TY - ABST T1 - "Yellow" Y1 - 2022 A1 - B[rittany] Pladek KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -
The story is set in a future United States that is no longer united but replaced by corporations. Lakes United is the Great Lakes area with competing consortia selling water to the West. Within that setting the story concerns an app SafeT that constantly evaluates an individuals health, the safety of their location, their route home, and so forth, rating each with a single number. A responding essay, “Can Your Health Be Boiled Down to a Single Number?” by Loren Helmchen, can be found at https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/health-care-risk-scores-insurance.html
JF - Slate Future Tense UR - https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/yellow-b-pladek.html U2 -Illus. Natalie Matthews-Ramo
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Us Ghosts” Y1 - 2021 A1 - B[rittany] Pladek KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future affected by a continuing pandemic in which many people live their lives entirely online, including in virtual reality. The protagonist is hired by parents to create friends, a community, a life for their children through their university years.
JF - Strange Horizons UR - http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/all-us-ghosts/ Podcast at http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-all-us-ghosts/ U2 -Illus. Johnny Anger
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Curing" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Kristien Potgieter KW - English author KW - Female author KW - South African author AB -The story is set in a future South Africa experiencing long term drought where cacti are grown for their water, which is sold to the cities. Some hopeful signs of change.
JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - no. 20 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/12/21/curing-kristien-potgieter/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Enders" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Maria S. Picone KW - Female author KW - Korean American author AB -The story depicts the deliberate undermining of an Asian culture and society by the U.S. military.
JF - Little Blue Marble UR - https://littlebluemarble.ca/2021/08/27/the-enders/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Meeting at the Giant Mushroom” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Jeremy Palmer KW - Male author AB -In the future humans have learned to communicate with fungi, plants and animals, are, with the help of fungi, cleaning up the planet. Buildings are covered in vegetation.
JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/meeting-mushrooms/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Political and Policy Programme” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Adrian Pabst KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Non-Fiction utopia based on a relational economy, democratic corporatism, a renewed social fabric, environmentalism, and civic nationalism.
JF - Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal PB - Polity CY - Cambridge, Eng SN - 9781509546817 U5 -PU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Return to Kiribati” Y1 - 2021 A1 - Alexandra Porter KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a climate damaged future and is about those struggling to survive by helping others.
JF - XR WORDSMITHS Solarpunk Storytelling Contest UR - http://www.solarpunkstorytelling.com/stories/return-kiribati/ 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 - The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming Y1 - 2020 A1 - James Lawrence Powell KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Pretty much what the title says: an account of global warming from today to 2084.
PB - Atria Books/Simon & Schuster CY - New York VL - Rev. and exp. 2nd ed. SN - 978-1-9821-5021-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Abortion Diary" Y1 - 2020 A1 - KL Pereira ED - Matt Bechtel KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A diary set in a near-future United States detailing the treatment of women as they negotiate the possibility that they are pregnant and the choices they are able to make.
JF - The Dystopian States of America: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation PB - Haverill House CY - Haverill, MA SN - 978-1-949140-19-4 U2 -Illus. Matt Bechtel
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "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 -PSt
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 - “The Coming of the Grey Goose” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Mike Johnson (b. 1947) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future in which Aotearoa New Zealand is disappearing under water. The book includes a Glossary (270-276). The author also wrote an environmental political novel aimed at Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup--Lethal Dose. Onehunga,
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 - “Displaced” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Zoya Patel ED - Michael Mohammed Ahmad KW - Australian author KW - Female author KW - Fijian author AB -The story is set in a future in which Fiji and many other islands and coasts have been flooded. The protagonist is a Fijian who immigrated to Australia and become a citizen, who is hoping that her relatives will be accepted for immigration. It also notes the racism of the immigration process, and the growing racism directed at people of color.
JF - After Australia PB - Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement CY - South Melbourne, VIC, Australia SN - 9781925972818 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Don’t Mind Me” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) ED - Sheila Williams AB -The story is set in a future where, using technology, parents can control what their children read, even in school. The “Minder” deletes material the parents would not approve, which makes understanding lessons rather difficult.
JF - Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families and Friends PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262539258 N1 -Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 2. Ed Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2021), 379-400, with a note about the author on 379.
U2 -Illus. Tatiana Plakhova
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Election 2220: Night of the Voting Dead. Novel in Two Parts Y1 - 2020 A1 - John Pansini KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The 2220 mayoral election in Stars Hollow, Connecticut, pits the liberal African American Russell Limbaugh-Trump against the far-right Mrs. Sarah Palin-Trump. The two sections are “Zombies Saved By Bible” (1-148) and “Swing Vote” (149-317).
PB - [Roofman The Spy Publishing] CY - [Colorado Springs, CO] SN - 978-1-7351873-0-3 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Gamecocks” Y1 - 2020 A1 - J. T. Petty KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in the near future where driverless trucks make sio much money for the companies that it is decided it makes no difference how many people they kill.
JF - Lightspeed VL - bo. 117 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-gamecocks/ U5 -EJournal
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Glasslands. Wrack: Part I” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Tim[othy Aaron] Pratt (b. 1976) ED - John Joseph Adams (b. 1976) ED - Hugh [Crocker] Howey (b. 1975) ED - Christine Yant KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Three-part story set in a future where people from a different reality arrive on Earth intending to set everything straight and create a eutopia for all. The story is told from the point of view of three people from a band All You Need to Change the World is Faith and a Chainsaw who do not want to be Harmonized, as the invaders call it. Chronologically, the invasion is described as seen by the woman who leads the band members and who immediately wants to start a revolution in “Spheres and Harmonies. Wrack: Part III.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-33. In Glasslands. Wrack: Part I.” Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 15-28, a woman who is an artist whose desire to burn her creations is sent a reserve for the disaffected. And in “Cacophany. Wrack: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 17-32, a man who is an urban explorer and would be happy to be if he could explore other realms is not allowed to, so he joins the woman from Part III to invade the reserve.
JF - Ignorance is Strength: The Dystopia Triptych 1 PB - Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press CY - New York/London SN - 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Gulliver’s Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. Part V: A Voyage To The Island of The Wolves” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Philip Palmer (b. 1960) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -Gulliver is thrown off a hip and ends up on an island that at first appears to be inhabited solely by a community of mostly young vegetarians who do not wear clothes and are promiscuous. But then, in what turns out to be a yearly ceremony, a pack of clothed wolves walking on two legs appear who feed on the humans.
JF - Stories of Hope and Wonder in Support of the UK’S Healthcare Workers PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. 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 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How We Burn” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Brenda Peynado (b. 1985) KW - Dominican American author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a future with most plants and animals extinct, and a long one child policy has produced a surveillance society and overly protective families. The story is told from the point-of-view of a rebellious teenager.
JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 117 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/how-we-burn/ U5 -EJournal
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Immigration" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Alex Nowrasteh ED - Aaron Ross Powell ED - Paul Matzko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Alternative history depicting the ways in which the United States would be better today if it had never imposed immigration controls. The text includes information on the controls that were imposed.
JF - Visions of Liberty PB - CATO Institute/Libertarianism.org CY - Washington, DC SN - 978-1-948647-25-0 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mirror's Edge Y1 - 2020 A1 - Passey, Alex KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -The novel begins in a future polluted Earth that is under corporate control and everyone has a personal minder implanted that replaces an independent thought and then shifts the protagonist, without the implant, to a pristine alternative world that has rejected all that makes Earth a dystopia. There he meets the woman who has brought him to her world and travels with him back to his to reform it. The message seems to be “Every utopia will always be a dystopia to someone” (346).
PB - At Bay Press CY - Winnipeg, MB, Canada SN - 978-1-988168-23-4 U5 -PSt
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 - "Notice" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story in set in a religious community called Reliance that imagines itself as self-sufficient and is cut off from the outside world as seen through the eyes of a young man in the community.
JF - Us in Flux PB - Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University CY - Tempe, AZ UR - https://csi.asu.edu/projects/usinflux/sarah-pinsker-uif U2 -Illus. Nina Miller
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Parent-Teacher Association” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Jessica Powell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Surveillance dystopia in which parents demand to have their children constantly tracked and have immediate access to the tracking.
JF - The New York Times Sunday Review ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Seep Y1 - 2020 A1 - Chana Porter KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Aliens arrive and infiltrate everywhere, allowing people to change their bodies at will, communicate telepathically, and live forever. Wars end. Everyone is fed. One focus of the novel is whether this is a good thing or not; another is on the choices people make.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Serf" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Thompson, Talia ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author KW - Queer author AB -The story begins in 2106 with a woman on a crowded Auckland Skytrain from the domed area where she works to the polluted exterior where she lives, and then shifts to 2036 and her grandmother growing up on Beqa in the Fiji islands, which is about the disappear under the rising waters. The story then follows her family as refugees as conditions worsen and world-wide climate refugees outnumber those with land and her treatment as a brown woman working two minimum wage jobs as a serf (server).
JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Strange Labour Y1 - 2020 A1 - Penner, Robert G. KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Post-apocalyptic (unexplained) dystopia in which a woman travels across the United States, sometimes with a companion, meeting individuals and people in small communities struggling to survive.
PB - Radiant Press CY - Regina, SK, Canada SN - 978-1-989274354 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tāwhaki” Y1 - 2020 A1 - Witi [Tame] Ihimaera[-Smiler] (b. 1944) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - Māori author AB -The story is set in a future where increasing heat has killed the overwhelming majority of people, plants, and animals, and the people who remain live deep underground, with only occasional trips to the surface.
JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Trigger" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Paul Mountfort ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future Aotearoa New Zealand that is succumbing to fires from the increased heat and flooding from the collapse of the melting of Antarctic ice. Society has broken down, and no one with any real authority remains. The protagonist has fled Auckland with his family, but his refuge is about to been engulfed in fire.
JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -PSt
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 War on Drugs" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Trevor Burrus ED - Aaron Ross Powell ED - Paul Matzko KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A comparison of the success by mid-twenty-first century of the legalization of all drugs eliminated street crime and the other negative effects of drugs in 2020.
JF - Visions of Liberty PB - CATO Institute/Libertarianism.org CY - Washington, DC SN - 978-1-948647-25-0 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Waterfall" Y1 - 2020 A1 - Renee [Wen-Wei] Liang (b. 1973) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -Climate change story told from the perspective of a trainee doctor who discovers that the authorities, including the medical establishment are falsifying current conditions to look better than they are.
JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 9781990000621 978-1-99-115031-8 N1 -Rpt. in Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume III. Ed. Marie Hodgkinson ([Wellington, New Zealand]: Paper Road Press, 2021), 102-13.
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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 - “Whenua to Whenua” Y1 - 2020 A1 - James George (b. 1962) ED - Paul Mountfort ED - Rosslyn Prosser KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future Aotearoa New Zealand and focuses on the impact on both individuals and communities of the disappearance under the rising sea of the homeland of a Māori community.
JF - Scorchers: A Climate Fiction Anthology PB - Steam Press/Eunoia Publishing CY - Auckland, New Zealand SN - 978-1-99-000062-1 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Where the World Turns Wild Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nicola Penfold KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Post-apocalypse (disease) young adult dystopia in which two children who are immune escape from the locked down city and search for their mother in the wild lands.
PB - Stripes Publisjing CY - London SN - 9781788951524 N1 -Excerpts were published in the SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) Undiscovered Voices anthology for 2018.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Burning River Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lawrence Patchett KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -The novel is set in a future Aotearoa/New Zealand that has experienced a devastating environmental collapse and follows the experiences of one Pākehā man who travels across the country with a few Māori in search of connections among people and the possibility of rebuilding the country. In the future, and in the text, people are bilingual in English and Māori and use the languages as if they were one.
PB - Victoria University Press CY - Wellington, New Zealand N1 -Parts were originally published as “The Road to Tokomairiro.” Sport: New Zealand Literary Magazine, no. 39 (2011); and “Intruder.” Illus. Overland, no. 219 (Winter 2015): 42-45 https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-219/fiction-lawrence-patchett/
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Chosen. Novella Extract” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Thomas Pitts KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -Extract depicting a future in which Earth has been abandoned and people have settled in hollowed out asteroids. In the story an asteroid of Amish of various persuasions regarding technology are dealing with the problem of shortages of essential rare earths.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “How To Survive the Apocalypse for Native Girls” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Kai Minosh Pyle ED - Joshua Whitehead KW - Native American author KW - Two-Spirits author AB -The story takes place after the collapse of civilization and concerns struggles within First Nations communities over who should be accepted into the community sand who doesn’t belong.
JF - Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias & Dystopias PB - Bedside Press CY - Narol, MB, Canada SN - 9781988715247 9781551528113 N1 -Rpt. as Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joshua Whitehead (Vancouver, BC, Canada: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), 77-94.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - MALL Y1 - 2019 A1 - Pattie Palmer-Baker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A woman shopping in a twenty-first century mall accidentally enters a mall in an alternative reality, where the Mall Code rules everything. She is initially sent to a Mental Health Practitioner, and the novel presents how both understand and deal with the situation.
PB - Del Sol Press CY - Washington, DC U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nobody People Y1 - 2019 A1 - Bob Proehl KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia with fantasy elements in which the government and, with the encouragement of the government, bigoted people attack people with special talents, Muslims, and others.
PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Thousand Beetles in a Jumpsuit” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Dominica Phetteplace KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The first story in a sequence given the general title Robot Country. The story is set in a climate-change dystopia controlled by corporations in which “Corporate treason was punishable by death.” The protagonist is supposedly testing procedures for surviving on Mars and ends up cooperating with the AIs rather than her corporate minders. In “Her Appetite, His Heart.” Lightspeed, no. 114 (November 2019). https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/her-appetite-his-heart/, the second story, the AIs have revolted and excluded their makers from their country. In The Dystopia Triptych sequence, the first story is followed by two different stories, which begin after the successful revolt of the AIs and the establishment of Robot Country. In “Paradise Requires a Wall. Robot Country: Part II.” Burn the Ashes: The Dystopia Triptych 2. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 169-90, Robot Country has been established and is under constant attack from what remains of the United States, with the focus on the personal relations between a woman working with the AIs and a U.S. Forest Ranger trying to protect the little that remains of the forest. Followed by “Human Country. Robot Country: Part III.” or Else the Light: The Dystopia Triptych 3. Ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey, and Christine Yant (New York/London: Broad Reach Publishing + Adamant Press, 2020), 289-207, which develops those relations as he and other humans move into Robot Country.
JF - Lightspeed Science Fiction & Fantasy VL - no. 111 SN - 978-1-949103-22-2 US 979-8677287572 979-8677291012 979-8677298424 UR - http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/one-thousand-beetles-in-a-jumpsuit/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/her-appetite-his-heart/ N1 -Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 189-210.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Painter of Trees” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which humans, set on terraforming a planet, destroy all the food the indigenous inhabitants eat. Few of the humans are at all bothered.
JF - Clarkesworld VL - No. 157 SN - 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1-949103-22-2 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/palmer_06_19/ N1 -Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 77-89, with an editor’s note on 77; and in The Best Science Fiction of the Year. Volume 5. Ed. Neil Clarke (New York: Night Shade Books, 2020), 1-10.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Registering Eve” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Alison Powell ED - Mark Graham ED - Rob Kitchin ED - Shannon Mattern ED - Joe Shaw KW - English author KW - Female author AB -A future city in which all interactions are through the blockchain, based on a company like Ethereum, which has many flaws, some of which are deliberately designed to overcharge.
JF - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Song for a New Day Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -After a series of bombings, the government prohibits all public meetings. The two main protagonists are a musician who performed in large venues and a woman, who had been working entirely online, with both involved in locating illegal performances and streaming them. Three of her stories are set in the same future beginning with 2015 Pinsker, “Our Lady of the Open Road;” followed by “A Song Transmuted.” Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow. Ed. Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Erie, CO: Hex Publishers 2016), 151-60; and “Everything Is Closed Today.” Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory. Ed. Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2019), 149-74; rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 79-102.
PB - Berkley CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “That Our Flag Was Still There” Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) ED - Cat[herine Tigerlily] Rambo (b. 1963) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A dystopia of extreme patriotism, where, for example, a permit is needed to criticize the president.
JF - If This Goes On PB - Parvus Press CY - Yardley, PA SN - 978-1-62873-199-9 N1 -Rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 36-50.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Touches" Y1 - 2019 A1 - Brenda Peynado (b. 1985) KW - Dominican American author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a future where disease means that the world is divided between the clean and the dirty, and humans live in the clean never touching another human. The protagonist details the four times in her life that she has been touched.
JF - tor.com SN - 978-0-143135623 UR - https://www.tor.com/2019/11/13/the-touches-brenda-peynado/ N1 -Rpt. without the illus. in her The Rock Eaters: Stories (New York: Penguin Books, 2021), 167-90.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - What Went Wrong, or Was It Right? Y1 - 2019 A1 - Jackson Phillips, III [pseud.] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Mostly a critique of the current situation in the United States comparing it to the situation in 2095, which appears, on the surface, to be eutopian, but it turned out to be a flawed utopia.
PB - AuthorHouse CY - Bloomington, IN U3 -Jackson Phillips, III [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Adjustment Day Y1 - 2018 A1 - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which the population is going to be adjusted by killing large numbers of people.
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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.
Illus. and colored by Juan Romera. Letters by Matt Krotzer.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bandwidth: An Analog Novel Y1 - 2018 A1 - Eliot Peper KW - Male author KW - US author AB -First volume of a climate change dystopia series followed by Borderless: An Analog Novel. Seattle, WA: 47North, 2018; and Breach: An Analog Novel. Seattle, WA: 47North, 2019.
PB - 47North CY - Seattle, WA U5 -DLC
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.
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.
Illus. K. R. Whalen. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Taylor Esposito
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Caught Root" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Julia K. Patt ED - Sarena Ulibarri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future recovering from environmental collapse with two cities, one high-tech and one low-tech, trying to find a way to cooperate.
JF - Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers. An Anthology PB - World Weaver Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Charlie and the Aliens” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Ganzeer [pseud.] (b. 1982) ED - Stephanie Feldman ED - Nathaniel Popkin KW - Egyptian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is about immigration and refugees on a far future Earth, and the strict rules they must follow to be accepted, even if they are human or were born on Earth and are returning after life on another planet.
JF - Who Will Speak for America? PB - Temple University Press CY - Philadelphia, PA SN - 978-1- 4399-1623-0 U2 -Illus. by the author
U3 -Ganzeer [pseud.]
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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 - "City Bones" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Richard Pulfer ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future Chicago where automated cars are helping reduce the pollution and ease traffic congestion, but drivers insist on still controlling their cars whatever the consequences.
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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 -PSt
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.
Illus. Jason Copland. Colors by Josh Jensen. Letters by Zakk Saam
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Diggers 2.0” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kevin Christopher Jesse ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a polluted city in which the rich have clean air, and the poor are left to suffer and die, and the poor, predominantly Hispanic community decide to improve their lot.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Divided Light” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Pressman, Corey S. A1 - Clark A. Miller A1 - Joey Eschrich KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future climate-change dystopia in which Phoenix, Arizona, is completely under a covering that collects solar power and outside the city is a settlement where the people have modified themselves and the countryside to live without water.
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 -EBook
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The End of the Incarnation” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Stephanie Feldman ED - Nathaniel Popkin KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -A depiction of the gradual dissolution of the United States ending with rights becoming universal rather than tied to citizenship.
JF - Who Will Speak for America? PB - Temple University Press CY - Philadelphia, PA SN - 978-1- 4399-1623-0 978-0996103787 N1 -Rpt. as “The End of the Incarnation I” through “The End of the Incarnation VII.” In her . . . and Other Disasters (Baltimore, MD: Mason Jar Press, 2019), 15, 39, 55, 95, 105, 139, 165.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eruptions" Y1 - 2018 A1 - [Samantha] Lynne Sargent ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Poem describing an environmental dystopia.
JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - West Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -Rpt. https://reckoning.press/eruptions/ (February 12, 2019).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape from Caring Seasons” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) ED - Wade Roush ED - Pontin, Mark KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A dystopia brought about by an artificial intelligence that controls all the residents in Caring Seasons, a senior citizens home, and whose decisions, which are aimed at benefiting the home not than the residents and cannot be overridden by anyone. The story concerns a man trying to get his wife released when the algorithm says she should stay.
JF - Twelve Tomorrows PB - The MIT Press CY - Cambridge, MA SN - 978-0-262-53542-7 978-1-62873-199-9 N1 -Rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 110-138.
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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 - "Exit Here" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Andrew Kozma ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Environmental dystopia.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/exit-here/ (June 11, 2019).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fatberg and the Sinkholes: A Report on the Findings of a Journey into the United Regions of England by PostRational” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Dan Gavshon Brady A1 - James Pockson ED - William Davies KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Presented as a report on the United Regions of England, which has kicked London out and is establishing a eutopia based on communities and communication.
JF - Economic Science Fictions PB - Goldsmith Press CY - London U5 -PSt
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.
Illus. Matt LeJeune. Letters by Zakk Saam.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fixable" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Paolo [Tadini] Bacigalupi (b. 1972) ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Male author KW - US author AB -In the future, pollution is devastating, the official position is that the air is clean, and it is illegal to report the facts.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fuck You Pay Me” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Francis Bass ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in an environmentally damaged future where most people are deeply in debt, the entire safety net has disappeared, and the possibility of higher education is eroding.
JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -. Rpt. https://reckoning.press/fuck-you-pay-me/ (April 2, 2019).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "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.
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 Green Man" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Teika Marija Smits ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Environmental dystopia in which, with all the bees and other pollinating insects gone, the young poor are hired as pollinators.
JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -Rpt. https://reckoning.press/the-green-man/ (January 15, 2019).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Guardian" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Susan Pieters KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a world in which everyone must wear a Guardian that limits their ability to feel emotion.
JF - Pulp Literature VL - no. 19 U2 -Illus.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A House by the Sea” Y1 - 2018 A1 - P. H. Lee ED - Elsa Sjunnesson-Henry ED - Dominik Parisien KW - Transgender author AB -The story is about the lives of the children from Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) after they are released from the basement and replaced by another child.
JF - Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! VL - no. 24 UR - https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/ 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.
Illus. Matt Horak. Colors by Lee Loughridge. Letters by Zakk Saam
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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 - “More Sea Than Tar” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Osahon Ize-Iyamu ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -The dystopia of the struggle for survival in a flooded, polluted world.
JF - Reckoning 3: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice PB - Reckoning Press CY - Lake Orion, MI VL - 3 N1 -Rpt. https://reckoning.press/more-sea-than-tar/ (February 26, 2019).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Negative Space" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Max Knight ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - Vietnam author AB -The story is set in a future China with extreme pollution but that has areas that under domes that are accessible to those with sufficient money or status and is building a city that is pollution free and in the open air. The protagonist is a fairly high-status functionary who is trying to quit smoking during a crackdown on smokers.
JF - Futurescapes Volume Two: Blue Sky Cities PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 2 SN - 9781790982868 U5 -PSt
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.
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.
Illus. by the author. Letters Micah Myers.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sandals Full of Rainwater” Y1 - 2018 A1 - A. E. Prevost KW - Canadian author KW - Non-binary author AB -The journal issue is “The Diverse Pronouns Issue,” and the story is set in a country with forty-five pronouns and the struggle of an immigrant from a country with only nine to understand and be understood.
JF - Capricious VL - no. 9 SN - 9781590216767 N1 -Rpt. in Transcendent 4: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction. Ed. Bogi Takács (Amherst, MA: Lethe Press, 2019), 193-213, with a “Content Note” on 271.
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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.
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.
Illus. Robbi Rodriguez. Colors by Michael Wiggam. Letters by Micah Myers
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tiger" Y1 - 2018 A1 - Joe M. McDermott (b. 1979) ED - Michael DeLuca ED - Danika Dinsmore ED - Mohammad Shafiqul Islam ED - Giselle Leeb ED - Johannes Punkt ED - Sakara Remmu ED - Aïcha Martine Thiam KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Environmental dystopia which most animals have disappeared.
Rpt. https://reckoning.press/tiger/ (February 5, 2019).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Twice the Same River” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) ED - Luke Peterson ED - Kenna Blacklock KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is about corruption in a city that is transforming itself into a green city, corruption that hurts the farmers in the surrounding countryside.
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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.
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.
Illus. by the author. Colors by Gab Contreras. Letters by Micah Myers
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Unseen Face of the Moon Business” Y1 - 2018 A1 - Diana Părpăriţă ED - David F. Shultz KW - Female author KW - Romanian author AB -The story is set in a future where everyone uses bots and plastic surgery to change the way they look, including the protagonist who is a middle-aged male at work and a young woman at home.
JF - Strange Economics: Economic Speculative Fiction PB - TdotSpec CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -PSt
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.
Illus. and Colors by Danica Brine. Letters by Taylor Espositio
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Bird's Eye" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Anjali Sachdeva ED - Luke Peterson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The protagonist is a blind woman who uses Virtual Reality to see the world through the eyes of birds and uses the system of electronic referenda to try to protect them, which will end up protecting people also.
JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 1 SN - 978-0692879313 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue Stratus" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Amy Mrotek ED - Luke Peterson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future eutopian community with high rise urban farms, gardens, permaculture, and all of the desirable environmental design features that are currently possible.
JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 1 SN - 978-0692879313 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Books of the Risen Sea” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Climate change dystopia and the importance of saving books and of libraries.
JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 41.9 & 10 (500 & 501) U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Brother’s Keeper” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Danny Gardner ED - Gary Phillips KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The dystopia that has resulted by the time of the third Trump administration with little health care, all public services paid for individually as needed, with only the wealthy, for example, able to afford any emergency call at night. Many people escape into virtual reality.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Calexit: The Anthology Y1 - 2017 A1 - J. L. Curtis A1 - Bob Poole A1 - Cedar Sanderson A1 - Tom Rogneby A1 - Alma [T. C.] Boykin A1 - B. Opperman A1 - L. B. Johnson A1 - Eaton Rapids Joe A1 - Lawdog [pseud.] A1 - Kimball O'Hara ED - J. L. Curtis KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - Maltese author KW - US author AB -A collection of stories set in a dystopian future in which part of California, called Cali, secedes from the country in order to establish a socialist state committed to diversity. Northern California and southern Oregon forms a new territory called Jefferson that may become a new state. The stories are “A Matter of Honor” by J. L. Curtis in which the U. S. Navy leaves San Diego and blows up its base as it does with the story continued in his ebook novella The Morning the Earth Shook. 69 pp. (2017). “Last Plane Out” by Bob Poole centers on the last plane to leave Los Angeles airport. “Carpetbaggers” by Cedar Sanderson focuses on carpetbaggers in Jefferson. “Night Passage” by Tom Rogneby begins in Cali, where all people are chipped, and continues with the escape of a couple. “Roll, Colorado, Roll!” by Alma [T. C.] Boykin in which The Colorado River is released into its original channel, cutting off water to Cali. “Final Flight” by B. Opperman is a story of escape from Cali. “Freedom’s Ride” by L. B. Johnson is a story of escape from Cali. “The Farm” by Eaton Rapids Joe describes the authoritarian liberalism of Cali and the damage it does. “By Hook and Crook” by Lawdog [pseud.] is an escape story. In “Fifth Column” by Kimball O’Hara the U. S. Navy returns. A graphic novel covering some of the same themes is Matteo Pizzolo, CALEXIT. Illus. Amancay Nahuelpan. Colorist Tyler Boss. Flatter Dee Cunniffe. Letterer Jim Campbell. Map designer Richard Nisa. Flag Designer Robert Anthony, Jr. Los Angeles, CA: Black Mask Studios, 2018. Originally published as CALEXit 1-3. There is an actual Calexit movement with different versions of what a separate California would look like and various positions of the opponents.
PB - JLC&A CY - Np U3 -Lawdog [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Control" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Rachel K[atie] Zall ED - Cat Fitzpatrick ED - Casey Plett KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a deeply divided dystopia, in one part of which the streets are clean and safe, heavily policed by both cameras supported by a police force. The cameras use face-recognition to identify everyone and evaluate them, giving them at actual score. The other part is collapsing and dangerous with no cameras and no police.
JF - Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers PB - Topside Press CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Control Shift Down” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Paige Bryony ED - Cat Fitzpatrick ED - Casey Plett KW - Transgender author AB -The story is set in a class-based, high-tech, authoritarian dystopia.
JF - Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers PB - Topside Press CY - New York U5 -PSt
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 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cybervania" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sybil Lamb ED - Cat Fitzpatrick ED - Casey Plett KW - Canadian author KW - Transgender author AB -Violent dystopia set among people living in the junked material of the electronic age.
JF - Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers PB - Topside Press CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Desperate Resolve" Y1 - 2017 A1 - John A. Pitts ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Rebecca McFarland Kyle ED - Lou J Berger ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in West Virginia, which has been destroyed by current policies on the environment.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Disconnected” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Ramez Naam ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The flawed utopia of the completely connected world and, very briefly, choosing to disconnect.
JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Elderjoy" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941) ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Humorous dystopia in which governmental implants register unhealthy activities and tax them. In the story, the “unhealthy” activity is sex over a certain age.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eminence" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karl Schroeder (b. 1962) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future Vancouver that has been returned to First Nation peoples, who are technologically advanced but tension remaining with Canadian authorities and can be seen as an emerging eutopia with problems. Much of the focus is on a new currency that, by being given away, gains “eminence” for the giver, which, in the society, is more important than the money.
JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0765382580 978-1-78108-573-8 N1 -Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2018), 113-30.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Eyejacked” Y1 - 2017 A1 - David Walton (b. 1975) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future in which an implant in the eye can be used to connect tom others and create followers, which produces income. Within the story a husband and wife disagree over the effect on their family is positive or negative.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Feastwar" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kaftan, Vylar ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Interactions through a computer game that connects people throughout the U. S. both brings about the spread and helps end a deadly disease.
JF - Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Fire Wire" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Malka [Ann] Older (b. 1977) ED - Luke Peterson KW - Female author KW - Latinx author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future where, after worldwide fires, electric power must be generated by individuals and focuses on whether or not to build new power plants.
JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] SN - 978-0692879313 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Games Theory" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Beth [Ann] Plutchak (b. 1952) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is about a multi-generation starship and the relations between the male, white scientists and engineers and the predominantly female, mixed race and ethnicity who are more arts and humanities oriented.
JF - Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future PB - Aqueduct Press CY - Seattle, WA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Ghost in the Machine” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Susan Pieters ED - Spider Robinson (b. 1948) ED - James Alan KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a future that can be read as either eutopian or dystopian. It is presented as much better than the past in that war has disappeared, but the future is controlled through an AI. The DNA of boys is analyzed at birth and aggressive and religious features removed.
JF - Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty PB - Compostela: Tesseracts Twenty CY - Calgary, AB, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Happenstance" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Fran Wilde (b. 1972) ED - Luke Peterson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a high-tech future in which a city can be constantly reconfigured to improve peoples’ lives.
JF - Futurescapes Volume One: Cities of Empowerment PB - Utah Valley Office of New Urban Mechanics & Utah Valley University CY - [Orem, UT] VL - 1 SN - 978-0692879313 978-09989252-6-4 N1 -Rpt. in Reckoning 4: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice (Lake Orion, MI: Reckoning Press, 2020), 73-100. Also published online at https://reckoning.press/happenstance/ (March 11, 2020).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Humans, Bow Down Y1 - 2017 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Emily Raymond (b. 1972) A1 - Jill Dombowski KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A dystopia set in a future in which a war between humans and robots has been won by the robots and focuses on those who do not accept defeat.
PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U2 -Illus. Alexander Ovchinnikov
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It Takes a Village" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kevin C[hristopher] Jesse ED - Luke Peterson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is about the beginnings of a eutopia based on unarmed community policing told from the point of view of a policeman used to the old ways. An Unconditional Basic Income with additional amounts is linked to voting on the referenda that are part of what is called nanodemocracy or nanodem and appear regularly on individual eyepieces. One paragraph suggests that the military is also using some of the same tactics.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Lettie Prell KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A man waiting to go before a judge in a criminal trial (he is guilty) dreams about a series of alternative justice systems, most of which seem preferable to the one is about to face.
JF - Clarkesworld Magazine VL - no. 124 SN - 978-1-328-83456-0 UR - http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prell_01_17/ N1 -Rpt. in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy™ 2018. Ed. N[ora] K. Jemisin (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, 2018), 49-56.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Mine, Yours, Ours” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [Anthony] Skillingstead (b. 1955) ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) ED - Stephen W. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Whether the story describes a eutopia or a dystopia is left up to the reader. The I.O.E. (International Organ Exchange) is symbolic of a society that sees everyone connected to everyone else. When you sign up for the I.O.E., you agree to give an organ when requested, and the protagonist is struggling over whether she should have a lung removed. If she doesn’t, she will be expelled from the I.O.E. and ineligible for a future transplant.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Ones Who Know Where They are Going” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The situation of the child in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Variations on a Theme by William James)” (1973) from the point-of-view of the child when, apparently, everyone has left.
JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 41.3 & 4 (494 & 495) U5 -CU-Riv, TxU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Oracle" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Dominica Phetteplace ED - Jonathan Strahan (b. 1964) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Satire on U.S. politics in which a “war of the month” is instituted to gain support for the President.
JF - Infinity Wars PB - Solaris CY - Oxford, Eng U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pinwheel Party" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Victor D. Phillips ED - Phyllis Irene Radford (b. 1950) ED - Bob Brown KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The beginning and the end of the story are brief depictions of the dystopia inflicted on the poor and immigrants by current policies. The middle is a drug-induced dream of a eutopia in which everyone works together to improve the U.S.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Shooting an Episode" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) ED - George Sandison KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia depicting a “reality” game that has taken over the entire society as seen through the eyes of someone working for the company producing the show. The stories are supposed to be predictions regarding the world fifty years after Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Priest took his title from Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant,” a work that greatly influenced his own work.
PB - Unsung Stories/Red Squirrel Publishing CY - London SN - 9781907389580 978-1-4732000630 N1 -Rpt. in his Episodes: Short Stories (London: Gollancz, 2019), 292-320, with notes “Before” on what led him to write the story (289-91) and “After” on its publication and some reflections on it (321-22).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Snow Decils" Y1 - 2017 A1 - Charles Payseur KW - Bisexual author KW - US author AB -Climate change dystopia in which it snows all year round in the North and the South has become crowded and dangerous.
JF - Persistent Visions UR - https://persistentvisionsmag.com/fiction/snow-devils-charles-payseur U2 -Illus. S. Bell
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Store Y1 - 2017 A1 - James [Brendan] Patterson (b. 1947) A1 - Richard DiLallo KW - Male author KW - US author AB -In the novel, one store takes over a country with surveillance cameras and tracking not just in the store but in the streets, buildings, and private homes, all reinforced but what is essentially a private army. The protagonist is struggling to reveal the truth about the store.In the novel, one store takes over a country with surveillance cameras and tracking not just in the store but in the streets, buildings, and private homes, all reinforced but what is essentially a private army. The protagonist is struggling to reveal the truth about the store.
PB - Little, Brown CY - New York SN - 978-0-316-39545-8 9781780895345 N1 -U.K. ed. London: Random House Century, 2017. 259 pp. + 26 pp. excerpt from a forthcoming novel.
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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 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Trans Liberty Riot Brigade. Book 1 Y1 - 2017 A1 - L[indsay] M. Pierce KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Walled dystopia at war with all its neighbors and trying to control its population. Being transgender is illegal and a group transgender people struggle to survive and manage to escape at the end. First volume in a planned series.
PB - Ninestar Press CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Trash Goes in the Ground” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Kelly Rose Pflug-Back KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Flash fiction set in a polluted future.
JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 43 UR - The Future Fire: 2017.43 fiction trash U2 -Illus. Laura-Anca Adascalitel
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Want Y1 - 2017 A1 - Cindy Pon (b. 1973) KW - Female author KW - Taiwanese author KW - US author AB -Young adult dystopia set in a society in which the rich can afford protection against the damaged environment and the poor cannot.
PB - Simon Pulse CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Your Lying Eyes” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Jack [John Charles] McDevitt ED - Stephen W. Potts ED - [Glen] David Brin (b. 1950) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is about glasses that can detect lies. Whether a eutopia or dystopia is left up to the reader.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cumulus Y1 - 2016 A1 - Eliot Peper KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A dystopian future of corporate power and pervasive surveillance.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Drowned City” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Bo[ukje] Balder ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Dutch author KW - Female author AB -Climate-change dystopia in which half of The Netherlands has disappeared and the Dutch are building a New Amsterdam on an island they have built on the Australian coast.
JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything Belongs to the Future Y1 - 2016 A1 - Laurie Penny (b. 1986) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia of a world where the rich can get treatment that extends their lives while the poor die young.
PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Everything That Isn’t Winter Y1 - 2016 A1 - Margaret Killjoy (b. 1982) ED - Diana M. Pho KW - Female author KW - Transgender author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a post-apocalypse future Cascade mountains in what used to be the state of Washington. It focuses on a self-organized community growing tea that is attacked by a group trying to establish an authoritarian government to rebuild the old, bad system.
PB - Tor.com CY - New York SN - 978-1-84935-475-2 UR - https://www.tor.com/2016/10/19/231037/ N1 -Rpt. in her We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories (Chico, CA/Edinburgh, Scot.: AK Press, 2022), 88-105.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Girl, Blue Eyes, Boy” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Marvel Chukwudi Pephel KW - Male author KW - Nigerian author AB -The story is set in Lagos, Nigeria in 3096, which is a high-tech city with Lagoonborg robots designed to help the elderly but becoming ubiquitous. Mars has been settled, and people are being Marsinalized so that they more easily adapt to conditions there. The story ends abruptly, and the author says he is considering a sequel.
JF - African Writer UR - https://www.africanwriter.com/girl-blue-eyes-boy-fiction-marvel-chukwudi-pephel/. N1 -Rpt. in The Naked Convos - Original African Stories (March 6, 2017). http://thenakedconvos.com/girl-blue-eyes-boy/
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Learning to Speak Tiger" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Trina Marie Phillips ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a very high-tech future Hanoi with strong eutopian elements but with the technology largely integrated into daily life. The story is about a poor, young girl struggle to find her place.
JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Light Times" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ari Popper ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in Nigeria, which, after a devastating war, is recovering using high-tech and the help of the United Nations.
JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Love in a Lonely City 2050" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Deborah Walker ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The story is set in a very high-tech future London with strong eutopian elements and is about how hard it still can be to find love.
JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Nethers: Frontiers of Hinterland Y1 - 2016 A1 - M[itch] E. Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in sequel to 2014 Parker where the man from the earlier novel is sent to find scrap metal outside the Jonesbridge complex, and he and the woman finally escape after many adventures.
PB - Diversion Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Law" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jeff Parsons KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a totalitarian regime in which a new law allows a judge to misrepresent a decision to a defendant and senior party members to do whatever they want with anyone found guilty of a crime.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “One Bad Apple" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Holly Schofield ED - Trina Marie Phillips KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The story points out that things can still go wrong in a high-tech eutopia but high-tech can solve the problems. The utopia supposedly has no slums, gangs, or homeless, but the protagonist encounters a mugger who steals his watch to sell for its value in metal, but the city’s connectedness means that he will be captured, and the watch recovered.
JF - SciFutures presents The City of the Future PB - SciFutures CY - [Burbank, CA] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Project Empathy" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Dominica Phetteplace KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The first of five stories about a future San Francisco and various ways artificial intelligence is used to both enhance and control people. The other stories, all with the same protagonists, are, in order, “Project Synergy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.4 & 5 (483 & 484) (April/May 2016): 70-82; “Project Symmetry.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.6 (485) (June 2016): 42-56; “Project Entropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.7 (486) (July 2016): 40-57; and “Project Extropy.” Asimov’s Science Fiction 40.10 & 11 (489 & 490) (October/November 2016): 124-39.
JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 40.3 (482) U5 -Merril
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 - “Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a climate change dystopia in which there is little land left and the wealthy life on cruise ships.
JF - Lightspeed VL - no. 69 SN - 9781618731562 UR - https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/sooner-or-later-everything-falls-into-the-sea/ N1 -Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 33-56.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Too Like the Lightning. Terra Ignota, Book I Y1 - 2016 A1 - Ada [Louise Grace] Palmer (b. 1981) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A complex novel set in a 25th century technological flawed utopia. Abundance. Much on gender roles. The public practice of religion has been outlawed. Most people belong to world clans that are economic entities in competition with other clans. First volume in a series. The second volume is Seven Surrenders: Terra Ignota, Book II. New York: Tor, 2017. 384 pp. in which certain groups have conspired to maintain stability on the planet through selective murders. The third volume is The Will to Battle: Terra Incognita, Book III. New York: Tor, 2017. 352 pp. in which the utopia has collapsed and turned into a dystopia. The fourth volume is Perhaps the Stars: Terra Ignota, Book IV. New York: Tor, 2021. 593 pp. where war breaks out with devastating consequences, but at the end a better world is slowly being rebuilt. The series has explicitly utopian threads throughout. See https://irradiate.space/worldbuilding/notes-on-oaths-and-laws-from-terra-ignota/utopia/ for the Utopian Oath from volume one.
PB - Tor CY - New York SN - 978-0-7653-7801-9 978-0-7653-7803-3 978-0-7653-7805-7 978-0-7653-7807-1 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Watching the Watchers” Y1 - 2016 A1 - Anya Penfold ED - Elaine Gallagher ED - Cameron Johnston ED - Neil Williamson (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - Scottish author AB -An odd satire about a future society that has many of the appearances of a dystopia but could be considered a eutopia. The ruling party is the “Party in Favour Of Helping People To Do What They Like, As Long As They Don’t Hurt Anyone (And Don’t Take Too Many Sickies)” and the state-sponsored newspaper is The Daily Propaganda: Don’t believe everything you read just because it looks official.
JF - Thirty Years of Rain PB - Taverna Press CY - Glasgow, Scotland U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Wellesley Girl" Y1 - 2016 A1 - Brendan Pelsue KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in 2465 in which the few Americans left have barricaded in Wellesley, Massachusetts to protect themselves from the army from Texas that is outside. See the review in The New York Times (April 12, 2016), C2.
PB - Unpublished play ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arcadia Y1 - 2015 A1 - Iain [George] Pears (b. 1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The novel follows a number of different characters during the present and a dystopian future where much of world civilization has collapsed. Connected to these is the Arcadia, which has the feel of the past but initially exists only within a machine from the dystopian future.
PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ash: A Destined Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Shani Petroff A1 - Darci Manley KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Young adult dystopia in which every person’s destiny is determined by the government. First volume in a series. In this volume the contrast is set between those chosen for the top and the Ash, chosen for the bottom. The second volume, Ultraviolet: A Destined Novel. [Hoboken, NJ]: Polis Books, 2017, is what appears to be a middle volume in which the two struggle to survive.
PB - Polis Books CY - [Hoboken, NJ] U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - At the Beginning: This is the Way It Was Y1 - 2015 A1 - Adrienne Behren Pollock KW - Female author AB -New Age eutopia that will be brought about by the Brotherhood of the New Light, descended from Atlantis and Lemuria.
PB - CreateSpace CY - North Charleston, SC U5 -NLS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Beautiful Bureaucrat. A Novel Y1 - 2015 A1 - Helen Phillips (b. 1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Kafkaesque take on a dystopian bureaucracy in a damaged future.
PB - Henry Holt CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blood-Kin" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Deborah J. Ross KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Gifts of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 15 PB - The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works, CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Children Who Fly” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (b. 1975) ED - Walidah Imarisha ED - adrienne maree brown (b. 1978) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Climate-warming dystopia with LSBT themes.
JF - Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements PB - AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies CY - Oakland, CA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Interchange" Y1 - 2015 A1 - Elizabeth Poley ED - Elly Blue KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe (Zombies) dystopia of a largely abandoned U.S. where people can transport themselves to other parts of the world to work. The story focuses on a meeting of two women in these circumstances.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Interview with Suey Park” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Suey Park ED - Alexandra Brodsky ED - Rachel Kauder Nalebuff KW - Asian-American author KW - Female author AB -Emotional life in a feminist utopia.
JF - The Feminist Utopia Project: Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future PB - The Feminist Press at the City University of New York CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Island of Lost Girls Y1 - 2015 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Sequel to 2008 Padmanabhan in which the girl and her father hve escaped India and live of the Island of Lost Girls, where they are having difficulties adapting to the modern world and the girl is having to learn what it means to be a woman.
PB - Hachette, India CY - Gurgaon, India U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Keep Mars Weird Y1 - 2015 A1 - Neal Pollack (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The novel opens in an egalitarian eutopia on Earth in which everyone has “Enough,” but young men are bored and travel to an extremely inegalitarian Mars.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Our Lady of the Open Road” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Sarah Pinsker (b. 1977) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The first in a series of stories related to 2019 Pinsker, A Song for a New Day. In this story, the protagonists, a touring rock band, is trying to survive in a future in which there are no large venues and people life isolated lives. The other stories are “A Song Transmuted.” Illus. Aaron Lovett and Joshua Viola. Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow. Ed. Jason Heller and Joshua Viola (Erie, CO: Hex Publishers 2016), 151-60; rpt. in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2018), 35-42; and “Everything Is Closed Today.” Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory. Ed. Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore (Lexington, KY: Apex Publications, 2019), 149-74; rpt. in her Lost Places. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2023), 79-102.
JF - Asimov’s Science Fiction VL - 39.6 (473) SN - 9781618731562 N1 -Rpt. in her Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea. Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2019), 169-209.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Stripped to Zero: Someone to watch over you” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Stephen S. Power KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of an over-automated future.
JF - Nature VL - 524.7563 U2 -Illus. Jacey
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - ACID Y1 - 2014 A1 - Emma Pass KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Authoritarian dystopia based on a violent police force known as ACID or the Agency for Crime Investigation and Defence.
PB - Delacorte Press CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Beekeeper” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Helen Phillips (b. 1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A somewhat vague dystopia with a domed city cut off from the countryside, with both the city-dwellers and those living in the countryside afraid of the other.
JF - Isthmus (Seattle, WA) VL - no. 2 N1 -Rpt. in her Some Possible Solutions (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2016), 163-83.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Evanda’s Mirror” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Deborah J[ean] Ross ED - Elisabeth Waters KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Stars of Darkover. Darkover® Anthology 14 PB - The Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Trust Works CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jonesbridge: Echoes of Hinterland Y1 - 2014 A1 - M[itch] E. Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. The Jonesbridge Industrial Complex is on an island and its workers are all prisoners. The novel focuses on the attempt by a man and a woman to escape. See also 2016 Parker.
PB - Diversion Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Lights On Water” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Dilman Dila (b. 1977) ED - Will Martin ED - Kat Phan KW - Male author KW - Ugandan author AB -Authoritarian dystopia in which everyone lives in an enclosed city. The protagonist, an artist, is given permission to go outside to paint and uses the opportunity to create a subversive work showing his daughter happily swimming with other happy people.
JF - The Short Anthology: Fiction From Photography. The First Issue PB - Ptd. by Ditto Press CY - Np N1 -Rpt. in his A Killing in the Sun (Yeoville, Johannesburg, South Africa: Black Letter Media, 2014), 86-106.
U2 -All the stories in the book were written in response to photographs by Joe Nigel Coleman that are included in the book.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Lost Emotion” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Adrian Ellis ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - Male author AB -Corporate ownership of emotions, which they use primarily in advertising.
JF - Arc. 2.1 Exit Strategies VL - 2.1 ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Palestinian Sweets” Y1 - 2014 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -A very odd story in which London is divided into areas dominated by competing religions, with the areas demarcated by smell.
JF - La Femme PB - New Con Press CY - [Weston], England U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scavengers Y1 - 2014 A1 - Michael Perry (b. 1964) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Young adult dystopia in which a family escapes an authoritarian environment into a dangerous outside where they live mostly by scavenging in abandoned junk heaps. While, by the end of the novel, the family is able to return to a reformed civilization, the young, female protagonist prefers the outside.
PB - Harper CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Sherwood Nation. A Novel Y1 - 2014 A1 - Benjamin [I.] Parzybok (b. 1970) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The novel presents the rise of a small eutopian community within the confines of a future dystopian Portland, Oregon, which has been experiencing a long drought. The novel ends with a one-page ad for a nonexistence book on the history of Sherwood Nation by two of the main characters.
PB - Small Beer Press CY - Easthampton, MA U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adjacent Y1 - 2013 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The complex novel operates on a number of different timelines, but it begins in a near-future dystopia of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain.
Rpt. London: Titan Books, 2014.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gated Y1 - 2013 A1 - Amy Christine Parker KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Young adult dystopia in which a family joins an underground religious community with a charismatic leader to escape from the world’s problems. First volume of a series followed by Astray. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2014 in which the protagonist from Gated has left the community, which is trying to get her back. No further volumes have been published.
PB - Random House Books for Young Readers CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Hhsaslin” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A dystopian allegory on “systemic oppression, genocide, and colonialism” (76).
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 125.3&4 (709) N1 -Rpt. in her All Worlds Are Real: Short Fictions (Bonney Lake, WA: Fairwood Press, 2019), 77-101, with an author’s note on 76.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Toward Eden Y1 - 2013 A1 - Pellman, Terry KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia and an emerging eutopia. As the U.S. faces collapse as a result of liberal policies, a successful secessionist movement develops in the central U.S. which intends to institute conservative policies and return to the U.S. Constitution.
PB - CreateSpace CY - [North Charleston, SC] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Season" Y1 - 2013 A1 - Rebecca J. Payne ED - Ian [George] Whates (b. 1959) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -The story is about a man trying to save his land in a near-future dystopia of climate change and rapacious industrial agriculture.
JF - Looking Landwards: Stories Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Institute of Agricultural Engineers PB - NewCon Press CY - [Weston, Eng] N1 -Rpt. in Digital Dreams: A Decade of Science Fiction by Women. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: NewCon Press, 2016). EBook.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “That the Machine May Progress Eternally” Y1 - 2013 A1 - Carrie Ryan (b. 1978) ED - Melissa Marr ED - Tim[othy Aaron] Pratt (b. 1976) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A story inspired by 1909 Forster, “The Machine Stops,” in which a boy makes contact with the outside but will not leave the Underneath even when the machine stops
JF - Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales PB - Little, Brown CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Through Many Fires: Strengthen What Remains Y1 - 2013 A1 - Kyle Pratt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The dystopia created when a nuclear bomb is detonated in Washington, DC and then in other cities. First volume of a series followed by A Time To Endure. Strengthen What Remains Book Two. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2014, which is a survivalist dystopia with the threat of civil war; and Braving the Storms. Strengthen What Remains Book Three. 3rd ed. [no indication of earlier eds.]. Np: Camden Cascade Publishing, 2015 in which a flu epidemic strikes the country.
PB - Camden Cascade Publishing CY - Np VL - 2nd ed. No evidence of an earlier ed. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Agenda 21 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Glenn [Edward Lee] Beck (b. 1964) A1 - Harriet Parker KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which the United Nations has taken over the U.S. and enslaved its citizens. An “Afterword” (279-95) has additional information regarding Agenda 21 and includes references to buttress the contentions of the novel. For the 1998 Agenda 21, see https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf.
PB - Threshold Editions--Mercury Radio Arts CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “All Your Futures” Y1 - 2012 A1 - David Gullen ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -The story is set in a future eutopia with no government. Major decisions are made collectively through a device that everyone wears for regular interactions that can be used for discussion and decision-making. The story concerns the arrival of a spaceship that had left Earth before the technology was developed that allowed much faster travel and what to do with it and its one surviving crew member.
JF - Arc 1.3 Afterparty Overdrive VL - 1.3 N1 -A podcast with the title as “All Your Futures Are Belong To Us” can be found on StarShipSofa, no. 480 (April 4, 2017). http://www.starshipsofa.com/blog/2017/04/04/starshipsofa-no-480-david-gullen/ With that title it can be read on the author’s website at https://davidgullen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Free-Fiction-All-Your-Futures-Are-Belong-To-Us.pdf and in his Open Waters. EXAGGERATEDpress, 2013. Not found. Not in the 2009 edition of Open Waters.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Foundlings Y1 - 2012 A1 - Diana Peterfreund (b. 1979) ED - Paula Guran KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which a concern for unborn children has led to an authoritarian program to monitor all girls who might get pregnant and control of them if they did.
JF - Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire PB - Robinson/RP Teens CY - London/Philadelphia, PA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reunion" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) ED - Ellen Datlow ED - Windling, Terri KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A dystopia in which soldiers systematically took selected children from their homes to be adopted, killed, or enslaved. The story focuses on the search for one of the children.
JF - After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starters Y1 - 2012 A1 - Lissa Price KW - Female author KW - US author AB -First of two volumes of a young adult dystopia set after a biological weapon kills everyone between twenty and sixty, with the younger people called Starters and the older ones known as Enders. The young people struggle to survive, and the protagonist learns of a way of earning money by allowing an Ender to temporarily inhabit her body. A malfunction has her inhabiting an Enders body where she learns of the corruption in the system In the sequel, Enders New York: Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books, 2014, she retains memories from the Enders who had inhabited her body and are trying to use her for their own purposes.
PB - Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books CY - New York SN - 978-0385-74237-5 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tangerine, Nectarine, Clementine, Apocalypse" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia seen through the eyes of a boy who believed its myths until he discovered the flaws.
JF - Interzone VL - no. 239 U5 -Merril, O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "We Can Do This" Y1 - 2012 A1 - Nancy [Anne Koningisor] Kress (b. 1948) ED - Sumit Paul-Choudhury KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The background to the story is a high-tech New York City that has solved the environmental problems, provides for the homeless, and can cure most diseases, but it focuses on the issues that develop when someone put in suspension because her brain tumor could not be cured is cured and brought out of suspension thirty-five years later.
JF - Arc 1.4: Forever Alone Drone VL - 1.4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ceiling is Sky" Y1 - 2011 A1 - Suzanne Palmer (b. 1968) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a future Earth with extreme poverty and very high unemployment, with most people working short term contracts.
JF - Interzone VL - no. 234 U5 -O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Leftovers Y1 - 2011 A1 - Tom [Thomas R.] Perrotta (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Life after the Rapture (see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) with some struggling to create a good society, various religious fanatics, and some of the expected dystopia.
PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Nine-Tenths Y1 - 2011 A1 - Meira Pentermann KW - Female author KW - US author AB -An authoritarian dystopia contrasted with a better alternative, an enclave that is only briefly described and that remains under threat from the dystopia. The conceit of the novel is that a momentary decision can completely change history.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Acception" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tessa Kum (b. 1981) ED - Gillian Polack KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia in which a government agency determining where people can live based on their ethnicity. All those with mixed ethnicity are relegated to what is, in effect, a concentration camp. Much of the story is about the uprising to overthrow the system.
JF - Baggage PB - Eneit Press CY - Culcairn, NSW, Australia N1 -Rpt. in The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror. Ed. Liz Grzb and Talie Helene (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2011), 141-70; in Baggage: Tales of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Gillian Polack (Holicong, PA: Borgo Press/Wildside Press, 2014), 121-53, with an “Afterword” on 223-24; and in Sunspot Jungle: The Ever-Expanding Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy [the cover adds Volume One]. Ed. Bill Campbell (Greenbelt, MD: Rosarium, 2019), 460-86.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Edge of Apocalypse Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tim[othy Framcis] LaHaye (1926-2016) A1 - Craig Parshall KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia The first volume of a series on the events leading up the apocalypse. Sequels include Thunder of Heaven. The End Series. Book 2. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2011; Brink of Chaos. The End Series.Book 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2012; and Mark of Evil. The End Series. Book 4. Grand Rapids, MI: Zonderavan, 2014.
PB - Zonderavan CY - Grand Rapids, MI U5 -DLC, Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Epitaph Road Y1 - 2010 A1 - David Patneaude (b. 1944) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Young adult dystopia set near the end of the twenty-first century where most men died from an illness and the women have eliminated crime and poverty while severely restricting the remaining men. The novel focuses on a young boy trying to save his father.
PB - Egmont USA CY - New York U5 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jackie's Boy" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Steve[n Earl] Popkes (b. 1955) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of a collapsed and extremely violent U.S. where animals from zoos have escaped and are slowing making a place for themselves. The story focuses on a boy and talking elephants.
JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 34.4 & 5 (411/412) U5 -CU-Riv
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New Millennium Y1 - 2010 A1 - Dennis Pimm KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia but with the emphasis on the opposition to it.
PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Personal Jesus" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Pelland, Jennifer ED - Jason Sizemore KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. The Ecclesiastical States of America includes all of the former U.S. except California and New England. It enforces its fundamentalist morality by requiring everyone to wear a mechanical "Personal Jesus" that responds to wrong actions with a shock and informs the authorities if the behavior continues.
JF - Dark Futures PB - Dark Quest Books CY - Howell, NJ U1 -[Subtitle on the cover Tales of SF Dystopia]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rut. A Novel Y1 - 2010 A1 - Scott Phillips (b. 1961) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Post-catastrophe dystopia with extensive damage to the environment and continuing warfare.
PB - Concord Free Press CY - Concord, MA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Sin's Last Stand" Y1 - 2010 A1 - Chris Niles ED - Todd James Pierce ED - Jarret Keene KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia in which fundamentalist Christians have taken other the US, established a theocracy, closed all schools, and burned all books except the Bible. Non-believers have been moved to Las Vegas and then massacred. The story focuses on a girl who survived the massacre.
JF - Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas PB - University of Las Vegas Press CY - Reno, NV U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Urbis Morpheos Y1 - 2010 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -Dystopia in which two ecosystems appear to be in conflict, one natural and the other manufactured. Throughout the novel the latter is dominant and the natural exists only in enclaves.
PB - PS Publishing CY - Hornsea, Eng. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Utopia for the Devil Y1 - 2010 A1 - James Parkes KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -An apparent eutopia is actually an authoritarian dystopia that appears to have been defeated at the end of the novel. In the sequel Utopia for the Devil: New Dawn. Np: Author, 2011, the dystopia remains and must be again defeated, which appears to have occurred by the end of the novel. According to a March 25, 2013, post on the author’s website, a complete rewriting of the two volumes, to be called Phantom Eden, is nearing completion.
PB - Author CY - Np N1 -2nd ed. without the subtitle on the cover. Np: Author, 2011.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blond Curls" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Nicole R. Murphy ED - Gillian Polack ED - Scott Hopkins KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -Authoritarian dystopia. Police with flawed technology misidentify a suspect and have the power to completely undo her life.
JF - Masques PB - CSFG Publishing CY - Woden, ACT, Australia U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Bradbury Report. A Novel Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steven Polansky KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. A future U.S. where most people have a clone for use in medical care. The clones are kept in Clearances, areas of the U.S. that have been cleared of their previous residences, such as the Dakotas. The novel is about a man whose clone wanders off a Clearance and his attempts to save it from being captured and killed.
PB - Weinstein Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lost in sun and silence: The Golden Age of Communications" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Vincenzo Palermo KW - Italian author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia. In a world of constant connectivity, a man tries to escape to silence.
JF - Nature VL - 457.7233 U2 -Illus. Jacey
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lunar Braceros 2125-2148 Y1 - 2009 A1 - Rosaura Sánchez A1 - Pita, Beatrice KW - Chicana author AB -Dystopia in which the U.S. has fragmented, and the parts are under corporate control. The poor and minorities are held in enclosed reservations with some sent to the moon to help bury nuclear and toxic waste because there is no longer space on Earth. The novel follows one family on Earth and on the moon.
PB - Calaca Press CY - National City, CA U2 -Illus. Mario A. Chacon
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Seventeen" Y1 - 2009 A1 - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) ED - Gillian Polack ED - Scott Hopkins KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -Dystopia in which there are deep division between rich and poor with a focus on care for the elderly. The protagonist is a girl whose job is to pretend to be the daughter of an old woman, in which role she leads a good life, and gives some meaning to the old woman’s life. Outside the retirement community the girl is homeless in a violent world.
JF - Masques PB - CSFG Publishing CY - Woden, ACT, Australia U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Tomas Y1 - 2009 A1 - James [Rudolph] Palumbo (b. 1963) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopian satire. Tomas = There's Only Money and Sex. Much fantasy. The dominant media network is SHIT-TV, and life is a meaningless round of false pleasure. On the French Riviera, women have such large breasts that they have to support them on mobile trolleys. Extreme corruption. Violence. A time machine hidden in a fairground allows visits to the near and far future. The protagonist, Tomas, is something of a Messiah bent on changing this world.
PB - Quartet CY - London U2 -Illus. Neal Murren
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Turban Tan Y1 - 2009 A1 - Jeff Philips KW - Male author AB -Corporate dystopia.
PB - CreateSpace CY - [Scotts Valley, CA] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War after Armageddon Y1 - 2009 A1 - Ralph Peters KW - Male author AB -Dystopia. After jihadist nuclear attacks on Europe all Muslims are murdered or expelled. The State of Israel is destroyed. A Holy War between Christianity and Islam follows with all Muslims in the world killed. The U.S. becomes a right-wing Christian dictatorship. Most of the novel is on the war.
PB - Forge Books CY - New York 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 -Public
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bad Faith Y1 - 2008 A1 - Philip, Gillian KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -Religious dystopia from the point of view of a teenage girl.
PB - Strident Publishing CY - East Kilbridge, Scot. U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Escape Y1 - 2008 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Feminist dystopia of a world with no females and the difficulties of the one girl born. See 2015 Padmanabhan for a sequel.
PB - Picador CY - New Delhi, India U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Ghost Jail" Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kaaron Warren (b. 1965) ED - Alisa Krasnostein ED - Ben Payne KW - Australian author KW - Female author AB -Largely a horror story, but it is set in an authoritarian dystopia aiming to control all speech.
JF - 2012 PB - Twelfth Planet Press CY - Yokine, WA, Australia U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden Y1 - 2008 A1 - Cameron Pierce (b. 1988) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire in the Bizarro mode on the Garden of Eden, which is visited by religious fanatics from the future who find that it is nothing like they expected.
PB - Eraserhead Press CY - Portland, OR U5 -MiU
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 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Sheep. 'A Dystopian Novel' Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ben [Michael] Peek (b. 1976) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia of ethnic separation set in Sydney, Australia, where the African, Asian, and Caucasian communities are physically separated, and multiculturalism is a crime.
PB - Prime Books CY - [Rockville, MD] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "(Coping With) Norm Deviation" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Hugh A[lan] D[ouglas] Spencer ED - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia that is the story of a film being made. The dystopia focuses on the elimination of people who deviate from the norm.
JF - Tesseracts Eleven PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Greentopia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto Y1 - 2007 ED - Alana Wilcox ED - Christina Palassio ED - Jonny Dovercourt KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -A collection of forty-three mostly short essays; the third volume presenting a future Toronto plus a “DirecTOry” of sources for environmentally friendly sources and activities (261-316). The “TOmorrow” section (203-59) is less explicitly utopian than that in the first volume but includes one graphic-novel eutopia, “Memoirs from the Distant Future” by Marc Ngui (204-12) depicting a sustainable future Toronto. See 2005 McBride and Wilcox, eds.; Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, and Jonny Dovercourt, eds. The State of the Arts: Living with Culture in Toronto. uTOpia Two. Toronto, ON: Coach House Books, 2006; Wayne Reeves and Christina Palassio, eds. HTO: Toronto’s Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2008; and Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, eds. The Edible City: Toronto’s food from farm to work. Toronto, ON, Canada: Coach House Books, 2009.
PB - Coach House Books CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Old World" Y1 - 2007 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. The human race suddenly becomes altruistic and compassionate. The story is primarily concerned with a man who thought it all a conspiracy.
JF - The Fate of Mice PB - Tachyon Publications CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Persephone's Library" Y1 - 2007 A1 - [Susan Lynne] [Deefholts] (1942-2015) ED - Cory [Efram] Doctorow (b. 1971) ED - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Authoritarian dystopia. A small community living at what appears to be the edge of the world is dominated by one man, who prohibits learning predating the event that created the community and takes multiple wives for himself.
JF - Tesseracts Eleven PB - Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy CY - Calgary, AL, Canada U3 -Khria Deefholts [pseud]. The author also used the name Anduril Elessar
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Y1 - 2007 A1 - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Much of the novel presents an urban dystopia of violence, and a second authoritarian dystopia develops in response to the first.
PB - Jonathan Cape CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shelter Y1 - 2007 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. In the twenty-first century compassion is a crime.
PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Instinct" Y1 - 2006 A1 - Joy Parks ED - Richard Labonté ED - Lawrence Schimel (b. 1971) KW - Female author AB -Flawed eutopia. Problems with the eutopia of complete gender freedom and the ability to change gender at will. Domed communities in which freedom becomes restricting. Lesbian viewpoint. Isolated communities outside the domes established representing different periods of the past to allow people to choose their own eutopia. Lesbian viewpoint.
JF - The Future Is Queer PB - Arsenal Pulp Press CY - Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Juneteenth" Y1 - 2006 A1 - K. M. Praschak ED - Edward J. McFadden III ED - E[katerina] Sedia (b. 1970) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia about a U.S. divided between liberals, the Democratic States, and conservatives, the United States, with strong racial themes. Juneteenth is an unofficial holiday to commemorate the end of slavery, a holiday generally ignored by whites in the conservative United States, which is becoming a security state.
JF - Jigsaw Nation: Science Fiction Stories of Secession PB - Spyre CY - Radford, VA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life As We Knew It Y1 - 2006 A1 - Susan Beth Pfeffer (b. 1948) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -First volume of the Young Adult Last Survivor series. In this volume, a meteor hits the moon pushing it closer to the Earth and causing widespread destruction on the Earth. The novel follows a young woman's struggle to survive. The second volume, The Dead and the Gone. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, moves the action to New York City but continues the same themes. The third volume, This World We Live In. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010 continues the same setting and themes as the first volume. In the fourth volume, The Shade of the Moon. Boston, MA: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, the protagonist is living in a safe community in Pennsylvania, but his ability to do so depends on his continued success at soccer and obeying the strict rules of the community. He violates the rules by falling in love.
PB - Harcourt CY - Orlando, FL U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All the Tea in China" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Yvonne Provonost KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Background of a dystopia of corporate control.
JF - Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine VL - no. 6 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Necessary Beggar Y1 - 2005 A1 - Susan Palwick (b. 1961) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The dystopia of present reality contrasted with Lémabantunk, the Glorious city, which is a eutopia of peace and plenty. Fantasy elements.
PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summer Ice" Y1 - 2005 A1 - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Beginnings of a eutopia describing a city that is "greening", transforming itself by tearing up roads, redesigning buildings, and generally recreating itself ecologically. Work shared by everyone.
JF - In the Palace of Repose PB - Prime Books CY - [Holicong, PA] N1 -Rpt. in Fantasy Magazine 1.1 (2005): 103-09; and in Best New Fantasy. Ed. Sean Wallace ([Holicong, PA: Prime Books, 2006), 219-37. Rev. ed. ([Holicong, PA]: Prime Books, 2006), 175-95. Rpt. in Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction. Ed. Jetse de Vries (Oxford, Eng.: Solaris, 2010), 116-40 with an editor’s note on 115-16.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Church Invisible: A Journey into the Future of the UK Church Y1 - 2004 A1 - Nick Page (b. 1961) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia. In fifty years, the church has disappeared in the U.K.
PB - Zondervan CY - Grand Rapids, MI N1 -Part originally published as "Invisible Church." Christianity and Renewal (July - May 2002): 40-43; 30-32; 28-30; 28-30; 36-38; 46-48; 46-48; 48-49, 50; 42-43; 36-38; 22-23, 25.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "[Rated]" Y1 - 2004 A1 - Ben [Michael] Peek (b. 1976) ED - Cat[riona] Sparks (b. 1965) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia. The Ministry of Sanitation proclaims and enforces different lifestyles for different people. White Anglo-Saxons get a eutopia with sexual restrictions.
JF - Agog! Smashing Stories PB - Agog! Press CY - Wollongong, NSW, Australia U1 -The title is an R inside a diamond and the running head is "R".
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memini Y1 - 2003 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire. A dystopian future with the mentally damaged in power.
PB - Prime Books CY - Canton, OH U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All the Room in the World" Y1 - 2002 A1 - Holly Phillips (b. 1969) ED - Candas Jane Dorsey (b. 1952) ED - Judy Berlyne McCrosky KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -Overpopulation dystopia in which millions of refugees are being moved to the supposedly empty areas of the world, like northern Canada. There are plans to ship future refugees into space as slave labor. Climate-change is part of the reason for needing to move people. Canada has fragmented, and it is no longer possible to move freely among the provinces.
JF - Land/Space: An Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction PB - Tesseract Books CY - Edmonton, AB, Canada U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The American Praetorians. A Novel Y1 - 2002 A1 - Dennis C[arroll] Purdy (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A dystopia imposed on the U.S. by liberal policies, which include very high taxes, elimination of freedoms enumerated in the Constitution, and a weakened military, results in a new American revolution. The Praetorians motto is “A man who saves a nation, commits no crime.”
PB - Trafford CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U1 -Additional subtitle on the cover A shocking journey into the 2nd American Revolution.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dawn of the New Man: A Futuristic Novel of Social Change Y1 - 2002 A1 - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Sequel to 2001 Prugovecki. This volume continues the story of two countries described in the first volume, the libertarian Terra and the authoritarian FWF (Free World Federation). The citizens of the FWF are enslaved and the protagonist initiates a successful struggle to free them.
PB - Xlibris CY - [Bloomington, IN] U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Flowercrash Y1 - 2002 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -Fantasy flawed utopia set in the far future. Struggle to ensure the continuance of the good society.
PB - Cosmos Books CY - Holicong, PA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Muezzinland Y1 - 2002 A1 - Stephen Palmer (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -Dystopia set in Africa in the mid-22nd century. Struggle to escape from the dystopia and find/establish a better society connected with the African past.
PB - Cosmos Books CY - Holicong, PA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Blue Neon Iris" Y1 - 2001 A1 - Miles Parently KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia. A society fixated on replaceable human body parts.
JF - Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 27/28 U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Event 16. An Original Screenplay. [A Science Fiction Thriller] Based on the original Screenplay 'History' Y1 - 2001 A1 - Derek Pearson (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -No obvious relationship to his 1998 History and is more of a thriller than the other. Includes elements of a contemporary dystopia and the suggestion of a future eutopia.
PB - Author CY - Lower Hutt, New Zealand U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gamekeeper's Night Dog Y1 - 2001 A1 - Dave Putnam KW - Male author AB -First volume in an alternative history series in which Britain wins the Boer War, which sets the stage for the development of the dystopia in the later volumes. The first three volumes constitute his Gamekeeper Trilogy. In the second volume, The World War. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2004, Britain invades Germany, Russia and other countries. In the third volume, 10 Downing Street. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2004, Britain dominates the world, but there is a conflict between monopoly capitalism and communism. Britain Uber Alles. Woodside, CA: Bulldog Press, 2006, the fourth volume, is a sequel to the trilogy set in the twenty-eighth century. Britain has dominated the world for centuries but war looms again. It ends with “To Be Continued,” but there is no evidence that it was.
PB - Bulldog Press CY - Woodside, CA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Green Music Y1 - 2001 A1 - Ursula Pflug (b. 1958) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author KW - Tunisian author AB -An odd magic realist novel set in Toronto and an alternative Toronto called Marina, which is also the name of the main protagonist, accessed through a painting by Susan, Marina’s partner. It is a paradise with people who had drowned in the other world.
PB - Tesseract Books an Imprint of The Book Collective CY - [Edmonton, Alberta, Canada] SN - 978-1-895836-77-8 N1 -Three chapters were previously published “in slightly different form”: Chapter One “Turtleness.” Quarry 35.3 (Summer 1986): 18-20. Chapter Two “Jack and Luna” as “The Turtle and the Moon.” Illus. by the author. Now 4, no. 29 (March 28, 1985): 21. https://nowtoronto.pressreader.com/now-magazine/19850328. Chapter Fourteen “Telepathic Fish.” Leviathan I: Into the Grey. Ed. Luke O'Grady & Jeff VanderMeer (Tallahassee, FL: Ministry of Whimsy Press, 1996), 67-80.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Memoirs of the Future Y1 - 2001 A1 - Eduard Prugovecki (1937-2003) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Contrasting eutopia and dystopia set 350 years in the future. The eutopia is Terra, which has no government, operates on the basis of local decision-making, and uses an advanced internet for coordination. The dystopia, the Free World Federation (FWF), is an all-encompassing government that uses an advanced internet to monitor and control people. See also 2002 Prugovecki.
PB - Cross Cultural Publications CY - Notre Dame, IN U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Book in the Universe Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rodman Philbrick (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Young adult dystopia set many years after a worldwide earthquake destroyed civilization. The novel is in the form of a quest by a young man, an old man in a society controlled by gangs from one area to another under a different gang. Along the way, a child and a genetically enhanced young woman from Eden, a high-tech enclave completely cut off from the surrounding area, joins them.
. Part originally published as “The Last Book in the Universe.” Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future. Comp. Michael Cart (New York: Scholastic Press, 1999), 9-23 with an “Author’s Note 22-23.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - PDU-1 Y1 - 2000 A1 - F[red] E. Potts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -PDU-1 is an orbiting computer into which the personalities of those convicted of crimes on earth are transported. Primitive eutopia on PDU-1 contrasted with a dystopian earth.
PB - ACS Publishing CY - Tucson, AZ U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Dream Archipelago Y1 - 1999 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The Dream Archipelago is made of thousands of islands in an ocean belt around the middle of a planet with a large continent to the north, with many countries regularly at war, wars that are fought on the continent to the south, which is sparsely populated. Various islanders tell stories, some eutopian, some dystopian, and some with elements of fantasy about their islands. Two further volumes are set in the Dream Archipelago. The first is The Islanders. London: Victor Gollancz, 2011, which as short descriptions of many islands. An excerpt from “The Drone” (150-87) was published as “Fireflies.” Celebration: An anthology of short stories commemorating the 50th anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association. Ed. Ian Whates ([England]: New Con Press, 2008), 207-14. “The Trace of Him” is rpt. from his 2009 The Dream Archipelago retitled “The Trace” (235-43). The second is The Gradual. London: Gollancz, 2016; rpt. London: Titan Books, 2016, in which a composer, who is from a fascist dystopia, twice tours the Dream Archipelago.
PB - Earthlight CY - London N1 -Includes the first publication of “The Equatorial Moment” (1-6); “The Negation” (7-48) originally published in Anticipations. Ed. Christopher Priest (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978), 55-86; “Whores” (49-) originally published in New Dimensions 8. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 27-40; “The Cremation” (71-114) originally in Andromeda 3. Ed. Paul Weston (London: Futura, 1978); “The Miraculous Cairn” (115-85) originally published in New Terrors #2. Ed. Ramsey Campbell (London: Pan, 1980), 11-55; and “The Watched” (186-264) originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 54.4 (323) (April 1978): 124-60. Book rpt. London: Gollancz, 2009 with “The Equatorial Moment” (1-5); “The Negation” (6-44); “Whores” (45-65); “The Miraculous Cairn” (74-140); “The Cremation” (141-81); and “The Watched” (182-255-) and two additional stories, “The Trace of Him” (66-73) originally published in Interzone, no. 214 (February 2008): 36-38; and “The Discharge” (256-301) which was originally published in SciFiction www.scifi.com/scifiction/ Posted February 13, 2002. No longer available online, but it was rpt. in Science Fiction: The Best of 2002. Ed. Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber (Np: ibooks, 2003), 156-210.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "India 2099" Y1 - 1999 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Future of India that has been changed first by two atomic bombs, then by Indians establishing space colonies which transform the remaining parts of India into an apparent eutopia.
JF - In a special issue entitled India 999-1999 Millennium Special of Outlook (New Delhi) VL - no. 44 UR - http://www.outlookindia.com/article/india-2099/208405 N1 -Rpt. as “2099.” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 149-60.
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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 - The Weatherman Y1 - 1999 A1 - Emmel Pound KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia. A warped man gains power and uses it to support his fantasies.
PB - Uncle Publishing CY - London U2 -Artwork by George Scully
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - White Mars Or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia Y1 - 1999 A1 - Brian W[ilson] Aldiss (1925-2017) A1 - Roger Penrose (b. 1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Detailed eutopia in creation on Mars including the presentation of alternative points-of-view. A sub-theme is the initial identification of an alien life form..
PB - Little, Brown CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - 51st State Y1 - 1998 A1 - Peter Preston (1938-2018) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A rather unlikely political novel by the long-time Editor of The Guardian in which England joins the United States as the 51st state.
PB - Viking CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Hand of Prophecy Y1 - 1998 A1 - [Suzanne] [Feldman] (b. 1958) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia with slavery.
PB - Avon Eos CY - New York U3 -Severna Park [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Harvest Y1 - 1998 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Dystopian play focusing on the sale of body parts by the poor to the rich.
PB - Kali for Women CY - Delhi, India N1 -Rpt. in Black and Asian Plays (London: Aurora Metro Books/The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, 2000), 10-89. A standalone version of the play with unauthorized cuts was published by the same publisher in 2003. Rev. in Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology. Ed. Helen Gilbert (London: Routledge, 2011), 217-249, with an editor’s “Introduction” (214-216). Rev & exp. ed. Gurgram, India: Hachette India, 2017 with a new introduction by the author (unpaged); and Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Ed. W[illiam] B. Worthen. 6th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011), 1727-1755.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - History. A Two Hour Sci-Fi Drama Y1 - 1998 A1 - Derek Pearson (b. 1966) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia but includes a brief depiction of a future eutopian Wellington. See also 2001 Pearson.
PB - Author/Halcyon Pictures CY - Lower Hutt, New Zealand U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Who Plays with Sin" Y1 - 1998 A1 - Don Bassingthwaite ED - Nicola [Jane] Griffith (b. 1960) ED - Stephen Pagel KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Future anti-gay dystopia. Same sex activity is outlawed and very harshly punished. It is not clear whether the laws apply to women as well as men. There are other stories in the volume that suggest this theme, but this is the only one that develops it.
JF - Bending the Landscape:Science Fiction. [Subtitle only on the cover Original Gay and Lesbian Writing] PB - Overlook Press CY - Woodstock, NY U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Canary Land" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. The moon is supposed to provide a better life than the overpopulated Earth, but most of the population is only marginally better-off and are exploited by the few powerful. Told from the point of view of an immigrant from Earth.
JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 21.1 (253) N1 -Rpt. in Isaac Asimov's Utopias. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 108-34 with a note on 108.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of Ecstasy" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Monica Papendick ED - Mary A. Beavis AB -Feminist eutopia.
JF - Women and Urban Environments PB - Institute of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg) CY - (Winnipeg, MB, Canada VL - Volume 2: Feminist Utopian Visions of the City. Student Paper 10 U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Echoes from the Future" Y1 - 1997 A1 - Colin Wisely ED - Jon Purkis ED - James Bowen KW - Male author AB -A combination of essay and fiction that includes future scenarios after the collapse of states throughout the world, mostly dystopia but with some suggestions of a possible anarchist eutopia.
JF - Twenty-first Century Anarchism: Unorthodox Ideas For a New Millennium PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Essence of Gandhi” Y1 - 1997 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Satire on genetic manipulation that begins in a dystopia that controls all genes and then moves toward a eutopia based on the genes of Gandhi.
JF - New Internationalist Magazine VL - no. 293 UR - http://newint.org/features/1997/08/05/gandhi/ N1 -Rpt. as “Gandhi-Toxin.” In her Kleptomania. Ten Stories (New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2004), 91-98.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fight Club Y1 - 1996 A1 - Chuck [Charles Michael] Palahniuk (b. 1962) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia best known in the 1999 film version directed by David Fincher and with a screenplay by Jim Uhis.
PB - W.W. Norton CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Vintage, 1997. A comic book series Fight Club 2, nos. 1-10 and Fight Club 2 Free Comic Book Day 2015 are collected in Fight Club 2: The Tranquility Gambit. Art by Cameron Stewart, Colors by Dave Stewart, Letters and logo by Nate Piekos of Blambot®, and Cover and chapter break by David Mack. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 2016.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Higher Education. A Jupiter™ Novel Y1 - 1996 A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -World divided into the very rich and the very poor. Right wing take on problems of U.S.
PB - Tor CY - New York N1 -Includes material first published in Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention (New York: William Morrow, 1994), 227-94. Rpt. rev. in How To Save the World. Ed. Charles Sheffield (New York: Tor, 1995), 275-346; and as “Higher Education.” Illus. George H. Krauter. Analog Science Fiction and Fact 116.3 - 6 (February - May 1996): 12-16, 18-20, 22-24, 26-28, 30-32, 34-36, 38-40, 42-44, 46-48, 50-60; 108-144, 104-144, 102-122.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - In Heaven As On Earth: A Vision of the Afterlife Y1 - 1996 A1 - M[organ] Scott Peck M.D. (1936-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Self-help book presented as a story of heaven. Some eutopian elements.
PB - Hyperion CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Last Homosexual" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Paul [Claiborne] Park (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which the U.S. has broken up into individual states, and the story focuses on Louisiana under the New Baptists.
JF - Asimov's Science Fiction VL - 20.6 (246) N1 -Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Fourteenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 167-77.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Protektor Y1 - 1996 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future computer controlled eutopia that develops flaws.
PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Stolen Hours" Y1 - 1996 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -The setting of a science fiction story is a dystopia of rigid class distinction based on ethnicity and immigration .
JF - Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories PB - Kali for Women CY - New Delhi, India N1 -Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 169-83.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "And Baby Makes Five" Y1 - 1995 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation dystopia in which one has to pay penalties for each child.
JF - The Final Dream and Other Fictions PB - Permeable Press CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream that needs abuildin' Y1 - 1995 A1 - Russell Voorhees ED - John Pritchard KW - Male author AB -Architectural eutopia.
PB - Chayah Press CY - Phoenix, AZ U5 -CaOUP
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dryland's End Y1 - 1995 A1 - Felice Picano KW - Female author AB -A matriarchy with problems set in the far future.
PB - Richard Kasak CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Farewell Reverberated Vault of Detentions.” Y1 - 1995 A1 - Lionel G. Fogarty (b. 1958) ED - Peter Porter KW - Aboriginal author KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Poem depicting the aboriginal eutopia possible without the effects of the white colonizers.
JF - New and Selected Poems: Mualdjali, Mutuerjaraera PB - Hyland House CY - South Melbourne, Vic, Australia N1 -Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse. Ed. Peter Porter (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1996), 266.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Mystery of the Third Seal Y1 - 1995 A1 - Margaret Pearce KW - Female author AB -Young adult flawed utopia. Post-catastrophe society of seeming perfection under the control of the Shepherds, who are like the Morlocks of 1895 Wells.
PB - Longman Australia CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Newtopia Y1 - 1995 A1 - D. K. Paul (b. 1914) AB -A detailed proposal for founding a series of ecological communities based on some similarity, such as race or ethnicity, in the population forming it. The author argues that it is completely practical, and compares the idea to the Twin Oaks Community in Louis, VA.
PB - PakDonald Publishing Co CY - Tigard, OR U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Awakening” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Roxana Pierson ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Snows Over Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Bachelor Butterflies Y1 - 1994 A1 - Jeff Probst KW - Male author AB -Vaguely dystopian. A country decides to solve its crime problem by deporting all unemployed, single men. Includes a description of the area to which they are deported, but the novel focuses on the personal reactions of an individual man.
PB - Roslyn Press CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Boston: The History of a City 1990-2100 Y1 - 1994 A1 - David Alexander Smith (b. 1953) A1 - Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1937) A1 - Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956) A1 - Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955) A1 - Jon Burrowes A1 - Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952) A1 - Resa Nelson (b. 1956) ED - David Alexander Smith ed. (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A shared future history anthology related to Smith's 1993 In the Cube, which was written during the collaboration on this volume. The basic premise is that Boston is sinking and that as it sinks some of it will simply disappear under water and that the remaining sections will struggle for survival and come into conflict with each other. To complicate matters a wide variety of different aliens arrive in Boston and become part of everyday life. One of those aliens is testing humans for admission into the interstellar world. Humanity apparently passes the test and at the end Boston reunites and establishes itself as a separate country. The volume is composed of numerous stories and vignettes, a few previously published, maps of Boston in 1772, 1990, 2014, 2030, 2050, and 2061, and an "Afterword: How It Came to Be" (376-82) by David Smith. The contents are Smith, "'Boston Will Sink, Claims MIT Prof'" (9-10); Sarah [Winthrop] Smith (b. 1947), "Seeing the Edge" (12-29); Alexander Jablokov (b. 1956), "Nomads" (30-52); Geoffrey A[lan] Landis (b. 1955), "Projects" (53-70) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine [the copyright page incorrectly says Analog] 14.6 (157) (June 1990): 104-17; David Smith, "Dying in Hull" (71-87) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 12.11 (136) (November 1988): 62-66, 68-75; and in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989), 497-508 with an Editor's note on 496; and in Isaac Asimov's Earth. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois and Sheila Williams (New York: Ace Books, 1992), 19-34. Jon Burrowes, "The Elephant-Ass Thing" (89-108); Steven [Earl] Popkes (b. 1952), "The Parade" (109-21); Jablokov, "Seating Arrangement" (122-32); Burrowes, "The Uprising" (133-36); Resa Nelson (b. 1956) and Sarah Smith, "Fennario" (137-52); Landis, "Topology of the Loophole" (153-56); Popkes, "Not for Broadcast" (157-62); David Smith, "When the Phneri Fell" (163-66) rpt. from Figment, no. 1 (October 1989): 23-24; which was rpt. Figment, no. 15 (Fall 1993): 27-28; Popkes and David Smith, "Playing Chess with the Bishop" (168-73); Jablokov, "Letter to the Editor" (174-75); David Smith, "Who Is Venture Capital?" (176-77); Jablokov, "IPOB Dining Hall Procedures," (178-80); Popkes, "So You Want to Meet the Bishop" (181-85); Landis, "Camomile and Crimson; or, The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife" (186-98) originally published as "The Tale of the Brahmin's Wife." Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact 110.5 (April 1990): 135-43; Popkes, "The Test" (198-222); Jablokov, "The Place of No Shadows" (223-46) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 14.11& 12 (162& 163) (November 1990): 170-86; Jablokov, "The Lady of Port Moresby Incident" (248-49); Sarah Smith, "Three Boston Artists" (250-66) rpt. from Aboriginal Science Fiction 4.4 (22) (July-August 1990): 2, 59-63 with illus on 3 and 58; Jablokov, "Focal Plane" (267-86); Sarah Smith, "Ye Citizens of Boston" (287-328); Jablokov, "The Adoption" (330-51) rpt. from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine 15.12& 13 (177& 178) (November 1991): 200-15; Jablokov, "WereWhereWear" (352-53); and David Smith, "Sail Away" (354-75).
PB - Tor CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Future Quartet. Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Invention Y1 - 1994 A1 - Ben[jamin William] Bova (1932-2020) A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Charles [A.] Sheffield (1935-2002) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia but with some hope of improvement. A future world deeply divided between the rich and the poor but with positive change taking place.
PB - William Morrow CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - My Journey With Aristotle to the Anarchist Utopia Y1 - 1994 A1 - Graham Purchase KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -An Australian laborer is beaten by the police and wakes up in and anarchist eutopia in which nation states no longer exist and people live in communities based on the way they want to live. The city that is the main focus is a high-tech society with the technology entirely biologically based, including an about to be launched spaceship. The people are predominantly vegetarian supplemented by fish from the rivers that run through it, chickens raised locally, and game from the surrounding wilderness. Most local transport by bicycle, and there are tunnels for bicycles throughout the city. It turns out to be a dream.
PB - III Press CY - Gualala, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Place Between” Y1 - 1994 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Snows of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Coelestis Y1 - 1993 A1 - Paul [Claiborne] Park (b. 1954) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia set in a future U.S. with substantial radiation causing genetic damage. Division between humans and aborigines.
PB - HarperCollins CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. as Celestis. New York: Tor, 1995.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Heart of the Overchild" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation dystopia. An Overchild is one who is in excess of the permitted number. Their body parts are used to keep endangered species alive.
JF - REAL: RE Arts & Letters VL - 19.2 N1 -Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 33-44.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - . . . In a World Not of His Own Making Y1 - 1993 A1 - Stephen Papson KW - Male author AB -Ecological dystopia.
PB - Blue Canary Publishing CY - Canton, NY ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rain" Y1 - 1993 A1 - Kenneth Doyle ED - Bal Phondke KW - Male author AB -A climate change story in which everyone lives in domes, with only desert and acid rain outside the domes.
JF - It Happened Tomorrow: An Anthology of Select Science Fiction Stories PB - National Book Trust CY - New Delhi, India SN - 9788123706191 U2 -Illus. Subir Roy
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Requiem for a Tarbaby" Y1 - 1992 A1 - Alice Peattie ED - Tim Jones (b. 1959) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -Authoritarian, religious, and pollution dystopia.
JF - What on Earth: A Collection of Science Fiction and Related Short Stories by eight southern authors PB - Steep Birancas Operation CY - Dunedin, New Zealand U5 -ATL, VUW
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Skinny Louie Book Y1 - 1992 A1 - Fiona Farrell (b. 1947) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Female author AB -The novel begins with New Zealand history of the post-World War II era with some fantastic elements as seen through the eyes of a girl growing up, going to university, getting pregnant, and beginning her career. It extends to an authoritarian dystopian future of age and class divisions brought about by current government policies and deliberately fostered by the government. It ends with a destroyed New Zealand with few survivors.
PB - Penguin CY - Auckland, New Zealand N1 -The first section is her “A Story About Skinny Louie.” New Zealand Listener 127.2620 (May 28, 1990): 96, 101-02 as by Fiona Farrell Poole. Story rpt. in Closing the File: American Express Short Story Award Winners, 1984-89 (Auckland, New Zealand: Godwit Press, 1990), 137-52; in Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories. Ed. Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire. New ed. (Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books, 1992), 278-90; and in The New Zealand Short Story Collection. Ed. Marion McLeod and Bill Manhire. 3rd ed. (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1997), 365-81. There is an abridged Talking Books version read by Liddy Holloway. Auckland, New Zealand: Word Pictures, Ltd., [1993].
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 2084: A Novel Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry W. Poland Ph.D. (b. 1939) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia and dystopia contrasting the millennial reign of Christ with the “World of Imprisoned Souls” with Biblical references (259-63). Three people from the past are transported to the millennial kingdom, which is nearing the end of the thousand years and approaching Armageddon. Not belonging there, they become a focus for competition between the two realms. Earth, which is composed of 144 kingdoms, each led by a governor appointed by God, has been renovated by God so as to be Eden-like, albeit with cities. Strict deference to authority. All minds open to everyone, but, of course, all thoughts are virtuous. Each person has a “perfect body” (70). Animals, such as tigers, are vegetarians.
PB - Here's Life Publishers CY - San Bernardino, CA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Butterfly Season" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) KW - Female author AB -Free Amazon story.
JF - Renunciates Of Darkover PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Dealer" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Michaelene Pendleton (1946-2019) KW - Female author AB -Future dystopia in which America has rejected everything foreign.
JF - Amazing Stories (Lake Geneva, WI) VL - 66.5 (562) N1 -Rpt. in Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science fiction from the Corridor. Ed. M. Shayne Bell (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1993), 277-92.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fallen Angels Y1 - 1991 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) A1 - Michael [Francis] Flynn (1947-2023) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Greens produce an anti-technological dystopia.
PB - Baen CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. An excerpt was published in Niven’s Playgrounds of the Mind (New York: Tor, 1991), 684-86.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - He, She and It Y1 - 1991 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Complex future dystopia run by corporations with an embattled Jewish eutopia as the central focus.
PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. as Body of Glass. London: Michael Joseph, 1992.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Varzil's Avengers" Y1 - 1991 A1 - Diann S. Partridge 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 - Outnumbering the Dead Y1 - 1990 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia with near immortality and the problems for those who are mortal.
PB - Century CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. Illus. Steve Crisp. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 519-82. Based on the U.S. publication, Dozois gives date of first publication as 1991.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Permacity Theory: Agapé-papatuanuku In Action" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Jonathan S. Port KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -Depicts Sustainable Living Settlements in great detail. Based on transferring the concept of permaculture to the urban area.
PB - Auckland, New Zealand CY - MPlanning Thesis. University of Auckand U5 -AU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Transform Node: Science Fiction Mystical Adventures Y1 - 1990 A1 - Ronn Parker KW - African American author KW - Male author AB -A collection of related stories with a stress on Extrasensory Perception (ESP) that allows better connections among people. A number of the stories, including the title story, are primarily concerned with mysticism, which will help the people create a future eutopia.
PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Two Tomorrow" Y1 - 1990 A1 - Steven Paulsen (b. 1955) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -A dystopia in 650 words that presents a world with very strict population controls. Only people of a certain status can have any children, only the highest status people can have two, and after a child reaches two years, only two generations are permissible, and the oldest must be terminated.
JF - Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy VL - no. 3 N1 -Rpt. in his Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: IWWG International, 2018), 21-22 with an “Afterword--Two Tomorrow” on 23.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - We, the Arcturians (A True Experience) Y1 - 1990 A1 - Norma J. Milanovich A1 - Betty Rice A1 - Cynthia Ploski KW - Female author AB -New age eutopia.
PB - Athena CY - Albuquerque, NM U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Cronus" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Marianne Puxley KW - Female author KW - South African author KW - UK author AB -Future dystopia where people are encouraged to live in communities that where everything about their lives is controlled.
JF - Interzone VL - no. 29 U5 -Merril, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Final Dream" Y1 - 1989 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Amoral dystopia in which dreams are broadcast to subscribers. The one whose dreams are broadcast and becomes other people's dreams becomes insane.
JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 4 N1 -Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 221-68.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Free Zone: Volume One of the Epic Unilogy Y1 - 1989 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Complex, humorous eutopia and dystopia.
PB - Avon Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Island Paradise Y1 - 1989 A1 - Kathy Page (b. 1958) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -A future in which war has been averted, rigid controls on population growth have been put in place, and people are required to die on schedule.
PB - Methuen CY - London N1 -Rpt. London: Minerva, 1990. The chapter entitled "The Lens" was originally published as "From Two Women in a Boat (Work in Progress)." Writing Women 4.3 ([1988?]): 8-22.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Winter Vision Y1 - 1989 A1 - Geoff Page (b. 1940) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia set in the late 1990s. The novel is primarily concerned with the difficulties of a middle-aged schoolteacher, who gets caught up in the machinations of various people who use government policy for their own ends. He becomes involved with protests against nuclear brinksmanship and the novel ends with nuclear war.
PB - University of Queensland Press CY - St. Lucia, Australia U5 -A, VUW
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Taking From the Top" Y1 - 1988 A1 - Daniel [David] Pearlman (1935-2013) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future tale in which death is required after eighty except for those who have made or are making a major contribution to society.
JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 2 N1 -Rpt. in his The Final Dream and Other Fictions (San Francisco, CA: Permeable Press, 1995), 45-80.
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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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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Unquenchable Fire Y1 - 1988 A1 - Rachel [Grace] Pollack (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A dystopian future United States where magic and ritual are common. See her Temporary Agency. London: Orbit, 1994 for a sequel.
PB - Century Hutchinson CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Amerika Y1 - 1987 A1 - Brauna E. Pouns [pseud.] A1 - Donald Wrye (1934-2015) KW - Male author AB -Dystopia of the United States dominated by the U.S.S.R.
PB - Pocket Books CY - New York U3 -Brauna E. Pouns [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cruise of the Skuld Y1 - 1987 A1 - Marguerite Pedersen KW - Female author AB -Individualist anarchist eutopia presented mostly in a discussion on a ship.
PB - Sovereign Press CY - Rochester, WA U1 -Subtitle on the cover Individuals Against the World of Mass Madness
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goodstuff Any Moment Y1 - 1987 A1 - Mike Paterson (b. 1946) KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -A dystopia based on the usual corruption and cruelties with the emergence of a eutopia based on people helping each other. People create a cooperative system of both education and exchange that allows those living on the margins to improve their lives. Religious overtones with the emergence near the end of an Antichrist figure and the possibility of the Second Coming.
PB - Hard Echo Press CY - Onehunga, New Zealand U5 -ATL, PSt, VUW
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Green Man of Knowledge" Y1 - 1987 A1 - Wendy G[ay] Pearson ED - Phyllis [Fay Bloom] Gotlieb (1926-2009) ED - Douglas Barbour (b. 1940) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -In the future capital punishment is replaced by dying the skin of murderers green. Those dyed green live in the world and work in munitions factories but are generally treated as non-persons. The story is about a terrorist and his punishment.
JF - Tesseracts2 PB - Porcépic Press CY - Victoria, BC, Canada U5 -Can, Merril, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Stepfather Bank Y1 - 1987 A1 - D[avid] C[harles] Poyer (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia set in 2110 under the control of a single monopolistic, fully automated bank that owns the entire world and employs everyone except one man who defies and undermines the system.
PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York SN - 0-312-00687-X U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Thanatos Syndrome Y1 - 1987 A1 - Walker Percy (1916-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of the very near future United States in which scientists chemically suppress human individuality. The protagonist's name, Dr. Tom More, continues the connection with the author of Utopia mentioned in 1971 Percy.
PB - Farrar Straus Giroux CY - New York N1 -A limited first edition signed by the author and with a frontispiece by Jim Spanfeller and “A Special message for the first edition from Walker Percy” for the members of The Signed First Edition Society. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1987.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Torch Y1 - 1987 A1 - Jill Paton Walsh (b. 1939) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Young adult post-catastrophe dystopia in which most civilizations have disappeared, and people live in small settlements scratching a living. The novel focuses on two young people forced to marry who are passed on the last Olympic torch and try to return to its home.
PB - Viking Kestrel CY - London U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming of the Quantum Cats Y1 - 1986 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Presents a number of alternative societies, mostly dystopian. A central one has the United States dominated by Islam with the F.B.I. [Federal Bureau of Investigation] a major political force.
PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dreams of an Unseen Planet Y1 - 1986 A1 - Teresa [Irene] Plowright (b. 1952) KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -The novel is about the interactions between humans and planet Gaea, which is alive. The novel deals in particular with the responses of women. Canadian female author.
PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -Can
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Goodman 2020 Y1 - 1986 A1 - [John] Fred[erick] Pfeil (1949-2005) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future dystopia of corporate power, drugs, and friendship as a commodity for sale. Some hope is held out at the end.
PB - Indiana University Press CY - Bloomington ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Heir Y1 - 1986 A1 - John Preston KW - Male author AB -Sadomasochistic eutopia.
PB - Caliente Press CY - Austin, TX N1 -An earlier version appeared as an issue of Drummer, no. 82 (1985).
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Others Y1 - 1986 A1 - Alison Prince KW - Female author AB -Young adult authoritarian dystopia. Designer bred children. Induced mutations to fit people for jobs. Electrodes implanted at birth to condition people to fit their function and education is really continued conditioning. Marriage partners often chosen by the state; free choice possible. Some people without implants mount a struggle against the state, which will ultimately be successful
PB - Methuen Children's Books CY - London U5 -L, O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Black Star Rising Y1 - 1985 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Begins with a dystopia in which China rules the United States.
PB - Del Rey CY - New York U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dinner at Deviant's Palace Y1 - 1985 A1 - Tim[othy Thomas] Powers (b. 1952) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia a generation after a nuclear war focusing on a religious cult.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1986.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Mother Quest" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) ED - Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-99) ED - The Friends of Darkover [pseud.] KW - Female author AB -A Free Amazon story about a mother searching for her lost child.
JF - Free Amazons of Darkover: An Anthology PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -HRC, Merril, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "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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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Place of Circular Enigmas" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Clive Poole ED - Tony Davis KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -A dystopia that pits a rural Nazi group awaiting the Second Coming of Hitler against native traditions.
JF - The Best of South African Science Fiction PB - [SFSA Science Fiction South Africa] CY - [Johannesburg, South Africa] VL - 2 vols. U5 -VaU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Queendom of Moths. A Story” Y1 - 1985 A1 - Giovanna Peel KW - Canadian author KW - Female author AB -A feminist utopia destroyed by atomic war.
JF - Canadian Woman Studies/Les cahiers de la femme VL - 6.2 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sanctuary Tree" Y1 - 1985 A1 - John Playford ED - Damien [Francis] Broderick (b. 1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia of National Socialism continued into the future.
JF - Strange Attractors: Original Australian Speculative Fiction PB - Hale & Iremonger CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U5 -A, M, NZ
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Ungoverned" Y1 - 1985 A1 - Vernor [Steffen] Vinge (b. 1944) ED - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) ED - Jim Baen KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Libertarian eutopia. Mostly about war. Discusses protective associations like those found in 1974 Nozick. Vinge says that his The Peace War (1984) can be thought of as a prequel and his Marooned in Realtime. New York: Bluejay, 1986 as a sequel.
JF - Far Frontiers PB - Baen CY - New York VL - 3 N1 -Rpt. in his True Names . . . and Other Dangers (New York: Baen Books, 1987), 200-54; in his Across Realtime (New York: Baen, 1991), 257-300; in The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (New York: Tor, 2001), 91-127 [This ed. has notes by the author]; in Give Me Liberty. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2003), 85-139; and in Freedom! Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Mark Tier (New York: Baen, 2006), 71-113.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “A Government of India undertaking . . .” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Dystopian Kafkaesque satire focusing on the “Bureau of Reincarnation and Transmigration of Souls--A Government of India Undertaking.”
JF - Imprint (Bombay, India) VL - 24.1 N1 -Rpt. in In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women. Ed. Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1992), 1-24. U.K. ed. (London: The Women’s Press, 1993), 1-24; U.S. ed. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 1-24. Rpt. in Critical Quarterly 35.4 (December 1993): 66-79; in her Hot Death, Cold Soup: Twelve Short Stories (Delhi, India: Kali for Women, 1996), 111-32. Rpt. (Reading, Eng.: Garnet Publishing, 1997), 99-117; and in her Three Virgins and Other Stories (New Delhi, India: Zubaan, 2013), 17-38.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Kindly Isle" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A man visits a Caribbean island where all the people seem to be particularly nice and discovers that a scientist has developed a virus which he is intent on spreading around the world, creating a eutopia.
JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 8.11 (84) N1 -Rpt. in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection. Ed. Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Bluejay Books, 1985), 320-40 with an editor's note on 318.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Merchants' War Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire on an Earth that is run by ad agencies. See 1952 Pohl and Kornbluth.
Rpt. in Venus, Inc. (New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1985), 159-346.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rem the Rememberer" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story begins in a eutopian future of low technology and ecological balance, but this is the recurring dream of a boy living in the badly polluted present.
JF - Pohlstars PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Sharing Air” Y1 - 1984 A1 - Manjula Padmanabhan (b. 1953) KW - Female author KW - Indian author AB -Dystopia in the future in which everyone has to breathe air from tanks, and all the trees are gone.
JF - Kleptomania. Ten Stories PB - Penguin Books India CY - New Delhi, India N1 -Originally published in the Sunday Express (New Delhi). Rpt. in The Pioneer (New Delhi) (February 28, 1997); 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), 925-27 with an editors’ note on 924 giving the date of publication as 1984 but without any indication of where.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Sonic Boom of 1994" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Melvin D. Garretsen ED - Ivey B. Pittle ED - Roslyn Rosen KW - Deaf author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A brief story in which the United States develops a supersonic passenger plane that can fly between the US and Europe in an hour that produces a sonic boom that deafens the entire country and advantaging those who known sign language.
JF - Another Handful of Stories: Thirty-Seven Stories by Deaf Storytellers Transliterated from the Deaf Storytellers Video Tape Series PB - Division of Public Services, Gallaudet College CY - Washington, DC SN - 9780913580868 U5 -OSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Transition from Sex to Sensuality and Intimacy" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Lester A. Kirkendall A1 - Michael E. Perry ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Discusses the effects of changed attitudes towards sex and sexuality, with the title making the point.
JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -MoU-St, TxU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Way It Was" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation dystopia in which most people are on welfare, which means just barely able to get by living in large dormitories. The story focuses on the sale of body parts to be able to live better, at least briefly.
JF - Pohlstars PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Work/Family Connection in the Year 2020" Y1 - 1984 A1 - Joyce Portner A1 - Larry Etkin ED - Lester A. Kirkendall ED - Arthur E. Gravatt KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -See the note at 1984 Alam. Discusses the effects of changed work patterns based on revolutions in computing, robotics, increased life expectancy, and the colonization of space.
JF - Marriage and the Family in the Year 2020 PB - Prometheus Books CY - Buffalo, NY U5 -MoU-St, TxU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Years of the City Y1 - 1984 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Five pictures of a future New York beginning with a dystopia (but with a depiction of some techniques for reform including a Universal Town Meeting) and ending with two near eutopias. The second and third futures are presented as transitional.
PB - Simon & Schuster CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1985.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Ma Windsor Y1 - 1983 A1 - Lorin Peterson AB -Mostly a political novel, but a woman is elected President of the United States, and she solves the economic and international problems of the country. Includes her political platform.
PB - The Hillside Press CY - Los Angeles, CA ER - TY - ABST T1 - Midas World Y1 - 1983 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Series of loosely connected stories stemming from his 1954 "The Midas Plague." The only previously unpublished story, "The Fire-Bringer" (1-4), serves as an introduction This is followed by 1954 Pohl, "The Midas Plague" (5-74). The other stories then depict aspects of the future of the world created in that story. "The Servant of the People" (75-97) is about a Congressman (Congress hold interactive electronic meetings with no one physically present) running against a robot. "The Man Who Ate the World" (98-137) is about a compulsive consumer when the need to consume is long past. "The Farmer on the Dole" (138-75) is about giving redundant robots new jobs, in this case as a mugger who can only mug other robots. "The Lord of the Skies" (176-244) is about life in orbital habitats that draw their power from Earth, whose ecology has been destroyed by the need to send power to the habitats. "The New Neighbors" (245-76) is about the future destroyed world now inhabited almost entirely by robots.
PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -Parts published previously as 1954 Pohl, "The Midas Plague"; "The Servant of the People." Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact 103.2 (February 1983): 90-105; "The Man Who Ate the World." Galaxy Science Fiction 13.1 (November 1956): 6-35; "The Farmer on the Dole." Omni 5.1 (1982): 118-22, 124, 126-27, 164-68; "The Lord of the Skies." Amazing Science Fiction 57.2 (July 1983): 114-62; and "The New Neighbors." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 64.5 (May 1983): 137-58.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Duncan's Colony Y1 - 1982 A1 - Natalie L[evin] M[aines] Petesch (b.1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopian future set in a small intentional community where four people come together in hopes of surviving an expected nuclear war.
PB - Swallow Press/Ohio University Press CY - Athens, OH U5 -KU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lady of Light Y1 - 1982 A1 - Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Mostly fantasy but includes a future post-catastrophe eutopian kingdom.
PB - Timescape CY - New York U5 -Merril, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starburst Y1 - 1982 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The novel presents a dystopia of the near future in a U. S. that is marked by violent protests and widespread disorder. It also presents a eutopia brought about on another planet through the unexplained development of new powers by a group of people sent on a supposedly meaningless trip to a nonexistent planet. They bring a degree of healing to the Earth. Some satire.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Cool War Y1 - 1981 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Humorous dystopia set in the 2020s. The "Cool War" has replaced the Cold War and consists of world-wide sabotage.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oath of Fealty Y1 - 1981 A1 - Larry [Lawrence van Cott] Niven (b. 1938) A1 - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia and eutopia presenting the ideas of the Italian architect Paolo Soleri (b. 1919). An arcology is built in the middle of Los Angeles that is home to 250,000 people and provides for all their needs with security of high priority. Conflict with the rest of the city develops, and the strengths and weaknesses of the arcology as a way of life are revealed. For Soleri's ideas, see, for example, his Arcology: The City in the Image of Man. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969. The community Arcosanti in Arizona was built using his ideas.
PB - Phantasia Press CY - Huntington Woods, MI N1 -Also published New York: Timescape, 1981. An excerpt was published in Niven’s Playgrounds of the Mind (New York: Tor, 1991), 436-48.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once Upon a Future: the name gathering" Y1 - 1981 A1 - Pirtle, Sara KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A story and a story about telling the story to different groups of children with the children’s reactions determining the direction of the story. The story is an eco-feminist one in which a girl from an ecologically sensitive community meets a girl from a technological community. Name gathering is a rite of passage in which at puberty everyone goes on a solo journey during which they choose their own name.
JF - Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living VL - no. 47 U5 -MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Shiloh Project Y1 - 1981 A1 - David C[harles] Poyer (b. 1949) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Alternative history in which the Confederacy won the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, but all that was achieved was a century-long standoff between the North and the South, which is a police state. In the novel, the North has developed the atomic bomb, and it dropped it on Japan. The South is desperate to get its own, and, at the end of the novel, uses it.
PB - Avon CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Operation Misfit Y1 - 1980 A1 - E[dgar] Hoffman [Trooper] Price (1898-1988) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia emphasizing thought control in which the Thought Control Board tries to eliminate a maverick, who appears throughout the series. Much of the novel follows the maverick into space and is mostly adventure. Sequels include Operation Longlife. New York: Ballantine Books, 1982, in which a man who is 186 years old is targeted to obtain the secret of his longevity; Operation Exile. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986, in which the North American empire is under threat and the series protagonist is hired to protect the emperor’s wife with, again, much of the novel mostly adventure; and Operation Isis. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986, in which the man, after more adventures, retires to Mars.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York U5 -Merril, MiU, MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Perpetual Migration" Y1 - 1980 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Short eutopian poem on the joy of life. Part of her "The Lunar Cycle".
JF - The Moon Is Always Female PB - Alfred K. Knopf CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in her Circles On the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 273-74.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shadowman Y1 - 1980 A1 - Geo[rge] W. Proctor (1946-2008) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia in which an emotionless society without crime or violence produces an assassin.
PB - Fawcett Gold Medal CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Iceback Invasion" Y1 - 1979 A1 - Hayford Pierce (b. 1942) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopian satire on multiculturalism.
JF - Omni VL - 1.7 N1 -Rpt. in The Best of Omni Science Fiction. Ed. Ben Bova and Don Myrus (New York: Omni Society, 1980), 52-59.
U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Jem: The Making of a Utopia Y1 - 1979 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A novel about the discovery of a planet inhabited by three different species, the attempt to exploit it by three different groups from Earth, and the ultimate coming together of all six groups with a very brief depiction of the better society that resulted.
PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1980. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1979.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Talking Coffins of Cryo-City Y1 - 1979 A1 - Shirley [Laurolyn] Parenteau (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A young adult novel which describes a flawed utopia based on the control of the weather. The world is run by machines. Criminals are frozen.
PB - Elsevier/Nelson Books CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Escape to the Suburbs" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) ED - Alice Laurence KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation dystopia. Manhattan is cut off from the suburbs. The city government has fled to New Jersey and the tunnels have been blown up. Manhattan is now entirely black and Hispanic, extremely poor, and crowded. Those who try to escape are killed.
JF - Cassandra Rising PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Exercise for Madmen Y1 - 1978 A1 - Barbara [Jeanne] Paul (b. 1931) KW - US author AB -Describes a scientific satellite that is a near eutopia and its corruption by an alien.
PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -GU, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Institute Y1 - 1978 A1 - Robert Petyo KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia. The Institute is where scientists in the service of a power-hungry government bureaucracy experiment on humans.
PB - Manor Books CY - New York U5 -Merril, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The King of Hell Y1 - 1978 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A penal colony planet controlled by an apparently eutopian world (Elysium) is a dystopia.
PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -L, NLS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Leprosarium" Y1 - 1978 A1 - Natalie L[evin] M[aines] Petesch (b.1924) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which a large insurance company punishes those who deviate from its rules by incarcerating them in the Leprosarium where large numbers of people are kept together but prohibited from most contact, with such contact warranting further physical punishment. Those who survive are sent to isolated islands, where they take large doses of the drug orgone, which causes hallucinations.
JF - Seasons Such As These. Two Novels PB - The Swallow Press CY - Chicago, IL U2 -Illus. Barbara Mueller
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Dream of Wessex Y1 - 1977 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The novel presents a future (2135-37) after a series of earthquakes has destroyed much of Britain, and it is a Soviet state, generally presented neutrally. Wessex is an island off the coast that is a holiday resort where many of the rules of the mainland do not apply and, as a result, it attracts many tourists from the Islamic North America. The focus of the novel is on two individuals projected to the future Wessex from the mid-1980s who choose to stay there.
PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. as The Perfect Lover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977.
U1 -U.S. ed. as The Perfect Lover
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Worlds for the Grabbing Y1 - 1977 A1 - Brenda Pearce (b. 1935) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -As befits the title, the novel is about the corrupt system of colonization and the exploitation of other planets. The main character has too-high ethical standards for the system.
PB - Dennis Dobson CY - London SN - 9780234720400 U5 -CU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Age of Libra” Y1 - 1976 A1 - Scott Edelstein (b. 1954) ED - Carol Pohl (1927-2005) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -United States Retirement Services is an answer to overpopulation. It has established 1645 retirement villages, each holding 2900 people for one year. Retirement is mandatory at a specified age, which is lowered within the story but can be chosen earlier.
JF - Science Fiction Discoveries PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Another Eden Y1 - 1976 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The novel begins in the overpopulation dystopia of Earth, and then moves to a planet being settled to offload population. The people have been told that it is Edenic, but it is in fact extremely dangerous, and then the aliens attack.
PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -NLS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Eden Echo Y1 - 1976 A1 - Ruth Angell Purkey KW - Female author AB -Satire in a play on a women's only future. Because men were warlike, God had removed all men and women had created a peaceful society. The play shows two older women who are bored, a vehemently anti-male woman, and a young woman who discovers a man in suspended animation. God blinds the anti-male woman so that she can't see the man, and he and the girl go off together.
PB - Baker's Plays CY - Boston, MA U5 -PClU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "From Utopia to Paradise" Y1 - 1976 A1 - Petamber Persaud KW - Guyanese author AB -Dialect poem of Guyana as eutopia.
JF - From Utopia to Paradise PB - Petamber Persaud CY - [Campbellville, Guyana] U1 -[The cover adds A Collection of Political Thoughts]
U5 -TxU Benson Latin America Collection
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Little Book of All Colors" Y1 - 1976 A1 - James B[unyan] Parsons (b. 1948) ED - James B[unyan] Parsons (b. 1948) KW - Male author AB -Eutopia describing the country of Seeklaria, a small country located in the European Alps. Constitutional monarchy. Influenced by Christianity and China. Racially mixed and culturally well integrated. A modern society with the charms of the past. Based on interviews with the King. Much comment on current affairs, particularly Vietnam.
JF - Papers in Honor of Professor Woodbridge Bingham: A Festschrift for His Seventy-fifth Birthday PB - Chinese Materials Center CY - San Francisco, CA U5 -CU-Riv
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Woman on the Edge of Time Y1 - 1976 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Detailed feminist eutopia that is half a realistic novel about the mistreatment of the poor by the police, social workers and the medical/psychiatric profession. Eliminates gendered pronouns; replaced with "per".
PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1976. U.K. ed. London: Women's Press, 1983. [40th anniversary edition]. London: Gollancz, 2016 with “Introduction to the 2016 Edition” by Piercy (vii-xi).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Come Take a Dip With Me in the Genetic Pool" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Rachel Cosgrove Payes (1922-98) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which an authoritarian genetic council decides who can have children and requires abortions when a relationship is not approved.
JF - Dystopian Visions PB - Prentice-Hall CY - Englewood Cliffs, NJ U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Growing Up in Edge City" Y1 - 1975 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) ED - Roger [Paul] Elwood (1943-2007) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia describing a totally enclosed city where every person is constantly monitored. One boy discovers a way outside and people living there. Punished, he ultimately arranges for the destruction of those outside to advance his career.
JF - Epoch PB - Berkley Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in his Pohlstars (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 126-39.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Peter Plan; A Proposal for Survival Y1 - 1975 A1 - Laurence J[ohnston] Peter (1919-90) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A future eutopia based on political participation. An emphasis on ecology.
PB - William Morrow CY - New York U2 -Illus. Walter Griba.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Born Free: A Feminist Fable" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939) ED - Maggie Tripp KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Feminist eutopia. The story follows the first thirteen years of the life of a girl born into an egalitarian society at midnight on January 1, 2000. Each person works twenty-five hours a week with an additional six hours a month of volunteer work, although they can arrange their hours as they choose (11-12). Much of the story concerns childbirth, day-care, which is available everywhere, and education, all with many alternative arrangements. People are completely free to arrange their relationships (6). Male and female contraception is freely available, and abortion is a woman’s right (7). Cooperative housekeeping (9). All sport, including professional sport is mixed sex (18). Gay people are now completely accepted (22-23). The U.S. is now a parliamentary system rather than a presidential one (4). The female author was an editor of Ms. Magazine.
JF - Woman in the Year 2000 PB - Arbor House CY - New York U5 -DLC, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Dian Girad ED - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) KW - Female author AB -Computer dystopia. Computer perfection regulates diet and will not allow a person to get more than five pounds off their ideal weight.
JF - 2020 Vision PB - Avon CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inverted World. A Novel Y1 - 1974 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Primarily a science-oriented science fiction novel, but the social setting is an authoritarian, controlling dystopia.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Rpt. without the subtitle New York: New York Review Books, 2008 with an “Afterword” by John Clute (315-22).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Days of the American Empire Y1 - 1974 A1 - Bruce [Allen] Powe (1925-2018) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Most of the world is experiencing a long drought, have little technology, and people are starving. North and South America consists of two empires that have extensive advanced technology and are wealthy, but much of the population is being kept alive by medical science. Unable to survive in drought conditions, people in Africa and Europe invade North America.
PB - Macmillan of Canada CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1975.
U5 -Merril, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Pale Hands" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Doris Piserchia (1928-2021) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a future New York City where sex is prohibited to control population and Fifth Avenue is lined with masturbation booths.
JF - Orbit PB - Harper & Row CY - New York VL - 15 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -Rpt. in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 202-217, with a biographical note on 458-460 and a note on the text on 485.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Prognosis: Terminal" Y1 - 1974 A1 - Dave [David Edward] McDaniel ED - Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle (1933-2017) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The future society is generally presented positively, but there is still significant inequality and violence. Domed cities; light drugs readily available.
JF - 2020 Vision PB - Avon CY - New York U3 -Author also used the name Ted Johnstone
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aftermath 15 Y1 - 1973 A1 - W[ilfred] D[ennis] Pereira (1921-2014) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia after a nuclear war with the U.S. divided into red, blue, and white zones based on exposure to radiation. Those released from the red to the blue become slaves as do those released from the blue to the white. The white zone includes a huge city, over a mile high which is an overpopulation dystopia except for those at the top. Outside the city is a gold zone for the elite of the elite. Described as the first volume of a trilogy and ends in a manner that requires a continuation, but no evidence can be found of later volumes.
PB - Robert Hale CY - London U5 -NLS, O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Final Solution Y1 - 1973 A1 - Richard E[arl] Peck (b. 1936) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -University problems of the 1960s and 1970s projected into a dystopian future. Graduates of universities, including some with graduate degrees, cannot read. Students are kept as children through drugs that delay puberty. Children of unwed mothers raised separately with no visits by the mothers. Standard English rejected; Black English required of all students. No grades. Positions like Professor of Shoe Repair. University level driver training.
PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY U5 -MoS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "For the Good of Society" Y1 - 1973 A1 - Terri E. Pinckard (1930-2004) KW - Female author AB -Dystopia of criminality where the only decent people are in prison and it is prisoners who grow the food and manufacture the goods for the entire society.
JF - Vertex VL - 1.5 N1 -Rpt as by T[erri] E. Merritt-Pinckard in Ackermanthology: 65 Astonishing, Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts. Ed. Forrest J. Ackerman (Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing, 1997), 241-44.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "2032: A Gay Odyssey" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Glenys Parry AB -Future dystopia of a State Registered Homosexual system that provides facilities for a minority of gays who accept an end to political activity. Those not State Registered are subject to harassment.
JF - Gay News (London) VL - 3 U5 -O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Against Arcturus Y1 - 1972 A1 - Susan K. Putney KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A well-described alien eutopia on a planet that Earth plans to colonize to settle people from overpopulated worlds. This will require the elimination of the indigenous inhabitants, who are spiritually and socially advanced far beyond humans.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York U1 -The cover adds the subtitle A Battleground for Two Empires.
U5 -GU, Merril, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Barons of Behavior Y1 - 1972 A1 - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of behavior control.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1977.
U5 -L, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Fugue for a Darkening Island Y1 - 1972 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia of racial war.
PB - Faber & Faber CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. entitled Darkening Island. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
U1 -U.S. ed. entitled Darkening Island
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Gantlet" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Richard E[arl] Peck (b. 1936) ED - Damon [Francis] Knight (1922-2002) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.
JF - Orbit: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons CY - New York VL - 10 N1 -Rpt. in The City 2000 A.D.: Urban Life Through Science Fiction. Ed. Ralph Clem, Martin Harry Greenberg, and Joseph Olander (Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Crest, 1976), 254-65.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Genius Unlimited Y1 - 1972 A1 - John T[homas] Phillifent (1916-76) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Eutopia of geniuses where everyone who works independently has problems, and the people have to learn both to work together and be practical.
PB - DAW Books CY - New York U5 -MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Total Influence or Outcome of the Matter: THE SUN." Part 11 of "Laying down the tower" Y1 - 1972 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Fairly vague eutopian poem regarding children and their need for freedom. See also 1970, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.
JF - off our backs VL - 11.9 N1 -Rpt. as "Outcome of the Matter: The Sun." In her Circles on the Water: Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 137-38.
U1 -Rpt. as "Outcome of the Matter: The Sun." In her Circles on the Water: Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 137-38.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?" Y1 - 1971 A1 - Alexei [Alexis Adams] Panshin (1940-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The environmental dystopia of the present contrasted with an ecologically balanced future.
JF - Four Futures: Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction PB - Hawthorn Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. in Dream’s Edge: Science Fiction Stories About the Future of Planet Earth. Ed. Terry Carr (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980), 130-56.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World Y1 - 1971 A1 - Walker Percy (1916-90) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia located in Louisiana depicting a general collapse of the U.S. with some local institutions surviving. Racial conflict and, at the end, the northern cities with large African American populations have seceded. The protagonist believes himself to be a collateral descendant of Thomas More and regularly refers to him.
PB - Farrar, Straus, & Giroux CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - 1989: Population Doomsday Y1 - 1970 A1 - Don[ald Eugene] Pendleton (1927-95) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Overpopulation and pollution dystopia.
PB - Bee Line Books CY - New York U5 -NcD
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Dance the Eagle to Sleep Y1 - 1970 A1 - Marge Piercy (b. 1936) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Dystopia which has a required "19th Year of Service" seen through the eyes of various young people who are suppressed by their parents, their schools, and the social order in which they live. This part of the novel reads like a realistic novel which then shifts to the youth rebellion and the rest of the novel focuses on the rebellion, the people involved in it, their relations and conflicts, and the organizations they establish including urban and rural communities. See also 1972, 1976, 1980, and 1991 Piercy.
PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -Rpt. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971; and Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2012, with an "Introduction to the New Edition" by the author (vii-ix).
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Homage to Raphael Hythloday" Y1 - 1970 A1 - David Austin A1 - David Page KW - Male author AB -A eutopian education, with much criticism of even good contemporary education. In Utopia they teach the parents--which includes everyone who the child chooses to learn from--first. That means that no elementary schools are needed, and there are no age or generational distinctions. No one works but people create and make things as and when they choose.
JF - ARK (Journal of the Royal College of Art, London) VL - 46 N1 -Rpt. without the illus. in Anarchy 115 10.9 (September 1970): 266-268.
U2 -Illus.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Indoctrinaire Y1 - 1970 A1 - Christopher [McKenzie] Priest (1943-2024) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Anarchist eutopia set in Brazil 200 years in the future. There is no government. All simple decisions are left to individuals, but they are expected to consult on more complex ones, and there is a social hierarchy based on merit that may be consulted.
PB - Faber and Faber CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. U.K. ed. rpt. London: New English Library, 1971. [Rev. ed.] London: Pan, 1979 with an "Afterword" by the author (191-92). Part originally published as "The Interrogator." New Writings in S-F 15. Ed. [Edward] John Carnell (London: Dennis Dobson, 1969), 45-76.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Once Upon a Time: A Fable of Student Power" Y1 - 1970 A1 - Neil Postman (1931-2003) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. Based on a passage in Henry David Thoreau's (1817-62) Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) about the need for students to live life rather than just studying, New York City removes students from school and puts them to work cleaning up and repairing the rundown city. Post-secondary students asked to participate and were added.
JF - The New York Times Magazine N1 -Rpt. in Futures Conditional. [Ed.] Robert Theobald (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1972), 197-202.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Well Lost Y1 - 1970 A1 - [John Kempton] [Aiken] (1913-90) KW - English author KW - US author AB -The planet known as Eden, a non-violent eutopia anarchist, vegetarian, is invaded by a violent people, who create a dystopia. A few people choose to reject non-violence and fight back.
PB - Robert Hale CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. under the author's name. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
U3 -John Paget [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Terminus Y1 - 1969 A1 - Michael Perkins (b. 1942) KW - Male author AB -Overpopulation dystopia as the vehicle for mild pornography. Mostly sex but some racial and personal violence. Authoritarian state.
PB - Essex House CY - North Hollywood, CA U5 -OU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Call of the Planets Y1 - 1968 A1 - James Ernest William Patterson KW - Male author AB -Jupiter as a eutopia. No racial prejudice. Women remain beautiful throughout life. Calm, serene inner life. Equality.
PB - A. J. Chapple CY - Bala, North Wales U5 -O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Curious Culture of the Planet Loretta Y1 - 1968 A1 - William J. Palmer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Capitalist eutopia with an area set aside for social experimentation, which experiments, generally being socialist, fail. Stress on responsibility.
PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Killing Ground: The Canadian Civil War Y1 - 1968 A1 - [Bruce Allen] [Powe] (b. 1925) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -See the subtitle.
PB - Peter Martin Associates CY - Toronto, ON, Canada N1 -Rpt. with a "Foreword." Toronto, ON, Canada: Peter Martin Associates, 1972; and with a brief "a Word from the Author." Markham, ON, Canada: Paperjacks, 1977.
U3 -Ellis Portal [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Rite of Passage Y1 - 1968 A1 - Alexei [Alexis Adams] Panshin (1940-2022) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The novel is concerned with the society that develops on a spaceship and particularly with the rite of passage to adulthood in which young people are put on a colony world to survive or perish. Can be classified as eutopian, dystopian, or a flawed utopia depending on the reader's perspective. Related stories are "What Size Are Giants." Worlds of Tomorrow 3.1 (13) (May 1965): 8-47; and "The Sons of Prometheus." Analog Science Fiction Science-Fact 78.2 (October 1966): 50-71.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with "Introduction: The Story of Rite of Passage" (v-xiv) by the author; and as the Collector's Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1990 illus. Debbie Hughes and with an "Introduction" (v-viii) by Edward Bryant; and in Alternative Communities: Magazine of the Alternative Communities Movement, no. 22 (1986): 3-24. To be continued but the journal stopped publication. Part was originally published as "Door to the Worlds of Men." Worlds of If Science Fiction 13.3 (July 1963): 89-112.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Five Against Arlane Y1 - 1967 A1 - Tom [Thomas Edward] Purdom (1936-2024) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia under the control of one man, who has gained psychological control of almost the entire population. The novel emphasizes the successful revolt against it.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Garbage World Y1 - 1967 A1 - Charles Platt (b. 1945) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Pleasure worlds as dystopias with one asteroid used as a garbage dump for the pleasure worlds.
PB - Berkley Books CY - New York U5 -Merril, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Riot '71 Y1 - 1967 A1 - [Peter] [Brent] (1931-84) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -An economic depression leads to blaming colored immigrants and a fascist, racist dystopia called the Nordic Union.
PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -U.S. ed. New York: Walker and Co., 1967.
U3 -Ludovic Peters [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - .... in the stars--The Great Society! Y1 - 1966 A1 - I. M. Pernow [pseud.] KW - Canadian author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -Detailed eutopia described by a man from space who shows how it should be applied on Earth, led by the U.S. The book is dedicated to President Lyndon B[aines] Johnson (1908-73. President 1963-69), and the eutopia, although it goes much further, is loosely based on Johnson's program for the Great Society. No war, poverty, crime, or disease. Stress on education. Overpopulation defeated by rigorous birth control and eugenic policies. Deformed children and mentally retarded children not allowed to live. Limit on the number of children.
PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U3 -I. M. Pernow [pseud.].
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Inner Circle Y1 - 1966 A1 - Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1916-2007) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Polish author AB -A weird ritualized, overpopulation dystopia set in the far future.
PB - Macmillan CY - London U2 -Illus. F.N. Souza
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Last Refuge Y1 - 1966 A1 - John Petty (1919-73) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian dystopia. The countryside has been paved over, and private homes have been replaced with huge apartment blocks.
PB - Ronald Whiting & Wheaton CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Saga of Lost Earths Y1 - 1966 A1 - Emil [Theodore] Petaja (1915-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia as setting at the beginning. The bulk of the book is a heroic saga based on the Finnish Kalevala.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Age of the Pussyfoot" Y1 - 1965 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia with problems. In a pleasure-oriented future everyone has a personal computer that provides anything desired, at least for the wealthy. There is widespread drug use, leisure, sexual freedom, and immortality through freezing and resuscitation. While there are various conflicts that drive the plot, the ending is positive.
JF - Galaxy Magazine [Galaxy changed its name back to Galaxy Science Fiction with the 24.3 (February 1966) issue.] VL - 24.1 - 3 N1 -Exp. under the same title New York: Trident Press, 1969. Rpt. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Caves of Mars Y1 - 1965 A1 - Emil [Theodore] Petaja (1915-2000) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which a drug that provides perfect health also makes a person amenable to control.
PB - Ace Books CY - New York U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Plague of Pythons Y1 - 1965 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in the classic power corrupts mode.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -Rev. as Demon in the Skull. New York: DAW Books, 1984. A shorter version was published as "Plague of Pythons" in Galaxy Magazine 21.1 - 2 (October - December 1962): 112-58, 136-89.
U1 -Rev. as Demon in the Skull. A shorter version was published as "Plague of Pythons" in Galaxy Magazine
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Starchild Y1 - 1965 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Sequel to 1963 Pohl and Williamson, "The Reefs of Space". In this volume the computer has tightened its grip but is threatened by unknown forces.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -Originally published in a shorter version in Worlds of If Science Fiction 15.1 -3 (86 - 88) (January - March 1965): 6-52, 101-29, 91-128. Also published in their The Starchild Trilogy. The Reefs of Space Starchild Rogue Star (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1969), 151-286, which includes the third volume, the non-utopian "Rogue Star." Worlds of If Science Fiction 18.6 - 8 (127 - 29) (June - August 1968): 10-43; 119-59; 125-58; repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1969.
U5 -Merril, MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Davy Y1 - 1964 A1 - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future barbarianism but with elements of a dystopia dominated by religion.
PB - St. Martin's Press CY - New York N1 -UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1966. Expanded from "The Golden Horn." The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 22.2 (129) (February 1962): 98-129; and "A War of No Consequence." 22.3 (130) (March 1962): 51-73.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Understanding Money, Unemployment and Inflation: Why New Zealand is a Modern Utopia Y1 - 1964 A1 - John Randolph Perkins KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Non-fiction. New Zealand as a eutopia. In addition to being a natural paradise, New Zealand has more or less accidentally defined money in terms of work, which is the basis of its existence as a eutopia.
PB - Vantage Press CY - New York U5 -DLC, PPU, VUW
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Reefs of Space" Y1 - 1963 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - Jack [John Stewart] Williamson (1908-2006) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia in which the Plan of Man computer has essentially enslaved humankind. 1965 Pohl and Williamson, "Starchild" is a sequel.
JF - Worlds of If Science Fiction VL - 13.3 - 5 N1 -Repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1965. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. Also published in their The Starchild Trilogy. The Reefs of Space Starchild Rogue Star (Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, 1969), 151-286, which includes the third volume, the non-utopian “Rogue Star,” which was originally pub. in Worlds of If Science Fiction 18.6 - 8 (127 - 29) (June - August 1968): 10-43; 119-59; 125-58; and was repub. New York: Ballantine Books, 1969. U.K. ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1969.
U5 -Merril, MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Critical Mass" Y1 - 1962 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satiric dystopia of a future U.S. obsessed with bomb shelters.
JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 20.3 N1 -Rpt. in their The Wonder Effect (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 11-46.
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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 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Gentle Dying" Y1 - 1961 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopian satire on the innocence of children. A wealthy children's book author establishes a research institute to find ways for children to avoid growing up. Successful, the children then eliminate all adults; only the author is allowed to die a natural death.
JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 19.5 N1 -Rpt. in their The Wonder Effect (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962), 47-54.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Pudoria Y1 - 1961 A1 - Tom Pease (b. 1893) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Open, free love eutopia. Money is considered indecent.
PB - Lyle Stuart CY - New York U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Drunkard's Walk" Y1 - 1960 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The background to the story includes a dystopian overpopulated, poor society contrasted with the privileged few who pass extremely stringent tests to enter the relative prosperity of university.
JF - Galaxy Magazine VL - 18.5 - 6 N1 -Repub. New York: Ballantine Books. U.K. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. Rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.
U5 -Merril, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World Today and Tomorrow Y1 - 1960 A1 - Panayot Tzv Popoff (1902-87) KW - Male author AB -Detailed description of a new economic system called the Collaborative Economic system where capital, labor, the seller-producer, and the buyer are placed in institutional structures that allow them to work together. He briefly discusses associations for credit, purchases, "buyer-producers for purchases," "buyer-consumers," transformation, collective production, insurance, and professional and common unions. The pamphlet ends with two pages of organizational charts.
PB - Author CY - Chicago, IL U5 -IU, TxU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - World Without Women Y1 - 1960 A1 - Leonard Pruyn (1898-1973) A1 - [Gunnard] [Hjerststedt] (1904-69) KW - US author AB -Standard dystopia of a world with few women. Most women die and gang wars follow.
PB - Fawcett CY - Greenwich, CT ER - TY - ABST T1 - Wolfbane Y1 - 1959 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia in which the Earth has been moved by extraterrestrials resulting in the remaining humans dividing into two groups. One, called Sheep by the other group, that reduces its activities to a so as to conserve energy and kills anyone who violates their norms. The other, called Wolves by the first, who are much more active and establish a community of their own. But the aliens have a use for the wolves, and they become part of a machine.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: Garland, 1975. Shorter version in Galaxy Science Fiction 14.6 - 15.1 (October - November 1957): 8-52; 54-105.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Golden Age" Y1 - 1958 A1 - Lee Priestley AB -Dystopia showing the boredom that comes with too much security and the danger to the system of thinking.
JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 10.3 U5 -Merril
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 - A Land Fit for 'Eros Y1 - 1957 A1 - John [Alfred Neville] Atkins (1916-2009) A1 - J[ohn] B[arclay] Pick (1921-2015) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -Primarily humor. Satire on a British movement to root out "subversives" similar to that of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-57) in the U.S. that was known as McCarthyism.
PB - Arco CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Lone Star Planet" Y1 - 1957 A1 - H[enry] Beam Piper (1917-81) A1 - John J[oseph] McGuire (1917-1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A planet settled by Texans with an almost anarchist society. The workings of its political and legal systems are presented positively, although with satirical elements.
JF - Fantastic Universe VL - 7.3 N1 -Rpt. as A Planet for Texans. New York: Ace Books, 1958. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton (1912-2005), Star Born; and as Lone Star Planet. New York: Ace Books, 1979 with no mention of McGuire. Bound with his Four-Day Planet, which was originally published New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961.
U1 -Rpt. as A Planet for Texans
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "My Lady Green Sleeves" Y1 - 1957 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Class society based on occupation with the Civil Service, which includes Congress, at the top.
JF - Galaxy Science Fiction VL - 13.4 N1 -Rpt. in his The Case Against Tomorrow (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957), 111-50.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Census Takers” Y1 - 1956 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A brief dystopia set in a future U.S. with serious population problems divided into Census Areas in which a census is taken annually. It is from the viewpoint of an Area Commander, who appears to have a set limit to the population in the area. While not stated explicitly, it is implied that those are the limit are killed.
JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 10.2 (57) U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Everybody's Happy But Me" Y1 - 1956 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Drug dystopia.
JF - Imagination Science Fiction (Evanston, IL) VL - 7.1 N1 -Rpt. as "What To Do Till the Analyst Comes." In his Alternating Currents (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 143-54.
U1 -Rpt. as "What To Do Till the Analyst Comes."
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Before Dawn Y1 - 1955 A1 - Hanbury Pawle (1886-1972) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The novel is about the conflict between Christianity and Communism and the efforts of one man to save the world from Communism.
PB - Hutchinson CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gladiator-at-Law Y1 - 1955 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Capitalist, corporate, machine dominated dystopia with the novel focusing on the struggle to bring down one large, corrupt corporation.
PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -U.K. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Love and Lunacy: A Satirical Comedy in Three Acts Y1 - 1955 A1 - Peter Philp (1920-2006) KW - Male author KW - Welsh author AB -The three acts take place in Atlantis in the remote past, on an island in the near future, and on Luna and Earth in the remote future. Atlantis is vaguely utopian, but, in the play, it is primarily the setting for a "peace conference" among the major powers of the time, which ends with Zeus's destruction of Atlantis. The second and third acts are dystopian, with another failed peace conference followed by an authoritarian regime on the moon. The play ends with the death of the dictator.
PB - J. Garnet Miller CY - London U5 -O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Rafferty's Reasons" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which people are required to do work that machines could do as well or better and are taught to do that work by the machines.
JF - Fantastic Universe (New York) VL - 4.3 N1 -Rpt. in his Alternating Currents (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 83-96.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Spud Failure Definite" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Noel Peart KW - Male author AB -The failure of the potato crop leads to a new Irish famine. Famines are very common and are relieved by delivering tons of canned mouse meat. Most of the story is about the bureaucratic bungling in response.
JF - A.D. 2500: The Observer Prize Stories 1954 PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -L, NLS
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tunnel Under the World" Y1 - 1955 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia of pervasive advertising in which a town is taken over by advertisers as a test market for their ads.
JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 9.4 N1 -Rpt. in his Alternating Currents (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956), 112-43; Tomorrow, Inc. SF Stories About Big Business. Ed. Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander (New York: Taplinger, 1976), 36-66; in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 247-77; and in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 242-74.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Foster, You're Dead" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Philip K[indred] Dick (1928-82) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia in which people are chosen for access to fallout shelters based on their ability to contribute to society.
Rpt. in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: The Father-Thing (Los Angeles, CA/Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1987), 221-37; in The Complete Stories of Philip K. Dick Volume Three: Upon the Dull Earth [1953-1954] (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012), 265-84; in Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (London: Gollancz, 2017). U. S. ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), 138-62 with an “Introduction” by Kalen Egan and Travis Sentell (135-37).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "It's Such a Beautiful Day" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Isaac Asimov (1920-92) ED - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Future where people have cut themselves off from the natural world.
JF - Star Science Fiction Stories PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York VL - No. 3 N1 -Rpt. in his Through a Glass, Clearly (London: New English Library, 1967), 7-27; and in Eco-Fiction. Ed. John Stadler (New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1971), 178-201.
U5 -Merril, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lovers in Mars Y1 - 1954 A1 - Lucile Palmer KW - Female author AB -A eutopian Mars that is extremely wealthy due to very advanced technology, an elaborate eugenic program, and a limited population. The focus of the novel is on the group marriage system, which is unappealing to the young lovers from earth.
PB - Sargent House Publishers CY - Los Angeles, CA N1 - ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Midas Plague" Y1 - 1954 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. The development of effective fusion power means that anything can be produced cheaply and the human race goes on a production and consumption binge. Over time consumption does not keep up with production, and laws are passed to require consumption. This results in a status system in which the poor must consume at a higher rate than the rich. The story is about a poor man who solves the problem by creating robots that can both produce and consume.
JF - Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) VL - 8.1 N1 -Rpt. in All About the Future. Ed. Martin Greenburg (New York: Gnome Press, 1955), 27-80; in Spectrum: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961), 13-67; in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. In this case the text has been reset, there are no page numbers, and the illustrations in the original are not included; and in his Midas World (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983), 5-74.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peace Agent" Y1 - 1954 A1 - M. C. Pease ED - Robert W. Lowndes AB -Dystopia. A conflict is developing between a new social form, the clan, which hires itself out to businesses with guarantees of performance and the old lower classes who are losing their jobs. In one town the conflict is being fostered by one man who runs the town and encourages attacks on the clans. In this town an independent man helps bring peace, but the same pattern is said to be common throughout the US.
JF - Science Fiction Stories PB - Columbia Publications CY - New York VL - 2nd ed. U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Search the Sky Y1 - 1954 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Although humans have colonized space, they have degenerated and are in danger of dying out and few people care. One person is searching for the answer and by the end of the novel it becomes possible to rebuild a vigorous humanity.
PB - Ballantine CY - New York N1 -UK ed. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1970. Rev. ed. New York: Baen Books, 1985. According to a note on the copyright page, this edition is substantially different from the earlier one.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Calibrated People” Y1 - 1953 A1 - W[illiam] T[reval] Powers (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set in a highly structured future in which everyone becomes an adult at ten, and, at that point, if they meet its educational, physical, and psychological standards, chooses their future education and career.
JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 2 U2 -Illus. [Michael Becker]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Nightsong" Y1 - 1953 A1 - W[illiam] T[reval] Powers (1926-2013) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The story is set on a dystopian Venus after it has been settled from Earth with the first settlers enslaved by it came under the control of later settlers exploiting Venus’s resources.
JF - Universe Science Fiction VL - no. 3 U2 -Illus. Virgil Finlay
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Null-ABC" Y1 - 1953 A1 - H[enry] Beam Piper (1917-81) A1 - John J[oseph] McGuire (1917-1981) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Future society where illiterates dominate a small group of literates.
JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 50.6 - 51.1 N1 -Rpt. as Null-ABC. Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2006. Repub. in a different version as an Ace Double as Crisis in 2140. New York: Ace Books, 1957. Bound with an abbreviated edition of 1952 Kornbluth and Merril.
U1 -Crisis 2140
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Potemkin Village" Y1 - 1953 A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Totalitarian dystopia.
JF - Startling Stories VL - 29.1 U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - West of the Sun Y1 - 1953 A1 - Edgar Pangborn (1909-76) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The establishment of a new society on a previously unexplored planet that has various alien societies, some at war with each other and the humans and some peaceful and helpful. Concerned with the integration of alien and human, ending the war among the aliens, and the creation of an ideal small community.
PB - Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY N1 -Rpt. New York: Dell, 1980.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "No Greater Wisdom" Y1 - 1952 A1 - [Roger Phillip] [Graham] (1909-65) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Technological eutopia.
JF - Amazing Stories VL - 26.1 N1 -Rpt. In Future Science Fiction, no. 11 (September 1953): 4-9, 85-91, 93, 95-96.
U3 -Rog Phillips [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Space Merchants Y1 - 1952 A1 - Frederik [George] Pohl [Jr.] (1919-2013) A1 - C[yril] M[ichael] Kornbluth (1923-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Advertising, overpopulation and corporate dystopia. See also 1984 Pohl.
PB - Ballantine Books CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1955. U.S. ed. rpt. in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2012), 1-155 with “Biographical Notes” (777-79) “Notes on the text” (783-86) and “Notes” (789-99); and in Venus, Inc. (New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1985), 1-158. [21st Century ed.]. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011, with “Preface The Story of the Space Merchants” (v-xii). A different version, was published as “Gravy Planet.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 4.3 - 5 (June - August 1952): 4-61, 108-59, 104-59. This version has some wording differences, mostly minor, throughout the text and three concluding chapters not found in the book. These three chapters are rpt. in the Library of American edition (791-99).
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Tolliver’s Travels” Y1 - 1951 A1 - Frank Fenton A1 - Joseph Petracca ED - Raymond T. Healy KW - Male author AB -Flawed utopia in which everyone must be happy or they are eliminated. Everything provided. Marriage only by permission.
JF - New Tales of Space and Time PB - Henry Holt & Co. CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1952), 45-67. Rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1952), 44-66.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Plagiarist" Y1 - 1950 A1 - Peter Phillips (1920-2012) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The story is set in a future that has rejects anything that is not quantifiable. A young boy still has an imagination that keeps getting him in trouble. Some undeveloped suggestions of significant social changes.
JF - New Worlds VL - 3.7 N1 -Rpt. without the illus. in Future Tense: New and Old Tales of Science Fiction. Ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (New York: Greenberg/Toronto, ON, Canada: Ambassador Books, 1952), 3-44.
U2 -Illus. [Bob (Robert Allen) Clothier (1921-99)
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Summer Day's Dream: A Play in Two Acts" Y1 - 1950 A1 - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The play is set in midsummer 1975 after an atomic catastrophe which has resulted in England reverting to a simple agrarian life that is presented as a eutopia.
JF - The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III PB - William Heinemann CY - London U5 -LLL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Portal in the Picture" Y1 - 1949 A1 - Henry Kuttner (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Technological authoritarian dystopia set on a parallel world. Mostly adventure.
JF - Startling Stories (Springfield, MA) VL - 20.1 N1 -Rpt. as by Lewis Padgett [pseud.] and C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore as Beyond Earth's Gates. New York: Ace, 1954. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton, Daybreak--2250 A.D., which was originally published as Star Man's Son: 2250 A.D. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
U3 -Lewis Padgett [pseud. of Kuttner ] on book publication.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Carnelian Cube; A Humorous Fantasy Y1 - 1948 A1 - L[yon] Sprague De Camp (1907-2000) A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire in which the protagonist visits a series of worlds. The first is a purely rational world, followed by a world of individualism, and then a world of science with a medieval touch. All are unsatisfactory.
PB - Gnome Press CY - New York U1 -The dust jacket adds the further subtitle An archeologist uses an ancient talisman to search for utopias.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Councils of the Mighty Y1 - 1947 A1 - W. H. Perrins AB -Occult, spiritualist eutopia with the eutopia in the higher spheres above the human.
PB - The Christopher Publishing House CY - Boston, MA U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Jesting Pilot" Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -An authoritarian dystopia set in a city that has been isolated from the outside world for 600 years to protect it from the wars of the overpopulated world. The city was designed to be a eutopia precisely fitted to the needs of its citizens, who are all hypnotized. The Controllers of the city are bred and raised to run the world until the Barrier around the city is raised. The citizens know nothing of them.
JF - Astounding Science Fiction (New York) VL - 39.3 U3 -Lewis Padgett [pseud.]
U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -After a brief, aborted World War II, the GPC or Global Peace Commission rules the world and limits research to approved topics and prohibits space exploration. An underground movement wants to overthrow it in the name of an undescribed utopia.
JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 38.5 - 6 N1 -Rpt. in his Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Fairy Chessman (New York: Gnome Press, 1951), 9-108. U.K. ed. London: World Distributors, 1963.
U3 -Lewis Padgett [pseud.]
U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Twenty-One Balloons Y1 - 1947 A1 - William [Sherman] Pène Du Bois (1916-93) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Children's eutopia. Krakatoa before the volcano erupted is described as having a eutopian civilization with many nonsensical inventions and a social organization based on eating tastes.
PB - Viking CY - New York U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World The World Wants (A Sociocratic Order) Y1 - 1947 A1 - [Octavio] Felix Pedroso (d. 1944) A1 - Elizabeth Pedroso KW - Brazilian author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -Detailed eutopia with one world-wide corporation, a universal language (English), one currency, and one flag. The World Corporation will own the productive resources of the world and will build a new city for its headquarters. Free education and health care.
PB - np CY - São Paulo, Brasil U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Worlds to Watch and Ward" Y1 - 1947 ED - Glenn Negley ED - J. Max Patrick AB -Eutopia of democratic socialism and the rule of law.
JF - The Quest for Utopia; An Anthology of Imaginary Societies PB - Henry Schumann CY - New York ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 21st Century Looks Back Y1 - 1946 A1 - Emanuel R[obert] Posnack (b. 1897) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Reformed capitalist eutopia. The reforms stress improved and open transportation and communications. There is a Global Statistical Service, a free flow of manpower and goods, no monopolies, and a Global Stabilization Fund. There will be some world government, universal health care, and expanded education. Taxation is based on land values, following Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. See also 1942 Posnack and his World Without Barriers--A Perspective View of Our Present and Future in a World of Economic and Ideological Conflict. New York: William Morrow, 1956, which is mostly a critique of Communism but includes a brief summary of his alternative and its positive results.
PB - The William-Frederick Press CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Captain Marvel Finds Utopia" Y1 - 1943 A1 - Bill [William H.] Parker (author) A1 - C[harles] C[larence] Beck (artist) KW - Male author AB -Captain Marvel traces a Nazi to Utopia.
JF - Whiz Comics (New York) VL - 7.39 U2 -C[harles] C[larence] Beck (Artist)
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Iron Standard" Y1 - 1943 A1 - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) A1 - [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) KW - Female author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Flawed utopia on a Venus that sees its system, thousands of years old, as perfect and allows no innovation, which benefits those in power. Men from Earth upset the system
JF - Astounding Science Fiction 32.4 (December 1943) U3 -Lewis Padgett [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “They Came to a City. A Play in Two Acts” Y1 - 1943 A1 - J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley (1894-1984) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -The eutopia that might be possible in post-war Britain as seen through the eyes of characters representative of contemporary Britain. Only some see it positively.
JF - Three Plays PB - William Heinemann CY - London N1 -Rpt. without the subtitle in his Four Plays (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), 151-221. Rpt. as “They Came to a City: A Play in Two Acts.” In The Plays of J.B. Priestley. Volume III (London: William Heinemann, 1950), 139-201 with a brief note by Priestley on xi.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The 21st Century Sizes Us Up Y1 - 1942 A1 - E[manuel] Robert Posnack (b. 1897) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Introduction to 1946 Posnack emphasizing the current situation from the perspective of the 21st century. The last few pages lay out what he is going to cover in the later book.
PB - Loder Appeal Press CY - New York U5 -DLC, NN
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The People's Plan for a New Order: Giving Twenty-four Points for Reconstruction of the Present Orthodox System of Economics Y1 - 1942 A1 - Chas. [Charles] E[dward] Phillips J.P., A.P.A.N.Z. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -Proposes the establishment of New Zealand Ltd. which would issue "negotiable, non-interest bearing debentures" that must be used within a specified period of time. New Zealand Ltd. would provide all national and local finance and hold all national and local assets and liabilities. Dividends paid to all citizens over 21 (40 in the first year), all of whom are required to work if needed. There is no evidence that this is connected with The People's Plan of the Dominion Reconstruction Conference of the same year.
PB - The Unity Press Ltd CY - Auckland, New Zealand U5 -VUW
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The New World Order And How It Will Be Established: The World, As it was; As it is; And as it will be. An intensely interesting and thought-provoking book Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -British Israelism detailing the Mosaic system of representation (the decimal systems used by John Eliot and others) and the way that the Israel nations will become united. Includes a “Lecture Delivered by Request to the British Israel World Federation October 18th, 1939” (158-62) and a one page “Articles of Association Brotherhood of United Israel” (163).
PB - [Ptd by Clarke & Stuart] CY - [Vancouver, BC, Canada U5 -Can
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Read What Happened on the Island of Nogi, or Why Business is Bad Y1 - 1941 A1 - J[oseph] W[illiam] Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Anti-capitalist allegory set on the island of Nogi, which was a successful, balanced economy until a capitalist arrived and destroyed the economy. ". . . the moral of this story is that the insurance companies, the food trust and other large corporations are taking away from the public billions of dollars in excess profits which they are unable to either use or lend. The result is exactly what we should expect.” (7). See also 1935 Parker.
PB - J. W. Parker Optometrist CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - When the Soviets Come to America Y1 - 1940 A1 - C[lement] E[verett] Puterbaugh KW - Male author AB -Dystopia reflecting the title followed by a successful revolution.
PB - Fortuny's CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Way Out: An Essay on the Means of Averting the Recurring Disaster Y1 - 1939 A1 - [John] [Bostock] (b. 1892) A1 - [Leslie John Jarvis] [Nye] (1891-1976) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Essay describing the book as an answer to the problem they posed in their Whither Away? A Study of Race Psychology and the Factors Leading to Australia's National Decline (1934), which focused on the falling birth rate. Their solution, a Federal Union of countries, is based on Clarence K[irshman] Streit (See 1939 Streit). In addition, they argue that people must be educated for democracy (both in improved teaching of citizenship in democracies and in the elements of democracy in non-democratic countries), the political system must be reformed so as to attract the best people, and there must be much more community involvement. See also 1972 Nye.
PB - Halstead Press CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -A Psychologist and a Physician [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Dream" Y1 - 1937 A1 - Pickles, L. KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -Brief socialist eutopia.
JF - Tomorrow (Christchurch, New Zealand) VL - 3.20 U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Love Starved World Y1 - 1937 A1 - Jacob Leon Pritcher KW - Male author AB -Eutopia with emphases on good medical care, a healthy sex life, and eugenics.
PB - The Yale Pub. Co CY - Los Angeles, CA U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Morwyn or the Vengeance of God Y1 - 1937 A1 - John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author KW - Welsh author AB -Hell as dystopia.
PB - Cassell CY - London U5 -MoSW
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Hesperides: A Looking-Glass Fugue Y1 - 1936 A1 - John [Leslie] Palmer (1885-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia. Art and imagination discouraged. No emotions. Eating and sleeping completely private and are considered impolite.
PB - Martin Secker & Warburg CY - London U5 -L, MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Owl of Athene Y1 - 1936 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Story told by the owl about the gods' concern with human conflict. The gods produce conflict between humans and crabs which forces the human race to work together. A vaguely described eutopia results.
PB - Hutchinson & Co CY - London U5 -CoU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Doctor Crosby's Strange Experience or a New World By 1944 Y1 - 1935 A1 - Joseph W[illiam] Parker KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Detailed socialist eutopia based on the ideas of Edward Bellamy and set in Kansas City and its environs. Private property only in personal effects. All work for the government, guaranteed lifetime income. No money. Education to 25; work 26 years; retire at 50 or, by choice, continue to work. Hours of work determined by demand and difficulty. Considerable concern with farming, which is scientifically based and uses technology extensively. See also [1941?] Parker.
PB - The Peerage Press CY - Kansas City, MO N1 -Some copies have Kansas City crossed out and replaced with Chicago, IL, and the press moved to Chicago at this time.
U2 -Illus. Donald Lathrop.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Secret Y1 - 1935 A1 - Arthur Stanwood Pier (1874-1966) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Life without death. Last chapter describes a very general eutopia of peace and plenty.
PB - Charles Scribner's Sons CY - New York U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Lift Up Your Eyes Y1 - 1935 A1 - Ambrose [Goddard Hesketh] Pratt (1874-1944) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Religious eutopia, mostly seen in the planning stages. Orphans are educated to be missionaries.
PB - Robertson & Mullens CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -VMU
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 - Celestalia. A Fantasy A.D. 1975 Y1 - 1933 A1 - A. L. Pullar KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -The background to a romance describes a future history of racial conflict and mass migrations with racial conflict in Australia and racial civil war in the U.S.
PB - The Canberra Press CY - Sydney, NSW U3 -Graham Stone in his Australian Science Fiction Bibliography (Sydney, NSW: Graham Stone, 2004), 116 says that the author’s name is a pseudonym.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - If I Were Dictator of Australia Y1 - 1932 A1 - Richard Proctor KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -A brief (seven page) but detailed eutopia including reformed religion, government by experts rather than elected legislators, nationalization of banks, universal disarmament using the money spent on the military to convince other countries to follow Australia's lead, the elimination of unemployment, and a six-hour workday six days a week, old-age pensions, the establishment of cooperatives, and other reforms. The pamphlet is a series of statements of what the author would do if he had the power to dictate to the churches, schools, and so forth.
PB - The Ruskin Press CY - Melbourne, VIC, Australia U5 -M
ER - TY - ABST T1 - So a Leader Came Y1 - 1932 A1 - Frederick Palmer (1873-1958) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The dystopia of the present day requires a strong leader for the period of transition. Most of the novel is about the development of the leader, the struggle for power, and his success. The ending suggests that a better society results.
PB - Ray Long & Richard R. Smith CY - New York U5 -DLC, L, MoU-St, NcD, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Temple of Sähr Y1 - 1932 A1 - [William Talbot] [Pearson] (1907-1991) KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Lost race authoritarian dystopia led by a European scientist in the middle of Australia.
PB - Cecil Palmer CY - London N1 -Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Lothian Pub. Co., 1932. Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Graham Stone, 1994.
U3 -William Pengreep [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Voice Across The Years" Y1 - 1932 A1 - [Inga Marie Stephens] [Pratt] (1906-70) A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - English author KW - Female author KW - Male author AB -Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching.
JF - Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ) VL - 5.1 N1 -Rpt. as Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962.
U1 -Rpt. as Alien Planet
U3 -I.M. Stephens [pseud. of Inga Marie Stephens Pratt
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Emperors of Space" Y1 - 1931 A1 - Jerome Gross A1 - Richard Penny KW - Male author AB -Yellow wave fiction describing a future dystopia ruled by Orientals.
JF - Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL) VL - 3.6 U5 -Merril
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Chronos or the Future of the Family. Y1 - 1930 A1 - [Maurice] Eden Paul M.D. (1865-1944) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Mostly an argument that the family as then known was coming to an end for economic and sexual reasons. Also argues that from the point-of-view of child-rearing, large families are better than small ones because children should interact with other children rather than adults. Suggests that in the future related and unrelated adults with and without children of their own but with a talent for parenthood raising a group of children, again related and unrelated, in large homes. Refers positively to two existing examples, the Beacon Hill School founded in 1927 by Dora and Bertrand Russell, which closed in 1947, and the Caldecott Community, which still exists.
PB - Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner CY - London U5 -Hathi, MH
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City of the Living Dead" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Laurence [Edward] Manning (1899-1972) A1 - [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Dystopia. Everyone spends their time dreaming in machines and the human race degenerates.
JF - Science Wonder Stories VL - 1.12 N1 -Rpt. in Startling Stories 4.1 (July 1940): 94-104; and Avon Fantasy Reader, no. 2 (1947): 108-30.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The High School Library of the Future” Y1 - 1930 A1 - Aniela Poray KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Satire on the library of the future where knowledge is provided chemically and the librarians choose what students should know.
JF - Wilson Library Bulletin VL - 4 ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Vampires of Venus" Y1 - 1930 A1 - Anthony Pelcher (1897-1981) KW - Male author AB -Mostly adventure but very briefly describes a eutopia on Venus based on eugenics and gender equality.
JF - Astounding Stories (New York) VL - 2.1 U5 -CU-Riv
ER - TY - ABST T1 - What I Know! Reflections by a Philosophic Punter. With an extraordinary dream of 'The Cosmic Mystery Cup' run at Randwick Y1 - 1928 A1 - [Rev.] [Wyndham Selfe] [Heathcote] (1862-1955) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire describing a horse race among religions, plus the Agnosticism, Idealism, Materialism, and Pragmatism, but there is no winner. Includes an argument against betting on races.
PB - Cornstalk Pub. Co CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia U3 -A Philosophic Punter [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ideal Island Y1 - 1927 A1 - C[harles] V[ictor] A[lexander] Peel (1869-1931) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Mostly an adventure story but includes the establishment of a communal experiment on an isolated island and a presentation of the social and economic ideals motivating it.
PB - Old Royalty Book Publishers CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - A War on Poverty Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Edward Alexander] [Partridge] KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Detailed eutopia, particularly in the chapter "Things As They Might Be" (109-56). Cooperative commonwealth. Designed for Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and part of Ontario), the area to be called COALSAMAO and created as a separate country. It will have a unicameral legislature of 25 members elected annually. Something like 1888 Bellamy's Industrial Army in that local control is in Camps of 3500-7000 people organized to carry out work. The book is mostly quotations.
PB - [Wallingford Press] CY - [Winnipeg, MB, Canada] U1 -Subtitle on the cover The one war that can end war
U3 -"Partridge of Sintaluta" [pseud.] on the cover
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Holy Kingdom of United Israel. A Remarkable Book. A Bible Study for all Thinking People. The Kingdom of Melchezedek--The Construction by Him of the Great Pyramid, God's Witness, or 'The Bible in Stone'--The Discontinuance of the Kingdom of Melchezedek and the Covenant with Abraham--The Kingdom Transferred to Israel; the Two Houses of Israel, the Two Witnesses of Jehovah--Anglo Saxons the House of Israel--The Coming Union of Israel and Judah--The Sealing of the 144,000 out of the Twelve Tribes of Israel and their Administration of Affairs in 'The New Earth'--The New Heaven and the New Earth, and the New Covenant with United and Restored Israel. The Book of the Hour. Every Student of the Bible should read and study it Y1 - 1924 A1 - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Eutopia of the saints.
PB - United Israel Publishing Department CY - Regina, SK, Canada U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Venus Y1 - 1924 A1 - Rena Oldfield Pettersen KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. Telepathy in an idyllic society about two thousand years in advance of Earth. Much romance and the picture of Venus comes out through the interactions of two Venusians with people on Earth during a visit to Earth.
PB - Dorrance & Co CY - Philadelphia, PA U5 -DLC, MoU-St, NN
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Day of Judgment and the Celestial Missionaries of Life Y1 - 1923 A1 - Louis Pauer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Socialist eutopia introduced to Earth by visitors from space. People from Earth then carry the message to other planets.
PB - Author CY - [Cleveland, OH] U5 -DLC, O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Eurekanian Paternalism. For an economic expedition to explore and exploit Eurekania, the New State in the Realm of Utopia. With Aims and Plans of Providence, final and immediate, for the Development of the Latent Qualities and Resources inherent in Society under Advanced Organization, Production and Distribution through the Administration, eventually, of a Non-Politic, Quasi-Public Economic Institution, which shall be promoted, in the early stages of its development, by a Foundation Society and other Subsidiary Organizations Y1 - 1923 A1 - Louis Pauer KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Odd version of a cooperative eutopia that combines considerable public control and privately owned corporations with limits on profit.
PB - Np CY - Cleveland, OH U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lavender Dragon Y1 - 1923 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A delightful satire with a rational, vegetarian dragon and a rather dull knight. The dragon creates a eutopia by picking up unhappy people and children from the area and bringing them to an isolated area where they create a eutopia of equality without money. Includes a reflection, by the dragon, on the positive and negative aspects of human hope and dreaming.
PB - Grant Richards CY - London ER - TY - ABST T1 - Canadian Money and Progress Y1 - 1921 A1 - W[illiam] C[harles] Paynter (1866-1934) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -Proposal for a new monetary system that would have no interest or credit and no debt. Says that the medium of exchange should be “As elastic and plentiful as the goods and services to be exchanged.” Based on the Harmony Co-operative Industrial Association” founded in Saskatchewan in 1895 that issued script within the community and lasted for five years. Proposes the same for Canada as legal tender. This would be a “scientific money, owned and controlled by the Sovereign People as plentiful as the commodities or services to be exchanged, we would lay the foundation for uniform and permanent commercial progress that would grow and expand without any setback, to the limit of the labour power to be obtained” (11). Would be issued by a central bank. Stresses its compatibility with Christianity. Most of the changes among additions are added quotations from other people.
PB - Np CY - [Tantallon, SK, Canada] N1 -2nd ed. [Tantallon, SK, Canada]: Np., 1924. 27 pp. Rpt. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. 3rd ed. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1931. 61 pp. 4th ed. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. Illus. covers. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1932. 71 pp.
U1 -Rpt. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. 4th ed. as The Trumpet Call of Canadian Money and Progress. An Ideal Handbook of Monetary Reform. Illus. covers. [Tantallon, SK: Canada]: Np, 1932.
U2 -4th ed. has illus. covers.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great Image Y1 - 1921 A1 - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Conflict between capitalists and socialists set one hundred years in the future. The world is decimated but gradually rebuilds.
PB - Odhams Press CY - London U3 -Pan [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Aristokia Y1 - 1919 A1 - A[lphonso] Washington Pezet (b. 1889) KW - Male author AB -Humor set in an imaginary country. Contrasts an over-technological society (motorized shoes, food tablets) with a better, less mechanized society, which is then overthrown.
PB - The Century Co. CY - New York U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Crucible Island; A Romance, An Adventure and an Experiment Y1 - 1919 A1 - Condé B[enoist] Pallen (1858-1929) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Anti-socialist dystopia showing weaknesses of a seemingly good society. The society had been established as an island prison for subversives but allowed to rule themselves and the initial depiction of the society implies that it is an entirely successfully socialist eutopia, but this is a centralized, state socialist system and those holding power use their position for their own advantage.
PB - Manhattanville Press CY - New York N1 -U.K. ed. London: Harding & More, 1920.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Kingdom of Content Y1 - 1918 A1 - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Rule by trusts followed by revolution and war. A small group survive and create an Eden.
PB - Mills & Boon CY - London U3 -Pan [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Millionaire Socialist or the Cure for Poverty Y1 - 1915 A1 - [Joseph R.] [Renner] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -Short didactic novel describing a successful socialist colony. Its success forces Britain and then the rest of the world to adopt socialism.
PB - Watkins, Tyler & Tolan CY - Wellington, New Zealand U3 -Poneke [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Brain City. A Fantasy Y1 - 1913 A1 - Marmaduke A. Prickett KW - Male author AB -Allegory on reason and science using an ideal rational city.
PB - Museum Arts & Letters Assoc CY - London U1 -Phantasy on the cover.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Little Wicket Gate. An Experience ex nihilo Y1 - 1913 A1 - Petworth, Algernon KW - Male author AB -A eutopia with problems, primarily population pressure. Religion. Equality of the sexes. Marriage for life. Three-and-a-half-hours workday. No money. No prisons. Stress on self-expression.
PB - A.C. Fifield CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Looking Forward. The Strange Experience of the Rev. Fergus McCheyne Y1 - 1913 A1 - Rev. Hugh Pedley B.A., D.D. (1852-1923) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -The United Church of Canada, which was created in 1925, has brought about eutopia by becoming deeply involved in the community and leading on both practical and moral issues.
PB - William Briggs CY - Toronto, ON, Canada U5 -CaOKQ, Can, Merril, MoU-St, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Shelter Island or The Power of God. A Novel. A Story of Truth Y1 - 1913 A1 - Ben H[iram] Pelton (b. 1854) KW - Male author AB -Christian Science eutopia.
PB - The Pelton Pub. Co. CY - Denver, CO U5 -DLC, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life--the Jade Y1 - 1912 A1 - Martin H[enry] Potter (1871-1955) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a substance that granted immortality. Set between its discovery in 1921 and the rediscovery of the need to love and bear children in 2021.
PB - Everett & Co. CY - London U5 -O, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The New Gulliver" Y1 - 1912 A1 - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia. Two class-society in which the lower class is bred as slaves to the upper class. The upper class is sexless, long-lived, and lives underground. Stress on moderation and safety. High technology. Live on pills and water.
JF - The New Gulliver and Other Stories PB - T. Werner Laurie CY - London U5 -L, LLL, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Spectres of Night and Morning Light Y1 - 1912 A1 - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) KW - Canadian author KW - Male author AB -While mostly a love and mystery story wrapped up in discussions about religion and spiritualism, the novel also includes the hollow earth, which is the abode of angels, and a description of the Garden of Wisdom that followed upon Eden.
PB - Every Where Publishing Co. CY - New York U5 -Can
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Under Home Rule. A Novel Y1 - 1912 A1 - William Palmer KW - Male author AB -Anti-Irish, but particularly anti-Roman Catholic, dystopia describing the horrors of Home Rule. Stresses the need to expel the Roman Catholic Church from Ireland and ends, that having been done, with Ireland now a "happy and prosperous" part of the U.K. (168).
PB - Baines & Scarsbrook CY - London U1 -Cover adds Home Rule Means Roman Ascendancy. Home Rule Means Civil War. Home Rule Will Break the Empire.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Redemption Y1 - 1909 A1 - E[phraim] Peterson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Proposal for an intentional community with a constitution. City on about 2500 acres plus 5000 acres of agricultural land. All land and property are held in common. No money. No lawyers. Christian but without ministers.
PB - Author CY - Independence, MO U5 -DLC, NN
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Vision of New Clairvaux or Ethical Reconstruction Through combination of Agriculture and Handicraft, under Conditions which exercise Emotion, Sentiment and Imagination, with loyalty to a supreme Ideal Y1 - 1909 A1 - Edward Pearson Pressey (b. 1869) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Intentional community modeled on the vision of Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), founder of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux. It is called "an ethical experiment station" (19), and stresses the advantages of country life, handicrafts, and small industries. The author, a Unitarian minister, founded such a community in Montague, Massachusetts in the 1890s.
PB - Sherman, French and Company CY - Boston, MA U5 -NN
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Conservative Utopia" Y1 - 1908 A1 - R. F. P. AB -Poem, possibly satirical, presenting a conservative position.
JF - The Eagle (St. John's College, Cambridge, Eng.) VL - 29 U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Robinson Crusoe's Return Y1 - 1906 A1 - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Satire on Crusoe's return to modern England.
PB - Hodder & Stoughton CY - London N1 -Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Scarlet Empire Y1 - 1906 A1 - David M[aclean] Parry (1852-1915) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Authoritarian dystopia set in Atlantis practicing precise equality, to the extent of limiting the number of words spoken each day. A full quarter of the population are inspectors to ensure that the rules are obeyed. Satire attacking socialism and labor unions.
PB - The Bobbs-Merrill Company CY - Indianapolis, IN N1 -Rpt. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1911]; New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ideal City for an Ideal People Y1 - 1905 A1 - E[phraim] Peterson KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia of Christian socialism including a proposal for an intentional community.
PB - [Author] CY - [Independence, MO] U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Our Story of Atlantis. Written down for the Hermetic Brotherhood Y1 - 1903 A1 - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Atlantis as eutopia including details about the island, which in this version is in the Caribbean, its institutions, and its people.
PB - Hermetic Book Concern CY - San Francisco, CA N1 -A later ed. adds to the subtitle and The Future Rulers of America. Together with an Introduction, Biography, Prologue, Notes and Epilogue By R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Quakertown, PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1937.
U1 -A later ed. adds to the subtitle and The Future Rulers of America. Together with an Introduction, Biography, Prologue, Notes and Epilogue By R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Quakertown, PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1937.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Constitution of Carnegia" Y1 - 1902 A1 - James Raymond Perry (1863-1953) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. At the age of sixty all property is given to the state and support is provided for life with people working as and at what they choose. No military because it is too expensive.
JF - North American Review VL - 175 N1 -Rpt. Current Literature 33 (September 1902): 269-71.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - No Rates and Taxes; A Romance of Five Worlds Y1 - 1902 A1 - Thomas [Andrew] Pinkerton (1850-1914) KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Satire. Proposes that a city should own the land on which it is built, with rents paid to the city providing support for the poor and other public expenses. All the rich moved to where there were no rates or taxes and took to petty theft. Men have degenerated and women are dominant. Science had made muscles unnecessary. Three year marriage contracts. Live for the present--The ". . . chief aim of female government was jubilation, cheerfulness, joyousness" (82).
PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Great White Way: A Record of an Unusual Voyage of Discovery, and some Romantic Love Affairs amid Strange Surroundings. The Whole Recounted by one Nicholas Chase, Promoter of the Expedition, whose Reports have been Arranged for Publication by Albert Bigelow Paine Y1 - 1901 A1 - Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -The last chapter describes a eutopia at the South Pole. Telepathy. No technology and opposed to technological development. Few laws, no money.
PB - J.F. Taylor CY - New York N1 -Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Inoculation Day" Y1 - 1901 A1 - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Dystopia in which there is an inoculation for character and to eliminate emotions.
JF - Fancy Free PB - Methuen CY - London U5 -L, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mark Chester: or A Mill and A Million. A Tale of Southern California Y1 - 1901 A1 - Carlyle Petersilea (1844-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A poverty-stricken young man proves worthy of divine intervention and is told where to find a large gold deposit. He uses some of the money to establish a city called Millennial to house the homeless. He also built a large Spiritual Temple there. Spiritualists in the area then built more cities to help the poor.
PB - Benner of Light Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U5 -DLC, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Introductory to a New Model for Concourse, Called Utopia, where life Is Eternal--Death Excluded Y1 - 1900 A1 - G. W. Pike AB -The brief text reads like early New Age material in which a utopia of eternal life is said to be possible, but it ends with a proposal for a Home for selected people over sixty five sponsored by the Mental Science College of Phoenix.
PB - Adams Printing Co CY - Phoenix, AZ U5 -AzU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Letters from New America; or an Attempt at Practical Socialism Y1 - 1900 A1 - Clark Edmund Persinger (b. 1873) KW - Male author AB -Detailed socialist eutopia. Everyone is employed by the government and all property is public. Advancement is through the civil service and complaints about service limits such advancement. Slums removed and good and varied housing built. Cities are all mid-size to combine the advantages of city and country living. Churches are not regulated, and there is a free press as well as government sponsored newspapers. Public education from kindergarten through college and then three years of technical training. Stress on individual variety and the need to keep the system flexible to take this into account.
PB - Charles H. Kerr & Company CY - Chicago, IL U5 -NN, ODW, OrU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The World a Department Store. A Story of Life Under a Coöperative System Y1 - 1900 A1 - Bradford Peck (1853-1935) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia. The Cooperative Association of America converts the nation to a cooperative system in twenty-five years.
PB - Bradford Peck CY - Lewiston, ME N1 -Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. U.K. ed. London: Gay and Bird, [1900].
U1 -Cover has the subtitle A Twentieth Century Utopia.
U2 -Illus. Harry C. Wilkinson.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The City Beyond: A Story of One Who Dwells in the Next Planet” Y1 - 1898 A1 - Agnes L. Pratt KW - Female author AB -A very detailed first heaven (there are higher ones) as a eutopia
JF - Godey’s Magazine (New York) VL - 136 - 137.817 - 18 ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Revolt of the Horses Y1 - 1898 A1 - Walter Copland Perry (1814-1911) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Novel based on 1726 Swift. The Houyhnhnms lead a revolt of the horses in Great Britain and establish a Houyhnhnm state. The Yahoos are only adept at killing each other.
PB - Grant Richards CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas Y1 - 1898 A1 - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944) A1 - E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) KW - English author KW - Irish author KW - Male author AB -Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.
PB - J.W. Arrowsmith CY - Bristol, Eng. VL - Vol. 78 of Arrowsmith's Bristol Library. N1 -Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.
U3 -H.G. Pozzuoli [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Ivory Queen: A Story of Strange Adventure Y1 - 1897 A1 - John Pendleton (1848-1926?) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Lost race novel. Mostly adventure but ends with a eutopia in Africa which is a successful agricultural society in an isolated valley under a white king descended from early Egyptian settlers. Odd novel for the period in that it includes successful cross-dressing and, together with some fairly standard racism, a successful interracial marriage.
PB - Osgood, McIlvaine & Co CY - London U5 -TxU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Banker Hypnotized: A Fiction. Sequel to “The Banker’s Dream. A Fiction. Sequel to “The Banker’s Dream.” An Argument for the Free Coinage of Silver Y1 - 1896 A1 - Thomas H. Proctor (b. 1842) KW - Male author AB -The protagonist from 1895 Proctor is hypnotized and experiences the eutopia that is possible if power is taken from the capitalists and their bought politicians and restored to the people. Public utilities owned by the government. Labor well paid. Government replaces banks and is the source of all loans and the recipient of all interest.
PB - Progressive Book Publishing CY - Vineland, NJ U5 -ICU
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Sixteenth Amendment Y1 - 1896 A1 - [Stephen Henry] [Emmens] KW - Male author KW - UK author KW - US author AB -Founding of the Legion of Labor which is similar to 1888 Bellamy’s Industrial Army. Under this system everyone will be able to exchange their “labor for a sufficiency of food, clothing, shelter and enjoyment” (83). There will still be private property. Plans to clear slums by moving the people to rural areas. The entire amendment is given on 221-29.
PB - G. W. Dillingham CY - New York VL - Dillingham's American Library No. 13 U3 -Plain Citizen [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Banker’s Dream. A Fiction. An Argument for the Free Coinage of Silver Y1 - 1895 A1 - Thomas H. Proctor (b. 1842) KW - Male author AB -Capitalist dystopia.
PB - Progressive Book Publishing Co. CY - Vineland, NJ N1 -Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Ideal Republic or Way Out of the Fog Y1 - 1895 A1 - Corwin Phelps KW - Male author AB -Eutopia. Reformed capitalism with a limit on wealth.
PB - W.L. Reynolds CY - Chicago, IL VL - No. 10 of American Politics, February 1896 ER - TY - ABST T1 - Journey to Mars. The Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom Y1 - 1894 A1 - Gustavus W[illiam] Pope M.D. (1828-1902) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia but much of the novel is an adventure story. There is a linear city that is 2,000 miles long and 20 miles wide with a population of twenty-five million and eleven other slightly smaller linear cities. Universal language. One religion. Highly advanced technically and artistically. Monarchy with some living in luxury. There is differential wealth but no poverty. Three peoples with red, yellow, or blue skin color who are all equal. Pluto was once inhabited, and a few Plutonians survive on Mars.
PB - G.W. Dillingham CY - New York N1 -Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.
U1 -At the head of the title Romances of the Planets. No. 1
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Lords of Misrule; A Tale of Gods and of Men Y1 - 1894 A1 - William C[urtis] Pomeroy KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A series of future dystopias. The excesses of capitalism are replaced by the excesses of state socialism, which collapses into simple rule by violence. Suggests that the United States in the 1890s was a eutopia.
PB - Laird and Lee CY - Chicago, IL U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Mary Anne Carew: Wife, Mother, Spirit, Angel Y1 - 1893 A1 - Carlyle Petersilea (1844-1903) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Domestic heaven. Spiritualism. Reflects the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772).
PB - Colby and Rich CY - Boston, MA N1 -U.K. ed. London: James Burns, Progressive Library, 1893.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - National Life and Character. A Forecast Y1 - 1893 A1 - Charles H[enry] Pearson (1830-94) KW - Australian author KW - Male author KW - UK author AB -Forecast of a coming dystopia. Anti-socialist and racist. The higher (white) races are limited to the temperate zone. Family declining. General decay in character.
PB - Macmillan CY - London N1 -2nd ed. London: Macmillan, 1894. Rpt. London: Macmillan, 1913.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Open Secret Y1 - 1893 A1 - A Priest [pseud.] AB -Spiritualism. Martians with highly refined bodies. No marriage or birth, but there is love and sex, but without lust. The spiritual body is created during life and only those who through their moral goodness have created a refined spiritual body pass on the life after death.
PB - Arena Publishing Co CY - Boston, MA U2 -Illus.
U3 -A Priest [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Witch of the Nineteenth Century Y1 - 1893 A1 - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Mostly spiritualism, but the novel contains a brief description of an underground eutopia that will be created by those advanced spiritually. It is also technologically advanced.
PB - The Hermetic Publishing Co. CY - Chicago, IL U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Alien Thread" Y1 - 1892 A1 - Charles H. Palmer KW - Male author AB -Future tale in which a Marriage Bureau arranges marriages. Potential for problems described even though there is the required happy ending.
JF - Munsey's Magazine VL - 8.3 N1 -Rpt. as "Citizen 504." Argosy 23.3 (December 1896): 443-48.
U1 -Rpt. as "Citizen 504." Argosy 23.3 (December 1896): 443-48.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Architecture Under Nationalism" Y1 - 1890 A1 - J[ohn] P[ickering Putnam (1847-1917) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Part essay on architecture and sanitation; part description of future architecture, including an argument for cooperative living in apartment buildings. The author was born as John Amory Putnam but later took his father's name. He was a Boston architect, best known for pioneering apartment buildings, some of which still stand. See his "The Apartment House." The American Architect and Builders News 27.732 (January 4, 1890): 3-5.
JF - The American Architect and Builders News VL - 29.759, 760, 764, 766, 768, 770; 30.772 N1 -Rpt. without the letters Boston , MA : The Nationalist Educational Association, 1890.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The God of Civilization. A Romance Y1 - 1890 A1 - Mrs. M. A. [Weeks] Pittock KW - Female author AB -Mostly a romantic adventure tale but includes a description of a South Seas island eutopia where the people are naturally good.
PB - Eureka Pub. Co CY - Chicago, IL U5 -DLC
ER - TY - ABST T1 - God's Kingdom on Earth. Just Laws. Organised Work. The Religion of Jesus. Social Science Tract.--No 9 Y1 - 1890 A1 - R[ichard] Proctor KW - Australian author KW - Male author AB -Pamphlet describing the eutopia that can be brought about through Christian socialism. See also 1932 Proctor. The author also wrote works in Biblical form advocating Christian socialism. See his The Epistle of Richard. A Late Addition to the English Bible. By the Author of the “New Evangel” [pseud.]. West Maitland, NSW, Australia: E. Tipper, Printer, 1893. 7 pp.; and The Second Epistle of Richard. By the Author of the “New Evangel” [pseud.]. West Maitland, NSW, Australia: E. Tipper, Printer, 1894. 8 pp. Other related works are his The New Evangel, According to Richard Proctor, Christian Socialist. Maitland, NSW, Australia: T. Dimmock, 1891; A New Religion [Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. by Kingston Press], 1922; Reform or Revolution Which? Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Ruskin Press, [1926?]; and The New Evangel Way. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Ruskin Press, [1930].
PB - E. Tipper, Printer CY - West Maitland, NSW, Australia U5 -M
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Life in Utopia; Being a Faithful and Accurate Description of the Institutions that Regulate Labour, Art, Science, Agriculture, Education, Habitation, Matrimony, Law, Government, and Religion in this Delightful Region of Human Imagination Y1 - 1890 A1 - John [Aloys] Petzler (1814?-1898) KW - English author KW - German author KW - Male author AB -Fairly standard socialist eutopia. See also 1870 and 1876 Petzler, his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L).
PB - Authors' Cooperative Publishing Company CY - London U5 -L, NLS, O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Yea Fifteen Years Hence. A Vision" Y1 - 1890 A1 - The Prophet [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -Letter to the editor describing the author's vision of the town of Yea as a bustling, well planned town in the near future.
JF - Yea Chronicle (Yea, VIC, Australia) VL - no. 246 U3 -The Prophet [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Arcadia in Futuris. Dedicated to the Women of New Zealand" Y1 - 1889 A1 - Charles Patrick KW - Male author AB -A eutopia set in 2004 in which much larger, healthier people live in an Arcadian world. The process toward the eutopia begins with women in New Zealand getting the vote, which in fact they gained in 1893. A sub-plot that is not resolved is the isolation of China from the rest of the world and a plan to invade it.
JF - Wanganui Herald (New Zealand) VL - 23 U5 -ATL
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Coming Event Y1 - 1889 A1 - A Parachutist [pseud.] AB -An independent Ireland as a eutopia. While Ireland is not mentioned directly it is pictured on the cover.
PB - J. Broadbent & Co CY - Huddersfield, Eng. U3 -A Parachutist [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - California 350 Years Ago. Manuelo's Narrative. Translated from the Portuguese Y1 - 1888 A1 - [Cornelius] [Cole] KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Mostly an adventure story, but much of the novel is set among noble savages clearly living the good life.
PB - Samuel Carson & Co./C.T. Dillingham CY - San Francisco, CA/New York U3 -A Pioneer [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Capture of London Y1 - 1887 A1 - James Peddie [pseud?] AB -Dystopia. A Channel Tunnel is the route for the invasion of Britain by France and Russia. Britain becomes a republic, which is overthrown at the end. Attack on Gladstone and his party. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1892.
PB - General Publishing Co CY - London U3 -James Peddie [pseud?]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Cromwell the Third: or The Jubilee of Liberty. A Letter Written by Julius Boanerges to His Son Y1 - 1886 A1 - John Parnell KW - Male author AB -Authoritarian eutopia/dystopia set in A.D. 1951. Inhabited world in the center of the earth. Socialist revolution with good and bad results. There is a strong man named Tertius Cromwell. Money abolished. All royals, the clergy, and the English army imprisoned in "lunatic asylums for life." Ireland had disappeared in an earthquake in 1892 and later most of the United States is destroyed in another earthquake. Adam and all his descendants have returned causing over-population.
PB - Author CY - London U5 -L, O
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Recognition of Friends in Heaven. Published at the Direction of the Cathedral Union, November 24th, 1884 Y1 - 1884 A1 - T. Gluyas Pascoe KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author KW - Male author AB -Eight page pamphlet in which two pages vaguely describe a classic "domestic" heaven where one is surrounded by friends and family.
PB - Whitcombe & Tombs CY - [Christchurch, New Zealand] U5 -CR
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beyond the Gates Y1 - 1883 A1 - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -Heaven as a eutopia in line with the Swedish thinker Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and the American spiritualist Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910), who published descriptions of what he called the Summer Land in a number of books between 1847 and 1878. The Gates Ajar presents a heaven in which one is reunited with relatives and gives a glimpse of a more fulfilling life for the female protagonist. Between the Gates is the eutopia of the series in that it is explicitly a criticism of the current social order as it affects women and shows a Heaven in which women can lead fulfilling lives. The third volume, Beyond the Gates, focuses on a domineering man who is reformed in heaven. The Gates Ajar provoked considerable controversy. Attacks include J.S.W. Antidote to “The Gates Ajar”. London: Aylesbury, 1870. 2nd ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. U.S. ed. New York: G.W. Carleton, 1872; “The Gates Ajar” Critically Examined. By A Dean [pseud.]. London: Hatchards, 1871; “The Gates Ajar” Criticised and Corrected. By An Englishwoman [pseud.]. London: Geo. John Stevenson, 1872; E[dgar] Stanway Jackson, Faith or Fancy? An Examination of “The Gates Ajar”. London: Elliott Stock, 1871; Charlotte Elizabeth Tidy, The Door Was Shut: An Answer to “Gates Ajar”. London: William Macintosh, 1873; and Watching at the Gates. A Reply to “The Gates Ajar”. London: S.W. Partridge, [1871]. A defense is What Shall We Say About “The Gates Ajar”. Some Thoughts Suggested by the proposed “Antidote”. London: Elliott, [1871]. In her “Introduction.” Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), Nina Baym rejects the label utopian for the novels because “they lack the Utopian thrust toward realizable social reform” and places them in the context of spiritualism (viii). Carol Farley Kessler calls Beyond the Gates a utopia in “A Heavenly Utopia--Heaven for Women.” Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 20-42. So does Lori Duin Kelly in her “Phelps’ Religious Writings: Household Saints in a Feminist Utopia.” The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1983), 25-47.
PB - Houghton, Mifflin CY - Boston, MA N1 -U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Selections of Beyond the Gates rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 111-16 with an editor’s note on 104-06. The three volumes were published together as Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), with an “Introduction” by Nina Baym (vii-xxiii). The Gates Ajar is on 1-138, Beyond the Gates on 139-232, and The Gates Between on 233-340.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Arimas Y1 - 1881 A1 - H. Peckwater A.M. AB -Satire but describes the group of islands that make up Arimas as a simple, agricultural country that is eutopian in its simplicity.
PB - Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. CY - London U5 -L
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Angel of the Prairies; A Dream of the Future Y1 - 1880 A1 - Parley Parker Pratt [Jr.] (1837-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Tract presenting a future Mormon eutopia.
PB - Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment CY - Salt Lake City, UT U5 -MoU-St
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Century Hence" Y1 - 1880 A1 - W[illiam] M[cClary] Paxton (1819-1916) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Eutopia mostly based on technology. Weather controlled by individuals; flora and fauna of all the world wherever they are wanted; manned flight but individuals also have wings. The area from Egypt to China, including Australasia, is in ruins because people had abandoned all areas of "ignorance, vice and oppression" (11). St. Louis is the capitol of the U.S., which stretches from Panama to the North Pole
JF - A Century Hence and Other Poems PB - Ramsey, Millett & Hudson CY - Kansas City, MO U5 -MoU-K, PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Skyward and Earthward Y1 - 1875 A1 - [George Theodosius Boughton] [Kyngdon] (1821-1916) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Voyages by balloon to various locations beginning with an inhabited moon, which is presented as a satire on Earth customs. They then visit Mars that is a simple eutopia with friendly people, tame birds, and a diet of fruit. No government or laws. No disease or old age. After their return to Earth, the novel is one of adventure and romance.
PB - Samuel Tinsley CY - London U3 -Arthur Penrice [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Dream within a Dream" Y1 - 1874 A1 - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -A dream of an egalitarian marriage ceremony.
JF - Independent (New York) VL - 26 N1 -All but a small part of the text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 107-11 with an editor’s note on 104-06. 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), 63-67 with an editor’s note on 61-63.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Peter Pipers Letters. Peter's Vision" Y1 - 1869 A1 - Old Peter Piper [pseud.] KW - Aotearoa New Zealand author AB -Dystopia brought about by the land in Otago being broken up into small landholdings.
JF - Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) VL - 2.83 UR - http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast U3 -Piper, Old Peter [pseud.]
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Labour's Utopia" Y1 - 1857 A1 - [William Thomas] [Thornton] (1813-80) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Poem depicting a eutopia of abundance and leisure in which people work at things they enjoy doing.
JF - Modern Manicheism, Labour's Utopia, and Other Poems PB - John W. Parker and Son CY - London N1 -Published shortened under the author's name in his On Labour; Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues. Its Actual Present and Possible Future (London: Macmillan, 1869), 434-39. 2nd ed. with a few pages of text added (London: Macmillan, 1870), 460-68.
U3 -"A Poet hidden / In the light of thought / Singing hymns unbidden, / Till the world is wrought / To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not" [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Happy Colony. Dedicated to the Workmen of Great Britain Y1 - 1854 A1 - Robert Pemberton (1788-1879) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A eutopia designed to be established in New Zealand and based on a reformed educational system. It was never established. There are two fold out designs showing the layout of the proposed colony and of the colleges.
PB - Saunders and Otley CY - London N1 -Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Benjamin Ward Richardson's Hygeia: A City of Health (1876).
U2 -There are two fold out designs showing the layout of the proposed colony and of the colleges.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Charles Hopewell; or, Society As It Is, and As It Should Be Y1 - 1853 A1 - John Patterson KW - Male author AB -Cooperative and women's rights eutopia. Includes reformed (Bloomer) dress. The main female character started a school where she taught a course in physiology for women. The school was attacked by the locals, and she was forced to close it. Most of the book is concerned with an exposition of ideas and opposition to them, both from conservatives and other radicals.
PB - Longley & Brother CY - Cincinnati, OH U5 -PSt
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Geral-Milco; or The Narrative of a Residence in a Brazilian Valley of the Sierra-Paricis With Map and Illustrations Y1 - 1852 A1 - A. R. Middletoun Payne KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A detailed eutopia in the mountains of Brazil that was established by Aztecs and Incas fleeing the Spanish conquest and generally based on what was known of these civilizations at the time; somewhat romanticized.
PB - Charles B. Norton CY - New York N1 -Later ed. without the author's name entitled Rambles in Brazil, or, A Peep at the Aztecs. By One Who Has Seen Them [pseud.]. 2nd ed. New York: C.B. Norton, 1854.
U1 -Rambles in Brazil, or, A Peep at the Aztecs. By One Who Has Seen Them [pseud.]. 2nd ed. New York: C.B. Norton, 1854.
U3 -One Who Has Seen Them [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gulliver Joi: His Three Voyages; Being an Account of His Marvelous Adventures in Kailoo, Hydrogenia and Ejario Y1 - 1851 A1 - Elbert Perce (ed.) [written by] (1831-69) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Gulliveriana. Kailoo is an Earth-like planet that travels very rapidly around its sun, and the people are also speeded up with lives that are correspondingly short, except for the royal family, which lives longer, to the equivalent of thirty. The Earth is Kailoo's moon. In Hydrogenia air is used like water on Earth, and water is a stimulant like alcohol. The people are much larger than humans. In Ejario women are stronger, more active, and braver than men.
PB - Charles Scribner CY - New York U1 -The pictorial cover gives the title as Gulliver Joi; His Three Voyages in Kailoo, Hydrogenia and Ejario.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Mellonta Tauta" Y1 - 1849 A1 - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -Satire on a future which is technologically advanced but with individualism and democracy gone.
JF - Godey's Lady's (Philadelphia, PA) VL - 38 N1 -Rpt. in Amazing Stories Science Fiction 8.7 (November 1933): 124-32; in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Sketches 1843-1849. Ed. Thomas Olive Mabbott with the assistance of Eleanor D. Kewer and Maureen C. Mabbott (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 1291-1305 with editorial notes on 1305-09; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 69-72 with an editor’s note on 69.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Monster Mine (Written especially for the South Australian Odd Fellows' Magazine, Vol. 103, No. 5)" Y1 - 1845 A1 - PGM [pseud.] KW - Australian author AB -Technological eutopia one hundred years in the future brought about by the riches of a copper mine. Little social change.
JF - The South Australian Odd Fellows'; Magazine [Each issue has the title Odd Fellows' Magazine, but the first page of the volume has the full title] VL - 2.9 N1 -Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1982), 4-6. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 4-6.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - My First and Last Book. A Book for the Crisis and A Crisis for the Book Y1 - 1844 A1 - A Plain Man, A native of Massachusetts KW - Male author KW - US author AB -All humans belong to one universal brotherhood. Marriage for life between one man and one woman. Sex only for reproduction. Extended childhood under parents' care. “The child then becomes a member of the common brotherhood or community, where through the whole there is impartial, social sympathy and equal love, and in which there is a perfect supply of all the wants of every member, and all the means essential to a perfect developement [sic] of character” (15). Common property. If people life correctly, they will have no need of doctors. Good food, fruit and vegetables being the best, clean air, regular exercise; mentions no corsets for women. No need for clergy. Lays out a new calendar (48-51).
PB - Np CY - [Massachusetts?] ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Atlantis: A Southern World,--Or a Wonderful Continent,--Discovered in the Great Southern Ocean, and Supposed to be The Atlantis of Plato, or The Terra Australis Incognita of Dr. Swift, During a Voyage Conducted by Alonzo Pinzon Commander of The American Metal Ship Astrea" Y1 - 1838 A1 - Peter Prospero L.L.D. [pseud?] AB -Eutopia. Describes the city of Saturnia, the capital city of Atlantis, which appears to be a middle ground between this life and Heaven. Emperors like Nero and Tiberius are porters and servants here, as are similarly behaved Cardinals, Bishops, and other "great men". Others, better men, like Benjamin Franklin live, converse, and continue their work in the arts and sciences. Very few are married to those they were married to in their previous lives. The government is similar to that of the U.S., and George Washington is President. Mostly presented through conversations among the great and good of the past and with the contemporary visitor, who asks them questions about their works.
JF - The American Museum of Science, Literature and the Arts (Baltimore, MD) VL - 1.1-4 - 2.1, 5-6 U3 -Prospero, Peter, L.L.D. [pseud?].
ER - TY - ABST T1 - Oxford in 1888, A Fragmentary Dream Y1 - 1838 A1 - [Richard] [Walker] ED - R. P. [pseud.] KW - Male author AB -Eutopia describing a dream of a future Oxford, complete with town plans.
PB - Henry Slatter CY - Oxford, Eng. U3 -By a Sub-Utopian [pseud.]. Published from the Original MS. by the editor, R.P. [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A World of Wonders; Or Divers Developments, Showing the Thorough Triumph of Animal Magnetism in New England. Illustrated by the Power of Prevision in Mrs. Matilda Fox, and the Point of the Pencil, by D.C. Johnston Y1 - 1838 A1 - Joel R. Peabody M.B. Fellow of the College of ‘Pothecaries KW - Male author AB -The Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and the Sun are visited. Some utopias on other planets, including a Cockaigne on the sun. The moon is inhabited by strange creatures who live in social groups, Saturn is depicted as a eutopia with nine great cities, with all homes a quarter mile high. The people wear few clothes and are vegetarian. Jupiter is a planet early in its evolution. Reference is made to a second volume, but none exists.
PB - Robert S. Davis CY - Boston, MA N1 -2nd and 3rd eds. Boston, MA: Robert S. Davis, 1838.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Junction of the Ocean. A Tale of the Year 2098” Y1 - 1835 A1 - Henry Meredith Parker (1796-1868) KW - English author KW - Indian author KW - Male author AB -Disaster/dystopian story told by a survivor. The construction of the Panama Canal produces a massive flood when the two oceans come together, ultimately inundating most of the world.
JF - Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835 SN - 978-78-308863-8 UR - https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up N1 -Rev. in the author’s Bole Ponjis, Containing the Tale of the Buccaneer; A Bottle of Red Ink; The Decline and Fall of Ghosts; and Other Ingredients. 2. vols. (London/Calcutta, India: W. Thacker & Co., 1851), 1: 132-215. https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up; rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 38-75, with an editor’s introduction on 29-37.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Course of Time, A Poem, in Ten Books. To Which are Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author, an Analysis of the Poem, and an Index to the Principle Passages, Sentiments, or Descriptions. By Rev. William Jenks, D.D. Y1 - 1827 A1 - Robert Pollok, A.M. (1798-1827) KW - Male author KW - Scottish author AB -Book length poem on Biblical themes including the apocalypse and the return of Christ. The poem describes the history of humankind from a Biblical perspective from the Creation through the final division between saved and damned. About mid-way (end of Book V) is a description of the millennium. Church and state are separated, and the state has righteous leaders. The Jews have returned to a restored Jerusalem. No disease. No war. Abundance. No crime. Animals no longer in conflict with each other or humans.
PB - William Blackwood/Thomas Cadell CY - Edinburgh, Scot./London VL - 2 vols. N1 -3rd American from 3rd Edinburgh ed. Boston, MA: Crocker and Brewster/New York: Jonathan Leavitt/ Philadelphia, PA: John Grigg/Baltimore, MD/Cushing and Jewett, 1828. At least 25 editions were published.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Heaven on Earth, or the New Lights of Harmony. An Extravaganza, in Two Acts Y1 - 1825 A1 - Peter Puffem [pseud.] AB -Dystopian satire on the New Harmony community in Indiana founded by Robert Owen (1771-1858).
PB - Np CY - Philadelphia, PA U3 -Puffem, Peter [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A New Description of Merryland. Containing A Topographical, Geographical, and Natural History of That Country Y1 - 1741 A1 - [Thomas] [Stretser] [pseud?] AB -A real problem. It certainly uses the utopian form, but pronouncing the surname of the pseudonym will reveal its true character, early pornography. Merryland is a woman's body, but the presentation is as a country. The author wrote a critique of his own work--[Thomas Stretser], Merryland Displayed: or, Plagiarism, Ignorance, and Imprudence, Detected. Being Observations upon a Pamphlet Intitled A New Description of Merryland. 2nd ed. [probably 1st ed.]. Bath, Eng.: Ptd. by the Author [Actually London: Edmund Curll], 1741. Two other Merryland works, probably by the same author are The Potent Alley: or, Succours from Merryland. With Three Essays in Praise of the Cloathing of That Country; and the Story of Pandora's Box. To Which is added, [Erotopolis]. The Present State of Bettyland. By Philo-Britanniae [pseud.]. 2nd ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. Paris: Ptd. by Direction of the Author [Actually London: Edmund Curll], 1741; and A Short Description of the Roads Which Lead to that Delightful country Called Merryland. To Which are subjoined, An History of the Gallantries of Bettyland. With some Carnal Recreations in Prose and Verse. London: Ptd. for E[dmund] Curll, 1743. An additional Merryland item is The History of Apprius, King of Merryland. Extracted from the Chronicle of the World, From Its Creation, Translated from a Persian Manuscript Found in the Library of Schah-Hussain, Sophi of Persia, dethroned by Mamut in 1722. By a Gentleman who served in the Persian Armies [pseud.]. 3rd ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. To Which is added, A Compleat Key .London: Ptd. by T. Hinton, 1741 (PSt). The Key translates the names given in the text, with many of them being sexual in nature. For example, Apprius equals Priapus.
PB - Ptd. for W. Jones [Actually Edmund Curll] CY - Bath, Eng. [Actually London] VL - 5th ed. [Probably 1st ed.]. N1 -Rpt. as Thomas Stretzer. Merryland. Privately Issued. New York: Robin Hood House, 1932.
U3 -By Roger Pheuquewell [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Journey to the World in the Moon. A Dream Containing An Historical RELATION, (as receiv'd from a Lunar Philosopher) from above an Hundred Years last past, to the present Time, of the most Material Occurrences, as to the Religion, Politics, & c. of the INHABITANTS of that GLOBE. And particularly, Their Manner of ELECTIONS Y1 - 1740 A1 - Pythagorolunister [pseud.] AB -Satire on contemporary Britain.
PB - Charles Corbett CY - London N1 -Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 1-47.
U3 -Pythagorolunister [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island Subject to the Emperor of Japan. Giving an Account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, & c. of the Inhabitants. Together with a Relation of what happen'd to the Author in his Travels; particularly his Conferences with the Jesuits, and others, in several Parts of Europe. Also the History and Reasons of his Conversion to Christianity, with his Objections against it (in defence of Paganism) and their Answers. To which is prefix'd, A Preface in Vindication of himself from the Reflections of a Jesuit lately come from China, with an Account of what passed between them Y1 - 1704 A1 - George Psalmanaazaar [pseud.] KW - French author KW - UK author AB -Detailed description of an imaginary Formosa, good, bad, and satire, presented as if it were real.
PB - Ptd. for Dan. Brown, G. Strahan, and W. Davis, and Fran. Coggan CY - London N1 -Rpt. as Vol. II of the Library of Imposters. London: Robert Holden & Co., 1926. 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for Mat. Wotton, 1705.
U3 -Psalmanaazaar [also spelled Psalmanazar], George [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Adept's Case, Briefly Shewing: I. What Adepts are; and what they are said to perform. II. What Reason there is, to think that there are Adepts. III. What would invite them to appear, and be beneficial in a Nation. IV. What Arguments there are, for and against, the taking of such Measures Y1 - 1700 A1 - A Philadept [pseud.] AB -Sequel to 1698 A Philadept. An Essay Concerning Adepts appealing for adepts to identify themselves. The former essay is longer and develops the utopian aspects more explicitly, but here the author proposes that if Adepts appear they should be made naturalized citizens and declared sacred to protect them. They will be allowed to have 15,000 pounds of gold and silver minted each year as long as they pay the government 5,000 pounds each year. See also 1700 Annus Sophiae Jubilaeus.
PB - Np CY - London U3 -[By the Author of An Essay on Adepts] A. Philadept.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Essay Concerning Adepts: or, A Resolution of this Inquiry, How it cometh to pass that Adepts, if there are any in the World, are no more Beneficial to Mankind than they have been known hitherto to be, and whether there could be no way to Encourage them to Communicate themselves. With some Resolutions concerning the Principles of the Adeptists; And a Model, Practicable, and Easy, of living in Community Y1 - 1698 A1 - A Philadept [pseud.] AB -Presentation of a community on the Spartan model after a discussion of the Hermetic tradition. Everyone must be married but live separately. No men and women dancing together; "no range must be allowed on the Subjects of Love, nor drinking." See also 1700 Annus Sophiae Jubilaeus and 1700 The Adept’s Case.
PB - Ptd. by J. Mayos CY - London N1 -Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 207-33.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by the Establishment of an European Dyet, Parliament or Estates Y1 - 1693 A1 - William Penn (1644-1718) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -A proposal for a federation of European governments with the aim of establishing permanent peace. One of numerous such proposals, often called utopias; the best known is probably Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) Perpetual Peace (1795).
PB - Np CY - London N1 -Rpt. in The Political Writings of William Penn. Ed. Andrew R. Murphy (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2002), 401-19.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Informer's Doom, or An Amazing and Seasonable Letter from Utopia Directed to the Man in the Moon. Giving a full and pleasant Account of the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation, of all those grand and bitter Enemies that disturb and molest all Kingdoms and States, throughout the Christian World. To which is added (as a caution to honest Country-men) the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of the Knavery and Cheats that are used in every particular Trade in the city of London. Presented to the consideration of all the Tantivy-Lads and Lasses in Urope, by a true Son of the Church of England. Curiously Illustrated with about Threescore Cuts Y1 - 1683 A1 - [John] [Dunton] (1659-1733) KW - English author KW - Male author AB -A trial in Utopia of those, from the Pope on down, who threaten the kingdom.
PB - Ptd. for John Dunton CY - London U3 -By Philagathus [pseud.]
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - A Country Not Named Y1 - 1675 A1 - Francis Lodwick (1619-1695) ED - William Poole KW - English author KW - Male author AB -Eutopia. Detailed records kept on all people and all "matters notable" in each division of the country. The people had been monotheists, became polytheists, then returned to monotheism, and ultimately became Christians. Ideal language, which was one of the author's interests. Compulsory education from six with separate schools for girls with women teachers, with the education for girls the same as that for boys except that they are taught sewing and not taught gymnastics. Few laws and those read out to the population once a month.
JF - A Country Not Named (MS. Sloane 913, fols. IR-33R). An edition with an annotated primary bibliography and an introductory essay on Lodwick and his intellectual context by William Poole PB - ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) CY - Tempe, AZ N1 -Also in Francis Lodwick, On Language, Theology and Utopia. Ed. Felicity Henderson and William Poole (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2010), 265-87.
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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "A Country-life" Y1 - 1664 A1 - Katherine [Fowler] Philips (1631-64) KW - English author KW - Female author AB -Life in the country as eutopia.
JF - Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda. To Which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, Tragedies. With several other Translations out of French PB - Ptd. by J.M. CY - London N1 -Rpt. (London: Ptd. by J.M., 1667), 88-91; (London: Ptd. by T.N., 1678), 88-91; and (London: Ptd. by Jacob Tonson, 1710), 111-14. An unauthorized edition of her poems was published as Poems by the incomparable Mrs. K.P. London: Ptd, for J.G. for Rich. Marriott, 1664 and withdrawn after a few days, with this poem on pages 177-82 [Wing 286:08]. The differences are minimal.
ER - TY - ABST T1 - "To Penshurst" Y1 - 1616 A1 - Ben[jamin] Jonson (1573?-1637) ED - C. H. Herford Perry ED - Evelyn Simpson KW - English author KW - Male author AB -An English country estate as a eutopia with elements of the cockaigne.
JF - The Forrest.” In The Workes of Benjamin Jonson: neque me vt miretur turba, laboro: contentus paucis lectoribus PB - W. Stansby CY - London N1 -Rpt in in Ben Jonson. Volume VIII The Poems The Prose Works. Ed. C.H. Herford Percy and Evelyn Simpson. Corr. ed. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 93-96; in Poems of Ben Jonson. Ed. George Burke Johnson (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955), 76-79; and ed. Colin Barrow in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. Ed. David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson. Electronic ed. David Gants. Associate eds. Karen Britland and Eugene Giddens. 7 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 5: 209-14.
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