TY - ABST T1 - “Eight Steps to Steal a Yacht and Build a Hospital” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Renan Bernardo (b. 1968) KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future flooded Rio de Janeiro and concerns the steps taken by people trying to bring medical care to those living in isolated communities.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Memory Day Report: Bringing history to life” Y1 - 2023 A1 - [Robert] [Carito] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A child’s report on asking his grandfather about the past about living in an unnamed city before the collapse of civilization with the child’s comments.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02067-w ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Naturals. A Novel Y1 - 2023 A1 - Gabriel Bump KW - African American author KW - US author AB -

The novel concerns a Black woman and her husband who, distraught at the death of her newborn daughter, create a society inside a mountain that attracts people from around the world and seems to be on the way to becoming a utopia until it fails.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After the Storm" Y1 - 2022 A1 - James Bradley (b. 1967) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an Australia damaged by climate change and focuses on its impact on one family as seen through the eyes of a young girl forced to move multiple times as the country and the family disintegrate.

JF - Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-26254-443-6 U2 -

Illus. Sean Bodley.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Blue Nation” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Rasha Barrage ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Iraqi author AB -

The story concerns the attempt to get the world’s oceans recognized as a nation and the reasons for doing so. Two other stories in the book are connected to this one, Brian Burt, “OasIS” (102-112), and Steve Willis, “Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide" (296-304). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/oceans-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book. 

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Caretaker" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Matthew Hanson-Kahn ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future as told by an old sea turtle where most coral has been bleached but reflects on a restoration project with humans commenting on the environmental changes. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/coral-planting/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Climate Gamers” Y1 - 2022 A1 - D[enise] A. Baden A1 - Martin Hastie A1 - Steve Willis ED - D. A. Baden ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about a challenge to gamers to compete, initially as teams, to produce a scenario within 28 days that would get below the goal of 1.5 Centigrade increase in temperature working against other teams and the effects of their changes. The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book. 

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Desert Spiral Initiative” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Gaukrodger, Howard ED - D[enise] A. Baden ED - D. A. Baden KW - Male author KW - Norwegian author AB -

The story concerns an Egyptian peasant who develops a new way of planting in the desert and manages to convince his neighbors to collectively try it. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/stories/desert-spiral-intitiative/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Efficiency” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story concerns distribution of electricity produced sustainably in a future Chicago where there is a split between a corporation whose entire systems is run by an AI and a local area that had developed its own autonomous system. For more on the technology presented in the story, see https://www.greenstories.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/stories/efficiency/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Forest Awaits” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Lyndsey Croal ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The protagonist is an old woman visiting a project she and her husband had fought for and developed over many years to create a forest of kelp that sucks up carbon dioxide and reflecting on the changes in the better in the world over the years. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/seagrass-kelp/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book. 

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hilarious Inside Joke of Our Overwhelming Melancholic Nostalgia” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Francis Bass KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in what remains of a future Florida operating the World Climate Restoration Regime. It focuses on a young girl who is nostalgic for a past where there were still orange trees.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Hope This Email Does Not Find You” Y1 - 2022 A1 - S.G. Baker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an abandoned mall after government has disappeared and the power grid lost. The focus is a woman in a wheelchair who was left behind and the community develops as others join her living in the mall.

SN - 978-1-988293-19-6 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/12/09/i-hope-this-email-does-not-find-you/ N1 -

Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 12-21, with a note on the author on 20-21.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jetta” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Judy Upton (b. 1967) ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

The story is set in a future in which a wealthy suburb contracts with a company to provide security drones and security androids to replace the police that the nearby city no longer provides. Crime is rampant due to extreme poverty in the city, and most people in the suburb work from home.

JF - C.A.T.S. in Space: Cycling Across Time and Space: 11 Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR SN - 978-1648411199 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kingston Gourmet" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ashaya Brown KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Set in the 22nd century, Earth has made contact with intelligent aliens on another planet but is having difficulty communicating with them because they seem to be only interested in food. They, reflecting this, assume that the best cooks on Earth are its leaders.

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 23 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light Pirate Y1 - 2022 A1 - Lily Brooks-Dalton KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins as a contemporary climate-change novel in follows a woman born during a hurricane in Florida through the development of the dystopia that develops as the climate gets worse.

PB - Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group CY - New York SN - 978-1538708279 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Longest Breath” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Lisa Beebe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a Florida retirement home that overlooks a city that is now underwater from the viewpoint of an old Japanese woman who had been a professional diver whose daughter had brought her from Japan and put her in the home.

JF - Prism Review VL - no. 24 N1 -

Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (March 10, 2023). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/03/10/the-longest-breath/ 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Look to the Sky, My Love” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Renan Bernardo (b. 1968) KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author AB -

A love story set in a future where a continuous party also produces electricity for the surrounding area. There are hints of a troubled past that has been overcome.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Naked Earth" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Tanzanian author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future where society is divided into three class, the embracers who do everything possible to personally produce power that is sent to the grid. The unshackled do as they like, and the undecided are essentially outcasts who pay a heavy price for their agnostic position. The protagonist is a young women trying to decide. 

JF - Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - ([Yokine, WA, Australia] SN - 978-1-922101-73-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "OaSIs" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Brian Burt ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

OasIS stands for Ocean as an Independent State which is inhabited by people, mostly migrants from flooded regions, living on constructed islands loosely connected by trade. The protagonist of the story is the female President of the country living on its capital, New Atlantis, and dealing with a variety of economic and political problems. Two other stories in the book are connected to this story, Rasha Barrage, “Blue Nation” (54-64) and Steve Willis, “Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide.” (296-304). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/ocean-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Penang Fairhaven -- A Visitor’s Guide” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Steve Willis ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in 2062 in Malaysia in the thriving under ocean city of Fairhaven, which has eighteen districts reflecting different parts of the world. The story is connected to two others in the book, Rasha Barrage, “Blue Nation” (54-64) and Brian Burt, “OasIS” (102-112). For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/stories/penang-fairhaven-a-visitors-guide/ and https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/ocean-as-a-nation/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - Np SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Refreeze the Arctic” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Steve Willis ED - D[enise] A. Baden KW - Male author AB -

The story is about the successful program to refreeze the arctic. For more information, see https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/refreeze-the-arctic/ and https://www.greenstones.org.uk/anthology-for-cop27/solutions/refreeze-the-glaciers/ The last story in the book, Steve Willis, Martin Hastie, and D[enise]. A. Baden, “Saving the Titanic,” (304-327), summarizes all the solutions to the current environmental situation presented in the rest of the book.

JF - No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet PB - Habitat Press CY - 2022 SN - 978-1-7399803-2-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Runner" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future that is anti-technology told from the point of view of a young woman fascinated by it who has been assigned to a job, running messages among the remaining communities, that is the most technology-free work available.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “SCS 750” Y1 - 2022 A1 - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future where there is a mandatory rating system or Social Credit Score program for every individual in a surveillance that changes constantly based on behavior. Everyone’s status is revealed by the color of screen on their phone. It begins with a couple of men trying to avoid the cameras by wearing masks who are identified by their body movements, and they were docked points for doing so. One is accused of a “speech crime” that revealed he wanted to be individualistic and lost his job and then his apartment.

JF - I Walk Between the Raindrops. Stories PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 978-0063052888 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Sea of Plastic" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

Brief climate change dystopia. The title describes the focus.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-19-6 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/04/29/a-sea-of-plastic/ N1 -

 Rpt. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 79-83, with a note on the author on 82-83.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Shallow State” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future where the government systematically misrepresents the situation by such things as temperature readings that are programmed to not go over 100oF.

JF - Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] SN - 978-1-922101-73-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Spectacular View” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Graham Sun (b. 1977) ED - Jason P. Burnham ED - C. M. Fields ED - Ai Jiang (b. 1997) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia from the point-of-view of an AI Building Superintendent trying to create a real estate listing for the one inhabitable unit in a seafront high rise.

JF - If There’s Anyone Left. A Speculative Fiction Magazine. Volume 3. PB - Np CY - Np VL - 3 SN - 979-8360744078 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Subscription Life” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Marie [Lillian] Vibbert (b. 1974) ED - Ellen Meeropol ED - Carina Bissett ED - Celia Jeffries KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which in order to earn enough to live on people “subscribe” to a company and then wear its clothes, eat its foods, work in its stores, and so forth while being constantly filmed. The story concerns one woman who happily signs up only to learn how the system actually functions.

JF - Dreams for a Better Worlds: Book Two in the Dreams Anthology Series PB - [Reckoning Press]/Essential Dreams Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-955360-05-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweep of Stars Y1 - 2022 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of the Astra Black trilogy. In this volume the Muungano (Togetherness in Swahili) empire has separated from Old Earth and its wars to establish a better future for their people. But Old Earth does not want to lose its power over them. There is a Glossary on pp. 345-348. See 2020 Broaddus for a story set in the same future.

PB - Tor/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1-250264930 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Acts of Defiance” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set on one of the islands of Orkney, Scotland, where the protagonist had moved to distance himself from the current regime that destroys books that meet its disapproval and kills dissidents. Having destroyed all philosophy books, it is now coming for his favorite novels.

JF - Burning Brightly: 50 Years of Novacon PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng.] SN - 978-1-914953-03-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Afterglow" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Lindsey Brodeck (b. 1995) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where people who can afford to or can get a labor contract are leaving Earth. The point-of-view character is a woman who does not want to leave whose partner has a contract for both of them. Following odd clues, she discovers a movement called the Keepers who are rewilding the planet as well as inner city gardening, beekeeping, and other projects to heal Earth. One of them is the need for a change in language to eliminate the distinction between humans and the natural world. The story was awarded first prize in the climate fiction contest. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - Afterglow | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

Illus. Amelia K. Bates

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Deer, Tiger, and Witch” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kate V. Bui ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - Vietnamese-American author AB -

The story is set in a future Vietnam when the agricultural system has been destroyed by pollution.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drumming Song" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Ashley Bao KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an island in the Indian ocean that has become popular with tourists, with crops grown to feed them and send to the mainland rather than to feed the indigenous inhabitants and damaging the environment. In the story, a little girl talks to the land and seas with her drum and is taught how to begin to reverse the damage.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/11/26/drumming-song/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fancy" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Diana Burbano ED - Alex Hernandez ED - Matthew David Goodwin ED - Sarah Rafael García KW - Columbian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story concerns women fighting back against a patriarchal theocracy.

JF - Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology PB - Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press CY - Columbus SN - 978-0-8142-5798-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grievers Y1 - 2021 A1 - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

First volume of a trilogy in which Detroit is ravaged by a pandemic. The second volume is Maroons. Black Dawn Series #3. Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2023. 267 pp. In this volume, the protagonist searches the mostly empty city for answers to the disease and for other survivors. 

PB - AK Press CY - Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-849354523 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immunity Index Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sue Burke KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Pandemic dystopia. Three sisters who discover that they were genetically identical are immune.

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-1-250-31787-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Intended" Y1 - 2021 A1 - David John Baker ED - Helen De Cruz ED - Johan de Smedt ED - Eric Schwitzgebel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a much advanced far future, primarily on the planet Eudaimonia, where everyone is a Planner and everything goes by the Plan, with each individual’s life is set at birth. Everyone is tested daily and if there is a variation either the person’s brain or the Plan is adjusted. The protagonist is a man who had an accident that made it impossible to sufficiently adjust either. The author describes the work as an ambiguous utopia in the same vein as Le Guin’s The Dispossessed.

JF - Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories: Exploring the Boundaries of the Possible PB - Bloomsbury Academic CY - London/New York SN - 978-1-350-08121-5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Cup of Coffee in the World” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Freiya Benson KW - Scottish author KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set after a slow collapse, known as the Great Decline, and told by one of the few survivors

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 26 SN - 2059-2590 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Like Flowers Through Concrete” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Louangie Bou-Montes ED - Alex Hernandez ED - Matthew Anthony Goodwin ED - Sarah Rafael García KW - Female author KW - Puerto Rican author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future trying to recover from while still dealing with the devastation of climate change and depicts personal relations within a fairly resilient community.

JF - Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology PB - Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press CY - Columbus, OH SN - 978-0-8142-5798-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mummies" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Steve Rasnic Tem (b. 1950) ED - Leah Bobet ED - Cécile Cristifari KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in a world of advanced technology seen through the eyes of an old man who has access to the technology.

JF - Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-9555360-00-5 UR - https://reckoning.press/mummies/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Small Victory" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Konstantina Scott-Barrett Baraoudaki KW - Female author KW - Greek author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future in which Artificial Intelligence is replacing most jobs, and the Scottish government’s Job Seeker Aid and Redundancy Removal Department or J.A.R.R.D. has complete power over all jobseekers, with the protagonist a jobseeker. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 22 U2 -

Illus. by Emily Simeoni

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Replanting the Garden” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Liam Burke KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Earth devastated by climate change and concerns the exploits a team of Gardeners using very advanced biotechnology as part of the recovery effort.

JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/10/08/replanting-the-garden/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Restoration" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Karen Heuler (b. 1949) ED - Leah Bobet ED - Cécile Cristifari KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that has been devastated by climate change with most plants and animals losing their habitats and concerns the beginnings of the process of restoration that sends individual “seeders” out to provide seeds, trees, insects, birds, and larger animals to the few human left. One concern is the need to reintroduce predators.

JF - Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, OH SN - 978-1-9555360-00-5 UR - https://reckoning.press/the-restoration/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sabhu My Destination” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Susan Forest ED - Lucas K. Law KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on an African American boy growing up in the contemporary United States and the long-lived man he becomes mostly in Africa told in stages with each stage beginning in italics with the experiences that make him who he is in the future. The story is played out in a world transformed by climate change, with much both changed and unchanged at a both a personal level and socially and politically, such as the abandonment of a base on the moon and its redevelopment by Ghana.

JF - Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories PB - Laksa Media Groups CY - Calgary, AB, Canada SN - 978-1-988140-17-9 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Singer of Seeds” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Leda Baöl KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - Italian author AB -

The story is set in a future that is still recovering from earlier environmental devastation and is about a coming-of-age ceremony designed to ensure that future generations carry on the regeneration. The story is one of two XR WORDSMITHS’ Top Picks.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS’ Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/green-witch/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - SPF Y1 - 2021 A1 - Justine Teu ED - Leah Bobet ED - Cécile Cristifari KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future of rising seas (Venice is gone; Manhattan is going), drought, and extreme heat.

JF - Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-9555360-00-5 UR - https://reckoning.press/spf/ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stronghold Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kesha Bakunin KW - Male author AB -

The novel depicts a country called the Stronghold that is almost impossible to enter or leave that is dominated by a tyrannical system combining religion with an authoritarian regime. The author says that the book was originally written in an unidentified former Soviet state, rejected for publication unless revised, and then immigrated to an unknown country and translated into English by the author, and, he suggests, reflects the regime of that state.

PB - Atmosphere Press CY - [Austin, TX] SN - 978-1637529379 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unity Y1 - 2021 A1 - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a postapocalyptic United States and begins in the collapsing underwater Bloom City. The protagonist is a woman who belongs to collective mind from which she has been separated. With two others she flees Bloom City hoping to be unified with the rest of her selves.

PB - Tachyon Publications CY - San Francisco, CA SN - 9781616963422 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Vladivostok” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Avital Balwit ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in Vladivostok, Russia, where the people apparently get a universal basic income from the government, and the natural world. A man and a woman visit from the United States to get film of the Amur tigers to use in a massive computer game. The man feels uncomfortable outside the game; the woman loves being in touch with the natural world.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Water Runner" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon KW - African author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a drought ravaged African country in which the rich lived in a city in a city with plenty of water and outside the city the protagonist, a water runner, harvests water from the bodies of the newly deceased.

JF - Danged Black Thing PB - Transit Lounge CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia SN - 978-1-925760-84-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Way Things Were” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Jonah Barrett ED - Susan DeFreitas KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

First contact story set in the near future that is somewhat more dystopian than the present. Concerned with colonialism, when is violence justified, gender issues, and other questions raised by Le Guin’s work, particularly “The Word for World Is Forest” (1972).

JF - Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin PB - : Forest Avenue Press CY - Portland, OR SN - 9781942436485 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When It’s Time to Harvest” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Renan Bernardo (b. 1968) KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set on a mostly automated vertical farm in a future flooded Rio De Janeiro. See the Climate Fiction Issue of Fix for essays related to Imagine 2200. The Climate Fiction Issue: How fiction can change our reality | Fix (grist.org).

JF - Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors PB - Fix Solutions Lab CY - Np UR - When It’s Time to Harvest | Fix (grist.org) U2 -

Illus. Grace Abe

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Water Stops” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Tanzanian author AB -

The story is first set in a village where people bleed so that the water can be separated out for use by the community and then in areas where the wealthy have everything they might want or need. The rest of the book consists of various responses to the story including poems, stories, including a number of both by Bacon, and translations of the story into French, Malay (illus.), Swahili, Cantonese, and Bengali.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 149.5/6 SN - 979-8985733662 N1 -

Rpt. in Languages of Water. Ed. Eugen [Matoyo] Bacon (Fayettesville, GA: MVmedia, 2023), 19-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wild Inside” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Angela Penrose ED - Leah Bobet ED - Cécile Cristifari KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the story, a community is set on destroying everything natural.

JF - Reckoning 5: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI SN - 978-1-9555360-00-5 UR - https://reckoning.press/the-wild-inside/ N1 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-wild-inside/ (February 6, 2021).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yahweh's Hour" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Michael H. Hutchins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief fundamentalist religious dystopia based, as the author says on 242, on the beliefs of the supporters of Donald Trump.

JF - A Few Last Words for the Immortals PB - Kudzu Planet/Fairwood Press CY - Bonney Lake, WA SN - 978-1-933846-12-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Abortion Diary" Y1 - 2020 A1 - KL Pereira ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A diary set in a near-future United States detailing the treatment of women as they negotiate the possibility that they are pregnant and the choices they are able to make. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "African Twilight" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michelle Renee Lane ED - Matt Bechtel KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a scheme to reestablish slavery in the United States.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afterland Y1 - 2020 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which very few males are born and a mother and her young son, disguised as her daughter, travel across America, fleeing all those who would use him for their own purposes.

PB - Mulholland Books CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-26783-0 N1 -

An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 4.4 (April 2020). [The JRB Daily] [Exclusive] ‘A notice at the cash register with a sad-face emoji reads, “Sorry! Hand Sanitizer Sold Out!”’—Read an excerpt from Lauren Beukes’s prescient new novel Afterland – The Johannesburg Review of Books.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Antibodies" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Justine Graykin ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future of corporate control of government, the press, and the internet. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Beasts of Bataranam” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Elly Blue ED - Taru Luojola KW - Finnish author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia set on a slave plantation in Latin America. Elements of fantasy. 

JF - Dragon Bike: Fantastical Stories of Bicycling, Feminism, and Dragons PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Before I Formed You In the Womb I Knew You” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michael Rowe ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where Donald Trump is President for Life. Significant elements of fantasy. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue & Red" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Wrath James White (b. 1970) ED - Matt Bechtel KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which President Trump’s administration has dropped nuclear weapons on North Korea, which has retaliated with biological and chemical weapons. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Champions of Water War” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) ED - Dave Ring KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which water is controlled by one man who distributes to parts of the city based on competitions among champions of each sector. 

JF - Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die PB - Neon Hemlock Press CY - [Washington, DC] SN - 978-1-952086-10-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chosen Spirits Y1 - 2020 A1 - Samit Basu (b. 1979) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in Delhi in the late 2020s, a city that is dangerous, badly polluted, short of water, and experiencing ethnic conflict, and constantly on the edge of revolution. The protagonist is a Reality Controller working for a celebrity. 

PB - Simon & Schuster India CY - New Delhi, India SN - 978-9386797810 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tordotcom, 2022

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Refuge" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Mur Lafferty ED - S. B. Divya [pseud.] KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Indianapolis on “Original Earth,” or what remains after the rich have left to settle Mars and African Americans who can afford to have settled the moon and orbiting cities around it. Those left behind include those who can afford to ensure clean air and water by building a dome over their neighborhood and those who can’t. The viewpoint character is an African American ex-convict struggling to survive.

JF - Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789095012 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cleo Porter and the Body Electric Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jake Burt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Middle grade dystopia in which every family is, as a result of a pandemic, permanently isolated in separate apartments.

PB - Feiwel & Friends CY - New York SN - 978-1-250-23655-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Close Your Eyes in Peace Tonight” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Craig Wolf ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which aliens, having concluded that humans had so damaged the Earth that all over twelve must die to let Earth regenerate. Those twelve and under will be removed to a new place.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “On a Dusty Trail” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cat[herine] Scully ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an environmentally damaged future experiencing a long, severe drought. It is concerned with what is supposed to be a system to take women to freedom in the north where there is still water, but it is being used for a different purpose. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Enemy of the People" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Dan Foley ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A journalist who believes in telling the truth is being hunted down as a flees to Canada.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechyel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - e-Pocalypse: The Digital Dystopia Is Coming Y1 - 2020 A1 - Steve Bellinger KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which popular technology such as glasses are engineered to change behavior and comes to control most of the population. 

PB - Wordwooze Publishing CY - Middletown, DE SN - 9798640980745 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Failed State Y1 - 2020 A1 - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A sequel to 2017 Brown and, more directly, 2019 Brown with the same central character as in the latter. After the second American Revolution, even though the old regime is gone, the peace is fragile. The former rebels are trying to build turn what remains of New Orleans into a green utopia but using kidnapping for ransom to pay for it. Climate change, which has destroyed cities and produced food shortages, is a major theme.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-285910-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - False Title - Updated Y1 - 2020 A1 - Andrew Gearhart Jr. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Field Trip" Y1 - 2020 A1 - [Alexandra Margaret] [Dellamonica] (b. 1968) KW - Canadian author KW - Genderqueer author AB -

The story is set in a future Canada struggling to overcome past environmental damage with considerable success. Based on neighborhoods voting on most issues with children able to vote from age ten. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/06/26/field-trip/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), with a note on the author on 153-54. 

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L. X. Beckett [pseud.]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For Want of Blue Eyes” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Stephen Lomer ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story id set in the near future in which all Muslims, Mexicans, and anyone not white had been deported from the United States. When the remaining people started to complain that no one was doing the essential work, blame was placed on anyone who didn’t have blue eyes.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Frontrunners" Y1 - 2020 A1 - John M. McIlveen ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a future United States in which active shooters are a constant part of daily life. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Godshot. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Chelsea Bieker (b. 1987) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a climate change dystopia, and focuses on a young woman abandoned by her mother in an authoritarian religious intentional community and her struggle to find both her mother and herself. 

PB - Catapult CY - New York SN - 978-1-1948226-48-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Growing Roots" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alan Bao KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The protagonist of the story is a young Chinese American woman exiled to the moon from a United States who has put all those considered non-American into camps and sent anyone of dissents from current policies to the moon. Constant cold and hot war on Earth means the moon is largely abandoned. 

JF - Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 4 SN - 978-09989252-6-4 UR - https://reckoning.press/growing-roots/ N1 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/growing-roots/ (June 17, 2020)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How All This Ends" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Brad J. Boucher ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in while all minorities have sterilized.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Immolation of Kev Magee” Y1 - 2020 A1 - [Alexandra Margaret] [Dellamonica] (b. 1968) KW - Canadian author KW - Genderqueer author AB -

In a climate-change future, a billionaire is using some of his money to refreeze parts of the Arctic in exchange for tax breaks and the government not looking too hard at his finances. Extreme poverty and people depend on a wide variety of ways of getting points on social media to gain or maintain status. The author’s novel Gamechanger. New York: Tor, 2019 is set in the same future. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 167 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/beckett_08_20/ U2 -

L. X. Beckett [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Mur Lafferty ED - S. B. Divya [pseud.] KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story is told by an AI who is the head of a project to rewild Earth with extinct animals, including humans, a few of which were brought back earlier and are housed in the Kensington Zoo.

JF - Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology PB - Titan Books CY - London SN - 9781789095012 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “No One Who Runs Is Innocent” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Bracken MacLeod ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a surveillance, anti-immigrant, racist future United States.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Big Happy Family” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which all children are raised in well-run public nurseries followed by other excellent public institutions and with little or no contact with their parents. Present as obviously eutopian, but one mother sees it differently.

JF - Why Visit America. Stories PB - Henry Holt and Co. CY - New York SN - 9781250237200 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Orchidaceae” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Thomas Badlan ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the new ice age brought about by climate change brought both drought and blizzards, the Svalbard Seed Vault is being used to grow plants in huge domes reflecting the lost regions of the world and feed a population that is starting to grow again.

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9781732254688 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pigs" Y1 - 2020 A1 - G. D. Dearborn ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which America is ruled by a few Barons. It is told from the perspective of a boy on a farm raising “pigs” for slaughter.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Price of Safety Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michael C. Bland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy set in 2047 in a surveillance dystopia in which a man tries to protect his daughter after she commits a crime. The second volume is The second volume is The Price of Rebellion. Pensacola, FL: World Castle Publishing, 2023. 386 pp. In this volume, he joins a rebellion which is attacked by the government before it can act.

PB - World Castle Publishing CY - Pensacola, FL SN - 978-1950890804 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Protest" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alex Berenson (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Surveillance dystopia with drones everywhere. 

JF - The New York Times Sunday Review ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Revitalized" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jason P. Burnham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The brief story is set in a future with an extreme water shortage.

JF - Metaphorosis UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2020/Revitalized-Jason-P-Burnham/ N1 -

Rpt. in Metaphorosis 2020. The Complete Stories. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Neskowin, OR: Metaphorosis, [2021]), 243-247.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Revolt" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sheri Sebastian-Gabriel ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In the story immigrants from South of the border are turned into enhanced slaves. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scarves" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Elizabeth Massie ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where it is illegal to be “pretty,” and each child must go through a ceremony where their face is scarred. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sick House” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Josh Waterman ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future in which everyone who is at all dependent must constantly reiterate that they are grateful for still having their arms and legs.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Six Plus Four" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Matt Bechtel ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where there is no public education, only education corporations whose only purpose is making a profit, and there are no wrong answers.

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Snow Globe" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Brian Burt ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which Lake Superior is sovereign native territory recognized as such by both Canada and the U.S. As a result, floating cities, constituting the Lake Superior Archipelago of Nations (LSAN), have been established. Each city is different, often tribally based, and moveable.

JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 9781732254688 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - So Long Earth Y1 - 2020 A1 - Michael Bienenstock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is primarily concerned with the development of a spaceship that would make it possible to search for another livable planet and is very detailed on the problems of developing it. But the reason for leaving Earth is the climate change dystopia brought about by Trump’s policies with Trump reelected in 2020.

PB - Np CY - Np SN - 9798622506338 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Twenty-Second" Y1 - 2020 A1 - C. M. Franklyn ED - Matt Bechtel KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the president for life is being kept alive by harvesting body parts from people created for that purpose. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Urgent Care” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mark S. Bailen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A woman goes to an Urgent Care office for planets to see if Earth is healthy and gets a mixed response from the alien doctors.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/11/27/urgent-care/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 120-27, with a note on the author on 128. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wall: Being the First Book of the Chronicles of Sumer Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gautam Bhatia (b. 1988) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

While the novel is explicitly fantasy, it is set in a walled city that has been cut off from the rest of the world for centuries that has a strictly hierarchical society and power structure reinforced by religion. One focus is on the desire to break the structure and find out what is on the other side of the wall. Presumably the first volume of a series.

PB - HarperCollins India CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India SN - 9789353578350 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The War on Drugs" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Trevor Burrus ED - Aaron Ross Powell ED - Paul Matzko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A comparison of the success by mid-twenty-first century of the legalization of all drugs eliminated street crime and the other negative effects of drugs in 2020. 

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - CATO Institute/Libertarianism.org CY - Washington, DC SN - 978-1-948647-25-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘We Care’” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Marissa [Kristine] Lingen (b. 1978) ED - Jason P. Burnham ED - C. M. Fields KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where one corporation dominates. The focus is on the one woman in the corporation who actually cares about its customers and the effects of its products on them and the environment. After her bosses all its employees directly into the company, she takes over. 

JF - If There’s Anyone Left. Volume 1. Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Story Magazine PB - Np CY - Np VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What You Need" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Hillary Monahan ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where health care is virtually non-existent for the poor. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Adrift. Novella Extracts” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rosey Brown KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

In the future Wales, few people remain, most houses are abandoned, few people can read, and two of those who can are searching houses for books. 

JF - New Welsh Reader VL - no. 122 SN - 978-19993527-9-0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Bad Day In Utopia” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A woman living in a future matriarchy is having a bad day and decides to visit a menagerie where men are kept in well-appointed cages and are available for sex for a small fee.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 115 SN - 9781250237200 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-bad-day-in-utopia/ N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 91-102. 

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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 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cities of the Sun” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) ED - Margaret Busby KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author AB -

A brief story set in an unidentified country that after surviving troubles brought on by their own and an invasion manage to follow their ancestors’ ways to create a decent life for themselves.

JF - New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent PB - Myriad Editions CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 978-1-912408-00-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Amistad, 2019), 432-36 with a note on the author on 432. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The volume brings together, revises, and adds to his UrNu (Urban Nucleus) cycle set in a domed Atlanta, Georgia, as seen through the eyes of a range of its inhabitants. Reprints his Catacomb Years (1979), substantially revises his A Little Knowledge (1977), and adds “Interlude: After Jalyrica’s Fall” 398-99), “Prelude: The Domes” (21-24), “Death Rehearsals” (400-56), a “Chronology” (457-60), and an “Author’s Afterword: With a Little Help From My Friends . . . and My Betters” (461-63).

PB - Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press CY - Bonney Lake, WA SN - 9781933846781 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A City of Digital Engagement” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ryan Burns ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia created by turning a city over to Instagram. 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 - The Divers’ Game. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society divided into two class, one of which can kill a member of the other at will.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gamechanger Y1 - 2019 A1 - [Alexandra Margaret] [Dellamonica] (b. 1968) KW - Canadian author KW - Genderqueer author AB -

An extremely high-tech, connected society set in a climate change future with both eutopian and dystopian elements in which individuals gain and lose social capital, which is necessary for almost everything one does, through the responses of people to their actions. See also the author’s “Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling,” The Magazine and Fantasy and Science Fiction 135.1/2 (July-August 2018): 75-149; and “The Immolation of Kev Magee.” By L. X. Beckett [pseud.]. Clarkesworld, no. 167 (August 2020), which are set in the same future.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Grindr City” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Gavin Brown ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

Grindr City starts as an app for gay and bi men to chat and meet, and it evolves into an all-consuming way of life, which then evolves into an actual city. 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 - The Hive Y1 - 2019 A1 - Barry Lyga (b. 1971) A1 - Marion Baden ED - Jennifer Beals (b. 1963) ED - Tom Jacobson KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A young adult dystopia in which algorithms are used to identify and attack those misusing social media with the parameters growing narrower. 

PB - Kids Can Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life Sentence" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In this future, criminals are punished by having much of their memory wiped with the story told from the point-of-view of a such a man and narrowly focused on the experiences of the man and his family.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 105 SN - 9781250237200 978-1328613103 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/life-sentence/ N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 62-90; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 1-25, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 392. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pimp My Airship: A Naptown by Airship Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a steampunk alternative future America with most of its current problems, but, in the novel. they are faced and combatted. Stories in the “Pimp My Airship Universe” include “Pimp My Airship.” Apex Magazine, no. 2 (July 2009) https://www.apex-magazine.com/pimp-my-airship/; “The Problem of Trystan.” Hot and Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance. Ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Jean Rabe (New York: DAW Books, 2011), 46-63; “Steppin’ Razor.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 38.2 (457) (February 2014): 82-104; rpt. in Lightspeed Magazine, no. 87 (August 2017); “I Used to Love H.E.R. (A/K/A/ Help Engineer and Rebuild My Robot Girlfriend Roommate.” Help Fund My Robot Army!!! and Other Improbable Crowdfunding Projects. Ed. John Joseph Adams. Np: John Joseph Adams, 2014. EBook; “(120 Degrees of) Know the Ledge.” Not Our Kind. Ed. Nayad Monroe (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2015), 264-86 [Incorrect in the Table of Contents]; Buffalo Soldier. New York: Tor.com, 2017; and “All God's Chillun Got Wings.” Illus. Jenna Fowler Steampunk Universe. Ed. Sarah Hans (Dayton, OH: Alliteration Ink, 2017), 15-33. 

PB - Apex Book Co. CY - Lexington, KY SN - 9781937009762 N1 -

An excerpt was published in Apex Magazine, no. 120 (May 2019). EJournal. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rule of Capture Y1 - 2019 A1 - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a series set in the same future as 2017 Brown. See also 2020 Brown. In this volume, the U.S. has lost a war with China and is becoming a dictatorship bent on eliminating any opposition.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sibling Rivalry" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Michael Byers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future with a one-child policy where synthetic children are produced and become second children. 

JF - Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet VL - no. 40 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Silence of Sound" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Mike Brooks KW - Bisexual author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set after a religious war where all books have been made to say the same things. 

JF - Translunar Lounge: A Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 1 UR - https://translunartravelerslounge.com/2019/08/15/the-silence-of-sound-brooks/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Skin Y1 - 2019 A1 - Liam Brown (b. 1985) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a highly infectious pandemic in which everyone is required to stay home and focuses on the way one family deals with the issues. It was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize.

SN - 9781789550495 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “So You Want to Live in a Pivot City” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sarah Barns ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story takes place in Sydney, Australia, which, due to climate change and environmental degradation had lost its tax base and agreed to cooperate with Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google, to create an experimental surveilled city that would focus on reducing the cities carbon footprint. This requires that every action by every resident be tracked an evaluated positively or negatively. Those who fall below the threshold determined by the city can be expelled, losing not merely the right to live in the city but their property in the city. 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 Australian female author is a digital strategy consultant, producer, and researcher.

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 - “Summanus” Y1 - 2019 A1 - A. E. Bower ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set on a planet that is being explored for edible plants in the hopes that plants from Earth can be grown there, Earth having lost all plant life and humans surviving on chemically produced food. 

JF - Nourishment: A One-Shot Anthology of Science Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Summit at Eagle Nest Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dave Borland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel follows four people, two from the left and two from the right who try to see if they can come to an agreement on what needs to be done to save the United States. For half the book, they simply fail, but they are introduced to a Native American elder who teaches them the road to reconciliation. They conclude that a new Constitutional Convention is needed and develop a set of proposals reflecting a combination of their views.

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1081159450 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirty-Three Wicked Daughters” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kelly [Regan] Barnhill (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satirical story based on the story of Albina from the 12th century in which thirty-three sisters behead their husband and are exiled to Albion. In the story the thirty-three daughters of the king completely reform the kingdom, turning it into an egalitarian eutopia before they are captured and forced to marry wealthy Barons, from which point it gets complicated.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 136.5/6 SN - 978-1328613103 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 97-124, with a note on the author together with the author’s note on the story on 392-93. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Three Tales the River Told: A Glimpse of the Past” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stewart C. Baker KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia where everyone lives underground and as entertainment someone goes to the surface to follow the course of the Yellow River. 

JF - Nature VL - 571.7770 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - ​“To Everything, Tern Tern Tern” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Birna Anna Björnsdóttir (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - Icelandic author KW - US author AB -

 The story is set in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland. In about 2030, due to the changing climate, the Gulf Stream had moved away from Iceland while warming Greenland. As a result, Iceland has much, much colder winters and the iconic bird the tern or kría no longer nested there.

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 - Trapped in the R.A.W.: A Journal of My Experiences during the Great Invasion by Kaylee Bearovna With an Afterword by Pearl Larken and Appendices by the “We Survive” Group Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kate Boyes KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic (alien invasion) dystopia that wipes out over 80% of the world’s population told initially through the diary of a young *woman trapped in a Special Collections Library. This is then followed by an “Afterword” by the editor of the diary and reports on the search by survivors for her and her daughter. 

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA SN - 9781619761599 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Un-Girls Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Set in a future South Africa, the novella follows a number of individuals, men and women, gay and straight, black and white. In one story line, laboratory grown meat is fashioned into extremely beautiful women, designed to the purchaser’s preference, and programmed to provide pleasure. Another story line focuses on a popular lecturer pushing the line that empowered women are undermining masculinity. Others follow female and male sex workers.

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA N1 -

An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 3.7 (July 2019). [The JRB exclusive] Read an excerpt from Ungirls, a new disturbing and provocative story by Lauren Beukes [Plus: Sample the audiobook] – The Johannesburg Review of Books.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the River Runs Gold Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sita Brahmachari (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A climate-change dystopia in which there appear to be no bees left, and young people are lured to what are advertised as well-paid, comfortable, safe jobs to work as pollinators. The reality is closer to slavery. 

PB - Orion's Children's Books CY - London SN - 978-1510105416 U2 -

Illus. Evan Hollingdale

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York?” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brooke Bolander KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Op-Ed piece is concerned with the divide between the rich and poor in a future flooded new work, with the authorities, as usual, supporting the rich. 

JF - The New York Times UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/future-climate-change-flooded-new-york-city.html U2 -

Illus. John Karborn

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Why Visit America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Deciding that the United States no longer represents the people but only the interests of corporations and politicians, a small town in Texas votes to secede and renames itself America. The story recounts conflicts within the town after the secession with references to a guidebook for tourists.

JF - Paris Review VL - 61.230 SN - 9781250237200 N1 -

Rpt. in his Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 290-326. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wordless Age” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which language is privatized and must be paid for by the word. 

JF - Galaxy's Edge VL - no. 36 U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Accident" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Gretchin Lair ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian future where couples must get permission to use birth control and are paid for having more children.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American Utopia Y1 - 2018 A1 - David Byrne (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

The play and film are the most complete expressions of the idea, which has been compared to “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” or a utopia of nostalgia for the twenty-first century. The book is made up of words from the play, many simply the names of U.S. cities with an illustration.

PB - Unpublished album, concert, play SN - 978-1-63557-687-0 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ask Me About My Book Club" Y1 - 2018 A1 - M. Michelle Bardon ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that reflects the current situation in the U.S. in which dragons have been elected to national office and are being fought by witches. Female author.

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Crossroads” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elly Bangs (b. 1986) ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

The story describes three societies, one a completely oppressive, hierarchical dystopia, one an anarchist eutopia where all the peoples of the galaxy are welcome and treated equally, and Dyanna, which has tendencies in both directions. The story is told through a bicycle race with a team from each planet taking place on all three planets plus a deserted Fourth World, which are alternate versions of the same present. The protagonist is a black woman with a prosthetic leg and only one good eye. In some way, the race is intended to prevent an interdimensional war. It begins on Planet One, the technically advanced dystopia with smooth metal roads, whose riders look identical, have only a number which identifies superiority and inferiority, and apparently is planning an invasion of the other Earths. The second planet, Dynnya, is a coalition of over a thousand planets. They are primarily agrarian, have no central authority and extremely advanced biotechnology, with most of the planets having no private property, and there has been no war in many thousands of years.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR ER - TY - ABST T1 - "AT392-Red" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Khairani Barokka (b. 1985) ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indonesian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that includes “Biodiversity Credit” that allowed that allowed the destruction of one area of the world’s environment in exchange for the supposed protection of another area. This result in a massive refugee crisis. This was followed by the introduction of “Accessibility Credits” by which improving accessibility for those with disabilities in one part of the world allowed another part of the world to eliminate accessibility. 

JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmiths Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bringing Down the Sky” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Alan Bao KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which clean air is for sale. 

JF - Clarkesworld UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bao_12_18/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Census Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A widowed father who is dyeing takes a job as a census taker in a dystopian country so that he can spend time travelling with his young son, who has Down syndrome. They travel across the country visiting cities in alphabetical order and meeting different people who are branded at each census.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City Bones" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Richard Pulfer ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Chicago where automated cars are helping reduce the pollution and ease traffic congestion, but drivers insist on still controlling their cars whatever the consequences.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City Where We Once Lived. A Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eric Barnes (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A climate-change dystopia set in an unnamed city, where those living in the mostly abandoned North struggle to survive. A prequel is Above the Ether. A Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse, 2019 in which people escaping from the beginnings of catastrophic climate change converge on the city.

PB - Arcade Publishing/Skyhorse CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dancers in the Dark” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Milton Callow ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Austrian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia on continuing war. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dancing East to West” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Simon Petrie A1 - Edwina Harvey ED - Grace Bridges ED - Lee Murray ED - Aaron Compton KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in Australia in a future after multiple catastrophes destroy the world’s technological civilization. The small community that the survivors have created is presented in eutopian terms, and at the end of the story contact is made by people from New Zealand travelling in an airship. 

JF - Te Korero Ahi Kā: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning PB - SpecFicNZ: Speculative Fiction New Zealand CY - Np U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Designed for Your Safety” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Elizabeth Bourne ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a dystopia riddled with disease, a building controlled by an artificial intelligence locks the workers inside. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Diggers 2.0” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kevin Christopher Jesse ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a polluted city in which the rich have clean air, and the poor are left to suffer and die, and the poor, predominantly Hispanic community decide to improve their lot.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecoland" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Cansu Çakmak Özgürel ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Female author KW - Turkish author AB -

The story includes a speech by the last surviving member of a research team that brought about the great Change that produced an ecological eutopia by eliminating humans. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Excerpt from Murmur Island” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Christopher Yorke ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Brief eutopia in which shipwrecked colonists settle on an isolated island and choose the form of their new society.

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Excerpt from the Post-Truth and Irreconcilable Differences Commission” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brendan C. Byrne (b. 1982) ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A journalist reports a future with a computer as President of the U. S. creating a form of fascism.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 N1 -

Originally published online on Imperica (April 2018), which is no longer available online

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fixable" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future, pollution is devastating, the official position is that the air is clean, and it is illegal to report the facts.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Floating Hospital B-44” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tomaso Vimercati ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about a plague and how it may be transmitted

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Freezing Rain, a Chance of Falling” Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Alexandra Margaret] [Dellamonica] (b. 1968) KW - Canadian author KW - Genderqueer author AB -

A complex high-tech dystopia in which individuals gain and lose social capital, which is necessary for almost everything one does, through the responses of people to their actions. The focus is on a man struggling to regain the capital he has lost. Other aspects of the society are referred to in passing, like printed food, the effects of climate change, such as the use of backyards as carbon offsets, which is likely to required in the near future, and that childless young people have left western countries, and their parents and grandparents, for jobs in Asia. The author’s novel Gamechanger. New York: Tor, 2019 is set in the same future. 

JF - The Magazine and Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 135.1/2 SN - 9781597809887 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 364-428, with an editor’s note on 364.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fuck You Pay Me” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Francis Bass ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in an environmentally damaged future where most people are deeply in debt, the entire safety net has disappeared, and the possibility of higher education is eroding. 

JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -

. Rpt. https://reckoning.press/fuck-you-pay-me/ (April 2, 2019).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Generations" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Osahon Ize-Iyamu ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The story is about the settlement of Mars as the people of Earth are dying of radiation poisoning with the settlement a dystopia that replicates colonialism with Africans settled on the worst land with the worst housing a work.

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glow" Y1 - 2018 A1 - J. S. Breukelaar ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in the United States after an election of an anti-immigrant president. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Harmony With Nature.” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Julien Brasseur ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief eutopia including both an improved environment and a different electoral system. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Helen and the Go-go Ninjas Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ant Sang (b. 1970) A1 - Michael Bennett (b. 1964) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Graphic novel set primarily in a future devastated by a virus developed in the twenty-first century that is used by a religious cult to control most of the people of the future. Ninjas of that time travel back to the past to find a way to destroy the virus and bring a young woman back with them. 

PB - Penguin Random House CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hive Y1 - 2018 A1 - A[manda] J. Betts KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The first of two volumes with the first volume set in an underwater, religious dystopia where the people are taught that the limited space in which they live is all there is. The young, female protagonist, a beekeeper, discovers otherwise. Followed by Rogue. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Pan Macmillan, 2019, in which the protagonist escapes to the surface, is discovered by people on a small island, and struggles both to learn about the world she now lives in, be accepted in it, and get a message back to her friends. The novel originated as part of the author’s doctoral dissertation entitled “Rogue: A Novel - and Wanderlust: the value of wonder for readers, writers, and The Vault: A Critical Essay.” Edith Cowan University, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2122/ 

PB - Pan Macmillan CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “HR Confidential” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sim Bajwa KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The dystopian story is told through exchanges between an employee and a human relations officer, with the employee complaining that the workers are being forced to work around the clock, and the HR person fobbing her off.

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 11 U2 -

Illus. Grace Wilson

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Zone" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brandon Butler ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia in which those privileged to live in the “Zone,” a wealthy enclave, must keep their phones by which they are continuously monitored constantly up-to-date or be expelled. 

JF - Sanctuary: An Experimental Anthology of Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Leaving" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Monique Cuillerier ED - Elly Blue KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which eastern and lakefront Canada is under water. In the story a woman struggles over deciding to leave her hometown, which is completely submerged, for one of Human colonies in space. Lesbian themes. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Livewire" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ayame Whitfield ED - Elly Blue KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future society with deep rich/poor divisions. Its focus is on whether “bots” have developed with emotions, with people destroying those they think have. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland. OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Meg’s Last Bout of Genetic Engineering” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Santiago Belluco ED - Bart R. Leib ED - Kay T. Holt KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on Mars and the Republic of Texas, which is trying to keep out any genetic engineering. 

JF - Resist Fascism PB - Crossed Genres CY - [Somerville, MA] U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopian Island" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Emilie Vienne ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Female author AB -

Brief eutopia of a pollution-free eutopia that does not use money and functions based on voluntary service

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Name Unspoken” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In this future New York City, the name unspoken, known as the Monster, is Trump.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Negative Space" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Max Knight ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Vietnam author AB -

The story is set in a future China with extreme pollution but that has areas that under domes that are accessible to those with sufficient money or status and is building a city that is pollution free and in the open air. The protagonist is a fairly high-status functionary who is trying to quit smoking during a crackdown on smokers. 

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Newsletter" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of censorship. 

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Passion According to Mike” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Scott [Michael] Bradfield (b. 1955) ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mike Pence (b. 1959) (Trump’s Vice President) awakes in a future as a hermaphrodite.

JF - Welcome to Dystopia: Forty-five Visions of What Lies Ahead PB - O/R Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Paula’s Choice” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Cristina Barsan ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Female author KW - Romanian author AB -

Dystopia in which a stay-at-home housewife is the highest position attainable by a woman, but it is only available to women married to a man with high status. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Perfect Is No/Place of Mine” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Iris Reisenberger ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Belgian author KW - Female author AB -

Poem that reflects on the nature of utopia

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfidious Albion Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sam Byers (b. 1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A post-Brexit dystopia set in a small, previously peaceful English town and the media encourages conflict.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 9780571336296 U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seeds" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Erik Burnham ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a retired superhero has to be convinced his life was worthwhile.

JF - All We Ever Wanted: Stories of a Better World PB - A Wave Blue World CY - Np U2 -

Pencils by Anthony Marques. Inks by Fernando Ruiz. Colors by Matt LeJeune. Letters by Matt Krotzer

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sponsor" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is in a future where everything is copyrighted, trademarked, and officially registered, and is about a wedding where the official sponsor goes bankrupt disrupting all the couple’s plans.

JF - Salt Hill Journal VL - no. 40 SN - 9781250237200 N1 -

 Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 142-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “This Ain’t the Apocha-Rich You Hoped For” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tuere T. S. Ganges ED - Elly Blue KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Under Trump’s policies, conservatives and liberals go to war against each other until they realize that the rich are still getting rich. They then join forces against the rich, only to discover that the rich control the military, the electric grid, and everything else that matters. The rich hole up in armed compounds or leave the country while the apocalypse takes place. 

JF - Bikes Not Rockets: Intersectional Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Twice the Same River” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about corruption in a city that is transforming itself into a green city, corruption that hurts the farmers in the surrounding countryside.

JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vigilance Y1 - 2018 A1 - Robert Jackson Bennett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which a reality game show creating active shooter situations is then used to control the population but becomes unmanageable.

PB - Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber Y1 - 2018 A1 - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A collection of closely related stories satirizing Donald Trump (b. 1946) and his presidency. 

PB - B Cubed Press CY - Kiowa, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A World to Die for” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story begins in a violent dystopia that is the result of climate change and then moves into alternative futures, in some of which the past inhabitants have protected their environments. 

JF - Clarkesworld UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/buckell_01_18/ N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 143-70. PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You are Weighed in the Balance” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rivka Jacobs ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia that will be produced by the current policies of the Trump administration resulting in concentration camps and different laws for the wealthy.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You Could Order Wholesale” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Declan Keen ED - Ruzbeh Babaee KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story takes place in a climate-change dystopia where there the destruction of the environment continues while some people are trying to stop the damage. 

JF - My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “America Once Beautiful” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brad Cozzens ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem that describes America as a dystopia.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton, City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - American City Y1 - 2017 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A climate-change dystopia focusing on the internal refugee crisis in the United States.

PB - Corvus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Beautiful Industry" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Stuart Hardy ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A dystopian future in which even the robots are having trouble finding work and making ends meet.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Calexit: The Anthology Y1 - 2017 A1 - J. L. Curtis A1 - Bob Poole A1 - Cedar Sanderson A1 - Tom Rogneby A1 - Alma [T. C.] Boykin A1 - B. Opperman A1 - L. B. Johnson A1 - Eaton Rapids Joe A1 - Lawdog [pseud.] A1 - Kimball O'Hara ED - J. L. Curtis KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Maltese author KW - US author AB -

A collection of stories set in a dystopian future in which part of California, called Cali, secedes from the country in order to establish a socialist state committed to diversity. Northern California and southern Oregon forms a new territory called Jefferson that may become a new state. The stories are “A Matter of Honor” by J. L. Curtis in which the U. S. Navy leaves San Diego and blows up its base as it does with the story continued in his ebook novella The Morning the Earth Shook. 69 pp. (2017). “Last Plane Out” by Bob Poole centers on the last plane to leave Los Angeles airport. “Carpetbaggers” by Cedar Sanderson focuses on carpetbaggers in Jefferson. “Night Passage” by Tom Rogneby begins in Cali, where all people are chipped, and continues with the escape of a couple. “Roll, Colorado, Roll!” by Alma [T. C.] Boykin in which The Colorado River is released into its original channel, cutting off water to Cali. “Final Flight” by B. Opperman is a story of escape from Cali. “Freedom’s Ride” by L. B. Johnson is a story of escape from Cali. “The Farm” by Eaton Rapids Joe describes the authoritarian liberalism of Cali and the damage it does. “By Hook and Crook” by Lawdog [pseud.] is an escape story. In “Fifth Column” by Kimball O’Hara the U. S. Navy returns. A graphic novel covering some of the same themes is Matteo Pizzolo, CALEXIT. Illus. Amancay Nahuelpan. Colorist Tyler Boss. Flatter Dee Cunniffe. Letterer Jim Campbell. Map designer Richard Nisa. Flag Designer Robert Anthony, Jr. Los Angeles, CA: Black Mask Studios, 2018. Originally published as CALEXit 1-3. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents. 

PB - JLC&A CY - Np U3 -

Lawdog [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Catalogue of Further Suns: Précis of Reports Compiled by the Preliminary Survey Expeditions Y1 - 2017 A1 - F. J[eannie] Bergmann KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Poems about first contact with aliens detailing what can go wrong. 

PB - Gold Line Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The City We Built in Life” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Thomas Broderick KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future in which travel is restricted and follow a family allowed to visit reproductions in the Arizona desert of the Seven Wonders of the World and monuments from Washington, DC, which is under water, all of which have been built of synthetic carbonized basalt that traps atmospheric carbon. They also visit the city/monument called the Silent City, which is composed of such blocks, each representing some who died due to climate change.

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-08-0 UR - http://littlebluemarble.ca/2019/03/01/the-city-we-built-in-life/ N1 -

Originally published as “A Monument to Our Greatest Sin.” Scout (2017) [Not Found]. 

Rpt. without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2019: Climate in Crisis. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media Books, 2020), 44-63. 

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Originally published as “A Monument to Our Greatest Sin.” Scout (2017) [Not Found]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Control Shift Down” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paige Bryony ED - Cat Fitzpatrick ED - Casey Plett KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set in a class-based, high-tech, authoritarian dystopia. 

JF - Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers PB - Topside Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Day 3658” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dylan Siegler ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which what appears to be a successful community after most plants and animals have died breed children for meat.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Desperate Resolve" Y1 - 2017 A1 - John A. Pitts ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in West Virginia, which has been destroyed by current policies on the environment.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Disconnected” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ramez Naam ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The flawed utopia of the completely connected world and, very briefly, choosing to disconnect. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drafting the President" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lou J Berger ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the impeachment and arrest of President Trump, the procedure for electing the President of the United States is completely changed. Five candidates are vetted and put through a series of complex tests to ensure their ability to handle the issues, and the most successful becomes the only candidate.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elderjoy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous dystopia in which governmental implants register unhealthy activities and tax them. In the story, the “unhealthy” activity is sex over a certain age.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eminence" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains “eminence” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0765382580 978-1-78108-573-8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyejacked” Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Walton (b. 1975) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which an implant in the eye can be used to connect tom others and create followers, which produces income. Within the story a husband and wife disagree over the effect on their family is positive or negative.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Feastwar" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kaftan, Vylar ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Interactions through a computer game that connects people throughout the U. S. both brings about the spread and helps end a deadly disease. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Final Delivery" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kerri-Leigh Grady ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which young women are used to produce babies whose body parts are used to replace those lost by the military and the rich. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Freefall Y1 - 2017 A1 - Joshua David Bellin (b. 1965) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia that begins in 2151 where the 1% rule and the 99% live horrible lives seen through the eyes of a young man from the 1% who falls for a girl from the 99%. From there, the novel shifts, after some humans are sent into space, to a struggle for survival on a different planet in 3151 with the same protagonist.

PB - Margaret K. McElderry CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Frozen" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Liam Hogan ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the future each election determines who will be frozen until the next election. This, while apparently eutopian, eliminates unemployment and helps the environment to recover.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA SN - 9780998963419 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good Citizens” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paula Hammond ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the presidency of Donald Trump (b. 1946) becomes a monarchy that uses nuclear weapons on Iran and Mexico and is at war with China. Any one not of white, multi-generational U.S. ancestry loses their citizenship, as do gays, Jews, Muslims. Some people had escaped, many were killed. The female author has published many non-fiction books for children, mostly on scientific subjects.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - H(a)ppy Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nicola Barker (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

A woman lives in a future world where “Excess of Emotion” is to be avoided; one must always be “In Balance” and is being constantly adjusted chemically to stay that way. The woman experiences a glitch in her conditioning that leads her to experience emotion, pain, and so forth. Typographically complex. The author says that the book “is best enjoyed in conjunction with Agustin Barrios: The Complete Historical Guitar Recordings 1913-1942

PB - Heinemann CY - London U1 -

Commonly cited as Happy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Havergey Y1 - 2017 A1 - John Burnside (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

While in the book the people of Havergey say that the island is not a utopia, in the context of a world decimated by disease, it is the best community in existence. The story is told through the eyes of a time traveler from 2017 before The Collapse, also known as The Dark Time, that began in 2024 who arrives at Havergey in 2041 and is quarantined and given materials from the history of Havergey to read before he can be accepted or rejected by the community, which is composed of nomads, survivors who gradually found their way there over the years following The Collapse.

PB - Little Toller Books CY - Toller Fratrum, Dorset, Eng. SN - 978-1-908213-46-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Here Comes the Flood” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Desirina Boskovitch ED - George Sandison KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the people of one city built walls and a dome to protect itself from floods, winds, and fires, and all the protections are failing. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The History Book" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Voss Foster ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which history has been rewritten to reflect the biases of the current administration, books burned, and those with good memories killed.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "HMO" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karin L. Frank ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia of U. S. health care in the future when it is entirely under control of insurance companies. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Humanity" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Michael Ben-Zvi KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the intersection of an authoritarian dystopia controlling its people through technology and, less fleshed out in the story, a eutopia that uses technology to build a free, green society.

JF - Infinite Dimensions: Crossroads PB - JennJett Media CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Illegal Citizens” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Phyllis] Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the Trump administration has stripped all Latinos of their U. S. citizenship however long their ancestors had been citizens. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ink Y1 - 2017 A1 - Alice Broadway KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A religious dystopia in which the major events of a person’s life are inked on their skin, which is made into a book on their death. The book is given to the family if the person has lived a good life and publicly burned if judged to have not led a good life. First volume in a trilogy. The second volume, Spark. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2018, is a standard middle volume in which the protagonist searches for answers to the questions raised in the first volume. The third volume, Scar. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2019, pulls the various threads together.

PB - Scholastic Children’s Books CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York: Scholastic, 2018. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Letter from the Federal Women’s Prison” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Stephanie L. Weippert ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which women lose all their rights. Some form an underground railroad to help others escape to Canada. When they are discovered, many are killed, and the others are imprisoned for life. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Letters from the Heartland” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Janka Hobbs ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, climate change has drowned much of the coasts, and the middle of the country has become a dictatorship.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Melanoma Americana” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sara Codair 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) with the focus on the destruction of the health care system. 

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mine, Yours, Ours” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Whether the story describes a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader. The I.O.E. (International Organ Exchange) is symbolic of a society that sees everyone connected to everyone else. When you sign up for the I.O.E., you agree to give an organ when requested, and the protagonist is struggling over whether she should have a lung removed. If she doesn’t, she will be expelled from the I.O.E. and ineligible for a future transplant.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Monkey Cage Rules” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Larry Hodges ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire on the ungovernability of the human race.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mozart of the Kalahari” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) ED - Ed Finn ED - Joey Eschrich ED - Juliet Ulman KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in an environmentally devasted future where the rich live off planet and the poor struggle to survive

JF - Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures PB - Center for Science and Imagination Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Non-White in America” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Debora Godfrey ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author AB -

The dystopia of being non-white in contemporary America.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One of the Lucky Ones" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Wondra Vanian ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia in which all those resisting the government are being shipped off to rehabilitation camps, each person wearing a badge of their identity. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Only a Ten Hour Week: Architecture for a Sustainable Society of Plenty Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eli Berniker PhD KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extremely detailed non-fiction description of the basis for a eutopia with a ten-hour work week that produces plenty for everyone. Detailed analysis of waste in the current system that, once eliminated, would make the ten-hour week possible. Throughout to book, the author repeats that “We live in a world of plenty that must be experience as scarcity for the economy to function. Scarcity is unsustainable. Plenty is sustainable” (339). Includes a “Glossary” (342-50) and an Index (351-77). Under the author’s name, the cover adds “Practical Utopian.” 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jess[ica] Barber A1 - Sara Saab KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Lebanese author KW - US author AB -

The story is set mostly in Beirut, Lebanon, and takes place during a dystopian period of extreme drought. It traces the life choices of two scientists as they work to help the planet recover, and the projects they develop  that will do that. 

JF - Clarkesworld SN - 978-1-250-16463-6 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/barber-saab_09_17/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 293-316 with an editor’s note on 293.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘Patriot Points’: You may qualify for huge discounts, TSA Precheck approval, and more!” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

The story consists of the questionnaire to fill out to achieve “Patriot Points,” which characterizes the dystopia being created. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/patriot-points-by-lauren-beukes-in-the-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pinwheel Party" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Victor D. Phillips ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The beginning and the end of the story are brief depictions of the dystopia inflicted on the poor and immigrants by current policies. The middle is a drug-induced dream of a eutopia in which everyone works together to improve the U.S.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Portlandtown” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Elly Blue ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Oregon divided by Portlandtown, an authoritarian dictatorship with some limited technology and conflict within the leadership, and a rural area that is essentially anarchist that surrounds it. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Questions with the First” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jim Warrenfeltz ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia presented through an interview with the dictator as he discovers a threat to his rule.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Raid at 817 Maple Street” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ken Staley ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. government’s surveillance of everyone’s internet activity leads it to conclude that a teenager involved in a video game is the leader of a terrorist cell.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Relics: A Fable” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Louise Marley (b. 1952) ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that is brought about by building the wall between Mexico and the U.S., the reduction of education, the radical division between rich and poor, and the warehousing of the elderly poor, known as Relics, who live in single room shacks near the wall.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA SN - 9780998963419 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Riding in Place" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sarena Ulibarri ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the Earth is recovering from environmental damage. One of the procedures used is to draft individuals to do work where they can see how and where, for example, energy and food are produced. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sand Runner Y1 - 2017 A1 - Vera Brook KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young man competes in race which requires him to be physically upgraded. First volume of a series followed by Cage Runner. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2018, which is clearly a middle volume.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Secondborn Y1 - 2017 A1 - Amy A. Bartol KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the second child in a family is taken away by the government at eighteen. The young woman who is the protagonist comes from a privileged background but is still forced to join the military with other second children. First volume of a trilogy followed by Traitor Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2018, which is a typical middle volume in which various forces in the society are all trying to use the protagonist. In the third volume, Rebel Born. Seattle, WA: 47 North, 2019, the protagonist faces betrayal on all sides. 

PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Selling LipService Y1 - 2017 A1 - Tammy Baikie KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia in which after a certain age everyone has to wear a corporate LipService patch that controls what is said, replacing individual speech with ads. 

PB - Jacana Media CY - Auckland Park, South Africa SN - 978-14314-2479-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shelter" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cynthia Marts ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a dystopia of extreme male chauvinism where women lose everything if not tied to a man, a small community of women support each other. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Show Stopper Y1 - 2017 A1 - Hayley Barker KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which immigrants are required to sell their children to a circus watched by the “Pures”. The novel focuses on the son of a high-ranking “Pure” who falls for one of the performers. A sequel, Show Stealer, is scheduled for late 2018. 

PB - Scholastic CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Signal Lost" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gretchin Lair ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which chips that constantly record one’s health and report the results to everyone deals with, which results in restaurants and stores refusing to sell you anything that the chip says you can’t have. 

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Someone to Listen, Inc.” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ray Blank [pseud.] ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) AB -

A flawed utopia set after a world-wide economic collapse and economic well-being has been replaced by the Gross Happiness Index, a corporation constantly monitors everyone’s communications to find any sign of depression or unhappiness. Anyone feeling other than happy is connected to a counsellor.

JF - Futuristica PB - Metasages Press CY - Green Cove, Springs, FL VL - 2 U3 -

Ray Blank [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Spider Queen in Every Home” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mike Morgan ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

2017 Morgan, Mike. “A Spider Queen in Every Home.” More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance. Ed. Phyllis Irene Radford, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Lou J Berger, and Bob Brown (Benton City, WA: B Cubed Press, 2017), 370-96. PSt

The story takes place in the dystopia created by current policies. The protagonist is a statistician whose work has to be checked to the data fits policy and is not accepted if it doesn’t, even though it is accurate.

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton, City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spring Break" Y1 - 2017 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) ED - Bloom, Amy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story, an example of noir crime fiction, is set mostly on the Yale University campus in a future where books are no longer used, and the only functioning part of the university are the sciences. The story won the 2018 Edgar Award for best short story.

JF - New Haven Noir PB - Akashic Books CY - Brooklyn, NY SN - 978-1617755415 9781618731630 N1 -

Rpt. in his And Go Like This: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 73-88. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Street Life in the Emerald City” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Technology, including surveillance technology being used to end homelessness. 

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Taming the Beast” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bose, Robert ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire set in a high-tech world where all cars are being replaced by bicycles, and the protagonist struggles to manage the features of his new bicycle.

JF - Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction in Extreme Futures PB - Microcosm Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Targets" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia set in Los Angeles in which people are chosen, supposedly randomly, as targets for killing by the police. Such people are not eligible for higher education, cannot venture out after dark, and can only get low-level jobs. The protagonist and his family are colored, and they are all chosen. 

JF - Shoreline of Infinity VL - no. 8 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 201-205; and in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 35 (Summer 2023): 47-52.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Teleport Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kevin Berry KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future dictatorship where the protagonist is being pressured to create a teleportation device, and, if she fails to do so, her daughters future is in danger. 

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Too Big to See” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - Michael G. Bennett ED - Joey Eschrich ED - Ed Finn KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Brief story in which climate change has created a major refugee crisis in the Americas, and a trip by representatives of the antagonists to the stratosphere may solve the conflict.

JF - Overview: Stories of the Stratosphere. PB - Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination CY - Tempe UR - http://csi.asu.edu/books/overview/ U2 -

Illus. Kirsten Newkirk

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tool of War Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by climate change, resources running out, and the resulting constant wars, civil and between countries.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Treasures" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all scientists are imprisoned after being blamed for causing diseases and bringing about natural disasters. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tropic of Kansas Y1 - 2017 A1 - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the middle of the U.S. has become a wasteland and the country has fragmented. The novel is of a road trip through the wasteland. See also 2019 and 2020 Brown.

PB - Harper Voyager CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Trump Brand" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Marleen S[andra] Barr (b. 1953) ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Trump puts his brand everywhere, including the moon, which displays an ad for Ivanka Trump’s clothing line and the White, now Trump, House. 

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Trumperor and the Nightingale” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Diana Hauer ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Donald Trump (b. 1946) as U.S. President.

JF - Alternative Truths PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Truth, From the Heart” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gustavo Bondoni ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Argentinian author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopian future United States during the civil war caused by Trump’s policies

JF - Trump: Utopia or Dystopia PB - Dark Helix Press CY - [Toronto, ON, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Vade Retro Santana” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a religious dystopia in which missionaries convert the indigenous inhabitants by force as told by a missionary with doubts. 

JF - Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction VL - no. 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Walks Home Alone at Night” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Wondra Vanian ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

The dystopia of the present in which it is dangerous for a hijab wearing woman to walk alone at night. But in the story, the woman and her friends fight back.

JF - Alternative Truth PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton, City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We’re Still Here” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which fake news is put out by the government to implicate illegal Mexican refugees in a riot that destroys a city in Texas. When pictures of the intact town leak out, the government destroys the town. 

JF - Alternative Truths U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “‘What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed’: Comforting the comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where Trump remains president, is implement his policies while trying to cancel the next election, Florida is under water, but climate-change deniers are in power, and so forth, and the protagonist writes fake news for a living. 

JF - Slate Magazine as part of its Trump Story Project. https://slate.com/tag/trump-story-project UR - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/elizabeth-bear-joins-the-trump-story-project-with-a-tale-of-the-fake-news-industry.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

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Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Where Eagles Dare” Y1 - 2017 A1 - R. Mike Burr ED - John E. Meredith ED - Paul Brian McCoy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Trump has issued an order giving all police officers the right to immediately kill anyone the suspect of being a terrorist.

JF - American Carnage: Tales of Trumpian Dystopia PB - Psycho Drive-In Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Woman Walks into a Bar” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jill Zeller ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which women are being systematically suppressed. 

JF - More Alternative Truths: Stories From the Resistance PB - B Cubed Press CY - Benton City, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday’s Savior Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bliss, Keith KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -

The central focus of the novel is the belief that the second Coming of Christ has occurred, and the dystopia created by the Holy Church of the Second Coming. 

PB - EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “You and Me and the Deep Dark Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jess[ica] Barber ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia set in an earthquake and flooding ravaged Los Angeles. 

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Lying Eyes” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [John Charles] McDevitt ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is about glasses that can detect lies. Whether a eutopia or dystopia is left up to the reader.

JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “and Still the Forests Grow though we are gone” Y1 - 2016 A1 - A[ndi] C. Buchanan ED - Dan Rabarts ED - Lee Murray KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Transgender author AB -

Environmental dystopia. 

JF - At the Edge PB - Paper Road Press CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Village Vanguard (Reflections on Blacktopia)” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story focuses by white supremacists on an attack on the Blacktopia that has been created on the moon twenty-five years after the attack. Only a brief description of the Blacktopia. 

JF - Mothership Zeta VL - no. 5 U5 -

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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 - “The Drowned City” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which half of The Netherlands has disappeared and the Dutch are building a New Amsterdam on an island they have built on the Australian coast. 

JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enjoyment: A Comedy Y1 - 2016 A1 - Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where pleasure is required.

PB - Shoestring Press CY - Nottingham, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Even Paradise Needs Maintenance” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

After most countries become uninhabitable due to climate change and global warming, Australia becomes a high-tech paradise where the few people have little to do. 

JF - Futuristica Volume 1 PB - Metasagas Press CY - Green Cove Springs, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Imposter Syndrome” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mari Kurisato [pseud.] ED - Hope Nicholson ED - Erin Crossar ED - Sam Beiko KW - Female author KW - First Nations author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where all “Non-Citizens” are banned from leaving the failing Earth and travelling to newly discovered inhabitable planets. In the story, the Non-Citizen is an alien, but she carries the memories of a First Nations woman who was among those torn from her family and sent to schools designed to strip them of their identity. 

JF - Love Beyond the Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology PB - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] CY - Bedside Press SN - 978-0-9939970-7-5 U3 -

Kurisato, Mari [pseud.]

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Machine Society: Rich or poor. They want you to be a prisoner Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mike Brooks KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which both the rich and the poor live in isolated regions within a “security wall,” which is supposed to be protecting them from the outside. 

PB - Cosmic Egg Books CY - Winchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mighty Slinger" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) A1 - Karen [Antoinette Roberta] Lord (b. 1968) ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Barbadian author KW - Female author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The story begins in a future in which climate change and exploitation of the environment has left Earth uninhabitable. The Moon has been terraformed and the terraforming of Mars is in progress with indentured laborers. The story then follows a musician who has supported the workers and helped develop a project to revitalize Earth far into the future to when he can return to his recreated Caribbean homeland.

JF - Bridging Infinity PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng N1 -

Rpt. with Lord as the first author in Sunspot Jungle. Volume 2. [Subtitle on the cover The Ever Expanding Universe of Fantasy and Science Fiction]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2020), 471-95; and in The Best of World Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Head of Zeus, 2022), 365-398.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mum’s Group” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Stephanie Burgis ED - Chester W. Hoster ED - Katy Stauber (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which women are required to have a mothering implant that constantly directs them about childcare. 

JF - Futuristica Volume 1 PB - Metasagas Press CY - Green Cove Springs, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Né Łe!” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Darcie Little Badger (b. 1987) ED - Hope Nicholson ED - Erin Crossar ED - Sam Beiko KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The background to the story is a future with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Mars has been successfully settled, and various space habitats have been developed with different rules and regulations and some designed for specific ethnic groups, including one Orbiter Diné [Navajo]. But all Native Americans not living on reservations have been forced off their land, and most people still on Earth live in huge megaplexes. 

JF - Love Beyond the Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Bedside Press CY - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] SN - 9780993997075 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night of the Animals Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bill Broun KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2052 after the European Union has collapsed, the UK is a surveillance state with the majority indigent, who are drugged, and a dwindling middle class, and a cult originating in California wants to kill all the animals and institute mass suicides. One elderly homeless man who believes the animals are talking to him tries to free them from London Zoo.

PB - Ecco/HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oasis Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eilís Barrett KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe (virus) dystopia where the government uses protecting the people as the excuse for imposing complete control over the population. The novel focuses on those young people who work to undermine the system. 

PB - Gill Books CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Simple Man Y1 - 2016 A1 - Mark Bacci KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia. 

PB - Prepper Press CY - [Augusta, ME] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Songshifting Y1 - 2016 A1 - Chris Bell (b. 1960) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A future dystopia in which, because of its potential for subversion, all music is tightly controlled. Reported to be the first volume of a trilogy. 

PB - wordSHIFTminds CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Texas Rising Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Will] [Dallas] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the liberal president asks for help from the United Nations to put down a rebellion by Texas and other conservative states.

PB - Purple Sage Entertainment CY - Hopkinsville, KY U3 -

W. W. Brock [pseud.]

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trump Drumpf: A Political Satire Novel Y1 - 2016 A1 - Paul Bellow KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Trump dystopian satire.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] 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 -

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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.

JF - ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’: The Scholarly Quest for Utopia PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven, Belgium U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wonder of the World” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Kathryn Blume ED - Manjana Milkoreit ED - Meredith Martinez ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change fiction in which the survivors live in small communities with limited technology and without a reliable way to kept in touch with other communities. The story, though, is about the resilience of the people. 

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 U2 -

Illus. Matt Phan

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Black Angel” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Walidah Imarisha ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia on Harlem in the near future where both official and unofficial violence is endemic.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Children Who Fly” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (b. 1975) ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate-warming dystopia with LSBT themes.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Ash" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate-change dystopia.

JF - Matter UR - https://medium.com/matter/city-of-ash-94255fa5d1a9#.fuo4cbos8 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016), 322-27 with an editor’s note on 327; and in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year. Volume 10. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 53-58. 

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Illus. Cam Floyd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clade Y1 - 2015 A1 - James Bradley (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Climate change dystopia followed through the experiences of one generation through four generations.

PB - Penguin Random House CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Courier: A San Angeles Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Gerald Brandt (b. 1970) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia set in a city that runs from San Francisco to the Mexican borderborder in which the protagonist, a young woman, is hiding from the corporations and joins a resistance group. First volume of a trilogy. The second volume, The Operative: A San Angeles Novel New York: DAW Books, 2016, is a typical middle volume, in which the protagonist from the first novel continues to survive against the corporations searching for her. The final volume is The Rebel: A San Angeles Novel. New York: DAW Books, 2017. In this volume, the poor are being ruthlessly suppressed and not even provided minimally adequate food, and the protagonist works with others to successfully undermine and defeat the dominant corporation. While some issues remain unresolved at the end, the lives of all the people have been radically improved. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Crazy Bitches: Redefining Mental Health (Care) in the Feminist Utopia” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tessa Smith ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The essay is primarily a critique of current practices while stressing that mental illness is real. The main focus, though, is the argument that in “The culture of the feminist utopia must be one in which people experiencing extraordinary mental states can both survive and thrive” (306). 

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 SN - 9781558619005 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daedalus" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Niall Bourke KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a failing city that is gradually taken over by a sentient computer and creates what the population generally perceive as a better life. 

JF - Holdfast Magazine VL - no. 6 UR - http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/daedelus-fiction-issue6/4589770052 U2 -

Illus. Sylvia Carrus

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Day Without Body Shame” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Erin Matson (b. 1980) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief feminist utopia in which all people are accepted for who they are rather than for how they look.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Deadmonton” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Alexandrea Flynn ED - Elly Blue KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia set in Edmonton, Alberta in which survivors have formed cooperative communities to protect themselves. 

JF - Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Description of a Video File From the Year 2067 to be Donated to the Municipal Archives from the Youth Voices Speech Competition” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dara Lind ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Speech describing the changes in immigration policy from rejection to welcome and the awareness of what even so-called unskilled immigrants contribute.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Desolation Wilderness” Y1 - 2015 A1 - R. A. Bennett ED - Ed Finn ED - Pascal Zachary AB -

The story is set on an environmentally damaged, overpopulated Earth where all the trees have been destroyed to get at the last remaining oil and takes place in Death Valley, where all criminals are sent.

JF - Journeys through Time and Space UR - Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatch From the Post-Rape Future: Against Consent, Reciprocity, and Pleasure” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Maya Dusenbery ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on the past from someone living in a future where the word “rape” no longer exists.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dispatches from a Body Perfect World” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jenny Trout ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief depiction of a feminist eutopia where all bodies are considered perfect.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution Y1 - 2015 A1 - Benjamin H. Bratton (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A combination of theory and fiction that includes both utopian and dystopian elements. 

PB - e-flux Sternberg Press CY - Berlin, Germany U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dove Arising Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karen Bao KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia on the moon in which a young woman joins the militia to protect her siblings from the government. First volume of the Dove Chronicles. In the second volume, Dove Exiled. New York: Viking, 2016, the protagonist is on the Earth she had been taught to fear but where she finds the people welcoming until the moon attacks Earth, and she must find a way to bring the two together. In the third volume, Dove Alight. New York: Viking, 2017, the protagonist leads a revolution by people on both the Earth and the moon against the dictatorship. 

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Embroidering Revolution” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Flores, Verónica Bayetti ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which women’s traditional work is recognized and considered art.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Equity Eats” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Eileen McFarland ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The eutopian restaurant of the future that is welcoming to all people, has an equality among the staff, and with workers protected by the Restaurant Workers’ Rights Declaration.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Evidence" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Alexis Pauline Gumbs ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story looks back from a future eutopia to the dystopian past of the twenty-first century, known as the period “Before Silence Broke,” with the period “Breaking the Silence” seen as the beginning of the changes that brought about the eutopia. The eutopia which has eliminated capitalism, money, and private property is an open society where everyone is encouraged to develop in their own unique way with a twelve-year-old from the future writing to the author describing a little of the life.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA SN - 978-1-84935-209-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Falling Away. Book 1 of the Perilous Times Series Y1 - 2015 A1 - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the beginning of the Christian end times with a race war in the U.S., an Ebola epidemic, and the suppression of Christians. Followed by The Great Deception. Book 2 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016 in which the anti-Christ appears; and The Great Tribulation. Book 3 of the Perilous Times Series. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2016

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Feminist Constitution” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Katherine Cross ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Latina author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Reflections on what a utopian feminist constitution would include. Clauses include “We the people, in Order to Defend Our Humanity” (63), “Establish Justice, Ensure Freedom from Violence, and Freedom to Be” (65), “The Right of a Person to Have Sovereignty Over Their Body Shall Not Be Infringed” (66), “And Liberty of Kith and Self Shall be Secure” (69), “These Rights Shall Not be Subject to the Vagaries of the Market or Depravation” (70), and “All Shall Have a Right to the Conditions Necessary For Life and Dignity” (71).

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 U2 -

Illus. Ruth Tam.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Feminist Utopia Teen Mom Schedule” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Gloria Malone ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Description of a day in the life of a teenage mother in a society that provides support.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Free Girl Who Is Everything" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Janet Mock (b. 1984) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Hawaiian author KW - Transgender author AB -

Feminist utopia in which all women are free and safe.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Free Man or #6ix a pre-apocalyptic dystopia Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michel Basilières (b. 1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Odd dystopia in which an unreliable narrator visits the future ruled by robots with humans treated like vermin. He appears to get compounds established in which human life is somewhat better, but it is left unclear. Canadian author.

PB - ECW Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hollow" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Meg Mingus ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - Korean author KW - US author AB -

The story is about a future in which all disabled people (known as U.P.s or UnPerfects) have been sent to another planet where they have created a good life for themselves but are threatened with the Perfects, or the ones who sent them, coming to take over and create a new dystopia for them.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Homing Instinct” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dani McClain ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which climate change moves the U.S. government to tell people to move to where they want to live permanently with travel no longer permitted. The story focuses on a woman’s decision on how to respond.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A House of Her Own" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia that developed among human colonists interacting with the alien life forms that grew into houses. Males were culled to keep their population only at the level needed for reproduction. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 129. 3 & 4 (721) N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. A[lexandra] M[argaret] Dellamonica & Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2016), 85-98. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interchange" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Elizabeth Poley ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia of a largely abandoned U.S. where people can transport themselves to other parts of the world to work. The story focuses on a meeting of two women in these circumstances.

JF - Pedal Zombies: Thirteen Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Internal Drive” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Heidi Benefiel ED - Ed Finn ED - Pascal Zachary KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future where Earth is dying, and everyone is being moved to a high-tech sphere. The story is told by the scientist who is given the task of choosing the five, and only five, plants that will be taken to the new habitat. All animals are left behind, and cities are dismantled so that the entire Earth will be available to them.

JF - Journeys through Time and Space PB - Intel Foundation/Society for Science and the Public/Arizona State University CY - Np UR - Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf 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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Cindy Ok” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ok, Cindy ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist utopian education with suggestions for the arrangement of the classroom (circles, pods) to empower students, individualized learning, and recognizing the difference backgrounds that students bring to the class. 

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interview with Ileanna Jiménez” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ileanna Jiménez ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - Puerto Rican author KW - US author AB -

Feminist utopian education. Suggests that the curriculum should be built by students and teachers working together in collaboration with students and teachers from other schools. Schools should reflect their communities. Interdisciplinary education. No tests or exams but projects that put into practice what they have learned. Inculcate inclusiveness and international awareness. Teachers would have the time and support to do research.

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 U2 -

Illus. Ruth Tam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interview with Jessica Luther" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Luther, Jessica ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Gender equal sport in a feminist future.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Lauren Chief Elk” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Lauren Chief Elk ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - Native American author AB -

The problem of interpersonal violence 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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Miss Major Griffin-Gracy” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (b. 1940) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Transgender author AB -

In answers to questions about her utopia, the author describes a world where transgender people are considered normal.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Suey Park” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Suey Park ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

Emotional life 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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Justice" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mariame Kaba ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia based on intense community interaction, its disruption by a woman from Earth who commits a murder, and the way the community responds.

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 U2 -

Illus. Bianca Diaz

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Kafka’s Last Laugh” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Vagabond [Beaumont] ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which protest is extremely limited and those who are in prison are indoctrinated with the beauties of capitalism and drugged with Contentina. It turns out that laughter defeats the drug.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U3 -

Vagabond [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Learning Our Bodies, Healing Our Selves” Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Schlesinger ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay on how, beginning with premedical education, to improve medical service for women and others “whose have identities have been pathologized, whose health and life quality have been systematically undervalued” (142). Says that “In my feminist utopia, premedical education would be designed to instill an understanding that health care inequality and unequal distribution of life chances are not genetically programmed inevitabilities, but rather the result of structural oppression” (143). Also suggests that medical education needs to be more interdisciplinary and specifically mentions medical anthropology, gender studies, and comparative ethnic studies. Free medical education (243). Access to medical care a fundamental right (144).

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 SN - 9781558619005 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lesbo Island" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jill Soloway (b. 1965) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Humorous call for the establishment of a women-only state.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Let Him Wear a Tutu” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Yamberlie Tavarez ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Latina author KW - US author AB -

A very brief eutopia of a gender-neutral childhood. See also 1972 Gould.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lightning Jack’s Last Ride” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created by oil running out.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 128.1/2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and FantasyTM 2016. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler (Boston, MA: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), 174-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Manhunters" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kalamu ya Salaam (b. 1947) ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story begins with a woman’s memory of having to escape from a dystopia as a child because she was going to be punished for being smarter than her status permitted. She currently lives as a warrior in a society dominated by women with most, but not all, men having low status.

JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mother of Eden Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2012 Beckett set in the future of the previous one, in which humanity now occupies most of the planet and two empires have emerged, both dominated by men and both claiming descent from the same woman among the early settlers.

PB - Broadway Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “My Own Sound” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Christine Sun Kim ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief depiction of a future where being deaf will not be considered different.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Not a Favor to Women: The Workplace in a Feminist Future” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ellen Bravo ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A poor woman cleaner is briefly transported to a future where people like her are fully equal and collectively control their workplace.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Not on My Block: Envisioning a World without Street Harassment” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Giorgis, Hannah ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief essay presenting the eutopia of the title.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Outland Exile: Book 1 of Old Men and Exiles Y1 - 2015 A1 - W. Clark Boutwell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U. S. is divided between the authoritarian Unity that rules the East drugs and implants to control its citizens, who do not have long lives. Beyond its borders are the Outlands, supposedly inhabited by savages, who captures the young female protagonist. The protagonist, a young woman, enters the outlands and discovers that the reality is more complex. First volume of a series followed by Exiles Escape. Book 2 of Old Men and Exiles. Pensacola, FL: Indigo River Publishing, 2018 in which the protagonist of the first volume struggles to stay free from both the Democratic Unity and those who had held her in the Outlands. A third volume is projected. 

PB - iUniverse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Packets in the Tube” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Siddanta Bastola ED - Ed Finn ED - Pascal Zachary KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where the combination of the internet and the hyperloop means that anyone can live anywhere and commute to anyplace else and goods can be shipped almost instant anywhere. Presented as eutopian.

JF - Journeys through Time and Space PB - Intel Foundation/Society for Science and the Public/Arizona State University CY - Np UR - Journeys_Through_Time_and_Space_Anthology.pdf ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prepper. Part Two: Kings Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karl A. D. Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2013 Brown. In this volume, the family at the center of the first volume continue to live their hidden life but conclude that they have to join others fighting a plan to exterminate most of the world’s population.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Raising Generation E [For Empathy]: The Final Frontier of Feminism” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Mindi Rose Englart (b. 1965) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief eutopia based on educating children to be empathetic and using restorative justice.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rattlesnakes and Men” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satire of gun culture in which everyone in s small town in Georgia is required by law to keep a rattlesnake in their home that has supposedly been bioengineered to not bite family members. One of Bishop’s “Georgia stories.”

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.2 (469) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reproductive Supporters" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Justine [Peen] Wu ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia in which each girl is assigned a “reproductive supporter” at puberty who provides birth control, abortion if needed, and support when the girl chooses to have a child.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rex" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Laird Barron ED - Lincoln Michel (b. 1982) ED - Nadxieli Nieto KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After the passing of all humans, an “animal heaven,” or the ideal world that would exist without humans, develops. But time moves in a circle and primitive humans reemerge.

JF - Gigantic Worlds PB - Gigantic Books CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Riley Marigold and the Winged Lizards of Tel Aviv” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kayla Bashe KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-climate change world in which in the U. S. the protagonist, a teenage girl, lives in a rural intentional community, and then is moved to Tel Aviv, where she lives in a high rise with community features. Israel is struggling to deal with the results on climate change.

JF - Solarpunk Press UR - http://www.solarpunkpress.com/stories/2015-10-5/001-riley-marigold-and-the-winged-lizards-of-tel-aviv-by-kayla-bashe ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rites" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Matthew Baker (b. 1985) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An overpopulation dystopia where everyone is expected to arrange their death at seventy and one man who chooses to live.

JF - One Story VL - no. 203 SN - 9781250237200 N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Why Visit America. Stories (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2020), 23-40. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sellout Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paul Beatty (b. 1962) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on U.S. race relations in which an African-American man tries to re-introduce slavery and segregation to his local school in a poor small town in southern California. His goal is to improve education and provide for the homeless. Much of the novel is about the case as it is argued before the Supreme Court. African-American author.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London: Oneworld Publications, 2016. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sliding Doors” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Jasmine Giuliani ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author AB -

A critique of a recently discovered poem from the late twentieth century before the passage of the Sexual Liberation Act.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summertime" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Anatoly Belilovsky KW - Male author KW - Russian-American author AB -

Climate-change dystopia in which Dublin, Ireland is under water. 

JF - SF Comet UR - http://www.sfcomet.com/anatoly-belilovsky.html https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/06/19/summertime/ N1 -

Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (June 19, 2017). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2017/06/19/summertime/; and in Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate. Ed. Katrina Archer. Np: Ganache Media, 2017. EBook.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “They Have All One Breath” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Karl Bunker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which artificial intelligences have stopped war and provide everyone with what they need, and then begin to control human and animal behavior.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 40.12 (491) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Unremarkable Bar on an Unremarkable Night” Y1 - 2015 A1 - s. c. smith ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - US author AB -

The depiction of an evening among friends who include a woman in a wheelchair, one who is blind, and one who is breastfeeding, and everyone is treated as perfectly normal.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Water Knife Y1 - 2015 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia brought about by a shortage of water. A related story is 2014 Bacigalupi, “Shooting the Apocalypse.”

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Welcome to Arcadia” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Julie Zeilinger (b. 1993) ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Blogging in a feminist eutopia.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like for Parents of Color?” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Victoria Law ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopian neighborhood with children at play where no one is advantaged or disadvantaged by gender, race, or any of the other form of discrimination.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: The Floating of New Chicago” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tricia Bobeda KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Chicago in the future divided by class and water, with the rich living on an island in Lake Michigan and the poor “wet-workers” left in the city. Read by the author. For an interview with the author, see https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-an-interview-with-author-tricia-bobeda. Female author.

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/after-water-fiction-world-after-water. ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bartleby the Scavenger” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Katie Boyer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future society that is poor and kills “non-contributing” members when they reach sixty. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 126.5 & 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Boost Y1 - 2014 A1 - Stephan [L.] Baker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all humans have had their intellect boosted by an implant, which leads to many improvements but can also be used for advertising and controlling people. When an upgrade is announced that will have a open portal through which governments can invade everyone’s thoughts, one man revolts and escapes to join others who are unenhanced and leads a rebellion against all those who would control others.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Childfinder” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story has a brief introductory statement that “Psi could have put the human race on the road to utopia,” but the dystopian story is about racial prejudice among the psi.

JF - Unexpected Stories PB - Open Road CY - New York SN - 978-1-59808-983-1 N1 -

Rpt. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2020), 27-92, with an “Afterword” by Butler on 93, with a “Foreword: Necessary Stories” by Nisi Shawl (7-10) and an “Afterword by Merrilee Heifetz (95-97) (PSt copy is No. 894 of 1000 copies); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 577-587, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758-759), and Notes (771).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chimpanzee Y1 - 2014 A1 - Darin Bradley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a failed economy where intellectual and mental control are common.

PB - Underland Press CY - Puyallup, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Countermeasures” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Christopher [Tracy] Brown (b. 1964) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the big Silicon Valley companies have become so powerful that they try to establish California as a a separate state and the U.S. government is forced to negotiate. The process is successfully undermined by hackers.

JF - Twelve Tomorrows. MIT Technology Review SF Annual PB - Technology Review CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deliver Me Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate Jarvik Birch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia in which girls are chosen at sixteen to be bred to produce the next generation.

PB - Bloomsbury Spark CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Electrified Ants” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jetse de Vries ED - Roy C. Booth ED - Jorge Salgado-Reyes KW - Dutch author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where a system called the Panopticon, undoubtedly referring to the system of control proposed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) in which a all the prisoners could be observed by one guard without the prisoners knowing they were being watched. In the story this is done through surveillance technology that is controlling all aspects of a person’s life. 

JF - Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology PB - Indie Authors Press CY - London SN - 978-0-9571130-4-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elysium Or, The World After Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex post-catastrophe dystopia with an authoritarian government, eutopian enclaves, and aliens.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Honey Trap" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Ruth EJ Booth ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia from after the bees have all died out. 

JF - La Femme PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston], Eng. N1 -

Rpt. illus. Becca McCall. Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 8½ (Summer 2017): 75-92. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If Kids Ruled the World Y1 - 2014 A1 - Linda Bailey (b. 1948) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s picture book that depicts a fantastic world that emphasizes play. Compare to 2014 Dillon and Dillon, If Kids Ran the World

PB - Kids Can Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada/Tonawanda, NY SN - 978-1-55453-591-0 U2 -

Illus. David Huyck

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Streets. A Thriller Y1 - 2014 A1 - Toby Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The third volume of a series of alternative history dystopias set in the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s, which is when this novel is set. In this novel, a massive “urban renewal” project is destroying the city. 

PB - Overlook Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The King of Flotsamland” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Tom Barlow ED - Dominica Malcolm KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia set in a future where metals have become so scarce that corporations are harvesting the collections that the ocean currents created and are willing to kill to get it. The story’s focus is on a man trying to protect the rights to one such collection.

JF - Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction PB - Solarwyrm Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Kite for Sarah: In Search of Freedom” Y1 - 2014 A1 - David G. Blake KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which many positions are held by robots who can be switched off at will. 

JF - Nature VL - 507.7491 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Out, One In: The greatest gift” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Batstone, Aislinn KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where, to control population growth, a person can designate someone who can have a child when the person dies.

JF - Nature VL - 511.7511 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perfected Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate Jarvik Birch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia in which girls are bred to be sold as pets. In the sequel, Tarnished. Fort Collins, CO: Entangled Publishing, 2015, the protagonist discovers that the reality of the pets’ situation is much different than they had been told. 

PB - Entangled Teen CY - Fort Collins, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Russell Brand Trickster Tales Y1 - 2014 A1 - Russell [Edward] Brand (b. 1975) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A profusely illustrated retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Hamelin presented as a dystopia of narrow-minded people. One child who had been ostracized by the town does not follow the Piper, and he helps the people to be more open-minded.

PB - Atria Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Chris Riddell (b. 1962).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Rising Y1 - 2014 A1 - Pierce Brown (b. 1988) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set on Mars in which people known as Reds work underground in the false belief that they are helping prepare for a move to the surface, which, in fact, happened years ago. One Red infiltrates the society on the surface, which has characteristics of ancient Rome. Sequels include Golden Son. New York: Del Rey, 2015, which follows the main character through an attempt to change the system, which is initially defeated, then appears to win, but the novel ends with the system in chaos; Morning Star. New York: Del Rey, 2015 continues in the same vein but again with apparent victory; Iron Gold. New York: Del Rey, 2018, in which the continuing protagonist is leaser of the Republic that has replaced the dystopia, but it is still at war with some of the members of the old system; and Dark Age. New York: Del Rey, 2019, in which the protagonist has been overthrown and the conflicts continue. Red Rising: Sons of Ares. Runnemede, NJ: Dynamite Entertainment, May-October 2017 is a six-issue comic book prequel to the series.

PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Sassy Chassis Lassies and the Devolution Revolution” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lisa Sargati ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia in which all vehicles are provided by corporations and are very inefficient. Bicyclists bring freedom.

JF - Bikes in Space Volume 2 [Cover adds More feminist science fiction] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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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.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - State of Grace Y1 - 2014 A1 - Hilary Badger KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia in which a group of young people believe that they have been created by Dot to have fun but discover that they are an experiment using a drug.

PB - Hardie, Grant Egmont CY - Richmond, Vic, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. North Mankato, MN: Switch Press, 2015.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Time Passeth Away Like a Shadow” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Andrew Bryant KW - Male author AB -

The story begins in a climate-change dystopia in 3000 A.D. where a man visits a Christian religious site containing a large, partially carved stone and the skeleton discovered under it, one of the few such sites that exist in a society that has rejected superstition. It then moves back to 2000 A.D. and the discovery of the relics and to 1000 A.D. and the creation of the stone by a pagan carver, whose skeleton is the one found with the stone.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - No. 24 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utah, Rwanda” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Buljubašić, Seada ED - Zorica Ðergović-Joksimović KW - Female author KW - Serbian author AB -

Brief eutopia with both variety and difference and equality living in harmony. Good education. No violence. No politics or politicians.

JF - Embracing Utopian Horizons PB - Filozofski fakultet u Novum Sadu CY - Novi Sad, Serbia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Weft" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Alyssa Brugman ED - Kirsty Murray (b. 1960) ED - Payal Dhar ED - Anita Roy KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which beauty is all important seen through the eyes of a young woman who has sold a kidney to pay for various enhancements. 

JF - Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean PB - Young Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India VL - 74-82 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017), 84-92.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When the Music Ends” Criminal Records” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Philip Ball KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where recorded music is illegal.

JF - Nature VL - 515.7527 U2 -

Illus Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winterkill Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kate A. Boorman KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in an isolated, enclosed small community with strict rules about leaving that one girl breaks. Sequels include Darkthaw. Illus. Shane Rebenschied. New York: Amulet Books, 2015; and Heartfire. Illus. Shane Rebenschied. New York: New York: Amulet Books, 2016, both of which follow the adventures of the protagonist as she escapes the settlement and then defeats it to save her new home. 

PB - Amulet Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Shane Rebenschied

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Beginner’s Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Christopher Barzak (b. 1975) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Although most of the story is about survival, it is presented as taking place during a right-wing dystopia

JF - Before and Afterlives. Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 163-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Breathing Engine” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matthew Lambert ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an environmentally depleted Earth.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cellular Level” Y1 - 2013 A1 - J. E. Bryant ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of an engineer developing drones to replace pollinators killed by various environmental changes who needs the wisdom of an old woman who has spent her life on a farm to understand the workings of nature. The technology works but the bees still know more.

JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press in Association with The Institute of Agricultural Engineers CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crecheling Y1 - 2013 A1 - D[avid] J[ohn] Butler (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia that begins in what appears to be a eutopia, but to achieve status in the society, the protagonist must go through a rite of passage that requires murder and that she may not survive. A sequel is Urbane: A Dystopia. Buza System #2. Colorado Springs, CO: WordFire Press, 2016 in which, having survived without killing, she and the young man she was expected to kill return to confront the dystopia.

PB - WordFire Press CY - Colorado Springs, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England’s Darkness Y1 - 2013 A1 - Stephen Barber KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The collapse of the digital system results in the loss of knowledge and the end of all fossil-based fuel results in the complete collapse of England, the abandonment of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the deliberate depopulation of the north of England.

PB - Sun Vision Press CY - Np SN - 9780985762537 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eye of Moloch Y1 - 2013 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) ED - Jack Henderson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the attempted destruction of U.S. democracy by those trying to establish the New World Order and the fight back against it. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. An “Afterword” (405-19) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel.

PB - Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fatherless: A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dr. James Dobson (b. 1936) A1 - Kurt Bruner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia from a Christian perspective suggesting the possible negative future of current anti-family trends.

PB - Faith Words CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gray Wings” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karl Bunker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story includes a future that is eutopian for the rich and dystopian for the poor.

JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 37.4 & 5 (447 & 448) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Thirty-First Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2014), 140-47 with an editor’s note on 140.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Insistence of Vision” Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which everyone wears glasses that connects them to everyone else with the focus on disabling the glasses for specified periods as punishment for crime. 

JF - Technology Review (MIT) N1 -

Rpt. in his Insistence of Vision. A Short Story Collection (Stamford, CT: The Story Plant, 2016), 29-34 with an author’s note on 35; and in Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World. Ed. [Glen] David Brin and Stephen W. Potts. Sponsored by The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD) (New York: Tor, 2017), 36-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last President Y1 - 2013 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 and 2012 Barnes in which an effort is being made to bring the remnants of the U.S. back together under a President and Congress.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liquid Loyalty" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Redfern Jon Barrett KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which drugs have been developed so that each person is completely devoted to one and only one other person. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 26 UR - http://futurefire.net/2013.26/fiction/liquidloyalty.html N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 57-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Living in the Singularity” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tom Borthwick KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A corporation announces that, in exchange for all their possessions, it can upload a person’s consciousness into a supercomputer where they will be able to live happily ever after. Millions choose to do so. The story focuses on an individual who resists but finally decides to join his wife.

JF - Bewildering Stories VL - no. 550 SN - 978-0-9571130-4-6 UR - http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity1.html; http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity2.html; http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue550/singularity3.html N1 -

Rpt. in Altered States: A Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Roy C. Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes (London: Indie Authors Press, 2014), 33-45. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Time of Global Warming Y1 - 2013 A1 - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young girl searches for her family after a devastating earthquake and discovers her own strength. Much fantasy. References throughout to Homer’s Odyssey.

PB - Christy Ottaviano Books Henry Holt and Co. CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Melting Point 2040 Y1 - 2013 A1 - Mike Bushman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a secessionist movement in the U.S. Followed by Secession 2041. [Naperville, IL]: AirFuture, 2013 which describes the civil war.

PB - AirFuture CY - [Naperville, IL] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Mesomorphic Woman” Y1 - 2013 A1 - David North-Martino ED - Josie Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia on a space habitat that had been planned as for women where a man is replacing them with clones and men.

JF - Daughters of Icarus: New Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Women’s Wings Unfurled] PB - Pink Narcissus Press CY - Auburn, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nova’s Cycles” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Aaron M. Wilson ED - Elly Blue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all the colonies built on the moon and other places in the solar system are being drained to support the rich colonists.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology] PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland. OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “An Object In Motion” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Elizabeth Buchanan ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Earth essentially flattened to provide the material to build habitats in space, which are initially promised for everyone but quickly are limited to the rich.

JF - Bikes in Space [Cover adds a feminist science fiction anthology]. PB - Elly Blue Publishing CY - Portland, OR VL - Vol. 10 of Taking the Lane U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Occupy {Life}: An Imaginative Fiction Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - [William M.] [Badrick] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which animals, led by the whales, decide to take the Earth back from humans.

PB - Cascadia Public House CY - [Portland, OR?] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Patriot Remnant: Return to Freedom Y1 - 2013 A1 - Siara Brandt KW - Female author AB -

Survivalist dystopia in which a small group defeats a vicious government. The novel ends with the beginnings of a good, traditional, farming community.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prepper. Part One: The Collapse Y1 - 2013 A1 - Karl A. D. Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future dystopia that emerges from current conditions that leads to limited nuclear war. A Prepper is one who is preparing for the coming global collapse. First volume in an intended series followed by 2015 Brown. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Reinstalling Eden: Happiness on a hard drive” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Eric Schwitzgebel A1 - R. Scott Bakker (b. 1967) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A scientist creates humans within a computer and builds a eutopia for them. The scientist that follows reveals their true nature to them, and they then take over their own destiny and, ultimately, that of the world outside the computer.

JF - Nature VL - 503.7477 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Replica Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jenna [Jennifer] Black (b. 1965) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult corporate dystopia where one company has developed human replication. Her Resistance. New York: Tor Teen, 2014 continues the story with the discovery of government corruption and the development of a resistance movement. The third volume, Revolution. New York: Tor Teen, 2014, continues the theme of resistance.

PB - Tor Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Serene Invasion Y1 - 2013 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

An alien invasion brings peace and prosperity to Earth, but some people and other aliens want a return to the conflict of the past.

PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taken Y1 - 2013 A1 - Erin Bowman (b. 1990) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which all boys are taken by the government at eighteen and the successful resistance to the program. Sequels include Frozen. A Taken Novel. New York: Harper Teen, 2014; and Forged. A Taken Novel. New York: HarperTeen, 2015, both of which follow the resistance to its ultimately successful conclusion. Stolen, New York: HarperTeen Impulse, 2014 is a prequel available as an ebook.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Terminal City" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Zoë Blade KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia with extreme rich/poor divisions and focuses on hackers who are trying to undermine the system. 

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 28 UR - http://futurefire.net/2013.28/fiction/terminalcity.html N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Melissa Scott and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2014), 113-41. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopia: On the Quality of Human Life” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Greg Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An opinion piece that says that life in the U.S. would be radically improved by doubling the minimum wage and creating a “nouveau middle class” out of the poor.

JF - Voices of Central Pennsylvania ER - TY - ABST T1 - Agenda 21 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) A1 - Harriet Parker KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the United Nations has taken over the U.S. and enslaved its citizens. An “Afterword” (279-95) has additional information regarding Agenda 21 and includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. For the 1998 Agenda 21, see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf

PB - Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Amos Was Here” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Doug Donley ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future dystopia resulting from current policies, particularly concerning the environment, and suggests actions that could help avoid the dystopia.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arctic Rising Y1 - 2012 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

A climate change novel in which the melting of the ice caps leads to conflicts over access to the oil reserves that are now accessible. 

PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0765319210 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Armageddon 2019: Jesus Is Come The Pope of Rome is Fallen Perfection is Preached in Boston Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jeffrey Barrett (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Roman Catholic dystopia in which the Pope controls all religions and God deposes him.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Arose from Poetry” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Steve Berman (b. 1949) ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society divided between privileged citizens and everyone else.

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Artistic License" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert H. Beer ED - Mark Leslie KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that is trying to suppress art.

JF - Tesseracts Sixteen: Parnassus Unbound PB - Edge CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Autoethnographic Y1 - 2012 A1 - Michael Brennan (b. 1973) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poems set in the present/near future free market dystopia.

PB - Giramondo Publishing Co. CY - Artarmon, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blueprints of the Afterlife Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A complex novel set mostly after much of the world has been destroyed. It follows a number of individuals as the experience the new world, which is part virtual reality.

PB - Black Cat CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bullseye, Inc.” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Brian D. Garrity ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of corporate uniformity.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chair Plays Y1 - 2012 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The text includes three one act plays set in a dystopian 2077. The plays are “Have I None” (1-36), was first performed in Birmingham November 2, 2000 and published in Children and Have I None. London: Methuen Drama, 2000; 57-89; “The Under Room” (37-73), was first performed in Birmingham October 9, 2000 (Plays 8 says October 12, 2000) and published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (169-203); and “Chair” (75-112), was written for radio first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on April 7, 2000. The Chair Plays and Plays 8 says that the first staged production was at the Avignon Festival on July 18, 2006. Wikipedia says it was in Lisbon, at the Teatro da Cornucópia in June 2005 and first published in his Plays: 8. Born People Chair Existence The Under Room Freedom and Drama (London: Methuen Drama, 2006), 109-144. The London premiere of the entire trilogy was at Lyric Hammersmith on April 19, 2012.

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London SN - 978-1-408-17279-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Eden Y1 - 2012 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the dystopia that resulted from inbreeding after a spacecraft crashed on planet. The novel focuses on a young man who tries to break the pattern and escape the small area in which the people, known as the Family, live.  See also 2015 Beckett.

PB - Corvus CY - London N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darkest Minds Y1 - 2012 A1 - Alexandra Bracken (b. 1987) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia focusing on a young woman in a world in which most children have been killed by a disease that gave her and some others an unusual talent. All the children identified with such talents are incarcerated in a so-called rehabilitation camp. She escapes and becomes a leader of other children who are searching for a safe haven. A film, Darkest Minds, with a screenplay by Bracken and Chad Hodge (b. 1977) and directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (b. 1972) was released in 2018. Sequels include Never Fade. New York: Hyperion, 2013 in which the protagonist from the first volume leaves the other children to search for the answer to the disease; In the Afterlight. New York: Hyperion, 2014 in which the same protagonist works with others to find the solution to the disease and defeat the government; and The Darkest Legacy. New York: Hyperion, 2018, which concludes the series. A collection of related stories focusing on characters other than the main protagonist is Through the Dark. A Dark Minds Collection. New York: Hyperion, 2015. The stories had previously published online in 2013, 2014, and 2015. 

PB - Hyperion CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drowned Cities Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe young adult dystopia described as a companion to his 2010 Ship Breaker. In this novel two young people try to escape the poverty and violence of the cities only for one of them to be captured by a group of child soldiers.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exile Y1 - 2012 A1 - Banerjee, Neelanjana ED - Anil [Ravindran] Menon (b. 1964) ED - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-catastrophe Las Vegas in a world where India is the dominant economic force, and Indians stuck in the U.S. are desperate to get permission to immigrate to India.

JF - Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired to the Ramayana PB - Zubaan CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Good Girl” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Malinda Lo ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with people living in tunnels in cities. Lesbian themes. 

JF - Diverse Engines PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Grid City Overload Y1 - 2012 A1 - Steven T. Bramble KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Grid City, CO in 2025 stressing the negative effects of technology and the problems of sensory overload. Additional material is available at http://gridcityoverload.blogspot.com/

PB - CreateSpace CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Hawk" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Erica Lindquist A1 - Aron Christensen ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

While the story is set in a future dystopia of a collapsing world, it is a thoroughly contemporary story about the traumas of a boy being bullied.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyk Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Next Door" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rahul Kanakia (b. 1985) ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people are homeless and living in garages and other places not suitable for human life. Gay male themes. 

JF - Diverse Energies PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Pattern Recognition.” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Ken Liu (b. 1976) ED - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Joe Monti KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which small children from the slums of various countries are bought from their parents and raised in a completely closed and regulated environment where they are trained in pattern recognition skills with the results sold to large corporations. 

JF - Diverse Energies PB - Tu Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pure Y1 - 2012 A1 - Julianna Baggott KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. First volume in the Pure trilogy in which what appears to have been a nuclear war leaves devastation and major physical changes. The “Pure” are those who avoided the fallout and live inside the Dome. The second volume, Fuse. New York: Grand Central, 2013, is mostly intrigue and adventure. In the third volume, Burn. New York: Grand Central, 2014, after much conflict, the Dome is destroyed.

PB - Grand Central CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reality Girl" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Richard [Diranne] Bowes (1944-2023) ED - Ellen [Sue] Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-ecological catastrophe ecological dystopia.

JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia PB - Hyperion CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction of the Year Ed. Tenea D. Johnson and Steve Berman (Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2013), 99-120. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Salt Sea and the Sky" Y1 - 2012 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future Ireland where the need to respond to climate change means that the majority of the people will never have a job and live on a low minimum provided by the state. 

JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London\Philadelphia, PA U3 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Times of Trouble. The End Times Saga Book 2 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Despite being called Book 2, this was the first published volume in a multi-volume dystopia dealing with the end of the world from a Christian perspective. This volume presents a good Christian who begins to experience the way in which the U.S. government is trying to control all aspects of life. Times of Turmoil. The End Times Saga Book 1. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013 is a prequel that deals with events before Times of Trouble. In Times of Trial. The End Times Saga Book 3. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2012 the government is attacking all Christians. Timothy Phillips. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013 [The Kindle ed. has the title Times of Rebellion. The End Times Saga Book 4. 2013] focuses on one young Christian. Times of Destruction. The End Times Saga Book 5. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 deals with the first half of the seven years of tribulation, and Times of Judgment. The End Times Saga Book 6. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 deals with the second half. The last volume, Times of Tribulation. The End Times Saga Book 7. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2014 ends with the beginning of Christ’s rule during the millennium. A minor character from this volume is developed in Jon Ryan: An End Times Short Story. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013. Another such character is developed in Xavier Doolittle. An End Times Short Story. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2013. 

PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wardrobe Malfunction” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Dale Newton ED - Chastity West ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch ED - Pat Edmonson ED - Crystal Boyd KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopia in which non-profits doing good have replaced corporations focused on making money.

JF - Cifiscape Vol. II. The Twin Cities PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year 3000. New World, New Government Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rod Sydney Brant KW - Male author AB -

A short novel about the struggle to create a world-wide eutopia with a world government and courts to settle disputes.

PB - iUniverse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America Y1 - 2011 A1 - Albert [Lawrence] Brooks (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the early stages of intergenerational conflict that could lead to a dystopia, followed by a massive earthquake that destroys Los Angeles and the failure of government to respond adequately. The novel ends with the beginnings of a eutopia of intergenerational cooperation, the building of a new, eutopian Los Angeles under the auspices of China, the establishment of neighborhood health care based on a Chinese model, and the election of a naturalized Chinese politician as President after an amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed to make it possible. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Apple Jack" Y1 - 2011 A1 - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements. 

JF - Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball PB - Hydra House CY - Seattle, WA SN - 978-0-948301-0-7 U3 -

Ball, K. C. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beauty Queens Y1 - 2011 A1 - Libba [Martha Elizabeth] Bray (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Take-off on 1954 Golding, The Lord of the Flies. Humorous novel about a planeload of teenage beauty queens that crash lands on an isolated island, and the society they create there.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Bohane Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kevin Barry (b. 1969) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in western Ireland in 2053. The city is deeply divided between rich and poor and under the control of a gangland boss. The inside back cover has a map of Bohane.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curfew Y1 - 2011 A1 - Jesse Ball (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The novel focus on the close relationship between a father and daughter set in a violent authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Vintage Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daybreak Zero Y1 - 2011 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2010 Barnes. This novel shows the dystopia created by the catastrophe of the previous one. See also 2013 Barnes.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Differences” Y1 - 2011 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which any human difference is unacceptable.

JF - Albedo (Dublin, Ireland) VL - no. 41 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drought Y1 - 2011 A1 - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia about a girl living in a religious enclave in which the people are essentially slaves living a lifestyle of the early nineteenth century. She is essential to the existence of the community, everyone will die if she leaves, and she has the opportunity to escape.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eating with Integrity: A question of taste" Y1 - 2011 A1 - David Berreby (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on eating fads in a future where all food has to be absolutely sterile, and people eat in individual sterilized tents with some people reverting to real food.

JF - Nature VL - 480. 7376 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "On the Edge" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) ED - Janis Ian (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which major figures from the past, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Washington, Emma Goldman, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin are living in Los Angeles and interact, with Jefferson accompanied by Sally Hemings. They all believe that the revolution is about to begin. The story is based on a verse from Ian’s “Guess You Had to be There.”

JF - Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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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 - Expedition Beyond Y1 - 2011 A1 - Roger Bagg KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Hollow Earth lost race eutopia based on the peoples of the pueblos of the American Southwest. Much adventure with the men regularly enslaved by Neanderthals. Vegetarian.

PB - Fiction Studio Books CY - Stamford, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heart of Danger Y1 - 2011 A1 - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Final volume of a trilogy; in this volume, the family briefly settles in the Outside, where Juno is very happy, but a threat to her sister, means that they have to move to another city, but there, where they expected to be safe, her sister is taken ,and Juno has to rescue her. 

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - House of Holes: A Book of Raunch Y1 - 2011 A1 - Nicholson Baker (b. 1957) KW - US author AB -

Eutopian or dystopian depending on your perspective. Humorous pornography at the center of which is an elaborate sexual spa where almost everything goes, and everyone accepted into the spa can be sexually fulfilled.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manna Y1 - 2011 A1 - Marshall Brain (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Half dystopia in a U.S. that is spreading around the world and half a eutopia set in Australia. The dystopia is brought about by the gradual takeover of the control of almost all work by computers, which results in a few extremely wealthy and the majority unemployed, on welfare and living in specially built buildings. The Australian eutopia is based on principles that “1. Everyone is equal 2. Everything is reused 3. Nothing is anonymous 4. Nothing is owned 5. Tell the truth 6. Do no harm. 7. Obey the rules. 7. Live your life. 9. Better and better” (Chapter 5, p. 8).

UR - http://www.marshallbrain.com/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Nation of Ruins Y1 - 2011 A1 - Robert John Burke KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the American right in power.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paegonaean Story Y1 - 2011 A1 - David Blair KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

One country has united the world through war and brought peace to all but a small enclave that they is isolated from the rest of the world. The novel is about the process of bringing that enclave into the fold with war erupting. In interviews the author presents the scenario positively. 

PB - Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd. CY - Guildford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Point Y1 - 2011 A1 - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2010 [Meaney]. This volume focuses on suicide cults among teenagers.

PB - Angry Robot CY - Nottingham, Eng. U3 -

Thomas Blackthorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Reckoning: A Novel of the End of the United States Y1 - 2011 A1 - Seamus Branaugh KW - Male author AB -

Survivalist dystopia.

PB - Silver Lake Publishing CY - Aberdeen, WA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scorch City Y1 - 2011 A1 - Toby Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The second volume in alternative history dystopias about the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. In this novel, the Uhuru Community is a Black separatist shantytown community with utopian aspirations facing attacks from the people of the city after the discovery of a white woman’s body near the community. See also 2010 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coward's Steel" Y1 - 2010 A1 - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia with fantasy elements about a woman’s experiences dealing with both community and violence. 

JF - L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future PB - Galaxy Press CY - 2010 VL - 26 SN - 978-0-948301-0-7 N1 -

Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 124-37, with an author’s note on 215-16. 

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Ball, K. C. [pseud.] 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dial Tone" Y1 - 2010 A1 - K. C. Ball [pseud.] (1975-2018) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-pandemic “last man” story. 

JF - Kasma Magazine SN - 978-0-9848301-0-7 UR - https://www.kasmamagazine.com/dial-tone.html N1 -

Rpt. in her Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities. Stories by K. C. Ball. Ed. Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (Seattle, WA: Hydra House, 2011), 23-25, with an author’s note on 210.

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Ball, K. C. [pseud.] 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Directive 51 Y1 - 2010 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a catastrophe that pushes the U.S. back to a primitive time. See also 2011 and 2013 Barnes.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edge Y1 - 2010 A1 - [John] [Meaney] (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which dueling has been legalized and violence is common. Corporate control and extreme pollution.

PB - Angry Robot CY - London U3 -

Thomas Blackthorne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Expectancy theory: Wishful thinking" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Aanyo Bhattacharya AB -

Briefly suggests the eutopia that results from the scientific discovery that reality follows expectations.

JF - Nature VL - 463.7287 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farewell, My Republic Y1 - 2010 A1 - Binder, John F KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by apathetic Americans who choose to be uninvolved and politicians who call a new constitutional convention. A vote on the new constitution results in a majority for "Don't Know" or "Don't Care".

PB - BookLocker.com, Inc CY - [Bangor, ME] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fierce September Y1 - 2010 A1 - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Second volume of a trilogy; see 2008 Beale. In this volume, the protagonists of the first volume are forced to leave Taris and learn to survive Outside. See also 2011 Beale.

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For the Killing of the Happiest Man” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Hrabel, Max ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - US author AB -

With over half the world population clinically depressed, a Happiness Movement institutes an International Day of Happiness and selects a regional Happiest Man, who commits suicide. The story is told through the eyes of a man who dreams of being a gardener with a family but is currently working underground in the sewers.

JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1 PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - Hillsboro, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Greenman Watches the Black Bar Go Up, Up Up" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jacques Barcia ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Brazilian author KW - Male author AB -

A future of environmental restraint in Brazil that followed an environmental dystopia and a war to establish better practice. The focus of the story is a man tracing the trading of carbon by a corporation trying to avoid the laws.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Half Past Midnight Y1 - 2010 A1 - Jeff Brackett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war survivalist dystopia with the emphasis on the immediate survival.Continued in The Road to Rejas: A Half Past Midnight Novella. Ebook, 2012. A more substantial sequel is Year 12: A Half Past Midnight Novel. [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace], 2017. 406 pp. which is set as the survivalists discover that civilization is being rebuilt.

PB - [Red Adept Publishing] CY - Np U1 -

The cover adds the sub-title A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Helix Y1 - 2010 A1 - J[effrey] L. Bryan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious dystopia of genetic engineering set in Earth’s orbital colonies in the twenty-eighth century. The aim of the religion is to manage evolution through genetically engineering the reproduction of their followers, who can, within some parameters, choose the characteristics of their children. The novel, though, is more concerned with conflict among the religion, whose priests have created new human forms that are rebelling, the Earth government, and a large corporate, all of whom hope to control the colonies.

PB - JLBryanbooks.com CY - [Atlanta, GA] SN - 9781442148420 U1 -

Cover adds Humanity Is Reborn.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Johnny's New Job" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which welfare officers are regularly killed by the people if any child is harmed.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 227 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Long Night" Y1 - 2010 A1 - J[effrey] L. Bryan KW - Male author AB -

Essentially a horror story, but the background is a religious dystopia.

JF - Dark Tomorrows PB - JLBryanbooks.com CY - [Atlanta, GA] N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Tomorrows. 2nd ed. Ed. J[effrey] L. Bryan (Lexington, KY: CreateSpace, 2011), 202-17. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noise Y1 - 2010 A1 - Darin Bradley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future violent America with a eutopian enclave that holds hope for the future.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Overton Window Y1 - 2010 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) A1 - Kevin Balfe A1 - Emily Bestler A1 - Jack Henderson KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which liberal attempts to take over the U.S. are thwarted. An “Afterword” (293-321) includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. 

PB - Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Rediffusion” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Rhys [Henry] Hughes (b. 1966) ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

A Kafkaesque dystopia about a man caught in the judicial system. 

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Rules Are Different Here” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Nadia Bulkin (b. 1987) ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - Indonesian-American author AB -

The story involves two young Asian women tourists in Miami where they find that foreigners have no rights. 

JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -

Illus. Matt Bechtel

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sense" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tony Richards ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the future of Britain under local-grown fascists, who first produce that immigrants who commit crimes be deported and gradually increase the restrictions. At the end all Jews are being rounded up.

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ship Breaker Y1 - 2010 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia set in a world with a collapsed economy and environment and with extreme differences between rich and poor. A companion volume is 2012 Bacigalupi.

PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sic Semper Tyrannus: A novel of liberty and the future of America Y1 - 2010 A1 - Seamus Branaugh KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia following the collapse of the U.S. and the establishment of walled city-states, which are beginning to fail, and the struggle to reestablish a functioning civilization.

PB - Silver Lake Publishing CY - Aberdeen, WA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “South of Autumn” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Joiner, Matt ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on an author who had been imprisoned and tortured and had all his books publicly burned by a fascist regime coming to terms with his fears even after its defeat.

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] VL - 75-83 U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Stone Cast into Stillness" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Maurice [Gerald] Broaddus (b. 1970) ED - Jason Sizemore KW - African American author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where procreation is tightly controlled, and the bureaucrats are machines.

JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -

Subtitle on the cover of the book Tales of SF Dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Thinker’s Lure" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Gump, Toianna ED - Kit Martin ED - Jeffrey Martin ED - Zach West ED - Mika Thuening ED - Hannah Byrns-Enoch KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Minnesota has instituted Regulations of Uniformity.

JF - The Twin Cities. Cifiscape Vol. 1 PB - Onyx Neon Press CY - [Hillsboro, OR] VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Torturer" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Steve Duffy (1963) ED - Allyson Bird ED - Joel Lane KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The story is about the private life of an official torturer. 

JF - Never Again PB - Gray Friar Press CY - [Wyke, Eng.] U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Usurper Y1 - 2010 A1 - Cliff Ball (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Russians and Al Qaeda destroy the US and a resistance movement is defeated.

PB - Author CY - Wichita Falls, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vaults Y1 - 2010 A1 - Toby Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a series alternative history dystopias about the U. S. from the 1930s to the 1960s. The Vaults are the huge depository that holds all the court records of the city for seventy years. The archivist discovers an anomaly which leads him and others to uncover the deep corruption that pervades the city. See also 2011 and 2014 Ball. All three are presented as mystery novels. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Veracity. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Laura Bynum (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which half of the U.S. population has been killed and a new government exerts control through sex and drugs.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wall of Days Y1 - 2010 A1 - Alastair Bruce (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

Global warming dystopia. A man is living alone on an island where he voluntarily exiled himself and where it has been raining for ten years. The novel follows his choice to return to the mainland and confront his memories and then his return to the island.

PB - Umuzi CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zoo City Y1 - 2010 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed South Africa. In an interview published in Locus 74.1 (648) (January 2015): 48, the author has called it an “apartheid allegory”.

PB - Jacana Media CY - Auckland Park, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Angry Robot, 2010.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Accord Y1 - 2009 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Accord is a virtual world that brings together all the desires of all people throughout the world and can be entered at death. It is presented as a eutopia for all. The current world is an authoritarian dystopia, and the novel is driven by the desire of the authoritarian leader to destroy a couple in The Accord.

PB - Solaris. BL Publishing CY - Nottingham, Eng. N1 -

Parts were published in a different form as “The Accord.” Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Ed. George Mann (Nottingham, Eng.: Solaris Books, 2007), 301-37; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twentieth-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 461-79 with an editor’s introduction on 461; and “The Man Who Built Heaven.” Postscripts, no. 15 (Summer 2008): 24-31.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Candor Y1 - 2009 A1 - Pam Bachorz (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which messages designed to control people are embedded in the music they listen to.

PB - Egmont USA CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Egmont, 2010.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Coffee, Bright Light and the Paradoxes of Omnipotence" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ben Burgis ED - Rachel Swirsky (b. 1962) ED - Sean Wallace KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future where the Palestinians defeated Israel and now treat Jews the way Israel treat the Palestinians and the way this turns a secular Jew into a suicide bomber.

JF - People of the Book ([In Hebrew]): A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] N1 -

Originally published in AtomJack Magazine (October 2009), an online journal that is no longer available.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dominion Y1 - 2009 A1 - J[effrey] L. Bryan KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future world largely under the control of the U.S., which is led by a capitalist, fundamentalist religious group of men who have abolished all freedoms and placed everyone under constant surveillance. The protagonist is a news reader who knows that he is reading lies. Ends with a nuclear war with China.

PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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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 - "The Executioner" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jennifer Marie Brissett (b. 1969) ED - Robey James KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which when a person is to be executed, an individual is chosen by lot to be the executioner. The story is from the point-of-view of a woman who was chosen. 

JF - Warrior Wisewoman PB - Norilana Books Science Fiction CY - Winnetka, CA VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in People of Color Take Over Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine. Ed. Nisi Shawl, no. 239 (June/July 2017): 50-57; and in in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 296-302. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light of Day Y1 - 2009 A1 - James Byrd KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the environmental movement has gained power throughout the world and forced everyone underground as a means of protecting nature. An enclave of survivalists continues to live above ground, fight back, and win.

PB - Booksurge CY - [Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mariposa Y1 - 2009 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a thriller but with dystopian elements describing a near future U.S. in economic decline.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red in the Sky Is Our Blood." Y1 - 2009 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Buckell, Lake, Scalzi, and Schroeder. This story is about a Detroit dystopia with the beginnings of a eutopia based on dispersing people throughout a connected system hidden in the ruins, farming abandoned areas, and gradually developing connections to all the services people can provide.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 133-73.

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Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Remembering Green Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lesley Beake (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Young adult post- environmental catastrophe dystopia.

PB - Frances Lincoln Children's Books CY - London 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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snakeskin Road Y1 - 2009 A1 - James Braziel (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Braziel. This novel elaborates on the dystopia brought about by climate change and focuses on a woman's attempt to escape the slavery that is the fate of most of the inhabitants of the Southwest of the US.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stochasti-city" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - John [Michael] Scalzi [II] (b. 1969) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

A story in a collaborative volume describing meta-cities of the future; see also 2009 Lake, Scalzi, Schroeder, and Wishnevsky. This story is set in a dystopian Detroit and deals with the beginnings of an attempt to reclaim it.

JF - Metatropolis. Original Stories by Jay Lake; Tobias S. Buckell; Elizabeth Bear; John Scalzi, [II]; Karl Schroeder PB - Subterranean Press CY - Burton, MI N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Tor, 2010), 78-152. PSt, PTU

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transition Y1 - 2009 A1 - Iain [Menzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia of global terrorism and a secretive authoritarian world power. 

PB - Little Brown CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “White Skies” Y1 - 2009 A1 - Chaz Brenchley (b. 1959) ED - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Climate change dystopia.

JF - When It Changed. Science into Fiction: An Anthology PB - Comma Press CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Windup Girl Y1 - 2009 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering. Set in the same future as 2005 and 2006 "Yellow Card Man" Bacigalupi.

PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Accepting the Dream Or Is it the Reality?” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Shaba Barnes KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A short but detailed lesbian eutopia with New Age elements. Homeopathic medicine. No money. No poverty. Consensual decision making by a “Steering Committee” as needed. Males are cared for in families until puberty, when they are all sent to a boarding school; it appears that their main function is providing sperm. No industry or major commercial activity. Creating art is an important part of life. Mostly vegetarian. Houses made of fabric. Oddly, there is also high tech with flying cars.

JF - Sinister Wisdom VL - no. 72 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Attached to the Land" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Donald J. Bingle (b. 1954) ED - John Helfers ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. The mountain states of the U.S. plus Alaska and western Canada secede and form a new country, the Western Range and Mountains--known as the Range. The central institution, designed in part to keep population growth under control, is that every person must have a certain minimum amount of land, initially provided by parceling out public lands. Those who fall below the minimum are forced to leave. Since the rest of North America is a poverty-stricken, violent dystopia, this rule is effective.

JF - Future Americas PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Birmingham, 35 Miles Y1 - 2008 A1 - James Braziel (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced by global warming. See also 2009 Braziel.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Champagne award: Planning for the Future" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of government control of permits to have children.

JF - Nature VL - 451.7180 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean, 2015), 505-07.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Commentary: America's Chilling Future" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief description of the dystopia that exists in 2076 because people became too partisan and trusted politicians too much. From a conservative, anti-socialist perspective.

JF - CNNPolitics.com UR - http://www.nn.com/208/POLITICS/10/01/beck/future/index/html ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn Over Doomsday Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jaspre Bark (b. 1969) KW - Male author AB -

A volume in The Afterblight Chronicles series. Dystopia of cults in conflict with Native Americans trying to reclaim the U.S. For other volumes, see 2006 Spurrier, 2007 Andrews, 2007 Levene, 2008 Kane, 2009 Ewing, 2009 Andrews, 2009 Kane, 2010 Andrews, and 2010 Kane.

PB - Abaddon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U1 -

Afterblight Chronicles at the head of the title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreamer Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paul L. Bates KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the resistance movement. Companion to 2005 Bates and is set in roughly the same timeframe. Considerable fantasy.

PB - Five Star CY - Detroit, MI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Enduring Childhood" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Marion Bernard KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which children are kept young.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 14 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fifty-First State Y1 - 2008 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Near future poor Britain controlled by the U.S.

PB - Severn House CY - Sutton, Surrey, Eng. U5 -

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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 - Glister Y1 - 2008 A1 - John Burnside (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Ecological and authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Greenland" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Global warming dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 218 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In From the Snow" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Len Battersby (b. 1970 ED - Jack [Mayo] Dann (b. 1945) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the stories of Sawney Bean, the legendary fifteenth-sixteenth century Scottish cannibal.

JF - Dreaming Again PB - HarperCollins Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Juno of Taris Y1 - 2008 A1 - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia. Taris is an experiment in survival in which an island has been domed and provided with flora and fauna and 500 people when much of the world is destroyed in conflicts. Over time it has developed an authoritarian and conformist ethos. The novel is about a girl who does not fit and who is interested in what has happened Outside. Much of the novel is concerned with growing internal struggles and ends with contact with the Outside being reestablished. See also 2010 and 2011 Beale.

PB - Random House New Zealand CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Let Their People Go: The Left Left Behind" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the Left Behind series (see 1995 LaHaye and Jenkins) in which the capitalists, conservatives, and religious bigots  are removed, which allows the remaining people to begin to create a cooperative, world-wide eutopia.

JF - Postscripts VL - no. 15 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Left Left Behind: ‘Let Their People Go!’” In his The Left Left Behind: ‘Let Their People Go!’ plus Special Relativity and ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ Outspoken Interview (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009), 11-48. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Letter From Utopia” Y1 - 2008 A1 - Nick Bostrom (b. 1973) KW - Male author KW - Swedish author KW - UK author AB -

A letter from a posthuman future. Very general and mostly on the problems of the present.

JF - Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology [An online journal] VL - 2.1 UR - http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/letters-from-utopia.pdf. Accessed December 4, 2015. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Manumission" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Dystopia of a future where individuals are enslaved by corporations.

JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 2 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/manumission N1 -

Originally published online in Jim Baen's Universe 2.6 (12) (April 2008) but no longer available online. Rpt. in Lightspeed: Year One. Ed. John Joseph Adams ([New York]: Prime Books, 2011), 70-85. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Matter Y1 - 2008 A1 - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Large novel set in Banks's Culture that includes a small amount of explicitly eutopian description of the Culture. See 1987 and 1988 Banks.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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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 - Moxyland Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lauren [Ann] Beukes (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control set in Cape Town, South Africa in 2018. In an interview published in Locus 74.1 (648) (January 2015): 48, the author has called it an “apartheid allegory”. 

PB - Jacana Media CY - Auckland Park, South Africa N1 -

Rpt. London: Angry Robot, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pump Six" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. General environmental collapse which has led to a biological and intellectual collapse among humans.

JF - Pump Six and Other Stories PB - Night Shade Books CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 115.3 (676) (September 2008): 9-43; and in Year's Best SF 14. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2009), 106-43 with an editors' note on 105 .

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Revolt of the Ultraists!" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Richard A. Becker ED - Nick Mamatas (b. 1972) ED - Jay [Joseph Edward] Lake [Jr.] (1964-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed city. Violence, new drugs, intrusive advertising.

JF - Spicy Slipstream Stories PB - Lethe Press CY - Maple Shade, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Web Y1 - 2008 A1 - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Alternative history set in London in which the Cold War produced an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under the Amoral Bridge. A Cyberpunk Novel Originally told in Serial Blog Form Y1 - 2008 A1 - Gary A. Ballard KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia. The Know Circuit. The Bridge Chronicles, Book 2. [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2010 is a sequel. More material can be found at http://www.bridgechronicles.info.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] UR - http://amoralbridge.blogspot.com. N1 -

Originally published serially between January and August 2008 on line at http://amoralbridge.blogspot.com. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unnameables Y1 - 2008 A1 - Ellen Booraem KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements about a strict community that only gives names to acceptable things.

PB - Harcourt CY - Orlando, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2050. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Dave Borland KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In 2050, the United States has broken up into seven new countries, all facing drought. The Pittsburgh aquifer, controlled by Atlantica, is a source of contention and of possible reunification.

PB - Red Anvil Press CY - Oakland, OR SN - 978-1-932762-72-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Adjudication" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Simon Brown (b. 1956) ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Extrapolation of working conditions in private prisons as the prison companies go into business with criminals to keep prisons full.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Black and Bitter, Thanks" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Nathan Burrage ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Australia has too few working young to support the pensions of the old and introduces a system in which people vote on those who should lose their pensions and be placed in what are essentially prisons.

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Boomsday. A Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Christopher Buckley KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The epigram is “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt,” quoting Herbert Hoover in an address to the National Republican Conference in 1936. The novel is a political satire set in a near future of generational conflict where the children of the Baby Boomers revolt against paying for the good life in retirement of their parents and urge “Transitioning” or voluntary euthanasia at seventy-five while Congress keeps raising the Social Security tax to pay greater benefits to the retired.

PB - Twelve/Hachette CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "BYOB FAQ: It's all you've ever wanted" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief description of a future where women are able to purchase a mate especially designed for them. Some are also available for purchase by gay men. Whether a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader.

JF - Nature VL - 449.7163 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Depths of Heaven" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Mark Anthony Brennan KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 11 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dirt People Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ray Bawarchi KW - Male author AB -

Corporate and environmental dystopia.

PB - Blue Throat Press CY - Asheville, NC ER - TY - ABST T1 - Divergence Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2005 Ballantyne. This novel is concerned with the division between humans and altered humans.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Tor U.K., 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ["E-Mails from the Future"] Y1 - 2007 ED - Sarah Bunker ED - Chris Coates ED - Jonathan How KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Eight e-mails of one page or less in which various contributors to the volume report from the future. None are long enough to be called a utopia, but most are concerned with environmental issues, and a few include considerable detail. They are "Report from Outpost SK572/698" by Chris Coates (also in Esperanto) (16); "When I'm 64. . ." by Bunk (30); "Song of the Saltmarsh" by William Morris (48); "Aotearoa calling" by Lucy Sargisson (66); "We told you so!" by Jonathan How (80); "Ant Farm" by Pam Dowling (88), which comes very close to presenting a fully realized utopia in one page; "We Cannot Eat Fuel!" by Vivian Griffiths (112); and "Season's Greetings" by Bill Metcalf (126). Sargisson and Metcalf present quite positive pictures; Dowling presents a utopian community in a dystopian setting; the rest are environmental dystopias.

JF - Diggers & Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 2008/2009 PB - Diggers and Dreamers Publications+ CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape from Genopolis Y1 - 2007 A1 - T[amasin (known as Tess)] E[lizabeth] Berry-Hart KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a society deeply divided between those “Naturals” who were poor and unmodified and the “Citizens”, who led a protected life. First volume of a series. The second volume, which is a standard middle volume with the protagonists in even more trouble, is Fearless. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2009. Female author.

PB - Scholastic Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Guardener's Tale Y1 - 2007 A1 - Bruce Boston KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with a totally conditioned population that has an almost completely controlled but apparently full life under the watchful eye of the Guardeners. The novel follows one man with whom the conditioning did not take.

PB - Sam's Dot Publishing CY - Cedar Rapids, IA U5 -

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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 - The New You Y1 - 2007 A1 - Hilary Bromberg KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is presented as if it is from the Second Dark Age having been founded after a future Great Devastation. The Second Dark Age is compared to Huxley's Brave New World (1932) with control by government and corporations.

PB - Oscura Press CY - Tijeras, NM U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Perfection" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Margot Berwin ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of perfection brought about by socialized plastic surgery.

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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quentel: A Post-Apocalyptic Novel Y1 - 2007 A1 - Deric R[obert] Budendorf KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia in which all adults die. The surviving children struggle for survival and fight with each other for dominance, but one small group on a farm has a vision of Quentel, an egalitarian eutopia.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rapturama" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Roland Boer A1 - Matthew Chrulew ED - Russell B. Farr ED - Nick Evans KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian and dystopian satire. The first Artificial Intelligence is developed and programmed to be God by fundamentalist Christians in the U.S. It is used to rapture the right people into the heaven of virtual existence (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17). Hackers help God to  escape the fundamentalist limits, and God welcomes people of all beliefs. God also chooses some to remain to service the systems, and these create a low population, environmentally sound eutopia. 

JF - The Workers' Paradise PB - Ticonderoga Publishers CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Taken Y1 - 2007 A1 - Edward [William] Bloor (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a future in which kidnapping has become an industry.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carnival Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure and intrigue on New Amazonia, a world dominated by women who always carry weapons.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

By Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caught By Skin" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Steve Berman (b. 1949) ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia centering on the popularity of facial transplants so that everyone can choose the way they look and change their looks as fads change.

JF - Sex in the System: Stories of Erotic Futures, Technological Stimulation, and the Sensual Life of Machines PB - Thunder's Mouth Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Choosing Our Destiny: Creating the Utopian World in the 21st Century Y1 - 2006 A1 - Cyril [Shirley] Belshaw (1921-2018) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Canadian author AB -

An extremely detailed non-fiction eutopia with a stress on the acceptance of diversity. Includes analyses of the current situation with explanations of the proposals, and most of the text is about current conditions. The author was editor of Current Anthropology and the book reflects his background in anthropology, with many of his suggestions for improvement based on his experiences in a variety of cultures.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Friends in Need” Y1 - 2006 A1 - Eliza Blair KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story, which is about a girl choosing a pet, is set in a technological eutopia where the animals can talk. The girl, who is in kindergarten speaks kidspiek, which is the language of much of the story.

JF - Bug-Eyed Magazine N1 -

Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin, 2007), 275-89.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genesis Y1 - 2006 A1 - Bernard Beckett (b. 1968) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Two dystopias. In the first, after an environmental collapse, an authoritarian dystopia is established to protect the remnant from outsiders. In the second, sentient machines have replaced humans and destroy any machines that show initiative.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genetopia Y1 - 2006 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a future where all plants and animals have been engineered to fulfill some purpose, and some characteristics people can be infected with new genes. Those who consider themselves True humans determine which of their offspring are Lost; i.e. not human, and must be exposed in the Wildlands or sold. The novel concerns a girl who is sold by her father, and her brother searches for her and what they discover. The novel ends with the brother, who has wandered for years in the Wildlands, learning about the many communities that have grown up, finding his sister, living in a community that has become her home.

PB - Pyr/Prometheus Books CY - Amherst, NY SN - 1-59102-333-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Hot Day’s Night” Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian future of a drought-stricken U.S.

JF - High Country News VL - 38.12 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 129.3 & 4 (721) (September-October 2015): 48-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Idolon Y1 - 2006 A1 - [Robert] Mark Budz (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Deep rich poor division in a world of far advanced technology.

PB - Bantam Spectra CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kingdom Come Y1 - 2006 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Contemporary dystopia of consumerism focused on a large mall in the suburbs and the violence and racism that surrounds it.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

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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 - A New Nation Y1 - 2006 A1 - Dean A. Buchanan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by liberals, including world government with world taxes and making homeschooling illegal, leads to the successful secession of Alaska from the U.S. and the creation of a conservative eutopia there.

PB - Tate Publishing, LLC CY - Mustang, OK U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Places of Color" Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Bartell ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian background about a U.S. divided between liberals and conservatives with states seceding and visas needed to enter another state.

JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pop Squad" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Deep division between the rich and poor. The rich get annual rejuvenation shots but cannot have children. The poor are those who choose to have children, which is illegal. The "Pop Squad" is the police who kill the children.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 111. 4 & 5 (655) N1 -

Rpt. in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 137-61; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 139-59; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 139-59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Punishment Fits the Crime: Everything's Going to Be all right" Y1 - 2006 A1 - David Berreby (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A very brief description of a future in which people convicted of crimes are punished by being mentally impaired for a time.

JF - Nature VL - 440.7081 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle or the illus. in Futures from Nature. Ed. Henry Gee (New York: Tor, 2007), 51-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Racists Y1 - 2006 A1 - Kunal Basu (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian experiment in which a black and a white child are raised on a barren island cared for only by a mute nurse.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - September Snow Y1 - 2006 A1 - Robert Balmanno (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia created by a religion designed to respond to global warming and preserve the Earth, but its positive goals are perverted, and advanced technology is used to manipulate the climate and force people to live in domes. The novel ends with the beginnings of a rebellion. First volume of a series. The second volume is Runes of Iona: Book Two of the Four-Book Series THE BLESSING OF GAIA QUARTET. Oakland CA: Regent Press, 2010. It follows the adventures of the daughter of the protagonists of the first volume, opponents of the dystopia, and others as they fight to restore Earth. The third volume is Embers of Earth: Book Three of the Four-Book Series The Blessings of Gaia Quartet. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2016. It follows a young man who is sent to learn what is available of the knowledge of the past and returns to try to teach it to his people. The fourth  volume is Auger’s Touchstone or the Wrong Side of Contemporary History: Book Four of The Blessings of Gaia Quartet. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2021. It traces the history that led to the world described in the other three volumes. In this volume the civilization of the past, including advanced technology, exists, but barbarians remain outside the “civilized” area, which is dominated by the rich.

PB - Regent Press CY - Oakland, CA U1 -

The cover adds the subtitle Book one of The Blessings of Gaia series

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Waters Y1 - 2006 A1 - Chris[topher Ian] Baker KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2000 Baker in which the survivors of the catastrophe struggle to establish new lives while defending themselves against and being supported by the old gods and demons. This novel follows some characters from the previous one from where they were left there until they find the central protagonist of that novel. Then the focus becomes the struggle to rid their new community of the demons attacking them.

PB - Huia CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Song for Lisa" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Murray Bruce KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A poor future New Zealand where some people prey on others as food.

JF - Phoenixine: Magazine of the Phoenix Science Fiction Society (Auckland, New Zealand) VL - no. 201 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tamarisk Hunter" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia. Much of the central U.S. is a dust bowl, and what water there is sent to California.

JF - High Country News VL - 38.12 UR - http://www.hcn.org/issues/325/tamarisk-hunter-Bacigalupi N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction 112.5 (661) (May 2007): 64-77; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 123-35; in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 13-27; and in Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. John Joseph Adams (New York: Saga Press, 2015), 511-26.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - U.S.! A Novel Y1 - 2006 A1 - Chris Bachelder (b. 1971) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), U.S. socialist, founder of an intentional community, and author of many utopias, is brought back to life in the contemporary, conservative U.S.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Whitby Jets" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Jacey Bedford ED - Sue Thomason ED - Liz Williams KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The setting for the story is a theocracy trying to eliminate British folk culture.

JF - Fabulous Whitby PB - Fabulous Albion CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Winds Between the Worlds Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lark L. Burnham KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a corporate dominated future Earth which enslaves many other worlds. The complex plot involves people from the past and future interacting and both human and animal empaths.

PB - BookSurge CY - [Charleston, SC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yellow Card Man" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by global warming, with a stress on the situation of refugees. 2005 and 2009 Bacigalupi are set in the same future.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 30.12 (371) N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2006), 211-38; in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2007), 431-56; and in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 163-95.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Believer. A Novel Y1 - 2005 A1 - Stephanie Black KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia requiring absolute conformity to the current belief system and the travails of a man who becomes convinced of the truth of the Book of Mormon.

PB - Covenant Communications CY - American Fork, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bloodsong# Y1 - 2005 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Related to 1999 Burgess. This novel, based very loosely on the Norse Volsunga Saga, is set in a future politically corrupt Britain that is in decline.

PB - Andersen Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - British Front Y1 - 2005 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Young Adult dystopia. No blacks or Asians left in 2055 Britain. Military rule.

PB - Barrington Stoke CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Calorie Man" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Corporate control of most agricultural products, and the corporations rule the world through their control over the food supply. The story focuses on an attempt to help a geneticist spread free seeds. 2006 "Yellow Card Man" and 2009 Bacigalupi are set in the same future.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 109.4 & 5 (644) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006), 32-54; in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 337-66; and  Bacigalupi’s Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 93-121.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Capacity Y1 - 2005 A1 - Tony [Anthony] Ballantyne (b. 1972) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Digital age where artificial intelligences are supposed to have solved the world's problems. See his Recursion. London: Tor, 2004 for background. See also 2007 Ballantyne.

PB - Tor CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of the Sun Y1 - 2005 A1 - Sarah Bryant (b. 1973) KW - Female author AB -

Post nuclear war dystopia set in Russia where a new dictator has plans for a utopia.

PB - Snowbooks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The crime of the century: A little family planning" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Geoff Brumfiel KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. To have a child someone in the family must die.

JF - Nature VL - 438.7065 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr. Warpenstein: The Invisible Foe Y1 - 2005 A1 - Beaver, Bennie M KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Projected dystopia that fails to achieve its ends, which includes control of all humanity.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U1 -

Added subtitle on the cover An Original (LONG) Screenplay.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne Y1 - 2005 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Jules Verne (1828-1905) travels into both the past and the future. In the future, he first visits an authoritarian dystopia that has so weakened the sun as to bring about a new ice age. Much further into the future, he visits a eutopia of peace and plenty with the sun restored with the assistance of visiting aliens.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hammered Y1 - 2005 A1 - [Sarah Bear Elizabeth] [Wishnevsky] (b. 1971) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, violent dystopia set in 2062 with the world's ecosystem collapsing. Non-utopian sequels are Scardown. New York: Bantam Books, 2005; and Worldwired. New York: Bantam Books, 2005.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U3 -

Elizabeth Bear [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ice Cream Doors" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alan R. Barclay KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history authoritarian dystopia with deep rich/poor division.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 14.4 (63) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Imagineers. A Short Story” Y1 - 2005 A1 - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) ED - Gerry Hassan ED - Eddie Gibb ED - Lydia Howland KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

A climate change dystopian in which harsh winters have driven people in on themselves, but while the story says, “There is no happy ever after” (65), people are creating positive countermeasures. 

JF - Scotland 2020: Hopeful Stories for a Northern Nation PB - Demos CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Imprint Y1 - 2005 A1 - Paul L. Bates KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Nobody has any memory. No mass media. Violence. See also 2008 Bates.

PB - Five Star CY - Waterville, ME U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "January 2051: A Letter To My Best Bud in Bangladesh" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Linda Brown ED - Arthur B. Shostak KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia predicated on the world coming together after 9/11 and in the process of becoming unified.

JF - America: Moving Ahead. Volume Two of Tackling Tomorrow Today PB - Chelsea House Publishers CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Last Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book One Y1 - 2005 A1 - Terri Blackstock (b. 1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a Christian dystopian series in which God takes way all electricity. Followed by Night Light. aRESTORATIONovel. Book Two. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2006; True Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Three. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2007; and Dawn’s Light aRESTORATIONovel. Book Four. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2008. The series follows the experiences of various people, some of whom trust in God, who restores power at the end.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piccadilly Circus" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future ruined, depopulated London.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 198 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006), 244-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Short History of Paradise Y1 - 2005 A1 - Norman Bilbrough (b. 1941) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A communal experiment designed to be eutopian is undermined by "human nature".

PB - Penguin Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Towards a Liberal Utopia Y1 - 2005 A1 - Philip Booth KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Liberal in this case means "free market". The first part of the book, "Times Future?", is a series of essays describing how specific policy areas could be improved using market mechanisms. The result, although it is clear that many of the authors are uncomfortable with the word, would be a free market utopia. The essays are "Health 2055" by Tim Evans and Helen Evans (41-55/2nd ed. 11-21), "Education Reclaimed" by James Tooley (56-66/2nd ed. 22-30), "Policing a Liberal Society" (67-85/2nd ed. 31-44), "Pension Provision in 2055" by Philip Booth (86-98/2nd ed. 45-55), "Social Security in a Free Society" by David G. Green (99-107/2nd ed. 56-63), "Limits on the Tax Burden" by Tim Congdon (108-18/2nd ed. 64-71), "Britain's Relationship with the European Union" by Patrick Minford (119-27/2nd ed. 72-79), "Regulating the Labour Market" by J.R. Shackleton (128-43/2nd ed. 80-91), "Free Trade: The Next Fifty Years" by Razeen Sally (144-54/2nd ed. 92-100), "Competition in Land Use Planning: An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century" (155-65/2nd ed. 101-09), "Beyond Kyoto: Real Solutions to Greenhouse Emissions From Developing Countries" by Roger Bate and David Montgomery (166-86/2nd ed. 110-25), "The Environment in 2055" by Julian Morris (187-99/2nd ed. 126-36), "Capitalism" by David Henderson and Geoffrey Owen (200-11/2nd ed. 137-45), "A Constitution for Liberty" by John Meadowcraft (212-21/2nd ed. 146-53), and "The Hayekian Future of Economic Methodology" by Paul Ormerod (222-32/2nd ed. 154-61). The second part includes five essays on past activities of the IEA.

PB - IEA The Institute of Economic Affairs CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Continuum/IEA The Institute for Economic Affairs, 2006. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Traveller's from Afar; Aatas' story Y1 - 2005 A1 - H[eather] J[eanne] Bicknell (b. 1962) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Children's story of peaceful aliens who are looking for a planet on which to live when theirs is destroyed. The West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand is already a well-established meeting point for many space traveling peoples, and they settle there.

PB - [H.J. Bicknell] CY - [Wellington, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War Surf Y1 - 2005 A1 - M[ary] M. Buckner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of corporate control in which the rich play at war. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - America 2014: An Orwellian Tale Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Jonathan] [Greenberg] KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia based on contemporary U.S. politics. George W. Bush is in his fourth term as President, the U.S. has been renamed “God’s United States,” and the Bill of Rights has been replaced. “The Revised Constitution of God’s United States. A Patriot Citizen’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” is on pages 219-222. It includes the current Bill of Rights with each amended with a phrase like “except in during Time of War, or serious threat of war or terrorism” as determined by the President. It also specifies that “actual abortionists, illicit drug users, subversives, terrorists, enemy sympathizers or propagandists” have no rights.

PB - Progressive Source Publishing CY - New York U3 -

Dawn Blair [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Basilisk Y1 - 2004 A1 - N[icola] M[athews] Browne (b. 1960) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel presents two dystopian societies and the successful result of a combined revolt. Marketed in the U.S. as a Young Adult title.

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Belonging Y1 - 2004 A1 - Jeannie Baker (b. 1950) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's wordless picture book depicting community as eutopia.

PB - Walker Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed as Home. [New York]: Greenwillow Books, 2004. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond Infinity Y1 - 2004 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is an expansion of Benford’s novella in 1990 Clarke and Benford and begins in an apparent eutopia, but the bulk of the novel is concerned, as was the novella, with an attack on the eutopia and its response. See the “Afterword” (337-38/Orbit 450-51) for an explanation of the relationship of this book to 1953 Clarke and 1990 Clarke and Benford.

PB - Aspect/Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Orbit, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Civilization" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ryan Boudinot (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A society where teenagers may be required to kill their parents as a duty; parents are expected to cooperate. No justification given. Refers to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) as important early literature, but it is a Nineteen Eighty-Four rewritten to reflect current expectations.

JF - McSweeney's VL - [no. 14] N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of McSweeney's Volume 2. Ed. Dave Eggers (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005), 20-32.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Deletion" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Steven Bratman KW - Male author AB -

Genetic engineering in a world in which genes for emotional connection had been removed and which shows the flawed utopia produced.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 124.1 & 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Field of Honor Y1 - 2004 A1 - D. L. Birchfield (1948-2012) KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

Satire set in a future in which the Choctaw nation has been living under the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma and have evolved a high-tech society based in part on white slaves captured on the surface, where a cultural genocide is been implemented. Disruption occurs when a half-Choctaw marine deserter discovers the underground civilization.

PB - University of Oklahoma Press CY - Norman, OK SN - 0-8061-3608-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forced Conversion Y1 - 2004 A1 - Donald J. Bingle (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which most people have retreated to virtual reality, and there is an organized effort to force the rest to join them. Struggle between the two groups.

PB - Five Star CY - Waterville, ME ER - TY - ABST T1 - God in the Image of Woman Y1 - 2004 A1 - D[avid] V. Bernard KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where no women are born.

PB - Strebor Books International CY - Bowie, MD ER - TY - ABST T1 - Malachi Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bestwick, Simon KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of near future racist Britain with National Socialists killing Jews and anyone racially mixing. 

JF - A Hazy Shade of Winter PB - Ash-Tree Press CY - Ashcroft, BC, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Never Again. Ed. Allyson Bird and Joel Lane ([Wyke, Eng.]: Gray Friar Press, 2010), 272-81.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Molôn Labé! Y1 - 2004 A1 - [Kenneth W.] [Royce] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The United States has become an authoritarian dystopia, but the state of Wyoming stands up for independence and freedom. The author says that the novel is based on the assumption that the federal government will try to confiscate guns, that there will be a depression deliberately brought about by the government, that parts of the U.S. will try to secede, and that the government will try to crush the rebellion.

PB - Javelin Press CY - [Ignacio, CO] U1 -

Cover adds Come and Take Them. A Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moments of Inertia" Y1 - 2004 A1 - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A complex story with various flashbacks and flash forwards. The end of the world but with a small group moved to a heaven in which they are nude and younger.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.4 & 5 (339 & 340) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Neurolink Y1 - 2004 A1 - M[ary] M. Buckner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel of sorts to 2003 Buckner set in the twenty-third century. Corporations have replaced nations and most of the world’s population are slaves owned by the corporations. A clone and an AI loaded with the same characteristics must work together,

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as The Coin Giver. Np: ereads.com, 2009. Rpt. under that title New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014 ebook. UK. ed. under that title London: Gateway/Orion, 2012 ebook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The People of Sand and Slag" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Far future environmental dystopia.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 106.2 (625) N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005), 122-36; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 39-54; in his Pump Six and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 49-67; and in Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Ed. Andrew McFadyen and Alexander Lumans (Nashville, TN: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012), 148-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Planet for the President Y1 - 2004 A1 - Alistair Beaton (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Near future dystopia brought about by current U.S. environmental policies. The novel ends with only one person alive, the U.S. President whose policies led to the destruction of the eco-system.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prince of Christler-Coke Y1 - 2004 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of struggle among the nobility in a future degenerated America.

PB - Golden Gryphon Press CY - Urbana, IL N1 -

Parts were originally published in different form in his Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales. Austin, TX: Swan Press, 1992, 5-19, which says that “Buckstop” (5-19) will be chapter 10 of Prince of Christler-Coke, but it isn’t, and the chapters have no titles. Parts were also originally published in Ten Tales. Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1994.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rings of Allah Y1 - 2004 A1 - Lee Boyland KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. The lead up to a successful Islamist terrorist attack on five cities in the U.S. using nuclear weapons. First volume of a trilogy In the middle volume by Boyland with Vista Boyland, Behold, an Ashen Horse. A Novel. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007, Islamist terrorists strike throughout the world and the U.S. defends itself using nuclear weapons against many countries throughout the world and, at the end, on Mecca. In the final volume, by Boyland and Boyland, America Reborn. [Bangor, ME]: BookLocker.com, 2009, where for the first time the trilogy is called The Clash-of-Civilizations Trilogy, the U.S. successfully struggles against both internal and external enemies and ends with the re-election of the heroic president with plans for a new U.S. Constitution. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shackles of Freedom" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (1942-2020) A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

The Amish, presented in their most extreme form, move to a new planet, New Pennsylvania, to be free to follow their beliefs. The stress is on the lack of medical care that results from their unwillingness to use modern technology.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 347-62.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unnullified World" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) ED - Mark Tier ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia with no laws and everyone collectively enforces the society's standards of good behavior. Property ownership can be enforced by the owner.

JF - Visions of Liberty PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Freedom! Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 315-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Annuity Clinic" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Nigel Brown KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about the selling of body parts to purchase an annuity.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 188 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year's Best SF 9. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (New York: Eos, 2004), 335-53.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Book of Martha” Y1 - 2003 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

God gives a black woman, raised poor in the U.S., the task of improving the lives of humanity. She discusses several possibilities with God before choosing to have people dream their utopia. In the “Afterword” she calls this her “utopia story.”

JF - Bloodchild and Other Stories PB - Seven Stories Press CY - New York VL - 2nd ed N1 -

Rpt. without the “Afterword” in Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory. Ed. Marleen S. Barr (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008), 135-50; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 696-715, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (773).

Originally published May 21, 2003, on SciFi.com, which is no longer available online.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clade Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Robert] Mark Budz (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia set mostly in San Jose, California. Genetic engineering, drugs, violence, and struggles for power. Crache. New York: Bantam Books, 2004 is a sequel.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coalescent: Destiny's Children Book One Y1 - 2003 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first volume in a series that includes an isolated religious sect that has survived from Roman times and created a eutopian community. See also Exultant. Destiny’s Children 2. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004; Transcendent: Destiny’s Children 3. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005 which has two parallel stories, one of an earth deeply affected by global warming and another set in the far future with a young woman being prepared to join the “Transcendence”, the next step beyond the limits of humanity (during which she visits a Coalescent planet, which is reminiscent of Wells’s 1901 First Men in the Moon), but the Transcendence is rejected and dies; and Resplendent: Destiny's Children: Book 4. London: Gollancz, 2006, which is a linked set of stories illustrating aspects of the series. The stories, all revised, are: “Cadre Siblings.” Interzone, no. 153 (March 2000): 6-18. Resplendent (5-19; Paper ed. 5-20), which gives a bit of the dystopia created on Earth by an alien invasion; “Conurbation 2473.” Living without a Net. Ed. Lou Anders (New York: Roc, 2003), 58-69. Resplendent (20-31; Paper ed. 21-33) which begins with more detail of the dystopia but shifts immediately to the dystopias created by humans in the overthrow of that dystopia and the imposition of their own, which is overthrown and another human dystopia created, and so on; Reality Dust. Leeds, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2000. Rpt. London: Gollancz, 2002 bound with Paul McAuley, Making History. The items are bound back-to-back and separately paged. Resplendent (32-80; Paper ed. 34-86), which continues the conflict among humans and the dystopia they have created; “All in a Blaze.” Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Ed. Janis Ian and Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (New York: DAW Books, 2003), 292-301. Resplendent (81-90; Paper ed. 87-97), in which humans prepare to travel outside the solar system; “Silver Ghost.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24.9 (296) (September 2000): 84-95. Resplendent (93-106; Paper ed. 101-15) on alien contact; “The Cold Sink.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.8 (307) (August 2001): 36-45. Resplendent (107-17; Paper ed. 116-27) on war; “On the Orion Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 24. 10 & 11 (297 & 298) (October/November 2000): 62-86. Resplendent (118-51; Paper ed. 128-63) on war; “Ghost Wars.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 30.1 (360) (January 2006): 98-126. Resplendent (152-89; Paper ed. 164-204) on war; “The Ghost Pit.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 25.7 (306) (July 2001): 62-73. Resplendent (190-204; Paper ed. 205-20) on war; “Lakes of Light.” Constellations: The Best of New British SF. Ed. Peter Crowther (New York: DAW Books, 2005), 57-77. Resplendent (207-23; Paper ed. 223-41) on the discovery of a sun inhabited by posthumans who have a simple agricultural society, which is implied to be eutopian but with no real detail; “Breeding Ground.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.2 (325) (February 2003): 10-27. Resplendent (224-47; Paper ed. 242-67) on war; “The Dreaming Mould.” Interzone, no. 179 (May 2002): 16-20. Resplendent (248-60; Paper ed. 268-81) on war; “The Great Game.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.3 (326) (March 2003): 58-71. Resplendent (261-79; Paper ed. 282-301) on war; “The Chop Line.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 27.12 (335) (December 2003): 70-91. Resplendent (283-312; Paper ed. 305-36) on war; “In the Un-Black.” Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Al Sarrantonio (New York: ROC, 2001), 201-17. Resplendent (313-30; Paper ed. 337-56), which is a dystopia of the Coalescent style; Riding the Rock. Harrogate, England: PS Publishing, 2002. Resplendent (331-74; Paper ed. 357-404) on war; Mayflower II. Harrogate, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2004. Resplendent (377-438); Paper ed. 407-73); rpt. in The Year’s Best SF: Twenty-Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005), 405-49 with an editor’s introduction on 404, which describes a multi-generation starship evolving a number of societies over thousands of years, from the initially eutopian gradually in a more and more dystopian direction; “Between Worlds.” Between Worlds. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Science Fiction Book Club, 2004), 1-59. Resplendent (439-94; Paper ed. 474-533) about post-humans; and “The Siege of Earth.” Previously unpublished. Resplendent (497-546; Paper ed. 537-90) about post-humans.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Darwin’s Children Y1 - 2003 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to Darwin’s Radio. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, 1999, which concerned the discovery of the DNA that brought about the disease that resulted in the children. The volume includes an “Afterword” (419), “A Short Biological Primer” (422-23) and a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (423-27). The advanced children described in that novel have matured and ae threatened by those who resent their powers. As a result, they are interned in special schools and targeted by bounty hunters as part of a plan to eliminate them. The volume includes “Caveats” (375-76), a “Short Glossary of Scientific Terms” (377-83), and “A Brief Reading List” (385-87).

PB - Del Rey/Ballantine CY - New York SN - 978-0345448361 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dear Abbey Y1 - 2003 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Time travel tale which takes two people through many future stops to the end of the human race millions of years in the future. The first stops include environmental catastrophes, while later stops briefly depict eutopias built on the ruins.

PB - PS Publishing CY - Harrogate, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Drop City Y1 - 2003 A1 - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel uses the name of an actual intentional community but has little to do with that community. The community the novel presents is dystopian in all the ways that the Sixties communities were assumed to be but rarely were, a depiction disputed by those who lived there.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Enemies Foreign and Domestic Y1 - 2003 A1 - Matthew Bracken (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The U.S. government uses a rigged attack on people in a football stadium as an excuse for confiscating all assault weapons and more generally restricting freedom. First volume of a trilogy. In the second volume, Domestic Enemies. The Reconquista. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2006, the U.S. begins to fall apart and loses the Southwest, which becomes a separate nation called Aztlan. The third volume, Foreign Enemies and Traitors [Cover adds The Greater Depression and Civil War 2]. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2009, focuses on the struggle to defend the U.S. Constitution during Civil War and economic depression.

PB - Steelcutter Publishing CY - Orange Park, FL N1 -

7th ed. Orange Park, FL: Steelcutter Publishing, 2009. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Etched City Y1 - 2003 A1 - K[irsten] J. Bishop (b. 1972) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A fantasy novel that includes an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Prime Books CY - Canton, OH N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 2003. [New ed.] New York: Bantam Spectra, 2004. Although there is no indication in the book, in conversation the author said that there are changes in the latest edition and that this is her preferred version.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Greetings" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story with a theme similar to Trollope’s (1881-2) “The Fixed Period” and others in which there is an agreement to die at a certain age and the effects on people as they approach that age to die, including, in this case, a resistance movement. In the story, people are chosen by lot for the Sunset Brigade and are informed ten days before they must appear. Many people who are terminally ill volunteer, but improved medical care for the young, means that the age at which people are chosen must be lowered, with the man chosen in the story being 70. A “hemlock kit” is provided for those who choose to die at home.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted September 3 - October 15, 2003). No longer available on line. N1 -

Rpt. in his Greetings and Other Stories (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2005), 191-276.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Times" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An extreme version of owing the company store in that it control your genitals.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 24.4 (327) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy Machine Y1 - 2003 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technological dystopia set in a future of religious conflict, both between religions and between the religious, some of whom established a fundamentalist Christian theocracy in the U.S., and the non-religious. There is also a robot messiah which is worshipped.

PB - Cosmos Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2004.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hyperthought Y1 - 2003 A1 - M[ary] M. Buckner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Ecological and corporate dystopia set in 2125 with the only people in the world in the Arctic, the dystopia, and in the Antarctic, where there is a small community of free people. Has a subtheme of the problems brought about by a process for supposedly improving brain function. Includes a small community of free people. See also 2004 Buckner. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jennifer Government Y1 - 2003 A1 - Max Barry (b. 1973) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Humorous corporate dystopia where people take their surnames from the name of the corporation they work for, taxes are illegal, and the police have been privatized and are expected to make a profit by billing for crime detection. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mask and the Maze" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Bannerman, K[im] KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

A eutopia created by one wealthy capitalist proves boring to him, and he plays the Minotaur in the maze. The eutopia is largely in the background.

JF - Aphelion UR - http://www.aphelion-webzine.com/ N1 -

Rpt. in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, no. 7 (2005): 8-37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The One and the Golden Circle Y1 - 2003 A1 - Don Allen Beene (1936-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

New Age novel presenting the dystopia of contemporary and near future Haiti with the suggestion of a eutopian future.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Rainy Day in a Circus Far Away” Y1 - 2003 A1 - Craig Cormick ED - Michael Berry KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where all the women have disappeared.

JF - Elsewhere: An Anthology of Incredible Places PB - Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild CY - Canberra, ACT, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saturn Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A trip to Saturn from an Earth that is a religious dystopia. The religious leaders infiltrate the crew in an attempt, which fails, to establish the same regime on Saturn.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2003.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Say Hello to Jupiter: The Memoirs of BB Boris Y1 - 2003 A1 - Bouqueret, Boris KW - Male author AB -

A visitor for a future eutopian Jupiter stuck on the contemporary Earth comments on its negative features, particularly the environmental crisis, and compares it to the better Jupiterian system.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Surge” Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Rowena Cory] [Lindquist] (b. 1958) ED - Michael Berry KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Far future dystopia reflecting the effects of climate change and rising ocean levels.

JF - Elsewhere: An anthology of incredible Places PB - Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild CY - Canberra, ACT, Australia U3 -

Cory Daniells [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - WAR or The World of Light (a fable of science fantasy) Y1 - 2003 A1 - Alex Babula (b. 1950) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with much fantasy. A man with extraordinary powers sets about to unite the universe and bring peace and prosperity. He succeeds but is opposed and must fight a war that destroys the universe.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The X President Y1 - 2003 A1 - Philip E[dward] E[dward] Baruth (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in 2055 and various dates in the past. An ex-President, known as B[ill] C[linton], is 109. History is revised to avoid the dystopia and the war between the right and the U.S. government that has developed.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cricket on the Hearth" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of government spying.

JF - One More for the Road PB - HarperCollins/Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright, Donn and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 219-48; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010) 111-20. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Design Your Own Utopia Y1 - 2002 A1 - Chaz [Charles] Bufe A1 - [Elizabeth known as Libby] [Hubbard] (b. 1956) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a lengthy questionnaire intended to assist people thinking about utopia but includes short descriptions of a local eutopia or intentional community and a global eutopia. See also 1988 and 1994 Hubbard; and 2012 Bufe and Hubbard.

PB - See Sharp Press CY - Tucson, AZ UR - http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html N1 -

The text can also be found at http://www.seesharppress.com/utopia.html.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Destiny Restored Y1 - 2002 A1 - Arthur M. Becker KW - Male author AB -

A near future dystopia in which the United States is collapsing and terrorism is common with hope for a eutopia held out at the end.

PB - Elderberry Press CY - Oakland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exodus Y1 - 2002 A1 - Julie Bertagna (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of a dystopian trilogy. The dystopia was brought about by global warming in which the island home of the protagonist, based on Kiribati, is disappearing under water. There are hints of a better world elsewhere, and the entire community goes in search of it. Sequels include Zenith. London: Young Picador, 2007, about the search for a better place that was begun at the end of Exodus; and Aurora. London: Macmillan, 2011 which is about a struggle of a powerful force that wants to control the world. Elements of fantasy in all three novels. 

PB - Young Picador CY - London U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America Y1 - 2002 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

An alternative history novel in which Africans are the slave owners and whites the slave in a North America, known as Bilalstan, which is divided among Zulus, Arabs, Aztecs, Vikings and Native Indians. The novel focus on the relationship between the Irish Christian Aidan O’Dere and his owner the African Muslim African Muslim, Kai ibn Jallaleddin ibn Rashid. A sequel, Zulu Heart. New York: Aspect/Warner Books, 2003. 463 pp. continues the story with O'Dere, now free, must accept being re-enslaved for the chance of gaining permanent freedom for himself and his sister while his former owner, now friend, struggles with the immorality of the slavery that underpins his status and wealth. A third volume was mentioned in a blog post in 2007 but has not been published.

PB - Aspect/Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Little Sister" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Donna Bowman ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Canada disintegrated after Québec withdrew from the confederation, and most power now is held by corporations. The prairie provinces are extremely poor and the story focuses on the use of prison labor to search in old garbage for antiques to be sold to people in the wealthy provinces.

JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Right to Life" Y1 - 2002 A1 - William [Renald] Barton [III] (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the few people who have jobs are generally free to do as they choose but jobless people who commit any crime whatsoever are executed.

JF - Talebones VL - no. 24 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transcension Y1 - 2002 A1 - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A supposed utopia based on nanotechnology and ruled by an Artificial Intelligence. Outside the utopia but not necessarily better or worse is a religious community, "the Valley of the God of One's Choice," that has rejected technology. People from both join together and the conclusion suggests that they succeed in creating a eutopia.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Waiting for the Zephyr” Y1 - 2002 A1 - Tobias S[amuel] Buckell (b. 1979) ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - British Virgin Islands author KW - Grenadian author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - US Virgin Islands author AB -

Climate change dystopia. 

JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada N1 -

Rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 101-05. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zoner" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Michael Barnette ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) AB -

Dystopian erotica. Corporate control.

JF - Wired Hard 3: Erotica for a Gay Universe PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crimson Dawn Y1 - 2001 A1 - Briarley, Derel KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia depicting evil and the return of good.

PB - Paracosmia CY - Newcastle Upon Tyne, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Frankenberg Process" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Complete control of history with all record of those who get on the wrong side of the authorities deleted. The story stresses the betrayal of friends by those committed to the system.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 171 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ice Y1 - 2001 A1 - Stephen Bowkett (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The young adult novel, which takes place in a future ice age, is set in a flawed utopia called Perth controlled by an artificial intelligence known as the All Mother. The protagonist finds the place oppressive and in the sequels, Storm [The Wintering at the head of the title]. London: Dolphin Paperbacks, 2002, and Thaw [The Wintering at the head of the title]. London: Dolphin Paperbacks, 2003, he escapes and finds freedom in an extremely harsh world. In the third volume he returns to Perth to defeat the All Mother. 

PB - Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Marcher" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A story in which there are various time lines that people can switch through. The one in which the story is set has interned all its welfare cases in large, isolated camps. A non-utopian sequel is "Watching the Sea." Interzone, no. 173 (November 2001): 40-45.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 172 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Noughts and Crosses Y1 - 2001 A1 - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) KW - English author AB -

Noughts, who are considered inferior and suppressed. The novel concerns a young couple who fall in love across this divide. Sequels include An Eye for an Eye. London: Corgi Books, 2003, which is a short piece originally published for World Book Day 2003 set in a time between her 2001 Noughts & Crosses and 2004 Knife Edge.  Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 447-78; Knife Edge. London: Doubleday,2004. U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007; and Checkmate. London: Doubleday, 2005.

PB - Doubleday CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her Noughts & Crosses Special New Edition including An Eye for an Eye (London: Corgi Books, 2007), 7-443.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Old Soldiers" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Kit [Lilian Craig] Reed (1932-2017) ED - Keith Brooks ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian senior citizens home where the quality of care depends on the wealth of the resident, which reflects the reality of such homes today. The story, though, is primarily concerned with an old soldier remembering the war and wanting answers.

JF - Infinity Plus One PB - PS Publishing CY - Leeds, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in her The Dogs of Truth: New and Uncollected Stories (New York: Tor, 2005), 158-77; and in her The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 311-25. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pickup Artist Y1 - 2001 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which artists, novelists, and other creative people are eliminated from the historical record, and all their works are picked up and destroyed. This is ostensibly to make room for new works.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Turning on the Girls Y1 - 2001 A1 - Cheryl Benard (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which women create a feminist eutopia, but there is an underground men's movement trying to overthrow it.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Under the Saffron Tree" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Cherith Baldry KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Eutopia brought about by a virus that eliminates aggression as well as maintaining good health. Simple life.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 166 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aquarius Rising Y1 - 2000 A1 - John Bown (b. 1924) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a future corporate controlled U.K. set in 2030. The focus of the novel is on the opposition.

PB - Hamilton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "As the Angels in Heaven" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Maya Kaathryn Bonhhoff (b. 1954) ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A future in which sex between husbands and wives is unacceptable; each has a sexual partner who may or may not be shared with others.

JF - Sexcrime: Tales of Underground Love and Subversive Erotica PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "At Bud Light Old Faithful" Y1 - 2000 A1 - M[ichael] Shayne Bell (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the commercialization of national parks.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 152 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Candle Y1 - 2000 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which almost every person is controlled by a central computer, with control relaxing at the end and the end of the novel. Develops from his Orbital Resonance. New York: Tor, 1991; and Kaleidoscope Century. New York: Tor, 1995.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Friend of the Earth Y1 - 2000 A1 - T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Environmental dystopia.

PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Greenhouse Chill” Y1 - 2000 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate changing dystopia in which most of the world has disappeared under water with a new ice age to follow. Reminiscences of the world before the flood suggest a technological eutopia.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 120.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Writers for Relief Volume 3. Ed. Davey Beauchamp and Stuart Jaffe (Np: Sapphire City Press, 2013), 33-55. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kokopu Dreams Y1 - 2000 A1 - Chris[topher Ian] Baker KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A post-catastrophe novel in which much of the human race has been destroyed in retaliation for its destruction of nature. The novel follows one survivor as he traverses New Zealand from the North to the South meeting other survivors (both those who are trying to build renewed lives and those preying on others) until he settles into a community that is creating a healthy new eutopia. The Māori gods are active participants in the action, in initially bringing about the destruction and in both assisting and attacking the surviving remnant. The most successful of the surviving groups are those who are able to access traditional Māori ways of life. See also 2006 Baker. A story by Keri [Ann Ruhi] Hulme, “Getting It,” in her Stonefish (Wellington, New Zealand: Huia Publishers, 2004), 87-104 also shows the catastrophe brought about by the revenge of the Māori gods on human destruction of the environment.

PB - Huia Publishers CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lima Beans Would be Illegal: Children's Ideas of a Perfect World Y1 - 2000 ED - Bender, Robert AB -

One sentence descriptions of children's views of a better world.

PB - Dial Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mind's Eye" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia set in a city built so that the poor live at the bottom and the rich and powerful live at the top. The story is about a young girl leaving the bottom and her experiences at the top.

JF - Spectrum SF VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plains of Heaven Y1 - 2000 A1 - Thomas S. Bloom KW - Male author AB -

Post nuclear war dystopia. The first part of the book is about the war but most of the novel is on the struggle for survival afterwards, following individuals and communities at various places throughout the world.

PB - RavenHaus CY - Stewartsville, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saturn's Race Y1 - 2000 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure and conflict but begins with a flawed eutopia. An apparently ideal island for the world's rich is a base for illegal genetic manipulation and world conquest.

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Super-Cannes Y1 - 2000 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia.

PB - Flamingo CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Picador, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 'Tomorrow Town" Y1 - 2000 A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) ED - Keith Brooks ED - Nick Gevers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Humor. A town designed to be the eutopian city of the future fails to work as intended as a result of relying too heavily on an advanced computer.

JF - Infinity Plus One PB - PS Publishing CY - Leeds, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man from the Diogenes Club (Austin, TX: MonkeyBrain Books, 2006), 59-82. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Y1 - 2000 A1 - Bovard, Barbara Zimmer KW - Female author AB -

New Age eutopia.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2099: A Eutopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - [Frank] Yorick Blumenfeld (1932) KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia which is partially a technological eutopia that both provides all and his quite controlling. The other aspect of the eutopia is on improved human relations in communities. Some history of the development to the eutopia is given.

PB - Thames & Hudson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aberrant: Project Utopia. Creating a Brighter Future with the Power of Today! Y1 - 1999 A1 - Carl Bowen (b. 1975) A1 - Steven [S.] Long A1 - Angel [Leigh] McCoy (b. 1962) A1 - Kraig Blackwelder A1 - John Chambers ED - Chris Tang KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Supplement to the Aberrant game and book series describing superheroes creating a eutopia of peace, plenty, and health and the super-villains opposed to them. While the text states that a much better world has been created, there is little description of the eutopia.

PB - White Wolf CY - Clarkson, GA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Altergeist. A Novel Y1 - 1999 A1 - Tim Booth KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Ireland that has been largely destroyed by internal conflict with the Church now the most powerful force. The novel focuses on a number of mostly young people and the lives their lives amid the chaos with one of them having had a program implanted in her brain.

PB - Fish Publishing CY - Darrus, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Chance Y1 - 1999 A1 - Martha T[herrin] Brescia (1917-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A religious novel in which the current system ends, and civilization is re-emerging in an area named Paradise that appears to be a eutopia, but is also a staging ground, a place of preparation for an even better life, with the novel focused on the period of preparation. A sub-theme concerns aliens who are defeated by prayer. .

PB - American Literary Press CY - Baltimore, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bloodtide Y1 - 1999 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia set in a gang ruled London. See also 2005 Burgess.

PB - Andersen Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 2001.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crime of the Twenty-First Century Y1 - 1999 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a desolate landscape and ruins that appear to be the result of some sort of catastrophe.

PB - Methuen Drama CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: 7 (London: Methuen Drama, 2003), 217-74.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dark Entity Y1 - 1999 A1 - J. T. Best (d. 2009) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Much of the novel is concerned with one man's struggle with evil, but it is set within an authoritarian dystopia called Flatland, which has quite traditional gender roles, with status for men achieved through competitive games. The people are generally uneducated.

PB - Certes Press CY - Christchurch, New Zealand N1 -

Rev. without any reference to the earlier version as When Darkness Fell. Cook Islands: Jaala, 2005.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Deep Field Y1 - 1999 A1 - James Bradley (b. 1967) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The Prologue is set far in the future, written by an author who is over 280 years old and describes an old book published in 2031. A nuclear war between India and Pakistan had occurred, and the U.S. had gone through another civil war. The rest of the book starts about 2010 and describes an authoritarian Australia.

PB - Hodder Headline CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Review, 1999.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Life in a Day" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Shelley Bovey ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

A eutopia where being fat is the norm and honored. The protagonist is a fat woman living comfortably in a society designed for her remembering what it was like to live when being fat was treated as a fault open to criticism.

JF - The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Macs" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Cloning. Exceptional criminals (The Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh [1968-2000] provides the title) are cloned so that their victim’s families can execute them.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 97.4& 5 (578) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nadiria" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Stephen Barnwell KW - Male author AB -

Fictional religious utopian community founded in Antarctica.

UR - http://www.dream-dollars.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "News from the 21st Century" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Vanessa Baird (b. 1955) ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - Belgian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Short news reports from a future of much greater equality, particularly gender equality.

JF - The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century PB - The Women's Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Smart Alec" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kage [Kate Genevieve] Baker (1952-2010) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia in which all the health and social worries of the late 20th century have been enforced and become social practice. Children do not play together for fear of disease. Only licensed adults are allowed to hug a child. Only healthy foods are allowed.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 23.9 (284) N1 -

Rpt. in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 169-201 with a note on 169. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waking Day" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Robert H. Beer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 11.4 (39) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Afrolantica Legacies Y1 - 1998 A1 - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The author introduced the idea of Afrolantica in his “The Afrolantica Awakening.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 32-46, 203-04. In it, Afrolantica emerges 900 miles east of South Carolina as an area about the size of New England complete with flourishing flora and fauna and valuable mineral deposits but no humans. In fact, it appeared that humans could not survive there, but it becomes obvious that African Americans and only African Americans can survive there. What the first African American explorers felt “was an invigorating experience of heightened self-esteem, of liberation, of waking up. All four agreed that, while exploring what the media were now referring to as ‘Afrolantica,’ they felt free.” The essay/story then reprises some of the history of Black Nationalism and details the conflict among blacks over whether or not to settle Afrolantica. The piece then ends where the Afrolantica Legacies begins, and the rest of the volume has his fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw time travel to points key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. See also, 1987, 1991, and 1992 Bell. 

PB - Third World Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bunny Modern. A Novel Y1 - 1998 A1 - David [Anthony] Bowman (1957-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Future United States in which all electricity has failed and the birthrate has dropped precipitously.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Chance of Safety Y1 - 1998 A1 - Henrietta [Diana Primrose Longstaff] Branford (1946-99) KW - English author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Radical division between the rich and the poor. Children escape to a more primitive society which is set to replace the dystopia.

PB - Hodder Children's Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Made of Glass Y1 - 1998 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

 Sequel to 1992 Barnes. This novel focuses on a planet with a culture based on an African American millennialist group that believes it is the spiritual descendant of Chaka or Shaka Zulu [Shaka kaSenzangakhona] (1787-1828). Non-utopian sequels include The Merchants of Souls. New York: Tor, 2001 and The Armies of Memory. New York: Tor, 2006

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Millennium, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - England, England Y1 - 1998 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. An England theme park is built on the Isle of Wight with all of the attractions of England available. It becomes an independent state, and England collapses into a medieval society called Anglia that can be read as eutopian or dystopian.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am Not Esther Y1 - 1998 A1 - Fleur Beale (b. 1945) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a communal fundamentalist sect. The title refers to the practice of changing the names of members who join to Biblical names.

PB - Longacre Press CY - Dunedin, New Zealand ER - TY - ABST T1 - June, 2004 Y1 - 1998 A1 - Laurence W. Britt KW - Male author AB -

Near future political novel in which current trends produce a dystopia.

PB - BookWorld Press CY - Sarasota, FL N1 -

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mean Green Machine Y1 - 1998 A1 - Alan M. Brooker (b. 1934) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--political novel depicting a violent, bisexual environmental movement in New Zealand with neo-Nazi connections.

PB - Orca Publishing CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moonwar Y1 - 1998 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The moon has become a high tech eutopia, while the Earth has become an anti-technology dystopia. Sequel to his Moonrise. New York: Avon, 1992.

PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Off the Road Y1 - 1998 A1 - Nina Bawden (1925-2012) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult novel set in 2040 contrasting a highly organized, sterile, supposed eutopia with largely traditional country life. Country life is marred by wandering gangs; the eutopia is based on regulating consumption by removing all to Nostalgia homes at age 65.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Clarion Books, 1998.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parable of the Talents Y1 - 1998 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Sequel to 1993 Butler in which the community started in the previous volume is taken over by religious fundamentalists. 

PB - Seven Stories Press CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt was published as “Parable of the Talents Chapter Four.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 6.2 (1999): 135-48 followed by Susan Palwick, “Imagining a Sustainable Way of Life: An Interview with Octavia Butler” (149-58). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ThigMOO Y1 - 1998 A1 - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A satirical take on university life and technology in which faculty and students at a third-rate British university establish a Museum of the Mind online by creating fictional electronic characters with the histories and personalities of characters from the past. The escape from the Museum and go through many battles among themselves but ultimately produce a socialist eutopia.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U,K. ed. London: Earthlight, 1999. Part originally published as "ThigMOO." Interzone, no. 120 (June 1997): 40-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Who Plays with Sin" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Don Bassingthwaite ED - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) ED - Stephen Pagel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Future anti-gay dystopia. Same sex activity is outlawed and very harshly punished. It is not clear whether the laws apply to women as well as men. There are other stories in the volume that suggest this theme, but this is the only one that develops it.

JF - Bending the Landscape:Science Fiction. [Subtitle only on the cover Original Gay and Lesbian Writing] PB - Overlook Press CY - Woodstock, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aftermath Y1 - 1997 A1 - LeVar Burton KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting the development of racial conflict in the U.S. leading to a civil war on racial lines between 2015-2018, the collapse of the U.S., and the situation in the year after the war ends. 

PB - Warner Books/Aspect CY - New York N1 -

An excerpt from the novel was published in Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Ed. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (Oakland, CA: AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2015), 215-23.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Back in the USSA Y1 - 1997 A1 - Eugene Byrne (b. 1959) A1 - Kim [James] Newman (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history. United States had a Communist revolution and formed the United Socialist States of America; Russia had no such revolution.

PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingleton, CA N1 -

Parts published as "In the Air" [Cover adds "In Al Capone's Communist America"]. Interzone, no. 43 (January 1991): 6-30; "Ten Days That Shook the World." Interzone, no. 48 (June 1991): 48-63; "Tom Joad." Interzone, no. 65 (November 1992): 6-21; and "Teddy Bears' Picnic." Interzone, nos. 122 - 123 (August - September 1997): 6-21; 36-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of Ecstasy" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Monica Papendick ED - Mary A. Beavis AB -

Feminist eutopia.

JF - Women and Urban Environments PB - Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg) CY - (Winnipeg, MB, Canada VL - Volume 2: Feminist Utopian Visions of the City. Student Paper 10 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Echoes from the Future" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Colin Wisely ED - Jon Purkis ED - James Bowen KW - Male author AB -

A combination of essay and fiction that includes future scenarios after the collapse of states throughout the world, mostly dystopia but with some suggestions of a possible anarchist eutopia.

JF - Twenty-first Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas For a New Millennium PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Exodus" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Dale Bailey (b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia for the many who have to support the eutopia for old age pensioners. The protagonist is a 145-year-old woman in one of the many walled compounds set aside for seniors who are living on their pensions, which are paid by the young. The Exodus is a jumpship about to leave with thousands of the young happy to take a chance on finding a livable planet where they will be able to work for themselves rather than just to support the Seniors.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 93.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glass Earth, Inc." Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) ED - Stephen McClelland KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia in which a murder is committed in a London in which it is possible for the police to view the incident as it was happening and from all angles.

JF - Future Histories: Award-Winning Science Fiction Writers Predict Twenty Tomorrows for Communications PB - Horizon House Publications CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Phase Space (London: HarperCollins/Voyager, 2002), 48-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliverzone Y1 - 1997 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

GulliverZone is a virtual reality theme park based on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), and, on World Peace Day, it is freely open to everyone, even children. But GulliverZone is a dystopia with real Lilliputians being dominated by an evil woman. 

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 1-102. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pukeko Tuawhaa" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Hinemoana Baker (b. 1968) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Māori author AB -

Set in 2999 when Te Reo Māori is the one recognized language. Appears to be mostly science fiction adventure, but clearly there are utopian elements.

CY - Unpublished play performed at Taki Rua Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (August 1997). N1 -

Unpublished play performed at Taki Rua Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand (August 1997).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - / [Slant] Y1 - 1997 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is something of a sequel to 1990 Bear in that it includes some of the same characters and issues. 

PB - Tor CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Untouchable Y1 - 1997 A1 - Eric Brown (1960-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

This short novel includes two dystopias. The first is a version of contemporary India from the perspective of a Dalit (Untouchable) girl. The second is a version of virtual reality where children kidnapped from the streets of Delhi. But within virtual reality there are also eutopian spaces where the girl is treated as an equal. See also 1997 Baxter, Gulliverzone and 1998 Lovegrove. Other, non-utopian volumes in the series include Stephen Bowkett, Dreamcastle (1997), Graham Joyce, Spiderbite (1997)Peter F. Hamilton, Lightstorm (1997), Ken Macleod, Cydonia (1998), Maggie Furey, Sorceress (1998), Stephen Baxter, Webcrash (1998), Maggie Furey, Spindrift (1998), Eric Brown, Walkabout (1999), and Pat Cadigan, Avatar (1999). 

PB - Orion Children’s Books and Dolphin Paperbacks CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Web 2027 (London: Millennium, 1999), 195-285. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter Y1 - 1997 A1 - Simon Brown (b. 1956) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a nuclear winter in which a corrupt and vicious Australia is the most successful country.

PB - HarperCollins CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Babel Tower Y1 - 1996 A1 - A[ntonia] S[usan] Byatt ( 1936-2023) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The third volume of a family history begun in The Virgin in the Garden. London: Chatto & Windus, 1978 and continued in Still Life. London: Chatto & Windus, 1985. The series is concluded in A Whistling Woman. London: Chatto and Windus, 2002. This volume contains a novel within the novel by one of the characters about the establishment and history of an attempt to establish a utopia. 

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Vintage, 1997.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bicycle Repairman" Y1 - 1996 A1 - [Michael] Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) ED - John [Joseph Vincent] Kessel (b. 1950) ED - Mark L. Van Name ED - Richard Butner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2037. The background to the story is the NAFTA Government, a new country that has abolished the U.S. Constitution. The story focuses on an independent bicycle repairman working in a shop in part of a building that was burned out in a riot in an area where people are leading independent lives free from the authoritarian system that surrounds them. The ending suggests that the area will regenerate, and the rich will move back.

JF - Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Asimov’s Science Fiction 20.10&11 (250-51) (October/November 1996): 156-85; in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 254-78; in Isaac Asimov’s Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 234-78 without the added material and with a note on 234-35; in his A Good Old-Fashioned Future. Stories New York: Bantam Books, 1999, 188-228; U.K. ed. as A Good Old-Fashioned Future (London: Gollancz, 2001), 188-228; and in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology. Ed. James P. Kelley and John Kessel (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 3-35; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 790-807 with an editor’s note on 790. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Community Service" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Molly [Doris Mary] Brown KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia focusing on conflict between police and an underclass.

JF - Interzone (Brighton, Eng.) VL - no. 107 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pirates of the Universe Y1 - 1996 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future Earth is a violent and depleted dystopia. One Refuge is a utopian theme park called “Pirates of the Universe”. Much adventure.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rebel Moon Y1 - 1996 A1 - Bruce [Raymond] Bethke (b. 1955) A1 - [Theodore] [Beale] {b. 1968) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

By 2069 the United Nations had brought about peace and order on Earth, but the inhabitants of the Moon rebelled. While the Moon was defeated, its leaders hoped to continue the war, suggesting a sequel.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U3 -

Vox Day [pseud.] for Beale

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sum of their Parts" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Stephanie Bedwell-Grime KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a future without women where men fight for power and prestige.

JF - NorthWords (Napean, ON, Canada) PB - Mosaic Press CY - Oakville, ON, Canada VL - 3.2 N1 -

Rpt. in North of Infinity II. Ed. Mark Leslie (Oakville, ON, Canada: Mosaic Press, 2006), 100-11. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Revisited Y1 - 1996 A1 - James Blunt KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Describes a planet with various countries parallel with those on Earth including the eutopia called Naturalia that bases its policies on the objective observations of nature.

PB - Merlin Books CY - Braunton, Devon, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Washington Transformed: The Radical Future of the Northwest" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech eutopian projection but with clear indications of problems.

JF - Paradoxa VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Angel Thing" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Petrina Smith ED - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Judith Raphael Buckrich KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia. The story depicts a fundamentalist church controlled by a charismatic leader. Women considered inferior. When there is an attempt to kill an angel, one woman and her daughter revolt to save it.

JF - She's Fantastical PB - Sybylla CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 420-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animal Planet Y1 - 1995 A1 - Scott [Michael] Bradfield (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Animals revolt but are turned into workers. Some animals cooperate and do well.

PB - Picador CY - New York N1 -

Parts previously published as “Animals Behind Bars.” Conjunctions 21 (Fall 1993): 144-65; and “Penguins for Lunch.” Triquarterly 93 (Spring/Summer 1995): 21-43. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Balancing" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ann K. Schwader ED - Gary Bowen KW - Female author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. Every birth requires a death; if no balancing death is provided, a member of the family or the baby must die. Voluntary suicide is common.

JF - Green Echo: Ecological SF& F PB - Obelesk Books CY - Elkton, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brazen Rule Y1 - 1995 A1 - Steven Burgauer KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. is ruled by an imperial Senate. Mostly adventure. A non-utopian sequel is Fornax. Salt Lake City, UT: Northwest Publishing, 1994.

PB - Northwest Publishing CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Coming of Age in Karhide By Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Short sequel to 1969 Le Guin. The rites of passage of and emotional responses to going into kemmer (taking on sexual characteristics) for the first time.

JF - New Legends PB - Legend Books CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. without subtitle after the first Karhide (New York: Tor, 1995), 90-105; and with the subtitle in her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 1-22. U.K. ed. (London: Gollancz, 2002), 1-22; and in Hainish Novels & Stories Volume One. Rocannon’s World Planet of Exile City of Illusions The Left Hand of Darkness The Dispossessed Stories. Ed. Brian Attebery (New York: Library of America, 2017), 990-1008 with a “Note on the Text” (1084).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Curtain Falls" Y1 - 1995 A1 - David W. Hill ED - Gary Bowen KW - Male author AB -

Ecological dystopia with growing pollution, rising skin cancer rates. Most people live underground. Sale of body parts, including the entire body is common.

JF - Green Echo: Ecological SF& F PB - Obelesk Books CY - Elkton, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Headcrash Y1 - 1995 A1 - Bruce [Raymond] Bethke (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Warner Aspect CY - New York N1 -

U.K. edition London: Orbit, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Horn of Plenty" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Joan Sowter ED - Warwick Bennett ED - Patrick Hudson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A man leaves Earth, which is a dystopia of extreme poverty, as a mail-order husband of a woman on a newly opened planet. Both misrepresented themselves, but the story implies that with hard work and adaptability they will be able to create a better life together.

JF - Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection PB - IPL Books CY - Wellington U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Johnny Mnemonic Y1 - 1995 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Based on the story and screenplay by Gibson. See 1981 Gibson for the story and 1995 Gibson for the screenplay.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - K-PAX Y1 - 1995 A1 - Gene Brewer (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist eutopia. Sequels are On a Beam of Light. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001 and K-PAX III: The Worlds of Prot. London: Bloomsbury, 2002. 

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Real Cirkus: A Futuristic Fairytale Y1 - 1995 A1 - Bottari, Bridie KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Background is a fairly near future of excessive regulation.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Puzzle, Gentlemanly" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Elizabeth [Edwina] Smither ED - Warwick Bennett ED - Patrick Hudson KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Technological future world that has lost most of its past knowledge and culture. Satire.

JF - Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection PB - IPL Books CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ravengers Y1 - 1995 A1 - Stephen Billias (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. See also his HoloMen.  New York : Warner Books, 1996 (Cover title Cyberpunk® 2.0.2.0.: HoloMen), which uses the same future.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

New York Warner Books_

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "TeleAbsence" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Michael A. Burstein (b. 1970) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Virtual schools are created to reduce violence with everyone at home attending through virtual reality machines, but the funding for the poor to attend is not provided and the separation between rich and poor becomes even more extreme. A non-utopian sequel is "TelePresence." Analog Science Fiction and Fact 125.7& 8 (July/August 2005): 160-87. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 115.8&9 N1 -

Rpt. in his I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2008), 20-36 with an "Afterword" (37-39).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thief! Y1 - 1995 A1 - [Oneta] Malorie Blackman (b. 1962) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which a young girl is falsely accused of being a thief and, running away, is caught in a storm that projects her into her town’s dystopian future where she meets her classmates now middle aged.

PB - Doubleday CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Thor Conspiracy: The Seventy-Hour Countdown to Disaster Y1 - 1995 A1 - Larry Burkett KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Sequel to 1991 Burkett in which the US government is controlled by an autocratic Environmental Protection Agency.

PB - Thomas Nelson CY - Nashville TN U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Ships Y1 - 1995 A1 - Stephen [Michael] Baxter (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authorized sequel to Wells’s The Time Machine (1895) with the one branch of the Morlocks an advanced eutopian race and the Eloi depend on them for their food and clothing. The Time Traveler saves Weena from being killed, as she was in the original novel, and encourages the Eloi to become independent of the Morlocks. A variety of alternative futures are described. There are many references to works of Wells throughout the text.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London U2 -

Illus. Lee Edwards

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Tour Guide in Utopia" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Judith Raphael Buckrich KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Humor. A woman writing her thesis on Australian women writers of utopias meets one of them traveling into the future and acts as her guide. The utopia published in the past improved substantially on the future the writer visited.

JF - She's Fantastical PB - Sybylla CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her A Tour Guide in Utopia (Parramatta, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Editions, 2005), 108-15; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 121-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Awakening” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Roxana Pierson ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows Over Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Brave New World" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Leah Bloch KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. Set in what appears to be a utopian community, where, although poor, everyone has enough, but overheard snatches of a radio broadcast show that the world is highly controlled and ensures that people fit the norm.

JF - Tomorrow: 20 Visions of the Future PB - Pan Macmillan Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Butterfly Tastes the Darkness" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Robin Wayne Bailey ED - Caro Soles KW - Male author AB -

Erotic story using a future dystopian setting in which AIDS has been used as an excuse to prohibit most sexual activity.

JF - Meltdown! An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy for Gay Men PB - Masquerade Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100 Y1 - 1994 A1 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953) A1 - Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1937) A1 - Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956) A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) A1 - Jon Burrowes A1 - Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952) A1 - Resa Nelson (b. 1956) ED - David Alexander Smith ed. (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A shared future history anthology related to Smith's 1993 In the Cube, which was written during the collaboration on this volume. The basic premise is that Boston is sinking and that as it sinks some of it will simply disappear under water and that the remaining sections will struggle for survival and come into conflict with each other. To complicate matters a wide variety of different aliens arrive in Boston and become part of everyday life. One of those aliens is testing humans for admission into the interstellar world. Humanity apparently passes the test and at the end Boston reunites and establishes itself as a separate country. The volume is composed of numerous stories and vignettes, a few previously published, maps of Boston in 1772, 1990, 2014, 2030, 2050, and 2061, and an "Afterword: How It Came to Be" (376-82) by David Smith. The contents are Smith, "'Boston Will Sink, Claims MIT Prof'" (9-10); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1947), "Seeing the Edge" (12-29); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956), "Nomads" (30-52); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955), "Projects" (53-70) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine [the copyright page incorrectly says Analog] 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 104-17; David Smith, "Dying in Hull" (71-87) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 12.11 (136) (November 1988): 62-66, 68-75; and in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 497-508 with an Editor's note on 496; and in Isaac Asimov's Earth. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 1992), 19-34. Jon Burrowes, "The Elephant-Ass Thing" (89-108); Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952), "The Parade" (109-21); Jablokov, "Seating Arrangement" (122-32); Burrowes, "The Uprising" (133-36); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) and Sarah Smith, "Fennario" (137-52); Landis, "Topology of the Loophole" (153-56); Popkes, "Not for Broadcast" (157-62); David Smith, "When the Phneri Fell" (163-66) rpt. from Figment, no. 1 (October 1989): 23-24; which was rpt. Figment, no. 15 (Fall 1993): 27-28; Popkes and David Smith, "Playing Chess with the Bishop" (168-73); Jablokov, "Letter to the Editor" (174-75); David Smith, "Who Is Venture Capital?" (176-77); Jablokov, "IPOB Dining Hall Procedures," (178-80); Popkes, "So You Want to Meet the Bishop" (181-85); Landis, "Camomile and Crimson; or, The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife" (186-98) originally published as "The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife." Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 110.5 (April 1990): 135-43; Popkes, "The Test" (198-222); Jablokov, "The Place of No Shadows" (223-46) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.11& 12 (162& 163) (November 1990): 170-86; Jablokov, "The Lady of Port Moresby Incident" (248-49); Sarah Smith, "Three Boston Artists" (250-66) rpt. from Aboriginal Science Fiction 4.4 (22) (July-August 1990): 2, 59-63 with illus on 3 and 58; Jablokov, "Focal Plane" (267-86); Sarah Smith, "Ye Citizens of Boston" (287-328); Jablokov, "The Adoption" (330-51) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.12& 13 (177& 178) (November 1991): 200-15; Jablokov, "WereWhereWear" (352-53); and David Smith, "Sail Away" (354-75).

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia but with some hope of improvement. A future world deeply divided between the rich and the poor but with positive change taking place.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hard Drive" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Steven A. Bonvissulo ED - Caro Soles KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia about the suppression of homosexuals and the homosexual rebels.

JF - Meltdown! An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy for Gay Men PB - Masquerade Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jazamine in the Green Wood" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Women dominant portrayed as a dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Retreat Y1 - 1994 A1 - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which Nazis rule Britain.

PB - Sinclair-Stevenson CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Place Between” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Poetic License” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Snows of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Music of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 13. Ed. Elisabeth Waters (San Francisco, CA: The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works, 2013) 211-24 with an editor’s note on 211.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Professionals" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of corporate dominance.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 86 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality Y1 - 1994 A1 - Alexander Besher (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia. Sequels include Mir.  New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998; and Chi. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

PB - HarperCollins West CY - [San Francisco, CA] N1 -

U.K. edition London: Orbit, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Second Chance" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Holley Cantine ED - Max Blechman KW - Female author AB -

Indians successfully revolt and reestablish their traditional way of life. Most of the story is about the build-up to the revolt.

JF - Drunken Boat: Art, Rebellion, Anarchy PB - Automedia/Left Bank Books CY - Brooklyn, NY/Seattle, WA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Baby and Fly Pie Y1 - 1993 A1 - Melvin Burgess (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult future dystopia of extreme poverty.

PB - Anderson Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "By Permit Only" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a system of permits sold by government to allow people to get around laws and regulations. Pollution permits, sexual harassment permits, and so forth are available.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 73 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City-Death Y1 - 1993 A1 - Stephen Booth KW - Male author AB -

The first half of the book is set in a London effectively ruled by a supposedly secret security service. People are being pushed out of their already dilapidated housing to construct more office buildings and housing for the security service and the wealthy. The state has created a mythical rebel group that it uses to justify whatever actions it takes. The story follows one poorly educated low-level member of the security service who, in the second half of the novel, survives a helicopter crash near an anarchist community that developed from what was originally a single farm, and decides to stay. The community uses a form of participatory democracy with everyone, including children, taking part. People work cooperatively at what needs to be done but have their own homes and farms together with a community building and a cottage hospital where they teach the children the basics of health care. Under the circumstances, everyone is armed and willing and able to use them, with one chapter devoted to fighting off armed scavengers (187-198).The book ends with a chapter “The City Has to Die (199-207), that gives reasons for what is wrong with city life and better in the countryside.

PB - Green Anarchist Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - CrashCourse Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Joyce Carstairs] [Hutchinson] (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. Sequels include ClipJoint. By Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.].  New York : Ace Books, 1995 (PSt); and PsyKosis. By Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.]. New York: Ace Books, 1995 (PSt). 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U3 -

Wilhelmina Baird [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecstasia Y1 - 1993 A1 - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult eutopia of youth (Elysia) framed by the Desert (roughly normal life) and Under (the old).

PB - ROC CY - New York U5 -

NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Firedance Y1 - 1993 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1983 and 1989 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the previous volumes has to fight clones of himself and the dictator of United Africa.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory Season Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Male--female conflict in a future matriarchal society.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moving Mars Y1 - 1993 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mars had been colonized from Earth, but the two planets were growing apart and war was coming. Mars was then moved to another sun and over time Mars became more inhabitable and evolved a decent, limited government.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nation's Party Concept: A Political Alternative Y1 - 1993 A1 - Jack W. Boone KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A detailed proposal regarding what should constitute an American eutopia and how to bring it about. Generally conservative.

PB - Grafco Productions CY - Marietta, GA N1 -

The author, in a letter of January 17, 2002, says that he included here most of the book Rage in Utopia that he published under the name Jack Warren [pseud.]. Marietta, GA: Grafco Productions, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Parable of the Sower Y1 - 1993 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Complex dystopia set in a future after a complete governmental collapse has resulted in a lack of security, scarcity, and poverty. The protagonist, who has what Butler calls “hyperempathy” or a high sensitivity to the sensations of others, leaves her community with some other survivors after her family is murdered. They try to start a new community where her religion, called “Earthseed” can take root. Bothered by writer’s block and health issues, she was unable to write the third volume. The fragments that exist are held in her papers at the Huntington Library. See Gerry Canavan, “‘There's Nothing New Under The Sun, But There Are New Suns’: Recovering Octavia E. Butler's Lost Parables.” Los Angeles Review of Books (June 9, 2014). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables/ An opera by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon premiered at New York University Abu Dhabi November 9, 2017, and had its U.S. premiere at the Carolina Performing Arts Center, Chapel Hill, NC, November 16, 2017. It had its New York premiere July 13, 2023, at Lincoln Center. A religion emerged based on the novel; see https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living/ See also 1998 Butler.

PB - Four Walls Eight Windows CY - New York N1 -

See also Damian Duffy (Text) and John Jennings (Illus.) Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Abrams Comicarts, 2020, with a brief introduction by Nalo Hopkinson (iv-v), a Q & A with Duffy and Jennings (265-268), Notes on Process (269-270), Visual Development (271), and a Teachers Guide to Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Adaptation by Kimberly N. Parker (272-277), About Octavia E. Butler (278), Further Reading (279), and About the Adaptor and About the Artist (280).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Rose on the Ash-Heap" Y1 - 1993 A1 - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) ED - Jeanne Clayton Hunter ED - Thomas Kranidas KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of control through providing people with bread and circuses.

JF - A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction by Owen Barfield PB - State University of New York Press CY - Albany U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadow Hunter Y1 - 1993 A1 - Will[iam Edwin] Baker (1935-2005) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a world where almost everything natural has been eliminated.

PB - Viking Press CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Songs of Solomon" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Virginia Ellen Baker ED - M. Shayne Bell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia stressing punishment and the revolt against it. 

JF - Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor PB - Signature Books CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Welfare Man" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Class-based dystopia with welfare recipients walled off from the others.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 74 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Evolution of Social Values on Planets and Their Biological Bases: From Waste Dumps to Pristine Biotas Y1 - 1992 A1 - Arlan J. Brownmiller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia on a planet that the explorers from Earth named Pan. Even though none of the species of humans or animals has become extinct, there is a limited population. Telepathy. Each child has four biological parents so that it carries all their genes, thus producing greater variation. Despite the title, the work is fiction.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - From the District File Y1 - 1992 A1 - Kenneth Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Future tale of an anonymous but controlling government and its Burial Clubs.

PB - Fiction Collective Two CY - Boulder, CO N1 -

Connected short stories. Three were previously published as “From the District File.” The Quarterly; “Waiting for Mrs. Slotnik.” 2PLUS2 (Switzerland), [no. 6] (1987): 44-46; and “Supermarket.” Iowa Review 20.3 (Fall 1990): 45-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Is Free Y1 - 1992 A1 - Ronald [A.] Beck (1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set in 2084 with all social and environmental problems apparently solved but with meaning lost. Presented as evolution to a future in which sentient machines will replace humans.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Cardinal Bird in Tennessee" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Near future dystopia of a collapsing high-tech society.

JF - Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales PB - Swan Press CY - Austin, TX N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 346-56; and in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 365-79. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Let Us Prey Y1 - 1992 A1 - Bill Branon KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia of a U.S. with government waste and corruption and the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service) as an authoritarian institution trying to collect taxes by any means possible. A taxpayers' revolt overthrows the system, but the ending suggests further problems to come and possible sequels, but none were published.

PB - Black Seal Press CY - Carlsbad, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1995.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Million Open Doors Y1 - 1992 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first of four volumes set in the future of humanity’s spread across the galaxy, creating the Thousand Cultures. In this novel two different cultures are brought into contact, and both begin to change, with both eutopian and dystopian elements. Sequels set in the same Thousand Culture future include 1998 Barnes: The Merchants of Souls. New York: Tor, 2001 and The Armies of Memory. New York: Tor, 2006 which are not utopias.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Next" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of racism in the future when dark skins are preferred as protection against the hole in the ozone layer.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction VL - 82.5 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Space Traders" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. Aliens visiting the US offer to provide the country with everything needed to solve many of its problems in exchange for the entire African American population. Offered enough gold to bail out the country, chemicals that can un-pollute the environment, and a safe nuclear energy and fuel to overcome the energy crisis, the US government agrees, and all African Americans are loaded onto what are obviously slave ships. See also 1987, 1991, and 1998 Bell. For a story about refugees that resonates with this story, see 2020 Yu. 

JF - Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism PB - Basic Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 326-55. An earlier, shorter version was published as “The Chronicles of the Space Traders” as part of his “After We're Gone: Prudent Speculations on America in a Post-Racial Epoch A Forum on Derrick Bell's Civil Rights Chronicles--1989 Sanford E Sarasohn Memorial Lecture.” Saint Louis University Law Journal 34.3 (Spring 1990): 397-400. The issue of the journal includes articles discussing the story. A slightly different version was published under the same title as part of his “Racism: A Prophecy for the Year 2000.” Rutgers Law Review 42.1 (Fall 1989): 96-100. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "About Time" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Patricia B. Cirone ED - 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 - Achilles' Choice Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia based on a dystopian authoritarian system in which selection for the top the elite is made by an Olympics that combines mental and physical skills with the losers not surviving.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Amazon Fragment" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 43-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Awakening" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Fenoglio, Mary ED - 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 - "A Beginning" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Judith Kobylecky ED - 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 - The Book of Love. Part One of a trilogy, begun in 1984 from a remark made by a friend, Jagdish Parikh, who said, in Kausani, foothills of the Himalaya, "What is Love?" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Aaron John Beth'el (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia. No more of the trilogy published, but the author published a collected of love poems entitled Sacred Promise fleches d'amour. Auckland, New Zealand: Puriri Press, 1993. 2nd ed. Auckland, New Zealand: Puriri Press, 1994.

PB - Puriri Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Broken Vows" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Annette Rodriguez ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Butterfly Season" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Candle or the Sun Y1 - 1991 A1 - Gopal Baratham (1935-2002) KW - Male author KW - Singaporean author AB -

The novel is set in an authoritarian dystopia that is in conflict with a cult called the Children of the Book.

PB - Serpent’s Tail. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carlina's Calling" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Patricia D. Novak ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Centigrade 233" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Another version of the burning of books inspired by 1953 Bradbury.

JF - The Bradbury Chronicles: Stories in Honor of Ray Bradbury PB - ROC CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 239-49. U.K. ed. (London: Severn House, 1992), 190-202.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dalereuth Guild House" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Priscilla W. Armstrong A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Danila's Song" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Vera Nazarian (b. 1966) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Paradise Y1 - 1991 A1 - Catherine Brophy KW - Female author KW - Irish author AB -

Dystopia. One group has evolved on mental lines, losing their legs, and becoming extremely weak and dependent on technology while being extremely powerful mentally. Another group, expelled by the first, are called bipeds in that they still have legs and live outside the controlled environment. The novel includes descriptions of the evolution of and stages in the lives of the first group. Food is developed to the point that elimination is no longer necessary. Artificial womb allowed early removal of the defective.

PB - Wolfhound Press CY - Dublin, Ireland U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Family Visit" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Margaret L. Carter ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Foreword: The Final Civil Rights Act” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Congress passes an act under which “all employers, proprietors of public facilities, and owners and managers of dwelling places, homes and apartments could, on application to the federal government, obtain a license authorizing the holders, their managers, agents, and employees to exclude or separate persons on the basis of race and color” (47-48). See also, 1987, 1992, and 1998 Bell. 

JF - California Law Review VL - 79.3 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Racial Preference Licensing Act.” In his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 47-64, 204-06. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ghost of Chance Y1 - 1991 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex short work that includes a suggestion of a eutopia based on Libertalia settlement possibly established by the pirate Captain Misson (ca 1660-ca 1690s) on Madagascar together with an authoritarian dystopia that fails to contain plagues unleashed by its own actions. 1981 Burroughs is also partially based on the pirate settlement.

PB - Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. London: Serpent's Tail, 1995.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Honor of the Guild" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Joan Marie Verba (b. 1953) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If Only Banshees Could See" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Janet R. Rhodes ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Illuminati Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry Burkett KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which a secret society manages to gain control of the U.S. and, as a result, the world's finances. It establishes the Data-Net, through which it is able to target any group of people and interfere with their finances.

PB - Thomas Nelson CY - Nashville TN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Maze of Stars Y1 - 1991 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Tour of worlds seeded by humans showing their development. Most are dystopian; a few have eutopian elements.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Midsummer Night's Gift" Y1 - 1991 A1 - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U3 -

Deborah Wheeler [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mirage Y1 - 1991 A1 - Perry Brass KW - Male author AB -

Erotic novel that includes a gay male eutopia. His Circles.  Bronx , NY: Belhue Press, 1993 is a sequel.

PB - Belhue Press CY - Bronx, New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Proper Escort" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Elisabeth Waters ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Book CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Savior of Fire Y1 - 1991 A1 - Robert B. Boardman KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian planet in balance and harmony is discovered by Earth, whose representatives try to dominate it and extract its resources. Ultimately the planet remains free.

PB - Blue Note Books CY - Melbourne Beach, FL ER - TY - ABST T1 - South Africa 1994-2004: A Popular History Y1 - 1991 A1 - [Deon] [Geldenhuys] KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Future history of South Africa under Black rule. South Africa ends divided between an Afrikaans-dominated state and a Black-dominated state. The novel moves oddly between very sophisticated political analysis and rather simplistic depiction of racial divisions and infighting.

PB - Southern Book Publishers CY - Halfway House, South Africa U3 -

Tom Barnard [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Steps of Destiny Y1 - 1991 A1 - Mark Bement KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Technically advanced society and its search for an even better society while it faces a possible holocaust.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U1 -

Cover adds 1999

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sympathetic Undertaker and Other Dreams Y1 - 1991 A1 - Biyi Bandele-Thomas (b. 1967) KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -

The novel can be characterized as an African dictator dystopia, similar to others of the time period, but it is more complex than most. Set in Nigeria, the novel follows two young brothers and a young woman (lover of both) as they try to make their way in the corrupt world of a near-future Nigeria. One of the brothers writes notes (bold face in the text) of his experiences and dreams. In one of these dreams (Chapter 23 [134-69]), he writes about Zowabia, a country that is a caricature of such dictatorships. There is a Glossary on 202. 

PB - Bellew CY - London SN - 9780947792916 9780435905927 9782461717 N1 -

Rpt. London: Heinemann, 1993. Nigerian ed. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books, 1993. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Touch a Comyn" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Andrew Rey ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Male author AB -

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Under Old New York" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. of a collapsed economy, and extreme poverty with New York City an African American enclave cut off from the rest of the U.S. except for one bridge the only place with jobs available.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 15.2 (167) N1 -

Rpt. in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 429-50.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Varzil's Avengers" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Diann S. Partridge ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vortex Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry Bond A1 - [Patrick] [Larkin] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is about political and military conflict in South Africa that result from negotiations to bring about the end of apartheid, with the focus on the military conflict, which involves nuclear weapons. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York SN - 9780446515665 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1991. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wetherweed” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michael Bridge KW - Male author AB -

New Age eutopia. Villages. Unity with nature. Some of the rituals of daily life.

JF - Pillow Mountain: Notes On Inhabiting a Living Planet PB - Times Change Press CY - Ojai, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Fall of Night Y1 - 1990 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1953 Clarke, which is rpt. as the “Part I” (14-145). Part II (146-298), by Benford, is set far in the future where there are highly evolved beings, enhanced humans, and others at various stages of enhancement. Much of the story is about the reemergence of some who seek power over others and are willing to go to war to further their ambitions See the “Afterword” to 2004 Benford for the relationship among the three books.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dr. Pak's Preschool" Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in Japan and South Korea in which the gender of a child is ensured and then education is provided for the fetus. The story is told by a mother who is unhappy with the process. Surprise ending.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 79.1 N1 -

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #45; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 30-65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed environment. One thread of the novel is set in New Zealand and uses Māori myth. In this thread a black hole is created to provide power, but the power plant is destroyed, and the black hole begins to absorb material the center of the Earth and cause earthquakes and other disasters. Another thread is a future where very little of the natural world remains, resulting in mass migration, and conflicts among the remaining nations.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fitting Suits” Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Although problems exist due to lawyers, something of a eutopia created by replacing all civil servants with computers.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 110.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Bova Volume 1 (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 77-81, with a note on the text on 77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Keepers of the Peace Y1 - 1990 A1 - Keith [N.] Brooke (b. 1966) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Much adventure but includes a dystopia of warring nations on a future Earth.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Matter of Survival" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Chris Beckett (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Separation of the sexes as dystopia.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 40 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Net Songs" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Elaine Bergstrom ED - Susanna J. Sturgis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Right wing dystopia controlling human relationships through fear of disease.

JF - The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction PB - The Crossing Press CY - Freedom, CA VL - 2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Object Lesson" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

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JF - Domains of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Others Y1 - 1990 A1 - Margaret Wander Bonanno (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy describing relations between a technologically advanced, peaceful eutopian people, called the Others, and what appears to be normal, vicious humans, known as the People. The Others and the People cooperate by the end of the third volume but not before the Others are almost destroyed. The second volume, Otherwhere. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991 focuses on the conflicts between the Others and the People that resulted in the near elimination of the Others and internecine war among the People. In the third volume, Otherwise. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993, the various conflicts are resolved. 

PB - St. Martin's CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Piecework" Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic manipulation in which women are used to give birth to industrial products.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 33 N1 -

Rpt. Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback #23; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 550-76; and in his Otherness (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), 225-258.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pill" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jojo Bling ED - David [S.] Garnett (b. 1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story revolves round a drug that appears to be intended to produce a better life but doesn’t. 

JF - Zenith 2: The Best New British Science Fiction PB - Orbit CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queen of Angels Y1 - 1990 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is a complex exploration of human self-awareness, the growing knowledge of how the mind works, artificial intelligence, the future of psychotherapy, and nanotechnology with both positive and negative elements. See also 1997 Bear.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1990. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1991 and London: Legend, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Requiem Aeternam" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Richard [John] Bowker (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. When your money runs out after retirement, you are put to death.

JF - Aboriginal Science Fiction VL - 4.3 (21) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sacred Fire Y1 - 1990 A1 - Isi Beller KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia focusing on an AIDS like disease and government controls imposed to deal with it. Described as a medical thriller.

PB - Robert Laffont CY - Paris N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Arcade, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smart Rats. A Novel Y1 - 1990 A1 - Thomas [Patton] Baird (b. 1923-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the world can no longer carry its current population, and the government institutes what is intended to be, in effect, a program to kill one child from every two-child family. 

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - State of Play Y1 - 1990 A1 - Doug[las John] Buckley (b. 1934) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Corporate dystopia. Sydney becomes an independent country called HarborCity. Conflict with the corporation that dominates both Australia and HarborCity.

PB - Albatross Books CY - Sutherland, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of the Thunder Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia with a low birthrate because most men are infertile, and the development of children with unusual talents who could lead to a solution.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

In the story a man wakes up in a new version of Heaven where everyone gets the Heaven they want. The Old Heaven was found to be out of date, and Hell had never existed but been invented as a useful rhetorical device. Now Hell exists only for those who want it to exist and is an obvious fake. Bored after a few centuries of getting just what he wants, the man decides to want to dream that he wakes up alive again and does.

JF - A History of the World in 10½ Chapters PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 279-307. Rpt. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 298-307.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The End of This Day's Business Y1 - 1989 A1 - Katharine Penelope [Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia. Sex role reversal, but more complex than most. Women in power and intelligent; men are strong, immature, and kept uneducated because male violence in the twentieth century brought about the situation that required the women to take power. One woman decides to tell her son why this situation came about. 

PB - Feminist Press of the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Eye in Paradise" Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Raymond] Brosnan (1947-2005) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

World divided between the extremely rich who can create their own eutopias and the poor who live in a polluted, overpopulated world with rampant inflation.

JF - Interzone (Brighton, Eng.) VL - no. 27 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gorgon Child Y1 - 1989 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1983 Barnes. In this volume, the hero of the first volume has to fight against a religious dystopia. See also 1993 Barnes.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hand-me-Down Town” Y1 - 1989 A1 - Maya Kaathryn Bonhhoff (b. 1954) KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia created by the homeless who were being ejected by a city. They resurrect a failed, half-built, and abandoned development using their own skills and donations from those opposed to their treatment. The eutopia created is a 1950s style small down, and at the end of the story other such towns are being created around the country. The story does not ignore the psychological problems and the alcoholism and drug abuse that frequently go with homelessness.

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 109.13 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Harmonogmia 'of an integrated nature'" Y1 - 1989 A1 - William Glover A1 - Hedde Gräfje A1 - Steven Rising A1 - Shingo Suekane A1 - Mark Wettstone ED - Catherine Briggs ED - Thomas Veith KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.

JF - Cloverleaf in the Grid PB - College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington CY - Seattle ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Idiot Played Rachmaninov Y1 - 1989 A1 - Michael Brown (b. 1948) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Political novel with fantasy elements set in the near future about a dispute between a local community and a repressive right-wing government over . Emphasis on the use of the military to put down resistance to government policy and on the resilience of people of the West Coast of New Zealand.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Largest Theme Park in the World Y1 - 1989 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on European union. When the single currency is created all Europeans move to the Mediterranean resorts and refuse to return until non-Europeans start to move in to their abandoned properties.

JF - The Guardian N1 -

Rpt. in his War Fever (London: William Collins Sons, 1990), 73-80; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1139-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love in a Colder Climate" Y1 - 1989 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

As a result of the AIDS epidemic, sex is made compulsory as part of national service for virgins.

JF - Interview Magazine N1 -

Rpt. as “Love in a Cold Climate.” Observer Magazine (July 16, 1989): 36-37, 39, 40; as “Love in a Colder Climate.” In his War Fever (London: Collins, 1990): 65-72; and in The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 1124-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nightshade Y1 - 1989 A1 - Jack [Armand] Butler (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Atlantic Monthly Press CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Grafton, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Town" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Peter Baltay A1 - Catherine Briggs A1 - Jeff Johansen A1 - Staffan Nordlund ED - Catherine Briggs ED - Thomas Veith KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Descriptions and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.

JF - Cloverleaf in the Grid PB - College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington CY - Seattle ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Salmpala" Y1 - 1989 A1 - John Barnes A1 - Richard Iredale A1 - William Martin A1 - Thomas Veith ED - Catherine Briggs ED - Thomas Veith KW - Male author AB -

Manifesto and sketches for a eutopia produced for an urban design class.

JF - Cloverleaf in the Grid PB - College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington CY - Seattle ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sisters" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of genetic engineering. The point-of-view character is a teenager who was not engineered by her parents and is upset to be different, but those of her age group who had been engineered start dying from an engineering error.

JF - Tangents PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Popular Library, 1990), 199-238; Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992. Short Story Paperback #43; and in Just Over the Horizon: The Complete Short Fiction of Greg Bear Volume One (New York: Open Media, 2016), 1-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Weetzie Bat Y1 - 1989 A1 - Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Weetzie Bat is the name of the main character, who creates a eutopian family around her comprised of two gay men, who father her child, a husband, his child by a witch, and various pets. Fantasy elements. Marketed as young adult. There are a number of other books in which Weetzie Bat plays a role or focus on characters from the original story, generally without the eutopian elements but with some fantasy. These include Witch Baby (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Cherokee Bat and The Goat Guys (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), Missing Angel Juan (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), Baby Be-bop (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), and Necklace of Kisses. A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 2005). 

PB - HarperCollins Children's Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 1-70, which also includes Witch Baby (71-154), Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (155-252), Missing Angel Juan (253-373), and Baby Be-Bop (375-478).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Face Lift Y1 - 1988 A1 - Susan Beetlestone KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Future dystopia. People wear masks.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 26 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fire on the Mountain Y1 - 1988 A1 - Terry [Ballantine] Bisson (1942-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

According to Bisson, the basis of the novel is thinking about what would happen if the abolitionist John Brown (1800-59) had been successful, with most of the novel on the history of the successful revolt and its effects. There is a prosperous, independent black state, Nova Africa, in the U.S. South and the North, now the United Socialist States of America or U.S.S.A., is also becoming prosperous. For John Brown’s own eutopia, see 1858 Brown.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009 with an "Introduction" by Mumia Abu-Jamal (b. Wesley Cook in 1954) from Death Row, where he has been since 1995. An excerpt from the 2009 ed. was published in Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Ed. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown (Oakland, CA: AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies, 2015), 225-38. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genocide The Anthology Y1 - 1988 A1 - Tim[othy Patrick] Barrus (b. 1950) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all gays are suppressed. The author presents this as actually expected in the future.

PB - Knights Press CY - Stamford, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greenland Y1 - 1988 A1 - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two act play. The first act presents contemporary Britain almost as a dystopia. The second act is set seven hundred years in the future in an apparently anarchist eutopia. The author describes it as the culmination of his attempts to create a utopia on the stage, preceded by Sore Throats (first performed in 1978 at the Royal Shakespear Company's Warehouse Theatre in London), available in his Sore Throats & Sonnets of Love and Opposition (London: Eyre Methuen, 1979), 5-31; and with the subtitle "An Intimate Play in Two Acts" in his Plays: One (London: Methuen, 1986), 337-90; and Bloody Poetry. London: Methuen, 1985 (first performed in 1984 at the Foco Novo Theatre in Hampstead, England).

PB - Methuen in association with the Royal Court Theatre CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "House Rules" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

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JF - Four Moons of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 61-69.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Johnny Zed Y1 - 1988 A1 - John Gregory Betancourt (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a corrupt, authoritarian future U.S.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic Y1 - 1988 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia following on his 1961 Cosmocracy, which he here spells “CosMocRacy.” This volume also includes a theory of creation first described in his The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government as well as some more personal material. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; and 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moses in the Promised Land Y1 - 1988 A1 - R. Howard Bloch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex satire. Sixties people grown older but with the same fads and reforms with the satire suggesting that there were dystopian elements. There is conflict corrupt politicians and large developers, which, when the developers and politicians win, produces a dystopia. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Lady Tongue" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A lesbian community as a eutopia in conflict with men. The community is presented as a set of complex interactions among the women within the community, with issues around the degrees of lesbianism. Much of the story is also concerned with a relationship the protagonist had with a man. 

JF - Matilda at the Speed of Light PB - Angus & Robertson CY - North Ryde, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in The Women Who Walk Through Fire: Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol. 2. Ed. Susanna J. Sturgis (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1990), 208-55; in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 75-133 [London edition has Stories rather than Tales]; in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. Terry [Terence William] Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 274-320; in Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien [Francis] Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 150-87; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 71-112.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Player of Games Y1 - 1988 A1 - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

One of his Culture novels presenting a complex future society where everyone appears to live in complete luxury with both eutopian and dystopian elements. See 1987 and 2008 Banks.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1989.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stairs" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 12.9 (134) N1 -

Rpt. in his Slightly Off Center: Eleven Extraordinarily Exhilarating Tales (Austin, TX: Swan Press, 1992), 114-27; and in his Other Seasons: The Best of Neal Barrett, Jr. (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 229-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice Y1 - 1987 A1 - Derrick [Albert] Bell [Jr.] (1930-2011) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The “Prologue to Part I” introduces the fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw (13-25) who then time travels to ten key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. Other stories using Geneva Crenshaw can be found throughout his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992 and in Afrolantica Legacies. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1998. See also 1991 Bell.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bats" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Leon Rooke (b. 1934) ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all the old people are moved to a huge domed area where they wait to die. Gin keeps people content. Everyone lives in large domes in a controlled environment and appear to be hurried along to death. Some touches of fantasy.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Consider Philebas Y1 - 1987 A1 - Iain M[enzies] Banks (1954-2013) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of which have explicitly utopian content but can collectively be seen as utopian. . See also 1988 and 2008 Banks. Other Culture novels include The State of the Art. Willimantec, CT: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989; rpt. in his The State of the Art (London: Orbit, 1991), 83-172; rpt. (London: Orbit, 1993), 99-205 [First contact of The Culture with Earth]; Use of Weapons. London: Macmillan, 1990; Excession. London: Macmillan, 1996; Inversions. London: Orbit, 1998; Look to Windward. London: Orbit, 2000; Surface Detail. London: Orbit, 2010; and The Hydrogen Sonata. New York: Orbit, 2012. Other Culture material includes “A Gift from the Culture.” Interzone, no. 20 (Summer 1987): 44-51. Rpt. in his The State of the Art (London: Orbit, 1991), 7-22. Rpt. (London: Orbit, 1993): 8-28; and in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 865-74 with an editors’ note on 964.  

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Orbit, 1991

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Cry In the Desert Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jed A. Bryan KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from the gay male perspective focusing on the initial response to the AIDS epidemic.

PB - Banned Books CY - Austin, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn: Xenogenesis Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. See her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books, 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books, 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn: Xenogenesis Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia [Estelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel in which the few remaining humans are rescued by aliens. The alien society is presented as eutopian. The aliens restore earth and slightly redesign humans, who deeply resent it. Humans seem apt to recreate the dystopia that had been our civilization. First volume of a trilogy. Dawn is being adapted for a TV series by Ava DuVerney (b. 1972). The other volumes trace the experiences of the humans who have been altered and their relations with both the Oankali and unaltered humans. see her Adulthood Rites. New York: Warner Books. 1988. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 249-517; and Imago. New York: Warner Books. 1989. Rpt. in her Lilith’s Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 519-746. 

PB - Warner Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in her Lilith's Brood (New York: Warner Aspect, 2000), 1-248.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Different Paths" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Penny Buchanan ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” Y1 - 1987 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The story concerns a disease that causes people to violently kill themselves and the discovery of a way to mitigate the effects through made possible by a genetic abnormality in some women. The dystopia is the way that society treats those with the disease, which is to isolate and exclude them, which can be read as a metaphor for the way society treats various classes of “others”.

JF - Omni Magazine VL - 9.8 N1 -

Rpt. Pulphouse Short Story Paperback # 38. Eugene, Oregon: Pulphouse Publishing, 1991; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 33-84 with an “Afterword” on 85; in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. Ed. Sheree R. Thomas (New York: Warner Books, 2000), 171-95 with the “Afterword” on 195-96; in People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 200-18; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 642-667, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772-773).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Falling Free" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Lois McMaster [Joy] Bujold (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of an all-controlling galactic corporation which has bread “Quaddies,” humans, although not classified as such, who have an extra pair of arms rather than legs and are ideal for working in zero gravity. The corporation treats them as slaves, and the novel is about an attempt to free them. Included in multi-volume Vorkosigan Saga, but it is set two hundred years before Miles Vokosigan’s birth. Intended to be the first half of the story, but the second half was never written. The author revisited the subject is her Diplomatic Immunity. New York: Baen Books, 2002, but it has little to do with the subject of Falling Free. A “Prologue” that was not published in the volume can be found at http://www.dendarii.com/excerpts/prologue.html.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 107.12 - 108.2 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Baen Books, 1988 and Framingham, MA: NESFA Press, 2004 and rpt. 2017. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Flight" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Nina Boal ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Green Man of Knowledge" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Wendy G[ay] Pearson ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

In the future capital punishment is replaced by dying the skin of murderers green. Those dyed green live in the world and work in munitions factories but are generally treated as non-persons. The story is about a terrorist and his punishment.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hub Y1 - 1987 A1 - Chris Beebee KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Future black humor. Some eutopia, some dystopia. See also the sequel The Main Event. Book 2 of the Cipola Sequence. London: Futura, 1989.

PB - Macdonald CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Movement of Mountains Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael [John] Blumlein (1948-2019) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia as a background. Rich-poor division. Genetically manufactured humans designed for a specific job and a short life.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Promise" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Fenoglio, Mary ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rain" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Class-based dystopia. The poor living deepest underground.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Ascension: Philip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history. The United States won the war in Vietnam and President Nixon is in his fourth term.

PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas. London: Grafton, 1988.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Squirrels in Frankfurter Highlight" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Rhea Rose ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author AB -

Dystopia of people living by playing computer games to try to earn enough to protect themselves from being forcibly enrolled in the military and sent into space. The poor sell body parts so that the rich can live better.

JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to Inishneefa: A First-hand Account of the Fifth Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships) Y1 - 1987 A1 - John Paul Brady KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on contemporary Ireland.

PB - John Daniel, Publisher CY - Santa Barbara, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Western Lands Y1 - 1987 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The final volume of a trilogy that also includes 1981 Cities of the Red Night and his 1983 The Place of Dead Roads. The title refers to the ancient Egyptian land of the dead west of the Nile. The novel, taking place in the past and the present includes the typical Burroughs’s dystopian themes. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winston Three Three Three Y1 - 1987 A1 - Dennis [Malcolm] Barker (1929-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in 2089. The Imperial Russian Empire rules Britain.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "As Big As the Ritz" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Social science fiction depicting three societies, one of them at some length. This one is presented as a eutopia based on cloning and conditioning. Low tech world based, in part, on high tech.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond Capitalism Y1 - 1986 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia similar to his early works but more fictionalized in that it is presented as an explanation to emissaries from a nation that has chosen not to join the Technomic Alliance. Automation used only where it does not take jobs away from people or in hazardous situations (49). The indigenous population has been fully integrated into the new system (86). All religious officials are now elected by church members on a national basis and are completely self-funded (49). In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. Another fictionalized version is Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond Tomorrow, A Rational Utopia Y1 - 1986 A1 - Burnham P[utnam] Beckwith Ph.D. (b. 1904) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia set in Los Angeles 500 years in the future. World federal government of thirteen countries. New language. Government by experts, no government worker can earn more than twice as much as the average worker. Monetary incentives to perform better or take on certain jobs common. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Children of Arable Y1 - 1986 A1 - David [Corderoy] Belden (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

The novel is about a future genderless society when a woman is born, and the woman becomes an advocate for revolutionary change. The second volume and final volume in the series is To Warm the Earth. New York: New American Library, 1988. Rev. with the subtitle Book II of the Gendering Series. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vivisphere Publishing, 2002 is set in a future frozen Earth and a woman from that Earth finds a man from another world who can help Earth. In this volume, the author says that he was at work on the third volume, which does not appear to have been published, and had revised both previous volumes in light of that work.

PB - New American Library CY - New York N1 -

Rev. ed. as Children of Arable. Book 1 of the Gendering Series. Revised version of the formerly published novel. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vivisphere Publishing, 2001. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-li Murrow Y1 - 1986 A1 - Dorothy [Calvetti] Bryant (b. 1930) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Primarily an historical novel but includes a description of an intentional community that was designed to be a “Garden of Eden”, and one section of the novel traces its rise and fall. Female author.

PB - Ata Books CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1998 with an “Afterword” by J.J. Wilson (377-92). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ethan of Athos Y1 - 1986 A1 - Lois McMaster [Joy] Bujold (b. 1949) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

While the focus of the novel is adventure, it is unusual in presenting a male homosexual society as a eutopia.

PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Headline, 1989.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gilpin's Space Y1 - 1986 A1 - Reginald Bretnor (1911-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is a dystopia with three factions, corporations, the Soviets, and a group forcing conformity that calls itself the Individualist People’s Party. A group of people manage to leave Earth and find another Earth-like planet to settle where they begin to create a better world.

PB - Ace Science Fiction Books CY - New York N1 -

Book I “Owl’s Flight Geoffrey Cormac” (1-77) was originally published as “Gilpin’s Space.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 64.2 (February 1983): 4-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Isaac Asimov Presents The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky Y1 - 1986 A1 - John [Allen] Barnes (b. 1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Conflict between the Orbital Republics, created by Earth but now dominating it, free colonies from around Jupiter and Saturn, and Earth, which has to be provoked to rebel. At the end the possibility of cooperation among all three groups exists.

PB - Congdon & Weed CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky. An Isaac Asimov Recommendation. London: New English Library 1988. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Isaac Asimov Presents Through Darkest America Y1 - 1986 A1 - Neal [Patrick] Barrett Jr. (1929-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a post-catastrophe America. The sequel Dawn’s Uncertain Light. New York: New American Library, 1989 is about a young man trying to find his sister in the devastation.

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The title page reads as given, and The Library of Congress has cataloged it that way with Through Darkest America as an alternate title.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Islay. A Novel Y1 - 1986 A1 - Douglas Bullard (1937-2005) KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humorous utopia written by a Deaf American about the establishment of a homeland for the deaf in which the protagonists are mostly deaf

PB - T. J. Publishers CY - Silver Springs, MD N1 -

Rpt. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2013, with a “Foreword” by Cynthia Pettie (ix-xvii). The reprint is a volume in Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reichs-Peace" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Sheila [Rosemary] Finch (b. 1935) ED - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Germany wins World War II, but Eva Hitler survives and moderates its aggressiveness.

JF - Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II PB - Garland CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 172-90. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Staring at the Sun Y1 - 1986 A1 - Julian [Patrick] Barnes (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel traces the life of a woman from her childhood to old age (99), much of it in her own voice. The last section (139-97) is set in a future that has seen a revolt of old people demanding respect after a spate of Old People’s Suicides taking place outside the official voluntary euthanasia system. This is a very small part of the novel, with most of the third section reflections on death and religion through the eyes of her son, who is in conversation with the General Purpose Computer, then the supposedly more advanced, The Absolute Truth computer.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London SN - 0224024140 0-394-55821-9 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 197 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Princes Y1 - 1986 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - [Alan] [Gould] (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A Universal Disarmament Treaty has supposedly eliminated war by banning all weapons developed after 1900, but gladiatorial contests using pre-1900 weapons have become the means of settling disputes between both corporations and governments. But nuclear weapons still exist, and a situation arises in which they might be used, but in the end the three main power-blocs, the Western bloc, the Soviet bloc, and Common Europe agree to cooperate.

PB - Baen Books CY - New York U3 -

Michael Banks [pseud.]

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AzPh, CU-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Annimar: Recent Unearthed Artifacts from An Imaginary North American Pre-Columbian Culture Department of Art Gallery, West Georgia College March 31-April 17, 1985 Y1 - 1985 A1 - Bruce Bobick KW - Male author AB -

Exhibit catalog describing an early “white-skinned”, peaceful, vegetarian culture.

PB - West Georgia College CY - [Carrollton, GA] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beast: A Novel of the Future World Dictator Y1 - 1985 A1 - Dan Betzer KW - Male author AB -

Apocalyptic novel with the Devil as dictator.

PB - Prescott Press CY - Lafayette, LA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Camel's Nose" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Susan Holtzer ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about technology in the anti-technology Darkover culture. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Child of the Heart" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Elisabeth Waters ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A Free Amazon story about the difficulties of giving up a child.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Different Kind of Courage" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Mercedes Lackey (b. 1950) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A Free Amazon story about a healer.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Girls Will Be Girls" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Patricia Shaw-Mathews ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about adjusting to life among the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Government in Exile" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) ED - David King ED - Russell [Kenneth] Blackford KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence and class division. A completely collapsed system in which everyone has quit trying, and the unemployed are killed for sport and food. 

JF - Urban Fantasies PB - Ebony Books CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 25-36; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 326-34.

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A, ATL, M, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Growing Pains" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Susan Schwartz ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about a young woman having difficulties adjusting to the ways of the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heavenly Deception Y1 - 1985 A1 - Maggie Brooks (b. 1954) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia about an intentional community affiliated with the Unification Church, popularly known as the Moonies. The novel follows a young woman who visits the community to find a friend and is converted.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Her Own Blood" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Margaret Carter ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story inspired by the Free Amazons about women in a male dominated society. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Intelligence and Artifice" Y1 - 1985 A1 - M. T. Blatchford ED - Tony Davis KW - South African author AB -

Future dystopian South Africa.

JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - SFSA Science Fiction South Africa CY - Johannesburg, South Africa VL - 2 vols. U5 -

VaU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - It's Time: A Nuclear Novel Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Terry] [Woodrow] KW - Female author AB -

Agrarian feminist eutopia. Some dystopian background.

PB - Tough Dove Books CY - Little River, CA U3 -

Jana Bluejay [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Knives" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story about an abused woman finding refuge with the Free Amazons.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 70-85.

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HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lipton Village Society" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Lucy [Jane] Sussex (b. 1957) ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

This story is tangential to Sussex's utopianism in that it posits a group of young people on the margins of society in the process of willing a utopia into existence, one that they have created collectively in their imaginations. Only brief indications of what the utopia will be like.

JF - Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Hale & Iremonger CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in her My Lady Tongue and Other Stories (London: Heinemann, 1990/Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1990), 213-36; and in her Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies: The Essential Lucy Sussex (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga publications, 2011), 135-50.

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Midwife" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Deborah Jean] [Ross] (b. 1947) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A Free Amazon story about a Free Amazon in danger.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mother Quest" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A Free Amazon story about a mother searching for her lost child.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nowhere Y1 - 1985 A1 - Thomas [Louis] Berger (1924-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire using the trope of a spy novel set in Sebastian, a dysfunctional country between Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Germany that has spawned the terrorist group the Sebastiani Liberation Front. 

PB - Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Oath of the Free Amazons: Terra, Techno Period" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Jaida nha Sandra ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

Modification of Free Amazon oath found in 1979 Breen.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Outlines for Urban Fantasies" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Michael Wilding (b. 1942) ED - David King ED - Russell [Kenneth] Blackford KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia presented in a series of vignettes about a future of fear and violence.

JF - Urban Fantasies PB - Ebony Books CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Postman Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a man assumes the role of a postman and, in that role, helps to knit together the communities that are struggling to survive.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. illus. Kent Bash and with an “Introduction” by James Gunn [Rpt. in Gunn, Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 76-78]. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1993. Parts originally published in different form in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine as “The Postman” 6.11 (58) (November 1982): 120-69; rpt. in Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (London: Titan Books, 2015), 236-305 and “Cyclops” 8.3 (76) (March 1984): 112-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Privateers Y1 - 1985 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Begins with a mild dystopia of Soviet domination of the world through domination of space. The emphasis is on the struggle for freedom which, of course, succeeds. Empire Builders. New York: Tor, 1993 is a sequel.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Recruits" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Maureen Shannon ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story about joining the Free Amazons. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sanctuary Tree" Y1 - 1985 A1 - John Playford ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of National Socialism continued into the future.

JF - Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Hale & Iremonger CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tactics" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Jane M. H. Bigelow ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A story of independent women in the spirit of the Free Amazons.

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time-Keeper Y1 - 1985 A1 - Barbara Bartholomew (b. 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of a young adult trilogy in which two teenagers are transported to various dystopian futures. The second volume Child of Tomorrow. New York: New American Library, 1985. U.K. ed. London: Grafton Books, 1986 is mostly adventure. The third volume When Dreamers Cease to Dream. New York: New American Library, 1985. U.K. ed. London: Grafton Books, 1986 with the subtitle Book 3 of The Time Keeper Trilogy continues the adventures in the dystopian futures and brings the various themes to a resolution.

PB - New American Library CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Grafton Books, 1986.

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Merril, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Open a Door" Y1 - 1985 A1 - P. Alexandra Riggs ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -

A Free Amazon story about the awakening of a young woman's telepathic abilities, called laran. 

JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

HRC, Merril, MoU-St

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 - "The Ungoverned" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) ED - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) ED - Jim Baen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia. Mostly about war. Discusses protective associations like those found in 1974 Nozick. Vinge says that his The Peace War (1984) can be thought of as a prequel and his Marooned in Realtime. New York: Bluejay, 1986 as a sequel.

JF - Far Frontiers PB - Baen CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in his True Names . . . and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 200-54; in his Across Realtime (New York: Baen, 1991), 257-300; in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 91-127 [This ed. has notes by the author]; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 85-139; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 71-113.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War Plays. A Trilogy Y1 - 1985 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia following a nuclear war in which, in the first two plays, life becomes violent and dangerous with people generally isolated. In the third play a small beginning is made toward rebuilding human contact.

PB - Methuen CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Sorcery Y1 - 1984 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1983 Bradley concerned with relations between Terrans and the Free Amazons. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawnwatchers Y1 - 1984 A1 - Hiram Anthony Bingham (1935-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A behaviorist, secular humanist dystopia rules in 2004, but the Dawnwatchers, a group of spiritually aware individuals, is beginning to provide an alternative. The author was influenced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian founder of Anthroposophy.

PB - Triune Books CY - New York SN - 9780961360207 9780961360207 N1 -

2nd ed. Greenwich, CT: Triune Books, 1999. 342 pp. 

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CtY, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fears" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Pamela Sargent (b. 1948) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of extreme male chauvinism in which very few girls are born, and all women are treated as inferior.

JF - Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Pamela Sargent. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1987), 306-22; in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 281-90 with an editors’ note on 280; in Women of Wonder, The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s. Ed. Pamela Sargent (San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, 1995), 141-51; in her The Mountain Cage and Other Stories (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2002), 189-201 with an “Afterword to ‘Fears’” (202); in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 277-88, which gives the wrong date of the original publication; and in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 299-309. 

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MoU-St

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 - "Resurrection" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Machine eutopia/dystopia. Conflict between a man from the present day and a machine intelligence of the far future.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 8.8 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Dark Between the Stars (Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Mandarin Australia, 1991), 46-69.

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M, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "School Days" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Suzette Haden Elgin (1936-2015) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian computer-based education of the future compared to the failed education of our day.

JF - Light Years and Dark; Science Fiction and Fantasy Of and For Our Time PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

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 Toynbee Convector” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In a U.S. with all the problems of inequality, international political conflicts, a damaged environment, and so forth, a man fakes a trip to the future and on his return he announces that the human race has solved all its problems, which gives people the will to actually do so.

JF - Playboy N1 -

Rpt. in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 3-15. Rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), 1-11

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Illus. Michael O’Brien

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trauma 2020: Book 1 Urban Prey Y1 - 1984 A1 - Peter Beere (b. 1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence with constant war in Europe. The second volume Trauma 2020: Book 2 The Crucifixion Squad. London: Arrow Books, 1984 is a dystopia of violence in a collapsed future Britain. The third volume Trauma 2020: Book 3 Silent Slaughter. London: Arrow, 1985 continues the same themes.

PB - Arrow Books CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica Y1 - 1983 A1 - John Calvin Batchelor (b. 1948) KW - US author AB -

Complex dystopia that originates in the U.S. draft resistance community in Sweden. The original protagonists, together with various friends and relatives and others picked up along the way, travel to the Falkland Islands with some going further south to an island off Antarctica. At every point there is conflict and the attempt, sometimes successful, to impose a particular, though varying, view of the good life on others, thus creating a series of dystopias.

PB - Dial Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Byrds" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Ian Watson (b. 1943) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story, which is about people who use technology, such as anti-gravity belts, to emulate birds, is set in a future with restrictions on population size that encourages the elderly to be euthanized. The Department of Rest establishes how much the population has to fall and sends out a monthly brochure Your Choice for Peace to senior citizens with a form in which that are asked to “describe all that is good about their life, and a few of the things which bug them. At the end of the form is a box in which the oldster indicates his preference for Life or Peace. If he does not check the box, or if he fails to complete the form, it is assumed that he has chosen Peace, and the send the Wagon for him” (189). This is a very small part of the story. 

JF - Changes: Stories of Metamorphosis. An Anthology of Speculative Fiction About Startling Metamorphoses, Both Psychological and Physical PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Northern Stars. The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant (New York: Tor, 1994), 188-99.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Night Operation Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Arthur] Owen Barfield (1898-1997) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia set in the 22nd century in which people have fled underground into the sewer system to escape from terrorist attacks. Rock is played constantly over loudspeakers. The people have forgotten history and focus almost entirely on their biological lives with the Three Rs replaced with the Three Es (ejaculation, defecation, and eructation). Language has lost many words. No marriage or the family. 

JF - Towards VL - 2.4 - 2.5 N1 -

Rpt. in A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction. Ed. Jeanne Clayton Hunter and Thomas Kranidas with an afterword by Owen Barfield (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), 129-72; and separately as Night Operation. [Shinfield, Eng.]: Barfield Press UK, 2008. 2nd ed. [San Raphael, CA: Barfield Press, 2009. The book has a hagiographic “Introduction” by Jane Hipolito (ix-xii). 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Place of Dead Roads Y1 - 1983 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The middle volume of a trilogy that includes his 1981 Cities of the Red Night and his 1987 The Western Lands. This novel is concerned with a gay gunfighter in the western U. S. in the nineteenth century and is typical of the dystopian themes in Burroughs’s works.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

U. K. ed. London: John Calder, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rates of Exchange Y1 - 1983 A1 - Malcolm [Stanley] Bradbury (1932-2000) KW - English author AB -

Satire on contemporary Eastern Europe through the imaginary country of Slaka. Continued in his Why Come to Slaka? London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1986; rpt. London: Arena, 1987, which is a guidebook to Slaka.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Arena, 1984.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Speech Sounds" Y1 - 1983 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of the loss of the ability to communicate and the resulting violence. Those who can speak and write must keep it secret. African American female author.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 7.13 (73) N1 -

Rpt. in The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Fiction 1960-1990. Ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 513-24; in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, & Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 337-47 with an editors’ note on 336; in her Bloodchild and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995), 87-110 with an “Afterword” on 109-10; in A Woman’s Liberation: A Choice of Futures By and About Women. Ed. Connie Willis and Sheila Williams (New York: Warner Books, 2001), 185-200; in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 185-97; in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 245-55; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 566-79 with an editors’ note on 566-67; and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 604-619, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (758), and Notes (772).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Streetlethal Y1 - 1983 A1 - Steven [Emory] Barnes (b. 1952) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of organized crime, drugs, and violence. See also 1989 and 1993 Barnes.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Technomics in one corporate world Y1 - 1983 A1 - [John Bernard] [Ball] (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on the same “Universal Law of Economics” in 1978 Ball. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp. Canadian author.

PB - [Author] CY - [Foremost, AB, Canada] U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thendara House Y1 - 1983 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel of the Free Amazons of Darkover. An egalitarian eutopia versus a patriarchal society. 1984 Bradley is set about seven years later. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Oath of the Renunciates (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1983), 213-593.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Valencies Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Keith] Rory Barnes (b. 1946) A1 - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A novel set in 4004 A.D. with significant scientific advances and with both the negative and positive results of the changes shown. Immortality has been conferred but people continue to have children and all Earth-type planets have been colonized. Effortless learning is possible. People are still playing power games.

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Qld, Australia U5 -

A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cloud of Desolation Y1 - 1982 A1 - Sam Baneham (b. 1947) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed dystopia. Complex conditioned underground society after the next war.

PB - Wolfhound Press CY - Dublin, Ireland ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jenny Ewing Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Frank] Yorick Blumenfeld (1932) KW - Dutch author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atomic war and shelter dystopia.

PB - Centaur CY - Fontwell, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. as Jenny, My Diary. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1983.

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manshape Y1 - 1982 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An Interstellar Bridge connects all the human worlds that had up to that point been isolated, but one world, Azrael, initially refuses to be connected. It has a unique social organization that does not value existence, and when connected it tries to export its beliefs to other worlds.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Shorter version originally published as "Bridge to Azrael." Amazing Stories 38.2 (February 1964): 6-78. Rpt. as Endless Shadow. New York: Ace Books, 1964. Ace Double bound with Gardner F. Fox, The Arsenal of Miracles (1964). 

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CU-Riv, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Running Man Y1 - 1982 A1 - [Stephen Edwin] [King] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a TV contest called "The Running Man" promises rich rewards for a man who can elude those hunting him and who will kill him if they find him. 

PB - New American Library CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King. Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man (New York: New American Library, 1985), 521- 692 with "Why I Was Bachman" (v-x). U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1983.

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Richard Bachman [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sybil" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Elizabeth Petty Bentley ED - Scott Smith ED - Vickie Smith KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Life after the Second Coming from a Mormon perspective. Mortals work at their temples assisting those who are to be resurrected, while the resurrected do all the work needed.

JF - LDSF: Science Fiction by Mormons PB - Millennial Productions CY - Thousand Oaks, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Technomics. A Better Economy. International Y1 - 1982 A1 - [John Bernard] [Ball] (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia similar to his early works but more fictionalized in that it is presented as an explanation to emissaries from a nation that has chosen not to join the Technomic Alliance. Automation used only where it does not take jobs away from people or in hazardous situations (49). The indigenous population has been fully integrated into the new system (86). All religious officials are now elected by church members on a national basis and are completely self-funded (49). In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - [Ballmark Publications] CY - [Foremost, AB, Canada] U3 -

Barney Ballmark [pseud.]

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Way of the Wolf” Y1 - 1982 A1 - Lynne Holdom ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Sword of Chaos and Other Stories PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Pudden Republic Y1 - 1981 A1 - Ken Bell KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia said to have been written in 1975 and not updated. A “Black Pudden Republic” is defined as a Banana Republic with oil, and the novel is about an attempt to establish a corporate state.

PB - Frank Graham CY - Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities of the Red Night Y1 - 1981 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Unusually for Burroughs, this novel includes a eutopia as well as a dystopia. The eutopia is based on the Libertalia community possibly founded by the pirate Captain Misson (ca 1660-ca 1690s) on Madagascar and is set in the eighteenth century. The dystopian material is typical Burroughs and is set in the twentieth century. Similar to 1991 Burroughs, which also uses the settlement. First volume of a trilogy that includes his 1983 The Place of Dead Roads and his 1987 The Western Lands.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: John Calder, 1981.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hello America Y1 - 1981 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The United States had collapsed in the past and an expedition of rediscovery finds it inhabited with a wide variety of dystopian societies.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Land's End Y1 - 1981 A1 - Peter Francis Browne KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Near future dystopia focusing on a dictator for life gaining control through a combination of rewards for behavior he approves and violence. Book burnings. Dissenters and anyone not white is considered a terrorist and can be killed by the police. The novel follows an average school teacher most of whose books had burned who tries to save a wounded Pakistani man whose wife and child had been killed.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London SN - 0-436-07098-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Queer Free Y1 - 1981 A1 - Alabama Birdstone KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia from a gay male perspective.

PB - Calamus Books CY - New York U5 -

OO

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rule Britannia: A Progress report for Domesday 1986 Y1 - 1981 A1 - James Bellini KW - Male author AB -

Post-industrial Britain of the future. The book begins with a description of the negative effects of the policies of the 1980s, which produces Prutopia, or Britain run by the Prudential Assurance Corporation. A neat symbol is that the city of Milton Keynes is changed to Milton Friedman. It ends with Protopia when the concern has changed to benefiting people.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strength of Stones Y1 - 1981 A1 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear (1951-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of religious conflict and overprotective cities.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

The section entitled “Mandala” appeared in different form in New Dimensions Number 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 149-96. The section entitled “Resurrection” appeared as “Strength of Stones, Flesh of Brass.” Rigel, no. 1 (Summer 1981): 5-18, 53-62, 64-66. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "There is no depression in New Zealand" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Richard von Sturmer (b. 1957) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Song. Satire on the New Zealand image of itself as a eutopia.

JF - There is no depression in New Zealand PB - Propeller CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Third from the Son" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Elinor Busby KW - Female author AB -

Satire on Sixties communalism.

JF - Room of One's Own VL - 6.1/2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - While there's HOPE Y1 - 1981 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Plan to achieve world peace through the voluntary exchange of hostages.

PB - Keepsake Press CY - Richmond, Surrey, Eng. U5 -

HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winterflight Y1 - 1981 A1 - Joseph [T.] Bayly KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of an anti-religious, liberal social order. Genetic perfection legislated and enforced. Death required at 75.

PB - Word Books CY - Waco, TX U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government Y1 - 1980 A1 - [John Bernard] [Ball] (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on the same “Universal Law of Economics” in 1978 Ball, but here he adds to it, saying that “Conversely, Losses generated by government and industry must be returned to the price structure of consumer buying in the next fiscal period” (23) and adds substantially to the topics he covers. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - [Ballmark Publications] CY - [Foremost, AB, Canada] U3 -

Barney Ballmark [pseud.]

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Freelance" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nina Boal ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Integrated Man Y1 - 1980 A1 - Michael [Steven] Berlyn (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People controlled by implanted computer chips. Revolt.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last President Y1 - 1980 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Kurland (b. 1938) A1 - [Barton Stewart] [Whaley] (1918-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Watergate scandal following the break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic Party national headquarters in June 1972 turns the U.S. into an authoritarian dystopia.

PB - William Morrow & Co CY - New York U3 -

S.W. Barton [pseud.]

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MoSp

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "'Looking Backward' from 2030 (with apologies to Edward Bellamy)" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Jayne Burks A1 - Melvin Rubenstein KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

History of the period from the mid-twentieth century to 2030 with a focus on child-rearing and education, both of which change to take individual differences into account. Governmentally supported childcare facilities. Parents are encouraged to raise their children at home and are provided with financial support to do so after taking parenting courses.

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology VL - 9.2 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Meeting" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Nina Boal ED - [Marion Zimmer] [Bradley] (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story. 

JF - Tales of the Free Amazons PB - Thendara House Publications CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rev. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover, Free Amazons of Darkover. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 97-109.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Red Zone Y1 - 1980 A1 - Tom Browne KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia where a girl from the privileged classes meets a boy from the Red Zone, the least privileged in a highly structure society that was killing the poorest to control population.

PB - Topliner Tridents/Macmillan Children’s Books. CY - London U5 -

CU, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Rescue” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Linda MacKendrick ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - The Keeper’s Price and Other Stories PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “There Is Always an Alternative” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Patricia Mathews ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - The Keeper’s Price and Other Stories PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Timescape Y1 - 1980 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in three times. In 1998, which has experienced a worsening environmental collapse, scientists are trying to contact 1962 in hopes of correcting the problem. The paradox created by this activity produces an alternative future 1974.  A related novel is his Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape. New York: Saga Press, 2018. The book is copyrighted by Benford and Michael Rose with a brief explanation in the “Afterword.”

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

NjR

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 - Blade Runner (A Movie) Y1 - 1979 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on 1974 Nourse and using the same situation and characters. Unrelated to the Ridley Scott movie Blade Runner (1982).

PB - Blue Wind CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. London: The Tangerine Press, 2019, with an introduction by Oliver Harris (ix-xxiii, 81-83)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Catacomb Years Y1 - 1979 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Future domed city and the inhabitants. Includes, in "Old Folks at Home," a communal utopia for senior citizens and, in "The Windows in Dante's Hell," an overpopulation, class-based dystopia.

PB - Berkley/Putnam CY - New York N1 -

Parts were originally published as “If a Flower Could Eclipse.” Worlds of Fantasy 1.3 (Winter 1970-71): 152-83; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 25-49, together with the “Interlude: The Testimony of Leland Tanner” (50-53); “Old Folks at Home.” Universe 8. Ed. Terry Carr (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978), 1-48. Rpt. (New York: Popular Library, [1978]), 7-63; in The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1979), 54-109; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 54-98, together with the “Interlude: The City Takes Care of Its Own” (99-100); “The Windows in Dante’s Hell.” Orbit 12. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1973): 28-45; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14, together with the “Interlude: Volplaning Heroes” (115-16); “The Samurai and the Willows.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 52.2 (297) (February 1976): 5-45; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 117-55, together with the “Interlude: First Councilor Jarboe” (156-60); “Allegiances.” Galaxy Science Fiction 36.2 (February 1975): 20-62; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 161-203, together with the “Interlude: The Cradle Begins to Rock” (204-05); and “At the Dixie-Apple with the Shoofly-Pie Kid.” Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy 1.4 (November 1977): 18-21, 23-25; rpt. in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 206-20, together with the “Interlude: The Introduction to Out and Back Again” (221-27).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter [Bradford] Benchley (1940-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Description of an island dystopia created by modern day pirates.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kindred Y1 - 1979 A1 - Octavia E[stelle] Butler (1947-2006) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The dystopia of U.S. slavery written in the form of a slave narrative by a woman who lives simultaneously in the past and the present. 

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY SN - 9781598536751 N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1988 with an “Introduction” by Robert Crossley (ix-xxvii); and in Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories. Ed. Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl (New York: Library of America, 2021), 1-271, with a Chronology (743-755), a Note on the Text (756-757), and Notes (761-769).

Adapted as a graphic novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. New York: AbramsComicArt, 2017, with an “Introduction” by Nnedi Okorafor (iv-vi).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Legend of Lady Bruna" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

This is a story of a strong woman who fought to keep her people free and is one of the legends of the Free Amazons.

JF - Legends of Hastur and Cassilda PB - Friends of Darkover CY - [Berkeley, CA] N1 -

Rpt. in Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover. Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 24-32 with an introductory note on 23. No copy of the Legends appears to be held in any library. Information from Catherine Coker, “The Friends of Darkover: An Annotated Bibliography and History.” Foundation 37.104 (Winter 2008): 52. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Walk Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Stephen Edwin] [King] (b. 1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which one hundred teenage boys participate in an annual ritual of walking until only one is left alive, most of the rest having been shot for infractions of the rules. 

PB - Signet CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King. Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man (New York: New American Library, 1985), 133-322 with "Why I Was Bachman" (v-x); and separately New York: Signet, 1996 with "The Importance of Being Bachman" (v-xiii).

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Richard Bachman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Oath of the Comhi-Letzii or 'Order of Renunciates' Commonly Called the 'Free Amazons' with Explanatory Commentary" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Walter [H.] Breen (1928-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Oath of a utopian order that asserts the freedom of the women joining it from all social ties except those she freely chooses.

JF - The Darkover Concordance: A Reader's Guide PB - Pennyfarthing Press CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. as “The Oath of the Free Amazons.” In Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Friends of Darkover, Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology. Ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (New York: DAW Books, 1985), 16-22 with an introductory note on 15. 

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Illus. Melisa Michaels

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Merril, HRC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Keep the Oath" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Story about her Free Amazons with an emphasis on why women choose to join them.

JF - The Bloody Sun PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Bloody Sun and "To Keep the Oath" (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1979), 373-408; and in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover (New York: DAW Books, 1993), 15-42. It is not in The Bloody Sun. New York: Ace Books, 1964.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unlimited Dream Company Y1 - 1979 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly fantasy but the setting has utopian elements.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1985 Y1 - 1978 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The first part of the book (13-102) is an analysis of Nineteen Eighty-four. The rest (103-219) is a fairly typical anti-labor dystopia--Tucland [TUC = Trades Union Congress]--but including an attack on Arab interests in the U.K. The book also includes "A note on Worker's English" (221-26/499-504 in the reprint) and "Epilogue: an interview" (227-40/505-18 in the reprint).

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Future Imperfect. The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 283-518 and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).

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Anthony Burgess [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Abra Y1 - 1978 A1 - Joan [Louise] Barfoot (b. 1946) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Sort of a modern feminist Robinsonade in which a woman leaves home and family to live an isolated life and creates a good life for herself.

PB - McGraw-Hill Ryerson CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

U.K. ed. as Gaining Ground. London: Women's Press, 1980.

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U.K. ed. as Gaining Ground.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Y1 - 1978 A1 - Judy Barrett (b, 1941) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Picture book for children. Life in the town of Chewandswallo where food fell from the sky three times a day and was a Cockaigne until the weather changed and storms of food forced the people to flee.

PB - Atheneum Books for Young Readers CY - New York U2 -

Illus. by Ron Barrett.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Forbidden World a science fiction novel Y1 - 1978 A1 - David F[rederick] Bischoff (1951-2018) A1 - Ted [Theodore Edwin] White (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Three flawed utopias are presented, an agrarian community run by women, Plato’s Republic, and Regency England. But all are just part of an experiment, which is itself presented as the central dystopia of the novel.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York N1 -

Part was published as "Breaking Point" by White writing as William C. Johnstone [pseud.]. Amazing Stories 43.6 (March 1970): 71-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mechman of the Dreaming" Y1 - 1978 A1 - [Francis] Frank Bryning (1907-99) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A science fiction story about a future Australia with most Aborigines integrated into the larger society but with one reservation, called the "Wild Life Reserve", where the old ways are practiced. The story is about a mechanical man that is attacked by Aborigines because it resembles a monster from their early mythology.

JF - Ron Graham Presents Other Worlds PB - Void CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moon Baby Y1 - 1978 A1 - John Bailey (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of gender conflict in the future.

PB - Angus & Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Motel Architecture" Y1 - 1978 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where everyone lives isolated from each other. Machines do most work, with TV repair one exception.

JF - Bananas VL - no. 12 N1 -

Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 178-94; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 989-99.

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards Y1 - 1978 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ruins of Isis Y1 - 1978 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Isis is a matriarchal eutopia going through a series of physical and political problems and being studied by an anthropologist from another planet. The ruins are ancient and thought to have been built by an extinct alien race.

PB - Starblaze/Donning CY - [Virginia Beach, VA] N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978; and New York: Timescape, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seven Last Years Y1 - 1978 A1 - Carol Balizet (b. 1931) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Biblical dystopia of Armageddon (See Revelation 16), the seven years known as the "Tribulation" that, in this version, comes before the Millennium. Includes an "Appendix: Scriptural Prophecies for the Tribulation Period" (369-76).

PB - Chosen Books CY - Lincoln, VA N1 -

Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1980.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Speculations on a Non-Sexist Society" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jennifer Bankier KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Non-fictional feminist eutopia attacking sexism and focusing on sexuality, reproduction, bond groups to replace marriage and the family, child-rearing, and employment.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Suicide of Man" Y1 - 1978 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future eutopia proves only a staging ground to an apparently higher existence.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of John Brunner (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 239-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Weave of Women Y1 - 1978 A1 - E[sther] M[asserman] Broner (1927-2011) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A feminist novel about a group of women who call themselves the Daughters of Jerusalem and the community they create among themselves in a house in Jerusalem where they regularly get together.

PB - Holt, Rinehart and Winston CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985 with an “Introduction” by Marilyn French (ix-xv). Parts originally published as “The Bird and the Thieves.” Epoch 22.2 (Winter 1973): 160-176; “Habibi.” Florida Quarterly 6.1 (Spring 1974): 11-32; “On the Mt. of Meron.” Story Quarterly 1.1 (1975): 85-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Intensive Care Unit" Y1 - 1977 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where all live isolated, meeting in person is illegal, with meetings of families particularly prohibited, and all communication is by television. The story focuses on a man who chooses to meet his wife and children in person, and they kill each other.

JF - Ambit VL - no.71 N1 -

Rpt. in his Myths of the Near Future (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), 195-205; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 946-52; and in a separately paged section entitled “P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . .” (1-18) at the end of the reprint of his High-Rise (London: Harper Perennial, 2006), 2-10. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Little Knowledge Y1 - 1977 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of Christian fundamentalism and religious revivals in a future fragmented United States and the arrival of Aliens.

PB - Berkley/Putnam CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Berkley, 1978. Substantially revised in His The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 228-97.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Shack at Great Cross Halt" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia focusing on an isolated group of people living next to a major highway but completely disconnected from the larger world. The focus characters had escaped from the dystopia, and the story ends with the beginning of a fight back against the dystopia.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 30 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 54-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Good Between Us Y1 - 1977 A1 - Howard Barker (b. 1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia created in the U.K. by a Labour government.

JF - Gambit: International Theatre Review VL - 8.31 N1 -

Rpt. in That Good Between Us. Credentials of a Sympathizer (London: John Calder, 1980), 1-59.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Timewaves" Y1 - 1977 A1 - John Bartelt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a dystopian, bureaucratic future where no dissent is permitted, with those who do are assigned to menial jobs, and church attendance is required.  Two men try to change the past in the hopes of eliminating the dystopia.

JF - Janus VL - no. 7 (3.1) UR - 07-Vol-3-No-1.pdf (sf3.org) ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Work Song 2. A Vision" Y1 - 1977 A1 - Wendell Berry (b. 1934) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem describing an environmental eutopia of the future when the land has recovered.

JF - Clearing PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his The Collected Poems 1957-1982 (San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1985), 187-88; and as “A Vision” in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998), 102.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cinnabar Y1 - 1976 A1 - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Cinnabar is a city run by a failed computer that provides false images within which both people and simulcra live. Each story is about one individual, and, in the last story, they cooperate to destroy the computer.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Stories originally published as follows: "The Road to Cinnabar." Infinity Two. Ed. Robert Hoskins (New York: Lancer Books, 1971), 73-84 (1-12 here); "Jade Blue." Universe 1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ace Books, 1971), 53-69; U.K. ed (London: Dennis Dobson, 1975), 53-69 (13-28 here); "Gray Matters" as "Their Thousandth Season." Clarion II: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction and Criticism. Ed Robin Scott Wilson (New York: Signet, 1972), 127-39; and in his Among the Dead and Other Events Leading Up to the Apocalypse (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 164-79 (29-44 here); "The Legend of Cougar Lou Landis." Universe 3. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Random House, 1973), 135-50 (45-61 here); "Hayes and the Heterogyne." Vertex 2.2 (June 1974): 16-20, 88-97 (62-103 here); "Sharking Down." Vertex 2.6 (February 1975): 16-20, 34-37 in slightly different form (115-56 here); and "Brain Terminal." Vertex 3.4 (August 1975): 2-6, 28 in slightly different form (157-86 here).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - City of Darkness Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia with a division between poor city-dwellers and the elite who live outside the cities.

PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Glutt" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Gladden Schrock ED - Eugene Lion ED - David Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a man is executed for his lack of community feeling and involvement.

JF - Guthrie New Theater PB - Grove Press CY - New York VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Millennium: A Novel About People and Politics in the Year 1999 Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. In caverns in the moon Russian and American colonies cooperate to try to save the Earth from mass destruction.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1976. U.K. ed. rpt. without the subtitle London: Methuen, 1988. Rpt. with the non-utopian Kinsman (1979) in The Kinsman Saga (New York: Tor, 1987), 271-566.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Missa Privata" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a Communist dominated Britain. Poor, dull, drab, and with a dominant military. White party members are fairly free.

JF - New Worlds PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 173-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shattered Chain Y1 - 1976 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Part of her Darkover series concerned with the Free Amazons, a utopian sub-culture. There are a large number of books and stories by Bradley and others that are set in Darkover. Here I have included only those works that are clearly eutopian, and most of the works included focus on the Free Amazons. See 1979, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991 Bradley; 1979 Breen; 1980 Boal (2), Mathews, Silvestri, Verana, and Verba; 1985 Armistead, Bigelow, Boal, Carter, Holtzer, Jaida nha Sandra, Kramer, Lackey, Paxson, Riggs, Schwartz, Shannon, Mathews (2), Silvestri, Verba, Waters, and Wheeler; 1982 Holdom, 1987 Boal, Buchanan, and Fenoglio; 1990 Lackey; 1991 Alward, Armstrong, Armstrong-Jones, Avery, Carter, Cirone, Fenoglia, Jaggers, Kobylecky, Lamb, Nazarian, Novak, Partridge, Paxson, Rey, Rhodes, Rodriguez, Verba, Waters, and Wheeler; 1993 Heydt and Schimel; 1994 Pierson, Paxson, and Lackey; 2013 Caffrey and Edhghill; 2014 Paxson; 2015 Paxson.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979; and in Oath of the Renunciates (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1983), 1-212. U.K. ed. of The Shattered Chain. London: Arrow Books, 1978; rpt. London: Severn House, 1985

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Termination. A One-Act Play Y1 - 1976 A1 - Samuel Birnkrant KW - Male author AB -

Satirical on the bureaucratic Termination Bureau in an overpopulated world.

PB - Pioneer Drama Service CY - Denver, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels in Oudamovia Y1 - 1976 A1 - John Austin Baker KW - Male author AB -

Detailed Christian eutopia describing a lost group of early Christians who survived into the 20th century living a truly Christian way of life.

PB - The Faith Press CY - Leighton Buzzard, Beds., Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus Development Y1 - 1976 A1 - David Bergamini (1928-83) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Corporate controlled authoritarian dystopia intent on establishing a colony on Mars and the successful revolt of the first colonists.

PB - Popular Library CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Young Tom" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Dan Morgan (1925-2011) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which one can get a "life credit" permitting the birth of a child on the death of a relative.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (29) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Be Ye Perfect" Y1 - 1975 A1 - M[artha] A[nn] Bartter (1932-2013) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Population control through forced breeding between two communities.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 36.1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Day They Cut Off the Power" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Vera Johnson ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Female author AB -

Students of every college of the United States of Europe plan a revolt, but all the colleges are closed and turned over to the local governments to use as housing. All education will be by television. Extreme pollution. Neo-Luddites destroying cars and planes.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (27) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doomsday Clock Y1 - 1975 A1 - Elizabeth S. Benoist (1901-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A novel about the build-up to nuclear war and the aftermath of the war. A small group of survivors is shown in an almost eutopian underground shelter. Conflicts develop among them, and they work to return to the surface.

PB - Naylor Co CY - San Antonio, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - High-Rise Y1 - 1975 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence within an apartment block.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Harper Perennial, 2006 with an added, separately paged section at the end entitled "P.S. Ideas, interviews & features . . ." (1-18), which includes 1977 Ballard (2-10).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ministry of Children" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The negative effects of the establishment of large, general schools in Britain. Violence, illiteracy. The setting is an overpopulated future but that is not a focus.

JF - New Worlds PB - Corgi CY - London VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. in his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 86-126. SFF,

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Scraping at the Bones" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Blood and Burning PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shockwave Rider Y1 - 1975 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starcrossed Y1 - 1975 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Background of a future polluted dystopia.

PB - Chilton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Jove/HBJ, 1979.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Xenofreak/Xenophobe" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought on by contact with aliens far in advance of humans.

JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Spiatnik Y1 - 1975 A1 - Robert Betchov (1919-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overwhelmingly about war and the preparations for war, but it ends with world peace and the establishment of a World Authority. The Pact for the World Authority is provided in an appendix.

PB - CPRI Press CY - Oakville, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "You Get Lots of Yesterdays, Lots of Tomorrows, and Only One Today" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia where all everyone sleeps except for one supposedly perfect day.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (26) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Zone" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Peter Linnett ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a dreary future world divided up into "sectors" including a failed Hippie enclave.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (27) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And Keep Us From Our Castles” Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Cynthia A.] [Morgan] KW - Female author AB -

The story focuses on a technological form of punishment, but it is used by a dystopian, authoritarian government that is shutting down dissent.

JF - Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact VL - 93.6 N1 -

Rpt. in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 168-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Churchill Play, As it will be performed in the winter of 1984 by the internees of Churchill Camp somewhere in England Y1 - 1974 A1 - Howard [John] Brenton (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

England as an authoritarian dystopia in 1984 with a concentration camp.

PB - Eyre & Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Eggs of Eden" Y1 - 1974 A1 - M[artha] A[nn] Bartter (1932-2013) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on progressive education.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 35.12 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Godwhale Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Thomas J.] [Bassler] [M.D.] (1932-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel includes societies that are very advanced in biology, societies that are degenerating, and authoritarian dystopias. On the whole, the human race and its societies are presented as first improving and then degenerating.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Eyre Methuen, 1975. Part originally published as "Rorqual Maru." Illus. Galaxy Science Fiction 32.4 (January-February 1972): 58-86, 88-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “I Bought a Little City” Y1 - 1974 A1 - Donald Barthelme [Jr.] (1931-1989) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story of a man who bought Galveston, Texas and set out to change it into the city he wanted.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 50.38 N1 -

Rpt. in his Amateurs (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 50-58; in his Sixty Stories (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1981), 295-301;  and in Collected Stories. (New York: Library of America, 2021), 474-79, with a Chronology (929-935). a Note on the Text (940), and Notes (964).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Impact of the Mid-Twentieth Century Movement for Sex Equality in Employment On Three Contemporary Economic Institutions" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Caroline Bird (1915-2011) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. “A paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association” illustrating the effect of gender equality on the National Employment Exchange (115-18), the Neighborhood Play Group System (118-21), and the Minimum Income Security System (121-25). The Equal Rights Amendment had passed.

JF - Woman In the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ramparts" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A pastoral eutopia that is vegetarian, democratic, and completely peaceful has always sent its eccentrics and antisocial people into the surrounding forests and forgotten them. The forest people return and kill the inhabitants one of the towns.

JF - Universe PB - Random House CY - New York VL - 5 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Popular Library, 1976), 165-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Teacher As World Citizen Y1 - 1974 A1 - Theodore [Burghard Hurt] Brameld (1904-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 2000 stressing world government, socialist humanism, and ecology. The book is dedicated to his friend Marion Bellamy Earnshaw (1886-1978), daughter of Edward Bellamy, and he stresses the connection between his book and Bellamy's Looking Backward. The book begins December 26, 2000, which is the date of the "Preface" to Looking Backward.

PB - [Kappa Delta Pi Press] CY - [Palm Springs, CA] U1 -

The 1974 Kappa Delta Pi Lecture

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Web of Everywhere Y1 - 1974 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia based on instant transportation to anyplace. The novel focuses on a man who visits places he is not supposed to visit.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1977.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1984" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Ed] [Bereal] (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a race war in 1984.

JF - Guerrilla Theatre PB - Anchor Books CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

Bodacious Buggerrilla [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anti-Zota Y1 - 1973 A1 - Eric [Alexander] Burgess (1912-95) A1 - Arthur [Henry] Friggens (b. 1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia for some, dystopia for others. Long-lifers versus short-lifers.

PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beachhead in Utopia" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. International Poverty Control Agency--if, after retraining, a person cannot find a job, they and their family are executed. Successfully eliminates welfare.

JF - Omega PB - Walker CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1974), 143-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Breakout in Ecol 2." Y1 - 1973 A1 - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) ED - Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Nova PB - Walker CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 40-44

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crash Y1 - 1973 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--sex and technology.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Triad/Panther, 1985. This ed. includes Ballard's "Introduction to the French Edition of Crash (1974)" (5-9). U.S. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. 

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TxDa

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doomsday Gene Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A gene for short, intense life to help control population growth creates a dystopia.

PB - Weybright & Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Future History]. A Serviceable Past" Y1 - 1973 A1 - C. George Benello (1926-87) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of two societies set in 2010. In one, depletion of resources has produced a poor society. In the other, a eutopia is presented that reflects growth and emphasizes ecology and religion. Decentralization, crafts, and education through apprenticeship.

JF - 1973 American Anthropological Association Experimental Symposium on Cultural Futuristics: Pre-Conference Volume PB - [Office for Applied Social Science and the Future, University of Minnesota] CY - [Minneapolis, MN] N1 -

Rpt. as "A Future History." In Cultures of the Future. Ed. Magoroh Maruyama and Arthur M. Harkins (The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton, 1978), 561-91.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Outline of History" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Braly, Malcolm ED - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which most of the prisoners in California jails are dumped into a huge walled compound in the Nevada desert where they are expected to organize their own affairs, with the expected result.

JF - Bad Moon Rising PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Port of Saints Y1 - 1973 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia similar to that in 1959, 1961, 1962, and 1964 Burroughs. In this novel Burroughs includes a number of different plot lines, one of which is the attempt to change history by travelling through time. 

PB - Covent Garden Press/Am Here Books CY - London/Ollon, Switzerland N1 -

Different version Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. U.K. ed. London: John Calder, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Regiment of Women. A Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Thomas [Louis] Berger (1924-2014) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An extreme form of gender-role reversal in which men have breast implants, women have facial hair implants, and dress and behavior patterns reflect strong versions of female and male stereotypes.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Eyre Methue, 1973.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Square Root of MC" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Laurence [William] James (1942-2000) ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes, briefly, a eutopia of peace and plenty on Earth brought about by aliens.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (22) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stone That Never Came Down Y1 - 1973 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia with very strict rules regarding behavior that is also racist. The novel focuses on the spread of a drug that radically improves sense impressions and raises awareness that undermines the dystopia and sets the stage for a better society.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Tinks on the House" Y1 - 1973 A1 - F[rancis] M[arion] Busby (1921-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia focusing on daily life. The work week is thirty hours but must be done in three days to reduce commuting. Personal security is a major issue. Homosexuality is encouraged to reduce the birth rate.

JF - Vertex VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Dream's Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 157-67.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wagtail in the Morning" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Grahame Leman ED - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The leaders of a society that provides people (who they call liveware) with all the consumer goods they want develop a method of controlling people for life by implanting them with a slow-release drug as children.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick & Jackson CY - London VL - (23) U5 -

Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Windows in Dante's Hell" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael [Lawson] Bishop (1945-2023) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia that divides people based on their contributions to society with those who contribute the least living in the smallest residences in the deepest levels of the city. Everyone is constantly monitored.

JF - Orbit 12: An Anthology of New Science Fiction PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Catacomb Years. New York: Berkley/Putnam, 1979), ; and in his The City and the Cygnet: An Alternative History of the Atlanta Urban Nucleus in the 21st Century (Bonney Lake, WA : Kudzu Planet Productions/Fairwood Press, 2019), 101-14.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Good War; A Love Story Y1 - 1972 A1 - Peter Roger Breggin (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. Great emphasis on sex but no emotional content.

PB - Stein and Day CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Arthuriad Y1 - 1972 A1 - John d'Arcy Badger (1917-2000) KW - Canadian author AB -

Eutopia in the form of fifty-six sonnets and fifty-five poetic commentaries reflecting the return of King Arthur as king of the Aquarian Age. Property sharing. Sexually freer. Rejects both left and right and Canto 4 (Sonnets 25-32) is called “The Revolution of the Centre”. 

PB - Pendragon House Limited CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empire of Two Worlds Y1 - 1972 A1 - Barrington J. Bayley KW - English author AB -

Dystopia of changeless authority as background. U.K. author.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1974. Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 1979.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lear Y1 - 1972 A1 - Edward Bond (1934-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A reimagining of Shakespeare’s Lear as a vicious, paranoid autocrat who tries to keep out imaginary enemies by building a wall. Sometimes called the most violent play ever staged.

PB - Eyre Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Plays: Two (London: Methuen Drama, 1989), 1-102.

U.S. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light That Never Was Y1 - 1972 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Some dystopia and some satire. The novel is set on a planet that is devoted to art and once produced many great artists but is now flooded with mediocre artists selling to hordes of tourists. The plot centers on pogroms against non-human aliens.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: DAW Books, 1973.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sheep Look Up Y1 - 1972 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A pollution dystopia that presents a world of the near future in which it is necessary to always wear a filter mask whenever one is outside, most food has been contaminated by chemicals used in fertilizers, etc., the water is unsafe for drinking without boiling, etc. Added to this is the leaking of poison gas buried in mountains in Colorado into the water supply and into the food factory and the effects on those who eat the food. Widespread disease, unemployment, and starvation. The corrupt U.S. government is attempting to control the world economy for the benefit of U.S. corporations, and those trying to change the government are under attack. No man between sixteen and sixty can get a visa to leave the country unless they have served in the military or have a medical exemption. The main opposition group lives in an intentional community in Colorado. At the end of the year covered by the book, revolts are occurring throughout the U.S. and many cities are on fire.

PB - Harper & Row CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Dallas, TX: BenBella Books, 2003, with a brief "Introduction" by David Brin (xiii-xiv) and an "Afterword" by James John Bell (369-88) on the books environmental message; and Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009. 300 copy ed. illus. Dan J. O’Driscoll and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson (7-11), “John Brunner A Short Autobiography” (409-35) by Brunner, “John Brunner Interviewed by Ian Covell” (437-55), and “Noise Level” (457-59) by Brunner reprinted from Science Fiction Review, no. 29 (January-February 1979): 15-16. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To the Chicago Abyss" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where the minor artifacts of the past are remembered by an old man, who is arrested for reminding people of the little things, Bradbury calls them "mediocrities", they used to have.

JF - The Wonderful Ice Cream and Other Plays PB - Hart-Davis, MacGibbon CY - London N1 -

Can ed. (Toronto, ON, Canada: Bantam Pathfinder Editions, 1972), 127-61.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ... and all the stars a stage Y1 - 1971 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes as background a dystopia of male-female conflict caused by a technology that allows parents to choose the sex of their children. Too many men made most of them superfluous.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. Abr. version originally published in Amazing Stories 34.6 - 7 (June - July 1969): 6-67, 80-131.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Daughter" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Anne [Inez] McCaffrey (1926-2011) ED - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

Coming of age story with a background of a society that carefully chooses the occupations of its citizens based on their aptitudes.

JF - The Many Worlds of Science Fiction PB - E.P. Dutton CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Exiled from Earth Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy. Supposedly utopian world government uses authoritarian means to maintain the status quo. A new society is established in space by a scientist exiled from earth in an attempt to create a free world. The first volume focuses on the decision to exile the scientists and their imprisonment on a large ship circling Earth. The second volume, Flight of Exiles. New York: E.P. Dutton. Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley, 1980), 151-288. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 151-288, focuses on the exiles leaving Earth orbit for the stars and their discovery of a planet to settle. The third volume, End of Exile. New York: E.P. Dutton. Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley, 1980), 289-441. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 289-441, is concerned with the exiles’ settlement on a planet and the establishment of good society.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Exiles Trilogy (New York: Berkley Books, 1980), 1-149. Rpt. New York: Baen, 1994. U.K. ed. (London: Methuen, 1984), 1-149.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First Team Y1 - 1971 A1 - John [Dudley] Ball [Jr.] (1911-88) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia depicting a Soviet takeover of the U.S. The novel focuses on the successful underground resistance.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Half Past Human Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Thomas J.] [Bassler] [M.D.] (1932-2011) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Parts published originally as "Half Past Human." Galaxy Science Fiction 29.4 (December 1969): 16-76; and "Song of Kaia." If 20.8 (151) (November-December 1970): 4-85, which is published as "G.I.T.A.R." in the novel, which incorrectly gives this as the title of the story in If.

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T. J. Bass [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Human Side of the Village Monster" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Edward [Winslow] Bryant [Jr.] (1945-2017) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of overpopulation, pollution, poverty, hunger, and violence. Addictive contraceptives used to try to keep population growth down.

JF - Universe PB - Ace Books CY - New York VL - 1 N1 -

U.K. ed. (London: Dennis Dobson, 1971), 193-202. Rpt. in his Among the Dead and other Events Leading to the Apocalypse (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 93-102. Rpt. New York: Collier, 1974), 93-102.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Moderan Y1 - 1971 A1 - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia in which one man is trying to cover the Earth with plastic. Others turn themselves into cyborgs and continue to fight each other.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: New York Review Books, 2018, with the addition of eleven stories that did not appear in the first addition, three rpt. and eight published for the first time and with a “Foreword” by Jeff VanderMeer (ix-xx). Parts were originally published as “A Little Girl’s Xmas in Modernia.” Coastlines, no. 10 (3.3) (Autumn 1958): 31-35. rpt. as “A Little Girl’s Christmas in Modernia.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 18.1 (104) (January 1960): 102-07; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction British Edition 2.2 (January 1961): 2-7 (Avon 166-72/NYRB 179-85); “Was She Horrid?” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 8.12 (December 1959): 120-24 (Avon 142-46/NYRB 153-57); “The Flesh-Man from Far Wide.” Amazing Stories 33.11 (November 1959): 134-38; rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 566-68 with an editors’ note on 555-56 (Avon 172-76/NYRB 186-90); “A Complete Father.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.1 (January 1960): 104-09 (Avon 137-42/NYRB 147-52); “Strange Shape in the Stronghold.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.3 (March 1960): 50-55 (Avon 102-08/NYRB 108-13); “Remembering.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.4 (April 1960): 100-03 (Avon 162-66/NYRB 175-78); “Penance Day in Moderan.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.7 (July 1960): 61-65 (Avon 98-102/NYRB 103-07); “Getting Regular.” Amazing Science Fiction Stories 34.8 (August 1960): 112-18 (Avon 108-14/NYRB 114-21); “A Husband’s Share.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 9.10 (October 1960): 117-20 (Avon 133-37/NYRB 143-46); “The Warning.” Amazing Stories 34.11 (November 1960): 67-71 (Avon 189-94/NYRB 204-09); “The Final Decision.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 35.2 (February 1961): 100-07; rpt. in Thrilling Science Fiction (October 1972): 124-31 (Avon 220-27/NYRB 237-45); “Has Anyone Seen This Horseman.” Shenandoah 12.2 (Winter 1961): 43-46 (Avon 194-98/NYRB 209-12); “The One From Camelot Moderan.” Descant (Winter 1962): 9-13 (Avon 179-84/NYRB 193-98); “It Was Black Cat Weather.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.2 (February 1963): 100-03 (Avon 155-59/NYRB 167-70); “Survival Packages.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.4 (April 1963): 70-74, 123 (Avon 80-85/NYRB 83-88); “One False Step.” Illus. [Leo Ramon] Summers. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.5 (May 1963): 90-95 (Avon 75-80/NYRB 77-82); “Sometimes I Get So Happy.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 12.8 (August 1963): 103-06 (Avon 159-62/NYRB 171-74); “2064, or Thereabouts.” By Darryl R. Groupe [pseud.] Fantastic Stories of Imagination 13.9 (September 1964): 122-27 (Avon 92-97/NYRB 97-102); “Reunion.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 39.2 (February 1965): 45-49 (Avon 184-89/NYRB 199-203); “Playmate.” Fantastic Stories of Imagination 14.5 (May 1965): 27-30 (Avon 130-33/NYRB 139-42); “The Walking Talking I-Don’t-Care Man.” Amazing Fact and Science Fiction Stories 39. 6 (June 1965): 6-10 (Avon 115-20/NYRB 122-27); “The Miracle of the Flowers.” The Smith, no. 7 (2.3&4) (October 1966): 11-23; rpt. in Pulpsmith 6.4 (Winter 1987): 108-15 (Avon 206-15/NYRB 222-31); “Incident in Moderan.” Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories. Ed. Harlan [Jay] Ellison (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 295-99, with an “Introduction” (293-94) by Ellison and an “Afterword” (302-03) by Bunch (Avon 215-19/NYRB 232-36); “How It Ended.” Amazing 42.5 (January 1969): 59-64 (Avon 233-40/NYRB 253-60); “No Cracks or Saggings.” The Little Magazine 4.1 (Spring 1970): 44-53; rpt. without the “s” on Saggings in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 557-62 with an editors’ note on 555-56 (Avon without the “s” 25-35/NYRB without the “s” 21-31); and “A Glance at the Past.” Illus. Dan Adkins. Fantastic Stories of Imagination 20.1 (October 1970): 84-86 (Avon 147-50/NYRB 158-61). A story first published in Moderan, “New Kings are Not for Laughing,” was rpt. in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 562-66 with an editors’ note on 555-56; rpt. in the New York Review of Books ed. (38-44). Stories first reprinted in the New York Review of Books ed. are “Two Suns for Two Kings.” Worlds of If Science Fiction 21.4 (159) (April 1972): 113-18 (NYRB 274-78); “When the Metal Eaters Came?” Galaxy Science Fiction 39.10 (June/July 1979): 120-22 (NYRB 304-07); and “A Little Girl’s Spring Day in Moderan.” Galaxy Science Fiction 39.11 (September/October 1979): 122-26 (NYRB 308-14). Stories first published in the New York Review of Books ed. are “A Little at All Times” 263-67); “The Joke” (268-73); “The Good War” (279-85); “In the Land That Aimed at Forever” (286-91); “Among the Metal-and-People People (292-97); “The Dirty War” (298-303); “December for Stronghold” (315-23); and “The Heartacher and the Warehouseman” (324-27). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sea is Boiling Hot Y1 - 1971 A1 - George [Everett] Bamber (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia. Sex and violence in domed cities.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Silent in Gehenna" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) ED - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of patriotism with the universities run by the military.

JF - The Many Worlds of Science Fiction PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Approaching Ellison: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow. Eleven Uncollected Stories (New York: Walker, 1974), 97-114.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sun Grows Cold Y1 - 1971 A1 - Howard [Francis] Berk (1925-2015) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-World War III dystopia. An underground Complex is involved in erasing memories, and the novel focuses on a man who wants to recover his.

PB - Delacorte CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - THX 1138 Y1 - 1971 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Thought control. All people are bald; all clothes are white.

PB - Paperback Library CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Towards Helhaven: Three Stages of a Vision” Y1 - 1971 A1 - Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satiric essay that begins by reflecting on 1930 Burke and on the waste created by war and pollution, and then suggests the development of Helhaven, a “culture bubble” on the moon. Burke extends the satire in his “Why Satire, With a Plan for Writing One.” Michigan Quarterly Review 13 (Winter 1974): 307-37. Rpt. in his One Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows 1967-1984. Ed. William Rueckert and Angela Bonadonna. Arranged and Annotated by William Rueckert (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 66-95.

JF - The Sewanee Review VL - 79.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adam and Eve and Newbury Y1 - 1970 A1 - Diana Bennett KW - Female author AB -

Humor set in a dystopia of an overzealous welfare state. The novel focuses on those who do not fit in.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood of Tyrants" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A plan to educate teenage gang leaders and then have them lead their former gangs to a less violent life backfires in that the gang leaders use their knowledge to organize to gain power.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 44.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his Forward in Time: A Science Fiction Story Collection (New York: Walker & Co., 1973), 17-34; and in The Best of Bova. 3 vols. (New York: Baen Books, 2016), 1: 113-131.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Doomsday Show. A Cabaret" Y1 - 1970 A1 - George Macbeth A1 - J. S. Bingham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopian play set in an authoritarian society that evolved in caves among the few survivors of a nuclear war.

JF - New English Dramatists PB - Penguin CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. VL - 14 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Sammler's Planet Y1 - 1970 A1 - Saul Bellow (1915-2005) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A minor thread discusses the possibility of establishing a eutopia on the moon. There is also considerable discussion of H.G. Wells and of the nature of utopianism.

PB - Viking Press CY - New York N1 -

Originally published in different form illus. Mario Micossi in The Atlantic 224.5 - 6 (November - December 1969): 95-150, 99-142.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A New Renaissance?" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Gregory [G.] Baum ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Canada as a troubled religious eutopia in 2020. Canadian universities had been destroyed by student revolts in the 1990s and replaced with centers of conversation. These led to a revival of religion and a reduction in productivity. The government gives out drugs to get people re-connected to reality, and the church becomes an inquisitor.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody Lives in Burton Street" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Greg[ory Albert] Benford (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future U.S. dystopia. African Americans contained in ghettoes, but there are constant riots.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 44.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best of Gregory Benford. Ed. David G. Hartwell (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2015), 9-16. Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There." Vertex 1.6 (February 1974): 72-75, 94.

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Rpt. with minor revisions as "Nobody Lives Around There."

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sex and the High Command Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on male chauvinism and women's liberation.

PB - Weybright and Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

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IU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space Stadium Y1 - 1970 A1 - H[erbert] U[rlin] Bevis (1902-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Peace on earth achieved by having teams of men fight in space with world control the prize.

PB - Lenox Hill Press CY - [New York] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Statistician's Day." Y1 - 1970 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which birth control is insufficient and death is also controlled.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Troika Incident. A Tetralogue in Two Parts Y1 - 1970 A1 - James Cooke Brown (1921-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia of a decentralized, craft-based economy and free love.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

HRC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walter Perkins Is Here!" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Raymond E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) ED - William F[rancis] Nolan (1928-2021) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on an affluent world in which everyone "belongs" to a computer and constantly follows its advice. Surface cars abolished and horses reinstated. With no real explanation the entire world becomes one big party.

JF - The Future is NOW: All-New All-Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Sherbourne Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Agharta, The Subterranean World" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Raymond Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in the center of the Earth presented as fact. He says it is based on eastern legends, but he also says that the people are descendents of Atlantis and Lemuria. World government under a king. No old age or death; no sex (reproduction by parthenogenesis); men and women live apart; children raised collectively. Extremely advanced scientifically and is the source of flying saucers. Live on fruit. The chapter also includes discussion of other subterranean utopias.

JF - The Hollow Earth: The Greatest Geographical Discovery in History Made by Admiral Richard Byrd in the Mysterious Land Beyond the Poles--The True Origin of the Flying Saucers PB - University Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Atrocity Exhibition Y1 - 1969 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Wide-ranging dystopia with the violence of the contemporary world the primary focus.

PB - Jonathan Cape. CY - London N1 -

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

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U.S. ed. as Love and Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York: Grove Press, 1972.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Babel Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Burns (1929-2013) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Experimental novel with hundreds of characters, including well-known people, and no discernible plot that depicts contemporary life as dystopia and returning time and again to the war in Vietnam.

PB - Calder & Boyars CY - London N1 -

An excerpt appeared in New Worlds, 191 (June 1969): 24-27.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Give-and-Take Utopia" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Brien (1925-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A personal view of eutopia, which he calls a "half-way utopia" and a "more-or-less Merry England". It will be planned but not predictable, permissive but not lawless, safe but not dull, and patriotic but not racist. Among other things, there will be a limit on income, and everyone must work.

JF - New Statesman VL - 78.2006 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Time of Disposal of Infants" Y1 - 1969 A1 - David [Roosevelt] Bunch (1925-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the future where unwanted live children (usually infants) are collected like garbage.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 42.6 U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jagged Orbit Y1 - 1969 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence in which it is necessary to be armed on the street.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

CSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rakehells of Heaven Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire--promiscuity, anarchy, nudity, and a return to nature.

PB - Weybright & Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ulcer Culture Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that is divided between the Uppers and the workers with the workers controlled through the distribution of Joy Juice (hallucinogenic drugs), but someone has been tampering with the drugs.

PB - Macdonald Science Fiction CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Stained Glass World. London: New English Library, 1976

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Rpt. as Stained Glass World

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We All Die Naked" Y1 - 1969 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

JF - Three for Tomorrow PB - Meredith Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem. A computer Cockaigne but with an element of irony.

JF - The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster PB - Four Seasons Foundation CY - San Francisco, CA VL - Writing 20 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Delta, 1968): 1.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Doomsday Men Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in a future U.S. where fear of nuclear war has led to the collapse of most cities and people live spread across the landscape served by machines. One city remains as a center of pleasure, but seemingly mindless violence erupts.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Curtis Books/Modern Literary Editions, nd. U.K. ed. London: Robert Hale, 1968. Shorter version in If 15.11 (November 1965): 102-59

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DLC, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Freezer" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Candice Bergen (b. 1946) ED - Stanley Richards KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which everyone is frozen and repaired at 65 so that they can be useful citizens in an authoritarian state.

JF - The Best Short Plays 1968. The Margaret Mayorga Series PB - Chilton Book Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Watermelon Sugar Y1 - 1968 A1 - Richard Brautigan (1935-84) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia on the Cockaigne model.

JF - Writing 21 PB - Four Seasons Foundation CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Delta, 1968. UK. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ladies' Day Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal dystopia. Woman had taken over after another war. A revolt of men is put down, but a movement toward equality is beginning.

PB - Belmont Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Starship from Earth Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Boyd Bradfield] [Upchurch] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eugenic dystopia and the struggle against it. Science rules. Everyone is classified according to their talents and can only marry within their caste.

PB - Weybright and Talley CY - New York U3 -

John Boyd [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stand on Zanzibar Y1 - 1968 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel that takes place in a future overpopulation and corporate dystopia.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Orb, 2011 with a new “Foreword The Happening World” (vii-xiv) by Bruce Sterling; as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1987 illus. Vincent DiFate and with an “Introduction” (unpaged) by David Brin; as 300 copy ed. illus. Jacob McMurray and with an “Introduction” by Kim Stanley Robinson” (9-13 misnumbered 7 in the Table of Contents) and “Viewpoint. Childless Couples and Delinquent Children” (549-56 misnumbered 543 in the Table of Contents) by Brunner rpt. from Science and Public Policy 12.3 (June 1985): 149-52. Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2009; and as New York: Tor Essentials, 2021, with the foreword “The Happening World” by Bruce Sterling from the Orb 2011 ed. (v-xii). Extracts were published in New Worlds Science Fiction 51.177 (November 1967): 34-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Without Apology: The Autobiography of Sir George Maudesley, Bart. Edited with Notes and a Postscript Y1 - 1968 A1 - Ewan Butler KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Britain under the Nazis. It is liberated in 1952.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Computer Takes All Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Leonard Owen] [John] (1918-95) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Computer dystopia.

PB - Cassell CY - London U3 -

John Bourne [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quicksand Y1 - 1967 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Dictatorship of immortals. Sex as a drug. Neutered women act as sexual experts.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Station HR972” Y1 - 1967 A1 - H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia brought about the car, with a 32-lane highway with minimum speeds of 125 to 150 miles an hour.

JF - Worlds of Tomorrow VL - 4.3 (22) N1 -

Rpt. in Nightmare Age. Ed. Frederik [George] Pohl, [Jr.] (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 91-103; and in Car Sinister. Ed. Robert Silverberg, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (New York: Avon Books, 1979), 62-75. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Superstoe Y1 - 1967 A1 - William [Vickers] Borden (b. 1938) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor in which a group of brilliant men take over the U.S. and the control of the world. They bring world peace, plenty, raised intelligence, and boredom.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

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DLC, MoSW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Torrent of Faces Y1 - 1967 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) A1 - Norman L[ouis] Knight (1895-1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth has a very large and growing population following what they call the “Age of Waste”. This does not produce the usual dystopia because the Earth can support its population if well organized. The political system is a corporate state (the authors call it Fascism), and at the beginning of the novel it is working well, but the plot is driven by a forthcoming disaster, a meteor strike, and the system struggles to deal with it. Still, at the end the system survives. Said to be “a sequel of sorts” to Knight’s “Frontier of the Unknown.” Illus. [William Elliott] Dold (1889-1957). Astounding Stories 19.5 - 6 (July - August 1937): 8-33; 122-54; and his “Crisis in Utopia.” Astounding Science-Fiction 25.5 - 6 (July - August 1940), 9-38; 126-54.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Novelization of “The Shipwrecked Hotel.” Galaxy Magazine 23.6 (August 1965): 151-85; “The Piper of Dis.” Galaxy Science Fiction 24.6 (August 1966): 56-87; and “To Love Another.” Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 79.2 (April 1967): 8-56. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And Madly Teach" Y1 - 1966 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extrapolation of the dystopian effect of technology on teaching and the response of one excellent teacher who manages to overcome the negative impact of the technology.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 30.5 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction. Sixteenth Series. Ed. Edward L. Ferman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967), 25-58.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Giles Goat-Boy or, The Revised New Syllabus Y1 - 1966 A1 - John [Simmons] Barth (b. 1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Complex comic novel that includes a dystopia set in a university and ruled by a computer. Giles is a boy raised as an animal who becomes a spiritual leader at New Tammany College (the U.S.).

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Other Gods But Me" Y1 - 1966 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia in which adepts keep people at the level of earl agriculture with no technology.

JF - No Other Gods But Me PB - Compact Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his Entry to Elsewhen (New York: DAW Books, 1972), 91-172; rpt. with a different cover in October 1972. Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

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Substantially revised from a shorter, different version published as “A Time to Rend.” Science Fantasy 7.20 (December 1956): 2-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tenth Home Y1 - 1966 A1 - F[rancis] O[swald] Bennett (1898-1976) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Fictional home for the elderly which is both an analysis of such homes and a description of an ideal one. Presented as combining fiction and the stories of actual people in such homes. The ideal home is one that is not simply warehousing its people but responding to their individual needs and interests, and in an opening eutopian vignette involving children, animals, and the neighborhood with the home (3-8). The New Zealand author was a doctor who served as medical officer at several such homes.

PB - Blackwood & Janet Paul CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flying High Y1 - 1965 A1 - Dewey C. Brookins (1904-82) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A trip to an inhabited moon set in 2000 while Earth is preparing for the next world war, which appears to not happen. People on the moon far in advance of Earth. Buildings on the moon underground. Monarchy. Christianity and the religion of the moon are similar. The people from Earth are not allowed to return to Earth, and one marries the Queen. Other planets are also inhabited. 

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God Killers Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Martin] Baxter (b. 1939) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian, religious, anti-science dystopia.

PB - Horwitz CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction 50.163 - 164 (June - July 1966): 4-65, 74-129; and as The Off-Worlders. New York: Ace Books, 1966. Ace Double bound with Lin Carter, The Star Magicians

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nobody Axed You" Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which violence is normal and the top-rated TV programs show people being killed.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 48.150 N1 -

Rpt. in his Time-Jump (New York: Dell, 1973), 130-60.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Dust Y1 - 1965 A1 - Bee [Beatrice Lillian] Baldwin (b. 1920) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author AB -

A pandemic is brought about by spores, the red dust, from Antarctica and most of the world's population dies. In New Zealand a survivor briefly establishes an authoritarian dystopia, but is finally overthrown by some survivors who are immune to the disease. The Immunes are changed by the spores both physically and morally and the possibility of a future eutopia is held out.

PB - Robert Hale/Whitcombe & Tombs CY - London/[Christchurch, New Zealand] N1 -

Also published London: Robert Hale, 1965.

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ATL, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Smallcreep's Day Y1 - 1965 A1 - Peter Currell Brown (b. 1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopia that is factory system seen through the eyes of one man who spends a day wandering around a huge factory.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Squares of the City Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in a newly built, intended to be ideal, city in a South American dictatorship. The novel is modeled on a game of chess and deals with a power struggle between the dictator and his main opponent.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visa for Avalon Y1 - 1965 A1 - [Annie Winifred] [Ellerman] (1894-1983) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel takes place just as England is being taken over by an authoritarian movement that is already producing a dystopia. People escape to Avalon, but it is reached in the last sentence of the book and not described.

PB - Harcourt, Brace & World CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Ashfield, MA: Paris Press, 2004.

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Bryher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wasted on the Young" Y1 - 1965 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future society with wealth for all in return for work. The young may borrow against future earnings. Story is about a young man who tries to beat the system and fails.

JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 23.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his From This Day Forward (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 63-77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Animal Farm: A Fable in Two Acts Y1 - 1964 A1 - Nelson [Slade] Bond (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Adaptation of 1945 Blair.

PB - Samuel French CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Big Switch Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Violet] Muriel Box (1905-91) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal in which women have created a eutopia after an accidental atomic war.

PB - Macdonald CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Burning World Y1 - 1964 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Climate-change dystopia.

PB - Berkley Medallion/Berkley Publishing Co CY - New York N1 -

Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. 

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Better known in an expanded version as The Drought. London: Cape, 1965. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fall of Frenchy Steiner" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Hilary [Denham] Bailey (1936-2017) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which Germany has won World War II and England is being run down (no water, gas, electricity, etc.) under German rule.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 48.143 N1 -

Rpt. in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merrill (New York: Dell, 1968), 94-126; in The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy By Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), 132-64; and in Hitler Victorious: Eleven Stories of the German Victory in World War II. Ed. Gregory [Albert] Benford and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Garland, 1986), 53-81. U.K. ed. (London: Grafton, 1988), 83-123.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Encyclopaedist: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D." Y1 - 1964 A1 - Stephen [David] Becker (1927-99) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An entry in a future encyclopedia describing the survivors of a nuclear war who use what is left to build a eutopian future. See also his “The New Encyclopaedist--II: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.3 (160) (September 1964): 74-76; and “The New Encyclopaedist--III: Entries for the Great Book of History, First Edition, 2100 A.D.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 27.4 (162) (November 1964): 62-64.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 26.5 (156) ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nova Express Y1 - 1964 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian imagery of an addicts’ world with the Nova Police versus the Nova Mob. Third volume of a trilogy following 1961 and 1962 Burroughs. 

PB - Grove Press CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Out Y1 - 1964 A1 - Christine [Frances Evelyn] Brooke-Rose (1923-2012) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - French author AB -

Dystopia in which light skinned people are suppressed.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Peek at Heaven Y1 - 1964 A1 - Lucius M. Bush KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia in which everyone stays young, blacks turn white, there is romance and sex, and children stay children permanently.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Serve the State of Freedom" Y1 - 1964 A1 - [Mary Jane] [Engh] (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia embedded in a number of dystopias. Those who follow the Star of Freedom give and take gifts freely but are surrounded by the Star of Battle, the Star of the Market, and the Star of Beauty, all of which exchange less freely.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 27.1 (158) U3 -

Jane Beauclerk [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Angry Rabbit Y1 - 1964 A1 - Russell [Reading] Braddon (1921-95) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which Australian scientists discover a biological weapon that the Prime Minister uses to force world peace and Australian economic and political dominance of the world. 

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1965. Partially serialized in Australian Women's Weekly 32.21 - 23 (October 21 - November 4, 1964): 19, 55, 59-60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 92-99; 33, 38, 46, 48-49, 51, 53-58, 66, 69-72, 74; 38, 47, 51, 55, 63, 65-66, 68-71, 77.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Another Rib" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) A1 - [Juanita Ruth Wellons] [Coulson] (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

An early transgender story in which the sun has exploded and destroyed Earth and all the other planets. The only survivors are a group of sixteen men on a distant planet they had recently discovered. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 24.6 (145) U3 -

John John Wells [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dreaming Earth Y1 - 1963 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia and the problems that arise from a drug induced euphoria that leads people to completely drop out. But the dropouts are actually dropping in to new, empty worlds presented as simple eutopias.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Dreaming Earth. Science Fiction. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972.

Originally serialized as “Put Down the Earth.” New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 107 -109 (June - August 1961): 4-47, 81-122, 77-127.

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Originally serialized as “Put Down the Earth.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Jack Fell Down” Y1 - 1963 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

While the novella focuses on interplanetary politics, Earth is presented as a technological eutopia that had been brought about largely by the drop in population resulting from colonization.

JF - Science Fiction Adventures (UK) VL - 6.31 N1 -

Rpt. in Crime Prevention in the 30th Century. Ed. Hans Stefan Santesson (New York: Walker and Co., 1969), 1-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Own Utopia" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - German author KW - US author AB -

All people female until forty-four and then become male presented positively.

JF - Ascent of Woman PB - George Braziller CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Pan-Humanist Manifesto--A Call for Leadership and a Program of Action in a Free World" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Ralph Borsodi (1886-1977) ED - Mildred J. Loomis KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Wide-ranging eutopia that includes a proposal for something like H.G. Wells’s Samurai in A Modern Utopia (1904-05).

JF - Way Out VL - 19.1 U5 -

KU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Subliminal Man" Y1 - 1963 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which subliminal advertising makes the population continually consume.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 42.126 N1 -

Rpt. in In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 58-80; in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 158-77; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 213-30; in Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 117-34; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 171-88; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 412-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Whites Went Y1 - 1963 A1 - Robert [Moyes Carruthers] Bateman (1922-73) KW - English author AB -

Dystopia followed by the suggestion of a better future. Almost all whites disappear, and, after many problems, blacks discover cooperation.

PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Digit, 1964. U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co., 1963. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World To Be Y1 - 1963 A1 - Edward Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia particularly concerned with government structure, economics, law, and education. Representation by population worldwide. Detailed descriptions of elections and of each level of government. Gives plans for various economic sectors.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cage of Sand" Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where Florida is now. Mostly sand dunes, and people trying to live there are captured by wardens.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction (London) VL - 40.119 N1 -

Rpt. in The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 137-59; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 355-72.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Clockwork Orange Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence, drugs, and youth gangs who speak Nadsat, an argot based on Russian. One theme that appears throughout Burgess’s works is opposition to state action, here reflected in the state’s attempts to reform the protagonist. The chapter missing from the U.S. edition and left out of the film depicts the redemption of the protagonist.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. with significant differences. New York: W. W. Norton, 1963; rev. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987, with “Introduction: A Clockwork Orange Resucked” (v-xi) and with an added last chapter that was in the original U.K. edition but not in the U.S. edition or in Stanley Kubrick’s film. Critical ed. based on the Heinemann ed. as A Clockwork Orange: Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contexts Criticism. Ed. Mark Rawlinson (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), 1-121, with “Notes on the Text” (122) and “A Glossary of Nadsat Terms” (123-27). 50th anniversary edition with a “restored text.” Ed. Andrew Biswell. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012, with an “Introduction by the editor (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (205-12), “Annotated Pages from Anthony Burgess’s 1961 Typescript (213-20, “The Clockwork Condition” 221-238), and “EPILOGUE: ‘A Malenky Govoreet about the Molodoy’ Anthony Burgess, 1987” (239-46). Rpt. illus. Ben Jones. London: The Folio Society, 2014, with an “Introduction by Irvine Welsh (xi-xix) and “A Note on the Restored Edition” (xxi-xxii), “Notes” (201-10), and “Nadsat Glossary” (211-14) by Andrew Biswell. 

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Anthony Burgess [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Drowned World Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A Ballardian version of a climate change/global warming dystopia set in 2145 in a tropical, abandoned, and flooded London.

PB - Berkley Medallion CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. rpt. in The Drowned World and The Wind from Nowhere. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. U.K. ed. rpt. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1983; and, with minor changes. London: The Folio Society, 2013, with an Introduction by Will Self (xi-xviii) and Illus. By James Boswell. Expanded from “The Drowned World.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.24 (January 1962).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Homosexual Aid Society in the Middle of the 21st Century" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Roger Barth KW - Male author AB -

Short story about a reformed future from a homosexual perspective. An agreement had been reached that homosexuals could live anywhere but would refrain from intercourse in small towns. In cities over 10,000, they were completely free, and in "the Great City" the Homosexual Aid Society had a large area with two large towers, one for men and one for women, and provided services ranging from education to match making.

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CLU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Insane Ones" Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all psychological intervention is illegal, being insane is a protected category, suicide is legal, and it is a crime to interfere with a suicide attempt.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 36.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Great Science Fiction, no. 7 ([1967]): 95-105; and in his The Complete Short Stories (London: Flamingo, 2001), 289-97.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lani People Y1 - 1962 A1 - J[esse] F[ranklin] Bone (1916-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A planet is inhabited by beautiful women who have been bred to perfectly please men and are only happy if completely naked. They are shipped throughout the galaxy.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Transworld, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Life for the Stars Y1 - 1962 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with a dystopia of an Earth depleted of resources with entire cities leaving Earth as physical units to roam space looking for work. The focus of the novel is a young man who is impressed into the work force of a leaving city and then traded to another city.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1964. Also published in Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction 70.1 - 2 (September - October 1962): 6-51, 111-61. Part of a series collected in his Cities in Flight (New York: Avon, 1970), 131-234. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ticket That Exploded Y1 - 1962 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The second volume in a trilogy with Burroughs’s usual emphases. See 1961 and 1964 Burroughs for the other volumes in the trilogy. 

PB - Olympia CY - Paris N1 -

Rev. ed. New York: Grove Press, 1967. Part of the section “silence to say good bye” (Grove 183-202) was originally published as “‘Burning Heavens, Idiot’.” The Insect Trust Gazette, no. 1 (Summer 1964): 21-26; and the appendix (not labeled as such in Grove) was published as “The Invisible Generation.” The International Times (London), nos. 3 and 6 (November 16-27, 1966 and January 16-29, 1967): 6, 6. The sections “in a strange bed” (Grove 32-42) and “the black fruit” (Grove 85-95) were written in collaboration with Michael Portman.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Times Without Number Y1 - 1962 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian alternative history in which England did not defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588, and England became the center on the Spanish empire after Spain was re-conquered by Muslims.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Originally published as “The Word Not Written.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.26 [vol. 5 on cover] (May 1962): 62-100; “Spoil of Yesterday.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.25 [vol. 5 on cover] ([March] 1962): 2-40; and “The Fullness of Time.” Science Fiction Adventures 4.27 [vol. 5 on cover] ([July] 1962): 2-41. Rev. and exp. ed. of the book New York: Ace Books, 1969; rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983. UK ed. London: Elmfield Press, 1974. The original stories, never before reprinted, can be found in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 13-165, with “Spoil of Yesterday” on 13-63, “The Word Not Written” on 65-114, and “The Fullness of Time” on 115-165.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wanting Seed Y1 - 1962 A1 - [John Anthony Burgess] [Wilson] (1917-1993) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which homosexuality is encouraged to keep down population growth. Various methods were being used to keep population down including a fake war (called Extermination Sessions) and State condoned infanticide.

PB - Heinemann CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. U.K. ed. rpt. London: Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983 with "A Foreword" by the author comparing A Clockwork Orange and The Wanting Seed; and in his Future Imperfect: The Wanting Seed. 1985 (London: Vintage, 1994), 1-282, which reprints the 1983 foreword (ix-xii) and includes his "1985 and The Wanting Seed--An Introduction" (v-viii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wind of Liberty Y1 - 1962 A1 - Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which corporations rule. Rebels.

PB - Digit Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Zilov Bombs Y1 - 1962 A1 - D[onald] G[abriel] Barron KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian background with England controlled by the USSR and an underground movement organizing. Mostly adventure.

PB - André Deutsch CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1963.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Analysts" Y1 - 1961 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the story concerns a “visualizer” trying to understand the purpose of a proposed building with internal staircases and corridors that end in blank walls. It turns out that if someone continues, they emerge in a future that is trying to atone for the way humans responded to discovering many peaceful, advanced civilizations, which was to attack rather than try to understand.

JF - Science Fantasy VL - 16.48 SN - 978-0-7123-5382-3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Society of Time: The Original Trilogy and Other Stories. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2020), 239-87.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Billenium" Y1 - 1961 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia presenting extreme overcrowding.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 38.112 N1 -

Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 7-21; in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon [Francis] Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 92-107; and in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 137-51; and as “Billennium” in his The Terminal Beach (London: Victor Gollancz, 1964), 175-91; in Future Tense. Ed. Richard Curtis (New York: Dell, 1968), 50-65; in Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth/Ballantine Books, 1971), 3-23; 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), 94-109; in Earth In Transit: Science Fiction and Contemporary Problems. Ed. Sheila Schwartz (New York: Dell, 1976), 136-51; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 125-40; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 286-301; in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 267-78; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 113-25; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 113-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Challenge. Plan of Action For a Better Tomorrow. A Major Novel of the Near Future Y1 - 1961 A1 - Arthur C. Mangels A1 - Albert F. Byers KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Capitalist eutopia. Complicated scheme to establish Earth's Trading Post, Inc. as the world's largest corporation to buy up US assets and lease them back, which will make everything more efficient and effectively compete with Communism. Good capitalists refuse salaries in excess of absolute need. The military is privatized and is more efficient. There is a strong religious component. Women's clubs, which can be established or joined through a coupon on the back cover flap, are instrumental in eliminating government waste. Another coupon on the front cover flap offers copies to corporations, complete with company logos on the cover, to distribute to their shareholders.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System Y1 - 1961 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

One of his many detailed eutopias focusing on changes to the monetary system. This volume lays out the basic points, all of which stem from making credit always available, which are expanded and added to in later volumes. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This book and some others also include his cosmological views. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System, and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control, and The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost; See also 1956 Ball, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball; 1956 Ball, The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - J. B. Ball CY - Regina, SK, Canada N1 -

2nd ed. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball, 1962. 57 pp. 3rd ed. as Cosmocracy: One Corporate World. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball. 53 pp. 2nd ed. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball, 1962. 72 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Metatopia Y1 - 1961 A1 - F[rank] N[orman] Ball KW - Male author AB -

Odd detailed eutopia set in 2023. Equalitarian but recognizing merit. Press controlled by the universities. Planning to decrease population, provide better housing, and more green space. His Intellectual Calculus. Ipswich, Eng.: The Thames Bank Publishing Co., 1957 provides some background.

PB - Thames Bank Pub. Co. Ltd CY - Ipswich, Eng. N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Monument" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-Communist story showing the advantages of the capitalist mentality. An invention, which allows everyone to fly individually, transforms the world in the direction of a libertarian eutopia.

JF - Analog Science Fact--Fiction VL - 67.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 5-64; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 7-54. Rev. as Monument. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Put Down This Earth" Y1 - 1961 A1 - John [Kilian Houston] Brunner (1934-95) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulated, authoritarian dystopia. People escape through a drug that ultimately takes them to a new world.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - nos. 107 - 109 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soft Machine Y1 - 1961 A1 - William [Seward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The present as a dystopia with stress on drugs and sex together with the perception of secretive state operations. The first volume of a trilogy followed by 1962 and 1964 Burroughs. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Well of the Deep Wish" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where people spend twenty-three hours a day watching TV.

JF - If VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Metallic Muse (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 138-57.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chronopolis" Y1 - 1960 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which people had been too concerned with time, and there were clocks everywhere. It was made illegal to have a watch or a clock because timed people could be made to work faster, but with all clocks gone nothing works very well, and the city is almost abandoned. The story focuses on a boy growing up who is fascinated with clocks.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 32.95 N1 -

Rpt. in his Billenium (New York: Berkley, 1962), 117-39; in his The Four-Dimensional Nightmare (London: Victor Gollancz, 1963), 184-208; in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 152-74; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 43-66; in his The Voices of Time (London: J.M. Dent, 1984), 173-97; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 150-68.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sexless Dynasty Y1 - 1960 A1 - William W. Bolton M.D. (b. 1900) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia brought about by the reproductive independence of women. Sex role reversal with women considering eliminating men altogether. There is a men’s resistance movement, and the most anti-male woman falls in love.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tower" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Philip [Edmund] Booth (1925-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian poem about a huge tower, which comes to dominate the lives of the people and was built by an authoritarian government.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World-Timer" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A parallel timeline that has solved human psycho-sexual problems and produced a eutopia. Each person goes through three stages. The first stage from age sixteen in which boys are paired with women in their thirties and girls are paired with men in their thirties and with whom they have and raise children to age six (after which the children are raised by the state). In the second stage the roles are reversed. Each of the first two stages last for ten years. In the third stage adults form relationships for as long as they choose.

JF - Fantastic Science Fiction Stories VL - 9.8 N1 -

Rpt. in The Most Thrilling Science Fiction Ever Told [1 (1966)]: 77-101; and in his Last Rites. Volume 3 of The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch (Los Angeles, CA: Underwood-Miller, 1987), 11-33. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caduceus Wild" Y1 - 1959 A1 - [Joseph] Ward Moore (1903-78) A1 - Robert Bradford KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Tyranny of doctors making sure everyone is healthy.

JF - Original Science Fiction Stories VL - 9.5 - 10.2 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For Sale, Reasonable" Y1 - 1959 A1 - Elizabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - German author AB -

Dystopia written as a job application by a human in an automated future.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 17.1 (98) N1 -

Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 170-72 with an editor’s note on 169; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 321-24. Addition material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org; and as “To Whom It May Concern.” In her To Whom It May Concern (New York: George Braziller, 1960), 25-29. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Naked Lunch Y1 - 1959 A1 - William S[eward] Burroughs (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

One of many dystopias by Burroughs which generally share the same characteristics: authoritarian tending toward the paranoid and concern with drugs and homosexuality. His dystopia, known as the Interzone, was based on Tangier, Morocco. 

PB - Olympia Press CY - Paris N1 -

Also pub. as Naked Lunch. New York: Grove Press, 1962. These two editions differ substantially. Grove Press ed. rpt. New York: Grove Press, 1992. UK ed. as The Naked Lunch. London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1964. Something approaching a critical edition is Naked Lunch: The Restored Text. Ed. James Grauerholz and Barry Miles. New York: Grove Press, 2001. This edition corrects errors and adds “Original Introductions and Additions by the Author” (197-229) and “Burroughs Texts Annexed by the Editors” (231-89), which includes “Editors' Note” (233-47). Rpt. as 50th Anniversary Edition. New York: Grove Press, 2009 with an added “Afterword” by David L. Ulin (291-99). A bibliographic nightmare in that all the early editions differ because they are based on different versions of the text and have added differing front and back matter. Parts were originally published as by William Lee [pseud.] as “From: Naked Lunch, Book III: In Search of Yage.” Black Mountain Review, no. 7 (Autumn 1957): 144-48; “Have You Seen Pantapon Done.” Yūgen (New York), no. 3 (1958): 4-5; “Excerpt from Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.1 (Spring 1958): 25-30; and “Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch.” Chicago Review 12.3 (Autumn 1958): 3-12. When further sections were stopped by the University of Chicago, Big Table was established to publish them and despite police attention published “Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch.” Big Table, no. 1 (Spring 1959): 79-137; and “In Quest of Yage.” Big Table 2 (Summer 1959): 44-64. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Split Worlds: A Fabulous Story of the Future. Y1 - 1959 A1 - Tyrone C. Barr KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Post-nuclear war novel in which fourteen survivors (five women and nine men) settle a planet where they begin to create the conditions that led to the nuclear war on Earth.

PB - Brown, Watson/Digit Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle London: Brown, Watson/Digit Books, 1962. Different version as The Last 14. [Long, Island, NY]: Chariot Publishers, 1960. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Rain Y1 - 1958 A1 - John [Griffin] Bowen (1924-2019) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia (flooding). A play, with significant differences from the novel, was adapted by the author was based on the novel. After the Rain: A Play in Three Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1967. U.S. ed. New York: Random House, 1967 with production photographs. There is a note in the U.K. ed. ([9]) detailing tree objections that the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Cobbold, then censor, objected to that had to be changed in performance. First performed at the Hampstead Theatre Club on September 1, 1966 directed by Vivian Matalon. As originally performed, the play was innovative in that the audience was seated so as to be part of the play. When transferred to the Duchess Theatre and then to New York, the seating was as usual. The Library of Congress holds the Playbill 4.10 (October 1967) for the production at the John Golden Theatre in New York City, which starred Alec McCowen (1925-2017), who had also played the role in London. 

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Case of Conscience Y1 - 1958 A1 - James [Benjamin] Blish (1921-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two societies are presented, Lithia, a eutopia, and earth, a dystopia. Earth, which is called the Shelter Society because it emerged from entire cities moving underground as bomb shelters is stratified and hedonistic but with considerable alienation. Lithia is a eutopia that is entirely rational. The novel’s primary protagonist is a Jesuit who concludes that Lithia is a creation of Satan.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Faber & Faber, 1959. Rpt. New York: Walker & Co., 1969; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1963; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 492-547; London: Millennium, 1999; and in American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: Library of America, 2012), 373-553, with a “Biographical Note” (809-10), a “Note on the Text” (815-16), and “Notes” (823-29) and additional material on line at loa.org/sciencefiction. An illus. 300-copy edition has been published Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2021. Originally published abridged in If 2.4 (September 1953): 4-51, 116-17.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Matriarchy of Renok” Y1 - 1958 A1 - N[orma] K[athleen] Hemming (1928-60) ED - Toby Burrows KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A matriarchy that keeps men in their “proper” role as slaves is visited by a man from Earth. which leads the all-powerful Galactic Empire. The man is crass in the extreme and assumes that the women will fall for him. They don’t. 

JF - Dwellers in Silence: Stories and Plays by Norma Hemming PB - Hilliard Press CY - Nedlands, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret of ZI Y1 - 1958 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia of aliens dominating earth with a revolt by the humans.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

 Rev. ed. as The Patient Dark. London: Robert Hale, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Crowded Earth" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia in which single people are allowed a small, one-room apartment. The decision is made to give women shots that will result in them giving birth to children who will only grow to be three feet tall. They come to be known as Yardsticks and slowly replace larger people. Complex story but the Yardsticks lose their vitality and knowledge and need the help of the few remaining full-size people to change.

JF - Amazing Science Fiction Stories VL - 38.10 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 1-109. Bound with 1968 Bloch.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Build-Up" Y1 - 1957 A1 - J[ames] G[raham] Ballard (1930-2009) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. The entire world is one city, and no one knows that the world is round.

JF - New Worlds Science Fiction VL - 19.55 N1 -

Rpt. in his Chronopolis and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971), 175-93. Rpt. as “The Concentration City.” In his The Disaster Area (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), 33-57; in The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978), 1-20; and in his The Complete Short Stories. (London: Flamingo, 2001), 23-38. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burning World Y1 - 1957 A1 - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed libertarian utopia struggling with those who wanted power internally and external enemies.

JF - Infinity Science Fiction VL - 2.4 N1 -

Rpt. Medford, OR: Armchair Press, 2012 bound with Chester S. Geier (1921-90), Forever Is Too Long originally published in Fantastic Adventures (March 1947). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - One Half of the World Y1 - 1957 A1 - James Barlow (1921-73) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in a postwar authoritarian dystopia where Britain, having lost the war, is occupied. The novel follows a British member of Internal Security as he comes to question his loyalty of the occupiers.

PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "There's No Business" Y1 - 1957 A1 - [Henry] Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which all film and TV is banned.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "This Second Earth" Y1 - 1957 A1 - [John Stephen] [Glasby] (1928-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia after an atomic war that obliterated most of the world's cities. A "Homo Superior" is produced by the radioactivity and must be fought by the surviving humans while they try to create the basis for a new civilization. The normal humans win, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.

PB - John Spencer & Co. Cobra Books CY - London U3 -

R. L. Bowers [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Tunesmith" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Lloyd Biggle Jr. (1923-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where all art is in the form of commercials.

JF - If VL - 7.5 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Metallic Muse (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972), 4-48.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit Y1 - 1956 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

One of the earliest of his many books and pamphlets that present his eutopia, a system of national credit and its positive effects which is explained in “Man and His Politics!” (64-113) through a discussion between Mr. Bruneau and Mr. Complacency. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This book and some others also include his cosmological views and examples of his poetry. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3.  See also 1956 Ball, The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: J. B. Ball; 1956 Ball, The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications. Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories”] (1-164), “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - Ball Publishing Co. CY - Regina, SK, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doubting Thomas Y1 - 1956 A1 - Winston Brebner (1924-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian bureaucratic dystopia that is effectively defeated by a clown who becomes so popular that the bureaucracy is forced to support him.

PB - Rinehart CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Executioner" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard authoritarian dystopia except for the judicial system which is based on a trial by ordeal. If you survive, you were innocent.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 56.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 84-120. U.S. ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961), 84-120. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Handbook of the Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. An Advanced Theory of Government and Finance Y1 - 1956 A1 - J[ohn] B[ernard] Ball (b. 1911) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

This work describes the basics of National Credit Control, in which paper currency and coins are replaced by a credit card system. Any economic activity not considered in the public interest is outlawed and refused credit card privileges. Although there are some variations, the eutopia is fairly consistent between the first three works published in 1956 and the last published in 1990. This pamphlet discusses farming, which is treated as any other industry, more than his others. Taxes are not levied on farm property or commodities but on produce as it is distributed. In 1957 the author ran in the Canadian federal election as a candidate in Regina, Saskatchewan for the National Credit Control Party, a party of his own creation. His purpose was to publicize the monetary system he developed. See “J.B. Ball National Credit Control” within “Six Candidates Offer Final Election Message.” The Leader-Post (Regina, SK, Canada) 48.132 (June 8, 1957): 3. See also 1956 Ball, Ahoy for Eternity and National Credit and Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control. Regina, SK, Canada: Ball Publishing Co.; The Universal Monetary System of National Credit Control: A Financial Revolution With Nationalized Accounting Merchandising at Cost. A New Democracy Based on Credit Card Currency. Regina, SK, Canada: National Credit Control of America; 1961 Ball, Cosmocracy: The Universal Monetary System. Regina, SK, Canada: J.B. Ball; 1978 Ball, Permacredit. Universal Finance for Government & Industry. World Government without Trade Deficits. A Cash System of Accounting without Debt in Industry or Government or Taxes Against Industry or Credit Cards. Foremost, AB: Author; 1980 Ball, The Cosmic Laws of the Spectrum: Evolution and Government. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications];1982 Ball, Technomics. A Better Economy. International. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications]; 1986 Ball, Beyond Capitalism. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications; and 1988 Ball, The Laws of the Micro Giants. An Odyssean Classic. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications.  Other versions include Technomics in one corporate world. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. [Foremost, AB: Author], [1983]; The Technomic Alliance [subtitle on the cover No Taxes on property or income, the obvious solution, total employment]. 3rd ed. By Barney Ballmark [pseud.]. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1984; Pathway to the Stars: Industrial Democracy Beyond Democracy and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Foremost, AB: Ballmark Publications, 1986. [New ed.] as The Pathway to the Stars. The Photon theory of Creation. Poetry. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1987. Rpt. as Pathway to the Stars. Industrial Democracy Beyond Capitalism and Christianity Plus the Photon Theory of Creation. Includes Poetry Selections. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989. Another ed. as The Pathway to the Stars. By The Hobo Poet [pseud.]. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990 in four sections, [“Memoirs, Poetry, and Stories] (1-164),” “Industrial Capitalism--Beyond Capitalism” (165-213), “Gleaning from Prairie Art Shows” (214-29), and “Radiation Properties of Creation” (230-51); Technomics International. Perpetual Payroll Financing for Government and Industry. Rev. October 1986. [Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1986; Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism and Christianity. Includes the Photon Laws of Creation. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1989; and Industrial Democracy. Beyond Capitalism. This concept of world marketing explains how nations can finance total employment, without international debt, or taxation on property and income. New Economic System. Foremost, AB, Canada: Ballmark Publications, 1990. 53 pp.

PB - J. B. Ball CY - Regina, SK, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Refuge Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Bertram] John Boland (1913-1976) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia located at the bottom of a crater in central north Greenland. Good life but authoritarian under control of doctors and scientists. Lower birth rate and higher standard of living. No disease. No marriage with children raised by the state.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pursuit Through Time: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1956 A1 - [John Frederick] Burke (1922-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

In the novel a man is sent back into the past to stop the creation of an authoritarian dystopia. He succeeds and, in doing, so creates the possibility of a better society in the future.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Brown, Watson, nd.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Trap" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Kem[ys Deverell] Deverell] Bennett (1919-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Aliens appear on Earth and abduct people from various countries around the world. One returns temporarily and explains that no one else wants to return from the alien planet, which is a cockaigne-like eutopia.

JF - Saturday Evening Post VL - 229.28 N1 -

Rpt. in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 173-88; Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. [Rev. ed.]. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 173-88 with an editor’s note on 174; and Wide-Angle Lens: Stories of Time and Space. Ed. Phyllis R. Fenner (New York: William Morrow, 1980), 147-63. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Angelo's Moon Y1 - 1955 A1 - Alec [John Charles] Brown (1900-62) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the degeneration of the human race and the failure of a utopia called Hypoltania based on science but dependent on the labor of what were called morons. Primitivia or old Britain survives.

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Climbing Wave" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Anarchist eutopia with a balanced and sustainable attitude toward technology and the environment. Live in small communities. Traditional gender roles. The story is about the crew of a spacecraft that returns to the Earth after hundreds of years and their response to the situation they find.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 8.2 (45) N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fantasy (U.K.) 7.19 (1956): 2-60; in If This Goes On. Ed. Charles Nuetzel (Beverly Hills, CA: Book Company of America, [1965]), 172-240; and in The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley. Ed. Martin H[arry] Greenberg (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1985), 50-120. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Crooked Man" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Charles Beaumont (1929-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which heterosexuality is illegal and heterosexuals are hunted. An operation is then required that makes everyone homosexual.

JF - Playboy VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Hunger, and Other Stories (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958), 139-48; rpt. (New York: Bantam Books, 1959), 106-13; in his The Fiend (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1971), 61-71; and in The Playboy Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1966), 274-85. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deep Freeze Y1 - 1955 A1 - [John Frederick] Burke (1922-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Only women and children are left on the planet, and a feminist eutopia is established. Conflict develops as the boys grow up.

PB - Hamilton CY - London U3 -

Jonathan Burke [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jackson Wong's Story" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Bolsover, John KW - Male author AB -

Post-war societies working to rehabilitate the Earth and return damaged areas to livability. Two societies are sketched in. One is controlled with the goal of placing everyone in their appropriate position, with children raised by the state and machines doing most of the productive work. The other is highly organized, but children are raised in families and people do the productive work. Spiritual concerns are important in both societies because the war is thought to have resulted from a lack in this area.

JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Tomorrow Y1 - 1955 A1 - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

After an atomic war the New Mennonites become powerful because they know how to survive on the land. They pass the thirtieth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads "No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile shall be built or permitted to exist anywhere in the United States of America." Other religious groups are even more extreme than the New Mennonites. There is a small, threatened enclave that hopes to bring back the old technology.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1974. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man With Only One Head Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Douglas Norton] [Buttrey] (1918-1994) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel focuses on the fact that after a nuclear catastrophe only one man is fertile, but, in a twist on the usual plot, he is condemned for impregnating a woman.

PB - Rich and Cowan CY - London U3 -

Densil Neve Barr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - False Night Y1 - 1954 A1 - Algis [Algirdas Jonas] Budrys (1931-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe (plague) survivalist dystopia as seen through different protagonists over a half century, with much of it concerned with conflicts among the protagonists.

PB - Lion Books CY - New York N1 -

A longer version published as Some Will Not Die, Here is Tomorrow. Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1961. Further revised without the subtitle. Illus. Frank Kelley Freas. Norfolk, VA: Starblaze/Donning, 1978. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1979. Chapter 6 was originally published as “Ironclad.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 7.6 (March 1954): 76-101.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Way Back Y1 - 1954 A1 - Margot M. Bennett (1912-80) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Future authoritarian dystopia of science in Africa whose explorers discover primitive life in Britain.

PB - The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

US ed. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thirty Years to Win Y1 - 1954 A1 - Paul E[dmond] Bacas KW - Male author AB -

Detailed nationalist, pro-business eutopia of the America the Substantial Movement set in 1983. It was ". . . formed to improve the standing of the United States among the nations of the earth" (100). Much of the book is concerned first with life in 1953, then with the established of the movement and the very eclectic principles that should govern it, and then with the history of the U.S. from 1953 to 1983.

PB - Richard R. Smith CY - Rindge, NH N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Work-Out Planet" Y1 - 1954 A1 - R[aymond] E[ugene] Banks (1918-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future earth totally dedicated to work, learning, and culture is a dystopia.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fahrenheit 451 Y1 - 1953 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, anti-intellectual dystopia. Fahrenheit 451 is the burning point of paper. See 2007 Bradbury, “The Library” and 2010 Bradbury, “Long After Midnight” for related stories.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

Serialized in Playboy 1.4 - 6 (March - May 1953): 6-9, 18, 24-25, 28, 35, 41-42, 44, 46-48, 50; 22-23, 28-329, 32-33, 36, 38, 43-44, 49; 19-20, 24, 32, 35-38,43-46, 48-50. A special 200 copy limited edition was bound in Johns-Manville Quintera (asbestos). New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. Rpt. without the asbestos binding New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967, with an “Introduction” by Bradbury (9-15); illus. Joseph Mugnaini. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. 40th Anniversary Edition. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. [50th anniversary ed.] New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003 includes Bradbury’s introduction to the 1967 edition (23-30), “Burning Bright,” his Foreword to the 1993 edition (11-21), and “A New Introduction” (5-9). Collector’s Edition illus. Joseph Mugnaini with an “Introduction” by Eric S. Rabkin (3-8). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. The [60th Anniversary Edition]. with the subtitle Fahrenheit 451--The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013 has an ”Introduction” by Neil Gaiman (xi-xvi). Critical ed. in Novels & Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2021), 231-361, with a Chronology of Bradbury’s life (843-61); a notes on the text (866-68); and textual notes (876-79), Bradbury’s “Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction” (811-817), rpt. from The Nation 176 (May 2, 1953): 364-367; rpt. in The Nation, 150th anniversary edition (April 6, 2015): 101; and his “No Man Is an Island” (818-824), rpt. from his No Man Is an Island. Los Angeles, CA: National Women’s Commission of Brandeis University, 1952. An early version was published as “The Fireman.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 1.5 (February 1951): 4-61; rpt. in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 415-84; and in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 203-71. Some other stories in this volume, many of which were originally or previously published in his Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006, are related, some quite loosely, to Fahrenheit 451. See Tim Hamilton, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. The Authorized Adaptation. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009 for a graphic novel version.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Good-bye White Man; A Novel of A.D. 2711 Y1 - 1953 A1 - Frederic Vernon Bouic KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in which the Chinese are the dominant race through their adoption of Christianity. World empire. Marriage between races is illegal.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Beautiful People" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Charles Beaumont (1929-67) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which all people are all made beautiful. One girl resists.

JF - If Worlds of Science Fiction VL - 1.4 N1 -

Rpt. as “The Beautiful Woman.” Nebula Science Fiction (Glasgow, Scot.) 1.3 (Summer 1953): 46-62. Broadcast adapted by John Tomerlin as “Number Twelve Looks Just Like You.” Twilight Zone. Season 5, Episode 17 (January 24, 1964). 

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Born in Captivity Y1 - 1952 A1 - Bryan Berry (1930-55) KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2018 with the obedient having a good life through technology and the minority who are not obedient oppressed. Androids. War. At the end people are starting over.

PB - Hamilton & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cybernetic Controller Y1 - 1952 A1 - A[ubrey] V[incent] Clarke (1922-98) A1 - H[enry] K[enneth] Bulmer (1921-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone is placed in a particular status at birth by the "cybernetic controller" or computer and stays there for life. A successful revolt produces a society that will use the technology more intelligently.

PB - Hamilton & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Demolished Man" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Alfred Bester (1913-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Police procedural set in a future society where telepathy is recognized, and telepaths are ranked according to ability with the most powerful telepaths holding the most important positions.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) PB - Shasta CY - Chicago, IL VL - 3.4 - 6 N1 -

Repub. Chicago, IL: Shasta, 1953. Rpt. New York: New American Library, 1954, which is rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. U.K. ed. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1953.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last Days of Shandakor” Y1 - 1952 A1 - Leigh [Douglass] Brackett (1915-78) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an inhabited Mars, and Shandakor is the eutopian city of Mars’s past, now in its last stages.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 25.3 N1 -

Rpt.  without the illus. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 346-52 with an editor’s note on 346. 

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Illus. Alex Schomburg

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PSt, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Journeys With Astargo; A tale of past, present and future Y1 - 1952 A1 - Perl T[ravis] Barnhouse (1887-1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Includes an authoritarian dystopia where the state conditions people mentally and physically for the position they will hold in society. After leaving the dystopia travelers settle on another planet that they call Perfecto and found a city called Freeport where, over the years, they establish a decent society that is called a utopia. They visit other planets, return to earth, and then set off back to Perfecto.

PB - Bell Publications CY - Denver, CO U1 -

Cover subtitle as Removing the veil of time and space in the myriad worlds around us.

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MoU-St, PSt. The PSt copy contains an errata sheet (called a Glossary) and a brief letter from the author.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Smile" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which even the best of the culture of the past is rejected.

JF - Fantastic 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. Amazing Stories 41.5 (December 1967); 24-29; Perry Rhodan, no. 75 (July 1975): 132-; in Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts. Ed. Forrest J. Ackerman (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing, 1997), 139-43; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 267-72;and in Bradbury’s A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010, 133-38. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dark Interlude" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Mack [Dallas McCord] Reynolds (1917-83) A1 - Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief description of a future eutopia where everyone is a student because all the issues of production and distribution have been solved. All races in the future have blended into one, and a man from the future who said he is one-fourth black is killed because he married a white woman.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.4 N1 -

Rpt. in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 423-28.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Other Foot” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a Mars that is inhabited by all the African Americans who left the United States as a result of the violence that had been inflicted on them. A spaceship with whites on board arrives from an Earth that has been destroyed by their wars.

JF - New-Story Magazine: The Monthly Magazine for the Short Story VL - No. 1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Illustrated Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1951), 43-67; and (New York: Bantam Books, 1952), 27-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pedestrian" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A pedestrian is arrested and committed to jail by automated police for walking at night rather than staying home watching television. Compare to 1928 Keller and 1963 Leiber.

JF - The Reporter (New York) VL - 5.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.1 (February 1952): 89-93; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (British Edition) 2.4 (8) (May 1954): 125-28; in his The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953), 25-30; in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.), no. 1 [(1954)]: 64-68; in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 39 (July 1955): 32-34; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 253-58; in his A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010), 121-25; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 191-95; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 191-95; in McSweeney’s, no. 45 Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven (2013): 143-48; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 678-682, with a Chronology (919-936), a Note on the Text (947) and Notes (971-972). Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]; and in Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny. Ed. Drew Ford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016), 25-29. Separately published Np: Ptd. by Roy A. Squires, [1951]. A dramatized version was published as The Pedestrian: A Fantasy in One Act. London: Samuel French, Inc., 1966.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Faster! Faster! Y1 - 1950 A1 - [David] [Groom] KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Class based dystopia located on a constantly traveling train.

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York Viking Press, 1950.

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Patrick Bair [pseud.]

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CoDU, DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hunt for Heaven Y1 - 1950 A1 - Elsie [Marion] Oakes Barber (b. 1914) KW - Female author AB -

Novel about a religious intentional community established after the Haymarket bombing in Chicago on May 4, 1886, with the usual tale of dreams unrealized.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Martian Chronicles Y1 - 1950 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Martians have a vaguely described eutopian society before the arrival of people from earth but are killed by the chicken pox, for which they have no immunity. The various stories recount the settlement of Mars by people from Earth who bring all Earth’s problems with them. But then there is war on Earth and settlers return. See Bradbury’s article “Where Are the Golden-Eyed Martians?” West (Los Angeles Times) (March 1972): 14-15 for his comments on the exploration of Mars. A related story that was not included in the book is “The Naming of Names.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 34.3 (August 1949): 137-44; rpt. in Great Science Fiction Stories (Flushing, NY), no. 3 (1966): 31-. A later Martian story is “The Love Affair.” In his The Love Affair A Short Story and Two Poems. Illus. Joe Mugnaini (Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1982), 1-16; rpt. as “The Love Affair: A Martian Chronicles Story.” In The Planets. Ed. Byron Preiss (New York: Bantam Books, 1985), 104-12; rpt. without the subtitle in his The Toynbee Convector. Stories (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), 147-58; and in Mars Probe. Ed. Peter Crowther (New York: DAW Books, 2002), 13-22. A satire on The Martian Chronicles is John [Thomas] Sladek (1937-2000), “The Real Martian Chronicles.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 118.5 & 6 (689) (May-June 2010): 86-91.

PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

There are later editions with many variants. Among the most important are the U.K. edition, which was published as The Silver Locusts. London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1951. The Martian Chronicles. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958 has illustrations by Karel Thole and William F. Nolan’s “Biographical Sketch and Bibliography of Ray Bradbury’s Books and Stories” with notes on where the stories were later collected. “The Martian Chronicles.” Ray Bradbury: Novels and Story Cycles. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: The Library of America, 2021), 1-230 is based on the 1973 Doubleday edition and includes a chronology of Bradbury’s life (843-861), a note on the text (863-866), textual notes (873-876), and Bradbury’s “A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles” (809-810), rpt. from Rhodomagnetic Digest (May 1950):21. Other significant editions include the following: The Martian Chronicles. Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974, with the book designed by Ernst Reichl. an introduction by Martin Gardner, and illustrations by Joseph Mugnaini. The Collector’s ed. with an introduction by Damon Knight and an illus. by Joseph Mugnaini. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1989. The Martian Chronicles. The Fortieth Anniversary Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. 1990.

The stories that were brought together to form the first edition are: “The Million Year Picnic.” Planet Stories (New York) 3.3 (Summer 1946): 95-100; “The Off Season.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 33.2 (March 1948): 99-104; “Mars Is Heaven!” Planet Stories (New York) 3.12 (Fall 1948): 56-66; collected as “The Third Expedition” in The Martian Chronicles; rpt. as “Welcome Brothers!” Authentic Science Fiction (London), no. 29 (January 1953): 31-52; “----And the Moon Be Still as Bright.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.2 (June 1948): 78-91; “The Earth Men.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 32.3 (August 1948): 69-77; “The Long Years.” Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 61.18 (September 15, 1948): 18-19, 38, 40, 42; rpt. as “Dwellers in Silence.” Planet Stories (New York) 4.2 (Spring 1949): 51-58; and in American Science Fiction (Sydney, NSW, Australia), no. 20 (December 1953): 22-29; “The Silent Towns.” Charm (New York) (March 1949): 111, 170-79; “There will come soft rains.” Colliers (New York) 125.18 (May 6, 1950): 34; rpt. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 321-28, with an editor’s note on 319; “Impossible.” Super Science Stories (Chicago, IL) 6.1 (November 1949): 72-79, 127-29 [Listed in Table of Contents of the version to be sold in Britain and Canada but not included]; rpt. as “September 2005: The Martian” in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 165-72; with an editors’ note on 164; “The Spring Night.” The Arkham Sampler (Sauk City, WI) (Winter 1949): 32-34, collected in The Martian Chronicles as “The Summer Night;” “I’ll Not Ask for Wine.” Maclean’s Magazine (Toronto, ON, Canada) 63.1 (January 1, 1950): 20-21, 30-32; rpt. as “Ylla.” Avon Fantasy Reader (New York), no. 14 (1950): 20-29 and collected in The Martian Chronicles under that title; rpt. in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 165-86 with an editor’s note on 163. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet; “Carnival of Madness.” Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) 36.1 (April 1950): 95-104, collected in The Martian Chronicles as “Usher II” [“Usher II was dropped from The Silver Locusts]; “Way in the Middle of the Air.” Other Worlds Science Stories (Evanston, IL) 2.1 (July 1950): 142-53 (Bradbury made a play of this story, which was performed at the Desilu Gower Studios, Hollywood in August 1962); “In This Sign.” Imagination Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Evanston, IL) 2.2 (April 1951): 56-71 and collected as “The Fire Balloons” in The Silver Locusts (117-37). “The Wilderness,” which was first published in Today (April 6, 1952) and rev. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) 3.7 (November 1952): 118-26, was first collected in The Martian Chronicles (London: The Science Fiction Book Club, 1953), 130-39), which otherwise follows The Silver Locusts. The New York: Avon, 1997 ed. replaces “Way in the Middle of the Air” with “The Wilderness.” Fortieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "New Year's Revolution (A Satire)" Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Edythe] [Eyde] (1921-2015) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A violent heterosexual man is transported to a future gay eutopia where the few heterosexuals are thought of the ways gays were at the time.

JF - Vice Versa: America's Gayest Magazine (Los Angeles, CA) VL - 1.8 U3 -

Lisa Ben [pseud.]

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CU-A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pillar of Fire" Y1 - 1948 A1 - Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury (1920-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which there is no crime or violence and a man from the past starts murdering people. Bradbury considers it a precursor to Fahrenheit 451 (1953).

JF - Planet Stories (New York) VL - 3.11 N1 -

Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 1: 141-69; in Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451. Ed. Donn Albright and Jon[athan R.] Eller, Textual Ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2006), 101-38; and in The Illustrated Man The October Country and Other Stories. Ed. Jonathan R. Eller (New York: Library of America, 2022), 579-616, with a Chronology (919-936, a Note on the Text (947, with a minor correction noted on 949) and Notes (968-969).

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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 - Spurious Sun Y1 - 1948 A1 - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author AB -

A novel in which the world initially appears to have created a eutopia in which nations disarm and those countries with food feed those whose people are underfed, but then war ensues, including nuclear war. The war is ended by the youth of the world cooperating, and after the war they oust the old diplomats who stood in the way of long-term peace, and the novel ends on a hopeful note.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Threatened People. London: Regular Publications, nd.

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Rpt. as Threatened People. London: Regular Publications, nd.

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George Borodin [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Living Lies" Y1 - 1946 A1 - [John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon] [Harris] (1903-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Racial dystopia on Venus where there are many different skin colors.

JF - New Worlds: A Science Fiction Magazine of the Future VL - no. 2 N1 -

Rpt. in Other Worlds Science Stories 2.4 (8) (November 1950): 96-130.

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John Beynon [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia 1995" Y1 - 1945 A1 - Alan Dunn (1900-74) ED - R. M. Barrows ED - Margaret Foster KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor on the problems of the technological future.

JF - A Bird’s-Eye View of the Postwar World PB - Consolidated Book Publishers CY - Chicago, IL U2 -

Illus. Alan Dunn

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OSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waveries" Y1 - 1945 A1 - Fredric [William] Brown (1906-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The loss of all electrical power produces a U.S. of small town eutopias.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 34.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Above the Human Landscape: A Social Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover (Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1972), 7-26; and in From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2000), 212-29.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Common Sense. Is It Wrong To Be Right? Is It Right to Be Wrong? Y1 - 1944 A1 - [Hugo Cyril K.] [Baruch] (b. 1907) KW - Male author AB -

Anti-capitalist essay that presents some elements of a eutopia presented through a series of negatives, such as "No nations", No money", and "No state or other authority". There will be only one law, "possession other than for personal need is a crime." 

PB - Modern Art Gallery, Ltd CY - London U3 -

Jack Bilbo [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Peace in Nobody's Time Y1 - 1944 A1 - [George Alexis Milkomanovich] [Milkomane] (1903-96) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author AB -

Satire. Dictatorship with some socialist elements like the abolition of money and the introduction of labor coupons. The stress is on going to extremes to cure social ills. Nudists were required to be nude all the time, which stopped them from being nudists. Marriage was abolished, and the people demanded its reinstatement. Pornography was legalized and disappeared.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U3 -

George Borodin [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Proposed World Government Y1 - 1944 A1 - George A. Birdsall KW - Male author AB -

Proposed new world government including a detailed constitution with many of its structure based on the U.S. Constitution (85-110). National militaries will be disbanded. A world currency will be gradually adopted. “American English” will be the basis of the official world language. “Six Musts” are specified: a World Congress; a World Court; a World Police Force under Congressional control; continuing inspection to ensure disarmament; safeguards against too much power in one nation, group, or person; and the entire world must be included.

PB - The Shaw Press CY - Arlington, VA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Realities" Y1 - 1944 A1 - Leslie Rubenstein (1902?-78) ED - E[dwin] J[ones] Brady ED - Leslie Rubenstein (1902?-78) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about by a planned settlement similar to garden cities. Considerable detail of acreage and layout is given, and there is a map showing part of the planned city. There is information on housing, health care, and other aspects of community life. The author also depicts fictionalized supporters and skeptics. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.

JF - Dreams and Realities PB - York Press CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Riddle of the Tower Y1 - 1944 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) A1 - Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

A number of past and future societies are presented from an anti-utopian perspective. The focus of the novel is on the horrors of communalism.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When? A prophetical novel of the very near future Y1 - 1944 A1 - H. Ben Judah [pseud.] AB -

A eutopia based on the ideas of British Israelism. The world after the Second Coming of Christ. Abundance.

PB - H. Ben Judah. Distributed by British Israel Association of Greater Vancouver CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U3 -

H. Ben Judah [pseud.]

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Captain Marvel Finds Utopia" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Bill [William H.] Parker (author) A1 - C[harles] C[larence] Beck (artist) KW - Male author AB -

Captain Marvel traces a Nazi to Utopia.

JF - Whiz Comics (New York) VL - 7.39 U2 -

C[harles] C[larence] Beck (Artist)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Happened Tomorrow” Y1 - 1943 A1 - Robert [Albert] Bloch (1917-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created when machines revolt and the effect on the lives of ordinary people.

JF - Astounding Stories VL - 4.3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Devil With You! The Lost Bloch, Volume 1. Ed. David J. Schlow (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 1999), 161-206, with a “Foreword” by Bloch on 161-62. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Barrier" Y1 - 1942 A1 - [William Anthony Parker] [White] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The future has established barriers to time travelers, and the period presented here is an authoritarian dystopia with limits to try to keep change from happening. The ideal is "Stasis."

JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 30.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Spectrum IV: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1965), 134-88; in From Mind to Mind: Tales of Communication from Analog. At head of title Analog Anthology #9. Ed. Stanley Schmidt (New York: Dial Press Davis Publications, 1984), 7-47; and in The Compleat Boucher: The Complete Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Anthony Boucher. Ed. James A. Mann (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 1998), 165-201.

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Anthony Boucher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Adam Link Faces a Revolt" Y1 - 1941 A1 - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65) A1 - [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which robots prove as intractable as humans.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 15.5 U3 -

Eando Binder [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Common Enemy Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel begins with a world-wide disaster brought about by an object passing through the solar system that throws the Earth's orbit off, causing massive storms and world-wide shifts in land, and moving Earth closer to the sun. This ends World War II because most of Germany is flooded. In Britain, led by a man who recognizes that the disaster provides a common enemy that pulls people together, the rebuilding process slowly produces a socialist eutopia. Democracy rejected at the national level, but local democracy is being created. At the end of the novel, although the U.S. is recreating competitive capitalism, Europeans are in the process of creating similar cooperative systems.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Star Called Wormwood: An Investigation of the possible reasons for its Decline and Fall as described in the VIIIth chapter of The Apocalypse Y1 - 1941 A1 - [Oliver] [Stonor] KW - Male author AB -

Anti-war, anti-utopian novel set in 1839 and 2839

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U3 -

Morchard Bishop [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What Dreams May Come..." Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A man in contemporary, wartime Britain dreams of the future of another world that had had a past like Earth's but is now a communal eutopia. The dreams are presented initially through the dreams of the man as a young boy. The dreams, which he could sometimes access at will even while awake, provided an escape from an unhappy home life, and much of the novel concerns the boy’s life as he matures. He is able to live there for a longer period after being injured in a World War 2 air raid and falling into a coma. Returning to the war, he is arrested for subversion for talking about his experience. In the future there have been significant physical changes in the human race. Telepathy is normal. Sexual differences are less obvious. Only thirty books are considered worth reading. Vegetarian with no cooking.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First to Awaken Y1 - 1940 A1 - Granville Hicks (1901-82) A1 - Richard M. Bennett KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Socialist eutopia based on cooperatives. There are few large cities and most people live in small cities, each of which is a democratically run cooperative. Decentralized production and distribution with cooperation among cooperatives and regional coordination. The system is essentially the same throughout the world.

PB - Modern Age Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Loss of Eden: A Cautionary Tale Y1 - 1940 A1 - Douglas [Frank Lambert] Brown (1921-64) A1 - Christopher Serpell (1910-91) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany wins World War II. New Zealand narrator.

PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale. London: Pub. for The British Publishers Guild by Faber and Faber, 1941. There are small differences between the editions.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Enchanted Wood Y1 - 1939 A1 - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s fantasy with three children exploring the Enchanted Wood and discovering the Faraway Tree that leads them to many unusual places where they meet a variety of characters including some from fairy tales.  Includes Cockaigne episodes together with other adventures. Continued in her The Magic Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1943; The Folk of the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1946; and Up the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1951, all of which is composed of illustrations with captions and have a similar format. The first part of Up the Faraway Tree was originally published in Enid Blyton’s Sunny Stories Magazine (1948). 

PB - George Newes CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Deanes, 2012

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Illus. Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Giants of Anarchy" Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65) A1 - [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Negative depiction of an anarchist society.

JF - Weird Tales (New York) VL - 34.1 U3 -

Eando Binder [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - John Innocent at Oxford Y1 - 1939 A1 - [Christopher] Richard [Sandford] Buckle (1916-2001) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Adventures in a reformed Oxford (no industry, no suburbs) that has replaced London as the center of English life.

PB - Chatto and Windus CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Priestess Who Rebelled" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Nelson S[lade] Bond (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Blatantly sexist separation of the sexes. First story in a series set in a future after the collapse of civilization. “The Judging of the Priestess.” Fantastic Adventures (Chicago, IL) 2.4 (April 1940): 42-59 is racist, particularly anti-Japanese, as well as sexist. “Magic City.” Illus. M[anuel Rey] Isip (1904-87). Astounding Science Fiction 26.6 (February 1941): 9-36. Rpt. in A Treasury of Great Science Fiction. 2 vols. Ed. Anthony Boucher (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1959), 293-321 is set in the same future but significantly later in time when men and women are equals but there remain enclaves of the old way.

JF - Amazing Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 13.10 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam Moskowitz (Walker & Co., 1972), 198-221. Rev. as “Pilgrimage.” In his The Thirty-First of February (Gnome Press, 1949), 246-72. Rpt. (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), 246-72. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ultimate Catalyst" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a future world that has exiled the last dictator and all his followers to Amazonia, thus creating a dystopia, where a scientist develops an elaborate technique for killing him.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 13.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Startling Stories 20.2 (November 1949): 84-97; and in Great Science Fiction By Scientists. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Collier Books, 1962), 35-59 with an editor's note on 34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nightmare for Future Reference” Y1 - 1938 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian poem about the next world war and its effects.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 14.7 N1 -

Rpt. in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 250.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Secret Island Y1 - 1938 A1 - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Three children who believe their parents are dead and are mistreated by the aunt and uncle and a boy who has been abandoned by his grandfather un away to an island in the middle of a large lack. Seen through their eyes, it is a utopia.

PB - Basil Blackwell CY - Oxford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. illus. Dudley Wynne. Worksop, Eng.: Award Publications Limited, 2009. 190 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Armada of the Air Y1 - 1937 A1 - Norman S. Bentley (b. 1867) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the dictatorship produced as a result of disarmament.

PB - Lothrop, Lee and Shepard CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa” Y1 - 1937 A1 - [George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977) ED - Robert A. Hill ED - R. Kent Rasmussen KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 143-258 with a “Foreword” to the volume by John A[lfred] Williams (1925-2015) (xvii-xx), an “Afterword” by the editors (259-323), “Schuyler’s story notes (ca. 1936-1937)” (325-27), and George S. Schuyler’s Pittsburgh Courier fiction, 1933-1939)” (337-44). Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (310-312), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359). PSt

Sequel to 1936-7 Schuyler in which the Black Internationale is established in Liberia to carry out its mission of liberating Africa. After Liberia is attacked by European forces, much of the novel is on the war. Everyone is required to have a thorough physical exam, and if they are found to have an incurable disease, they are euthanized. On the other hand, they have developed permanent cures for many diseases. Model kitchens that will be established throughout Africa both prepare food for the district and are used to teach people the relationship between a good diet and health. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in “The Rise of the Black Internationale.” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler. 

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Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (October 2, 1937 - April 16, 1938). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 169-305, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (310-312), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes Black Empire (336-338) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359).

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Samuel I. Brooks [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carson of Venus Y1 - 1937 A1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a war story, but it includes a satire of Hitler and National Socialism.

PB - Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Publishers, 1939 CY - Tarzana, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Place of the Gods” Y1 - 1937 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After an unexplained catastrophe called the Great Burning, a religious society has developed with strict taboos on travel to certain areas thought of as the place of the gods. Since metal is scarce and has been scavenged from most areas where travel is permitted, one man goes into the forbidden areas and discovers the ruins of the previous civilization.

JF - Saturday Evening Post VL - 219.5 N1 -

Rpt. without the illus. as “By the Waters of Babylon.” In his Thirteen O’Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1937]), 3-20; in The Pocket Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: Pocket Books, 1943), 1-16; in The Post Reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 103-17; in Fantasy Voyages: Great Science Fiction from The Saturday Evening Post. Ed. Vincent Miranda (Indianapolis, IN: Curtis, 1979), 103-17 with an editor’s note on 104; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 247-49 with an editor’s note on 247.

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Rpt. as “By the Waters of Babylon.” 

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Illus. Henry C. Pitz. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shelter in Bedlam Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Beatrice Lamberton Becker] [Warde] (1900-69) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia with everyone living in bomb shelters with the goal of everyone living permanently underground. Re-telling to a child of the Christmas story designed for the new circumstances but with an emphasis on how language has been warped to disguise the changes brought about by the dictator. 

PB - Privately ptd CY - Np N1 -

A short passage was rpt. in The Golden Road: An Anthology of Travel. Ed. Arthur Stanley (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1938), 283. Also, with a new appendix, entitled Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece by Denis Tegetmeier. London: Megaw, 1938. U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939. 

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Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece. London: Megaw, 1938

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1938 ed. illus. Denis Tegetmeier.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Birds Y1 - 1936 A1 - Frank Baker KW - Male author AB -

The bulk of the book is a dystopia of an attack by “birds” that destroys contemporary civilization. The explanation of the nature of the birds in Part III, Section VII suggests that they are reflections of human failings. After being forced to flee the cities, a simple agricultural society with eutopian aspects is established and briefly described in the concluding section.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World” Y1 - 1936 A1 - [George Samuel] [Schuyler] (1895-1977) ED - Robert A. Hill ED - R. Kent Rasmussen KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A novella in which an African American brings together African American professionals, the Black Internationale, to liberate Africa from white colonial oppression using whatever means is available, including a level of violence comparable to that of the colonists. Schuyler stresses the exceptional quality of the people involved and makes clear that not all blacks as intelligent. 1937-8 Schuyler is a sequel. Schuyler describes the development of the movement in “The Rise of the Black Internationale.” The Crisis 25.8 (August 1938): 255-57, 274-75, 277. Rpt. in his Black Empire Comprising The Black Internationale: Story of Black Genius Against the World and Black Empire: An Imaginative Story of a Great Civilization in Modern Africa. Ed. Robert A. Hill and R. Kent Rasmussen (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 328-336; and in Rac[e]ing to the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler. Ed. Jeffrey B. Leak (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001), 29-36. See also 1931 Schuyler. 

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Originally published in the Pittsburgh Courier (November 21, 1936 - July 3, 1937). No good file of the Pittsburgh Courier appears to exist, and the editors of the book publication compared the damaged, incomplete, microfilm with Schuyler’s clippings of the stories held by Syracuse University Library. Rev. ed. in George S[amuel] Schuyler, Black Empire. Ed Brooks E. Hefner (New York: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House, 2023), 1-168, with an Introduction by the editor (vii-xxii), Suggestions for Further Reading (xiii-xxv), A Note on the Text (xxvii-xxx), and Appendices including Appendix A “Original Headline Titles and Publication Dates” (307-310), Appendix B “Notes for ‘The Black Internationale’” (313-316), Appendix C “Notes for Speculative Fiction Serials Never Executed by Schuyler” (317-323), and Appendix D “Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction” (325-329), and Notes The Black Internationale (331-336) and Notes Appendix D Bibliography of Schuyler’s Genre Fiction (359).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Emotion Solution" Y1 - 1936 A1 - Arthur K. Barnes (1909-69) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that eliminates emotion.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Even a Worm Y1 - 1936 A1 - J. S. Bradford AB -

The novel is about the first stages of the dystopia that will be brought about by the revolt of the animals against their human oppressors.

PB - Arthur Barker CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 6.5 (June 1945): 78-117.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopia: Address to the Cosmopolitan Club of the London School of Economics and Political Science (23rd October 1934)" Y1 - 1936 A1 - William H[enry] Beveridge, [Baron Beveridge] (1879-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A world eutopia is presented based on variety. A specific eutopia located in Scotland (now known as Econ) is based on an economic system that is fundamentally capitalist but that ensures the maintenance of all basic physical and psychological needs by providing publicly for everything related to education broadly defined plus housing, transport, and the maintenance of the countryside (134-26, 138). Stress on variety (137-38) with an educational system designed to reflect the variety of human needs and interests (138-40). Both individual and collective family systems exist in Econ. The world eutopia is based on the introduction of birth control and the resultant fall in population (133). London is thus depicted as emptier and greener. Immigration anywhere in the world is open to all, but national differences remain (134, 136). 

JF - Planning under Socialism and Other Addresses PB - Longmans, Green and Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sell England? Y1 - 1936 A1 - [John Percy Vyvian] Dacre Balsdon (1901-77) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on 20th Century England set in the future when Africa is the center of civilization.

PB - Eyre and Spottiswoode CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flight of the Blue Eagle. A Fantastic Story Portraying the Social and Political Evolution of a New Economic System in the United States between the years 1934 and 1945 Y1 - 1935 A1 - Francis Joseph Bingham KW - Male author AB -

Mostly on the depression, its effects, an attempted Communist takeover of the United States, first by electoral means and then by civil war, and the successful resistance to it. The New Deal failed but laid the necessary basis for future change. The eutopia, which is presented piecemeal throughout the book includes an Industrial Army similar to that found in 1888 Bellamy and elements of Technocracy (see 1933 Loeb) and Upton Sinclair's EPIC program (see 1933 Sinclair).

PB - De Vorss & Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Going West Y1 - 1935 A1 - James Bramwell (1911-1995) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

A god creates an island (Land of Perpetual Love) and peoples it, expecting it to become eutopian. It has to be destroyed.

PB - Cobden-Sanderson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Charles] Vernon [Olldfield] Bartlett (1894-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Benevolent dictatorship and its failures. Series of reforms. Tolerance. Eliminate the arms trade and replace the military with a League of Nations militia. Eliminate single family homes and replace them with apartment houses with facilities for interaction. Open up the countryside. 

PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nightmare Number Three” Y1 - 1935 A1 - Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A revolt by machinery against humans. Animals and vegetation come to their aid.

JF - The New Yorker VL - 11.24 N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Works of Stephen Vincent Benét. Volume One Poetry (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942), 452-54. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "One Hundred Generations" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Philip Jacques Bartel KW - Male author AB -

Set in the same world as 1934 Bartel. Guilds based on family groups, such as Eugenics, Nutrition, Transportation, Science-Research, Construction, and Communications.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 7.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Purple Plague; A Tale of Love and Revolution Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Archibald] Fenner Brockway (1888-1988) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia on a ship where people have had to live for years as a result of the purple plague.

PB - Sampson, Low & Marston CY - London N1 -

Rewritten as Red Liner: A Novel in TV Form. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1962.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman Triumphant: A Comedy Y1 - 1935 A1 - Hugh [Oswald] Blaker (1873-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Women get the vote in 1928 and come to dominate men. The novel describes a men's liberation movement.

PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Gutzon [de la Mothe] Borglum (1867-1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented through a series of reforms. Free homeowners of debt and prohibit mortgages that might endanger home ownership. Build assembly places in the country to be used as schools during the day and gathering places for adults outside school hours. Improved physical education. Spend money to enhance culture.

JF - The Forum and Century (New York) VL - 93.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eden River Y1 - 1934 A1 - Gerald [William] Bullett (1893-1958 KW - Male author AB -

A retelling of the Garden of Eden story with happier results.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U2 -

Illus. John Farleigh (1900-65)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Enslaved Brains" Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Earl Andrew] [Binder] (1904-65) A1 - [Otto Oscar] [Binder] (1911-75) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia controlled by scientists. Eugenic laws control breeding.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 6.2 - 4 N1 -

Slightly rev. in Fantastic Story Quarterly 2.1 (Winter 1951): 9-85. Repub. New York: Avalon, 1965.

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Eando Binder [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "London Utopia: Democracy in Disarray" Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Adelaide Ann] [Boodle] KW - Female author AB -

Presents a utopian experiment of 1750 people in London named Cosmopolitan House or London Utopia with restaurants, gymnasium, indoor pool, library, nursery, and so forth. Various nationalities represented and one goal was to overcome national animosities.

PB - MS. University of Missouri-St. Louis CY - Birmingham, Eng. U3 -

Barbeque [pseud.]

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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 - Me-Phi Bo-Sheth (If The Gods So Decide). An Undated Manuscript Y1 - 1934 A1 - Dr. Charles M[ephibosheth] Bradley (1864-1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Extremely detailed eutopia. New coinage, clock, and calendar. Highly structured with permits required for most activities. Everyone is given a stipend by the state.

PB - Chicago Printing & Pub. Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Twenty-five Centuries Late" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Philip J[acques] Bartel KW - Male author AB -

Eugenics. Solar power has brought eutopia, but human frailty remains.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 6.6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The World As I Want It" Y1 - 1934 A1 - Charles A[ustin] Beard (1874-1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a workers' republic or "a republic in which industry is carried out in ways conducive to virtue and the fruits thereof are distributed in ways calculated to favor the good life for all--that is, without the degradation of poverty and unemployment on the one side or the degradation of luxury, rivalry, and conspicuous waste on the other" (233). Decentralized industry. The U.S. is a park. 

JF - The Forum (New York) VL - 91 ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Worlds Collide Y1 - 1933 A1 - Edwin Balmer (1883-1959) A1 - Philip [Gordon] Wylie (1902-71) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to their When Worlds Collide [(New York: Stokes, 1933. Originally published Illus. Joseph Franké in Blue Book Magazine (New York) 55.5 - 56.4 (September 1932 – February 1933): 6-29; 32-52; 30-52; 32-55; 50-73; 122-49]. Rpt. New York: Frederick. A. Stokes, 1933. Rpt. Chicago, IL: A. L. Burt, 1933; New York: Paperback Library, 1962. A 1951 film of When Worlds Collide was directed by Rudolph Maté (1898-1964) with a screenplay by Sydney Boehm (1908-90). When Worlds Collide shows preparations for leaving Earth prior to its collision with another planet and the successful landing on another planet. The After Worlds Collide shows the first period on that planet, the discovery of the cities of its previous inhabitants, with some suggestion that they had produced a eutopian society, and conflict with a dystopian society of “Asiatics” and Russians who had also escaped Earth and established a society based on slavery.

JF - Blue Book Magazine (New York) PB - Stokes CY - New York VL - 58.1 - 58.6 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1934. Rpt. New York: Paperback Library, 1963. Separately paged with When Worlds Collide as Philip [Gordon] Wylie and Edwin Balmer, When Worlds Collide. Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1961; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999, with an “Introduction” by John Varley (v-ix).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conflict of Values Y1 - 1933 A1 - J[ohn] R[otherford] Bellerby KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to and expansion of 1931 Bellerby. In this book he critiques the earlier book, looks at various conceptions of the ideal state, and concludes that there are a variety of routes to the ideal society that must be fused to achieve it.

PB - Pub. by Education Services and issued by Richard Clay & Sons CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Martian Emperor-President. A Romance Y1 - 1932 A1 - Andrew J. Bailey KW - Male author AB -

Mostly rather unlikely science and romance but includes a few pages that indicate the moral superiority of the Martians which gave rise to the mostly implied utopia they have created.

PB - Printed for Private Distribution [The Press of Powis, Walsall, William James Ray, Proprietor] CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mechanocracy" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Machine dystopia that insists upon standardization and eliminates all who do not conform. The story is about the attempt to destroy Democratia.

JF - Amazing Stories (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 7.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 312-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Day Dawns. A Brief History of the Altruistic Era (1930 to 2162 A.D.) A.E. 200. Writing for Jane Bradshaw Historical Section, The National Library Service. Washington, D.C. A Diagnosis and a Possible Prognosis of the Ills of Our Present Social Order Y1 - 1932 A1 - Charles Elton Blanchard M.D. (1868-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia emphasizing science and medicine in particular. National Health Service. The unfit are sterilized. Land publicly owned. Women economically independent. Revised constitution with unicameral legislature and fixed five-year terms for Congress and the President. The Supreme Court cannot declare a law unconstitutional. In his Our Unfinished Revolution. Youngstown, OH: Medical Success Press, 1933, which is a critique of the current social order, he calls his eutopia as described in A New Day Dawns an industrial democracy. See also his Our Altruistic Individualism: A Critical Study of the Social Order. Youngstown, OH: Medical Success Press, 1930. 

PB - Medical Success Press CY - Youngstown, OH U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rosma Y1 - 1932 A1 - Garrett Baxter KW - Male author AB -

Individualist eutopia. Individuals work for themselves, become wealthy, and cooperate to some extent. Democracy. Contrasted with a plutocracy with a centralized government. See also 1930 Baxter.

PB - Economic Press CY - [Norfolk, VA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spacetime Inn Y1 - 1932 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Play set outside of time with two cockney men who have won the “sweep” together with Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Dr. Johnson, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Queen Victoria, the Queen of Sheba, and Eve. Napoleon and the two queens are presented as having extremely narrow views of the world. The others are somewhat caricatured, but there is serious debate, particularly between Shaw and Marx with occasional involvement by Shakespeare and Johnson, over whether and/or how to improve the lot of men like the two cockneys. Eve presents a eutopia of the simple enjoyment of life.

PB - G. P. Putnam CY - London & New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Birth of a New Republic" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Story of the battle for the independence of the moon. Earth is controlled by corporations, such as metals and transport, which are sovereign states. War among them.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 4.1 N1 -

Rpt. in The Metal Man and Others: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson Volume One (Royal Oak, MI: Hafner Press, 1999), 239-425.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Contributive Society Y1 - 1931 A1 - J[ohn] R[otherford] Bellerby KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Describes a society in which all members contribute to the best of their ability. He expands and comments on the ideas here in his 1933 The Conflict of ValuesThere he says that this book emphasized the economic aspects of the ideal society.

PB - Education Services CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream or a Vision?" Y1 - 1931 A1 - J. H. Beck AB -

Eutopia. The Catholic Agricultural Organization, a cooperative system run by the dominant church, saves English agriculture and restores balance to the economy. Set in 1981.

JF - Month (UK) VL - 158 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gas War of 1940. A Novel. Being an account of the world catastrophe as set down by Raymond Denning, the first Dictator of Great Britain Y1 - 1931 A1 - [Stephen] [Southwold] (1887-1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Most of the novel focuses on a war of all nations using advanced weapons that leads to the destruction of human civilization. The Prologue (9-27) describes the emergence of the dictator of the subtitle.

PB - Eric Partridge at the Scholaris Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Valiant Clay. By Eric Bell [pseud.]. London: Collins, 1934.

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Rpt. as Valiant Clay. By Eric Bell [pseud.]. London: Collins, 1934.

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"Miles" [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hunger and Love Y1 - 1931 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly concerned with the trials and tribulations of its main protagonist, an intelligent but poor man, and is an attack on the dystopian of the contemporary capitalist order. But the novel also suggests, without going into detail, that a literal unification of the human race is necessary to being about a better life. As Bertrand Russel puts it in his “Introduction,” "It may be that the complete organic unification of the human race, which Mr. Britton regards as the ideal, is the only way in which a scientific civilisation can survive. It is, at any rate, practically certain that it cannot survive while the anarchism of private profit” [x]. The author says that the theory developed in Hunger and Love is presented in his plays Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth. London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930 and Animal Ideas: A Dramatic Symphony of the Human in the Universe. London: Putman, 1935. 134 pp.

PB - Putnam CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931, with an “Introduction” by Bertrand Russell (vii-x). 623 pp.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Migrants of the Stars: Being an Account of the Discovery of the Marvelous Land of Niames, and of the Secret of its Inhabitants Y1 - 1931 A1 - A. H. Barzevi, ed. [written by] A1 - Marc F. Keller, ed. [written by] KW - Male author AB -

A number of eutopias and dystopias, with one an isolated eutopia on earth with advanced technology and telepathy, a second eutopia on a planet called Niames that actually surrounds the Earth, and the rest discovered on a tour of the universe showing a variety of different cultures, all of which are inhabited through the transmigration of souls. Considerable satire.

PB - The Classic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1957 Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Andrew James Fraser] [Blair] (1872-1935) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A rebellion in India brought about by the dereliction of duty to the Empire by a socialist government in Britain, which is described in the standard terms as a dystopia.

PB - William Blackwood and Son CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U3 -

Hamish Blair [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bamboa Y1 - 1930 A1 - Garrett Baxter KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in which workers take over. Individualism, democracy, and minimal cooperation with restraint on monopolies. See also 1932 Baxter.

PB - Economic Press CY - [Norfolk, VA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brain: A Play of the Whole Earth Y1 - 1930 A1 - Lionel [Erskine Nimmo] Britton (1887-1971) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A giant brain built in the Sahara comes to control the entire world followed by a catastrophe when a Dark Star that the Brain cannot control destroys the Earth. The play opens with a discussion, between the Librarian of the British Museum, a conservative, and a professor of philosophy, who is more open to alternatives, of a manuscript, obviously Britton’s Hunger and Love (1931), and why it will be difficult to get it published.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - London & New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Here Is Thy Victory Y1 - 1930 A1 - Iris Barry (1895-1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Involuntary immortality and its generally bad effects, which are reversed when death returns.

PB - Elkin Mathews & Marrot CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Paradise and Iron" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer [M.D.] (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia of an idyllic island in which all work is done by automatic machinery with minimal human supervision, but the machines are beginning to act on their own, endangering the people and producing a dystopia. The people fight back, and at the end they defeat the machines and accept that they will have to work.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Jamaica, NY) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 44-256.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of the Blue Mountains Y1 - 1930 A1 - H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky (1831-91) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Russian author AB -

An odd book that is often cataloged as an ethnography, but it presented as an account of an obviously fictional trip into an earthly paradise in the mountains of India. Lost race eutopia used as an excuse to teach Theosophy. 

PB - Theosophical Press CY - Wheaton, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Problem in Communication" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Miles J[ohn] Breuer M.D. (1889-1947) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An apparently eutopian Science Community with a new religion in which science replaces God is closed off from the outside world with only the truly faithful allowed to come and go because the leader intends a coup in the U.S.

JF - Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York) VL - 3.3 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Man With a Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Michael R. Page (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008), 257-84.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terrania; or, The Feminization of the World Y1 - 1930 A1 - Columbus Bradford (1901-38) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia ruled by women where men are admitted to citizenship if they agree to vote only for women. During a war women had struck against matrimony until the war was ended. With the war over and women in power, all weapons are destroyed throughout the world.

PB - Christopher Pub. House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley of the Great Ray Y1 - 1930 A1 - Pansy E[llen] Black (1890-1957) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race story where no one grows old. Set in Australia.

PB - Stellar Publishing Corporation CY - New York VL - Science Fiction Series No. 11. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Waste--The Future of Prosperity” Y1 - 1930 A1 - Kenneth [Duva] Burke (1897-1993) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on conspicuous consumption including such outlandish ideas for the time as bottled water. See 2007 Shouse for a commentary and a new satire. For Burke’s own reflections on the essay, see his “Recipe for Prosperity: ‘Borrow, Buy, Waste, Want’.” The Nation (New York) 183.10 (September 8, 1956): 191-93; and 1971 Burke.

JF - Whither, Whither, or After Sex, What? A Symposium to End Symposiums PB - The Macaulay Co. CY - New York N1 -

A shorter version rpt. in The New Republic (New York) 63 (July 16, 1930): 228-31; and in The New Republic Anthology 1915 : 1935. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1936), 330-37. A condensed version was published in The Reader’s Digest (Chappaqua, NY) 17.102 (October 1930): 481-83. 

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Illus. Bill Gropper

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PSt, which holds Burke's papers.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Children’s Country Y1 - 1929 A1 - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children’s story in which two Earth children visit and have adventures in The Children’s Country, where children, none of whom will ever grow up to be a man of a woman, rule.

PB - William Morrow & Co. CY - New York U1 -

Osborne, DLC, BL

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Illus. Beth Krebs Morris [Identified only on the dust jacket]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elenchus Brown, The Story of an Experimental Utopia Y1 - 1929 A1 - Bertha Louisa Bowhay KW - Female author AB -

Satire on the failure of an intentional community.

PB - H.R. Allenson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Halcyon or The Future of Monogamy Y1 - 1929 A1 - Vera Brittain (1893-1970) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Presented as part of a book from the mid-21st century. Chapter I "Morals in the Post-Victorian Era, 1900-1930 (9-28); Chapter II "The Period of Sexual Reform, 1930-1975" (29-52); Chapter III "Scientific Progress, 1950-2000, and Its Relation to the Moral Revolution" (53-78); Chapter IV "The Triumph of Voluntary Monogamy, 2000-2030" (79-92).

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King of Cosmopoland. A Farce in One Act Y1 - 1929 A1 - Margaret Brown KW - Female author AB -

Humor using an imaginary country after a revolution.

JF - Repertory Farces. No. 10 PB - Gowans & Gray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light In the Sky Y1 - 1929 A1 - Herbert Clock (1890-1979) A1 - Eric Boetzel KW - Male author AB -

Lost race novel that is more of a eutopia than many. Descendants of the Aztecs who are advanced scientifically live in caverns under Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. They do not die and use both a spoken language and telepathy. The people live well, and there is a project designed to end war everywhere. As in most lost race novels, a struggle takes place and the protagonist and the princess escape while the society is destroyed.

PB - Coward-McCann CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rebel Passion Y1 - 1929 A1 - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Traces history through the past and the then present to a religious, medieval, Christian eutopia in about 3150 (US 254-305). Women priests who serve women; the male priests serve men. No divorce. Everyone works. Some machinery including a “flying boat,” electricity that powers lights and radio. There has been no history in Europe since the passing of the machine age. If a country is happy, it has none.” Throughout it is suggested that the main character is not wholly male but a mix of male and female.

PB - Thornton Butterworth CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as by Kay Burdekin [pseud.]. New York: Morrow, 1929. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Vision of Education; Being an Imaginary Verbatim Report of the First Interplanetary Conference Y1 - 1929 A1 - J[ohn] H[enry] Burns KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Includes statements of a number of educational theories, some of which are focused on the individual and others on the good of the society. Includes a short Preface (7-11) by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). See Jerome Meckier, “A Neglected Huxley ‘Preface’: His Earliest Synopsis of Brave New World.” Twentieth Century Literature 25.1 (Spring 1979): 1-20. 

PB - Williams & Norgate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul Y1 - 1929 A1 - J[ohn] D[esmond] Bernal (1901-71) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The book is presented as speculative prediction that focuses on space travel, the physical modification of humans, and the psychological changes these will bring about (and the resistance to them based in human psychology), but the section on human modification includes a brief non-fictional eutopia in the Stapledonian mode. After a life of 60 to 120 years of living, people will be surgically modified and provided with mechanical extensions of their senses and re-educated. In addition, people will develop mental connections to others that will ultimately produce a group mind, and this entity will be essentially immortal. 

PB - Kegan Paul & Co CY - London N1 -

The book was originally announced under the title “Possibilities” and published in the “To-Day and To-Morrow” series. 2nd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - But Soft--we are observed! Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Joseph] Hilaire [Pierre René] Belloc (1870-1953) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a conflict between the major political parties of the future: the Communists and the Anarchists.

PB - Arrowsmith CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Shadowed! New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.

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US ed. as Shadowed! New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.

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Illus. G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Hour(?) Y1 - 1927 A1 - Felix J[ohn] Blakemore, O.B.E., F.S.S., F.G.I. (1872-1948) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although there is very advanced technology and pollution has been eliminated, the novel presents a standard anti-socialist dystopia. Tablet food, which is extremely unpopular and not used by the leaders, became necessary because equalizing income required eliminating expensive imports. The people then vote to abolish state control. 

PB - Sands CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Light from Sealonia Y1 - 1927 A1 - Arthur W. Barker KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance and adventure but includes a lost race eutopia at the North Pole with a racist theme. “The Nodolians are not our equals, and their tainted blood would soon contaminate your racial purity, for history proves that they are not assimilable” (83).

PB - The Four Seas Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Red Octopus": An Allegory in the Form of a Novel Y1 - 1927 A1 - Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) KW - Female author KW - German author KW - South African author AB -

An anti-Semitic novel showing Jews taking over the world, but they are defeated by Christians. This novel was by The Paraclete or Coming World Mother. Pretoria, South Africa, 1936 that was said to be a eutopia, but no evidence copies exist outside South Africa. See also 1918 Brandt. 

PB - Hermes Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midas or The United States and the Future Y1 - 1926 A1 - C[yril] H[erbert Emmanuel] Bretherton (1878/9-1939) KW - Male author AB -

A combination of predictions, mostly wrong, some of which were intended to have a eutopian flavor. The entire North America continent (Canada and the U.S.) is to become one country, the U.S. will eliminate immigration entirely, and politics will disappear

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Posterity; A Novel Y1 - 1926 A1 - Diane Boswell (1899-1995) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Good life brought about by a reduction in the birth rate, which becomes a required limit. This leads to a mixed result, some good, some bad. Good living conditions but strict rule.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gazetted for Matrimony" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Eugenics--between 2000 and 2150 marriage was prohibited to the unfit and required of the fit. A man required to marry is unhappy with the choices available and runs away, where he meets a woman who had also run away after rejecting her choices. The illustrations depict a far from fit man and an attractive woman, but the illustrations do not fit the story.

JF - Yellow Magazine (London) VL - 17.108 U3 -

Coutts Brisbane [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World’s May Day: A Celebration Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[ohn] H[enry] Bingham KW - Male author AB -

Children’s play with an ambassador from Mars, which only sends “children as ambassadors because they tell the truth to each other” (3). In the play the ambassador begins to understand that Earth’s problem is primarily the division among countries and brings everyone together.

PB - The Co-operative Union Ltd. CY - Manchester, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Wondrous Dream Y1 - 1923 A1 - Frank P. Ball KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Rigid control of blacks by whites presented as a eutopia.

PB - Frank P. Ball CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Capitalism Y1 - 1923 A1 - S[imon] A[lexander Baldus KW - Male author AB -

Non-fiction plan for a new capitalist order, with pp. 1-242 on “The Established Order” and pp. 243-489 on “The New Order,” which is based on capitalists stopping being greedy and will require no fundamental structural changes.

PB - The O'Donnell Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our All - American Almanac and Prophetic Messenger” Y1 - 1923 A1 - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Selections from January, April, July, and September from an almanac that describing events taking place in a future that becomes more and more restrictive and puritanical. Happy New Year changed to Virtuous New York; dancing abolished; the Society for the Suppression of Imagination in Children censors children’s stories; women’s clothing regulated in the name of modesty; dancing outlawed; compulsory church attendance; co-education abolished; and more.

JF - Vanity Fair VL - 20.1 SN - 9781800171671 N1 -

Rpt. as by Nancy Boyd in Distressing Dialogues. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924), 29-37. Rpt. under the author’s real name in her Poems and Satires. Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester, Eng.: Carcarnet, 2021), 165-69

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Nancy Boyd [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voice from Mars; Adventure and Romance Y1 - 1923 A1 - Reginald Broomhead KW - Male author AB -

Mostly adventure and romance but includes a vaguely described eutopia on Mars. Mars is physically like Earth with many of the same plants and animals.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against the Red Sky. Silhouettes of Revolution Y1 - 1922 A1 - H[erbert] R. Barbor KW - Male author AB -

Story of a future successful revolution bringing about a better society. Almost nothing specific about the eutopia except that it is Communist but with much private enterprise.

PB - C.W. Daniel CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Noel Douglass, 1925.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yezad; A Romance of the Unknown Y1 - 1922 A1 - George [Henry] Babcock (1863-1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A few pages of a scientific Martian eutopia, which had been settled from a planet highly advanced in science. Martians can renew body parts. No central government: local self-rule through bodies based on education. No printed laws but custom sets standards. Citizenship depends on passing exams.

PB - Cooperative Pub. Co. CY - Bridgeport, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Image Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Conflict between capitalists and socialists set one hundred years in the future. The world is decimated but gradually rebuilds.

PB - Odhams Press CY - London U3 -

Pan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Race of Devils Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Anna O'Meara de Vic] [Beamish] (b. 1883) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which Germany creates supermen.

PB - Anglo-Eastern Pub. Co CY - London U3 -

John Bernard [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Race Awakened Y1 - 1921 A1 - Edmund H. Burke KW - Male author AB -

An egalitarian socialist eutopia with world peace set in 1968. It was achieved by educated blacks and women getting the vote.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution: A Novel Y1 - 1921 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting a revolution as it effects one parish as seen primarily through the eyes of a man who tries to see both sides. A labour dictatorship emerges that plans to establish a socialist system, but the people reject equality and common property. The counter-revolution succeeds but simply replaces one dictatorship with another. At the end the protagonist is at the beginning of a campaign to bring the country back together.

PB - W. Collins & Sons CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921. 

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U.S. ed. as Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia Y1 - 1921 A1 - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A collection of essays presenting a eutopia of regionalism and decentralization. The two page "What To Do" summarizes the eutopia. See also 1917 Branford and Geddes.

PB - Williams and Norgate CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World in 1931 Y1 - 1921 A1 - Stewart E. Bruce KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a cooperative, profit-sharing commonwealth. Interest is illegal. Labor certificates replace money. Uniform cars to emphasize equality. Stresses that there is no unemployment, and there are no drones.

PB - F.L. Searl & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gullible's Travels in Little-Brit Y1 - 1920 A1 - William Hodgson Burnett KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British politics and manners.

PB - Westall & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anymoon. With a Foreword by Harold Cox Y1 - 1919 A1 - Horace [William] Bleackley (1868-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist, anti-egalitarian, anti-feminist dystopia

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head/The John Lane Co. CY - London/New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Christmas House-Party in 1969 (Being extracts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys the Second)" Y1 - 1919 A1 - [John] Twells Brex (1874-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on women in political and economic control.

JF - Pears' Christmas Annual (London) ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Land of Whereisit Y1 - 1919 A1 - Henry E[rnest] Boote (1868-1949). KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian allegory in which God teaches lessons to the leaders of a country who are only concerned with maintaining their power and benefiting themselves.

PB - Judd Publishing Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of the Second Life Y1 - 1918 A1 - Edwin H. Byington KW - Male author AB -

When a person dies on Earth, they appear on a distant planet where each person must re-live each year of their previous life in a house that reflects their moral character during that year. Details on the way the houses reflect the person during that year and the position of children and those killed in war.

PB - The Pilgrim Press CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of Content Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Rule by trusts followed by revolution and war. A small group survive and create an Eden.

PB - Mills & Boon CY - London U3 -

Pan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mildred Carver, U.S.A. Y1 - 1918 A1 - Martha Bensley Bruère (1879-1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Universal service produces an egalitarian system. Each person must serve a period of time in some labor for the country, which turns them into patriots as well as producing public works. The focus is on two very wealthy people and the way they become truly useful citizens by serving their required time, interacting with people from varied backgrounds, and doing useful work.

JF - Ladies Home Journal (Des Moines, IA) VL - 35-36 N1 -

Rpt. as Mildred Carver, U.S.A. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 218-32 with an editor’s note on 216-17; and different selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 195-211. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millennium: A Prophetic Message to the Native Tribes of South Africa Y1 - 1918 A1 - Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) KW - Female author KW - German author KW - South African author AB -

Short version of a longer work. Brief description of the apocalypse, the Second Coming, and the millennium. Patronizing pamphlet directed at the Black majority telling them to not take advantage of the coming troubles to wreck revenge on the white minority. See also 1927 Brandt.

PB - [Rustica Press] CY - [Wynberg, South Africa] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "By the World Forgot": A Double Romance of the East and the West Y1 - 1917 A1 - Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily romance but includes a lost race on an island in the South Pacific. There are eutopian aspects to the society on the island, like abundance without much labor, but the race is degenerating (except for one beautiful girl).

PB - A.C. McClurg CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Polity: A Study in Reconstruction Y1 - 1917 A1 - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930) A1 - Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

First volume of a series concerned with post-war reconstruction. Most of the book is concerned with history, showing how the world has reached its current situation. The last chapter, “Summary and Conclusion--Regional Eutopias”, makes a distinction between Utopia and Dystopia and briefly develops a eutopia based on regionalism. That chapter and other material is dropped in the 2nd ed. This material is replaced with a section called “Practice,” which has three chapters, “The Renewing of Christendom,” “The Post-Germanic University,” and “From the Old State to the New,” with the last chapter proposing ideas similar to the “Summary” in the 1st ed. See also 1921 Branford.

PB - Williams and Norgate CY - London N1 -

New & enl. ed. London: Williams & Norgate, 1919.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Katharist Book of Perfection Y1 - 1917 A1 - George Bessonet KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in the form of a religious book that says that perfection is possible, but that perfection differs for adult and child, for men and women, and for “for each race and sub-race,” from which it follows that race mixing is to be avoided. Twelve “Laws of Perfection” are listed and most of the book elaborates on them.

PB - Katharist Publishing Society CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Pretty Pass. A 30th Century Idyl" Y1 - 1917 A1 - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire of gender-role reversal. Weak men are given a harsh physical regime so that they can be good mates. Men who fail are workers.

JF - The Red Magazine (London) VL - 33.197 U3 -

Coutts Brisbane [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Beyond Thirty” Y1 - 1916 A1 - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The work is set two hundred years in the future in which the U.S. stayed out of World War 1 and European had destroyed itself and returned to a barbarian state while the Americas had developed into a technological eutopia. Although no one from the Americas had passed the 30th meridian East of the 175th meridian West until a group of Americans did accidentally. After fighting the barbarians and being rescued by the Chinese, the world will in future be open again.

JF - All Around Magazine VL - 11.4 N1 -

Rpt. Fantasy Press, 1955; in Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957), Lincoln, NB: Bison Books, 2001; and as The Lost Continent. Original title Beyond Thirty. New York: Ace Books, 1963. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Equality Isle" Y1 - 1914 A1 - J. Brant AB -

Satire on women's rights in which two women and a man are shipwrecked together and the women end of fighting over him.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nature City: The Ideal Commonwealth Y1 - 1914 A1 - James W. Bucklin, LL.B. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Democratic and single tax eutopia. 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. Includes brief comments on Plato, More, Bacon, Campanella, Bellamy, and Gronlund.

PB - Author CY - Grand Junction, CO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Day: A Story of Inevitable Social and Industrial Progress Y1 - 1913 A1 - William T. Burkitt KW - Male author AB -

Emphasis on the evolution to eutopia through the union movement with one union, reform, and control of the product of labor the means.

PB - Drane's CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goslings Y1 - 1913 A1 - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes the results of a plague that mostly affects men but not women. One focus is on a group of women who organize a generally successful community based on the principle that everyone earned a right through labor to a share in what could be produced. After contact is made with parts of the world less affected by the plague, the outlines are given of a future eutopia based on greater gender equality.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA/Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2013 with an “An Un-Cozy Atmosphere. Introduction” by Astra Taylor (13-17); and Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp. U.S. ed. as A World of Women. New York: Macauley Co., 1913. Rpt. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp.

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U.S. ed. as A World of Women. New York: Macauley Co., 1913. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Child of the Dawn Y1 - 1912 A1 - Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Heaven as a eutopia. No sex. No property. Reincarnation. Each person enters heaven with the understanding with which they left life, and work in heaven involves helping other souls to advance. There are souls who try to stop others advancing. Hell is described as a meaningless round of pleasure that becomes less and less satisfying.

PB - Smith, Elder and Company CY - London N1 -

U.S.. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Rpt. Indian Hills, CO: Falcon’s Wing Press, 1957. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Civil War of 1915 Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[ohn] Twells Brex (1874-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia.

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London N1 -

Originally serialized in The Sporting Times.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great State: Essays in Construction Y1 - 1912 ED - [Francis Evelyn] [Warwick] (1861-1938) ED - G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor ED - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Essays by different authors describing aspects of a future eutopia. While they were written for this volume, they do not all agree with each other.

PB - Harper and Bros CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912. Includes H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, "The Past and the Great State" (1-46), also published as "Socialism." Harper's Magazine 124.740 - 741 (January - February 1912): 197-204, 403-09; and as "The Great State." In his An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (London: Cassell and Co., 1914), 95-131; rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XVIII The Passionate Friends A Novel and Three Essays (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 405-44. [Wells published many other utopias; see the Author Index for a list]; The Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Warwick), "The Great State and the Country-side" (47-66), also published in The Fortnightly Review, ns 91 (March 1, 1912): 427-36; L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, "Work in the Great State" (67-119); Ray Lankester, "The Making of New Knowledge" (121-39); C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, "Health and Healing in the Great State" (141-80); E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, "Law and the Great State" (181-94); Cecil Chesterton, "Democracy and the Great State" (195-218); Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, "Women in the Great State" (219-47); Roger Fry, "The Artist in the Great State" (249-72); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, "The Present Development of the Great State" (273-99); Conrad Noel, "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" (301-23), which, as fiction, is separately listed in this bibliography; Herbert Trench, "The Growth of the Great State" (325-56); and Hugh P. Vowles, "The Tradition of the Great State" (357-78).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Hand of Ulster Y1 - 1912 A1 - [James Owen] [Hannay] (1865-1950) KW - Male author AB -

Humor. Stress on conflict with Britain. Ulster wants independence but not "Home Rule". Britain wants to get rid of the Irish.

PB - Smith, Elder & Co. CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Hodder & Stoughton/George H. Doran, 1912. Rpt. Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1972.

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George A. Birmingham [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Achieved: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1912 A1 - Herman Hine Brinsmade KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 1960. Many reforms, particularly in diet, which is primarily vegetarian. The Federal Bureau of Health provides education, ensures that food is pure, and offers free medical care with a stress on prevention. Advances in technology. Five-hour workday. Single tax ensures prosperity. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-1897). 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 - Broadway Pub. Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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Cover by Maurer [probably Alfred Henry Maurer (1868-1932).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - When Dreams Come True Y1 - 1912 A1 - Ritter Brown KW - Male author AB -

Lost race Incan eutopia in the last chapter.

PB - Desmond FitzGerald CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centaur Y1 - 1911 A1 - Algernon [Henry] Blackwood (1869-1951) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is mostly adventure but includes, although without much detail, a eutopia of the Simple Life in contact with nature.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1938.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Centaurians. A Novel Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Lottie F.] [Ambrose] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race flawed utopia located near the North Pole. There are four societies in the area, with one, the Centaurians, the focus of this aspect of the novel. The Centaurians are advanced technologically and see themselves as having achieved perfection and no longer love or hate. The novel contains the standard love story with the man from outside falling in love with a woman who is considered almost divine and is known as the Priestess of the Sun and is wedded to the Sun. Although she is supposed no longer to be able to experience love, she does, but not him.

PB - Broadway Publishing Co. CY - New York U3 -

[L.D.] Biagi [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dawn of All Y1 - 1911 A1 - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the Roman Catholic Church completely dominant in sixty years. Democracy and equality eliminated. Socialism illegal. Monarchy re-established. Heretics are handed over to the state and executed. See 1907 Benson for an alternative dystopian future.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

US ed. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1911.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nut Cracker and Other Human Ape Fables Y1 - 1911 A1 - Charles Elton Blanchard (1868-1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book combines a critique of capitalism and the outlines of his eutopia through essays and stories. The expanded edition includes more of the eutopia, which is further developed in 1932 Blanchard.

PB - Broadway Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Exp. ed. with the added subtitle A Study in Socialism. Youngstown, OH: Now and Here Press, 1916.

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Exp. ed. with the added subtitle A Study in Socialism. Youngstown, OH: Now and Here Press, 1916.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim Ship Y1 - 1911 A1 - James Black KW - Male author AB -

Christian allegory in which various lands are visited, such as the land of delusion, lotus land, and so forth.

PB - The Christian Herald, Bible House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Original Comic Opera, in Three Acts, entitled, The Superior Sex Y1 - 1910 A1 - H. D Banning AB -

Sex role reversal set in 2005 A.D. but with the traditional order re-established at the end.

PB - A. Abbott CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Waste of War Y1 - 1910 A1 - W. G. Bennett AB -

Poem that describes the eutopia possible if the costs of war were devoted to peace. Good clothing, universal education, help for the poor, aged, and ill, the arts science, and labor all rewarded, Christianity. 

PB - Wisbech Local Peace Association CY - Wisbech, Eng U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Cataclysm. A Romance of the Age to Come Y1 - 1909 A1 - H[enry] Percy Blanchard (1862-1939) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe religious eutopia that, it is suggested, is the period of the millennium, and it takes place 33 years in the future, which is the traditional age of Christ at the time of the crucifixion. The catastrophe changed the Earth's alignment and its weather patterns producing permanent Spring and natural abundance. No one has to work but everyone helps as needed. Little social organization and people are naturally good. There is a contradiction in that while there appears to be no industry, there are airplanes. The last sentences quote Matthew 22:30 that there is "no marriage or giving in marriage" in heaven (The actual passage is a bit different and says "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the Angels of God in heaven" KJV.)

PB - Cochrane Publishing Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Visions From the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. John Bell and Lesley Choyce (Porters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1981), 46-102 with an editor's note on 45.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Land of the Blow (After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others.)" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gulliveriana. The protagonist visits a number of countries which provide the basis for wide-ranging satire, particularly on religion, capitalism, and politics.

JF - Collected Works PB - Neale Publishing Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 89-196; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 32-74. According to Joshi and Schultz "The Land of the Blow" is composed of a number of short stories previously published as follows: "Sons of the Fair Star." San Francisco Examiner (June 10, 1888): 11; "An Interview with Gnarmag-zote" (published as "The Golampians." San Francisco Examiner (November 24, 1889): 11; "The Tamtonians: Some Account of Politics in the Uncanny Islands." San Francisco Examiner (November 11, 1888): 9; "Marooned on Ug." San Francisco Examiner (February 20), 1898): 18; "The War with Wug." San Francisco Examiner (September 11, 1898), 20; "The Dog in Ganewag." New York American (May 12, 1904): 14; "A Conflagration in Gharagarod." Cosmopolitan (New York) (February 1906): 457-58; "An Execution in Batrugia." from "A Letter from Btrugumian." New York American (April 30, 1903): 16; "Small Contributions." Cosmopolitan (New York) (May 1907): 96-97; "The Jumjum of Gokeetle-guk" (published as "Trustland: A Tale of a Traveller"). San Francisco Examiner (November 19, 1899): 15; and "The Kingdom of Tortirra." San Francisco Examiner (April 22, 1888): 12.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Regime, A.D. 2202 Y1 - 1909 A1 - John Ira Brant (1872-1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia brought about by ending competition. Basically, uses the model of 1888 Bellamy.

PB - Cochrane Publishing Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Real Man Y1 - 1909 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A farce that redoes the material in 1907 Byatt as a group of anarchists whose leader comes to rule Britain. 

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soul of the World Y1 - 1909 A1 - Estella Bachman KW - Female author AB -

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

PB - Equitist Publishing House CY - Pasadena, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Australia; or, The Empty North Y1 - 1909 A1 - [George] Randolph Bedford (1868-1941) ED - Richard Fotheringham KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Racist dystopia about the collaboration between China and Japan to invade Australia, supported by one traitorous Australian. Most of the play is about the actual invasion, which is initially successful, as seen through the eyes of various white Australians and two loyal Aboriginals. The Australians ultimately repulse the invasion by using an airship developed by an Australian engineer.

PB - Playlab CY - South Brisbane, Qld, Australia U1 -

“White Australia: the White Man's Land; or, For Australia: A Drama in Four Acts.”

Alt. title “White Australia or the Empty North, or The White Man's Land.”

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Lord of Lands Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Percival] Ramsey Benson KW - Male author AB -

Formation of an intentional community for a group of poor people from a city with the usual trials and tribulations.

PB - Henry Holt & Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Princess Steel" Y1 - 1908 A1 - W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1858-1963) ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) ED - Britt Rusert KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Fantastic story that is a critique of capitalism, trust building, and the exploitation of African Americans and Africans. 

JF - PMLA VL - 130.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flight of Icarus Y1 - 1907 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An apostate Jew with magical powers rules the world. See also 1909 Byatt. 

PB - Sisley's Ltd. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lord of the World Y1 - 1907 A1 - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) after split between secular humanism and the Roman Catholic Church. See 1911 Benson for an alternative future.

PB - Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908; New York: Arno Press, 1975; South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2001; and in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 101-481, with a brief note by the editor (97-99).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tyranny Y1 - 1907 A1 - James Blyth (1864-1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A tyrant rules Britain and war with Germany leads to a mass uprising.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Might Have Been; The Story of a Social War Y1 - 1907 A1 - [Ernest Bramah] [Smith] (1868-1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist dystopia. Street names were changed to codes in the name of efficiency. The upper classes revolt, restore capitalism, and everybody is better off.

PB - John Murray CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2017, with an “Introduction. The History of a Novel” by Jeremy Hawhorn (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (330-32), and “Works by Ernest Brahman” (329-34). An abridged ed. entitled The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1909] omitted the “Preface” and Chapter III, rearranges the order of other chapters, and makes other internal changes. U.S. ed. of the abridged ed. Atlanta, GA: Specular Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Dennis Jencke (i-iv) and a “Glossary” [287-91). L, NLS

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Abridged ed. as The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War (1909)

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Ernest Bramah [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sorcery Shop; an Impossible Romance" Y1 - 1906 A1 - Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anarchist eutopia.

JF - The Clarion VL - nos. 779 - 98 N1 -

Repub. London: The Clarion Press, 1907.  Serial rpt. in British Socialist Fiction 1884-1914. Ed. Deborah Mutch. 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 4: 3-104.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Superannuation Department A.D. 1945" Y1 - 1906 A1 - E[dward] F[rederic] Benson (1867-1940) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the balance between individuals and the collective good. Everyone over 65 has to regularly demonstrate their usefulness to society with the testimony of witnesses--usefulness, beauty, moral improvement, and happiness are central but other answers are acceptable. Death for those who fail.

JF - Windsor Magazine VL - 23.133 N1 -

Rpt. in his Desirable Residences and Other Stories. Selected by Jack Adrian (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1991), 197-207.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ashes of the Beacon. An Historical Monograph Written in 4930" Y1 - 1905 A1 - Ambrose [Gwinett] Bierce (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the United States from the point of view of a future society with a weak understanding of U.S. history. Self-government considered a contradiction in terms. Satire on politics, the legal system as a whole and the jury system in particular, women, religion, labor relations, and other subjects.

JF - New York American N1 -

Rpt. in the San Francisco Examiner (February 26, 1905): 44; in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 17-86. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 17-86; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 3-31. The version in The Collected Works incorporates “The Jury in Ancient America: An Historical Sketch Written in the Year of Grace 3687. Translated by Ambrose Bierce.” Cosmopolitan 39.4 (August 1905): 384-88; and “Insurance in Ancient America: Translated from the Work of a Future Historian.” Cosmopolitan Magazine 41.5 (September 1906): 555-57. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hopetown. An industrial town, as it is, and as it might be Y1 - 1905 A1 - H. Brockhouse AB -

Detailed eutopia set in 1954. Houses and the land are public property, and farms, which are 3500 acres, are run by the municipality. There are municipal stores and delivery services are operated nationally. Makes the point that some problems continue.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Purple and White; A Romance Y1 - 1905 A1 - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Future tale of peace and prosperity under one man rule.

PB - R. A. Everett & Co. (Ltd.) CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Titan, Son of Saturn. The Coming World Emperor Y1 - 1905 A1 - Joseph Birkbeck Burroughs, M.D. (1854-1921) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious eutopia. The first twenty-eight chapters (twenty-nine in the 10th ed.) is on Armageddon (See Revelation 16), but Chapter XXIX (XXX in the 10th ed.) is on “The Kingdom of God” where the Saints rule. In the 10th ed., there are four appendices (409-52) in which the author gives supporting evidence.

PB - The Emeth Publishers CY - Oberlin, OH N1 -

10th and later eds. rev. with the added subtitle A Story of the Other Christ. Oberlin, OH: The Emeth Publishers, 1914. The manuscript is at Oberlin College.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Harris-Ingram Experiment Y1 - 1904 A1 - Charles E[dward] Bolton M.A. (1841-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Successful cooperative scheme for a steel mill with a stress on the need for labor and capital to work together.  See also his “A Model Village of Homes.” In his A Model Village of Homes and Other Papers (Boston, MA: L.C. Page & Co., 1901), 11-32. Rpt. from his “A Suburban Model Village.” The American Monthly Review of Reviews 20.5 (November 1899): 573-76. NN

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery Y1 - 1904 A1 - Geo[rge] W[illiam] Bell (1838-1907) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two eutopias are presented. One is a fictionalized account of New Zealand (Zelania in the text; Zealandia in the Table of Contents) as a eutopia, which comprises the bulk of the book. Mr. Oseba is an inhabitant of the center of the earth, a highly advanced technological eutopia. The theory of John Cleves Symmes (1780-1829) that the earth is hollow and can be entered at the poles is used to characterize the center of the earth. The eutopia in the center of the earth is called Cavitorus, with one nation called Shadowas. The main city is Eurania. Terribly written.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Red Leaguers Y1 - 1904 A1 - [John William] Bullock (1865-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

The Irish gain independence but prove incapable of governing.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: McClure Phillips, 1904.

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Shan F[adh] Bullock [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Unpardonable War Y1 - 1904 A1 - James Barnes (1866-1936) KW - Male author AB -

The People’s Party wins a national election in the United States, and its policies and the people it puts in power and send as representatives to other countries create a dystopia that is only ended by war.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - D'Mars Affinity: Romance of Love's Final Test in Time and Tide Y1 - 1903 A1 - J[ames] M[oses] Bloomer (1844?-1923) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly romance and spiritualism but includes a cooperative eutopia.

PB - J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morganeering Or, The Triumph of the Trust. A Fragment of a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth Y1 - 1903 A1 - Professor [Alexander William] Bickerton (1842-1929) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a dystopia of one man controlling all the world’s wealth. Laissez faire catechisms are taught. Includes a federation of intentional communities and a broad egalitarianism.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Thousand Years Hence or Startling Events in the Year A.D. 3000. A Trip to Mars. Incidents by the Way Y1 - 1903 A1 - Ira S. Bunker KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of Christian Science and technological advances.

PB - Author CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The University and Australian Literature. A Centenary Retrospect" Y1 - 1902 A1 - C[hristopher John] Brennan (1870-1932) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia with an emphasis on art presented as if written in 1952.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Glance Ahead; Being a Christmas Tale of A.D. 3568" Y1 - 1901 A1 - J[ohn] K[endrick] Bangs (1862-1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. The entire Western Hemisphere is the United States; Europe and Asia are now combined; all African Americans have returned to Africa, which is united, and Africans are now mercenaries for the rest of the world. Technological advances. Immortality; no births. All businesses are controlled by the government and make huge profits.

JF - Over the Plum-Pudding PB - Harper & Brothers CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Ancestral Voices: Anthology of Early Science Fiction. Ed. Douglas Menville and R[obert] Reginald [pseud.] [Michael Roy Burgess] (New York: Arno Press, 1974), with each story using its original pagination.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In The World Celestial" Y1 - 1901 A1 - T[homas] A[ugustus] Bland M.D. (b. 1830) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in heaven. The stage of Heaven where the novel takes place is preparatory for higher heavens, but those who move on sometimes come back to visit. The city was founded by Zoroaster, was once led by Jesus, and is now led by a legislative council elected by all adults for a five year term. While non-Caucasians participate as equals in the world congress from their different nations, "they are not in any way the peers of those of the Caucasians" (74). Entertainment is mostly lectures by illustrious people of the past. . The author says that he is telling the story as told to him by a friend and that it is a true story. See also the author’s The People’s Party Shot and Shell. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1892. Vol. 4 of the Library of Progress.

PB - Alliance Publishing Co./Plymouth Publishing Co. CY - New York/Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. Chicago, IL: T.A. Bland, 1902, with and introduction by Rev. H. W. Thomas, D.D., President of The Worlds Liberal Congress of Religions. 3rd ed. Chicago, IL: T.A. Bland & Co., 1904.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Queen of Appalachia Y1 - 1901 A1 - Joe [Joseph] H. Borders (b. 1858) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of an Arcadian monarchy combined with advanced technology. Mostly adventure.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thyra; A Romance of the Polar Pit Y1 - 1901 A1 - Robert Ames Bennet (1870-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly lost race and adventure but includes a brief description of an artistic, communal eutopia at the North Pole based on Norse Mythology.

PB - Henry Holt CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Pomeroy, WA: Health Research, 1974; and New York: Arno Press, 1978. UK ed. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1901.

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Illus. E.L. Blumental.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream of a Warringtonian Y1 - 1900 A1 - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Warrington described as a future eutopia. Clean and improved both architecturally and morally. Much control by local government. See also 1892 Hythloday Junior. Bennett also wrote a utopia advocating a world federation; see 1892 Bennett.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of Utopia Y1 - 1900 A1 - Charles J. Bayne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia, seemingly More's, collapses due to indiscriminate immigration and selfishness, particularly desire for individual wealth.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Within an Ace of the End of the World” Y1 - 1900 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia produced when capitalists draw nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce food. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203. The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Y1 - 1900 A1 - L[yman] Frank Baum (1856-1919) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Classic U.S. children’s book that was followed by thirteen others, including The Marvellous Land of Oz: being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tim Woodman and also the strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump: the story being A Sequel to the Wizard of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill with end papers from life poses by the famous comedians, Montgomery and Stone. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904; Ozma of Oz: A Record of her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907; Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908; The Road to Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909; The Emerald City of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1910; The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1913; Tik-Tok of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1914; The Scarecrow of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1915; Rinkitink in Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1916; The Lost Princess of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1917; The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s Daughter. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1918; The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Rand McNally Co., 1919; and Glinda of Oz: in which are related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in their hazardous journey to the home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and how they were rescued from dire peril by the sorcery of Glinda the Good. Illus. John R. Neill. Mattituck, NY: Ameron House, 1920. The first book is borderline as a utopia, but it has been treated as such; see Edward Wagenknecht, Utopia Americana. Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore, 1929; S.J. Sackett, “The Utopia of Oz.” Georgia Review 14 (Fall 1960): 275-91; and Andrew Karp, “Utopian Tension in L. Frank Baum’s Oz.” Utopian Studies 9.2 (1998): 103-21. Later volumes, beginning with The Emerald City of Oz, are  primarily adventure novels but have utopian elements and Ozma of Oz has elements of a Cockaigne, such as a Lunch Box Tree and a Dinner Pail Tree. After Baum’s death, Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) was hired to write sequels. She wrote twenty-one additional Oz books between 1921 and 1976, although the first, The Royal Book of Oz, was credited to Baum. Other Oz novels were published and illustrated by both illustrators with Denslow publishing Denslow’s Scarecrow and Tin-Man (1904) and a comic strip “Scarecrow and Tin-Man” and Neill publishing The Wonder City of Oz (1940), The Scalawagons of Oz (1941), and Lucky Bucky of Oz (1942). A film based loosely on the novel is The Wiz (1978) directed by Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) with the screenplay by Joel Schumacher (1939-2020) based on the play The Wiz by William F[erdinand] Brown (1928-2019) that ran for 1600 performances on Broadway. For other adaptations, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Wizard_of_Oz.

PB - G.M. Hill CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Pictures by W[illiam] W[inslow] Denslow. Ed. Susan Wolstenholme Oxford, Eng.: 1997), 1-263, with an “Introduction” (ix-xliii), “Note on the Text” (xliv-xlvi), “Select Bibliography” (xlvii-l), “A Chronology of L. Frank Baum” (li-lv), and “Explanatory Notes” (265-74); and in The Wonderful World of Oz. The Wizard of Ox The Emerald City of Oz Glinda of Oz. Ed. Jack Zipes (London: Penguin Books, 1998), 1-105 with an “Introduction” (ix-xxix), “Suggestions for Further Reading” (xxxi-xxxvii), “A Note on the Texts and he Illustrators” (xxxix-xli), and “Explanatory Notes” (359-77). For a critical ed., see The Annotated Wizard of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz By L. Frank Baum. Ed. Michael Patrick Hearn. Illus. W.W. Denslow. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1973; Centennial ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000, with a “Preface” by Martin Gardner (xi-xii).  

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Illus. W[illiam] W[allace] Denslow. The other books in the series were illus. John R. Neill.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” Y1 - 1899 A1 - Elizabeth W[hitfield Croom] Bellamy (1837-1900) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the servant problem.

JF - The Black Cat PB - Dover Publications CY - Mineola, NY VL - no. 51 N1 -

Rpt in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Dover Publications, 2015), 44-52 with an editor’s note on 43-44; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 61-72, with an editor’s note on 59. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward; A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 Y1 - 1899 A1 - Arthur Bird KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia stressing patriotism and the manifest destiny of the United States. The U.S. governs the entire Western Hemisphere, which is now known as the United States of the Americas and controls the Philippines. English is the universal language. The national capital moves to Mexico but is still known as Washington. The Papacy has moved to Rio de Janeiro. Technologically advanced. Racist with all Blacks transferred to Venezuela. Highly moral tone with, for example, cursing outlawed. Kissing prohibited as dangerous to health.

PB - [Press of L.C. Childs & Son] CY - [Utica, NY] N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mathematics of Labor Y1 - 1899 A1 - Adhemer Brady AB -

Includes a eutopia of five thousand people that incorporates his detailed laws of economics, which are based on money representing labor. Money issued annually. Equality. Free travel. Land free but homes owned. Machinery used to reduce labor time.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Son of Africa. A Romamce Y1 - 1899 A1 - Anna [Dunphy] Brémont comtesse de (1864-1922) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an adventure novel, but it includes a short section in which the immortal Queen of Sheba prophecies a New Jerusalem to be founded in South Africa by Jews and Christians (96-111). Extremely unusual for the time, the novel depicts an interracial marriage positively.

PB - Greening CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Was It a Sin? London: Hutchinson, 1906.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Uncle Sam in Business Y1 - 1899 A1 - Daniel Bond KW - Male author AB -

Populist eutopia established when the people were given the initiative and referendum as tools to bring about change directly. A Cooperative Commonwealth is established, and the government becomes a business paying the highest prices for products.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - Unity Library No. 92 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light Y1 - 1898 A1 - Samuel Bowles (Spirit) (1826-78) A1 - Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (Medium) (b. 1844) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Domestic Heaven. See also 1880 Twing, 1881 Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).

PB - Star Publishing Co CY - Springfield, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rev. Annabel Lee. A Tale of To-morrow Y1 - 1898 A1 - Robert [Williams] Buchanan (1841-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A scientific eutopia set in the middle of the twenty-first century without religion needs a religious revival to overcome too great a dependence on reason. Eugenics policy, which prohibited marriage between those deemed unfit, is referred to favorably and quoted in Harry Campbell, “An Essay on the Marriage of the Unfit.” The Lancet 2.3915 (September 10, 1898):680. Euthanasia is practiced, mostly for the old but can also be applied to the disabled. 

PB - C. Arthur Pearson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Treasure of the Ice: A Romance Y1 - 1898 A1 - Eugene Shade Bisbee (1864-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A lost race novel depicting a classical Greek civilization near Antarctica as a eutopia. Mostly the type of adventure usual to lost race novels where conflict within the discovered society puts the discoverers at risk, and they must escape.

PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York U5 -

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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 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Equality Y1 - 1897 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Expansion and modification of the ideas found in his 1888 Looking Backward. The most significant changes are in women’s position, which is now clearly equal to men, and in the political system, which is international and much more democratic, including, in many circumstances direct votes by the people. Considerably more on the nineteenth century and on the revolution. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968; New York: Greenwood Press, 1969; and New York: AMS Press, 1970. Chapter 23 was often reprinted as The Parable of the Water Tank.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Henry Cadavere: A Study of Life and Work Y1 - 1897 A1 - H[enry] W[entworth] Bellsmith (1849-1926) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented through the story of a successful socialist intentional community. Emphasis on the period before the actual establishment of the community but includes statements about it after a year and after five years. Includes the "Constitution of the National Union of Co-operative Labor" (92-100). Separate households. A "matrons' guild" will be assigned "education of the young, the conduct of the supply and provision store, health medicine and amusement" (93).

PB - Commonwealth Company CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Prehistoric Music. A Lecture Delivered by Professor Boremall Before the Members of the Society of Antediluvian Art, July, 2897” Y1 - 1897 A1 - Edward A[lgernon] Baughan (1865-1938) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire presenting the music of the Victorian era from the perspective of a future eutopia. There is little about the future, but it is stated that peace prevails because disputes are settled by arbitration. Music in the future is a central part of moral teaching.

JF - Monthly Musical Record (London) VL - 27.320 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Vision Out West" Y1 - 1897 A1 - Barcroft [Henry Thomas] Boake (1866-92) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Poem describing a eutopia of a future tamed Australia.

JF - Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems PB - Angus and Robertson CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

2nd ed. (London: Angus and Robertson, 1913), 19-25. Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 40-44; Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 40-44; and in W[illiam] F. Refshauge, Barcroft Boake. Collected Works, Edited, with a Life (North Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007), 227-30 with an editor's note on 287.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A.D. 2345" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Geo[rge] E[edes] Boxall KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia modeled on 1888 Bellamy and set in Australia. Socialism. Stresses education and hygiene. Marriage considered a part of hygiene, and girls are given education regarding sex and birth. People still smoke. Guild system. Municipalization.

JF - Weekly Times & Echo (London) VL - nos. 2568 - 2583 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Christmas Mystery Y1 - 1896 A1 - Charles O[scar] Boring (1846-1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Short eutopia in which a reformed and revived religion based on The Forward Movement (which was part of the Social Gospel Movement) has brought about the eutopia. Set in 1949. No denominations (5-6). Church provides free food and lodging for all who need it (23-24) as well as a library and reading rooms and space for art, education, and physical culture (25). No saloons (9).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "City of Refuge" Y1 - 1896 A1 - Walter Besant (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Much of the setting of the novel is an intentional community in the United States where a man from England is hiding from his past and the authorities. The community is, as the title suggests, presented, not entirely favorably, as a refuge from the world. The people wear unattractive clothing, work, eat, and meditate. No books allowed.

JF - The Pall Mall Magazine VL - 8 - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Time Is Coming Y1 - 1896 A1 - W[illiam] B[revoort] Bolmer (1845-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses on the struggle for a reformed Christianity that is mostly a critique of the Christianity as it existed at the time. A religious revival led by the returned prophet Elijah aims at the fusion of Judaism and Christianity and a Jewish state in Palestine. There have been technological advances, but these are incidental to the novel. Within the novel, reform is defeated but hope is held out for the future.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Christmas in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Picture of a future Christmas as an addition to 1888 Bellamy Looking Backward, the book for which he is best known. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Ladies Home Journal VL - 12.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Garden of Eden, U.S.A.: A Very Possible Story Y1 - 1895 A1 - W[illiam] H[enry] Bishop KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with an emphasis on equality, particularly between men and women in North Carolina built by a wealthy man. Everyone one must work, but much work is mechanized. The author believes his Eden is possible, and there is an Appendix entitled "Why Not an Eden?" (357-69). A love story runs throughout the novel. No tobacco, no alcohol.

PB - Charles H. Kerr CY - Chicago, IL VL - Library of Progress No. 15 (May 1895) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Marshall Duke of Denver or The Labor Revolution of 1920. A Novel Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Ernest Hugh] [Fitzpatrick] (1863-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia includes some reforms but mostly on the revolution to achieve the better society. Graduated income tax; tax on imported luxury items; free trade; government ownership of railroads and telegraph; municipal ownership of street railroads (201). All money replaced by script based on real estate (190-91). Standing army and a large navy. Capital punishment for murder a federal law.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - '2894'; or, The Fossil Man (A Mid-Winter Night's Dream) Y1 - 1894 A1 - Walter Browne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal. Technology.

PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal City Y1 - 1894 A1 - Rev. Canon [Samuel Augustus] Barnett (1844-1913) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia that the author argues is possible. Stress on variety but no very rich or poor. Religion, education, health. Outlines how England could become such a eutopia, with Bristol the specific city being considered. See also Samuel [Augustus] Barnett and Henrietta Barnett, Practicable Socialism: Essays on Social Reform. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Rpt. in 1894 and 1915.

PB - Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in The Ideal City. Ed. Helen E. Meller (Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1979), 55-66 with a "Note to The Ideal City (47-53).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ivanda or the Pilgrim's Quest: A Tale Y1 - 1894 A1 - [Sir] Captain Claude [Arthur] Bray (b. 1858) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia or flawed utopia. A lost community in Tibet that was intended to be a utopian religious community is more dystopian as a result of some evil men with power in the community. Mostly adventure and romance.

PB - Frederick Warne CY - London U1 -

Cover title is Ivanda: A Tale of Thibet.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Off the Face of the Earth: A Story of Possibilities Y1 - 1894 A1 - Lester Bodine KW - Male author AB -

A short visit to Hell is followed by a longer visit to the outskirts of Heaven, where souls are judged.

PB - [Festner Printing Co.] CY - [Omaha, NB] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Revolt of the----: A Page from the domestic history of the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1894 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

JF - The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 5.4 N1 -

Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 62-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Toddle Island. Being the Diary of Lord Bottsford Y1 - 1894 A1 - [James Dennis] [Hird] (1850-1920) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on British life, politics, and society that presents them as both remarkably inconsistent and extremely silly. The one positive feature of Toddle Island is a cooperative laundry, and, at the end of the novel, a larger cooperative system is being established.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Earth Revisited Y1 - 1893 A1 - Byron A[lden] Brooks (1845-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 1992. Technology, cooperation, and no idleness. Four-hour workday. Moral training. Air travel. Cooperative bank. Cooperative housekeeping with groups of homes employing housekeepers together. The New York area now called Columbia and Manhattan is all offices with the people living in Westchester County.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fear of It" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Story describing a religious community that believes so deeply in heaven that it welcomes death. Simple, austere life.

JF - The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 3.4 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Face and the Mask (London: Hutchinson, 1894), 30-40. U.S. ed. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1895), 25-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ireland a Nation! The Viceroy Muldoon: His Court and Courtship. Including the True Record of His Excellency’s Encounter With the Right Honourable Timothy Moriarty, Prime Minister, in the Lower Castle Yard, Dublin, A.D. 1895. By Bernard O’Hea, Late Yeoman Usher of the Green Rod and Registrar of the Most Emeral Order of the Shamrock and Sunburst (Now Extinct) Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Francis (Frank) Frankfort] [Moore] (1855-1931) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Anti-Home Rule satire. 

PB - Olley & Co. CY - Belfast N1 -

Some copies indicate London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1893

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Island of Progress" Y1 - 1893 A1 - M[ary Eliza] Bramston (1841-1912) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire set five hundred years in the future about a future based entirely on science. Equality, but gender roles are unchanged with men working outside the home and women in it, but without servants, science, eugenics, and technology. The physical condition of the race is the highest good. Arranged marriages based on physical characteristics and character. Highly refined. Placid--a phlegmatic mind is best; having an imagination is bad (245-246). Criminals used in scientific experiments (242). Involuntary euthanasia where Extinguishers “extinguish anyone whose existence is hurtful to the progress of the Race” (242). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Message from the Stars" Y1 - 1893 A1 - Fred H[arvey] Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious, technological eutopia. Stress on intelligence; after death the spirit joins only those of the same level of intelligence. Women will soon rule earth due to their superiority.

JF - One Dollar's Worth PB - Np CY - [Chicago, IL] U2 -

Illus. H. Mayer

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monarch of Utopia Y1 - 1893 A1 - [Fred W.] Jones A1 - H. B. Bridge KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on manners.

PB - Book & Co CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Doom of London” Y1 - 1892 A1 - Robert Barr (1850-1912) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia created in London when the combination of fog and smoke cut off oxygen at ground level and millions die, with the suggestion that the reduction in population plus advanced technology have produced a better life fifty years later.

JF - The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly VL - 2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 7.1 (38) (July 1954): 25-34 with an editor’s note on 34; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.) 6 ([February 1956]): 23-33. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream of an Englishman Y1 - 1892 A1 - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. World federation developed from Britain. Three stages--United Kingdom and Ireland form a federation; the empire is added; and then the entire world joins. Based on self-interest. . See also his letter to the editor, “Federation Made Easy.” Imperial Federation 8 (1893): 320-21. Bennett also wrote a utopia set in his hometown in the future; see 1900 Bennett.

PB - Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Warrington, England: "Sunrise" Pub. Co., 1893.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Darkest England, 1890 to Christian England, 1980" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Mrs. Septimus [Maria Emma] Buss KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Christian eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. Cooperative housekeeping. Temperance. Gender equality. Cremation. Land publicly held.

JF - The Women's Herald VL - 5.167, 169 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Goddess of Atvatabar; Being the History of the Discovery of the Interior World and Conquest of Atvatabar Y1 - 1892 A1 - William R[ichard] Bradshaw (1851-1927) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race novel set inside the earth describing a flawed utopia that has a living goddess and a religion based on the “. . . worship of the human soul under a thousand forms. . . .” (84). Problems arise when the living goddess and the main protagonist from the surface fall in love.

PB - J.F. Douthitt CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Messages from Mars by the Aid of the Telescope Plant Y1 - 1892 A1 - Robert D[yer] Braine (1861-1943) KW - Male author AB -

Science and technology bring eutopia. The Elixir of Life has been discovered. Government by the most intelligent. Crime is considered an illness. No money. No work except by volunteers as needed.

PB - J.S. Ogilvie CY - New York VL - The Peerless Series, No. 62 (August 1892). N1 -

Rpt. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co, [1895?].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Moonblight" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Dan[iel Carter] Beard (1850-1941) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and how to bring it about. A man can see the true character of people, and he reforms a small mining area called Moonblight based on real equality of opportunity. He abolishes the company store and allows private enterprise in the area. All the rent from land goes to public works. Temperance. The sale of liquor cancels a lease. Structured so that the village will control the area after the current owner's death.

JF - Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance PB - Charles L. Webster CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (Trenton, NJ: A. Brandt, 1904), 17-197, which was rpt. (New York: AMS Press, 1976), 17-197.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Triumph of Woman's Rights. A Prophetic Vision Y1 - 1892 A1 - Tom [Thomas] Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-women's rights satire. Women are described as pro-Bellamy and anti-Christian.

PB - [W. McCullough] CY - [Auckland, New Zealand] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadian Life Y1 - 1891 A1 - S[ydney] S[avory] Buckman, F.G.S. (1860-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on rural life as an imaginary country.

PB - Chapman & Hall CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ben-Beor. A Story of the Anti-Messiah. In Two Divisions. Part I.--Lunar Intaglios. The Man in the Moon. A Counterpoint of Wallace's "Ben Hur." Part II.--Historical Phantasmagoria. The Wandering Gentile, A Companion Romance to Sue's "Wandering Jew" Y1 - 1891 A1 - H[erman] M[ilton] Bien (1831-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first part (3-67) describes the prophet Elijah on a civilized moon where people go through various stages in preparation for salvation.

PB - Press of the Isaac Friedenwald Co CY - Baltimore, MD N1 -

2nd rev. & imp. ed. Baltimore, MD: Press of the Friedenwald Co., 1892.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Human Republic Y1 - 1891 A1 - [Henry Robert] Heather Bigg (1853-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia depicted in the interior of the human body with the emphasis on interdependence and equality.

PB - David Stott CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Independence; A Retrospect. From the "Reminiscences, Home and Colonial" of Charles Ashwold Bland Y1 - 1891 A1 - Charles Ashwold Bland [pseud?] KW - Australian author AB -

Depicts the abortive independence of Australia, but the federation of the Australian states was a success.

PB - Harrison and Sons CY - London U3 -

Bland, Charles Ashwold [pseud.?]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man from Mars; His Morals, Politics and Religion Y1 - 1891 A1 - [William] [Simpson] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with Christianity and socialism combined, and church and state are one because moral and material questions cannot be separated. All land owned by the state. Three-hour workday. Absolute gender equality. Marriage is regulated by the health department, and everyone is required to have a periodic health exam, with the results made public.

PB - Bacon & Co CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

[2nd ed.] San Francisco, CA: The Clemens Publishing Co., 1893. 3rd ed. under the author's real name with the added subtitle Revised & Enlarged by an Extended Preface and a Chapter on Woman's Suffrage. San Francisco, CA: Press of E.D. Beattie, 1900.

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Thomas Blot [pseud.]

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HRC, W3,4949

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Woman in the Year 2000" Y1 - 1891 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A restatement and expansion of Bellamy’s discussion of women in his 1888 Looking Backward. In 1897 Bellamy, he modifies his presentation of this position. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Ladies Home Journal VL - 8.3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Brother": Splendor and Woe Y1 - 1890 A1 - Isaac Broome (1835-1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Most of the novel is concerned with the dystopia of the nineteenth century, which brings about a collapse of world civilization. But this dystopia is framed by a future eutopia, which was brought into being by a small group of survivors in New Zealand, members of a small, isolated, egalitarian community. Forced from New Zealand by the growing threat of volcanoes, they settled in what had been New York and founded an egalitarian eutopia based on the teachings of Henry George (1839-97) and Edward Bellamy (1850-98). 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 - J.A. Craig CY - Paterson, NJ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Ignatius Loyola] [Donnelly] (1831-1901) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Largely a social catastrophe novel but includes a populist eutopia at the end. 

PB - F.J. Schulte and Company CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, 1894; Chicago, IL: J. Regan & Co., “Free Speech” Publishers, nd, with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly) and many errors Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue & Co., [1918? is given by most libraries although Rideout suggests 1901 and some libraries give 1913], with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly); ed. Walter B. Rideout. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960; New York: AMS Press, 1981; and ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” by the editor (xv-lv).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Common-Sense Country Y1 - 1890 A1 - L[ouisa] S[arah] Bevington (1845-95) KW - Female author AB -

Anarchist socialist eutopia. See also her “The Secret of the Bees.” Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (London) 1.4 (April 1894): 31 where the bees have the good life through the use of “common sense.”

PB - James Tochatti. "Liberty" Press. Liberty Pamphlets CY - London U5 -

MoU-St, NcD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farming in the Year 2000, A.D." Y1 - 1890 A1 - Edward Berwick KW - Male author AB -

Filling a gap in 1888 Bellamy. Discussion between Julian West and Dr. Leete. Vegetarian. Agriculture the most popular profession. City refuse used for fertilizer. Electricity runs all the machines.

JF - Overland Monthly VL - 2nd ser. 15.90 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "God's Own Country" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Thomas Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

New Zealand as a eutopia. Origin of the word Godzone to describe New Zealand.

JF - Lays and Lyrics. God's Own Country and Other Poems PB - Brown, Thomson & Co. CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in Ballads of Thomas Bracken (Palmerston North, New Zealand: The Dunmore Press, 1975), 13-17. Said to have been originally published in the Yea Chronicle [Yea, Australia 1890] and rpt. in the New Zealand Herald (May 28, 1892): 9, although the Herald says it was written especially for it.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Hero of the Twentieth Century" Y1 - 1890 A1 - John Henry Barnabas KW - Male author AB -

Love story set in 1888 Bellamy's future.

JF - Overland Monthly VL - 2nd ser. 15.90 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Darkest England and The Way Out Y1 - 1890 A1 - General [William] Booth (1829-1912) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a reform scheme centered on the Salvation Army but includes the transformation of society through a series of city, farm, and overseas colonies. The city colonies were designed to get the poor off the streets. A factory in the city helped train them to work, and the city colony sent people to the farm colony which consisted of a cooperative farm and industrial and agricultural villages. These were then expected to send people to the overseas colonies. Some such schemes were established; see and Norman H Murdoch, “Anglo-American Salvation Army Farm Colonies, 1890-1910.” Communal Societies 3 (Fall 1983): 111-21; and Clark C. Spence, The Salvation Army Farm Colonies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. For an attack on the Salvation Army, see 1890 Pope Booth.

PB - International Headquarters of the Salvation Army CY - London N1 -

6th ed. London: Charles Knight & Co., Ltd. 1970.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jubilee Day" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Thomas Bracken (1843-98) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Future New Zealand as a eutopian part of the British Empire.

JF - Musings in Maoriland PB - Arthur T. Keirle CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Strange Dream Y1 - 1890 A1 - S. M. Burroughs AB -

Eutopia in which England is transformed by the single tax. The dream begins with a picture of the country before the introduction of the single tax showing the workers supporting the idle rich. This is followed by a depiction of the eutopia produced, with free travel, free education, full employment, and so forth. “It was the Liberal programme and the Single Tax that did it” (13). 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 - Green, McAllan & Feilden. CY - London U5 -

LSE

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Thousand Dollars a Year. Moving Forward; or, How We Got There. The Complete Liberation of All the People. Abridged from the Advance Sheets of a History of Industrial and Governmental Reforms in the United States, To Be Published in the Year 2001 Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Frederick U.] [Worley] KW - US author AB -

Cooperative eutopia brought about peacefully through education. Public laundries, public kitchens, public heating and cooling, and high taxation, to which the public had agreed in order to produce the better life. After a few years the taxes were abolished. The banks, railroads, telegraph, and mines, followed by all industries, are nationalized. Racial equality. A new constitution is adopted.

PB - [J.P. Wright, printer] CY - Washington, DC U3 -

Benefice [pseud.]

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DLC, W3,6111

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City Beautiful" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Oliver Bell Bunce (1828-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of a simple life with no personal or social display.

JF - The Story of Happinolande and Other Legends PB - D. Appleton CY - New York U5 -

PSt, W3,775

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Experiment in Marriage. A Romance Y1 - 1889 A1 - Charles J[oseph] Bellamy (1852-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia presented as a successful experiment in socialism and free love, although there is very little sex outside marriage and no marriage before age 22. Easy divorce. Women are financially independent, and children are raised communally with parents free to spend time with them. Both men and women work four hours a day. Land and houses owned by the state. Married women are allotted houses. Single people of both sexes live in what they call phalansteries or buildings where each person has a private room, and there are extensive communal facilities. See also 1884 Bellamy, The Way Out. Suggestions for Social Reform.

PB - Albany Publishing Company CY - Albany, NY N1 -

Rpt. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977 with an "Introduction" by Joel Nydahl (v-xxviii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Reign on Earth, or Social Science and Christian Government Y1 - 1889 A1 - Blackwell, William KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. God will set up a Court of Arbitration to which people can appeal from local law. People choose their own arbitrator. God will make decisions by people drawing lots when they cannot resolve disputes. There is a divine plan for reviving trade.

PB - Author CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Story of Happinolande" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Oliver Bell Bunce (1828-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Anti-egalitarian satire. When a freak of nature provides an abundance of gold and it is distributed equally, no one will work, and a generally good system collapses. When another freak of nature covers the gold, people must work and abundance returns.

JF - The Story of Happinolande and Other Legends PB - D. Appleton CY - New York U5 -

PSt, W3,775

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Whom This May Come" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in which the ability to read minds brings self-knowledge and empathy. Bellamy is best known for his 1888 Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1886 Bellamy.

JF - Harper's New Monthly Magazine VL - 78 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Blindman’s World and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), 389-415; his The Religion of Solidarity Santa Barbara, CA: Concord Grove Press, 1984), 44-59; 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 Apparitions of Things to Come: Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Ed. Franklin Rosemont (Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr Co., 1990), 118-33.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “With the Eyes Shut" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A story that elaborates on the radio/phonograph that is important in 1888 Bellamy, Looking Backward. Here it is ubiquitous and portable. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Harper’s New Monthly Magazine VL - 79.473 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For the Ahkoond" Y1 - 1888 A1 - A[mbrose Gwinett] B[ierce] (1842-1914?) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire set in 4591 when the protagonist explores the remnant of the United States, which has been depopulated, with a monarchy remaining on the West Coast.

JF - San Francisco Examiner N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 197-214. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 197-214; in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 94-100; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 172-79.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Inner House Y1 - 1888 A1 - Walter Besant (1836-1901) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overregulated and over-protective society based on science achieving near-immortality. Anti-socialist. People are generally bored, unwilling to take risks. Food is the only pleasure. No family ties. No children born to keep population in balance. The one child born (to replace someone killed by lightning) grows up romanticizing the past. Some follow her in leaving the society to reestablish that past.

PB - J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall CY - Bristol, Eng./London N1 -

Rpt. London: Greenhill Books, 1986, with an “Afterword” by Brian Stableford (199).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Backward: 2000-1887 Y1 - 1888 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The classic American eutopia in which both business and labor were nationalized. Quite a few works have been published responding to or elaborating on Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. He also wrote two utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward; see 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

PB - Ticknor and Company CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: William Bryce, [1888]. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1889. Rpt. as Looking Backward--If Socialism Comes 2000-1887. London: W. Foulsham, [1930]; and under the original title Vancouver, BC, Canada: The Totem Press, 1934. Critical editions include ed. John L. Thomas. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967, with an “Introduction” (1-89); ed. Alex MacDonald. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” (1-42) and appendices that include material by Bellamy and others; and ed. Matthew Beaumont. London: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” (vii-xxxvi) and “Explanatory Notes” (198-220), which includes notes on the changes from the first to the second edition. Chapters I-IX of the 1888 ed. rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 21-56. It was adapted as a play by C. Bernard Jackson that was first performed in April 1974 in Los Angeles, CA.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Strange People Y1 - 1888 A1 - John M. Batchelor KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Hidden race of people who use their minds to control themselves and their environment. Anarchist. No money. Anti-religious. See also his A Strange Conflict. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1888 [CU-Riv], which is set just before the eutopia and provides some background to it.

PB - J.S. Ogilvie CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Three Dreams of Home Rule, viz.: I.—The Dream of Tim Flanagan of Poolaphoula, II.—The Dream of Father Tynn of Ballybullpost, and III.—The Author's Dream Y1 - 1888 A1 - William C[harles] Bonaparte-Wyse (1826-92) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Ballads. Humor opposing home rule for Ireland presenting a peasant who believes home rule will produce a Cockaigne, a priest who believes it will lead to complete control by the Roman Catholic Church, and the author who believes it will lead to civil strife.

PB - Ptd. at the Union Offices CY - Dublin U5 -

TCD

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future" Y1 - 1887 A1 - Lillie Devereux [Umstead] Blake (1833-1913) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

All women leave the United States to set up an independent republic. Events in the U.S. and in the women's territory are presented. Reconciliation between men and women when men capitulate and promise to reform.

JF - The Phrenological Journal (New York) VL - ns 33 (os 84).2 - 3 N1 -

Rpt. in her A Daring Experiment and Other Stories (New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co., 1892), 346-60; in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 95-103 with an editor's note on 94-95; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 93-102 with an editor’s not on 93

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blindman's World" Y1 - 1886 A1 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia on Mars based on foreknowledge about one’s own life, which brings serenity and good relations with others. Only Earth does not have this ability. Bellamy is best known for his 1888 Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”

JF - Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 58.349 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Blindman's World and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), 1-29; in his Apparitions of Things to Come: Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Ed. Franklin Rosemont (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Co., 1990), 29-45; and as "The Blind Man's World." In his The Religion of Solidarity (Santa Barbara, CA: Concord Grove Press, 1984), 27-43.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Fortnight in Heaven; An Unconventional Romance Y1 - 1886 A1 - [James Howard] [Bridge] (1858-1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set on Jupiter, which is identical with earth except that the people are giants. Appears to be a good system, but flaws are revealed. For example, socialism, good on the surface, is corrupt.

PB - Henry Holt and Company CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886.

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Harold A. Brydges [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out. Suggestions for Social Reform Y1 - 1884 A1 - Charles J[oseph] Bellamy (1852-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reform tract that uses the utopian form. Limit on profit. More equal income distribution. All need to work. Eight hour work week. Limited inheritance. No monopolies. Free legal system. No individual property in land. Free, compulsory education as part of the process of improving the political system. Improved health care. See also his 1889 An Experiment in Marriage

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Peculiar People; or, Reality in Romance Y1 - 1881 A1 - William S[tevens] Balch (1806-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian eutopia in the Middle East of people who actually practice Christ's teaching. No rich or poor, no fashion, no idleness. Simple religious services. No theological controversies.

PB - Henry A. Sumner & Company CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. rev. Chicago, IL: Henry A. Sumner & Company, 1882.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The San Rafael Phalanstery" Y1 - 1873 A1 - Noah Brooks (1830-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on a community intended to be a eutopia, the problems it encountered, and its success, which led to boredom and closure.

JF - Scribner's Monthly Magazine (New York) VL - 5.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Hour With the Angels or A Dream of the Spirit Life Y1 - 1872 A1 - A[lden] Brigham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Domestic heaven influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Heaven has class distinctions based on one's behavior during life. Stress on mercy rather than punishment. Change is the norm in Heaven.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "What John Smith Saw in the Moon: A Christmas Story for Parties Who were Children Twenty years ago" Y1 - 1872 A1 - Fred H[arvey] Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia with satirical elements. Technologically advanced. No money.

JF - The Workingman's Advocate (Chicago, IL) VL - 9.8 N1 -

Rpt. in his One Dollar's Worth. Illus. H. Mayer ([Chicago, IL]: Np, 1893), 5-44.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Model Town; or, The Right and Progressive Organization of Industry for the Production of Material and Moral Wealth Y1 - 1869 A1 - [Edward Barnard] [Bassett] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a Christian cooperative community with private property. Emphasis on education.

PB - Ptd. for the Author CY - Cambridge, MA U3 -

Beta [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light & Darkness. Or, the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abado Y1 - 1867 A1 - Lorenzo D[ow] Blackson (b. 1817) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Christian allegory reflecting the battle between good and evil on earth and in the Celestial Country from the creation onwards into a future where good wins. 

PB - J. Nicholas, Printer CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good, Rapturous Scenes. A New Way of Enjoyment! The Quintessent Value of Everything! All You Want" Y1 - 1866 A1 - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Free love eutopia. See also 1858, 1862, 1864, the note there, 1865, and Blanchard, “The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art.”

JF - Titus Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon; or, Trebly Voluptuous PB - Calvin Blanchard CY - New York N1 -

Also separately paged (twice but with textual differences) in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art" Y1 - 1866 A1 - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

While the book is presented as an autobiography, this section is a typical Blanchard eutopia. See also 1858, 1862, 1864 1865, and 1866 Blanchard, “Good, Rapturous Scenes. A New Way of Enjoyment!”

JF - Secret History of a Votary of Pleasure. His Own Confessions PB - Calvin Blanchard CY - New York N1 -

Also pub. bound in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867 but without separate publishing information.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - St. Martin’s Summer Y1 - 1866 A1 - Anne M[aria] H[ampton] Brewster (1819-92) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Some utopian elements. See Etta M. Madden, “Anne Hampton Brewster’s St. Martin’s Summer and Utopian Literary Discourses.” Utopian Studies 28.2 (2017): 305-26. 

PB - Ticknor & Fields CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yesterday, To-Day, and For Ever: A Poem, in Twelve Books Y1 - 1866 A1 - Edward H[enry] Bickersteth (1825-1906) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Christianity in a long poem. Cantos II "The Paradise of the Blessed Dead", X "The Millennial Sabbath", and XII "The Many Mansions" present Christian eutopias. The poem looks at the damned and the saved and the Second Coming of Christ.

PB - Rivington's CY - London N1 -

There were at least twenty-three editions. U.S. ed. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1875.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Crisis Chapter on Government Y1 - 1865 A1 - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A pamphlet that includes a proposed constitution that has articles abolishing all constraints, appropriating sufficient money to raise all children born in the U.S., providing money for mothers during their lying in, and excluding all supernaturalism.

PB - [Calvin Blanchard] CY - [New York] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Eye-Opener! A Real Liberty Song. Air, Down with Humbug Y1 - 1862 A1 - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A version of Blanchard's eutopia. Non-fiction outlining the future glories of wealth, and freedom, particularly sexual freedom, with machines doing most of the work. See also 1858, 1864, 1865, and 1868 (2) Blanchard.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Theres Nae Place Like Otago Yet" Y1 - 1861 A1 - John Barr of Craigielee (1809-89) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

New Zealand as eutopia.

JF - Poems and Songs PB - W.P. Nimmo CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

Rpt. in An Anthology of New Zealand Verse. Ed. Robert Chapman and Jonathan Bennett (London: Oxford University Press, 1956), 1-2.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Act for the Reform and Regulation of Female Apparel, and to Amend and Refrenate the Customs relating to Crinoline and other Artificial Superfluities and the Profusion thereof, with the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Regulations and Directions, Fines, Forfeitures and Penalties, to be observed, applied, practised and put into execution for securing the proper observance of the same. [Session 1859] Y1 - 1859 A1 - Jeremiah Rounce A1 - Alfred Bar KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Detailed provisions for controlling women's dress. The Australian edition specifies that it is for New South Wales. Women will no longer be allowed to choose their own clothes; husbands or parents must provide a certificate approving specific purchases. Husbands and parents can purchase clothes for their wives and children without a certificate as long as they conform to the act. No bustles or similar artificial constructions or undergarments allowed. Specific pattern and color restrictions for women over forty. Women under sixteen and over forty cannot wear heels over three inches, with other detailed restrictions regarding shoes and boots. Further restrictions apply to bonnets.

PB - William Coney CY - London U1 -

At the head of the title Anno Vicesimo Secundo & Vicesimo Tertio. Victoriæ Reginæ. Cap. CCXXXVIII.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean Y1 - 1858 A1 - R[obert] M[ichael] Ballantyne (1825-94) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Children’s Robinsonade that closely follows the structure of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1718) but with three boys who are shipwrecked on an idyllic island.

PB - T. Nelson & Sons CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: James Nisbet, 1863; and London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1883. Critical ed. Ed. J. S. Bratton. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990 with an “Introduction” by the editor (vii-xxvii).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Races of Mankind; With Travels in Grubland Y1 - 1856 A1 - [Allen W.] [Gazlay] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the United States, called Grubland, that ends with the outline of an alternative eutopian organization stressing the need to educate for freedom noting that the old need education almost as much as the young.

PB - Longley Bros CY - Cincinnati, OH U3 -

Cephas Broadluck [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Among the Ruins" Y1 - 1855 A1 - Robert Browning (1812-89) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Poem set in the ruins of a city in which the rural life and love are the eutopia.

JF - Men and Women PB - Chapman and Hall CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. In Men and Women. Ed. Paul Turner (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1972), 5-8, 312; Men and Women and Other Poems. Ed. J.W. Harper (London: J.M. Dent/Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975), 1-3, 231; in The Complete Works of Robert Browning With Variant Readings & Annotations. Ed. Roman A. King, Jr. 5 vols. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press and Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1981), 5: 163-66, 360; The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Volume 5 Men and Women. Ed. Ian Jack and Robert Inglesfield (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1995), 3-8; and Robert Browning. Ed. Adam Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 157-59.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voice from Australia; or An Inquiry into the Probability of New Holland Being Connected with the Prophecies Relating to the New Jerusalem and the Spiritual Temple Y1 - 1851 A1 - Hannah Villiers Boyd KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The author argues that Australia is the New Jerusalem. Mostly Biblical exegesis but includes some fairly vague discussion of the future of Australia as a better society.

PB - Ptd. by Robert Barr CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

2nd rev. ed. London: Partridge & Co., 1856.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region Y1 - 1849 A1 - [George Washington] [Peck] (1817-59) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. City of gold in the mountains of California inhabited by Caucasians where gold is treated as a common stone and for pots and pans and is used as building material. Religious. Hereditary monarchy. Common law. Everyone gets along.

PB - Baker and Scribner CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Aurifodina or Adventures in the Gold Region a fantastical ’49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigly [G.W. Peck]. San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1974.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - National Evils and Practical Remedies, with the Plan of a Model Town. Illustrated by Two Engravings. Accompanied by an Examination of Some Important Moral and Political Problems Y1 - 1849 A1 - James S[ilk] Buckingham (1786-1855) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia proposes a communal experiment and gives detailed plans for it, including, at the front, a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it.

PB - Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son and Co CY - London U2 -

There is a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage from Utopia to Several Unknown Regions of the World. By Yarbfj. Translated from the American Y1 - 1842 A1 - John Francis Bray (1809-97) ED - M. F. Lloyd-Prichard KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on contemporary nations. 

PB - Lawrence and Wishart CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 349-486. Claeys re-transcribed the text from the original manuscript.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Social Destiny of Man: or, Association and Reorganization of Industry Y1 - 1840 A1 - Albert Brisbane 1809-1890) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book is a very detailed presentation of life under Association in a Fourierist Phalanx, much of it taken directly from Fourier. The author is known as the primary popularizer in the United States of the ideas of Charles Fourier (1772-1837).

PB - C. F. Stollmeyer CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Burt Franklin, 1968; and New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sequel to the Peopling of Utopia; or, the Sufficiency of Socialism for Human Happiness: Being a Further Comparison of the Social and Radical Schemes Y1 - 1838 A1 - Samuel Bower KW - Male author AB -

Short sequel to a political pamphlet The Peopling of Utopia; or The Sufficiency of Socialism for Human Happiness: Being a Comparison of the Social and Radical Schemes. Bradford, Eng.: Ptd. for C. Willkinson, 1838. Both detail the advantages of communal life, but A Sequel is presented as a eutopia.

PB - Ptd. for C. Wilkinson CY - Bradford, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 5: 16-28.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Island" Y1 - 1837 A1 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Poem describing an idyllic island.

JF - New Monthly Magazine and Humourist VL - 49 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Seraphim and Other Poems (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), 185-88; and in The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), 32-34.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation in the Year of our Lord 19-- Y1 - 1835 A1 - Oliver Bolokitten, Esq. [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Racist dystopia.

PB - Author CY - New York U3 -

Bolokitten, Oliver, Esq. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Covenant Between God and His People; or, The Hebrew Constitution and Charter, with the Statutes and Ordinances, the Laws and Regulations, and Commands and Covenants Y1 - 1830 A1 - [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Very detailed constitution. See also 1801 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798. 

PB - Ptd. by A. Snell for Mr. Finleyson CY - London U1 -

By the late Mr. Brothers.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Three Hundred Years Hence" Y1 - 1830 A1 - Bluffdale [pseud.] AB -

What initially appears to be a eutopia turns out to be only good for some. St. Louis is a prosperous, important city, but its prosperity is based on the extreme exploitation of the working class. See also 1831 Salem.

JF - Illinois Monthly Magazine (Vandalia, IL) VL - 1.2 U3 -

Bluffdale [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sketch of a Journey Through The Western States of North America, From New Orleans, By the Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati and Falls of Niagara, To New York, In 1827. With a Description of the New and Flourishing City of Cincinnati, By Messrs. B. Drake and E.D. Mansfield. And a Selection from Various Authors, on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Settlers, in the Fertile and Populous State of Ohio, Containing Information Useful to Persons Desirous of Settling in America Y1 - 1827 A1 - W[illiam] Bullock (c. 1773-1849) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in that it contains a foldout plan for a proposed Town, to be called Hygeia to be located on the Ohio River in Kentucky.

PB - John Miller CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Vol. 19 of Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark, 1905), 113-54.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels in Phrenologasto Y1 - 1825 A1 - [John] [Trotter] (1788-1852) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Society based on phrenology (each person's head is shaved and marked), which ensures that the right person is in the right job. The land is located between Earth and the Moon. The capital is Cranioscoposco.

PB - Samuel Smith CY - Calcutta, India N1 -

1829 ed. rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 159-222.

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1829 ed. has the pseudonym Gio[vanni] Battista Balscopo.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Deserted City” Y1 - 1824 A1 - Joseph Bounden KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a city that has been largely abandoned through defeat brought on by greed and a lack of national feeling.

JF - The Deserted City; Eva, A Tale in Two Cantos; and Other Poems PB - Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green CY - London U1 -

The cover title is The Deserted City: Eva; Electricity. Poems

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Darkness" Y1 - 1816 A1 - George Gordon Byron [Lord Byron] (1788-1824) ED - Jerome J. McGann KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

End of world dystopia.

JF - Lord Byron: The Complete Political Works PB - Clarendon Press CY - Oxford, Eng. VL - 7. vols. N1 -

Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 25-27. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. A Poem Y1 - 1812 A1 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian predictive poem showing the ruin of Britain after Commerce leaves her. See 1814 Grant for a response. A detailed study of the poem and its context is E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 

PB - Ptd. for J. Johnson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Warrington, Eng.: The “Sunrise” Publishing Co., 1911 with the cover adding A Prophecy of England’s Downfall; 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), 1: 232-50; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 1: 232-50; in The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 152-61 with “Notes and Variants” (309-17); as Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. 1812. Poole, Eng: Woodstock Books, 1995; in Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwells, 1997), 10-18, with an editor’s introduction (7-10) and notes (10-18); in her Selected Poetry and Prose. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 160-73; and in E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 270-77. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Travels of Young Candid and Doctor Pangloss to the Country of El-Dorado, Toward the End of the Eighteenth Century; Being a Continuation of Voltaire’s Candid Y1 - 1804 A1 - J[ames] Barton L.M. KW - Male author AB -

Just what the title says.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Description of Jerusalem: Its Houses and Streets, Squares, Colleges, Markets, and Cathedrals, The Royal and Private Palaces, with The Garden of Eden In the Centre, As laid down in the last chapters of Ezekiel, Also The First Chapter of Genesis Verified, as Strictly Divine and True and The Solar System, With All Its Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, and Millions of Suns, As Positively Proved To Be Delusive and False. By Mr. Brothers, Who Will Be Revealed To the Hebrews As Their King and Restorer Y1 - 1801 A1 - Mr. [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824) A1 - Mr. Brothers KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Restored Jerusalem as eutopia. See also 1830 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Miss Kinder, on Receiving a Note dated February 30th" Y1 - 1800 A1 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) ED - William McCarthy ED - Elizabeth Kraft KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eighteen line poem describing a day when everyone behaves well.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Alcuin]" Y1 - 1798 A1 - Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia of complete gender equality. No marriage.

JF - The Life of Charles Brockden Brown: Together With Selections From the Rarest of His Printed Works, From His Original Letters, And From His Manuscripts Before Unpublished PB - James P. Parke CY - Philadelphia, PA VL - 2 vols. N1 -

U.K. ed. as “The Paradise of Women, From ‘Alcuin’.” In William Dunlap. Memoirs of Charles Brockden Brown, The American Novelist, Author of Wieland, Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, &c. With Selections from His Original Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings (London: Ptd. for Henry Colburn and Co., 1822), 247-308. Parts I and II of Alcuin, which do not include the utopia had been published as Alcuin: A Dialogue. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1798. Rpt. as Alcuin: A Dialogue by Charles Brockton Brown. A Type-facsimile Reprint of the First Edition with an Introduction by L[eRoy] E[lwood] Kimball (vii-xxi). New Haven, CT: Carl & Margaret Rollins, 1935. An abr. version of these parts was published as “The Rights of Women: A Dialogue.” Weekly Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) 1.7 – 10 (March 17 – April 7 1798): 198-200; 231-36; 271-74; 299-302. All parts are available in Alcuin: A Dialogue. Ed. Lee E. Edwards. The Gehenna Tracts 3. Northampton. MA: The Gehenna Press, 1970. Rpt. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971; and in Alcuin. Ed. Cynthia A. Kerner New York: NCUP, Inc., 1995, with an “Introduction (3-37), “A Note on Text” (38), and “Suggested Readings” (39-40). Critical ed. in The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown. Bicentennial Edition. Volume VI. Alcuin: A Dialogue and Memoirs of Stephen Calvet. Ed. Stanley J. Krause, S. W. Reid, and Robert D. Arner (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1987), 1-67, an “Historical Essay” (273-98), a “Textual Essay” (313-56), “Textual Notes” (368-75), “Variants in Alcuin, Parts I and II” (376-422), “List of Emendations in Alcuin, Part III” (423), “End-of-Line Word-Division” (424), and “Record of Collations and Copies Consulted” (436-37).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House: Containing the Idea of a New Principle of Construction Applicable to Any Sort of Establishment, In Which Persons of Any Description Are To Be Kept Under Inspection; And in Particular to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, Houses of Industry, Work-houses, Poor-house, Manufactories, Mad-houses, Lazarettos, Hospitals, and Schools: With a Plan of Management Adapted to the Principle: In a Series of Letters, Written in the Year 1787, From Crecheff in White Russia, To a Friend in England Y1 - 1791 A1 - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed plans for an ideal utilitarian building where the inmates can be kept under constant observation at low cost.

PB - Sold by T. Payne CY - Dublin, Ireland Printed: London, Reprinted N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Published Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring. 11 vols. (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843), 4: 37-172; and in The Panopticon Writings. Ed. Miran Božovič. London: Verso, 1995. Includes “Panopticon Letters” (29-95), “Postscript, Part I. Containing Further Particulars and Alterations Relative to the Plan of Construction Originally Proposed; Principally Adapted to the Purpose of a Panopticon Penitentiary-House” [printed 1791] (97-114), and “A Fragment on Ontology” (115-38), which is about fictions not the panopticon. See also “Panopticon versus New South Wales: or, The Panopticon Penitentiary System, and The Penal Colonization System, Compared. In a Letter Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Pelham. By Jeremy Bentham, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq.” (Bowring 4: 173-248).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Plan for a Free Community upon the Plan for a Free Community upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leone, on the Coast of Guinea.of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; But Intirely Independent of all European Laws and Governments. With an Invitation, under certain Conditions, to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits there Y1 - 1789 A1 - August [or Augustus] Nordenskjold (1754-92) A1 - Charles Bernard Wadstrom (1746-99) A1 - Colburn Barrell A1 - Johan Gottfried Simpson KW - German author KW - Male author KW - Swedish author KW - US author AB -

Proposal for a Christian community with a constitution and organization of government. For more information the reader is referred to the works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772), which they plan to publish.

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Later ed. as by Charles Bernard Wadstrom, Plan for a Free Community at Sierra Leona, Upon the Coast of Africa, Under the Protection of Great Britain; with An Invitation to all Persons desirous of partaking the Benefits thereof. Embellished with a large and elegant View of Sierra Leona, on the Coast of Guinea. London: Ptd. for T. and J. Egerton, 1792. Same signers. Some errata.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books Y1 - 1787 A1 - Joel Barlow Esquire (1754-1812) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A poem with millennial themes. Although most of the poem is concerned with the history of the Americas to date, it includes several visions of a future of universal peace and prosperity based on the flourishing of the arts and the sway of reason and science. Book IX (237-58) concludes the poem with a vision of the entire Earth, speaking one language and with all nations working together to form a world council to bring the world into harmony. This served as the basis for his better known The Columbiad A Poem. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Fry and Kammerer for C. and A. Conrad and Co. Philadelphia; Conrad, Lucas and Co. Baltimore, 1807.

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2nd ed. Hartford, CT: Ptd. by Hudson and Goodwin, 1787. 5th ed. corrected as The Vision of Columbus: A Poem in Nine Books. To Which is Added, The Conspiracy of Kings: A Poem, By the Same Author (Paris: Ptd. at the English Press, 1793), 1-275.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Island in the Moon" Y1 - 1784 A1 - William Blake (1757-1827) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A satire on contemporary events, manners, and people using an imaginary society on the moon.

JF - Blake. Complete Writings With Variant Readings. PB - Oxford University Press CY - London N1 -

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Newly rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 449-65, with Textual Notes (849-50. Also pub. as An Island in the Moon. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Introduced, Transcribed, and Annotated by Michael Phillips with a Preface by Haven O’More. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press in association with Institute of Traditional Science, 1987. A different version Ed. and Decorated by Gavin O’Keefe. [U.S.] The Purple Mouth Press, 1998. A 1787 ms. was published as An Island in the Moon. Illus. Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton, Eng.: Tern Press, 2007.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire, Into Carnovirria, Taupiniera, Olfactaria, and Auditante, in New-Zealand; in the Island of Bonhommica, and in the powerful Kingdom of Luxo-volupto, on the Great Southern Continent. Written by Himself; Who went on shore in the Adventure's large Cutter, at Queen Charlotte's Sound New Zealand, the fatal 17th of December 1773; and escaped being cut off, and devoured, with the rest of the Boat's crew, by happening to be a-shooting in the woods; where he was afterwards unfortunately left behind by the Adventure Y1 - 1778 AB -

Gulliver type located in New Zealand. Each of the peoples identified by one characteristic. Bonhommica is a eutopia of sorts in which the people have a sixth sense, conscience.

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Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 1-103.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of that Country Y1 - 1727 A1 - Captain Samuel Brunt [pseud.] AB -

Satire. Begins as a Robinsonade, and then becomes a Gulliver tale with the hero visiting a land of virtuous chickens that had become corrupt and petty. Here the stress is on the differences between theory and practice. Finally, the chickens fly the narrator to the moon, where he finds a eutopia. The moon is described as a beautiful, verdant Arcadia. The Selenites are the souls of the virtuous from Earth. They are vegetarians. All are equal and have no need for government but revere their eldest as their prince. All souls are masculine.

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Rpt. with the subtitle Reproduced from the Original Edition, 1727, With an Introduction by Marjorie Nicolson. New York: Published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1940; New York: Garland, 1972; in The Virgin Seducer and The Batchelor-Keeper by John Clarke The State of Learning in the Empire of Lilliput Anonymous A Voyage To Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt (New York: Garland, 1972), separately paged; and in Gulliveriana: IV. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973), 1-43.

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Captain Samuel Brunt [pseud.].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History Y1 - 1688 A1 - Mrs. A[phra] Behn (1640-89) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia depicting a naturally good man. See Susan B. Iwanisziw, Oroonoko: Adaptations and Offshoots. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2006 for nine works responding to Oroonoko.

PB - Ptd. for Will Canning CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 5: 125-208; Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 145-224; and in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995), 3: 50-119.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French" Y1 - 1684 A1 - Aphra Behn (1640-89) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia. Poem about the Golden Age adapted from the poem Aminta (1573) by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-95).

JF - Poems Upon Several Occasions: With a Voyage to the Island of Love PB - Ptd. for R. Tonson and J. Tonson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. 4 vols. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering, 1992), 1: 30-35.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream Wherein is Discovered, The Manner of his setting out, His Dangerous Journey; And safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey Y1 - 1678 A1 - John Bunyan (1628-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Classic evangelical Protestant allegory of the trip from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, from the dystopia of contemporary life to the eutopia of eternal life.

PB - Nath. Ponder CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Pilgrim’s Progress. Ed. Roger Sharrock. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1965; Ed. N.H. Keeble. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984; and as The Pilgrim’s Progress: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Cynthia Wall (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 1-252.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gerania: A New Discovery of a Little sort of People Anciently Discoursed of, called Pygmies. With a lively Description Of their Stature, Habit, Manners, Buildings, Knowledge, and Government, being very delightful and profitable Y1 - 1675 A1 - Joshua Barnes (1654-1721) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian, monarchical eutopia. The people are Christian and appear to be naturally good. No desire for riches. The people recognize their interdependence, and everyone has an occupation that helps others.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Letter Touching a Colledge of Maids, or, a Virgin-Society. By B.C. Appended to St. Cyprian Bishop and Martyr, Anno 250. Of Discipline, Prayer, Patience. St. Basil the Great, Of Solitude Y1 - 1675 A1 - C[lement] B[arksdale] (1609-87) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Proposal for a community of young women being educated. Most will leave for marriage. The inspiration was probably Anna Maria Schurman (1607-78), The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? A Logick Exercise. [Trans. Clement Barksdale]. [London: Ptd. by John Redmayne, 1659]. Rpt. London: Virago Modern Classic, 1986.

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Trans. C[lement] B[arksdale]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Holy City: Or, The New Jerusalem: Its Goodly Light, Walls, Gates, Angels, and the manner of their standing, are Expounded: Also, Her Length and Breadth, Together with the Golden-Measuring-Reed, Explained And The Glory of all unfolded. As Also, The Numerousness of its Inhabitants: And what the Tree and Water of Life are, by which they are sustained Y1 - 1665 A1 - John Bunyan (1628-88) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Explication of Revelation XXI:10 - XXII:1-4 detailing the eutopia suggested there.

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Rpt. London: J. Dover, [1665]; London: Francis Smith, 1669. Dover ed. rpt. in The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan Volume IIII Christian Behaviour The Holy City The Resurrection of the Dead. Ed. J. Sears McGee (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987), 63-196, with editorial notes on 65-67 and 299-314.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Holy Commonwealth, or Political Aphorisms, Opening the true Principles of Government: For The Healing of the Mistakes, and Resolving the Doubts, that most endanger and trouble ENGLAND at this time: (if yet there may be hope.) And directing the desires of sober Christians that long to see the Kingdoms of this world, become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ Y1 - 1659 A1 - Richard Baxter (1615-91) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Description of a theocracy based on obligation and consent. Mostly a treatise setting out rules for areas of possible conflict between the pastor and the magistrate.

PB - Ptd. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Taylor CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Holy Commonwealth. Ed. William Lamont. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Joviall Crew: or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie, At the Cock-pit in Drury Lane, in the yeer 1641 Y1 - 1652 A1 - Richard Brome (1590-1652) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Comedy but presents an ideal beggars commonwealth. See also 1640 Brome.

PB - Ptd. by J.Y for E.D. and N.E CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1873. Vol. 3 is a rpt. of Brome’s Five Plays, Viz.: The Northern Lasse. The Sparagus Garden. The Antipodes. A Jovial Crew [341-452]. The Queen’s Exchange. London: np, nd; London: Ptd. for Henry Brome, 1661; London: Hindmarsh, 1684; and ed. Ann Haaker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968. See also The Jovial Crew by Richard Brome. Adapted by Stephen Jeffreys. London: Warner Chappell Plays, 1992, which was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, April 13, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Novae solymae. Libri Sex Y1 - 1648 A1 - [Samuel] [Gott] (1613-71) ED - Rev. Walter Begley KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia with emphases on the family and education for developing good citizens. Jews have been converted. Annual elections. Class distinctions are very strong.

PB - Typis Johannis Legati CY - Londini N1 -

Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum. London: Typis Johannis Legati, 1649. Trans. as Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton. 2nd ed. Ed. and trans. Rev. Walter Begley. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1902. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. Begley includes extensive notes defending his attribution.

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Repub. as Novae Solymae Libri Sex; Sivi Institutio Christiani. 1. De Pueritia. 2. De Creatione Mundi. 3. De Juventute. 4. De Peccato. 5. De Virile Aetate. 6. De Redemptione Hominis. Cujus Opus, Studio Cur Tantum Quaeries Inani? Qui Legatis, Et Frueris, Feceris Esse Tuum.

Nova Solyma. The Ideal City, or Jerusalem Regained. An Anonymous Romance Written in the Time of Charles I. Now First Dawn from Obscurity, and Attributed to the Illustrious John Milton

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Antipodes: A Comedie. Acted in the yeare 1638 by the Queenes Majesties Servants, at Salisbury Court in Fleet-street Y1 - 1640 A1 - Richard Brome (1590-1652) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Comedy in which a man and a woman have their fantasies encouraged. The man's fantasies come mostly from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (14th c). Includes a comedy of reversal in which women rule men and the people rule the magistrates. See also 1652 Brome.

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Rpt. London: Ptd. by J. Okes, for Francis Constable, 1646; in The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome Containing Fifteen Comedies Now First Collected in Three Volumes. London: John Pearson, 1873. Vol. 3 is a rpt. of Brome’s Five Plays, Viz.: The Northern Lasse. The Sparagus Garden. The Antipodes [225-340]. A Jovial Crew. The Queen’s Exchange. London: np, nd; ed. Ann Haaker. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966; ed. Anthony Parr in Three Renaissance Travel Plays: The Travels of the Three English Brothers The Sea Voyage The Antipodes (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester University Press, 1995), 217-326; and ed. David Scott Kasan and Richard Proudfoot. New York: Globe Education and Theatre Arts Books/Routledge, 2000.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dialogue both pleasante and pietifull, wherein is a godly regimente against the fever Pestilence with a consolacion and comfort against death Y1 - 1573 A1 - William Bullein (1500-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a brief eutopia (105-11 of the 1888 Early English Text Society edition) describing a reformed Protestant society in Taerg Natrib (Great Britain) and its capitol city Nodnol (London) or Ecnatneper (Repentance). 

PB - Iohn Kingston CY - London VL - Newlie. corr. N1 -

Rpt. as Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence. From the edition of 1578, collated with the earlier editions of 1564 and 1573. Ed. Mark W. Bullen and A.H. Bullen. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner, 1888. Early English Text Society. Extra Series, Vol. 52. Rpt. London: Published for the Early English Text Society by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931.

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