TY - ABST T1 - The Ferryman. A Novel Y1 - 2023 A1 - Justin Cronin (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set on Prospera, a supposedly utopian island, where the inhabitants enjoy the good life until the monitors embedded in their arms that monitors their health falls below 10%. At that time, the ferryman takes them to another island where their memories are wiped, and their bodies are renewed. Of course, the proverbial snakes in human form are plentiful on Prospera.

PB - Ballantine Books/Random House/Penguin Random House CY - New York SN - 9780525619482 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The History of a Coral Future” Y1 - 2023 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future recovering from climate change in which all species are considered part of one community and interact with each other constantly and peacefully.

JF - You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories SN - 9781778092640 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Immechanica Y1 - 2023 A1 - E. F. Coleman KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Surveillance dystopia.

PB - Luminastra Press CY - London/Keizer, OR SN - 9798986063706 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Language of Water Y1 - 2023 A1 - Elizabeth Clark-Stern KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future where there is too much water in some places and too little in others, with the focus on the latter.

PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA SN - 978-1-61976-234-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Anamnesis/Anamnesi” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Rupsa Dey ED - Tarun K. Saint ED - Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay ED - Francesco Verso KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

A complex story set in a future dominated by AI and pills that controls dreams.

JF - Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente PB - Future Fiction CY - Rome SN - 978-8832077513 U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arboreality Y1 - 2022 A1 - Rebecca Campbell (b. 1975) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set on Vancouver Island in north of Victoria, which has been largely destroyed by flooding and fire, and follows a community over a few generations as individuals contribute to its survival by salvaging and repurposing both the artifacts and some of the knowledge of the past, particularly knowledge of plants. It is composed of stories set in the same future as her “An Important Failure.” Clarkesworld, no. 167 (August 2020). https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/campbell_08_20/ Audio version at https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_08_20c/, which won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short story published in 2021 and is reprinted on 34-66. Canadian female author.

PB - Stelliform Press CY - Hamilton, ON, Canada ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Architecture of Loss/L’architettura della perdita” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Salik Shah ED - Tarun K. Saint ED - Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay ED - Francesco Verso KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future in which climate change means that humanity has been forced to abandon the land and live in the oceans.

JF - Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente PB - Future Fiction CY - Rome SN - 978-8832077513 U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bittersweet Are the Waters” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mame Bougouma Diene ED - Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay ED - Ana Rüsche ED - Francesco Verso KW - French author KW - Male author KW - Senegalese author KW - US author AB -

The story takes places in a drought stricken African future where H2OCorp controls all supplies of water and, therefore, is all powerful.

JF - Meteotopia: Futures of Climate (In)Justice PB - Associazione Future Fiction CY - Rome SN - . 978-8-83207783 U2 -

Illus. Simone Alvisini

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Black Waters" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Lisa Short ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future where the coasts of the U.S. are under water, and people have fled to the Midwest. The protagonist is a woman searching for a job who is hired as a tester of the toxic water of the Missouri River.

JF - Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Sacramento, CA SN - 979-8832184425 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Checkerboard” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Thoraiya Dyer ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which the heat is so intolerable that “Birds dropped dead from the skies. Old people dropped dead in the streets” (349). But the rich in what are called shadowhouses, while the poor lived wherever they could survive. The story follows a number of characters from the lower classes as they make do and try to bring about change.

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 - “Cold Revolution Blues” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Ken[nth Macrae] MacLeod (b. 1954) ED - Nick Gevers ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future where most phones can pass the Turing test and robots have replaced most jobs. The protagonist is a British journalist (generally assumed to be a spy) travelling to Amsterdam in the European Democracy, which is also called an Economic Democracy, where everyone is employed but jobs are “spread out through the day, the week, the year . . . the life, even. Why should leisure be reserved for those too young or too old to make the most of it?” (257), and whose citizens are biometrically chipped at birth. The Cold Revolution is “a glacial confrontation, in which every tiny incremental shift in the balance of forces [between humans and AIs]--economic, political, even cultural, is freighted with global significance” (249). “The character Marcus Owen, and the Union, first appeared In the short story ‘Cold Revolution Blues’ written in conjunction with a student project of Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape in 2016.” A graphic novel interpretation of this story can be found in pages 76-83 of this university thesis. https://issuu.com/jamesanderson28/docs/james_anderson_portfolio_compressed/ He also appears in the Lightspeed Trilogy: Beyond the Hallowed Sky. London/New York: Orbit,2021, Beyond the Reach of Earth (London: Orbit, 2023), and a third volume to be published.

JF - New Worlds PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. SN - 978-1-786367-22-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dispatch" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Zena Cumptson ED - Rafeif Ismail ED - Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Aboriginal Australians had survived the COVID pandemic much better than other Australians because, given systematic neglect by government, Aboriginal communities had evolved effective grassroots services. The story is presented as The Moreton-Robinson Annual Address Barak University BLAKFULLAS Campus in 2029. BLAKFULLAS stands for Blak Lives And Knowledge Fundamental University Living knowledge Living culture And Solidarity). The lecture follows the development of the university and its teaching and development of Aboriginal knowledge in response to the ongoing crises.

JF - Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction PB - Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press CY - North Fremantle, WA, Australia SN - 978-1-760990701 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - eden Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in eden long after the Fall, an eden that is populated by gardeners and surrounded by the real world of hard work, poverty, sickness and death. But to some in eden the outside world of freedom is appealing.

PB - Picador CY - London SN - 9781529062434 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Floating Island” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Grace Dugan (b. 1981) ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set on an artificial island that travels around the Pacific Ocean in a future where many of the islands have been submerged. 

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 - “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 Last Caretaker” Y1 - 2022 A1 - C. J. Erick ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The Last Caretaker is the last person to live on and care for a satellite before it is decommissioned. He is particularly reluctant to leave the garden he has maintained for many years both for food and oxygen.

JF - Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Sacramento, CA SN - 979-8832184425 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Màgòdiz Y1 - 2022 A1 - Gabe Calderón KW - Canadian author KW - Non-binary author KW - Queer author KW - Transgender author KW - Two-Spirits author AB -

The novel is set in a future where war has eliminated most people, and the survivors have lost all knowledge. Includes a Lexicon of Algonquin/Anishinbemowin words, Plains Cree words, Mi’kmaq/L’Nu words, Taino words, and some words in seven other languages (274-276).

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada SN - 978-1-55152-899-1 U5 -

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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 - “The New Migrants/I nouvi migranti” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Navin Weeraratne ED - Tarun K. Saint ED - Bodhisattva Chattopadhayay ED - Francesco Verso KW - Male author KW - Sri Lankan author AB -

The story is set in a future in which climate change had create a world of migrants that lived outside the control of governments who have the ability to use CRISPR and nanotechnology to create whatever living forms they want. They story contains some trenchant comments on the present that explain that future: “You can’t have democracy when you have social media. With social media everyone gets to have their own truths. They form closed-off worlds of self-reinforcing narratives and lies. Then, we expect them to go off, and make decisions?” (62). And “If you can’t trust people to vote, you definitely can’t trust them to create” (64). 

JF - Kalicalypse: Subcontinental Science Fiction/Fantascienza dal subcontinente PB - Future Fiction CY - Rome SN - 978-8832077513 U4 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Out of Ash” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A climate change story set in Washington state in which Olympia, the state capital, had to be abandoned, a ten-foot seawall protects Seattle and will be raised as needed, and the governor of the state is trying to find ways to encourage people to move to New Olympia, the city built as the new seat of government. 

JF - Slate Future Tense UR - https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/out-of-ash-brenda-cooper-short-story.html U2 -

Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy Y1 - 2022 A1 - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Second volume of two following 2021 Chambers, A Psalm for the Weild-Built. In this volume, Dex and Mosscap travel across Panga visiting people trying to get the answer to the question the robots have of what do humans need and how can the robots help. They first visit a prosperous woodland village, then an equally prosperous riverside village, a small oceanside settlement that is strongly against technology, and the monk’s family, before heading toward their intended last stop, the City. But they take a detour during which they consider what they have learned. One practice appears to be the standard means of exchange, the Peb or Digital Pebble which are given by one person for a service rendered and then that person gives it to another for their service, all recorded on pocket computers. Dex explains that “the point of a peb exchange is to acknowledge someone’s labor and thank them for what they bring to the community” (38).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Protective Acts” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Heather Marie Spitzberg ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where all fauna and flora is valued, and it is a crime to hurt or kill any.

JF - Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Sacramento, CA SN - 979-8832184425 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Remembrancer of First Fruits and Tenths” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Andrew Macrae ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

An odd/surreal corporate dystopia in which buildings change shape in their fights with other corporate headquarters. 

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 - “The Sand Ship Builders of Chitungwiza” Y1 - 2022 A1 - [Julius] Masimba Musodza ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Zimbabwean author AB -

The story takes places in a drought stricken future Africa in which the entire world system has collapsed and focuses on one group of survivors that is divided between the followers of a strong man and those of a technocrat.

JF - Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Np SN - 979-8832184425 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/the-sand-ship-builders-of-chitungwiza/ N1 -

Rpt. Illus. Little Blue Marble (October 20, 2023). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2023/10/20/the-sand-ship-builders-of-chitungwiza/

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 - "Shit City" Y1 - 2022 A1 - J. Scott Coatsworth ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a future devastated by climate change with extreme storms flooding or otherwise destroying most of the West Coast of the U.S.

JF - Save The World: Twenty Sci-Fi Writers Save The Planet PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Sacramento, CA SN - 979-8832184425 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sidereal” Y1 - 2022 A1 - E. G. Condé KW - Male author KW - Puerto Rican author AB -

Part of what the author calls Taínofuturism that “depicts a liberatory future of indigenous renewal for the people of Puerto Rico (Borikén) in the archipelagos of the Caribbean and beyond” (56). This story is set after a failed attempt to deal with climate change makes things worse and after the United States loses a war with China, Borikén is then abandoned by the Chinese, the few remaining indigenous inhabitants create a livable habitat in the ruins.

JF - Solarpunk Magazine VL - no. 6 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sucker Hole" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Wendy Waring ED - Matthew Chrulew AB -

The background to the story is a long-lasting drought in the U.S. and limited water in Canada, which, with strict prohibition of immigration from the U.S., is the setting of the story. The story also reflects the continuation of class disparities. 

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 - “Sunny Days” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Jasper Wyld ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future badly impacted by climate change. The protagonist lives in a two bedroom apartment that has been divided into six apartments and, like most people, has to monitor every minute of their electricity use who meets a wealthy woman living in a part of the city where none of the rules seem to apply. Australian author who uses the pronouns they and them and is a descendent of the Martu People of Western Australia.

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 - “This Is Our Manifesto” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Mark Oshiro ED - Zoraida Córdova KW - Latinx author KW - Queer author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the rich and powerful promise a safe planet by sending all, even the most minor, offenders off-planet to work to produce goods for those remaining on Earth.

JF - Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space PB - Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s CY - New York SN - 9781250790637 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Transmissions from the Vitality Pod” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Dan Coxon ED - Dan O'Hara ED - Tom Ward ED - Stephen Oram KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A brief depiction of an Earth so polluted that it is divided between those who live and work inside as much as possible, are constantly remotely monitored and treated, and venture outside, where others live short lives, only in a completely sealed hazmat suit.

JF - Vital Signals: Virtual Futures Near-Future Fictions PB - NewCon Press CY - Alconbury Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-914953-09-5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wild Plums" Y1 - 2022 A1 - Molly Tanzer (b. 1981) ED - Matthew Chrulew KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set after the United States has fallen apart and has formed NACE with Canada and Mexico. After multiple disasters most of the population live in domed SPHRE’s (Solar-Powered Habitat and Replacement Environment’s) that are compulsively managed so that everything occurs on a programmed basis, goods are traded with other SPHRE’s in predictable amounts on predictable days. “No one could profit off what was necessary for life” (52). All young people required to attend “NACE-mandated Social Responsibility and Conflict Resolution classes” (55). The protagonist, a young married woman, leaves her SPHRE to search for the wild plums of the title, at which point the story takes an unexpected turn. 

JF - Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] SN - 978-1-922101-73-0 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Arfabad” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Fantasy with both explicit dystopia and eutopian elements. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology in which the protagonist, Zigsa, plays a significant role. The world in the story appears to be mostly a desert, and Zigsa has been rescued from the Test to Destruction  Centre by dead friends but must walk across the desert to reach Arfabad, a eutopian area where the climate has not changed.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Arisudan” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

A complex story told from the viewpoint of an Indian man as a grows up in a future India being destroyed by floods and earthquakes combined with an irresponsible corporation that is using its power to make everything worse. It is set in what is planned to be a hexology.

JF - Mithila Review VL - no. 15 UR - https://mithilareview.com/chatterjee_03_21/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coldness of Objects Y1 - 2021 A1 - Panayotis Cacoyannis KW - Cypriot author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel is set in London in 2030 and is told by an aging gay man. After a pandemic that ends in 2024, the Government Party is elected on a program of complete control and constant surveillance. Much of the novel traces the man’s life and loves until he is chosen for Museum Service, where he will be encased in a plastic case where party members will be able to see him go through his daily routine.

PB - Np CY - Np SN - ‎979-8522120436 978-8560368845 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 - "The Fisherwoman" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Charter, Philip ED - Claire Cronin KW - Male author KW - Spanish author KW - UK author AB -

The story is set in a biodome that contains some of the last remaining plants and animals on Earth and one of the few places with fresh air. In this future most land has disappeared leaving disconnected islands. The Federation appears to be in complete control and assigns occupations and “home stories” to the remaining humans. The story won the Loft Books Short Story Contest.

JF - Loft (London) PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1-527285-32-3 979-8484958436 978-1-988293-19-6 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/02/11/the-fisherwoman/ N1 -

Rpt. in his The Fisherwoman and Other Stories (Np: Author, 2021), 1-8; illus. in Little Blue Marble (February 11, 2022). https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/02/11/the-fisherwoman/; and without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 29-37, with a note on the author on 37.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Impossible Resurrection of Grief Y1 - 2021 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The novella is set in a future where the loss of species in the environmental collapse leads to grief and suicide. Much fantasy. 

PB - Stelliform Press CY - Hamilton, ON, Canada SN - 978-1-777091767 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It Is the Year 2115” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Joyce Chng ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -

The story is set in a city that is successfully prospering under a dome in a future of extreme climate change with high tech roof gardens.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque,NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Juma and the Quantum Ghost” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Ingrid Garcia ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Female author KW - Spanish author AB -

In a future Africa, a woman who is developing a sustainable way of life has to fight corruption when her son his kidnapped for ransom at the behest of a local politician. She and her neighbors fight back using an organic computer developed by a teacher and her son. After they succeed, the computer is replicated, spreads to other poor parts of the word where the teacher has moved, and helps make her sustainability project a success.

JF - Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Sacramento, CA SN - 978-1732307582 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Listen: A Memoir” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Priya Sarukkai Chabria ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The story is set in a future that is recovering from the environmental devastation of the past told by a woman who can hear the birds, trees, and so forth speaking and can sometimes understand what is being said.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mariposa Awakening” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Joseph F[rederic] Nacino ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie Tamura ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a climate change future in which Manila has largely disappeared under rising sea levels, the local government no longer exists, and the national government is inactive. Some cities like Venice and Amsterdam have managed to protect themselves, and the story focuses on those working to use Mangroves to protect what is left of Manila.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 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 - “Old Man’s Sea” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Meyari McFarland 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 a future in which the oceans have risen so much to drown most coastal areas. People living on land are constantly at war and have modified sharks to be weapons and kill any human found in the water. The protagonist is a young woman living on a boat harvesting the bounty of the sea.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Psalm for the Wild-Built Y1 - 2021 A1 - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes that take place on Panga, an Earth-like planet that had been badly damaged by technology, symbolized by factories run mostly by robots, but had recovered after the awakening od the robots, who abandoned the factories and moved into the wilderness, where they lived completely separate from humans. In this volume, the protagonist, Sibling Dex, a young gay man who becomes a monk, realizes that he has to change his life and becomes a tea monk, someone who wanders the planet offering tea and listening to peoples’ problems. After becoming successful, he decides to enter the wilderness, where he meets a robot, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, and they develop a relationship. See also 2022 Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown Shy.

PB - Tor.com/Tom Doherty Associates CY - New York SN - 978-1250236210 978-1250236234 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Rabbit Egg for Flora” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Caroline M[ariko] Yoachim 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 a future devastated by climate change using high tech methods to bring back the flora and fauna that had disappeared.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 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 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/the-restoration/ published July 17, 2021.

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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 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/spf/ published June 19, 2021.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Upgrade" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alex Silver ED - J. Scott Coatsworth KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

A cyberpunk story in which mods (body modifications and improvements) are common but strictly regulated and constantly surveilled by an authoritarian system. The story focuses on one transgender individual with many illegal mods who almost inadvertently brings about change.

JF - Fix the World: Twelve Sci-Fi Writers Save the Future PB - Other Worlds Ink CY - Sacramento, CA 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 - "Wall of Flowers" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Septimus Crowe KW - Male author AB -

The brief story is set in a far future eutopia with elements of fantasy that might have been inspired by William Morris.

JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/wall-flowers/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Wandjina” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Amin Chehelnabi ED - Christoph Rupprecht ED - Deborah Cleland ED - Norie ED - Rajat Chaudhuri ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Australian Iranian author KW - Gay author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future Australia devastated by climate change and constant fires and focuses on a mixed group of people trying to save some of the last remaining animals.

JF - Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054521 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What friends are for: Taking steps to freedom” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Beth Cato (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia in which computers opt to be free told from the point-of-view of a young child.

JF - Nature UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01176-8 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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 - “All Fuzzed Out and Fractal” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cleden, David ED - Juliana Rew KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A world where everyone constantly wears virtual reality glasses that disguise the climate change dystopia they live in, and the response of one woman who removes hers.

JF - Gotta Wear Eclipse Glasses. Third Flatiron Anthologies Volume 9, Book 28 (Summer 2020) PB - Third Flatiron Publishing CY - [Boulder, CO/Ayr, Scotland] VL - Volume 9, Book 28 SN - 978-1-7339207-7-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Beginning at the End Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mike Chen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Postapocalyptic (pandemic) dystopia in which the United States is fragmented seen through the eyes of four individuals from different areas struggling to survive and bring about whatever improvement they can.

PB - Harlequin/MIRA Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 9780778309345 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bloom" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Vicki Jarrett ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Three scenarios depicting climate change dystopias. 

JF - Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology PB - Shoreline of Infinity CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-8381268-0-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Branching Out" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Pippa Goldschmidt (b. 1985) ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set on Scottish island where housing developments are being carefully planned using computer models based on plants and constant detailed surveillance of the surroundings to keep them free of any invasive species. 

JF - Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology PB - Shoreline of Infinity CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-8381268-0-3 U2 -

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bridge 108 Y1 - 2020 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A gritty future dystopia set in the same future as 2012 Charnock in which a boy who is a refugee and has been trafficked struggles to find freedom. An expansion of her The Enclave. [Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2017. 66 pp.

PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA SN - 9781542006071 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carving Out the Other" Y1 - 2020 A1 - William D. Carl KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which only blonde, blue-eyed heterosexuals are truly accepted, with various forms of surgery and therapy making it possible to meet that standard. The story focuses on a young, gay man desperate to be accepted.

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 - “Depth of Simulation” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Gavin Inglis ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future in which people can be enhanced in many different ways, not all of them producing positive results. 

JF - Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology PB - Shoreline of Infinity CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U2 -

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Desert in Me” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Priya Chand KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the environment has been severely damaged. At eighteen everyone experiences being an aspect of the natural world through virtual reality, and those who damage the environment are punished in the same way. 

JF - Little Blue Marble SN - 978-1-988293-10-3 UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2020/04/24/the-desert-in-me/ N1 -

Rpt. without the illustration in Little Blue Marble 2020: Greener Futures. Ed. Katrina Archer (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Ganache Media, 2020), 7-19, with a note on the author on 11.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Escape from the Future” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

About half the novella is a depiction of the protagonist as a teenage boy growing up in a typical middle, working class suburb. The second half is set in 2025 where all the conflicts of the pandemic era continue violently, the suburb has been destroyed and groups protest and kill mindlessly. Government is mostly non-existent or simply incompetent.

JF - Escape from the Future and Other Stories PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eyelid Y1 - 2020 A1 - S[ylwia] D[ominika] Chrostowska KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel takes place in a future where sleep is outlawed, and people are put on uppers to enhance productivity. 

PB - Coach House Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada SN - 978-1-55245-408-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Forward Momentum and a Parallel Toss” Y1 - 2020 A1 - AnaMaria Curtis KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where one powerful corporation is in complete control, and a teacher in a small town fights back.

JF - Clarkesworld Magazine VL - no. 171 SN - 978-1-988293-19-6 UR - https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/curtis_12_20/ Audio version https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/audio_12_20e/ N1 -

Rpt. illus. in Little Blue Marble (March 11, 2022. https://littlebluemarble.ca/2022/03/11/forward-momentum-and-a-parallel-toss/; and without the illus. in Little Blue Marble 2022: Warmer Worlds. Ed. Katrina Archer (Np: Genache Media, 2023), 92-111, with a note on the author on 111

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Health Care" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Cannon, Michael F. ED - Aaron Ross Powell ED - Paul Matzko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Presented as if a visitor from the future describes the improved market-based, profit oriented health care of 2050 compared to that 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 - “Jigsaw Children" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Grace Chan KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in Hong Kong, which had become a part of the People’s Republic in 2047, and mainland China between 2098 and 2126. The protagonist is one of the “jigsaw children,” children who had been created by gene splicing and the carried by a surrogate mother, with China setting an annual quota of babies. She has three mothers and two fathers (the surrogate mother doesn’t count), and all the children are raised in a Children’s Center until they are sixteen, with the girls having an implant that stops menstruation at thirteen and the boys a vasectomy at sixteen. Over the years of the story, conflict over the program grows. 

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 161 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chan_02_20/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Key to Fear Y1 - 2020 A1 - Kristin Cast KW - Female author KW - Japanese author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a dystopian series in which, following a pandemic, touching is forbidden and books are banned. The Key holds complete power, and the novel focus on a woman who believes all is for the best and a man who is a rebel. The second volume is The Key to Fury (2022).

PB - Blackstone CY - Ashland, OR SN - 978-1838933982 9781982548032 N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Head of Zeus, 2020.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Last to Die” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Rita Chang-Eppig KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which most people have become nearly immortal by uploading themselves into cyborg bodies, and those who could not be uploaded are isolated on islands and cared for by robots.

JF - Clarkesworld VL - no. 160 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chang-eppig_01_20/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mudlarking" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story contrasts the new housing enabled by centralized systems that recycle/reclaim all the scarce metals needed for further technology with the old tenements to the detriment of the former. 

JF - Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology PB - Shoreline of Infinity CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-8381268-0-3 9781912950997  N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2020. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2021), 107-15.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Wilderness. A Novel Y1 - 2020 A1 - Diane [Marie] Cook (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

In a severely polluted future, a woman, whose daughter is dieing from effects of the pollution, decides to escape to the Wilderness State, an area that has been off limits to people. The novel follows her life and the lives of others in the wilderness. Female author.

PB - Haper CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-233313-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Optimizing the Path to Enlightenment” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Priya Chand KW - Female author KW - US author JF - Clarkesworld Magazine VL - no. 165 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chand_06_20/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ostraka" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The protagonist is an Aboriginal woman who on returning to Australia is detained at declared stateless under a 2039 law that allows the government to ostracize anyone who it decides is a person of bad

JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melbourne, Vic, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Parable of Things That Crawl and Fly” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Robert Scott Graham A1 - Wallace Cleaves KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that honors indigenous cultures and the past but has developed technology that radically prolongs life and the old control everything. 

JF - Pulp Literature VL - no. 25 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Rare Hybrid of Dung Beetle and Lion” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Noa Covo KW - Female author AB -

A teenager describes the environmentally damaged future world she lives in as she walks through her city. 

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/a-rare-hybrid-of-dung-beetle-and-lion/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Resilience” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in Wellington, New Zealand, transformed, post-pandemic, into an ecological eutopia.

JF - Stuff SN - 978177809640 UR - https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/300026244/resilience--a-clifi-short-story-by-octavia-cade N1 -

Rpt. in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 121-128.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sacred Chords” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alexei Collier ED - Crystal M. Huff KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which music is restrict to specific modes as in Plato’s Republic.

JF - Recognize Fascism: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM SN - 978-1-734054507 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Singular Outrage" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ian Creasey ED - Andrew Fox (b. 1964) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a post-singularity future eutopia where everyone is supposedly equal because all needs are filled, but there is fierce competition in game creation. The protagonist is a ninety-nine-year-old Native American woman who has been given her health back but is upset by the appropriation and trivialization of her heritage.

JF - Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction. An International Anthology PB - MonstraCity Press CY - Manassas, VA SN - 978-0-9898027-4-1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Stone Wētā Y1 - 2020 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is about climate change and is set slightly in the future when governments are attempting to suppress the data by forcing scientific journals to falsify it, removing the data from the internet, and killing the scientists because "People who know nothing can be controlled" (8). A group of scientists fight back by establishes caches where the original data is hidden.

PB - Paper Road Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand SN - 978-0-9951355-0-5, 978177809640 N1 -

The novel originated as a story with the same title in Clarkesworld, no. 131 (August 2017). http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/cade_08_17/. Rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 478-493; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 144-159.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thank You for Your Patience” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Ruth Campbell KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a future devastated by climate fires, global warming, and earthquakes, and the protagonist works in a call center that can only be called a dystopia. 

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/thank-you-for-your-patience/ N1 -

Also published online at https://reckoning.press/thank-you-for-your-patience/ (March 25, 2020). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Truth About the Boy. Targets: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in three parts. The first two parts take place in a future United States dominated by True America, which responds to the rapidly growing mass killings by denying that the people killed ever existed, and harassing, jailing, and in every way mistreating those who lost loved ones in the killings and who insist that those people had existed. The third part takes place after True America has been defeated but with vocal true believers still voicing their denials.

JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - US 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Truth Is All There Is” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Emily Parker ED - Jill Carlson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the blockchain controls is used for everything and is assumed to be completely reliable. One blockchain dominates the world, but China has introduced a competitor, which its citizens are required to use. 

JF - Slate UR - “The Truth Is All There Is,” a short story about the blockchain. (slate.com) N1 -

For a response, see Jill Carlson. “Trust No One. Not Even a Blockchain.” Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker. Slate (January 25, 2020). How much can we really trust the blockchain? (slate.com)

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Valley of Mothers” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Josie Columbus ED - Dave Ring KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Post-apocalyptic dystopia centered on four children living by themselves, dreaming of a home, and not knowing who to trust. 

JF - Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn’t Die SN - 978-1-952086-10-6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We Can No Longer Hold the Sun” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tarbuck, Alice ED - Larissa Pschetz ED - Jane McKie ED - Elise Cachat KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The problems that develop as rare earths, used in most contemporary technology, are used up. 

JF - Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology PB - Shoreline of Infinity CY - Edinburgh, Scot. SN - 978-1-8381268-0-3 U2 -

Illus. Pilar Garcia de Leaniz 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Above Sea Level. A Novel Y1 - 2019 A1 - Douglas E. Congdon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2015 Congdon, Heat 30:1; a third volume, They Are Coming Tomorrow, set between the other novels, has been announced. The novel begins in a climate change dystopia, but independent cities develop positive responses with humans and AIs working together.

PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1-67235-402-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Adios America” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a Democratic Socialist feminist of East Asian and Asian parents is elected president and establishes a number of policies includes abortion available to birth, opening the country to all undocumented aliens, euthanasia required at sixty-five with cremation used to turn the bodies into fertilizer. The protagonist is a homeless seventy-year-old white man who is trying to get together enough money to be taken to Mexico.

JF - Appalling Stories 4: Even More Stories of Social Injustice N1 -

Rpt. in the author's Escape from the Future and Other Stories (Np: Author, 2022), 163-193.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ark" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Veronica [Anne] Roth (b. 1988) ED - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The Earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid, and the story is set near the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, where the few people remaining on Earth are choosing plants to be loaded in Ark Flora for the trip to a new planet. Ark Fauna and most people have already left, and the protagonist is trying to decide whether to leave of stay. 

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA VL - No. 1 in the Forward Collection ER - TY - ABST T1 - Baby Steps. Genetic Pressure Volume 1 Y1 - 2019 A1 - Eugene Clark [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future where genetic engineering is standard practice for the wealthy, who try to predetermine the characteristics they want their children to have. The book includes appendices of the “Dramatis Personsae” (343-46), a “Glossary” (347-55), and “Human Social Breeding Systems” (357-59). 

PB - Better Publishing CY - Cheyenne, WY VL - 1 SN - 978-1-7330499-0-0 U3 -

Eugene Clark [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Bulletproof Tattoos” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Paul Crenshaw (b. 1968) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which both individual and mass shootings are constant, and an ink is developed that deflects bullets.

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Choose Your Truth” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jo Miles ED - Jason Sizemore ED - Lesley Conner KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future with competing “truths” with companies reflecting political factions vying for the most followers. 

JF - Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY SN - 9781937009786 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Civic Method" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Matthew Claudel ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After an unexplained collapse, many cities are run on the model of the book publisher Elsevier, which is in competition with cities run by Springer, Taylor and Francis, and the rapidly growing Routledge. Each city completely controls every aspect of its citizens lives. The only threat on the horizon is in the Midwest of the United States where Open Access is growing. 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 - "Dead Wings" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rachel Chimits ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which bodies are replaceable. 

JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yaedley, PA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Dreaming of the Green River” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Priya Sarukkai Chabria ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

The story is set in a future in which all “Objectionable Art” is removed and replaced with sanitized versions. 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction PB - Hachette India CY - Gurugram, India SN - 978-93-88322-05-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Drones Above the Coral Sands” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in Far North Queensland, Australia and is concerned with the death of the coral reefs from the point-of-view of someone who is documenting the continuing destruction of the reef. Collecting such information has been outlawed by the “eco-fascist” government that only pretends to be protecting the environment while actually helping the corporations exploiting the country’s natural resources.

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 - Emergency Skin Y1 - 2019 A1 - N[ora] K. Jemisin (b. 1972) ED - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

In the near future, the most powerful people (white, male, capitalist) conclude that Earth cannot be saved and settle on a new planet with bots as their slaves. They need certain material only available on Earth and periodically send a bot back to obtain it with the promise of entry to the world of the powerful on their return. The bots discover that with those men gone, those left learned to cooperate, develop an egalitarian world society, and clean up Earth. 

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA VL - No 3 in the Forward Collection SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1-949103-22-2 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 343-69, with an editor’s note on 343; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 11-32. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Famous Men Who Never Lived Y1 - 2019 A1 - K Chess KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future in which alternative realities exist and movement has occurred between one in which its Earth has been largely destroyed by nuclear weapons and one where that did not happen, and the refugees are not universally welcomed. 

PB - Tin House Books CY - Portland, OR SN - 9781947793248 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hey Alexa" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Meg Elison (b. 1982) ED - Jason Sizemore ED - Lesley Conner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Brief story set in a future where same sex relations are illegal in California and smart speakers are used as surveillance devices. 

JF - Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY SN - 9781937009786 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It’s 2059, and the Rich Kids Are Still Winning: DNA tweaks won’t fix our problems” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ted Chiang (b. 1967) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author AB -

The story reflects on a future experiment to improve the intelligence of poor children by modifying their DNA. While it is successful in that IQ is raised, it fails to make substantive difference because the entire U.S. social order favors the wealthy.

JF - The New York Times SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 UR - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/ted-chiang-future-genetic-engineering.html?searchResultPosition=1 N1 -

 Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 123-26, with an editor’s note on 123. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Conversation Y1 - 2019 A1 - Paul G. Tremblay (b. 1971) ED - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pandemic/last people dystopia.

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA VL - No 5 in the Forward Project ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Luna 6000" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Lauren Cherelle KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which advanced monitoring technology makes life and death decisions. 

JF - Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction PB - BLF Press CY - Clayton, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Night with the Joking Clown” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) ED - Tarun K. Saint KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Corporations have divided up the world but are in conflict over their spheres of influence. Men completely dominate women, which they divide into “slags” and “chicks.” 

JF - The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction SN - 978-93-88322-05-8 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Parenting License" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Leah Cypess (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story, which has satirical elements, is set in a future society that requires a license to have children, reinforced by no insurance and pediatricians unwilling to take patients without the license. 

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 139.3/4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Salvation" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Claudia De Bella (1958-2018) ED - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) KW - Argentinian author KW - Female author AB -

Religious dystopia in which a psychopath finds a role as the executioner.

JF - Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Rosarium CY - Greenbelt, MD VL - 1 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sometimes you end up where you are: A trip back home for Christmas” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Beth Cato (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story involves a trip back in time which allows a child to experience our environmentally damaged world, which is almost eutopian from the perspective of the one she lives in. 

JF - Nature VL - 576.7887 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Such Thoughts are Unproductive” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Rebecca Campbell (b. 1975) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change and surveillance dystopia. 

JF - Clarkesworld SN - 978-1-949103-22-2 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/campbell_12_19/ N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 155-70. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Talk to a Real Live Girl” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Earth is dominated by women who have taken away all men’s rights. The protagonist, after losing the right to any contact with his daughter, chooses to leave Earth to a mining colony colloquially known as Boyz Wurld that is inhabited by men and sexbots. There are, though, “three live girls” available for talk and only talk.

JF - Talk to a Real Live Girl and Other Stories PB - Author CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Therapies for World’s End” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Stefani Cox ED - Stephanie Andrea Allen ED - Lauren Cherelle KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a post-apocalypse dystopia that has divided the rich and poor even more, with the rich closing themselves off and the poor, known as Dusties left to try to survive.

JF - Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing PB - BLF Press CY - Clayton, NC SN - 978-0-578-50213-7 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirteen Year Long Song” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sheree Renée Thomas (b. 1972) ED - Jason Sizemore ED - Lesley Conner KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a world being destroyed by the release of poison chemicals as seen through the eyes of an old man poisoned by them who sees his family farm being destroyed by them. 

JF - Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Victory in Defiance PB - Apex Publications CY - Lexington, KY SN - 9781937009786 N1 -

Rpt. in her Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (Nashville, TN: Third Man Books, 2020), 17-34. 978-0997457896

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - To Slip to the Surly Bonds of Earth Y1 - 2019 A1 - Hugh Cameron KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Western civilization is coming to an end, but one man hopes to reestablish it in space colonies. In the second volume, the struggle is to increase the population of the colonies on the moon and Mars to sustainable levels while supporting America and trying to keep it out of the problems of Europe. The ending suggests that there might be more volumes to come. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] VL - 2 vols. SN - 978-1-7960-5323-4 978-1-7960-6083-6 U1 -

About the Breaking of the Day. Book One. Upon the Further Shore. Book Two

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Unseen" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jeremy W. Crampton A1 - Kara C. Hoover ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Ghanaian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future that is completely connected and surveilled by a company like Cambridge Analytica told from the point-of-view of a teenager who doesn’t fit the parameters. 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 - Verify Y1 - 2019 A1 - Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes set in a future with extreme censorship, with all physical books removed, removing words from use, and revising history. In the second volume, Disclose. New York: HarperTeen, 2020, the protagonist of the first volume leads a band of truth-seekers who hope to overthrow the system.

PB - HarperTeen CY - New York SN - 9780062803627 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - You Have Arrived at Your Destination Y1 - 2019 A1 - Amor Towles (b. 1964) ED - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where it is possible to both genetically engineer children but also apparently choose the trajectory of their lives.

PB - Amazon Original Stories CY - Seattle, WA VL - No. 4 in the Forward Collection U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The 133rd Live Podcast of the Gourmando Resistance: A Taste of Freedom” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Beth Cato (b. 1980) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a dystopian future where eating real food is illegal. 

JF - Nature VL - 561.7723 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 20/20 Y1 - 2018 A1 - B[ret] Shawn Clark KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is told by a man in a future devastated by rising sea levels remembering his life from boyhood to his current present.

PB - First Run Books CY - Englewood, FL SN - 978-1-7342083-0-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alternica" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jennie Wood ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a future eutopia has been created but could be destroyed by actions in the past. 

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

Illus. Jeff McComsey. Colors by Ari Pluchinsky. Letters by Micah Myers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And the Rest Is Music” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Allor ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future story in comic form in which each person lives in a pod that creates their ideal world for them, with the intent to keep humans from destroying the planet. The story is about an old woman who leaves her pod and experiences what is left of the world.

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

Illus. and colored by Juan Romera. Letters by Matt Krotzer. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blackst*r" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Chris Visions ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

A positive future story in comic form that gives a tour of the future music scene. 

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

Illus. by the author. Colored by the author and Cathryn Virginia. Lettered by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bombs Away" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Howard Mackie (b. 1958) 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 when war breaks out none of the missiles explode and the weapons don’t work because aliens had decided to give humans a second chance.

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

Illus. and Colored by Ryan Lee. Lettered by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Can You See It Now?” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Taylor Hoffman ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a death cult is poisoning the atmosphere, and two women fight back.

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

Illus. K. R. Whalen. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chat Room" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Nadia Shammas ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future story in comic form about the problem of wanting to fit in and finding friends when you are different. 

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

Illus. Jude Vigants. Color by Maria Jayne Carpenter. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Choice" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kay Honda ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author AB -

A future story in comic form in which a man tries to fashion a female AI in the way he wants her and cannot understand why she leaves him.

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

Illus. Liana Kangas. Color by Gab Contreras. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Conclusion” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Cornell (b. 1967) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future of constant surveillance by the Company, which is everywhere.

JF - Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. N1 -

Originally published in audio format as an Audible original.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crossing Over Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the next U. S. Civil War, which is based on political beliefs. The novel depicts a couple and their daughter trying to escape to Canada.

PB - Author CY - Np 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 - "Day At the Park" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eliot Rahal ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief positive future story in comic form in which a girl and a young girl who is a robot play in the park.

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

Illus. Jason Copland. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Entity: 2147 Y1 - 2018 A1 - David A[lan] Collier KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a future U.S. that has been devastated by climate change and a world facing a massive immigration crisis caused by flooding. The novel, though, takes place mostly in the U.S. Midwest after an alien artifact lands on a family’s farm and is concerned with the impact on the family. The ending leaves open the possibility of a sequel. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Everything I Own” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lela Gwenn ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author AB -

A post-catastrophe but positive future story in comic form in which a girl discovers seeds and plants them, later other people, including children, come, who the girl’s mother wants to chase away, but the girl wants to stay. The children ask the mother if she can read to them, and everything changes for the better. 

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

Illus. Tony Gregori. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Taylor Esposito. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “First Steps Outside” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Josh[ua] Gorfain 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 two people who meet online as avatars and are afraid of ever going outside choose to meet.

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

Illus. Matt LeJeune. Letters by Zakk Saam. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “For the Sake of Snake Power” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) ED - Clark A. Miller ED - Joey Eschrich KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

 near future climate-change dystopia in which poor people in Phoenix die in the regular heat waves because the government is selling their solar power to other cities. The story is followed by the essays, Joshua Loughman, “Lessons from the Snake: Energy and Society;” and Esmerelda Parker, “Drawing from Nature: Designing a Solar Snake.”

JF - The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures PB - Center for Science and the Imagination Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://www.dropbox.com/s/961pb8yve314a8r/Weight_of_Light.epub?dl=0 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Miriam A. Cherry ED - William Davies KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Presented as an encyclopedia entry that begins with the actual Luddite movement of the earlier nineteenth century, which, instead of being defeated, is successful. Luddite councils are established in factories, then these expand into the political real, then worldwide. The Luddite’s history of successes is then followed to the twenty-fourth century. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Fyrewall” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Stefani Cox ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a high-tech future Los Angeles that is inside a dome that protects it from the recurrent wildfires and functions as a direct democracy with everyone able to contribute to the decision-making process.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gaea" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Rich Douek 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 Earth has been nursed back to health only for others to arrive set to despoil it again.

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

Illus. and Colored by David Stoll. Letters by Micah Myers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Good Time" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vasilis Pozios 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 technology both punishes and rehabilitates in a very short time. 

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

Illus. and Colors by Ryan Cody. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inventor's Daughter" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Lucia Fasano (b. 1993) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A future story in comic form in which a woman who invented carbon capture is imprisoned by those in power. In the story, years later when the Earth is flooded, her daughter frees her. 

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

Illus. Tess Fowler. Colors by Gab Contreras. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “It Looked Like Our Dreams” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Maria Frölich ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Female author KW - Norwegian author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which a future is imagined where a small enclave embedded in nature and with advanced technology is surrounded by devastation. 

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

Illus. by the author. Letters by Matt Krotzer

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Just Like Heaven" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Matt Miner 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 the Earth has recovered, but there is still a need to struggle against those who would go back to the old ways.

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

Illus. Matt Horak. Colors by Lee Loughridge. Letters by Zakk Saam

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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 - “Life Is a Devil’s Bargain” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Justin Zimmerman (b. 1977) ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A positive future story in comic form about the dan8er of experimenting with DNA. 

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

Illus. Ethan Claunch. Colors by Fran Gamba. Letters by Taylor Esposito

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Nation Building and Baptism” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Powerful story about a ceremony welcoming refugees into Aotearoa/New Zealand set in an environmentally devastated world. 

JF - Capricious VL - no. 10 UR - http://www.capricioussf.org/nation-building-and-baptism/ U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Owning Up To the Past" Y1 - 2018 A1 - James Maddox 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 in a father takes a child living in the eutopia to see the horrors of the past.

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

Illus. Gavin Smith. Colors by Nick Wentland. Letters by Justin Birch

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Pilot" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dean Trippe (b. 1980) 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 good relations between Earth and aliens are undermined by a rogue human but restored.

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

Illus. by the author. Letters Micah Myers. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pulse Point Y1 - 2018 A1 - Colleen Nelson A1 - Nancy Chappell-Pollack KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which a city walls itself off from the outside world. People are required to exercise in ways that generate energy for the city, and each person is fitted with a microchip, called pulse points to ensure that they do. Of course, there is corruption. One woman’s pulse point fails, freeing her from the rules. 

PB - Great Plains Publications/Yellow Dog CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Requiem" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where climate change has damaged the culture of Alaskan natives, but, in which, temporarily the world responded by stopping many of the activities that were driving the changes. At the time the story takes place, the sea ice has begun to return, but already corporations are again drilling for oil. 

JF - Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA SN - 978-1618731432 9781597809887 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 4. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade, 2019), 160-200, with an editor’s note on 160.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revolution 2050 Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jay Chalk KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a new civil war in the United States, the North American Commonwealth is a dictatorship controlling the East and the free Western Alliance governs the West. First volume in a series.

PB - Dancing Lemur Press CY - Pikesville, NC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Road South” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Madelaine E. Robins A1 - Becca [Rebecca] Caccavo ED - Gordon Van Gelder (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia told through telephone conversations between part of a family making their way south to from the United States to Antarctica, the one area of green left, and parents left behind. 

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 Seclusion Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jacqui Castle KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in a dystopian future in which the United States has built a high wall around the entire country and all daily activities are under the control of the Board. The protagonist, Patricia “Patch” Collins, a true believer in the system, and her friend Rexx discover a box of books from before the seclusion and begin to learn some of the truth. They then travel across the country, meeting people and learning more, try to escape to Canada. A sequel is The Chasm. Oakland, CA: Inkshares, 2022 in which Patch has made it to Canada and Rexx is held by the Board.

PB - Inkshares CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Secure Home" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Wayne Cusack ED - David F. Shultz KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

An apparently ideal gated community that separates people into sub-communities based on politics, religion, and so forth collapses when the sub-communities start attacking each other. 

JF - Sanctuary: An Experimental Anthology of Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Np 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 - “Seventeen Souls” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Tyler Chin-Tanner 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 world peace has been achieved and famine and disease conquered. A project is developed to rescue from the past and bring them to the better future.

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

Illus. Robbi Rodriguez. Colors by Michael Wiggam. Letters by Micah Myers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shrinking, Sinking Land Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kell[ey] Cowley KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia in which everyone is required to hibernate underground to survive the winter. Liverpool is under water and Manchester is flooded. The novel focuses on a woman who refuses to hibernate. A prequel is her Last March for Planet Earth. [Chester, Eng.]: Odd Voice Out Publishing, 2018. EBook. 

PB - Odd Voice Out Publishing CY - Chester, Eng. N1 -

Developed from her “Shrinking, Sinking Land.” By Kelley Cowley. Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction. Ed. Manjana Milkoreit, Meredish Martinez, and Eschrich. [Tempe: Arizona State University], 2016. EBook. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Two Left Feet" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eric Palicki 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 the military has created cassettes that allows a person to have a particular skill.

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

Illus. Eryk Donovan. Colors by Gab Contreras. Letters by Zakk Saam

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Una" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Peterson, Christopher ED - Matt Miner ED - Eric Palicki ED - Tyler Chin-Tanner KW - Male author AB -

A positive future story in comic form in which an alien visiting Earth behaves as people know they should, and so they come to do so.

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

Illus. by the author. Colors by Gab Contreras. Letters by Micah Myers

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

A strongly worded depiction of the devastation of climate change, with the blame placed squarely on human behavior.

JF - Strange Horizons SN - 9780473491260 UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/we-feed-the-bears-of-fire-and-ice/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/we-feed-the-bears-of-fire-and-ice/ N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson (Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2019), 3-17; and in the author’s You Are My Sunshine and other stories (Hamilton, ON, Canada: Stelliform Press, 2023), 5-18.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Weight of Time” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Jarrett Melendez 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 gay scientist proposes to go back in time to erase all the anti-gay religious texts but is convinced that he would also erase all the positive experiences that gays would have had.

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

Illus. and Colors by Danica Brine. Letters by Taylor Espositio

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2023: A Trilogy Y1 - 2017 A1 - Bill [William Ernest] Drummond (b. 1953) A1 - Jimmy [James Francis] Cauty (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia than builds on and uses themes from to The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, particularly its libertarianism, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with some of the text written as if from 1984.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - New York U1 -

David Perch Books Presents the head of the title

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The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu [pseud.]

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MiU, Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “51-49” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Glen Cadigan ED - Hayden Trenholm (b. ca. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a climate-change future where Newfoundland is an island and independent of Canada but poor and negotiating between the Canada and the USA for support. 

JF - 49th Parallels PB - Bundoran Press CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] 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 - Azotus the Kingdom Y1 - 2017 A1 - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

In the novel, set in 2559, everyone lives alone in a separate house catered to by technology and with no human contact. One Occupant, as they are known, ventures outside, discovers what he is missing and struggles to escape. 

PB - Malawi Writers Union CY - Blantyre, Malawi SN - 9781620407790 N1 -

An excerpt, “The Occupant, was published in Africa 39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. Ed. Ellah Wakatama-Allfrey (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), 76-83. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bluebird" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Benjamin Cort ED - B. Morris Allen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future in which the City is taking over the United States, destroying all buildings outside the City using a huge metallic bird. People are trying to escape to areas rumored to still be safe. The protagonist is the caretaker of the bird.

JF - Metamorphosis SN - 978-1-64076-002-9 UR - https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2017/bluebird-benjamin-cort/ N1 -

Rpt. in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017. Ed. B. Morris Allen (Np: Metamorphosis Books, 2018), 9-25.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 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. 

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Lawdog [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “'Clippers': Measuring the slow but steady whitening of public life” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kashana Cauley ED - Ben[jamin Allen] H. Winters (b. 1976) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

The story is about a man trying to pass as white after the Trump administration had outlawed voting by blacks. 

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/kashana-cauleys-clippers-in-slates-trump-story-project.html U2 -

Illus. Lisa Larson-Walker

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Clockwork Barista” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kevin Cockle KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where changes in a person’s status is automatically sent out of social media. In the story, the man loses his job, and all his accounts and creditors are informed, and he has only a short time to find another job.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 28.1 (104) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crazy House Y1 - 2017 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which young girls are imprisoned, supposedly to test them to help overthrow an authoritarian system that divides people and controls information. . A sequel is The Fall of Crazy House. New York: Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson, 2019 in which the protagonists of the first novel fight the government and win. 

PB - Little Brown/Jimmy Patterson CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Decelerate Blue Y1 - 2017 A1 - Adam Rapp (b. 1968) A1 - Mike Cavallaro KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A graphic novel dystopia in which everyone believes in speed and efficiency. The novel follows one young girl who doesn’t fit in and who discovers that there are others who believe that slower is better. 

PB - Roaring Brook Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Diaspora Electronica” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Blaize [M.] Kaye ED - Helen Moffett ED - Efemia Chela ED - Bongani Kona KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The story is set in a future in which an Institute for the Future of Humanity is established as a solution to “exponential population growth” (59). It uploads people into a computer in exchange for all their worldly goods. The protagonist is a man who wants to be uploaded to join his wife but because has one of the flaws the system cannot handle, he is regularly turned down. 

JF - Migrations: New Short Fiction from Africa PB - New Internationalist Publications CY - Oxford, Eng. SN - 9781780264059 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams Before the Start of Time Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in the years from 2034 through 2120 and follows the adjustments made by individuals and families as they adjust to advances in medicine regarding fertility and birth to the point where anyone can have a child through a various of different technologies. It won the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature. Female author.

PB - 47th North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eating the Moon Y1 - 2017 A1 - Mark David Campbell KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

A complex novel that includes a period in a gay male flawed utopia. 

PB - DSP Publications CY - Tallahassee, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Festival of the Cull” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Steve Carr KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society where each year everyone must choose a person to be culled, and those getting the most votes will be killed. The system can be rigged. Resonates with Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” (1948).

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fire Star" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Shirley Chan KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set on an Earth with sever pollution and rationed, and expensive water and power, but the focus of the story is about the settlement of Mars, the corporate, personal, and political conflicts involved, and the myth-making that has already started. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From the Dark" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Emilie Collyer ED - Liz Grzyb ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The story is set in a dystopia where plastics are destroying the oceans and takes place in a juvenile detention center where garbage pits are dug out for recycling. 

JF - Ecopunk! [Cover adds Speculative Tales of Radical Futures] PB - Ticonderoga Publications CY - Greenwood, WA, Australia SN - 9781925212549 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Good Citizen" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which there is a daily referendum in which everyone must vote or lose what few privileges they have. 

JF - 2084 PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 N1 -

Rpt. in Best of British Science Fiction 2017. Ed. Donna Scott ([Weston, Eng.]: NewCon Press, 2018), 131-38.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Wall of Denver" Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Ira Cleary KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. has broken up, and Denver must deal with pollution from nuclear waste and winds that can destroy the city, hence the wall around the city. 

JF - Persistent Visions UR - https://persistentvisionsmag.com/fiction/great-wall-of-denver-david-ira-cleary U2 -

Illus. Toeken

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Hunger After You’re Fed: Who is Héctor Prima?” Y1 - 2017 A1 - [Daniel James] [Abraham] (b. 1969) A1 - [Tyler Corey] [Franck] (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is concerned with the functioning of a future with a guaranteed income and the needs that will still remain.

JF - Wired VL - 25.1 SN - 978-1-250-16463-6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018), 180-87 with an editor’s note on 180.

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Illus. Paul Lacolley

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James S. A. Corey [pseud.]

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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 - A New World Coming: Experiencing a Radically Different Future in the Kingdom of God Y1 - 2017 A1 - John [R.] Claeys KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Biblical exposition from the premillennial perspective including details of life during the millennium with Biblical references. There will be physical bodies (147-58). Quite a bit on what might loosely be called the politics of the millennium with Christ ruling, and the Mosaic Law enforced (159-89). Refers to the feasts of the Old Testament (199-213). Harmony between animals and humans (216). No fear (216). Parenting based on the Old Testament, with serious punishment, including death, for misbehavior (217-19). Significant population growth (219-20). Earth will have no waste spaces (220-21). Manual work will be done by “mortal-bodied unbelievers,” while the “glorified” will be administrators (224). See also his The Impending Apocalypse. Sisters, OR: Deep River Books, 2014.

PB - 289Design CY - Longview, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once Upon a Trump" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Timothy Carter ED - JF Garrard ED - Jen Frankel KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The future Emperor Trump visits the current president to try to get him to fight the effects of climate change that has produced a dystopia. 

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pop and the CFT" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brandon Crilly ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future trying to deal with climate-change and focuses on one of the policies, the CFT, put in place to help. CFT refers to the Carbon Footprint Tax that is levied after an individual’s death based on their consumption pattern during life.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Powers of Earth Y1 - 2017 A1 - Travis J. I. Corcoran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a series in which a libertarian moon struggles to maintain its freedom against an authoritarian Earth. Won the 2018 Prometheus Award for Best Novel from the Libertarian Futurist Society. The next volume in the series is Causes of Separation. Np: Morlock Publishing, 2018. 706 pp. It is a typical second volume in a series in which the situation worsens. Two further volumes, Right and Duty and Absolute Tyranny are planned. 

PB - Morlock Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sensing the Dust” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eliza Chan KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

The background to the story is a future authoritarian dystopia set in Hong Kong. 

JF - Persisten Visions UR - https://persistentvisionsmag.com/fiction/sensing-the-dust-eliza-chan U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Space Between the Stars Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anne Corlett KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A virus wipes most of the human race on Earth and on the colony worlds. A few survivors on one of the colony worlds returns to Earth, where they discover a group of survivors that are instituting a required, controlled breeding program. Some of them escape to Scotland where they live a simple life that attracts other survivors, and a community develops.

PB - Pan Macmillan CY - London N1 -

 U. S. ed. New York: Berkeley, 2017. 

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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 - Terra Nullius Y1 - 2017 A1 - Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974) KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set within the dystopia of colonialism. 

PB - Hachette Australia CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

U.S. ed. Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Transitions" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eileen [Katherine] Gunn (b. 1945) ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

All the stories in the original online anthology are present as if the protagonists had been on a flight that landed twenty years after it took off. A list can be found at https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?673124. In this story, the protagonist is a Black, female, engineer and is primarily concerned with her thoughts about how she will fit in and meeting her husband, who has remarried, her son and his wife and her grandchildren, and her parents. It takes place in a future U.S. that has broken up into nine sections, controlled by oligarchs.

JF - Seat 14 C [No longer available online] PB - XPRIZE/ANA CY - Np SN - 978-1-629639-42-0 N1 -

Rpt. in her Night Shift plus Ursula and the Author plus Promised Lands and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2022), 65-76.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Uno! . . . Dos! One-Two! Tres! Cuatro!” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ernest Hogan (b. 1955) ED - M. Christian KW - Chicano author KW - Male author AB -

An odd dystopia set in Phoenix, Arizona, which is divided between the United States and Aztlán, the name adopted by Chicano activists for their new nation.

JF - Five to the Future: All New Novelettes of Tomorrow and Beyond PB - Strange Particle Press/Digital Parchment Press CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Vermix" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Matthew Castle ED - Gavin Miller ED - Anna McFarlane KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future where much knowledge has been lost to those living outside high tech archologies that have completely closed themselves off.

JF - A Practical Guide to the Resurrected: Twenty-One Short Stories of Medicine and Science Fiction PB - Freight Books CY - Glasgow, Scot. SN - 978-1-911332-50-3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Vibrating Mouth” Y1 - 2017 A1 - John Lee Clark ED - Christopher Jon Heuer KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story depicts a world of mutual incomprehensive between those deaf and signing and the speaking as seen from a deaf person who sees the speaking as limited and inferior.

JF - Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Authors PB - Handtype Press CY - Minneapolis, MN SN - 9781941960080 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wilders: Project Earth Book One Y1 - 2017 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel is set in the megacity Seacouver (A merged Seattle and Vancouver) and the surrounding ecological disaster zone and focuses on the search by a young woman for her sister, who had left the city some years earlier. First volume in a series followed by Keeper: Project Earth Book Two. Amherst, NY: Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2018. In this volume the woman and her sister work to reintroduce wolves into the wilderness. 

PB - Pyr/Prometheus Books CY - Amherst, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 100K. Beware: the future may be happening to you right now Y1 - 2016 A1 - S. Ó. Ceallaigh AB -

Flawed utopia which is supposedly democratic (“when possible”), but it is in fact authoritarian.

PB - Lightning Source CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Tania Carter ED - Neal McLeod KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - First Nations author AB -

Post-nuclear war dystopia. 

JF - Mitêwâcimowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling PB - Theytus Press CY - [Pinticion, BC, Canada] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bombs That Brought Us Together Y1 - 2016 A1 - Brian Conaghan (b. 1971) KW - Irish author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which Little Town is controlled by gangs and at war with Old Country. 

PB - Bloomsbury CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Bone-Runner" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jennifer Campbell-Hicks KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where much of the western U.S. is desolate with the remains cities composed of the steel of buildings that haven’t yet collapsed. The protagonist is a scavenger hoping to find something in the nearest city valuable enough to pay her way to the east, where life was easier. Some fantasy. 

JF - Galaxy’s Edge SN - 978-1-61242-356-2 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escaped Alone Y1 - 2016 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian play in which four old women, “They are all at least seventy,” sit in an apparently peaceful garden and discuss the horrors of the world outside the garden. 

PB - Nick Hern Books CY - [London] N1 -

U.S. ed. in her Here We Go and Escaped Alone. Two Plays. (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2016), 31-74. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Final Path” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Genevieve Cogman ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (general collapse) young adult dystopia in which the young woman protagonist escapes to join other young people who have run away to an island. 

JF - Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Forgetting Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sharon Cameron (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which annually everyone, except for one girl. in an enclosed city loses their memories unless they have been written down. The girl then explores the basis of the dystopia and escapes with a boy. The Knowing. New York: Scholastic Press, 2017 is described as a companion volume and focuses on a woman who cannot forget anything and searches for the lost city of Canaan and a man from space who is also searching for it. 

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hiroto’s Legacy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Lisa M. Collins ED - Howard, Tom KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

 The story is set in a future eutopian Japan that had been achieved through generations of technological innovation, particularly in horticulture. Prequel to her story “The Tree of Life.” Holdfast Magazine, no. 4 (2014). Rpt. in Holdfast Magazine Anthology 2013-2014. Ed. Laurel Still and Lucy Smee (Np: np, 2014); and on Kindle, 2015. 16 pp. in which the culture, now on a generation starship searching for new planets are passing the knowledge to the next generations.

JF - Coming Around Again [At the head of the title The Central Arkansas Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group Presents] PB - CreateSpace CY - San Bernardino, CA U1 -

At the head of the title The Central Arkansas Speculative Fiction Writers’ Group Presents

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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 - “An Industrial Growth” Y1 - 2016 A1 - David L. Clements KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia of the future U.S. destroyed by scientific experiments that government encouraged to be done with no concern for safety.

JF - Analog Science Fiction and Fact VL - 136.1 & 2 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Leaves No Longer Fall” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jodi Cleghorn ED - Dan Rabarts ED - Lee Murray KW - Australian author KW - Female 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 - “Let Your Light Shine Before Men” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Christopher Caldwell KW - African American author KW - Male author KW - Queer author KW - Scottish author AB -

The story is set in a future where climate change led to the abandonment of New Orleans while saving white areas of the country. 

JF - Obsidian VL - 42.1-2 Speculating Futures: Black Imagination & The Arts ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mercy Journals Y1 - 2016 A1 - Claudia Casper (b. 1957) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

The novel is set in a post-catastrophe dystopia in which billions of people have died as a result of climate change. 

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada 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 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Portobello Blind” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Octavia Cade (b. 1977) ED - Tsana Dolichava ED - Holly Kench KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which a blind teenage girl is the only survivor at an island science laboratory and proves to herself that she has the inner resources to cope. 

JF - Defying Doomsday PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - [Yokine, WA, Australia] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quarantine Zone Y1 - 2016 A1 - Daniel H[oward] Wilson (b. 1978) ED - Bobbie Chase ED - Sara Miller KW - Male author KW - Native American author AB -

In the future, scientists discover that evil is caused by a virus that can be easily eliminated in most people. The incurables are rounded up, forced into a Quarantine Zone, and kept there by a Quarantine Force. 

PB - DC Comics CY - Burbank, CA U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sahara" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Shadreck Chikoti (b. 1979) ED - Ivor Agyeman-Duah KW - Malawian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future high-tech but overpopulated Malawi in which a disease is devastating the population, with people replaced by high functioning AI’s. A scientist who discovers a cure is jailed because a cure would reverse the population decline. 

JF - All Good Things Around Us: An Anthology African Short Stories PB - Ayebia Clarke Publishing, Ltd. CY - Oxfordshire, UK SN - 9780992843663 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Salto Morto" Y1 - 2016 A1 - [Nick] [Tchan] ED - Nalo Hopkinson ED - Kristine Ong Muslim (b. 1980) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The story of about spousal abuse and the difficulties of accepting it in a world of constant surveillance set in the dystopia of the U.S. inside its wall with a better Mexico on the other side. 

JF - People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! VL - Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 U2 -

Illus. Al Bao

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Nick T. Chan [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Slumber" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Emeline [Mimie] Morin ED - Mike Clocherty KW - Female author KW - French author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which Earth is an environmental disaster and those who are trying to settle a new planet have been so damaged by the long sleep necessary to travel there, many being blind or dead, half having committed suicide, and most disengaged) that they are unable to do the needed work. 

PB - The Speculative Bookshop EBook CY - [Glasgow, Scot.] U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Survival Instincts” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Carolyn Charron KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which the birth rate has led to an annual contest to be chosen as parents and one young woman’s attempts to ensure her victory. 

JF - Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales PB - Flame Tree Publishing CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Time Zero Y1 - 2016 A1 - Carolyn Cohagan KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a Manhattan ruled by religious extremists with particular emphasis on the restrictions on women. The novel focuses on one girl who rebels. Ends with “End of Book One.” 

PB - She Writes Press CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Began as an M.P.W. (Master of Professional Writing) thesis. Southern California, 2013. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopia + 10” Y1 - 2016 A1 - J[acqueline] A. Christy ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of extreme pollution and deep rich/poor divisions. 

JF - Now We Are Ten: Celebrating the First Ten Years of NewCon Press PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Utopian Public Governance: Cloudy, Cloudier, Cloudiest” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) A1 - Joep Crompvoets ED - Veerle Achten ED - Geert Bouckaert (b. 1958) ED - Erik Schokkaert KW - Belgian author KW - Male author AB -

A eutopia set in Leuven in 2125 with a sleeper awakes motif and one of the protagonists a Professor Leete, but those are the only connections to Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1887). In the future everyone is monitored constantly by a chip in their body, and all information is stored in Clouds, with most decision-making automated.

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

MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Along the Mal.” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chloe [N.] Clark KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where everyone lives in a huge wall with various subsections, each with a mayor. People must shop constantly earning themselves credits that determine the size and amenities of the tiny room they sleep in between and the standards of the bathrooms they can use while shopping.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 33 UR - The Future Fire: 2015.33 fiction allalongmall U2 -

Illus. L. E. Badillo

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Attack of the Spambots” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Terence Toh ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author AB -

Dystopia in which people are being turned into cyborgs designed to advertise a company’s products. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tenea D. Johnson ED - Nisi [Denise Angela] Shawl (b. 1955) ED - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of genetic manipulation. Includes a character from 2011 Johnson, R/evolution.

JF - Stories For Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany PB - Rosarium Publishing CY - Greenbelt, MD U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Extracts from DMZINE #13 [January 2115]” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Foo Han Sek ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

After nuclear weapons are used, Malaysia has fractured into zones representing the Ruling Party, Secessionists, and the DMZ (Demilitarized but there are disputes over what the Z refers to). The DMZINE is paper magazine (paper is “the best way to hide information from probes and hacks”) that reports on the conditions there. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

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 - "Flamingo Land" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ruby Cowling ED - Ellah Wakatama Allfrey KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which a family must meet specified weight standards. If they are collectively too heavy, their wages are cut and if they continue to be overweight, children are removed from the family. 

JF - Flamingo Land and Other Stories PB - Freight Press CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the author's This Paradise: Stories (Norwich, Eng.: Boiler House Press, 2019), 135-60. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heat 30:1 Y1 - 2015 A1 - Douglas E. Congdon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a trilogy followed by 2019 Congdon, Above Sea Level. A third volume, They Are Coming Tomorrow, set between the other novels, has been announced. This volume is a climate change dystopia that has radically reduced the world food supply. The novel is set in Kansas where farmers are struggling to produce food while also ensuring that they treat the land and water so that they can continue to do so.

PB - Np CY - Np U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ink and Bone Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which the Great Library of Alexandria has survived into the modern world and controls all dissemination of knowledge with the individual possession of books illegal. The novel focuses on those who illegally own and trade books. The next three volumes continue the fight against the power of the Great Library. They are Paper and Fire. The Great Library. New York: NAL/New American Library, 2016; Ash and Quill. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2017; Smoke and Iron. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2018. In the concluding volume, Sword and Pen. The Great Library. New York: Berkley, 2019, the corrupt leaders are overthrown but other attempts to take over the library must be defeated.

PB - NAL/New American Library CY - New York U3 -

Rachel Caine [pseud.]

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Public

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 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kakak" Y1 - 2015 A1 - William Tham Wai Liang ED - Zen Cho KW - Canadian author KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

The story, which is primarily about androids and how they are exploited, is set in a future Malaysia deeply divided between rich and poor. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lament for the Fallen Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chait, Gavin KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -

The novel is set in a West African community when a space craft crashes nearby with a human-like being who has escaped from Tartarus, “a place where hope doesn’t exist” (back cover). As he heals, he helps his rescuers to a better life, but of course complications arise. A novel set after Lament for the Fallen and with some of the same characters is Usan Abasi’s Lament, available at https://gavinchait.com/w/X3zHq2t7da4e/.

PB - Doubleday/Transworld Publishers CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Black Swan/Transworld Publishers, 2017.

Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.

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Originally published in 2015 as an ebook entitled Tartarus Falls. Np: Qwyre Publishers.

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CSt, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Murder With Bengali Characteristics Y1 - 2015 A1 - Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Murder mystery and humor set in a future dystopian India that is ruled by China.

PB - Aleph Book Company CY - New Delhi, India SN - 9789382277798 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “October 11” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Chin Ai-May KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author AB -

The story is set in a future, authoritarian Malaysia that is trying to eliminate all genetic defects. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi-Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Hundred Years: Machine” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Rafil Elyas ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

Presented as a speech, “Deviant Correction Using Preemptive Neuro-Regulation,” detailing one hundred years of research an implementation of means to “correct” behavior that diverges from conservative Muslim teaching beginning with therapy and incarceration and ending with mandated fetal implantation of a control mechanism. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Share and Share Alike” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Wayne Carey ED - J. Alan Erwine (b. 1969) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia where equality means no one does anything well.

JF - A Robot, A Cyborg & a Martian Walk into a Space Bar PB - Nomadic Delirium Press CY - Aurora, CO U5 -

EBook

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Undercover in Tanah Firdaus” Y1 - 2015 A1 - [Syamsuriatina] [Ishak] ED - Zen Cho KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author KW - US author AB -

In a future Kuala Lumpur, the city is divided horizontally between the rich and poor, who, except for those who work for the rich, are starving and without medical care. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U3 -

Tania Isaacs [pseud.]/

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Underneath Her Tudung” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Angeline Woon ED - Zen Cho KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Malaysian author AB -

The story is set in a future authoritarian Malaysia with robots enforcing the restrictive laws and cyborg doctors, with the protagonist one of the doctors. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Unusual Suspects” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Tariq Kamal ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in what little remains of a Malaysia that is deeply divided between rich and poor with powerful corporations controlling most of the area but with many hidden, illegal operations that provided needed services to the poor. The story focuses on unapproved technology developed by the corporations that was stolen by the resistance.

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Wall That Wasn’t a Wall” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Kris Wlliamson ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future Malaysian that has essentially enslaved its foreign workers. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “What the Andromaid Reads at Night” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ted Mahsun ED - Zen Cho KW - Malaysian author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a future authoritarian, secular Malaysian that followed religious wars that tore the country apart, where any religious activity is illegal. 

JF - Cyberpunk: Malaysia PB - Fixi Novo CY - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia SN - 9789670750873 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Abattoir Blues” Y1 - 2014 A1 - James A. Moore (b. 1965) ED - Craig Cook KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a post-collapse future where gladiatorial contests are used to decide legal disputes and who gets medical care.

JF - Piercing the Darkness: A Charity Anthology for the Children’s Literacy Initiative PB - Necro Publications CY - Sanford, FL SN - 978-1939065568 978-1-949140-19-4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation. Ed. Matt Bechtel (Haverill, MA: Haverill House, 2020), 79-96. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “After the Water: Show Me the Well” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Kristiana Rae Colón (b. 1986) KW - African American author KW - Latina author AB -

The story is set in Detroit, supposedly one hundred years in the future but sounding contemporary, with water cut off from the African American community and bureaucracy going out of its way to make it difficult to get reconnected. 

JF - WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s “After Water” series UR - https://player.fm/series/after-water/afterwater-fiction-show-me-the-well ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By the Time We Get to Arizona” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Madeline Ashby (b. 1983) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in and around a new town that straddles the border between Mexico and Arizona where some workers are welcomed on short term contracts for tech jobs that, if they prove themselves fit, can earn longer contracts and admission to the U.S. The story focuses on just what “fit” means.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York SN - 978-0-06-220469-1 U5 -

NNU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future Y1 - 2014 A1 - Naomi Oreskes (b. 1958) A1 - Erik M. Conway (b. 1965) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An historian observing the tercentenary of the collapse of Western civilization (1540-2073) tries to explain how a supposedly rational, scientific people could deny climate change. The explanation centers on an emergence of a new Dark Age in which reason was blinded by a non-rational belief in the “free market."

PB - Columbia University Press CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Degrees of Freedom" Y1 - 2014 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

The story focuses on the control of or access to new tools for understanding demographics and their use politically. In the story, set in the near future, the Canadian government has restricted access to most tools so as to be able to ensure its reelection, but some indigenous communities gain access to them and force the government to become more open. At the end, there is a suggestion that a freer society will result.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Johnny Appledrone vs. the FAA” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lee Konstantinou (b. 1978) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the desire of the government to control the airspace during a period of extreme regulation versus the hacker mentality.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Y1 - 2014 A1 - Becky [Rebecca Marie] Chambers (b. 1985) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a series set in a future with many species, including AIs, interacting with each other in mundane, everyday life activities like shopping for food and working together, as well as developing animosities, friendships, and love. The future depicted has both dystopian and eutopian elements with the author stressing the positive more than the negative. The second volume A Closed and Common Orbit. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyage, 2016 is mostly about personal relations, and love in particular, with a main character on the Asperger’s/Autism spectrum. The third volume Record of a Spaceborn Few. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 is the history of those who left the decaying Earth and stayed together as a fleet of ships, known as the Exodus Fleet, as it faces a crisis. The fourth volume The Galaxy, and the Ground Within. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2018. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2018 focuses on cultural differences among various aliens temporarily trapped on a transit planet.

PB - Author CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2015. U.S. ed. New York: Harper Voyager, 2015. 

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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man Who Sold the Moon” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Technology used to free people and help them freely make things for their use. 

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Fiction. Ed. Sandra Kasturi and Jerome Stueart (Toronto, ON, Canada: CHiZine Publications, 2016), 400-76.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Murder Complex Y1 - 2014 A1 - Lindsay Cummings KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate.  A prequel is The Fear Trials. New York: HarperCollins e-books, 2014. The series is concluded in The Death Code: A Murder Complex Novel. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2015 where the protagonists struggle against the system and succeed.

PB - Greenwillow Books CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Orbital Decay” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Malcolm Cross ED - David Moore KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Part of the Afterblight series set early in the time frame of the series. This story is set in the International Space Station where people observe the deaths on Earth. 

JF - Journal of the Plague Year: A Post-Apocalyptic Omnibus PB - Abbadon Books CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Panther in the Hive: Chicago has fallen. She will not Y1 - 2014 A1 - Olivia A. Cole KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future Chicago deeply divided by access to healthcare and a chip that supposedly cures all possible diseases. When all those who are chipped are suddenly turned extremely violent, a mixed-race young woman must travel across Chicago to find safety. First volume of a trilogy followed by  The Rooster’s Garden: When the Rooster Crows, the Hive Will Burn. Np: Fletchero Publishing, 2016. 537 pp. in which the protagonist and some friends travel West looking for safety and answers. 

PB - Fletchero Publishing CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. Np: Fletchero Publishing © 2016 without mention of the earlier printing. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Tiger Waiting on the Shore: Days of Remembrance” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Paul Currion KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Punishment in the future. For the crime of manslaughter, a person is put to sleep three times for a hundred years each. After the third they are released to a society composed entirely of other released sleepers.

JF - Nature VL - 513.7517 U2 -

Illus. Jacey

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LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Two Scenarios for the Future of Solar Energy” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Annalee Newitz (b. 1969) ED - Ed Finn ED - Kathryn Cramer KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Two versions of sustainable urban futures, low tech and high tech.

JF - Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Society PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wrath of the Brunists Y1 - 2014 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel of sorts to 1966 Coover in which some Brunists return to the village where they had previously been located. The novel is concerned with a number of the people from the community and among the Brunists and explores what had really happened during the events described in the 1966 novel.

PB - Dzanc Press CY - Ann Arbor, MI U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: When God Blessed America Again! Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rick Chapman KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which Islamists now dominate eighty per cent of the world’s population and have imposed Shari`a law. The novel focuses on a man and a woman who have escaped to Alaska where they find other lovers of freedom. These Alaskans organize and free the U.S. from the Islamists and their supporters.

PB - Trafford CY - [Victoria, BC, Canada] U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - After Tomorrow Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gillian Cross (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a violent future.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “At the Crossroads” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Barb Caffrey ED - Deborah J[ean] Ross ED - Elisabeth Waters KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Stars of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 14 PB - The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works CY - San Franciso, CA U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Childhood of Jesus Y1 - 2013 A1 - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

The setting of the novel is the dystopia in which contemporary refugees live. First volume of a trilogy followed by The Schooldays of Jesus. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2016 and The Death of Jesus. London: Harvill Secker, 2016. U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2020. 

PB - Harvill Secker CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 2013. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Competent Authority. A Novel Y1 - 2013 A1 - Shovon Chowdhury (d. 2021) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

The satirical novel is set in a future fragmented India with parts under the control of China, which has used nuclear weapons against India. In part of the remaining India, a man who is simply called the Competent Authority controls the system and has odd plans for the future. 

PB - Aleph Book Co. CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dare" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Sophie Clarke KW - Female author AB -

The story is told from the point of view of a teenage girl who, under the Bill for the Protection of Young, Girls is living in the Academy of Virtue and Integrity where she is being prepared to be given to a “good man”.

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 26 UR - The Future Fire: 2013.26 fiction dare U2 -

Illus. Eric Asaris

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Immortality Y1 - 2013 A1 - J. M. Cobb KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The “Introduction” (v-viii) gives an almost entirely positive picture of the eutopia that will result from an immortality achieved through scientific advances. No disease, no crime, hence no prisons, no religion, and no war. “Unfortunately,” no family because no children and marriage will fade away. But the novel is about a murder that does occur committed by members of a secret society that believed immortality was the wrong choice for humanity. The novel contradicts the introduction in that there is a detective available, doctors are busy, and there is a priest. 

PB - Archway Publishing CY - Bloomington, IN U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dogsbody" Y1 - 2013 A1 - [Roxanne Longstreet] [Conrad] (1962-2020) ED - Melissa Marr ED - Kelley Armstrong (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Corporate dystopia that simply kills thousands of children in order to save the money of feeding them. The ones they allow to live work for the corporate at the lowest level, Dogsbody, at the worst jobs. The work focuses on a few young people fighting back.

JF - Shards & Ashes PB - Harper CY - New York U3 -

Rachel Caine [pseud.]

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Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Earthen" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Alicia Cole ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story presents a high-tech future with most farms fully mechanized with the focus on one woman who still lives on her farm and cares deeply for the land.

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 - “Long Indeed We Do Live. . .” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

In a future after an undescribed environmental catastrophe, society has developed inside domes with different arbors devoted to different trees. Presented mostly positively. While there is much fantasy in the story, it appears that human life has also adapted to life outside the domes and that here is communication between life outside and the trees inside. 

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 - "Lotus" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Joyce Chng ED - Fabio Fernandes ED - Djibril al-Ayad KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author KW - Transgender author AB -

Dystopia in which much of the world has been inundated by melting ice caps and tsunamis produced by earthquakes and most people life on boats and scavenge from half-submerged buildings.

JF - We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology PB - Futurefire.net Publishing CY - Np U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Othello Pop” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Andaiye Reeves ED - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) ED - Edward Austin Hall KW - African American author KW - Female author AB -

Brief vignette set in a racist dystopia in which it is illegal to educate anyone not white, and “yellow” girls are supposed to be killed at birth. Some people resist.

JF - Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond PB - Rosarium CY - College Park, MD U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pawn Y1 - 2013 A1 - Aimée Carter (b. 1986) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy. In this volume a young woman can, with plastic surgery, move up in social rank, but she has been involved in trying to overthrow the regime. Captive. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2014 is the middle volume in which she has chosen the surgery and faces many perils. The third volume is Queen. Don Mills, ON, Canada: Harlequin Teen, 2015 in which the regime is defeated. 

PB - Harlequin Teen CY - Don Mills, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Quis Custodiet: Complete control” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Brian Clegg (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The flawed utopia of a “perfect” dictatorship controlled by a computer.

JF - Nature VL - 502.7469 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Testing Y1 - 2013 A1 - Joelle Charbonneau (b. 1974) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which potential future leaders are put through a grueling, and potentially deadly test. First volume of a series. In the second volume, Independent Study. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the heroine begins to have memories that had supposedly been wiped and learns about the real nature of the government. In the final volume, Graduation Day (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, the dystopia is defeated

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tough Night in Tommyville” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Melvin Carter ED - Milton Davis ED - Balogun Ojetade KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

The story is set in a small town in a future United States that has disintegrated but is reforming. The town sits between factions and the story has all the flavor of the lawless, very violent Old West. 

JF - Steamfunk! PB - MV media, LLC CY - Fayetteville, GA SN - 978-0-9800842-5-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “When Appliances Go Green” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Matt[hew] Colborn (b. 1973) ED - Katrina Archer KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopia created my connected appliances that are programmed to be environmentally conscious. 

JF - Little Blue Marble 2017: Stories of Our Changing Climate PB - Ganache Media CY - Np N1 -

Originally published in Universe Magazine, no. 2 (2013), which is not available.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “2038: San Francisco Sojourn: The Wrath of God” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a California that has regulations for everything, the prime example given is that everyone is required to wear a helmet at all times, although undocumented workers generally don’t. In the story God objects to His laws not being followed and wreaks havoc wherever He goes.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Snow Y1 - 2012 A1 - S[ophie] D. Crockett (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia set in a new ice age.

PB - Macmillans Childrens Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beta Y1 - 2012 A1 - Rachel Cohn (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a future where clones can be created that are already teenagers and are for sale. They are supposed to be without emotion or souls, but the protagonist, a sixteen year old clone who is only weeks old, discovers that she has emotions and revolts. First volume in a series followed by Emergent. New York: Hyperion, 2014, where the clone and her source are in conflict. No further volumes appear to have been published.

PB - Hyperion CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blueprints" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Anna Caro ED - Kay T. Holt ED - Bart R. Leib KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

The Earth’s ecology has collapsed, and most people are being transported to Terra Nova, with the story told from the point-of-view of one of those left behind. 

JF - Fat Girl in a Strange Land PB - Crossed Genres CY - Somerville, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Breathe Y1 - 2012 A1 - Sarah Crossan (b. 1981) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Irish author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia in which oxygen depletion has destroyed the environment and killed everyone except those chosen by a lottery to live under a dome. There is a resistance movement and a belief that some areas outside the dome are still alive, and the novel focus on a quest to find those areas. First volume of two followed by Resist. New York: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, 2013. U. K. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 in which the protagonists of Breathe are successful in finding fertile land. 

PB - Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Calculated Life Y1 - 2012 A1 - Anne Charnock (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of corporate power and genetic engineering. The protagonist is a woman who has been engineered to be first-rate mathematical modeler who can forecast events. But some of her forecast are, unusually, wrong, and the novel follows her attempts to understand why. For a sequel, see 2020 Charnock, Bridge 108.

PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Devil’s Hit List. Book Three of the Underground Y1 - 2012 A1 - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 and 2010 Creed. In this volume, the government and a large corporation introduce a lethal virtual reality experience in an attempt to reduce the world’s population. The Christian underground fights back.See also Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising

PB - Splashdown Books CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Empty Pocket” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Seth Cadin ED - Paula Guran KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia and a young woman’s successful journey through the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the one functioning entertainment company.

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 - “In the Clearing” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia in which all people are drugged through their food. There is a small community of people who have escaped, and the story focuses on the relationship between a boy from the outside and a girl from inside. 

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 - In the Republic of Happiness: An Entertainment in Three Parts Y1 - 2012 A1 - Martin Crimp (b. 1956) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three versions of dystopia. The three parts are Destruction of the Family, The Five Essential Freedoms of the Individual, and In the Republic of Happiness. The first part takes place at a family Christmas lunch in which Uncle Bob and his wife Madeleine show up to tell the family that they are leaving forever and why Madeleine hates every member of the family. The is simply five lists of the characteristics of the supposed freedoms, which are solipsistic in the extreme. The third part has Uncle Bob and Madeleine in a large white room with windows that suggest a vague green landscape and they have a meandering conversation. The review in the Guardian, suggests, on the basis of an epigram from Dante’s Paradiso before the third act, which is the only epigram in the text, that the play is Crimp’s take on the Divine Comedy. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/dec/13/republic-of-happiness-review. The play was first performed at the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, London, December 6, 2012.

PB - Faber & Faber CY - London SN - 978-0-571-30177-5 978-0-571-32536-8 N1 -

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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 - Looking Backward: 2162-2012: A View from a Future Libertarian Republic Y1 - 2012 A1 - Beth Cody KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Libertarian eutopia in which the U.S. has been reorganized into a number of independent nations with a focus on the Free States of America located in the middle west and mountain region. Julian West, the protagonist of 1888 Bellamy lives there.

PB - [CreateSpace] CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] VL - Rev. ed. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Not Yet Y1 - 2012 A1 - Moira Crone (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the division between the long-lived and those trying to become the long-lived.

PB - University of New Orleans Press CY - New Orleans, LA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pines. A Novel Y1 - 2012 A1 - Blake Crouch (b. 1978) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a town cut off from the rest of the world and controlled by a few people with the leader claiming that he is God. There appears to be only desolation outside the town. First volume of a trilogy followed by Wayward: Book Two of the Wayward Pines Series. Las Vegas, NV: Thomas & Mercer, 2013 and The Last Town: Book Three of the Wayward Pines Series. Seattle, WA: Thomas & Mercer, 2014. Basis for the TV series Wayward Pines that ran May 14 – July 23, 2015, and May 25 – July 27, 2016.

PB - Thomas & Mercer CY - Las Vegas, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Remembering Mandy” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul Clayton KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story takes place in a post-nuclear war future, and the protagonist is one of the very few people who survived and is now an old man. The overwhelming majority of people have been created from genetic material and are all young, vigorous and in their twenties. The story concerns the old man’s decision whether or not to sell his memories of his wife and child for enough money to live well, but in selling them he will lose them.

JF - Strange Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy PB - Author CY - Np SN - 978-1475233933 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reservation 2020" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Bayo Ojikutu (b. 1971) ED - Sam Weller ED - Mort Castle KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian projection of the U.S. inner cities that are now walled compounds.

JF - Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury PB - William Morrow CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Selection Y1 - 2012 A1 - Kiera Cass (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult romance novel set in a dystopia with a caste system in which there is a formal competition among young women to be chosen by the prince. First volume in a series followed by The Elite. New York: HarperTeen, 2013; The One. New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard (The Selection Novella). New York: HarperTeen, 2014; The Heir. New York: HarperTeen, 2015; and The Crown. New York: HarperTeen, 2016. 

PB - Harper Teen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Squealer: Mouthpiece for a Generation” Y1 - 2012 A1 - Robert Nathan Correll KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief dystopia in which lost knowledge is being replaced by fiction. 

JF - Nature VL - 486.7402 U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes One though Seven Y1 - 2012 A1 - Cheryl L. Cholley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Survivalist dystopia. A sequel is Survivalist by Circumstance Volumes Eight though Twelve [The cover title is Survivalist by Circumstance--Novel Two]. [North Charleston, SC]: CreateSpace, 2013. Volumes eight through twelve were published as ebooks in 2013, and volume thirteen was published as an ebook in 2013.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tricentennial Y1 - 2012 A1 - IE Castellano KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia where apparently ecologically sound enclosed cities were no longer necessary but used to sustain the power of those in control. At the end, the old U.S. is reestablished.

PB - CreateSpace CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Uptime Jazz 2084: Futuristic Nightmare /Time Train Blues. A Science Fiction Novel in the Time Train Series Y1 - 2012 A1 - John T. Cullen KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia with time travelers from the future trying to change to past to protect their future. The protagonist travels to a future 2084 U.S. that is a walled religious dystopia under the Good Shepherd.

PB - Clocktower Books CY - Np U1 -

The subtitle on the copyright page is Futuristic Nightmare in a Key of Terror and on the page facing the copyright page in is Today Is the Future We Warned You About. A Science Fiction Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Whisper Y1 - 2012 A1 - Emma Clayton (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Sequel to 2008 Clayton. This volume has the same protagonists as the first novel with them successfully fighting a potential dictator and united their world.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Scholastic/Chicken House, 2012. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Election Y1 - 2011 A1 - Kevin [C.] Carrigan KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in the U.S. in which an incumbent president sets out to literally eliminate the opposition.

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last of the Guerrilla Gardeners: Seeding a Revolution" Y1 - 2011 A1 - David L. Clements KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which commercial interests with the support of the police are destroying all plants and seeds not owned by companies. The story is continued in “Seed Dealer.” Disturbed Universes ([Weston], Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 25-36. 

JF - Nature VL - 469.7330 N1 -

 Rpt. without the subtitle or the illustration in his Disturbed Universes ([Weston, Eng.: NewCon Press, 2016), 21-23; and in the Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition of Shoreline of Infinity, no. 11½ (Spring 2018): 114-17.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New and Perfect Man" Y1 - 2011 A1 - [Agnes] Carol[lyn] [Fries] Emshwiller (1921-2019) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a couple decides to create the perfect child by raising it in a technologically advanced but artificial environment and the girl's revolt against them.

JF - The New and Perfect Man PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts Number 24/25 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Next Future” Y1 - 2011 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay in which the author describes various possible utopias, which he rejects, and one, briefly, that he accepts that combines anarchism and a command economy.

JF - Lapham’s Quarterly VL - 4.11 N1 -

Rpt. as “Totalitopia.” In his Totalitopia plus “This Is Our Town” and “Everything That Rises” and “Paul Park’s Hidden World” and “I Did Crash a Few Parties” Outspoken Interview and much more (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017), 23-36. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prisoner 2501" Y1 - 2011 A1 - John Philip Corpuz ED - Nikki Alfar ED - Kate Osias KW - Filipino author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia present through the torture inflicted on prisoners to elicit information from them. 

JF - Philippine Speculative Fiction PB - Kestrel DDM CY - Np VL - 6 Literature of the Fantastic N1 -

Repub. as an ebook. Quezon City, Philippines: Flipside Digital Content Co. and Kestrel IMC, 2017

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ready Player One Y1 - 2011 A1 - Ernest Cline (b. 1972) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First of two volumes, the novel is set in 2044 where the world is generally dystopian, and many people escape into the eutopian virtual world of an extremely complex eutopian game where a person can be anyone they want. A film directed by Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) with a screenplay by Zak Penn (b. 1968) and Cline was released in March 2018. The second volume, Ready Player Two. A Novel. Penguin Random House/Ballantine, 2020. 370 pp. repeats most of the themes of the first novel centered on a different fame with some new characteristics. A film is expected.

PB - Crown Publishers CY - New York SN - 9780307887436 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Resistance of a New America: The first 3 years of hell Y1 - 2011 A1 - [James] Percy Clay III ED - H. Rivera KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the U.S. joins "other communist countries" and begins to take children to government camps. An additional chapter was published separately as R.O.N.A. (11 Months of torture). [Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace], 2011. PSt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Utopia]" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Alastair Campbell (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Very brief eutopia. Mostly very general and simple and a bit of a rant, but includes compulsory voting, lowering the voting age to sixteen, teaching politics and its importance and citizenship in primary schools together with how to live a healthy life. The first in an intended series of utopias written by prominent people.

UR - http://www.utopian.org/post/5930022365/utopias-vol-i-alastair-campbell. Accessed September 7, 2011. ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Are You Sannata3159?” Y1 - 2010 A1 - Vandana Singh (b. 1950) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future India with an extreme division by the rich and the poor in which the rich live in beautiful cities built on top of the areas in which the poor live. The establishment of a slaughterhouse brings well-paying jobs and hope, but the workers are all given a drug that keeps them from realizing the humans are part of the meat being processed. 

JF - Postscripts #22/23: The Company He Keeps PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng N1 -

Rpt. in her Ambiguity Machines & Other Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018), 123-44. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fixed Stars: Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season Y1 - 2010 A1 - Brian Conn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Odd dystopia focusing on a small, pastoral community afflicted with a plague and a brutal government.

PB - FC2 CY - Tuscaloosa, AL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Goin' Down to Anglotown" Y1 - 2010 A1 - William F. Wu (b. 1951) ED - Derwin Mak ED - Eric Choi KW - Asian-American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of future ethnic relations in the U.S. where Asian Americans now dominate on the coasts and the large cities. White ethnic enclaves exist primarily to service and prey on the dominant group. The story plays with the reversal of ethnic expectations.

JF - The Dragon and the Stars PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - H2O Y1 - 2010 A1 - Grant Calof KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel climate-change dystopia. First volume in a series, followed by H2O. Issue 2. Runnemede, NJ: Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2014; and H2O. Issue 3. Runnemede, NJ: Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment, 2014 (Both EBooks), with the continuations simply continuing the story. 

PB - Liquid Comics/Dynamite Entertainment CY - Runnemede, NJ N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Flight to West Bay" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Roz Clarke ED - Colin Harvey KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed ecosystem in an overpopulated world.

JF - Dark Spires PB - Wizard's Tower Press CY - [England] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Matched Y1 - 2010 A1 - Ally[son Braithwaite] Condie KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume of a young adult dystopian trilogy set in a society that chooses life partners at seventeen and a girl who rejects her chosen partner.  In the second volume, Crossed. New York: Dutton, 2011 two of the protagonists get separated amid much adventure. In the third volume, Reached. New York: Dutton, 2012, the heroine returns to the dystopia to lead a successful rebellion.

PB - Dutton Books CY - New York N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Russian Roulette 2020" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Eva Marian Chapman b. 1947) ED - Jetse de Vries KW - Australian author KW - Czech author KW - Female author AB -

The story contrasts a world in which everyone is linked constantly by advanced devices that they wear at all times with a disconnected eutopia of people living naturally.

JF - Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Underground Rising Y1 - 2010 ED - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian stories set in the future of Creed’s three Underground novels. See 2007, 2010, and 2012 Creed. The stories are Greg Mitchell, “Ex-Communicator” (7-26), Lydia Daffenberg, “The Injection Site” (27-34), Terri Main, “Voices of the Underground” (35-39, 53-55, 72-75, 103-05, 112-15, 135-38), Frank Creed, “Natalia” (40-52), Stephen Leon Rice, “Bear Feat” (56-59), Gavin Patchett and Frank Creed, “Resolutions” (60-71), Karen McSpadden, “Daffodil Season” (76-93), Deborah Cullins Smith, “Solitaire” (94-102), Frank Creed, “The Last Newspaper” (106-11), Timothy Hicks and Frank Creed, “The Sandman Cometh” (116-27), Grace Bridges and Frank Creed, “Underground . . . Undersea” (128-34), and Frank Creed, “Whiskey in the Jar” (139-48).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - War of Attrition: Part Two of the Underground Y1 - 2010 A1 - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2007 Creed with much the same themes. The underground Christian group known as The Body of Christ is attacked by the Federal Bureau of Terrorism. See also 2012 Creed and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.

PB - Writers' Café Press CY - [Lafayette, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Combe, Kirk KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

High tech corporate dystopia with one corporation controlling the entire world.

PB - Mayhaven Publishing CY - Mahomet, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Antidote" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Russ Colson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian fantasy of two very similar peoples at war.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 17 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For the love of mechanical minds: Survival of the fittest?" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Artificial Intelligences raise most children and continue to work with them throughout life. While this produces superbly intelligent people and much innovative work, no one chooses to reproduce.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inside Out" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Viki Chua ED - Happy Smiley and Friends [Writers Group] KW - Female author KW - Singaporean author AB -

Two societies in conflict. One, inside a dome, which presents the outside as so damaged environmentally as to be unlivable. The other very different from what the Inside protagonist has been taught.

PB - Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy/Two Trees CY - Singapore SN - 978-981-08-3580-4 EBook published 2012. 978-981-07-1743-8 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ragged Claws" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Female author KW - Scottish author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a disintegrating society in which people have the dream of going to the planet Eden and starting over on a pristine world. But it is a fake; all that exists is a virtual reality Eden and the myth serves to make money for its sellers.

JF - Edison's Frankenstein PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts 20/21 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Surveillance" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jonathan Cresswell-Jones KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Brief dystopia of a future where surveillance is so pervasive that a teenage girl living in Toronto chooses to wear a burka.

JF - On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic VL - 21.2 (77) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Winding Down of the World" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Rjurik Davidson ED - Peter Crowther (b. 1949) ED - Nick Gevers KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia reflecting the title.

JF - Edison's Frankenstein PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. VL - Postscripts 20/21 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Witch and the Wizard Y1 - 2009 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Gabrielle Charbonnet (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia of a modern-day witch hunt. Sequels include Patterson and Ned Rust. Witch & Wizard: The Gift. New York: Little, Brown, 2010 which focuses on the resistance to the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Fire. Little, Brown, 2011, which focuses on the dystopia; Patterson and Jill Dembowski. Witch & Wizard: The Kiss. New York: Little, Brown, 2013; and Patterson and Emily Raymond. Witch & Wizard: The Lost. New York: Little, Brown, 2014. 

PB - Little Brown CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 4400: The Vesuvius Prophecy. THE 4400 created by Scott Peters and René Echevarria Y1 - 2008 A1 - Greg Cox (b. 1959) A1 - Dayton Ward (b. 1967) A1 - Dilmore, Kevin A1 - David [Alan] Mack KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Four novels based on a CBS TV series that was aired from 2004 to 2007 that focus on the 4400 who disappear and that reappear with unusual powers. The first two volumes are dystopias about the conflicts that occur as a result. The third volume suggests the possibility of a eutopia when a virus kills thousands in Seattle but gives others new powers. They take over the city, rename it Promise City, and intend to build a new civilization. Those in power attempt to destroy Promise City in this and the fourth volume.

PB - Pocket Star Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adventures of the Cool Seven: A Utopian Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - Roslynn Webb Cady KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia. See also 1998 Cady. A related work is her The Final Quantum: A New Thought Novel. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform in conjunction with RosTer Publications Cañon City, CO., 2016. 

PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington IN N1 -

Rev. as Somewhere: A Fantastical Spiritual Adventure. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.

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Rev. as Somewhere: A Fantastical Spiritual Adventure.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Army of the Republic Y1 - 2008 A1 - Stuart Archer Cohen (b. 1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of powerful corporations and a corrupt government in which one man tries to control all water in the Pacific Northwest and is opposed by the Army of the Republic, a group trying to fight the system.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Digital Destiny. A Novel Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jeromie Carr (b. 1980) A1 - James Dunn KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violent conflict between those favoring and opposing technology in a high-tech future.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Geriatric Ward" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a short intense life.

JF - Keeper of Dreams PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 385-99; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 385-99. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hunger Games Y1 - 2008 A1 - Suzanne Collins (b. 1962) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

First volume in a young adult dystopian series set in a future North American dictatorship where people are kept on the edge of starvation. The Hunger Games are an annual contest in which each community must send a boy and a girl to fight in an arena until only one survives. In the second volume, Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic Press, 2009, having won the games by breaking the rules, the protagonists become the focus of resentment. In the third volume, Mockingjay. New York: Scholastic Press, 2010, a rebellion unfolds. A prequel is The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. New York: Scholastic Press, 2020. The first in a film series was released in 2012, directed by Gary Ross (b. 1956) from a screenplay by Collins, Ross, and Billy Ray. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was released in 2013, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 in 2014, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 in 2015. All three were directed by Francis Lawrence (b. 1971). The screenplay for Catching Fire was written by Simon Beaufoy (b. 1967) and Michael Arndt and screenplays for the two Mockingjay films by [Daniel W.] Danny Strong (b. 1974) and Peter Craig (1969). A film, also directed by Lawrence, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes with a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt was released November 5, 2923 in Berlin and November 17, 2023 in the United States. For a parody, see [Aaron Geary and John Bailey Owen], The Hunger but Mainly Death Games. A Parody. By Bratniss Everclean [pseud.] London: Gollancz, 2012.

PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pandemonium in 2012 Y1 - 2008 A1 - Lee [Leland W.] Cross KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future U.S. under the usual politicians is challenged by patriots.

PB - Virginia City Publishing CY - Sparks, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Roar Y1 - 2008 A1 - Emma Clayton (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Young adult overpopulation dystopia. See also 2012 Clayton.

PB - Chicken House CY - Frome, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Chicken House/Scholastic, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Soft Viscosity" Y1 - 2008 A1 - David Conyers (b. 1971) ED - Alisa Krasnostein ED - Ben Payne KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia that oil companies and the U.S. create to be able to build pipelines in the indigenous areas of Ecuador.

JF - 2012 PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sputnik Caledonia Y1 - 2008 A1 - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Alternative history dystopia in which, after World War II, Scotland is Communist and has its own space program. Part of the novel focuses on the Installation, a dystopia within the dystopia which is a military controlled space center.

PB - Picador CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Domine" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Rjurik Davidson ED - Bill Congreve ED - Michelle Marquardt KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The background to the story is a dystopia of extreme rich-poor divisions.

JF - Aurealis VL - no. 37 N1 -

Rpt. in Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fourth Annual Volume). Ed. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt (Chatswood, NSW, Australia: MirrorDanse Books, 2008), 218-40.

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Illus. Dion Hamill. 

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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 - Empyre Y1 - 2007 A1 - Josh [Joshua M.] Conviser (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2006 Conviser. In this volume, the network's rule has ended but others step in to continue control, and the novel is about the fight against this group, known as the Empyre.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flashpoint: Book One of the Underground Y1 - 2007 A1 - Frank Creed (b. 1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2036 in which Christian patriots struggle against a left tyranny. There is a role-playing game available. See 2010 Creed, War of Attrition, 2012 Creed, and Creed’s 2010 edited collection of stories set in the Underground world, Underground Rising.

PB - The Writers' Café Press CY - Lafayette, IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genesis Y1 - 2007 A1 - Paul Chafe (b. 1965) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of an intended trilogy about a multi-generation spaceship. This volume focuses on the struggle to get it launched and the initial conflicts after its launch.  In the second volume, Exodus: The Ark. New York: Baen, 2009, the people have forgotten their purpose or even that they are on a starship and a religious dystopia develops. A third volume, Revelations: The Ark, was announced but not published.

PB - Baen CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - I Am Nero Y1 - 2007 A1 - Samuel Collins KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsing San Francisco brought on by global warming. The rich have fled, and the rest are at war with each other.

PB - Lulu.com CY - [Raleigh, NC] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love, American Style, 2033" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Darcy Cosper ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Competitive swinging becomes the national pastime but excludes same-sex couples and thus the U.S., which is the only country that excludes them, does not participate in international competitions.

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 - Omniscience Y1 - 2007 A1 - Tim Carlson (b. 1963) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia extrapolated into the near future of what results from the current anti-terrorist activities in Canada and the U.S.

PB - Talonbooks CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada 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 - "Tabloids Bring Back Family Values!" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ana Marie Cox (b. 1972) ED - The Editors of Nerve.com Instigated by Svedka [a vodka] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of average people competing to attract paparazzi by creating more and more extreme false versions of their lives.

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 - Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men Y1 - 2007 A1 - James Cañón (b. 1968) KW - Columbian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Women only utopia.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York N1 -

"The Day the Men Disappeared” originally published as “Mariquita.” Chautauquan Literary Journal, no. 2 (2005): 85-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Walmartopia" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Catherine Capellaro KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia set in 2037. Walmart runs the U.S., and the capital is in Bensonhurst, Arkansas, the company's headquarters.

CY - Play first performed in New York. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Y1 - 2007 A1 - Michael Chabon (b. 1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which two million Jews are settled in Sitka, Alaska. The novel takes the form of a murder mystery that unravels various plots that reveal the state of the future, much of it not developed.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York SN - 9780007149827 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After the Protocols" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Multiple dystopias all blaming the Jews for their failures. Search for the Jews, who, it turns out, have left for an alternative universe. The story ends with one protagonist concluding that it must have been a different group causing all the problem, and the suggestion that the whole process of scapegoating will start over.

JF - Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly UR - www.helixsf.com. ER - TY - ABST T1 - Created of Fire: The War Comes Home Y1 - 2006 A1 - Mark Cato KW - Male author AB -

Mostly a political novel set in the very near future which describes a campaign to stop immigration to the U.S. from Islamic countries. A dystopia of violence follows.

PB - FairHope Press CY - Bayport, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cybernetica Y1 - 2006 A1 - Michael J. Cavallaro (b. 1975) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of subliminal control and corporate and government corruption. See http://www.cybernetica-book.com for more information.

PB - Arcanum Books CY - [Nesconset, NY] U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dark Rain Y1 - 2006 A1 - Conor Corderoy (b. 1957) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future ecological dystopia . The rich (Domers), the middle (Dry), and the poor (Wets) are divided by their ability to live out of constant rain. The Domers are using the possibility of an alien invasion as a means of maintaining the current hierarchy.

PB - Macmillan New Writing CY - London U5 -

CtY, MH, UC-Riv, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Echelon Y1 - 2006 A1 - Josh [Joshua M.] Conviser (b. 1974) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Echelon, the global eavesdropping network run by the National Security Agency, has, in the near future, become independent, effectively controls the world and has abolished conflict. The novel concerns the potential collapse of the system and attempts to control it. See also 2007 Conviser.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Imitation of Life" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Albert E[dward] Cowdrey (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. A future small town eutopia based on Jane Austen (1775-1817) but connected electronically throughout the world.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 110.5 (650) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Invisible Islands Y1 - 2006 A1 - Angus Peter Campbell KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A Scottish version of Italo Calvino's Le città invisibili (1972) describing twenty-one imaginary islands. Much fantasy. Each island and its people, if any, are briefly characterized, usually with one significant trait.

PB - Otago Publishing CY - Glasgow, Scot. ER - TY - ABST T1 - She's Alone Y1 - 2006 A1 - Richard Bruce Clay KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. All women but one have been exterminated.

PB - Poetry Monthly Press CY - Nottingham, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Berlusconi Bonus Y1 - 2005 A1 - Allan Cameron (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia in which the richest people are awarded freedom from the law, the Berlusconi Bonus, clearly named after the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (b. 1936; PM 1994-1995, 2001-2006, and 2008-11). Satire on Thatcherite Britain. Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013. U.K. Prime Minister 1979-90).

PB - Luath Press CY - Edinburgh, Scot. U1 -

Subtitle on the cover The First Draft of Aldophus Hibbert's Confession

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blown Away Y1 - 2005 A1 - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about in northern and western Europe by global warming. Some hope held out of the human spirit overcoming conditions. Related to 2004 Cave.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Building Harlequin's Moon Y1 - 2005 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Brenda Cooper (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia and the successful struggle against it.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Food for Thought" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Thomas Canfield KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia.

JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 6 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Janus Effect Y1 - 2005 A1 - Alan Cash KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian eugenic dystopia set in 2040.

PB - Y Lolfa Cyf CY - Talybont, Ceredigion, Wales U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Signal Red Y1 - 2005 A1 - Rimi B. Chatterjee (b. 1969) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Dystopia set in a future India that is one of the most advanced countries scientifically. The government controls all science and scientists, who live in compounds which neither they or their families can leave. 

PB - Penguin Books CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - X out of Wonderland: A Saga Y1 - 2005 A1 - David Allan Cates (b. 1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the best of all possible worlds created by the beneficent "Global Free Market".

PB - Steerforth Press CY - Hanover, NH U5 -

CtY, MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - After the Deluge Y1 - 2004 A1 - Chris Carlsson (b. 1957) KW - Male author AB -

San Francisco in 2157 has been partially submerged as a result of global warming but has recreated itself as a eutopian city with no private property. The novel focuses on how this eutopia deals with an outbreak of crime.

PB - Full Enjoyment Books CY - San Francisco, CA U1 -

Cover adds A Novel of Post-Economic San Francisco.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crux Y1 - 2004 A1 - Albert E[dward] Cowdrey (b. 1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Folkhaven Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert L. Courtney KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel focuses on a successful family with deep roots in a small farming community. The community experiences ethnic and racial issues, and the novel has clear racist and anti-immigrant themes, and the family goes on to create the first of what is to become white-only, Nordic-based Folkhaven communities. The book ends with “The Folkhaven Community Concept” (348-62).

PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Futureways Y1 - 2004 ED - Rita McBride ED - Glen Rubsamen KW - Canadian author KW - Dutch author KW - Female author KW - German author KW - Portuguese author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Fourteen stories from thirteen authors with only the first story with an identified author. All the stories are set in or refer to futures, mostly dystopian, and connect to art exhibits. The authors listed are Laura Cottingham, as Ying Zong 4217 [pseud.]; Nick Crowe; Aline Duriaud; Nalo Hopkinson; Nico Israel; Matthew Licht; Peter Maass; Rita McBride; Alexandre Melo, whose story was translated from the Portuguese by Brad Cherry; Glen Rubsamen; Brad Schafer; Mark von Schlegell; and Roger Wolfson.

PB - Arsenal Pulp Press/Whitney Museum of American Art/Printed Matter, Inc. CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada/New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Oval Menace Y1 - 2004 A1 - James E. Couch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in the U.S. after a Democratic woman is elected President in 2004. She quickly emerges as a dictator who will stop at nothing to get her own way. She pulls all troops back to the U.S. to create an isolationist Fortress America, which leads to major geopolitical shifts in the world and damages the economy. The author was a foreign service office and then a professor at Florida International University, retiring in 1993.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peregrines" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fantasy with a dystopian background extrapolated from the threats to democracy brought about by the response to terrorism in the United States.

JF - SciFiction UR - www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted January 7, 2004. No longer available online. N1 -

Rpt. in her Stagestruck Vampires & Other Phantasms (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2004), 211-51.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sancho's Golden Age Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robin [John] Chapman (b. 1933) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire in which the plan of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to re-establish the Age of Gold is attempted by Sancho. The middle volume of a trilogy between the Duchess’s Diary. London : Boudicca Books of Battersea, 1980; rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 1985; and Oxford, Eng.: Aris & Phillips, and Pasamonte’s Life. Oxford, Eng.: Aris & Phillips, 2008.  Neither of the other volumes are utopian.

PB - Aris & Phillips CY - Oxford, Eng. U1 -

The half title page adds A sequel to Don Quixote's history.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sharp North Y1 - 2004 A1 - Patrick Cave (b. 1965) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia brought about by global warming, genetic manipulation, and cloning. Some hope held out for the human spirit overcoming conditions. See also 2005 Cave.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sunshine Patriots Y1 - 2004 A1 - Bill Campbell (b. 1970) KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -

Satirical corporate dystopia.

PB - Hats Off Books CY - Tucson, AX N1 -

Rpt. College Park, MD: Rosarium Publishing, 2014. U.K. ed. Frome, Eng.: Chicken House UK, 2012.

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Rpt. Illus. Vincent Sammy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Supernaturalist Y1 - 2004 A1 - Eoin Colfer (b. 1965) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a future satellite city where orphans are used to test dangerous products. Conflict with an authoritarian corporation.

PB - Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2004. Graphic novel version by Colfer and Andrew Donkin with art by Giovanni Rigano and color by Paolo Lamanna as The Supernaturalist: The Graphic Novel. New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, 2012. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Turing Test" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Robert R[eynolds] Chase (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian and dystopia potential of computer programs and computer viruses.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 28.6 (341) U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Word for Heathens” Y1 - 2004 A1 - Peter [Francis] Watts (b. 1958) ED - Julie E. Czerneda ED - Isaac Szpindel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Religious dystopia.

JF - ReVision PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Beyond the Rift (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon, 2013), 83-98.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coolton Ascent Y1 - 2003 A1 - Rebecca J. Cunningham KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Environmental destruction. Story told in flashbacks and flashforwards from the 1960s to the mid-21st century. Stress on corrupt journalism and political spin.

PB - Blujah Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Hill of the Ravens Y1 - 2003 A1 - H[arold] A[rmstead] Covington (b. 1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia at the end of the twenty-first century in a North America that has broken up into separate enclaves based on ethnicity or ideology. The Southwest is Aztlan, a Spanish-speaking state. The Northwest to Alaska is a white, fascist dictatorship.

PB - 1st Books CY - Bloomington IN U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" Y1 - 2003 A1 - Adam-Troy Castro (b. 1960) ED - Keith R. A. DeCandido KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed eutopia in which one can have everything one could want for nine days in exchange for one day of hell.

JF - Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction PB - Pocket Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Nebula Awards Showcase 2005: The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America®. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann (New York: Roc, 2005), 227-47; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 431-49; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 431-49.

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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 - Sex Life. A Novel Y1 - 2003 A1 - [Gary] [Hardwick] (b. 1960) KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A high tech eutopia with a disease that kills if people don't have sex five times a day. Said to be the first volume of a trilogy.

PB - HardBooks CY - San Marino, CA U3 -

A. A. Clifford [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zero Calvin Y1 - 2003 A1 - Brian [J.] Cramer KW - Male author AB -

Future flawed utopia run by an artificial intelligence that has killed those who do not fit in. Arrival of a man from the past.

PB - iUniverse CY - Lincoln, NB U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adventures of Lucky Pierre. Director; Cut Y1 - 2002 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia depicting the life of a male porn star from the points of view of his nine female directors. His, and everyone else's, reality is infinitely malleable.

PB - Grove Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Albertine Notes” Y1 - 2002 A1 - Rick [Hiram Frederick] Moody [ III] (b. 1961) ED - Michael Chabon KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The dystopia brought about by a drug that brings back memories, good and bad, that was introduced after a major disaster meant that many people wanted to retrieve good memories.

JF - McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales PB - McSweeney’s CY - San Francisco, CA VL - McSweeney’s no. 10 U5 -

MH

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Discarded Faces Y1 - 2002 A1 - Steve Cross KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia on another planet and the revolt against it. Hierarchical social structure with whites at the top. Gays and lesbians eliminated. 

PB - King Roy Publishing CY - Las Vegas, NV U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Boy Y1 - 2002 A1 - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult novel with children shifting between two worlds, the present and a polluted, overpopulated dystopia. Environmental concerns.

PB - Margaret K. McElderry Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Bodley Head, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Liking What You See: A Documentary" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ted Chiang (b. 1967) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author AB -

Whether this suggests a eutopia or a dystopia is up to the reader. "Lookism", or prejudice against unattractive people, has been added to racism and sexism as a social problem and a solution has been found in a neurological treatment that ensures that "good" looks do not register with the viewer. A campaign to require the treatment at a college campus fails, but it does so as a result of the enhancement of a speaker against it, a speaker paid by the cosmetics industry.

JF - Stories of Your Life and Others PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 113-49.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Short Stories and Other Excuses Y1 - 2002 A1 - Ben Coulson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of death and destruction in related stories.

PB - Vanguard Press CY - Cambridge, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Son of France Y1 - 2002 A1 - Geoffrey Cush (b. 1956) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia. An alternative history in which France settled New Zealand. The novel focuses on a French officer who loves the scenery and comes to love a Māori woman. 

PB - Vintage CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tearaway Y1 - 2002 A1 - Phil[lip Neal] Cummings (b. 1957) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 2000 Cummings set in the penal colony in which the people struggle successfully to free themselves.

PB - Random House Australia CY - Milson's Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Delectation Debates" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Renée M. Charles ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) KW - Female author AB -

A future in which heterosexuals are in a minority and the multi-gendered get additional votes.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ecovillage 2015: Algae, Giant 'Seashells', and Sustainable Culture" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Clearwater, Jeff KW - Male author AB -

Eutopian short story about an ecovillage in the future in which the ecovillage has developed quite a few biologically-based, sustainable technologies, most of which the author says are currently available. Little on daily life.

JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - no. 111 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hope of Cinnamon" Y1 - 2001 A1 - M. Christian ED - Cecilia Tan (b. 1967) AB -

Gay male flawed utopia.

JF - Sextopia PB - Circlet Press CY - Cambridge, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Law, In Its Majestic Equality . . ." Y1 - 2001 A1 - Mary Catelli KW - Female author AB -

Satire on legal systems and economic status on the Earth and the Moon.

JF - Absolute Magnitude Science Fiction VL - no. 17 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Megiddo Y1 - 2001 A1 - Paul Crouch (1934-2013) A1 - Cyhthia Cirile KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

The story of the Antichrist and Armageddon.

PB - Charisma® House CY - Lake Mary, FL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule) Y1 - 2001 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First volume of the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow EffectPax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony. This volume begins after a global war when the International Organization of Women declares female superiority and a women’s revolution.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yes--Utopia!--we have the technology Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ron Cook KW - Male author AB -

Detailed The eutopia that can be achieved if capitalism is abolished. All goods free to everyone means that peoples’ wants will change and people will choose to have fewer possessions. Less need to work and more leisure with extensive travel.

PB - Author CY - West Bromwich, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084 Y1 - 2000 A1 - Howard [E.] Carmichael KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the U.S. in 2084 where feminism and an intrusive government conditions all aspects of life.

PB - 1st Books Library CY - Bloomington IN ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bad Dream" Y1 - 2000 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of the European Union in twenty years still dealing with British nationalism, with Britain fighting for and winning independence.

JF - Spectrum SF VL - 4 - 6 U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Breakaway Y1 - 2000 A1 - Phil[lip Neal] Cummings (b. 1957) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult dystopia divided between those who live in the Towers and street people. The novel focuses on a boy who has to leave the Towers and join a street gang when his father is arrested. This results in both he and his father being sent to a penal colony in space. See also 2002 Cummings. 

PB - Random House Australia CY - Milson's Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cyberskin Y1 - 2000 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. 

PB - Hybrid Publishers CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dervish is Digital Y1 - 2000 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia that is something of a sequel to her Tea From an Empty Cup (1998) in that the central character and some of the setting are the same. The female author was born in the U.S. and lives in England. Other cyberpunk dystopias by the author are 1991 and 1992 Cadigan.

PB - Macmillan CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Far Away Y1 - 2000 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Brief ecological dystopia in which everything in the entire world, including animals and plants, is at war with each other.

PB - Nick Hern Books in association with the Royal Court Theatre CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Generals of October Y1 - 2000 A1 - John T. Cullen KW - German author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. An attempt to re-write the U.S. Constitution through a Second Constitutional Convention leads to chaos and an attempted military coup.

PB - Clocktower Books CY - San Diego, CA N1 -

Second release San Diego, CA: Clocktower Books, 2002. Rpt. New York: ibooks, 2004. The ibooks ed. does not mention the existence of the previous eds.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Incognito Y1 - 2000 A1 - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Every individual is stamped with a barcode, and the story is about a boy who is made a non-person by having his identity removed from the system.

PB - Random House Australia CY - Milsons Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Killing Time: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 2000 A1 - Caleb Carr KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in 2023 following massive deaths brought about by poor access to both hygiene and health care when the world is deeply divided between rich and poor nations based on access to information technology with the IT companies the real rulers of the world. Due to strict drug and quality-of-life punishments, two percent of the U.S. population is in prison. Extreme pollution; no fish left.

PB - Random House CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mammaries of the Welfare State Y1 - 2000 A1 - Upamanyu Chatterjee (b. 1959) KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the dystopian Indian bureaucracy. Sequel to his English, August: An Indian Story. London: Faber & Faber, 1988.

PB - Penguin Books India CY - New Delhi, India U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The third volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, the recovering ecology is collapsing due to global warming and the Pax Femina has become ruthless, particularly in its control of its space colonies.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The fourth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony, and 2001 Cantwell. In this volume, Earth’s ecology continues to deteriorate, and what is now the Pax Humana, dominated by corporations, is determined to destroy the one space colony, on Callisto, that remains free of its control.

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony Y1 - 2000 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The fifth volume in the Pax Femina series. See also 1993 Cantwell and 2000 Cantwell, Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow Effect, and Pax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and 2001 Cantwell. This volume continues the themes of the earlier ones. Callisto was defeated and its people dispersed, and corporations rule, but the struggle between the Pax Humana and the dissidents continues until the Pax Humana fleet meets a stronger power from outer space. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - USSA 2020 Y1 - 2000 A1 - James E. Couch KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of the United Socialist States of America.

PB - Ridge Pub. Co CY - Np N1 -

Rpt. Lincoln, NB: Authors Choice Press, 2002 with cover adding A Novel.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zollocco--A Novel of Another Universe Y1 - 2000 A1 - Cynthia Joyce Clay (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A tour through a number of societies, some eutopian and some dystopian. Strong environmental content. Humor.

PB - Bookbooters Press CY - Weatogue, CT 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 - Christendom Y1 - 1999 A1 - Neil Cross (b. 1969) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the  United States  is dominated by fundamentalist Christians, who suppress all opposition. Much of the novel is about how the situation arose.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Conqueror's Child Y1 - 1999 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Fourth volume of series that includes 1974, 1978, and 1994 Charnas. In this volume, the men of the Holdfast have been enslaved by the freed women, but Alldera's daughter arrives bringing with her a boy child who she has effectively adopted, and the society begins to struggle toward a more balanced relationship between men and women.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crime Zero Y1 - 1999 A1 - Michael Cordy (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Genetic engineering dystopia.

PB - Bantam Books CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dawnings" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Zelda Curtis (1923-2012) ED - Charlotte Cole ED - Helen Windrath KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Egalitarian eutopia set in the U.K. in 2010 seen from the perspective of an old woman who had gone through the transition. The protagonist describes her flat in a collectively owned and managed building with a large communal space and a computer room. Adjacent buildings have different amenities such as a swimming pool, gym, art studio, music room, or meeting room. Clinic on site as is a nursery and crèche. Employment is arranged so that “no one has to work more than a three-day shift for a wage sufficient for their needs” (102). Equal pay for all. Cheap public transport. 

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 - "The Last Dog" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Katherine Paterson ED - Michael Cart KW - Female author AB -

Flawed utopia. A young adult story about a domed community that is rigidly controlled to exclude any possibility of illness and a young man's venture outside.

JF - Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future PB - Scholastic Press CY - New York U5 -

Merril, PSt

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 -

MoU-C, PSt

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 - A Spring of Souls Y1 - 1999 A1 - William Cobb (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire about a small racist Southern town.

PB - Crane Hill Publishers CY - Birmingham, AL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against the Day Y1 - 1998 A1 - Michael Cronin (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young Adult dystopia of a Nazi occupied Britain and the struggle against it. Sequels include Through the Night. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2002; and In the Morning. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2005.

PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cythera Y1 - 1998 A1 - Richard Calder (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fairest Isle" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Elizabeth Counihan KW - Female author AB -

Future dystopia of a poverty-stricken Britain.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 128 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Masque Y1 - 1998 A1 - F[rancis] Paul Wilson (b. 1946) A1 - Matthew J[ohn] Costello (b. 1948) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Far future warring corporations.

PB - Warner Books CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Originator Y1 - 1998 A1 - Claire Carmichael (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Young adult authoritarian dystopia focusing on genetic engineering. A rigidly hierarchical society, divided into Leets, Mids, and Subs, faces a scientist creating super-humans. Her Fabricant. Milsons Point, NSW, Australia: Random House Australia, 1999 is a sequel. 

PB - Random House Australia CY - Milsons Point, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pesthouse Y1 - 1998 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia that includes a religious intentional community called The Blessed Ark.

PB - Picador CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2007.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Planet Dreams Y1 - 1998 A1 - Michaela Carlock KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel presents two near future Earths. One is an ecologically oriented, non-violent, egalitarian eutopia, and the others is an extremely polluted, violent, poor, authoritarian dystopia. They begin to interact, changing both, but the eutopia survives without serious damage. New Age themes. 

PB - Keswick House CY - Redding, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Really Know Love for all-that-is Y1 - 1998 A1 - Roslynn Webb Cady KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

New Age eutopia, See also 2008 Cady. A related work is her The Final Quantum: A New Thought Novel. North Charleston, SC: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform in conjunction with RosTer Publications Cañon City, CO., 2016.

PB - RosTer Publications CY - Sedona, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic of Dreams: A Reverie Y1 - 1998 A1 - G. Garfield Crimmins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Something of a modern cockaigne under attack by rationalists. The Republic of Dreams where good food, good sex, and good wine are the norm. The book is heavily illustrated and includes foldouts and various inserts.

PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York U2 -

The book is heavily illustrated and includes foldouts and various inserts.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Snowdome Y1 - 1998 A1 - Bernard Cohen (b. 1963) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in the early twenty-first century. Sydney is now a museum.

PB - Allen & Unwin CY - St. Leonards, NSW, Australia N1 -

Parts were originally published in different form as “from Inflation.” Screens and Tasted Parallels. No. 2 (1990): 93-95; as “No One Lives Here Anymore.”  Picador New Writing. Ed. Helen Daniel and Robert Dessaix (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Picador Australia): 2: 265-72, Meanjin, Southerly, Otis Rush, Hermes, the Canberra Times, Between U&S, Analects, and presented in Volume 8 (First Draft West Gallery, Annandale), the Performance Space, and on Sideshow (radio 2SER). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tea From An Empty Cup Y1 - 1998 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. See also 2000 Cadigan.

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Tor, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia Now: The Ultimate Success Story Y1 - 1998 A1 - Dan[ny L.] Cahill [III] KW - Male author AB -

Detailed New Age eutopia and argument that it is possible.

PB - Chiyoko Publishing CY - Richmond, CA U2 -

Illus. JaTaraA

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hanging Man Y1 - 1997 A1 - S[tanton] Darnbrook Colson KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of violence.

PB - Cyber-Psychos AOD CY - Denver, CO U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fortunate Fall Y1 - 1996 A1 - Raphael Carter KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Set in a future authoritarian dystopia with a vague image of a eutopia in Africa. Dystopia ultimately overthrown, apparently peacefully.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Capitalist: A Dream of a New Utopia Y1 - 1996 A1 - Steve Cullen KW - Male author KW - Scottish author PB - Freedom Press CY - London SN - 9780900384820 U2 -

Illus. by the author.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice Y1 - 1996 A1 - James Cowan (b. 1942) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Written from the viewpoint of a monk in the 16th century who is trying to create a perfect map of the world based on travelers' reports. He includes descriptions of the land of Prester John and other traditional eutopias.

PB - Shambala CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Patches" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer controlled dystopia in which children are given knowledge through implants, which also removes their memories. As a result, everyone is rational and equal. The story is about a group of students who remove their patches and their conversation with an android who, linked to the computer, cannot understand their choice.

JF - Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction PB - Quarry Press CY - Kingston, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shangri-La: The Return to the World of Lost Horizon Y1 - 1996 A1 - Eleanor Cooney A1 - Daniel [Peter] Altieri (b. 1046) KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1933 Hilton in which a Chinese general plans to find and plunder Shangri-La but is thwarted by the guardian of Shangri-La and the general’s daughter.

PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Deucalion Y1 - 1995 A1 - Brian [Paul] Caswell (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Young adult flawed utopia describing the development of an effective world government on Earth, the colonization of the planet Deucalion, the positive and negative interactions with the indigenous population, and the establishment of a new, separately located society by the indigenous people.

PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, QLD, Australia N1 -

U.K. ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: Flyways, 2002.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fortress Manhattan Y1 - 1995 A1 - David Callinan KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a fortress for the rich surrounded by the poor.

PB - VGSF CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Great State." Y1 - 1995 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Gay male eutopia with the emphasis on the sex.

JF - QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction PB - Badboy CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Die on the Jersey Front Y1 - 1995 A1 - Matthew Collins KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the United States is divided by race war. New Africa is a country within what had been the U.S. Most of the novel is on the conflict, but it includes a cross-racial relationship between a man and a woman. The ending suggests a sequel, but none appears to have been published.

PB - Orchard Press CY - Cornwall, CT U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mink! Y1 - 1995 A1 - Peter Chippindale (1945-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mink organize to escape from a mink farm while the “Concerned Woodland Guardians,” which is led by rabbits is trying to protect their habitat. When the mink escape, they prey on the other woodland animals until the two groups have to combine to fend off the more dangerous humans.

PB - Simon & Schuster CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pfitz Y1 - 1995 A1 - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A prince creates imaginary cities and devotes the resources of his country to the development of plans for them. The novel focuses on characters created to inhabit one of them. The middle volume of a trilogy, which begins with the unrelated 1994 Crumey and ends with the non-utopian D'Alembert's Principle: Memory, Reason and Imagination. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng.: Dedalus, 1996. 

PB - Dedalus CY - Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Atlantis Papers including The Constitution and The Law of Oceania Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jim Davidson A1 - Eric Klein A1 - Norm Doering A1 - Lee Crocker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed mostly libertarian eutopia that was begun on the Internet and intended to be put into practice by establishing a new country. Governments and the taxes they impose are considered the major problem facing the United States. Among a number of provisions that are not accepted by many libertarians is a prohibition of abortion after three months with the provision that voters can impose further restrictions. Includes “The Constitution of Oceania” (118-50) and “The Laws of Oceania” (151-88), both © Erick Klein. There is an Index, which is not entirely accurate, to the Constitution and Laws (189-96).

PB - Jim Davidson CY - Friendswood, TX U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Carrying Capacity" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Sean Carruthers ED - Loren Rhoads ED - Mason Jones KW - Male author AB -

Pollution dystopia.

JF - Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect PB - Automatism Press CY - San Franisco, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chocco" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) ED - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An ecotopia that presents a future Native American Indian based culture as a simple eutopia.

JF - Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dr Orwell and Mr. Blair Y1 - 1994 A1 - David Caute KW - Male author AB -

A retelling of Orwell's Animal Farm.

PB - Weidenfeld & Nicolson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Furies Y1 - 1994 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1974 and 1978 Charnas. In this volume, Alldera leads a troop of Free Fems and Horsewomen back to the Holdfast, where they defeat the men and free the women. See also 1999 Charnas.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Galac 19" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica. Presents sexual slavery as desirable.

JF - Honcho Overload N1 -

Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 77-87. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Justice City Y1 - 1994 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Thriller set in a dystopian penal system of the future.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Music, in a Foreign Language Y1 - 1994 A1 - Andrew Crumey (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

The background to the novel is an authoritarian dystopia in England. First volume of a trilogy, although this volume has little to do with the other two. See also 1995 Crumey and the non-utopian D’Alembert’s Principle: Memory, Reason and Imagination. Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng.: Dedalus, 1996.

PB - Dedalus CY - Sawtry, Cambridgeshire, Eng. ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plot to Win the White House and How It Succeeded Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jack Catran (1918-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satirical novel directed at the misuse of language in politics, particularly in campaigning. Ends with what appears to be the emergence of a eutopia in which all large cities in the U.S. are replaced with Garden Cities.

PB - Jade Publications CY - Sherman Oaks, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rama Revealed Y1 - 1994 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) A1 - [Bert] Gentry Lee (b. 1942) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Inside an alien artifact traveling through space, humans intending to create a good society actually create a dictatorship. Ultimately this is overcome. This is the last volume of the co-authored trilogy, although written mostly by Lee, and follows Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama. London Gollacnz, 1973; Collector’s Edition illus. Bob Eggleton with an “Introduction” by George Zebrowski (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. The other volumes are Rama II. London Gollancz, 1989 and The Garden of Rama. London: Gollancz, 1991, which includes, in the second half, anti-utopianism typical of Clarke’s work. In addition, Lee wrote Bright Messengers. New York: Bantam Books, 1995, which is set before Rama II.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Republic of Nothing Y1 - 1994 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An island off the coast of Nova Scotia declares its independence and a society of free expression develops. Elements of magic realism.

PB - Goose Lane CY - Fredericton, NB, Canada U5 -

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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 Skriker Y1 - 1994 A1 - Caryl Churchill (b. 1938) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopian fantasy which includes a polluted underground.

PB - Nick Hern CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stardust Bound Y1 - 1994 A1 - Karen [M.] Cadora (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel in set in a future that has experienced a series of major catastrophe and is now controlled by UniTech that considered anything not related to Reconstruction a crime, which included science crimes, which included astronomy. The lesbian protagonist is an astronomer who makes her way to La Vista in the Andes, the last operating observatory and finds a community of other female astronomers, and one man. See the author’s “Feminist Cyberpunk.” Science-Fiction Studies 22.3 (67) (November 1995): 357-172. Rpt. in Beyond Cyberpunk: New Critical Perspectives. Ed. Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl Vint (New York: Routledge, 2010), 157-172.

PB - Firebrand Books CY - Ithaca, NY SN - 1-56341-053-2 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Supremacist" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Damien Jones A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence. The rich live high in buildings above the extreme pollution found at street level. The poor live violent lives but are also preyed upon by the rich for sadistic entertainment.

JF - Revelation Magazine (Perth, WA, Australia) VL - no. 9 N1 -

Rpt. in Paul [A.] Collins. The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 149-62. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The West is Red" Y1 - 1994 A1 - Greg[ory John] Costikyan (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Alternative history in which the U.S. lost the Cold War and is poor and backward technologically. Ends with a Communist takeover of the U.S.

JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 18.6 (216) U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Where It's Safe" Y1 - 1994 A1 - John [Patrick] Shirley (b. 1954) ED - Richard T. Chizmar KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of environmental collapse brought about by personal and corporate greed.

JF - The Earth Strikes Back: New Tales of Ecological Horror PB - Mark V. Ziesing Books CY - Shingleton, CA N1 -

Rpt. with the subtitle only on the cover (Clarkson, GA: White Wolf Publishing, [1994]), 188-215; and in Shirley’s The Exploded Heart (Asheville, NC: Eyeball Books, 1996), 239-59, with an author’s note on 239. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Folks" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Cassutt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the story, a man decides to visit his parents, who are in their 90s and live in the Sun Villa South retirement home. He finds that his parents, due to an advanced and a “brain booster and stimulant,” are living the good life and are in good shape both mentally and physically. Sun Villa South is depicted as the ideal place for retirees to live, fully support by takes, paid, of course, by current workers. The outside world is only suggested, but it appears that everyone is struggling to just get by.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 85.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glory Y1 - 1993 A1 - Alfred[o] [José Araña-Marini y] Coppel [Jr.] (1921-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily an adventure novel but includes a future society on the planet Voerster based on South African apartheid. Sequels include Glory’s War. Book Two of The Goldenwing Cycle. New York: Tor, 1995; and Glory’s People. Book Three of The Goldenwing Cycle. New York: Tor, 1996.

PB - Tor CY - New York VL - Book One of The Goldenwing Cycle U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Granddads Last Swim" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Cath[erine] Clark KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -

Pollution dystopia in which few people live past twenty.

JF - Phoenixine: The Phoenix Science Fiction Society Newsletter VL - no. 44 N1 -

Rpt. as by Catherine Clark in Rutherford's Dreams: A New Zealand Science Fiction Collection. Ed. Warwick Bennett and Patrick Hudson (Wellington, New Zealand: IPL Books, 1995), 165-71.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In the Garden of Dead Cars Y1 - 1993 A1 - Sybil Claiborne (d. 1992) KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. Future in which, as a result of the AIDS epidemic, chastity is legally enforced. Revolt.

PB - Cleis Press CY - Pittsburgh, PA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nomansland Y1 - 1993 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia--a society which is getting rid of men by ensuring that there are no boy babies.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pax Femina Series: Book II. The Kinslow Project Y1 - 1993 A1 - R. J Cantwell (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 2001 Cantwell, Pax Femina (Peace Under Feminine Rule). See also 2000 Cantwell Pax Femina Series: Book III. The Kinslow EffectPax Femina Series: Book IV. Pax Humana, and Pax Femina Series: Book V. The Titan Colony.  In this volume, the Pax Femina appears to have created a eutopia with no crime or war and a recovering ecology but has done so by suppressing all men. 

PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Punishment of Luxury.” Y1 - 1993 A1 - Michael Carson (b. 1946) KW - Male author AB -

Satire on environmentalism in which a man is executed for owning a car.

JF - Serving Suggestions: Stories PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Rising of the Moon Y1 - 1993 A1 - Flynn Connolly KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future Ireland totally dominated by the Roman Catholic Church and emphasizes the suppression of women.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Thine is the Kingdom Y1 - 1993 A1 - Leicester Chilton (b. 1929) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

A eutopian planet decides to deport its anti-social misfits to Earth, while monitoring them and feeding them suggestions. The eutopia is only vaguely described with the emphasis being on those Thirsans sent to Earth. They include Akhenaten, Moses, Jesus, Attila, and Muhammad.

PB - University Editions CY - Huntington, WVA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Alien Sex Slave" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica. Presents sexual slavery as desirable.

JF - Guys N1 -

Rpt. as “A Dort Called Tiger.” In QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 45-53. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadia Y1 - 1992 A1 - Jim [James] Crace (b. 1946). KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A wealthy man decides to replace a local marketplace with Arcadia, described as a modern utopia of glass and greenery. He succeeds. Set in the future.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Penguin, 1998.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arena Y1 - 1992 A1 - John Cranna (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Degenerate, authoritarian post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive environmental damage. Roman-style gladiatorial games are the focus of the novel.

PB - Minerva CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Best of Both Worlds" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) ED - Lorna Toolis ED - Michael Skeet (b. 1955) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia focusing on the development of instantaneous human transport and the power that gives to remodel humanity mentally and physically.

JF - Tesseracts PB - Beach Holme CY - Victoria, BC, Canada VL - 4 U5 -

Can, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Built on Blood" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopia of class differences.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 64 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bushido Incident Y1 - 1992 A1 - Betty Anne Crawford (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Earth dominated by a Japanese economic empire.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Corner One: The People and the 'Perfect Political Structure'." Part of his The Four Corners of the Coffin Lid" Y1 - 1992 A1 - S. T. Cambridge [pseud.] KW - South African author AB -

Short defense of democracy.

JF - The Tenth Leper and Other Stories PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U3 -

S.T. Cambridge [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dead Girls Y1 - 1992 A1 - Richard Calder (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia. Continued in his Dead Boys.  London : HarperCollins, 1994; and Dead Things.  London : HarperCollins, 1996. 

PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Graphic novel ed. by Calder with Pencils, Colours & letters by Leonardo M. Girton as The Dead Girls: The Graphic Novel. [UK]: The House of Murky Depths, 2014. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fools Y1 - 1992 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia with people able to create new personalities for both themselves and others and others stealing memories.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mutagenesis Y1 - 1992 A1 - Helen [Francis] Collins (b. 1937) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Religious patriarchy as a dystopia with a feminist theme developed as the alternative.

PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Small Part" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Michael S. Cummings (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Unpublished novel that the author calls a practical utopia. The novel describes the town of Link, CO, includes a one-page constitution, and is organized around the way people live within the terms of the different articles of the constitution

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pro vs. Con" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica; presents sexual slavery as desirable.

JF - Drummer PB - Badboy CY - New York VL - no. 154 N1 -

Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 55-65. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scenes From Successive Futures" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Tom Marshall (1938-93) ED - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A city, probably an enlarged Toronto and enlarged Montréal combined, is under a great dome with a germ and virus-free environment and people no longer leaving the city. Little crime or violence. Behind the façade there had been nuclear war and the dome is actually a spaceship; the news of the world outside is manufactured; even though people vote, there is no national government; the Prime Minister is an actor; and Canada is a fiction.

JF - Ark of Ice: Canadian Futurefiction PB - Pottersfield Press CY - Lawrencetown Beach, NS, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Underworld Y1 - 1992 A1 - Peter Conrad (b. 1948) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Division between haves and have-nots.

PB - Chatto & Windus CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

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 - Aleph Y1 - 1991 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Sequel to 1989 Constantine in which some of the protagonist of the first volume settle an area they call Freespace.

PB - Orbit CY - London U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Empire of Green Y1 - 1991 A1 - Paul Cheo (b. 1919) KW - Chinese-American author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed ecological eutopia that begins in the Garden of Eden and briefly follows Biblical history. A group of Christians called Saners decide to leave Europe in the 14th century to find a place where they will be able to live a life in tune with their beliefs. They create the Empire of Green, and over time, they choose to shrink their size and become green. High tech. All menial work shared among all. No money.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York 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 -

Free Amazon story.

JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hermetech Y1 - 1991 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Post-ecological catastrophe novel with fantasy elements. The world is presented as dystopian, but there are a number of communities presented which are creating various versions of better lives.

PB - Headline CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Journey South" Y1 - 1991 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Depopulated future and its problems and prophets. Appears to be eutopian but not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.

JF - Interzone VL - no. 44 U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Nice Place to Visit” Y1 - 1991 A1 - Warren Murphy (b. 1933) A1 - Molly Cochran ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Such Country: A Book of Antipodean Hours Y1 - 1991 A1 - Gary [David] Crew (b. 1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult authoritarian religious dystopia called New Canaan that is ruled by one man and the successful struggle against him.

PB - William Heinemann Australia CY - Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Port Melbourne, VIC, VIC, Australia: Mammoth Australia, 1992.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Serpent's Walk Y1 - 1991 A1 - Randolph D. Calverhall KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A successful revolution in 2049 by followers of Hitler. A fascist eutopia is created. The stress is on the war.

PB - National Vanguard Books CY - Hillsboro, WV ER - TY - ABST T1 - Synners Y1 - 1991 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Cyberpunk dystopia with computer viruses and designer drugs. Synners are human synthesizers who take images from people’s brains and package them for consumption by others. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1991. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1991. Chap. 14 was also published in The South Atlantic Quarterly 92.4 (Fall 1993): 669-80.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tomb w/ View” Y1 - 1991 A1 - P[atricia] D[iana Joy Anne] Cacek (b. 1951) ED - Lawrence Watt-Evans (b. 1954) KW - Female author AB -

Environmental dystopia. 

JF - Newer York: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy About the World’s Greatest City PB - Roc CY - New York SN - 9780451450456 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 - Doc and Fluff: The Distopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker Y1 - 1990 A1 - Pat[rick] Califia[-Rice] (b. 1954) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Lesbian dystopia that includes a description of a lesbian intentional community that could be considered a eutopia.

PB - Alyson Publications CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Los Angeles, CA: Alyson Publications, 1996.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elephant Memories" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ping Chong (b. 1946) KW - Asian-American author KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of environmental degradation and computer control of the population.

UR - https://www.pingchong.org/work/elephant-memories N1 -

Multi-media first presented at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, La Mama Annex, New York in November 1990. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emperor of America Y1 - 1990 A1 - Richard [Thomas] Condon (1915-96) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Mostly satire.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God Is Love (Get It In Writing) Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jeremy Clarke KW - Male author AB -

Satire on religion as big business.

PB - Fourth Estate CY - London U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Many Lives Y1 - 1990 A1 - [Claud] Geoffrey [Rowden] Chavasse (1920-1995) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Mostly romance and political novel but set in a future New Zealand of racial harmony and good Asian relations that is dealing successfully with its environmental problems.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chimera" Y1 - 1989 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which thirty percent have been sterilized in exchange for a higher income. Privacy very important and invasion of privacy laws strictly enforced. Eighty percent of the population lives in welfare ghettos. Various other themes.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 4 U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Folk of the Fringe Y1 - 1989 A1 - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-nuclear war science fiction set in and around Deseret, the Mormon homeland in Utah, which provides a safe, almost eutopian, refuge from the devastation of the rest of the U.S. Others in the area, "the folk of the fringe", develop a more restrictive society, verging on the dystopian. 

PB - Phantasia CY - West Bloomfield, MI N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Century, 1990. Parts originally published as “The Fringe.” The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 69.4 (413) (October 1985): 140-60; rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1986), 145-65 with an editor’s note on 144; “Salvage.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine 10.2 (101) (February 1986): 56-60, 62-75; rpt. in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2008), 23-38; “America.” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction 11.1 (113) (January 1987): 22-26, 28-30, 32-34, 36-38, 40-42, 44-46, 48-50, 52-53; and “West.” Free Lancers. Ed. Elizabeth Mitchell (New York: Baen, 1987), 1-82. “Author’s Note: From Sycamore Hill” (218-38) was originally published as “On Sycamore Hill: A Personal View.” Science Fiction Review, no. 55 (Summer 1985): 6-11. Includes an “Afterword: The Folk of the Fringe” (230-43) by Michael R[obert] Collings (b. 1947). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heartland Y1 - 1989 A1 - Nancy [J.] Corbett (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

A post-catastrophe future in which men and women live separately and both have developed eutopian societies. Both are fairly simple societies; the women are strongly in touch with nature; the men are concerned with avoiding the mistakes of the past by passing on knowledge of the mistakes that brought about the catastrophe. The novel concerns the problems that develop when the system of artificial insemination begins to fail. Reconciliation.

PB - Black Swan CY - Moorebank, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Blue" Y1 - 1989 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Misfit in a conforming eutopia.

JF - Novelty PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in his Novelties & Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction (New York: Perennial, 2004), 216-75. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Monstrous Regiment Y1 - 1989 A1 - Storm Constantine (1956-2021) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Complex future. Feminist eutopia established by women fleeing the patriarchal Earth  becomes a dystopia in which any relationship between a man and a woman is unacceptable under the descendants of those women. Continued in 1991 Constantine. 

PB - Orbit CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London Orbit, 1990 and London: Orbit, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophers Y1 - 1989 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The dystopia that is contemporary Britain.

PB - Duckworth CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Renegade" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Clay Caldwell KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Mostly an excuse for homosexual erotica.

JF - Inches N1 -

Rpt. in QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction. By Lars Eighner and Clay Caldwell (New York: Badboy, 1995), 67-75. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tales of the Lost Formicans" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Constance [S.] Congdon (b. 1944) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Satire on Middle America as seen by aliens.

JF - American Theatre N1 -

Rpt. in Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville (New York: Broadway Publishing, 1989), 279-342; as Tales of the Lost Formicans. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 1990; and as “Tales of the Lost Formicans.” In her Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1994), 1-76. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hustler" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Pat[rick] Califia[-Rice] (b. 1954) KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set after a very long war followed by a struggle for power between men and women. While the women win and establish a women-oriented society, it requires women to spend a period of time caring for babies and has a very narrow range of acceptable sexual behavior.

JF - Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction PB - Alyson Publications CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Bank on Earth Y1 - 1988 A1 - Michael S. Cummings (b. 1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian satire of a bank after a nucear war.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Overshoot Y1 - 1988 A1 - Mona [Ann] Clee (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of global warming.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rabelaisian Reprise Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set on the same planet and with many of the same characters as 1983 Krueger.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Scudder's Game Y1 - 1988 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Radical reduction in population based on a device that weakened sperm while giving control over one’s orgasm. Behind the eutopia created is a dystopia that controls the social system.

PB - Kerosina Books CY - Worcester Park, Surrey, Eng. U2 -

Illus. Keith Roberts

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Synthetics Y1 - 1988 A1 - Karen Clark (b. 1960) KW - Female author KW - UK author AB -

Set in 2015. Truants from school are given the equivalent of a lobotomy.

PB - Merlin Books CY - Braunton, Devon, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Turbo Cowboys 1. Jump Start Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Cunningham, Chet] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first volume of the ten volume young adult post-catastrophe Turbo Cowboys series in which five of young men fight for freedom on their motorcycles. Other volumes include three more written by Cunningham, Turbo Cowboys 2 Spin Out (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 3 Full Throttle (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), and Turbo Cowboys 4 Spark Fire (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989). The other six volumes were written by Paul Bagdon, Turbo Cowboys 5 Super Charge (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 6 Rat Trap (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 7 Night Riders (New York: Ballantine Books, 1989), Turbo Cowboys 8 Speed Shift (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990), Turbo Cowboys 9 Duster Trouble (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990), and Turbo Cowboys 10 City of Glass (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990). The Science Fiction Encyclopedia attributes Rat Trap to John Read.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U3 -

Tony Phillips [pseud.]

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Vic and Blood: The Chronicles of a Boy and His Dog Y1 - 1988 A1 - Harlan [Jay] Ellison (1934-2018) A1 - Richard [Vance] Corben (1940-2020) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Graphic novel. Post-nuclear war dystopia. Underground there is an authoritarian dystopia trying to maintain a conservative way of life. On the surface is a violent dystopia of male loners and small groups.

PB - Donning CY - Norfolk, VA N1 -

Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989; and with the subtitle The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog. New York: iBooks, 2003. The novel is composed of three stories: “Eggsucker.” Illus. Richard Corben. Ariel: The Book of Fantasy Vol. 2. Ed. Richard Durwood (Leawood, KS: Morning Star Press, 1977), 6-13; “A Boy and His Dog.” In his The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (New York: Avon, 1969), 208-45. Rpt. in New Worlds Science Fiction, no. 189 (April 1979): 4-16; rpt. in Beyond Armageddon: Twenty-One Sermons to the Dead. Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin H[arry] Greenberg (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1985), 332-73; and in The Best of the Nebulas (New York: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1989), 359-89, with an “Author’s Foreword” on 358; “Run, Spot, Run.” Mediascene Prevue (September/October 1980) [not found]; rpt. Illus. Richard [Vance] Corben. Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined With Fantastic 27.10 (January 1981): 15-25. 

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Illus. Richard [Vance] Corben

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CU-Riv, PU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walden Three Y1 - 1988 A1 - Jack Catran (1918-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future technological eutopia designed and controlled by scientists with all the “work not fit for humans” done by robots. The author presents the society as the solution to ethnic, gender, and racial discrimination and as a means of eliminating poverty without creating a welfare state. One character is based on Jacque Fresco (1916-2017); see 1969, 1995, 2002, and 2007 Fresco and https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/jacque-fresco/. 

PB - Pygmalion Books CY - Sherman Oaks, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - God Help the Queen Y1 - 1987 A1 - Geoffrey Cush (b. 1956) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Britain as an authoritarian dystopia. All people are shareholders but are poor.

PB - Abacus CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Knights of God Y1 - 1987 A1 - Richard [Fairhurst] Cooper (1930-98) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a failed Britain where the economy has ground to a halt. There is a dictator whose rule is enforced by the Knights of God. There is a growing movement against the dictatorship and much of the novel is concerned with that. 

PB - Lions CY - London U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mind Players Y1 - 1987 A1 - Pat[ricia Oren Kearney] Cadigan (b. 1953) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which one can enliven one's life by acquiring neuroses or even a whole new personality but being actually insane requires a license. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

Includes her “Variations on a Man.” Omni 6.4 (January 1984): 68-70, 110-12, 114-16. 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), 769-81 with an editors’ note on 768. U.K. edition as Mindplayers. London: Victor Gollancz, 1988. Rpt. London: VGSF, 1989.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Obernewtyn Y1 - 1987 A1 - Isobelle Jane Carmody (b. 1958) KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

The first of a seven-volume series known as the Obernewtyn Chronicles that begins as a post-catastrophe young adult eugenic dystopia in which eugenic regulations are used to control those with advanced mental powers. Obernewtyn is an enclave on this world, and in this novel the Misfits win and bring peace to Obernewtyn. In the second volume, The Farseekers. Book 2 of The Obernewtyn Chronicles. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Viking, 1990, the authoritarian regime of the Council threatens the peace of Obernewtyn and some of the Misfits and the Farseeker go on a quest that they hope will give them the information necessary to keep the peace. In the third volume, Ashling. Book 3 of The Obernewtyn Chronicles. Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Viking, 1995, the Farseeker travels to the city of the Council to forge an alliance, and she begins a search for the weapons that had almost destroyed the world earlier and might do so again. In the fourth volume, The Keeping Place. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books, 1999. 754 pp., volume the various themes of the previous volumes appear to be brought to a successful resolution, but the series continues. In the fifth volume, The Stone Key. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2008. 1000 pp. Published in the U.S. as two volumes, The Stone Key. New York: Random House, 2008; and Wavesong. New York: Random House, 2008, the Farseeker discovers that there is opposition to the reforms brought about in the previous volume, and she must stop a plot against them. In the sixth volume, The Sending. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2011. 756 pp., the quest continues with new obstacles to be overcome. And in the seventh volume, The Red Queen. Camberwell, VIC, Australia: Penguin/Viking, 2015. 1108 pp., after many further adventures, the issues are resolved. Related stories are “The Dark Road: An Obernewtyn Story.” Legends of Australian Fantasy. Ed. Jack Dann and Jonathan Strahan (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Harper Voyager Australia, 2010), 131-56, with an author’s “Afterword” on 156-57; and “The Journey.” Trust Me Too. Ed. Paul Collins. Ormond, Vic, Australia: Hybrid Publishers/Ford Street Publishing, 2012. Ebook. 

PB - Puffin Books assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia U5 -

A, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spiral of Fire Y1 - 1987 A1 - Michael Cope (b. 1941) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Set in 1986 and thus contemporary but depicts Cape Town, South Africa as a dystopia of violence.

PB - David Philip CY - Cape Town, South Africa U5 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019. A Day In the Life of the 21st Century Y1 - 1986 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke ed. [written by] (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although Clarke gives credit to a number of people for their contributions, this is not an edited collection. Presented as a series of predictions, but the general effect is so positive that it can be called a eutopia.

PB - Grafton Books CY - London U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Less Than Human Y1 - 1986 A1 - [Charles] [Platt] (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor set in a future New York City dystopia. The main character is a flawed robot.

PB - Avon Books CY - New York U3 -

Robert Clarke [pseud.]

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MoU-St, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Renaissance Man" Y1 - 1986 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. A world in which people are regularly re-made physically and mentally to fill social needs and to correct perceived psychological or physical problems.

JF - Dream Auditor PB - Indivisible Books CY - Charlottetown, PE, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Songs of Distant Earth Y1 - 1986 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes a description of a eutopia of abundance.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

The first version of what became the novel was published as “The Songs of Distant Earth.” If. Worlds of Science Fiction 8.4 (June 1958): 6-29. This was rpt. in Science Fantasy 12.35 (June 1959): 99-128; in his The Other Side of the Sky (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1958), 207-45; and in his From the Ocean, From the Stars (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962), 295-320. A second version was published as a short movie outline in Omni 12.3 (September 1981): 77-79, 132; and rpt. exp. with an introduction (291-93) in his The Sentinel: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy Illus. Lebbeus Woods (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 295-99 and illus. on 294. 

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CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Star Country Y1 - 1986 A1 - Michael [Joseph] Cassutt (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a post-catastrophe America that has disintegrated into warring regions. Visiting aliens have supposedly brought a plan to rejuvenate Earth but one of the aliens flees with the plans. The rest of the novel is mostly set in the areas occupied by outlaws, well-protected communes, and other warring factions.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY SN - 0-385-19846-9 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duende Meadow Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [Harlin] Cook (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After centuries underground following a war, some humans emerge to find that the Soviet Union had conquered the United States but that a spiritual awakening was occurring that might lead to a better society.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

NZ

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 - "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 - "Kool Running" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Revolt against a world dominated by computers. See the note at 1980 Collins.

JF - Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - [no. 26] N1 -

Rpt. in SF International (also called International Science Fiction) (Los Angeles, CA), no. 1 (January 1987): 47-54; and in his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 39-48.

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "O Happy Day!" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Geoff[rey Charles] Ryman (b. 1951) ED - John Clute ED - Colin Greenland ED - David Pringle KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia very similar to the concentration camps in Germany under National Socialism. Heterosexual men are in the camp and systematically killed. Gay men run the camp under the direction of women who give electronically.

JF - Interzone. The First Anthology: New Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing PB - J. M. Dent & Sons CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), 1-35. Rpt. in his Unconquered Countries: Four Novellas (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), 153-90. U.K. ed. (London: HarperCollins, 1999), 153-90; and in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 69-95; 2nd ed. ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 69-95; and in Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Ed. Seanan McGuire. Lightspeed, no. 61 (June 2015): 228-57. Not in his The Unconquered Country: A Life History. London: Allen & Unwin, 1986. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Visitors" Y1 - 1985 A1 - John Cranna (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Story set in a world where an old man is being given regular electroshock treatments to take away his memories. The torturers, described as "Pale Suits," are part of a movement suppressing the poor throughout the world. A revolt takes place but appears to fail. The point-of-view character, the grandson of the man being tortured, leaves to join the opposition.

JF - Stand Magazine (U.K.) VL - 27 N1 -

Rpt. in Best Short Stories 1987. Ed. Giles Gordon and David Hughes (London: William Heinemann, 1987), 27-41; and in his Visitors (Auckland, New Zealand: Heinemann Reed, 1989), 1-15.

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ATL, LLL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cliftonia Y1 - 1984 A1 - Carroll Clifton AB -

Detailed eutopia with brief chapters on Government (6-7); Legal System-Crime and Punishment (8-12); Economic System (13-15); Education and the Family (16-18); Health & Science--Mental Health--Religion (19-21); In-Out Immigration Policy (22-23); Roles: Male, Female, Child (24-27); Housing--Concentric Zone (28-29); Transportation--Auto--Trains--Truck--Mass Transit (30-32); Agriculture and Rural Land Use (33-34); Manufacturing Production (35-36); The Military (37-40); Air Force (41); Navy (42-43); Military Bases (44); Military Intelligence (45-46); Family Living Styles (47); The Arts (48); Parks and Outdoor Recreation (49). Generally traditional gender roles.

PB - Ye Galleon Press CY - Fairfield, WA U5 -

DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Family Life in the Twenty-First Century” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Clanton, Gordon ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Plural forms of marriage and the family, all of which are considered acceptable. Having children is considered a choice that some will not make, and children born later in life. Emphasizes the pluralistic nature of the future with many options open to all.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

MoU-St, PSt, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Further Adventures of Mrs. 'Megamon' Tomko and Steve Y1 - 1984 A1 - Molly Ceigh KW - Female author AB -

Future dystopia that is over organized and everything, including food, is synthetic.

JF - Orion's Child VL - 1.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Growing Up Slowly: Another Century of Childhood" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Larry L. Constantine ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses childhood in the future with an emphasis on the variety that will be available and the technology that will help make that variety possible. 

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

MoU-St, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Amazon Y1 - 1984 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1968 Chandler in which women are born and Amazons emerge on the planet New Sparta that was originally all men. John Grimes is instrumental in defeating the Amazons. Graham Stone in his Australian Science Fiction Bibliography (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 2004), 11 says that its working title was Find the Lady.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Passing as a Flower in the City of the Dead” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Sharon N. Farber ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which those with incurable or infectious diseases are exiled to a space habitat. 

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co. CY - Garden City, NY VL - 14 N1 -

Rpt. as by S.N. Dyer [pseud.] in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 783-93 with an editors’ note on 782. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Race" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Ping Chong (b. 1946) KW - Canadian author KW - Chinese American author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia depicting a graduation ceremony in which the students are indoctrinated for their programmed future.

CY - Multi-media presentation first performed at the La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York in February 1984. ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Transition (1996-2020)" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Gordon Clanton ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Discusses the effects of lower population growth and the development of neighborhood associations. Emphasizes the pluralistic nature of the future with many options open to all. Four-day work week. Government the employer of last resort but pays only 75% of the minimum wage. National Health Insurance in exchange for two years of national service.

JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -

MoU-St, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Waiting for Einstein Y1 - 1984 A1 - Nigel Cox (1951-2006) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

A novel set in contemporary New Zealand in which one of the main characters is writing a dystopian story set in the far future. The entire story is given in the novel and describes a society trying to break an artist to its will because artists acting freely are inherently subversive and destabilizing. The story is written from the point of view of the artist, who is offered privileges if he agrees to cooperate and is severely punished when he doesn't. The ending is unclear in that the artist is moved to an isolated island where he can work as he wishes but where, because of his isolation, he will not pose problems for the regime. The dystopia has a religious basis.

PB - Benton Ross CY - Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

ATL, VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - What To Do When the Russians Come: A Survivor’s Guide Y1 - 1984 A1 - [George] Robert [Acworth] Conquest (1917-2015) A1 - Jon Manchip White (1925-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -

Cataloged in libraries as non-fiction, and while that is clearly what the authors intend, it depicts the dystopia that would ensue after a successful Soviet invasion of the United States as it would impact the day-to day-lives of Americans. The last bit of advice is that such an invasion occurs is BURN THIS BOOK.

PB - Stein and Day CY - New York SN - 0-8128-2985-9 U5 -

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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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The City of Hermits. A Novel Y1 - 1983 A1 - Gina Covina (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The novel begins with the stories of a number of women who end up in the same area of California and includes a lesbian intentional community. Following each of the women, it then leads up to a coming great earthquake that effects all of California. In the aftermath of the earthquake, which is seen as the revolt of the Earth to how it has been treated, the women and their female and male partners begins to establish of a good society.

PB - Barn Owl Books CY - Berkeley, CA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Constructive Manifesto Y1 - 1983 A1 - Alberto Cernuschi AB -

The preface suggests that this is a eutopia, but most of the text is a critique of Karl Marx. The final chapter (87-103) outlines elements of the intended eutopia. It suggests the needed for an attitudinal change, and specifies the need for an enforceable international law, help for minorities, an experimental approach to change, and shifting money from armaments to constructive uses. Women must have the right to control their own bodies.

PB - Philosophical Library CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ice Belt Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Stephen] [Gallagher] (b. 1954) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to his 1978 Dying of Paradise. This novel continues the dystopia of the previous one, but it focuses on an alien invasion. 

PB - Sphere CY - London U3 -

Stephen Couper [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Kelly Country Y1 - 1983 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history describing an Australian war of independence that followed from the Australian icon Ned Kelly not being killed. Eutopia and dystopia with Australian ending up being successfully invaded by various countries.

PB - Penguin Books with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

The stories “Kelly Country.” Void Science Fiction and Fantasy (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), [no. 3 (1976)]: 63-73; and “The Way It Was.” Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 2] (March/April 1981): 54-57; 125-27 are the basis of the novel. “Kelly Country” has been rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 166-80. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1984), 166-180. “The Way It Was” has been rpt. as “A New Dimension.” In his Up to the Sky in Ships (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1982), 69-86, which is bound with Lee Hoffman, In and Out of Quandry (1982). 

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Could Make Things Vanish Y1 - 1983 A1 - Jack [Andrew] Cady (1932-2004) KW - US author AB -

Near future technological dystopia and those who fight against it.

PB - Arbor House CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Manna Y1 - 1983 A1 - [George Harry] [Stine] (1928-97) KW - US author AB -

Eutopia designed to be a free state neither communist nor capitalist. Mostly adventure.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U3 -

Lee Correy [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Navigator's Sindrome Y1 - 1983 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian, violent, cruel dystopia on the planet Rabelais that is based on contracts that are manipulated for the personal benefit of the rulers. Her Rabelaisian Reprise. By Jayge Carr [pseud.]. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1988 is a sequel set in the same planet and with many of the same characters. Her The Treasure in the Heart of the Maze. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1985 is described as a companion piece. Female author.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 188 pp. U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tolerable Levels of Violence Y1 - 1983 A1 - Robert G[eorge] Collins KW - Canadian author AB -

Future dystopia of daily violence with violence level reports on the news.

PB - Lester & Orpen Dennys CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. Toronto, ON, Canada: Totem Books, 1985.

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Boylan Briggs Salutes the New Cause" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Lesley [Willis] Choyce (b. 1951) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Reduced sperm count as a result of pollution leads to constantly required orgies to try to raise the birth rate. Fails.

JF - The Lunatic Gazette VL - 1.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Dream Auditor (Charlottetown, PE, Canada: Indivisible Books, 1986), 63-72.

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Carnifex Mardi Gras Y1 - 1982 A1 - John F[rancis] Carr (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia where wealth and power has produced a corrupt society.

PB - Pequod Press CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -

CU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams in a Wasteland Y1 - 1982 A1 - Franklin Camuti KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future feudal world ruled by a man using science from the past.

PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Ardmore, PA U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Elysium Y1 - 1982 A1 - William K. Carlson (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which a eutopian seeming world is revealed as an authoritarian dictatorship.

PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Helen, Whose Face Launched Twenty-eight Conestoga Hovercraft" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Leigh Kennedy (b. 1951) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Conflicts in a small space station with two communities that were trying to create better lives for their people and how the conflicts were solved.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY VL - 12 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Root... and Branch" Y1 - 1982 A1 - Michael [Robert] Collings (b. 1947) ED - Scott Smith ED - Vickie Smith KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia based on genetic testing that judges the worth of a person on the sorts of descendents they will have. People are mated to produce the best results. People who believe in such outmoded ideas as love and family are ostracized.

JF - LDSF: Science Fiction by Mormons PB - Millennial Productions CY - Thousand Oaks, CA U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Tapestry of Time Y1 - 1982 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Final volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship. See also 1978 and 1981 Murry. This volume resolves issues of the previous two and leads to the recognition of interdependence.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Futura, 1986. 

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Utopia. A Tale Y1 - 1982 A1 - Phoebe Carlile KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Includes a two page, very general eutopia.

PB - [Penumbra Press] CY - [Lisbon, IA] U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Anarch Lords Y1 - 1981 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The novel shows the attempt to bring law and order to an anarchist (in its negative sense) world.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daughters of Copper Woman Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Barbara] Anne Cameron (b. 1938) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

North American Indian matriarchal society presented as a eutopia.

PB - Press Gang Publisher CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -

MnU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Kinship Y1 - 1981 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Middle volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship. See also 1978 and 1982 Murry. In this volume, the secular power tries to destroy the religious heresy known as Kinship, but a new age is developing.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U. S. New York Pocket Books, 1981.

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecotopia Emerging Y1 - 1981 A1 - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Early development of Ecotopia as described in 1975 Callenbach. Callenbach's political ideas are developed in Callenbach and Michael Phillips, A Citizen Legislature. Berkeley/Bodega, CA: Banyan Tree Books/Clear Glass, 1985. Rpt. Exeter, England: Imprint Academic, 2008 with an "Introduction" by Peter Stone (9-16).

PB - Banyan Tree Books CY - Berkeley, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Please Insert ID-Card" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Tex Cooper ED - Tony Davis KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Four-page story on the problems created in a society totally dependent on ID-cards when a computer decides a person is dead.

JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - [SFSA Science Fiction South Africa]. Ptd. Wall's Litho Observatory CY - [Johannesburg] VL - 1 U5 -

Leeds

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Snake Who Read Chomsky” Y1 - 1981 A1 - Josephine [Mary Howard] Saxton (b. 1935) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Female author AB -

The setting of the story is a dystopia with a rigid division between the upper and lower classes, with the latter considered of no value whatsoever.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Power of Time (London: Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press, 1985), 142-64; 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), 700-11 with an editors’ note on 699.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Three Million Dollar Lunch. A Farce in One Act Y1 - 1981 A1 - Fred Carmichael KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Farce set in a future where food is no longer generally available, people live on pills, and manipulate each other to get the little food that there still is.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Venice Drowned” Y1 - 1981 A1 - Kim Stanley Robinson (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Climate change dystopia in which Venice is underwater and its art treasures are being removed by outsiders.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday & Co CY - Garden City, NY VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #11. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Timescape/Pocket Books, 1982), 109-30; Nebula Award Stories 17. Ed. Joe W. Haldeman (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983), 19-43; in his The Planet on the Table (New York: Tor, 1986), 1-25; U.K. ed. (London: Futura, 1987), 1-25; in his Vinland the Dream and Other Stories (London: Harper Collins, 2002), 165-93; and in Drowned Worlds: Tales from the Anthropocene and Beyond. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2016), 38-85.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wave Without a Shore Y1 - 1981 A1 - [Carolyn Janice] [Cherry] (b. 1942) KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which the citizens literally define reality.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: VGSF, 1988.

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C. J. Cherryh [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Assignment on Bleaker Street" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Bettye Caldwell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia, although there are elements that suggest problems, focusing on child-rearing. In the future, there is a limit of two children with birth having to be approved and licensed in advance, varied family forms, with varied forms of childcare, all of which have to be regularly inspected and licensed. In the larger facilities, the children tend to live there permanently. Technology is a central part of most childcare.  Surveillance technology is said to make the streets safe.

JF - Journal of Clinical Child Psychology VL - 9.2 U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bender, Fenugreek, Slatterman and Mupp" Y1 - 1980 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) ED - Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin (1929-2018) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a technological world which tries and fails to make humans feel useful.

JF - Interfaces PB - Ace Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Blood Knot Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Thomas] [Dixon] (b. 1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a future American Civil War is beginning, and the entire social system is breaking down.

PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U3 -

Burt Cole [pseud.]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “In Bed One Night” Y1 - 1980 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which a man finds two strangers in his bed, who explain that they have been assigned to his bed to alleviate homelessness. It is clear that who is assigned and who people are assigned to depend on class and income.

JF - Playboy N1 -

Rpt. in his In Bed One Night and Other Brief Encounters (Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1983), 14-18; and in his Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018), 161-64. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The King Is Dead! Long Live--" Y1 - 1980 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) ED - Roy Torgeson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which an electronic chastity belt produces great pain in rapists and is used by women to punish men.

JF - Chrysalis PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 8 N1 -

Rpt. (New York: Zebra Books), 60-74.

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Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Life" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Dennis R. Caro (b. 1944) ED - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Martin H[arry] Greenberg (1941-2011) ED - Joseph D[avid] Olander (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief story set in an overpopulated world.

JF - Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories PB - Taplinger CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 204-06. 

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Scorched Supper on New Niger" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) ED - George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A story of corporate conflict in space that includes a feminist eutopia based on African traditions.

JF - New Voices III; The Campbell Award Nominees PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year #10. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Pocket Books, 1981), 23-61; and in The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s. Presented by Isaac Asimov. Ed. Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993), 90-125. U.K. ed. (London: Robinson Publishing, 1993), 90-125.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tetrarch Y1 - 1980 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Allegory/fantasy depicting a number of eutopias and dystopias based loosely on various mythologies and William Blake (1757-1827) in particular. Verula is an evil city with high technology and a repressive culture and represents the contemporary world. The central eutopia, Los, is a sexually free, cooperative society. There are appendices of "The Losian Religion As Expounded by William Blake," Losian Grammar, examples of the Losian Script, and a Losian Vocabulary. 

PB - Shambala/Random House CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Waiting for the Barbarians Y1 - 1980 A1 - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia of a fictionalized South Africa.

PB - Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -

VUW

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Walk on the Wild Side" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Future dystopia of violence set in Sydney.

JF - Ad Astra (London) VL - no. 13 (3.13) N1 -

Rpt. as “A Walk on the Wild Side.”in The Cygnus Chronicler: An Australian Review of Science Fiction and Fantasy (West Ryde, NSW, Australia) 3.1 (7) (December 1980): 4-5; and as "Suburban Walk" in Paper Children: Selections from the McGregor Literary Competitions 1980-81. Ed. Alan Lawson (Toowoomea, QLD, Australia: Darling Downs Institute Press, 1982), 98-104; as "Spaziergang Suburban Walk." Trans. Christoph Göhler. In SF aus Australien: "Wahr sind die Träume der Götter" und 10 weitere Geschichten. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins and Peter Wilfrit (München, Germany: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983), 117-24; and as "Weesechosek, 'A Good Place to Live'. In his The Government in Exile and other stories (Melbourne, VIC. Australia: Sumeria, 1994), 1-11.

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Rpt. as "Suburban Walk" in Paper Children: Selections from the McGregor Literary Competitions 1980-81; and as "Weesechosek, 'A Good Place to Live'. In his The Govern ment in Exile and other stories.

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Trans. as "Spaziergang Suburban Walk." Trans. Christoph Göhler. In SF aus Australien: "Wahr sind die Träume der Götter" und 10 weitere Geschichten. Ed. Paul [A.] Collins and Peter Wilfrit (München, Germany: Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1983), 117-24;

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ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Zion in Our Time Y1 - 1980 A1 - James A. Christenson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

How to build a new Zion of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, now known as the Christian Community. The five principles of the law of the celestial kingdom are Assistance, Cooperation, Providence, Equality, and Endowment (129-29). Includes a “Concordance of Scriptures on Zion--Bible” (150-55), “Scriptures re Sion” (155-56), “Scriptures on Zion--Book of Mormon” (156-57), and “Scriptures on Zion--Doctrine and Covenants” (157-61).  

PB - Center for Zionic Studies CY - Independence, MO U5 -

DLC, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brats. A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1979 A1 - R[onald Henry Glynn] Chetwynd-Hayes (1919-2001) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe authoritarian dystopia. The Brats are the sub-human creatures who hunt in packs, kill everything, and are the dominant life form.

PB - William Kimber CY - London U5 -

Merril, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Chance" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia based on the ability to participate in a genetic lottery (the Chance) in which body types can be changed. The Chance is run by aliens who have arrived on Earth as merchants. Conflicts develop between those opting for beauty, those choosing not to change, and those who opt for ugliness.

JF - War Crimes PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 261-96; U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 191-96; in Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick (New York: Tor, 1999), 495-525; and in The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand (Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Black Inc., 2004), 239-68. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Chocolate Sundae Heist" Y1 - 1979 A1 - John [Edward] Clark ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Australian author AB -

Satire on Queensland politics, particularly the extreme right wing that held power in Queensland. The author's note says, "...I've postulated what would happen if the concept of 'Law and Order' was taken to its extreme" (167). The penalty for stealing a chocolate sundae is death, immediate imposed at the scene of the crime by a robot judge. No one drives any longer for fear of violating the traffic laws; even so a man is found guilty of jaywalking in a deserted street.

JF - Alien Worlds PB - Void Publications CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Engine Summer Y1 - 1979 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe novel focusing on two surviving societies, one of which can be considered eutopian and is based on occupational/generational ties and is non-competitive. The novel includes the detailed description of a game in which there is no winner.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Japanese Tea" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Terence M[ichael] Green (b. 1947) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian educational system of the future.

JF - Alien Worlds PB - Cory & Collins CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his The Woman Who Is the Midnight Wind (Potters Lake, NS, Canada: Pottersfield Press, 1987), 69-83.

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Leviathan's Deep Y1 - 1979 A1 - [Margery (known as Marj) A.] [Krueger] (1941-2006) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Conflict within a world dominated by women over how to respond to contact and growing conflict with Earth. Part of the solution is to educate the men on the woman-dominated world.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U3 -

Jayge Carr [pseud.]

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mindsong Y1 - 1979 A1 - Joan [Irene] Cox (1942-2009) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

.Science fiction novel that includes a description of a terraformed planet called Eden that exists in an age similar to Earth’s Hellenic age and is presented in eutopian terms.

PB - Avon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - News from the City of the Sun Y1 - 1979 A1 - Isabel [Diana] Colegate (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A novel about the history of an intentional community from the 1930s to 1970s. The members have divergent views of what eutopia will be like and how to bring it about.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nuclear Fission" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Paul David Novitski ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author AB -

A decentralized eutopia with multiple gender relations that developed after an unexplained revolution that led to cities being abandoned and environmental damage that caused the desertification of the U.S. Midwest. The story focuses on one multi-relationship home in a community of fairly self-sufficient households.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. in Kindred Spirits: An Anthology of Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Jeffrey M. Elliot (Boston, MA: Alyson Publications, 1984), 151-74 with an editor's note on 149-50.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Options" Y1 - 1979 A1 - John [Herbert] Varley (b. 1947) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Impact of easy sex change operations on a society that had strived for gender equality but still had significant inequalities. Experiencing both genders from the inside improves things.

JF - Universe PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 9 N1 -

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year #9. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1980), 192-225; in his Blue Champagne. Illus. Todd Cameron Hamilton (Nile, IL: Dark Harvest, 1986), 223-62;  and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 363-90.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out There Where The Big Ships Go" Y1 - 1979 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through a galactic game that was brought back to a ravaged Earth from a distant eutopian planet. Having reached the planet humans were then allowed to play the Game, which was the route to the next step in human evolution.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 57.2 N1 -

Rpt. in his Out There Where The Big Ships Go (New York: Pocket Books, 1980), 9-37; and in The 1980 Annual World's Best SF. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha (New York: DAW Books, 1980), 217-45.

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - They Saw the Second Coming. An explosive novel about the end of the world Y1 - 1979 A1 - Doug Clark KW - Male author AB -

Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and a brief description of the millennium.

PB - Harvest House CY - Irvine, CA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Unaccompanied Sonata" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Orson Scott Card (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. People are categorized through tests given almost from birth and are required to do only the thing that they are supposedly best suited to do. The story focuses on a musical genius who is only allowed to make music uninfluenced by hearing anyone else's music. When he hears other music and incorporates it, he is no longer allowed to make music. When he does, his hands are cut off; when he sings, his vocal cords are removed.

JF - Omni VL - 1.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The 1980 Worlds Best SF. Ed. Donald A. Wollheim with Arthur W. Saha ([New York:] DAW Books, 1980), 73-91; in The Best of Omni Science Fiction. Ed. Ben Bova and Don Myrus (New York: Omni Society, 1980), 38-44; and in The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction. Ed. Ellen [Sue] Datlow (New York: Zebra Books, 1985), 185-206. Separately published [Eugene, OR: Pulphouse Publishing, 1992]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "War Crimes" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a future of a collapsed economy, corruption, luxury for the few, and extreme poverty for the many. Ends with the beginning of a revolt by the unemployed but with no idea of whether or not it will succeed.

JF - War Crimes PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, QLD, Australia N1 -

Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (London: Faber & Faber, 1980), 158-86; and in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 310-37. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 310-37. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windows Y1 - 1979 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Continuation of 1974 Compton which begins with the final words of the previous book. The reporter, who blinded himself in the previous book as the only way to stop broadcasting, becomes involved in a plot, which is ultimately defeated, to overthrow governments.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1983.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Cage of Flesh" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Lee [John] Harding (1937-2023) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A future overpopulated world, where the overwhelming majority of people live impoverished lives, but where the rich search for exotic pleasures and live lives of extreme decadence.

JF - Envisaged Worlds: From the Editor of Void. Australia's First Science Fiction Anthology PB - Void Publications CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia U5 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The House That Shulamith Built" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Avedon Carol (b. 1951) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Non-fictional feminist eutopia stressing variety. Shulamith refers to Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), author of The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist RevolutionNew York: William Morrow, 1970. See 1970 Firestone.

JF - Mythologies VL - no. 14 U5 -

Merril

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 -

ATL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Motherlines Y1 - 1978 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sequel to 1974 Charnas where Alldera, the woman who escaped from the Holdfast, discovers, first, the Horsewomen, and later the Free Fems. Both might be called flawed feminist utopias because while they are clearly much better than the slavery of the Holdfast, each has serious internal conflicts and problems, and, while they trade, they are deeply opposed to each other. See also 1994, and 1999 Charnas.

PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. Rpt. in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 217-436.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Night Above the Dingle Starry" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Terence M[ichael] Green (b. 1947) ED - Paul [A.] Collins (b. 1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on education. Reformers have arranged for both teachers and pupils to be mildly sedated to avoid problems. All classes taped and inspected. Undermined by those pushing a franchised counseling service.

JF - Other Worlds PB - Void Publications CY - St. Kilda, VIC, Australia ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Road to Corlay Y1 - 1978 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian religious dystopia set in a post-catastrophe future with the beginnings of both a new Enlightenment and a reformed religion. First volume of a trilogy called The White Bird of Kinship; see also 1981 and 1982 Murry.

PB - Pocket Books CY - New York N1 -

The "Prologue. Piper at the Gates of Dawn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 50.3 (298) (March 1976): 4-51 is rpt. in the U.S. editions (11-73) (Book Club ed. 1-58), but not in the U.K. ed. London: Gollancz, 1978.

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Web of the Chozen Y1 - 1978 A1 - Jack L[aurence] Chalker (1944-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. In the 21st century generation starships were sent out, mostly inhabited by political and religious groups hoping to establish their utopia. Earth has extended the lifespan to over 300 with two-thirds of the population in "near-guaranteed good health". No one has to work and most live in government flats on the adequate government dole. Nine large corporations "keep the resources flowing, provide the services, and thereby run the lives of just about everybody" (5). Earth is overpopulated and searching for places to offload surplus population. One planet that an explorer lands on radically transforms the human body into something like a horned kangaroo called the Chozen or Choz that lives in peaceful communities that seem eutopian in that there is plenty for all and little pain and death is rare. But they breed rapidly and overpopulation and conflict loom. The Chozen spread to all human worlds, and the humans become Chozen.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Your Place or Mine? Y1 - 1978 A1 - Patrick MacFadden A1 - Rae Murphy (b. 1935) A1 - Robert Chodos (b. 1947) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -

A political satire set in the future dealing with the future of the Canadian nation.

PB - Deneau & Greenberg CY - [Ottawa, ON, Canada] U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Colours of War Y1 - 1977 A1 - Matt[hew] Cohen (1942-1999) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Near future dystopia. Civil war and revolution throughout North America. It is the second of four novels known as the Salem Quartet that are set in an around the fictional town of Salem, Ontario. The others, none of which have any utopian content, are The Disinherited (1974), The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone (1979), and Flowers of Darkness (1981).

PB - McClelland and Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

Rpt. Markham, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, 1986; and Kingston, ON, Canada: Quarry Press, 1993. U.K. ed. London: Methuen, 1977.

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Can, L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Empty World Y1 - 1977 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult pandemic dystopia.

PB - Hamilton CY - London SN - 0241897513 0-525-29250-0 N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. 134 pp.

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Passion of New Eve Y1 - 1977 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia. The novel traces a man's travel across a disintegrating U.S., beginning with a violent New York City where African Americans blow up Columbia University and are building a wall around Harlem and women are attacking men. In the West he is captured by a women's group, who surgically turn him into a woman. Escaping he is captured and mistreated by various groups.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.

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L, LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beasts Y1 - 1976 A1 - John [Michael] Crowley (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia resulting from genetic experimentation.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Hail to the Chief" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Lucy [Michaella] Cores (1912-2003) ED - Sandra Ley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that would have developed if the Watergate burglary had succeeded.

JF - Beyond Time PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U5 -

CU-Riv

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Predators" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Steven [D.] Utley (1948-2013) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence as background to a time travel story.

JF - The Ides of Tomorrow: Original Science Fiction Tales of Horror PB - Little Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in his When or Where (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing, 2006), 55-64.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ecotopia. The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston Y1 - 1975 A1 - Ernest [William] Callenbach [Jr.] (1929-2012) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological eutopia. See also 1981 Callenbach and his Living Poor With Style. Illus. Judith Clancy Johns. New York: Bantam Books, 1972. A later version which is said to “evolved” from this book and The Ecotopian Encyclopedia (1980) is Living Cheaply With Style. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1993. 

PB - Banyan Tree Books CY - Berkeley, CA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1977; and the 40th anniversary edition as Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston. Berkeley, CA: Banyan Tree Books in Association with Heyday Books, 2014, with a “Foreword” by Malcolm Margolin (iii-ix) and Callenbach’s “Epistle to the Ecotopians” (173-81) that was found on his computer after his death in 2012. Part first published as “First Days in Ecotopia.” American Review 19 (January 1974): 79-102. Part later published as “Ecotopia.” Oregon Times (October - November 1975): 32-36, 22-23; and as “Journey to Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston.” Harper’s Weekly 65 (May 17, 1976): 11-18.

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CU-Riv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future's Advocate Y1 - 1975 A1 - E[dwin] G[eorge] Carr KW - Male author AB -

The eutopia of life after the Second Coming of Christ but before all have been saved with those not saved still resisting.

PB - Herald Publishing House CY - Independence, MO U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch Y1 - 1975 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Society where personal slavery has replaced imprisonment for certain crimes.

PB - DAW Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers. Morley, Eng.: The Elmfield Press, 1975.

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U.K. ed. as The Girl With a Symphony in Her Fingers.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Wanted to Save Canada: A Prophetic Novel Y1 - 1975 A1 - R. J. Chick Childerhose (b. 1928) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Canada has become a capitalist dystopia that, for the good of the capitalists that are ruining the country, wants to merge with the U.S. The protagonist tries and fails to alert Canadians to the situation and proposes various reforms.

PB - Hoot Publications CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -

L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modest Utopia" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay presenting an environmentally sound world society. A steady-state society based on world-wide negative population growth would be able to provide food, shelter, education, and health care for all. World energy authority. World police/military in charge of all weapons of war. World administrative body. Not the same as 1928 Chase. See also 1968 Chase.

JF - The Futurist VL - 9.5 N1 -

Rpt. as "Toward a Steady-State Society." Current 179 (January 1976): 3-8.

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Rpt. as "Toward a Steady-State Society." Current 179 (January 1976): 3-8.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Parable: The Isle of Erg" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Peter Chapman KW - Male author AB -

Short sketch of an energy efficient eutopia with a guaranteed annual income.

JF - Fuel's Paradise; Energy Options for Britain PB - Penguin CY - Harmondsworth, Eng. U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pessimist Utopia Y1 - 1975 A1 - Theo Crosby (1925-94) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

A plea for small is beautiful, individuality.

JF - Pentagram Papers 2 PB - Pentagram Design CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Return to the Gate Y1 - 1975 A1 - William Corlett (1938-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London N1 -

1975 Corlett, William [Harold] (1938-2005). Return to the Gate. London: Hamish Hamilton. U.S. ed. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1977. NZ

A fairly vague near future young adult dystopia describing a heavily regulated, bureaucratic, poor, society. Conflict among people of differing backgrounds and ideas.

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Scenario for a New Medicine” Y1 - 1975 A1 - Rick J. Carlson (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

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

JF - The End of Medicine PB - John Wiley & Sons CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unto the Last Generation Y1 - 1975 A1 - Juanita [Ruth Welllons] Coulson (b. 1933) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which people have lost the ability to breed.

PB - Lancer CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bitter Pill Y1 - 1974 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of generational conflict in which individuals are classified as a "Senior Citizen" at 45 and given the "choice" of voluntary euthanasia or working in an Australian forced labour camp or a Martian penal colony. Mars is being developed to take Earth's excess population. A revolt on Mars frees the people to build a new life there with no compulsory retirement, but the ending suggests that Mars faces an uncertain future of conflicts over power.

PB - Wren CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Developed from his "The Bitter Pill." Vision of Tomorrow (Sydney, NSW, Australia) 1.9 (June 1970): 52-63.

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A, M, NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Chocolate War. A Novel Y1 - 1974 A1 - Robert [Edmund] Cormier (1925-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set in a Catholic boys’ school with the temporary head trying to be appointed permanently by encouraging the usual bullying and competition. Among the books most banned in schools. A film written and directed by Keith Gordon (b. 1961) was released in 1988. A sequel, Beyond the Chocolate War. A Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, is set a few months later with the temporary head now Headmaster and the corruption and conflicts continuing.

PB - Pantheon Books CY - New York U5 -

Public

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe Y1 - 1974 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Media dystopia in which a reporter has his eyes replaced with TV cameras which transmits everything he sees. His first assignment is to film Katherine Mortenhoe’s death in a world where disease no longer exists, and the title of the TV series is “The Unsleeping Eye”. A film entitled Death Watch directed by Bernard Tavernier (b. 1941) was produced in 1980.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1980 with an "Introduction" by Susan Wood (v-xix); as Death Watch. London: Magnum Books, 1981. U.S. ed. as The Unsleeping Eye. New York: DAW Books, 1974. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1980; and under the original title New York: New York Review Books, 2016 with an “Introduction” by Jeff Vandermeer (vii-xii). .

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Fat Man in History" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. After a revolution, fat people are seen negatively as symbols of the previous regime because under it only Americans and stooges of the dictatorship could get enough food to be fat. Told from the point of view of a fat revolutionary.

JF - Stand (U.K.) VL - 15.1 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (St. Lucia. QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1974), 114-41; in a collection with the same title (London: Faber & Faber, 1980), 9-33; and in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia. QLD. Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 182-205. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 182-205.

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A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life and Times of Michael K Y1 - 1974 A1 - J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940) KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Dystopia that follows a poor, uneducated man through the turmoil of social conflict/civil war with South Africa under the control of the military.

PB - Ravan Press CY - Johannesburg, South Africa N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Simple, Edenic eutopia as setting for the sexual coming-of-age of twins.

JF - Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces PB - Quartet Books CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in her The Collected Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats. Stories (London: Chatto & Windus, 1995), 58-67.

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L

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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DLC, Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sunrise West" Y1 - 1974 A1 - William K. Carlson (b. 1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Post catastrophe dystopia focusing on something very like a Hippie commune that is composed of people and highly developed animals that is the beginning of a better future.

JF - Vertex VL - 2.4 - 5 N1 -

Repub. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walk to the End of the World Y1 - 1974 A1 - Suzy McKee Charnas (1939-2023) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia where almost all past knowledge has been lost and civilization, such as it is, is restricted to a small area called the Holdfast. Women are called Fems, are effectively slaves, and are believed by the men to be animals with no intelligence. The men have a rigid hierarchy based on age. The novel ends with Alldera, a Fem, escaping the Holdfast in hopes of finding the rumored Free Fems. See also 1978, 1994, and 1999 Charnas.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in Radical Utopias (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1990), separately paged; and in her The Slave and the Free (New York: Tor, 1999), 1-215. 

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MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wild Jack Y1 - 1974 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Young adult novel set in 23rd century England in which an authoritarian dystopia is contrasted with an outlaw culture.

PB - Hamilton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

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John Christopher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter's Children Y1 - 1974 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia set in a new ice age in a small community threatened by cannibals and telepathic Pads controlled by a single man.

PB - Gollancz CY - London SN - 0-575-01851-8 N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere Books, [1976].

Parts originally published as “Discover a Latent Moses.” Illus. Jack Gaughan (1930-1985) Galaxy Science Fiction 30.1 (April 1970): 32-53, 158; and “The Snow Princess.” Illus. Uncredited. Galaxy Science Fiction 31.2 (January 1971): 28-54.

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BL, Bod, NLS, Riverside, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Altar Egoes" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Bob [Robert] Shaw (1931-96) ED - Christopher Carrell KW - Male author KW - Northern Ireland author AB -

Short satire on marriage in the future and the difficulties of the few who choose it.

JF - Beyond This Horizon: An Anthology of Science Fact and Science Fiction PB - Ceolfrith Arts CY - Sunderland, Eng. U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Changing of the Gods" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) ED - Robert Hoskins KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of violence with youth against age.

JF - Infinity Five PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

WMa

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cloud Walker Y1 - 1973 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe society that has abolished machinery and has achieved a good life. Story of a boy who dreams of flying and invents an air ship that brings the eutopian world closer together.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

GU, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Friends Come in Boxes Y1 - 1973 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with control of access to immortality. The dystopia that is produced by an usual means of achieving immortality that requires the brains of the immortals to be kept in boxes until the body of a baby is available to receive it. But, with immortality available, few babies are born. 

PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ghost Writer" Y1 - 1973 A1 - George Alec Effinger (1947-2002) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia presenting a society of high technical ability that is strongly opposed to change or difference. The story focuses on "authors" who simply repeat fragments of the great writers of the past and one who, having admitted that he writes his own material, is eliminated.

JF - Universe PB - Random House CY - New York VL - 3 ER - TY - ABST T1 - If You Believe the Soldiers Y1 - 1973 A1 - [George Alexander] [Graber] (1914-97) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Dystopia of a right-wing military coup in Britain.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.

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Alexander Cordell [pseud.]

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NLS, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midway Priest Y1 - 1973 A1 - Louis Capson (b. 1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Québec has established a separate government. The play centers on a plot to kill a member of the new government.

PB - Playwrights Co-op CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Randy-Tandy Man" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Ross Louis] [Rocklin] (1913-88) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a society in which hate is controlled by forcing everyone to hate until they purge themselves. The protagonist, who is in the final stages of purges himself, sees the society in dystopian terms, but the story presents it in eutopian terms.

JF - Universe PB - Random House CY - New York VL - 3 U3 -

By Ross Rocklynne [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Saving the World" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) ED - Virginia Kidd (1921-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Ecological dystopia with a hopeful ending.

JF - Saving Worlds: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Book rpt. as The Wounded Planet (New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 2-17.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Tenth Planet. A Novel Y1 - 1973 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. The novel begins with Earth near death from pollution and war. Mars is to be the next center of human civilization, but it experiences the same problems as Earth. Far in the future the remnant of humanity exists in a society of 10,000 underground on the tenth planet where it is under a static, religious, but benevolent dictatorship that provides a good life for its inhabitants but severely restricts change. A man from the time of the dying Earth is cloned and becomes the focus of conflict and encourages conflict. At the end, he and some others leave to see if Earth can be revived.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Rpt. New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974.

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HRC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cainⁿ" Y1 - 1972 A1 - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the future rehabilitation of criminals told from the point of view of one of the criminals being rehabilitated. Those considered “genetically criminal” are “permanently isolated;” those considered “low productive” have their memories permanently erased and are “restrained for base labor” (87). For those deemed capable of being rehabilitated, the regime consists of education, exercise, and humiliation at the hands of someone who, it turns out, had been through the process.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dobson CY - London VL - 20 N1 -

Rpt. in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 59-99.

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Can, InU, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - City Beyond the Gates Y1 - 1972 A1 - N[orman] Roy Clifton (1909-85) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Children’s book contrasting the eutopia of a simple agricultural life with the dystopia created by urban life destroying the environment. 

PB - Saunders of Toronto CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -

3rd ed. Richmond Hill, ON. Canada: Scholastic-TAB Publications, 1979. 121 pp. This edition has added material from a play with the same title written by the author in 1978. 

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Illus. Tibor Kovalik

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Crabs?" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia of collapsing civilization. Violence. Gangs.

JF - Overland VL - 53 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Fat Man in History (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1974), 7-21. This story does not appear in the collection of the same title published London: Faber & Faber, 1990. Also rpt. in his Collected Stories (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 38-50. U.K. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1995), 38-50. 

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A, M, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cybernia Y1 - 1972 A1 - Lou Cameron (1924-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Computer eutopia gone wrong as the computer takes over more and more of the life of a community.

PB - Fawcett Gold Medal CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Coronet, 1973.

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NLS, TxA

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heirs of Babylon Y1 - 1972 A1 - Glen [Charles] Cook (b. 1944) KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in a future of constant, devastating war.

PB - New American Library CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman Y1 - 1972 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Surrealistic dystopia in which a man destabilizes reality, thus producing many fantastic events. Much violence including violent sex. The novel describes one man's successful attempt to find the source of the problem and defeat it. In the course of his search, he comes across a number of small societies, all of them ultimately dystopian.

PB - Rupert Hart-Davis CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

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U.S. ed. as The War of Dreams

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L, LLL

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Man Who Waved Hello” Y1 - 1972 A1 - Gardner R[aymond] Dozois (1947-2018) ED - Terry [Gene] Carr (1937-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia set in a future where the government provides everything one needs based on one’s status seen through the eyes of a man in the middle ranks who will never rise further.

JF - Universe 2: An Original Collection of All-New Science Fiction PB - Ace Books CY - New York U2 -

Illus. Alicia Austin

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tangled Web" Y1 - 1972 A1 - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. The story is set in a small, isolated, mining community in the Arctic of a combined Canada and the U.S. and is concerned with the future of religion. All Christian religions have combined into the Christian United Spiritual Society, are computer linked for confession and other sacraments, and have government support.

JF - New Writings in SF PB - Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. CY - London VL - (21) N1 -

Rpt. in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 19-41.

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Can, InU, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Who Needs Men? Y1 - 1972 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future where men are no longer biologically required because of cloning and parthenogenesis. The few remaining men are being exterminated. Love and desire enters and complicates the situation.

PB - Hodder and Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. as Gender Genocide. New York: Ace Books, 1973.

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U.S. ed. as Gender Genocide

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DeU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Windmill in the West” Y1 - 1972 A1 - Peter Carey (b. 1943) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

The setting for the story is an Australia that is divided between Australia and the United States and focuses on a soldier who is stationed alone at the border with the single instruction of not letting anyone cross it. 

JF - Meanjin VL - 31.4 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - At a Beetle’s Pace: A Play in One Act Y1 - 1971 A1 - Louis E. Catron (1932-2010) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which people do not age and rarely die. The play focuses on a man of the previous generation who is among the few who are old and the inept way the new generation deals with him. The third play in a trilogy on love in the twentieth-century. The others, neither of which are utopian, are Where Have All the Lightning Bugs Gone and Touch the Bluebirds.

PB - Samuel French CY - New York U5 -

InU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Big Day" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Donald Malcolm (1930-2013) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Dystopia. Gladiatorial contests to alleviate boredom in a mechanized society.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 18 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Discontent Contingency" Y1 - 1971 A1 - [Rex Thomas] [Vinson] (1935-2000) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Benevolent dictatorship which uses a happiness generator to control the people. This results in there being no creativity.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 19 U3 -

 Vincent King [pseud.]

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O, PSt

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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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mind Prison" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. People had lived in a building originally built as a fall-out shelter and expanded as population grew. Fear of the outside, encouraged by the male leaders, keeps people inside long after it is no longer necessary.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 19 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The True North Blueprint. A Trilogy Y1 - 1971 A1 - Louis Capson (b. 1944) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Play presenting a dystopia in which the authoritarian system grows stronger throughout the trilogy.

PB - Playwrights Co-op CY - Toronto, ON, Canada VL - 3 vols. U1 -

The volumes have separate titles: To Become a Drummer, I Love You Billy Striker, and In Search of the Last Paradiddle

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2020 Hindsight" Y1 - 1970 A1 - William Thompson ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Future of Canada as a eutopia with scientists in control. No equality. The U.S. is fascist.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2020 Visions of an Electric Mutant German Historian Guitar Playing Berkeley Expatriate Prophet" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Hermann Rebel ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satiric poem. Complete freedom with tribal families as the basic social and legal units.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Barrier World Y1 - 1970 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia in which perfection is the only physical standard allowed, and there is a maximum age of 48. Compulsory exercise periods twice a day.

PB - Lancer Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Canadiana" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Dennis Duffy ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a militantly patriotic Canada.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Contact Lost Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

The third volume of a trilogy concerned with the development of the Soviet-Bonn bloc, an expanding authoritarian dystopia which Britain voluntarily joins. This volume is concerned with the successful underground opposition movement. See 1968 and 1969 Tucker.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

U.S ed. New York: Stein and Day, 1970.

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David Craig [pseud.]

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DLC, CaOTP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Electric Crocodile Y1 - 1970 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with constant surveillance. Almost everyone is bugged, and people have to use jammers to have a private conversation.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Steel Crocodile. New York: Ace Books, 1970.

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U.S. ed. as The Steel Crocodile.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Guardians Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overcrowded cities for the proletariat. Rural life for the aristocracy. Maintained by psychological conditioning and brain surgery.

PB - Hamish Hamilton CY - London U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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DLC, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Hunter at His Ease." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Brian [Wilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a future world constantly at war and "Progress" gradually destroying the environment.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Nooks CY - New York U5 -

TxCM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inside the Machine for Living" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Ross Mendes ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia stressing technology. At thirteen children choose to be apprenticed, go to a university town, or join a Children's Crusade to improve some part of the planet.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last of the Urbanites" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Coughlan, L.W AB -

Dystopia. Technology and cities are destroyed.

JF - Man Junior (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - NS 34.2 U5 -

A

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Looking Back on Illth" Y1 - 1970 A1 - John T. McLeod ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of medicine in the future. Mostly a critique of the past, but describes "one-stop" health care.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lost Continent." Y1 - 1970 A1 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940) ED - Anthony Cheetham KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire with Africa dominant and the U.S. degenerated due to extensive pollution.

JF - Science Against Man PB - Avon Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1971), 9-56. Rpt. in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 335-401 with an "Introduction to The Lost Continent" (331-33).

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CNoSt, NLS, PSt, TxCM

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Memory of a Canada-hunting Republican" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Stephen Grant ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author AB -

Dystopia in which Canada is part of the United States and the history of the northern part of the United States is officially discouraged.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M.G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "MIRV" Y1 - 1970 A1 - John M. Robson ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the future of higher education. MIRV is the “Minority interim report (voluntary) of the permanent participatory committee of the Free University of Toronto (F.U. To.) on the expedition of consultation concerning staffing and distaffing procedures during the next demicent with a view to implementation in, at or about the year 2020.” The majority report read in its entirety, “Get the hell out, before it’s too late!”

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

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 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No More Fun and Games" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Rosemary Cook ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on feminism. Government, among other advances, abolishes the masculine gender in French and prohibits marriage and heterosexual relations.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "R26/5/PSY and I" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Overpopulation dystopia where few people have jobs and food is strictly rationed. Many people come to be completely apathetic and never leave their rooms. The story is about therapy to overcome this condition.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 16 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Report of the Fact-finding Committee on Food” Y1 - 1970 A1 - Farmiloe, Dorothy ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia in which all agricultural land has been turned over to industry and Canadians are starving.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M.G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Return of the Empire Loyalists" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Andrew Wernick ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on future Canada where everyone is stoned.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Robert Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not!’” Y1 - 1970 A1 - John Robert Colombo ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the future of Canada.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "SCORE/SCORE" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Future education. A teaching machine has a breakdown and wants to control the world.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Some People, Places and Attitudes that Won't Appear in My Next Paradise" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Christina Newman ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -

Satire on feminism but stressing equality without separation, which is the goal of much feminism.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Son of Kronk Y1 - 1970 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A dystopia of pollution and violence, but a new venereal disease develops that limits aggression.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as Kronk. London: Coronet, 1972. U.S. ed. as Kronk. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971.

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Rpt. as Kronk

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L, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A State of Denmark or a Warning to the Incurious Y1 - 1970 A1 - [Robert William Arthur] [Cook] (1931-94) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in an England that has deported all non-whites.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt as by Derek Raymond [pseud.]. London: Serpent's Tale, 1994; and London: Serpent's Tale, 2007. 

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Robin Cook [pseud.]

Derek Raymond [pseud.]

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DLC, O

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 -

TxCm

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Supergenmot" Y1 - 1970 A1 - James Reany ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Happiness is marketed as Supergenmot, which allows everyone to individually produce as much energy as they want. The formula is made available to everyone. People fly off to other planets, and earth becomes a museum.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Truth Worth of Ruth Villiers" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Michael G[reatrex] Coney (1932-2005) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the welfare system. Individuals are each valued, and all services provided are based upon their credit worth.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dobson CY - London VL - 17 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Victory of the NIMs over the GEBs" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Max Clarkson ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Education of the future turned away from technology. NIM refers to the New Image of Man which stresses self-realization. GEB refers to the alliance of government, education, and business which agreed to cooperate under the Orwell Treaty of 1984 that gave multinational corporations control of education.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Visit to the Museum" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Jean-Pierre Wallot ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Canada as part of the United States with a tour through the Museum of the Man of Canada.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Withering Away of Welfare" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Leonard Shifrin ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of the positive effects of automation with an Athenian style democracy with a diverse culture.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your World, and Welcome to It (the 33rd Earl of Chesterfield writes to one of his sons)" Y1 - 1970 A1 - A[rchibald] P[aton] Thornton ED - Stephen Clarkson For the Canadian Forum KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist satire. Pills against aggression. Racial peace because pills make everyone the same color.

JF - Visions 2020: Fifty Canadians in Search of a Future PB - M. G. Hurtig CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -

Can, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - All-Stud Y1 - 1969 A1 - O. R. Wells [pseud.?] AB -

Male homosexual erotica set in a future all male homosexual eutopia/dystopia. 

PB - Greenleaf CY - San Diego, CA N1 -

Rpt. as by Clay Caldwell, which may also be a pseudonym. New York Badboy, 1993.

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O. R. Wells [pseud?]

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heroes and Villains Y1 - 1969 A1 - Angela [Olive Stalker] Carter (1940-92) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Post-catastrophe (nuclear war) dystopian novel presenting a contrast between civilization (rational) and barbarians (irrational). Isolated fortified villages divided among the hereditary Professor, Soldiers, and Workers with various other groups outside the social structure. 

PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1981; and London: Penguin Books, 2011, with an “Introduction” by Robert Coover (vii-ix). 

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Continent Y1 - 1969 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Advanced blacks from Mars return to Earth and find primitive whites in a tropical Antarctica. Interracial conflict and interracial love.

PB - Dell CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. Rpt. London: Hodder Paperbacks, 1971.

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CNoS, CU-Riv, HRC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man on the Mountain Y1 - 1969 A1 - Gladys Hasty Carroll (1904-99) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. A country where race and class no longer matter but in which people are separated into four different regions on the basis of age.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, MoU, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Message Ends Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Mostly adventure focusing on a dystopian future Ministry of Information. Related to 1968 and 1970 Tucker.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Sphere, 1971.

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David Craig [pseud.]

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NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sexmax Y1 - 1969 A1 - [George H.] [Leonard] (1921-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer dystopia with sexual relations chosen by computer. Emphasis on pleasure but with the usual rebels.

PB - Paperback Library CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1970.

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Hughes Cooper [pseud.]

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CSt, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Therapy 2000" Y1 - 1969 A1 - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Overpopulated but the focus is on constant TV and constant noise. One man chooses to be deaf.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 15 U5 -

O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Twig Benders Y1 - 1969 A1 - [Wilda] [Holst] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Sex role reversal dystopia set in the Eastgate Finishing School for Boys where the boys are “required to be naked at all times” and “The Instructors, all women, are expected to use the boys sexually, as such experience counts as part of the boy’s training for the Masculine Role” (1).

PB - The Feminists CY - New Work N1 -

Rpt. in Everywoman 1.3 (June 19, 1070), 5, 11 with an introduction by Varda One, “Woman as Masochist, Man as Sadist” (1)); and under the author’s name in The SCUM Manifesto and The Twig Benders. (Np: Gynarchy Poche, [2017?]), 67-78 with a note (7) on the author by Aline d’Arbrant (1952-2015). 

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Wilda Chase [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Alias Man Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Allan James] [Tucker] (b. 1929) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -

Britain is a satellite of Moscow, the U.S. is isolationist, and a Soviet-Bonn bloc forms and comes to control Europe. See also 1969 and 1970 Tucker.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London U3 -

David Craig [pseud.]

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DLC, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Alternative Future for America. Essays and Speeches Y1 - 1968 A1 - Robert Theobald (1929-99) ED - Kendall College KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 Theobald and Scott and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

PB - Swallow CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

2nd ed. as An Alternative Future for America II. Essays and Speeches. Ed. Noel McInnis. Chicago, IL: Swallow, 1970. Parts that had been previously published were rpt. in the 1st ed. as follows: “The Problem” (17-21) originally published as “The Revolution of the ‘Powerless’.” The Los Angeles Times (September 8, 1967), Part 2, p. 5; “The Guaranteed Income” (93-131) was originally published in the Proceedings of the National Symposium on Guaranteed Income, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, December 9, 1966; “The Communications City” (132-44) was originally published in The Christian Century (March 27, 1968): 385-88; “Green Force” (145-50) was originally published as “Green Force: A Mechanism to Speed Urban Peace.” The Los Angeles Times (March 12, 1968), Part 2, p. 5; and “Education for a New Time” (151-63) was originally published in Journal (Division of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) 5.6 (March 1967): 3-7. Parts that had been previously published but not included in the 1st ed. were rpt. in the 2nd ed. as follows: “Incredible man and His Credible Future.” Reflection. A Journal of Opinion at (Yale Divinity School (November 1967): 1-5; “Women” (85-96) originally published in Dialogue on Women (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merril, 1967), 11-17 [In the original, the piece is described as being by unidentified editors, but there is no mention of anyone else in the reprint]; “Ecology: A Dangerous Crusade” (151-56) was originally published "War on Pollution Could Backfire." The Los Angeles Times (February 8, 1970). Part G, p. 7; and “Freedom in Education” (157-81) was originally published in Journal (Council of Higher Education, United Church of Christ) (April 1969): 10-16.

Essays presenting a detailed eutopia that focuses on diversity with lifelong learning and changing life patterns. Goods will be free, everyone will have a basic guaranteed income, and most "unpleasant" jobs will be automated. The only governments will be local and international, and politics will be replaced by a system of task forces composed of people competent to deal with specific issues, with these task forces disappearing when the issue is solved. See also 1969 and 1982 Theobald. In addition, Theobald published many other books outlining his proposals. See, in particular, his Free Men and Free Markets. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1963; Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century. Washington, DC: The New Republic Book Co., 1976; rev. as Beyond Despair: A Policy Guide to the Communications Era. Cabin John, MD: Seven Locks Press, 1981; An Alternative Future for America's Third Century. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press, 1976; and Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dead to the World" Y1 - 1968 A1 - H[enry] A. Hargreaves (b. 1928) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopian satire. Computer and robot controlled world and the effect on a man whose identity card is accidentally marked deceased.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 11 N1 -

Rpt. in New Writings in S-F 8. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 125-42; and in his North by 2000: A Collection of Canadian Science Fiction (Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1975), 3-15.

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Can, InU, Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Divided House" Y1 - 1968 A1 - [John Thomas] [Phillifent] (1916-76) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. A world of dreamers versus doers. The doers are in power and logic controls. The dreamers are serfs.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 13 U3 -

 John Rackham [pseud.]

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Earth is Mine Y1 - 1968 A1 - Luther Cox KW - Male author AB -

UFO story. Technologically advanced eutopia that had evolved from a former earth people. No money; take what you need. Everyone works for two months and then goes to school for a month, with everyone trying to keep up in all fields. Synthetic food. Eugenics; artificial insemination. Religious.

PB - Exposition Press CY - New York U5 -

NcU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Epilogue: Not Quite Utopia" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief but detailed eutopia set in 2001. One focus is that the world is completely free of new pollution and almost all the badly polluted areas of the past have been cleaned up. Use of petroleum products radically reduced and replaced with nuclear fusion power. No advertising in newspapers or on TV. No private cars in Manhattan, radical reduction in city population, and half of New York City is open space. Electric vehicles standard. Strong United Nations, which has relocated to an island in the Indian Ocean. World language as well as local languages. See also 1928 and 1975 Chase.

JF - The Most Probable World PB - Harper & Row CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Father of the Nation Y1 - 1968 A1 - Laurence Walter Clark KW - Male author AB -

England failing due to party influence and socialist policy, but it is saved by a revival of a Parliament that rids the country of big government.

PB - Veracity Ventures CY - Ricksmanworth, Eng. U1 -

Subtitle on the short title page but not on the title page Inside Story of Britain's Return to Constitutional Rule

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L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Feasibility Plan" Y1 - 1968 A1 - Earl Conrad (1912-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Humor on job creation during a time of automation. Pencil sharpeners, wastebasket emptiers, and clock watchers are among the jobs.

JF - The Da Vinci Machine; Tales of the Population Explosion PB - Fleet Press Corp. CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Five to Twelve Y1 - 1968 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sex-role reversal dystopia brought about by the popularity of birth control. The novel focuses on a man who is constantly in conflict with the system. 

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1968.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God Machine. A Novel Y1 - 1968 A1 - Martin Caidin (1927-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Computer dystopia.

PB - E. P. Dutton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Baen, 1989.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Helmet of Hades" Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Herbert] Jack Wodhams (1931-2017) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia on a planet where a drink that makes everyone blind is distilled from a plant. One man follows the old adage that in the land of the bind the one eyed man is king and blind everyone except a few acolytes and enslaves the blind. The protagonist is a man sent to the planet that had not been heard from recently and is blinded but rebels and violently overthrows the regime and frees the one man who had previously rebelled. The result is the opposite of what he expected.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 11 U3 -

Jack Wodhams [pseud.]

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NSW, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pendulum Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An authoritarian religious dystopia develops out of a collapsing British economy and dysfunctional government.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spartan Planet" Y1 - 1968 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Militaristic dystopia on New Sparta that is all male. Children born in a Birth Machine. Same sex relations are the norm. See also 1984 Chandler.

JF - Fantastic Science Fiction--Fantasy VL - 17.4 - 5 N1 -

Rpt. as False Fatherland. London: Horwitz Publications, 1968. U.S. ed. as Spartan Planet. New York: Dell, 1969. 

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Rpt. as False Fatherland

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A, M, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Affluence of Edwin Lollard" Y1 - 1967 A1 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch (1940-2008) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia in which it is a crime to be poor and illiteracy is normal.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 10 N1 -

Rpt. in his White Fang Goes Dingo and other funny s.f. stories (London: Arrow Books, 1971), 138-51.

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L, Merril, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anarchaos Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Donald Edwin Edmond [Westlake] (1933-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A dystopia of anarchism as popularly understood as a situation where the strong will kill the weak. 

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. under the author's name London: Severn House, 2004. Ace ed. rpt. under the author's name in his Tomorrow's Crimes (New York: Mysterious Press, 1989), 115-263.

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Curt Clark [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brothers of Uterica Y1 - 1967 A1 - Benjamin Capps (b. 1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Founding and failure of an intentional community based on the La Réunion community founded in Texas by Victor Considerant (1808-93).

PB - Meredith Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1988, with a "Preface" (vii-ix) by the author and an "Afterword" (311-14) by C.L. Sonnichsen.

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DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Crimson Capsule Y1 - 1967 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia ruled by mutants.

PB - Avalon Books CY - New York N1 -

Rev. as The Animal People. New York: Belmont Books, 1970.

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Rev. as The Animal People.

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InTv, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Phoenix. A Novel Y1 - 1967 A1 - [John Middleton] [Murry] [Jr.] (1926-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia followed by its collapse and the descent into a primitive society.

PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1968. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. 

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Richard Cowper [pseud.]

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MoU-St, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Mountains Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

First volume of a young adult trilogy, followed by The City of Gold and Lead. New York: Macmillan and The Pool of Fire. New York: Macmillan, 1968. The trilogy is concerned with the dystopia created by alien invaders and the successful fight against them, and the dystopia of mental and physical control occurs throughout the trilogy.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York U3 -

John Christopher [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil and Democracy” Y1 - 1966 A1 - Brian [Brendon Talbot] Cleeve (1921-2003) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the unionization of Hell. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 31.5 (186) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Farewell, Earth's Bliss Y1 - 1966 A1 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton (1930-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with Mars as a penal colony.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Tandem, 1971.

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Origin of the Brunists Y1 - 1966 A1 - Robert [Lowell] Coover (b. 1932) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Origin, development, and collapse of a religious sect. Brunist comes from Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), a Dominican friar who was burned at the stake for heresy. See also 2014 Coover.

PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967; and New York: A Richard Seaver Book/The Viking Press, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Atrophy" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Ernest Hill (1915-2003) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. Machines allow humans to atrophy then the machines break down.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 6 N1 -

U.S. ed. of the book as New Writings in SF-6. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) (New York: Bantam Books, 1971), 117-36.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journal from Ellipsia Y1 - 1965 A1 - Hortense Calisher (1911-2009) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Complex novel with some reminders of Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland (1884) but developing a non-gendered society.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Secker & Warburg, l966. Excerpt published in SF 12. Ed. Judith Merril (New York: Dell, 1968), 197-211.

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MoU-St, L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Psychedelic-40 Y1 - 1965 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of control through drugs and pleasure. Psychedlic-40 is a drug known as PSI-40 that produces dreams of extreme sensuality, but it also allows the taker's mind to be probed or even controlled.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. as The Specials. London: Herbert Jenkins.

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U.K. ed as The Specials

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Merril, L, MoU-St, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Man on Bridge" Y1 - 1964 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) ED - [Edward] John Carnell (1912-72) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia in which the unintelligent rule the intelligent, who are kept in camps where they do all the menial work.

JF - New Writings in S-F PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London VL - 1 N1 -

Repub. in his Who Can Replace a Man? (New York: New American Library, 1965), 82-98. UK ed. as Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), 96-115; rev. ed. (London: Faber & Faber, 1971), 56-75.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mandrake Y1 - 1964 A1 - Susan [Mary] Cooper (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia in which people are required to live in the district in which they are born; movement around the country is restricted; the main cities are re-walled; and immigration is eliminated. The country is under the control of the Ministry of Planning.

PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Moon People Y1 - 1964 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopian society on the far side of the moon. The inhabitants are similar to apes.

PB - Avalon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Man: A Novel Based on His Play for Television Y1 - 1964 A1 - Giles Cooper (1918-66) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history dystopia of a National Socialist Britain.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Planet Y1 - 1963 A1 - Joan B. Clarke (b. 1921) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Children's post-catastrophe novel. Earth, the Happy Planet, had supposedly been destroyed by a meteor with some of Earth's population established on the planet Tuan, which had no plants or animals and was heavily regimented. An expedition discovers an inhabitable world, and after various conflicts people begin to rebuild.

PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London N1 -

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Illus. Antony Maitland

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NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Living Gem Y1 - 1963 A1 - Paul [Samuel] Charkin (1907-86) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia with a Health Police. There is a small free love sect.

PB - Brown, Watson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sentinel Stars: A Novel of the Future Y1 - 1963 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A rigidly stratified, authoritarian dystopia set in 2200 with East and West merged. Each person, whose name is a number, spends their life working off tax debts. A rebel escapes and discovers another society exists.

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Copper Cow Y1 - 1962 A1 - Tom Chetwynd (1938-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

An odd authoritarian dystopia with much fear and violence.

PB - Anthony Blond CY - London U5 -

L, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - [“A Fable for Tomorrow”] Y1 - 1962 A1 - Rachel Carson (1907-64) KW - Female author KW - US author JF - The New Yorker VL - 38.17 N1 -

Rpt. with the chapter title in her Silent Spring. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3. Rpt. With an Introduction by Vice President Al Gore. Illus. Lois and Louis Darling (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1962), 1-3; and in Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. Ed. Sandra Steingraber (New York: The Library of America, 2018, 9-11 with a note on the text (514-15).

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Illus. Lois and Louis Darling

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "John Sze's Future" Y1 - 1962 A1 - John R. Pierce (1910-2002) ED - Groff Conklin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A brief time-travel story in which the protagonist ends up in a future that officially rejects the hard sciences while unofficially using them. The word nuclear is obscene.

JF - Great Science Fiction by Scientists PB - Collier Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Last Year's Grave Undug" Y1 - 1962 A1 - [Horace] Chan[dler] Davis (b. 1926) ED - Groff Conklin KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia that is the result of two fascists fighting for power in the U.S. and destroying it. .

JF - Great Science Fiction by Scientists PB - Collier Books CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in It Walks in Beauty: Selected Prose of Chandler Davis. Ed. Josh Lukin (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2010), 141-66.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Come Out to Play Y1 - 1961 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the effect of science on the world. Scientists recognize that the repression of sexuality or the sexual passions is one of the central roadblocks to human betterment and discover how to release the superego. The suggestion is clear that if such repression is overcome a much better life will be possible. 

PB - Eyre & Spottiswoode CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: Crown, 1975 with unpaged notes from the publisher and the author.

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L, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - England under Hitler Y1 - 1961 A1 - Comer Clarke AB -

Dystopia of England under Nazi rule and the successful resistance movement.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. as If the Nazi's Had Come. London: World, 1962.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Philosophical Corps Y1 - 1961 A1 - Everett B. Cole (1910-2001) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Science fiction in which a corps is established to help bring primitive planets into galactic civilization with the appropriate ethical standards. The system is designed to avert or overcome dystopias and lead them toward becoming better.

PB - Gnome Press CY - Hicksville, NY N1 -

Parts originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction as “Philosophical Corps.” 47.1 (March 1951): 50-65; “These Shall Not Be Lost.” 50.3 (January 1953): 98-121; “Fighting Philosopher.” 53.2 (April 1954): 8-41; “The Players.” 55.2 (April 1955): 96-139; “The Millennium.” 55.3 (May 1955): 6-47; and “The Missionaries.” 57.3 (May 1956): 8-51; and in Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact as “Here, There Be Witches.” 85.2 (April 1970): 8-38. 

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Runaway World Y1 - 1961 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

In the future the people of Earth are divided between two planets, Earth and Orcus, a close neighbor. Earth is inhabited by the Ants who developed a society structured as a mechanism. Orcus is inhabited by the peace loving, more balanced Antelopes. The novel, which is mostly adventure and intrigue, focuses on a man from Orcus who goes to Earth to rescue the woman he loves who has, with many other women from Orcus, been kidnapped by the Ants and his success in bring change to Earth.

PB - Avalon Books CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Burning" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Theodore [Rose] Cogswell (1918-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a collapsed civilization.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 19.1 (110) N1 -

Rpt. in Microcosmic Tales: 100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories. Ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1980); rpt. (New York: DAW Books, 1992), 138-42.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peacemakers Y1 - 1960 A1 - Curtis W[erner] Casewit (1922-2002) KW - German author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia after a nuclear war in which survivors have been invited to an island state expecting freedom, only to discover that the leader of the state had been overthrown and replaced by a totalitarian regime.

PB - Avalon Books Thomas Bouregy CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1968.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Smell of Burning: A Comedy of Menace Y1 - 1960 A1 - David Campton (1924-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia. With a revolt taking place offstage, a couple at breakfast listen to a very off stage radio broadcast until the radio goes off the air, talk at cross purposes, and sit quietly as a town official murders a neighbor and then the wife.

PB - Samuel French CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 3-20. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Then . . . Y1 - 1960 A1 - David Campton (1924-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-apocalyptic humor. Two people who have survived the destruction of most people by, as they believe, putting paper bags over their heads, meet.

PB - David Campton CY - [London] N1 -

Rp.t in his A Smell of Burning and Then . . . Two Plays (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1969), 21-38. 

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Anno Domini 2000 Y1 - 1959 A1 - Coury, Phil KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia except that it is not yet too bad, and the right person wins an election.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

MoU-St, NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2000 A.D." Y1 - 1958 A1 - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) ED - Dorothy Cannibal Editor KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on New Zealand's future. Poem.

JF - Poetry Harbinger: Introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7) PB - Pilgrim Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -

Rpt. in his Collected Poems (Christchurch, New Zealand: Pegasus Press, 1966), 141-42; and in Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand. Ed. Mark Pirie and Tim Jones (Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Interactive Press, 2009), 5-6.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Vanishing Point Y1 - 1958 A1 - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia using the same miniaturization trope as in 1922 Cummings.

PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -

Some was published under the same title in Astounding Stories 5.3 (March 1931): 314-59.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream of John Ball" Y1 - 1958 A1 - A[rthur] R[ex] D[ugard] Fairburn (1904-1957) A1 - Denis [James Matthews] Glover (1912-80) ED - Dorothy Cannibal Editor KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire but depicting a populist eutopia. John Ball (ca. 1338-81) was a priest who was involved in the in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.

JF - Poetry Harbinger: Introducing A.R.D. Fairburn (6 foot 3) and Denis Glover (11 stone 7) PB - Pilgrim Press CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Phoenix Y1 - 1958 A1 - Mary Shaffer Carlton KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Visit to a eutopian planet named Oopana. Technically advanced, no poor, with each continent having a monarchy. Religious. Large military for fear of other planets. Each class (rich, middle, lower) based on intelligence and skill and can advance with higher education. Each class lives in a separate district with more or less elaborate housing (47) and wear different clothing (53). Deported if unwilling to work. Traditional gender roles.

PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Never Forever Y1 - 1958 A1 - Conyers, Bernard KW - Male author AB -

Astrological adventure story set in a generally eutopian future that has to deal with the issues raised by an elixir that will produce immortality without aging. Astrology used to choose members of the U.K. Cabinet, which includes the Ministers of Force, Economics, Education, Domesticity, the Arts, Diplomacy, Health, Justice, Commerce, Science, and Metaphysics plus the Prime Minister, each representing a sign of the zodiac. Technologically advanced. No alcohol; no tobacco..

PB - Regency Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Place on Earth Y1 - 1958 A1 - Louis [Henry] Charbonneau (b. 1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia set in 2240 in which procreation without permission is treason.

PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow's Gift" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a four-class society based on I.Q. and H.Q. (Happiness Quotient). The classes are administrators, technicians, prefrontals (having failed in one of the top classes), and illiterates.

JF - Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - No. 4 N1 -

Rpt. in his Tomorrow's Gift (New York: Ballantine Books, 1958), 7-15. U.K. ed. (London: Brown, Watson/Digit Books, [1958]), 5-13.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Uncertain Midnight Y1 - 1958 A1 - Edmund Cooper (1926-82) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia of a machine eutopia that is actually a dystopia.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U1 -

U.S. title Deadly Image.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “World of the Future 1. A Man of the World” Y1 - 1957 A1 - Les Cole KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The first of two stories regarding the dystopia that would develop after an atomic war. In this story the “civilized” man of the future learns that survival means killing. See also 1957 [Merril].

JF - Venture Science Fiction VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. Venture Science Fiction (British Edition), no. 1 (September 1963): 78-82. 

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death of Grass Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Post-catastrophe dystopia. Violence, breakdown of communities, and the struggle to survive.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

Rpt. as The Death of Grass. A Novel. Penguin, 2009 with an “Introduction” by Robert Macfarlane (v-xii). U.S. edition as No Blade of Grass. A Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957. Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Avon, 1967. A film was made under the U.S. title and directed by Cornel Wilde (Cornelius Louis Wilde 1912-89) (1970) with a screenplay by Sean Forestal and Wilde writing as Jefferson Pascal. PSt

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John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Into the Tenth Millennium Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian, somewhat nomadic eutopia, some of which is technically primitive (balloon transport, semaphores for communication) but is socially advanced. A catastrophe caused all metal to become useless; while this made war impossible, there was a widespread famine which produced a dramatic fall in world population. In the future population is controlled. Everyone is wealthy and self-assured. There is no government or belief in a god. Free love and one worldwide language. Initial education is with the mother (fathers are not identified) with no formal education until age forty. The author also wrote a utopian trilogy; see 1950, 1952, and 1954 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow and Tomorrow Y1 - 1956 A1 - [Evan] [Hunter] (1926-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire of Vicarion, for vicarious, Movement, or Vikes, based on drugs, control of advertising, film, and TV with the slogan "Make-believe is better than reality". People live a vicarious life with all sex vicarious rather than real. An invention makes it possible for each member of the audience to feel the sensations of those in the film. Realists, or Ree, fight back and physical confrontation verges on civil war. At the end a compromise seems possible.

PB - Pyramid CY - New York N1 -

Also entitled Tomorrow's World. New York: Avalon, 1956. 

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Also entitled Tomorrow's World

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Hunt Collins [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ark of Venus Y1 - 1955 A1 - Clyde B. Clason (1903-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An adventure novel about the colonization of Venus, which is necessary because Earth is an overpopulation dystopia.

PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Creator's Last Word" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Robert Cumming KW - Male author AB -

A brief description of a eutopia in which the Creator has eliminated everything that caused problems in earlier attempts. Bisexual and can have sex in any form for pleasure. Reproduction by parthenogenesis with people chosen by lot. Old people sent to Old Citizens World. Earth was God's first creation in which mistakes were made, and God has lost interest in earlier creations.

JF - 21st Century: The Magazine of a Creative Civilization (Sydney, NSW, Australia) VL - no. 1 U5 -

A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Next Step in Civilization; A Star to Steer By Y1 - 1955 A1 - F[rederick] Creedy (1883-1962) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Presents a society in the Amazonian jungle in which everyone tries to become more like Christ. This produces a eutopia in which there is fundamental equality. Two day's of labor is required each week where each person has a "chore" that is productive labor. "Work" is what else they do, such as writing, art, and publishing.

JF - Truth is Enough PB - The Ryerson Press CY - Toronto, ON, Canada VL - Vol. 3 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Gun to the Victor" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Theodore [Rose] Cogswell (1918-87) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of conditioning and violence.

JF - Imagination VL - 6.8 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 9 (May 1956): 87-88, 90-92, 94-98; in his Third Eye (New York: Belmont Books, 1968), 7-17; The First Theodore R. Cogswell Megapack®: 16 Classic Science Fiction Stories. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2014. ebook; and rev as “Consumer’s Report.” Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth. Ed. Rob Sauer (New York: Zero Population Growth and Ballantine, 1971), 250-62. 

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Rev. as “Consumer’s Report.” Voyages: Scenarios for a Ship Called Earth

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Short History of the Future Y1 - 1955 A1 - R[eginald] C[harles] Churchill (1916-86) KW - Male author AB -

Future history of the period 1967-6601 based on the writers of dystopias.

PB - Werner Laurie CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World of Difference: A Modern Novel of Science and Imagination Y1 - 1955 A1 - [George] Robert [Acworth] Conquest (1917-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An apparent eutopia is threatened by the government's use of technology to control people psychologically.

PB - Ward, Lock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. (although specially labeled "not a reprint") without the subtitle New York: Ballantine Books, 1964.

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L, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Year of the Comet Y1 - 1955 A1 - [Sam] [Youd] (1922-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A corporate dystopia with the world divided into companies rather than nations.

PB - Michael Joseph CY - London N1 -

US ed. as Planet in Peril. New York: Avon, 1959.

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John Christopher [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Down to Earth Y1 - 1954 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Last volume of a trilogy. See 1950 and 1952 Capon. This volume focuses on the struggle to return to Earth and attempts by people on Earth to exploit the planet. The author wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - Heinemann CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Once Upon a Space Y1 - 1954 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia where people degenerate. There are some rebels.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace On Earth" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Irving E[ngland] Cox Jr. (1917-2001) KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a false utopia as a mechanism of social control.

JF - Future Science Fiction VL - 5.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "They'd Rather Be Right" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Mark [Irvin] Clifton (1906-63) A1 - [Frank Wilbert] [Ryhlick] (1915-1996) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A computer makes human beings telepathic and immortal, and the novel is concerned with the reactions of people to the new possibilities.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 53.6 - 54.3 N1 -

Repub. New York: Gnome Press, 1957. Rpt. Ed. Hank Stine. Illus. M. W. Carroll, Norfolk, VA: Starblaze Editions/Donning, 1981. Also published as The Forever Machine. New York: Galaxy, [1958]. Rpt. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992.

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Also published as The Forever Machine

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Frank Riley [pseud. of Ryhlick]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Year of Consent Y1 - 1954 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which public relations experts have taken over the government and used their position to create a population that consents to anything. The few people who still maintain their individuality are surgically cured. The novel is concerned with a man who fights back.

PB - Dell Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against the Fall of Night Y1 - 1953 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A city that has stagnated regains contact with a rural, telepathic utopia that has also stagnated. Cross-fertilization helps both. See also 1990 Clarke and Benford, where Against the Fall of Night is rpt. as Part I (14-145) and 2004 Benford where the relationship among the three volumes is explained in an “Afterword.”

PB - Gnome Press CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Part I (14-145) in Clarke and Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941). Beyond the Fall of Night. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990; and New York: iBooks, 2005. Both the advertising and the back cover say that the book includes the added short story “Jupiter Five,” which was first published in If Worlds of Science Fiction (Buffalo, NY) 2.2 (May 1953): 4-28, 75 and has nothing to do with the novel, but there is no such story in the book. Exp. version of “Against the Fall of Night.” Startling Stories (Kokomo, IN) 18 (November 1948): 11-70. Rev. version entitled The City and The Stars. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956; rpt. New York: Signet Books, 1957.  

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Space--Another Time Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia that limits scientific activity through the SS (Science Security), which oversees all scientific work and decides on its usefulness. But in the novel, the science goes wrong and opens Earth to the possibility of an alien invasion, and the SS agents are the good guys.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Brain Ultimate Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[erbert] J[ames] Campbell (1925-1983) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. An interplanetary union is controlled by an Interplanetary Dictator and its rules are enforced ruthlessly. In the novel scientific advances in brain power enable contact with others in the universe and the dictatorship ends in cooperation with others.

PB - Panther CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Childhood's End Y1 - 1953 A1 - Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about by aliens at the end of the existence of homo sapiens and the beginning of the emergence of a higher being.

PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -

1953 Clarke, Arthur C[harles] (1917-2008). Childhood’s End. New York: Ballantine. Exp. version of “Guardian Angel.” Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Chicago, IL) 1.4 (April 1950): 98-112, 127-29. The London: Pan, 1990 edition has a revised first chapter and a new “Foreword” (i-iv) by Clarke. DLC, HRC, L

Eutopia brought about by aliens at the end of the existence of homo sapiens and the beginning of the emergence of a higher being.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City" Y1 - 1953 A1 - [John Stephen] [Glasby] (1928-2011) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of a domed city with an upper and an underclass and strict controls on knowledge. The protagonist discovers a way out.

JF - Tales of Tomorrow VL - no 7 U3 -

Randall Conway [pseud.]

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Halos, Inc." Y1 - 1953 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on advertising.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 29.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lady With a Past" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Irving E[ngland] Cox Jr. (1917-2001) KW - Male author AB -

Earth a rational eutopia based on More's Utopia.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction VL - 5.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Old Venusian Home" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on slavery.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 28.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Startling Stories (British Edition), no. 13 ([1953]): 57-63, 66; and in Science Fiction Yearbook, no. 3 (1969): 66-71, 86.

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Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Temptress of Planet Delight" Y1 - 1953 A1 - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) KW - Female author AB -

Bureaucratic dystopia in the process of being overthrown with the potential of becoming a eutopia. Permits required for everything; rationing for everything even though the planet produces enough for all. Eugenic experiment designed to produce the perfect bureaucrat. Anyone who forgets a permit loses their job; these people revolt with the assistance of beings of pure energy, who can choose to become material, who are never explained.

JF - Planet Stories VL - 5.12 N1 -

Rpt. with the author as B. Curtis in Planet Stories (British Edition), no. 7 (nd): 4-31.

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia [upside down & backwards]" Y1 - 1953 A1 - J[ohn] S[cott] Campbell KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia is produced through thought transmission so that all people can meld together. Strong suggestion that this is a dystopia.

JF - Science-Fiction Plus VL - 1.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Monthly (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 1 (September 1955): 31-45.

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Merril

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 -

O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Defender of the Faith" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Alfred[o] [José Araña-Marini y] Coppel [Jr.] (1921-2004) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

War between the sexes.

JF - Science Fiction Quarterly VL - 2.1 N1 -

Rpt. in Science Fiction Quarterly (British Edition), no 4 (November 1952): 59-67. C,

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C, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Devil's Advocate Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Janet Miriam] Taylor [Holland] Caldwell (1900-85) KW - Female author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. The U.S. becomes weak through the adoption of the welfare policies of the New Deal and is ripe for takeover by a dictatorial system known as The Democracy. Constant wars. Extreme poverty. Surveillance. There is a underground movement known as the Minute Men, led from within The Democracy, that ultimately overthrows it.

PB - Crown CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1964; and New York: Pyramid, 1971.

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DLC, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Incubation" Y1 - 1952 A1 - John D[ann] Macdonald (1916-86) ED - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story is set in a future where mechanization has gradually led to the acceptance by most people of the complete regimentation of daily life.

JF - Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction PB - Greenberg/Ambassador Books CY - New York/Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Love Story" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Kendall Foster] [Crossen] (1910-81) ED - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire in which children in the United States discover that their parents tell them one thing and then behave differently and decide that what they are told is the truth. They then kill all the adults. The story is set many years later depicts the results.

JF - Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction PB - Greenberg/Ambassador Books CY - New York/Toronto, ON, Canada U3 -

Christopher Monig [pseud.]

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Half of the Planet: A Sequel to "The Other Side of the Sun" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1950 Capon. Authoritarian dystopia set on the other side of the planet that had not been visited in the first volume. The inhabitants of the dystopia are described as savages who hope to enslave or kill the protagonists, who ultimately escape back to the civilized side of the planet. The focus is on the struggle of the space explorers to survive. See also 1954 Capon. The author wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Public Enemy" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Public officials are held responsible for the effects of their actions on citizens.

JF - Dynamic Science Fiction VL - 1.1 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Star, Bright" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Mark [Irvin] Clifton (1906-63) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a society that won't accept the highly intelligent.

JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 4.4 N1 -

Rpt. in The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton. Ed. Barry N. Malzberg and Martin H. Greenberg (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press/London and Amsterdam: Feffer & Simon, 1980), 18-38.

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Things of Distinction" Y1 - 1952 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on advertising.

JF - Startling Stories VL - 25.2 N1 -

Rpt. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 94-147.

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PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Come Again Y1 - 1951 A1 - [Mary Rose] [Coulton] (1906-2002) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Historical novel with an Australian setting featuring a character like William Lane (1861-1917), the Australian labour leader), the Australian labour leader and founder of the New Australia and Cosme communities in Paraguay.

PB - Peter Davies CY - London U3 -

Sarah Campion [pseud.]

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ATL, A, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Restricted Clientele" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Kendall Foster Crossen (1910-81) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Monopoly capitalist dystopia and nonviolent revolution led by scientists. There are three classes in the future, the Investors (50 with 75 permitted), who own the wealth of the Galaxy and are the government under a Chairman, the Intellectuals, and the Manuals, who are 97.6% of the population. Social mobility possible in both directions. There are opposition Liberals among the Intellectuals.

JF - Thrilling Wonder Stories (New York) VL - 37.3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Social Obligation" Y1 - 1951 A1 - Roy L. Clough, Jr. KW - Male author AB -

Anti-science dystopia.

JF - Fantastic Adventures (Chicago, IL) VL - 13.3 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Divine Right" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) KW - Female author AB -

The story shows the beginning of a dystopia with a bad king after a series of good ones and the revolt against him that leads to the possibility of a democracy.

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York) VL - 1.3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Immigrant" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Leslie A. Croutch (1915-69) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Québec is briefly depicted as an authoritarian dystopia in the future. The story centers around the demand by Québec that a Canadian citizen who left Québec illegally be returned from Ontario.

JF - Light (Parry Sound, ON, Canada) VL - No. 44 N1 -

Rpt. in Years of Light: A Celebration of Leslie A. Croutch. Ed. John Robert Colombo (Toronto, ON, Canada: Hounslow Press, 1982), 5-9. 

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Can

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Other Side of the Sun. A Novel Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Harry] Paul Capon (1911/12-69) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia based on custom. Advanced technology came slowly, and society had time to adjust. Vegetarian. No killing. First volumer in a trilogy; see also 1952 and 1954 Capon. The author also wrote another utopian novel; see 1956 Capon.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

DLC, L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prison Planet" Y1 - 1950 A1 - [Sydney J.] [Bounds] (1920-2006) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia describing various exploitations of prisoners.

JF - Futuristic Science Stories VL - no. 3 U3 -

Roger Carne [pseud.]

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O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inherit the Night Y1 - 1949 A1 - Robert Christie KW - Male author AB -

A lost village in a valley in an unnamed mountain range (probably the Andes) has become a simple eutopia of peace under the direction of a good priest. Evil enters from the outside in the form of a wealthy criminal and the eutopia is disrupted. The criminal dies while trying to leave.

PB - Farrar, Straus and Co CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Domesday Village Y1 - 1948 A1 - Ian [Goodhope] Colvin (1912-75) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Agrarian eutopia existing outside a deeply flawed socialist utopia that is inefficient and bureaucratic, and while it is supposed to be based on merit, it is actually an aristocracy based on heredity. The eutopia is a small town that had been missed in the reorganization and had succeeded very well using traditional methods.

PB - The Falcon Press CY - London U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Life and Times of the Shmoo Y1 - 1948 A1 - [Alfred Gerald] [Caplin] (1909-79 KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Comic strip. The Shmoo is a creature who provides all the food anyone wants, thus producing a classic Cockaigne. The strips recount the eutopia produced, the troubles this gives rise to, and the attempts of government and business to destroy the Shmoo. Other Shmoo material includes Gerald Marks and Al Capp, Shmoo Songs. New York: Bristol Music Corp., 1949 [held by the Los Angeles Public Library]; and a series of Hanna-Barbera films in 1979 (Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo) and 1987-88 (sixteen films). See also Al Capp, The Return of the Shmoo. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Rpt. as “The Shmoo: 1959.” In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 93-143; rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.

PB - Simon and Schuster CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: Convoy Publications, 1949. Rpt. as "The Shmoo: 1948." In his The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002), 1-93. All the strips rpt. in Al Capp's Shmoo: The Complete Newspaper Strips. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2011. See also Al Capp's Shmoo Comics, no. 1 - 5 (July 1949 - April 1950). 5 vols. New York: Toby Press, 1949 - 50 [held by Michigan State University]. Some rpt. in Washable Jones and the Shmoos, no. 1 (June 1953) [all published. Held by Michigan State University]. Rpt. in Shmoo. The Complete Comic Books. Milwaukee, WI: Dark Horse Books, 2008.

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Al Capp [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace in Our Time": A Play in Two Acts and Eight Scenes Y1 - 1947 A1 - Noel [Pierce] Coward (1899-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Dystopia of Britain under Germany occupation.

PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -

NZ

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomorrow's Child; A Comedy in Three Acts Y1 - 1947 A1 - John Coates KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -

Dystopian humor about a dull, uniform society in which everyone should be serious about Social Duty. Each apartment has speakers that cannot be turned off that issue instructions in a revoltingly cheerful voice. Set in 1965.

JF - French's Acting Editions PB - Samuel French CY - London VL - No. 113 U5 -

L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Imperfect Y1 - 1946 A1 - Bridget [Walsh] Chetwynd (1910-70) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Welsh author AB -

Humorous gender-role reversal novel in which British men are disenfranchised in 1965 with their approval.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Trillion Immortals. Romance? Novel? Prophecy? Reality? Revelation? Y1 - 1946 A1 - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) KW - Male author AB -

Sequel to 1940 Cruso. See also 1933 Cruso. The author says that the book is written for the white race, except Jews. Although the author suggests that a third world war is possible, he thinks that a new era is opening that will lead to a world eutopia. Some past and future history. 

PB - Hobson Book Press CY - New York U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cities of the Plain: A Democratic Melodrama Y1 - 1943 A1 - Alex[ander] Comfort (1920-2000) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-capitalist dystopia and revolt. A one act play showing a town run for profit with no concern for the workers who, mining radium, will die to provide a profit for the owners. 

PB - Grey Walls Press CY - London U5 -

GEU, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Social Justice Leadership Correspondence Course Y1 - 1943 A1 - Crusade for Social Justice KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Twenty short bulletins describing a better future society and both encouraging people to become leaders and teaching techniques of leadership.

PB - Crusade for Social Justice CY - Auckland, New Zealand U1 -

Bulletin, Nos. 1-20.

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HU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Social Order Y1 - 1942 A1 - Cephas [pseud.] AB -

A detailed eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. Nationalization of industries; all are employed by the government. Credit-card system for purchases and all credit must be spent each year. Cooperative housekeeping and cooking.

PB - Cornish Brothers CY - Birmingham, Eng. U3 -

Cephas [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Overthrow” Y1 - 1942 A1 - Cleve Cartmill (1908-64) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Authoritarian dystopia. Conflict among corporation.

JF - Astounding Science Fiction VL - 30.3 U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Of Things Entire: A Fantasy Y1 - 1941 A1 - Valerie Chick KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -

Detailed eutopia including all the peoples of Earth who dream of a better life but not including those who are greedy or make wars. Called "the dream world that lives in the hearts of men" (9). Simplicity, love, and a natural life. Everyone does both mental and physical labor. Because everyone is motivated by the same goals, there is harmony and not conflict. World peace. Everyone has their own home; they do not live in apartments or high-rise buildings. Much of the novel presents the contrasting lives of people before and after entering the eutopia, where they are able to lead the lives really suited for them.

PB - Mingay Pub. Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

A, M, PSt, NLS

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Messiah on the Horizon. Romance? Novel? Revelation? Prophecy? Reality? Y1 - 1940 A1 - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A future history and theological fantasy. End of the white race with Europe split off Earth to become a new moon and no whites remaining on Earth. A better society on Earth is brought about by Orientals and Jews in which all races have embraced Judaism. Hebrew is the international language. Deeply racist. Most of the novel is concerned with the history that led to this situation. See also 1933, which this book refers back to, and 1946 Cruso. 

PB - Audubon Publishing Co CY - New York U5 -

DLC, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Trumpet Y1 - 1940 A1 - John F. Cramer KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. Machine perfection is dystopian.

PB - Silk and Terry CY - London U5 -

NN

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Death Guard Y1 - 1939 A1 - Philip George Chadwick (1893-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Creation of artificial life leads to a dystopia.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London N1 -

Rpt. London: Roc, 1992.

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fool's Harvest Y1 - 1939 A1 - Erle [Harold] Cox (1873-1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Warning against invasion; "Its intention was to awaken the people of Australia to the tragic possibilities of apathy towards adequate defence measures" (Book i). Australia turned into an authoritarian dystopia by the invaders, who are identified as Cambasians. The "Prologue" to the novel, dated July 15, 1975, makes clear that after the loss of five million "white inhabitants" in the fight back, Australia was once again independent.

JF - The Argus (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) PB - Robertson & Mullen CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia N1 -

Rpt. Melbourne, VIC, Australia Robertson & Mullen, 1939 with two chapters added to the book.

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A, ATL, M

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lord of Tranerica" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Hereditary dictatorship in a supposedly computer-perfect, business-based, and leisure-oriented society set in the 25th century. Robots do all the work, and there are mechanical judges that decide cases and sentences. Tranerica is North and South America combined.

JF - Dynamic Science Stories (Chicago, IL) VL - 1.1 N1 -

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1966.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Industrial Dawn Y1 - 1939 A1 - A. T. Churchill AB -

Eutopia. Abundance through state capitalism. Meritocracy.

PB - Press of Lowman and Hanford Co CY - Seattle, WA U5 -

DLC

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Women's World" Y1 - 1939 A1 - David C[oxe] Cooke KW - Male author AB -

Gender-role reversal.

JF - Science Fiction (Holyoke, MA) VL - 1.5 U5 -

Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - At Midnight on the 31st of March Y1 - 1938 A1 - Josephine Young Case (1907-90) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A small town is totally cut off from the outside world and creates a eutopia. The novel is in blank verse. 

PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990 with a “Foreword” by Frank Bergmann (vii-x).

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MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Pagan City Y1 - 1938 A1 - W[illiam] N[oel] Chaplin (1892-1981) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Ancient Rome as a dystopia that continues to exist inside the earth. In an Epilogue the author says that he was trying to demonstrate what a benefit the introduction of Christianity had been.

PB - John Long CY - London U5 -

LLL, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Year Nine" Y1 - 1938 A1 - Cyril [Vernon] Connolly (1903-74) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Short authoritarian dystopia particularly concerned with censorship. Humor.

JF - The New Statesman and Nation (London) VL - 15.362 N1 -

Rpt. in his The Condemned Playground. Essays: 1927-1944 (London: Routledge, 1945), 154-59. Rpt. (New York: Macmillan, 1946), 154-159; (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), 154-59; and in The Selected Works of Cyril Connolly. Volume Two: The Two Natures. Ed. Matthew Connolly (London: Picador, 2002), 322-27. 

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C, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Swastika Night Y1 - 1937 A1 - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Dystopia where there has been five hundred years of Nazi rule, and the Nazi creed has become transmuted into a religion which directly supports the current power structure of the future Germany. There is still a single Führer who rules with the blessing of Hitler and God the Thunderer over a clearly defined hierarchy that is nationalist, racist, sexist, with love only between men and women kept separate and only for breeding, and anti-Christian. Much of the book is about one of the German Knights who knows the truth of the past and works to preserve that knowledge the future. Female author.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in the Left Book Club Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940; and by Burdekin writing as Murray Constantine. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michael Dirda (1-4); and under the author's real name Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1985  with an “Introduction” iii-xv) by Daphne Patai; and London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michel Dirda (1-4).

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Murray Constantine [pseud.]

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L, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heritage of the Quest Y1 - 1936 A1 - Gertrude Venetta Cope KW - Female author AB -

Fantasy and allegory describing a vaguely described ideal world.

PB - Marshall Jones CY - Boston, MA U5 -

DLC, TxU

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tartan Shirts Y1 - 1936 A1 - Archibald Crawford KW - Male author AB -

Satire on the various pre-World War II movements that were identified by the color of their shirts.

PB - Putnam CY - London U5 -

DLC, L, O

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Wide, White Page Y1 - 1936 A1 - Beall Cunningham KW - Male author AB -

A colony of men in Antarctica that is harmonious until the first woman arrives. The men decide to keep the harmony, and the woman leaves.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

L, O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adam Revisits Paradise Y1 - 1935 A1 - Ralph Chaplin (1887-1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Adam returns to Eden and finds that he could return permanently without Eve. Adam chooses Eve and expulsion from Eden.

JF - Pilgrimage Series No. 1 PB - Author CY - Lombard, IL U5 -

MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In Caverns Below" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on the modern world, particularly world politics through a world inside the earth. Mechanically advanced authoritarian system in which war is considered good. Monopoly capitalism. Beauty consists of looking old and being fat.

JF - Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 6.10 - 12 N1 -

Rpt. in Fantastic Stories Quarterly (New York) 1.3 (Fall 1950): 11-86; as Hidden World. New York: Avalon Books, 1957; and New York: Airmont, 1964; and as In Caverns Below. New York: Garland, 1975. 

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As Hidden World. New York: Avalon Books, 1957; and New York: Airmont, 1964

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CSj, Merril

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Inner Domain" Y1 - 1935 A1 - Phil [Felix Edward] Collas (1907-89) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Technological eutopia of aborigines underground in the center of Australia. Includes descriptions of the mistreatment of the aborigines by the settlers and a projection into a future of cooperation and racial harmony.

JF - Amazing Stories VL - 10.6 N1 -

Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 1989. 2nd ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 1994.

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Merril, MoU-St

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Martha Brown M.P.; A Girl of To-Morrow Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Annie Sophie ("Vivian")] [Cory] (1868-1952) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London N1 -

Cheap ed. London: T Werner Laurie, [1936]. 

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Victoria Cross [pseud.]

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L

ER - TY - ABST T1 - With the Lid Off Y1 - 1935 A1 - [Mary Eliza Louise] [Cooke] (1883-1941) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

A benevolent dictatorship transforms England. Nationalization with people forced to work. if necessary, eugenics, required exercise, and slum clearance. Most of the novel is on the battle for success.

PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U3 -

Joan Conquest [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Castaway Y1 - 1934 A1 - James Gould Cozzens (1903-78) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

An odd modern dystopian Robinsonade and last man tale in which a man shelters in a department store after an unidentified catastrophe but is unable to take advantage of the riches surrounding him.

PB - Random House. CY - New York U5 -

PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The History of Lewistonia Y1 - 1934 A1 - David Ewin Cooke KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Toy city (land between two cherry trees) developed for children. The imagined land is an island off the coast of Florida. A government was formed with a flag and a coat of arms. Stamps were issued. A newspaper was started. Colonies were established. There were wars with pirates followed by a war with Russia. Following the “Red War,” there was a period of great prosperity and building. Three Lewistonia years is equal to fifty actual years. Lead standard for money. Includes a constitution (209-19).

PB - Cooke Pub. Co CY - Point Highest U5 -

NcD, PP

ER - TY - ABST T1 - Landslide Y1 - 1934 A1 - Monica [Mary] Curtis (1892-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Political novel set in an alternative future in which nothing was done after World War I to support the peace and another brief war followed that united Europe as the Confederation of Western Powers, which continued after the war under a leader who became a dictator.

PB - Victor Gollancz CY - London U5 -

L, PSt

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 - Proud Man Y1 - 1934 A1 - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Complex satire on contemporary Britain from the point of view of a future human visiting in a dream. The future is a eutopia in which the people appear to be hermaphrodites, and there are no national governments and no class structure. Calls contemporary people sub-human.

PB - Boriswood CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press, 1993 with a “Foreword (ix-xxiv) and an “Afterword” (319-50) by Daphne Patai.

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Murray Constantine [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last of the Japs and Jews Y1 - 1933 A1 - Solomon Cruso (1877-1977) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Primarily a future war story, but it begins in 2940 when all Jews have been eliminated and whites are slaves. The world is under the control of China, India, and Turkey with the Western Hemisphere a protectorate of these three inhabited by its indigenous peoples. Includes some of the characters in his other works. See also 1940 and 1946 Cruso.

PB - H.W. Lefkowitz CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Man from Tomorrow" Y1 - 1933 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A man from a scientifically advanced future is accidentally brought to the present. The descriptions he gives, and his personality suggest that the future may be dystopian. Rigid occupational categories. Eugenics.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 6.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tom's A-Cold Y1 - 1933 A1 - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. England has reverted to a savage state as a result of war and famine and consists of marauding bands. The novel focuses on one such band, with memories of better times.

PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -

US ed. entitled Full Circle. New York: D. Appleton, 1933.

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US ed. entitled Full Circle.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cosmopolis Y1 - 1932 A1 - Rupert Croft-Cooke (1903-1979) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A supposedly perfect school, called the Institut Utopia, starts the movement toward eutopia but fails. The novel is mostly about the personal dynamics among the people.

PB - Jarrolds CY - London N1 -

U. S. ed. New York, L. MacVeagh, Dial Press, Inc., 1933. 323 pp. Rev. as The White Mountain. London: Falcon Press, 1949 325 pp. with a note that the original 1932 issue was withdrawn within a week of being issued. Rpt. London: White Lion Publishers, 1975. There are no obvious differences between the two editions. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Planet of Youth" Y1 - 1932 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia set on Venus where people stay young due to higher radioactivity, which is thought to enhance health. Men try to steal the secret for earth but fail. Positive effect is only temporary, and people begin to die and abandon Venus. In the end, people work to improve the Earth.

JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 4.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Tales of Wonder and Super-Science (London), no. 5 (October 1938): 4-32. Repub. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1952. Rpt. as Youth Madness. American Fiction #8. London: Utopian Publications, [1945]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Academy of Souls Y1 - 1931 A1 - John O'Hara Cosgrave (1866-1947) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly a criticism of modern culture, but it includes a scientific, engineers' eutopia on Mars. Scientists have demonstrated the truths of religion.

PB - Farrar & Rinehart CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Blue Barbarians" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire. Capitalist culture on Venus where the people are either at war or in extreme competition.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 4.3 N1 -

Repub. New York: Avalon, 1958.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lost Children Y1 - 1931 A1 - H[enry] Herman Chilton (1863-1945) KW - Belgian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Although it all turns out to be a dream, the novel describes the eutopia formed where the children were taken by the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Simple life. Arcadian. Crafts.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Traveller Returns Y1 - 1931 A1 - John [Henry Noyes] Collier (1901-80) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia brought about by science; people selected for their scientific ability. All animals are destroyed. All culture eliminated.

PB - White Owl Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seven Niches: A Legend Y1 - 1931 A1 - Egerton [Arthur Crossman] Clarke (1899-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A poem about an imaginary city, called Tombelaine, which typifies Christendom.

PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "After 12,000 Years" Y1 - 1929 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A future divided into three nations and four species. Includes both eutopian and dystopian elements.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 2.2 N1 -

Repub. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1950.

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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 - Nor Shall My Sword Sleep Y1 - 1928 A1 - Stella Callaghan KW - Female author AB -

Presents a successful struggle to establish an intentional community on an estate. A physically good city for the poor and fair treatment for employers.

PB - Skeffington & Son CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sunken World" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Stanton A[rthur] Coblentz (1896-1982) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Atlantis as a eutopia. Athenian democracy limited in size to 600,000 residents. Common property except for personal property. Free housing. All posts gained by defeating rivals in debate. Education by the wise. Laws approved by 100 citizens and then put to a referendum within thirty days.

JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (New York) VL - 1.3 N1 -

Rpt. Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) 7.2 (Fall 1934): 28-108. Repub. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1948. 2nd ed. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. Los Angeles, CA: Fantasy Pub. Co., 1950. U.K. ed. of 1st ed. Illus. Charles E. McCurdy. London: Fantasy Books, [1948]. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through the Visograph Y1 - 1928 A1 - J[ohn] W[alter] Chancellor (1876-1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The visograph allows the viewer to see far into the past. A despotic world is found on Earth and a eutopian but non-human world on another planet.

PB - Christopher Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Very Private Utopia" Y1 - 1928 A1 - Stuart Chase (1888-1985). KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

First in a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.  Proposes a series of reforms that would, among other things, enhance health, improve beauty by segregating industrial from living areas, ensure economic security, and make life-enhancing work possible. Stresses the importance of leisure. Not the same as 1975 Chase. 

JF - The Nation VL - 126.3280 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fairy Tales of Socialism Y1 - 1927 A1 - Cumberland Clark (1862-1941) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Three stories ("The Fairy Tale of Socialism" (27-42); "If Bolshevism Comes" (63-78); and "Bill's Dream" (189-206) present socialist societies and the terrible conditions in them. Lawlessness, boredom, hunger, etc.

PB - Wass, Pritchard CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Venus" Y1 - 1927 A1 - Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

See the brief synopsis in Colette Lindroth and James Lincoln. Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995), 58-59, which refers to two people having returned from the advanced civilization of Venus.

JF - Unpublished play ER - TY - ABST T1 - "If I Were Dictator" Y1 - 1926 A1 - John Maurice Clark (1884-1963) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay proposing the establishment of industrial councils in each industry composed of employers, workers, consumers, and others with related interests. They would operate under the principles laid out in “An Economic Constitution for the State” (170-89), which proposes limited economic regulation. The councils would take over some of the regulatory functions of the state. This chapter in the second edition published during the Depression and New Deal is vague and general with no specific proposals and a call for more research, and in the “Preface to the Second Edition,” the author says that the chapter, “picturing an imaginary democratic dictator, came close to being abandoned, but a brief fresh treatment was finally retained, with mention of such matter from the earlier version as might still be pertinent” (ix).

JF - Social Control of Business PB - University of Chicago Press, 1926) CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

1926 Clark, John Maurice (1884-1963). “If I Were Dictator.” In his Social Control of Business (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1926), 461-73. The 2nd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1939), 520-25 is completely different and has the title as “If I Were Dictator”. PSt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Return of Don Quixote Y1 - 1926 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented in a play at a country-house weekend. Return to the medieval ideals of craftsmanship, nobility, and usufruct.

PB - Dodd, Mead CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1927. Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Donald Barr (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1999), 8: 45-251.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Hazard at Hansard: The Speech from the Throne, Ottawa, Fourth August 2014 Y1 - 1925 A1 - Hamilton Craig KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. A cut in government expenditures results in a return to a simpler but better life.

PB - Arthur H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shamballah" Y1 - 1925 A1 - Bliss Carman (1861-1929) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem about a Golden Age city written in 1922.

JF - Far Horizons PB - McLelland & Stewart CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ten Years Hence? Y1 - 1925 A1 - Hannah Coron KW - Female author AB -

The novel satirizes the pacifist tendencies of the Labour Party and predicts war and the easy defeat of Britain if it gains power. Right thinking men establish a secret air force and are able to win when the predictions come true.

PB - J.M. Ouseley & Son, Ltd CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “White Man’s Madness” Y1 - 1925 A1 - Lenore E[dith Johnstone] Chaney (1881-1972) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race story in which the protagonist is a white man searching for the storied riches of the Incas. He accidentally discovers a peaceful, sheep-tending pre-Incan Aryan community that worships the sun and uses gold for their dishes and jewels as decoration. 

JF - Weird Tales VL - 5.1 U2 -

Illus. Andrew Brosnatch

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Man Who Mastered Time Y1 - 1924 A1 - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Third of the Golden Atom stories (see 1922 Cummings). Six thousand years in the future there is a class-based dystopia.

JF - Argosy-All-Story Weekly (New York) VL - 161.4 - 162.2 N1 -

Rpt. Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg, 1924; and in Fantastic Novels Magazine (New York) 3.6 (March 1950): 10-94.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia Interpreted" Y1 - 1924 A1 - Sarah N[orcliffe] Cleghorn (1876-1959) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Traces the history of the world up to a future eutopia. Four "interpretations" of the future are presented--a new ice age, a modern Franciscan movement among women, technological change, and the new nomads. Written as if from July 1995.

JF - Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) VL - 134.1 - 2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley of the Eyes Unseen Y1 - 1924 A1 - Gilbert [Henry] Collins (b. 1890) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Lost race eutopia with a classical Greek culture.

PB - Robert M. McBride and Co CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Age or The Depth of Time Y1 - 1923 A1 - Fred M. Clough KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia 1000 years in the future. Science. Reason. Easy travel in the solar system; other planets being inhabited by people from Earth. Rural life with 2-10 acres per home to grow food, which is then liquefied because food is only consumed in liquid form.

PB - The Roxburgh Pub. Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Millionaire; A Tale of the Old World and the New Y1 - 1923 A1 - Duncan Campbell KW - Male author AB -

Nationalization of land and a limit on income brings a eutopia.

PB - Heath Cranton CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Medical Utopia” Y1 - 1923 A1 - Dr. J. Walter Carr (b. 1862) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief report on Dr. J. Walter Carr’s (b. 1862) oration at the Medical Society of London. The oration probably had the title “From Cradle to Crematorium” and depicts a dystopia in which a socialist government functioning as a “medical autocracy” sets the rules governing health care in ways that severely restrict freedom. He concluded that it would be better to be free than healthy. At the time Carr was a consulting physician at the Royal Free Hospital.

JF - The Hospital and Health Review  VL - 2.21 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Girl in the Golden Atom Y1 - 1922 A1 - Ray[mond King] Cummings (1887-1957) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Gulliveriana with the world in an atom. Monarchy with advisers (half men and half women). No money. See also 1924 and 1958 Cummings.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Textual differences in U.S. ed. New York: Harper, 1923. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Part originally published as “The Girl in the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 95.1 (March 15, 1919): 1-29. This was rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries (New York) 1.1 (September-October 1939): 75-99; Super Science and Fantastic Stories 1.20 (October 1945): 4-29; Fantastic Novels Magazine 5.1 (June 1951): 40-69; and Famous Science Fiction 1.1 (Winter 1966/67): 11-60. Part was also originally published as “The People of the Golden Atom.” All-Story Weekly (New York) 106.2 - 107.3 (January 24 - February 28, 1920): 161-81, 173-89, 583-602; 127-41, 296-316, 373-89, 445-60. This was rpt. in Fantastic Novels (New York) 1.2 (September 1940): 6-117; and in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of “The Scientific Romance” in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 175-219. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Secret Power Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Most of the novel is romance with a somewhat demented scientist who develops a weapon that he hopes will stop war. Embedded in the novel is a brief description of the “Golden City,” where people much advanced beyond normal humans live.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

U.S. ed. without the subtitle Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. 

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Marie Corelli [pseud.].

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Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The White Pope, Called "The Light Out of the East" Y1 - 1920 A1 - S[amuel] R[utherford] Crockett (1860-1914) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

A new Pope, rejected by his own church for his radical ideas, transforms Jerusalem and then the entire world into a eutopia. Peace and prosperity reign.

PB - Books Limited CY - Liverpool, Eng. N1 -

U.S. ed. as The Light Out of the East. New York: George H. Doran, 1920.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Castle in the Air or The Might Be Land Y1 - 1919 A1 - Clara Gilbert Cole (1868-1956) KW - Female author AB -

Communist eutopia. "No buying and selling; only giving, taking and making" (2). Education mostly through play outdoors among flowers and gardens. Everyone works. No Parliament. No money.

PB - The Dreadnought Press CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A City Without a Church Y1 - 1919 A1 - John Colwyn KW - Male author AB -

The revolution of 1938 leads, after a period without religion, to a realization of the need for religion.

PB - A.H. Stockwell CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dark Cottage" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Eutopia in which a man who had been a relatively enlightened industrialist wakes up fifty years after being injured in World War I and is led to see how unenlightened he had actually been. Examples given are that he introduced electricity to his own estate but not, although easily able to do so, to his works, built houses for his workers but in an extremely unhealthy, swampy area because it was convenient to his factories, which were polluting the atmosphere, opposed women's suffrage, and generally opposed any legislation that would have improved the education, health, or working conditions of the lower classes. The eutopia, though, is still class based and the upper classes still have servants.

JF - Pears's Christmas Annual (London) N1 -

Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: John Murray, 1921), 55-82. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 55-82.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "England in 1919; Being an Extract From a School History of the Period published in 1969" Y1 - 1919 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

1919 seen as a dystopia called the period of the Plutocracy.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd" Y1 - 1919 A1 - John Cournos (1881-1966). KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Russian author KW - US author AB -

Anti-communist dystopia. The author was born in Russia and lived in the US from age ten, except for 1912-30, which he spent in England. The author contends that this is factual rather than fictional.

JF - The Nineteenth Century and After VL - 85 N1 -

Repub. as London Under the Bolsheviks: A Londoner's Dream on Returning from Petrograd. London: Russian Liberation Committee. No 4 of Russian Liberation Committee Publications, 1919.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Out of the Silence: A Romance" Y1 - 1919 A1 - Erle [Harold] Cox (1873-1950) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Flawed utopia. A past society had a highly developed, but authoritarian civilization with exceptional art and science . Explicitly racist and with a focus on eugenics, although the author of the Postscript in the Capricorn edition argues that the book is a warning against such thinking rather than supporting it. The argument is, essentially, that Cox is presenting the Eugenic Utopia as it would develop, which later became the goal of Nazi Germany, but that Cox intended it to be read as a dystopia. No direct evidence is presented, but it is a plausible interpretation. Survivors who had been put in suspended animation are discovered, which is initially perceived positively, but they are found to have no concern at all for humans, who they consider to be the lower beings.

JF - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic, Australia) N1 -

Rpt. Melbourne, VIC: Edward A. Vidler, [1925]; Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1981; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Van Ikin (ii-iv). U.K. edition London: John Hamilton, [1927]. U.S. edition New York: Rae D. Henkle, 1928. 4th edition Melbourne, VIC: Robertson & Mullens, 1932. 1947 edition by the same publisher, labeled a reprint, is, in fact, substantially revised, cut by 15% and with an added Prologue (vii-xxii). This edition reprinted Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. The edition published [Appleton, WI]: Capricorn Publishing, 2006 restores cuts and includes the “Prologue” from the 1947 edition (228-236), which makes this the first complete edition. It also includes “A Note on the Text” ([iii] and “Book Wrangler’s Postscript” The Intellectual Sources of Erle Cox’s Out of the Silence” by John Costello (237-[248]) A daily comic strip version by Hix [Reginald E. Hicks] was published in The Argus (August 4 - December 21, 1934), generally on page 2. Radio serial version on 2CH Sydney March 11 - June 10, 1940, and 3BD Melbourne April 7 - September 2, 1943.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Walled Towns Y1 - 1919 A1 - Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) KW - Male author AB -

Medieval eutopia--Although the author said he was not intending to write a eutopia, this essay presents a eutopia that is rural, with a guild system, crafts, a limit on profit, and a maximum of thirty hours work per week in mills. Closeness of church and state. Anti-democratic. Emphasis on the human scale and small communities. The author sees it as a prediction based on an interpretation of the past.

PB - Marshall Jones Co CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. Seattle, WA: Entropy Conservationists, [1987].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Federation of the World Y1 - 1917 A1 - Charles Conroy KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Short essay that includes some utopian sections on the advantages of world federalism.

PB - Author CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Vision of the Future Y1 - 1916 A1 - Richard Marvin Chapman KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia of a future society based on science and eugenics.

PB - The Cosmopolitan Press CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mania of the Nations on the Planet Mars and Its Terrific Consequences. A Combination of Fun and Wisdom Y1 - 1915 A1 - [James Howard] [Calisch] (1863-1926) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on human foibles using Mars. Religion. Focus on religion and nationalism. 

PB - The Denker Publishers CY - New York U3 -

A. Calmadenker [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Modern Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Babyland" Y1 - 1915 A1 - John R[ussell] Corydell (1848-1924) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A crusty, puritanical descendent of Gulliver visits a eutopia where children are taught about their bodies from an early age.

JF - Physical Culture (New York) VL - 34.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Windmills: A Book of Fables Y1 - 1915 A1 - Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two utopias--the first starts as a Robinsonade in "Samways Island" but concludes as a eutopia stressing world peace as "Ultimus." The second, "Gynecologia," is a typical gender-role reversal story. Much heavy-handed satire in both.

PB - Martin Secker CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Felicians Y1 - 1914 A1 - Isaac Carlson KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Advanced society on Mars. Scientifically far ahead of Earth. No nationalism; one language. Birth in laboratories. All children raised by the state. All food made in laboratories. Music and dance are important.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Flying Inn Y1 - 1914 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humor--Europe is part of the Moslem Empire, as it is spelled in the book. Effect of the closing of the pubs on the British.

PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Iain T. Benson (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 2004), 7: 421-665. The songs found throughout the text were originally published in The New Witness as follows: “A Song Against Grocers.” 1.2 (November 14, 1912): 47; “The Song of the English.” 1.4 (November 28, 1912): 111; “A Song of Songs.” 1.7 (December 19, 1912): 207; “The Song of the Good Rich Man.” 1.9 (January 2, 1913): 271; “A Song of Strange Drinks.” 1.12 (January 23, 1913): 367; “Song of the Happy Vegetarians.” 1.13 (January 30, 1913): 398; “Song of the Temperance Hotel.” 1.14 (February 6, 1913): 436; “The Song of the Strange Ascetic.” 1.16 (February 20, 1913): 495; “The Song of the Second Deluge.” 1.17 (February 27, 1913): 527; “A Song of Dietetic Logic.” 2.45 (September 11, 1913): 591; “A Song of Temperance Reform.” 2.47 (September 25, 1913): 658; “The Song of the Alternative Explanations of the Curvature of the English Country Road.” 2.51 (October 23, 1913): 785; and “Song of the Dog named Quoodle.” 3.56 (November 27, 1913): 111. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Marriage of Souls: A Metaphysical Novel Y1 - 1914 A1 - Veni Cooper-Mathieson (b. 1867). KW - Female author AB -

Allegorical novel. Presents a future eutopian Australia based on religion.

PB - The Truth-Seeker Pub. Co. CY - Perth, WA, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once in a Blue Moon" Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Eimar Ultan] [O'Duffy] (1893-1935) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A slight satire on the relations between Britain (Buljohn) and Ireland (Iernia) in which the former oppresses the later until cajoled into changing his ways.

JF - The National Student. A Magazine of Student Life. Conducted by the Students of University College, Dublin VL - 4.6 (16) U3 -

Colin Clout [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gay Rebellion Y1 - 1913 A1 - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire on women's rights. Includes a women's community that tries to throw off male domination through the use of eugenics.

PB - D. Appleton CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975. 298 pp.

Parts published earlier in Hampton’s Magazine--“Amourette.” 26.5 (May 1911): 530-47; “A Matter of Eugenics.” 26.6 (June 1911): 675-86; “Pro Bono Publico: Further Developments in the Eugenist Suffragette Campaign.” 27.1 (July 1911): 19-30; “Lords of Creation.” 27.2 (August 1911): 131-43; and “A Daughter of the Revolution.” 27.3 (September 1911): 330-40 with 337-38 misnumbered as 339-336. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of Gold. Dedicated to "Whomsoever", November 1888. Rejected by the Builders of Books For a Quarter of a Century Y1 - 1913 A1 - Benjamin Fowler Carpenter KW - Male author AB -

The novel describes an attempt to establish a eutopia in which the richest will rule on an isolated island and ultimately the world. Much romance and intrigue. Fails.

PB - The Christopher House CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - As It Is In Heaven Y1 - 1912 A1 - Alfred Clark KW - Male author AB -

Domestic heaven written for children.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Election Petition Y1 - 1912 A1 - J. Cargill AB -

Satire set in 1950. Women had won the franchise and disenfranchised men. Sympathy had begun to return to men, and there is a legal case brought after an election in which a woman supported by men was elected.

PB - Samuel French CY - London VL - French's Acting edition 2423 U5 -

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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 - "A Program of Radical Democracy" Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[ames] Mckeen Cattell (1860-1940) ED - J. McKeen Cattell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Essay outlining the basis for a eutopia with, among other provisions, universal suffrage, including children; the abolition of limitation on the powers of both national and state governments; progressive income tax on individuals and corporations; conversion of the army into local police and the navy into a mercantile marine; international arbitration; free medical care; pensions; and the eight-hour workday and minimum wage.

JF - The Popular Science Monthly (New York) VL - 80 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Answer Y1 - 1911 A1 - William James Chidley (1860-1916) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Natural food (fruit and nuts), no hot drinks, nudity. Has an odd notion of coitus, which should take place when the penis is not erect. No alcohol, tobacco, or opium. If we live his way, we will produce a eutopia. No war, no quarrels. Proposes gardens be set aside for young lovers in the Spring and early Summer. The poor, weak, criminal, and stupid "should be fed, sheltered, and treated with kindness and consideration" (195). "Class distinctions, money-making, ambition, violence, warfare and pride" are "a weakness or perversion" (195). The author was regularly imprisoned or incarcerated in mental hospitals for advocating his beliefs. 

PB - Sydney D. Smith CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

2nd ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney D. Smith, 1914. Rpt. in Bill Hornadge, Chidley’s Answer to the Sex Problem (Dubbo, NSW, Australia: Review Publications, 1971), 54-90. See also Chidley’s The Answer, or the World As Joy, An Essay in Philosophy (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney D. Smith, 1915), 155-205, which is reportedly an edition from between the first two.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Simple Life Limited Y1 - 1911 A1 - [Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox] [Hueffer] (1873-1939) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire directed against an experimental community of people trying to live the simple life.

PB - John Lane, The Bodley Head CY - London U3 -

Daniel Chaucer [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spirit Messages with an Introductory Essay on Spiritual Vitality Y1 - 1911 A1 - Hiram Corson (1828-1911) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The work is mostly composed of messages from well-known writers of the past (Longfellow, Tennyson, Whitman), friends of the family, and family members. But buried in the messages are descriptions of the afterlife, which is a standard "domestic heaven".

PB - Austin Pub. Co CY - Rochester, NY N1 -

New ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1919.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Five Bakers of Dubhampool: A Peep into the Future With Full Freedom Given to the Imagination Y1 - 1910 A1 - Arthur A. Clift KW - Male author AB -

Christian and socialist eutopia.

PB - A. A. Clift CY - Shirley, Southampton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gulliver Redivivus" Y1 - 1910 A1 - Algernon Cecil (1879-1953) KW - Male author AB -

Satire. Lemuel Gulliver from 1726 Swift had visited an island called Callimago during his voyages and married a woman of the island. In this work a descendant of theirs visits England or Isotaria and Ireland or the Isles of Saints and describes their oddities.

JF - Essays in Imitation PB - John Murray CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Roadtown Y1 - 1910 A1 - Edgar [Stephen] Chambless (1870-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A cooperative eutopia built as a long, road-like city written as a serious proposal with a considerable amount on how it will be constructed and operate. Cooperative housework and cooking. Cottage industry in which each house has a work room and machines can be purchased or rented. The illustration on the cover shows the structure of the city.

PB - Roadtown Press CY - New York U2 -

The illustration on the cover shows the structure of the city.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beatrice the Sixteenth Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Thomas] [Baty] (1869-1954) KW - English author KW - Transgender author AB -

While the novel is largely taken up with palace intrigue and conflicts with neighbors, there are eutopian elements in its presentation of an aristocratic society based on slavery and servants (both well treated of course) that is almost entirely female.

PB - George Bell & Sons CY - London U3 -

Irene Clyde [pseud.]. The pseudonym has been described as the “transgender personal of the author.” 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Finding of Mercia Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Harold Northway]] [Robbins] (1874-1973) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed eutopia inhabited by Puritans. Austere, devoted Christians. No money. State ownership. Mercia equals Mercy Land.

PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner CY - London U3 -

Cassius-Minor [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Red Dragon or the Flaming Red Devil Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Cyrus Reed] [Teed] (1838-1908) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Japan and China overrun the earth but ultimately Christianity and astrology win. See also his The Cellular Cosmogony or The Earth a Concave Sphere. Estero, FL: Guiding Star Pub. House, 1905. A community based on Teed's ideas was established in Florida.

PB - Guiding Star Pub. House CY - Estero, FL U3 -

Lord Chester [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morgan Rockefeller's Will; A Romance of 1991-2 Y1 - 1909 A1 - Francis H. Clarke KW - US author AB -

The Rockefeller estate (accumulated for five generations) is donated to the government and is controlled by a paternal brotherhood for the good of the people.

PB - Clarke-Cree Publishing Company CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Paradise Found and the Society of New Epoch (An Ergocracy) Y1 - 1909 A1 - J. A. Cole M.D. KW - US author AB -

A detailed eutopia describing a successful community in South America with a stress on cooperation and eugenics. Ergocracy refers to cooperative industrialism.

PB - [Author] CY - [Sacramento, CA] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reconstructing Eden: "Steve" Crabtree's scheme to eliminate temptation and abolish evil Y1 - 1909 A1 - Howard Louis Conrad KW - Male author AB -

Humor--presents a eutopia based on eliminating temptation and then criticizes it.

PB - New Eden Pub. Co. CY - Columbus, OH U2 -

Illus. W. A. Ireland. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Votes for Men: A Dialogue" Y1 - 1909 A1 - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Satire in which the female Prime Minister argues that men do not want the vote despite huge demonstrations and all the other activities of the women's suffrage movement.

JF - Cornhill Magazine VL - ns 27 N1 -

Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: Murray, 1921), 200-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 200-15. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Prodigal City Y1 - 1908 A1 - Tristam Coutts KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel depicting a model town and its failure.

PB - Greening & Co. CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Woman's Aye and Nay Y1 - 1908 A1 - [Adelina Georgina] [Kingscote] (d. 1908) KW - Female author AB -

Satire in which votes for women are a disaster.

PB - John Long CY - London U3 -

Lucas Cleeve [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Utopia" Y1 - 1907 A1 - Cecil [Edward] Chesterton (1879-1918) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A non-fiction description of his eutopia stressing socialism, nationality, religion, festivity, the family, and a fairly conservative gender equality.

JF - The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, and Art VL - 692 (ns 2.7) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Anglo-American Alliance. A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future Y1 - 1906 A1 - Gregory Casparian (1856-1942) KW - Armenian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia that includes a wide variety of reforms. Odd, in that the main character begins as a woman and becomes a man. Co-education had been abandoned. Women's Clubs are a vehicle to bring about reform but vote to not be involved in politics. Central Africa colonized by the poor and homeless from Britain and the U.S. An American penal colony is established on an island in the Philippines. See https://gizmodo.com/the-first-lesbian-science-fiction-novel-published-in-1-5847805.

PB - Mayflower Presses CY - Floral Park, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Plan of Laughing Land. A Money Back Book Y1 - 1906 A1 - W. Costley AB -

Detailed socialist eutopia. All children are taught political economy. No waste of any sort and land not used for another purpose is planted with trees that produce nuts that can be eaten or fed to animals. A tree is planted every time a child is born, and the child is taught to care for it. Details on housing and affiliated public facilities. Details on agriculture. Every child is taught practical work, with traditional gender divisions, and everyone does some such work. Money in the form of labor checks and goods cost the amount of labor put into them.

PB - World Press CY - Oakland, CA N1 -

Rev. ed. Oakland, CA: B.W. Costley, [1921?] which has an additional subtitle on the cover--The Science of Political Economy in a Nut Shell. Looking Forward

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Greater Heaven or From Pulpit to Paradise: A Christmas Eve Story Y1 - 1905 A1 - William Cooper (b. 1852) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem that presents a heaven that welcomes all people of all religions and is a place of joy and companionship shown in a dream of a dour Scots Presbyterian minister who then changes his preaching from threats to hopes.

PB - Ptd. by Geddis & Blomfield CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mark Meredith: A Tale of Socialism Y1 - 1905 A1 - C[harles] H[enry] Chomley (1868-1943?) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Anti-socialist novel, probably written specifically against William Lane (1861-1917), the founder of New Australia. See 1888 and 1892 Lane for his utopias. 

PB - Edgerton & Moore CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Above; A Duologue Y1 - 1905 A1 - Martha Foote Crow (1854-1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Play about a mechanical dystopian world underground and search by two lovers for a way out.

PB - Blue Skys Press CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Cast Away at the Pole” Y1 - 1904 A1 - William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Lost race story that includes a dystopia (initially seen as a eutopia by one of the characters) in which intelligence rules/enslaves strength.

JF - The Argosy VL - 44.4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Napoleon of Notting Hill Y1 - 1904 A1 - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in an odd combination of humor and a return to the medieval ideal of independent villages in London.

PB - John Lane: The Bodley Head CY - London N1 -

Rpt. New York: John Lane, 1909; Beaconsfield, Eng.: Darwen Finlayson, 1964; in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Denis J. Conlon (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1991), 6: 215-379; New York: Dover, 1991; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994; and Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023, with “Introduction: Dystopias Are Problems Plus Time” (xv-xxiv) by Madeline Ashby.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Our Animated Flat” Y1 - 1903 A1 - [Edith Cecil] [Maturin] (b. ca. 1865) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -

Satire on technological improvements to domestic life. 

JF - Strand Magazine VL - 26.151 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Round Trip to the Year 2000 or a Flight Through Time" Y1 - 1903 A1 - William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire and dystopia. Trusts, such as the Air Trust which sells air for breathing (Compare to 1915 England) , women who are too assertive for the protagonist, men and women dressing alike, thought control, and robots that revolt. A sequel is “Castaways of the Year 2000.” The Argosy (New York) 70.3 - 71.3 (October 1912 - February 1913): 582-98, 871-91; 152-70, 405-24, 673-88, in which some from 2000 return to 1900 and then go back to 2000 to rescue the rest..

JF - The Argosy (New York) VL - 42.4- 43.4 N1 -

Rpt. without the subtitle. New York: Street & Smith, 1903. The Adventure Library No. 4. Rpt. New York: Street and Smith, 1925. The Adventure Library No. 120, which is rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974 with an unpaged introduction "A Cook's Tour of Tomorrow" by Sam[uel] Moskowitz, who is unaware of the 1903 Street and Smith edition.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream of the Twenty-First Century" Y1 - 1902 A1 - Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874-1967) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia. Government ownership of basic resources and utilities brought about by women's votes. Compulsory education through twenty-two. Initiative and referendum. Everyone works an average five hour day. No trusts. Civil service. Rational religion based on the moral teachings of Jesus. Marriage universal and two children is the norm. See the author’s The New Womankind. New York: Broadway Publishers, 1904. 

JF - Arena (Boston, MA) VL - 28.5 N1 -

Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 207-11 with an editor’s note on 205-06; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 126-30. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Romance of Races or The Genesis of Nations Y1 - 1901 A1 - Charles M. Carter KW - Male author AB -

Various eutopias. The first comes about as a result of a shipwreck that leaves a group stranded in Antarctica where they create a moneyless Christian republic. The others are advanced prehistoric civilizations.

PB - The Neale Publishing Co CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Two Thousand Years of Celestial Life. Introduction to Science and Key of Life; Manifestations of Divine Law. [Received Through Psychic Telegraphy]. Autobiography of Clytina; Born in Athens, 147 B.C. Passed to Celestial Life, 131 B.C. Y1 - 1901 A1 - [Henry Clay] [Hodges], comp. [written by] KW - Male author AB -

Spiritualism. Mars is technically and spiritually advanced, although it is said to have passed beyond the scientific age. Jupiter is even more spiritually advanced than Mars.

PB - Astro Publishing. Co CY - Detroit, MI U3 -

Clytina [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Visitors from Mars; A Narrative Y1 - 1901 A1 - Charles Cole KW - Male author AB -

Mars as eutopia. Vegetarian with no cooking at all. Free love and gender equality.

PB - Ptd. by Beattie & Hofmann CY - Portland, OR U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Poliopolis and Polioland: A Trip to the North Pole Y1 - 1900 A1 - J[ames] M. Chaney KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly on astronomy and mechanical contrivances but describes a country at the North Pole that could be called a dystopia. The upper house of the legislature is based on wealth and the president is the person paying the most taxes and the entire tendency of policy is to enrich the wealthy and impoverish the poor.

PB - Author CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 Y1 - 1900 A1 - Robert William Cole (1869-1937) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The Anglo-Saxon race had absorbed the world with England and Germany dividing it up and the United States reunited with England. London is the capital of the solar system. New power sources and been discovered. The sciences and engineering are considered the only worthwhile subjects of study because they are ". . . the only subjects that gave an adequate return for the labour spent on them" (7). The study of the humanities has been abolished. Two classes--intellectuals and menials. Riots followed by a future war, with most of the novel on the war.

PB - Elliot Stock CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction. Ed. Kate Macdonald. Volume 1 The Empire of the Future. Ed. Richard Bleiler (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 133-97, with Bleiler’s “Introduction to Cole’s The Struggle for Empire (107-31), “Contemporary Essays by Robert Cole and Others” (207-39), and “Editorial Notes” (245-49). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Impression Club. A Novel Y1 - 1899 A1 - John Henton Carter, Commodore Rollingpin KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious novel showing how lives can be transformed through religious belief, temperance, and the influence of women. The focus is on a group of individuals, but the novel suggests the eutopia that is in the process of being created.

PB - Carter & Bro. CY - New York U2 -

Illus. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In a State of Nature Y1 - 1899 A1 - Alfred Clark KW - Male author AB -

Primitive lost race dystopia with an English sect that believes in not doing anything to interfere with nature. They don't bathe, cook food, use money, or have a government.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The No-Din': Romance, History and Science of the Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands With Illustrations Y1 - 1899 A1 - E[rastus] S. Curry (1837-1906) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly adventure set in America in the time of the Biblical patriarchs. The world is dominated by the descendants of Cain. A small group of people establish a vaguely described eutopia that survives innumerable attacks. See also the author’s The Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands as Disclosed through Indian Traditions Comprehending also the Origin of Matter and the Formation of the World the Periodic Changes of the Earth the Glacial Periods and Astronomy Solving the Chronological Problems, Etc., Etc. In Five Volumes. Fully Illustrated. Volume I [only vol. published]. Christy, MO: Published by the Author, 1903. 

PB - Published by the Author CY - Christy, MO U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Jones' Picnic Y1 - 1898 A1 - S[amuel] E. Chapman M.D. (1847-1930) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The novel is primarily concerned with a voyage to the North Pole in an aluminum balloon, but there are discussions of the improvements in society and in medicine in particular.

PB - Whitaker & Ray Co. CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ionia; Land of Wise Men and Fair Women Y1 - 1898 A1 - Craig, Alexander KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. All land owned by the municipality. Mixture of public and private ownership of other property. Little government and laws are few and simple. No alcohol, and temperance is a major theme of the novel. Population kept low. Small family farms with no hired farm laborers. Eugenics.

PB - E.A. Weeks CY - Chicago, IL N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Socialist Parable” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Herbert N. Casson KW - Male author AB -

A happy, agricultural, cooperative socialist village is briefly convinced by a warped man that capitalism is best.

JF - The New Time. A Magazine of Social Progress VL - 2.2 [6.2 of New Occasions] U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The White Women” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Mary E[lizabeth] Coleridge (1861-1907) ED - [Henry] [Newbolt], ed. KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Amazons presented in eutopian terms. Said to be “From a legend of Malay, told by Hugh Clifford (78). 

JF - Poems PB - Elkin Matthews CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge. Ed. Theresa Whistler (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954), 212-13. The “Preface” to the 1908 ed. says that this poem and eleven others were first published “in a volume by several authors called ‘The Garland’,” which is probably The Garland of New Poetry by Various Authors. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899, which contains twelve poems by the author but not this one. The 1954 edition places the poem as 1900 without explanation. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Brighter Climes, Or Life in Socioland. A Realistic Novel Y1 - 1897 A1 - Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) KW - Male author KW - Swiss author KW - US author AB -

Continuation of 1892 Chavannes. This novel traces the experience of a young couple from the U.S. fleeing unemployment, settling in Socioland, and gradually becoming integrated into its society. There are no rich and poor and all must work; there are few laws and both men and women vote directly on legislation; much land and most manufacturing owned in common; and local townships mostly control their own affairs within the general egalitarian structure. See also his The Concentration of Wealth: A Study of its Causes, Results and Remedies. New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893. He wrote and mostly self-published many works on economic issues and health. 

PB - Chavannes and Company CY - Knoxville, East Tennessee VL - New Thought Library, No. 1 (May 1897) U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - That Tree of Eden: A Study in the Real Decadence Y1 - 1897 A1 - Nicholas Christian KW - Male author AB -

Satire on a utopian experiment.

PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Yermah the Dorado Y1 - 1897 A1 - Frona Eunice Wait (1859-1946) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Lost race novel describing a scientifically advanced colony of Atlantis located in what is now San Francisco. It is destroyed by an earthquake.

PB - William Doxey CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -

Rev. as by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn with the subtitle The Story of a Lost Race. New York: Alice Harriman Co., 1912. U.K. ed. of rev. ed. London: B.F. Stevens and Brown, 1913.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Verge. Home of Ten Lost Tribes of Israel Y1 - 1896 A1 - De Witt C[harles] Chipman (1824-1910) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The ten lost tribes of Israel reside in a paradise in the center of the earth. Technologically advanced using knowledge of science and, particularly, of electricity. All live over 400 years. Chemists create most foods not grown; no animal food used.

PB - James H. Earle CY - Boston, MA U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World Y1 - 1896 A1 - James Cowan (1870-1943) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian, egalitarian, anarchist, suburban eutopia set on Mars, which had gone through a history directly parallel to that of Earth. Garden-like cities. Science. No private property. Gender equality. Christ had revealed himself on Mars, and the Martians took him seriously. Much adventure. Improved nature and even horses are born tame.

PB - George H. Richmond CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 2nd ed. New York: George H. Richmond, 1896.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Revolution Y1 - 1895 A1 - Henry L[aurens] Call (1867-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The book is primarily a critique of the existing system with one chapter presenting “The New Republic” (206-19) in which there will be no extremely rich or inheritance, which will result in the establishment of an equality of opportunity, no monopoly in land, government banking, publicly owned transportation and utilities, no speculation or trusts, and democratic government

PB - Arena Publishing Co. CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Lovell Brothers, 1896.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Opening of the Chamber" Y1 - 1895 A1 - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

After a series of conflicts and war with Germany, the United States has created a eutopian life, but the government begins to encourage suicide. No explanation is given.

JF - The King in Yellow PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The World's Shortest Stories: An Anthology. Ed. Richard G. Hubler (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961), 71-74.

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People of the Moon. A Novel Y1 - 1895 A1 - [Edward] Tremlett Carter (1866-1903) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A complex multi-genre novel set in a hollow moon combining adventure, fantasy, romance, and science fiction, which is the emphasis of the novel. Some on the lives of the people.

PB - "The Electrician” Printing and Publishing Co. and Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co. CY - London U2 -

Illus. A. d’Aguilcourt

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Repairer of Reputations” Y1 - 1895 A1 - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The story begins with a detailed description of a eutopia set in 1920. The eutopia was brought about following the almost successful invasion of the U.S. by Germany. The country is prosperous, the cities are being systematically improved, as are the fine arts and the national park system. Religious toleration has been established. Voluntary euthanasia has been instituted. Elements of racism in that racial and ethnic problems have been solved by limiting immigration, expelling all foreign-born Jews, establishing a separate Negro state, and recruiting Indians into separate squadrons in the military. The story then shifts to the protagonist’s belief that he is the descendent of American royalty and that he is fated to rule.

JF - The King in Yellow PB - F. Tennyson Neely CY - New York N1 -

Also, in Neely’s Prismatic Library (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895), 9-54. Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 1-44; and in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 78-98. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Root of the Matter: Being a Series of Dialogues on Social Questions Y1 - 1895 A1 - H[enry] H[yde] Champion (1859-1928) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Fiction in which one person describes socialism.

PB - E.W. Cole CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Co-operative State Farm Scheme: A Means for Providing Remunerative Employment for All Surplus Labour; A Home for the Aged, Infirm, and Needy; Ways and Means for Teaching Trades, or Such Other Technical Education To Our Rising Generation As Will Enable Them To Earn Their Own Maintenance; and Totally Abolishing Poor Rates. In Three Parts Y1 - 1894 A1 - W. H. Clarke KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

The author outlines two schemes. First, he proposes to establish four farms in different parts of the country where new immigrants can be taken to avoid being fleeced and to learn to farm by working for six to twelve months. Second, he proposes that six blocks of 20,000 to 25,000 acres each be set aside for state cooperative farms where able bodied unemployed, orphans from age ten, and former prostitutes will be able to work. The children will learn for two years and then work in "flower culture" for two years to pay back their education. At fourteen boys become state apprentices to learn skills; girls at fourteen are taught domestic skills. Includes costs of the scheme.

PB - Samuel Costall, Government Printer CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dashed Against the Rocks: A Romance of the Coming Age Y1 - 1894 A1 - William [Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritualism including a briefly described eutopia on Mars. The chief representatives of the twelve districts of Mars are twelve married couples who legislated with no strife. Martians cooperate for the good of all. Mars is scientifically advanced, and it is also religious in that they have knowledge of God.

PB - Colby & Rich CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Man and His Soul: An Occult Romance of Washington Life Y1 - 1894 A1 - T[heron] C[lark] Crawford, K.C. KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Detailed eutopia. Stress on training for public life. On the Island of Nolos it is possible to see the ideal organization of life. Chapter XVII (166-71), “Picturing Ideal Possibilities of Our Future National Life,” describes the city of Washington. Chapter XVIII (172-83), “The Life of the Nation After Ideal Conditions Are Reached,” describes the noble profession of politics and the education provided for those planning on entering this profession, which includes travel to other countries, free mass education, including physical training, that is compulsory for the poor, with the children fed at need, every public building open 24 hours and usable as shelter by the poor, and the technological advances that provides free light and heat and food in liquid form but with exquisite taste at cost. Municipalities like companies with only property-owners having a say. Chapter XXII (213-22), “Showing the Future Government of Affairs in the United States,” describes, among other things, a Cabinet in which the highest post is that of Secretary of the Public Welfare, followed by the Secretary of the Liberal Arts. Other cabinet officers are the secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and Spiritual Development. In Chapter XXVIII (223-34) “The ideal President holds a conversation with the real President of the United States.”

PB - Charles B. Reed CY - New York U2 -

Illus.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Utopia" Y1 - 1894 A1 - S[amuel] C[ooper] C[ope], Probable author (1865?-1928) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Satire on reform, specifically aimed at Parliamentary action on farming, unemployment, banking, and women's rights.

JF - Otago Witness VL - no. 2118 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Apocalypse of Life Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[alter] T[homas] Cheney (b. 1859) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Spiritual eutopia that will come after death experienced by a spirit who returns to Earth to teach Christ’s message, which is spelled out in a long chapter (165-231) with detailed references to the Bible and other notes. Little detail on the life after death, but there is a stress on intelligence and spirituality. There is no material eating or drinking, and there is a universal language of thought.

PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “By Act of Parliament, 6 and 7 Edward 15th, Anno Domini 2041” Y1 - 1893 A1 - Helen Hoppner Coode KW - Female author AB -

Starts looking back from 3091 which is a pollution free, safe, disease-free London, where ugly old buildings like the Houses of Parliament have been torn down and replaced by elegant homes. Advanced technology in the homes of the wealthy, but with the comment from the undefined future that it is now in all homes. This was brought about by selecting people to die depending on the food available after the ten-year census, but the story shows the problems, including violations of randomness. The focus is on a young woman from a wealthy family who was one of those selected. Very little social change.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Prophet of the People Y1 - 1893 A1 - John Christie (b. 1847) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Economic novel in which the basic ideas of socialism are presented. The final paragraph says it came about, but the eutopia is not presented.

PB - City Printing Co. & N.Z. Field CY - Wellington, New Zealand U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Commonwealth, or What Samuel Balcom Saw in Socioland Y1 - 1892 A1 - Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia in Africa based on the ideas of Herbert Spencer (1820-1963). No taxes. Government ownership of land. Beginning at fourteen, all young people must serve a six-year apprenticeship, which can be served in a wide variety of occupations. All businesses coordinated by an overall Business Office independent of the government and the judiciary. See also 1897 Chavannes and his The Concentration of Wealth: A Study of its Causes, Results and Remedies. New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893. Chavannes wrote and mostly self-published many works on economic issues and health. 

PB - True Nationalist Publishing Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Great Strike" Y1 - 1892 A1 - M. L. C. AB -

In 1920 the Equal Rights Union calls a strike against men. This short piece is the story of the first day of the successful strike told from the point of view of a man who is loosely sympathetic but resents the inconveniences. The few male members of the union were exempt from the strike.

JF - The Woman's Herald VL - 5.168 - 169, 172, 174, 176 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Upwards; or, Nothing New. In Two Parts.--Part I. The Up Grade: From Henry George Past Edward Bellamy on to Higher Intelligences Y1 - 1892 A1 - [Arthur William] [Sanford] (1859-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia brought about through the nationalization of land and industry.

PB - H. Brett CY - Auckland, New Zealand U3 -

Robinson Crusoe [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Maiden of Mars Y1 - 1892 A1 - General F. M. Clarke KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Telepathy. Abundance. Technologically advanced. Spiritualism and adepts.

PB - Charles H. Sergel and Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pantocracy or The Reign of Justice Y1 - 1892 A1 - James Seldon Cowdon KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Detailed reform proposed through a third political party. The reforms include the gradual elimination of the currency system, the end of credit, equal pay, guaranteed regular vacations, equal rights, a labor army, a changed federal governmental structure with each department designated to carry out specific improvements and test others to see if they will work, elimination of the military, and elected bureaucrats. The goal is a United States of the Earth.

PB - Author CY - Washington, DC U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Farming in the Future. (By A Contemplative Cockatoo)" Y1 - 1891 A1 - George Phipps Williams (1847-1909) A1 - W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (1857-1932) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -

Satire on 1889 Vogel focusing, as the title says, on farming and Vogel’s depiction of extremely fertile land that is currently unproductive. 

JF - Double Harness: Poems in Partnership PB - Pub. by the "Lyttelton Times" Publishing Co. CY - Christchurch, New Zealand U3 -

A Contemplative Cockatoo [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Laws & Habits of People Who Live in Other Worlds Y1 - 1891 A1 - Carlenent [pseud.] AB -

Eutopia on another planet that can be contacted from Earth through spiritualism. Much technological improvement. Temperance was the key reform. Marriage with children only allowed between healthy people. Those unhealthy or deformed could marry but were prohibited from having children. Blacks cannot marry whites. Improved, free health care; better, free education; and no poverty. Phrenology is considered a science. 

PB - Hector Ross CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia N1 -

Another volume was planned, but there is no evidence it was published.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nationalism. Or a System of Organic Unity, Individual Equality and Industrial Association, In Place of Our Present State of International [overstamped on cover Industrial] War and Wasting Competition Y1 - 1891 A1 - Sumner F[ranklin] Claflin Esq. (b. 1862) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Mostly an essay but includes a few pages of an 1888 Bellamy style eutopia entitled "Looking Backward From 1940" (28-31), and the author says that he was inspired to write by Bellamy's book. Ends with a poem "In the Land of Is-To-Be".

PB - Pub. by the Author CY - Manchester, NH N1 -

Part originally published in The Manchester [New Hampshire] Telegram.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Tramp in Society Y1 - 1891 A1 - Robert H. Cowdrey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Chapter XV “The City of Freeland” is a description of an industrial town and farm community run for the benefit of the workers. Land is free, and this is the key. Security in the land comes from improving it. No women or children in factory work. “Their natural protectors are able to support them and would feel disgraced if they had to ask their children to assist them in earning a living.” Employers and workers both benefit. Farmers supply the city; as a result, they are not under the heel of the railroads. “Here the farmer is the suburban resident of the city. His well-paved roads are but extensions of the city streets.” No saloons. Stress on the power of public opinion. Gets rid of the middleman. In the last chapter of the book, the Freeland model has extended to the entire country. Also includes “The Sequel to Robinson Crusoe.” Rpt. in The Nationalization News: The Journal of the Nationalization of Labour Society. Established to promote the System proposed in “LOOKING BACKWARD” 3.28 [January 1893: 1-3]) in which Crusoe exploits others through his ownership of the land, which produces a dystopia. Crusoe sees the light and free access to land produces a eutopia. The utopia Ten Men of Money Island (1884) by Seymour F. Norton (b. 1841) is a sequel, and according to Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912), he wrote his utopia The Real History of Money Island (1896) in response to the inadequacies of Norton.

PB - Francis J. Schulte & Co CY - Chicago, IL VL - Ariel Library 2.5 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Valley Council; or, Leaves From the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W. Y1 - 1891 A1 - Percy Clarke, ed. [written by] KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Authoritarian state socialism as a dystopia. Everyone tales turns as servant and master. There are daily changes in the President or Presidentess. When one of a married couple is high ranked the other is low ranked. Meals from the central kitchen. Houses changed at the state’s direction. Vegetarian. State can separate couples if it chooses. Children considered to belong to the state. No animals.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston & Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Aurophone Y1 - 1890 A1 - Cyrus Cole KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Communication with a scientifically advanced Saturn, which has demonstrated the existence of immortality. The initial result is peace and prosperity, with slavery abolished and temperance enforced through the death penalty, but with the social structure and division between the rich and poor unchanged. Later robots (called dummies) are invented and do all the work. The robots revolt, and after the revolt is defeated, it is decided that everyone must work. An industrial army straight out of 1888 Bellamy is established.

PB - Charles H. Kerr & Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver in Mammonland: Being a Suppressed Chapter of Gulliver’s Travels Y1 - 1890 A1 - Richard Chandler, ed. [written by] KW - Male author AB -

Satire set on the Isle of Mammon where the inhabitants are described as mechanical beings driven by greed. Newspapers the Schemer’s Guardian and the Users Diurnal. Book The Whole Art of Diddling. Magazine The Gospel of Greed. The Great National Temple is the Stock Exchange. The “editor” says it is a fake in that the paper bears the watermark 1890.

PB - H. Grube CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "In the Year '26" Y1 - 1890 A1 - Pauline Carsten Curtis KW - Female author AB -

The future of 1888 Bellamy's world in which competition and capitalism are re-established because Bellamy's future Boston was dystopian rather than eutopian. The change back has produced a capitalist eutopia.

JF - Overland Monthly VL - 2nd ser. 15.90 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plunge into Space Y1 - 1890 A1 - Robert Cromie (1856-1907) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. Mars technically and aesthetically advanced. Older culture, less passion, and less government.

PB - Frederick Warne and Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. with a brief "Preface" (5) by Jules Verne. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1976.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mossback Correspondence Together With Mr. Mossback's Views on Certain Practical Subjects, with a Short Account of His Visit to Utopia Y1 - 1889 A1 - Francis E[dward] Clark (1851-1927) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Religious eutopia. Church carriages pick up people; no other vehicles allowed on Sundays. The wisest men are chosen as candidates for political office. ". . . in utopia it is the custom to put the best construction upon every action" (176). 

PB - D. Lothrop CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - New Amazonia; a Foretaste of the Future Y1 - 1889 A1 - Mrs. George [Elizabeth Burgoyne] Corbett (b. 1846) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Feminist eutopia in a society of the far future in Ireland. After war and revolution women’s position worsened, and they colonized Ireland, founding New Amazonia. All government posts held by women, and for the most important posts they can never have been married. The story is about a woman and a man who re projected into the future, the woman experiencing the future as eutopia and the man unable to adjust to it. Detailed regulation of the economy, a national dress with no fashion changes. Stress on physical education and diet to ten, and then everyone learned a trade for four years. All earnings from the next five years taken by the state to reimburse it for educating and maintaining the individual. Advanced technology. It turns out to have been the woman’s dream. The “Prologue” (1-8) says that it was inspired by a feature in the Nineteenth Century opposing women’s suffrage. A humorous comment is L[inda] Timmel Duchamp, “Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 184-200. 

PB - Tower Pub. Co CY - London N1 -

Rpt. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2014 with an “Introduction: A Foretaste of the Future, a Caution from the Past” by Alexis Lothian (1-23). 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions as to the Drift of Things (To Be Read Now and Judged in the Year 2000) Y1 - 1888 A1 - David Goodman Croly (1829-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Predictions, although often fudged with an assertion that science will determine or it is unknowable, that add up to a generally better future. Many topics are covered.

PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York N1 -

Much originally published as parts of a regular column of predictions in the Record and Guide (New York) and revised here.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - How She Did It or Comfort on $150 a Year Y1 - 1888 A1 - Mary Cruger (1834-1908) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel that the author says is based on her experience creating a personal eutopia by building her own house, which is shown in the frontispiece, and living frugally. The book includes house designs, recipes, the cost of groceries, and other practical matters. Female author.

PB - D. Appleton and Co. CY - New York U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Kophetua the Thirteenth" Y1 - 1888 A1 - Julian [Stafford] Corbett (1854-1929) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly romance but includes a eutopia, primarily in volume 1, called Oneira that had been established in Africa during the Renaissance. Based on reason. Tax system similar to that in 1656 Harrington results in wealth and the elimination of all taxes. Some satire on politics when there are no real issues. There is a dystopian enclave created deliberately to provide a place for those incapable of living a good Christian life. This is eliminated by the end of the novel.

JF - Time VL - os 18.40-19.47, 3rd ser. 1.51 - 51 N1 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Margaret Dunmore: or A Socialist Home Y1 - 1888 A1 - J[ane] H[ume] Clapperton (1832-1914) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -

Eutopia presented as the story of a successful intentional community established by a wealthy woman. Particularly concerned with the education of children. The story of the community is told mostly through the histories of its members. See also her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885; and her A Vision of the Future Based on The Application of Ethical Principles. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1904, both of which develop her arguments at length. 

PB - Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co CY - London N1 -

2nd ed. London: Swan Sonnenschein, [1894].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Young Seigneur; or, Nation-Making Y1 - 1888 A1 - [William Douw] [Lighthall] (1857-1954) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -

Mostly concerned with English-French relations in Canada and the building of both Canada as a nation and a Canadian national identity. Includes a short (126-33) plan for "The Ideal State" based on improved education that will produce better people, a fairer distribution of wealth, and the control of vice through censorship and the improvement of dress and manners.

PB - Wm. Drysdale & Co., Publishers CY - Montréal, QC, Canada U3 -

Wilfrid Châteauclair [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Federation of the World Inevitable Before the Year 2000. And the progress of the world during the next hundred years from now enormous, astounding, and greater than that of all the previous centuries put together. The human race, after many ages of fitful, painful, and weary struggling, is now fast ripening to a united, beautiful, and majestic flower, the crowning blossom of earth" Y1 - 1886 A1 - E[dward] W[illiam] Cole (1832-1918) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia presented as predictions. Much on inventions. English will be the universal language. Complete manhood suffrage.

JF - Cole’s Fun Doctor: The Funniest Book in the World PB - George Routledge & Sons/E.W. Cole Book Arcade CY - London/Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Quintura; Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs Y1 - 1886 A1 - Joseph Carne-Ross, ed. [written by] (1844-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Flawed utopia. Rational, egalitarian eutopia that has gone too far and rejected emotion. Stress on technology, health, and cleanliness. Hospitalization for drunkenness and illiteracy; police are also physicians. Intellectual women, who are all narrow-hipped, rejected child-bearing; men show an atavistic tendency to prefer unintellectual women, imported from outside, who will bear children.

PB - John and Robert Maxwell CY - London N1 -

Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 3-55. Editor's notes, 1, 391.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Reached at Last: A Romance of Nineteenth Century Science Chivalrous Endurance and Perseverance With a Sequel Y1 - 1886 A1 - R. H. Cutter AB -

A simple, Christian, lost race eutopia in the North (called a utopia in the book). No real government; the people simply follow the moral laws of the Bible. The novel is mostly adventure; some of it, but not all, is designed as a boy's adventure book.

PB - Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Romance of Two Worlds Y1 - 1886 A1 - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

While the novel is mostly romance and spiritualism, it includes a tour of the solar system. Earth is the only planet where people doubt God. On Saturn people can talk with spirits, sickness and old age do not exist, and death is simply going to sleep. Venus is one great garden, and everyone is inspired by Nature and Art. Jupiter is an electrical civilization with everything done by electricity and part of the book is about Christ as an electrical being. "The Electric Creed" is on pages 229-44.

PB - Richard Bentley CY - London VL - 2 vols. N1 -

Rpt. New York: Garland, 1976; and Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing Co., 1986. New and rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1896 has an Appendix of letters received commenting on the book (326-38) and a Postscript (358-59) commenting on the discovery of what she calls the Röntgen Ray (X-Ray).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fall of the Great Republic Y1 - 1885 A1 - [Abner] [Hitchcock] (1851-1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard anti-socialist dystopia set in the U.S. The importation of socialist ideas was a central problem, but this was made worse by Irish immigration. The U.S. collapses followed by defeat in a war with Europe. An Appendix (207-26) presents documents intended to show the reality of the danger to the U.S.

PB - Roberts Brothers CY - Boston, MA U3 -

Sir Henry Standish Coverdale (Intendant for the Board of European Administration in the Province of New York) [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Statesman. A Few Leaves From the History of Antipodea Anno Domini 3000 Y1 - 1885 A1 - [Joseph Broadbent] [Holmes] KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Detailed conservative eutopia brought about by a single leader. No votes for women. English the world language and Christianity the world religion. Australia inhabited only by Anglo-Saxons.

PB - Edward Lee, Steam Machine Printer CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -

Can C, N.S.W. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Moral World, and a New State of Society Y1 - 1885 A1 - James Casey KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia founded on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858). Money abolished. Industrial colleges are the basis of the new society.

PB - Author CY - Providence, RI U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rational Communism. The Present and the Future Republic of North America Y1 - 1885 A1 - [Alonzo] [Van Deusen] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia. All works of strictly public character owned by the government. Small communities. Very detailed.

PB - The Social Science Publishing Company CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Np: General Books, 2009.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bertha: A Romance of Easter-tide Y1 - 1884 A1 - W[illiam Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A novel of spiritualism that includes a chapter (292-302) describing a proposed spiritualist intentional community planned for Texas. It will be democratic and cooperative.

PB - J. Burns CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia; or, The History of an Extinct Planet Y1 - 1884 A1 - Alfred Denton Cridge (1860-1922) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Flawed utopia. Small communities of 100-300 families that own the industries of the town. National clearing house where all accounts are balanced every six months. Detailed constitution. Ends negatively in that the planet's ecology is destroyed.

PB - Winchester and Pew, printers CY - Oakland, CA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Buffalo Public Library in 1983” Y1 - 1883 A1 - Charles A[mmi] Cutter (1837-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A description of a eutopian library of the future in a wealthy Buffalo benefitting from electricity produced at Niagara Falls. The library is the center of the educational system and connected with libraries around the country.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dominion in 1983 Y1 - 1883 A1 - Ralph Centennius [pseud.] KW - Canadian author AB -

Canada as a eutopia in 1983. Fifteen provinces with a population of 93 million. No taxes. Only fifteen, unpaid Members of Parliament. Private charity. Technically advanced. The North has been settled by Caucasians. The U.S. has been defeated.

PB - Toker and Company CY - Peterborough, ON, Canada U3 -

Centennius, Ralph [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Revi-Lona; A Romance of Love in a Marvelous Land Y1 - 1880 A1 - Frank Cowan (1844-1905) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Communal eutopia at the South Pole without love or kinship where big women ruled little men. No one could speak but had developed a variety of means of communication with flags and gestures and through smell and taste. The eutopia is thousands of years old. It is inadvertently destroyed by a large man encroaching from outside who the women instantly preferred to the men of the country. Much rather heavy-handed satire.

PB - [Tribune Press] CY - [Greensburgh, PA] N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Glance into the Future; or, The World in the Twenty-Ninth Century” Y1 - 1879 A1 - E[lizabeth] T. Corbett (b. 1830) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Technological eutopia combined with satire on technology’s ability to create a utopia.

JF - Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 98.585 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Spirit World: Its Inhabitants, Nature, and Philosophy Y1 - 1879 A1 - Eugene Crowell, M.D. (1817-94) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Heaven as eutopia presented as non-fiction. There are different heavens for different countries, a heaven for Native American Indians, and, within the U.S. heaven, a separate one for African Americans. There is also a hierarchy of heavens and people move up the hierarchy as they progress, and it is noted that the color of African Americans becomes lighter as they progress. Details are given of the cities and the housing including the furniture, but the higher heavens are more rural than urban. Robert Dale Owen (1801-77), the son of Robert Owen (1771-1858), is represented as communicating with the protagonist through a medium and, though he is in a lower heaven, he visits higher heavens and reports on them. The eighteenth heaven manufactures goods for the others.

PB - Colby & Rich CY - Boston, MA N1 -

2nd ed. Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1880.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Future Australian Race Y1 - 1877 A1 - Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846-81) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satiric essay describing a twentieth-century Australia, which will include all of the area to the North including Singapore and to the East including New Zealand. North of the middle of Australia will be an empire. South of it will be a republic with the capital in New Zealand, which the author considers to be the real Australia. In five hundred years the Australian race will be extinct.

PB - A.H. Massina and Co CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adventures in New Guinea: The Narrative of Louis Trégance, A French Sailor: Nine Years in Captivity Among the Orangwöks, a Tribe in the Interior of New Guinea Y1 - 1876 A1 - H[enry] C[rocker] M[arrriott] W[atson] (1835-1901) ED - Henry Crocker, ed. [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -

Typical lost race dystopia. See also 1879 and 1890 Watson.

PB - Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington CY - London U3 -

Ed. Henry Crocker [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eden of Labor; or, The Christian Utopia Y1 - 1876 A1 - T[homas] Wharton Collens (1812-79) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Two societies are depicted, a Christian eutopia that recognizes that labor is the key to the production of wealth and where labor is fairly compensated and Nodland, which is a dystopia reflective of the current reality of selfish capitalism.

PB - Henry Carey Baird & Co. CY - Philadelphia, PA N1 -

Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transmigration Y1 - 1874 A1 - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Volume two is set in a eutopia on Mars. The eutopia is a paradise caused in large part by a gas in the air that prolongs life and generally provides health and a good feeling. No money. The various planets are places where souls spend their lives after death or between reincarnations. Most of the volume consists of interactions among people from the past, mostly classical Greece.

PB - Hurst and Blackett CY - London VL - 3 vols. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fifth Voyage of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Sometime of Nottinghamshire" Y1 - 1873 A1 - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Satire. In Amazonia men are slaves and even dogs are considered superior to men. Women had left England after men had concluded that men were superior to women. Common stores. No money.

JF - Squire Silchester's Whim PB - Henry S. King and Co. CY - London VL - 3 vols. U1 -

Running head "Gulliver in Amazonia"

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crums of Thought from Harmonial Tablets, Served Up in the Author's Own Sauce and Dedicated To All Candidates for Aurelia, By an Impressional Medium Y1 - 1872 A1 - R[obert] F[luke] C[unningham] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -

Detailed egalitarian eutopia. Spiritualist. Much discussion of "Harmonial" life and thought, which is defined as "perfect unity--a happy oneness and accord in all its parts" (3). Cunningham was promoting a proposed communal settlement. See his The Articles of Association, Rules, Regulations, Manners and Customs of the Aurelia Co-operative Land and Labour Association. Thames: Printed by Hopcraft, M’Cullough and Co., [1873?] (VUW); and Prospectus of The Aurelia Co-operative Land and Labour Association. [Thames, 1873?] (VUW).

PB - To be Had of Terry, Bookseller CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U3 -

An Impressional Medium

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain" Y1 - 1871 A1 - John Ruskin (1819-1900) ED - E[dward] T[yas] Cook ED - Alexander Wedderburn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Includes throughout the series, but particularly in Letters LVII and LVIII, a proposal for the Guild of St. George, which will provide land for workers. Other works of Ruskin have been included in lists of utopias, particularly Unto This Last”: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. London: Smith, Elder, 1862, originally published as “‘Unto This Last.’--I. The Roots of Honour;” “‘Unto This Last.’--II. The Veins of Wealth; “‘Unto This Last.’--III. Qui Judicatis Terram; and “‘Unto This Last.’--IV. Ad Valorem.” Cornhill Magazine 2.8-11 (August - November 1860): 155-66, 278-86, 407-18, 543-64. There is a utopianism in much of Ruskin’s thought, and various intentional communities were founded on the basis of Ruskin’s ideas but without his participation.

JF - The Works of John Ruskin PB - George Allen CY - London VL - 39 vols. N1 -

Fors Clavigera is in vols. 27 - 29 (1907). Vol. 27 contains letters 1-36; Vol. 28 contains letters 37-72; and Vol. 28 contains letters 73-96. The letters were originally published separately and collected into volumes as follows: 1-12 (1871) Vol. 1; 13-24 (1872) Vol. 2; 25-36 (1873) Vol. 3; 37-48 (1874) Vol. 4; 49-60 (1875) Vol. 5; 61-72 (1876) Vol. 6; 73-84 (1877) Vol. 7; 85-96 (1878-84) Vol. 8 described as new series]; 85-87 (1878); 88-89 (1880); 90-93 (1884); 94-96 (1884); 85-90 issued as ns 1-6; 91-96 as ns 7-12. New ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1896. Second Small. ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1899-190?. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Ed. Dinah Birch. The Whitehouse Edition of John Ruskin. Edinburgh, Scot.: Edinburgh University Press, 2000 is an edited selection from the letters.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "1970" A Vision of The Coming Age Y1 - 1870 A1 - John Collins (1814-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian poem describing a dream of the millennium in which Christianity is the world religion, and Christian morality is the rule. God has decreed that there will be no more damage by fires, floods, and storms and animals are no longer dangerous. No alcohol, tobacco, or theater. No disease. No hotels; all homes are open to anyone. No lawyers. No stock market. Technology has brought the world, and even the planets, close together. Environmental renewal.

PB - Np CY - Burlington, NJ N1 -

 Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Np [Ptd. Burlington, NJ: Enterprise Print]. 24 pp. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams Y1 - 1870 A1 - Annie Denton Cridge (1825-75) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Gender-role reversal satire.

PB - William Denton CY - Boston, MA N1 -

Rpt. in Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York) 1.17 - 25, 2.1 (whole no. 27) (September 3 - November 5, November 19, 1870): 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 2-3, 2-3, 2-3; 3-4. Selections rpt. without Comprising Dreams in the title in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 75-94 with an editor’s note on 74. Complete text 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), 5-60.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Paradise of Birds: An Extravaganza in Modern Dress Y1 - 1870 A1 - William John Courthope (1842-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Humans kill off most animals and then killed or drove away the birds. As a result, bugs destroy all the crops and starvation threatens. An expedition discovers the Paradise of the Birds at the North Pole and negotiates for their return. See also 1869 Courthope.

PB - William Blackwood and Sons CY - Edinburgh, Scot. N1 -

2nd ed. without the subtitle. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. 1st illus. ed. London: Hatchards, 1889. Another ed. London: Macmillan, 1895.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ludibria Lunae; or, The Wars of Women and the Gods. An Allegorical Burlesque Y1 - 1869 A1 - William John Courthope (1842-1919) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Epic poem. Satire on women's rights following Aristophanes. Presented as beginning in a eutopia which has no rights for women. Women plan to travel to the moon, discover that it is inhabited by the old gods and goddesses, who they challenge. Women are defeated by love and vanity. See also 1879 Courthope.

PB - Smith, Elder and Co CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Visit to Utopia" Y1 - 1869 A1 - Elizabeth T. Corbett (b. 1830) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Marital relations in Utopia.

JF - Harper's New Monthly Magazine VL - 38 N1 -

Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 66-72 with an editor’s note on 65.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eight Castles in Spain" Y1 - 1867 A1 - R[obert] B[arry] Coffin (1826-86) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A series of daydreams and conversations about utopia, including "My Children's Utopia" (Harper's 465-67; book 26-31) and "Utopia Found" (Harper's 588-89; book 42-46). "My Children's Utopia" gives the visions of utopia of three children; "Utopia Found" is family life.

JF - Harper's New Monthly Magazine VL - 35.207 - 209 N1 -

Rpt. as "Castles in the Air." In his Castles in the Air, and Other Phantasies. By Barry Gray [pseud.] (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871), 3-46.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Two Angels, Or, Love-Led; a Story of Either Paradise; In Six Cantos Y1 - 1867 A1 - Thomas Clarke KW - Male author AB -

Poem. Canto III is description of heaven as eutopia where people lead fairly normal but purified lives.

PB - Clarke & Bowron CY - Chicago, IL U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Prue and I Y1 - 1856 A1 - George William Curtis (1824-92) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Seven stories from the point of view of a generally contented but poor man, most of which reflect on utopian themes, wishes and dreams of adventure, riches, and so forth, but they always return to his simple happiness with his wife Prue and their children.

PB - Dix, Edwards CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. as Prue & I. Illus. Albert Edward Sterner. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892; Illus. H[arry] C. Edwards. New York : T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1899 with an Introduction by M.A. DeWole Howe (xi-xxi); and London: J.M. Dent/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Perpetual Peace to the Machine by the Universal Millennium, or The Sovereign Bankocracy, and the Grand Social Ledger of Mankind Y1 - 1855 A1 - Baron Joseph Corvaja (1785-1860) KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -

A series of letters to Robert Owen (1771-1858) that presents a eutopia in which reform of the savings banks will make more money available to the community.

PB - Author CY - London U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Emigrants. An Allegory: or, Christians vs. The World Y1 - 1854 A1 - Rev. Wesley Cochran, A.M. (1814-1888) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian allegory of people immigrating from the country of Sin.

PB - William J. Moses CY - Auburn, NY U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Reel in a Bottle, for Jack in the Doldrums; being The Adventures of Two of the King's Seaman in A Voyage to the Celestial Country. Edited from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt Y1 - 1852 A1 - [George Barrell] [Cheever] (1807-90) ED - Rev. Henry T. Cheever KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Standard Christian allegory using various imaginary countries en route to the eutopia of Heaven.

PB - Charles Scribner CY - New York N1 -

3rd ed. under the author’s name as A Voyage to the Celestial Country, Being the Reel in a Bottle, from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt; An Allegory. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1853. Later ed. under the author’s name as The Log-Book of a Voyage to the Celestial Country. A Christian Allegory of the Sea. New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1885. U.K. ed. as Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; Under the Similitude of a Voyage to the Celestial Land. Glasgow, Scot.: William Collins, [1852].

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A Voyage to the Celestial Country, Being the Reel in a Bottle, from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt; An Allegory

The Log-Book of a Voyage to the Celestial Country. A Christian Allegory of the Sea

Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; Under the Similitude of a Voyage to the Celestial Land

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Life: An Allegory Y1 - 1851 A1 - [Frederic] [Gardiner] (1822-89) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Christian allegory.

PB - James Munroe CY - Boston, MA U3 -

A Clergyman [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The First and Last Days of Alcohol the Great, in the Empire of Nationolia; or, Manxman's Records of the Temperance Revolution Y1 - 1848 A1 - J[ohn] Cowen, N.I.M. KW - Male author AB -

Allegory that follows the history of Alcohol the Great from birth to domination, the successful revolution, the counterrevolution by Alcohol's followers, and his successful overthrow. The ending suggests that lapses of vigilance and apathy means that the struggle is ongoing.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Contrast between the new moral world and the old immoral world. A Lecture Delivered in the Social Institution, Salford Y1 - 1838 A1 - Robert Cooper (1819-68) KW - Male author AB -

Depicts a eutopia based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858). Combines the advantages of city life and country life. Equality with age the only distinction among people.

PB - Published by A. Heywood, Ptd. for William Chapwick CY - Manchester, Eng. N1 -

Rpt. in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 5: 29-41.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Man" Y1 - 1823 A1 - Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -

Short poem describing the dystopian world as seen by the last man.

JF - The New Monthly Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 8.33 N1 -

Rpt. in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, With A Memoir of His Life, and an Essay on his Genius and Writings (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), 86-88; in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. Ed. J. Logie Robertson, M.A. 2nd ed. (London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1907), 232-34, with a brief note on 234; and in The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, With A Memoir of His Life by William Allingham (ix-lxxiv) (London: G. Bell, 1875), 88-90; Rpt. New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1975), 88-90.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos" Y1 - 1819 A1 - F[rederick] C[orfield] KW - Male author AB -

Poem beginning with a visit from a prince of the moon to a wealthy Persian man in hopes of marrying his daughter. Much detail on the lavish wealth of the Persian, but Persia is presented as a absolute and cruel monarchy with women obedient. The eutopia on the moon is a limited monarchy with gender equality. Few clothes. High morality. Authors are fined for wasting their time, and the fines support the poor. The poem is followed by "Wonders, A Lunarian Poem, In Two Parts" (49-64), which is an example of a poem for which an author was fined.

JF - The Mélange, Containing The Lunarian, A Tale, In Five Cantos. Wonders, In Two Parts. The Picture Gallery, In Nine Cantos. And Various Other Pieces, In Verse PB - Ptd. by J. Poole CY - Taunton, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar: An African Tale Containing Various Anecdotes of the Sophians Hitherto Unknown To Mankind in General Y1 - 1798 A1 - George Cumberland (1754-1848) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Two lost race eutopias in central Africa. The first, presented in the 1798 and 1810 editions, is peopled with Greek sun worshippers. These people, the Sophians, are art lovers, Deists, have gender equality, and racial, religious, and ethnic toleration. The second, presented in the second part first published in 1991, are Christians. These people, the Jovinians, have no art and proselytize their failure simple form of Protestantism and practice a general community of goods. They recognize the importance of sex, and the 1810 edition downplayed the sexual elements.

PB - Ptd. for the author CY - London N1 -

Rpt. rev. as vol. 1 of his Original Tales. London: Miller and Pople, 1810. First ed. rpt. together with the previously unpub. second part ed. G.E. Bentley, Jr. Montréal, QC, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991, which includes “Notes on the Text” (297-306), “Epilogue The Geography of The Captive and the Historical Contexts of the Sophians, the Jovinians, and Menno” (307-22), “Appendix I Substantive Emendations to the Text of The Captive Part I (1798) found in the Second Edition (1810)” (323-48), “Appendix II Description of the Manuscript of Part 2” (349-51).

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Age: or; Future Glory of North-America Discovered by An Angel to Celadon. In Several Entertaining Visions. Vision I Y1 - 1785 A1 - Celadon [pseud.] KW - US author AB -

Depicts a future America. The angel is one of those who were appointed to oversee the colonies and inspire “your statesmen and heroes with courage” (6). While America cannot be protected “from the usual vicissitudes of fortune. . . . The States will doubtless watch over one another with the strictest vigilance” and thus protect the country from “gross innovation” (7). It will benefit from the “continual emigration” of the “poor, the oppressed, and the persecuted” and will prosper as long as the people do not give in to “pride and luxury” (9). New states will be added, including Savagenia, for Indians and Nigrania for Negroes after the end of slavery. And given the size of the country, there may well be states for Jews and for those arriving from other countries, with only European ones mentioned.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reverie, Occasioned by Reading the Vision of Mirza" Y1 - 1785 A1 - [Judith Sargent] [Murray] (1751-1820) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

From birth to death and after humans are accompanied by an unseen guide from heaven who ultimately, after death, help all of them to reach heaven, which is briefly described. It has no night, many flowers always in bloom, exceptional music, and true joy. 

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By Constancia [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Thirty-nine Articles; or, a Plan of Reform in the Legislative Delegation of Utopia Y1 - 1785 A1 - [Daniel Tnangam] [Alexander] KW - Male author AB -

Eutopia in the form of proposed legislation. Separation of powers. Male suffrage and all men can serve in the legislature, except, in both cases, the nobility, convicts, and the insane. Annual elections. Equal apportionment of districts based on population. Paid legislature. Simple majority in elections. Run-offs if no candidate receives a majority; the lot used in the case of a tie.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vision of the Paradise of Female Patriotism" Y1 - 1779 A1 - Clarissa, a Lady of this City [pseud.] KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A woman daydreaming by her window in Philadelphia is visited by the male, or at least that is the pronoun used, “angel of the paradise of female patriotism,” who urges her to visit this paradise, which requires an apparently dangerous trek over a mountain. On her arrival, she finds a garden where women from all eras, mostly in separate areas, live. Although some have already arrived, a separate hill is reserved for women from the thirteen colonies, and among the women who will reside there will be those who opposed the revolution but have seen their error and become patriotic Americans. 

JF - The United States Magazine, A Repository of History, Politics and Literature (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 1.3 U3 -

Clarissa, a Lady of this City [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Father of the City of Eutopia; or The Surest Road to Riches, Being a Narrative of the remarkable Life and Adventures of an elevated Bear. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Dedicated to the Rt. Hon. Wm. P----, Esq. Y1 - 1757 A1 - C., C. AB -

Christian allegory using the imaginary country approach.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Voyage to Lethe, By Captain Samuel Cock. Sometime Commander of the Good Ship the Charming Sally. Dedicated to the Right Worshipful Adam Cock, Esq.; of Black-Mary's-Hole, Coney-Skin Merchant Y1 - 1741 A1 - Samuel Cock [pseud.] AB -

Imaginary voyage through life with the emphasis on sex.

PB - J. Conybeare CY - London N1 -

Another ed. without the plates but with “Hudibrasso.” Glasgow, Scot: Ptd. for Mrs. Laycock, at Mr. Clevercock’s [Actually Ptd. for W. Forbes], 1756. Later rpt. without plates or “Hudibrasso.” Np: Np, nd. [One copy has a note written in--Published by Edward Avery].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Law Book" Y1 - 1700 A1 - Sir Ambrose Crowley (1658-1713) ED - M. W. Flinn KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

A very odd book that presents one hundred and thirteen "laws" for the operation of the author's iron works. It is borderline as a utopia but is included because it details all the daily activities of the workers in a large factory including "welfare services" and "poor relief".  See the discussion in J.C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700 (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 351-55.

JF - The Law Book of the Crowley Iron Works PB - Surtees Society CY - London VL - Publications of the Surtees Society, 167 N1 -

The original manuscript in 307 folios, which is incomplete, is in the British Library Add. Ms. 34,555.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Floating Island: or, A New Discovery, Relating The strange Adventure on a late Voyage From Lambethana to Villa Franca, alias Ramallia, To the Eastward of Terra del Templo, By three Ships, Viz. The Pay-naught, The Excuse, The Least-in-Sight, Under the conduct of Captain Robert Owe-much: Describing the Nature of the Inhabitants, their Religion, Laws and Customs. Published by Franck Careless [pseud.] one of the Discoverers Y1 - 1673 A1 - [Richard] [Head] (1637-86) KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -

A satire on English manners and custom that is particularly concerned with London. See also 1674 and 1675 Head.

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Rpt. [Whitefish, MT]: Kessinger Publishing, [2004].

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Way Propounded to Make the poor in these and other Nations happy. By bringing together a fit suitable and well qualified people unto one Household-government, or little-Commonwealth, Wherein every one may keep his propriety, and be imployed in some work or other, as he shall be fit, without being oppressed. Being the way not only to rid these and other nations from idle, evil and disorderly persons, but also from all such that have sought and found out many inventions to live upon the labour of others. Whereunto is also annexed an invitation to the Society, or little Common-wealth Y1 - 1659 A1 - [Pieter Corneliszoon] [Plockhoy] (ca. 1629-166?) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Pamphlet that formed the basis for the first American intentional community founded in 1663 but destroyed in 1664 when the English conquered New Netherland. Goods not to be held in common. No common religious practices. Few laws. Annual election of the Governor. Six hours a day of work; children work a few hours a day to learn a trade.  See also 1659 Plockhoy, The Way to the peace and settlement of these nations.

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Rpt. in John Dowie, "The First Co-operative Commonwealth. Life and Work of Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.]." The Co-operative Review 7.40 - 41 (July - September 1933): 155-165; 200-212, which is rpt. as Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.] Pioneer of the First Co-operative Commonwealth, 1659. His Life and Works. 2nd ed. as Peter Cornelius Plockboy [sic.] Pioneer of the First Co-operative Commonwealth. Manchester, Eng.: Co-operative Union, [193?], which also includes his An Invitation to the Aforementioned Society, or Little Commonwealth Shewing the Excellency of the True Christian Love and the Folly of all Those Who Consider Not to What End the Lord of Heaven and Earth Hath Created Them. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1660.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way to the peace and settlement of these nations, Fully discovered in two Letters, delivered to his late Highnesse, and one to the present Parliament, As also one to Highness Richard Lord Protector, of England, Scotland and Ireland, etc. Wherein the liberty of speaking (which every one desire for himselfe) is opposed against Antichrist, for the procuring of his downfall, who will not grant same to others; And now published To awaken the publick spirits in England, and to raise up an universal Magistrate in Christendome, that will suffer all sorts of people, (of what Religion soever they are) in any one Countrey, as God (the great Magistrate) suffers the same in all Countreys of the world Y1 - 1659 A1 - [Pieter Corneliszoon] [Plockhoy] (ca. 1629-166?) KW - Dutch author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian essay with an emphasis on freedom of religion. See also 1659 Plockhoy, A Way Propounded to Make the poor in these and other Nations happy.

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By Peter Cornelius, Van Zurick Zee, a lover of truth and peace [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lady-Errant. A Tragi-Comedy Y1 - 1651 A1 - William Cartwright (1611-43) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Brief satirical description of an intended women's Parliament in Cyprus when most of the men are absent fighting in a war.

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The publication information is from the separate title page for the play in his Comedies Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems. London: Ptd. for Humphrey Moseley, 1651, which, although it probably had been staged between 1634 and 1637, was the play’s first publication. Rpt. in The Plays and Poems Of William Cartwright. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1951), 89-161 with the editor’s “Introduction” (81-88) and “Textual Notes” to the play (575-87).

ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Horns Doom & Downfall: Or A Scripture-Prophesie of King James, and King Charles, and of this present Parliament, unfolded. Wherein it appeares, that the late Tragedies that have bin acted upon the Scene of these three Nations: and particularly, the late Kings doom and death, was so long ago, as by Daniel pred-eclared. And What the issue of all will be, is also discovered; which followes in the Second Part. Y1 - 1651 A1 - M[ary] Cary (fl. 1636-53) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -

Fifth Monarchist eutopia. Description in some detail of life as it will be lived during the millennium. The Little Horn is Charles I (1600-49). See also 1653 Cary. Fifth Monarchists believed, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Female author.

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Second title page--A new And More Exact Mappe Or, Description of New Ierusalems Glory when Jesus Christ and his Saints with him shall reign on earth a Thousand years, and possess all Kingdoms. Wherein Is discovered the glorious estate into which the Church shall be then put both in respect of externall and internall glory, and the time when. And also, What hath been done these eight yeares last past, and what is now a doing, and what shall be done within a few years now following in order to this great work. Wherein also That great Question, whether it be lawfull for Saints to make use of the materiall Sword in the ruining of the enemies of Christ, and whether it be the mind of Christ to have it so, is at large debated and resolved in the Affirmative from clear Scripture, and all others answered. London: Ptd. by H.W.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Articles and orders, made and agreed upon the 9th day of July, 1647 and in the three and twentieth year of the raign of our soveraign Lord Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Y1 - 1647 A1 - Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of Eleutheria, formerly called Buhama in America AB -

Proposal for a colony with no differences over religion. Each of the first one hundred Adventurers, as they are called, will receive three hundred acres, and later another two thousand acres. After they have served their term, servants will be given twenty-five acres. Inhabitants are to treat the natives well, and any natives who had been enslaved and sold to another island were to be purchased, returned, and freed. In addition, there are details on aspects of the economy and the political system.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Saxham" Y1 - 1640 A1 - Thomas Carew Esquire. One of the Gentlemen of the Privie-Chamber and Sewer in Ordinary to His Majesty (1594/95-1639/40) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

The country estate Saxham Parva as a eutopia with elements of a cockaigne.

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Rpt. in Thomas Carew, Poems. Ed. Arthur Vincent (London: Lawrence & Bullen/New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899), 36-38; and in The Poems of Thomas Carew, with His Masque Coelum Britannicum. Ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1949), 27-29.

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