without water. See also 2015 Bacigalupi, The Water Knife.
JF - The End is Nigh: The Apocalypse Triptych PB - Np CY - Np N1 -Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 1-24; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 273-294.
U5 -Merril, PSt, Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This is Africa" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Feyisayo Anjorin (b. 1983) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -Flash fiction set in a future Africa, which is the only place in the world where “wildlife” exists outside zoos. Africa is still dependent on imported technology, including law enforcement robots, which are at times overzealous, but have been programmed to shoot any African head of state who tries to overstay their time in office.
JF - 365 Tomorrows UR - https://365tomorrows.com/?s=this+is+africa&et_pb_searchform_submit=et_search_proccess&et_pb_search_cat=4%2C12%2C1&et_pb_include_posts=yes U5 -EJournal
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Torching the Dusties" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The story is told from the perspective of an old, nearly blind woman living in Ambrosia Manor, a home for the wealthy aged, as protests by the Our Turn Movement erupt throughout the country. The protests are against the old for despoiling the planet, hoarding its wealth, and living too long and, as a result, depriving the young of what they see as their birthright. On the whole, the authorities support the protesters, and such homes are being torched.
JF - Stone Mattress: Nine Tales PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 978-0-771-00680-7 978-0-385-54912-8 N1 -US ed. (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2014), 225-268.
U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Virus Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ifedayo Adigwe Akintomide KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -Pandemic dystopia
PB - Lulu.com CY - Np SN - 9781312390324 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Worldmaker” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rachel Armstrong ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author JF - Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([Weston, Eng]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.
U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2014 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Paul S. Anderson (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a Civil War in the U.S. that starts as Texas secedes in an attempt by an elite to take over the country. Other states follow, and, while the U.S. government finally wins, the war is a long and bloody one.
PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Amphibian Attack” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Afolabi Muheez Ashiru ED - Ayodele Arigbabu KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a Nigerian leader who is trying to lead the recovery is undermined by his corporate supporters who are solely concerned with making money.
JF - Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria PB - DADA Books CY - Lagos, Nigeria U2 -Illus.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Annihilation” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu ED - Ayodele Arigbabu KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -Dystopia of Lagos after climate change had flooded the city.
JF - Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria PB - DADA Books CY - Lagos, Nigeria U2 -Illus.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beautiful Land Y1 - 2013 A1 - Averill, Alan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -One theme of the novel is the search for utopia and the way that its possibility can corrupt some people while freeing and healing others.
PB - Ace Book CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Burn 3” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kami Garcia (b. 1972) ED - Melissa Marr ED - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia of life inside a dome designed to protect people from the sun due to holes in the ozone layer, which it fails to do. The water requires purification tablets and the atmosphere inside the dome is often dangerous. Extremely crowded conditions and Burn 3 is the worst area.
JF - Shards & Ashes PB - Harper CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 435-454.
U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dogsbody" Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) ED - Melissa Marr ED - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Corporate dystopia that simply kills thousands of children in order to save the money of feeding them. The ones they allow to live work for the corporate at the lowest level, Dogsbody, at the worst jobs. The work focuses on a few young people fighting back.
JF - Shards & Ashes PB - Harper CY - New York U3 -Rachel Caine [pseud.]
U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Droplet" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) ED - Fabio Fernandes ED - Djibril al-Ayad KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which the U.S. is poor and ravaged by climate change and has become extremely parochial and has pushed out most non-citizen immigrants and even many immigrants who had become citizens. Those who stay are subject to random violence.
JF - We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology PB - Futurefire.net Publishing CY - Np U5 -PU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Entropia Y1 - 2013 A1 - Samuel Alexander KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Story of a successful experiment in simple living on an isolated island. See also, the author’s “A Prosperous descent: Telling new stories as the old book closes.” In Alexander Samuel and Bronwyn Adcock. Imagining the Future: Notes from the Frontier EBook to accompany Griffith Review No. 52. Ed. Julianne Schultz and Brendon Gleeson (South Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Griffith University in conjunction with Text Publishing, 2016), 4-24. The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made. Available through https://www.griffithreview.com/editions/imagining-the-future/ The author discusses the way his 2013 utopia Entropia led to a demonstration site that began by building an earthship followed by other buildings, an organic garden, and, ultimately, a community established as an experiment in 2015 for one year. While optimistic, the author is also open about the challenges faced and errors made.
PB - Simplicity Institute Publishing CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -MiU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Finches of Mars Y1 - 2013 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Most of the novel centers on two dystopias, Earth as it is torn apart by ethnic, national, and religious conflict and the first settlement on Mars which, in addition to national tensions, produces only stillborn children. The novel ends, though, with the arrival on Mars of evolved humans from the future come back to ensure the survival of the Mars settlement. These future humans come from a eutopia that has solved gender conflict by becoming both female and male. Few other details are given.
PB - The Friday Project CY - London U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Graveyard Shift” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Colleen Anderson ED - Steve Vernon KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The background to the story is the dystopia created by online education for those hoping to teach.
JF - Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lotus" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Joyce Chng ED - Fabio Fernandes ED - Djibril al-Ayad KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -Dystopia in which much of the world has been inundated by melting ice caps and tsunamis produced by earthquakes and most people life on boats and scavenge from half-submerged buildings.
JF - We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology PB - Futurefire.net Publishing CY - Np U5 -PU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - MaddAddam. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Third volume of a dystopian trilogy following 2003 and 2009 Atwood. This volume has many of the same characters as the previous volumes and shows they struggling to survive in the changed world.
PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese Doubleday, 2013.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mango Republic” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Terh Agbedeh ED - Ayodele Arigbabu KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -Climate change story set in a successful, corporate flawed utopia of the future Lagos.
JF - Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria PB - DADA Books CY - Lagos, Nigeria U2 -Illus.
U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "M.E.L." Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dianne Homan ED - Colleen Anderson ED - Steve Vernon KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Flawed utopia. A supposedly perfect but completely artificial world told from the point of view of a girl who does not fit in and who discovers the entrance to a natural world.
JF - Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Metal Feet” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Temitayo Olofinlua [Amogunla] ED - Ayodele Arigbabu KW - Female author KW - Nigerian author AB -Dystopia of robots taking over.
JF - Lagos_2060: Exciting Sci-Fi Stories from Nigeria PB - DADA Books CY - Lagos, Nigeria U2 -Illus
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resistance Y1 - 2013 A1 - Zainab Amadahy (b.1956) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Corporate dystopia set in Toronto.
PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Social Services” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of social services seen through the eyes of one of the providers who is, herself, controlled by her superiors.
JF - An Aura of Familiarity: Visions from the Coming Age of Networked Matter PB - Institute for the Future CY - Palo Alto, CA N1 -Rpt. in Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Ian C. Esslemont (Toronto, ON, Canada: ChiZine Publications, 2013), 249-62
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Trouble with Heaven” Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Albert Edward] [Cowdrey] (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. A satellite serving the function of a gated community for the very rich with android servants and police collapses when the controls on the androids are manipulated.
Chet Arthur [pseud.]
U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Appliances Go Green” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matt[hew] Colborn (b. 1973) ED - Katrina Archer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire on the dystopia created my connected appliances that are programmed to be environmentally conscious.
JF - Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate PB - Ganache Media CY - Np N1 -Originally published in Universe Magazine, no. 2 (2013), which is not available.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Apocalypse: The New Way Y1 - 2012 A1 - David Anderson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The novel begins with the apocalypse that occurs at the end of 2012 and then moves to 285 years later when the remnant of humanity are hunter gatherers. At that point a group of "Monks," who have remained hidden, emerge to teach these people a better way of life. The novel includes the Plan that had been worked out in 2012 (341-62) and "Blogs and Chats" about the Plan (363-524).
PB - LuLu Publishing CY - [Raleigh, NC] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Them Pretty Babies” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Camille Alexa KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia in which very few babies are born that are “normal” and the issues that this raises for the society and those who try to save those who are not mutants.
JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - no.90 (24.3) U5 -Can
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City Y1 - 2012 A1 - Axelrod, Jared A1 - Steve Walker KW - Male author AB -Young adult graphic novel dystopia about a young woman who uncovers the secrets of the authoritarian regime that runs the city. For more stories, see www.fablesoftheflyingcity.com
PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Brandy City” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Mia Arderne ED - Ivor W. Hartmann KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -Global warming dystopia.
JF - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers PB - StoryTime Press CY - [Zimbabwe] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Children's Crusade" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Michael Alexander (1950-2012) KW - Male author AB -Religious dystopia.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 122.5& 6 (701) U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glitch Y1 - 2012 A1 - Heather Anastasiu KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Young adult dystopia in which everyone is implanted with a chip that eliminates destructive emotions. First volume of a trilogy followed by Override. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2013, which focuses on the development of a resistance movement; and Shutdown. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014, which deals with the overthrow of the system.
PB - St. Martin’s Griffin CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Going Home Y1 - 2012 A1 - A[ngery] American [pseud.] KW - US author AB -First volume of a survivalist dystopia series. Followed by Surviving Home. New York: Plume, 2013; and Escaping Home. Book 3 of the Survivalist Series. New York: Plume, 2013, in which they fight the U.S government, which is establishing relocation camps, to stay in their homes; and Forsaking Home. A Novel. Book 4 of the Survivalist Series. New York Plume, 2014, in which the protagonist plots to bring down the entire system. See also 2016 American and Hopf.
PB - Plume CY - New York U3 -A[ngery] American [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Match Made in Heaven Y1 - 2012 A1 - Randy Attwood KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Mormons on the planet Moroni where they had moved 285 years earlier to avoid Earth laws, with the Equal Rights Amendment given as an example. Genetic manipulation allowed them to breed cattle the size of the extinct Earth elephants, and the meat was their main export. All men eighteen to twenty were required to work in the slaughterhouses. Practiced polygamy. Men are required to find a wife from off-planet to enlarge the gene pool. Most buy wives from a planet with slavery.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scrap Collectors" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Arlynn Despi ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Kate Osias KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -Climate-change dystopia showing a people trying to salvage the remnants of their lost civilization.
JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 7. Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 7 N1 -Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Surprises: Three Linked Romances Y1 - 2012 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Three interrelated love stories set initially in what is described as the near future but one in which androids do much of the work and the class system remains. The third act is set fifty years later with must more elaborate technology. The play was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough July 17, 2012.
PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -MH
ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Good Children Y1 - 2011 A1 - Catherine Austen KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Young adult authoritarian dystopia with a boy who wants to maintain his own identity.
PB - Orca Book Publishers CY - Victoria, BC, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Departure. The Owner Y1 - 2011 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia in which a group controlling an orbiting space station keeps the station's inhabitants enslaved and is coming to control the Earth. Sequels include Zero Point: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2012 and Jupiter War: An Owner Novel. London: Tor, 2013, both of which are mostly adventure and war.
PB - Tor CY - London U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Kingdom Y1 - 2011 A1 - David Arnold (b. 1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Young adult post-apocalyptic (pandemic caused by infected flies) dystopia. Much of the novel is similar to other young adult post-apocalyptic dystopias in which the protagonists search for a safe place to live and meet other survivors, some good, some evil. This novel has a third protagonist, called the Deliverer, who has lived multiple lives and hopes to be able to save the world.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eternal Winter" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Maria Pia Benosa ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Kate Osias KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -Climate-change dystopia in which all but a few remnants of the Philippines have disappeared, and one of the remaining is evacuating all the rich and powerful and leaving all the rest behind.
JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 6: Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 6 N1 -Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Holding Their Own: A Story of Survival Y1 - 2011 A1 - Joe Nobody [pseud.] A1 - D. Hall A1 - D. Allen ED - E. T. Ivester AB -First volume in a long dystopian survivalist series. See also Nobody with contributions by D. Hall and D. Allen , Holding Their Own II: The Independents. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2012; Nobody with contributions by D. Hall, D. Allen. and T. Baughman, Holding Their Own III: Pedestals of Ash. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2012; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own IV: The Ascent. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own V: The Alpha Chronicles. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013; Nobody, Holding Their Own VI: Bishop’s Song. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2013-2014; Nobody, with contributions by D.A.L.H. and D. Allen. Holding Their Own VII: Phoenix Star. Ed. E. T. Ivester. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own VIII: The Directives. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own IX: The Salt War. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2014; Nobody, Holding Their Own X: The Toy Maker. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2015; Nobody, Holding Their Own XI: Hearts and Minds. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2015; Nobody, Holding Their Own XII: Copperheads. Ed. E. T. Ivester and D. Allen. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2016; Nobody, Holding Their Own XIII: Renegade. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2017; Nobody, Holding Their Own XIV: Forest Mist. Ed. E. T. Ivester. Researched by D. W. Hall. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2018; Nobody, Holding Their Own XV: Bloodlust. Ed. E. T. Ivester. Researched by D. W. Hall. [Augusta, ME]: Prepper Press, 2018.
PB - Prepper Press CY - [Augusta, ME] U3 -Joe Nobody [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Monopol City Y1 - 2011 A1 - [John T.] [Cullen] KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -In a future authoritarian dystopia, political prisoners create a game called Monopol City and come to live within it.
PB - Clocktower Books CY - San Diego, CA N1 -Rpt. as Meta 4 City: A DarkSF Novel. DarkSF is the Dark Chocolate of Science Fiction. San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2017
U1 -Rpt. as Meta 4 City: A DarkSF Novel. DarkSF is the Dark Chocolate of Science Fiction
U3 -John Argo [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prisoner 2501" Y1 - 2011 A1 - John Philip Corpuz ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Kate Osias KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia present through the torture inflicted on prisoners to elicit information from them.
JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 6 Literature of the Fantastic N1 -Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rabbletown: Life in These United Christian States of Holy America Y1 - 2011 A1 - Randy Attwood KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Religious dystopia that develops after a world-wide religious war. Fundamentalist Christians have replaced the U.S. political system with people serving for life and control all aspects of life. Rabbletown is where the poor live.
PB - Smashwords/Kindle CY - Np U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Silver Wind" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nina Allan (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia of a future, poor, violent Britain that has lost much of its technology.
JF - Interzone VL - no. 233 U5 -O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bicyclopolis” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ken Avidor (b. 1955) ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Story told in graphic form of the future dystopic North America. An exploration by bicycle discovers huge clouds of plastic bags and the remains of cars, which are the object of worship by some survivors. Ends with “To Be Continued” but not within the volume. There is a blog “Bicyclopolis” at http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/.
JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] VL - 1 UR - http://bicyclopolis.blogspot.com/ U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children's Crusade Y1 - 2010 A1 - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) KW - Male author AB -A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. In this volume, children are being taken from their homes by organized teams. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, and 2010 Kane.
PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Constitution for The New Socialist Republic in North America (Draft Proposal) From the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA Y1 - 2010 A1 - Bob [Robert Bruce] Avakian (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A constitution for a future socialist republic giving the organizational structure and laying out the rights of citizens. Includes the possibility of autonomous regions within the country for African Americans and "Mexican-Americans". Stresses rights for women.
PB - RCP Publications CY - Chicago, IL UR - https://www.revcom.us/socialistconstitution/SocialistConstitution-en.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drown or Die” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Arkenberg, Therese KW - Female author AB -Having destroyed Earth, three billion humans are sent to various colonies on other planets, leaving another five billion behind on Earth to die. The other planets, some of which are inhabited, are being terraformed, thus destroying well-established ecosystems.
JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no., 19 U2 -Illus. Cécile Matthey
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyes As Wide As the Sky” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gabriela Lee ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Vincent Michael Simbulan KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -The first half of the story is about the creation of what appears a eutopia, albeit a fragile one, after a war that killed 98% of the world’s population, with the survivors, many of whom died, underground. The eutopia is a domed city built for the survivors, although some live a more restricted life outside the dome. The rest of the story is a ghost or zombie story.
JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - Volume 5. Literature of the Fantastic N1 -Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Faithful Soldier, Prompted.” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Saladin Ahmed (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future after wars in the Middle East had devastated the area and faulty technology was still giving instructions to the former soldiers.
Rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 72-83.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grimsdon Y1 - 2010 A1 - Deborah Abela (b. 1966) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia focusing on a group of teenagers surviving in the ruins.
PB - Random House Australia CY - North Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ishin" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia that focuses on two men using advanced technology to counter environmental damage and undermine corruption.
JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life in the Anthropocene" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe society in which all humans live above or below the 45th parallel. Appears to be a high tech eutopia, but it is absolutely dependent on a fragile power supply. Extreme limits on uses of fossil fuels, so very little travel.
JF - The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF PB - Constable/Robinson CY - London N1 -Rpt. in Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution and Evolution. Ed. Victoria Blake (Portland, OR: Underhand Press, 2013), 407-422.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mammoths of the Great Plains” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future that has been badly damaged environmentally, but in which Indians saved the mammoths from slaughter, which is the focus of the story. The setting has the suburbs gone and slowly being replaced by nature. The world is getting hotter and hotter.
JF - Mammoths of the Great Plains plus Writing Science Fiction During World War Three and “At the Edge of the Future” Outspoken Interview PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WAA U5 -PSC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scheherazade Cast in Starlight" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jason Andrew ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Revolution in the dystopia of contemporary Iran brought about through communications technology with the suggestion of the better society to follow.
JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Surrogates" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) ED - Mike Allen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a future society in which people can have chips that change their perceptions and "surrogates" create who are both servants and sexual partners.
JF - Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness PB - Norilana Books CY - Winnetka, WI N1 -Rpt. in her Near + Far: Stories of the Near Future and Far (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2012), 107-18. Near and Far are bound back-to-back.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Third Foundation Revealed Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dean Auger KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Despite the title, the novel is unrelated to Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, but has affinities to his Second Foundation. Homo sapiens have conquered the galaxy, which will be destroyed within three hundred years without dramatic changes. Some experimental psychologists discover a way of raising very intelligent children who will have the ability to create a much better future. For Asimov’s Foundation series; see the note at 1982 Asimov Foundation’s Edge.
PB - James A. Rock & Co CY - Florence, SC U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yarn Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jon Armstrong KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Companion to 2010 Armstrong. This novel is from the point og view of someone outside the corporate realm.
PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dobchek, Lost in the Funhouse" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Kay Kenyon (b. 1956) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which computers are DNA based and, in each person, because terrorist viruses had completely destroyed the possibility of silicon-based computers and the Web. The result is extreme isolation and terrorist attacks on any gathering of people.
JF - Live Without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eighth Wonder” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Chris Bachelder (b. 1971) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A climate change dystopia with people living inside a flooded domed stadium and beginning to build a better life there.
JF - McSweeney’s Thirty Two. 2024 A.D. PB - Saga Press CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 341-61.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In the Event Of” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Arditti, Michael ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Although the protagonist is a clone, the story is set in an underground, technological dystopia.
JF - When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -PU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Killswitch Review Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steven-Elliot Altman (b. 1968) A1 - Diane DeKelb-Rittenhouse KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in 2156 when it is possible to live as long as one wants. Since overpopulation is a threat, contraception is compulsory, and the U.S. has closed its borders. The focus of the novel is technologically assisted suicide, and the Killswitch is a handheld suicide device that is officially called the Kevorkian Unit, named after Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) who was found guilty of second-degree murder for his work in assisting people to kill themselves and spent 1999-2007 in prison. Given the lack of opportunity, young people are illegally killing themselves.
PB - Yard Dog Press CY - Alma, AR U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Operation Motherland Y1 - 2009 A1 - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) KW - Male author AB -A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series in sequel to 2007 Andrews. This volume follows events in various countries. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Six" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Leah Bobet ED - Mike Allen KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia with much fantasy. Large office buildings are being reclaimed from the top down with different floors used for housing, manufacturing, crops, etc.
JF - Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness PB - Norilana Books CY - Winnetka, CA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Things We Didn't See Coming Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steven Amsterdam (b. 1966) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia that follows a man as a copes with floods, plague, and other disasters beginning when he and his parents flee in fear of the collapse of civilization expected to be brought about the Y2K problem in 2000.
PB - Sleepers Publishing CY - Collingwood, VIC, Australia N1 -Parts originally published as and “The Theft That Got Me Here.” The Sleepers Almanac 2007: The Family Affair. Ed. Zoe Dattner and Louise Swinn [(Collingwood, Vic, Australia: Sleepers Publishing, 2007]), 73-84 and “Best Medicine.” The Sleepers Almanac No. 4 (Collingwood, Vic, Australia: Sleepers Publishing, 2008): 224-32.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - X Isle Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steve [Andre] Augarde (b. 1950) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Young adult dystopia in which children are essentially prisoners on an island where they had expected to find a better life. At the end of the novel, they revolt and kill their captors.
PB - David Fickling Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Random House/Fickling, 2010.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Flood Y1 - 2009 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Ecological dystopia with a eutopian enclave set roughly at the same time as 2003 Atwood with some of the same characters. See also 2013 Atwood.
PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009. U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alone With an Inconvenient Companion" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. The story is about the way in which humans are replacing their biological parts with mechanical ones, and it is set in a society that is constantly monitoring and correcting everyone.
JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Arties Aren't Stupid" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tolbert, Jeremiah ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of artists in a society where independent art is punished.
JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 N1 -Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 401-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 401-10.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of Blind Delight" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Catherynne M[organ] Valente (b. 1979) ED - Mike Allen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Fantasy, but the city in which the story is set is a cockaigne with streets made of food and so forth.
JF - Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness PB - Norilana Books CY - Winnetka, CA N1 -Rpt. in Other Worlds Than These: Stories of Parallel Worlds. Ed John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 487-76.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Gambler" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of instant communication with over-reliance on the internet. A sub-theme is environmental collapse.
JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 N1 -Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), 32-49 with an editor’s introduction on 32; and in Twenty-First Century Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden (New York: Tor, 2013), 51-72.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man in the Dark Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul Auster (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. A story told by the central character is set in a parallel America in which the 2000 Presidential election led to secession and civil war.
PB - Holt CY - New York N1 -UK ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mitigation" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Environmental dystopia designed to keep people ignorant.
JF - Fast Forward 2 PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY N1 -Rpt. in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 527-55.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Murder in Geektopia" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A eutopia for Geeks with a stress on technology and popular culture in an alternative future of world peace.
JF - Sideways in Crime: An Alternative Mystery Anthology PB - Solaris CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Payback” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -In the book Atwood reflects on the nature of debt and the debtor creditor relationship from a number of different perspectives, primarily in literature and myth. In the last chapter, “Payback” (163-203), she presents a twenty-first century Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (). This “Scrooge Nouveau,” as she calls him, owns multiple corporations, and is only concerned with more and more money and has no interest in the damage his actions inflict on other people or the planet. The first spirit is the Spirit of Earth Day Past who shows him how Earth was nurtured in various cultures but also shows him the Black Death and other ways humans negatively impacted the Earth. The Spirit of Earth Day Present shows him various contemporary disasters-in-the making. Finally, the Spirit of Earth Day Future multiple possible futures. In one, the human race is extinct. Finally, alternative futures are present, one in which the Earth is recovering and the other in which there is a food shortage, inflation has destroyed Scrooge’s wealth, and he is in danger of starvation.
JF - Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth PB - Anansi CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 978-088784-810-0 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peculiar Bone, Unimaginable Key" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia in which Europe and the Islamic countries have agreed to end conflict with Europe agreeing to ban alcohol and the Islamic countries agree to end honor killing.
JF - Celebration: An anthology of original short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Resistance" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The problems faced by those resisting a technological solution to decision making where neither approach is particularly good.
JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rooftops of Manila" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo ED - Dean Francis Alfar ED - Nikki Alfar KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -Dystopia of extreme rich/poor divisions.
JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction. Volume 4: Literature of the Fantastic PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 4 N1 -Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rx for Chaos Y1 - 2008 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) ED - Eric Flint KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire on the problems that arise from a drug that makes everyone happy all the time.
PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -A collection of related stories published previously as "Rx for Chaos." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 72.6 (February 1964): 72-80; "Cinderella, Inc." Imagination 3.7 (December 1952): 72-75 as Crosby; "Roll Out the Rolov!" Imagination 4.10 (November 1953): 96-103 as Crosby; "The New Boccaccio." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 64.5 (January 1965): 74-77; "Is Everybody Happy?" Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction Science Fact--Science Fiction 81.2 (April 1968): 67-85; "A Handheld Primer." Amazing Science Fiction Stories 51.2 (January 1978): 32-39; "The Great Intellect Boom." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction Science Fact--Science Fiction 83.5 (July 1969): 38-55; "Interesting Times." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 107.12 (December 1987): 104-16; "Superbiometalemon." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 63.1 (374) (July 1982): 37-43; "Speed-Up!" Amazing Stories 38.1 (January 1964): 6-32; "Rags from Riches." Amazing Stories 62.4 (537) (November 1987): 122-27; "Bugs." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 106.6 (June 1986): 90-113; "Positive Feedback." 75.6 Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction (August 1965): 47-63; "Two-Way Communication." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 77.3 (May 1966): 72-83; "High G." Worlds of If Science Fiction 15.6 (91) (June 1965): 76-100; "Doc's Legacy." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 108.2 (February 1988): 158-83; "Negative Feedback." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 114.4 (March 1994): 58-73; "The New Way." Beyond Infinity 1.1 (November/December 1967): 150-60; "Identification." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 57.3 (May 1961): 8-32; "The Golden Years." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 107.3 (March 1977): 110-20; "No Small Enemy." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 68.3 (November 1961): 7-51; and "Not in the Literature." Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 71.1 (March 1963): 60-66.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seniorsource" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch (b. 1960) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -SF story with a dystopian background. Generational conflict has placed many old people in orbiting satellites or on the moon with settlement of Mars in process. This has impoverished Earth. “The old were warehoused with the terminally ill, and depending on how much money they had, they either got personal care or they didn’t” (275).
JF - Fast Forward PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY VL - 2 SN - 9781591026921 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shift Y1 - 2008 A1 - Charlotte Agell (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -Young adult religious dystopia.
PB - Henry Holt CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Spider the Artist” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nnedi[mma Nkemdili]] Okorafor-Mbachu (b. 1974) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a near future Nigeria where the oil copies have developed AIs to protect their pipelines from people breaching them by killing the people. Only the government and the wealthy get any benefit from the oil, and the land is badly polluted.
JF - Seeds of Change PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] SN - 9780809573103 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/ N1 -Rpt. as by Nnedi[mma Nkemdili] Okorafor in The Mammoth Book of SF Stories By Women. Ed. Alex Dally Macfarlane (London: Robinson/Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. 2014), 57-70; and in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 122 (July 2020). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/spider-the-artist/
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 29 Inches Y1 - 2007 A1 - Mark Amerika KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopian cyberpunk poem.
PB - Chiasmus Press CY - Portland, OR U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue Messiah" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Steve Almond (b. 1966) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of the United States divided between a fundamentalist religious South and a libertine North.
JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cherry Heaven Y1 - 2007 A1 - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Sequel to 2005 Adlington in which the girl whose diary was discovered in that novel escapes from a factory prison and, with other girls, leads a movement to free others of the lowest caste and establish a better society.
PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City Beyond Play Y1 - 2007 A1 - Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) A1 - Danny Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -In a eutopian future where everyone can have whatever they want, an area has been set aside where people have recreated a cleaned-up middle ages. Rather than go through the therapy required in the larger society, a murderer chooses exile in the medieval area, which has fallen away from the eutopian vision of its founder. The novel is largely adventure.
PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Id-entity, OR, Farewell to Plaquedemia. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book One of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition Y1 - 2007 A1 - D. Harlan Wilson (b. 1971) ED - Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach, Esquire, ed. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopian humor and satire with a stress on violence. His Codename Prague. An Unfinished Pulp Science Fiction Novel. Book Two of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City, 2011 continues the same themes. The third volume of the trilogy is The Kyoto Man. A Pulp Science Fiction Novel “Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow” Book Three of the Scikungfi Trilogy. The First Edition. Ed. Dr. Master Master Stanley Ashenbach Esquire. Bowie, MD: Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Bliptown, 2012.
PB - Printed by Raw Dog Screaming Press in Maryland, and for Stick Figure Incorporated in Pseudofollicultis City CY - Hyattsville, MD U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freedom Station Occoquan. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Cris[tobal] Alvarez KW - US author AB -Dystopia in the U.S. after a second civil war and the development of a national security state. The ending suggests a sequel will be forthcoming.
PB - Author CY - Arlington, VA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good Old Days" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Rebecca Lickiss KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire. A man in a highly technological eutopia discovers the pleasures of doing something for himself.
JF - The Future We Wish We Had PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grey Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jon Armstrong KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Corporate dystopia see from some raised in the corporate enclave. See also 2010 Armstrong.
PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - HARM Y1 - 2007 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Two related dystopias, one created by the war on terrorism and the other created on a distant planet by people with a similar mindset. HARM refers to the Hostile Activities Research Ministry.
PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Bushes" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Jami Attenberg (b. 1971) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of an environmentally damaged disintegrating U.S.
JF - 2033: The Future of Misbehavior. Interplanetary Dating, Madame President, Socialized Plastic Surgery, and Other Good News from the Future PB - Chronicle Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -Rpt. in Invaders: 22 Tales From the Outer Limits of Literature. Ed. Jacob Weisman (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2016), 140-44.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Keeping Time" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Maria] F[elisa] H. Batacan ED - Dean Francis Alfar ED - Nikki Alfar KW - Female author KW - Filipina author AB -Dystopia brought about by an enzyme put into water to control obesity that inexorable takes weight off everyone until they die.
JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - Volume 3: Literature of the Fantastic N1 -Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prairie Fire. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Dan Armstrong KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Near future anti-capitalist dystopia from a populist perspective. Three large corporations control the world grain market, and the U.S. farmers they are impoverishing decide to fight back with mixed results.
PB - Lincoln, NB CY - iUniverse N1 -2nd printing Eugene, OR: Mud City Press, 2007. 540 pp.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Proxy Server" Y1 - 2007 A1 - L. Archeneaux AB -Near future dystopia in which companies and governments cooperate to suppress dissent.
JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 13 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Recoper: Breathing life into the revolution" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The setting of the story is one in which all unhealthy foods have been outlawed; everyone works for the state and can be hired out to private businesses; and the government spies on everyone.
JF - Nature VL - 450.7172 U2 -Illus. Jacey
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - School's Out Y1 - 2007 A1 - Scott [Keegan] Andrews (b. 1971) KW - Male author AB -A volume in the series The Afterblight Chronicles. Young adult dystopia set after a plague, called "The Cull", had eliminated a large part of the world's population. Extreme violence, gangs, and cults. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Levene, 2008 Bark, 2008 Kane, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.
PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -Rpt. in Schools Out Forever. An Omnibus of Post-Apocalyptic Novels. Oxford, Eng.: Abaddon Books, 2012 which reprints Schools Out (7-221), Operation Motherland (223-443), “The Man Who Would Not Be King” (445-67), and Children’s Crusade (469-707) and adds miscellaneous “Bonus Material” (709-27).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wikiworld" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia based around peer-operated systems, including government.
JF - Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "YFL-500" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia set in the same world as 2006 Wilson "The Cartesian Theater".
JF - Fast Forward: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge PB - Pyr CY - Amherst, NY U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Absalom's Mother" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Louise Marley (b. 1952) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia with centralized control of all aspects of life. The story is about the revolt of a group of women against the drafting of their children into the workforce and the militia at a very young age. Schooling involves teaching children how to do the jobs they are already required to do.
JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cartesian Theater" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Charles Wilson (b. 1953) ED - Lou Anders KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The background of the story is the failure of complete automation to produce a eutopia. See also 2007 Wilson.
JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 275-98; and in Distant Early Warnings: Canada's Best Science Fiction. Ed. Robert J. Sawyer (Markham, ON, Canada: Published by Red Deer Press for Robert J. Sawyer Books, 2009), 241-77 with a note on the author on 241-42.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Check Elastic Before Jumping: Paralysis to senses, temporarily" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Neal [L.] Asher (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A future of corporate dominance mostly presented positively.
JF - Nature VL - 441.7096 N1 -Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 30-32.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children's Hospital Y1 - 2006 A1 - Adrian, Chris KW - Male author AB -Flawed utopia/dystopia with strong elements of fantasy. After a catastrophe that inundates the earth under miles of water, a children's hospital survives by floating. All the children are miraculously cured of whatever mental or physical disease brought them to the hospital, and attempts are made to create a better society.
PB - McSweeney's Books CY - San Francisco, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Engines of Arcadia" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Sean [Christopher] McMullen (b. 1948) ED - Lou Anders KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Flawed eutopia. A future which has adopted the medieval Arcadia as its model and the flaws in the system.
JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fledging of Az Gabrielson. The Clouded World: Book I Y1 - 2006 A1 - [James Matthew Herbert] [Lovegrove] [(b. 1965)] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Describes two groups on a planet, the sky dwellers, who live in immensely tall cities and have developed wings, and those who live on the ground. The first group is described in eutopian terms and the second in dystopian terms. The book ends with the beginnings of a reconciliation, but Pirates of the Relentless Desert has the Groundlings attacked by the Airborn. The last two volumes continue the various stage of conflict and reconciliation.
PB - Gollancz CY - London U3 -Jay Amory [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Homeland Y1 - 2006 A1 - Michael Amos KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -An authoritarian dystopia describing a shopping mall homeland controlled by security forces.
PB - Samhain Publishing CY - Dothan, AL U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homosexuals Damned, Film at Eleven" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Alex[ander Christian] Irvine (b. 1969) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian, right-wing, fundamentalist dystopia.
JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Library" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) ED - Donn Albright ED - Jon[athan R.] Eller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a dictator tries to burn all the books in a library, but people have been memorizing them.
JF - Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 PB - Gauntlet Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO N1 -Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 63-65.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Long After Midnight" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) ED - Donn Albright ED - Jon[athan R.] Eller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia closely related to 1953 Bradbury in which a man is constantly worried about his books being burned.
JF - Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 PB - Gauntlet Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO N1 -Rpt. in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 139-202.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pearl Diver" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Caitlín [Rebekah] Kiernan (b. 1964) ED - Lou Anders KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -The story is set in an overpopulated, environmentally degraded dystopia in which both government and corporations have everyone under surveillance at all times.
JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 229-42; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 229-42.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Scouring" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Rikki Ducornet (b. 1943) ED - Forrest Aguirre KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which humans have lost most natural functions.
JF - Text:Ur: The New Book of Masks PB - Raw Dog Screaming Press CY - Hyattsville, MD N1 -Rpt. in her The One Marvelous Thing. Decorated by T[om] Motley (Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), 112-16.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shuteye for the Timebroker" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paul [Gerard] Di Filippo (b. 1954) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The background to the story is an invention that means that no one has to sleep, and the developed world, where people can afford it, develops even faster, while the poor slip further behind.
JF - Futureshocks PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Diary of Pelly D Y1 - 2005 A1 - L[ucy] J. Adlington (b. 1971) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Young adult authoritarian dystopia in the form of a girl’s diary found by a young man on a work gang salvaging material from ruins. One’s position in society is supposed to be based on genetic differences. See also 2007 Adlington. Female author.
PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Greenwillow, 2005.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Digital Day" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Jan [Johannes] Amkreutz ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Technological eutopia.
JF - Moving Along: Far Ahead. Volume Four of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Free the Sky" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Wendy S. Delmater ED - Katrina Archer KW - Female author AB -The story is about those opposed to global weather control, which requires the world to be enveloped in a force field that will change the appearance of the sky.
Originally published in Spirit House (2005), an online anthology published to honor the victims of the 2004 tsunami. No longer available online.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - High in the Clouds Y1 - 2005 A1 - [James] Paul McCartney (b. 1942) A1 - Geoff Dunbar A1 - Philip Ardagh KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Children's eutopia depicting Animalia, a tropical island where all animals live happily together. Contrasted with the dangers of Megatropolis.
PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Power. A Philosophical Adventure Story Y1 - 2005 A1 - Philip Allott KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The novel is designed to show how it might be possible to bring about a eutopia. A sequel is Invisible Power 2. A Metaphysical Adventure Story. [Bloomington, IN]: Xlibris, 2008. A third volume, Invisible Power 3. A Political Adventure Story, was announced but not published. Nonfiction explanations of the same ideas can be found in his Eunomia: New Order for a New World. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; and Eutopia: New Philosophy and New Law for a Troubled World. Cheltenham, Eng./Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016.
PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -C, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of America Y1 - 2005 A1 - E. B Alston AB -Largely romance and adventure set in a future U.S. divided into two countries, with the larger part a Roman Catholic kingdom.
PB - Righter Publishing CY - Timberlake, NC U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Olive Readers Y1 - 2005 A1 - Christine Aziz KW - Female author AB -Corporate dystopia set in the twenty-third century. Reading is prohibited and an underground network of readers struggles to keep memory and the past alive.
PB - Macmillan CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "King Tide" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alison Wilson ED - Katrina Archer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a New York City mostly under water.
JF - Little Blue Marble: Stories of Our Changing Climate PB - Ganache Media epub. CY - Np N1 -Originally published in Terraform (2004)
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leviathan Wept" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Daniel [James] Abraham (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia produced by the policies against terrorism in which both sides kill with impunity.
JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted July 7, 2004. No longer available online. N1 -Rpt. in The Year's Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 283-99.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Feed the Machine" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Del Stone Jr. ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author AB -Dystopia in which love is forbidden and homosexual love is "an abomination".
JF - Living without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Solace for the Soul in Digitopia" Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Paul le Page] [Barnett] (1949-2020) ED - Lou Anders KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -Presents what can be considered a sexual eutopia in a world of multiple realities.
JF - Living without a Net PB - Roc CY - New York U3 -John Grant [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oryx and Crake Y1 - 2003 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia. Most of the novel is set in a post-catastrophe future, but some is set in the dystopia of our day and a near future dystopia of corporate competition over genetic manipulation, which leads to the catastrophe. See also 2009 and 2013 Atwood.
PB - McClelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -U.S. ed. as Oryx and Crake. A Novel. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parecon: Life After Capitalism Y1 - 2003 A1 - Michael Albert (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Non-fiction that includes a section on "Daily Life in a Participatory Democracy" (171-230) that is eutopian. See also 2017 Albert.
PB - Verso CY - London U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Small Planet of Our Own" Y1 - 2003 A1 - T[erri] E[llen] Merritt-Pinckard ED - Forrest J. Ackerman ED - Pam Keesey KW - Female author AB -Lesbian eutopia on a planet settled only by lesbians.
JF - Sci-Fi Womanthology PB - Sense of Wonder Press CY - Rockville, MD U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bone House Y1 - 2002 A1 - Luanne Armstrong (b. 1949) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia of global warming and corporate control.
PB - New Star Books CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -CaOTU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burning Bombing of America" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) ED - Amy Scholder KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia with America destroyed.
JF - Rip-off Red, Girl Detective and The Burning Bombing of America: The Destruction of the U.S. PB - Grove Press CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Feed Y1 - 2002 A1 - M[atthew] T[obin] Anderson (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Young adult dystopia in which everyone is controlled by a transmitter implanted in their brain.
PB - Candlewick Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kindling Y1 - 2002 A1 - Jennifer [Mary] Armstrong (b. 1961) A1 - Nancy Butcher KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe children’s dystopia. First volume of the Fire-Us trilogy. In this volume, the seven children who survive a catastrophe create a functional society based on the family. When another child survivor arrives, they set off to find help. The second volume is The Keepers of the Flame. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books. 2002, in which the surviving children discover a group of adults living in a mall, but they prove to be dangerous. The final volume is The Kiln. New York: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2003, in which the children are travelling again searching for the answer to their situation.
PB - HarperCollins Children's Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mindful of Utopia Y1 - 2002 A1 - Merritt [Gold] Abrash (b. 1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Detailed anarchist eutopia by one of the founders of the Society for Utopian Studies.
PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe Y1 - 2002 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire on the rich and powerful in a future European Union.
PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives & Our World Y1 - 2002 A1 - Mark Allen KW - Male author AB -A self-help book that includes a chapter entitled “A Utopian Novel” (29-40) that introduces the theme of the book, which is community involvement. See his The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Living the Life of Your Dreams. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2003 for a scheme without the social content.
PB - New World Library CY - Novato, CA U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fast Eddie, King of the Bees Y1 - 2001 A1 - Robert Arellano (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future dystopia set in Boston, Massachusetts. Rich-poor division. A street hustler is the hero.
PB - Akashic Books CY - New York U2 -Illus. Marek Bennett
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gray's Anatomy Y1 - 2001 A1 - Rachel Armstrong KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The novel satirically explores various issues (sex and gender, the media, power, etc.) through contact among alien societies and with humans. Although one alien society (the telepathic Grays) is eutopian initially, it is negatively affected by the alien contact.
PB - Serpent's Tail CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Second Contact Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Joshua A.] [Dann] (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Earth contacts a planet inhabited by people very like themselves who have created a eutopia based on unlimited power.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York U3 -J. D. Austin [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Blind Assassin Y1 - 2000 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -In a novel focusing on a family history two stories are told, one intermittently throughout the novel and one in a few brief sections. The first is a dystopia describing an authoritarian country on another planet and its institutions, particularly those around the sacrifice of virgins. The second is a male fantasy flawed eutopia which the men find fades over time.
PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver in Cloneland. The Fifth Travel of Gulliver. The Complete Text, including the passages deemed inappropriate for publication by the author Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Varoujan] [Kazanjian] KW - Egyptian author AB -Satire on contemporary Egypt set in a land of clones.
PB - The Book Guild CY - Lewes, Sussex, Eng. U3 -By Ariazad [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New City. A Novel Y1 - 2000 A1 - Stephen Amidon (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -An ideal suburban community is created that is specifically designed for racial harmony, but over time the usual personality conflicts and differing needs and desires reveals it to be a better society albeit a flawed utopia. Set in 1973 and based on Columbia, MD, where the author once lived.
PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resisting Adonis Y1 - 2000 A1 - Timothy J[ohn] Anderson KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Complex, violent dystopia.
PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U1 -Cover adds an erotic science fiction thriller.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sin Eaters" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -Dystopia in which all Native Americans are violently rounded up and taken to prison camps. The pure blooded then have their bone marrow taken and forced to have sex to produce children who will also be used to harvest bone marrow to suppress cancers in the white majority.
JF - The Toughest Indian in the World PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York: U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bouncing Babies" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kara Dalkey (b. 1953) ED - Constance Ash KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Satire on what society will look like if a major market in women's eggs develops.
JF - Not of Woman Born PB - Roc CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Grammarian's Five Daughters" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Eutopian fantasy in which a poor grammarian gives each daughter a sack of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions respectively), and they go off and find a country without those words. Releasing the words transforms each country for the better. Ultimately all five countries are united.
JF - Realms of Fantasy VL - 5.5 N1 -Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 6-20.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Recent Visit to Xanadu" Y1 - 1999 A1 - John Hope Franklin (1915-2009) ED - Maya Ajmera ED - Olateju Omolodun KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -A brief description of a eutopia written for children in which there is racial harmony, no tobacco or weapons, no crime and no police, and “love, justice, and tolerance.” The eutopia is accompanied by stories and poems about and illustrations of Xanadu by children that range from the traditional Cockaige with a volcano the expels candy to the poignant desire that every child has a mother and father to racial diversity and world peace. All the children are in elementary school.
JF - Xanadu, the Imaginary Place PB - Shakti for Children CY - Durham, NC U2 -Illus.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plato Papers Y1 - 1999 A1 - Peter [Warwick] Ackroyd (b. 1949) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire. Description of our time, known as Mouldwarp, from the point of view of a far future society (after A.D. 3700), that has a very imperfect understanding of the past. In that society, Plato, described as “the great orator of London,” presents wildly inaccurate public orations describing Mouldwarp but when he gains a more accurate picture of the past, he is persecuted.
PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. as The Plato Papers. A Prophesy [Prophecy on the dust jacket]. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2000.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) A1 - Roger Penrose (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Detailed eutopia in creation on Mars including the presentation of alternative points-of-view. A sub-theme is the initial identification of an alien life form..
PB - Little, Brown CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gertrude and the Printed Page Y1 - 1998 A1 - Stanley L. Alpert KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A future dystopia where publishing new books is outlawed and the experiences of the owner of the last bookstore.
PB - Alpert's Bookery CY - Nanuet, NY U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scavenger's Tale Y1 - 1998 A1 - Rachel Anderson KW - Female author AB -Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in 2015. The world is radically divided between the rich and the poor. Authoritarian government and authoritarian church.
PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moons of Palmares Y1 - 1997 A1 - Zainab Amadahy (b.1956) KW - African American author KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -Dystopia of commercial exploitation of a colony for its mineral resources and the successful fight for independence.
PB - Sister Vision Black Women and Women of Color Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 171-81 with an editor’s note on 171-73.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tyranny." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Brad[ford Swain] Linaweaver (1952-2019) ED - Edward E Kramer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Revolt against a libertarian eutopia that has become bureaucratized.
JF - Free Space PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Farm" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -Dystopia. Concentration camps for American Indians in which they are required to breed to provide bone marrow to cure the cancers of whites.
JF - The Raven Chronicles N1 -Rpt. in Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. Comp. and ed. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas (Alice Springs, NT, Australia: Jukurrpa Books, 2000), 42-56.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pussy, King of the Pirates Y1 - 1996 A1 - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Complex dystopia. As with many of Acker's novels, this has connections with works of others, in this case Robert Louis Stevenson's (1850-94) Treasure Island (1883) and Pauline Réage's [pseud.] [Anne Declos (1907-98)] Histoire d'O (1954).
PB - Grove Atlantic Press CY - New York N1 -Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador, 1996.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shangri-La: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon Y1 - 1996 A1 - Eleanor Cooney A1 - Daniel [Peter] Altieri (b. 1046) KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -Sequel to 1933 Hilton in which a Chinese general plans to find and plunder Shangri-La but is thwarted by the guardian of Shangri-La and the general’s daughter.
PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Fury Y1 - 1995 A1 - Abaidoo, Kodwo KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -Imaginary dystopian colony and the successful revolt to establish freedom.
PB - Woeli Publishing Services CY - Accra, Ghana U5 -MA, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Osiris Rising: A Novel of Africa, Past, Present and Future Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -Uses the Osiris myth to explore the current authoritarian dystopia that is many African states and suggests a way forward based on the African past.
PB - Per Ankh CY - Popenguine, Senegal U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Virtual Death Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Robert] [Boswell] (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia with a focus on death as entertainment.
PB - HarperPrism CY - New York U3 -Shale Aaron [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crime Studio Y1 - 1994 A1 - Steve Aylett (b. 1967) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The first of several volumes and stories set in the dystopian city Beerlight. See also his Slaughtermatic. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows/London: Phoenix House, 1998; and Atom. London: Phoenix House, 2000. U.S. ed. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Additional stories are “The Siri Gun.” Crime Time England (1999); rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 45-52; “Shifa.” BritPulp. Ed. Tony White (London: Sceptre, 1999), 105-10. Rpt. in his Toxicology. Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999), 85-89; U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2001), 42-45; and “Fiasco.” Why2K: Anthology for a New Era. Ed. Stephen Howard (London: Booth Clibborn Editions, 2000); rpt in his Toxicology (London: Gollancz, 2001), 102-05. L, O
PB - Serif CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Fall Walls Eight Windows, 2001.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hidden War Y1 - 1994 A1 - Michael [Allan] Armstrong (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed technological utopia that suppresses knowledge of the fact that the utopia is at war.
PB - TSR CY - Lake Geneva, WI U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Distances" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Sherman [Joseph] Alexie [Jr.] (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -Apocalyptic story based on the recovery of Native American Indian lands through the intercession of the Indian ancestors. In the book, the story is told by Thomas Builds-the-Fire, an Indian visionary.
JF - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York N1 -Rpt. (New York: Grove Press, 2005), 104-09. Rpt. in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 143-48 with an editor’s note on 143-45.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harvest of Stars Y1 - 1993 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia with individuals and a free enterprise society as opponents. Sequels include his The Stars Are Also Fire. New York: Tor, 1994, in which machine intelligences are dominant; and The Fleet of Stars. New York: Tor, 1997 where the machine intelligences have become more and more controlling, and a few humans struggle to stop them.
PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Fantasy about a matriarchy.
PB - Baen CY - New York U3 -Piers Anthony [pseud. of Jacob]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ring of Swords Y1 - 1993 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A difficult book to characterize in that it presents two societies, an extremely well-done alien society, the Hwarhath, where same-sex relations are the norm, and people from a future Earth. Both societies are presented with their good and not-so-good elements. See Brian Attebery, "Ring of Swords: A Reappreciation." New York Review of Science Fiction 16.8 (April 2004): 1, 8-10. Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.
PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -Stories about the aliens include The Actors: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 97.6 (579) (December 1999): 105-60. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 66-129. ; “Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 23.9 (284) (September 1999): 104-35. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 130-80; “The Garden: A Hwarhath Science Fictional Romance.” Synergy SF: New Science Fiction. Ed. George Zebrowski (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2004), 122-81. Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 309-56; “The Gauze Banner.” More Amazing Stories. Ed. Kim Mohan (New York: Tor, 1998), 126-46. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 192-212; “Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery.” Eclipse online (November 12, 2012). http://www.nightshadebooks.com/2012/11/12/holmes-sherlock-a-hwarhath-mystery-by-eleanor-arnason/ Rpt. without the subtitle in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 358-81; “The Hound of Merin.” Xanadu. Ed. Jane Yolen (New York: Tor, 1993), 188-211. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 10-33; “The Lovers.” Illus. Steve Cavallo. Asimov’s Science Fiction 18.8 (218) (July 1994): 136-60. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 34-65; “Origin Story.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 21 (April 2000): 64-66. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 187-91. “The Potter of Bones.” Illus. Steve Cavallo in Asimov’s Science Fiction 26.9 (320) (September 2002): 12-47. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 251-308. “The Semen Thief.” Illus. Carol Heyer. Amazing Stories 68.9 (589) (Winter 1994): 87-94. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 213-36. “The Small Black Box of Morality.” Tales of the Unanticipated, no. 16 (Spring/Summer/Fall 1996): 24. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 183-86. and “The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times: A Hwarhath Folk Tale.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 123.1 & 2 (702) (July-August-2012): 134-44. Rpt. in Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct, 2016), 237-49.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall At the Edge of the World Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jim [James Douglas] Aikin (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia--efficient, peaceful walled city. Telepathy ensures that those who think wrongly are removed. Discovery of the world beyond the walls brings change.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horse Meat" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Violent dystopia.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the Pleasurehouse Y1 - 1992 A1 - Agnetha Anders KW - Female author AB -Dystopia and revolt. Erotica set in 2031. Sequel to 1991 Anders.
PB - Nexus CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dalereuth Guild House" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Priscilla W. Armstrong A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lesson in the Foothills" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Lynne Armstrong-Jones KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -Merill
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newton's Sleep." Y1 - 1991 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story begins in a very brief dystopia of a future North America with a destroyed environment and constant regional wars. The story then moves to a satellite that is supposed to be a eutopia based on reason, but anti-Semitism and the struggle for power undermine the eutopia while, at the end, imagination seems to be beginning to reshape even the physical layout.
JF - Full Spectrum PB - Doubleday CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -Rpt. in her A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories (New York: HarperPrism, 1994), 23-55.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pleasurehouse 13 Y1 - 1991 A1 - Agnetha Anders KW - Female author AB -Erotica set in 2030 in a class-based dystopia. Revolt. See also 1992 Anders.
PB - Nexus CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Strife" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Chel Avery KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summer Fair" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Emily Alward KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "When the Rose Is Dead." Y1 - 1991 A1 - David [Neil] Zindell (b. 1952) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Amy Stout ED - Betsy Mitchell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia in a war setting. A character is said to be "suffering from an illness the doctors call 'Desire for Utopia'."
JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - 3 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wicked Y1 - 1991 A1 - Andrea Arven AB -Erotica for women set in A.D. 2075. Dystopian world divided by skilled and unskilled. Decaying cities with urban outlaws preying on the rich. Sequels include her Wild. London: Nexus Books, 1992. Repub. as Saskia Hope. Outlaw Fantasy. London: Black Lace, 1994; and The Reality Game. London: Nexus, 1992; and Wanton. London: Nexus, 1994.
PB - Nexus CY - London N1 -Repub. as Saskia Hope. Outlaw Lover. London: Black Lace, 1994.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman of the Iron People Y1 - 1991 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A complex, multi-layered regarding the interactions of people from a technological, socialist Earth and aliens from a simple society, with the action taking place on the alien’s planet. Good and bad elements of both peoples are described, and there is a particular emphasis on gender. The book won the first James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award for science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender.
PB - Morrow CY - New York N1 -Rpt. as A Woman of the Iron People. Part One. In the Light of Sigma Draconis. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992; and A Woman of the Iron People. Part Two. Changing Women. New York: Avonova/Avon Books, 1992.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Morn Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) A1 - Roberto Fuentes (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future repressive dystopia and time travel into the past.
PB - Tafford Publishing Co CY - Houston, TX U3 -Piers Anthony [pseud. of Jacob]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land Beyond Y1 - 1990 A1 - Gill[ian] Alderman (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Anthropological science fiction presenting a remnant of the people of the far north who are kept in city in the ice working for their captives. The arrival of the Democratic Travelling Circus brings ferment.
PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -Rpt. London: Grafton, 1992.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Re: Generations" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Mike [Michael Dennis] McQuay (1949-95) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy ED - Amy Stout ED - Patrick LoBrutto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which all television is designed to sell products, with both the television stations and the stores owned by the Company. But the system is beginning to fall apart, creating a different dystopia, with shortages of the goods being sold, people developing psychological problems, and mass suicides.
JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - 2 U5 -MoU-St, Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And the Truth Shall Set You Free" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Sharon Green (b. 1942) ED - Robert Adams ED - Pamela Crippen Adams KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A eutopia set seventy-five years in the future where the justice system has shifted from concern with treating the accused fairly to insisting on getting the truth. The mantra of the society is that everyone has free choice, and many social and technological means are in place to achieve this, but anyone who chooses to violate the society's standards is sterilized and the worst cases are sent to wilderness settlements with no outside support.
JF - Alternatives PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nuclear War Diary Y1 - 1989 A1 - James E. Stanford Jr. ED - Frank Alexander KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The diary of a teenager for the first year after a nuclear war.
PB - Front Row Experience CY - Byron, CA SN - 0-915236-28-2 U2 -Illus. by the author
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Spirit of Exmas Sideways" Y1 - 1989 A1 - L[ester] Neil Smith [III] (1946-2021) ED - Robert Adams ED - Pamela Crippen Adams KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Alternative history libertarian eutopia connected to his 1980 The Probability Broach. The U.S. Constitution was overturned and replaced with a reformed Articles of Confederation, which became the basis of the North American Confederacy in which everyone carries a weapon. Related novels include, in publication order, in addition to The Probability Broach, not all of which are utopian, the series includes The Venus Belt (1980); Their Majesties' Bucketeers. Illus. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. 182 pp.; The Nagasaki Vector. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. 242 pp., neither of which have much to do with the main themes in the series; Tom Paine Maru. New York: Ballantine. 273 pp. Rpt. rev. Rockville, MD: Phoenix Pick, 2009. 222 pp. [An author’s note says that the first edition was badly cut by the publisher and that this version reflects his original intent]; The Gallatin Divergence. New York: Ballantine, 1985. 223 pp.; Brightsuit MacBear. New York: Avon, 1988. 212 pp.; Taflak Lysandra. New York: Avon, 1988. 230 pp., in all three of which there are clashes between the Confederacy and the authoritarian Federalists; and The American Zone (2001) which is a sequel to The Probability Broach. In the chronology of the series, the volumes are The Probability Broach, The Nagasaki Vector, The American Zone, The Venus Belt, The Gallatin Divergence, Tom Paine Maru, Brightsuit MacBear, Taflak Lysandra, and Their Majesties' Bucketeers.
JF - Alternatives PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empire of the Senseless Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kathy [Karen Lehmann] Acker (1948-97) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in vaguely described future with a number of loosely connected themes such as Algerian terrorists taking over Paris. Much sex and violence.
PB - Grove Press CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Picador, 1988.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Henceforward. . . Y1 - 1988 A1 - Alan Ayckbourn (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Offstage in the background is a near-future dystopia of violence. Most of London is dangerous and people live with armed security guards and some of London are "no-go" areas controlled by local gangs.
PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Journals of the Plague Years." Y1 - 1988 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. An AIDS-like pandemic/plague spreads throughout the world and anyone with it is put into a quarantine zone. Written from the point of view of both those with the plague and those fighting it. At the end a virus defeats the plague, and an introductory statement written fron Luna City in 2143 suggests a eutopian outcome.
JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. as Journals of the Plague Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Year With the Aliens." Y1 - 1988 A1 - Lisa Goldstein (b. 1953) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Satirical take on a world formed by middle-class intellectual radicals after a Communist revolution on Earth. No private property; criticism/self-criticism sessions; children raised communally. The story is told from the point-of-view of a mildly disaffected teenager.
JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prelude to Foundation Y1 - 1988 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Prequel to the Foundation series. See note at 1982 Asimov. See also 1986 Asimov. Includes a description of a society presented as dystopian that is similar to a traditional religious commune.
PB - Doubleday CY - New York U5 -MoR, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resurrection, Inc Y1 - 1988 A1 - Kevin J[ames] Anderson (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia--dead revived to be used as slaves. They revolt.
PB - New American Library CY - New York U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Is the Year Zero" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Andrew [Simon] Weiner (1949-2019) ED - Lou Aronica ED - Shawna McCarthy KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Alien invasion followed by authoritarian dystopia in which humans become slaves working in fields with no machines. Most familiar things are abolished--no money, no meat or green vegetables, no TV, no cars, no cities, no schools, no telephones, no sex. Old and ill disappear. Children run things for the aliens and appear content but say that there is now no past and no future, just the present.
JF - Full Spectrum PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Toast of Babatine" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Donna Allegra (b. 1953) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -Lesbian eutopia that has been in existence for six generations. Operates with no rules but selects what they call servants, who appear to be something like overseers, each season.
JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 34 U5 -PBm
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anthills of the Savannah Y1 - 1987 A1 - Chinua [Chinụalụmọgụ] Achebe (1930-2013) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -Dystopia. An imaginary country based on Nigeria describing a military dictatorship.
PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -Rpt. with an "Introduction" by Maya Jaggi (vii-xiv). London: Penguin Books, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1988.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Country of Last Things Y1 - 1987 A1 - Paul Auster (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a collapsing city and a degenerating civilization. A film directed by Alejandro Chomski with a screenplay by the director was released in Spanish in 2020 and in English in 2022.
PB - Viking CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1988
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Miamigrad Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jerry [Jerome Morrell] Ahern (1946-2012) A1 - Sharon Ahern (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Soviet controlled Miami and the revolt against it.
PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year Before Yesterday Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Alternative history including a fascist Britain.
PB - Franklin Watts CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. Contains his “The Impossible Smile” first published in a different form under the pseudonym Jael Craken in Science Fantasy 23 - 24.72 - 73 (May – June 1965): 5-43, 5-44. Rpt. in SF Reprise 6 (1966): 5-43, 5-44; and “Equator” first published in New Worlds Science Fiction 25.75 - 76 (September - October 1958): 4-41; 80-121; and as Vanguard from Alpha. New York: Ace Books, 1959. Ace Double bound with Kenneth Bulmer’s The Changeling Worlds.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foundation and Earth Y1 - 1986 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Continuation of the Foundation series that continues the eutopia of the sentient planet Gaia in 1982 Asimov. See also 1988 Asimov.
PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Freeforall" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -After the world is ravaged by sexually transmitted diseases, breeding is controlled to guarantee disease free children. The Freeforalls are where anyone who is outside the breeding program is sent. In these walled compounds, food is dropped in daily by helicopter, and there is no limit on sex, but it is expected that most will die fairly soon.
JF - The Toronto Star N1 -Rpt. in Tesseracts2. Ed. Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb and Douglas Barbour (Victoria, BC: Porcépic Press, 1987), 130-38; and Northern Suns. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1999), 17-24.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Freeman Y1 - 1986 A1 - Jerry [Jerome Morrell] Ahern (1946-2012) A1 - Sharon Ahern (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which the United States has become a totalitarian state through the cancellation of the Second Amendment on the right to bear arms and appeasement of the Soviet Union. Survivalists resist.
PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ghost Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of an energy-depleted earth as a background.
PB - Tor CY - New York U3 -Piers Anthony [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Whore of Babylon” Y1 - 1986 A1 - Leon [Léon] Zeldis ED - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Sam J. Lundwall KW - Chilean author KW - Israeli author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in an extremely authoritarian dystopia in Israel, with one of the first things learned in school is “I am free to obey, and I am happy to be free.” In the story his father takes him to the slums for his first visit to a prostitute, which has almost nothing to do with sex.
JF - The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction. An Anthology PB - Penguin Books CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. SN - 9780140080674 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Handmaid's Tale Y1 - 1985 A1 - Margaret [Eleanor] Atwood (b. 1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia of the right in power set in the Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, a theocracy that sees all women as inferior, whose primary purpose is to produce children, and fertile women are a valuable commodity. The novel ends with Historical Notes from “The Twelfth Symposium on Gilead Studies.” 2019 Atwood, The Testaments is a sequel that begins early in the history of Gilead. Canadian female author.
PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986. Rpt. New York: Anchor Books/Penguin, 2017, with a new “Introduction” by the author (xiii-xix). There is a graphic novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The Graphic Novel. Art & Adaptation by Renée Nault. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2019. An audible book is available as The Handmaid’s Tale: Special Edition. Np: Audible Studios, 2017 narrated by Claire Danes and others and with addition material by Atwood.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masters of the Board. A Novel Y1 - 1985 A1 - Christopher Abani (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Neo-Nazis take over Nigeria to use as a base to re-establish the Third Reich.
PB - Delta of Nigeria CY - Enugu, Nigeria U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Trail" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Barbara Armistead ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -HRC, Merril, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2020 and Beyond" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Sterling E. Alam ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Discusses the effects of radically increased longevity (700 years) and life in space habitats. These changes will produce a general slower pace in life, and a lower population growth. Education and re-education will be life-long, and the pattern of life will change a number of times. Children are likely to be raised in child-care communities by adults who, at that stage of their life, are particularly attuned to children.
JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -MoU-St, TxU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Courage of Sisters" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Cris Newport ED - Rita Arditti ED - Renate Duelli Klein ED - Shelley Minden KW - US author AB -Dystopia set after a limited nuclear war. No explanation is given but many more girls are being born than boys and the state requires that girls be aborted. The story focuses on a woman pregnant with a girl who chooses to leave to find women who live in the Barrens so that they can have their children.
JF - Test-Tube Women: What future for Motherhood? PB - Pandora Press CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Frozen City Y1 - 1984 A1 - David Arscott A1 - David J. Marl KW - Male author AB -Includes both an authoritarian dystopia of violence and a vaguely described eutopia. The eutopia is completely non-violent and appears to be anarchist.
PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London U5 -TxU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Greening of Mars Y1 - 1984 A1 - Michael Allaby (b. 1933) A1 - James [Ephraim] Lovelock (1919-2022) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The novel is mostly about the terraforming of Mars, the trip to Mars by immigrants, and their initial adjustment to the new planet, but the main protagonist, briefly presents Mars in eutopian terms. All manual work performed by robots. Everyone is vegetarian. Every book and article ever published on Earth is available electronically. Growing social diversity. No guns. Very limited crime. Lovelock was the founder of the Gaia theory that Earth is a living entity.
PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s/Marek, 1984.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Land of Ordinary People. For John Lennon" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) ED - Ruby Rohrlich ED - Elaine Hoffman Baruch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Poem that gives the sense of an anarchist eutopia.
JF - Women in Search of Utopia; Mavericks and Mythmakers PB - Schocken Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 3-5.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mists of Time Y1 - 1984 A1 - Margaret J[ean] Anderson (b. 1931) KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -Third volume of a young adult trilogy following 1977 and 1979 Anderson. In this volume the children help an enslaved people to meet violence with nonviolence. . The female author was born in Scotland and lives in the U.S.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Therrillium" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Mischa [Benson] Adams ED - Ruby Rohrlich ED - Elaine Hoffman Baruch KW - Female author AB -Excerpt from a novel-in-progress entitled A Season of Song. A utopia is to be described, but there is very little in this excerpt, and the novel does not appear to have been published.
JF - Women in Search of Utopia; Mavericks and Mythmakers PB - Schocken Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The True Story of Lilli Stubeck Y1 - 1984 A1 - James [Harold Edward] Aldridge (1918-2015) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Young adult novel that discusses a character's belief in utopia and its effects on him and his friends.
PB - Hyland House CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -Rpt. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Puffin, 1985.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New America Y1 - 1983 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia depicting the settlement and development of a planet by a group of individualists who make laissez-faire capitalism work. "A Fair Exchange" is the story most concerned with economic questions.
PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York N1 -A linked series of stories. Four of them were originally published in the Continuum series ed. Roger [Paul] Elwood as “My Own, My Native Land.” Continuum 1 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), 42-75; “Passing the Love of Women.” Continuum 2 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974), 51-81; “A Fair Exchange.” Continuum 3 (New York: Berkley, 1974), 29-53; and “To Promote the General Welfare.” Continuum 4 (New York: Berkley, 1975), 31-62. U.K. editions published as Continuum I, II, III, IV. First two vols. published London: W.H. Allen, 1975, 1976 with the Anderson stories on 38-62 and 43-65 respectively. Second two vols. published London: Star, 1977 with the same pagination as the U.S. ed. The others are “The Queen of Air and Darkness.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 40.4 (239) (April 1971): 5-45; “Home,” which was originally published as “The Disinherited.” Orbit 1: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1966), 65-81; and the essay “Our Many Roads to the Stars.” Galaxy 36.8 (September 1975): 73-87.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orion Shall Rise Y1 - 1983 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Variety of future societies with Anderson's usual emphasis on libertarianism versus authoritarianism.
PB - Timescape Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - All Our Tomorrows Y1 - 1982 A1 - Ted [Theodore Edward le Bourthillier] Allbeury (1917-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia of a Russian occupied Britain. People choose the system to correct the faults of the current situation, which includes daily violence, and to avoid the collapse of the country. Some resistance.
PB - Granada CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Mysterious Press, 1989.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foundation's Edge Y1 - 1982 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Fourth vol. of the famous series. While the focus of the novel is on the sweep of historical change that was the focus of the trilogy, none of which were eutopian and are best characterized as early social science fiction, this volume includes a eutopia called Gaia, where the world is itself sentient. The entire planet including flora and fauna as well as the people have a group consciousness. Everything does what is needed for itself and the planet and no more. See also 1986 and 1988 Asimov.
PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY N1 -Excerpts published as “Foundation’s Edge.” Omni 5.1 (October 1982): 64-68, 70, 156-58; and, under the same title, in Asimov’s Science Fiction 6.12 (59) (December 1982): 44-49, 50-52, 54-61, 63-65, 67-71, 73-74, 76-77, 79, 81-82, 84-85, 87, with comments on the Foundation series by various authors on the intervening pages.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Games of the Strong Y1 - 1982 A1 - Glenda [Emilie] Adams (1939-2007) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -Complex dystopia--partially Orwell and partially Kafka. The main character, a young woman who identifies with the rebels, wends her way, seemingly almost by accident, through the bureaucracy and society of the Complex, an authoritarian dystopia. The Games of the Strong, which are barely mentioned, are games designed to distract the population from their miserable lives.
PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -Rpt. North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Sirius, 1987. U.S. ed. New York: Cane Hill Press, 1989.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Maurai & Kith Y1 - 1982 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe eutopia of sea people based on conservation contrasted with a technological space faring civilization and the problems when they meet. The Maurai are based on the New Zealand/Aotearoa Maori.
Parts originally published as "The Sky People." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 16.3 (March 1959): 85-124; "Progress." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 22.1 (January 1962): 90-129; "Windmill" [See 1973 Anderson]; "Ghetto." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 6.5 (May 1954): 94-119; and "The Horn of Time the Hunter" as "Homo Aquaticus." Amazing Stories 37.9 (September 1963): 6-22.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Ceremony of Discontent" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Feminist eutopia set in a society where each woman had to make an irrevocable choice between motherhood and independent creativity and trading. Men would marry at least one of each. The story is about an independent woman, who is discontented but does not want to be a mother either.
JF - A Room of One's Own VL - 6.1 & 2 N1 -Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 21-33.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Judgement: 2110 A.D." Y1 - 1981 A1 - Maureen Ahern (b. 1981) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -A future New Zealand wholly dominated by women (FEM). The men born are designated MAL (Malformed) and kept on reserves.
JF - WARP: The Magazine of the [New Zealand] National Association for Science Fiction VL - no. 21 U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Good News Y1 - 1980 A1 - Edward [Paul] Abbey (1927-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Post-catastrophe conflict between collapsed cities and the resurgent countryside.
PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -An excerpt was published under the same title in TriQuarterly, no. 48 (Spring 1980): 273-95.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Dennis R. Caro (b. 1944) ED - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Brief story set in an overpopulated world.
JF - Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 204-06.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Russian Hide-and-Seek; A Melodrama Y1 - 1980 A1 - Kingsley [William] Amis (1922-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia of the U.K. overrun by the U.S.S.R.
PB - Hutchinson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Split Infinity Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Two worlds are described. One is a dystopia based on science and rigid class distinctions, and the other is a fantasy in which only magic works. One individual moves between the two worlds. The story is continued in his Blue Adept. New York: Ballantine Books, 1981. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982; and in his Double Exposure (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 261-514; and in his Juxtaposition. By Piers Anthony [pseud.]. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983; and in his Double Exposure (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 515-790.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in his Double Exposure (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, [1982]), 1-259.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stepfather Bank" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [David Charles] [Poyer] (b. 1949) ED - Victoria Schochet ED - John Silbersack KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in 2110 in which the "Bank," having gradually gained control of all corporations, owns everything. It employs everyone except one poet.
JF - The Berkley Showcase; New Writings in Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Berkley CY - New York VL - 1 U3 -David Andreissen [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What I Did During My Park Vacation” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Ruth Berman (b. 1942) ED - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The brief story is about a high-tech society where most of the natural world is gone, and a park travels from roof top to roof top so that people can be temporarily exposed to it.
JF - Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 267-68.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Avatar Y1 - 1979 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -One part of the novel is a typical Anderson dystopia in which the authoritarian Social Welfare Party takes over of Earth.
PB - Berkley Publishing CY - New York N1 -Parts of Chapters II and XXIII were published in slightly different form as parts of his “Joelle.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 1.3 (Fall 1977): 148-86.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Circle of Time Y1 - 1979 A1 - Margaret J[ean] Anderson (b. 1931) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -Young adult novel in sequel to 1977 Anderson. This novel is set in 2179 in which two children from our time assist a eutopian society in its struggle against a mechanized dystopia. See also 1984 Anderson. The female author was born in Scotland and lives in the U.S.
PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Salute to America In the Year 2000" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Tom [Thomas Jefferson] Anderson (1910-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A John Birch Society eutopia. Money is tied to gold and silver. It is illegal for the federal government to have a deficit. The minimum wage is abolished; anyone on welfare or being paid in tax dollars is disenfranchised. The sixteenth amendment establishing the income tax is repealed and a new tax system is implemented with no deductions and a maximum tax of ten per cent. The US is no longer in the UN, and the UN is no longer in the US. US citizens tried for treason are "deported to the Communist country of their choice" (46). The change was brought about by those who were "raised in traditional Christian homes and attended private Christian schools" (40).
JF - American Opinion VL - 22.9 U5 -KU, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Show Me a Hero Y1 - 1979 A1 - Patrick [James] Alexander (b. 1926) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -The novel is about a future U.K. democratic socialist dictatorship, the resistance movement, and the coup that succeeded in overthrowing it.
PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -MoS, NLS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow . . . What It Will Be Like Y1 - 1979 A1 - Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. Direct rule by God. God will make the entire world cultivatable by reducing the mountains, watering the deserts, changing the world weather patterns, and thawing out the ice packs. This will eliminate the population problem. Single language. Jerusalem the financial capital of the world. Gold standard. Human nature improved. All debts canceled every fifty years. See also 1966 Armstrong and Armstrong.
PB - Everest House CY - New York U5 -Can
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enemies of the System; A Tale of Homo Uniformis Y1 - 1978 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia based on a Biological Communism that has created Homo Uniformis (Man Alike Throughout). They live in a flawed utopia (no passion, violence, or doubt) and meet primitive descendants of Homo Sapiens on the planet Lysenka II, named after Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976), Joseph Stalin's director of biology, who believed the newly acquired characteristics could be passed on to descendants, a position generally rejected by geneticists.
PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978. Rpt. New York: Avon, 1981. A story entitled "Enemies of the System" was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 54.6 (325) (June 1978): 5-65.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Healers: An Historical Novel Y1 - 1978 A1 - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -The novel is set at the fall of the Ashanti Empire, destroyed by internal disunity in Africa combined with European power. The dystopia is offset by the vision of African unity of The Healers. Clearly a call for Africans to unify.
PB - East African Publishing House CY - Nairobi, Kenya U5 -O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People's Almanac's Exclusive Symposium on Utopia" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) A1 - William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) A1 - Ram Dass (1931-2019) A1 - Clifton Fadiman (1904-99) A1 - Allen Ginsburg (1926-97) A1 - James Michener (1907-97) A1 - Ashley Montagu (1905-99) A1 - Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) ED - David Wallechinsky ED - Irving Wallace (1916-90) AB -Isaac Asimov (1920-92), William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008), Ram Dass [also known as Baba Ram Das (original name Richard Alpert)] (1931-2019), Clifton Fadiman (1904-99), Allen Ginsberg (1926-97), James Michener (1907-97), Ashley Montagu (1905-99), and Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) answer nine questions regarding their own utopia. Asimov, Michener, Montagu, and Untermeyer make substantial statements.
JF - The People's Almanac PB - Bantam Books CY - New York VL - no. 2 U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space Station Eight: A Philosophical Novel Concerned with How Humanity Can Achieve Peace and Fulfillment in the Next One Thousand Years Y1 - 1978 A1 - Carlton C. Allen (b. 1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The novel is set in 1999 after a large space station where one thousand young people have spent time studying the desperate situation of the Earth and developing the ideas and principles needed to save Earth and create a eutopia, which they were expected to do within a year. The most basic principles were freedom and responsibility (97).
PB - Vantage Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Ways" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Men (no women were on the ship) return to Earth after a long trip to find it entirely under five dystopias. After a new ice age and two nuclear wars, most people live underground and there are constant wars among the dystopias, Corporatia, Socdemaria, Communia, Neutralia, and Third World. Widespread poverty and few human rights. The men end up in different countries, but their situations are much the same, except for one who moves to Zealandia, a colony of Australia, where he becomes a colonial boss. The others return to space.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 54.4 N1 -Rpt. in his New Arrivals, Old Encounters: Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 25-51.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cold Cash War Y1 - 1977 A1 - Robert [Lynn] Asprin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which multinationals conclude that war games are a good way to end disputes so the hire mercenaries to fight non-lethal wars, thus avoiding supervision by the legal system. But the fake war spirals out of control and corporate executives become targets and are assassinated. A sequel of sorts is Asprin with Bill Fawcett. Combat CommandTM In the World of Robert Asprin’s Cold Cash War. The Cold Cash Warrior. New York: Ace Books, 1989 (CU-Riv)
PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -CU-Riv
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horsemen" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A simple, agricultural eutopia is destroyed by people from Earth. The people are closely in tune with their planet, vegetarian, live in marriage groups, and have rich inner lives. The arriving Earth ship releases the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pestilence, Famine, War, and Death) on the planet.
JF - Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine VL - 1.3 N1 -Rpt. as "New Arrivals, Old Encounters." In his New Arrivals, Old Encounters. Twelve Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1979), 9-14.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Keep of Time Y1 - 1977 A1 - Margaret J[ean] Anderson (b. 1931) KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -First volume of a young adult trilogy. This volume sets the stage for the later volumes in the four children travel first to the past and then to the future. In the past, they deal with war between England and Scotland. In the future, they are faced with an environmentally damaged world. The female author was born in Scotland and lives in the U.S.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Alteration Y1 - 1976 A1 - Kingsley [William] Amis (1922-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Religious dystopia. Alternative history set in 1976 in which a Pope rules England from his seat in Yorkshire. No Reformation. No science.
PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -Collector’s Edition illus. Debbie Hughes with an “Introduction” by Brian W. Aldiss (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. Rpt. New York: New York Review of Books, 2013 with an “Introduction” by William Gibson (vii-x).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) ED - Susan Janice Anderson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Feminist eutopia composed only of women, mostly clones but with a few new genotypes still being created, confronts men returning from a long space voyage. The eutopia came because an epidemic caused widespread infertility and no male babies were born. It has a small population and is without hierarchy or government and, while it has space travel, it is based more on agriculture than technology. The three men include an extreme chauvinist, a Christian who believes that God established a patriarchal system, and one man who struggles to understand and accept the situation.
JF - Aurora: Beyond Equality PB - Fawcett Books CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -Rpt. in Star Songs of an Old Primate (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), 164-226; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 582-632; under the title of the story New York: Tor, 1989 as part of Tor Double Novel # 11 bound with Joanna Russ’s Souls; and in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 168-222.
U3 -James Tiptree Jr. [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Atlantis: The Secret of the Sphinx Y1 - 1976 A1 - Colin Amery KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -Treatment of the Atlantis legend by a believer. The hope of a eutopia is held out after the coming Armageddon (See Revelation 16), which will be followed by the re-emergence of occult masters and the return of people from space. Presented as non-fiction.
PB - Regency Press CY - London U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Steppe Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Dystopia of a future oriented around a complex game run by the Game Machine, which has the power to bring people from the past to fill essential roles in the game.
PB - Millington CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1985.
U3 -Piers Anthony [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light." Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Susan Janice Anderson ED - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Future dystopia of violence directed particularly at women.
JF - Aurora: Beyond Equality PB - Fawcett Books CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -Rpt. in James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.], Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr. (Suak City, WI: Arkham House, 1990), 149-67; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 247-63.
U3 -Raccoona Sheldon [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Life and Times of Multivac" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia in which everyone lives well, but all important decisions are made by a large computer, which, for example, decides who can have children and when. Also, people are only allowed to do unimportant work and that only with permission.
JF - The New York Times Magazine ER - TY - ABST T1 - Multiface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1975 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Picture of a controlled society of the future that is presented as a eutopia, albeit with problems. See also 1971 and 1972 Adlard.
PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What You Get For Your Dollar" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Future development of the Middle East based on the United Nations establishing M.E.R.O. or the Middle East Reclamation Organization designed to reclaim the Sinai and Negev deserts. Cooperation of Arabs and Israelis, who establish the independent State of Sinai and live together without amicably. Development of science and art.
JF - The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gomorrah Y1 - 1974 A1 - Marvin Karlins (b. 1941) A1 - Lewis M. Andrews (b. 1946) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of violence.
PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inheritors of Earth Y1 - 1974 A1 - Gordon [Stewart] Eklund (b. 1945) A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future dystopia. Authoritarian. Religious revival. Telepathy leads to ability to control minds.
PB - Chilton Book Co CY - Radnor, PA U5 -ICarbS, Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mother Earth Revisited: When Women in Politics Are Old Hat" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Bella [Savitsky] Abzug (1920-1998) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -An interview that is presented as having taken place in 2000 set in a world where Earth is primarily female and the moon and satellites in space are primarily male, a situation brought about by negotiation and political compromise. There had been a nuclear war, Earth had been made largely uninhabitable and people on Earth lived underground. Traditional gender roles have disappeared.
JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -DLC, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sex Savages Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Jory] [Sherman] KW - Male author AB -Erotic lost race tale. Amazons; strong, dominant women.
PB - Barclay House CY - Chatsworth, CA U3 -Frank Anvic [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Clear Day in Motor City" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Eleanor [Atwood] Arnason (b. 1942) ED - Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia. The story begins in a future eutopian Detroit, Michigan, where everyone gets the day off on a clear day. But the eutopia exists only for those who take drugs, and there are human sacrifices to the old gods.
JF - New Worlds 6. The Science Fiction Quarterly PB - Sphere CY - London N1 -Rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 109-16 with an editor's note on 108-09.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of the Wind" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia of limited government.
JF - Analog Science--Science Fact VL - 90.6 - 91.2 N1 -Repub. New York: New American Library, 1973. Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pugilist" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia. U.S. taken over by Communists. Militarism.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 45.5 N1 -Rpt. in 2020 Vision. Ed. Jerry Pournelle (New York: Avon, 1974), 85-117; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2011), 104-27.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Race Against Time Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia. The Standards were the few survivors of bacterial warfare and lived on an Earth that was recovering slowly. They stressed no waste and no pollution, but their society was becoming stagnant. Since they still had the old technology, they created groups of individuals of high intelligence of various pure racial stocks who were to live in racially pure enclaves. These people decide to keep the races pure but to cooperate otherwise and will become examples to the Standards.
PB - Hawthorn CY - New York U3 -Piers Anthony [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Thousand Seasons Y1 - 1973 A1 - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -A re-envisioned past of Africa as an egalitarian eutopia.
PB - East African Publishing House CY - Nairobi, Kenya N1 -Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Heinemann Educational, 1979.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Windmill" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Ecological dystopia in a post-disaster society. Complex control on the use of resources.
JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 149-70.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goat Song" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a computer-run stable society balanced by a wild country in which violence is permissible. A constant population is maintained.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.2 N1 -Rpt. in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2011), 281-306.
U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "I Tell You, It's True" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia brought about by electronic brainwashing.
JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 2 N1 -Rpt. in his Conflict (New York: Tor, 1983), 128-50; and in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 171-90.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Solitaire" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Robert [Woodruff] Anderson (1917-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in a highly mechanized future where most people's interactions are with machines rather than other people.
JF - Solitaire & Double Solitaire PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Volteface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1972 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Sequel to 1971 Adlard describing an authoritarian overpopulation dystopia in which the population is manipulated by a small group of executives. In this novel the executives decide to reintroduce work and intentionally appoint incompetent people to management positions because this will reproduce twentieth century business. See also 1975 Adlard.
PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2150 A.D Y1 - 1971 A1 - Thea Plym Alexander (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Detailed eutopia--technologically advanced, telepathic, vegetarian. Unified society on high emotional, intellectual, and spiritual plane. There is a “Micro Island” where the ways of the past are still practiced. See also Don Plym and Thea Ann Plym. A Macro Philosophy for the Aquarian Age. 2nd ed. Grosse Pointe, MI: Macro Development Center, 1971; and Thea Alexander, The Prophetess; Conversations With Rana. Book Four of the How to Develop series. Tempe, AZ: Macro Books, 1972. 47 pp. where the differences between Micro and Macro lives are contrasted regarding past and future, love and hate, government and politics, freedom and bondage, wisdom and folly, crime and punishment, war and peace, religion and god, law and injustice, sex and marriage, good and evil, and life and death. For a plan to put some of the ideas into practice, see Macro Associates. Micro Society Community. Phase II. Phoenix, AZ; Macro Associates, nd.
PB - Macro Books CY - Tempe, AZ N1 -Tempe, AZ Macro Books_
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Interface. Science Fiction Y1 - 1971 A1 - Mark [Peter Marcus} Adlard (b. 1932) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -First of a series about Stahlnex (the only building material) Corp. which controls the world. A few genetically enhanced executives live in splendor and isolation while others live in an overpopulation dystopia. Creativity has mostly disappeared. The novel ends with a revolt against the corporation and its power. See also 1972 and 1975 Adlard.
PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London U5 -IU, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2430 A.D.--Too Late For the Space Ark" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Conformist dystopia in an overpopulated world. The focus of the story is one man who keeps the last zoo, holding the last few small animals on the planet. For the good of society, he is asked to get rid of them. He does and kills himself also. "And after that there was really perfection. for all over the Earth, there was . . . not one unsettling thought, not one unusual idea, to disturb the universal placidity that meant that the exquisite nothingness of uniformity had at last been achieved" (165-66).
JF - IBM Magazine N1 -Rpt. without the subtitle in his Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), 159-66.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After the Ball (A Story of Man in the Future)" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Charles Alldritt (1908-2007) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Dystopia and eutopia. Mostly a criticism of contemporary conditions with a particular emphasis on the dystopia being brought about by overpopulation. Includes a brief general eutopia at the end after the population problem is solved.
JF - Worlds in Mind PB - Author CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homage to Raphael Hythloday" Y1 - 1970 A1 - David Austin A1 - David Page KW - Male author AB -A eutopian education, with much criticism of even good contemporary education. In Utopia they teach the parents--which includes everyone who the child chooses to learn from--first. That means that no elementary schools are needed, and there are no age or generational distinctions. No one works but people create and make things as and when they choose.
JF - ARK (Journal of the Royal College of Art, London) VL - 46 N1 -Rpt. without the illus. in Anarchy 115 10.9 (September 1970): 266-268.
U2 -Illus.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hunter at His Ease." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia of a future world constantly at war and "Progress" gradually destroying the environment.
JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Nooks CY - New York U5 -TxCM
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Magellan. A Novel Y1 - 1970 A1 - Colin Anderson (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Welfare dystopia in the one city left after a global nuclear war. Using a giant computer the intent is to give everyone immortality in their own paradise, and the novel follows the main character through a number of these worlds.
PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -U.S ed. New York: Walker, 1970. Rpt. London: Sphere, 1971; and New York: Berkley Medallion, 1972. The PSt ed. simply has the Walker identification pasted over the Gollancz identification.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ordinary Man Y1 - 1969 A1 - Mel[vin Angelo] Arrighi (1933-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian, bureaucratic, racist dystopia.
PB - Dramatists Play Service CY - [New York] N1 -Rpt. New York: Peter H. Wyden, 1970. U.K. ed. London: Allan Wingate, 1970.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strangers in Paradise Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Mostly adventure but includes a dystopian city that is a large slum.
PB - Tower Publications CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1976.
U3 -Christopher Anvil [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Y1 - 1968 A1 - Ayi Kwei Armah (b. 1939) KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia of the contemporary Congo.
PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Catharsis Central Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Anthony Allert] [Thompson] (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Computer dystopia. A computer has a unit that records dreams and sends back soothing messages to each individual. Everyone must eat what is best for their current state of health. Struggle for control of the machine, and its destruction frees humanity to start over.
PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1969.
U3 -Antony Alban [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Omnivore Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Science fiction novel set on both an over-regulated Earth and a planet being explored. The dystopian parts are mostly background.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1969.
U3 -Piers Anthony [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ring Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) A1 - Robert E[rvien] Margroff (1930-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia. Technologically enforced conformity to too rigid moral standards.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -UK ed. London: Macdonald, 1969.
U3 -Piers Anthony [pseud. of Jacob]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Total Environment" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Overpopulation dystopia. An experiment called the Ultra High Density Research Establishment (UHRDE) or the Total Environment is set up by the UN and the Indian government to test whether or not extreme crowding produces telepathy. The conditions inside the experiment, which is completely cut off from the outside world except for the anonymous provision of food and electronic monitoring, become horrifying but also produce the desired results.
JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 26.3 N1 -Rpt. in World’s Best Science Fiction 1969. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1969), 287-331; and in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 109-51.
U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chthon Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Piers Anthony Dillingham] [Jacob] (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia describing a prison world. A sequel is Phthor. New York: Berkeley Medallion, 1975, which continues into the next generation of the family that is central to Chthon.
PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1972.
U3 -Piers Anthony [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eutopia" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) ED - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia modeled on classical Athens complete with accepted homosexuality. But the utopia has become so planned and ordered as to become dull. The story only reveals this at the end and is concerned with a member of Eutopia visiting another country where he is liable to being killed for his homosexuality.
JF - Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -Rpt. in his Past Times (New York: Tor, 1996), 112-39, with the "Afterword" (139-41); in The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Ed. Harry Turtledove with Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001), 251-68; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2011), 334-47 with the "Afterword" entitled "Eutopia Afterword" (348-49).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Danger: Religion!" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Parallel history presenting a religious dystopia.
JF - The Saliva Tree and Other Strange Growths PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -Rpt. (London: Sphere, 1968), 89-131; and in Mervyn Peake, J[ames] G[raham] Ballard and Brian W[ilson] Aldiss. Inner Landscape (London: Allison & Busby, 1969), 101-51. Earlier version as “Matrix.” Science Fantasy 19.55 ([October] 1962): 2-39.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wonderful World of Tomorrow: What It Will Be Like Y1 - 1966 A1 - Herbert W. Armstrong (1892-1986) A1 - Garner Ted Armstrong (1940-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Tract deploring present conditions and foretelling the Second Coming of Christ and the conditions when God rules directly and church and state are unified. Supernatural force will eliminate crime and rebellion, and then people will be reeducated into God's truth. See also, 1979 Armstrong.
PB - Ambassador College Press CY - Pasadena, CA U5 -NLS, NNStJ
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earthworks Y1 - 1965 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The setting is a future England has been devasted by an ecological disaster fueled by overpopulation that left the countryside poisoned and the cities disease-ridden.
PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1966. 154 pp.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day the Machines Stopped Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -All electrical power disrupted. This produces authoritarian dystopias plus an attempt to rebuild civilization.
PB - Monarch Books CY - Derby, CT U3 -Christopher Anvil [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Man on Bridge" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia in which the unintelligent rule the intelligent, who are kept in camps where they do all the menial work.
JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 1 N1 -Repub. in his Who Can Replace a Man? (New York: New American Library, 1965), 82-98. UK ed. as Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), 96-115; rev. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1971), 56-75.
U5 -HRC, MoU-St, O, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Full Circle Y1 - 1963 A1 - Bruce [Wallace] Ariss [Jr.] (1911-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -After a nuclear war the American Indians have established a peaceful eutopia based on their traditional societies. White men return and conflict begins again.
PB - Avalon Books CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let the Spacemen Beware! Y1 - 1963 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed eutopia in that the people of an apparently eutopian planet have a homicidal instinct.
PB - Ace CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1963.
U5 -DLC, MoU-St, PSt, SFF
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Truce With Kings" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a future North America that has broken into warring parts and with war within some of the parts.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 24.6 N1 -Rpt. in his Time and Stars (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 1-74; rpt. (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1965), 7-61; and in The Saturn Game. Volume Three. The Collected Stories of Poul Anderson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2010), 51-95.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shield Y1 - 1963 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Mostly adventure but includes a short presentation of a proposed new world political system based on personal invulnerability.
PB - Berkley CY - New York N1 -UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1965.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gadget Vs. Trend" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Harry C.] [Crosby] [Jr.] (1925-2009) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Effect of a machine allowing complete privacy and inviolability. Through the device, the U.S., which had been becoming too conformist, becomes too individualist.
JF - Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction VL - 70.2 N1 -Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 55-69; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 65-83; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 55-69.
U3 -Christopher Anvil [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape to Berkshire. A Novel Y1 - 1961 A1 - H[ugh] C[ecil] Asterley (1902-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The novel is set in a post-nuclear war England and the earlies beginnings of re-building.
PB - Pall Mall Press CY - London U5 -NLS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Orbit Unlimited Y1 - 1961 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian overpopulation dystopia that uses its last spaceship to send misfits and rebels to another planet. The author says that his original title for the book was A Place for Freedom, which reflects the society created, after much hardship and adventure, on the new planet.
PB - Pyramid Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1978 with a brief "Introduction" (3-4) by the author. UK ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974. Parts originally published as "Robin Hood's Barn." Astounding Science Fiction 62.5 (January 1959): 54-82; "Condemned to Death." Fantastic Universe 11.6 (October 1959): 34-52; and "The Burning Bridge." Astounding Science Fiction 64.5 (January 1960): 99-121.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Primal Urge Y1 - 1961 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Humorous dystopia of the effects of a device that allows everyone to know the sexual desires of people vis-a-vis each other.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -UK ed. London: Sphere, 1967. Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.
U1 -Also entitled "Minor Operation." New Worlds Science Fiction 40 - 41.119 - 21 (June - August 1962): 4-54; 67-116, 118-21; 73-127.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Verwoerd--The End; A look-back from the Future Y1 - 1961 A1 - [Ernest George] [Alligan] (1898-1978) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -Apartheid as eutopia presented as the history of South Africa from 1960 to 1985.
PB - T.V. Broadman CY - London U3 -Garry Allighan [pseud.].
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brothers of Braemore Y1 - 1960 A1 - Peter Frederick Anson (1879-1975) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -Fictional community of Roman Catholic men following the Rule of St. Benedict on a Scottish island.
PB - Campion Press CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Taplinger, 1960.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Socialism [Subtitle on cover Blueprint for the New Life] Y1 - 1960 A1 - John Australis [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -Detailed socialist eutopia aiming at providing people with the basic needs for each stage of their lives, including provision for holidays and local clubs and sports fields. Trade unions would provide some leisure facilities, particularly for women. Each person would have their own income, thus freeing women from feeling they had to marry and making divorce possible financially. Free childcare as needed. No changes in churches.
PB - Ptd. by Bira Printing CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -John Australis [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "X for Exploitation" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Earth is a colony. According to a note by Aldiss, the book is designed to show the dystopian nature of imperialism.
JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 31.92 - 32.94 N1 -Repub. as Bow Down to Nul. New York: Ace Books, 1960. UK ed. as The Interpreter. London: Brown, Watson, 1961.
U1 -Repub. as Bow Down to Nul and The Interpreter.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Funhouse: An Eyewitness Report of the historical search for the world's most dangerous weapon, the A-I-D. . . Y1 - 1959 A1 - Benjamin Appel (1907-77) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Two worlds are shown, the Pleasure State and the Reservation. The Reservation has no machinery invented after 1879. The Pleasure State is a computer controlled eutopia based solely on pleasure. But there is a weapon that could destroy the world, and this report is by someone from the Reservation who is about the search for it. The report sees the Reservation positively and the Pleasure State, known in the Reservation as the Funhouse, negatively.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -Also published as The Death Master. New York: Popular Library, [1980].
U1 -Also entitled The Death Master.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘All the Troubles of the World’” Y1 - 1958 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed dystopia about a massive computer that runs the world. The story focuses on its ability to predict crime. See also 1975 Asimov.
JF - Super-Science Fiction VL - 2.3 N1 -Rpt. in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 88-105.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last of the Deliverers" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Conflict between Freeborn and Communist communities showing flaws in both systems. The Freeborn community appears to be a capitalist eutopia, but there is very little economic activity.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 14.2 (81) U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Non-Stop Y1 - 1958 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A multi-generation spacecraft that has developed an authoritarian religion and government as well as biological changes returns to earth, where the people decide to keep it in permanent orbit.
PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989. Repub. as Starship. New York: Criterion Books, 1959. There are textual differences between the editions.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All the Worlds Tears" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia after a catastrophe. All whites are gone. Hatred and toughness are honored, and there is no love.
JF - Nebula Science Fiction VL - no. 21 N1 -Rpt. in his The Canopy of Time (London: Faber and Faber, 1959), 25-38.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hothouse. A Science Fiction Novel Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia in which humans have devolved into small, but still intelligent, creatures living in a world dominated by plants.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976, with an “Introduction” by Joseph Milicia (v-xvii). Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth. New York: Signet/New American Library, 1962, which had originally been serialized in slightly different form in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction as “Hothouse.” 20.2 (117) (February 1961): 5-35; “Nomansland.” 20.4 (119) (April 1961): 99-129; “Undergrowth.” 21.1 (122) (July 1961): 84-130; “Timberline.” 21.3 (144) (September 1961): 99-129; and “Evergreen.” 21.6 (127) (December 1961): 82-128
U1 -Abridged ed. as The Long Afternoon of Earth (1962)
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Land Fit for 'Eros Y1 - 1957 A1 - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009) A1 - J[ohn] B[arclay] Pick (1921-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -Primarily humor. Satire on a British movement to root out "subversives" similar to that of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-57) in the U.S. that was known as McCarthyism.
PB - Arco CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "License" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation dystopia.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 12.4 N1 -Rpt. in his Seven Conquests (New York: Collier Books, 1969), 140-66. UK ed. as Conquests (London: Granada, 1981), 157-86.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Male Strikebreaker" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A society with a rigid class structure based on inherited occupations. The story focuses on a man who inherits the job of running the machinery that recycles human waste and his position as an outcast.
JF - The Original Science Fiction Stories VL - 7.4 N1 -Rpt. as "Strikebreaker." In his Nightfall and Other Stories (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), 268-81.
U1 -Rpt. as "Strikebreaker."
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Profession" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society.
JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 59.5 N1 -Rpt. in his Nine Tomorrows; Tales of the Near Future (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959), 16-74; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, nos. 18 - 20 (1984 - 85): 2-16; 2-13; 2-12.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shubshub Race" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire that includes a planet called Upotia, the Health planet, which has a constant pleasant climate, but this is a minor part of the story.
JF - Space, Time and Nathaniel (Presciences) PB - Faber & Faber CY - London U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Virgin Planet" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set on a planet occupied only by women where a religion had developed around the expected return of men.
JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -Repub. New York: Avalon, 1959. Rpt. New York: Warner Books, 1970.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Naked Sun” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Related to 1953 Asimov, “The Caves of Steel,” and the beginning and ending of the novel is set in few years in the future of that dystopia. Most of the novel is in a dystopia on the planet Solaria, which has eliminated almost all human contact.
Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1957. Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1971; and in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 203-404.
U2 -Illus. [Henry Richard] Van Dongen (1920-2010).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Franchise (with apologies to W. S. Gilbert)" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire. One individual chosen by computer to vote in any given election.
JF - If VL - 5.5 N1 -Rpt. in his Earth Is Room Enough; science fiction tales of our own planet (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1957), 58-73; rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1959), 45-59; and in Election Day 2084: A Science Fiction Anthology on the Politics of the Future. Ed. Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), 11-24.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inside Straight" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A society with an economic system based on gambling proves a match for a society intent on conquest and leads to the abolition of war.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 9.2 (51) N1 -Rpt. in his Seven Conquests (New York: Collier, 1969), 93-116. UK ed. as Conquests (London: Granada, 1981), 105-31; and in The Collected Short Stories of Poul Anderson. Volume 4 Admiralty. Ed. Rick Katze (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2011), 128-45.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Long Way Home" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Wide-ranging authoritarian dystopia with Anderson’s usual libertarian themes in opposition
JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 55 N1 -Repub. London: Panther, 1975. US ed. New York: Ace Books, 1978. Abridged ed. as No World of Their Own. New York: Ace Books, 1955; and New York: Ace Books, 1955 as an Ace Double bound with Isaac Asimov's The Thousand-Year Plan. Original Title: Foundation, abridged from New York: Gnome, 1951; rpt. as The Long Way Home. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction" (v-vi) by the author. The copyright page says that the book is a reprint of the Ace edition; Anderson's introduction says that it restores the Astounding Science Fiction version. Anderson's version is correct.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Panel Game" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia with society organized around a consumption band, which reflects income. Television, which cannot be turned off and is primarily a means of reminding consumers of the products they are required to buy, is organized by these bands.
JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 14.42 N1 -Rpt. in his Space, Time and Nathaniel (presciences) (London: Faber and Faber, 1957), 187-99.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Right Thing" Y1 - 1955 A1 - William Andrew KW - Male author AB -The story deals with two post-catastrophe dystopias. One is religious with women inferior; the other is non-religious and promiscuous and lives underground.
JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -L, NLS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow Revealed Y1 - 1955 A1 - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Humor about the future based on fiction. Send up of utopians, among others.
PB - Neville Spearman CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vespers" Y1 - 1955 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Contrasts an Arcadia and a Utopian.
JF - Encounter VL - 4.2 N1 -Rpt. in his The Shield of Achilles (New York: Random House, 1955), 77-80. U.K. ed. (London: Faber and Faber, 1955), 74-77; his Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 227-229; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume II 1940-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 439-441, with a Textual Note on 968-969.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It's Such a Beautiful Day" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future where people have cut themselves off from the natural world.
JF - Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - No. 3 N1 -Rpt. in his Through a Glass, Clearly (London: New English Library, 1967), 7-27; and in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 178-201.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Norman Arkawy A1 - Stanley Henig KW - Male author AB -Brief dystopia following a war with Venus. The apparently peaceful Venusians impose a military organization, negative eugenics, and euthanasia as a means of population control.
JF - If: Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 4.2 U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stand Fast Beloved City Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Martha Edith von] Almedingen (1898-1971) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Russian author AB -Authoritarian dystopia set in a small, isolated city. A small group of people, fourteen men and fourteen women, who are known as the Centre, control everything.
PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -E.M. Almedingen [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Caves of Steel" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation dystopia as background to a murder mystery solved by a robot and a human. The "caves of steel" are the cities of the future. A related novel in 1956 Asimov, “The Naked Sun.”
JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 7.1 - 3 N1 -Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1954. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1955. U.K. ed. London: T.V. Boardman, 1954; rpt. London: Panther, 1971. Also rpt. in his The Robot Novels: The Caves of Steel The Naked Sun. (Garden City: Doubleday, 1957), 1-202.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sam Hall" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Poul [William] Anderson (1926-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia with control by computers. The story focuses on the successful attempt to regain freedom.
JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 51.6 N1 -Rpt. in The Liberated Future [cover adds the subtitle Voyages into Tomorrow]. Ed. Robert Hoskins (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1974), 13-51; and in The Saturn Game. Volume Three. The Collected Stories of Poul Anderson (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2010), 117-40.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tyrann" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Standard authoritarian dystopia focusing on a rebellion based on a rediscovered revolutionary document, the "Constitution of the United States of America".
JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1 N1 -Rpt. as The Stars, Like Dust. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951 and with unauthorized cuts as The Rebellious Stars. New York: Ace Books, 1954. U.K. ed. as The Stars Like Dust. London: Panther, 1958.
U1 -Rpt. as The Stars, Like Dust. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951 and with unauthorized cuts as The Rebellious Stars. New York: Ace Books, 1954.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Visit to Mars Y1 - 1951 A1 - Garrett V. Albertson KW - Male author AB -Detailed eutopia on Mars with a focus on religion and technology. Struggle between good and evil. Stress on the nuclear family. There are various worlds even more advanced than Mars.
PB - Moody Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pebble in the Sky Y1 - 1950 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which a radioactive Earth is shunned by the other inhabited planets. There is a galactic empire that connects this book with his Foundation series. Earth is considered to be a backward, inferior planet inhabited by primitives and many Earthlings oppose the empire. Conflict ensues with a balance ultimately achieved.
PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -Rpt. as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel # 14. New York: Galaxy Pub. Co., 1953; and New York: Bantam Books, 1957; and in his Triangle. The Currents of Space Pebble in the Sky The Stars, Like Dust (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, [1961]), 173-346. Originally written as "Grow Old With Me" but not published as intended. That version was published in his The Alternate Asimovs (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986). 5-133 with a "Foreword" (1-4) and an "Afterword" (134-36).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Raptured: A Novel of the Second Coming of the Lord Y1 - 1950 A1 - Ernest W. Angley (b. 1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A novel of the Rapture (see Thessalonians 4:17) and the dystopia that follows it for those not taken.
PB - Winston Press CY - Akron, OH N1 -There are several reprints by various publishers.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pioneers of Space: A Trip to the Moon, Mars and Venus Y1 - 1949 A1 - Professor George Adamski (1891-1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Travel through the solar system. The planets are inhabited by human beings living a better life than on the earth.
PB - Leonard-Freefield CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution. As Proposed and Signed by Robert M. Hutchins, G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Guérard, Harold A. Innis, Erich Kahler, Wilber G. Katz, Charles H. McIlwain, Robert Redfield, Rexford G[uy] Tugwell Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Committee to Frame a World Constitution] KW - Male author AB -A proposal for a constitution for a way of peacefully governing the entire world, including governmental structure and some material on the rights of citizens.
PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago, IL N1 -Rpt. in G[iuseppe] A[ntonio] Borgese (1882-1952), Foundations of a World Republic (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1953), 305-20.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back to Nature Y1 - 1945 A1 - R[obert] W[illiam] Alexander KW - Male author AB -Two hundred men and two hundred women leave a future eutopia to establish a more primitive life based on marriage and the family that they believe to be better than the eutopia.
PB - Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd CY - London U5 -DLC, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heart Consumed. A Novel Y1 - 1944 A1 - [Julia Eileen Courtney] [Greenwood] KW - Female author AB -The novel is partially set in the 21st century and discusses eugenics and training for leadership.
PB - John Lane The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -Frances Askham [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds Beginning Y1 - 1944 A1 - Robert Ardrey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The successful struggle to create a eutopia based on a complex new form of industry that gives workers partial ownership of the company and, it is argued, the incentive to do their best work. Set in the U.S. twenty years after World War II, which had been followed by industrial, class, and racial conflict, leading to a year called "the terror".
PB - Duell, Sloan and Pearce CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1945.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Change of Heart Y1 - 1942 A1 - Mea Allan (1909-82) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -Dystopia set in post-World War II Germany in which a committed National Socialist develops a plan to become the next Führer with his infant son to follow him in that role.
PB - George G. Harrap CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Atlantis" Y1 - 1941 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The struggle to reach utopia, particularly the diversions on the way.
JF - Christianity and Society VL - 6.3 N1 -Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 20-22; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 202-204; Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 116-118; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume II 1940-1973. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 232-234, with a Textual Note on 873.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Samsons Y1 - 1941 A1 - Alberic A. Archambault (b. 1887) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements and both a statement of the importance of Jews to the American economy and stereotyped depictions of Jews. The Samsons, a secret society, organizes itself to eliminate persecution of Jews by removing all Jews to a compound in Mexico, thus destroying the U.S. economy.
PB - Bruce Humphries CY - Boston, MA U5 -NN
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sanity Island. A Novel Y1 - 1941 A1 - Adrian [Richard] Alington (1895-1958) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire. Humorous rearmament. People must laugh at themselves more and, in particular, laugh at the ridiculousness of their political leaders.
PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -L, MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unknown Citizen" Y1 - 1939 A1 - W[ystan] H[ugh] Auden (1907-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Poem describing a bureaucratic dystopia that honors a man who is "normal in every way."
JF - The Listener (London) VL - 22.551 N1 -Rpt. in The Collected Poetry of W.H. Auden (New York: Random House, 1945), 142-143; in Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (New York: Random House, 1967), 146-147; in Selected Poems. Ed. Edward Mendelson (New York: Vintage Books, 1979), 85-86; in The Hedgehog Review (Charlottesville, VA) 10.3 (Fall 2008): 38-39; and in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems. Volume I 1927-1939. Ed. Edward Mendelson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022), 368-369, with a Textual Note on 767-768.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Woman Reigns Y1 - 1938 A1 - [Reginald William Malyon] [Gibbs] (1878-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Flawed utopia based on the rule of women set in the future in the Himalayas. All ferocious animals and vermin eliminated after a detailed classification and research program, called the War of Human Supremacy. No disease. Sexual men do not work but are adopted by women as consorts. Children vote. Votes for dogs being considered. Thorough censorship. Civil Service based on detailed examinations after twenty years of study.
PB - Pen-in-Hand Pub. Co CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -August Anson [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abdera and the Revolt of the Asses Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Hyman] [Jaffe] AB -A satire on contemporary European politics focusing on Germany, which is taken over by Asses, and the role of a minority of humans, the Brehews (Hebrews).
PB - Clarion Pub. Co CY - New York U3 -Alterego [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rhubarb Tree Y1 - 1937 A1 - Kenneth [Cyril Bruce] Allott (1912-73) A1 - Stephen Tait KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire in which one focus is a fascist dystopia.
PB - The Cresset Press CY - London U5 -DLC, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found or Where the Sex Problem has been solved (A Story from South America) Y1 - 1936 A1 - C[harles] Wicksteed Armstrong F.R.G.S. (1871-ca 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A eutopia describing a eugenic colony in Brazil called Eugenia. Relatively few laws. The natural position of women is child-rearing and domestic labor while that of men is combat and work. Sexual freedom for the unmarried but self-control is stressed. Voluntary euthanasia. Defective children killed. The author had previously made a proposal for such a colony; see his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review (London) 25.2 (n.s. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97. See also 1892 Armstrong, The Yorl of the Northmen; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.
PB - John Bale, Sons & Danielsson CY - London U5 -L, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prosperity In the Year 2000 A.D. Achieved by Democratic Steps As the natural result of abolishing all taxes upon business, industry, commerce and agriculture, leaving for the necessary expenses of government its natural revenue, economic rent as determined by the site value of land. As presented in a series of conversations between Justin Waterson, a retired Chicago merchant, eighty-five years of age, and his grandson, Charles Waterson, aged seventeen. A Challenge to State Socialism Y1 - 1936 A1 - Henry Ware Allen KW - Male author AB -Detailed eutopia describing the operation of a federal world state with industry essentially self-governing. Includes the single tax on land. 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.
PB - Christopher Pub. House CY - Boston, MA U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manifesto: Being the Book of The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals Y1 - 1934 A1 - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) A1 - Allan Young A1 - W[illiam Edward] Arnold-Forster A1 - Francis Meynell A1 - W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) A1 - Janet Chance A1 - D[ennis] N[owell] Pritt A1 - Clough Williams-Ellis A1 - G[eoffrey] M[axwell] Boumphrey A1 - Archibald Robertson A1 - J[ohn] C[arl] Flugel ED - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -Similar to 1912 The Great State in that the essays collectively describe a vision of a future eutopia that is, in essence, a socialist world state. See also Plan for World Order and Progress: A Constructive Review (The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals) 1.1 - 1.9 (April - September 1934), which published a review of the Manifesto by Aldous Huxley in 1.4 (July 1934): 7, 15.
PB - George Allen & Unwin CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the request of . . The Chairman of the A to L Committee of Parliament, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, N.Z., I herewith submit my ideas concerning . . My Community Land Settlement Scheme To Give YOUTH a CHANCE Also Map of SETTLEMENT and Design for Social Hall Y1 - 1933 A1 - Marian C. Algie KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -Detailed proposal for a community of ten-acre farms with central common land and social hall. Stress on the simple life without machinery.
PB - Author CY - Wellington, New Zealand U1 -Cover title Community Land Settlement Scheme to Give YOUTH A CHANCE.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Avatars: A Futurist Fantasy Y1 - 1933 A1 - [George William] [Russell] (1867-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -Mostly fantasy but includes brief depictions of an authoritarian dystopia of state control and strong suggestions of a eutopia based on Irish mythology. The natural world and the old gods are in alliance to help the best of the human race to overcome the worst.
PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1933.
U3 -A.E. [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man's Mortality. A Story Y1 - 1933 A1 - Michael Arlen (1895-1956) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Dystopia. A huge trust controls the world and has established world peace, but it has become both corrupt and is no longer willing to accept any real differences or local power. Most of the novel is concerned with the fight for individual and national liberty, but the leader of that fight comes to believe in his own importance, so there is no eutopia in prospect.
PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -DLC, LLL, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pendulum of Fate: Cosmic Glimpses of Past and Future Y1 - 1933 A1 - Robert Alexander KW - Male author AB -Eutopia. Occult glimpses of other planets all of which are more advanced than Earth.
PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London U5 -CLU, L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Passionate Calvary: Being an Introduction to the Conquest of England by the forces of the Unknown and more particularly to William Bundle, Grocer, founder of the Peckham Guild of Thought, and King of England Y1 - 1932 A1 - Kaye Anthony AB -Humorous eutopia of Eden reinstated in England.
PB - Hurst & Blackett CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World is Red" Y1 - 1932 A1 - F[rederick] Britten Austin (1885-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The final chapter of a novel that fictionally describes the great revolutions from ancient Egypt to the “World Republic” of 2036, which is the dystopia that results from the success of Communism.
JF - The Red Flag PB - Eyre and Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -U. S. ed. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1934]), 371-400.
U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - True Riches Y1 - 1931 A1 - Adrian R. Apple KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A Christian eutopia where money has been eliminated and replaced with certificates indicating merit and everyone of merit is guaranteed abundance.
PB - Adrian R. Apple CY - Glendale, CA U2 -Illus. by the author.
U5 -CLU, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sacred Giraffe; Being the Second Volume of the Posthumous Works of Julio Arceval Y1 - 1925 A1 - Salvador de Madariaga [y Rojo] ed. [written by] (1886-1978) KW - Male author KW - Spanish author AB -The novel begins in a future society where women dominate but men are beginning to gain some recognition as being more than decorative. The novel is then concerned with how this state of affairs came about and how Europe and the white race disappeared.
PB - Harper and Brothers CY - New York N1 -UK ed. London: Martin Hopkinson, 1925. Also published as La jirafa sagredo, o El buho de plata. Novela cuasi una fantasia, dedicada en prueba de gratitud a A.J.C. Pues con ella está en dueda esta libro en más de una manera, por Julio Arceval. Madrid, Spain: Mundo Editorial Latino, [1925].
U3 -Julio Arceval [pseud.]
U5 -MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Message from "Mars" including The "Martians" Plan for World Peace and Permanent Prosperity via a New Monetary System Y1 - 1924 A1 - [Samuel] [Bottomley] (b. 1858) KW - Male author AB -Eutopia. Monetary reform establishes a non-fluctuating currency. The author also wrote The Second Message from "Mars": The Gold Standard, its Relation to Business, Labor and World Peace. Providence, RI: The Martian Publishing Co., 1925 (PSt); and The Third Message from "Mars": World Reformation By Monetary Revolution. Providence, RI: The Martian Publishing Co., 1926.
PB - The Martian Pub. Co CY - Providence, RI U3 -The American Society of Martians [pseud.]
U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Battle of London Y1 - 1923 A1 - [Harry Collinson] [Owen] (1881-1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Anti-Communist dystopia. Mostly on the revolution and the fight to defeat it. The Liberty League of England, which the author compares to the Fascist Party in Italy, which meets his approval, saves the day.
PB - Herbert Jenkins CY - London U3 -Hugh Addison [pseud.]
U5 -L, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bladed Barrier Y1 - 1922 A1 - Joseph Bushnell Ames (1878-1928) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Typical lost race dystopia, in this case led by an evil Chinaman.
PB - The Century Co. CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978. Originally published by Street & Smith (1922-1923).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Interpreters Y1 - 1922 A1 - [George William] [Russell] (1867-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -Dystopian setting but with little detail. Discussion among those who have been arrested during an attempted revolution against a dictatorship. The revolution is still in process during the discussion but fails. The discussion focuses on the spiritual basis of various political theories and, in particular, whether capitalism or socialism, the individual or the collective, provides the best basis for the good society.
PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1923.
U3 -A.E. [pseud.]
U5 -L, LLL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Worms of the Earth"Publisht on Mars by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 7654321 Publisht on Earth by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 1 Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Simon] [Wardwell] KW - Male author AB -Poem describing the reality of the backward, dystopian Earth from the point of view of a vaguely described technologically and morally advanced Mars.
PB - np CY - Np U3 -The Interplanetary Traveler A. Martian [pseud.]. Author of "The Earthians"
U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Building a Socialist City" Y1 - 1916 A1 - A[lice] Constance Austin (1862-1955) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Detailed eutopia showing what the Llano Community was supposed to become.
JF - The Western Comrade (Llano, CA) VL - 4.6 - 12, 5.2 U1 -Title changes to “The Socialist City” with 4.9 (January 1917).
U5 -CtY
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through Gates of Pearl: A Vision of the Heaven-Life Y1 - 1916 A1 - Augusta Albertson KW - Female author AB -Heaven as eutopia as experienced by those who achieve it. Presented partially through the different gates by which it is entered, such as the children's gate, the martyr's gate, the gate of gentle service, etc. and partially through descriptions of the heaven entered.
PB - Fleming H. Revell CY - New York U5 -NLS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2010 Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Frederic] [Carrel] (1869-1945) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Mechanical improvement of brains leads to eutopia. Stress is on the struggle to get the brains accepted.
PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -The Author of "The Adventures of John Johns" [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of Hope Y1 - 1914 A1 - Jas [James] Aggers KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -Mostly concerned with the problems of workers in contemporary New Zealand but includes a dream of Joshua Narrowgrove, a minister who has supported the wealthy and opposed socialism. The vision includes a brief description of a socialist eutopia. A sequel, Parson Narrowgroove, Socialist, was announced but apparently not published.
PB - The Worker Print CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Votes for Men" Y1 - 1914 A1 - Percy Atkinson KW - Male author AB -Gender-role reversal satire in which any single man asked by a woman to marry her must do so or go to jail.
JF - All Story Cavalier Weekly VL - 34.3 U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Garden of Adam Y1 - 1912 A1 - Alf[red] Brunton Aitken KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Includes a brief socialist eutopia for Britain and the Empire (219-20).
PB - John Ouseley Ltd CY - London U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laws of Leflo Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Beatrice May Butt] [Allhusen] (1853-1918) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -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.
PB - John Ouseley CY - London U3 -The Author of Miss Molly [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mud Pies: A Fable for Australians" Y1 - 1911 A1 - Arthur H[enry] Adams (1872-1936) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -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.
JF - The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - 9.51 U5 -A, ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Building of Thelema Y1 - 1910 A1 - C[harles] R[obert] Ashbee (1863-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -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.
PB - J.M. Dent CY - London U5 -L, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940 Y1 - 1910 A1 - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -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.
PB - King, Sell & Olding CY - London N1 -Originally published serially.
U3 -By The Author of "A Time of Terror," "The Devil's Peepshow," & c.
U5 -NcD, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - 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 Y1 - 1909 A1 - James B[radun] Alexander (1831-1914) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -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.
PB - Np CY - Minneapolis, MN U5 -HRC, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - How England Was Saved; History of the Years 1910-1925 Y1 - 1908 A1 - Agricola [pseud.] AB -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.
PB - Swan Sonnenschein & Co CY - London U3 -Agricola [pseud.]
U5 -Hathi, L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Behold the Days to Come: A Fancy in Christian Politics Y1 - 1907 A1 - James [Granville] Adderley (1861-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -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.
PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Discriminators Y1 - 1906 A1 - [J. Hugh] [Davies] (Probable author) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -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.
Ancient Briton [pseud.]
U5 -A, M, MH
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Star of the Morning; A Chronicle of Karyl the Great and the Revolt of 1920-22 Y1 - 1906 AB -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.
PB - Thomas Burleigh CY - London N1 -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).
U3 -By the Author of The Truth About Man [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadian Adelaide Y1 - 1905 A1 - Thistle [M.C.] Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher). (b. 1879?) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -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).
PB - Modern Printing Co CY - Adelaide, SA, Australia N1 -Rpt. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Wakefield Press, 1985.
U5 -A, ATL, M
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arcadians. Sequel to Arcadian Adelaide Y1 - 1905 A1 - Thistle [M.C.] Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher). (b. 1879?) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -Sequel to her 1905 Arcadian Adelaide in which she adds additional individuals and responds to critics.
PB - Modern Printing Co CY - Adelaide, SA, Australia U5 -A, ATL, M
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edinindia; A Tale of Adventure Y1 - 1905 A1 - J[ohn] P. Armour (1852-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia based on a model of health stressing moderation. Few laws, no lawyers. Arbitration is used to settle disputes.
PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fulfilment Y1 - 1905 A1 - Edith Allonby (1875-1905) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The novel is divided into three roughly equal parts, “Earth,” “Hell,” and “Heaven” and describes the experiences of a woman as she lived and after she died with Hell a dystopia and Heaven a eutopia. The book was posthumously published after she committed suicide, and it was revised in ways she had explicitly rejected.
PB - Greening & Co. CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Opening of the First of the Seven Seals and the Constitution and Marriage Statutes of the Most Ancient Appagejans 650,000 Years Ago Y1 - 1904 A1 - J[ohn] P[eter] Anderson KW - Male author AB -Detailed rather eccentric eutopia. Includes a new constitution for the U.S. (380-92) and a commentary on it (392-721) plus a set of rules for pure marriages (197-290). Racial separation. Mostly from the perspective of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). The "First Part" (5-346) is on religion but includes material on sexual relations; The "Second Part" (347-728) is primarily on politics and presents a democratic socialist eutopia.
PB - Statesman Publishing Co CY - Salem, OR U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Occults in Council or The Great Learning Y1 - 1901 A1 - Sir William [pseud.] AB -Very odd volume which tells the story of the Occult on a number of planets and their communications with each other, with settlements of Occult at both the North and South Poles of Earth, both of which are described in eutopian terms. The Occult on Mars are at a higher level than those on Earth.
PB - HE Smith-Brooks Printing Co. CY - Denver, CO U2 -Illus.
U3 -Sir William [pseud.]
Sir Adgar [pseud.]
U5 -CCSC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arqtiq; A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole Y1 - 1899 A1 - Mrs. Anna Adolph KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Lost race eutopia at the North Pole of an idealized people of gigantic size. Gender equality. Technologically advanced.
DLC, W3,30
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jacob's Dream" Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England.
JF - Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 26.3 N1 -Rpt. in Temple Magazine (Silas K. Hocking’s Illustrated Monthly) 3 (December 1899): 202-11.
U2 -Illus. H[enry] Pruett Share (1853-1905)
U3 -Grant Allen [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nequa or The Problem of the Ages Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Alcanoan O.] [Grigsby] (1837?-1925) A1 - [Mary Prather] [Lowe] (1858-1902) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Standard communal eutopia. Country called Altruria in the interior of the world near the North Pole. Equitable exchange, democracy, education, communal houses. Gender equality.
PB - Equity Publishing Company CY - Topeka, KS VL - Vol. 1 of The Equity Library. N1 -Rpt. called 3rd ed. Np.: Green Snake Press, 2015, with an “Epilogue” (313-45) by Mark Esping. Originally serialized in Equity (Topeka, KS) (1899 - September 1901).
U3 -Jack Adams [pseud.]
U5 -DLC, PU, W3,2287
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paul Rees: A Story of the Coming Reformation Y1 - 1899 A1 - Augustinus [pseud.] AB -England declines due to laws passed against Roman Catholics but at the end the Roman Catholic Church is formally instituted as the established church. 1898 Augustinus and 1898 “In the Next World”: A Sequel to the Story “Two Brothers.”
PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company CY - London U3 -Augustinus [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mysteries of Destiny Island; or Champlain Valley and Settlers and Future Y1 - 1898 A1 - Alld, D. KW - US author AB -The book is divided into four parts, with the third and fourth (45-82) describing the U. S. as a technologically advanced religious eutopia. Concerned with the dangers of “foreign” culture and religion. Set in the Champlain Valley of northeastern New York and western Vermont. Brief synopsis on page 2.
PB - Np CY - Np U5 -AAS, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Afternoon: A Department Store Romance" Y1 - 1898 A1 - Isaac Anderson KW - Male author AB -Satire on department stores set in the future. Everything, including marriages and divorces, is available.
JF - The Yellow Book VL - 2.1 N1 -Rpt. in The Railroad Trainmens’ Journal 15.2 (February 1898): 157-58.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Society of the Future Y1 - 1898 A1 - Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Essay that, while mostly concerned with and critical of contemporary conditions, also describes a socialist utopia that has eliminated poverty and child labor and radically reduced the hours of work.
PB - J.A. Wayland CY - Girard, KS VL - No 7 of Wayland’s One-Hoss Philosophy (October 1898) U5 -NN
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Brothers: A Story of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1898 A1 - Augustinus [pseud.] AB -The struggle between the Roman Catholic Church and materialism, with Wales becoming Roman Catholic, followed by Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the Second Coming. See also 1898 “In the Next World”: A Sequel to the Story “Two Brothers” and 1899 Augustinus.
PB - Ptd. by Chapple and Kemp CY - Cardiff, Wales U3 -Augustinus [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - With Gyves of Gold. A Novel Y1 - 1898 A1 - Henry Athey A1 - A. Herbert Bowers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. Much discussion of what the eutopia will look like and ends with a description of the Christian eutopia in operation. Believe in the nearness of the millennium. Spiritualism. Anti-egalitarian. Cooperation. With trusts/monopolies gone, business flourishes, wages rise, slums are cleared, and education improved. All other nations followed the lead of the U.S. Women's proper sphere is the home.
PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -PSt, W3,165
ER - TY - ABST T1 - President John Smith; The Story of a Peaceful Revolution Y1 - 1897 A1 - Frederick Upham Adams (1859-1921) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Socialist eutopia including direct democracy with a new constitution for the U.S. (237-46), which specifies that the legislative power rests with the people and that the people directly elect the Cabinet rather than have it appointed by the President. The cover of the Library of Progress edition has "The right of a citizen of the United States to demand and obtain work at wages sufficient to support himself and his family shall never be abridged. It shall be the duty of the government to guarantee employment to all who demand it" (on 147 of the Unity Library edition). See also his non-utopian economic novel. The Kidnapped Millionaires; A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics. Boston, MA: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1901.
PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - No. 64 of the Unity Library (December 1896) N1 -Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Another ed. adds (Written in 1920) to the title. No. 24 of the Library of Progress (August 1897). Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1897
U5 -HRC, MoU-St, NN, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In a Strange Land" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Joannes Alethomythos [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -Satire comparing a people discovered on an isolated island to the people of New Zealand in which the foolish practices of the island people, generally identical to those of New Zealand, are satirized.
JF - Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand) VL - 62.65 UR - http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d& cl=search& d=EP18960808.2.3. U3 -Alethomythos, Joannes [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Eden Y1 - 1896 A1 - Andrew Acworth KW - Male author AB -Dystopia and a flawed utopia set in 2096. The human race has degenerated mentally and lost the science and technology of the past. There is a small island established in 1896 that has no government but has laws handed down by custom that everyone obeys. It is presented as dull, and the people are without emotion. Work only from 20-40. Technologically advanced.
PB - Ward and Lock CY - London N1 -Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 3-79. Editor's notes, 1, 201-02.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forty Years With the Damned; or, Life Inside the Earth Y1 - 1895 A1 - Charles Aikin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A eutopia inside the Earth discovered by a man and a woman escaping from slavery. In the eutopia, which had been established by Christ, everyone helps everyone else, but “It is a law of nature and the will of God that the black man serve the white; yet with us it is no servitude, neither is required of us if no one cares not to do it, there is no compulsion” (110). No politics, no commerce, and no death. There is, though, in addition, a brief depiction of Death, Sin, and the damned on their way to the Inferno.
PB - [Regan Printing House] CY - [Evanston, IL] U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Government by the People Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914) A1 - [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Non-fiction presentation of a detailed scheme for a new political system stressing administration over politics and how to bring it about. Includes chapters on the civil service; the national assembly, which has no speaker or prime minister, and its committees; "The Chamber of Experts", which has educational qualifications for membership; local government; the constitution; rights of minorities; and social ethics.
PB - Bliss, Sands and Foster CY - London U3 -The Authors of The Story of My Dictatorship [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Magazine Causerie" Y1 - 1895 A1 - L .F. Austin AB -A spoof of H.G. Wells's 1895 "The Time Machine" set in the year 150,000. English spoken as spelt. Ghosts everywhere. Bored; sleep 20 hours per day; no knowledge of history. Women dominate men.
JF - Illustrated London News U5 -LLL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The State of Medicine in the Year 1945" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Albert Abrams (1863-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire. Capsule food has eliminated most disease. The number of physicians limited by law. Prevention of illness was the responsibility of one group of doctors; another group consulted in cases of severe illness; another castrated those guilty of crimes (no capital punishment); and another practiced euthanasia when the illness was incurable. Novels included ads.
JF - Transactions of the Antiseptic Club Reported by Albert Abrams, A Member of the San Francisco Medical Profession PB - E.B. Treat/E.C. Treat/J.Q. Adams & Co./N.D. McDonald/John P. Hobart/Johnson and Emigh CY - New-York/Chicago, IL/Boston, MA/New Orleans, LA/Cincinnati, OH/San Francisco, CA N1 -Rpt. (New York: E.B. Treat, 1902), 179-205.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future Y1 - 1894 A1 - John Jacob Astor [IV] (1864-1912) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. Set in 2000 AD. The novel is mostly concerned with a journey to Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter is essentially a prehistoric planet inhabited by dinosaurs. Saturn is inhabited by the spirits of the Earth's dead, who are waiting for the Second Coming. The eutopia on earth is one in which electricity does all the work. Canada and South America have joined the U.S.
PB - D. Appleton CY - New York N1 -Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
U2 -Illus. Dan Beard
U5 -HRC, MoU-St, W3,148
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sophos or Kidnapping the Kings. A Fin de Siecle Vision Y1 - 1894 A1 - Albert Alberg KW - Male author AB -Socialists kidnap most of the worlds monarchs and isolate them on an island, called New Atlantica with its harbor Altruria, where they are required to live and work like normal human beings. On the whole, the young ones see the situation in eutopian terms.
PB - Bow-Knot Publishing CY - Chicago, IL VL - Vol. 1.1 of the White Star Series (June 1894) U5 -L, NhD
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Peasant; A Timely Allegory Y1 - 1892 A1 - T[homas] H[enry] Tibbles (1840-1928) A1 - [Elia Wilkinson] [Peattie] (1862-1935) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia set in a temperate continent in the Arctic. Christian. Few laws because equality is more important than laws, but women are not yet considered capable of full citizenship. United States as a dystopia.
PB - F.J. Schulte & Co CY - Chicago, IL VL - No. 20A (September 1892) of The Ariel Library N1 -Also published Indianapolis, IN: Vincent Brothers Publishing Company, 1892.
U3 -Another [pseud.]
U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "He Visits an Adamless Eden" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Arthur [William] A'Beckett (1844-1909) ED - His "Alter ego" [pseud.] KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire on women's franchise.
JF - The Member for Wrottenborough: Passages from His Life in Parliament PB - Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., CY - London N1 -Probably originally published in a weekly newspaper.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Depths of the Dark Continent; or, The Vengeance of Van Vincent" Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Cornelius] [Shea] (1863-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Mostly adventure but includes two flawed utopias. The first is a “Paradise of Women”, but the women live in an all-female community simply because there are too many women in the larger community. The second is called “the African Utopia” which was established on the site of an earlier community founded by an extinct people and rediscovered by Egyptians in sixteenth century. It had grown to over two thousand people because no one ever left and now all modern languages are spoken there. No money. All worked and anyone who refused was fed to lions. Annual elections.
JF - Brave and Bold VL - no. 109 N1 -Rpt. as “In the Depths of the Dark Continent; or, The Vengeance of Van Vincent.” By the Author of “The Wreck of the ‘Glaucus’” [pseud.]. Brave and Bold, no. 109 (January 21, 1905). Entire issue. 32 pp.
U3 -Author of “The Wreck of the ‘Glaucus’” [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Forward" Y1 - 1892 A1 - J. O. Andrew AB -Dystopian satire. An inventor creates an instrument for looking into the future on fifty years in the future Birmingham, Alabama is the national capital and Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is President for life. Women have gained power and taken the vote away from men. Men stay at home and care for the children, but, over time, there are fewer children. The race problem has been eliminated through the ability to change skin color and straighten hair, thus eliminating all non-whites. Education is through technology, with knowledge passed electronically from the brain of the teacher to the brains of the pupils. Crime has been almost eliminated by having magistrates read everyone's brain regularly, and the few crimes of passion are treated in hospitals. Almost all domestic chores like cooking and dish washing have been fully automated with food delivery by aircraft. The women mess up, the country is run down, and men take back power and women return to the home. But the men mess up as badly.
JF - Belford's Monthly and Democratic Review VL - 8.47 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Island Y1 - 1892 A1 - Edward J. Austen A1 - Louise V[escelius] Sheldon KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -Satire in which a ship is wrecked on an unknown island that turns out to be owned by one of the sailors. He imposes a capitalist system until the others build a raft and leave him behind. On the single tax, see Henry George, 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.
PB - Fels Fund of America CY - Cincinnati, OH N1 -Rpt. illus. in The Cosmopolitan 14.3 (January 1893): 365-84. Rpt. without the author’s names as The Lost Island with a Conclusion by William Lloyd Garrison as The Sterling Weekly 2.3 (February 13, 1897): entire issue with “Concluding Chapter” (31-35).
U2 -Illus. Edward J. Austen
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Melbourne Riots and How Harry Holdfast and His Friends Emancipated the Workers. A Realistic Novel Y1 - 1892 A1 - David A[ndrew] Andrade (1859-1928) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -A cooperative agricultural scheme, labor notes, and the gradual successful establishment of a cooperative village. The book includes commentary on utopian literature and communal experiments and includes ads for the author’s bookstore, circulating library, and vegetarian restaurant, all at the same address in Melbourne. See also the author’s Money: A Study of the Currency Question, Especially in its Relations to the Principles of Equity, Utility, and Liberty. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Co-operative Publishing Co., 1887, which begins with the statement “Money has a twofold function: exchange and robbery (1) and ends with a plea for labour notes or some other means of exchange that will help workers (9).
PB - Andrade & Co. CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -A, ATL, L, M
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Village Commune: A Labour Poem. Leaflets for the People. No. IV. For God and Home, Humanity, and Fatherland Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Robert Michael] [Cochrane] (1862-1933) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Poem in which the second part (10-16) describes a future communal eutopia.
PB - Queensland Social-Democratic Federation CY - Brisbane, QLD, Australia N1 -Extracts were published in The Worker (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) 3.70 (September 3, 1892): 3; and the Bulletin (December24, 1892), 21.
U3 -By Alaric [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Aristocracy Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Alice Elinor] [Bartlett] (1848-1920 KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Mostly on the struggles of a poor family, but regularly refers to the eutopia they hope to achieve. An industrial community and a movement for the alleviation of poverty are created.
PB - Bartlett Publishing Co CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897.
U3 -Birch Arnold [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire; or, the Witches Cavern Y1 - 1890 A1 - H[enry] C[rocker] M[arrriott] W[atson] (1835-1901) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Socialism and a lack of both religion and authority cause the collapse of Britain. Britain failed to educate its people so that democracy could function correctly. Climatic changes brought about by the movement of the Gulf Stream away from Britain and the resulting colder weather led to mass immigration and the collapse of commerce. The class structure in Britain divides people. The protagonist visits Britain in 2990 and the Britain of the nineteenth century in a dream. Australia in 2989 is prosperous and healthy with religion and authority as seen in a tour of Australia taken in what is called an electric car but runs on a schedule and has a guard. The poor in Australia are given assistance as a right.
PB - Trischler & Co. CY - London N1 -Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 59-217. Editor's notes, 57-58, 392-95. U.S. eds. as The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. By An English Premier [pseud.]. Minerva Series. No. 36. November, 1890. New York: Minerva, 1890; and The Witch's Cavern, A Realistic and Thrilling Picture of London Society. By One Who Knows [pseud.]. New York: Minerva, 1890.
U3 -U.S. reprints published under: An English Premiere [pseud.] and One Who Knows [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Erudia, the Foreign Missionary to Our World; or, The Dream of Orphanos Y1 - 1890 A1 - William Allen (b. 1834) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The novel is mostly a critique of contemporary life from a Christian viewpoint noting the need for temperance, education, faith, and the Sabbath. Illustrates the reality of Heaven and Hell. It ends with a brief eutopia that is brought about by filling all these needs.
PB - Ptd. for the Author by the Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South CY - Nashville, TN ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Girl of the Future” Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A satirical essay that criticizes the current marriage system as marriage for the man and prostitution for the woman as well as the new education for women that cultivated their brains but neglected their bodies and, specifically, ignored sex. He then suggests the eutopia that would be possible if women were fully emancipated and given the sort of education that would prepare them for motherhood, mentally and physically.
JF - Universal Review VL - 7.25 U5 -Hathi
ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Modern Monk Y1 - 1890 A1 - The Author of "Confessions of an Actress," "Serpent Sin," Etc. [pseud.] AB -Anti-religious science fiction erotica. Satire on religion by presenting a presumed eutopian religious community, with a male leader and attractive female followers.
PB - np CY - Np U3 -The Author of "Confessions of an Actress," "Serpent Sin," Etc. [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Triumph of Freedom: A prospective History of the Social Revolution in Victoria" Y1 - 1890 A1 - J[ohn] A[rthur] Andrews (1865-1903) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Anarchist eutopia. See his What Is Communism? Ed. Bob Jones. Prahran, VIC, Australia: Backyard Press, [1984?].
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Letters from the Planets" Y1 - 1887 A1 - [Wladjslaw Somerville] [Lach-Szyrma] (1841-1915) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.
JF - Cassell's Family Magazine VL - 13 N1 -The stories from April and October are rpt. as “Letters from Mars.” in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 53-72 with an editor’s not on 51-52. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet. Series continued as "The Portals of the King of Day. A Journey To the Regions of the Sun." 14 (January 1888): 96-98; "Our Second Voyage to Mars." 15 (February 1889): 166-70; "Letters from the Planets--Canal Life on Mars." 16 (February 1890): 285-87; "A Trip to Jupiter's Moonlet." 18 (December 1891): 55-56; and "Corresponding With the Planets." 19 (June 1893): 403-05. Entire series rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 1-26.
U3 -Our Roving Correspondent [pseud.], Signed Alerial [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Simiocracy; A Fragment from Future History Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Arthur Montagu] [Brookfield] (1853-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire in which monkeys take over England, partially as a result of failures in education and partially due to political failures.
PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -The Author of 'Post Mortem'. [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drolleries of a Happy Island, or, Merry Utopia Y1 - 1883 A1 - [Charles Heber] [Clark] (1847-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Arcadia. Eutopia of simplicity that is disturbed by outside influences.
PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -Rpt. beginning with a new page number and the title "Merry Utopia or The Drolleries of a Happy Island." [Table of Contents reads "The Drolleries of a Happy Island"]. In A Desperate Adventure and Other Stories. By Max Adeler [pseud.]. (London: Ward, Lock, [1886]), 1-176.
U3 -Max Adeler [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Seizure of the Channel Tunnel: A Tale of the Twentieth Century” Y1 - 1882 A1 - F. A. AB -The dystopia brought about by the defeat of Britain by France as a result of building a channel tunnel. Ireland becomes an independent republic. Gibraltar becomes a French protectorate, and Dover and the Channel Islands become part of France.
Mostly romance but presents a eutopian abbey based very loosely on the Abbey of Thélème of François Rabelais (1483?-c.1533). The inmates of this Abbey are attractive young men and women whose "vows are of permission to marry, to be rich, if the Lord will, and to live at liberty" (I: 2). Throughout the book much humor is directed at social reform, the communal movement, and attempts at "higher thought".
JF - The World VL - 8-9 N1 -Vol. 2 has the subtitle An Invention. New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890.
U3 -The Authors of 'The Golden Butterfly.' Etc. [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coralia; A Plaint of Futurity Y1 - 1876 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -While the novel focuses on an unhappy immortal who attempts to find solace in life, Coralia is called "the land of happiness" (11), and, while it is beneath the sea, it is a sort of heaven. "Here life was not as what we know it, but a serene existence without insignificant and unworthy objects such as those of earth" (49). The novel ends with the unhappy immortal united with God.
PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -The Author of "Pyrna, A Commune; or, Under the Ice" [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Front of the World. A Novel Y1 - 1876 A1 - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A messianic figure attempts to bring about human unity, writes a new Bible, and creates a new religion through a group with telepathy.
The Author of "Pyrna, A Commune; or, Under the Ice" [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Clouds; A Glimpse of Utopia. A Fairy Extravaganza Y1 - 1873 A1 - Gilbert [Arthur] A'Beckett (1837-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire both on the idea of utopia and on specific reform movements, including women's rights. A military that does not fight. No votes for anyone. Government that does nothing. Only Shakespeare in the theatre. No newspapers. There is a well of the water of truth, and anyone exposed to it can no longer live in Utopia.
PB - Samuel French CY - London N1 -In vol. 100 of Lacy's Action Edition.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Benjamin F.] [Field] (1806-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A variety of societies are depicted. These include one religious eutopia and a number of physically ideal eutopias. The religious eutopia is based on the idea that our next life will be based on our actions in this life, and all actions in this life will be known in the next one. Therefore, everyone behaves well and the result is a eutopia.
PB - Rand, Avery CY - Boston, MA U3 -Paul Aermont [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "John Mardon, Mariner: His Strange Adventures in El Dorado" Y1 - 1872 A1 - The Author of "St. Abe." [pseud.] AB -Poem of mostly dystopian adventures in El Dorado, which teems with dangerous animals and natives.
JF - St. Paul's Magazine VL - 11 U3 -The Author of “St. Abe.” [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ultrawa" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Authwise, Eugene KW - Male author AB -Eutopia. Hidden village of forty families. No formal government but informally led by the eldest man and woman.
JF - The Overland Monthly (San Francisco, CA) VL - 9 - 11 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Four-Leaved Shamrock; or Erin's Glory" Y1 - 1869 A1 - [John] [Holloway] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Includes a description of the future greatness of Ireland. Chapter VII "More About the Four-Leaved Shamrock" (Journal 176-78; Book 147-61) is about the traditional utopia of the Irish gods.
JF - Young Englishman's Journal and Illustrated Magazine for the Youth of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales VL - 4.91 - 99 N1 -Rpt. as Kathleen, or The Four-Leaved Shamrock. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1871. Rpt. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1872.
U1 -Rpt. as Kathleen, or The Four-Leaved Shamrock. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1871. Rpt. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1872.
U3 -The Author of Wat Tyler [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Death: or, Disembodiment of Man. The Location, Topography, and Scenery of the Spiritual Universe; Its Inhabitants, Their Customs, Habits, Modes of Existence; Sex After Death; Marriage in the World of Souls; the Sin Against the Holy Ghost, Its Fearful Penalties, Etc. Y1 - 1868 A1 - [Paschal Beverly] [Randolph] (1825-75) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -Detailed description of the racially separate heavens with the white heaven the highest but with the souls in heaven evolving from their situation at death to higher states. African American author who is thought to have established the first U.S. Rosicrucian order. On Randolph, see John Patrick Deveney, Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black America Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997 with a “Foreword” by Franklin Rosemont (xiii-xx).
PB - Ptd. for the author CY - Boston, MA N1 -2nd ed. corr. and enl. Boston, MA: Author, 1868; 3rd ed. as After Death: the Disembodiment of Man. Boston, MA, 1869; 5th ed. [published before the 4th ed.] Boston, MA: Randolph Publishing Co., 1870, with a “Preface” by Freeman B. Dowd. Rpt. under the author’s name as After Death: The Disembodiment of Man. The World of Spirits, Its Location, Extent, Appearance; The Route Thither; Inhabitants; Customs; Societies; Also Sex and Its Uses There, Etc. Etc.; With Much Matter Pertinent to the Question of Human Immortality. 4th ed. rev., corr., and enl. Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1873; rpt. Toledo, OH: Randolph and Co., 1886; rpt. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1961.
U1 -Under the author’s name as After Death: The Disembodiment of Man. The World of Spirits, Its Location, Extent, Appearance; The Route Thither; Inhabitants; Customs; Societies; Also Sex and Its Uses There, Etc. Etc.; With Much Matter Pertinent to the Question of Human Immortality. 4th ed. rev., corr., and enl. Toledo, OH: Randolph and Co., 1886.
U3 -Author of Pre-Adamite Man [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Constitution or Organic Basis of the Pantarchy Y1 - 1860 A1 - [Stephen Pearl] [Andrews] (1812-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Detailed constitution of the new spiritual government of the world. Andrews was involved in a variety of radical movements, including cooperative housekeeping, the Modern Times community, and marriage reform. See also his The True Constitution of Government in the Sovereignty of the Individual as the Final Development of Protestantism, Democracy and Socialism (1851). Rpt. as vol. 1 of his Science of Society. Boston, MA: Sarah E. Holmes, 1888; rpt. Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1970.
PB - Baker and Godwin CY - New York U3 -By Andrusius, Pantarch [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of The Day that must come Y1 - 1859 A1 - [Mrs.] [Anne Judith] [Penny] (1825?-93) KW - Female author AB -The Last Judgement of a near future irreligious and decadent dystopia.
PB - Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt CY - London U3 -Edited by the Author of "Morning Clouds" [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["Description of a Community Plan"] Y1 - 1855 A1 - Thomas Atkins KW - Male author AB -Educational eutopia based on the ideas of Robert Owen.
JF - Robert Owen's Address, Delivered At the Meeting in St. Martin's Hall, Lonc [sic.] Acre, London, On the 1st. of January, 1855 PB - Effingham Wilson, J. Clayton and Son, Holyoake CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future of Victoria Y1 - 1850 A1 - [James] [Oakes] [Presumed author] KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Victoria is presented as a future eutopia in which Christianity has produced a prosperous, well-educated, good population. Discusses commerce; the beauty of the city and its architecture, education, particularly religious education; agriculture; manufacturing; culture; and government, among other topics. The greatest obstacles, a poorly raised and educated younger generation and lack of religion, can be overcome by teaching children obedience and respect for their parents and God.
PB - James Smith CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U3 -Acorn [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Liberty; or, Equality and Community Y1 - 1848 A1 - The Author of "Theodore" [pseud.] AB -Novel presenting the development and failure of a communal experiment. A commune founded on the basis of liberty fails until law and order are introduced.
PB - Joseph Masters CY - London N1 -Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 121-258.
U3 -The Author of “Theodore” [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elmaphil: A Fragment of the Last Antediluvian Days Y1 - 1840 A1 - The Author of “A Fantastical Flight into the Planets. [pseud.] AB -A description and story of life before the flood, mostly using Biblical sources. There are eutopian elements--e.g., ". . . in those blessed days, no rain, no storm, intruded. . . (3). Vegetarian (see Genesis xi,3), but the story is of heroic but fallible humans, and most of the work is adventure and romance.
PB - Saunders & Otley CY - London U3 -By The Author of "A Fantastical Flight into the Planets."
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Hundred Years Hence" Y1 - 1836 A1 - [Mary] [Griffith] (1800?-46) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. A strict, reformed society brought about by the economic equality of women. Technologically advanced. Clergy hired for life and in most jobs and professions people remain rather than move for advancement or more money. Literature censured.
JF - Camperdown; or, News from Our Neighborhood: Being Sketches PB - Carey, Lea and Blanchard CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -Rpt. under the title of the utopia Philadelphia, PA: Prime Press, 1950; [Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975], with an “Introduction” by Nelson F. Adkins rev. from its original publication as “An Early American Story of Utopia.” Colophon, ns 1 (July 1935): 123-32; rpt. from the original in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 31-48 with an editor’s note on 29-30. The Prime Press ed. has many typographical errors.
U3 -By the Author of "Our Neighborhood" [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Decline and Fall of the British Empire" Y1 - 1831 A1 - An Australian Statesman, in the Year 2377 [pseud.] ED - Alaric A. Watts AB -Britain became dependent on foreigners, lost its colonies, and is defeated in a war. All this is caused by the philosophers.
JF - Scenes of Life and Shades of Character PB - Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley CY - London VL - 2 vols. U3 -An Australian Statesman, in the Year 2377 [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dialogue for the Year 2130, Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl" Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Thomas Henry] [Lister] (1800-42) ED - Frederic Mansel Reynolds KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire on technology and colonialism. A future Britain with deep class divisions. Overeducated poor. Written as a play.
JF - The Keepsake for MDCCCXXX PB - Pub. For the Proprietor, by Hurst, Chance, and Co. CY - London U3 -The Author of Granby [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Political Economy, of the Honey-Bee Y1 - 1828 A1 - [Harriet?] [Grover] KW - Female author AB -Satire on capitalist bees and an argument for the need work workers to unite.
PB - Ptd. and Pub. for the Author by W.C. Featherstone CY - Exeter, Eng. U5 -LU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Voyage of Captain Popanilla Y1 - 1828 A1 - [Benjamin] [Disraeli] (1804-81) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Imaginary voyage to contemporary England (heavily satirized). Starts from a eutopia on a South Seas island with complete sexual freedom. Parts of the novel derive from his first, unpublished novel "Aylmer Paillon".
PB - Henry Colburn CY - London N1 -Rpt. in his Alroy, Popanilla, Count Alarcos (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906), 361-494; as “Popanilla.” In Popanilla and Other Tales. Vol. 3 of The Bradenham Edition of the Novels and Tales of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (London: Peter Davies, 1926), 1-107; and rpt. from The Novels and Tales of Lord Beaconsfield (London: Longmans, Green, 1881), 4: 363-463 in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 1-70. A new ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla to the glorious island of Vraibleusia, the wonderful city of Hubbabub, and the peaceable isle of Blunderland. With illustrations from drawings by Daniel Maclise. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. U.S. ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla. Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828.
U3 -By the Author of "Vivian Grey" [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the Moon: With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians Y1 - 1827 A1 - George Tucker (1775-1861) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Mostly satire but includes a eutopia called Okalbia, meaning Happy Valley, that is almost self-sufficient and has little outside contact. People marry young and limit family size to means. Traditional gender roles. See also 1841 Tucker.
PB - Elam Bliss CY - New-York N1 -Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with a brief “Preface” (vii-ix) by David G. Hartwell and reprinting (267-94) an anonymous review from the American Quarterly Review (Philadelphia, PA), no. 5 (March 1828): 61-88.
U3 -By Joseph Atterley [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Man Y1 - 1826 A1 - [Mary Wollstonecraft] [Shelley] (1797-1851) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia of the last man on earth.
PB - Henry Colburn CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -Rpt. Ed. Hugh J. Lake. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965 with an “Introduction” by the editor (vii-xxi); 2nd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, with an “Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Judith Tarr (vii-xi); Ed. Morton D. Paley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994 with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (471-79); Ed. Anne McWhir. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 1996 with an editor’s “Introduction” (xiii-xli); and as vol. 4 of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Ed. Jane Blumberg with Nora Cook. 8 vols. London: William Pickering, 1996 with an “Introductory Note” (xi-xv) and “Silent Corrections” (366-67). Muriel Spark’s, Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. Hadleigh, Eng.: Tower Bridge Publications, 1951 contains an “Appendix--The Last Man--An Abridged Version” (195-230) that summarizes the three volumes. Chapters I-V rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 321-71.
U3 -By The Author of Frankenstein [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man Machine; or, the Pupil of 'Circumstances'" Y1 - 1826 A1 - [James Kirke] [Paulding] (1778-1860) ED - Author of John Bull in America [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia attacking Robert Owen (1771-1858) citing his New View of Society (1813). A cotton mill run on what are described as Owen's principles is designed to treat the "Man Machine", including children, in such a way as to produce the greatest profits for the proprietor. Equality was the rule, and care was provided for children and seniors. Life was machine-like with everyone working long hours and eating and sleeping on schedule. But "human nature" manifested itself in pride and envy. The story then traces other failed attempts to apply Owen's principles. The stories told by the second and third wise men of Gotham, "The Perfection of Reason" (143-233) and "The Perfection of Science" (235-324), present other failed attempts at human betterment.
JF - The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham PB - G. and C. Carvill CY - New York U3 -Ed. by the Author of John Bull in America [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revelations of the Dead-Alive Y1 - 1824 A1 - [John] [Banim] (1798-1842) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -Satire set in 2083. Primarily concerned with improvements in taste, art, and so forth.
PB - W. Simpkin and R. Marshall CY - London N1 -Rpt. as London and its Eccentricities in the Year 2023, or Revelations of the Dead Alive. By the Author of Boyne Water; Anglo Irish, Etc. [pseud.]. London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. A.K. Newman and Co., 1845.
U3 -By Author of Boyne Water; Anglo Irish, Etc. [pseud.] in reprint.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Loyal Man in the Moon. With Thirteen Cuts Y1 - 1820 A1 - Author of the Constitutional House That Jack Built [pseud.] AB -Satire in verse on the supporters of Queen Caroline (1768-1821).
PB - Ptd. for C. Chapple and J. Johnston CY - London U2 -Illus.
U3 -The Author of the Constitutional House That Jack Built [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Melincourt Y1 - 1817 A1 - [Thomas Love] [Peacock] (1785-1866) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -One theme is a satire on English politics in which an orangutan is elected as an MP.
PB - Ptd. for T. Hookham, Jun. and Co. and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy CY - London VL - 3 vols. N1 -U.S. ed. 2 vols. Philadelphia, PA: Moses Thomas, 1817.
U3 -By the Author of Headlong Hall [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Found: Being an Apology for Irish Absentees. Addressed to a Friend in Connaught Y1 - 1813 A1 - [Edward] [Mangin] (1772-1852) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -Satire. Presents London as a near-perfect place with no crime, desire, or corruption and with no social problems.
PB - Ptd. by Gye and Son CY - Bath, Eng. U3 -By An Absentee, Residing in Bath [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journey to the Moon, and Interesting Conversations with the Inhabitants respecting the Condition of Man Y1 - 1811 A1 - The Author of Worlds Displayed [pseud.] AB -Eutopia. The inhabitants of the moon are spiritually far in advance of Earth and know neither sin nor death. Mostly on the conditions of Earth.
PB - Howar[d] and Evans CY - Ptd. London N1 -Rpt. London: Ptd. by J. Evans & Son, 1815. 8 pp.
U3 -The “Author of Worlds Displayed” [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to the Moon; Strongly Recommended to all Lovers of Real Freedom Y1 - 1793 A1 - Aratus [pseud.] AB -Dystopia on the moon--allegory about contemporary England.
PB - Author CY - London N1 -Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 277-319.
U3 -Aratus [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oppression Unmasked: Being a Narrative of the Proceedings in a Case Between a Great Corporation, and a Little Fishmonger, Relative to some Customs for Fish, demanded by the former as Legal, but refused by the latter, as Exactions and Extortions Y1 - 1784 A1 - An Advocate for Justice [pseud.] KW - Irish author AB -Set in Utopia, where justice prevails, but directed to the Irish, where it does not.
PB - Np CY - Dublin, Ireland U3 -An Advocate for Justice [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hill of Science. A Vision" Y1 - 1773 A1 - [Anna Laetitia] [Barbauld] (1743-1825) ED - J[ohn] Aitkin ED - A[nna] L[etitia] Aitkin ED - A. L. Aitkin ED - J. Aitkin KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Allegorical dream of a hill topped by the Temple of Truth with various people trying to reach the top and mostly falling by the wayside. Entry is through the Gate of Languages. Application does the best.
JF - Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose PB - J. Johnson CY - London N1 -Rpt. (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ptd. by James Magee, 1774), 14-19; (London: J. Johnson, 1775), 27-35; (London: J. Johnson, 1792), 27-35; and in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 2: 163-70; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 2: 163-70. Rpt. in The American Museum, or Universal Magazine 11.3 (March 1792): 82-84; and the Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 6.265 (June 8, 1793).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** By a late Noble Writer Y1 - 1756 A1 - [Edmund] [Burke] (1729/30-97) KW - English author KW - Irish author AB -Satire on the idealization of the state of nature.
PB - Ptd. for M. Cooper CY - London N1 -2nd ed. London: Ptd. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 adds The Second Edition: With a New Preface to the title. Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 1-38.
U3 -A Late Noble Writer [pseud.].
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain: Interspersed with Literary Reflexions, and Accounts of Antiquities and Curious Things. In Several Letters Y1 - 1755 A1 - Thomas Amory (1691-1788) KW - English author AB -Includes (340-45) a description of a eutopian community of women with twenty-four members and twelve boarders.
PB - Ptd. for John Noon CY - London U1 -The book has several variant titles, but all versions have the same publisher and date.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["The Vision of Mirzah"] Y1 - 1711 A1 - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Allegory that presents heaven as a eutopia composed of islands that are "the Mansions of good Men after Death." "Every Island is a Paradise accommodated to its respective Inhabitants." Described as the first vision, but no more were published.
JF - The Spectator VL - 2.150 N1 -Rpt. in The Spectator (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. R. Fleming, 1753), 277-81; and in The Spectator. Ed. Donald F. Bond. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 2: 121-26.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Content; or, A New Paradise Discovered. In a Letter from Dr. Merryman of the same Country, to Dr. Dullman of Great Britain Y1 - 1709 A1 - Author of the Pleasures of a single Life [pseud.] AB -Eutopia with significant elements of satire. Good climate, plenty without labor. Spiders produce the material used for clothing. Women are free to choose their partners from age fifteen and are simply accepted or not by the man. No law and one judge with complete authority who is blindfolded in court. No religious conflicts. Monarchy.
PB - Ptd. by J. Baker CY - London N1 -Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 1-25.
U3 -The Author of the Pleasures of a single Life [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language Y1 - 1705 A1 - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire on contemporary life, particularly politics, by picturing a world in the moon. See [Joseph Browne], The Moon-Calf, or Accurate reflections on The Consolidator: Giving an Account of some Remarkable Transactions in the Lunar World, transmitted hither in a Letter to a Friend. By Man in the Moon [pseud.]. London, 1705. Rpt. Augustan Reprint Society no. 269. New York: Published for the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies by AMS Press, 1996 for a response.
PB - Ptd. by Benj. Bragg CY - London N1 -Rpt. in ed. Michael Seilel, Maximillian E. Novak, and Joyce D. Kennedy. The Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition. New York: AMS Press, 2001; and in Satire Fantasy and Writing on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe. Volume 3 of The Works of Daniel Defoe. The Consolidator (1705) Memoirs of Count Tariff &c (1713) The Quarrel of the School Boys at Athens (1717). Ed. Geoffrey Sill (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003), 27-158 with “Explanatory Notes” (215-48) and “Textual Notes” (262-63). Extracts published as A Journey to the World in the Moon. By the Author of the True-born English-man [pseud.]. Ptd. at London and rpt. at Edinburgh by James Watson, 1705 (MH); A letter from the Man in the Moon. To the Author of the True Born Englishman. [London: Np, 1705] (InU); and A second, and more strange voyage to the world in the moon; containing a comical description of that remarkable country, with the characters and humours of the inhabitants, etc. By the author of the true Born Englishman [pseud.]. [London: Np, 1705]. A New Journey to the World in the Moon. . . . 2nd ed. London: C. Corbett, 1741 is an imitation not by Defoe.
U3 -By the author of The True-Born Englishman [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Folly of Love, or, An Essay Upon Satyr Against Women Y1 - 1691 A1 - Richard Ames (1643-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Brief eutopia of a society without women (26-27). Compare to 1688 Ames. See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698.
PB - Ptd. for E. Hawkins CY - London N1 -2nd ed. corrected and enlarged as The Folly of Love, or A New Satyr Against Women, to which is now added The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins, 1693. 4th ed. of 2nd ed. as The Folly of Love. or A New Satyr Against Women, together with The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand. London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins., 1700.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sylvia's Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Man in Answer to the Satyr Against Woman Y1 - 1688 A1 - Richard Ames (1643-93) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Brief eutopia of a society without men (20-21). See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698.
PB - Ptd. by Joseph Streater CY - London N1 -Later ed. London: Ptd. for Samuel Clement, 1693.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Briefe Description of the Fifth Monarchy, or Kingdome, That shortly is to come into the World. That Monarch, Subjects, Officers, and Lawes thereof, and the surpassing Glory, Amplitude, Unity, and Peace of that Kingdome. When the Kingdome and Dominion, and the greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people, the Saints of the Most high, whose Kingdome is an everlasting Kingdome, and all Soveraignes shall serve and obey him. And in the Conclusion there is added a Prognostick of the time when this fifth Kingdome shall begin Y1 - 1653 A1 - William Aspinwall (fl. 1630-57) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Fifth Monarchist eutopia or the belief, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Millennium in which Christ will be the Monarch and lawgiver. Gives details of the structure of government under Christ, the laws that will be put in place, which will “be few and brief” (10). This will be the period where the saved will no longer be ruled by the sinful.
PB - Ptd. for M. Simmons CY - London U5 -L Thomason tract T708 (8)
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